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...late become a significant priority in University Hall as well. Loker Commons failed because the administration did a truly reprehensible job of eliciting student opinions about what was needed in a student center. A paternalistic “we know best” attitude squandered Katherine Bogdonovich Loker??s donation, and we worry that not enough has changed in Harvard’s decision-making practices and planning procedures to prevent this mistake from being repeated...
...this mindset that initially led Harvard to design Loker so radically different from student needs. The administration made its first mistake when it decided to cater Loker??s dining options to the larger University and Cambridge community—instead of tailoring offerings primarily to undergraduates. At one time, Harvard thought it could make restaurants in Loker profitable by marketing them to non-undergraduates, but this decision, which undermined the student-centric purpose of the space, quickly led Loker to be (briefly) overrun by outsiders, and the College soon made Loker into an undergraduate only locale...
...time, Loker??s one success was its late-night coffee house. It briefly hosted numerous performance events—a tradition recently revived—but because so few students besides first-years regularly even think to frequent Loker, these performances do not attract much attention. In an editorial in March 1996, the Crimson Staff wrote, “We only hope the performances become more frequent as time goes by, in order to make Loker??s appeal even greater. Then we can really call it a student center.” Sadly, the opposite happened...
...Today, Loker??s failure seems to have tainted any aspirations for a successful social center. UC President Matthew W. Mahan ’05 is focused on finding alternative cures for Harvard’s social malaise. “For us it is time to proactively answer the question of what kind of opportunities we want to have at Harvard,” Mahan wrote in an e-mail to several House open lists. “The administration isn’t going...
...negative, they don’t think of these as signs of depression,” Kadison said. Greater outreach, like the MHAAG screening in Loker Commons, will continue to help students identify these symptoms in themselves and others and direct them to the appropriate University resources for treatment. Loker??s accessibility succeeded in attracting greater numbers than in the past; bringing mental health education to students is much more effective than trying to get students to seek help or information on their own. More depression screenings—held in different locations, such as the upperclass Houses?...