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Activities began last Friday in Loker Commons and included a speech by Rodolfo F. Acuna, a well-known professor of Chicano studies at Cal State Northridge...
Jesus is munching on popcorn chicken in Loker Commons. This isn't your Father's Jesus: he's clean-shaven, cherubic, a genial-looking guy in a comfortable sweater--J. Crew, the official sponsor of the Second Coming. Meet Jeffery E. Fowler '01, who will play Jesus in this fall's production of Jesus Christ Superstar. Not that the two are one and the same: Fowler is the first to admit that he is no celebrity (or divinity, for that matter), and it's clear that this whole Jesus thing has not gone to his head. Getting into the character...
...just takes some common sense. Clearly, Harvard students will not hang out at Loker Commons just for the hell of it. There needs to be a reason for them to want to make a stop in the depths of Memorial Hall. Put something there that they can't get anywhere else--not more email terminals, or an open microphone, or another overpriced venture of questionable quality. Just bring in the old standbys. Taco Bell, Subway, Burger King, Boston Market. Enterprises that cater to students' schedules, wallets and tastes. Just show them in and watch the place blossom...
First, they are one Abercrombie & Fitch store too late for the former argument. As for the latter--can the existence of a few subdued, subterranean chain restaurants in Loker Commons really do more harm to the University's image than, say, the recent Harvard Institute for International Development scandal in Russia, or perhaps last spring's New York Times article depicting undergraduates as unhappy, desk-bound losers? It would seem to me nothing could enhance Harvard's image more than a bold headline proclaiming, "Harvard Students Happy!" So why such resistance...
...take some bureaucratic wrangling, but opening Loker Commons up to outside establishments is the only way that the space will fulfill its vast potential. It is the only way students will happily populate the area at all times of the day and night. It is the only way any semblance of Loker as a social center will be retained. And most importantly, it is the only way to ensure that at the next donor shindig, Katherine Loker is the life of the party, not the butt of the joke...