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Some years back, students demanded improvements to the poorly planned Katherine Bogdanovich Loker Commons. The administration's knee-jerk hiring of a consultant produced radical reform, including the installation of a TV room. Yet Loker's rep has not considerably improved; many still clamor for a student center. The TV room reveals one major hurdle to any proposed student center: Harvard social ineptitude...
...Social life begins at home, first in randomly assigned entryways, and from sophomore year on in up to 16-person blocking groups (the core group of friends with whom you receive your Housing assignment). For students in a rush, grab-and-go lunches in Loker Commons are the norm, but it's not so unusual either to linger over an empty tray in your House dining hall through three cycles of conversation...
Social life begins at home, first in randomly assigned entryways, and from sophomore year on in up to 16-person blocking groups (the core group of friends with whom you receive your Housing assignment). For students in a rush, grab-and-go lunches in Loker Commons are the norm, but it's not so unusual either to linger over an empty tray in your House dining hall through three cycles of conversation...
...strange environment. Not these guys. "But I don't participate," Tomijina says. "I don't mingle. I just watch the show. Most of the guys here are kinda surly." Tomijina, self-diagnosed as "fully disassociated with the whole community," also admits that this fact might explain why he is Loker-lounging solo in the first place...
...room better than first grade. Currently, the selected programming ranges from Fatima's choice, Disney's "The Big Blue House," to "The Jerry Springer Show," while ESPN and CNN get high approval ratings. Eli A. Poliakoff '00 says "Springer" and sports shows are the "only purpose of this room." Loker employee Robert C. Amaral enjoys watching "Springer" on his breaks, chortling that "watching this show makes me feel my life just isn't that...