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...instead of spontaneous outpourings of agape in the spiritual centers of our new community--the cafes of Barker, Loker and the Coop--I find only double lattes bubbling forth, not human understanding, and the solitary and studious, not the concerned and informed. The goings on of administrators often dominate the pages of this newspaper and raise the ire of our nascent activist community, as the administrators appear slow to adopt the changes many feel are necessary to unite the disaffected factions of the campus. Despite our pleadings, we have no multicultural student center, junior faculty are almost never tenured, there...
Most students are pleased with the bag lunch option to be offered in Loker Commons next semester, but many already have concerns with the details of the plan...
Once the financial disaster of Loker was apparent (and only then), administrators realized something had gone wrong. Relegating student input to a token role in the planning process--a few seats on a committee--came back to haunt them. But even financial losses didn't make them heed the voices of dissatisfied undergraduates. Administrators continued to resist dramatic changes in lighting and furnishings. Their half-hearted response--a few couches and a pool table--could not overcome the utter lack of regard for undergraduate life apparent in the design...
...publish a so-called humor magazine. The Institute of Politics' room for undergraduate officers reveals a lived-in disorder; at Hillel's student lounge, final clubs and the Advocate, undergraduates while away the hours. These spaces often look more disheveled than dignified, something those designing the Barker Center and Loker tried very hard to avoid. Students choose to spend their time in spaces set up for students--spaces with a design that demonstrates the value placed on undergraduate input...
...Loker, in all its misguided design, does not come close to being a common space of the undergraduates, designed by the undergraduates for the undergraduates. The lack of that kind of space has fractured our community, and a unified sense of what it means to be a Harvard undergraduate remains fractured with...