Word: mem
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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First, there's the conversion of the Freshman Union into a "Humanities Center." Second, there's the replacement of the Union with a dining hall in Memorial Hall. Finally, there's the use of the basement of Mem Hall as a student center...
Same thing with the use of Mem Hall as the first-year dining hall. It may be a return to age-old tradition--once upon a time, Mem Hall was a dining hall. It's not one, however, that any current alumni remember. And just think, President Rudenstine, what the grease of thousands of pan pizzas each week will do to Mem Hall. A permanent smell of pepperoni won't add to its cultural ambience...
Aside from the obvious need to Keep Up With the Joneses, there are many reasons why Harvard should abandon the Mem Hall student center plan--and should think of constructing a real student center...
...vibrancy of its extracurricular activities. Yet student groups often voice frustration at the lack of office space and meeting space available on campus. Smaller student groups sometimes wait years to acquire offices. No matter what architectural machinations are used. I find it impossible to believe that the basement of Mem Hall can provide much more office space than it does...
...Anyone can use Mem Church for religious ornon-religious purposes," he said. "The issue ofthe appliance is the first and only example I knowof that fits into this category...