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...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...
...real student center would provide more than just a place where students could socialize with students from other Houses. (Something which a Mem Hall student center, despite its office space, would still lack.) That, however, would be an important function. In the past several years, not one of the Undergraduate Council's all-campus parties has been successful. In fact, I'd be hardpressed to remember the last time the UC tried to have an all-campus party...
WITH ALL THESE and other possible benefits, the argument for a student center at Harvard should be compelling. Questions of how to finance its construction and where to put it remain. The first problem is relatively easy to solve. If you plan now to finance the conversion of Mem Hall to a new Union and a student center through alumni donations, you should realize that financing a real student center (and perhaps a real humanities center) the same way would be easier. Selling alumni on the creation of a student center will be easier than selling them on the destruction...
...when the Bok administration decided to build the Inn at Harvard. The Gulf Station site upon which the Inn sits would have been an ideal place to put a student center. Perhaps the site upon which the A. Lawrence Lowell Lecture Hall now stands unused (across Kirkland Street from Mem Hall) would suffice. The location is just as central as Mem Hall, and building there would make use of essentially unused land...
...Mem Hall plan won't solve the problems the lack of a student center creates. Alumni would most likely prefer to keep the Union and fund the building of a new facility which would function as the Union originally did: a place for Harvard students to participate in any number of extracurricular activities...