Word: pubbing
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...while the pub and the café have hosted throngs of students during operating hours, SOCH—which houses the offices of various student organizations—has attracted smaller crowds to its location in the Quad...
...banner year for new social spaces cropping up around campus, as the College tried to address student complaints of a social life centered around cramped dorm rooms and exclusive final clubs. Additions including the Cambridge Queen’s Head pub, the Student Organization Center at Hilles (SOCH), the Lamont Library Café, and Women’s Center opened to levels of student enthusiasm that ranged from the subdued to the ecstatic...
...success of the Lamont Café and the new pub shows that students were clamoring for fresh social spaces. But contrast those spots with the empty halls of SOCH, and another trend emerges: undergraduates seek spaces that aren’t just new, but in the heart of campus...
...Student involvement may have been key to the success of the pub, which would look much different if administrators had adopted the designs of the firm they initially hired to make a plan for a campus bar. That company first proposed a three-dimensional grid for the walls and then, in a second attempt, a design featuring smooth benches molded out of the wooden walls. But throughout the process, students who were consulted were said to call for a more traditional pub, and the College eventually hired a new firm to design the space...
...Discretionary Fund for Undergraduate Life, the fund has been responsible for bankrolling several important student life projects such as the renovations of Hilles Library into student group space, the renovation of freshman common rooms in Yard basements, the Lamont Café, the Cambridge Queen’s Head Pub, and events sponsored by the College Events Board...