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...body has changed drastically over the years, but this anachronism, as Pusey Minister Peter J. Gomes called it in 1973, still remains. To reflect the diverse array of faiths on campus and act as an inclusive home for religious life at Harvard, Memorial Church should become a solely interfaith space...
...Memorial Church opened its doors to all religions. The first non-Christian service happened eight years later, for Rosh Hashanah—many Reform Jews still attend services there. Muslim students have used its facilities for prayer, too, although this has changed since they acquired a prayer space in a prime location, the basement of Canaday Hall...
...Church would follow the lead of peer universities. Yale’s Battell Chapel recently lost its affiliation with the United Church of Christ and reaffirmed its ecumenical role. University Chapel at Princeton similarly offers ecumenical services on Sundays. Dartmouth’s Rollins Chapel is an explicitly interfaith space, with a Muslim prayer room off the main transept. Earl Hall at Columbia is more a center for community service and houses the Office of the University Chaplain, which is also explicitly interfaith. Any one of these alternatives would be better than Harvard’s status...
...Many proposed improvements concern aspects of House life that students have complained about extensively, and their inclusion indicates that the planning process is responsive to student concerns. Notably, the report addresses the lack of social spaces within Houses. It notes that dining halls should not be the only place to hold large functions nor Junior Common Rooms the only student “hangout” space in a House. Any student who is tired of bumping into soda machines on Saturday nights or has attempted and failed to book one of the overscheduled JCRs for an activity will...
...Nevertheless, moving forward, there are a few other important items that should not be ignored. While the renovations are taking place, constructing desirable swing space for displaced residents is essential. No student should feel as if they cannot partake in the benefits of the House system because of the unlucky timing of their college years. Housing renewal should not come at the expense of a satisfactory living experience for such students. In order to avoid this scenario, swing space could contain special amenities, as has been the case at other schools, in order to improve the lot of those having...