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...Perspective is run by a rag-tag group of liberal intellectuals who meet in a dingy basement office at Memorial Hall described by President Jesse M. Furman '94 as "pathetic." The closest thing to banquets are pizza parties...
...Harvard officials announce they have received a $7 million gift to transform the basement of Memorial Hall into a student center. The money, from philanthropist Katherine Bogdonovich Loker, will help the larger project of converting Memorial Hall into a first-year dining hall that is also a Commons, home to rehearsal space and social space. The gift is heralded by deans, but some students and house masters have concerns about how the new commons, expected to open in September 1995, will affect the house system...
They plan to transform the basement of Memorial Hall into a large student center called the Loker Commons, which will feature a coffee house, a pizzeria, activity rooms and meeting rooms. The project was conceived in response to student complaints about a dearth of recreational space...
Designated students within each house also served as air raid coordinators, who hurried students out of their dorm rooms to makeshift basement bomb shelters whenever practice air sirens sounded throughout the Boston area. The air raid coordinators, trained in disarming thermite bombs, were required to wear helmets and armbands whenever a siren sounded...
Shambroom, as a coordinator for Dunster House, several times led students in his entryway in bomb drills to basement squash courts doubling as shelters. Canned water and food stocked shelter shelves, and radio announcements blared during the drills assuring the public that there was no emergency, Shambroom says...