From library to living room
As a graduate student, Harvard College Dean Evelynn M. Hammonds often made the trip to what was then the Hilles Library to take advantage of the quiet space for undisturbed study. On Wednesday night, Hammonds was back, to get a firsthand look at how renovations completed over the summer transformed the first floor of the Student Organization Center at Hilles (SOCH) into a social space complete with high-definition televisions, couches, pool and shuffleboard tables, and event and meeting space. Hammonds had ordered the upgrade last September. “Dean Hammonds has been exceptional throughout this process, and has been instrumental in securing funding for student activity spaces.” Undergraduate Council President Danny Bicknell ’13 “I have always thought this was a great space, and when I became dean I made it a priority to make sure that this space again became a destination, not just for academics, but for the kind of social space that students...