A true student center, says Jeffrey A. Camp '89, co-chair of Students Concerned for a Student Center (SCSC), would include a conglomeration of offices for extracurriculars, not unassigned meeting rooms and eating facilities. The Memorial Hall project, he says, just shuffles existing offices and lacks student input on the project.

"If basically building a center will entail elimination of student offices there, they have no right to call it a student center," says Camp. "Everything the SCSC and the Undergraduate Council have determined a student center to be has centered on student offices. It doesn't sound like this will be any revolution or renaissance in student extracurricular life."

Camp and Zegart also say they are concerned that the creation of student facilities in Memorial Hall might forestall hopes for a "true" center on such sites as the A. Lawrence Lowell Lecture Hall near the Science Center or even the former Gulf Station site near the Union.

Says Zegart, "My biggest fear is that the Memorial Hall plan will be considered a solution to the student center problem. It's not."

But many faculty do consider the plan a solution to the dilemma of office overcrowding.

"We're making a number of new appointments," History Department Chair Edward L. Keenan '57 has said. "We have new colleagues coming and have a full house."

Nathan I. Huggins, Dubois professor of history and of Afro-American studies, calls lack of office space "the prime problem at Harvard." A member of the Afro-American Studies Department--which might move into the Union humanities center--Huggins says, "I don't find anything wrong with a plan that would give us more."

An informal committee of Dean of Students Archie C. Epps III, Freshperson Dean Henry C. Moses, Parsons, two Council members and an SCSC member will meet in the fall to discuss how to implement the plan. But students say they are not optimistic that their input will do much good.

"I think this is a design, not just a feasibility study, and it will be incredibly challenging to get [administrators] to appreciably alter that design," says Camp. "Next year what we've got is a fight on our hands if we want student office space."