"We still show the same movie and our comments on it have changed more with the times than because of anything else," says Allison J. Koenig '94, former president of the Crimson Key.

The current co-director of the Brattle Theatre laments the fact that college students are less interested in seeing old movies than their counterparts of 20 and 30 years ago.

"I think college students in general don't come to the classics the way they used to," says Connie A. White, co-director of the Brattle Theatre. "It seems to me college students are more interested in first-run films or your Arnold Schwarzenegger films. But I don't know if Harvard students are."

"I do think that repertory theaters used to count on a really high number of their audience coming from colleges and now I think our core audience is more faculty and staff," White says. "I'm so surprised how many Harvard students don't know the Brattle is here, and then they find it and they say, Where have you been all this time?"

Mackay-Smith also says '90s students seem to have different agendas on the weekends form those of students a few decades ago.

"The Square was nothing like it is now. It wasn't so yuppie. There were a lot more shops and normal neighborhood things," Mackay-Smith says.

"You couldn't go from the Boathouse to the Grille to the Spaghetti Club. When we went out, we went out to do things, so we went out to see movies. We saw movies every Friday night and every Saturday night."