The Commons also offers lockers for student organizations and bulletin boards for use by the college community, the Freshman Dean's Office, the Faculty of Arts and Sciences registrar, individuals offering items for sale and rides, campus event publicity, the Memorial/Lowell Hall Complex and the Office for the Arts.

The southwest and ice cream stands will be open from 11 a.m. to 8 p.m., Monday through Friday. The pizza house and coffee shop will be open Monday through Thursday until 1 a.m. and Friday through Sunday until midnight.

Beginning Jan. 3, students will have an additional $75 credit added to their I.D. cards which they may spend at Loker, the Greenhouse Cafe and other Harvard eateries. That money will be in addition to the $25 already credited to each student's card in September for guest meals.

Eduardo 1. Velasquez, an employee at the sweets shop, said the job will help him get to know students.

"I think it's great," Velasquez said. "You get to meet all the students from different places.

The first day went surprisingly well, said Jack Cahill, general manager of the Loker Commons.

"From a technical standpoint, we had all the food we expected out," Cahill said. "All of the first-day night-mares, they didn't come true."

Eating a chocolate chip cookie dough ice cream cone in one of the booths, Praveen Akuthota'97 took a more idealistic view of the Commons.

"I like it," Akuthota said. "I think we need it for a kind of unity."