After extensive consultation last spring with Illingworth, social club members resolved to open the first step of the fall punch process to all undergraduates, a move that Illingworth told the group would allow them access to the building.

The club is currently waiting for the official go-ahead from the CCL before postering the Yard to attract undergraduates.

“It’ll be a strange thing to do,” Olshan says. “Hopefully, we’ll get people that no one would have punched because we didn’t know about them.”

Prospective social club members will be selected after a series of cocktail parties and luncheons, Olshan says.

“But it’s not in-group, out-group,” Olshan explains. “There are all sorts of rumors that we punch from the facebook, or that we only punch people with Roman numerals after their names. That’s not what it’s about at all.”

Since the social club does not produce any publication or production, membership requirements are difficult to quantify, Olshan explains.

The club also plans to organize an annual charity event, Olshan says, citing a social club event two years ago that succeeded in raising $35,000 for pediatric AIDS.

“We do have this ability to raise money. If you’re interested in charities, that’s very appealing to us,” she says.

Olshan’s plan represents a compromise that Illingworth says he expects to pass muster at the upcoming CCL meeting.

“We’re trying to be very sensitive to the Pudding. With the climate right now on campus, people want to improve the social life, ” Illingworth says.

He compares the Pudding social club to the Signet, another college-approved, primarily social student group.

While the Signet owns its own building however, the social club will now jockey for space for their twice-weekly catered luncheons with any number of College clubs.

“The [social club] knows they’re not going to have exclusive use of the building any more,” Illingworth says.

Until construction begins this spring, however, Illingworth says safety concerns will keep 12 Holyoke St. closed to student groups other than its original inhabitants—the social club, the Hasty Pudding Theatricals, the Harvard Krokodiloes and the Radcliffe Pitches.

Although the first floor Member’s Lounge will remain open, the Krokodiloe room upstairs and the expansive third floor space and terrace that previously housed the Upstairs at the Pudding restaurant are off-limits, Illingworth says.