“I’ve been very intentional about giving Zac projects so he can help as a facilitator,” McLoughlin said. “Now we can do more because there’s two of us.”

Student group leaders across campus seem to agree on the impact Corker has had on campus life.

“I think that Zac’s hiring is a signal that University Hall is becoming more serious about improving campus life and actually coming up with the resources to do it,” Council President Matthew W. Mahan ’05 wrote in an e-mail.

“To have an administrative figure willing to assist in with tasks like reserving space, making copies and utilizing other resources on campus we might not have thought of, means our load is a little lighter,” said Maura E. Boyce ’05, a director of the Prefect Program.

Boyce said that she and Veronica M. Rotemberg ’06, another prefect director, have been working with Corker to organize a speed dating event for first-years scheduled for Nov. 11 in Loker Commons, in addition to Harvard Idol, which debuted last year.

“[Corker] is more than happy to help us out with logistics of events and lend his support where ever we ask for it,” Boyce said.

—Staff writer Bari M. Schwartz can be reached at bschwart@fas.harvard.edu.