Kidd said that designs for a pub in Loker are separate from any forthcoming plans for a student center in Allston. “Allston plans are 10 years away. We need something for students now,” she said.

Kidd and Corker have worked closely with Veritas Records and HSA to plan and execute the Pub Nights this past spring. Since February, up to 1,332 students have attended each event, which have featured campus bands and $1 draft beers.

A second series of Pub Nights will begin next fall, and the College is currently determining a management structure to run the events, according to Corker.

Corker added that this will allow his successor, Campus Life Fellow in the Harvard University Management Fellowship Program Justin H. Haan ’05, to devote more time to supporting student-initiated events and activities.

“I look forward to incorporating not only the great legacy that Zac has left but also getting more information from student input,” said Haan, who is also a Crimson editor.

In 1992, Harvard received a $7 million donation from Katherine Bogdonovich Loker to transform the basement of Memorial Hall into a student center. Since its conception, the space has been used for number of purposes, including Fly-By lunches for upperclassmen and problem set study sessions, but tends to empty out in the evenings.

Veritas Records co-founder Daniel J. Zaccagnino ’05 stressed that plans for the permanent pub will try to avoid pitfalls that have plagued Loker Commons in the past.

“The pub shouldn’t try to fulfill a million different purposes,” he said. “It should feel and look like a cool Harvard hang out place. You shouldn’t be able to tell if it’s five years old or 25 years old.”

However, some remain skeptical that the plans will be executed soon.

HSA Pub Night Event Manager Daniel L. Rodriguez ’05 said that he worries that the renovations might not follow a sufficiently swift timetable.

“Last Friday’s Pub Night was the most successful by far, but if funding is delayed by too long, the university may view waning interest as a sign that the renovations are not appropriate, and we may miss our window of opportunity to make a positive impact on the social lives of thousands of undergrads,” he wrote in an e-mail.

But Gross reiterated that he wants plans to move forward quickly.

“I am off in a moment to pick up my son, for a visit to NYC to see Columbia and NYU. Of course, I hope the pub is in place by the time he decides to go to Harvard,” he wrote in an e-mail Friday.

—Staff writer Nicole B. Urken can be reached at urken@fas.harvard.edu.