“We want to have more parties,” Seth A. Pearce ’12 said, continuing Owens’ thought. “We want to have more room parties that everyone can go to.”

But in order to expand the available social space on campus, the group is looking for help from College administrators.

Members of the initiative said they hope to cooperate with the College administration to accomplish concrete goals: expanding access to House space like Junior and Senior Common Rooms for parties, increasing funding for student groups to rent off-campus social space like the Democracy Center, and providing more information about final clubs to freshmen and sophomores during orientations.

The idea for the initiative emerged over a year ago from a conversation between Venkatraman, Pearce, and Lee. Most of the group’s seven coordinators already knew each other from high school, House life, or the Freshman Urban Program.

The group’s organizers say they know that in the past, anti-final-club campaigns have formed and fizzled, but they say their specific goals and open advertising will help them achieve their ends.

“We don’t really see ourselves being a student group that each term has a discussion about this and moves in a circle,” Owens said. “We don’t want to see this around forever. We want to see our goals accomplished.”

—Staff writer Danielle J. Kolin can be reached at dkolin@fas.harvard.edu.

—Staff writer Naveen N. Srivatsa can be reached at srivatsa@fas.harvard.edu.