Fifth Forum

In Harriman Hall's basement, room 029.

This was the site of the longest-running official Forum presence. In Summer of 1993, the Science Fiction Forum was given special permission to use the underground Steam Tunnels to move the library, members and other materials from Central Hall (prior to that named Old Bio, now known as the SAC).

In the mid to late 1990s, the Forum legitimately acquired the space across the hall, room 020, known as the Lounge. They were given a signed paper stating that the room would belong to the club in pepetuity. It vanished. Good going, guys.

Due to promised upcoming construction that never happened, the Forum was kicked to a far smaller room arrangement, now known as the Sixth Forum, in 2009.

Seriously, if you're a current Forumite, and the Forum is still in the Union basement, you should be pissed. Before this happened, the Forum was almost twice its current physical size. We had to junk a shit-ton of books from our library as well as a lot of furniture in order to make the room habitable.

NB: Somebody who's not me may wish to edit the above to remove the raw, raging ire in my writing style.

The library at some point had its floor redone from a damaged carpet to a set of tiles arranged to look like the Classic Logo. «For those that are newer / don't know the history, the old carpet in that room got seriously moldy/terrible, due to leakage from the next room, and we had to tear it out. I asked the building manager for new flooring, and they gave me a bunch of boxes with a ton of random tiles from various buildings across campus. Me and someone else (I think Guy?) counted out all the tiles, of each color, and I sat down with graph paper and figuredout we had just enough of the right colors to make a logo across half the floor, and drew it out on graph paper, and went home, and when I came back a couple of days later, a bunch of other forumites had found the paper and already started laying out the tile, which was awesome.» -Aakin Patel (Alumni Discord, 2024-05-16)