 Harriet and Paul Weisman have been long-time supporters of Mount Holyoke. Harriet was a trustee. She's class of 1958 and both she and Paul have supported student leadership and a vision for developing Mount Holyoke students as leaders. The Weisman Student Commons is designed to create an open-plan space in which student leaders can come together, work together, work across interests in order to provide leadership for the rest of the student body. There are these wonderful open spaces where you have soft seating whiteboards which is this notion that through collaboration you can create new ideas and the visibility of the work is part of the collaboration of the work. Right in the Weisman Student Commons we have the student program staff and then on the floor below we have the Vice President for Student Life and other staff responsible for residential life, religious and spiritual life. It's a real shift in how we do our work and really it allows us to walk a student down the hall and be able to say, here, come meet my colleague in this area and you can get your question answered. I don't need to send you across campus to find out that information. And we have some of our anchor organizations who are there like the radio station and the Student Government Association but we also have the opportunity now to allow all student leaders to come and use the space and what we're seeing is ways that students weren't really able to engage before they now have the opportunity to do so because of that space. We also have here within this building a unity space to bring students of different cultures together in integrated dialogue. We wanted this to feel like a co-curricular hub, a place that you can really gather and I see that happening. We're very excited about how this space will enhance the experience that our students have on this campus and make the most of a residential liberal education experience.