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...public gesture seem tired or canned, they appear to be the real thing: a spontaneous mass movement. They formed as a response to the Rev. Fred Phelps, an attention-crazed fanatic based in Topeka, Kans., who has logged 15 years as a kind of paleo-fundamentalist, gay-baiting performance artist. Last spring Phelps grabbed the already troubling line, taken by preachers such as Pat Robertson, that disasters like 9/11 were God's punishment for American sins, and spun it past the boundary of the outrageous by having his followers crash military funerals with signs like GOD LOVES IEDS (improvised explosive...
...artist Ben Folds went from “rockin’ the suburbs” to rockin’ the campus at an event that organizers say was the largest gathering of undergraduates in Harvard Yard’s history...
...House Sucks" elicited negative reactions from some in the crowd, Folds switched the tune and sang instead, "Eliot House is not so bad, it’s really okay....Don’t make fun of it." Folds also encouraged the audience to chime in during some songs. The artist even climbed onto the grand piano and conducted a crowd of harmonizing undergraduates during one tune...
Following chants of "one more song" and "we want Ben" after Folds left the stage, the artist and his band returned for an encore, "One Angry Dwarf and 200 Solemn Faces," parting with the words, "Kiss my ass, kiss my ass goodbye...
...however, this year the dynamic of student input has changed. During the preparations for the 2003 Springfest, which featured alterna-rock band The Verve Pipe as a performer, the president’s office, in addition to the HCC, had “some input” in the artists being considered for performance, recalls Michael R. Blickstead ’05, former vice-president of the Undergraduate Council (UC). The creation of a social programming board, which would devote itself to events like Yardfest, has recently been proposed in the UC. The fact that, this year...