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...third suite, however, that he carried us to Nirvana, majestically transporting Bach's popular Bourree and finally enrapturing the auditorium with a sweeping and textured Gigue. For the sixth suite, Wispelwey played a "periodically correct" violoncello piccolo with five strings, as opposed to the contemporary cello's four, entrancing the listeners with a frolicking and triumphal first Gavotte...
...most popular debate-watching spot on campus was the Malcolm Wiener Auditorium at the Kennedy School. A meeting of the College Democrats had preceded the debate in the auditorium, and more than 100 people stayed to watch Gore square off against Kemp...
...Republicans were present in Wiener Auditorium, and posters for the Clinton-Gore campaign lay scattered across the room...
...Forum, which is owned and maintained by the Kennedy School, was built for the purpose of such events and contains all the necessary audio and video equipment to broadcast live speeches. Sanders Theatre, the only larger auditorium at Harvard, is not conducive to such events and would only allow for 200 more tickets. The Secret Service would have had to shut the entire complex down for the day, canceling all classes in Sanders and surrounding classrooms, and forcing all freshmen to find an alternative location for lunch...
According to Avery W. Gardiner '97, chair of the IOP's Student Advisory Committee, the awkwardly-shaped Forum is Harvard's largest auditorium that allows for adequate security. Given this restraint, the IOP--whose mission is to "encourage undergraduate student interest in the dynamics of politics"--should do more to give undergrads access to prominent speakers. Perhaps, for the next such popular speech, consideration could be given to alternate venues, such as Sanders Theatre, which holds many more people than the Arco Forum, and could, with a little effort, be made as secure and media-friendly...