Word: concertized
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...hard-tread path to relevance, and others which threaten to derail the council's highly promising new term. First, Tufts-envy has struck the council once again. In passing a resolution--by a margin of more than 3-to-1--to spend a ridiculous $15,000 on a concert, the council's eyes seem to be glazed over and star-struck by the possibility of hosting the rock band A Tribe Called Quest. (I've never heard of them.) Doesn't the council remember the aborted attempt and ensuing scandal of hosting the band Live in concert last year...
Rudd W. Coffey '97, a "council veteran," claims that this new concert is "the next step in building our credibility.... We don't have many things that bring 2,000 students together. This will provide a sense of community." If we assume that Coffey is sincere, and not merely throwing around buzzwords, then he has a distorted sense of what "credibility" and "community" mean. The proposition that $15,000 of our money--money given to the council by Dining Services to use on undergraduates' behalf--should be used to provide a circus is a severe misjudgment of strategies to make...
...Undergraduate Council Sunday night passed a resolution 45-13 to use a $15,000 gift from Harvard Dining Services to sponsor a spring concert by the band A Tribe Called Quest...
Although the money has been formally allocated, the council does not yet have a commitment from A Tribe Called Quest or a place or date for the concert...
Students interviewed yesterday seemed generally enthusiastic about the singer's upcoming performance but expressed little interest in attending the concert themselves...