Word: concertizer
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...find Undergraduate Council Chairperson Greg Lyss' letter just a bit disconcerting. As an eager young freshman, I was a member of the 1980-81 Student Assembly, the previous incarnation of today's Council. We, too, had plans for a University-wide concert, to be staged in either the football stadium or in Bright Hockey Center Various technicalities, such as administration disapproval, student apathy, and lack of a legitimate sponsor, caused the project to be killed. We did stage a "Concert in the Quad" in April 1981, featuring several student bands, but only a few hundred students attended...
Seventy-one percent of the students who voted in a non-binding campus-wide referendum this week favored the proposed concert. Fifty-one percent of undergraduates voted on the question...
...fate of the concert now depends on Dean of Students Archie C. Epps III, who said last night that he would announce his decision today. "As a matter of courtesy, I wanted to wait to see the [referendum] results," he explained...
Administration voiced concerns about the kind of crowd the concert may attract, as well as its impact on the Allston community and possible damage to the $50,000 stadium turf...
From the council's perspective, the event is not intended as a money-making activity, Vendler said. Although the proposed concert could gross more than $400,000 in ticket sales, he added, less than $6000 would remain after Adler and the band collected their shares of the receipts...