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...name of their campaign website, fixtheuc.com, Haddock says the main emphasis of the campaign is to “fundamentally change the way the UC operates and stop wasting students’ money.” In response to this year’s failed Wyclef Jean concert, which cost the UC between $25,000 and $30,000, Haddock and Riley say that they plan to “get the UC out of the social programming business” by eliminating the Campus Life Committee (CLC). Riley says that “the student body has a right...
...November, the Harvard Concert Commission (HCC)—a subsidiary of the UC—cancelled its planned fall concert featuring Wyclef Jean because of insufficient ticket sales, costing the UC between...
...council. But they do not. Just behold how few contenders there were for UC representative spots this September, at a time when discontent was rife. One recent town-hall meeting, called to discuss the supposedly contentious issue of the UC’s failure on the Wyclef Jean concert, drew only two undergrads unaffiliated with the council.Nevertheless, in the midst of the campaign have come droves of promises for town-hall meetings, presidential and vice-presidential office hours, and so on.Lost is a recognition that the council fails not because students are alienated from its workings—though...
...most obvious issues facing the Voith-Gadgil campaign is the candidates’ roles in large-scale UC flops over the past couple of years. Most notable are last spring’s Havana on the Harbor cruise and Springfest Afterparty, and the cancelled Wyclef Jean concert this year.“I am worried that the other tickets are trying to pretend and tell people that I’m responsible for things,” says Voith. “While I will say that I was on the committees during these times, I’ve learned...
...concert featured Ludwig van Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony, and the holiday season-appropriate themes of peace and joy dominated the program. Though two of the first three pieces could have stood by themselves, the audience waited with bated breath in anticipation of Beethoven’s masterpiece, and consequently the opening three pieces seemed like an overture...