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Tuesday night’s news that the Harvard Concert Commission’s (HCC) Nov. 6 Wyclef Jean concert has been cancelled is sure to arouse both disappointment and disbelief across the Harvard community. We were genuinely excited at the concert’s prospects for success when we editorialized in favor of it last week, and we are disillusioned by the recent turn of events...
...Despite the significant disappointment of going without a fall concert, the HCC did the most prudent thing on Tuesday night by canceling the show. Although going forward with Wyclef may have provided an opportunity for the HCC to save face, their decision to cancel dramatically limited the financial charges that would have been incurred. The HCC already will lose $30,000, a liability that could have reached as high as $65,000 if planning continued unabated. The money to finance this loss would have had to materialize from some annex of the Undergraduate Council’s (UC) budget, funds...
That being said, the HCC has clearly and egregiously failed at its mandate twice in as many tries over the last six months. Moreover, on both occasions the event fell apart in the immediate run-up to the concert. While we realize that the nature of both cancellations were completely different—external obstacles clearly contributed to last spring’s Snoop Dogg debacle—both instances still cost the UC thousands of student dollars. Not only was close to $40,000 wasted for both Wyclef and Snoop, it is even more upsetting because the UC?...
...have prevented such misappraisals of student buzz, McCambridge casually cited “some Crimson article” from 2004 as research that reported student’s top musical choice to be Wyclef. In actuality, the March 8, 2004 article, “Wyclef Voted Top Choice for Concert,” covered a UC-representative-only vote on an HCC-written list of potential performers for the spring 2004 concert. That McCambridge attempted to pass this off as a student referendum is further proof that the HCC needs a higher-degree of accountability...
...Harvard Concert Commissions's Nov. 6 concert featuring Wyclef Jean will be cancelled because of lackluster ticket sales, Undergraduate Council (UC) President Matthew J. Glazer '06 announced at an emergency UC meeting this evening...