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It’s been a while, Krokodiles. The Krokodiloes, Harvard’s oldest a capella group, lured 220 ex-Kroks to their 60th reunion concert last Friday. The gala featured concerts, banquets, celebrations, and even a tearful marriage proposal. Plummer Professor of Christian Morals and Pusey Minister in the Memorial Church Peter J. Gomes kicked off the show, introducing the Kroks as “the most unsubtle of music groups.” As if to prove his words, alumni singing groups—with names like “The Primordial Oohs?...
Last Saturday, musical performers from around campus and speakers from the Harvard College Democrats and the Harvard Republican Club, as well as Iranian student activist leader Akbar Atri, took the Leverett House stage for the Iran Freedom Concert. The event brought together student groups from all over campus—ranging from the Harvard Middle East Review to the Bisexual, Gay, Lesbian, Transgender, and Supporters Alliance to the Harvard Salient, the College’s conservative monthly. “When student bodies speak as one, that’s really where we make our difference,” said...
...tensions between the Bush administration and the Iranian government escalate over Tehran’s nuclear energy program, around 100 students came to Leverett House on Saturday night for a concert organized to support dissidents in Iran. The concert, sponsored by nine campus groups, brought together student musicians and a diverse group of speakers to send a message of solidarity to students in Iran opposing human rights violations. Musical performers included the band Major Major, singer-songwriter Katie E. Fitzgerald ’09, and saxophonist Marcus G. Miller ’08. In between musical performances, representatives from...
...KATHLEEN POND Crimson Staff Writer As tensions between the Bush administration and the Iranian government escalate over Tehran’s nuclear energy program, around 100 students came to Leverett House on Saturday night for a concert organized to support dissidents in Iran. The concert, sponsored by nine campus groups, brought together student musicians and a diverse group of speakers to send a message of solidarity to students in Iran opposing human rights violations. Musical performers included the band Major Major, singer-songwriter Katie E. Fitzgerald ’09, and saxophonist Marcus G. Miller...
...media attention to reach them via Internet (Farsi is one of the most-blogged languages)—we can give them hope in their time of need and provide vital moral support for their cause.For these reasons, a coalition of students has united to sponsor the Iran Freedom Concert this weekend. Many campus organizations, including an unusual alliance between the Harvard College Democrats and the Harvard Republican Club, have come together with a leading Iranian student activist, Akbar Atri, to do our small part to put this issue on the map here in Cambridge. Harvard will be leading...