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Last Sunday’s Yardfest confirmed many things we already knew: First, that Eliot House sucks; second, that Harvard students cannot resist oversized Twister boards or tire swings; and, most importantly, that we can indeed have successful campus-wide concerts and events to spark social life. According to organizers, around 7,000 people gathered at the Yard to enjoy Ben Folds’ student-friendly performance, as well as a variety of games. Indeed, Yardfest was a job well done by the Dean’s Office and the Harvard Concert Commission. Stars seemed to align like they haven?...
Things FM learned at Yardfest: Eliot House is not that...
...more recent upbeat solo hit, “Rockin’ the Suburbs,” added a slightly less commercially palatable track to his repertoire Sunday night at Harvard Yardfest (formerly known as Springfest). The extemporaneous ditty, in which Folds proclaimed alternately that “Eliot House sucks big donkey dicks” and that “Eliot House is not that bad” in minor and major keys, was prompted by a miniature inflated beach ball that landed near Folds’ piano during the concert. Picking up the ball to toss it back into...
...representative from Eliot House did not return FM’s calls...
When his melodic rendition of "Eliot House Sucks" elicited negative reactions from some in the crowd, Folds switched the tune and sang instead, "Eliot House is not so bad, it’s really okay....Don’t make fun of it." Folds also encouraged the audience to chime in during some songs. The artist even climbed onto the grand piano and conducted a crowd of harmonizing undergraduates during one tune...