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The group has raised $75,000 for the trip andhas rehearsed and performed songs slated for thetour since the beginning of the fall semester,Ellis said.
In a special meeting of the Collegium's executive committee last week, Marvin announced his personal decision and the executive committee decided that without Marvin they had to cancel the tour, Ellis said.
The group first discussed the prospect of cancelling the tour after a rehearsal last Tuesday. An anonymous vote taken at the time showed that 15 of 50 members who had planned to go had altered their decisions, Collegium President Rebecca Ellis '86 said yesterday.
The executive committee's decision to cancelthe trip was discussed at a special group meetinglast Thursday. "A lot of people were angry that wedecided not to go," Ellis said. But she said thatpeople have come to understand the decision.
Ellis has been charged with 64 counts of theft and conspiracy, and if convicted, faces a maximum of 543 years in prison and fines of $985,000. Ellis told TIME last week that he first met Blay-Miezah in 1972 when the Ghanaian was being held in a Pennsylvania prison...