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...problem: funding. This year, Yale’s Spring Fling will feature not only The Shins and Rahzel, but also O.A.R., performances by student bands, an outdoor barbecue, and booze. For the Yale College Council (YCC), the Bulldogs’ UC equivalent, the weekend comes with a price tag of $110,000—almost exactly the cost of Harvard’s day-time Springfest activities...
What’s the difference? According to Blickstead, the amount of money doesn’t compensate for the fact that our version of Spring Fling is more geared towards Snoopy than Snoop. At Yale, the president’s office hands over $95,000 to the students, who spend it—along with an extra $30,000 from the dean’s office—for the most part at their discretion...
Harvard’s venue problem only becomes more embarrassing when compared with other schools. At their Spring Fling this year, Brown hosted Ben Folds and Howie Day at a venue with a capacity for 6,500—the size of Harvard’s entire undergraduate population. Although locations such as the MAC green and the Quad seem like reasonable venues for a spring concert, Boston’s moody skies make outside event planning a high liability. And Springfest has struck out before...
...Paxman's Iraq foray was rare in this campaign. Trust may be an issue, but Iraq isn't, largely because the Conservative opposition supported the invasion. The Tories are led by Michael Howard, a veteran Thatcherite brought in from the pasture for a last fling. He has chosen to run a campaign that is, by turns, ugly and inane. A prominent Tory told me that Howard is a great believer in the voodoo cooked up by political consultants and has decided to build his campaign around five issues that floated to the surface in focus groups. They are predictably anodyne...
...opening period, Du threaded a leading pass to Maki through the neutral zone that allowed him to slip behind two UNH defenders and skate in on Wildcats netminder Kevin Regan. As he was hauled down from behind, Maki wound up for a booming wrist shot, which he managed to fling into the top left corner of the net just before crashing to the ice at 9:26, staking the Crimson to a 1-0 lead...