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...although this year the Stadium will be used only for six football games, Associate Dean of the College David P. Illingworth ’71 and Assistant Athletic Director for Operations Jeremy L. Gibson were unenthusiastic about the idea of a spring concert, which would have raised about $200,000 for charity. Harvard’s Director of Community Relations, Kevin A. McCluskey ’76, also gave the concert commission a cold reception, saying, “We are not in the concert-producing business here...
...costs and logistical problems cited by Illingworth and Gibson may be significant, but they should not preclude the College from hosting a concert. The Harvard-Yale Game is an event of comparable size where the stadium is filled with thousands of angry, drunk students; a concert would hardly pose worse problems in crowd control. Large-scale concerts are common on university campuses nationwide; it is difficult to believe that only at Harvard would logistical difficulties be insurmountable...
Citing logistical problems and cost, Associate Dean of the College David P. Illingworth ’71 and Assistant Athletic Director for Operations Jeremy L. Gibson have strongly discouraged the HCC from pursuing the spring concert...
Smith first suggested holding a concert in the stadium last October. Gibson, whose office controls use of athletic facilities, suggested he submit a proposal for the concert...
...Gibson said that an event on the scale of the proposed concert “takes a lot of years to plan. This is something on the scale of the Harvard-Yale football game, and that’s something that takes almost the whole University to plan. There are just a lot of things that go into...