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Tuesday night’s news that the Harvard Concert Commission’s (HCC) Nov. 6 Wyclef Jean concert has been cancelled is sure to arouse both disappointment and disbelief across the Harvard community. We were genuinely excited at the concert’s prospects for success when we editorialized in favor of it last week, and we are disillusioned by the recent turn of events...
...optimism was based on our faith in the HCC’s planning and aptitude, based largely on initial signals of success that were not only misleading but proved to be incorrect. In reporting to us the first-day ticket sales, the HCC (unintentionally) provided inflated figures. We were told that in the first hour of availability 612 tickets were sold; in reality, that number was only 112 tickets. While this information was passed along with the best of intentions—and though we may still have opined optimistically—we were excited about a level of student...
...Despite the significant disappointment of going without a fall concert, the HCC did the most prudent thing on Tuesday night by canceling the show. Although going forward with Wyclef may have provided an opportunity for the HCC to save face, their decision to cancel dramatically limited the financial charges that would have been incurred. The HCC already will lose $30,000, a liability that could have reached as high as $65,000 if planning continued unabated. The money to finance this loss would have had to materialize from some annex of the Undergraduate Council’s (UC) budget, funds...
...candy-seeking children traipsed across the city yesterday evening to celebrate Halloween, a group of 30 members of Harvard China Care (HCC) went trick-or-treating for a different reason: to save Chinese orphan Fu Jinjin’s life. Fu is a two-month-old living in Henan, China who suffers from myelomeningocele, a disease in which spinal fluids leak from the spinal cord. She needs an operation which would close the leak and drain any excess fluid in her cerebellum. An American surgeon pledged his professional help to the case if HCC could raise $6,000 this Halloween...
This fall’s possible cancellation is not a first for the HCC or for Wyclef Jean. In the spring of 2002, the HCC cancelled a similar concert featuring Wyclef Jean and Jurassic 5 over a concern that the HCC would not be able to sell enough tickets...