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...those who don’t qualify for the Student Events Fund, engaging culturally can be difficult. “I want to support my friends by seeing their singing, acting, etc., but it all costs money. Those $5-$25 tickets add up,” says Gupta. But Jem E. Veljic ’06, of the Radcliffe Pitches, argues that the sense of consumption actually enhances the experience of a concert. “If you pay to get in it’s kind of a legitimate concert. It’s one of the features...
...your friends at the time think you were a badass because you did the Jem show...
...think Jem is a good role model...
...expert on Jem [but] I know she’s a good person, so I guess she’s a good thing to admire. The people who made the show made an effort to round her out, so she wasn’t just a glamour puss...
...think they were impressed that I was getting paid to sing, but people my age didn’t know about Jem. They’re much more excited about it now than they were at the time. My brother and his friends were really into the fact that I worked on the show. They used to make me sing whenever I came home. It was great...