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...many tries over the last six months. Moreover, on both occasions the event fell apart in the immediate run-up to the concert. While we realize that the nature of both cancellations were completely different—external obstacles clearly contributed to last spring’s Snoop Dogg debacle—both instances still cost the UC thousands of student dollars. Not only was close to $40,000 wasted for both Wyclef and Snoop, it is even more upsetting because the UC’s just-completed termbill hike was partially justified on the grounds that it would improve...
...over the past few years. Constrained by budgets, weather, time-tables, security issues, and numerous other complications, we have witnessed a spotty success rate of large-scale shows, making many students suspicious of every new UC concert choice. Most notoriously, last year’s failed attempts to bring Snoop Dogg—efforts that lost thousands of the UC’s budget—left the student body smugly curious as to the competence of the Council, one that was handling a recently increased budget thanks to the term bill fee hike. More importantly, it left undergrads without...
Last spring, the HCC cancelled its negotiations with the rapper Snoop Dogg and scrapped its planned May 1 concert because the cost of security was too high for its budget...
...state of ‘tribute act.’”These changes to the Cage are also grounded in a cohesive theory. “There needs to be a democratic process in which we can get, or not get, as was the case with Snoop, concerts according to the interests of actual students,” says Riesman, who is also a Crimson editor. “We’re not trying to punk the UC, we’re trying to create a punk alternative to the UC.”This...
...life. In 1968, the country was being governed by its first ever coalition of Christian Democrats and Social Democrats. With the two big parties working together, there was no effective opposition in parliament to measures the government introduced, including the Emergency Acts, which gave the state new powers to snoop into the lives of ordinary Germans. And what happened? Fischer and his friends took to the streets. It would be an irony indeed if, just as the '68ers leave the stage, Germany were to adopt the very brand of opposition-free politics that first brought them into vogue...