Word: springfests
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...mediocre campus-wide event and "endless discussions of Springfest bands," is the editorial staff referring to the council's efforts last year to survey student opinion over what band to bring to campus? This effort led to a collection of responses from 800 students, and the results of this effort speak for themselves--a SpringFest with over 3,000 students in attendance...
...turn out for referenda on issues like fee increases and they have no faith in the council to run events itself and manage its accounts. The $40,000 in council money that "reappeared" after being lost in a web of poor accounting and the endless discussions of SpringFest bands only indicate the council's inability to manage its own discretionary funds effectively...
...think any serious candidate will be opposed to [the increase]," said Paul A. Gusmorino '02, "but there will be opposition about whether the money should go to student groups, or to the council for Springfest-type things, or some other clever idea that hasn't been thought...
What else does the council do? Well, the rest of our money goes to campus wide events and services: the First-Year Formal, Springfest, the shuttles to the airport at Thanksgiving and Winter Break, and shuttle buses to Yale. The fact of the matter is that since 1988, the prices for buses, hotel ballrooms, and big-name bands have gone...
When I was a first-year, people hated Springfest because the council could only afford to bring a band called God Street Wine to perform. Maybe 500 people showed up. Last year, over 3,000 people came to Springfest because the Violent Femmes were a bigger name and the rides and games that we had were more fun. But we basically scraped the bottom of the barrel for money and this year, we may not be able to do the same because we don't have any extra money lying around like we did last year...