Word: springfests
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Students had formed a line outside of the Pavilion well before the 9 p.m. start time for the Springfest concert, sponsored by the Undergraduate Council and the Harvard Concert Commission...
...became increasingly clear that the council’s pockets were not deep enough to continue to improve Springfest. In 2002, UC President Sujean S. Lee ’03 estimated that the council would only be able to pay a band $5,000 to perform at Springfest. Summers’ offer of co-sponsorship turned out to be too good for the council to turn down...
Students still had misgivings about opening the event to the rest of the Harvard community. Would the presence of families at the event turn Springfest into the Harvard University company picnic...
...gain for students turned out to be $20,000 of University money, effectively doubling the budget for the event. Springfest 2002 was widely regarded as a success, despite the unpopularity of the Verve Pipe with students, and created the model that remains more or less in place today...
...concert may well be the first year that the promise implicit in Summers’s co-sponsorship comes to fulfillment. Busta is undoubtedly the most popular artist to perform on campus in recent memory. His decidedly non-family-friendly approach may well shift the tenor of Springfest back in the direction of students. Ten years after its start, Springfest may finally have figured things...