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...Springfest is the council's annual and largest attempt to "build community" at Harvard. Despite our efforts to recruit an audience for Springfest, each year, the turnout is lower than expected. As one council member pointed out, even when the dining halls were closed for lunch, the council still could not "starve" students into taking part in the MAC Quad festivities. Other council attempts at fostering community have proven to be exercises in futility...
...already know this. Annual events held by groups like the Black Students Association or the Asian American Association often garner larger audiences than does Springfest. Discussions and lectures sponsored by the Minority Student Alliance or RAZA effectively add more to the Harvard community than random, though kind, gifts of cherry lollipops or roses for the House dining staff...
...money allocated for committees is used to fund events such as Springfest. But Blake and Stone argued that planning social events is a job better left to individual student groups...
Stewart said if the council reduced the allocation to committees, the council might not be able to fully fund events like Springfest and the First Year Formal...
...council members surveyed, universalkeycard access, Springfest and student groupfunding were cited as particularly importantissues...