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Last weekend the Undergraduate Council spent more than $8,500 to bring God Street Wine to Springfest. They took the stage at approximately 3:30 p.m. and played for a grand total of 90 minutes. (Think about it: $8,500 of your term bill fee spent for a band which charged approximately $100 a minute. Not to mention the other costs of putting on this event, that totalled more than...
...trying to suggest that Harvard has a wonderful social scene and that there is no need for events such as Springfest. Far from it. What I'm getting at is that the council's latest attempt to get people out of doors and into the sunlight would have been just as successful without spending $8500 on a band that a majority of students hadn't even heard...
Frankly, I was more impressed with the student bands who charged nothing (and commented that they would have liked to play more) than with a band that took valuable money away from student groups. Springfest should continue to happen, but the council should direct more of its money toward student groups where it can have a greater impact...
This totals $73,735.20 out of an annual budget of $117,040. The remainder of the money goes either to overhead (elections, photocopying, etc.) or to the Committee Fund, from which money for events like Springfest is allocated. Unfortunately for students, much of the money that goes to the Committee Fund ($32,771.20) is wasted on unnecessary items like $8,500 bands...
...heated debate over e-mail and at the lunch tables over who to bring to Springfest, and after all that, only 100 (being charitable, 200 hundred) students attended God Street Wine's concert. That is pathetic. God Street Wine has a reputation for loving to play music, and they attracted only 200 people. I'll leave it to people better at math than I, but that is a wretched turnout...