Word: springfests
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Under pressure from the student body, the Dean’s Office has demonstrated an increased commitment to undergraduate campus life over the course of the past year, establishing Pub Nights in Loker Commons and installing a Fun Czar within their ranks. This year’s Springfest after-party will be getting some help from the Dean’s Office, but the specific amount of the contribution was not determined as of press time, Glazer says...
According to John Longbrake, Summers’s interim spokesperson, that’s not at all the case. Longbrake says Springfest is no worse than the comparable events at other schools. “It really is focused on the undergrads, and it couldn’t be put together without the undergrads who are on the planning team,” he says...
...that our campus life suffers because such and such a club gets better funding at UPenn than at Harvard,” Mahan says. “The difference is that UPenn’s administration has the will and spends the money to make their Springfest an incredible weekend for undergraduates...
...Harvard, the UC is largely forced to work on their own. Although various groups are throwing events to coincide with Springfest, they have their eyes set on something else: pre-frosh weekend...
There is a limit, however, to how much Springfest could grow—and neither the UC nor the administration can do much about...