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...Springfest, scheduled for noon to 4 p.m. on Sunday, will be largely similar to last year’s event, featuring carnival games and rides, student group sponsored booths, and a Harvard University Dining Services (HUDS) barbeque...
...Springfest brings out a lot of people that work within the University with students, and, to me, it’s certainly a reasonable and desirable thing as a community-building event,” says McCambridge. “Some students will say that it’s the wrong focus, but I think the balance to that can be this kind of a concert event…I think that’s a wonderful balance to strike within this type of a weekend and that was part of the motivation behind the decision to do [the concert...
Tight budgets have led to some strange choices in the past. Artists who have performed at Springfest range from bands well past their peak, like the Violent Femmes in 1999, to novelty acts, like Big Bad Voodoo Daddy in 2000, to downright bewildering choices, like God Street Wine...
...last band to perform at Springfest, the Verve Pipe, was paid $15,000 in 2002. Still running on the fumes of their minor hit from 1996, “The Freshman,” the Verve Pipe understandably failed to please many students...
...also the first year that University President Lawrence H. Summers co-sponsored Springfest. At the time, controversy arose over whether Summers had limited the council’s choices to family-friendly artists...