Word: stuffs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Sponsored by Piedmont Airlines, the concert's "free stuff" motif conjured up exotic images: a round-the-world ticket, a spring break trip, perhaps even a week with the Dins in Bangkok on their 1988 summer tour. What the Dins' peers, parents and other sophisticated patrons received was much more creative: cucumbers, Dippity Doo, a can of tuna and a thousand other trinkets...
...those who do not believe, as comedian George Carlin professes, that life is just a big collection of stuff, the question remains: why the stuff? Din President Alexander F. Beckett, who created the theme, answers, "We went right for students' instincts. We knew the tackiest gimmick would draw people...
Once the Dins had promoted the idea, by postering and word-of-mouth, Piedmont actually offered to donate a few round-trip tickets and t-shirts to the cause. But self-styled Stuff Manager Bruce Condit and the others decided that "crap for everyone was better than a few good doorprizes...
Even aside from the stuff, though, the jam was the best a capella concert at Harvard in recent memory. The Dins performed everything from a song with a South African beat to a heavy metal medley. Even members of other Harvard singing groups conceded that the concert was unique, and that the Dins flowed seamlessly among diverse and unusual singing and dancing styles...
...Dins top the "Free Stuff" Jam? Since they did not rehearse the special effects showstopper, and it still went off so well, Din Mike Kelly says, "The only way to top that may be to let Ed Yim eat a live hand-grenade...