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When 50 people buy tickets for an event with a published capacity of 375, there has to have been a miscalculation somewhere. This was the first harbor cruise event ever held by the UC. Though the annual Moonlight Cruise for seniors nearly always sells out, the prospect of spending three hours on a Havana-themed boat with a cash bar on an (uncontrollably) rainy Friday night held decidedly less allure. It was so hard for this event to go right, and so easy for it to go wrong...
Many of these circumstances, like the weather, were impossible to foresee. But that’s the point. Taking a $2,350 risk on an unproven concept like Havana on the Harbor was one way for the UC to answer students who contend the UC just does the same thing over and over. But it was a far too radical answer. The UC doesn’t yet have the credibility to put on such a huge party. Perhaps aware of this fact, Havana organizers sought help from the Crimson Dance Team to promote the event. Despite such publicity efforts...
...UC and the CLC must not blame the failure of Havana on the Harbor on Mother Nature. By our reckoning, the event was doomed from the start—from the minute students saw the announcement in their inboxes and asked: “The UC’s throwing a booze cruise?” Future UC parties must strike a better balance between risk and reward. We appreciate and encourage the CLC’s attempts to innovate and seek out new ways of improving campus life, but isolated failures like Havana cannot turn into a trend. Nearly...
...steady drizzle fell on Saturday afternoon’s Springfest, and organizers of the Undergraduate Council (UC)-sponsored afterparty said they thought the inclement weather was to blame for the lower-than-expected turnout...
...UC allocated a total of $20,000 for the afterparty, although UC President Matthew J. Glazer ’06 said at last night’s meeting that the UC will get $4,000 back because the bands had cost less than expected...