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...thousand dollars lost in good faith is still ten thousand dollars. Between negotiation fees for the defunct Snoop Dogg Springfest concert and the under-attended Campus Life Committee (CLC) event “Havana on the Harbor,” Harvard’s Undergraduate Council (UC) is in the red for a near-five-figure sum. But although the negotiation fees were unavoidable expenses as the UC sought to secure a top-shelf act, Havana on the Harbor was an unmitigated waste of student money. The UC, and especially the CLC, must eschew overly risky endeavors as they attempt...
...large, the UC has enjoyed unprecedented success in its efforts this year. The council conducted two extensive surveys of student opinion to secure extended hours for Lamont Library and agitate for a potential lengthening of dining hall hours. In these advocacy efforts, the Student Affairs Committee (SAC) has been diligent in soliciting student opinion before embarking on any major effort...
...CLC’s leadership must deal with on a daily basis. Even so, CLC continues to enjoy success with its movie nights, discounted movie tickets, and many other undertakings. There will never be a foolproof equation for throwing a successful campus social event. Still, the CLC and the UC as a whole should have asked more questions before approving a risky event like Havana on the Harbor...
Besides organizing the logistics of providing food, finding a band and preparing the MAC quad for the after party, the UC has spent endless hours procuring and securing over $5,000 worth of beer for the event, which will be sold at $1 a draft. The sale of liquor at the event—something that does not occur at the Spring Weekends of UPenn, Tufts, or Brown, largely because their frats provide liquor for free—constitutes a step towards reclaiming control of Springfest and campus life in general...
Hard as they may try, the UC alone can’t incite the kind of cultural change necessary to make Harvard’s Springfest look like Penn’s, Yale’s, or Brown’s. That would take more than just another $20,000 or a permanent liquor license. Maybe the President’s Office isn’t so wrong to emphasize community—they just have the wrong community in mind...