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Lately, building the ’zine has taken a back seat to staging events like the Cube and the Dance Conspiracy, in which a silent swarm of people vacillated and jived to rhythms supplied by Harvard radio station WHRB through portable radio headphones. These events aim at making people aware of their surroundings—their “space and place” as Present! co-founder Neasa Coll ’05 puts it. “Some of the events we’ve had have happened outside or they’ve happened in places...
...next door. Instead of going out to the Boston Pops or for strolls on the Common, they would study in the library or head to Grendel’s for late-night coffee. It was informal, slightly domestic, and playful. They merged their extracurricular interests. Barbara had worked at WHRB, and now she helped Phil plan an “orgy”—a long multiple-hour show with just one person. They took day-long ski trips to New Hampshire and Vermont, where he taught her how to ski. The next year, they managed to move...
That is until Wolff temporarily traded the batter’s box for the press box and became the voice of Harvard men’s hockey on WHRB...
...constantly looking towards the future. “We’re hoping to have a Silent Dance at the Harvard-Yale game,” Mahfouda said enthusiastically. “We’re hoping to get a lot of small radios and headphones—WHRB [Harvard’s radio show] will be involved—and have everyone tune in to the show and dance. That way there’s no noise, but the music’s everywhere...
Speaking of his Harvard experience, Wareham wasn’t exactly enthusiastic. “Harvard had absolutely no influence on my musical career.” Later he recanted slightly his initial position, relaying that working at WHRB exposed him to a lot of music that he otherwise would not have heard...