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...biggest controversy came in 2005 when the UC’s Campus Life Committee had to cancel Wyclef Jean’s performance because of low ticket sales. In the wake of student protests and a $30,000 loss, the UC passed control of College-wide social event planning to the newly formed College Events Board. Backed by a $200,000 budget from the Dean’s Office, the CEB, in partnership with the Harvard Concert Commission, sponsored a successful Yardfest 2006 headlined by Ben Folds, with an audience of 7,000. Since...
When asked if he had ever used Yéle money for personal benefits, Cultural Rhythms 2010 Artist of the Year Wyclef Jean tearfully replied, "absolutely not." Few doubt that Jean, Fugees star and Yéle Haiti Foundation founder, cares about the Haitian people, but many are raising questions about financial decisions made at the Yéle Haiti Foundation that have steered money towards Jean and his associates including, as Gawker reports, his rumored mistress, Zakiya Khatou-Chevassus...
...received $410,000 in payments from Yéle Haiti from 2005 to 2007. According to Yéle Haiti's tax returns, the charity paid out $31,200 in rent to Platinum Sound, a recording studio co-owned by Jean; $100,000 for the "musical performance services of Wyclef Jean at a benefit concert;" and $250,000 to Telemax, S.A., "a for-profit Haiti company in which Jean and Duplessis were said to 'own a controlling interest...
While Jean has responded to some of the allegations in a YouTube video, many questions remain unanswered. Responding to the controversy surrounding Jean, Harvard Foundation Director S. Allen Counter said in an emailed statement, "Wyclef Jean was honored in December 2009, by the Nobel Concert Committee when he was asked to perform at the Nobel Peace Prize Concert inn Oslo. Two months later, on February 26, 2010, Jean was honored by the venerable NAACP for his humanitarian efforts over the years in his native Haiti... He accepted our invitation and visited Harvard College on February...
Winthrop opens with a shout-out from Wyclef Jean and then goes immediately into a re-tooled version of Ke$ha’s “Tik Tok,” opening with “Wake up in the morning feeling like Bernanke.” Winthrop’s lion leaves its room and makes its way through the House and into the Yard, partying the whole...