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...light of Tuesday’s cancellation of the Wyclef concert, Harvard students have a right to be upset about spending $30,000 and getting nothing in return. Many members of the Undergraduate Council (UC) are frustrated too. While there is a temptation to turn that frustration towards fruitless finger-pointing, we see this as an opportunity to channel our dissatisfaction towards more productive ends. Like UC Vice President Clay Clapp said in The Crimson yesterday, we agree that “a big priority will be to reevaluate and overhaul the way the UC is involved in social programming...
...oversight, can be achieved through converting the HCC into a democratic body. A democratic process will encourage student polling and campus-wide research before multi-thousand dollar projects are undertaken. We disagree with McCambridge, who in response to criticisms that the HCC should have polled prior to pursuing Wyclef, only replied that, “It hadn’t been done before.” Instead, the HCC opted to survey student interest based on anecdotal evidence and informal chats. It comes as little surprise that the HCC failed to satisfy students with such a paltry feint at research...
...While we realize that the nature of both cancellations were completely different—external obstacles clearly contributed to last spring’s Snoop Dogg debacle—both instances still cost the UC thousands of student dollars. Not only was close to $40,000 wasted for both Wyclef and Snoop, it is even more upsetting because the UC’s just-completed termbill hike was partially justified on the grounds that it would improve concert events. Now, the community as a whole need to take a long look at every aspect—from structure to accountability?...
When asked on Tuesday night if, in light of the tepid student interest for Wyclef, research could have prevented such misappraisals of student buzz, McCambridge casually cited “some Crimson article” from 2004 as research that reported student’s top musical choice to be Wyclef. In actuality, the March 8, 2004 article, “Wyclef Voted Top Choice for Concert,” covered a UC-representative-only vote on an HCC-written list of potential performers for the spring 2004 concert. That McCambridge attempted to pass this off as a student referendum...
...Harvard Concert Commission (HCC)’s Nov. 6 concert featuring Wyclef Jean was cancelled last night because of lackluster ticket sales, Undergraduate Council (UC) President Matthew J. Glazer ’06 announced at an emergency UC meeting last night. According to HCC Chairman Jack P. McCambridge ’06, the concert’s cancellation will cost the HCC between $25,000 and $30,000. As of yesterday, concert organizers had sold less than half the tickets needed to break even with only four days left before the show. “We were contractually obligated...