Word: yardfest
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...include student performers in anything they do.” Petros boasted that his performance outshone previous campus-wide events. “Wu-Tang Clan has nothing on me, but Gavin is a talent”, he said, referring to the performers at last spring’s Yardfest. The Cliffhanger, a spinning hang glider simulation ride, drew perhaps the biggest lines of the night. After standing on line for over an hour, F. Mauricio Artavia ’10 said he thought the 3-minute ride was worth the wait. “It?...
This spring’s Yardfest was the first in the event’s three-year history to feature two artists—the Wu Tang Clan and Gavin DeGraw. The CEB’s choice of Third Eye Blind the previous year led to a great deal of dissatisfaction among students who thought the act was out of touch with their current musical interests...
...burning precious political capital in a bloody battle against a more or less undefeatable adversary.However, when there was a willingness among students and administrators to work together, both parties benefited. Nowhere was this more apparent than in the resurgence of the College Events Board (CEB) and its biggest event, Yardfest. While previous years had witnessed sub-par Yardfest artists, dwindling attendances, and a general lack of confidence in the recently created CEB, things were different this time around. Headlined by Gavin DeGraw and the Wu-Tang Clan, Yardfest was a resounding success, and a tribute to the new and effective...
...Beyond the weather factor, which is obviously huge, I think students were pumped about Yardfest, everybody was taking about it,” said CEB chair John F. Pararas ’08-’09. “The artist selection made people get excited that it was something different...
...This Yardfest was better than the other ones,” said Austin D. McLeod ’09, who met DeGraw as he walked around the Yard before he took the stage. “He seemed really down to earth and asked us how we like Harvard...