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...CLC’s Harvard-Yale pep rally, dodgeball tournaments, and the Junior Class Events Commission’s “Junior Class Does Junior High” dance. Most notably, the office found the magic formula for a successful Harvard State Fair in the fall and Yardfest in the spring: close the dining halls, and pour carnival food into Tercentenary Theater. Drawn by a mechanical bull and Ben Folds, respectively, and by dinner on both occasions, students flocked to the events, with many exclaiming afterwards that the events felt like a “real college experience...
...also been supporting initiatives relating to student life to create a greater sense of College community. We have sponsored a number of campus-wide events, from the first annual welcome back event, the Harvard State Fair, to the Harvard-Yale pep rally to this spring’s Yardfest featuring Ben Folds. All of these events were enthusiastically attended and will be held again next year, with the addition of the new student-run College Events Board to help with planning and scheduling. New student social space will also be constructed over the summer. In October, a café will...
...Yardfest Stein Club + tree swings built dangerously close to trees...
...behind such feel-good pop hits as the maudlin “Brick” and the more recent upbeat solo hit, “Rockin’ the Suburbs,” added a slightly less commercially palatable track to his repertoire Sunday night at Harvard Yardfest (formerly known as Springfest). The extemporaneous ditty, in which Folds proclaimed alternately that “Eliot House sucks big donkey dicks” and that “Eliot House is not that bad” in minor and major keys, was prompted by a miniature inflated beach ball that landed...
...semester, the College will endow the board with a $200,000 financial allocation, a four-fold increase over the UC’s typical events budget. According to an article in The Crimson, the new board will be responsible for planning five different social events: two outdoors events like Yardfest, a concert, and Harvard-Yale. The board’s creation effectively outsources the social-planning role traditionally held by the CLC. According to Matthew R. Greenfield ’08, the UC is mulling over three potential plans, all of which involve the dissolution of the enfeebled committee. Democracy...