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Despite efforts by the Harvard Concert Commission (HCC), hip-hop group Outkast will not be coming to campus this spring, commission head and Undergraduate Council President Sujean S. Lee ’03 said yesterday...
...said that the HCC made a bid on the popular hip-hop group but because of the band’s recent increase in booking rate and the short notice for the proposed May 7 concert date, the band would be unable to perform...
Hence the administrative hesitancy to approve OutKast clearly rests on dubious grounds. Yet, Illingworth is a smart man, and I suspect that he knows that his arguments are specious. In fact, so do members of the HCC. Indeed, HCC members see Illingworth’s comments as a foil for other more problematic administrative intentions...
According to one HCC member, it is understandable that the administration would desire some oversight over the bidding and contracting process, given that the HCC is dealing with large sums of money and that the University would ultimately be held liable if problems with the HCC’s contract arose. However, the member observes that the administration’s interest in the bidding and contracting process has clearly gone beyond making sure that documents are legally sound...
Perhaps the HCC is well-founded in its suspicions. Perhaps it is completely off-base. But if the latter is true, the administration needs to start talking straight and providing legitimate, non-biased, and factually-grounded reasons for failing to accept the OutKast bid. Tell us, Dean Illingworth, this time for real...