Word: springfests
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...Rahzel, but also O.A.R., performances by student bands, an outdoor barbecue, and booze. For the Yale College Council (YCC), the Bulldogs’ UC equivalent, the weekend comes with a price tag of $110,000—almost exactly the cost of Harvard’s day-time Springfest activities...
Under pressure from the student body, the Dean’s Office has demonstrated an increased commitment to undergraduate campus life over the course of the past year, establishing Pub Nights in Loker Commons and installing a Fun Czar within their ranks. This year’s Springfest after-party will be getting some help from the Dean’s Office, but the specific amount of the contribution was not determined as of press time, Glazer says...
...Harvard, the money is allocated elsewhere before Snoop’s hands can take it. The only event controlled independently by the UC is the after-party, but of the over $100,000 the President’s Office allocates to Springfest, only $5,000 goes to the after-party. The rest is locked away in hot dog expenses. And $5,000 is small change compared to the $30,000 price tag for the evening event, which draws most of its funding from the Dean’s Office at the College, the Student Activities Fund, and the UC?...
According to John Longbrake, Summers’s interim spokesperson, that’s not at all the case. Longbrake says Springfest is no worse than the comparable events at other schools. “It really is focused on the undergrads, and it couldn’t be put together without the undergrads who are on the planning team,” he says...
...that our campus life suffers because such and such a club gets better funding at UPenn than at Harvard,” Mahan says. “The difference is that UPenn’s administration has the will and spends the money to make their Springfest an incredible weekend for undergraduates...