"I vowed to myself at one point in my life never to [play Harvard] because I was wary about connecting my band with Harvard," Peretz said. But he added, "It was nice not having to deal with swindling people and people swindling you."

Flintstones in Adams

Now Adams House has black room where all the residents with black clothes can go to watch film noir.

After a year-and-a-half of hard labor, a group of Adams House residents and affiliates this weekend put the finishing touches on "Explosives B," the new video room in the basement of D-entry.

Sarah Dawidoff '87 held a black tie ceremony last weekend to celebrate the opening of the room, which features a television, refrigerator, video-cassette recorder, and some of the most modern chairs ever seen at Harvard.

The room, which was once an ugly, empty shell with grass growing between cracks in the floor, has now taken on the guise of a preshistoric cave right out of the Flintstones, some visitors say.

Doug Fitch, a non-resident Adams House tutor, and other residents spent over a year designing and constructing the avant-garde furniture, which was paid for, along with the room's other furnishings, out of House Committee funds.

Everything in the room: the chairs, couches, tables, and even the stylish hand-made rugs, are a work of art, says Dawidoff.

All who worked on the room, said it was a "group effort." More than two dozen devoted workers spent hours mortaring and polyurethaning the floor to make the room durable.