Since the first group that evolved after Into the Woods, the group has grown this fall with the addition of many sophomores and juniors.

Today, Adomanis says he can call 25 to 30 people on a given night and have about 12 show up. "I can always manage to rustle up people to get the job done."

Though Dispatch Tech is not yet officially registered with the University, Adomanis says it is "applying to become a recognized student group through Dean Epps."

Though the group is applying for funding from the Undergraduate Council, Adomanis says, it does not yet receive any University funding and functions entirely on a voluntary basis.

"Our only request is that we like to be fed. That usually means a couple of pizzas and a bottle of soda," says Adomanis.

"We don't require dues...We're asking people [in view of] having a general fund to cover little costs like photocopying, making a calendar, getting tools and supplies and buying a radio to have when we go to work," he says.

The techies have even built on Harvard's motto, as members own t-shirts which read "Veri-Tech."

Fox describes Dispatch Tech as "friends, who at a moment's notice appear at a show's doorstep and build everything for them."

When Dispatch Tech does something, it does it fast--so the techies claim. "We usually get things done very quickly and efficiently...Most shows have us come back at the end to help get the set out, which is usually late on the night of the last show," Adomanis says.

But the techies' work is, in Adomanis' words, limited to "brute labor."

"As a group, we don't get involved with design-type issues," he says.

The group asks producers to provide the materials, but the builders take over from there. In fact, many of the shows are produced in houses or non-theater spaces which lack essential building tools.

"Most of the tools we've used have been my personal tools," Adomanis says.

Lin says last spring's production of "Brighton Beach Memoirs" exemplified the group's spontaneity.

"A group of us was hanging out in the Quincy House JCR, and [Brighton Beach Memoirs] Marc Jones ['94], came in looking for tech people," Lin says. "And we said: `We can do that!'... and he said: `Just by sitting here I have my whole show set up!'"