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Senior Year, DeMay's Way

Student Produces on Own Record Label

"I couldn't really deal with the house systemanymore, especially being in band, with theconstraints of sound and noise," DeMay says.

"And the way people treated the way I was, Idon't feel that comfortable," he says. "I feelthat it's a catchword to be tolerant here, butwhen it comes down to it people really want thingstheir own way."

"And I'm no different," he adds.

DeMay has been involved in other musicalextracurricular activities at Harvard, includingWHRB, where he held the position of president fora year-and-a-half until the end of last semester.

"I look back on these three-and-a-half yearsand I have no concept of how I did what I did,"DeMay says. "It seems like I did so much. I don'tremember if I ever slept or not."

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DeMay is still the disc jockey for the Fridaynight edition of WHRB's nightly punk rock show,"The Record Hospital."

He also works at the Quad Sound Studio, and atthe Fogg Museum friends' office.

In addition, DeMay runs the Harvard IndependentMusic Society, which he founded last spring inorder to "keep the alternative/punk rock scenetogether" through shows and brainstormingsessions.

"I really felt that there wasn't anyencouragement for alternative rock and punk rockbands at Harvard," he says. "I thought maybe ifthere was some support it would help get youngerpeople interested.

Close to Breaking Even

DeMay says that out of the 1,000 CDs producedby "100% Breakfast!," about 500 have been sold.

"No profits yet, but close to breaking even,"he says.

He has marketed the album in "all the [record]stores in the Square,." And by placing the CD in amail-order catalog. DeMay says he has made salesas far away as England.

DeMay says he considers the venture a success.

"I feel like it has done what it set out to do,which is to encourage bands and to get people tofeel good about what they're doing," he says.

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