the council's failure to pass a termbill increase.
Though Smith said he is excited about the prospect of having Clinton at Springfest, he is also concerned about the financial cost.
He said the council will have to take money from the $25,000 allotted to the administrators for planning a student center--money that administrators have shown no intention of using and is, according to Smith, "fair game" for the council to use to fund Springfest.
But after next year, said Smith, the council will "really be hurting" for funds. He said he anticipates another--if smaller--proposed term bill increase in the next couple of years.
For this year's Springfest, however, the situation is not so desperate. The council has already received a $1,000 corporate sponsorship and hopes for more.
And as Smith and Leonard pointed out, there is no assurance that Clinton will come to Harvard for the amount he is being offered. Leonard put his price at between $20,000 and $35,000.
"It's going to be tough," Leonard said, then referred to traditional parts of the two bands' acts.
"Do students want a man in an oversized diaper standing in the MAC quad, or Istanbul and Constantinople?"