Last night at the Undergraduate Council’s final meeting of the year, the council confirmed the Harvard Concert Commission’s (HCC) choice of Dispatch, an up-and-coming Boston band, to perform in Sanders Theater some time next fall.

Council Vice-President Sujean S. Lee ’03 said HCC, of which she is a co-founder, recently chose the band after hearing numerous requests for it and after determining that it was available and affordable. She said their performance fee would be $12,500-much less than the $30,000 that HCC spent on the Roots and the Black Eyed Peas last winter.

“I think Dispatch is popular at Harvard and students will be happy with them,” Lee said.

She added that HCC’s ongoing fundraising effort will continue over the summer and will include cultivating a possible sponsorship from the sportsdrink company Redbull. The money for the Dispatch concert, however, is already within the council’s possesion according to Lee.

In addition, the council approved a $5,000 preliminary allocation for the first annual “Fallfest”—an event sponsored by the Campus Life Committee (CLC) that council members hope will become Springfest’s seasonal counterpart.

“Springfest was a big success,” said CLC Chair Melissa A. Eccleston ’04. “I hope Fallfest will be just as good.”

The council also passed an acclaimation to recommend to the faculty a series of changes designed to improve the amount of choice within the Core curriculum.

According to the bill’s author, council member Rohit Chopra ’04, “the short-term remedies include bringing in a slew of departmental alternatives to alleviate the current shortage, being more lenient on granting petitions to grant Core credit for departmental courses which fit the basic goals of a Core area, and the appointment of Faculty subcommittee chairs who aggressively recruit their colleagues to teach Core courses.”