While UVA’s $14-per-semester termbill fee helped pay for the Mraz concert, at Harvard, $5 of the UC’s $60 termbill fee is devoted to concert production. Combined with a much smaller student body than UVa’s, this amounts to a far smaller student contribution to the budget for concerts.

Kicking off the semester, Princeton’s Quadrangle Club—one of the school’s twelve eating clubs, or co-ed social groups—put on a concert featuring Jurassic 5.

While the eating club received financial and logistical support from the student government for the show, much of the approximately $50,000 production, including an artist fee of $37,000 was funded by the club itself, according to Jamal M. Motlagh, President of Quadrangle Club.

To get further funding, Quadrangle Club made the concert alcohol-free in exchange for financial support from Princeton’s Alcohol Initiative (AI), said Motalgh.

Harvard’s final clubs, not officially recognized by Harvard, are in a different position.

As McCambridge explained, “There is no way [Harvard] would let final clubs throw concerts on [University] property,” McCambridge said.

As Harvard’s fall concert approaches, the HCC will be using some similar techniques to try to ensure that the upcoming show is a success.

McCambridge said the HCC has taken steps to ensure that history does not repeat itself.

“We’ve spent more time, further in advance, clearing artists with various police departments.”