Free Springfest Preferable

To the editors:

Re "Harvard's Spring Best" (College, April 20): I was actually at Brown this weekend, visiting a friend. While the article was correct in that Sonic Youth did play at Brown, it neglected to mention that tickets to the event cost $13 for Brown students and $16 for everyone else. Not to mention that much of the campus was blocked off, meaning that even if you weren't going to the concert you couldn't just hang out. My friend and I decided we weren't going to pay that much to hang out on the lawn for a couple of hours. So we went home.

I for one am in favor of a free Springfest that one can merely go to and enjoy, and if that means having Harvard bands, that's fine. KATHERINE A. HURWICH '00   April 20, 1998