Students Celebrate Spring

Bidding farewell to April showers, students celebrated the arrival of May this weekend by eating, dancing and imitating ethnic rituals in annual "spring fling" festivities.

Highlights of the nine separate events included the fourth annual "Goat Roast" in Dunster House and a Carribean festival in the Radcliffe Quadrangle.

Fire-Eaters

Limbo contests, fire-eaters and stilt-walkers entertained about 200 residents at the Quad on Saturday. Students said they danced to live music and enjoyed authentic West Indian food.

The carnival, sponsored by the Harvard-Radcliffe Caribbean Club, was once an annual tradition. Caribbean Club members hope to reinstate the festivities as a salute to theCaribbean cultural heritage, said former co-chairSimone A. Pierce '93.

The Quad carnival was originally planned forthe previous weekend. The attendance was less thanexpected and many Quad residents said they wereswamped with mid-reading period work.

While many students complained of the loudmusic during the crunch studying time, severalsaid the food and games were a welcome break tothe monotony of writing papers and studying.

"Everybody liked the pass-the-pigs game whereyou compete by rolling little plastic pigs," saidMelinda Eakin '93. "We played it all throughdinner."

The Dunster Goat Roast was also postponed afterlast week's bad weather. The Roast is thebrainchild of Dunster House anthropology tutorDaniel E. Lieberman '86.

"Everyone in the world eats goat exceptNorthern Europeans and North Americans," saidLieberman, who is in his last year as a Dunstertutor.

Goast Roast

The supposed goat--which students spun on aspit in the Dunster courtyard--was really a lamb,according to House Master Karel F. Liem.

Liem said Dunster residents look forward to the"fun spring fling" as a celebration of thesemester's end.

A day-long feast and party, the Goat Roastclimaxes when Liem carries the lamb over his headand students follow him in a dance around thecourtyard.

"It's a great tradition," said Jessica Ann Roth'92. "We like it because it says something aboutDunster characteristics. We're mellow anddifferent."

By carving the lamb with replicated stone toolsLieberman said, students aim to reenactpaleolithic customs of stone-age communities.

Residents of Adams, Mather, Winthrop, Quincy,Lowell and Eliot Houses, as well as Canaday Hall,also enjoyed barbecues and spring festivities thisweekend

The Quad carnival was originally planned forthe previous weekend. The attendance was less thanexpected and many Quad residents said they wereswamped with mid-reading period work.

While many students complained of the loudmusic during the crunch studying time, severalsaid the food and games were a welcome break tothe monotony of writing papers and studying.

"Everybody liked the pass-the-pigs game whereyou compete by rolling little plastic pigs," saidMelinda Eakin '93. "We played it all throughdinner."

The Dunster Goat Roast was also postponed afterlast week's bad weather. The Roast is thebrainchild of Dunster House anthropology tutorDaniel E. Lieberman '86.

"Everyone in the world eats goat exceptNorthern Europeans and North Americans," saidLieberman, who is in his last year as a Dunstertutor.

Goast Roast

The supposed goat--which students spun on aspit in the Dunster courtyard--was really a lamb,according to House Master Karel F. Liem.

Liem said Dunster residents look forward to the"fun spring fling" as a celebration of thesemester's end.

A day-long feast and party, the Goat Roastclimaxes when Liem carries the lamb over his headand students follow him in a dance around thecourtyard.

"It's a great tradition," said Jessica Ann Roth'92. "We like it because it says something aboutDunster characteristics. We're mellow anddifferent."

By carving the lamb with replicated stone toolsLieberman said, students aim to reenactpaleolithic customs of stone-age communities.

Residents of Adams, Mather, Winthrop, Quincy,Lowell and Eliot Houses, as well as Canaday Hall,also enjoyed barbecues and spring festivities thisweekend