PPC announces lineup for Fall Fest

‘ ‘ ‘ After months of debate and decision-making, Pitt Program Council has chosen Motion City… ‘ ‘ ‘ After months of debate and decision-making, Pitt Program Council has chosen Motion City Soundtrack and Saves the Day to be the two headlining performers on Bigelow Boulevard this year for Fall Fest. ‘ ‘ ‘ ‘We started the process of choosing a band at the end of May as soon as Bigelow Bash was over,’ said Sarah Ollio, Special Activities Director for PPC, ‘and we only confirmed with the two bands about two weeks ago.’ ‘ ‘ ‘ The different committees of PPC work together to find bands that they believe will excite the student population. The task of choosing one or two acts out of thousands of bands and performers within hundreds of genres that will appeal to the many different musical tastes of Pitt students is a challenging one for the PPC. ‘There’s always some debate between committees, but in the end it’s a joint decision, and everyone seems content with it,’ said Ollio. ‘ ‘ ‘ ‘Generally we ask around and watch MTV to see what’s popular. Before we had decided on Motion City Soundtrack and Saves the Day, we were thinking of getting Death Cab for Cutie or Jack’s Mannequin. We’re trying to get bands we think Pitt Students will enjoy and bands we think will bring in the most people. We don’t want to spend all this money only to have a poor showing at Fall Fest,’ said Ollio. ‘ ‘ ‘ The search for bands begins when PPC contacts its sources outside of the University to help it find available and willing bands to perform at Fall Fest. After searching through all its options and accounting for the bands’ prices and popularity, PPC made its final decision. ‘ ‘ ‘ ‘We were talking to people at the Activities Fair,’ said Ollio, ‘and they seemed pretty excited.’