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...Despite Brustein's brilliant record with the Yale Rep. and School of Drama, he has aquired a reputation for ignoring undergraduates. This is understandable; after all, his job at Yale was to run a Graduate School and a professional company. Students in theater fear Brustein will likewise devote his energies here to running his company, and will have no time left for undergraduates...
...status of both the professional actors of the Rep. and Brustein himself will be different at Harvard. Under Brustein's plan, the members of the company would draw half-salaries both from the Rep. and from the University--both "do" and "teach" simultaneously. Nevertheless, the University should demand rigid contractual agreements from Brustein and his staff to pay equal, if not more than equal, attention to undergraduates. One proposal worth closer attention is for each professional to serve as a House tutor in drama...
Another objection to Brustein's plan students have voiced is that the professional company would pre-empt undergraduate use of Loeb facilities. The agreement between Harvard and the repertory company should guarantee that House drama groups will continue to have access to the Loeb shop and technical advice from its staff. Brustein proposes reducing the number of undergraduate productions at the Loeb from four to seven a year--but House drama societies, as well as other groups like the Radcliffe Grant-in-Aid Society and the Gilbert and Sullivan Society, would continue to provide the lion's share of student...
...present faculty advisory committee on the Loeb should be retained, if only to re-assure students and provide a check on Brustein's power over scheduling Rep. and undergraduate productions...
...Brustein should also consider opening his proposed non-credit courses in such areas as Acting, Directing and Drama Criticism to all qualified undergraduates, not merely to juniors and seniors as he has stated. Nonetheless, what Brustein proposes is considerably more substantial than what the Loeb presently offers...