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This spring, another HRDC-related controversy reared its ugly head in the Harvard theater community. the Adams House play Mirandolina was canceled, plagued by allegations of sexual harassment from the female lead and counter-allegations from the cast about her incompatibility...
Marquette went to the HRDC board with her complaints, and states that the board was "helpful inasmuch as they could help me." Marquette also says that "HRDC does not have rules for rules for such a situation. It's assumed that something like this will never happen. That's wishful thinking. I don't know if a group of students are capable of dealing with a problems of such magnitude...
...light of these two troubling controversies, the HRDC may want to develop a comprehensive strategy for confronting casting issues within the theater community. Rare though they may be, these disputes should be dealt with in a responsible manner...
Marquette may be right. Expecting the HRDC, an undergraduate-run organization, to arbitrate complex issues like sexual harassment is probably unrealistic. And to give that responsibility to an undergraduate group may be allowing them excessive power in areas where they carry no expertise...
...HRDC executive board should have the wisdom to pass along such sensitive deliberations to a college board capable of providing a mature forum for the issues...