Word: programming
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...University average of one-third last year. Cantor says he is not surprised by the high turnover, since the K-School had moved from Littauer Center to a new building. "Any organization that goes through rapid change almost inevitably experiences a fall-out. When the observatory lost the NASA program we had a whacking turnover rate. We all felt bad about it, but it happens. There is no one school at Harvard you can point to and say, 'Aha! They're the bad guys,'" Cantor says...
Mayman's office also sponsors Learning from Performers, a program that brings guest artists to Harvard to work with students on a personal level. Last year the director of Broadway's Pacific Overtures ran a three part seminar with 15 students interested in drama. Students saw the play worked through its various stages, and participated on discussions with the director about the changes. This year, the program will bring playwright Arthur Miller and musician Jonnie Green to Harvard, among others...
...Freshman Council on the Arts, headed by Evangeline M. Morphos, will offer a program similar to Learning from Performers because Morphos believes freshman are often left out of the freshman arts office program The freshman arts office also provides discount rates on tickets to many cultural events in Boston as well as funding for freshman art projects. Between the offices of Morphos and other undergraduate student groups, most students will find enough to keep them satisfied. You may have to pay for them--not very much--but they're there...
...performing arts for john H. Coolidge, Boardman Professor of Fine Arts. Coolidge believes that because the final product in an artistic venture is so subjective, it is impossible to set standards for grading such projects. Moreover, he argues, "Boston just does not have the artistic genius that an art program requires. It's a social fact that can't be changed," Coolidge says...
Ackerman is joined by Claire Malardi, head of the Harvard-Radcliffe dance program, who sees the lack of course credit as a major drawback in the dance program. "Because the kids don't get credit for what they do in the studio, it inevitably takes backseat to their graded classes," she says. "Time and energy-wise, the teacher is up against a real battle." Still, Malardi praises the dance program and the students for their dedication and admits that one benefit of the no credit policy is the near-total absence of pressure and competition. In the long run, however...