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...Without doubt, extracurricular ventures into the visual and performance arts should also be endorsed and encouraged on campus. But students who want to study and explore artistic disciplines and who find tremendous satisfaction in drama, music or painting should have the opportunity to do so--without anyone questioning their academic resolve or tenacity...
...Unfortunately, Harvard tells a drastically different story. Each semester hundreds of students are turned away from Visual and Environmental Science (VES) classes not necessarily because of the courses' competitive nature, but more accurately because of the lack of resources allotted to the department. More devastating than the University's maldistribution of money and space, however, is the underlying sentiment among undergraduates that VES does not fit in with the Harvard academic model. Harvard ignorantly writes off VES classes as flaky, insignificant guts, VES concentrators as angst-ridden, black-clad and pretentious bohemians and VES degrees as a wasted education...
...Harvard released the Brown Report, an investigation commissioned by President Nathan M. Pusey '28 to determine whether art was an "appropriate" academic pursuit. The study resoundingly endorsed the visual arts as a novel learning method and way to develop students' analytical skills. Although this triggered the impetus for investment in artistic education across the nation, according to Phelan, the Brown Report had "virtually no impact at Harvard...
...Brown Report conclusions did impact at least one Harvard affiliate: Harvard alumnae Alfred St. Vrain Carpenter '05, who as a result resolved to dedicate a building to the visual arts at Harvard. Although the University tried to cajole Carpenter to donate his dollars elsewhere, Carpenter built his art center under two conditions: that the building be in close proximity to the Fogg Art Museum and that he choose the architect. Only through Carpenter's generous contributions does Harvard have a Center for the Performing Arts--and the only North American building designed by Le Corbusier...
...arts have been incorporated into other academic disciplines as well. Professor of History James T. Kloppenberg, for example, infuses the visual arts into his History 1661: "Social Thought in Modern America" lectures...