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...mission to (try to) expand the arts at Harvard without disrespecting all those laid off staffers, Yale College has created a new position for an arts dean. According to the YDN, Dean Susan Cahan’s responsibilities will include “[developing] new programs in the arts?? and making room for more artistic space. While Harvard does have its own Office for the Arts, this year it will probably be more focused on budget cuts than “new programs...
...their children, drawing time away from chasing numeric success and instead encouraging creativity. In India, if a parent is to pay for his son’s college tuition, that child must choose a path that ensures a secure and set future—not “the arts?? And there is little by way of encouraging participation in extracurriculars. Time is better spent in the classroom or preparing for tests...
...gains something the college can call a “liberal arts education.” And both subdivide such courses into eight subject areas, some of which map onto each other with absurd precision. Did we really wait four years to see the “Literature and Arts?? requirement renamed “Aesthetic and Interpretive Understanding?” “Moral Reasoning,” renamed “Ethical Reasoning?”PARALLEL PATHS, DIVERGENT MISSIONSDespite their similarities, these parallel programs emerged from very different moments in history. The Core, spearheaded...
...becoming a physicist. Now with a substantial list of acting and directing credits to her name, not to mention the first student show on the Loeb Mainstage in 15 years, it might seem as though Videt—the 2009 recipient of the Luis Sudler Prize in the Arts??has traded her passion for physics for a new one. But this is hardly the case. While she admits “I was just never cut out to make it as a physicist,” Videt has found a unique way to combine her seemingly irreconcilable interests...
...idea of the Student Art Show was born last October when Jane K. Cheng ’09 inquired about a place for student art at a Harvard arts?? leaders luncheon. “Jane asked if there was a place to sell the books she made, and Drew [Faust, President of Harvard University] looks at Jack Megan, who is director of the OFA, and said, ‘Well now, there isn’t,’” Wang recalls...