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Changes in groups’ eligibility for grants from the Harvard College Student Activities Fund (SAF) have cost the Harvard Ballet Company $500—roughly 10 percent of its semester budget, said Laurie B. Schnidman ’05, the company’s treasurer...
...Harvard Ballet Company has not qualified for funding this year under the new guidelines. While Schnidman said she was not given a specific reason why the company does not qualify for the grants, she felt the College rejected their application because she thought they did not view the performances as social events...
...some social circles, ballet and performances are considered a very big social event,” Schnidman added...
...Harvard Ballet Company charges for admission to its performances...
Other groups have not encountered the same funding problems faced by the Harvard Ballet Company. The Harvard-Radcliffe Dance Company is sufficiently funded by a grant from the OFA, and occasionally by council grants, said company director Lise T. Lipowsky ’05. Mainly Jazz is also funded by dues and by sources of grant money other than the SAF, according to group director Melissa E. Miller...