Word: brustein
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Robert S. Brustein, our audiences wait...
Student members of the Committee on Undergraduate Education (CUE) said at yesterday's meeting they will not support drama courses for credit proposed by Robert S. Brustein, future director of the Loeb and director of the American Repertory Theater (ART), unless he can guarantee that the courses are well-taught and suitable for all undergraduates...
Steven C. Gold '81, a CUE member said yesterday the Educational Resources Group (ERG) "basically supports" Brustein's proposal, but "we do have some reservations we'd like to work out some more...
...Brustein should offer extra-curricular, non-credit courses...
Though many professors have hope in Brustein, his battle will be far from easy. There remains diehard resistance to arts for credit, a movement backed by the belief that education doesn't necessitate credit and that students don't want anything different than what they have now. "Everyone knows the arts are wonderful and theraputic, but they're also hard work that take perserverence and often pain. Then again, just because they're educational doesn't mean that you have to get credit for it," Mayman says. "There's just no overwhelming need or desire for the arts as credit...