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Both Professor of English Robert J. Brustein, director of the Loeb Drama Center and Senior Lecturer on English and committee Chair Michael S. Shinagel say it was Symonds--and not the committee--that demanded the position be expanded...
...refused to take the technical director position without teaching the design course. He forced the search," Brustein says, indicating that Symonds' lack of teaching experience was at issue...
Professor of English Robert S. Brustein, the director of the Loeb, said Symonds was replaced after the Standing Committee on Dramatic Arts decided to expand the position he held, adding the role of lecturer on the dramatic arts...
...committee decided not to rehire Symonds because he did not have the teaching qualifications to be a lecturer, Brustein said...
Until Harvard reconsiders its ties to the ART and renegotiates the latter's parasitic hold on the Loeb Drama Center, and until the standing committee ceases to be a rubber stamp for Brustein's wishes, undergraduates and their supporters will have little recourse to prevent Symonds from leaving his current post. And although his successor may well prove a champion of student theater, a more permanent solution is necessary. The survival of undergraduate theater should not rest upon the whims of a professional theater company...