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...Department of English, in the teaching and scholarship of the Graduate School of Design (GSD), in the lives of faculty, students, and staff. We confront ever increasing demand for opportunities for artistic expression, both within and beyond the curriculum. We anticipate a significant place for the arts as a central component of our growth in Allston...
...plastic arts. Cross-School and cross-unit collaborations are underdeveloped, and resources have not kept pace with changing needs. Many of our peer institutions have, in recent years, undertaken serious expansion in arts programming, offering us both models to consider and a challenge to act. The arts play a central role in the lives of so many students and faculty at Harvard, yet their role in the life of the University remains uncertain and undefined. I hope that this task force will attempt such a definition, beginning with a consideration of the fundamental question of the role of the arts...
...resources are licensed for the entire community, which creates even more problems. “This being decentralized Harvard, we then have some fairly complicated committees and oversight structures to allocate costs across all of Harvard’s faculties and schools, since there isn’t a central pool of funds that would cover these sorts of expenses,” Hazen writes. Other problems include preserving digital literature. According to Darnton, “No one has solved the problem of preserving such material while hardware and software change at a dizzying pace...
...part to keep the tradition going so that people are exposed to it.” Each year, production staff choose a different theme for the dance drama. This year, it will present episodes from a classic Hindu epic, the “Ramayana.” The central figures in the dance drama are Rama—an avatar of Vishnu—and his wife Sita. The story explores the themes of good and evil, as well as the definitions of the ideal man and ideal woman in Indian society. “Hindu epics give moral lessons...
Monday’s editorial “Pondering Porn” misses the point—by a long shot. Tangled up in its claims and false analogies, it fails to provide nuance in its central criticism (after calling for more nuance from Catherine MacKinnon). Crucially, it fails to even mention the staggering levels of rape and male violence against women—MacKinnon’s “exhibit A” against pornography...