Word: dramat
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...from Yale. "Nail 'im to the wall contractually," they said. Brustein was willing to negotiate. He countered the charges from Yale undergraduates by pointing out that he had been hired there to deal only with graduate students and the repertory company, which scarcely left time for the Yale Dramat, the undergraduate society. Nobody seemed to hear him. And there were those space problems...
Again, Brustein has a different story. To the accusation of no contact he recealls his first year at Yale when he offered to "bring the Dramat into the Yale Rep" through a program similar to the program he is now offering Harvard. "I offered them training in the repertory, so they would know what they were doing when they got out on stage. In turn, they would let us identify the talented people...But at the time the Dramat was a proud institution." They turned him down...
Clashes between the drama school and the Dramat have eased, or at least mellowed, in the last two years. Bailey remembers her freshman year--when both the Dramat and the graduate school always kept their separate corners of the University Theater building locked. By her senior year, the locks were gone. "It was just one hassle after another, she says. "Every disagreement escalated into a violent issue. Who left the trash can in the lobby was grounds for a major battle...
Both deButts and Bailey attribute the improvements in part to the unflagging campaign of the Dramat and in part to the cooperation of the associate dean--Jonathan Miller this year and his predecessor, Howard Stein--as well as Dramat supporters within the graduate school. "There were a lot of people in the drama school who worked hard for us," Bailey says. "Brustein was not one of them...
...agreement should be a guarantee that Brustein will sit down in person one or two times a year with the HRDC to negotiate. An advisory board, such as the present faculty standing committee on drama, should be retained as a body to which they can appeal. The Dramat has a similar advisory board made up of faculty and administrators. Yale President Giamatti sat on the board at one time. The board could not overrule the drama school administration, but it could apply pressure. "If they hadn't been around," Bailey says, "we would have been sunk...