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Public art is best defined by its situation in a public place and accessibility to those who might not otherwise seek it out. An ostensible goal of such art is to foster interaction with the viewer in a way that art hung on the wall of a museum cannot; such art engages only in isolation. Public art transforms public space into a venue for intellectual and artistic consideration, and as such aligns quite strongly with the aim of a liberal arts education...
...music. Levin describes the situation of the past as being influenced by the Ivy League attitude wherein music could be intelligently discussed over cocktails and cigars, but never played by those same connoisseurs. Because Harvard was not seen as a vocational school, as conservatories were, it did not foster performers, but only stodgy academics. Leonard Bernstein ’39 said that, “At Harvard music was seen and not heard...
Although the wealth of musical talents creates an environment of activity and creativity, some students feel the university and the Music Department do not do enough to foster performance and musical endeavor. All of the performance activities are organized by students, and some feel they would appreciate greater university involvement. Ishan Bhabha ’04, a member of BachSoc, said “The university doesn’t provide enough of a forum for chamber music...
...question of the 1996 agreement. Sigma Chi says they lived up to their end of the deal—paying off taxes, spending more than $100,000 on capital improvements, putting in 6,000 man-hours of “sweat equity” labor and trying to foster a relationship with the Pi Eta alumni through social functions. They claim that these actions have given them an ownership interest in the house and that by removing the Sigma Chi members of the Pi Eta Speakers Associates, Pi Eta alumni are “attempting illegally to divest and disenfranchise...
...Sigma Chi often proposed capital improvements, many times these changes were not made or deferred to subsequent years. Pi Eta also points to the weak ties between the groups: “A not insubstantial part of the motivation for entering into the arrangement with Sigma Chi was to foster the undergraduate-alumni relationships that had long been a key component of the purpose for the Pi Eta Speakers Associates. For a variety of reasons, not all due to the Sigma Chi group, those relationships have not been established...