Word: hdc
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Harvard Dramatic Club (HDC) yesterday initiated four women into the top four officers for the first time in its history...
Alison H. Clarkson '77, newly-elected president of what she yesterday called a "male-dominated club," said she and her board intend to "radicalize" the HDC...
...solution, released this fall, is a step in the right direction, but one that will need further step to achieve its goal. The committee has proposed the creation of a Harvard-Radcliffe Dramatic Council--composed of representatives of every House group and other groups outside the 150-member HDC--to decide on the use of the mainstage, in order to do away with the favoritism and friendship networks that too often in the past have influenced the HDC's choice of mainstage seasons...
Eleven drama groups at Harvard--including the HDC, Black Cast. Gilbert and Sullivan Players, and five House groups--have sent a letter to Dean Rosovsky, requesting that decisions over the use of the mainstage remain subject to the HDC executive board's decisions. The non-HDC groups, representing perhaps three-quarters of students active in drama at Harvard, signed the letter even though their complaints about HDC elitism and corruption led in large part to the Ford committee's recommendation...
Instead, the 11 groups propose that the nine-member HDC executive board retain its power, and that HDC members be advised that drama activities outside the Loeb be a major criterion in electing board members. But this, again, does not go far enough. Only if the HDC board has a proportional number of members from drama groups outside the HDC will all drama groups be assured that decisions on mainstage productions in the future will be fair...