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...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...
These executives argue that past abuses have been corrected, and there is no need for a new drama council--the HDC will continue to work fine, they say, if its constitution is amended to provide for mandatory non-Loeb representation on future boards...
That position--as well as responses to the other eight recommendations of Ford's committee--will be outlined in a statement to be released next week by the HDC...