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...HDC president Peter Skolnik '66 said yesterday that he was pleased with the proposed goals of the Forum-Theatre. "Any meeting of minds in experimental theatre at Harvard is all to the good," he said...
Back in December, John Anderson began worrying about the chaotic state of the HDC, supposedly the college's major producing organization. It had not met all year, the treasury was in trouble, the number of people showing up to work on shows seemed to be declining. Together with David Maynard, Laura Esterman, and John Lithgow, he worked out a proposal to place control of the club in the hands of a non-elective, self-perpetuating executive committee. The four of them were to form the committee, which would have power to select all plays for main stage performance. After...
...committee. Speaking for the five students who proposed the plan, Mayer countered by saying that the Faculty would not accept an elective committee. In a masterly speech, he described the poor condition of the club, agreed that free elections would be nice, but asserted that so long as the HDC wanted to work in the Loeb, it had to please the Faculty directors...
...power they were to receive. But it was actually the Faculty directors who were using the fluid situation to consolidate their own influence. As before, they could ask the Faculty committee to veto any student proposal they coudn't themselves block. But now they could also affect the HDC's plans from the outset, either by argument, or by suggesting that the Faculty committee would veto a proposal...
...this those who object to the plan recognized merely by saying that the executive committee would become the pawn of the Faculty directors. The price seemed slight, however, when weighed against the promise of an HDC renaissance. There were to be benefit performances to replenish the treasury; under existing arrangements the HDC made no money on Loeb shows. There were to be special benefits for HDC members: free tickets, lectures, a newsletter. The next week the constitution was ratified 39-1. An elected president was to represent the membership. At executive committee meetings, though, he would have no vote...