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...scheme is a blow to student organizations and to student initiative. Until now, organizations like the Gilbert and Sullivan Players, the Opera Guild and the HDC, and others more ephemeral, such as House groups, have been the life of Harvard Drama. Under the new system these groups have no choice but to accept what the Committee gives them in the way of plays and directors. The alternatives are taking their productions elsewhere or disbanding. Members who wish to produce in Loeb will have to spend their time getting on the Committee's list of acceptable directors. And the make...
Clearly the Committee thinks that the HDC will remain the voice of the undergraduate: three of its four undergraduates are from the HDC and it will retain control of the Loeb experimental theatre. But the HDC should not have settled for so little. The experimental theatre has not yet become significant in Harvard drama, and the student members of the Committee are likely to find themselves mere recipients of faculty ideas, just as the present student members of the Committee have readily accepted the new Loeb plan...
Robert H. Chapman, Director of the Loeb, has already enlarged the advisory committee from four Faculty members and three students to five Faculty representatives and four students. Three of the undergraduates will be elected by the HDC, and the fourth will be chosen jointly by the Opera Guild and the Gilbert and Sullivan Players. The HDC had only one representative on the old committee...
...match up directors and plays and then present these to the advisory committee for selection of the final productions. No elaborate production plans would be required during the selection process, as is presently the case. The advisory committee also decided to have the workshop program administered completely by the HDC...
Hayford praised the proposals which he said "were to a great degree the result of suggestions by the HDC." Its purpose is to ensure a balanced schedule at the Loeb and a more workable selection system...