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Directed by Rachel E. Flynn ’09 and produced by Alison H. Rich ’09, “Bent” is playwright Martin Sherman’s best-known work, chronicling the story of three homosexual men who begin the play in Berlin. By the end of the first act, they are in Dachau...
When a director says her play is about “The Gay Holocaust,” it’s tough to know exactly what the audience is in for. Rachel E. Flynn ‘09, a comparative study of religion concentrator from Quincy House, is directing Martin Sherman’s 1979 play, “BENT,” which will run from October 5-13 in the Loeb Experimental Theater. BENT follows the life of a gay couple during the Holocaust, focusing on everything from the hilarious foibles of romance to the chilling reality...
...also introduced several measures to respond to the worries of tenure-track faculty. Martin notes that they’ve instituted mentorship programs between senior and junior faculty members to give them an edge in the process. “We’re really pushing to make sure that departments understand that they’re responsible for the career development of their faculty,” she says, “so that [junior professors] can be realistically considered for tenure. We’re also making sure that in junior level searches they’re hiring...
...According to Martin, who chairs the Standing Committee on Women, the problem lies in the nature of the process at hand. “I think that it’s inevitable that you can’t grow really fast in very short period of time,” she says. “In FAS we probably don’t have more than about 20 searches in a given year. Unless there’s some dramatic growth in size over a short period of time, there isn’t room to make rapid change...
Maher is right. Too often activism does become narcissism. At its very core, activism is meant to bring about social and political change. Our country’s greatest activists have focused on the issues, not themselves—people like Susan B. Anthony or Martin Luther King, Jr. Now it’s hard to tell whether purported activists are championing their causes or themselves...