Word: ofas
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Country and blues singer Bonnie Raitt, who left Harvard after her sophomore year to pursue a career in music, will receive the Harvard Arts Medal on May 3, the Office for the Arts at Harvard and Radcliffe (OFA) announced yesterday...
Myra A. Mayman, director of OFA, said Raitt was chosen on the basis of her musical success by a committee which Mayman heads...
...weekend, where writer, director and star Neil Farnsworth '98 staged his play "Rust." Many in the audience commented that they could remember reading the play in draft form over two years ago, and there's no question that Farnsworth mush have moved heaven and earth--or at least the OFA--to get his work from the page to the stage. But the play itself had no more to recommend it than most freshman efforts; and the cast, for whatever reason, didn't add much to its appeal...
City Step organizer Nicole A. Barry '98 contends that the OFA makes the best out of a bad situation. "It is simply a matter of there only being one or two ideal performance spots for groups, other than play productions and dramatic productions," she says. The space which is available forms a finite realm within which artistic groups must compete for time. This unhealthy competition between creative organizations does not serve to better students' cultural expression or their exposure to that culture...
...final note, it does not appear to be any sort of inadequate performance of the OFA administrators which is responsible for the deficiency of performance space on campus. Many heads of artistic groups had nothing but praise for the efforts of OFA workers. Nevertheless, the absence of adequate performance space belies the OFA's claim to be a foundation for the arts at Harvard and Radcliffe. In the future, the OFA should concentrate its efforts on advocating for the funding of student artistic initiative within the University...