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...acting troupe which shares the Loeb Drama Center with undergraduates. “I can only guess that it was a kind of imitation of Oxford or Cambridge.” This structure—or lack thereof—has helped the arts gain popularity at Harvard. The OFA, which supports student artists and sponsors cultural programming, estimates that half of the undergraduate population is actively involved in the performing or creative arts. An extremely talented top end shares the stage with those who participate more informally...
...Bollinger told New York Times writer and Harvard Board of Overseers Member John Rockwell ’62 in a March 20 story on Bollinger’s plans. Rockwell, who serves as the Overseers’ liaison to Harvard’s Office for the Arts (OFA), took care to point out in the piece that Bollinger was “effectively depriving Harvard, which lacks such a school, of great-university status...
...University Provost Steven E. Hyman—it might even streamline bureaucracy for the arts. Harvard’s artists have always enjoyed relative freedom from administrative control; even under the more culturally-savvy presidencies of art-lovers Rudenstine and Bok, who started the Office for the Arts (OFA), student art remained student-run. By any quantitative measure, student arts groups have thrived: at least 53 are currently registered with the College...
...president whose artistic commitment is a wildcard. The performing and creative arts face a severe space crunch and need more funding just as a budget squeeze across the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) toughens competition for resources. But restructuring may weaken arts administrators’ influence if the OFA moves down the reporting hierarchy, which College officials say is a strong possibility, and the merger of the positions responsible for undergraduate education and student life will eliminate one of the most outspoken advocates for extracurricular arts activity. Meanwhile, curricular review—stirred in part by Summers?...
...probably in 1652, when a few Harvard boys spent their Sunday afternoon performing a play. Their shenanigans were rewarded with disciplinary action—they had shamelessly been “impersonating the devil on a Sunday.” It’s a story that former OFA Director Myra Mayman finds particularly apt. “The first mention I could find of anything having to do with the arts…was bad behavior that could be punished,” she says. “Anything after that is doing well...