Word: rieman
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Meanwhile, student dancers began to realize that their prized Rieman Dance Center would be turned over to the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study in just over two years and that a replacement was nowhere to be found...
...time-frame on Allston development may be too distant to help remedy the immediate space crunch for student dance and theater groups, which soon will lose the Rieman center and, temporarily, the run-down Hasty Pudding building...
...impending loss of practice space is even more distressing. Currently, more than 18 student dance organizations vigorously compete for space alongside 15 extracurricular courses in ballet, modern, jazz, tap and West African dance. These courses alone attract more than 600 Harvard students and others. Without the Rieman Center, these dance programs could be devastated. The only near-comparable facility is the Malkin Athletic Center, but that space is already nearly impossible to reserve because of athletic recreation classes focusing on dance...
...home; they must guarantee Harvard will do anything and everything possible to ensure the life of the program. Illingworth said Harvard is considering certain local church spaces as one possible temporary solution. If their last-ditch efforts fail, the College must actively consider a renegotiation of its Rieman Center lease. Although Radcliffe has legitimate claims to the center, such as the desire to have its faculty in close proximity to one another, Harvard simply cannot afford to give up on dance in the short-term. If it is truly a priority of the College, then Illingworth must prove...
...facility in six years was never a real possibility, yet in negotiating the Rieman lease Harvard has seemed willing to sacrifice this essential aspect of undergraduate life—disproportionately affecting women—in favor of furthering its budding graduate institute. Ironically, Radcliffe was once the home of undergraduate women. Because there has been no action for so long, we now find ourselves at a critical juncture; Illingworth and Summers must prove that dance, the arts and undergraduate life are as high a priority as they often claim. An Allston complex is years, if not decades away. We need...