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...part of the struggle will involve educating the theater community about the dramatic range of minorities. Some directors seem woefully ignorant of what they actually have to work with. "If acting's the problem, shows need singers and dancers, too," says Montel in an unintentional nod to the common relegation of minorities performers to minstrelsy. Hood mistakenly asserts that "African-American drama did not come about until Langston Hughes in the 1920s." "African-American drama started a long time before that,"says Professor Henry Louis Gates, Jr., chair of the Afro-American Studies Department. Indeed, the first published play...
...Theater (CAST) also figure into the process of increasing minority representation in Harvard theater. Both troupes seek to give performance opportunities to minority actors and playwrights and to treat theatrically the concerns of their respective ethnic groups. "It frustrates me that a place as diverse as Harvard doesn't seem to see the opportunity presented to it by its diversity," says Vanessa Carr '02, who is currently revitalizing CAST with Saffold...
Other executives seem to believe that distribution problems, in the Quad and throughout campus, are rare occurrences. Crimson President Joshua H. Simon '00 believes that "there are anomalous situations where a whole House does not get the paper door-dropped." Further, despite the fact that Quad distribution has been particularly bad this year, Simon is unaware "if [circulation problems] affect certain areas more than others...
...They seem to subscribe to the mantra of The Garment District and Dollar-a-Pound: shop happy...
...many older Americans, all this sounds deeply suspicious. How can kids feel increasingly safe in a country where school shootings have become almost as routine as fire drills? There doesn?t seem to be any one reason for teenagers? relative calm; rather, it's a combination of practical and psychological factors. In the wake of Columbine et al, schools have bulked up security ? in part to quell students? fears of violence, but also to calm parental nerves. So maybe it?s not such a surprise that many students feel safe: Surveillance cameras, metal detectors and daily pat-downs do tend...