Word: support
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...don’t see it as arts against the sciences,” he added. “Fostering collaboration is crucial. A huge amount of support for the arts has actually come from the sciences. When you think about it, there’s a lot of tinkering with materials and making in the sciences that is more analogous to art practice than, say, writing a humanities paper...
...meantime, the University’s funding for the arts remains surprisingly intact. Despite university-wide budget cuts, the Office for the Arts has managed to maintain the grants and fellowships that fund students’ artistic ventures. At the moment, Harvard students enjoy support from Artist Development Fellowships, Music Lesson Subsidies, and OFA Project Grants...
...pace of the Task Force has slowed because of the economical situation, but our modes of financial support for the arts did not get cut,” said Jack Megan, Director of the OFA. “We were not able to increase them, obviously, but to keep [funding] programs fully intact is pretty remarkable...
Thus considerable support exists for artistically inclined students, and the Task Force has laid down the groundwork for slow but effective expansion of this trove of resources. But its endeavors rely on student engagement as much as the administration’s initiative...
...Anwar took his case to the people, holding rallies around the country where he claimed that the new sodomy charges had been trumped up to stop him from running for Prime Minister in the upcoming general election, an accusation the government denies. Though plenty of constituents like Aziz Maanan support him, the reception Anwar got from Muslim-majority Malays was not so warm. Anwar steadfastly supports a Dec. 31 court ruling that Christians can legally use the word Allah to refer to their own God. The aftermath of the ruling saw at least 11 churches and several mosques attacked...