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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Visual and Environemtnal Studies (VES)Department is often fertile ground foridiosyncratic cum artsy projects. One of thebetter ones was handed in by Guy M. LaCrosby '86.A smooth-singing member of the Krokodiloes,LaCrosby is also a painter. His thesis was aseries of 30 oil and acrylic works done over aperiod of eight months. "The point was to see howI could break free of standardized ideas of how topaint," says LaCrosby. In his series ofprogressively more and more abstract andexpressionistic works, La Crosby does just that...
...LaCrosby was able to stop long enough totrudge his paintings over to the Carpenter Center,where they, and other works by VES seniors, can beseen on display all of this week...
...most popular classes, photography and film-making, are "really hard to get into if you're not in the department," says Katherine M. Howell, who works in the Cafe Corbu located in the lobby of the Carpenter Center. VES 50, "Fundamentals of Filmmaking," only accepts 20 students from more than 65 applicants...
...concentrators and faculty are quick to downplay such stereotypes. "I think diversity in general is a myth at Harvard, but pretty much true for VES," says Huidor. Abrams agrees, noting that "there is a very strong acceptance of individuality [in the department] and taking people for who they are rather than crunching them into molds...
...VES is a holistic process--academic, emotional and spiritual," says Abrams. "It's not just a concentration, it's a lifestyle...