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...editorial opinion serves a function where it critically analyzes news or current events in search of some insight or understanding. In blithely accepting and adopting anonymous accusations against Ellen Phelan, former chair of the Visual and Environmental Studies department (VES), the Crimson staff failed in this task (Editorial, “Changing Function, Not Face...
...after they conducted a thorough organizational assessment of the department during Phelan’s first year as chair pointed to no failings on Phelan’s part, but acknowledged instead the “total faculty consensus that [Phelan’s] dual role of Chairperson of VES and Director of the Carpenter Center is a completely unmanageable...
Maureen McLane is a junior fellow of the Society of Fellows. Yvonne Rainer is a visiting lecturer in VES. Laura M. Slatkin is an associate professor of classics at the University of Chicago...
...don’t know what happened this year in the Carpenter Center. What I do know is that the soul-searching at VES goes back at least as far as the early 70s, when I was a concentrator. Where else would professors gather their sophomores for tutorial and ask them earnestly, “What should we be teaching you?” With the possible exception of a few expository writing classes, no other part of Harvard attempted to teach creative production. The lack of any model whatsoever created an uneasy hybrid between Germanic rigidities and American existential...
...when Ellen Phelan, an accomplished artist, ventured to take on VES and bring it into the public sphere, amazing things happened. Suddenly, as a historian of contemporary art, I became aware that exciting things were happening over at Harvard—artists I wanted to hear from were brought to town; panels and symposia were held; exhibitions were mounted; issues were addressed...