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...everything from wash brushes to manage their archives," fails to acknowledge the intensity of engagement with his or her work that an artist must have in order to create, as well as the complex business of managing artists and the value and prestige of apprenticeship or internship experience. The VES department functions within this reality, and as a result, the program has improved vastly, as evidenced by the thesis exhibitions in recent years and the graduate school acceptances from programs at Yale and California Institute of the Arts. Our larger concern, however, is whether The Crimson's one-sided story...
...arranging field trips to local exhibitions, Killip keeps an eye out for his students as they make their way from his 40a and 40b classes through a train of visitors to the all-important senior thesis. In the CUE Guide he received a 5 for the advanced course, VES 143, that he taught last year...
...VES is far from being "in turmoil." Interpersonal conflicts are common in any field, and we believe The Crimson presented a warped perspective on highly valued members of the department and failed to address the real issues surrounding the change of department chair. We stand by our faculty and the staff, both old and new, and while we have been a bit unsettled by recent rumors, we are prepared to continue to build the program with newly appointed Department Chair Marjorie Garber...
...first year continued, I slowly began to realize that I had made a huge mistake, but I still continued to question whether or not I could really make the switch to Visual and Environmental Studies (VES). Like every Harvard student who to some degree prides themselves on "being smart," I wasn't ready to deal with the attitude that I felt existed on this campus: that VES concentrators were slackers and that it wasn't fair that we could "have fun making things" while everyone else had to write papers and take finals...
...hardest part about VES isn't the time and energy we put into our work--students in every department can cite similar examples--but the critiques and the level of maturity needed to face them. Suppose your professors for all your classes made public all your grades and comments for all your tests and papers, and suppose everyone was given the chance to say something negative about your work. You were also able to see that someone else did much better than you, and the professor made this public in front of everyone. VES concentrators go through this almost every...