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<DIV><FONT color=#008000><EM>John J. Conlon, Ph.D.</EM></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><EM><FONT color=#008000>UMass Boston, Theatre Arts (Retired)</FONT></EM></DIV>
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<FONT size=2 face=Tahoma><B>From:</B> David Wilson<BR><B>Sent:</B> Mon 2/22/2010 11:36 PM<BR><B>To:</B> USITT New England Section Mail List<BR><B>Subject:</B> Re: [Usittne] Brandeis Graduate Design Program to be Eliminated<BR></FONT><BR></DIV>
<DIV>WTF indeed. We had just received approval on our 5 year plan, which for the first time, included parity in tuition remission for Design and performance students, which had been a very large hurdle in recruiting all these years. We instituted many new undergraduate design courses to get them more involved in the program, including allowing them access to grad design courses and assistantships (without hiring additional faculty). We were just re-admitted back into URTA (we had left URTA 15 years ago when our budget was cut in half in the early 90's in an attempt to eliminate graduate design). The recent peer review by URTA was extremely positive on the design side of our program. At the very bottom of the facebook page is an eloquent letter of support from
<DIV>Ming Cho Lee and Susan Hilferty. I've also heard Cornell and University of Washington are also gutting or completely eliminating their programs:</DIV>
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<DIV dir=ltr><FONT color=#008000 size=3 face="Palatino Linotype">HI, I have joined the FB page...Design is/was, to my mind, the essential difference in the Brandeis Program and its chief virtue...I will write to one of my UMass Boston alums who then went on to Brandeis in tech design, taught at Stanford Univ and was TD there, and is now the TD of the largest arts venue in FL, in Miami...as my USF students might put it...WTF??? John</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><EM><FONT color=#008000>UMass Boston, Theatre Arts (Retired)</FONT></EM></DIV>
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<FONT size=2 face=Tahoma><B>From:</B> David Wilson<BR><B>Sent:</B> Mon 2/22/2010 10:41 PM<BR><B>To:</B> <A href="mailto:tiala@mindspring.com" target=_blank>tiala@mindspring.com</A>; USITT New England Section Mail List<BR><B>Subject:</B> [Usittne] Brandeis Graduate Design Program to be Eliminated<BR></FONT><BR></DIV>
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<BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><BR></BLOCKQUOTE>Crystal, I don't know how much word has gotten out yet about our situation here at Brandeis. I'm enclosing a letter from the design faculty, and</DIV>
<DIV>we have a facebook page up at:</DIV>
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<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt">21<SUP>st</SUP> February 2010<O:P></O:P></SPAN></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt">We have been informed that Brandeis has a plan in place to cut the theater program by 35-40% by closing<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>the Graduate Design Program in the Department of Theatre Arts</SPAN></B><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt">. <O:P></O:P></SPAN></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt">As you can imagine, the shock at this news is felt by us all, and I’m sure will be felt by all of our alumni, students, friends, donors and supporters as well. The Design Program has a long and illustrious history, a national reputation, and many distinguished alumni including many of you.<O:P></O:P></SPAN></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt">Adam Jaffe’s statement:<O:P></O:P></SPAN></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt">The faculty of the design program is very concerned about the effect of this cut on the legitimacy of a theater program tearing the very fabric of the university itself. Without design you ostensibly eliminate the ability to have production and thereby undermine the integrity of the acting program.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The Theater Department becomes a narrowly academic exercise where rehearsal never realizes its full potential through production and is unable to engage the spirit of its community.<O:P></O:P></SPAN></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt">The Arts have been an integral part of the core of Brandeis’ educational vision from its founding, and the elimination of one of the classic Arts programs is a very troubling sign of the lack of support by the University to its founding principals. As with the controversy over the <B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">Rose Art Museum</B> last spring, the first course of action seems to be an impulse to balance the budget through the elimination of the Arts on the Brandeis campus. There seems to be little will or vision to defend any Arts programs and more discouragingly, the value and role the arts play in education and in the world.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>What hope is there for a culture where the arts are so marginalized?<O:P></O:P></SPAN></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt">A recent study, a joint project of Public Agenda and the National Center for Public Policy and Higher Education, found that most Americans believe that colleges today operate like businesses, concerned more with their bottom line than with the educational experience of students. <O:P></O:P></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt"><A href="http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/17/education/17college.html?emc=eta1" target=_blank>http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/17/education/17college.html?emc=eta1</A><O:P></O:P></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt">Unfortunately, this decision only seems to reinforce this impression.<O:P></O:P></SPAN></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt">At this point, we believe that Brandeis University needs to hear from friends and Alumni of the Theatre Arts program and all those who care about the Arts. Both the Acting alumni and the Design alumni have different experiences, but all were a part of the school, and all benefited from each other’s work. Having Brandeis University hear from a broad range of alumni and friends, from many parts of the country and many fields within all of the Arts, will help to reinforce the importance of this program within the educational mission of the University. Please help by writing to following people: <O:P></O:P></SPAN></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal><U><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt">David Wilson</SPAN></U><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt">, Head of Sound Design<O:P></O:P></SPAN></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt">We need help organizing and getting the word out:<O:P></O:P></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt">Post your thoughts to <U>Brandeis’ Facebook</U> page:<O:P></O:P></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt"><SPAN style="mso-tab-count: 1"> </SPAN><A href="http://www.facebook.com/brandeisuniversity" target=_blank>http://www.facebook.com/brandeisuniversity</A><O:P></O:P></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt">Post your thoughts on the <U>Brandeis Theater</U> Facebook page<O:P></O:P></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt"><SPAN style="mso-tab-count: 1"> </SPAN><A href="http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=37043649499&ref=ts" target=_blank>http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=37043649499&ref=ts</A><O:P></O:P></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt">Post on Twitter.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><O:P></O:P></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt">Write to the Boston Globe, write the New York Times<O:P></O:P></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt">Forward this message to your friends in the theater<O:P></O:P></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt">Get the word out.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><O:P></O:P></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt">If you know how to set up a website to save Theater Arts—please do it to.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><O:P></O:P></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt">Set up a petition drive.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><O:P></O:P></SPAN></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt">Key points:<O:P></O:P></SPAN></P>
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<LI style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list .5in" class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt">That theater is a collaborative art form, an acting-only department will not be viable<O:P></O:P></SPAN>
<LI style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list .5in" class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt">That undergraduates will not be able to take advantage to a professional design faculty as they currently do.<O:P></O:P></SPAN>
<LI style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list .5in" class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt">That a narrower focus and lack of production will reach fewer and fewer students across campus and diminish the educational importance of the department and meaningful training in theater as an art for undergraduates as well as graduate students.<O:P></O:P></SPAN>
<LI style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list .5in" class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt">That the assault on the Theater Department is a further marginalization of the Arts and a continuation of the same policies that produced the <B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">Rose Art Museum</B> crisis.<O:P></O:P></SPAN> </LI></UL></DIV><BR></DIV></DIV>_______________________________________________<BR>USITTNE mailing list<BR><A href="mailto:USITTNE@mit.edu" target=_blank>USITTNE@mit.edu</A><BR>http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/usittne<BR></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV><BR>
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<DIV>David Wilson</DIV>
<DIV>Brandeis Theater Company</DIV>
<DIV>Brandeis University</DIV>
<DIV>Waltham, MA</DIV>
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