In return, the ART manages the Loeb, supervises undergraduate theater and teaches undergraduate courses in the dramatic arts.

Most students interviewed acknowledge that the ART does provide resources that they might otherwise not have. The courses the professionals teach comprise a bulk of the dramatic arts curriculum currently offered.

Prior to the ART's arrival, Harvard's offerings in drama were confined to a few literature courses in the English department, with no courses in the practical dramatic arts.

Since the arrival of the ART, the course offerings have grown dramatically. This year, there were seventeen courses offered in the dramatic arts, including ten taught by ART professionals.

"They were consummate professionals, hired to do classes we never had," Soule says. "It allowed students to work with professionals."

Students focus most of their criticism not on the ART but on the College, which has only one tenured professor, Brustein, teaching dramatics courses. For the past two years, the HRDC circulated petitions calling for increased curricular offerings, and most recently for an endowed professorship, according to Declan Fox '94, HRDC president.

Administrators say there is no money to expand the curriculum or tenure another professor who can also teach dramatic arts, Fox says.

Jennifer G. Uphoff '93, one of five special concentrators in the dramatic arts, says her course of study was shaped by the courses ART lecturers decided to give.

"There are whole areas of theater I don't know about just because no one has happened to teach courses on it in the past four years I've been here," says Uphoff, former HRDC president who directed Love's Labors Lost this semester.

Shettle also says the administration should establish a formal and full arts curriculum and that most of the current courses offered are "esoteric to most and not enough to go around."

'The tradition of undergraduate, theater is that it's not been connected with any courses or training...There has always been a great deal of hostility to the idea of curricular drama.'

Robert J. Brustein, professor of English and director, Loeb Drama Center

"I think in terms of the College, the University should absolutely create a dramatic arts curriculum. It's as essential as any other academic endeavor," Shettle says. "I don't know why the administration is so reticent on this topic."

"I've been calling for [a drama concentration] for thirteen years," Brustein says. "We now have eight, ten, twelve courses, but it's not enough. There is no sequence of dramatic literature. These are things that have to be taught to any people seriously interested in theater.

Dean of the Faculty Jeremy R. Knowles said last week he did not want to address the issue, referring questions to Dean of Undergraduate Education Lawrence Buell. Buell did not return numerous phone calls this week.