Symonds says Agassiz is a great place for students to learn the subtleties of theater because it's a space they can call their own.
"It's a learning environment," Symonds says. "Students can make a mistake, and the only person who might be mad at them is me. That's a lot better if they were sharing the space with professionals."
Though Agassiz will be available to undergraduates for the next five years, administrators say they are unsure who will grace its stage after 2004.
In an e-mail message, Dean of the Faculty Jeremy R. Knowles would only say: "Arrangements for the longer term will be worked out after thorough discussions with the College and with the Dean of the Radcliffe Institute."
Sheerr, the former chairman of the Radcliffe Board of Trustees, says she anticipates that the new Institute will need the space for its own use.
"Agassiz Theater is one of the Institute's larger convening spaces and
those are spaces that we know we will need in the future--in fact, we have
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