31. Our music facilities are shameful for a institution of our size and wealth!

33. As much as doing a million things is the best way to learn, the culture of overcommitment is not good. Too many people double book themselves and say yes to things they don’t have time for. If you commit to something, come to all the rehearsals and don’t flake out. It is better to say no up front than to be a flake.

34. A handbell choir.

35. The reason the quality of so many Harvard shows is so awful is that there are too many of them. Why does the Harvard-Radcliffe Dramatic Club assume Harvard students can’t act, but any Harvard student with a pen and an application can direct? ...It’s nice to tell touring prefrosh that Harvard produces 80 plays a year, but if we get away from this ugly number-trumpeting we can really revive Harvard theater.

36. A proper e-mail list or website so that different groups know when others are rehearsing, and we can avoid double-booking, as well as look for open rehearsal space.

37. Somewhere to store costumes and props, especially over the summer.

38. Adequate creative professional support in the performing arts, and adequate grant funding to allow artists to concentrate on creating good art, rather than spending excessive time working around limitations.

39. Harvard prides itself on having the best, the brightest, and the most talented. However, the most talented will be forced to go elsewhere if Harvard does not step up its support of the arts community in its actions and not simply its words and prove that the arts are important.

40. More creative writing opportunities, and less creative writing elitism.

41. More rehearsal spaces suitable for orchestras.

42. Good practice rooms available at allhours of the day.

43. A real concert hall.

44. I would like to see more collaboration among the different arts, esp.combining live music, dance, and theatre, and not just of the Ex-Rated revue variety.

45. More student-directed opera.

46. Greater availability of photo classes.

47. A Chinese brush painting class.

48. I’d like to know how many students have ever attended a student film screening, art exhibit, concert, dance show, play or literary reading on this campus. I have done all of those things, as have most of my friends. I fear we’re too insular. We are each other’s audience. But we don’t do art only for other artists, and at our best we don’t do it only for ourselves.

49. I wish students would treat the experience of putting up a play as a privilege and not a right.