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- From: adolphso@mizar.usc.edu (adolphson)
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- Subject: Re: discrimination at CMU
- Date: 18 Nov 1992 17:15:22 -0800
- Organization: University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
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- In article <1992Nov18.223251.4117@osf.org>
- coren@speed.osf.org (Robert Coren) writes:
-
- > I think I see now where a lot of the rancor came from in this
- > discussion. I certainly missed the nuance that, in describing how
- > CMU's acting program functions, you were not necessarily agreeing that
- > that was how such a program *should* function. (Actually, upon
- > rereading the above, I'm still not sure whether you think so or not.)
-
- I seem not to have been successful in getting across
- that I'm against any college or university undergraduate
- major in a field as specialized as acting. Why is that
- people immediately understand what would be inappropriate
- with a B.A. in Nineteenth Century British Fiction, but not
- a B.F.A. in Acting? I do understand a B.F.A. in Theater
- with an emphasis in acting, but not this quasi-conservatory
- approach. In any case, the only way a CMU style program can
- function is the way CMU's does. Did you see the figures
- Scott posted? Of the 50 entering students for every class,
- only 15 to 20 graduate. So of course only the *most* talented
- and, of the merely talented, only the most marketable (read
- straight-acting, attractive, non-ethnic) survive. Am I
- delighted by that? Of course not. But I understand why
- it happens and I don't really see any way out so long as this
- kind of program continues to exist.
-
- Arne
-
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