10 February, 2010

*809 - save the schwartz

I'm highly disturbed by the disproportionate amount of budget cut imposed on the Department of Theatre, Film, and Dance: $2 million out of a $6 million budget cut in the College of A&S! We're just one department out of 27 in the entire A&S College. Professorial faculty are protected, but it is the practical, non-professorial type of education that complements the academic teaching and makes the department as strong and as wonderful as it is now.

The Cornell dance program changed me (cliched but true): my beliefs, my ideals, my personality, my happiness, my lenses through which I look at ... life. Don't cripple the department. The arts are no less important.