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Timetabled seminars for Writing and Performance students in the Dixon Drama Studio have been rescheduled this term because the theatre is being used by Masters students from the new Theatre, Film and TV department.
Many applied to due to the belief that the course would be practical and involve experimental learning approaches. Some Writing and Performance students commented to The Yorker that “the majority of people in the course are disappointed with it.”
Their use of the Dixon is now restricted to Wednesday afternoons, forcing some to reconsider extracurricular activities for the sake of academic commitments. The new department will eventually be relocated to Phase One of the Heslington East development but students of the two courses are currently having to share facilities.
Resources, tutors, space, opportunities for creative output – we’re struggling for it.
Many expressed a sense of despondency with their course, asking “will they continue to bleed even more resources from our department?” Whilst the department won’t be offering BA places until 2008 however the strain is beginning to show. The issue is not expected to be resolved until current second years graduate in 2009.
“Some of the teaching is brilliant and we appreciate the high quality of facilities available but feel we are losing in the competition for both”, said one student. “Resources, tutors, space, opportunities for creative output – we’re struggling for it.”
The launch of the new Theatre, Film and TV department was recently celebrated with a presentation by the renowned American playwright, novelist and actor Donald Freed. The event was entitled ‘The Politics of Theatre and the Theatre of Politics’, somewhat ironic in light of Writing and Performance comments that “we feel ignored” and “we just don’t feel complaints will be listened to”.
Freed’s largely autobiographical speech focused on the institutional repression his work suffered during the McCarthy witch-hunts of the 1950s.
Cry me a river. Students get lied to and priorities changed. The uni's main objective is making money and maintaining its reputation, not education. Right now, they're trying to build up the reputation for their new department by assigning as many facilities to it as possible. It'll all change in time I'm sure.
Some of my friends who are electronics students were told they could use the recording studios whenever they wanted to on open days. Guess what? It's pretty much impossible for them to in reality.
So why are you complaining on here instead of helping your electronics studying friends get what they were promised by the university? How does your counter argument of "it's not just you that's been messed about by the uni" help anyone?
I we were all to cry you a river our newly shared defeatist attitude would mean no injustice would ever be resolved.
I don't know what the facilities are like in the Dixon in comparison to anywhere else on campus, but students should campaign to be allowed to use the drama barn or the stage in central hall as a replacement. The facilities may not be exactly the same but at least there would still be the promised practical element to the course.
I think the main concern in this case (I am in the W&P group concerned) was that we had to move our timetabled slot in the Dixon for rehearsing a play which is to be staged in the Dixon, for an MA script writing class which could have been held with as much success in any other classroom. It is this "pulling rank" and lack of common sense that is causing the major problems.
Nice made up argument number 1. Maybe you could apply that same made up logic to other pressing situations:
"It's not worth voting in an election because 99% of the time the most popular party with the Sun newspaper gets in"
"It's not worth giving to charities because lots of money goes to the organisers and its 87% likely not to help anyone anyway"
"93% of Iraqis liked the invasion anyway"
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