{"id":266,"date":"2011-03-04T02:35:06","date_gmt":"2011-03-04T02:35:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/researchbdev.wpengine.com\/forty-years-the-history-of-women-at-bowdoin\/?p=266"},"modified":"2011-12-09T03:52:29","modified_gmt":"2011-12-09T03:52:29","slug":"orient-focus-on-fine-arts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/research.bowdoin.edu\/forty-years-the-history-of-women-at-bowdoin\/curriculum\/orient-focus-on-fine-arts\/","title":{"rendered":"Orient: Focus on Fine Arts and Letters to the Editor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After admitting its first female students in the fall of 1971, Bowdoin began to reassess the demands on departments, courses, and\/or facilities that women\u2019s presence on campus introduced. Specifically, Bowdoin sought to revamp its art facilities and to offer more arts and humanities classes. Faced with new or better course options within the realm of painting or dance, students responded in a variety of ways. The two <em>Orient<\/em> articles presented here, (Documents SW, 33.1, 33.2) \u00a0illustrate how some students, e.g., Eric Von Der Luft, felt the \u201cfine arts\u2026are more comparable to football than to scholarly endeavor,\u201d while others, e.g. Cathy Steiner and Paul Smith, assert that the fine arts are a crucial component to higher education, especially because they are \u201cvery oriented toward creativity, the recognition of aesthetic orders, and personal growth.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>As the opinions put forth in these <em>Orient<\/em> articles highlight, Bowdoin students, male and female alike, had much to say about the delineation of academics and academic credit, and how the College\u2019s curriculum should meet them. With the advantage of 20-20 hindsight, we can definitively say that despite his strong and publicized opinion, Von Der Luft\u2019s argument did not win out: starting in 1973 and continuing until the present day, fine arts courses have become an integral part of Bowdoin\u2019s curriculum.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_906\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-906\" style=\"width: 650px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-906\" title=\"SW33.1 - Orient: Focus on Fine Arts\" src=\"https:\/\/research.bowdoin.edu\/forty-years-the-history-of-women-at-bowdoin\/files\/2011\/12\/document-sw-33.1.jpg\" alt=\"SW33.1 - Orient: Focus on Fine Arts\" width=\"650\" height=\"734\" srcset=\"https:\/\/research.bowdoin.edu\/forty-years-the-history-of-women-at-bowdoin\/files\/2011\/12\/document-sw-33.1.jpg 650w, https:\/\/research.bowdoin.edu\/forty-years-the-history-of-women-at-bowdoin\/files\/2011\/12\/document-sw-33.1-265x300.jpg 265w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-906\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">SW33.1 - Orient: Focus on Fine Arts<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_907\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-907\" style=\"width: 650px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-907 \" title=\"SW33.2 - Orient: Letters to the Editor\" src=\"https:\/\/research.bowdoin.edu\/forty-years-the-history-of-women-at-bowdoin\/files\/2011\/12\/document-sw-33.2.jpg\" alt=\"SW33.2 - Orient: Letters to the Editor\" width=\"650\" height=\"1549\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-907\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">SW33.2 - Orient: Letters to the Editor<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After admitting its first female students in the fall of 1971, Bowdoin began to reassess the demands on departments, courses, and\/or facilities that women\u2019s presence on campus introduced. Specifically, Bowdoin sought to revamp its art facilities and to offer more arts and humanities classes. 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