www.cmu.edu/news: More than 150 Carnegie Mellon University student-athletes enjoyed the School of Drama's production of "The Drowsy Chaperone" Feb. 27 at CMU's Philip Chosky Theater. Earlier this semester, drama students attended a men's and women's basketball doubleheader against NYU.
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I loved reading this article, because it's great to see the impact of the athletic-creative exchange. I think it's super important, especially at a university much better known for its scientific and academic prowess, showing our athletic and creative skills to the university is super important. As too much lesser known facets of Carnegie Mellon University, it's great that we're working together. I also know a lot of people in sports, and talked to them about this very exchange. One, a girl from a club I'm in, said that she went to see the show with a bunch of others and they were totally blown away with the fact that CMU had such a good drama program. I think this outreach is great, but should also be extended to other parts of the school. So few people know about productions and about what we do here in Purnell, and this is a great first step to spreading out to the rest of the school.
I absolutely love this exchange that was done between the Athletics Department and the School of Drama and I am so sad I had crew on the night of we went to go watch the basketball game. At Carnegie Mellon, our school has such a strong nature of being interdisciplinary and reaching across options, schools, and colleges to develop meaningful relationships and meaningful work. Even just being in my second semester at CMU, I am realizing how much we get stuck inside of Purnell and our own world- whether it be by the nature of the work we do, or just by the nature of us as a group- and how few people actually know what goes on inside of the building because of that nature. This collaboration opens up doors for so many more possibilities and is something that should progress and expand so we, as a community and a university, can also progress and expand.
As an avid sports lover, I was so excited to hear about this collaboration. Unfortunately, I was unable to attend the NYU basketball game that CFA attended due to crew (ironic, huh?), but I went to the final game of the season, where the basketball team played Case Western Reserve and won! I also went to every home football game, and really enjoyed myself. I like getting out of the school of drama and going to events like that, and I hope they felt the same way about the school of drama’s performance. In high school there was definitely a divide between sports and theater, because it’s almost impossible to do both, unless you have a time-turner like Hermione Granger. So this sort of collaboration shows school support for each side, and it’s a great way to learn something new. When football season was happening, I really tried to get people in the school of drama to go with me, but nobody was interested, and everyone said they had too much work to do, so this kind of partnership shows benefits both ways.
I am 100% a believer in a strong relationship between drama and athletics. While I had crew the night of the basketball game, I do believe that establishing a stronger relationship between the school of drama and the rest of Carnegie Mellon university is very important. I do not understand why we don’t promote all of our productions to the rest of the university more. None of my peers outside of the School of Drama ever know when a performance is occurring. Maybe that's the fault of drama students, but I do believe that we as a small community need to share our work and creativity with all non-drama folk. Carnegie Mellon University prides itself on its diversity, promotion of creation, and innovation. So why aren’t we proudly sharing our art form with everyone. I think the stigma that we create by making ourselves exclusive is a negative cycle that should not be apart of an educational system.
I'm glad that we have this partnership. I don't love how insular the school of drama can be sometimes so it is great to have these partnerships with people outside of the school. I was a little embarrassed to hear how few people went to the basketball games from drama though. I wish I could have gone, but we had crew. However, with all the people who still were free, I think we probably should have had more people at those games. I think it is important for drama students to explore more on this campus than just Purnell and going to a basketball game is a fun easy thing to do. But even going to see other art shows, scotch and soda, or other events on campus would really help expose drama students to the whole university. Because as much as we are insular, other people tend to stay away. We want tons of people from the university to come see out show so we should go see theirs.
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