A Stellar Example

Once in a while, we like to catch the Harvard administration doing something right. Last weekend's ARTSFirst festival was an example of just such a success--a model of Harvard at its best.

The festival succeeded in bringing everyone together through the arts, and in raising people's awareness about just how much the University and its arts community have to offer.

The 30-member Board of Overseers is often criticized as an unwieldy, powerless body that can have little practical effect on the lives of students or the success of the institution. By inspiring and helping to plan one frenzied, arts-filled weekend, Overseer John Lithgow '67 went a long way toward changing that image of ineffectiveness. ARTSFirst shows that overseers can, if they choose, get involved and make a difference. We wish more of them would follow Lithgow's example.