[SML] Aggregate hours for majors?

[Richard Niederberg]

You may give students a fuller education so they can be a Jack or Jill of
many theatre trades, but a master of none, which may be OK for your school.
Conscription may not be the best way to develop employable specialists,
though.
/s/ Richard
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On Sun, Dec 20, 2015 at 2:14 PM, Blackfaer via Stagecraft <
stagecraft at theatrical.net> wrote:

> Have you considered a longer term strategy that if you don't show up to
> load in and strike you don't get cast in the next several shows? That was
> my alma mater's rule and so far as I know everyone was always at every
> strike...
> >
> > The biggest problem that I see (with this facet) is that we don’t have
> buy-in from the majors that they need to be helping on the tech.  I had
> required load-in put in the “contracts” of those cast in the current show
> and about a third showed up (most of whom are in my Stagecraft class and
> they knew they would have grade issues if they didn't).
> >
> > I know that I’m doing both them and myself a disservice by putting up
> the set myself because then they learn that if they don’t show up, the
> shoemaker’s elves will do it, so I’m thinking about making a policy that if
> I don’t have at least two students at a work call, the work call is
> cancelled, and they get the set (and lights) that they earn.  But, as our
> department is struggling to gain recognition on campus, I think that would
> hurt the greater cause and the students who actually show up.
> >
>
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/s/ Richard
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