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"I wanted to fake my
death, but I never got
around to it.'
Jesse Torba, 04
D.U.S.
Colored flags rep
resent the millions
murdered during
the Holocaust
In remembrance of the Holocaust. Penn
State Erie has dedicated a week to both the
survivors and those killed in the atrocious
events that occured during World War 11.
Flags are placed in the lawn in front of the
Reed Union Building representing those
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"I put shaving cream in a
guy's shoe."
Chris Mendez. 01
Manaement
brutally murdered during the Holocaust.
There are six different colored flags: yel
low, red, purple, blue. green and pink.
Yellow represents the over 5.6 million peo
ple of Jewish descent who were exterminat
ed. Red represents the 1.25 million people
who refused to align themselves politically
with the Nazi party. Purple represents the
20-60,000 Jehovah's Witnesses. Blue repre
sents the 3.5 million individuals of Slavic,
Soviet or Croatian descent. Green repre
sents the 600.000 individuals of mixed
Aryan descent. Pink represents the approxi
mately 250,000 honMsexuals murdered dur
ing the Holocaust.
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"I told my ex-boyfriend
I was pregnant the day ••
before his birthday." •
Karena Bibbins, 08
Political Science
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"I told everyone I was
engaged."
Kristen Comstock, 08
Kaufman's "The Laramie Project" comes
to Penn State Erie's Studio Theatre
By Sean Mihlo
student life editor
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On March 31, Penn State Erie's Studio
Theatre will debut The Laramie
Project," a docudrama that investigates
the 1998 murder of Matthew Shepard, a
gay 21 year-old University of Wisconsin
student. "The Laramie Project, - original
ly written as a play by Moises Kaufman
and the members of the Tectonic Theater
Project, was produced as a film by HBO
in 2002 and opened at the Sundance Film
Festival that same year. Behrend's pro
duction of the play is directed by Dr.
Christine Mangone and includes an eight
person cast, each of whom plays numer
ous characters.
At the crux of "The Laramie Project' . is
Kaufman and the Tectonic Theater mem
bers, who take six long, exhausting trips
to Laramie over a year long period and
conduct over 200 interviews with people
of the small town. "The Laramie Project"
shows the experience that Kaufman and
his crew go through a year after
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Monday, April 10th - 10 a.m. - 6:15 p.m.
Tuesday, April 11th - 9 a.m. - 4 p.m.
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SENIOR SALUTE DAYS
Friday, March 31, 2006
"I saw a guy put chalk
in my professor's cof-
Ben Skrypski, 04
Electrical Engineering
Shepard's murder, using eight actors to
represent over sixty different morally
diverse Laramie residents in their own
words. The cast of Penn State Erie's pro
duction (which includes Sarah
Aulenbacher, Kameron Greene, Amanda
Kinross, Kristy McCoy, Alex Mooney,
Christoper Schmidt. Kaylynn Smith and
Ryan Westwood) embodies those resi
dents of Laramie who were interviewed.
Since the play is set in Laramie,
Professor TJ Laffan was commissioned to
design the dusky, breezy western scenery.
Penn State Erie's production of "The
Laramie Project" runs March 31-April 2
and April 5-8. All show times are at 8
p.m., except for the Sunday, April 2
showing which commences at 2 p.m. You
can reserve tickets at the RUB desk or
call 898-6242. General admission for the
play is $5 and $3 for students. "The
Laramie Project" is showing at the Studio
Theatre.