January 20, 1972
Forgot Your Name?
Shown here is Kreskin with a -Behrend student who by
Kreskin's power of thought suggestion cannot remember his
name. This was only one of many - amazing feats he per , -
formed last Tuesday evening in Erie Hall before a standing
only crowd.
Kreskin "Superb"
At Behrend Showing
by Cardi Hughes
Staff Writer
The "kmazing Kreskin" ap
peared at the Behrend Campus
Tuesday evening and thoroughly
captivated the 1200 standing room
only crowd that packed Erie Hall.
The audience was held
spellbound as Kreskin began his
performance by linking three
rings together with a mere flip of
the hand. He then deftly
separated them without causing
any damage. The trick or
whatever it really was, took
seven years to perfect.
To impress the audience with
his ability as a mentalist, Kreskiai
gave his check to four volunteers
to hide, with the stipulation that if
he was unable to find it by reading
the mind of the volunteers, he
would surrender his fee to the
Student Union of the campus. By
holding his handkerchief between
himself and a volunteer, he was
lead by mental directions directly
to the hiding place, thus retaining
his fee.
Following intermission,
Kreskin called approximately 30
people to the stage in an attempt
to demonstrate his powers of
suggestion. Kreskin emphatically
repeated that he does not perform
hypnosis and that he does not
believe there is such a thing as a
hypnotic trance, but that his
subjects are fully awake and
merely responding to
"suggestions". By speaking
softly and insistently to his group,
they performed such varied feats
as being unable to control the
shaking of their arms, close their
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outstretched fingers. or open
their eyes. Two hapless students
"forgot" their names and ad
dresses and even where they
were at the time.
Throughout the evening,
Kreskin stressed scientific rather
than spiritual connotations; he is
not a hypnotist nor a fortune teller
but a believer in the valadity of
parapsychology.
News
Shorts
Applications for two positions
of representative for the Student
Government Association of the
Behrend Campus are available at
the RUB desk. The applicants
will be screened by the S.G.A.,
instead of being elected by the
student body.
BAND AND CHORUS
The Behrend Campus chorus
and band will be presenting a
casual evening of musical en
tertainment Tuesday, February I
at 8 p.m. in the cafeteria.
The chorus will be singing
selections from •Jesus Christ
Superstar" the Carpenters, Neil
Diamond, and a few others. The
band will be playing stage band
jazz arrangements which will
include arrangements of Count
Basie's tunes, among others.
There is now a 11:30 p.m. bus
scheduled to leave Perry Square
Saturday nights only.
EDWARD
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Behrend Collegian
Hitchcock Film Festival
January 21 through 24
The Student Union Board will
present a Hitchcock Film
Festival, January 21 through
January 24. Films to be shown
are "Stage' Flight" (21),
"Strangers on a Train" (22),
"The Wrong Man" (23), and "I
Confess" (24). The films will be
shown at 7 and - 9 p.m. in the RUB
Lecture Hall. Admission is 35
cents with an activity card and $l.
without.
No director today has the
personality of Alfred Hitchcock,
who is believed to be the most
interesting and most ac
complished of America's star
directors. Few move their
cameras so daringly, frame their
action so expertly, or know so
well the precise moment to cut
from action to reaction. Few have
this flair for staging a scene to
give it the rare quality of reality
caught by chance—a juror
coughing in one corner of the
screen while another straightens
his hair; the red tip of a murder's
cigar glowing ominously in a
darkened apartment. At the heart
of- every Hitchcock work is his
humor—a rare understanding of
character and situation that
allows for the classic use of comic
relief 'from . the.- tension and
suspense. And whenever Hit
chcock's story judgement
matches his filming talents, the
results are truly impressive;
such is the case with this series of
four Hitchcock- masterpieces
which reflect a point in his career
when he moved from staged
reality of life itself, sometimes
more suspense and frightening
than anything that could be
imagined.
STAGE FRIGHT
The people of the theatre world
are stripped bare in "Stage
Fright" as Hitchcock maneuvers
innocent Jane Wyman into helping
Richard Todd prove he did not
Club News
SKI CLUB
The Ski Club will be traveling to
Peak 'n Peek every Tuesday
night during the Winter Term.
Ten lessons, at the price of $3O
plus $2l equipment rental, will be
given throughout the term.
Because of a past cancellation,
lessons will be doubled on one
night. Openings are available for
those who are still interested in
joining the club. For more in
formation, contact Randy
Southern or Reese Friedman at
899-8369.
CIRCLE K CLUB
The Circle K Club will resume
volunteer work in building the
Erie Community County Day
School in February. Everyone's
help will be appreciated. Contact
Jack Richebacher at 899-4112.
Resident Assistants' Positions
Available For Spring Term (Female)
Open To Upperclass Resident and
Commuting Students
Applications Obtainable From
Mr. Dan Fiorentino,
Residence Community Coordinator
Lawrence Hall
Deadline For Returning Applications:
March 3, 1972
murder the husband of actress
Marlene Dietrich. A brilliantly
staged chase across the catwalks
behind the curtain reveals not
only a surprise conclusion, but
also a gripping and unforgettable
climax.
STRANGERS ON A TRAIN
Aboard a train, Robert Walker
strikes up a conversation with
Farley Granger. When Granger
reveals his desire for a divorce
which his wife refuses to grant,
Walker suggests that he will kill
Granger's wife if Granger kills
Walker's hated father. Hitchcock
plays this scene so low key that
you don't realize the impadt of the
bargain until Walker strangles
Granger's wife. "Strangers on a
Train" is a classic exercise in
terror with a climactic fight on a
moving merry-go-round that
creates unbearable suspense.
THE WRONG MAN
"The Wrong Man" marked the
SGA-On Registration,
Teacher Evaluation
Kenneth J. Goetz, Ad
ministrative Assistant for
Academic Affairs, answered
questions about pre-registration
and the registration at the last
meeting of Student Government
Association. The SGA also
discussed the need for more
preparation by the faculty ad
visors for registration.
Concerning the idea of a
teacher evaluation, the S.G.A.
decided that they will construct
their own teacher evaluation
sheets and distribute them to
each indiviudal student in each
class. The Faculty Senate has
done nothing about teacher
evaluation as of yet, and it is
questionable whether they ever
will take action upon it; con
sequently S.G.A. is making their
own evaluation in hopes that the
Faculty Senate will become
aware of the inadequacies and
eventually do something about
the complaints that are made by
many students and change or
improve their methods.
Reese Friedman, S.G.A.
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first time that Hitchct,ck 'used
real life for his story. Shooting on
the streets of New York, he
recounts an incident of mistaken
identity in which Henry Fonda is
falsely accused of robbery.
I CONFESS
In "I Confess" a murderer
confesses his crime to , a priest,
who by the sanctity of the con
fessional, is sworm not to reveal
the man's identity. When the
killer decides not to give himself
up, and the police discover that a
priest was seen with the dead
man, the innocent priest is ac
cused of the slaying. Hitchcock
takes this situation and with
actors Montogmery Clift, Karl
Madden, and Anne Baxter plays a
cat and mouse game that is as
startling in its unfolding as it is in
a hair-raising chase through the
streets and buildings of Quebec.
representative, attended a
Council of Presidents meeting at
State College last term. He
returned to Behrend very
dissatisfied with the results of the
meeting and reported that he felt
the C.O.P. meetings were trivial
and that it was a waste of time to
attend them. Other members of
S.G.A., who have also attended
the meetings, agreed, therefore,
it was decided that Behrend
Campus will only participate in
these meetings irregularly.
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