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The Student Government
elections, in which the of
ficers and many of the
representatives for the 1972-
73 school year will be
determined, will be held on
Thursday, May 25 and
Friday, May 26. Polling
tables will be set up in front of
the cafeteria, in the Behrend
building on Thursday from
8:30 a.m. to 4:00 p.m., in front
Rebecca Gross Held of the cafeteria in the Reed
Union Building on Friday
Editor-in-Residence Session from 8:30 am to 4:00 pm
Ms. Gross gave a two day training session to several j nc *- * n D °bbins Hall
students at Behrend on Monday, May 15, and Tuesday May the ho H r .°^
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Behrend Displays Creativity
In Arts, Crafts, and Music
The Second Annual Spring Arts
Festival will be held Wednesday,
May 17 through Sunday, May 21
at the Behrend Campus, involving
music, readings, choral and band
concerts, plays, demonstrations,
coffee houses, and rock festivals.
Beginning the festivities on
Thursday morning is a poetry
reading by John Hallander,
followed by a choral band chorus
at 2 p.m.
A poetry demonstration by
John Bedford will be held at 2
p.m. Friday, May 19. That
evening, at 7:30 and 8:30 p.m., the
University Park drama group
will perform “Botticelli”, a one
act play.
Saturday there will be con
tinuous exhibits of ceramics from
University Park and local craft
shops demonstrations. Informal
student entertainment will also be
provided continuously.
“Back Stream” a choral and
orchestral presentation by the
Stronghold Company, followed by
vespers (involving dance, music,
and scriptures) at 7 p.m. A coffee
house (local talent) will begin at
9. Demonstrations from local
craft shops will continue all day
Sunday, with a Rock Festival
from 10 a.m. - 8 p.m. on the Ski
Slope. The groups will include
Still Water, Anno Cruissis,
Image, Orange, Steve and Linda
and by Cord Pratt.
Ecumenical Vespers
“The purpose of the arts is to
enable man to see those things he
might have missed.” This idea of
Ccrita Kent’s is the basic theme
for the Ecumenical Vespers
scheduled for Saturday night,
May 20 at 7:45 p.m. in the Picnic
Shelter. The planning committee,
headed by Father Pat, hopes that
their bringing together of the arts
will call attention to the vital
questions that contemporary man
must consider as well as pointing
out the source of the answers.
Contemporary as well as
classical music will be part of the
program along with a presen
tation of Mark Twain’s “War
Prayer” and other relevant
literature.
All students and faculty
are cordially invited to
■rticipate in the program.
Old Tales-New Twist
Murder, jealousy, and revenge
hardly seem to be the stuff that
fairy tales are made of, but The
Behrend Readers might feel that
way. As part of the Spring Arts
Festival, their Thursday night
program features “Kids Stories
for Big Kids".
“The Story Hour” by Pitt
sburgh poet Sara Henderson Hay
will be presented along with
Norman Corwin’s classic comedy
radio script “Mary and the
Fairy” and Ronald Dahl’s “The
Great Gum Machine.” Also in
cluded in the program will be an
unusual view of Snow White, “the
dumb bunny”, as seen by Pulitzer
Prize winning poet Ann Sexton.
“Story Hour” is a treatment of
familiar fairy tale characters in
the black comedy vein. Imagine
one of the kids who lived with the
old woman in the shoe lurking in
the shadows knife in hand, or
Rapunzel realizing that the prince
was a little less than an op
portunist. The know-it-all who
built his house from bricks and a
baby bear who is jealous of
Goldilocks are two of the other
characters.
“Mary and the Fairy” is the
story of Mary Pooter, played by
Sue Spoke, who wins three wishes
in the Crinkley-Crunkley Bread
Contest and is visited by the
C.C.B. Co. Fairy, Kitty Lavery.
Mary’s wishes to take her into the
Hollywood whirl and back out to a
new awareness of herself.
“The Great Gum Machine” is
the story of Violet Beauregarde
the champion gum chewer and
what happens when she gets
inside Willy Wonka’s fantastic
factory. Violet’s sad demise
provides a moral of all elastic
jawed “chewers”.
The cast includes Sue Ann
Spoke, Kitty Lavery, Greg
Fuller, John Reeves, Mark Coats,
John Sherbin, and Renee Heaslip.
The program will be presented
at 7 p.m. and again at 9 in the
studio.
Contemporary Drama
Behrend will play host to
members of the University Park
Theatre Arts Department again
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this year on Friday, May 19, as
part of the Spring Arts Festival.
Two one acts, by prominent
contemporary playwrights,
directed by graduate student
Jerry James, will be presented on
our campus for the first time in
the Erie Area.
The program, featuring
students from the University
Park campus, is composed of
Terrence McNally’s “Botticelli”
and John Guare’s “The Loveliest
Afternoon of the Year”.
McNally’s work was presented
earlier this year by the Behrend
Players. “Botticelli” follows in
the line of the playwrights’ in
terest in man facing up to
problems presented him by the
progress and complications of a
modern world. It depicts how
American soldiers in the wilds of
Vietnam play an intellectual
guessing game while waiting for
a trapped enemy soldier to reveal
himself.
John Guare’s “House of Blue
Leaves” won the New York
Critics Circle Award. In
“Loveliest Afternoon” he uses the
strange affair between a lonely
girl who spend Sundays feeding
pigeons in the park and the man
she meets there one day, to
comment on the make-up of what
we label the “real” world.
The plays will be presented on
Friday, May 19, in the Studio at
7:30 and again at 9:30 p.m. There
will be no charge.
Better The Second Time
' If you enjoyed it the first time,
you’ll like it even better the
second time. It’s the Players
Revue, “Mother Always Said”,
and it’s being presented again for
the Spring Arts Festival. This
mini-version of the revue will be
presented Friday night at 10 p.m.
in the Picnic Shelter and will
again feature Martha, the Var
sity Drag, the gags and comedy
sketches that you enjoyed last
time.
And if you happened to miss it
when it was presented the first
time, here’s your opportunity to
find out what the standing room
only crowd was all about. As with
all Arts Festival Programs, there
will be no charge.
Friday.
Several important offices
are at stake in this election
including that of president, Ist
vice president and 2nd vice
president. Eight represen
tative spots will also be
decided.
Running for his second term
•as SGA President is A 1
Quinlan (6-ComDev-Erie)
“I, A 1 Quinlan, am running
for re-election as President of
SGA because I feel that I have
the ability to deal with
students, faculty, and ad
ministrators here at Behrend.
If elected, I will attempt to
keep in effect some of SGA’s
programs of this year, and I
will try to initiate some new
programs.
Two programs which I feel
that SGA should continue are
faculty evaluation and ad
visor evaluation. Many
students complain about
teachers and advisors, and
these forms give the students
a chance to express opinions
on both. The first faculty
evaluation booklet will be
distributed to students next
fall, and hopefully every fall
thereafter. The Student Book
Exchange is another
creditable program which
can be continued next year. I
will hold one dorm meeting a
month in each dorm next year
in order to speak to the dorm
students about SGA.
I also believe that SGA can
continue to bring in a variety
of speakers. I feel that a
student poll can be conducted
next fall, in the first few
weeks of fall term, to ask the
students what types of
speakers they wish to hear
Then SGA could work with
these results in order to bring
in the type of speaker which
the students want.
Next, I would attempt to
have formed a Commuter
Committee, sometime'in the
first three weeks of fall term.
Fall Orientation
Improved Social
The goal of next fall’s orien
tation week will be a combination
of “social and intellectual,
stimuli,” according to Ken
Mushrush, program chairman.
Freshmen will be arriving on
Sunday, September 17, and the
five-day orientation week will
begin the following day. Through
the various programs being
planned the students will be able
to become acquainted with the
campus and the other students.
Some of the traditional events to
be held will be a wiener roast, a
variety show, dance, and a
watermelon party. Students will
also get into the Hello spirit by
greeting each other and becoming
acquainted with other students
and faculty members. Some new
tentative plans for the week in
clude a panel discussion between
students and faculty, and some
rap sessions. The student ad
visors will play a new role next
year. They will be equipped to
help the student with whatever
Thursday, May 18, 1972
Since commuters are often a
minority in SGA, this com
mittee is necessary to bring
the commuters needs to SGA.
This committee would either
meet with the executive
committee of SGA once a
week or would attend all SGA
meetings with the commuter
needs. This committee would
also work with the security
force next year in deter
mining possible changes in
the parking situation on
campus.
I also feel that SGA can
work to better inform the
students of SGA’s functions.
We worked very much with
signs this year, yet we didn’t
receive much student
response. Therefore, SGA can
work out a publicity program,
beginning with Orientation
Week. We can train the
student advisors more ex-
Lyons Wins
Walker Award
For Behrend
Jim Lyons, (6th, Hum. Dev.,
McKees Rocks) is the recipient of
the Walker Award. Lyons was
accompanied to University Park
last weekend by Irvin Kochel,
Behrend campus director, and
Benjamin Lane, Dean of Student
Affairs. Each candidate from the
four regions was accompanied by
the campus dean and director.
Each candidate was in
terviewed separately for ap
proximately 30 minutes. There
were three males and one female.
Jim stated that the interviews
were informal and general
concerning opinions on their in
volvement and service to the
campus and how these services
are benificial to the students and
community.
Lyons was presented a
medallion after the voting had
taken place. A larger medallion
was given to Behrend Campus.
Lyons stated that winning the
award was a “good experience”
and he “enjoyed it very much. ”
Plans An
Stimuli
problems he may have, and they
will be better able to advise the
students in various areas. Student
advisors are still needed, and
anyone interested should contact
Becky Jones at 899-1159. Summer
help is needed, too, in preparation
for the coming orientation.
Anyone willing to help should see
Ken Mushrush through the SGA
office, or Dean Seanor.
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