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Jeff Matson auditions with another amateur actor for
roles in the play, "The House of Blue Leaves", which
premieres the weekend before the Spring Arts Festival.
Drunkards Make Good!
Cast Set
Last week tryouts were held
and the cast for the Behrend
Players production of "The
House of Blue Leaves" was
selected. Cast in the father and
son roles of Artie and Ronnie
Schaughnessy were "drunkards"
Stu Siegel and Chuck Little. The
role of the "electric" Bunny
Flingus will be played by a
newcomer to the Players, Kathy
Donatelli. Returning Players
regulars Kathy Lipinski and
Mark Coates play the parts of
Artie's insane wife and his movie
producer friend Billy Eihorn.
Player's secretary Sue Mon
tanille will appear as the deaf
actress Corrinna Stroller.
Virginia Dreibelbus, whose
characterization of Miss Spindle
was a favorite with "Drunkard"
audiences, returns in another
character role as the head nun.
Lori Fetzner and Pam Hughes
round out the cast as two other
slightly batty nuns who have
come to New York to see the
JRC Denied SGA Voting Membership;
RUB Extend Hours on Trial Basis
After a long and sometimes
heated debate the SGA finally
voted down a motion to allow the
Joint - Residence Council to
become a voting member on the
SGA.
Following a suggestion by Tom
Ruff, President Mike Chiricuzio
posed the question of giving the
JRC a vote on the SGA. As the
situation now stands the JRC has
a voting member by coincidence
sitting on the SGA.
Following the initial suggestion
by Chiricuzio, the motion met
some stiff opposition from
various members of the SGA.
Among them was Vic Kopnitsky. .
"To admit the JRC as a voting
member the constitution has to be
amended. As it was originally
written, the constitution was
made to even out the votes bet
ween the dorm students and the
commuters," he said.
Other arguments were that if
the JRC was to be admitted to the
SGA, oher organizations on the
campus might wish to become
voting members also. This would
tend to present problems when it
came time to make up the
budgets. Members - on the SGA
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For New Production
Pope.
Audiences can look forward to
an evening of excruciating
comedy with some unexpected
suirprises. The Studio will be
turned into a cabaret theatre once
again with the audience seated at
small tables in front of one stage
which will incorporate elements
of the actual Studio building as
well as specially made set
pieces. Guare's comedy is lively
and the language is hysterical; an
abundance of music also ac
companies the show. The.
production of this major modern
work will be a highlight of the
Spring Arts Festival and seating
will be limited.
The show is being directed by
Arno Selco who is also designing
the conversion of the Studio in the
El Dorado Bar and Grill for the
production. Assisting him will be
Bob Allen, technical assistant and
lighting designer, Jeff Matson,
production manager, and Mary
Allen, stage manager. They are
were afraid this might lead to
"you scratch my back and I'll
scratch yours" type of deal
among the clubs on campus.
'A suggestion was made to in
clude the class dorm represen
tatives to sit on the JRC. This
idea was immediately argued
against by Jim Armstrong who
felt that this would give the JRC a
four member vote on the SGA.
"At University Park many of
the organizations on campus have
been given a vote on the USG in an
attempt to federalize, a move
that has met some opposition,"
said Chiricwj.o.
At _ this point, Dean Betsy
Seanor interjected that the
Behrend College was and is not a
miniature University Park.
"Some of the things they have
done there have been a disaster,"
she said.
The proposal was eventually
defeated by 6-2-2 margin.
In other business at the Monday
meeting, a letter was written to
the SGA by Bruce Zimmerman.
In the letter it was announced that
the RUB would be open on a trial
basis in the near future until 1
Published by the students of the Behrend College, Pennsylvania State University
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Fox Joins Staff
Behrend College's new position
of Dean of Faculty has recently
been filled by Dr. Thomas G. Fox,
37, formerly an associate
professor of economics at
University Park of PSU. Dean
Fox's position, as chief academic
officer of the campus, began with
the opening of classes for spring
term.
Dean Fox, whose office is in the
Student Affairs area of the Main
Building, was very moved with
the beauty of the campus as his
initial impression of Behrend
College. He has been impressed
by the students he has gotten to
know at Behrend and feels that
this student-administrative
contact is very beneficial to
Behrend College in comparison
with the masses at PSU main
campus. Dean Fox was surprised
at the size of the classes here in
comparision with University
Park, because a large class here
may consist of 40-45 students,
such as Introductory Economics,
supported by the various crews
already at work doing such
diverse tasks as finding
costumes, designing make-up,
building new flats, scraping tape
off the floor, and advertising. The
show opens on May 2 and runs for
seven shows until the 11th. Be
there.
SUB Activi
by Gary Schonthaler
Staff Writer
One of the masters of the art of
mime comes to Behrend on
Wednesday, April 3 at Erie Hall.
Zwi Kanar will perform at 8 p.m.
that evening in what should be one
New Program At State
University Park, Pa., March—
A Pennsylvania State University
developmental academic
program, to be offered for the
a.m. on Sundays through Thur
sdays and until 2 a.m. on Friday
and Saturday. This action came
as a result of some student input
at one of the meetings held in the
dorms last term.
The food service committee
was temporarily halted due a
cancellation of the COPS (Council
of Presidents) meeting.
Chiricuzio said that he would
charge them at a later date.
By the time this paper comes
out, elections will have been held
for students to serve on the
Faculty Senate at University
Park next year. A list of the
candidates and their
qualifications was passed around
at the Monday meeting. There
were no students from Behrend
due to the fact that nominations
weren't held in time. Next year it
will be possible for the SGA to
form a block and get some
nominations in on time.
The Spring term budget was
also brought up at the meeting.
This term the three pertinent
items were the Forensic Club,
Keystone, and the Spring Arts
Festival. The Forensic Club
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whereas the same class at main
campus has 400 students.
Dr. Fox feels that Behrend
College has a more complex
college curriculum than many
other colleges offering the same
opportunities. His job works with
many aspects of the academic
area of the college. As Dean of
Faculty, he is involved with the
Undergraduate Baccalaureate
Programs, the Associate Degree
Program, Continuing Education
Program, as well as trying to
generate a climate for faculty
participation in expanding and
researching their individual
fields.
Another objective which Dean
Fox will be working on is planning
expansion for Behrend
Curriculum. As he stated, "We
hope to have a limited, but not
severely limited, full fledge four
year program that will include
most general interest majors."
Some of those majors which Dr.
Fox stated are tentatively
planned are: English, History,
American Studies, philosophy,
political science, economics,
psychology, sociology,
chemistry, biology,
mathematics, along with a few
pre-professional majors which
Behrend will hopefully offer.
Some of the majors mentioned
are currently offered at Behrend
in a four year program although
now a student may have to
ties For April
of the most spellbinding acts ever
to appear at Behrend.
A prisoner in a Nazi con
centration camp as a child, Zwi
Kanar eventually came under the
tutelage of Etienne DeCroux
following the Liberation.
first time in the Fall term, 1974, is
designed to accommodate and
develop the varied talents of
educationally disadvantaged
students.
The program, to accommodate
approximately 150 Educational
Opportunity Program students
and 60 disadvantaged student
veterans, will be administered as
a resident education program
under the Office of the Vice
President of Undergraduate
Studies.
Dr. Robert E. Dunham, vice
president for undergraduate
studies, said Developmental
Year students will be admitted as
resident degree students to their
choice of one of the University's
ten colleges or the Division of
Undergraduate Studies.
The instructional program and
the academic advising for
Developmental Year students, he
said, will be the responsibility of
the respective colleges and the
Division of Undergraduate
Studies.
The Developmental Program
will offer individualized
curricular opportunities designed
to alleviate the student's previous
scholastic deficiencies in the
basic skills and to cultivate their
knowledge of course materials in
areas of potential difficulty.
Included in the basic skills are
reading, speaking, writing,
listening, mathematics and study
habits. Potential academic
problem areas could include
algebra, calculus, biology,
physics, sociology and an
thropology.
Thursday, March 28, 1974
transfer to University Park for a
term to pick up two or three
courses, then return to Behrend to
graduate. If and when the new
majors are offered the student
will be able to attain all credits at
Behrend.
An attempt to draw up definite
plans for academic expansion are
now trying to be completed along
with considerations toward
adequate facilities to meet this
expansion. Although nothing is
finalized as of this date, Behrend
College now offers four year
programs where the student can
fulfill all credits needed at
Behrend. The degrees are:
Bachelor of Arts, majoring in
General Arts and sciences;
Bachelor of Arts, majoring in
science; Bachelor of Science,
majoring in science.
Dean Fox concluded his
remarks about academic im
provement saying, "It is the
University's view tht Behrend
College will be a college within a
very large university where
students may come that are in
terested in attending a reasonably
small Liberal Arts college; a
college orientated to a Liberal
Arts program where the student
may expect small classes, an
opportunity to have a substantial
degree of personal contact with
faculty and thus receive an in
dividualized and personalized
education."
DeCroux is the father of modern
mimicry, and Kanar soon became
a prize pupil. During thiS time,
Kanar also met a young man who
would become the world's leading
exponent of mime: Marcel
Marceau.
Zwi Kanar started his pan
tomime career in the cabarets of
Paris, and eventually wound up
as one of the biggest hits in all of
Europe. Now trying to establish
himself as a star of as big in
magnitude in the United States,
Kanar comes to the stage as a
magical Chaplinesque figure, a
symphony of movement.
Besides appearing at numerous
colleges in this country, Kanar
has also been a guest artist at the
Lincoln Center for the Per
forming Arts. Remember the
date for the appearance of this
captivating mime: Wednesiday,
April 3 at 8 p.m. in Erie Hall.
Ticket prices are a dollar with an
activity card and $1.50 without a
card.
If you are one of the stooges
who hangs around the Back Room
of the RUB all of the time, then
the SUB has just the thing for
you. On March 31, the first-ever
sucker Sunday will pollute
Behrend. This grand farce con
sists of tournaments in ping-pong,
pinball, air hockey, and mixed
eight ball (that's boy-girl teams,
Stupid!)
Champions will be crowned in
each event, with each of them
receiving our heartiest
congratulations. Now if that
doesn't appeal to you, maybe the
low entrance price will. An en
trance fee of fifty cents with an
activity card per event, or
seventy-five cents without a card
are the bargain prices. Maybe
free suckers will be given away
on this day for you amateurs.
Maybe free suckers won't be
given away. What do you care,
you don't like suckers anyway.
Registration for sucker sunday
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