April 10, 1975
Members of the Behrend Inter-campus bowling and ping-pong
teams display trophies won in the Northwest District tournaments
on Saturday.
Tourney champs
By Mark Reese
Sports Editor
The annual Penn State
University Inter-campus bowling
tournament for the Northwest
District for 1975 was held last
Saturday in Dußois, Pa. The
two teams representing Behrend
both came away with the top
honors and first-place trophies,
showing superiority over three
other PSU campuses, Dußois,
Beaver, and Shenango Valley.
Coffee 'n Gay
By Cathleen Mclnerney
Gay Catania's interpretive and
creative musical abilities far
surpass her ability to converse
with her audience, but the quality
of her conorous forte overwhelms
any trivial annoyances. Ms.
CatAn'a, who appeared at last
Friday night's Coffee
House, played some of her own
wistful love songs as well as her
expressive renditions of Joni
Mitchell, Carole King, Neil
Young, and the Beatles, to name a
few.
She opened her repertoire with
Bobby Hebb's "Sunny"—not
exactly one of my favorite songs,
but nicely played. And anyone
who can sing Neil Young and not
generate depression deserves my
respect. While doing "Helpless"
her voice acquired a raspy tone,
suggestive of Bonnie Raitt, but
that auspicious simulation did not
continue. During "Both Sides
Now" her idolization of Joni
Mitchell became apparent,
possessing similarities en
compassing abrupt finales and
melodic yodeling. Her expertise
during the performance of Carole
King's songs (Will You Still Love
Me Tomorrow" and "Don't Let
Me Be Lonely Tonight") created
enough atmosphere to float me
back to that summer of Tapestry.
She allowed me to lose myself in
memories, woken only by her
strumming for "Norwegian
Wthid"-7style during this
Beetle's classic reminiscent of
Ellen Mcllwaine. She also
presented a few of her own
compositions—simple but sweet
love songs again suggestive of
something Joni Mitchell would
compose.
Gay possesses numerable
talents, but as yet her works
remain for me simply a potpurri
of remnants from various per
formers; a treasury of which is
not necessarily original, but
definitely entertaining. She has
the capability to create her own
unique stage presence, and this
probably will occur with time.
Meanwhile, following her
progression from rags to riches
will be absorbing and
pleasurable.
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The Behrend team of Leon
Daniels, Dave Applebee, Craig
Stone, Joe Warick, and Steve
Felege went undefeated in all of
the six games that constituted the
bowling competition with 24 team
points and 5,228 total pins.
Coming in second was the host
team, Dußois, with 14 points.
Beaver campus placed third,
with 8 team points. The winners of
last year's tourney, the Shenango
Valley campus, slid to last place
this year with 2 team points.
The Behrend team is now of
ficially the Northwest District
Champions among PSU cam
puses. The meeting of the three
other districts and northwest
champion team is scheduled for
May 9 and 10 at University Park
to determine the overall best
bowlers in the Penn State campus
system. The scores achieved by
our team and the fact that we
have three team members that
average 190 and two who average
174, along with the margin by
winch they defeated the other
contenders in our district indicate
that chances are excellent of our
being state champs for the first
time in several years. If funds for
the trip to University Park can be
appropriated by the SGA it is
very possible.
In the fast and furious game of
ping-pong our entries came home
with the first-place trophy and
honors also. Doug Carr and Bob
Montford did a great job at the
tables.
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Terminal . .
"In the Open Theater we make
up symbols and metaphors of the
things we care about and we
perform , them. But we don't
present conclusions; we ask the
audience to participate in an
investigation. In this trip the
actors are the vessel, the carrier
of a mystery from the world they
want to express," says Joseph
Chaikin, founder and director of
the Open Theater Ensemble, who
first presented Terminal. The
members of this avant-garde
companymeditated on death for
a full year. The result of their
collective observations is the
movements, sounds and words
(Susan Yankowitz wrote the text)
that comprise Terminal.
It is from these words and the
collaborative images of the Open
Theater members that Bebrend's
Student Theatre Ensemble,
directed by Gene Wirth, built its
interpretation of the play.
Terminal, as indicated by its
name, is about death. More
properly, it uses the reality of
death to define life and make us
aware of the "space between
what was done and what could
have been done." The play seeks
to engage the audience in its in
vestigation of our cosmetic lives.
The play-goer is seen to his seat
by usherettes (Debra Kurlan
cheek and Cathleen Mclnerney)
clad like mourners and wearing
so much make-up ("We can erase
the lines of a lifetime in less than
an hour.") we can barely
recognize who they really are.
The play begins as the guide
(Tim Newell) comes "among the
dying to call upon the dead."
Answering his call, the blanketed
dead filter through the audience,
making the sounds of the bones
buried beneath us. The dead are
born through one of the actresses
(Kathy Donatelli) whose child
bearing cries evoke the grief of a
mother who knows her children
are doomed to death. Having
shed their blankets, the new-born
dying emerge, wearing white
costumes reminiscent of shrouds.
The rest of the play is a series of
tableaux aimed at identifying the
lies we perpetrate to avoid the
actualization of our lives through
an acceptance of death.
We are treated first to a
humorous embalming and later
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Open Theatre Dramatization
By Robert Curtiss
SUMMER TERM 1975
to a more serious repetition of the
procedure while one of the cast
members explains that
"cosmetological procedures are
employed to improve the ap
pearance of the deceased." The
humorous embalming plainlessly
opens the viewer; prepares him
for death and the subsequent
horror-filled embalming.
After this, the members of the
ensemble file in a circle to harsh,
repressive orders (Mikel
Wolfram) and supportive, suf
focating love (Mary Beth
Mellor). As the circle
deteriorates, so do Miss Mellor's
admonitions to circle orderly.
One by one, the players break
from the mass to tell their in
dividual stories to the audience.
The runner who never gets
started (Mark Studemund and
Sally Geager) tries again and
again to break from the starting
position, but is continually
thwarted. As this "ceremony"
moves through the audience, a
simultaneously distracting and
soothing counterpoint is created
by Marie LeVeau (Beth Moore)
as she tells us how she sees her
people "spending lives like
slaves." One of the troune
(Virginia Driebelbis) crie s , "I
saw, I saw. I can't say I didn't.
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this question, a team member
(Thom Leßlanc) is beaten sen
seless by the society to which
Miss Driebelbis' character has
lent her support. The play's only
optimistic note is sounded toward
The end by the one "living" cast
member (Mark Studemund), who
claims, "My prison's made of
steel, yours is in your head." I am
doomed to life and death, but
unlike you I have come to terms
with my situation.
Terminal's production was
brilliantly conceived, especially
considering the scarcity of
materials with which the Student
• Theater Ensemble had to work.
The lighting was effectively
handled by one spot (Ed Fratus)
and many gyrating flashlights
(Miss - Kurlancheek and Miss
Mclnerney). The costumes were
from the "wardrobes" of Robert
Finley and the set consisted
simply of three benches and a
centrally positioned ladder.
The play was presented on two
consecutive Tuesday evenings to
amazingly large (for a cultural
event atßehrend) audiences. It is
much to the Student Theatre
Ensemble's credit that they could
produce such a lively response to
their efforts, and it is hoped that
they can present Terminal again
during the Spring Arts Festival.
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