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Cinderella in a
Garbage Dump
Though this be a rare occasion, the NITTANY CUB
would like to raise it's voice loudly in praise of the student
body.
It has come to the attention of several faculty members
and administrators, not to mention some of the sophomores
who were here last year, that the mode of student dress on
this campus has improved considerably from the attire fash
ionably worn last year.
Dean Benjamin A. Lane has expressed cries of sup
pressed pleasure several times in the presence of visitors to
this campus who have voiced their approval of the way
Behrendites clothe themselves. Not only does the taste in
clothes shown by the student body give Dean Lane pleasure,
and perhaps attract the opposite sex, it also gives the campus
visitors the impression that Behrend is peopled with adults.
All well and good, this is how it should be. But then . . . .
The hapless visitor gazes upon the college co-ed so amply
endowed by nature, and so artfully clothed by good taste,
sitting among the empty ant-laden coke cups and old cores.
The setting is none too dignified. As the cupid-struck lothario
finds the eyes of his love returning his gaze of passion,
and as he makes his way toward her, in a world all his own,
he is quickly brought back to earth as she screams, "Watch
out for that sack of trash !" The path of love is not strewn
with rose petals . . not in Erie Hall at any rate.
So now that we've made ourselves presentable, it
wouldn't be a bad idea to have a go at the campus. Then it
will happen someday that two students will see a strange
visitor in Erie Hall, and be agog to notice their long-suffer
ing Dean quietly and sweetly clicking his heels together
because he knows he's not going to trip on any trash!
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THE NITTANY CUB
Off the Top
The Erie Philharmonic, as an
outstanding feature of its Fiftieth
Anniversary, recently presented
the first performance of profes
sor A. Gordon Wilcox's Ricercar
and Fugue, a work of consider
able merit which demanded the
listener's strict attention.
Paula Harris
_ Greg Glassner
Marilyn Raeder
Bob Schneider
As an art form the ricercare.
during the sixteenth and seven
teenth centuries, played a dual
role. The name was applied to
numerous compositions written
as fantasias and also to a very
highly developed fugal form dis
playing a great degree of erudi
tion as well as skill hence the
Ellie Greer
Ron Aitken
Written in 1963 under a com
mission by the Erie Philharmonic,
the Wilcox composition is espec
ially notable for the consistently
maintained level of sustained re
straint a quality much too
infrequently encountered in to
day's artists and especially dif
ficult to achieve while employing
Backstage:
present it's initial production of
the new year during the coming
month. The play, "Skin of our
Teeth," was written by Thorton
Wilder, a Pulitzer Prize winner
(1942) and author of "The
Bridge of San Luis Rey."
"Skin of our Teeth" is a farce
about a family and their con
stant fight for survival through
the Ice Ages, the Great Flood
that covered the world, and
through both World Wars. The
father of the family is Adam
and the mother is Eve although
Wilcox
With
Mike Ropelewski
Technical Director
Erie Civic Playhouse
The Erie Civic Theatre will
January 31, 1964
of My Head
ay out
modern rhythmic and tonal con
cepts and devices. Even in the
vivace section at the beginning
of the fugue the deliberateness
established by the timpani and
the 'brasses maintained the lof
tiness achieved in earlier passages.
There were several places dur
ing the concert in which one
might have questioned the sure
ness of pitch in some of the
choirs.but these were only mo
mentary and hardly detracted
from the orchestra's over-all
grasp of the meaning of what was
being played doubtless due in
no small measure to the splendid
musicianship of the Philhar
monic's conductor, Dr. James
Sample.
Erie is fortunate in possessing
such an orchestra. The Behrend
Campus is fortunate in having
on its faculty a man of professor
Wilcox's caliber.
William A. Hover
Assistant Professor of
Romance Languages
they have assumed different
names
Opening night is Thursday
February 3, at 7 p.m. at the Gan-
non Playhouse. There will be oth-
er performances on Friday and
Saturday evenings of that week-
end, and the same three evenings
of the two following weekends
Tickets, which normally sell for
$2.00 per person, will sell for $1.50
per student, and for groups of
fifty or more, will be sold at $1.25
apiece. For additional informa
tion and/or ticket s, call
GL 2-4361