Review of the Term
Winter term 1963 might just as well have been winter
term 1953 it was as dull'as the University was 10 yo.lrs
ago when little, if anything, seemed to happen up here.;
One point of agr‘oement is that even the few highlights
of this term uttscd no real sensation.
The campus book store issue was reactivated and is
coining cl , !s?st to becoming a reality as the term is end
ing than it ever has before. One step towards rnliclng a
campus book store is expanding the University Book Ex
change to include a full time manager. As of this week,
a full time manager has not been named.
Other developments, though, are more promising
such as the offer from a Philadelphia book dealer to pro:
vide books with up to an 18 per cent discount off list
prices in State College. The Undergraduate Student Gov
ernment is working on the proposal and expects results
by the beginning of next term.
But the dollars students might save from a campus
book store may not stay in their pockets for long. The
threat of a tuition hike hit the University this term as
Gov. Raymond P. Shafer proposed a $lOO tuition increase.
USG officials are working on protest action to include,
among other things, letters to state legislators and per
sonal meetings with state representatives in Harrisburg.
The state House of Representatives Appropriations Com
mittee will probably conclude its budget hearings in the
next three weeks and a final decision will be announced
then.
Earlier in the term, the University was working with
borrowed money as allocations to the school got bogged
down in political squabbles in Harrisburg. The allocations
finally caitie through, but the University already owed
large sums in interest payments alone on the borrowed
funds.
USG's biggest issue included little else than the
bookstore and the tuition hike. A bill to prevent the Uni
versity from disciplining students involved in misdemean
ors off-campus was passed over objections of various
USG members. The pros and cons of the bill caused a
brief flurry of comment that came to little more than a
topic for small talk in political circles.
The activist camp showed some death tremors this
term. Organizational problems and interests outside cam
pus made groups, such as Students for a Democratic So-
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SATURDAY, MARCH 9, 1968
ULULU
must make room for
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off on all Gifts
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Last Day
Saturday,
March 9
ULULU
defy unusuzily:/quiet. A warning about wiretapping :and
marcotics agents on campus stirred -Up some excitement,
but the ime faded away after repeated denials from Old
Main that it was not cooperating with narcotics agents
nor with 'agents who would wiretap students' telephones.
Charles L. Lewis, vice-president for student affairs,
said he had no student agents on Old Main employment
roles arid said warnings of massive drug crackdowns and
"super-busts" were exaggerated. Various representatives
of student groups showed alarm at a reported series of
crackdowns on student drug users, but no massive round
up ever occurred.
Town I^deoendent Men's Council is in the process of
gatt , nr, a standardized lease accepted by all State Col
lege landlords. TIM had begun work on the standardized
lease during fall term and carried the groundwork into
this term. TIM spokes Men say they hope to have more
details worked out at the start of spring term. .
The major •Interfraternity Council achievement last
term was the establishment of the fraternity co-op and a
scholarship program giving each fraternity One scholar
ship.
In smaller campus news, Frederick Robbins, Jr., one
of the alleged killers of student Charles F. Miller, was
sentenced to two and a half to five years in prison. Al
phonso Westinghouse Kyles, also implicated in the killing
last September, is still in Maryland.
The Lambert Trophy, presented to the University fol
lowing the 1967 football season, was stolen from its case
in the Hetzel Union Building. It was found in Beaver Hall
a few days later.
The Association of Women Students held its executive
post election wiih Gayle Graziano emerging as the new
president.
And, the Model United Nations program, the biggest
winter term extracurricular activity, was a success under
the leadership of President Mark Taxel and Secretary-
General Art Kramer.
It was, in short, a term of little events, one or two
big ones, and an overall long, cold ten weeks that brought
the University into 1968 no better or worse for wear and
tear.
WDFM THIS WEEKEND
TODAY
9.1 p.m. Mike Berger with
Top Forty, news on the hour
Ski report 10:45
1-1, p.m. Up Beat (La Forza
del Destino)
2-5 p.m. The Opera,
5-7 p.m. Open House
7-8 p.m. Jazz Notes
4-4:05 p.m. WITM News
4:05-6 p.m. Musk of the
Masters with David Herman
(Gershwin Cuban Varia
tions; Ives Coral Music;
Brahms—Viola f• nata)
6-6:05 p.m. WDFM News
6:05-7 p.m. After Six (Pop
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7-7:15 p.m. Dateline News
TOMORROW ' (Comprehensive campus, na
-8.11 a.m. Popular music with tional and international news,
Joanie Kalejta, news on the sports, and weather)
hour 7:15-7:30 p.m. After Six
11:30-3 p.m. Popular Music (Continued)
News on the hour 7:45-8 p.m. News Scene
3.5:45 p.m. Popular music 8-10 p.m. Jazz Panorama
with Ron 'L.I :tr. • • with• Kent Hazen
5:45-7 p.m. —ne Chapel Ser- 10-10:05 p.m. WDFM News
vice (delay broadcast) . 10;0542 midnight ,--- Symphonic
7-10 p.m. The Ti ircle„ Pro, :',...Notetfook with Janet-Williams
gramme with George Sjoberg 12-12:05 a.m. WDFM News'
8-12 midnight Jot: Berwanger
with Top Furty, news on the
hour. Ski reports '8:45 and
10:45
12 midnight-4 a.m. Gary
Schwartz with Top Forty,
news on the hour. Ski reports
12:45
(Nielsen—Sym. #4)
10-10:05 p.m. WDFM News
10:05-12 midnight The Thirde
Program :Continued) with
Anthony Francellini (German
Requiem)
12-12:05 a.m. WDFICNews
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MONDAY
BERRY'S MD
"Wouldn't you like to gd on strike?"
THIS WEEKEND ON CAMPUS
TODAY
Ranger Co., 1:30 p.m., Wagner
Building
Student Films, 7 p.m., Hetzel
Union Building assembly hall Bridge Club, 6:30 'p.m., HUB
Study Abroad Reception, 4 cardroom
p.m., HUB main lounge to- Campus Crusade, 7:30 p.m.,
morrow 218 HUB
TOMORROW Food Science Club Film, 6:30
Folklore Society. 7 p.m., 214 p.m., HUB assembly hall
HUB Gamma Sigma Sigma, 6:30
Intervarsity Christian Fellow- p.m., 214 HUB
ship, 6:30 p.m., 216 HUB Interlandia, 7:30 p.m., HUB
Jazz Club, 6:30 p.m., 217 HUB ballroom
Jazz Club Workshop, 2 p.m.,
International Students Le c-
HUB ballroom
tures, 7:30 p.m., 173 Willard
Student Films, 6 p.m., HUB
assembly hall , Orientation Meeting, 6:30 p.m.,
Students for a Democratic So- 217 HUB
ciety, 7:30 p.m., 215 HUB Student Religious Liberals, 8:30
linivsrsity Readers, 9 p.m., p.m.. 214.HU8
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REC HALL
following registration
Tickets available this term
from AWS representatives
during registration at desk on
HUB ground. floor
Opening Night
After sitting through the first few scenes of "The Red.
Eye Of Love" Thursday evening; and before carefully
scrutinizing my playbill, I turned to a colleague and asked,
"Who directed this abortion?"
A combined effort in scenic design by Skip Schulte,
lighting design by David Markley and technical direction
by Joseph Rinehart resulted in some special effects never
before equalled in recent University Theatre history.
Grand as their accomplishments were, however, they
could not begin to transform the total abomination that
direCtor Robert Barber has created in the Pavilion Theatre
into a worthwhile production.
"The Red Eye' Of Love" is supposed to be a comedy.
It seems that Barber's interpretation involved a concerted
effort to draw the audience into the fun and have one
huge, spontaneous laugh-in. He couldn't have asked to
have more going for him.
His location was an arena theatre where his "charac-,
ters" could run up and down the aisles and mix with the
people. The structure of the script was loose enough to
provide room for experimentation and lots 'of adlibing.
His technical and special effects people provided him.
with an atmosphere conducive to provoking two and one
half hours of uncontrollable hysteria.
The result? The biggest, longest, most boring disaster
to hit University Park. since "Lute Song" was produced
in 1966.
A major share of the responsibility for this gross in
adequacy goes to Richard Wentz, who portrayed 0. 0.
Marlines, one of the major roles in the show. Martinez
is a very funny character, yet more important is the fact
that there are many scenes in which he appears for . a con
siderable length of time with only one or two other charac
ters. When the tempo becomes almost nonexistent these
few intermittently spaced scenes can destroy the rhythm
of the entire show. Wentz either underplayed to a ridicu
lous extent or he simply cannot act. In a situation' of this
type it is difficult to discern whether the interpretation
of the role belonged to the "actor" or the director. In
either case, it was miserably conceived.
From the depths of the pile of wreckage that is this
show, one can dig up some consolation in the fact that
there were some "bits" of very funny theatrical effects.
Steve Hubicsak led all corners as the vendor. In ad
dition, he was the only character that attained a success
ful level of personal interaction with the_ audience.
Barry Zajac, as Wilmer Flange, put forth an excel
lent effort, provided the overplaying that was necessary
to sustain his role, and almost, but not quite, injected
what was needed to keep his scenes alive.
Roger Thomas as the newsboy and little bez, Russel
Haag as the cab driver and big bez, Carl Kutschera as
the professor, and Michele Peruzzi as the scrub woman all
added sorely needed giggles and picked up the tempo of
the otherwise dilapidated scenario.
The curtain scene ending Act I began to raise one's
hopes for improvement as a melange of characters began
to raise pandemonium. What turned into a typical five
minutes of the three stooges ended in an impressive ex
ample of Markley's lighting achievements. The curtain
scene of the final act was much the same' except that
it grew in intensity. The one fault was that the snace in
between can best be described as an infinite void.
Mary Ann Lippay as Selma Chargesse (pronounced:
"Charge Easy"), did some accurate impersonations of Imo
gene Coca, improvised a lot on her own, and would have
rendered a very impressive performance had she not been
inhibited by some blocking and interpretation that were
characteristically directional. This failure to take advan
tage of some really comical possibilities inherent in the
script was further emphasized as a result of the perform
ances rendered by Andrew Brown as the first cop, Donald
King as the second cop and Barnard Schleppe as the
nightwatchman. The single bit player who seemed to
overcome all inhibitions to an impressive degree was Way
man Johnson as tough mother.
Enough cannot be said about Hagan King and the en
tire staff that assisted him as electrician. If this show
was anything less than a total loss theatrically, it would
be worthwhile to see it merely to experience the vast
realm of the technician.
When one of his lines failed to provoke so much as
a giggle, Steve Hubicsak commented to the audience, "Just
think I could have gone to Carnegie Tech." But just
think Steve, _if/you had„ I doubt if you would have had
the* 'opportunity to become involved in a "production"
resembling this one.
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