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The halls of Hartranfl are quiet
now after several weeks of van
dalism and destruction:
This summer Hartranft housed a
variety of students. Participants in
the Veterans’ College Preparatory
Program occupied the first and
second floors. The third, fourth
and fifth floors housed speech
and hearing therapy students,
some regular undergraduates and
45 late admissions to the Equal
Opportunity Program.
Residents of the third, fourth
and fifth floors have been
relocated, leaving only the vets in
the dorm.
Just before relocation, the
vandalism in the dorm involved
almost nightly incidents of
harassment, culminating in a
major fire on the unoccupied sixth
floor.
Various reasons have been
offered for the trouble the
unusual combination of students,
differences in age and : possible
outside interference.
Although no one has a clear
explanation, one thing is certain:
the trouble in Hartranft cannot be
dismissed as ordinary dorm
pranks.
On paper locating special
groups of students together
appears feasible. The interest
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house program in North Halls also
combines special groups on
separate floors and has been very
successful. The program will
begin its third year this fall.
But there are several major
differences between the situation
in Leete in North Halls and the
situation in Hartranft this sum
mer.
■Jn Leete, the programs are
similar in nature and the par
ticipants close in age.
In Hartranft, students and pre
students of radically different
ages and backgrounds were
brought together. Perhaps the gap
was too great to bridge.
If 'the problem was outside
interference, as some students
contend, it must be determined
why Hartranft was singled out for
harassment.
One solution should not be
considered: the individual
programs should not be aban
doned simply because they did
not work well in combination.
However, the University should
consider the advisability of in
tergrating the programs in one
dorm.
The Hartranft trouble is over for
this summer.' The University
should learn from this experience
and plan ahead for next year.
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By FRED RAMSEY
Collegian columnist
Lock your doors! Trust no one, not even yourself! Let’s have
paranoia for fun and profit. ;
This is the tone of "Little Murders,” the current production
of the Festival of the American Theatre] now playing at the
Pavilion.
•“Little,Murders” is vicious] it's funny and in all probability
it’s sick. And it’s the best production of this weary summer.
When Jules Feiffer wrote his saga of city life a few years
ago, he was accused of overkill, but now it reads likejThe
New York Daily News. It’s the funny tale of a family
trapped in New York. •
Snipers fire and the mother rushes to the window crying,
“Black or white, black or white?” The father is happy because
he didn’t get mugged today. Their son (Ralph William Allred)
is gay. Their daughter is so self-reliant that she can’t catch a
man, and the apartment is unlivably modern. Their oldest
son, a war he(o, of course, was killed by a sniper on Seventh
Ave. In short) the typical urban family. i
Into their life comes Alfred, an apathist and a photographer
of award-winning studies of shit. Alfred is big enough to
have decided long ago that; since you can’t sfop a small
person from hitting you without hurting him, let him hit you.
Really, it doesn't hurt if you hum. , i
Threading through these happy scenes are such characters
as Judge Stern (Gil Aberg) a (God-fearing man who only fears
that God will forget him. And of course there’s the Breather,
the' asthmatic obscene phone caller with a conscience.
Gene Feist’s direction moves the play at a furious pace. The
set design by Robert Barnes is coldly modern and stark a
really horrible place to live. A.E. Kohout has given the actors
clothes that are also terribly modern, even futuristic, metallic
and unflattering. ,
By the very nature of the play, the two roles that leave’ the
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Monday-Wednesday, July 30-August 1, 1973
SPECIAL EVENTS
Tuesday-Wednesday, July 31-August 1 Festival of American Theatre, “Little
Murders.” 8 p.m., Pavilion.
Wednesday, August 1 Alpha Kappa Chapter of Pi Lambda Theta second annual
summer luncheon, 12 noon, Nittany Lion Inn. Initiation at 11 a.m.
Wednesday, August l Festival of American Theatre, opening night performance of
“Damn Yankees,” 8 p.m., The Playhouse.
| FILMS
Wednesday, August lj— Commonsplace Afternoon Theatre, 12:30 p.m., Room 112
Kern. “The Detached Americans.”
Wednesday, August 1 Commonsplace Evening Theatre, 8 and 10 p.m., Room 112
Kern. “Maltese Falcon.”
Wednesday, August 1 Chess’, Bp.m., HUB ground floor lobby
Campus Crusade for Christ, Tuesdays, 7-8:30 p.m., HUB reading room.
j EXHIBITS
Museum of Art Gallery A, Prints and Drawings by Penn State Faculty. Gallery C,
Permanent Collection.
Kern Gallery Warren Hullow and Isabel Parks, pottery. Sandy and Philip Jurus,
jewelry. Ann Demairas, prints. Louis Marotta, paintings and drawings.
Chambers Gallery William D. David, assistant director University Art Museum,
recent drawings. ‘Woven Art,” works by Barbara Hodik, Linnea Martin, David
Van Dommelen, Kent Sissel, Katheryn Mills, Nancy Harrison, Steve Grout,
Annette Hobbs.
Zoller Gallery, Visual;Arts Paintings, drawings and sculpture by Jim Finnegan
and David Bushman.
Pattee Library, Rare Books Room “The Hisotry of German Literature," a rare
books’ perspective; Illuminated manuscripts in facsimile, works from 400 AD
through 1600. Main Lobby “Penn State and Postcards,” by PSU alumni George
and Dorothy Miller; Circulation Lobby—Black and white photos by Mary Phelan.
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'Little Murders 1
greatest impression are relatively insignificant as far as total
time on stage is concerned. However, their lines are the best
in the play.
Foremost is the role of Lt. Practice, the broken policeman
destroyed by his inability to solve 345 unrelated sniper at
tacks. William McNulty is incredibly goodas he has an attack
of acute paranoia right before the audience’s eyes.
Screaming, foaming, kicking, sobbing, all the while
outlining a plot of enormous proportions involving “those in
high places, the names would astound you, people in low
places hiding behind a cloak of poverty." A truly brilliant
performance.
The other role is that of the Rev. Henry Dupas, a hippie
priest and leader of the First Existentialist Church. Archie
Smith carries it off beautifully, saying profoundly, "Whatever
you do, it’s all right," arms flapping, long white robe
hanging.
Since these actors leave such an impression, they could
easily have overshadowed the other actors. This is not the
case.
Mordecai Lawner is very good as Carol Newquist, the
police-befriending father. His cries of •“Don’t call me Carol!"
are those of every man surrounded by the chaos of life.
Eugenia Thornton, as his wife Marjorie, shows slides-.of her
son after he was shot by the sniper. She is super Vin her
bewilderment at life when she says, “Don’t worry dear, I get
shot at every day.”
Roger Rathburn is appropriately catatonic as Alfred the
nihilist.
Karen Shallo is fine as Patsy, the girl who. "gets dizzy
spells, she’s so strong.”
"Little Murders” is funny and it's serious. You may not
enjoy walking, home after you see it, so just remember: if
they want you, they’ll get you. Watch out. Paranoids of the
world, unite!
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