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and the truth shall make you free'
Vol.1, No. 62
P.O. Box 2516. hast Carolina University, Greenville. N.C.
Auiiust 10.1970
vLa Mancha' opens
By JAMES SLAUGHTER
�"The Impossible Dream
one of the great songs of this
century, will lift the hearts of
liences with its tuneful lilt
i ,j its message of courabe at
the Summer Theater.
I he musical play that
brought it to fame. Man of La
1 a n C ha h a s a n
eight-performance engagement
Monday, Aug. H) through
Saturday Aug. 15.
The run includes two special
matinee performances on
Wednesday and Saturday
afternoons at 2:15 p.m.
One o the longest-running
hits in New York stave history.
tins internationally-acclaimed
musical play ranks with "My
Fail 1 adv 'Hello, Doll and
"Oklahoma in the list o
all time stage favorites
Besides The Impossible
1)' 'am "Man of La Mancha"
threaded with musis In
Mitch Leigh and Laiics by Joe
Darion.
Cervantes1 masterpiece, "Don
Quixote de La Mancha was
adapted by Dale Wasserman,
and it presents the high points
in the hilarious picaresque
adventures o' the fumbling
knight who imagines that the
vulgar world around him is still
in the golden age of chivalry.
WRITTEN IN PRISON
Quixote's gallantry is
extended to a slatternly tavein
wench whom he sees only as a
fair maid in distress, to a
ruffian innkeeper who to him
is lord of a cattle, to a coarsely
impish barbei who becomes to
him a courtly sorcerer.
The soberfaced Don puisnes
his lunatic career with fanatical
zeal, completely oblivious ol
the mockery receives from
those annind him.
Weaving in and out ol Hie
storv of Don Quixote's
unattainable quest m the
character oi his creator.
Cervantes, the harassed soldier
who wrote his masterpiece
while in prison.
David Long a Washington D.
C. native, will be starred in the
dual role of Cervantes and
Quixote, transforming himself
from one to the other before
the audience's eves with an
exhibition of stage magic
climaxed by the rousing song,
"I. Don Quixote
DULCINEA ANDSANCHO
Another Washingtonian,
Jeananne Kain. will portray the
reeking barmaid. Adlon.a. who
is astounded to be regaled as
the lovely "Dulcinea
John Sneden will play
Sancho, the humble servant
who stoutly squires his
pixilated master because, as he
plaintively sings. "1 Like Him
Others in the cast of the
Summer Theater's production
the award-winning musical
hit will be Ken Eliot as the
overbearing innkeeper. Michael
(continued on page 6)
Union combats boredom
By JANET PIERCE
As the long, hot summer
school session nears an end. the
Student Union continues to
combat the boredom oi
spending the summer m the
metropolis of Greenville. All
summer long the Union has
provided all sorts of tun
activities for ECU students.
Most successful of these
activities have been the
watermelon feasts and the Bingo
Ice (ream parties where
everyone has gone to enjoy the
fun and games and free food.
Also, the campus may have
seemed over-run by bicycles
ihat could be rented at the
Student Union for as little as 10
cents.
Between 12 and 20 girls have
been fighting the fat by
attending slimnastics class once
a week this summer.
To expand their mind by
learning a new game. 12
students attended Beginners
Bridge Classes sponsored by the
Union.
FOR THE INTELLECTUALS
Eoi the more intellectuals on
campus there have been Chess
Tournaments and Duplicate
Bridge to pass the time. A
Budge Tournament is planned
tor August i: foi those who
major in this game.
Ihie lemus I oumaments
Fountainheadlines
Tarr sets draft limit. See page 2.
Adult classes scheduled. See page 2.
Programs started for contributors. See page 2
Suits filed in voting cases. See page 2.
Occult followers gam in numbers. See page 8
New police look. See page 8
A younger citizen reflects on the state of the Union See page �
Zittel shines in Forum See page 7.
weie sponsored for those who
to have a ball, ping-pong
ety. rwenty Students took
part in these And thirty-three
of our ECU athletes took part in
the more rigorous form of
tennis
As far as the rest of the
summer is concerned. Jerry
Smith, acting President.
reported that he has not given
up on a Folk-Fesl yet and is still
trying to get one organized.
As fall quarter comes and
school is back in full swing, the
Student Unio.i will still be
providing a variety of activities
and entertainment foi the
students. Besides the
fournaments sponsored ibis
summer, there will be Billiards
I irnaments and Bowling
i urnaments in conjunction
with a Bowling 1 eaguc.
COFFEE HOUSES
I K. student Union will also
ffee Houses in Room
ih variety ol acts;
folk. pop. and haul
, performers will be
ils Mom New
. ially run foi
Y or k ,
Coftee.
, ; served
DAVID LONG, A veteran of the American Lighi Opera
Company, will play the lead in "Man of La Mancha'
News Bureau chief set
William A. Shires has been
appointed director of the ECU
Department of Public
Relations News Bureau
effective immediately. Dr. Leo
W. Jenkins. ECU president,
announced.
Shires has been assistant
director o the News Bureau
since April 1.
"We are pleased to appoint
Mr. Shires to the position ot
director Dr. Jenkins said.
��We envision the taking ol
further positie steps to
improve, strengthen and
broaden informational services
concerning overall activities and
specific programs ot EC I
"We aie sure Mi. Shires'
e p e r i e n c e a n d practi c a I
knowledge will be valuable in
this effort
Shires, 44. is a name ot
Jackson, Tenn.
He majored in chemistry at
I ambuth College and has done
additional study in geography
and geo-politics at the
University of Minnesota and in
meteorology an N.C. State
University.
He attended science writing
seminars in Palm Beach. Fla
Phoenix. Arizona, and Chapel
hill in 1961. 1964 and lc66.
He began his newspaper
career in college working on
the Jackson. Tenn Sun and
later the Memphis. Tenn
Commercial Appeal.
He joined United Press in
1947. serving as bureau
manager in Richmond. Va as
Southern Division night news
manager in Atlanta, and had
assignments in Washington and
Cjpc Kennedy.
lie was Raleigh Bureau
manager and North Carolina
state news manager from
1951-62.
In Greenville he is serving as
publicity chairman foi the Pitt
County United Fund, lm
addition to ECU duties.
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By EDMOND LEBRETON
WASHING ION (AP) The
House has agreed to lift the veil
of secrecy surrounding some of
its most important votes, ending
a tradition that has endured
since 17X9.
By voice vote, with only a
few scattered no's, the House
wr(,te into a legislative
reorganization bill Monday a
provision for recorded votes on
amendments.
Votes on amendments now
are taken under a teller system
borrowed from the British
Parliament when Congress first
convened in 17X9.
This system results in a vote-
total but no indication of
how individual members voted.
There is a procedure by
which one-fifth of the members
can force a later roll call on
adopted amendments, but not
on amendments which were
defeated.
The action, coming in the
third week of debate on the bill.
is the farthest reaching of
several antisecrecy moves.
VOTING CHANGE
Earlier, the House opened
committee meetings to
television and radio coverage,
required that votes taken in
closed committee meetings be
made public and banned the use
of proxies in committee votes.
Rep. Thomas P. O'Neill.
D-Mass a sponsor of the voting
change, noted that votes on
such kev issues as Cambodia and
Ervin reopens hearings
Washington, DC. Sen. Sam
J. Ervin, Jr. (D-N.C). Chairman
of the Senate Subcommittee on
Constitutional Rights, has
announced the resumption of
hearings on the constitutional
rights of the mentally ill. The
hearing has been scheduled for
August 12, 1970. in Room 457
of the Old Senate Office
Building beginning at 10:30
a.m.
Witnesses who are to testily
before the Subcommittee
include Dr. Roger Egeberg.
ssistant Secretary for Health
and Scientific Affairs of the
Department of Health.
Education and Welfare; Dr.
Bertram Brown. Director.
National Institute of Mental
Health; and officials from St.
1 lizabeth's Hospital in the
District of Columbia.
ERVIN SAYS
In announcing the hearing.
Ervin said. "These hearings are
a part oi the Subcommittee's
long and active interest in the
rights if the mentally ill. The
current series of hearings began
in November. 1969. We have
focused upon the present state
of the law concerning
commitment procedures, recent
medical and legal developments
affecting the hospitalized
patient, the implementation oi
the 14 District of Columbia
Hospitalization of the Mentally
III Act. and suggestions for
improvements in present laws.
policies, and practices in
dealing with mentally ill
persons
AWARENESS
Ervin added. "1 am hopeful
that the Subcommittee hearings
will contribute to an increased
awareness on the part of all
Americans ol the problems
facing the most neglected and
misunderstood minority-group
in the country
Draft calls level off
mtinued from page )
October; X 000 foi November,
and 7.000 doi December.
Those figures will bung the
total draft foi 1970 to 163,500
men. the lowest annual draft
since the start of the Vietnam
'A a 1.
I lie Selective Service Svstein
had anticipated the I veling off
oi the draft lottery numbers
being called a formerly
d e ! e 1 1 e d m e n m a 1 11 I
a d u a t i n g coll e g e
students lost then deferments
and became available.
"Oui manpowei Mows are
confirming what we expected
m June when we said we were
peaking off in sequence
numbei limits ai said in
today's announcement.
"An influx of nev.
manpowei mostl) formerly,
deferred students has reall)
helped the situation to the
point where we think that il
well be unnecessary to raise the
ceiling on sequence numbers
during the remaindei ol 19 0
Vietnam policies, the supersonic-
transport, the multi-warhead
MIRV and the antibalhstic
missile defense system had gone
unrecorded.
"We bind the people of
America he said. "We say
whether they will go to war. We
levy taxes and yet we are not
willing to tell the people at
home how we vote
CONCERNED
Rep. Hale Boggs. D-La the
Democratic whip, said he is
concerned that "young people
say this House has ceased to be
relevant
"We are saying; 'Let a man
stand up and be counted he
continued.
"If you didn't want to be
counted, why did you come
here in the first place
The amendment allows as few
a 20 members to demand that
names of congressmen and how
they vote be rec ,ded by clerks
or possibly by electronic
devices.
Monday. August 10. 1970. Fountainhead , page 3
Argentine student now
is teaching English
By MAXIM TABORY
'What is your secret
formula'7" I asked Dora, who is
from Argentina and has been
studying English since Sept.
1969 at ECU on a Fullbnght
scholarship "It is very simple.
There is no mystery about it. I
just have a good memory was
her answer. "Do you have
certain fixed study hours0" "Oh
no. Today I may read one hour
and tomorrow sixteen It seems
indeed simple for HER. like
the Master's thesis she will start
in the Fall. As there is a story
behind every success, here is
hers:
Dora Silvia Schwaer. the
daughter of Swiss immigrants,
was born in Quilmes. a suburb
of Buenos Aires. She started to
study English in high school. At
the Teachers' Training College
she earned a degree which
translates as "Professor of
English and Spanish She had
the best scholastic average in her
graduating class and also won
the literary prize given by the
American Embassy.
At ECU she now is a teaching
fellow in the English
Department and recently won
the In ternational Peace
Scholarship and the Altrusa
International Grant. She finds
our educational system quite
different from that of her native
land. In Argentina there are few
minor tests during the year and
at the end a comprehensive.
Each student is examined then
by a board of three professors.
This Final has an oral and
written part. The grade is not
the sum of their mistakes, but
the degree of achievement.
Nevertheless Dora praises the
system at ECU: "The student
knows exactly what is required
of him; at home things are not
as well organized but she adds.
"greater intellectual effort is
expected
(continued on page 7)
Federal efforts enforce law
(continued from page 3)
all.
Other provisions of the new
act that federal officials hope
to enforce through the suits
include a ban on literacy and
good-character tests at the
polls.
Of 14 states with such tests.
eight have told Mitchell they
will comply.
A third provision establishes
a uniform 30-day residency
requirement for voting in
presidential elections, the
department said 21 states have
agreed to conform to this
provision.
The ban on poll tests poses
the most immediate problem
for federal and state officials.
Taking effect when President
Nixon signed the law June 22.
the provision was ignored in at
least one summer primary
election.
The lowered voting age
minimum takes effect Jan. 1.
1971.
Mitchell, however, has said
the states must establish
proceedures for registering
younger voters if the Supreme
Court upholds the law.
This must be accomplished
before the end of the year, he
said.
By filing suits at both the
Supreme Court and lower court
levels, the government is
assured of getting at least one
case before the high court.
Should the Supreme Court
dismiss for lack of jurisdiction
or for other reasons, the
government could push ahead
with the lower court suits.
Either way the decision goes
in the lower court, it surely
will be appealed to the
Supreme Court.
Texas and Oregon already
have Filed suits in the Supreme
Court to block enforcement of
the 18-year-old voting age
minimum. Five New York state
residents have filed suit in the
District of Columbia before a
three-judge panel, contending
the law conflicts with the
state's constitution and voting
laws.
The Supreme Court, now in
its summer recess, is not
scheduled to sit until Oct. 5.
It may return before that
date, however, to hear a case it
determines cannot wait.
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PA Y FOUR
We got a new cellmate for a few hours today: a straight studem at 1(1 who
wrote a S10 check at Shoney's on his roommate's account, with his permission and
got charged with forgery.
MINUTES BEFORE EXAM
He was arrested minutes before he would have taken his final exam to graduate
Now he will have to come back tall quarter.
It seems if the campus cops could have waited two hours before arresting him
since he was a prominent student Icadei during his entir
careei here. You know-
how they say though: "Justice cannot wait Ha!
I've been reading a book of passages and quotations from all the world's major
religions, which is supposed to offer "spiritual guidance in one's daily life
I don't understand it though because I can't make any distinction between the
cachings of one religion and another.
They all could have come from the Bible. Koian. or anything eke
For instance, there are two passages from Confucianism and Anti-Confucianism
which offer essentially the same moral principle, only in different phrasing.
Anyway, this book set me to thinking about the relevance of religion to prison. I
seem to be alone in my agnosticism even though I've probably had much more
formal training in religion from childhood than anyone here.
I here are several small crosses around the cell and graffiti on the walls such as "I
love Ihec, 0 Lord and "Please help me. Lord
Man turns to God in despair when there is nowhere elso to turn. To me this is
the greatest function of religion it offers hope in an afterlife, when there is no
hone m this one.
I got my first note from the outside world today, along with some clean clothes.
It assured me that my friends are trying then best to get me out and they may
have bail money by tomorrow. .
That certainly is good news, but I'm not getting my hopes up. bvery morning
I've awakened and thought, "today will surely be the last day but it neve, is
A. leas and at last. I'm beginning to accept hardship and things wh ch are ou
of my control. I can almost feel myself maturing from day to day. One thing is
Me I've be a changed person when I get out of here.
I wen, to bed hungry tonight. They gave us the same slop fo. suppe. as f km
and I jsut couldn't eat it either time. Sometimes I have to fight ofl the nausea jus,
Irom smelling it.
DAY FIVE
I he days all run together now.
Sunday is the only different one because it is visitois day.
My parents were coming, but I just go, a message saving they couldnt make
bul had found someone to sign my bond and would have me out tomor ow
I couldn't conceal my happiness and my fellows congratulated
wholeheartedly. i�thes cigarettes, and
Also several close friends came by to visit bearing books, clotnes, j
"i only go, to talk fo. about five minutes, bu1 il was reassuring just to see then
laces and know that someone out there cares.
I'm going to go by and thank everyone personally when go . Qne can
One bit of wisdom I've picked uP from my associations mi
find out who h.s TRUE friends are, b seeing who will sticK oy n
.i , i . i uon t tomet it eitnci
thrown in prison and forgotten by everyone else, i wi mgUjsj1;
friend who has been busted and has gone through the an and s
brought me a book entitled Being Busted In a prominent pni�
being persecuted for his political views and sympathetic a
specially marijuana users , ��k os oi
Anothei gave me a copy oi Jens Rubin's Do .illustrating van
the second American Revolution. Both books will be devoured tonight and
tomorrow.
Foi three oi four hours tonight the blacks all got in a cell and sang, mostly
gospel songs and soul. It's the only music I've heard in five days and it really
sounded nice.
Although I wanted to join in, I jus, sat and listened, partly because I didn't know
most of the songs and partly because I would have been the only white, and there
are a couple ol blacks with whom I can't get very personal.
It's not that thev are unfriendly or hostile, just that they keep to themselves and
probably wouldn't be as loose with a white as with a brother. I wish I had now. but
I missed my opportunity.
DA Y SIX
Today I was planning to start my diary with the word "freedom" in capital
letteiv I was supposed to be released by 4:30. so I packed what few possessions I
had as soon as I awoke and told everyony what a gas this had been.
By 10:30 I was getting somewhat impatient (to say the least) so I started playing
poker to pass the time.
I was still playing at 2 p.m. when I decided that something had gone wrong again
and I was doomed to another long night in this hell-hole.
Around 4 p.m. my father finally came.
1 grabbed my junk and leapt for the steel doors when he informed me that he
had gotten the wrong information from the clerk of court about the size of my
bond and the procedure for my release, so he would have to drive back down here
again tomorrow.
Despondency didn't creep in this time it slapped me right in the face.
But then 1 told myself that one more day wouldn't be so terrible after having
wasted six already.
A few minutes later a friend who has been trying to raise bond came by (I have
no idea how either of them talked their way into letting the jailer give them
permission to see me) and said they had raised almost enough to get me out and
would have the rest by tomorrow.
So now it seems I am assured of release then.
ROLE OF BLACKS AND WHITES
I have finally found a method of starting a dialogue with the black brother whom
I don't know very well. I asked him if he wanted to read my book Do It' and he
graciously accepted.
After he had read the introduction by Eldridge Cleaver, which naturally turned
him on, he asked me if I was a revolutionary.
This lead I � enlightening discussion on the comparative roles of blacks and
white- in the M .ement.
The most useful tact he pointed out, one that had never occurred to me although
it should have, is that while white kids can choose whether or not to become
Radicals, black kids are bom that way. They have to press for instant changes in
the social and economic structure in many cases, just to survive.
I am elad I gave him the book.
DAY SEVEN "
The day broke cloudy today, but before it was over the sun was shining brightly.
both metaphorically and literally.
Until mid-afternoon, my routine was practically identical with yesterday.
Once again I packed and played poker all morning.
Once again my father got in, this tune bearing slightly different, yet none too
heartening news.
He only had two-thirds o the bond and my friends were on their way to
Washington, N.C. where they had found a bondsman who would put up the
remainder. . .
I prepared myself for the worst, however, after having been so let down
V Aftei three hours I had resigned myself to my suspicion that the bondsman and
backed out, since every single one in Greenville had refused.
I even composed a song about spending the rest of my life in prison.
Then one o the trustees told me that some people were out front and it looked
like thev were putting up bond and he heard my name mentioned.
1v onlv reaction was one oi shock.
As I shook everyone's bands before leaving. I couldn't help but notice the
envious, yet benign looks on their laces.
Unbelievably 1 even felt a tinge o sadness as 1 saw them, probably for the las
time Alter a week, one seemingly short week. I felt as if I was born there, and at
times that 1 would die there.
All along I had been wondering what my thoughts would be upon walking out,
hut now I don even remember.
, most vivid recollection is that as I walked through the door to freedom and
saw the happy faces o( my father and my fou. closes most faithful friends. I was
simrjlv too overwhelmed to say a word.
Myevery thought the pasf seven days had pointed toward this one moment.
and I couldn't think ol a word to express my feelings.
The rest o( this dav will be leisurely consumed simply bv enjoying my freedom
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calendars of events distributed
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Oct. 17 � abasl
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Nov. 14 i Soul
Review
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called to
Unioi Carnrva I sphere
with cotton :and
and snowballs -r 'he
Homecoming gan e tl ?re will be
an Open H ase with
refreshments and a - �mbo
plaving
FINAL POINT
One final point that might be
especially -1'1 t0
incoming Freshmei is how to
become an r !he
Student Union. Aco i ling to
Jerry Smith, the Stud
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Monday. August 10. 1970. Fountainhead, page 7
Zittel shines in 'Forum'
N0,HYS, YOU'VE" S0TM� ALLWPoMG.
I'M working- iNCoswrfo
@&MA �ELTA &l�rM IS A CODE
Student compares life
those who grow hair and
pretend to be flower-children
without the true spirit of the
hippies. When 1 asked her
opinion about American college
men, she said: "Wow Ft was
only one word, but you all
should have seen her eyes
brighten and that mysterious
smile
(continued from page 3)
She misses the cultural life of
her city. It has a Standard Opera
Company, Philharmonic, and
theaters which present many
plays translated from English.
Her favorite composer is
Beethoven. She makes an
interesting comparison between
her country's dating customs
and ours. There is a popular
form of group dating when
many boys and girls go out to
spend an evening together.
On arrival Dora felt like one
of us. She loves America and
likes Americans with the
exception of "fake hippies"
Now, boys, if you are
marriage-minded she is NOT for
you. After getting through her
studies she plans to go back to
her little lovely city of eight
million people and to marry a
very special native there.
By Robert McDowell
The Monday night opening
of the ECU Summer Theater
production of "A Funny Thing
Happened On The Way To The
Forum" was highlighted by the
superb performances of
Graham Pollock. Gregory Zittel
and Mark Ramsey.
Under the direction of Edgar
R. Loessin. the fourth
production of the summer
season opened to an excellent
audience response.
Graham Pollock, a veteran
Summer Theater performer,
gave an excellent, though
somewhat uneven, performance
as Pseudolus. the wily slave to
Hero (James Longacre). the son
of Senex (Mark Ramsey) and
Domina (Baillie Gerstein), and
the master of the play's
intrigues. The plot revolves, to
a great extent, around the
character of Pseudolus. His
schemes and connivings must
succeed for the play to reach
the happy ending promised in
the play's opening number,
"Comedy Tonight For the
most part. Pollock speeds the
action along, but there are
dead moments which can be
attributed to the small amount
of time (one week) that the
actors have had to rehearse
their parts.
POLISHED PERFORMANCE
Gregory Zittel steals the
show with brilliant
performance as Hysterium.
Pseudolus' chief accomplice in
trickery and slave-in-chief to
Senex and Domina. Zittel. a
former ECU student and a
veteran of over 30 Playhouse
productions, gives a very
polished performance as the
hysterical, handwringing chief
servant whose household habits
must be reordered to meet the
requirements of Pseudolus'
chicanery. Indignity is heaped
upon indignity as the plot
becomes more complicated
until as a final disgrace the
� priggish Hysterium is forced to
impersonate a dead courtesan,
so that order might be returned
to the House of Senex.
The plot, based on a book
by Burt Shevelove and Larry
Gelbart, draws heavily from the
Roman comic tradition of
Plautus. piling comic
confusions, mistaken identities
and coarse innuendos like
ballista on the stage to be
catapulted into the audience.
The characters are stock figures
from the Roman comic stage:
the wily slave, the addled
patrician (Erronius, played by
Kelly Payne), the domineering
wife, the braggart soldier, the
courtesans, etc.
COMPLICATED PLOT
The plot is complicated in
the Roman tradition. To win
his freedom, the slave
Pseudolus must unite his
master, Hero, with the virgin
Philia (Carolyn Greene), a
courtesan of the House of
Marcus Lycus (Ken Eliot).
Since Philia has already been
sold to an absent Roman
warrior. Milos Gloriosus
(William Stone). Pseudolus
must convince the soldier to
break his contract, freeing
Philia so that she can marry
Hero. When Gloriosus refuses
to give up his bride, Pseudolus
begins a series of deceptions
designed to convince Gloriosus
and Lycus that Philia is dead
from a plague which she
contracted on Crete.
COMIC DIFFICULTIES
The plot is further
complicated when Here's father
Senex (Mark Ramsey) returns
early from a journey and
catches a glimpse of Philia for
himself and demands that
Pseudolus fetch the girl for
him. Then the shrewish
Domina (Baillie Gerstein)
returns unexpectedly from a
trip to see her mother, and the
comic difficulties increase for
Pseudolus. who must satisfy
both his masters and his
mistress, and for Hysterium,
who must return his household
to normalcy or lose his job
and, perhaps, his life.
�$�-�tt& Fe
Mark Ramsey gives an
excellent supporting
performance as Senex. whose
desires to satisfy his geriatric
lust lead him into conflict with
his son. Baillie Berstein is
appropriately shrewish as
Domina. and Ken Eliot is a
master panderer in his role as
Lycus.
UNSEXY AND LIMP
William Stone is excellent as
Milos Gloriosus. the proper
mixture of pomposity and
stupidity, and Kelly Payne
performs well as the senile
Erronius.
The multi-purpose Proteans
are played to maximum effect
by Mister Haskins, James
Leedom and Andy Keyser
James Leedom, in particular,
stood out in his multiple role
of eunuch, soldier, sailor and
citizen.
James Longacre and Carolyn
Greene, as Hero and Philia,
make the best of their parts as
starry-eyed virgin-lovers. The
courtesans-Tintinnabula (Lois
Hathaway), Panacea (Rosemary
La Placa), the Geminae
(Rhythm Belcher and Marcia
Dressel). Vibrata (Murphy
Cross) and Gymnasia (Sandy
Mumford)-are, for the most
part, uninspired. Perhaps it is
the fault of Richard Lyle's
choreography, but much of the
dancing is decidedly unsexy
and limp.
SETS AND LIGHTING
As usual, John Sneden's set
complements the action to a
great degree, and the costumes
and lighting by Margaret and
Andrew Gilfillan complete and
Roman setting.
"A Funny Thing" is a funny
thing; and, if it can have any
comparison as an excellent
production, it can be compared
only to an earlier Playhouse
production of "Forum" which
had the benefit of more
rehearsal time. Otherwise, the
production stands as one of the
finest of the summer schedule.
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A younger citizen reflects
on the state of the Union
College age students are nottheonlv people in the
under 30 generation who think about the plight of
the world today. The Movement ha
monopolized by the rollege students just because
rhev are the ones most heard of by the pedestrian
other world The following poetic reflections oo the
world situation were written by a 12 year old girl
who also has done some thinking about our way of
life.
OUR WORLD
0 I b worldwide s
N J hate :� - p mosl ifoui lifi
While we spend millions and millions to fight,
p p( . starving by day and by night;
Prices are ihumanly fast,
arving millions will remain outcasts;
Oui Earth's polluted bv people who say
�! nothingwrong l n world today.
Yet we - ur world's dirty and stale.
We know that many are hungry and frail;
We knou that daily many lives are !
P I if they express theii thoughts;
S � people ink our world's just fine.
Re l hunger and crime;
1 ets � � gei in �lved in wars overseas.
1 et ve oui blems and needs.
OUR NATIONS GREA1 NEED
We're . � rid of guns and knives.
u � � precious lives;
. � re being senl away to fight
ly wai where their future's not bright
j) illed the draft.
It's headed by a ' p tti I tafl
p iys I'm against this strife
H � a be told. "Give t years ol your lite "
lii . � leaders have nerve to say.
"There I much crime in our cities today.
Yi ind hate will stop that's a must
Look at the example they've set tor us'
I; we abide I I lcdJ-
We will never meet oui nati i great needs.
s let's make our own plans;just tor a start.
Let's bring . Iiome from them we won't part.
by Carol Eads
Voting efforts laudable
The efforts on the part of the Justice Department
to defend the voting rights measures now under fire
because of a question of constitutionality are a step
in the right direction. Despite the misgivings of
Attorney General Mitchel, the department has made
plans to file suit in both federal and state courts to
get 26 states to pass legislation which will uphold the
recent 18 year old vote law. Such action on the part
of the national government is highly praiseworthy in
a time when the government often receives no praise.
fountainhead
WAYNE B EADS
Edit Chief
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GARY GASPERINI
Business Manage
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News I
Occult followers gain numbers
By GARY PRIDGEN
I i many people science is
the religion ol tomorrow
Others however, in this age ol
Aquarius, are returning to the
world ol the occult for the
answers to their questions
As long as man has existed he
has been terrified and mystified
by the unknown Although
science has solved main
mvstenes there are still
thousands ol reports each yeai
of events that evade scientific
solutions
These events range from
simple Hashes ol intitution to
people reportly visiting Venus in
space ships.
Many of these reports are
fraudulant, with financial gam
.is the only motive. Others are
repotted hv sincere and honest
i e o p I e looking tor
explanations
SCIENTIFIC AND EMOTIONAL
Many institutions and
organizations are beginning to
do work in the held ol the
occult. These organizations can
generally be classed in two
groups, the scientific and the
emotional
Duke I niversity's Institute
for Parapsychology and similar
private and public groups use
scientific controls and critical
analysis in their work
Spiritualism examplities the
emotional side ol psychic
activity. often vvith faith as its
only require men! I he
Spiritualists" Association in
B r i t i a n gives public
demonstrations and lectures
concerning their concepts ol life
after death Many subjects foi
scientific research can resull
fn �m these meetings
An upt oming series ol artk les
in the Fountainhead will rev
ispects ol the occult and the
institutions and organizati
thai work with thr ugh it
th the
hpliovpi inH thi
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being done by different
organizations
People often associate the
occult with fon es ol darkness
and evil rhese people an often
surprised at the occult
background ol the superstitions
that they don't believe in. but
"Why take chances they often
Ad with a smile
SUPERSTITIONS
1 he occult effects most ol us
to some degree as William
fielding slated m his hook.
Strange Supt rstitions and
Magi ul Prat tit t s
"No t w ith standing the
remarkable progress ol science,
the great diffusion of knowledge
and the widespread increase in
populai enlightenment age-old
superstitions still continue then
tenacious hold upon the minds
f the overwhelming majority oi
the people, and to a greater oi
lesser extent influence
practically everyone
Some superstitions today
have almost become traditions
The tolling bells on New Years
Eve signify the death of the old
yeai Our custom ol making
resolutions came from the early
English practice of cleaning the
chimmey so good luck could
dec end
RELIGIOUS NUMBERS
Judas, in I einardo da Vinei s
fl Last Supper has
b ilically spilt salt which is a
long standing ill omen
I (day's beliel that a broken
mirror will result in seven years
ol had luck may have originated
with the ancient Romans who
believed a man's reflection
represented his soul Foi the
Roman's a broken reflection
w luld release the soul to dnlt
for all eternity
I tain numbei an believed
hv many to have my stkal value
I In oughout the Bible the
numbei even is �ei Seven is
ol times
and � God rested the
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as the basu '
has obi listinction
be aiise 13 (J and the 12
disciples)
togethei jusi ;
a nested tried icified
Another rel .
.V Most rel
three part godl I Christ
not only has I Holy hr.iH
but also Mary ' I and
and Jesus and th 2 th( �
the three c rosses
On most
conctdered a
the Oreek ' rth
however. 3 i andles arc lit from
one taper Soldiers ar
with the thought that the 1
o� a match
death and ' wonwn
pregancy is assu " �"� ulce
the third light
RICE THROWING
Throwing
todays result
fertility rite I
i ancient
mple
will have many children
I his has only bei
look at sort I the more
common superstitions thatart
sU observed today tw�
i, 1V . ions faded, u:
origins haw �
20th century mai �"
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science and te -(
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over his shoulue
possible bad :i'sK
result from a spilled sail
New police look
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are trying I"1
with navy b
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the mark ol
fraternity man
by seven '
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