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N.C. ESSAY
Tuesday, December 10, 1974
N.C. tIfAy
A RESPONSIBLE STUDENT NEWSPAPER
Make It Happen
The NCSA Underground Staff are the students who make “it” happen each Saturday
night. What is “it?” It is entertainment! The students are not on the faculty and they are
not paid. Everyone participating is doing so because it is fun. The Essay and
administration have expressed enthusiasm over the student participation and
organization.
Dave Belnap, director of student activities, coordinates the activities and helps obtain
anything a student needs to put on a show. Some of the Saturday night specials the
Underground Staff are planning include A Night of Magic, a really big jazz festival,
nightclubs and more variety shows and coffeehouses.
Arrangements are being made to secure insurance against damage which will make
the cafeteria available for recreational purposes. The Commons well has been used for
almost all the past activities.
The Design and Production department always helps make it happen. With lighting
equipment from Tom Daly, sound equipment from Scot Templin, and platform and
general technical assistance from Max DeVolder, students can put together a show just
as big as the effort they’re willing to put into it.
The Modem Dance Workshop on Nov. 18 was a good example of what students can do
and will do again if given an opportunity.
The opportunity is available. Performers have a chance to be on stage. Designers can
do their thing and whoever has the idea puts together a team that can make it happen.
Sexuality On Campus
What is the proportionate sexuality of people on this campus? What problems does this
cause?
^s this campus need organized Gay Liberation? Do we need Straight Liberation’
Are there more homosexuals in the arts than in other fields? Why or why not’ Do the
arts attract homosexuals or are homosexuals attracted to the arts’
If you are interested in stating your views on these and-or any other questions
pertaining to sexuality on this campus, please put them in writing and submit them to the
t.ssay through the Student Affairs office. Signed copies are preferred. If you would like
copies returned, please include a self-addressed envelope.
If we receive enough responses we will print a collection of views expressed in our
next issue*
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Thanx - from NCSA
DUNCAN NOBLE
Nov. 11 is past and gone. It is now one
month in our past. Although I have been
able to thank some of you personally, this
has been my first opportunity to reach all
of you who gave your thoughts and
energy to the realisation of the evening.
It was, for everyone, a labor of Hercules.
Each of the musical ensembles played or
sang under difficulties; - a missing or
touring player who needed to be replaced
quickly, a singer ill in the infirmary until
just two hours before curtain- but
certainly their audience did not know it.
The hall players and every performer in
the onstage program had the problems of
too little rehearsal and not enough time.
Once again, the old saying “the show
must go on,” proved true. That, I guess,
is what makes our profession exciting,
keeps us out of the dull rut of the
ordinary.
BUT— even under the most perfect
circumstances, that kind of show can not
go on without help. On Monday
afternoon, the show that was to be
presented in Crawford Hall was no show
in a theatrical sense. It was only a series
of out-of-joint pieces. By Monday
evening, Adrian Durlester (who had been
up all the previous night writing cue
sheets) with his crew had pulled a
cohesive production together. Moving a
chair is a simple action. When it must
move in a certain direction in a certain
brief fime, that action can take on the
immensity of stage disaster if ill-
performed. My deep and amazea tnamcs
to Skip Sherman and the men with him
for their smooth-running choreography
of the shifts. And how in two rehearsals
do you make almost 100 light, spotlight,
and microphone cues meld without a
hitch? It was done.
One of the elements of the evening that
had great appeal was the hall show. Only
those of you involved in creating the
interesting and exciting displays and
settings that filled the halls and lobbies
with the inside story of NCSA can know
the gigantic task Maureen Trotto and I
put before you. Hopefully, the knowledge
of a job well done will give you th(
satisfaction I can only approach ir
saying thanx.
So many of you, behind and before the
scenes, and in the offices, rallied forth
and made the evening work. Many
thanx. Due to my own lack of time with
it in the theatre and a lack on my part of
communicating fully with all concerned,
I realise the “show” was less than a
theatrical gem. Criticism made rich (and
perhaps, therefore, the more
unpalatable) by hindsight is easy to
generate. The reaction of the audience,
shown by their applause and enthusiasm,
must be the criterion for all of you that
participated by which you judge your
contribution. My heartfelt appreciation
for your help. And Max De Voider, we
love you!
Duncan Noble, a member of the dance
faculty, is Intensive Arts coordinator.
N.C. Ci/Ay
Editor: Craig Weindling
Advisors: BiU and M’Lou Bancroft
Managing Editor: John Haas Poetry Editor: Bryant Arrington
Copy Editor; Kay Crutcher Art: Susan Glenn
PuUout editor: Ken Ballard Business Manager: John Hubbard
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Making “It” Happ en
Poetry
By
Students
On a country road
Kitty relaxes in the sun
No-one knows she’s dead
Him
pain
enveloped,
trembling
endlessly,
restless
giving
intensely
remorsefully
veiled,
innocently
needful.
Natasha (penname)
Design and Production
Maggie Heilbronn
Music
Love is the hardest war
Man ever fought
But the end victory is far greater
And far more enduring...
Than that of the history of mankind
For when one wins in love
Everyone wins
But if one loses in love...
A massive defeat to both is
Left on a solemn path.
Karen Greene
Visual Arts 12
Silently
the night flutters away
leaving behind a stillness
of beauty
light flows quickly
following the path of the wind
into every comer, every crack
. . . of the world
And the mist settles into the routine of
life
Maggie Heilbronn
Music
There is no softness here.
Straight-edged buildings
Cut off the sky.
In patterns of acute angles,
Those jagged windows were broken
In anger, in greed, in lust.
There is no softness here.
Not a chance.
Peter ’74
Design and Production
I died for years
before I lived, and having
lived. I’ll die for years.
Bryant Arrington
Design and Production
in darkness
i lean on your smiles
my long-legged, curly-haired friend
you gently kiss my nose
wondering, the hurting hardly showing,
wanting me, i reach for you
- we confuse one another -
and i cry for you in darkness,
knowing you will soon be gone.
in sunshine
i smile for you
my warm, soft-smelling friend
i gently kiss your hand
wondering, the hurting hardly showing,
wanting you, i shyly touch
- we confuse one another -
and i sing for you in moming sun,
knowing you will soon be gone.
k cnitcher
Music