November 22,1977
AP
BY AMY FRIBUSH
AND ARLENE FURMAN
You may now all sigh with
relief. The vast epidemic of
rhino fever that swept our
campus this past weekend is
over. Familiar symptoms
consisted of itching, scaling
of the skin, turning a dullish
green color, changing of the
voice, and an appearance of
a horn on the forehead. Some
of us will never be the same
again.
It all began in Sternberger
Auditorium where fine acting,
superb directing, and expertise
of theater techniques,
combined in creating an
extremely successful interpre
tation of Eugene lonesco's
Rhinoceros.
The satire lonesco used
seemed to be aimed towards
a low intellect and the repe
tition of certain points got
monotonous. The dialogue
was filled with overused cliches
however it sufficed the
characters need for verbalizing
their process of making sense
out of a totally absurd situa
tion. It was this absurdity that
made the play so amusing and
comical. The sounds of
laughter from the audience
and the bellowing of rhinoceri
from the sound track made an
interesting mix.
BY PHIL MANZ
Scholarship Society
Wonderful Wednesday was
alive and well at Guilford
College on November 9. While
soccer intramurals took full
advantage of the Indian
summer day and the faculty
colloquium boasted a perform
ance by Jerry Godard and
Dick Morton, the math depart
ment, in cooperation with
the "Women in Science"
series, presented Dr. *Herta
Freitag, Emeritus Professor
of Math at Hollins College in
Roanoke, Virginia.
Dr. Freitag's first talk on
Wednesday afternoon dealt
with rabbit mating, suicides,
asteroids and, in general,
FIBONACCI NUMBERS. Dr.
Freitag opened the door to
Fibonacci Numbers by posing
this problem: Suppose we are
presented with a pair of rabbits
that will not be fertile in the
first month, that will become
fertile'in the second month
and that will present us with
a new pair of rabbits in each
of the succeeding months
while these offspring follow
the same cycle of becoming
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Daisy,Berenger and Duriard amidst an argument
Precise timing and perfecteo
blocking produced the desired
effects and kept the show
moving along without any loss
of concentration. The fifteen
minute intervals of set changing
caused a slight break in the
atmosphere but this was
understandable. Acknowledge
ment should be given to the
excellent job done with
scenery, lighting and make
up. The difficult task of making
human beings change into
rhinoceri was achieved through
these medians.
The performance of the
pathetic lead, Berenger by
Wonderful Wednesday*
fertile in their second month
and presenting us with a new
pair of rabbits in each of the
succeeding months. How
many pairs of rabbits, then, do
we possess at the end of a
year?
Dr. Freitag claimed to know
the answer without the benefit
of laboratory experiment and
she delighted us with the
revelation of her secret. A
bit of exploration yields the
following end of month totals:
Month 1 1
Month 2 2
Month 3 2
Month 4 3
Month 5 5
Month 6 8
Month 7 13 etc.
These totals of 1, 1, 2, 3, 5,
etc. are simply these curiosities
called Fibonacci Numbers.
But before the end of her talk,
Dr. Freitag had demonstrated
both their power and their
presence.
Dr. Freitag came to America
via London from Austria at
the time of Hitler's occupation.
This journey from an old
Guilfordian
Ray Rinchuiso dominated the
cast. His deliverance appeared
natural and effortless. The
movement was fluid and
speech continuity evident until
the last scene which seemed
a bit overdone and drawn out.
Here Berenger, the only
human being left in a world of
demolished values, attempts
to find whatever meaning he
can derive from such shocking
circumstances. He is in mental
xurmoil over wanting to be like
everyone else and maintaining
his individuality at the same
time. Who is in the right?
Who can say where normal
home to a new one was the
basis for her second talk Wed
nesday evening entitled "One
Way Ticket to America."
During both talks she charmed
her audience with a captivat
ing blend of native accent,
effervescent personality and
quick wit. I dare say no one
went home disappointed.
I might add one last note:
The Possibilities are Unlimited
BY JULIANA E. PONTONE
Apathy, apathy, apathy.
Since my arrival at Guilford,
I must have heard that term
applied to the campus life
here at least 100 times. With
students from at least thirty
different states here, there
are bound to be some differ
ences of opinion.
Everyone is an individual
but, when the majority of the
student body is indifferent
about the activities going on
here, something is bound
to be wrong.
Specifically speaking, there
are more than twenty eight
campus organizations at
stops and abnormal begins?
He finds himself in the midst
of a hopeless impossible
situation.
Why rhinoceri? The rhin
oceros were used because
they represent certain charac
teristics of behavior in a
society. They portray a frank
ness, a natural innocence
human beings have seemed to
have lost somewhere along
the way. They are ugly, obese,
disgusting and unusually
revolting. This could be saying
something about what lonesco
actually feels concerning the
human race.
In case you suspect Fibonacci
Numbers of beknging only to
mathematicians, you might
ask the illustrious (notorious?)
Nick McDowell of the AJ
department about his recent
findings concerning suicides
or our friendly physicist,
Sheridan Simon, about the
collision and resultant break
up behavior of asteroids.
Guilford, ranging from the radio
station to the philosophy club.
Compared to the size of this
college, there are quite a few
different areas to be inter
ested in. It seems that there
is always something to do,
or somewhere to go. The
administration really tries to go
all out for the students consider
ing the amount of money the
school has to spend. Yet,
there is little participation in
these activities and groups.
The students here sometimes
feel that this school is boring.
Well, if this school is so dull
why aren't more students
forming their own activities?
Page Three
Family Patterns
and Morality
BY FRANCES HENDERSON
On Monday, November 28
(the day after break), the
History Club will present a
lecture by Judith E. Smith, a
Ph.D. candidate at Brown
University. Her lecture, to be
given at 4:00 p.m. in Founders
Gallery, is entitled "Immigrant
Mothers and American
Daughters; Changes in Work
and Family Patterns, Provi
dence, R. 1., 1900-1940."
Smith, who has taught at
the University of Rhode Island,
Kingston, has done extensive
research on the assimilation of
immigrant families into Ameri
can culture. She has studied
the strategies which these
families use to maintain cultural
ties to their homeland, and
analyzed the work and family
patterns of the immigrants.
Specifically, she has compared
the Italian and Jewish immi
grant communities in Provi
dence, Rhode Island. %
Also on Monday at 4 p.m.,
the Philosophy Club is spon
soring an informal lecture and
discussion on "Morality and
Emotions" in Dana Lounge.
Larry Blum, Professor of
Philosophy at the University of
Massachusetts, Boston, will
lecture and lead discussion.
Professor Blum has recently
completed a manuscript
entitled Altruism, Emotion
and Morality. His lecture will
take up some themes of this
book as well as some issues
raised by Bernard Williams
in a paper entitled "Morality
and Emotions" which is on
reserve in the library.
All faculty and students are
welcome to these lectures,
and urged to attend. It
promises to be a stimulating
way to rearouse the intellect
after a lazy Turkey weekendl
After a while you get tired of
hearing how bad this school
is, but no one is willing to get
up and change it. It should
be that more than a handful
of students should be inter
ested in whaf s going on.
If enough students share a
common interest, Ken Scwab
would be happy to talk to you
about forming a new club.
This school is not meant to
have a drab social life. It is
up to the students to change
this.
So get on it, Guilford
students. We Do Want Some
thing Better)
Lef s Go Get Itl