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Be a Character
Auditions for the Reveler's
fall productions of The Hostage
will be held in the Rehearsal
Hall below Sternberger Audi
torium, Sept. 13 and 14 at
7:30 p.m. According to Rick
Prouty, the director, there is a
large cast of characters with
both large and small speaking
parts. When asked to give
some insight of the play and
its author he replied, "Brendon
Behan's The Hostage has
been variously described as
exuberant, sardonic, rousing,
priceless and enchanting.
Behan, in this comic study,
has melded into play form, his
own reputation as a rascal
with a flair for both satire and
song. No one in the play
takes themselves seriously, in
this simple plot woven around
I.R.A. activities in the late
1950'5. Characters literally
spill from Behan's pages and
among them we count a
number of aging yet active
prostitutes, a bag-pipe playing
Irish patriot, a soul saving
spinster, a young and not-so
innocent serving girl, a Bogart
ish IRA Inspector and his
bumbling assistant, a pair of
flagrant homosexuals, a
changeling, and a prisoner
with a personality. Team
these types with Pat and Meg,
the boarding house managers,
and we have an Irish Hot
L. Baltimore in the best folk
tradition of Ireland.
Simply stated, the plot
revolves around an English
soldier, taken prisoner as a
retaliation against the
British, who will be executed if
the British do the same with
their IRA prisoner. During his
imprisonment, he becomes
"one of the family" and his
demise seems less likely. In a
surprise ending, Behan cleverly
heals all wounds and sends us
home with a smile on our faces
Crafts Center Craves Creativity
Artistic folk are wanted to
encourage, develop and display
their talents. The means to go
about fulfilling these attributes
is through the Craft Center, a
student run organization
which thrives upon student
support. So if you like to work
with clay, wood, glass, dyes,
silver, copper, metal, stone,
porcelain and other available
goodies, these materials can
be made convenient to you at
your working pleasure.
Further possibilities include
field trips and excursions per
taining to your interests. The
Craft Center has formerly been
and fond memories of The
Hostage. The script is inter
laced with simple Irish ballads
which make for a most unusual
and pleasant treatment of an
age old problem, conflict
and resolution.
Because of the music involv
ed those auditioning will be
asked to sing a few bars to
establish vocal range, but no
musical talent is required for
the roles. For those people
who are interested in reading
the play before the auditions
there will be copies at the desk
in the library on reserve.
Drilling Can Be Thrilling
By RICHARD FULTON
I never thought I would
know a person that worked on
a drilling rig, much less be
interested in what they had to
say. Anyway, these kinds of
folks just work and sweat all
day and then catch a couple
Millers at the local saloon
when the sun sets.
My views have changed
after talking with Mark
Dowdy and Rick Morton. I
went to a geology seminar
at Founders last week and
collected some interesting
facts.
First of all, Mark and Rick
worked for Soil and Material
Engineers, Inc., which has an
office in Greensboro. These
guys worked in various places
in Kentucky, Tennessee,
Virginia and West Virginia
doing explorational drilling
for coal.
At each of these places, a
drilling rig had to be set up.
These rigs are 10 feet by 20
feet platforms with a 50 foot
mask capable of drilling 3,000
feet. Drilling depths were
located at Hege-Cox, however
the entire scene is going to be
transferred to Founders Base
ment next door to the Rec
Room.
Any help that can be offered
to and in this process will be
greatly appreciated Wednes
day at 4:30. The first general
workshop to be given concerns
flute making out of bamboo.
So anyone is welcome to come
and try their hand at this
activity Saturday at 1:30, but
make sure to sign up fast at
the sign up sheet in Founders
because participation is limited
to the first fifteen.
The Guilfordian
Minority Openings for Advanced Study
Many minority students,
entering their junior or senior
years of college or already
possessing undergraduate
degrees, may be thinking about
continuing their education
at graduate school.
If so, Educational Testing
Service (ETS) and the Graduate
Record Examinations Board
can help identify opportunities
for advanced study.
Through the Minority
Graduate Student Locater
Service, developed by ETS
and offered by the GRE Board,
college juniors, seniors and
graduates who are members
actually between 300 and 1800
feet.
This drilling business is
actually pretty simple. A roller
bit starts the hole, going down
10 to 20 feet, and clears away
the soft stuff such as dirt,
sand or mud. Then they
change bits and start the core
drilling.
Core drilling is actually an
exploration into whafs going
on down below the earth's
surface. As the tools and
drilling bit are lowered, the bit
makes a 2-4 inch wide cut into
the rock. As the rock is cut,
the "core," the cut rock in a
perfect cylinder shape, rises
up the "inner barrel." Once 20
feet of rock has been drilled,
the inner barrel containing the
core is raised, and laid out on
the core rack and the inner
barrel is put back in for
further drilling.
Mark and Rick's job was to
identify the kind of rock, take
measurements and record
their observations in a log
book. So this stuff is all these
geologists ever do, right?
Maybe, but maybe not. Sure
is good experience, though.
This is just one of many
summer experiences being
shared at the Environmental
Studies Meetings every
Wednesday at 12 noon in the
back room of the cafeteria.
Graduate Admissions Tests Now
Those planning to take one
or more of the admission tests
required by graduate and
professional schools are
advised to register for the
tests immediately. A disruption
in mail service could prevent
those who delay from being
registered for the early fall
administrations. Regular
Registration Deadlines for the
examinations are:
Dental Admission Test
(DAT) Sept. 11,1978
of racial and ethnic minorities
in the United States can make
their intentions known to
graduate schools seeking such
applicants. There is no cost
to students for this service.
Students sign up by com
pleting the registration form
contained in the GRE/MGSLS
Information Bulletin. It is the
same form used to register for
the Graduate Record Examina
tions. The GRE are compre
hensive aptitude and advanced
tests used in the admissions
process by many of the
nation's graduate schools.
Students need not take the
GRE to use the Locater Ser
vice.
The Information Bulletin ex
plains all students must know
to participate in the service.
Copies of the Bulletin can be
obtained at most colleges or
by writing to MGSLS, Box
2615, Princeton, N.J. 08541.
To take part in the Locater
Service, students describe
themselves by answering a
series of questions on the
registration form that ask
for ethnic background, under
graduate major, intended
graduate major and other
information about educational
experience and objectives.
This information is placed in
the Locater Service file and
made available upon request
to participating graduate
schools. GRE scores are not
included in the Locater
Service file.
Each graduate school
establishes its own criteria for
identifying students from the
Locater Service file based on
ethnic background, expected
major field of study, degree
objective and state of residence.
Students who use the Locater
Service and meet the criteria
set by a particular school will
have their names automatically
submitted to that school.
Students who want to make
information available to grad
uate schools three times
during the academic year must
have their registration forms in
by Sept. 22. A student who
misses that deadline and has
Law School Admission Test
(LSAT) Sept. 14, 1978
Graduate Management
Admission Test
(GMAT) Sept. 21, 1978
Graduate Record
Examination (GRE)
Sept. 28, 1978
Late Registration Deadlines
generally are one week later
than the Regular Registration
Deadlines.
September 12,1978
the form in by Nov. 6 will be
able to participate twice.
Graduate schools will corres
pond with those students in
whom they are interested to
inform them of the proce
dures to follow in applying for
admission.
Because of the interest
among graduate schools
throughout the nation in
attracting qualified minority
students, it is likely that a
student's name will be sent
to a number of institutions.
Because a graduate school
may not wish to contact all
students whose names it
receives, students are not
informed of' the identity of
those institutions to which
their names have been for
warded.
The Locater Service is not
an application to graduate
school or for financial assis
tance.
Information students supply
for the Locater Service file is
treated confidentially and is
released only to participating
graduate schools and scholar
ship programs.
Last year, more than 21,000
students made use of the
Locater Service, and student
information was provided to
more than 120 graduate
schools around the country.
The GRE and the MGSLS
are administered by ETS under
policies determined by the
GRE Board, an independent
board affiliated with the
Association of Graduate
Schools and the Council of
Graduate Schools in the United
States.
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