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^Mflcbcthl OCT 25 1976 jI Great Play Opening Tonight
New Drama Prof Plays Key Role
by JACKSON H. MORTON
Staff Writer
St. Andrews is fortunate to
have a Iffight and innovative
new theatre professor this
fall. Brad F«-d joins the St.
ndrews faculty after several
-ars of training and total in
volvement in theatre in
arious locales of the U.S.
Ford grew up in Nelxaska
City, Nebraska where he
ccame interested in theatre
in high school as a member of
he National Thespian
“ociety. After graduation
from hi^ school Ford further
developed his interest in
theatre at Wayne State
University where he majored
in Theatre Education. Ford
acted in twelve productions
while at Wayne State and was
involved in all technical
aspects of theatrical produc
tions. Ford graduated from
Wayne State as the out
standing theatre major of his
class.
Upon graduation from
Wayne State Ford began
teaching theatre and speech
in David City, Nebraska and
continued there for three
years. Ford was also involved
in acting and directing sum
mer stock with a theatre com
pany in Nebraska.
Fran Nebraska Ford went
By Jackson H. Merton
Staff Writer
The Highland Players have
begun their 1976-77 season
with a smashing success in the
production d Macbeth. The
play affords St. Andrews
students a unique (^portunity
to see fellow students demon-
stratii^ their most refined
theatrical talents.
Macbeth centers around the
tragedy a Scottish nobleman
who becomes king of Scotland
and succumbs to the evil for
ces of the world. He is joined
by his wife and other charac
ters in this lust for power all
the while maintaining a
facade of justice which
ultimately crumbles. Macbeth
is never sure rf his power or of
tose around him. This un
sureness is the source of most
of the tragedy within the play.
In previewing the play, I ob
served that the most striking
aspects of the production were
the .eticulous and delicate
balance of performance,
lighting, set construction, and
sound. The beginning and end
of each scene is accompanied
by bizarre and disonant chor
ds played on the flute and
xylophone along with loud
drum effects. These sound ef
fects set the mood of the
scenes and give the play a
great deal of continuity.
The lighting for the produc
tion, deisgned by Brad Ford,
is integrated with the moods
and imagery of the play and
the result is superb. The color
of the background lighting
reflects the subject matter of
the scene. For ecample, when
the subject of murder arises,
the background color will
change to a deep, enveloping
blood red.
The set desgn, also by Brad
Ford, completes the technical
aspect of the play. Because
the set design is so versatile
different areas of the stage
can be isolated to suggest
great or small spaces.
The careful balancing of the
technical aspects, the sound
imagery of drums and flutes,
the color imagery of the
lighting, and the versatility of
the set all suggest the eerie
disorientation of the play’s
central characters.
Performance-wise, Macbet-
h is a thoroughly refined and
polished production. David
Miller, who plays Macbeth, is
able to convey the confusion
and evil of the central charac
ter with a great deal of
emotion and imagination.
THE LANCE
THE LAST DEBATE:
FORD VS. CARTER
FRDAY, 9:30 P. M.
A Weekly Journal of News and Events At St, Andrews Presbyterian College
1961 - Fifteenth Annivenary Year-1976
VOLUME 16
LAURINBURG, NORTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY. OCTOBER 21,1976
NUMBER 6
Lance/Smithsonian Journalism Exhibition Scheduled For Thursday Opening
An exhibitirai on the history
news reporting will open in
the Main Lounge of the
foliage Union x>n "niursday at
1 p.m. EXTRA! EXTRA!
TRA! THE MEN AND
MACHINES OF AMERICAN
JOURNAUSM is being cir
culated nationally by the
Smithsonian Institution
aveling Exhibition Service
(SITES) and is based oti the
Henry Luce Hall of News
qjorting at the National
Museum of History and
echnology in Washington,
D.C. The curatOT of the hall,
Dr. Peter Marzio, worked
closely with the Sniithsonian
exhibits staff and SITES to
produce this smaller version
of the exhitetion whch would
be suitable for travel to cities
roughout the United States.
The exhibition wiU appear
at St. Andrews through
November 19 as part of the fif-
teenth anniversary
Icelebratims of THE LANCE.
This exhibition aims to
demonstrate that
revolutionary periods in
merican journalism have oc
curred when imaginative jour-
alists have made the most of
the technology at their
disposal.
To understand Americans
and their quest for news it is
essential to see the relation
ship between the news and the
technology of reporting it, for
technol(^y has been a prime
This
Week
INSIDE;
A straw vote for President on
Friday Page 3
Swin e' flu notes Page 5
Sports News: '
Soccer team hunting wins.
Cross Country loses first
Match of the season... Page 8
'i ^
kepof.ters
v*ALLE>^Y
Input Sought By Committee
“A Race /or the Wires-Energv of the Reporters, reproduced on a panel.
depictsrnethodofr^ewsreportmgmthesecondhalfofther^ineteer,^
The illustration was first presented in an 1860s issue of Harper s y-
factor in determining the
quanity, frequence, freshness,
style, and often the accuracy
of news. Despite the social im
pact of revolutionary
machines and their im
portance in transofrming
man’s modes of com-
munitcation, historians have
failed to chronicle their in
fluence in news repoting. The
news reel, radio news, and
television journalism are the
products of technological in
novation. The steam-ower^
printing press^machine^na^
wood-pulp paper, electric
lighting, the telegraph, the
telephone, and camera were
jus as important in the 19th
century, each injecting new
meaning into the corpus of
news reporting.
It is the importance of th«e
latter inventions and of the in;
novative men who utilized
them athat is highli^ted in
EXTRA! EXTRA! Among
those men are Benjamin
Franlkin, Isaiah Thomas,
Noah Webster, Horace
(Continued on page 2)
BY BETSEY COFFEY
The Curriculum Sub
committee of the Educational
Policy Committee has been
requested to make recom
mendations to EPC regarding
faculty workload, its com
ponent factors, and their
measurement and ap
plication. At the present time
faculty workload is simply
defined by the number of cour
ses taught by a professor. A
list of all the activities that are
also a vital part of a
professor’s work has not been
made. We are attempting to
list and define those activities
which might well be included
in a definition of faculty
workload. We have composed
the fdlowing list, presented
with no implications of
js-iority or weight. If you feel
that other activities should be
included in this list, or that
special problems exist in
measuring faculty workload,
please contact one of us or
dr(^ a note in box 619 by Oc
tober 25.
TEACHING-Classroom, la
boratory and field, any
regularly scheduled activitiy
mentioned in the College
catalog fOT which academic
credit accrues.
BOOK AND EQUIPMENT
RESPONSIBIIiTIESmaintenan-
ce or care of special equip
ment, departmental libraries,
etc.
RESEARCH AND
PUBLICATIONS-those activi
ties leading toward
professional advancement,
publication in scholarly jour
nals, books, or presentation of
papers at scholarly meetings.
COURSE DESIGN-intensiv-
e efforts at the development of
new courses or major blocks
in courses.
ADVISING-advising studen
ts on academic matters.
COUNSELING-advising st
udents on non-academic mat
ters.
COMMITTEE WORK-com-
ments should be unnecessary.
COACHING-outside the
scope of teaching, for exam
ple, coaching a sport.
CLUB ADVISING-working
with a chartered club.
REOTALS, EXHIBITION-
S, AND SHOWS-the
preparatirai and presentation
of fruits (rf artistic activity to
the community.
RECRUITING - activities
undertaken at the bequest of
Admissions.
(Continued on page 4)
- Pembroke, away.
IStoDAY-The concert for W Grinns. a fmd
=• -
T«. emceid by Dick Pmst. Jones Station’s the
Say OCTOBEE 24: Poetry readlhg by Martin Robblm, 8
cub movie. ‘'The H.ee Sistej.”
mS.SeR 25: Martin Bobbins ■ “American H.tory
in Music”. VardeU Buildmg, 7:30 p.m.
WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 27: CCC Worship Service, Chapel
Island, 6:15 p.m. (in case of rain, meet in Kings Mountain
Lounge)
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 28: Soccer - Atiantic Christian, away
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 28: Volleyball - UNC-
Wilmington/Giiilford, at home, 7:00 p.m.
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 28: “Extra! Extra! The Men and
Machines of American Journalism” opens at 1 p.m. in the Main
Lounge of the CoUege Union. Presented by THE LANCE and
the National Museum of History and Technology of the
Smithsonian Institution. Hours: 11 a.m. to 10 pjn. daily. Others
by appointment.
CONTINUING: “Say What You See”, a photographic exhibit
by David Bunn ’72. Open daily in the VardeU Gallery.