gontpmber 9, 1983
The Lance
Summer Sex
Comedies
Gary Jurysta
Gary Jurysta has joined the St. Andrews Art Faculty. His exhibition
Vardell on September 13. (Photo-Christopher Wright)
will open in
Jurysta Sets Goals
By Mark English
As the fall term begins, the
Humanities and Fine arts
Division welcomes the arrival
of a new face - Art Professor
Gary Jurysta. Jurysta comes
to St. Andrews from Keuka
college, Keuka Park, N.Y.,
where he was the head of the
Art Department. He has
previously taught at Seton
Hill College (1965-72) and
the Pennsylvania Governor’s
School. Jurysta holds a B.A.
in Art Education from Edin-
borough State in Penn
sylvania, a M.A. in Art
Education from the Universi
ty of Pittsburgh, and a
M.F.A. from Brooklyn Col
lege. In addition to his 15
plus years of teaching ex
perience, Jurysta has also
worked as a Gallery Director
at Seton Hill and Keuka Col
leges. Jurysta’s past cur-
riculums have included
classes in drawing, design,
painting, figure drawing,
team-taught interdisciplinary
courses, and has recently
taught a class in gallery
management. He has also
conducted many Fine Arts
Seminars in New York City,
and has been a frequent guest
lecturer on topics such as
Lee Accepts
Georgetown Position
By Beth Davison
Students will soon be miss
ing a familiar face on campus
this year that could always be
found in the bookstore, San
dra Lee, who has been
bookstore manager at St.
Andrews since 1981, will be
leaving September 9 for
Georgetown University in .
Washington, D.C. Sandra
has accepted the position of
Book Department Manager
at Georgetown University
Bookstore.
She is excited about the
prospect of associating with
a well known university and
returning to an urban area to
live. “I have thoroughly en
joyed my contact with the
students and faculty at Saint
Andrews and have always
gotten a great joy from
working in a bookstore,”
said Mrs. Lee
Sandra Lee
At press time, St. Andrews
business manager, Jerry Sur
face, had hired Betty
Johnson to replace Mrs. Lee.
Mrs. Johnson previously
operated a bookstore in
town.
‘‘Constructivist
Tendencies,” “Contem
porary Women Artists,”
“Jackson Pollock,” and
“Contoured Canvas Con
structions.”
Jurysta’s exhibition record
is equally extensive and im
pressive. He is currently
represented by the Ward-
Nasse Gallery (N.Y.), the
New Aquiostions Gallery
(Syracuse, N.Y.), among
others. Jurysta’s works may
be seen in the collections of
Carnegie Institute, Indiana
University, the
Westmoreland County
Museum of Art (Pa) and the
Westinghouse Corporation.
According to Jurysta,
“Ideas highly impressed by
the student attitude, and
questions, concerning my
teaching goals and opinions
as an artist, therefore I have
extremely high expectations
for further development of
the arts here at St.
Andrews.”
Possible future plans in
clude the addition of courses
in Design and Gallery
Management, and the
establishment of a student-
built foundry over Winter
Term. The foundry will per
mit St. Andrews art students
to gain extensve technical
knowledge in the areas of
bronze and aluminum
casting.
June Jurysta, Gary’s wife,
is a talented artist in her own
right. Mrs. Jurysta also holds
a M.F.A. from Brooklyn
College, and has worked for
Crown Publishers of New
York as a graphic artist.
Jurysta is leading off the
1983-84 season in Vardell
Gallery with an exhibition
opening September 13 at 8:00
p.m.
By Drew Hayes
I don’t know about yoti,
but I personally became a bit
bored with this summer s
bumper crop of teenage sex
comedies “Private Lessons ,
“Class”, “Private School”,
“Risky Business”,
“Screwballs”, and “Getting
It On”. I reached a point
where I began to avoid the
commercials between T.V.
shows in fe^r of adver
tisements for yet another
movie about sexually active
teenagers. I mean these films
don’t even try to reflect
romantic reality rather they
go beyond even the most ex
treme “middle of the boring
classroom” fantasy. OK: I
admit that there may have
been one good sex comedy
this summer. That “award”
goes to the Paul Brickman
written and directed film
“Risky Business.”
Surprisingly, “Risky
Business” is a very entertain
ing sex comedy about a rich
Chicago suburban
teenager’s, Joel Goodson
(Tom Cruise), “awakening
to the wonder of sex and free
enterprise.” While his
parents are vacationing at
Aunt Tooties, Joel at the
prompting of
“knowledgable” friends
seeks out the company of
Lana (Rebecca De Mornay),
an 80’s styled hooker with an
eye for profit. Well, you
guessed it, the two spend the
rest of the movies introduc-
ting Joel’s college bound
friends to Lana’s friends in a
capatalistic entrepreneur’s
dream. Brickman com
pliments this basic plot with
a number of delicious and
amusing angles. Will Joel
and Lana make it together?
(Yes, No, Maybe). Will the
egg ever get cracked? (What
Symbolism) Will Joel get ac
cepted to Princeton or does it
really matter?
As I said, this is the cream
of the summer’s crop and it
is worth viewing once. De
Mornay gives a respectful
performance in which she
reinterprets the historical
film role of prostitutes in a
new and exciting fashion.
The Tangerine Dream
musical score and the
numerous popular additions
(Prince, Seger, Busboys,
etc.) add up to produce a
rhythmic pulse which the
viewer will enjoy throughout
the movie. However, the real
star is Tom Cruise whose
previous major credit was the
military crazed cadet in
“Taps”. His dynamic role
play comes through at
various points in the film in
cluding the impersonation of
a rock star to the accompani
ment of Seger. All in all, this
movie is one which you
should go to after you have
had a miserable day and your
at the point of saying “Well,
what the heck!”
Now, afer the real review
is over, let’s proceed to the
lesser entries on the ballot.
“Private School” is in the
words of one critic “a
lengthy animated
centerfold,” but I wouldn’t
even give it much credit.
However, if you’re horny it
will maintain your viewing
eye for a little while. Script
writer husband and wife
team, Dan Greeby and
Suzanne O’Malley bring little
freshness to this nose divid
comedy. The basic plot
revolves around three male
students at Freemount
Academy (get it?) who try to
be sexual avant grade per
formers before the female
students at Cherryvale
Academy (get it?). There are
only two bright perfor
mances in this substitute
movie. Phoebe Cates
(“Paradise”, “Fast Times at
Ridgemont High”) turns in a
“cute” performance, but she
deserves a better script and
movie. Also, Sylvia Kristel
(“Private Lessons”) puts in a
brief appearance as the sex
education teacher, Regina
Copuletta (get it?). If by now
your tired of this weak movie
and symbolism, then there is
hope for you yet!
The final movie is this
summer’s late entry “Getting
It On” or as one friend calls
it “Taking It Off”, but there
is very little of the above that
takes place. Hickory, N.C.
film maker William Olson
“explored once again the ex
agerated sexual live of
teenagers (excuse me, pre
teenagers), there expensive
toys and their resident
“good-hearted hooker.” 1
almost fell asleep in this one,
but I should explain after
two hours of a “Happy
Hour” I arrived twenty
minutes late. I guess it was
fortunate for me because if 1
. had arrived on time I would
have left twenty minutes
before the end. Not even
Happy Hour can help this
movie, biit I went to bed that
night assured that I was liv
ing in, America where
anybody can produce a
cheap undertaining movie
about lustful pre-teenagers
and make “moany”. But,
feel justice will be served on
this fiasco by the number o
empty seats in the
when word gets around o
this one.
Now, if you are going «
see any or all of ,
movies, I thought 1 wo
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