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Playing with magic
'The Crucible'
explores themes of
racism Sc adultery
through witchcraft
Features
BY BEATRIZ CALDAS
Staff Writer .
Have you ever .wondered how it would feel
to live in a different century? Have you ever
dreamed about travelling to a time when witches
were believed to exist? Then you should not miss
Guilford College’s production of “The Crucible”
by Arthur Miller.
Set in Salem, Massachusetts, in 1692, this play
combines a mixture of diverse themes such as
racism, prejudice and adultery that converge into a
single matter: witchcraft.
The town’s reverend finds a group of girls
dancing in the woods in the middle of the night
around a fire while reciting .incomprehensible
words. The whole town starts to wonder whether
Salem is a safe place and who should be the one
to blame.
However, there is more to the story than just a
cliched witch-hunt.
“Originally, Arthur Miller wrote the play as a
kind of metaphor about the McCarthy hearings in
the 1950’s,” said director Jack Zerbe, professor of
theatre studies and director of study abroad. "It’s
amazing how relevant this idea of the witch-hunt
still is.”
Although set mostly in a courtroom, the play,
and this production in particular, is far from being
dull.
“When you see it on stage there’s all the twists
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Junior Nina Troy and senior Eli Moran play
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Mural confronts athlete
privilege & sexual assault
Sports
BY BANNING WATSON
Staff Writer
“Athletes get special treatment, which I feel guilty for
saying because I’m an athlete as well,” said junior women’s
lacrosse player Anna Howard.
“I feel guilty for being an athlete and knowing I have
this special privilege.”
Howard created a mural on the graffiti wall by the lake
that criticizes Guilford College’s response to sexual assault
and what she sees as inaction against assailants who also
happen to be athletes.
The mural depicts the Guilford Quaker mascot on the
phone in separate comic panels saying, “He did what?”
“Is she pressing charges?”
“We can’t expel him — he’s an athlete.”
Howard’s inspiration to make the piece came after a
close friend told her that an athlete sexually assaulted her.
“My friend got in more trouble for being drunk than the
male student did for the assault,” said Howard.
“We talk a lot about our consent policy, but never seem
to do much about it when it’s violated.”
Howard was also inspired by what she considers the
hypocrisy of the situation.
“It’s not just the athletes that are committing sexual
assault, but they do get away with it more,” said Howard.
The piece has not created the reaction that Howard
hoped for.
“Sexual assault is not just a Guilford problem, it’s a
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