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‘ Meredith Herald Vol. 2 No. 18 Meredith College, Raleigh, NC 27611 April 3,1987 actors perform ‘Globeworks’ at Meredith by Jo Hodges On March 23» Kim Shipply and John Love, Jr., two actors from die N.C. Sha kespeare Festival visited' the Meredith campus. The actors performed **Globe- woiis,” an entertaining and clever combi nation of seven or eight of Shakespeare’s plays during convocation in Jones Audito rium, held an acting workshop with Mere dith performance and theatre classes, and vi»t^ Dr. Gary Walton's Shakespeare cla^. The two act(M^ are professionals, spend ing their days learning scripts, blocking scenes, visiting school classrooms, and hosting workshops. BDth Shippley and Love have extensive acting backgrounds. Shippley hails from Adanta. He attended the N.C. School of the'Arts in Winston- Salem and has done soap operas, off- Broadway productions and wo^ with the Festival. He has had major roles in such Shakespearean plays as Hamlet, Romeo and Juliet; King Jok/ii dnAAa You-Ukeitr Of all the acting he does, Shippley favors working with new playwrights and new abstract plays. “When you do Sha kespeare, the literature is so strong that it stands on its own which is why it is so Beta Beta Beta holds inductions by Lisa Talbott Beta Beta Beta held its spring induction ceremony on March 25,1987. Beta Beta Beta is a nationally affiliated biological honor society promoting achievement in (ht biological fields. Junior and senior biology majors with a 3.2 GPA and a 3.S overall in biok>gy courses are eligible. This year’s inductees are: Jenny Beavers, Jody Hamilton, Jen nifer Cotder, and Bitnda Harrison. widely read. 1 like to work with new wri- teis l^ause often they write roles and plays that require a great deal of real core acting. They tiy out old techniques in new and different ways. I diink these are some of my favorite ty^s of roles because of the challenge it gives me,” said Shippley. Love grew up in the Mecklenberg County of North Carolina and graduated fiom UNC-Greensboro with a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree magna-cum-laude. Love has a wide range of performance abilities. “I dance, I sing, 1 act, I teach. I’m pretty versatile." Love began working with the Festival last summer. He has appeal in Shakespeare’s Tempest, and most recently Loves Labor's Lost, at NCSU’s Center Stage. Unlike Shippley, who decided to be. an actor in his second year of college. Love knew he wanted to be a serious actor in his years of high school. When not working with the festival, Love works with ‘Terra- diddle” a children’s theatre. He is an artist in residence with the Charlotte/Mecklen- berg public- school system^r-lreaHy love children. Teaching them, to me, is a joy. Seeing a child's face suddenly light up with understanding, like they know what I’m talking about, to me is just great” In his spare time, Love works on his own play- Laura Taylor portrays a 1957 ddl in the juntors sktt^ “And The Butler Said, Walk This Way” during Stunt festivities hekl recently. (Photo ^ Sharon HW writing, but his main passion is acting. “My favorite thing is acting and working with actors, actors who love the art and know what they’re doing. Believe it or not, that Qrpe of love arid di^cation is hard to find.” Shippley agreed. “Even though 1 love new plays and all, you meet up with a lot of apathy and blase attitudes with new play wrights and new actors. It’s really a shame.” Both actors agreed diat their all-time favorite playwrights were “established” writers such as Tennessee Williams, and Sam Shepard. “Gld>eworks” is the current work of the N.C. Shakespeare Festival. It can be en joyed by mostly all ages but is usually performed for secondaiy school kudents and audiences not greatly familiar with Shakespeare’s work. The Festival visits many N.C. schools to enlighten young people on the magical and fantastic aura that is the theatre, and the strength and importance of Shakesperean theatre. Love and Shippley believe Shakesperean dra mas to be some of the-mosi challenging . roles ever invented despite the fact the plays were written over 300 years ago. “Art means nothing if it can’t be commun icated to the people,” said Love. “It is amazing that even though Shakespeare’s work is over 300 years old, it can still be communicated to modem au^ences. Some times people forget that before he was such an important literary figure diat the man was a playwright and plays are to be enjoyed, to be felt.” Shippley added, “The theatre has no responsibility to be real. It is only an image of realness. We want audiences to step inside the image we present and not isolate themselves ^m it just because it is Shakespeare. We as actors have the responsibility to bridge that gap and I think this is an important goal of the Festival players.” There were many students and faculty members in attendance at the Convoca tion performance. Shippley and Love gave invaluable “real world” advice at the workshop and explained the difficulty of performing Shakespeare to Dr. Walton’s Shakespeare class. “I think acting is pretty much like any other job or hobby,” said Love. “You must know your passions, identify your. passions, search for. youc p^sions, and pursue your passions whether they be in the theatre, or the office, or the class room, whatever. You fail when you ignore that passion. Without that element, life is virtually nothing.” Litchfield and Howard excel in national math contest by Vivian Kraines, Dept, of Math Sciences On Saturday, December 6,1987, while most Meredith students were studying for exams, seven math majors joined 2088 other undergraduates for the 47Ih William Lowell Putnam Mathematical Competi tion. They ^nt six hours working on a variety of problems that test originality as well as technical competence. The result of the contest has just been announced. The Meredith College team placed 79th out of the 358 teams, beating out Duke University for the first time. A senior, Laura Litchfield, ranked 315.5 out of the 2094 contestants, while a sopho more, Gina Howard, ranked 528.5. This puts them in very prestigious company. In all of North Carolina, only students from Duke. UNC-Chapel Hill, and N.C. State ranked so high. The five other participants: Cheryl Canoy, Roxanne George, Sammy Haines, Patricia Hall and Cheryl Veach all did well, placing among die lop four fifths of the contestants. Considering that the teams competing consisted of lop math students from outstanding colleges throughout North America, was indeed an excel lent showing for Meredith students. Psychology conference to be sponsored by iVleredith and N.C. State The Carolinas Psychotogy Conference is a southeastern regional meeting of under* graduate students in psychology and re lated fields. It is co*sponsored by Meredith College and North Carolina State Univer sity. ConfereiKe activities include sessions for the presentation of individual papers, an Invit^ Address by a disringuishedpsy- chologist, Panel Discussions, a Psychology Film Festival, and Friday Night Social. Registmion: Friday, April 3,1987i 7 p.m. to 11:30 p.m., at Link U>unge, NCSU, Raleigh; Saturday, April 4,1987,8 ajn. to 12 noon at Poe HaU, NCSU, Raleigh Program: Friday Night Social (7 p.m. to 11:30 p.m.): a chance to meet the featured speaker, students, and faculty members ifom other schools. Undergraduate Paper Presentations(Sat- urday 7:30 a.m. to 5 p.m.): 10 minute reports of original research and library research as scheduled. Invited Address (Saturday 10:30 a.m., 216 Poe Hall, NCSU): Dr. Susan Schif- fman of Duke University is diis year’s key note speaker. Dr. Schiffman’s topic will be on taste and smelt p^eption. Banning with ter Ph.D. dissertation, Schifhnan began ana lyzing the senses of taste and olfaction looking for the continuous and underlying dimensions other than the primaries. has taken her basic science research and has applied it practically to include taste and smell abnormalities in old age and obesity, methods to combat obesity, and in the search for new non-fattening sweeten- ei?. Dr. Schiffman has done extensive research in association with industry, in cluding cereal and perfume manufacturers. Panel Discussions (Satunlay 1-2 p.m. and 4-5 pjn.): “Getting In and Staying In Graduate School” and *Taste and Olfac- For additional information, contact Dr. Don Mershon, Department of Psychology, NCSU, Raleigh, 737-2251 or Dr. Jack Huber, Department of Psychology, Mere- didi College, Raleigh, 829-8402. inside Student spotlight page 3 Vann's dorm mom .... . page 3 Crook hunt begins .... . page 4
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