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November 9,1994 Campus News Career planning seminars help students reduce stress by Ashley Peay For freshmen and sophomores the task of choosing a major is never as easy as it appears, and juniors and seniors strug^e daily with what they will do with the major that they have already chosen. Each year, Career Services offers a one hour class, the Career Planning Seminar, to help reduce stress for stu dents, and for the past five years. Ca reer Services has closed out every sec tion and then turned people away. This semester. Career Services is making some changes in order to pre vent this from happening again and to also give more students the chance to become a part of this worhwhile pro gram. Section 101 is offered for freshmen and sophomores and this year, four sections will be offered as opposed to Career Planning Seminar Schedule Freshman/ Junior/ Sophomore; Senior: 101 A TTh 3 - 3:50 301 A MW 3 - 3:50 Jan. 12 - Feb. 28 Jan. 11 - Mar. 1 101 B TTh 4 - 4:50 301 B MW 3 - 3:50 Jan. 12 - Feb. 28 Mar. 6 - Apr. 24 101 C TTh 3 - 3:50 Mar. 2 - Apr. 25 Meet twice a week for six weeks with pass/fail 101 D TTh 4 - 4:50 Mar. 2 - Apr. 25 grading. only two which have been offered in the past. Section 101 is geared toward under classmen and helps with the actual process of choosing the perfect major. Self-assessment tests are taken in order to help students determine what their interests are. Section 301 is offered to juniors and seniors, and two sections will be of fered this year. 301 is more a process of answering the question “How do 1 go about getting a job, now that I have a major? ” Students research careers, learn how to write resumes, and practice interviewing skills. Both sections will meet twice a week for six weeks and will be pass/ fail grading, whereas in the past Aey have met once a week for 12 weeks. Much Ado about Nothing recieves mixed reviews Set: I gazed upon a boardwalk leading across smooth sand to a Victorian ga zebo. Grass reeds lined the shore of a pastel blue ocean that provided the perfect setting for a romantic experi ence. I was not vacationing at the beach; rather, I was settling in my seat anticipating the North Carolina Shakespeare Festival’s production of William Shakespeare’s play Much Ado About Nothing at NCSU’s Stewart The ater on October 27. - Erica Balmer Hated It: Once again, the NCSF proved to be a disappointment Thursday night with their production of Shakespeare’s Much Ado. The three-hour perfor mance was in the same spirit as past NCSF productions — painfully long, pooriy adapted, and horribly cast. Al though there were a few strong mo ments to the production, my overall impression was that my high school drama department could have per formed this Shakespearean classic bet ter. - Spencer Clement Loved It: Creativity, imagination, and skill make this a delightful production of Shakespeare’s timeless comedy about sexual differences. RackofiFs choice of time period brings the play into the audience’s historical frame of refer ence (a history fraught with debate over traditional gender roles) and clari fies Shakespeare’s position that a mar riage based on equality and intimacy is far more interesting than one based on subjection and social protocol. - Kathy Jones Casting patterns: In addition to the gender conflict between Beatrice and Benedia, Di rector Louis Rackoff suggest New- Worid political and ethnic differences between these two as well by having the tall, comely, ivory-skinned Eliza beth Slaby costumed as a Gibson Girl with flaming red hair to match her proud Irish demeanor. In contrast, the Roughrider-uniformed, swarthy AUan Hickle-Edwards seems handsomely Slavic behind a full, dark mustache. Swaggering in affected manly self-pos session and waving a cigar, he appears a reincarnated Ernie Kovacs playing to a youthful Maureen O’Hara. Nearby swirls yet another New- Worid conflict — the clash between North and South, and the deeper en mity between blacks and whites. Rackoff suggests that Hero’s father Leonato and his close friend Colonel Pedro are wealthy Southern planta tion owners. The stout Leonato’s cos tume makes him a dead ringer for Colonel Sanders of “Kentucky Fried Chicken” fame, while Colonel Pedro, an absolute hunk played by Mark Kincaid, could be Rhett Butler’s bearded and mustached twin. Al though Judge Antonio Francis is a stately, grey-haired black in an impec cable silk suit and vest, he looks suspi ciously like Uncle Tom. Since Rackoffhas already hinted at a Southern vantage point, it comes as no surprise that the villains in his play are Yankee city dwellers who dash sharply with theirSouthem, rural coim- terparts. What is more, actor Ludus Houghton plays Colonel Pedro’s bas tard brother as a malidous, effeminate Don John and introduces the issue of sexual orientation to the play. A bald ing little rodent in an over-big suit, Don John is supported in his villainy by two ethnically diverse henchmen: Borachio, a wine-guzzling Mafioso in a fedora, and Conrade, an impeccable English scoundrel—Snidely Whiplash with bowler, spats and cane. - Kathleen lafrate Don John: The audience giggles at the spoiled- boy image of this inept villain, who hops down the beach board walk witlh burning feet, swats uselessly at mosquitos, and struggles to keep his hairpiece in place. The ultimate result of the characterization is that the audi ence realizes once more that this play constitutes an ideal world, a realm in which villains do not pose serious threats to the happiness of the charac ters. - Angela Parks Gibson Hero: Larson has almost more hair than head, which makes her seem even smaller and more mouse-like because her tiny features are hidden. She is Much Ado continued page eleven
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