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PHOTO BY DAVID WACHTER
INTRUDER IN WOMEN’S DORMS? Not this time.
Kelli Denton’s dad takes some time out looking around campus.
Othello Is
Spring Production
Creation Or
Evolution:
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By KEN EDWARDS
University of Tennessee Professor of
Chemistry Dr. George K. Schweitzer re
turned to Mars Hill for his eleventh visit
March 8 to speak on the subject
on
“Creation or Evolution: Who Cares?”
during the biweekly community meeting
in Moore Auditorium.
Dr. Robert Melvin, professor of reli
gion here at Mars Hill, introduced the
distinguished professor, saying he has
acquired three doctoral degrees, has
written over 130 publications, and has
spoken at over 400 college and university
campuses in the United States. He is a
member of Phi Beta Kappa and several
other scholastic honor societies.
Dr. Schweitzer opened his lecture with
a brief background of the evolution the
ory, citing 1859 as the time when the cre
ation-evolution controversy began -
when Charles Darwin published his
Origin of Species. The professor agreed
that when many people look at the evo
lutionary scheme, they think the concept
denies Bible teachings and leaves God
out of the process.
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comes when we try to mix science
ligion.” He went on to say that
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Gerontology Minor
Offered Next Semester
Othello, praised as Shakespeare’s finest tragedy, will be the college’s major pro
duction for the spring semester. The play will be performed March 17-22, in Owen
Theatre.
The tragedy of the Moor of Venice has also been called Shakespeare’s most
unified play, uncluttered with sub-plots, with only the slightest flashes of humor,
and without any suggestion of superhuman forces which control human actions and
destinies in several of Shakespeare’s other plays.
Mars Hill’s production, directed by James W. Thomas, chairman of the depart
ment and associate professor of theatre arts, will be staged in a modern style. Re
flecting the military status of the main characters, Othello, lago, Cassio and
Roderigo will be dressed in contemporary military garb, while the civilians in the
play will be costumed in modern day style befitting their respective positions. Props
and stage effects will also be kept to essentials.
“Many of Shakespeare’s plays have featured the lavish costumes and settings of
the Elizabethan period,” states Thomas. “Since this is not a comedy or history, we
decided to try to make Shakespeare’s idea more accessible to the audience. Today’s
audiences are better informed about psychological conventions so that this concen
tration on the play’s action should take on added dimensions.”
The play will not lose any of its Shakesperian beauty. The language is still the
bard’s own and the passionate Othello is still betrayed by the evil lago.
Othello will be played by Lester Purry, a junior from Pickens, S.C., and Janine
Tengwall, a freshman from Anoka, Minnesota, will be his Desdemona. Senior
Winston Shearin, a native of Silver Springs, Maryland, will play the jealous lago,
while Cassio will be portrayed by Jim Hall, a freshman from Harrisburg. Emilia,
Cassio’s wife, will be played by Jean Wentz, a freshman from Arden, and Roderigo
will be portrayed by Mike Karsis, a junior from Houston, Texas.
The play will be performed each evening from Thursday, March 17, through
Tuesday, March 22, at 8 p.m. in Owen, with the exception of Sunday, March 20,
which will feature a 2:30 p.m. matinee. The box office will be open from 1 to 5 p.m.
daily beginning March 14, and there is no charge for college students, faculty & staff
with I.D. The Owen Box Office is located on the ground floor of the theatre or reser
vations may be made by calling 239.
Twenty-five million persons, over 11
percent of the nation’s total population,
are now 65 years old or older. During
the next few decades, according to the
U.S. Bureau of the Census, the post-
World War II “baby boom” will join
this age group, pushing the senior citizen
population to 55 million persons or
nearly 25 percent of the nation’s popula
tion.
In anticipation of the increased de
mand for geriatric social workers, esti
mated to be 700,000 by 1990, Mars Hill
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of aging. It considers the needs Grav
ing population and the develop
revelant service programs.
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Further information oonce^
program is available from
Nooe, 211 Founders Hall or
704/689-1228.
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