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F R O S T B U R G S T A T E U N I V E R S I T Y StateLineswww.frostburg.edu/admin/foundation/news.htm For and about FSU people A publication of the FSU Office of Advancement Volume 31, Number 5, September 25, 2000 Copy deadline: noon Wednesday, 228 Hitchins or [email protected] Don McLean to Present Homecoming Concert This fall’s All-American Home- “And I Love You So,” “Vincent coming at FSU features a capstone (Starry Night),” “Castles in the Air” concert with American popular and “Crying.” music icon, Don McLean, now on his This event is presented as part of “30th Anniversary Tour” commemo- the 2000-2001 Cultural Events Series rating his 1971 smash hit, “Ameri- in partnership with the FSU Alumni can Pie.” The concert is set for Association. Saturday, Oct.7, at 9 p.m. in the For information and ticket Cordts Center Main Arena. reservations, contact the CES Box Citing influences like the Weavers, Office in the Lane Center, Monday Roy Orbison, Buddy Holley and Jim through Friday between 10 a.m. and Croce, McLean has written more than 2 p.m., at x4411. Extended box 200 songs that have, in turn, office hours will be offered Home- inspired others. Madonna’s version of coming weekend. On Friday, Oct. 6, “American Pie, ” which McLean tickets can be purchased from 10 praises as “contemporary and sexy,” a.m. to 6 p.m. at the Lane Center has filled the radio airwaves around Box Office. This is the last chance to the globe since its release. Roberta buy tickets at the advance ticket Flack’s Grammy-winning hit “Killing price. On Saturday, Oct. 7, from 1 Me Softly with His Song” was p.m. to show time, tickets can be penned by a songwriter impressed by purchased in the Leake Room of the one of McLean’s performances, and Cordts P.E. Center. Garth Brooks calls McLean his “idol.” Two seating options are available: Besides “American Pie,” his tour reserved floor seats and general features well-known hits including admission bleacher seats. Don McLean “Funny Thing Happened freedom if the slave can arrange the A new Maryland law states that boy’s marriage to the lovely virgin students living on campus must either on the Way” to the PAC before his father returns. Of course, have the meningitis vaccine or have The hit musical comedy “A Funny Pseudolus agrees and havoc ensues. signed a waiver saying they decided Thing Happened on the Way to the Information about and reservations against it. That law doesn’t cover Forum” opens the University Theatre’s for this and future productions can be students living in off-campus housing 2000-2001 season at FSU on Friday, Oct. obtained by calling x4145 between 1 who are still at risk. 6, at 8 p.m. Additional evening perfor- and 5 p.m., Monday through Friday. More than half of the outbreaks from mances are Oct. 7, 12, 13 and 14 at 8 Season Discount Cards are available for 1992 to 1996 occurred in schools, colleges, p.m. A Saturday matinee is set for Oct. $21, a value of four shows for the price universities and similar settings. Studies 7, at 2 p.m. All performances will take of three. Tickets are $7 for non-students have suggested that college students are place in FSU’s Performing Arts Center and $3 for students. more susceptible because they live and Drama Theatre. work close to one another in dormitories With credits by the master of the Meningitis, Flu Shots and classrooms. Behavior and social aspects modern musical Stephen Sondheim, of college life also appear to be risk factors, along with television/radio greats Larry to Be Offered Oct. 5 with smoking, exposure to second-hand Gelbart and Barry Shevelove, this FSU and VACCESSHealth will again smoke, excessive alcohol consumption and throwback to vaudeville is, according to offer the meningitis vaccine to members bar patronage all increasing the chance The New York Times, a “glorious old- of the FSU campus community. Flu that you will contract meningitis from an fashioned farce.” shots will also be offered. infected individual. Set in Rome, circa 200 B.C., we meet The cost will be $75 for the Symptoms often mimic flu, including Pseudolus, the laziest slave in Rome, meningitis vaccine and $15 fever, severe headache, stiff neck, rash, who will do anything to earn his for the flu shot. The shots nausea, vomiting and lethargy. The freedom. The fun begins when he is left will be offered in the infection can lead to permanent disabili- in charge of his owner’s young son, who Lane Center Multi-Use ties or even death. The infection is has fallen madly in love with a beaute- room from 1 to 7 spread by direct contact, for example ous young virgin in the house of Lysuc. p.m. on Thursday, from sharing a glass or cigarette or by The youth promises Pseudolus his Oct. 5. kissing, or through the air when an infected person coughs or sneezes. Inside: Speakers ............................... 2 Points of Pride ...................... 3 Jobs, Jobs, Jobs .................... 4 Entertainment ...................... 2 Volunteers ............................ 3 International ...................... 4-5 Take Note ......................... 2-3 Get Involved ..................... 3-4 Calendar .............................. 5 StateLines / 2 can Quilts” on Tuesday, Sept. 26, at 7 by Lane Center and Campus Activities. p.m. in the Atkinson Room of the For information, contact the Lane Center Speakers campus Lane Center. Information Desk, x4411. Ms. Allen’s lecture is the sixth event Noted Poet to Appear of FSU’s African American Studies Forum “No Way Out” Part of 2000, which celebrates the cultural Acclaimed poet James Harms will contribution of African Americans in the African Am. Film Series present a poetry reading at FSU on second millennium. This celebration “No Way Out,” the first film of FSU’s Monday, Oct. 2, to at 7:30 p.m. in the F. started in September 1999 and will African American Film Series will be Perry Smith Studio Theatre of the conclude this December. shown Thursday, Sept. 28, at 7 p.m. in Performing Arts Center. For more information, contact Dr. This event is sponsored by the FSU room 201 of the Lane Center. The Jean-Marie Makang, coordinator of the showing is free and open to the public. Western Maryland Writer’s Workshop and African American Studies Forum, x3089. Starring Sidney Poitier and Richard the Department of English. Widmark, “No Way Out,” centers on race Now director of the creative writing and social justice issues. After a black program at West Virginia University, Entertainment Harms is a native of California. His two doctor fails to save a gangster’s brother’s collections of poems, “Modern Ocean” life, the criminal seeks revenge by inciting race riots and ordering mob (1992) and “The Joy Addict” (1998), are International Film: slayings. This movie, released in 1950, published by the Carnegie Mellon “La Cage aux Folles” was nominated for two Academy awards University Press. “The Joy Addict” won FSU’s 2000-2001 International Film and lasts one hour and 45 minutes. him a PEN/Revson Fellowship and the following praise from the judges: “James Series continues with “La Cage aux The FSU African American Film Series Harms has a real gift for engaging his Folles” on Tuesday, Oct. 3, at 7 p.m. in will feature four classic films, with one Lane Center room 201. The series is scheduled per month through December. reader with the palpability of loss and sponsored by Center Stage and the Lane what he terms ‘the stillness that follows Center & Campus Activities. loss.’” Also known as “Birds of a Feather,” Harms’ poetry is heralded for “the dailiness of revelation,” the importance this 1978 French comedy inspired the of small gestures and the need to see hit movie “The Birdcage” starring Robin Williams. The original film features the more clearly. His awards include the predicament faced by two gay men, John Ciardi Fellowship from the Bread Renato and Albin, when Renato’s Loaf Writers’ Conference, two Pushcart beloved son Laurent announces his Prizes, the Academy of American Poets Prize and Fellowships in Creative Writing impending marriage. from the West Virginia Commission on Renato and Albin, who have lived happily together for 20 years in St. Tropez the Arts and the Pennsylvania Councils and co-own the La Cage aux Folles, a on the Arts. nightclub featuring Albin’s act as the drag The reading is free and open to the Jen Chapin public. A reception and book-signing queen “Zaza,” agree to disguise their will follow. For more information, call relationship for one night, when they agree to meet Laurent’s fiancée Andrea’s the FSU Department of English at x4221. pompous and conservative parents. “Urban Folk” Artist Jen However, their good intentions are Chapin to Perform Appalachian Lab Seminar unable to prevent what turns into an FSU’s Center Stage presents Jen “Landscape Pattern In The Sierra evening of hilarious havoc. Chapin, playing her own, unique “urban Nevada: A Model-Integrated Research This and future film series showings folk” music, Friday, Sept. 29, at 8 p.m. Program,” a seminar in spatial ecology, are free and open to the public. “La Cage in the Lane Center Appalachian Station. will be the topic of the Thursday, Sept. aux Folles” is in French with English The program is free and open to the 28, edition of the Appalachian Labora- subtitles and runs for just over an hour public. tory Fall Seminar Series. The presenta- and a half. Chapin’s earthy sound has been called tion will be by Dean L.