TO NAME A TEAM l WHO'S PLAYING WHAT? J ARE THE COUGARS See full team rosters on pages 4 and 5 for REALLY SQUIRTS? the latest on WSU, ASU ~ .... players . ver reen. Saturday, October 22, 1988 - Vol. 95, No. 50 ( Cougar trades in his cleats for the stage by Pat Hoglund Sports Writer Time constraints usually lay a heavy burden on most varsity athletes. Taking time out to spend upwards of 25 hours a week to rehearse a play is something most athletes don't get a chance to do even if they wanted to. However, for Mel Orchard, a tight end in Dennis Erickson's highly potent offense, the opportunity arose after he injured his right leg. A stress fracture sidelined him for his senior season. Orchard, who is enrolled in an acting class here at WSU, auditioned for a part in the play, "Dark of the Moon," which opens Nov. 4. He won the part of Marvin Hudgens, the strongest man in the county. "I've always been interested in acting," Orchard said. "The players on the team can vouch for me. They say the locker room hasn't been the same without my bad jokes and me singing at the top of my lungs. " His injury has allowed him to pursue his acting interests, but quitting football was a difficult transition, he said. "At first it was really hard because football was a big part of my life," he said. "You just can't spend four years of your life playing football and quit cold turkey. It's tough, especially when your career ends like mine. " . Orchard said the hardest thing about not playing this year is watching the guys he was recruited with do well, and knowing be should be out there. "When the Cougars did bad our fresh- man year, we would always say, 'Keep Mel Orchard, injured Cougar tight end, will playa new role in "Dark of the Moon" as the strongest man in the our head up because-our senior year we're county. The play will open Nov. 4. going to a bowl game', and I see those "Coach Erickson has been really guys fulfilling that dream this year. I hon- plagued, so to speak, with injuries. under a new coach and a new system, he estly see them going to a bowl game. I great," Orchard said. "He's always been During his sophomore season, he sat suffered a hamstring injury which side- really believe this a great team, and Coach there for me to talk to. He knows what out the first four games with an elbow lined him for the first five games. He Erickson is a great coach," Orchard said. I'm going through. He went from being a injury. He came back to start three of the returned to a back-up role, ending the sea- Orchard said Erickson's understanding coach to being a supportive friend. " remaining five games, and hauled in five son with three catches for 33 yards, all in has helped in making the transition a Orchard's stress fracture this season was passes for 57 yards. smooth one. not his first mishap. His career has been In his junior season, hoping to blossom See Stage on page 8 Ticket prices Students want to make a new deal Officials: Game won't by Steve Massey Student guest passes for Saturday's Dad's Week- Editor end football game cost $16 - an increase of $6 impact Burns show over the $10 charged for other home games. Saturday's football game won't start until 3:30 p.m., but offi- Some students want to renegotiate a five-year-old Price increases began five years ago and were arrangement that allows WSU's athletic department cials say the delay should have little impact on the 8 p.m. approved by students, according to athletic depart- George Burns show. to increase football ticket prices on Dad's Week- ment officials. They said students approved tbe end. "If the game's over by 8, fine. If it's not, maybe we'll delay prices in exchange for determining the date of And, says ASWSU president Bill Stauffacher, (the performance) by a half-hour at the most," said John Pow- Dad's Weekend. A committee comprised of stu- ell, the show's promoter. Cougar Athletics' justification for increasing student dents, alumni and administrators established Dad's guest pass prices is not good enough. Weekend dates through 1990. "We would just wait, unless it got ridiculous - George isn't .. Some students are just sick and tired of getting Stauffacher said he wants to meet next week with going to go home," Powell said. taken for another buck or two," Stauffacher said. Jim Livengood, WSU's athletic director, to discuss The show is scheduled to begin at 8 p.m. At that time the the ticket prices and ' 'ask athletics to charge the orchestra will start playing and pianist Walt Wagner will per- same prices" for all home games. form for about a half an hour. There will be an intermission Students claim the price' hikes hurt the universi- after Wagner's performance, then Burns will perform, Powell "Some students are just ty's image and offend' Visiting parents. However, said. Livengood said ticket prices are fair and WSU is Burns won't be attending the game, Powell said. sick and tired of getting offering a top quality product for the price, . As of Thursday evening, 6,700 George Burns tickets had "Image? It's hard to say what effect this has. been sold, said Leo Uby, Beasley Performing Arts Coliseum taken for another buck or The football games are an outstanding product," house manager. Livengood said. "Maybe we make too much of dif- two." ferent prices. There are still 4,300 seats available. "We're happy with it," Udy said. - Bill Stauffacher "I've heard all the different scuttle about raising prices when the dads are here. When all the entities Udy said he- didn't think the game would affect the Burns got together (five years ago) ... the trade-off was show. "We have the warmup with Walt Wagner," he said. The people coming from the game can eat at the coliseum if "People kind of expect that from local businesses. very good. Maybe it isn't good now. I just don't know." they like, Udy said. The concession stands, including Domino's But they don't expect it from the university ... it's Pizza, will be open. really nailing the students for extra bucks." See Tickets on page 8 Page 2 Evergreen Saturday. October 22. 1988 Alumni can buy diploma replicas by Patty Crean Evergreen Staff WSU students and alumni can show pride in their alma mater by purchasing engraved diploma replicas that are etched in nickel silver and framed in a solid walnut wood plaque. "It's more permanent than paper. It looks nice hanging in an (18 and Older Non-Alcohol Nite Club) office." Sally Koppel, assistant alumni relations director, said. Cost of the gift for alumni graduated before 1988 is $54.95. For alumni graduated before 1988 with a professional degree, such as veterinary medicine, pharmacy or architecture, the cost is $149.95. Replicas of professional degrees cost more because they are-twice as large. The cost for current 1988 graduates is $39.95. The expense $6 for 1988 graduates with a professional degree is $99.95. PARENT + SON or DAUGHTER - For 1988 graduates, signatures of the university president and Board of Regents members are the same and can be "batch- processed." Then all that is needed is to "plug in the name of the person and their degree," Koppel said. 9:00 pm - 4:00 am The cost is lower than alumni would pay because different signatures and ink will be needed for previous graduates. Thursday - Saturday Business for the new idea has been slow because "it is a little expensive," Koppel said. Less than 100 replicas have been sold since June 1988. she said. E. 219 MAIN 334-2828 "Once the word spreads, it wili get more active." Poet returns to give .lecture, share work by Rod Bain Yale Award," Sumida said. Evergreen Staff "She feels warmly about coming here, because we gave her her Poet Cathy Song will VISIt chance. " WSU for the third time since Song, a Hawaiian native, 1984, taking part in WSU's gained prominence in the Asian "Who Speaks For America?" American community in the series. 1970s. During that time she "This is a very timely visit. wrote "Lost Sister" about the Cathy Song's voice is a voice imaginative journey of a Chinese that is about to be heard nation- woman immigrating to America. ally." said comparative Ameri- "The poem's popularity comes can cultures professor Steven from a growing interest in ethnic Sumida. poems at that time," he said. She is the youngest poet National recognition came to included in the second edition of Song in 1982, when Yale Uni- "The Norton Anthology of Mod- versity published "Picture ern Poetry." Bride," her first book of poems. Marty Mullen, advisor for the She was selected for the Yale student's Visual, Performing, and Series of Younger Poets award in Literary Arts Committee, said 1983. Song will give a reading of her Song's second book, "Frame- works Tuesday and present a lec- less Window . Squares of ture Thursday. Light" was published this sum- Both presentations begin at mer by Norton Books. 7:30 p.m. in Avery Hall's Bundy "Distinguished writers are Reading Room, and are free to selected for the series based on WSU students.