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VOLUME 96, NUMBERCAMPUS 33 ALLEGHENY COLLEGE, MEADVILLE, PENNSYLVANIA FRIDAY, JANUARY 12, 1973 Sunday afternoon Touring company to perform As You Like It The Oxford and Cambridge Shakespeare Company, in their fifth season of American university touring, will present As You Like It by William Shakespeare, at Allegheny on Sunday, January 14. The popular romantic comedy will be staged in the Campus Center auditorium at 2:30 p.m. Writing As You Like It around 1599 to please his large and diversified audience, Shakespeare developed the fashionable myths that rural living is superior to city dwelling, and lovers always fall in love at first sight and become miraculously eloquent about it. Taking the plot from the novel Rosaly-nde by Thomas Lodge, published in 1590 Shakespeare's story is much swifter and clearer for he takes it much less seriously than Lodge did. As the play opens, Duke Frederick has usurped the dukedom of his elder brother, Duke Senior, who is living in exile in the Forest of Arden. Frederick's daughter, Celia, and his brother's daughter, Rosalind, childhood friends, are living at Frederick's court along with Sir Rowland de Boys' sons, Oliver and Orlando. Following a quarrel between Oliver and Orlando, Orlando, who has fallen in love with Rosalind, has to flee for his life. Rosalind is also banished by Duke Frederick, Celia follows her, and all join Duke Senior in the Forest Arden. It is in the Forest that the main business of Rosie Kerslake as Rosalind, Andrew Whiffin as Jaques de Bols, Peter Wight as Oliver, and Sophie Cox as Celia are members of the Oxford the play, flirtations and mocking Cambridge Shakespeare Company that will present "As You Like It" in the Campus Center Auditorium at 2:30 on January 14. laughter, takes place. The plot is was founded to combine a with Richard Cottrell's although subject to controversy The director of As You Like It, wound up when Duke Frederick Elijah Moshinsky, was educated and Oliver repent their professional production team production of A Midsummer's among the critics for its original with the acting talents of Oxford Night Dream. The tour helped interpretation, was booked for a at Melbourne University. While wickedness, Duke Senior is studying there, Mr. Moshinsky restored to his dukedom, and the and Cambridge for the purpose of the OCSC establish a con- three week run at the Fortune touring American universities. siderable reputation and at- Theatre in the West End directed and designed Australian young people are all married. premieres fo The Trial, The In 1967, the Oxford and Cam- Their first tour was launched tracted the interests of Harold following a stormy tour of the East Coast. English and Caucasian Chalk Circle, and bridge Shakespeare Company during Christmas vacation in 1968 Shaw, one of America's leading agents. American audiences greeted the Mother Courage. As director of In their second season the fourth production, Julius Caesar, the Melbourne Youth Theater, Company presented Twelfth as a provocative and stimulating Mr. Moshinsky directed Three Night under the direction of approach to Shakespeare, and in Sisters and Hamlet. A senior College debaters Jonathan Miller who was both March, 1972, the Company teaching fellow at Monash criticized and praised for his returned to the West End to play University, he has also lectured highly original approach. While for two weeks at the New Theatre on Brecht and Political Theatre. Twelfth Night was playing to in St. Martin's Lane. Mr. Moshinsky is currently critical acclaim in Oxford and During the summer of this writing his doctoral dissertation Cambridge, Harold Shaw year, the OCSC presented its first on Russian political thought at take high honors secured bookings for the tour in non-Shakespearean production, Oxford. eighteen American universities, The Importance of Being Ear- Tickets for the Allegheny Expectations were fulfilled including Dartmouth, Harvard nest, by Oscar Wilde, which performance may be obtained at examination period was called and Yale. played in Oxford, Cambridge, the Campus Center box office at over semester break when the for. Said Bruce King, "We had Allegheny Debating Team Jonathan Miller's production of Bury St. Edmunds, and the prices of $2.00 for adults and $1.00 hoped the cross examination hamlet the following year, King's Lynn Festival. for non-Allegheny students. created another upset in forensic style would be to our advantage; circles by taking high honors at a as was seen, however, it hindered tournament hosted by Geneva Tom and I on the affirmative, College. The duo of Tom Perkoski though the other half of the team 120 cases in one day and Bruce King once again seemed to profit by it." captured distinction by placing The team will expand its second in team competition, horizon greatly in the next month losing the first place trophy by a by competing in a few larger Flu hits college community slim margin of three points competitions, and coming in (Perkoski and King took first in contact with a greater variety their last tournament). and certainly more formidable Mr. King led the team in point- opposition. On the ninth and tenth scoring once again, compiling of February, the team will travel but few cases found in city enough to attain third speaker to Kent State, and on the six- rating. Two Allegheny freshmen, teenth and seventeenth the Allegheny students, in addition seems to be "endemic to the Several deaths have been Jim Moore and Dave McQuiston, location will be Ohio University. reported in Crawford County, but rounded out the team with three Although expected to fare well, to facing the rigors of winter, are Allegheny student body." Ac- wins and one loss to give the the question does arise, how will now facing a flu epidemic. cording to a City Hospital official, these involve older people who gentlemen their best overall they do in light of the enhanced Wednesday, there were 120 cases there have been few cases in suffer from complications. As for record this year. skills and numbers of par- reported of "some kind of flu, " at Meadville itself. Dr. Dunn also students, such a possibility is This was a smaller tournament ticipants? Perkoski and than the last; the number of King will most likely split for at the infirmary. This is many stated that due to the complexity highly unlikely. Various symp- schools competing was fifteen. A least one of these tournaments in more than the number reported of culturing and isolating the toms, such as a high fever, sore wider range of colleges par- an effort to expand their own at this time last year, according strain, he has "no idea what kind throat, and headache, are ticipated, however, including ability as well as work with other to Dr. Dunn at the Winslow of flu it is." He said he knew reported. The illness usually Susquehanna and LaSalle from members of the team. Philadelphia, West Virginia The team has been guided Health Center. Rumors are nothing about canceling classes. lasts from 48-72 hours. The In- Wesleyan and several schools along its quickly successful path widespread about the possibility It may or may not be the London firmary is kept busy passing out from Ohio. The structure of by the Debate Club's coach, Mr. of temporarily closing the school. flu which has struck many major various medicines, but the usual debate differed slightly from the Gerald Lazzaro. last, too, in that a cross Dr. Dunn stated that the flu cities. treatment is bedrest and fluids. Page 2 CAMPUS Friday, January 12, 1973 The Death Pencl- Alumni Gift y Revisited According to the latest edition of the Allegheny College Bulletin, a number of fiftieth-year alumni class gifts have been bestowed on Of Law and Order the college community. These golden anniversary gifts are "accomplishing some worthy...objectives" in the words of the anonymous author. The classes of 1917 and 1920 contributed a combined total of By ARBY SWIFT $3,376.69 towards a "Student Emergency Loan Fund to assist students who for some unforseen circumstances need financial Various spokesmen for the law and order assistance in order to make possible their continuation at crowd added their latest effusions to the public cacophony last week. In Washington, Attorney Allegheny." The class of 1921 provided a total of $1,170 for the General Richard Kleindienst announced at a recently completed radioactive isotope facility in Carnegie Hall. press conference that the Justice Department We congratulate these three classes on the worthwhile con- was drawing up legislation seeking a mandatory tributions they have made to Allegheny College, both past and death penalty for such crimes as skyjacking, present. bombing a public building, assassinating a However, we question the $6,378 contributed by the class of 1915 public official and killing a prison guard. The for the erection of a " 'Gateway to the New Campus' at the point above crimes of premeditation are ones that rate where the former George Street runs into the Campus Center as particularly offensive to human sensibilities. grounds." So, too, do we wonder at the $2,350 spent by the class Kleindienst's announcement marks a definite of 1919 for the ever popular "There is an Allegheny College retreat from the Justice Department's long stand Today..." plaque as well as the "white marble bench conforming in opposing the death penalty. The planned to the architecture of the (C.C.) lobby" which rests immediately legislation skirts around last June's Supreme below the plaque and the "two granite benches, conforming to the Court ruling that held the death penalty to be style of the Campus Center," in front of the C.C.'s main entrance.

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