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- SPORTS FORUM SJSU hockey club team Top 10 reasons it's better to be an SJSU Spartan battles Trojans than a Stanford Cardinal over weekend Page 6 Page 2 'SPARTAN DAIL I )A1 IA’(, Tuesday /9)9 Volume 113Vo. 23 Serving San Jose State University Since 1934 October 5, Photos by David Holler/Spartan Daily Left, Elliott Peele (right), wrestles Eric Jung Above, Lucinda Dobinson makes fun of as Lilly Small watches during a scene from Elliott Peele during a break between acts. The "Shakespeare's Shorts: The Complete Works play intertwines different Shakespeare plays (Almost)." while making them modern. Crooked Shakespeare Comedy skews By view Clarissa Aljentera of Daily stall writer classics In the rushed opening scene, on stage, actor Elliott GC curtains only to be Peele body dies, hg the stopped by the real sad everybody Emerging stage from huge story but dies, it's a from behind the audience. _14 that everybody you have to in black Joe the curtain These dies." realize cape, Boxers, a he appeared words were blue Nikes black shirt Play referring sung after each Once and a draped in a the characters scene in the curtains wide-brimrned murdered. on stage the ered the open, the hat. the They were part that were stage covered audience words in of is the setting with wooden discov- e play for the boxes, hakespeare's entire I Y. which Complete Shorts: The In a Works comic performance, which opened (Almost)" cast of the the last weekend not "Shakespeare's University at only brings Shorts" Pla Theatre. stage, humor to c as but co b' the "Macbeth" "Othello," plots from es the general were some "Hamlet," several of which the of the selected and 14th The his plays. performers material -century performers introduce More than concentrated. on individual playwright as the 30 plays whose a down-to-earth situations were dealing with anyone, plays can be covers covered in various life not just stuck-up understood William two hours. The The comedy English by ries, tragedies Shakespeare's play recites begins when -major snobs. and comedies, lines as actor Shaun The actors romances. histo- "MI Jacques in Brune and the world's "Merchant of amazingly funny actresses put women a stage. Arid Venice." everyone. piece that together an merely players, all the men is enjoyable and their They have and for entrances ... " their exits See Shakespeare, page 5 Sports event AS offers laptops to go By Donna Carmichael The laptop rental program scores staff writer will operate out of the AS busi- shoots, Daily senior ness office, which is scheduled Associated Students' to be renovated to accommo- promise of computer rentals at date the service. Recreation and leisure the Student Union is about to Renovation will involve become a reality. knocking out a window on the stir up student activity AS executive Alphonso De outer wall of the Student Alba said 50 laptops 15 Mac Union and replacing it with a By Charmain Smith iBooks and 35 Toshiba PCs door, so students have direct costing a total of $85,000 were access to the raptop rental ser- recently purchased. Students vice without, a long walk The grassy area between Sweeney Hall will be able to sign them out through the building. and the Central Classroom building was for a rental charge that has yet "Construction will start Oct. alive with music and games from noon to 1 to be determined. p.m. Monday. See Computer, page 3 The Spartan Sports Spectacular, put on by the recreation and leisure studies depart- ment as part of a class requirement, drew students in to win prizes. "We have to put on an on-campus and off- campus event for the Rec 97 class," said Passion of English prof. junior Jacob Rhodes, a recreation major. "We started planning it in September." Chris Preovolos /Spartan Dail The event featured four different games of is classically bad writing skill: Hoop It Up, Slap Shot, Putting Huy Nguyen, a management information studies major, takes a shot in the "Hoop It Up" "Once I read '1984: I found Challenge and Quarterback Challenge. game Monday at the Seventh Street plaza during the Spartan Sports Spectacular. The By Jason Stull Daily staff writer that all the stories I had been . Companies donated everything from event was part of a recreation and leisure studies class that requires students to plan and reading to that point were crap," shorts, T-shirts and sweatshirts to gift cer- run three events during the semester. Rice said. tificates, keychains, movie passes and candy Even as a young man working in a lumber mill in Idaho, San And he should know the differ- for prizes. ence between good and bad prose. Robert Stone, a graduate student, won a junior Eddie Rhee-Pizano, a recreation major Students took two shots at putting a golf Jose State University English Blow Pop by participating. and referee of the game. "One ball equals one ball into any one of three holes in Putting professor Scott Rice loved to read. Rice teaches sections of chil- Stone ticket, and the more checks Challenge. He loved what he thought was dren's literature and comparative "I enjoyed myself," said. "It's better check on their literature at SJSU, and is the dri- than lifting weights." they get, the bigger the prize." For the football -inclined, Quarterback good writing mostly Louis using hockey Challenge gave students two chances to LAmour pulp novels. Then he ving force behind the Bulwer- The object of Hoop it Up was to sink a bas- Slap Shot had students Fiction Contest. The inter- ket in a lowered hoop from 10 feet away. sticks to fire plastic halls into a net. Students throw a football through a tire. came across a book that put his Lytton "Students are given three chances," said were shooting for a total of three goals. previous literary experience to See Recreation, page 8 shame: George Orwell's "1984." See Rice, page 3 FORUM San Jose State University Spartans beat the D.(*1- You THINK Relationship bliss 10M 19YING Too Cardinals in more WAD KIEP pAT could be right ENCHANAN IN THE ways than one REPuBLICAN PARTY ? in front of you "i5tAlp Prop& fEALVIAN OilfAN .CONTJAVIUMCWILITElt is an open letter Sitting in the north This end zone at Stanford to all the single men Stadium, it hit me. and women out No matter how much there be yourself. money I make in compari- As college students, son to the khaki -wearing, most of us are also at six-pack-bellied preppies prime dating age. The hor- that sat on the opposite mones have kicked in, the side of the stadium, I will always have memories. financial aid check has filled our pockets and we're Memories that will include driving up 280; park- ready to party. Unfortunately too many of us over- ing damned well wherever I pleased; playing my do it and I'm not talking about the partying. We music at levels the Palo Alto campus rarely hears worry so much about dating and "finding the right emanating from a tailgate; drinking brands of beer person" that we miss what is right in front of us. the West Coast Ivy League wannabes have only Ladies, the most important thing I can say is seen on commercials; and then watching my foot- don't wait for a man to find you. It is perfectly ball team walk all over the uptown snobs twice. acceptable for a lady to ask a man out for an It doesn't matter that we at San Jose State evening. In fact, although most men won't admit University see this as much more of a rivalry than it, asking a lady out is downright frightening. If do the students at Stanford. I could care less if they you see a man you like, go up to him. Waiting for simply downplay the victory by shouting such him to come to you probably won't work. witty comebacks as, "You're still in the WAC Art exhibit fights for First Amendment Another thing to remember lay off the make- (Western Athletic Conference)." up. If it is thick enough to see, you have too much exhibit It felt ridiculously good to yell "Stanford sucks" Astatue of the Virgin Mary Yet he is fighting the on your face. Yes, men like pretty faces, and yes, a at just about every Cardinal fan daring enough to with elephant feces on its with taxpayers' money and the large pair of breasts will get our attention, but prestige he earned as a public prance through the SJSI I section. chest and surrounded by that alone isn't enough to hold it. Those of us who Who cares that we will probably be double-digit pictures of porn ... demented. servant. are looking for a relationship want more than just time some underdogs when Stanford finds it in its heart to Pickled cow parts ... bizarre. Why is it every surface features. We want someone to talk with, pay us a visit next year? Live maggots crawling around a group whether they be reli- someone to have fun with. If all you've got is a (A side note: the Stanford ticket line is 1-800- severed cow's head ... unappetiz- gious, political or social finds pretty body, well, you won't last long. BEATCAL, they might want to consider changing ing. Shriveled sharks, a sliced cow something offensive, it becomes For the men out there, don't be so uptight. it to 1-800-BETSJSU) and pig bathing in formaldehyde the cause du jour? Relax, live a little and don't try as hard to impress What matters today, and for the rest of the col- ..