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Theatre Lab. Entertainment Construction of Men's Dorms Begins this June Receives Praise ol Audience Alfred University will begin con- residences. Each new building will The Footllght Cluib, in conjunc- j Richard Dietz and Joanne Wen- lar exaggerated gesture. struction in June of two new Men's house 86 men. The dining hall and tion with the Speech anid Drama- i dover used the improvtisaJtion to These scenes were presented by dormitories and a new student din- kitchen at 'Bartlett will also be tics Department, presented a ser- j give us their idea of what can the members of the Theiattre Lab- ing hall ait a total cost of $1,354, Tenavaited Ito provide additionajl ies of dramatic sketches to tihe happen in a neighborhood movie. oratory. In this course, students 000, President M. Ellis Drake an- room space for 22 men. assembly on February 23. The I The characters portrayed were endeavor to perform original nounced. The dining hall will be a two- Sketches were written or impro- • typical Brooklyn teen-agers. The work and experiment on new ideas. The President's announcement story concrete and steel building vised by the performers. result of the situation was an hi- The emphasis is on the non-use of came immediately after the Feder- with brick exlterior. It will provide cafeteria service for 500 students The program began with Bert) I lairious' "pick^up" with the girl make-up and props. Ail they use al Housing and Home Finance and will be able to accommodate Klein's portrayal of an elderly naturally protesting (in vain). is their imagination. Agency, under its College Housing la total of 7'00 persons for banquets. man. The monologue, "written by Sarah Calvelli almost had Uis be- Program, officially approved a loan The new dormitores will face a Klein, presented with a depth of lieving she wtais actually giving of $1,084,000 to Alfred University. Classics Chair new street to be built higher on feeling and understanding the sit- Ibirith in the next improvisation. New dormitory facilities for 194 the campus hillside and paralleling uation in which an aged person in Husband, Bab Klein, has us con- men are expected to be ready for Offers Course the existing State Street. The new our society finds himself. Klein vinced he was scored to death. H occupancy by September, 1362. .Dr. Anna I/ydia Motto, 'Chairman dining hall will be built alt the stated, as an introduction to his she had given birth on the way The University will build two new of the Department of Classics, an- far end of the double row of dor- performance, his belief that ais a to the hospital it would have pre- three-story dormitories of rein- nounced. that she will offer the 2- mitories on a street connecting person grows older he fears life maturely ended a very funny forced concrete and steel construc- credit coursé in Etymology, ¡Liter- the new road and the present State just as much as death. scene. tion with red brick exteriors ature and Language 227, instead of matching the three existing men's Street. The only prop Klein used was a The third scene hit the heart of Literature 356, Latin (Liteilature in oane. His performance relied on every girl on campus. Carol Lannib Translation. appropriate gestures, speaking and Sarah did a 'takeoff' on sor- The Etymology course examines Voice and facial expressions in ority rushing in which the charac- 'basic Greek and Latin roots and Big Time Jazz Hits AU; order to portray the character ters exaggerated but the truth of word stems as .they appear in mo- realistically. the actual situation was made dern English words and scienti- Steve Chaleff introduced us to clearer. fic terms, establishing for the stu- Cool Bill Evans Swings the improvisation. An improvisa- dent a strong foundation for a large The prqgram ended wilth Joanne Big time jazz invaded Alfred pid passages on the piano tihat I tion has no pre-written script or and Sarah performing a mime. In English vocabulary. This course, for the first time in two yeans. felt could be greatly compliment- rehearsal. The actons choose a 'open to all students, will be offer- this type of acting, the perform- ed by the horn. The type of im- situation and play a scene using ed Tuesdays and Thursday, '8:00 Bill Evans and his trio performed ers act according to an off-stage pression Mr. Evans is trying to only their imagination or theatri- to 9:00 A.M., in Boom 16 oif Mey- last Saturday night in the Men's narrator. They try to gelt the es- convey in these passages were too cal experience. ers Hall. Gym. The program, under tihe sence of a character by a particu- fast to be aocompained by rhythm auspices of the Forum, was re- alone. The group's diffident air ceived by the audience with mixed towards the audience wias not ex- emotions. aotly a contributing factor to his Evans played two sets of tunes success. Mrs. Evans should have with six pieces in each set. Most realized that when pflaying to an of the pieces were ballads, but audience of this type he must try some were original compositions. to gain rapport with them. In LUX The applause' for most of these short, I felt that his basic approach "Vol. 48, No. 14 fc TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 1961, ALFRED, NEW YORK Phone 5402 numbers was unenitihusiasltifi. There to the whole program was lacking. are several reasons for this dif- The program would have been fidence. In the first place the more enjoyable if Evans had start- Review Wants acoustics of the hall were not ed out with some simple ideas and Anderson Analyzes really conducive to the music that gradually built up to his more ad- was played. If my untrained ear vanced concepts. Sludeni Work wlas correct, the piano was As a whole, Mr. Evan's perfor- "The Alfred Review, a literary iSliigfhty out of tiune and the drums mance was not his best. At times Campus Conformity were not functioning properly. magazine composed exclusively of his playing was a bit shaky and These were only technical flaws by William S. Anderson, Jr. tirety. This choice would more- student-written . short Stories* and the rapport with thé resit of the and only partially reasonslible far Associate Professor of Psychology than-likely be disastrous to the poetry, is published annually for group did not seem to be pre- the results. and Counselor individual. It would be like wear- the Alfred University campus. The valent. There was not exactly com- editors of the Review aire anxious The problem of conformity is al- ing a suit designed to fit all sized j Mir. Evans failed to note tihe plete understanding among the to receive a diverse section of ways a papular topic among stu- men—dt wouild be tighlt in some musical knowledge of tihe audi- group themselves. However, the Student literary ideas and styles, dents on the Alfred University places and sag in others so that ence. A college campus only has performance at time wlas inspir- facilitating a provacative present- dents on tihe Alfred University no one would be satisfied. Besides a small minority who understand ing. Mir. Evams has a way with a ation of student opinions. ©ampus are no exceptions. Some restricting man's variability there the ideas he put forth. For exam- melody that transforms it from a people debate this issue with the is the danger of losing one's iden- All those who write, or are in- ple, his attempt ait dissonance in 'Simple tune to an expression of expectation that they must either tity in the group. There is evi- terested in writing, short stories several pieces was regarded by a emotion. In its cohesive moments accept he pole of the '^Organiza- dence to indicate that loss of per- or poetry are urged to submit majority of the audience only as the group swung in a most en- tion Main" or completely remove sonal Identity can bring about the their material to Box 265, Alfred, "noise". Evans also tried some ra- joyable fashion. themselves from the grasp of a disintegration of the whole per- by March i, or as soon thereafter stifling society. A select few may sonality. as possible. All manuscripts are have the luxury of choice. Most i An alternative to this course of judged anonymously; enclose your Alfred Plans Humanities Study however, have no choice but to action would be to run away from name on a separate slip of paper. conform at least to some degree. 'Society through extreme non-con- The judging is done by tihe seni- The reason is clear. The density For Local High School Seniors forming behavior. This type of re- or editorial board consisting of of the world population is increas- Top-ranking students from high through April 24. Demonstrations action Is just as childlike as the Elaine Fednbeig, '61; Sandra Gen- ing at a terrifying rate. As men and laboratory sessions will fol- dependency reactions of tihe ev- zelman, '62; Norman Sdmnmis, '62; schools in the surrounding area come in closer contact with each low the second semester lectures, treme conformer. It is similar to Roy GlasSberg, '61; Carol Sloan, will begin their second semester other, the necessity for social or- replacing the 90-mdnute library re- the child saying, "If you do not '•62;' and the junior editorial board of study in the Humanities Semin- ganization is increased. This calls search-study periods which follow- pllay by my rules, I'll pick up my 'consisting, of Bob Marshall, '62; for norms of behavior to regulate ar at Alfred University on Febru- ed lectures during tihe first semes- marbles and go home!" A with- Jane Henckle, '62; John Guerrine, this regulation' implies conforming ary 27.