Western Front - 1968 February 6

              Shakespeare:
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Western Washington State College, Bellingham, Wash. 98225 Vol. LX No. 16 lues., Feb. 6, 1968 10C
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Friend:
No holes,
bard."
News
in brief
BOQ panel Thursday
Dr. Robert Monahan, associ­ate
professor of geography, will
moderate the Second Book of
the Quarter Panel at 7 p.m.
Thursday in V.U. Lounge.
Panel members include Mar­shall
Forrest, Bellingham at-torney
and former Western trus­tee;
Dr. Gerald Kraft, associ­ate
professor of biology; Dr. Wil­liam
C. Budd, professor of psy­chology;
and Reg D. Butler,
senior.
Vote for "sweet" pair
Sweethearts, today is the last
day to petition for Sweetheart
Couple for the ball of that name,
to be held Feb. 17.
Petitions may be submitted
either to Heather Highmiller or
at the V.U. desk.
The guys, not the girls, have
to do the asking for this affair.
It is not a tolo, contrary to a
FRONT headline last week.
Tickets for the dance, which
begins at 9 p.m. Saturday in V.U.
Lounge, are on sale at the V.U.
desk.
Take a deep breath
Tired of suffocating in Room
11-A of the Coffee Shop?
Help is coming. Douglas Was-ko,
director of student activ­ities
and the Viking Union, said
louvers in the windows nearest
the loading dock will be in­stalled
"as quickly as possible"
to help let in fresh air.
Wasko had received last quar­ter
a 300-signature petition com­plaining
of smoke and stagnant
air in the room.
Cost of the project will be
$66, Wasko said.
Reusing fee hike likely
Room and board fees will prob­ably
be upped next fall, accord­ing
to Joseph Nusbaum, college
business manager.
The amount of increase is not
definite at this point, but Nus­baum
estimated that room and
board will be about $25 more a
year than it has been. This
would raise the annual fee from
$745 to about $770.
Nusbaum said that the ad­ditional
money is needed to help
finance campus building projects
such as a library addition and
Fairhaven College.
The matter will be taken up
this month before the Board of
Trustees.
Candidates to come
Arrangement for return to
campus of the college presiden­tial
candidates will be decided
at "an early meeting," Dr.
Robert Lawyer, chairman of the
Presidential Selection Commit­tee,
said yesterday.
He said the committee and
trustees had now seen 16 per­sons
in screening interviews,
and in a joint meeting Jan. 26
had named five to be candidates.
These persons were to be noti­fied
immediately, Lawyer said.
Now, the committee and trus­tees
will be making plans for the
candidates' return to campus, so
they can meet more extensively
with students, faculty and ad­ministration,
Lawyer said.
He predicted this would be
done in the next two weeks.
Puck (Mike Ingersoll) does a great deal of mischief before
reuniting the two sets of lovers, Helena (Ellen Catrell) and
Demetrius (Bryan Brown), left; and Hermia (Betty Maca-luso)
and Lysander (Steve Anderson), right. Western
Players will present a three-day run of the famous
Shakespeare comedy, "A Midsummer Night's Dream,"
starting Thursday night. (Photo by Eagle e.t.)
Oh dad, poor dad—
your day is coming
A banquet featuring Interim President Charles J. Flora as
guest speaker will highlight Dad's Day Saturday.
Dan Windisch, chairman, said the Dad's Day tradition at
Western recognizes the fathers of students and acquaints them
with the school. He emphasized that although Dad's Day is spon­sored
by Associated Men Students, the event is for girls' dads
too.
Registration is from 10 a m. to noon in the V. U. lounge.
Name tags will be passed out, and coffee and doughnuts served.
Dorms will hold open house from 1 to 4:30 p.m.,followed by
the banquet in Viking Commons at 5 p.m.
Dads and students will find lots to do during the evening. At
8 p.m.. Western meets Eastern in Carver Gym and at 8:15 p.m.
the play "A Midsummer Night's Dream" will be presented in the
Auditorium. Club 515 will sponsor an event in the V.U. coffee shop
starting at 9 p.m.
Banquet tickets are available at the V.U. desk. Both dads
and mothers are welcome, Windisch said.
Grants reach high,
set month's record
Western received $673,000 in financial grants between Dec. 10
and Jan. 10 — more than any other month in history — Interim
President Charles J. Flora announced Friday.
The largest month of grants prior to this was in June of 1965,
when the college received $575,000. That had included one single
grant of $400,000.
Last month's grants, from the federal government and the
Rockefeller Foundation, are for summer institutes and academic
research projects.
A $100,000 grant for continuation of "Project Catch Up" was
the largest single grant in the recent package, and came from the
Rockefeller Foundation.
The program enables junior high school students who are
potential dropouts to come to the campus during the summer for
classes and activities.
The National Science Foundation (NSF) has granted $71,770
for a summer institute in math and computer science for college
teachers, and $94,000 for an institute during the next academic
year in mathematics for secondary school teachers.
Other grants, also from NSF, are for the departments of mathe­matics,
physics, biology, history, geography, psychology, English
and chemistry.
AS ballot to survey
ROTC and pass-fail
ROTC and pass-fail surveys will be on the Feb. 15 Associated
Students ballot, the A.S. Legislature decided Wednesday.
The Student Academic Advisory Board (SAAB), which submitted
the proposal, wants to sound out student opinion on ROTC and
determine whether there is enough support for pass-fail to continue
its research.
The Legislature also approved a request for $500 to send
50 persons to the next student government workshop, at Harrison
Hot Springs, B.C.
In other action, Angus McLane was unanimously named to
SAAB.
Students appointed to the Committee for Rights of Untenured
Faculty include Noel Bourasaw, Ken Bruland, Al Doan, Walt Hensley
and Chris Smith.
The U.S. Marine Corps has been told by the Placement Office
director it can recruit only in the Placement Office and not in
the V.U., Speaker Dave Cunningham reported.
Jeff McKay said he will report out this week a bill on hiring
three students to clean the V.U. nightly.
The A.S. Legislature meets at 4 p.m. tomorrow in V.U. 208.
Shakespeare's 'Dream'
wakes up this week
By JIM WALKER
contributor
To meet the varied tastes of theater-goers, every so often
Bellingham offers a chance to see the living Shakespeare.
Old Will is pulled from his restful sleep in the Stratford church
cemetery, and his bones are kicked about the stage for three hours
by modern thespians.
In this tradition, Western Players, directed by Don Adams, will
present perhaps Shakespeare's finest comedy, "A Midsummer-
Night's Dream."
The play opens at 8:15 p.m. Thursday in the Auditorium, and
will also run on Friday and Saturday evenings. Tickets are available
at the VU. desk and at the door.
Although written without formal source, the play is filled with
personal and political allusions 'to the court of Elizabeth 1. Much
of the satire will be lost to the modern audience, who will hopefully
be caught in the magical fantasy and poetic mood of the play.
More than most of Shakespeare's works, "A Midsummer-Night's
Dream" calls for the audience's imagination. It is a play of love,
but it is also dream and fantasy webbed in complication and comedy.
The action is moved by character, and this cast certainly has their
work cut out.
The mood is enhanced by the set and lighting. For this perform­ance,
the set is designed by Dennis Catrell, with lighting by Terry
Reiniger. Don Adams executed the costumes, and the job of choreog­rapher
is done by Michael Ingersoll.
The famous plot follows the entanglements of two pairs of lovers
— Hermia and Lysander, and Demetrius and Helena — whose
affections are switched by actions of the mischievous Puck.
The fairy queen, Titania, is also fooled with a love potion and
falls in love with Bottom the Weaver, whose head has been turned
into that of a donkey by Puck.
Vagabond poet Edward English stopped at Western Friday
afternoon to offer his poetry on brotherly love and peace.
Story on page 5. (Photo by Eagle e.t.)