Empath, 1974 March 12

              St. Mary’s College of Maryland
by MONICA REVELLE
Since the inception of West
Side Story, the nostalgia craze has
hit St. Mary’s campus. Don’t be
surprised when you pass students
on the path sporting “slicked back
hair dos” and quoting passages
from West Side Story such as
“ cracko-jacko!” Brenda May,
director, has instructed the cast to
search their attics and trunks for
the type of clothes worn in the
late 50’s and 60’s.
When . Carla Mora, costume
designer, described the costumes
to the “Jets,” she received groans
and sighs from the cast as she said,
“I would like to see the men in
th in - la p e l le d suits with
pegged-legged pants, thin ties and
black “rat-stabber” shoes to
match!”
Dancing rehearsals held in St.
Mary’s Hall or in Anne Arundal
seem to be the most invigorating
for the cast. Ellen Arrowood, the
choreographer, with assistance
from Nina Sands and Rusty Carter
call out directions to the ‘Jets”
and “Sharks” as they prepare for
the rumble scene. “You guys look
schlunky! Remember to stop
fighting when you hear the
whistle,” she corrects the dancers.
The dancers, however, are
learning quickly as the show date
approaches.
Ms. May holds the reading
rehearsals in any available facility.
One evening St. Mary’s Hall was
being used for the construction of
the set, while the Jazz Band was
rehearsing in one room in Anne
Arundel and Mr. Gilchrest was
using still another room for a
rehearsal for the singers.
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Streaking Strikes SMC
Musical rehearsal with leads and understudies. From left to right:
Jaynee Houser, Pam Johnson, Joan Smith, Ellen Arrowood, Mike
Driscoll, Fred Dixon, Kirk Gantt, Chris Paris, and Kent Gilchrest at
the piano. (Photo by Tom Tworek)
West Side Story
Rumbles Along
Undaunted, Ms. May searched
for a vacant room. Her solution
was to invite the entire cast into
the “women’s restroom!” After
the smiles and smirks, the cast got
down to business.
As the leads, Tony (Michael
Driscoll) and Maria (Pam
Johnson) rehearse, understudy,
Jaynee Houser watches and notes
the blocking.
Diane Schmit and Steve
Weldon, with the assistance of the
c o n s tru c t io n crew, have
completed parts of the set and are
working nightly to finish the rest
of the set. With help from Peter
Shumway, the technical crew is
quickly learning the ins and outs
of the lighting and other
mechanical aspects of the play.
The performances will be given
on Thursday, March 28, Friday,
March 29, and Saturday, March
30 at 8 p.m. with a matinee on
S a tu rd a y at 2 :3 0 . A l l
performances will be held in St.
Mary’s Hall.
F o r a d v a n c e t ic k e t
reservations, please send a
stamped, self-addressed envelope
to Brenda May, General Delivery,
St. Mary’s College, St. Mary’s
City, Md. 20686 postmarked no
later than March 20.
SMC students presenting their
ID cards will be admitted free.
Tickets for non-students are
$1.50.
From March 18-27 students
can call 994-9830 between 7 and
9 p.m. Monday through Friday to
reserve tickets. Tickets will be
held three (3) days before
relinquishing them to other eager
patrons. Any questions will be
answered by the ticket manager,
Wendy Shannaberger in Queen
Anne No. 3.
by DAMIAN VENEZIANI
Mother Nature has been
displaying her stuff recently, as
hundreds of students, male and
female, are galavanting around
many college campuses minus
their clothes. The craze is known
as “streaking” and St. Mary’s has
recently been having its share of
it.
Two Dorchester residents, who
asked to be identified only as
“Snake” and “Mouth” shucked
their apparell and toured the
parking lot in front of Dorchester,
Prince George, and Caroline halls
on ten-speed bikes Monday night.
They were soon joined by two
more jolly, unclad cyclists as at
least 150 spectators watched on
an unusually warm March evening.
As if this was not enough, water
buckets, water balloons, and
firecrackers were thrown with
each dorm declaring war on the
others.
A “Super Streak” is tentatively
scheduled for midnight, April 1,
with “streakers” meeting in front
of Dorchester, then sprinting to
Queen Ann to add female
participants, and finally ending at
at Church Point. What happens
there is anybody’s guess.
Freshmen Paul Flynn and John
F in o t t i said they would
participate in a “streak” around
campus. Finotti was not
concerned with any action
security might take, but Flynn
believed that ‘‘security would
shoot me in my tracks.”
Officer Voorhaar of the
campus police said, “We will
probably take action against
anybody caught doing so
(streaking) even though we have
not encountered anybody yet. I
did see one boy sitting out in
front of Dorchester at four in the
morning the other day. Just
sitting there naked. He wasn’t
running around though.”
Paul Matthai was dubbed with
the nickname “Nudie” his
freshman year four years ago
when he ran in the buff outside
Dorchester for $7.35. He also
took another jaunt next year
when his pals tossed him outside
after stripping him of his clothes.
“I didn’t get paid anything for
that and I doubt if I ’ll do it again.
I ’m sort of retired,” he said. “But
if I getriledup I might. Back then
it wasn’t commonplace but now it
is.”
Belinda Guidi, Vice President
of the Student Government,
remembers Matthai’s run. “I
remember when ‘Nudie’ ran by
my window a couple of years ago.
I could have grabbed him if I
stuck my hand out.” Belinda
thinks a bare race to Church Point
“would be incredible! I know I
would feel weird doing it. Not
only that, it hurts jogging
around.”
Other SMC students voiced
their opinions on being a
“ streaker” : Eilleen O’Connell,
freshman, might consider cruising
in the raw sometime. “It would
depend on the other people,” she
said, “whether I really knew ’em
pr not. I kinda doubt if I would. I
can accept other people doing it
as people have done crazier
things.”
Freshman Donna Nagle likes
the idea of “streaking” when
“there is a water battle at the
same time.”
Junior John Olivas said, “I
would do it for $25.00, wouldn’t
you?!!”
Junior Craig Thompson would
consider “streaking,” “if ten or
more girls went with me.*~But a
friend of his, Holly Harris heard
this and said, “He is such a smart
ass. I bet if I got ten girls to go
with him, he wouldn’t do it.”
When questioned if she would
shed her clothes and go for a
quick run, Miss Harris said, “I
don’t need that kind of exposure.
Ho! Ho!”
Freshman Jo Ann Emm would
consider being a “streaker”,
“depending on the state of mind I
was in at the time.”
Bob Miller, local campus
menace, says that “streaking is
becoming a big sport on
campuses. We used to have
streakers here a couple of years
• ago. I remember we . . . I mean
some people stripped down Sugar
Bear down at the pond. He had to
swim nude in all that muck and
then he ran back to his dorm.”
Bob is concerned that excessive
streaking at St. Mary’s would
“turn the place into a nudist
camp. A little noise would be
good to stir the place up a bit
even though I don’t think I would
participate. But that depends on
how drunk I am. Ah yes,
s p r in g t im e ! A time for
waterbattles and ‘streakers’. It
would be interesting if the people
would carry blankets with them
just in case they run to the back
of the dorms.”
Chris Cabbarelli, freshman, said
she would cheerfully run amok
without her britches* “as long
as the circumstances were
conducive (?). .1 don’t think
people are doing this because it is
springtime. I think it will carry
over into the winter.”
Poco
Concert
Cancelled
The concert scheduled for
March 30 featuring Poco has been
cancelled. Poco has decided to
start their concert tour at a later
date and none of the dates they
have open are acceptable.
Another concert on April 20 is
being planned.
E a r l H o f m a n n P l a n s S c u l p t u r e
By Linda Ford
A three-ton, 14-foot metal sculp­ture
designed by St. Mary’s Col­lege’s
artist in residence, Earl
Hofmann, will soon be erected on
the lawn in front of the library.
The sculpture, which Hofmann
described as “a monument to the
sea-faring tradition of St. Mary’s
County,” will possibly be com­pleted
before the end of the spring
semester.
Hofmann said he designed the
sculpture in an effort to “suggest”
the appearance of a skipjack, but
not to be an exact representation.
His scaled model of the structure
indicated it would be a deep red
color, but he said that the color
will change as it is exposed to the
elements.
The sculpture will be built of
Corten steel because of its unusual
durability, Hofmann said. He ex­plained
that this steel begins to
rust when exposed and so forms a
surface plating on the metal which
preserves the structure indefi­nitely.
Because of this process, he
said, the steel “could survive as
long as bronze.”
Corten steel is not as expensive
as bronze or brass, said Hofmann,
and it is 40 percent stronger than
mild carbon steel. It begins its
color change from grey to deep
reddish-brown in three to four
weeks after its first exposure to
the elements and continues to
deepen in color, he said. He cited
the large Picasso sculpture in
Chicago as probably the most
famous work done in Corten.
Hofmann said that he and six
students from his advanced sculp­ture
class have already started the
initial welding of the basic shapes
in carbon steel, which will be
covered by the Corten. The weld­ing
of the Corten, which will be
done at the location of the sculp­ture,
he hopes, will begin in about
two weeks. He described the weld­ing
process they would use as the
“oxyacetylene” method, where
oxygen and acetylene are com­bined
tp weld the metal.
The college is paying for the metal
used for the sculpture, wh ich
Hofmann said will amount to
about $1,500. The Board of Trust­ees
chose the spot near the library
as the location, but only as a
second choice. From Hofmann’s
three original suggestions, the
Board had chosen the middle of St.
John’s Pond as the first choice, he
said.
That idea had to be abandoned
because of the expense involved
and the extremely soft bottom of
the pond, which Hofmann said was
found through a study done re­cently
by the biology faculty. The
tidal movements of the pond was
also a factor in the decided change
of plans, he added.
“I don’t expect to have any
trouble with it,” he said about the
construction of the sculpture. Most
of the initial problems have al­ready
been dealt with, such as
insuring the sculpture against
wind damage.
Hofmann said he was worried
about this problem after he first
designed the project, but with the
help of consultants from the Navy,
the problem was resolved. The
concrete base which has already
been laid has been designed to
hold the sculpture secure in winds
up to 100 m.p.h.
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