Ripon College - Crimson Yearbook (Ripon, WI)

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Comedy Fills Benstead The Importance Of Being Earnest Presented Oscar Wilde's play The Importance of Being Ear- nest was presented by the Ripon College Drama Department on Homecoming weekend. Directed by Edmund Roney, the play is subtitled A Trivial Comedy for Serious People. According to the dra- ma department, it is a play about such subjects as wit, elegance and paradox, and only subjects which Wilde would admit to taking seriously. The drama department also presented William Shakespeare's Measure for Measure December 5-8. As directed by Edmund Roney, the department decided to do the play on inspiration by the publi- cation of The Place of Measure for Measure in Shakespeare’s Universe of Comedy, written by pro- fessor of English. William J. Martz. John H. Schmahl — Escalus Ted Patel .. Angelo Calvin P. Simmons . Lucio Ed Frohn .......... Rick Crow ......... Carol Shay ........ Nels Henderson ..... Dave Perry ......... Matt Brinkman ...... Marie Mattia ...... Geoffrey Seymour June Issac ....... Charmaine Blakely Members of the techni- cal staff included Char- maine Blakely. Jannan Roesch. Margaret Loto- cha. Keith Onken. and Kathleen Probst Members of the production staff in- cluded: Scott FuHer. light- ing; David Buzza and Rob- ert Rush. sound; Jill Jeska. costume supervisor, and Suzanne Schmitt, stage manager. The cast was assisted in interpretation and other problems connected with the play by Dr. William Martz. whose knowledge of Shakespeare and his works greatly helped the cast, according to one member. Costumes for the four day event were courtesy of NORCOSTO. with spe- cial help from Donna Porfiri. Members of the cast, in order of appearance, in- cluded the following: Christopher Leland Duke Vincentio Aoovo Pcxil Witt. Lesfce lov- houg. Trevor Giles, and Helen Berber cfcscuss the situation .......First Gentleman .....Second Gentleman ......Mistress Overdone .................Pompey .................Provost .................Claudio .................Juliet .................Frior T. .................Sister F. ................Isabella Guy Dutcher .. Elbow Rick Crow ....... Froth Suzanne Schmitt .. Ser- vant Marni Holmes . Mariana Mark Harty . Abhorson Janelle Carlson .. Mes- senger Rick Crow Barnardine Maria Schackett . Kate Keepdown Ed Frohne . Friar Peter Geoffrey Seymour . 1st Officer Robert Rush . 2nd Officer Charmoine Blakely tokes the stage during her final year at Ri- pon. on the way to closing the chapter of a foe stage history Paul Witt a seen n the back- ground Events Drama Production 13

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Below Paul Witt and Helen Border exchange words r a scene of The importance of Beng Earnest 1

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David Gergen Speaks To Campus Says That Candidates Run On Their Experience External Affairs and SMAC featured a guest speaker. David Gergen, Monday. October 29. to help give students a clue as to what is presently going on in the world of politics. Mr. Gergen. a former presidential press advisor who has worked under the Nixon, Ford, and Reagan administrations and who is currently teaching at the American Enterprise Institute and Har- vard. focused his talk and discussion on the 1984 elec- tion and the role of the press in relation to this. Gergen pointed out that because Reagan is running as an incumbent, the race will mainly boil down to a public judgement of Reagan and the things he has done over the last four years. Gergen also predicted that Reagan will win the 1984 election with approxi- mately 65% of the public vote, and concluded that this will be due to skillful use of the press by the Reagan administration and the improved economy of the na- tion. In their successful use of the press. Gergen credited the Reagan staff with keeping the President from be- ing overexposed by having constant daily planning of their media exposure and releases, and exhibiting careful attention to detail and language. He also ad- ded that good press could not compensate for actions and thus claimed that per- formance of Reagan's poli- cies and his personality have been responsible for a lot of his popularity. However, on the other end of the ticket, Gergen felt that Mondale's press ad- visors have been extremely slow in planning an effective press strategy and stated that as the election nears, the margin of vote is in- creasing between the two candidates. He stated that Mondale was also hurt by the second debate, by the fact that the primaries forced him too far to the left, and by the insulation of his staff. In conclusion, Gergen looked ahead to Reagan's second term and said that Reagan's most difficult task wil be remaining effective without the possibility of run- ning for reelection again- what amounts to a lame duck presidency situation Following the presentation, which was not only Infor- mative. but also interesting and humorous, was a more informal question and answer session. Gergen's sub- ject provoked a number of good questions from both students and faculty The general response to the talk was very good One student felt that Gergen’s points about why you should vote, not for who were very important and felt that even though you knew where he stood, he presented the other side and feels that the election is not much of a race, but you never know. (Story from the Nov. 3 issue of The College Days) The speakers program at Ripon enjoyed another successful year, bringing to campus authorities in busi- ness. education, law. media and politics. A heavy second-semester speakers' schedule in- cluded Wisconsin State Supreme Court Justice Shirley Abrahafoson. Georgia State Senator Julian Bond, and former Jamaican Prime Min- ister Mtchael Manley. The College also brought to campus Dr. Arnold Mit- chem. executive director of the National Council of Edu- cational Opportunities Asso- ciations. and Harvard Uni- versity Professor of History and authority of U.S.-Russian relations Richard Pipes The college received out- side support for some of this year's speakers. The 3M Vis- iting Women Engineers and Scientists Program spon- sored CoHeen Zuro's return to Ripon. The 1982 Ripon graduate now is a project engineer with the St Paul. Minnesota-based corpora- tion. (Story courtesy of College Relations) Former Presidential Press Advisor Davd Gergen on his visit to the campus. 14