University of North Alabama - Diorama Yearbook (Florence, AL)

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NO IT ' S MINE. Michael Bradley draws his sword back while John MacLachlan tries to take it from him. photo by Tommy Rowe intor ' s! toibes! jet mm I TOLD YOU SO. (left) Kelly Nash, as Mistress Page, and Mandy Hughes, as Mistress Ford, tell each other how it is. KEEPING SECRETS, (louvr left) Ryan Taylor and John MacLachlan appear to be up to no good. THINKING BEYOND. John Milton, the jeal- ous husband, speaks out about his concerns to his audience.

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A little piece of a Paradi 1 Paradise has several meanings. Some like to think of it as heaven or a Utopia, but the students who were in olved in Spring Fling 2002 got a glimpse f, L of UNA as our own little piece of par- | adise. Through the week, students in r di erse groups or organizations participat- ed in activities ranging from relay games to 8 the ever-popular Step Sing. •§. Monday, students pooled their ideas and pulled their friends into the annual GUC window-painting contest. Window painting is no easy task; they sooned learned that ev ' eryone had to work together. That night, hypnotist Michael Anthony showed us exactly how idiotic we could look when we let a man we don ' t know have control over our thoughts. On Tuesday, organizations came out to the Amphitheatre to compete against each other in basic games. In the evening. Outcast came to the square in front of Rivers Hall. Students were asked to do some pretty nasty things like eat raw Spam or even spread it all over their bodies. Wednesday, clubs and organizations participated in the Sidewalk Chalk competi- tion and Fun Flicks. Fun Flicks gave groups of students and even individuals the oppor- tunity to strut their stuff on camera while doing their versions of songs like Going to the Chapel and Baby Baby. Thursday consisted of one hot after- noon of field games. Organizations were divided into three groups as they had been all week — male, female, and co-ed. Students competed in a tug of war, dizzy izzy, three- man race, and many other games. FORCEFUL TUGS, (photos left, above) Students of both sexes give it their all as they fight for the tug-of- war champion titles. CLIMBING TO NEW HEIGHTS. Fearless rock- sealer freshman John McDaniel celebrated Spring Fling on the ROTC Climb A Wall. Thursday ' s activities ended with a reminder of what was to come the following nights— Step Sing 2002. Friday night ' s and Saturday afternoon ' s proved to be by far the best attended and best devel- oped events of Spring Fling. In Step Sing, a fund-raiser for the United Way to help those in need around our community, four sororities, three fraternities, and the BCM competed for bragging rights and the acknowledgment of being the best stepping and singing group out there. Alpha Gam took home second place while Phi Mu took first place in the women ' s division. BCM won first place in the co-ed division. Fiji came in second as ATO came away having taken first in the men ' s and overall. Participants agreed that Spring Fling 2002 was successful in bringing to UNA a little piece of paradise after all. — Carrie Johnson 15

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I NA Theafre brougnt a humorous tale of romantic schemes and retribution — William Shakespeare ' s The Men Wives of Windsor — to the Norton stage in November. In The Mem Wives of Windsor Sir John Falstaff, a knight dt) vn or his luck as to both love and money, plans to seduce both Mistress Page and Mistress Ford, but he has no idea hou clever the merry v ives can be. L Dr. David K. Ruebhausen, assistant professor of theatre, said the play is not performed ver ' often and had never before been performed in the Shoals area. The cast worked on the play from the beginning of the fall 2002 semester — until their performance in mid- November. Some characters w$ri even double-cast for the prod tion. and Bradlex, of Law rencebur, Tenn., will compete tor the Ryan I ■Scholarship awards, hich are con sidered the most prestigious ama- teur acting awards in the United States. ! i Ryan, w ho played the role of Grann on the television series, Tlie Beverly Hillbillies, established in l ' 72 an endin ment to fund schol- arships for the best actors in each region as well as for the winners of the national Irene Ryan competi tion in the spring at the Kenned Center in Washington, D.C. The N nnual Irene Ryan Acting competi tion is for scholarships for student challerJged 16 A duel bv Dr. L auTsT but because of manipulation of cir- ciunstances by other characters, they do not fight. Instead, tliey woTk together in a ruso against Sir John Falstalt, who is seeking the hand of a lumg lad . W Despite the efforts of the three, neither Caius nor Falstaff wins the hand of the voman they are pursuing; someone else. e run c f the pla B l ther education. Sixteen scholar- Daryl Crittenden and Mi Bradley reaped an unanticipated reward for their efforts in the pro duction. The American College Theatre Festival has invited the two student actors to participate in the Southeastern United States regional level of the Irene Ryan Acting Competition. Crittenden, of Muscle Shoals j Before the began, Ruebhausen had sta rted the machinery in motion for the ACTF to consider UNA actors for the . ■ 1 ■ . ,- competition. An evaluator attend- performers wishmg to pursue tuKr--, — . ,i , j • , ■ • ,1 . te P ' ' ' picked Crittenden I ' and Bradlc ' from the cast for the regional competition. If Crittenden and Bradley suc- ceed in the regionals, they will go to the Ifiational competition at Washington ' s Kennedy Cente Both are fantastic, young comic actors, Ruebhausen said. A native of Leavenworth, Kansas, Ruebhausen was the director of the fall production. He joined UNA ' s Department of Communications and Theatre in 1996. vd hips are awarded to winners from eight regions. Two larger scholar- ships are given to winners at the - National Festival in Washington, D.C. % ,1K: - I Crittenden, a junior com muni- cations arts theatre major, played Dr. Caius, the French doctor. Bradley, who is a freshman com- munication arts theatre major, per- formed as Sir Hugh, the Scottish parson in the bourgeois comedy., 111 go Parson Hugh Evans, who ini- tially serves as a matchmaker, is pRAMATIC STANCE. Chris Bedwell as ralstaff addresses the merrs ' wives. HANGING ON. Daryl Crittenden as Doctor Caius and Michael Bradley as Sir Hugh prop up Daniel Tracv, the Host of the Garter Inn. 17