Lone Star Lutheran (Seguin, Tex.), Vol. 45, No. 17, Ed. 1 Friday, March 13, 1964 Page: 3 of 4
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Friday, March 13, 1964
THE LONE STAR LUTHERAN
Page 3
Fifth Row Center
By SHARON RYAN
Have you ever been talking to someone, and suddenly you aie
conscious of the fact that the person to whom you are speaking is not
listening to you? There you are, sharing something of interest to at
least one of you, and he’s not listening! Perhaps he keeps looking over
your shoulder at something behind you. Or, worse still, there he stands
rdooking you straight in the eye, and you know he doesn’t have any
idea what you are saying.
A professor on campus tells the story of her undergraduate da>.s
when she and her classmates suffered under a professor whose voice
was an absolute monotone. Each class period everyone in the class
went to sleep except the one whose turn it was to stay awake to
pacify the instructor.
>*v Our own professor’s day came, and, as she sat on the front row,
struggling to stay awake to listen to the droning, the instiuctor nevei
breaking the pattern of his dull lecture—said, “The building is on fire,
and we are all going to burn to death.” The girl on the front row ^ Talent Show, Kennel
blinked, the professor said, “Thank you, Miss -and continued,- g’15 _ «Taming 0f
FRIDAY, MARCH 13:
9:00-10:00 a.m. — Convo, Ida
Hartman, pianist, Gymnasium
6:30-6:45 p.m.—Vespers, Chapel
5:45 p.m. — Gamma Initiation
Banquet, Riebe, Small Dining
Room
5:30 p.m. — Pre-theos leave
7:30-10:30 p.m. — Casino, Engi-
neering Room, Main Bldg., spon-
sored by Lambda Chi fraternity
SATURDAY, MARCH 14:
7:15-7:30 a.m. — Sufferages,
Chapel
7:00-8:00 p.m.—All School Pro-
the
his discourse.
• So it is that all too many of us sleep through lectures^ convo,
^entertainment, and personal conversation, and thus we miss the
opportunity to hear whatever may be said of importance. The saddest
part is that many of these things will never be repeated, and, thus,
we cheat ourselves of many social learning experiences.
And, on the ohter hand, we, as speakers, are often frustrated
and disgusted by others’ ignorant and rude display of impoliteness.
After all, is not what we have to say as important as that fool s who
stands there not listening to us but planning instead what he will say
when we have finished?
In our world of hustle and bustle and mass entertainment, the cry
goes out that what we listen to and see be interesting and worth our
while. We hate being a captive audience for boring convo speakers
and self-important professors. We don’t go to campus activities because
^we fear they will not be entertaining enough for us.
But what about us, the listeners? Does not the audience have
as much responsibility for the success of a performance as do the
entertainers? When some program fails to entertain or enlighten
us, are we, the listeners, entirely free of blame?
A particular case in point that is much on my mind at the
^moment has to do with “Taming of the Shrew.” The show was
blocked, memorized, and rehearsed. But I assure you, the dress
rehearsal show on Wednesday night was not the same show that
opened on Thursday night and played to nearly capacity audiences
Friday and Saturday nights. It was different because there was a
■„,< responding, appreciative audience to which the cast could respond in
turn. Such responding on the part of the spectators is a very vital and
rewarding—both for cast and consumers—type of audience participa-
tion. When an audience reacts, the actors want to give more and
. more, and the happy result is a more enjoyable play experience for
everybody involved.
When a play, such as those presented at TLC, has something
worthwhile to say, either seriously or comically, the audience has the
responsibility of reacting. The cruelest kind of audience to play foi
v is not the audience whose members throw tomatoes at characters
they do not like; rather, it is the audience which goes to be “en-
lightened” without accepting the responsibility of reacting to what
it sees and hears. When this happens, the “people out front” serve
no other purposes than those of paying for seats and absorbing sound.
Shrew,” WLT
SUNDAY, MARCH 15:
6:30-10:30 p.m. — Beta Pledge
Trip
7:00 p.m.—Pre-theos return
7:00 p.m.—Movie, “The Detec-
tive,” WLT
MONDAY, MARCH 16:
9:00-9:20 a.m.—Chapel
5:30-6:30 p.m.—Phi Theta Kap-
pa, Small Dining Room, Riebe
6:30-6:45 p.m.—Vespers, Chapel
7:00 p.m.—Sororities meet
7:00 p.m.—Fraternities Meet
TUESDAY, MARCH 17:
7:15-7:30 a.m. — Suffrages,
Chapel
5:45-7:00 p.m. — Omega Tau
Dinner, Riebe Dining Hall
6:30-6:45 p.m.—Vespers, Chapel
7:30 p.m. — Faculty Women’s
Club gives reception for Senior
Women
10:00-10:30 p.m.—Private Medi-
tation, Chapel
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 18:
7:15-7:30 a.m. — Suffrages,
Chapel
2:30 p.m.—TLC vs. Southwest-
ern, Georgetown
6:30-6:45 p.m.—Vespers, Chapel
7:00-8:20 p.m.—WRA, Gym
10:00-10:30 p.m.—Private Medi-
tation, Chapel
From the Greekvine . . .
SIGMAS
The Sigmas initiated their pledges last Friday, March 6,
with a dinner at the El Apache restaurant. In accordance with .
the Sigma custom, each pledge was presented with a long
stemmed red rose.
Presently the Sigmas are planning their spring retreat as
well as a spring banquet.
BETAS
Until the end of the Beta pledge period the Betas are having
supper meetings every Friday evening at five o’clock.
The Beta pledge activities include a work party which will
be held on Sunday, March 15, at 6:45 p.m.
Another project by the pledges is a service project, making
toys for the underprivileged children in the Seguin area.
The Beta pledges will be initiated at the Beta retreat, which
is now in the planning stages .
April 10 is the date set for a Beta picnic.
GAMMAS
The Gammas pledges will be initiated this evening in the
Commons.
Last Sunday the Gamma pledges went to the Seguin Con-
valescent Home.
LAMBDAS
Again the Lambdas would like to remind every one that
they are having their casino party this evening. Every one is
invited to try their luck at the roulette, dice, and black jack
tables. The admission is fifty cents.
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Religious Creativity Is Sought
By PEGGY WOELFEL j reach up and also out? Perhaps
Religious Arts Week will be to say that the cross must be
held April 20-25 on campus under either one or the other would be
the theme The Cross: Vertical or to limit God, an attempt to reduce
Horizontal. The purpose this week the infinite to our finite under-
is to stimulate thought, to pro- standing. What does the cross
Such was not the case, fortunately, with the audiences which saw
“Taming of the Shrew.” Neither is it the general reaction of TLC „ w ................----------=>- ------- -
play-goers. But there are many instances when audience participation vide the opportunity for aesthetic symbolize to you?
is not all that it should and could be, simply because people are blind ; expression, and to stimulate crea-
to or forgetful of their responsibility. I refer here to the classroom | tivity on the part of students.
TWO LAMBDA CHI pledges
are seen outside the Kennel as
they advertise the casino party
to be held this evening by the
fraternity. The party for the en-
tire student body will begin in
the Engineering drawing room
in Old Main at 7:30 p.m. Drinks,
games, and entertainment are
planned. Admission is 50 cents.
This creativity can
in any of the fine
be exhibited
arts forms—
as well as the theater, the chapel as well as private conversations.
As Dr. Gearhart is so fond of saying, “There is no such thing mus^ drama, art (painting and
as being bored. There is always something to see and heai and thin j prose and poetry,
about; there is always something of benefit to learn.”
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Many thanks to you when you are a good audience, many
fie-sickie-poos to you when you are not. Amen.___
Cole to Address
Teacher's Meet
Dr. Martin L. Cole, president
of Texas Lutheran College, will
be one of the main speakers at
; the annual convention of the
| Texas State Teachers Association,
I Alamo District II, which will be
held Thursday and Friday, March
12 and 13.
The TLC president will address
the administrators of the TSTA
at the Friday luncheon at the Roof
Garden of the Granada Hotel. His
topic will be “Trade or Profes-
sion.
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Art- Materials
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sculpture), prose and poetry.
The theme for Religious Arts1
Week, The Cross: Vertical or
Horizontal, is abstract, allow-
ing for wide differences in inter-
pretation and therefore in student
works. The vertical cross signifies
man’s reaching up toward God.
This cross symbolizes man’s
search for the ultimate. It also
symbolizes for the Christian his
most tangible contact with God or
humanity. This is our most pre-
dominant image of the cross, an
erect framework for the torture
and execution of men . . . and
the Man. What does this cross
symbolize to you?
The horizontal cross signifies
man’s reaching outward toward
his fellow men. Perhaps the hori-
zontal cross is a symbol of man’s
practical application of his Chris-
tianity, his efforts to be a Chris-
A.s a theme, The Cross: Verti-
: cial or Horizontal lends itself well
to creative effort. Works to be pub-
lished in 3-Quarters may also be
entered in Religious Arts Week.
| Organizations as well as indivi-
! duals are invited to contribute.
One campus organization, Alpha
Psi Omega, is already planning
the production of a one-act religi-
ous drama written by one of its
members on April 20. Other such
efforts are encouraged!
THE DEADLINE FOR EN-
TRIES IS APRIL 15. ALL WORKS
SHOULD BE TURNED IN TO
DONN ROSENAUER BY THIS
TIME.
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Chairman of this session is A. J. tian in the actual rather than in
Briesemeister, superintendent of the abstract. The horizontal cross
the Seguin Independent School
District.
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can be envisioned as a prostrate
cross, a cross which lies on the
ground and reaches outward
rather than is rooted in the
ground to reach upward. What
does this cross symbolize to you?
Or can we say that the. cross
is either vertical OR horizontal,
as our theme implies? Could it be
that the cross is both vertical
AND horizontal, that man must
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