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Page 8 September, 17 1990
Features
Student Orientation helps new students adjust
Admissions Office
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WILD AT HEART, pushing the absurd
Chicago, Black Comedy, earn
SEU 9 ACOT nominations
Program started in 1987, New Student Orientation has
helped many freshmen enter SEU smoothly
“The program went well. It’s
always exciting to meet new stu-
come together to build a stimulat-
ing film.
Director: David Lynch
With: Nicolas Cage, Sandra Dem,
Dianne Ladd, Harry Dean Stanton,
Isabella Rossellini, Crispen Glover,
Willem Dafoe.
over the edge into abstract, ironic,
coincidental realities of Theatre of
the Absurd.
Sailor—a goofy, good-hearted,
Buddy Holly-wannabe—and Lula-
a ditzy, loving, Georgian slut -
follow their yellow brick road
through the South pursued by
Marietta - a wicked witch with a
fear of aging - and Marietta’s law-
less friends - with a contract on
Sailor’s life. Sailor and Lula never
reach Oz as fate runs them across
include David Stokey, Dee Dee
Fields, Jana Mora, Philip Nolen,
and Katie Blackwell.
Black Comedy is about a not-
so-opulent sculptor who is having a
dinner party with the attempt to
impress his fiance’s extremely rich
father. The title is derived from the
fact that the majority of the play
occurs in a black-out.
Nominations for Black Com-
edy included a best director for
Michael Harlan, lead actor for Philip
Nolen, featured actor for Jim
Rippee, and lighting design for
Michael Massey.
The theatre department was
really proud of last season’s accom-
plishments. As Philip Nolen put it,
“This was a banner year for St.
Edward’s University.”
and informational programs offered
during Orientation.
However, the Office of Ad-
missions hopes students will receive
much more than information during
Orientation.
“We want Orientation to be
more than just ‘learning the ropes.’
The idea is to introduce new fresh-
men into the campus community.
We want them to establish their
place in the student body and to
recognize the importance of the
contributions they’ll make while
they are here,” said Megan Murphy,
Director of Admissions.
top.”
Wild at Heart is a dangerous
film with more current to sweep
you along than most box office hits
of the 1980s. Symbolism, erotica,
absurdity, and campy humor all
KAY MILLER
staff writer
Think of your favorite food
dyed the color you absolutely hate
the most and that borders on the sort
of feeling evoked by David Lynch’s
Wild at Heart - a sort of love/hate,
tasty/ yet-creepy edge. The film
boils with scenes of severe realities
or at least severities.
Lynch, best known for his T. V.
drama-murder series Twin Peaks,
also created the cult films Blue
KURT KENYON BLOCHER
Dawn Lotti, a Student Orientation Leader, guides her small group
through an ice-breaker, a game designed to make incoming
students more comfortable with each other.
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egories, which include musicals,
comedies, and design.
Last spring’s musical Chicago
was a show that director Dr. Charles
Ney had always dreamed of doing.
He explained that although many
people were nervous about doing
Chicago, he did not feel it was a
risk-taker.
Philip Nolen described Chi-
cago as a satire on corruption
showing the American tendency to
worship its criminal. He further
expounded that since Chicago was
written during Watergate it dis-
played a negative side of the media.
Chicago received nominations
for overall production, for best di-
rector, and one in lighting design
for Gary Van Der Wege. Actors
and actresses receiving nominations
transition to college.
“As an SOL, you become the
bridge between a person’s home
life and their quest for indepen-
dence in their new college life. I
think Orientation is the most im-
portant part of the transition. We
are their guides to advising and un-
derstanding registration so they
won’t panic. I personally loved
To make students more com- source for new students. They en-
other—they have an absurd love
that can only evoke laughter.
This film is epitomized by its
title quote - Lula says, bewildered,
distant and /disenchanted: “this
world is wild at heart and we’re on
the careful planning of the Office of dents with the facilities, organiza-
Admissions and the help of faculty tions and services offered by the
and staff, calm and organization university.
prevailed. One of these optional programs,
Since 1987, freshmen students conducted by Father Kurt Spilker,
have made a comfortable transition Director of Campus Ministry,
to college life at St. Edward’s served as an overview of the many
through the small group meetings functions of Campus Ministry.
The quiet stillness of summer fortable and give them the opportu- joy sharing their personal experi-
quickly came to an end August 25 nity to meet and interact with other ences with other students and are
as more than 260 freshmen students freshmen students, the class is di- comfortable in leading a small
and their parents converged on the vided into twenty groups during group,” said Donna Gutierrez, SOL
St. Edward’s campus. Orientation. Coordinator.
Chaos and confusion might Each student is required to at- The Student Orientation Lead-
have easily erupted as the crowds tend three small group meetings in ers are appointed by the Office of
struggled to get information about which an SOL provides information Admissions during the spring se-
residence halls, testing, advising, regarding the advising process, mester and are varied in personal-
and registration. testing and registration. ity, background and interests. The
But with the efforts of twenty Orientation also includes op- one quality they share is the desire
Student Orientation Leaders (SOL), tional programs to familiarize stu- to assist new students in making the
dents and give them a chance to see meeting all the new people,” said
what we do. We were very pleased Yvonne Anguiano, a sophomore
with the response from the students accounting student.
who attended,” Spilker said. The 1990 Student Orientation
Although the weeks of planning Leaders included:
and the support ofthe St. Edward’s Judy Anderson, Yvonne
community is essential, each indi- Anguiano, Minh Carrico, Helen
vidual SOL guiding his or her group Fortner, Todd Hart, Mike Jackson,
through a maze of paperwork and Tara Jones, Kathie Kaminsky,
college jargon, offering encour- Robert Kozolvsky, Elizabeth
agement and reassurance, is the key Lapinski, DJ Lopez, Dawn Lotti,
to a successful Orientation program. Christina Luna, Matt McVearry,
“Basically, an SOL serves as a Diana Merriam, Debra Rosa, Clay
general information and referral Towery, Paul Tramonte, Kevin
Wallace, and Celina Zapata.
Velvet and Eraserhead, all of Bobby Peru, played by Willem
which carry the same unresolved Dafoe (Platoon). Dafoe’s carica-
this-is-a-creepy-world-we-live- ture embodies evil—complemented
in element. At times during Wild at by unaligned darting eyes,
Heart, it is hard to believe that neanderthal bone structure and
Lynch can cram so much graphic gnarled teeth—providing the most
violence into an hour and forty eight disturbing scenes in the movie. He’s
minutes, but at the same time each acreepy con who’s biggestpleasure
brain-splattering, blood-flowing is others’ anguish.
shot is essential to the disturbing The more-than-worthy-of-
tide he seems to work to create. mention cameo by Crispen Glover
The audience moves back and (Back to The Future I, II, III)
forth from driving cross-country touches the over-the-edge possi-
with Sailor, played by Nicolas Cage bilities as the audience witnesses
(Raising Arizona), and Lula, Lula’s cousin (Glover) writhing on
played by Laura Dern (Blue Vel- the street due to his psychotic
vet), to Lula’s obsessive mother, pleasure ofpinning live cockroaches
Marietta, portrayed by Dianne Ladd to the inside of his underwear.
(Dern’s real life mother), who is While the film opens with ex-
Hell-bent on separating the two. plosive fire that seems to warn the
The film makes constant refer- audience that what they are about to
ence to the classic The Wizard of witness is close to teeth-gnashing,
Oz, bringing a familiar feeling it is not without humor: Sailor and
amidst surrealism that nearly goes Lula were more than meant for each
ALISON BESHUR
staff writer
St. Edward’s Mary Moody
Northen Theatre received nine
A.C.O.T. nominations for last
spring’s musical Chicago and four
A.C.O.T. nominations for the
summer’s production of Black
Comedy.
A.C.O.T. (Austin Circle of
Theatres) was designed “to en-
courage theatrical activity and co-
ordinate opening nights so not ev-
eryone would open at the same
time,” as defined by thespian Philip
Nolen, recipient of two of the
A.C.O.T. nominations and a previ-
ous award winner. A.C.O.T. awards
were devised as outstanding
achievement awards for Austin
community theaters in various cat-
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