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THE MEGAPHONE
Friday, March 20, 1970
Page 3
JUDGES — Three students from Southwestern University
at Georgetown, were judges for the finals of the Optimist
Club sponsored speaking contest held Monday during the
organisation’s regular meeting at the Food Fair. Ross Bald-
win, who served as master of ceremonies for the contest
finals, is shown behind the judges. The judges, left to right,
are Jim Colby, a Southwestern freshman from Houston;
Bai^ara Sadler, a freshman from Sherman; and Sandra
Hits, a senior from San Antonio.
Students Win at Speech Fest
Six Southwestern University stud-
ents represented the drama and
speech department in the School
of Fine Arts at the Forensic Fes-
tival March 13 sponsored by Tem-
ple Junior. College and brought
and excellent ratings for perfor-
Woodward to
Solo at Easter
Lewis Woodward, baritone, will
be guest soloist for the Easter
Sunday morning service at the
Presbyterian Church in New
Braunfels, announces the Rev. W.
C. Jones III, pastor of the church.
Prior to joining the music facul-
ty in our School of Fine Arts in
1966 as Chairman of the Voice De-
partment, Woodward was head of
the Voice Department at Tarleton
State College, Stephenville.
A graduate of North Texas State
University with the Bachelor of
Science degree, the Bachelor of
Music degree, and Master of Mu-
sic Education degree, Woodward
has studied at The Viertna Academy
of Music and SalzburgMozarteum.
He is a candidate for the Doctor of
Musical Arts degree in perform-
ance at the University of Texas
at Austin.
Woodward has been presented in
c^eerts in some of the leading mu-
sic centers abroad, including Vi-
enna, Salzburg, Wiesbaden, Bonn
and Bad Godesberg, where he re-
ceived the acclaim of critics as a
distinguished interpreter of Ger-
man lieder.
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mances duringthe one-day meeting.
Approximately 100 students re-
presenting six colieges and uni-
versities competed for ratings in
oratory, extemporaneous speaking,
radio speech, poetry interpreta-
tion, dramatic impersonation, and
duo-drama.
Accompanying the group from
Southwestern University was Dr.
Angus Springer, Chairman of the
Drama and Speech Department in
the School of Fine Arts.
Southwestern University students
in the competition included:
JAMES WILLI AM COLBY, reci-
pient of superior rating in oratory,
freshman;
ROYCE A. GEHRELS, rating of
excellent in poetry reading and su-
perior in dramatic reading, junior;
DAYLE DIANE HILBORN, excel- *
lent rating in dramatic reading, so-
phomore;
SANDRA ROLAND HITZ, excel-
lent rating in radio speech, senior;
BARBARA SADLER, excellent
rating in extemporaneous speaking,
freshman; and
ANN STATON, superior rating in
poetry, sophomore.____
Ralphie Backs
18-Yr.-0ld Vole
Senator Ralph W. Yarborough,
D-Texas, a long-time advocate for
the right to vote for 18-year-olds,
strongly endorsed legislation in the
Senate last Wednesday to lower
the voting age to 18, saying:
“I rise to support Amendment
545 to the Voting Rights Act sub-
mitted by the Senator from Mon-
tana, Mr. Mansfield and others.
This amendment would provide for
something that I have advocated for
a long time—lowering the voting
age to 18. In the 90th Congress,
I was happy to co-sponsor with the
distinguished senior Senator from
Montana, S.J. Res. 8, which would
provide for a Constitutional amend-
ment to achieve this purpose. In
this Congress, on April 29th, 1969,
I introduced S.J. Res. 102, which
would also provide for a Constitu-
tional amendment to lower the
voting age to 18.
Or. Jaro
Plays
Tapes
CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE
or murder victim.
At the end of his talk, he said
that we, as youths, had inherited
'a rather messed-up world. How-
ever, there was still potential
for peace and that all we had to
do was develop it. He was very
optimistic about the chances for
peace in the world.
Later on in several of his talks
before classes and in informal
group sessions, he jumped from
one topic to the next, sometimes
talking about himself or interject-
ing experiences he has had with
famous people or carefully philo-
sophizing on various subjects.
One would never guess that be-
hind that thick German accent is
an European, born in America of
a Viennese mother of Italian and
Irish extraction and a third-gene ra-
tion American father of Hungar-
ian origin.
Dr. Jaro explained to one class
that when he was working as a
broadcaster in New York City,
he almost lost his job wnen he
took speech correction lessons.
He said that people liked his show,
“The Unusual Hour” not only be-
cause he had unusual people on,
but also because of his accent.
Dr. Jaro also mentioned that
he started selling stories to a
newspaper when he was sixteen
years old. A year later he wrote
a series of crime stories with
one of the police chiefs of Ber-
lin.
When he was eighteen, he went
to interview a famous German
painter and happened to see Pres-
ident Hindemburg coming out of
his house. He found out that
his portrait was being painted as
a present to the Reichstag and
the German people on the occasion
of his eightieth birthday.
Presently, Dr. Jaro is a poli-
tical analyist and news commenta-
tor in Vienna for the Austrian ra-
dio system. Known in Europe as
an authority on America, Dr. Jaro
prefers to present the positive side
of American life and culture.
Dr. Jaro explained to one class
that he preferred to conduct his
interviews as conversations. He
also will either tape them or rely
on his memory.
He stressed the importance of
finding out something about a per-
son that is not too well known to
get him in a conversational mood.
To accomplish this he likes to
talk to the person about an hour
sometime before the broadcast.
Hence, he has many tapes of these
When queried on pollution in
Europe, Dr. Jaro was told that
the Blue Danube was reported
to be black. Dr. Jaro carefully
corrected the student noting that
it was gray. He did say that he
had once seen the Blue Danube
when it was blue and that Strauss
must have seen it on the same
kind of day.
A musical trio consisting of Drusilla Huffmaster Raphael
Fliegel and Thomas Bay performed Wednesday night in the
theatre.
"Z"- A Great Political Movie
“Z” is a political movie, an op-
inionated movie, a great movie, in
that order. By the subtle strength
of its presentation one is forced
to extrapolate from the microcism
of events it explores to the pres-
ent reality of increasing political
repression and malfeasance un-
comfortably making themselves
apparent even among the demo-
cracies of the Western world. The
technique is low-key and unobtru-
sive, flashbacks handled so as to
add volume to the story rather than
obfuscate, subtitles succinct and
quickly assimilated; in fact, as op-
posed to movies such as “Coming
Apart” or “Medium Cool”, the
mode of presentation plays a sup-
porting role, allowing all attention
to be paid to the message, and only
in retrospect does one .stumble
upon the beautiful integration which
holds the cry of anguish within in-
' telligible bounds.
‘HISTORY, STEPHEN SAID, IS
A NIGHTMARE FROM WHICH I
AM TRYING TO AWAKE - James
Joyce” Recent Greek history is
the nightmare exploited by this
movie. The action moves swiftly
as an insignificant government
prosecutor painstakingly unravels
a plot by an extreme rightist or-
ganization which, with government
complicity, has assassinated a
neutralist, disarmament-oriented
opposition candidate. “A FORM-
. Eft STATE ATTORNEY-GEN-
ERAL ACCUSED A U.S. SENATOR
OF GIVING AID AND COMFORT
TO THE ENEMY FOR HIS ENDOR-
SEMENT OF A PEACE DEMON-
STRATION” cf. Article III, Sec.
Ill and Amendment I, U. S. Con-
stitution? “Hold your meetings in
Peking,* * the enraged crowd of pa-
triots cries as the opposition lead-
er crosses the square to speak at a
rally. “Vive le bomb! Vive le
TO HIS OPINIONS, AND THAT IN-
CLUDES THE VICE PRESIDENT
OF THE UNITED STATES!-Pres-
ident Richard M. Nixon/ “They*ve
a right to hold their meetings, and
we*ve a right to react,** the leader
of the rightist organization exhorts
his partisans.
Plot aside, the seminal scene of
the movie takes place as the marty-
red leader's widow attempts to ga-
ther his few belongings in the de-
serted hotel room. She moves un-
certainly amid the antiseptic white
of the room, starting, turning, lost,
unable to absorb the full impact
of her loss; moaning, tearless, her
imporent whimpering of the same
substance as Billy’s tortured cry
when he awakes to the rain of axe
handles on the heads of George and
Captain America. She attempts to
force comprehension, to let the
teras come and transform her grief
from psychic to physical. Yet she,
as we, can only sit and keen over
what might have been, not the pre-
sent loss, but its repercussions
on the future when at last under-
standing is possible.
And therein lies the true horror
of the film, the creeping terror of
acceptance of the morally unac-
ceptable. Was not one character's
argument fair that, were high gov-
ernment officials to be charged
with complicity in the assassina-
tion, there would be nothing left
ibut longhaired drug addicts and
'revolutionaries? /ANY STRUC-
TURE IS BETTER THAN NONE AT
ALL, BECAUSE IN THE LATTER
CASE, YOU'VE ONLY RUBBLE-
stock argument/. It s subtlety hits
too hard, because there is not the •
cleansing calharisis of violent end,
motorcycles blown from the highway
by a shotgun blast; there is only the
gnawing realization that What You
Have Just Seen Is True, no need
to change the names because ev-
eryone if guilty. /THE MEN WERE
REALLY TIRED AND ON EDGE.
THEY'D LOST A COUPLA BUD-
DIES TO THE VC THE DAY BE*:
1 FORE AND.... —explanation at My
Lai/
“Z” cannot be properly review-
ed any more than can the daily
newscast—we haven’t the proper
distance nor objectivity. Yet th6,
dissipation of the sense of moral-
outrage, the feeling of total help- ,
lessness, the shifting shades of
four murdered American leaders
cannot be put aside. The movie
must be seen if for no other rea-
son than to grasp just how far we
have fallen from the concepts which
first had a limited application in
ancient Greece. Hemlock and tear-
less grief as the cold ascends slow-
ly from the legs; “Pay for that,
cock,” and sooner than we know
must the piper be paid.
—Janus
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