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Peter Sellars, director of the new
opera “Nixon in China,” sat on a ta
ble in 701 Rudder Friday. Franti
cally speaking with his hands and
voice, he tried to explain how people
collaborate to create an opera. But
he quickly strayed from the subject.
“I have this problem in that ba
sically when I say something, I say it
with a tremedous level of authority
which comes from having been a di
rector for too many years,” he said.
“Which obviously (means) you have
no idea what you’re talking about
and you’re faking desperately.”
The discussion, sponsored by the
Department of Liberal Arts, also
brought Alice Goodman, an English
poet who wrote the libretto, or text,
for the opera. The opera is based
upon President Richard M. Nixon’s
trip to the People’s Republic of
China that marked the reopening of
Chinese-American relations.
The bulk of the discussion con
cerned art and society. Sellars said
they are not as separate as many
think.
there real fast because it was stupid
or it was usefully irritating.
“It continues to just scratch and
won’t exactly stay still. And then you
live with it and it becomes part of
your life.”
He also addressed students in an
interdisciplinary seminar class called
Form and Imagination, who had
drawings and models on display. He
spoke directly to an architectural as
pect of the class that emphasizes the
connection between literature and
the visual arts.
“In the theater, I’m allowed to be
irresponsible,” he said. “In the the-
“You’re doing something
that can’t be disposable
like a greeting card.
You ’re doing something
that people live with every
day. ”
— Peter Sellars, “Nixon in
China ” director
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“So often we re put in the position
of the arts where we’re this weird
thing off to the side that has nothing
to do with anything,” he said. “And
in fact the opposite is usually true —
most people wind up being these
weird people off to the side that
have nothing to do with anything.
“The only reason that society
hires artists to exist is to know that
somewhere on the face of the earth
somebody did something that they
meant.”
He said that most people don’t
mean what they say or do, but they
use a version of it.
“It’s just a little to the left of what
you meant, or a little to the right of
what you meant, but you didn’t actu
ally mean that,” he said.
“The reason the artist exists in
some sense is that someone has to do
something that is utterly useless, that
has no materialistic gain, that’s not
done to make money, that couldn’t
possibly make money,” he said.
Sellars said that even with all the
money spent on an opera, the audi
ence does not carry anything physi
cal home with them.
“You don’t have a souvenir to take
home with you,” he said. “You just
spent a ton of money and what do
you have left for it? There is no ob
ject. You just have this thing which
enters your mind and either it dies
ater, the great thing is (that) you can
always fold your tent and leave town.
“Whereas in architecture, its still
there — oh, there’s that tent —which
is a bit of a problem.
“The are not any fast getaways.”
He noted the importance of the
decisions made when designing a
building.
“As beginning architecture stu
dents know, obviously, when you de
sign a house for somebody, you’re
engaged in marriage counseling,” he
said. “You can make or break a mar
riage by the way you design a house.
“One does not make a design deci
sion based on ‘this would be nice.’
Basically ‘this would be nice’ is over
with. It is like the difference between
a Rembrandt and a Norman Rock
well, or like a Hallmark greeting
card. In that, obviously, the experi
ence is over with, with the greeting
card.
“The greeting card is meant to be
opened for a second — you look at it
and say ‘great,’ and then it’s thrown
away. But what about the aspects of
people’s lives that can’t be thrown
away?
“You’re doing something that
can’t be disposable like a greeting
card. You’re doing something that
people live with every day.
“It has to do with a personal deci
sion that every human being makes
— that everything they touch will be
of a certain quality or not.”
What’s up
Monday
PHI THETA KAPPA ALUMNI: will meet at 7:30pi
027 MSC.
ATHEIST, AGNOSTIC AND FREETHINKER S0CIE1
will meet at 7 p.m. in 704 Rudder.
SIGMA IOTA EPSILON: will meet at 7:30 p.m
INTRAMURAL SPORTS: Entries will open for cross®
try and badminton doubles in 159 Read.
HONORS COUNCIL a Executives will meet at 7 p.m. m
general meeting will follow at 7:30 p.m. in 402 Rudder
PI SIGMA EPSILON: Team B, the Beepers, willplayvoS
ball at 9 p.m. in the Read Building and will haveanes
utive board meeting at 6 p.m. in the second floor of tki
vilion.
HILLEL, JEWISH STUDENT FOUNDATION: win
8:30 p.m. at the I lillel Building, 800 Jersey.
AGGIES FOR DUKAKIS: will discuss a San Antonio trip:
p.m. in 004A-B Rudder.
PHI ETA SIGMA NATIONAL HONOR SOCIETY^
cepting applications until Tuesday in 216 Pavilion
Tuesday
PI SIGMA EPSILON: Team C, the Dotted Lines,
volleyball at 9 p.m. in the Read Building.
AMERICAN SOCIETY OF MECHANICAL ENGINED
will take pictures for the Aggieland at 7:30 p.m. onilt
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BETA BETA BETA: will meet at 7 p.m. in lOBHddeoM
JUNG1AN SOCIETY OF THE BRAZOS VALLEY:Dr.
Schenk will discuss “Navajo Healing” at 8 p.m. in226)i
CHRISTIAN SCIENCE ORGANIZATION: will la
prayer meeting at 7 p.m. at the All Faiths Chapel.
THE BIG EVENT: will meet at 7 p.m. in 146 MSC.
INTRAMURAL SPORTS: Entries close for bowlings
in 159 Read.
MSC LITERARY ARTS: 1 )i. ( hristensen willpreseniasl
nar on poetry analysis at 5:30 p.m. in 228 MsC.
WEST BELL COUNTY HOMETOWN CLUB: Theme
at 8:30 p.m. is postponed.
INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS ASSOCIATION
Ferrell will discuss “International Business Ethics”al
p.m. in 126 Blocker.
RHA FRESHMAN LEADERSHIP PROGRAM: willEr
7 p.m. in 200 Harrington.
DELTA SIGMA PI: will meet at 6 p.m. in Blocker.
MEXIA HOMETOWN CLUB: will meet at 8:3
604A-B Rudder.
TAMU HORSEMEN’S ASSOCIATION: will have . 1
demonstration at 7 p.m. at the Dick Freeman Arena.
STUDENT GOVERNMENT PUBLIC RELATIONS
meet at 7 p.m. in 704A-B Rudder.
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School officials say hazing continut
on some college campuses in Texas
AUSTIN (AP) — Despite laws
aimed at erasing it and deaths that
have resulted from it, hazing contin
ues on Texas college campuses,
school officials say.
“It’s something we have to keep
hammering away at year after year,”
said Michael Schardein, Texas Tech
University’s assistant dean of stu
dents.
Bill Kilber, associate director of
student affairs at Texas A&M, said
some students have difficulty distin
guishing between “good college fun”
and hazing.
At A&M, sophomore Bruce
Goodrich died after an August 1984
hazing episode supervised by mem
bers of the school’s Corps of Cadets.
Kibler said hazing is still a prob
lem at A&M today. “It’s not any
greater a problem now than it has
been in recent years,” he said. “But
to say it’s not a continuing problem
on our campus would be inaccurate.
Students are involved in various
things that clearly violate our hazing
regulations.”
Kibler said some students do not
understand why hazing a willing vic
tim is wrong.
“Many students feel they can
bring forward the victim and get
that person to testify that they volun
teered and considered it an honor to
participate,” he said.
School officials said the well-pub
licized deaths and injuries plus the
Sen. Gonzalo Barrientos, D-Aus-
tin, said, “You are always going to
have dummies doing dumb things,
unfortunately.”
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during a fraternity event
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its periodic trip to the headlines a
few days ago when a special panel
reported that hazing, in some of its
most brutal forms, still goes on
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recent years. But to say it’s not a continuing problem
on our campus would be inaccurate. ”
— Bill Kilber, A&M associate director of student
affairs
Three disciplinary hearings on
hazing have been held this school
year at A&M, involving “physical
kinds of things,” such as tying peo
ple up or dumping them in water,
Kibler said.
potential financial liability in such
cases has helped make hazing less
popular.
At Southern Methodist Univer
sity, Dean of Students Jim Caswell
said there have been no recent re
ports of serious, potentially injurious
hazing.
“But I’m not Pollyannaish about
this,” he said. “I’m not suggesting it
doesn’t occur.”
A state senator whose new,
tougher anti-hazing law went into ef
fect at the start of the school year
said he fears hazing will continue.
among some University of Texas
student organizations.
The law professor who chaired
the panel, John Ratliff, said the
abuse, sometimes with two-handed
paddles and sometimes with cattle
prods, continued despite the UT
commission’s well-publicized, year
long investigation.
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Mark Seeberger, a Richardson
freshman who drank up to 20
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