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As MSC officials antic ipated, however, several changes were made in the final schedule. “The big show that we tried to get for our theater series was ‘Dream Girls,’ but we ran into problems with the final contract negotiations and had to find a substitute,” said Paul Weisepape, OPAS chairman. “Although we are not bringing a really big show (like ‘Dream Girls’ or this semester’s ‘Cats’), the final schedule will be exciting in its own right,” he said. On Nov. 10, OPAS will present “The Mystery of Edwin Drood,” a Broadway hit with a variety of end ings. “The musical has seven different endings, so the show is never really the same from one performance to the next,” Weisepape said. “Before the end of the show, the play stops and the audience votes on who they think the killer is. The majority de termines which ending the perform ers use. “This twist is a real crowd-pleaser and should be lots of fun.” Other shows in the theater series include: • The Missouri Repertory Theatre’s performance of “The Im migrant” — Oct. 20 • “My One and Only” — Feb. 17 • Mummenschanz, a Swiss mime troupe — March 27 • The Alley Theatre’s production of “A View From the Bridge” — April 10 • “Big River” — dates not set A banquet and clinic with ballet star Rudolf Nureyev is planned ten tatively for the night after his per formance, Weisepape said. “This is very tentative, but it would be a neat experience to spend some one-on-one time with such a great performer,” he said. Other performances in the music series include: • Brazos Valley Symphony Or chestra with guest soloist — Sept. 30 • Peter Serkin/ Young Del performing the Beethoven sj — Oct. 22 • Jean Francois Halliard l her Orchestra — Oct. 26 • Rudolf Nureyev and Frs (Paris Opera Ballet) — Nov.2 I • Academy of St. Martin?.' Fields Chamber Orchestra-fJ • Bavarian Symphony Ora of Munich — March 8 • Swingle Singers — AprilI; The OPAS Board of Direct* lected the performances after. ; ing many of the shows during cember conference in New Weisepape said. He and the student chains the program advisory subconi: also attended the conference Increased student involve within the committee will beer, aged in the next year, Wei# said. “Along with our perform: one of my goals is to strength Focus on Performing Arts ss mittee," he said. “This group volved with lectures, educatio: tivities and |>erforniances i community and public schools Students get back to classic; with classes in Greek studie; By Sharon Maberry Staff Writer Most college students belong to a generation raised on sitcoms and throwaway novels, but a few Texas A&M students have returned to the age of the classics. About six students are completing a four-semester sequence of classical Greek studies. Craig Kallendorf, an assistant professor in the modern languages department, began the program in the Fall 1986 because of faculty and student interest in ancient Greek studies. “We posted signs and faculty members told students about the course, and the first semester that we offered it, the class filled up al most immediately,” Kallendorf said. “In fact, it was larger than we wanted with 35 students. ^ “Since that first semester, we’ve been trying to hold the numbers down some because that (35 stu dents) is too big for foreign-lan guage teaching.” This semester marks the first complete cycle of the four-semester sequence in ancient Greek. “We had an odd thing in the first cycle (of the course),” Kallendorf said. “Since graduate students and seniors get to register for classes first, they made up the majority of that first semester class. As a result, many of those students have grad uated since then (as it is a two-year program) and the fourth-semester class is fairly small.” The first two semesters of ancient Greek study — Beginning Classical Greek — teach students basic Greek grammar, said Dr. Timothy Moore, who teaches three courses of the se quence. “Grammar is taught through readings from ancient Greek au thors,” Moore said. “Some construc tions and words are changed to be easier (for the students). The result is that students have a chance to learn a lot about ancient Greece while doing that (learning gram mar).” The third semester, Intermediate Greek: New Testament, deals with “Students gain an appre ciation of Greece and of Greek literature, which has been so influential in determining how we in the Western world are to day. ” — Timothy Moore, professor straight readings from the New Tes tament, Moore said. Students trans late passages from the Gospel of John and the book of Romans, he said. The third semester of Greek study also stresses literary aspects of New Testament writings, he said. In the final semester of study — Advanced Readings in Greek — stu dents study ancient Greek plays. “Students are assigned a certain amount of reading each day,” Moore said. “They also do oral reports that discuss what was going on in the au thor’s mind or how that particular work affects Athenian society or his tory.” Moore said that studying ancient Greek is different from languages like French and Spanish. “Greek grammar is more difficult to learn than French or Spanish,” he said. “But Greek requires one less skill than those other foreign lan guages. Students don’t learn conver sation in Greek. There is more to memorize, but they don’t spend the same time on pronunciation and hearing the language as with mod ern languages.” Moore said he thinks the ancient Greek course is of considerable va lue to its students. “Students gain an appreciation of Greece and of Greek literature, which has been so influential in de termining how we in the Western world are today,” Moore said. “So much of our literature, as well as our philosophy and religion, are deter mined by the way the Cs thought. “We can have our cake arii too by studying Greek. The:: broadening that occurs by sti4i other cultures that are notj ern.” Studying Greek also give': preciation of how language;' . Dear Di; grammatically, Moore said Things ‘‘A good deal of our blmpunger. 1 words come from the Creel fcy I hroiij guage,” he said. “For example What wi word ‘school’ comes fromthel extracted < word ‘schole,’ which means le duv while s because one could study als R rather than working in thefe Dear Dii Chris Ellery, an English gK ' 1 hope i student in the fourth seniestei written. T1 Greek curriculum, said he t: at camp an reading ancient Greek plays. Well, I i “This com sc gives me a tarty so I background in my own areabta Chemical j my specialty is drama,” Ellers Good ni. “I get to go back and readth f earliest dramas.” These ai Ellery said he also enjoys® words coul ancient Greece and its people of outstam “I like knowing about the(Grae Nation culture and seeing how these ars Prograi thought,” he said. “It's interest:;The NS1 learn that human beings I juniors anc changed that much.” uni and lil Eark Ada Kristin Dye, a history grfc program is student in the fourth semesit- Texas A Greek, said she began studyitelife and li: language because she wanie; letted by learn New Testament Greek.ijYpung Scl Readings in Ancient Greek das sponsors n said, the plays she has learnf ; «Dr. Ron read are more difficult thanthtjnitor of tl Testament passages. 8a * ( l t ^ at a “By the time the first ceT came along,” she said, “thei language had simplified." Jennifer Edwards, a seniof glish major in the fourth seme ancient Greek, said she has® ^ several benefits from the him self i n “As an English major, I apprtj n f red him the English language so mucM identified now,” Edwards said. T th 1111 “Dapper writing has improved and learned how to study even morf smoodl |y ( mainly, it (studying Greet ists , ice helped me to think more. Iha«| jr to correlate the two languages was c i lar y Mobil strike resolved after 3-month dispute BEAUMONT (AP) — American flags replaced picket signs at the Mo bil Corp. refinery in Beaumont as a three-month strike came to an end on Wednesday. Striking Mobil workers began to stream through the plant gates for the evening shift Wednesday, about an hour after members of the local International Brotherhood of Elec trical Workers voted to approve a two-year contract. Members of the local Oil, Chemi cal and Atomic Workers Union ap proved their contract offer Tuesday. The strike, which began Feb. 4, was the longest in the history of Mo bil’s Beaumont refinery. Members of the IBEW initially re jected Mobil’s proposal Monday, which put the other union in an awk ward position. OCAW officals asked their mem bers not to cross the IBEW picket lines until the electrical workers could work out an agreement with Mobil. Mobil spokesman Roy Dickerson would not comment on the number of OCAW members who returned to work Wednesday, except to say it was less than 100 people. Mobil and the IBEW were hag gling over a one-sentence clause in the contract about who would be al lowed to work switches controlling up to 4,160 volts of electricity and who would change light bulbs at the plant. IBEW officials said they did not want non-electricans to perform electrical work because of safety rea sons. Mobil, however, said it was a craft jurisdictional dispute. Officials from Mobil and the IBEW met with a federal mediatior Wednesday morning and agreed that any operating employee, which includes OCAW members, could work switches up to 4,160 volts with authorization from a top operator. Also, anyone will be allowed to change light bulbs at the plant, Dick erson said. In the past IBEW mem bers changed all light bulbs. The OCAW had gone on strike because Mobil wanted to use super visors rather than union members to operate its new centralized control center. Under the agreement, supervisors will perform the control center jobs, and the company will not demote any employee for five years as a re sult of staffing changes in the con trol center. Fire causes gas explosion injures one RANGER (AP) — Fire aU Texas compression plant ip 11 natural gas explosion, enguf site in flames and causing oi> ( ployee to be hospitalized, ol said. It shook the windows at^ station four miles from the He 11 Fluid and Leasing Corp northwest of Ranger, Fire Darrell Fox said Thursday. The blast Wednesday leftf Pearson, 55, of Eastland in' condition at Hendrick Medici ter in Abilene. Pearson sp from respiratory problems, T tal spokesman said Thursday “I feel like it was a mir® 1 made it out,” said Mack Cong' an employee whose hair wast 1 when the plant exploded.‘‘We il coming. I knew it was g 0 ' 1 blow.” Ranger is about 60 miles' Abilene on Interstate Highwaf] “There was a big, dark d smoke,” said Pamela Pilgrim,* ployee at a Ranger con'T store about five miles fromth' “I could see it clear fromoiT I El O! A| windows.