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Page 4/The Battalion/Friday, May 6,1988
OPAS confirms schedule
of shows for ’88-89 season
‘Edwin Drood’ to highlight theater series
By Lyneen Johnson
Staff Writer
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dates are set for the MSC Opera and
Performing Arts Society’s 1988-89
season.
An announcement of the tentative
schedule appeared in The Battalion
last month. 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.
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too by studying Greek. The::
broadening that occurs by sti4i
other cultures that are notj
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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
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