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ie stoiy is narrated by Michael, the ii-
Itimate son of one of die sisters. Chris
[s, a senior theater arts major and the ac-
afwho plays Michael, described the stum-
ig blocks performers face on the stage.
[‘For this play, performing my lines
ie hardest part,” Voss said. “I have
so many, and 1 don’t have much inter-
ption with the other characters, and
lat interaction I do have is so stilted.”
Hetegardless of the work involved, the
job has its rewards.
Jr This has been a real fun cast to
?0!'k with," Voss said. “It’s a small cast
■it is very intimate. If you work with
larger cast, say, 25 or more people
then you get to know some people, but
you don’t get to see others as much.”
Tlndeed, the long hours spent on the
stage rehearsing encourages cast
jmbers to learn from each other and
)ut each other. Mandy Mitchell, a
Jshman general studies major, said
fe life of an actress has some confus
ing moments.
|“I think there’s a real chemistry that
/elops between us because we
;nd so much time together on stage
icticing,” Mitchell said. “Sometimes
you’ll see another cast member on
campus and call out their stage name.”
Ruth Ann Jaso, a senior genetics ma
jor, said the actors sometimes found
themselves behaving like a family after
hours of pretending to be a family.
“Some of us get on each other’s
nerves at times but it’s a good thing,”
Jaso said. “We know each other well
enough because of the time we spend
practicing that any time they do get on
your nerves it’s not a big thing.”
Still, Jaso said the script remains
true to life.
“Anybody who has a sister can relate
to this play,” Jaso said.
Nancy Castellanos, a senior jour
nalism major, said the long hours
spent in rehearsal are not a big sacri
fice when compared to the rewards of
acting in a play as good as “Dancing at
Lughnasa.”
“Honestly, when you do something
like this, you have so much fun you just
don’t notice the time,” Castellanos
said. “You come out of practice so
awake and energized it picks you up.”
“Dancing at Lughnasa” will be pre
sented at 8 p.m. in Rudder Forum from
April 16 to 18 and April 22 to 24. Tick
ets are available at the MSC Box Office.
Ticket prices are $6 for students and $7
for the general public.
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The survey also indicated that every
day activities such as driving, eating
and exercising can be challenging for
allergy sufferers. Seventy-five percent
of the respondents said they go through
between 100 an 600 tissues during an
allergy season.
Even though allergy sufferers may
think their battle with allergies may
never end, allergy symptoms some
times become dormant and symptoms
disappear.
But unfortunately, experts believe
that allergy sufferers do not outgrow
their disease. Symptoms tend to recur
after being dormant, and allergies may
even worsen over time.
Astronauts set to launch on Columbia
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — The
thirty- and fortysomethings who will
take off aboard space shuttle Columbia
on Thursday for two weeks of medical
tests will be young in years but old at
heart — at least in orbit.
“In two weeks of spaceflight, we
can induce changes in blood pressure
regulation that might approximate 30
or 40 years of aging and then we can
return back to a normal state. It’s just
a phenomenal research model,” said
Jim Pawelczyk, a Pennsylvania State
University physiologist assigned to
the flight.
Columbia’s Neurolab mission
promises to be the most in-depth study
ever of the brain and nervous system in
space. It is intended to shed light on ag
ing and other health problems in orbit
and on Earth, and perhaps make it eas
ier for astronauts one day to camp on
the moon or travel to Mars.
Besides seven humans, the shuttle
will carry more than 2,000 animals,
some of which will be dissected in or
bit. The furry, scaly and crawly crowd
includes pregnant mice, rats, snails,
fish and crickets. They were loaded into
Columbia on Wednesday.
Despite the focus on aging, the 76-
year-old John Glenn was never consid
ered for this mission, said Dr. Arnauld
Nicogossian, NASA’s top medical man.
“Glenn is scheduled to fly a nine-day
shuttle mission this fall.
“Columbia’s crew has been training
intensively for the past few years, and
so there wasn’t time to add Glenn to
the mission,” Nicogossian said. “Be
sides, he said, it’s important to know
how and why younger bodies mimic
aging in weightlessness before send
ing Glenn into space.”
In weightlessness, bones and mus
cles shrivel, immunity decreases and
sleep deteriorates.
Those are the sort of things that hap
pen to older people on Earth, thus the
interest in the mission by the National
Institute on Aging.
Pawelczyk and the crew’s three oth
er medical men will undergo all sorts
of neurological tests during the 16- to
17-day flight.
They will have needles stuck in their
legs and electrodes attached elsewhere.
Their hands will be stuck in ice-cold
mittens. They will be spun at 45 rpm.
They will be wired for sleep.
And if they are lucky, they will repeat
the whole thing in four months. NASA
is considering reflying Neurolab
aboard Columbia in August.
The start of construction on the in
ternational space station is probably go
ing to be delayed this summer, so NASA
is thinking of adding another shuttle
flight to keep its organization sharp.
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