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Battalion Aggielife Page 3 • Wednesday, October 14, 1998 imedesotfl spayed me I Skin Deep 'Missy’s®! heater Arts opens neh# feason with Wilder's timistic play ‘he owneii: isy’s specs iworthcii nan. She’s netiine; l BY MARIUM MOHIUDDIN it specie home sc ming Ms harraacG m fordogs.j Muce the s dog pc: M ost peo ple have no insides at all. m / that you’re president, iogswiv [Usee that. Listen darling, Undesimi |e’s a kind of secret soci- ... yat the top of the world — V UCCId ( . ice chari |y ou an( J me — that know s Agriai:: I The world was made for 1 , Sl ® IWhat’s life anyway? Ex- ;are an t Jfor two things — plea- gdiscus: pand power.” :anines, i«— Sabina, the temptress in WBISm "The Skin of Oar Teeth" 1941, Thornton Wilder visit- gland and was struck by the sphere of optimism he found le midst of a war and air raids, led him to write a play about esilience of the human spirit fits ability to survive even if by ieSkin of our Teeth.” |vo years later, Wilder received ltd Pulitzer prize for the play, 57 years later, the Texas A&M ter Arts Program will open its mtommorrow at Rudder Forum the play that still has the ability ich into today’s headlines and re truth about human nature. '. Roger Schultz, director of Skin of Our Teeth” and a issor of speech communica iportive nedatsi and ente utelistft helps the i cost $7, equired. entsgettkii ? or er t takes inetotab aduate irch grout' ffir ims and e for i etingat peal 5 (i j willbe r e 3 Koldus. for detail social •aft sessi dder. W 696-0“' rum: Th 1 yarding and the f unds at^ im: Tr ' jf Our Tee ; 8 845-262 here w 1 8:30 P' f lent Ass* I general 503 Bio* tion and theater arts, said he chose this play because of the brilliance of the playwright. “He is an optimist,” Schultz said. “Instead of dwelling on what is bad and all the problems, he is setting a positive attitude about life. He believes we are essentially good and that man is at his best at times of crisis.” The curtain rises in the first act in Excelsior, NJ. George Antrobus is at work where he has just fin ished separating M from N, real izing that 10 times 10 equals 100 and has invented the wheel, all in one day. At his house, Homer, Moses, the nine muses and his family are wor ried about George coming home before the glacier comes in. Schultz said the family unit represents everyday man and woman and the trials and tribula tions of life. “The lead character is Antrobus (Greek meaning ‘human being’),” he said. “He represents every man. He is defined as having worked himself up to nothing, which is the Darwin point of view, and he was also a gardener that left his posi tion, which alludes him to Adam.” His wife Maggie Antrobus may be seen as Eve. His son Henry changed his name from Cain and wears the mark of evil. His daugh ter Gladys is an ironic representa tion of naive womanhood. Taylore Scott, a senior biomed ical science major, said she pre pared for the role of Maggie Antrobus by going to grocery stores and observing mothers Organization gives high school students preview of college life MIKE FUENTES/The Battalion Bryan Troyan, a senior theater arts major, Taylore Scott, a junior biomed ical science major, and Josh Shirley, a freshman theater arts major, star in the Theatre Art Department’s production of “The Skin of My Teeth." with their children. “I represent the mothers of the world who are trying to keep their family together,” she said. “I tried thinking of it from my mother’s perspective and how she was able to keep the kids under control even after how evil they had been.” The play twists through three crises, man against nature, man’s struggle against moral nature and man’s self-destructive nature. Schultz said the play goes through three time frames and three levels of characterizations, but behind them is the resilience of the human spirit. “The first level is the microcosm of the family,” he said. “Their worries about the ice age, the flood and war. There is also the macrocosm of all families at all times. The three levels of charac ters perform the play wrapped up in their own lives with the back drop of the different times. “He (Wilder) breaks the boundaries with the words of the play and the words of the charac ters. It is a play within a play within a play. ” Scott said working with the dif ferent time frames is not difficult but does get confusing. see Skin on Page 4. BY STEPHEN WELLS The Battalion I t is a well-established fact that Texas A&M recruits the best and brightest from around the country. High school athletic standouts are treated to free tickets to games and guided tours of train ing facilities so advanced they make their high school locker room look like a Paleolithic leftover. National Merit scholars are of fered scholarships and a letter from the dean whose tone suggests the students must be Nobel contenders. Often, those students who need the most coaxing — those who are not sure they even want to attend college or A&M — are lost in the shuffle. This is where the MEDALS program comes in. Minority Enrichment and De velopment through Academic and Leadership Skills began at Texas A&M as part of the Southwestern Black Student Leadership Confer ence in 1989. The next year, MEDALS became a strictly A&M- based organization. While many Aggies may not be familiar with MEDALS, in Jan uary those who eat at the dining halls experience the program first hand when the 500 or more high school upperclassmen who at tend the MEDALS conference come in for lunch. Lorna Hermosura, staff advis er for MEDALS, said the confer ence is an opportunity for high school students to learn about life after graduation. “MEDALS is a large high school outreach conference,” Her mosura said. “Every January, stu dents at Texas A&M reach out to teach at-risk high school students about the options they have when preparing for their future. “These are not necessarily col lege prep or honors students or the top students in their class. But we try to encourage them to seek post-secondary education.” As an extra incentive, the MEDALS program offers partici pants a chance to receive a schol arship. This January, four recipients will receive $1,000 scholarships, and two recipients will receive $500 scholarships. The program is fund ed by corporate sponsors and par ticipants’ registration fees. Phillip Taylor, the executive di rector of MEDALS and a senior management major, said MEDALS could always use more people. • “Our student volunteers are called peer advisers, and they head up the high school students and keep them organized,” Taylor said. “We have 500 high school stu dents who come to campus in Jan uary, and we divide them into groups of 10. Each group of 10 is headed by two peer advisers, and their parents require more peer ad visers. The peer advisers keep things running smoothly, organize ice-breakers and make sure every body gets to where they’re sup posed to be. ” In addition to volunteering as peer advisers, A&M students can open up their homes to the confer ence attendees. see Medals Page 4. ni u* 111 DUf o c y ear }4GS: ■0 P 111 ■0 P nl DOES THIS BELONG TO YOU? THIS SUNDAY WE’LL HAVE GOOD NEWS FOR THOUSANDS OF TEXANS. WILL YOU BE ONE OF THEM? 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