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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.”
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ltd Pulitzer prize for the play,
57 years later, the Texas A&M
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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.
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