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The Special Education/Reading Interface Study Office in the
Department of Educational Psychology is looking for six to eight
graduate students with experience working/volunteering in Texas
schools to collect data in schools throughout Texas.
The Special Education/Reading Interface Study is a federally-funded
project that is studying elementary schools that appear to success
fully teach struggling readers, including special ed students, to read.
We have selected a number of schools around the State for the
study and must travel to those schools to interview the principal and
three teachers and review special education and cumulative folders
of selected students. No classroom visits are included.
After receiving training, data collectors travel in teams of two to the
schools. Pay is *1 1.25 per hour (*90 per day) per person plus travel
expenses. No benefits except meeting some great educators, seeing
some of the great State of Texas, and helping to improve reading
instruction for Texas children.
Qualifications-Data collectors must: have experience working/ vol
unteering in Texas schools; have good interpersonal skills; have good
word processing skills; be “detail” persons, be able to follow through
on tasks; be able to carry a laptop computer; be able to conduct
scripted interviews in a professional manner; be able occasionally to
travel 2 or 3 days in the middle of the week by car and plane; dress
professionally. Experience as a special ed or reading teacher or as a
diagnostician is a plus.
If you are interested in this opportunity, please contact Kevin O’Neill
in the Department of Educational Psychology. Telephone: (979) 458-
0498. E-mail: spedread@coe.tamu.edu
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“A World of Opportunities”
Minority Enrichment and Development through
Academic and Leadership Skills
Approximately 200 Texas A&M students are selected to serve as mentors
and as a resource for high school students transitioning to college during the
two day MEDALS Conference.
Want To Make An Impact?
Please pick up applications in the Dept, of Multicultural Sendees room 1371.
Nov. 15 Applications Due
Nov. 21 Advisors’ Mandatory Meeting
Jan. 22 Advisors’ Retreat
Jan. 24-25 MEDALS Conference
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Aggie Players brings “A Midsummer Night s Dream y to the stage
By Michael Whitlow
THE BATTALION
William Shakespeare may have written “A Midsummer Night’s
Dream” in the 16th century, but Dr. Robert Schultz thinks it’s the
type of play that modern students can relate to.
“We’re dealing with archetypes everyone’s familiar with, said
Schultz, director of the Aggie Players’ production of “A
Midsummer Night’s Dream” and a professor of performance stud
ies. “Everyone understands young lovers and well-meaning but mis
guided parents. Everyone falls in love.”
One of Shakespeare’s most popular plays, “A Midsummer
Night’s Dream” is the first Shakespearean play to be performed by
the student troupe in several years.
Keeping with the idea of archetypes and popular themes, Schultz
said he and the designers worked to create a production that would
be timeless in its appeal.
“We’re representing Athens and the ‘green world’ as more ot
a state of mind,” Schultz said. “We want to give the impression
that this could happen anywhere, anytime. Not too long ago,
maybe tomorrow.”
The characters’ costumes and overall appearance were designed
primarily by Susan Kelly, a professor of performance studies. Kelly
spent the summer designing professionally for the Houston
Shakespeare Festival.
Kelly noted four separate groups in the play: the nobility, the
commoners, the lovers and the fairies. In designing the look of the
lovers. Kelly said she relied on a historical basis.
“We didn’t want to limit it by setting it in a particular time.” Kelly
said. “The nature of the show demands a romantic look, so we drew’
primarily from the 16th century, which is called the ‘Romantic
Perkxi.’ But anytime we got too slavish to the period we’d pull back.”
For the fairies. Schultz and Kelly said they wanteda
natural look, part human and part organic, with no clear
line where one would end and the other begin.
“We drew inspiration from Arthur Rackham, an early %
century illustrator of fairy tales, and Brian Proud,” Kellyvi
“Due to limitations of the stage, we couldn't really do wj
nudity, so we relied on body suits painted or patterned so if
skin of the fairies might look like a spotted bug or leaves or
forest floor. We’re hiding as much human skin as we can at ;
creating our own.”
Schultz said the actors have been hard at work on then!
since the second w eek of school w hen auditions were held
“We’ve been rehearsing for five weeks now and we’vesnl
got three weeks to go,” Schultz said. “Normally we only refe
for five weeks for a performance, but Shakespeare’s a little
tougher. The language is difficult to deal w ith, but it’sexcitt
Susan Hernandez, a sophomore chemistry major who phi.
Helena, agreed the extra time was necessary.
“The first two weeks were spent working to understandvts
and what the words mean to us as actors,” Hernandez said j
this is a timeless piece with universal themes. It’s enjoyabk:
intellectual, and 1 think people will be surprised at howeasih
the play is understood.”
Scott Caldwell, a senior English major who plays Lysaadt:
said students will enjoy the performance.
“Next to ‘Comedy of Errors' this is Shakespeare's funniest
play,” Caldwell said. “It’s also an ensemble piece, so it’s not
driven by a particular character. There’s not a miscast role in Ss
whole thing.”
The play opens in the Rudder Forum Nov. 13, and w
through Nov. 16, as well as Nov. 19 through Nov. 24 at 8 pm lb
will also be 2 p.m. matinee performances on Nov. 23 and Nov, 21
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