THE ROTUNDA VOL. LVI:
LONGWOOD COLLEGE, FARMVILLE, VIRGINIA
TUESDAY, OCTOBER 20, 1981
NO. 6
Starving the Trojan Horse: Profile On Janet Greenwood ByMARKSEGAL Janet Greenwood was once denied employment in California on the basis of her sex. She was told that one woman in the firm was all that was needed. But she didn't bite back. Bark? Not even a whimper. "You don't want to be put on a bad list in a certain network", she says. Don't fight the system, work with it. Indeed. If she were a scrapper she wouldn't be president of Longwood. Perhaps if she was a fighter she would have snapped the neck of the west-coast bureaucratic quoto-crat. In dealing with Longwood's problems, Dr. Greenwood is not
as creative as she is intelligent. lack — the gap in the Last Friday night a visiting organizing." author at Longwood said that I took the opposition: good writers aren't intelligent, "I see it as a moral issue." but creative. Like a writer's "In what way?" she had not emotions ink pages, the passed judgement yet. Don't president's intelligence blanks speculate without empirical data. the irrational. She doesn't. Her best friend She prefers the empirical to the would not be a nerve ending, nor emotional and the statistical over the nerve but the nerve beginning the general. The specifics. She — the computer, and she wants to sees the Equal Rights innovate her friend as an Amendment as a political issue, educational tool at Longwood. not a moral issue. "Computer literacy to me "I really look at the E.R.A. amendment (proposed seems to be as basic as the amendment)at this point in time students learning how to use the as an interesting case in either a pocket calculator," she begins. "Because where computers are political success because of the organizing that was done or a today, pocket calculators were political failure because of the ten years ago. And it seems to me OKTOBER FEST
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Soccer Game Skits Coffeehouse with Barbara Paradowskl Festhaus Midnight Movie "No Nukes" . . .-
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Meet the Faculty
Admissions Tent (Rotunda) Admissions Tours Admissions Tent (Financial Aid Information Available) (Rotunda) Alumni Executive Board Meeting Board Room Color Rush Stubbs Mall (Her Gym, 9:30 a.m.) Parents Coffee & Registration Wygal Lawn (Lancer Hall) Spirit Painting Board Midway Tennis Match Lancer Hall Parents' Meeting Lancer Hall Picnic Wheeler Mall (Blackwell Dining Hall) Jazz Ensemble Wheeler Mall (Blackwell Dining Hall) Choir Concert Jarman Auditorium Information Tent Midway (Rotunda) Parade & Official Pine Street Opening of Midway (Gold Room) Midway Lankford Parking Lot (liar Gym, R/W/G Rooms) Art Exhibit/Sale Bedford Building Grounds (Bedford) Concert Band Midway (Gold Room) Catalina Club Show Lancer Pool Longwood Company of Dancer* Lancer Hall Biergarten Lancer Hall Patio (Commonwealth Room) Basketball Game Lancer Hall Alumni/Parents Social Longwood House (Virginia & Prince Edward Room) Dinner Blackwell Dining Hall Skits Jarman Auditorium Coffeehouse with Barbara Paradowskl Snack Bar CHI Walk . Colonnade Cake Cutting Lawn (Lower Dining Hall) Midnight Movie "No Nukes" Gold Room SUNDAY. OCTOBER 26
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Major Concert
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you have quicker learning rate. Students learn the material faster and they retain it longer. Which is the way you really have to measure success." But she has a problem: there are no guarantees that Richmond will allocate money or that a company that may be willing to locate here will do so. "In other words", she says, "it does not have to be a long distance line hooking it up to the main frame." Or, that Longwood would be the main frame. "If we were able to get that as an option that would make it viable by next fall." This 'main frame' proposal would cut costs to a minimum; (Continued on Page 8)
Play Critique
By DUDLEY D.SAUVE Artistic Director The Waterworks Players
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 23 7:00 p.m. 7:30 p.m. 8:00 p.m. 9:00 p.m. 12 Midnight
that in the next ten years or so, with all the trends that are occurring and with the tremendous innovations that are being developed — realistically we are all going to be looking at having a computer in our home a decade from now. "One of my own beliefs about education is that we should be doing as much as possible to individualize education. And through the use of computer based instruction and individualized instruction we are able to again capture what has been shown in the research; which is that with the computer based instruction, of course under the supervision of faculty,
Educational theater should expose both audience and participants to a variety of theatrical styles and types. The 100th play of the Longwood Players and the Department of Speech and Dramatic Arts, Love for Love, did just that. Restoration comedy should be done periodically along with other classics. All in all it was a good production. Richard Gamble's set was appropriately reminiscent of a 17th century stage with proscenium doors and boxes on stage. It was a beautifully functional set, easily changed, easily worked on, and easy on the eye. The costumes harmonized nicely with the set and helped set character types. Perhaps most difficult for today's amateur actors, schooled in the "torn t-shirt" style of realistic acting is to put across lines that are witty and full of double entendre, lines filled with the beauty of language. In Director Doug Young's program notes, "the play is challenging... because of the intricacies of its language ..." Some of his cast ably met this challenge. The perfect enunciatioh of George Hughes as Tattle was a Joy to the ear. He was almost matched by Faith Lancaster as Angelica and Helen Van Jackson as Miss Prue. The seduction scene between Tattle and Miss Prue, I felt, was the high point of the evening. Frank Creasy as Sir Legend was perfectly cast and his performance, too, was outstanding. He never missed a
double meaning, and each line was a gem. Mr. Creasy might do well, however, to learn the difference between projection and shouting. Too much, I felt, was too loud. But perhaps he was trying to play his name. Playwrights of the 17th century were in the habit of using character names as personification, and in so doing, giving a clue as to how the character should be played. I felt that most of the cast used this clue to their advantage. The production had uneven moments, though. Too many of the players were not up to the enunciation and projection needed for Restoration Comedy. The broad style that is required was often lost in an attempt at realism. The asides should be spoken directly to the audience. That's part of the fun. Several others of the cast, I felt, did creditable jobs. Tony Russo as Jeremy, Lyman Smith as Mrs. Frail and Cindy Jude as Mrs. Foresight had several nice scenes each. Also in the cast were Stewart Grant, Jeff McDaniel, Jim Greene, David Wood, Don Bush, Mike Curley, Lisa Bowers and Terri Long. It's interesting to note that a 20th century audience had no trouble understanding the bawdy humor of the 17th century. Congrere's lines were as well appreciated the night I saw the show as they were when Betterton first spoke them. Restoration Comedy may not be everyone's cup of tea, but it should be done now and then — and where better than an educational theater?