The Yellow Jacket (Brownwood, Tex.), Vol. 91, No. 19, Ed. 1, Thursday, March 29, 2001 Page: 3 of 12
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News
March 29 2001
Howard Payne to present
"The Fantasticks" tonight
University News Service
A boy. A girl. Two parents.
A wall.
These simple ingredients
are mixed with whimsy romance
music and laughter in Tom Jones
and Harvey Schmidt's "The
Fantasticks" a musical to be pre-
sented by Howard Payne
University March 29-April 1 at
the Brown County Fair
Association Fellowship Hall.
The musical will be per-
lormed at 8 p.m. Thursday. Friday
and Saturday and 2 p.m. Sunday.
Tickets are S3 lor children and
"The Fantasticks" will be presented tonight through Sunday.
Task force formed to address
various concerns of students
BYGINABLEVINS
YJ Staff Writer
Howard Payne University
administrators recently estab-
lished a retention task force to
address the wants and needs of
students after results from the
"No Limits" Student Satisfaction
Inventory survey were received.
"No Limits" is an educa-
tional organization that correlates
information across the nation
from surveys given to college stu-
dents on satisfaction of college
campus life. The survey was
administered to HPU students last
fall.
With the results of the sur-
vey a task force was established
to address the needs identified.
The task force is made up
$4 for adults and admission is
free for HPU students faculty
and staff.
"The Fantasticks" is recog-
nized by the Guiness Book of
World Records as the longest-running
musical in the world having
opened at a theatre in Greenwich
Village in 1960. Its history begins
with two Texans Harvey Schmidt
(composer) and Coleman's Tom
Jones (lyricistlibrettist) who met
in their student days at the
University of Texas.
"The two men drew on the
vivid theatricality of
Shakespeare's language as well
Chris Luby THE YELLOW JACKET
of 25 faculty staff students and
coaches who work directly with
the students on a regular basis.
"We are specifically look-
ing at what the students were con-
cerned with in the SSI survey"
said Dr. Pepper Dill dean of
enrollment services. "We want to
hear the students and try to
address their needs and wants so
they are content with their experi-
ence at HPU."
The survey gave the con-
cerns of the students a collective
voice to the executive council.
The task force will be breaking up
into five sub committees to
research solutions to the top five
concerns and report suggestions
to the executive council to make
appropriate changes.
The topics were chosen
as their memories of the tent the-
atre or Toby shows which fre-
quented the Texas plains in the
Depression years and World War
II era" said Dr. Brooks Barr
director of theatre at HPU. "This
musical invokes the oldest and
most potent tool of the theatre -the
audience's imagination - to
introduce its characters and tell its
story."
"The Fantasticks" is based
on Edmund Rostand's play "Les
Romanesques." Barr described
the musical as "'Romeo and
Juliet' with a twist" as two young
lovers are kept apart by their par-
ents' feud actually concocted by
them to bring then son and
daughter together The father and
mother then have the problem ot
tearing down the wall they built.
"The Fantasticks' enchant-
ingly wears its heart on its sleeve
with emotions as timeless as tirst
love and characters as universal
as parents bewildered by the
unpredictability of their chil-
dren" Barr said.
The cast is headed by senior
Adam Brodner in the role origi-
nally created byj-aw and Order's
Jerry Orbach the narratorbandit
El Gallo. Other cast members
include Melissa McLaughlin and
Ryan McCormick as the young
lovers Luisa and Matt Nick
Ewen and Lindsey Grey as the
parents Daniel Dunham and Amy
Lee as the old actors Henry and
Mortimer and Suzanne
Schockley as the Mute.
For further information
call the HPU box office at 649-
8516 the Department of
Communication and Drama at
649-8517.
from what the students rated most
important that had the lowest sat-
isfaction ratings.
The five topics being con-
sidered are: dorms financial aid
academic major and intellectual
growth parking and channels of
communications (information
dissemination between students
and the university).
The sub committees will
form focus groups with students
to address the individual concerns
and brainstorm for solutions.
"I don't know if we can fix
everything" said Dill "but we
are going to address it."
A follow-up survey will be
administered next fall to evaluate
changing needs with future sur-
veys scheduled and the task force
until they are unnecessary.
Beyond HPU
$1.94 trillion budget for fiscal
year 2002 passed by House
Washington Republicans overwhelmed the Democrats and
pushed a $1.94 trillion budget for 2002 through the House on
Wednesday as President Bush's blueprint for tax cuts and cur-
tailed spending cleared its first major congressional hurdle. The
vote was a near party-line 222-205. Though devoid of suspense
because of the GOP's thin but unified majority. Republicans
hailed their victory as a triumph for their view of government.
Bush's 10-year $1.6 trillion tax cut is yet to be approved.
Two groups claim they are near
attempting first human cloning
Washington D.C. - Former Univer.sity8 of Kentucky professor
Panayiotis Zavos and religious group Raelian Movement
announced that they arc ready to make an attempt to clone a
human within a year. Testifying before a House investigating
committee both said they understand the risks of cloning but feel
they are ready for any contingency "Trust me the high risks will
be taken care ot because we know what we are doing" Zavos
said at a recent conference.
Farmers can earn big money for
rats brought in as seasonal food
HANOI Vietnam - Rats are back in season in Vietnam's Mekong
Delta with tons being brought to the market daily by rice farmers
for sale to bars and restaurants.Rat meat is sold at $1.70 per kg
for top cuts down to $0.80 for the lowest grade. It said rat catch-
ers were managing to earn up to $4 a day.
Texas professor allows hundreds of
roaches to crawl on him in coffin
San Antonio - Our Lady of the Lake University professor Carey
Guffey is going to lengths to raise money for the college's Sigma
Zeta Scientific Honor Society to travel to its national convention.
So far Guffey has raised $400 -- that's one dollar for each of the
400 roaches he's had tossed on him as he lies in a coffin.
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