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F Drop Policy
To Be Revised
An announcement on revision
of the F drop policy was made by
Tom Cyphers, SGA minister of
academic affairs, at the regular
Recital Set
For Wed.
Students who will participate in
the honors recital Wednesday at 4
p m. in the recital hall of the
Humanities building were named
this week by the fine arts faculty.
Those who will take part in the
program are: Betsey Cochran,
voice; Pam Bradley, voice; Pam
Bradley, horn; Jane Coleman,
piano; Nan Randall, organ; Mike
Rhodes, piano; John Davis,
piano; and Jane Ingram, voice.
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meeting of the executive council
Tuesday.
The policy now is that only
graduating seniors with below a
2.0 average can benefit from
having F’s dropped. After the
revision all graduating seniors
would have F’s dropped from
their grade point, regardless of
averages.
“The policy has been misun
derstood by faculty and students
and students have had repeat
courses which they have failed,
and later found the F can’t be
dropped when they graduate,”
Cyphers said.
Other business included an
announcement by John Riordan,
president of the Senior Class, that
the senior class party planned to
be held in Underground Atlanta is
being cancelled. Another location
for the party is being considered,
he said.
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FOUR GRAVESTONES were placed in front of the Student Center Tuesday in memory of the four
students who were killed at Kent State last year. A small group of students also gathered on the front
campus.
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GEORGIAN as a reporter,
or in another capacity,
please contact the editor or
a staff member as soon as
possible.
Elect
MORRIS
BRASWELL
Junior
Class
Vice-President
VOTE
MAY 11,1971
Skillmcm Scores In
Role of Salesman
By Audrey Bledsoe
Arthur Miller’s “Death of a Salesman” as presented this week by
the Fine Arts department is one man’s performance: Donald
Skillman’s rendering of Willy Loman.
Ski liman, who last quarter
stole the show as the caricature
curmudgeon in “Why I live at
the P. 0.,” again presents a
remarkable characterization.
He brings to the drama a
knowledge of the salesman’s
character as expressed in his
limbs, the hunch of his
shoulders, vocal intonation, and
facial expression.
According to author Arthur
Miller, “The Death of A
Salesman” is a modern tragedy
of the little man . The play isn’t a
tragedy, not in the traditional
sense, but Skillman shows
himself capable of portraying a
tragic hero. Each small
movement seems to come
welling up from a weary,
wounded soul.
His only problem seems to be
in the melodramatic con
fessional moments of the play,
when he almost, if not quite,
overdoes the failing arms and
staggering movements.
But for the most part, the
characterization is very subtle,
very skillfully done, and
satisfies one of the primary
ends of drama: assimilation of
the audience into the dramatic
world through an identification
with the characters.
Ron Baskin’s portrayal of the
tormented and tormenting Biff
is also empathetic although
Baskin doesn’t always reveal
the potential, if not actual,
tragedy inherent in the role. He
is especially good as the
younger Biff and saner
moments of the Lost Man,
especially as the lost man who
realizes he is lost.
There has always been a
question of whether Loman’s
sons are seen with the eye or are
mere ideas of “the lost
generation.” Baskin’s Biff is
some-times both, but Jimmy
Mann’s Hap is often too close to
the latter, at least when “the
lost generation” motif is ap
plicable'tot he character. His
comic moments and his support
to the characterization of Biff
and Loman are superb, but on
his own as assistant manager
Review
of the department store he is
too abstract, too general, too
stereotyped.
In some ways the least
satisfactory of the main per
formances is Sheryl Rhodes’
Linda. At times it seems that
there are two people playing the
roles of the young Linda and the
older Linda. She vascillates
between high drama in the
younger role (and in her con
frontation with Biff later) and
mauldin melodrama in the
older role, especially in the
graveyard scene.
Another disappointment is Ed
Gambrell’s Uncle Ben. The
character of the man who
“walked into a jungle at 17 and
walked out at 21 a millionaire”
is obviously beyond his depth.
He never gets below the surface
and his superficial character
couldn't have survived, much
less beat, the jungle.
The supporting roles, for the
most part, provide the
necessary background
dimension for the starring
relief. Especially worthy of note
is Wade Benson, as Charley,
who is able to handle rhetorical
phrasing in a tear stained tone
as well as carefree comedy in a
chortling chuckle.
Barry Banther is good as
anemic Bernard, but not so
good as the supreme court
lawyer. Janet Dees makes the
woman just cheap enough to be
realistic without being sleazy,
but Marilyn Marsh (who is
beautifully made-up) and Sandy
Readling, as Miss Forsythe and
Letta, come across as two-bit
whores in an inflationary world.
Also worthy of commendation
are the technical aspects of the
Fine Arts production. The
skillful use of ’ights and the
imaginative two story setting
create an environment which
defines the dramatic moment
like a good frame around a good
picture.
MAY 7, 1971