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VOLUME UVI, NUMBER 10
NOVEMBER 4,19(3
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Students perform In production of Alboe’t play.
Prize-winning playwright to speak on campus
The highly acclaimed playwright.
Edward Albee. will deliver a lecture
on November 8 at 8 p.m. in the
auditorium ol the Mercer University
School of Medicine.
Albee's first play. "The Zoo
Story," Is one of three one-art plays
being presented by the Mercer
Players at Mercer's College of Liberal
Arts In conjunction with the play
wright's visit. "The Zoo Story" was
first produced in September. 1969. in
Berlin. The first American staging
was Off-Broadway In I960, and like
most Off-Broadway plays. It is short,
has a small cast, and deals with
human encounter and the search for
communion. Since that time. Albee
has produced a new play practically
every year of the past 20 years, and he
says he always has three or four new
plays "satisfactorily gestatlng in my
head."
It is lor his first lull-length play,
Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
written in 1962, that Albee is probably
best known. It Is one of the most
frequently performed plays created In
recent time by any American
dramatist, it has been made into a
movie starring Richard Burton and
.Elizabeth Taylor and translated into
many foreign languages When it was
first produced in 1962. Richard Watts
wrote that "It Is the most shattering
drama I have seen since O'Neill's
Ltog Oey's Journey Into Night." and
added that "Mr. Albee can without
fulsome exaggeration be placed high
among important dramatists ol
contemporary world theater.''
Albee has won two PullUer prices.
His first was for "A Delicate
Balance." written In 1966. which has
been described as a play portraying
through barbed talk and polished
inter-action, the prime disease ol our
time and our society, which is neither
violence nor materialism nor aliena
tion, but quite simply emptiness.
Albee's second Pulitzer prize
winner was "Seascape," which was
described by Brendan Gill In The New
Yorker as "the most exquisitely
written" of all Albee's plays.
Albee. who grew up in a famed
theatrical family, started seeing plays
at five, began writing at six-at first
poetry, and then fiction, including two
novels which will never be published.
At age 25 he stopped writing and did
not take it up again until the age of 30
when he produced "The Zoo Story. "
Other Albee plays Include "The Lady
from OuBuque." "Listening." "All
Over." "Tiny Alice." The American
and The Death ol Bessie
. . good play is defined by Albee as
one "with something to say and the
ability to say it." He believes that "a
stay should bring its audience some
special sense of awareness ol the
times, alter and shape that awareness
in some significant manner''
Not all of Albee's new pliys achieve
the acclaim that greeted his earlier
successes, but all ol his works attract
wide attention and do get produced.
In 1982 his "The Man Who Had Three
Arms" was written and produced tor
Miami's New World Festival, and In
1983 his "Finding the Sun" was a
very successful production at the
University ol Northern Colorado
Meanwhile, most ol his better
known plays have been translated into
twelve lorelgn languages and regular
ly produced throughout Europe, parts
ol Central and South America and also
In Japan. He has lectured, too. in ^
many foreign countries. And it has
been said that an Albee play is
produced somewhere in the world
everyday
Albee's November 8 lecture is open
to the public-at no charge
SGA holds weekly meeting
American troop continue in combat
By Lisa BaBamy
American troops are engaged In an
open combat In at least one part ol the
world this week While their status as
peace keepers in the Middle East
remains unchanged. t.
U S. paratroopers and ranger! a
force now built up to some 6000 men.
invaded the small Caribbean Island ol
Grenada on Tuesday. October 25. ,
That action followed a report that
Cuba planned to establish a major
military base in Grenada in the
aftermath ol a bloody coup which left
the nation's leader killed and the
government subject to foreign take
over. The base would have stationed
more than 6800 Cuban troops in
Grenada and meant the effective
control of the island- by Castro's
forces.
According to U.S. officials. Ameri
can troops moved’ in to prevent a
communist takeover ol the Caribbean
nation-one that would have meanl
possible storage and launching points
lor Soviet-made missiles as well as the
completion ol a 10.000 loot- runway
suitabletor landing Soviet aircraft. ..
Despite U.S. claims ol preventing
communist expansion by invading
Grenada. American allies have been
critical ol the show ol force. World
reaction has been similar, with the
U.N. Security Council voting to
condemn the action.
So far 18 Americans have died. 91
have been wounded, with all troups
counted in . the Grenadian
conflict. There Is no indication ol how
long the fighting will continue, but the
Senate was already voted to remove
U.S. forces Irom the Island within the
60-day limit of the War Powers Act.
In Lebanon, the body count of U.S.
Marines killed In the October 22
bombing of the Beirut Marine
barracks has slopped with 229. The
first remains ol those casualties
arrived at Dover Air Force Base in
Delaware last weekend where a
possible memorial service was held in
their honor.
By Robert C. Baker
Senate of the Student
1 Association held Its
’’■% Monday. October 31
.'t Dining Room.
Trey Newton chaired the
and announced the last
which is to be
—. /.
_...’ Newton commended the
committees lor their outstanding work
during (all quarter.
The Academic Affairs Committee is
scheduled to meet Wednesday.
November 10. The Committee met
with Or. Emory Whitaker, chairman
of the (acuity's Curriculum Commit
tee. concerning one hour credit
A separate article about the courses
will be included in the next issue ol
the Cluster.
Todd Blonshine. Election Marshall
lor (he Election Committee, reported
on the recent break-in in the Office ol
Student Activities. Reported In last
week's Cluster, it was stated that S?0
was stolen Irom the deposits made by
candidates in the SGA Freshman
election. Blonshine reported that
actually JllOhad been stolen.
Under New Business, the proposal
concerning Wednesday one hour
credit courses was read to the Senate,
who passed the measure. Alter the
Good ol the Order given by President
Newton, the meeting was adjourned
Dean’s office burglarized
8y Ron Wells
Yet another office on the Mercer
campus was broken into this past
week, the third such Incident to occur
on the main ajipus in recent days.
The office ol Dean Rollln Armour,
which is located on the first floor ol
the Administration Building, was
burglarized Sunday morning. October
30. sometime between 9.00 a m. and
12 noon
The Department ol Campus Safety
confirmed the incident report but was
unable to release further information,
as the official Investigation Is still
pending. The case has been turned
over to the Macon Police Department.
According to Ms. Freeman, secre
tary to Dean Armour, entry was
gained to the office after a window
was broken. Ms. Freeman further
stated that the only apparent Item
missing Irom the office was a small
amount of change that was used to
buy coffee, though the office tiles had
been "ransacked."
This incident follows the forced
entry and vandalism of the Student
Activities Office which was burglar
ized earlier this month. No connection
has been made between these two
incidents, and no one as yet. has been
charged with the burglary of the
Dean's office. But Security believes
that a group of four to ten teenagers
were responsible tor the burglary of
the Office of Student Activities. The
Psychology Building has been dis
turbed twice this month. Physical
Plant is working with security to make
all campus buildings more secure.
Student volunteers work cleaning Bear Gardens. See Story an page 12.