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| by Jim Casillof ff "Fiddler on the Roof* takesit's title from|a passage in themusical. Without our traditions our lives would be asshaky . . . as a fiddler|oni theroo.M | I Ji I Tevye, the? central Jf gure isthe personification of all thatfjs represented toy the term "PaPa". Hef laughs, sings, dances,andfwhenihis daughters take itupon themselves to ibreak fradi-tian| of matchmaking he's bewildered, hurt, and tries to understand! It's an oldversion otthe "generation ga p" j j Tevye has a jjgreat deal of[faith in his God to whom he con-versesf|frequently. fLitee most(people, he &sf dependent onj hiswife Golde, whether like mostmen he realizes it or not.'fiddler"-is a warmheartedmusical, filled with humor,pathos, dramatic impact, lacedwith dances iand songs. Although its endingf is somewhatunhappy, it is one|of hope! forTevye and>his family as theyleave? their home for America.

^Fiddler"| marks |flie stagedebut of M r. (Bernard Solom on!probably^ chosen ibecause hecomes as closelto being a Tevye

as one could jjfine in Erie, Pa.What heHaoked in a strong musical voice, he adequately compensa ted in his fine delivery oflines, and demonstrated an expertise in his ability to dance.Golde, the wife was played byM iss M arie Olivi. fMarie hasthe talent and quality to "makeit'' dnithe professional theater.Possessed bya beautiful, strongsinging voice, a flair for comedy and a sensef of timing fordelivering some oflher demandsas the M a M a. It i tI The supporting j^cast, I feel,must foe singled |out Ifor doingan outstanding joblin the singing and dancing portions ofwhich had they not :been there!the play could 'have bombed.

M is s M ary O'Dowd,! playingT2ELTEL, was a beautiful brideon stage. She is morepian capable of being the dauightertnum-ber *one, by#her attention andsensitivity to her lines. Also inthe female Jroles as daughters,were Aries M ills |and CelesteLfcgos. What's the | play |wi|houtthe "M atchmaker"? - M ercy-hurst faculty produced |a goodone in M rs. M ika Nye. A specia l nod|for putting across a sequence in the play entitled, the

dream", were^Ohris pWarnichwho played Grandma Tzeiteland Annette Simon who playedFruma-Sarch. The sequencejust about! stole the show.Tevye, Golde who complimen-

Tailor (M ark Zine),iThis writerand many others were terriblyimpressed with the handling ofthe roles. t ' ' # TM iss Kathy Short thef show'schoreographer deserves a med-

B. Solomom tells M.*01ivieri a bedtime story.ted fthe scenes were also justgreat. - STwo male show stoppers whohave|just|got to be talented asal l fgetf out were the Rabbi(Jerry Barrow) and^ M otel the

al . Her routineslwere "authenticand lively, and it took manypainstaking hours of rehearsalto make the numbers shown onstage flook easy. Her dicers ,Ed PotLasM , Larr y Rdce, Bob

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Janc ula, Jim Tromibetti, M arkLloyd, Tom Falvey, Ken$Burk-hart were simply fantastic,watch for these people in the"To Life" and "Bottle Dance"numbers. Time and spaceican-not permit the singling out ofall the ^perfomances individually, but remember they are la smuch a part of the play as anyof the leads previously mention*ed. ,

Just.a note on the sets. Comsidering the smallness of thestage itself and the many* setchanges,fDennis Andres and hiscrew worked!them to hew perfection.A tip of the hat to^ the musicalend, oapatoly handled by M ar-

ilyn^Schatibel, vocal, instrumental. Here again the many hoursof irehe arsal paid oft for her,not to mention all the "throathelps" that|were$purchased bythe singers in the cast. iWho last but not least putsthe whole** thing toge ther tomaike it work. The little oldwine maker? No, guess again.Yes, now you've got it. St.Jude Yablousky, O.S.U. | I tseems smash musicals Jare getting to toe a halbit with her* f

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|At the most recent CollegeSenate meeting*^ new curriculum! w a s votedf into effect forthe summer of 1971, contingentupon thek approval ofIthe Boardof Trustees. It was indeed anhistoric! moment in the historyof thejcoMege and a momentu-ous^step torward a more flexible concept of education.vThe original curriculum pro-

ence) as ^previously mentioned,each student will belrequiredto sample 10 liberal studiescourses in five ar eas. The are asa r e : . Fine Arts, fPihilosophyf andTheology, Language and Literature, Social Science, NaturalScience. >; P :The amendment reads specifi-0ally; liberal Studies y . . atleastHen courses, *with afmini-

Pal j^hich was ^brought forthW the curriculum ^committeepassedjwitb $ modification inl*W , oa$- area* That is to s ay |* original conception of theMfcerai studies samplef wa sRanged somewhat. To 4>e spec-f*: Insteadoof sampling ii hek*al Studies in four areas " Arty, Humanities, Social5cience|iiath and NaUai^c i -

new curriculummum of ftwo courses in eacharea. | Coursesfta at major program ca|#atisfy ithe area re-quirements,fbut cannotfcount aspa r t ofifthe ten.gThe remainder of the resold*tions, as defined in|the originalproposal from the} curriculumcommittee, passedjbnanimously.These iiuafude g Mmsoixrnxxti: i- That m

courses toe completed for graduation. %RESOLUTION H.fAmended.ORIESOLUTION HI. At leasttwo courses dnf interdisciplinaryareas. k RESOLUTION IV. At leastthree Intersessions in|any field(major or non-major) I fi|iRESCKDUnON V. At leastTEN with no more than fifteencourses IrequirecB b ^ a majordepartment, and|withfno|morethan twenty courses taken in amajor program. (M ajorgpro-gram includes required majorcourses and cognates, major in-tefsessions and majorie'tectives)iRiESODtmONr VT. Physicaleducation may toe used to satis-fy ONE ofsthese 40 courses. (Nomore than one ^course may! becounted). iSrCis important to note however, that the nev Icurricuilumcannot toe implemented untilapproved toy fee Board of Trustees.^Furthermore, it Is imperative to understand that such acurriculum, M implemented,would not Ibe^ retroactive fofcSeniors. That|is, Seniors wouldhavefto graduate under thefnewcurriculum. } '(Although the final decisionconcerning the passage and implementation of the curriculumis still pending, Ht is important

to note that fall the ^resolutionspassed with overwhelming majorities! *L T

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M eroiad StaffEditor j> Al MessinaAssociate Editor \ f.... Bob ParksFeature Editor 1 k . . . J a m i e KamlerNews Editor * Bill SachseSpoHs Editor g Bill DopieralaLayout Editor Jf. Dave RohdeGeneral Manager .. .1 Bob heckBusiness Manager 4 . Cindy GustinCirculation and Exchange iMarlene SmithLayout Staff . . i . . A . Fran Ahearn, Bill Chiodo,fi i Ann PottsStaff Writers Audrey Rosenthal,* H Dick Lamb, Brenda Brewer,f J Bill Fictor, J im TrombeltiStaff . . . . . . ? . . Carol Meuhling, Jul ie Samick,& Ellen Ileinrich, Mark Zine

ig Business jMakes Amer ica Great?by Bill Fichter

The M ERCIAD is proud to present an exclusive ihterview withM r. -Big Business, 1971, Henry Peoplebender . . .Mr. Peoplebender, who selects M r. BiglBusiness?'We have a^big business council. I t's comprised of all theGuys that help make this country great.You mean you jfwere chosen by Congress? f *"No, I mean F ord, GM , U.S. Steel . . . you know, the reallygre at ones."' . 'I see. What didfyou do to receive this>distinction. |"Well, you see, Mr.?Big Business has to manipulate peoplerbet-ter'than any other businessman. ,, J?And you did this the best? L i"What do you ihean, did I do it best? I helped teet rid of Walter Hickel." ; ^ \You mean-you persuaded^President Nixon to fire his Secretaryof Ulterior?| "That's right!""Are you kidding? He was doing it too well! He was breathingdown our necks with that .pollution control routine. So, we toldNdxonleither he goies or we go." F T *Z And President Nixon listened to you?"Sure! He had no choice. Who else would back him in his crazyschemes?" |Oh Well, can youlteU me what your duties are as.*Mr# BjgBusiness 1971? | | > ; f*g | | J"I have*to coordinate all the Big Business activities.^"Such as? ' % I e & 18* "Well most of them*are secret, but don'tbe surprised iflyoudon't se'e 'Ralph Nader around." W'I realize you can't give mevany specifics, but can you give mesome ftmfc as to your general -policy."Yes. It will be about the same as always. They're here tosferve us you know." *Aren't you afraid thatthe public will nb longer tolerate yourpolluting of their laiio^ f"We have!that all worked out^tooiWfc realized that somedayIhe public might become aware of this pollution problem so wehired some freaks to start anti-pollution campaigns."And thislhelped yo'tift |"Sure! Ttoe people *won't back thelfreaks because they thinkfhey are merely subversives. All we did was make anti-pollutionfrtn-Amerdcan. As you reeall/^Q!ftteed the^ame routine for Vietnamand*it* worked beautifully. ^Remember the M oratorium?" l|f|Well, you ceTteinly*sefcmto have control offthe country."Wefcertainly do, but don't worry. With us it's in safe hands*

*f*Both America'sExperience Ghetto LifeJ| bypokBeck *ft ttefte&itfiiitfiager

Do^you belong to fhe rihajerity of. America?) Homogenious, flat,steril e, and expensive.. If you do,, you are living in an almost total*ly ^mechanized and d6hdrfiahized generation, riding^to the churchonly fouii blocks away, fiding up two flights of stairs instead offWalking, becoming fatter and weaker, expounding about everythingUnden the sun and knowing nothing. M> , f| Living [in Suburbia as a gf&ti|> of Supier Bigots and Liberals^Wthithe "average" American in the middle. The "average" isffesilent bigot, , iS . ,,, . & ^ .. . &Z ?Their mass |ftligra*ltdfi*Td the "**otrtfer zone" proves th&ir desire to escape tpWrt^tfte*"Black Bleftietftt" Kfdtllig too outer Subtfr-bia gives them a feelingrof security provided by*building and zoning codes plus a fltifftbet ot trter fieCessary requirements governed by economic fcictorsfTheir hopgis that ftheift isolated living winkeep them and their children distant from the problems bf the inneity.|What they don't realize is that their "upper ghetto" laving iscausing problems too. .%.- ji

BETWEEN USBrendia Brewer

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s tuden t !Activitieswh does g6? ;Every year the students atMercyhurst, as in all otHer colleges and universities across thecountry, pay an activities fee.Here the cost to each studentin addition to ( their ' tui t ion, is$125. In recent weeks, and especially since the winter weekend} fiasco, voices have beenheard asking, "W here, did iny

money go?" One student asked

me whyth e hadipayed $125 foractivities}yet j he still had^tobuy | tickets J to go see the TimHardin concert, 4 According t toMr. Kennedy, s free} concertswouldI be impossible iconsidering the financiallbreakdown ofthe $125 each student pays. &5 Holding I t h e * average attendance of M ercyhurst to 685 students,,'the students paid a total

l)o you thinkrtheyffe trying to* tell us something.

of?$75,625 for this school year,Needless to say, one can remainpretty active on $75,000. How-ever, the fe: doesn't seem to beariy great or extreme'amountof activity on this campus. Thisleads one to inquire as to wherethe^money ia going. If**.First, $1 frofti each students$125^pays for brochu res, mail.ing of * films, announcemenUand spe cial publicatio ns. Second, $14: pays fer^thelhealthseri es| available to all the stiKdents. M ost of this money goesto pay for salaries. Another $25is taken to support the athleticprog ram . This - comes to about$17,000 which buys uniforms,supplies, lockers, etc. The U-braryf treceives^the* largestamount f of money? from: youractivities fee. It gets about $26of your $125. The most immediat e benefit | to the } studentscomes to us through the cultural series and the movies thatare shown, I accounting forabout $20. (Th e Yearbook demands $10 andtthe newspapernee ds $4 from everyone. Whatremains is the only relatively!loose money which can be usedby the student body for personal preferences. This issthe $25eacht student Epayf to R.UJS.However,!even this!money istightly allocated I and thus itsuse is tightly regulated.

Someone suggested to^mewhile I was writing4 this* articlethat each ^student would' have*to participate in two spoTts, a*ten d all th e m ovies, keep everynewspaper, join every club oilcampus, get sick onee and stedlfour books frotti thefflibrary &order to enjoy Mis |125.>Thfcis a bit extreme. For we allknow how much we appreciatethese "activities," don't.1 we?

LETTERS TO THE EDITORDeart Edit or :The ^Mercyhurst Chapter ofStudent PSEA recently+receivedstate-wide recdgfidtion in Uar-rifcburg for its outstandingraemibershif>. This year 101 students joitied the ofganizatibn.Atthe last meeting, ten of thesemamlbers iwerfc present. Wherewete the other 01?^

(Mr. Don Creole, President ofErne PSEA, spoke cm TeaherNegotiattons, i a itopic whichshould be of importance to allin the^ield of education. *Mr.Creoila is a busy man.^Yet hehad the time Iforbits. We, apf-parently, did not haye time forIron.

I /was embarrassed. Aren'tyou? M ary Lou DutkoDear Editor:

One of ithe major complaintsregarding this journalistic endeavor, known as the M ereiad,is that the paper Jacks properfemale - representation. A person then may ask himself, a rethe males ,so powerful as tohinder enthusiastic young women |from participating in this^xtra-ctirriculur activity? M yanswerfto this ^question is thatthere -daren't '^any fenthusiasticyoungi women to hinder. Thegeneral apathy toward the M er-

Hkenthe h&td,#heubar&B have a High teen pregnancy ra te ,and a|drug praWeia. The only difference is the eeonomic elevations. ' ;f ' |Aswte manlft thefeuburb sets back inithe evening and"I'm glad I don'tfiive in a fehdtto," hejshould tWfik twice.

ciad from the female sector ofthis campus is unbelievable andquite disheartening. The # *just don't seem to exhibit ij-terest* (M ost of them) Theyseem to have only eomplaint$|no constructive criticism. Granted, thereiare girlsfwho do care,but there areri't many.In my dealings with the Mereiad, *I've found the staff *ways glad to accept assisten^in any form JI the girls wouldonly oflfer their help, they couldeasfly Ibecome an iritegreHP3"of the newspaper. No one cafiImprove things by merely testing on his Gather) | s t e r i a l i ^

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W e, an interested componentof M ercy:: .rstC olle ge, realizing that there" is a iSEinite social problem in the school, feeltfoat some change must occuron campus in order to producea much more meaningful social relationship. Therefore, wefeel that the following proposalwilt help to alleviate this pitob-; lem.Dorm self-determination inE the following areas:i Open dorms from 12:00 a.m.r to 14:00 p.m. daily. |2 "l*his is what is suggestedf for Preston Hall." The other dorihs, tlridgf the self-determin ation policy, Will b esallowed to choose this forthemselves.a 3 . No hours for freshmen? after

|lst term;% On Feb. 24, 1971 the StudentAffairsf-Committee with all? resident counselors and residen tassistants met together to ? discuss the labove petition. Therewas also a. gathe ring of interested ^students at the meeting,who gave voice to the somewhat ambiguous terminology ofthe petition in the area of a"lacking social problem."Through the efforts fof Sr .M aura, Srf Ann, Sr. Barb araand Sr. Elizabeth, a more concise and specific definition*wasfinally determined. In essence,the definition wa s {this: Socialp interaction*, betwee n male s andfemales in each other's rooms| for the specific purp ose of enjoying each othes company" |i sdesired by* at least 210 stu dentsI who affixed their signatures Itothe petition. $8 ,Just -what * enjoying eachother's company" really means,is that young red blooded Amer-* lean men and women?- wan t f obe together duffl %mes ofp* stress and relaxation. Whether| this means talk ing, studying, orF listening to music, etc., ' ' willNrary amfcng those dijtectly| involved at the tim e iand j>lace

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manifesting themselves, it wasthought by some that an "unspoken f act ivi ty | might takeplace, or that personal privacyof others migh t be violated .These are excellent thoughts tobe considered. Therefore, itseems that a degree of curtailment is evident in the male, an dfemale dorms to assure thisdesn't happen. Both male andfemale mernibers are quiteaware of this fear, and 'rti surewill go along with later restrictions thatfwill be imposed.|The meeting itself, eventuallybrokefdown to just the studentaffairs committee deciding theissue of self determination, andanother fmee ting will be heldprior to a vote on any conclusions arrived {at by|the com

mit tee.I might add in conclusion thatthe meeting was excellentlyruii, with comments solicitedjinalphabetized order so that noone was slighted. Some excellent!*comments were put forth toclarify rthe reasoning ibehindthe petition. ;i t was thought or-

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After three successful meetings, the Meroyhurst StudentsArt Council (MSAC) has beencCficially Initiated? ' This heworganization has some very exciting .plans for the present andfuture! no tonly involving artmajors

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B I L L D O P I E R A L AS p o r t s E d i t o rNow that the intramural boys' basketball season is over, it stime to makef a few|observations on the eventsfof these past fewmonths. There ar e many good, yet many bad points that need becovered. It's always tetter, to talk about nice things first, so we'lldeal.with some of the better|aspects|of the intramural season.,Two individuals to be pointed out differ widely in basketballtalent, yet each inSiis own way symbolizes something jiabout intramural sports. First of all , the tap offensive player of the year, M ikeCreghan, led the league from start to finish in scoring. He alsoheld the single game scoring record of 51 points in a game againstthe Highballers. He, along with Rick Fess ler and a number* ofothers should make a great contribution to Mercyhurst's first intercollegiate basketbal team nextfyear. On the other hand therewas Roy Feinberg, a boy with not much talent in basketball, butprobably with the greatest desire of anyone that was exhibited during th^season. Here are^two boys, one with great talent, the other

with the great desire, but both able^to compete in|the fullest capabilities in an intramural program. TIn contmuinglwith the better points of this season, one can'tforgeftsome of^the top games played throughout thejjmonths. Although orily|4 or 5JtwUi be mentionedfhere, there were a dozen*orso thatiproved exciting to both players and spectators alike. Firstof afi^the biggest upset of the yeap was the Numbs defeat of theNarcs in the early season. A team greatly undersized, won,on puredesirfeland hustle and cost the Narcs the League title. Some of theotheiftop games of the season involved all 3 confrontations betweenthe "oity-dwellers", the Knicks, and the "campus-boys," the Narcs.'Oneffinal game, involving the Kin-A's andSthe Honchos was a|verytight one in which the Honchos ffiijallywon, but had|fo forfeit later.This latter incident brings us to some of the "darker" aspects ofthe season.At| first,* the Honchos had looked like the team to beat, but a

withdrawal from school, plus an apathy on the part of some ofthe members o#he team resulted in them having to be thrownout of the league at?about midseason. The reason behind this wasthe fact that they forfeited a total of 3 games for a lack of 4 roster*ed players. XAnother bleak moment in the past season was a gamejinvolv-ing the Narcs and| the Highballers. In this contest, the Narcspressed" a definitely inferior team Ifr orderfto reach 100. Not onlythat, but they laughed all* the while they did it. It's too badthat af teamfcjwith all that talent had to lowerI their pride |a sathletes in order to break a?baraer.One finalithingrrthat cast a shadow over a finely-run intramural season was the constant griping about the officiating.! On someoccasions, itntfas|deserved, but on the whole, the referees did morethan an adequate job. The people who ran these games weren'tprofessionals and couldn't be^expected to see and call every little

foul; An example of this was in the tournament championship gamein which the two officials were unjustly criticized. M any of themore|knowledgeable spectators remarked that theyifelt these fboysdid"a good?job dnifcalling the game. One solution to this problemsuggested^ Mr. Thomaisiwould be to train full-time referees andpay them fo&the season. Thislwill hopefully be tried?next year.

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