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ILLINOIS WESLEYAN
"I believe there are more instances
of the abridgment of the freedom of
the people by gradual and silent
encroachments of those in power
than by violent and sudden
usurpations."
-James Madison
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DEVOTED TO THE CONCEPT OF FREEPRESS
Volume 92 Bloomington, Illinois 61701, Friday, November 22, 1985 Nur
Eckley welcomes
Wesleyan
By Heidi Miller
Wesleyan students will have
the opportunity to participate in
the Army ROTC program at Illi-nois
State University beginning
in the fall of 1986.
"The cross-enrollment affilia-tion
has been 'in the works' for
four years," said university
president Robert S. Eckley.
The program is being im-plemented
to give students
another educational option,
Eckley said.
Eckley said that two-thirds of
the colleges in the United States
have either ROTC or a cross-en-rollment
affiliation similar to the
one Wesleyan will have.
Enrollment increase because
of ROTC will be slight, Eckley ex-pects.
There were enough in-quiries
into the program to make
the administration decide to offer
it as an option.
Eckley said there may be some
opposition to the ROTC program
from students and faculty. He
does not believe, however, that
the program will change the cam-pus
environment in any way.
ROTC is just another option for
students, he said, and there will
be no marching or other ROTC
activities on campus.
Lt. Col. James McCormick,
head of ROTC at ISU, said this
program is academic in nature,
and is similar to cross-enrollment
affiliations between the account-ing
departments at Wesleyan and
ISU. Students will be par-ticipating
in both classroom and
laboratory settings.
Laboratory activities will in-clude
learning military customs
and courtesy and proper march-ing
technique. There will also be
field exercises on weekends,
where students will practice rap-pelling,
skiing, patrolling defense
tactics and other military skills.
"These are young men and wom-en
who wish to become officers,
not fighting soldiers," McCor-mick
said. "They will come out
with skills in supervision,
Members of the cast of "Strider" rehearse for opening night Nov. 21. The show will continue through Dec. 7
in McPherson Theater." Photo by Dave Ruggles
'Strider' to trot on scene this weekend
By Mariann Mayberry
On stage the actors form an
ensemble and before the au-dience's
very eyes they trans-form
into horses. Their human
shells are discarded. A herd
forms and Strider, a piebald
horse, is shunned because of his
uniquely spotted coat. Strider, an
originally Russian musical, will
perform Nov. 21, 22, 23 and Dec.
5, 6 and 7 at 8 p.m. in McPherson
Theater.
Strider was adapted from the
stories of Leo Tolstoy and came
under the creative direction of
three School of Drama faculty
members. Many are involved in
the production, but Charles
Baird, Wesleyan's new Music
Theater Coordinator, directed
with the help of both Martha
Dewey, also new at IWU as a
Specialist in Drama and Nancy
Benjamin, a Specialist in Move-ment.
"My responsibility was to free
the creative talents of the people
involved so they could contribute
to the production," commented
Baird. "Strider's a very
theatrical, eclectic piece drawn
off different periods of the
theater. We even chose the
framework of a Greek tragedy."
Baird added that "It's a search
for the meaning of life. Strider is
a piece of property because he's
just a horse, yet, as a horse and
as human beings, we have our
prides and our desires to possess.
Through this tragic flaw, which
always leads to unhappiness and
a lack of fulfillment, it brings
about a destruction. But if you
'live long enough' you'll find that
for life to be complete you have to
have the successes and failures,
the sorrows and the joys."
Flashbacks into Strider's
memory "keep on the positive
aspects and the tragedy comes
from his ability to suffer from the
cruel and terrible forced instincts
of a mob. The mob is the herd.
The herd is us," Baird said.
Baird, with an extensive career
in acting, singing and directing
throughout the U.S. and the
Netherlands, received his BFA
degree from Carnegie-Melon
University and his MFA from the
University of North Carolina.
He's directed for several off-
Broadway shows, The New York
Opera, various studios and
ensembles in New York, sang at
the Radio City Music Hall, and
on, and on. After being hired he
"immediately got the script and
began forming a concept."
"This is our interpretation,'
Baird stated, "we hope the public
'enjoys it."
Martha Dewey, Musical Direc-tor
for Strider, received her BFA
from Kalamazoo College in In-diana
and her MFA of Religion
and the Arts, at Yale Divintiy
School. She leads a three person
orchestra consisting of Steve
Hopp on synthesizer, Jerry Gore
on percussion, and herself on
piano, through the show's unique-ly
"Russian folkmusic har-monies."
"There's kind of a hymnic
flavor to some of the choral
music and in addition there's a
quality of the thundering of the
herd," she stated.
Dewey said that this is her
third time with a production of
Strider. The first was with Clair
Myers, Director of the IWU
School of Drama, and the second
was with a summer stock theatre
in Vermont. "I feel like an expert
on Strider, but there's endless
ways to go at it. I think we've
found our own unique way."
"I also feel like more of a
technician," Dewey added, "To
help emphasize the different
moods and styles, dramatic vs.
reality, past vs. present, we had
to compose some extra under-scoring.
Although there're only
three of us, we create an amazing
number of sounds."
Nancy Benjamin, Movement
Specialist for Strider, studied
Theater Movement for two years
in Paris, came back to the U.S. to
give lectures/demonstrations
and workshops, then became a
part of Wesleyan's theatre facul-ty
last year.
"Instead of approaching Stri-der
by plugging in theatre dance
numbers, a decision was made to
use Theater Movement/Mime,
and that's why I was called in,"
said Benjamin.
"The cast went out to a stable
and observed how different
horses moved. They increased
their awareness and created
their own personalities/charac-ters.
The back of a horse is
represented by the actor's two
legs. The chest, neck and head
make up the front with the arms
also working as legs at times."
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management and leadership."
Wesleyan students who par-ticipate
in the program will not
be able to apply their military
science credits toward gradua-tion.
The courses are considered
electives.
Grades in military science will
be computed into grade point
averages and credit earned is
nber10
gets ROTC
transferable to other schools with
Army ROTC.
Aside from experience and job
skills a participant receives, na-tional
scholarship programs for
Army ROTC exist. Wesleyan stu-dents
can receive two or three
year scholarships.
Scholarships are full tuition,
with an allowance for books and
fees, and a $100 living allowance.
McCormick said scholarships
can usually be obtained if the stu-dent
had a "B" average and an
ACT score of 24 or above. Of the
150 students enrolled in ISU's Ar-my
ROTC program, 15 have
scholarships, McCormick said.
There are also monetary incen-tives
for students who do not win
scholarships, as all weekend ex-cursions
are subsidized by both
state and federal governments,
and are free to the student.
Students who choose to con-tinue
the program through their
junior and senior year will
receive $100 a month for living
expenses, and $700 to attend
military camp at the end of their
junior year, McCormick said.
McCormick is pleased to have
the opportunity to have Wesleyan
students in the program. He is not
expecting a large enrollment, but
feels the opportunity will be at-tractive
to a few students.
Both McCormick and Eckley
think this is an excellent oppor-tunity
for nursing majors, due to
the decline in civilian jobs and
the increase in scholarships the
Army awards to nurses.
McCormick said that of the pre-sent
freshman class enrolled in
Army ROTC at ISU, one third are
women. "I'm proud to say we
don't intimidate girls anymore,"
McCormick said.
A student has two options after
completing the four-year pro-gram.
He may join the reserves
and work one weekend a month
for eight years, or he may choose
to compete for active duty. If
chosen, he serves for three years
and is put on the "immediate
ready" rolls in case of national
emergency for five years.
McCormick encourages stu-dents
to look into the option of
ROTC. He said that although
there is some sacrifice involved,
it is an excellent opportunity to
learn valuable skills for the
future.
Inside:
Hirschfeld speaks on arms control ... p. 7
Leake qualifies for nationals ........ p. 8