tl20030303-000 "The TOWEPiigihbf Baltimore's #1 College Paper - Published Twice-Weekly - www.thetowerlight.com Monday, 3/03/03 Education dean Hinkle dies at 60 5 CHP hosts career planning event 5 Jonasay to rock first Paws event 13 Film documents quixotic project 14 Departments Opinion 2 News 5 Nation 8 Arts 13 ma Theater Near You 14 Sound Bites 16 Entertainment Briefs 15 Restaurant Review 15 Sports 20 In This Corner 20 Athlete of the Week 18 Classifieds 17 Towson stays up 24 hours dancing for 'little miracles' Saul Staogenke The Tawerlight Cameron Wecker, 11, covers his eyes as his mother, Donna, hula hoops during ""Miracles in Motion,"" TU's second 24-hour Dance Marathon last weekend. Cameron has been a long-time patient at the Johns Hopkins Childrens' Center, for which Towson students raised more than $15,000. Protest pleas for war alternative Jennifer Hykes The Towerlight Two weeks ago, protesters gath-ered in cities around the world to voice their opposition to war in Iraq. Today, another type of protest will take place. Communities in 42 countries will take part in the Lysistrata Project, a global anti-war movement. The con-cept is simple. People around the world will gather to read Aristophanes' anti-war comedy, ""Lysistrata."" Baltimore is one of the most active cities, hosting 10 read-ings, including one at Towson in the Union's Potomac Lounge at 4 p.m. Assistant professor Robyn Quick, who teaches theater history, is organizing the event at TU, and she said the project has impact in sever-al different ways. ""The last I looked, 739 readings in 42 countries � that's just aston-ishing,"" Quick said. ""I think that's a really important expression of what a lot of people on the planet feel � that we really value peace, that we think it's important to find alterna-tives to violence � and that's really what this play says."" Quick explained that Aristophanes wrote the play in reaction to the Peloponnesian War, which was ravishing the Greek city-states, ruining the economy and bringing a heavy death toll. She emphasized, howev-er, that he was a comedic play-wright. ""In particular he wrote plays about the contemporary political and social world in which he lived � really kind of a 'Saturday Night Live' or a Jay Leno, David Letterman monologue where there's a lot of specific commentary about modern life,"" she said, adding that Aristophanes was ""very often criti-cal"" of political leaders, especially when it came to war. In this particu-lar play, women from the warring communities see their sons and husbands dying and witness the economic devasta-tion the wars are causing and final-ly say, ""enough is enough."" ""It's a comic fantasy,"" Quick said. ""The women of these different war-ring factions get together, which is I wanted to contribute; I wanted to be a part of this international chorus of voices saying, ""We'd like to find an alternative to war."" Robyn Quick assistant professor, theater really important, that people get together ... they make a pact, and they say that, 'we are going to with-hold sex from our husbands until they agree to lay down their weapons and end the war."" ""Lysistrata"" was first performed in 411 B.C., but two New York actors, Kathryn Blume and Sharron Bower, found the piece to be rele-vant to the current world situation. They began organizing the Lysistrata Project in January. As soon as Quick learned about it, she knew she wanted to lead a group. ""I teach theater history, and I was very excited that a group of people had found this classic work from the past to be relevant today. I think that � it's what I teach; it's what I do,"" Quick said. ""But what's more important than that was, I was very See COMEDY, page 9 Today High 30 Low 21 Tuesday High 45 Low 41 Wednesday High 46 Low 24 Thursday High 42 Low 32 Friday High 53 Low 41 "
