tl19691107-002 "November 7, 1969 TOWER LIGHT Page 3 Black voices views on a white college by FREDERICK D. HARPER Submitted by the Black Student Union There should not be an attempt to contain black students but rath-er an attempt to remove those con-ditions that get blacks ""uptight."" What are these cnditions which help cause black revolt? There is a need for the counselor, the administrator, and others to get into the black student's world and try to better understand his view. To admit the black student to the white university is only the begin-ning. Like any other student he needs to be happy and socially ad-justed. He needs to be accepted, re-spected and understood. A number of whites appear to be insensitive to the needs of black students who are in search of a black identity. They seem to think that blacks can turn off their own cultural tie and become ""colored"" Anglo-Sax-ons or even better�Negro-Saxons. Whites need to learn to listen to blacks and be willing to accept and not expect blacks to do all the lis-tening and accepting. If you can listen with an accept-ing ear and try to get into my frame of reference. I will attempt to articulate what it means to be bladk in a white university: Being black means to walk across campus on my first day of class and not see one black student. Being black means to have all white teachers and to be sur-rounded in class by all white or nearly all white students. Being black is to open my text-books and see pictures of white folk and read white-washed theory, philosophy and history which are irrelevant to me. (Please turn to page 7) Mr. Chips and Mr. Powell TSCs Shakespeare - Mime tours area schools � by DONNA QUANTE, Photos by FRANK THOMAS Debbie Littleton and Ann McDonough as crawling, creep-ing lizards. Towson State College's Theatre Department is currently perform-ing an experiment in drama. A Theatre Problem class, under the di-rection of Mrs. Maravene Sheppard Loeschke, has formed a Shakespeare- Mime Elementary and High School Touring Company. The purpose of the company is two-fold: to enrich the creative dra-matic programs in the public schools of Maryland toward a greater sense of believability and honesty; and to promote good public relations between the college and Baltimore schools and to have the Theatre De-partment better serve the community. The elementary school program consists of simple mime. Such things as animals, machines, toys, games, slow motion fights and tug-of-war are performed. In the high schools the program is a combined of mime, scenes from MacBeth and Midsummer Night's Dream, and Hair. The programs last about 50 minutes, with time allowed for questions. In the elementary schools the children are given an opportunity to participate in the mime activities. Elementary schools the group will visit in the next month are: Towson, Lida Lee Tall, Pot Springs and Lutherville; high schools: Tow-son, Perry Hall, Randallstown, Edmondson, and Cockeysville. Many of the students involved studied mime with Tony Montenaro Some of the students volunteered to join the troupe for their own en-joyment and discipline. The girls made their own costumes under the guidance of Sheila Kehoe and Mrs. Baker of the department. Members of the company include: Bob White, Mike Littman, David Rovine, Howard Rollins, Michele Oppenheim, Ann McDonogh, Debbie Lit-tleton, Sheila Kehoe, Charlene Chapnick, Jo Matkins and Gail Burgan. The group plans to go to Jessup Prison on November 24 to do a musical revue. Sherborne Headmasters who teach the future British leaders GAMES AT Sherborne School for Boys in the film ""Good-bye Mr. Chips"" reflect the school mood. by PAUL DEMMITT This past Wednesday the Tower Theatre showed excerpts from the new musical, Good-Bye Mr. Chips, and had as a guest speaker, the headmaster of the school that was used for the on-location shooting� Sherbourne School for Boys. The interview with Robert Pow-ell, the headmaster of the school, was the high point of the evening. A quiet, soft-spoken gentleman of 60, Powell next year will com-plete his 20th year at the school and will terminate his connection wit hthe school just as Chips did in the tsory. Most of the audience was very curious about student life in a school of this type. The English public school sys-tem (private schools in England are known as public schools; pub-lic schools are state schools), seems quite different to students of the US. It seems the only comparable schools we have here in the US are the seminaries for religious in- (Please turn to page 7) SLOW MOTION boxing is being performed by Mike Litt-man and Bob White. Theatre 'Slow Dance on the Killing Ground' by YVONNE Center Stage is currently featur-ing the play Slow Dance on the Killing Ground by William Stanley and directed by John Stix. It will continue through November 16. The play concerns three people �each one a victim or product of his environment, his culture, his race. There is Glas, a German immi-grant who left his Jewish wife and Jewish son to further the cause of Communism, thinking that the Communists could rid his beloved Germany of the hated Nazis. Then there is Randall, a black youth from Harlem. He is an iso-lated being. Hs ie separated from ""his world"" by his genius intelli-gence, and from the familial group, by the lack of a father and because of his mother's professional�pros-titution. Finally, there is Rosie, a young SMITH NYU student of Jewish extraction from the Bronx, who, while looking fo rthe Brooklyn Bridge to meet an abortionist happens to go into the corner store owned by Glas. Here is where the entire action takes place. Here we see that each character is struggling to exist, and all three at sometime question the worth of doing so. ""The Killing Ground"" is the name that Randall gives to the streets of Brooklyn, for he believes that man is but a bug and eventually will be squashed by someone or some thing. Randall has let ""the killing ground"" dominate him. He walks the streets with a knife, an ice pick, and an umbrella with a lethal point. Glas feels a guilt that enstran-gles him, but living seems to him a punishment. He sits and watches life pass by until he realizes how important life is when he sees Rose's purported abortion as an-other example of tht eype of mur-er he has been connected with and responsible for in Germany. The play consists of these three :earning to know and care about each other, and thus caring about mankind. Their lives have been widened by this learning and car-ing The plot is a simple one which enables the characters to be of dominant importance. In this case, the characters were well developed both in the critten play and by the actors. The three actors did a beautiful (Please turn to page 5) 1 I. 1 1 ti 1 "
