Aspiring actress sees a promising future
“I’m hooked, I can’t give it
up or I’d go nuts,” she said. “I
The antics of two conniving .tried that last summer So I
mothers, a reluctant debutante,
and
a
not-so-reluctant know.”
Steele sees a career in per­
debutante, involving a single
gentleman, provide the plot for forming arts, possibly teaching,
the College’s winter play, to be in her future. She prefers
performed on campus this musicals with comedy and
week.
drama, possibly because they
By Elena Vancil
Of The Print
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CREATIVE EXPRESSION-Becky Steele speaks about
her goals and dreams regarding drama. Photo by Duffy
Coffman.
The leading roles in the “The
Reluctant Debutante” feature
new and old College talent.
One example of new talent is
Becky Steele.
Steele portrays Clarissa, a
role that director Jack Shields
called the “not-so-reluctant
debutante.” Steele, herself,
described Clarissa as a “typical
teenager” and admitted that, at
first, the role was “a little
scary.”
Aside from acting, Steele is
enjoying her first formal
training in jazz dancihg.
Another branch of performing
arts, this serves only to support
her habit.
involve other forms of ex­
pression, such as singing and
dancing. “I need excitement,”
she said.
Steele feels the urge to bran­
ch out and offer her services to
other acting groups. She
dreams of auditioning at the
Civic Auditorium, although she
says that that idea is “still scary
to her.”
Steele’s dramatic future is
well planned, although her
dramatic specialty and the site
of her training remain to be
decided.
“I think I would prefer to.
teach in a junior college rather
than a high school because I
can be more liberal,” she said
“In high school you have to
censor a lot of stuff, a lot of
good stuff.”
“If I wanted to get a good
name for myself I would go to
New York University, but I
don’t think I would be too hap!
py with something like that,fl
she continued. “I need in]
dividual contact. Acting is very
intimate.”
Steele can be viewed as
Clarissa, for the duration o|
“The Reluctant Debutante.’]
Performances are schedule!
for Feb. 28,29 and March 1 al
8 p.m. and March 2 at 2:3(1
p.m. in the McLoughlin]
Theater.
Later the cast will perfora]
“The Reluctant Debutante” a]
the Coas'er Theater in Cannon!
Beach
March 20, 21, and!
22.
Class examines why cultures collide
By Mike Koller
Of The Print
The clashes and conflicts
between opposing cultures will
be studied and discussed in a
spring term history course
titled, “Movies of Cultural Con­
flict and Conquest in Asia, Af­
rica and the Americas.”
Instructors Fred DeWolfe-
and Richard Ramsperger will
examine why cultures collide
with one another. Imperialism
will be one of the topics of
study as the course emphasis
will be placed on the American
and European experiences in
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Africa, Asia and tne Americas.
De Wolfe, department chair­
person of social sciences,
believes that the problems oc-
curing now in Afghanistan and
Iran are a continuation of a
long history of the Western
world not being able to under­
stand ana deal realistically with
foreign cultures.
“If the United States would
have had a better understan­
ding of Afghanistan, the
situation there might have tur­
ned out quite differently,”
DeWolfe stated.
Through a wide variety of
films which cover nearly every
corner of the globe and span a
time period from the 1800s up
to the 1970s, DeWolfe hopes
the course will give students a
clearer understanding and
tolerance of other cultures.
“There is a definite ’ignoran­
ce’ that Americans have toward
other cultures,” DeWolfe
stressed. “The course should
be entertaining, but hopefully
students will at least indirectly
learn more about different
cultures alien to us from the
films that will be shown.”
Many of the films, such as
“The Wild Bunch,” starring
William Holden and Ernest
Borgnine, and “Soldier Blue”
with Candice Bergen, deal with
Colonial and domestic im­
perialism as portrayed in such
films as “Zulu,” “The Wind and
the Lion,” and “Ulzana’s
Raid,” will be discussed in
many class sessions.
historical event presented.
“Some of the films will bl
romanticized and inaccurate!
from a historical viewpoint, but!
we’ll bring up the inaccuraciel
and concentrate more on th!
“There were plusses and point of view being made in the
minuses to imperialism,” film,” he said.
DeWolfe emphasized. “It
created a market for selling
The film schedule is: Marell
goods, but also animosity and 27, “Gunga Din”; April 3,1
resentment toward the ruling
“Khartoum”;
April
10,1
country.”
“Zulu”; April 17, “Lost Patroll
DeWolfe cautioned that im­ and “March and Die”; April 24,1
perialism is still very much alive “The Sand Pebbles”; May 11
“The Ugly American” and!
in the world today.
“The Soviet Union is and “The Wind and the Lion”; May]
always has been a very im­ 8, “The Wild Geese” and “Thel
perialistic country. They have Wild Bunch”; May 15, “A Mai
aad a sphere of influence in the Called Horse”; May 22, "Run’
-’ersian Gulf area since the of the Arrow” and “Ulzana’|
1800s, so their recent military Raid”; May 29, “Soldier Blue.’’J
The three-credit course will |
thrust toward that region is not
be taught on Thursdays from 2
surprising,” De Wolfe said.
According to De Wolfe, p.m. to 5 p.m. and 6:30 p.m.l
many of the films will not give a to 9:30 p.m. in McLoughlin
totally accurate view of the Hall Theater.
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“America has always been a
very violent nation,” he said-
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