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arts “The Restaurant” Theater widens horizons The Clackamas Com munity College Theater depart ment has expanded its horizons this term. The Theater Projects class performed a one-act com edy, “The Restaurant,” before a realtors convention and at the Open Mike Night at Harry’s Mustache. The show was directed by student David Harvey who has acted at the College in such shows as “Not Any More” and is co-stage managing the cur rent production of “Androcles and the Lion.” The cast for the 20-minute comedy consisted of Victor Toman (“Not Any More” and “The Physicists”), Patrick Sterl ing (“Appointment With Death”) and Etta Leonard (“The Physicists” and “Ap pointment With Death”). SCAVAGING SQUIRREL SCAMPERS down a tree when a photographer caught him on film. Staff photos by Joel Miller Video covers campus A serious news program for broadcast over the cable system channel nine is being readied by the Clackamas Community College video department in conjunction with the College’s Public Informa tion Office. The segmentized show will feature mostly news with some taped interviews and will be aired for the Portland metropolitan area. “We plan on a talk show format with more community emphasis than in-College stories,” said Carlos Ricketson, video technology instructor, who is organizing the show. “We’ll do some features on the College, different departments and people. Bob Wynia (assis- AAA Dick Wengel 222-6900 Memberships Auto Insurance Life Insurance tant to dean of instructional ser vices) will do the news.” The show is tentatively slated as a weekly or bi-weekly program and will be produced by public relations/information officer Kevin McMurdo. It will be taped by video technology students as an independent study program titled “Advanc ed T.V. Productions.” Ricket son is still looking for students interested in helping out with the project. “Anybody who has in terest in T.V. production is welcome.” The show will combine graphics, live news and pre taped segments. Recent meetings of the production staff have resulted in the choosing of a name for the show as well as a set design. The show, titl ed “Clackamas In Review” will be done in a regular news for mat from behind desks or a table. This will require exten sive carpeting. Flats for the set are being acquired from chan nel 10. The first taping is slated for February and will be an inter view with a business manager for the Bagwan Shri Rajneesh, the founder of Rajneesh Puram. The two off-campus per formances Were vastly dif ferent, Harvey said. The Jan. 15 performance before approx imately 65 realtors at the Jant- zen Beach Red Lion was “. . . a good learning ex perience,” but presented to a not particularly responsive au dience, Harvey said. “We had to fight with a band that was setting up their instruments directly behind the actors,” he said. “It just wasn’t the right atmosphere for the show.” The Jan. 23 show at Harry’s Mustache, less than a mile from the College, went much better. “It was terrific, considering we performed in a bar,” Harvey said. Approx imately 40 people attended the performance. This is the first Projects class production to play at Harry’s Mustache, but not necessarily the last. The next show, an excerpt from Neil Simon’s “Plaza Suite” also hopes to get some off-campus Sigs. This is not the end of the run for “The Restaurant,” however. Harvey has just an nounced that his show will play matinee performances in the McLoughlin Hall Theater for one month. The showings will be on Fridays, at 2 p.m., and will begin Feb. 4. Harvey also hopes to ar range for a couple evening showings of the one-act at the College. However, no definite dates have been set up. The Projects class will do “The Restaurant” on Tuesday, Feb. 22, in the McLoughlin Hall Library for the Friends of the Library Association. Fiddling for fun Are your weekends bor ing? Anyone wishing to spend time fiddling about at Clackamas Community Col lege can join Greg Baker’s beginning or intermediate fiddl ing classes. The beginner’s group meets from 9-11 .m. on Satur days, and is followed by the in termediate class from 11 a.m. - 1 D.m. Baker, who plays fiddle with “Gold Rush,” a local bluegrass band, has been teaching the non-credit class for three terms now. The beginning class is for anyone who would like to learn how to play the fiddle, and class members range from ages 8 to 78. The intermediate class is for those who already have some fiddling experience. Both clashes are open to anyone who cares to try something new. Next term, Baker will offer credit classes held on weekdays, as well as the weekend non-credit classes. These will supplement the classes already being taught by fellow-fiddler Bob Misley. “Bob and 1 are catapulting a move ment to get a Bluegrass graduates degree program at the College,” Baker said. As well as teaching and playing with “Gold Rush,” Baker also offers private lessons at his studio, repairs fid dles, and collects, buys and sells the instruments. On top of that, he was recently elected chairperson for the Old Time Fiddlers Association, District #7, which serves the Portland Metroplex. Baker has been playing the violin and fiddle since fourth grade. Originally, he played the violin. “After a while,” he explains, “I started fooling around with the music, doing things like adding ‘Shave and a Haircut-Two Bits’ to the end of some classical pieces. All this got me dirty looks from the professors.” However, it took more than dirty looks to disuade Baker. He eventually abandon ed classical violin music altogether to concentrate on the fiddle.— “The differences between fiddles and violins are in how you play the notes and the kind of music you choose to play, Baker said. There are minor differences in the bridges and strings, he added, but pointed out that virtually every violinist could be a closet fiddler. SERVING THE TRI-CITY AREA SINCE 1963 WANT LISTS FILLED HOURS 9 A.M. TO 5 P.M. USED BOOKS AND MAGAZINES BUY SELL TRADE WE ALSO CARRY GREETING CARDS AND BIG SKY MAPS LESTER F. RUSSELL, JR. TELEPHONE 655-2060 609 MAIN STREET OREGON CITY, OREGON 97045 Clackamas Community College COMPUTER DESIGN: ONE of the computer designs made by Roger and Foster Nuffer. The brothers use a cross of art and computer science to produce dynamic symmetry designs. See story on page one. Page 6
