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Teacher ( To Play I fly MONA GAULT et Faculty Editor of Teaching "Hamlet" may con- TI sume a great deal of a teacher's ,A energies, but for Dr. Jack D. Ash- CI ley of the Department of English, M "the play's the thing." CI Dr. Ashley is portraying Ham let in the current production of of Shakespeare's tragedy at Fort co Jackson's Playhouse 4. ch "Hamlet in hard to play be- hil cause of the range of his person- ev ality, not to mention the vocal challenge of the role," Dr. Ashley de told The Gamecock. hij In projecting the language of he Shakespeare, Ashley said, "I want to to retain the poetry in which 'Hamlet' was written and at the . same time create emotional depth r and range. Sometimes I find my self stretching the iambic pentam- Ve sp "Safety belts? Not if h I'm just going down to the supermarket." th - Kathleen Farrell lei (1943-1968) ch "Safety belts? They " just make me nervous. ch Besides, they wrinkle so your clothes." of - Louis Claypool (1931-1968) H "Who can ever be remember to use the darned things?" th -Gordon Fenton ad (1921-1968) What yor excuse? Su to] ml Fr Advertising contributed ph w for the public good. S. Some d Where talent it As you conte career at Prai with a compa technology. We select our facilities only Encourage th little bit more And your dec B.S., M.S., oi MARINE e Ifn SCIENCE e C SCIENCE e E Consult your Pratt & Whitr Pratt EAsT HARTFORD W0 TP0 MSA hooses lamlet 3r to get across an outburst emotion." Dr. Ashley has appeared as tomas A Becket in T. S. Eliot's lurder in the Cathedral" and as ,eon in "Antigone." Another ,Ijor part was the title role in iekov's "Uncle Vanya." "I am reluctant to may anything Hamlet's true nature," Ashley mmented. "He 'eats of the ameleon's dish.' I conceive of lm as an ironist who ironizes eryone in the play. I mean his :king at Rosencrantz and Guil nstern, his brutal treatment of i mother, the savage behavior puts on with Ophelia, and so rth. "The only person he- doesn't nize is Horatio. He even iron !s himself in his soliloquies." Ashley said the role was not ry demanding physically, in ite of the fact that he sprained i ankle while trying to "get into ape" for the play. rhe most difficult sections of a play, Ashley said, are Ham 's jocular moments and his ex anges with other characters. L's hardest to maintain the aracter in these moments. The liloquies are the easiest to bring Dr. Ashley said he didn't think imlet was as demanding a role King Lear or Othello might " S o m e of Shakespeare's eeches make you think he hated actors for whom he wrote," he ded wryly. 'Hamlet" is playing through nday, with 8 p.m. performances tight and Saturday and 2 p.m. itinees Saturday and Sunday. ank Cal'abiano is director. The ky is being produced by the C. Theatre Co. 3)ecls/*e ecis .Dec 1 scisions ae rel you put your enm mplate one of the most imp :t & Whitney Aircraft. Here, yo ny that enjoys an enviable re engineers and scientists car a leader can provide. Offer em to push into fields that h responsibility than they can sion is made easier, thanks t< -Ph.D. in: MECHANICAL e 4 IDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING e ERAMICS e MATHEMATICS NGINEERING MECHANICS. college placement officer-c iey Aircraft, East Hartford, Ce & Whitney I 6ND MIDDLETOWN, CONNECTICUT N. FLRIDA Ashley As Students I With Theii By MONA GAULT Sol Faculty Editor 6 The scene is the Russell House, fac second floor; the time is Tuesday . afternoon. In the lobby, students ers both long and short-haired, wan der back and forth. They talk, ab< smoke, laugh. No doubt many of ' them complain about their teach ers, courses, the system in gen- cor eral. Down the hall in Room 208 is for another group of students, both har long and short-haired. They talk, smoke, laugh and also complain in about teachers, courses and the dir system in general. Only here it's sta different. This is student-faculty pe,: drop-in, and there are real live teachers listening to the com- fre plaints. an( The round-table discussion runs , the gamut from teacher evalua- thi tion to faculty power to rats in pla *1vl niprat li4rn :>tn eiin f orlf,w n u0ilfn ieoenopruiisf >athie ranmofotal ntsrqie. PHYSIC ostbltnhe CHM dTYnami mL rfurite Mot iathm l. Giveoner,ni IrCrafte eplre beore-o e the wde rage oftalens reqired wh. Spa ( gaI stal mel siol int4 Hamlet rop In r Profs ith Cafeteria: Why don't professors attend ulty meetings ?" We should have better sjeak on campus." Can't teachers get concerned out parking?" he teachers also complain: Most students I've had can't imunicate." I give out evaluation sheets n.y course and only get a idful back." kver. attendance at the drop- OM varies, Kiki Stillwell, assistant ector of the Student Union, ted, adding that attendance up irs to he increasing gradually. )ne professor noted, "There's e iced tea, coffee and cookies' I still students don't come. 'There are a lot of legitimate ngs students should be com- - .ining about." I/f t t( ite you to consider a r professional growth >sphere of aerospace n the equipment and cation opportunities. them reaching for a y do manage it. Your degree can be a HEMICAL e CIVIL e URGY e MATERIALS CE e ENGINEERING 1eering Department, U 3 AIRCRAFT CORtPORAT,ON assicS 1trives Second in a series presenting I C teachers who are outstand- I C as communicators. Ily MICHAEL BALL You despise most in others t it you seo in yourself," thus I ke Ruby Ott. ut her Greek 301 class did not ( e in awe or sneer at her i .ernent's triteness. The corn it was relevant to the discus which might have preceded, !rrupted, or followed any les is she would say, "Too many Miss New Writin, Prize-winning poems, short sto and novel excerpts by twenty-two college writers the best of campus writing toda, WSP WASHINGTON YU SQUARE PRESS, 630 Fifth Avenue. New York, N.Y. 10020 A S. N iI %:i1I * A Teach For Re rofessors attempt to present heir subject detached from every hing else. Nothing is of any alue unless it is expressed in erms of human beings; you don't each a subject, you teach peoi:le." In instructing individuals Miss )tt tries never to push a student n his subjeci until he feels like I failure. She believes "every )ers(n has to find his innate -hythm in class, in a career and, n a pfeIsonal basis; a person -an't violati- his rhythin an<i really wet ahed." Staff Photo by Bob Seidet Ott ies t / INC. $125 bsidiary of Simon & Schuster, Inc. R. L.Brya 1440MAI STREE -rn nn, e .n.... ... hr Ott levance Likewise, she hopes Carolina itadents can learn to make up for he crowding-in of ideas and wvents which has characterized the iputnik generation. "You have to )nd a way to sit down and do iothing, to meditate on things un .elated to what has assailed you ill day. You also have to pause ind assimilate what you have >een exposed to intellectually and motionally. "Today's students are overre icting to the things with which they are confronted. Ten years igo Carolina students brought their books to class, listened to the esson, and took their books back to the dorm to study. They were iathetic!" She c o n t i n u e d , "Attitudes should even out and produce in terested students. However, if the youth involvement is suppressed before it runs its course, I don't know what will be the outcome." Concerniing AWARE Miss Ott 1omm11ented, "It's time all types 11f extremists had a voice, an out let on campus. College students may learn to disagree without be ing disagreeable. "Of course." she added, "there is a certain lunatic fringe seeking 4olutions to personal problems who are attracted to the organiza lion. The group should be very wary of those who take over and misuse it. Although she has taught Latin, G;reek and occasionally% French :mnd Spanish for nearly three dec aIde-, liss Ott has commented, "I n% ,uld do away with foreign lan guage' requirements here. Lan L uages should be elected by those who feel they will use them later." Teaching Greek and Latin have given her, she feels, a homey outlook. "There is a sense of timelessness in knowing that peo le in other times thought and felt the same things we do. It makes my world seem more stable and not so big." She concluded, "I try to give each topic relevance without mak ing the effort contrived. It's pos sible to live in a classical period through study without escaping to it." Relevance seems to be the key word to .liss Ott's communica tion. V AI :WM