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National Sh "Twel By BOB CRAFT Features Editor The University Union Artists Series brought the National Shakespeare Company's "Twelfth Night" to Township last night. Sensational. No foolin', folks. Those of you who picked up your tickets and then didn't show up really should kick yourselves. About 400 people turned out to see the play--many more than one might expect--but there were still lots of empty chairs when the curtain went up. The audience took a while to "Manchi Golden & By BOB CRAFT Features Editor When I walked into the jammed Golden Spur the other night, the first impression I had of Manchild was, "My God, someone is keeping the Buffalo Springfield's flame alive." As with most first im pressions, this one was partly right, but mostly wrong. Sure, sometimes you could fool yourself with comparisons to the Springfield (perhaps nostalgia did il), but Manchild made comparisons not only uselesS, but a little stupid, too. The Louisiana group is hard to pin down. 'They will start a song and you think you have F aculty si (continued from are rightly very disturbed about the allegations, the Committee feels that the issues raised last week go far beyond even the ethical and criminal trans gressions of any or - faculty member or student. After meeting with those responsible for the articles, we think that they were motivated by a genuine desire to call student and faculty attention to the drug problem on this campus as they see it. It is the apparent feeling of students generally that the faculty are ignorant of the campus drug problem--although this is the most serious social problem facing the University. At the same time .it must clearly be stressed that an overwhelming majority of our students do not use drugs and oppose their spread; and a sub stantial number of faculty are involved in drug education programs on campus. Never theless, as a first step towards greater awareness, we remind our colleagues of the considerable faculty efforts presently directed to the identification and solution of the drug problem:' a) A brochure mailed to each faculty member discussing the varieties of drugs .and the!it tkespeare Con fth Nig warm up to the language of the play, but when it did, there was a lot of laughter. "Twelfth Night," is a comedy about the "rule of misrule." The gags and slapstick fly so fast that Feste, the fool, is moved to say, "If this were played on a stage, I would say that it would be an improbable fiction." Aside from the laughs, there was the music to go along with Shakespeare's songs. That ain't something you can get by poring over the "Complete Works" footnote by footnote like an in tellectual eunuch. Id" packs pur them, pegged and they turn around and fool you by doing something else. From acoustic rock to blues to fifties style rhythm and blues rock. It is disconcerting to the audience, but it proves they can do a little bit of everything. They can do a little bit of everything and they are good at it. They have a record coming out soon and something tells me that maybe sometime soon we'll all be paying money to hear the group that we could have heard for nothing up close. Thank . to the Nightclub Committee for bringina this qroup. Bring 'em back, soon. Latement page one) symptoms. b) The drug use and abuse survey is of inestimable value as information to appropriate University agencies. c) The drug abuse course taught by Dr. Milne in the College of Pharmacy. Secondly, we call attention to the projected drug center in the healt'. service program which is intended to reinforce all other drug education and treatment programs1 now being practiced on campus and in the community. We recommend that the Faculty Senate support this project and all other projects now in force or proposed which hopefully will improve a situation of great concern to everyone in our society. We recommend that the Faculty Senate instruct all faculty collectively or individually to offer their services in any way deemed necessary to solve this problem. Finally, it is urged that the Faculty Drug Committee become increasingly active with ap propriate student and ad ministrative groups and that the faculty become more fully aware of the various counseling services available on campus and elsewhere for students and others ipany rht" ev In fact, seeing the entire thing staged gives a new and refreshing dimension to Shakespeare. (I have a remarkable talent for pointing up the obvious, don't I?) And I imagine the scales dropped from a few eyes when they Rick Wilkins would like to ex students to come Student Govern Shop, on the 1' With 75 you can I hope to see you th B2 R ckes Ia realized that Shakespeare was not the god-like "Bard" that the pedantic Miss Thistlebottom foisted on them in the high school. When one sees one of Shakespeare's comedies, like "Twelfth Night," and then goes Ru1 DI your Balfour rin tend a cordial invi by and see the n ment designed ring ith and 16h of Fel hours, and only a own one yourself in fit en.7 Rick Your Balfour Lighter home and sees what passes as comedy today (for example, ugh, "Me and the Chimp") the cry is torn from the lips, "Ah Shakespeare, there was a gagwriter." 4G : representative, tation to the 1w, official I at the Campus Pruary. deposit, 7e weeks. Wilkins Representative