Scotch'n'Soda "Pippin, Pippin" Tartan Review - April 1967

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TARTAN Volume 66 —Number 27 Wednesday, April 26, 1967 Pippin, Pippin’ Called Best Collaborative Effort by Sue Attinson Ron Strauss, a sophomore in drama, was reading through his history book when he came upon the idea for this year’s Scotch ‘n Soda show. Eliminating several historical figures and reviving others, he and junior director Lawrence Ste phens (Steve Schwartz) rewrote the Charlemagne succes sion drama into a musical which they called “ Pippin, Pippin.” Opening this Friday evening in Skibo ballroom, the 1967 pro duction is, according to Steph ens, more of a strict book show than those of previous years. “Musical numbers were included to advance the story,” he ex plains. Pippin, Pippin is not— like earlier shows — music to which a play has been added.” Pippin ‘Best’ S ‘n’ S Making what they now call their “best colaborative effort,” both authors attempted to pat tern their music after the tex ture of the ninth century. They Bob Rastelli Playing Pippin sought quality bouncy tunes. a “thick, dark, rich” and kept away from contemporary show By means of the chorus, which, in Stephen’s opinion, contans the best collection of voices he has heard yet in S ‘n’ S productions they try to contrast the cool formality of court with the warm liveli ness of the country. Each number is written to explain some aspect of the plot. “Come with me where life is free and the world is pleasant,” peas ants sing to Pippin. “With the men away in battle what becomes of sheep and cattle?” irate women ask their king. Stephens wants his actors to live on the stage. “And they are succeeding much more than I thought they would,” he says. As to their set and costume designers, Stephens and Strauss ?re pleased, “They are giving exactly what we asked for.” Romanesque Atmosphere Set designer Stan Thomas tries to achieve a Romanesque Ptmosphere by taking structures mentioned in the script and blowing them up.” The travel- (('nnfiuucd. on Page ii) New Leaders Plan ‘Really Good’ SO Dale Pes*chel and Tom Moore took over the leadership of Stu dent Government last Wednes day at a formal installation ban quet in Skibo Faculty Dining Room. Peschel asked for “lots of help” from the new Student Senate members in the audience. He said he thought Tech could have a “really good” student Government next year; he felt the large turnout for the elec tions showed that people care about campus politics. He laud ed the outgoing “regime,” and promised to “carry through” the work they had started. Moore Plans Committees Moore adopted a businesslike attitude in his acceptance speech, after formally accepting the ga vel from ex-Viee President Lloyd Patross. He said he was going to “talk shop a little,” then ad vised the new Senators to read the Government Constitution and to come to the first Senate meeting with definite ideas about which committees* t h e y want to work on. Patross and retiring President Joe Orens received plaques for their past year’s service to the Government. George K. Brown, Head of Student Affairs, and E a r l e Swank, Dean of Student A f fairs, were on hand at the banquet to say a few words to the new officers and sen ators. Brown said he was willing to cooperate with the new Govern ment, but that it must remain independent and run itself, thus tacitly indicating his acceptance of the validity of the recent pro tested elections. Healso admon ished the new Government not to “spread itself too thin,” or try to solve a myriad of prob lems at once, but to “decide on a few problems you think are really important, and see them through.” Swank told the Senators that one cf the most important parts of their job was “being able to work with people.” He also warned with a grin, that “the governmental process is often slow.” SCOTCH 4N’ SODA will be accepting scripts for the annual Spring produc tion. Sunday, May 14—1:00 p m WHERRET ROOM New Members Added To Tech Trustees Board Seven prominent citizens representing business, edu cation, and research, h a v e been elected to the Board of Trustees at Carnegie Insti tute of Technology. The ac tion came at a meeting of the Board held yesterday on the Tech campus. The seven-elected board mem bers are Mr. Edwin H. Gott, Executive Vice-President, Pro duction, United States Steel Corporation; Dr. William O. Baker, Vice-President for Re search, Bell Telephone Labora tories; Dr. Paul C. Cross, Pres ident, Mellon Institute; Mr. Tor rence M. Hunt, Manager of Trade Relations, Alcoa; Dr, Warren C. Johnson, Viee-Pres ident and Professor of Chemis try, University of Chicago; Mr Jack L. Bowers, General Man ager,‘Convair Division, General Dynamics Corporation, San Diego, Calif.; and Mr. Theodore A. Burtis, President and Chair man, Houdry Process Corpora tion, Philadelphia. Mr. Gott was elected as a life trustee, Drs. Baker, Cross, and Johnson, and Mr. Hunt, were named as special term trustees and Mr. Bowers and Mr. Burtis, both 1942 grad uates of Tech were named as alumni term trustees. Five former term trustees of the Tech Board were reelected as life trustees. They are Mr. E. D. Brockett, Chairman of the Board and President, Gulf Oil Corporation; Mr. Philip A. Fleg- er, Chairman of the Board and President, Duquesne Light Com pany; Mr. John D. Harper, Pres ident, Alcoa; Mr. Logan T. John ston, Chairman of the Board Armco Steel Corporation, Mid dletown, Ohio; and Mr. Richard M. Scaife, Vice-President and Governor, T. Mellon and Sons. Two current members of the Board were elected to Trustees Emeritus positions. John C. Vir- den, Chairman of the Board, Eaton Yale and Towne, Inc., Cleveland, and Lloyd E. Yoder, a Tech graduate, and retired NBC Vice-President were given the honorary positions. James Bovard, former Board Chair man, was elected Honorary Chairman of the Board. Kiltie Band Honors President Stever Compser Vaclav Nehlybel, who conducted his work Symphonic Movement on the recent Town Hall (New York City) concert of the Carne gie Tech Kiltie Symphony Band, will be in Pittsburgh this Sunday, April 30, to conduct the Symphonic Movement and his Prelude and Fugue as part of the Kil tie Band’s annual President’s Concert in honor of Dr. H. Guyford Stever. The concert, beginning at 8:30 in Carneg ie Music Hall, is free to the public. Director of the Kiltie Band is Dr. Richard E. Strange, associate professor (Continued on Page 10) Measures Sought To Ease Parking A complaint to the city about the new parking meters on Forbes Avenue and Schenley Drive and a survey of Car negie Tech drivers head the plans of the administration for dealing with the worsening parking squeeze on Tech’s cam- pus and surroundings. Thistle Selects New Editors Applications are now being sought for the new editorial pos itions on the 1968 Thistle. Places are open for editor-in- chief, copy editor, layout editor, photography e d i t o r , business manager, sales manager, adver tising manager, activities editor, Greeks editor, senior editor, and sports editor. Anyone may apply for one position or more, should indicate on his application interest, ex perience, actvities on campus, department, class, and last se mester’s factor. Deadline is May 3. Submit all applications to J o h n Harrison, Thistle, Skibo 103. Tartan Needs New Proofreaders Anyone interested in proof reading for the Tartan should come to the Tartan Office next Monday, at 6:30 pm. The Forbes and Schenley me ters were installed by the city to encourage turnover of park- ers and to provide visitors park ing space. The administration will contend, in a report to be submitted in several weeks, that neither turnover nor space has been achieved. Comparison of morning and afternoon photo graphs of the metered areas shows that many cars remain in their spaces for the entire day, and that few spaces are open at any given time. Eight-Hour Limit Sought If the meters muât stay, they could still be improved on Forbes, according to the admin istration, by raising the time limit to eight hours instead of the present four. Since these meters are used almost solely by Tech drivers, it is claimed that the university should have been consulted about such limits. The administration emphasizes that Carnegie Tech’s bargaining position with the city wall be greatly strengthened if students write directly to Safety Director Craig and others about the park ing problem here. Survey Planned Consideration of both immedi ate and long-range problems will hinge on a projected survey of most of the Tech parking com munity. By mid-May, faculty, staff, and student rates and priorities should be decided. “Unique Institute” Studies Transportation Problems by Sue Attinson Transportation problems are the focus at TRI, Carnegie Tech’s Transportation Research Institute, which celebrated its first birthday at last week’s Second International Confer ence on Urban Transportation. Since its establishment one year ago with an original $300,- 000 gift from the Richard King Mellon Foundation — which do nated another $700,000 t h i s month—TRI has conducted re search for the U.S. Department of Commerce, the Port Author ity of Allegheny County, and the Commonwealth of Pennsyl vania. Directed by Dr. James Ro- mauldi and his associate Dr. Lester Hoel, both civil engi neering faculty, the Institute employs two fulltime staff mem bers (Tom Parkinson, research engineer, and Richard Hall, re search economist) but utilizes the expertise of faculty and stu dents from each of Carnegie Tech’s colleges. Says Hoel, “Our approach to transportation is based on the fundamental premise that the field is inter-dsciplnary, Solutions must be thought of within a systems framework.” He call TRI “unique” among institutes of its type. Over the past 12 months TRI research studies have included examination of new track struc^ ture designs; research on the applicability, cost and commun ity acceptance of a light weight, geometrically flexible transit systems; and the design of a grid substitute for the conven tional branching transportation network. Joint Doctorates Planned Under a state grant which provides for two courses a year in “systems solutions to com munity problems,” the Institute is offering a non-credit urban transportation course to profes sional engineers this spring. TRI also plans to develop a pro gram for joint doctorates in transportation since related courses are offered in several departments, and a number of students are already generating these from their research. No Third Avenue ‘L ’ Involving about 10 faculty members during the summer of 1966, the Allegheny County study cost the Port Authority $50,000 and resulted in a pro pas- (Continued on Page 5)

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  • TARTANVolum e 66 N um ber 27 W ednesday, Ap ril 26, 1967

    Pippin, Pippin Called Best Collaborative Effort

    by Sue Attinson

    Ron Strauss, a sophomore in drama, was reading through his history book when he came upon the idea for this years Scotch n Soda show. Eliminating several historical figures and reviving others, he and junior director Lawrence Stephens (Steve Schwartz) rewrote the Charlemagne succession drama into a musical which they called Pippin, Pippin.

    Opening this Friday evening in Skibo ballroom, the 1967 production is, according to Stephens, more o f a strict book show than those o f previous years.Musical numbers were included to advance the story, he explains. Pippin, Pippin is not like earlier shows m usic to which a play has been added.

    Pippin Best S n S

    Making what they now call their best colaborative effort, both authors attempted to pattern their music after the texture o f the ninth century. They

    Bob Rastelli Playing Pippin

    soughtqualitybouncytunes.

    a thick, dark, rich and kept away from c o n t e m p o r a r y show

    By means of the chorus, which, in Stephens opinion, contans the best collection of voices he has heard yet in S n S productions they try to contrast the cool formality of court with the warm liveliness of the country. Each number is written to explain some aspect of the plot. Come with me where life is free and the world is pleasant, peasants sing to Pippin. With the men away in battle what becomes of sheep and cattle? irate women ask their king.

    Stephens wants his actors to live on the stage. And they are succeeding much more than I thought they would, he says.

    As to their set and costume designers, Stephens and Strauss ?re pleased, They are giving exactly what we asked for .

    Romanesque Atmosphere

    Set designer Stan Thom as tries to achieve a Romanesque Ptmosphere by taking structures mentioned in the script and blowing them up. The travel-

    (('nnfiuucd. on Page ii)

    New Leaders Plan Really Good SO

    Dale Pes*chel and Tom Moore took over the leadership o f Student Government last Wednesday at a form al installation banquet in Skibo Faculty Dining Room.

    Peschel asked for lots o f help from the new Student Senate members in the audience. He said he thought Tech could have a really good student Government next year; he felt the large turnout fo r the elections showed that people care about campus politics. He lauded the outgoing regime, and promised to carry through the w ork they had started.

    Moore Plans CommitteesMoore adopted a businesslike

    attitude in his acceptance speech, after form ally accepting the ga vel from ex-Viee President Lloyd Patross. He said he was going to talk shop a little, then advised the new Senators to read the Government Constitution and to come to the first Senate meeting with definite i d e a s about which committees* t h e y want to work on.

    Patross and retiring President Joe Orens received plaques for their past years service to the Government.

    George K. Brown, Head of Student Affairs, and E a r l e Swank, Dean of Student Affairs, were on hand at the banquet to say a few words to the new officers and senators.

    Brown said he was willing to cooperate with the new Government, but that it must remain independent and run itself, thus tacitly indicating his acceptance o f the validity o f the recent protested elections. Healso admonished the new Government not to spread itself too thin, or try to solve a myriad o f problems at once, but to decide on a few problems you think are really important, and see them through.

    Swank told the Senators that one c f the most important parts o f their job was being able to work with people. He also warned with a grin, that the governmental process is often slow.

    SCOTCH 4N SODA

    will be accepting scripts for the annua l Sp ring production.

    Sunday, May 141:00 p m

    W HERRET R O O M

    New Members Added To Tech Trustees Board

    Seven prominent citizens representing business, education, and research, h a v e been elected to the Board of Trustees at Carnegie Institute of Technology. The action came at a meeting of the Board held yesterday on the Tech campus.

    The seven-elected board members are Mr. Edwin H. Gott, Executive Vice-President, Production, United States Steel Corporation; Dr. William O. Baker, Vice-President for Research, Bell Telephone Laboratories; Dr. Paul C. Cross, President, Mellon Institute; Mr. Torrence M. Hunt, Manager o f Trade Relations, A lcoa; Dr, Warren C. Johnson, Viee-Pres ident and Professor o f Chemis try, University o f Chicago; Mr Jack L. Bowers, General Man ager, Convair Division, General Dynamics Corporation, S a n Diego, Calif.; and Mr. TheodoreA. Burtis, President and Chairman, Houdry Process Corporation, Philadelphia.

    Mr. Gott was elected as a life trustee, Dr s. Baker, Cross, and Johnson, and Mr. Hunt, were named as special term trustees and Mr. Bowers and Mr. Burtis, both 1942 graduates of Tech were named as alumni term trustees.

    Five form er term trustees o f the Tech Board were reelected as life trustees. They are Mr. E. D. Brockett, Chairman o f the Board and President, Gulf Oil Corporation; Mr. Philip A. Fleg- er, Chairman o f the Board and President, Duquesne Light Company; Mr. John D. Harper, President, Alcoa; Mr. Logan T. Johnston, Chairman o f the Board Arm co Steel Corporation, Middletown, Ohio; and Mr. Richard M. Scaife, Vice-President and Governor, T. Mellon and Sons.

    Two current members o f the Board were elected to Trustees Emeritus positions. John C. Vir- den, Chairman o f the Board, Eaton Yale and Towne, Inc., Cleveland, and Lloyd E. Yoder, a Tech graduate, and retired NBC Vice-President were given the honorary positions. James Bovard, form er Board Chairman, was elected Honorary Chairman o f the Board.

    Kiltie Band Honors President Stever

    Compser Vaclav Nehlybel, w ho con d u cted his work Symphonic Movement on the recent Town Hall (New York City) concert o f the Carnegie Tech Kiltie Symphony Band, will be in Pittsburgh this Sunday, April 30, to con d u ct the S ym ph on ic Movement and his Prelude and Fugue as part o f the Kiltie Bands annual Presidents Concert in honor of Dr. H. Guyford Stever. The concert, beginning at 8:30 in Carnegie Music Hall, is free to the public. Director o f the Kiltie Band is D r. R ich a rd E. Strange, associate professor

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    Measures Sought To Ease ParkingA complaint to the city about the new parking meters

    on Forbes Avenue and Schenley Drive and a survey of Carnegie Tech drivers head the plans of the administration for dealing with the worsening parking squeeze on Techs cam-pus and surroundings.

    Thistle Selects New Editors

    Applications are now being sought for the new editorial positions on the 1968 Thistle.

    Places are open for editor-in- chief, copy editor, layout editor, photography e d i t o r , business manager, sales manager, advertising manager, activities editor, Greeks editor, senior editor, and sports editor.

    Anyone may apply for one position or more, should indicate on his application interest, experience, actvities on campus, department, class, and last semesters factor. Deadline is May3. Submit all applications to J o h n Harrison, Thistle, Skibo 103.

    Tartan Needs New ProofreadersAnyone interested in proof

    reading fo r the Tartan should come to the Tartan O ffice next Monday, at 6:30 pm.

    The Forbes and Schenley meters were installed by the city to encourage turnover o f park- ers and to provide visitors parking space. The administration will contend, in a report to be submitted in several weeks, that neither turnover nor space has been achieved. Comparison o f morning and afternoon photographs o f the metered areas shows that m any cars remain in their spaces for the entire day, and that few spaces are open at any given time.

    Eight-Hour Limit Sought I f the meters mut stay, they

    could still b e im p r o v e d on Forbes, according to the administration, by raising the time limit to eight hours instead o f the present four. Since these meters are used almost solely by Tech drivers, it is claimed that the university should have been consulted about such limits.

    The administration emphasizes that Carnegie Techs bargaining position with the city wall be greatly strengthened if students write directly to Safety Director Craig and others about the parking problem here.

    Survey Planned Consideration o f both immedi

    ate and long-range problems will hinge on a projected survey o f most o f the Tech parking com munity. By mid-May, faculty, staff, and student rates and priorities should be decided.

    Unique Institute Studies Transportation Problems

    by Sue AttinsonTransportation problems are the focus at TRI, Carnegie

    Techs Transportation Research Institute, which celebrated its first birthday at last weeks Second International Conference on Urban Transportation.

    Since its establishment oneyear ago with an original $300,-000 gift from the Richard King Mellon Foundation which donated a n o t h e r $700,000 t h i s monthTR I has conducted research for the U.S. Department of Commerce, the Port Authority o f Allegheny County, and the Commonwealth o f Pennsylvania.

    Directed by Dr. James Ro- mauldi and his associate Dr. Lester Hoel, both civil engineering faculty, the Institute employs two fulltime staff m em bers (Tom Parkinson, research engineer, and Richard Hall, research economist) but utilizes the expertise o f faculty and students from each o f Carnegie Tech s colleges.

    Says Hoel, Our approach to transportation is based on the fundamental premise that the field is inter-dsciplnary, Solutions must be thought of within a systems framework. He call T R I unique among institutes of its type.Over the past 12 months T R I

    research studies have included

    examination o f new track struc^ ture designs; research on the applicability, cost and comm unity acceptance o f a light weight, geometrically flexible t r a n s i t systems; and the design o f a grid substitute for the conventional branching transportation network.

    Joint Doctorates Planned Under a state grant which

    provides for tw o courses a year in systems solutions to community problems, the Institute is offering a non-credit urban transportation course to professional engineers this spring. TR I also plans to develop a program for joint doctorates in transportation since r e l a t e d courses are offered in several departments, and a number o f students are already generating these from their research.

    N o Third Avenue L Involving about 10 faculty

    members during the summer o f1966, the Allegheny County study cost the Port Authority $50,000 and resulted in a pro pas-

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    is located at 315 Shady Ave.M. Marchal is organist for

    the Jenunesse Musicale in Paris, where he perform s on the great organ o f the Palais de

    \ Chaillot. His frequent recordings have won many prizes. His students m ay be found in almost every important American musical community.

    M. Marchal studied at the National I n s t i t u t e fo r theYoung Blind, where he later

    taught. He was organist at the fam ous church o f Saint- Germain-desPres from 1915 to

    1945, and was organist at thechurch o f Saint-Eustache from 1945 to 1963.Coordinator o f the masters

    class is Donald Wilkins, professor o f music at Tech and organist at Calvary Church.

    The first masters class was held Oct. 24, under the guidance o f British recitalist Peter

    k Hurford.

    ridor, TRI will present a new concept in track structure to the U. S. Department o f Com merce. Eliminating the need for wooden ties, rails are mounted on a concrete slab which spans tw o narrow slurry-filled trenches. According to Hoel, this results in ride quality independent o f the kind o f soil over which the vehicle moves.

    Easy Access System The Institute has received a

    years grant under the State Higher Education Act of 1965 to apply the grid p a t t e r n mathematically developed in a doctoral thesis at Tech to transportation in S o u t h w e s t Pennsylvania. In t r a d i t i o n - al branched transit systems, headway doubles each time a new branch is added. On a grid o f independent but connecting transportation corridors, a traveller could with only one transfer gain easy access to any point within the grid.

    T R I has also been given about $70,000 to evaluate the effect o f advertising and promotion on bus ridership. Pilot studies o f a sociological nature will be directed by Dr. A lfred Kuehn, professor o f industrial administration, GSIA, and involve graduate students and TR I researchers. A fter a year, recommendations will be presented to the Allegheny County Port Authority.

    Hoel describes todays transportation problem, W e have the technology but we must apply those ideas and hardware which do exist to real situations.

    Additional details and facts about General Services Administration may be obtained at your Placement Office, Send resume to Personnel Officer, General Services Administration, 30 Church St., New York, N. Y. 10007 or call Area Code 212- 264-8295 to arrange for personal interview.

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    (Continued from Page 1) er, for example, is designed a fter an altar in one o f Charlemagne's castles. Thom as also has a 12 foot, three-dimensional bamboo dandelion and a tavern thatched with soda straws.

    Because o f their texture, burlap flats* are used. The look o f antiqued gold is prevalent in the court sequences whose basic motiff, according to Thomas, is a blue-green checkerboard pattern. In order to break away from this, Thomas frames the country scene with splashes o f yellow and brings browns into the tavern.

    Finding ninth century costume styles too madannaes- que, designer Richard Kesh- ishian looked throughout the Middle A ges fo r his styles, and cut them in ninth century color combinations (perhaps a bit m ore vibrant in his estimation). Materials used resemble heavy tools.Don Earl plans to maintain a

    fairytale milieu by lighting in pinks, lavendars, pretty blues, magentas, and amber.

    Stephens, Strauss and their staff will face the critics this Friday. Tickets are still being sold around campus at $1.75, and any remaining tickets may fee purchased at the door. Curtain time is 8:30 pm with tw o performances on May 4 at 6:30 pm and 9:30 pm.

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    Student Art-Literature in a Folio-book design . . . O n sale now in Baker Hall and Sk ibo Lobby.

    Price: 75 cents

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    Blind Organist Conducts Second Masters Class

    Blind French musician Andre Marchal will conduct the second of two masters classes in organ, sponsored by Carnegie Tech, at Calvary Episcopal Church in East Liberty on Tuesday, May 2. The internationally - known rectalist and teacher will begin the class at 7 :30 pm for students from Tech, plus interested organists from the general public. Registration fee. is five dollars.

    On Wednesday, May 3, M. Marchal will perform at a free public recital in the church at 8 p.m. Calvary Episcopal Church

    Transportation.. .(Continued from Page 1)

    al for an aerial distribution system with as many as five stations in the Golden Triangle.

    Elevated does not have to mean Third Avenue L , Hoel points out.

    Current plans call fo r noiseless automatically - controlled, electrically - propelled vehicles which would run on rubber tires within a semi-enclosed stainless steel guideway. This structure - which would carry all presently exposed wires and be the source o f street lighting is designed to stand on slender pedestals flush with the building line over the sidewalk.

    For possible use in the high speed Boston to Washington cor-

    SENI ORSThe General Services Administration is recruiting for Architects and Engineers in New York City and Philadelphia in all aspects of design, construction and management of Federal buildings.

    ARCHITECTS and ENGINEERS

    Construction Electrical

    Mechanical

    $6,387Positions start atGS-5 ( $6387 ) per annumor GS-7 ($7729 per annum)with provision for acceleratedpromotions to GS-11 ($10,481 Pa)

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