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Show Ki IS ARE AUDITIONS REALLY THAT BAD? SURPRISES GALORE ARE IN THE LIBRARY. Last week dozens of SUSC theatre hopefuls put their hearts on their sleeves and their bodies on the stage. Now the plays have been cast, but it was the process itself that was intriguing. SEE PAGE 10. someone once said it was a place with lots of books. Well, yes, but theres much more to the SUSC library including some things students may not be aware of. When asked define a library, to SEE PAGE 3. Linvilie: an actor by luck 60 was reduced to a graduating class of 18 with only six receiving diplomas. Linvilie was one of the six. BY TYLER JENSEN Larry Linvilie, who played Major Frank Burns on rhe television show MASH, told a packed Convocations audience Thursday that his success as an actor is due to a string of accidents throughout his life. Linvilie also discussed topics ranging from advice on life to his success as an actor to the nuts and bolts of making From there he came home and started to act in Shakespearean and classical plays. He says that he probably acted in about 150 productions of classicals. He then acted in a first-ru- n production of More Mansions. ONeills Stately Eugene He then went on to the television production of In the Matter of Robert Oppenheimer. After that, he appeared in episodes of many television shows and also appeared in the motion picture Kotch starring Walter Matthau. He met Gene Reynolds while appearing on Room 222. Rtnolds later offered him the role of Burns in the T.V. show MASH. Frank Burns was created in about 10 seconds. Linvilie made him out of all the characteristics of all the jerks he had ever known. Linvilie feels that Burns was the best part on the show. Bad guys dont stand there like surfboards, he said. Heros are like talking models. . MASH. j He said he is happy with his life but feels that he owes his success to luck. During his school years, Linvilie didnt want to become an actor. He wanted to fly jets. 1 Larry Linvilie got into acting because he thought it would be a great way to meet women. He stayed with it because he flunked a physical exam. He started flying gliders when he was and later majored in years-old, 1 -- aeronautical engineering at the University of Colorado. He would have gone on to the Air Force Academy if he hadnt failed his physical due to being colorblind. He started acting in high school. He played the innkeeper in a Christmas pageant. Linvilie later wrote to the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts in London. Out of 300 auditioners, only 3 Americans were going to be accepted. He was judged best and given a scholarship. With 60 members, his class was one of the largest ever accepted to RADA. There he met and worked with Jon Hurt and Tom Courtney. His class of MASH He said what made work was discipline and professionalism. We didnt let personalities get in the way, he said. He said making the transition from himself to Burns and back again was simple because of his British training except once. For a time he (continued on page 8) the army, with a twist Joann Bowns runs her class like knows the strict rules and hind words Biology classes may inspire BY CYNDY LEYSON Sound the reveille! Class, fall into your seats. And most importantly, dont be late! All of a sudden, the classroom appears to be too small. The sympathetic faces of other recruits watch as you humbly shuffle toward unknown territory. The anxiety plaguing you since day one has finally come to a head. You come face to face with your superior, open your mouth, croak, Help please, and then try adding, maam?" out of respect. fear in some , but this professor You start to tremble in your shoes. Sweat " gathers on your upper lip. Im too young for biology!" Images of twitching animals that are supposed to be pithed being brutally thrust upon your lab table and a diagram of how to disect a smiling pig invade your mind. Who will you turn to when you arrive at your Principles of Biology class TARDY? In her 20 years of teaching biology at SUSC, Joann Bowns has seen all kinds of people, from the queasy freshman to importance of the swaggering senior. And, she says, her classes are run like the army. Bowns notices that freshmen are notorious for being late to her classes. But, she wont court-martianyone at least not the first time. Bowns smiles. I really like interacting with the students. Whenever students find the world of biology has got them down, they can talk to her about their problems, she says. And even though she likes to compare her classes with the army, a drill instructor like this. She describes her relationship with her pupils as more mother child than an army commander with certain limits, of course. She may help students understand that test anxiety is a common disease among many students, but she wont be caught doing their laundry. Biology, genetics, mammalogy, vertibrate embryology what do these youve never seen (continued on page 6) |