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Show General Classroom Building renovation nearly finished Completion of the hnal phase of a project to renovate the General Classroom Building on the campus of Southern Utah University is expected in time to allow occupancy this fall quarter. Included in the last phase is alteration and upgrading of approximately 9,000 square feet on the east side of the first level of the building. The renovation is the final stage in upgrading and bringing the entirebuildingtocurrentbuilding and seismic standards. "Prior to the completion of the new Science Center, the General Classroom Building served as the university's science center," Michael D. Richards, vice president for university affairs, said. "With the renovation, we now have mu ch needed additional classroom and faculty office space." The final phase of work on the 100 level of the building includes two lecture halls, three classrooms and a suite of offices for faculty and staff members. Cost of the work is $500,000. Last year the upper two levels and the west half of the first level of the three-level building were renovated. Travis Forsyth of Zion Plumbling works on auctwork for the renovation of the fiist level of the General Classroom Building at SUU. Husband-wife teatn presents Festival benefit this week One of the Utah Shakespearean Festival's most notable actors, Harold Gould, and his wile, Lea Vernon, will be performing a benefit presentation of the popular play Love Letters today (July 25), and Thursday at 10 a.m . in the Thorley Hall of Southern Utah University's Music Building. They opened with a well-received performance Friday. The hwnorou and touching love tory i being staged as a fund-raising event by the Fe tival, w1th tickets now on ale for $10 at the Festival Box Offic in the Auditorium T heatre, 300 West and Center treets. Tickets can also b ordered by calling 586-7878. The husband and wile team have worked together before, but this 1 the irst ume they have performed Love Letters together. T hey are donating their time for thi endeavor. Mr. Gould is performing at the Festival this year as Prospero in Tbe Tempest, and in 1992 he played the ti tle role in King Lear. His many television appearances stretching from Rhoda to Golden Girls have earned him five Emmy nominations and the cable television ACE Award. Among his 20 feature films are The Sting and The Front Page. Ms. Vernon has appeared in The Love Boat, and starred in Park Place and The Feather and Father Gang on television, in various movies such as Memories and The Secret Love of Sandra Blain, and in theatre &om New York City to Hollywood. "We've enjoyed our association with the Festival and would like to contribute our talents in support of its aims," aid Ms. Vernon on announcing the production. And, although Mr. Gould says he love performing Shakespeare, be said he is enjoying to this totally different type of play. "While I love the mental and physical demands of Shakespeare's heightened language, I'm ready for the relief of creating the story of a hfe by sitting at a table for two hours and reading 'everyday' speech, " he said Love Letters is performed simply, with the two characters reading to each other excerpts from a lifetime' worth of letters, beginning with notes to Harold Gould and Lea Vernon each other as children in school. As the two characters, Andy and Melissa, grow up, so do th subjects of their letters . Sometimes the letters are funny; sometimes the text reflects their transparent posturing; ometimes th writer takes a grave emotional ri k; and ometimes a chatty missive barely conceals a cry for help. Like the characters themselves, their correspondence ranges from strict formality to casual slips of paper. Though Andy and Melissa remain relative constants in each other's lives, they never become wholly known to one another, continuing to puzzle, surprise, and, on occasion, anger one another with inexplicable behavior until the end of the play. As in all relationship ', there is a quicksilver quality to their understanding. Just when they thi nk they truly know each other, their ignorance is revealed. Still, theil desire to re main connect. d is always apparent, gaining urgency as the play progresses. T he more de ply Meli sa and Andy move in to adulthood, the more their letters allude to the importance ot this lasting fri nd h ip, a link to both per onal histo and a collective past. Along with these themes of continuation and quixotic human nature, however, runs a darker thread of missed connections. Audience member w ill ex:perienc moments where they li ten as one character sends letter after letter, only to have the receiver remain silent. The eventual response after long absence is, as in real·corre poodence, only partially satisfying. Where was he or she all thi time ? Viewers' imaginations supply what the letters don't. More frustrating are the many invitations-to football games, art opening , or just to visit-extende and then re cinded, or declined. In the many mi sed opportunities between Andy and Melissa, who obviously love each other from the beginning, we can feel the workings of fate: What if they had gotten together that weekend? ln their fervent drive to connect is an equal desire, it seems, to maintain an autonomous integrity, even at the price of distance. Evans appointed NACA unit coordinator rry Bak:er S86-775 I 'Edi.IOI :isr:,;nt lO ,hr F.di lOr d Almmac Ednor Editor Coosulting ports £di tors Jcnruler Marley 586-7759 Jtru Robln,oa 586-1997 Neil Cardncr 586-7753 Bu.sin Lt-nn Denneu 586,7748 l:idulyna.n...,..,....,, 7758 CampWI Brett Jcwka 586-77 l Manager Advtn ising hbn•gcr The University /ournal. 1995 summer edJtton, Is publi hed Mondays from June 19 lhrough August 7 faccpt far the Ju ly 24 holuJ.y, wluch w,11 be published July '2.St 1, _.. • publicouon of Southern Vt.ah Uruvcrslty, Its depanment o/ commurucalion, Office of ' ummer Schoo~ the Student Actlvltiea Office and the SUU Student A.uociauon. UniYasity Joamal:Offia,o 111 SUUTcdir.ok«Y &ildmgOOl. M2il tSUU Box.51384, Cedar Ory, Utoh 847"21). EAX 801 J586-5487. E-m.nl addr,:,e: jcwnakll,uu.cdu C°piu= ON (00,C, RECYCLED PAPER. !'I.BASE RECYCLE nns COPY. I Tiffany Evans, as istant director of tudcnt activities at Southern Utah University, ha been appointed o erve through April l997 a Utah urut coordinator t-or the far We t Region f the ational A ·sociation for Campus Activ1t1 s. As a unit coordinator, Evans will be responsible tor variou duties including erving as a repre entativc for area college and universities on the regional steering Com mittee. In that capacity, he will help oversee the annual regional conference for student activities per onnel. The Far West Region of NACA consists of chools in Arizona, Calilomia, Ha waii, Nevada, and Utah. She will al o conduct training, networking, and professional/volunteer developm ent activities within Utah; assist with membership recruitment; and ommumcate regional and national activities, policies, and servtces t tht: tate unit. Coordi nation of the Utah Lead rship Academy fo r tudent caders and of block booking of art1 ts will be among her pecific re pon ibilities. Evans, who has been at SUU ince 1993, 1s graduate of Utah State Umvers1ty and Salt La.Ke City' Brighton High School. NACA i a national organization of over 1,200 colleges and universities and 580 talent tirms repre enting all of the United State and Canada. 11 ACA prov ·de education, information, and resources for tudents and admin istra tors to establish quality campus activitie in higher education, 11 Evans explains. |