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Show COMME ARY TIIETIIUNDERBIRD•SOUTIIERN UfAH UNlVERSITY·THURSDAY, MAY 27, 1993 • PAGE 4 USF ONLY ENRICHES HERITAGE, HISTORY S ummer heralds yet another season for the Utah Shalcespearean Festival, making this its 31st year. The Festival began in 1962, springing from the desire of tourists for more evening activities and from the actions of Fred C. Adams, who envisioned in Cedar City's 150,000 tourists a year, a grand pageant. The original budget of the Festival was $1,000; it has grown to revenue projections of approximately $2 million. At present the Festival is believed by many critics and theater professionals to be one of America's lead~ng repertory theater companies and one of the best Shakespearean festivals in the wocld. The Festival's outdoo r theafre m.a terialized in stages. Initially, a small company of college students and townspeople produced the plays on an outdoor platform backed by a partial replica of an Elizabethan tiring house. The Adams Shakespearean Theatre, dedicated in 1977, is the most authentic Elizabethan theatre in the world. The Randall L Jones Theatre opened its first season in 1989, featuring classics of world drama. Within a decade, the projected square will feature · Renaissance-style buildings surrounding a brick-paved central plaza and a bronze statue featuring some of Shakespeare's more popular characters. The center will inclu e the Randall Theatre, the Adams Theatre, and one additional small performance facility, as well as a bookstore, an ale house, new costume and scene shops, office and storage space and a Renaissance Study Center. A small school such as SUU can take a great amount of pride in such an event as the Festival. Not only does the Festival provide Cedar City with an opportunity_to showcase its local businesses and scenic attraction.,, it gives Southern Utah University an unmistakable advantage over other universities in the West by allowing it to host a culturally rich and unique event that attracts people from all over the world. Our Western culture is steeped in tradition, and the perfunning arts is a genre to which 'M O'M a large portion of our heritage and identitia. Through a spectacle ~such as the Shakespearean Festival, SUU is able to further an understanding of bis ge.n ius and of his ideal& to the general public. The ThNndtrbi,d commends the efforts of the · community and SUU's theatre department in producing a Festival comparable to the best in the world. Cedar City can look forward to a summer resplendent with dramatic pageantTy, meny laughter, to artistic inspiration-and to a cultural tradition that continues to grow. This is the final -edition of The Thunderbinl fur the 1992-93 academic year. We will resume publication in the fall. THE THUNDERBIRI) ...... SOUTIIERN lJTAH UNIVERSrrY • CEDARCITT, UTAH jmniier Morloy end " - - .... Juon 0 . Nofth o,w.. ...... Hamn aO,W.. A--.. BJIDOllyn a-........ J-c..clnrp Ar.... . . . . . cw.- hdr H. ,-..,., . . . . . . . . . jenifn W... Anpe 51-... .W,a I I I•• lw Tr..i. New ,_.., .W,:,. lany . . . ___ ....._ ,_ s. 0..- n. ~ lo ,..w.i..: -ti Monda,y ond T1iundor"' ......... .,..,., - "" ........... body"' _ s....m lW, u.-.it, Md ii . . . . . . . . . . . . . u..i...w,...-,<>1 n.. . o,illloM ........... n. n....w.., - - - "' ................ · - . _ . , o6&:r ... . _ <>llh............., .....,, l,od, • ........ The ........ ....., c5lod, . _ ii dw _.or...,_ .... .... ,,......_,._ __ ........ ,.,_,..,._.......,....._,,... n..,.,...,,..,. ....................... .... ,,__........ ........ ....,..,_ ...-............... ,, . _..., .. .......... ..... 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You think youraelf a great ~iw because you got adminal to this institution. Not outraaa,us that people aaached to the newspaper mu all the editorial space to voice their biased opinion. the student body should be the number one prioricy when it coma to that. It is inconceivable that people on the staff gm therrudva that privilege first. An editor or a staff writer should be the last person on that space. Staff reporters are primarily to inform the student body in a realistic and objective manner of important campus issues. AfiEr reading your incongruent essay, I was left to wonder what your motives were. I've taken the pain to rild all the articles you've written so f.ar. It is a pity. Or to use you own words, •absolutt d i ~ · . ln r:ftry article you have distorted the ttuth. You claim you haw it on tape. Sorry to say, but you haft led me to believe that either you do not understand things wdl, or your tape player has so your majesty. l have learned to appreciate fellow students and I hold them in high esteem. l get insulted when a "wannabe• belittles than. As for those in the Student Government, they all have my high deference. Your majesty, it is a fallacy to think they do not work smart-I know they do. What do you know? You have been at SUU fur less than a quamr. The fool will . always speak more ·than the wise. lt takes a great deal of social ine:xperienc:e to make mova tranaformm in it thac give you the lib those you have made in your articles. It appears that you're woning bud to build a rep.nation. But, in the procaa, you have only wrong Having confirmed your incompetence • someching on tape does 00( mab you almipity if you can't read it Since the day that ~ took the Publications agency 1tatus away, you have displayed an animosity without precedent. Does it man thM your eao p: hum You do not lme ID admit iL Ir .bow.. The faa translation. properly. There is such a thing called 11mte cl humor. Obrioudy you have none of that. You are unable 10 diadfll'lilh beraecn a is you gel-a- line- item that makesryou totally accountable to the student body. And the senate is endowed with full power to straigh~n you up. You might forget that this is not a ptivm paper. ln cue you forgot, let me remind you that The Tlu,ndtrbird is the students' paper. lt is not a branch of Student Government. J would lib to read the students' comment! in the pape.r. Aftrr all, it is their right. Th, Thwndtrbird is not a battlefield, nor is it a missile launching pad. Your Highness, not everybody thinks you are Mr. College Republican. Don't take it upon yourself. Wait for people to recognhe you. In our republic of SUU, students are free to \)e friends with whosoever they choose. Sony, but you have got to deserve their ttust Be careful, this is a Universiry. It is not the traditional Monarch of Sandy, and you are no Prince. Editon' Nou: The editon of The Thunderbird welcome student• leaas and opinions,. and they do print them promptly ""9m and if receive them. If any pcnon wishes to voice an opinion, wri1lt me, nc co, or contact naMffiritd•, ofb located in the Tecbnolos, 8uildtns Rm. 003. |