CABRINI
INSIDE
COLLEGE Features ■ Homosexuality
A&E ■ Murder mystery
LOQUITUR pp.6&7
weekend has students asking, "Who dunnit?" p.5
Sports ■ Men's basketball p. 12
VOL.XLill, NO.11
FRIDAY,NOVEMBER15, 1996
RADNOR,PA 19087
Fall theater production cancelled The inal;.,ilityto assemble a complete cast and crew and controversial subject matter are possible reasons for the cancellation of 'As Is.' by Diane Grlmaldl staff writer
Due to the lack of a complete cast and crew, "As Is," a controversial play involving a gay couple, is being kept in the closet. The play was officially cancelled by theatre Director NeaJ Newman on Wednesday, Nov. 6 due to a lack of cast and crew. Newman said there were parts in the play that "no one would touch with a ten-foot pole." The play was written during the time when AIDS was believed to be only a homosexual disease, according to junior Anthony Sanfilippo, one of the lead actors. "It is unfortunate that it was cancelled because of fear," Sanfili.ppo said. ''The Cabrini community is closed-minded about gays and AIDS." One of the parts was of a 22 year old gay man who enters a gay bar and asks another man to come home with him. Newman said he had four or five people telJ him they would . do the part and then mysteriously disappear. "People assume that if you play a gay actor you are gay and that is not necessarily true," Newman said. "Prejudice is always silent," Newman said. ''Nobody is going
to come in and say 1 can't play this because I'm afraid of it. They'll come up with other reasons." The actors that did choose to participate in the play have been subjected to a lot of problems. "I commend how courageous
with the people who were audi~ tioning. Myers himself experienced no problems personally. Newman said that last year, during play rehearsals, the theater was packed at all times. Everyone wanted to help.
reactions he got from other people, that is why he cancelled it. "The day he cancelled the play a lot of bad stuff happened," Sanfilippo said. "Myers was in a car accident, he said it was a sign from God. We could have gone on."
they are in the rehearsal process, it was very difficult for them," Newman said. "People who were good friends all of a sudden don't talk to them anymore," he said. Sanfilippo said he had some problems when he first started the play, but after he met more people the problems disappeared. Sanfilippo is a transfer student from the American University in Washington D.C. Junior William Myers, one of the lead actors, said the only problems he was aware of were
This year the theater was empty. There was no one there to help. • During rehearsal, New~an said one of the actors said, "Now you know what it's like to be gay, what it's like to be different in our world. Not necessarily gays, anyone who is different." Sanfilippo believes that people would go to see the play, they were only afraid to act in it. The play has controversy, that is what attracts people. According to Sanfilippo, Newman just got scared of the
"It's my responsibility to do plays for the Cabrini community that hit right at the problems that I think we really need and that the stude t here need to see," Newman said. "I think anybody would say that an attempt to do a play about tolerance and opening yourself up to other experiences is definitely needed here." According to Newman, a tolerant person is someone who admits they_do not kn.ow everything in the world and wants to learn more. An intolerant person is -some-
Student allegedly drugged by laced sticker at Battle of Bands by Kevin Scott staff writer
Cabrini's battle of the bands, proved to be a scary experience for one Cabrini student. Sophomore Kelly Monahan was given what she believed to be a sticker by an unidentified person. Thinking nothing of it:, she placed it on her hand and continued on with her evening. Battle of the Bands took place on Saturday, Oct. 26, but it was not until the next day that she found out that the supposed sticker may have been laced with some type of drug. While talking with some people who received the same sticker, they said that they threw it away because they feared ihat it may have had some type of drug on it She also noticed that there was a black and blue mark on her hand where the sticker was and her hand felt stiff.
A tox.icology test two days after the incident has still left questions unanswered. Doctors cannot say exactly what the drug may have been or if there was even a drug present at all. If there was' a drug, it is possible that it would not have even shown up in the test because of the amount of time that had elapsed between the incident and the test itself. They do not, however, believe that it was LSD based upon the symptoms that were suffered. Along with the black and blue mark, there was an overall tired and nauseous feeling. Common effects of LSD often range from trembling, hyperventilation, rapid heartbeat and impaired motor skills. The drug is also known to cause hallucinations that can be severely disturbing. Results of a blood test taken on Thursday, Oct. 31 still have yet to come back.
one who says 1 live in Radnor, I go to McDonaJds, life is perfect. There is nothing else I need to learn and I am only in college because I need that degree. Newman said this play was inspired by college President Dr. Antoinette ladarola's 1995 welcoming speech. In the speech [adarola said, "When you are open-minded, you listen. You listen to people who Jook differently. . . have different cultures, different races, different reHgions ... people who act differently. When you are open-minded, you are open-minded, you learn not only to accept, but appreciate and yes, even love the differences." "Theater is very popular, but evidently if it is going to remain popular it has to be in the limited frame of what students can accept," Newman said. Newman congratulated aH the actors. He believes the.y believed in the play along with him. Newman said he wanted the play to challenge one's way of thinking. "Maybe you would come out of it and think a little differently, maybe the world wilJ be bet ter, but I don't know if I'll succeed, we have to have an audience to do that," be said. Newman has been the theater director at Cabrini for the past seven years. 4
Blooddrivedraws many donors by Kirsten Yard staff writer
Despite the initiaJ pain, the Red Cross Blood Drive, which took place in the Sacred Heart Hall gymnasium on Monday, Nov. 11 from 11 a.m. - 4 p.m., had a wonderful campus turnout. The Red Cross usually comes to Cabrini twice a year. They use the donated blood to help out people in the community who have a need for it They also use the blood to supply hospital patients who are also in need of it. Resident nurse Manager Rosemary Gullo said that a college is the perfect place to find donors because usually the people that sign up are first-time donors. Since blood is aJways on demand, Gullo feels that when you start giving at this age, you will hopefully continue to donate for the rest of your life. Gullo also said the Red Cross will hold a blood drive at any location willing to holc:I one. Places such as churches, firehous-
es and schools were mentioned. First-year student Madelyn Torres said she donated blood to help people in need. "You feel like you've saved someone's life," Torres said. Junior Colleen Erickson said that she volunteered because she also wanted to help people. This was her first time donating, but
she said she wanted to give blood now so that if she ever needed something, she would already have given something of herself. A total of 45 students took their time out to donate. Thank you cards will be sent out to donors to thank them for taking aside part of their day for a helpful cause.
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Sophomore Brian Bugay gives blood on Nov. 10. He was one of 45 students who donated to the Red Cross in the Sacred Heart Hall gymnasium.