Actors in "As You Like It" run through their parts to be ready for curtain
time Dec. 2.
Augustana College Thursday, Dec. 2, 1976
Sioux Falls, South Dakota Vol. 59, No. 10
"Christmas Fantasy"
to be Dec. 3
By DAVE FRYXELL
Editor
Co-chairpersons Mary Ulmer
and Kent McCullough have
seen to it that this year's Augie
All Nations festival will be a bit
different. In fact, it isn't exactly
All Nations at all this year; it's "A
Christmas Fantasy."
Friday, Dec. 3, the gym will be
decorated for an all-school
Christmas party. The usual
booths with delicious desserts
will be present, but they'll have a
different look this year. Instead
of representing diverse nations,
the booths will be designed as
Christmas fantasy lands such as
the Land of Oz, Camelot and
Wonderland.
Festivities actually open with
an Italian supper in the cafeteria
Friday evening during regular
supper hours. Diners will go
through the line as usual and
may pay with mealbooks, but
the cafeteria will be decked out
with red-and-white-checkered
tablecloths and candles. Enter-tainment
will be provided by the
German Round Singers and
folksinger Dean Greenburg.
Desserts will be served in the
gym from 5-11 p.m. A con-tinuous
program of music by
the Brass Quintet and various
caroling groups will help get
people in the holiday spirit.
Friday night from 9:30-1 a
"Mistletoe Dance" is schedUled,
featuring the group Melisma.
The dance is sponsored by the
UBG Social Board and is in the
Commons. Tickets are $2.50 for
couples and $1.50 for singles, at
the Commons Desk; dress is
semi-formal.
The booths this year, and the
desserts and beverages they'll
be serving, include: North Pole
— snow dessert and hot
chocolate; Land of Oz —
Emerald City cake and punch;
Charlie Brown's Christmas —
peanut brittle and coffee;
Hansel and Gretel — ginger-bread
men and hot cider; the
House at Poo Corner — honey-glazed
doughnuts and milk;
Camelot — plum pudding and
wassail; Alice in Wonderland —
biscuits with jelly and tea; the
Old Woman Who Lived in a
Shoe — banana bread and
coffee, and Babes in Toyland —
popcorn balls and punch.
In addition a nativity scene
will be in the center of the gym
and the gym entrance will be
decorated as "Candyland."
Entrance to the gym portion'
of the festival is free with Augie
I.D. The public is, as always,
welcome to attend and the non-
Augie entrance charge is 50t a
person, $2 for families. Desserts
and drinks may be purchased
with mealbooks.
This year the tradition making
All Nations the responsibility of
the freshman class has been
abandoned. Dorms have been
divided up, three floors per
booth, and all classes are urged
to get involved. Freshmen have
been mixed in with upperclass
floors. According to McCullogh,
this will better allow freshmen
and upperclassmen to get to
know each other and should im-prove
the quality of the festival
by involving more people in it.
This year's Central Com-mittee,
working under the direc-tion
of Ulmer and McCullogh,
consists of Sandy Krugel (Art),
Patti Mezoff (Publicity), Shelli
Buchi and Charlene Peterson
(Program and Booklet), Liz
Eitrheim (Food), Arlette Fryslie
and Sonja Grey (General Prop.),
Kathy Rouse and Brenda
Ykema (Supplies), Paul Kiburz
(Construction), Donna Meier
and June Gross (secretaries),
and Mark Sather and Rick
Skatula (Business Managers).
The festival was changed
from a many-nations theme to a
Christmas theme for a number
of reasons, according to Ulmer
and McCullogh Last summer's
Nordland Fest pretty well pre-empted
the ethnic festival
possibilities, they felt. Further,
the co-chairpersons thought
that the festival was growing
stale and needed to break away
from tradition.
This year the emphasis is on
fun. "If the kids are going to
work on it, we want it to be fun
for them," Ulmer said.
Twilight Degree
program inaugurated
William Shakespeare's
pastoral romance, As You Like
It, will be the next production at
the Augustana Little Theatre.
Directed by Prof. Earl Mundt, As
You Like It will run from Thurs-day,
Dec. 2, through Monday,
Dec. 6, with curtain times at 8:30
p.m.
Kevin Richards plays the
romantic lead, Orlando, and
Becky Timmins has been cast
as Rosalind, his love. Rosalind
is the daughter of a deposed
duke, and Orlando is the son of
one of the duke's chief
followers. They must brave the
threats of the villain who stole
the duke's title as well as work
out a confusion of disguises and
tangled romances in order to
fulfill their love.
Others in the cast include
Ruth Golden, Nick Nelson, Karla
Johnson, Deb Swenson and
Mark Johnson.
The play is an amusing
romantic adventure, set in the
forst of Arden in medieval
France. In keeping with the
A major new educational ser-vice,
a "Twilight Degree
Program," will be offered jointly
by Augustana and Sioux Falls
College beginning with the spr-ing
term in February. The plan
will enable adults to earn
bachelor of arts and associate
of arts degrees through classes
held entirely in the late after-noon
and evening.
The new Twilight Program is
intended to serve qualified
adults who are unable to attend
regular day classes because of
work schedules or other
responsibilities.
Initially, major fields of study
will include applied science,
business administration,
business education, criminal
justice, social work and a
general, interdepartmental
degree in the liberal arts. Ad-ditional
major fields will be
offered upon sufficient student
demand.
The Twilight classes will be
pastoral tradition, it involves a
pair of shepherds as well as the
noble main characters.
Shakespeare took much of
the plot of As You Like It from a
popular novel of the period,
Rosalynde, by Thomas Lodge.
What Shakespeare added was
wit, dramatic characterization,
and some of his loveliest poetry.
Entrance to the production is
free with Augie I.D. Otherwise,
the charge is $2 for adults and
$1 for students.
scheduled in Monday-
Wednesday and Tuesday-
Thursday units. Proposed class
hours are 4:30 to 6:10 p.m., 6:30
to 8:10 p.m. and 8:20-10 p.m.
The program will operate each
school year with two 14-week
semesters. Some classes may
be offered on a seven-week
basis. All college credit will be
offered and computed on a
semester hour basis. In the
future, it is possible that some
Twilight courses may be offered
during the January Interim ses-sion
and on Saturdays, officials
said.
Students may take courses at
either Augustana or Sioux Falls
College, or both, as they
choose. Courses meeting
graduation requirements for
core curriculum and elective
courses may be transferred
between the colleges. Re-quirements
for major areas of
study and for graduation will be
those normally required at each
college.
Twilight students can earn an
A.A. degree in three years or a
B.A. degree in six years. They
will be required to choose one
of the two colleges from which
they wish to receive the degree.
Casual students not seeking a
degree may enroll for any
course on the Twilight schedule
for which they meet prerequisite
requirements in either of the
colleges simply by paying tui-tion
charges for the course as
has been true in the past.
Responsiblility for all
curricular offerings will be
shared by Dr. William Matthews,
vice president for academic af-fairs
at Augustana, and Walter
Nickel, assistant to the presi-dent,
Sioux Falls College. The
chief academic officers stress-ed
the fact that all Twilight
offerings are of the same quality
and value as courses in the
colleges' day schedules.
Overall administrative
responsibility for the Twilight
Degree Program has been
assigned to the Sioux Falls Con-tinuing
Education Center under
the direction of Dr. Tom Kilian.
Kilian said the new program will
be operated under a single ad-ministrator
to insure harmony in
operating policies and
procedures between the two
schools.
He said the Twilight program
had been developed over the
past year by the Center's joint
Faculty Advisory Committee,
Mary Auterman, chairman.
Kilian said the program is im-portant
because it is the first
time in Sioux Falls history that
degrees can be earned entirely
"after hours." The new plan is in
harmony with the Continuing
Education Center's effort to
provide new educational op-tions
for adults who have not
previously been served.
College spokesmen said the
Twilight Program is designed to
make economic use of teaching
and classroom resources and is
possible because of economies
resulting from cooperative ef-forts
by the colleges.
Twilight students will pay es-sentially
the same costs for
part-time and full-time tuitions
and fees as day students. Ap-propriate
student services such
as academic counseling, food
services, bookstore and access
to student activities will be
made available based upon stu-dent
interest.
An announcement brochure
describing the Twilight Degree
program may be secured from
the Sioux Falls Continuing
Education Center, 1101 West
28th St., Sioux Falls, SD 57105
(605) 336-5555.
Shakespeare on stage
in Little Theatre