Brown and White Vol. 109 No. 38

              the brown and white lehigh uni vol 109 no 38 tuesday april 9 2u02 all the lehigh news first showtune opera show keeps crowd laughing byjoyfasanya news writer the audience of the opera/music theatre workshop scenes was provided saturday with an assortment of humor and love in zoellner arts center's baker hall the first half of the show was giovanni battista pergolesi's comic italian opera la serva padrona the maid made mistress which first premiered in 1733 the cast included meredith flaster 02 jeff mcdermott 02 and devon battaglia 02 the opera touched on the issues of class separation gender superiority and love it used comedy to unfold the story of serpina flaster a feisty maid who has decided to marry her employer überto mcdermott a wealthy but stingy bachelor überto is caught between his true feelings for serpina and the idea of marrying his maid as part of her plan to marry überto serpina gets the butler vespone battaglia to disguise as her sweetheart to make überto jealous although vespone was silent throughout the show he added much of the comedy the plan works and the final duet celebrated serpina's con quering of überto's heart and the couple's happy future although it was performed entirely in italian the universal theme of the opera and the per formances of the cast members still made an impression on the audience i'm pretty surprised with the amount of student talent on campus theresa teasley 03 said the second portion of the evening contained scenes from 10 famous musicals including the music man hair west side story the sound of music and my fair lady the first scene choreographed by battaglia was a perfor mance of the song steam heat from the pajama game he also choreographed scenes from anything goes and godspell the next scene titled pick a b&wphoto by autumn cruz vespone left played by devon battaglia 02 pretends to be the lover of serpina played by merideth flaster 02 serpina is actually in love with überto right played by jeff mcdermott 02 and tries to make him jealous to win him over second fall from balcony results in hospitalization by regina linskey news writer joseph claytor 04 was hos pitalized after falling monday from the balcony of alpha chi rho fraternity according to the april 2 issue of the morning call claytor 21 a brother and resi dent of alpha chi rho lives in aliso viejo calif he fell from the second floor balcony that overlooks the house's front stairs and upper sayre park road claytor was taken to st luke's hospital where he was listed in fair condition as of last tuesday claytor's family and fraternity members refused to comment claytor's fall was the second to occur on campus at a frater nity this academic year in september a student fell from the balcony of phi delta theta whose charter has since been revoked after several other incidents at the house new facility opens at gym by anthony brichta news writer taylor gym's fitness center opened its new rock climbing wall last tuesday the climbing wall was a gift from a generous alumnus who wanted to provide more opportu nities for students fitness center director doug strange said the project was stalled due to structural complications two years ago and strange opted to change to the st paul minn based company nicros the new wall is equipped with full safety harnesses we have a group of supervi sors trained by an outside climb ing group strange said you can just show up and climb climbers must wear either a green or red pass on the wall an amateur wearing a red pass must be supervised and wear a safety harness to receive a green pass you must first pass a written and physical test to gain certification the climbing wall is com prised of a wall equipped with harnesses for top-roping and a smaller wall where no harness is required the smaller bouldering wall provides a more technically challenging climb students said they are excited about the new climbing wall the rock climbing wall offers an alternative to standard exer cise chris chojnacki 05 said i think it is a good addition to the gym strange said he expects the wall to be popular with students i see it being like our racquet ball courts we have more than enough demand for it he said it is a great way to relieve stress especially during exam time dave fischer 05 said today is the official kickoff of the climbing wall there will be free climbing music and give aways from 3-7 p.m the wall is open for roped climbing 2-10 p.m monday through thursday and 2-8 p.m friday through sunday un-roped climbing is available during all fitness center hours harnesses shoes and chalk are available for $ 1 per item see workshop page 7 women's tennis team defeats rider university see page 24 sports 17-24 softball 19 men's lacrosse 21 baseball 23 journalist and author discusses book on personal accounts of sept 11 see page 9 news 1-9 college news briefs 2 read-a-thon 4 steinem speech 5 dwindling fish popu lation is cause for major concern see page 9 science 11-13 science briefs 11 sleep deprivation 13 quick a boston ordinance in 1845 banned bathing unless you had a prescription source:http://www.uselessknowl edge.com