Brown and White Vol. 122 no. 8

              Vol. 122 No. 8
Friday, February 17, 2012
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Play ‘The Little Foxes’ premieres at Zoellner
By ALISON MANGO
Zoellner Arts Center and the De­partment of Theatre will debut a pro­duction of “The Little Foxes” tonight in the Diamond Theater.
Various members of the Lehigh community will perform the play by Lillian Hellman, this weekend, Feb. 17 to 19, and the following weekend, Feb. 22 to 25.
All performances will commence at 8 p.m., and tickets are being sold at a full price of $12 and to Lehigh students for a discounted rate at $5.
The play, which takes place in Ala­bama in 1900, is about an aristocratic family of cotton plantation owners.
This family, the Hubbards, are greedy people who will do anything for money.
It is a story of lies and deception, and also of love and desire.
“Traditional gender roles are very much alive, as are the distinct remnants of slavery,” said Lorentz Aberg, ’13, who plays Ben Hubbard, a brother in the Hubbard family. “‘The Little Foxes’ examines class, gender, and familial roles against the backdrop of Southern manners and aristocracy,”
First staged in 1939, the play’s sub­ject matter is something that the cast members agree still applies today.
“‘The Little Foxes’ could have been written yesterday because of its rel­evance to society today,” said Angelica Gregory, ’09. “It is so absorbing that it pulls you in immediately with a bril­liant display of greed and desire.”
Gregory plays the Hubbards’ black servant, Addie.
Kashi Johnson, the director of the play, has put many hours into its pro­duction, as have the entire cast and crew.
“Our director and stage managers have been guiding us along and work­ing tirelessly to make sure the play is the best it can be,” said Taylor Graves, ’12, who plays Regina Hubbard Gid­dens, the play’s main character.
Auditions took place in November, and there was a preliminary read-through that took place in December before the semester ended.
When classes started in January, rehearsals began every weeknight from 6 to 9 p.m.
Aberg emphasized the huge time commitment that putting the show to­gether entailed.
“To give some perspective, that’s five times as much time every week as your average 3-credit course,” he said. “That’s not even counting the huge amount of time devoted by the Zoell­ner administration, our design team, and the dedicated souls who have cre
Paintballs simulate
combat for ROTC
Photo courtesy of Lehigh Valley Steel Battalion ROTC
Cadets from Lehigh Valley Steel Battalion ROTC, which is based at Lehigh and comprises nine other Lehigh Valley colleges, experienced a field training exercise with paintball guns on Saturday, Feb. 11, on the Mountaintop Campus.
Jesse Jackson speaks at Zoellner
B&W photo by MATT BREITEL
The Rev. Jesse Jackson Sr. visited Lehigh on Monday, Feb. 13, for a discussion with Africana Studies director James Peterson and the Rev. Grace Ji-Sun Kim of Moravian College and Seminary in Zoellner’s Baker Hall.
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By JOHANA BHUIYAN
Most noted for his contribution to the civil rights movement, the Rev. Jesse Jackson Sr. reflected on the progression toward a “more perfect union,” while urging the youth and leaders of America to bridge the widening social and economic gap during a discussion titled “A Con­versation with Jesse Jackson” in Bak­er Hall in the Zoellner Arts Center on Monday, Feb. 13. The discussion was part of Jackson’s two-day visit to the Lehigh Valley.
Jackson, who was a confidant of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. in the civil rights movement of the 1960’s, stressed that even given
n Civil rights leader
participated in discussion with Africana studies
director Peterson.
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By ERIC SCHMIDT
On Saturday, Feb. 11, the Lehigh Valley ROTC held a paintball training exercise at Lehigh. Over a dozen schools participated in the event, which was held in preparation for the Leadership Development and Assess­ment Camp.
Roughly 40 cadets from Lehigh, Lafayette College, Alvernia College, Kutztown Uni­versity, The Pennsylvania State University—Berks and Lehigh Valley campuses, Albright College, DeSales University and Muhlenberg College participated in the training event on South Mountain.
The assessment camp, for which the cadets were preparing this weekend, will be held this summer to bring cadets to the completion of their training; they will gradu­ate as second lieutenants in the U.S. Army at the end of their senior years.
The camp is a combination of classroom instruction, practical labs and weekend ex­See
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