The Collegian Grove City College Newspaper April 24, 1998 Vol. 58 No. 21 INSIDE TAP One Acts take the stage A QUICK LOOK AT THIS WEEK'S EDITION By Dorah Rice OF THE COLLEGIAN Collegian Staff Writer SUNSET SPRINT KICKS OFF As part of the Parent's Day With summer just around the cor- Weekend activities, TAP is pre- ner, Grove City's campus has be- senting its Spring One Acts Fes- come much more active as we all tival April 30-May 2. This prepare for swimsuit season. Some semester, four comedies have choose to utilize the stair climber or been chosen for the festival. exercise bike, others prefer weight- Tough Choices for the New lifting, still more would rather burn Century by Jane Anderson will off those "winter layers" walking or open the program. Directed by jogging. Kara Sedwick, the show is a If you are one of the many who black comedy about a married enjoy the latter form of exercise couple who gives a natural disas- consider shaping up while simulta- ter seminar that itself turns into neously supporting a good cause? a disaster. Matt Fidler is Bob Runners and walkers will be par- Dooley, the cheesy seminar pre- ticipating in such an event, the Sun- senter; Allison Mastroianni is set Sprint on April 29, right here in Helen Dooley, Bob's mousy Grove City. wife; and Jennifer Obed is Arden This race, sponsored by National Shingles, a self-protection guru. City Bank and other local mer- "It's one of those universally chants, is being conducted by the appealing plays. It's funny, yet Phi Sigma Chi sorority. All pro- disturbing at the same time," ceeds will benefit the United Com- said Sedwick. munity Hospital's Communicall The second play to be per- System. formed will be Las Ranas, a If you would like to participate, comedy written and directed by contact Erin Mulligan on campus or Sloan MacRac. It is based on the Famous dead underworld dwellers Chad Cole and Mark Wolfgang embrace, as Chris you can register the day of the race Greek playwright Aristophanes' Rath and Mike Baird look on. In the comedy Las Ranas, written and directed by Sloan between 5:45 pm. and 6:45 pm. play The Frogs, but is adapted MacRae, Rath as Penelope the patron saint of puns must look for a poet among the dead -Janell Putt for the 20th century. The play to save America. begins with the angel Beatrice, of Inferno fame (Lindsay Oram), DREAM PART DEUX accompanied by her sidekick gang) and Dr. Seuss (Chad Cole). The festival will be concluded to be indebted to family, friends, Turn to Perspectives for part two in Penelope, the patron saint of Variations on the Death of Trot- with 13 Things About Ed Car- and the mob, none of whom she our continuing series "The Ameri- puns (Chris Rath), going to the sky by David Ives is a dark com- polotti by Jeffrey Hatcher. It can repay. can Dream Reconsidered." This Underworld in order to find a edy in which Trotsky, an exiled stars Lindsay Erb as Mrs. Car- "It's a warm, funny, bittersweet week's focus is on the environ- poet to save America. Along the Russian revolutionist (Chris polotti and is directed by Nathan play. It's a great way to end the ment. way, they encounter several fa- "Stumpy" Warden), hears about Christopher. This one woman festival," said festival coordina- See Perspectives, page 3 mous dead people (Temple Rat- his death from his wife (Kelly show, which Christopher de- tor Chris Jensen. cliffe, Michael Baird, Sloan Moore), who read about it in the scribed as a "touching comedy," The performances begin at 7:30 MacRae) who have left their encyclopedia. Trotsky then dies takes place in a funeral parlor af- pm on April 30 and May I and at ET CETERA mark on America. The angels eight different ways. The play ter Ed Carpolotti's funeral. Mrs. 1 pm on May 2. The festival is Write most of your papers at 4 am? also set up a debate between also stars Adam Seybold as the Carpolotti speaks about her life free, with the doors opening a When the lights dim at the library, Allen Ginsberg (Mark Wolf- Spanish gardener. and her husband, who turns out half hour before the shows. head to the Library Spot at http://www.libraryspot.com. The information sweetspot of the best li- brary and refer- Etc ence sources on Private eyes are watching you. the Web, Li- brary Spot sim- plifies the Cyber Patrol can block more sites than desired search for top- notch reference tools, periodi- By Tanya Oprisko filtering system called Cyber- Jim Smiley, Director for Aca- tinues to block sites such as the cals and online texts, library infor- Collegian Staff Writer NOT for blocked sites and Cy- demic Information Services. AIDS Awareness Hotline, even mation and much more. berYES for allowed sites," says Filtered pages are not dis- though sex education is not being Library Spot is a great starting point Cyber Patrol is on the move. It Kathryn Munro of PC Magazine. played. Instead, the restricted filtered," says Munro. for looking up facts for an upcom- has been watching GCC students The preset list-based filtering in- pages are blocked and a display The software was developed ing exam, tapping into libraries for the past two semesters. Many cludes numerous categories from reading "Blocked by Cyber Pa- with parents in mind. Using the from around the world, researching people are unaware that there are which the customer can choose trol" appears on the screen. The software, parents are able to a company for a job interview and restrictions placed on their Inter- the sites to be blocked. Filtering only way to monitor what sites their children more. The 24-hour virtual library net access on campus. However, sections include 15-18 topical ar- change the restricted sites or to access and how long they are on resource center brings the best li- there are also others who have eas such as violence and profan- remove the Cyber Patrol warning the Internet. brary information and reference encountered Cyber Patrol one ity, partial nudity, full nudity, is to customize the filtered list. Grove City College imple- sites together with insightful editori- too many times. drug culture, sex education, and Like most other products of its mented Cyber Patrol in the fall of als in one free, convenient and user- What exactly is Cyber Patrol? gambling. kind, Cyber Patrol tends to be 1997, once Internet access be- friendly spot. Cyber Patrol is a computer soft- Grove City College computers overly protective. came available through dorm ware package that controls on- are restricted by Cyber Patrol "When a category such as sex ed- rooms. Up until that time, stu- COLLEGIAN CONTACTS line and off-line computer usage. only in the area of pornography. ucation is set to filter, the pro- dent Internet access was limited Got a story idea? 458-2567 It filters Internet sites according "What we're filtering right now gram blocks access to sites By to the computers in the Techno- Want to advertise 458-2704 to categories, allowing only cer- are sites pertaining to and dealing turning off the filter, we were logical Learning Center. Before Or e-mail us at stu950419 tain types of sites to be viewed. with able to find The Safer Sex Page dorm room access was available, @gcc.edu "Cyber Patrol uses a list-based nudity and sexual content," says and Planned Parenthood. It con- (Continued on page 2)