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By Ashley Lowe
The story of Cinderella is one everyone knows and loves. Cinderella
goes to the ball, marries the prince and lives happily ever after.
But what if the prince wasn’t all he was cracked up to be?
This is the idea behind Lapine and Stephen Sondheim’s musical “Into
the Woods,” currently playing in the John Wright Theatre. “Into
the Woods” not only takes audiences through the familiar
storylines of Cinderella, Rapunzel, Little Red Riding Hood and
Jack and the Beanstalk, but past the happily ever after, where
these famous characters must pay for their mistakes. When a baker
(Brandon Petrie) and his wife (Shannon Estep) learn they have been
cursed with childlessness by the witch (Katherine
Dorian) next door, they embark on a quest for special objects required
to break the spell. They get these objects by swindling, lying
and stealing from the other fairytale characters.More>>
By Ravneet Padda
Almost every morning for the past five years, Dennis Nef has dressed
in his formal shirt and slacks, hopped on his bike and rode three
miles to work. Upon entering his office, he puts on his tie and dusts
off his shoes, ready for another day as dean of undergraduate studies
at
Fresno State. To show his commitment to bike riding, Nef said he
will bike to the Free Speech Area between 10 a.m and noon Wednesday
to
celebrate
Bike to Work Day 2004. The campus Commuter Services Program will
provide free refreshments, a T-shirt and raffle drawing to students,
faculty and staff that
ride a bike to work on that day, Fresno State’s observance
of “California Bike Commute Week,” beginning May 16.
Annette Harvey, a staff member in the program, said the purpose of
the event
was to encourage the use of alternative means of transportation
on campus that help save gas, promote air quality and reduce the
problem of traffic congestion.More>>
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Katharine Dorian, the witch, frightens Brandon
Petrie, the baker, and Shannah Estep, his wife, during Sunday’s
production of “Into the Woods.” The production runs
through Saturday.
-Photo by Wendy Alexander
Victimology professor learns from his own grief
By Rebekah Herbert
For 15 years, it was John Dussich’s job to help people deal
with their grief. But Dussich didn’t realize he needed help
himself until one day he found his car speeding down the median of
a Northern California
expressway at 70 mph. Dussich was so overcome with grief that he
had no idea how his car drifted off the road. “ The grief spasms,
they take you, they grab you,” Dussich
said. “It doesn’t matter where you are because that’s
where your mind is, your heart is. You can’t control it—it
happens automatically.” Dussich, now a professor of victimology
at Fresno State, began work in 1972 as a victimologist. In 1987,
he and his wife were struck
by tragedy when a hit-and-run driver killed their 20-year-old son,
Edward. His son was walking home from a camping trip on a country
road in Woodland, near UC Davis, when a 75-year-old man driving a
large
car hit him from behind, killing him instantly. The man fled the
scene, but later turned himself in to authorities.More>>
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