1987_01 The Daily Collegian January 1987

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Most specifically. Drama 62. T»o timet a day      pahdess way. I will not allow a student to be
is max because I tried three times a day and I
was a basket case by the end of the semester."
He currently teaches two classes of Drama 62.
1 only planned on being here three months.
I was given so much artistic freedom and I
really liked the students so I stayed." He has
had some wild experiences with students.
"Once I was lecturing and the back of my
pants split. I felt it, but after awhile, forgot
about it. I turned around. By the time the
story got around, it was 'Ed's taken his pants
off!' ' Another time, a student had the flu. I
was lecturing on Roman theater. Right toward
the end of the lecture, this woman threw up. I
thought I had caused itl She nailed aboutfive
students. "One time I caught a big time athlete
cheating. I called the guy into my office and
told him I was upset about this. He said his
athletic career depended on this class. I gave
him a makeup test . He cheated on that! I
called his mother and told her we needed a
parent-teacher conference. She was a gray-
haired lady and she told me that their family
needed him to finish school because of
economic problems. I bought it. I found out
later he (the student-athlete) had payed her!"
Is EmanuEl's Drama 62 too easy? "I don't
think so at all. No, I think it appears to be
easy because education is going on in a
bored or fail I could flunk half of the
students on a curve but what would be
achieved? Ninety percent of teaching is
keeping their attention. I like the students the
most It's nice to be working with people who
are trying to accomplish dungs."
EmanuEl took offense to a column last
spring in the weekly student paper, Insight. A
columnist called his Drama 62 class 'a whore'.
EmanuEl took it personally. 'That really
bothered me because there are other 62
teachers. He compared me to a whore. I didn't
like that at all. It was a cheap shot. It bothered
me that the journalism advisers didn't catch it."
In "As You Like It," William Shakespeare
writes "All the world's a stage.
And all the men and women merely players.
They have their exits and their entrances;
And one man in his time plays many
parts."
EmanuEl has played many parts. He
worked for Quinn Martin Productions as an
actor and writer on such notorius shows as
"The Invaders" and The FJ3.I." A reviewer
once said EmanuEl should not be allowed in a
theater unless he buys a ticket With that kind
of encouragement, EmanuEl turned his
• concentration toward directing. He has directed
several plays at CSUF and even taken some of
them abroad. In 1976, EmanuEl's play. The
Liberty Dance of Henry Sparrow" was
performed by CSUF students at the Kennedy
Center for the Performing Art in Washington
DC. The play won the Laureate Award, for
the best show in the festival.
EmanuEl has gone to Washington D.C.
twice. He directed The Taming of the Shrew"
there in 1984. He has taken several plays to
Edinburgh. Scotland for the annual play
festival and received international acclaim both
for himself and CSUF. He doesn't believe the
notion that Shakespeare must be done in
tights. He has staged plays where die
characters are dressed in punk rock fashion.
One of his wildest times as a director was one
night at San Jose State. "I did a Greek play
that caused a riot. It was in the late '60s. It
caused a riot because it was interpreted as
being anti-war. At the end of the play, this
Greek soldier said of war It is immoral, I
won't go.' Some of the students in the
audience were going to be shipped off to
Vietnam the next day. They went nuts and
started yelling We won't go" and kicking over
chairs. The national guard was on campus and
they came in. I got smacked c\n the head You
shouldn't hit Vets. I got arrested for inciting a
riot. The charges were d
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Story by
Michael T. Jarvis
Page design by
Lane Turner
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