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GIVING THEM PROPS Students work behind the scenes to bring Arizona Repertory Theatre productions to life By Brenna Goth
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o two shifts are ever the same for student employees in the UA School of Theatre, Film and Television Properties
Shop. Workers may spend a few hours sewing curtains and refinishing 19th century furniture for Arizona Repertory Theatre’s “The Secret Garden” or they could get crafty with crepe paper to create fake Thai spring rolls for the next show, “Necessary Targets.” Behind every campus theatre production are the students in the prop shop who find or create the items used on stage. Some students receive class credit to work on specific productions, and several are part-time employees. The shop, housed in the Drama building, is full of props from past and current shows. Portraits line the walls and a dollhouse, fake apple pie and stuffed bunny peeking out of a pot occupy a large work table in the center of the room. “There’s no monotony to this job,” said Michelle Bisbee, Online at manager of the prop shop and a fine arts graduate student Check out video of with an emphasis on students creating scenic design. props in the UA A designated prop School of Theatre, master is in charge Film and Television of each show, Bisbee Properties Shop at said. The prop masdailywildcat.com ter then works with the stage manager to decide what props are needed. Some props — like antique furniture or fountains — may be donated, purchased or found in storage. Up to six students then help with items that need to be welded, faux finished, reupholstered or created from scratch. Prop artisans also have to be careful to create items that could be found in the time and place the production is set in, said John Eddy, a senior studying theatre production with an emphasis on scenic design. For instance, artisans working on props for “Necessary Targets” recreated the United Nations relief logo by looking at pictures of relief camps, he said. “We do a bunch of research to see what the world looked like,” Eddy said. “In this case, it’s war-torn Bosnia.” They usually work in the shop from 1 to 5 p.m., though prop artisans work until deadlines are met, Bisbee said. They aim to have props done a few days before the show’s technical rehearsals.
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running, said Katelyn Lustro, a senior studying theatre production with an emphasis on scenic design who was the prop master for “The Secret Garden,” which is still running. Prop designs may change after rehearsals and any
The UA raked in about $1 million in patents and other developments last year, sustaining the institution’s 20-year trend of successful inventions. While original patents, copyrights and inventions are developed by many of the UA’s colleges, much of the growth has been seen in research-intensive areas like the College of Optical Sciences and other units within the College of Sci- 2010 patent revenue (in dollars) ence. Copyright has also become prominent in the James E. Rogers number of active College of Law, patents held by UA according to Patrick Jones, director of the UA’s Office of Technology number of patents Transfer. under review Overall, the university has 170 active U.S. patents, 170 ap- number of provisional plications that patents held by UA are in the process of becoming patents and 90 provisional patents, number of provisional patents filed by which last for one College of Optical year and serve Sciences as quick, “placeholder” patents to allow for further evaluation before an invention becomes patented. The College of Optical Sciences filed 52 of those provisional patents last year, and the college also passed seven patents the same year, a process that takes about three to 10 years. Several developments in the College of Optical Sciences are currently under production, and many have already made their way into the real-world market, according to Jim Wyant, the college’s dean. The college’s most profitable advancement — which has resulted in the evolution of contact lens manufacturing — has
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Prop artisan Taryn Wintersteen creates a bed for an upcoming stage production. Artisans in the properties shop work on different projects from reupholstering furniture to creating fake food.
The work often requires more time than the paid hours, Eddy said. Eddy is scheduled for nine hours a week in the shop but works up to 40, he said. “It sounds odd, but you do what you enjoy,” Eddy said. And the job isn’t over until the show stops
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NOTING >> 1886: The Folies Bergere in Paris, France, stages its first revue-style show. >> 1900: Irish author, poet and playwright Oscar Wilde dies in Paris at age 46. >> 1974: The fossilized remains of a female human ancestor named Lucy (after The Beatles song “Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds”) are found in Ethiopia.
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March 4 — College of Medicine Dean Steven Goldschmid tells Dr. Nick Delamere, the physiology department head, that his tenure would not be renewed. Faculty members were not consulted in the decision.
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While the UA’s Shared Governance Memorandum of Understanding aims to collaborate on university decision making and planning with both the faculty and administration, some question its effectiveness. Last semester, the tenure review of Physiology Department Head Nick Delamere was abruptly terminated for reasons unbeknownst to many physiology faculty members and to Delamere himself. The dean of the College of Medicine, Dr. Steven Goldschmid , had reappointed Delamere each year since 2006, and Delamere’s notice of his nonrenewal as department head occurred immediately prior to when his mandated five-year review was supposed to occur. The memorandum states that UA administration and faculty should work together before making significant policy changes, which includes the selection and retention
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March 31 — Physiology faculty write to Wanda Howell, chair of the UA Faculty Senate, with concerns that the shared governance Memorandum of Understanding had been violated.
of department heads. Timothy Secomb, a physiology professor and member of the Faculty Senate, said he thinks that if he and his departmental colleagues had not stated their concern about the issue in a letter to Wanda Howell, chair of the faculty and a nutritional sciences professor, Delamere may have never been reappointed. “The credibility of shared governance was on the line in this incident, and it was only through strenuous efforts by many people that it proved effective and that a satisfactory outcome was reached,” Secomb said. Delamere said although he never found out why his original review was
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June 9 — The Shared Governance Review Committee recommends that then-President Robert Shelton reinitiate Delamere’s tenure review. June 21 — Shelton appoints Allison Vaillancourt, the vice president of human resources, to conduct a review of Delamere. That review is completed Aug. 19. Oct. 14 — Goldschmid reappoints Delamere as physiology department head for the current fiscal year.
terminated, he was more concerned about how the situation affected the physiology faculty. “The faculty, with good reason, felt their ability to give input was interrupted,” he said. “Whether their input was good or bad, there was a feeling that people’s voices had been silenced.” UA President Eugene Sander said that while some features of the initial review “were not done appropriately,” reinstating the review eventually honored he spirit of the memorandum. “Either party (the faculty or the administration) can ignore the memorandum if they care to, but the tradition here at the UA is to make it work,”
Sander said. “By being a dean and going through department reviews, it’s important to do our darndest to make it work.” Sander said giving deans the power to review their department heads does not violate the memorandum, and that if deans correctly mandate reviews, they can decide whether or not department heads maintain their positions. Reviews are meant to give UA employees constructive criticism about how they can do a better job, Sander said, and it is the job of college deans to responsibly conduct reviews in compliance with the University
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