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FACE TWO
THE MICHIGAN DAILY
THURSDAY, MAY 17, 1982
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NSA REFERENDUM:
Young Conservatives
SInvade' Oklahoma
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had not warned them with a
"beeper" tone, he had acted il-
legally.
They reported the episode to the
district attorney in Oklahoma City
and the Federal Bureau of Investi-
gation. They said they had not
heard since from the YAF officers.
For two weeks before this, Stan-
ley and Cotter had addressed Ro-
tary Clubs and parent groups in
Tulsa, Oklahoma City, Muskogee
and other communities, some ex-
tremely right-wing.
Majority Opinion
According to reports, they in-
sinuated not only that the NSA
did not represent the majority of
student opinion in the country,
but also that it was a Communist
front, subversive group.
As a result a number of parents
called or wrote students and the
university administration to pro-
test against the NSA.
On the day of the referendum,
according to the student senate
president and others who were ob-
servers at the polls, "the pledges
were marching down in blocs say-
ing 'NSA is the organization that's
communitic, isn't it?'"
Students who attempted to find
the reasons for this attitude were
usually told:
"Well, everybody said it was
communitsic. You can't vote 'yes'
for NSA."
The vote was the largest cast in
the history of the unversity.
NSA Loses
The NSA lost, 3 to 1.
This is one university and the
case is etxreme. But around the
country, many moderate and
young conservatives are troubled
about YAF tactics.
The strongest criticisms come
from conservatives who have seen
the group operate locally, or mid-
dle-roaders and liberals who have
witnessed YAF actions at student
conventions.
IN THE GARDEN-Actor George Montgomery, currently appear-
ing in the Drama Season production of "Toys in the Attic,"
admires a statue in the League's newly-opened Garden Cafe.
Montgomery's production will continue through Saturday at the
Lydia Mendelssohn Theatre.
ARTS AND LETTERS:
Hines Notes Need for Operas in English.
Many of the 1,000 students who
attended the NSA congress at
Madison, Wis., last year were dis-
mayed by YAF members.
"They didn't convince, they
alienated," said Nancy Walrath, a
moderate who was editor this year
of The Oklahoma Daily. "They'd
jump , p and make inflammatory
speeches. You could feel the whole
congress move to the left."
Left-Wing Tactics
Adult observers suggested the
techniques of YAF resemble the
left-wing student tactics of the
Thirties.
Conservative students at last
year's congress called the YAF'ers
"noisy," '"disruptive," and "un-
derhanded." They said some "be-
lieved the end justified the means"
and mentioned a front group that
the YAF had set up at the con-
gress.
This was the Committee for a
Responsible National Students Or-
thousands of mimeographed sheets
ganization. Letterheads on the
turned out by the committee bore
th YAF national address.
On some campuses a single
YAP personality has become the
center of controversy. Such is the
case at Harvard. Howard Phillips,
New England director of the group,
was president of the small inef-
fective Student Council last year.
According to students and mem-
bers of the administration, Phil-
lips used his office to tell the
world that Harvard had "gone
conservative" by electing a mem-
ber of YAF as president of the
student body.
Spurred Campaign
"The students' wrath was so
great that, in a referendum last
fall, they abolished the group
he represented and the office he
held," said Frederic Ballard Jr., a
liberal who is editor of The Har-
vard Crimson. That newspaper
spurred the campaign against
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Elsewhere, criticism has come
from within Jim Dannenbaum, a
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gentle boy who heads the group
at the University of Texas said he
wants:i to ask its national chair-
man at Yale:
"Send us more speakers, more
materials, rather than arouse.
Give us less noise. Very little good
ever comes from rallies or rabble-
rousing on the left, right, or
middle."
Conservative Journal
Insight and Outlook, the Uni-
versity of Wisconsin's conserva-
tive journal, criticized YAP re-
cently as "mimeocracy-bureau-
cracy byr mimeograph." It said:
Picketing may be fun, marching
may be fun, torchlight rallies may
be fun, but if the battle is one of
ideas, what is the idea of all this?"
The journal maintained:
"Those colleges where there are
active conservative groups have
not, by and large, gained -them
from YAF. The conservatives have
gathered around separate and lo-
cal traditions, separate and local
colleges.
"What the YAF promises, is the
adoption of the liberal methods of
the Thirties and before to destroy
what those methods brought
about."
Voice To Hear
Peace Plans
Prof. Seymour Melman of Co-
lumbia University will speak at
the . third Voice Political Party
Symposium on the Arms Race at
7:30 p.m. today in the Multi-
purpose Room of the UGLI. His
talk will be about his plan for
United States initiatives for peace
in the cold war.,
Prof. Melman is from the in-
dustrial engineering department at
Columbia and has worked with
the Institute of War and Peace
Studies.
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By MARJORIE BRAHMS
"When I sing well, it is God
singing, and when I am singing
poorly, it is because I am suppres-
sing Him," Jerome Hines, baritone
with the Metropolitan Opera and
soloist at the recent May Festival,
said.
Hines, who sang excerpts from
Moussorsky's opera "Boris God-
unov," is presently revising an
opera of his own. The opera, now
performed as a unit, but actually
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three operas, is called "The Life
of Christ."
It depicts the three sections of
His life: "I am the Way," from
the baptism to the Sermon onrthe
Mount, "I am the Truth," from
the Sermon to the ressurection of
Lazarus, and "I am the Life,"
from Palm Sunday through the
ressurection of Christ.
Simple Structure
The opera requires a company
of 60 to 80 people and accompani-
ment of seven instruments. Be-
cause of its simple structure, the
opera is easy to rewrite and per-
fect, Hines noted.
Among its 38 performances seen
by 5000 people, "The Life of
Christ" has been to Atlanta, Ga.
"They integrated the balcony
there so more people could see it,"
Hines said.
Discussing what makes an ar-
tistic genius, Hines said that
"much latent genuis has been
brought into being through nero-
ticism, being close to insanity
and out of step with humanity."
Musical Genius
The great musical genius of our
time in America is yet to come,
Hinesasaid. He explained the di-
lemma by citing the mediocrity of
all things in America and the
idea Americans have of conform-
ing.
Hines sees the direction of
American music to be towards
singing operas in English. "If this
is not done, opera will continue to
be a white elephant. It should not,
be a mystery nor an inner sanc-
tumn," he said.
There should be a standard
translation for all opera com-
panies, Hines noted. He suggested
the United States begin an In-
ternational opera showcase which
would performoperas in the ori-
ginal language while the rest of
the country would use translated
versions.
West Germany
Hines cited West Germany as
a country in which opera flour-
ishes. They operate eleven months
a year with 65 companies. This is
possible because they perform in
their own language.
However, West Germany still
needs subsidy, Hines commented.
He favors having subsidy in the
United States because "art is edu-
cational. The state pays for the
education of our children and
higher art forms should come
under the same category.
"Europe is much more prolific
than we are in the arts and their
art is mainly under subsidy," he
noted.
Search for Originality
Hines sees much modern music
as a "great search for originality,"
essentially purposeless except for
seeking originality.
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