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Glee Club Exhibits
Customary Excellence
FROM "LAUDES Atque Carmina" to the closing strains of'"
Yellow and the Blue," the Michigan Men's Glee Club gave anot
of its customarily superlative performances last night.
The program was particularly designed to show off the grow
talents, both individual and ensemble. Last summer, during part
their European tour, the Glee Club won first place in an internatic
choral competition in Wales. They were required to sing three of
numbers on last night's program during the competition. The requi
works were a Palestrina motet; "Confitemini Domino," and a voc
chord-twister, "El Grillo," by Flemish composer Josquin des Pres.
Editorials printed in The Michigan Daily express the individual opinions of staff writers
or the editors. This must be noted in all reprints.
SUNDAY, MAY 15, 1960 NIGHT EDITOR: SUSAN FARRELL
Could Overemphasis
On Dignity Invite War?
R CENTLY a young man named Francis Pow- diplomatic double-talk that usually accom-
ers had the misfortune of descending from panies the frantic covering-up of such blunders.
the skies over Russia with several articles dis-
tributed about his person which proved to beof incident is our complete inability to laugh
interest to his surprised hosts. at ourselves, as the rest of the world, in vary-
In other words, it was unmistakably obvious ing degrees, is doing.
to them that Powers was an American spy. This fault has to do with our anxiety to up-
Naturally the Russians recognized the in- hold our national and international image; in
herent propaganda value in their find and im- this respect the word "spy" must be used only
mediately began to use it to, their best ad- in relation to our enemies, and certainly not
vantage, and to our extreme embarrassment ourselves.
and consternation. A basic and perpetual question here demon-
Surely nobody in any country was surprised strated is: exactly what should we be concerned
to hear that the United States employs spies. with preserving-ouir public image or our lives?
The important fact was that in the constant Another incident such as this one could con-
game of international hide-and-seek we sud- ceivably lead to distressing international con-
denly became "it." flict-for instance, World War III. Before it
happens, it would be well for us to examine our
IMMEDIATELY all eyes turned toward us to standards of political conduct in the light of
see what our move would be. Rather than our fundamental human values.
deny the obvious, which would have more or It is this writer's opinion that lives are more
less conformed with the rules of diplomacy,the important than not only our dignity, but also
government decided not to bother-to instead our "heritage," our "way of life," and all the
admit what the world knows to be true anyway. other vague, undefined concepts we use to imply
That was, it seems, a refreshing, though un- that "us guys" are better than "you guys."
orthodox move that dispensed with most of the -ANDREW HAWLEY
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optional work was one by a native
composer, Aaron Copland-"Stamp
Your Foot," which the Club has
performed before in their local
concerts.
ALONG WITH' SUCH other
selections as "Song of Joy" (Gret-
chaninoff), "Hallelujah, Amen"
from Handel's "Judas Maccab4-
eus," and the Chorus of the Re-
turning Pilgrims from "Tann-
hauser." The selections on the
first part of the program seemed
almost deliberately selected to
display the group's many assets to
the best advantage.
While this was undoubtedly not
the sole criterion for the program-
ming, the selections did give the
men a chance to visibly impress
the audience with their mastery
of such musical fundamentals as
diction, phrasing,udynamics and,
of course, the wonderful blend of
voices and the marvelous balance
which Prof. Duey achieves with
the group.
** *
THE SOLOISTS-Joonmin Kim,
tenor, Warren Jaworski, baritone,
and Bruce Wilson, tenor-are a
good example of the basic factor
behind. the Glee Club's success.
They are representative of the
uniformly high quality of sing-
ers with whom Prof. Duey works.
Kim and Jaworski were allotted
solo stage positions for their selec-
tions - Schubert's "Ave Maria"
and "Non pio andrai" from Mo-
zart's "Le Nozze de Figaro" re-
spectively - and though Kim's
voice is pleasant, his diction and
phrasing suffer in spots; for over-
all performance, I think Jaworski
came off better.
Wilson sang solo tenor in selec-
tions with the group, notably "The
Story of Jimmy Brown," and dis-
played a very pleasant voice which
should be shown more often.
THE FRIARS were undoubtedly'
the comic hit of the evening, as
they usually are. Combining the.
usual good Glee Club voices with
a flair for parody, they presented
another in their series of "How to
Kill Rock 'n Roll Without Even
Trying" - this one entitled, "I
Don't Know."
--Selma Sawaya
THE DIFFICULTIES that students found in
getting up a demonstration for multi-lateral
disarmament and the ensuing apathy that they
met in Lansing Friday noon points up a gap
between student and "adult" opinion.
First the demonstration met opposition at its
source. Bay City Junior College officials threat-
ened "penalty" to any students attending on
the grounds -of its having no adult supervision.
In the face of this only a handful of the 250
signed up attended.
The Michigan group could barely fill one bus
with students who were willing to demonstrate
their wish for disarmament in spite of the fact
that classes were dismissed during the time of
the demonstration.
V ATHERED in the raw weather before the
Capitol steps, the diminished group heard
the speeches of their cohorts and then dis-
banded amid questions from gathered Legis-
lators. There were no questions on why they
stood out in the wet to hear speeches, but,
"Where do you come from?"
Or more pointedly, "Are any of you from my
district?" "Oh, from New York you say, Oh."
And the legislator turned away. A few read the
Sane Nuclear Policy petitions and handing
them back, stressed that the "idealism was
MAX LERN ERSCR' :.
Nasser's Econc
EL AVIV-Seen from Israel, the logic behind
Nasser's ship boycott is clear enough. Israel
has reahed the stage where it has booming
industries for exports, the skills to manufacture
products and the enterprise to sell them.
Its exhibits at international trade fairs from
New York to Nairobi and from Florence to
Rangoon have had success and produced orders.
Israel has a mounting volume of available ex-
ports and markets for them. Hence Nasser's
tactic-to cut off the products from the markets
by a policy of blockade, boycott and blacklist.
Outwardly Nasser's case rests on the con-
tention that Israel occupies Egyptian territory
and Egypt is therefore at war with it and is
using the blockade as a war measure. But the
war has been over 11 years. Even after the
Sinai campaign Israel cargoes were allowed
through the Suez Canal until March 1959 when
the Greek Captain Manolia was stopped, fol-
lowed by the Inge Toft and the Astypalea.
Clearly Nasser's policy of economic strangu-
lation is recent and deliberate although he uses
the technical legal war status to justify it. It
is a double-edged argument, for if the Suez
Canal is a legitimate instrument of war policy
against Israel, it is shocking that the United
States World Bank loaned him $56 million to
widen the canal and perfect this war instru-
ment of one United Nations member against
another.
NASSER'S ACTUAL LOGIC has little to do
with the legal rhetoric about war. It is the
naked logic of possession. Having seized the
Suez Canal he chooses to forget that it is
still an international waterway with interna-
tional obligations. He uses it quite unabashedly
as an instrument of national policy. The glori-
ous triumph he boasts of now that the Cleo-
patra picketing is ended is a triumph only for
the fact that thus far he has gotten away
with this defiance of the freedom of interna-
tional waterways for all.
O NE MAY regard the Cleopatra picketing as
wise or unwise, given Nasser's power to
good but the details should be worked out by
the experts.
One accused the students of believing their
country "good enough to live in but not good
enough to fight for" and continued in the vein
that students "who are probably on draft de-
ferment" wish to live and study in freedom "at
the expense of other people's blood."
THE DEFINITE misunderstanding of the pur-
pose of the demonstration and the direc-
tion of student thought by this and other legis-
lators is indicative of the gap in communica-
tions between students and "adults."
The students are not saying "Gee, let's disarm
at all costs." They have grown up in the cold
war situation and under the threat of nuclear
war.
All they are asking for is serious considera-
tion of disarmament at the summit . . . serious
consideration with the thought of disarming
in mind and not for the purpose of propaganda
or power politics.
Mr. Legislator, however you may read your
bitter dreams into their actions, the reason stu-
dents are standing in front of the Capitol steps
is to demonstrate a hope. A, hope that their
elders can find a feasible plan to disarm and
more hopefully, find it at this summit.
-CAROLINE DOW
CAMPUS:
Common
"THE COUSINS" is billed, as is
every foreign film, as the best
or one of the best foreign films
of the year. Which year is not
revealed: usually it is several years
ago.
"The Cousins" is directed by
Claude Chabrol, evidently one of
the younger generation directors,
It has competent actors, sure
editing, and a use of the moving
camera well suited to the tone of
melodrama.
The subject is the old country-
cousin-city-cousin rivalry. Coun-
try cousin Charles journeys to
study law. In Paris he lives with
city cousin Paul, who is also in
school.
Paul lives high and wild, drinks,
spends, collects firearms and
Wagner, and has a slick way with
the women.
Charles is attached to hi
mother in the country, and his'
straight-and-narrow-path moral
upbringing is in continual conflict
with Paul's life of riot.
* * *
CHARLES DEVELOPS AN in-
terest in Florence, who is eventu-
ally stolen away to bed by Pau.
Florence moves In with Paul andl
Charles, and the rivalry deepens.
Final exams arrive. Paul, who
has not cracked a book through
the course of this ribaldry, passes
with honors. Charles, who ha,
studied dilig ently and successfully.
resisted, evil and temptation, fails.
Charles loads one of Paul's re-
volvers with a bullet, spins the
chamber, aims at sleeping Paul,
and pulls the trigger. Click. Thus
symbolically relieved, Charles re-
tires.
The next morning Paul,.in hi
usual abandon, picks up the gun
which was never loaded, takes aim
in jest at hard luck Charles and
fires. Bang.
THROUGHOUT THIS unim-
pressive plot there are some en-
tertaining scenes. The wild paties
are seeded with interesting charac-
ters. During one party Paul dis
the lights, dons a Nazi officer's
cap and a lighted candelabra, and
to the strains of Wagner's Liebe-
stod, tirades in German.
"The Cousins" is a well-directed
but common melodrama, enlivened
only by the atmosphere and en-
vironment of Latin Quarter Paris.
As entertainment it is suitably
diverting.
The cartoon, "Nightbird," is
amusing.. It has a fresh style of
animation, one of those styles
which will never be as good when
used a second time. Two kids, one
or two years at most, hunt a damn
bird. The voices of these kids are
a riot.
* The two previews of coming at-
tractions are proof that capitalist
decadence really exists.
-Gordon Mumma
~mic War
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to protect the worker victims of Nasser's
harrassments.
ship
The Dillon statement now recognizes that
the American government must protect the
rights of American workers abroad as well as
the profits of the oil and shipping companies
whose interests have thus far been paramount.
For 24 days the unionists stuck to their guns,
defying shipowners, oil companies, appeasers
and diplomats. They lifted the siege when they
got the Dillon promise. They will return to it
if the promise fails of action.
N ASSER'S SPEECH of triumph at Le Man-
sourah where he compared himself with
Saladin is unlikely to reassure the Americans
who still count on winning his friendship by
cajolery and bribery. He was savage about the
American government although he knew it did
its best to suppress the revolt of the Senators
on the Douglas-Keating aid amendment as well
as the revolt of the seamen.
He talks increasingly like a Middle East
Castro intent on using America as a whipping
boy. He accused America of helping Israel
prepare for the Sinai campaign despite his
rescue by President Eisenhower and Dulles.
He flayed the Senators opposed to the aid
resolution as dotards who claim now that their
conscience has awakened.
And right, after the United States Embassy
in Cairo rushed precipitously to give him a
$10 million loan he called American economic
assistance aid in the style of Cohen. This is
a different Nasser from the one who signed a
restrained communique on the Middle East
after his meetings with Nehru.
THE RUSSIANS clearly approve of the con-
tinuance of this Middle East tension even
while they urge a detente and coexistence else-
where. That is the meaning of Khrushchev's
refusal to invite Ben-Gurion to the Soviet
Union whether on a public visit or private visit.
It is harder to understand an American
policy which continues to take a beating from
Nasser, amounting almost to masochism. Nasser
By WILLIAM ANDERSON
Daily Guest Writer
THE OVERALL contribution of
the engineering profession to
society, and the personal success
of today's engineer, is markedly
dependent on his "associations
with people outside the field of
engineering," Prof. W. G. Dow,
chairman of the electrical engin-
eering department, said in a re-
cent interview.
"For society to most fully real-
ize those objectives which are
serviceable by the engineering pro-
fession, a better unity of intel-
lectual understanding must be es-
tablished between the engineer
and society."
Prof. Dow noted that engineers
working in the area of manage-
ment must make decisions re-
garding the nature of products
and services released to society,
as well as determining the direc-
tions taken in research and de-)
velopment.
*4 *
THUS, HE explained, the defi-
nitions of such 'objectives of so-
ciety rests very largely upon the
engineer-he must "determine
what objectives of society need
to be served," and "what object-
ives can be served by the profes-
sion."
In addition to the need for a
sound technical background in
meeting these demands, the engin-
eer must "maintain informal per-
sonal contact with people outside
;he, field of engineering.
While the routine work of oth-
er professions such as medicine
and law generally involves direct
dealings with members of society,
Prof. Dow believes that since en-
gineers commonly work in a team
or a group effort, there is a ten-
dency for engineers to become
"inbred." With their associations
and communications restricted
primarily to other engineers, "they
tend to live within their own
a group."
FROM THIS, Prof. Dow added,
a "loss of personal contact" with
the rest of society results, includ-
ing the inability to translate the
engineers' thoughts and technical
ideas into the commbn "language
of society."
Essential personal contact should
be maintained through active par-
ticipation in "church, civic, and
other community affairs," he sug-
gests. Such personal contact with
a non-engineering group is even
markedly furthered by having a
"non-engineer wife."
Prof. Dow maintains that the
life of the most successful engin-
eer will usually consist of three
"areas or scopes" of active par-
ticipation, "his specific job, his
membership in professional socie-
ties within his field, and his per-
sonal contacts outside the field of
engineering."
Sufficient activity in these areas
develops the qualities desirable in
the manager, he asserted, there-
fore determining the personal suc-
To the Editor:
SEVERAL other faculty members
have indicated disappointment
with the Administration's appar-
ent decision to reduce the propor-
tion of out-of-state students.
It seems to me that the decision
to establish geographical quotas
and, in particular, to restrict the
number of students coming from
large cities is especially unwise.
* * *
EVER SINCE former president
Hopkins of Dartmouth openly ad-
mitted that such quota systems
were used by Eastern schools to
restrict the numbers of Jewish
students, it has become a well-
known fact that such quota sys-
tems often represent disguised
forms of discrimination rational-
ized in idealistic-sounding terms.
It is hoped, of course, that the
Admissions Office personnel were
'CANTICUM SACRUM'
A tmosphere
Mars Work
LAST YEAR Robert Hause con-
ducted two memorable per-
formances of Stravinsky's "L'His-
toire du Soldat" in Ann Arbor.
This year he is conducting two
performances of Stravinsky's re-
cent "Canticum Sacrum."
The first performance was given
on the Music on Campus program
of the Creative Arts Festival. It
was a very good performance of a
beautiful and important work.
Soloists Jerry Hakes and Walk-
re Wyatt sang particularly well,
and the chorus sang their difficult
serial score with an understanding
and control which could only have
been the result of much serious
rehearsal.
The orchestra was occasionally
less sure of themselves than the
chorus, but is not likely to have
any problems at the next perform-
ance.
* * *
UNFORTUNATELY, the work
was stuck at the end of a horrible
melange of music. "Canticum Sac-
rum" and its performers do not
deserve this setting.
Worst of all was a disgraceful
introduction and closing speech
unaware of this device as dis-
criminatory and that once this
fact has been realized, the planned
quota system will be abandoned.
One fact is clear. Regardless of
the motives involved, such a quota'
system would operate differentially
so as to handicap Jewish and Ne-
gro applicants, or any other stu-
dents who happen to be dispro-
portionally concentrated in large
cities.
Likewise, again regardless of the
Administration's motives, the pol-
icy will almost certainly be, at-
tacked as discriminatory, and the
University's reputation will suffer
another blow.
-H. M. Blalock
Academic Freedom
To the Editor:
Irp{E DAILY quotes me as saying
at the Student-Faculty-Admin-
istration Conference last Saturday
that the concept of a university
stems from Plato's Academy
"which was established as a flam-
ing protest against a society rotten
from top to bottom.") Flattered
though I am to be confused with
Plato, I think the record had bet-
ter be set straight. What I said
was, "which was established as a
flaming protest against a society
that Plato considered rotten from
top to bottom."
Obviously the words your re-
porter omitted make a difference.
All was not well with the Athens
of Plato's time, but I for one
would not subscribe to the whole
of his indictment-of it, any more,
than most modern students of the
period would.I believe in demo-
cracy, Plato did not.
The fact is that Athenian demo-
cracy in his time was not too un-
like ours, a little more radical at
some times and in some respects,
but subject, to the same confusion
of aims and ideas, the same waver-
ing between radical and conserva-
tive lines of action, the same
uncertainty as to its over-all pur-
pose and destination. Plato meas-
ured his native democracy by the
yardstick of absolute reason. We
are fortunate that he and his mas-
ter Socrates are not around to
apply the same standard to ours.
THE POINT I was making at
the conference was not that Plato
was right or wrong, but that the
student government, church
groups, and fraternity activities.
He considers that the close fel-
lowship offered by fraternities
can be an exceptionally good op-
portunity for "personal contact
with individuals outside the field
of engineering, if it is not abused."
ALTHOUGH Prof. Dow thinks
non-technical courses are very
valuable to the engineer in meet-
ing the demands of his profes-
sion, he believes the required num-
ber of such courses need not be
increased. Engineers are "now re-
quired to take a reasonable num-
ber of these courses."
Also, Prof. Dow noted that "en-
gineering students are offered suf-
ficient opportunity through choice
of electives to investigate other
areas; however, there is a wide-
spread tendency for them to
:hoose a technical rather than a
non-technicaI subject as an elect-
ive."
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR:
Quota Plans Imp lyDscrimination
when they appeared to be nothing
more. Any institution that repre-
sents and cultivates the activity
of mind cannot help being more
than a citadel of the status quo,
because the status quo is always
three-quarters irrational.
The more the university culti-
vates its own tradition, that of the
inquiring mind, the more it runs
afoul of -the others, the ones that
try to preserve whatever happens
to exist at the moment. I -suspect
that the University of Michigan,
just in the course of its everyday
business and without making any
radical noises, unseats more ortho-
doxies than it sustains. If it
doesn't, it has no business calling
itself a university.
-Gerald F. Else
A&D OPEN HOUSE:
Exhibition Impressive,
Despite Varying Quality
THE college of Architecture and
Design held its third annual
open house this weekend in the
college building.
An extensive exhibit of student
work was shown, and a series of
lectures and demonstrations in re-
lated fields were given. Student
work is always difficult to judge,
not being amateur nor yet pro-
fessional. In all fairness, the ex-
hibition is on the whole rather
impressive.
The prints and pots are, as us-
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VOL. LXX, No. 168
ual, the best. Whether the stu-
dents are more contemplative
than creative, or more craftsman-
like than inspired remains an op-
en question, but through it all the
pots retain a standard of quali-
ty while the sculpture and paint-
ing divisions vary considerably.
* * *
THE POTS of Philip Nichols
and John Tyson deserve special
notice, as do the prints of George-
anne Pearce, Paul Appel, Nancy
McGruther, and Robert Pitten-
ger.
The sculpture studio has given
itself over wholeheartedly to the
junk aesthetic. Theresults in
Constance Eggers' welded exhaust
pipes is charming, but in several
others is somewhat less happy. E.
J. Johnson's "Figure" in welded
metal also has a fine formal sense.
The paintings are most numer-
ous and show the most range in
quality. Finest among them are
Meredith Dawson's chrome-framed
elegant "Figure,", and Forrest
Warthman's finely colored "Com-
position."
* * *
IN THE DRAWINGS and water
colors, notable are the landscapes
of Tarmo Watia and Charles