AGO ETGITT' . THE MICHIGAN DAILY SUNDAY, OCTOBER 31, 1954 '?AG1!~ ETOET TIlE MICHIGAN DAILY SUNDAY, OCTOBER 31. 1954 "f KEEPING AN EYE ON Your Student Legislature Illusic Students Lack Needed Space By MURRY FRYMER FIFTEEN JAPANESE students will visit the campus Nov. 13-17 as part of their trans-continental tour of A ierican colleges.- SL's International - committee will take part guiding the students around to classes and extracurric- ular activities. * * * INVITATIONS are going out to resident, houses, fraternities, and sororities to attend SL meetings, and become better acquainted with the organization. Plans call for having two houses attend each week. * * * THE ANTI-DISCRIMINATION Board is interested in hearing of any cases of possible discrimina- tion which any individual or or- ganization has experienced. The Board, made up of two SL members, three otner students, two city businessmen, and one member of the administration, has been set up' for the purpose of hearing and investigating any cases brought to it. Diana Hewitt,, '56, chairman of the committee, has stressed that the committee "is not set up to COLLEGE ROUND-UP: supplant any other organizations working in the field, but to bring together all forces that deal with the problem." * * s SL VOTING: Motion: SL recom- mends to the Committee on Stu- dent Affairs that the minimum number of students required for an organization to be officially recognized by the University shall be lowered (from 30) to 20. (by Hillman). Vote: 23 For, 4 Against, 1 Ab- staining. Motion: To "indefinitely" table a motion proposing severance pay for dismissed University instruc- tors, Prof. Mark Nickerson, and H. Chandler Davis. (by Donald- son). For: Bleha, Kauffman, Cowan, Donaldson, Butman, Hoffman, Germany, Berliner, Cummins, Beck, Simon, Adams, Yates, Har- ris, Beebe. Against: .Leacock, Uchitelle, Levy, Bryan, Hillman, Gilman, Rossner, Kahn, Boggan, Klame, Cook, Dormont, Hewitt. Abstain: Netzer, Petricoff. Vote: 15 For, 13 Against, 2 Ab- stain. (EDITOR'S NOTE: The following article is an interpretive study of con- ditions and facilities in the School of Music.) Overcrowded, inadequate facilities in the School of Music force students to practice in lavatories and basement stairwells. Four or five teachers crowd into office space suitable for one person. Even then, their office space is not their own..As soon as teachers leave, students take over for rehearsal sessions. "Everything is inadequate because of the size of enrollment," Dean Earl V. Moore of the School of Music commented. Current enrollment totals 557 but Music School facilities are keyed to only half that amount. Doors Kept Open Until 10 p.m. More than Only 75 of the needed 200 practice rooms are available. To ac- commodate demand for practice rooms, rehearsal halls and office quarters, the School of Music is forced to keep doors open until 10 p.m. each night and during weekend afternoons. More than 150 concerts are scheduled by the music school throughout the year. Each concert should have at least one rehearsal, but space is not available for these rehearsals, When concerts finally take- PRACTICING IN LAVATORIES PROHIBITED IN HARRIS HALL . .. BUT IN BURTON TOWER .. . place, they are distributed in Rackham Amphitheatre, L y d i a Mendelssohn Theatre, Hill Audi- torium and Angell Hall Auditor- iums. Lack of Space Limits Enrollment Lack of space has caused the School of Music to limit enroll- ment to approximately 500 stu- dents. The remaining 18,250 non- musical students cannot elect mu- sic courses are part of their edu- cation. The School of Music estimates at least 500 students outside of the School must be turned down each semester because of lack of teaching space and practice fa- cilities. All qualified Michigan residents are admitted, but many equally qualified out-of-state applicants cannot be admitted. Music school Secretary James Wallace noted, Coeds Spark MSC Cheers, Two Alligators To Visit OSU By SHXIRLEY CROOG While Michigan was celebrating the 50th anniversary of the Union, New York University dedicated its new Student Center yesterday aft- ernoon. The building, gift of Frank Jay Gould, American financier and graduate of NYU's engineering school, will serve over two thou- sand men on the University Heights campus in Bronx. * * * Michigan State has gone pro- gressive! The latest addition to the football field is six coed cheer- leaders. The Spartans now feel "they really lit a spark" in an ef- fort to curp apparent apathy in the cheering section. They feel coeds will "lead them in the right direction behind the team." s * s If anyone is looking for a real, live Pogo they might try Ohio Talks Planned On Tfax Law Changes caused by a revision of Federal income, estate and gift tax laws will be discussed at an Internal Revenue Institute, accord- ing to Prof. Charles W. Joiner, chairman of the Institute commit- tee. Sponsored by the University's law school, the Institute will be conducted at the Rackham Bldg. tomorrow and Tuesday. Prof. Joiner pointed out that ev- ery lawyer's practice is affected by this revision, the most extensive since 1913. Prof. L. Hart Wright of the law school will talk on changes relat- ing to gross income. and Prof. Paul G. Kauper of the law school will discuss decedents, estates aid trusts. Prof. Sellars Set To Give Lecture Prof. Emeritus Roy W. Sellars of the philosophy department will deliver a lecture on "The Objective Intent of Valuation" at 8 p.m. Mon- day in the East Conference Room, Rackham Bldg. Prof. Sellers, who retired from the University teaching staff in 1950, is a distinguished American philosopher. He is well known for his many, contributions to philo- sophical journals. Since he began his University teaching career in 1905, Prof. Sel- lars has been the recipient of many honors. In 1923 he was elected pres- ident of the American Philosophi- cal Association. State's campus . . . there's a fel- low there who's bringing his two 20 inch alligators to campus for a weekend. He may have to pay rent for the two strangers at his fraternity house. However, there'll be no food problem, for the "'ga- tors have no taste buds . . . and when they start biting they don't care what it is." * * s At Cornell, a proposal was made to set up a committee to "investi- gate and evaluate" bias clauses in social organizations on campus. The president of the Interfrater- nity Council indicated, although there were still 10 fraternities with discrimination clauses, a recent poll indicated that all fraternities on campus we2-e in favor of remov- al of national restrictions. However, any legislation to be taken on the bias clause will rest with Cornell IFC; the proposed committee will act only as an ad- visory group. Sleeping through classes isn't the only time a person can catch up on his sleep and attend a lec- ture at the same time. According to the Detroit Varsity News, a Nebraska college student recently graduated from college just by sleeping: His technique: sleep-learning. Since he was flunk- ing, he decided to read his lecture notes into a tape recorder and play it back when sleeping. . A few weeks later, his effort was successful. His friends stopped laughing at him when he "started tossing around five-syllable words, formulas, dates and complete pas- sages from Shakespeare." * * * The University of California and Indonesia are book-exchanging. California is campaigning to send technical text books either direct- ly to Indonesia or to a mimeo- graphing center set up by World University Service. In return, Indonesian students are sending books concerning sev- eral aspects of their culture to the University. California students feel the book exchange is one way to help Indonesia become "independ- ent and self-sustaining" through education. The University of Detroit plans to open a television workshop in mid-November. The broadcasting will be on a closed campus cir- cuit, run completely by students, except for an electronics engineer and studio supervisor. Closed broadcasting will train camera and floor crews for actual channel broadcasting, which they hope will begin in April. WTVS will-broadcast on Channel 56 over a 40 mile radius. FACULTY MEMBERS CROWD INTO SMALL OFFICE CLARINETEST REHEARSES IN JANITOR'S OFFICE NO ROOM TO PHONE "We usually turn down at least 150 well-qualified applicants ev- ery semester." Thirteen scattered buildings in the campus area provide needed space for School of Music activ- ities. "Even then," Dean Moore said, "we are not meeting the de- mands and needs of the student body." Space for Teaching Space in four of the 13 buildings is rented for teaching and prac- tice rooms. Facilities are used in Ann Arbor High School, basement rooms in the Congregational and Baptist Churches and Harris Hall, former student center of the Epis- copal Church. Lane Hall,Mason Hall1and the General Library are also utilized at various times for practicing, teaching,urehearsing or for listen- ing periods. "Needs of the School of Music have been recognized by the Board of Regents for many years," ean Moore noted. "Even 10 or 15 years ago," he continued, "there was al- ways a sentence or two discussing inadequate conditions in our School, in the book of capital out- lay sent to the State Legislature." Regents Make Report Two years ago, the Regents, in cooperation with the University, drew up a report for the State Legislature, discussing prepara- tions and appropriations for con- struction. Proposed School of Music build- ings will be built on North Cam- pus at an estimated cost of $4,- 000,000. When completed, areas would be provided for practice studios, rehearsal rooms, teach- ing units, a library, listening rooms, music stacks, a band shell, administration space and parking areas. "We could accommodate 800 full-time students," Dean Moore said, "releasing space now on this campus to accommodate those en- rolled in other schools of the Uni- versity who wanted to take mu- sic courses." Architects drew up sketches for for the buildings and plans were received by the Regents in May, 1952. The plans are still under consideration. School of Music History Under the name of the Ann Ar- bor School of Music, today's School of Music was started in 1881 in a building located at the corner of N. State and E. Huron. In 1891, the school was taken over and reorganized by the Uni- versity Musical Society. A site-was acquired and a building was erect- ed in 1893 on Maynard, through funds subscribed largely by local citizens. The same building now serves as headquarters for the School of Music, but provides only a small portion of facilities required for currently restricted enrollment. University Affiliation When the School of Music be- came affiliated with the Univer- sity in 1929, title to all its proper- ty passed to the Board of Regents. Through the years, the School grew continually. Until enrollment was recently restricted, the School was able to give musical education to all those who wanted it. Enrollment in fall, 1939, was 267. Enrollment had expanded to 587 by 1947. Because of severe has been necessary since then to handicaps imposed on students, it restrict enrollment to approxi- mately 500. "Present crowded conditions are detrimental to continuing high standards in collegiate musical ed- ucation," Dean Moore said. "At the present time, it is impossible for the School of Music to serve the musical needs of the entire University community. DAILY PHOTO FFATI FRE r 4 i PIANO STUDIOS MUST ACCOMMODATE TWICE NOMAL NUMBER HIDE-AWAY UNDER THE STAIRS HARRIS HALL BACKSTAGE i w XYLOPHONE PLAYER PRACTICES IN HARRIS HALL LOCKER ROOM I L ' . V .. ; . .. .. ... 5. . fi...' . < ::.: :' ". 1p.. i.