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By GENE HARTWIG
Daily Managing Editor
ONE EXCELLENT reason presents itself for
supporting Student Government Council
in the all-campus elections Wednesday and
Thursday. That is that Regents and ad-
ministration have clearly indicated that the
continued existence of Student Legislature as
student government on campus is unaccept-
able. If this were not so there would have
been no study made of the student govern-
ment problem in the first place and the pre-
sident and administration would not be so
loud in their admiration of the SGC proposal
at present. Given this key fact in the pre-
sent campus political situation there is little
alternative but to look to some new device for
student participation in University affairs.
Fortunately for the campus, however, this
Is not the only reason for supporting the Stud-
ent Government Council answer to the prob-
lem. There are enough good points both ex-
plicit and implicit in the proposal to justify
strong student endorsement.
Contrary to the gloomy predictions of some,
the administration is not the only element in
the University which stands t6 gain from
a "well-established and official form of std-
ent government on campus." SGC's most im-
mediate benefit to students would be the
prestige that accrues to a body which includes
the heads of the seven major organizations
on campus and which exercises broad regula-
tory control over student activities as well as
represents campus opinion.
While members of Student Legislature may
howl to little avail when they suffer a rebuff
at the hands of the University on some pro-
posal, a similar administrative thumbs-down
on an idea popularly endorsed by SGC would
have repercussions in each of the seven groups
represented there. The administration will be
forced to more serious consideration of each
recommendation brought to them by SGC, or
be set for a proportionately greater adverse
student reaction in the event of a hasty veto.
In a positive sense the inclusion of the seven
ex officio people on the Council-student lead-
ers who are experienced in tackling difficult
problems and representing their ideas to the
administration-should provide for highly re-
sponsible and deliberate consideration of the
issues facing SGC. This element of experience
in how to effectively solve a problem should
not be overlooked, for it has been ineptness in
this very area of method and approach to
the administration that has helped soil the
reputation of Student Legislature.
It is also very unlikely that the seven ex
fficio members are going to vote as a bloc
on issues, forcing the elected members to line
up 10 of their 11 to defeat the organizations.
A glance at the backgrounds and interests of
the organization (Union, League, Inter-House
Council, Interfraternity Council, Inter-House
Council, Interfraternity Council, Panhellenic,
Assembly, and The Daily) should dispell
thoughts of tight unanimity among them on
all crucial issues.
ANYREALISTIC appraisal of the Student
Government Council proposal, should expose
as foolishly optimistic the line of thought that
sees SGC as the be-all and end-all of student
government. SGC is by no means the Utopia
some would have it be. It is a step in the
direction of more effective student participa-
tion in the affairs of the University. Other
steps will have to be taken. Provisions con-
tained in the present plan will undoubtedly
prove unworkable and have to be altered. This
can best be done in the light of experience
after SGC has gotten underway.
ONE FLAW in the present plan which any-
one with any experience in student ac-
tivities should be quick to see is the size of
the Council's membership. Eighteen is less
than half the present size of the Student Legis-
lature which often finds it difficult to get all
of its work done with 40 members. Because
the seven ex officio members can not be ex-

pected to spend much time outside of meet-
ings on the basic research that goes in to
solving many problems, the bulk of this work
will be in the hands of the 11 elected members.
At the same time they will be responsible for
maintaining close personal contact with the
students who elected them by way of filling
their representative function. The burden
is almost bound to be too great for the council
to operate effectively.
A more fundamental objection to the small
size of the Council can legitimately be made
on the basis that with only 18 members, minor-
ity opinion on campus will have little chance
to be officially heard. Under the proportional
representation method of election the smallness
of the Council (five or six would be up for elec-
tion each semester) means that a candidate
would need more than 2,500 votes to be elect-
ed. Minority groups from which often come
valuable suggestions, are seldom able to muster
the vote that would be necessary to elect a
representative to SGC.
CRITICS OF Student Government Council
have argued that the plan provides no
means for expanding the membership. It
seems to this writer that the answer is implicit
in the SGC proposal. If the Council finds it
impossible to carry on effectively with only
18 members, it will have to increase its size
or face collapse. It is illogical to suppose that
the Regents and administration would doom to
such a fate the student government they have
endorsed. The only answer would be enlarge-
ment when the need is clearly shown. Until
such time, probably by next year, the smaller
18 man group would be able to more effectively
tackle the problems of organization and imple-
mentation that are bound to follow the in-
stitution of the SGC plan.
THAT THE PLAN represents only a step
forward and not the ultimate in providing
maximum student-faculty-administration in-
teraction results from the absence in the plan
of any regular body where all three segments
of the University community can meet to iron
out common problems. Perhaps a further step
would be the creation of a joint student-facul-
ty-administration policy committee to advise
top administrators and Regents in areas in-
volving the interests of all three groups.
Here fundamental problems facing the Uni-
versity could be hashed out on a regular basis
to further aid policy making designed to take
the student and faculty elements into serious
consideration.
IT HAS BEEN ASKED whether Student Gov.
eriiment Council will have the underlying
authority and independence essential to strong
student government. This is an impossible
question to answer until SGC goes into opera-
tion and we can judge the authority and in.
dependence it is able to exercise in prac-
tice. SGC does consolidate the regulatory and
supervisory powers, now held by Studet Af-
fairs Committee, with the opinion-seeking-
-and-expressing function of Student Legisla-
ture. These, combined with the natural pres-
tige of the smaller, more carefully selected
Council adds up to greater authority and in-
fluence than that of the present student gov.
ernment.
Rather than have Student Government
Council at its inception granted additional
powers for which there is no precedent in
student government at Michigan, it is far
sounder to begin with a consolidation of exist-
ing power in the hands of one agency and
work over a period of time to acquire such
additional powers as are necessary for th
effective functioning of student government.
Student Government Council is a plan for
student government that is capable of growth
and development. It does not represent a per-
fect solution to the problem of student par-
ticipation in University affairs, but it is a step
forward.

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CURRENT MOVIES
CARMEN JONES with Dorothy Dandridge
FOR ALL that it has moments of genuine entertainment, Carmen
Jones is a pretty cheap idea.
It is, as probably everyone knows, an Oscar Hammerstein II re-
working of Bizet's opera of roughly the same name Every effort is
made to preserve the parallel. Don Jose is called Joe. Escamillo comes
out Husky Miller. And Oscar Hammerstein II comes out distinctly II
rate. His collaboration with a defunct and defenseless Georges Bizet is
a thoroughly unfortunate one.
Unless I am mistaken, the music of opera is not a garnishing to
be thrown in, like parsley on Quadrangle potatoes, to make a tasteless
story palatable. It is an integral part of the whole, an expression in
musical terms of the theme of the drama.
BY TRANSLATING CARMEN into an all-Negro production located
in a southern army camp, Mr. Hammerstein has utterly destroyed
the integrity of the original. The music following the dramatic logic
or Bizet's opera, pursues an independent course, in spite of the attempt
to superimpose it upon an alien version of the story
The result is often funny, in a painful sort of way. When Husky
Miller sings the Toreodor song, a stirring event in the original, it comes
out:
"Stand up and fight until you hear the bell,
"Stand toe to toe, trade blow for blow ..."
The chorus of laughter, hisses, and mock retching with which
the uninhibited matinee audience greeted this offering indicates that
they were stirred in a direction contrary to the intended one.
The episode suggests a technique which might have welded these
disparate elements intomahunity-namely, consciousand deliberate
parody. Hammerstein might have reduce Bizet's heroics to mock-
heroics by setting them against the earthy and easy going behavior
of the cast. But he chose to try for the tragic overtones of the original
Carmen, with the result that his production is alternately an unin-
tentional parody of itself-as in the Toreodor Song-or merely con-
descending and cute-as in the Escammilo-Husky Miller switch.
And it is a little ironic that Negroes should be featured in a mu-
sical drama which not only ignores the immense contribution the
American negro has made to music, but which also forces the cast
into a musical idiom absolutely foreign to the characters they portrady.
F MR. HAMMERSTEIN had discarded Bizet and filled the resulting
gap by drawing on the vast resources of Negro ballads, blues and
jazz, he might have had something. Not grand opera, certainly, but
something superior to the abortive Carmen Jones.
The acting is excellent. Dorothy Dandridge is a succulent Carmen,
Harry Delafonte a clean-cut, if slightly wooden Joe, and Pearl Bailey a
rousing Frankie.
--Don Malcolm
DAILY OFFICIAL BULLET IN

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The Week
In Review

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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

SL andSGC, .*.
To the Editor:
I AM WRITING to express my
appreciation for the accuracy
of the concise summation that ap-
peared in Thursday's paper con-
cerning the statement I had made
to the Student Legislature the pre-
vious evening.
However, it should be noted that
this article by Wally Eberhard
had a heading that was somewhat
misleading. The caption read:
"SL's Final Meet Brings SGC Fav-
or". This could give the reader
the impression that SL itself had
taken steps to show its approval
of SGC. As far as I am aware,
my statement expressing quali-
fied approval of the SGC proposal
was the only step in this direc-
tion that occurred at the meet-
ing.
Since I am not a member of SL
and only appeared at the meet-
ing as a faculty member of the
Student Affairs Committee, by
personal invitation of SL Presi-
dent, Steve Jelin, and only spoke
by unanimous consent of SL, this
could in no way be interpreted as
an action of SL favoring the SGC
proposal.
On the contrary, I think that
SL has been wise to follow the
precedent set by the Regents and
refrain from taking a final stand
pro or con on the SGC issue until
after the referendum next week.
The Student Affairs Committee
has also refrained from officially
voting on whether the majority of
its members favor the SGC pro-
posal. However, we discussed at
our special meeting on Tuesday
the need for SAC members as in-
dividuals to commit themselves to
one side or the other.
This should help dispel the fog
of pseudo-objectivity that has sur-
rounded the previous discussions
of SGC. To this end we propos-
ed specifically that the town meet-
ing on student government to be
sponsored by SL nevt Tuesday
take the form of a debate in which
the issues pro and con will be
clearly defined.
-Prof. J. Willcox Brown
* * *
One-Sided Argument.
To the Editor:
WE BELIEVE that the Student
Body is being deceived by the
barrage of pro-SGC propaganda.
We are curious as to just who is
in back of this massive cam-
paign? Perhaps the administra-
tion itself?
We are inclined to believe that
SGC is based on the "questionable"
"trickle down" theory. By being
closely associated with the Stud-
ent Affairs Committee and the
Board of Regents; SGC could be
no more than the strong right arm
of the administration. We feel
that this is not the purpose of
Student Government. Student
Government should be representa-
tive and if necessary a voice of
protest from the students. SGC
with its close association with
University officials and limited
representation could never fulfill
this function.
What we are asking for is a
sober reappraisal of SGC and not
letting it be forced upon the Stud-
ent Body by a one-sided campaign
of propaganda.
-Malcolm IHehlusberg
John Nicholls
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Who Says So . .
To the Editor:
WHAT MAKES the Administra-
tion think students want a
s t u d e n t government anyway?
Why even bother to pull the wool

point nevertheless is that in any
group there will be some like
that.
Unlike Mr. Warren, I did not
attend a fine, gentlemanly up-
standing school like dear old Har-
vard. Having only attended Mich-
igan I'm afraid that my exper-
ience with the "cultured" is quite
limited. However, in spite of the
apparent crudeness, I would not
have changed positions with Mr.
Warren for all the beans in Bos-
ton. In reference to our Law
School, which is considered to be
one of the finest in the country,
I do not see any shortcomings in
the faculty, facilities or student
body which would cause the people
of Michigan to blush with em-
barrassment. But once again I
may be prejudiced having only
the American Bar Association and
opinion around the country to
support my view.
Although it Is true that I have
only resided at the Law Club for
three months, I believe I have
seen what the men are like and
the manner in which they act.
There are times when the fellows
cut-up and do not act truly pro-
fessional. But in any school where
the tension and pressure is such
as it is here, that is only to be
expected. There is a time to act
completely restrained, and there
is also a time when horse-play is
acceptable. I feel the ratio of
these two is not disproportionate.
The tradition of Michigan Law
students has always been fine and
one which is well respected around
the country. It is this tradition
which I am proud to be a part of.
The students' reputation will
live on long past the utterings of
a few misguided souls.
-B. M. Gelber '57L
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Give and Take ..,
To the Editor:
jF THE Administration is asking
the students to give up 30e of
their 40 elected representatives,
the Administration should give
up its Review Board over to SGC.
Let us have faith in one an-
other.
-Leah Marks
-Steve Jelin
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The Daily Official Bulletin is an
official publication of the University
of Michigan for which the Michigan
Daily assumes no editorial responsi-
bility. Publication in it is construc-
tive notice to all members of the
University. Notices should be sent in
TYPEWRITTEN form to Room 3553
Administration Building before 2 p.m.
the day preceding publication (be-
fore 10 a.m. on Saturday). Notice of
lectures, concerts, and organization
meetings cannot be published oftener
than twice.
SUNDAY, DECEMBER 5, 1954
Vol. LXV, No. 62
Notices
Automobile Regulations -- Christmas
Holiday. The automobile regulations
will be lifted when classes are com-
pleted Fri., Dec. 17, and will be re-
sumed again at 8:00 a.m. Mon., Jan. 3.
PERSONNEL REQUESTS:
One of the banks in Chicago, Ill. ex-
tends an invitation to Seniors from
that area to visit them on their Ca-
reer Day during both the Christmas and
spring vacations. This invitation is
open to both men and women. Anyone
interested in being included in this
visit may leave his name at the Bureau
of Appointments.
U.S. Civil Service Commission an-
nounces an exam for Investigator (gen-
eral), GS-5 to 12, open to those who
have had experience in investigative or
accounting work or in the application
of statutory laws, court, and other au-
thoritative decisions. Education may be
substituted for work experience at the
rate of 1 yr. of study for 9 mo. of ex-
perience in accounting, CPA certifi-
cate for 3 yrs. experience, completed
study of law at rate of 1 yr. to 1 yr.,
membership in the state bar for 3
yrs. experience-all of the above men-
tioned will substitute for a maximum
of 3 yrs. Successful completion of study
for an LLB degree can substitute for 4
yrs.
The Civil Service of Canada announ-
ces applications for summer employ-
ment in Agricultural Science, Chemis-
try, Biology, Engineering, Forestry, Sur-
veying, Architecture, Economics, Gen-
eral Arts, Sociology, Psychology etc.
Applicants must be registered as stu-
dents at a university, and must be
British Subjects.
Civil Service Commission of Canada,
Ottawa Canada announces applications
for the following Civil Service posi-
tions:Personnel Administration, Nat-
ural and Medical Sciences, Engineering,
Architecture, Forestry, Geology, and En-
gineering Physics.
For further information about any
of the above orabout other job op-
portunities, contact the Bureau of Ap-
pointments, Ext. 371, Room 3528 Ad-
ministration Bldg.
PERSONNEL INTERVIEWS:
Representatives from the following
companies will be at Engineering:
Mon., Dec. 6
Westinghouse Air Brake Company,
Melpar, Inc., Falls C'iurch, Va.-All de-
gree levels of Elec. Eng. Mech., &
Mech. E., also Eng.-Physics for Research
and Development.
I-T-E Circuit Breaker Company,
Philadelphia, Penn. - B.S. degrees in
Elec. & Mech. E. for Sales, Design, De-
velopment, and Production.
City of Cincinnati, Civil Service Com-
mission & Dept. of Personnel, Cincin-
nati, O.-B.S. in Civil Engineering for
Design-Highways, Structures, Sewers;
& Construction Supervision.
Tues., Dec. 7
Chemstrand Corporation, jointly own-
ed by Monsanto Chemical Co. & Amer-

Development, D esign, Engineering,
Sales.
Kalamazoo Vegetable Parchment Co.,
Kalamazoo, Mich.-In A.M. only-All
degree levels of Chem. & Mech. E. for
Production Plant Engineering, Research
& Design. ,
Wed., Dec. 8
Sherman-Williams Co., Cleveland, O.
-B.S. degrees in Chem. & Mech. E.;
also Chem. majors for Research, Devel-
opment, Operations, Administration,
Management, & Staff Engineer.
,Ingersoll-Rand Co., New York, N.Y.-
B.S. degrees in Mech. Industrial &
Elec. (Power Option) Engineering for
Design, Development, Research; Pro-
duction Engineering; Sales Eng.
Reliance Electric & Engineering Co.,
Cleveland, O.-B.S. degrees in Elec.,
Eng. Mech., Ind. & Mech. E. for Tech-
nical Sales, Design or Research, Pro-
duction or Plant Engineering.
Corning Glass Works, Albion, Mich.
-B.S. degrees in Chem., Elec., Ind. &
Mech. E. Also M.S. degrees in Ind. A
Mech. E. for Process or Equipment En-
gineering-Production, Design & Devel-
opment.
Thurs., Dec. 9
Gibbs and Cox, Inc. New York, N.Y.
--B.S. Mech. E., and all degree levels
of Naval Arch. & Marine E.; applicants
must be U.S. citizens; for Research,
Development & Design Engineering &
Drafting.
International Nickel Co., Inc., New
York, N.Y.-All degree levels of Met. E.
for Industrial Research-Operations--
Metallurgical Central & Development.
Motorola Inc., Chicago, 111.-all de-
gree levels of Elec. E. for Research, De-
sign, &Development.
Fri., Dec. 10
Cincinnati Milling Machine Co., Cin-
cinnati Milling Products Div., Cincin-
nati, O.-M.S. degrees in Chem. E.;
must be U.S. citizens, and have had
military service; for Research & De-
velopment.
Lectures
Dr. Harry Schwartz, Russia Expert,
N.Y. Times, speaks Tues., Dec. 7, 8:30
p.m. in Hill Auditorium on, "The Men
Who Rule Communism." Tickets will
be on sale tomorrow, 10:00 a.m.-5:00
p.m., Tues., 10:00 a.m.-8:30 p.m. in Hill
Auditorium box office. Student tickets
are 50c in the student section.
University Lecture, auspices of the
Sociology Department. "The Radical
Right-Problem for American Democ-
racy." Seymour M. Lipset, Associate
Professor of Sociology, Columbia Uni-
versity. Tues., Dec. 7, 7:30 p.m., Angell
Hail.
C.oncerts
The Shaw Chorale and Orchestra,
Robert Shaw, Conductor, will give the
third program in the Extra Concert
Series, Mon., Dec. 6, at 8:30 p.m. in
Hill Auditorium. Three psalms by Mo-
zart, "Jesus, Dearest Master" by Bach,
"0 Vos Omnes" by deVictoria, "Fa Una
Canzona" by Vecchi, Schubert's "Nach-
telle and Standchen," "Tom O'Bed-
lam" by Avshalomoff, and Choruses
from Strauss' "Die Fledermaus."
A limited number of tickets are still
available at the offices of the Univer-
sity Musical Society in Burton Tower,
and will also be on sale Mon. at the
Hill Auditorium box office, after 7:00
p.m.
Exhibitions
Union Student Art Exhibit will be
held In the lobby of the Michigan Un-
ion Dec. 4 through 15.
Events iTodaxy

Local. ..
FACES DEPORTATION: $1,000
bond was posted Tuesday enabling
Buick Navidzadeh, '57L, to remain
out of prison until his deportation
hearing Dec. 8, when he will apply
for political asylum in the United
States. Navidzadeh, whose passport
was revoked six months ago by the
Iranian government, claims that
he faces execution in Iran on
framed charges of being a Commu-
nist sympathizer.
DAVIS FUND: A committee of
Literary College faculty members
drew up a ,letter requesting contri-
butions to a fund for dismissed
mathematics instructor H. Chand-
ler Davis. They hope to raise a
sum comparable to the $5,000 sal-
ary Davis would have received had
his appointment been continued.
SGC: Qualified approval of the
proposed S t u d e n t Government
Council was voiced by Prof. J.
Willcox Brown of the School of
Natural Resources in a brief speech
Wednesday at the last Student
Legislature meeting before cam-
pus elections. There will be an all-
campus forum on Tuesday for a
pro and con discussion of basic is-
sues involved in the SGC plan.
National .. .
McCARTHY CENSURE: T h e
Senate officially condemned the
conduct of Sen. Joseph R. McCar-
thy (R-Wis) on two counts Thurs-
day, by a 67-22 vote, but refused
to censure him for a "denuncia-
tion" of Brig. Gen. Ralph W.
Zwicker. The Senate declared that
Sen. McCarthy's failure to help a
1951-52 investigating subcommittee
and his "abuse" of the group's
members obstructed "the constitu-
tional processes of the Senate,"
and that he was likewise con-
demned for his "Communist hand-
maiden" and other charges against
the Watkins committee.
U.S.-CHINA TREATY: United
States and Nationalist China signed
a mutual security treaty Thursday
in which the U.S. pledged that it
would consider an attack on For-
mosa "dangerous to its own peace
and safety."
DETROIT STRIKE: Chrysler
Corp. narrowly averted a strike
Tuesday when, five minutes before
a 7 a.m. deadline, the company
came to an agreement with the
CIO United Auto Workers over an
office workers contract dispute.
U.S.-DUPONT SUIT: U.S. Dis-
trict Judge Walter J. LaBuy Fri-
day held the Department of Jus-
tice lawyers had failed to prove
accusations of conspiracy, monopo-
ly and restraint of trade in a civil
suit against E. I. Du Pont de Ne-
mours & Co., members of the Du
Pont family, General Motors Corp.,
United States Rubber Co. and
three holding companies of the Du
Pont family, and dismissed the
government's biggest antitrust
case,
International . .
POPE PASSES CRISIS: Five
medical experts yesterday said
there is still hope for the recovery
of Pope Pius XII from his desper-
ate illness. A brief special medical
bulletin said the "perceptible im-
provement . . . has continued in
such a manner as to permit good
hope" that the 78-year old pontiff
would survive his grave crisis. His
illness, starting as a recurrence
of his gastritis and hiccupping, be-
came serious last weekend. His
collapse Thursday weakened his
heart, and there was also an indi-
cation that his condition was ag-
gravated by an ulcer.
RED ARMS POOL: The Soviet
Union and seven EasternEuropean
Communist states signed a pledge
Thursday to pool their armed

forces and put them under a joint
command if the Western Powers
ratify the Paris agreements to re-
arm West Germany.
--Tammy Morrison
ters of Sigma Rho Tau are debating
the "Guaranteed Annual Wage" in
Rooms 3R & s in the Michigan Union,
Sun., Dec. 5 at 1:30 a.m. The Michigan
chapter will oppose U. of D., and D.I.T.
will meet the University of Toledo.
Hillel: Choir Rehearsal Sun., 4:30
p.m. In the Main Chapel. Sun. Supper
Club 6:00 p.m. Sun. 8:00-10:30 p.m. Mid-
Term Mixer. Mel Sachs and his orches-
tra. Dancing and refreshments. Mem-
bers 25c, non-members 35c.
Union Art Contest: Sun., Dec. 5, at
2:00 p.m.; a reception will be held in
the Union Ball R m to give the pub-
lic a chanceto meet the artists whose
work will b' on display. Refreshments.
The Congregational-Disciples Guild,
Sun., Dec. 5, 7:00 p.m., Congregational
Church. International Guest night.
Speaker: Dr. James Davis of the Inter-
national Center.
The Unitarian Student Group will
meet Sun., Dec. 5. at 7:30 p.m. at the

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MUSIC REVIEW

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At Hill A uditorium...
THE MESSIAH, by George Frederic Handel.
University Choral Union and Musical So-
ciety Orchestra, Lester McCoy, Conductor,
with Lucine Amara, Soprano; Lillian
Chookasian, Contralto; Charles Curtis,
Tenor; Donald Gramm, Bass; Alice Lung-
erhausen, Harpsichordist; Emerson Head
and Donald McComas, Trumpets.
YEARLY performances of The Messiah have
become ritual. Now, ritual can be mean-
ingful, or it can be routine. For the larger
part, last night's performance was a sincere,
convincing, and effective one. The chorus sang
with good balance from the very start, and
with the warmth and fullness of tone that
the work needs. Unfortunately, there were
many times during the first half of the pro-
gram when lovely singing from chorus and
soloists was weighted down by a squared-off,
unimaginative approach to the orchestral por-
tions. A plodding sort of bowing and failure to
shape Dhrase contours seemed to he the main

matched the finesse of the choral singing. An(
wondrous to relate, the orchestra had obviousl
been well rehearsed, for the playing was clea
and accurate, notewise. Mr. McCoy kept hi
large forces under excellent control, and choru
and orchestra reached real interpretativ
heights in such choruses as "For unto us;
Child is born" and "Worthy is the Lamb." An
the Hallelujah Chorus sounded jubilant, jus
as it should,
The soloists were of uniformly high calibrE
with some minor reservations. Miss Amar
had what seemed to me too operatic a manne
of projecting her arias, particularly "I know
that my Redeemer liveth," but she has a clear
beautiful voice, and controls it exceedingl
well. The contralto, Lillian Chookasian, has.
remarkably warm, throaty voice, and san
with the assurance and conviction of a veteran
of such performances, which she is. Like mos
mortal tenors, Mr. Curtis had his difficultie
with the opening aria, but his singing im
proved noticeably thereafter. He might watc
a tendency of his to glide up to high noteG

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Sixty-Fifth Year
Edited and managed by students of
the University of Michigan underthe
authority of the Board in Control of
Student Publications.
Editorial Staff
Eugene Hartwig ......Managing Editor
Dorothy Myers.............City Editor
Jon Sobeloff ......Editorial Director
Pat Roelofs .....Associate City Editor
Becky Conrad .........Associate Editor
Nan Swinehart........Associate Editor
Dave Livingston.........Sports Editor
Hanley Gurwin ... Assoc. Sports Editor
Warren Wertheimer
..............Associate Sports Editor
Roz Shlimovitz ........Women's Editor
Joy Squires ..Associate Women's Editor
Janet Smith .Associate Women's Editor
Dean Morton-....Chief Photographer
Business Staff
Lois Pollak.........Business Manager
Phil Brunskill, Assoc. Business Manager
Bill Wise.........Advertising Manager
Mary Jean Monkoski .Finance Manager

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