SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 12, 1955 THE MICHIGAN DAILY PAnEI THE MICHIGAN DAILY PAflV ARTIST CATCHER: Sink Draws Top Musical Talent To 'U' By BARBARA CRAIN _ All roads, may lead to Rome, but the University Musical Soc- iety manages to detour some of the world's greatest artists. The man responsible for bring- ing this talent to campus is Charles A. Sink, Society president. He may be found pleasantly en- sconced in a simply but adequately furnished office on the ground floor of Burton Tower. Upon entering his office, at- tention is immediately focused on the sea of faces which blankets the high walls. The more than 500 pictures are of musicians who have appeared in the Choral Union Series during the course of Sink's presidency. Starts in 1927 The collection is Sink's hobby and was begun in 1927. He asks each artist who appears here for an autographed picture. Gazing down from their small black frames are many well known per- sonalities. Sink pointed them out as he walked around the room. Enrico Caruso, Galli-Curci, Yehudi Men- , uhin, Chaliapin, Rachmaninoff, Geraldine Ferrar, Mary Garden, Kirsten Flagstad, Lily Pons, Fritz Kreisler, John McCormick, Mar- ion Anderson, and on and on and on. When he came to a picture of Paderewski, he admonished smil- ingly, "Don't say Paderooski". Brecht Play Ends T Oday The final performance of "The Good Woman of Setzuan" by Bert- olt Brecht will be presented at 8 p.m. today in the Lydia Mendels- sohn Theater. St in a Chinese town, the play is a parable of good and evil forces in society. In the play, Brecht attempts to achieve an "alienation effect" by allowing the actors to talk with the audience. The interruption of the specta- tor's identification with the char- acters, Brecht believes, permits the viewer to see the didactic play ob- jectively. Tickets for the performance may' be obtained at Lydia Mendelssohn box office until 8 p.m. When asked if any troubles ever arose in bringing artists to Ann Arbor, he replied "very rarely". Careful planning precedes each engagement. It's comparable to an architect building a house he said. Just as a blue print is drawn up complete in every detail be- fore the building is begun, so the fine points for every concert are worked out from the first. How To Get Artists What does the job of securing concert artists entail? To begin with, it takes time, even as much as three years in advance, to line up a concert. It takes 'erserver- ance and Sink has made several trips to New York to secure one artist. It requires tact, although con- trary to popular opinion, the majority of "guests" are not tem- peramental and difficult to get along with. In fact, Sink prefers to work with the big artists, "The bigger the better; the small ones+ are apt to be impressed with themselves", he says. It takes a belief in the old ad- age, "Nothing is impossible." En- rico Caruso made four concerts outside the Metropolitan Opera.+ This occured in 1917, and one of+ them took place in Ann Arbor.; The London Philharmonia which has never performed in the United States before, appeared here re- cently. Supplement Work It finally requires a love and, appreciation of fine music and a, sincere desire for others to enjoy it. "We try to supplement the work of the students in class room1 studies by hearing great artists perform the best music. We never knowingly stoop to mediocdity," Sink said. He is assisted in his task by aa board of directors who are ap- pointed to their positions because of their musical knowledge. They arrange the program and secure the artists.E The success of these concerts1 and Sink's work can be measured,1 not only by the audiences that fillc Hill Auditorium concert after con- cert, but also by other more far reaching effects. He receives in- numerable letters from former students who wish to begin a con- cert program in their own home town. From this Sink derives perhaps his greatest satisfaction as he feels that this is furthering music education for the whole country. Big Ten Tall Starts Today At Lansing Finances and financing student organizations will be topics of dis- cussion at a President's Council meeting of the Big Ten Student Association today and tomorrow. Meeting at Michigan State Uni- versity, the council, made up of members of student governments of the Big Ten schools, will also consider student participation in athletic policy-making. Members will consider the pos- sibility of the council's taking part in athletic policy-making on the conference level. Council plans to evaluate the operation of the Central Head- quarters, which is located at Mi- chigan State University. The group will receive recommenda- tions from the Administrative Board concerning changes in the association's constitution. Barbara Gibbs, chairman of the President's Council, will preside over the meetings. Also on the agenda for discussion is govern- ment sponsored student services. Arrangements for the confer- ence have been made by the Cen- tral Headquarters under the direc- tion of Roger Augustine, director of the Administrative Board. The Winner! WINNIPEG ({P-Carl Ramjit, a sophomore from Trinidad studying engineering at the University of Manitoba, drank 65 fellow students under the table to win a 12-hour beer drinking marathon. He downed 64 glasses and got an engraved beer mug. Upon recovering he said: "I don't like the stuff but it was a good chance to win a stein." Committee Pl ans Student 'Conference "Does the Literary College Thwart Undergraduate Intellectu- al Curiosity?" This is the topic of theyLiterary College Steering Committee Con- ference to be held at the League at 7:30 p.m. Thursday. It is open to the public. "The particular value of the con- ference lies in the light thrown upon the problem area by the stu- dents themselves," Dave Levy, '55, chairman of the Steering Commit- tee, commented. "It is particularly important that sophomores and freshmen participate in the conference so that a cross-section of student opinion will be achieved," he con- tinued. The conference will be conduct- ed first as a panel discussion in which two faculty members and two students will participate. Af- terwards an open forum will be held. Engineers Plan Industry Debate Sigma Rho Tau, national hon- orary engineering speaking society, will hold an Intercollegiate debate at 2:00 p.m. tomorrow in the Blue Room of the League. Staff Faces Obstacles Printing Time Schedules By CAROL PRINS When a University student is heard complaining. "How did I end up in 4902 Natural Science for an English I course," he may be assured it didn't happen by chance. It is all a part of the organized efficiency emenating from a small room on the basement floor of Angell Hall known as the Literary College Office Service. Mrs. Jose- phine Hoffman, superintendent of Office Service' is in charge of pre- paring the time schedules which are issued each semester by the Literary College. These little booklets, which lead confused students through a maze of subjects ranging from Anthro- pology to Zoology are a product of much work by Mrs. Hoffman and her staff. Schedule Classes At the present time, work is be- ing completed on the time sched- ule for the coming spring semes- ter. In scheduling classes, the var- ious departments of the Literary College rely on the former year's schedule. Very often in classes above the elementary level, the courses are taught by the profes- sors at the same time and in the same room from year to year. When a department adds classes to the schedule with the number of rooms which they need at each hour and each day are submitted to Mrs. Hoffman. She assigns special rooms to classes which require extra equip- ment. History classes are assigned to rooms with maps. Mathemat- ics classes axe scheduled in rooms equipped with -large blackboard space. Speech classes are assigned to rooms equipped with a stage. Transfer Classes Very often, departments such as History, German, English and Great Books exceed the number of rooms assigned to them. When this happens, Mrs. Hoffman trans- fers the class to one of the other nine campus buildings. This is why a bewildered fresh- man may find himself in Tappan Hall for a History course or in the Romance Language Building for English I. Mrs. Hoffman pointed out that increased enrollment somewhat af- fected the shortage of classrooms. "Primarily it's a question of every- one wanting to take morning classes, except at eight o'clock," she said. In attempting to remedy this situation, more late afternoon classes and Saturday classes will be scheduled in order to utilize classroom space. After the conflicts with special room assignments and overcrowd- ed classrooms are settled, the en- tire schedule is sent to the Uni- versity Press where the final pro- duct is prepared for the perusal of bewildered University students. ~_I, College Roundup I By TED FRIEDMAN A ban on the sale of beer may be introduced at the University of Wisconsin. The Madison City Council is considering a bill to petition the university's board of regents to prohibit beer sales on campus be- cause, according to Alderman Lawrence McCormick, it is "be- neath the dignity" of the Univer- sity of Wisconsin. University students gathered in the Wisconsin Union's "Rathskel- ler" hooted at the resolution based on the "rising wave of alcoholism." Beer sales at the Union are out- ranked by sales of coffee, milk, and soft-drinks. Riots at 'U' of Toronto Five students were injured in riots at a University of Toronto football game, according to the Toronto "Varsity." Despite warnings from the uni- versity's president and the Stu- dent's Administrative Council. "rowdyism returned to the inter- collegiate football scene with near- tragic results." One boy was tem- porarily blinded when he came in the path of a smoke bomb and a girl was knocked unconscious by a flying beer bottle. Wonderful things happen when you wear itl F U ii I OPPORTUNITY The telephone company offers unlimited opportunity to young women in jobs with human interest. Beginners can earn while they learn. Good pay from the start with regularly scheduled increases. Pleasant offices and friendly associates. Liberal ben- efits, vacations with pay and a chance to advance. New increased starting rates. For more information come to the MICHIGAN BELL TELEPHONE CO. 323 E. Washington St. Organization Notices Ii Congregational-Disciples Guild: Open House after football game, Guild House, 524 Thompson, today. * * * Engineering Council: Summary of Nov. 10 meeting: Committee reports were received; Levin will plan the first Newsletter published by the Council. Moriarty elected Vice-President, Baum- gartner elected Secretary-Treasurer. Motion to receive a one-man joint rep- resentative from SAE was tabled. Next meeting, Dec. 1, 7:15 p.m., Michigan Union, Rm. 3N; Elections for spring semester. s s * Graduate Outing Club: Nov. 13, 2:00 p.m., northwest entrance to the Rack- ham Building. Wear old clothes. * s * Hillel Foundation: Basic Judaism Class, Nov. 14, 8:00 p.m., Hillel. Recorded Music Night, Nov. 15, 8:00 p.m., all are invited, Hillel. 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