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Miss Claudette Sorel To Perform Tonight
Claudette Sorel, a 20-year-old pianist already in her ninth year on the concert stage, will be featured in the annual Young American Artist program at 8 p.m. today in Strong auditorium.
Miss Sorel's recital will be the fourth event in the University Music festival, sponsored by the School of Fine Arts in connection with National Music week. The performance will be open to the public without admission charge.
The Young American Artist program has been an annual feature of spring music festivals at the University for nearly 20 years. The program was instituted as a means of recognizing and aiding young artists of great ability and potential, according to Prof. D. M. Swarthout, who was dean of the Fine Arts school when the series was conceived.
Miss Sorel made her professional debut at the age of 11 in New York's Town hall, and won the New York Philharmonic's Young People's Concert award the following year, appearing as a guest soloist with that orchestra in Carnegie hall.
When Miss Sorel completed her studies at the Juliilli School of Music at 15, she not only was the youngest graduate in the school's history but she won its two top awards as well. She has studied abroad under a Fulbright grant, and was the winner of the National Federation of Women's Clubs Young Artists award.
Although Miss Sorel has appeared as a guest soloist with the NBC and Boston Symphony orchestras the Philadelphia orchestra under Eugene Ormandy, and the New York Philharmonic, she is touring the country from coast to coast in recital for the first time. Featured on her program will be the Chopin "Sonata in B Flat Minor," Beethoven's "Sonata," Op. 10, No. 2," the Kabalewsy "Sonatina," and "Festivals" by the American composer. Raul Nordoff.
Among the performers in the young American Artist series in past years have been Mimi Benzell, a soprano now with the Metropolitan opera; Carol Glenn, one of the foremost woman violinists in America, and Sidney Foster, pianist.
Cheerleaders Picked for '55
Nine student cheerleaders were chosen as next year's yell leaders in tryouts in the Student Union Monday night.
Those chosen were John Irby Hughes, Alice Wiley, and Betty Lou Watson, college sophomores; Stephen Barling Jr., education junior; Frances Henningson, education junior; Phillip Stiles and Ruth Taggart, college freshmen, and Tom Root, engineering sophomore.
Three returnees are among the new cheerleaders. They are Barling, Miss Watson, and Stiles. Six alternates were chosen from among the 60 students competing. They are Dan Barron, business junior; Jim Bickley, Dick Meyers, Pamela Barron, Judy Tiderman, and Jan Miller, college freshmen.
The Kansan Erred Twice; We're Sorry
An error in a caption under a Page 1 picture appearing in Monday's Daily Kansan used the word "Indian" in two places where "Indonesian" should have been used. Properly worded, the caption should have read:
"Ranen Sinha, foreign student from Calcutta, India, tries an Indonesian mask on Elaine Arnold .. while Raden Ismaoen of Indonesia tries an American cigaret in a solid ivory cigarette in front of the Indonesian display booth at the Foreign Students' carnival Saturday night.
The Interior Design club will have its annual spring banquet tomorrow instead of the Industrial Design club as announced in yesterday's Kansan.
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Ike Proposes Southeast Asia Military Alliance
The annual all-day picnic of the School of Business, sponsored by the Business School association, is being held today on the intramural fields.
Washington—(U.P.)—President Eisenhower emphasized in a formal statement at his news conference today that there is a "general sense of urgency" to fashion a Southeastern Asian alliance because it "could have an important bearing upon what happens at Geneva during the Indochina phase of the conference."
Business School Picnic Underway
The President said that countries in the area were thinking in constructive terms, "which include the indispensable concept of collective security."
Wednesday, May 5, 1954
The event began at 10 a.m. when four teams, the accounting department, general business, finance and marketing, and industrial management and personnel, complete in softball.
"Progress in this matter has been considerable and I am convinced that further progress will be continued to be made," the President declared.
The President said that the existing Western Hemisphere defense agreement, the North Atlantic Treaty agreement and defense agreements in the Pacific were created to assure the peaceful security of member nations. He said they were "to prevent likelihood of attack; they are not arrangements designed primarily for waging war."
At noon a luncheon was held near Robinson annex after which Jack Heysinger, assistant dean of the school of business, made awards to the graduating seniors.
This afternoon championship and consolation games in softball were scheduled to be played as was a basketball game between the two honorary business fraternities, Alpha Kappa Psi and Delta Sigma Pi.
About 200 students and faculty members were expected to attend the event.
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LAWRENCE, KANSAS
51st Year, No. 139
Election Begins As Scheduled But Student Interest Falls
ONCE AGAIN—Two students are pictured here casting their ballots in the student election rerun held today. The first election of April 20 was held invalid and cancelled.
Donnalea Steeples, college senior recently received the Beulah Morrison award, given annually to the outstanding undergraduate majoring in psychology.
Far East Program Set for Tonight
A symposium on the Far East will be presented at 7:30 p.m. today in the Jayhawk room of the Student Union by the International Relations group of the YMCA.
Miss Steeple is vice president of the Psychology club and a member of Phi Beta Kappa. She plans to enter the University of Kansas School of Medicine next fall.
The one and one-half hour program of the symposium will include a speech on Indochina by Dinh Ang Dang, special engineering student from Saigon, Vietnam; a speech on Indonesia by Raden Imaoen, graduate student from KintelanGaru-Semarang, Indonesia; and speeches on Malay and Switzerland by Shin Kiong Chew, special college student from Singapore, Malaya, and Rene Bollier, Zurich, Switzerland.
Miss Steeples Wins Psychology Award
A moving aria from Gian-Carlo Menotti's modern opera, "The Medium," highlighted the performance of Claramae Turner, distinguished contraltor of the Metropolitan Opera company, yesterday in Hoch auditorium. Miss Turner's recital was the last offering of the year in the University Concert course.
Miss Turner, who created the title role of Madame Flora in "The Medium," sang the composition from that opera with great force and depth of feeling. However, she seemed equally at home when her selections required tenderness or a light, deft humor.
Soloist Shows Depth, Feeling
There was variety in large measure in Miss Turner's program. Although her serious numbers were well-received, she seemed particularly successful with the brief, light selections which abounded in the program.
By R. H. CHESKY
Home Economics club members will vote for next year's officers in the home economics office, 104 Fraser today and tomorrow.
Home Ec Club to Vote
The All Student council runoff election began this morning. Action by the Student court and statements by POGO candidates party yesterday clarified controversies, but slow balloting this morning indicated lack of student interest in the second election. Polls will close at 6 p.m.
The POGO candidates for president and vice president of the All Student Council yesterday protested that the reasons given for their withdrawal from today's election were "absurd."
At a meeting of the Student court last night, the court justices ruled on invalidation of the April 20 election. Chief Justice Kent Shearer, third year law, said, "It was the consensus of the majority of the court that the court had no jurisdiction to interfere in political matters."
A Daily Kansan story yesterday said Fred Rice, college junior and POGO presidential candidate, was withdrawing from the race because of his health. The story also said Nathan Harris, college junior backed by POGO for the vice presidency, was dropping out of the election because of the expense involved.
According to Stan Hamilton, journalism junior, and Tom Shannon, journalism senior, two of the Kansas's managing editors, they printed the statement about Rice and Harris on information from Farrel Schel, engineering senior, a member of POGO party.
Rice, speaking for both himself and Harris, said they were ignoring today's election because to allow their names to be on the ballot in second election, he said, "would be considered by us an admission on our part that the first election wasn't valid."
Rice also condemned the "rail-reading" of the new election movement "by the packed ASC and its election committee—which committee is supposed to be composed of equal numbers from each party, but which is now 4-2 in favor of the other party."
Harris added to Rice's remarks.
"The idea of my quitting because of the additional expense is absurd." he said, "because the expense is already over." (There is an ASC constitutional section which limits the amount any party can spend in any semester).
KDGU to Hold Open House at 7 p.m. Today
THERE'S GOOD NEWS—Pictured here are Janis Johanson, college freshman and Judith Ferrell, graduate student, broadcasting from the facilities of KDGU, the campus radio station.
An open house at radio station KDGU from 7 to 9 p.m. today will mark the completion of nearly nine months of broadcasting for the campus radio station.
The station will do its regular programming while visitors tour the studios and equipment located in the second floor of the Journalism building.
KDGU signed on the air last September 13, broadcasting at a frequency of 630 kilocyles. A member of the Intercollegiate Broadcasting system, the station is a closed circuit, wired-wireless AM unit and broadcasts from 6:30 to 11 p.m. Monday through Friday.
Last fall KDGU began operation with one transmitter, serving North College and Corbin halls. This semester another transmitter was installed, expanding the station's coverage to include Battenfeld and Templin. Plans call for more transmitters to be put into operation so that eventually most of the organized houses will be able to listen.
Student managed and operated the station is designed to train students in the operation of com-
merical radio. KDGU is a model radio station, set up as a training ground both in announcing and engineering, and in the "behind-the-scenes" work of advertising and sales, and continuity and news writing. Members of the staff come not only from the radio curriculum but from many other schools in the University.
Don Dixon, radio curriculum director and associate professor of journalism and of speech and drama, supervises the work of the students. Gene Reynolds, speech officer, is the station's faculty adviser.
The Lang-Worth record library, which includes about 5,000 recordings, gives the station an opportunity to program varied musical shows, ranging from classical selections to the newest jazz and popular favorites. Classical records by both RCA Victor and Capitol complete the record library.
Students who tune in to 630 on their radio dial also hear interviews with foreign students and KU faculty members as well as dramatic plays produced by students in the radio curriculum.