Page 2 --- University Daily Kansan Monday. March 17, 1958 ( ) Is The IFC Right? The Des Moines Tribune—The National Interfraternity Council put itself on record last week as favoring restrictive racial and religious practices among Greek letter fraternities. It voted to resist moves in many colleges and universities to bar such restrictions in fraternity by-laws and constitutions. The resolution passed last week in Colorado Springs points out that fraternities are "voluntary" organizations "entitled to exercise the fundamental American right to choose...members in accordance with (their) own standards." The trouble is that the national fraternity organizations, many of which are dominated by alumni and professional executive secretaries, are unwilling to allow local chapters freely to practice this "fundamental right." Time and again chapters are forced to choose between the national fraternity and their consciences when they pledge or initiate a member of a minority group. More often than not, they choose to withdraw from the national organization. The National Interfraternity Council should read the handwriting on the wall. What the fraternity officials forget—for all their talk about "fundamental rights"—is that college fraternities exist by the sufferance of, and under supervision of, the college or university where they are located. If colleges and universities decide that fraternities with discriminatory rules have no place on the campus, this is their right. Some might even say that it is their responsibility. The fraternities are ill-advised, it seems to us, to advertise their snobbishness and intolerance. - * * They had best follow the lead of a fraternity chapter at the University of Mississippi which, some years back, voted against the expulsion of a northern chapter which had initiated a Negro on the grounds that what the chapter did was its own business. States rights, said the Mississippi chapter, should be paramount. The Dallas Morning News-Rightly, the National Interfraternity (Greek letter) conference complains that more than 50 American colleges exclude social organizations that bar membership for color or other causes. Man is a gregarious animal, but like all flocks prefers to foregather with his own kind. He is entitled to his particular prejudices, right or wrong. It makes as much sense to hold that a Catholic club must admit Presbyterians or a Democratic club Republicans as to endeavor to eradicate by college fiat the likes and dislikes of a group. Colleges have sometimes inveighed against clubs and fraternities as violative of the spirit of democracy. But clubs exist in college and out and always will. Anyway, if this keeps up, the old-fashioned man who has been taught that his home is his castle is going to find that it is a public lodging house. . . Letters To The Editor Reply I would like to address this note in reply to Mr. Wolfgang Schonplug's remarks published in Friday's Daily Kansan. In the way of filling the holes in your letter, I would like to labor on the "points" you made. Thank you, Mr. Schonpflug, for your well-meaning criticism of my review on "The Saint of Bleeker Street." However, in the event that you should write future letters to the editor, may I caution you to first know a little of which you are writing. You say that you don't know how I can describe Virginia Cope兰's singing thusly: "She emphasizes her words, her voice and the orchestra at precisely the right times." True, Mr. Schonpflug, you don't know. You obviously don't know that in the previous sentence to the above quote, my review was discussing her bodily movements, not her singing. Both the editors and myself thought this was clear. You do not know anything about technical acting, either, of which Miss Copeland is quite proficient. Had you read any book on the subject say "The Technique of Acting" (Strickland), you would be aware that thespians (singers too) apply most bodily movements they make to the purpose of emphasizing or underscoring certain things they are doing on stage. By using their hands, posture or steps, they can even emphasize an orchestra. They do this to create an impression the audience will remember. Apparently, you don't remember. What were you doing, watching me take notes? In relation to Miss Copeland's singing, you should remember that I wrote, "Her voice was superb." Checking the dictionary, I found that sufficient. What do you want, more adjectives? Dr. Herbert Graf told a University audience the other day that opera is more than mere singing. He said there is a great deal of emphasis on acting. The acting was marvelous. That is what I was trying to convey in my critique, or do you still not agree? You said the phrase (which is LITTLE MAN ON CAMPUS By Dick Bibler really a sentence), "When she sang of God, her body went to heaven," was clumsy and did not do her marvelous play justice. Miss Copeland did not just stand there when she sang. Rather, her bodily expression joined her vocal expression to such a perfect degree that the character Annina actually was experiencing heaven. Furthermore, I believe that was exactly what she intended the audience to feel. Simple? For you, possibly not. The tone of your letter implies that you are under the impression my review panned the production. Mr. Schonpflug, if you will kindly question any member of the cast you will find, I am sure, that to all appearances, I praised he show. It just goes to show that some people are never satisfied. Really you should feel selfish. If you had given your extra tickets to another person, they might have gotten out of the performance what you apparently missed. 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