Friday, Feb. 16, 1962
University Daily Kansan
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Bach Aria Group's Concert Is Praised
Last night's performance by the renowned Bach Aria Group was lovingly and brilliantly served.
By Tom Winston
Almost 1,150 persons were in the University Theatre, watching the nine-member group perform arias and duets selected from the over 200 cantatas of Johann Sebastian Bach.
VISUALLY AND VOCALLY, the group, composed of Eileen Farrell, Jan Peerle, Carol Smith, Norman Farrow, Julius Baker, Robert Bloom, Bernard Greenhouse, Maurice Wilk and Paul Ulanowsky, performed very well.
M. Farrow's high point was "Ja, ja ich halte Jesum feste" (Yes, yes, I hold Jesus firmly) from Cantata 157. The aria has three recitatives and ritornello and a wide expressive range. The text is about death and the singer's joy in going to heaven.
Eileen Farrell, who was dressed in a black lace dress with a red background, had won the honest approval of the audience by the end of the second group of numbers. Particularly enjoyed by the audience was her rendition of the famous aria "My Heart Ever Faithful."
Jan Peerce, the tenor, who seemed to have trouble with the coloratura of his first aria, recovered completely in his second aria, "Ich traue seiner Gnaden," (I Trust His Grace).
To Bernard Greenhouse, the cellist, and Paul Ulanowsky, the pianist, fell the task of the continuo. Since the continuo is basic to all of the arias, these men had scarcely a measure to rest all evening. Mr. Greenhouse also did some brilliant obligato work in Miss Farrell's aria "My Heart Ever Faithful."
NORMAN FARROW, the bass, has a resonant voice. His duet with Miss Farrell, "Gott, du hast es wohl gefueteg" (God, Thou has it well disposed) from Cantata 63 was certainly a thing of beauty.
Julius Baker is considered to be one of the most brilliant flutists alive. His obbligato work to Mr. Peerce's aria "Jesus nimmt dit Sender an" (Jesus receives sinners) begins with rapid sixteenth notes. Then, in the middle, the notes turn to 32nd notes.
ROBERT BLOOM is also considered one of the most important players of the oboe now performing. He was solo oboist with the Philadelphia Orchestra under Leopold Stokowsky and with the NBC Symphony under Arturo Toscanini. His tone is warm and even throughout the range of his instrument.
The double stop work of Mauric
Bookstore Assistant Out of Hospital
Harold Ball, assistant manager of the Kansas Union Book Store, who was critically injured in a Turnpike auto accident Dec. 22, was released from Bethany Hospital in Kansas City, Mo., Monday.
James Stoner, manager of the bookstore said today that Mr. Ball is "still very weak.
Wilk, the violinist, sounded effortless and his dual work with Mr. Greenhouse's cello made the two instruments sound like one.
The climax of the evening was the "Birthday Cantata," which the group did in its entirety. The arias, no matter how effective they are separately, gain in interest and stature when heard in context. All members of the group performed in this work. The audience appropriately showed their appreciation.
The first half of the program was slow getting started. Mr. Peerce had trouble with the coloratura of his first aria. I suspect Miss Farrell did too. Mr. Farrow was not in best form at the beginning, either.
A FEW POINTS should be mentioned. However, The opening number for the group was not well balanced and it failed to jell. Each of the singers might as well have been singing a different piece.
UNITED NATIONS, N.Y. — (UPI)
—Diplomats today regarded the rejection of Cuba's Communist-backed "aggression" charges against the United States as a major U.N. setback for Soviet prestige.
Cuba Handed U.N. Setback
Miss Smith's two arias, one from the Mass in F and one from Cantata 94 were lovely, and Mr. Baker's playing was breathtaking, but not until Miss Farrell's "My Heart Ever Faithful" did she or the evening settle down to the proper pitch. She sang the rest of the evening exquisitely.
Only Cuba and the 10-nation Soviet Bloc voted for the measure when the General Assembly's main political committee rejected by a 50-11 vote, with 39 abstentions, a Communist resolution calling on the United States to end its "interference" with Fidel Castro's regime.
SINCE THE START of debate on the charges 10 days ago, and even before that, Cuba and the Soviet Bloc powers had lobbied the largely neutralist Afro-Asian group intensively, seeking sponsorship for a mild resolution that would give some credence to Castro's charges.
But when the vote came, most of the powerful, 51-nation Afro-Asian group adopted a hands-off policy on what the Latin Americans had insisted was a hemispheric dispute and abstained. Eight members of the group-Cyprus, Malaya, Iran, Japan, Madagascar, Pakistan, Thailand and Turkey—voted against the resolution.
The key 50-11 vote rejected the resolution's major provision, which was an "urgent appeal to the government of the United States of America to put an end to the interference in the internal affairs of the Republic of Cuba and to all the actions directed against the territorial integrity and political independence of Cuba."
Official Bulletin
KU Exchange Program: England-
France-Germany-Switzerland, 1962-63.
Application forms and information, 306
Fraser. Deadline for Applications, Feb. 20.
Catholic Daily Mass: 7 a.m. & 12:05 p.m. St. Lawrence Chapel, 1910 Stratford
Confessions: Weekdays, 7 a.m. (during Mass) & 11:45 to 12 noon. Saturdays, 4-5 p.m. and 7-8 p.m. St. Lawrence Chapel, 1910 Stratford Road.
TODAY
TEACHER INTERVIEWS:
Tarry  - Harvard McArthur, Dir. of
Feb. 19 and 20 — Eugene Garner.
Personnel Director (El. & Sec.). Denver.
Curric. 61, EL.
School District, Kansas City, Mo.
No Baptist Student Union Meeting this evening.
evening
Hillel Services: 7:30 p.m., Jewish Com-
Inter-Varsity Christian Fellowship:
7:30 p.m. Cottonwood Row Boots Uni-
niversity
International Club: After film in Hoeh, Jayhawk Room, Kansas Union. Scottish dances, followed by cold cider and dancing.
Episcopal Evening Prayer: 9:30 p.m.
Danforth Chapel.
TOMORROW
The United States Peace Corps examination will be today at 8:30 a.m. in the
downtown Lawrence post office. Interested students who plan to graduate in June or who are now graduate level students may take the examination. Questionnaires to the Corps in Washingtobuckton can be submitted prior to taking the exam.
Catholic Mass: 9 & 11 a.m., Fraser Hall,
(Newman Club).
Westminster Center Faith & Life Seminary,
1204 Oread. Bible study center.
French Ph.D. Reading Exam: 9-11 a.m.
Feb. 17. Fraser 11.
Westminster Center Morning Worship:
Great Sacrament of the Lord's Supper.
Sacrament of the Lord's Supper.
Jewish Community Center Supper and Lecture; 5 p.m. Jewish Community Center, 917 Highland Dr. "Synagogue Archi-
christian Colonial Time," Gerald Bernstein.
SUNDAY
CHICAGO — (UFI) — A decision on possible clinical test of the controversial cancer drug, Krebiozen, will be delayed pending receipt of further data, Federal Judge Julius Miner said yesterday.
Westminster Center Sunday Evening Fellowship; 5:15 p.m., Westminster Center, 1204 Oread. Panel discussion on H. Lynn Johndahl's "A Call to Folly."
MONDAY
Westminster Center Kolumbia: 8 p.m.
Chapel Meeting: 10:30 a.m. Danforth Chapel.
Miner, presiding judge at a $300,-300 libel suit brought by Dr. Andrew C. Ivy, the drug's sponsor, said it may take a year or longer to settle the 11-year-old battle over merits of the drug.
Episcopal Holy Communion & Lunch:
12 noon, Canterbury House.
Judge Holds Decision On Cancer Drug Case
University Lecture: 4 p.m., Lecture Proof, Victor Lange, Princeton University. Prof., Victor Lange, Princeton University.
The jurist said he received a letter from Dr. Kenneth M. Endicott, director of the National Cancer Institute, which said the institute will
require more information from Ivy, former head of the University of Illinois professional schools, and Dr. Stevan Durovic, discoverer of the drug, which is derived from horse serum.
Ivy lost his job in the controversy over Krebiozen.
Ivy and Durovic have maintained the drug has proven successful in curing cancer. Others in the medical field have described it as worthless.
The seeds of our punishment are sown at the same time we commit the sin.—Hesiod
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Calvert Earns $200 In Design Contest
Walter L. Calvert, Jr., graduate student in architecture at KU, has won a $200 prize in competition sponsored by the Reynolds Aluminum Corporation. The prize was given for the best original design submitted by a KU student for a building component made of aluminum.
Calvert's entry will be considered in the $5,000 Reynolds competition involving other universities conducted by the American Institute of Architects.
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YAF Deplores Evasion of Issue, Asks Responsible Discussion
Believing that conservatism embodies the basic principles upon which this country was founded and that in it is the hope for the future, the University of Kansas Young Americans for Freedom was formed to enable united action to further conservative ideals, primary among which is a belief in the right of the individual to pattern his own existence.
The superior academic position of the professor to the student lends greater credulence to his views, and it has been our experience that professors frequently express personal views in class. For example we have heard professors express personal opinions that greater federal aid to education is desirable, free enterprise is impossible and that YAF members are "economic morons." Without challenging the intellectual integrity of these views or their holders, we note that learned dissenters exist. Obvious examples are Senator John Tower, until elected, a professor of political science; Professor Ludwig Von Mises, economist, now a guest lecturer at New York University and author of "The Anti-Capitalist Mentality" and "Human Action"; Herrell De Graff, professor of economics, Cornell University; Henry Hazlitt, contributing editor of Newsweek; Friedrich Hayek, Dr. Jur., Dr. Sc. Pol., D. Sc., author of "The Road to Serfdom," and Clarence Manion, dean emeritus of the College of Law, Notre Dame University. Therefore, we believe that, to give an equal presentation of responsible positions, conservative and liberal, faculty opinion should include both.
Secondly, we believe that endorsement of a political philosophy presupposes certain basic assumptions about the nature of man which preclude, by one committed to teaching what he thinks right, an adequate presentation of the opposite side. For example, a KU economics professor, after an elaborate discussion of the operation of a free market, dismissed it as an impossibility because, he said, monopolies would "inevitably" arise and require government intervention, which would raise a demand for more government intervention and "inevitably" result in state capitalism. The aforementioned scholars would also take vigorous objection to this reasoning, as do we. For this reason, also, we believe that faculty representation of both conservative and liberal views is necessary.
Therefore, the Poll
Since it has been asserted that the desired situation (representation of both conservative and liberal opinions) does not exist at KU, the University of Kansas Young Americans for Freedom voted to ask the opinion of the faculty members on several issues on which there is a generally recognized conservative and liberal position in order to verify or disprove the assertion. The plan was to tabulate the number of each answer to each question and present the result for public inspection along with individual comments by those faculty members expressing a willingness to be quoted. The questions to be asked were: Do you advocate federal aid to education? do you advocate more, same, less or no government intervention in agriculture? do you favor a strict or liberal interpretation of the Constitution? and do you think the federal government should deal more directly with city and county governments?
Plans for the poll have been dropped, regrettfully, because of the refusal of faculty members questioned to answer, because, they maintained: (1) faculty members do not express personal opinions in class, (2) political leanings do not inhibit a professor's ability to present all sides objectively, and (3) it doesn't matter if the two reasons are invalid because students don't listen to their professors anyway.
University of Kansas Young Americans for Freedom
We present this statement in the hope that it will bring a cessation of the many irresponsible and unsubstantiated attacks on KU-YAF and its leaders and will aid in fostering a mature discussion by those capable of engaging in intelligent debate rather than irrational vilification.