tl19660422-000 "STAT Volume XVIII, No. 20 R April 22, 1966 Music Conference Attended By Towson Delegates On Friday, March 18, four student members crf the Music Educator's National Conference left Friendship Airport for the Biennial Convention of the M.E.N.C. at Kansas City, Mis-souri. The delegates were Carolyn Dayton, Bill Sharkey, Dick Krebs and George Gonderman. rwo faculty members from the blusic Department, Mr. Charles A. Haslup and Mr. Clifford Alper also attended. The theme discussed at this Year's meeting was ""The Chang-ing Curriculum in Music Ed-ucation"". As many interesting sessions were scheduled for the same time, each delegate fol-lowed a pre-arranged program so that different conferences could be attended and the values of eaeh shared with the others. Notes were taken of the at-tended sessions by the delegates for their own information and that of the members at home. The sessions covered many Phases of education from con-temporary music, the bridging of the gap between that which (Continued on Page 6) � � Guest conductor William D. Revelli pauses to accept the applause of the audience. He conducted the Concert Band under the auspices of the Centennial Commission on April 3-4. Towson Concert Band Led By Noted Guest Conductor William D. Revelli, Conduc-tor of Bands at the University of Michigan, was guest conduc-tor at Towson on Sunday thru Monday, April 3-4. While at Towson State, Revelli held an open reher-sal of the Towson Concert Band on Sunday, April 3 at 7:30 p.m. in Stephens Hall Auditorium. The following evening he was guest con- Anand Mohan Visits Towson Campus As IRC Lecturer Anand Mohan, the United Na-tions correspondent of the Ma-dras Mail and a former Indian delegate to the United Nations, Spoke to the members of the International Relations Club on ""The United Nations and the Small Nations,"" April 4. Mohan began by con-sidering the role of the U.N. Ut solving past international crises. He emphasized the increasing role of the small nations in getting the U.N. to act in situations where big power deadlocks threa-tened to block action. During the question period, he emphasized the need for China's admittance to the U.N. as well as Taiwan's continued Presence there. He dealt with the essential point of whether tile U.N. can succeed in areas other than those in which the big powers are not greatly in-volved. He believed the U.N. could act in most situations, even some where the big powers Were involved. The crucial distinction to be made is to determine which situations the U.N. could solve that Would cause less contention. If the situations can be dealt with only when the big powers interests are involved, the U.N. may be able to work. If the prestige of the states is involved in such disputes, the U.N. is powerless. For reasons such as these, the U.N. could deal with the Congo and Cyprus but not Vietnam. The increasing role of the small nations may permit the U.N. to act more frequently when disputes are similar to the Congo in 1960. Mohan, in addition to his positions as mentioned above, has taught at New York University and Colum-bia. He is currently writing a book on Indira Gandhi. After speaking to IRC, Mohan planned to leave for India to complete work on this book. He will return to the U.S. before the summer. The next IRC program will consider ""Rhodesia and South Africa."" It will feature Dr. Ab-solom Vilakazi, Professor of African Studies, in. the School of International Service of A-merican University. He will speak at Towson in Science 340, Tuesdfiy, April 26, at 6:30 p.m. ductor of the Towson Band in a concert program in Stephens Hall Auditorium. In 1961, Revelli and the Uni-versity of Michigan Symphony Band, under the auspices of the U.S. Department of State, travelled to the Soviet Union, Egypt, Greece, Turkey, Jordan, Cyprus, Labanon, Rumania and Poland on a 15 week, 30,000 mile concert tour. In recognition of his dis-tinguished musical achieve-ments, he has been granted the honorary degree of Doc-tor of Music by the Chicago Musical College, the hono-rary Doctor of Law Degree by Oklahoma City University and the honorary Doctor of Public Service degree by Western State College. In 1961 he was awarded the University of Michigan Faculty Award for distinguished a-chievement. Revelli, who is a member of the Academic Music Panel for the Department of State, is founder and Honorary Life President of the College Band Director National Asso-ciation, past President of the American Bandmasters Asso-ciation., and first conductor to be elected to the Academy of Wind and Percussion Arts. Boycott At Bowie Brings Results BOWIE, Md. (CPS)�When students at Bowie State College boycotted their classes last week, they hoped to attract attention to their long-standing plea that the campus be fixed up. Even the most optimistic of the students must have been amazed at the swift results. Maryland State College officials announced an immediate in-vestigation, while saying that $15,000 would be granted at once to begin the repairs the students requested. Then, at week's end, Wil-liam H. Henry, the presi-dent of the college for nearly a quarter of a century, said he might not stay at Bowie until he reached retirement age in four years. This pleased the students since they charged that Henry is largely responsible for their troubles. Aside from what they view as the critical condition of campus facilities, students maintain that Henry is sup-pressing the academic freedom of both the faculty and the stu-dents. State College officials did not say what they would do about the charges that academic free-dom is suppressed at Bowie, but there were hints that this would be included in the scope of the investigation to begin soon. But while that investiga-tion is launched, repairs are already underway on the ""problem areas"" pointed out by students in their one-day class boycott. The complaints asserted that: �In Holmes Hall, a dormitory for about 120 males, only three showers work. The others have needed repairs for nearly a year. �In Tubman Hall, a girl's dormitory, most of the residents sleep on Army cots and several girls are scarred by burns re-ceived from uninsulated steam pipes that run through the cramped rooms. Epsilon Alpha Chapter of Kappa Delta Pi recently initiated 18 new members and elected officers for 1966-67. The new President is Martha Bloodsworth (3rd from right, row I). �The campus has no nurse or doctor on full-time duty. The nurse works only during the day, and the doctor makes a two-hour visit to the school once a week. �Police protection is limited to one security guard and one night watchman. Several beat-ings have taken place on the campus in the past several months, most of them at night. Property destruction and petty vandalism from non-students from near-by Bowie is a con-stant problem, school officials. say. Comer S. Coppie, executive secretary of the Board of Trustees for Maryland's five state colleges, and the $15,000 will make the needed emer-gency repairs at the school and will be used to hire an-other campus guard. Some state officials suggest that the reason Henry delayed in requesting money to make (Continued on Page 6) Young Americans To Hold Forum On Education Topic for discussion: ""Do We Need a Public School Sys-tem?"" Or should the state offer a greater degree of choice in. education by subsidizing a stu-dent's education costs regard-less of whether the student chooses to educate himself in a public, private, or parochial institution? Can the ends for which we educate be more effic-iently accomplished under a free choice plan (like that ad-vocated by Dr. Milton Friedman of the University of Chicago) or do the best means of educa-ting society's youth lie in an expansion of our present pub-lic school system? Do our pre-sent public school systems offer any real freedom of choice to students? These are some of the ques-tions to be answered at the forum on education entitled ""Do We Need a Public School System?"" to be held on this Thursday, April 28, at 7:45 in S-220. This forum is being spon-sored by the Young Ameri-cans for Freedom in order to present answers to the questions put forth above, and to generate comments and questions from any in-terested members of the (Continued on Page 6) "
