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Glee Club executives estimate they accept about 15 per cent of the nearly 200 men who audition for the group every September. "Based on the rating the conductor gives the people that are trying out, the executive committee provisionally accepts a certain number of people from this audition pool," Wheadon said. The club then conducts a series of rehearsals and holds quartet trials, where candidates sing with old club members. Based on the second rating by the conductor, the executive committee makes final decisions on the choral hopefuls...
...Finkel '79, Glee Club secretary, said. "We've personally tried hard to find everyone's reasons for dropping out... We're not in any trouble, though, and we're not hurting for people." Wheadon, however, said the number of dropouts this year is not excessive. "We generally accept a certain number of people keeping in mind that by spring tour we want to have a group of about 50," he explained...
...without feeling guilty about it." Dartmouth men, especially jocks and fraternity men-the latter also only 30% of the student population-frankly lament the change. "What's wrong with four years without women?" a fraternity boy asks. Just lately the faculty has stirred a certain amount of rage and despair in many a Big Green breast by urging the college to abolish its 22 fraternities on grounds that they are antithetical to academic progress, unhealthy for social conduct, as well as being noisy centers of alcoholic disruption and childish antics...
...United Nation's Security Council effort to devise a cease-fire formula. Western and Third World members lined up behind a proposed resolution calling for reciprocal withdrawal of both Vietnamese and Chinese troops. China indicated that it was in favor, but negotiations collapsed in the face of a certain Soviet veto. In the light of Vice Premier Teng's festive reception in the U.S., and Washington's tepid response to the Chinese invasion, the Soviet resentment of America's role in the crisis was superficially understandable, but not warranted by the facts. Moscow had been informed...
Edmund Burke cast an indignant eye across the English Channel at the French Revolution and wrote sarcastically: "Amidst assassination, massacre and confiscation, they are forming plans for the good order of future society." Burke was the prototype of skepticism about certain revolutions. Since the French Terror, history has paraded past too many Utopian dramas of transformation that ended by being as totalitarian, as murderous, as the regimes that they swept away-triumphs of hopeful zealotry over experience. Stalin turned the Russian Revolution into a self-devouring machine that crushed its own in the basement of the Lubyanka. Especially because...