Music! Music! Music!

The denizens of Kirkland House will tonight get a chance to strike a blow for their own freedom. Acting in a misguided sense of the public interest, a group of their fellows has decided that recorded music, piped into the dining room, will brighten dinner hours and "be better for dates."

Last Friday and Saturday nights the instigators of this canned entertainment ran off a test. Heralding their enterprise as "a way of cutting down noisy conversation but not interfering with ordinary conversation," they installed a public adress system which alternately emitted Morton Gould and Andre Kostalanetz between 6:15 and 7:00 p.m.

Obviously this is a palpable injustice. The well-meaning protagonists of Messrs. Gould and Kostalanetz are abrogating what in recent months has become known as Freedom of Silence. This means simply that a "captive audience," a group which cannot flee or refuse to attend, damn well has a right to think or talk or remain silent as it wills. It does not have to consume the "Zampa Overture" with the mashed turnips. Kirkland House members will tonight be given an opportunity t defeat by petition this nefarious incursion on their rights. They should do so.