Students Sing for Nukes Ban White Others Protest Outside

Eight Harvard students joined professional vocalists in singing Bach's "Give Us Peace" to a sold-out Symphony Hall during last night's Musicians Against Nuclear Arms concert.

Meanwhile, 20 students of the Harvard Conservative club protested outside the concert carrying signs such as "Freeze New, Fry Later" and warning of the possible dangers of nuclear disarmament.

More than 200 musicians united in the fun draining concert to express through music their horror at threat of nuclear holocaust, organizer Katie Houlahan said yesterday.

The Symphony Hall program grossed over $100,000 to support efforts to freeze the development of nuclear weapons by the United States and the Soviet Union, the added.

Mark A. Sauter '82, an organizer of the protest and a Conservative Club member, said yesterday that a nuclear weapons freeze is ridiculous when the Soviets have more weapons than we do".

And Samuel Itkin, a Russian immigrant who joined the Conservative Club processes, said yesterday that the disarrangement movement would result in "a surrender to communism".

But Admiral Eugene R. LaRocque, who spoke during the concert, said that "anyone who appears this event must think there some views in fighting a nuclear war".

A Hiroshima survivor, Shigeko Sasamori, brought the 2000 spectators to their feet with a prayer for disarmament. The visions of Hindustan didn't die for nothing", she said. "They sacrificed us so no more mistake, no more Hindustans no more war".

Eart Kim, Ditson Professor of Music, helped organize last night's concerts, where his medley. " Now and Then, "was performed for only the second time.

Then a captain in the U.S. Air Force, Kim flew ever Nagasaki, Japan, the day after its destruction by an atomic bomb. Kim said that he finished the "Now and Then" songs the day before the bombing's anniversary last year, and was astounded by how powerfully they showed his feelings of loss upon seeing the utter desolation of Nagasaki.

The eight Harvard singers were members of the Harvard Radchik Collegiuum Musicum. A spokesman for the group said, "We are very happy to sing for a cause we believe in.