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Page Two THE SKYSCRAPER Oct. 17,1962 United Nations Fulfills Role Under America's Critical Eye Few travellers to New York City miss touring the fantastic glass house on the East River. Architecturally, the U.N. is an impressive building. But is what goes on politi cally and internationally behind the nickel doors of the General Assembly Auditorium equally impressive? Which way United Nations? This is a pivotal question along with the controversy over the election of a new Secretary General and the heavy 138,000,000 deficit confronting the 108 national representatives at the 17th General Assembly currently in session. United States criticism of the peace-making and maintaining organization has rallied between two extremes during the last five years. Ultra-nationalists have looked with a cold eye on policies of the world organization. In 1957, a high-pressure statesman declared that school children were being taught that the United Nations was more important than America. He aptly summarized the nationalists' views: Americans: We are beating a retreat from the bold, aggressive, fearless national policy that has made and kept us great. Moderates State View The die-hard moderates line up at the opposite end of the spectrum believing that no nation or bloc of nations can revive an organization founded on the ideal of a broad base of international consent. And that consent, as well as the cost to back it up, is becoming increasingly hard to find. Between the dissenting extremes, however, tread the hopefuls who are re-evaluating the nature, function and end of the UN in a changing world community rather than holding it to the terms of its 1945 cradle charter. NATURE: The UN has basically a third- man theme in its construction. Its peace pipe tactics differ according to types of dispute; conflicts involving uncooperative neighbor nations frequently require no more than a caucus; hostilities arising from Com munist insurrection or subversion or from colonialism and its aftermath, however, ne cessitate the camouflage and guerilla tactics in use on the Viet Nam front. There is a difference, though, between the UN and a police force or military attachment: theo retically, at least, UN soldiers carry rifles but have no enemies. Success Overshadows Faults FUNCTION: The successes of the third-man organization outweigh the failures. For 14 years a team of truce supervisors has been active in the Middle East: in Korea the UN machinery is still parked on the armistice line negotiated nine years ago. Despite the recent chaos in West New Guinea the UN moderators pursue a course of intervention between Indoneasian parachuters and the Dutch Patrol. Walter Lippman has called the UN program in the Congo the world's most sophisticated example of international cooperation. Mission: Congo involves 17,000 soldiers and 420 civilian advisors in a two-point plan of halting civil war and assisting in the construction of an African economy based on more than grass roots. Small Nations Pose Problem The function and plight of the small nation in the UN, including these new African states, is one of the ticklish topics before the General Assembly right now. If, ZJne hudcraoer Vol. XXXIII Oct. 17, 1962 No. 2 All-American All-Catholic The Skyscraper is published semimonthly, October to May inclusive, except durinK vacations and semes ter examinations by the students of Mundelein College. K363 Sheridan Rd.. ChicaRO 26. III. Subscription rate is 2 per year. Entered as second-class matter Nov. 30. 1932. at the U.S. Post Office. ChicaKO. 111., under the act of March 3. 1897. The Skyscraper is a member of the Associated Collegiate Press and the Catholic School Press As sociation. Editor in Chief Mary Jo Murray Managing Editor Barbara Brzezinski News Editor Mary Etta Talarico Assistant Maureen Racine Editorial Editors Pat Krochmal, Dianne Arturi Feature Editor Janice Jearas Layout Editor Eileen Schaefer Photo Editors Rae Paul, Elynore Deutsch Columnist Carlotta Serritella Artist Diane Mazza Staff Assistants Kathleen Sweeney, Mollie Palen, Pat Porwicz, Dorothy Car ton, Pat Collins, Joanne Infantino, Louise Nunziato, Sheila Smith, Charlaine No- votny, Judy Kiolbassa, Elaine Casello, Maureen Quane, Carol Jankowski through an amendment, voting ceases to be on a one-to-one equality basis, the power of the small nation will be considerably dimin ished. Delegates from major powers regard with disdain the voting privilege entrusted to the one-horse nations forgetting that the small nation occupies a key position to bridging the gap between extremists in UN voting, the Communists and Western liberals. END: If the United Nations were to fold up today on the head of negotiation failures with the Soviet bloc, a new movement toward an international organization would be astir before breakfast tomorrow. The white- gloved diplomacy of Churchill's day is ob solescent today. The warfare stakes are too high to rest on the good judgment and consciences of individual heads of state alone. But without including the Commu nist forces, huge portions of Asia, Africa and Latin America would exclude themselves in fear of taking sides ; we would be left with little more than a simple alliance in capable of assuring world order. UN Has No Choice There is no alternative for the United Nations today. While its present scope and power exceed the margins of its 1945 blue print its position as thii'd man is essential to the securing and maintaining of global balance. The American criticism that the UN has a desultory finger in too many pies is not without grounds. It is equally true, how ever, that the alternative policy of non-in volvement went out with high button shoes. (And speaking of shoes, Khrushchev's sole- pounding tactics two years ago at the Gen eral Assembly point up a relevant fact. The idea of a troika Secretariat met rejection but Mr. K. achieved his purpose. The Soviet goal is not necessarily a Soviet UN but it would be a tidy acquisition as a Soviet serv ice station ... ) Clearly, involvement for the sake of peace and world order is the only preventive to the moment-to-moment possibility of nuclear warfare. As an international organization, the UN is undergoing change. Why not allow it the philosophical privilege of completing its accidental changes without snatching from beneath, its substantial form as a peace organization. Skyscraper Sounding Board Editor: It seems when violence erupts out of the slime and ooze of prejudice and bigotry, only then do citizens take a close look at who's at fault. In short, it takes a national tragedy to shake people from their ivory towers. The happenings in Oxford, Miss., is that national tragedy, shame and lesion. The citizens of Oxford, the students of Ole Miss are only a part of a team who keep the seeds of hatred, ignorance and lawless ness firmly rooted in our society. This demolition team of racial inequality is well organized. Its gnarled roots spread to the east, west, south and north of our country. The big northern city, the elite suburb, the backward southern town are all guilty of harboring this criminal team from justice. As college students we are equally guilty if not more so. We have within the walls of our little worlds all the tools necessary to wipe out every trace of ignorance, hatred and lawlessness. The ultimate annihilation of these vices depends on whether these tools are realized and used. What tools? Un derstanding of other worlds and peoples, trusting in a faith true not only to one God but to ourselves, maintaining honest concern for mankind present and future, and making (and keeping) resolutions to im prove not only self but the other person as well. These are just parts of the whole of education. We as students are here in our college communities to attain a complete education- Have we and are we failing? Have we wasted precious time regressing instead of progressing? Have we been on a four-year lark? Looking at the senseless, juvenile, medieval behavior of the Ole Miss riot mobs and the silent, apathetic, shrug-it-off unconcern of some of their northern peers, it would seem so. Sheila Smith Folk Series Spotlights Americana in Chicago by Elaine Casello OPERA La Boehme, Lyric Opera, Oct. 17-27. Tosca, Lyric Opera, Oct. 26. MUSIC L'Orchestre National Francais, Orchestra Hall, 3:30 p.m., Oct. 21. CINEMA The Longest Day, Roosevelt Theater. Almost Angels, Walt Disney, Woods Theater. ART The Art of Benin, Nigerian Art, Natural History Museum, Oct. 19. THEATER The Sound of Music, Shubert, final perform ance, Nov. 10. Mary, Mary, Blackstone, matinee 2, evening 8:30. SPECIAL Henry Youngman, The College Inn of the Sherman House, Oct. 2-29. Miriam Makeba, Orchestra Hall Folk Series, Oct. 19. Peter, Paul and Mary, Orchestra Hall Folk Series, Nov. 2. Graduate Study Unlocks Door to Opportunity Opportunity. Education. Two important words to some peo ple, meaningful to others because they express a hope, a desire, a dream, en lightenment, accomplishment and ful fillment. To Mundelein students, from fresh men to seniors, opportunity and edu cation are the elements molded into the key that unlocks America's future. Graduate study is that key. The vocational opportunities that lie in the test tube, the text book and the paint jar are unlimited for the Mundelein students who possess the secret formula. First they must follow an orderly curriculum, engage in diligent study and mature mentally, emotionally and spiritually. They must possess a spirit of de termination. They must know the scholarships and fellowships available to them and the deadline dates for application. Above all, they must join the revo lution in Catholic education. At the recent Honors Convocation, Dr. Norbert J. Hruby, vice president of Mundelein College, stated that out of 775 scholarships offered by the National Science Foundation in 1956 only 17 went to Catholic institutions. In 1957 the number was 19 out of 845. Catholic schools also received only 19 of 1,670 awards from the Rhodes Scholarship fund. This gap would disappear if under graduates would take advantage of Woodrow Wilson Fellowships, the National Science Foundation Fellow ships, the Rhodes Scholarship Trust, Fulbright Scholarships and other funds designed to aid the promising student. More than 60,000 master's degrees and 10,000 Ph.D.'s are awarded in the United States each year. The educational opportunities which lead to these degrees are as multitudinous as the stars. How many Mundelein graduates will join the Catholic intellectual revo lution by scanning the cultural hori zon and snatching one golden star? Eileen Schaefer
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