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n J n Vol. XXXVII Mundelein College, Chicago 26, 111., Oct. 19, 1966 No. Skyscraper Staff Merits Press Association Honors For the second consecutive year The Skyscraper staff swept the Catholic School Press Association College writing awards. Six mem bers of the 1965-66 staff were cited for first honors or honorable men tion in the three categories of news writing, feature writing and edi torial writing. Co-editor Diane Cargol received first place in the news category for her story Students Vote Re tention of MSC (May 4, 1966) which outlined the results of the student body debate and vote on abolition of the student congress. Diane received an honorable men tion in last year's awards for her interview Mundy Charges Death Penalty Aims at Poor. Kathy Riley was awarded an honorable mention in the news category for Await Federal Aid in Inner City Project (March 16, 1966) detailing plans for Munde lein's Upward Bound project. In the editorial division, co-edi tor Jean Durall received first place for Absence of Openness Blocks Communication (Nov. 17, 1965) stressing the necessity for a greater degree of communication on campus. In last year's awards, Jean received an honorable men tion in feature writing for Di versity Keynotes Clergy's Views Concerning Death Sentence Eth ics. An honorable mention was also awarded to Margie Field '66 for her editorial Speak-Easy Relies on 'Community of Minds' (Dec. 1, 1965). This same editorial also received an honorable mention in the Lusk Creative Writing Awards announced at the spring honors convocation. Coverage of the Speak-Easy de bate on Viet Nam earned first place in feature writing for Brenda Din- neen and Nancy Vandenberg. Their joint article Viet Nam Strikes Diverse Reactions also appeared in the Nov. 17 issue of the Sky scraper. Nancy also received an honorable mention in news writing in last year's awards for Tradi tional Religious Liberty Keynotes Murrays' Lecture. The winners will be cited in the fall issue of the Catholic School Editor published in Milwaukee by the Catholic School Press Associa tion. Sister Sharon Rose, B.V.M., chairman of the journalism depart ment and Skyscraper moderator, also will receive a medal and cer tificate for distinguished work as the paper's adviser. The award will be presented at the National Catholic Educational Press Con gress at Marquette University, Nov. 12 in Milwaukee. The theme of the convention is Growth in the Church: Understanding Vatican II. MSC College Weekend Hosts Folk-Rock Duo The Mundelein All-College Week end sponsored by MSC will be held Nov. 5. The weekend will begin with an all-school mixer, Nov. 4 from 9-12 p.m. There will be two bands, Help Incorporated and Sir Boss and the Squires, one playing in Lewis Center and the other in McCormick Lounge. Following the mixer, there will be a bonfire on the Mundelein campus. Saturday will begin with a pa rade, with floats representing each of the four classes. It will be fol lowed by a Powder Puff football game between Mundelein and Loy ola coeds at Loyola Athletic Field, complete with first aid, stretcher crews and ambulance service. Sen ior Mary Barmes will coach the Mundelein team. The high point of the weekend will feature two performances by the folk-rock singers, Simon and Garfunkel. This urban-folk duo, who record for Columbia Records, has turned out what has been termed as a morality streaked and deeply poetic lyric and sound. Their recordings, all com posed by Paul Simon, include Sounds of Silence, Homeward Bound, I Am a Rock and their most-recent song Dangling Con versation. Paul Simon and Art Garfunkel met in the sixth grade, and began singing together non-professionally at age 14. The pair started their professional endeavors playing at various spots in Greenwich Village. Art Garfunkel is a graduate of Columbia University with a B.A. in English. Simon, the instrumental ist, is a guitarist. As a twosome they have traveled widely in con cert here and abroad. The concerts will be held Nov. 5, at 3 and 8 p.m. in the College Theater. Tickets, on sale now at the box office, are 3 for the Sat urday afternoon performance and 3.50 for the evening concert. Competition will be staged Forum Opens with fServant' POPULAR SINGING team, Simon and Garfunkel, will highlight the MSC All-College Weekend with two performances Nov. 5 in the College Theater. among the classes in ticket sales, with a trophy awarded to the win ner. This a 11-co liege homecoming weekend is under the chairmanship of Carol Ryan, MSC social chair man, and Mary Barmes and Diana Utz, delegates-at-large. Those wishing to volunteer for various committees may contact these girls. Disclose New Analysis Data Dr. N. Hruby In interpreting the results of a questionnaire administered last spring to 96 seniors and a random sample of freshmen, Dr. Norbert J. Hruby, vice president of the Col lege, concluded that the seniors in 1966 were critical of everything except themselves. They came to know themselves, which perhaps better enabled them to love their neighbors. They were more secular . . . less 'reli gious,' he said. These com ments were made by Dr. Hruby to the faculty Sept. 27. Students' complaints that they no longer wanted to be judged by the standards established for them by the 1963 Institutional Analysis prompted the additional study in May, 1966. The basic question of the Analy sis which confronted the College in 1962 was Does this College a Catholic, liberal arts College for women deserve to survive? In an effort to answer this ques tion, a student questionnaire con sisting of 541 multiple-choice items, was administered to the entire stu dent body in May, 1963. The 97 per cent who answered the ques tionnaire also were subjected to the Stern Activities Index, a standard ized instrument which samples per sonality traits. During that same month, a 305- item multiple-choice questionnaire was given the faculty as well as two-thirds of the items found on the student questionnaire. The 159-item alumnae question naire paralleled those of both the students and faculty, though it was less detailed. Alumnae husbands also responded to a questionnaire. Among other things, the analysis brought about the inauguration of the 3x3 system as well as a term- course credit system. Half of the courses now required for a degree are in the basic studies program to provide the students with a basic foundation of skills and discourse. The remaining courses required for a degree now are used for in-depth study in the program chosen by the student. On the recommendations initiated by the analysis, the Academic Board was created with three oper ating committees: the Committee on Liberal and Tutorial Studies, the Committee on Specialization and the Committee on Continuing Education. Seminar Seeks To Develop Appreciation of Film The Mundelein College Film Forum for 1966-67 will open with a British movie, The Servant, Oct. 25 in the College Theater. This series has been planned to interest young people in the cinema and to develop a Christian woman's appreciation, commented Sister Mary Irene Branchaud, B.V.M., chairman of the French department, promoter of the Film Forum and associate member of the National Cen ter for Film Study. The standards of American films have been low because of the lack of intelligent demand and the Film Forum will strive to make the audi ence know what type film it likes and to demand it in the future, accord ing to Sister Mary Irene. Mr. Henry Herx, who is the executive secretary of the National Center for Film Study, is the coordinator of the forum. Mr. Herx has lectured in Appreciation of the Cinema at DePaul University for four years and also is the author of the bi-weekly Catholic Film News letter. Father Ronald Holloway, the associate director of the National Cen ter for Film Study and director.of the Inter-faith Film Forum, will introduce The Servant and lead the discussion period that will follow. The Servant is a 1964 movie adaptation by Harold Pinter from a short story by Robin Maugham, directed by Joseph Losey, with Dirk Bogard, James Fox, Wendy Craig and Sarah Miles. As summarized by the New Yorker, The Servant portrays a young establishment weakling corrupted by a thoroughly unpleasant gentleman's gentleman. The Film Appreciation Seminar is another program to be offered this year at Mundelein and is open to those holding series tickets for the forum, at a rate of 1 per session. The lectures will be held Oct. 19, Nov. 2, 9, 16, 30 and Dec. 6, from 7:30 to 9:30 p.m. in Room 607 of the main building. Mr. Herx will offer the seminar. Mundelein is in the extraordi nary position of knowing more about its students than any other college in the U.S., commented Dr. Hruby in his report to the faculty. Ninety-six members of the class of 1966 who took part in the study as seniors also had answered the questionnaire when they were freshmen at the College. The College needs to know what difference its education makes to its students, the vice president said. If changes do occur within the student body, it is incumbent on the College to determine the effect of these alterations and to act accord ingly. The girl who graduated from Mundelein in 1966 was a radically different girl than the one who en tered Mundelein in 1963, Dr. Hruby said. He further drew a comparison between the 1966 seniors and the 1966 freshmen. The freshmen, like the seniors, appeared to be critical, discon tented and restless, far less acqui escent to the will or wisdom of their elders, Dr. Hruby said. Though they were not more in tellectual than last year's seniors, the freshmen were more certain of their direction when they entered college than the seniors had been three years earlier. ... The 1966 freshmen seem to me to be more like the 1966 seniors than any other group of Mundelein students surveyed it's just that they haven't come quite as far along the same road, the vice president said. As part of the attempt to con tinue a self-study at the College, a portion of the questionnaire was administered to the present fresh man class, Sept. 29. When the re sults of this test are returned, the faculty and administration hope to study the answers of the students still unaffected by Mundelein, for the test was administered prior to the commencement of classes. Following Dr. Hruby's presenta tion of the study, a panel of three faculty members, Sister Joan Fran ces Crowley, B.V.M., assistant dean in charge of residence, Sister Irene Meyer, B.V.M., chairman of the psychology department, and Dr. Russell Barta, chairman of the so ciology department, presented their interpretations of the study. In agreement with Dr. Hruby, Sister Joan Frances said that in the dormitories there was a recogniza ble endurance among the freshmen and seniors last year in an effort to attain more freedom. Sister Irene said the results of the questionnaire might not be com pletely accurate because of the so cial desirability variable which is generally operative in answering any questionnaire. Sister Irene also stressed the ne cessity of counselling service in the College. Most of the students seek some help in career planning, she said. Though he agreed that counsel ing is necessary, Dr. Barta said the professor is in the college primarily in a teaching capacity. Referring to student comments on teaching methods and classroom situations, Dr. Barta observed that (Continued on Page 5)
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