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January 18,1961 THE SKYSCRAPER Page Three Junior Historian Journeys, Arriving at Austrian Alps The staff received this letter from Justine Wincek, who is spending her junior year studying in Vienna with Vita Milaknis. Greetings from Austria I am sitting in Rudolf's Hutte by a picture window and waiting for it to snow as I write this letter. The Hutte is perched 10,000 feet up on an Aus trian mountain and just outside the window a few hardy souls are braving the elements and getting in some ski ing before the snow comes. OUR FIRST day here it was 19 de grees below with a fierce wind blow ing. We had to take the long way down to the slopes because of our skiis (we were carrying them) and I was quite frightened as we picked our way down narrow, rocky and snowy ledges. This high altitude really knocks a person out. After we got down to a Intercollegiate News by Joanne Twomey To acquaint students with interest ing activities and ideas from other campuses, the Skyscraper presents these excerpts from college newspa pers across tile country. LOYOLA UNIVERSITY, CHICAGO Our neighbor to the north has raised its tuition fees to 860 a year. SACRED HEART COLLEGE, ALABAMA The International Relations Club has written to Medico to ask permis sion to adopt a child or a family as a means of improving international bonds. UNIVERSITY OR COLORADO Steve Allen, a visitor on campus, said that the main U.S. problem is apathy. To avoid war we must edu cate ourselves, the entertainer said. ST. MARY'S UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS Editorial Comment: Unless stu dents abandon their current obsession with the economic value of higher edu cation and acquire some concept of the heroic ideal, their children are in for a chaotic, valueless world. Stu dents awake a University can teach you more than how to make money. ST. JOSEPH'S COLLEGE, RENSSELAER, IND. The Student Council has voted not to adopt membership in the NFCCS. A poll of the student body disclosed that the benefits of the organization, The National Federation of Catholic Students, are not worth the 500 a semester membership fee. ledge where we could get our skiis on and then walk a good distance against the wind, I was ready to collapse SKIING IS an interesting sport, but you either have to be born to it or have a driving ambition. To get here we had to take a bus and two cablecar rides. It was dark by the time we started the real moun tain and perhaps it was just as well since we couldn't see how narrow the road was and how far down the drop was. FOR CHRISTMAS Eve we sang American and German carols around a candle-lit tree decorated with can dies and cookies. Our host then spoke a few words in German and shook hands with each of us and wished us a Merry Christmas. We then had a party with cookies, oranges and hot wine. We sat and ate by candle- i light and almost Jp m jumped a mile when one of the staff ran by the window with lighted sparklers. ON CHRIST MAS day we had to take the cable- car down to Up- pendorf, a small village at the foot of the mountain. We went to 8 a.m. Mass so we had to leave at 6:30 in the morning. The ride down on the cablecar was really breath-taking. It was just get ting light and we slowly edged our way across the slopes looking down on com plete stillness. Here and there were animal tracks, otherwise just the grandeur of the mighty Alps. FAR DOWN below we saw the tiny lights of the cable station and the few houses seemed like little toys. Above us the Morning Star was quite bright and around the station trees with lights were arranged like a star. What a marvelous sight After our ski trip is over we are planning to take a short trip to Swit zerland for a few days. Some of my friends have been there already. I would like to see it now, and then later in the summer. After that, home to Vienna and concentrated study in preparation for our finals. So long for now. Sincerely, Justine Wincek '62 Justine Wincek PROCEEDS from High School Mothers in Fashion to be presented by the 1961 freshman mothers at the Drake Hotel Jan. 28, will provide furniture for the student lounge in the proposed dorm. Woman's Auxiliary board members, 1-r, the Mmes. Charles Rohner, William Schoen, George McGregor, George Parrilli and Robert Smith speculate on their chair choice. Coming on Campus by Maureen Quan WEDNESDAY, JAN. 18 4:10, Sr. M. Eileen What Is a So cial Institute? THURSDAY, JAN. 19 1:10, Sean O'Faolain, Angry Young Men, C o n c e r t-Lecture series; 2:10, Father George Kluber- tanz, 405. 3:10, Bach Recital, 703. MONDAY, JAN. 23-FRIDAY, JAN. 27 Semester Exams. SATURDAY, JAN. 28 Winter Weekend; Luncheon Women's Aux.; Sodality Retreat. MONDAY, JAN. 30 Student Retreat; no classes. TUESDAY, JAN. 31 Student Retreat; no classes. WEDNESDAY, FEB. 1 Student Retreat; no classes. THURSDAY, FEB. 2 Registration, no classes. FRIDAY, FEB. 3 Registration: 8 p.m., Fathers' Club meeting; Closed Retreat, Our Lady of the Cedars. SATURDAY, FEB. 4 A.M. CEEB Exam; Closed Retreat. SUNDAY, FEB. 5 Sophomore Tea Dance; Counselor's Meeting; Closed Retreat. MONDAY, FEB. 6 Classes Resume; 8 p.m. Alumnae Exec. Board. TUESDAY, FEB 7 1:10, Soph Class Meeting; 1:10, Freshman Counselor Meetings; 3:10, Skyscraper Staff; 4:10, Hu man Relations Club; Math Club. WEDNESDAY, FEB. 8 4:10, Sodality Meeting; 4:10, YCS Meeting. THURSDAY, FEB. 9 Senior Comprehensives. FRIDAY, FEB. 10 Senior Comprehensives; 9 p.m., Freshman Mixer. SATURDAY, FEB. 11 Alumnae Silver Ball Drake Hotel. SUNDAY, FEB. 12 American Amateur Fencing Meet; 7:30, Play. MONDAY, FEB. 13 High School Open House; 4:10, Al pha Omicron; 7:30, Play. TUESDAY, FEB. 14 1:10, Club Meetings; 4:10, French Club; 4:10, Biol. Club-Chem. Club; 8:15, School for Wives French Players, aud. WEDNESDAY, FEB. 15 Ash Wednesday; 4:10, Sodality Meeting. THURSDAY, FEB. 16 12:00, Lenten Mass; 1:10, SAC All- College Meeting; 3:10, Sonata Re cital, 703; 3:30, World Federalists; 4:10, Related Arts Club; Quanta Club. FRIDAY, FEB. 17 Closed Retreat Our Lady of the Cedars. SATURDAY, FEB. 18 Young Republicans; Supplementary Exams; Closed Retreat; Barry Gold- water, 4 p.m. SUNDAY, FEB. 19 American Amateur Fencing Meet; Closed Retreat. MONDAY, FEB. 20 4:10, German Club. Xavier U Students Join Area Socialists Mundelein Sodalists will welcome Sodality members from Xavier Uni versity in Cincinnati and from the Chicago area to a study day on Satur day, Feb. 18. How the Sodality Way of Life Flows from the Spiritual Ex ercises is the day's theme. Among the schools which have been invited to send representatives are: DePaul, Loyola, Notre Dame and Xavier Universities, and Barat, Ros ary and St. Xavier Colleges. The day will feature four talks which will be followed by discussion periods. Students from Xavier Uni versity will be the speakers. Lunch will be served in the Tea room at noon, according to Elaine D'Ambrosia, general chairman. FACULTY AND STUDENTS take a stereo break in 405. The three-channel stereophonic high fidelity component was a Christmas gift to the college from the lay teachers. Home Economists Prepare Diets for National Radiation Tests by Pat Malinski Right now, right this minute, you are in a stream of radiation. Your food is sharing this dangerous spot light and absorbing atomic fallout. And right now Mundelein's home economics department is assisting the Atomic Energy Commission in deter mining just how much of this fallout is consumed daily by an average family. Radioactive rays, once only present in natural sources such as the sun's rays and active minerals in rocks, now have taken on new significance, due to the fallout of atomic tests, wastes of nuclear reactors and new uses of radia tion in medicine. And the danger of overuse of this power has given chronic worriers something new from which to develop ulcers. Joining with home economics labora tories in various geographical areas of the country, Mundelein is preparing typical diets including snacks and wa ter for six persons an adult male, and two teenage boys from an aver age income level, two from a lower level and a one-year-old infant. From Friday Jan. 6 to 20, these meals will be fully cooked, put in six polyethylene drums and sent to the Consumers' Union, the agency conducting the test along with the Atomic Energy Commis sion. The laboratories will test for the Stroncium 90-Calcium ra tio in the diets consumed in each part of the country. Preparing the food for the adult male are Sister Mary Arnold, S.Sp.S., and Anna Liu; for the two economic ally average teenagers, Joanna Ko- zuck, Ellen Lannert, Lynn Stachura and Rita Calto; for the boys of the lower income level, Sister Brigid Mary, B.V.M., Virginia Stoffey, Geraldine Dusik and Terry Beaver. Eileen O'Brien and Sister Anna Marie, O.S.F., will prepare the food for the infant and Geraldine Blum and Marilyn Moss will act as supervising managers. The meals will consist of what the average person eats in a day, includ ing all snacks and water. If there is a choice, fresh food will be chosen over frozen, and frozen over canned. The baby's diet, approved by a pedia trician, will be commercial baby food, milk and vitamin drops. The students themselves do all the shopping at local markets at least twice a week, just as the normal family does. Since about half of the Stroncium 90 in the diet has been found in milk in former research, four ounces of every quart of milk used in the diet of the middle-income teenagers will be put in special jars. One piece of 100 per cent whole wheat bread will be spe cially preserved for everyone in the diet. These extra studies will help determine the percentage of Stroncium 90 in these products. Results will be available on the ra dioactivity in the diets from different sections of the country as soon as the laboratories compute them. Then they will be turned over to the press. Geiger Counter Carriers Scientific Sisters Survey, Study Radiation, Radiological Retaliation by Barbara Brzezinski The problem of radiological defense against nuclear warfare was the sub ject of intense study by Sister Mary Therese, physics professor, and Sister Mary Georgianna, assistant professor of chemistry, from Dec. 19-23 when they attended the institute in Radio logical Monitoring in Battle Creek, Mich. ACCORDING TO Sister Mary Therese, the instructors emphatically stressed the possibility of nuclear war fare at any time and are dedicated to the training of personnel who could prepare others in case of an attack in which atomic or radiological weap ons were employed. Attending these daily classes from 8:30 to 5 p.m., the sisters were tested at the end of the course, and were thus qualified as instructors in this particular field. THEIR SPECIFIC duty is to in struct people in the use of instruments designed to detect radiation, Sister continued. It became apparent that in the event of such a crisis, probably all large cities would be effectively destroyed and the danger from radio active fallout would threaten the en tire country. In addition to the basic concepts of nuclear science, these trained men dis cussed the principles and types of ra diation measuring devices, the me chanics of fallout dispersion, and the effect of nuclear weapons. OTHER TOPICS included an intro duction to biological and chemical war fare defenses, the process of decon tamination and the techniques of ra diological monitoring. Sister Mary Therese also mentioned that any adult is invited to attend these classes in Battle Creek, which are held every day. College students are especially urged to participate in this program for which half of their expenses are paid by the Institute.
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1961-01-18 (3)
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