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Page Two - THE SKYSCRAPER - Oct. 19,1966 THE SKVSCRHPER Challenge Purpose 3 MIL U11 I U U 11111 1 11 will grip current issues and events and f hold them before the campus in order that memberi of the Mundelein community may sense and direct history rather than bob in its wake. Seniors Probe Grad Exams The reality of senior year as seen through the inevitable facing of comprehensive examinations was impressed upon the class of 1967 last week. In a meeting of seniors, interested juniors who were looking ahead and faculty advisors the perennial question of comprehensives: their worth, purpose, form and preparation was discussed under an agenda prepared by the academic affairs committee. Viewing comprehensive examinations as a method for continually maintaining a high departmental and college standard, as well as a final correlation and integration of courses in a student's field, most faculty members favored comprehensives in some form here at Mundelein. It was also pointed out that they are a requirement for graduation. While no statistics could be given it also seemed to be the general opinion of many faculty members that this need for comprehensives was being recognized by more and more colleges and universities across the country who are continuing or adopting a policy toward them. Surprisingly, few students seemed to dispute this opinion, at least by voicing dissent at these meetings. The opportunity I Qrk for questioning Why comps was submerged in the anx ious quest for any answers and hints for studying and DlSSent succeec,ing in the inescapable fate. Where discussion did manage to ensue comprehensives were often viewed by stu dents and some faculty members alike as an archaic tradition serving no real purpose except as a completion of a graduation requirement. The Graduate Record Examination score required before admission to most Midwestern graduate schools more than aptly informs those students who are interested in still further studies where they place in the national norm of college students. But even the Graduate Record it was pointed out in one meeting, is not required in most fields by graduate schools enjoying the highest of both national and international esteem such as Harvard, Columbia, Georgetown and Uni versity of Chicago. It is difficult to understand there fore, how any unequal set of local examinations can be expected to do what top schools do not even con sider the nationally distributed Graduate Record to do. Considering comprehensives as a means for keeping up the standard of a department, or of an entire college, is illogical and unrealistic. It is frightening to conceive of a student reaching the point of senior com prehensives if she has not been up to or above this standard during her previous three and a half years of academic pursuit. The measure of a department and a college is not found in one tedious set of exams but in performance and realization of ideas and ideals by faculty and students. Comprehensives as a college policy is only an attempt to duplicate what students should have been assimilating since they entered school. If a student has been unable to achieve a complete learning experience and emerge from Mundelein with the ability to cross course lines and think critically, not only in her own field but in all areas of human im portance, then her four years of liberal education have been a failure and two days of examinations are not going to make up her deficiencies. Viet Nam War Causes Concern Last year the Skyscraper editorially supported the United States' po sition in Viet Nam on the basis of the SEATO alliance and foreign policy commitments in Southeast Asia. At that time it was maintained that, As long as American policy remains what it is today, this country has no choice but to confine the communists to the boundaries they have al ready reached. The United States cannot withdraw from Viet Nam. (Skyscraper, Nov. 17, 1965.) The developments, both in our military involvement in Viet Nam and in related areas in this country, during the last year are reaching alarm ing proportions. The most recent congressional action con- CqUSG cerning Viet Nam reached the president's desk Oct. 11. Besides providing 58 million for defense, it gives Presi- Alorm dent J hnson the authorization to call up 1,953,000 reserv ists for duty in Viet Nam without declaring a national emergency or notifying Congress. In effect, Congress has placed the bulk of responsibility for Viet Nam on the executive branch. And, although President Johnson did not request this power and Sec retary of Defense Robert McNamara affirmed that the authority would not be used, the upset in the balance of government responsibility raises disturbing possibilities. It would not be the first time a major reversal in policy toward the war occurred and the draft call consistently hits new highs, rapidly sapping the available manpower. R,6V6fS6 Even facing the inevitability of a reserve call-up, adding to the 3,184,000 men already in active service, PollCV the fact that this decision cannot come from the judg- * ment, hopefully informed, of one man without the safeguard of notifying Congress and without the sobering act of declaring a national emergency necessitates reflection. The United States is in Viet Nam to stay. But, the mushrooming of unforeseen effects, resulting from this commitment to an undeclared war are cause for grave consideration; more than that, concern. Announce Art Awards Student Exhibit Opens Season A taste of T. S. Eliot, a view of the Northland from under the fire escape or just a taste of the personal expressions of Mundelein art students is available to all for the price of an elevator ride to Galleries 4 and 8. APPROPRIATELY ENTITLED Dimension '66 the exhibit repre sents many dimensions in art from traditional to abstract and from any angle in between. Works were chosen from upper and lower di vision art classes in painting, drawing, sculpture, design and printmaking. The exhibit, on dis play during the summer, will re main throughout October. Like the fashion world, the ac cent here is on color and texture color embodying a wide pot pourri of tones, sometimes subdued, but more often projecting a life by Kathy Riley of its own almost apart from the canvas. Yet color is often used to ani mate another theme of the artist's choice: from the bright hues of Freedom, by Sister Mary Claire, B.V.M., to the rough almost garish blue, coral and black tones of God Is by Lillian Morgan. As in painting, texture becomes one of the most important elements in drawing and printmaking. Any one who has seen the award-win ning cartoon, The Dot and the Line, should appreciate the line for what it is magic. In God Questions by Bettina Colletti, it produces a piercing, almost primi tive effect, while in Forest, by Judy Pearson, curves create a swaying soft expanse. FOR STUDENTS WHO have al ready seen the campus, Munde lein photographers have created a new one from familiar heights and depths seldom seen but always there for anyone who looks. For the avant-garde, samples of pop and op can transport its de votees from the common Camp bell's soup can to the Mets stadium to Oscar Wilde and from there, straight into the twilight zone. For anyone, even those fortunate to have classes exclusively on the fourth and eighth floors, Dimen sion '66 is worth seeing and seeing again. PRIZES HAVE BEEN AWARDED to the following stud- dents in the following categories: Paintings: First, Shop Street, by Mary Aileen O'Callaghan; sec ond, Aesthetics, by Patricia Leni han; third, Slime Mold, by Judy Interfaith Center Holds 'Fading Relics' of Past by Kayellen Mundelein students look north: Watch our neighbor's child scam per about with his Christmas crane stomping-smashing demanding the past to bow before his new blocks. While we shake our heads and decorate our campus with period pieces to warm the change between now and the omega. Mundelein's newest acquisition along this vein has been the man- derin mansion on Sheridan Road. Entitled the Inter-faith Religious Education Center the building of fers a twofold purpose; first to bring the differing faiths together for mutual understanding and un ity. Secondly the center offers a composite of six or seven rooms to the students and faculty. The rooms can be occupied with club meetings or class sessions ranging from dogma to Celtic pronuncia tion. The hours of the center range from 1-5 p.m. and 7-8 p.m., Monday through Friday and 2-5 p.m. Satur day and Sunday. The center was envisioned by Sister Carol Frances Jegen, B.V.M., chairman of the theology department and is being coordi nated by Victoria Baldino, who of fers a friendly welcome to all visi tors. The center is the site of inter-faith lectures and programs and holds hope for an inter-faith community. The second floor li brary contains a collection of re ligious education materials rang ing from the kindergarten level to 12th grade. The oval green room facing the lake is equipped to handle Masses and prayer vigils. Hartman One might roam through just in vestigating the fading relics of the past which haunt the mansion, such as the summer playhouse which probably presented a tight fort to buccaneering pirates of yesterday, while tomorrow it could become a satellite carrying Jewish, Buddhist and Catholic children to a united effort against the mysteries of space. You might search out the strip of orange youthful fancy now enshadowed by shelves of Early Jewish History. Then walk down the Victorian staircase into a Dick ens Christmas meeting the fra grance of pumpkin, chicory and pudding. The youthful symbols are appro priate for this building was de signed to further religious educa tion. The center is yours to enjoy. Just step over the shiny glass block which reflects in its gaping green eyes everything but itself. Then walk across to the religious edu cation center, mellow in its own rays of memory and dreams. Pearson; honorable mention, Landscape, by Kathleen Case and Horace Silver Visits Toyko, by Pat Carroll. DRAWING: FIRST, Berlioz Dream, by Mary Fran Campbell; second, Umbrella Nest, by Brenda Bildstein; third, Reclin ing, by Barbara Mazurek; and honorable mention, Sweet Peas, by Mary Ann Imperiale. Sculpture or ceramics: first, Eagle by Cathy Matejovsky, '66; second, Bull Frog, by Sister Kathleen Young (winner of the Guildhall Gallery Purchase Prize) third, Tree, by Cathy Matejov sky. Design: first, a screen batik by Pat Carroll; second, Indian Wall by Nancy Doll and third, Stitch- ery, by Cathleen Harrington. Photography: first, Harmony, by Sister Kathleen Young; second, From Many Suns, by Joanne Maguire; and third, Slumber, by Joanne Maguire. PRINTS: FIRST, Angels of Death, by Lillian Morgan; second, Family Portrait, by Patricia Lenihan; third, Woman Talking, by Patricia Lenihan; and honorable mention, Birds of a Feather, by Pam Meadows. Sounding Board May Nancy Vandenberg s Hobbit Hole never cave in I We had thought that we were the only Tolkien enthusiasts in the vicinity, barring the nameless desperate soul who wrote Frodo Lives I on the underside of the Sheridan L overpass. However, there were a few minor inaccuracies which in the interests of Ring Lore cannot be overlooked. For one thing, Bilbo was eleventy- one, not eleventy-two, when he gave the Precious to Frodo. For another, the inscription of the One Ring was severly mutilated. (Per haps your well-meaning but misled writer was quoting from (Hor rors ) the Unauthorized Edition The correct version is as follows: One Ring to rule them all, One Ring to find them, One Ring to bring them all And in the Darkness bind them. If Miss Vandenberg wishes to avoid such lapses in the future, she, and other Ringworms, would do well to join the Hobbit Club now forming under the auspices of Sister Joan Frances, honorary president. (Honorary until she reads the book.) The club will spread the cult at Mundelein, (a veritable Mordor of ignorance), and discuss such pertinent issues as Gollum; Malicious or Misun derstood? Interested parties should contact the undersigned, or Sister Joan Frances, in Coffey Hall. May the Nazgul never Knock, Kathleen Cummins (236 Coffey) Jerry Murray (110 Coffey) yti S kuAcraper Vol. XXXVII Oct. 19, 1966 No. 2 Newspaper of Distinction The Skyscraper is published semi-monthly. September to May inclusive except during: exam and vacation periods, by the students of Mundelein College. 6S6S Sheridan Rd.. Chicago, III., 60626. Subscription rate is J2 per year. Entered as second-class matter Nov. 30, 1932, at the VS. Post Office. Chicago, 111,, under the act of March 3, 1897. The Skyscraper is a member of the Catholic School Press Association and subscribes to the NaUonal Educational Advertising Service. Letters to the editor must be signed. The Skyscraper reserves the right to cut letters in case of limited space. Co-Editors Jean Durall. Diane Sargol Photographer , , . Nancy Vandenberg Cartoonists Mary Fran Campbell. Marge Reschke Stall Pat Cxapar, Marilyn Gibba. Jennifer Joyce, Kathy Riley, Marybeth Wagner, Aldine Favaro, Pat Devlne. Mary McMorrow. Mary Beth Mundt
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