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Page Two THE SKYSCRAPER May 8,1963 Skyscraper Clarifies Institutional Analysis; Dispels Rumorsof Mundelein Campus Change Mundelein students have been writing their own Ripley's Believe It or Not with rumors concerning the Institutional Analy sis decisions that have been growing taller than pl-yers on Loyola's basketball team. With the excitement of the questionnaire, locker room exposes' are being given by those supposed to have pipeline information on committee decisions. It has been said that the advisory committee wishes to change the College to a Radcliffe of Catho lic women's colleges. Entrance require ments will be raised and tuition will gradu ally be increased to squeeze out those who are unable to pay, so that only students of a higher economic status will be able to at tend. This money is supposedly to pay for two 11-story dorms one to be built on the lake shore and the other on the lot west of the College, next to the new fine arts building to lodge students after the College requires residency. Fiction Is Stranger Truth is not as strange as fiction in the case of these rumors. Sister Mary Ann Ida, B.V.M., president of the College, stated that no decisions have yet been reached by the Institutional Analysis committees. The inside information circulating the College is probably based on student (or faculty) guess work and misapprehension. One of the rumors that Mundelein would be converted to a second Radcliffe undoubtedly found its source in the article by Helen Fleming in the Chicago Daily News, April 20. The story raised the ques tion of the need for a college for academi cally gifted students as a question to be dis cussed by students, faculty and alumnae. Only one member of the committee com pletely endorsed the idea and the other members did not agree that the entire Col lege should be so dedicated. Students as well as faculty are encouraged to discuss whether or not there is a need for a college wholly dedicated to the academically tal ented and if so, is Chicago (or Mundelein) the place for it? Raise Standards Now, the statement that entrance re quirements might be raised is true. This has already been happening since the stand ards of local high schools have been raised and each year their students are better pre pared for college. It does not necessarily mean that students who would have been accepted a few years ago would not be qualified now, but in many cases these same students would be better prepared (espe cially in language, math and science) under the improved high school programs. While the tuition had to be raised, the reason as discussed in an earlier editorial was necessity, not economic distinction among the students. With today's ever-ris ing costs, it is plainly impossible to run an institution on the tuition alone even now. Every possible means is being used to aid the students economically. Among these are the Illinois State Scholarships, Federal Jlte gt;ky5craper Vol. XXXIII May 8, 1963 No. 13 All-Catholic The Skyscraper is published semimonthly. October to May inclusive, exrept during vacations and semester examinations by the students of Mundelein College. 63B8 Sheridan Rd.. Chicago 26. 111. Subscription rate is 2 per year. Entered as second-class matter Nov. 30. 1932. at the U.S. Post Office. Chicago. III., under the act of March 3. 1897. The Skv.tcra.cr is a member of the Associated Collegiate Press and the Catholic School Pnss As sociation. Editor in Chief - Barbara Brzezinski Managing Editor - Mary Jo Murray News Editor Mary Etta Talarico Assistant Maureen Racine Editorial Editor Eileen Schaefer Feature Editor Janice Jearas Layout Editors Pat Krochmal. Dianne Arturi Columnist Mary Anne Pope Photographers Rae Paul, Elynore Deutsch Artist - Diane Mazza Staff Assistants Kathleen Sweeney. Joanne Infantino. Louise Nunziato. Tina DeRosa. Mnxine Tyma. Molly Palen. Mary Pat Schiffer, Mau reen Quane. Sister Mary Bernita, B.V.M.. Sister Mary St. Eunice, B.V.M.. Sister Mary St. Alan. B.V.M., Sister Mary Christa. S.C.C, Barbara Kubicz. Laurie Bremner Student Loans, the raise in salary of stu dent employees and the revision of Munde lein's sholarship system. Now, said Sis ter Mary Ann Ida, the emphasis is on need rather than ability alone. All of the highest-scoring girls on the test receive honors scholarships; those who are high and also show need receive whatever finan cial assistance they require. Rumors Plan Campus Of all the rumors, it is by far the last which is most imaginative. It has not only been said that the dorms and a fine arts building will be constructed but their size, location, source of income and reason for .heir existence have been outlined none of which is entirely true. The basis of this rumor probably rests in a booklet published by the College in 1958 entitled Progress ing with Chicago in which a dorm (now constructed) and fine arts building were planned. But new buildings are not financed by tuition. The president said that All money received from tuition is used for the academic needs of the College. Im provements or new buildings are financed by loans, gifts or grants. These exceeded 1,100,000 last year. She continued that, The demands of the times do indicate a greater and greater de mand for residence. Many new high schools are being built in the suburbs. Another dorm which might be a highrise will be needed in the next two or three years and this would be financed by a second 40- year self-amortizing loan from the govern ment. But required residency is pure in vention. There is no thought of changing Mundelein into a full-residence college, Sister emphasized. College To Serve Better Ripley's facts may be stranger than fic tion but Mundelein's are not. Contrary to information being circulated, the institu tional analysis is not attempting to tell the students how they should think, stated Sister Mary Ann Ida, but rather to have the students tell the College how well or how poorly it has served them in the past and what can be done to help Mundelein serve them better in the future. Pat Krochmal Delicacy, Stark Realism Make David and Lisa' Work of Art by Mary O'Malley David and Lisa is not just a good film it is a work of art. Although it is based on documentary case studies of psychologically disturbed adolescents, the story is handled with such perception and delicacy that the stark, sometimes bizarre, facts are transformed into a series of images and sensations which ably convey the profundities of a modern-day problem and the attempts to solve it. Basically, the story is one of stark realism built on the loneliness, frustration and hate of young people looking for communication, understanding and love. David, the focal character, is so painfully locked in his own prison of hate and rejection that he feels everyone is trying to hurt him. At the new school David meets an odd assortment of students who have special problems. The boy with the compulsion toward women including David's mother , the girl with the 'Bardot' look trying to attract attention and the youngster seeking to make beautiful music his whole life are sensitively and deftly portrayed. The one who interests David the most, however, is the little girl playing hop-scotch who greets him with Hello, kiddo; kiddo, hello. But Lisa is not a little girl she just thinks she is. The acting is masterful, characterization is deftly delineated not only in the case of David and Lisa but also in the case of the strong, understanding psychiatrist, the shrew ish, dominating mother and the well-meaning but weak father. Photography adds to the realistic-impressionistic atmosphere. The opening scene showing the grounds of the school with its bare, lonely trees, the run-away scene show ing confused Liza running into an even more confused world and the final scene showing the release and joy of first real communication rely completely on photography to convey effectively their meaning. David and Lisa revolves around the struggle of one painfully lonely boy and pathet ically love-starved girl who try to find the key to unlock the prison of themselves, to reopen the lines of communication they have shut off as a defense against the world. The series of images impressed on the audience by the statue of mother and child to which Liza clings, the dream-clock which David tries to control and the symbolic touching of hands which both young people fear yet strive for are just a few of the delicate touches that make this film a work of art that can not he viewed or discussed without being ex perienced. Oh Gad, Poor Dad Acting Saves Playwright's Attempt UnderratedFemales Demonstrate Role In Woman's World Aeschylus, who was wise enough to know better, started it. Today so-called educators echo his doctrine. From the Greek, with his bold theory, It is thy place to hold thy peace and keep within doors, to advocates of masculine-populated colleges, woman's position has been persistently underrated. But luckily for the world, women have refused to fade silently out of the spotlight and into the wings. A variety of their per formances have failed to merit spontaneous applause. But drawing back the curtain of the past reveals that all stages of civiliza tion might have known a sadly different set ting, if females of fact and fiction had ac quiescently held their peace. Classical scholars and students of litera ture would forever be victims of frustration if Helen of Troy had flubbed her lines and muffed her chances with Paris. And with no Trojan War, Homer could never have provided poems to be dissected annually. Ecumenism might even claim a different metropolitan center, if Venus had innocently tended to the domestic duties of preparing nectar and ambrosia. Without her to aid Aeneas' mission, the melodrama surely would have folded up on opening night and Rome never have been founded. A dangerous population explosion might have added to England's problems in the 16th century. But Good Queen Bess' heady personality and generosity in handing out tickets for London tower solved this di lemma. Amelia Earhart rocketed woman's cause when she refused to stay indoors or to keep her feet on the ground. Her two solo ocean flights in the 1930's initiated feminine in fluence in the air. Fasten your safety belt messages and upper-altitude dinners would undoubtedly have a less dramatic flavor if males played the steward role. And who but a woman could make thou sands stand in line for hours for a two- minute glimpse of her enigmatic smile? But world-renowned celebrities must share the stage with local talent. From personal experience with feminine institutions, Jane Trahey '43 exploits the rollicking escapades of boarding school living in Life with Mother Superior. Mundelein students have a place in the spotlight also. Presently they are cooper ating in an analytical study of their college. All of which proves again it's a woman's world and she wants her part in shaping it. Oh Gad, Poor Lad, Kopit's Written a Play and It Really Is Bad While Arthur Kopit's modified addition to the theater of the absurd means nothing, the cast and the crew in Jerome Robbin's production of Oh, Dad, Poor Dad, Mamma's Hung You in the Closet and I'm Feelin' So Sad are some thing. As Rosalie the babysitter, Alix Elias de lights the audience with a voice as unique as the money-mouthed Daisy Buchanan in Fitzgerald's novel. Sam Waterston plays Jonathan, Madame Rosepettle's stamp, coin and book-collecting son, with a stutter and a strut that effect a most convincing shel tered and shackled soul. As Madame Rose- pettle, Hermione Gingold is well, Her- mione Gingold. Although usually her scin tillating self, Miss Gingold is boring in spots as during an extended monologue with Commodore Roseabove played by Sandor Szabo. Oh Dad, relies on suspense, surprise and shock. However, I can divulge the by Mary Jo Murray closing line of the play What is the meaning of this? I doubt that the play goers will turn Thinker over the question; but then to find meaning in nothing is a tax ing matter. Perhaps this is Kopit's very point. If he adheres to the philosophy of the absurd, he had better change his title. First, Dad is not poor since he is no longer a part of this world of nothing. Sec ond, no one feels sad because, as Madame Rosepettle notes, only animals feel and man is characterized by words. If the whole play is parody, Kopit's attempt is not ob vious. The characters do not feel; they talk. Rosalie uses words to show that life is one big lie. Madame Rosepettle crusades for the Abolish Mothers' Day movement by her mamalogues. The couple for whom Rosalie babysits are expecting their 11th child. When it arrives, they will send it to her. Madame Rosepettle tells Rosalie that if the expected should turn out to be a Siamese kitten, she would love to have it food for her pet fish. Jonathan might have been a man of feel ing but his efforts would be useless. If the plry has any conflict, it is wilhin the viewer. Will Jonathan go with Rosalie and leave Mamma? Never one to tell that the Butler did it, I can only say that no matter which alter native, Jonathan's future is Grade A A for absurd and Vitamin C C for cannibalistic, since man devours man in Oh Dad. The play, in three consecutive scenes which call for doors that open and chairs that move at Madame Rosepettle's will, is a credit to set designers William and Jean Eckart. If you are a newcomer to the theater of the absurd, Oh Dad will prove an enter taining but stagnant introduction. P.S. Don't be absurd The writer real izes the contradiction.
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