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Page Two SKYSCRAPER Open Letter to the Freshmen . . Nobody can tell you all the tricks of college life, Freshmen. During your stay at Mundelein you'll do a lot of reaching in and pulling out for yourself. But a few pointers . . . plus hard work . . . can set you off on the road to a successful college career. DON'T BE A MYSTERY WOMAN ... If you don't understand something, don't be afraid to ask. Odds are two to one that they won't tell you to look it up in the library. Ask your Counselor's advice in dealing with problems; that is what she is here for ... to help YOU. DON'T BE A TOURIST . . . Be in something, go to something. Don't just look. If in high school your talents were applauded, look up a club to match your high ambitions. And when it says tea at three, go drink tea at three. DON'T BE AN INTELLECTUAL SLACKER . . . Take studying in regular closes; don't wait until the bitter end and then wonder why a grade is low. The more you put into your studies the greater the benefit you will receive. Let your thoughts develop in all your courses, since acquisition of knowledge is the reason Mundelein exists for you. DON'T MINIMIZE THE SPIRITUAL . . . Remember, Mundelein is a Catholic college, outstandingly different from a non-Catholic college. A spiritual life prevails in your school, a life that you must bring- to others outside. A Catholic atmosphere strengthens and defends the kingdom of Christ in the lives of individuals, families, and all of society. It's results that impress. As Christ Himself put it: By their fruits shall you know them. Mix-ancUMatch, Corduroy Do They Spell COLLEGIATE? With the opening of the fall semester in colleges throughout the country, the term collegiate is again being glibly used to describe everything from plaid wcskits and buckskin shoes to gay cocktail parties. Leading magazines and college boards give excellent advice to eager freshmen about pertinent questions concerning dress, grooming, and ever coveted popularity. It is all presented so simply To be collegiate the fresh man must merely invest in a corduroy jacket or drive a red convertible. According to this atomic age strategy, the bewildered frosh is whirled into campus society and left to dangle until she emerges a sen ior, wondering what it has all been about. Actually, the collegiate process is quite different. Inquiring freshmen soon learn that popularity is not gained through clothes alone but has as its core charity and sympathy for others. College women catch on to the notion that they are destined for im portant roles in the world as women, smartly groomed, of course, but equipped with knowledge and judgment and growing wisdom about the enduring values of life, and the need for unselfish living. Girls with equipment such as this supplementing a requisite amount of style and charm will develop genuinely collegiate attitudes and will emerge as intelligent, competent women not as dis illusioned corduroy-clad seniors. I Hear You Talking . . . Woe Is Websterl Collegians Speak: 1 hear you talking . . . but what did you say? On the beam may be old shoe, but an up-to-the- minute college vocabulary is George, all the way. An im proved, approved campus vocab ulary includes: Present ... rather than Here in roll call . . . how will they forget you? Chairman . . . rather than Chair- lady we cite Robert's Rules of lt; )rder too. it's a man's world. Practice Apartment .*. . instead of Model Apartment . . . connotes an exhibit, miniature scale, or an imitation we will not be outdone? Clothing Laboratory . . . never Sewing Room . . . how could one seam, snip, and baste in a nonde script room? Foods Laboratory rather than Cooking Room (gay nineties) or Domestic Science Room (ante-bel lum). Economics . . . not Commerce . . . never Commercial ... we are aca demic, not commercial. Secretarial Science . . . rather than Shorthand (suggests an af fliction) or typing. Assignment . . . never the thread bare term Homework . . . besides, it sounds more enticing, alleviates mental block. Counseling Division . ., . not Homeroom . . . harkens to pre- adult high school days. Bookstore Lounge . . . not Base ment (after all ). Seminar Hall . . . rather than Study Hall . . . from the French. Tea Room . . . rather than Cafe teria ... in Mexico, a retail coffee shop. Correct terms emphasize the per sons, places, and things about which we speak; they point out and de scribe on a college level. As fashion ables seek the finishing touch in smartness, conversion-wise the smart Mundelein woman can make the right word the last word in speech. Divertissements The Dance Is the Thing Beribboned, box-toed, satin slippers, and frothy white tutus have symbolized the ballet since the middle of the eighteenth century. Today's ballet art form is a descendent of Louis XIV's Royal Academy in France. In earlier centuries, ballet was not a delight for all; it was a colossal spectacle geared to the taste and purse of nobility. Jean Baptiste Lully of the Academic fused music, story, decor, and dance to produce the parent of aontemporary ballet, a spectacle still, but on a less lavish scale. Another Frenchman, Jean Georges Noverre, stressed the ballet d'ac- tion, or a necessary connection between the craft of the dance and the plot. That the French had much influence on the development of modem ballet cannot be denied. Even today the steps of the dance are called by their French names. ' In the nineteenth century, however, Vigano, an Italian, contributed pantomime of the hands. The great ballet revolution of the twentieth century we owe to the Russians, a people of innately theatrical and emotional temperaments Michael Fokine, creative Russian choreographer, insisted on new steps for new themes, and correct historical costumes. The product of this dance I renaissance, the Ballet Russe of Serge Diaghileff and Nijinsky. toured and captivated the world. Today's Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo, celebrating its twelfth anni versary, represents high classical standards plus the charm of the less 1 formal American ballet. The Nutcracker ballet, with music by Tschaikowsky, tells the story of a little girl who' receives a Christmas doll in the shape of a nutcracker. When the party is over and all are asleep, she creeps downstairs to get I her toy. She falls asleep. In her dream, the Nutcracker comes to life and takes her to fairyland. The inhabitants of the Snow-country, the snow j flakes, dance for the little girl. Next, the Nutcracker leads her to the Palace of Sweets in the Kingdom of Candy. It is here that the celebraled Sugar Plum Fairy dances. Les Sylphides, choreography by Fokine. with Frederick Chopin's 1 romantic music, is a classical white ballet. It has no story, but the ballerinas, gowned in white and dancing under the moonlight in a forest I glade, create a mood of enchantment not easily dispelled. The music of Jacques Offenbach and Massine's choreography make Gaite Parisienne a madly gay ballet. It is a tale of one evening's love, I jealousy, and love again in a Parisian cafe during the Second Empire. I Coquettes, soldiers, and comedy dancers whirl through the scenes. Grand Pas Classique, the fourth presentation on Mundelein's benefit J playbill, a pas de deux, translated a duet, is a short demonstration of I grace and skill. Week Moments . . Tuesday, Oct. 3, 1 p.m., SAC- Stu dent Meeting Thursday, Oct. 5, 1 p.m.. Found ress Day Lecture What Goes On Loyola has a new Student union, but, if, you've been noticing, our own sturdy skyscraper college has totaled a few chan ges, too. MAYBE WE'RE THE ONLY ONES who noticed the white crosses in the newly decorated auditorium and maybe we no ticed them because the velvet-draped win dows are gone, and the soaring walls are more striking. Thousands of dollars and considerable planning not to men tion 30.000 feet of metal scaffolding com bined to create the soft gray and tanger ine theatre in which we spend one or two hours a week. THE ERA OF CROWDING and con fusion is coming to an end in the locker rooms, anyway. With the addition of 235 new lockers, the senior privilege of locker- iug alone will be extended to lowerclass- men. By mid-October the metallic clang of hammer against nail will be only a mem- ory and each student almost each, any way will move to a locker of her own. BACK TO THE STANDBY of con versation topics Loyola. Our neighbors are rightly pleased with their Student un ion. Finished in maroon-and-grey. color scheme are a smooth linoleum block floor, chrome finished tables and chairs, Pub lications office, Committee room, small and large lounges, snack bar, bookstore, and portable stage, large enough to hold elephants Juke box melodies floating to the mar oon rafters will halt at the sound-proofed ceilings. To augment the Good Neigh bor policy. Loyola has invited Mundelein's free patronage of the union. Mundelein accepts, with pleasure. Student View of World Affairs . . . They Are Not Alike Tito's Jugoslavia and Franco's Spain Sunday, Oct. 8, 3 p. m., Partnet Daughter Reception Tuesday, Oct. 10, 1 p.m., Junior Class Meeting; Freshmen, Sophomores Group Guidance Thursday. Oct. 12, 1 p.m., Rose der Darian. soprano Jhe ki uScraper Spain may not be a Mecca for freedom- loving peoples nor may Franco ever be likely to win laurels as a Democrat, but in comparison to Tito's so called work ers' paradise, fascist Spain appears a naive amateur in the art of dictatorship. In a recent attack, the Nation magazine, which styles itself America's leading li beral weekly, defends Jugoslavia to the disparagement of Spain. The editors bemoan the recent loan made to Franco as another pecuniary gift which greases the wheels of the fascist machine and the palms of Franco's fol lowers, whereas Jugoslavia, threatened with invasion by its cominform neighbors and wrestling with economic difficulties, has been forced to accept a miserly loan with numerous strings atttached. Ideology aside the Nation goes on to say, Jugoslavia today serves as a bul wark against the spread of Soviet control southward and westward. The editors completely ignore the fact that Spain blocked the spread of Communism in the past, and is quite likely to attempt a re peat performance if the occasion arises. The decision to help Spain economically is attributed to the drive of certain con gressmen who need to prove their Anti- red zeal before election day, especially in districts where Roman Catholic influence is strong; so they spend the taxpayers money to support Spain's Christian Gen tleman . . . Whatever the motives of Senators Pat McCarron and Joseph O'Mahoney, the loan to Spain has long been needed, both as an aid to ourselves in our struggle against Communism and certainly as a necessary help to the people, as well as to the government, of Spain. The Nation's staunch approval of Ju goslavia is ludicrous, to say the least. In his contributions to the work of the Se curity Council of the United Nations, the Jugoslavia delegate, Dr. Alex Bebler, has spoken either to vote on the side of the Russians or to abstain altogether from the voting. Only once since the Korean war crisis has he voted on the side of the Democrats, and that was on the subject of the representation of South Korea in the meetings of the Security Council. Sur prisingly enough, he did approve the re presentation of South Korea. Jugoslavia insists that she has no par tiality to either side in the friction be tween Communism and Democracy. How ever, she comes whining at our door each time Big Joe frowns in her direction. Al though Tito is acclaimed Jugoslavia's lit tle violet, the odor of sweetness does not linger over the trial of Mihailovitch, the concentration camps, secret police, or mis treatment of the peasants and the church. We do not claim that Spain is a play ground for liberals, but neither is it a pesthole of Communism. It has proved itself against the red menance, The Na tion's opinion to the contrary. Can the same be said of Titoland ? Entered as Second Class Matter Nov. 30,1932, at the Post Office of Chicago, Illinois, under lie Act of March 3, 1879, 1.75. per year. Published semi-monthly from October to Hi; inclusive by the students of Mundelein College, 6363 Sheridan Road, Chicago 40. Vol XXI October 2. 1950 No. I Co-Editors Maribeth Carej, Sheilya Near; Associates Peggy Barrett. Mary Kay Gill. Judy Langhenry Student View Rita Brcsnehan, i Jane Kenealy What Goes On .' Paula Long, Rarbara Hcintt SAC Speaks Up Peggy Butler, Leona Adams Divertissements Joan Kares, Mary Ellen Ward, Elaine Ivory, Barbara Bid- well Skyscrapings Marjorie Cuughlid Mary Jane Lamb. Patricia McHngli, Barbara Reidy, Barbara Sliauglmessy Art Joan Blakeslee Sports Editor Margaret Reidf Reporters: Rosemary Burns, Eileen Duhijj Florence Granet, Arlene Gorgol, Kaye HaefeLj Claire Healy, Agnes Hoff, Irene Johnson, Sibjlj Lillie, Donna Merwick, Jane Roach, Jean SchaM fer, Helen Stewart, Grace Trauscht, Maria Whelan.
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1950-10-02 (2)
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