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Page Two THE SKYSCRAPER March 16,1966 THE SITSCHPEI fa ' 11 L ll II I ll 0 I) II I L 11 will grip current issues and events and ' hold them before the campus in order that members of the Mundelein community may sense and direct history rather than bob in its wake. I D Crisis Compels Legislative Action The recent crackdown on driver's license falsification by Illinois Secretary of State Paul Powell points up two examples of short-sighted ness on the part of Mr. Powell and the Illinois legislature. The crisis, of course, was reached when approximately 55 students at the University of Illinois were arrested for possessing altered driver's licenses, ostensibly to purchase liquor. Although the means used by the Secretary of State's men have been brought under serious question, fal sifying a driver's license is against the law. It is impossible to condone those students, and all the students on - I Illinois campuses including this one, who have altered AVITCr their licenses. However, the real indictment must be leveled at those government officials who perpetuate LIC6nS6S such actions by short-sighted evaluation of the entire ID and liquor sale relation. For example, Paul Powell, in his comments at Speak-Easy, revealed his intention to initiate stiffer penalties for license falsification. This will not alter the fact that Illinois licenses are notoriously easy to change, and people will continue to change dates and serial numbers to enable them to purchase liquor. The entire problem could be taken care of by simply taking a few more precautions to make the license un-alterable. Yet, when it was suggested to Mr. Powell that he take steps along these lines, he was brusque and uninterested. Granted, a certain expense would be involved in including a picture on the license. But, that excuse cannot cover the procedure of issuing a different colored license to those under 21 and giving all licenses a plastic coating, not a lamination which can be peeled off with a razor blade. This former precaution was adopted the week after Mr. Powell commented here that colored licenses would be ineffective. Most basic to preventing students from altering their licenses would be to collect the old licenses at the time of renewal. All these practices are followed by other states, such as Michigan, and are supported in Illinois by many responsible groups. This is one case where legislation is definitely not the solution, but a creative and comprehensive approach to the issuing of driver's licenses. Of course, this is only half the problem. There would be little need to falsify identification if Illinois and the majority of the states would lower the drinking age to 18. In all considerations, except drinking and voting, 18 is the age of maturity. All formal required education is completed and a youth is free to work, go to college, marry or be drafted. In other words, at 18, an individual is considered responsible not only for himself, but also for a possible family and for his country's defense. Similarily, while a girl does not have the obligation of armed service, she is able to hold the most responsible of jobs or is trusted to raise children but is not allowed to drink or vote. The unjust incongruity of this unrealistic and puritan ical ethic is made clearer each clay as more and more boys under 21 are sent to Viet Nam to fight for a country that only recognizes them as half citizens. Assuredly, Paul Powell would maintain that license altering is a sign of immaturity and use this as proof to maintain the current age limit. On the contrary, the immaturity rests with those who refuse to acknowledge the increased responsibility of America's youth and accord them the rights and privileges of recognition under the law. Sounding Board A number of people have in quired as to whether I am still mad. The answer to that lies in the response of one and all who care enough about themselves to come to Speak-Easy. There is much rejoicing in many quarters because Speak-Easy is being given a second chance (unlike the ill- fated Concert-Lecture Series). While I'm at it let me say how grateful I am to be given the space in the Skyscraper to express these things. It soothes my tem per and allows me to say: Shalom Maureen Anne McLain From orientation week in fresh man year up to the close of the second term of my junior year, Mundelein has been prodding me, remonstrating with me, criticizing me and in general, refusing to let me alone. I am being encouraged to take the advice of Betty Friedan. In freshman year Mundelein told me, don't be just a housewife, use your education. As a sophomore I was told, in the results of a sur vey on student apathy that I wasted my time in Lewis Center when I should be in Gallery 4, at a Performing Artists Series pres entation or the Student Benefit. Apathy they screamed again and again. As a junior, I was told we got the Kingston Trio here, now buy a ticket. After the per formance I was told that I had waited too long to buy my ticket. Now besides being apathetic, I was inefficient. Meanwhile, I have been holding down a part-time job off-campus, commuting, writing for the Sky- Where's Yer I D Lower Age scraper, and occasionally giving my spare time to various organi zations on campus. Oh, yes, I'm also trying to maintain a respec table cumulative average though I realize this is a minor detail. I attend what functions I have the time and money for, as I'm sure my 1,220 fellow students do. Please, Mundelein, if you are trying to develop me as an indi vidual who can think for herself, let me do just that Marybeth Wagner We refuse to render our apology concerning the Speak-Easy di lemma. The Speak-Easy may or may not have merit, yet the merit it may contain is not necessarily of universal appeal. It has been assumed by what apparently is a majority of people that the Speak- Easy and other similar programs on this campus offer the epitome of intellectual and Christian op portunity for commitment (which is, by the by, a key word in these hallowed halls). Due to the assumed stimulating effect of the attendance at such programs, it is implied that indi vidual absence indicated individual imbecility, and individual attend ance, maturity. We deeply resent this implication, for the Mundelein College experience is not neces sarily an all-encompassing one. Although we welcome the opportu nities available here, we feel that it should be recognized that availa bility does not presuppose a mean ingful experience for all. We pre fer to determine value and mean ing for ourselves rather than to accept an arbitrary standard of value. An apology, therefore, is not in order, but rather a thoughtful realization and acceptance of in dividual evaluation. Maureen Sullivan Helen Anne Brown Kathleen Harrington Janet Chessare Gallery Eight Exhibit Features them the rights and privileges oi recognition under tne law. I I I Senate Vote Sacrifices Indelible Designs in Intaglio' Education for Viet Nam Unfortunately, today, members of the community which the Great Society was created to serve cannot fully benefit from their own tax money. The administration's persistent policy in Viet Nam has succeeded in disrupting homes, as well as interrupting the education of the young men of the country. A nation which has been so long concerned with being a world leader is suddenly bolted into the realization that progress must halt while a battle is fought on an Asian front which many citi zens of this country have little concern for, and where most of the people Americans supposedly are dying to preserve don't even under stand the war which encompasses them. It was bad enough when funds were reduced for scientific research to support this undeclared war, but the ultimate blow came March 9, when President Johnson's rubber-stamp Congress defeated the proposal of Senator Abraham A. Ribicoff (D. Conn.) to provide a maximum tax saving of 325 a year on the costs of higher education. The proposal, which was defeated in order to increase the Viet Nam budget, would have provided a credit on the income tax of persons paying college fees. The rejection of this proposal points out the administration's obvious dis regard for the future. It is one thing for the United States to fulfill its commitment in Viet Nam, but if the SEATO alliance is the factor which dragged this nation onto that swampy battlefield, why must America escalate the war without the assistance of all other SEATO members? The United States may be carrying out its commitment in Southeast Asia, but it is begin ning to neglect its commitment to its own people at home. President Johnson's Great Society, which was to have made this country a better place in which to live, has done little to improve the ideals of President Kennedy's New Frontier. Printmaking, the art of produc ing an indelible design, may be seen at its best this month in the Gallery 8 exhibit, Three Print- makers. The show is comprised almost exclusively of prints made in in taglio, the process of cutting or etching a design into a copper plate which is inked and applied to pa per. Of the three artists, David Freed uses this process most originally since he combines sev eral techniques to convey his themes. Frequently grouped into sets, Freed's art often deals with war. Consequently, his effects are neces sarily complicated with an abstract touch, yet offset by the simplicity of clear-cut geometrical propor tions. For William Benson, however, simplicity takes another form. Pri marily landscapes, Benson's prints impart the harmony of Cezanne's still lifes complemented by the in tricate detail characteristic of Chinese brushwork. Human figures are undefined, but rather receive their identity and form from the by Kathy Riley panoramic setting surrounding them. Keith Achepohl, on the other hand, focuses on people, ranging from appealing portraits of young women to groups of individuals sometimes isolated, often huddled together and tied by intense emo tion. Depending on the work, Achepohl varies his spotty tex- tural effects to emphasize facial expression in his portraits and to stress line harmony in his group designs. All three artists use color spar ingly, yet each handles it in an in teresting and unusual manner. Bright patches of color in geomet rical form are often painted on Freed's works to harmonize with his theme, while Benson employs dark hues mainly to impart a mood. Equally subtle, Achepohl's tones blend with one another to complement line harmony, espe cially in his individual portraits. Strikingly varied, beautiful and professional, Three Printmakers will be the last guest art exhibit sponsored by the art department in Gallery 8 during the academic year. Jne kudcraper Vol. XXXVI March 16, 1966 No. 11 Newspaper of Distinction The Skyscraper is published semi-monthly. October to June inclusive except during exam and vacation periods, by the students of Mundelein College. 6363 Sheridan lid.. Chicago, III., 60626. SubscripUon rate is 2 per year. Entered as second-class matter Nov. 30. 1932. at the U.S. Post Office. Chicago. Bl under the act of March 3, 1897. The Skyscraper is a member of the Catholic School Press .Association. Letters to the editor must be signed. The Skyscraper reserves the right to cut letter* in case of limited space. Co-Editors Jean Durall, Diane Sargoi Photographers Margy Rediger, Nancy Vandenberg StalT Caryl Jean Cinelli, Pat Ciapar, Brcnda Dinneen, Margie Field. Marilyn Gibbs. Jennifer Joyce, Ann Katt. S. M. Kevin. C.S.S.F., Lynn McKeever, Mary McMorrow, Mariellen O'Brien. Ceol Rcschke. Kathy Riley, Patricia Toussaint, Marybeth Wagner, Judy Wardwell, Joyce Griffin, Vicki Germann, Pat Devine, Mary Fran Campbell
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