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Page Two - The SKYSCRAPER - April 26, 1968 Editorials Games '68 invites you to play along The All-College Revue, Games '68 We Gotta Play, will be played tonight and tomorrow at 8:30 in the auditorium. If the re hearsals are any indication, Games will be a unique entertain ment experience. James O'Reilly, director of the University and Court Theaters at the University of Chicago, has molded this year's bush leaguers into true professionals. We congratulate him and the entire Revue company for their long hours of determined cooperation that will make this year's Revue first in everything and second to none. Games will make you laugh you will need cement to stay in your seats. Games will give you everything from pure corn to sophisticated satire. It has something for the egghead, some thing for the dunce and something for everyone in between. Remember: Games '68 We Gotta Play You gotta go Local laity prefer action over words i - The in-thing today in the new image of Christianity is to take a stand on some burning issue. Everybody has to have a stand: on Vietnam, on civil rights, on the new-nun, on birth control, on the laity, etc., etc. Whether it be Tsk Tsk , My, what a pity or Hell no, we won't go everybody wants to be heard. But the trouble with an in-thing like this is that it too often becomes an easy way out: one's Christian duty fulfilled by lip-service con demnation mere words with no work to back them up. That is why it was encouraging to read that the Chicago Con ference of Laymen has adopted the eight resolutions of the Third World Congress for the Lay Apostolate held in Rome last fall. The CCL, in agreement with the World Congress, strongly deplores all wars, condemns all forms of racism and oppression, supports re sponsible programs for birth control, advocates a greater role in Church decision making by the laity and equal rights for women within the church. But more than condemn and propose, the CCL demands action; action to come through the Church hierarchy, through govern ments, through world organizations, but most impressively, through its own individual Christian members. Not a mere voice crying in the wilderness, the CCL has pledged itself to launch action where existing structures of the Church are not doing ef fective work. This action by the CCL gives hope that Christianity is indeed a way of life and not just a series of do's and don'ts. Innovations meet resident demands Innovation characterizes the activities of the Dorm Council 1967-1968. Operative in a year beset with residents' demands for enhanced freedom and responsibility, the Council not only listened but acted on the needs of the ever-expanding resident body. Perhaps the Council will be best remembered for the initiation of the no-hours policy for seniors and those twenty-one. However, the year '67-68 was marked by the attempt on the part of each dorm officer to make the year just a little better. An orientation week that introduced a heterogeneous freshman class to expeditious urban life, the unique Christmas ceremony that added a bit of Yuletide joy to every exam-crazed resident, the un precedented floor dinners in McCormick Lounge and the contagious Tom Sawyer wash-the-walls-days added up to produce an imagina tive and personable year that will be difficult to match in the future. In my opinion... EDITOR'S NOTE: (The author of this guest column is a senior psychology major who plans to do graduate work in philosophy.) by Helen Moorhead It is often said that legisla tion cannot enact morality; that only through understand ing can the morality which Black America seeks be gained. Understanding what? I think the key word here is despair, for despair is what Black America has lived in, tried to adjust to, and hated all its life. Hated to the extent that I / n iJL W ltoriK fn Sk W Games '68 You Gotta Go Skyscrapings The newly mustered Alewife Watch, a strictly volunteer re serve force has reported nothing definite. This vigilance crew has remarked ominous glints from the Northeast and Portentious Whiffs from the Southeast: but so far no evidence of even outcrop- pings of carnage like last year's. Alewife Watchers, organ ized last month in conjunction with the Mundelein Tornado Watch and Forest Fire Senti nels, undergo a brief but in tensive training period during which they learn to distin guish Alewives from the sea sonally coincident Smelt, Coho Salmon, tin cans and driftwood. They also learn staunch indifference to ele mental conditions and physi cal discomfort, knowing they may be called out of bed at any time of the day or night to stand guard. The Watchers, or Carp Corps as they fondly call themselves, enjoy the follow ing Fringe Benefits. They receive a tax-free stipend for fishhooks, a daily dole of clam-chowder and protein- rich fish meal, and a fuchsia sou'wester suitable for wear ing at the Officers' Ball. After their hitch, they may continue their education on the G.I. Bill. Each is assured a summer position on one of the Barges in the projected Alewife Blockade which ill intercept the critters at the horizon. (Considering the state of the Summer Job Market today, who can af ford (o be squeamish?) For the benefit of non- science majors, ignorant of the exact location of the Horizon, it's the thin line that originates at the Northwest ern Observatory and inter sects the Water Filter. If you are an other directed person with zeal for commu nity service, kindly fill out the forthgoing Enlistment Form, and mail to Citizen's Militia, 707, Skyscraper, c/o Tully: RIP-SNIP-TEAR-PER FORATE - DISENGAGE- REND - DETACH - SEPA RATE-CUT. 1. NAME: 2. ALIAS: 3. NO. of TASTEBUDS: 4. NO. Of OLEFACTORY GLANDS: 5. GPA: RIP - SNIP - TEAR - PER FORATE - DISENGAGE - REND - DETACH - SEPA RATE - CUT. Explanation: Part 2. All who report for Alewife Duty are awarded honorary mem bership in the Dirty Dozen and a full pardon signed by Sister Ann Ida. Part 4. Per sons overendowed in this area undergo supplementary DE- SENSITIVITY TRAINING PROGRAM. Part 5. Strictly (Continued on page 4) black people know that what 90 percent of the population proclaims as the good life is out of the realm of possibility for themselves and know why. And it is too late to do away with newspapers, magazines and television. To live in despair ls to un derstand it, but is this a neces sary condition for understand ing? I would hope not but I can't help but think it is the case. Unfortunately, the quick est way to the United States' heart is through its pocket, and the quickest way to the United States' pocket is national catastrophe, that is national catastrophe with no foresee able way out. Since China has been slow getting her Bomb off the ground we have only the militants to thank for then- efforts toward this end. Spiritual Upheaval A direction for all of this? Perhaps a recent letter from my mother has best summed this up: The Negro-white sit uation seems not to be any iso lated thing but just one part of a world-wide spiritual up heaval. Men everywhere are rising up and proclaiming the right to be men in the light of what their deepest instincts tell them men should be. Like a spiritual renaissance a global discontent and underlying all of it is the message of creative love (sometimes barely dis cernible but there) and a need for now-ness. Ironically enough, all this is happening when man has within his grasp the means for destroying himself and the promise of maximum material satisfaction. One who thinks like me might see a mighty design that is giving mankind a chance for a meaningful survival. One might see some kind of design of evolution like a drive of the soul to catch up with the mind. Soul Unifies Because I have always felt that the Negro race constitutes the soul of this country, it is only right that that is where the 'happening' is centered in this place. For this reason I find it rather wondrous that the word 'SOUL' as in soul brother and soul sister has taken on a special meaning and it now goes beyond color. It signifies a kind of 'being with it' not only really 'hearing' the beat of the drums but more im portantly hearing the beat of the human heart. Vol. XXXVIII April 26 No. 18 The Skyscrapvr is published weakly. October to Mov inclusive except during exam and vacation periods, bv the students of Mundelein Colleqe, 6363 N. Sheridan Road. Chicago, III. 60626. Opinions expressed are those ol the Skyscraper stall. Second-class postage paid at Chicago, Illinois, Entered as second-class matter Nov. 30, 1932 at the U.S. Post Office. Ch cogo. III., under the act ol March 3, 1897. Editor Kathleen Flynn News Editor Janet Sass Feature Editor Mary Beth Mundt Business Manager Theresa Ebenhoe Photographer Marianne Fusillo Cartoonist Cothleen Harrington Editorial Board: Mary Kate Cooney, Kothleen Flynn, S. Eileen Jack, Jenniler Joyce. Mory Beth Mundt, Kothy Riley, Janet Sass. Stall: Kothy Costanzo, Kathy Cummins, Mory Cooney, Pat Devine, Aldine Favaro, Alice Johnson, Shelia McCarthy. Mary McMorrow, Sally Nakai, Mary Ann Novak. Peggy Sieben. Reporters: Karen Appelt, Rosemary Beales, Zoe Hillenmeyer, Alex Jaiowko, Rose McKiernan. Vera Milenkovich, Mary Nachtsheim, Mary Ann Novak, Sharon Pelletier. Carol Ries, Linda Sullivan.
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