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Decision Climaxes Year of Study Add Laymen to Board of Trustees Responding to the challenge of Vatican II to build bridges to the contemporary world, Sister Ann Ida Gannon, college president, announced Feb. 9 that the Mundelein College Board of Trustees will be expanded this year to include laymen. Presently the board consists of seven Sisters of Charity of the Blessed Virgin Mary, who serve collectively as the su preme legal governing board of the college. Under the pro posed expansion, six or seven prominent laymen in business, industry and the arts will be the lay faculty numbers 40 as op posed to eight when Sister became president ten years ago. ON THE OTHER HAND, the approved expansion of the board is not parallel to the recent trans fer of control of Webster College from a religious community to a completely lay board. In her Feb. 9 statement, Sister said, It is my firm belief that now more than ever before it is necessary to have strong institutions of higher learn ing committed to Catholic ideals. Furthermore, Sister added, A Catholic college in the post-con- ciliar era has also another obliga tion: to prepare its young students in the spirit of the Council . . . to cross that bridge (to the con temporary world) and to ensure that the decrees, especially as they refer to the laity, will be realized in their lives. presented to the Board for election this spring. Currently the president and her advisory committee are preparing a list of tentative candidates who will not nec essarily be Catholic, Sister Ann Ida said. In brief the responsibilities of the Board of Trustees are: to se lect and appoint the College presi dent; to assume legal responsibility for the acquisition, conservation and management of the College's funds and properties and to over see the quality of the education offered here. IN A STATEMENT issued Feb. 9, Sister said, Such an addition is one of the most important steps which the College has taken in re cent years. It will do much to help us meet the challenges of our changing society and the changing church. By offering key administrative posts to laymen, Mundelein is not unique among Catholic colleges and universities. Last month Loyola University approved the addition of lay members to its board of trustees. Likewise, Notre Dame, DePaul and St. Louis Universities are revamping their governing boards, in line with the trend to ward widening perspectives in both Catholic education and theology. AT THE SAME TIME, the presi dent stressed in a Skyscraper in terview last week that Mundelein is not merely trailing the heels of a sudden and rapidly moving trend. The expansion of the board at Mundelein as well as at other Catholic universities and colleges has been under consideration for over a year, she said. Similarly, the decision is not a departure from precedent here. During the past few years, Sis ter said, the College has added many laymen to its administration two vice-presidents, an assistant dean, registrar, director of public relations, director of financial aid, and has increased its lay staff as well as its lay faculty. Currently IE ISC Mundelein College, Chicago, 111., Feb. 15,1967 Vol. XXXVII Kennedy Urges 'Open Policy Toward Militant Red Chinese by Jennifer Joyce Senator Robert F. Kennedy ad vocated a more open policy toward Red China based on an awareness of history and the current situa tion, in an address to a capacity audience in the law school audito rium of the University of Chicago, Feb. 8. There has been more growth in Chinese Priest Analyzes Southeast Asian Conflict by Diane Lally Convening the final session of Speak-Easy, moderator Stan Dale praised the College administration for allowing him to conduct the program. The primary reason I'm sad is for you, he said to the scant Father John Lee audience in the College Theater, Feb. 7. Concluding with the hope that we'll all be able to meet again, he introduced the last speaker, Reverend John Lee of the Fu-Jen Catholic University of For mosa. FATHER LEE told students that Americans hear only about Red China because Free China is not noisy, but is prosperous. Its na tional growth rate is second only to Israel's and 90 per cent of its 13 million people are middle class. He attributed her success to a nation-wide program of land re form. Land reform in Formosa is so cialism in reverse, he said. The government gtfves the property to the farmers instead of taking it. Turning to the apparent Sino- Soviet split, Father Lee termed it a disagreement over tactics, not ideology. Mao Tse-tung favors spreading communism by force. The Russians are opposed to this. CONCERNING the present in ternal strife in China, he said, Mao Tse-tung is an idealist, 200 per cent communist who does not want to see communism diluted by Western, Russian, or even Chinese influences. The culture of China is based on the teachings of Con fucius, Father Lee explained. These teachings emphasize respect for the past and for the family and are not in accord with Mao's communism. He saw three possible outcomes of the current unrest, Mao will purge his political enemies, they will purge Mao, or the Chinese people will throw the whole bunch out. The Chinese people have been deceived. They were prom ised heaven, given hell. They learned what communism really means. PROBING the possibility of na tionalist premier Chiang Kai-shek's return from exile, Father said that the premier does not represent the rich and was in the process of re forming the country when Mao drove him from China, Neverthe less, Father regarded any invasion by Kai-shek's forces as unlikely. Our best hope for the Chinese people is within the mainland, he concluded. REGARDING the admission of Red China to the United Nations, Father rejected the idea on the grounds that Red China demands impossible conditions and does not meet the requirements in the pre amble of the UN Charter. Fur thermore, he added that in dealing with Red China's government we are not dealing with her popula tion. Why talk to them? he con cluded, Purpose is not to talk, but to get somewhere. With regard to Vietnam, Father Lee said, Mr. Johnson tried pretty hard to end this war, . . . tried all the suggestions and failed. If South Vietnam fell, he warned the audience, a chain reaction would be set off throughout Asia. People behind the Iron Curtain do not have freedom, particularly religious freedom. It is our obliga tion to free them. He disagreed with those who fear Chinese inter vention in the war, explaining that Mao's domestic problems are too great. Since we're there fighting a war, let's fight a real war. The National Liberation Front he called nothing but a branch office of North Vietnam government. our awareness and knowledge of the problem in the past year than in the past decade, Kennedy as serted. Nevertheless, present U.S. policy, according to Kennedy, lacks a per spective on Chinese history and development and also fails to com prehend the attitude of China to ward the West. Policy demands a conscious and open recognition that we live in the same world and move in the same continent with China, with its dangers and possible strengths and terrible frustrations, Kennedy stated. Only when we accept this real ity, he said, can we work toward our cen tral task to bring about Chi nese acceptance of the fact that it too must live with us and the other nations of the world. Kennedy con tinued that it will make a great difference to our acts and policies if we treat China as a potential danger and a possible opportunity rather than as a cer tain enemy and a lost cause. The senator urged contact with China on as many levels as pos sible, because relations with an irrational and ignorant China are difficult. The senator denounced the self- righteous assertion of sweeping Loyola News Photo by Frank Boejrman Senator Robert Kennedy Refer Pass-Fail Plan To Full Faculty Vote A pass-fail grading system for elective courses will be initiated next fall if the faculty votes to approve it at their April meeting. Scheduled on an experimental basis, the pass-fail grade will be ap plicable to elective courses only if a student desires it and if she chooses it at the beginning of a course. Electives are defined as all courses outside a student's major and related requirements, outside the basic studies program and outside edu cation minor requirements. The system is designed to allow a student greater freedom in se lecting electives outside her major field without affecting her grade point average. Initiated by the Academic Affairs committee last November, the pass-fail recommendation subsequently passed to the Committee on Lib eral and Tutorial Studies. This group conducted a study including stu dent interviews during the last two months. Sister Ann Ida Gannon, college president, received the proposal Feb. 6, but is reserving final decision until the faculty vote. moral principles as a substitute for policy, though we are willing to ignore those principles when our conception of national interest de mands it Nor can policy be equated with simple faith in the progress of human nature, since modern man has displayed a tremendous ca pacity for what Kennedy called dark aggression. Rather, U.S. policy on Red China must be a course of action calcu lated to achieve certain goals and should outline the terms on which reconciliation can be sought, Ken nedy stated. The foundation of Southeast Asian policy, according to Ken nedy, must be a knowledge of the reality and diversity of today's Asia and a discriminating eval uation of our own interest, capaci ties and limitations. In the question and answer pe riod after his address, the senator said that he would advocate the admission of Red China to the United Nations although he em phasized that China would proba bly not accept the invitation. He hinted that such a move would have to be carefully planned to avoid damaging current relations with Nationalist China. Turning to Viet Nam, Kennedy warned that the resolution of that war will not resolve the problems of Asia, although the resolution must depend in large part on our attitude and policy toward China. When asked if the present Viet Nam policy is a continuation of the previous administration's policy, the senator contended that it was im possible to say what President Kennedy would have done in the present situation. He credited the Johnson policy for dealing with the war with courage and determina tion. The audience reacted to this statement with a mixture of ap plause and hissing. Kennedy did admit several seri ous reservations about adminis tration actions. He urged a cessa tion of the bombing in North Viet Nam and an emphasis on economic and political efforts rather than the current stress on military victory. In regard to the outcome of a free election in Viet Nam, Ken nedy indicated that the central question is who is going to count the votes. He expressed a will ingness to accept a coalition gov ernment in Viet Nam, even one including communists, if this is the real will of the people.
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1967-02-15 (1)
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