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Page Two SKYSCRAPER You can always tell a Freshman by the Mademoiselle Look Off Season Rates Lure Travelers To Utopia An American student recently re turned from Europe remarked that once there she felt a current of new interest replace superficial excitement. Her identiy was challenged by myriad new faces and far away places. With out the security and limitations of familiarity, she experienced a new freedom. People for centuries have realized the value of starting anew in a strange locale. This was a focal point of More's Utopia and a driving force of young America. A change is con sidered one of the best medicinals of fered to haggard housewifes and ex- convicts alike. Sometimes an altera tion of routine can effect the same end result. It's dull to be dated, and out moded as sloppy joes and ankle brace lets. Observations on a fascinating book lately read inserted into a hackneyed conversation about clothes, dates, and assignments can tonic life into being livable. Their expression of various views and sentiments of Senator Mc Carthy, and Clare Booth Luce's prog ress as ambassador to Rome, suddenly make old friends novel people. Everyone's always glad to try a new restaurant or be the first with a new fashion. Substitute for the latest gossip, a dash of controversy, a few new topics, and a level measure of substance, and add seasoning to an otherwise bland diet Best Seller Is Suspense Filled The sky is dark; only the flickering words Fasten your safety belts are visible. .All gaiety, laughter, excite ment subside. An airliner is going to crash. Thoughts of passengers a honey moon couple, a jealous husband, a once famous pilot, a gentle father of a large family sink to solemnity, anxiety. Courage loses itself in fear. ..Lives are changed in split seconds. Con scious-stricken people confess inner most secrets. Occasionally, the dry humor of a man eases the tension aroused by an hysterical woman. The sudden dif ficulty of preparing for death puzzles the 21 passengers in Ernest K. Gann's, The High And The Mighty. The plane lands safely in the Pa cific. Death is immediately forgot. In a few days the lives of these persons will be parallel to the lives they lived before they boarded the plane. Here is a thought-provoking book. School's Started Nice To See You Hello, Hello, Hello new fall, a brand new winter, and a brand new spring Hello, everyone Hello to a brand Greetings to all the things that make college life worthwhile; to the classes and assignments; to the formal and informal dances; to the softly lit and lady-like teas; to the sudden black outs three minutes before two-hour examinations. Greetings to the dripping hair straight after an hour in the pool; to the corridors, to the Phoenix, to the Union. Greetings to the people the Facul ty and friends, the acquaintances, to the Library, to the warmth and fam iliarity of our Mundelein Chapel, to everything that makes college life worthwhile. Autumn Sweeps In, Lovely and Poised Autumn shuns the city, afraid to smudge her fall outfit. She holds her court without the walls, inviting all to view her splendor. To the Chicagoan, the novelist writ ing of autumnal beauty seems to be exaggerating. Never has the city child seen autumn in full bloom. In summer Nature is staid and dig nified, but as summer dies, she goes on a shopping spree and outfits her self in daring, flashing red, yellow, and orange. From a dignified beauty, she becomes a vivacious minx, flirting with Jack Frost as he flys winter from one landing field to another. Autumn's life is as short as youth. Entering in flaming splendor, she leaves, clothed in drabness, her fire soon replaced by the pure simplicity of the glistening snow. It's a Veiled Secret . We're Glad To Be Here I'd change places with you any- day.' ' It's a familiar sentence, spoken by many college graduates, and by hundreds of people who never had the opportunity to go to college. But, as the assignments pile up, as the problem of study and learning con fronts us, sometimes we wonder. Here am I, an underclassman, struggling with requirements that baffle my brain, thinking on occa sion, What am I doing here? Here am I, an upperclassman, in school only two weeks, burdened with more work than I can ever do, think ing, on occasion, Why did I come back? But think how boring college life would be if a student didn't have crises and burdens to moan about If there were no worries circling over our heads, we probably wouldn't be happy. The upperclassmen have lived through the difficult requirements of freshman and sophomore year. The nostalgic alumnae survived courses and comprehensives. Secretly, most of us enjoy, if not the hurdles of college life, certainly the rewards of those hurdles. Uni versally, men and women are envious of the college student. Here we prepare for careers in teaching, social work, research, busi ness, the arts and sciences. Here we learn Ihe essentials of social and civic leadership, come to appreciate our individual resources and learn how to develop the abilities of others. Here our minds are broadened reli giously and intellectually, so that we may live as cultured Christian women. Let's enjoy the advantages we now have. Let's be sensible we wouldn't be in college if we didn't want to be. What Goes On It's easy to remember, hard to for get the luxuriousness of a warm sum mer a barbecue, a cool swim, the pay check, and blissful free evenings. Italian haircuts brought an influx of shorn women back to Mundelein, but bathing caps and mortar boards are concealing the artistic work of beauty operators. Espanol, everything goes Espanol. The shoe with the Spanish toe, the toreador trouser trend, and even the new Hilton hotel in Madrid catch some of the current interest in the country. But it's the Skyscraper school that's clicking its heels and clacking the cas tanets to promote the Spanish ballet. Imagine, you imagining You could be, since it's the latest stepping stone to popular music. Choice instrumen- tals make serene surroundings for con templation and offer a veritable con trast to sentimental lyrics. Most of these endeavors are theme music Terry's Tune from Limelight, Ebb tide, and The Story of Three Loves. Even though the beginnings are sparse, it proves that there is a desire for an improvement in the field. A stranger in the theatre walked competently into the dress circle. Graham Greene fanciers are discussing the appearance of his first play, The Living Room, now being dramatized in London, Mr. Greene discovered that the theatrical approach is a new adventure. Critics have heralded The Living Room as one of the most sig nificant and vital plays in years. In the Miscellaneous department: If you haven't seen Lili, you will love it. Sheer fantasy, it is captivat ing for children and adults, men and women, just because there is some thing of you in wide-eyed Lili and her puppets. Watch for Bishop Fulton Sheen who will return to his television ser ies, Tuesday, Oct. 13. Student View . . . Prisoners Are Home, But War's Not Over The last prisoner of war ship has sailed for home shores. The United Nations General Assembly has com menced discussions, which aim at prw ducing a lasting and binding peacJ treaty. American people have settled back to review with complacency tt so-called victory. Yet long before Korea was a household word, another war was being fought. That war has not ceased, nor has it been won. Until recently, America has seen mentally to catalogue the Indo- nese struggle as a non-entity. Earl last month, Secretary of State Dull finally clarified the United States sition. He warned that direct intel vention in Indo-China by Red Chii could not occur without grave col sequences which might not be col fined to Indo-China, In further answer, the United State promised doubled financial aid. j most immediately, the United tions General Assembly voted to ply 800 million in aid to Lido-Chi Consequently, a new spirit and optimism has surged up in the men of France and Indo-China who must fight this ugly, over- shadowed war. United States and United Nations aid plus addition al French soldiers have combined to give a new lift to morale. Meanwhile, it is still touch and j Perhaps the measures recently tab can bring success. Perhaps not. ij future is veiled. Whether we know it or not, o lives may be vitally influenced I events in Indo-China. Here, certai ly, is the root of a possible Woi War DX Prayer for wisdom for our stata men may enable them to repeat inl Far East the success they achieved Greece. i hJ Jke * h udcraper Vol. XXIV Oct. 5, 1953 No Entered as Second Class Matter Nov. 30, ul i at the Post Office of Chicago, Illinois, under Act of March 3, 1879, 1.75 per year. ( ) Published semi-monthly from October to inclusive by the students of Mundelein CoH 6363 Sheridan Road, Chicago 40. 1 Editors-in-chief Barbara Brei Mary Lou Rohlfing, Peggy Win Associates Dorothy Chiro Nancy Westp SAC Speaks Up Catherine ' * ' Student View Grace Skyscrapings Mary v. Patricia O'Brien, Jean Kielty, Mary Doherty, Eileen Venza Editorial Associates Rosemary 1M Jane Partelle, JoAnn Hickey, Ann StoiBt Mary Alice Winn, Patricia Sampson, W etta Casey Ct Art Editor Vasilia SouF1: Reporters Ellen Abn Patricia Anderson, Pauline Fabbri, Ba Gaul, Marie Kobielus, Bernadette L , Nancy Mammoser, Barbara Quinn, Sheridan, Denise Stanton, Patricia Su
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1953-10-05 (2)
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