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Page Two SKYSCRAPER Interclass Communication TO Freshmen FROM Freshmen With Due Seriousness Along with September bookstore lines, fading summer tans, and new caps and gowns, a lament arises. Freshmen, meas uring their importance in years at Munde lein. illogically rate their potential magni tude according to the same criterion. The Mundelein freshmen will both give and gain. Mental maturity, cultural ap preciations, and poise will be acquired in exchange for interest, participation, sup port. The freshman is just beginning her journey through intellectual, social, and spiritual challenges. Her personal bene fits are easily discerned. The part she will play in the lives of her fellow class men, sophomores, juniors, and seniors, is, however, often reduced by her attitude of being just a freshman. No other campus cliche could be more false. All of us are basically traveling in the same direction; we need companion ship, encouragement, support in order to attain that perfection. With Revealing Gaiety Don't read this if you're not a freshman you might get wise to our plot and spoil the whole thing. This little article is di rected only to those unlucky ones who suddenly find themselves no longer kings of the mountain, but rather, low men on the totem pole. The worst stigma attached to a fresh man is so we are told after a wide sur vey that whether she be blonde, brunette, raven-haired, or a redhead, a freshman is always green She's always going up the down stairs, down the up stairs, in the out doors, out the in doors. Little things like that make a girl stand out from the crowd They tell me you can spot a freshman a mile away, just by the color of the things she does they are always green A few of us have gathered together and concocted a sure-fire formula where by a freshman may be mistaken for a sophomore, a junior, or (and this last is not obligatory) a senior. If you would like to. be mistaken for a sophomore, just follow these simple di rections : Go around pointing at each other, (fellow freshmen), clicking your tongues, and with sympathetic smiles on your faces that plainly say, Ah, yes, we remember the good old days. If your tastes run along junior lines, we -suggest that you try taking a casual attitude toward the whole thing. View everyone and everything from an objec tive viewpoint. Never get excited, and, in case of an emergency, remain calm, cool, and collected. Walk, but do not run to the nearest exit. We would suggest senior identity only for those made of sterner stuff. It is necessary for would-be seniors to run up and down the halls every spare moment with haggard faces and disheveled hair, muttering comprehensives, comprehen sives.'' Jke k dcraper uscrap Entered as Second Class Matter Nov. 30, 1932, at the Post Office of Chicago, Illinois under the Act of March 3, 1879, 1.75 per year. Published semi-monthly from October to May inclusive by the students of Mundelein College, 6363 Sheridan Road, Chicago 40. Vol. XXIII October 1, 1952 No. 1 Co-Editors Arlene Gorgol, Marion Whelan Student View Donna Merwick SAC Speaks Up Catherine Lamb, Patricia O'Brien Divertissements Marjorie Duffy, Sybil Lillie What Goes On Rosemary Burns Sports Gloria Valentine Skyscrapings Claire Hillyard Jane Roach Assignment Editors Mary Lou Rohlfing, Peggy Winslow Finishing high school we were really grown up; we, knew all there was to know about LIFE. We were almost 18 and the road ahead seemed clear of trials and troubles. Starting college, we awoke to the start ling fact that we are ONLY 18. After a few days of classes, we realized how little we actually know. Dropping from the ranks of sophisti cated high school seniors to the status of incoming college freshmen is excruciating torture and rather fun. We are in a new world, with strange labels on the doors, but life is not dull. The sophomores, the juniors, the seniors (all looked the same to us till the Mass of the Holy dhost) are incredibly friend ly- Faculty members, obviously unaware of the crushing burden their assignments prove, are kind, concerned, eager to help us help ourselves. We have our moments of graveyard gloom, but our first weeks at Mundelein have been strange and exciting. They have brought fun, freedom, and the de lightful feeling that at last we are adults. The business of being grown up and in college may prove strenuous, but 'some thing tells us it will be worthwhile. In other words, we're glad we're here. Student View Don't bother to read this column if the words, new era, signify to you any sub stantial meaning besides the tag-name of a calorie-free potato chip. If your current-events vision has caught only the old era of circus-like conventions and presidential campaigns vaguely re sembling traveling horse operas, read this column and think. Sandwiched between the reports of Ei senhower's and Stevenson's puzzled politi cal thinking is a story whose headline could read: Atomic Age Succumbs to Ro bot Era. In Korea a guided missile, con trolled by a radiologist on the U.S. car rier Boxer, plunged itself into communist installations. Enter a new age of fright and challenge During the '52 campaign. U.S. politics also trembled at an innovation: labor un ions' admitted attempted domination of their members' votes for president, senator, and even sanitary commissioner. Such control, parallel to the control which swept Peron to power in Argen tina, is evidenced in a recent statement of the CIO News, which complains that many Wisconsin members voted for Mc Carthy despite labor officials' efforts. En ter a new era of endangered democracy The new era announced promising changes as well as .forbidding ones. The visionary Shuman Plan Assembly crys- talized into a European Federation. En ter a possible new era of unity Troubled Egypt, under dictator Mo hammed Naguib, prepares to reorganize the Arab League. Enter a possibly danger ous, possibly valuable force in the Middle East And into our new era trickle the left overs of the old. Trying to forget the ter roristic era of Hitler's Jewish persecutions, our new age sees West German Chancellor Adenauer sign a reparations treaty with Palestine. Thus the treatment of Dachau is supplanted by the new indication of for giveness. Finally, before this column begins to . resemble a t gt;ox of assorted candies, we must introduce the two leaders of our new era. From behind the slowly-rusting iron curtain, Stalin announces his heir appar ent, Secretary of the Party Malenkov. Our Western leader must be the choice of the people, not a dictator. Reporters Barbara Brennan, Mary Carey, Dorothy Chiropolis, Rosemary Daly, Jo Anne Hickey, Dolores Kisting, Lois Kolar, Catherine Lamb, Ruth McHugh, Patricia O'Brien, Grace Pertell, Jane Pur- telle, Dorothy Schneider, Mary Alice Winn. Registration Day Nears Votes Make History- Then and Now What is the actual value of the 1 35 votes which express the voting power of Mundelein students in the 1952 national elections? In 17.91, Louis XVI was ushered to the guillotine by a majority of 53 French revolutionary ballots. President Johnson escaped impeach ment in 1868 through the instrumentality of a single vote. With the vote of 73 princes of the Church, Pope Pius XII was elected to the pa pal throne. So in the national election, Mundelein's 135 votes may speak fo momentous changes: the reduction of taxes, action against corruption in government, the realization of a nation's dreams. Both candidates are intelligent and hardworking men. Both an presenting their abilities and capacities. After we have studied the speeches and consulted political publications, we will decide whic one, in our opinion, possesses superior qualities. Because we are 21, because W3 live in a free country, we will havt the opportunity to express our choices with votes that count. Before or on Oct. 6, prospective voters may register at City Hal Oct. 7 will be a general registration day at local polling places. Ti register, one must be 21 on or before Nov. 4, 1952; a resident of th County for 90 days, and a resident of the precinct for 30 days prior to election day. What Qoes On . . GOD IS IN HIS HEAVEN THIS SEPTEMBER .OF 1952, AND though all indeed is not right with the world, as it quite possibly wasn't even in Browning's day, this is a time for bright beginnings. OUR OLDER SISTERS, THE RE CENT GRADUATES, ARE AT THE threshold of new careers. We, carrying on the tradition of college life, are em barking on a fresh, new year, full of ex periences and opportunities for alert minds to absorb all that takes place around them. MOST FORTUNATE OF ALL ARE THOSE DEAR TO OUR HEARTS, the freshmen. They have much before them, for they may indulge lavishly in one of the most satisfying of all possible hu man experiences, the acquiring of knowl edge. The halls of Mundelein are throbbing with the surge of their fresh vitality. The untapped- talents they bring and the en thusiasm they offer are eagerly antici pated by the upperclassmen. Time For A Change Put Some New Polish 1 On Rose-Colored Qlasses Is it as bad as they say? Won't anything turn out right? Th questions loom before us as we rend the papers and magazines, listi to TV and radio commentators, hear some of our elders talk. But we haven't studied histor/ and literature for nothing. Ce i eration after generation the world has been the same confused, d turmoil, insecure. v.-, And generation after generation of people have lived, enjoyeif fair amount of happiness, engaged in a fair amount of struggles, anc we hope entered Eternity courageously. It is true that today the world situation is not what we drei about. Our castles in the air are filled, not with trouble and sorrow with happiness and peace. Realists, we know that only some of our dreams will come trii idealists, we might be wise to take the upward view, to let our hopC take precedence over our apprehensions. Let's think a bit about all the ifts, the fortunes in opportuni laid in the hands of college students. Our homes, our families, o l friends, our college are gifts that w? love and trust. oat. We are continually growing, meeting new people, encounteriff16 new ideas, gaining new interests, developing new understandings. lia We cannot be stagnant, standing still mentally and spiritual worrying about what may happen, wondering if our dreams of careeHoi of homes, of families will come true. lt;, We must plan and learn and Dray and believe that our effr/atf and our aspirations are not lost. Our futures will be filled with jtfin- and disappointments. But the joys can overbalance the disappointments. Indeed, , lt; life-long goal, our eternal destiny, is one of joy. st Every minute of the day, every day, month, year brings us c to eternal happiness. While we ar-2 working toward this goal, t and everyday, let us have hope and happiness rather than apprehenst ' worry. The-sophomores have completed the J assimilation into campus life and are no I engrossed in discussions of philosophic) psychological and maybe social nature f Juniors, entering'their major fields, a busy with requirements and responsibi ' ities accompanying their respective choice : Mundelein awakens and stretches, Tr ly, God is in His heaven. THE UNFAMILIAR FEELING 0 lt; CAPS AND GOWNS AND THE CROS ', eyed effect produced by swinging tasa j resulted in a general air of palpitation s the senior class at the Mass of the Hi lt; Ghost. , This state was soon offset by the sole ntty of the occasion. What could be more appropriate beginning than to de cate this year and all work to be accoi plished to' God? What could be more comforting than place initial trust in Him, and couple with one's own best efforts? Such a co bination is surely undefeatable. lt;1 ives
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1952-10-01 (2)
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