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oc/o/ogy majors s/iare icfeas Weekend 'think-in' establishes rapport II Mil mil aVBKaTn anv nt * * by Mary Kate Cooney You look like death warmed over was the comment heard by a number of sociology students, as they plodded droopy-eyed through the halls or clutched the walls for more than moral sup port last Monday. The 27 students, plus 3 fa culty members: Dr. Russell Barta and Father Robert Reicher, both of the sociology department, and Sister M. Eloise Thomas, economics department were feel ing the after-effects of a thought- provoking, fun-filled (and for some, an almost sleepless) week end retreat at Chllderly House, Wheeling, Illinois. SAFE declares Fr. Robert Reicher, and teammates Carol Johnston and Diane Zinn hap pily agree. IF YOU HAD ASKED any of the 30 why they looked the way they did, more than likely their droopy eyes would have lit up, and they would have babbled something about Zarafthustra , or creative hope , or flying butresses . And perhaps you would have gone away wondering about their sanity. BUT THEN, CHILDERLYwas an experience, and an experience is often hard to verbalize. Dub bed a Think-In , the weekend encounter was conceived as a means of developing a community spirit among the members of the sociology department. By no means was It an instantaneous happening, but It was a process, a gradual sharing of ideas, of SUE KEATING gets set to strike a homer for the Deviants while Dr. Barta plays catcher. Mary Beth Mundt and Mary Cooney wait in line to bat. MAUREFN DORR takes her turn at drying dishes during the week-end Think-In for socio logy majors at Childerly Re treat House in Wheeling, III. experiences, of selves. Many began the weekend knowing some names, many faces, but little of the persons themselves. But, by Sunday after noon there was a feeling of one ness, a feeling of being bound together, as was evidenced by Saturday's celebration of the Eu charist, in which their liturgy was their own. NSA emphasizes student rights, black power, draft resistance by Mary Beth Mundt Try to imagine a group of people that is composed of student rightists, black power advocates and opposers and draft dodgers and supporters and you have the makings of the 1967 general meeting of the National Student Association held at the University of Maryland Aug. 13-26. The Mundelein Student Con gress (MSC), a member of the na tional NSA and a member of the Illinois-Wisconsin regional, was one of 330 student governments represented at the convention. The Mundelein delegates were alloted two votes, which were cast in favor of black power by any means necessary, student and faculty rights and for retain ing the previous year's Vietnam policy. Mundelein representatives were: Seniors Barb Dahlder, Rosemary O'Brien, Marge Sklen car, Donna Small and juniors Mary Louise Lyden and Jane Wilzack. A new face for NSA will be noticed by those who are cogni zant of its background and past activities. An emphasis on domestic rather than foreign is sues and a call for action rather than words characterize the NSA of October, '67. At the conven tion, student delegates debated the value of the NSA on their campuses as to its role in chang ing their schools and society. However, there was divided opin ion on such a vague and Incon clusive proposal. The resolution to organize a committee to campaign against compulsory service in the mili tary actions of the United States was accepted by the convention delegates. The committee was commissioned to advise campuses across the nation on the legal technicalities of conscientious objection and draft resistance. However, the delegates balked when asked to aid students who feel compelled to emigrate to Canada to escape the American draft. Again showing their prefer ence for domestic issues, con vention delegates voted on a pro posed resolution advocatingblack power. Defined as the establish ment of racial pride, identity, purpose and direction in order to secure economic, political, so cial and cultural power and in fluence for the black people of America, black power was at first endorsed but with the ex clusion of the phrase any means necessary to attain it. Later, however, after pressure from a threatened walkout by Negro stu dents, the delegates reinstated the phrase, but with the stipula tion that it was not an endorse ment of riots. In reference to a resolution aimed at the urban trouble spots, the federal government was call ed upon to finance programs esp ecially designed to alleviate the urban unrest that has character ized the American cities in this decade. However, the resolution was careful to emphasize that the residents of the areas being help ed would control and direct the programs. In alluding to student rights, the delegates approved a resolu tion that demanded that students and only students should deter mine policy which regulates the non-academic sphere of student life. In regard to academic life, the delegates insisted that stu dents should have the power to decide policy on an equal basis with administration. Further more, the students suggested that faculty should not be censored by institutional policies in which they had no say. A follow-up of this resolution stated that faculty has the right to a collective voice in the policies and posi tion of their university. On the question of Vietnam, which is probably the most explo sive and divisive issue of the Johnson administration, the stu dent delegates refused to advo cate complete and unconditional ceasefire and instead considered that efforts to negotiation would be feasible. However, even this resolution failed to pass, and the previous year's policy calling for a halt to the bombing of North and South Vietnam, de-escalation of military strategies, and recog nition of the National Liberation Front of South Vietnam as the negotiation party was held as off icial NSA policy. Reminiscent of the recent Mundelein appearance of Al Low enstein, a Democrat determined to see Johnson defeated in 1968, the NSA election for president was split over the Vietnam issue. Sam Brown, a Harvard Divinity student who campaigned for greater emphasis on the anti war stand, lost by a narrow mar gin to the incumbent, Edward Schwartz, who has placed greater emphasis on domestic issues. However, Brown adamantly stated that next year he would direct a dump LBJ movement at the primaries. The Alter native Candidate Taskforce will direct the movement at the local level. Yet, it must be realized that ACT '68 is not officially endorsed by the NSA. One comment that seems note worthy regarding the 68 presi dential election was made by one delegate who attended the con vention There is no agreement --hardly even a communality of sympathies-aboul what will work, or even about why we should work. Part II. continued Throughout the weekend, thoughts moved from the changes being experienced by the students in society, in the church, and In the world around them, to a need for a hope that of necessity must be creative. BUT THE EXPERIENCE was not entirely an intellectual en counter. For a community is built through the sharing of entire persons persons at work, at thought, and at play. And so, the group set tables together, washed dishes together, played a softball game in which the Deviants, captained by Father Reicher, edged Dr. Barta's Norms by a score of 21-20. They danced together, teaching and learning Zorba's dance, took na ture hikes, engaged in Informal discussions about Flower Power and children's literature, made leaf hats, and built a human pyra mid of 10 which ended in a heap as the result of a leap by their fearless leader. THE MOOD of the group was expressed by the comments of one of the participants: we created a community with a spirit to begin, to 'move on' and In our motion to find a stability: a spirit to be 'open to wind and rain;' a spirit to look ahead and not look back; a spirit that says 'freedom isn't handed down;' a spirit to earn, to learn, to LrVE. Illich discusses church reform Monsignor Ivan Hlich, di rector of the Center of Inter- cultural Formation in Mexico, will speak on the New Develop ments in the Church Today with Emphasis on Latin America Oct. 15 at 7:30 p.m. in Mc Cormick Lounge. Monsignor, author of thecon- troversial The Seamy Side of Charity, also will discuss Latin American Revolution Today with Felix Maria Valbuena Oct. 16 at 3:20 p.m. in McCormick Lounge. Mr. Valbuena is the former assistant director of the Institute of Latin American Studies at Xaveriana University, Bogota, Columbia. Now a graduate student at the University of Chicago, he also is doing social work among the Spanish population in Chicago. Both men will speak to the Spanish classes Monday, These two speeches are being sponsored by the Mundelein Stu dent Congress. Anatomy of racial strife Continued from Paqe 2 The sideshow was now over and the main attrac tion was to begin. It came in the introduction of Thomas Sutton, a lawyer practicing In a community a few miles to the west. Mr. Sutton is president of Operation Crescent, a collection of over 100 community groups organized to prevent further de terioration of neighborhoods in the Chicago area. He has appeared frequently on radio and television and is feared by those who wish to foster racial harmony. SUTTON BEGAN his address by explaining that the format could not be a panel discussion because, although he had contacted Al Raby, then head of CCCO, the director of the Catholic Interracial Council, and the NAACP, none of these organizations were courageous enough to send representatives. Later, through contact with these groups it was learned that Sutton, In actuality, had contacted only the NAACP four hours before the meeting, making It impossible to send a representative on such short notice. After these introductory remarks, Sutton launched into his topic with gusto. On the clergy's ad he remarked, The clergy have taught the Negro to disobey the law. Now they have the audacity to turn around and tell their parishioners to obey the law. MARTIN LUTHER KING and open occupancy were next subject to Sutton's attacks. Added to the fiery oratory were unrelated comments designed to evoke laughter and to insult the dignity of the Negro as well as the white liberals whom Sutton blamed for the tense situation in the civil rights campaign. By this time the tone of the meeting was obvious, subtly racist and excruciatingly funny. Continuing his techniques, Sutton referred to nuns who wear guns under their habits and to Project Renewal as a subsidy for integrated Church activity. Throughout his oratory, Sutton continually asked the audience, Am I right? to which they enthusiastically replied in the affirmative. TO CLOSE his address and to add final proof of his claims Sutton chose a passage from the Old Testament which commanded: Separate your selves from those who are evil. He then returned to his place on the formidable panel of speakers. As an anti-climax, Mr. Pellegrini who was active in the Cicero and Berwyn violence last summer addressed the meeting. He, too, urged cttizens to stop payment on Project Renewal. He then dis cussed the catechism being taught experimentally in a few Catholic grade schools which supposedly compared Martin Luther King to Jesus Christ. No topic remained untouched. A rather unruly question and answer period followed in which the emotionally heated audience spoke of incidents which supported the stand ex pressed by the panel. At the height of the discus sion, a young man at the back asked a few of his own questions. ADDRESSING EACH MEMBER of the panel se parately, he inquired the location of their homes and established that Mr. Kaczmarek was the only member who actually lived In the suburb.. He then made reference to a statement by Sutton that Martin Luther King brings in outside agitators to cause trouble in an area. The implication was clear. The audience was shocked that anyone would offer Sutton an argument and shouted back, Where are you from? The young man stated that he had lived in the suburb for 17 years and that he was a student at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C. immediately Sutton began to insult the univer sity, calling It a haven for beard-wearing beatniks and then called the young man a parasite and un worthy of having any opinions. The crowd enjoyed the attack immensely and on this high note of hilarity the meeting ended. The responsible citizens returned to their homes. Part IH: Condition Critical
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1967-10-12 (3)
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