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Page Two, THE SKYSCRAPER, Dec. 12, 1955 Midnight In A Christmas World Brings Darkness in which The Star Beams . . . On the Holy Land . . . where there is conflict between Arab and Jew On Russia . . . where no candles shine on the altars for Midnight Mass On the Belgian Congo . . . where Christianity flourishes On China . . . where missionaries and the light of God have been ex tinguished On Japan . . . where the dusk of paganism is being illumined with the glow of knowledge of God On Argentina .. . where persecution has strengthened the Star's flame in thousands of Catholics On Chicago . . . largest American archdiocese, where Christmas tapers burn on hundreds of altars On Mundelein College . . . where 1000 Faculty members and students kindle a Cross of Candlelight and pray for peace among men. Jhe hudcrap er Vol. XXVI Dec. 12, 1955 No. 6 Entered as Second Class Matter Not. 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. FRESHMAN STAFF Co-Editors in Chief Alice Bourke Marcella Brown Michaella Burton Annette Busse Patricia Cullen Marilyn Devereaux Jcanine Dwyer Barbara Guderian Patricia Hampton Mary Jane Hayes Mariann Hoffman Alice Holies Marilyn Jensen Sandra Marek Patricia McShane Gloria Mrazek Sharon O'Shea Marilyn Picchietti Alice Raczak Francine Rezutko Sharon Roth Lynda Rousseau Mary Ann Sawitoski Diane Scifres Dorothy Souligny Dorothy Stensland Alma Sweaton Diaze Szardowski Marytheresc Walsdorf Mary Jane Walthouse Betty Weiss Mary Ann Wilczynski Joan Zander Janice Zumwalt Marguerite Phillips I Enjoy .... The Best Things which bring us satisfaction. Laughter is of primary import. But we need not import our joys. Some of them are right here at school. Do you enjoy or admit to enjoying biology' Does delight pervade your hearts when you are confronted with a pig readied for dissection? If so, you have a souhnate in Freshman Patricia Cullen, who says: ' I may suffer in sympathy with someone who is injured, or be come useless at the scene of an accident, but in a laboratory with instruments and a specimen an uncontrollable fascination over comes me to see what makes it 'tick.' The Proposal .... The Moon Was Like A Snowball Held Softly In The Blue Mitten Of The sky. Beneath the snowlake stars, I stood with The Man in My Life. The scene was set. With tender compassion in his eyes, he softly said, Dear, did you know that in this weather construction workers are laid off? Before he went on, I mod estly replied, Caring for them is not our responsibil ity. The government should take care of that. In his usual deep, persua sive voice, he pleaded, I have an important question to ask you. Don't you think that the guaranteed annual wage would solve the prob lem better? Completely bewildered, I protested, This is so sud den. Our economy is so un prepared. By now, perhaps you've realized this is no common conversation. Maybe you've guessed that we're debaters. To those who have taken ad vantage of the marvelous op portunity to speak uninter ruptedly for 10 minutes, the topic of the guaranteed wage is of extreme importance. We have learned some un deniably useful facts which we can use to enrich our daily conversations. For example, did you know that automa tion completely ruined the buggy whip industry? Did you ever stop to think that Christmas tree salesmen are unemployed 11 months of the year? Important issues like these constantly confront consci entious debaters. Twice a week we meet behind closed doors to plot dur strategy and plan our attacks. Our motto mimics the Girl Scouts' Be Prepared. While those around us chatter cheerfully about dates and deadlines, we con cern ourselves with job se curity, unemployment com pensation, technological tech niques, and cyclical fluctua tions. The fact that debating means making more friends in new places is not our pri mary incentive. We are com pletely uninterested in the 50-to-one ration of men to women debaters. The intel lectual interests involved are our only incentives. So, if you should pass through a park and see an earnest young man on his knees imploring a young lady to accept his proposal, re member this. The proposal probably is: Resolved that non-agricultural industry should guarantee to employ ees an annual wage. Only 12 Shopping Days . . . Walking In An Urban Winter Wonderland, I Qaze At Columns Surrounded By Evergreen And red ribbon, topped with colored lights, red, yellow, and green. Crowds ignore these intermittently changing lights and rush headlong in to the streaming traffic. They disre gard safety of life and limb in a reck less attempt to capture the finest Christmas gift in the shortest pos sible time. It is exciting to watch this mad dash of eager spendthrifts. After 11 months of procrastination, Chicagoans have abruptly awakened to the im pending holiday and the necessity of giving gifts to relatives, friends, and friends of friends. One advantage of late Christmas shopping is that loneliness never over takes one. Indeed, it is difficult to take a step without being shoved or bumping another shopper. During this season, all the recluses of the city don their protective shells and venture forth to spread cheer. I beam with good will toward my fellow men when I gaze at countless people bent on making others happy some permanently bent with the weight of the world which they seem to carry on their thin shoulders. People share the wealth when they lind one of the fast diminishing sales persons. The saleswoman a window shopper cannot evade dur ing 11 months of the year has disap peared. In her place is a school girl or a frowsy-haired matron who shouts, I'll be with you in just a minute, Dearie. In spite of all these drawbacks, though, watching Chicagoans doing their Christinas shopping is exciting if one did her shopping as I did mine last August. Christmas shop ping is my favorite December specta tor sport. With Apologies To Webster And The Oxford We Define FRESHMAN: Happily confused girl with one piece of her mind in the Phoenix room and the other enroute to the library. She likes long eleva tor rides and college basketball stars. She dislikes required assem blies, book reports, and dateless Saturday nights. She worries about clothes, careers, classes, and puts her week-end corsage on the Pieta on Monday morning. She is lucky and she knows it. The world is at her feet. GERMAN CLASS: Only place in Col lege in which it is correct to say dies and dem. LOYOLA UNION: Meeting place where girls spend time they don't have, playing card games they don't like, looking for boys they haven't yet met. PARKING LOT: Sun Valley with ice skating rink and swimming pool. ACB: Executives mixed up about the alphabet. PANEL: The lineup. ELEVATOR: What one always misses when one has class on the sixth floor. MICROSCOPE: Instrument which teaches the art of winking with only one eye. ASSIGNMENT: That which when fin ished, if ever, merits another as a bonus. Ir Li*e Usua Are Simple, Everyday Ones In the name of science, I slash membranes, mutilate thryoids, and destroy layers of tissue. After class, Herman, pet name for a dear de parted specimen, is a broken creature indeed. But I am exalted by my dis coveries. If dissecting repels you, perhaps you take pleasure in the arts. Says Freshman Marilyn Picchietti, My hours in the Orchestra are a constant joy to me. Playing in union with many others gives me a thrill, a sense of belonging. However small my part, my violin notes are necessary to the success of the selection. I am needed. she too is needed by her resident roommates. I have six roommates, she observes. My life involves will ingness to lend an ear, advice, postage stamps, a helping hand; to share se cret hopes, precious nylons, meagre talents, sorrows, and joys. A common address and telephone number are just the beginnings of resident life. I love my six roommates. Another Freshman's joy is commuting. Alice Holies travels 50 miles a day to and from her home in Medinah. Travel, she insists, broadens the outlook and contributes to a fun-filled ex istence. As for Freshman Dorothy Souligny, Nothing demonstrates human equality better than a train ride in which everyone is subject to a form of servitude slavery to a schedule and a monthly ticket. Every other com muter becomes a friend. I wouldn't exchange my train ticket for all the residence halls on earth. . . . As for Freshman Mary Jane Hayes, she enjoys a certain time of day, Twilight, she says, is my bewitch ing hour. I treasure the time between 4 and 5 o'clock as the precious jewel of my day, a time for spiritual rejuv enation, and an opportunity to count my blessings. These include all the little moments of happiness which permeate my average day.''
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1955-12-12 (2)
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Women and Leadership Archives http://www.luc.edu/wla
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Mundelein College
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Student newspaper for Mundelein College
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