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In view of the tact that most of the MSC offices are uncontested the Paper Power Party presents their slate of write-in candidates. Page Three - The SKYSCRAPER - February 16, 1968 President: Kathleen Flynn Vice-President: Mary Kate Cooney Recording Secretary: Linda Sullivan Corres. Secy.: Sheila McCarthy Treasurer: Theresa Ebenhoe Delegates-at-large: Rose McKiernan Vera Milenkovich Sharon Pelletier Cathy Harrington Rosie Beales Alex Jajowka Cultural Affairs Committee: Janet Sass Academic Affairs Com.: Mary Beth Mundt Rules Committee: Marianne Fusillo Social Arrangements Board: Tully Liturgy Committee: Mary Ann Novak NSA Co-ordinator: Alice Johnson Campaign Manager: S. Eileen Jack Speech Writers: Jennifer Joyce Kathy Riley Mary McMorrow Sally Nakai Peggy Sieben Aldine Favaro Kathleen Cummins PLATFORM: If the PPP is elected, we will abolish the MSC. Unless our entire slate is elected, no member of the PPP will accept office. A WRITE-IN VOTE FOR PPP IS A VOTE TO ABOLISH THE MSC This it a -jmd political announcement sponsored bv Ihe PPP. CSCA appoints Sr. Dooley coordinator of new program by Sheila McCarthy Sister Dolores Dooley. philosophy department chairman, has been named co ordinator for the experimental program, of teaching philosophy in high school. The Central States College Association (CSCA) is conducting the three year experiment, and the Carnegie Foundation is providing 250,000 to finance it. As coordinator. Sister Dolores' job will be (1) to familiarize herself with each secondary school and CSCA college involved in the program, (2) to act as liaison be tween the teacher applicants, the board of selectors and the high school campus and (3) to evaluate and publicize the program at each stage of development. Sister says she will be relieved of her responsi bilities at Mundelein since demands are full time for the philosophy program. Her leave will commence at the end of the 1967-68 school year. The program is operat ing on the theory that phi losophy has a vital role to play in the intellectual growth and personal lib eration of students. It also balances the improved high school curriculum in mathematics and science. The objectives of the program, however, are geared to both students and teachers. They are designed to expose stu dents, especially those who might not go on to college, to the critical ap paratus of philosophy. It Is hoped also to create a better articulation of high school and college objec tives, therefore bridging the gaps of the teaching levels. Since the teach er will only instruct on a part time basis, he will be able and obligated to do graduate work and li brary research. In selecting teachers. Sister Dolores states, CSCA philosophy teach ers certainly will receive first consideration in the teacher applicants. If for 1968-69 a CSCA instructor could not see clear to leave college then we will be consulting other mid- West consortia. The approach to teach ing the course is up to the individual instruc tor and high school ad ministration. Philosophy may be taught in conjunc tion with humanities courses or it may be taught as a course by it self. It is suggested, how ever, that the course in clude a study of logic, ethics and the theory of self-hood. Twelve Chicago area high schools are partici pating in the project. They are Evanston Town ship, Glenbrook North and South, Highland Park, Deerfield, Lyons Town ship (two campuses), New Trier Township East and West, North Shore Coun try Day School, Oak Park and St. Mary's. If the philosophy exper iment proves successful, Sister pointed out, then possibly other courses such as anthropology and comparative reli gions could be introduced on the secondary level. Sister Dolores feels the most interesting thing about the program is to see the impact it will make on the secondary level and see if it will al leviate the education gap between high school and college. This is not the first time high school students have been taught philosophy. Jacksonville high school. Jacksonville, 111., offered the course on an experi mental basis several years ago. When asked if philoso phy should be taught in high school, one student from Jacksonville an swered, Definitely. The opportunity for formulat ing one's own views and to think more in terms of concepts at an earlier date than college is ad vantageous. It seems to me that perhaps many times the subject matter is less important than the need and opportunity to think about one's own views in a more serious and disciplined way ear lier in life. The greatest value of the course to one student was the sense of aware ness that it has given me concerning life and many of its aspects. I feel that I am 'more alive' than before. Another student feels that the greatest asset was the study of the tra ditional great ideas and their relation to our civili zation today. To be able to see my own concepts of love, knowledge, and jus tice and study them in the light of Plato, though a very unsettling expe rience, was a very re warding one. Philosophical study reaches the problem of moral sensitivity as evi denced by one students' remark. It did not offer 'pat standards,' but it left various criteria which I judged and selected to fit my needs. Skyscrapings As we were saying in our last installment, before we were so summarily cut short by advertising, (a fiscally sound but aesthetically dubious practice) Skyscraper delegates were as incensed as the rest of their straight contemporaries at Eugene McCarthy's harrassment by Hippies at the USSPA Convention where we left them (so abruptly) last week. Two of the staff members de manded of a clot of Hippies at the scene What, if any thing, they had attempted to prove by such a display of bad taste. VERANDAH PORCHE. a non-participant partisan of the gesture, justified it thusly. all considerations of good or bad taste are irrelevant in the face of the ultimate Bad Taste, Murder and Genocide in Vietnam. Being suscept ible to that persuasion themselves, the staff members were too edified to ask what connection McCarthy had with Mur der and Genocide. To Verandah, his quiet ly logical approach to the problem betokened acqui escence, if not complicity, in it. Where words fail to deliver the anti-war mes sage, one is morally obliged to resort to spec tacle. A week before, Ver andah had been sitting near Lynda Bird and Cap tain What's hisface during a performance of an anti- administration play. Net tled by the hypocrisy im plicit in the scene, she leaned over and whispered to the Tyrant's daughter, nice dress, Murderess. BUT, said a staff member, sticking up for what she had learned in Social Science, Why can't you work within the system for change? Life is too short, said Verandah, to wait for the system to catch up to you. Instead, you live now as you would if the perfect society were already achieved. VERANDAH, formerly known as Eustacia Vye. has chosen her current name because, names are meaningless; why shouldn't I take a n a m e that has some meaning for me? She has scary, big eyes only precariously lodged in their sockets, which lends her the emaci ated aspect of one rav ished by revelation. When she had finished with them, the Mundeleinites had been freaked com pletely of their previous order of priorities; made aware of the social precip itates which encrusted their core, indissoluble selves. Verandah was daily immolating herself at the altar of the Move ment; when had either of them distilled a similar clear Purpose from the brackish morass of ob scure motivations tha* was her soul? Their souls were not their own, but in dentured to how many barely acknowledged mas ters: the grade system, the success ethos, the Ma trimonial Imperative. TULLY Teachers Now Earn Top Salaries In Catholic Schools College Graduates Qualify for Starting Salaries of 500 to 600 per month in city and suburban schools of their choice. Free Hospitalization Paid Sick Leave Paid Vacations Pension Benefits and Tenure INDEA LOANS ARE FORGIVEN AT REGULAR ANNUAL RATE FOR ADDITIONAL INFORMATION: A Representative will be in the lounge area Wednesday. Feb. 21, 1968 From 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Archdiocesan School Board Teacher Recruitment Department 430 N. Michigan Chicago, Illinois 60611 Telephone: 527-3200
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1968-02-16 (3)
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Student newspaper for Mundelein College
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