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Page Six - The SKYSCRAPER - May 17,1968 War on talent waste Upward Bound selects new staff by Sheila McCarthy Upward Bound is opening its third summer around with a new administration. Sister Kathleen O'Brien, history and classics departments, is the new director of Mundelein's program. Albert H. Miller, political science department, was named deputy director March 15. The Upward Bound Pro gram, also referred to as The War on Talent Waste, is designed to encourage high school students from low in come families to expand their outlook concerning their per sonal aspirations and vocation goals. It is also designed to strengthen basic skills essen tial to academic success in college and instill the idea that college is a realistic goal for the students. Sister Kathleen, replacing Sister St. George Thompson, who was appointed academic dean of Clarke College, served as assistant director of Up ward Bound since it began three years ago. Sister feels, The main ele ments of the success of the program are the genuine com mitment and personal contact maintained between the tutor counselors and the Upward Bound girls. She also cited the value it offers to help people, especially those of the inner city, to develop their own potentialities. Miller co-organized the Up ward Bound Program at the College of St. Theresa, Wino na, Minn, and later served as associate director and consult ant. As for other qualifications Miller pointed out, I have my concern for the deprived, my experience living in an en vironment with the deprived and experience in programs that have cultural and eco nomic deprivation as their concern. The program is composed of eight teachers, 25 tutor-coun selors and 58 high school par- Skyicraper photo by Marianne Fusillo Sister Kathleen O'Brien ticipants from the Uptown and West side areas of Chicago. Two other Upward Bound girls enrolled for the year are attending Yale summer school for high school students. An other Is participating in the Experiment in International Living in Mexico. Tutor-counselors are Munde lein students who live with the girls in the Northland and as sist teachers during the day. On this year's staff are Diane Allen, Judy Becker, Ann Bef- fa, Mary Fran Berry, Mary Kate Cooney, Sherry Cruz, Kathleen Cummins, Cheryl Daniels, Elaine Davis, Vicki Granacki, Nancy Greco, Shir ley Griffin and Felicia Jeter. Also included are Alice John son, Sheryl Kynard, Rose Marie Maranto, Eileen Moran, Barb Mosley, Lynn Nutter, Michele Rutter, Kathy Schneider, Debbie Smith, Mau reen Tuman, Cathie Wegman and Nancy Zak. The special feature of this year's summer session is a trip to Colorado. A western theme will be carried through the studies and activities to Skyscraper photo by Marianne Fusillo Albert Miller capitalize on an interest, as Sister Kathleen phrased it. The activities of Upward Bound run from June 17 to August 16. The students take high school or college credit courses, or non-credit enrich ment and remedial courses in social science, humanities and natural science depending on their academic level, need and achievement. In addition they may participate In workshop sessions in studio art and modern dance. Cultural events and social activities In Chica go and the local area will also be open to them. And the Col orado venture will top the pro gram at the end of the seven week study session. Upward Bound also operates during the academic year. The students attend Saturday classes at the college. During the week they meet with tu tor-counselors at an Upward Bound Club located in or near the various Urban Progress Centers. S-kgjLeULftuigjL Summer is considered by the Serious Student the only real opportunity for in-depth, expansive, and unstructured Education unless, of course, one is going to summer school. But if one wishes to partake of those truly relevant areas of knowledge for which one's regular studies somehow just didn't allow time, it is helpful to embark on a self- improvement program of Guided Reading. Therefore, The Skyscraper is allotting this space, usually occupied by Irrelevant Skyscrapings, to a presentation of TOLLY'S SUMMER READING LIST or BEHIND DEPARTMENTAL Students register choice; Gene on top, then Bobby (Continued from page 1) the use of nuclear weapons. In response to the third question, 205 said job training and employment opportunities should receive the highest priority in government spend ing. An education priority was a close second with 192 votes. National Comparison In comparison to the nation al vote on the referendum questions, a phased reduction of U.S. military effort re ceived a 19 per cent stronger vote at Mundelein. Support for intensifying the bombing was 18 per cent less than the na- t i o n a 1 average. Mundelein agreed with the national preference for education and job training priorities in fight ing the urban crisis prob lem. As the winning candidate, McCarthy received his strong est support in the North-East, Mid-Atlantic, Midwest and Far-West sections of the coun try. Nixon led the field in the Southeast, Southwest and Southern regions. Kennedy ran a consistent second in seven of the ten sections in which the CHOICE 68 Board of Di rectors divided the country. He was not far behind Nixon in the Southeast and deep South where Kennedy was the leading Democratic candidate. TIME magazine and Sperry Rand's Univac Division jointly financed CHOICE 68 as a public service. The college primary, however, was totally administered by an 11 mem ber Board of Directors com posed of student presidents and editors from all regions of the country. LINES in plenty of time to procure the materials before the summer reading season begins. 'Tis (organized accord ing to no discernible principle) as follows: A. CONVENTIONAL WISDOM DEBUNKED CATEGORY 1. Spoon Feeding Off A Silver Platter: Why Discounted as a learning Technique? (vol. 1 of a series, New Concepts in Education ). 2. Why Summer Jobs? (The Leisure Class Has Nothing Better To Do). Anonymous confessions of a Gary, Ind. Mill Rat. RELIGION 1. That's For Me To Know And You to Find Out: a trea tise on Cosmic Origins by one of our better women theolo gians, Howdia Guess.. 2. Is God Getting Lax? by Royal Air Force (R.A.F.) Sprechensie, S.J. Scrupulously documented with appropriate archeological evidence, this cogent study proves more or less conclusively that the John Hancock Building in practice is much higher than the Tow er of Babel in all its heinous theory ever envisioned being. (Bibliographer's note: and ug lier, too ) C. SOCIOLOGY Sociogram of the Plum Street Bus: a rather reserved and cautious report on a year's painstaking study con ducted by a hapless casework er who drew zig-zag lines in the aisle between passengers on the above mentioned bus at 5 o'clock every day, failing, however, to note that they oc casionally changed seats. D. PERIODICALS For this category of less heady reading we recommend Everett Dirksen's regular fea ture and botannical survey in The Congressional Record; also R. F. Kennedy's intermit tent column, Just Passing Through. E. PUZZLES AND BRAIN- TEASERS CATEGORY (for summer fidgets): A new Anthology in this line, Incontrovertible Casuis try, has just hit the stacks. We include samples from it below: Paradoxes for begin ners: Are apple pie and Ice Cream mutually exclusive propositions? Does the ulti mate link in a contingency chain suffer Whiplash? Intermediate Paradoxes: D o Staircases presuppose Slopes? Advanced Paradoxes: In an age of Nuclear Stockpiles and sewage build-up, is sui cide the only viable alterna tive? Star attraction of this vol ume is the section entitled Exceptions that Prove the Rule, which offers 100 choice specimens of same to those who wish to vaunt mastery of this illusive concept to their friends. Among them: Rule: Poets never attain high political office. But Eugene McCarthy is a poet (submitted by a Kennedy supporter). Rule: Charisma alone does not insure political success. It takes money. Exception: But Kennedy was successful in In diana. Submitted by a McCarthy Sup porter, Tully BENJAMIN FRANKLIN and 125 other life-like, life size wax figures in 40 beautiful scenes (Jlii? fimjal Conduit Max aflfaiatimi ( lb nnm 1419 No. Wells Phone 337-7786 Group rates with guided tours Open daily noon to midnight WIGS ALL 100 HUMAN HAIR Wiglets S 7.90 Cascades S16.50 Falls S29.60 ALL COLORS AT THESE PRICES gt; ASWIGWAW 55 - Downtown/120 E. Walton Betwyn/7116W. 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1968-05-17 (6)
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