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Page Two, THE SKYSCRAPER, Oct. 1, 1956 October Oppression Reports To Qive? Books To Read? Reviews To Write? Always The trying times have come the times of befuddlement, fatigue, and an occupational malady known as October oppression. A furrowed forehead is the only early symptom of this affliction, and often it is not evident until the final stage when the sufferer collapses, mut tering incoherently about a reserve book. Her hardier classmates shake their heads sadly, shudder a bit, and stumble off to class wondering who will be next. Alter four years of clinical reseaeh, I have the cure and am ready to take my place among Curie, Pasteur, ami the inventor of filter-tip cigarettes as a true benefactor of man. The cure is simple. First, you must get used to being behind always, to having a book report due always, to having to go to the library always, to Laving to read 80 pages in six textbooks and four reference books al ways. Second, you must never count on getting caught up. Nothing else is quite so bitter as the illusion of freedom which may be yours for half a day, only to disappear with the advent of a new class and new assignments. This is the first phase of the cure the negative phase. The positive phase is better. As you follow your mad pursuit of facts, data, and new ideas, pause and enjoy the knowledge you have acquired. Stop and savor the moment when complete understanding of a difficult passage comes to you. Stop your frantic note-taking and read a literary selection without an analytical viewpoint. You are being pursued by a multitude of new experiences and activities. You cannot participate in all. You must sample pick and choose those which are most appealing and rewarding to you. And so most of us adjust, living dangerously on tin' brink of a C, maybe even a 1). but never losing sight of the elusive A. Once we weary and settle for Cs we lose part of the joy of learning. There are many joys in college: fun, friends, frenzy, and the unending- satisfaction of groaning over all one has to do. But the biggest joy of all and the one least discussed and then only in whispers is the joy of learning. A Look At Liturgical Calendar May Prove October Is Your Month Therese, Francis, Brid get, Margaret Mary, Peter. John, is your name, or the name of someone you know listed above? If so, you have an extra-special reason to regard October with enthusiasm. The above names are not unusual, but the people re ferred to are. They are the saints who are allotted feast days on the litur gical calendar for this month. The Therese is, of course, St. Therese of the Child Jesus. The Francis is the beloved of Assisi; St. Bridget of Sweden, St. Margaret Mary, who re vealed to the Christian world the devotion to the Sacred Heart are on, too. Are they friends of yours? A daily glimpse at the liturgical calendar posted on the bulletin board out side the Chapel can be a delighting and enlighten ing habit. Every day it displays a brief resume of the life of some saint. The life sketch is appealing and motivating. Not dull or stereo typed, it is a study, not of names, but of personalities, decisions, temptations, of saintly character attained with God's grace. T he saints had eccentricities and scruples, too, same as we do. These members of the Church Trium pliant weren't working for a space on the liturgical cal endar, but they have suc ceeded in getting their names in print. A quick reading of the calendar each day, a brief realization that other hu man beings triumphed over difficulties, may give us in spiration, courage and an incentive to make new friends among some charming and significant people. Eastern Resignation and Western Ambition Clash In New John Hersey Novel A large part of all the difficulties that today afflict civilization stem from one source lack of understand ing among the peoples of the world. About this shortcoming, John Hersey has woven his latest work, a modern parable, A Single Pebble. The story concerns a young Ameri can engineer in the 1920's, with wild and ambitious dreams of harnassing the untold power of the wild and un predictable Chinese waterway, the Yangtze river, lie hires a junk to transport him down the river for the purpose of surveying the lengthy pas sage. immediately he discovers that he is associating with an assorted group of river folk who entertain their own conflicting views about the river. P gt;r them life and to them the river is life has no change. Things have al ways been so, and thus they will re main. The American, naturally puzzled at such an attitude, grows more puzzled as he questions Old Pebble, the leader of the trackers who pull the junk, and Su-ling, the wife of the junk's owner. They are content with their wearying status in life. Old Pebble wants nothing more than to pull the junk against the over whelming downstream current and to sing his haunting and ageless songs. Su-ling loves to tell the ancient myths and legends of the river, but she never reveals her innermost feelings. And at last, in one violent, climactic scene, when all the mighty fury of the Yangtze is at its peak, the American understands the resignation of these people. ITe can but marvel at them, for he himself, in spite of it all, still believes that the angry waters can be controlled and changed. Editors Describe Skyscraper Policy With YOU In Focus The first robin marks the beginning of spring, and the first snowfall means that winter really is here. For us, the first issue of The Skyscraper is a cer tain sign that the academic year 1956- 57 is under way. Many of us have been exposed to a number of discussions of aims and objectives of the course in the past two weeks. It is well, the Faculty thinks, that we know where we are going, course-wise. It is also well to know where we are going news and editorial-wise. One of the important functions of a newspaper is to stimulate the reader to think. In a Catholic col lege newspaper, this function is doubly important because it bears on both the intellectual and the spiritual growth of the student. The tasks of the student are to study and to think and to pray. These ac tivities entail use of the abilities to analyze, to synthesize, and to criti cize constructively. The campus newspaper is only one of the agencies trying to make the stu dent think by way of discussion and criticism, both positive and negative. I Jut it is a fairly significant one. Its editorials and its SAC column try to give students something to think about. An even more imperative task of the campus paper is to serve the college community by reporting news of the administration, the faculty, the class es, student groups, auxiliary organ izations while gt;t is still news to at lease a fair percentage of the campus public. This is no small task. It in volves the news gathering efforts of 25 to 40 people, interviewing 25 to 40 other people about what is going to happen as well as about what has happened. Some of the stories are big news, in the sense that they have value in themselves and are of significance for a large number of readers, whereas the Une Ru craper Vol. XXVII Oct. 1, 1956 No. 1 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. Co-editors-in-chief Rita Caprini, Maribeth Naughton Associate Editors Chandra Camp. Marijo Daly. Dolores Ferraro, Marilyn Santini Assistants Geraldine Battista, Alice Bourke, Marcella Brown, Maureen Connerty, Marguerite Phillips, Alice Rac- zak, Lynda Rousseau, Diane Scifres. Joan Zander Just Drifting? Patricia O'Donnell Skyscrapings Barbara Guderian Reporters Isabell Anderson, Judith Angone, Maryvivian Cunea, Ger aldine Foley, Mary Gart, Barbara Hegan, Mary Mcrlock, Margaret Nicholson, Ar lene Novak, Marilynne O'Dca, Audrey Swikart, Florence Theisen, Jean Vet- terick, Elizabeth Weinrich, Judith Witt, Marianne Witte, Patricia Delsing, Nan cy Butler, Marilyn Picchietti, Marilyn Kilia, Jean Towle activity of one club that has little news value outside that club is a small news story. The two kinds of stories are proportionately displayed one in a prominent page-one position, another in a less spectacular spot on an inside page. Timeliness, too, enters into the news evaluation. Certainly, an announce ment of tomorrow's lecture is of more value to the student body than details of yesterday's tea. In other words the staff hopes publicity chairmen will keep the paper informed about wha is going to happen today and tomor row and next week. Since the paper is published semi monthly, each issue tries to highlight the news that will be big in the coming two weeks, and of course it gives space to important things of yesterday and the day before, if they were not in a previous issue. There is no flip of the coin involved, but a sincere attempt at news apprais al, with constant- remembrance that -Mundelein is a college, an academic in stitution, with professed interest in the intellectual and the spiritual, and with supplementary but by no means negligible interest in the social. Pictures are another editorial problem. The ideal program, pic ture-wise, would be to print each student's picture in the Sky scraper each year. The hope of realizing such an ideal is shat tered when one divides 14 issues, averaging five picture each, among more than 900 students. The paper would be filled with glimpses of a dozen girls in each picture Skyscraper has, accordingly, worked out what it considers a fairly demo cratic policy based on the thesis that it is well to give prominence to many of the 900, if not to all. Take the example of Mary Smith, who is a moving spirit in three groups. Each one wants a picture of Mary Smith in action. Skyscraper asks wouldn't it be better to let Jane Doe share the spotlight ? Without her Alary S. probably could not shine so bright ly. Let Mary Smith appear once twice if she does something really spectacular; but let Jane Doe have her moment, too, before the flashbulbs. Who knows, given a little fame she might turn into another Mary Smith In the course of four years at college each student is pictured at least once since the final issue of the paper every year contains a graduation com posite. Finally, success or failure of .. - any newspaper depends to a/ great extent upon the many peo ple involved in its publication, a college paper is, in addition to a means of communication among students, faculty, and adminis tration, a laboratory for journal ism students. Like all laboratories, it witnesses errors, always unintentional but some times inevitable. Cooperation in journalism is comparable to double checking in addition it saves many oversights. We want your ideas, we want your news, we want your picture, and we want your interest, for these are the ingredients that make an effective col lege newspaper. o
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1956-10-01 (2)
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