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Page Four THE SKYSCRAPER Feb. 24, 1965 Mr. Scheidler Encounters Mississippi Racial Tension st by Marybeth Wagner I was personally involved in a rather frightening incident simply because I was identified with the civil rights workers when I was really just a visitor in Mississippi, Mr. Joseph Scheidler, theology in structor and member of the college public relations department, said of a recent trip to the southern state. Mr. Scheidler observed the racial tension in the South first-hand when he made a trip there during the semester break. He made the trip to obtain measurements of a wall in St. Joseph's High School in Jackson, -Miss., for which he has been commissioned to cre ate a mural. On my way back to Chicago af ter finishing my business in Jack son, I stopped to see a friend of mine, a priest in Hattiesburg, Miss., Mr. Scheidler explained. While in town, I wanted to get some tape and string to send a few packages. The two of us stopped to find directions to the local hardware store. Appar ently the person who gave us the directions noti fied the owner that we were coming because . . we were not met Mr- Sche.dler at the door and refused service. After we repeated our re quest, the owner called the po lice and asked for a squad car to arrest the two men that were 'harassing' him. The priest explained to the owner that we weren't there to cause trouble. When he finished talk ing, the owner leaned over the counter and spat in his face, Mr. Scheidler said. The proprietor brandished a baseball bat at both men, and when Mr. Scheidler protested that they weren't armed, he put down the bat, took off his coat and raised his fists. The two, to avoid violence, left the store as a patrol car ar rived. We learned later through a lo cal civil rights group that war rants were issued for our arrest on charges of disturbing the peace. Early the next morning I left for Jackson and have not heard any thing further, Mr. Scheidler ex plained. 'The kids who go down there are real martyrs for a real Christian cause that guy would have killed me with that bat and he didn't even know me. I sensed a real hate just because he identified me with Translators: translate technical articles at your convenience. For details contact Room 707. the workers and because I was with the priest, Mr. Scheidler asserted. It appears that the main objec tion of the Southern whites is the interference on the part of the Northerners. They believe the workers are there to stir up trouble and thus object to their presence according to Mr. Scheidler. I think what impressed me most was the fear that the white supremists are able to in still in the students that come from the North to aid the Ne gro. They make it so hard and make them so afraid that some workers are forced to leave be cause they can't stand it, he commented. Concerning his stay, Scheidler commented: One hotel and the mo tel where I was staying were in tegrated and so was -the parish church where I attended Mass, but everything else was still segre gated. The signs are down that banned integration but it is still observed in most public places. Seeing Negroes at integrated Masses was no surprise to Mr. Scheidler because this is common in Chicago, but he was told by the priest that this was a real achieve ment and the result of many years of hard work. The parochial schools are not in tegrated above the first grade. They told me if one Negro was accepted into the high school, 75 per cent of the whites would be taken out of school by their parents, Mr. Scheidler reported. Integration must be very gradu ally and carefully handled by the southern diocesan officials, the in structor said. a crank posing as a Chicago Tribune bureaucracy called here the day Ginger Finnegan played hostess to the Yugoslavian students and informed us that our guests were actually Communists (imagine that). Our anonymous detractor also had a few red-baiting re marks for NSA who sponsored the exchange. It didn't bother Ginger Mundelein's Answer to John Foster Dulles claimed it just proved how liberal we really are. The gregarious freshman group residing in the Phoenix Room de cided to assert themselves recently News Briefs on Campus Hold Class Day Juniors will attend Paradise Lost, the theme of class day to be held in Lewis Center from 7 to 10 p.m. today. Tickets are 1.50. Co-chairmen of the event are Ei leen O'Conner and June Graziano. Sponsor Tourney The math department will spon sor its annual high school math tournament Feb. 27 at 1 p.m. for 200 Catholic high school girls. Sen ior math majors have composed the test. Awards of merit will be given in algebra and geometry sections; in the advanced math section, pins will be given to the six top-scoring students. Plaques will also be awarded in this division to the two top-scoring schools with selection based on the cumulative scores of three students rather than on in dividual effort. Selects Senior Mundelein will be represented this year on Mademoiselle's na tional College Board by Barbara Mounsey '65. The board is com posed of winners of the magazine's annual College Board Competition, a contest designed to recognize young women with talent in art, writing, editing, photography, lay out, fashion design, merchandising, retail promotion or advertising. The girls on the College Board will report regularly to the magazine on events at their colleges. Publishes Articles Robert Hassenger, psychology de partment, has recently published three articles, drawn from the find ings of the institutional analysis. Personality Traits and Religious Values of Catholic College Women, published in the summer' 64 Insight and How Many Catholicisms? which appeared in the Feb. 13 issue THE SKYSCRAPER Mundelein College 6363 Sheridan Rd., Chicago, 111., 60626 of Ave Maria. Both incorporate aspects of Mr. Hassenger's doctoral dissertation, also based on institu tional analysis results. In addition to having two book reviews published in the fall and winter issues of Thought magazine, Mr. Hassenger has been named lo cal arrangements chairman for the annual convention of the American Association for Humanistic Psy chology to be held next fall. Exhibit Art The annual underclassman art show is exhibited through February on the fourth floor. Featuring rep resentative works from art, struc ture, design and drawing classes, the show is meant to demonstrate the potential aesthetic value of a variety of media including glass, fabric, tissue paper, pencil, crayon and oil. Reactivate Club The International Relations Club, which had been discontinued on campus for the past three years, has been reactivated this semester. The club was begun again when Margaret Brennan was elected co- chairman of the Illinois division in the Midwest Region at a confer ence of the national International Relations Club on the Purdue cam pus last semester. The purpose of the club is to foster awareness of foreign policies of both the United States and na tions of the world. It is designed particularly for students of politi cal science, history and economics. Margaret Brennan is president, Rita Richter is vice-president and publicity chairman and Mary Ann Gabil is secretary-treasurer. The club will attend a mock U.N. session at St. Joseph's College, March 5-7. Give Water Show The Terrapin Club will present its annual water show, Feb. 28 and March 1 at 7:30 p.m. in the college pool. The 40 club members will swim in a toyland theme, Of Many Things, with solos by Mary Ha- gerty and Pat Bertram. Eileen Teasdale will narrate the show. Tickets are now on sale for 1 by all club members. Attend Workshop Modern dance members, Nancy Kloss, Maureen Mangan, Noemi Smith and Sandy Panken, partici pated in the Workshop in Dance udcraptncid Memo to Seniors: only 33 more study days 'til comps Memo to Juniors: only one year and 33 days left to convince the powers that be that comps cause more pain than intellectual stimulation . . . Of course Loyola is a co-comp-sufferer, but we keep thinking about those institutions of higher learning like Purdue, where they don't even bother with semester exams. We seem to have caused a stir amongst radical rightist circles . . . crank posing as a member of by hanging a God Bless Our Mortgaged Home sign over their corner-of-the-smoker domain . . . staff workers weren't at all im pressed, and the sign came down quickly. Starvation in Coffey Hall has reached an all-time high: one fam ished senior downed a piece of her neighbor's cake before learning that her scientific-minded friend was using the cake as a bacteria- culture . . . that inviting frosting was actually live mold It's been rather difficult to pene trate the security screen guarding Revue plans, but it appears that the New Look Variety Show will be professional and distinctly high brow . . . only eggheads need apply for stage crew. Best Conversationalists of the Month are definitely our new stu dent teachers, especially the one who insists Ben Willis has person ally proclaimed her right to wear knee-socks while conducting her classes . . . Now really. . . . Our friend Pat Porwicz spent a period of class observation un- obstrusively searching a Mather High School classroom for a bomb Can you chalk that one up to practical application of classroom technique ? Psychologists have known for years that Americans are join ers, but we've noticed of late a concerted effort to make every one a leader. (The newest therapy for preventing identity crises, perhaps?) The Student Directory lists about 28 clubs ... a limited number because of economy of space, not for lack of imagination we're told. Just about everyone on campus can find her own authority niche ... if there's anything more re warding than a sense of belonging, it's a sense of leading, we've always said. . . . Margie held at Northwestern University, Feb. 20. Included in the program was a master class directed by Murray Louis, professional dancer and teacher, and a performance by Dance Inc., a Chicago company. Judith M. Scott, Mundelein graduate and former dance instruc tor at the college, was co-chairman of the workshop. Host Dance The Spanish and Cosmopolitan clubs are co-sponsoring an 8-12 dance tonight in Lewis Center. In vitations have been sent to Cross roads, the Latin American asso ciation, International House, Barat, DePaul, IIT, Loyola, Ro sary and St. Xavier. The donation is 50 cents. Submit Entries Deadline for contributions to the spring issue of The Review is Fri day, March 26. Fiction, non-fiction, poetry, humor and reviews of books of current interest are eligible for publication. Contributions may be placed in the envelope on the Review office door, Room 1017. NFCCS Plans Merger, Elects New President The leaders of the National Newman Club Federation and the executive committee of the NFCCS met at Michigan State recently to discuss a possible merger of the two organiza tions. NFCCS is confined to Catholic campuses while NNCF operates only at secular universities. NFCCS President Oliver- H. Barber, Jr., and Donn W. Kurtz, president of NNCF, agreed that the merger, in two and a half to three years, would facilitate the attainment of present goals and would reduce operating expenses. The main point expressed at the meeting was the possibility for improved communication and joint action between Catholic and secu lar campuses. Kurtz pointed out that the basic goal of both national groups is a well-informed, better- trained, committed laity. Barber feels that the merger would give added impact to Catholic student opinion. He also said, It will make the students on a Catholic campus realize more fully the problems he will face when he has to leave the protective atmos phere of his campus. Both presidents recognize prob lems such as the 'ghetto men tality' of NF as opposed to the purely social atmosphere of New man, budgetary problems, ques tions of representation at National Congresses ... On the regional level, the NFCCS appointed John Gordon, Notre Dame, regional president of the federation at the regional ses sion, Feb. 20 and 21. The meet ing was held at St. Francis Col lege, Fort Wayne, Ind. Ann Foxen, former Mundelein student and regional president of NF, resigned when she no longer held the required student status. Gordon will finish Ann's term until a president is elected in April at Mercy College in Detroit. Donna Ibison, Mundelein senior NF delegate, attended the meeting.
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