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Page Two THE SKYSCRAPER Jan. 13, 1965 THE .liSCH ifl i MIL UlNUllllllLll wiU grip current issues and events and *f hold them before the campus in order that members of the Mundelein community may sense and direct history rather than bob in its wake. Willis Turns Up Nose At Havighurst Report Chicago school superintendent Benjamin C. Willis wel comed the new year in his usual form, vetoing several of the major proposals of the school survey headed by Dr. Robert J. Havighurst of the University of Chicago. The 502-page report, trimly bound in orange-colored pa perback cloth, may possibly pass unheeded since Dr. Willis re fused to fulfill actively his role as a member of the survey team and is currently dismantling their results. Willis criticized the survey's new proposals simply because they are untried; he brushed aside revisions of existing poli cies, asserting that the bulk of them are presently in practice or are being studied. He evaded the integration issue, possibly the most contro versial school topic next to Willis himself, saying, There is no simple answer to the problems which are posed. No simple so lutions should be sought, nor should any solutions which may be suggested be implemented without thorough analysis of all possible implications. The Havighurst report is anything but a series of simple solutions. Its very volume would tend to indicate that it is indeed a thorough analysis. Instead of seriously consider- ering and implementing the Havighurst proposals, Willis has suggested more study, a policy Dr. Havighurst justly ques tions. When can we stop studying? he asks, and start acting? It may be true that there are no simple solutions to the problems confronting the Chicago public schools. The an swers may not lie in the removal of Superintendent Willis nor in the implementation of all the Havighurst proposals; however, two city-wide school boycotts and the growing dis content of Chicago civic groups indicate that meaningful changes may be needed. The superintendent of schools and the Board of Educa tion would do well to heed the suggestions set forth in the sur vey which they commissioned. Sylvia Hajek 'Age of Eliot' Closes; Dictator of Era Dies The past two years have seen the deaths of such noted poets as William Carlos Williams, Edith Sitwell, Robert Frost and E. E. Cum- mings. The works produced by T. S. Eliot are now the only testimony of the era which he ruled. The Age of Eliot, as this period of literary history will probably be labeled, ended with his death, Jan. 4, a quiet event which concluded Eliot's life somewhat the way he closed The Hollow Men: This is the way the world ends This is the way the world ends This is the way the world ends Not with a bang but a whimper To the eye of the layman T. S. Eliot was the poet of gray melan choly, who portrayed in his works the sense of a doomed world, of fragmentation, of a wasteland of the spirit that moved the generation after the war, commented the New York Times. Eliot had the rare ability of capturing the inner emotions of peo ple, as seen in the loneliness celebrated in his poems and the Christian problems treated in his critical essays. The poet, himself, fell victim to pessimism as he observed the moral decline of man, and this attitude stares at the world from The Hollow Men, a poem engulfed in negation and despair. Referring to the un pleasant future that man pointed to, Eliot, in his often seen character Sweeney, contrasted the terrorizing and thoughtless force of the world to the unending value which it annihilates. Devotion to the doctrines of Anglo-Catholicism led the literary dic tator of the 20th century to an interest in man's spiritual development and it is this which distinguishes him from his contemporaries who con cerned their works with the spiritual inadequacies of man. This century may not produce another poet who can see beyond the darkness in the Wasteland to comprehend the message of thunder: Do Datta: what have we given? My friend, blood shaking my heart The awful daring of a moment's surrender Which an age of prudence can never retract By this, and this only, we have existed Which is not to be found in our obituaries Diane Sargol Sounding Board Voter unsure Dear Editor: I received the article, FBI Director Warns Against Rise in Crime, which appeared in the Dec. 9 edition of The Skyscraper. It is encouraging to know of your support, and I certainly appreciate your highlighting my comments made at the Annual Award Dinner for the Stritch School of Medicine. Sincerely yours, J. Edgar Hoover Dear Editor: Because The Skyscraper has so very much improved, it was all the more disappointing to read Sister Mary Elsa's letter in your Sound ing Board of Dec. 9. As an ex ample of why faculty members ask to read articles before pub lication, Sister's letter pointed to a five-footed inaccuracy in a recent Skyscraper story. The target is faulty journalism, but the suggestion that poor re porting warrants the faculty's reading articles prior to publica tion would seem to overshoot the mark. Such a policy would go beyond the problem and create a mood, I suggest, that for journal ists could be charged with edgi- ness, or charged with grandeur and neither nervousness about pleasing nor coy breathlessness over the grandness of it all would do much to develop the kind of honest and forward-moving writ ing that has been appearing in Tlie Skyscraper. There are a dozen less spectacu lar ways to check for accuracy and at least one other way to develop adult responsibility inspire students to love to write down what is really happening and what is worth writing down. Faculty checking-up would be a shortcut, yes with the advantage of pro ducing an impeccably neat news paper but the disadvantage of pro ducing, on the whole, an echo not a voice. The inaccuracy appears to be a problem on the level of lapse or ineptitude and would seem to be met most squarely on that level. It was confusing to see this prob lem joined to a call for academic and adult responsibility to accom pany adult freedoms. (In this connection, is it accurate to say that responsibility should accom pany freedom with the impli cation that for the special occasion of freedom students should ob servably get all dressed up in their adult responsibility or is free dom actually integral to responsi bility?) Sister is understandably an noyed. But is this an occasion for referring to academic freedom ? ZJke hfydcraper Vol. XXXV January 13, 1965 No. 9 Newspaper of Distinction The Skyscraper is published semi-monthly, September to May inclusive except during exam and vacation periods, by the students of Mundelein College, 6363 Sheridan Rd., Chicago, 111., 60626. Subscription rate is 2 per year. Entered as second-class matter Nov. 30. 1932, at the U.S. Post Office. Chicago, HI., under the act of March 3. 1897. The Skyscraper is a member of the Associated Collegiate Press and the Catholic School Press Association. Letters to the editor must be signed. The Skyscraper reserves the right to cut letters in case of limited space. Editor in Chief Mary Etta Talarico Associate Editor Rae Paul Feature Editor Sylvia Hajek Make-up Caryl Jean Cinelli, Barbara Rubles. Bobbie Bohan Columnist Barbara Mounsey Staff .. Jean Durall, Mary Lynch. Diane Sargol. Mary Ellen Scott. Patricia Toussaint, Nancy Vandenberg, Eileen Carroll, Eileen Jack, Marilyn Gibbs, Judy Wardwell, Brenda Dineen, Anne McDermott, Jennifer Joyce, Mariellen O'Brien, Rose Goetz. Kathy Riley Photographers' Betsy Braunlin, Diane Sargol, Aldine Favaro And do faculty members, in fact, ask to read articles before pub lication ? With every good wish, Betty Prevender Managing Editor New City Dear Editor: Congratulations to The Sky scraper reporters for successfully capturing not only the core of the Georgetown Conference on Freedom and Man but also its SPIRIT Page three of the last issue of The Skyscraper was elo quent testimony of the value the editors place on high-level intel lectual exchange of this nature. More importantly, perhaps, is the confidence this newspaper staff has that its readers want this kind of reporting. Congratulations, then, are due as well to the Mundelein community on this score. May I add, that friends have been asking me for copies of The Skyscraper to pass on to others who have been asking about the conference. The Catholic Reporter of Kansas City also reported the conference from complete copies of the Rahner, Kung and Courtney Murray talks issued to the press at Georgetown. Yet, without these press re leases, The Skyscraper stories were marked by a verve and au thenticity that was inescapable; . and, to my mind, they were supe rior. They were the product of the devoted note-taking of the Mundelein contingent at the Con ference and the news-hound questioning of The Skyscraper re porters. Gratefully, Sister Mary Jean Michael, B.V.M. Dear Editor: After four years of fighting the lack of attendance battle at Mundelein, I was delighted at see ing the headline: Poll of 400 Re veals Attendance Lag. (Dec. 9, 1964) It is true that Mundelein offers an extensive program of extra curricular activities. It is also true that students are over loaded with studies, bridge and well, other studies. However, it seems to me that both an exten sive program and an overload of work are poor excuses for lack of attendance where it really counts. We talk about literature, art, drama, theology and foreign af fairs with the tone of experts. But talking and real knowledge and understanding are two differ ent things. In order to better un derstand modern art we must see it and all it costs at Mundelein is a short trip by elevator. In order to see the written word come to life and realize what drama is when translated into theatre terms we must see plays. Any play downtown you can name cannot be seen for 1.50. We are always talking about theology and our doubts, but we are not aware of the fact that there are experts in the field who share our doubts and are seeking answers for them. Yet, we ignore the answers and revel in our doubts and talk. The searching mind will always have doubts and will seek discussion, but the searching mind cannot afford to be lazy. The searcher will make time for answers. I have often wondered what Mundelein students are looking for. Sincerely, Thais Alexander '64
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