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May 20, 1964 THE SKYSCRAPER Page Three 'Fourth Estate' Houses Cats, Hoists Tables with Dignity l This is the Skyscraper office, paint it like the New York Times. This is the staff, color them digni fied. This is their behind-the-scene story, color it In the best tradition of the Fourth Estate, the Skyscraper ac quired a news physical plant this year. With an eye to the recom mendations of motion-study and ef- ficency experts, its core staff of a baker's dozen plus moderator moved to a 15 by 17 foot office high above the Loyola skyline. To reserve energy for news coverage and analysis, the three file cabinets, three type writers, two desk*, newspaper and magazine rack and three press tables were arranged so that almost all could be used from any position in the room. Because economy is good business and because journalists really are sentimental, the ten-foot table from the old office commands center stage in 719. So dear is it that the staff tried personally to move it into the office, but one end lodged in the doorway and the other wedged di agonally across the seventh-floor corridor. After dislodging it and choosing an alternate route, staff members carried the table (minus legs) down the hall to the solarium where it was squeezed through an opening in the glass into the wait ing hands of other staffers on a wide ledge outside. They eased the leaden top along the ledge and onto a nar row balcony outside the new office, but not until the table was pointed in toward the office windows and half its bulk was dangling over the balcony wall in mid air, did a final shove propel it through the open win dow to its new location. But professional scholastic jour nalists cannot function merely with nostalgic office equipment. They must have news, and to keep vital communication lines open, a tele phone is essential. Even when in stallation is delayed, presses must roll; so in September, Skyscraper calls were relayed to a faculty phone around the corner and down the corridor. Amid the scratch of editorial pencils and tap of typewriters, however, all the strategically placed phones on the floor sounded alike . . . Before 719s phoneless two weeks had elapsed the distinguished edi tors in heels were in sneakers for the constant sprint for news. Nor does the staff only con tend with machines in gathering news; sometimes it even tackles nature. One instance of brav- by Mary Etta Talarico ery resulted in the front page picture of the Feb. 12 issue. On a tip from an eighth-floor ob server, several Skyscraper photog raphers dashed to an eighth-floor porch to capture on film the shadow cast by the building on the frozen lake. The moderator followed, spy ing an obstacle on the porch. What's this flower pot doing here? she asked pushing it aside, thereby displacing the improvised door stop and trapping the coatless group in near zero weather until a drama student rescued them. Skyscraper reporters also cope with animate varieties of nature while preparing news for the community. Soon after the paper had been established at its new location, it was ap parent that the solarium would have to double as a branch of fice on press nights. However, no one realized that within sev eral weeks layout sheets and headline charts would have to share space with cages of white rats, a snake and jungle-size foliage. To counterbalance the animal population in its branch office, the Skyscraper's main office has housed two kittens a jet one, Tiki Sin, with a tangerine collar, and a black and white kitty named Cassius. Visitors are warned by a sign on the door Beware of kitten and saucers of milk and cat care books are intermingled with pink copy paper and glue. Occasionally Tiki has been seen curled up atop the moderator's desk on her kiddy lit textbook. The kit tens are not the only mascots because no estate is complete without several. On or near the editors' or modera tor's desk stand six-inch Lucy and Snoopy dolls, and from a chair near the typewriters a doll-size Charlie Brown surveys the Fourth Estate. Though these pint-size staffers have oc casional permission to stay with staff members overnight, ex tended absence from the office is not permitted. Another indispensible part of a ORGANIZATION REIGNS SU PREME as (1. to r.) Mary Lynch, Nancy Vanden- burg, Sylvia Ha jek, Sister Mary St. Eunice, Janice Jearas edit Page 1. newspaper office is the traditional cold, black coffee. This custom the Skyscraper followed above and be yond the call of Sigma Delta Chi. After receiving an electric coffee pot, the staff continued to drink luke warm instant coffee, tepid tea and instant cocoa that looked like dirty liquid chalk until it was cer tain that the mechanical device, not the mechanical cook, was at fault. Broken pot or whole, the only convenient electrical outlet is between two typewriters, so the cry remains, Keep that pot out of my carriage. Flora, fauna and mechanical de vices, however, are not the jour nalist's primary concern; interest focuses on people and words. To this end, the Skyscraper offers its staff opportunities for practical training in exact verbal communi cation. For example, a student jour nalist quickly learns to use words carefully after such ob ject lessons as: asking What dumbbell wrote 'Once Over Writely' as a head? and then learning that it was the mod erator's pun, or after assuring the moderator that there is lit tle possibility of news coming from the president's office be cause she hasn't been any place and isn't going anywhere. Such training and the ability to cope with the varieties of chaos existing in the news office prepares student journalists for professional careers while they prepare the news for the Mundelein community. Out of ordered confusion composure. Out of pandemonium a paper. This is the Skyscraper color it . . . dignified. CATS AND COFFEE POTS are common companions to editors in the Skyscraper office. FEAST OR FAMINE is never the issue when potato chips and Sanka perk up staff members. Checking headline charts and counts are (I. to r.) Maxine Tyma, Barbara Danielson, Dianne Arturti, Pat Toussaint, Helen Anne Brown, Barbara Kubicz. REPORTERS AND RATS share the solarium with original plant inhabitants. Completing Page 3 are (1. to r.) Diane Sargol, Mary Etta Talarico, Sister Mary Sharon, B.V.M., moderator; Rae Paul, Eileen Schaefer, Pat Krochmal. (Photos by Skyscraper staff.) Skyscraper Sums It Up by Eileen Schaefer Last September, the Skyscraper announced its policy to promote awareness and to mold public opinion on all issues affecting the college of the 20th century. In retrospect, the Editorial Board offers the following sum mary of national and campus news which was significant during the 1963-61 academic year. SEPTEMBER The nation focused its attention on the Birmingham incident in which six children were killed by a bomb thrown through a church window. The Skyscraper made this observation: When animals are killed to inaugurate an event it is called sacrifice. When children are murdered for the same reason it is called segregation. The College inaugurated a mid-term policy which eliminated the official grade reports at mid-semester. The crux of the matter . . . lies in student responsibility and management . . . commented the Skyscraper. This year's experimental procedure will test whether Mundelein students will and can accept the challenge. OCTOBER The Second Vatican Council reopened and with it rose the hopes of the Christian world. Their penetrating analysis of the Church must distinguish between divine essentials of the faith and external manifestations, so that the Church may preserve the for mer and alter the latter to suit contemporary times,' stated the Skyscraper. The United States acceded to Russia's request to sell surplus wheat to the Soviets which caused the newspaper to pose this ques tion : Now that the government has reached a decision on the wheat sale it would be wise to consider how she will answer the taxpayer when he asks why one portion of his dollar is spent for fighting communism and another for strengthening its people. NOVEMBER The era of a new frontier ceased with the assassination of President Kennedy, Nov. 23, in Dallas, Tex. It is for Kennedy, the man, stated the Skyscraper, the world grieves. For he was the symbol of a young people, a young nation . . . the personi fication of the American image itself. On campus, D-Day bred dissension, and the basically sound plan to make students aware of the racial problem backfired with a barrage of comments, verbal and written, sent in the direction of the Skyscraper. DECEMBER The traditional Candlelighting Ceremony echoed the holiday spirit by uniting student and faculty in prayer. Amid such prob lems as the school crisis in Chicago, a militaristic premier who was regimenting his nation only 90 miles from the U.S. coast, a new president thrust into office and the defensive wall of barbed wire that still divides nations, Mundelein celebrated the birth of the Savior. JANUARY And with new year's resolutions fast fading, Pandora pre sented her Paddy (short for padded cell) Awards for distinction, destruction and just plain persistence. They included: Everybody- Talked-About-It-But-Nobody-Did-Anything-About-It Medal to the faculty and students in general, who are apparently anti-relation ship ; the Ban Award for the Most Misinterpreted Statement of the Year I feel safe ; We're-Sorry-We-Couldn't-Try-It-Again Award to all those foolish students who admitted, on the Insti tutional Analysis, that they were doing an average of two hours of studying per week. FEBRUARY The Skyscraper released Sister Mary Ann Ida's announce ment that tuition will be increased 35 per semester and the resi dence fee 5 per semester beginning September, 1964. At this time, Sister Mary Ignatia, B.V.M. announced that, for the first time, Mundelein will offer summer courses at its new downtown center. MARCH Jane Trahey visited the Mundelein campus and found time to entertain Skyscraper interviewers. Subject hopping with glib abandon, Miss Trahey quipped her way through topics ranging from her pet dog Clovis ('he's not a dog he's a midget in a zipper suit') to previous employer Neiman-Marcus ('they make his and her sailboats and airplanes'). Then the Skyscraper questioned, Why the SAC? stating: Now if the SAC has no power as a government or its members lack the initiative to exercise this power ... if the SAC is no more than a representative of campus opinion . . . then, there is no need for the council's existence and it should be abolished. APRIL Even journalists celebrated the 400th birthday of the Bard, because . . . in all his writing, whether he wore the comic or tragic mask, Shakespeare's concerns are Man's concerns. With the stir over morals on the college campus (Time and Newsweek), the Skyscraper scooped The New World by reprinting the statement that Sister Mary Ann Ida, B.V.M., released to the press on the over-exploited issue. MAY Evaluation of the student questionnaire resulted in major cur riculum changes, the Skyscraper reported. At the same time Sister Mary Assisium announced that a new experimental policy beginning in September will make attendance optional at Concert-Lecture series. The paper observed that A questionnaire made known the changes desired, now the experiment will reveal the true students. Now with commencement, Lusk awards, grants and scholar ships, the Skyscraper reports that another year has passed.
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1964-05-20 (3)
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Women and Leadership Archives http://www.luc.edu/wla
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Mundelein College
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Student newspaper for Mundelein College
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