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Page Two THE SKYSCRAPER, Jan. 21, 1957 Only In School .... Qaiety and Freedom Come With Semester's End for Three Days Some like the Christmas break with its holiday parties and excitement. Some prefer the Easter break with the hope and promise of Spring. We like the free-as-air feeling of the semester break . . . the off-with-the-old, on-with-the-new anticipation of a brand new se mester. At Christmas, as at Easter, you can sense through the gaiety a cloud ... a cloud which bulges with unfinished assignments and im pending exams; a cloud which hovers gleefully waiting for the chance to fill you with gloom. The semester break is different . . . The library black list is but a sheet of blank white paper. Assembly fines are again a quarter. All book reviews, study papers, work-books, and term papers are com pleted. The exams are over. Whether the results be good or bad, they are over. Shiny new courses with shiny new text books await you. The precious opportunity, denied often in later life, is yours. You can start over. Now is the time to make new-semester resolu tions. One is all you have to make. Resolve to do the best you can. The year is half over, but you can start anew. What, besides school, allows you to be half through with something and yet be able to start over? We like the semester break. From A Follower, YOU Can Emerge A Leader Did Caesar sit by the campfire while the militibus fought with the Gauls? Did Istvan Laszlo say I don't have time to fight for free dom?'' Did Peter relax in his boat with his nets in his hands when Our Lord said Come? The brightest personalities that stride forcefully through the pages of time were no different basically than you and I. No man who is great is inactive. We have the same potential. We too can be leaders if we give freely of what we have. It isn't necessary to lead an army, or he president of a club, or be the most popular girl in the school. To be a leader, you have to be the one who shows the way, who guides the footsteps of those who follow. You must be the one who not only thinks but also acts. Not everyone can be a leader, it is true. But we arc not followers. We at Mundelein are among the few Catholic women who have the priv ilege of a college education. We know the way to show others. This is what we have been trained for. We have been educated for leadersliip. But are we leaders? Have we learned and practiced the techniques for putting theories into practice? What have we done with the poten tial God has given us? It is easy to say I'm not the leader type. We must realize that we are the type; that we are those who must be fishers of men, and conquerors, and freedom fighters. Who will lead to morrow's world if we do not? The major requirement is gen erosity. Leadership requires giv ing, not only of time and talent, but also of self. Give tactfully and intelli gently, and you will not have time to worry about receiving. American Woman .... Life Magazine Salutes Her Life Magazine com bined the last two issues of 1956 to present THE AMERICAN WOMAN, HER ACHIEVEMENTS AND TROUBLES. Life proves itself faithful in presenting examples of both facets. Throughout the issue and certainly in the edi torial, Life attempts to re late woman's distinctive ness in terms of her spir ituality, her intuitiveness, her motherhood. Perhaps the fact that the editors seemed contin ually bogged down by the material aspects of wom an's life is indicative of the twentieth century woman. The degree to which she has steeped herself in materiality is evident in the continual reference to the working mother. (She is on the cover too.) The greatest argument for her working appears to be the added luxuries, not neces sities, a working mother can bring into a home. The only person who can give the final answer to the all important query, SHOULD MOTHER WORK? is the child, left with a housekeeper or in a nur sery during the 40 hour work week. The effect on him can be the only valid answer. That woman's educa tion can and should pre pare her for a career af ter her children are raised is a fine point stressed by Life. The special issue at tacks the continual refer ence to the American spinster as something of a displaced person in the American social scene, a reference detrimental in a society where many wo men, for one reason or another, never marry. Perhaps it is wiser for a woman who believes she must have a career to choose that instead of trying to combine both family and full-time car eer in one simultaneous lump of living that often results in unhappiness. The predominate atti tude that a woman MUST marry at all costs is the thing to ridicule, and not the woman who has picked her lot in life, a solitary one. On the whole, Life Magazine has presented an interesting, informa tive, and, at times, inspir ational picture of the American woman. Perhaps the closing words of the editorial sum up all that Life wanted to say in 172 pages: If woman, 'the sum and complex of all na ture,' has one role more important than her others, it is the one sym bolized by Mary as a source of love. Only as women guard the art and guide the quest of love can mankind know all the kinds and heights of love of which they are capa ble. The art and the quest begin in the fam ily and end at God's feet. One, Two, Three .... Everyone Volunteer For Do'It gt;Yourself Benefit Success Does your father disappear for unmeasured hours on every Satur day ? Does your brother run around the house with a saw in his hands and a frown on his forehead? Does your mother carry a sharp scissors in her purse? If so, there are two paths of action open to you. You can either call the police and beg for protection, or realize that you live in a family of Do-It-Yourself addicts. There are now a great number of these people on campus. They form a select group known as the Student Body. Their project is the Student Benefit. By sponsor ing Opening Night of the Ballet Theatre, they are raising funds for their college. They are doing it them selves for themselves. The mezzan ine is the workshop, and the tools re quired are enthusiasm, cooperation, and a sense of responsibility. Membership requirements are few: securing advertisements, soliciting patrons, and buying tickets. The cul mination of the project is the master piece, the Ballet Theatre itself. Jhe hudcraper Vol. XXVII fan. 21, 1957 No. 7 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. Marilyn Santini, Dolor* Ferraro Assistants Geraldine Rattista, Marilyn Jensen, Maureen Connerty, m Barbara Guderian, Marguerite Phil lips, Lynda Rousseau, Joan Zander Let It Snow Marcella Brown From a Follower Alice Bourke What Is a College Girl Alice Raczak What Is a College Boy ... Marguerite Phillips Art Joyce Kuhlmann Reporters Maryvivian Cunnea, Gerryann Foley, Mary Gart, Barbara Hegan, Margaret Nicholson, Arlene No vak, Marilynne O'Dca, Audrey Swikart, Florence Theisen, Jean Vetterick, Eliza beth Weinrich, Judith Witt, Marianne Witte, Patricia Delsing, Nancy Butler, Marilyn Picchietti, Marilyn Riha, Jean Towle, Frances Kotre, Judith Angone, Elizabeth Ciolino, Roberta Dirzius, Mary Merlock Objective Questions .... What Is a College What Is a College Anyone can recognize a college girl, logical, impractical, d e m u r e, optimistic, opinionated. She can be found walking past the Dean's office, studying in the li brary, riding down ele vators, and coming from the Union. Fathers cater to col lege girls, mothers at tempt analyzing them, little brothers plague them, little sisters per plex them, and college boys are fascinated by them. A college girl is charm in argyle socks, a princess with poppit pearls, a capricious bundle of energy sub sisting on a cup of breakfast coffee. This striped blazer advocate is as captivating as a cool summer's day, as unpredictable as a commuter's train schedule, as animated as a Walt Disney cartoon, and as diversi fied as Webster's dictionery. She likes the peaceful quiet of the College Chapel, Harry Belafonte's calypso album, dangly bracelets, notes on her locker, cashmere sweat ers, crisp white collars, and college men, of course. She doesn't like morning swim ming classes, long written assign ments, commuting, 20 minute lunch periods. No one else can walk more nimbly in high heels across campus parking lots, or shift more quickly conversation-wise from current events, social status, foreign lan guage requirements, standard fic tion, choreography, to chemistry problems. She is a delightful amalgamation, and who else would you rather be? QirU Boy? A college boy almost defies description. He's witty, baffling, capable, impossible, or positive ly brilliant. He can be found anywhere and everywhere, in the Un ion, wandering across the campus, dashing to the Chapel, in librar ies, classrooms, and even in the halls of Mundelein College. The mothers of college boys love them. Little broth ers worship them. Lit tle sisters tease them, and college girls couldn't get along without tthem. A college boy is a king crowned with a crew cut, a genius play ing pinochle, and Apollo in soiled, white bucks. He has the vitality of an acrobat, the stub bornness of a stalled motor, the hu mor of Alfred Hitchcock, and the tribulations of a Shakespearean hero. He likes jazz, sports, casual clothes, cars, shiny fraternity pins, large quantities of coffee, the two step, and college girls. He doesn't like exams, 8 o'clock classes, writing letters, waiting, KOTC drill, or dorm food. Nobody else can cut so many clas ses, find so many excuses for miss ing assignments, being late for dates, or using the family car. There's no one else in the whole w orld like him. He can help you with your chem or tease you about your crea tive answers. He can spend an eve ning dancing on your toes or win lau rels leaping gracefully over hurdles. Yes, a college boy is a strange creature, but who else could you ask to the Junior Prom? lt;
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1957-01-21 (2)
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