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D DAY BREEDS DISSENSION D-Day at Mundelein is over. D for dissension, debate, disgust, but few decisions. The illegal smoke outside the Phoenix Room has vanished, the tearoom floor sit-in has disbanded and the group of Lewis Center pickets has halted its chanting demonstration. Now, to slump back in content and critically evaluate Discrimination Day poses a series of unsolved problems. In the cleared atmosphere, one wonders precisely what the noble ex periment accomplished besides providing diversion in a routine day. In essence, the SAC-originated plan was basically a sound one. Properly carried out, it might have accomplished the important goal of thrusting home what discrimination means when it actually involves the individual. But because objectives were left undefined, anticipated results unclarified and student attitudes misjudged, the project quickly de generated into an apparent insult to student intelligence. By 10 a.m., a number of action-craving Council members had evidently forgotten or abandoned their primary goal. Obviously hurt that their pet game was not attracting enough players, they instigated demonstrations against the project they had supposedly initiated and supported. With the immature notion that only outright rebellion signifies interest and concern, some of the SAC members were found in the center of picketing brigades and the Phoenix Room smoke-in instead of supervising the smooth functioning of Discrimination Day. And it did function smoothly until the demonstrators launched their childish antics. The first reaction of the majority of students seemed to point out the obvious ab surdity of basing elevator entrance on color of hair. Few missed the evident parallel between this and racial discrimination. Why this recognition failed to satisfy the SAC is difficult to determine. Apparently they expected an all-out protest over the regulations. And the more sophisticated and mature, but nonetheless genuine, reaction disappointed them. The blaze that began sizzling on Wednesday burst into flames Thursday at an all- school meeting, when the SAC found it necessary to import SNCC and CORE represen tatives from the University of Chicago to inform Mundelein students about the racial problem. It hardly seems logical to assume that when 300-400 students gathered to dis cuss the racial issue they needed outside avowed demonstrators to point out with propa ganda techniques the path of action. The representatives tossed around poetic prose (some of it highly emotional and con tradictory . . . Constructive tension and crises, Time can no longer be used against us ). Favoring demonstration and boycott tactics, labelling Chicago the most segregated city in the U.S., the speakers brushed aside audience queries about more constructive rational and democratic means to solve racial issues. It's too bad the SAC chose to resort to inside demonstrations and outside demonstra tors to tell Mundelein students there is a Civil Rights problem. The Skyscraper Staff Volunteers To Discuss Lay Mission Activities Representing Extension Lay Volunteers, Gerry Reynolds and Kevin Lawler will speak at 12:40 p.m. in 405 next Tuesday, Nov. 26, on the need for qualified lay men and women to work in the Extension home missions and in Latin America with the Papal Volunteers. A 1962 graduate of the University of Detroit, Gerry served for two years as an Extension Volunteer organizing a Newman Club on the campus of Central State University, Edmond, Okla. Kevin graduated from the College of Holy Cross, with an Eng lish major and a philosophy minor. Both serve as recruiters for Exten sion under the direction of Reverend John Sullivan, national director of Extension Lay Volunteers. Extension volunteers consist of single Catholic lay people and mar ried couples from 21 to 40 years of age. They serve for one year in full-time home mission work. Volunteers serve in many capaci ties including working as teachers in straggling Catholic grade and high schools, census and catecheti cal workers, nurses for mission clinics, secretarial and promotional workers, Newman Club organizers and social workers for dependent children. This year, Extension has 300 men and women from 85 dioceses serv ing in 111 parishes and institutions in 14 states and Puerto Rico. At present, about 240 Papal Volun teers are in training. Vol. XXXIV Mundelein College, Chicago 26, 111., Nov. 20,1963 Forum Plans Tapes, Movies Class To Hear Film Directors 'Diary' Comes to Screen The Foreign Film Festival will present Diary of a Country Priest, Dec. 3 at 6:30 p.m. in the college theater. :':''? :::'-:'-:-::.-' ::::v:y:::x: gt;v-':-:':--'--:- ::-- gt; :::::::::;:::;: ::;::::::: THE CALL TO DUTY is an swered by Mun delein students and cadets, (I. to r.) Bobbie Rich ard, John W. Ar- rington, Anita Kaiser, Clint Price, Frank Co- santino and Carol Grundmann. I Should Have Said No by John Golab If you're ever asked to be an escort- chauffeur-assistant to a female photographer, particularly if she is Eileen Schaefer, a Sky scraper editor, forget it. I'm still trying to You see, my escapade to capture unaware- type photos of Mundelein students and their dates at the Army-Air Force Ball, Nov. 2, left me shattered. The sequence of events began with a slight hike (11 blocks) from the sub-sub level of the Grant Underground to the Conrad Hilton. I guess I'm just not accustomed to strolling down Michigan Avenue with a case of film slung on my left shoulder, a battery charger hung on top of it, a length of lamp cord wrapped around my neck while holding up a photographer and press camera with my right arm. This, to say the least, was quite a sight to Saturday night spectators. At the hotel, we discovered our first mistake neglecting to obtain a special pass signed by the President of the United States. We could not use the left stairway without a pass 14 guards convinced us. At the top of the right stairway, which was left unguarded, we found our subjects. I stepped back to watch the Skyscraper photog rapher at work and, at the same time, tried to look important with nothing to do but cart a carrying case for the next 35. minutes. at my photog- a camera that I couldn't help but marvel rapher friend as she handled was twice her size. Is everybody ready? Here goes The camera was poised, the shutter clicked. No flash. Once, twice, three times. No flash. I wished I was accustomed to carrying Bromo Seltzer in my pockets. I hurried to obtain the aid of a photographer from Life who was in the foyer. But within ten steps of him I was stopped by an armed guard and asked for my special pass. For tunately, I caught the photographer's atten tion as I was escorted out. After fixing our camera, the man disap peared. We were left to take candid shots but our subjects lined up in V formation and counted off from left to right. In one last desperate attempt for an un- posed picture my friend sneaked into the ball room surrounded by three cadets while I was left to stand and gaze at mismatched couples. But she was back in a flash with a look of discouragement. That's it I quit Let's go And so we did back another 11 blocks, three hours and three pictures later. But the epitome came the next night when she asked me to write a story for The Sky scraper. I should have said no. The French film when it was first presented in 1961 won four awards, among them the Grand Prix du Cinema. Director Robert Bresson based his movie on the novel by Georges Bernanos. It stars Claude Laydee as the Cur6 d'Ambricourt and Nicole Maurey as the govern ess. Diary of a Country Priest, set in the Artois region of France, re veals the story of an inexperienced but ardent young priest who is to tally caught up in his supernatural apostolate. His zeal apparently is so great that the villagers regard it with suspicion, and all his ef forts to become acquainted with them are met with hostility and re bellion. Shortly after his arrival, Cure d'Ambricourt learns of the unhappy situation concerning one of the families in his parish. Chantal, disillusioned by the discovery of her father's affair with the governess, directly involves the priest in this drama when she begs him to advise her mother to take action. The Countess keeps the memory of her dead son alive, hating both husband and daughter. She finally conquers her pride, however, through Cur6 d'Ambricourt's influence. This success, the greatest of the Curb's ministry, is cut short by the sudden death of the Countess. The bewildered priest then becomes an easy victim to the vicious calumny of Chantal, who has overheard some of his conversations with her mother. In addition, he is accused of being a drunkard when, because of ill health, he eats bread dipped in red wine. After consulting a specialist in Lille, he dies of cancer, displaying his faith and hope in the last lines of the novel: Tout est grace. The French literary genre class, conducted by Sister Mary St. Irene, B.V.M., will be the first group to hear taped interviews with the directors of foreign films, Wednesday, Dec. 3. Pierre d'Andre, president of the Cultural Services of Catholic Cinema, Radio and Television (CCRT), will provide the tape. For the rest of the year class discussion will follow each foreign film. Students will draw up a list of questions which Monsieur d'An dre will use in his interview with a prominent person connected with the film. In this way Mundelein students will benefit from first hand information and experience in regard to the foreign films. The CCRT is an international or ganization operating out of Paris, where it has been duly authorized by the French Episcopacy to judge current films. Often the organiza tion's decisions are posted on church doors, so that citizens can not fail to notice them. Sister Mary St. Irene, B.V.M., observed, It's a way of demanding good films. Christmas Recess Change The dates of Christmas recess have been changed. Classes will continue through Thursday, Dec. 19, and will resume Monday, Jan. 6.
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1963-11-20 (1)
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