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Bonfire, Concert Top 'Homecoming' Simon and Garfunkel, football game, bonfire, mixer, pa rade all of this will be part of Mundelein's first All-College Weekend, Nov. 4-5. Sponsored by the Mundelein Student Congress as a fun drive instead of a fund drive, the weekend will start with an all-school mixer Nov. 4, from 9-12 p.m. Sir Boss and the Squires will perform in McCormick Lounge and Help Incorpo rated will entertain in Lewis Center. Under the watchful eyes of the Chicago fire department and to the singing of Rose- Vol. XXXVII Mundelein College, Chicago 26, 111., Nov. 2, 1966 mary Soaky Sokolik and Maryann Diefenbach, the bonfire will be lit at 11:30 p.m. at the site of the future Learning Resource Center. However, the official pep rally won't begin until the mixer ends at 12 midnight. Elect Millen To Fill Post; Retain Ball Mimi Millen on Oct. 26 was elected to fill the office of MSC delegate-at-large, vacated by Mary Jane Delisi. Mimi stated in her platform that the council was in need of organization. Student Congress is vital on this campus, and she continued that it is the only organized structure that can represent the entire student body. Nominations for the office opened at the MSC meeting Oct. 25. The meeting commenced with the intro duction of the council members to the freshman class who later par ticipated in the traditional capping ceremony. CANDIDATES were required to state their platforms by Oct. 19 and these were published in a spe cial edition of the MSC Outlook. Those nominated were: Barbara Dahlder, Mary Jo Drakle, Mimi Millen, Jeanne Scheuerell and Mary Rose Strubbe. This election permitted freshmen to run for office and to participate in voting as this is the first time an election of this kind has been held at the beginning of the year. ALSO VOTED upon on the same ballot was the question of whether the student body wished to suspend the Skyscraper Ball this year or to continue it. This was brought to a vote of the student body be cause the ball has gone into debt in the past few years due to a lack of interest and support on the part of the students. The vote was 236 to 145 in favor of retaining the annual ball, ten tatively scheduled for sometime in February. To conserve the power of the Mundelein football players, seven decorated cars will be used on Sat urday to transport the team from Mundelein's circle campus to Loyola's athletic field. They will be accompanied by the Mundelein cheering section, coaches, cheerleaders and a mock band com posed of washboard thumpers, stick bangers, bell ringers and other musicians. The football game will begin at 3 p.m. when a real referee blows the whistle to start the official clash between the Mundelein women and the Loyola coeds. A trophy will be given to the winning team. Climax of the All-College Week end is the Simon and Garfunkel Concert to be held Saturday at 5 and 8 p.m. The folk-rock duo has appeared at McCormick Place and has recorded Sounds of Silence and I Am a Rock. Tickets are on sale now at the college theater box office at 3 for the 5 p.m. performance and 3.50 for the 8 p.m. show. Carol Ryan is in charge of the mixer. Diana Utz is chairman of the concert committee and Mary Barmes is the chairman of the football game. Students, Value of For the first time in the recent history of Mundelein the students have challenged the administrative policy on academic issues. A meet ing between faculty and students has been called at 3:30 this after noon in McCormick Lounge to air stud cut and faculty views regard ing senior comprehensive examina tions. The dissension over the tests be came evident two weeks ago after juniors and seniors gathered in de partmental meetings to discuss these exams. Though a majority of students were under the impression that the purpose of the meetings was to dis cuss comprehensives, many com plained that sessions were devoted to an explanation by professors of the type of tests given by the in dividual department. There was no discussion of the issue. Consequently, members of the student body appeared before the Mundelein Student Congress (MSC) Oct. 19 to petition this body to take action in their behalf. As Faculty Debate Comprehensives by Diane Sargol a result, a committee was estab lished under the MSC to study the problem of senior comprehensives and to discuss and/or debate the issue with the faculty. Committee members, under the chairmanship of Andrea Zahorak, last year's MSC vice president, are: Barbara Dahlder, assistant editor of the MSC Outlook, Mary Jo Drakle; Cathy Flavin, chairman of the Club Co-ordination Board (CCB); Kathy Flynn, delegate-at- large; Nancy Podraza, chairman of the academic affairs committee; Di ane Sargol, co-editor of the Sky scraper; Marge Sklencar, vice president of the MSC; Diana Utz, delegate-at-large; Kathy Ward, corresponding secretary of the MSC, and Cheryl Wierdak, secre tary of the senior class. Following the MSC meeting, committee members began re searching the topic of senior com prehensives. A telegram was sent to Harvard University requesting the results of its national study. The National Federation of Stevenson Probes Revenue Crisis; Analyzes State Treasurer's Role Taxes, elections, voting age lim its and the problems of the Illinois State Legislature were the topics of the Oct. 18 session of Speak- Easy. Adlai Stevenson III, candidate for Illinois State Treasurer, fielded an assortment of questions and his answers gave the audience an in sight into the office-seeker's quali fications. CLEANLINESS is next to god liness except in the Illinois State Legislature where it's next to im possible, Stevenson punned, quot ing his father, a former governor of Illinois. Raising the prevailing level of ethics in the legislature could be accomplished in several ways through the office of state treasurer, Stevenson said. Improving organization of the by Mary McMorrow office staff and informing the pub lic as to how state revenue is being spent, would be steps in the right direction, Stevenson suggested. Getting rid of institutional sacred cows, he added, would also greatly increase the accomplishments of the legislature. Illinois has two options for its revenue problems, Stevenson noted: Committee Requests Opinions; Considers Speak-Easy Change Mrs. Jane C. Brown, Regional Director of the Planned Parenthood Association will be the guest speaker at next week's Speak-Easy. Speak-Easy will be held Nov. 8 at 4:15 in McCormick Lounge. The Speak-Easy committee is considering changing Speak-Easy from Tuesday at 4:15 to Thursday at 3:10, re marked Anne Boylan, co-chairman of the Speak-Easy commit tee. We will change the date if we get enough favorable re sponse from the student body. Posters have been put up near the lounge elevator and in the locker rooms for students to write their comments on, she added. The proposed change, which would not go into effect until next term, would interfere with seven classes. Skyscraper Photo by Nancy Vandenbere CAMPAIGNING FOR THE office of Illinois State Treasurer before a capacity Speak-Easy audi ence, Adlai Stevenson III urges revenue reform. Either an income tax or a tax on general services, for example, beauty shops, will be necessary. Stevenson voiced his opposition to an income tax and stressed that money can't come from local gov ernment, even for solving local problems. State finances are be ing drained already; We are defi nitely in a financial crisis in Illi nois, Stevenson commented. WHAT THE YOUNG people lack in experience, they make up for in idealism, Stevenson an swered when questioned about low ering the voting age. He noted that in the last session of the leg islature he had introduced a bill for lowering the age limit to 19, but the bill failed to pass. In response to a question from Sister Mary Griffin, B.V.M., aca demic dean, concerning increasing state scholarship funds, Stevenson agreed that more funds are neces sary for this purpose. Scholarships not earmarked for state-supported colleges only would enable the stu dent to choose a private college if he wished. It would actually cost less to increase the scholarship fund than pay the tuition, per pupil, in state universities, Stevenson said. THE MUCH-DISCUSSED white backlash has been evident through out Illinois, the candidate said. The backlash is based largely on emotional attitudes, he added, and was greatest after the earlier ra cial disturbances of the summer. But these attitudes are sub siding now and I'm confident the election will be decided on reason, rather than emotion, Stevenson optimistically stated. Stevenson noted that candidates rarely use elections to educate the people. The prevailing attitude, he added, is not to take stands on too many issues. We have, said Stevenson, too many echoes, not enough voices. I would like an opportunity to be a voice in Illi nois. Catholic College Students (NF CCS) and the National Student As sociation (NSA), were also con tacted for any relevant information from their academic files. As of press date, the committee had re ceived responses from both NFCCS and NSA indicating that some col leges have eliminated comprehen sives while others maintain some form of integrated testing, but do not use the same program as is currently in effect at Mundelein. Harvard has not as yet answered. Interested students also joined committee members in contacting Chicago area colleges and universi ties to determine their policy re garding comprehensive examina tions. Compilation of this data was not completed in time for the Sky scraper deadline. Members of the academic affairs committee, a standing committee of the MSC, contacted alumnae from last year's class to determine their reaction to senior comprehensives and to learn if such tests actually are of any value once the student has been graduated from college. The results of this survey will be presented this afternoon. On Oct. 25, Barbara Dahlder, Nancy Podraza, Diane Sargol and Anndrea Zahorak, appeared before the board on specialization, the di vision of the academic board which this year is considering the grading program of the college. This is the first committee which must consider the problem of comprehensives be fore it is brought before the entire academic board. The committee hoped that this presentation of stu dent opinion would urge the board to reconsider the college's policy of requiring senior comprehensives. Reaction to this afternoon's panel discussion-debate will determine the next step in the action taken by the committee. Marybeth Wagner, vice-president of the Young Republican Organi zation, and Jean Durall, co-editor of the Skyscraper, will join Sister Cecelia Moran, B.V.M., chairman of the mathematics department, and Sister Cecilia Bodman, B.V.M., of the biology department, in pre senting facts and views relevant to senior comprehensives. Mary Ann Griffin, MSC president, will mod erate the program. Following the panel presentation, the program will be open to students, faculty and administration for discussion. To the faculty query, Why do you want to abolish comprehen sives? students counter Why do we have comprehensives? Maryann Diefenbach, Northland vice-president, voiced a popular stu dent contention at the meeting. We should have definite reasons why we have to have comps and not just the answer that it is Mun delein's policy, she said. And if there is no good reason, comps should be eliminated. Another major student objection steins from the policy of requiring comprehensives as a criterion for graduation.
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1966-11-02 (1)
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