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- 'Ij f, fj /o,/* Subtle white barriers segregate minority groups, says Diane Allen BLACK problems at WHITE college? Discrimination in Rogers Park? Skyscraper ohoto by Linda Sullivan Diane Allen skyscraper Vol. XXXIX Mundelein College, Chicago, 111., 60626, October 4, 1968 No. 2 Skyscrapings When it comes time for a columnist to be farmed out, Put out to Pasture, Given the Sack, kicked upstairs, or any of the many comparable euphemisms for Being sent to the Glue Factory, by rights the mind malingers and the pen is palsied. Yet, in kind deference to two years of desultory service, my old adversaries, The Editorial Board, have called for a brief bombing halt and granted me this crepe-hung Box to eulogize myself in, a nicety which printing costs scarcely brook nowadays. (For this dig I fear no reprisals from our Printers. I'm sure if they read everything they composited, they would hopelessly addle their Brains with an ideological hodgepodge of The New World and Muhammad Speaks, not to mention the Loyola Noose and the Mundelein Compleat Peace March.) Nor do I intend by these maukish mutter- ings to poison the well of my successor, who is even now keeping an all night vigil, steeling for her investiture with the trappings of this Office (To be conferred with an incantation: For thou art (pseudonym) and upon this rock thou shalt build thy Roofcery) A columnist by definition holds colloquies with her soul on Company time and Paper; but my soul was a Conversation Dropout. Now, before ascending to my apotheosis in EgoLand I lash out with a final scopic thrust: Another anecdote tinged with the Religious fa naticism which augured my decline as a Wit. Last Saturday four Skyscraper photographers were abruptly called away from their routine (lunch in the tearoom) on an unorthodox as signment. Early that morning a heavy Hail of two-by-fours had knocked a hole-several holes in fact-in the antique slate shingle roofing of the Yellow House. Under the direction of their FM (faculty moderator, also Frequency Modu lation) The dauntless Team filmed the holes from every conceivable angle, clambered out on precarious ledges, crawled into the sooty eaves of the attic, went into a garret to photo graph the plaster debris on the bed (fortunate ly unoccupied when the shower struck) and into the second floor library to shoot a grisly heap of books and rubble. They climbed the skeletal high rise under construction next door for a vista view of the vastage. Mission: re cord the extent of damage for the Insurance estimate. While about this business, the photographers remembered that the Yellow House was In Private life the Religious Education Center; and they asked themselves: Why, among all the buildings on Campus, was the REC singled out for the blow? It must be a Sign, one said. The transcendent is telling us something. But What? Probably that the high rise to one side is getting so assertive and that split level to the other so spectacular; that the REC is looking Dwarfed, even irrelevant, she said. This conclu sion seemed defensible, for Indeed, the offend ing Two-by-fours had fallen-or been pushed- from the scaffolding of the high rise. In short, said the photographic Editor, the word is; Curb your hubris and Stop dupli cating facilities-for there's plenty more Planks where those came from. Do you think Sister Ann Ida will hearken? I don't know. It's my word against those Klutz construction workers. Starkly, Tully By Janet Sass (EDITOR'S NOTE: This a part one of a two part Sky scraper interview with junior sociology major Diane Allen who is expressing her views on race relations.) Does a racial barrier exist between black and white students at Mundelein? I think one of subtlety exists, but I also think it can be overcome because it is so subtle. I think most of the kids here aren't out and out racists; that is, until I saw the Students for Wallace letter in the Skyscraper. Many students are not going to come out and say they are segregationists, but then they are not going to do anything to change the system either. I think the black students have prevented a racial problem here. It could have been worse had we not had a confrontation or had the black students not been in the limelight. Yet there is the subtle kind of segregation when you have mixers or when the thing is going up to Notre Dame or St. Joe's or to the TKE. There are no black men in the TKE. The blacks up at Notre Dame are very few and far between. When the school takes on things like this, they actually leave blacks out unbeknownst. Blacks can't identify with those bands at the mixers, the Jet Set, Rolling Curlers and the Hair. These are subtle discriminations. Whites don't think about us, because we're not a part of what they think of as their whole culture. How can blacks be included in more social activities? They wouldn't have to include just black people, but other minority groups too. The mixers are white middle class, exclu sively. A Spanish person would feel just as much out of place there as I do. A possible solution would be to change from the long hair bands to a soul band or a band of any other minority group once in a while. How would you describe white prejudice at Mundelein? White Mundelein students can't help being prejudiced be cause they don't know any other way. They have been brought up in the white middle class world, and everything opposed to a white world they are opposed to. Some of them fear black students. They perpetrate all of the things they think blacks are going to do, like burn down the dorm or poison the food. This stems from ignorant prejudice that people can't really justify. That's the hardest kind of prejudice to overcome. Can you account for the white charges of reverse-discrimina tion against black tutor-counsellors in the Upward Bound pro gram this summer? White charges of reverse-discrimination in the' Upward Bound program came about by the white TC's feeling that the black TC's were discriminating against them, because we were always together. The reaction of the white TC's manifested itself in a need to belong and not to be alienated. This same need of belonging is prevalent in the black community, but it becomes reverse-discrimination when it happens to whites. What can a black student expect from a white college like Mundelein? The first thing they can expect is a lot of questions, questions about black people, black culture, the ghetto and the poor. The second thing is irrelevancy in a lot of the classes. A lot of the classes just don't mean a damn thing to black students, but possibly are important to people in the white middle class structure of society. An example is Humanities III. It's a music appreciation course with not one piece of black music. Is it the case that black musicians haven't done anything to be appreciated? Is there discrimination against blacks in Rogers Parle? Are you kidding? Of course As far as I'm concerned, they don't want any Negroes in Rogers Park. Once blacks leave the campus and start walking down Broadway, they're no longer on the safe university campus. They're in the middle of Chicago on the north side. I know a number of black fellows who have been stopped by the police coming off the el or down Granville and Winthrop and asked where they were going. I went up to the Grandeur on Granville one night to eat and the waitress didn't want to serve me. Did she finally serve you? Yes, but it took awhile and I didn't pay. So I figure we're about even. I just walked out. (Continued on page 3)
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1968-10-04 (1)
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