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Page Two THE SKYSCRAPER February 17, 1959 - Men Suffers for Beauty or Sports, But Shuns Idea of Mortification 'it COULD BE J0U... mundle- ndle Said OX)Ci cN The hair shirt has gone the way of the Model T Ford out. When the old Ford passed on, the automobile didn't go out of style. It went modern with auto matic transmissions and stepped-up horsepower. Mortification suffered a different fate with the exit of the hair shirt. It just went completely. People simply don't shut themselves up for life anymore like the anchorites did in the glorious old days of rigorous penance. If they do retire to the Paper Marks Anniversary, Plans New Developments The Skyscraper is 28 years old. For 28 years it has reflected the changing times, reported collegiate opinion and activity and served Mundelein. Through the 28 years of Skyscraper publication there have been changes in both format and editorial policy. There are more changes ahead, designed to make The Skyscraper more vital and interest ing to its readers. THE LAST ISSUE of the paper intro duced a Letters to the Editors column which if the readers wish will be a regular feature in issues to come. Its purpose is to enable students and faculty members to voice their views and share their opin ions. Anyone who has something to say may write a Letter to the Editors and submit it for publication. Letters should be typed or written clearly, addressed to the editors and left tacked to the bulletin board in the Sky- 8craper office, room 404, before the Friday of the week an issue of the paper comes out. Letters should not exceed 150 words. The editors reserve the right to cut letters which are too long. If the Editorial Board decides a letter should not be published, the writer will be notified of the reason why her letter was withheld. Another Skyscraper innovation is a new method of reporting SAC news. Pre viously the SAC notified The Skyscraper of any news that they wished to have re leased. As the result of a poll given to the SAC by the newspaper staff, it was determined that closer contact between SAC and the paper is desirable. In the future, a member of The Skyscraper Edi torial Board will attend all SAC meetings send report on what took place. THE SKYSCRAPER poll given in De cember to the student body revealed that Skyscraper readers would be interested in seeing more editorials on civic and na tional affairs. The editors will try to comply by publishing an article of this type in each issue. Another change will be in the dis tribution of the paper. Copies may U'be obtained in the lounge across from the elevators and in the corri dor leading to the Phoenix room. The paper will no longer be availa ble in the locker rooms. Extra copies may be obtained in room 404. Although The Skyscraper has changed with the years to meet the changing needs of its readers, one aspect of Skyscraper policy never changes, its goals. They remain the same in 1959 as they were when they were first published in 1931. We still hope to promote interest in col lege life, support college activities, pro mote cooperation and provide an organ for student expression. desert, they don't live on locust and wild honey and the Providence of God. THE PRAYERS and mortifications of ancient ascetics helped the Church sur vive its first persecution-riddled centuries. Yet the atrocities of Diocletian and Nero nowhere equal the persecution that rages against the Church today. Despite this, the word penance leaves an unpleasant taste in modern mouths. The present attitude toward mortifica tion is a paradox. Man arises before dawn to play 18 holes of golf or go on a fishing trip to Wisconsin for health and enjoy ment. Sports heroes in training give up smoking, drinking and late hours for the glory of the team. Females suffer for beauty's sake. But deaf are the ears when the call for penance issues from the pulpit on Quinquagesima Sunday. St. Paul used a surprisingly pro phetic situation as he wrote, Do you not know that those who run in a a race, all indeed run, but one re ceives the prize? So run as to obtain it. And everyone in a contest ab stains from all things and they indeed do receive a perishable crown but we an imperishable one. No amount of progressive thinking can destroy the reality of the cost of this imperishable crown. The modern atti tude toward penance ignores the obvious answer. Here is one situation where it pays to be behind-the-times. bS done Student Retreat Is Time To PolishHalos, Brush TatteredWings It's time to polish halos and brush wings again. The annual student retreat starts tomorrow. What's this? No wild applause? No shouts of joy? No, just quiet resignation to the inevitable, un avoidable student retreat. The best thing about retreats is that they end. For proof, just ask those who made closed retreats this year. Most of the girls who made closed retreats will probably say that they felt great. .. after the retreat was over. There's a good reason for the happy feeling when a retreat ends. A retreat is future-geared. It's a chance for spiritual revitalization that culminates in a retreat resolu tion. Inertia makes stopping diffi cult, and that's why the beginning of a retreat isn't met with wild enthusi asm. But the end of a retreat is the time to get going again with re newed vigor and confidence. If the beginning of a retreat is a time for quiet resignation and the end is a time for a happy feeling, what is the middle ? The middle of a retreat is a time for thought. It's an opportunity to get life into perspective, to find oneself, and in finding oneself, to find God. Resignation, consideration and fulfill ment are the three stages of a retreat. They are all necessary. Retreats may be inevitable; they may be unavoidable, but they really help. ---. On the National Scene Victorious, Persistent Negro Leaders Remain Militant Shouts of anger and prejudice have penetrated the airways for the past few weeks. Negro leaders have successfully petitioned the Supreme Court to order immediate integration in the schools. AND FOR THIS reason southern leaders pro test the tactics of Negro militant groups. They are unfair, . . . rushing things, . . . twisting the law to suit their purposes. Segregation leaders are urging Negro officials, mainly the NAACP, to drop their militant stand and stop appealing to the court of the land. In tegration, segregationists claim may be attained but southern resentment will smoulder. They have, however, started no drive to halt their own white militant groups. NAACP states that militant policies will continue and adds that if integration pro ceeded any slower, it would stop. If the col ored people don't light for their own equality, who will? Northerners have helped but most offer only passive good-will. As a result Negroes have turned to their churches, organizations, communities, and schools to battle legally, persistently, and unyieldingly. And they militantly fight for equal education, a step toward intellectual dignity. And south erners resent this unyielding quality more than integration. GOVERNOR J. Lindsay Almond Jr. claimed that he could not and would not compromise with integration pressure groups. He organized Vir ginia into a massive resistance movement, closed schools to prevent 17 colored students at Norfolk and four in Arlington county from at tending all-white schools. He added that the NAACP was unreasonable and would not com promise. Later he conceded to token Integra- Scholarship Merits Praise Congratulations are in order for the 14 ) stu dents who maintained a minimum grade point average of 2.5 during the first semester. Of this total, 27 achieved the highest possible average of 3.0, straight-A. Since there has been no appre ciable increase in enrollment, the lengthened list reflects a high point in campus intellectual life. Although the Dean's List is almost equally divided among the four classes, the 35 seniors account for the greatest share. They are to be especially commended for maintaining their high averages in addition to passing comprehensive examinations and student teaching. tion until he could find some legal means to thwart further mixing of the races. NAACP spokesmen replied (hat Almond was not demanding a compromise but a sur render. If the students were withdrawn the schools would remain segregated. The only compromise acceptable to the colored people would be admittance into the schools, they stated. Meanwhile southern families grew tired of the massive resistance movement. Their homes were broken, children uneducated, and southern economy affected. These people told television reporters that they would prefer in tegration and were weary of the resistance program. ALMOND ANSWERED claiming as represen tative of the people, he would not demoralize the schools or lower southern ideals and principles by letting Negroes win this battle. But the governor exhausted all legal means. State au thority could not override Supreme Court judg ments and Virginia submitted to the ruling. Last week after this token integration Time maga zine quipped, Massive's in the cold, cold ground. Militant Negro leaders aware of the signifi cance of this burial, intend to progress still further. They will not hesitate to use all legal means to attain their just goal . . . equality. Perhaps southerners will resent, even hate them, but for the Negroes, victory carries respect and dignity with it. Catholic Press Supplies Truth, Justice; Brings Christ into Our Daily Existence Hold to the path of truth and justice, the theme of this year's Catholic Press month was taken from an address by the late Pope Pius XII on Public Opinion and the Church. TRUTH AND JUSTICE are two little words with big meanings. Truth has been defined by Webster as conformity of the mind with higher, more advanced standards, or conformity of rea son with fact and reality. Justice, as defined by Webster, is also conformity. It is conformity of life with truth, fact, or right reason. The word conformity is stressed in both of the definitions above. What is it? Conformity means harmony and agreement, and today harmony, along with truth and justice, is missing from many lives in the world. The definitions of truth, justice and con formity too often depend upon the person who defines them. But in a world described by the late Pope Pius XII as vacillating be tween an illusory and unreal spirituality and a defeatist and materialistic realism, a de- finer's definition of what is truth may range from Communism to individualistic capital ism. Is there a definite source from which we can obtain the real picture of truth? We can obtain part of the picture from the daily secular papers who show us the material problems we face. But to obtain the complete interpretation of these problems, we must turn for a conclusion to the Catholic Press whose primary purpose is the safety and welfare of the Catholic Church and its readers. AS CHRISTIANS we should be its readers, and one of our biggest tasks as Christians is, in the words of Guardini, to transpose Christ into the stuff of our own daily existence. To make this task easier for us, and to enable us to see reality as reality, the Catholic Press is ever striving to be a constant available source of truth and justice. ULSk 'j Scraper Vol. XXIX Feb. 17, 1959 No. 8 The Skyscraper is published semi-monthly, October to May inclusive, except during: vacations and semester examina tions, by the students of Mundelein College. 6363 Sheridan Road. Chicago 40, Illinois. Subscription rates are 1.76 par year. Entered as second class matter, November 30. 1932, at the U. S. Post Office, Chicag-o. Illinois, under the act of March 3. 1897. The Skyscraper is a member of the Associated Collegiate I'ress and the Catholic School Press Association. STAFF MEMBERS Editors Barbara Guderian, Marguerite Phillips Associates Mary Gart, Margaret Nicholson, Lynda Rousseau Staff Artist Mary Anne King Skyscrapings . Dorothy Nelson Assistants Mary Lou Brady, Claudia Radzwicki, Ann Miller, Dorothy Nelson, Mary Ann Makowski, Dorothy Lahman, Kathleen McGuire Reporters Newswriting Class
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