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SlTaWI Vol. XXXVIII Mundelein College, Chicago, Illinois, 60626, October 19, 1967 AT THE PRESIDENT S DINNER, Oct. 14, 925 people gathered to honor Sister Ann Ida Gan non's contributions to Chicago in her ten years as Mundelein's president. Seated at the Skyscraper photo by Jennifer Joyce speakers table are Master of Ceremonies Ward A. Quaal, president of WGN, Sister Ann Ida, and Bishop William E. McManus, superintend ent of the Archdiocesan school board. Homecoming opens tomorrow night Tomorrow marks the beginning of the second annual all-college weekend, Oct. 20-22. Maureen Murphy, MSC social chairman, out lined the Homecoming '67 activities for what promises to be an ex citing, fun-filled weekend. Latin American expert raps institutional Catholic Church by Sister Eileen Jack The Catholic Church's contribution to social change in Latin America Is to get the hell out of it as fast as it can, demanded Monsignor Ivan Illich, director of the center of Intercultural Docu mentation, Cuernavaca, Mexico, Sunday evening in McCormick Lounge. The Church cannot have any illusions of making any positive contribu tion to social change and any person really interested in social change in Latin America will have to take into account the dis-establishment of the Church. THOSE EXPECTING a schol arly lecture by the controversial author of The Seamy Side of Charity and The Vanishing Clergyman , on the future of the Church in Latin America were disappointed. Monsignor Illich immediately tossed the evening discussion Into the hands of the audience. What do you want to know? Why did you come here?I am not giving an academic lecture here; 1 am trying to stimulate you to think. he insisted. Although at first bewildered by the speaker's numerous references to people, organizations and situations un familiar to most of them and shocked at his barrage of sweep- Skyscraper Staff merits recognition rating The Skyscraper again earned the 1966-67 Newspaper of Dis tinction, awarded by the Catholic School Press Association. The Skyscraper rated excellent in all categories including content, typography and service to the school. Four Skyscraper staff mem bers have won first places or honorable mentions in two out of the three categories for college writing in the Catholic School Press Association annual com petition. Former co-editor Jean Durall Lewin; '67, won first place in the features category for Apart ment Life Elicits Responsibili ties (Jan. 18, 1967), which told of the pioneers in off campus residence. Drawing on her experiences of the previous summer, co-editor Kathy Riley won a first place in news for her story Upward Bounders' Preview College (Sept. 30, 1966). Coverage of last year's con troversy over the departmental comprehensive examinations gave honorable mentions in the field of news to two staff mem bers: Diane Sargol, '67, past co- editor for Students, Faculty De bate Value of Comprehensives , (Nov. 2, 1966), and the follow-up article Board Votes: Retain Comps (Nov. 16, 1966); and to Kathleen Flynn for Declare Comps Optional; (May 8, 1967). Both Jean and Diane won first place awards last year, and hon orable mentions the year before. This is the second award for Kathy Riley. ing powerful generalizations, the audience, in the course of the three hour discussion, lost its timidity, pressed Monsignor Ill ich for practical examples, de manded proof for his statements, and at times strongly disagreed with each other. The end result was a lively conversation on the future of the Church in Latin America and adrasticde-mytho- logizing of the affect of the Church in Latin America. Monsignor Illich began dis cussion by outlining four prob lems basic to the Church in these underdeveloped countries. 1) There is a conflict between the idea of the presence of Christ among us and the personal sal vation motivation pressured by such conversion movements as the cursillo in Caracas. This evangelism of the right-wing type, Monsignor charged, takes most of the steam out of any real reform orientated poli tical organization. 2) The Church uses its power for the support of the privi leged class, as is exemplified in the private school system which maintains privileges to the rich. A further exampleoftheChurch's emphasis on maintaining the status quo is the Catholic Family Movement in Mexico, which the adamant priest described as a club which uses Christian sym bols usually related to capitalist ideology in order to protect the interests of the club working for the rising class. 3) There is a great foreign ideological interest in the Latin American Church. The most important channel for bringing values of so-called democratic mentality into these countries is the churchs. This leads to prob lem 4): The Church assumes a subsidiary function in organizing social reform. The best way to distribute money, services and goods to the people is through the Church and that gives the organi zation some control over the Church. The U.S. State Depart ment, the Alliance for Progress and other government organiza tions were accused by Monsignor Illich of manipulating the Church for their own purposes. The priest pleaded with his audience to realize: A structure can be so sick - but what can be worse, the Church has become extremely interesting for all people who seek power in Latin America. IN RESPONSE to a question about the future of the Church in these countries, the contro versial priest answered that it had a definite future - but not as the institutional church. That is already decaying, he elaborated, and the faster it goes out of business the better it will be for the people. The Church in the future will be able to work only if she is realistic. She must renounce her still existing power to do good with the money and manpower she now holds to avoid continuing as the opium for the few and accept that she is beaten as an institution . . . The Church can have no social role (Continued on p. 3) The highpoint of the weekend will be the National Touring Cast production of Stop the World I Want to Get Off, Sunday. The musical comedy, sponsored jointly by Mundelein and Loyola, will begin at 7:30 p.m. in the Mundelein auditorium. Tickets are 2.50 for adults and 1.50 for students. Starting the weekend will be an MSC mixer Friday, Oct. 20, in McCormick Lounge, 8:30 p.m. to 11:30. Music will be provided by the Soul Survivorz and the nominal admission charge will be 25 cents. Following the mixer, the crowd will move to the circle in front of Coffey Hall for a pep rally with cheers and songs. Saturday's activities will be gin at 1 p.m. with a homecoming parade, complete with band, foot ball players and a homecoming king and queen. Shawn Reynolds, 1966 king, will crown this year's winner. The parade will begin at Coffey Hall, proceed west on Sheridan Rd. to Winthrop St., south on Winthrop to Granville, west on Granville to Kenmore, then north to Loyola field. The Mundelein Marauders coached by Loyola TKE Dan Bar rett will battle the Bar at Bomb ers in a football game after the parade. The Little Corporal will be the scene of a date dance Satur day night, 9 p.m. till midnight. The Union Jacks will provide the music. Bids are on sale for 2.50. A Mass with creative liturgy, accompanied by guitar music, will be celebrated by Rev. Nor man Senski and Rev. Patrick O'Brien, Sunday at 3 p.m. in McCormick Lounge. A cold cut dinner in the tearoom will follow. Sticking to anti-war stance Hatfield pleas for U.S. pullout in Viet Nam by Linda Sullivan Republican Senator Mark Hatfield of Oregon appeared before a group of 250 Young Republicans Oct. 12 at Loyola University to dis cuss the war in Viet Nam. At a time when the Administration's policies in Southeast Asia are constantly under fire, Senator Hatfield emerges in an anti-war stance which dates back to the time when it was con sidered political suicide to question U.S. involvement in Viet Nam. Hatfield proposed to his au dience a program of de-American ization which would follow the Kennedy-Eisenhower idea of helping the Vietnamese as ad visors only. Hatfield says that this country must help the Vietnamese train, equip and supply, but that is as far as our duty extends. By carefully moving in Asian troops trained by Americans and simultaneously moving out American soldiers, will, in Hatfield's opinion, spare the terrorism which could result from a sudden mass withdrawal. According to the Oregon sena tor, the chief propaganda trap today is the familiar don't-look- back attitude: We're there, what difference does it make how we got there. Hatfield vehemently called for everyone to study the events leading up to the war, which he feels is the main issue. Appealing to all to study the facts, not in light of emotion but in the light of history, he briefly outlined the events which led up to the United States current in volvement in Viet Nam. In 1945 the Japanese occupied French Indochina, including Viet Nam. At this time the U.S. supported the national battle waged by Ho Chi Minh. Later that year the new flag went up in Hanoi: this, Hatfield says, was the beginning of the Republic of Viet Nam. The French, who had withdrawn, now decided to re claim this territory. The United States was already unhappy with the new republic, and for this reason supported and in fact financed 80 percent of the French campaign. The French finally realized the futility of their at tempts after 96,000 troops had been killed and they then with drew. In 1954 the U.S. supported the Diem regime when it came into power. At this time a Line of Demarcation was drawn, a line which Hatfield stressed was not a territorial or political bound ary. The Vietnamese were to be given the opportunity to make a boundary forming two countries in 1956. However, this election was never held, and Viet Nam remained one country. Between 1954 and 1956 anti-Diem factions appeared throughout the country, resulting in civil war. Hatfield stressed the fact that the war was a case of civil strife and not a matter of communists vs. non-communists. Hatfield was quick to parallel the term warmongerer, a word used frequently by Lyndon John son in the 1964 campaign, to the President's policies in Viet Nam today. Three months after John son had promised to keep Ameri cans off of foreign soil, 1,000,000 were on their way to stop com munist aggression. Earlier this year, Senate Majority Leader Mike Mansfield testified that the act of communist aggression did not involve 7,400 communist troops as had been believed, but 400 troops. Hatfield deducted that the U.S. was not taking steps at stopping- aggression, but merely trying to save Viet Nam from political collapse. Ac cording to the senator the State Department later admitted this. To Hatfield, the escalation of the war which began with the bombings of the North is unjusti fiable. Giving McNamaras's rea sons for initiating the bombings (Continued on page 3) Photo Courtesy of Paul Jackson DURING A PRESS CONFERENCE before Senator Mark Hatfield's talk at Loyola, Linda Sullivan, Skyscraper reporter, asked the senator his opinion of the draft. His succinct reply, it should be eliminated and the status of the armed force services raised.
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