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Page Four - The SKYSCRAPER - January 17, 1969 Mr. Crafton leaves living testimony Paul M. Crttfton, director of Financial Aid, wh*m students will remember for his warmth and helpfulness, dledvf a heart attack Dec. 19. Two months prior to his death, he presented this letter of resignation to Sister Ann Ida. October 22, 1968 Dear Sister Ann Ida: My life, as I have known it, cannot be expected to last indefinitely. I feel that the time to drop the plough is while one can still make a straight fur row. Therefore, will you please accept my resignation from employment with Mundelein College, effective Sept. 30,1969. Aside from the work in Admissions and Financial Aid, which I have thoroughly enjoyed, this has been a glorious experience. The relationship I have had in these six years with faculty and staff, lay and religious, and with students and parents, has been most gratifying. I treasure the friendships I would never have known except for being here. I thank you again for all you have done, for your confidence and friendship, and for knowing far better than I that names given to religions mean little when people give respect to one another and are filled with a zeal to serve the needs of their fellow men, whatever they may be. As long as I live I will love Mundelein and I will pray for it to prosper in the years ahead as never before. Sincerely yours, Paul M. Crafton Pioneering voyage unites future hope And God bless all of you on the good earth. With these words, Frank Borman, commander of the Apollo 8 space flight, concluded the Christmas Eve message to us earthlings as he and astronauts James Lovell and William Anders prepared to resume earth orbit after the pioneering voyage to earth's most mysterious satellite. Notwithstanding the technological knowledge beyond the comprehension of non-NASA scientists, the moon-orbit shot mes merized this world's inhabitants. The day-to-day life pattern, which all too often becomes tedious, was shaken up at its roots. Neighbors who had not spoken to each other in months marvelled at the feat together. City, state and national officials spanning the globe anxiously awaited the bullseye splashdown only to have the opportunity to publicly laud man's most adventurous accomplishment. But, perhaps the most meaningful aspect of the flight was the reactivated hope that maybe man, regardless of race, creed or national origin, can co-operate in human endeavors. Scientific exploration can, and must, be implemented to resolve the social problems that have plagued man so that all earthlings may live, not perish, on this planet. Audience fails at Living Theater By Janet Sass Sunday's performance of The Living Theater's Para dise Now was climaxed by 300 people rushing onstage shouting: The theater be longs to the people We de mand our tickets However, Mysteries and Pieces, an earlier perfor mance by the controversial Julian Beck and Judith Mali- na troupe at the University of Chicago, met no such audi ence enthusiasm. On the con trary, the audience seemed too brainwashed to open up. The message, propaganda against the Present Order, is not original, but the presenta tion is, as 34 hippy-dressed beautiful bodied actors com municate through gestures, fa cial expressions and move ments, the previous exclusive domain of yoga devotees and Hindu dancers. Shrieks, screams and groans seem to convey their themes more ad equately than traditional the ater dialogues. After awhile, the medium become the message in the McLuhan sense, for the con trast between the actors' at tempts to communicate and the audience's lack of positive or negative response parallels the theme of humanism ver sus inhumanism. The audience refuses to look at the actors staring at them and some even giggle during the horri fying thermonuclear war scene. In a sense, The Living The ater is attempting what Ren- nie Davis and Paul Potter, famous and infamous leaders of the Mobilization during the Chicago convention, are at tempting in Washington with their in-hog-uration, in op position to four more years of Johnson under a new name. Not only are they trying to pressure the policy makers, but are attempting to persuade other Americans of the validity of their point of view. Ideally, The Living Theater trys to involve the audience in a total experience that will result in, or lead to, a socio political-cultural conversion. It fails, for most audiences want to be entertained rather than confronted. They don't want to question their life-styles: after all, if The Living The ater is correct, what does that make most Americans? Finally, one can't expect people to convert if they don't have, as theologian Rosemary Haughton would say, the proper formation ex periences. And the American mass media, mass education, mass industrial-culture, mass church, and last but not least, mass government, rarely gives an American these types of experiences. Yet the Living Theater is partly to blame for the failure too: no matter how hard the troupe tries, their perfor mance is still theatrical. May be they would be better off imitating the Chicago Transit Authority Guerrilla Theater which masquerades as cops beating hippies, and then asks bystanders why they didn't respond. On the other hand, perhaps the theater group should give up and join the other ex- patriots. The opposition is just too big, and Canada is only 350 miles away. Are we hot or cold in our search for an academic dean? Sounding Board academic dean Being a student at Munde lein I am somewhat con cerned as to what is hap pening at Mundelein. I want to know, where is the aca demic dean? I also would like to know what steps or efforts are being made to secure one. Had I felt strong efforts were being made to secure a new academic dean, this letter wouldn't be here; but I don't feel sufficient efforts are being taken. Please prove me wrong. Liska Prochotsky role of SDS I find it necessary to take issue with one comment Mr. Ciletti casually makes in his letter of Nov. 22. This is not, nor was there ever, a time when SDS is radically trying to destroy faculty and student rela tions. The students for a Democratic Society was founded with the conscien tious aid of faculty mem bers of various universities. SDS has encouraged, worked for, and in many cases, achieved excellent re lations and rapport between students and faculty. In no way, either in the theory of the Port Huron statement or in the actuality of campus chapters of SDS, is there any attempt to destroy those relations. What Mr. Ciletti might be referring to is that conflict which occurs between stu dents and those administra- t i o n representatives who seek to perpetuate an an achronistic system of educa tion. That conflict is at the heart of SDS activitiy, but if Mr. Ciletti or anyone else mistakes that conflict for an attempt to destroy faculty and student relations, he is regrettably misled. John T. Thels Loyola University SKYSCRAPER Mundelein College 6363 Sheridan Rd., Chicago, 111., 60626
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1969-01-17 (4)
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