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Page Two - The SKYSCRAPER - February 9, 1968 revise curriculum Sr. Griffin guides evolution of college Mundelein College will lose one of its most dynamic and personable administrators when Sister M. Griffin resigns as academic dean in June. One of the initial implementers of the results of the 1962 Institutional Analysis, Sister M. Griffin directed the curriculum revision to fit the newly for mulated calendar. In a decade when edu cational philosophy and practice is being constantly challenged by academicians, Sister, with the co-operation of admini stration, faculty and students, devised a curriculum which is compatible with the turbulent, yet exciting, America of the sixties. Although cognizant of the mounting academic pres sures at the College, Sister Griffin chose not to become provincial. Expanding her scope of interests by actively participating in various national conferences, Sister not only brought due regard to herself, but projected the Mundelein image nationally. The private, Catholic college stereo type does not apply to Mundelein. Rather pm/irflfPC the college Is seen as a Christian institu- CHII/IuCO tion which embraces change that will rhmnitt* help improve its academic quality. C/iUl/yc Mundelein will continue to grow. It will continue to accept challenges and risks in order to see if something might be improved. However, under the expert guidance of Sister Griffin, the College has undergone growing pains somewhat painlessly. U.S. shows sense of national maturity It is not surprising that Americans are generally perplexed concerning the North Korean seizure of the intelligence ship U.S.S. Pueblo. Although the ship and its 83 man crew still remain in Wonson, the threat of a nuclear confrontation or an active resumption of the 15 year old Korean war has, in effect, been released on bail. Eventually the American public will have to attend the trial of nuclear confrontation. But attend until that time, they can view the docket of international crisis not as a captive I audience but as witnesses who have pre- 111111 pared a personal priority defense. National pride has been outraged by the seizure of an American naval ship which the Secre tary of State calls an act of war. However, in spite of wounded pride, the public is reacting with a sense of national maturity to the Pueblo piracy. Instead of fretting over national honor, the public today is concerned with national survival. Instead of demanding instant military re taliation, they understand that there are limits even to American power. With the Viet Nam war at such a crucial point, the opening of another Asian front in Korea would be disastrous. These new attitudes are not indicative of coward liness as they would have been 150 years ago. Instead they demonstrate a healthier national perspective. The Pueblo case can be won by setting a precedent that would replace power-pride with a personal sense of national maturity. Presents two positions Marty views generation gap react maturely ZJhe S hudcraper Vol. XXXVHI February 9. 1968 No. 12 The Skyicropar is published weakly. October lo Mov inclusive except durina ixam and vacation periods, bv the students of Mundelein Colleae, 6363 N. Sheridan Road, Chicago. III. 60626. Opinions expressed ore those ol the Skyscraper staff Second-class postage paid at Chicago. Illinois. Member of The Chicago Area Student Press Association The United States Student Press Association The Catholic School Press Association (Newspaper of Distinction) Entered at sacond-closs matter Nov. 30. 1932 at the U S Post Office. Chicago. III., under the act of March 3, 1897. Editor Kathleen Flynn News Editor Janet Sass Feature Editor Mary Beth Mundt Business Manager Theresa Ebenhoe Photographer Marianne Fusillo Cartoonists Rita Raible. Cathleen Harrington Eailoricil Board: Marv Kate Coonev. Kathleen Flynn. S. Eileen Jock. Jennifer Joyce. Mory McMorrow. Marv Beth Mundt, Kathy Riley. Janet Sass Staff- Kathv Cummin*. Mary Coonev, Pat Devine. Aldine Favaro, Alice Johnson, Sheila McCarthy. Marv McMorrow. Sallv Nakai, Pegav Sieben. Reporters: Karen Appelt, Rosemary Beales, Zoe Hillenmeyer. Alex Jaiowka. Rose McKiernan. Vera Milenkovich, Mory Nachtsheim, Mory Ann Novak, Sharon Pelletier, Carol Ries. Linda Sullivan. by Patty Devine The controversy over the generation gap is not solely a mat ter of its location. The Thomas More-Mundeleln Critic Lecture The Generation Gap: Two Views, Feb. 4 in the College Theatre exposed a gap In two different locations. One gap, as might be expected, is between college-age youth and their parents. The other gap, disregarding generational lines, Is between Christians with a youthful outlook and those Christians who are mature and resigned. James H. Forest, national secretary of the Catholic Peace Fellowship and Dr. Martin E. Marty, professor of Church History, University of Chicago, presented the two views. Common Stamp Dr. Martin E. Marty takes the latter view which he de scribes as a humanistic posi tion. Subscribing to historian Marc Blocks definition of gen eration as the common stamp, deriving from the com mon age of men who are born Into the same social en vironment . . . under analo- Sounding Board This is a request for the fac ulty and administrators, who are, I find, the worst offenders of the nicety of silence or at least muted tones in the li brary, to please observe the nicety of silence or muted tones In the library. Though the library is not a place I fre quent (largely because the 2- watt bulbs in the lamps are a luxury in illumination that I wouldn't want to accustom myself to) in the last two hours I have fancied to study there it couldn't have been less distracting if Paul New man were the librarian. To night an astute administrator conducted four over-middle- aged people on a very vocal guided tour of the homey in side of our book-filled wonder, (they should have gone to the AU Holy Bindery, where sup posedly every blasted book and periodical is) stopping in front of the main desk for a chat of several minutes. Last time I was in the li brary, some votitile faculty member carried on a no-less than 10 minute conversation from the second floor landing to the first floor. Even as I write I keep say- tag to myself Devine, stop writing this it's stupid and petty. But I'm wrong, it's stupid and Big. Admittedly I'm the victim of a brain that can't concentrate when my eyes blink too noisily, but please consider me a pathetic creature who must be soothed. Patty Devine After reading your note worthy article in The Sky scraper (Jan. 19 issue). I must agree with you, sans doute. What is definitely needed here is a few troublemakers. Or, still better, organized dissent. Henceforth, let it be under stood, The Mundelein Under ground shall be present in every nook and cranny of this edifice. The Mundelein Underground The first sign of demoraliza tion In a prison camp is the in mates' abject willingness to eat anything. Luckily we have not reached that stage here. It is a well-known (if discreet ly concealed) fact that the average Mundelein student goes to bed hungry every night, for disdain of fare bearing the taste and consistency of luke warm pap. The fabled strike is a long time in coming. Mean while, we believe . . and wait. The Mundelein Breadline gous influences. Marty con siders the problem not as generational but as a chasm between epochs. It is In the response to this chasm that Marty suggests generations may differ. Re gardless of response though, all participating generations experience, according to Marty, the exhaustion of a tradition ... a creative mo ment when people do not sense their participation in a conti nuity and have difficulty pick ing up the wisdom of the past . . . In approaching his dlscus- cussion of the humanistic task, Marty abandons bio logical accident or chrono logical imperative as the foundations for youths' values. Christian Youth Hans Urs von Balthasar's theological conception of Christian youth Is Marty's key to the humane future. Von Balthasar states, To be a Christian means not only be ing a child, but also, in a su- pratemporal and completely human sense, to be young. The Christian stands on the threshold of life . . . every- 'Homecoming7 airing family's by Kathleen Cummins A new form is evolving. It could be called theater of heartburn. Such is an apt paradigm for what made the audience of Harold Pinter's The Homecoming, at the Studebaker, shift in their seats* and whisper during the perfor mance. They were not bored. Their nervous fidgets were the instinctive reaction of polite, discreet, mlnd-your-own-busi- iness middle class people forced to witness the airing of a family's dirty linen. The tension of the airing Is never relieved by sympathetic treatment of the participants. It ls a nasty business and its outcome is as harsh, perfunc tory and fitting as the mesh of steel gears. The homecoming in question is the return of a philosophy professor, Teddy and his wife, to his father's house in London. It is not long before Teddy realizes that the sentimental pilgrimage his forgetfulness had envisioned is not now, nd never was. possible, in his home. If anything ls enshrined there, it is hatred, not filial fondness. Testifying to mankind's in genuity in working out some kind of living in any circum stance. Teddy's widowed fa ther, uncle, and brothers base a stable family structure on mutual abuse, derision and empty threats. This brist ling equilibrium replaces the secure autocracy that toppled thing is promise . . , every thing is bathed In a profound . . . transfiguring light. Fundamental Sin Marty recalls the idealistic and Utopian tone of the Ser mon on the Mount and criti cizes those Christians not cog- nlzant of the youthfulness demanded of them by their his torical past In the death and resurrection of Christ. Marty states their fundamental sin ls. In von Balthasars words, the unwillingness to share in the usefulness, the openness, the future orientation of a Word that makes all things new. Bridgeable Gap On the other hand James H. Forest articulated the problem of this gap, as he considered it from his anti-establishment position. Forest Insists that the gap ls bridgeable ... It Involves dying repeatedly. Among the hopeful victims, Forest would Include conscription, the mighty wedge separating the generations; . . . schools.. . . as crowded as concentration camps . . . undergirding the whole structure In conform ity: and (referring to the White House) the Third Reich that has finally won the war. Forest darkly admits man lives in an atmosphere that refuses to sustain human life but optimistically suggests that the generation gap, a healthy, welcome. Joyous event may In Its eleventh hour discover a way of life Is on the delivery table. unnerves by dirty linen with the mother's death. The resentment that her promiscu ity provoked during her life time is a lingering miasma which has stunted the emo tions of her sons and husband; made them adapt to nihilism without love in a niggardly, grudging fashion. Pinter may be saying that women are poi son, but the poison can obvi ously support life. The acting in Peter H a 1 l's production is almost flawless. The unique defenses with which each character sustains his hopeless half-life are sharp ly delineated; Jerry Mickey's portrayal of Teddy as a brisk, barking martinet sharpens the irony of the critic of life in the abstract who cannot explain the misery of his life In partic ular. Denis Holmes is skill- fully bland and lugubrious as the Uncle whose picayune at tention to the progress of his career as a chauffeur scabs over his solitary knowledge of the dead mother's most out rageous Infidelity. Neither the role nor the per formance of Carolyn Jones seem to warrant the top bill ing she receives. As Teddy's intelligent, sympathetic wife whose putative desire for dom inance interacts happily with the paralysis of the family in its matriarchal vacuum, she Is impressively sinister and sep ulchral. But she is patently overcompensatingfora sketchy, obscure motivation which is the only chink in the play's tight logic.
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