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Page Two - THE SKYSCRAPER - November 17, 1967 II MM arouse response articulate reflection 1 I Ut OUTObHHTtl. uiU grip current issues and events a and bold them before the campus in order that members of the Mundelein community may sense and direct history rather than bob in its wake. AAC assists college in academic search Because the search for self-Identification is one of the symp toms of the '60s. Mundelein is endeavoring to define Itself. Under the auspices of the Faculty Committee on Rank and Tenure, the College community-administration, faculty and students is at tempting to discern the significance of Mundelein as a Christian, liberal arts college In order to determine cri teria for promotion of faculty. To inaugurate student participation in this undertaking, the Academic Affairs Committee plans an all-school meeting Nov. 28. With ad ministration and faculty in attendance, an un paralleled opportunity exists for students to verbalize their thoughts on the purpose of the College. Unlike previous all-school meetings which grew out of stu dent grievances (viz: those concerning the term system. Basic Studies Program and the comprehensive policy), the AAC-spon- sored meeting should serve as the genesis for an intellectual dis cussion among administration, faculty and students that will per meate the campus for the remainder of the year. Furthermore, this dialogue on campus hopefully should educe the students to shake their latent yearnings and Investigate the abun dance of literature which attempts to explicate the meaning of a Christian, liberal art edu cation. Urge student vote in residency policy Five-day residency, a program unique to Mundelein, will be dropped next year unless the increasing expenses of food service, maintenance and residence staffs can be offset. Surely, the cost and inconvenience of maintaining two residency plans are strong arguments in favor of a uniform policy; however, a final deci sion cannot and should not be made without careful considera tion of Its effects on the student body. The abolishment of five-day residency would, in effect, phase out the Chicago student who lives within commuting distance, yet chooses to live here five days a ffiffP week to take advantage of campus facilities and lU/LC extracurricular activities. Without the option of i a five-day plan, she would be forced to choose CffO/Cc between commuting to school or accepting full- time residency, which she neither needs nor wants. Ultimately her choice might be whether to attend Mun delein or another institution. Undoubtedly, the college has considered the financial burden It would place upon five-day residents If the changeover were adopted. Sister Joan Frances, dean of residence, has suggested that students who can't afford the extra cost of staying seven days may apply for work here on weekends. However, chances are that most students who have trouble meeting expenses al ready carry an adequate work load or have responsibilities pre cluding such employment. Yet, putting money concerns aside, perhaps the most Im portant question In the residence controversy is this: Does abol ishing five-day residency mean that Mundelein is becoming na tionally-oriented or is the administration still willing to make the full benefits of college life available to both out-of-state and city students? Obviously the college thought It had a responsibility to Chicago students when it initiated the five-day plan. That It does; but for Mundelein to call Itself a city col lege implies that it gives to Chicago and Chi- QffPi cago students as much as It receives. wilt In light of these considerations, a final de- hnllnt cislon to eliminate fiv-day residency should not UUIIUI be made until all alternatives are analyzed. Perhaps, weekend breakfasts, which are always poorly attended, could be eliminafd, or possibly flve-dayers who choose to stay weekends could pay only for room and not board. In any event, a decision so important to the future of Munde lein should not be made without a referendum sponsored by the representatives of all Mundelein students the dorm council. Rogues mock honesty Cornball film flim flams man By ALICE JOHNSON The scene Is the sheriff's office In a small town In Cape Fear County, somewhere In the South. The sheriff and his less-than-clever deputy are guarding a notorious criminal. Suddenly, a voice calls out from the front lawn, Sheriff Come out here, sheriff Puzzled, the sheriff and Deputy Pea- shaw run out to see what the ruckus is about. To their consternation. Curly Treadway is the cause of the uproar. But to their even greater consternation, they realize that Curly is crouching over a fuse box wired to a huge crate of dynamite which In turn Is wired to the office. ZJh* 25ny6crafe vol. xxxvrn November 17. 1967 No. 6 The SkYtcroper is published weekly, October to May inclusive except durlna exam and vacation periods, by the students of Mundelein College. 6363 N. Sheridan Road, Chicago. III. 60626. Entered as second-class matter Nov. 30, 1932 at the U.S. Post Office. Chicago. III., under the act of March 3, 1897 Co-Editors Jennifer Joyce. Kathy Riley Production Editor . Kathleen Flynn News Editor Janet Sa*s Feature Editor Mary Beth Mundt Business Manager Theresa Ebenhoe Photographer Marianne Fusillo Cartoonist Rita Rouble Staff Kathy Cummins, Mary Cooney, Pat Devine. Aldine Favaro, S. Eileen Jock. Alice Johnson. Sheila McCarthy, Mary McMorrow, Sally Nakai, Peggy Sieben. Reporters Karen Appelt, Rosemary Beales, Zoe Hillenmayer. Alex Jaiowko. Rose McKier- nan, Vera Milenkovicn, Terry Nachtrab. Mory Nachtsheim, Mary Ann Novak. Sharon Pelletier. Carol Ries. Linda Sullivan, Sandy Webb. LET MR. JONES go or I'll blow up the jail, cries Curly. Stupefied, the sheriff quickly orders Morticai Jones' release. In a minute Jones is freed; he makes his getaway in the sheriff's own powder-pink Lin coln. Curly smiles triumphant ly, pushes down the lever and cries, There ain't no dyna mite. He couldn't have been more wrong. The Film Flam Man Is all dynamite. The explosions start right away. In the midst of hopping a freight. Curly Treadway sees an old man thrown off the same train In a flying mass of playing cards, bunco game sheets and candy elixirs. After he jumps off to help the old man. a firm freindship and a hilarious association begin. BOTH CURLY and Morticai are wanted by the law, Curly by the Military Police for go ing AWOL, Morticai by the authorities in at least three states for his games of chance, which always prove profitable for him, luckily. At first Curly is reluctant to Join with the Flim Flam Man whose escapades have de veloped into a folk legend which little boys and Curly have grown up dreaming about. The aura of glamour and the pressing circum stances prove too much, how- e v e r, and he temporarily abandons his scruples and agrees to shlll for the Flim Flam Man. From then on, their travels and scrapes and profits are pure delightful cornball. They dupe every type of country hick available, always on the premise that you can't cheat an honest man. And so their fun doesn't leave the viewer .conscience-stricken. In every case they merely take advan tage of man's desire to get rich quick no matter what the means. The pair sell harm less cure-alls, glass diamonds, and anything and everything, allowing their customers to think what they wish, for in Morticai s words: you can sell anything an God's green earth If people believe it's stolen. THIS IRRESISTIBLE duo continue to work havoc until Curly meets THE GIRL, Bon nie Lee. The Flim Flam Man goes too far when he tries to cheat her family. Love de velops, and Curly decides to quit the dishonest life. THE ACTING IN Film Flam Man is adequate, with out- stand 1 n g performances by George C. Scott in the title role and a newcomer. Michael Sazzarin, as Curly. Sue Lyon, as Bonnie Lee, seems out of place In her sweetr-young-thing portrayal, and Harry Morgan as the sheriff falls to bring out all the comedy possible In his Queries objective: propaganda or art? By Rose McKiernan A montage or maybe even a collage of the faces of desti tute, sobbing, starving, beseeching young children greets the eyes of the observer as he wanders into the message of Julie Ann Lyman's pro-Viet Nam photography exhibit currently in Gal lery Four. Julie Lyman, who visited Viet Nam last year as a pho tographer for the Chicago American, participated in a panel discussion on the Just War Theory last month at Mundelein. The writer-photog rapher is a Mundelein alumna. The pictures are not the re sult of camera techniques; in fact, they make use of only conventional means. Seldom Is the viewer aware that the per sons photographed were prob ably staged by the photogra pher. In most cases the faces, with their distinct pleas plain ly visible, could only have been an on-the-spot job of camera handling. Mixed in with the pathetic and numerous forms of small children is another after-prod uct of the war. Soldiers In bandages and casts with only stumps for limbs and with the blood of recent battles still freshly splattered upon their faces, also dot the walls of the foi'rth floor. Every possible effort Is made to portray the victims of the war. Only children are pre sented in the photos, as if the entire adult population of Viet Nam migrated from the places Miss Lyman visited. No show ing is made of actual warfront action. Only the result, espe cially on the helpless, is de picted. The soldiers enter the scene only in their most hu manistic roles; none of them kill, beat, shoot, destroy, or become angry. Julie Ann Lyman has a mes sage. In view of her pro-war position, one realizes that she wishes to portray the good that America's presence in Viet Nam is doing. She wishes to tell the public that America is feeding the hungry, clothing the naked, giving shelter to the homeless. The pictures of the injured, mutilated should make Americans see that American soldiers are suffer ing and dying for a cause they believe in, she says. Yet strangely enough, her photography has an ambiguous element. For, as one views the grubby children with their pleasing faces, as one takes a close-up view of the mucus flowing freely from the mouth and nose of a little boy, one also comes to hate the results of war. The children are touching propaganda pieces. So are the photographs. The question Is raised, however. Is photograph meant to be art? Or is photog- raphv meant to be reporting? If the last instance is the case, perhaps Julie Ann Lvman could be accused of slanted journalism. If the first is the case, the value of the series of photographs Is limited if onlv because the message is so ambienous. the technioue so ordinary, and the artist Is so un-artsy. role. The color and photog raphy, however, are exception al and point up the simplicity of the story. , If spine-tingling fist clench- ers and mentally frustrating sextravaganzas are becoming a bore. The Flim Flam Man offers a chance to breathe easy and laugh hard. Sounding Board I Assuming that a negotiated compromise is and/or ought to be our government's goal in Viet Nam (which Is ques tionable on both counts), your Nov. 3 editorial assertion that the U.S. alone stands in the way of such negotiations is badly in error. The simple fact is that be fore there can be any negoti ations, one side must offer to negotiate and the other must accept their offer. Now your editorial does not in any way deny the fact that the U.S. has often offered to negotiate, and that Hanoi has never accepted their offers. It does seem to imply, however, that Hanoi has also made offers, which the U.S. has refused by well-timed escalations of the fighting. Even if this assertion is true, it would mean no more than that both sides were equ-lly responsible for the absence of negotiations with neither ac cepting the others' offers. However, no evidence has been produced, in your editori al or anywhere else, that would indicate that Hanoi has ever made an offer. The fact that Theodore Draper thought a basis for ne gotiation was approaching last February Is not an offer from Hanoi. The fact that Adam Raposki said that Hanoi would agree to talks in Warsaw Is not an of fer from Hanoi for Mr. Raposki had no power of attor ney to act for the Hanoi gov ernment. The fact that Nguyen Duy Trinh told a visiting private American citizen that negotia tions might be possible on the basis of Hanoi's four point plan Is not an offer from Hanoi. Even if all the facts alleged above are true, there was no offer, and the U.S. can not accept an offer that was never made. In addition to our failure to respond to Hanoi's offers to negotiate, the editorial also chides the U.S. for its failure to exploit an alleged split between North Vietnam and the NLF. Just what was the U.S. to do? Should we exploit the difference between Hanoi's five point plan for turning South Viet Nam over to the Communists and the NLF's four point plan for turning South Viet Nam over to the Communists by coming up with four one-half point plan for turning South Viet Nam over to the Communists? Just think how that could work the other way In 1966. Marshall Ky wanted to invade the North; the U.S. wanted to follow a policy of restrait. Hanoi could have exploited the split and perhaps arranged for a restrained invasion of North Viet Nam. Ronald Waflenfang Harvard Law School
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