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April 6,1966 THE SKYSCRAPER Page Three Diskin Outlines Program; Envisions Communist U. S. Skyscraper Photo by Jean Durall BANNED FROM the Circle Campus of the University of Illinois, Lou Diskin (center), manager of the Modern Book Store and member of the U.S. Communist party, waits with Stan Dale, Speak-Easy moderator, to begin the March 29 session here in McCormick Lounge. Any kind of fight for social ad vancement is communism, main tained Lou Diskin, member of the U.S. Communist party, at the March 29 Speak-Easy in McCor mick Lounge. The communist pro gram raised a challenge to those who say they want to learn about communism and those concerned about the crisis in life, Diskin explained. For 20 years the central policy of the American government has been anti-communistic and this has been used to justify every assault at democracy at home and aggression abroad, the capacity audience was told. So great are by Mariellen O'Brien the myths, fears and pressures against communism that an at mosphere of jingoism has been created, Diskin stated. As an example of the pressures exerted by anti-communists in re lation to the U.S. imperialistic poli cies abroad, Diskin cited Viet Nam. The stand that the U.S. has as sumed violates all international laws, the speaker asserted. Cites Crisis Viet Nam is not just a mistake but the crisis to all phases of American life, Diskin said. Since the U.S. can't win by demagogic means, they have decided to de stroy the Vietnamese, he contin- Students Form Campus Group; Promote Rights Promoting a new organization, the Christian Student Movement, which is designed to make the pub lic aware of the student involve ment and concern with civil rights, eight Mundelein students will spon sor an introductory meeting April 14, in 405 at 12:30 p.m. Noreen Stoeck, senior, and Sis ter Marjorie Mary, B.V.M., are co- chairmen of the group, which in cludes Laura Nutini, senior, Mary Barmes and Maryann Diefenbach, juniors, Sister Shawn Marie, B.V.M., Sister Mary Karen The rese, B.V.M., and Sister Miriam Joseph, B.V.M. The Christian Student Move ment is an outgrowth of the Catho lic Interracial Council, the student arm of that organization. The group will not function independ ently, but will work on projects already outlined by other civil rights groups such as SCLC and CORE. Differing from discussion groups, four committees of the or ganization are designed for direct action, and will gear their working hours to the needs of the working college student. A promotional committee will provide communication links among campuses, other civil rights or ganizations and CSM, while an education committee will offer panels and workshops on campuses dealing with non-violence. This group will also instruct members in thorough background for their projects, including statistical ma terial about the neighborhood in which they will work and the speci fic aims of their projects. The action group, defined by Noreen Stoeck as militant, will conduct the workshops in non violence and will coordinate CSM's part in demonstrations. They will organize demonstrators, again us ing material from the educational committee to inform demonstrators of the issues involved. 'Opera Miniatures' Highlights Musical Selections in English Huge discounts with the International Student ID Card. Student ships for lively, informative crossings. The ID card will save you 60 on air travel in Europe and Israel. Same huge savings on hotels, admissions, meals, trains. A must for travelers. Student ships offer ianuage classes, art lectures, international discussion forums and all the fun of a low-coat student crossing to Europe. Can you afford not to write for details? Write: Dept. CO. U.S. National Student Association, 265 Madison Ave., New York. N.Y. 10016. Scenes from famous and some less popular operas will be presented by the music department in the pro duction of Opera Miniatures, April 18 at 8 p.m. in the College Theater. Directing the show, which will be sung entirely in English, is Mr. James Corbett, mu sic department voice instructor, also both a student and instructor at the American Conservatory of Mu sic. Three scenes from Madame Butterfly, an Italian opera by Puccini, will open the performance. Eileen Rice, freshman psychology major, will sing Butter fly's aria Un Bel Di (One Fine Day). She also will sing the duet Shake That Tree between But terfly and Suzuki with Jeanne Ginocchio, senior mu sic major. A chorus of nine members of the Chamber Singers will sing Ah Quanto Cielo. Accompanist for these scenes is Sister Greta Mary, B.V.M. Eileen Carroll, junior music major, will perform an aria from Gian Carlo Menotti's opera, The Tele- plwne, accompanied by Sister Greta Mary. Carmen, the French opera by Bizet, offers two scenes, with Katherine Carroll, freshman music ma jor, as Carmen. She will sing the solo Habanera, and also sing in the trio Melons with Jeanne Ginocchio as Mercedes and Kay Kennedy as Frag- quita. Sister Greta Mary will be accompanist. Freshmen Sister Mary Loretta, S.S.M.I., and Sandra Gudgeon will perform the duet Seven Years SCLC Invites Volunteers Have Passed from Puccini's Sister Angelica. Also in this scene is a chorus of Chamber Singers and voice students singing Praise Her and Regina Virginum. Cost Fan Tutte, by Mozart, offers two duets with Eileen Carroll as Fiordiligi and Jeanne Ginocchio as Dorabella. Sister Mary Veronica, B.V.M., will ac company singers from both Sister Angelica and Cosi Fan Tutte. An opera not as well known is Eugene Onegin by Tschaikovsky, from which Denise Pleshar, sopho more music major, will perform Tatiana's Letter Scene. Nancy Vandenberg will accompany her. Last on the program is the final scene from Poulenc's Dialogues of the Carmelites. Denise Ple shar as Blanche and Jeanne Ginocchio as Sister Con stance are singers in the Carmelites' chorus, con sisting of voice students and Chamber Singers. Ac companist for this scene is also Nancy Vandenberg. Helping in the production of the show will be members of the music department and volunteers. Assisting the stage manager George Peterson will be Pat Smith; Carol Olivieri and Mary Hopkins, both sophomores, will make the costumes; Cathy Gonzalez, sophomore, will do the make-up. Narrator for the entire program will be Paula Grespan, sophomore. Tickets for the performance are 75 cents, and may be purchased from any member of the music de partment or from members of the cast. Outlines Anti-Slum Effort After waiting for a crowd of student leaders and faculty which never appeared, several SCLC workers began a discussion of their goals with fewer than ten students and one faculty member, March 30 at 3 p.m. in 405. Patti Miller, a full-time worker who visits college campuses in an effort to interest students in social change movements, outlined several fields on the west side which are open to volunteers. Students may become active in community orga nizations or work in SCLC offices, she explained, or they may choose to become involved in the move ment to end East Garfield Park slums. In response to a question con cerning expected racial violence in Chicago this summer, Patti stressed that social movements, al though they make people aware of their own oppression, actually de crease crime and violence by pro viding a needed release for frus tration. Countered SCLC worker Bob Lloyd, The movement will keep down violence, but that's not our goal. Lloyd contended that the movement to end slums, which is by Jennifer Joyce the foremost goal of the SCLC in Chicago, involved more than rat catching. Political and economic exploitation, which is the cause of slums, must end, he said. Patti offered several starting points in the slum clearance effort: education would enable the op pressed to know how to deal with their problems, and a change in the tax structure would make it less profitable to own slums. She em phasized that the forces which create slums must be eliminated in Ask Death Repeal For Witherspoon In response to the Skyscraper's Feb. 2, 1966, coverage on the con victed murderer, William Wither spoon, his attorney, Thomas P. Sul livan, notified the staff that he pre sented the oral argument to the Supreme Court of Illinois, March 16,1966. He urged the court to re mand the new post conviction pro ceeding for a factual hearing, or at least to repeal the death sentence. It is likely that a decision will be obtained during the latter part of May, 1966. order to eliminate the slums them selves. Patti rejected the current welfare program as a means of decreasing slums. Welfare, she asserted, is paternalistic and causes people to become dependent on the state. In place of welfare, she sug gested a guaranteed minimum wage which would be distributed to all without restrictions. She stated that in order for men to have dig nity, they must first have the necessities of life. By guaranteeing a minimum in come, she said, people would have leisure time to discuss things with each other. As a result, she con tinued, a new definition of human ity would arise: sensitivity to other people. In coping with the problem of making Mundelein students sensi tive to others' problems, Lloyd ex plained that people must see how another's situation affects them di rectly before they will take action. He suggested that students, as fu ture taxpayers, should realize that support of slums is unwise because a large part of their own tax money will be directed to slum property. ued. In seven months of bombing almost a million persons have been killed, Diskin explained. And, he added, each month our bombs by computer lower more than 50 tons, Lord knows, what hitting, destroy ing all their labors and their fu ture. The situation is beginning to shape up as genocidal policy, Diskin stated. But, the speaker insisted, the forces opposing the U.S. are in creasing. Regardless of the amount of bombs or men poured into the fiery furnace, the war will not be won this way, Diskin stressed. Every escalation of the war occa sions a domestic echo, and, he added, the peace movement will not be cowed into submission. Predicts Change The world has undergone funda mental changes. Feudalism gave way to capitalism and now capi talism is giving way to socialism, Diskin continued. This is not a small conspiracy, he pointed out, there are no smoke filled rooms concocting plots, rather it is a movement that involves millions. Diskin admitted that most Ameri cans do not agree with the com munist philosophy but said that we are not perturbed by this, it is a challenge. Communism has ex isted in the U.S. for 40 years and will continue, he insisted. Just as Hitler's Germany made the anti-communists their victims, U.S. communists will also eventu ally make the American people victims, Diskin added. Monopolies, Diskin stated, are the source of all major problems. They are intertwined in the gov ernment and dominate every facet of American life he insisted. They profit on defense spending and as a result war becomes concomi tant, Diskin continued. As the rate of profit becomes bloated it has to be invested, as right now al most 100 million have been in vested in the war effort. Presents Measures The U.S. Communist party pri marily advocates three programs, Diskin explained: first, that the people unite to fight on concrete issues, such as Viet Nam and civil rights, second, strengthening of the working people, who are the majority and third, enacting meas ures that will curb the monopolies. The last point includes the estab lishment of a Peoples Party, that could challenge the monopolies working through the two major parties, Diskin explained. The U.S. Communist party owes its allegiance to the American peo ple and we insist that policies fol low the traditions and heritage of America Diskin stressed. No Set UFO Speaker Dr. J. Allen Hynek, director of Northwestern University's Dear born Observatory, will be the guest speaker at the April 12 Speak-Easy. communist advocates the transposi tion of Soviet Communism to the U.S. and there is no international communist party. This is one of the myths, advanced by anti-com munists, insisted Diskin. Socialism is a superior system, Diskin emphasized, and we believe only under socialism and the devel opment of socialism will the indi vidual flower and flowering of the individual is the communist's pri mary aim.
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