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Page Two THE SKYSCRAPER Sept. 18,1963 A MIT 01) II0 P fl fl fl r f) The s**8cra''er * an organization in- Ml I H t uKYuUllHrhn stituted to present the views of the campus, the city and the world concerning the students, to promote awareness and to mold public opinion on all issues affecting the college of the 20th century. Skyscraper Comments, Guides, Investigates The Skyscraper has a new look Newsprint replaces shiny girls school paper and additional pages cover news bimonthly through rain, shine and exams. The changes, however, go beyond these superficialities. The new Skyscraper, just as the old, is student managed, and the staff has a faculty member as moderator. News stories, editorials, reviews and features are initiated by the Skyscrap er's board of editors and it is the editors who are responsible for any views that are published. Editorial Page Shows Change In the coming editions, the editorial page will show sub stantial change. The Skyscraper will comment on affairs of the campus, the community, the nation and the world. Writing in greater depth, with more opinion and comment, the Sky- scraper will enable each student to study several points of view and come to her own decision about the world in which she lives. Although the opinion of the Skyscraper will not always be that of the student, it has an obligation to guide and mold stu dent opinion as well as to report it. With this in mind, the newspaper will cover events in wider scope rather than bulletin their coming. Copy Judged by Editors The staff has been enlarged to increase coverage. How ever, it will still be impossible to give equal coverage to all. Final acceptance of copy for publication is judged by editors on the basis of newsworthiness, timeliness, interest and space. Although space does not permit the reprinting of this policy in forthcoming issues, the flag at the head of this column is a concise statement of Skyscraper aims. The Editors No More Quarters; Watch Your Change During registration week a topic other than federal intervention in Alabama schools, demonstrations protesting mobile classrooms in Chicago public schools, martial law in Saigon and the yawning gap between Mos cow and Peiping burst into Mundelein students' conversations abolition of mid-semester examinations and report cards. Paradoxically in an age which looks to the campus for initiation and acceptance of progress and change, the most common Mundelein reaction heard to date has been a combination of surprise, questioning and appre hension. The most frequently stated objection is that under the proposed system students will defer long-range assignments and review until the semester. They allege cramming will be the only result. Finals Determine Grade It has also been noted that finals may weigh excessively in final grad ing, yet students may not have experienced a teacher's testing method or had a graphic indication of what he considers important subject matter. Other objections are that proposed notification of standing in a course will be more ambiguous than alphabetical grades and that four class days will be added to the academic calendar. On the positive side, more class days will give teachers, as well as students, added time time for administering hourly tests, for exploring more deeply one phase of a subject, for lengthening any one of the many elements of a course. Also under the new system, the continuity of a unit of study, often in terrupted or hastily closed for inclusion in mid-semester exams, will be protected. In addition if conformity holds any appeal abrogation of mid- semesters puts Mundelein in accord with other institutions whose educa tional needs parallel our own. The most proximate examples are the several universities in Chicago which do not set aside time for testing within a semester. Change Involves Responsibility The crux of the matter, however, lies in student responsibility and management. The dual responsibility for reviewing before the eve of semester exams and for extracting and concentrating on core matter has been shifted more than ever before from the instructor to the student. This year's experimental procedure will test whether Mundelein students will and can accept the challenge. Whether or riot the college set of 1963-64 is labeled progressive, wise acceptance or rejection of any new thing can never be based on a spon taneous reaction or impression. Let's experience at least one semester without mid-terms before assuming a resolute attitude. Mary Etta Talarico 'Another Country' Baldwin Nigger, pervert, crazy mixed up are terms I might have used before reading Another Country but I'd never use them after my journey through James Baldwin's novel. They're brands stamped on people I'd never thought of as peo ple. A nigger is not a black mass, an issue, a statistic. It's Rufus or Ida Scott. Characters like Vivaldo and Cass and Leona and even sadder ones like Jane or Harold can nevermore be crazy mixed up. Yves and Eric, men who somehow really love each other, aren't perverts a word that lumps the uncomfortably unnatural together to be despised or benevolently pitied. They are residents of a foreign, a brutal and and perhaps a true country. James Baldwin forced me to see this country the way he has been forced to see it and, for the first time, it became my country. Be fore reading the book I was a tour ist to Greenwich and Harlem. I bought all the post cards and thank fully sighed it's an awful place to visit and I'd never live there. An other Country made me live there, learn about the natives, the cus toms and the idiom. And even when you have lived there and experienced a book's length of unparalleled empathy with a new world, Baldwin succeeds in making this point. You can't really Editors Desire Student Opinion For students who are not familiar with or aware of*The Skyscraper's policy on letters to the editor, a statement fol lows: Letters to the editor are used to obtain a cross sample of campus opinion. Conse quently, readers are invited to submit comment, but all let ters must be signed. Space prohibits printing of all letters to the editor, but se lection is representative. The Skyscraper also reserves the right to cut letters exceeding space requirements. Presents His Land by Mary Ellen Scott know how far the Negro has sunk traveling, but it took Another and has been compelled to stay sunk Country to convince me. until you've been to that land as a Cl vTvaldo, the struggling, hand- 0)1116(1 MUSJC SpJCC some white writer, by loving the f.. 1 f W If negress Ida and by placing him- (jlV S lUllUrfJl jC6ll6 self in the same humiliating posi- THEATER tion of Rufus Scott who loved a , , , , , . ., ... , . , A Man for AH Seasons, Blackstone, southern white, finally understood .. ' . ... .. '. . x. 3 i Sept. 23. Winner New York the very country he had always * , . . . , ,, , critics drama award been a part of but would not and , ...., , . .. . ., ' The Philadelphia Story, Drury could not accept. T L A . All the characters are motivated ** * mffl Sept 29 .... , The Bride and the Bachelor, Shady sadly and sincerely yet sometimes ' ' hopelessly - to search for dignity gt; ne Sept 29a . : i ...i. c . i i . c j :* Thirteen Minotaura, Second City in places where few look to find it. mitsip Their very quest makes them r,, * ... ' . oathet' Smothers Brothers, Mister Kelly s, ..,,., , final week One example of this is Cass Selen- MUch MUIw and CompanVi Arie ski, a seemingly perfect partner in Crown Theater gt; gept 20 gt; g pjn a perfect marriage. She becomes peter Nero gt; Qpera Houge) Sept 21 gt; an adulteress because she discovers 8-30 d m her whole married life is a frighten- Ho lt;;teilBnil Arle Crown Theater, ing ten-year lie which she has in- g 2 g.15 vented not because she has some un- MOVIES dying passion that she can no Heavens Above gt; The gurf. longer fight. Cass'affair with Eric Lftwrence of Arabia gt; (jinestage helps to regain a self respect she Theater had lost- How the West Was Won, McVick- But why could Cass find fulfill- ers Theater, ment only with Eric and not her SPECIAL own husband? There are many vive la France Carson Pirie Scott disturbing whys and hows in this and Company, store-wide salute book. Perhaps Baldwin has failed to France. to develop his characters adequately The Winterbotham Collection, Art enough, or maybe I haven't com- Institute, until Sept. 29. pletely escaped the tourist view of St. Luke's Fashion Show, Medinah a land really foreign. Temple, Sept. 27. The fact that I'm not sure who's For More Than Bread, Museum wrong or if there is a wrong brands of Science and Industry, photo me as a person who needs more show, Sept. 29. *Jne hudcraper Vol. XXXIV Sept. 18, 1963 No. 1 All-American AU-CatholiC The Skyscraper is published semi-monthly, September to May inclusive, by the stu dents of Mundelein College, 6363 Sheridan Rd., Chicago 26, III., Subscription rate is 2 per year. Entered as second-class matter Nov. 30. 1932. at the U.S. Post Office, Chicago. III., under the act of March 3. 1897. The Skyscraper is a member of the Associated Collegiate Press and the Catholic School Press Association. Letters to the editor must be signed. The Skyscraper reserves the right to cut letters in case of limited space. Board of Editors Janice Jearas. Pat Krochmal. Eileen Schaefer Managing Editors editorial. Mary Etta Talarico: news, Louise Nunzieto; layout. Pat Porwicz ; feature. Tina De Rosa Columnists Barbara Mounsey. Rob Bassi Photographers Rae Paul, Mickey Deutsch Carlton, Pat Wall. Mickey Parent Staff Members Jerry Woynerov/ski. John Wall. Joanne Infantino. Maxine Tyma, Barbara Kubicz, Ann Foxen, Mary Pat Schiffer, Mary Ellen Scott, Irene Skala. Helen Skala, Noreen Rapp, Nancy Ward, Sally Carroll, Marilyn Wawak. Marie Hurley, Judy Jones, Mary Fran Kapche. Julie Ebner, Mary Ellen Cronin. Pat Breen, Sister Mary St Eunice. B.V.M.. Nickey Wenzel. Mary O'Mal ley, Sister Mary Bcrnita, B.V.M., Mary O'Brien. JuaniU Hopkins, Gail Hanley. Lydia Geretti. Marge Tunney. Mary Ann Krause. Roberta Virsila. Joan Marchlori, Pat McKay. Eileen Hurley. Pat Wadecki, Mary Glynn. Nancy Garrity. Peggy Clements. Diane Lewandowski, Judy Salzinski. Gerry McGuire, Dianne Arturi.
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