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Page Four THE SKYSCRAPER Jan. 13, 1965 Fr. Clark Exposes Skeleton, Clarifies Galileo Question Root Photo SKYSCRAPER BALL QUEEN, Jean Campbell '65, flashes a victory smile with two members of her court, Mary Ellen Scott and June Carter. Jean, who was nominated by members of her class, was elected queen at the formal dance, Dec 29, in the Guild Hall. (Continued from page 3) rooted in Aristotelian philosophy, since it was so ready and able to dissociate itself from it. Aristotle was respected as a late-comer, but never as a father of the Church, Father pointed out. Thirdly, Gal ileo did not believe Aristotle was a main source of the Church's phi losophy, which was one of the charges against him later. The decline of Aristotle's phys ics was the next problem Father presented. When scientists ar rived at contradictory positions from a study of Aristotle, they analytically and critically worked to take apart, observe and rebuild a new physics. Reject Physics By 1400 Aristotle's physics, separated from his metaphysics, was rejected. The ancient physics was not overthrown; it merely be came a zero factor in science, like a book left in the library, according to Father. St u6crapina6 Dear Friends, Comedian Mort Sahl is fond of saying, following his act, Now, is there any faction I haven't insulted yet? This is the last Pandora, and we felt it might be apropos to ascend once again our journal istic stage and ask that very question. And if the answer is Yes, Pandora, there is we will be very disappointed indeed. Let me tell you a little about the adventures of a jouster-with-windmills. There has to be someone, you know, who brings- the-subject-up. Pandora, we have always felt, was a perfect gimmick. How nice, we once said jovi ally, to bring-up-the-subject and remain anonymous and keep one's friends and pretend to be Brenda Starr Only it hasn't been that way, folks, it really hasn't. First of all, because we have a big mouth and because any idiot can read the masthead, ano nymity is impossible. And then there are notes on lockers and cries of Who does she think she is? and all of a sudden those little windmills are great big giants. People (being human here as elsewhere) tend to take things very personally, from the lowliest freshman to the loftiest what-have-you: they resent feeling that they are being pushed around. All jour nalists would hope to influence; otherwise, they would not write. But a journalist only presents his side of a given argument: no one is obliged to agree, react, or even think about the argument presented if he doesn't want to We chose to write our last column on windmill- jousting for two reasons: to justify Pandora's up-and-down handling of Skyscrapings, and to advise future jouster-journalists. There are two ways to write this column; in- noculously or dangerously. One can hope to be mildly amusing at best, and insipid at worst: or one can voluntarily assume the role of the child examining the naked emperor. Old Pandora has tried both roads, dearies, and the latter is by far the more satisfying of the two. Living dangerously is exhilarating, but it is also exhausting, both mentally and as regards material. And in two columns per month for a year and a half, we have admittedly reached the bottom of the barrel a number of times. As some sage once said, when you have said what you have to say, get out. Skyscrapings needs new blood; Pandora's old blood is barely going to get her through semester exams. When she thought of senior comps, gradua tion, and a June wedding, she threw herself prostrate at Mary Etta Talarico's feet and groaned, I think I want out Mary Etta said, in that soothing way that editors have, I see you are having a nervous breakdown right on the floor of the Skyscraper office. So that is how Pandora happens to be ending her jousting career: not with a bang, to paraphrase the late T. S. Eliot, but with a sigh of relief, with hearty thanks to her boss, and with a little envy, even, for future jousters. Pandora News Briefs on Campus Laetare Performs for Lay Volunteer Teachers in their grade schools. AI -Col ese Rev . 'Black Like Me' Author To Speak An all-college revue entitled Gee Haw Whimmy Diddle and Flippers, or Dingers plus Other Unusual Games will be staged today in the college theater at 3:30 p.m. The revue, written and acted by the Laetare Players, will be di rected by Eileen Teasdale. The performance is free of charge. Clergy To Appeal For Teaching Aid Reverend William H. Ryan, pas tor of St. Genevieve's Church in Las Cruces, New Mexico, and the Reverend Everett Finley from Im maculate Heart of Mary in Las Cruces, will speak Feb. 11 on the lay apostolate and make an appeal John Howard Griffin, white au thor of Black Like Me, will de liver a lecture Feb. 4 at 12:40 p.m. in McCormick Lounge, on his experiences during his travels in the Deep South where he passed as a Negro. The lecture is co- sponsored by the history, political science, sociology and economics departments. FOR SALE Women's Second-hand Figure Skates Size 6y3 NE 1-4784 Locker No. 300 Staff Members Attend Parley Mary Etta Talarico, Sylvia Hajek and Diane Sargol will rep resent the Skyscraper at the Sev enth Annual College Editors' Con ference of International Affairs, Jan. 29-Feb. 1 in New York. The conference, held at the Overseas Press Club, Columbia University and the United Na tions, is designed to have direct relevance to participants by pre senting techniques enabling col lege editors directly to relate in ternational stories to their own campuses. STUDENT OR GRADUATE Part-time Assist director of educational s e r v i c e. Guaranteed income discussed at interview. Write to Charles Ruch, Box A, 125 Old Orchard Arcade, Skokie, 111. The two schools which worked to rebuild Aristotle's physics were the Burdian school in Paris and the Bradwardine school in Oxford. These two schools, composed of clerics, were subsidized by the Church. In turn, the Church re vealed its independence from Aris totle by allowing his physics to be criticized. Contrary to other opin ions, Father Clark believes that Aristotle could not have been in volved in the Church's stand against Galileo. The third historical develop ment Father traced was the cali bre and position of astronomy. Be fore 1400 any observation of the heavens was confined to astrology; this was astronomy at its lowest ebb. Father Clark told of Puerbach's attempt, in 1450, to be scientific about astronomy, which led him back to ancient manuscripts and to the Ptolemeic universe. Through Puerbach, the Western world took note of Ptolemy's earth-centered planetary system. Accept Hypothesis Like Ptolemy, the Western world accepted as an unchangeable hypo thesis the fact of earth's corrupti ble nature and of the celestial quality of space. This led to the second hypothesis, that the paths of planets in this divine space are perfect circles. Several pheno mena, the retrogradation (back ward motion) of planets and the equent circle, were explained away by medieval scientists in order to save the theory's appearances. Copernicus, carried away by the tide of astronomical ideas in the air, conceived a planetary system with the sun as center. The novelty of this idea lay not in pro posing to replace the earth with the sun, but in Copernicus' at tempt to devise a hypothesis from observable phenomena, instead of attempting to explain the event without destroying an existing theory. In 1609 Galileo observed, through his crude telescope, the planet Jupiter, four bodies cir cling it, and the earth's moon. At that moment he was convinced of the reality of Copernicus' theory. Father Clark described this as a traumatic experience for Galileo; after this Galileo became com pletely involved in his work and could not be swayed from his ideas. Sixteen hundred ten saw the publication of Galileo's scientific and dramatic Message from the Stars, which was supported by the Church as of major importance in the advances of science. Adopt Rule The background for the fourth view in the controversy involves the Protestant Reformation and the Council of Trent. The Coun cil finally adopted the general rule that there would be no private in terpretation of scripture. Unfor tunately, the rule had no reserva tions. Father Clark said that Galileo, who was convinced that Copernicus and himself were right, let the world know his ideas; soon his scientific background made him popular. However, when he was asked to explain how scripture agrees with his theory, Galileo be lieved his own interpretation of scripture was simple and true. As Father Clark sees it, the Church believed the counter-reformation would collapse if it made an ex ception to its rule for Galileo's in terpretations. Galileo would not listen to coax ing from the cardinals, but he did accept an injunction from the Church, resolving to keep his prob lem in abeyance until the refor mation was finished. Explains Views Years later, the new Pope Urban VIII, an old friend of Galileo, al lowed Galileo to publish a non- commital book explaining his views. Galileo wrote in the form of a dialogue between two worlds, explaining his views of the uni verse, calling the book his Dia- logo. Father Clark explained, however, that since Galileo had been so deeply involved with his ideas since his first conviction, he could not present his views objec tively, and thus this was not the impartial book which the Pope had wanted. In 1632 Galileo was brought to Rome for trial, Father said, and when reminded of the 1616 injunc tion he said, I do not remember any such paper. The trial ended with Galileo's condemnation by the Church. Father Clark pointed out specifically that Galileo's crime was not in his views of the uni verse; he was heretical insofar as he contradicted a procedural rule of the Church. Studies File The question of a false injunc tion, or an untrue insertion into the Galileo file is a central point according to Father Clark. He made a careful study of the entire Galileo file, and particularly of the description of Galileo's meet ing with the cardinals. In this passage the place of a comma de termined Father Clark's opinion. Comparing the original Latin manuscript with the transcript of L'Epinois, a French scholar, Fa ther found a deleted comma which had been replaced with a semicolon that had changed the entire mean ing. Again Father Clark emphasized that human people were involved in this story and in these lines of historical developments. He ended by commenting that when two explanations are possi ble, the wrong question is, which is it? If you ask that you'd bet ter take a tranquillizer, he re marked. Rather the question should be asked, Which is sim pler to use, which is more fruit ful? THE SKYSCRAPER Mundelein College 6363 Sheridan Rd., Chicago, 111., 60626
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