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Page Three The SKYSCRAPER November 15, 1968 let's 'bust a balloon' Barta issues manifesto KTORS' NOTE: Dr. Russell Irto, sociology department, me the following manifesto Serry Kurtz, MSC president, i o the student body, re- pnj on the values inherent riucation.) rGerry, (Skyscraper photo by Kathleen Flynn Dr. Russell Barta I So often it is such a bore, education, I mean. You study and pare your thoughts and then do your thing. You look around I lie faces and the eyes, and they seem to be saying, aw for fct's sake, come on, let's get it over with. I You find yourself, Gerry, hopefully, defensively asking day er day, well, Martha, what did you think of the readings? Ill, how did class go today? I So you do your thing, Gerry, and hurry off to another ig and the steady drone of academic voices, adding anoth- tnote to another dry page of academia. i, to be a Gale Sayers, breaking through the crust of e, spinning through the air and romping free down the bd in unpatterned progress toward your goal. I Is that the way it is, Gerry? Utter boredom? Is life like pt? And school? Do you remember, Gerry, those terrible lines In Bernanos in The Diary of a Country Priest : Well, as I was saying, the world is eaten up by (boredom. To perceive this needs a little preliminary thought: you can't see it all at once. It is like dust. You I go about and never notice, you breathe it in, you eat and I drink it. It is sifted so fine, it doesn't even grit on your I teeth. But stand still for an instant and there it is, I coating your face and hands. To shake off this drizzle of I ashes you must be for ever on the go. And so people are I always 'on the go.' Perhaps the answer would be that I the world has long been familiar with boredom, that I such is the true condition of man. No doubt the seed was I scattered all over life, and here and there found fertile I soil to take root; but I wonder if man has ever before I experienced this contagion, this leprosy of boredom: an I aborted despair, a shameful form of despair in some I way like the fermentation of a Christianity in decay. I Bat every once in a while, a rare gift presents itself, a irson, a conversation over a second cup of coffee, a gentle ch, a song In the background, or an event like Homecoming jwk which shook the greyness from the School on the Lake. I It was you, Gerry, who bore the gift, you and the other dents, the party before All Saints, the game, the singing, pi's reading and that wild scene in front of the President's slice. If it did nothing else, Gerry, It shook from our hands and ices and from our teeth the ashes of boredom. I Is this really what happened or am I fooling myself, Gerry, sperately searching for some excuse to convince my other self it what I did was really all right. Reason will always obscure Ikt we want to keep in the shadows. There I was, a man lightly beyond his middle years (and a full professor at that) King down in front of the President's office, chanting, shouting, IrVLUC begins daily lea room broadcast l 'LUC, the Mundelein, Loy- L radio station, is now n in the tearoom week- ; gt; from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. lie managers hope that by k week the station will fcadcast in Coffey Hall, and tartly after in the Northland, 610 AM dial. Tbi radio station is student arned and operated. Munde- t and Loyola students act engineers, disk jockies, kd writers. The programs in- iidc political and public ser- ice announcements, pop, ck and soul music. The pur- ise is to let people know tot's happening on both imposes and to let the stu dent voice be heard. The station is searching for singers, political commenta tors, discussion groups, come dy teams, poetry readers and original people who will share their talents with the rest of their college cohorts. The ma ter ial will be pre-recorded and played on future pro grams with the aim to edu cate as well as to entertain. Anyone interested in work ing for WLUC should contact radio staff members, Mary Beth Grennan, 226 Coffey Hall; Carolyn Cronin, 302 Cof fey; Marion Karras; 106 Cof fey Hall, or Maryrose Hig- gins, 312 Northland. cheering, not knowing quite how I got there, but wanting never to leave. What we did we did not do in anger. We played. It's as simple as that, Gerry. And, oh, how we need to play. Look what we have made of our common endeavors, faculty and students, here and elsewhere. We've turned education and growing up Into work. The college is a factory, is a factory, is a factory in which we work with our brains but without our hearts. And the students are the new proletariat who like their brothers in the industrial work-houses threaten to rise up against their foreman like faculty. What we did we did not do in anger. This was not a Berkeley uprising or just another Columbia. What happened at Berkeley was born in anger. What happened at the College on the Lake was born in joy. And in this difference, Gerry, lies our future and our fortune. Our student body is not yet an angry one. It has its fair share of those who have been overcome by boredom. But there is in our midst a large group of students with a light in their eyes, who are sick to death of the boredom and the routine and want to convert the work-compounds we call school into light and airy spaces where we can dance and play, play with ideas and delight in the play of one mind against another. It's not Berkeley or Columbia they have their eyes on, it's the College of the Future. Gerry, you and I who share the same Catholic tradition know better than anyone else the havoc that can be done to the spirit by dullness and nothingness. Look what our liturgy had become. Was it a celebration of life and freedom? Of love and sex and the goodness of the world? Of our brotherhood and common destination? It had become, like so much education, a stale set of stale and mechanical responses. We are only now beginning to hear that other voice in our tradition that speaks of joy and hope, and down through the ages we can hear its laughter, shouting: Have a ball bust a bunch of balloons shout with joy, alleluia Oh, Gerry, if only we could now move our play from the football field and the corridors into the classroom and now and then bust a balloon. Love, Russ Faculty senate approves pass-tail in History I, II (Continued from page 1) riculum Committee, Stuart Goldman, math chairman, emphasizes . . . letter grade distinctions are often more apparent than real. At the same time I know the 'pres sure' that each student feels in the unending rat race of striving for grades. I am not at all certain that the compet itive system we have is neces sarily the best for students or society. We adulate the winners and consign the losers to the scrap heap of the also rans. To cope with this situation students psych-out the course and adopt a method of study which assures doing well on tests, but has the slight defect that one gains no knowledge. Thus the student achieves an A and loses an education. Skyscraper photo by Eileen Jackl Cecilia Onyewuenyia Stage Biafran Benefit Cecilia Onyewuenyia, junior, will dance in the African Cul tural Show for Biafran Chil dren Famine Relief at Loyola University, Nov. 16, at St. Ig natius Auditorium, 8 p.m. Cecilia's numbers include the Alija Dance and the Wom en's Dance. She explained that the Alija Dance is used to celebrate the yam harvest. Two men and three women will perform in the Alija Dance, in which the dancers respond to the meanings of the drum beats. Some parts of the womens* dance are vigorous, showing that in our part of the world women are really active, Cecilia said. Tickets are on sale today in the lounge and on the first floor of the Skyscraper build ing. They may also be ob tained in Northland 405. Donations are 2.50 for adults and 1.50 for students with I.D. cards. We'd like to BLOW YOU UP into a GIANT 2 ft. x 3ft. POSTER Beautifully reproduced 2 ft. x 3 ft. 2.50 20 in. x 24 in. 2.00 plus MX each postage and handling. Yes, we will blow up anyone you want ... gt;noC0D'S BiBBH your boy friend, sorority sister, family or your . favorite snap shot . . . into a GIANT black and The Blow Yourself Up Co. Dept. white POSTER 2 feet by 3 feet. Great for gift Box 382- Grand C8ntral sta- New York 10017 criuino aroat fnr wallnanorino a rnnml Please send me posters D 2.50 O J2.0O giving . . . great lor wanpapering a room. P US 50* each for postage and handling. Send us any original black white or color photo I Name - . up to4 x 5 (no negatives). Original returned un- j Address harmed with poster. Shipped in self-storing tube. Cj(y SMe z/p Send check or money order for prompt delivery. I
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1968-11-15 (3)
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