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Page Two THE SKYSCRAPER April 13,1960 Is There Freedom at Mundelein? by Mary Lou Brady The discussion stimulated by the recent sputter sessions has brought it to the at tention of your editors that there is a doubt in your minds regarding freedom of the press and student government at Mundelein. Let us be the first to reassure you that democracy reigns at Mundelein in the form of policy procedure and organization in both. We are not qualified to speak for the SAC. However, the policy of the Sky scraper is and has been to: 1. act as an informative organ, and 2. interpret, through good writing and staff guidance, that which is of interest and merit to Mundelein and its publics. Since we, as individuals, are unable to be authoritative in every field, it is necessary that an organization be formed composed of many individuals versed in different fields. This, at Mundelein, is the editorial staff of the Skyscraper. This staff, composed of journalism, history, English, art, mathematics and social science majors and one faculty member, meets to decide on news that will be of interest and con cern to its readers. The meeting is open to any member of the school who wishes to attend. Each article that appears in the Sky scraper is weighed and judged by each Baseball, Boat Rides Herald Springtime Fun by Alice Connelly SPECIAL EVENTS Modern Sculpture Exhibit, University of Chi cago, Goodspeed Hall. April 4-30,10-5 p.m., Monday through Friday; Saturday 1-5 p.m. Free. Forty-eighth Annual Spring and Easter Flower Show of the Chicago Park District, at Gar field and Lincoln Park Conservatories, 9 a.m.-9 p.m., daily and Sunday, free. Northwestern University's Film Series. Six ar tistic films, 2 fee for complete series. No single admissions. April 19, The Children of Paradise (French); La Strada (Italian) on May 3. Fisk Hall, Northwestern University, Evanston, 7:30 p.m. MUSIC of the individuals, always with the inter est of the different publics in mind (stu dents, faculty, alumnae, parents and other schools.) If an article is rejected, it does not mean that freedom has been curtailed. Rather, the board has decided that it is either of no interest or merit to the read ers as a whole, or that it is of poor taste. Should an article be rejected by the faculty (which rarely happens) it still in no way curtails or limits the freedom of the paper. The faculty is, in a sense, the publisher of the paper, and it is the right of the publisher to print or not print certain news, just as it is your privilege to read or not read a certain paper. Two of your editors recently attended the Seventh Annual MacMurray News paper Conference. The main problem of the student papers that were represented there was the lack of freedom that their staffs have. Some of their staffs were under the control of several different organizations in their schools. Others were in constant conflict with faculty about what they could or could not print. In this case, the staff was usually dismissed and re placed with a new one. Those who had been given complete freedom of what did and did not go into their papers complained because of the vast responsibility this placed on them. In the case of Mundelein, we possess freedom of the press, plus the guidance necessary to use it to its fullest advantage. Segregation Is Everybody's Problem Chicago Piano Quartet, Goodman Theatre Con cert, Wednesday, April 20. (Fritz Siegal, Milton Previs, Frank Miller and Marion Hull.) New York Pro Misica, Orchestra Hall, April 24, 3:30 p.m. ART, MOVIES AND THEATRE Please Don't Eat the Daisies, movie. Chicago Theatre, 175 N. State. Open April 13. Goodbye My Fancy with June Havoc, play. Drury Lane, 2500 W. 94th Place. April 19-May 1. Art Institute of Chicago, Michigan Ave. at Adams. Until April 28 International Con temporary Glass Exhibition. Opening April 8 Photographs by Minor White; Photo graphs by Edward Weston. Opening April 13 Fifteen Painters from Paris, Form Givers at Mid-Century. SPORTS Baseball (finally ) White Sox, Comiskey Park, W. 35th and S. Shields, playing Kansas City April 19, 21; Cleveland April 28 (night); Detroit April 29 (night). Time: 1:30 p.m. and night games at 8. Chicago Cubs at Wrigley Field, Clark and Addison, playing San Francisco, April 22, 23, 24 and Los An geles on April 26 and 27. SPECIAL SPRINGTIME SUGGESTION Beginning April 15 two-hour shoreline cruises leave from docks, Michigan Avenue Bridge. Call DE 2-1353 or DE 7-1446. You're downtown with the kids on a Saturday afternoon. The trip to the library and taking in the spring win dows have pushed the hands on the clock at Field's past two. So you stroll into an air-conditioned restaurant and eat. Just like that. On the same day a group of Negro students walk into a dime store in Mont gomery, Ala. This is not the first time they have been in this store; they are allowed to spend their money on socks and three-ring notebook paper, and at two in the afternoon they can buy a ham sandwich and a coke. If they're lucky. And if they stand. On other Saturdays these students and other Negroes have stood and waited for luck, while stools at the lunch counter, on r eSo?ution on C ii/ll r iahts and eareaati We, the Young Christian Students, recognizing that racial discrimination exists in both the North and South, condemn any such violations of human dignity. We believe that such discrimination is incompatible with the basic Christian doctrine of love. We urge state and national legislators to initiate strong measures which will lead to racial justice; and we pledge our support of these measures. We, as students, especially condemn discriminatory practices in the area of education, such as biased admission and housing policies and expulsion of students who exhibit support of inte gration. We sympathize deeply with students who are being persecuted for attempting to exercise their rights as human beings through protest marches, lunch counter sit-ins, and picketing. We particularly endorse the principle of peaceful resistance. We commit ourselves, as students from all areas of the nation, to attack discrimination and to work toward establishing social justice. THE YOUNG CHRISTIAN STUDENTS March 27, 1960 Students Discuss, Analyze Versions Of Assembly Plan by Pat Riggs (The staff will give hearty congratulations to any reader who wishes to submit a question used by the Skyscraper. This week's question was submitted by Anne Miller, junior.) THE QUESTION: Which type of assembly system proposed for next year do you prefer and why? Plan 1 Concert-lecture series required only. Plan 2 All assemblies required with two ex cused absences and a 50-cent fine thereafter for each assembly missed. Plan 3 present system retained. WHERE ASKED: The Phoenix Room. THE ANSWERS: CHARLENE SASSETTI, senior, Since there are so many complaints about the present sys tem, I feel that the first plan is the only one that represents a change. The second plan, I don't feel changes anything but the amount of revenue collected, so I don't think it would im prove the attendance. (Continued on Page 4) Jke KU; Vol. XXX April 13, 1960 No. 10 The Skyscraper li published semi-monthly, October to May Inclusive, except during vacations and semester examina tions by the students of Mundelein College. 6363 Sheridan Road. Chicago 40, Illinoin. Subscription rates are 11.75 per year. Entered as second class matter, November 30, 1982, at the U.S. Post Office, Chicago Illinois, under the act of March 3. 1897. The Skvcraper Is a member of the Associated Collegiate Press and the Catholic School Press Association. STAFF MEMBERS Editor-in-Chief Mary Lou Brady Associate Editor Kathleen McGuire News Editors Mary Lou Brady, Patricia Riggs Editorial Editors Mary Ann Makowski, Anne Miller Feature Editors Kathleen McGuire, Joanne Twomey Sporty Editors Dorothy Nelson, Patricia Novak Columnists Alice Connelly, Marie Goodin, Kathleen Gottschalk Staff Artist Patricia Wendt Staff Photographer Marion Bakula Staff Assistants Barbara Brezezinski, Jo Ann Drossart, Patrlda MalinskI, Mary Jo Murray, Charlaine Novotny, Sheila Smith. Judy Wilder. Joan Sheridan, Mary Pat Bowler, Mary Lou Geist, Margaret Geraghty, Mary Ann Guagenti, velva Johnson, Marilyn Kluk. Joan Vantueci and Phyllis Wright. by Dolores Holmes and Sheila Maloney forbidden to them, filled up and emptied again and again. Violence in Montgomery But this Saturday, they have very little luck because they walk up to the pristine Woolworth lunch counter and quietly sit down. Within half an hour a member of the white mob that gathers grinds out a cigarette on the neck of one of the seated students. Fifteen minutes later two of the sit-ins limp from the store, bleed ing from a beating against which they refused to defend themselves. The re maining students sit at the counter. They don't look around. An hour from the time the sit-in began, the counter is empty. The Negro students eat their supper in the county jail. About this time, on any Saturday after noon, Mundelein girls are riding home on the el. They pass the housing projects at 35th Street, the crumbling buildings at 43rd and get off in the pleasant section at the end of the line. A short ride on the Ashland Avenue bus and the Satur day supplement and dinner are only min utes away. The end of another busy Sat urday afternoon. Stand Up and Be Counted True, segregation is not a suddenly- sprung problem. True, the segregation was there before, long before these dra matic demonstrations. Why is it that now college students are urged ex pected to stand up and be counted? Perhaps it is mostly because of the recent indictments leveled at us from such quar ters as America and Commonweal all of them too true. Where are the Catholic college students? The secular colleges were the first to respond to the need of their fellow stu dents. They seized the means at their disposal they became involved in pickets, boycotts and demonstrations. They didn't wait for some magical best way, but acted, as students. We're late let's admit it. We do have a start with letters and telegrams, but token sympathy is no longer enough. Let's dispose ourselves to progress pickets are not backwoods or are we afraid of being called radical ? Will we support segregation policies? Re cently several hotels refused a Munde lein dance because we have Negroes in our party. There's plenty of room in the Woolworth picket lines. Where are we? Laws passed by Washington will never be effective until we show we want them to be. Do we? Scraper us crap Happy Thoughts Easter Vacation begins April 14 one day away; Junior Prom is April 30 17 days away; Exams, May 20 19 class days away; Senior Ball, May 27, 44 days away; Graduation, June 1 48 days away.
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1960-04-13 (2)
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