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Page Four THE SKYSCRAPER Dec. 9, 1964 St udcrapinad Our Christmas gift to you, little dearies, is a brand-new-looking column, consisting of bits and pieces from a series of trial Skyscrapings written by a Mundy Col journalism class. And for the administration member (who shall, of course, remain nameless) who told me that she always turns to Pandora first to see who's going to get it today, this will just go to prove that we journalists are all alike Regardez: THE OLD GRIND: The old get-those-term-papers-in-on-time-be- fore-Christmas rush is on even those tearoom loungers have that jittery look in their eyes . . . there is always the possibility granted, it is a remote possibility that the day before the paper is due (you mean you actually started yours before then?) the prof will be afflicted with Christmas fever, too . . . We hear that juniors are acting as guinea pigs in the term paper situation. Questionnaires will sup posedly determine whether or not they really are over-loaded . . . My next-semester schedule? Modern architecture, beginning swimming, Jo- hannine epistles, intermediate swimming, piano, advanced swimming and introductory sociology. And I'm an English major . . . Yes, you overworked students, that was a turkey crossing Sheridan Road last Wednesday: ah, the wit of those Alpha Delts . . . SOCIAL NOTES FROM ALL OVER: Anyone who spent 45 min utes filling out the five-page questionnaire for Lewis College's IBM mixer refused to let the blizzard keep her away. The questions re quired some real soul searching . . . Someone wants to know depart ment: Is it true that residents can't come to dinner with straight hair? . . . Judging from last Tuesday's resident Thanksgiving dinner, aren't some Bundles lacking in the social graces? . . . The candlelighting ceremony in Coffey and the Northland (64 people harmonizing on Moon River and True Love, and the like, while all eyes feverishly follow a lighted candle which the lucky girl will blow out) hardly signifies an adult view on marriage . . . Sister Mary Joan Frances, B.V.M., has been busy learning Frisby . . . and is quite proficient . . . By the way, SAC gt; what will you do with the profits from the Benefit? Any ideas? Assorted Gripes: Who's in charge of watering down the mustard in the Tearoom? . . . Being blown into the parking lot every time one opens the East Door is one of the joys of attending a college on the lakefront. . . . Pandora Present Yule Program Inaccuracy, Dubious Sources Weaken Presidential Sketch The old us good guys against you bad guys struggle takes an historical turn in Gene Smith's book of the month and non-fiction best seller, When the Cheering Stopped. The book, a comprehensive study of the last six years in the life of Woodrow Wilson, played against a backdrop of prohibition and the speakeasy, attempts to tear down the myths surrounding the presi dent's battle for the League of Nations, his years of illness and the alleged rule of his wife, Edith Boiling, during these years. Unfortunately the book does little more than substitute one set of theories, Mr. Smith's, for another. Restricting himself to a six-year period the author has paid atten tion to the minutest details of one of the least known periods of the American presidency. He has set down his story in a clear, concise, fast-moving historical prose a la Arthur Schlesinger, Jr. Writing for the layman, he has avoided long politically philosophical arguments. Regretfully the book has been spoiled by several carelessly in accurate passages. In one in stance. Smith places the Presi dents' famous refusal of a par don for Socialist leader, Eugene Debs, in the March of 1921, and has it addressed to Joe Tumulty. The refusal took place Feb. 11, 1921, and was made to A. M. Palmer. Inaccuracy is further enhanced by ommission of important details. Smith mentions only Wilson as the architect of the League of Nations; the parts played by Robert Cecil, Jan Smuts and Leon Bourgeois are shamefully neglected. While the minutiae of Wilson's last six years Phone-Lecture Seminar Ends Three-month Series (Continued Virgen lava panales, a traditional Spanish carol arranged by Shaw- Parker. Mary Watkins will be so loist for .this number. Composer Directs The combined chorus and solo ists, singing Camille Saint-Saens' Christmas Oratorio, will be di rected by Mr. Huguelet. Franz Schubert's G Major Mass will be from Page 1) directed by Reverend Stanley R. Rudcki of St. Mary's Seminary. Father Rudcki, composer, conduc tor and pianist, directed the 1964 Messiah Chorus at Orchestra Hall. Admission is 1.50 for adults and 1 for students. Tickets may be purchased in room 706 and in the box office the evening of the per formance. A telephone-lecture seminar in radiobiology presented by members of the biology and medical division of Argonne National Laboratory will wind up its three-month lecture series Dec. 15. The science depart ment of Mundelein, one of the dozen colleges participating in this experi mental seminar, has been receiving the telephone conference-type call at 3:30 in 205 on the first three Wednesdays of each month, begin ning in October. The 40-minute telephone lectures, originating at Argonne and going out to each campus over telephone lines, are relayed to the students through a loudspeaker placed next to the phone receiver. After the completion of the lecture, listeners on campus may ask questions of the speaker by talking into the tele phone during the two-minute ques tion period allotted each school. Each Argonne scientist partici pating in the seminar presents a series of thi-ee lectures. Dr. Theo dore Tahmisian, biology and medi cal division, will give the conclud ing telephone-lectures in December on The Effect of X-Irradiation on Tissue and Organic Differentia tion. The Mundelein students tak ing part in the seminar do so under the supervision of Sister Mary Ce cilia, B.V.M., chairman of the bi ology department, and Mr. Jack Denning. News Briefs on Campus Laetare Presents One-Act Drama Virginia Bishop, senior drama major, will produce and direct a one-act play entitled Let Go the Dream, Dec. 9, at 7:30 p.m. in 405. Written by Ruth Angell Purkey, the play was chosen by senior Vir ginia to fulfill a requirement of the department that each drama major stage a one-act play. Cast members chosen from freshman drama stu dents, include Rebecca Ditzler, Pat Smith and Susan O'Malley. Ross Riley, a Loyola student, will play the male role. Book Display Opens Friday Parnassus on wheels, a mobile bookstore, will be brought to the college by George Neuman, a book dealer Dec. 11, 10 a.m.- 4 p.m. There will be hundreds of used books, out of print and shop-worn books for sale on .the fifth floor, east-west corridor. These are not text books but rather books cover ing general topics which will ena ble the students to enlarge or start a personal library. Students Attend Dance Symposium Three Mundelein modem dance students participated in a Modern Dance Symposium at the Univer sity of Illinois' Navy Pier Campus, Nov. 14. Mrs. Edward Ettlinger, Mundelein's dance instructor, di rected Nancy Lee Kloss, junior, and Ingeborg Feiter, freshman, in a blues number to Mack the Knife. Joan Warner, freshman, partici pated in a master dance class di rected by Helga Schultz, dancer and choreographer for the Contempo rary Dance Theater of Chicago. Auxiliary Invites Mothers To Join The Woman's Auxiliary of Mun delein, which sponsors activities and programs to benefit the college, in vites students' mothers to become members. Information about dues and meetings is available from Mrs. William J. Beaton, membership chairman, 1721 Monroe, Evanston. Art Department Features Exhibit The art department has assem bled a traveling exhibit of student work now being displayed at Pro viso West High School in Hillside from Dec. 1-14. In January, the student show, including woodblock prints, water color and oil paint- tings, and sculpture, will move on to Holy Cross Seminary in La Crosse. While the college's work is being exhibited elsewhere, Gallery 4 is showing a series of prints of litho graphs and etchings by masters in cluding Renoir, Picasso and Ma tisse. These prints, priced from 3.50 to 100, will be exhibited throughout December. Department Hosts Annual Art Walk The art department also spon sored their annual Christmas Walk through Old Town Dec. 4, the first day of a three-day open house cele bration organized by the Old Town business men. Studios, stores and shops opened their doors to the pub lic on Friday and Saturday from 4-12 p.m. and on Sunday from 2-7 p.m. Mundelein To Hold Home Ec Meeting A conference to evaluate the present home economics curriculum and to discuss future improvements will be held here, Dec. 11 from 10 a.m.-3 p.m. Sister Mary Pierre, B.V.M., chairman of the home economics department, has invited the depart ment chairmen of Rosary, Barat, St. Xavier, Alverno, Mount Mary, St. Louis University and the Col lege of St. Dominic. Luncheon will be served by members of Alpha Omicron (home economics club). Committee Quizzes Classics Chairman Meet the Professor, a special session of the freshman honors Lit erature and the Arts class was held Nov. 30. Sister Mary Donald, B.V.M., chairman of the classics department, answered questions prepared by the class on epics and tragedies. Mrs. Kelly Heads Student Placement The Student Employment depart ment has moved to the Student Fi nancial Aid Office, 201a. Mrs. Ei leen Kelly is now the direct super visor of the 262 student employees. Miss Jacqueline Bergen, assistant to the dean of women, is an em ployment consultant. are faithfully recorded by Smith, the Volstead, Espionage and Sedi tion Acts, the Treaty of Versailles, the Palmer raids, all important events of the years 1917 to 1923, are barely, if at all, discussed. Despite an impressive bibli ography many sources of infor mation are questionable for their complete accuracy. Mr. Smith's chief source, the Boi ling scrapbooks, written by Wil liam Boiling, the President's brother-in-law, at the direction of the President's wife, have been criticized for authenticity by many Wilsonian scholars. At his best Gene Smith is a poignant, skillful, perceptive writer. At his worst, an inaccurate, preju diced journalist playing the role of sob-sister. Still his book presents an amazing theory of political What might have been if ... The best seller lists show that it is be ing read, admired and hopefully, challenged. It leaves the reader wondering what really happened to Wilson when the cheering stopped.- Classes Sponsor Projects To Aid Needy Families To make the holidays brighter for needy Chicago families is the aim of each class through their Christ mas projects. The seniors will sponsor a Christ mas party for the Midwest Chi cago Boys' Club, Dec. 14 at 4:30 p.m. in Lewis Center. St. Martin de Porres welfare center will benefit from a four-day food drive and proceeds from a Christmas post office conducted by the juniors. The post office will deliver cards to students and faculty members for a nominal fee. Co-chairmen of the service are Pam Marrone and Nancy Kloss. Headed by Mary Pat Leahy and Lorraine Bonafede, the food drive will be held Dec. 14-18 in the junior locker room. Send Books, Food Food as well as books from the sophomore class will go to tutorees in the Chicago Area Lay Movement. Beginning Monday, Dec. 7, books ranging from pre-school through high school may be brought to the sophomore locker room. Food may also be brought to aid the families of children in CALM's tutorial pro gram. According to Janet Chessare, chairman, a party for wrapping books and making food baskets will be held after the drive. Sponsor Drive For the International Catholic Auxiliary, freshmen will hold a drive Dec. 2-16. Ann Murphey is chairman of the project. THE SKYSCRAPER Mundelein College 6363 Sheridan Rd., Chicago, 111., 60626
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