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Page Two SKYSCRAPER Ant Or Grasshopper? What are you doing this summer? Are you going to be a grasshop per, sleeping 'til noon and loafing for the entire vacation? Or are you imitating the industrious ant, storing up experience for the future? The summer will be wasted if you squander precious leisure in idleness. The opportunities of an advantageous vacation are endless. Now is the hour to plan on utilizing summertime to the fullest. A summer job will give valuable experience in the business world besides a weekly pay check. Or you could enlarge your weekly sitter session to a full scale nursery school. It's a wonderful feeling to survey your bank account, and your mind, in the fall, and find them both en larged. There are always summer school courses to fill out deflated pro grams with extra credits. Why not continue study of your favorite sub ject in a summer school? Your leisure can be devoted to a perusal of a hobby so that it can grow and give you greater pleasure. Learn something new, whether it is playing bridge or knitting argyles. There will be plenty of time to perfect your tennis serve or lower your bridge score. Two or more books a month will put you far ahead in your reading. And there will be time to read the book on the reading list that you didn't have time to finish. Ahead lie over 100 days, brimming full with opportunities. Are you an ant or a grasshopper? Freshman Conquers Student Apathy While Partner Purls Armed with a Student Hand book, the Sodalist Parliamen tarian, and an ear trumpet, Jo anne College attends an S. A. C. meeting. Being a freshman, she has been forewarned of the futility of it all, but with grim determina tion she slides down the audi torium floor to her seat. She is alert and expectant as the stage fills with a crowd of sober faces and the organ be gins to intone the College song. Then, with a rustling of pap ers and a dispensing of the min utes, the meeting is under way. Five minutes pass. Joanne recognizes such words as chairman and aye and beams knowingly at her fresh man friends. Ten minutes pass. She is con fused when an amendment is amended. With faint heart she clutches her purple pamphlet feverishly. Joanne is now awed by her surroundings. She has applied herself valiantly but to no avail. Her girl friend drops a stitch. Twenty minutes pass. The meeting is halted temporarily to assemble an irate junior who almost fell out of the balcony. Twenty-live minutes pass. Jo anne sinks into student apathy and studies the exit sign. Thirty minutes pass. Our he roine discovers the art of ap plause. She thus makes her debut when a fiery orator de mands an open window. Thirty-one minutes pass. She studies the exit sign more thor oughly. And so ad infinitum . . . Miss College has seen a mo tion dissected by the floor, points of order, information, and per sonal privilege raised and low ered ; she has experienced the pleasure of being the only one to vote no. Thus Joanne has become a veteran of parlia mentary law. But as the Student Council members file out. chairs in hand, a question arises in the intri cate mind of our heroine. Is parliamentary law here to stay? Novel Feels Pulse Of Canadian Woman With expressive tenderness Grace Camp bell feels the pulse of Canadian women during the war and records the result in a poignantly moving chait of experience. Fresh Wind Blowing. Miss 'Campbell, who writes graphically of her home, Canada, has captured in lyri cal prose the music of broad plains and teeming cities while telling an enchanting talc of a courageous Canadian girl who loses her twin brother in the war and mar ries an R. A. F. pilot. Although the story is appealing in ten derness and sentiment, coherence is often sacrificed, for an accumulation of discon nected incidents inadequately attempt to portray a so-called cross-section of Canadi an war life. The story of a girl whose loses contact with normal life because of the dis appearance of her husband and is suddenly rejuvenated when he returns, scarred and broken, is trite and perhaps overplayed. During the interim the plot has to lean on an overworked crutch of the other man. only. Miss Campbell has three other men. each negative and too-too in love with the heroine. But Miss Campbell, fully aware of ethics, keeps her heroine untouch able and her book fresh and lifting. For a delightful evening and a brief respite from texts. Fresh Wind Blowing will do. as it has no higher pretensions. And as an entertaining adventure into the misadventures of an hairassed heroine nothing could describe it but charming. Stand And Cheer . . . For Kappa 'Floy' Omega The problems of the students, great and small, have found storage space in the capacious hands of Mundelein's sorority for service. Kappa Phi Omega. Since the beginning of the school year (when inquisitive faces investigated the extreme end of the lounge) numerous strange requests have been answered. Ob taining ushers, hostesses, and typists is commonplace; requests to sharpen three hundred pencils rarely raise an eyebrow-, and shellacking snowflakes is not an unusu al task. Members find themselves typing term- papers, painting posters, and conducting surveys such as the one on the number of shrimp Creoles served in the cafeteria on a Friday. An interesting club? Undoubtedly. The membership is a certain proof of the stu dent love for the unusual. Ninety are eligi ble for full membership in Kappa Phi Omega, two seniors, 13 juniors, 34 sopho mores, and 41 freshmen. Hut love for the unusual is not the under lying cause for the club's success. It is a testimony of the unselfish and generous spirit of the students which is the founda tion of the sorority for service. Fictionary Dictionary Assembly mortar boards and bobby sox Assignments the funniest jokes ever devised by people without a sense of hu mor. Blue room second Hour of a double decker bus. Euthanasia children in China. Gossip person with steamshovel mind scooping up a load of dirt. New look bright, clear eyes of fresh man who has turned in her first term paper. Resident bobby pins at 10:35 p.m. School day one sublime hour of lunch completely swallowed by live hours of tor ture. Term paper original work as witty and sparkling as a Sears Roebuck catalog. Unknown a puzzle in detection that drives freshman chemists to crime. West door invitation to learning. Spring Symbolizes Hope For Puzzled World Where will it end? We ask this question with alarm as we gaze wide-eyed about us. Every phase of life social, economic, po litical is upset. Communism threatens to engulf us: divorces increase while births decrease. The future looms ominously. But is there nothing but fear in the fu ture? Is there no hope? We see Cod's work about us; in the budding of a tree, the pert face of a cro cus, the hazy green of the lawns. Suddenly it's spring Spring that comes in spite of murder, war. or revolution; spring that is not commanded, not dictated to; spring with its lights and shadows, its profusion of freshness and newness: new inspiration, new confidence, new hope for the world. Spring brings a new feeling to mankind. It sits up, asserts itself, smiles at the world, and walks at a confident pace . . . that is. it should Everything favors it . . . fresh air. sunshine . . . nothing more is neces sary. Cod is on our side positively root ing for us When we believe in Him. hope in Him, love Him, we see the eternal God in spring; forever present, forever guiding us. Hope lies about us. The year's at the spring. What Goes On,. J So you're led up . . . mighty tired the work involved in this life called cj lege. It's not what the m ivies and slj magazines crack it up to be. Well, what did you expect an exit tion or a jolly fair time? You can quil May 28. a id go intol wk'e. wide business world wlu-c- yj time and soul will be your own alter p.m. Or you can come back and grows a smart cultured. Catho'ie woman wlmlj at her finger-tips, all the facts of living full Christian life. People everywhere spend- their allots 65 years slaving to get the most out oil You. in four short years of college, I have that know-how at your commas and probably live 75 years. Perhaps you've felt left out. Well.l cru-el world is much more vast than college. And have you honestly tried get in on things? To meet and aM dozens of girls? If you've really trit you've made the grade; we have the tical Body here at Mundelein. But if haven't tried . . . well, this is a big scHH and. after all, the mountain couldn't qi make it to Mohammed. So come on. finish the year with a ir'xM ly smile, and when September rolls Yos we'll see you again. You're a college and (to outsiders) infinitely more orotis than ajiy Hollywood lassie. WEEK MOMENTS Today Confirmation of Nominees fL A. C. Vice-President. Nomination Freshman, Sophomore, Class (Win Carnival Dress Rehearsal. Tuesday S. A. C. student meeting. Not nations for Vice-President. Frcshra Sophomore. Class meetings. Wednesday 2:30 p.m. Matinee benefitp fonnance. Our Town. 7:00 p.m. Senior Mixer. Thursday Sophomore, Junior. SdH class meetings. Freshman counsel meetings. 4:00 p.m. Basketball tournament. Friday 4:00 Water Carnival 8:00 Basketball, Alumnae 8:00 Resident parly. MUNDELEIN COLLEG Chicago, 40, Illinois Under the Direction o THE SISTERS OF CHARITY, B.V.M. Entered as Second Class Matter Nov. 30, if at the Post Office of Chicago, Illinois, under Act of March 3, 1879, 1.75 the year. Published semi-monthly from October to I inclusive by the students of Mundelein Collq 6363 Sheridan Road, Chicago 40. Vol. XYIII April 26. 1948 No. All-Catholic Honors AU-American Honors Telephone: Sheldrake 9620 FRESHMAN STAFF Co-Editors-in-Chief Leona Adams Peggy, Barrett Juanita Bcrdy I'eggy Butler -Maribeth Carey Janet Creniin Carmella Cutaia Eileen Damuth Maryhelen Dietrich Mary Donoghue Marie Ekenberg Carol Erickson Frances Even Mary Kay Gill Ruth Ann Greene Rosemary lloga Joan Kares Judy Langhenn Julie MeGarritv Joan Miclialski Sheilya Neary Eileen O'Grady Cora Pattarson Jeanne Pcnnie Joan Russell Dorcella Spengk Mary Alma Sal Norene Trapp Mary Ellen WaJ Nancy Wockiieil
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1948-04-26 (2)
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Women and Leadership Archives http://www.luc.edu/wla
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Mundelein College
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Student newspaper for Mundelein College
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