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- wnecoming idif/on skyscraper were number one/ Vol. XXXIX Mundelein College, Chicago, 111. 60626, November 8,1968 111 No. 6 acuity clobbers students 6-0 in reprisal for first college sit-in Firsts marked homecoming nekend which spilled over to mid-week over post election day, when the college commu nity got together to celebrate t us with a faculty-student football game, barbecue, poet ry and short readings, dinner and a hootenanny. The Let's Celebrate day was prompted By a student sit in for a free day after the Mundelein Ma rauders deflated the Barat Bombers last Saturday. In a faculty poll on Monday, the students' demands for a free day were granted, and the faculty immediately chal lenged the Marauders to a game. On soggy Loyola field, Wednesday, tbe faculty beat the students with a score of 6-0. Led by Dr. Michael For tune, James Ciletti, and David Crosby, English, Daniel Ca- hill. vice president of develop ment. Gordon Goetteman, art, Dr. Russell Barta, social sci ence, Louis Martin, Spanish. Rosalie Price, psychology, Edmund Przybylski, learning resource center director, the faculty played a wet, rough game. Mrs. Marilyn Gorski, physical Mucation, served as referee for the game. The spirits of the van quished did not falter, how ever. The cheers, which did not diminish with the rising score, ranged from the tradi- FACULTY AGITATORS? President Sister Ann Ida Gannon and faculty senate chairman and vice-chairman, Sister M. Eloise Thomas and Dr. Russell Barta, weigh the threats of a free-day frenzied mob of student agitators stag ing the first college sit-in. (Skyscraper photo by Kathy Cummins.) tional Mundelein cheers of this year ( We got style, we got class. We got the other team by the pull, team, pull and Rah rah ree, kick 'em in the knee Rah rah rass, kick 'em in the other knee ) to an innovation for this game. ( Mr. Fortune, keep your boots on since he was wearing rubbers which fre quently came off.) The game Wednesday was practically the opposite of last Saturday's game. In the Mun delein Marauders vs. the Bar at Bombers, the Marauders socked it to the Bombers, 12-0. This victory caused a sit-in outside of Sister Ann Ida's of fice immediately following the game with cries of We're no. 1 and We want a free day Friday night the homecom ing weekend festivities began with the Cotillion, Marina Mist, at which the Dontays performed. Saturday was the day of the great victory and the sit-in, a Mundelein first. Saturday night brought the Rotary Connection, complete with ten amplifiers, in concert to the auditorium. Sunday, the activities concluded with a Mass and brunch in McCor- mick Lounge followed by open house in the dorms. But the end of the official homecoming, better known as Pigskin Follies '68, did not mark the end of the celebra tions. Monday night the stu- Poet Lowenfefs reads own works The second poet in the Mundelein Student Congress-English department sponsored poet series, Walter Lowenfels, will read his poetry, Nov. 14, in McCormick Lounge. Lowenfels, of Peekskill, N.Y., has published 12 books of poetry, with one in preparation. His books include: Walt Whiteman's Civjl War, Selections from Leaves of Grass and Where is Viet Nam? American Poets Respond. Among his awards, Lowenfels has shared the Richard Alding ton Poetry prize with e.e. cummings and has been published in T. S. Eliot's Criterion. His poetry is published in English, French, Spanish, German and Russian. The second reading in the series is open to the public with 1.00 adult admission and .50 cent student admission. Gerry Kurtz (Skytcrapar pholo bv Kathy Commtnsl dents and many of the faculty marched on the Coffey grounds in a Torch Light Pa rade honoring the Marauders. The weekend ended with Let's Celebrate us on Nov. 6 At 12:30 on Coffey grounds a rally followed by the football game on Loyola field (The Mundelein Maraud ers vs. Bimbo's Bombers). A barbeque in Lewis Center fol lowed the game and from 4 to 5:30 there were assorted ac tivities around the campus ranging from a poetry read ing by James Ciletti, English, to dunking in the pool, to a Social Science Psych-In. Dinner, served from 5:30 to 7 instead of the usual 4:30 to 6, was followed by a hooten- any. At the conclusion of the hootenany, Dr. Russell Barta read a manifesto to the stu dents commenting on the spir it shown by both the faculty and the students during home coming week. He issued a plea for the unity that result ed from the week to be car ried over into the classrooms and all school activities by both groups on campus, the students and the faculty.
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1968-11-08 (1)
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