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Page Four SKYSCRAPER SAC Speaks Up SAC speaks up in defense of a de cision made last year. It all came about with the over-lapping raffles of NFCCS and the Club Co-Ordina- tion board. These put such a drain on student pocketbooks and ingenuity that, at a heated meeting, SAC passed a res olution abolishing all future raffles. SAC persists in this decision. The aim obviously is not to deprive clubs or organizations of means of raising funds, but is to relieve students of an inconvenient and sometimes embarras sing annoyance. Though this means that officers will have to tax their im aginations for fund raising schemes. SAC believes that the greater good of the student community is served by holding to the ban on raffles. * Do you have your student identifica tion card? No? Haven't paid your SAC dues? Hmmm Cards have been printed with space for your name, and for the treasurers, of your various activities to sign when you pay your dues. Student ID cards can be help ful in purchasing student tickets to Loyola basketball games, and in gain ing admittance to Loyola-Mundelein mixers. Pay your SAC dues today, and get your ID card. * * * Speaking of SAC treasury dues, is your club planning to send delegates to a convention sometime this year? SAC wonders Estimates for all planned trips were to be in SAC'S hands Nov. IS. As of now, five have been received. Mundelein has always been known for its active clubs. Are we stay-at-homes this year? Wha Hoppened * * * The Club Co-ordination board, in response to a plea from the Catholic Charities, is asking all members to contribute Christmas presents for the 1400 children under the Charities bur eau's care. Age group 10-14 is in par ticular need of gifts. Spread Christmas cheer through Mundelein by giving your attic-enclosed toys to needy chil dren. Equestriennes Plan Breakfast Ride The Equestriennes will capitalize on the Dec. 8 holiday with a breakfast ride in Lincoln Park. After early Mass, riders .will leave Christensen's academy at 9 a.m., and breakfast will be served at Vine Gardens following the jaunt. Joan Krause, club chairman, is in charge of arrangements. Philomenites Win Volleyball Contest Philomena hall's volleyball team de feated St. Theresa's by a score of 41-12, Nov. 9. Barbara Schmidt captained the losing team, and Mary Lou Zahm and Lucille Winkler led the Philtnenites to victory in the intramural competition. The winning team from Philomena hall consisted of Catherine Snell, Colette Ranee, Joan Simon, and Ena Sidnar. The St. Thcrese resident players were Eileen Smyth, Serafina Traficanti, Geraldine Tyrrell, and Dana Parducci. Eight o'clock Mass at Madonna Del- la Strada once again will be seeing its pews filled by Mundelein girls . . . come Advent. For the convenience of all who receive Communion. SAC has arranged for breakfast in the tea-room. This prac tise was started last year at the re quest of a number of students. Ma donna Delia Strada will be waiting for * * * Don't let the Dec. 8 week-end go to waste Why not get away from it all? Follow the Loyola basketball team to Madison and Minnesota, and help cheer it (in to victory. * . . In case you wondered, it's 28 days till the Skyscraper Ball. See you Fri day, Dec. 29, at the Grand Ballroom of the Palmer House. Ramblers* Schedule Merits Support Spectator sportswomen, be neighborly Here is Loyola's in-town basketball schedule. November 29 Chicago Teachers college at Loyola December 16 Valparaiso university at Loyola December 23 Ohio Wesleyan university at Loyola January 1 Bowling Green university at Loyola January 20 De Paul university at Chicago Stadium January 24 Western Michigan college at Loyola January 27 University of Detroit at Chicago Stadium February 10 City College of New York at Chicago Stadium February 17 Marquette university at Loyola February 24 Beloit college at Chicago Stadium February 28 Duquesne university at Loyola March 8 De Paul university at Loyola Psychiatrist Tells Value of Good Books In Mental Hygiene Dr. R. D. Bergen, psychiatrist, dis cussed the mental hygiene value of good books at a lecture on bibliotherapy. Nov. 21, in the auditorium. Dr. Bergen is now a psychiatrist with the Chicago Catholic charities. He at tended the Catholic university and Johns Hopkins university. He has done work at Mayo Clinic and Sacred Heart Sanitarium, Milwaukee, and served as psychiatrist with the Navy. The greatest use of books as a means of modifying behavior is in junior high school, empasized Dr. Bergen. Book6 give the adolescent an outlet for pent-up emotions by letting him live vicariously the experiences of a character in the story. The psychiatrist explained, The best books for bibliotheraphy arc those that have a moral, not too obviously pre sented. Varsity Team Returns Victorious From Play Day At Navy Pier Three games played, three games won is the record made by the College Varsity Volleyball squad at the Navy Pier Vol ley ball Play day, Nov. 18. Mundelein scored 35 to 11 over George Williams, 41 to 19 over Northwestern, and defeated VVison 25 to 24. Frances Mclnerney, Thcrese Wind ham, Grace Greeley, Mary Lou Zahm, Judy McNulty, Claire Gerbeck, Joan Wersching, Gina Moran, Lois Graver, Joan Simon, and Betty Garrity, repre sented the College in the intcr-collegi- atc play day. Inter-College Squads Choose Top Bowlers The Mundelein-Loyola Bowling league has announced its high scorers. Patricia Flanagan, Carol Walsh, and Noreen Fin- ley are Mundelein leaders, and Paul Bel vedere, Tom Sullivan, and Gene Placki are Loyola's top men. iThe bowling league is composed of 12 teams of two girls and two boys each. i ... Want a Fruit Cake? The traditional Fruit Cake sale, sponsored by the Home Eco nomics department, will open Dec. 2 and continue until the Christmas vacation. Parry Thrust Joan Carr, center, directs a fencing bout between Joan Gamble and Mary Lou Gleason while Melita Lynch, left, Ann Fitzgerald, second from right, preside as judges. The fencers are getting in form for the Women's Open Foil competition, which will be held in the Mundelein gymnasium, Dec. 3, under the auspices of the Amateur Fencers League of America. Approximately 15 Mundelein students will fence. On jt Wednesday afternoon.., BUT THE DEADLINE WAS FP.IDAY THE PAPfcR IS ALU MADE Hue pL*- i The Skyscraper Story . . . This is OUR story . . . we have yours ... or have we? Do you sometimes wish your name was in The Skyscraper? Wish the staff would learn to spell it correctly? Wonder why we include the things we do, why we omit the tilings YOU care about ? Our office is Room 305, and you are welcome to submit news at any time. Best tack it to the west bulletin board, and scribble a blackboard notice to F.di- tors, so they'll see it. Meanwhile maybe you'd like to know just what the college paper aims to DO? Primarily, it informs. It is mirror of Mundelein people (not always the same ones), events, activities, and thought (see the editorial page and the SAC column.) Busy Pursuing Truth Mundelein, as we of the staff see it, is a place of honest intellectual activity, a part of the Mystical Body of Christ, with people working together for a com mon aim, the pursuit of Truth, and en joying their work. Our College is not, the editors believe, a den of radicalism, a seething mass of intrigue, discontent, scandal, and injustice, either to Faculty or to students. If there is any injustice around, it is usually done by a student to herself waste of her own time, neglect of her own talents, failure to have fun with others. So we try to interpret Mundelein as we see it, and we remember arc students like you, not superwomen. Some of you. undoubted ); are confused about deadlines. The average non-jour- . nalist has no idea how long it takes to produce a newspaper. Work for 10 Days To produce Mundelein's, several score of students put in part-time work over a 10-day period. The staff includes girls from every class. Reporters cover 35 beats every two weeks, bring in the facts, names, dates, plans, get their stories in by deadline. Next deadline is Dec. 1. About the news some is important to the whole College, some is of interest only to small groups. The editors try to dis tinguish, to display the big news, the future news. Frankly, who cares about an uninspiring happening of two months ago? A re-hash of past events usually has little news value. Future news, events which happen on or after the date of publication, have more news value and reader interest than past news, events which have occurred before publication. Though an event may be still in the future when it is a notice given to a reporter, it may be old hat when the paper is published. So news givers are asked to remember that considerable pro cessing goes on between the giving and the final presentation. (Most journalists work ahead of time. Christmas advertising is often planned on hot September days.) And those pictures The Skyscraper is not a family album. Each department is entitled to one published picture a year. Departments sponsoring college-wide ac tivities, plays, concerts, benefits, neces sarily may rate more than one photo. Similarly, big events rate more than one advance story but the club meeting, trip, project, or contest usually merits only one. Picture policy dictates that groups us- ually be doing something fairly signifi cant and that individual students be du plicated as little as possible in successive pictures. Avoid Double Exposures Imagine our chagrin when the girl who made the front page last issue turns up this issue, and the next, and the next, getting more versatile as the weeks pass We like your pretty faces but wc like different ones each issue, so tell the photographer yourself if you've been in before. She can't remember everything. Now to the process. The paper comes out on Monday. You see copies heaped before the Press room door. Monday is our end and our beginning. The staff meets Monday afternoon to discuss the next edition and to consider picture requests, due in the Friday before. Tuesday the reporters are out again. In the next 10 days we interview, write, verify, edit, and type 19 columns of news and views, send them to the prio-1 ter. and plan the layout (or the paper's face.) Read Galley Proofs Wc read galley proofs (the printed col- j umns come in duplicate) and correct them, write headlines (come in Wed. Dec. 6, if you want to help), send the made- up pages back to the printer, receive page proofs, correct them, check press proofs, making last minute changes if necessary (and ONLY if necessary). Then it is off to the printer again, and on Monday morning you get the Skyscraper hot off the presses. Examine your news conscience ... are you a door stopper ? Do you keep it a secret if you are queen of a prom, win a prize, go to the opera ? Do you cooper ate with reporters who want information about YOUR club's activities? Have you written a new set of encyclopedias? By all means let us know
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1950-12-01 (4)
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Student newspaper for Mundelein College
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