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Vol. XXXVIII Mundelein College, Chicago, 111., 60626, April 26,1968 Revue satirizes life's games with dialogue, dances, songs by Kathleen Cummins The Mundelein Student Congress' 9th annual Revue, Games '68 We Gotta Play (being presented tonight and tomorrow night at 8:30 in the College Theater) may prove to be not only a financial success, but also a new concept in college variety shows. We're putting on a whole show, said producer Carol Ryan, not just crossovers to frame individual acts. Instead of devising a theme to connect diverse elements in a recital-like conglomeration, the Revue planning committee has designed the show's ele ments to fit the theme, Games 68. It equates the '68 Olym pics with the world games of international politics, relig ion, and economics. Holding up the Olympic met aphor, a bumbling torchbearer appears in a succession of world capitals, bedraggled and downcast, his torch always out. He is the Outdistanced Runner, the archetypal loser. His foibles have reality-game counterparts in the Revue skits: the Gold Crisis is re worked as a fairy tale recall ing Rumplestiltskin, an out dated priest returns from exile to find his former parish floating in a speakeasy; Rockefeller, Romney and Wal lace take Excedrin, run out of Platformate, and leave their Right Guard defenseless in a Mass Media travesty of the political scene. Skyscrapar Photo by Marianne Fusillo DIRECTOR James O'Reilly leads the Revne Chorus in It's Raining. College hosts first Parents' Weekend Parents' Weekend: A time when the folks can come and see what they're paying for. Mundelein's first Parents' Weekend is this week-end, April 27 and 28. Highlights are an address by Sister Ann Ida Gannon, president, and the annual revue, Games 68 We Gotta PLAY Sister Ann Ida will discuss This is Mundelein, at 1 p.m. tomorrow in McCormick Lounge. Her talk will focus on Munde lein's place in higher education. Following the discussion, the college and dorms will be open for the parents' inspection. Parents will be armed with campus guides, showing not only the layout of the buildings, but also places where they can meet members of the faculty. At 4:30 p.m., cocktails will be served on the tenth floor of the Scholasticate, followed by dinner in the dining room of the same building. The day will officially end with the college revue at 8:00 p.m. Alpha Omicron will have its special open house April 28 from 1 to 4 p.m. Working with the theme What's Going On Here? the home economics students will attempt to answer that question with demonstrations and exhibits. Sister Elizabeth Mueller, music department, will present a piano recital at 4 p.m., in McCormick Lounge. The Parents' Weekend Committee is composed of Sister Mary A. Cramer, dean of students; Daniel Cahill, vice president; Sister Joan Francis, dean of residence; Mrs. Robert Solotaroff and'Sis ter Patricia Haley, English department, and Mrs. Robert Matasar, political science; the parents of Marty Nesbitt, Donna Michels, Sheila Cullen, Marianne Fusillo, and Kathy Brockmeyer; stu dents Maureen Murphy, Alice Johnson, Kathy Feucht, Kathy Patton, Mary Pilipowski, and Terri Nowicki. The Four class acts contri bute satire on film censorship, society, the news media, and the game of education, in which harried players fever ishly juggle facts, term papers, and Extra Reading Assign ments to the whistle of a mar tinet Referee. The faculty skit, Consensus '68 spoofs Choice '68. James O'Reilly, director, lends the show a professional sheen. As Carol Ryan ex plained, he is in the business and practicing it, unlike the former revue directors. O'Reilly directs the University of Chicago's University Thea ter and Court Theater, has conducted T.V. workshops and appeared as a guest artist at St. Joseph's College in East Chicago. His penchant for puns is re flected in Revne sketch titles like Ole, Down Your Heavy Load (set in Mexico) and Teahouse of the August Moan. Skyacrapar Photo by Morionna Futll BETSY BUCKLEY dances the part of a show-off kid who disrupts a hopskotch game with her dazzling technique. Neighborhood scoffers look on in dismay. The Revue planning commit tee includes producer Carol Ryan, assistant producer Mimi Millen, stage manager Chris Russick, secretary to the direc tor Cicely O'Reilly and pub licity managers Felicia Jeter and Carolyn Cronin. For compactness, the show employs a core company of actors, its own chorus and dancers, choreographed by Patsy Powell with the aid of Giselle Riba. Their routines in clude a stylized Hopskotch game which treats racial dis crimination. Katie Williams di rects the light crew and Mary Hopkins is costume mistress. Games '68, said Miss Ryan, makes minimum use of props and settings to make the aud ience aware they're in a thea ter. Three Judges will award a trophy to the best class acts; They are Lorraine Wels, an editor and producer at NBC, John Mies, a professional com edy writer, and Josephine Forsberg, director of the Sec ond City Workshop. Urges Vietnam peace vigil Mobi/fzafion stages teach-in The Mundelein Student Mo bilization is sponsoring an all day teach-in today in observ ance of the international stu dent-faculty strike of classes day. The purpose of the strike is to call for an immediate stop' to the war in Vietnam, an end to racial oppression and the abolition of the draft. The purpose is not, Munde lein Mobilization leaders ex plained, that students and fac ulty should cut all classes, but rather that they should devote the day to anti-war activities. If a particular teacher is not devoting his or her class to the War, students in that class are urged to attend the all day teach-in which will en sue in McCormick Lounge. If teachers are in agreement with the aims of Student Mobiliza tion bnt do not feel qualified to talk on the War in their classes, we ask them to free their students to attend the teach-in, stated Sharon Pel- letter, chairman of Mundelein's Student Mobilization. Opening the teach-in at 8:30 this morning, Sister Sharon Rose will discuss how The Press Views Vietnam. Follow ing at 9:50 Dr. Michael For tune will lead an open dis cussion on the War. Mrs. Constance Chobanian will dis cuss Sino - American Policies Concerning Vietnam at 11:10. At 12:40 Sister Prudence Moy lan will cover The Johnson Administration: The Last Four Years. Herbert Sachs will speak at 2:00 on the Pressure on the Adolescent Induced by the War. And at 3:20 the Rev erend John L. McKenzie, S.J., author of the Two Edged Sword, will speak on the Moral ity of the War. Following the teach-in a prayer vigil for peace In Viet nam and racial Justice ls scheduled at 5:00 In front of Coffey Hall. Students, faculty members and a guest from Loyola will lead the vigil. Tomorrow, the April Parade Committee of the Chicago Peace Council is sponsoring a rally and march to demon strate against the War. The rally begins at 12:30 at the Grant Park Band Shell and the march afterwards begins at 2:00. Sunday, several members of the student body, including the three chairmen of Student Mo bilization Katie Beckert, Rose McKiernan and Sharon Pel letier, will hold a workshop at 2:00 in 114 Northland. The workshop will concentrate on actions that can be taken against the War, racism, op pression and the draft. The Black students have agreed to participate. Stu dents must begin to hear dif ferent viewpoints, to become more tolerant of them, and even to defend the right of every person in this college, no matter what his position, to voice his opinions, said Katie Beckert. Next Monday at 7:30 in Mc Cormick Lounge Joe Horton, a member of the Students for Democratic Society, will de scribe his recent visit to Cuba and compare situations there with those existing in the United States. On the final day of the ten, Tuesday, April 30, students and faculty will participate in an open discussion on the War beginning at 3:20 in McCor mick Lounge. To open the dia logue Sister Ann Ida Gannon, president, will take a position on the War. Following at 5:00, in Lewis Center a Meal of Reconciliation, consisting of tea and rice, is scheduled. Protest poetry will be read and protest singers will perform.
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1968-04-26 (1)
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