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Senior Receives T Feliowship Grant Mundelein's only Woodrow Wil son candidate, senior Barbara ... ...... Skyscraper Photo Barbara Kaiser Kaiser, has been awarded a fellow ship for one year from the Wood- row Wilson Foundation. Barbara, a history major and a classics minor, will begin work to ward her master's degree at the University of Toronto or at Har vard University, specializing in medieval history. The stipend Barbara will receive is 2,000 for living expenses, and an additional amount for tuition for two semesters or three terms. Though the fellowship is not re newable, most universities will award graduate students further assistance. As a Woodrow Wilson Fellow ship winner, Barbara will be eligi ble for competition in the Disser tation Fellowship award, which includes financial backing while completing the doctoral thesis. J n Vol. XXXVI Mundelein College, Chicago 26, March 16, 1966 No. 11 Await Federal Aid In Inner City Project Upward Bound, a nationwide pro gram to help Inner City high school students prepare for college and a career will be initiated on campus this summer if the Office of Economic Opportunity accepts the Propose NF Withdrawal MSC Votes Disaffiliation Following a study of the National Federation of Catholic College Stu dents (NFCCS) and its effective ness, MSC unanimously adopted a proposal March 9 to disaffiliate with the organization. The pro posal must be presented to the stu dent body in the form of an amend ment to the constitution, April 13. Students will vote on the amend ment during the election of officers, April 21 and 22. In the school year 1962-63, a similar study was conducted, but the then active Student Activities Council voted to retain affiliation. Ilona Walerczyk, who presented the findings of her study at the March 9 meeting, reported that nine of the schools she corre sponded with, some of which have already disaffiliated, considered disaffiliation because of the lack of communication from the national office and the yearly expenses. National dues are 300 per year, plus a regional fee. However, ex penditures last year reached more than 850: the additional 500 covered delegates' expenses at re gional and national conventions. Mundelein suspended payments of dues this year while the study was being conducted. NF functions primarily at the regional level to provide communi cation among member schools, and to foster intellectual, spiri tual and social formation of students through common proj ects and various local activities. Two similar organizations, Na tional Student Association, encom passing all colleges and universities in the country, and Chicago As sociation of Colleges and Universi ties operate at Mundelein. This year, NF's project was the circulation of a petition backing U. S. policy in Viet Nam. The travel program, a fund-raising project of NF is carried out every year. Formerly, NF projects at Mundelein included financing for eign students' education and various social action projects. All delegates at a meeting with NF officers agreed that Mundelein's several inner city projects provide what NF has suggested. proposal submitted by the college Feb. 24. Costing an estimated 84,000, the proposed Mundelein chapter of Up ward Bound will be subsidized al most 90 per cent by federal funds if the initial proposal is approved. Upward Bound was planned and organized by Project Director Sister Mary St. George, B.V.M., education department; Sister Mary Eloise, B.V.M., chairman of the economics department, associate director, and Sister Mary Julia, B.V.M., of the Spanish department, assistant director. The program would involve 50 high school girls who have com pleted their sophomore or junior year and who reside in nearby Lakeview and Uptown districts. Criteria for selecting participants include: Financial need, student interest and the probability of the program developing college poten tial. According to Project Director Sister Mary St. George, the Up ward Bound experiment has three objectives: to inform students of career opportunities for women with college degrees, to remedy Responsible Protest Leads ACLU Aims; Miller Sanctions Draft Card Burning by Marilyn Gibbs Human rights rank highest in value among men and dissension and pacifism are the most effective ways of winning these rights, according to Jay A. Miller, execu tive director of the Illinois Division, American Civil Liberties Union, who spoke at the Speak-Easy March 8, in McCormick Lounge. The former Cleveland Press reporter and business agent for Amalgamated Clothing of America, put the ACLU in the context of the right to personal dissent against government laws. Challenge Intellect Miller pointed out that the na tion has awakened from the Mc- Carthyism of the 1950's when students were encouraged to avoid any real intellectual thought and to keep your nose clean. Attaining a degree for financial benefit was the specific trend, he expounded. Civil rights issues of the 1960's challenged the minds of thousands, and poverty conditions awakened groups to action, he said. Pope John was most influential in opening up thoughtful considera tion of others, Miller explained. As he went to the people, he spread the quality of letting loose love, Miller added. Another person who the speaker credited was President Kennedy. Miller said, Ideas were dealt with, not avoided, when the Peace Corps was begun. Students are closer to truth now than later in their lives. They are less encumbered by financial pres sures and prejudices, Miller con tinued. Honest thought and atmosphere should be encouraged. Students must now recognize and support such thought against fear, later, the speaker contended. In reference to the most current atmosphere of thought, Miller said, Anytime there is a war situation, the society can't tolerate civil liber ties to as great a degree as during peacetime. However, he explained his or ganization's motives in defending the Viet Nam protesters. The ACLU defends not only the Com munists on the right, but the Nazis on the left. If you don't defend your enemies' civil liberties, next time yours might be lost. We don't Skyscraper Photo by Nancy Vandenberg Jay A. Miller judge the motives of the person, only inherent rights, Miller said. He added, We feel a citizen has an obligation to obey the law, yet protest and disobedience are com pletely different. The organization will defend a conscientious objector to an unjust war because he uses moral con- Hear Communist Speak-Easy, March 29, will fea ture Lou Diskin, a declared mem ber of the American Communist Party. science as a reason for not partici pating in the war, he explained. Miller went on to say that burn ing a draft card is a protest in free speech only. It in no way im pairs the draft board from induct ing the protester. Although the ACLU has been sanctioned by Presidents Eisen hower, Kennedy and Johnson, it is frequently called a communist front, the speaker said. When questioned on this Miller said, No one likes a dissenter when he is in the way of a program, thus, we periodically become unpopular. The ACLU operates around one staff attorney and 200 contributing lawyers who volunteer services for an average of one case a year. Approximately 300 to 400 of the 5,000 Illinois members are active as court investigators, legal re searchers and recruiters. The or ganization's cases are brought to their attention by a victim, a news paper notice or a case they search out to point up a specific problem, the speaker explained. Question Raid When questioned concerning the Feb. 25 raid on the University of Illinois students at Champaign, Miller said that the investigation and searching was done without arresting and without a search war rant. Because of these methods, any charges against the students are invalid. A unique personal dedication to pacifism was brought up later when the speaker said, The real means for social change is non-violence. Democracy is one of the best places to sow love. In reference to Viet Nam and war, Miller proposed an army of unarmed volunteers go to the Asian front to offer pacifist resistance. Citing Ghandi, Miller explained that the power of love is the strong est weapon. As a close friend of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference all of Miller's be liefs follow the organization's philosophy and its deep respect for basic human rights. Postpone Show The date for the Chicago pre miere of Trouble with Angels has been changed from April 14 to April 23. No time has been set for the evening performance as yet. weaknesses in basic academic skills and to establish college as a realis tic goal for the student. Scheduled for 13 months, the program will be divided into two segments: a summer session and a follow-up plan during the 1966-67 school year. From June 29 to Aug. 20, the summer phase would feature en richment and remedial classes to gether with a College-Life pro gram. Part of the enrichment program, Widening Horizons would center about five field trips designed to introduce the student to the basic components of a college curricu lum. Areas included are education and psychology, social science, science and mathematics, business and home economics and journalism and advertising. Complementing Widening Hori zons, the arts program would offer projects in art, drama-music or clothing. A related arts apprecia tion course also may be organized. Comprising the remedial aspect of Upward Bound would be class- work in math and English and clini cal and/or tutoring assistance in reading, speech, mathematics and foreign language. To organize tutoring assistance, centers for each subject will be set up, each staffed by college student assis tants and a supervisory instructor. Rounding out the summer ses sion, a College-Life program would offer on-campus housing to partici pants. In addition to a physical fitness program, informal group discussions, cultural events and so cial activities would be sponsored. As planned, the summer session would offer job opportunities to 15 college students or recent gradu ates, preferably Mundelein resident students and secondary education minors. Responsibilities would in clude residing in apartments with participants, conducting group ses sions in the College-Life program, tutoring remedial and/or clinical programs and assisting instructors in clerical work. Applicants, inter ested in working with the girls, must be recommended by faculty for specific positions. Following the summer program a follow-up plan would extend through the 1966-67 academic year. Every Saturday morning, Upward Bound students would attend two classes followed by a counseling/ library period. Participants and their high school moderators also would be invited to attend the lan guage department-sponsored for eign film series. In addition, one weekend each term, students would be guests of Mundelein seven-day residents. At the high school level, clubs would be organized to main tain a group identity. After the initial grant period for Upward Bound ends May 31, 1967, the college would remain in contact with participating schools. In some cases, students may return for a second summer session.
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1966-03-16 (1)
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Student newspaper for Mundelein College
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