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Page Two THE SKYSCRAPER March 21, 1962 Bomb the Ban Nuclear Testing Is Answer The Eves Have It Woman's Peeving Persists Even Eve complained of an over powering taste for fresh fruit. And from her we have inherited an un limited capacity for finding fault. The enrollment of Mundelein stu dents majoring in the department of peeves has been soaring since Septem ber, with top scholars pulling perfect A's. No men ... we never see men around here. We'll die old maids. These girls have never heard of Notre Dame and St. Joe trips, or even Loy ola mixers. Mundelein's Sophomore Coke Dance of Feb. 18 was honored by the attendance of less than one- third of the class. There are those who object to the Skyscraper's semimonthly appear ance. Why can't we have a weekly paper . . . like DePaul or Marquette? A locker room conference Jan. 19 produced exactly one volunteer to write a letter to the editor which has not yet been written. How will anyone who can't write one letter con tribute a sufficient amount of news for a weekly paper? Those who complain and do nothing to change the conditions they detest are bigger problems than the condi tions themselves. Nothing can be ac complished if there is no one to bring about the accomplishment. Dk. Si j Scraper pi Vol. XXXII March 21. 1962 No. 9 All-American All-Catholic The Skyscraper is published semi-monthly, October to May inclusive, except during vacations and semes ter examinations by the students of Mundelein College. 6363 Sheridan Rd.. Chicago 40. III. Subscrip tion rales are 2 per year. Entered aa second-class matter, Nov. 30, 1932. at the U.S. Post Office. Chicago. III., under the act of March 3, 1897. The SkyKcrajicr is a member of the Associated Collegiate Press and the Catholic School Press As sociation. Editor in Chief Joanne Twomey Managing Editor Virginia Piecuch News Editor Barbara Brzezinski Assistant Dianne Arturi Editorial Editor Sheila Smith Assistant Maxine Tymft Feature Editor Mary Jo Murray Assistant Pat Krochmal Club Editor Charlaine Novotny Sports Editor Judy Kiolbassa Artist Pete Picture Editor - Rae Paul Advertising Manager Phyllis Luczak Assistant Eileen Schaefer Staff Assistants Eileen Raczak, Janice Jearas. Maureen Racine. Mary Ann Eiler, Marcia Wiet. Kathy Sweeney. Maureen Morrisroe, Sister Mary Fabian. B.V.M., Kathleen Fardy, Mary Lu Franz- man, Mary Etta Talarico. Marie Ferrara. Mary Lou Cheop, Sister Mary St. Alan. B.V.M.. Dorothy Car ton. Louise Nunziato. Monica Zoch, Pat Porwicz. Molly Palen, Dolores Halper. Carlotta Serritella. Cleopatra didn't sit on the Nile complaining that she never saw An thony around. Why not put your gripes into constructive criticism as a member of a social committee? If Addison and Steele waited for someone else to tattle the town news, Marshall Field, Jr. would have to be content with department store chains. Skyscraper followers will have to be satisfied with semimonthly issues un til gripers are willing to dedicate written, not spoken, news to the cause. As our mothers' daughters we have a tendency to pick apples afflicted with worms or snakes as the case may be and then stand around moaning for some Adam to do some thing about them. Exterminate the objects of your complaints so those gripes can die with them. Pat Krochmal Recently college students from various parts of the country demon strated before the White House carry ing signs such as Ban the Bomb and Stop Nuclear Tests. Firmly believ ing that by banning the bomb and stopping nuclear testing, world peace will be achieved, the collegians walked for hours in the Washington drizzle. This same kind of moral deterrent was applied by the American people from 1945 to 1949 when the United States possessed a nuclear monopoly. Then as now, ban the bomb meant ban immorality in warfare and bring peace. Because of this moral restraint in the United States against using the bomb, the Soviet Union was able to seize much of Eastern Europe with no danger of nuclear opposition from the West. Since the Soviets acquired nuclear power in 1949, they have steadily in creased their striking power. With the information obtained from their resumed atmospheric testing last fall, the Russians may be able to wrench nuclear superiority from the United States. It was therefore by necessity that President Kennedy announced re sumption of tests on Johnston and Christmas Islands in April. Without this decision, the Soviet Union, believing in their superior power and ability to win a nuclear war, might have been tempted to use the bombs. With the ultimate de cision, however, the deterrent value of the bomb has been preserved and with it the safety of the Western world. Ban the bomb in a vacuum ap pears as the solution. It is when the phrase is applied to the present world situation, that it becomes unrealistic. Virginia Piecuch Mundelein Congratulates Priest on Silver Jubilee When Christ said Go forth and teach all nations, He didn't mean that His Apostles and their succes sors had to search out all corners of the earth to find pagan tribes to bring to Christ. He also must have meant smaller, more local nations nations like Mundelein. Next week our small na tion will celebrate the Silver Anniver sary of our own apostle, Reverend William Clark. Father Clark is many things to Mundelein. He teaches theology and Christian Marriage with an eye to making his students aware of the vi tal movements in the Church. In one year students may hear guest speakers on the Liturgy, the Chris tian Family Movement and the Church's view on urban renewal. But above and beyond his classroom duties Father is spiritual adviser, confessor, bridge partner and friend to Munde lein students and alumnae. His loyalties and interest have gone beyond the school to the dances, where he insists he goes not as a chaperone but as a friend, to weddings and other Mundelein-related activities. The entire school congratulates Father Clark on his Silver Jubilee and hopes we will be able to cheer his 50th year as a servant of God. Joanne Twomey Students Rebel in Muriel Spark's Novel; Murder and Medea Scottish Marm Prods x creme de /a creme' nea( Theater Fare by Joanne Twomey 'The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie by Muriel Spark. J. B. Lippencott, 187 pages, 3.95. The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie de scribes in deceptively simple words the story of Miss Jean Brodie, an Edinburgh teacher of the 1930s, who describes herself as in my prime, and her Brodie group, six of her young pupils. This sounds simple and innocent but it is not. Miss Brodie's prime is actually the period in her life when her pride, immaturity and lack of moral sense have taken over her life and she attempts to assume control over the lives and thoughts of the young girls. Characters Have Depth Miss Sparks draws characters of amaz ing depth. Miss Brodie is a rather attrac tive woman who conducts unusual classes under the elms. She tells her pupils to hold up their history books in case anyone is watching while she tells them of her travels and the sights she has seen. She is filled with great enthusiasm about the marches of the Black Shirts in Italy and the re markable things Hitler does in Germany. She forms a league between herself and her selected group whom she insists are the creme de la creme. All others the school principal and the other teachers and pupils are on the outside looking in. Miss Brodie picks Sandy, Mary Eunice, Monica, Rose and Jenny when they are about 10 and guides their lives until they finally manage to escape her by pursuing private adult lives. Miss Brodie's prime finds her loving one man and having an affair with another. When she sees she cannot have the man she loves because he is married she encourages an affair between him and a hand picked member of her creme de la creme. She herself begins an affair with a mem ber of the school faculty, maintaining her hold over the girls by having them to his house for tea every Saturday afternoon. The incongruity and almost horror of the tale keep the reader glued to the book. The book first appeared as a short story in the New Yorker magazine as its brevity and clarity of style indicates. Meet Miss Sparks Muriel Sparks has been called one of the most distinguished novelists writing today. Among her other novels are The Ballad of Peckham Rye, The Comforters and The Bachelors. The fact that she is not well known on the campus scene at least among the students on this campus should be remedied quickly. This book would be a good place to begin a strong friendship. Sounding Board Dear Editors, While reading your last edition of The Skyscraper, I noticed the letters against the new fad-dance, the Twist, and the school rale prohibiting twisting until after 2 p.m. (The author then gives views of many students in the Denver area.) I think if you let things ride, everything will take care of itself. Sincerely, Bob Nelson '65 Regis College, Denver, Colo. THEATER The Old Vic Co., Romeo and Juliet, April 2-3, Saint Joan, April 4-5, Macbeth, April fi-7. Opera House, 2- 6. Murder in the Cathedral, T. S. Eliot. April 5, 6, 7, 8. University of Chicago Theater, 1.50, Thursday, Friday, Sunday. 2, Saturday. Judifh Anderson, single performance offer ing a condensed version of Robinson Jef- fers' Medea and sleepwalking scene from Macbeth, March 25, Studebaker. A Night with Gershwin. Skitch Henderson, Rhonda Fleming and Earl Wrightson, March 27 through April 1. Arie Crown Theater, McCormick Place, 2- 4. DANCE Robert Joffrey Ballet, Opera House, March 25, Sunday afternoon, 2- 5. MUSIC The Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra. Or chestra Hall, Sunday afternoon, April 1, 2- 5. MOVIES Face of the Soviet, film lecture, Orchestra Hall, Monday evening, March 26, l- 2.50. Austria In Color. Orchestra Hall, April 2, l- 2.50. ART Church Art. Loyola School Auditorium, 41 E. Pearson St., April 4. Right Reverend Monsignor Reynold Hillenbrand. SPECIAL EVENTS Etienne Gilson, The Origin and Meaning of Contemporary Scholasticism, Roosevelt University, today, 8 p.m., 1.
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1962-03-21 (2)
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