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Page Two THE SKYSCRAPER June 1,1966 IHE siisnifti Generate Stability Deny Mandate fll MIL uMIIUUIIIIILIi will grip current ituet and events and -- J hold them before the campus in order that members of the Mundelein community may sense and direct history rather than bob in its wake. New Policy Aims At Development Outlining a new sophisticated approach to American foreign policy, Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara proposed last month that all young Americans serve two years in the Armed Forces, the Peace Corps or some other developmental project at home or abroad. To date the implementation of McNamara's proposal remains un- clarified by the Administration, while Congressional reaction has largely appeared noncommittal. What is significant, however, is McNamara's call for a reorientation of foreign policy toward developing nations. Inconsistent and often mili taristic in the past, policy is now geared to building bridges from the great society to create, in President Johnson's words, a world community of interest, trust and effort. McNamara's contribution rests in the relation of this goal to national security: U.S. security directly depends upon the stability we can generate in other nations through economic, political and social development, aided by a dedicated community of youth rather than exclusive military activity. Military force can help provide law and order, which in turn is a shield behind which the cen tral fact of security development can be achieved. As develop ment progresses, resistance to violence also increases. Minus the official sanction of the Administration, the defense secre tary's comments generated puzzlement not because they presented a radi cal departure from traditional foreign policy, but because the number two man seemed to echo what his critics have been saying all along. During his speech to the American Society of Newspaper Editors, Mc Namara emphasized that the U.S. has no mandate to police the world ... we have no charter to rescue floundering regimes who have brought violence upon themselves by delib erately refusing to meet the legitimate expectations of their citizenry. Nevertheless, McNamara's somewhat paradoxical comments in view of military commitments in Viet Nam raised no clamor from the Administration. Silence prevailed mainly because the White House could find nothing to disagree with. McNamara's proposal, by no means a protest against present policy in Viet Nam, is in essence a preventive measure. Only by fostering development in emerging coun tries can another Viet Nam be averted. While stressing development, McNamara advocated no further insight into the Asian war and by no means did he propose economic development as a panacea for existing military conflicts. Today in the political realm it is often difficult to satisfy both friend and foe. Yet, McNamara seems to have accomplished this. At the same time, his clarification of the new trend in foreign policy, while clothed in brilliant political diplomacy, is significant because it points to the peacekeeping patterns of the future. 'Youth Shall Be Glad/ Release Hope in Song Youth, that darling-demon-lamb experience, reaches its greatest complexity and perplexity in college where young people are expected to hang suspended between high school and adulthood. It is an abstract world where scholarship, character, leadership and service, the NHS doxology, is stressed to develop the men and women of tomorrow. At the same time, the parent generation both expects and subtly encourages the goldfish swallowing antics which echo their raccoon-coat days and swell with fulfillment as college athletes entertain them on coast-to-coast television. The leaders of tomorrow: the play things of today. Today's college youth will not, cannot be stuffed into this fishbowl world; but the glass is thick and the mouth narrow. The effort to escape the inflicted double standard of responsible irresponsibility often leads to the unexpected. Protests, demonstrations, marijuana and beer, sex, long hair and a wild periphery of clothes, music, actions, are all one at tempt to touch the reality of life, to escape the nether-world sensation. It is easy to believe, with Barry MacGuire, that We're on the Eve of Destruction. There are times when Mr. Tambourine Man invites a walk through the jingle jangle morning without regard for propriety or conformity. Exhaltation of the individual now rings out in The Times They Are a' Changing while concern for the breakdown in personal contact and communication is lamented with FxoltS poetic force in Sounds of Silence. And, there are the ballads, haunting in their Individuol poignant plea for love, love me not tomorrow but today. But, there persists the dominant cry of doubt and uncertainty, of parting and loneliness and I can't help but wonderin' where I'm bound. A song is the credo and a guitar the tool by which youth attempts to express the confetti moods which beset them. .Music is reality, it is the guarantee that they will not get sucked down in the quick sand trap of abstraction. For, You shall above all things be glad and young. For if you're young whatever life you wear, it will become you and if you're glad whatever's living will yourself become. Sounding Board I read the account of the Off Campus Living debate in the Sky scraper (May 18), and I'm not sure anyone is interested in my opinion, but I have one. I feel that higher education should be for adults and if college- age people in our society aren't ready for the responsibilities, pos sibilities, risks, failures, choices and challenges of adulthood, then perhaps we should adopt McNa mara's proposal that every young American spend at least two years in service to humanity (VISTA, Peace Corps, etc), before he or she enters college. Frankly, in my McNamara's Folly Encourage Antics The Transformation three years contact with Mundelein students, I have been appalled by the dependent attitudes of most of you. Any woman who isn't ma ture enough to freely choose and be responsible for her living ac commodations isn't mature enough to evaluate the educational expe riences that are offered her. She can only be brainwashed. This is not meant to be a blan ket indictment against campus ac commodations. Some of us thrive on community life. But the ex pressed maternal attitude on the part of the administration that they must protect all you innocent little hings from the big bad world (Edgewater and Rogers Park), is just plain ridiculous. It is one thing for the adminis tration to become involved when a student feels that her attendance at a particular instituion is threat ened by her inability to find a safe, secure living institution, and quite another for the College to tell her where she must live. Dixie A. McCleary Division of Continuing Education Since I arranged the distribution of time for the upper division classes in biology, it seems incum bent upon me to explain it. For some years, most upper-division classes have been three-hour classes, two laboratory periods and one lecture period per week being the usual plan. The minimum class time allotted under the semester system was 250 minutes. Only re arrangement of subject matter was required when the new program was adopted. I had planned the semester work on the basis of 15 weeks of classes; the 3x3 was planned on the basis of ten weeks of classes, or 375 minutes as the minimum or scheduled time. In some cases, when the method is de scriptive, as in microbiology or in plant morphology, the work can be done in five 75-minute periods daily class meetings within one time-slot. Work with enzymes, or with complicated equipment is im practical in that time, and two 150- minute laboratory periods, and one 75-minute lecture period per week are arranged. This left the custo mary few minutes to pick up the pieces. The genetics class was planned for two lectures and one laboratory period, hence the 300- minute allowance. The microbiology class was planned for 375 minutes in the first term but a conflict in rooms and times required a re vision. A consultation of the out line will reveal that one full unit of work was omitted. Strangely, no student has complained of being short-changed It is disappointing to realize that majors in science do not ap preciate the meaning of science, or of scientific method. One way in which the fine arts and the sciences differ from the humanities is that each in its own way deals with the physical world, that world which is determined by measure or by count. If one reads about such things in her own room, or listens to a teacher tell about them, she is not studying art or science, or preparing to be an artist or a sci entist. She must practice the art; she must examine the material. Now it is obvious that she cannot acquire all of her knowledge this way, but the more she can acquire by actual experience, the better artist or scientist she will be. Do you really want to be second-rate? A lecturer is able to keep the management of a class entirely in his own hands the 150-minute per week three-credit course under the semester plan; the 200-minute per week course under the 3x3 plan is based upon this assumption. When the conduct of a class passes in part into the hands of the stu dents, as it does in a discussion, or entirely into their hands, as it does in a laboratory, the time required to achieve the objectives of that class becomes partially or com pletely unpredictable. We desired to offer you freedom of expression with your teachers and your class mates hence the open-ended class periods. In addition, when one is working with living material, Murphy's Laws and the Harvard Law become terrible realities the material may be intractable. Students may not prepare for the laboratory; they may be clumsy in manipulating apparatus; they may even drag their feet. Therefore, it is impossible to plan an exercise that all students will be able to fin ish at the same time. An efficient and prepared student may be able to finish in less than the minimum time. Is not she then free to leave ? You are asking for the privilege of living without supervision and without regulations of any sort. Does not that social conscience of which you speak, your study of ex istential literature and philosophy, and finally your scientific knowl edge of the interdependence of na ture, from the stars to the amoeba, tell you that this is only relatively possible ? You are asking of a col lege what the whole world cannot give. We offer you, in opportuni ties for discussion and experiment in class, what a college owes its students the opportunity to test the knowledge they have ac quired, the principles they have formed, against the knowledge and principles of fine academic minds, as well as against those of their peers. If you do not care for the ideas and principles of your teach ers, or if you want them only pas sively transmitted to you, you should not have come to college; you should have stayed in the cof fee shops. I grieve that you ap pear to repudiate our efforts. Sister Mary Cecilia, B.V.M. I am often amazed and impressed by the wide scope of interests manifest by the editors and report ers of the Skyscraper. I wonder however what policy dictates the placement of the stories. Could Jeff Greenfield be correct in stating (in the May issue of Harper's that: For the student-editor 'type' the college paper is an effective way of getting a minority point of view across to a large number of peo ple. That the paper would esteem so cial issues as newsworthy as aca demic achievement I find laudable; but that it would give priority space to minority causes like off- campus housing and drinking regu lations while it relegates to a back page news brief the winning of NDEA scholarships by four juniors in a nation-wide competition this I find difficult to square with a sincere respect for the intellec tual. It suggests rather a noisy Miss Okra clamoring to be heard, with the editors waving the pom poms. If this is not true (and it may very well be simply a case of last- minute lack of space) may I be per mitted a few lines of the Sounding Board to congratulate most heart ily, in the name of the College, the four winners: Andrea Ciccone, Adrienne Bailey, Vivianne Swanson and Kathy White for their achieve ments? Sister Mary Elsa, B.V.M. We would like to extend our con gratulations to our fellow publica tion, the Review, on an excellent issue. It was both artistically at tractive and of comprehensive lit erary content: an outstanding tribute to the staff, the contributors and the entire student body. The Skyscraper Staff 5L St. u scraper Vol. XXXVI June 1, 1966 No. 16 Newspaper of Distinction The Skyscraper is published semi-monthly, October to June inclusive except during exam and vacation periods, by the students of Mundelein College, 6S6S Sheridan Bd.. Chicago. Ill-, 60626. .Subscription rate Is S2 per year. Entered as second-class matter Nov. 30, 1932, at the U.S. Post Office. Chieag-o, 111.. under the act of March 3. 1897. The Skyscraper is a member of the Catholic School Press Association. letters to the editor must be signed. The Skyscraper reserves the right to cut lstts-ra in case of limited space. Co-Editors Jean Durall, Diane Sargol Photgographer Nancy Vandenberg Cartoonist . , , Mary Fran Campbell Staff Caryl Jean Cinelll. Pat Caapar. Patti Devlne, Brenda Dinneen, Marilyn Gibbs, Jennifer Joyce, Ann Katt, S. M. Kevin. C.S.S.F.. Lynn McKeever. Mary McMorrow, Mariellen O'Brien. Kathy Riley. Mary beth Wagner, Cindy Jelinek, Aldine Favaro, Mary Beth Mundt
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