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Page Two - The SKYSCRAPER - January 11, 1968 HE SKVSCRflPER ft i)Hlfl)bl1lirti1 ' f P current issues and events * and hold them before the campus in order that members of the Mundelein community may sense and direct history rather than bob in its wake. In my opinion... Weekend sparks MSC Cooperation In light of the confusion experienced by the Munde lein Student Congress last term culminating in the ac cepted resignations of three executive board members and the Rules Committee chairman, the MSC sponsored a leadership conference last weekend. The aims of the weekend were to discuss the philosophy and function of student government, to encourage communication among its members and to urge co-operation among the MSC, Dorm Council and the Skyscraper. These objectives were not reached quickly but evolved from the gradual sharing of ideas and experi ences. Through this sharing, the student leaders achieved an unprecedented co-operative spirit. This spirit is con cretized by their joint investigation into matters con cerning student rights: the establishment of a much- needed faculty-student judiciary board, the advisability of introducing an administration-faculty-student commu nity government on campus and the possibility of trans forming the present library into a student center next year. We congratulate the MSC for refusing to be dom inated by past adverse experiences and criticisms, for re-evaluating their role of leadership and for making a new beginning. EDITORS NOTE: The pur pose of this column is to allow members of the college com munity an opportunity to voice their personal ctoiwic- tions on any topic. Manuscripts are welcome from students, faculty or ad ministration. Opinions ex pressed in this column will not necessarily be those of the Skyscraper staff, and we re serve the right to cut the copy for length. The author of the following column on Students for a Democratic Society, SDS, is a junior psychology major and a former member of the Aca demic Affairs Committee. by Ellen Gutenkauf Since September I have been consorting with the unkempt and unholy legions of the Left ists. I am a member of SDS. Point of information; SDS i Students for Democratic So ciety i is a student radical or ganization. It abhors the Viet Nam War. war in general and the present draft system. It supports civil rights, specifi cally the Black Power variety and works to Irradlcate many anachronistic academic con ventions. In toto. the organization aims at creating a truly demo cratic society with the motto Let the people decide. To this end members have burned draft cards, picketed napalm manufacturers and draft in duction centers, demonstrated for civil rights, student power ard academic freedom, worked in depressed neighbor hoods, marched on Washing ton, held sit-ins. teach-ins and about every other in that you may have read about. For this the straight world has accorded us a whole list of epithets which range from communistic, socialistic, qua- si-hippie. malcontent and un patriotic, to the kindest label that of unrealistic and vi sionary. In many instances In dividual SDS chapters have rightfully earned the names we've been called. And when the shoe fits we're forced to wear it. even if It pinches. Yet to merely write us off as weirdos, to assign us the role of social pariahs is too facile on your part. Perhaps, there are things about contem porary American society which you too can't accept. Then shun if you will our vi sion as being that of wild fa natics. Ultimately you may find yourself inert in your own frustration or reassimilated into a structure with which you're not comfortable. Will you then rationalize that it could be much worse, re jecting the possibility that you could help make it better? SDS desires to be catalystic not cataclysmic. There are those who would point to our tactics as hislronic. our at tempts as abortive, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing. At present we ex press a minority point of view, and to be heard we've become a vocal, often flamboyant mi nority. Still we feel that this Is an effective witness to the need for radical change and our right to express freely our dis satisfaction with the status quo. I eschew with your violent and irresponsible protest. However, this is not the genre of ail SDS chapters. The phi losophy and strategies of the movement are modified from campus to campus according to the needs, ingenuity, forti tude or discretion of the mem bership. An organized and articulate group is evolving at Loyola In conjunction with chapters on other Chicago campuses. This group not only engages in re sponsible protest and activi ties, such as legal draft-coun seling, but also is forming within itself a system for in- tra-chapter education on na tional political and social- is sues. It is in chapters like this that I find hope for the radi cal movement in the U.S. I write not to proselytize. There are those who agree with Leftism in principle, but fear the concomitant label. And in a society that finds a Communist lurking behind ev ery bush and tree, this is not a groundless fear. I would ask only that you examine openly the validity of our view. We aim to prick the national con science, indeed, with the faith that America still has one. Indian music craze rises in 'turned on' generation by Alex Jajowka The pale, glassy-eyed college student who plants herself beside the leudest speaker of a stereo to contemplate the mystical beauty of Indian music Shankar style secretly hopes to blow her mind. turn on. or simulate a trip, although in reality the most she can obtain from the experience is jangled nerves and a set of aching eardrums If she has no understanding of it beforehand. Lured to sitar Instrumentals by the smattering of Indian music used by popular rock and roll groups today, young Western audiences have con vinced themselves that it is in to be aesthetic, and al though no one quite under stands why. a new fad for a century-old sound has been implanted on campuses all over the country. Sitars and Gourds The steep rise in the Indian music craze is related chiefly to two other factors which are not necessarily connected yet widely pssociated with it: drugs and the new Beatles. The vibrating rhythm of In dian sound suggests a psyche delic and off-beat musical score and hippie musicians to those who are unacquainted with the concept behind the music. The ragas. thematic note groupings, usually con sist of a sitar. a guitar-like instrument with a teakwood neck, bristling with tuning pegs, twenty strings and dried gourds to amplify the sound: a tabla, the drum equivalent; and the tamboura. an Instru ment resembling a lute. A session, lasting two to six hours, is a highly religious ceremony, filled with much emotion. The instruments are difficult to understand and to play, requiring talent and in spiration from a performer and demanding a reasonable degree of maturity of the au dience itself. Many sensitive Indian artists have been deep ly offended by screaming mobs during or after a per formance, ar.d even greater misunderstanding has arisen when they are hailed by hip pies as heroes of the flower generation. Chords and Culture The enormous success of the Sgt. Pepper album, not so much to teen-agers as to the college segment, illustrates that the Beatles have brought a popular, sophisticated sound of Indian music to the West. The constantly flowing mu sic, the different combinations of rhythm, the unique chords and the attraction of an intrig uing culture have brought this type of music into the com mercial field. As ccllegs frds enter the rush for super-intellectual rec reation, very little should come as a surprise to those trying to keep up, even If, in a month from now. the Gregorian chant sky-rockets to the top of the record charts as it is discov ered that an organ can be made to sound exotic. Around Town Films: Camelot Bismark Cool Hand Luke Woods Dr. Doolittle Michael Todd Elvira Madigan The Playboy Gone With the Wind Cinestage The Graduate Carnegie How I Won the War Esquire A Man and a Woman Cinema Theater: Cactus Flower Blackstone Maine Shubert Man of LaMancha McVickers Vol. XXXVIII January 11. 1968 No. 9 The Skyscraper is published weekly. October lo May inclusive except darina exam ond vacation periods, bv the student* ol Mundelein College. 6363 N Sheridan Rood Chicago III 60626 Second class oostage paid at Chicago Illinois Member of The Chicago Area Student Press Association The United States Student Press Association The Catholic School Press Association i Newspaper of Distinction) Enured as second class matter Nov JO. 1932 at Ihe U.S. Post Office. Ch.caqo, III., under the ocl of March 3. 1897 Editor Kathleen Flvnn News Edlor Janet Sass Feature Editor Muiy Beth Mundt Bi'sincas M-inag,.. Thereso Ebenhoe Photographer Marianne Fus,il o Cartoonists Rita Raible. Cathleen Harrington Editorial Board, MafV Kale Cooney. Kathleen Flynn. Jennifer Joyce. Mary McMorrow. Mory Belh Mundt. Kathy Riley Janet Sass Staff Kathy Cummins. Mary Coonev. Pat Devine. Aldine Favaro. S. Eileen Jack. Alice Johnson. Sheila McCarthy. Mary McMorrow, Sally Nakai. Pegqv Sieben. Reporters: Karen Appelt, Zov Hillenmay. . Ale* Jniowkn. Rose McKiernan. Vera M'len. kovich. Mary Nachtsheun. Mary Ann Novak. Sharon Plllelier. Linda Sull'van.
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