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Page Two THE SKYSCRAPER February 21,1962 Equality in Chicago Is City's Final End In recent weeks, Chicagoans have found out that the issue of civil rights is not confined to such re mote, far away or other places as South Africa, Mississippi, or Wash ington's intellectual clubs. For the longest time Chicago has held the inglorious title as one of the most segregated cities north of the Mason-Dixon line, but never before in present city history have so many incidents asserting civil rights and brotherhood exploded with such chain-reaction force. Students, aided by CORE, demon strated at the University of Chicago to bring to the fore what they termed and university officials denied as dis crimination in university housing. The young demonstrators staged sit- downs in the offices of President Beadle and real estate agents involved in the issue. Negro citizens launched an all-out attack on segregation in Chicago public schools. Groups such as the Temporary Woodlawn Organization, and parent-teacher associations gath ered in mass meetings and aired their views on the subject. To find a solution to their problems, the contingents in both cases sat in typical American style to discuss their differences. However, as often hap pens in such situations, no conclusions were drawn. Students at the Univer sity of Chicago were threatened with suspension and arrest if they did not discontinue their demonstrations, while school board members and Ne gro representatives tried to out talk and out shout each other in their at tempt to prove their respective points. The issue is left unanswered and without adequate solution. True, both sides attempted negotiation, but the basic truth that negotiation is useless without compromise was lost. The school commission feels that trailer schools may be a solution to double- shifts, but pai-ents contend that these schools-on-wheels filled with children of only one race achieve nothing. Whither segregation? No one really seems to know. Everyone is certain that, like spring, integration will come the question remains as to when and how. This week is National Brotherhood Week. As Chicagoans emerge from the long storm of civil rights, they should be able to grasp with unpre cedented comprehension this slogan: Brotherhood support, believe, live it. And the words of comic Dick Greg ory reflect more than a laugh. If you want to be my friend, invite me to your house when it isn't Brother hood Week. Sheila Smith '63 -Jhe Kuscraper Vol. XXXII Feb. 21, 1962 No. 7 Ail-American All-Catholic The Skuxcrapcr 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 as second-class matter, Nov. 30. 1932, at the U.S. Post Office. Chicago. III., under the act of March 3. 1897. Trte Twisr PHocwix Catholic Press Progress Is Its Most Important Factor The free press has become as hackneyed and controversial a term as federal aid. One editorialist maintains that The press is legally free to print what it wants, and yet we are nearly drowning in a sea of homogenized journalism. The argument follows the reasoning that the pressure of time and threat of competi tion have sent editors on a Little Black Sambo chase from which they emerge with a compromising and diluted interpretation of the day's news. Is the Catholic press, as an organ of news Want Student Mass? Realistic Inquiry May Give Solution to Problem Despite angry cries as well as earn est pleas, no one so far has success fully answered the problem of daily Mass at Mundelein. Before further opinions are voiced, let's examine the unpleasant facts. First of all, only 36 attended the Mass Feb. 12 and a meager 54 were present at the one before that. The Mass dedicating the new altar before Christmas saw roughly 15 partici pants. This is not to imply that a large attendance will decide the matter but rather infers that the need of daily Mass has not been evidenced in the past. Secondly, neither Sister Mary Ann Ida nor Sister Mary Assisium were approached with the last letter or pe tition signed by 450 students. While definitely in favor of the move, both reveal the difficulties of obtaining a priest as well as the prob lem of financially reinbursing him. Perhaps a committee could be formulated to investigate student opinion on the matter instead of com plicating the situation with hasty pe titions passed during class sessions. Meanwhile, some might consider the idea of starting afternoon classes five minutes later in order to facili tate the schedule of girls attending Loyola's Mass. Before the problem receives any more consideration, however, it would be wise to study more realisti cally the facts at hand, before launch ing any further campaigns or making hasty judgments. Barbara Brzezinski '63 Soundina Board Dear Editor, Having a more than average interest in Mundelein College, I frequently receive cop ies of the Skyscraper. Several letters on the back page of the Jan. 17 issue caused me to write. These letters were concerning the new dance called the Twist. It is called a ridiculous, asinine, senseless and purposeless dance. However I can re member not so many years back when the above letter writers did a ridiculous, asi nine, senseless and purposeless dance called Rock and Roll. Today very many mature adults enjoy dancing to Rock and Roll. I happen to be of the philosophy evil he who evil thinks. If the Twist consisted of various different contortions I might think twice about doing it. However, all I have ever seen is a rotation of the hips, moving the arms and sliding the feet back and forth. This is repeated over and over. However, since the Twist requires no per sonal contact it can be practiced in private. May I therefore suggest that those desiring to Twist practice first so that they will not look purely ridiculous. In closing may I add that the entire Bri gade of Midshipmen backs the girls of Mun delein who enjoy Twisting. Sincerely, Richard A. Gibson Mid'n USNA, Annapolis, Md. Dear Editor: It seems that our 1,500 present has caused quite a commotion in the smoker. What caused this great hue and cry but a silly dance otherwise known as the Twist. The problem lies in the fact that some of our students consider the dance to be adolescent and suggestive. Actually, to most of us, the Twist is no more than an amusing way to release energy after a hard day in class. We feel that the whole situation has been greatly blown out of proportion. Why not let the twisters Twist, the smoker smoke and the bridge players play ? 22 signatures Dear Editor: As we read your column in the Jan. 17 issue, we came across the oft quoted quote girls go to Mundelein for a husband. In our opinion this is really a distortion. Most of us aren't capable of putting much effort into snatching a husband at 9 on Monday morning plus the fact that there aren't any men here to snatch. We have come to Mundelein for a Catho lic education and we resent anyone imply ing that we are spending all this time, money and effort to find a husband. 15 Sophomores Dear Editor, I am sure that many were duly impressed by the interest of 450 students in the need for Mass in our daily living. This is a com mendable and most apostolic attitude. My question is, Is it a sincere attitude? Just from the evidence presented by the attend ance at the Jan. 18 noon Mass for Church Unity, I would say not. The chapel, which seats approximately 90, had many vacant pews that day. Granted that a certain percentage of the students and of the 450 have class at that time, just one-fourth of the 450 would have filled the chapel to over capacity. If we truly want a daily Mass, our actions are going to have to speak louder than our words before action is taken by those in au thority. Let's support the monthly Masses, and perhaps our sincerity will merit us, at least, a weekly Mass. Pat Orloski '63 Dear Editor: How abominable; how disgusting The few people who attended the noon Mass on Monday, Feb. 12, know what I mean. Out of the hundreds of girls at Mundelein, less than 25 were at the Mass. Where were the 450 people who signed the petition for a daily Mass ? And, out of the few people at Mass, why did only six (at most) sing the Offertory hymn? Granted: some girls were working on the high school open house pro gram, some were attending class at noon. But what happened to everybody else? If the attendance at the few Masses we do have is going to be so miserable, we don't deserve to have a daily Mass. Before we have a daily Mass we have to have a reason for it. What do you think? Sincerely, Catherine Frenzel '64 and views suffering from the same homog enizing process ? Has it grown up or down in recent years and where is it heading at the moment? Following World War II a number of edu cated and talented journalists who happened to be Catholics became the custodians of the sleeping giant the Catholic press. Top notch writers like Dan Herr, Donald McDonald, John Cogley and John LaFarge, S.J. were responsible for effecting a gradual transformation from 'edifying' to tightly written professional publications. Presently the Catholic press has topped the 27 million mark in circulation and has expanded its subject areas to meet the chal lenges of world slant on labor, Communism, birth control, UN stability and beatnik phi losophy. Catholic newspapers and periodicals as instruments of the free press do not exist without criticism, however. A lack of depth, a failure to establish the relation between religion and the world, or the rummage sale appearance of some Catholic newspapers is the censure of the scholarly, while the less learned subway reader may give up after a paragraph of liturgical mumble jumble. A valid point. But can't two things be true? Maybe it's all this talk about ecumenism (and undoubtedly most of the talk is printed) that moves the laity to do some hard, cold praying for the Church's most pressing needs. Maybe it's a boldface paragraph on an encyclical that alerts a college student to the carry-over of her theology class to her responsibility to every individual she en counters. A critical review of Broadway's Man of Seasons could cause a reader to reflect on the grit of St. Thomas More and come to the almost unwitting realization that there can be no apostolate without involvement. The idea of Catholic publications is not to put ditto marks under papal statements, but to develop original thinking on today's com plexities in line with the mind of Christ. The Catholic press is a long way from becoming an homogenized product of the free press. Catholic editors are at their best not when they're screaming at the pub lic to bless themselves but when they are interpreting the world's news and the life of the Church with an eye to the reader's growth in knowledge and charity. Sister Mary St. Alan, B.V.M. '63 Theatre, Exhibits Head Month's Attractions - Culture and Fun THEATER Advise and Consent The dramatized ver sion of Allen Drury's best-selling novel, with Farley Granger and Chester Morris. Nightly, 8:30. Blackstone, 60 E. Balbo. Bye Bye Birdie Michael Stewart, Lee Adams and Charles Strouse's musical comedy with Elaine Dunne, Bill Hayes and Joan Blondell. Nightly, 8:30. Erlanger, 127 N. Clark. Do Re Mi The new musical comedy with Phil Silvers and Nancy Walker. Nightly, 8:30. McVickers Theater, 25 W. Madison. Hedda Gabler Henrik Ibsen's drama in a Goodman Theater Production. Feb. 23- March 13. Nightly, 7:30. The Sound of Music Rogers and Hammer- stein's musical with Florence Henderson, Jack Cillins and Lynn Brinker. Nightly, 8:30. Shubert, 22 W. Monroe. ART EXHIBITS Art Institute of Chicago Chinese Art Treasures from Formosa; paintings, cal ligraphy, jades, porcelains, enamels, bronzes. Feb. 16-April 1. EXPOSITIONS Chicago Automobile Show Fifth annual show sponsored by the Chicago Automo bile Trade Association, displaying 20- million dollars worth of new cars and trucks. Feb. 17-25. McCormick Place. CONCERTS Boston Pops Tour Orchestra Arthur Fielder, conductor. Saturday, Feb. 24 at 8:30. Opera House, 20 N. Wacker.
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1962-02-21 (2)
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