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Page Four THE SKYSCRAPER Oct. 23,1963 St udcrapinad Dr. Bokhari Describes UN Policy; 'Help Countries Help Themselves' Oh, Epimetheus, why did I ever open that silly box? : Our name sake had her little box of troubles and we had barely made our jour nalistic debut when we received ours, in the body of three little words: I feel safe. We read with interest and concern Dr. Barta's letter, in which he wondered if anyone else was wondering, whether the student body in gen eral found Mundelein a cozy place, and whether it was Really True that we were using the college as a handy retreat from that social phenome non known as man. We would like to thank Dr. Barta for his interest (it makes us happy that somebody reads us, even if they don't agree with us ), but we feel that he is grasping at straws to make us Think. As educators often will, in that little way they have, Dr. Barta is challenging us, putting us on the defensive, and we don't think, in this day and age, and especially in an institution like Mundelein, that this can be done. Our reasons are many and varied, and arrived at after much soul- searching, but they basically boil down to this: surely a college that is as involved in the world as we are cannot be called a retreat This is no isolated intellectual womb we have here, no ghetto of rarified knowl edge-seekers. This is a body of young women who are involved in their homes, in their communities, in their parishes, in their social lives and last, but not least, in the educations that they are vitally interested in obtaining. Perhaps this atmosphere of involvement in things away from school is not the ideal, academically for here, at a city college, we must wonder about a great many things that perhaps we would not wonder about if we could be tucked away in our own educational incubators and left to learn for four years. We are happy with the atmosphere, and glad to be at least getting our feet wet in this icy pool called The World. And, in a way, Dr. Barta, we do not have time, really, to wonder about feeling safe here. We are too busy wondering about other things that we find appalling in our world. We wonder, for example, about the pressured press and censorship, and ineffectual leadership and corrup tion in government, and hypocrisy among some Catholics in regard to race relations and business ethics. We wonder about a society that con demns college mores in every major national magazine, and goes right on pushing the age of adolescence down to the seven and eight-year-olds. We wonder about education versus busy-work, and knowledge for the masses, and the increasing breakdown and suicide rates among out con temporaries. We have so many things to wonder about, as a matter of fact, sir, that it is very possible that we have even stopped wondering about The Bomb But that is not to infer, by any count, that we feel safe So now, we fold up our portable soapbox and silently steal away. Pandora The opportunity for countries to talk across frontiers . . . that's one of the advantages of the United Nations, according to Dr. Rahat Bokhari. Speaking in McCormick Lounge Oct. 9, the UN representative from Pakistan explained the organization's role in aiding developing countries. Presently a liaison officer with the UN Assistance Board, Dr. Bokhari was a member of the UN team which supervised the plebiscite in Togoland to determine the views of the population toward independ ence. He also served on the Tech nical Assistance Board in Sudan and in Saudi Arabia and Kuwait. With this background, Dr. Bok hari has a keen interest in UN ef forts to help underprivileged coun tries win their battle against poverty, disease and the threat of war. Dr. Bokhari pointed out that to day 1.3 billion people inhabit under developed countries. Primitive conditions force them to live in mud huts, produce food with out-dated tools and plow and replow soil which has long ago lost its fer tility. These conditions cannot be allevi ated by merely blunting the wea pons of war for their causes are deep and intimate, he maintained. Most of these situations are caused by lack of knowledge and technical know-how. The people of developing coun tries are not indifferent to progress, however. They possess a deep de sire to improve their nation cultur ally, socially and economically. This hunger, this belief in edu cation, is more real than anyone who has not seen it can imagine, Dr. Kokhari said. To exemplify the need for edu cation, the representative cited tropical Africa where 7 million children are without educational opportunities and approximately 80 per cent of the adults are illit erate. The non-availability of Project, Congress Top NSA Plans Delegates Attend Convention Three Mundelein students will attend the Illinois-Wisconsin re gional meeting of the NSA at the University of Chicago Nov. 8 and 9. This year Mundelein will be en titled to three votes at the con vention, to be used by Gerry Mc- Guire, NSA coordinator, Joann Caracci and Margie Fields. Jill Schmidt will also attend the meet ing as an alternate delegate. The agenda will include: regis tration in Ida Noyes Hall Friday, followed by the plenary session in the Cloister Club of Ida Noyes with the reading of proposed constitu tional amendments and a film about the SNCC voter registration r B J, la r w re project, speakers and discussions. Conferences on Saturday will concern civil rights, the interna tional campus and student pro grams. On Saturday evening the plenary session will feature the voting of constitutional amend ments, legislation and other busi ness brought up at the meeting. Students interested in attending the meeting are urged to contact Gerry McGuire as soon as possible. Q?2 W it T3 H S A ROARING TWENTIES PROHIBITION PROMENADE will be sponsored by The Young Adults Club of St. Andrews' Catholic Church November 8 8:30 to 12:30 at Antoine's Hall 3616 N. Lincoln Ave. Tickets 2 All of college age and over are welcome Tutoring Service Reactivates Aims The NSA recently announced the reactivation of the Sigma Tau Sigma tutoring project to aid Mundelein students in need of aca demic assistance. Sigma Tau Sigma is composed of students who volunteer one or two hours per week to tutor with the stipulation that the volunteer have an A or B average in the subject she tutors. Tutoring will be offered in the science and math departments and others, if needed. Because Sigma Tau Sigma is not designed as a crash program for final exams there will be no tutor ing the two weeks preceding ex ams. Both tutors and interested stu dents may register in the SAC of fice, Room 718. Names will be matched according to subject and participants will be contacted. Coordinators of the project are Gerry McGuire and Jill Schmidt. Expect To Teach? Seniors, juniors and second-semes ter sophomores who are planning to teach may apply to the education department Nov. 4-8. Registration blanks will be available in 503. A grade point average of 1.5 is re quired. teachers presents a major ob stacle in supplying proper educa tional facilities for the lands. Dr. Bokhari stressed the longing of the people to gain advantages enjoyed by other nations. The people want schools, medi cal care and a chance to earn a de cent living. They want these things now. They are impatient. A solution has to be found before the situation gets out of hand and disrupts the peace of the world. Recognizing this need, in 1954 the UN launched programs to help the countries help themselves. Each of the member nations (111) as well as countries not in the UN and those who need assistance, con tribute funds for technical experts, equipment and fellowships. The UN Technical Assistance Board and the UN Special Fund Commit tee use these donations to develop health, agriculture, research and manufacturing in nations which ap ply for assistance. Experts in various fields help the countries in their develop mental process with the latest technical knowledge. Their aim is to train natives in the skills so they can carry on when the experts leave. When asked if it might not be more beneficial for the U.S. to con centrate on progress within the country, Dr. Bokhari replied that America will profit in the end. The development of the small countries' resources will boost U.S. economy by providing additional markets for U.S. products. A shopkeeper is happy when his customer be comes rich, he quipped. It's the beginning of a great adventure, said Dr. Bokhari refer ring to this UN assistance. It's a step in the right direction. It must be a co-operative effort in volving all nations, he asserted, for poverty anywhere is a danger to prosperity everywhere. U. S. Speech, Hearing Association To Initiate 12 Mundelein Students Twelve students of the Munde lein speech correction department have been selected for enrollment as associate members in the Ameri can Speech and Hearing Associa tion. The 12 are: seniors Darlene Mc Laughlin, Audrey Ouimot, Joanne Restivo, Mary Pat Therriault, Pat Appleby, Pat Wenskus, Pat McKay, Carol Sargent and juniors Maria Sweeney, Donna Adamitis, Judy Jones and Mary Poskozim. ASHA is a professional organi zation formed in 1925. In 1962 membership numbered 9,000. The association carries on a pro gram of public relations to inter pret the profession of speech and hearing therapy to the public, to related professional groups and to prospective professional workers. The code of ethics of the ASHA has become an influential standard for professional conduct in the fields of speech and hearing therapy. The association also sets up re quirements, criteria and standards of certification. As new associate members the 12 Mundelein students will have the opportunity to attend the annual ASHA convention at the Sherman and LaSalle Hotels, Nov. 3-6. The convention and short lec tures and films that the associa tion provides will complement the students' work in the speech correc tion department. Festival Winner Pays For Fine Arts Society Rina Kary, freshman pianist, gave a recital for the Chicago Fine Arts Association at Roosevelt Uni versity Oct. 20 by special invita tion. Mr. Alex Dumas, vice president of the association, based his selec tion on Rina's performance in the 1963 Chicagoland Music Festival in which she received the award in piano. The program included Bach's Prelude and Fugue in C Minor, the first movement of Beethoven's Sonata No. 8 in C Minor (Pathe- tique), Felix Mendelssohn's The Rondo Capriccioso, Polonaise in A (military) by Chopin and Gersh win's Prelude No. I. A four-year music scholarship winner, Rina is a student of Sister Mary Eliza, B.V.M. Skyscraper Photo by Rae Paul ART EXHIBIT MEDALS are awarded to Cathy Matejovsky, Barbara Glaser and Judy De Jan by Sister Mary Ann Ida, B.V.M., president, and Sister Blanche Marie, B.V.M., art department chairman... The exhibit, Di mensions '63 was displayed this summer in the St. Benet Bookstore.
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