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Page Two SKYSCRAPER To The Haves ... When We But Praise What October is to baseball, what March is to the government's budget that's what May is to 715 local collegians. Despite the maze of unrelenting activity, Mundelein students always manage to set aside enough time this month to practice their nostalgia, prognosti cate about the future, and give laurels to their leaders. Every year organizations and institutions are met with the problem of establishing a standard of excellence, and every year they must necessarily resort to the age- old determining factors externals and results. So on the basis of these two qualifications we give honor . . . For Scholastic Achievement ... for the hours of post-midnight study ... for the many lost week-ends . for the initiative to meet a challenge. For Service ... for an unfailing attendance at every thing from Euripedes to the Shanghai Shuffle ... for the familiar signature on volunteer lists, and generally under the least desirable heading ... for the ability to say yes and mean it. For leadership . . . for allowing one's locker to become a clearing house for all note-writers ... for the ability to add a new crisis to life each day and overcome it . . . for the patience to soothe the offended and spark the indifferent. To the academic and activities honor winners we extend our symbols of honor and our high hopes for con tinued success. vS O To The Have Nots . Crowns Were Reserved Common sense is not so common and often is no even sensible. The person who possesses it can evaluate properly; the one who doesn't cannot. Often the award given here and now is more highl prized than the type of award only Cod can present- eternal happiness. In a materialistic world exists the danger of such an improper sense of values. An Honors convocation will cite the extraordinary but can never replace the supernatural Elementaryrj Of course But, be it a regret for wasted hours or art anxiety to improve in those to come, an unrest often settles on students who almost made honors. Let them remember that even the slightest effort toward perfection is recorded A in the heavenly ledger. So, if a pin, a key, or a special citation are not your lot next Tuesday, and you can honestly say you have done your best, just keep in mind that without suchjj evaluation, without the common-sense faculty you have ' just exercised, all material awards are just pins, keys, J and bits of paper. Actually each girl present at the Honors assembly will wear and proudly so three of the very highest f awards possible; a soul rich in an abiding faith; aiP intellect enlightened by a college education, and a heartv warm with the comradeship of fellow students. Holdn them high and guard them well. , h Summer Recreation Includes Puppet Opera, New Movie, Lecture Most of us remember the 1947 fire' which destroyed the Kungsholm restau rant with its noted puppet shows. Now the shows are ready for presentation again in a new miniature opera house recently completed by Fredrik Chramer. Adjacent to the restaurant, the new building, which has-a seating capacity of 208, presents its recorded operas eight times each week. The puppets number 1700, and Mr. Chramer hopes to include 20 operas in his repertoire. * * * Titled My Son John, a new film is a powerful expose of Communist influences on America's campuses, told in a lively, humorous manner. It is the story of a typi cal working American family of three sons with interest centered in the oldest, John. Robert Walker, in his last role, plays the brilliant young man led away from his Catholic faith and God and ultimately to a betrayal of his country as a member of the Communist party. Helen Hayes and Dean Jagger play the parents of the boy, both tragically unaware of the fatal influence of secular philoso phy on their son. The film is being savagely attacked by many critics who take Mr. McCarey to task for centering the plot in a Catholic family, claiming that this is open propa ganda for the Church. Mr. McCarey simply states that the plot called for the Catholic family. The down fall of Son John begins where secular ed ucation led him away from God and then from country. Extension magazine says that the pic ture is so staggeringly true and irresist ibly human, it will enrage the Commun ists and their pink friends among the crit ics. Extension, it seems, has been right. In a* recent column, George Sokolsky scores the critics for their bitter denunciation of the 'film's sound Americanism. * * * In the midst of crucial national and lo cal strikes the John A. Ryan forum offers an interesting and well selected discussion, May 20 at 8 p.m. in the Morrison hotel. Roger L. Putnam, administrator of the Economic Stabilization agency, will join with Joseph A. Beirne, president of the CIO Communication Workers of Ameri ca, in attempting to solve a pertinent prob lem: Bridging The Gap Between Labor And Management. What Goes On . ITS ONE OF THOSE SUDDENLY TYPICAL AFTERNOONS IN THE high seventies when yesterday and tomor row are thrown into temporary oblivion and most of the world lends a ready ear to the famous Rhomberg refrain, Oh love is so sweet in the Springtime. BUT FOR THOSE MANY MUNDE LEIN PEOPLE WHO HAVE SIGNED their lives away on one end-of-the-year project or another, the only bit of nostal gia is the theme song of long-past ballet time , rush, rush, rush rush, rush, rush. These people never bother to draw themselves into the magazine-type por trait of the universal Maytime spirit. THE COLORFUL PREMIERE OF SPRING BLOSSOMS IS ONLY AN- other object in the path of a disdained flight for punctuality. Even the ultra- carefree student, suddenly faced with the correct time and the consequences of her day-dreaming, loses all semblance of the esthetic and looks frantically for an ac complice, late-coming being, of course, easier in twos or threes. CREW MEMBERS, PUBLICISTS AND AUDITORS DISPOSING OF THE last remnants of the musical seem un tainted by the brilliance, the anxiety, and the excitement of the evenings which have gone before. With souls unhampered by the perman ent thrill of theatrical success, they are concerned with the quickest means of dis patching their obligations. Don't look for the stars in their eyes the geometric fi gures in vogue this morning are circles. PROM COMMITTEE MEMBERS, APPARENTLY UNMINDFUL OF THE glamour and romance of a June night in the country, are impatiently reminding their classmates of the neatly posted vol unteer list beseeching personnel to man the bid booth. There is a sigh from one trapped victim and a reassurance that even after nine months these ingenious organizers have not drained their re sources of intimidation. THE END OF STUDENT TEACH ING HAS NOT SILENCED THE CLAT- ter of heels. Dress-up days are on the up-swing, and future employees of the temporary and permanent variety are as suming impression-type wearing apparel for the benefit of many a personnel man ager. Let the current periodicals rave about the desire of a woman to meet each new season in terms of beautiful clothes; these practical-minded skyscraper ladies are proof positive that necessity is the mother of high fashion. THIS BUSINESS-LIKE ATTITUDE IS NIPPING THE GAY MAY-POLE- ing spirit in the bud. Club officers put ting together the pieces of their last and formal meeting of the year seem more concerned about the people needed to fill next year's offices than the gaiety of their final function. Social chairmen and their enslaved as sociates are less aware of the inviting beaches, and the grassy lanes of coming picnics, than they are of the frightening differencial jbetween tjhe class financial balance and the risk f hiring a bus. And so the list goes . . . TIME FOR A WINTER CHANGE OVER? FOR A FRESH OUTLOOK, you say? It's strange, but there's a fas-, cination about the last-minute rush of ac tivity a lift as well as a letdown. It's the end. We're straining for the finish mark. But it is fun. As for the change over we'll take ours about June 4, thank you Jhe huscraper Entered as Second Class Matter Nov. 30, 1932, at the Post Office of Chicago, Illinois under the Act of March 3, 1879, 1.75 per year. Published semi-monthly from October to May inclusive by the students of Mundelein College, 6363 Sheridan Road, Chicago 40. Vol. XXII May 12, 1952 No. 13 Co-Editors Barbara Heintz, Mary Jane Lamb Student View Arlene Gorgol, Donna Merwick Cornerstones Peggy Reidy, Marion Whelan SAC Speaks Up Patricia McHugh Clare Hillyard Divertissements Helen Stewart, Barbara Bidwell Skyscrapings Rosemary Burns, Barbara Shaughnessy, Irene Johnson, Jane Roach, Sybil Lillie Art Doris Kuhlmann Sports Gloria Valentine Reporters Marjorie Duffy, Catherine Lamb, Audre McCarthy, Cathryn Snell, Vivian Spitali, Norine Ryan, Mary Schweitzer, Maureen Kenny, Mary Lou Rohlfing, Peggy Winslow, Ruth McHugh, Phyllis Wockner, Jean Tennes, Patricia King, Patricia O'Brien Circulatiqn r. Lucille Boldt, Mary Fellegi, Shirley Geiser, Mary Beth Hemmer, Lola Hill C( te in w Ci Restless Cubans Stir New Crisis In State Department Americans are like the man who third ?. there is only one way to skin a cat. Ot enthusiasm for democracy often wells ovi and floats into what should be objectit ' evaluations. Twentieth century citizen 1 of the United States find it difficult to btw' lieve that all countries are not ready foB1' or suited to, democracy. The universal appeal of the freedom ideal, US style, was again questioned 1 3 March as Fulgencio Batista's coup d'etLo replaced Cuba's corrupt democracy wiiPa a new dictatorship. Bn This was Batista's second trip throufei the gates of Camp Columbia, leading Hfhe vana army base, and up the road to lea E ership. In 1933 the Strong Man relievfo j President Machado's gangster governmajnl; while his 1952 return threw out Priaho decadent democracy. T Cuba's democracy was born in 1944,mt season of unlimited equality. Its sevay year life was marked by graft and govenene ment-created rules. With such a recohg it is hardly surprising that the CubatO'J quietly accepted Batista and renouncjjit, Prio and his pragmatic democrats. lc j Americans, anxiously watching the dipt matic reign of the Argentinian Pen att' grow uneasy as they see a dictatorsliarj overshadow the tropical isle off the Fl(jusj ida coast. Is another Piatt agreemenyvc establishing the right of the US to intf t , fere in Cuban affairs the answer to t ejr islander's problems? We must not forget, however, that (lane ocracy is not an all-ill-curing tonic tight can be administered to a resisting patitf Perhaps it hasn't been given a fair tn gt; but this is up to the Cuban not the Ai es ican. The US can set the stage; she can gf/,*. aid and advice, but only the Latin Am ican can play the part. *on tra Week Moments .. ss V rligl lidei al j he ie t May 12, 13, 14, Water Carnival May 15, Sodality Day May 16, Warden Ragen Lecture May 18, Economics Symposium, Blands. Baitoo Piano Recital I am May 19, Home Economics Symposiumt ai May 20, College Day, Honors Convocatinas May 22, Ascension Thursday, No Cla rge May 23, Marilyn Egan, Carolyn Kilketana Recital May 23-29, Semester Examinations rnsi
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