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Nobel Series Probes Man Vol. XXXVII Mundelein College, Chicago 26, 111., Jan. 18,1967 Faculty Exchange Welcomes Art Instructor to Mundelein As the result of a unique faculty exchange program, Dean Schwarz of the Luther College art depart ment, Decorah, Iowa, is teaching two ceramics classes here for three weeks. Concurrently, Sister Blanche Marie Gallagher, art department chairman, is teaching painting at Luther. The exchange was conducted through the auspices of the Cen tral States College Association, to which both Mundelein and Luther belong. Designed to combine the advantages of a larger university with those of a small liberal arts community, CSCA consists of 12 Midwest church-related liberal arts colleges cooperating in calendar, curriculum, faculty and student exchanges. A graduate of State College of Iowa where he received his B.A. and M.A. degrees, Schwarz will conduct a three-hour ceramics course in the art studio, 1032 W. Sheridan. Upon her return, Sister Blanche Marie will teach the class for the remainder of the term. Mr. Schwarz also will teach a non-credit three-week ceramics ses sion, open to all students. A specialist in pottery, Mr. Schwarz has had his work accepted for showing in the Sales Gallery at the Rochester Art Center and the Minneapolis Art Institute. His work is on display through Jan. 27 on Gallery 8 in conjunction with jewelry by Lillian Kalan, a High land Park artist, and tapestries by Jay and Bill Hinz, design graduates of the Chicago Art Institute. Skyscraper Photo by Jennifer Joyce IT SOMETIMES takes ten years to make a good pot, Dean Schwarz tells Pat Bolino, Sister Kathleen Young, Mary Fran Campbell and Mary Hopkins, members of the three-week non-credit ceramics course. Last summer Mr. Schwarz stud ied pottery with Marguerite Wil- denhain of Guerneville, Calif., the only living pottery master from the Bauhaus School in Germany. Influenced by the Bauhaus School, Mr. Schwarz applies the philosophy and techniques of Western man in his work. Like technology, the Western aesthetic equates beauty with flawlessness, while to the Eastern mind, imperfections de termine a work of art, by making it unique and beautiful. Currently displaying 35 paint ings at Luther, Sister Blanche Ma rie is conducting classes in begin ning and advanced painting to gether with a series of lectures on Hindu and Buddhist art. by Kayellen (Editor's Note: As a member of the Central States College Asso ciation, Mundelein audited a series of Nobel Conference lectures on the humbn mind sent via amplified telephone from Gustavus Adolphus College, St. Peter, Minn. Follow ing is a report on two of the six lectures.) The perplexing question, What Begin New Counseling Approach A novel approach to freshman counseling will begin Jan. 24 with the first of a series of informative programs given by each major de partment, announced Susan Graefe, assistant academic dean, in a re cent Skyscraper interview. Each department will structure its meetings individually, using guest speakers, discussions or any desired form. All of the counseling programs, however, will give facts on the qualities which the depart ment seeks in its candidates and the requirements for a degree in the department, as well as a de scription of the major courses and special career opportunities within each area of study. The meetings are designed to enable freshmen to obtain a broad view of a major field based on facts so that the mistake of falling into a department is prevented, according to Miss Graefe. Fresh men need this additional guidance since many students enroll in courses in a major field before making formal application to a de partment at the end of sophomore year, she explained. Freshmen are invited to attend one of the programs at the 3:10 time slot, Jan. 24, in either drama, history, home economics, mathe matics or German. Other depart mental meetings are scheduled for Jan. 31, Feb. 4 and 21. Dr. Bradley Calls Dogmatic Arguments Mumps, Measles of Modern Church by Diane I.ally Stan Dale opened the first Speak-Easy of the new term, Jan. 10, with a wish for bigger and better audiences in the future. About 30 students and faculty members came to hear Dr. Preston Bradley, pastor of the People's Church of Chicago and a leader in liberal American Protestantism. a gsarf. ' ' . i , ii 3 : m The Speak-Easy guest for Jan. 24 will be the Polish Con sul General of Chicago, Adolph Kita. Starting with this ses sion, the new 3:16 meeting time will go into effect. Dr. Bradley thanked the students for giving him the opportunity to talk with them, explaining, My generation is tremendously chal lenged by your generation, the un dergraduate generation. He hoped for a dialogue between the audi ence, which had youth and enthu siasm to offer, and himself, who could speak from years of life ex perience. Youth knows what's the matter with the world and everything in it, he said. They don't know what they don't know. Ecumenism was a major topic of Dr. Bradley's talk. He explained that his parents were Irish Catho lics and he had become a Protestant because the Catholic Church was too far away. He would not have been invited to Mundelein, he said, but for the spirit of John XXIII whom he called a saint of friend liness, warmth and great under standing. Whatever else Christianity is, it is universal, he declared. It can only survive by recapturing the warmth and vitality of the univer sal. Dogmatic arguments he re jected as divisive factors, the mumps and measles of Chris tianity, which can only hinder the Church in her mission of promot ing truth, beauty and love. Communism as a philosophy he saw as hopeless. Force is ita only gospel, the liberal pastor said. There is no permanent victory for evil. After stating his abhor- ence of war, Dr. Bradley predicted that Hanoi will never negotiate as long as she sees a possibility of victory. The U.S. must press on in Viet Nam and at the same time avoid war with China. China, he pre dicted, will soon undergo a bloody civil war, perhaps leading to the return of Chiang Kai-shek. He declined to discuss Christ in terms of the Trinity, but he said that, while each man is divine, Christ has ultimate divineness . . . (He is) God-intoxicated. He explained that the humanist's concept of values is God-centered even if he doesn't realize it. The apparent loosening of morals in to day's world, said Dr. Bradley, is the result of a more generous and forgiving attitude toward sinners. Death he compared to passing through a door. When questioned about the new theology he told the audience, It's man that's dead, not God . . . God without man is helpless and man without God is hopeless, but God and man together can build the kingdom. Skyscraper Photo by Aldine Favaro DR. PRESTON BRADLEY and Lynn Nutter hold a post Speak- Easy discussion on ecumenism. Hartman is supremely human, seemed to keynote the controversy that echoed through McCormick Lounge, Jan. 11 and 12. The main issue that concerned the philosophy and theology lec tures was the threat of a possible scientific dominion over man. Dr. Huston Smith, professor of phi losophy at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, intensified the issue of Human vs. Artificial Intelli gence by stating that the reliance of the digital computer in process ing and retrieving knowledge far outweighed the limited capacity of man. If the machine is the su preme reasoning agent, Dr. Smith asked, what is supremely human? Dr. Smith proceeded to analyze the inherent inferiorities of the mechanical brain in an effort to evaluate the distinct potential of man's future vocation. In the areas of chess playing and language translation, science has tried to de velop a machine to alleviate the human agent. Scientist H. A. Si- monson predicted that the world's chess champion would be a ma chine, but at last count the ma chine lost to a 10-year-old chess novice. The failure lies within the na ture of the machine; Dr. Smith said, In chess it is possible to make an astronomical number of moves, 10 to the 100th to the 20th power. Why then should a 10- year-old beat a superior reasoning agent? Man's intuitive thinking process is the main point missing in the mechanical language translator which makes the native speaker lord over the machine, Dr. Smith said. The computer cannot account for human error or understand slight nuances of visual, audible or syntactical differences he said, yet the human being perceives all of these. In his lecture on Christian Hu manism and the Human Mind, Dr. James M. Gustafsen, chairman of the department of religious stud ies at Yale University, explained the advances that have been made in neuro-biology through techniques which control or change the human brain. Dr. Gustafsen said that man's duty lies in controlling the achievements of science by the plu ralism of political power, education and personal interests. The Christian atheist qualified man's humanity by describing the primal life necessities motivating him, Dr. Gustafsen reflected. He correlated freedom, trust, love and hope, the four uniquely human at tributes, to the statement made by Dr. Smith that machines are de void of nobility and emotions. They have neither the emotion to experience nor the nobility to act creatively on it, he asserted. The theologian maintained that man must have the assurance of freedom through boards established to control scientific achievement. After obtaining this freedom man must build a love relationship that reaches beyond the biological need to the metaphysical sphere of trust and fidelity, he continued. Finally, he stated, man should hope in the future by realizing that his inher ent nobility inclines him toward good rather than evil. Dr. Gustafsen explained that scientists are working for the bet terment of man with the knowl edge that their achievements are a continuation of creation.
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1967-01-18 (1)
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