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Page Two - The SKYSCRAPER - March 8, 1968 Question justice as party dumps Adlai Adlai E. Stevenson III has been dumped by the Democratic slatemakers as a candidate for the U.S. Senate. Stevenson was eliminated because of his reservations concerning President John son's Viet Nam policy. In his place, the Democrats slated the present Attorney General, William B. Clark, who immediately issued a statement expressing his support for Johnson's handling of the Viet Nam war. In November, Clark will oppose Republi can Senator Everett Dirksen, one of Johnson's chief allies on the Viet Nam issue. Whereas His Honor the Mayor equates strength with unity, Stevenson realistically recognizes that the source of strength lies in debate. By choosing to ignore Stevenson, the slate-makers have chosen to avoid debate. Smugly satisfied, they have cheated the Illinois voter. In their bid for unity, for a team who will carry the banner of Lyndon B. Johnson, the Democrats have presented to the voters a slate of yes men. Is not this decision perhaps just another indication that His Honor and his slatemakers are the political powerhouse in Illinois, and that the politicians in Springfield are only his puppets on a string? Radio station sends high-power signals Art thou lonely, 0 my brother? Share thy little with another Stretch a hand to one unfriended And thy loneliness is ended. William Arthur Dunkerley Although the advantage of having Loyola University as a next-door neighbor is sometimes hard to see, it shouldn't in the future be hard to hear. The Loyola-Mundelein Radio Station offers the two institutions the chance to prove that they can communi cate on the same frequency, 600 on the radio dial. Also, a co-operative radio station enables both campuses to keep self and thine informed. Day time lectures could be broadcast at night for those students who are unable to attend live performances. But most important, the radio station offers the two student bodies the opportunity to express their opinions through programming and editorial comment. In the age of Telstar, Loyola and Mundelein invade the air waves on a high-power line of progressiveness and co-operation. Report denounces great white society Influential members of white society are not often prone to blame that society for the ills of black men in the ghetto. Yet this is what President Johnson's National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders did when it released its report last week. With amazing candor, the report charged that white society is deeply implicated in the ghetto. White institutions created it, white institutions maintain it, and white society condones it. The report listed an impressive array of programs to aid the Negro's climb out of the ghetto, including 2 million new jobs, 600,000 more homes, a guaranteed annual income and school desegregation. Many of the commission's proposals have been recommended in the past. The fact that they are again sug gested, strongly underscores the failure to implement them in the past. No one on the commission has ventured to estimate the total cost of the programs, since they all cannot be enacted simultan eously. Although budget-conscious taxpayers seem eager to know how much the effort will cost them, a commission member, Sen ator Fred Harris (D-Okla.) wisely maintains that the central issue in ghetto improvement is, not money, but the national will. If Americans are determined enough, the dollars will come rolling in. Many of the commission's recommendations require mini mum funds: a national open housing law; better police conduct; and equal justice in the lower courts. Probably the least costly, but most important improvement, is a change in the basic atti tude of many whites toward Negroes. Unconscious white racism must be brought to light and replaced with a recognition of the Negro as a person. As Detroit's Mayor James Cavanaugh learned from his riot- torn city last summer, what before was a matter of principle, must now be a matter of enlightened self-interest. White society must either take immediate action to alleviate the underlying causes of Negro frustration, or face another summer of riots and violence in urban ghettos. Plug in, tune in, be in In my opinion (EDITOR'S NOTE: The au thor of this guest column is a junior English major. Last year she was the sophomore representative to the M.S.C.) by BETH PFORDRESHER Often you hear blaring from the radio What the world needs now is love sweet love and AH you need is love, love, love is all you need, or maybe you read 'the first of all my dreams was of a lover and his only love, strolling slowly (mind in mind) through some green mysterious land No matter whether it's Bea- tle song or Cumming's poetry the media of today is full of the word love. But I wonder if it is full of the meaning if in terse and concrete terms we people could define love as well as know it, experience it and more important act it. What appalls me more and more is the rise of what I call unlove or impersonal love a mouthy, hollow love that echoes only self-interest, and irresponsibility. It does not extend, open or even at tempt to relate and understand other people, ideas and things. How can one say that he loves another if he cannot ex tend himself to forgive the oth er, if he closes his mind to the other's needs and desires. We love our fellow men verbally but in reality, in action, the love is sugary and superficial, it has no roots, there is no active love. I admire more the person that admits prejudice and shows it than he who denies prejudice and yet has no active love toward the people con cerned. Most prevalent today is the selfish citizen who looks out only for himself and his destiny, ignoring everyone else. What I want to say is that love is sacrifice, love is giving it won't ever satisfy me to just carry on love relation ships that succeed because they are easy. The only way to know love ls to sorrow in it, to become involved in it. Love Is not a closed box, it is not a dropping out; to me it Is an extension of one's very being. Jean Paul Sartre sees love as a giving up of absolute free dom. I feel rather that love in creases freedom, for in love man makes a choice. From this choice to love man gains a purpose, a confirmation of self, for he has someone to care for, someone to acknowledge him as a complete person. His lover confirms his actions and hopes in his goals. We must remember that love is not an end, it is only a be ginning. Love has no limit so we must not create one for it. Sounding Board Bunny Business Blasted Playboy has long been as sociated in my mind with an unhealthy philosophy as re gards sex; a philosophy which regards woman as a mere sexual plaything for man. I have regarded it as a magazine which well-adjusted Christian men and women do not read. Now I see Playboy covers prominently displayed in this Catholic college. Is Mundelein advocating that we patronize this magazine? Is this public ity an implicit approval of Playboy? Is this art neces sary here? Please explain why Playboy is thus advertisied here at Mundelein. Vera Milenkovlch Dear Senator Percy: Less than two weeks ago, we met with yon in Washington as members of the Illinois dele gation of The Clergy Con cerned About Vietnam. At that time, you assured us that you did not support the Adminis tration's policy on the war, that you wanted the end of es calation and bombing, and that you would work for the goal of peace with all speed and sincerity. How is it then that under the Chicago Tribune's Feb. 12, 1968 headline, U.S. MOVED TOO SLOW IN VIET, NOW PAYS OFF, DIRKSEN SAVS, you are quoted as endorsing Senator Dirksen for Republican presi dential candidate? Even under the guise of good pontics, doesn't this seem contradic tory? We ask you this especial ly in view of the fact that Im mediately under your endorse ment, the Tribune carried a story on Dirksen quoting Us conviction that President John son made a mistake long ago when we didn't send General Westmoreland the troops he needed. Since the student body here at Mundelein College has been concerned with where their senators stand on the Viet Nam war and since we related to them the impression you chose to give in Washing ton, we have not felt it out of place to run this letter of ours to you in our school paper. We win be most grateful for any explanation of your seemingly contradictory position and will be happy to print it as well. Constance Chobanian Sr. Mary Jo McIIhon Sr. Prudence Moylan Sr. Donna Merwlck Vol. XXXVm March 8 No. 15 The Skyscraper is published weekly, October to May inclusive except durinq exam and vacation periods, by the students of Mundelein College. 6363 N. Sheridan Rood. Chicago, HI. 60626. Opinions expressed are those of the Skyscraper staff. Second-class postage paid at Chicago. Illinois. Entered as second-class matter Nov. 30. 1932 at the U.S. Post Office. Ch cogo. II... under the act of March 3. 1897. Editor - Kathleen Flynn News Editor . Janet Sass Feature Editor Mary Beth Mundt Business Manager ..... . Theresa Ebenhoe Photographer Marianne Fusilio Cartoonists Rita Raible, Cathleen Harrington Editorial Board: Mary Kate Cooney. Kathleen Flynn, S. Eileen Jack, Jennifer Joyce, Mary McMorrow, Mary Beth Mundt, Kathy Riley, Janet Sass. Staff: Kathy Cummins. Mary Cooney, Pat Devine. Aldine Favaro, Alice Johnson, Sheila McCarthy, Mary McMorrow, Sally Nakoi, Peggy Sieben. Reporters: Karen Appelt, Rosemary Beales, Zoe Hillenmeyer. Alex Jajowka. Rose McKiernan, Vera Milenkovich, Mary Nachtsheim, Mary Ann Novak, Sharon Pelletier, Carol Ries, Linda Sullivan.
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