Unrest-A Sign of Life
SPOKANE, Wash. — (NC) — Unrest on Cath
olic college campuses will increase in the next
few years but this will lead to a healthier concept
of religion, an official.of Gonzaga University told
members of the Spokane Serra Club.
William J. McLoughlin, newly appointed di
rector of student activities at Gonzaga, said that
unrest is not necessarily unhealthy.
“On the contrary,” McLoughlin said, “I be
lieve that unrest shows an awareness and a via
bility and will produce a much more significant
product of a more effective educational system.”
“A generation ago we frequently disagreed
with some aspects of the Church but it was un
thinkable to speak out. We were, with few excep
tions, a docile generation, good products of the
system but less honest then we might often have
wished.”
McLoughlin said this is not true of the present
generation. More and more they are speaking out.
Indoctrination vs. Education
SEATTLE, Wash. — (NC) — Dr. Mortimer J.
Adler, director of the Institute for Philosophical Re
search in Chicago and associate editor of the En
cyclopedia Britiannica’s Great Books of the Western
World, gave the keynote address at Seattle Uni
versity’s fourth annual faculty conference, held
here Sept. 16. . .
The eminent philosopher, educator and scholar
spoke on “The Role of Dialectic in a Catholic Lib
eral Education.” . . „
“The student must be given a rounded picture
of the controversies that have taken place on funda
mental themes,” Dr. Adler said. “He must be dis
ciplined dialectically in the method of using his
mind to explore issues and weigh all sides before
he comes to the point of making a judgment on im
portant questions.” . , , .
“Anything less than this amounts to indoctri
nation in some degree, which is the very opposite of
liberal education,” he declared.
Aim: Intellectual Formation
Not Sanctification
CHESTNUT HILL, Mass. —
(NC) — In an age of unparalleled
speed of change in education “the
level of education which has re
cently undergone and will con
tinue to undergo the most dra
matic, even convulsive, change is
higher education,” declared Fa
ther Michael P. Walsh, S.J., pres
ident of Boston College, to the
faculty at the formal opening of
the academic year (Sept. 16).
The raison d’etre of the Cath
jolic college or university is not
| identical or coterminous with that
They reject authoritarianism, want
authority based on reason and
question what appears irrelevant.
The biggest single thing he found
among college students today is
v the demand to be heard and to
be allowed to participate in de
cisions affecting them. In the past
the student was often denied rudi
mentary rights, found in civil due
process of law. In the long run,
there is a healthier approach to
Christianity and is one founded on
love rather than on law. What
adults must be prepared to do is to
listen and perhaps be prepared
to learn with them.”
Private Colleges Cost Double
CLEVELAND — (NC) — The cost of attending
private colleges or universities in Ohio is more than
twice that of publicly supported institutions. A sur
vey conducted by the Cleveland Plain Dealer found
that average tuition at private colleges will be
$1,206 this year, compared to $448 at state supported
schools.
Catholic institutions have been able to keep
tuition lower than the average private college or
university because many of the faculty members are
members of religious communities who receive low
salaries, it was reported.
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DALLAS — (RNS) — Southern Methodist Uni
versity is making available the chapel of its Perkins
School of Theology for the celebration of Mass for
Catholic students every Sunday at 9:30 a.m.
It is believed to be the first time Mass has been
conducted regularly on the university campus. Pre
viously Catholic students could attend Mass at the
Newman Center, located in property rented by the
Catholic student organization from the university.
But when SMU needed the building occupied
by the Newman Center for dormitory space, the di
rector of the center, Father Joseph W. Drew, was
provided with office space in the Student Union
Building. SMU facilities will be used for meetings
and other activities of the Catholic students.
Father Edward Siegman,
C.PP.S. of Notre Dame University
(left) is the new president of the
Catholic Biblical Association. The
former editor of the Catholic Bib
lical Quarterly was elected at the
annual meeting held in New Or
leans. The noted and influential
Biblical scholar holds a degree
from the Biblicum in Rome and
was a Professor at Catholic Uni
versity for many years.
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“It’s really a better arrange
ment,” Father Drew commented.
He explained that at the Union
“we are at the center of things and
able to contribute more to the
goals of the university.” He said
that attendance at Mass has
doubled since services began in
the theology school chapel.
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ALLENTOWN, Pa. — (NC) —
A Roman Catholic priest and a
Lutheran minister launched a
joint weekly service at Muhlen
berg College here.
Father James E. Sweeney of the
Cathedral of St. Catherine of Siena
here and the Rev. Dr. David H.
Bremer, chaplain at the Lutheran
affiliated college, will conduct the
service, described as the first of
its kind in the nation.
Father Sweeney, advisor to the
Newman Club, reported that the
service consists of- about 15 min
utes of prayers for unity, based
on the Chair of Unity Octave
booklet, followed by a short dis
cussion period. Th^ plan arose
from conversations between the
two clergymen, and was approved
by Bishop Joseph M. McShea of
Allentown, and Erling N. Jensen,
president of the college.
Father
of the Catholic Church
Walsh asserted.
“The direct purpose of
Catholic university as regards it*
students, therefore, is the civilhi
tion of intelligence, whereas the
direct purpose of the sponsoring
Church is the sanctification of ife
members,” he said. He added that
failure to make these distinctions
causes confusion in the operation
of Catholic institutions of higher
learning and in the evaluation of
their effectiveness.
Father Walsh said that moral
and spiritual formation have an
important part in the total educa
tion process, but cited Cardinal
Newman’s insistence that the pri
mary purpose of a university is
intellectual formation. “As New
man clearly stated, our business is
to lead men to knowledge, not
directly to forge men into apos
tles or saints,” he declared.
He urged Catholic universities to
prove that commitment and free
inquiry can prosper together, and
said that the Catholic university
offers the most promising setting
“for the viable interpenetration of
the sacred and the secular.”
Christians Unite
CHICAGO — (RNS) - Miss
Charlotte Bunch of Washington,
D.C., a 21-year-old Duke Univer
sity graduate, was elected here as
the first president of the newly
formed University Christian
Movement (UCM).
A Methodist, sh‘ was named to
a one-year term as the top elec
tive officer of the UCM, which for
the first time brings together
Protestant, Anglican, Orthodox
and Roman Catholic campus or
ganizations. Students, meeting for
the first time as the “University
Christian Movement,” listed mil
itary conscription as a current
major issue on campuses and
launched ?. detailed study of selec
tive service questions.
All issues involved in the draft,
the assembly said, “confront us
as Christians with serious moral
and theological questions which
we must attempt to answer and
then act upon if we are to be
responsible.”
Among other actions, the UCM
passed a resolution deploring what
it called the “brutal interference”
with universities of Argentina by
the new regime of Lt. Gen. Juan
Carlos Ongania.
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