Page Two THE PROSPECTOR Friday, May 24, 1963

THE P R O S P E C T O RVolume LVII Number 11

P ublished by and f or th e s tuden ts of C arro ll College, H elena, M ontana

Freedom Implies ResponsibilityRecently, several editors and m em bers of the newspaper

staff of a prom inent university have been rem oved from their positions because they called for the replacem ent of the president of the institution along w ith other radical changes in the adm inistration. The editors had decided tha t they didn’t like the “status quo” arrangem ent and that it would be best for the institution to have a different kind of adm in­istration. This was a great m isunderstanding of the function of the student editor. This is only one in a series of resigna­tions and suspensions of editors of college newspapers dur­ing this past school year. The problem seems to be tha t there is a lack of responsibility on the part of the student editor. In a sense he is biting the hand which feeds him! He has a responsibility to the school whose paper he has been priv­ileged to serve as editor, to the school from which he is re­ceiving the great gift of education.

This does not m ean tha t the student newspaper should not become involved in controversial subjects. On the con­trary , a college new spaper should reflect a living student body composed of differing viewpoints and opinions and the faculty should expect tha t sometimes these student opinions m ight be on the unpopular side of issues. This is the sign of a democratic system of education expressed through the freedom of the press. Nor should a new spaper reflect a never-was, “pie-in-the-sky” campus which is presented as overly-pleasing to the public eye consisting of a “perfect” student body. But there is no freedom w ithout the responsi­bility which lim its these privileges. Constructive criticism, when used not for the rem oval of or finding fau lt in the ad­m inistration under whose sponsorship the paper is published but ra ther for the betterm ent of the institution, can be tre ­m endously valuable. The solution requires the school ad­m inistrations to give their students real responsibility plus the freedom to fulfill this responsibility. But the position of editorship should not be bestowed on anyone until this re­sponsibility is realized and clearly understood. Only then can this privilege be adequately realized.

The Prospector, during the 1962-1963 school year has never violated this basic policy intentionally. If anyone has been offended in any way, he can rest assured th a t it was not directly intended. The Prospector staff has been striving to please everyone in every way possible. The staff firm ly believes tha t this has been a very successful year and is well- pleased w ith the response and enthusiasm w ith which the new spaper has been accepted by both the faculty and the stu­dents of Carroll. We hope to increase the frequency of pub­lication and expand the news coverage, and in all, present the Carroll students w ith a newspaper they can be proud to call their paper.—C.M.

Losers That Win the Race“Sometimes right, sometimes m istaken, sometimes con­

fused, but full of courage and vitality to the last—that is the finest tha t exists in the Am erican grain.” Life is a struggle, it always has been, it will always rem ain so, not just for someone, bu t for everyone. No m atter the apparent external happiness, you, me, and him, inside we struggle. It is not necessary to say tha t we fight for here; you’ve heard it often enough at Sunday Mass. There is actually no need to say how to fight either, because each person faces life in a dif­ferent way. But before I leave, I ’ve always w anted to say this about tha t struggle: The more this world becomes mechanized, the m ore men expect their fellow m an to be­come perfected. L ittle nowdays can you make m any m istakes and be thought of as a responsible person. But there’s some­thing wrong in that. M istakes are w hat make progress. Did you ever reflect sometime on the thought tha t due to the lim itless competition in this country, the m ajority of the people are losers? Only one out of a large num ber of con­testants wins the contest. The rem aining, perhaps due to mistakes, lose. But in essence they are no worse off; they are in fact richer.

To my fellow student in his daily life, w ith his buddy, his crowd, his fu tu re neighborhood society, form your be­liefs reasonably, and when there, don’t falter on them. No m atter w here you go, w hat you do, people are going to op­pose you. But "if you give in to them against your dictates, you are betraying yourself. Confusion? Yes. Mistakes? Yes. But out of it comes the finest. Let the perfect as it should be, left w ith God. If you falter, pick yourself up. And don’t forget tha t God’s help wasn’t m eant for the perfect—Christ died for sinners, not angels—K irw in W erner.

The New Carroll College Spurs(C ontinued from Page 1)

w ork and accom plishm ent in the organization.

This past week the Spurs re­ceived the good news that they will be honored with a visit from two of the officers of the National Spur Organization. The regional director, Miss Carol Skalsky, and the editor of “The Spur”, Miss Sonja Flatness, will arrive on cam­pus S a t u r d a y afternoon to meet the Spurs of Carroll Col­lege and to talk with the offi­cers, advisors, and the Dean of Women.

The S purs have kep t p ro fit­ably busy w ith activ ities th is year. The m ost recen t project, the S purk le Sale, m et w ith the success characteristic of the p re ­ceding activities. The fina l en ­gagem ent of the year being u n ­dertak en by the S purs w as to usher in the Com mons fo r the appearance of G overnor Tim Babcock, who spoke a t the r e ­quest of the Young Republicans.

The S purs w ish to th an k th e facu lty and s tuden t body for help ing to m ake th e ir f irs t year such a successful one.

Missionary Departure Ceremony Conducted tor 8 Carroll Students

D epartu re cerem onies for eigh t s tuden ts w ho w ill do lay m is­sionary w ork in the “Bible B elt” of A m erica th is com ing sum m er took place M onday evening, M ay 13, 1963, at C arro ll College. Most Rev. R aym ond G. H unthausen, Bishop of H elena, presided and p reached at the cerem onies in fro n t of St. C harles Hall. The m is­sionary d ep a rtu re service w as held in conjunction w ith May de-

FLASHBACK(Editor’s Note: This article

was taken from the July 27, 1945 issue of the Prospector. Dr. E. W. Neuman, in whose honor the Neuman Club was dedicated, was a very promi­nent chemistry professor and vice-president of Carroll Col­lege at the time of his death in 1955. Two of his many contri­butions to the school were the construction of the observa­tory and the planning of the Science Building. His oldest son John is presently a junior chemistry major at Carroll.)

Dr. E. W. N eum an, head of C arro ll’s d ep artm en t of chem is­try and a w ell-know n am ateu r astronom er, w ith six V-12 tra in ­ees, o b s e r v e d the firs t solar eclipse in th ir te en years on the m orning of Ju ly 9, 1945. The ob­servations w ere m ade a t a point five m iles no rth of Tow nsend, and the data w as fo rw arded to P rincen ton U niversity a l o n g w ith repo rts of m any o ther ob­servers, to be compiled.

The C arro ll delegation m ade tw o sets of observations. L ight m eter read ings w ere taken to de­te rm ine the in tensity of illum i­nation during the eclipse. O bser­vations of several sta rs w ere also m ade p rio r to the eclipse and during the b lack-out to d e te r­m ine th e ir degree of darkness. The sun cam e up in a sta te of p a rtia l eclipse and at 6:14 a.m. the sun w as to ta lly obscured. Sm all telescopes w ith sm oked glasses fitted over th e lenses w ere used to observe the eclipse.

The purpose of these observa­tions w as to aid professional as­tronom ers in record ing data con­cerning the eclipse. The degree of to ta lity , appearance of the shadow, tim e and position w ere all noted carefully . This data w ill be used by the professionals to check the accuracy of th e ir p re lim inary calculations and to p rep a re for the s tudy of fu tu re eclipses and o ther celestial p h e ­nom ena.

CORONA EXPLAINEDM uch of the scientific in te rest

in the eclipse is based on the quest for know ledge of the co­rona. The corona, it is believed, is c reated by electrom agnetic rad ia tion , and is visib le only w hen the sun’s rays are ob­scured. Scientists hoped to gain m ore know ledge of the corona from the observations m ade on Ju ly 9.

The solar eclipse w as caused by the passage of the m oon b e­tw een the ea rth and sun. It thus cast a shadow on the surface of the earth . The m oon’s shadow shut off the b rillian t po rtion of the sun. In the zone of to ta lity , observers w ere able to note a dusky b l u e shadow overhead and a tw iligh t glow around the horizon. A though the sun was obscured, its corona w as visible.

Dr. N eum an, th rough whose efforts m uch of th e success of the local observations w as m ade possible, received a le tte r of con­g ratu la tions for the contribu tion m ade by his team .

The eclipse began a few m iles no rth of Boise, Idaho and tra v e l­ed on a no rth easte rly p a th over B utte, Tow nsend a n d M alta. Then it continued over Canada, H udson Bay, G reeland, and then dow n the o ther side of th e globe to the end of T urkestan .

Dr. N eum an began his hobby of astronom y w hile a research fellow in chem istry at the Cali­fornia In stitu te of Technology in P asadena from 1930 to 1933.

A fter com ing to C arro ll in 1935, Dr. N eum an’s in te res t in astronom y grew . In the sum m er of 1936, he and a studen t helper bu ilt th e observatory now to be seen south of the m ain biulding on the cam pus. The stone s tru c ­tu re houses a 12 inch telescope. Im provem ents have been m ade steadily on the observatory and the la test is a ro ta tin g dome con­ta in ing a sliding cover to fac ili­ta te m aking observations of a s ta r anyw here in the heavens. The C arroll observa to ry is the firs t to be constructed in the sta te of M ontana.

votions.The eight students, u n d er the

d irection of College C haplain F a th e r Jam es F lynn, have been p rep arin g fo r sum m er m ission­ary w ork w ith the G lenm ary Home M issionary F a th ers and the G lenm ary Home M issionary S isters w ho have th e ir h ead ­q u arte rs n ea r C incinnatti, Ohio, for the past five m onths. K irw in W erner, fo rm er s tuden t body p residen t from Cut B ank and g raduating senior, has been m is­sioned, along w ith D avid Billion, a sophom ore from Sioux Falls, S.D., to w ork w ith the G len­m ary trav e lin g T en t Program . D aniel Jones, a ju n io r from D el­ta, Colorado, and W ayne Easley, a sophom ore from S alt L ake C ity w ill be m em bers of a four m an team assisting the Catholic p riest in N orton, V irginia.

M em bers of the w om en’s lay m issionary team are C heryl O l­son, a freshm an from Livingston, w ill be w ork ing w ith a tra v e l­ing m edical d ispensary u n it in the h ill country of N orth C aro­lina; Rose M arquard t, a jun io r from G lendive, w ill be doing hom e visting am ong the w hite and Negro poor in and around Russelville, K e n t u c k y ; M arie M cBride, a sophom ore from B utte, w ill be w ork ing w ith a team of m issionary S isters and college girls in St. Paul, V ir­ginia, and B everly G ratton , a freshm an from Chinook, w ill be doing catechetical w ork w ith a m issionary team based in Eaton, Ohio.

Two o ther C arro ll s tuden ts have been chosen as a lte rna tes fo r the lay m issionary team s. F or the m en’s team is R obert Vanisko, a freshm an from A n a­conda, and for the w om en’s team is Ju d ith Vetsch, a freshm an from Billings.

The s tuden t lay m issionaries have undergone an in tensive o r­ien ta tion p rogram during the past w eeks and w ill receive fu r ­th e r tra in in g and o rien tation w hen they have arrived at G len­m ary Home M isisonary h ead ­q u arte rs in C incinnatti.

The m en’s team w ill be gone for tw o m onths, the w om en’s team fo r six weeks. W hen they re tu rn to C arro ll College nex t school y ea r they w ill be aw arded scholarships to help fu rth e r th e ir education.

This is the first year that Carroll students have partici­pated in the lay missionary program, and the Prospector staff would like to wish them the best of luck in their work with hopes that this program will be carried on in succes­sive years.

TANEY CLUB ELECTIONSThe Roger Brook Taney Club

selected Bill Je ffe ry from B utte to head th e club fo r 1963-1964. J im W. W hite from B oulder w ill assum e the v ice-presiden tia l po­sition in Septem ber. P am ela Gel- lings from Jerom e, Idaho w as elected secretary and M ark De- S au te l was nam ed treasu rer. M ark hails from G rafton, N orth Dakota.

S c h e d u le A uuxuutcedl tf-o-i S Jlcuf, RetsieaU,

Eight spiritual retreats for lay men and women will be held at Carroll College on al­ternating weekends through­out June, July, and the first weekend in August, according to an announcement by the Very Rev. Anthony M. Brown, president of Carroll and dio­cesan lay retreat director.

The Rev. V i c t o r Zabelle, C.S.S.R., a redem pto ris t p riest from St. G e ra rd ’s C hurch in G reat Falls, w ill conduct the r e ­trea ts on th e w eekends of Ju ly 26-28 and A ugust 2-4, respect­ively.

“A sp iritu a l re tre a t gives peo­ple an oppo rtun ity to w ithdraw from th e ir o rd inary rou tine of life for a period of tim e to pray, m editate, and receive in s tru c ­tion in the sp iritu a l life ,” F a ther B row n said. “L ast y ea r 190 re- trea tan ts took advan tage of this opporunity for the im provem ent of th e ir sp iritua l life and it is hoped th a t those in te rested w ill m ake th e ir reserva tions as soon as possible in o rder th a t p roper accom odations can be m ade for them .”

R e trea tan ts rem ain on cam pus during the w eekend and are housed in B orrom eo Hall, and use its chapel facilities.

Men’s retreats are scheduled for the weekends of June 7-9, June 21-23, July 12-14, and July 26-28, and women’s re treats will be held June 14-16, June 28-30, July 19-21, and August 2-4. A retreat will not be held the weekend of July 5-7.

Awards Banquet(C ontinued from Page 1)

to M ike K elly, H elena; assistant- ship in chem istry at the U n iver­sity of H aw aii to C harles M atule, B utte; F u llb rig h t Scholarship to Tucam on, A rgen tina to Mike Phillips, C ut Bank; teaching fe l­low ship in m ath a t Fordham U niversity to M ike M cPheters, Boise, Idaho; and a teaching fe l­low ship in Sociology a t M ar­quette U niversity to Colleen M c­C arthy, B utte.

W inners of the endow ed schol­arsh ips are: C harles F ourtner, Barstow , Calif.; Joyce Leonard, R apid City, So. Dak.; Jam es Lo- pach, G reat F alls; Jam es M un- gas, P h ilipsburg ; Leone Nagen- gast, F o rt B e n t o n ; M ichael S chneller, B utte; and W illiam Shields, A naconda.

R ecipients of the upperc lass­m en scholarships based on the C ooperative G enera l C u ltu re te s t are: G ary B urgher, Helena; Joe D eFlyer, C olum bia Falls; M argaret Gully, S ioux Falls, So. Dak.; M arilyn Mack, B utte; Rose M arie N agengast, F o rt Benton; E dw ard P esan ti, B u tte ; D aniel Shea, A naconda; H enry Stein- hoff, La Crosse, W is.; Robin S terling , M edford, O regon; and L aw rence Terch, Idaho Falls, Idaho.

THE P R O S P E C T O RVolume LVII Number 11

P ublished by and fo r the studen ts of C arro ll College, H elena, M ontana

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