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ST. MARY'S RATTLER
February 17, 19
Snake’s Hit, Mongoose Pub? Editor tells all
Underground paper discontinuec
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trouble from the student
Bro. Belka completes group guidance series
Challenge: To be and to become
Jeff Strauch states views
New Senior Senator takes office
and new challenges
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both give and receive, where
everyone is a student, and
everyone is a teacher.”
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issues as I can. That way I
can best represent you in
the Senate.
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during rehearsal for the Shoestringer's production
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proved by voice vote of the
Senate, Jeff Strauch ascend-
ed to the position of Senior
Senator. The following pre-
sents some of his opinions
and feelings concerning this
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student environment prob-
lems, but if people want to
seriously change their situa-
tion, they have to work for
it.
“The Senate is only as
good as the people who re-
spond to it. I want to com-
ward the kind of person each through Bruce Publishin
senior wishes to become. Co., Milwaukee, Wisconsin
"Rumpelstiltskin
(Editor's note: Last semester a group of students printed an "underground" newspaper entitled the Mongoose Pub. This paper has sin
been discontinued. By request of the former editor, David Spooner, the RATTLER held the following interview in explanation of
demise.)
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group counseling is all a-
bout and the reason it is
most valuable at the high
school level. Group guid-
ance serves as one means
of imparting information of
a general nature to a large
number of students, yet
permits the individual to re-
act through discussion and
evaluation. This establishes
a sharing of ideas which
enriches all. It encourages
the reticent pupil and, at the
same time, strengthens the
natural leaders.
There are four student
handbooks in the series, one
for each year of highschool,
and a Group Leader’s Manu-
al for each. The first book
is entitled “Encounter.” In
it the authors are concern-
ed with the new situations
Jeff Strauch
Senior Senator
“My first impression of
the Senate was one of pro-
gress: There are people
there with energy and ideas
“Education should be a bent on making the school as
sharing experience where all relevant and interesting as
members of a school may possible to you.”
personally thought the RAT-
TLER couldn’t print. It was
discontinued because I felt
it was used for personal
gripes and I didn’t want to
be connected with any of
these, so I just “sat” on
the last issue and didn’t
print it.
RATTLER; Do you feel
that a paper of this sort is
still necessary on the St.
Mary’s campus?
David; There are still
conditions and people that I
think should be changed to
help the University, but I
don’t feel an underground
paper such as the Mongoose
is a way to go about it. If
you don’t like the way some-
thing is, work to change it,
not just gripe about it.
RATTLER; What was the
student reaction to the pa-
per?
David; In the last issue
we printed up 700 copies
and we had to force people
to take them. There just
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Volunteers of all ages and all
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agencies, grass root neigh-
borhood and community po-
verty organizations, city
county and state poverty and
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other groups whose pur-
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poverty stricken.
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and $50 a month after com-
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Skills needed are in law,
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health and education.
type of series. After sever!
cei ned that by encountering years of meetings and work
the per sonal and social fore- shops with students, th
es about him, today’s sopho- handbooks and group leade
more shapes a more realis- manuals began coming o
tic self-concept, self-ideal, the press. The last of th
and social-self.His increas- series, “Commitment ”wa
ing awareness of his identity published in 1970. Through
is essential to effective fu- out, the editor and co
ture development. authors saw the series as
In the third book, “In- group project and a grou
volvement, the autho rs feel experience. According to Br
that development requires Belka, they learned frod
meaningful interpersonal each other and grew as in
relationships. The junior, dividuals and as educator'
through involvement with so- one set of “Being and Be
cial responsibilities, contin- coming” is in circulation an
ues to develop his capaci- one set is on reserve at St
ties for adult roles in life. Mary’s Academic Library
In the fourth book, “Com- The set can also be viewe
mitment, the authors feel in the showcase opposite th
that commitment requires Registrar’s Office. Th
that decisions be made to- series can be orders:
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The Student Senate recent- “I am an average student
ly approved another student who would like to better uni -
to serve on its organization, fy his surroundings. There is
Nominated by Senate Presi- a lot of lip service given to
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RATTLER; Why was the funds appropriated for the
Mongoose Pub originated? paper?
David; The Mongoose David; If a few students
was first called the noticed, I was out on cam-
SNAKE’S HIT and it came pus one day with a coffee
out because of some stirred can and what other money
emotions by a few students we needed we got from the
who thought that the RAT- Mission of Women and Men.
TLER was not allowing them RATTLER; Why did the
to voice what they thought Mission of Women and Men
was the “truth.” They felt take over the Mongoose Pub?
that the RATTLER was mis- David; The Mission of
representing what was hap- Women and Men had the fi-
pening at St. Mary’s. With a nancial backing and the Mis-
underground paper you can sion was made up of students
print what you want and can that took an active interest
get away with it. in what was goingononcam-
RATTLER; Do you feel pus. I was in the Mission
that the paper completed this and I practically volunteer-
purpose? Why or why not? ed for the editorship.
David; I feel that it did RATTLER; As former
let a few students publish editor of the Mongoose Pub,
their gripes but I don’t think why has the paper been dis-
it did much to change the continued?
status quo. The reason would David; When I took over
be because it was short liv- the paper, I thought that I
ed, but I don’t think that if it could really do a good job
were still printed that it at it by coming out with the
would still change much. kind of an alternate paper
RATTLER; How were the that could say things that I
“I’ve heard people say that
the school paper wasn’t a
relevant media, student
rights are being violated,
teachers contracts aren’t
being renewed, activity fee
money is not being spent
wisely, etc. Unless you as a
student body are willing to
react to campus issues by
just plain telling the Senate
how you feel, little is going
to be done. I invite you all
to the next Senate meeting at
1:30 next Monday. I am as de-
relict as you are; I missed
the first meeting. The posi-
tion I have been appointed to
is your responsibility also
because I am you.
“This is the challenge-- series uniquely “now,” ex-
being yourself and becoming tremely pertinent and rele-
the person you want to be.” vant to the needs of youth in
This is the theme for “Be- turmoil. . .youth in quest of
ing and Becoming,” a group life. Replete with mod,
guidance series for high thought-provoking photos,
school students edited by Br. sometimes-freaky-always-
Marion F. Belka, S.M, Pro- fun cartoons, and chapters
fessor of Education in St. with titles like “Hello, Brave
Mary’s U. Guidance and New Worlds,» «Up, Up, and
Counseling program and Aw „ Hello, Are You
presently on the staff of the Listening? and «Rainbow‘s
Scholasticate End," the series progres-
Anyone who is working or ses dynamically every mo-
intends to work with high me nt of the way.
school youth will find this It is this dynamism that
is my name”
Audience participation is and are generally made to
the theme as the Shoestring feel as if they were actually
Players present their annual in the play.
Spring children’s theatre Severai unusual devices
production. This time tow- will be used in ”Rumpel-
ever, the audience will be stiltski , unusual, that is,
composed ai most exclusi- for the small Cellar. A trap
vely of children aged 7 to 10 door for dwarf’s entrance, a
as Rumpelstiltskin is spinning Wheel that makes
staged in the Shoestring Cel- gold coins from
straw, and
lar on Febiuaiy 26, 27, and kazoo-playing by the Guards
8 all add to the fun.
Involvement of the child- Much of the action is phy-
ren in the action of the play sical, especially the action
is a major concern of di- of the guards. There is a
rectoi Pat Baca, instructor chase scene through the au-
in Speech and Drama. They dience that is well worth
assume the role of villagers watching.
as the Queen greets them and All of these ingredients
the Guaids ask them to help add up to a good time, one
find the heroine, ihey sing that can be enjoyed by every-
along with Rumpelstiltskin one. For information come
as he spins straw into gold to A-24 or call Ext. 240.
aren’t that many people ii
terested in it. There ai
about one-hundred copie
that are still sitting in tl
Student Senate Office. I thii
most students thought th
it was a big joke and a litt
laughter would accompar
a conversation in which th
Mongoose was mentioned.
Through deci sion- makin
here and now, he develop
the ability to make the eve
more important decisions
the future.
The four co-authors i
this exciting series are a
experts in guidance andpn
tested the series’ materi
on eager high school sti
dents. The co-authors ar
Sr. Marion Hosinski, S.SJ
Associate Professor, De
partment of Education, S
Louis University, St. Louis
Mo.; Norbert Riegert, Di
rector of Guidance, Pius)
High School in Milwauke
Wis.; Sr. Mary Thomas Mur
phy, O. P., As social e P rofes
sor, Guidance Dept., For
dam U„ New York, N. Y
Rev. Joseph H. Voor, Chair
man, Department of Psy
chology, Bellarmine-Urs
line College, Louisville
Kentucky.
The project was begun
Aug. of 1963, at the sugges
tion of the Bruce brother
(Bruce Publishing Co.) wh
anticipated a demand for thi
David; I feel that bot
the administration and tl
students have overreact!
to each other but I think tl
administration is the or
that has been overreactin
the most. I feel that th
have seen what has bee
happening on other campus
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St. Mary's University (San Antonio, Tex.). The Rattler (San Antonio, Tex.), Vol. 55, No. 10, Ed. 1 Wednesday, February 17, 1971, newspaper, February 17, 1971; San Antonio, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1547453/m1/4/: accessed June 12, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting St. Mary's University Louis J. Blume Library.