1971 Yearbook
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1971 Yearbook
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1923: "Our country could be drier—they could take
the bars out of sheet music."
1935: (Commenting on the suspension of 26 students
from the Louisiana State University Department of Journalism by Huey Long:) "First of all, we offer our cheers
to the twenty-six students who had 'guts' enough to stand
up for their rights, and to the students of the University
who failed to support them we also offer cheers, of the
Bronx variety. That lack of support by the student body
is one of the most deplorable things in the whole situation. When college men, with life young in their veins,
can stand by in sychophantic servitude while the rights
for which their fathers fought are flouted before their
eyes, it is time to fear for America's future . . . What has
been done in Louisiana can be done elsewhere if youth
adopts the same passive attitude of non-resistance."
Does any of this sound familiar. Perhaps the names and
the faces have changed over the years, but the plot is the
same. We are still fighting wars in the name of freedom
and justice, but we are suppressing that very freedom and
justice by the wars we fight. We are imprisoning people
like the Berrigans on the nebulous charge of conspiracy.
We are systematically destroying Indo-China in order to
save it. We are still burdened by the 'Might is Right'
philosophy only now the autocratic leaders of militarism
must retract their steps across the Potomac. We still have
prohibition only now it is marijuana. And we are still deep
in the controversy regarding student rights and who the
college is meant to serve—the students or the administration.
Recall now the dedication of this book. "We must
affirm what we are and recognize what we are becoming." Unless we want our children and our children's
children to look back upon our words as so many empty
phrases we must continue the reasoned activism we have
begun here at St. Ambrose. We must not leave the quest
for truth, justice and equality at the base of the "Ambrosian font of knowledge."
Ed Kross '71
Left: Bob O'Hare cuts another fine example of calligraphic slate for one of Art
Department's Fr. E. M. Catich many
commissions.
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the bars out of sheet music."
1935: (Commenting on the suspension of 26 students
from the Louisiana State University Department of Journalism by Huey Long:) "First of all, we offer our cheers
to the twenty-six students who had 'guts' enough to stand
up for their rights, and to the students of the University
who failed to support them we also offer cheers, of the
Bronx variety. That lack of support by the student body
is one of the most deplorable things in the whole situation. When college men, with life young in their veins,
can stand by in sychophantic servitude while the rights
for which their fathers fought are flouted before their
eyes, it is time to fear for America's future . . . What has
been done in Louisiana can be done elsewhere if youth
adopts the same passive attitude of non-resistance."
Does any of this sound familiar. Perhaps the names and
the faces have changed over the years, but the plot is the
same. We are still fighting wars in the name of freedom
and justice, but we are suppressing that very freedom and
justice by the wars we fight. We are imprisoning people
like the Berrigans on the nebulous charge of conspiracy.
We are systematically destroying Indo-China in order to
save it. We are still burdened by the 'Might is Right'
philosophy only now the autocratic leaders of militarism
must retract their steps across the Potomac. We still have
prohibition only now it is marijuana. And we are still deep
in the controversy regarding student rights and who the
college is meant to serve—the students or the administration.
Recall now the dedication of this book. "We must
affirm what we are and recognize what we are becoming." Unless we want our children and our children's
children to look back upon our words as so many empty
phrases we must continue the reasoned activism we have
begun here at St. Ambrose. We must not leave the quest
for truth, justice and equality at the base of the "Ambrosian font of knowledge."
Ed Kross '71
Left: Bob O'Hare cuts another fine example of calligraphic slate for one of Art
Department's Fr. E. M. Catich many
commissions.
185
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