Marquette University - Hilltop Yearbook (Milwaukee, WI)

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While the majority of Marquette scholars grazed in the grass or tanned on the beaches from Maine to Hawaii, the Marquette Players remained in Milwaukee keeping the university's cultural heart beating. The versatile actors became the Marquette Players Touring Company. They loaded costumes and scenery on flatbed trucks and performed for two-night stands in several locations around the city. They also took advantage of the warm summer evenings and staged their performances under the skies. On campus, they set up shop in the Bus. Ad. parking lot for their two summer offerings. Their adaptation to open-air performances was impressive. The Players presented a slapstick farce called “A Runaway Colt and The Apple Tree, a combination of three short plays. Milwaukee media reviewers saluted both shows as successes.

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Commencement ceremonies came with “Pomp and Circumstance resounding off the steel rafters of the Arena. In the wake of the strike, rumors of planned disruptions had circulated all during Senior Week. Everyone waited. The ROTC graduates filed into the Arena and sat together rather than in their resepctive college sections. Immediately they were sworn into commissioned service—for the second time in two days—to the tune of “give peace a chance. Several Liberal Arts seniors chanted and flashed the peace sign. Slowly the parental audience rose to its feet thunderously clapping in support of ROTC. The question arises: why must the ROTC commissioning ceremony be re-enacted before the entire graduating audience? Preferential treatment is given where none is due. Is ROTC interwoven so completely into the Marquette community that it deserves such elaborate attention? On the heels of the departing graduates, Hegelian scholars arrived for a Hegel Symposium held June 2-5th. The 175 philosophers brought intellectual excellence back to the campus. Hegel was a German philosopher who originated the historical and cultural dialectic theory that Karl Marx used sometime later to describe communism's proposed triumph over capitalism. All participants commented on the excellence of the symposium, sponsored by Marquette’s philosophy department. They said, the symposium aimed for quality and achieved it... superior to all others, and absolutely excellent, in every important respect .. A Benedictine monk, Dorn Sebastian Moore, OSB, finally made it to Marquette after being delayed by a ship’s broken propellor in the mid-Atlantic. Continuing Education worked arduously to arrange his two-day visit. Moore, a noted English religious scholar, lectured on God-talk and the notion of a bi-polar Church. Next the circus rolled in to celebrate the Fourth. Dom s b »ti n Moore, osb

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The summer also bore witness to Marquette's first Faculty Forum. The theme of the meeting was generated by the issues which precipitated the spring strike. For the first time, the faculty gathered to discuss an issue of vital importance to the future of the university. Those involved questioned the extent to which our “commitment to intellectual and moral excellence warrants an official university stand on publicly disputed issues. Re-directing the nation's priorities has become the newest cliche of our time. Students who harbored a genuine concern for that cause remained disorganized and helpless until the establishment in May of the Movement for a New Congress. Following its birth at Princeton, MNC blossomed to include 322 campus chapters. Its purpose was to organize voter support for peace candidates through massive student drives. It had vowed to work within the system for constructive political reform. The Marquette chapter of MNC was established in June. Its first step was to support Bus. Ad. assistant professor Les Aspin in his bid for a seat in Wisconsin’s first congressional district.