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Kathy Harvey, a Yankee” senior at Loretto, Kansas City, and Saron Tmeson, confederate senior at Loretto’s Bishop Toolen High in Mobile. Alabama (also the editor of its newspaper, The Bitoolian), think on prejudice and give us their Candid Comment Since I am a Southerner, I suppose I should write a fiery expletive on why segregation of the races is the only possi- ble way for Southerners, and all white people, to live; but, because I don't feel fiery and because 1 don't believe in segregation, I really couldn't write such an article. This is not a defense of the South. The South does not need a defense. It perhaps needs fewer speakers who try to defend the bigoted sections of it and more speakers who try to make the situation, as a whole, understood. An intelligent person will recognize that the situation which exists in the South today exists in some form throughout the country! This is not to say that the same two groups are always involved; any minority group and someone who feels a prejudice toward the group can together cause a dissension. Integration in the South is a problem—a big one. Integra- tion in other parts of the country where different minority groups are involved is a problem—an equally big one, though perhaps not so noisy. Who in your community comprises the minority group —Indians, Catholics, Jews, Negroes? Who? Cover Story • . and browning, leaves are scuffed in the sun-warmed dust.” Since this year the laurelette will be published seasonally (that is: autumn, winter, spring, and summer), we have chosen for our first cover some of autumn’s browning leaves, aptly designed by Mar- garette Grant. Have you ever stopped to ask yourself where your preju- dice came from? You probably haven't; but, even if you have, you probably haven't found an answer, legitimate or otherwise. There is little scientific answer to the why of prejudice. Psychologists, particularly Gordon Allport, have studied the question and have given us the most probable reasons for discrimination towards a group. One of the two most obvious origins of prejudice is un- pleasant or irritable contacts with a member from a certain group. This alone can often give us a biased opinion of the whole group. The second is really more influential. From the time were small children, our parents, teachers, and age-mates all influence our thinking. Generally, if the people we learn from are prejudiced we tend to be also. The deeper more basic reason for prejudice is one that has been in existence for as long as man—scapegoating. This type of escape reasoning takes its name from the practice in ancient times where people would transfer all their sins to a goat through an elaborate ritual and then drive it into the wilderness, thus psychologically relieving them- selves of guilt and anxiety. The four primary reasons for scapegoating as' we know it today are frustration, guilt, fear, and the need for self- glorification. The first, frustration, stems from our tendency to become aggressive when frustrated with ourselves so we relieve this feeling by aggressive attitudes or actions towards someone or something. Our own guilt feelings are a second important cause of scapegoating. In America today the accelerated rate of sexual activity and cutthroat competition often produces conscious or unconscious feelings of guilt. The most com- mon reaction to this is to blame someone else. Reports that Jewish businessmen are dishonest and unscrupulous, for example, may arise partially from the guilt feelings of Gentiles about certain of their own business dealings. Fear of subversion or the lowering of American stand- ards by minority groups is another cause of scapegoating on our own student level, however, fear is shown in a more immediate manner. The fear of not being accepted if our opinions differ from the crowd's is a widespread anxiety among students. The need for self-glorification is still an- other basic motive for prejudice. Insecure people feel that they enhance and glorify themselves by treating others as inferior. So you see prejudice just doesn't happen. Yesterday, here- in America, Land of the Free, we gave birth to it and nursed it. Today, we sit back and look at our offspring, saying, My God! What a mess. Why doesn’t somebody do something?” 2 the laurelette
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lolh Vol. 31, No. 1 Fall, 1963 Table of Contents Candid Comments. . . . Kathy Harvey, Sharon Tuveson So As to Love .................. . . . Kirstine Schaeffer Harvest ......................... . . . Delores DeSoto Backboard Battles . .. Lee Hudson Elephants Arise . . . Bobbie Junior Snack Shop Superb . . . Ann Lillis Today's Better World . . Mary Kelly Newwords . Bobbie Junior, editor Perspective Peeks Kathy Lockwtxxl, Paula Harris To Be Informed ... Pat Graham Reader Rampant . . . Liz Dewey, Sherry Ralston Everything and Then Some Too Good to Keep ... Pam Copulos News .......... . . . Sally Kieffaber 12 13 15 16 18 19 20 .21 32 PRESS CLUB MEMBERS Editor: Kirstine Schaeffer Art Editor: Poni Miller- artists: Rosemary Hole, Monlyn Schaeffer, Diane Tockett Business Manager: Carol Stipetich; staff: Sharon Copulos, Judy Junior, Roberta Raynor Circulation: Chorlotte Pinter Exchange: Rhonda Ray Focus: Ellen Welch Literary Editor: Bobbie Junior Make-up Editor: Maraarette Grant; page plan- ners Jane Allen. Gwen Geroths, Mory Otto. Morilyn Schaeffer, Diane Tackett, Ellen Welch, Cathy Weiss Morgue: Judy Junior News Editor: Sally Kieffaber Photography Editor: Stephanie Peake; photog- raphers: Sara Copowycz, Linda Genova, Lindo Sophy, Peggy Wolski Writers: Pam Copulos, Delores DeSoto Liz Dewev Groce Donaldson, Pot Grahom, Paula Horris, Lee Hudson, Mary Kelly, Ann Lillis, Kathy Lockwood. Laura Nixon, Eleanor Schaeffer, Pot Todd. Moderator: Sister Judith Mary, S.L- The lourelette is published four times a year by the Loretto Press Club. Address all corre- spondence to the lourelette, Loretto Acodemy, 1101 West 39th Street. Konsos City 11, Mis- souri. Subscriptions ore $1.50 per year. So ad L oue 7 ie first Loretto-ite was sunbonnetted and taught young Kentucky children under open skies and in floorless cabins. She had discovered a need for teachers in the far-from-Maryland-and-convent-schools farmland and went to Fr. Ner- inckx offering to do what she could. 1963 Loretto is still striving to extend herself to those around her—to the people who need her talents. Our vocation (like hers) is acting in terms of otherness — whether these others are the near-by-us-timid-in-a-noon-hour-gab- session girls or the farther-from-us freedom marchers. TO e need to know people—to get acquainted with them—so our conversations are not limited to the weather or the World Series. We’re trying to help you in this issue by introducing you to some people—through our theme for the year, People to People.” There is a herd” of 95 juniors to contend with. (We challenge you to say that you know all their names.) You can find them either struggling (but alas, in vain) against the seniors in the laurelette drive or planning the November Dance even before school has begun. We introduced you to three of them in particular. We’ve told you about the Loretto that went out to rough it at Leadership Camp (not too unlike Mary Rhodes, who found her first accommodations rather rustic also)—but returned, surprisingly enough, not with pneumonia, but with new ideas and attitudes—and how to lead from love. There were those 200 high school students who came to a Loretto Youth Day seeking to find out how they themselves could make a better world. Sister Gabriel told them that our self concept—what we think of ourselves—should be good. We are children of God. We are loved.” This self concept gives us freedom and strength to go out to make a better world—freedom from selfness and strength to be receptive and objective. Who is better able to love and understand than the Christian who knows he is loved?” Whether in homeroom or history or at a Student Faculty Institute we've heard more about the Better World Movement from Sister David Maureen. She's telling us what Fr. Kusman told the sisters on retreat this summer: The Church has the formula—its doctrines were firmly declared at the Council of Trent— but we have lost the Catholic culture. The early Christians had it in their com- munity living and the pagans could recognize it—'See how those Christians love one another.’ ” he laurelette’s purpose is to mirror the school. But Loretto does not extend only from west-campus freshmen orientation parties to the mad battles in its gym. The first Loretto went out of herself and we went to do the same. Pat Graham, interviewed Mr. Hoyt, chairman of the Catholic Interracial Council, who told us that we have a responsibility to be informed. We exchanged ideas with a Mobilean editor who told us Northerners that we, too, have to watch ourselves, because we are just as guilty of prejudice as Southerners—the only difference is whom we're prejudiced against. Another Confederate (from Drama Club) gave us a better understanding of prejudice by telling what it is and how we get it. So why have I spent seven inches of two-column type telling you what you will read in the following twenty-some pages? This issue says people—it fea- tures them, photographs them, laughs with them, listens to what they have to say. And that's what I am saying—people. Talk to them, watch them, learn about them, love them. Because if we are acquainted with people then no one has to point out what we can do for them. We know. « oretto's first stream at Hardin's Creek is now overflowing into South America. Kansas City's Loretto is learning that the trickles of ideas and talents it has gained in classes and clubs and discussion can be used to flood the world around it with love. Fall 1963 3
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