Marquette University - Hilltop Yearbook (Milwaukee, WI)

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DO NOT FEED THE TEACHERS 2 3

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 In Vite Vita; In Vino Veritas” You've heard of circus Jesuits, clown Jesuits, actor Jesuits? You have? Fred Brenk is a gypsy Jesuit, in thought and action. From a thorough knowledge of his hometown Milwaukee to the Greek isles, he traipses his path in the timeless gypsy step. Father Brenk teaches classics at Marquette by day and ancient wisdom in the local taverna by night. He is a firm believer in the student's theory that since it is not money and size but people who make the university, one learns as much outside the classroom as in it. Father Brenk sadly realizes that most students facing the classics are like kids in a museum; they know it's important, but they can't fathom it. so they go nutty.” He feels a compulsion to draw the picture of the way it was and not the gilded version of the way we wanted it to be. Father Brenk sees the Greeks as a fantastically creative civilization. Their writings were sordid, pronographic, intellectual. scientific and poetic. Coming back to Milwaukee in 1970 after being In Europe was like going back to Germany after the war for him. He was certain that modern pragmatic hard-nosed people have destroyed the design similar to classic architecture bequeathed us by the neneteenth century. Square streets.” he intones, square buildings for square people.” So Father Brenk keeps up his gypsy waltz trying to merge the past with the present, however romantically, for the people of the future. Euripides says that when Atlantis, the Amazon, was upsetting everyone with her unorthodox 'liberated' ways, that she said, ‘Well, if I do get married, and heaven forbid I do. and if I have children, my children will be better than children of women who sit in the house all day.' ” 2 2

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The Man. Simply stated that's what he is — The Man who knows why and where the University is heading at any particular time of the day. He can tell you who is the highest scorer on the basketball team, who is the highest contributor on the donation list, when the last mandatory retreat was held and just how bad is Al McGuire's golf game. Rumor once held that The Man lived in O'Hara Hall, hidden deep within walls of steel. That's untrue. 2 4