University of Notre Dame - Dome Yearbook (Notre Dame, IN)

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Participation in the liturgy, the most perfect and complete expression of the community ' s worship of God will slowly but eventually become the strength of the Notre Dame religious life. Father William McAuliffe (above) directs the perticpative Mass in the Keenan-Stanford Chapel. Here the priest receives the hosts from the congregation during the Offertory procession. 11

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NOTRE DAME SAINT MARY ' S: THE TWAIN SHALL MEET he principle of separate but equal public facilities for Negroes and whites was overruled by the Supreme Court in 1954, largely on the psycho- logical assumption that mere separation implies, and often fosters, inequality. Yet the Catholic Church, (and other sectarian universities, it must be admitted) still insist, in many cases, on sepa- rate but equal schools for the sexes. Notre Dame and St. Mary ' s are prime examples. There could possibly be sufficient moral justification for the mile or so that separates Notre Dame ' s and Saint Mary ' s living quarters, although some well-estab- lished Catholic colleges in the nation have recently disproved that reasoning by finally integrating the sexes on campus, (for example, Santa Clara). However, the segregation of the sexes academical- ly has no justification today whether it be moral or physiological, unless, perhaps, in a paraphase of the old Animal Farm dictum : Men and women are equal, but men are a little more equal. Heart- ening attempts have been made by the students of both schools and the administration of Notre Dame to break down these artificial barriers in the academic world, but at present nothing definite has been achieved. Until it is, in a few years, St. Mary ' s women will be without the stimulation of the inquiring, logical masculine mind and our solid liberal arts and science courses and Notre Dame men will, alas, miss the fascinating, intui- tive feminine mind and St. Mary ' s wild, wild artistic imagination. 13