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From the archives: student activism
Art imitating life
Part 2 of 5: “Goose Stepping in the Cloister.
Artists must overcome many hardships.
If a college curriculum must be
and Mars, the God of war.
draft, but must go into the very for clinging to this militarist insti-
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they did last year and hopefully University Center Conference
in advance at the Service Learning fundraiser event that will include
Call 431-8089 for more information!
graceful reflection is casts on our
society as a whole. For what a
obsessed nation it must be which
is not content with a universal
An equally telling objection to made ridiculous by such studies,
the. ROTC program lies in the dis- let them at least be voluntary elec-
St. Mary's University students in
past decades. This issue's article is a
reprint of a story published in The
Rattler during the 1960s. The article
is printed exactly how it appeared in
The Rattler.
Being an artist in today's
society is not as easy as it once
was, granted it was never easy
to begin with. This goes for any
type of artist, be it visually, ver-
bally or musically.
As an artist, I do
not know how to
break free of these
chains right away. It
takes time, effort, and
a whole lot of fighting
against the circum-
stances that are the
| modern society and
trying to make a liv-
ing. But, if it is done,
it is more worth it
than anything.
Let’s leave a legacy that will
be remembered!
Room A at 7:30 p.m.
The night will feature a belly
dancing show; and tickets cost $5
and can be bought at the door or
that they do not enjoy or are in
any way fulfilled by because
there are not a lot of ways for
them to be paid for what they do
or have enough money to create
that which they feel inspired to
create; or to support themselves
or a household.
The fact is, an artist will
By KATIE KIMBERUN
STAFF WRITER
By CESAR “TURTLE" GUTIERREZ
STAFF WRITER
tions to the program - its notori-
ous cost and hardly less notorious
inefficiency - and concentrate on
PHOTO BY KATE KAMPSCHROEDER
Gutierrez has claimed his role as an artist.
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Miracles do happen, or at least
that is the belief of the students
participating in the Mission 4
Miracles fundraising campaign.
Mission 4 Miracles (M4M) rais-
es money during the school year
for St. Jude's Children Research
Hospital, a hospital that strives to
find cures for child illnesses
through research and treatment.
St. Jude's daily operating costs
are primarily covered by public
contributions allowing the hospi-
tal to focus on treating their
young patients.
According to Executive Board
Director and senior at St. Mary's
Augarite El-Nakat, the group
intends to raise as much money as
The purpose of the Senior
Class Gift Campaign is to
leave a legacy seniors can
be proud of. Our focus is on
building class unity and
giving something back to
the university and future
generations of students.
To reach our goal, we need
every senior to give $20.00
in honor of the Class of 2004.
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a GQ and Miss Catwalk pageant.
M4M will be recruiting stu-
dents to participate' as contestants
in these contests soon and the
event will take place around the
third or fourth week in April.
The event should be an enter-
taining affair, but it will also be
informative as well because M4M
is hoping to get a guest speaker
who has had cancer to come and
share their experience with the
audience. Further details on this
event will be forthcoming.
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There are so many reasons why
the neo-fascist institution of col-
lege ROTC should be abolished
that we are at a loss how to begin
our argument to that effect.
Perhaps the best way is to pass
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over the purely technical objec- grim, war-like, fear-and-hate
Features
The Rattler
surpass that amount.
M4M gave $8,000 to St. Jude's
last year, and so far this year they
have managed to raise more than
$3,000 already.
Recently, M4M raised around
$100 selling Valentine's Day cook-
ies to the St. Mary's community.
"It was a cute idea and it was
nice to see the variety of people on
campus who supported us,"
Augarite said.
At the time, M4M has many
different fundraisers concurrently
going on, including a chocolate
bar sale that will last until
March 11 and a life-saver
pinup drive. However, their big
fundraising event is yet to come.
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publish selected articles as supplied Christian religion, among which ed above, this is no bellicose
by the 21st Century Leadership are Forgive unto seven times sev- Sparta, where the aim of educa-
Center that highlight the activism of enty, Do good to them that hat tion is to develop the soldier. This
the most devastating of the objec- classrooms of high school and col- tution lies in the money it brings
tions, those based on principle lege, to prepare students for war! fro the government, the we sug-
and morality. Surely our national "defense" ( gest that this mercenary motiva-
The first of these is that mili- does not call for such insanely tion can find a less degrading out-
tary regimentation has no place in extravagant measures. This sort of let elsewhere - for example, in a
a University centered, like this thing is more appropriate to jingo- peace corps station, or a Field
one, around the principles of ism and aggression than defense - Health service, financed by the
Christianity, St. Mary's is one of it smacks more of the militarism same government funds which
the very few institutions of higher of Sparta or Hitlerian Germany, now maintain military corps.
This semester, The Rattler will emphasis on the doctrines of the doing the goose-step. As intimat-
and it has changed her life .
"They told me how I could
make a difference and help, or at
least improve, the lives of chil-
dren," Lucero said.
At the end of their extensive
fundraising campaign, M4M will
be having a final, celebration
you, Turn the other cheek, and is an anti-fascist society, in which
Resist not evil. Thus in one class one attends college to pursue the
we are taught to love our enemies; civilized studies of the arts and
and in the next, how to destroy sciences, not to be trained in the
them with bayonet and poison essentially uncivilized profession
gas. With the same irony and of the solder - not to be drilled,
incongruity by which we have a regimented, issued an MI rifle,
snake as the symbol of a and given instruction in such edi-
University named after the fying branches of human knowl-
Blessed Virgin, St. Mary’s is mak- edge as the art of siege, the weight
ing the absurd effort to serve two and range of the howitzer, or the
masters - Christ, apostle of peace, life and times of General Pershing.
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A culturally entertaining per-
formance, a Lebanese Night, will
take place on Feb. 26 in the
I've spent the last six years of never be totally satisfied unless
my life trying to figure out what they have their art in their life as
I want and need of it. The most more than just a hobby and
difficult self revelation was more so as a necessary passion,
when I woke up one day and Granted, there are indeed
realized I was an artist. many artists out there who have
Something else I have fig- been able to make a living out of
ured out is that it's becoming doing that which they love
harder and harder for the young most, creating. The fact is
artists today to figure out where though, these are the rarities
they are going. Well, not so and many of them do support
much where they are going but themselves in other manners
how they plan to get there. such as teaching or some techni-
The hardest part of being any cal substitute.
type of artist in the modern Another rough part about it
world is that it is very hard to is that many artists know exact-
make a living out of being one. ly where they belong and what
While there are technical jobs for they need to be doing to feed
any type of artistry, they may their hunger but they just can-
not be totally fulfilling because a not get there due to rough cir-
part of that art they love is miss- cumstances. It's part of the
ing. many reasons why so many
A big problem with today's starving artists and whimsical
society is that they see success minds end up just kind of fester-
and happiness in terms of the ing where they end up between
size of one's house and pocket- constant stress and anxiety and,
book, not in something immate- sometimes, depression.
rial yet still extremely fulfilling. Maybe total self fulfillment
The even bigger problem is isn't the one thing one should
that it costs money to fulfill seek out of life because there are
one's artistic needs nowadays, great things out there like truth,
So, any artist, unless many freedom, beauty, love, justice,
notches above the rest, will not humility, thought—the list goes
get paid enough to support that on, it really does. But, for many
which they do by doing it. Most artists, that is their way to get to
artists indeed have to take jobs these other goals.
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Center.
"We had about 80 to 90 people
last year, but our goal this year is
200. It'll be a really fun night com-
plete with refreshments after the
show," Augarite said enthusiasti-
cally.
While the fundraising is
important, you cannot forget what
M4M is supporting and St. Jude's
is fighting for: life.
Freshman Alexis Lucero, the
Patient Relations Chairperson, got
involved with the organization
tives. To force them on students
for whom they are not only
absurd but repulsive, is mon-
strous.
If the University's only reason
learning which has a compulsory
military training program. It is
also one of the few which is reli-
giously orientated. Thus simulta-
neously St. Mary's lays an excep-
tional emphasis on inculating the
art of war, which is to say, the art
of killing people and destroying
property; and an exceptional
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than of the dedication to peace of Meanwhile, let us rid ourselves
a free, democratic society. of our ROTC program; get the
Finally, this military training is parade ground off the University
an outrageous imposition on the campus; dissociate the communi-
students - an overwhelming ty of scholars from the military
majority - who submit to it garrison; and cease making our
against their will. It wastes their Wednesday afternoons absurd
time and money, and gives them with the spectacle of college stu-
nothing in return save practice in dents doing the goose-step!
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PHOTO BY DENISE M. SAUNAS
Mission for Miracles focuses on raising money for the children of St.
Judes. They are currently selling chocalate bars for $1.
On a “Mission 4 Miracles”
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