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Item 1: This letter to the editor was sent by David A. Sachs, one of the organizers of the Loyola Gay Student Organization, which had been in existence for about three months and had about 20 active members.
The group met every week to socialize, meet other gay people, and discuss shared problems and experiences. Gay people at Loyola reported fearing ridicule from their peers, and the administration refused to recognize them as an organization, barring them from meeting on campus or receiving any funding. Sachs points out that "On Saturday, December 15, 1973, the American Psychiatric Association announced that it would no longer classify homosexuality as a mental disease. In doing so it recognized that homosexuals can be happy and well adjusted, something many of us have known for years.
We are interested in whether or not Loyola as a university can take a progressive step and recognize our existence. We would like the right to an office and a phone on campus, and the right to have a gay dance or meeting on campus."
Item 2: Detail of the second, third, and fourth paragraph of the letter, outlining the group's activities and concerns.
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Item 1: This column by Jim Mueller describes a student movement called "Sink the Tink," which announced plans at an outdoor concert to call for the resignation of Vice-President and Dean of Student Wayne F. Tinkle. The students listed 5 main grievances, including the firing of Jim Robinson, former director of the Student Activities Office, and Bill Svrluga, former head of the Student Housing Office. They also demanded a search committee to replace these two administrators with student representatives. Another grievance was the heroin usage problem at Loyola. Students felt that Mr. Tinkle was more concerned with alcohol use than with the heroin problem, and that he had been "boorish" in attempting to act in loco parentis of students by attempting to remove Playboy from sale at a campus store. Finally, they pointed to the complete lack of doctors at the Student Health Service and the lack of improvement from the year before. The author comments that since nearly all student groups signed on to the "Sink the Tink" letter, it showed that "many of the student leaders at Loyola have lost all respect and lines of communication with the Dean of Students. If the new organization can take its case to the main student body and win, the Office of Student Personnel will become, in effect, obsolete. The failure or success of any such office relies on the trust and open lines of communication which it maintains with the student body."
Item 2: Detail of first two paragraphs of the article describing the group's announcement and first two grievances.
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Item 1: This article by Eileen Gentile discuses Campus Ministry's Assisi Center, which aimed "to promote human and Christian living on campus" in a "clean and homey atmosphere where students and faculty can get together for liturgies or meetings or just to sit and talk over a cup of coffee." The Assisi Center held a Reach-Out event promoting friendliness and encouraging donation of foods for a Thanksgiving food drive. Other events throughout the year occurred on holidays and a weekly schedule. The staff were seeking ideas from students for further programming.
Item 2: Detail of photo of Assisi Center that appears in the article.
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This article by Thomas Ahnger discusses the streaking phenomenon at Loyola. Featuring a shot from behind of student who named himself as Al Abuff streaking "down the front steps of Mertz Hall" wearing only a hat, striped socks, and shoes, and said to be one of 200 students streaking on the Lake Shore Campus the day before.
The article discusses four students who "streak for a cause" by disrupting a talk by County Assessor candidate Edward Vrdolyak and holding pins for his opponent, a student who streaked on Wednesday through the cafeteria for $10, a streaker's club at Gonzaga Hall "sponsoring" streaking events, and a joke for a streaking contest that got out of hand and was becoming an officially sponsored race around the Lake Shore Campus.
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This picture accompanied an article by Pat Murphy discussing the Loyola Jewish Students Organization becoming recognized by the Loyola Student Government Organization. According to the new organization's chairman, Dave Magence, the goal ws "to foster Jewish unity" and "provide both intellectual and social stimulation for the group," as well as to be a resource for mutual aid in times of need. Their first event was on Feb. 9, clled a "Bet Kaffee," a type of coffee house, and they planned an upcoming celebration of Purim. A photo shows members and attendees at the Bet Kaffee. The article also discusses the possibility of Judaic Studies courses. This was likely the first official non-Catholic religious student group at Loyola, and represented a new ecumenical approach by Campus Ministry.
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A cut-and-paste collage of words and images related to current events and student life in the 1969-1970 school year.
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Members of the Latin American Student Organization at Loyola pose in a room with exposed pipes and brick walls.
The description explains:
"The Latin American Student Organization has been in existence for five and one half semesters. Its accomplishments have been numerous and beneficial to the Latinos here at Loyola and throughout the burrios of Chicago.
Ever since its founding, the organization's guiding ideology has been one of progressive change in order to serve the Latino community relevantly."
Members in this photo and the photo on the facing page:
"Migdalia Garlarza, Dru Gallagher, Felipe Aquirre, Dino DiMartino, Nella Ferrara, Milica Govedarica, Maria Gritz, Vicky Vallejo, Deborah Washington, Ed Torres, Art Rimando, Jose Vargas, Henery Cisneros, Al Cisneros, Alice Diaz, Carlos J. Salazar (President), Denise Hutson, Kathy Somos, Carol Mikos, Carmen Cintron, Elia Lopez, Rosalie Sanchez, Mirrya Guerrero, Glady Saavedra, Alfonso Perez, Maria Diaz, Lucy Perez, Gerry Bjurman, Juan Garza, Carmen Franco, Emelia Rosada."
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A pair of dancers at the 1975 Dance Marathon do the Bump by hitting opposite hips. The Dance Marathon raised almost $8,000 for Muscular Dystrophy.
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(left) The first page of the May 17, 1970 issue of The Skypaper.
(right) The cover page of the November 20, 1970 issue of Take Issue.
This collage was created using images from various sources (see 'Source' for more information).
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Blackacre, the Loyola School of Law's student newspaper, noted an important finding from the American Bar Association's national survey which found "basic perceptions about lawyers apparently remained the same through the Watergate experience." [image cropped]
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A cropped image shows Jane Byrne standing at a podium with a microphone in her hand, speaking in a room with tall curtains. Behind her, at a long table, sit several guests with name tags, who smile and face the same direction as Byrne.
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Jane Byrne stands at a podium with a microphone in her hand, speaking in a room with tall curtains. Behind her, at a long table, sit several guests with name tags, who smile and face the same direction as Byrne.
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Mundelein students holding signs protest against the Vietnam War. Most of the students are lined up in a row, with another student holding a guitar standing to the side. The first student in the row holds a sign with the words "They shoot students, don't they?".
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Reverend Jesse Jackson stands at a podium on a stage with several microphones in front of him during an event for Operation Breadbasket.
Behind him are placards spelling the word "Anniversary" and in front of the stage is a Christmas tree cutout with several pasted paper baubles containing the names of various products.
According to page 3 of the 1966, June 1 issue of the student newspaper Skyscraper, Operation Breadbasket was a "grassroots organization planning a boycott of 300 food stores for discriminatory hiring policies at all levels." The operation's activities also included a series of marches against real estate practices in Chicago suburbs.
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Cesar Chavez, dressed in a vest and collared shirt, writes in a booklet as two unidentified individuals look on. There is a pin badge on Chavez's vest with the words "Don't Buy Red Coach Lettuce" encircling a symbol of an eagle.
Cesar Chavez visited Mundelein College in November 1979. His talk was part of a bilingual Eucharist to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the groundbreaking of the Skyscraper. Chavez was part of the California lettuce strike which sought to improve working conditions for migrant farm workers.
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This cover page of the special Loyola Phoenix May 13, 1970 strike issue features the silhouetted profile of a student holding a folder/book in their hands. To the left of the profile, there are the words "To Strike or Not to Strike"; quotes from Dick Gregory and Julian Bond are also present on the page. The Skyscraper can be seen in the background.
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The Loyola Phoenix produced a special edition to cover the ongoing sit-ins and legal action taken by law students, who were frustrated by the law library's non-compliance with standards set by the Association of American Law Schools.
To accommodate their demands, Loyola built Maguire Hall, their new law school building.
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This article details the various events celebrating Loyola's centennial, which kicked off with a concert by the Four Tops (pictured), a popular group that had featured in several television shows and produced numerous hit records. Other events included a carnival, a mixer held with the Rotary Connection, a dinner and a liturgy on the lakefront.
Four Tops image: Abdul 'Duke' Fakir (top left), Lawrence Payton (top right), Renaldo Benson (bottom left) and Levi Stubbs (bottom right)
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In this 1977 editorial, Jack Leyhane critiqued the ongoing political tussle between Jane Byrne and Mike Bilandic. Leyhane opined that the next Chicago election in 1979 would be about who would make a better mayor based on "who is the true disciple of Daley, who keeps the flame of Daleyism burning brightest." [image cropped]
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In this 1977 editorial, Jack Leyhane critiqued the ongoing political tussle between Jane Byrne and Mike Bilandic. Leyhane opined that the next Chicago election in 1979 would be about who would make a better mayor based on "who is the true disciple of Daley, who keeps the flame of Daleyism burning brightest."
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Pope John Paul II receives Virginia Gaertner Broderick's drawing "Smiling Pope" from an unidentified member of the clergy.
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This ratification of the 26th Amendment was signed by John W. Lewis, Secretary of the State of Illinois, on July 28, 1971. The 26th Amendment lowered the voting age from 21 years to 18 years of age.
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This editorial reports on the holding of a Special Election on December 15, 1970 to determine if the voting age in Illinois will be lowered to 18 years of age. Statistics on 18-20 year olds are cited in support of lowering the voting age.
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Two Mundelein students hold landscaping tools near Lake Michigan and the roadside shrine, smiling as they work. This was part of Operation Campus Renaissance, where students and staff raised money and cleaned up the campus themselves after cutbacks in federal funding.
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A group of students stand on the sidewalk in front of Mundelein college a, a few of whom hold their hands up above their heads. Other students walk by or ride bicycles, and a few sit on the Skyscraper steps. A large sign in front of the central doors reads "ON STRIKE". A car is stopped on the opposite side of the street, pointing east, and a person is standing next to it, with their back to the camera, pointing east with one arm.
