Skyscraper: "Indigenous Fauna -- Campus Wildlife Is for the Birds"
Item
Title
Skyscraper: "Indigenous Fauna -- Campus Wildlife Is for the Birds"
Description
This article details the kinds of wildlife spotted by Mundelein students and staff around campus. These ranged from a possum, two "outstanding squirrels", various birds, rabbits, and fish inhabiting the lake close to the beach. Some Mundelein students were also "treed" the previous year by enthusiastic Notre Dame students looking for a raccoon, which was never caught.
The article also features a comic. At the top, two individuals wearing headscarves and holding what appear to be stacks of paper look down at a rabbit with a carrot at its feet. The smiling face of a moon is visible at the top right corner, a reference to a mention in the article to editors and rabbits being the only presences on campus at a certain time of night. Below, a squirrel wearing a hat and coat with its paw on its chest is depicted standing on a platform with the word "soap" on it, presumably a shortened form of "soapbox". This is likely a reference to Napoleon, a squirrel mentioned in the article, which would deliver a "violent chattering address". The words "a thinking man's squirrel" appears above this image.
The article also features a comic. At the top, two individuals wearing headscarves and holding what appear to be stacks of paper look down at a rabbit with a carrot at its feet. The smiling face of a moon is visible at the top right corner, a reference to a mention in the article to editors and rabbits being the only presences on campus at a certain time of night. Below, a squirrel wearing a hat and coat with its paw on its chest is depicted standing on a platform with the word "soap" on it, presumably a shortened form of "soapbox". This is likely a reference to Napoleon, a squirrel mentioned in the article, which would deliver a "violent chattering address". The words "a thinking man's squirrel" appears above this image.
Date, date span, or circa acceptable
1959-05-05
File name
Skyscraper 1959, May 5, page 3
Sources archive, University Archives and Special Collections or Women and Leadership Archives
Women and Leadership Archives
Subject
Mundelein College
Student life animals
Rights
The online images are supplied for reference purposes only. Permission to copy or publish must be obtained from the Women and Leadership Archives, Loyola University Chicago. Please send inquiries to wlarchives@luc.edu.
