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THE MERCER CLUSTER
May 18, 1965
Parking at Rock Bottom!
Will You Help Relieve It?
Tomorrow is line-painting day! Yes,
tomorrow is the day designated by Alpha
Phi Omega service fraternity for the Sher
wood parking lot to get its lines painted.
Each year this group goes to a lot of
trouble to paint these lines and apparently
to no avail. No one pays any attention to
them.
They have asked that all cars be re
moved from the lot for the entire day.
Maybe someone will cooperate with them
on that. But the cooperation will probably
end there.
Perhaps you've never taken time to
stop and look around at some of the park
ing on the lot. It’s always good for a laugh.
(It's not funny!) Over here is a car park
ed across a line. And over there is one
parked right smack dab in the middle of
the drive. Now isn’t that a novel parking
place!
What’s wrong with the Mercer stud
ents? Can’t you see well enough to park
between two lines? Or is it that you don’t
know how to drive? Or, and most probably
this is it, do you just not give the proverb-
NANCY YATES
On
Honors,
Awards
As the school year draws nearer its close,
many honors are bestowed: for graduation, for
scholarship, for leadership, in elections and other
competition—achievements both organizational
and individual.
Being awarded an honor in any of these
fields is, to put it plainly, not all as great a
feeling as it’s cracked up to be.
The first question that comes to mind is, "What
did I do to deserve this?” And “If I did anything,
was it in the right spirit?” “Will I prove to my
fellow students that I can follow through and
fulfill their trust in me?” .
With this humility there comes, of course, a
certain happiness over being “chosen,” a basic
human need. Nevertheless, with politics at Merc
er as it is and with organizational divisions enter
ing the picture, one can never he sure whether
a majority of students approve the choice. Perhaps
there was no choice.
Albeit, let us accept the honors for what they
are—not praise and plaudits entirely, but en
couragement toward future progress and faith in
future ability. Let us accept the challenge thus
presented, build on the past, and grow.
In a sense, every student on the Mercer campus
will, in a matter of a few weeks, complete a great
achievement—that of another college year gone
by. All the effort which has been expended is an
achievement in itself, granted that it lias been
sincere. Were it possible to present awards to
everyone who appreciates to any degree his edu
cational advancement during this year, it should
be done.
Outward honors may belong to the few; often
they signify nothing. Achievement, on the other
hand, belongs to anyone—and signifies much. It
is within the grasp of everyone; the reach alone
is necessary.
.Letters to Editor
Will Be Welcome
The Cluster wishes to re-state our
policy concerning: letters to the editor and
to urge students to express themselves
through this means. Our columns are al
ways open to students’ opinions, as long
as it is properly expressed. We are willing
to print any letters which we receive that
are reasonable both in content and length.
We cannot, however, be responsible for
the veracity of content. All letters must be
signed by the writer. Names will be with
held on request
ial “darn”?
Anyway, the time has come to do some
thing about it. It is the responsibility of
each student, be he (or she) "dorm” or
“town,” who parks a car on that lot (or
anywhere, for that matter) to park it
right. If you can’t, you have no business
driving.
As the old saying goes, “Wake up and
fly right.” Maybe even better than that,
"Wake up and PARK right!”
SGA DOINGS
New SGA Holds
Planning Meeting
(The following is condensed from the
official SGA minutes prepared by SGA
Secretary Nancy Attaway.)
The Student Government Association,
under the newly-installed administration,
had its first meeting last Monday night.
These are, briefly, the highlights of that
meeting.
The meeting was mainly an organizat
ional meeting. Regular meetings have been
scheduled for the first and third Thursday
nights of eqch month. These meetings are
open to any students wishing to attend.
(SGA President Sid Johnson has asked
that we urge all who can to attend.)
A resolution advocating the exclusion
of students in the Law School from serv
ing on the Honor Council was passed after
Jerry Walker pointed out that the Law
School is under a separate honor system.
Thp function of the Honor Council is to
enforce the honor system.
President Johnson announced that the
three faculty members who will serve on
the committee to select the Honor Council
are Dr. Woodruff, Prof. Mayfield and
Judge Atkinson.
There was no further business and the
meeting was adjourned.
Being Campused
Is Not A Picnic
There is no feeling more lonely, more desolate,
or more frustrating than that of being restricted
to the campus.
It never fails to happen that during the campus
period every significant event of the quarter
seems to take place. The most exciting parties,
the most enjoyable concerts, the most sentimental
holidays, and the very best of swimming weather
all have to go by unobserved.
Even the songs on the radio seem to point
“The Finger of Suspicion”! Such cheerful tunes
as “She’s in the Jailhouse Now!”, "Jailbird" and
“OhainCd-up M/elody” do not make life any
cozier for the campused co-ed. Nor do the song?
in praise of the great out-of-doors, “Davy Crock
ett”, “The Breeze and I”, and "Sailing out to
Sea” console the claustrophobe. They only serve
to make her think once more how much fun it
would he to take a quick run around the block,
something she ordinarily would never have
thought.
But if it were not for the confinement the
state of being campused would be quite a picnic.
Mother sends great boxes of food. Friend* bring
presents of goodies and cigarets. You can catch
up on all that studying and reading you’ve bean
meaning to do. In a way, it’s like being in the
hospital—everything is quite comfortable and
convenient but there’s no getting out till the
Doctor says so!
A Presidential Request
The Student Government President has re
quested that all organisations wishing to make
awards on Honor’s Day notify him immediately
of their intent to do so.
Miss Gerry Troutman prepares her entry for the Science Fair to be
presented on our campus this weekend. This Fair should prove to be
one of the more entertaiaing, yet educational events of the year. Cer
tainly we should all support it and encourage those presenting it that
it may become a yearly tradition.
JIM MELONEY
Notes On
Education,
Integration
The following satire on modern education was taken from the
“Editor’s Desk” column of the Emory Wheel recently. (T. Elkin Taylor
is the current editor of the Wheel.)
(The scene opens in a spacious,
modem school room. There ib one
small blackboard up center and one
entire wall is glass. Four or five
children are sitting around a table
playing with blocks. All but one are
helping each other build a house.
Down center a single KID tries to
build a tower, and the blocks fall.
The TEACHER watches the opera
tion of the house-erection smiling
ly.)
KID: (calling out) Hey, Teach
er, this here’s the damnedest build
ing blocks I’ve ever saw.
TEACHER: (very displeased)
Johnny!
KID: What have I did now?
T.: Don’t you realize by now
thnt you should cooperate with the
others.
KID; But they're building a
house, and 1 wanna build a tower.
T.: What you build is unimpor
tant. You must learn to udapt your
personality to those about you. Why
don't you help the others?
KID: They”ve been building
houses ever since I come here.
They're too .stupid. Where’s my
hook ? I wunnu read.
T.: But, Johnny, the other
children are playing with blocks.
Dont you want to integrate your
self with society?
KID: You know, my old man,
(he’s a plumber), he says I ought
to be a individualist. He wants me
to learn something in school.
T.: Your father is a very old-
fashioned man—probably maladjus
ted, too.
KID: (angry) I bet he cgn whip
your old man! He even taught me
to say the ABC’s and
T.: (appalled) Johnny! You
musn’t let your father clutter up
your mind with such worthless
tripe. ABC's indeed!
(Several more children enter
the room and walk up to the table
on which the house is being built.)
T.: Children, we will now have
classes. First, we will see about our
homework. Now what did you do
for homework, Mary ?
MARY: Three kids and 1 play
ed hop-skotch, and we integrated
ourselves swell. i
T.: Whet about you, Susia?
SUZIE I read Alice in Wonder
land.
T.: You read? All by yourself?
(Susie nod* ashamedly.) How ex
traordinary. You nsuat remember
that solitary activities fail to im
press upon you the importance of
group activities. (She turns and
walks down left.) We will have our
lessons now. Johnny, would you like
to go to the board? (Johnny goes.)
Write this sentence: “Here-is
Jane.”
(Johnny pauses for a moment,
then prints in lage, sprawling in
formed letters, MLCKR JOERE T.)
T.: Very good. Your spelling
is somewhat off but that is really
usimportant.
MARY: (interrupting) Teach
er, My pencil broke.
T.: Why don’t you sharpen it?
MARY: Well, Suzie's is broken,
too and if I sharpen mine, she might
feel inferior.
T.: Mary, what a marvelous
attitude! You will certainly be a
success in life. Never try to get a-
head of others. As a result people
will always Ike you and you will al
ways remain in the Class of the hap
pily mediocre. Yes, you will pro
bably be well-adjusted and delight
fully mediocre.
MARY: Yes, teacher, all of us
are equal, you know—if we try
hurd enough.
(The children begin playing a-
bout the houee they are building.
tumbles off the table and crashes on
the floor, as the children laugh and
play about the room. The curtain
closes.)
(Elje iRercer
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