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THE MERCER CLUSTER
September 28, 1966
BY DEAN
Curriculum
Revisions
Announced
The Ouster, after yesterday afternoon’s track
incident in MEP, strongly recommends that the Pan-
Hellenic Council post-pone formal rushing until the
winter quarter.
With the ADPi suite gutted and the Phi Mu suite
damaged badly by smoke and water, it would be unfair
to both the soror’Mes involved and the girls rushing
to have official rush activities at this time.
Highlights of a Year
at Mercer ...
Registration
Rat Week
A revised lower division program
affecting entering freshmen has
been announced by Dean Malcolm
Lester. The new program affects
only first quarter freshmen enter
ing after June, 1955.
The new lower division curricul
um includes English 11, 12, 51, and
52; History 11 and 12; Math 10, 11,
or 12 (one course, depending upon
the student’s high school achieve
ment); Christianity 11 and 60;
Natural Science (Biology, Chemist
ry, or Physics) 11 and 12.
Also included in the program is
a revised language requirement If
a student has had two years langu
age in high school, he may continue
that language with only two
courses—61 and 52—required. If he
has had no language or chooses
another language, 11, 12, 51 and
52 are required.
There is also a two course choice
from a list of five in the social
studies field. The student may then
choose enough electives to com
plete 18 courses a year from a list
of four courses. The revision of the
lower division program was made
by the faculty in May and went
into effect during the summer ses
sion.
Dean Lester pointed out that
"These changes are in line with a
national trend in Liberal arts col
leges to narrow the range of elec
tion and to re-emphasize the tradi
tional liberal disciplines, such as
language study, history, math,
natural science and literature.
“These curriculum changes are
based on the convition that the
first twg years at Mercer should
be devoted to an emphasis on the
student’s genera] education which
is used to indicate that portion of
a student’s whole education which
looks, first of all, to his life as a
responsible human being and citi
zen. It differs in purpose from
specialized education which is dir
ected to mastering a particular
field of vocation. The essential ele
ments which go to make up general
education are cultivation of a sense
of values, the development of clear
thinking, the understanding of the
physical and cultural world in
which we live and an appreciation
of the western heritage,” he empha
sized.
The new program will affect all
students, new or transfer, after
June, 1956.
Socially
^beaki
and Basketball
Freshmen Plan
Chapel Program
The freshman class met in Wil
lingham Chapel at 4:30 Wednesday
afternoon and decided to have a
chapel program in the near future.
A committee of 40 was set up to
work on the program, and five
script writers chosen. The five are:
Jerry Dodd, Haywood Day, Wayne
Coleman, Romelle Martin and Jay
Freeman. Secretary for the com
mittee is Beverly Ann Burgin.
Joe Dukes, sophomore, presided.
MG
By Alice Tate
MERCER IS MY BEAT!
This is the campus my beat. I was working the
day watch, society squad, when it happened - I was struck
with laryngitis. My job is to get the facts, all the facts; and
though it is difficult to get ’em all when your informants
can’t understand a word you’re croaking and suite phones
are still disconnected, here is my report. My partner is Dinah
Cutter; my name’s Tate.
Our informants gave us the word that many ex-Mercer-
ians were back. Phi Delts Bobby Spears, Freddie Williams,
James Clary, Don Lewis, Joe Stallworth, Henry Heflin and
Lynwood Zoliar have rejoined the gang. The Chi O’s wel
comed back Mary McClesky, and Paul Brigman, Curt Ingram,
Roy Johnson and Bobby Graham are back with the Kappa
Sigs. These are in addition to the multitude of new students
that we’re all so glad to see.
We dialed again and found that quite a number of the
citizenry took the Long Walk this summer. Newlyweds Bo
Atkinson and Sonny Vaughn are the latest to follow the
example set by Joan Simpson and Maurice Hilliard, Elaine
Davis and Max Kent, Betty Holland and Dan Dubberly,
Beverly Johnson and Bil Fillingim, Frances Black and Jim
Newton, Barbara Eubanks and Theo Burrell, Barbara
Broderick and Paul Rogers, Ann Parson and Wally Odom,
Ann Atkinson and Sam Wilburn, Eugenia Fleetwood and
Delano Maurice, and Switzer Murphy and Percy Toney.
Patsy Hall and Avon Buice, Ellen Fowler and Richard
Reid, Mary Frances Swatts and Dick Mitchell, and Monty
Pope and Bobby Green will also wed in the near future. Not
to mention Jackie Storey and Charles Hardy, and Pauline
Mann and John Mancin, who are pinned.
Be on the lookout for the rush parties coming up. All
the sororities will hold open house for the rushees Sunday
afternoon, and the ADPi-rate party fellows on Monday night.
The Phi Mu’s will greet the girls with a Showboat party on
Tuesday, while the ChiO’s get ready for their Old South party
Wednesday. The cycle will start over again with the formal
parties coming on the next three nights, with pledging climax
ing the rush week on October 2.
Not to be outdone, the fraternities will have their
parties starting with the Sigma Nu party September 30.
The Lambda Chi’s will have a ball at Baconsfield October
1, and the KA’s have set their fete for October 3. The
annual Phi Delt Shipwreck Ball will take place on the 4th,
and the ATO chuck wagon will roll October 5. The SAE’s
will open their gambling casino October 6. Pi Kap’s are
making plans for October 7, and Kappa Sig will close out
rush week on the 8th.
Assorted bits of information Fred Hasty and
Morton Boyette went to the University of Colorado this
summer for an ATO convention The ADPi’s have re
decorated their suite .... So did the Sigma Nu’s . . . . The
Macon alums gave the SAE’s a dance September 3 . . . . Sand
ers Franklin joined the navy ....
The outcome of this investigation will be announced in
following editions of the Cluster. Keep up with the news of
the day. READ YOUR CLUSTER AND DON’T FORGET —
you’ll get a lighter sentence (a pun) for giving us informa
tion!
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