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THE MERCER CLUSTER
May 11, 1956
Mercer Must Have More
Adequate Parking Space
Student parking is one of Mercer’s
most serious problems. Many of the dorm
itory students have their own automobiles
and almost of the town students have a car
or bring one to school each day.
The only parking facilities that the
University provides are the three one-half
acre parking lots behind the mens dorm
itories and the small lot beside the Co-op.
The parking conditions that exist in these
lots are very bad and show no signs\f im
proving. People who park their cars in the
Sherwood lot are often blocked by two lines
of cars in the center of that lot and by
inconsiderate drivers who block the one
exit. There is very little space behind Sher
wood as a thoroughfare must be maintained
for the service trucks that must get to the
dining hall.
The lot behind Shorter hall has only
half enough space and is filled with gullies
and holes. Students living in Shorter are
forced to park their cars in the streets and
three automobiles have been stolen while
parked in that street. This lot also has only
one exit and that exit is often blocked by
garbage, laundry 7 , or service trucks and
at times a driver must wait ten or fifteen
minutes to leave the lot. This parking lot,
because it is not paved, cannot be lined off
and much space is wasted by drivers who
park their autos in the wrong places.
The parking lot by the Co-op is prob
ably the best of the four but it is in sad
shape also. This lot has two exits but they
are often blocked by wholesale trucks and
by drivers who park in lanes that are sup
posed to remain open. The fact that this
lot is too small is brought out by the many
dented fenders that are caused by the
cramped quarters.
Earlier in the year the Mercer Student
Government Association attempted to alle
viate the parking dilemma by requesting
that all Mercer students who have or bring
cars on the campus buy stickers to place
on the windshields of their cars. The park
ing committee had many good ideas but
the students failed to take advantage of
the solutions they offered.
Even if all the students had bought
stickers, this alone wouldn’t have changed
the parking problem. The only visible dif
ference would be that all the cars would
have MU stickers on them. There would
still be the same number of automobiles
and the same lack of parking space.
The only way in which this problem
can be eased is for the University to build
another parking lot. A good location for
this new lot would be the upper athletic
field directly across from the gymnasium.
This space has been used as a parking lot
during many basketball games and is a
very good one. The softball field that is
now on this location could be moved to the
lower parade field and hundreds of cars
could use this space. The ground is firm
and seldom muddy and would not have to
be paved right away.
The only visible solution to the park
ing problem is more parking space.
Whether it be the first athletic field, Tat-
nall square, or the basement of the Ad
ministration Building, it is needed and
needed now. B. S.
Shorter and Roberts Hall
Need New Improvements
Sherwood Dormitory was completely
romodeled and painted last summer, since
this big job has been completed it seems
that some repair work should be done on
the other two dorms. Shorter and Roberts,
this summer.
Those students who were at Mercer
last year remember the old Sherwood and
the shameful condition it was in. It took
a great deal of work and money to put it
in its now fine condition.
Shorter and Roberts Halls now de
serve a little attention. If a little work was
done on each dorm every summer then the
chances for them to fall into the condition
that Sherwood use to be, would be greatly
lessened. Now Shorter needs new paint for
its rooms and halls. Also many of the light
fixtures need to be fixed and some replaced.
Each summer each fraternity has sev
eral boys that return to Mercer and com
pletely remodel their fraterhity suite.
When the rush season starts in the fall
the suites are in top condition but the halls
and rooms lack the needed coats of paint
and repairs. Several boys have taken it
upon themselves to buy the paint and spend
the time painting their rooms which are
school property.
Perhaps more pride and better care
would be taken if the dormitories were
placed into better condition and kept up
each summer. In the future it may prevent
the necssity for remodeling one of the
present dormitories and allow more money
for other needed buildings. J. K.
Mercer Grates Need
Correcting and Repairing
A danger spot on Mercer campus has
been discovered and needs careful check
ing and correcting. The grate-covered
drains present a constant threat to the
safty of Mercer students and to any other
person who ventures on this campus.
Many of the brick foundations are
being gradually loosened by the rush of
water which through the years has washed
away much of the supporting soil. Some of
the double drains seem weak in the middle
—as if a heavy step would dislodge the en
tire grate and send it and the person
crashing to the bottom. One drain in front
of MEP has an iron piece missing, leaving
just room enough for a foot to be caught.
These drains are dangerous enough
in the daytime when people can see them
and avoid them; but at night when it is
impossible to know all the locations, they
present a very precarious problem.
Nobody has been seriously hurt YET.
However, several bruised feet, twisted
ankles, and embarrassing moments have
been caused by these hazards. And it will
be worse unless the administration realizes
these dangers and corrects them.
J. W.
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STUD'S
Cluster
Comments
A newspaper editor of the old west always persisted that th* word
news was plural and should be treated as such. The dogmatic editor
sent a memo to his city editor reading, "are there any news?” The city
editor promptly dispatched his rsply, “No not a new.” It looks like
that is going to be the case with us this week. My barefoot managing
editor and I have turned up every rock on the old MU campus and found
nothing save a few faculty. Mercer, always known as a hotbed of
political intrigue, student uprisings, and gala social events, la as quiet
as a mouse, a church mouse.
* • *
Mercer is becoming a five-day-a-waek school. Every week-and there
is a general exodus. People go home or to other schools almost ovary
week-end in great numbers. The MU dining halls are only half-filled
during the week-ends and Sherwood hall is almost quiet enough to
study in. (How's that for a sentence ending with a preposition?) We
need something to keep the “Murcer family” together over the week
ends. The fraternities and sororities have dances and parties that keep
a few folki on the campi from Friday til Monday but the other half of
the student body has absolutely no reason to stay on campus. The
school needs to have a few parties or dances, if we could find a way to
get by the blue-nose laws, and maybe we could generate a little school
spirit It’s depressing to spend a week-end here when almoet everybody
has left for the regions unknown. It’s so depressing that I’m going home
' this week-end.
• • •
Have you heard this one?
Knock, knock,
ST. PETER: "Who’s there?’’
VOICE OUTSIDE THE GATES: "It is I."
ST. PETER: “Go to hell. We have too many English teachers in here
now."
HERE 'N THERE
WITH
KRISTINA MOORE
MOVIES
ANYONE?
Isn’t anyone but me getting tired of all those super-gigantic, many-
splendored movies that are coming out lately? After seeing Helen of
Troy and the Conqueror my interest is beginning to wan* slightly. But
in the midst of scorching my corneas I can’t say that I haven't picked
up any number of valuable historical tidbits, among them:
1. That both Helen and Paris were vaccinated for smallpox.
This is indeed remarkable in view of the fact that Louis Pasteur
did not start vaccinating people until several years later.
2. That Genghis Khan, “Scourge of God”, "Mighty Manslayer”,
“Master of Thrones and Crowns" was not really vary interested
in destroying three empires and conquering the civilised world.
It was Susan Hayward all the time.
3. That Trojan warriors and Mongol horsemen were really vary
likeable civilised fellows under their costumes, somewhat like
our American coyrboya.
Any day now we can expect the billboards and movie ads to be
flashing with something like this:
Coming Soon, Soon, Soon! The Decline and Fall of World History.
Written by: Ray Bradbury, Irving Stone, Morey Bernstein, Francoiae
Sagan and Bob Steed.
Starring a shining galaxy of actor* and actresses, including: Orson
Welles, Lash LaRus, Johnny Weissmuller and Cheetah, Dean Martin
and Jerry Lewis, Ingrid Bergman, Greta Garbo, Thelma Ritter, Max and
Spangles, and Her Serena Highness, the Princess of Monaco.
The movie is directed by Alfred Hitchchicken and a newcomer in
the directing field, Margaret O’Brine.
The Decline and Fall (as it will he called for short) is th* first
movie ever to be made in that magnificent new development • Magneto
phantscope - it reaches out and grab* you. It is the only color movie
ever to be filmed entirely in black and white!
You'll thrill to hear Alexander the Great dip his fingernails and
Ernest Hemingway flex his biceps in new Hysteriophonk sound 1
So don’t miss Th* Decline and Fall of War Id History whan It comas
to your theatre. All members of the Captain Marvel Chib will be ad
mitted at half-price upon showing their insignia. (A Dixxy-Lou pro
duction).
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