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May 25, 1966
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THE MERCER CLUSTER
Mercer Varsity Teams
Have Successful Year
All hail the champions! The Mercer
baseball team has completed another suc
cessful season under the fine tutelage of
Coach Claude ‘•Red Dog” Smith. Although
they won no title of division championship
(since Mercer is in no conference) the
diamond squad has completed what has
been probably the most impressive season
in many years.
Coach Smith has been producing a win
ning team for many seasons now. Last year
he finished with an 11-8 mark, and topped
that mark this season with the final 14-6
record.
During all this baseball talk, one must
not overlook the records turned in by the
>ther sports. Coach Jim Cowan did not have
the material to match the opposition in
noth the basketball and track seasons. How
ever, his charges would never say die, and
fought to the finish every time.
Coach Mel Mayfield took on the tough
est tennis schedule ever faced by a Mercer
team, and emrged with the Bearskin rough
ened, but still intact.
One more varsity sport, the golfers,
under Dr. Ben Griffith showed up for the
first time in many years and turned in a
creditable season, with the pinnacle of the
season coming when Auburn fell to the
Bears here. Next year the Bear linksmen
which have experience on their side when
they take on any opponents.
“All this and without subsidation too!”
some people will start to think. That is
surely true, but if the Mercer Bears expect
to stay even on the sports front, a system
of subsidation will have to be worked out
in some way.
STEED'S
Cluster
Comments
Summer is surely on its way. The swimming pools have opened,
the Co-op is doing a land office business in ice cream, and the professors
have put away their winter tie and are now wearing their summer tie.
To see what the members of the Mureer family are doing this summer
read this week’s “Mercer Poll.” This member of the family is checking
out for sunny St. Simons next Saturday. Some very un-Mercerlike
activities transpire at St. Simons on house party week-end.
• • * •
Next year Mercer’s campus will be creeping with the annual crop
of freshmenis ignorami. (freshman) I mention this only to say that this
year we should all resolve to help the sophomores with their ratting
program. I think Mercer lost a lot of spirit when they did away with
hazing of freshmen. A few cold showers and shaved heads never hurt
anyone and they certainly helped the school spirit as any old grad will
tell you. Many long years ago the freshmen spent more time in the
Tatnall Square fountain than they did in Sherwood Hall.
Attend Benefit Ballgame
American Legion baseball will be in the
spotlight tonight at Luther Williams Field,
whei. the Macon Dodgers meet the Jackson
ville Tars in a South Atlantic League base
ball game. If ever a Mercer student was to
go to a “Dodgers” hall game, tonight is the
time.
Tonight’s game will be a benefit Ameri
can Legion game, with the proceeds going
to the fund to underwrite the local Ameri
can Legion baseball program. Col. William
D. Smith, professor of military science
and tactics at Mercer, is local chairman of
the American Legion baseball program.
Colonel Smith emphasizes that the pro
gram vitally needs money, and the “Dodg
ers” have graciously donated the proceeds
for tonight’s regular game, provided
enough people turn out for the contest.
3,000 fans are needed if the American Leg
ion Junior basball program is to be helped.
How can you help? Just go to the game
tonight. Your admission will go to a pro
gram that will help build the American boy
into a man with a fine outlook for the
future. This is a worthy project and it
needs everyone's support. See you at the
ball game, TONIGHT!
E. B.
Does Mercer Have An Honor System ?
“Something should be done about cheat
ing at Mercer!”
We hear this over and over. We nod
our heads in agreement and draw our
cloaks of self-righteousness tighter about
us. We are law-abiding students. We
wouldn't think of violating the Honor Sys
tem of Mercer. Why, we’ve never cheated
on a test in our life.
But doesn’t our honor involve more than
just tests? If our code of right and wrong
is effective only in the class room, it isn’t
really a tried-and-true principle. If our
honor doesn’t govern our behavior with our
fellow students, our use of the truth, our
struggle for popularity, our life in the busi
ness world, our attitude toward life, then
Mercer has no honor system and we, as
Mercer students, are cheaters.
So often we, in our self-righteousness,
forget that as others see us in our daily
situations they draw their principles of
behavior. Maybe the boy who cheated on
that test didn’t see us cheat on a test. But
did he see us cheat in life?
Yes, somebody should do something
about cheating at Mercer. But only as each
of us becomes that somebody will Mercer
really have an honor system.
—J. M.
I will pay many dollars to the finder of a semi-pearl ring loet by an
Indian friend of mine. This friend, a, pardon the expression, Wesleyanne,
was demonstrating the approved method for falling off water skis
when she dropped the ring in 90 feet of water at Lake Sinclair. We
didn’t even dive for it.
• * • *
Friends, this will be the last Cluster for a while. Have a good time
over the summer and don’t sweat the small stuff. (The lad who coined
that phrase flunked out of school last quarter.)
HERE 'N THERE
WITH
KRISTINA MOORE
Today we are going to give roees and congratulations where they
are most richly deserved. With no further ado, congratulations (for
one reason or another) to:
Katie Reed, who received such a fright when bricked up in the
wall of Willingham chapel that her hair turned a permanent red. Have
you tried clorox, Katie?
Shirley Whelchel, who is the only person known to have swallowed
a hard-boiled egg in one gulp and survived. She is practicing up for
pool balls.
The Johnson brothers, Sid and Ben, whose performance in chapel
so warmed the hearts of weary chapel-goers that they still tap their
feet nostalgically at ten o’clock three mornings a week.
Pete Martin who recently wrote an article for the Saturday Evening
Post entitled "The New Marilyn Monroe.”
All the Mercerians who have dared to come out in their Bermuda
shorts on the front campus. Imagine, BARE kneee!
Helen “Boogie” Faulkner for her amazing display of acrobatics at
the Chi 0 - Phi Mu softball game.
Nita Young, who is now working on the last chapter of her book
“How to Marry a Trillionaire.”
• • • •
Bouquets
And Bugs
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MKKCKk UNIVERSITY, MACON. GEORGIA
MAY 25. 1956 VOLUME 86. NUMBER 25
Naira Editor John Eaufman
Asseeiats Editor ...
Jackie Walton
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Aaaociat* Sparta Editor
Aaaoeiata Sporta Editor
Circulation and Krrtaif -.
Financial 8a*ratary
Columnist— Kriatina Moors
Editorialist—Bill Nash. Sarah Law la
Sports wiltara Alias Portar and Martha Ana Abbott
Nows writrm—Charlaa BsW. Norman Boram, Dana Cook, Marlon Boyatta. and Marty Layfiald
Faaturs wri bars—Batty Landlord and Emily H HO baa
Soaisty wrttar—Nan Williams
Roy as Hobbs
— Larry Brlohtwail
_ ...Jobn Wilson
Jim Maion ay
For some reason June has been on my mind and I was planning to
say a few enlightening words about that month. I was even going to do
some research on it, already. However, my neighbor’s volume of Comp
ton’s gave only one singularly unenlightening paragraph on the subject.
In fact it gave more about June Bug, which comes next, than it did about
June. In view of this deficiency, we’ll just have to use June Bug instead,
like it or not. Incidentally, the June Bug is also called the “May Beetle"
by those who have difficulty remembering months (anyone who’s up-to-
date at all knows it’s April), and phyllophaga by those who have dif
ficulty remembering English.
With all the good works that go on about the Mercer campus, it is
unbelievable that we do not have a chapter of the Society for the Preven
tion of Cruelty to June Bugs. If you are any kind of loyal, red-blooded,
Caucasian, unreconstructed Southern child at all, you will certainly
know what I’m talking about.
Don’t you remember all those lovely May and June afternoons ypu
spent contributing to the intoxication of insects. Search your mind,
sadist. We used to tie lengths of sewing thread about their middles and
swing them around, shrieking and bussing, until they were too drunk
to play airplane any more. (Just you wait, you may yet be behind bars )
• • • •
Oh yes, one parting word since this is the last time that Moore’s
little words of wisdom will appear in the Mercer Cluster-Goodbye*
friends and willarda, it’s been real.