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Mercer Ministerial Student
Killed Returning From Athens
For the second time in less than six months a Mercer stu
dent met death on the highway.
Hugh Burke, a freshman ministerial student from States
boro was killed in a two-car collision last Sunday outside
Eatonton while returning to Mercer from Athens where he
attended the state BSU convention.
Volume XLI
StCOND THIS YEAR
MERCER UNIVERSITY, MACON, GEORGIA, NOVEMBER i I9MI
Number 5
The accident occurred about
umhtime and Burke, along with
Don Little, driver of the car, was
ru-hed to Jordan Hospital. Burke
lied shortly after arrival at the
hospital.
I ittle, a transfer student in his
rut quarter at Mercer, suffered
severe injuries.
1* The accident occurred when an
e ipgreaching automobile crossed
11 ntu the Mercerians’ lane of traf-
'ic and collided head-on with Lit-
cl tie s 1966 Ford. The driver of the
)' itlier car, who was about to stop
11 mil look at his road map when the
1 sirs collided, was not badly hurt.
" I ittle, a graduate of North Hall
II.gh School in Gainesville trans-
c ’erred here from Truett-McCon-
0 n II. He is a ministerial student
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Hugh Burke
High teen-year-old Hugh Burke
ml liecome active in the BSU, the
ISU choir, and the Mercer Minis-
■i ml Association. He was a Juno
laduate of Statesboro High
ehool, where he was active in
amorous musical and service or-
anizations. He was an Eagle
unit.
Funeral services were held in
tie Statesboro First Baptist
I 'hurch Tuesday afternoon. Ap-
roximately 30 Mercerians at-
ended the service.
I The accident liore a striking
imilarity to the death of Mer-
erian Ovid Stewart, a young min-
who was killed this summer
rhile en route to Statesboro,
hirke’s home town.
BSU President Del Presley led
lie Mercer studeqt body in a mo-
nent of silent tribute to Burke in
Tuesday’s SGA chapel program.
Mercer classmates of Burke arc
dunning a memorial for him
Charles Brownlee, president of
he freshman class, Glenn Hayes
im) other friends have proposed a
Memorial fund to be used for an
"gan at the youth’s church, the
irst Baptist Church of Statesboro.
Burke’s classmates are check-
g into the possibility of obtain-
ng a pulpit Bible for Willingham
hapel as a campus memorial to
im.
Demos Hold
Political Rally
A small but enthusiastic crowd
of M ercer students, members of
the faculty and administration, lo
cal citizens and children turned
our Tuesday night at (1:30 in sup.
port of a political rally held be
hind the girls’ gymnasium on the
Mercer campus.
The political rally, broadcast by
local radio station WNEX, was
sponsored by the Young Democrat
(Tub of Mercer.
Jerry Hendrix, president of the
club, presided.
On program were Hal Hen
nery. law librarian and faculty
advisor, and Tom Kdenfield.
state collegiate co-chairman of
the Young Democrat clubs and
member of the National Voters
Advisory Committee, and Den
mark Groover, principal speak
er.
Groover, Macon attorney, for
mer state representative and for
mer Democratic national commit
teeman from Georgia, spoke at
length on the basic differences be
tween the two political parties.
Groover encouraged all citizens to
vote on Nov. 8, terming it the
“greatest privilege afforded to the
American people."
A sided attraction was the per
formance of a segment of the Mer
cer KOTC hand which blasted
forth its approval of the main
points of Groover’s speech.
—Photo by Ward Lowrance
"A man should strive to go beyond his teachers."
Brewster -
The Culprit ?
Foreign Student
Plans Continued
SGA President Olin Thompson
is continuing in the plans of his
predecessor, Bev Bates, to arrange
for a foreign student at Mercer in
the future.
Thompson has conferred with
Dean Robert H. Spiro, Jr. and re
ports that the dean is extremely
interested in bringing a number of
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Howard Scores First
In Annual Tournament
Howard College debaters scored top honors in the Dixie Debate
Tournament at Mercer last weekend.
Nearly 150 debaters from a dozen colleges in the Southeast squared-
off in two-man teams to argue the question of compulsory health in
surance for all citizens in the two-day scries of debates.
Although the Mercer debaters,
as hosts, were not eligible for con
test standing, they won 11 of 12
contests in the novice team de
bates.
Teams taking part in the de
bate were Auburn, David Lips
comb, Emory University, Geor
gia Tech, Howard, University of
Georgia. University of Florida.
University of Kentucky, Missis
sippi Southern, Reinhardt Col
lege, St. John's River, University
of South Carolina and West
Georgia.
Team standings in the novice
category:
First place, negative, University
of South Carolina; second place,
Mississippi Southern; third place,
Howard College.
First place, affirmative, Univer
sity of Kentucky; second place,
Mississippi Southern; third place,
Reinhardt.
First place school, Mississippi
Southern; second place school,
University of South Carolina;
third place school, University of
Kentucky.
Varsity category:
First place negative, University
of Florida; second place, Howard
College; third place, Mississippi
Southern.
Fit t place affirmative. Univer
sity of South Carolina; second
place, Howard College; third
place, University of Kentucky.
First place school, Howard Col
lege; second place school, Univer
sity of South Carolina, and third
place school, University of Ken
tucky.
The Dixie Debate is only the
first of a probable four or five
competitions the respective teams
will enter in the current season,
said Dr. Heleq G. Thornton, head
of the speech and drama depart
ment at Mercer and official direc
tor of the school team. Assisting
her were Charles Love, speech
and drama dept., and Coach Rob
ert Wilder.
Faculty political rivalry broke out with the posting of
political and personal propoganda on a concrete post in the
foyer of the student center, Monday night. Mercer Professor
Willis B. Glover, an ardent campus Republican and Nixon sup
porter, lx>re the brunt of the attack.
The postings were reminiscent
of the “95 Theses” of last year.
Interestingly, the propoganda was
posted on Reformation Day, some
443 years after Martin Luther
tacked his theses to the door at
Wittenberg.
The propoganda consisted of a
Democratic advertisement featur
ing the names of scholars and ar
tists who were supporting Ken
nedy. The advertisement had ap
peared in a recent New York
Times.
The names of many of these
who bore a special relation to
Glover, especially his 19 Harvard
professors, were checked in or
der to point up the fart that
(Hover's teachers were support
ing Kennedy while he was fight
ing for Nixon, (juipped Glover,
“A man should strite to go be
yond his teachers."
The second portion was a column
written for authors’ day. also clip
ped from the New- York Times. It
featured remarks from well-known
authors and to the side were listed
“Gloverisms,” allegedly Glover’s
reply to those remarks.
Glover immediately pointed an
accusing finger at his colleague,
Brewster of the Christianity de
partment. "Ray Brewster had to
have been a party in this,” said
the history professor.
Glover was accusing Brewster of
writing the Gloverisms, For exam
ple, beside a statement that "the
author who speaks about his own
books is almost as bad as the mo
ther who talks about her children,”
a Gloverism w-as listed: “Anybody
interested in a copy of God and
Thomas Hobbs’”
Science Awards
To Be Given
During the academic year 1961-
1962, the National Science Founda
tion will award approximately
1200 graduate and 150 postdoctoral
fellowships to the candidates who
are selected as most outstanding
in their ability in the final judging
by the foundation itself.
The National Academy of
Sciences’ national research council
has been called upon again to ad
vise the foundation in the selection
of candidates, and it has responded
by appointing a committee of out
standing scientists to evaluate the
applications of all the candidates
on the basis of ability.
These fellowships are open to
college seniors, graduate and post
doctoral students, and others with
equivalent training and experience,
who are citizens of the United
States. Fellowships may be applied
to advanced study in the mathe
matical. physical, medical, biolo
gical, and engineering sciences in
cluding' anthropology, and psychol
ogy (excluding clinical psychol
ogy). They may also be applied
toward the study of the following
social sciences: geography, mathe
matical economics, econometrics,
demography, information and com
munication theory, experimental
and quantitative sociology and the
history and philosophy of science.
The annual stipends for gradu
ate fellows are as follows: $1800
for the first year; $2000 for the
intermediate year; and $2200 for
the terminal year. The annual
stipend for postdoctoral fellows
is $4500. Limited allowances will
also be provided to apply toward
tuition, laboratory fees, and
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No Chapel Wednesday
There will be no chapel Wed
nesday, but chapel will be held
Thursday at 10 a.m.
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