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November 4, 1960
THE MERCER CLUSTER
By DERYL DAUGHERTY
FROM THE VOICE OF THE PAST:
1890 Students Praise
Cigarette Prohibition
(Editor’s note, in the November 1893 issue of the Mephistophelean,
s Mercer student publirstion, the editors praised the recent action of
the state legislature for having out-lawed the sale of cigarettes. Part
of that editorial is reprinted below.)
The bill recently passed by the Georgia legislature prohibiting the
sale of cigarettes within this state caused the gloom which has per
vaded the atmosphere around Mercer’s campus for several days past
How cruel were our law-makers f —
to impose such a punishment upon
the cigarette smokers. They have
said that the sale of the “coffin
nail” must cease, which means that
McElmurray’s call to Henry Mc
Call for a "Toby” will be unan
swered, and that though Brown
Sewall will rake around in the
ashes for hours at a time, none of
Dick Curd’s stumps will be found
there or anywhere else.
All physicians agree that cigar
ette smoking is injurious to one’s
health. We constantly read in the
papers of persons dying from the
direct cause of smoking cigarettes.
For the reason that they are about
ten times cheaper than cigars,
many more cigarettes are smoked
than cigars . . .
Some persons smoke daily as
many as three “packs,” which
ruins their lungs, drives them
blind, poisons their systems,
makes their skin yellow and their
breath (Holy horrors!) too offen
sive to be described.
And then again, there are many
who can not afford cigars, and
therefore would not smoke at all,
were it not that cigarettes are so
cheap they think they must in
dulge themselves in a smoke oc
casionally.
. . . There are hundreds of little
brats in our larger cities who
make their living by picking up
cigar and cigarette stumps, and
selling them to be made into cig
arettes again. Tobacco at best is
only a Weed, ahd man is the only
animal who uses it. Not even the
four-legged hog cares for it. Cat
tle, which eat nearly every other
weed, do not stoop for tobacco. The
monkey, whose chief delight it is
to ape man in everything else he
does, draws the line when it comes
to smoking.
Cigars, though bad enough, are
not as injurious as cigarettes, and
a person who cannot afford cigars,
had better let the filthy weed en
tirely alone.
The people of Georgia are to be
congratulated upon having such
wiae legislators, as exhibited in
the passage of the cigarette bill.
Teacher Test
To Be Given
The national teacher examina
tions, prepared and administered
annually by Educational Testing
Service, will be given at various
centers throughout the United
States on February 11, 1961. By
special arrangement with Uie
guidance center this test may be
taken at Mercer.
At the one day testing session,
a candidate may take the common
examinations, including tests in
professional information, general
culture, English expression and
non-verbal reasoning and one or
two of thirteen optional examina
tions designed to demonstrate mas
tery of subject matter to be taught.
Georgia does not require this test,
but some states do. A prospective
teacher should check to see if the
test is required in the state in
which he plans to teach.
Information concerning this test
can be obtained from P. E. Maffeo
in the guidance center. There is a
fee of |9 for the common exam and
32 each for optional examinations,
totaling to no more than 313. Ap
plications and fees will be accept
ed during November and Decem
ber and early in January before
Jan. 13, 1961.
ATO: Sinclair Shingler is pinned
to Mary Dindley of Wesleyan.
KA pledged Ralph Norman and
Ted de Trevllle in “wild-cat” rush.
Lambda Chi held a Halloween
party at the Jeff Davis room of
the Hotel Lanier. New pledges are
Jimmy Hitchcock and Eddie Farr.
The Phi Delts will honor their
new pledges with a cookout at the
lodge. They also gained a new
pledge, Pierce Chapman, during the
late season rush.
Sigma Nu’s Tony Keaton is pin
ned to Rona Turner of F.S.U. and
Larry Brown is pinned to Pat Caw-
thon, a nurse at the Swainsborough
hospital. The Snake's pledge-bro
ther party will be November 12.
SAE goblins haunted the Macon
Plaza last Friday. The occasion
was their annual Halloween party.
The entire chapter will attend the
wedding of alumnus Bob Hearn
and Jeanie Green in Decater Satur
day.
ADPi’s Jackie Knight is the
MIMA pledge sweetheart. The Pir
ates held a Halloween party Mon
day night.
Chi 0 is having a party at Ingle-
side Community Clubhouse tonight.
They will hold open house for the
faculty Sunday.
MICA is going on a hayride to
Loch Lomond Saturday.
University of Georgia homecom
ing last weekend attracted a bevy
of Mercer girls. They were Mollie
Jones, Gracelyn Hawks, Bonnie
Johnson, Gennie Maddox and Faye
Gamer of Phi Mu; Gail Kelly,
Frances Dugger, Nell Hitchcock,
Ruby Meadows and Eleanor Haynes
of Chi O.
MIMA annuonces 10 new as
sociates for fall quarter.
They are: Charles Brownlee,
Atlanta: Juan Delgado, San Juan,
P. R.; Ralph Eberhart, Atlanta;
Andy Hammond, Elberton; Glenn
Hodge, Atlanta; Joe Hubbard, Ma
con; John Laney, Columbus; Jerry
Poole, Austell; Kenneth Reeves,
Dearing, and Bennie Thurston,
Jackson.
Associate officers are Hodge,
president; -Hammond, -vice-presi
dent, and Thurston, secretary-
treasurer.
One of the new associates,Brown
lee, earlier this quarter was elect
ed president of the freshman class
at Mercer University.
SGA Committee
Fold By Thompson
The 1960 Homecoming commit
tee was recently announced by SGA
President Olin Thompson. At the
same time he released other com
mittees that would be serving this
year.
The Homecoming committee is
composed of Nick Banks, Dan
Bradley, Tommy Clark, Charlie
Ethridge, Edge Farley, Gail Nor
ris, Lindsay Simpson and Olin
Thompson.
At the same time Thompson
appointed a chapel committee to
help vice-president Ken Owen
with the SGA chapel programs.
On this committee are Charles
Brownlee, Gerald Harris and
Tommy Storey.
As his executive committee
Thompson selected L. E. Brown,
Tommy Clark, Jane Oliver, Ken
Owen, Dot Thompson and Charles
Williams.
The current year’s honor com
mittee has also been released.
Serving in this body will be David
Archer. Nancy Chapman, Sophie
Clark, Annette Harden, Gerald
Harris, Tom Kendrick-Holmes,
Nancy Morgan, Bob Preston, Rex
Ruff and Ross Young.
Foreign Student
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students from abroad to the Mer
cer campus.
Thompson said after meeting
with the dean that there teems a
“good possibility of having some
foreign students next year.”
Original plans for the initial for
eign student called for one from
Russia or the “iron-curtain” coun
tries but the U-2 incident and other
factors crippled the force of this
idea.
CORRECTION
The Cluster regrets the typo
graphical error in the last issue
which reported KA’s being defeated
16 to 4. The correct score was
16-14.
BSU Sets
New Policy-
On Members
Mercer’s Baptist Student Union
has recently revised its member
ship policy to include students
other than unit organisation mem
bers .
The executive council, policy
making body of the group, voted
to change the ruling from a general
coverage of all Baptist students
to a more specific group. Under
the old policy, a student was con
sidered a member of BSU if he
were a member of « BSU unit
organization (Religious Education
Association, Ministerial Associa
tion, YWA, BSU Choir, Christian
Service Fellowship) or a local
Baptist church.
Under the new system, any
student expressing a desire to
become a member of BSU may
join, with unit organization mem
bers automatically included as
before. The difference Is that
now no one is assumed to be a
member of BSU merely because
he is affiliated with a local
church.
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Any student desiring to join
BSU who is not a member of one
of the above mentioned unit or
ganizations may do so by contact
ing the office of religious activities
or a member of the BSU executive
council.
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