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MERCER UNIVERSITY, MACON, GEORGIA, NOVEMBER 6, 1964
Number 7
COL PITTS NAMES FIVE SENIORS DMS
Five Mercer seniors have been
isignated Distinguished Military
udents, one of the highest honors
, ROTC cadet can receive during
i four years of training.
Lt. Col. Robert L. Pitts. PMS.
inounced that the students are J.
olin Harris, William T. Emm,
hades R. Hearn, James T. Hum-
>rey and Johnny Ray Ferguson.
Distinguished Military Students
■e selected on the basis of their
sdemic standing in the university
d their record in the ROTC de-
rtnient. Their performance dur-
l the six-week summer camp is
so evaluated.
To be selected, a cadet must be
senior and have completed sum-
camp, be in the top 10 per cent
ROTC students and the upper
alf of the university scholastical-
,1 ('olin Harris is commander of
le ROTC battalion and a resident
Decatur. William T. Exum,
akeland, Ga , is battalion execu
te officer, Charles R. Hearn, Co
imbus, is adjutant. Johnny Ray
‘erguson, S-3, is from Macon, and
smes T. Humphrey, Warner
tobins, is commander of A Com
ny.
Mercer Cadets
Get Pay Boost
Mercer ROTC cadets are now
ceiving the benefits of the re-
ently passed bill boosting military
alaries.
Students enrolled in the advanc
<i program, ROTC during the jun-
or and senior years, are now re-
. g $40 per month instead of
he old base |»ay of $27
Also under the new pay system
idvanced students will be eligible
xt year for an Army scholarship
Die scholarship will pay for tui-
n, laboratory fees and $60 per
nonth.
Cadets now enrolled in the ad
unred program are receiving the
lenefits of the pay raise as it went
nto effect Oct. 13.
I’av during the six-week summer
amp will be raised from $78 to
1120.00 r month.
Above are Mercer University’* Distinguished Military Students for
1964-66. From left to right, Johnny R. Ferguson, William Exum, James
Humphrey, J. Colin Harris (cadet commander) and Charles R. Hearn.
(Photograph by Bob Hurt)
Harris Speaks
On Politics,
And Education
In The South
Addressing the Rotary Club of
Barnesville, last Tuesday, election
lay, President Rufus C. Harris
ipoke on "Four Basic Problems For
Southern Citizenship” and made a
few remarks on modem polities.
‘‘In many ways this has been a
disturbing political campaign.” He
said, “Booing, chanting, hissing and
insultingly-worded placards have
greeted the candidates. In a critical
time calling for unity of national
purpose, we have become badly
divided. Moreover, the feeling, so
unfortunate for a democratic socie
ty. that politics is a dirty business
has been largely revived, and we
shall even need to refurbish the
public image of the office of Presi
dency of the Republic, whoever
may win the election. Let us vote
our convictions, and in fellowship
of concern that our people may be
restored to unity of purpose and
direction, seeking the wisdom and
leadership of God.”
Rodin Exhibit Coming
To Mercer Next Week
An exhibition of twenty drawings and eleven bronzes by the French sculptor Auguste
Rodin (1840-1917), who has been called “the Father of modem sculpture,” will be on view at
the Art Gallery, room 316, Student Center, from Nov.8, to Nov. 27. It reflects Rodin’s great
amount of production in both large works such as the famous Thinker and the spirited im
provisation that he made throughout his career, cast in bronze for the most part only after
his death. The works are being circulated to museums and universities in the United States
under the program of circulating exhibitions of The Museum of Modem Art, New York
Emory Wins Debates Here
Emory University captured top honors in the 7th annual
Dixie Debate Tournament at Mercer University last week.
More than 250 debaters from 27
colleges and universities in the
Southeast competed in the two-day
tournament on the Mercer campus.
Each team participated in six
rounds.
The Emory varsity debaters
from Atlanta took first place in
both affirmative and negative com
petition. thereby compiling enough
points to be adjudged winner in
SOPHOMORE EXAMINATIONS
The Sophomore Examinations will be administered on
Thursday and Friday afternoons, November 12 and 13,
1^64 from 1:30-5:00 P.M. — -
All students who have completed 55 quarter hours of
study, and have not taken these tests, are required
to do so.
Students will report to the third floor—Humanities
Building at 1:20 P.M. on both afternoons.
Mercer Intramural football underway beneath
administration building sad thenew library. For
see SPORTS SCOPE on page three. (Photo by Broadnax)
INTRAMURAL STANDINGS
Kappa Alpha
Alpha Tau Omega
Sigma Alpha Epsilon
Kappa Sigma
Ministerial Association
Lambda Chi Alpha
8 >*ma Nu
W L T
6 0 0
Mima
4 0 0
Law School
2 10
Hu Delta Theta
3 1 1
varsity competition. Emory also
won third place in the novice divis
ion after taking first place novice
negative competition. In addition,
six Emory debaters received in
dividual awards.
(’arson-Newman College took
second place behind Emory in
varsity competition, and the Uni
versity of Kentucky was third.
The University of Kentucky and
Stetson University tied for second
place in affirmative competition in
the varsity division. And in nega
tive competition. Carson-Newman
was second and Vanderbilt Univer
sity third.
In the novice division. St. John's
River Junior College of Palatka,
Fla., was first, with the University
of Kentucky second, and Emory
third.
In affirmative com|>etition of the
novice division. St. John’s River
Junior College captured top honors,
with the University of Kentucky
second, and Vanderbilt third.
In novice negative competition,
St. John's River Junior College
was second, and the University of
Kentucky third.
As host to the tournament, Mer
cer was not eligible to receive any
of the awards.
English Profs
To Attend Meet
Several faculty members of the
Mercer English Department will
he attending the South Atlantic
Modern Language Association
meeting in Greenville, South Caro
lina, on Nov. 13 and 14. Scholarly
papers in fields relating to modem
languages and literature will be
read. Those faculty members going
are: Dr. Snipes, Dr. McMillan, and
Mr Haasel.
Outstanding
ROTC Cadet
William P. Jones, a Mercer
freshman from Thomas ton, is
the ROTC department’s out
standing Cadet of the Week.
Jones is a member of the 2nd
squad, 1st platoon of C Com
pany. He is an Alpha Tau Ome
ga pledge, a member of Circle K
Club and will play on the Mer
cer baseball team this year.
In his high school in Thomas-
ton, Jones was battalion com
mander, received the superior
cadet award his senior year and
won the Kiwanis Exemplary
Award.
The Cadet of the Week is
chosen from a different com
pany every Monday. The award
is based on general military ex
cellence.
Meets In Atlanta
The Mercer-Wesleyan Student
Group for Civic Responsibility has
recently attended a convention in
Atlanta, s|x>nsored by Georgia Stu
dents for Human Relations.
Attending the convention were
Ewan! Simmons, Charles Lewis,
Leonard Bone (all Mercer stu
dents). and Helen Kendall of Wes
leyan.
The convention consisted of con
ference*. lectures, workshops, anil
organizational sessions.
The Student Group for Civic
Responsibility is composed of Mer
cer and Wesleyan students interest
ed in the promotion of better re
lations between the races. The
next meeting will be held Thurs
day, Nov. 12, in room 314, Student
Center, at 7:30 p.m. AH interested
student* are invited to attend.
PRESIDENT HARRIS
"Religious endeavor, while not
active enough to satisfy many well-
wishers, has been steady in the
South, and what is more, it has
largely been genuine and intelli
gent. Our special processes should
be based freely on the assumption
that the Decalogue and the Ser
mon on the Mount are proper and
valid bases for social adjustments.”
Dr Harris said.
He continued, “There is need in
our area for more unchained, un
selfish and exalted political leader
ship. I mean by unchained more of
freedom from the restrictions of
custom, less idolatry of ancient
political image, and less provincial
ism. May we not hope that when
this election is over, whatever the
outcome, that we may start afresh
in this region and resolve to con
sider and judge our great social
problems on some other issues than
that of race? May we not urge our
political leaders, including those in
Washington, to offer this region
their finest leadership in the seri
ous problems arising from our in
creasing urban, industrial, econom
ic and technological development,
without confusing them with race
issues? Because ‘'nigge: nigger"
has been brought forth as the un
derlying, if not spoken, involve
ment in so many of the issues in
this generation, we Southerners
have almost dragged ourselves into
grim and insensible postures which
deny the warmth, compassion,
generosity and good sense which
constitute the true Southerner's
rightful heritage. Moreover, as an
educator, I observe the grim fact
that we have a generation of col
lege students, who have not en
couraged an important political is
sue without the “nigger, nigger”
involvement. Consequently, they
have scarcely been able to observe
or to comprehend that which is
best in the Southern political tradi
tion. This condition obscures the
magnificent image of our region in
the concept of Southern youth.
"As a teacher, I am troubled. I
wonder if thousands of our child
ren—black or white—growing up in
the midst of cheap, crude, bitter
and cynical conflict; observing,
hearing and even experiencing as
they do the kinds of savage trau
matic public and private ungen
erous, uncharitable and indeed un-
Christ-like and abusive explosions
amid so many ugly scenes, can be
expected to take readily what the
good teacher wants to convey of
the rights and duties of citizenship,
of Christian good will, of good
government, equal justice, respect
for law and political leadership."
“The South, like every sector of
the world, must constantly search
out ami find added resources for
her increasing and improving life.
But in a hugely important sense
the resources of our section remain
in large part unknown Resources
are more than matters of mines,
minerals and hank deposits: they
are what the educated and imagina
tive mind conceives them as being."
“We will be in specihl danger if
the world should place instruments
of total destruction in the hands
of people who delight in violence,
or indeed if we permit our technical
(Continued on page 3)