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Volume XLVIII MERCER UNIVERSITY, MACO^, GEORGIA, MARCH 31, 1967 Number 12 THE SWINGING MEDALLIONS Greek Week Dance To Feature Medallions Tonight the I.F.C. is sponsoring a (lance featuring the “Swinging Medallions” as the highlight of the Greek Week festivities. The dance will lie held at the Shurlington Armory beginning at eight p.m. This afternoon a series of relays and games were held in an attempt to pro vide :■ chance for the students to get "right" for tonight's dance The gsmes consisted of ten events performed twice. I he first event was a chariot e around the athletic field. After completing a circle around the field thi riders jum|>ed out. raced up to the Administration Building and hie k. They then tagged the next participants, who Were log choppers Alter the logs were chopped there was a race to the tennis court where the object became to hit ten good serves and then to race "piggy back" back to the spectator irea. from the spectator area the Greeks raced to the Chapel and back up to the married students’ dorms. At this |>oint there were quite a few Greeks who appeared ready to turn in their pins. From here the contestants had to hit a ping-pong hall hack to the main area. They tagged the next con testant who raced to the gym; where there was a contest to sink five free throws with a basketball. From the gym the Greeks raced hack to the athletic field where they competed in a football kicking contest. They then returned to the main area where the next event was a pie eating contest. After the pie was consumed the relay was refieated. Everyone seemed to enjoy the relays though some asked who con ceived the idea of the distant runs. There were some sore feet I’m sure. Students Negotiate On Library Hours SIT-IN DEMONSTRATION PROMPTS FORMATION OF AN HOC GROUP Larry McConnell An ad hoc Student Committee on Libraty Affairs was appointed Monday, March 27, by Steve Moody, SGA president. This appointment was prompted by a sit-in demonstration in the library' held by approximately 200 students Sunday, March 12, the day preceding final examinations week, protesting the closing of the library. Members of this committee are Jacob Beil, David l-aney, Larry McConnell, Steve Moody, and Bobby Phillips The sit in demonstration was a |K>int of climax aroused by editor ials in the Mercer Cluster and previous discussions between library officials and student leaders, speci fically in the Waverlv C nference and its reconvening last Fall quarter The orderly demonstra tion lasted for approximately 50 minutes, until the students were assured of prompt, future discus sion between library officials and student representatives. The pro test concerned the short hours of the lihrary on Sundays and. more s|iecifka!ly. the closing of the library on the Saturday and Sun day nights immediately preceding the final examination period. Since the demonstration, there have been numerous such meetings during which it was explained that the decision to close the lihrary at regular hours on weekends preced ing Winter finals had been made by the Lihrary Committee of the Uni versitv Council, when it denied the recommendation of the University Librarian. Daniel Lamar Metts, Jr , HENDRICKS COMPROMISES S. G. A. Reports by David Hudson A regular meeting of the I A was held Tuesday, March < Old business consisted of )]minting committees to in- i.-t igate irregularities eon- ii nine trophies given by the : A for Homecoming activi- ps. to work toward keeping ic lunch room situation under instant pressure for improve- ent, and to research the risibilities for obtaining a ore-board for the baseball ?ld. Plan* wen* continued for spon- red the Mercer Folk Festival, ird 29. in conjunction with Dr. iffith. SGA will assist him and "vide a professional group for r program. On May 26. the SGA II present the Tams (I’ve Been irt) for a dance. Ihe results of the Student acher F’valuation will he given to e faculty this week, and the neral results will be published xt week. These results will be I it in the custody of the Honor mncil to be used in future oom- nsons. • ’resident Moody has organized Book Swap System for aiding e students in the re-sale and pur sue of text bookB. An explanation this program is in this issue. The quarterly meeting of the everty Conference will be held >ril 6. This is the continuation of e Conference held each summer d is composed of SGA and oer- m faculty members. Jacob Beil Is Selected For Wilson Fellowship MAUON, GA. — Jacob Beil, a Mercer University senior from Columbus, Ga. has been awarded a graduate fellowship in history by the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation. Another Mercer senior. Miss Diana Denton of Warner Robins, received' ait honorable mention. Faculty members at 1,022 col leges in the United States and Canada nominated 13,596 students as "giving promise of becoming valuable members of the academic profession," according to Sir Hugh Taylor, president of the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foun dation. who announced the win ners. Recipients of Woodrow Wilson Fellowships will receive one aca demic year of graduate education with tuition and fees paid by the Foundation, a living sti|>end of $2,000, and allowances for ele- JACOB BEIL pendent children In addition the Foundation will award a supple mentary grant to the graduate school where each Fellow chooses to enroll—to he used for the most part for fellowships to advance graduate students. The high quality of this year's 1259 students who were awarded the Fellowships for 1967-68 was underscored by the veteran chair man of the Foundation's selection committee for the Rocky Moun tain region: "In ten years we have never seen such a good hunch of students. The cream, and it was cream, exces-ded our quota . . . " Mr. Beil, son of Mrs. Abraham Beil and the late Mr Abraham Beil of Columbus, Ga. is Chief Justice of the Honor Council at Mercer, a member of Blue Key National Honor Fraternity, is listed in Who's Who in American colleges and Universities, and has been a consistent dean's List stu dent during his 4 years at Mercer. Miss Denton, daughter of Mr. Monroe A. Denton and the late Mrs. Denton was editor of the Mercer student paper The Cluster. a consistent Doan's List student, member of the Cardinal Key Honor Society, corresponding secretary of M/rcer Independent Coed Associa tion, a member of Sigma Tau Gamma honor society for freshmen women, and is listed in Who's Who in American Colleges and Univer sities. to open the library along Fall quarter hours in the time immedi ately preceding finals. In confer ence, Mr. Metts stated that the four Sunday nights Fall quarter during which the library was open probably represented its "heaviest time of the whole year" in regard to student usage. A history of the lihrary hours problem, problems of staffing the lihrary on new hours, and financing the proposed extention in lihrary hours was discussed by the ad hoc committee. Recommendations con cerning hours were presented to Mr Metts in hopes that he. the faculty Library Committee, and other determining administrators would take them into consideration in resolving the problem. Following are the hours recom mendations of the ad hoc com mittee; Regular Tim** of the Quarter Mondays through Thursdays: F ridays: Saturdays: Sundays: 8 am.-It p.m. 8 a.m.- 5 p.m. 8 a.m.- 9 p.m. 2 p.m.-It) p.m. . To go into effect beginning with 1 the third Friday preceding the final ' examination jierioel, the following j hours were recommended: i Mondays through I Saturdays: 8 a.m.-ll p.m. | Sundays: 2 a.m.-ll p.m. During the regular time of the j quarter, these hours, if approved and implemented, would add a j needed nine hours per week to the ' current schedule of 82 hours for | a total of 91 hours per week. l)ur j ing the three weeks preceding finals, the increase' would be 17 I hours fora total of 99 library hours j per week ' These recommendations are the problem in general is presently [ under consideration by* the Unh-e*- l sity Librarian and other pertinent University officials, and a decision I should be forthcoming soon. B00KSWAP PLANNED BY STUDENT GOV'T. by STEVE MOODY Have you noticed the bulletin lioard in the Post .Office lately ’ No. not the one up town with all the pictures on it 1 mean the campus Post Office with all the scribbles and notices of struggling Mercer students trying to sell their text Isioks What'.’ Why don't flu- student- sell their books to the Bookstore? Wi ll, I can sc,- that sou Iviven't bee n around long. The Bookstore's of all college's and universities must follow some particular pattern of buying use'ej hooks. Although there are exceptions, the Mercer Bookstore usually buys hack l*.oks for half price and sells them for seventy-five per ce'nt of the ir original e-pst What? Why don't the students try to set up some sort '4 organized bookswap? Didn't you know? IT IS ALREADY IN THE PROCESS How would this help the stu dent? It would clean up the me-ss in the Post Office. It would .give the student a certain place to go. not only if he wante'd to see'll a hook, hut if he wante'd to buy one also. Another bemefit is that it would save the studemt time and ex|)ense. Expense! Hey, that’s money! How would it save him money’’ Here is an example'. If Henry (!odworth bought a book for $10.00 at the beginning of the quarter, he could probably sell it at the Book store for $5.00. Well, here comejs Jane Repulski to the Bookstore to buy a used l«sik It c'ost her $7 50 However, if Henry had put his book in the new SG A booksvVap. leaving his name, address, tele phone number, etc., then Jane could have simply looke'd in the appropriate slot, found Henry’s name and address, and bargained for the book There will also 1h> a place for the sugge'stexl price. If this price had Ix’j'n $6.00, for ex ample. then Henry would have made $1.00 and Jane would have saves! $1.50. Yes, I know $100 (Continued on page 6)