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Collie Directory
Gives Facts
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Georgia’* college-bound students
ran now turn to one catalog for
baiic data on all of the state's in-
ulitutions of higher education.
Hiis Directory of Educe tioi
| Opportunities in Georgia 1966-67,
umpUed by the Georgia Educa-
I tional Improvement Council, was
presented to Gov. Lester Maddox
Wednesday, May 8, by members of
the Council, a state agency for re
search and planning in all levels of
| education.
Council Chairman Joseph Whit-
I tie of Brunswick said that the Di
rectory gathered into one volume
for the first time basic information
on Georgia’s 31 4-year colleges, 19
2-year colleges, 23 vocational-tech
nical schools, and eight special pur
pose institutions—public and pri-
| vote.
Need for the single-volume cata-
| log, as explained by authors Dr.
Charles E. Hopkins and C. Wil
liam Norman, Jr. of the Council
staff, is to assist students as they
are forced to make mature judg
ments earlier in their high school
careers, with the help of their coun-
| selots and teachers.
The Directory’s purpose is to
I provide a starting point for the stu-
I dent in his exploration of Ms own
I state’s institutions of higher learn-
| ing, the authors explain.
Information in the catalog is ex-
Itracted from current catalogs and
I bulletins from the individual insti-
I tut ions. No attempts are made to
I evaluate the schools nor to compare
I the relative merits of institutions,
I the authors stress.
State scholarships for students in
I nursing, paramedical, and teaching
I fields axe also described. Moet of
I these may be paid off by service in
I the state, the Directory points out
Regents scholarships for students
I in University System institutions—
[junior as well as senior—are also
[covered. Financial aid is further de-
Itailed under individual institutions.
The Directory offers a quick
|comparison of college costs for pri-
> and state institutions. It shows
at tuition in the state ranges from
ast $600 a quarter at private in-
tions like Agnes Scott College,
atur, and Emory University, At-
a, to $376 per quarter at La
nge College, LaGrange, and
at Mercer University, Macon,
boarding student at a private
orgia college can expect to pay
proximately $2400 a year at
and Agnes Scott or about
i a year at Oglethorpe College,
ita. He will pay about $1800
year at LaGrange College,
at $1600 a year at Shorter Col-
Rome, and about $1300 at
iercer University or Tift College,
arsyth.
st^je colleges, basic boarding
nses would run about $1000 a
at such schools as North
College, Dahlonega, Sa-
State College, Savannah,
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Please Help The Cluster
by Tom Cauthorn
During the past week I have been told that many students
think that the Cluster is pseudo-intellectual and more con
cerned with irrelevant national issues than with Mercer Uni
versity.
This is probably the greatest insult which anyone could
summon upon himself. Simply, if you think the Cluster is not
sufficient you should try to improve it and not waste your
time thinking of incipient criticisms.
The critics of the Cluster will do well to make their active
interest known next fall I do not believe that I can take seri
ously any complaint unless I at least receive a letter. Your
criticism is beneficial but your work and aid are imperative.
The Cluster has a tremendous responsibility in the next
year and you can help the staff and editors if you turn your
criticism into constructive efforts.
* * *
There will be an organizational meeting of the CLUSTER
Monday, May 22 in the Cluster office at 7:00 in the evening.
All present members of the staff are required to attend and
anyone interested in working next year should try to attend.
Your interest is appreciated.
The
Reports
The SGA met Tuesday night
with President David Hudson pre-
and West Georgia College, Carroll
ton. Expenses at the University of
Georgia would run slightly higher.
A section on special purpose in
stitutions covers the Medical Col
lege of Georgia, Augusta; Southern
School of Pharmacy, Atlanta;
Southern Technical Institute, Mari
etta; Atlanta University, a grad
uate institution in Atlanta; and
four theological schools.
Copies of the Directory are on
file in all of the state’s high schools,
junior colleges and colleges, and
vocational-technical schools.
siding. Reports were heard from
SGA members concerning the three
catering services visiting the cam
pus last week. A written report will
be submitted from the SGA to Mr.
Haywood concerning its preference
in the choice of a catering service
on campus next year.
Plane were formalized for the
annual Waverly Conference this
summer, including topics for discus
sion and the attendance.
Plans were also discussed for
making available to all students a
seasonal ticket for all functions of
student involvement where a charge
is regularly required for admission.
The tickets will cost ten dollars.
IAVID SIMMS ELECTED PRESIDENT OF THE
GEORGE SCHOOL OF LAW STUDENT BAR ASSN.
The beginning of final arama next Friday will wind up
*r lor Mercer’s Welter F. George School of Lew. The
Lew Dey has one end gone, a new elate of officers he*
i elected and the year is coming to a ckee.
New president of the Student
Bar Association is David Simms,
succeeding David Turner. Simms
graduated from Mercer’s College of
Liberal Arts and has served in the
Military Police and the U. S. Secret
Service. He is a member of Blue
Key and Delta Theta Phi; he has
also served as chairman of the stu
dent publications committee, and as
president of Alpha Tau Omega.
The Mercer Law Review’s new
editor is William Cetti, who has for
soma time maintained the highest
academic average in the Law
School He is a member of Blue
Key, of Phi Alpha Delta and the
Kappa Alpha Order.
Other newly-elected officers am:
Winn Stewart, vice-president; Jim
Sayar, secretary, Bill McAbee,
treasurer; Lee Ramsey, solicitor;
Roman Dxiewieneki, sergeant-at
arms; Jerry Sanders, Chief Justice;
May 1$, 1967
THE MERCER CLUSTER
Take A Critical Look At
W. S. G. A.
Later dormitory hours, more realistic dress regulations,
and a generally revised WSGA handbook are things which all
dormitory conversation seems to favor, but as the present gov
ernment representation is set up nothing is nor promises to be
done about them.
If the function of our Women’s Student Government As
sociation is truly to voice the desires and needs of women stu
dents and more important, to carry them out, then why does
this dissatisfaction exist?
Is the WSGA so convenintly set up that it is really in
effectual as a student voice? Is it rather an agent to enforce
upon the students what is really the voice of the administration
or whoever constitutes the nebulous power that wishes to main
tain the archaic and prudish LITTLE BLACK BOOK as it
now exists?
How many of you know what has been discussed at WSGA
meetings this year? How many of you have ever voiced an
opinion to a WSGA representative and asked her to bring up
an issue of question? How many of you even know who your
WSGA representatives are?
Respond To Hie Need
This much of the problem is your fault — you, the stu
dents. This much is your responsibility. But the vague and
inadequate organization and function of the WSGA is the
fault of the representatives and officers of the group and of the
administration who have allowed it to stay that way.
The WSGA suggestion boxes seemed to be a good step;
but .what have we heard of their results? What suggestions
were made and what action taken?
The Cluster would welcome a report from each WSGA
meeting and would also like to see any interest students, repre
sentatives, officers, and administration have concerning all
these things,
Letters, editorials, and news pertaining to this are re
quested. If anybody is interested in seeing action taken on the
complaints they have in the dormitory — hours, dress, dating
restrictions — then please show your interest!
Mercer IS capable of self-improvement Student action
has gotten results this year and it can in the future.
We plan to investigate your opinions next year through
a student opinion poll and will publish results and work toward
action. If you are interested in these and other issues, LET
US KNOW.
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Cluster office — room 328, Connell Student Center. Contribu
tions may be left on the editor’s desk, left under the door after
11:00 p.m., or given to any Cluster staff member.
How many freshman women will come here next year and expect to
much from a Mercer that U going to be unwilling to change even if it
means keeping a large percentage of potential transferee*?
Bill Exum and Tom Sanders, Sen
ior Justices; Larry Collins and Cur
tis Farrar, Junior Justices.
Chief event of the year for the
law school was the annual Law Day
observance on May 5th. The speech
es and discussions of the day cen
tered around the question of the il
legality of electronic surveillance.
Principal speaker was Judge Wal
ter P. Gewin of the U. S. Court of
Appeals. Judge Gewin was intro
duced by Judge Griffin Bell. Guest
participants in a seminar of wire
tapping were New York attorney
Richard Kuh; Elliott H. Levitan,
an Atlanta attorney; and Duke
University law professor Lawrence
G. Wallace.
Many alumni of the Law School
were preeent for the speech, dinner
and discussions and a dance was
held in the evening to bring the
nineteenth annual Mercer Law Day
and save for final exams and grad
uation, the 108647 academic year,
to a cloae.