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November 8, 1987
THE MERCER CLUSTER
Greatest Threat To America
Is Loss Of Concensus
Moot Court
What is the greatest dome*tit
threat to the future of applied
American democracy? According to
Mr. Robert L. Bledsoe, Mercer in
structor in In-
Bledsoe
temational Re
lations and
American Gov
ernment the
threat df great
est import exists
in the "long
range destruc
tion of a basic-
consensus nec
essary to perpetuate our form of
democracy”. He supports this no
tion by naming such extra-politi
cal forces as RAM, organized peace
demonstrations, and the MINUTE
MEN as those operations which
destroy a basically positive attitude
toward the values of our system.
Mr. Bledsoe is well qualified to
make observations on questions of
a political nature. His knowledge of
American government and interna
tional relations has been acquired
though both academic research and
personal experience. Currently a
candidate for Ph D. in Political
Science, Mr. Bledsoe was the re
cipient of his A.B. and M.A. from
Marshall University and the Uni
versity of Florida respectively. Be
cause of the nature of his father’s
job as a civilian personnel officer,
Mr. Bledsoe has lived, and attend
ed school in Austria, Portugal, the
Azores, and other countries in Eu
rope. On the basis of his experi
ences and research, he has publish
ed a series of correspondence study
guides in American government for
the University of Florida.
Mr. Bledsoe is a welcome addi
tion to Mercer's teaching staff and
community and should he ever de
cide to enter politics formally, to
put theory into practice, he can be
assured of a CLUSTER block vote
in his favor.
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Freedom
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NSW PMIDOM SHARKS
Conner L. Davis, son of Mr. and
Mrs. H. L. Davis of Atlanta, was
chosen Cadet of the Week in the
Mercer ROTC Batallion Monday.
Conner is a pre-pharmacy student
and a member of the ROTC drill
team. He attended North Fulton
High School where he was a LL
Colonel in Junior Division ROTC.
Women Open
Intramurals
Competition
By Cathy Geren
Mercer women opened the 1967-
68 season of Women's Intramural
Sports Tuesday, October 24, with
the two initial volleyball matches
Tennis and volleyball will be con
tinuing through November 16 with
Tennis matches on Mondays and
Wednesdays and volleyball games
on Tuesdays and Thursdays.
Alpha Delta Pi and the unaffil
iate team opened volleyball com
petition with very tough competi
tion, Alpha Delta Pi taking the
first game 13-11. In the second
game the unaffiliates really looked
like winners in an easy 15-3 win.
but Alpha Delta Pi came back in
the final game with a 15-9 margin
to take the match.
Alpha Gamma Delta really
served the ball well against the
Phi Mu’s in the second volleyball
match on Tuesday afternoon taking
the necessary two out of three
games. Alpha Gam took the first
and third games 15-11 and 15-9 re
spectively with Phi Mu barely win
ning the second game by a 15-13
margin.
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Marines Set Interviews
At Student Center
The Marine Officer Selection
Team will be on campus 20-21 No
vember 1967 at the Student Center
to interview eligible college men for
commissions in the Marine Corps
Freshmen, sophomores and jun
iors may qualify for enrollment in
the Platoon Leaders Class, while
seniors and recent graduates may
enroll in the Officer Candidate
Course.
The candidates attend two ses
sions of six weeks each during sum
mer vacations. The sessions elimi
nate campus drills or classes dur
ing the school year.
Time spent in summer training
sessions counts toward pay and
promotions. Upon completion of the
two summer sessions and gradua
tion from college, the candidates re
ceive a commission as Marine
Corps Officers.
Seniors and graduates may re
ceive their commission by success
fully completing one 10-week
screening period following gradua
tion.
Under either the PLC or OCC
programs, a candidate may elect to
apply for Marine flight training. |
Departmental
Notices
At a special called meeting on
Thursday, October 19, Cathy Miles,
senior secretarial studies minor,
was elected president of the local
chapter of Phi Beta Lambda Busi
ness Fraternity. Other officers
chosen were Marilyn Payne—vice
president, and Lynda Clark—secre
tary-treasurer.
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countanta do not make public dis
closure of the errors.
Both the briefs and the oral ar
gumenta will be judged by panels
of outstanding Atlanta attorneys.
Oral arguments will proceed in
a series of rounds until, by process
of elimination, the two top teams
will present the final argument, to
be heard before a distinguished
panel of judges composed of Judge
Benning M. Grice of the Georgia
Supreme Court, Judge Newell
Edenfield of the United States Dis
trict Court and Chief Judge John
Sammons Bell of the Georgia
Court of Appeal-. The winning
team and the runner up will repre
sent the region in the National
Competition in New York in De
cember. In addition, awards will be
made to the winning team, for the
best brief and for the best oral ar
gument
Schools participating are the
University of Miami, Stetson Uni
versity, University of Mississippi,
Vanderbilt University, Emory Uni
versity, University of Florida, Mer
cer University, University of Ten
nessee, the University of Georgia,
Sanford University and Memphis
State University.
The four seniors who were se
lected to represent Mercer this year
are William E. Cetti of Pensacola,
Fla., Paul L Gallis of Morgan
town, W. Va., H. Terrell Griffin of
Macon, and D. Lee Rampey of El-
berton. Cetti. Griffin, and Rampey
will make the oral arguments before
the Atlanta attorneys while Gallia
is the "silent member.” There are
also several juniors who will assist
in the preparation of the brief.
The students have been working
on the brief for two months, and
even this seemed insufficient to
them because the topic this year is
one of the most difficult ever pre
sented. It involves concepts of agen
cy, corporate law, common law
fraud. Security and Exchange Com
mission regulations, and confiden
tial relationships.
To condense the problem drasti
cally, it is this: An accounting firm
examined a corporation’s records
and then certified the corporation’s
financial statement that the latter
was a sound business. Relying on
this, several persons bought stocks
and bonds from the corporation.
The accounting firm then discover
ed some additional information
which put it on notice that perhaps
its certification was incorrect and
the corporation was actually in bad
financial straits. But the accounting
firm remained silent and when it
came out that the corporation was
967 Confederate Has No
Place In American History
by Charles Runion
The 1967 Confederate sympathizer has no position
Southern industry. His images of his forefathers, his views
segregation, and his ideas that the South should be reserve
for native Southerners cause the Confederate to be disconteo
ed in a modem industrial world.
The Confederate has the idea
that all of his forefathers were of
ficers who played key roles in the
Confederate victories, and because
of this heritage, he deserves a dis
tinguished position in the growing
South. The South that his fore
fathers fought for died, and, in the
new South, a man is judged by his
achievements, and not judged by
his ancestral background. The only
requisite one needs to succeed in
Southern industry is capability.
The modem Confederate is also
disillusioned because the Negro
earning his place in Southern eco
nomy. While the Confederate was
busy relating his heritage, the
Negro was steadily raising his
social and cultural level. The Con
federate now finds himself in com
petition with the same race his
forefathers held in servitude
century ago. The Confederate
wants segregation because he feels
that he is racially superior; how
ever, the Negro, in most areas, if
now on the Confederate’s cultural
level. Segregation is an idea of the
past, and because the Confederate
believes in segregation, he remains
in the past as Southern industry
hurries forward.
Another idea of importance to
tthe Confederate is that the South
should be populated only by indi
viduals of Southern lineage. Ob
viously, this idea is unrealistic be
cause the South has grown to be
one of the true "melting pots” of
the United States, and people of
many different origins reside in the
populated cities of the South. Many
different people supervise Southern
industry, and if one must choose
native Southerners to fill all posi
tions of industry, his task would be
impossible. If the industrial leaders
in the South believed the ideas of
the 1967 Confederate, the progress
made by Southern industry would
be nullified.
Southern industry is moving for
ward with a steady pace. The 1967
Confederate’s ideas of heritage,
segregation, and a South for South
erners, have no place in the South
ern Industrial Complex. The Civil
War ended one hundred years ago;
thus th^, Confederate should da
the Stars and Bars and surrend
to the idea that industry, and
ancestry, is the vital key to Sou|
em economy.
Business Fraternity
Helps Career Wome
On the Mercer campus the
Beta Lambda Businees Fra tent
provides an aaeemblage for Oh
Mercer coeds interested in cant
in business or secretarial work.
During Chapel break, Wedai
day, October 11, Phi Beta Lambi
held their first meeting, an infom
coffee in room 316 of Connell 9|
dent Center.
Mrs. Mary Gardner, Assists
secretary to President Harris, -Pd|
informally on “The Value of
Secretarial Skills to the
Arts Graduate.” Mrs. Gardner ps
vioualy has been secretary to
president of the First Natioa
Bank of Macon and also secrets
to the Mayor of Macon.
The regular meetings of Phi
ta Lambda Business Fraterni
are held on the second and four
Wednesdays of each month,
women students presently enroll)
in secretarial courses or otherwi
interested in secretarial work
invited to attend the future ms
ings and participate in the acth
ties of the business fraternity.
After a year, quarter, or wsi
of college study, most studed
realize the importance of typd
•kills in successfully doing collq
work. The Administration recq
nizes the need of those students <k
ficient in typing and is providb
an opportunity for students to 1
to type or to improve their pre
skills in a non-credit typing coun
with no additional charge.
The course is already in
Monday through Thursday nifk
from 7:00 to 8:00 in room 201
the Economics and Sociology busk
ing. Th6 enrollment for this nos
credit class is still open to any ss
all students interested in learnii
to type or improve their skills.
failing, the investors sued the ac
counting firm for failing to warn
them of its incorrect certification.
Judge Atkinson, former judge of
Bibb Superior Court and now a pro
fessor in the law school, is the
team’s advisor. But the work is en
tirely their own. In fact. Judge At
kinson does not even see a copy of
the written argument until the orig
inal is on its way to Atlanta. His
suggestions and encouragement
come mostly as the team polishes its
oral arguments.
Though the law school is basi
cally a classroom, occasionally lack
ing the realities of the courtroom,
the National Moot Court competi
tion each year is one way students
can come as close as possible to the
practice of the legal profession.
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