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LETTER TO A MIDDLE-AGED FATHER
By David Sibley
The following letter was written by a teenage son in answer
to his father’s “Letter to a Teenage Son". It was forwarded to
me by one of the staunch protectors of our privacy, a U. S,
tal inspector.
Dear Dad,
Thank you ao very much for your immediate
reply to my letter. I thank you also for the strict
confidence with which you keep all our correspond
ence.
Your answer to my question concerning long
hair on boys, though not expected, was greatly ap
preciated. It is so unusual these days to find a man
of your age and position who harbors such liberal
views. For this reason I am no longer afraid to bring
my husband home to meet you and Mom. Speaking of
Mom, I was also pleased to hear your assurance of
her everlasting love for me, what with my oedipus
complex and all.
Forgive me, Dad, but I was truly astounded
when you advocated constructive protest. Couldn’t
you lose your Job at Dow Chemical if that ever got
out?
I’m sorry you couldn't have been more specific
concerning the death of God. I rarely have time to
read the obituaries any more and besides you can’t
trust these newspapers much. Perhaps the family is
not the place where decisions such as this should be
discussed anyway.
You did make yourself quite dear in regard to
your opinion of draft card burners. Of course I ree
lire I’m quite unperceptive, but doesn't that view
conflict slightly with your view of constructive pro
test? At any rate, you are probably already aware
that in addition to burning my draft card and birth
certificate I also burned your home. Your expression
of faith in me will always be inspirational
, Love,
Your Teenage Son
P.8.
You got so caught up in philosophizing to me that
you forgot to indude my check. Send it immediately.
By Gary L. Johnson
One of the important and most
progressive changes this school
term in Mercer’s administrative or-
pm/ation is the new electronic
lata processing system in the reg
istration deparament. This elec
tronic system mainly was intro-
hired into the school's registration
Eurfure to promote accuracy, to
her. ise labor time, and to insure
iffi ency. Because the system is
Jatively new to Mercer, a new in-
m..| bugs (flaws) have occurred.
M r Posey, the registrar, says the
urn nt policy of “protect the stu-
knt it the expense of the system”
las added to the minor troubles of
he i recessing system. It has been
lotid that many students tend to
hani'e courses at will without for-
nal approval, thus causing system
laws To solve this problem, moves
ire living made by school officials
o set violation fees for such delin
quent students.
With the exception of these min
or flaws, the new registration sys
tem has produced many advantag
pus assets. Among several accom
plishments: (1) It has speeded up
the process of placing students in
classes, (2) lighten the work load of
the financial aid office, and (3)
has eliminated the quarter refer
ence of the student record and file.
Looking to the future, Bchool of
ficials are considering, although
unofficially, a new radical approach
to registration next fall. One idea
under consideration is to permit
students with financial aid to pay
fees during pre-registration. Ac
cording to Mrs. L. Johnson in the
Business office, under the present
system no financial aid student can
pay fees until his preceding quar
ter grades are examined and view-,
ed.
Mx Flag Scouts
Due In Atlanta
Talent scouts from the multi-
ullioa-dollar theme parks of SIX
TAtlS Over Texas and SIX
Taos Over Georgia will conduct
■wntlv an audition in Atlanta,
Borgia, on Friday, February 16,
B the Georgia Hampton Rooms of
he American Hotel, located at 160
bring Street, Northwest The ma
loti begins at 10 aan., with ad-
■ace registration beginning at 0:30
lbl
Thi purpose of the audition,
hirh is one of tan throughout the
Mthcast and southwest limited to
“•lege students ,is to uncover tal
k'd young performers who will
* showcased this summer at the
10 popular entertainment centers.
SIX FLAGS Over Georgia, lo-
in Atlanta, opened in 1967
J* ‘•few over 1.1 million visitors.
» 115,000,000, 276-acre thsme
anticipates attracting 1.5 mil-
"a visitors during its. 1968
SIX FLAGS Over Texas, situated
in Arlington midway between Dal
las and Fort Worth, has already
been visited by nearly 11,000,000
people since opening in 1961, in
cluding over 2,000,000 last season.
It has been the most popular single
tourist attraction in Texas since
1966.
Both parks open April 13 and
run through December 1.
During the past seven years, SIX
FLAGS talent scouts have made ex
tensive tours during the off season
smiting the most outstanding young
talent available. An average of
1,000-2,000 auditioned try out dur
ing each tour, with approximately
200-250 being selected to appear in
the numerous live and lively shows
especially written and staged each
summer at both Parks.
Some of the performers who have
displayed their talents in prior
years at SIX FLAGS Over Texas’
Dean Glenn Elected
To New Position
Dean Helen Glenn, already Pres
ident of the Georgia Association of
Womens’ Deans and Counselors,
was recently elected to the position
of President-Elect of The Southern
College Personnel Association,
which is a regional (14-state) group
of people who are involved in stu
dent personnel work. Dean Glenn
was formerly Membership Chair
man of this organization and is also
presently Chairman of Job Oppor
tunities Service
The SCPA'b program consists of
annual conferences, workshops, re
search projects and the publication
of a quarterly newsletter. The As
sociation’s goals are many and fall
under two primary classifications:
the advancement of knowledge in
the field, and the advancement of
the field itself.
The most recent Conference held
by the 8CPA was the Eighteenth
Annual Conference, with the theme:
Student Personnel Work "A Criti
cal Mass." That conference was
held November 11-14, 1967 in
Knoxville, Tennessee.
Dean Glenn will be inducted as
President of the SCPA after serv
ing her internship year as presi
dent-elect. The ceremony will take
pluce at Louisville, Kentucky next
fall at the 1968 Annual Confer
ence.
Taylor To Speak
At Alumni Meeting
The first annual meeting of Mer
cer University alumni in the Ma
rietta area will be held Saturday,
February 10, at the Marietta
Country Club.
Dr. Garland F. Taylor, dean of
the Liberal Arts, will be the
speaker for a dinner which will
start at 7:30 p.ra Coffee wilj be
served at a social period for a
half hour pre
ceding the pro
gram
Dean Taylor,
an educator of
wide attain-
ment, came to
Mercer in 1964
from William
Jewell College,
Liberty, Missou
ri, where he was dean. Before go
ing to William Jewell he was Di
rector of Libraries at Tulane Uni
versity and had been a member of
the Tulane faculty for some 16
years. He earned his A. B. and
M. A. degrees from Tulane Univer
sity and received his Ph.D. degree
from Yale University.
John F. Schindelar of Marietta
is chairman of the Alumni Organi
zational Committee. He said the
buaines part of the dinner will in
clude the election of alumni chap
ter officers.
Miss Lois McKethan, director of
alumni re la to ns for the university',
will present a charter to the Ma
rietta chapter.
Following the election of officers
and a business program, a 13-min
ute color slide show of the Mercer
campus will be given.
THE MERCER CLUSTER
CCuttei CjizC
This week’s Cluster Girl is Sherry Feek. Sherry is a Sopho
more from Palm Beach, Florida majoring in Spanish.
Crazy Horse Saloon or Campus Re
vue musical variety shows and,
more recently, at the Crystal Pis
tol in the Atlanta Park, have al
ready appeared on Broadway or
National TV, have become record
ing artists, or have won scholar
ships to further their educations.
But the primary purpose of audi
tioning and later getting a chance
to perform before the public at the
SIX FLAGS Parks does not mean
an automatic vault into internation
al stardom. Rather, the training and
discipline during rehearsals and the
professional atmosphere of staging
the shows provides each individual
performer with a solid base which
he or she may use in good stead in
whatever field their ambitions may
later take them.
SGA News
JANUARY 23RD.
"Mercer’s Happiness-Is. . the
theme for Homecoming ’68 was the
first item of business for the SGA
in its meeting January 23, held af
ter the Bear's victory over Ga.
Southern.
Other business was the assign
ment of duties at the poles for the
next day in election of a new dorm
representative and Freshman se
cretary. The Constitution Commit
tee set mid-February as its date
for having a new SGA Constitu
tion ready for proposal.
The bulk of the meeting was
spent in discussing some of the
questions raised at the reconvening
of the Wayerley Conference held
earlier that day. Much concern was
expressed by the SGA officers when
discussing the problem of profes
sors leaving Mercer for assorted
reasons and the remaining gap in
the faculty of the Speech and Dra
ma departments a result of a loss
of faculty members last Spring
President David Hudson noted
that Dean Thomas Trimble had
asked for reaction from the stu
dents at the Waverley Conference
on having some classes in the cur
riculum which would be on a simple
pass-fail basis.
After some final plans were an
nounced by Tom Oauthom about
CHOICE ’68. which the SGA is
sponsoring, the meeting was ad
journed.
JANUARY 30TH
Plans for Homecoming '68 were
presented in an official report given
by Gary Brenner, President of the
Junior Class, at the January 30th
meeting of the Student Govern
ment Association. Roger Ander-
burg, presiding in the absence of
President Dave Hudson, led in dis
cussing plans for the Homecoming
Worship Service, Sunday February
11.
There was a definite reaction
against repeated absences of some
of the SGA officers. A motion was
made and passed that each unex-<
cused absence will be included in
the SGA report to the Cluster.
Concern was also expressed on
whether weekly reports to the
Cluster is sufficient for informing
the student body of the proceed
ings of the SGA.
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Council.
IFC Reports
Mercer’s IFC is sending six
delegates to the Southeastern Inter
Fraternity Council Convention.
This is an annual convention con
sisting of ull the colleges in the
southeast with IFC. This year it
will be held in Biloxi, Mississippi.
Presently the IFC constitution is
being revised and brought up to
date with a few technical changes.
Greek Week, whch is a joint ef
fort of the IFC and the Panhellenic
Council will be March 25-30 this
year. The tentative schedule is as
follows:
March 26—one representative
from each of the national fraterni
ties on campus will debate a panel
of the faculty.
March 27—a skit contest put on
by the fraternities.
March 29—the Greek Games.
Friday night there will be an infor
mal dance in the cafeteria featur
ing the Tropics.
March 30—Saturday night there
will be a semi-formal dance featur
ing the In Men.
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