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MERCER CLUSTER
OCT. 81. 1988
A Personal Attitude Toward A Dilemma . . .
Agony: Desperation-Excedrin Headache No.68
by Gary L. Johnson
Where do you turn and to whom
do you turn at this polar camp of
frozen igloos? In this cold atmos
phere I am again faced %th the
fever of anxiety and desperation—
Anxiety and desperation due to
those who have ears yet frozen
audio and to those who have prin
ciples yet are frozen in their tracks
afraid that the next step might
lead to the breaking of the ice and
thus drowning in the mist of it
all. Oh the shame!
How do you get anger stirred
around here!?—You don’t. You are
either silenced or ignored.
For the past three yean the ba
sic principles of the old and ancient
ways of life have prevailed and
seemingly are intensifying. For the
past three years there has remained
many moral injustices on campus
What is the reply to these charges?
—“Keep your cool. Come, let us
reason together."—to sit at the big
round table of Glory and Justice
and discuss. And that's as far as
you get. When the heat is over, it
dies.
You can't step on anyone’s toes
You can’t drop a bomb on this for
saken paradise! You can’t rock the
boat! "We don't like changes. We’re
content with things exactly as they
are.”
The oonservatiVeness of this
Mercer’s Doctor King
Well-Known Writer
By Peggy Sullivan
Dr. Spencer B. King, head of
Mercer’s history department, is,
in addition to being a professor, a
well-known writer. Dr. King has
to his credit twenty-four essays
and articles published in literary,
educational, religious, and popular
magazines, thirty-two book reviews
published in historical journals,
several books and numerous edited
documents which have appeared in
historical journals.
He has also served as Georgia
editor of the two-volume Encyclo
pedia of Southern Baptists having
as his responsibility finding and
supervising writers and organizing
the material gathered. He also is
the contributor of three articles
about three Georgia cities to En
cyclopedia Britannica.
One of the most outstanding of
Dr. King's writings was the “Geor
gia” article in Collier’s Encyclope
dia in 1962. In recent months he
has completed revision and ex
planation of this article which will
appear in the 1969 edition of Col
lier’s. He is also responsible for the
“Georgia” article published in the
1969 edition of the Merit Students
Encyclopedia, designed by Comer’s
especially for students.
Dr. King by no means sees an
end to his writing. He has several
works completed and reedy for
publication now and has plans for
writing more. However, he says
that his purpose in writing and
editing historical works is to help
him be a better teacher and he
enjoys doing this very much.
In recognition of Dr. King's out
standing literary and historical ac
complishments, he has been listed
in Who’s Who in America, Who’s
Who in American Education, Di
rectory of American Scholars and
Contemporary Authors and will be
iwchidsd in the sixth edition of the
Dictionary el International Biogra
phy to be published in 1989. In
1982, ha racaived the United
Daughters of the Confederacy
“Certificate of Merit” for ”1da con
tribution to Southern literature.”
Ha was declared first runner-up
in competition lor “Georgia Author
of the Year in Non-fiction” by the
Dixie Cbuncil of Authors pad Jour
nalists in 1987.
campus is strangling its own vir
gin neck. There is no student ini
tiative around here. Everything
happens through evolution.
To relate what I have said to
reality, here is a classic example
of one of the neat little conserva
tive programs Mercer has spon
sored and supposedly supported.
In the upper class girl dorm
(M.E.P.) there exists one of the
gravest of the moral injustices
practiced on campus. The situation
prevailing prevents one namely the
unaffiliate girls from being treated
fairly in the assignments of rooms.
There are floors it seem that UA's
aren't privileged to occupy. There
have been cases whereas UA girls
have paid room deposits in advance
and yet were denied first prefer
ence. This special floor(s) is solely
and exclusively for the "sorority
follies". These floors are designed
for those girls with a “Dipper Dan”
pin and an U. S. or X on their
chest. Otherwise you are relegated
to a lower floor which is incidently
of second class quality. It’s prob
ably lucky that there isn’t a base
ment. Question. Do the sororities
own these halls. If not, why all the
■pedal treatment and considera
tions?
What makes this situation so
hairy is that the administration
sees the injustice and yet has
turned its head—to wait o^i evo
lution I suppose. There are even
certain faction that approve and
encourage the injustices.
Now what can I say? You go
to people in high places and pro
test and you aro met with resent
ment or given a special made brand
theory of evolution (saying the sit
uation is going to get better and
work out for the best). Ha!!!!!!!
I have yet to understand why
UA girls haven’t took action. An
important principle is involved.
Dissent with silence has been the
UA's greatest hitch. Silence has
never and never will correct injus
tices.
Now seeing that the director of
housing and the administration is
slow, sluggish, and has tired blood
in dealing with the situation, I urge
and encourage protest. Speak out
The record speaks for itself. Ex-
cedrin sheadache no. 68 can be
calmed \nd relieved only and only
if the UA girls are roomed without
discrimination.
Thus before I have been calmed
and relieved of Excedrin headache
68, I feel a reoccurrence of
Excedrin headache no. 20— Fra
ternities. Oh, the shame of it all!!!
Public Shares Guilt
For Biased News
“The real trouble is that there
just aren't enough newspaper*—
and the communities that they’re
addressed to are just too big.
Therefore, they tend to take the
lowest common denominator, rather
than any one particular position.
If there were more newspapers,
then one might get a reed clash of
opinions . . . This trend toward
bigger and bigger papers, and few
er and fewer papers is very dam
aging to the public interest,” said
Miss Frances Fitz Gerald to Leon
Edel, Gay Taleae, Eliot Freraont-
Smith at a symposium on “Journa
lism and Mischief.”
The full test of the symposium,
sponsored by the New School of
Social Reeerach and The Authors
Guild, Inc., is published in the Au
tumn issue of THE AMERICAN
SCHOLAR
Mis* Fitzgerald was referring to
problem of inefficient and inade
quate reportin of the news as dis
cussed by the panel. In A NATION
OF SHEEP, William J. Lederor
takes the same stand, but he states
the problem in a different way:
The American people are told what
they want to hear.
In other words, the press takes
“the lowest common denominator”
because it makes business sense to
please your public, but that does
hot say much for the public.
A certain amount of the blame
can be placed with the newspapers
for inaccurate and unconfirmed ma
terial or underpaid reporters; but
as Lederer wrote, “If your news
paper, television station, or maga
zine is inadequate (and chances are
that it it), then you share a large
percentage of the guilt.
Mercer Prof Gives’ Statue
A bronze cast of the original 4.6-
foot model for the John Wesley
monument in Savannah will be pre
sented to LaGrange College by
Marshall Daugherty, the sculptor.
Daugherty, who is chairman of
the Department of Fine Arts at
Mercer University, is presenting
the bronze cast in honor of his par
ents. The statue will be on view in
the lobby of the Hardman Fine
Arts Building until Nov. 7 .
The four and a half foot clay model of the statue of Joi
Wesley is shown here with its sculptor, Marshall Daugherl
Prfoessor Daugherty will present a bronze cast of this mol
to LaG range College.
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