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MERCER. CLUSTER
OCT. SI. IMS
"Luv"... Ouch.. i
by Andrea Frost
“See bow drained I am, how de
vastated, the squirming near-cadav
or say*, proud of hia position «*
The Man Who Has Been Moat
Badly Treated. The lower lip trem
bias but the eyes look up: where is
that spotlight that will display me
as victim? Come closer, spotlight;
I have a very good speech ready
about the abuse the silent universe
has heaped upon me. The universe
may be silent, .but 1 will not be.
Hear my moan. Isn’t it something,
really something, bow I am rav
aged?” wrote noted critic Walter
Kerr about the pseudo-pessimism
of modern man as defined by Mur
ray Schisgal in LUV, which was
presented by the Mercer Players at
8:30, October 24, in Willingham
Chapel
Each character in LUV recounts
hia poignant tale of childhood mis
ery and adult frustration while dar
ing others to prove they may have
suffered more.
I didn't start school until I was
eight years old because I didn't
have a pair of shoes to wear. Oh
yeah. Lucky for me the kid down
stairs was hit by an ice-cream
truck and I got his shoes. Even
then they were so tight on me I
couldn’t walk. I was put in a spe
cial class for disabled children.”
“You think that was bad? My
grandparents used to lock me out of
the house. They couldn’t' stand the
sight of me because I reminded
Student Board To
Meet At Wisconsin
Whitewater. Wls. — (I P.) — A
joint University-Community Rela
tions Board to promote better un
derstending between the citizens
of Whitewater and the students
and faculty of Wisconsin State
University was formed recently.
The board will serve as a "sound
ing board” of opinion on issues that
concern the community and Uni
versify. Membership on the board
includes four persons representing
the city of Whitewater, four facul
ty members, and four students.
Topics under discussion: traffic
problems, social facilities, the beer
age limit, and what the board’s role
should be in offering solutions to
community-wide problems.
The board decided at the first
organizational meeting that its
function should be as a forum for
community opinion on any issue of
common interest to Whitewater
and the University.
The board will meet monthly "to
provide discussion, facilitate under
standing, and promotion of the gen
eral welfare of the entire com
munity of Whitewater,” according
to the by-laws of the board.
According to one student board
member, any action that came from
the board would be in the form of
informing the public and promot
ing understanding.
1918 Students
Enrolled This Fall
Meccer University has begun its
136th year of operation with an-
roibnaat approximately the same
as last year.
Figures released by Registrar Co
lumbus H. Posey reveal the enroll
ment for the fall quarter is 1918
compared to 1941 for the anna
period last year.
Poesy said a breakdown of the
enrollment for 1968-69 shows 11)61
students for the College of Liberal
Arts, 214 for the Walter F. George
School of Law and 203 for the
Southern School of Pharmacy in
Atlanta.
At the beginning of tbs 1967-68
year the enrollment was 1,646 in
the College of Liberal Arts, 266
in the law school and 191 ha the
them of my father. I remember one
day I came home from school dur
ing a blinding snowstorm and the
door was locked. 1 knocked,
knocked and yelled and beat my
poor little frozen fists on the door
. . . They laughed at me. They
laughed! Picture that for yourself
A tall skinny kid standing out there
in the snowstorm, wearing nothing
but a thin torn jacket ami a paper-
bag for a hat, .knocking and yell
ing. ‘Let me in. Please, let me ini
When they ere not busy out-suf
fering one another, they play
games, such as what-is-lovs? let’s
find-out-together and I-lovs-you
more-than-you-love-me. The form
er pastime needs no explanation,
but the latter requires a certain
amount of timing end fancy foot
work to avoid repercussions. Hav
ing stomped on the foot of his lady
love, the young man asks if her love
has in aby way been alterred. Of
course not, she replies as she slugs
him in the stomach. Ouch!
But what is "love” in the con
text of LUV? Another opportunity
to slosh around in agony; hence the
distorted spelling of the title.
‘Live is a gradual development
based on physical attraction, com
plementary careers and simple so
cial similarities!”
“EUen, do what you want with
me, curse me, step on me, tear me
to pieces, but I beg of you, out of
consideration for all the days and
•rights we lived as man and wife,
do not say . . .”
"Love is a gradual development
baaed on physical attraction, com
plementary careers . . .”
And Ellen believes in her own
definition, in theory. In reality, she
is stuck with a second husband who
does not understand his duties as
such, in any capacity. Husband
Number 1 has promised to amend
his ways. The solution is subtract
Husband Number 2.
EUen ManviUe, who has the in
telligence of a man, but the emo
tions of a woman, was played
by Barbara Marshall, a junior from
Flushing, Long Island. Jerry Year-
gin, a freeshman from Orlando,
played Harry Berlin, the Dostoyev-
ski of Polyarts U. Milt Manville, a
rich mediocre slob with an affinity
for garbage collecting, was played
by BiU Lund, a sophomore from St.
Petersburg. Mr. Luther E. Wil
liams, Department of Dramatic
Arts, directed the production.
Husband, Husband, and Wife reunited. Bill Lund, Jerry
Yeargon, and Barbara Marshall rehearsing a scene from LUV.
Harvard Medical School
Has Revised Curriculum
Cambridge, Miss. — (I.P.) —
Approval of a major revision in the
pre-dinical curriculum of the Har
vard Medical School in which the
first two yean are considered in
the light of a continuing, rather
than a separated study program,
has been voted by members of the
Faculty of Medicine.
Dr. Robert H. Ebert, dean of the
Harvard Medical School, pointed
out that the revised curriculum, ef
fective this year (for the Class of
1972) provides for more free time,
fewer lectures and an extremely
liberal elective program. 1
During the elective periods Har
vard Medical stdents may enroll in
courses in the University of Cam
bridge, at the Massachusetts Insti
tute of Technology or may engage
in research programs in the areas
of their major interests.
Dr. Ebert explained that the new
curriculum has been planned to
match, insofar as possible, the se
mester periods in the University
and at the Massachusetts Institute
of Technology. The revisions do
not. Dr. Ebert emphasised, reduce
the time involved in tataining a
medical education at Harvard.
"Rather,” he said, “they recog
nise the fact that students enter the
Harvard Medical School with quite
different scholastic backgrounds
and with goals that lead into many
areas encompass ad by medical care.
nwliiei ieeeerrh end the teaching
of medicine.”
The "core” or basic curriculum
of the first two years embraces two
broad study areas — cellular biolo
gy and human biology — extending
over four time periods. Cellular
biology la echednled for the tint
portion of the first year. Human
biology will cover the following
throe time periods.
Dr. Alexander Leaf, Jackson
Professor of Clinical Medicine and
Chairman of the Medical School’s
Curriculum Committee, under
scored the freedom afforded Har
vard Medical students under the
revised curriculum by noting that
some students actually may start
rearranging their study program
soon after entering the first yssr
"These entering students with
advanced standing in one of the
areas coveted by cellular biology
(as biological chemistry),” said Dr.
Leaf, “may, for example, substitute
electives for that particular portion
of the course.
Once the student has completed
that portion of the core curriculum
devoted to cellular biology, Dr.
Leaf noted, he may substitute elec
tive periods for the three time
blocks involved in human biology
(as gross anatomy). Thus, it would
be poesible for a student to substi
tute an elective period for Part
One of the human biology course
which would normally fall in the
second part of the first year and
defer this to the second semester
of his second year.
“This would mean that the stu
dent would not have taken gross
anatomy until be had completed
the second and third portions of the
human biology course,’’ said Dr.
Leaf. “Stndante selecting this op
tion,” he commented, "will be
closely watched to determine if the
delay in the study of gross anatomy
affects their performance in other
portions of the teaman biology pro
Over a four-year period. Dr.
Leaf noted that U might be poeei-
The ROTC Cadet el the
Week, selected Monday, Octo
ber 21, wee Cadet Paul Ar
nold Howell, eon of Mr.
Mrs. Paul A. Howell of
lando, Florida.
The Cadet of tho
selected on the hash
standing
military
played at drill.
Paid, a Freeiunan
r, fa President of tl
Pledge Class
of the Young
hie for a student to taka an anti
year and a half of
ascutivaly M ha iadadad
(Undar ths m
vacation periods consist of a
and a half weak SOBBMT vaca
between the tint and sacoad :
and n 13-wask vacation batwa
the second and third yarns.
"Free time”
new curriculum anangement
■iit of ths equivalent of two
three afternoons per weak
the first semester and Susa afu
noons per week during ths
remaining segmsnte of the first i
Dr. Leaf emphasised that
goal of the new curriculum has i
bean simply to reshuffle
"This at beet.” ha said, "can
facilitate the learning experien
The essence of education is to br
the intelligent motivated
together with the sources of I
edge .11m role of the teacher i
reduce to a minimum the activate
banter separating the two.
“Thus, the Curriculum
toe has commenced to look at
educational practices and
niques currently in use and
praise them with the help of i
members of the School of Edu
tion at Harvard. Much thought <
need to be expended in this
praisal before full benefit
from a curriculum reform.”
Who's Wh<
The 1968-68 edition of Wh
Who Among Students in Amend
Universities and Collages will
ry the names of 22 students fr
The College of liberal Arte,
car University, 2 students from '
Walter F. George School of
and 2 students from The School j
Pharmacy.
The students from the Coltogs |
Liberal Arte are Rosa Martail 1
bitt, James Edwin Bacon,
Rogers Brenner, Robert Lewis <
tins, Angelins Beth DanfoU,
ard Hillman Davison, Hugh Duk
Barbara Ann Elliott, Fran
Irene Hart, Evelyn Kay Jo
Brenda Carol Jowers, Charts
ton Of bum, Sandra Rich, Jud
Rainer Roberto, Vivian Elaine ;
gert, Sara Ann Stanford, Man
Ann Stone.
David Howell Wilbanks, Nn
Williams, John Wilson Win
Susan Mary Wiseman, Cbu
Kemp Young.
Those from the Law School
George Thomas Willing
Leonard Fletcher. The etude
from the School of Pharmacy
Kenneth Eugene Lyda and'
Frasier.
Campus nominating commit
and editors of the ammal i
have included ths names of
students based on their
achievement, service to the
munity, leadership in
cuter activities and future
tial.
They join an elite group of
dents selected foom mare tte
1.000 iasdtuUoas of higher tearrij
in all 60 states, the District of
ibte and several foreign nethj
in North and Sooth America
Outstanding studante have bJ
>nored in the annual dirrem
since it was first published in m
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