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Tams Viewed Huge Success
> but ted so for fate yaai.
tafafaHOOO by tho TAMS
■ol boas equated by my
u I do not data to ba an
I on fate type at masic. bat
taO that fate group
■X that tha otbaaa
Tho two woo started by ha
back-op band. 1Ua poop at aigbt
or aht i—bifawa popvfated aoot
muaie far aboat a how. Iho made
natty had a baat.although many
more people were Uataning than
dancing.
Attar a pawn, they wore back
with another performer, whoa#
name I moat admit haa attppad ay
mind, ttaaaoao near aw aaid that
he wae getting “gross” and ba
rn ediotaly I hoard an aproar of
laughter faoa the eartlsari, a I
that he ana right
“ tho TAMS «
. riad in Pink Suits, and
JWag fa da maaie at the baaL
lad ready to aajoy the par-
fortnance, bat dm traternitta had
other pfana The TAMS and tho
mat of tho aadUoee had to wak
untflfaoy ao gncfcmriy decided to
lot tho concert proceed. (TUa waa
not aatfl each had yaOod tarn or
thoae tfaaaa.) Dent get thie wrong,
aoaae of tho bate heat deanaafam
ope After the chan, tho TAMS
aang each hit* Or “Be young, bo
Attar faO eecond half of the
•how wae ovor, I went in to aw
the perfonnera. They had re
placed tho pink suite with white
•dviaa. All the TAMS are from
Atlanta, Go. They ware very hoe-
pitahte, and they aaid they LOVED
Mercer atadmda. Doeen't every
body?
Audience “Tires” Wagner
With Five Curtain Calls
They i
By
“Joshua »the Bat
tle
tumbling down. Roger Wagner and
hi* chorale wore recalled four
timae; and the fifth time, the puff
ing director aaid. “Don’t you peo
ple have any homee to go to?” Ho
thanked the audience and bade
them good-night
Tuesday night, tha program
opened with tha Gregorian “Ave
Maria”. Right from tha beginning
the choir performed with that in
definable precision which separatee
the prnfaerional from tha asaoteur,
a lunfassirmslisni which dictfam-
uiihed the entire showing.
During tha tha lament "Van
Languoroa”, ecuapcaad by Victoria,
a contemporary at
Chriefe Paaaion and
for all mankind won brought to
mind by the ganflwam of Quiet
communicated through the amrtc.
From tha secular aalectioin of
the Ranataanoe Period, Paaeeriau’a
"U set bal at bon” told a Italy
i lory of two peasants in the mar
ket place when ana dafano font
her hwbend ia so wonderful be
cause ho dam ail tha housework,
feeds the chicbsua, and doeen’t
beat her. After all, what more can
■ woman want than a houeework-
ing. chicken-feeding, pariftat man?
Da Lamas' “Man Co ear se re
commends a vous”, translated free
ly as “My heart lawk itself to you
in martyrdom," was sung in fas
following stylo of “Mora” and
'The Impnwibli Dreams”. The
men's and womanh parts pursued
each other in a lovers’ teg through
Jainequia's “An Ml Mi”, trans
lated m “What a Wonderful Game
In Love”.
Tha fourth, sixth,
of
ftoot
time “ANT msnlfsetatlon of ap
proval on your part will ba grata-
folly acknowledged.” This was a
well-considered move on the part
of Mr. Wagner as the aadlenee
probably would have risen to its
foot after tho eanduskm of the
•ong of victory in die sixth move
ment whan the chapel resounded
with the refrain “Death, where *
thy sting?”
Mr. Wagner had chosen “Re
quiem” because 1988 marks the
cratenniai oi in® ooiupwaon oi
Brahms* work which was first pre
sented April 10, 1968, on Good
Friday. Broidm tha famous 4 hand-
1 piano version, played on Mer
cer’s lo-o-ong grand, bnse-viol and
battle drums ococmponied the
piici.
Fallowing fartenakrioo. Leonard
Benstein's “Chichester Psalms," in
Hebrew, wan sung. Aside from a
distinct Hebrew melody, an Afri
can beat seamed to be introduced
during Psahn 131 and a “West
Side Story” motif, the score of
which was written by Bernstein
also, appeared ia the Bop Soprano
for Psalm 23.
"Vocalise" a musical exen
by Wilbur Cheaoweth became a
haunting solo a tare song without
words by Brenda Foirndsy.
Along with "Joshua Fit the Bat
tle of Jericho," tee chorale did the
spiritual “Ha Never Said a Mumb
lin’ Word."
Although thie was the conclu
sion according to the program,
the nsdisneo catted for four en
cores arranged a’ la Wagner, in
cluding “Set Down Servant," “Pol-
ly-wofly Doodle," “Oh Dear, What
Gan the Matter Be”, and “TTmto
Dry Bones," in which nearly the
entire chorale used a notes maker
and 0 soprano sapped die audience
with a tommy-gun every lima “the
hand bona was connected to fae
MERCER CLUSTER
NOVEMBER 22, 1M8
The Mercer “Mangier”
“He’s supposed to strangle 6
fide, all from a sorority with a
Delta in it”
"Delta! I’m an ADPil”
T'm an Alpha Gamma Delta.”
“Six girls? I thought it was sev
en.”
“that’s right Pour sorority girls
and three unaffOiatee.”
“What's fate?” I aaid inuring my
self from an afternoon nap and
stumbling out into the tall v
“Jeon Dixon's prediction. Six
“Seven girls from sorority with
a Delta in it are supposed to be
strangled at a college where the
sororities have suites and not hous
es.”
“And Mercer is one of the few
colleges that does.”
“And she said it was going to
be ia about 100 miles radius from
Atlanta.”
“A co-ed at Georgia told me that
when I went home this weekend.
Except they were going to be
stabbed, not strangled. And it was
going to be in the University sys
tem.”
“What do you think Mercer is,
a college?”
“He’s supposed to get in the
dorm by dressing as a woman.” ’
“It’s no problem to get in this
dorm. Workmen walk in and out
all the time. Nobody ever knows
where one is going to turn up.”
“He could be in the building
now, hiding down in the luggage
room!”
"Vail, let’s get the security
guard to check the building before
dosing tonight"
By Debra Rogers
“Ah come on y’all! You don’t
believe all this.”
“Just think how many times
she’s been right before.”
“You’ve got a point there.”
As the day went on you heard
various otoher venionuf the story.
Where did they hear it from?
"Tha giri told me.”
"Where did she hear it from?”
“From the radio.”
“From the television.”
“From the newspeper.”
Finally, some enterprising dis
believer called the radio station*
in the Macon area. None of them
had carried the story, nor did they
know anything about It
But the Mercer Mangier rumor
had gotten a head start, and no
thing was goin to stop it anytime
soon.
It was inevitable I suppose, that
the ouija boards would come out
that night. Every hall in the fresh
man dorm had at least one going
some two.
“Ouija, is anything unusual go
ing to happen tonight?”
. . Ye. . . .
‘Is anyone going to be hurt ”
Ye. . . .
‘Ju»t girl.?”
. . Ye. . . .
’How many?”
. . 7 . . .
"Are any of them going to die?”
. . . Yes . . .
“How many, Oiuja?”
. . . 6 . . .
“Where is this going to hap
pen?"
SECOND PORTER . . .
‘That’s ADPi."
"Maybe it’s not Mercer.”
“Of course it’s Mercer. How
many other schools have a dorm
named Porter?”
“Ask it if it’s Mercer.”
’’Don’t call Ouija on it You’ll
hurt it*, feeling.!”
“Ask it!”
Meanwhile, in another dark
room on another floor ...
“Amanda, are you there?”
“Amanda? who’. Amanda?”
“She 1 , the .pint I always get
on my ouija board.”
‘‘Spirits! I’m getting out of
here!”
"She’s friendly!”
“If we’re going to start hearing
some voice coming out of nowhere
I’m getting out of here!”
“There’, no voice. She just .pell,
thing, through the ouija board.”
“Alright then, it it’s safe.”
“Amanda, do you agree with all
the other spirits have been say
ing?”
. . . Ye* i . .
“What other spirits?”
“The one. on the other ouija
boards.”
“Oh.”
"Amanda, what time is this .up-
posed to happen?”
... 2 A M. . . .
"Amanda, how is this man go
ing to get in the dorm?”
... BY DRESSING AS A
WOMAN . . .
“What did she My?”
“By dressing a. a woman.”
At that precise moment the door
flew open, “Y’all they just arrested
a man at K-Mart for trying on
women’s clothes.” i
I screamed . . and so did every
one elese in the room. That night
I received my first report . . and
so did everyone else in the room.
■m
Crisis: Student
Involvement
A Guest Editorial By
the President of SGA
By Julian Gordy
Last month four students be
came concerned about the age old
cafeteria problem” to tha point
that they drew up a petition and
presented it with names to the
Student Government Association
for action. These students, who
war* not elected to an SGA post,
were then appointed by the SGA
to its Food Services Committee to
prsHtrt the immediate problem to
the proper authorities and to con
tinue working with the SGA in
this area in the future.
These students, and since then
several more, exercised their priv
ilege and what should be consid-
ersd their duty, to become actively
involved in their student govern
This is a com in pointing out
that there is a lock of active in
votamssit from students who are
not elected to posts on tha Stu-
d a a t Government Association.
not ba pointed to the student body
with full justification.
Tha SGA itself should and does
fori a definite sense of guilt for
fate imperfection in student gov-
senmant at Mercer. What is now
a dichs for any type government—
Uatted States to High School Stu
Councils even for the social
pcobl— that foe* am world, can
ba applied in fate caaa: “A brook-
in oosamunicetiou". How
ever, fa fate particular ritaation,
than is a pwndaaag bright spot—
the fact that the Student Govern
of Manor Uni
steps to all estate
which has occurred over the one
problem of communication. It is
in anticipation that through print
ing the transactions of the SGA
in The Cluster, that the student
body will become informed as to
the work that is being done by this
body and will recommend and cri
ticize those matters which need
more attention or which at preeent
have yet to receive any attention.
It is important that any rec
ommendations o r criticism be
voiced to an SGA representative.
Too many times there is irrespon
sible griping or emotion to some
one else who feels the same way
but the gripe is hot taken to some
one who knows how to do some
thing about it •
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