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MERCER CLUSTER
DEC. 6, 1968
| ' Sports Review' {
i;!; By Lou Johnson if
In n typical hard-no,nod battle be
tween rivals, the Stetson Hatters
handl'd the Mercer Bears their
second defeat of the season in their
home opener at Porter Gym Mon
day night.
The nevef-sav-die Bears fought
back from as much ns an eight
point lead by Stetson early in the
game and if took a 10 foot jumper
by the Hatters Steve Hdllard with
just four scs onds left to defeat the
surging Bears.
Even after Holland's shot, the
Bears were to Ice reckoned with,
Thcv called time out with just two
seconds lyft, and in a vain attempt
to get the hiill in and the shot off.
the Bears hobbled, the inbound
pass as the buzzer sounded.
The game saw two players go to
the sidelines with injuries and 47
fouls called, with two players foul
ing out on both teams. Actually,
the fopl line- provided the margin
of victory for Stetson The Bears
scored six more 1 field goals than
their visitors, but the Hatters hit
on 24 of 38 charity tosses while
the Bears converted only 10 of 27.
,lud Roberts, Mercer’s All-
America candidate, and .Tim Gra
ham were the two Bears to foul
out and their loss proved to he
costly to the Bears attack Roberts,
on an exceptionally cold night, hit
only 10 points, but his hustle was
responsible for the closeness of the
game. He. took a portion of his
rebounds and a couple of errant
Stetson passes away from his own
teammates. Graham scored 13
points, hut his absence on the
hoards hurt. He pulled down 10
■rebounds second only to Tom
Mitc hell, who had 11.
The Bears, showing a balanced
attack, put six players in double
figures. Robert Belloir led the at
tack with 19 points, followed by
Graham’s 13, Marvin Bailey and
Jim Hildehnndt, 12 each, and
Roberts and Mitchell scored 10
each.
Mitchell, who broke into the
starting lineup after his play
-against Georgia State in Atlanta,
led tho Bears in rebounding, and
Bailey, along with Graham, had 10
rebounds.
The Bears defense seemed to
improve as the game progressed
and they forced the Hatters to
make a number of mistakes, but
tn rmtttv the hall only chang
ed hands for a few minutes ns Mer
eer failed to capitalize'on the er-'
rors. *
Despite this, and being unable
to run their offense anywhere close
to what seemed to lx- the plan, the
Bc-arc managed to stny in the
game, and even hold the lead on
occasion. ;
Mitchell, playing his final year
for the Bears, seems to have gained
a lot more confidence and |ioise’
H,e was also on the front end of
the few- fast breaks the Bears were
able In pull off against a sticky
Hatter defense.
Belloir added more spark to the
Rears attack as the little speedster
-stole jiasses all over the court and
once finessed his way through two
big men to.make a lay-up.
Bailey puts a lot of meat in the
Bears rebounding, and this is evi
dent every time he* gets a rebound,
lie dears everybody from under
the basket on his way down — and
this included tcMmmate Graham
on one occasion.
The Bears first defeat came at
the hands of Georgia State during
the holiday weekend. Coach Wild
er said that tho Bears really didn't
play that bad a game, but Ga.
State was ready and Mercer was
c old. He said a couple of his Bears
just couldn't find the range.
The next home game for the
Hears will be after the Christmas
holidays in the new Coliseum. Play
will begin on January 3 and this
will mark the second annual Mer
cer Invitational . tourney. Provid
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(Kv.) and Ft. Valley State along
with Ga. Southern.
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Morcer University
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SGA Activities Scheduled
The SGA had Be final meeting
for this quarter November 26, 1968.
One of the highlights of the meet
ing was on “Homecoming”. The
Tropics have been chosen for the
dance on Friday night, but the
really big act for the Coliseum
still has not been announced.
Topics such as “approval to so
cial chnnges in our society" and
“urbnnology” Were discussed for
“Insight 1969”.
The Food Services Committee
announced that several problems’
have come up concerning the cafe
teria. Too many students are for
getting their ID’s a d nre causing
many problems in the validating
process. Another problem con
cerned. the traffic block in the
sandwich line caused by people re
turning for seconds.
The Student Curriculum Liaison
Committee is also working on a
new course for non-science majors
because they mostly ore involved
in busy work. This eourse will try
to rover all arras of science instead
of the now concentrated study in
the various fields. A speech thera
py course was also suggested
The committee suggested that
SGA sponsor a “major day” when
students can report to the- depart
ments of their majors for consul
tation.
Geology 11 is living added to the
rurrirulum as a 5 hour eourse.
President Ed Bacon promised to
the SGA that a student steering
committee lie formed to investigate
all facets of Mercer.
In tho meeting November 12
President Baron suggested that the
SGA place copies of the faculty
position paper, “An Approach to
College Study,” in the library and
Mr. Jerry Stone's office. This pa
per was used by Dr Otto in Chapel
last week.
. Hugh Dukes presrnted n “Thank
You” resolution to be sent to mem
bers of the Georgia Baptist Con
vention who voted for acceptance
of federal aid, the resolution was
accepted and will appear in the
Cluster.
Dan Thigpen reported that the
Appropriations Committee had
voted to increase the Cauldron
budget $500.00 to offset rising cost
of publication. Martiel Babbit
asked the SGA to respond to ques
tionnaire about Fine Arts Series so
the kinds of entertainment the stu
dents desire can be brought on
campus.
Faculty-Course Evaluation Com
mittee report was presented by
Melissa McLeod:
Policies formulated:
a. Evaluation to be tabulated
yearly (in Spring)
b. Evaluation to be sent to
each professor, the dean, and
copies made available to re
serve in library for interested
students.
c. Possibility of adding to the
evaluation other relevant re
search done by SGA and other
students on Mercer academic
situation (e.g. Waverly min
utes)
d. Purpose of the Evaluation
would be:
1. To offer helpful criticism
to professors
2.'To offer the Student a
record of how previous stu
dents evaluated any given
. course taught by any given
professor.
e. Superficial evaluation of
course itself might be possible
with the evaluation, but any
extensive analysis, would have
to be done Under other juris
diction.
Decisions: -
a. The Committee will npt
meet again until next quarter;
all necessary, correspondence
could be handled by mail-
b. Next quurter the Commit
tee will concentrate on devel
oping an evaluation instru
ment of some sort (question
naire) which will be presented
to the SGA for discussion.
c. Report shall be made >
SGA to inform it of our po|j.
cies and progress.
Suggestions:
a. Let the faculty know about
what we are planning to do,
but let us have enough time to
do a good job (we will be writ
ing to other colleges for their
evaluations, and will be work
ing on our composite to pi*,
sent to the SGA next quarter)
b. Let anybody who wants to
help join the committee.
. Blanche Smith reported that tho
Curriculum Liaison Committee had
selected Gal Gaugh as Chairmss
and Reid Banks as Informatios
Officer. The group met November
20, in Psychology-Sociology Build
ing.
President Bacon appointed a
committee to draw up a petition
concerning federal aid to be pre
sented to the trustees at the next
meeting. The petition committee
consists of: Hugh Dukes, Bob Co|.
lins, Ed Bacon and Steve Richey
A monthly report will be pre-
pared by the President and the
secretary of SGA and posted os
Student Center bulletin board.
In the closing moments of the
meeting Bob Collins, Chief Justice
of Honor Council, swore in Linde
McNeal ns Cluster Editor.
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