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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 ing opposition will be Georgetown (Kv.) and Ft. Valley State along with Ga. Southern. Come out and support the Boars! c/i ^lew Sating Sensation / chick-n-treat Fish & Shrimp open til 1 p.m. Fri. and Sat. 2910 RIVERSIDE DRIVE MACON, GEORGIA 745-9291 tww omtu urn ram... IF YOUR PIZZA IS PERFECTION it’s twm sum’s PIZZA PARLOR tn6 Public house THE MERCER CLUSTER Morcer University Macon, Georgia Naa Profit Organization 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. IF CHECKFRFD APRONi Try Our PIZZA Evan if you triad a diffsrsnt ons every weak, it would tako you ovor a yoar to try all of our 80 varieties of Pizza. This coupon good for 25c toward any pizza. Limit on* to customer. »TTtiffn!»!SS5- Phone 746-6663 Served with green salad and choice of dressing Gag’* !(§To <§»8&So\2)< omy STEAK HOUSE ‘Banquet Room Availablo’ 2918 RIVERSIDE DRIVE DIAL 745-5767 SIZZLING SIRLOIN $1.39 ALL STEAKS U S. CHOICE GRADE