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jam. a iti« MERCER CLUSTER 9 Excavating Prove Great Opportunity For Students A new and exciting opportunity In England la now offered to Col lege atudenta wanting to apend next summer in Europe in an Interesting way. * You may help to reveal die sec rets of a Roman villa, an Iron-age hill fort or the structure of a me dieval town or Anglo-Saxon ca thedral before they disappear, per haps for ever. Expanding housing programs, city centre redevelop ment and new highway projects in Britain to-day have opened up many new poesibilities for arch aeological investigation. You may help in this important work, earn credits, make inter national friends and receive valu able training in archaeology, by joining a program sponsored by the Association for Cultural Ex change, the British non-profit or ganisation. Volunteers first join a three- week seminar lor training in Bri tish archaeology and excavation techniques at Merton College, Ox ford. They then split up into small groups for three or more weeks “digging” on an archaeological sltt. Total cost if the program is 725 dollars, including round-trip air transportation from New York. Part scholarships arc available to suitable students with a “B” plus average. Write now for further details to Professor Ian A. Lowson, Associa tion for Cultural Exchange, 539 West 112th Street, New York 10025. Closing application date is expected to be beginning of February 1969. "Sins of the Fleshapoids"-"Scorpio Rissing" Attacks Underground Movie Audiences From Two Sides By JOHNNY TURNER Good old 314 is really getting a workout the « days. Wednesday night a full audience got it socked to 'em by two films that ranged from sheer hilarity to dead seriousness. Sins Of The Fleshapoids is a love story set in a future land where humans Indulge themselves in all sorts of erotic pleasures. The love story however, centers on two robots called Fleshapoids who have over the centuries squired human senses through a weird type of evo lution. The Fleshapoids rebel, de stroy their human masters, and start aU over again. The whole movie is one very large put on of science fiction and Hollywood in general. As director Mike Kuchar puts it: ‘To sum up The Sins of the Fleshapoids Is my most dearest dedication to the com mercial movies, or, to put it another way, it is a joke that cost me a thousand dollars.” Scorpio Rising, in contrast, is not a joke, rather it is a dead serious investigation of the much romanti cized motorcycle gang. The film begins innocently by flashing shots nf a member of the gang working on his machine. The music con sists of old tunes like “Fools Rush In,” “My Boy Friend’s Back,” and “Blue Velvet.” The audience laughed when the film showed the members of the gang putting on their leather jac kets, chains, boots, rings, and other necessary articles because the music being played was Bobby Vin ton’s “Blue Velvet” and Elvis One Ambassador is wanted for Japan, by the Macon Council of the Experiment in International Living for the months of July and August! An Ambassador, college or up to 30 years of age, will be sent to Japan. This individual must have at least one year of college. There is no language requirement but there will be language training St a west coast center before de parture. This Ambassador’s trip will begin and end in San Fran cisco. Applications and more informa tion may be obtained from either Mr. Tun Bake CPh. 743-8651) or Mrs. Richard Harris CPW. 746- I8M>. Thoae Intonated must fill out applications by March 3rd to qualify ter salactkm The Ambassadors selected will be ohUgatnt not only to isprOsant Maeon tint ateo, upon Presley’s "Look Like An Angel.” It was funny. And it was funny when Ray Charles sang “Hit The Road Jack” while they roared up and down the streets. But I stopped laughing when the song "I Will Follow Him” was played while fragment shots of Marlon Brando (in The Wild One), Adolf Hitler and finally Jesus flashed on the screen. And the scenes of the preverted hoods preforming their ritualistic rites called Cycler’s Sabbath were disgusting. By this point the com parison was getting obvious: people followed Christ, they followed Hit ler, and now they are following By ANDREA FROST “Why, ah despahse him as much as ah despahse Giles or you with yoah bloodstained hands,” cries Lady Marianne to King John. She cannot marry the lewd, lascivious Count of Flanders just to help King John capture Robert Huntington, the son of Robin Hood and the man she loves. The poor girl was so flustered she couldn’t speak straight. But leave us not cavil because a twelfth century maiden meurthers the King’s English with a magolia- dripplng accent. The “Rogues of Sherwood Forest” was a • tale of chivalry and romance about the son of Robin Hood and his band of their return be in Macon for a year and available as speakers for the civic groups who donated the money to finance their travel. Under the Experiment’s program each Ambassador is assigned to a group of ten to a country where, after a few days of orientation, he will spend one month living with a family of that country. By such intimate living, he sees the country through the eyes of his “adopted” family. Following the homestay, the Ambassador generally tours the country informally for approxi mately three weeks accompanied by his Experiment group members, his foreign brothers and sisters or friends of the host families. The final tew days, poaathly one week, are «ant in a dty of major interest baton returning home. Redon the selected Ambassador* lean Macon, they will need to taka the Scorpios. Each is a rebel and each leads to death. It is not mere chance that the last song played was “Wipeout” by the Safaris. The death's head sym bol is found throughout the film and its significance reaches a cli max at the end of the film when the cyclist crashes and the camera switches back and forth from the red light of the ambulence to the extended arm cf the victim. Mercer has some excellent movies scheduled for this quarter, notably The Thin Man Jan. 24, Jules And Jim Jan. 29, The Young And The Damned Feb. 5 and the New Cine ma starting Feb- 27. They are all well worth seeing. dirty old men and four chickens (yup, chickens). When evil mali cious, sneaky ol’ King John tries to have Robert Huntington done in, all the merry men flocked to his aid in the woodland sanctuary. Into the woods, into the woods! Meanwhile back at the castle, the Archbishop of Canterbury ad monishes King John for levying heavy taxes and for outlawing the son of Robin Hood. King John may hang him but “a noose will not strangle the truth.” The archbishop spoke prophetic words (or the script-writer made a boo-boo). On the way to St. Dunstaris Abbey, three miles from Notting ham, King John and his re tin ire were overtaken by the greenwood’s men swinging from convenient ropes (opps, I mean vines). King John was forced to sign the Great Charter, and that, my children, is why we have life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness and women can no longer be forced into marriages (don’t do us no favors). a fresh and complete look at the community and collect the informa tion needed to present an accurate picture of life in our area to their new friends abroad. It Will also be their obligation to report, upon their return, through speaking en gagements to the various groups which made their Experiment possible. Gafl "Sherwood Forest" Rouges Lose Their Leader and Their Accents Experiment in International Living Wants College Student Ambassador For Summer Homestay in Japan MOVIE PREVIEWS "The Thin Man" By DEBRA ROGERS In this day of super cool detec tives like Steve McQueen’, “Bullit”, and Paul Newman’s “Harper”, it is interesting to go back to their origins; that is the origin of the screen detectives, the super cool ones. William Powell created on the screen in 1934, Nick Charles or as he was more commonly known, “Hie Thin Man”. From this suave, witty, sophisticated detective of 35 years ago, today’s synical, super cool ones developed. Sure, things hate changed -In the last 35 years, but what was great then is at least good now. It may be in bad taste to say the “mood of this murder mystery is essentially one of gaity and wit”, but if Lite rary Digest could say it in 1934. I can say even more today. “The Thin Man” is hilariously “super cool”; that is if you like detective stories, and who doesn’t? 8:00 P.M., Friday, January 24. Room 314 of trfe Student Center. "Jules and Jim" By LOCHLYN KENNEDY JULES AND JIM, a film in the Fine Art Series, will be shown in the Student Center on Wednesday, January 29, at 8:30 pm. In this film, Jules, a German, and Jim, who is French, meet and be come good friends. They share common Interests, and soon, a com mon love. For twenty years, they are in love with the same woman. After a three-sided courtship, she marries one of them. They soon drift apart, however, and the other one returns to renew his love. Soon, this marriage falls apart, too. There is a dramatic and heart breaking climax which combines with the deep pasion seen through out the entire picture to mane this a film worth seeing. New Publications Reach Library and Rook Store Students awake! The Graai Speckled Bird has landed on the Mercer campus. For your copy, hurry to the bookstore before they are sold out. Also through the efforts of the SGA Library Committee, 16 new periodicals are now available for student consumption in the library. These include such radical publica tions as American Opinion Mag azine, which Is put out by the John Birch Society and New Leff Notes, which is published by the Students for a Democratic Society. Other publications such as the New York Review of Books and Ebony are also now available. The following magazines can be found in the peiodical section of the library filed In alphabetical order. The New South Student New University Thought New York Review of Books New Politics Evergreen Review Intercollegiate Review New Individualist Review Innovator Ebony American Opinion Magazine New Left Notes Radical Education Urban West Ramparts Radical America Underground Digest 2910 RIVERSIDE DRIVE MACON. GEORGIA 745-9291 mm mm ossa am ncaur. TF YOUR PIZZA TS PERFECTION IT’S FROM SHEETS PIZZA PARLOR *n6 Public fious* • DOWNTOWN INGLESIDE WESTGATE RIVERSIDE • SPEND WONDERFUL WEDNESDAYS at the Free cokes, coflee and refreshment* for Mercer students. Every d»7 is wonderful at the Oxford Shop open all day on Wednesday the dty at