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Crusade
Invades
CAMPUS CRUSADE FOR
CHRIST i< in operation on the
lamput of Mercer University. At
Mercer ihe ctutade n in the form of
ACTION GROUPS which meet every
week >n the giri't dorm and in the
boy’s dorm
The purpose of the CAMPUS
CRUSADE FOR CHRIST is "to
present a faithful witness concerning
Jesus Christ in areas on the campus
where normal Christian witness does
nor extend. ” The fulfillment of this
purpose is in its preliminary stages at
Mercer in the form of ACTION
GROUPS
The ACTION CROUP in the men's
dorm is a small group assisted by
Larry Fraley, a staff member of
CAMPUS CRUSADE FOR CHRIST.
Fraley is working in the high schools
in Macon and is only assisting at
Mercer as the college staff of the
CRUSADE is not adequate enough at
this time to place a staff member
here
The ACTION CROUP is a nucleus
of students interested in sharing
Christ with other students. They
meet each week to discuss various
scriptures, share experiences in
witnessing, discuss any problems they
hive as individuals, and then dose in
circle prayer with voluntary
participation. These informal, quiet
gatherings are to strengthen each
person so he may witness to those
students not in the group.
It is the desire of the ACTION
GROUP that soon each participant
will be able to host an ACTION
GROUP of his own. Just as the initial
group these will be nucleus groups
helping through fellowship and
sharing to strengthen individual
Christian witness. At ACTION
GROUPS evolve with “active"
students sharing Christ on campus,
CAMPUS CRUSADE FOR CHRIST
will then be in full action on Mercer's
campus.
Anyone interested in the ACTION
GROUP program as part of the
CAMPUS CRUSADE FOR CHRIST
may contact any of the fallowing
people: Danny Brogdon, George
Durham, and Ray Fitch for the
meetings in the bov's dorm and Beth
Calvin, Linn Dillard, and Isctsy Jones
for the meetings in the girl’s dorm.
The Classics IV appeared in concert in the Willingham Chapel Tuesday, April 15th.
The Classics IV Perform
Silence as the lights dimmed,
followed by spontaneous sound.
They were here, live-The Classics
IV-and Willingham Chapel wailed
with them as they brought their own
brand of psychedelic and soul to
Mercer’s campus, a sound which
could only be described at uniquely
The Classics IV.
Highlighting the concert were their
nationally known hits ’Traces,"
"Stormy," and "Spooky," but this
group also showed themselves
capable of belting out other
well-known tunes. One of the best
moments of the entire concert came
with the singing of a number entitled
"It Ain’t Necessarily So" which they
had performed recently on the Mike
Douglas television show. If a
consensus was taken among Mercer
students attending the concert, this
number would be seen well on the
way to becoming a hit. Equally
tremendous was the sound of the old
Spenser Davis hit "Gimme Some
Lovin” as wailed by Ox, organ player
extraordinare. Mixing the
paychodelic sounds of their
electronic equipment with some
straight from the heart soul, the
group feted their audience to a real
treat in a couple of Sam and Dave
by Chuck Jackson
tunes. "Soul Man" and "Hold On,
I'm coming." And so they wailed and
wailed to an audience which found it
increasingly hard to keep their seats
with so much really great dance
music coming at them Even though
invited by the leader of the Classics
IV to get up and dance, despite the
fact that the concert was being held
in the Chapel, the students kept their
cool and endured until the end and
the last strains of ’'Traces,"
“Stotmy," and “Spooky" died.
However, no concert in Willingham
Chapel would be complete without a
series of mishaps and the Oasrics IV
concert was certainly no exception;
but the show must go on, and so it
did through a broken G string and
the deplorable stage lighting. May we
all pray that when the new
Performing Arts Center is finally
built it will have adequate stage
lighting and maybe if we are really
lucky someone will know what to do
with it.
Law Day Program Welcomes
Associate Justice Tom Clark
Dean Otto’s Sermon
Becomes Precedent
As some students will remember,
back in April. 1967, our Dean of
Chapel was strongly berated for using
a four letter word in one of his now
legendary sermons from the Chapel
pulpit. The outcome of this incident
has become precedent for a similar
case against Dr Paul Cantrell of
Jewell College. Liberty, Missouri. Dr.
Cantrell used the four letter word
that Dr. Otto used in his sermon,
only Dr. Cantrell's "sermon" was to
his psychology class. The college
newspaper of Jewell College asked
the question. "Is the Precedent Set?"
and ran the following article
including a statement by President
Harris of Mercer, excusing Dr. Otto's
use of "the four letter word":
"Much concern has been given this
past week to s four letter word used
by Dr. Psul Cantrell in a psychology
class last semester In the near future,
the administration will hand down
their judpnent Dr. Cantrell will
University voted to let the president
of the university handle the campus
crisis and Dr. Otto was retained. The
following is an excerpt from a
statement released by the President
of Mercer University:
‘Mercer is a good and vital
Christian college. We should not
accept anything lesa than that. The
good college, Christian or not,
respects and protects the academic
freedom of the individual scholar to
search for truth, proclaim and teach
it in his classrooms and in his public
utterances, despite the fact that,
being human, he may sometimes err
in his choice at techniques and terms.
Likewise, the Christian college
respects the freedom of the man of
God in the pulpit to preach the word
of God in that pulpit as he is movad
by the Spirit of God to do so, dsapitx
an occasional error in manner or in
the use of speech. It is the
context of the
The Honorable Tom C. Clark,
Associate Justice of the Supreme
Court of the United States
(retired)^ has accepted an
invitation to speak at Mercer’s
twenty-first annual Law Day
luncheon to be held on May 2.
Mr. Justice dark retired from his
position on the nation's highest
Court in 1957 after nearly eighteen
years on the bench. Prior to his
nomination as Associate Justice by
President Truman in 1949, Mr. dark
had already distinguished himself in
public service. He joined the U. S.
Department of Justice in 1917 as
Special Attorney in the Bureau of
War Risk Litigation and later served
in numerous other Justice
Department positions until 1945
when he was named Attorney
General of the United States.
Mr. Justice dark attended Virgins
Military Institute, but returned to his
home state after World War I and
recieved his A.B. degree in 1921 and
bis LL.B. degree hi 1922 at the
University of Texas. Hr practiced law
in Texas in the family firm of dark
and Clark uadi 1927 when ha
became CM District Attorney for
Dallas County wad in 1913 Joined
Wiliam McGtsw far forming the Arm
of McGnw aad Clark in Dallas.
The law day activities win
with a race
followed by Mr. Justice dark'a
address.
Tickets for the luncheon are $2.50
per person and may be obtained by
sending a check to Wallace Wright, P.
O. Box 149), Mercer University.
Macon. Georgia 31207.
12.5 percent of expenditures in the
icxt school year. These include
leaching salaries ($1,715,664),
aad equipment Hot academic
lepartments and libraries
$414,557), student atrvkes and
.divides ($309,9)5), student aid
$575,171), administration cosh and
ihyaacal plant operadoos ($699,09$).
Costs of the educational portion
if the budget are paid chiefly from
qtudent tuition, restricted
endowment income and special gifts.
Tuition aad feat fee the year,
including the Walter F. George
School of Law and Southern School
of Pharmacy, will proeidc
$2,390,000 Other sources of income
for educational costs are the Georgia
Baptist Convention (S1B3.660),
endowment $200,000 and gifts
$196,000.
The university has a total
endowment of approximately $9
million from which it gets a return of
5.53 percent on that portion ($5
million) handed by the Trustees.
The costs for operating aad
maintaining the physical plant have
been budgeted at $300,761 of which
40 percent will be required for
building maintenance and supplies,
equipment, utility and insurance
costa. The other 60 percent will be
expended on salaries and stages
which under the Minimum Wage Law
will be increased 11.9 percent next
year.
Endowment income aad incoroe
from auxiliary enterprises will cover
maintenance costa which art $20,000
higher than the amount budgeted thia
year.
Auxiliary enterprises which
include the cafeteria, housing, snack
Study Program aad Bconsanic
Opportunity Grant Propam.
Faculty Appreciation Day
Mercer's Student Education Association deaigaatsd Thnasday, Apr! 24
Faculty Appreciation Day. 110 members of (he faculty
which they wore all day. SBA carried out this project as
Teaching Career Month during April. Judy SmfctiHI and
co-chairmen for SIA projects aad Johnny Lewalta is SBA
astonished la April. 1967, a similar
coatroversy arose at Mercer
Baptise school of 1500
h MaeaaL Georgia. Dr.
Bah art Otto, dean of fee chapel,
need the i
attributed as Dr.
He Beard at Ttuassm of Mercer
Campus
By William Young. Jr
X • THE MERGER CLUSTER • Tuesday, April 2R 1969
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