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STUDENTS REAO PAPERS AT ANNUAL MEETIN6 OF
6EQR8IA PSYCHOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION
Reports from individutl research completed in the Psychology
Department during recent weeks will be presented by three Mercer
students at the annual meeting of the Georgia Psychological
Association at Calloway Gardens on Saturday, May 10th.
The papers afC:“Sdw|dule-(iiduced Polydipsia on a Scheldulc of
Dueondary Reinforcement" by Bob Collins. "Thirst Induced by
Hypothalamic Lesions: The Existence of a Satiety Center," by Dan
FeUmant "EstaMWiraent of Cooperative Behavior fat Rati Using
Positive and Negative Reinforcement" by Ralph Donaldson.
Two other students, Ray Woods and Melissa McLeod, retrieved
honorable mention for a paper entitled “Dairy of a College student"
mbmitted to Division E of the GRA. These students will be honored
guests at the Division E luncheon on Thursday, may 8th.
DR. SPENCER B. KING
Dr. Spencer B. King, Jr. chairman of the History Department at
Mercer University, represented Georgia at the annual meeting of the
Historical Commision of the Southern Baptist Convention.
The convention was be help April 21-23 in Nashville, Tenn.
Prof. King also is on the Editorial Committee of the Commision.
The committee, which had editorial supervision of the Quarterly
Review and Baptist History and Heritage, met on the first day in
Nashville.
The committee will plan a supplementary volume Encyclopedia
of Southern Baptists.
TEACHERS ENDORSE TRUSTEES
MACON, Ga -The Teacher Unit of the Mercer Alumni
Association Thursday endorsed the recent action of the university
Board of Trustees in applying for federal grants to assist in the
construction of three buildings.
In a resolution presented at the April meeting of the trustees. the
Teacher Unit, which represents some 1900 teachers, went on record
as “wholeheartedly concuring in the action that the Board of
Trustees recently took with reference to making use of all available
money including federal funds.”
The resolution, which had been passed at the annual meeting of
the association in Atlanta, was signed by Hugh W. Cheek, president.
Presidents—(coot, from pee* 1)
Alex Haley, internationally known writer, world traveler
and a great platform favorite, came to Mercer on
Wednesday, April 23, to present one of the Insight
lectures, Urban Crisis.
Alumni Day Visited
By Stringfellow
Committee Offers
New Courses
worked enthusiastically and
begun many committees to
strive toward satisfying
Mercerians. I am honored and
excited to once again represent
my class and I anticipate
continued progress in these and
new directions.”
Blanchie Smith, as a rising
senior, said this:
"As a representative of the
rising senior class, I have seen
our SGA working and
progressing toward the vital role
it should play in the university
community. Duriqg the next
year this role trill be more
clearly defined by precedents set
by die past administration and
programs established for the
coming year. Speaking for the
Senior Class, a group of students
who will see only the most
immediate results of our work, it
ig our hope that the entire SGA
wiU continue to act for the
betterment of our present
community, never losing sight of
our responsibility to future
Mercerians."
With these ideas and those of
other students, we look to the
new administration. Let us hope
for a fruitful year.
17 MAY
ARMED FORCES DAY
Frye
Fractures
Fans
Impressionist David Frye (real
name David Shapiro) was born in
Brooklyn, New York. He worked
as a salesman for his father's
office-cleaning firm until 1963.
He then auditioned his comedian
act before nightclub managers,
but no one was interested until he
added Bobby Kennedy and other
politicians to his repertory of
imitations. He labored for a year
perfecting his impressions and is
now a regular on the
talk and-variety -show circuit.
Frye has dozens of good and
bad-faces. His tone-perfect
mimicry of President Richard
Nixon and other political figures
is the most devastating topical
humor on television. 'The thing
I admire about politicians," says
Frye, “ is their magnificent
ability to be asked questions on
television before millions of
viewers and then so obviously
skirt the issues ” By themselves,
Frye’s monologues are only
passingly humorous. But.
together with his uncanny
ability to look as well as sound
like his characters, his parroting
is doubly effective.
William S t r i ng f e 11 o w.
outstanding lay theologian,
attorney and author, will speak
here on Alumni Day at Mercer
University, May 3. under the
auspices of Mercer Alumni
Association. His subject will be
"The Marks of Christian
Involvement.”
A former editor of Ramparts
Magazine and The Witness, a
widely syndicated columnist who
has made frequent appearances
on radio and television.
Stringfellow has been hailed by
Time Magazine, "one of
Christianity's most persuasive
critics from within.” “(He)
caught my attention more than
any other person," Karl Barth
said of Stringfellow, following
Barth’s most recent visit to this
country.
After graduating from Harvard
Law School, Stringfellow lived
and worked for seven years in
Harlem. His vivid account of the
poverty and deprivation he
witnessed while practicing law in
New York’s infamous ghetto has
been set down in the 1954 best
seller. ‘My People IsThe Enemy.”
In the book, Stringfellow offers
unsparing entism of the many
misguided efforts to relieve
racial poverty and presents an
impassioned and intelligent
appraisal of the role played by the
Christian churches in the racial
crisis
Additionally, Mr. Stringfellow
has published "Dissenter in The
Great Society" and “A Private
and Public Faith;" and. with
Anthony Towne. he was the
co-author of ‘The Bishop Pike
Affair." In the coming months
he will be represented in the
book stalls by no fewer than three
titles: "Imposters of God;” a
highly u n conventional
theological work, ‘The Idea of
Society As a Circus;” and 'The
Theology of Death.”
v Mr. Stringfellow's lecturcs-as
well as his books -have had a
tremendous impact both here and
abroad. He has traveled and
spoken in most of the major
nations of every continent
Antarctica excepted - and in this
country he has addressed such
assemblies as the Episcopal
House of Bishops, the Roman
Catholic Liturgical Conference,
the American Association of Law
Schools, the National Conference
on Social Work, the General
Assembly of the National Council
of Churches, plus most of
America's major law schools and
seminaries.
A Phi Beta Kappa.
Stringfellow was graduated from
Bated College and'was a Rotary
Fellow at the London School of
Economics. His military service in
the Second Armored Division
during World War II won him
three commendations. He has
served as a special deputy
attorney general to investigate
election frauds in New York as a
Consultant to the State
Commission on Human Rights,
and as counsel to the New York
State Council of Churches'
Legislative Commission.
The annual open meeting of
the Alumni will precede the
luncheon at 11 00 a m
Stringfellow will address the
alumni group immediately
folkiwing a picnic luncheon at
noon
The F a c trl t y - S t u d e n t
Curriculum Committee has
announced its ^commendations
on course additions and
deletions Art 168. Art
of Americas is a survey of
painting, sculpture, architecture
and the decorative arts, from
pre-Columbian to the present.
The English Department will
offer the Literature of the South,
course 153, which will be a study
of the Southern mind and literary
tradition as reflected >n the
literature of the region, with
emphasis on the recent Southern
Literature Renaissance English
103, Contemporary theories in
Linguistics and Rhetoric, will be a
study of recent trends jnd
theories in the scholarship of
linguistics and rhetoric.
Dr Platt, who has done
extensive study in African
history, plans to teach History
124, Imperialism in Modem
Africa After a brief survey of the
geography and early history of
Africa, major emphasis will be
given to the impact of Western
impcraltsm on Africa south of the
Sahara The course will conclude
with a summary of the emergence
of Africian states following World
War II. Political Science 151 will
be American Foreign Poilcy.
Theories and methods for the
study of foriegn policy will be
introduced. Attention will be
given to questions concerning the
most suitable approaches to the
study of American Foreign
Policy. The internal and external
factors which are related to the
Policy making process will be
identified. Selected problems of
American Foreign Policy will be
analyzed to explain relationships
The possibility of a new
department in the sciences
increases with the addition of
Elementary Geology. This
course is an introduction to
geology including a study of (1)
the structure and material of the
earth's crust. (2) the processes
that have given the rocks and
minerals their composition,
structure, and distribution. (3)
the internal structure of the
earth; (4) the energy and forces
that have shaped the landscape.
(5) and a brief history of life on
earth as revealed ^n the fossil
record
The Mathematics Department
is restructuring its freshman
courses in order to be more
flexible to the needs of the
individual student. Mathematics
11 will be an Introduction to
Finite Mathematics This course
is designed for the liberal arts
student. It will introduce sets,
logic, elementary combinatorial
techniques, elementary
probability, and related topics
Math 12, Pre-calculus math, is a
rigorous developemcnt of those
topics from the theory of
functions needed for the
developement of calculus, with
special attention given to
trigonometric and logarithmic
functions. A study of field and
order properties and an
introduction to analytic
geometry will be made. An upper
division course will be Geometric
Structures, Math 171. This
includes a rigorous study of the
properties of Euclidean
geometry, with special attention
to incidence and metric
properties amd an introduction
to elementary properties of
non-Euclidean geometries
The only changes in the
Department of Modern Foreign
Languages are the deletion of
French 110, the French Novel,
and the addition of French 117.
French Literature of the
Seventeenth Century The new
course will be a broader study
and encompass some of the
works in the French Novel It
will be a study of the major
works in seventeenth century
literature with an emphasis on
the theater of Corneille, Racine,
and Molicrc, and an introduction
to the philosophical writings of
Descartes and Pascal
Philosophy 190, Special
Topics in Philosophy, will lie an
intensive study of some
significant topic in philosophy,
not otherwise covered in the
departmental course offerings
Topics will be chosen in
consultation with students who
register for the course
Registration is restricted to
juniors and seniors and subject
to the consent of the instructor
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