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October 14.
Fraternity Profile
MIMA: 21 Years
Lee Dryidale entertain Chio’i fall rutoee*
■Movie Review-
Last Summer
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bofon the Vtot Nan Moratorium resolution va> brow#* to a
rota at tha StaBaat Oovarnmrat Association Saoata matting of
Sagtanbao 38. PaatMpaots la tha lengthy debate may hate
poodteed the anquest by Fiaridant Nbton thte thaw be a“60 day
tlMlv nokft wmot dbcuMd oq tilt Senate floor.
If thebapHcatiaa of your quretion h that the Senate acted
haMBy and (nationally la thalr Judgment, than It la not tne. The
taaoiuthn for aadonemant «a paaaaated to the Senate Boar
obfeutlaety. The Senate, nadln aonSanate participants, dte
> In an orderly and raspooribi* maaaar. Every
I with tha moot Important national haue of
11 paaauna that each had aonw opinion eoocarntag
the Vlat Nan War and tha Moratorium before entering the meet
1^ of Oiytenbar 39. Thte hone bn been “tabled” for dtecumton,
planning, and "watt a tew awn mootha” action on the national
■cone for aaany yean. I bore only impact for the itand taken by
aaah participant and tha rote or each Senator. Each peiaon had
an opportunity to rotea MabeSete before the aanmbty, and valid
point* and npinioaa item talnd by both auppotten of the reaolu-
Uon mi thorn agatete It No oae iMaad tha point of Pwddant
Nixon's requate; however, it nay ham boon oonddamd by away
of the participant*.
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SQA hn dona and in atll doing. Tha Paaddaaf* statement ateo
lanllad a reqnsat for halting of crttictem which the Senate did not
foiow. In doing ao they dM not m drearily conform nyou tug-
gaat Thte laaua of the Vlat Nam War hn apUt the nation’* politi
ck laadaaa, labor laadaafe and aampue tender, (both atudant and
faculty). If tha Stndant Sonata had voted unaaimoudy not to
andean the annlattna. one could any that they conformed to
yonr point of view. The Senate's vote of 12 to 9 wa* recorded,
oot opiate PiMhknt Ninon and oot againat America, but in favor
of the Oetobac 16 Moratorium"
by Chuck Jackson
When Oscar nominations go
out for “Cop Out of the Yeer”
Lost Summer directed by
Prank Perry Is sure to be right
at the top of the list. However,
the biggest share of the honors
should probably go to his wife
Eleanor who adapted author
Evan Hunter’s novel for the
screen. Perry and spouse have
managed to take Hunter’s hard
hitting work about the not ao
tender adolescent who knows
where it’s at and through the
magic of cinematography and
script manipulation (This one
belongs to witey) water it
down into a plausible fable
depicting the environmental
forces at work on four bored
affluent teenagers — who are
spending summer vacation at
the beach — saying in the end
that only half of all teenagers
are kick crazy instead of three
out of four.
Fortunately all is not lost,
for conudering the script direc
tor Perry is working from he
does show moments of bril
liance in the manipulation of
his four adolescent stars. The
actors Richard Thomas, Bruce
Davison, Cathy Bums, and
Barbara Hershey all turn in
well done performances.
Special honors going to Cathy
Bums for her really excellent
portrayal of the victimized
Rhoda who only wanted to be
accepted. Perhaps this hits
hardest because we all realize
that there are too many
Rhoda’s walking around.
Barbara Hershey as the film’s
sex pot is especially fine in her
role as manipulate of first a
seagull and then the dumpy
Rhoda, both actions having the
same end result.
The story line itself shows
the four teenagers experiment
ing with alcohol, atx, mari
juana, and truth while sprink
ling their conversations liberal
ly with four letter words
Throughout the entire film and
lurking always in the back
ground are the veritable
enemies of the kids — adults.
By this masterstroke director
Perry shows the extreme up-
tightnere of the kids with
today’s society and the conjec
ture is drawn bom this and the
kids’ experiments that before
the film is over something is
surely going to happen.
Whether it does or not is pure
ly a matter of opinion and
mine is “COP OUT’. Advice
on Last Summer is see the film
or read the book but don't do
both unless you’re ready to put
up with more disgusting Holly
wood manipulation. Advice to
Director Perry is to work on
something written by someone
other than your wife and you
may actually win an Oscar this
year.
On November 25, 1948, the
Mercer Independent Men’s As
sociation was founded on the
campus of this university. This
yoar that same organization
wll celebrate it* twenty-first
birthday. MIMA has at long
last come of age. But what, or
should we say who, exactly Is
the Mercer Independent Men’s
Association? This is a question
which most students would be
hard pressed to answer. Even
students within MIMA itself
have trouble defining their or
ganization and are currently
undergoing a period of exsten-
sive and intensive self-evalua
tion.
Twenty-one years ago when
MIMA was founded, it wa* set
up as a local organization with
no national ties, responsible
only to itself and the Univer
sity. This has always been one
of its strong points. Its mem
bership then consisted almost
entirely of premlnteterial or
Christian education students.
Its membership policy was and
still is that any male Mercer
student could join the organi
zation. Since those early years
MIMA has drawn its member
ship bom ail walks on campus
life. Not only ministerial stu
dents but also students who
couldn’t afford to go Greek, or
did not want to, joined MIMA.
However, in those formative
years MIMA was not a fra
ternity, but more of what its
name implied — an Associa
tion.
MIMA has always been a
social organization and in re
cent years it has become more
akin to the Greek fraternities
in this respect. It has progress
ed from the old suite up on
third floor Shorter hall with its
once a quarter coke party to its
new house on College Drive
with its full calendar of social
events ranging from parties
FOREIGN STUDENTS
ORGANIZE UNION
YouTHome Away tnm Home
The College
Snackbar
"A haven of Southern hospitality "
Finding it hard to atudy?
A meeting of the foreign
students at Mercer was called
on Saturday, October 11 th,
1969 at 1:00 p.m. in the Stu
dent Center. Most of the
foreign students were present
along with the foreign student
advisor, Mr. Ray Brewster.
Different topics were discussed
and it was decided not to have
"any “officers Tor" Iftli 'quiltgr,
but instead have a committee
to hold activities on campus,
for which discussion will take
place during the next meeting
on Saturday, October 18th.,
1969, at 12:30 p.m. It was de
cided that all foreign students
gather that day and have lunch
together at 12:30 p.m. in the
lobby of the Student Center,
soon after which, the meeting
will take place. Our topics of
dteeureion will include: general
membership, whether or not
we should have panel discus
sion on International politics,
whether we should have select
ed foreign movies and music,
have International Students
Week, etc., etc.
We are sure that this will be
a very rewarding year. We urge
every foreign student on
campus to take an active part
in the activities planned.
All foreign students who did
not attend this meeting, please
send your names and P. O. box
number to Pervaiz Peter. Box
1070. Mercer University.
BY CHUCK JACKSON
during the quarter to simply
watching the World Series pn
the tube. MIMA also provides
an extensive athletic program,
participating in all intramural
^>orLs MIMA has been not
only a social organization but
also a service organization. This
is exemplified by their motto:
“Mercer First, Then Indepen
dent Men". MIMA’s first duty
is to Mercer University and its
policies. Also incorporated in
this motto is MIMA’s strong
emphasis on academics.
It has been only in recent
years that MIMA has begun to
feel its fledgling wings as a
brotherhood (fraternity) in
what MIMA feels is the true
tense of the word. However,
there has been much conjec
ture over this because many
persons, Greek and non-Greek,
feel that it is impossible to
develop a dose-knit brother
hood within the context of an
organization whose member
ship is completely open. This
idea, the brothers of MIMA
feel, is merely the offspring of
dosed thinking. It is their feel
ing that because of the diver
sity of types of men within the
organization the sense of
brotherhood which they
achieve is even closer than
those of some of the closed or
selective organizations. Because
they have learned to work,
play, and live with men whcwe
qualities they may not have
admired, the brothers of MIMA
feel that they have learned an
invaluaole lesson in human
tolerance, appreciation, and
acceptance which leads only to
a stronger bond among them
selves. The key word to
brotherhood in MIMA is
“open", and this means com
pletely open. T'nfortunately
there has within the last two
years been some problem over
this openness. Many persons
have come to feel that this
openness applies only to white
students and that the organiza
tion is closed to members of
other races. A policy statement
by the brotherhood early this
fall clarifies this point by re
emphasizing the fact that mem
bership in MIMA is open to
any male Mercer student re
gardless of race or anything
else
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