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Volume Lll THE MERCER CLUSTER "The Pecemtter of the Seventies" Mercer University, Macon Georgia. December 14. 1970 No. 9 Trustees hear Harris’ report Dr Harris told the trustees that Student Financial Aid has grown from a budget of $37,000 in 199*40 to 9890.S38 this year Citing the need to provide the opportunity of a college education to those who cannot afford Mercer's high tuition. Dr. Harris defended the ap propriation of $286,116 from the University budget for the purpose of financial assistance The President also stated that agencies and organizations external to the University provide an additional $421,000 m financial aid. destruction of campus property Speaking of the Admissions Office. Dr Harris informed the Trustees of the difficulties in volved in recruiting new fresh men. He said that the university is being farced to employ in creasingly ‘ costly and sophisticated public relations efforts which are actually than past yea/s when such methods were not necessary. Dr. Harris cited the fact that the University's application pool has remained the same over the past years while the tuition has increa^d drastically. Dr. Harris said. v No longer will Jy Department representative Steve Whilden spate here an Um Nison Doctrine. Dne lotto ontipifirhm of hy Asian expert outlines Nixon Doctrine here- Of Dr. Rufus Harris delivered a report to the Board of Trustees December 3 In which be outllied Mercer's role in the com dig decade. President Han a spoke specifically about the Freshman English Financial Ad- shot by intruders. 3 security officers fired upon. 3 shots fired at the campus. I security guard bald at gun point, and 3 cases of malicious A State Department official speaking at Mercer Wednesday. December 2. told students that the Nixon Doctrine would mate U virtually impossible for the U.S. to get involved In another Dormitories may get private phones in rooms by Tyler Hammett responsibility for calls with individuals so that the project would not cost the university anything Wesleyan, under a similar plan, has already had hookups installed in the dormitories Persmal phones will be In stalled there over the Christmas holidays Jos Sparks. Msrcer Director of Moo's Housing, said that "right now. thsre aren't a whole of obstacles that I can sot to Mr Patterson, the manager at Southern Bell, said that Southern Bell was "very in terested in installing phones for Mercer University 'He added that be would be mare than glad to work with students and university officials to get things underway to the phone The arrangement that is being considered is to be kvate contract between ad the have proved w's vice business and tentatively agreed dtviduala desiring phones Southern Bell Hookups* wduld be installed m ail of the dor mi lory rooms and interested students could lease privets lines for 16 23 per month There Viet Nam Steve Whilden, an expert on Viet Nam, pointed out that the doctrine excluded the use of U-S ground troops completely, except when a country was threatened with invasion by a tuciear power The Nixon Doctrine, first enunciated by the President in a speech on Guam, lists the various types of threats to non nuclear powers which seek U.S. intervention and fixes the upper limits of rwpcau that the United States may make The doctrine listhilve types of threats, including invasion from a nuclear or a non-nuclear power and three kinds of in ternal subversion . Inside Cluster ■••Mr From Page 2 News Hr left Page 2 Fire- Pag© 3 Messiah- Page 1 Oo an so Page • From the Hooch Page 7 < fcamploethip Page 7 Ail Mar Team Page » Kdiloriaiw p>it >• ('hock Jackson- p>f> ii Whilden emphasised that there first had to be a request from the threatened country. Then, he said, U must be determined if providing aid would be in the best interest Of the United States The Nixon Doctrine, gives the U S. a policy in an area which was previously neglected, Whilden said Considering (he United States and the Soviet Union as the first two. be said the doctrine covers "threats to third countries." However, according to Whilden. "a doctrine is only a doctrine and you caa bend it and twist It by changing Ihs definitions of the words " in other comments, Whilden observed that in a recent ex , eriment 2 graduate students from Yale were locked in a room and told to drveldp an atom bomb Within a year, they developed this bomb, though they had access only to non classified information This, in Whilden a view, tend strong support to the theory that any nation who can educate a PhD can develop a bomb, though they might not have the delivery systems to go along with it that the United Stales has Whilden has been a Foreign Service officer, with the Stale Department since 1964 and served as hla first lour in Vietnam os a district advisor in the Mekong Delta