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Volume III
THE
MERCER CLUSTER
"The Pacesetter of the Seventies"
Mercer University, Macon Georgia. January 19. 1970
No. 10
Anderson attacks
Federal spending
by Chock Jackson
Damaged law building
reconstruction begins
by Tyler Hammett
Brabham, “BigE” all tourney
Scott, Smith pace Bears
to Invitational trophy
Jack Anderson, noted
national newspaper columnist,
whose articles are read by 45
million people all over the
world, told Mercer students last
Tuesday, that the United States
has spent $45 billion to solve the
problems of a small jungle
nation on the other side of the
globe while neglecting the
growing social disasters at
home.
Anderson, who inherited the
Washington Merry Go-round
from the late Drew Pearson,
said “we could have gone a long
way with the $82 billion poured
down the drain in Viet Nam
toward solving the problems at
home.
“The $82hijlion has been used
to put down guerilla war on the
other side of the world,” he
exclaimed, “while a guerilla
war has erupted in our own
cities.” We have succeeded in
making the streets of Saigon
safe to walk at night, he said,
but have neglected the safety of
the cities. A person can not walk
the streets of Washington and
expect to remain alive, he
illustrated.
Many of the problems, he
pointed out. go back to World
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War II. The public became
obsessed with the security of the
nation and when the menace of
Russia was seen looming up in
the east we beg^n massive
military spending programs for
sophisticated weaponry so the
young would not have to face
the rigors of another ground
war. We massed the weapons at
The Walter F. George School
of Law continued to pick up the
pieces last week in the wake of
the fire which did $75,000
damage in the Ryals Law
Building December 4.
Workmen from the R.H.
Smallings Sons Construction
Company began the massive
rebuilding job Thursday,
January 7, and the building is
expected to be in use by the
beginning of spring quarter.
Foreman Hanson Smith said
the building was dried In with
framing, plywood decking, and
felt paper immediately after the
fire to preserve it while plans
for the rebuilding were drawn
up.
Book losses were not as high
as originally thought. Mrs. Leah
Chanin, Librarian for the
Lang dale Law Library, said
that 10,000 volumes of old books
stored on the third floor at the
time of the fire were destroyed.
Volunteers guided by Dupont
Cheney, Editor of the Mercer
Law Review, probed the burned
area to save a substantial -
number of back issues of the
the front door of the nation and
left the back ' unattended, he
noted.
As a result, Anderson pointed
out. we have military missions
in 68 countries of the
treaties of intervention In
foreign nations which make
empire the greatest in the
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Law Review which were also on
the third floor.
Dr. Sam Beatty, Dean qf the
Law school, was optimistic.
"The fire,” he said, “has given
us a chance to evaluate the role
of the law school and the
university in quality legal
S tion. It has given us a
a tic opportunity to
ite ourselves and to look
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The Fourth annual Mercer
Invitiational Tournament drew
nation-wide attention last week
as No. 1 small college, Ken
tucky State and honorable
mention Georgia Southern met
head-on in the lead-off game.
Southern took that game, but
when the smohe had cleared.
by Tom Robin too
the hosting Mercer Bears,
walked away with all the
honors, to even their record for
the year at 4-4.
The Tournament started off
with a proverbial bang as the
Thouroughbreds of Kentucky
State, led by center Elmore
Smith, all 7 feet plus of him. and
6-7TravirGrant, whohada 70.1
field goal shooting percentage
coming into the Tournament,
going against last years MIT
winners, the Georgia Southern
Eagles. The Thouroughbreds
were obviously too over-,
confident, and the Eagles took
advantage of the emotional
edge to defeat State. 63-59.
To give an indication as to
how bad things were for Ken
tucky State, the usually
dependable Mr. Grant was 9-18
for field goals, including
missing his first three shots
from the floor. And the
Thouroughbreds two fine
guards, Jerome Blister and
Jerry Stafford, who had been
averaging 15.2 and 8.1 points a
game, respectively, could only
put eight points on the board
between them.
But the game was not an
entire Kentucky State give
away. Georgia Southern played
a tremendous game all the way,
managing to stay within reach
of the Thouroughbreds until
they saw their chance to strike.
At the start of the game,
however, the 2300 people at the
Macon Coliseum expected to
see a run-a way. The Eagles won
the opening tip, and im
mediately went Into a freeze.
A three-second violation
turned the ball over to the
Thouroughbreds, however, and
KSU forward William Graham
tipped in an errant Grant shot
for a 2-0 with 17:28 to go in the
tulf.
Georgia Southern came right
down down the court to tie it on
a 20-footer by Mike Stokes.
After a quick exchange of
baskets, the Thouroughbreds
went off to a 10-5 lead with 14:53
on a layup by Graham.
But the Eagles undaunted by
KSU's superior height, nme
right back to come with In a
point, 17-16, on an 8-footer by
center Charlie Gibbons, at 8:15.
The Thouroughbreds kept
their lead, however, and in
creased it some before the half
was over, at which time the
score stood 32-25, which was
their biggest lead of the half.
Grant was finally finding the
range, and Smith was so far at
U*t, having no problems
clearing the boards.
The second half began just as
the first one left off; Smith put
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