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Author. Charles Rembar attacks
censorship in Wesleyan speech
Charles Rembar. author of
End of Obacenity and attorney,
spoke on censorship of
literature January 12 at
.Wesleyan College. Rembar
successfully defended Lady
Ctatterty’s Lover. Tronic of
Cancer, and Fanny Hill in
landmark obscenity cases. His
lecture was part of Wesleyan s
Project ‘71-the cultural
Revolution to which the public
is invited. Speaking on recent
rvin/if atywf closings, threats
of book burning and removal of
a book from library shelves in
Macon, Rembar said **.. .what
the local officials are doing
seems to me illegal. Officials
are not outside the law. .He
said the people responsible are
subject to prosecution or in
junction and “can be put in
jail.” Rembar added that they
are “Just grandstanding" and
that ‘They always obey court
the witness by reading explicit
passages and demanding- his
reaction. Rember objected that,
“the witness is not Qualified in
that area.'*
He said that sexual morality
is not the only kind of morality
but that “So far as the law is
d, it's
The theme of Rembar's
speech was that “it is essential
to democracy that all ideas be
in the open and that the
government should not pick and
choose whet ideas we have or
what books we read." He
compared the filth which is
h»ing today to acne:
•It is ugly, it is sdolencent, it is
not fatal and it goes away."
Only the day before his lec
ture Rembar was before the.
District Court of New York
represents ting William F.
Buckley in a libel-action against
.Gore Vidal.
News Briefs
Who’s Who
to get its mind off sex." No
books have been censored for
portraying cruelty or
dishooesty as attractive.
He pointed out that there is a
difference between books,
theater, films and such in
trusive media as television,
radio and billboards.
Thirty students from Mercer University will be included in the
1970-71 edition of Who's Who Among Students in American
Universities and Colleges.
The students have been chosen from a 3tudent body of almost
2,000 because of their academic achievement, service in the
community and leadership in extracurricular .activities.
Making Who's Who from the College of Liberal Aria are:
LaRooce Beard, Alan Bowen, Charles Bowen .femes Brogdon,
Steve Carreker, Sara Jo Conley, William Conner, Mary Dillard,
Hilda Greer, Carolyn Hamilton, Eugenia Holley, ShereU King,
Karl Kronqulst, George Leske, Anne Longman, John Luther,
Thomas Maddox Jr., Dale Mason, Thomas Moorhead, Bruce
Otto. Ernest Robinsoo Jr., Lois Sipe, James Smith, Peggy
Sullivan, John Turner, and David Willis.
Students at the Walter F. George School of Law who made
Who's Who were Alton Adams and Dupont Cheney.
Pharmacy School students who qualified were Sherald
Jackson and Marvin McCord.
Haywood
Dr. William T. Haywood, vice president for business and
finance at Mercer University, has been appointed to serve a
three-year term on the American Council on Education's
Committee on Taxation.
Membership on the committee is made up of college
presidents and top administrators chosen for their knowledge of
federal tax policies affecting higher education. Among the in
stitutions represented on the committee are California Institute
ofcTechonology, University of Nebraska, University of Ken
tucky, Dartmouth College, Yale University and University of
Chicago.
The committee functions as a part of the Commission on
Federal Relations of the ACE. In 1968 the committee completed
a thorough study of the impact of the Internal Revenue Code on]
piulantropic support of higher education. This study was used a?
a basis for testimony before the Congress on tax reform
legislation.
Dr. Haywood has been vice president of business and finance
at Mercer since 1966. He is a former president-of the National
Association of Educational Buyers and of the Southern
Association of Colleges and University Business Officers. He
has served in several top appointive positions in regional and
national education circles.
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Nursing
quarter. Bill Adams also asked
to be reinstated, but action will
be on his case taken at a later
time.
A letter from Emory, asking
that the students at Mercer Join
with the Emory students in
forming an environmental
control group, was read.
Contribution would be 14.00 and
the mooey would be used to hire
lawyers to do the student's
bidding. 60 percent 'of the
Emdry students have com
mitted themselves to this
Phi Mu
Jean Loveday, a Phi Mu pledge from Atlanta, has been
selected by the new SAE pledge class to be their 1970-71 pledge
class sweetheart. Also in the news is Susan Zeuner, past
president of Phi Mu. who has been named outstanding Phi Mu in
Macon.
Another letter, from the SCLC
waa reed requesting the SGA’s
help in a fund drive on kL^rtin
Luther King’s birthday. A
motion to participate waa made
Wesleyan invited Mercer's
participation in their project *71
Intern Program, the con
stitution /-h*ng#> and the —*ttng
up of the publications board,
and the Law School fire.
Sigma Alpha Epsilon
Backs the
Bears
Beat Jacksonville!
Miss Sharon Webb, Field Representative of the School, of
Nursing of the Medical College of Georgia will be on the Mercer
campus Friday, 22 January 1971 between 1:00 p.m. and 2:30
pjn. She will meet with any students interested in the bac
calaureate programs in Cursing: B.Sc., M Sc , and continuing
education.
SGA discards usual
meeting procedure
Beginning todny, the SGA will
bold issue-oriented meetings
inotead of following the
traditions) parliamentary
procedure method. Each
meeting will begin with an
nouncements, and the rest of
the meeting will be taken up
with the diacuaaion of the ueaue.
The move which waa decided
upon it the regular meeting last
Monday night, January 11. is an
attempt to get more SGA
members and students involved
' in the procesi of student
Tonight’s topic is SGA
evaluation. SGA President
Ernie Robinaioo said that iE
committee' chairman, SGA
members and interested
undents would be urged to
The iseuee for the next two
weeks are student evaluation
sad community relations Mr.
will attend this last
, and probably! Mayor
the SGA voted unanimously to
had to i
Later under the Comstock
Act, Congress established the
“whole book rule- saying that
an entire worlHiad to be con
its ob-
that a
could
it was
r emphasised that he
crusader saying “a
j a mercenary: I was
do a Job and I did it."