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PAGE 2 INSIDE FRONT State Senator Hamilton seeks to help education Dr. Bert Hamilton says be wants to “help private colleges like Mercer get some state aid so they can stay open", and he is in a position to do it. The Mercer education professor is a Georgia state senator representing Jones County and part of Liibb County. "Ultra liberal college professor at Mercer." Hamilton, who served on the Macon city council l or seven yean, emphasized in his senatorial campaign the value of education and his own in volvement with education. Although more than half of the state budget is' spent on education, Dr. Hamilton is the only professional educator in the senate. One of the main ac complishment* Dr. Hamilton looks to during his years as a city council member was ob taining an experienced professional manager for the Coliseum. He was also responsible for upgrading the Animal Control Commission. Dr. Hamilton attributed much of his support to local educators that he got to Imow through his work in the education depart ment at Mercer. His position oere was not necessarily an advantage however. At one ooint Dr. Hamilton’s opponent -eferred to him as an “ultra iberal college professor at Mercer University whose ideas righten me.” He is on a “semi-leave -of absence” with no classes but is continuing his administrative duties as chairman of the Education department. Dr. Hamilton hopes for a r- ewarding year in the senate but he said that all a new man in the senate can do at first is to learn the procedure and his coilegues Some of the proposals which Dr. Hamilton favors are im provement of public schools, increase teacher’s salaries, establishment of a state wide kindergarten, and hiring of special education and reading teachers. To finance these expanded services. Dr. Hamilton favors the two cent cigarette tax in crease. He had been “actively supporting Carter for two years,” but he expressed “cautious disagreement” with the governor on the two cent per gallon gasoline tax increase.” "Young people today are more Important than ever." He explained that be was in favor of the improved urban highway system which would result from the tax increase, but be feels that the increase will put a burden on lower income groups. Instead, he thinks any tax increases should be placed on luxury item. Dr. Hamilton supports the new constitution and hopes for its passage this term. He feels however that the proposed government reorganization is “just as vital or more vital than th constitution.'’ Dr. Hamilton serves on the senate education committee as well as health and weif ire county and urban affeiia, and scientific research committees. He was also assigned to the drug abuse sub-committee and the urban development sub committee. In his campaign Dr. Hamilton emphasi7ed the importance of youth and his involvement with them. He says, “Young people today are important than ever , and we need to listen to thkn.” PROJECT Coot, from page l handled differently in each area. Students at Mercer are trying to promote the project throughout the state by con tacting other southern colleges. Eventually a region network will exist with Mercer as the state coordinating base regional bases at other un designated areajS. Samuel stated “It is very important that information flow between the various regions. Marquart gets grant for chemical research Dr . John R. Marquart of the Chemistry Department of Mercer University has been awarded a National Foundation research grant of 0000 far the continuation of research that be performed at Illinois Institute of Technology in Chicago during the summer of 1970. Dr..Marquart and his research students will be building a device called a chemical shock tube for the study of very fast and high temperature chemical reactions such as the com bustion of rocket fuels and the formation of air pollutants by The formation of air polluting products in the internal com bustion engine is one of the first problems to be studied. A chemical shock tube is rasentlilly a pulsed wind tunnel through which a shock wave is passed. The shock wave travels at many times the*speed of sound and initially heats the gases in the tube to controlled temperatures of thousands of tent of thousands of degrees. Tbe high temperatures produced cause chemical reactions to begin. In the new design of shock tube that Dr. Marquart a group will construct, an expansion wave will follow the initial shock wave causing gases to be cooled down after a few microecoods (millionths of a second). The cooling “freezes’’ tbe reaction, bringing it ta tbe point where all reaction stops. By analysis of the products produced (fairing tbe brief period of beating. Dr. Marguart hopes to reMhre the mechanism by which A man needs your blood! A hemophiliac in Macon Hospital needs blood donors now. Anyone over 18 (any blood type) Please contact Miss Donahue at the Blood Bank. 742-1441 EXT. 218 \ News Briefs Kit Carson Mercer University President Rufus C. Harris has appointed J. Fred (Kit) Carson as Director of Wills and Bequest Program The appointment is effective Feb. 1 when Carson retires as vice president of the First National Bank and Trust Company of Macon. Carson will have the responsibility of visiting and solicitation for Mercer in all forma of dererred giving including wills and bequests. His office is a new one created under the Vice President for Development, Harold S. Logan. President Harris said of the appointment, "Mr. Carson s hears of banking experience and his excellent standing in the Macon community admirable fit him for this new position. He always has been a loyal supporter of Mercer endeavors and we look forward to working with him In a full-time capacity .” Mr Logan said, 'The inclusion of Mercer in all forms of deferred giving is an important part of our fund raising needs We feel that Mr. Carso- is the man to intitiate this program ” Tom E. Greene Jr., president of the bank praised Carson for his 39 years of 'Taithful and conscientious” service. Carson’s banking experience began when he was a student at Mercer. At that time the bank's resources were >8 million. Today they are 9119 million. The new director of deferred giving has been a loyal Mercer alumnus since his graduation. He has served as treasurer of the national lumni Association for years and is a member of the Executive Committee of the association. He is a past president of Mercer alumni in Macon and a past president of the Alpha Tau Omega Alumni Association of Mercer. Shell Grant President Rufus C. Harris of Mercer University announced today the receipt of a $1,500 grant from the Shell Companies Foundation. The grant was made un^er the Shell Assists program and represents the 11th annual xward made to Mercer by the foundation. Three grants of $500 were provided by this year’s amount. One to be used in a manner designated by tbe president of the university. Another provides for faculty development and the third for additional professional development of faculty members. Walter M. Upchurch Jr., senior vice president of the Shell Companies Foundation, said Shell Assists grants recognize the national challenge to increase the support of higher education. Dr. P urse Dr. Clare T. Furse of tbe Chemistry Department of Mercer University has been awarded* a National Science Foundation research grant of $2,000 for the continuation of research that he performed at Oregon State University during the summer of 1970. Dr. Furse and his research students will be using electrochemical methods to study the behavior of copper ions and nickel ions in aqueous solutions containing varying amounts of pyropbosphone acid. The electroplating of a metal ion into another metal is used in auch process as silver plating dinner ware. The simultaneous elec troplating of two metal ions onto a third metal, a technique that Dr Purse is working on, would be highly useful. Monel alloys (mixtures of copper and nickel) are very strong and have good wear properties. A Monel coating on at cast iron bearing would give that bearing exceptional wear properties. Some work suggesting tbe codesposition of copper and nickel is possible Irom solutions containing pyropbosphoric acid has already been done and Dr. Furse's group hopes to learn more about thais possibility Col. Denend Colonel William L. Denend, Professor of Military Science at ' Mercer Univeriity announced at the weekly Leadership Laboratory, several promotions within the Mercer ROTC Cadet Battalion Cadet Lieutenant Colonel Frank Jordan Jr., of Talbot ton. was promoted to his {resent rank. Other promotions includes Jesse A. Johnson of Augusta. Stuart A. Mervis of Miami Beach. Fla.; Charles H. Weston of Talbotton, all to the rank of Cadet Captain. Presentation of the distinctive black berets to members of the Mercer Marauders, Mercer's ROTC Counterinsurgency Unit, was made to Ismail Akman, Columbus; Albert Bryan of Key Biacayne. Fla.; Mark Reed of Charlotte,.N.C.; James Stowell of Camp Lejuime, N.C.; and John Wiseman of Adel. The Blue Tab Award which la awarded to tbe top 2S percent of the Freshman ROTC class was presented to die following: Ismail Ak man, Columbus, Gt.; Robert Atwood, Hermitage. Tenn.; Bobby Battles. Fortum, Ga. ; Thomas Hunter. Mathews, N.C.; Arthur Johnson, Macon. Ga. . Michael Johnson,Columbus, Ge.; and Watson Meeks, Albany, Ge.