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MERCER CLL'ST ER
APRIL 12. 1971
Girls tennis paves
unmarred victory road
The Girl ’s tennis team helped
pave their unmarred victory
road by adding a win over
Wesleyan. 94). A£ril 6.
Laurie Dun came across in
her usual impressive manner as
she shut out Wesleyan Rebecca
Watson 6-0, 6-0. Barbara
Bannister got off to a slow start
against Becky Purcer. losing
the first set. 5-7 However.
Barbara quickly retaliated,
winning the last two sets 6-3,6-1
Cynthis Hall downed Anne
Horton 6-2. 6-2. while Sylvia
Lincoln took Ruth Norman 6-0.
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6-1 Both Beth Secord and Julie
Van Hoose had rather easy time
with their opponents as they
won 6-0. 6-1, and 6-1. 6-1
respectively.
In double competition the
girls also had a fairly east time
in blanking Wesleyan. The best
doubles contest was un
doubtedly between Dun-
Bannister (Mercer) and Pur-
c^r-Watson (Wesleyan) The
Dun-Bannister combe had no
trouble at all in winning the first
set 6-0 But in the second set.
they [barely nipped the
Wesliyan duet, 7-5 Double
tea mi Hall -Lincoln and Fa gun-
Secord had little difficulty in
defeating their Wesleyan
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The boys’ and girls’ tennis
teams got off to winning starts
as they scored impressfve
season-opener wins over
Georgia Southwestern (7-0) and
Wesleyan (9-0> rer-ec lively.
The boys coastei to an easy
victory over an obviously
outclassed Georgia South
western team March 30. In the
single competition. Charles
Bowen faced‘*lhe toughest op
ponent. but still mangged to win
impressively. 6-3. 6-4. Mitchell
Schvtaber downed his man 6-2,
6-2. while Frank Flournoy and
Steve Cotter eased past their
opponents 6-0. 6-1 However.
Tim Anderson had the easiest
time of all as he blanked his
competitor 6-0.6-0.
The boys experienced the
most trouble in the double
matches. The Flournoy*
Schwaber combination breezed
through the first set 6-1 as
Flournoy’s powerful smashes
and Schwaber's soft floating
drop-shots constantly racked up
points. The next set. however,
was not quite as fun as Flournoy
and Schwaber squeaked .by 8-6.
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The second doubles team,
comprised of Bowen ’nd An
derson. won easily 6-2. 6-3.
The girls' team in ; .tr first
season, got off to a roaring star 1
with a 9-0 smashing rout over
Wesleyan. Isoing only one set in
the nine matches. In single
competition. Laurie Dur.
Barbara Banister. Cynthia
Hall. Sylvia Lincoln. Beth
Secord. and Julie Van Hoose
were all victorious over their
Wesleyan opponents. Barbara
Banister had the roughest time
with her opponent, winning 6-2,
4-6, 6-0.
The double te?ms consisted of
Dun-Banister. Hall-Lincoln. and
Seconrd Van Hoose All three
teams won rather easily.
Coot. From Page 2
HARRISON
from population ce >rs and
eventually swim out nto the
ocean and there drown
“Plants, as well as amine's,
have mechanism that insure
space for survival of. the
species," Harrison told his
audience. "Most creatures*
could cover the face of the earth
in a year with their offspring" if
there were not ways in nature to’
control population”
. He said if the offspring of one
pair of horseflies in April lived
and all succeeding generations
of this pair lived, by September
Coot. From Page 1
FUND RAISING
million, funds for the current
operating budget $5.3 million,
land acquisition $2 million and
increasing salaries $2.2 million
and new construction $10.6
million.
The renovation of the Ad
ministration building at a cost
of $1.25 million would have a top
priority in the building needs, he
said.
Calling attention to Mercer’s
financial contribution to
economy of Middle Georgia. Dr.
William T Vice President for
business and finance, pointed
out that the university payroll
totals $2.8 million, expenditures
for supples and equipment
along with insurance an4
utilities $2.5 million, student
financial aid $600,000 special
programs $200,000 rnd in
vestments in local 'oans and
commercial mortg'.ges come to
$2.1 million. The u>tal economic
impact on the \rea is more than
$30 million mnually, he said.
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the earth would be 47 feed deep
in horse flies.
"Fortunately most of the eggs
or the living flies are eaten by
other organisms or die from
disease and other causes. Some
animals have built-in
mechanisms as the
snowshoe hare for reducing
the population”
Harrison defined an
ecosystem as an aswemblage of
plants and animals and the non
& living environmental with
which they are involved. An
vj ecosystem is made up of the
V abiotic substrata (nonliving)
the producers (green plants),
the consumers (animals) and
v the reducers which break down
v l' v .*ng bodies into abiotic
ij: ‘.natter
4 "This is referred to as a
balance of nature. "Any time
this balance is disrupted, you
ateyikely to reap dire con
£ sequences
V Harrison said death is an
$ important function of the
ecosystem because it returns
<; materials to the abiotic sub-
strata where all matterhas its
£ origin.
X In the opening lecture. Dr
x Harmon discussed the origin of
£ man and his relationship to the
4 remainder of the animal world
Tonight. Dr Harrison will
i Riverside & Spring St
$ discuss man's place in the
ecosystem