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Honor Council seeks appeal board
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Five new members have been
selected to serve on the Honor
Council The new members are
Mike Johnson. Cathy McNabb.
Card Perko. Ed Heath, and Bill
Cragg
The new members were
selected by a committee
composed of Honor Council
Officers, faculty advisors, and
S.G.A. officers The committee
—consisted of Anne Longman,
existing Honor Council Clerk;
David Willis, existing Honor
Council Chief Justice. Dr. Cox.
D»\ Sheppard. Dr. Platt
(relating off), and Dr. M«**y
Wilder iretatmg on), facul y
advisors: and Ernie Robmsci.
Charles Bowen, and L’ n
Dillard. S.G.A.
Although no cases were
pending as of Wednesday. May
5. cases coming before the
Honor Council in the near future
may be reviewed •differently
from those in the past if an
amendment to the S.G.A.
constitution is passed.
Hie amendment reads:
A Board of Appeal has also
been incorporated into the
Honor System. It consists of
three members, none of whom
are to be concurrently serving
on the Honor Council: the Dean
rf the College of Liberal .Arts,
the President of the Student
Government Association, and a
faculty member to be appointed
by the President of the
University. The purp^-e of the
By Raymond Williams
Board of Appeal is to review
Honor Council decisions. The
institution of this Board is not to
be construed as a restriction on
the power of the President of the
University.
PROCEDURES
1. In the event of a conviction.
the defendent may request the
Board of Appeal to review a
Tinding of guilt and or the
propriety of the penalty. This
request must be made in
writing with two school days
and should enumerate the
grounds on which the appeal is
hang made.
2. The Board of Appeal may
initially meet to review the
request for appeal to decide if
there are sufficient grounds to
warrant a hearing.
3. In case of a hearing, the
Board should consider
examining, questioning, or
hearing:
a. the defendent
b. any witness that either the
defender t or the board wishes to
question.
c. the faculty member in
whose clans the violation is to
have occured
d. a faculty advisor to the
Honor Council
e. 0 a representab\e of the
Honor Council
f. any written evidence used
m the trial
g any records, notes, or
recording kept by the Council.
h. If after its deliberations
that Board feels that there are
adequate grounds for changing
the dicision of the Honor
Council, it may
a. reverse the conviction of
lower that penalty or
b. refer the matter back to the
Council for its further con
sideration (This second
alternative would be ap
propriate. for instance, if ad
ditional evidence were
presented after the original
Honor Council decision.)
The Board of Appeals will
serve several functions. It will
relieve the President of the ..
University of the responsibility/
of judging the appealed
decisions, it will provide _an
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Mercer offers new
degree in medical tech
By Sam llalpert
MERCER
CLUSTER
"The Pacesetter of the Seventies"
Volume III
Mercer University, Macon, Georgia, No. 20
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Freshman Orientation
to be shorter, better
Plans for a shortened 2 day
Freshman Orientation next fall
are already well underway.
Fewer, better oriented
orientation assistants and big
sisters, free choice of discussion
topics and' books, and an in
tensive summer newsletter
offering, are intended to help
eliminate confusion and make
the new students fed a part of
Mercer before they get here.
Orientation will begin Sun
day. September 19 with
Parent’s Day .Monday and Tue-
Wiseman
sday will be the mam orien
tation days. Wednesday is
registration for freshmen and
Thursday is registration for
upperclassmen.
Under no circumstances, will
any upperclassmen except
those directly involved in
orientation be allowed in the
dorms before the date set for
their return. Hus is to allow the
new students to see the campus
through their own-eyes before
the upperclassmen arrive.
speaks
The number of orientation
assistants, has been cut from
well over too to 75. Not only will
they have a particular foie to
play such as discussing books
and discussion topics or
carrying baggage or giving
tours, but they will be well
versed in every 4, aspect of
orientation and will know what
is going on at all times so that
they can aid any freshman in
anything that comes up
Big sisters, who have
traditionally arrived on Sunday.
met their little sisters, and been
around all week, will also have
increased responsibility. They
too will be fewer ip number,
two for every eight girls . but ’
will fill extra positions on the
orientation staff, serve at social
gatherings, and generally be
kept busy
Moreover, the new student for
the first time will be allowed to
have a voice in what he will be
doing during orientation And
since the program should be
enjoyable and informative,
there is anticipated little need to
make everything mandatory
For discussion on Monday
and Tuesday. there will be three
topics, instead of one-, and a
variety of books which the
Freshman may read under each
one Hiere will also be one book
which will cover all topics of
contemporary interest to give
the group something to go by
New students will be polled
•during the summer to deter
mine what they would like to
discuss This will come through
probably averaging one every 2
weeks, sent out by the Fresh
man Advisor. Tom'Gordy, it
conjunction with the Cluster
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Mercer University is now
offering a new program leading
to a Bachelors degree in
Medical Technology. This
important step came about
after its deliberation and ap
proval at in the last faculty
meeting, and was In turn ap
proved by the trustees.
Medical Technology is one of
the highest instituted fields in
the Para-Medical profession,
and at Mercer this program has
been made possible by the
cooperation of the Macon
Hospital.
A person m order to attain
this degree has to attend
Mercer three years’, achieving
24 hours in Chemistry, 24-hours
in Biology, 5 hours in college
Math and the regular require* 1
courses for graduation. After
the completion of these three
years at Mercer, one year shall
be spent in training at the
Macon Hospital. The degree in
Medical Technology will be
granted after this year by
Mercer
Any student now who is
finishing, or has terminated the
three years at Mercer is
qualified to be considered by the
Macon Hospital
Dean Trimble, as well as Dr.
Furse from the Chemistity
department have expressed
(heir optimistic thoughts to this
matter. Both have said that this
new degree hopefully will bring
a few answers to those students
who i^-e interested in a para
medical field but could not find
the answer as to what field to
choose. Medical Technology
could be the field they are after.
Any person desiring more
information about this new
degree which is now being of
fered at Mercer is strongly
adviced to see either Dr. Furse
in the Mercer’s Chemistry
department, or Dr Donner in
the Macon Hospital. They say
they will be more than glad to
offer their help.
on filmaking
Frederick Wiseman, maker three Emmy Awards and have
of prize-winning films spoke
May 4 in the last Mercer
University Insight Lecture.
“Law and Order” one of
Wiseman’s films, is an 81-
minute documentary on the
d»y-to-day activities of the
Kansas City Police Depart
ment It won an Emmy as the
Best News Documentary of
1968-69.
Wiseman said in'Willingham
Chapel that be started making
the film with the thought that
police often were brutal. After
riding with the police, be found
that they are just human
beings ” The greatest incidence
of brutality occurred between
people
The speaker said that be
avoids * universal statements”
in his films
’ All that I film is a report of
my own experience” in specific
situations His films have won
been nominated for several
more
In his documantary. "High
School." which is a film on a
large, urban, middle-class high
school. Wiseman told Mercer
students, he was not making a
universal statement about all
high schools but about one
school
"Hospital ” was an extremely
realistic portrayal of a hospital
and some of the things that go
on there. It showed a cold
mechanized institution doing
duty but not canng about
people
Wiseman said documentary
films hpve a "Density" that
fiction films do not have. Not
only do documentaries explore
a situation in depth, the value of
the technique is "that you can
make a film about anything."
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