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Faculty abolishes compulsory Phys. Ed.
been enough discussion yet and
that the institution of
sophomore seminar program
would be serious blow to the
academic standing of the
university.
• Proponents of the program
observed that the faculty and
the curriculum committee had
the right to change anything the
subcommittee decided and that
the subcommittee had
published and sent to all faculty
members-a report on the matter
at least c month before the
faculty meeting so that
everyone would have a chance
to study to matter.
They further observed that a
number of schools, including
Yale have‘"had programs like
this .'or years and that they
were not being scoffed at and
the programs were working
well.
. This was the second faculty
meeting attended by students.
Elementary School and Art
Education should be changed
from 3 hr courses to 5 hr.
courses.
Also, the name of English 11
was changed to English 20 but it
will still be the same course.
It was further suggested and
passed that more course sec
tions in education be offered so
that sophomores and freshman
would be able to take some of
these courses
Objections'to the Sophomore
program which provided that
sophomores be able to take 1
seminar course per year from a
variety of fifteen courses
centered around the fact that
some faculty members felt that
the way that it was being
carried out would result in loss
of faculty control. This was
because a subcommittee was
deciding this instead of the
faculty at large.
Others said that there hadn’t
science course, included in this
committee's report, should be
looked into.
In other acgion, the faculty
decided that Music for the
curriculum committee. The
vote was 41-30 and there was a
considerable number of ab-
stentations It was decided.
however, that a new general
Compulsory P.E. was
abolished and the sophomore
seminar program delayed at
.the May 11 meeting, of the
faculty.
The report of the curriculum
committee, which was passed
almost in its entirely, provided
that courses P.E. 11,12. and 13,
the freshman courses, will now
be group and individual lessons
and carry 1 hour credit each.
Courses 21. 22 and 23t the
sophomore courses, will involve
group participation in a sport
and also cary 1 hour credit. A
new course. Health and
Physical Education 50. was
added to block C of the general
education requirements
The recoraeodation of the
College Study Stewing Com
mittee. chaired by Dr Mc
Manus, which included the
The curriculum committee of the faculty reconvened at the
recomendatioo on President Harris last Tuesday May 18 to discuss
the sophomore seminar program, has accepted the recommendation
of Dr. Todd's subcommittee with minor changes.
The report will now be submitted to a special meeting of the faculty
Thursday. May 27.
This means that the faculty, will have the opportunity to decide the
matter this year, avoiding a year’s delay in the final implementation
of the sophomore seminar program.
President Harris, in a letter to Dr. Bood. the chairman of the
curriculum committee, asking him to reconvene the committee,
called the matter “A situation of somewhat unusual urgency."
The original proposal, quoted extensively on page 7 of this issue,
was modified to provide that choice of seminars and courses be left
up to the chairmen of each department.
Consequently, if the chairman feels that there are no teachers
available in that department, there will be no seminars conducted in
Teachers appointed
to Mercer faculty
Mr. L. Kenneth' Hammond, University of Georgia in
presently of the Department of Athens.
English in the School of Letters Mr. Peter C. Brown, a native
and Science, Wisconsin Stale of Colorado, haa^accepted an
University, Oshkosh, appointment as Assistant
Wisconsin, will\be coming to Professor of Philosophy. He has
Mercer as Associate Professor a B.A. from the University of
of English. He is completing his Houston; M.A. from the
doctoral dissertation in the field University of Connecticut at
of late Victorian Poetry through Storrs; a second B.A. from Rice
the University of Wisconsin at i University. and is completing
Madison. He bolds the B.A. and \ his dissertation for the Ph. D. at
M.A. degree from the Rice.
Mercer University, Macon, Georgia,
Volume HI
FINAL EXAMINATION SCHEDULE
59 students selected for
new SGA committees
period classes.
Wednesday, June 2,1971: 9:00
a jn. to 12:00 noon. All 4th
period classes. 2:00 pjn. to 5:00
pjn. All Oh period classes
Lab instructors will arrange
schedule prior to these dates.
There must be no change of
schedule without previous
arrangement with the Dear.
Willard Stem bridge
Registrar
Monday, May 31, 1971: 9:00
a m . to 12:00 noon . All 1st period
classes. 2:00 pjn. to 5:00 pjn..
All 3rd period classes 2-00 p m
to 9:30 pjn. All 7th and 9A
period classes.
Tuesday. June 1, 1971:9:00
a jn. to J2:00 noon. All 2nd
period classes. 2:00 pjn. to 5:00
pjn. All 5th period classes. 7;00
pjn. to 9:30 pjn. All #h and 9B
Walters (chairman), Lee Hill.
David Hibbert, and Cathy
McNabb will work on the
library committee. This
committee looks into student
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publicizes the honor code and
the honor council and works a
great deal with orientation, is
composed of John D. Copelan.
Jr , Marilyn AUgbod, Marcy
Hobbs, Ronnie Watson, Angie
Hayes (chairman i, and Candy
Head.
Miss Virginia Hunta. the
dorm mother, is an honorary
member of'the publicity
committee because sue filled
out an application and because
the SGA wanted# to utilise her
recognized talents in this field.
Also on this committee are
Davids Cone, Brenda Bolden,
Parrie Butterly, Nancy
Loveday, Dennis Rainer
(chairman), and David Dickey.
Fifty-nine people have been
chosen to serve on SGA 9
Appointed to the ap
propriations committee were
Kay Cole, Doris Walters. Betsy
Jooes. and Bruce Gandy. This
dorms and the coop, is made up
of Davy Stanfield, Marilyn
All good, Rick Palma. Carol Ann
Tindeil, Peggy Ware. Jerita
Rollins ’chairman), Rocky
Wade, Lynda Kay. a«rJulie
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