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Food and housing committee makes changes
Virtually every request but
one from President Harris'
Committee to Study Food and
Housing has been acted on over
the summer according to Julian
Gordy, SGA President and
Chairman of the food sub
committee
No substantial change has
been made in the cafeteria.
Gordy said.
This committee on which
there are now five students and
a number of faculty, staff
members and other
representatives from the
university community, is
primarily responsible for the
cost survey which led directly to
thb inproyciwcnta relating to
the dorms and CSC instituted
this summer.
According to Joe Hendricks.
Dean of Men the committee
"did their homework" and
Chuck Meeks, Director of the
Physical Plant, did an excellent
Job with the technical end.
The Co-op, now a combination
of counter service, self-service,
and vending service, will be
open till 2 a.m. along with the
east part of the student center,
which houses the student of
fices, the Duncan Lounge, and
the downstairs lobbies.
CSC will be closed from 2am.
to 7 am. for cleaning, but all
arrangements concerning the
hours CSC is open are con
tingent upon student use, ac
cording to Dean Hendricks There
will be a review of the situation
November 15 to determine
whether CSC should be open
more or less.
"It is really up to the
students," Dean Hendricks
remarked.
In order to help finance the
new bot-food vending machines
and microwave ovens which
have been installed in the Co-op,
counter service will run only
from 7:30 a.m. to 3:30 pm.
Hence there will be only two
counter employees instead of
the eight who worked last year.
Though the food in the Co-op
will be different this year, staff
members hope to offer as large
a variety of food as last year
with the help of the vending
machines. Several counter
service items have been can
celled, however.
Suggestions and complaints
concerning what should be
served in the co-op should be
directed to Jerita Rollins (box
1295.) Chairman of the
Auxiliary Services committee
of the 3GA.
Students will also have a
voice about what they eat in the
cafeteria if a few are willing to
meet with Kenneth 'Krakow,
Director of Food Services,
every week to plan the menus:
Students wishing to serve in this
capacity should contact Julian
Gordy, drop a note in the SGA
box (407) or come by the SGA
room (106 CSC).
Also, thanks to the com
mittee, students who are 21 or
members of the senior class
may now live off campus
provided their financial aid.
does not exceed tuition. In the
past, students on financial aid of
any type were restricted to the
dorms regardless of age.
Students now serving on the
Committee to study/Food and
Housing are Julian Gordy,
George Henderson, John
Lowery, Pam Chappell, and
Marion Jay. George Leske
was also appointedlast year but
graduated.
Mercer University, Macon Georgia, September 20, 1971
Pboae Jacks have beta installed in every dorm room. Photo by Joe
Cook.
Phones installed
Private telephone service is
now available to. Mercer
students who live in the dor
mitories.
Phones will be distributed by
Southern Bell representatives
in the lobby of the student
center during registration.
They will be here Tuesday,
Wednesday. Thursday. Friday,
and the following Monday and
Tuesday.
monthly. The phone company
urges that all students,
especially females, utilize
initials rather than the entire
first name.
Pay phones remain in all of
thd dorms for those who do out
wish a private phone
Southern Bell has stipulated
that due to the exposed wiring
which would be necessary for
any phone with a light, students
will be limited primarily to desk
type phones. However, these
phones can be had in any color
reports j
application rise
Mercer is one of the few
private colleges in the nation to
show an increase in enrollment
this year.
Applications or the-coliege of
Liberal Arts are up 20 per cent,
'according to William T.
Haywood,- Vice-President for
Business and Finance at
Mercer, giving Mercer a Fresh
man class of 534.
Applications for the Walter F.
George School of Law are up 67
percent with over 500 applicants
to fill 86 positions in the fresh
man class. The largest increase
by far, however, was shown by
the Southern School of Phar
macy in Atlanta. Applications
were up 154 percent over last
year.
This increase in the schools of
law and pharmacy is attributed
by Haywood partly to the fact
that the Job market has been
saturated by graduate schools
products More students, he
said, would turn to professional
schools as long as the Job
market remained over stocked
with graduate students.
The number of non-resident
students in the freshmen class
was approximately 106, up over
65'non-resident students in the
freshmar class last year
The number of students who
had paid in advance was up 24
percent over last year, although
the number of students who had
pre registered was down
considerably
The freshman class in the
of Liberal Arts is held to
around 500 students. The
Southern School of Pharmacy
showed a freshman class of 106
against 79last year, an increase
of 37 percent.
The fact that the pharmacy
school has almost completed a
new facility near the Georgia
Baptist Hospital, and will be
able to use the dorm facilities at
the hospital has contributed to
the increase, Haywood said.
Open dorms revised
with sign-in policy
Students returning to Mercer
will find many improvements in
the dormitories but will also be
confronted by revision in
policies concerning these hails.
Counselor for Men Joe Sparks
announced that the open hours
policy has been Restructured to
allow for official supervision.
This was necessitated by severe
criticism from sources both
inside and outside the univer
sity toward the original
proposal whieh ' relied on
student responsibility.
Supervision will be achieved by
a check-in and check-out
system with a counselor
assigned in each residence hall.
The hours, 8:00 p.m. to 1:00
a.m., Friday and Saturday
nights, will remain the same.
Although he does not contend
it to be the main reason, Sparks
states that the new revision
allows for such events as the
emergency need to contact a
guest The new system
primarily insures the student
responsibility often lacking in
the past Sparks hopes that it
will not be taken as an insult
and state* that it prevents the
ad-
alternative of a full
ministrative review.
The couselor For men also
reminds students of existing
university rules prohibiting the
Use of alcohol and illegal drugs
and narcotics. He stresses,
however that this is not a\
warning of forthcoming drastic ^
measures to insure compliance
but a clarification of any
misunderstanding which may
exist.
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The first SGA
meeting for the 71-72
school year will be
held Monday, Sep
tember 27th, at 6:00 In
the Trustees dining
room.