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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. f 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.