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I Russian course Tbe Department of Modern Foreign Languages amymnced that an introductory Russian language course will be offered beginning fall quarter. This is a non-credit course and there is no charge except the cost of the textbook, which is about 18.00. Mias Denise Juillard of the department teaches the course. The class, which began on September 9, moots for ap- proximately oift hour each Wednesday afternoon at 4 pm. It deals with basic Human grammar, and is a two-year course. Membership is com posed of small groups of faculty and high school seniors as well as Mercer students. Miss Juillard, instructor of the MERCER CLUSTER "The •Pacesetter of the Seventies" Price and Rainer ousted from Senate Volume LIH Mercer University. Macon Georgia', October 3, 1971 problems the SGA is facing. An officer to the Student Union and at least one Junior Senator is to be elected at this time. Jerita Rollins reported the activities of the Food Com mittee. She said Mr. Krakow welcomes coutnuctive opinions from students and urges them to use the suggestion box. David Long discussed the Insight Lectures for the coming year. Anyone with a suggestion regarding possible lectures should contact the Student Union Direct*-. Guice Price and Dennis Rainer were removed from the SGA senate at the end of the last quarter because of failure to attend meetings. Price presented excuses for the meetings he missed, but the Senate, voting by secret ballot, failed to reinstate him. Ac cording to the Constitution a two-thirds majority oi the entire Senate is required lor rein statement. The 13 yes, 6 no vote fell two votes short of tbe requirement. Rainer has not petitioned the Senate for reinstatement. He Teachers* do try to learn sometime Miss Fuquay, Dr. Flick, Dr. Glover, Dr. Furse, Dr. Marquart, and Mrs. Price have spent the summer in various educational programs at in stitutions around the country. Miss D’Ann Fuquay, Assistant Professor of the Math Department, attended a summer institute in statistics sponsored by the National Science Foundation and con ducted' at Florida State 'University in Tallahassee. Dr. Glovf was invited to read a response to a paper of W. Taylor Stevenson cn “Historical Events and History-enabling lamnetry cell in the continous analysis of process streams. Dr. John R. Marquart was working with Dr. David Gut man of the Illinois Institute of Technology. This project In volved studies of shock tube techniques to produce chemical reactions that occur in a few thousandths of a second. Dr. Marquart did study systems that relate to combustion, air pollution and rocket kinetics. Mrs. Gerrc Price, instructor in speech and dramatic art at Mercer University has been elected to membership in the American Institute of Pariimentarians. She serves as parlimentarian in several organizations and is coach of Mercer’s debate team. The parlimentarian institute works to improve parlimentary procedure . It strives to make democrasy more effective by seeing that decisions ere made by parliamentory means rather than by violence .or dictatorial methods. Mrs. Price ia a graduate of Randolph-Macon Women’s College. She studied as a graduate student at Florida State University and earned tbe Master of Arts in Speech from the University of Alabama. The Election Committee presented a suggested election code to be discussed and brought to a vote next week. This code is essentially the same as the present one but is more explicit in some areas. Freshman elections will be held Thursday, October 14 with the qualification date to be October 7. If a run-off is necessary it will be held the following Tuesday, October 10: The new election code will provide for an orientation session for all prospective candidates before qualification date. This session will be led by SGA officers and will attempt to describe what ia expected of the officers as well as what The library committee reported that each student returning a book will be giveu a receipt upon request. In the event that a question should arise concerning the possibility of an unreturned book the student is expected to produce the receipt or pay for the lost book. John Lowery, Kay Cole, Harold Brown, Bruce Gandy, and Jerita Rollian were ap pointed to the selection com mittee of the Judicial Com mittee. Ronnie Harrison was appointed to fill a vacancy of the Publication Board. , Applications for positions on all SGA committees are available now in the SGA office. President Julian .Gordy said, ‘Most of the work of the SGA is done by committees ao students are strongly encouraged to apply to committees." Events" at the American Academy of Religion meeting in Atlanta this fall. Prof. Glover thinks his. most interesting activity this summer was a series of soirees for the college- bound high school student. Tbe discussions were intended to provide a better theological background far the new fresh men beadiLg to universities around the w*»id. Dr. C.T. Furse was one of 10 college teachers chosen to participate in a program at Oregon State University. He was working with Dr. Harry Freund to explore uses of a recently-developed galvanovol- Sophomore special studies Dean Taylor has announced that there are still openings in all four of the Sophomore Special studies courses scheduled for the fall quarter. These are: Fine Arts Ap preciation ai period 8 with Mr Bacon as instructor, Man’s' Place in the Environment at period 2 with Dr. Harrison in structing, Practical Local Politics at period 9 lead by Mrs. Bond, and Recreation for Leisure Time at period 5 taught by Miss Smith Though primarily for Sophomores, the courses are now open to juniors and seniors also The prospects for con tinuation of this program will be appreciably improved if there are further indications of student interest in the offerings. Persons desiring to enroll should record their intentions with the Registrar at once. Y earbook staff Organizational meeting to be held Saturday, October 2 at 11:00 a.m. All interested per sons are invited to gttend. CAULDRON office Room 323 CSC.