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Volume Llll
Mercer University Macon, Georgia , Feburary 18, 1972
Presidential succession
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discussed by SGA senate
Student participation in
selection of future University
president was discussed at SGA
meeting Monday night.
John Lowery presented a
letter outlining the necessity for
student and faculty
representation in the choice of
presidents.
The senate voted to endorse
this idea and a committee
consisting of John Lowery,
Felice LaMarca, Earl Carswell,
Jan Suffolk, and Rick Palma
was appointed to draw up a
specific proposal. If the Senate
accepts the proposal it will be
submitted to the Board of
Trustees.
Lowery emphasized that it is
imperative that each group
represented choose its own
members for participation in
the search.
There was a discussion of the
possibility of abolition of
required meal ticket* for next
year. Julian Gordy pointed out
that the President’s committee
on food and housing believed
that a tuition charge might be
necessary to retire the bonded
indebtedness of the Connell
Student Center, part of which is
now being paid for by meal
ticket fees.
The Senate expressed grave
concern that faculty personnel
changes might be made for
reasons other than academic
qualifications.
The Senate also considered
problems of food and campus
parking.
It was suggested that excess
food be left out after serving
hours for students to eat late or
get seconds. Wednesday and
Saturday serving hours were
criticized and opening “A” line
on Sunday was discussed.
Several students expressed
the opinion that the quality of
cafeteria foe a was declining.
It was pointed out that very
few members of the Auxiliary
Services Committee were at
tending their meetings.
Sam Heaton reported that the
parking situation was
deteriorating because no
parking zones had been ex
panded and large numbers of
freshmen have cars. He said
that many, many students were
receiving tickets for illegal
parking because no legal
parking spaces were available.
‘Armageddon ’
group to appear
Student attendance grave problem
Senators Shane Weese and
Biff Till is have been removed
from their offices because of
failure to attend meetings and a
general “lack of interest” in the
SGA.
Senator DavTd Hibbert has
failed to answer his name at six
roll calls but is being allowed to
remain in the Senate on a
technicality. Hibbert was
removed from the Senate on
November 18, 1971 but was
reinstated the following week
by a minimum vote. Hibbert is
chairman of the Student Union
Activities Board and an elected
representative to the faculty.
The SGA Constitution
requires that senators who miss
three meetings are
automatically removed from
the roll but can be reinstated by
a two-thirds vote
Tillis has two weeks in which
to petition for reinstatement;
Weese has one.
At SGA meetings the roll is
called twice-once at the
beginning and once at the end.
Missing one roll call is one half
an absence.
On the positive side-Julian -
Gordy, Bruce Gandy, Doris
Walters, and Tim Spencer have
never missed a Senate meeting.
Rick Palma has only one-half
absence and Kay Cole, Wayne
Gullatt, Lynn Harris, Bob
Jackson, Betsy Jones, and Jay
Merritt have failed to represent
their constituents at only one
meeting.
Last quarter Dennis Rainer
and Guice Price were removed
from the Senate. David Hibbert
had three-and-a-half absences;
Shane Weese, George Tucker,
Truett Ashley, and Earl Car-
swell had two-and-a-half ab
sences.
The Armageddon Ex
perience, a new pop group from
Southern California, will be
featured at an 8 p.m. concert
Friday March 10 at the Grand
Opera House in Macon.
The concert is sponsored by
the Campus Crusade for Christ.
Tickets may be purchased for
$2.50 each beginning Monday
Feb. 28in the Mercer, Wesleyan
and Macon Junior College
bookstores, or at the door.
The group, three guys and
three girls, perform numbers
written and arranged by
themselves as well as top ten
songs popularized by James
Taylor, The Carpenters. B.J.
Thomas and the Fifth
Dimension.
Armageddon is a final battle
between the forces of good and
evil referred to in the New
Testament of the Bible. Ex
perience is a “particular in
stance of personally en
countering or undergoing
something.” Thus the group's
name.
Referring to the purpose of
the musical sextet, member
Wade Olson said, “We seek to
entertain, but v;e want to share
with students the lasting trip
we’ve found in Jesus Christ. He
is the only source of time hap
piness. offering meaning in life
instead of escape from it.”
Mercer students gather aroasd the twe new pinbaD-type game
machines which have been installed in the game room.
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Mercer fund campaign among 12 largest
The American Association of
Fund-Raising Council of New
York City revealed today that
Mercer University’s five-year
campaign to raise $42.5 million
is among 12 large .campaigns
which got underway among
colleges in the United States
during 1971.
Should the feasibility studies
which now are being made show
the need for a medical school as
a division of Mercer, the
university's campaign goal will
be approximately $100 million.
According to the association,
the combined goal of the 12
large campaigns kicked off in
1971 was $570 million. The
largest was Stanford University
with a long-range development
total of $260 million, the most
any higher education institution
ever has set as a goal. New
York University is working
toward the previous high goal of
$222.5 million. It has raised $95
million of that, almost $40
million of it in 1971.
Other large campaigns an
nounced in 1971, according to
the council, were Pace College
of New York City, $53 million,
Georgetown University of
Washington, D.C., $51.3 million,
Mercer University, $42.5
million, Manhattan College of
New York City. $38 million,
Juilliard School of New York
City, $36 million. Medical
College of Pennsylvania in
Philadelphia, $32 million.
In the three months since
Mercer has launched its drive
the amount collected in cash
and pledges is closing in on $7
million.
The association reported that
more than $495 million was
raised in 1971 in large fund
raising campaigns conducted
by 102 colleges and universities
throughout the United States.
All of this support came from
private sources-individuals,
bequests, foundations and
corporations. The only schools
surveyed by the association are
those involved in $10 million or
more campaigns.
A similar survey made in
1970 showed that 115 schools
raised $492 million, so with
fewer campaigns more money
was raised in 1971.
The combined goal reported
for these 102 institutions is $4.26
billion with $2.2 billipn of that
raised since the campaigns
have begun.
Fourteen of the 102 schools
have raised $10 million or more
in 1971 with Columbia
University leading with $48.4
million. Northwestern
University raised $43 million in
1971, according to the AAFRC
survey.
New York University ob
tained $39.6 million. Rockefeller
University in New York City $25
million ^Indiana University $24
million, Southern Methodist
University $18 million, Ren
sselaer Polytechnic Institute
$16.3million, Vassar College $14
million, University of Miami
$11.1 million and Princeton
Uni\ ersity $10 million.
