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• •••• • • • • •• <> •• • -THE MERCER CLUSTER":: • • • • • • • • • • • • • •••• • Volume Llll Mercer University Macon, Georgia , Feburary 18, 1972 Presidential succession t 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. i 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.