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No. 17
Course report
rules changed
SGA report
Presidential choice studied
Absent: Cathy McNabb
In an hour and a half meeting,
Monday night, the SGA Senate
proposed establishment of an
"Advisory Committee on
Presidential Selection" com
posed of students, faculty
members, administrators, and
trustees.
The plan was embodied in a
resolution submitted by a
committee chaired by John
Lowery.
The committee’s report
called for three liberal arts
students, one law student, one
pharmacy school student, equal
number of faculty members of
the three schools, ad
ministrators in the same ratio,
and five trustees.
The students are to be chosen
by the SGA executive com
mittee with Senate approval,
the faculty members elected by
the faculties, the ad
ministrators chosen by the
administrative council, and the
five trustees elected by the
board.
The committee which drafted
the plan consisted of Lowery,
Jan Suffolk. Rick Palma, Felice
LaMarca, and Earl Carswell.
In other business the Senate
rejected two proposed con
stitutional amendments con
cerning elections.
Then Nancy Loveday moved
that there be no election for
vice-president and the
presidential candidate with the
second highest number of votes
be vice-president. . .This
suggestion also was lost.
David Hibbert, chairman of
thp* student union board,
reported that only about $4500
was left for entertainment
spring quarter and that,
therefore; there would be no
"big" concerts. The student
union is in cooperation with the
spring festival which Jim
Harper is organizing.
Rocky Wade, election mar
shal, announced the following
schedule for spring election:
April 4: qualification for
Freshman Advisor; AfJHl 6: all
qualifications; April 13: general
election.
Betsy Jones reminded the
SGA that candidates for
editorship must send written
statements of their interests,
objectives, and qualifications to
the Publication Board, Box 58,
Oefore March 24.
Mark Weinftein, chairman of
the fiscal review committee
reported that he had discussed
problems with the switchboard
with University Business
Manager. Robert Wakefield,
who assured nim that the
matter was under careful study.
Senators Brian Carney and
Jay Memtt left during the
meeting and received one-half
absences.
Senator Cathy McNabb did
not represent her constituents.
Karen Hayes suggested that
the requirement of five quarters
in residence at Mercer for the
president, vice-president and
secretary-treasurer bed
rapped. Her moUon faded.
Miss Freshman
contest held
On Friday, March 3, the
annual Miss Freshman pageant
was held in Mercer University’s
chapel.
Twenty-five freshman girls,
sponsored by various social and
service organizations on
campus participated in the
pageant.
Dusty Sutton, sponsored by
SAE was chosen Miss Fresh
man, 1972. She is a member of
AD Pi sorority from Orlando,
Florida. Jane Standert of
Seminole, Florida was first
ruunerup.
voted to allow students to repeat
courses they have taken
previously for credit. A four
page report of the curriculum
committee was adopted.
Students will be able to take a
course for which they have
previously received credit. The
second grade, whether higher
or lower will count toward the
grade point average although
both will b-> recorded.
"Repeat" will be noted after
the course number on the grade
report. Credit hours will be
granted only once.
Students cannot graduate
with honors on the strength of a
repteat grade. Only one course a
year may be repeated and no
more than three.
The following curricul
changes were adopted:
In the Department of
Economics and Business, the
Curriculum Committee
recommended that Economics
172, Financial Analysis, be
approved as a course to be
offered spring quarter, 1972,
this one time only, with the
following course description:
TTie purpose of the course is to
evaluate in depth financial
investments from both the
corporate and individual
standpoint and to evaluate the
various types of securities used
in the formution and expansion
of the corporation. Specific
topics will include stock and
bond analysis, methods of
buying and selling securities,
and capital budgeting.
Prerequisite: Economics 162.
In the History Department
the Curriculum Committee
recommended that History 50
be dropped and that two courses
dealing with American History
be added. The two courses are:
History 51, The United States to
1877, Survey of the major trends
and events in Colonial America
and the United States to the end
of Reconstruction; History 52,
The United States since 1877, a
survey of the major trends and
events in the United States from
Reconstruction to the present.
It was further recommended
that both courses be added to
Part II, Section A, of the
General Education
requirements.
In order that the present
requirement of five upper
division courses remain un
changed, it was requested that
the catalogue statement read:
"A History major consists of
eight or more courses, five of
which must be upper division
selections." Also, "A History
minor consists of at least five
courses, three of which must be
upper division selections."
The committee requested that
the three-quarter upper division
survey. History 131-132-133 be
dropped, and that they be
replaced with the following
courses, in keeping with the
general trend among schools to
offer topical studies rather than
survey courses on an upper-
division level.
History 134. Jeffersonian and
Jacksonial America. A largely
topical examination of the
Jeffersonian and Jacksonian
periods. Special attention will
be given to such topics as the
rise of political parties, the
opening of the West, the
emergence of popular
democracy, economic and
technological changes, the
institution of slavery, and the
ideas and beliefs that both
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era.
History 136. The Civil War
and Reconstruction. A study of
the causes of strife and fac
tionalism in politics which
resulted in disunion, the
problems of the nation in
wartime, the increasing sec
tional animosities during
Reconstruction, and an inquiry
into new interpretations of
Reconstruction history.
In addition, the committee
recommended that History 133,
Twentieth-Century America, be
changed to History 138 in order
to preserve a sequential order
among these courses.
History 148, History 149 and
History 173 were dropped from
cross reference to the History
Department. These are courses
which were once taught by
historians when the depart
ments of political science and
history were combined, but
which now are taught by the
political science department
and are organized on a different
basis.
Two new courses which were
approved are described as
follows: History 127. The rise of
modern Russia. A history of the
political, social, economic,
religious and intellectual
development of Kievan and
Muscovite Russia and the
formation and ascendancy of
the Russian Empire to 1856.
History 128. The Russia Empire
and the Soviet Regime. Russian
history since 1856 with em
phasis on social, political and
diplomatic developments, the
Russian Revolution and the rise
of the Soviet State.
In the Physics Department
the Curriculum Committee
recommended dropping the
present PHY 113 course from
the curriculum. This course is
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