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SATURDAY - FEBRUARY 12
Judging of Displays: 2:00 p.m.
Teddy Bears vs* Umv* of Mississippi —
6:00 p.m.
Mercer Bears vs. Samford — 8:00 p.m.
CASH AWARD
Dance - Band - BACK STABBERS
Dempsey Hotel
, Toby & Tot are a male &
j female cboeen by tbe student
I body vbo best exemplify
I Mercer spirit.
Nominations may be submit-
I ted by any organization or
[ individual for 11.00 a name.
Nominations will be from
[ 10:00 - 12:00 a.m. on Monday
[ and Tuesday, February 3
in tbe lobby of tbe Student
Cv. ter.
Elections will be Monday and
Tuesday. February 7 and 8 from
9:00 - 12:00 and 'l:00 - 4:00
upstairs in the Student Center.
Winners will be announced at
the game Saturday night,
February 12th.
[Theme:
"201 A BEAR COYSSEY"
[ Entrance Fee >10.00
Registration will be on
[February 3 and 4 in the Student
Center from 10:00-12:00
Rules: There can bfe nothing
on the site of the display before
6:30 a.m., February 12, 1977.
All organizations who do not
have a lawn will be allowed to
request a spot upon payment of
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entrance fee. The choice of spot
will be on a' first come, first
serve basis. The first organiza
tions to pay the entrance fee will
get the beat spots. Judging for
lawn displays will be at
». February 12,1977.
Please have a representative
present at the press table at
halftime for tbe presentation of
the awards at the game
Saturday night. February 12th.
Race Relations”
relationships as black and white
of the same family.
The seminar will stress
“Everybody is
and an individual. If
jnst
and speaks
no matter how
this is good
will have
’’ says
daring these
each participant will
challenged to confront ‘
prejudice
begin the search for
to deal with it."
seminar will
February 17 at
Friday's session will
at 10 a.m., a
coffee hour and
an evening session at 7:46.
The Voice of Calvary Minis
tries which Perkins founded
involved medical care, housing,
food and fallowship for those in
need. The minister has become
well known across the country,
having lectured at many col
leges, ranging from Harvard to
the University of California at
Berkeley. He has been s
contributing editor for Decision
and Sojourner magazines.
Walker is engaged in the
work of planting and encourag
ing community oriented home
churches in many parts of the
country. He teaches Bible
classes and oversees the pas-
toring of six home churches in
Nashville, Tenn. He is a
graduate of Samford University
and Southwestern Baptist Sem
inary.
Persona in the Macon and
Middle Georgia area who would
like to attend the —minsy are
invited to telephone Mercer
University. 746-6811. extension
243 for complete information.
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“STILL MERCERIANS”
Johnson is still a Mercerian...
problems arose with black
students he was sought out. As
Gary puts it, “I became
unofficially the Dean of black
student affairs." The many
tiring roles Gary waa forced to
endure culminated in his
resignation of the job of Black
Studies Coordinator last year.
Prom all areas of the media
and many faculty members,
there are constant reports and
complaints that today’s stu-
de zts are more apathetic, more
conservative than their prede
cessors. Gary agrees that the
level of students awareness has
dropped drastically and ex
plains why. “The students hero
today are richer. They have
seen more and been more
places. Mercer has been active
ly recruiting richer students and
I think in terms of going in this
direction, there has been a
deterioration of the conscious
ness of the students.” Conse
quently the quality of students
being accepted has decreased
because “if your accent be
comes money rather than
academic credentials or poten
tials, then your standards will
naturally go down. ’*
Many students taking classes
from Gary have often com
plained about th? difficulty of
his exams. Some students have
accused him of intentionally
making them difficult in order
to fail as many as possible. Gary
says he never inientially makes
exams difficult but, adds, **I
think an exam should be s
challenge. I think exams should
be so designed as to pull out of
the student his potential. I don’t
think an exam should be easy,
and I don't think it should be
obvious. I guess in s sense, I do
intentiaily make them challeng
ing. but I don’t attempt to fail
anyone. ”
Often teachers have felt a
sense of not belonging, Gary is
no different. He feels that he
has little input into decisions
being made about Mercer's
future and because of his ethnic
background and marital status
(single) he sometimes feels
isolated from the rest of the
Mercer community. Gary feels
that there are not enough
exchanges between members of
the facility and quite often gets
the feeling that he’s “just
another person doing a job.”
"Mercer lacks this community
' and interaction between the
faculty.. .1 have more interaction
with my students, than with the
faculty and I don’t think it
should be that way at all.”
Gary shea no institutional or
administrative changes at Mer
cer over the last eleven years.
The only encouraging change
he’s seen has been in the
attitudes of the students. Black
and White students hold higher
views of each other as human
beings than when Gary first
arrived in 1966. But, he’s quick
to point out that this is more
nearly a reflection of society at
large than Mercer as a liberal
arts institution.
Gary came to Mercer in the
height of the Civil Rights
one. and a student at that, who
was part of the movement;
making it happen. He has
witnessed Mercer’s gradual
shift from s pronounced * segre
gated institution to a semi-
integrated university that lays
claims to the equal opportunity
act.' Everything about the
university is not' ’ peachy keen ’ ’
and Gary doesn't hesitate to
express his feelings and desires
about those-mailers. But, from
just <me conversation with him,
one begins • to sense the
tremendous amount of respect
and loyalty he holds for the
university. That’s why Gary
after all these years.
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consist primarily of the ROTC
field and sefi terrain around the
ajoining community. If possible,
no paved street will be used.
Participants in the program will
keep records of their progress
with the ROTC department and
each time a new plateau is
achieved, certificates will be
presented. There will also be N
available patch designs to sew
on suits signifying that the
wearer has accomplished that
particular feat.
The program will be divided
into three or more different^
phaaes. First, there will be the '
beginning phase for members
new to jogging. This phase
actually starts the participants
out walking to building up their
endurance. Then there's the '
build-up phase that allows
participants to expand their
endurance and better their
time. Last, there’s the cubstain-
ing phase.that helps the
participant control his already
program will be administered
strickly on the honor system.
Members will time themselves,
loglheir own time sheets, keep
ROTC infonqed and after they
achieve a particular plateau,
they will be awarded a
certificate. He also emphasized
the fact that being young is not
equavsient to being physically
fit and that this program holds
important benefits for both
young and old. Jogging can
re-distribute body fat and tone
many muscles, but, most
importantly, it can improve the
cardio-vascular system enabling
one to eat better, sleep better
and feel better than before.
Movement. From him one gets
a unique sense of how acquired ability,
precarious those years were According to Col. Brown.'
not rrora tne eyee of an outsjderV^^timander of ROTC, the
looking in. but from the eyes of
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