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THE MERCER CLUSTER-FEBRUARY 25.1983-PAGE 5
ON CAMPUS
Letter To The Editor
Will The Real Goobs
Please Stand Up
To the editor:
For the last two years I have been
fortunate to be involved in student
activities by way of the Student Union
Activities Board. The students in
S.U.A.B. take a lot of pride in each event
that they plan, whether it be a ski trip, a
winter dance with the Backstabbers, or a
lecture on nuclear power. I know that
students have other things to do, but I
cannot understand how they can justify
ignoring events that have been planned
6 months or a year in advance to have a
keg party or formal the same night. I am
speaking of the Homecoming dance.
We have worked hard trying to shed
the bad image of Homecoming here, and
the Entertainment Committee spent
$2000 just on Saturday night. Homecom
ing was announced last fall long before
Sigma Nu’s formal or Lambda Chi's keg
party. There are plenty of times during a
quarter that is 10 weeks long to plan
events that do not conflict. Students
claim Homecoming is a joke. Well, if it's
a joke on this campus, it's not because of
the fact that it is Homecoming; it is
because students were too busy categor
izing what it has been like in the past
instead of actually finding out that it was
an excellent event this year that the
students who went really enjoyed.
The students here love to gripe about
what Mercer doesn’t do. It could be that
if they would stop griping and start
looking around and taking advantage of
what Mercer does, they would find out
that we cover a wide range of activities
that probably include what they want to
do.
Speaking of categorizing, it has been
brought to my a:tention by a former
S.U.A.B. member who is also a little
sister for a prominent fraternity that
people who work on S.U.A.B., SGA, the
Cluster’ and other various organizations
on campus are a bunch of "Goobs,"
according to popular opinion. Well, I
personally don’t like being called a
"Goob," and I don't imagine the other
KA's, Sigma Nu's, Kappa Sigmas, Chi
Omegas, Alpha GarasT and pome other
prominent independents, just to name a
few, like being categorized either.
Maybe, tha "Goobs" are the ones who
sit on their rear ends in their dorm rooms
or lodges and try to be socially
acceptable by cutting down a school at
which they are spending four years and
untold amounts of money.
Greg Brown
Chairman, Entertainment Committee
Student Union Activities Board
A Moment In
Black History
By Rita Hines
During this week of Black History
Month, we, the members of the
Organization of Bilalian Students, would
like to pay tribute to our forefather,
Benjamin Banneker.
Throughout his Life, Benjamin Banne-
kftr's chief interest was in the field of
mathmatics. Undoubtly, a field in which
he had mastered. Being as brilliant as he
waa, he constructed a wooden clock with
his pocket knife.
Someone stated that "it was probable
that this was the first clock of which
every portion was made in America; it is
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certain that it was as purely his own
invention as if none had ever been
before. He had seen a watch, but never a
clock, such an article not being within
fifty miles of him.
Later in life, Banneker was appointed
by President Washington to assist in
laying out the City of Washington. In
brief, it is evident that this mathemati
cian, astronomer, inventor, poet, and
naturalist was not an ordinary person.
Benjamin Banneker will always be
remembered for his outstanding contri
butions to this world.
Wrong Aired
Editor,
Well thank God for letters to the editor
in the Mercer Cluster. If it weren’t for
them there wouldn't be any student
(non-religious) opinion whatsoever in the
"school” newspaper (if you can call it
that.)
A1 Hackle and Brad Williams’ letters
were excellent. They actually said
something* I'm a little tired of reading
romantic drivel on the editorial page,
accompanied by the repeated message
that Mercer is a religious school. No
kidding! Like most of us didn’t know that
right? Maybe you’d want to let Admis
sions use that snappy slogan Madame
Editor, "Mercer: Love it or Leave it."
It's certainly full of Christian warmth.
The news portion of the Cluster is
pitifully small, and rightfully one would
expect the editorial pages to compensate
for this but noo...they only add to the
disaster.
So what's the answer? Many students
just don’t bother to read the Mercer-
Christian-lndex (ever notice how many
are left?). It’s a shame the Mercer
Cluster, posing as a newspaper, is
allowed every week tq alienate a good
portion of the students by harping on
religious themes. Sure, believe what you
will, but do you-have to shove it down
our throats every week?
Freedom of religion, no establish
ment of religion and freedom of thought
are constitutional safeguards essential to
everyone’s civil rights. Are they to be
found anywhere in the ideology behind
the Mercer Cluster? NO.
Sincerely.
Deborah A. Mathis
The CLUSTER Staff in reflection of
Miss Mathis' letter would like to
emphasize that it is neither seeking to or
intend to point out to any one ideology in
its publication. The CLUSTER is what
you. the students will make of it. There
is no closed door here. There is however
a lack of student care or activity in
Mercer Sews. What will you have us do
that you are not willing to do yourselff
The door is open to the concerns of
students, again however we are receiv
ing the complaints rather than the
cttnsiruction we welcome and beg for.
Thank you Miss Mathis for your concern.
The CLUSTER is seeking professiona
lism. yet there is the ever present
dilemma of apathy.
Thank you. CLUSTER Staff
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