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Homecoming: You can never be too cool
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By DIANNE LAUBERT
Staff Writer
The Homecoming Dance is ap
proaching quickly. While you're
busy buying a dress, getting the
flowers, and looking for that right
suit for the Hbmecoming Dance,
don’t forget about the other special
activities that are happening during
the Homecoming Week. The
following is a day-by-day fist of the
scheduled events:
Monday Jan. 23rd
• Nominations for Homecoming
Queen and King.
• Girls basketball game in Porter
Gym at 7:00 p.m. Printed '89
Homecoming basketballs will be
given out.
• Dance in the Pen field Gym
from 7:00-11:00 with music by
101.7.
Tuesday, Jan. 24th
• Homecoming buttons will bj
distributed.
Wednesday, Jan. 25th
• Comedy Club in the Co-op
starting at 8:00 p.m. Printed ‘89
Homecoming cups will be given
out.
Thursday, Jan. 26th
• It’s Mercer'Color Day! Get in
the school spirit by wearing
blue/silver or orange/black.
• Homecoming Court elections.
Special “All American Din
ner’* in the Mercer Dining Hall.
• Boy’s basketball game at the
Macon Coliseum starting at 7:00.
Printed '89 Homecoming' basket
balls will be given out.
Friday, Jan. 27th
• Bonfire and Pep rally behind
Mary Erin Porter (MEP) at 7:00.
• “The Unofficial Homecoming
Dance" with AJ the DJ and Posse!
in the Trustees Dining Room after
the bonfire, sponsored by the
Cluster.
Saturday, Jan. 28th
• Parade of Floats starting at
1:45. Floats will begin from behind
the Engineering building and will
go to the Coliseum.
- • Homecoming basketball game
at the Macon Coliseum at 3:00
p.m. At this time, the Homecom
ing Queen and King will be
announced.
• Banner contest with theme
YOU CAN NEVER BE TOO
COOL. Banners should be brought
to the Coliseum and registered with
the contest official between 11:30
and 12:30.
• The Homecoming Dance from
8:00-12:00 p.m. Music will be by
the band Top Secret. The dance
will be held at the Macon Conven
tion Center on Riverside Drive
behind the Holiday Inn.
The Banner contest is open to
any campus organization, any
greek organization, or to any in
dividual group. Rules for the con
test are available at T’s Comer.
Cash prizes will be awarded for
the Float and Banner competitions
Dean's Cup Points will also be
awarded to Fraternities and
Sororities that enter the
competitions.
All official Homecoming events
are sponsored by and are a result of
the efforts by the Student Union Ac
tivities Board (SUAB) and the Stu
dent Government Association
(SGA).
Odom takes Miss Mercer crown
B^JENNIFER STONE
and SARAH CAMBRIDGE
SUIT Writers
Although Friday the 13th is
regarded as an unlucky day by
many, it seemed to work the op
posite for junior Ruth Odom, the
1989 Miss Mercer
pageant and succeeded in winning
the talcnt_division despite technical
difficulties.
Ruth, sponsored by Alpha Delta
Pi. sang and signed “How Great
Thou Art" in the Miss Mercer
This year was a triumph for Ruth
in that she has competed in nine
previous pageants, including the
past two Miss Mercer pagdants in
which she won talent and third run-
no- up her freshman year and was
second runner up last year.
“There was a lot of talent in this
pageant. I really didn't expect to
win. I just wanted to have fun.
When I won talent. I was so shock
ed. It’s worth fifty percent of the
points.’’ Ruth commented. “When
they called my name. I was in a
daze. I wanted someooe to pinch
me and wake me up and tell me I
was dreaming. It felt really great to
win.”
Along with the title of Miss
Mercer. Ruth won a $100 scholar
ship for winning in talent and a
$900 scholarship for wanning the ti
tle .’••She will also receive an all ex
pense paid trip to the Miss Georgia
.pageant in June where she will
compete under the sponsorship of
SUAB. “I’m really looking for
ward to it. I know many of the girts
who will be there from having
coi.'neted with them in previous
pageat ts. It should be really fun.”
Other winners in Friday night's
competition included first runner
up Amy Stubbs, second runner up
Traci Dennard. who also received
the best evening gown award, and
Jennifer Wells, the third runner up.
Sarah Loomis was voted by the
contestants “Miss Congenial*}
The pageant was sponsored and
coordinated by the Miss Mercer
Committee and SUAB.
Mercer, Georgia College Jazz Ensembles to present joint concert'll
The Mercer University Jazz
Ensemble and Georgia College
Jazz Ensemble will present a pint
concert on Jan. 30th at8:00 p.m.
The concert will be performed in
the Max Noah Recital Hail on the
campus of Georgia College in
Mtiledgevtlk- The admission is
free and the concert is open to all
jazz music lovers.
The Georgia College Jazz
Ensemble, directed by Professor
Jim Willoughby, has been in ex
istence at‘Georgia College for the
past twenty years. The band has
performed in Jazz Festivals at
Florida State University, Jackson
ville State University io Alabama,
and the Mobile Alabama Jazz
Festival. The band has also per
formed as a featured group at the
Georgia Music Educators Associa
tion Conference and at over 40 high
schools throughout the state of
Georgia.
Included on the concert Jan. 30th
will be the following selections:
Good kews. by Bob Mintzer; Fat
Cat, by Mark Taylor. Georgia On
My Mind, arranged by' Dave Bar-
duhn; Marguante. by Sammy
Ncstico; <md Saturday Night Blues,
by Les Hooper.
The Jazz Ensemble at Mercer
University is a volunteer group of
musicians who rehearse twice
weekly in the Newton Hall Band
Room under the direction of Dr.
Douglas Hill, Director of Bands at
Mercer. The grpup is comprised of
a diversified collection of students
from the various colleges on cam
pus. Students majoring in music,
business. communications,
engineering, journalism, biology,
and pre-medicine participate in the
ensemble. .The ensemblejjcrforms
concerts both on and off campus
and>in the spring of 1988 completed
a lour to Acapulco. Mexico. While
in Mexico the Mercer Jazz Ensem
ble performed in several local con
certs and appeared on regional
television. • ^
The group performs a variety of
music from several,different eras in
jazz history. These include charts
from the periods of swing, bebop,
blues, dixieland, jazz rock.-and the
most recent big band hits. The
following selections will be per
formed on the concert Jan. 30th:
Pressure Cooker. " by John
Tatgenhorst; Taler Patch, by Sam
my Ncstico; Aja, arranged by Alan
Broadbent; Basie-Straight Ahead,
by Sammy Ncstico; Strike Up the
Band, by G60fge Gets whin, ar
ranged by Sammy Ncstico: and
Tuxedo Junction, by Steve Wright.
The Mercer. Jazz Ensemble is
under the dir
Hill. Director ofl
University. This is Dr. Hill’s t
year at Mercer where his d
elude condoning the >
blc and Jazz Ensemble,
courses in conducting and ihusic
education, and applied trumpet
Previous to his appointment at
Mercer, he was a graduate leaching
assistant at the Cincinnati Conser
vatory of Music for three years. He
has also taught six years in the
public schools of Ohio where he
was Director of Instrumental Music
for the Jackson City Schools and
conductedjhe Jackson Symphonic
Band.
Buy A Blimpie Giant and Receive
A Medium Drink and 1 Bag of
Potato Chips
FREE
Buy One Blimpie Sandwich and
2 Medium Drinks and Receive A
Second Regular Sandwich
FREE
(AFTER 5:00 PM)
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3485 Mercer University Dr.
Expires: February 7, 1989
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