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MERCER UNIVERSITY, MACON, GEORGIA
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 6, 1989
Trustees meet, begin budget cuts
By CHARLIE SMITH
News Editor
The Mercer University Board of
ustecs met for an extended clos-
busincss session on Friday Jan.
'. Aftcr*\ver four hours of
liberation, the trustees released
I eport of the resolutions that they
d passed. The report consists of
I c five-part resolution on im-
a xliatc changes to the Fiscal Year
■ 88-89 budget. 22 resolutioas per-
! ning to the 1989-90 budget. 11
solutions on new budget and
fcancial control procedures, and 6
•solutions expressing the intent ot
X board's resolutions and their
reiterated confidence in President
R. Kirby Godsey.
The Trustees spoke to the
strength of the finances and
academic programs of the Univer
sity. In a statement released by the
board, academic strength was af
firmed in a listing of Mercer’s col
leges and schools. The Cecil B.
Day College, which is described in
a statement from the Trustees as
"A highly acclaimed College of
Arts and Sciences in Atlanta which
offers liberal arts studies at a very
competitive tuition.” is currently in
the transition from a liberal arts
focus to a market driven formal.
Also listed arc the Liberal Arts col
lege in Macon, the Engineering
School, which is only one of two’
in the state of Georgia, the Univer
sity College, the two Schools of
business in Macon and Atlanta, the
Walter F. George SchoCPI of L^w.
the Medical School, and the Phar
macy School.
The immediate budget changes
include a rcsolutidp which endorses
the already announced freeze on
hiring of University personnel.
Capital expenditures have been
frozen except for those which arc
approved by the Chief Financial
Officer and the President of the
University. These properly approv
ed capital expenditures will also be
subject to the periodic review by
the Budget Committee of the
Trustees. Another resolution
eliminated the previously adopted
FY 89 budget and established a re
quisition system for the operation
of the University for the remainder
of the fiscal year.
It was resolved that the invest
ment mix of the endowment be
“changed to increase current
icomc.” The final FY '89 resolu
tion called for the appropriation of
a loan from the Woodruff Trust,
based and the Law School, which
has accumulated a surplus in come
in recent years. This money will be
used to cover "general University-
needs. **
Among the many FY '90 rcslu-
tions is the decision to restructure
the 4 University employee tuition
waiver program. Waivers will be
only partial as of July I. The
trustees decided to increase tuition
for next year according to the cost
of living increase, which will be
about four percent. All of the
vehicles owned by the University
for the use of the aministration will
be sold immediately. Mercers
See Trustees, page 9
Biko, apartheid
iliscussed in
Woods lecture
( South African exile Rev. Mollalepula
i nabaku came to Macon last month to tell
j i her cxpcrTcnccs growing up as a black
Loman in her native land and its system of
h part held. Friday, at 8 p.nv. in Willingham
Auditorium, Mercer students will get a
glimpse of how a white SrtutfwXfrican exile
views his country’s
governmental practices
and what he # thinks the
world should do about
them.
Donald Woods w
Editor-in-Chicr ot thcV
Daily Dispatch in
Capetown. South Alrica.
Biko w hen he was arrested and
punished without legal process for publishing
details of the killing of his friend. Stephen
Biko, by officers of the State Security Police.
Biko was a young black leader who believ
ed in non-violence. Biko “saw fruitful poten
tial for aboveground activity not necessarily
involving violence unless the white minori
ty compelled such a reaction.” according to
Woods in his biography of Biko, Biko. “And
while in his personal lift? he sought to aviid
violehce, he did not hesitate to retaliate wlien
attacked.”
After his arrest. Woods was subjected to
banning orders’ which forbid hint*to write.
• to spe^k publically. to be quoted in the press,
to speak with more than one other person at
a time or even to be in the same room with
more than one other person. This virtual/
Donald
house arrest was imposed for a. five year
period.
However, three months after his arrest,
follow ing”perv>nal attacks on members of his
family, including his five-year-old daughter,
by officers of the State Security Police.
Woods escaped with his wife and children
across the border into the black ruled coun
try of Lesotho. The family reached London,
where they now live and where Wo^ds
ui>rk' as a writer, broadcarterand ictmrcr
on apartheid.
Woods.
Since reaching.London in 1978. he has
been Director of*the Lincoln Trust, a foun-
datibn which \upplics information about
apartheid to the international media. In 1985.
he was appointed special advisor the the
49-nation Commonwealth Secretariat in
London.
The author of three b*x>ks on South Africa.
Biko. which has been translated into 12
languages. Asking Fot Trouble, an award
winning autobiography, and^ Black otul
See Apartheid, page 3
Professor wins
poetry prize
By RON LIGHT
Dr. Stephen Blucstone. Associate Pro
fessor of English at the College of Liberal
Arts has recently been named the winner
of the 1988-89 Greensboro Rcvciw
Literary Award.
Once a year, ihe Rcvciw, published by
the University of North Carolina at
Greensboro sponsors a nationwide com
petition which carries with it a cash award
and the honor of running the lead pcicc in
the Review Blucsionc’s poem. “First
Voices." was chosen from among 2000
submissions reviewed for the issue. The
final decision was qjadc by UNC
Greensboro's visiting professor of poetry
Gjjbbons Ruark In addition to “First
Voices.” two of BlucsUmc's other poems.
“Bewildering Clarity of Things” and "A
Circumstance of the Porch." were also
accepted for the Review.
Steve Blucstone came to Mercer in
1974 after completing his undvrgi .ulu.itc
degree at Brandcis and receiving his Phi)
from the University of Michigan. While
at Michigan, Blucstone focused on
Shakespearean studies, hut also studied
under th« poet Robert Hayden
Asa graduate student he was the reci
picnt of two Hopwixxi prizes in the*p«x'tr>
and cssjiy competitions. The Hopwoods
are endowed prizes which were establish
ed through the generous grant of a
Michigan alumnus in order to provide an
incentive for student creative writing
Blucstone s poetry manuscript Moon
See Poetry, page 5
