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Alumni tour open to liberal arts students
Mercer University's second an. ..
Mercer University's second an
nual alumni excursion is a West In
dian Cruise aboard the Norwegian
Caribbean Line vesael Skyward.
The group will depart from the
Atlanta airport for a flight to San
Juan, Puerto Rico, where the
Skyward will be boarded. The
cruise will visit ports on Barbados,
St. Lucia, Guadeloupe, St.
Thomas, and St. Maarten. Depar
ture from other airports is possible.
The major purpose of the series
of annual trips is to foster a closer
relationship between alumni and
students. Since the annual ventures
are also open to non-Mercerians,
they have the additional goal of
Raining friends for the university
among those who have heretofore
had no ties to Mercer.
The tour departs on August 19
and returns on August 26. The cost
from Atlanta starts at SI.425,
which includes airfare from Atlanta
and return, all meals, and all enter
tainment. Students will receive a
S100 discount from that price, and
their cost will begin at $1,325.
Although departure from other air
ports is possible, leaving from
other places and the choice of dif
ferent classes of cabins could result
in a change, up or down, of this
figure. The price does not include
a $40.00 port tax. gratuities for the
room steward, waiter, and busboy
(about $50.00 total for the week),
or any shore excursion a participant
might wish to take. A portion of the
tour price will go as a tax deducti
ble donation to the university and
_ _ __ ~K.we.wiu ble donation to thr
Joseph Bean awarded
Phi Kappa Phi fellowship
BATON ROUGE. Louisiana- for the honor „ . „ .. *■
BATON ROUGE, Louisiana-
Senior Joseph Michael Bean has
been awarded a $6000 Fellowship
for graduate study by the Honor
Society of Phi Kappa Phi. The an
nouncement was made by Dr.
Richard J. Cummings, Director of
Fellowships.
Mr Bean was one of 50 selected
for the honor from a group of 180
of the nation s outstanding 1989
college graduates. He plans to
study medicine at Emory Univer- ,
sity School of Medicine in Atlan
ta, Georgia.
Phi Kappa Phi is a national
scholastic Honor Society with
headquarters on the campus of
Hoffman
bic himself_u fOnr;"no^Tongcr
public, now ^member of the great
establishment he hated more than
any other. The dDs generation came
of age experiencing politics and
entertainment as one; our moments
of crisis, our Jars (foreign and
domestic) came packaged in new
Louisiana Slate University and
chapters at 247 colleges and univer
sities throughout the nation. Found
ed in 1897 to recognize academic
excellence in all disciplines. Phi
Kappa Phi established its
Fellowship Program in 1932 and
since then has honored over 1.000
scholars with awards.
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and strange ways: in the swiftness
with which their images reached
us. in the sense we felt of personal
involvement, no matter how
remote. And Abbie, more than
anyone, was our archetypal
political witness, our manic partici
pant. showing us with brilliant
humor how dark those enter
tainments really were. When
everything was said and done, did
it make any more sense to vote the
National Party Line than to try and
levitate the Pentagon? To cast our
lot with Nixon or Hunphrcy or the
pig? Had he given up at the end.
as some say. on the generation of
the 80s ’ Had he lost hope? I doubt
it. Here's the last paragraph of his
summation, delivered in District
Court in Hampshire County.
Massachusetts, on April 15. 1987.
at the conclusion of his (and four
teen others') trial for staging a sit-
in on the University of
Massachusetts campus to protest
CIA recruitment He quoted
Thomas Paine on the freedom of
each generation to act for itself
Then he said
Thomas Paint muj talking about
this spring day in this courtntom
A vtrdtci of not gut In will saw
Mirn our country is right, ktep it
right, but when it is wrong. right
thost wrongs. A \trdict of not guil
ty will say to the University of
Massachusetts that those
demonstrators are reaffirming their
rights as citizens who acted with
justification A verdict of not guil
ty mU say what Thomas Pome soul
Young people, don t give up hope
If you participate, the future is
vours
And the jury , listening careful
ly. making its own connections,
agreed with him
Dr Stephen Bluest on. of the
CLA s English Department, attend
ed Brandeis University with Abbie
Hoffman as an undergraduate. He
is this year's recipient of the
Greensboro Renew award for
poetry
each participant will be given a
receipt for the amount.
Any interested students should
contact Prof. Jamie Cockfield of
Mercer Univeristy't History
Department, do Department of
History. Mercer University,
Macon. Georgia 31207. in Macon
744-2856. and 477-9056; in
Georgia. 1-800-342-0841. ext.
2856; out-of-state 1-800-437-2378.
ext. 2856.
‘ CAL
Four seats available
for Ireland trip
tk;- ^
This summer Dr. Eric
Klingelhofer of the History Depart
ment will be undertaking ar
chaeological fieldwork in Ireland.
His project entails locating, recor
ding, and testing by excavation
several sites in County Cork. Last
sum mer Dr. Klingdhofer visited this
area, the southwest comer of the
Irish Refxiblic. as part of a research
plan to find evidence for the
English attempts to colonize Ireland
in the Elizabethan period, contem
porary with American settlements
like Roanoke and Jamestown. Pro
posed locations for the fieldwork
are at Dunboy Castle, the fishing
village of Baltimore, and a deserted
site inland at Mogeley. The project
will receive assistance from the
Department of Archaeology.
University College. Cork.
Dr Klingelhofer has made ar
rangements with the CLA ad
ministration for four Mercer
students to join him from July 31
to August 21. The students will
assist in the fieldwork and will visit
nearby sites and museums. Credit
will be given for independent study
of Irish history and archaeology.
' Students will stay at inns,
hostelries, or farmhouses, but will
not be camping m the field. There
may be an opportunity to associate
with Irish studnets assisting the dig
or involved in excavations con
ducted by U.C.C.
The cost per student is $1500. in
cluding round-trip airfare from
Atlanta to Shannon airport, all local
transportation, and daily bed and
breakfast-1 full Irish breakfast'
Student-fare travel beyond Ireland
can also be arranged Interested
students should contact Dr
Klingelhofer at the History Depart
ment or Dean Platt in the Ad
ministration Building.
Tenure recipients
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you a survivor."
Kalaidjian is an English professor who has recently been awarded
two grants totalling $18,500 for his research on American poetry.
He has written two books. Undemanding Theodore Roethke. 1987.
and Language of Liberation: The Social Text Contemporary
American Poetry, which will be out next month. He has also receiv
ed an Andrew Mellon Foundation Summer Fellowship at Vander
bilt adn three grams from the National Endowment for the
Humanities.
Fourth-year chemistry professor Atwood agrees that his future
at Mercer is not so certain because of the financial status of the
university. He said that he and his wife had anticipated the day
he would be awarded tenure and that it should have been ibflup.
piest time of his life. /
"Things are not as kosher as they should be at Mercer, so it
tempers the excitement.'' Atwood said. "One has to wonder about
the future, wonder if you're going to want to stay at a place with
a future like Mercer's.”
For the last three years the Amencan Chemical Society has com
missioned Atwood to help write V«tJoni y* National Stan
datdiied General chemistry Exam, and the radio stations us the
country circulated his laperecording about the Chernobyl nuclear
reactor accident He received an award for teaching undergraduate
Chemistry and is a member of the Reactivity Network, which at
tempts to get more Chemistry in the high school curriculum
Weintraut said lhat it was nice knowing that his work is recogniz
'd However, he added (hat it was difficult to feel good considering
the situation in Atlanta.
"It feels odd knowing that there ate a good number of people
in Atlanta who received tenure and are bong fired now."
Weintraut ia a sixth-year foreign language professor and has just
xn elected department chairman. He partmpased loan NEH Sum
mer Seminar and received a Fulhnght Award to research content
potary German culture to West Germany He has given profes-
of several (acuity committees House of Delegates Faculty
Devdopmca, Faculty Wei&re, Calendar Committee and c
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