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| Happy Birthday Dean Greer! page 3 V \, <aV Teddy Salad by Smythe page 7 | Wp ■Babbie Mason page 5 Mercer Bears Update page 8 1 Mttttt ©luster VOLUME 72, NUMBER 8 MERCER UNIVERSITY, MACON, GEORGIA TUESDAY. FEBRUARY 6. 1990 Faculty Protest... Still Going! Special SGA Elections Mercer Homecoming 1990 proves to be a success By TOBIE GASS Student Government elections were held Wednesday, January 24. These special elections were held due to the number of Senators who were not able to return to the Stu dent Government Association. Two freshman, one sophomore, and two juniors were elected. Five hundred students turned out to choose bet ween the thirty candidates who par ticipated. The elections went without any problems. The freshman Senators arc By DREW NORD Tuesday, Jan. 30 at 2:08 pm. Mercer Police received a call and ntshed to the former Sigma Alpha Epsilon lodge. This call concern ed the death of Oscar Jones, a Mercer Physical Plant employee. According to Diana Brambiia of Nicole Glisson and Mylo Carbia. The sophomore Senator is Candy Ellington. Charles Odum and An- di Pollard were the elected juniors. Patrick Lee. sophomore, was elected last quarter as a Senator js large. The Elections committee is beginning preparations for spring elections. Officers for the new year will be chosen at this time. Qualifications will be held April 4. with elections following on April Mercer's personnel office. Mr Jones, an employee of Mercer since 1966. died of an apparent heart at tack or an aneurysm. Jones was cleaning up the house that was the Sigma Alpha Epsilon lodge. Bram biia also added that she would like Continued on page 3 By GWEN POLLOCK Mercer University's spirit abounded as the 1990 Homecom ing week finally arrived. Sponsored by SUA8 and SGA, the Homecom ing featured a variety of events which began Jan. 22 and conclud ed Saturday. Jan. 27 with the Homecoming Dance. Mercer’s Teddy Bears kicked off Homecoming festivities with Mon day's game against the University of Central Florida. The Teddy Bears claimed a victory with the score of 77-73. Tuesday. Jan. 23 featured the Homecoming social at Bear Gardens. At 8 pm. students and the homecoming court nominees con gregated in the gardens where refreshments were served. The ob- J jectivc of this event was to allow J the students an opportunity to mingle, as well as. get to know their homecoming class represen tatives better. On Wednesday, elections were held for Homecoming King, Queen, and their court were held. Students were allowed to vote for a male and female representative for their class, as well as. a king and queen. Results of the election were withheld until the Homecom ing Dance on Saturday nighty Later that evening, students were invited to comedy hour in the coop which featured "The Magic and Comedy of Bob Garner" at 8 p.m. On Thursday, the Mercer Bears Basketball team went hcad-to-head with Georgia Southern. Unfor tunately. the Bears were not able to pull out the game, losing by a score of 71-50 Jan. 26 was the official Mercer • Spirit Day " Students who par ticipated showed their support for the Bears by wearing Mercer paraphernalia. The day was con cluded with a bonfire held behind MEP dorm. Saturday. Jan. 27. the actual Homecoming day. began with the annual parade at 11:30 a.m. The parade, which started at the Engineering school parking lot and ended at Central Park, featured floats with the Homecoming theme. "Hals off to the Bears." and the 1990 Homecoming court representatives. Court representatives for the senior class were Beth Hamby & Rich Benson. Lynn Creech & Joel Tolbert. Amy Cooksey & Bradley Waters. Christina Larkin & Phaion Bell. Holly Greene & Jeff Monday. Junior class representatives were Mike Dawson and Joanna Johnson. Sophomore class representatives were Patrick Lee and Diane Frank. Freshman representatives were Marcus Brinson and Laura Beth Haley. At 1 pm. the Mercer Bears hosted the Stetson University Hal ters at the Macon College gym. During the game, the winners of announced. Alpha Delta Pi’s float took firsf place, followed by Alpha Tau Omega in Second place. The Association of Commuter Students won the banner competition. Dur ing halftime, the Mercer Dance Troop performed to “Batdancc." The basketball game ended with the Hatters claiming a victory over the Bears by a score of 68-58. The 1990 Homecoming week ended with the Homecoming Dance at the Macon Auditorium. Students began arriving at 8 p.m. attired in semi-formal evening wear. The ladies were presented with flowers at the door. At 10 p.m.. Joel Tolbert and Lynn Creech were crowned 1990 Homecoming King and Queen. The dance ended at midnight, concluding a successful week of fun and excitement for the float and banner contests were everyone. Jod Tolbert aod Lynn Creech were crowned Homecoming King and Queen at Saturday night’s Homecoming Dance. Jones, physical plant employee dies