VOLUME LXVII, NUMBER 19 MERCER UNIVERSITY. MACON. GEORGIA APRII^J. I9B7
Mercer Asked To Expel Any Posing For Playboy
Committee Debates Coeds, Newspaper, Movies RcpriiUtd from the Chrfatian In- on record as approving a The executive committee dn. Mareh 19, 1987 edition. resolution that if a student were appeal came after extended By Jack U. Harwell. Editor to pose for Playboy, that grilling of Mercer president R. Mercer University officials student be expelled from Kirby Godsey over Playboy's were urged to expel from school Mercer University.'* visit to Macon last week to any student who might pose for Mr. Claytor said: “It is photograph Mercer coeds. Playboy magazine. important for us to go on record. The visit followed a recent The appeal came from Geor It is redemptive. It is discipli listing of Mercer as one of the gia Baptist Convention execu nary." top 10 “party schools" in the tive committee, meeting at Francis Tracy of Harlem nation by the soft-core pom Baptist -Center in Atlanta last opposed Mr. Ciaytor ’s motion, magazine. week. saying: ‘Tm in favor of what he Dr. Godsey was also ques The committee approved, by But I am against directing tioned about recent issues of the vote of 54-20, a resolution the trustees to take action that Mercer student newspaper. The submitted by Robert Clayton of is clearly illegal. There are Mercer Cluster, which con Rome. much less expensive ways to tained ads for the Playboy It urged the committee to "go make a point." Continued on page 6
An Interview With Three of Mercer’s Playboy Models ., By Baxter Gillespie These girls were among the Skippers and asked if 1 went to This week The Cluster ones in the slumber party. Mercer. interviewed three of the eleven Cluster: How did you find out Susann Meadows: I held the Presidem Kirby Gothey girb who posed for Playboy. about the modeling job? Cluster up to a mirror. ^ According to these girls, there Lel4e Read: from the Macon Cluster: When did you were two girls who posed nude pap)er. he (David Chan) put an contact the photographer David Thousands Of Students and nine involved in a slumber ad in the paper with the times Chan. party theme pho^ session. and dates...they also came in Susann: The last day (for May Lose GSLs Next Year interviews! we could...March tenth. By tiaa Jean Silva as harsh as it is." explains Dr. Cluster: Describe the inter (CPS) — As many as four of Richard Rosser, president of the view process. every 10 students who have National .Association of Inde Susann: We had to fill out an Guaranteed Student Loans may pendent Colleges and Universi envelope and a photographer not be able to get a GSL for next ties. release. year, financial aid experts how Davis, among others, now Lelee; It was a form with are saying. thinks new student aid “needs Birthdate, eye color, major, More than half the “inde tests** - which for the first time hobbies. pendent** studenu - those who make GSLs less available to Nancy Fesler: It asked how are financially on their own students from families with we would pose...nude, semi will lose all or part of their GSLs annual incomes under $30,000 nude. clothed...we all put for 1987-88. adds Dr. Jerry " are “much too stringent" and clothed. Davis of the Pennsylvania that needy students might have Susann: Not me (laughter)...! Higher Education Assistance to live “in the back of Chevys" put semi-nude but that was Agency (PHEAA). which in in order to afford school. changed when they decided to early March reassessed the The average GSL borrower do the Party thing. „ impact on students of new aid wUl lose $1,200 to $1,300 next Cluster: What did your rules going into effect this year. school year. Davis says. “It’s parents and friends say? The impact, in fact, seems to hard for students to come up Letev: My mom said it was be much more dramatic than with an extra hundred dollars a cool and that it was neat. educators predicted last Octo month.” Susann: My mom is going to ber, when the new rules Students themselves only buy a hundred copies. emerged in the Higher Educa now are getting the bad news. Lelee: .My mom wants me to tion Act of 1986. “This is really going to hit get everyone to sign it. “I don’t think anyone expec people when they apply for aid Continued on page 10 ted the new needs anaiysiato be > Continued on page 13 ------5------
Changes In Cultural Arts This Week Graduation Festival To Be Held At Mercer
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Slightly Of^ Campus
‘Rolling Stone’ Names A New Northwestern Upholds Tenure Police Find My.stery Toilets In A ‘Ultimate Slu School’ Denial Of Anti-Contra Professor U. Texas ‘Shanty ’ In its annual college issue, the magazine President Arnold Weber said tenure Police patrolling the protest shanty, says.Colorado Mountain College is now shouldn’t “shield those who seek to which has been victimized 'oy vandals 12 “the ultimate ski school” In the nation, abridge the freedom of others to speak, times in 1987, said that sometime between supplanting the University of Colorado. and then announced he wouldn't grant midnight and 2 a.m. on March 12, so “That’s crazy,” groused Mami Berg tenure to Asst. Prof. Barbara Foley. meone snuck in and set up three toilets of CU’s ski team office. “All kinds ol Foley had disrupted an April, 1985 in the structure. people come here to ski.” campus speech by contra Adolfo Calero There were no witnesses,
Students Deny Putting LSD In Coffee Vanderbilt Alums Claim Some Credit At Appalachian State ’s Snack Bar N.C. State Basketball Coach For Chrysler’s Latest Buy Stephen G. Travis, 26, on trial for Jim Valvano Gets A Bargain Rental In 1985, a Vanderbilt U. business grad allegedly lacing coffee pot contents with The Raleigh (N.C.) Times reported last students’ group project suggested “acid,” testified he and codefendant T. week that Valvano’s JTV Enterprises Chrysler buy American Motors, says O. Phillips had never been serious about rented the campus’s Reynold’s Coliseum Mark Williams, a member of the group. carrying out a “threat” that was intend last November for just $75, a 93% sav Their professor, however, didn’t think ed as “a humorous thing.” ings off the normal $1,000 a day rental the notion — which Chrysler in fact Police arrested Travis and Phillips last rate. fulfilled last week'when it announced it Mayafter seven people who had consum Valvano was taping a commercial for intendedto buy AMC — was a great one. ed some of the coffee from the pot in a local Hyundai dealer. Vanderbilt, Williams recalls, “gave us question complained of dizziness and a B-f, but Lee lacocca gave us an A.” hallucinations. Texas-EI Paso Students Petition To The Best Excuses A Rash Of Rapes Plagues Oust Accused Criminal From Dorm In the latest edition of' 'Campus USA ,' ’ Michigan State The El Paso district attorney dropped professors recount the most outlandish MSU officials hired more police and charges against Dwight Meyers, 19, for student explanations for why thgx^ere urg^ women notto walk across campus sexual assault on an 18-year-old woman, late for class. Among the alone until they find the people responsi but Barry Hall residents circulated a peti Stories Ever Told: ’ ’ ■' ble for 10 reported rapes in and around tion anyway asking Dean of Students Jose the campus since late December. Avila to evict Meyers. central MICHIGAN UNIVERSI San Diego State, Illinois and Tennessee “He’s still the same toward girls,” TY: A student said he’d been at the doc - all reported multiple - though probably complained student Christy Vasquez, who tor because he’d had an allergic reaction unrelated - rapes during fall semester. started the petition, “He’ll still try to to a deer he’d just killed ona hunting trjp. Separately, a Kent State study found 25 make advances and he still makes'crude . UNIVERSITY OF SANTA CLARA: percent of the women in college nation comments.” A marketing professor says a student once wide from 1983 to 1986 said they’d suf- told her her dog ate the diskettEon which ^ fered attempted or actual rapes. Amy Carter Escapes Brown’s she’d stored her paper. ' ^ Discipline, But Not The City’s TEMPLE UNIVERSITY: A student U, Penn. MBAs Sabotage Job Former first daughter Amy Carter and asked to leave early for spring break to Interview Schedules 19 Brown University cohorts were put on attend his sister’s wedding. In Fort Some newly minted masters of business probation — as opposed tobeing suspend Lauderdale. at Penn’s prestigious Wharton business ed or expelled — for disrupting a Feb. 13 UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS: A college have been crossing out names and trustees meetingto demand Brown sell its woman had to leave early for springbreak inserting their own names on interview stocks in firms that do business in because “my father is flying me and some schedules for corporations coming to segregationist South Africa. of my sorority sisters to the Virgin Islands campus to recruit this spring, placement But as last week’s verdict was announc in his corporate jet. He doesn’t want to office Miriam Craig reports. ed by Brown’s undergrad counseling pay the pilot overtime, so we have to '' Craig says some students also have rip Joard, the city of• Providence, Rhode leave early in the morning.” ped out notes of what qualifications the Inland towed Carter’s car away because recruiting businesses want, i^umably to she had not paid $335 in parking tickets. MISCELLANEOUS: Professors re count hearing that one student missed a make it harder for other students to When a local radio station kindly rais test because he had to rescue a cat trap prepare for the interviews. ed the money and paid the fine for her, ped in a tree. Another said she was ar To remedy the competition, Craig no however, the city car pound refused to rested after accidentally setting off a longer lets students schedule their own release Carter’s car until Carter herself intervii came to claim it. burglar alarm while trying to get her term paper from her aunt’s house. APRIL 3. 1W7 THE MERCER CLUSTER PAGE 3
^otes From All Over
Should Athletes Be Singled Out
Tennessee May Make All Students Take Drug Tests By U m Jean Silva young people, and thus could MiUer. cent J. Lembo thinks his testing the nation's colleges now test (CPSI — Even oa some convince them not to use drugs. If the ACLU wins all three program should reamain be their athletes for drugs, esti athletes began suing to stop Richardson says it’s unfair to cases, he adds, "we will preuy cause "athletes should be be mates lawyer Ben Rich of the having to take drug tests, a test only athletes. "1 don't like much do away with drug-testing yond reproach. ” University of Colorado, which is Tennessee stale legis'ator has singling out athletes." The programs." "The university. ” he adds, being sued by track athlete introduced a bill that would fairest law. he adds, would Courts in the District of "has the right to institute drug David Derdeyn, who contends require anyone who v/ants to "cover everyone, and not single Columbia. New York State and testing in the interest of stu CU's program is an unconstitu attend one of the stale's col- out any one group.” New Jersey already have de dents’ health and in the interest tional invasion of his privacy. , leges to be tested for drug use. A similar concern last sum clared public school mandatory of fair competition.'' "We're saying (Derdeynl Duke University is the only mer moved Duke Athletic Direc urinalysis programs illegal. "More than five percent and doesn't have to participate in other campus in the U. S. to tor Tom Butters to propose But Northeastern lawyer Vin less than 50 percent" of Continued on page 10 have toyed with the idea of making all students subject to making all students submit to the same kind of random drug drug tests. tests his athletes had to lake. llie idea, which was dropped ^ A faculty committee, how Finer Womanhood Week at Duke last fall, isn't very ler. quickly rejected the idea, The Ladies of Zeta Phi Beta Diagram Bela was chartered to Mercer popular at the University of judging drug abuse wasn't as Thurs.. April 2 - Social University through the graduate Tennessee. rampant among nonathletes as Gathering. 8 p.m. chapter in Macon. In keeping "The law hasn't passed." among athletes. Fri.. April 3 - Slate Con with the five founder tradition, says Don Eastman, assistant to At the University of Ten ference. there were five courageous UT's chancellor, "and we'd nessee. Daily Beacon reporter Sat., April 4 - Picnic. 4 p.m. - young ladies to enlighten our certainly resist it if it did." Paul Kay thinks there is "limit 'Tattnall Square" 6 campus to the ideals of Zeta Phi "Basically." adds Hedy ed drug abuse on campus. Sun.. April 5 - Macedonia. Beta. The ambition lives mem Weinberg of the American Civil Maybe 20-to-25 percent (of the 10:30 a.m. Dinner (InviUlion bers. Our goals are essential: Liberties Union in Nashville, "it studentsl indulge in drugs. I Only) Sixty-four years later, the sisterly love and .scholarship, treats the innocent and guilty think the alcohol problem has to Mon., April 6 - Display Omega Mu Chapter of Zeta Phi the idea is finer womanhoi>d. alike. It's patently unconstitu be addressed." (LobbyofCSCl tional because it doesn't ask for Athletes on other campuses, Tues.. April 7 - Greek Auc 'pn)bablecause.' " meanwhile, are resisting drug tion. 8 p.m. iCo-opl "Probablecause " is the legal testa more frequently. Wed., April8-Slave Day doctrine that authorities can't A^letes at Stanford. Colo History interfere in citizens' lives with rado and Northeastern Univer Zeta Phi Bela Sorority was warranU or searches unless sity in Boston have gone to organized at Howard University there is a reason to suspect the court to try to hall drug testing, on January 16. 1920. as the citizens are guilty of something. which became widespread this result of the encouragement Tennessee Sen. Bill Richard school year in the wake of the given the five founders by two son. who introduced the bill — June cocaine-related death of 1 brothers of Phi Beta Sigma which would bar applicants who Maryland basketball star ten Fraternity who felt that the tested/positive for drugs from Bias. campus would profit by the is atten^ng anyofTennessee's 24 The "testing of student ath development of such an organi public campuses — doesn't letes without probable cause for zation as constitutional sisters agree his idee has any real suspicion is an outrageous vio to the fraternity. To point out .r constitutional problems. lation of privacy rights guaran the family bond that exists, the ,.„.L His bill, he says, "places the teed by state and femral laws,'' Phi Beta adjoins the Zeta and fear of detection out before" asserts ACLU attorney David Sigma. Ma^U. 19^7. Schools Ban Student-Prof Affairs NEWARK, DEL (CPSl - In harassment really." concedes Senate. what seems to be a growing Laura Shepherd, director of "These procedures need to national trend, the University of Delaware s Office on the Status he carefully crafted and most ST. GEORGE’S UNIVERSITY Delaware last week proposed on Women and drafter of the are not." explains the AAUP's simply to ban romantic relation original ban, "but they can end Francis. "They should not be i SCHOOL OF MEDICINE ships between studcnU and up that way." ireariKi any differently than GRLNAIIA their teachers. A wide variety of schools, in unethical activity charges such ST. MMKSr And. in a reaction that also fact, have tried to regulate as plagiarism. This needs the m I mtrd XincSon seems to be a trend. Delaware's student-professor relationships same procedures such as faculty • -\prro3fJ Icbiujrs 4. tSK' ihc Nr* >ork Male tdHcaitoa i>epartRi«Rl foi th< purpose <>l sk.*nJ(K(in| j slinual slrtkship projirjm m Nr* >>>rk ir«vhin| >M>Apii.ik faculty members don’t want to in recent months. Most, how hearing committees and the • S« fCvfivcJ i MmiUi appiosjl m IVK5 lfi*m ih< Nr* Jer%r^ Board of accept the ban. ever. stopped short of an all-out rights to legal council, wiines- Mcdtral ihiscsiaHishc* St (prot^rS as the onI> fomin mriisat sshixsl »iih insiruvtion in t niticsh thii has stale Jpptosfj vanipusrs m hoih N
I -r Campus News
Changes In Graduation There have been changea in Registrar Office was forced to diplomas was great in the past. graduation exerciaea for thia pull people out of the gradua This new procedure will allow summer in order to bring a tion line even as late as Sunday the diplomas for honor grad more student centered ap when the degree audit did not uates to be appropriately en proach to the proceaa. The June clear. Often, parents had al graved at the time they are and August commencements ready arrived to see their sons received. will be combined. Therefore and daughters graduate. A commencement committee students who will complete All participants in the grad has been appointed by the their degree requirements by uation exercises will receive University. This commiuee is August will be able to partici their actual diplomas imme encouraging the Dean of each pate in the major June cere diately following the completion school and college to take more mony. Those flnishing in Dec of their degree requirement. responsibility for each school at ember or later will march the Therefore students who march the graduation ceremony. following June. Therefore all in June but complete their Efforts will be made for the graduates will be participates in graduation requrements in Au graduation ceremony of 188 to the major commencement exer gust will receive their actual tost seniors early and move the cise. Students will now be able diploma in August. All students date of the graduation cere Alexander Peskanov, Pbuibt. to walk with their entire class will receive diploma covers and mony up. This will allow greater and will no longer be pulled out a congratulatory letter from the opportunity for undergraduates at the last icjiute twcause of University at the time of the to attend the graduation exer Polish Orchestra To Perform some deficiency or degree re commencement ceremony. The cise. quirements. In past years the potential for mixing up actual Alexander Peskanov. native tras. and he has been heard SGA of the U.S.S.R., pianist who has with the London Symphony, En CAREER DAY won accolades for his extraordi glish Chamber Orchestra and Report ! nary artistry and virtuosity, is the Kiev and Odessa Philhar APRIL 22, 1987 expected to attract a great deal monic Orchestras. He is a The Student Government had of attention as soloist when the favored guest artist of the its first meeting of the quarter Polish Chamber Philharmonic leading American music festi Monday night. President Eth Orchestra performs at the vals, including Wolf Trap, eridge opened the meeting by Grand Opera House on Sunday. Aspen. Grant Park, Saratoga. welcoming everyone back to Aprils, at 3p.m. Green Mountain. Music Moun school. He also announced This will be the Mercer tain and Mexico's Monterrey qualifications for the next SGA University Artist Series' final Festival. W elections will be April 16 and performance of the season. The orchestra, founded by i the actual elections will be April Information about tickets, at conductor Wojciech Rajski, is $10 and $13, may be obtained \L 23. Etheridge also said SGA composed of young and talented along with SUAB will sponsor a from the Meirer department of musicians, each of whom per- leadership conference on May music. 744-2748. forms as a soloist. Rajski. one of * 16. The orchestra's repertoire is the most outstanding conduc Next, during the Student Life vast, encompassing a range tors of his generation in Poland, V Committee announced the in- from baroque to modern times: studied conducting at the War / sullation of an ATM machine. Bach, Haydn. Moiart. Tchai saw Academy of Music. He An automatic teller will be kovsky. Mendelssohn, and Dvo became conductor with the placed oA campus for the rak, as well as contemporary Philharmonic Orchestra, and beginning of the academic year ' Polish composers. his repertoire includes works September 1. 1987. The ATM Peskanov first achieved rec spanning early to contemporary h will be located in the Student ognition at the age of 15 as Center. Students, faculty and first-piiie winner of the Ukra- OPPORTUNITY KNOCKS staff are encouraged to arrange nian Republic Competition. Fol In addition to conducting, during the summer to obtain an lowing his emigration to this including operatic and orches Avail or Cirrus card. country in 1973, he received the tral works, he regularly per Youn^ Artists Award of the forms as guest conductor with Voice Students Take Part In NAT Piano teachers Congress and vartous chamber orchestras. the Juilliard Competition. He appears with the most Sevin voice majors at Mercer April 3-4 at Auburn University, He made his American debut renosmed Poiish orchestras and ya Frierson, junior women's as orchestral soloist with the University ’s College of Liberal accompanied by Settles. Jarriel, division. has been guest conductor in the Arts in Macon look part in the National Symphony and Mstis due to a conflict, will not be able "This land of recognition USSR, Czechoslovakia. Bul annual auditions of the National lav Rostropovich. Since that to participate in the Regional reflects most positively on all of garia. West Germany. France. Association of Teachers of time he has performed with Auctions. us at Mercer." said Dr. H. Luxembourg, Greece. Mexico Singing (NATS) at Georgia many leading American orches- ' Also taking part in the annual Lowen Marshall, chairman the and Japan, Southwestern College in Ameri- auditions in Amerkus were; music department. "The music cus March 6-7. Jennifer Wells, freshman wo department extends congratula Throe participants wore men's division; Timothy Swaim, tions to these students and their NOTICE jiamed state finalists: Anna- sophomore men's division; Son teachers." Marie Spalinger of Montexuma, A forum focusing on racial concerns on first place in - the sophomore women's division, student of campus will meet Sunday night at 7:30 Phebe Seules: Janet Jarriel of Dublin, second place in the Mercer Student Receives Award p.m. in Connell Room 314. Subjects same division, also a student of Richard Anthony Spring, a Chapter of the Georgia Society such as a meeting place for Black Phebe Settles; and Amber Guy sophomore at Mercer Univer of Professional Engineers. He Fraternities, running for office, and an of Newnan, third place, junior sity's School of Engineering in received an Engineering Scho women's division, student of Macon, has received the "En larship in 1986, and was on the advisory council to Barry Jenkins, Dean Nancy Rehberg. gineering Student Award for dean ’s list for the fall quarter of of Students, will be discussed. Spalinpr- and Ruth Odom, 1986" from the Georgia Society 1986. He is in his second co-op who conlpeted in the freshman of Professional Engineers. quarter at Georgia Kaolin. He usf * Involved student and join womeir’s divisions will go to Spring, who is from Sylves was a 1985 graduate of Worth regional Auditions of NATS ter, is president of the Student County High School. APRIL 3, 1W7 MERCER a.C^R PAGES
Campus News
'We Bring The World To You
The Student Union Activities Please join us in exploring Art. Sign Unguage. Medieval Board would like to invite you to your culture and others. Let Sword Fighting. our first annual Cultural Arts SUAB bring the world to you!! Thursday. April 9th "World Fair. The fair is the first of its Schedule For The Of Drama" 3:00 p.m. - 4:00 kind at Mercer and it is hoped Cultural ArU Fair '87 p.m.* Program: Brother. Can I by the governing board that it Tuesday. April 7th "World of Speak For You?** Dinner: will become a part of a Mercer Song" 3:00 p.m.-5:00 p.m.* Cultural Foods by Epicure tradition. Program: Music as a Cultural (Cafeteria) 6:30 p.m. - 7:30 p.m. This year'sl Fair will span An. Theatre W’orkshop 13)4 CSC). over a three day period. April 7. 8:00 p.m. - 10:00 p.m.* ’-SI?'' 8. 9, 1987. Included in its Social: Multi-Ungual Mingle. •All events will be held on the activities are music, dance and Wednesday. April 8th College of Liberal Arts Quad drama. Participants from Boli ■ World Of Visual Arts" 10:00 rangle (next to Administration via. California and our own a.m.-2;00 p.m. Art Show and Building) unless otherwise indi students on campus will be Sale** (Third Floor. CSC). cated. (FREE) performing in various capaci 3 00 p.m. - 4:30 p.m.* ••This event will be open to ties. Program: Dance as a Cultural the public. N Circle K Receives Honors By BtUy Lacefield Macon. VERY SPECIAL honors. But As a club which promotes Mercer's Circle K Club their excitement is tempered fellowship, fun. leadership, and received first prize in the with humility: they now have an service to others. Circle K just Scrapbook Con.petition. (Susan EVEN GREATER desire to PhUlip E. Walker wearing Authentic Dasiki from The Gambia. West can ’t be beat! Members of Moss deserves ALL of the credit serve others! Thai's what Circle Africa PtMXo by Michael Bry. Mercer's chapter of Circle K are for this award!) Also. Susan K is all about — performing very well aware of this fact — Moss placed first in the volunteer service to campus and and they recently shared their Photography Contest — and community while enjoying fel enthusiasm with other Georgia Billy La^field won an Out lowship and developing leader Circle K members at the standing Secretary Award. ship skills. In Circle K. there is Phillip E. Walker To Georgia District Circle K Receiving awards was not the indeed SOMETHING FOR Convention, held March 6-8 at only thing that made Circle K EVERYONE! Perform At Fair beautiful Jekyl) Island. members happy, though. Ruby Susan Moss. Ruby Fowler Fowler, a MOST ACTIVE Recently, these Circle K Phillip E. Walker is one of dell in Slow Dance on the and Billy Lacefield • were member of Mercer’s club, was officers were elected for the two persons to establish The Killing Ground" for the .Mis 1987-88 term; Billy Lacefield. Mercer's attendees at the elected Lieutenant Governor of African American Drama Com souri Summer Repertory Thea convention. While there, they Georgia's Cascade division - president: Patricia Kelley, sec pany of California, in Illinois tre. His film and TV credits retary; and Joseph Adams, attended workshops to learn and thus will serve as a link during 1979. A.A.D.C. of include a national commercial treasurer. These new officers more about Circle K and its between the Georgia District California has produced "Nor for Metropolitan Life, the are looking forward to a purposes; they shared their own and Mercer University. Macon man. Is that You? " and its Italian film "Save the Last productive, sensational, ser Circle K experiences with other Junior College. Tift College and production of 'Ain't I A Dance For Me. " CBS's "Flesh vice-filled year! college students: they enjoyed Gordon Junior College. She will Woman? " has toured the WVsi & Blood" with John Cassavetes free lime at the beach and in the also attempt to charter NEW Circle K is always I
second condom ads appeared, Results Are but worked on new guidelines. Stiff Penalties E3rewear^Mue. Bill Burnett of Ambrose said: "You changed the image of Do you know what the conse- wntiMi 10'laysand we'll Mercer in the minda of Georgia \iHir frrvix*s k>r Baptista when you first became quencea a person would face if cvtotlier }Mir president. Now they are asking he/she was found to be falsify Ror»s Haza at i Mi -rtTer ing an identification or sUte Om Bmv Smtv Im- linivetsity Dr fnxn___ again. How can we support- "■* *" Macon MaS nhorv^47777S7. Georgia Baptists without sup- Well, the conse- A -s nnie jj» vaiiuih4u Were open Monday Satuniav porting Mercer University?' quences would be severely tvx } ciiss ffdv.xiiik's ai\ ‘ Ixx* 10 a m • 9 p m ivxi bum.lay high. Falsi^ring a legit docu fx- Tliai's I pm 'Bpm "Our people feel you must 1 nsitons ny OptjC.'-are make a firm, strong sutement, ment is a felony. The least daV^awF^kJ sentence a person could gat is a IricKkiifion. j not a weak statement. Are yOu otirin- succumbing to pressure to 81000,00 fine. The highest store Mi'fcer -sftjtienf-s are spoai water down Ghristian educa sentence would be up to ten so Op6^/forki That's wtr/ ■ tion? I don't utiderstand things years in jail. If a person were sruJent witfi a va that are coming from Mercer." slopped by a policeman, and he To which Dr. G jdaey respon searched through the persona belongings and found a false MsainbOrfyl-Bos mm ded: "We are conring from the same basic comLutment. The I.D.. he could take them down good things going on at Mercer to the police station and book jowaon^ eye exammaOco. them. This is a serioua felony, u- Ma^'s lar^tesJ seiecDon V for the go^ of Georgia Baptists frames, a comp^ mniac far outweigh the negative and the person could be put in lera center plus an on jail at that vary moment. Sure premise lab staffed with things that make the press. skiDed to.'hrucuns It's all "I believe we are making a the person would have a under one ro<^ 5« you W strong Christian witness on our hearing; but what good would can walk m and walk out that do? They would still bo with new gia.«s«s m }ust ' campus. There'is an underlying one hour commitment to Christianity, found guilty of the charge by and to Georgia Baptists. '' the judge as they were by the Dewey Norton of Milledge- policeman. Making a false Frames and lenses are ville suggested that Mercer identification document is far guaranteed for one \-ear ag^unsi more serious than having hold defects sn materials arxi - produce public relations docu lab will haw* y. hit glasses of one. Yet both are extremely workmanshf) h ' rctyly n ot>e IxAiC not wio ments detailing "good things" additioaifior . ^woek. or one clay Ont' at Mercer. high punishable offenses to a any reason judge. VCTirenotcom m ^ 2f'^^hour In lust sixty quick Dwight Reighard of Fayette pietfiysate- muujtes you'lJ be on ville asked about "R " rated n^wah ^.Wm wav Now really, is it worth it to movies being shown on campus. make or have in your poaseaaion Dr. Godsey said: "We a falae or altered identification absolutely do not allow 'X' rated doctunenl? Is it worth it to make movies with sexual exploitation. these for other people? I think But many rirst-line movies of m not. but of course that's my own today, such as Out of Africa and opinion. APRIL 3, 1«87 MERCER CLUSTER PAGET Features
Raising Arizona To Open Soon
"Raising Arizona." a break and Hunter is Edwina ("Ed" McDonnough makes him over neck new comedy by Joel and for short), his loving wife (and night the most famous of the Ethan Coen, opens soon at former booking officer), whose much-heralded "Arizona Macon Theatre. desire for a child lands them quints." Described by the fUmmakers both in hot water up to their Circle FUnis Presents a Ted as a comedy about "babies. ears. BUI Forsythe and John and Jim Pedas/Ben Barenholtz Harley Davidsons and high Goodman play the baby-faced Production. "Raising Arizona." eiplosives," "Raising Ari bank-robbers Gale and Evelle directed by Joel 0>en and zona" stars Nicolas Cage and Snopes, and Trey WUson plays produced by Ethan Coen from Silt Holly Hunter, and co-stars John unfinished furniture tycoon their original screenplay. Mark Goodman. Bill Forsythe and Nathan Arizona, proud poppa of Silverman is co-producer and Trey Wilson. Cage is H.I. "Hi" quintuplets. In his motion pic Jim Jacks is executive priducer. McDonnough. a young man ture debut, eight-month-old "Raising Arizona" is distri caught between the comforts of T.J. Kuhn is Nathan Ariz«jna. buted by the Twentieth Century home and the call of the wild. Jr., whose selection by H.I. Fox Film corporation. Camper Van Beethoven-Truly Unique c
By Tim Riley pan^ a bigger kaleidoscope of the most out-of-louch Sonic RAISING ARIZON ( A Twentieth Century Fox Refcase) — Sometime T»>day’s music scene is full of styles. Their gimmick was hu Youth (New York City’s favorite convenience store bandit "HI” McDonnough (NICHOLAS CAGE) and big shots, comebacks and waiv- mor. and levity is just what art-rockers) composition. hki new ex-cop wife Ed (HOLLY HUNTER) bask In the ra>s of connubial na-bes. with very few gnmps UKiay ’s self-aggrandizing pop At first listening, some of the Miss in "RAISING ARIZONA," a comedy from Joel and Ethan Corn, covering the middle ground that climate needs. songs sound half-hearted. But a Circle Film dhtrihuted by Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation. normally produces talent, pur You’ll find Camper Van Bee 8 on ensemble. Camper Van pose and genuine pleasure. thoven's albums in the inde l^ihoven displays a collective Between giants like Bruce pendent bin on the Rough Trade ear for contrasting textures and Springsteen and New Age bro label. nearly all of rock's familiar mides like Bruce Hornsby, very The group recorded all three patterns, including some—like Thursday, April 9 little worthwhile music seems to of its albums last year, and won Ska and Tex-Mex-lhat have yet be taking shape. And when was rave critical notices in "Spin." to break through to the main 3:00 p.m. the last time Michael Jackson the "Village Voice" and even stream. To the band, rock music cracked a joke? "Billboard." "Existential inde is like a television. It’s content Liberal Arts From California comes hope: cision lives," wrote Robert to sit and change channels all ('amper Van Beethoven is a Christga^. night. Quadrangle garage band from Santa Cruz And there’s plenty of it. Each Atlitudinally. Camper Van whose most famous song. record bulges with material, up Beethoven resembles the Me- African American Drama Company ’s "Take The Skinheac^ Bowl to 17 tracks per Ip. kons. the British punk band that ing." makes as much sense as But it was the 1985 single. turned country-western. Both its name. Adding a violin to the "Take the Skinheads Bowling. ” groups look at life sardonically, basic rock and roll lineup that pul them on alternative refuse to back away from CAN I SPEAK FOR YOU BROTHER happily confuses the group’s radio ’s hit parade. "Skin falsities and rely on music as an musical i^ntiiy. It’s on good heads" doesn’t chortle at the antidote to perplexity. There’s I terms with absurdity, and its expense of haircut styles. It’s a enough comfort in playing \ Oiif-Maii IM.iv l>r|M( imi: Kb* k l highest aesthetic value is par shaggy dog satire about leisure together to warrant living, they ody. time, impenetrable dreams and seem to tell us. "We are not Camper Van whai-me-worry quandaries that But where the Mekons act out Beethoven." guitarist and sum up (he group’s d^irious a drunken futility. Camper Van founder Dave Lowery said as gi>od humor. Beethoven looks despair in the the musicians took the stage When "Skinheads ' anchored face and cracks up. recently in Boston. "We are a most college radio playlists, • tribute to Camper V^m Beetho nobiidy could resist the smartly Most of the time, the song ven. minimalist setting of lyrics like lltles-’ Cowboys from Holly Their set sounded much like "everyb«>dy’s going home for wood. ' "Joe Stalin ’s Cadillac." their records: eclectic, con lunch these days." Whether the "The History of Utah." "Inter fusing and somewhat sprawl s<.»ng c«»nd(med bowling with stellar Overdrive ’’-only hint at ing. They imiked out of place, Skinheads (tr using their heads the yuks to come. ’’Hoe Your the kind of musicians who lake as balls, it didn't make enough self Down" turns out to be a the stage almost by accident. sense to take seriously, and the nightmarish square dance Bassist Victor Krummenacher music seemed to turn the dry where band members ma.squer- looked drolly intent. Singer humor belly up. ade as hillbilly outlaws. David Lowery was bemused and Although they're nuts about "Wheie the Hell is Bill? ” turns pre
PAGES MEKCER CLUSTER APRIL 3, IW7 Editorials/Opinions
Editor's Note ■■■BIO Baxter Gillespie Godsey Deserves Support fslP If you look the time to read administratively change the righu and student institutions. the headline story on page one Ouster. In each one of the Every student of this university you are aware of the Georgia "charges” against the Univer- owes President Godsey an Baptist Convention ’s pressure sily. Godsey acted in the best immense debt of gratitude and on President Godsey. The interest of the students and the support. If the Georgia Baptist convention concerned itself with school. It would be deplorable Convention had their way. all of three issues: students posing to see a university violate the ^sitive things they give to for •‘PUyboy.” -R" rated adult's civil rights by expelling Mercer such as the Baptist movies shown on campus, and (hem for. First Amendment Student Union, student mission recent issues of The Cluster. RighU>. and not allowing stu* teams, and ministerial groups, fejP President Godsey. as I’m dents to view award winning would be marred by oppressive sure you can tell from the movies because of an "R” Baptist Convention interfer __ ■______1 article, was raked over (he coals rating. iC would also be ence. It cannot be emphasized by the Executive Council of (1^ disturbing to see your student enough the amount of strength ANDY VsARHoL 1928-1987 Georgia Baptist Convention newspaper censored or con and desire that President General AssisUnt to the Presi- trolled because of the Georgia Godsey has to make this dent Joe Claxlon said that the Baptist Convention's influence university the best it can article from the ChrUtian Index at (his university. possibly be. To be confronted did not really convey the President Godsey stood up to by such strong supporters Uke intensity of (he meeting. the Executive Council of the the Georgia Baptist Convention President Godsey could have Georgia Baptist Convention and and not falter in one's goals of How To Submit A easily given into the Council's did not allow these things to improving the university is desires to expel anyone who happen. He did not bend under admirable and desepres support Letter To The Editor posed for “Playboy, ” ban ”R” the pressure of the Convention, from everyone within the rated movies from campus, and but protected the students' university. Letters to the editor should be submitted by 12 iMMm on Tuesday before Friday ’s publication. Ail I letters must be signed, but names will be withheld upon request. The Kditor-in-Chief of Vu- Mercer Cluster reserves the right to reject any letter if it is p ^Oulcimer, Submit your letter to The Mercer Cluster. Box A. Campus Mail. Please write “l.etter” on the arid Cauldron back to insure it is received by the proper editor. Utters should be typed or printed neatly, please. are now available In the Information Booth and Student Activities Urmr® Cluster Editors-ln-Chief----- Mike Lober & Baxter Gillespie Office. Photoqraphere...... Mike Gilbert :■! and Drew Graham Business Manager...... Lex Green Advisor ...... Davis Palmour Deadline Is noon on Technical Advisor...... David Tucker April 16th, 1987, Contributing Writers...... Scott Young, Heather Kimble, Murray Weed Allison Durfee and Ron Light Sports Editor...... Bo Bowen APRIL 3, im nil MKROR ( l.t STKR PAGE 9 jjg^rs To The Editor One Year After Chernobyl By Joan Claybrook amonff nuHdsnp rklum • amnnK nuclear plant employees tainment similar to the one used and Joaepb Kriesborg rises. AccordinR to the NRC, ing out nuclear power would Moreover, there is a full On April 26. 1986 ihi> at Chernobyl. In fact, a recent actually help to spur economic the number of drujf abuse cases NRC report found that the like range of energy resources C'hrrnobyl nuclear power ala- reported annually at nuclear growth. which can meet energy demand tion in the Soviet Union lihood of a containment failure The United States currently power plants has increa.sed during a major accident may be in the future cheaper and more exploded, spewing radioactive six-fold since 1980. Even these has a huge surplus of electrical safely than nuclear power. Co clouds across much of the as high as 90 percent at some capacity. Even if no nuclear figure.^ are considered "just the facilities. The resulting accident generation. renewable re- northern hemisphere. The acci lip of the iceberg” by the power plants had operated sfjurces. and energy efficiency dent forced 135.000 people to could, according to government during 1985. the U. S. would agency. studies, kill thousands of people and conservation lop the list. Oee their homes, and it con Nor will conuinmeni build have had — on a national Continued federal support for taminated fruit, vegetables, and cause over «!00 billion in average — 19 percent more ings necessarily protect the property damages. the nuclear power industry has meat, milk and water through capacity than r<‘cessary to meet prompted citizens to work at the public during a major accident. In the face of this over out the Soviet Union. Europe peak demand. A full 85 percent stale and Iwal level for the Contrary to indusin.’ claims, the whelming evidence, the indus and parts of Asia. The accident of U. S. nuclear capacity could shutdown of nuclear plants. Chernobyl reactor did have a try maintains that nuclear may ultimately cause over have been closed in 1985 while Voters in Maine and Sacra- containment system. Nearly 40 power is essential to economic 70,000 premature deaths. still maintaining at lea.st a 20 meniij, California will have an percent The following letter is concerning Alpha Phi Alphas effons lo attmn Interview a fratemiiy house. A proposal lo Mercer has been submitted and is CoatiiiiKd from ■ under review by our University. Myself, the Inter Fraternity Council, and the Greek Community gi ve our foil support for this project. Good Lelee: Ten? around eating Dominoes and Susann; Mjr Dad doesn't luck guys. know. Nancy. Well, nine actually had a Birthday cake. Lelee: My Dad doesn’t know did it. Susann: They had a stripper! either. Susann: We knew a couple. Lelee: They said they were Cluster: Did you decide to austcr: What was the theme not going to use that because pose right away or did you have and who decided on it? those guys were ugly! to think shout it? Susann: It was a slumber Susann: They (strippers) party. were sick! They (photograph Susann: Oh yeah. I wanted to Lelee: When Nancy and I ers) tried to get us excited about MERCER UNIVERSiTY - INTERFRATERNITY COUNCIL do it bad! went for the initial interview he these fat. beet red guys! P O. BOX 99 Lelee: It took some thinking. I asked us what we thought about Nancy: There was a pillow MACON. GEORGIA 31207 talked to a few people then I the party. He didn't want to use fight in one scene. figured., ril doit." any drugs or alcohol just cokes Cluster: How much money Susann: 1 wanted to do it as and pizza...girls at a slumber were you paid? lurch 11, ns; soon as I found out they were party...and we said yeah we'd Susann: I think we get $25 here. be glad to do something tike apiece when it comes out. that...He said how would you Lelee: We weren’t sure we Hr. 0«vl« PAlMur Cluster: Where were the Dirrctor pictures taken and when were feel about someone being nude were going to be used until we Stiiflrnt 4cttvlt|*» they taken? in it and 1 said I'd rather not. read it in the Atlanta papers. Herc«r Univ*r«tty Hacon, C,K )1207 Susann: At the Hilton. Cluster: What were you Cluster: How- do you feel Lelee: They took preliminary wearing in the pictures? about the Georgia Baptist D»«r Hr. Pr I* pictures first at the interview... Lelee: 1 htul on a tank top that Convention wanting to expel Afl^r car*fu! r«v(cw of t*i« AIpKo PHI Alph* propoful for « two Polaroid pictures and put said "Mercer University W you? frRi«rnity Hou«« gntf pro|*cc«d coRt4, It Is evident thot them in our envelopes so they Party School” an^l white box Lelee: I’m 22 years old and thrv #r« M«lt on cHtir wny to RrHI«vln« thrir ito«l of • nrerk house. My««lf end the Inter Fraternity Council pledne could pick people. ers. there is no way they can tell me Ihetr full support for the project ROd ere aore then heppy Cluster: When did they take Gusann: I had on the same what to do. That's why I did it. Co Help our Creek brothers In their noel. If weelf or the the actual pictures for the shirt and she INancyl had on Susann: That's exactly why I council can be of any further netlecnnce In thTA a«cter, pleaee do not hesitate to contact ua. magazine? pajamas...nothing really did it! Lelee: The photosession sexy...a couple of girls wore Cluster: What sort of reper wasn't till March sixteenth. sexy things. cussions do you expect from Cluster: Did they provide the Lelee: Yeah...two girls had sororities etc? Sincerely, clothes? on lingerie but the rest of the Nancy; Phi Mu called mo to Lelee: Oh yeah, they had a girls l.ad on pajamas. see what I wore and what bigbag of stuff. Cluster: It sounds like it was happened. Ru«aell nivid Roaen|art, Prcaldent Inter Fraternity Council Cluster: Did you know the tastefully done. Cluster: But they didn't.seem other girls involved and how Lelee, Susann, Nancy: Yeah rwncerned? Or. farrv Jenklna Oean nl Stttdenc tffalra rrrany were there? real tastefully done! Nancy: They haven ’t called Susarta: Twelve? Lelee. We were all sitting me back...I'm sure if it was a Hr. Sanuel a. Mart big thing I would have already , Aaat. Dean of'Student Affair* Mvlaec of Alpha Phi Alph* if - been called in. Cluster; What do you think Mr, touU «lnda, P'tealdent Drug Tests Cradaate Chapter the campus's reaction is going Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity CoolhMcd from page 3 to be? Susann: I think they're going Mr. Robert Skelton our program," Rich replies. "If Levant ate competing on their Vice Pre*(dent*Vor Finance- to buy it (Playboy). he doesn't want to submit to respective teams until their drug tests, he can go to' another cases can be heard. Lelee: I think they're going to be shocked at who the nude is. school." Opponents of Richardson's Susann. Nancy: They "But. if he does (participate!, bill are- confident it- won’t wouldn’t even tell us who the he has to wear our uniforms and become law. One Year After nude was. 1 comply with the drug educa "I’m sure it won’t pass.''^ tion program," Rich says. Cluster: So someone did pose says Weinberg of the Tennes nude? Continued from page 9 Stanford diver Simone Le see ACLU. Susann: There are two nudes. vant has sued to end the While private institutions - clear plants, through ballot they deserve increased support Nancy: That doesn't mean urine-test requirement, calling schools, organizations, etc. — measures this November. In Chernobyl was a disaster of that they're necessarily goingto it "humiliating and degrading" can make up some of their own Aher areas, citizens are fight yet-unknown proportions. But it use them...they took the nudes and equivalent to "unreasona rules, public institutions like ing plants on economic grounds presents an opportunity as well. before they took our scene and at their sute regulatory com ble search and seizure." colleges must comply strictly One year after that tragedy they said it waa confidential. missions and in their state Thanks to preliminary court with the U.S. constitution, she Americans must ask themselves Cluster; Did you get any decisions, both Derdeyn aitd explains. legislatures.' Local and state if they want to continue using reaction from the photographer government officials are urging nuclear power. If they consider to Mercer being named as a top improved emergency evacua the risks involved, and the safe, pruty school? tion plans and in some cases economical alternatives avail Student-Pro Affairs Susan: No one could under pressing the NRC to close able. they'll answer "No.” stand why...I could understand, plants altogether. a couple of years ago but not Conllniicd from page 3 Still, local efforts to end the Joan Claybrxmk is President of. .now. use of nuclear power are and Joseph Kriesberg an appeal, but because of power. that even consensual arrange Cluster: Do you have any hindered by the outdated Ato energy policy analyst with. The question is, 'Are you adult ments may eventually be a regrets? mic Energy Act of 1954. which Public Citizen, a national enough to recognize this, and problem." Lelee. Susan, Nancy: No,... prevents states from regulating consumer and environmental not use it against your Harvard, Penn and Broom nrmeatall. nuclear power plant safety. group founded by Ralph Nader studerKk?" Universities, for example, have Lelee; I was more covered in Nuclear power is too impor But most colleges issue yet to ban romantic relation that than most peopid are at the tant lo be left solely to regu warnings about the pitfalls of ’ Copyright 1987, The National ships between students and swinunmg pool during the day. lators in Washington, D. C. Forum such romimces, and advise teacher^, but they do warn I had a blast...we didn’t show Stale and local governments faculty to avoid them. faculty that such relationships anything. My shirt even hung must be allowed lo set higher Letters should be addressed to "I Oiink schools are better can put them in considerable down a liule bit and he Uped it safety standards than those set the National Forum, 1625 L St . advised to keep their hard professional jeopardy . back for me so it wouldn't show by federal regulators and to N.W.. Washington, D.C. 2(X)36. policies concentrated on more "What if it doesn’t work out anything. veto the construction or opera serious harassment issues," and the student says, 'I was Cluster; Any other comments tion of plants in their states. The National Forum provides Francis says. forced into it?"’ asks Brown or things people would want to Two bills now being considered the nation ’s press with the "Our perspecUve is thst faculty dean John Quinn. "It's know? in Congress, one introduced by views of national experts on anything morythan an admon- ’ very difficult to prove that Nancy: It waa all done in Rep. Ed Markey (D-MA) and timely public issues. It is fund ishment can f!ause problems in wasn't the case. Then what if fun...we were there from eight one by Reps. Joseph Brennan ed as a public service by these cases. These are adults, other students accuse you of to eleven and they ordered pizza (D-MEI and Olympia Snowe AFSCME. the public employers but they need to understand unfairness?" forus. (R-MEI, would do just that and union. APRIL 3, 1987 MERCER CLUSTER PAGE II Sports payout is based on 64 partici pating institutions, a total of 124 units available, and the distri bution of receipts will be as follows: First, one unit of the 32 Surf Report institutions that participate m By Mike Lober first round games. Second, two units to the 16 teams that I hope everyone got some good waves <)uring the participate in the second round. break, since it is so hard to get away surfing Spring Third, three uniu to the eight institutions that participate in quaner. However, if you were going to go to the regional semi-Hnals. Florida's East Coast this weekend you probably will Fourth, four units to the four find some fair waves. But first, let's look at the waves There ere 32 teams assigned must deal through FUGAZX Air institutions that participate in during the past week. On Tuesday there was very little i<> officiate (he first round of the Travel in New Haven. Conn. the regional championships, wave action, mostly due to a howling offshore wind NCAA, three-man crews, and The telephone number is 1-300- and fifth, five units to the four they get paid $450 per game, 243-1800. Also, if you rent a institutions that participate in in excess of 35 mph. However, due to the ap plus travel, and $70 per day per bus. it must be a Greyhound the regional championships, proaching cold front the promise of a swell looked diem. It ends up with nine refs bus. and a rent-a-car must be and fifth, five units to the four good. By Wednesday, the waves were a solid 3-4 feet. g<*ing to Bourbon Street, with institutions that advance to the from National car rental. Use The wind was offshore, creating hollow \^avcs and two crews working the semi any other means, and you will Final Four. finals. and the third crew not be compensated. long lines. The swell should continue for a few days, working the final game on Rack td the court. All teams Mercer Tennis depending on how hard the offshore wind blows. I Monday night in prime time. will ctinsist of 15 players and would think that by this weekend the swell will still Here’s some facts. you’re allowed no phones on the .Merctr (3-1) be rideable.. The official ball used in the bench. Each team is allowed 17 Record tournament is a Bawling RLO, chairs, which allows for seven Drew Schnyikr. Jr 3-1 On the West Coast, California was as hot as ever. Dim Ccni/a. Jr 3 1 and there are 12 imprinted balls staff —coaches, managers, doc Ricon was 3-4 feel with fair form. Santa Clara was at each toutnament site. Each tors. trainers, and so forth—plus Dan BcncrieU. Jr 1-3 Vmcc LeFlcr. Fr 3-1 schofd is allowed only 12 the 10 players who are not on 4-7 with shifty peaks. Zuma was 3-5 feet, with fast the floor. F'arley Ynuman, Sr 31 lines that close out on less .skillful surfers. Malibu cheerleaders or pom-pom girls, Sun Vicioru. Fr 3-J Here's the rules when it and one mascot, on the court at DottMei was the place to be with powerful 3-5 feet-slussy, come* to the media: If you’re any one time. And. inside the Ce/in«-Sc*n> The annual Great Bear Chase Medical School. Student Activities & Road Race, a 5K run through Fees are $6 for pre-registra the Mercer Univer^^ity campus, tion and $7 the day of the race. Engineering School will begin at 8 a.m. on Cost for Mercer students is $5. Saturday. April 25. The race, a Further information may be part of Mercer's Alumni Week obtained from the Mercer Uni DUE; April 10, 1987 end activities, is open to all versity Development OfBce at interested runners. The starting 744-2715. I point is the Mercer University APRIL 3, \f PAGE 12 MERCER CLUSTER Doonesbury BY GARRY TRUDEAU IfY dcocf/^cmo, ^/ MfCMxe mpu wtrih ( U^rOFfWTO ^ H«art Drive f 7XYM$W MMC?mM£ I , OPSf€fl»^f6V75 IFC Secretary xTtiMFriOHOU^THon^cuwn, \ imjLVftaw vt^enandca^c^kfttff Veterans Scholarship Fund Continued from pane 5 undergraduate degree: from local Coora. distributors or • fall into one of the following participating veterans organi categories: zations. by writing Coors Vet -dependent of HSnorably erans ’ Memorial Scholarship Discharged American servkd Fund. P.O. Box 3U1. North personnel: brook. 111.. 60066, or by calling -dependent of Active Duty, toll-free 1-800-49COORS. Com Guard or Reserve military pleted applications and mater personnel (minimum two ials must be postmarked on or yearsi: before July 1. 1987. -dependent of American ser Coors. the nation's fifth- vice personnel Killed in Action, largest brewer, has a long Missing in Action or who have history of commitment to Died in the Line of Duty. America s military veterans and Applications can be obtained their families. Veterans com- . prise approximately one-thiiti of Coors' 9.600-employee work force. The company was named the 1985 Employer of the Year Doonesbury BY GARRY TRUDEAU oa by the Veterans of Foreign I POZ mZA60MZ£0ve/ffTfia^Ciff&A Forms Need To Be Wars. Colorado Employer of the Year by the American Legion Turned In By 1981 through 1985. and the 198;) Monday, April 6 National Large Employer of the tMwm^A Year by the Disabled American To The Office Of Veterans. Coora also received ^ Student an award of recognition froni'' ^2m Y,. Development the Veterans of Foreign Wars in 1985 for the Coors Veterans' Memorial Scholarship Fund p ' r Doonesbury BY GARRY TRUDEAU 'KarateKid It’s time for his moment of truth. ;PGi;=»: i Friday, April 3 at 6:30, 9, 11:30 • CSC - Room 314 • 50< NOTICE Anyone parked illegally in a fire zone, handicapped, or not in a space will be towed on the first offense. Mercer Police APRIL 3, 1«7 MERCER CLUSTER PAGE 13 BLOOM COUNTY by Berke Breathed StudentLoans rv ntfXi nag sftmep ewYfutiY coNvasmM muumsmixiof n€ 10 0€ oarrcf omo Continue froin ptge 1 mvsimy^tmrvrte mmoincTTYO. tirv SHV& Of fMu mjc/m/raonoKjH fiii- this fall." says Barbara McNa walb. camwvfY. itjor seas fr ^ mara. aid director at Mercy "A $7.000-to-$8.000 differ College in Dobbs Ferry. N.Y. ence (in tuition) is not going to The changes may force some be helped by an extra thousand students to leave college. dollars (in fmancial aid)." he "A drop in enrollment has points out. been talked about." reports Sue Roschwalb asserts students ( O'Flaherty, aid director at at independent, private collogt'S b ■i California Polytechnic State "are more vulnerable. ’' lis. , University. "I'm really hopeful Rosser, of the National LldJ ithe new rules) won’t reduce Association of Independent \ our population." Colleges and Universities, BLOOM COUNTY by Berke Breathed The new rules - which went agrees, saying the tests will iAi Hk-r/ into effect in October, but which force private colleges to charge most students will be confront more, since "they don’t get ing for the first lime in March state government help to make and April, when they apply for up for federal cuts." aid for next year - already have driven some students off The worst problem with the campuses. new rules. Rosser says, is that E-5:?yV .M, ’ There "were a few (students) the government now counts last semester who had to assets like homes and farms in withdraw," says Sally Lambert, determining how much aid a aid director at Concord College student needs. in Athens. W.V. '*^me stu But families are rarely m dents, because they need the anxious to sell such assets to money, weren't able to stay in help pay for college, and even BLOOM COUNTY by Berke Breathed school." families with a lot of assets may WHO’5 However the U.S. Dept, of not have high enough incomes mm?r Fducation, which administers to pay for college with borrow- the GSL program, minimizes ing. the impact on students. "We're asking farm families "There will be a negligible to sell their very livelihood," drop in aid available to really Rosser says. The stricter rules needy students." predicts have "hit those students whose spokeswoman Victoria Tripp. families have acquired equity in "What (the changes) will do is a house or farm, but still have a eliminate 'convenience' bor very k>w income." &- rowers who don't really need "They can't get very much the money." for a farm if they try to sell it But others see it differently. anyway." he says. At Mercy College. McNa Farmer ’s son Sean Ickhoff. BLOOM COUNrr by Berke Breathed mara says "we won’t know the who will be a sophomore this siz^' of the problem until fall, fall at Kansas State, says his VCW AHfr} but a lot of people are going to parents ’ income was about THIS' lose out." $27,000 last year. afr So far. about 30 percent of the Ickhoff hopes he’ll qualify for wru. ; MOTClft rdet i Mercy students who'd been GSL money, especially since "it 13.00 — getting aid "are now not doesn’t look like I'll gel a Pell eligible for it." Grant." Students at less expensive Cal Poly 's O'Flaherty nou*s - colleegs. ironically, will suffer that, to compensate, more the most because their eligibili patents are applying for federal ty for GSLs is based, in part, on PLUS loans - Parents ’ Loans their schools' tuition. PHEAA's for Undergraduate Students - John Ebcrsol predicts. and CLASS loans - California Two students from families Loans ' to Assisi Students — BLOOM COUNTY by Berke Breathed with identical characteristics, although both require borrow [VM AC M-? including incomes, can qualify ers to start repaying the loans fiy-' for different amounts of aid 60 days after getting them. 'Vflv ^ nf-’-rV- under the new rules. Rosser adds "we are now A N* ' . • -« "The student attending a talking to members of Con $10.000-a-year school might gress" about changing the qualify for aid. while the needs tests rules. student attending a $1.000-a- And Concord’s Lambert be i -■r"'" year school might be told 'you lieves students "who want to go don’t have a need." Ebersol to school bad enough " are still li ^ . ....Ma says. going to manage it. "There are But it would be unwise for other grants and loans they can mi’-A ^ .V students to enroll in an apply for." (ftipensive school just to qualify "But (the new regulations) for aid. says the Association of have made it a little more BLOOM COUNTY by Berke Breathed difficult for students to get an Stale Universities and Land MfHOSe Grant Colleges’ Gerald Rosch- education." sh^says. ,<4.> t\{ r.. V.- VA- , 1^5 /L ____ Mat' \ THE DEEP CD5f, ry, . ,4 Tuesday, April 7 AT I !V' y a -w'li 6:30, 9:00, 11:30 'lA ;» APRIL 3. 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LEAD THE ADVENTURE. MERCER ARMY ROTC For more information, call Captain Douglas at the Military Science Department, 744-2997 or visit r Monday-Friday, 8 a.m.-5 p.m. APRIL 3, 1987 MERCER CLUSTER PAGE IS THIS WEEK AT s VOLUME 44, NUMBER I APRIL 6-12, 1987 MONDAY, MARCH 2 SATURDAY, APRIL 11 5:30 p.m. - SGA Meeting; Trustees Dining 1:30 p.m. - Mercer Baseball: Kennesaw, Room, CSC. Macon, Ga. 7:30 p.m. - Campus Baptist Young Women will SUNDAY, APRIL 12 meet at home of Mrs. Howard Giddens, 1491 11:00 a.m. - Community Worship Service. Adams Street. M^et at 7:15 p.m. Mercer Post Speaker will be Thomas M. Trimble, Ware Hall. Office for transportation. TUESDAY, APRIL 7 4:00 p.m. - Faculty Meeting, Ware Music Hall. Schedule For The 6:00 p.m. - Mercer Baseball: Georgia Southern (2), Statesboro, Ga. Cultural Arts Fair ’87 6:30, 9:00, 11:30 p.m. - Movie: “The Deep’’ Tuesday, April 7th, “World Of Song ’’ 3:00 (R) Rm. 314 CSC. ' ^ ^ p.m.-5:00 p.m.* Program: Music as a Cultural WEDNESDAY, APRIL 8 Art. 7:30 A.M. — Execu*tive Forum Breakfast and 8:130 p.m.-10:00 p.m.* Social: Multi-Lingual meeting. Speaker: Dr. Richard LeNear, Mingle Associate Professor of finance & Economics Wednesday, April 8th “World Of Visual Arts” and the topic: “Whither Goest The Stock 10:00 a.m.-2:00 p.m. Art Show and Sale* * (Third Market. ’’ Open to Executive Forum members Floor, CSC). only. 3:00 p.m.-4:30 p.m.* Program: Dance as a 1:30 p.m. - Comprehensive Examinations for Cultural Art', Sign Language, Medieval Sword Seniors, Dept. Locations. Fighting. 3:00 p.m. • Mercer Baseball: Ga. Southern , Thursday, April 9th, “World of Drama ” 3:00 Statesboro, Ga. p.m.-4:00 p.m.* Program: Brother, Can I Speak For You?** 8:30 p.m. - College Bible Study Meeting. A Bi 4:30-6:30 p.m. Dinner: Cultural Foods by ble study meeting in Room 314 CSC. Epicure (Cafeteria) THURSDAY, APRIL 9 6:30 p.m.-7:30 p.m. Theatre Workshop (314 10:20 a.m. - University Worship Service, Con CSC) vent, Christian Musical Ensemble of BSU Cor *AII events will be held on the College of Liberal nerstone Outreach Ministry. Sanctuary of Arts Quadrangle (next to Administration Newton Hall. Building) unless otherwise indicated. (FREE). 9:00 p.m. - BSU Meeting. Newton Sanctuary. **This event will be'^pen to the public. FRIDAY, APRIL 10 3:00 p.m. - Mercer Baseball: Ga. College, "This Week At Mercer" comes from the office of University Relations and Development. Milledgeville, Ga. Please send all information to the attention of MERCfR 7, 9,10 p.m. - Movie: “An American Tail ’’ (G) Vallie Miller • Carriage House. The deadlina tor submitting infQrr/iation tor "This Week At UNIVERSUY^r. CV€B SO Room 314 CSC. 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