The Mercer Cluster ‘Part Of The News That’s Fit To Print’ Volume LIV Mercer University, Macon, Georgia January 12, 1973 No. 11 Macon Buses Set To Roll Once More by Wry man Jabnuxi, Jr, After fifteen days as the largest $29,000 for the months of January city in the United States without a and February, with small ad ­ system of public transportation. justments likely resultants of the Macon City Council has agreed to 15 days that the city was and is restore the Macon Bus system on without bus service. a 60 day trial basis This decision The agreement was approved comes in the wake of much unanimously by city council upon ^ E controversy over the financing a recommendation by Mayor and supervision of a public Thompson Thompsonhad vetoed transportation system. Service a council subsidy of the bus by Bibb Transit Company was system two weeks ago. halted at midnight December 31. Further details of the 1972 when the company's fran ­ agreement include city audits of chise agreement with the city the company financial records Bnct kave b*«a la ttate g( napcnara ■■tomalloa thicc Uir nrat «f Ike year expired The company had been and a reduction in fare from 30 to losing money from the bus 20 cents Also, it was revealed operation The termination of the that routes would be changed and Business Office Makes Attempt To contract ended a 24 year experimented with, however, arrangement between the gty exact changes were not noted. and Bibb Transit Company. It was earlier believed that the staio not subsidize The first step toward restoring -organization of the public Settle Eugene Francis Affair Rapidly the transportation system ’• transportation service here taken nn M— .January 6 In last weeks issue of the keylostwas no ordinarykey but because of questions of the Finance for this weeks paper. when the city authorized the Cluster there appeared an rather a master keytoone ofthe legality of such a move. This However, in a meeting with Mr hiring of A H. Mitchell, former anonymous letter in the interest latest development sidesteps this student dormitories which when Robert Skelton. University Bibb Transit Company super ­ ofMr. Eugene Francis, long term question entirely. It is not known lost jeopordized the security of Business Manager it was visor. as supervisor of local employee of the Mercer exactly from which agency or the dorm, the safety of the disclosed that an agreement public transportation. Further. University janitorial staff, who emergency fund this state grant students and their belongings. “fair" to all involved persons is Governor Jimmy Carter sent two was dismissed from his job is coming. Because of the seriousness of at present being worked out. representatives. Burton Lee and shortlybefore the beginning of the matter in relation to the MayorThompson has quoted Floyd Hall to confer with Mayor the Christmas Holidays. The Hall and Lee as Jiisclosing tohim student body. Mercer Physical It is known that talks between Ronnie Thompson about slate apparent reason for the that a direct subsidy of the Plant employees, and certain Mr Haywood and Kenneth subsidies for local public tran ­ systemwould probablybe illegal dismissal was, as pointed out in Mercer administrative personnel Bryant of the Black StudenU sportation Thi only official stale report the letter, the loss of a key. the dismissal of Mr, Francis is Association, the main student Subsequently, announcement has been ' that a transportation However, as was revealed to this being investigatedi further. Due organization involved in the was made Tuesday of a grant of emergency exists in Macon, and reporter in an interview with Mr. to other pressing business controversey. have been held and approximately $25,000 from the in order toalleviate the suffering Robert Neal.Director of Physical matters at hand we were not able that a full statement in regards to state for the trial period Bibb lhai this emergency has created, Plant, and with Mr. Robert to obtain a statement from Mr. the Eugene Francis matter will Transit Company attorney, the governor is providing $25,000 Fountain. Superintendent of WilliamHaywood. Vice President be issued and appear in next Wallace Miller said Tuesday that in order to start the transit Building Services at Mercer the in charge of Business &nd weeks addition of the Cluster. ihr required subsidy would be system." G>ngressv'omaii Chisholm Addresses Macon Audience On Dilemmas Facing Congress by Pal Barron A large number of Mercer old. She says, "all those who had relationships with all people, the students showed up Thursday. been left out. the alienated only thing holding us back is January 4. on Wesleyan's Blacks and students included, being ourselves" campus to hear Ms. Shirley want their share of the American Congresswoman Chisholm Chisholm, New York dream . But we are bound by our comments that racism is alive in Congresswoman. Dr. Strickland, culture, puppets of society who a new form She says, "whites, te. president of Wesleyan College, worship machines " She went on blacks, browns, reds need to save introduced Congresswoman to add that "the media has a America or go down together We ChUherim. She was the first in a great influence over all of us came on different ships but we're scries of speakers (o kick of their They first create products then on the same boat now" She says! Project jil. create our demands for them "we. as Blacks, can ’t take ov^ Shirley Chisholm was through advertisements. We find -^Vmerica We aren't asking for graduated from Brooklyn College it necessary to 'keep up with the special trealmenC just that and Colombia University Joneses ' (Jut* values are thus set judgement be based on talent specializing in Childhood for US- What's good for General rather than skin pigmentation. Education. She became in ­ Motors is considered good for the because when the outer covering terested in politics and is now country " Congresswoman of our skin is removed, we re all considered one of the most in- Chisholm seemed quite disturbed < basically > the same We have fluencial and admired women in that the average American one heart, two lungs, etc" She the United States. She has leader is sixty-six years of age ended by saying, ' the lime has received nine «doctoral degrees Mrs Ousholm says, "the ccime for this coaltion of the from various colleges and Emancipation Proclamation /American dream All of u& men. universities. freed us but business has en ­ brothers. i|iy children." In her speech to the large slaved us all ' She explained that A short question-answer period audience, who accepted her there should not be the creat ion of was held afterwards When asked warmly. Congresswoman business for one life, but that the if she would run for the Chisholm began by saying that nature and beauty of. America presidency in 1976, there is confusion in today s should also be brought out. in ­ Congresswoman Chisholm society, a communication gap, stead of the mere nine to five replied. "I am the product of the especially between the young and shift We need to establish ( ontitturd fr^'Pagr-K Shirley ( hisholm-riiallrnged lislrners in her inimitahir slyle. W:' - PAGE 2 imc MKRoai cumsR JANUAKY a. mi Solzhenitsyn’s Acceptance Speech by Evan Torch What fallows are the words of a genius who has been imprisoned by succeeding generations of Soviet tyrants. Solzhenitsyn has been harrassed, intimidated, beaten, and he is denied all books for research. His books arc never printed in the Soviet Union; he has no income. When awarded the NoW Prize in 1970, he was informed that if he left his home to collect his deserved tribute, he would not be The State ofGa. began Its long awaited "Sow Macon with Salt ”program last week. Governor Carter returning. His acceptance speech has been smuggled out however had warned this would happen If Mayor Thompson didn’t keep all Maccnl^es at Itpisl SO miles from all land even if it was the cate that everyone on this campus had state borders. previously read it. I would still print the speech as a way of saying “We are with you.” In order to mount this platform from which the Nobel lecture is read. I have climbed not three or four makeshift steps but hundreds Letters To The Editor and even thousands of them; unyielding, precipitous, frozen steps, leading out of the darkness and cold where it was my fate to survive, COME NOW. MS. MURPHY In the campaign you ran as a are not going to bring back the while others-perhaps with a greater gift and stronger than I-have Come now, Ms. Murphy, my diehard conservative, boasting of forty-odd thousand men lost in perished. love is as good as yours. I am being a small town lawyer and the ten years of the war. they Of those others. I myself met but a few (at the corrective-labor- different and I love differently; farmer who possessed a special won't even bring back the 20,000 camp headquarters) on Gulag, that archipelago shattered and what is your alarm? Who have I closeness to the average men killed under Nixon, and they fragmented into a multitude of islands. Beneath the millstone of taken from you--only those Georgian and was a friend of the sure as bell won't bring back spying and mistrust. 1 did not talk to them ail ; of some I only heard, willing to go. to take a chance, to great and near great (teorgia those pilots and crewmen lost of others I could <mly guess. Thos^ who fell into that abyss already face themselves as honest, poUUcians, (Carl Vinson, Lester since the president and Dr.