The Mercer Cluster 'Tart Of The Nows That's Fit To Print"

Volume LV Merc«r Unirenitr* Macon. Ftbxuarr 12. 1974 No. U

ENERGY RETREAT STUDIES TWO ENERGY CRISES TONIGHT Nationally recognised experts and plele the supply of natural xesoxirces authorities on the energy crisis and, required for the production and dis­ eoTircaunental questions will partici' tribution of energy. pate in a retreat which Mercer Uni- It is very difficult to provide a time­ Tersity's Alterxude Freshman Pro* table for the ultimate energy crisin. gram is sponsoring today and tamor* All forecasting depends on two sets tew at the FFA*FHA Camp at Cor* of estimates: energy producing nat ­ ural resource reserves estimates (bow Dr. Lawrence Rocks and Dr. Rich­ much oil, gas, coal, uranium, etc., is ard P. Runyon, authors of "Jbe Early there) and growth of demand esti­ Crisis," the textbook which the AFP mates (at what accelerating rates will is using, will attend the retreat and we use the resource up). This can be appear on panels and In discussion illustrated by the oil reserves prob­ groups. lem: generous geological estimates A nationally known writer end suggest that up until now the world Middle East oil specialist, formerly has used up approximately 1/7 of all with Standard OU of California, Chris­ the oil in the earth. If there were no topher Rand of San Frandsoo, Calif., increase in the rate of usage, or some Black Poet Altee Walker wiU be the featured speeker Fefaraarr U at 10:00 will talk on the oU situation in the decrease, this supply might last well a. m. A fosmec BNCC assortate, her latest book U calUd *Ttorolaiimarr Pstenlas.'' Middle East, as will other eacperts over one hundred and fifty years. If. who were mentioned more fully in on the other hand, the world demand last week's "Chistsr." grows at rates that are projected, The AFP has been discnising the (generally ratc^ that would ' keep<' English, Black Studies Present: if? energy crisis diis quarter in Tarious e'x>nomists h::.ppy about the GNP), the ways. Dr. Theodore Nordenhaug of remaining oil could be gone by the Ms. Walker re­ In Love and Trouble searches the amount of energy required to enrich turns to her Middle Georgia environs lives of southern black women, Dr. Mead Discusses the uranium is great compared to the as the featured speaker at 10:00 a.m. energy produced. It might require in the Chapel, sponsored by the Eng­ wrenched by the non-life of those thirty years lead time to begin to show lish St Black Studies Departments. live^ whipped by the violence done Youth In Society real benefits from this process. (At daily to their womanhood and their the moment the AEG uses more elec­ In addition to Rovohitionarr Poftun- One of the world's foremost cul­ tricity producing fuel for nuclear Uui. Alice Walker has published an humanness. In these tales the mun* tural anthropologisU, Dr. Margaret reactors than the reactors now operat­ earlier collection of verse. Once: a done stands transfigured, becoming Mead will speak tomorrow night, ing produce). Also, cooling large novel. The Third Life of Grange Cipe- grotcsf}ue; the outrageously funny '' Wednesday! February 13 at the Grand capacity nuclear reactors is a prob­ laakl; Langston Hughes, a biography leaves one sobbing. The book is lov ­ Opera House here in Macon. The lec­ lem of incredible dimensions. A 25,000 for children, and, most recently. In ing and hurtful, and, as June Jordan ture is sp.,nsored by the Macon Jun­ megawatt reactor would also require Love and Trsubln.--a collection of ior College Artists and Lectures Com­ the entire annual river flow of the short stories about the lives of black writes, describes . . the hour-by- mittee and Is open to the public free United States to cool it. Nuclear fus­ women. Ms. Walker, bom in 1944 the hour agony of not knowing and so not of charge. Entitled "Youth in Socie­ ion is not eV^cn in the experimental ^youngest of eight children of shar'»- loving. It IS the pain of never being ty", the lecture will begin at 8:00 p.m. stages as an alternative, so no one cripping parents, attended Spelman able to say: Here I Am and Therefore Dr^ Mead is known primarily for can even guess whrl ..atural resource College in Atlanla and received a B.A. Love Me: child to py

from WoihlnQteii COINCIDENCES’

In March, 1971, shortly alter the Secretary of Agriculture refused to raise milk price supports. President Hixon met with representatives of dairy coopera ­ tives and the foliowing day they contributed $25,000 to his campaign, promising $2 milliorf ali told. The day after that the Secretary of Agriculture, on direct ■\ White House orders, reversed his prior decision and raised supports without ex­ planation, at a cost of $500 million to consumers. There was no connection be­ tween the two events, says Mr. Nixon.

■ The Justice Department antitrust division rejected the plea of ITT that it be "XeM/... *f*ir M yeu rmnK tf * allowed to keep the Hartford Insurance Company, the biggest merger in history. Pssrgg or sd*tair ssvis By a coincidence the government reversed itself after ^TT on July 21. 1971. prom­ \ Atymit rtAT Mrt 'T linOKK-f' ised to contribute $200,000 to -the Republican conventioit at San Diego. Mr. Nixon knew nothing about it ' NO ACTION AT THE UNIVERSITY? On June 17, 1972 burglars from the Republican bailiwk|k were caught red- BtTDC ESTES handed in the headquarters of the Democratic National Conunittee and admitted , I know that I have promised not to The Mercer U.Y.A. program pro­ they were directed by White House associates. President Nixon knew nothing say anything of irpportance in this vides the student with an income for about this. He referred to it as “this very bizarre incident" at a San Clemente column from now on . . . but I must living expenses, based on individual ^Ik about something that is really press conference, August 29. And he reassured the nation, 30i 1J173, in a tele­ making me wonder. I am wondering need but not to exceed $in.00 a vised sUtement that he was “appalled at this senseless illegal^ attioni" He etas why University Year for Action bas month. If the student is on financial met yitlr such a poor response on this aid he continues to receive that aid “shocked” that employees of the reelection committee “were apparenOy among campus^ I guess it may be because but only to pay his tuition'expense. those guilty." Mr. Nixon had been deceived by. sutwrdinates. nobody wants to do anything that re­ There may bv&Mt Ortohtr. m^dsv about it plete list from Dr. Lou Becker, Jen­ nay piatakaa. BMfn d ^ y^ ef puiiie Ufa I have naew psoStedlioaa puhlie.. nie West or Pat Bacen. service . . . I’m not a crook.* Name any other President who has given such a As I mxWnmnd U, the basic phi- losophy of U.Y.A. is that the student If you are wandering about the AC­ enrolls fat the university as always but TION organisation itadf ... you must have seen the commcteials on tele- Thrsaae thing goas far the tapaa. Why abouldn ’t'a man beset srith asrtul re­ rather than spend time in claascooma reading books and talking about what visko. It is the Peace Corps, Vista, sponsibilities surreptitiously Ups the conversatioos of trienda, or bthersT No won­ can be dom, they are out in the com­ and oUier organizatioos combined. It der be did it. when you think bow they deceived him on Watergate. The President munity doing something. It is some­ is a federally funded' program. Unl- promised, July 23, that the tapes would be kept “under my sole personal control'’ what similar to an Independent Study vereity Year tor Action is funded en- Now the experts say that the crucial IS-minute Nixon-Haldeman conversation on arrangement. The student works out tirdy by the Federal Government for June 20, 1972, right after Watergate was deUberately erased. A crime has been his requirements tor a^ course with the first year. TTie second year Mercer would 'oe required to pay one third of committed. Only a few people at the White House had access to them. Rose Mary the instructor and communicates with that instructor periodically during the the expenses for the program and the Woods, an assistant, and —good gracious—Mr. Nixon himself! A team of FBI men quarter. The student may involve him­ third year would be responsible for is at the White House now interrogating the lesser staH and checking up on a self with any of a variety of commun­ two thirds of the funds. After that criminal act. Conservative columnists are having a rugged time of it some have ity service organizations and he works Mercer Would take over the funding thrown in the sponge. They are men of Uttle faith! After deliberatioit we sub­ out what he wUl do with those in completely. This can only happen if scribe to the Alexander Haig theory of “sinister force." A telegram came in the charge of the organization. There are, ^ Mercer sees that the program is worth­ of course, goals that are outlined by while and that student response is other day from a constituent of Rep. Orinan (D. Maas) a Jesuit priest "If you the U.Y.A. program itself and the large enough to merit the support of can ’t impeach him.” it uided. “exorcize him.” This kind of thing wiU be going on, main emphasis is on 'working with the univeraity. we expect, till May. poverty incom.t people. Continued on peg# 7 rCBBH THHEE

IN THE PUBUG INTEREST LITERACY BY LEGISLATION A sad chapter was added to Mercer's The history of the problem is too history on Tuesday, February 5th, lengthy to be examined in this week's when the liberal arts faculty voted Clusler but it shmUd be noted that the overwhelmingly to increase the re< English Department) after wiiat wc un­ Instead, the Currioilum Committee, the energy problem, one stands^ out as a constructive and lasting solution to the ucation, 2) a tunnel vision view of the with English Department Chairman monopolistic grip that the giant oil companies have on the nation, small business^ facts, since it happeneds to be the case Hammonds admitted approval, chang­ and consumers. S. 2506 and H. R 11648 are bills filed by Senator Adlai Stevenson that there is widespread disagreement ed the English Department ’s proposal and Cong. John Moss to establish a federal oil and gas corporation whose purp<»e8 among professionals as to what con* so that all students will be required to are so sensible and necessary that support in the Ck>ngress is building up behind stitutes “adequate" writing skills and have ten hours of English and all them. how they can best be learned, 3) a dis­ Freshman advisors will be placed in Harking back to the example of the Tennessee Valley Authority which used tressingly casual attitude on the part the ludicrous position of having to rec­ public water resources to produce cheap, public power that saved a large region of the faculty, as they seemed alxnost ommend, on the basU of the infam ­ in America from economic disaster, the Stevenson-Moss legislatioa,would operate unanimously unwilling to take the ously nonpredictive SAT scores, which to save consumers and the economy from a trillion dollar price gouge over the time necessary to confront this com­ of the three new courses their advisees next generation. plex issue. should take first Lord, have mercy. The preamble to the bills makes clear their underlying rationale: “the people of the United States through the federal government own LETTERS TO THE EDITOR substantial lands which could be developed for the production of natural gas and oil; “American consumers would benefit if the forces of competition op­ BASKETBALL: TWO PERSPECTIVES erated to a greater extent than at present in the world oil and gas market; Dear Editor, start of the game all the lights in the “a corporation owned by the federal government, engaged in the de­ velopment and sale of natural gas and oil (evclusively on federal lands), The Mercer Cfasiar is, on the whole, gymnasium were turned off except for one qx)tUght The spotlight was aimed could provide competition in the energy industry snd, through research a mudi better paper than It was when and development, assure adequate supplies of these fuels without harm I was a froth, but one section is real­ on midcourt. Then, oxw by one the starting five for Chattanooga were in­ to the environment" ' ly hurting. The sports sectioa of the The proposed compa^ would have rights of exploration and production to paper is nothing more than an advtt- troduced. Upon entering the spotlight all five and the remainder of the team half of the amount of ouSsnd gas offered for lease by federal land authorities. for the ‘ beslcetball This limitation in the Stevenson bill is consistent with the purpose of stimulating team. This is not to say that the Bears were given a standing ovation from their «M0 cheering fans, (500 over ca- competitton and stopping monopolies on either side. The added requirement that don’t deserve the CtasSst's support, but the company shall give price, supply or delivery preferences to sUtes, political enou^ is enough. Not onlyis the re­ pacity). Another such example was an ar ­ subdivisions of states, cooperatives and independent refiners highli^ts the dis- porting overwhelming in its quantity, criminatioo dire Mercer's "chance of mak ­ tinuous roar. The support of the local presence of such a possibility would restrain the majors from trying such tactics. ing it to a post season tournament" media that transmitt^ the importance If consumers, who must payabout $24 billion more for energythis year, arc of backing their team against an out­ That ’s good and fine, but we’ve got a slated to be gouged by anothip* energy scare, the federal company would be there, girls’ team that has been to the Na ­ standing opponent and especially the to head it off. tional Championship tourney,and that support of the student body. Further­ more, this attendance figure is not a If the national security is imperiled by mullinati jnal oil companies who have will probablygo again this year.Only roreity with the Moccasins, but a usual conflicts of interest overseas, the federal oil «is company could protect the recently have they begun to get the interests of Americans here at home. attention they deserve. I feel the turnout (Community support, media support If workers arc about to be laid off due to the results of oil majors ’ manipula ­ school newspaper should support all and student body support—all of these phases of the school; especially all tions adversely affecting other business or government employers, the federal are necessary in the production of a company would assure that this would not happen. phases of school athletics. Let’s move national contender. Apparently the to other “minor" sports. Fact, there working combination of these three The Slevenson-Moss bills recognize that producing some of the massive were mote articles concerning boy’s amounts of oil and gas presently on federal lands require strict environmental basketball in the last issue of the factors has not yet been found. If it had, it is likely that the safeguards. Unlike the TVA law. enacted in the Thirties when environment was Cluster than there were all last quar ­ not considered an issue, these bills repeatedly emphasize the need to develop ter for the soccer team. The baseball would, have received the recognition that they deserve, but are now lack ­ improved erivircnmenlal techniques. Thoyvalso require that the company collect team has begun unofficial (or maybe comprehensive and accurate information about oil and gas so that the federal official) practice; 1 haven't read a ing. Allen Hoffacker government not remain at the mercy of the oil industry’s assessments as has been word. And what about wrestling? Is the case. An explicit freedom of information provision is included. there a wrestling team this year? Dear Editor, Citizens have an important stake in studying these bills, suggesting improve- How's our track team? Who knows? I I am not one to make social com­ know you won’t find out in the sports nrfents and supperting Senator Stevenson. Cong. Moss and the other co-sponsoring ments, but something, someone, actu ­ legislators —Seators Kennedy, Hart, McIntyre, Metcalf, McGovern, Mondalo, Moss pages of the Cluster. ally this whole generation, bothers me. Finally, concerning honest reportii>g. and Abourezk along with Reps. Dingell and Leggett. Write any of them for more -All my life I’ve always heard that details and a copy of S.2506. it seems that the officials always de­ the young are kmbitious, that they feat those Bears, but remember how Iwve dr«l«^. Well, where are they?!' the officials helped us against VCU and I’m young, I don’t feel any real com­ Manhattan. The officials didn’t blow pulsions. I have not known anyone big leads for us at U. S. F. or La. Tech. who has had a dream of h i own. 71)15 Don’t ask Walt Boston who did, the generation is not dreaming—instead it THE MERCER CLUSTER Cluster sports writers don’t have the is looking—for what, I don't know, be­ gumption to talk about any of our Editor in Chief Janice Suffolk Todd cause dreams are what life’s all about Managing Editor Elisabeth Holloway “sacred cows." How ’bout it, Mr. Alex­ Last comment—Everyone seems so ander, Mr. Boston, ButioMS and Advertising Manager Brena Nixon content—yes, they act like they get Sports Editor Robert Alexander Sincerely, angry over some issue or something, Brian Carney Editorialist Tim Estes but it’s never for long. I don’t think Photographer Ash WiUiamt apathetic is the name for this genera­ Contributing Editors Phyllis and Philboyd Sludge Dear Editor, tion—it’s something far worse. That I Just recently there appeared an ar ­ only feel and cannot explain. If, Writing Staff. Martha Ham. Joe Davis. Perrys Woodard. Allan Fred­ ticle in the Macon Telegraph that ex­ through my ignorance, I’ve overlooked rickson. Waller Boston. Steve Causey. Charles Farrington. David Price. pressed the feelings of the students that every generation is "apathetic," Brian Carney. (for lack of a better word), then I apo ­ and townspeople of Chattanooga, Ten­ Published weekly by the students of . Address all cor­ nessee. The article told of the amount logise for my opinion ... if I am cor­ rect. then 1 feel we ate in for bad respondence to the Editor, the Cluster, Box 110, Mercer University. of recognition and support the Moc­ Telephone 743-1515 or ext 221. AU letters sublect to editorial privUegea. casins of Chattanooga received from times—for a long time. their loyal fans. For instance at the Judd Aronwitz ^______...... i'V VAOE FOOa THE MERCER CLUnER rEBROAHY U. 1874 KOTTKE:

I THE PERFECT CONCERT

By BOOra COHDCB From an artistic point of view there The underworld can exist happy, was probably nothing one could have however, with Kottke's contemporary found lacking in Leo Kottke*s incredi­ music. The true genius of a truly tmi- ble performance before the Mercer que guitarist will not go unappreciat ­ audience. It became apparent as the ed. There was an avant-garde to the music continued to flow into the night music of Leo Kottke which not only that th4 amazing artist had let his stimulated the senses b\it also ex­ thought become his music, that he had panded the concepts of musical perfec­ found the key to progressive guitar in tion. He lent to us, for an evening, his , his own ability. Time and again his profound analysis of the interaction 'smprising. almo^ mystifying, talent between artist and medium. One can took hold of his listeners and bade certainly not pass off the performance ^em, “Free yourselves.’* He grew as “I don’t like.’’ There was a great with the awesome power of a thun­ deal more that lived during Leo derstorm. to push and pull together Kottke's concert, above anyone’s dis­ and apart the musical attitudes of the likes, tlut repeated over and over more perceptive of the audience. again, “This man is a genius.’’ At last one could be entertained by The show\was, from the right point someone with a musical intuition of view (in simpler words, if you dis­ greatly exceeding the creativity that agree. you're WRONG! take that, Es­ GuitarisZ Leo Kottke exhiliraled Mercer's finsr music 1,—^ nb 'mas- steams from a fried chicken. One meralda.), the best ever experienced tarful peifonnance lest weekend. would hope that at least the Mercer audience would have been so tired by the Mercer audience. It was a com­ of Deep South Slop’n’RoU to allow it- bination of superb talent, brilliant self to enjoy the magnitude of last creation, and excellent performance. WARSAW PHILHARMONIC PERFORMS weeks performance. But no. In the It was a relief to be able to sit back belated age of Aquarius and tie-dye, in an atmosphere greatly reminiscent SATURDAY AT GRAND OPERA HOUSE Capricorn shall (as always) reign su­ of a quiet nightclub, and enjoy a beau ­ preme. But in a world of cartoon char ­ tiful concert, without having the ter­ The Warsaw Philharmonic Orches­ time the Philharmonic has enjoyed acters, one cannot be worried with tra of Poland wiU appear in the Grand unceazing successes all over the world, rible tl^ought. ‘'Look what we’ve be­ Opera House Saturiay, February 16 taste anyway. come’’. Thank you. with concerts in Europe, America, « S ^j.'m.. jointly sponsored by Mer­ Asia, Africa and Australia. ger University and the Macon Arts The 115-member National Philhar ­ OcuncO. monic is, however, not only a sym­ 'Foiled in 1900, the Philharmonic's phonic orchestra. It la a great musical first concert featured Paderewski add institution, whose framework includes HOMECOMING’S FOR YOU soon was host to nearly all the great­ a mixed choir of 100 singers, led today est conductors and soloists from all by Jozer Bok and its "Estrada" De­ '■/ By CLAUDE SMITK. JB. over the world. In the decades since, partment includes soloists and cham­ surviving wars and invasion, it has ber ensembles. The director is Eu- A* the title indicetei. Homecoming both are b. be worn, let's chetlk our held its posiUon as one of the great geniusz Libera, and his deputy is it tor the student Sure we like cloaeta and come out with at least one ondiestras of Europe. Marian Golebiowski. .and encourage all the Alumni to par- o( these colon on. It'll,be great fun The orchestra was reorgaoized in Tickets for the performance, at $4 and 85. are on.sale at the Grand Ucipaje, but the few that will, come especially with staaka for the spirit 1990 under Artiztic Director and Con­ Opera House, and in the SGA office for ductor, Witold Rowicki, and since that only cm the weekend—but they miss all supper on Monday night. And for the Mercer students. file week's activities. .Too many people caravan to the game Saturday, don't (Continued from page 1) troleum expressed in our reliance on sometimes say"Blah!" to Homecom­ forget the streameesl (orange and the private automobile sfnd expensive ing. yet they would never turn down black, preferably.) Remember the dis­ ENERGY CRISIS freight hauling which generates a chance to go to another school’s plays, too. Even if you didn’t make wasteful derfi^; (2) the vast mo­ Homecoming. What they do not real ­ These consi4erations are relative to nopolistic power of the multinational one, be sure'to walk arqu^ and see energy production alone. If we add ise, though, is that it’i the students what innovative ideas camcome from oil companies, who control production the environmental damage which can and distribution, and obey the time- that make Homecoming a succesa by "Keep on Truckin!” There'should be be anticipated from vast increases in honored laws of greed (now called participating in what events they can. energyusage and growth in produc­ some rMtl high-sUppin! Then Friday mature capitalism); (3) the accidents and by suppohing the evente in which night will be swingin’ when the Ohio tion, the apocalyptic moment may of geological distribution of petroleum come in the form of pollution long be­ they are not involved. Not everyone Players come to town. And immediate ­ resources; (4) basic shifting in geo­ fore we must run out cf energy. can be in the wagon parade, but ly foUqwiag the concert the sam^ political and geo-economic arrange­ Thus the only solution to the ulti­ ments. 1 everyone can Iwlp our organization* night wUJ^ be tiie brightest, hottest bi^ it. Not everyone can be nomi­ mate energy crisis would appear to event (besides the game) <4 the week be a reorganhation 'of the modem Ill, The important thing is to exam ­ :j. nated (or Toby and Tot, but everyone —the Bonfire! There’ll be plenty of way of life so that less energy is used. ine the relation between the current can VD^^On colors day (Monday and fire (or everyone, to before you take Every aspect of the environmental crisis and the ultimate crisis. Three relations are obviously discernible. Friday) when orange and black or that date off for the night, get her (or crisis, when analyzed, seems to force First, the current crisis may initiate him) wanned up at the Bonfire first. us back on the need for reorganizing i. the socio-economic base. change in the social organization (Singles come too—you never**lcnow which might forestall the ultimate n. The current energycrisis is, I what you'll Cnd!) But be sure to come energy crisis. think, entirely the product of into TATNALL BCX5KSTORE dowiv right after the concert. There nal contradictions 'rithln the world Second, the implementation of pro­ 1206 CalUge Street will be a band there to get things socio-economic structure, an d not the posed solutions to the current crisis (2 blocks (xom Mercer campus) roilin’! Speaking of bands, a real kiU- result of our having reached the apo ­ may have the effect of hastening the er. Shotgun, is playing(or yourdanc ­ Open Mon-Fri. 12;20-5:M calyptic point in our relation with the ultimate energy crisis (as well as in­ ^ 12-2 ing pleasure gfur the game Saturday ecospbere as the ultimate energy cri­ CUwic.1 FkUui. petiMopl,r sis will be. We stUl have plenty of aU creasing. destructive effects on the »<.rni SMu, Ouuni Uuntun night. Also, with all the excitement kinds of fuels, if we would organize ecosphere). Osar LQOO titles aaoetly in paperback going all week long, don't forget about Fait Ordariaa Sereica our use of them properly. We can ana ­ Third, there may be no long range the basketball game Saturday night lyse the current oU crisis as the re­ effects from the current crisis on the at 7:30. Bring yourmouth, too. sult of (1) highly wasteful uses of pe- ultimate crisis. FEBBDABT U. U74 THE HERCEB CLOBTEB PAaS FITE

GOTCHA! CORPS OF ENGINEERS LAW BHIEFS lAft month* 'Tlald and Straam** pub* outdoorsmen who cherish such a place. lisbad an artlcla oppotiag iha eonairuc- In their secret report, GAO’s sleuths tion of iba dam on tha FUnl RiTar. complained that there are “significant, NOTES FROM THE UW SCHOOL Wriitan br Richard Stamat. tha arti- unresolved issues concerning the en­ da is lha bast wa baTa arar.^aan on vironmental impact of the project and Iba Bubfact and tb» "Clustar** has baan . . . questions regarding tlie adequacy By W. BEN MITCHAM, JR. fortunate anou^h to zaealTa raprinl par* of the supporting documentation for, mission from Iba pn^Usbars. Wa axa and the reasonableness of. estimated ment Well, it seems that in the last graiaful for Ibis pannisaion* and U benefits claimed for the project’s pur­ The final form of the remarks writ­ analysis the key phrase “because I say comas at a cmdal tima as onoa again poses,” but added: ten in this space last week suggests so" carries more weight than the in­ attempts ara baing mads by soma state “Some of the known effects of the that I should offer some explanation tramural schedule—which surprising­ officials to gain support for tha dam project will be the loss of a unique in the nature of errata (Walter Mat- ly enough had been sufficient to sup­ at 8prawaH BluU tews assures me that those are correc­ river fishery. 23,000 acres of bottom­ port the contests played on the pre­ land hardwoods supporting a valuable tions of typographical errors). The To begin with. I am not able to tell vious Wednesday night The last time where 1 laid handt on a certain secret wildlifee habitat, and one of the few first and final draft of the cliches, those words were so potent was when report relating to the manifest wick­ free-flowing rivers in Georgia that platitudes, and generalizations which edness of the Army Corps of Engi­ provides natural recreation opportuni­ appear in “Legal Briefs" each week is I was five years old and had to go to neers. It will have to suffice to say ties. In addition, concern has been ex­ presented to the Editors at the last bed at ten o’clock. that it came into mypossession through pressed that the project represents a possible moment before the deadline The disturbing thing about this ex­ the good offices of a person or persons potential threat to the existence of in my own distinctive if not totally in­ who are unwilling to stand idly by several fish and wildlife species, would decipherable hand. The poor typist perience is not the fact that the games must follow arrows, lines, “angles and and watch the rapadous dam-builders tend to contribute to water - quality must be rescheduled but that maybe rhymcs(7>,”and realize that everyword of the Corps destroyanother in our problems, and would cause the loss of some of the administration of the pro­ on a line may appear scratched out country's dwindling number of free known archeological sites . . . plans onlyto leave me one surviving at the gram really do think we’re five-year- flowing rivers. have not been developed for the miti­ edge of the page. I have no complaints olds who will run along to the sand ­ The stream in question is the Flint gation of wildlife habitat loss although with such errors; the task is Spartan River, which rises in northwest Geor­ the Fish and Wildlife Coordination Act box until SOMEONE says we can play at best Suffice it to say then that: 1) gia and runs nearlythe length of th; provides that such plans be prepared. ” in the gym. It should seem inconsistent I do not think that “orioised" means state before it joins the Chattahoochee The GAO report notes that the proj­ to have a student committee which is the same tiding as “proposed”; 2) I will near the Florida border. It is byall ect will flood 104 miles of the river never read further than section 1 in required to draw up a schedule of accounts a lovely stream, providing and tributary stream habitat for sport Ck>me On Continuums; I do know games and a couple (who knows how fishing waters and nurturing wildlife fish, plus another 35 miles during peri­ odic flood storage. how to spell inefficaciesNand 4) I do habitat unrivaled in the East It is many) of "advisors" who can alter, not know how to spfU the word “com­ primitive and beautiful, unspoiled and •Bureau of Sports Fisheries and Wild­ suspend, or cancel it on their own pliment” or is it "compliment?” Any­ unique, and, as all of us have learned life experts claim that ‘The loss of the ad hoc decision at the same time. It is way, one of you suggested that my of­ to our sorrow, such a combination is unique Flint River fishery cannot be ferings were in danger of being compre­ this type of incident, along with ac ­ one that the predatory bureaucrats of valued monitarily and that the river hensible. I shall avoid that at all costs. tions as the suspending of apeed, vot- the Corps of Engineers can ’t endure. is a different and higher quality type ed-upon, and approved rules of intra-^ Operating with their usual peasant of recreation than reservoir fishing.” cunning involving distortion, outright This says that in its wisdom the mural football in the middle of a gi>ine. lies, and their own dismal brand of Corps of Engineers plans to substitute The following might be entitled: which makes one wonder why there “Dribbling" or the “Ix)g Cabin U. LOG­ pork-barrel politics, the Corps ten yean reservoir fishing for invaluable fishing are any rules at alL ago won the authorisation of Congress found in free-flowing rivers. Theie’s HEAD — Frustrated Foulshot — Locked out LayupBlue8 ’’(*). to build a dam across the Flint River more: Impoundment of the Flint River One really would laugh at such i pa- at Spewrell Bluff could verywell bring at Sprewell Bluff. It hoodwinked the We may, as ferry the Wood sug­ tenu^Ustic attitude if it weren't so de­ extinction to a rare species of bass. Congress with its usual mendacious gests, never “run out" of Law basket ­ grading to slixdents and the purposes litany of flood control, supposed recre- ‘The loss of a free-flowing stream ball teams. It was in agreement to of higher education itsell How can you atkm beitefits, electric power genera­ at Spewrell Bluff will have a signifi­ tion, and grossly imderstated cost esti­ cant, detrimental effect on the Flint that fact of life that X pul|fd on my reconcile the search for some order mates. River bass, a unique species of game- togs one recent Wednesday evening to in things through the educational pro­ But for once the Corps reckoned fish found only in the project's geo­ go over and run around half-clothei cess with an absence of respect for or­ without taking into consideration the graphical area. The Flint River bass for the glory of "LAW No. 2." As I der among those who “manage" such outrage *of Georgia outdoorsmen and inhabit rapids and shoals and spawn began to make my way in from my a process. Perhaps the solution is Park- conaexvationists —and the two power­ in moving water. None have ever been apartment on Log Cabin Drive, it in.*on ’s First Law: What can go wrong ful allies these interests quickly en­ found in a reservoir. Because of im­ listed. These two are Senator Herman poundments elsewhere in the area, the seemed that intramurals here might will go wrong. More likely it involves E. Talmadge and Governor Jimmy prime Flint River bass habitat is the be close to what they should be—lhs a less rigid HUMAN element involving Carter, both of them anient outdoors- Spewrell Bluff region of the Flint Riv ­ opportunity for any student to engage the use of POWER. Harry Truman once men and both of them sophisticated er. Construction of the project would in athletic competition. After all, any analyzed the abuse of power in the.;o politicians who understand the black reduce the total Flint River boss habi- five students could form a team and terms—When a man can accept power arte practiced by the Corps. Readers tat by about 30 percent and the prime of these dispatches well know that habitat by about 60 percent, according play basketball. A full schedule had ^with the knowledge that it is only tem- few politicianis are celebrated here, but to BSFW.” been published and every one knew ^rary he can function effectively, but in this case the record should show It is difficult to overstate the Corps when they would play — or thought when he begins to believe that HE is that if the Flint River survives to pro­ of Engineers’ wanton disregard for en­ they knew, it appears. the CAUSE of that power, he will even ­ vide pleasure to succeeding genera­ vironmental values. The lake it pro­ tually faU. Selah. tions pf outdoor people, Messrs. Tal ­ poses (very likely useless for any gen­ No games were pia>ed that Wednes­ madge and Carter will deserve a ma ­ uine flood control, as we shall see, and day however. One of our PE officiaU (•With due reference to Michael jor share of the credit grossly uneconomic as a producer of had decided that intramurals were can ­ Crichton’s “Dealing" or “Boston to Ber­ Understanding, as be does, that Corps hydroelectric power) would flood “an celled for that evening. Reason? Well, keley Forty Brick Lost Bag Blues"). of Engineers’ figures, are no more to unusual,, virtually unstudied area where let’s sec . . . it's Wonderful Wednesday be trusted than those seen at an over- the plan'ts and animals of the Georgia and you can ’t have intramurals on 35^ singles dance, Senator Talmadge piedmont merge with those of the DICTIONARIES .asked the General Accounting Office coastal plain, ” the GAO report notes. WW. That was fine, except that a se­ WEBSTER It goes on to state that: to review “certain environmental and ries of girls’ volleyball games raged Library size 1973 edition, economic issues’’ associated with the Coniinued on Pago 8 on in the other gym at that very mo­ brand new, still in box planned construction. To the surprise Cost New $45.00 of no one whq understands the Corps’ Coniiaued from last week "Well, seeing that it’s that time of self-serving way figures, GAO Will SoU for $15 year I guess it’s all right.” “Gee. gosh, Deduce 10% on orders of 6 found a great deal of misinformation . . . and it’s all going to end up un­ wow,” exclaimed Millard as he ran or more in the Army dam-builders' data sup­ der the bridge if you don’t hurry down." through the screen door out into the Make Checks Payable io porting the Flint River project. artificial Japanese garden. The garden "I’m coming” whimpered Millard m. DICTIONARY LIQUIDATION Before 1 get into it, I will cheerfully won byhis mother in a local contest, he ran out if hLs room and whipped admit violating GAO's injunction that was another place Millard liked to go. and mail to down the stairs. Rounding the corner its report is for official use only and He could sit under the wire frame "DICTIONARY" “recipients of this draft must not show of the hall and bursting into the kitch­ P. O. Box 947 remnants of what were at one time or release its contents for purposes en he calmly asked his mother, “Am I Mercer Unir. other than official review and com­ loo late?” “No. son, but your father beautiful hand painted replicas of Jap­ Macon, Ga. 31207 ment under any circumstances. ’’ I do will be home soon and you know we anese lanterns and think of his dear C.O.O. orders enclose 1.00 lood will deposit. Pay balance plus C.O.O. shipping hate to discommode the GAO, but 1 never start without him.” sweet Connie. Boy how he wished he on delivery. Be salUfted on IntpecUon or “O. K.. Mom is okay if' I go out­ return within to d^a for full refund. Mo am convinced that the taxpayers have could just have the chance to . . . dealers, each volume ■pecUlcally stamp ­ side and wait for Pops by the plastic ed not for resalec a pretty big stake in such matters, to PlaMa add «1^ postago and h««wiu«g. say nothing of its importance to ^ birdbath?” To be coittimied »AOS sac TRE MERCER CLtWTER FERROART U ISTi

m£rita favors ends SEASON, COLLEGE CAREER Br DAVID PRICE MaiU Favors, career as a Teddy performance which helped her win the Bear is rapidly drawing to a close. **mo8t improved award for tournament Merita is the (Mily senior on the team, play" last year. As a junior Merita and the only member to have played scored 20 points and got 19 rebounds in all four years under Coach Collins. a region game against F. S. finished A brief run doWn of the highlights the year fifth in the S. W. A C. in re­ of her career thus far shows that in bounds with 154 or an average of 7.2 addition to being the only player to per game, received the coach ’s award, have played in every game the past and was chosen as one of the “out­ three years, Merita scored her career standing college athletes of America." high during the 1970*1971 year when as a freshman she hit for 24 points The Teddy Bean are now preparing against Wesleyan. In her sophomore for the post season playoffs to begin, year, she scored her seasonal high with and with a little lack and a of de­ 17 points again^ Georgia Baptist; but best game was against korth Geor­ sire, MeriU Favors and the rest of the gia in the S. W. A C. tournament wb<;n team will add the’ national champion ­ she had 19 points and 19 rebotmds, a ships to their list of honors. ,11 INTRAMURAL NEWS A FEW SIDELIGHTS . /i Br PERHT WOODARD roata Asa VWUltMRS Teddy Bean- tW kCaiita Favoea la the only Beoioe on Um Mam. Bb» hoa baaa Hello QMtti fuu. the pleasure Is in­ . . . Anyone who actually believes a a kay Hgiira 5ac flm giila taam afaioa bar ftathaaaa yaar. Bha Is a vslnahis aaaat to deed ell youn as roar favorite column­ mature College Senior, 25 years thataam. ' ist takes to the keys one more time to old would actually alt down and Brine you all the latest in the intra- write a eftliim.. I thinlr that 1 -enural-news and a frwaideUcfati, if you lhall never tee.‘ BEAR REPORT will, into the ffvt hard of ftMWdathiny In ♦he» v anj ty Br BOB AUEZABDCR V the -sports programs at Mercer and to th«« reporter thf i atoand the world. ' As you know the Biggest game of - juries. g*"*» is the | other^

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TEDDY BEARS CONTINUE YEAR LONG WIN STREAK By DAVID PRICE The Teddy Bears of Mercer Univer­ with most of them coming in the first sity, added three' more victories this half. It was Sybil Blalock who had week, to improve their record to 14-0. to be the games most valuable player The wins, which came over the Uni­ however as she scored 16 points and versity of Georgia, Middle Georgia once again proved hgrself an All- and Ge

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C-reBeef CWheeSM WHERE’S THE ACl'lON? THE S^NDWICH CEUiR There is no way which I can ade­ faculty and administration has al ­ Hm quately ocpresa the urgency of U.Y.A. ready been proven in the past with 2383 Ingleside Ave. being a succeea at Mercer. I believe such things as A.F.P., the Sophomore PatVaii that it is important to the futtire of Seminars. Individualized Majors, doing s>w In In9leside Village the student b<^y..^nd the imiveraity it­ away with the punitive “F” grade, self. It is alreadiy beginning to seem as and so on. The response to these and SAMDW1CHE5 if Mercer cannot support federal pro­ other things by the students has been M^CWia grams (for example: the Medical overwhelmingly favourable. Why s*rv«J on Tresh bakery bresd School) and if U.Y.A. was to fall should U.YA. be any different? It is through it would be foolish for the unbecoming to beg for support but 1 Federal Government to entrust any can only say that U.Y.A. has to have * DRAUGHT BEER similar program to Mercer ever it . . . and it has to come soon. There Upen Mon.-bat. |Iam -I|pm again. On the contrary if U.Y.A. isn’t a great deal of time left. If you proved to be a success then there is are really interested you can talk to t DE55ERT5DESSERTS no end to the kind of things that Mer­ me and I can send you to someone cer would become involved in . . . who can help you. If you don’t know V DELI ME^ with the support of the government. Jennie West or Pat Bacon or Lou T£lffHOf1E-7H3-S387 DELI MEATS Mercer is a private school and it must Becker . . . then ask who they are . . . prove itself able to deal with Var- somebody can tell you. As the com­ /heeses reaching programs such as mercial on television says: ACTION The innovativeness of-the Mercer REALLY NEEDS YOU! ! ! THE MERCER CLUffTER FEBRUARY 1& 1974 PAGE EIGHT

Continued irom Pag* 5 Carter glumly observed that there was “no way to win politically" in the TUBBY and TWOT controversy, for as he well knows the Gotcha Corps never forgives, never forgeU, Homecoming (whether anyone wanted it or not) has done come again! and never stops trying. History shows And, to help bring the tension to a lever pitch, the Chistw wishes to intro- *TTie Georgia Department of Natural there is no project too outlandish, too Resources considers this mixture as expensive, or too damaging to the eco­ duce yet another populBsUy (excuse me. I meant voting on qualiUca ... no, unprecedented. The Speurrell Bluff logy for the Corps to abandon once it voting on who deserved . . . well anyway, its one of those contest things that project would inundate the peculiar has it fixed in iW»sights. p«r!e have to vote on. so that someb-dy gets the prize) swMpstakM which is and rare plant life in the area, which guaranteed to help the Mighty Bears win that Big Game. (Only I’ve gotten so the Department considers a biological The money arithmetic of the Spew­ cought up in voting for the various contests that I forget who it is we’re play­ phenomenon.” rell Bluff dam is instructive, aS it so often is with Corps projects. In 1963, ing.) ’The Cluster is proud to present its nominees for the First Annual (by the Among other uncaring vandalism in­ when Congress first authorized it, the way. you might be wondering about this contest You mi^t be saying, “Is this volved in the project would be the de­ price tag was fixed at 63.2 million, on the level? Do we really get to vote for this? Yes! Yes! You can gleefuUy struction of the Georgia lamp pearly which, as all students of Corps folk­ musserdound only on the upper Flint ways knew, wa:? a sick joke. The Corps stuff, cram, shove or ram your own b^ot in to the school mail. You can feel River), and placing in further jeopardy admits (or adn\itted last March) that you.- heart stir as your mind tricks you and whispers something about “De- the red-cockaded woodpecker and the the figure is now $133 million, an in­ ■ mocracy in AeUon.’’ You can even write down the name of the person you '...^erican alligator, both species al ­ crease of 110 percent What the ulti­ think nMly deserves this award in case we overlooked your favorite —the per­ ready on the official endangered-spccies mate cost would run is known only to son ydp always felt should receive a wMly siwctel award.) ’TIIBBY and ’TWOT list some celestial computer, but if you added another 110 percent or so you Awards. What foUows U a list of nominees painstakingly put together by the Dryly comments GAO: would probably be in the ballpark. Clqstar staf.' through random student interviews. If some group wishes to con- “Although habitat areas in the South And, again to the surprise of no one, duct'h write-in campaign for a person not mentioned on the list, that is within are decreasing, a Corps district official annual'oroject benefits computed by the legal boundaries of the contest. There are surely many more potential expressed the opinion that no species the Coitf have increased from $3.6 ’Tubbics, rot to mention ’Twots, in the Mercer Community. Send your votes million iii^ 1953 to about $10.4 mUlion. would be eliminated by *.l*e project; to Box 110, Mercer U. AU baUots must be received no later than 8:00 p.m., Feb­ the fish would have rem.«ming reaches ‘The estimated value of recreation of the stream, birds could fly to other benefits." GAO notes wryly, “has in­ ruary 13 to that results can be announced in next week’s Ouster. Remember, habitat areas, and other species listed creased 16.5 times that initially esti­ its Homeerming! Don’t forget to vote. by BSFW exist primarily south of mated." Spewrell Bluff” The recreation benefits "appear to TOBBY , • It might be argued, of course, that be overstated," the GAO report ob­ TUiman Baker BUI HoUey serves, “and the need for reservoir such projects as the Flint River dam Frank James can be justified on the basis of major recreation opportunities has been ques­ Ted Nordenhaug considerations such as flood control or tion by state and Federal agencies." Joe Dan-Gold David Lindsey • Earth scientists have suspected for a the generation of power. On both Dupont Chiney David Ratley counts the GAO report found the Corps long time that the substitution of im- Dr, WUlia^T. Haywood of Engineers estimate faulty, a dreurn- poui^ed man-made lakes for free-flow­ M. F. McMillan # stance that will surely come as no sur­ ing nvers would lead to ecological dis­ Perry Woodard Charles Farrington ‘ aster, but onlyin the past few yearshas prise to those of us who have audited Doug Hardy the arithmetic of these raptorial bu­ evidence been available to provS their Bobby Goodwin' reaucrats in times past Power bene­ case. Aswan Dam, in Egyp'^ is prob­ John T. MitcheU Celeste McCarthy • ablyone of the most glar'ntf ^:^mples, fits, GAO reported, were only “margi­ Barry Fanaro Tom Barton nally justified and it was questionable and others abound. But the Ic«son is whether the cost allocated to power lost on the Corps, which will not rest * ‘ Fred Nieman Richard Nixon could be recovered through prevailing until every seasonal freshet in the Tom Rail PhyUis Studge « power rates." land is dammed, and everymeandering Arthur Ridi wetland ditch is straightened an^ pav- . PlUlboyd Sludge Not to burden one and all with the ed with concrete. The proposed Flint Bob Davies Ed Johnston tedudcal details, the fact is that the River project woiild pose enormous Milton FarreU- Carolyn Saunders • Corpw engaged in some gaudy sleight- water-quality problems.

massive algae blooms (commonly re­ Governor ’s courageous stand. One. the But I did think the people there ought 1 “The overload of 20,500 kilowatts ac ­ 1 fer^ to as scum), noxious plant Honorable LesUr Maddox, is already to be told the likelyconsequences for counted for $515,780 in additional an- growth, foul odors, and fish kills. Such running hard to succeed Carter, and the Flint River if that happens, and ' nual revenues"- —or enough to **prove" ,a stagnant condition would ~endcr a has promised to revive the Flint River that the dam would be a paying prop­ lake virtually useless for recreational dam if he is elected. hollering “Gotcha!" at those insatiable osition so far as electrical generating '. purposes.” ^ I am grieved to say that my spies beavers in the Corps of Engineers as capacity is concerned. tell me ol' Lester has a good chance one way of doing it J * Upstream, sewage-treatment plants, • ^ A Corps official admitted to GAO which would be necessary to prevent auditors that “it was not normal Corps the eutrophication of the Spewrell BatMt than a bullalin board. The Cluster’s Classified Ads can be Bluff reservoir, let it be noted, are not pojj^ to use overload capacity (in read by a larger number of people, each having his (or her) own • included in the Corps’ cost estimates. copy to which he (or she) can refer! To place an ad, come by the maMg economic justification for proj­ Ouster Office (Rm. 328 CSC); call Ext. 219; or send it to P. O. Box If they are ever buUt, they’ll be paid ects) and he knew of no sgch previous HO — Mercer — Macon. Ga, 31207. 2Sc per line — PREPAID OR­ for by the good people of Griffin, Geor­ DERS ONLY! instance. ” Not everyone gets mail, but everyone gets the Cluster! gia, and other towns. Examination of the flood-control as­ W'" It might be asked why all the out­ pects of the project discloses similar rage' over this dreadful —and wholly hanky-panky.', ^ical —sdieme of the C^orps of Engi­ Governor Carter, who at great poli­ neers after Governor Carter has al ­ THE MERCER CLUSTER tical risk has stoi^>ed the project at ready vowed to veto it A good ques­ M«rc*r UnlTtnUr least temporarily, described flood-con­ tion. and one to which there is a dis- Macoo , G«orgU trol benefits of the project at “mini- couragmg answer. Like every other Noa Profit Orgaoinfien ~ mal," and in a seventeen-page critique state, Gforgia has its share of Throt- of the dam proposed noted that the Uebottoms who are eager to do the principal flood-control benefits would Corps' bidding. They promise illusory be felt 100 miles downstream, at Al­ jobs and phony prosperity to areas such bany, Georgia, where flood damage as Spewrell Bluff, and, as Governor might be reduced 2 ^cent if the dam Carter has noted, it takes a lot of po­ were built, litical gumpti