The Mercer Cluster 'Tart Of The Nows That's Fit To Print" Volume LV Merc«r Unirenitr* Macon. Georgia 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<br,. the Philoeophy Department has been ginning of the next century. - Similar * Alice Walker: Blooming Gloriously especiailyinterested in the topie and illustrations can be given for all other for George Jacksoii.** "for Wlnson prepared the foil swing comments in natural resources. I write olitbe old men I knew order to facilitate disciiseion at the Now some natural resources are An4 the young men Hudson and Fannie Lou Hamer whose tetreaL practically Infinite. Solar power, nu­ I loved strength and compaasion I- cherish," TWO ENERGY CRISES clear Ifre^ihg, ahd nudear fusion axe . And of the goM toothed women and “for my heroes^ heroines, and Eighty ,ol arm ' There are two energy crises: the examples. With these resources we friends in early SNCC whoM courage current ener^ crisis in the indus­ face other problems. Solar power is Who dragged iii all and beauty burned me forever," Rev- trialized West and the ultimate, es* diffuse. Harnessing it and converting Taicboich. I. oluNonazy PetuBlas comldnes bitter­ chatologlcal energy crisis toward it to other usable mechanical forms of This poem, "In These Dissenting sweet recollections of the beautyand which the world .is heading. energy, however, drains other natu ­ Times," opens Alice Walker ’s most I. The ultimate energy crisis is an ral resources: aluminum, steel, cop­ recent volume of verse, Ravo hitlona rT anguish of growing up black in rural aspect of the Environmental Crisis per, nickel, cadmium. Nuclear breed­ Patnnlas and Other Poems, and sets Georgia with poems of fierce and gen­ (f.e., the conflict of social organization er reactors will make more fuel than the theme lor the initial section of tle loves, tears and sad rmiles, and with the biological base), and it con­ they use up. They require, however, the book, a series of reflections the simultaneous magnificence and -«• < sists simply in the fact that growing great initial quantities of enriched stretching back to childhood and early spitefulness of "the movement." world energy demands threaten to de- uranium, a scarce and costly re­ family memories of Eatonton, Geor­ source. Moreover, apparently the gia. On February 2> 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 real benefits from this process. (At Youth In Society 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 for children, and, most recently. In lem of incredible dimensions. A 25,000 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 College in Atlanla and received a B.A. can even guess whrl ..atural resource Love Me: child to py<mt, man to wo­ her ~ early work among the various and enviro.nmental drains it would be in 1965 from Sarah Lawrence College, man, black to white, poor to hateful, tribes in the South Pacific at a time rcsDonsible for. where she is now a member of the when little was known of their cul­ One important equation in estimat ­ Board of Trustees. She has taught at hating powerful." tural traditions. Recently, she has ing the potential of any new energy Tougaloo College, Jackson State Col­ Alice Walker, black, woman, Geor­ begun to study the relationship of technology is the energy input-output lege, Wellesley and the University of youth to society. AuthdrnjT numerous ratio. This figure is not mentioned Massachusetts. She now resides in gian, says it all in a self-portrait books and hundreds of scholarly arti ­ much, but it could conceivably place Jackson, Mississippi. which concludes Ravolutionary Pa- cles. Dr. Mead's most current publi­ absolute limits on new technologies. Describing Ravotutionary Petunias cations are her autobiography. Black* It takes energy to get energy. Every in ya brief preface, Alice Walker says, berry Winter, and Culture and Com- energy source should be evaluated in “The Nature of This flower .Ig to mitimeot a detailed discussion of the "'These poems are about Revilution- terms of how much energy it will tak e Bloom” * youthdilemma. She is also the author aries and Lovers: and about the loss to produce energy. Nuclear energy of compassion, trust, and the ability of a regular column in Redbook. a and the production of oil shale would Rebellious. Living. magazine for women. appear to be examples of energy tech­ to expand in love that marks the end Against the Elemental Crua&. Now living in New York. Dr. Mead nologies where the ratio it very hi^. of hc^ful strategy. Whether in love A Song of Color I ■q:- is currently serving as the Curator Economics deal with thi cost of eiw- or revolution. They are also about Blooming Emeritus of Ethnologyat the Ameri­ gy production, but so far it is not ob­ (and for) those few embattled souls For Deservingng Eyjg: can Museum of Natural History in vious that costs reflect the energy in- .1: New York City. She is also a special tput. because up until now most forms who remain painfully committed to Blooming GlorioloricaiAy lecturer in Anthropology «t Columb^ yof energy have been cheap. beauty and to love even*while facing For its Self. Univusity. Contihxaad on p«g« 4 the-firing squad." Dedicated "humbly Revolutioiiary Petunia. »A«e T«0 THE MERCER CLURTER EEBRDART a It74 TRB 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.