i Activities Weekend '83 Concert, Balloon Rides Tonight By Carta Anderson ner on the Egan dormitory MERCIAD Assistant Editor sundeck. The cost to students not "The fifth annual Activities on board is $4.25. Weekend has arrived on the Mer- Beginning at 7 p.m., § the Ac- cy hurst campus," said Michael tivities Weekend raffle will be Smith, co-chairperson of the ac- held in the Campus Center. Raffle tivities committee. * tickets will cost $.25 each, or 5 for The first activity to kick-off the $1, and can ^be purchased weekend today will be hot air throughout the day. Some of the balloon rides from-5 to 9 p.m., prizes being raffled are: ' two weather permitting. The cost will stereos, a bicycle, Atari Video be $2.00. An outdoor band and game, three Walkman radios, a dance will take place in front of television,? a refrigerator and la Zurn from 8 to 11 p.m. The band variety of dinners from Holiday featured for, the event will be Inn 4and Aunt Mary's Pub and "Splash", according to Smith. Palace. On Saturday morning at 9 a.m., The last event on Saturday an airplane will drop ping> pong evening following the raffle at 9 balls over the St. Mark's p.m. will be the "Rocky Horror Seminary field. Seniors Joseph Picture Show" in the Campus Rubino and sJeff Kime were Center. selected to drop the ping pong Smith explained that on Sunday balls from the plane. Ten prizes afternoon at 1:30, will be the will be awarded to people finding "Greater Merchurst Open" golf the ten marked balls. tournament, sponsored by Cam- Throughout this weekend, pus Ministry.« There ?will ibe a clubs and organizations are con- registration fee of $1.00,* and a tributing. Some of the activities reception after the event, accor- include the Mr. Mercyhurst Men's ding to Smith. In addition, the Leg Contest, bed races, fashion Student Activities ' Committee show, Softball tournament, tug-o- (SAC) and K.C. Foods will spon- war, paddle-peddle-hoof, jello sor an outside picnic in the wrestling and many more events. Grotto. There will also be concession In case of rain, the .Activities stands around the campus, accor- Weekend events will be held in the ding to Smith. } Campus Center, Smith said. THE COLUEGS STUDENTS FINEST HOOK! Saturday from 4:45 to 6 p.m., "I'm very excited about this K.C. Foods Inc. will be sponsor- weekend. It is well organized and ing an outdoor picnic buffet din- should be successful," he added. Graduation Speaker Profile Alumna, Saudi Arabian Diplomat MSG A c c e p t s Proposal To Address '83 Graduates On May 29 By Karen Merkle and a Master of Arts degree in Eastern Europe, the Soviet Merciad Staff Reporter Economics from Georgetown Union, Africa, and Saudi Arabia. To Purchase 25 Seat Bus Bonnie McGough Pounds, a University in Washington, D.C. In addition to her diplomatic 1963 Mercyhurst graduate cur- Before holding her current posi- i At the Mercyhurst Student Government (MSG) meeting on work, Pounds has written a rently serving as the United States tion, Pounds was divisional direc- number 'of articles on Saudi Tuesday, May 10, a proposal was passed to purchase a 25 seat Director of the U.S.-Saudi Ara- tor in the Commercial Commis- bus to be used by MSG and the athletic department. The mo- Arabia for academic and commer- bian Joint Commission on sion Division of the Bureau of cial publications. She has also tion carried to pass the proposal with an all in favor response Economic Cooperation,,has ac- East-West Trade. In addition, she with one abstention. ' received performance awards cepted an invitation to deliver the worked extensively in the field of from.".the Departments of According to MSG president Dave Robinson, the cost of the commencement address at the foreign trade and investment. bus will be divided between the college and MSG. The govern- Treasury and Commerce for her May 29 'Hurst graduation Previous to 1974, when the work. ment will pay $10,500 oyer a three year period which exercises. represents 40 percent of the total price of the bus. The college U.S.-Saudi Arabian Joint Pounds lives in Washington, will pay the remaining 60 percent. ''According J to former student Economic Commission was form- D.C, with her husband and their government secretary Lisa ed and Pounds was immediately 11-year-old daughter, Mary. Robinson explained that the athletic department will use the Costello, Pounds was chosenc by placed in a management position, bus 30 specific dates out of the year. The bus will be available Mercyhurst President Dr. William she was a member of the Senior to MSG or SAC at all other times.> V P. Garvey from a list of three Executive Service and the Director "When the athletic department uses the bus, MSG or SAC possible speakers, comprised by a of the Office of Saudi Arabian will have access to the school vans," said Robinson. senior committee formed for that Affairs. 2 * "The purchase of the bus will be good for government. purpose. / In her current post, Pounds is We'll be able to use it for all kinds of new activities," added The idea of having a former responsible for overall U.S. Robinson. 'Hurst student deliver the address operations in Washington as well The MSG senators for the 1983-84 academic year have been was a good one, Costello said, as in the Saudi Arabian capital of chosen. Of the seven senator positions, five were open for and "She is a very distinguished Riyadh. 3i nomination by the government. The senators for next year alumna." Her years of service with the are: MSG Vice-President Kathy O'Connor; Maria Santangelo, After graduating from Mer- Department of Commerce and Jean Moniewski, Tom BonelloJBryan Doherty, Pat Songer now with the Treasury Depart- and Joann Israel. cyhurst with a degree in history and political science. Pounds went ment have provided Pounds with on to get a Master of Science the opportunity to travel exten- degree in International Relations sively. Her work has taken her to I Space To Fit, One Last Time OK*H Go*'. fidrf I** *if* ek fl* f That First Kiss. ». lto**l4Wcta»t (tfas The umbilical cord ft*. cannot be re fastened and life flow through it again. Our tears never totally dry. Our first kiss is now a ghost, ; •**»{«. Gone haunting our mouths as they 1 ^Uks**!**-*****< fade toward oblivion. mi ^mtki 04*4 *t fldtk. * • irtn- Richard Brautigan PWftf ^4**f »*Ht GtU. MOT faujf • Will bt pwwW It seemed four years ago that that first kiss, haunting me even then, was only the beginning of a relationship with a col- lege which would go on and on and on. Looking at a blank transcript with visions of an unreachable 120 credits still ahead to tackle and to pay for, I imagined my college years would inch by in slow motion while I would be conscious of every lingering second. Not so. That first kiss is now a ghost, haunting me even more. As it THE MERCIAD welcomes the fades toward oblivion, its original impression fades only expressions of its readers in "Your Opinion". All letters slightly. I still remember the fright, the excitement, the transi- must be signed and should tion ... from high school to here ... now from here to who contain ani address or knows where? telephone number to be used i^Brautigan knows so well the symbolic import of the um- Letter for verification purposes only. bilical cord. Yes, we are all fastened, whether we choose to Contributions will be edited for admit it or not, to this maternal ediface known as Mercyhurst grammatical or spelling errors. College. She put life into us, she fed us with a banquet of Apartment Housing Letters must be submitted by 4 knowledge and nourished us with experiences, ethics, and p.m. Tuesdays preceding joy. As our growth accelerated and we sometimes!found publication. ourselves regretting that first kiss, she comforted us with her System "Unfair" rare brand of familiarity and love that can be discovered only Dear Editor: «' each group's desired apartment. tioned situation has been that it's within her gates. And now as the time draws near for the um- Now that housing has been This would enable the director to the director's wishito have two bilical cord to be severed, she prepares us for a different kind assigned for the 1983-84 adademic tell the group(s) which rooms are apartments of men and women on of survival. We will be on our own. year, we feel the systematic man- available. I each floor. That is discrimination! ner in which residents are assigned Currently, as*it has happened, The present system is very Our tears never totally dry. They are there, remaining housing : should I ' be reviewed. groups with 13, 14, or 15 points unfair. damp on our face, to remind us that she will always be there, As we had understood, rooms have been stuck in the basement Sincerely, standing proud and strong, committed to molding the in- in the Mercyhurst Apartments while groups with 11 or 12 points Scott Mangold tellect and character of many after us. were to be awarded on'a point have been assigned apartments on Bob Orris I the second or third floors. Just as everything has an ending and many of us will soon system basis. In other words, the Heath Hughes more points a group accumulated, A defense for the aforemen- Allen Tompkins draw our last ^breath through that lifeline tying us to Mer- their opportunity to acquire the cyhurst College, so does everything have a beginning and a apartments they desired middle.