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A Look at 60 The followinu piece teas written by Cauldron ropy editor Sharon Strong who in her luo-year tenure on this publication ha, naded through miles of ropy. She soys that an award of alt left over '59 issues of the CAULDRON avails anyone u ho ran unde through this stoi v She is tcell qualified to urite of the Mercer scene because rn no other campus position doc one discover so much of the Uerccrwn. Majoring in the social sciences, Sharon took her degree at the t imers,ty if. the spring of I960. A native of Momn. the plans to continue her work in publications u,th an Atlanta firm. By Sharon Strong INETEEN-SIXTY at Mercer Univer- sity; Iwtter known as the year the rains, came. Rain ivss not all that came, however. So did Richard |{. Neibuhr bringing with bitn a sari of semi campus- wide renaissance. After the renaissance came a type of reformation which began exactly as the other with 93 theses displayed in a prominent plate. This prominent place was a pillar in the lohhj of the student center, and the till! and handsome scroll greeted dis- gruntled Moreoriarts who flocked to the co-op one drippy morning in November, after gingerly side-stepping one red and one ominous colored truck parked on the main sidewalk. There is a rumor that the occupants of the truck were in ‘■tailing additional storm sewers, hut we digress. 93 and cihuhr Connected The notorious 93 and the Neibuhr visit were someHow connected, ft is thought that I ho theses stemmed not only from the general temper of the great theologian's stay tin our campus, but also from disagreements which might have arisen over theological pol- icy. Loch of the these? was a gem of wisdom to those who could figure il out. and only a few among u? (the authors) understood some of them. This was just one of the flit If tricks the Uni- versity played on trtir lives that year, and before I960 was over, many of us found some value in being a member of (lie Mercer family. The Neibuhr visit also falls into dial category along with the visit of Dr. Ran- dall Stewart, English literature scholar from Vanderbilt, Both of these men came to us through the faculty Chris- tian Fellowship, but the real blaze of glory preceded them in the form of dis- cussion groups held to prepare us for the visits. Along with rain came race-baiting, included here because it sounds good with “rain. Many of us were surprised to learn from a letter in the Cluster that the professor» who led us through Nie- buhr and Stewart had lost their effec- tiveness as Supposedly leaders of young people,' Although this probably came a» no shock to the professors, some of the students were enough amused to answer die letter. The Unstick Controversy It all started with an open letter to Christianity professor Ray Brewster from law student Gene Bostick who enti- le tided that the HOPE petitions Brew- ster was circulating were not only nebu- lously worded, but also a great danger to the Southern way of life. Actually it was not professor Brewster, but Dr. Robert Otto who was circulating the petitions; Brewster's talk with Bostick before the letter appeared had not en- lightened his opponent on this subject and the letter was addressed to the wrong “supposedly leader of young people, But in the end any professor in favor of HOPE was branded as a S.L.V.P. who had lust his effectiveness, so il didn't much matter anyway. What did matter was the way the student» came to the rescue. Before it was all over Bostick was called upon to mutch words with some highly indig- nant liberals, among them K. A, presi- dent Hilly Brantley and summa cum Inude scholar Buddy Hurt. The three- ring circus con tin tied a long as the Cluster. Unfortunately this was not very long. Guidance Counsellor Pot Mttffco greets incoming fresh men Sylvia Roberts and Beverly Pittman at President’s Ten 12
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Mercer University is two things, and sitmehow we are never able to separate them. First, Mercer is one univer- sity among many and second, it is the school we attend, The first one is the one that we laugh at, the second is the one we love. It is pari of our lives, and Mercers memories are our memories. Perhaps this is the reason that no matter how Mercer stacks up as a school among schools, it is 01 II SUHOOL that we remember.
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