Mercer University - Cauldron Yearbook (Macon, GA)

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Faculty lores academic folder a, this at Convocation Dabney Higgs learns of things biological in ancient lab Momentous night when staid Buddy Hurt was persuaded to don female clothes as part of BSC party, others in ftarty include Jim McKinney, and Doug Bailey. f! G trucks were campus joke, butt of traffic signals and pointed curbs Faculty is auctioned off on Greek Slat e Day, IFC Proxy Jerry Brimberry directs Greeks chased erudition away, here L. F. Brown and Nancy Childs frolic while back on Campus Lit expert Ran- dall Stewart goes without audience.

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Art played a part in our lives loo, and we neither could nor would escape the interesting works always on display on third floor student corner. Exhibits ilia! year were numerous because of an art department chain reaction of more teachers - . more pupils . . more talent . . . more wrork. F.arlv in i nvctnber those of □? not nn tin- inside track got our first news of Mercer's new president, Dr. Rufus C, Harris. The debt met! Cluster brought it to us in an extra. Although our new leader did not become completely ours until laic in March, one of the first tilings He did was raise faculty salaries. We knew we had a winner on our hands. The lutnelesH ones Campus politics went along in their traditional controversial manner. Before spring elections came around, S.G. V president Bev Bates, had made enough chapel speeches to convince us that the governing body's attempt to establish a tradition of action had at least some foundation. Bui the big mix-up came with spring elections when all candidates qualified as independents. Bates publicly accused a “nameless party of support- ing presidential candidate 01 in Thomp- son. but the accusation backfired and Olin Won in spile of being named name- less. Exchange Student Ujarnne Kvinnsland )forc on 60. . One of the liveliest campus news- papers in Mercer history died on the vine sometime near the end of winter quarter and sprang to life again only twice more during the yenr. The “Ao Cluster this Week” sign on the office door was attributed to a lack of funds preceded by a not un-prcccdcntcd lack of n business manager. It is true we had some elaborate Clusters before the sudden death, hut spoiled Mercen- ary had to content themselves with multicolored issues -of the Gauntlet and mysterious Issues of Truth, The Co-op Wrangle None of ibis would have been so bad if we hadn't had to go all the way !o the drugstore every lime we wanted a cup of coffee after I p.rn.. new dosing lime for the co-op. There was a coffee machine installed for after hours coffee drinkers, but how disheartening to find your Inst dime's worth on the floor when the thing rail Olit «I cups. And all that rain outside. Still 1 o’clock was better than the original new closing lime. 2;30 until Cluster editorials pointed out that this was a minutes before the end of fifth period and about an hour after lunrh- therefore rather futile. A In nit the rain: it has lieen statisti- cally proven by the Weather Bureau land if you don't believe in Weather Bureau statistics, heed now the fact that tin? organization has gotten so scientific it is considering a “fingerprint file of cloud formations» that late 1959 and enrlv 1 %0 contained inure rain than any local year since 1930, Rut as iliis publi- catum states on page £4, all went along ns usual. When things got too ns usual there were the sometimes high caliber campus movies to take our minds off the fact that our university had gone along for fi months without a new president in sight, Among the film room treats were the award winning “La Strada” and Klia Kazan’s “On the WalcrfrnnL I here was also some fine drama pre- sented on the W illingham Chapel stage by the new Mercer Players, new because llicv were so much better than the old. H

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Darkness Mary Leonard in satire Itald Saprano, one showing in Willingham Chapel