Mercer University - Cauldron Yearbook (Macon, GA)

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Dj iroom speeUHtf Greg Mittam, the one who his and is the key to everything. Posters line the wills behind counter ot ehemicih. 00 NOT ENTER WHEN UGWT IS ON KNOCK RfiST Go ewO

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Students gear down for earns in the east wing of the Stetson Memorial Li' tniry. During Comparitivc Anatomy Lab, frank Hampton and lohn Winnie in- vestigate thru disected cat.

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What Develops In The Darkroom Spending time in Mercer's darkroom is an experience all lo itself. While many passing stu- dents may regard this room as just another jani- tor closet, much, much more actually takes place here. For this is where all of the Cluster's and most of the Cauldron's film is developed and pictures are printed. Entering the room one finds an interesting array of student's rights and political freedom posters upon the walls, there for reasons no one knows. Negative strips, proof sheets, film containers, wires, neg- ative sheets, camera equipment, and broken chairs, not to mention print dryers, empty bot- tles, used Scott Towels, and an overflowing File 13, all combine to scare ever the worthiest jani- tor to death. The aroma of Stop Bath and var- ious other chemicals shoots up one's nose im- mediately, entering the brain and making headaches not at all too uncommon. Darkroom specialists toy with enlarger heights, focusers, filters, and timers, anticipating that perfect picture. Curse words that don't even exist are routine when pictures appear too dark, too light, out of focus, or when one of a million other things that can go wrong, does. Time is lost as minutes turn to hours and hours turn to what seem like days. Darn, who had to go and invent the camera in the first place? The enltrger, responsible tor most of the pictures in this booh. The lockers, where things ire sup- posed to stay. trerylhing from Stoll Toweft to the electric timer it used in tome wiy. 19