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That, unpredictable .studentorganization which in the past hasvacillated between the reflectionof apathy and the source of activeinvolvement is busily re organizing, collecting its balanceand fixing its sights on the goalsto be pursued during the upcoming academic year. JimMcAndrew, the new president ofthe Representative Union ofStudents is looking forward to histerm in office with bubblingenthusiasm and unrestrainedoptimism. At the present time heha s a number of objectives forwhich he will seek the support ofthe student body.

One of Jim's goals is to seek a^gradual* equalization of thestudent faculty voting ratio in theCollege Senate. In achieving th is,he sees the need for students totalk it overiwith faculty mem-hers, to form what might becalled a "student lobby.' 'McAndrew cautioned! that hewould "want the lobby to stopthere after we got tit. I wouldn'twant students .to go block votingafter that, because you're'developing dangerous - patternsthere, and if you do that, thecollege senate will break down.We've got to be '.very carefuldoing it.".*MeAndrew is working on a newcounsultati ve body which he callsthe "open channelled board"

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which would consist of theCollege Senate President, Dr.Shane, a represenatative fromthe Board of Trustees, andhimself. With that grou p, he feelsthat "there would be no area ofthe school closed to anybody. Theteachers could get to theTrustees." The inclusion of atrustee would provide a missinglink which the College Senate nowlacks.'All segments of the schoolwould be represented: students,faculty, administration, andtrustees.

McAndrew also hopes tostreamline the present gradeappeal system so that the studentcan present their case directlybefore the grade review boardwithout being smo thered by goingthrough the complicatedprocedure presently in existence.^The statement concerningstudent rights and freedoms willbe revised in the course of thisadministration. "The presentdocument was drawn up whenstudent government was still theold S.G.A.. It's an obsoletedocument as farjas the;presentstructure is*concerned, it's im-per at ive that it undergo a serious

b y A l B e lo v a ra c J f f i |student body to actively push forthe.development of a new Union,either Jby working on securingpledges or just offering the ir helpto the trustees and adm inistrationin whatever c apacity the pow ers-that-be see fit. tWhen questioned on his positionover Ithe ^management of theCollege Union, McAndrew statedthat "S.A.C. is a sub-committeeof R.U.S. Both it and the directionof the Student Union are directly

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Association of MercyhurstCollege announces its secondseason of intercollegiatevolleyball compeitition, with atentative thirteen match to beginin mid-October. So far, they'vehad twenty-three interested girlssign up for the rigorous, universalsame;.; five of which are advanced players from last year,including A lexis Walker, Mary JoCalhoun, Andra Johnson, .BarbLuttrell and LeVerne Dabney. The girls ended a fine first-yearseason with a 7-6 record againsttheir opponents from Westminster , Thiel , * Edinboro,Allegheny, B ehrend, Villa and theErie Y women's team who theywill again \lace this season, inaddition perhap s to Clarion State .The' matches are played in theMercyhurst College "mushroomcellar" also sometimes referredto as our gym! I' Anyone having viewed J th ewomen's Olympic competition a:ew weeks ago should be aware ofthe stiff practice sessions whichmake the sport both skillful andexciting. The Lakerettes practicedrills run about two hours a day,concentrating^ primarily onserving, blocking, setting, diggingand; spiking with only fifteenminutes set aside for actualpractice play. ipIjMercvnurst plays according toD.G.W.S. Rules (Division of Girlsind%omen*s Sports). The basicoffensive strategy is designed toset the ball up and spike it overthe net. while the basic defensiveattempt is to block the spike or

establish their own attack. Thematch consists of three games.The team winning two out of thethree games is declared thewinner. The game is played untileight minutes of actual playingtime is concluded, or when oneteam has scored fifteen points,whichever occurs first. In eithercase the winning team mustlead by two points before play isconcluded. Actual playing timebegins at the time the ball is putinto play at each service, and thetime clock is stopped each timethe ball is dead after each play.Miss |Janet Pr ice , j Coach,seemed quite optimistic for theseason to come, "if the success ofthe volleyball team can bedetermined by the interest thegirls have shown in -volleyball,well have a great season.''

Athletics!i A n d1CSMercyhurst College is moreinteresting in its third year ofcompetitive sports and in accordance'with this I fact, I thinkthere are a number of thingswhich should be brought Jup forquestioning, i i S H m jX*Around two years ago * whenMercyhurst| began forming fitsathletic program, there were anumber of people \ who wereagainst it. These people said thatthe trend i today i among somecolleges was away from athleticswith more 5 emphasis jj put ionacademics. I This J argument ofcourse is fallacious. To ]bespecific it I is the I fallacy ofirrelevant conclusion. They tookan irrelevant statement to justifytheir stand. Nevertheless, thepeople who were in ffavor ofathletics appeased those againstit by saying that we will toleratenothing less than* a scholarathlete. This brings up a numberof questions. Namely, what is ascholar athlete? What are thestandards he should follow? j |What? about the athleticprogram -Mwhy was it implemented into the school's otheractivities. They reasoned that itwould be |an economic andfinancial viability for the school.

i by T.cDaniel Heberle' :K .It would provide a steady flow ofstudents. ? It would be good3'socially J for the college. This initself does not seem unreasonablebut is not the only way to providea steady flow of students, it is notthe only way to have a bettersocial life. For instance when wasthe last time a speaker of anyprominence i spoke on ;Mer-cyhurst's campus? $. There* areother aspects of this same type ofreasoning that prevail at Mer-Scyhurst. For |instance, why is^'there such a {gap between theamount given for > athleticscholarships! and 8the amountgiven for honor scholarships?^There are some schools that don'tgive scholarships.| for athleticssuch I as {Allegheny, fOberlein,Thiel, etc. This is because theyare in the (P.A.C.) PresidentsAthletic Conference, which doesnot give scholarships forathletics. Instead of athleticscholarships, |they give honorscholarships according to showwell you fare academically, m SLast year Mercyhurst printed alist of the individual cumulativeaverages of the athletes and thentook the average of all of themtogether. Rather than conceptualaveraging, shouldn't we consider

each individual average as theschools-'fa the P.A.C. do, ratherthan all together. It was also saidabout two years ago that localtalent would be recruited. Whathappened to that?A public relations campaign atthis college is economicallysensible. Theoretically, if wemust use the term "scholarathlete", 'academics should beplaced ^jabove* athletics.Therefore, any public J relationscampaign /should place moreemphasis on academics, and atthe same time spread the name ofthe college, fc H $ "* '$*%*.But in the case of the athleticpublic relations * program, success or failure -is defined; inathletic terms . To be specific, oneadministrative source said wecannot afield non-competitiveathletic i t eams . .-: Poor t performance would I undermine theeffectiveness | of?the campaign.So? no J matter how wellacademically -orientated ?theathletes are they smust first "beathletically&competente in;-theirsport. This seems to be to be agross contradiction of what apublic relations campaign shouldbe1 doing i in reference J toacademics and athletics. B K |

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MERCYHURST HERITAGE(First of a Series on the Historyof Mercyh urst) >/NfOne of the first owners of the 75acres that^ Mercyhurst Collegenow inhabits was a man by thenanje , of ...David Wallace. , TheWallaces \ were one of Erie'soriginal frontier families. It wasin the year 1854 that the Wallacesdecided to sell their 75 acres. In

Gary Bukowskifact, to be more accurate it wason April 1.U854 that the transaction was carried out.The buyer of the land wasSebastian Rinderle who paid agrand total of $2,150 for the 75acres. Rinderle turned theacreage'into a farm which $ heeventually sold to a M.B. Lowryon April 1, 1871 for the price ofA ctivitv Schedule

by Gary B u k o w s k i m ^$ 1 5 , 0 0 0 . i | | I fgBK IOf all the previous owners,*M.B. Lowry probably had themost interesting history. At thetime, M.B. Lowry, was supposed. to be one . of Erie's greatestcharacters. He was an outspokenman and fighter, he meant whathe said at all times, and in allplaces. He was a close friend ofAbraham Lincoln. How J manypeople know that Morrow B.Lowry and a friend of his,General K ane, went toWashington and practicallykidnapped Lincoln, and had himin the woods near K ane, Pennsylvania, for nearly five days?They wanted the Great Emancipator to get away from histroubles. In fact, M.B. Lowry hada lot to do with Lincoln winningthe election in i860. ; I In Morrow B. Lowry's will hegave his grandchild Annie LyonMercy hurst's 75 acres. AnnieLyon was the owner until theSisters of Mercy ipurchased ftheland. -It* was in the early 1920's thatthe Sisters were thinking ofbuilding a college for women inErie. But first, they had to getpermission from Bishop Gannonand that the Sisters did in 1921.

Before -; the Sisters^- leftTitusville, a Father Gastor, thefounder of Boston College, advised the Sisters to build theirproposed college on a hilloverlooking the water. So it wasthat Mother Borgia, Superior of

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the4 Titusville Motherhouse,accompanied by Sister Collette.Treasurer, and Mother Pierre,assistant; supervisor, came toKrie in search of a site for theirperspective institution off learning. W f 5Q I ; !The Sisters began their searchby securing the service of Mr.T.O. Anderson, a real estateagent, who was |beginning amillion dollar development in(ilenwood Hills. During the year,Mr. Andrews took the Sistersaround the city looking for theproper site, but the search was invain. But then one day, SisterPierre's cousin took the sisters tothe Anne Lynn farm, whose namewas now!Ann Cornillier?throughmarriage. The farm had abeautiful view of the lak e and itwas on a hilltop.Mother Borgia however wasafraid that the site was too faraway from the city of Erie. Itmust be remembered that thecity limits ended around 26thStreet and the the CorntUicrL f-awas in Mill Creek. Just imaginehow the land looked. There wereonly two buildings on the propertyat the time of purchase. One ofthem was the Home ManagementHouse which still stands todayand a barn which was situated inthe area where today's ?mainentrance Uo the AdministrationBuilding is located. And all thesurrounding areai were barrenfields.| Nevertheless, the more thesisters looked at the site, themore it enchanted them. Thesisters bought the land and thedeed was signed on September 30,1922, at l l : 4 7 ?a . m . Anotherproblem had come up, the Sistershad only $65,000.00, and! SisterBorgia was trying^ to d ecidewhether she should spend all themoney on the land or save somefor the building. The Sisters, w ithan eye for: the future finallydecided to buy all 75 acres for thetotal price of $51,000.00.The big step had been takenThe Sisters of M ercy! had theland, now they needed a college.