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VOLUME IX
PRESIDENT INGRAM PLACES BALL
AT FIRST SOCCER GAME TOMORROW
TO INAUGURATE NEW SPORT
Colorful Ceremony
Highlights Meet
President I. S. Ingram will of
ficially place the ball on the athletic
field tomorrow afternoon to inaugur
ate anew game in West Georgia
sports cirriculum. The freshmen
meet the sophomores in the first
soccer game ever to be played on
West Georgia soil.
Goal posts will be decorated in res
pective colors of the teams with the
cheer leaders adding yells of West
Georgia spirit to the occasion.
The tournament is slated to begin
at 4:00 o’clock, Miss Ruth Sturgis
girl’s physical educator director, an
nounces.
The teams are made up of select
ed volunteers from all physical Ed.
Classes. The sophomore team con
sist of Elsie Gosdin, captain; Clovis
Pope, Huey Majors, Sarah Harper,
Betty Moss, Grace Erwin, Betty
Grossman, Katherine Dailey, Helen
Thompson, Genelle Dailey, Helen
Jean Aycock, Betty Haynie, Margaret
Shelton, Louise Floyd, Martha Strip
lin, Margaret Turner, Wylene San
son, LaVerne Bedgood, Martha
Woods, Eunice Norman, Joy Jack
son, Mary Jo Malcom, Margie Bris
coe, Elizabeth Morgan, Margaret
Weesner and Mary Jenkins.
The freshmen players are Dot
Woodruff, captain; Virginia Hemp
hill, Betty McWilliams, Sarah Hens
ley, Sarah Colquitt, Tommy Thomp
son, Myrtie McCain, Vera Richard
son, Virvinia Eliott, Dot Campbell,
Mildred Washington, Geneva Smith,
Cathrine Jackson and Aileen Tanner.
Six cheer leaders will be chosen by
a faculty committee at the game,
out of twelve selected temporarily
by the student body last Tuesday.
The sophomores selected are John
Justice, Charles Lang, Martha Strip
lin, Mary Jo Malcolm, Clovis Pope,
and Lanier Jackson.
The freshmen are Ralph Tyson,
Judith Hastings, Hazel Barnes, Vir
ginia Felton, Miles Wiley and Ike
Barnes.
Biology Predicts
Tooth Disappearance
The complete disappearance of
teeth from the human mouth is the
condition towards which the most
highly cultured classes of humanity
are drifting. We have already gone
far on a course that leads to the
coming of a toothless age in future
generations.
hat are those of us who have
had an understanding of the distress
ing situation through studies in
Human Biology at West Georgia
College going to do about it ? Only by
adoption of the most
active and widespread measures of
prevention can the human tooth be
from the fate that has befallen
the leg of the whale.
WEST GEORGIA COLLEGE, GENOLA, GA., NOVEMBER 4, 1941
University Students
Send Letters Te
Assembly Members
Student representatives from the
University of Georgia revealed Sat
urday at the Macon conference that
they have mailed a form letter to
members of the General Assembly,
urging an extra session of the legis
lature.
The letter follows:
“Under separate cover we are
sending you a copy of the “Red
and Black” as published by the
students of the University of Geor
gia which will give you all facts con
cerning the serious crisis now con
fronting out state institutions of
learning and our efforts to save
them from being disaccredited.
“May we urge you first to read
the facts. By so doing you will realize
the seriousness of the present situa
tion. Next let us assure you that ours
is not a political fight for or against
any person. Our sole aim is to save
for ourselves and other students be
fore and after us the accredited
standing of the schools in which
we have invested so much time and
effort and for which our parents have
made much sacrifice, and in which
the taxpayers have invested so much
money.
Asks Special Session.
“We believe the only way to do
this is for a special session of the
Georgia Legislature to remove our
state educational institutions from
political interference. Such a ses
sion is limited to 30 days; the leg
islation desired could be enacted in
a very short time; your own loss of
time should not be great, and the
expense to the state would be insig
nificant as compared with its loss
if something is not done—and done
quickly.
“Therefore, in order to ascertain
whether or not you will help us, we
are enclosing a statement of two
alternatives, and we will appreciate
your signing the one that represents
your position and returning it to us
in the stamped envelope for that
purpose.
“If neither represents your posi
tion, may we be favored with your
own statement as to how you are
willing to help us. And will you
please do this at your earliest pos
sible convenience, for the time with
in which something can be done is
very short.”
Program Chairman
Announces Subject
For Vesper Service
Subject for regular Vesper service
for next Sunday afternoon, Novem
ber 9th, will be “The Quest For
God Through Music.” Jess Purcell
will lead the sendee. Everybody is
urged to attend.
West Georgian To
Go To 2000 Readers
Two thousand copies of this issue
have been printed, and will be dis
tributed on every campus of every
college in the University System of
Georgia to let the other units know
what West Georgia is doing in this
gmve crisis. This edition of the
West Georgian will also go to the
alumni of this college, friends, par
ents, and members of the General
Assembly of Georgia.
College Students
Over State Request
Special Legislation
(From The Red and Black )
College students over the state
are asking for a special session of the
legislature to take necessary steps
to keep the University System on
the accredited list.
Students at the Georgia State Col
lege for Women are writing members
of the legislature, and have come out
with an open request in the Colon
nade, student publication.
If three-fifths of the legislative
body requests a special session, it will
be held, in accordance with a law
established some years ago.
Mu Zeta Alpha
Meets Thursday
Mu Zeta Alpha will hold its first
meeting in the Rural Arts building.
Thursday night at 6:30, states Mr.
Witcher, the faculty advisor. All
members and those who have petit
ioned for membership are ulrged
to be present.
STUDENT LEADERS CONFER AT MACON
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Pictured above is a group of student* leaders and advisors in caucus re
presenting 10 of the 16 units of the University System at the student con
ference in Macon Saturday. .
‘RID THE UNIVERSITY SYSTEM OF
POLITICS NOW AND FOREVER’
STUDENTS RESOLVE AT CONFERENCE
University And
Tech Dropped By
Association
The Association of American Uni
versities has dropped the University
of Georgia from its approved list
along with Georgia Tech because of
“unjustified political interfearance”
with the University System of which
Tech is a unit.
The Association of American Uni
versities is an organization of the
leading Universities of Amerca. Uni
versities are not accepted for mem
bership until they have been recog
nized as doing “a high type of gra
duate work.” The loss of both the
University of Georgia and Georgia
Tech is in “prestige and standing.”
This development followed the
dropping of the University System
of Georgia from its membership in
the Southern Conference which met
at Birmingham recently,
Weather Forecast
For This Week
Dark clouds of mid-term exams
predominate the weather forecast
for this week at Genola, Georgia.
Such will be followed by heavy show
ers of regretfulness and fatigue, al
though there will only be a slight
change in the temperature of the
students until darker clouds of grades
overshadow their hopes toward the
latter part of next week.
NUMBER THREE
10 Units of System
Attend Macon
Meeting
“Rid the University System of
political interference now and for
ever,” was the two-fold purpose of
the Macon Conference Saturday as
student representatives came from
10 of the 16 units of the University
System to adopt strategy on the
fight to be carried to the accredited
committee which met in Atlanta yes
terday to decide the fate of the Uni
versity System.
Voicing a belief that the University
and its units could not escape being
discredited by the Southern Associa
tion of Colleges, the students resolv
ed to carry on with the drive to
obtain a special session of the legis
lature regardless of the action taken
yesterday. The purpose of this special
session would be to “take politics out
of higher education.”
Letter Writing Urged
The letter writing campaign was
also resounded with the urge that
every unit in the University System
inaugurate this plan. Under this head
another plan was added.' “The 16,000
students of the University shall be
divided into districts with a chair
man at the head of each district and
each district shall be divided into
counties headed by a county chair
man. In this way every student can
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