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Wake up and lake part
Ever heard someone say, “Nothing excitinghappens at West Geor
gia?" True no more, the trend has definitely changed and entertain
ment, enlightenment, and excitement avail in every corner of our
campus.
Beginning today is West Georgia Emphasis Weekend featuring a
swim meet, four ballgames, two dances, and a Sunday social -much
more and the weekend would have to extend into next week.
During next week activities range from the informative Ernest Van
diver’s gubernatorial candidate speech, music of the Longines Sym
phonette, atheletic events, one-act plays and numerous other ac
tivities.
Nothing may be happening for you-but if so it must be l>ecause you
haven’t taken your nose out of a book (which is doubtful) or you are
living in a world of your own.
Diner or dungeon?
The cafeteria has long l)een a major problem at West Georgia and
due to the rapid growth the problem is becoming more and more se
rious as the quarters go by. ....
At the beginning of fall quarter, the line of the cafeteria stretched
to the bird bath, but even with the sudden growth of students the
staff of the cafeteria managed to feed all those holding meal
tickets.
This quarter, however, the story is somewhat different. The lines
grow longer and the quality of the food gets worse: veal cutlets
almost daily, cold mashed potatoes, and chicken continuously.
Why does the food continue to decline?
The restricted work area in the kitchen is part of the reason, but
even so, restricted area cannot be the reason for the unappetizing
food.
Although there are many reasons why the cafeteria is undergoing a
steady decline, most are excusable, but many questions are raised
by students.
Why did the cafeteria feed the West Georgia students box lunches,
with stick in the throat sandwiches (spam and butter), when the Car
rollton Chamber of Commerce ate Filet Mignon in our cafeteria?
Why is the service slow? And why must we eat the same old foods
day after day ?
The students at West Georgia would like to have someone answer
these questions.
Chimes bring character
An added attraction to our campus is the chimes which play each
day at 12 and 6 p.m. Playing for approximately ten minutes, the
chimes momentarily create a reverent atmosphere for the campus.
Sponsored by the Interfaith Council in Memory of J. Carson Pritch
ard, late professor of sociology, the chimes are played from tapes
which come through speakers located on the roof of the new girls’
dorm. As one student said, “The chimes add character to our cam
pus.”
Bea molder or messer
The beginning of another year has passed and the thrills of being
a first quarter freshman, the happiness of returning to old friends,
and the excitement of lie ing one year closer to graduation have
slowly grown cold. Winter quarter, to some the dreariest quarter of
the year, with less activities than other quarters, darker in the morn
ing, much colder than any other time, and a lot more time to study
since the weather is too bad to go outside, is indeed a unique quarter.
Even so it is not the weather, the darkness, nor even the cold that
matters but rather it is the person. In a sense in a world of their
own, students are surrounded by opportunities both academically and
unacademically which will open future gates.
Here for only a few years, sometimes with only one chance to eith
er make it or get out.serious consideration should be given to how
one can best, both for himself and his school, spend his days at W. G.
College. The students of the past have helped to determine what the
college is now. Thus it is left with the present students to help mold
the future of their school.
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“Representing Georgia’s Fastest Growing
College’’
*Pubfished each Friday by the students of West Georgia col
lege, September-May (except during holidays and exams.)
Editor-in-chief Joyce Morgan
Managing Editor Ed Collier
Business Manager Mike Eberhardt
News Editor Kathy Thomas
Feature Editor Sarah Lee
Sports Editor Charlie Shafe
Circulation Manager Lester Pope
Exchange Staff Kathy Brewster, Jo Ann Newkirk
Typist Brenda Lloyd, Pam Redmer, Stephanie
Frapart and Gail Kitchens.
Photographer David Ross
General Staff Rosalind Brimer, Connie Gentry, John
Greene, Elaine Gosset, April Fields, Brenda Lloyd, Bruce
Hildebrand, David Woodward, Barbara Exelle, Richard Du
Pree, Sam Eades, Glenda Strickland, David Douglass, Chuck
Pulliam, Jane Seal, Cheryl Tilley, Tommy Askew, and
Malcolm Fordham.
THE WEST GEORGIAN
" - ANP WEMSCAPT O£OA TJF T6AM."
Kathy Kallemright
Disney at his funniest;
Preminger, suspenseful
“That Darn Cat,” is one of the funniest pictures ever to come
from Walt Disney.
The plot revolves around a bank robbery and kidnapping that the
cat helps to solve. The bank robbers are played by Frank Gorshin,
the man of a thousand faces, and Neville Brand, a screen tough guy.
Haley Mills, Dorothy Provine,
Roddy McDowell, and Dean Jones
provide the love interest, but all
take a back seat to the big Si
amese.
BUNNY LAKE IS MISSING
A completely different type of
movie is “Bunny Lake is Miss
ing.”
In this mystery chiller about a
young unmarried mother (Carol
Lynley) who goes to a day nur
sery to pick up her four-year
old daughter and is told she isn’t
there, the question is not “what
has happened to Bunny Lake?”
Lellrr to editor
Stand up for America
while the chance avails
Dear Editor:
Today, we Americans have a great conflict with which to cope.
Who is to say whether the war in Viet Nam is right or wrong? This
is not the issue. The issue is whether we will help the South Viet
namese win their freedom and keep it. Therefore, the fact that Amer
ica is over there is important, and whether her presence there is
right or wrong, she is America, and she deserves our support.
We do not want anything from
the South Vietnamese. We only
want to help them win freedom
from Communist oppression.
They are a poor people and a
weak nation. Without the help of
the United States they would
quickly fall into the hands of
the Communists.
TRYING TIMES
Thomas Paine once wrote,
“These are the times that try
men’s souls. The summer soldier
and the sunshine Patriot will, in
this crisis shrink from the serv
ice of their Country, but he that
stands it now deserves the love
and thanks of man and woman.
Tyranny, like Hell, is not easily
conquered, yet we have this con
solation with us, that the harder
the conflict, the more glorious
the triumph.” This was stated
nearly 200 years ago, yet how
but “was there ever really a
Bunny Lake?”
Keir Dullea plays the over-pro
tective brother whose assignment
for an American magazine gives
the movie its London setting.
Lawrence Olivier portrays the
Scotland Yard inspector, be
lieving the distraught young
mother but becomingskepticalas
the story progresses.
This suspenseful production by
Otto Preminger is not recom
mended for West Georgia stu
dents under 12.
aptly it still applies to us today.
DIFFERING OPINIONS
Certainly we do have the sum
mer soldiers and sunshine Pa
triots even today who burn their
draft cards. Yet who are we to
say that they should not, or can
not, speak? As Socrates once
said, “No man is so thoroughly
right as to be entitled to say
that others are totally wrong. It
is well to affirm your own truth,
but it is not well to condemn
those who think differently.”
It is not always easy to sit
back and watch people make
mockery of issues we believe in,
and it is very tempting to de
nounce those who make mockery
of our efforts in Viet Nam. Yet
let us not forget that this is still
America, and here everyone has
a voice.
If all the world is ever to be free,
FRIDAY, JANUARY 28, IMS
Ed Collier
Africa is
seeking a
democracy
There are many concepts of
democracy, but America seems
to feel all democracy must con
form to her definition. Contrary
to America’s opinion, democracy
is not always republican.
The new and emerging nations
of Africa and Southeast Asia are
striving toward democracy, but
must first pass through stages
of education, industrialization,
urbanization and many others.
Why does the average American
expect these nations to be suc
cessful over-night democracies?
To the African, America and her
pushy democracy represent a
threat to the new nations’ inde
pendence and tradition, and this
is not understood by Americans.
To the African, experimentation
is the key word, for every Afri
can nation is searching for the
type of government that most
suits the needs of the emerging
country.
Americans wonder why some of
the new nations are hostile or at
least neutral when involved with
the United States. The reason is
complex; first the old “dollar
diplomacy” used in Latin Amer
ica is being applied in growing
Africa; second, the attitude of
the American who officially
or un-officially represent Amer
ica; and thirdly, the fear of the
giant power, America.
America’s people must look
closely at Africa, for world peace
depends on it.
Africa is the last frontier, a vast
expanse of desert, jungle and lush
prairie, and the people and their
resources must some day choose
the country they wish to stand by
- hope they choose America.
Letter to editor
Critic disagrees
with Collier's
future leaders
Dear Editor:
As much I deplore the stand
some demonstrators and such
groups as SNCC have taken
against our government’s policy
in Viet Nam and encouragement of
draft dodging, I agree with Ed
Collier’s column of last week
when he said they have the right
to disagree.
As Mr. Collier said, they are
free men and women who have a
perfect right to express their
views. However, Mr. Collier then
went on to say “The marchers
are not illiterates or rabblers;
they are the intellectuals, the fu
ture leaders of America,and they
are part of a generation of aware
ness.” They may not be illiterate,
but God help us if the characters
represented in these small mi
nority groups are the intel
lectuals and future leaders of
America.
David Parkman
or even a greater part of it,
and if America is to stay free,
then there must be fighting, and
dying, and other situations like
that in Viet Nam.
Clayton M. Knight