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VOLUME XXXIV, NUMBER 21
Regents Approve Giant Auditorium
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ARCHITECT’S RENDERING OF NEWLY AUTHORIZED
AUDITORIUM which will contain 8,000 seats in the main hail.
The first Gothic building on the campus, it wiil be built on the
‘Maple StreetU’ Is New College Name
In an announcement Monday, The Board of Regents revealed that
West Georgia College would be renamed Maple Street University.
The name change will become effective immediately.
Dr. Floyd Boyd, President of
Maple Street University com
mented, “The name change has
been under discuss ion for several
quarters. With the advent of West
Georgia’s Graduate School, the
name of this institution has been
considered outdated and archaic.
We finally decided on the change,
because Maple Street University
sounded so classy.”
As news of the change reached
the campus, reactions of both
students and faculty were mixed.
Administration Cracks Down,
Arrests WGC Coffee Pushers
West Georgia’s administrators took swift and decisive action
Thursday to rid the campus of its recent plague of drug abusers.
A crack corps of plainclothes-
men and student informers, led by
indignant administrative re
formers, struck first in the stu
dent center where there were
widespread reports of underage
students using the devil weed
tobacco in its many forms.
USERS
According to a bulletin from
Field Marshall Roger Town
send’s office, the tobacco using
students came to the attention of
West Georgia’s authorities when
many of them made glowing state
ments about its effects and urged
other students to sample the drug.
From this information it was
easy for administrators to plant
tiny bugging devices in each
students room and thus gain de
tailed and damaging evidence as
to their smoking habits.
All sixteen students who were
arrested in Thursday’s raid will
be tried before West Georgia’s
newly installed court of adminis
trators, which used the latest
methods in dealing with collegiate
Drat deorgtan
COMMENTS
Boswell Spavins a senior from
Bowdon Junction commented, “I
think it’s a great name, it sounds
both folksy and intellectual.”
A junior from Ola, Georgia,
Feada Spitzy said of the change,
“Wow, that will be pretty im
pressive on the sign out front. I
hope the administration will
speed up their efforts to put up
lights so that people using Maple
Street at night can see the im-
criminals. Recent additions to the
court’s equipment include anew
pillory, a lord high executioner,
and 50 feet of rubber hose to be
used to extract confessions from
the culprits.
DAWN RAID
Other drug raiders struck early
Thursday morning at Jackson
Courts where investigators found
several hundred ill-concealed
cans and bottles of the habit
forming liquid drug ethyl alcohol.
Over 200 people were ap
prehended in this biggest of all
raids and rumors circulating
around the campus indicate that
these students will be dismissed
from the institution and forced
to join the army, female violators
included.
Even the faculty was not safe
from the long arm of the law
during Thursday’s roundup.
Thirty-one faculty members
from every division, including
several department heads, were
fired yesterday when it was dis-
WEST GEORGIA COLLEGE, CARROLLTON, GEORGIA, Mll7
present site of Hamm Hall. The main auditorium-theatre is in
the right background with smaller auditoriums in the wing to
the left.
portance of that thoroughfare.”
Dean Alabama Martin, coun
selor, stated tearfully, “I can’t
stand it. I am so upset I don't
know what to do. Please help me
this is atraumatic experience for
me, help me. please help me.”
DISASTER
Ed Collar, former editor of the
WEST GEORGIAN, said “Jour
nalistically, this is a disaster,
the MAPLE STREET UNI
VERSIAN just doesn’t sound as
professional as the former name
of our newspaper.”
The name change has caused
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covered that they were addicted
to a strong South American drug
known as caffeine or, in their
jargon, coffee.
EFFECTS BRAIN
Coffee has obvious effects on the
brain and nervous system of the
user -some habitual coffee
drinkers are unable to function
without at least one cup of coffee
in the morning and many must
increase their dosage by drinking
coffee during the day. Only one
faculty member was imprisoned
but he was sentenced to twenty
years in the pen for purveying
the sin drink, Jungle Queen cof
fee, to students.
According to Dean John J.
Pursestrings, the drug busts
were prompted by the rising
number of bad trips on the part
of students and professors who
use the drugs,tobacco, alcohol,
and coffee. Pursestrings com
mented that the action, harsh as
it may have been, served a good
purpose because it rid the campus
of chronic drug abusers. “In
these drugs,” he said, “lurk
danger, insanity, and death.”
3 Lose Jobs
As Result of
Student Poll
Three West Georgia professors
were dismissed as the results of
the “Student Opinion of Courses
and Faculty.” It was this publica
tions’s showing the incompe
tency of several instructors that
caught the attention of the depart
ment heads and brought about the
three dismissals.
Since the publication was based
on opinion only, in some cases
only one opinion was represented,
the professors involved in the
dismissal are taking steps to file
a libel charge against the stu
dents involved in publishing the
poll.
One dismissed faculty member
commented, “If the students have
no more respect for the hard
working instructors than to pub
lish a pack of lies that could ruin
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“SALESMAN selling on the street, whether its hot or
cold.” Recent administrative crack downs on the usage of
coffee, tobacco, and alcohol have brought anew breed of stu
dent to the campus the pusher. This student pusher spends
his time aroung campus dealing in illegal and crudely rolled
tobacco cigarettes.
FRIDAY, APRIL 1,198 b
Gothic Building
To Open in 1988
Anew auditorium seating 6,000
persons has just been authorized
by the Board of Regents, it was
revealed yesterday by President
Floyd Boyd.
In addition to the main audi
torium, the faculty will contain
over ten small assembly halls and
numerous meeting rooms.
The building will be the first of
its kind on the campus since it
will be all old-style Gothic ar
chitecture.
Each of the smaller assembly
rooms will contain the latest au
dio-visual equipment imaginable,
including electrically charged
chairs. If a professor or guest
speaker notices his audience
asleep, he will simply press a
button and a mild charge of elec
tricity is sent to every seat.
The main auditorium will con
tain a stage 500 feet wide and 200
feet deep. Fly space above the
stage for suspending scenery will
be three stories high.
A giant asbestos curtain, red in
color and containing the official
seal of the state of Georgia, will
adorn the stage.
One of the largest pipe organs
in the world, the giant Mohler now
housed in the Fox Theater in At
lanta, will be dismantled and re
constructed in West Georgia’s
auditorium. The organ is a gift
of an anonymous alumnus, who is
writing it off as a tax loss.
When apprised of the audi
torium’s approval, Hollis Sch
waltz, assistant professor of
speech, exulted: “Now I can pro
duce ‘Around the World in Eighty
Days.’ I can see the elephants
and steamships and balloons
now!”
Dr. Robert Schmoe, head of Fine
Arts, said, “We will have a fa
cility worthy to house our Stein
way grand piano.”
According to Marvin Tolliver,
director of a physical plant, con
struction will begin immediately.
Completion is expected within 15
or 20 years.