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VOLUME XXXIV, NUMBER 21 Regents Approve Giant Auditorium * ~ i-~ ■ * J| ° k ‘ ' ’ r 51 V *3ore£iP ' , ' ! S^ : ''^* ’< ' J ? , r* ,*'- ■• '* , / 1 u 3^ ,s f > "™ Sif f^MWr t /:' w #fn '&. ■mwOWtlfflitirr-iiT, ■ \ .? a i ■> 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 With the advent of West Georgia’s Graduate School, the name of this institution has been considered outdated and archaic.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 (Continued on Page 6) 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 (Continued on Page 6) ~ flpl ip *' jam Wmf ' Ipljll if : mb' “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.