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VOLUME XXXVI—NUMBER 28
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WEST GEORGIA'S OWN PEP BAND sup
plied the entertainment for the student protest
“lie-in” held on the front campus Tuesday.
The “lie-in” was staged as a protest to un
Administration Supports Lie-In
With Refreshments and Music
West Georgia had its first dem
onstration last Tuesday, a pro
test * ‘lie-in” to voice student dis
content over unwritten rules for
bidding men and women students
to stretch out on the front campus
lawn adjacent to Maple Street.
About 50 demonstrators and 400
spectators attended the event.
The demonstration, sponsored
by a group of WGC students,
was designed to be, as a spokes
man said last week, “a fun thing”
and this is what it turned into
because of the presence of free
refreshments and the college’s
own pep band. As the “lie-in”
began, scores of curious towns
people almost caused a traf
fic tie-up on Maple Street, ac-
Academic H onesty
Tested by AAUP
West Georgia’s chapter of the American Association of University
Professors recently completed its lengthy report on academic hon
esty on this campus. President James Emory Boyd appointed a sub
committee of the advisory council to consider the report and present
its recommendations to the full faculty in July.
The purpose of the report, unan
imously approved by the campus
AAUP chapter on May 1, was to
expose the extent of cheating at
West Georgia, to rehash regula
tains and standards on the issue,
and to recommend methods of en
forcement in future cases of
cheating.
CHEATING “NOT RAMPANT”
Commenting on cheating on
campus, the report said that
“cheating on our campus is prob
ably not rampant, but it is pres
ent in many forms to a high de
gree.” The AAUP statement also
said that cheating is naturally
more prevalent in large classes
and large departments because erf
such factors as lack of personal
contact with the teacher and
crowded facilities.
Deal (korgtan
WEST GEORGIA COLLEGE, CARROLLTON, GEORGIA, 30117
By ED TANT
cording to students attending the
protest.
PEP BAND
The presence of the adminis
trative sponsored pep band was
originally intended to be a sur
prise move cal the part of one of
the administrators to allegedly
detract from the “lie-in,” but
one of the demonstrators found
out about the move the night be
fore the protest and announced the
presence of the band on posters
placed in the Student Center
Tuesday morning. Several mem
bers of the band said to THE
WEST GEORGIAN that they per
sonally supported the rally but
were paid four dollars each to
play during the activity.
Suggestions for penalties in
cluded giving a first offense stu
dent an “F” on the test paper
involved and an “F” in the course
and/or exclusion for one or more
quarters for students found guil
ty of a second offense.
COMMITTEE MEMBERS
President Boyd appointed four
faculty members, Dr. John M.
Martin, E. Wayne Abercrombie,
James Wash and Edith Maxwell,
to head the sub-committee. Stu
dent representatives were Don
Futral, president of the SGA,
Neal Shepard, president of the
senior class, and Jenny Rain
water, secretary of SGA.
EDITOR’S NOTE: FOR THE
FULL TEXT OF THE AAUP
REPORT ON ACADEMIC HON
ESTY, SEE PAGE 5.
written rules forbidding men and women stu
dents to stretch out on the front campus. An
estimated 400 spectators witnessed the event.
Mixed reactions to the protest
were evident because of the ad
ministrative action. Some stu
dents felt that the presence of the
band and Cokes, paid for by the
administration, only detracted
from the protest and gave it a pep
rally type atmosphere. Others
felt that the band acted as a draw
ing card for protestors and spec
tators and contributed to the in
tent of the “lie-in,” which was to
be a non-violent protest that could
be enjoyed by a wide cross sec
tion of the student body.
FRIENDLY GESTURE
One angry demonstrator com
mented, “I really resent admin
istrative attempts to turn this de
monstration into a school func
tion” but another member of the
same group said, “The best way
the administration could have
aborted the demonstration was to
sat tight in their offices. By fur
nishing us with Cokes and a band,
they not only admitted that some
thing very special was going on,
but they also attracted crowds of
interested students and faculty
members, many of whom joined
the protestors. No matter what
their motives are, we appreciate
the unknown administrators who
subsidized West Georgia’s first
protest. Anyway, they may have
hired the band and drink machine
as a genuinely friendly gesture.”
West Georgia’s “lie-in” re
ceived both local and state-wide
publicity. Carrollton’s local ra
dio station told of the demonstra
tion on a Tuesday morning news
cast and gave a tongue-in-cheek
account of the event that evening.
A reporter from one of the Car
rollton papers wandefed through
the crowd getting student and
faculty reactions, and the Atlant:
“Constitution” gave the “lie-in”
a two column spread on page
three of the Wednesday edition.
The Atlanta account said, in part,
that “some West Georgia stu
dents staged a ‘lie down’ protest
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Fraternal Organizations
Approved at West Georgia
By CAROLE MUMFORD
The Advisory Council to the president unanimously approved the
formation of fraternal organizations at a special meeting last Monday
afternoon.
In its report the Council stipu
lated that “affiliation with na
tional organizations will be de
ferred for several years. And
further, that these clubs should
be more than strictly social. They
should also try to add to the bet
terment of the college and the
community through various ser
vice activities and increased in
terest in academics.
INTERESTED STUDENTS
The question of fraternities and
sororities was first brought up by
a group of interested students
who wished to form such organi
zations and, as one of them stat
ed, “We feel that such clubs will
enhance West Georgia and make
it a truly first-class college.”
When these students took their
proposal to President Boyd, he
appointed a joint student-faculty
committee to study the feasibili
ty of fraternal organizations at
West Georgia. The committee
returned a favorable report af
ter visiting other college cam
puses and talking to administra
tion, faculty, and students.
BENEFITS
In the report which they turned
over to the Advisory Council they
stated the benefits of such clubs:
1. Fraternities and sororities
serve useful purposes in the aca
demic community when they are
adequately provided for and con
structively managed.
2. Among the benefits are rais
ing academic standards, provid
ing healthy social activities as
well as counseling, personal
grooming, and cultural growth,
meeting individual needs of iden
tification, and offering opportu
nities for worthwhile social ser
vice.
3. The relative degree of suc
cess and usefulness of fraterni
ties and sororities is dependent
upon the imaginative, construc
tive, resourceful supervision
provided by the college.
4. Whereas the national percen
West Ga. Given
Physics Grant
A $5,100 matching funds grant
has been awarded to the Physics
Department at West Georgia Col
lege by the National Science
Foundation, according to Dr. B.
E. Powell, assistant professor of
physics.
The funds will be used to pur
chase equipment for anew under
graduate research course which
will enable the undergraduate
physics major to conduct ad
vanced research projects with
quality instruments used in con
temporary physics.
EXPERIMENTS
The new equipment will be ori
ented toward the areas of exper
imental solid state physics and
experimental nuclear physics,
according to Dr. Powell.
The grant will be equally
matched by funds from the Col
lege
FRIDAY, MAY 24, 1968
tage of college students joining
fraternities seems to be dimin
ishing, there is little evidence
to suggest that the organizations
will disappear. One possible in
terpretation of the trend is that
enrollment figures have risen so
rapidly in recent years that fra
ternity membership figures suf
fer an unfavorable comparison.
5. State - supported colleges,
open to the public with only aca
demic requirements for admis
sion have much to gain in per
sonal refinement and cultural
growth from benefits provided
by national fraternal organiza
tions.
6. Affiliation with national orga
nizations was almost uniformly
recommended by college deans
interviewed because of the bene
fits of services provided by the
national groups.
PROVIDE HOUSING
7. Although the original pur
poses of fraternities (providing
housing, food service, and social
activities) have, in large part,
been taken over by colleges, the
national fraternities are engaged
in self-study and revaluative re
search in order to provide en
richment for their members.
8. Research indicates that many
parents prefer to send their chil
dren to colleges with fraternities
and sororities because of social
benefits. For instance, social
standards required by sororities
are almost always more rigid
than those required by colleges.
9. Some parents in the West
Georgia area (who could possi
bly become patrons of the col
lege) send their children toother
colleges where there are frater
nities and sororities.
10. Membership in fraternities
and sororities offers important
business and social advantages
after graduation particularly to
those who enter the professions.
President Boyd stated, “1 feel
the aim should be the develop
ment of unusual organizations
that will help meet the intellec
tual and service needs of our stu
dents, as well as their needs for
healthy social activities. The new
organizations, it is anticipated,
will improve the quality of cam
pus life and extra-curricular de
velopment of our students.”
LONG OVERDUE
Commenting on the recent ap
proval, Ron Puckett, president of
the Caveliers and one of the stu
dents originally behind the fra
ternal movement said, “Frater
nal organizations are long over
due on this campus. We feel that
overall they will enhance student
life. When these clubs become fi
nancially stable, they will pro
vide entertainment for the entire
campus and will make a concert
ed effort to keep students here
on weekends by providing worth
while and exciting social events.”
He further said, “The fraternal
organizations presently at West
Georgia are pledged to cooperate
with Student Government and the
administration in coordinating
future entertainment and service
for the entire campus.”