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JANUARY 17, 1969
Letter to Editor
Students Defend Ballplayers;
City Mayor Praises College
To the Editor
I feel the article written by Steve
Ellerbee about the basketball
team was disgusting and unfair.
What kind of sports editor is he ?
I know very little about sports,
but at least I attend the basket
ball games. How dare he pass
judgement on these boys when he
has not even attended the last six
games!
I think before Steve Ellerbee
ever calls anyone or anything
pathetic again, he had better look
at himself first.
As far as Coach Bennett’s
coaching ability is concerned -
ask around - it is debatable. It
seems to me that his coaching
ability is on the decline since
Fred, Jimmy, and Dan WERE on
that winning team last year! If
his coaching is supposed to be so
good then why aren’t our players’
skills improving.
Hope to see you at the next
game, Steve.
To the Sports Editor
It is my opinion, along with many
others, that your article in the
January 10, 1969 edition of the
WEST GEORGIAN concerning the
W.G.C. Basketball team was UN
FAIR and in “POOR TASTE.’’
Jimmy Tingle, Fred Jones, and
Dan Parrish put their best into
each game and all the students
who attend the games realize this!
I can’t believe the SPORTS EDI
TOR did not attend the games
and has the nerve to write an ar
ticle saying not enough effort was
put forth and “ya’ll come sup
port the team!’
Why don’t you put a little more
thought and school spirit into your
articles. Encourage our team -
don’t tear them down.
KAYE WEAVER
Bruce Wingo
Lilliputian Disagreement
Threatens World’s Safety
In my junior high school days, I read the story of Lemuel Gulliver.
Dr. Gulliver was the surgeon on a ship that went down at sea. He
swam to an island which he found to be inhabited by people only six
inches high.
After some time on this island, Gulliver found that the Lilliputians,
as they were called, were at war with a neighboring island of mites.
It seems that the two islands were fighting each other because of a
disagreement over which end of an egg to open.
SATIRE
Gulliver was a character created by Jonathan Swifs to be used as a
satirical representation of the human being. We all, however, know
that satires are always exaggerated, or are they ?
Since May of 1968, the great minds of several nations have been
meeting in Paris to decide the peaceful end of the Vietnam conflict.
This is January, 1969, and nothing of importance has come of these
meetings. It seems that they have a grave problem to settle. What
should be the shape of the table ? Hundreds die daily because a group
of old men can’t stand the thought of facing each other to talk peace
They need a table that will seat everyone without anyone having to face
anyone else.
TIME CAPSULE
Ths incident should be recorded for history in one of America’s
“time capsules,” so that the civilizations who follow the human be
ings on earth will know why we destroyed each other.
For sometime now, I have wondered why the wise men of the world
sit back on their stools of knowledge and speculate while the world is
ruled by fools. It seems a shame that the aged Averell Harriman will
be remembered by history as the peace maker who made no peace
because of a table shape.
Mark Twain once said that God created man because he was dis
appointed in the monkey. I find it hard to believe that God could have
been that disappointed in our evolutionary ancestors.
EDITOR S NOTE: This letter
was forwarded from the office of
Dean John Pershing, Dean of
Student Affairs, for use in the
WEST GEORGIAN
Dear Dean Pershing:
During recent weeks, some
groups of students voluntarily
assisted the City of Carrollton in
connection with projects
involving the beautification of
certain parts of the city.
The Mayor and Council, in
regular session on Jan. 6, 1969,
unanimously voted to pass a
resolution complimenting these
students on their constructive
and most helpful attitude. We
wish to express our sincere
thanks, through you, to all of
them.
The Mayor and Council,
representing the people of
Carrollton, are most appreciative
of this evidence of constructive
citizenship on the part of these
young men and women. We
sincerely hope that this interest
in the community on the part of
the students will continue.
We also wish to extend a
cordial invitation to them,
individually or in groups, to
attend any of our Council
meetings on the first and third
Mondays of each month, at 7:30
in the evening, at the City Hall.
JOHN ROBINSON, MAYOR
CITY OF CARROLLTON, GA.
Dear Miss Long:
It was good to read your editor
ial on “Efficiency.” All who had
a part in the improvements deep
ly appreciate your comments.
The new methods being used for
collecting fees and for is
suing meal tickets were the direct
result of excellent team work on
the part of members of the ad
ministrative team, including
THE WEST GEORGIAN
some very fine suggestions made
by students and student assist
ants. It is my firm belief that a
good team becomes a “winning”
team whenever everybody is
ready to accept good, sound sug
gestions for improvement, re
gardless of their source. Accor
dingly, we would like to urge the
students to feel free to come for
ward with whatever constructive
suggestions that they may have.
We may not always be able to
make immediate use of them, and
some of them may not readily
fit the basic rules that we must
follow. Plant and Business Op
erations here at West Georgia
College are highly complex at
best, and my door, my eyes, and
my ears are always open to any
one who thinks in terms of want
ing to help us do a better job for
the good of all concerned.
TED HIRSCH
Kent Walton
College Only 4 Trains ’ Students;
Fails to Teach Them How to Live
Gobble it up. Now - PUKE
Congratulations. You have now
completed the dominant phase of
your college training.
After four years of this gorman
dizing the “man” gives you a
sheepskin certifying that you are
a glutton. Be proud. You really
worked for it. You ate the food
without looking at it. You puked
like hell and didn’t recognize
what you’d eaten.
SEA OF LIFE
You’re now prepared for the tur
bulent sea of life. Start swim
Honor Commission Will Hear
Academic Dishonesty Cases
Cases of alleged academic dishonesty, which cannot be resolved on
a private basis satisfactory to both professor and student, may now
be referred to the recently created Honor Commission.
Made up of five students, one
from each undergraduate class
and the graduate division, and
five faculty members, repre
senting each of the academic di
visions, the commission spon
sors an educational campaign to
promote academic honesty and
acts as a trial body in suspected
individual cases.
TERMS OF OFFICE:
Student members of the com
mission are appointed for one
year terms by the president of
the Student Government Asso
ciation, with the consent of the
Dean of Student Affairs. Facuity
members are appointed by the
Dean of the College, following
the recommendations of the
chairmen of the respective aca
demic divisions, and serve for
two years.
The commission’s deliber
ations are conducted in closed
sessions and a majority vote of
both the faculty and student mem -
bers is necessary to convict a
person brought before them.
PENALTIES
Penalties for academic dishon
esty are determined by the com
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ming, baby. What? Sure you can
swim - come on . . . well, I’ll be
damned - you drowned. These
kids better start watching what
they eat before they try to swim.
Let’s look - There exists today
a sizeable gap between college
“education” and the work for
which it supposedly prepares you.
Why??
INTERACTION
In your pursuits after college,
you should discover the necessity
to utilize many, and perhaps all
mission according to the circum
stances of each individual case.
They range from a minimum fail
ing grade in the project to per
manent dismissal.
Wqt fct (kiratan
Published every Friday, September through May, except during
final exams and holidays by the students of West Georgia College.
Editor-in-Chief Judy Long
Feature Editor Pam Shirey
Sports Editor Steve Ellerbee
Business Manager Glenn Mitchell
Circulation Manager Jim Darby
Photographer Larry Benton
Typist LynnSimonton
Reporters Harold Drennon, Karen Roach, Freda Frazier, Bob
Garrett, Bruce Wingo, Kent Walton, Mary K. Zackery, David Winstead,
Mike Austin, Steve Axelberg, Greg Davis, Ron Cagle, Dwight
Campbell, John Mann, Bill Harrell, Bruce Jones, Rod Lipham, Susan
Montgomery, Mary Jo Muse, Malcolm Storey, Mary Williams.
Page Five
of the diciplines you studied in
college. But there’s a critical dif
ference now. You are called upon
to exercise several of these
diciplines in conjunction with
each other. Yet during the course
of your college “education,”this
interaction of the diciplines was
rare if not altogether absent. Are
you prepared to utilize your stud
ies ?? Are you on the right road
to a successful career ?
It seems that a college educa
tion should seek to approximate
more closely the reality of a ca
reer afterward, where the neces
sity to relate the disciplines is
frequent if not constant. Should
not our colleges truly EDUCATE
us with interdisciplinery
courses, instead of TRAINING us
through methodical programming
like a computer? Doesn’t this
training tend to slight the pri
mary factor possessed by humans
which makes them superior to all
other animal forms - the ability
to reason - the ability to intere
late and utilize practically all the
disciplines? -