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GOP ON THE GO
Fletcher Thompson brought his Republican Senate campaign to
C arrollton recently and iirmly expressed his beliefs, lie is said to have
the best chance of any Republican in modern times to be elected to the
U.B. Senate from Georgia.
Political Involvement
Democrats Turn Left
EDITOR'S NOTE: Dora Byron is an advisor to the WEST
GEORGIAN and attended the 1972 Democratic Convention as a press
representative. Iler column is reprinted from THE CARROLL
COUNTY GEORGIAN.
BY DORA BYRON
Happy Days are not here again for everyone involved in this historic
Democratic Party Convention where the party is taking its sharpest
turn to the left since Franklin Delano Roosevelt.
Here the story is not nominee
George McGovern, nor even the
implications of that nomination
for the November election. The
story is the triumph of “new”
polities over “old."
However, the new politics often
look remarkably like the old.
Alt bough one-third of the 6,500
delegates are women, 22 per cent
are young people, and 80 per cent
have never attended a con
vention, they are learning fast.
Strategy is the name of the game
and many of those still in control
are the un-young, un-poor and un
til aek.
And a convention is a con
vention is a convention.
Within the fenced and guarded
meeting area one sees George
Wallace. Paul Douglas, Eugene
McCarthy, Betty Friedan and
Jimmy Carter. One asks
directions to a hot dog stand from
Carl Albert. A tanned woman
delegate passes in an ankle
length dress that is split to the
thighs. Souvenir stands sell
“Free Martha Mitchell” stickers.
A group tenses as three
policemen run into a door, then
relaxes for the men are only
escaping a shower. A pretty girl
goes by collecting signatures on a
“Don’t Buy Lettuce” petition.
Two young delegates enter
together, she wearing a Wallace
hat and he wearing a McGovern
button.
Outside the convention area
and hall the 7,200 members of the
media search for action. They
take cameras to a sidewalk
prayer meeting of the Vietnam
Veterans against the War and
follow a march of Cuban
refugees. Flamingo Park at
tracts the press. Here about 2,000
yippies, gay libbers, and
members of SCLC and Youth for
Chirst mingle with senior citizens
eating watermelon and playing
shuffleboard. “Say something
radical,” a TV newsman urges a
member of SDS. Tents bloom by
the palms and the air is muggy
and all is quiet. A young man sits
under a banyan tree playing a
flute.
This 36th Democratic Party
Convention is one of
maneuvering, tedium, rumor,
late hours and excitement. is
carnival and folk festival and a
rock concert. It is also the week
that the country is moving more
closely to a political division
based on liberal and conservative
philosophies. The eyes of Harry
Truman and A1 Smith look down
from the huge photographs of
political leaders that line the
convention hall, but others not
photographed must surely be
watching, among them Eugene
B. Debbs and Henry Wallace.
3,210 Students
Enrolled For
Summer Studies
A total of 3,210 students are
enrolled for summer quarter
classes at West Georgia College,
according to the final registration
figures recently released by Miss
Elizabeth Parker, registrar. This
figure for the 1972 session broke
the previous summer quarter
enrollment record of 3,107 set last
year.
West Georgia’s graduate
student enrollment composes 37
pet. of the 3,210 total registration
count. A total of 1,175 graduate
students registered for summer
classes as compared to 354 fresh
men. 376 sophomores, 471 juniors.
699 seniors. 24 transient students
and 111 unclassified. The big
percentage of graduate students
during the summer quarter is due
to the large number of teachers
who work on their graduate
degrees during their summer
vacation.
The 1972 summer session ends
on August 17. w'ith graduation
ceremonies for over 400
graduates scheduled for Sunday,
August 13.
Fall quarter gets underway on
September 21, at West Georgia
with more than 6,000 students
expected to register for classes.
THE WEST GEORGIAN
Fletcher Thompson Presents
His Views On Today's Issues
“I can’t promise you that I’ll
solve all the problems,” Atlanta’s
Fifth District Congressman
Fletcher Thompson told a
student-faculty gathering on
campus last Wednesday. “I do
promise hard work. I will
represent you honestly and fairly
• and make straight forward
decisions based on the facts.
Thompson, who is P res jrtJj
campaigning to
cumbent Democratic SmltoiV
David Gambrell, wa \tr p
Carrollton to speak on camous
and later at the Sunset Hills
Country Club where he addressed
the Carrollton Lions Club He also
toured the West Georgia Shop
ping Center prior to making visits
in Bremen before returning to
Atlanta.
After pointing out that he was
present 90 percent of all roll-call
votes in the house since his first
election in 1966, Thompson
Buildings
To Change
Functions
Several changes in the location
of administrative offices have
been or will soon be effected on
campus, according to Mr. Robert
Townley. Director of Plant
Operations.
The Biology-Chemistry
building, located on the
perimeter road, is scheduled to
open during fall quarter. The
instructional media center, now
located in the library, and the
West Georgia radio station, still
in its planniqc stages and located
in the OlcLEducation building,
will the Old Biology
building.
Both MJfcdeville and Aycock
were closedjfc? dormitories at the
end of sprmSjuarter and will be
used to Jmise administrative
offices. academic coun
selling ceSVwas moved ito New
MandeviltflUhis past week and
the Office is
scheduled to move into New
Mandeville in August. The
Campus Police Department is
scheduled to move to Aycock’s
first floor this month. Conversion
o a general study area is now
being considered for part of
Aycock’s second floor.
Two more dormitories
Adamson and Melson, may be
closed next year, depending on
the fall quarter housing situation,
according to Townley.
* One of the dormitories now
under construction, S-19, which is
located to the north of Pritchard
Hall, is scheduled to open fall
quarter. The other dormitory, T
-5, which is the apartment style
complex also located on the
perimeter road, will not be
completed until well into winter
quarter.
Radio Station
The Com
munications (iommission
has recen approved a
noncommercial radio
station Rhe W’GC
campus, plans for the
site nfw being
finalized^
The of the
radio station are now
corresponding with the
FCC for the assignment for
suitable call letters.
professed his belief that “the
standard of living - the quality of
life - is better in a university town
such than it is in
WiudArfgton, D.C." He then an-
(pestions from the
aAkenct^
Jn the early questions
*P>n<-orffed the publication of the
Ttyragon Papers “I think the
njen who released the papers
rnould be punished. But, once the
seal of secrecy has been broken
Horsemanship
Club Under
Consideration
The formation of a horseback
riding club is now under con
sideration. If student interest
warrants, such a club could be
established for fall quarter and
would offer students an op
portunity to kpfeivf two hours of
P.E. credit^* 1 /
One houryf cwo dit would be
given eacf qiarter for a
maximumtwjf quarters. Gub
credits d\oot lave to be con
secutive. J
HorseAAoum be available
through FMttopptables. Hilltop is
now suAjyina horses for the
fundam<\jals jof riding course
being offered Through the P.E.
department for the first time this
quarter
West Georgia now has seven
sports clubs, and students may
receive one hour of P.E. credit
for fifteen hours of participation
in any of these clubs. Those now
in existence are the Grotto Club,
the Judo Club, the Karate Club,
the Bar Bell Club, the Scuba
Diving Club, the Bravettes, and
the recently formed Sky Diving
Club.
If response is adequate, a
meeting will be scheduled to
make further plans for the for
mation, of a riding club.
Interested students should call
Pam Bruggeman at 834-2753 or
Sally Roberts at 834-3844.
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KEEPOFFT rass
This thriving plant of cannabis waftyundin the flower garden on the
Brumbelow Street side of the wap one of several located on
campus, but the fastest grow ing becMise in the garden in plenty
of light and was watered and fertilized regularly. Several others have
been seen also, but now the groundsmen know what it looks like. So,
being foretold is forewarned. Don't pick the grass: you and n’t know who
may be watching.
JULY 14, 1972
Ihe press is completely within
their rights to pick up on it. I do
think newspapers should use
discretion in publishing as it
regards national defense.”
Another question concerned the
equal rights for women amend
ment which he said he had voted
for “out of sheer terror.” He
added. “I couldn’t have gone horn
to face my wife and children if I
had not.”
When asked if he would support
defense spending cut backs and
drastic tax-reform as proposed
by Senator George McGovern,
the then-likely, and now nominee
of the Democratic Party,
Thompson responded. “I could
not support his positions. I feel
our President has presented the
most reasonable, and most
rational policies in recent years.”
After leaving the campus,
Thompson spoke to the Lions
Club. His speech was concerned
mostly with his proposals to limit
the term of Federal judges
particularly those that sit on the
Supreme Court. He did have kind
words for the four men appointed
by the present occupant of the
White House.
Exercises
Are Scheduled
For 425 Grads
Summer quarter graduation
exercises have been set for
Sunday, August 13, at 9:00 a.m. in
the Health and Physical
Education Building Dr. Henry
King Stanford. President of the
University of Miami, will give the
commencement address.
Tenative figures released by
the registrar’s office indicate
that 425 degrees will be awarded
Undergraduate degrees to be
awarded number approximately
257, while there are 168 advanced
degree candidates.