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PAGE TWO V 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. .* • $ * 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.