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WEST GEOKGIAX
TW Official fltaiMt Newspaper of West Georgia College
LEE HOWELL
EdUor-in-Cllief
® SALLY ROBERTS
GENE HORNE
Business Manager
News Editor Mary Zingleman
Features Editor Linda Hanson
Sports Editor Harper
Staff Photographers Edgar Tirado, Mark Stone
Purchasing Liquor-
Jubilant Georgians affected by the recent lowering of
the legal age limit, which now encompasses all state
residents at least eighteen years of age, are not fully
aware of the total impact of this legislation.
For while they flooded Underground Atlanta and other
liquor-serving establishments across the state as soon
as the ruling went into effect on July 1, they are in many
cases yet to realize the total nature of their recently
acquired status.
College students and others presently of legal age can
now not only sign contracts which are legally binding in
courts of law such as car deeds, marriage certificates
(previously males had a minimum age limit of
nineteen), bank notes, credit card applications, and any
other document which before this time needed a
parent’s countersignature, but also this group of
Georgia residents now represents a great potential to
those con artists and others involved in gyp-joint-styled
agencies.
These young adults are now vulnerable to SRCh
rackets as insurance and credit unions of disreputabre
nature. There is a lot to exploit in the innocent and
unassuming young adult, and these waywflxUJbusinesses
are fully aware of this situation.
Many people will learn that cont/olling their whims
business-wise is just as difficultjfcid crucial to viheir
existence as exercising self discimine with drinking.
In this credit-conscious society,\yoting adults dpuld
easily stain their records for life by oncoming involved
with risky businesses and shady deals whmh seem like
bargains at the time. These unscrupulous busKresses tte
likely to become to even more un*
scrupulous credit Rip-off .establishments are
as large a number /\ are those who
eligible for membership on their sucker lists. \
While the legislation to lower the legal age does offer
advantages for thoselaffected, the disadvantages are
also present yet not the least bit pleasant.
America today is coming to her
day of reckoning when some
definite decisions must be made
concerning her future course as a
society and as a world power.
The United States is the
richest, most powerful nation on
the face of this earth. It has the
strongest military force, the
largest gross national product,
the greatest agricultural harvest,
the highest mass standard of
living, the most capital and
consumer goods, and more
leisure time than any other
country on earth On a purely
numerical basis, it outranks most
of the rest of the world in indoor
plumbing, electricity used
automobiles, telephones,
cosmetics, and color television
sets.
INDEPENDENCE DAY
These are facts we hear every
Independence Day. We swell with
pride to note that our brave men
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have nevter-KJst a war, that an
American was the first man
walk on the moon, that we
heirs to a long and
tradition of freedom. *
However, some things are not
spoken of with pride.
Our GNP may be nearly 980
billion dollars but our unem
ployment rate is nearly 6 percent
of the work force. An excess of 30
million people are classified as
“living in proverty” and many of
these are starving.
Our crime rate has increased
by 146 percent since 1960 while
our populaton has grown by only
13 percent and there are now nine
major crimes committed every
minute.
Our political activities have
been disrupted numerous times
in recent years by assassinations,
civil disorders, and other forms
of violence.
OCR RECOURSES DRAINED
Our resources as a nation in
THE WEST GEORGIAN
MEMORANDUM
TO: Members of Hoard of Student Publications
FROM: Tracy Stallings, Dean of Student Affairs
DATE: July 11, 1972
I wish to take this means of spelling out my views on the yearbook.
1. We need to establish that the 1973 yearbook will be published in
a careful and professional manner. There should be adequate help provided
by the faculty adviser. Plans for the book should be detailed in advance,
deadlines set up, and every effort made to meet those deadlines in order
to avoid a last minute rush. There should be a firm indication from the
publishing company as to the amount and quality of assistance to be given
the editors, and the cost factor must be looked at carefully.
2. Some means should be established for sLudy and planning during
the coming year regarding the yearbook concept. We need to consider a
number of options, including but not limited to following:
Abolishment of the yearbook 'A
Changing its format and design, so qhat it Becomes a pictorial
account of the school year's activities. u
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Changing its formal and design to thft it only
headshots of the faculty afNL student*. a
Switching to a less e^einsive\r procedure. /
Etc. \ \ /
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A key to this evaluation during the be an assessment of student
opinion regarding the yeaebHgk. \
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This Same sort of review If due fn other student publication*. We may
need consider Converting the student newspaper into a laboratory
product of the nWlish and/o\ Jouhaalism classes or permitting it to move off
campus and become is private ei\C*rprW kith a contractual relationship to the
college. Similar pdisibilitie* explored regarding the literary
magazine. \
The role and scopXf the Boalh of Student Publications needs to be reviewed
*'during the year. I tend Up feel that it should speak with some authority re
garding all student publications and communications media, not just those financed
by Student Activities funds Ay This would give it a regulatory role with respect
to underground newspapers, club/ or organization/ newsletters, etc.
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\ X'’’" \ Tracy Stallings
- \ Dean of Student Affairs
\ I July 11, 1972
Mem o
Dean of Studelßs Tracy
Stallings plunged himself again
into the still-simmering con
troversy which has swirled about
aimaal In order to spell out
his views and clarify the letter he
wrote July 12 to Dr. Mathews
(see July 23 edition, page 4>
Stallings delivered the above
memorandum to the Board of
'SUudent Publications.
men, money, and materials
are being drained by a seemingly
endless foreign war which we
cannot win and will not lose and
by a far-flung, over-committed
military establishment our
"Pax America” is being
challenged all around the globe.
Our nation has had to face
challenges previously, but
hitherfore we have always been
optimistic about our position in
the world. Like a hot-headed
young man, America has always
been willing to "pay any price,
bear any burden, fight any foe”
to preserve its independence.
Now that it is approaching
middle-age, anew factor has
entered the discussion about
America’s role in the world and
her strength as a society: that
factor is uncertainty.
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