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Volume XXXVIV No. 4
• THE SIGN SAYS ”
Fraternity Row, West Georgia style, is slow to rise —but the
promise is there. The completion date has now been moved forward to
winter quarter, but the Tekes, the Snakes, and the Chi Phis are still
believers that eventually they’U move in.
Washboards Ring Greetings To Sunday’s
Lazy Lakeshore 'Afternoon In The Park’
The Phi Mu Washboard Band,
sponsored by the Gamma Rho
Chapter of Phi Mu Sorority, will
be one of six bands to perform at
Carrollton’s “Sunday Afternoon
in the Park” to be held this
Sunday, August 6, at Lakeshore
Park. This family fun day is
being sponsored by civic and
business organizations with all
proceeds going to the American
Cancer Society.
Other bands include “Peach”
(formerly “The Sewer
System”); Tommy Morrow, a
folk singer; John Patterson and
Company, a country and western
group; and a to-be-announced
easy listening group. They will
play from 2 p.m. to 6 p.m. in the
park by Lake Carroll.
Many other college groups,
civic clubs, and local businesses
are sponsoring various fun-type
activities. Other campus groups
and their activities include: Tau
Kappa Epsilon, ballons and
flags; Tri Delta Sorority,
Chapter Award To TEKES
Xi Theta Chapter of Tau Kappa Epsilon at West Georgia was
recently named as the runnerup for the top TEKE C lapter in the
nation. =-
This award is symbolic of
TKE’s achievements for the
past year in the areas of
scholarship, service, mem
bership, and participation in
TKE activities.
TKE was in competition with
some sixty other chapters at
colleges with a comparable
number of fraternities
throughout the nation. The top
award was given to the TEKE’s
at Georgia State University who
won it for the second straight
year.
This puts TKE at the top in
Georgia.
“The West Georgia TEKE’s
watermelon stand; and an
unannounced project by Alpha
Tau Omega.
Admission to the park and all of
the afternoon’s shows, films,
entertainment, and exhibits will
be free. A small charge will be
made for food, games, and items
to be sold in booths.
Activities and their sponsors
are Apple Bobbing, Beta Sigma
Phi; Two Horse Wagon Rides,
Mike and Tim Kilgore, Pony
Rides, Hilltop Stables; Cotton
Candy, Lions Club; Ice Cream
Social, Civic Women’s Club;
Coke Stand, Rotary Club;
Country Store and Crafts Shop,
Homemaker’s Council;
Miniature Auto Rides, Peoples
Bank; Bingo, WLBB; Bean Bag
Toss, WLBB; Popcorn, Peanuts;
Kiwanis Club.
The Young Adult Council will
sponsor silent movies starring
Charlie Chaplin, Laurel and
Hardy and Frankenstein and the
Civitan Club has undertaken the
TKE
hope to be able to improve on
their past record and provide an
even greater bond of friendship
in the coming year”, according
to Richard Trice, President of
the Inter-fraternity Council and
past President of TKE.
TKE is one of the newer of the
large fraternities. It was
founded in 1899, and tyday has
the largest number of chapters
of any fraternity in the world.
The local chapter was
founded as Pi Kappa Delta in
1969, changed its name to Pi
Kappa Delta in 1970, and
colonized with TEKE in
February of 1971. It recieved its
charter in June of that year.
Wtst Georgia Coltegt, Carrollton, Ga. 30117
Fraternity Row Complex Fails
To Materialize Fall Quarter
BY MARY ZINGLEMAN
The new fraternity row com
plex on Lowom Road is now
scheduled for completion for the
first of winter quarter. Chi Phi,
Kappa Sigma and Tau Kappa
Epsilon will at that time move
into their new. houses. The
completion was originally
scheduled for the start of fall
quarter.
According to Cecil Knotts,
Assistant Director of Student
Activities, the delay in con
struction of the new fraternity
row stems from difficulty in
acquiring additional needed
financing. The developer of the
project is responsible for the
complete financing of the project,
and the fraternities involved
have agreed to a fifteen year
lease. At the end of the fifteen
years, the fraternities will own
the buildings.
Political Forum.
Local candidates for political
office have been invited to attend
“Sunday Afternoon in the Park.”
For a donation of $5 the can
didates may circulate in the
group, passing out literature. For
an additional $5 donation they
may “take to the stump” for a
political address on the public
address system. The Civitan Club
has arranged to have a suitable
speaking-stump set up near the
bandstand.
Most of Sunday’s activities will
be located near the Recreation
Center and the area in front of it.
A first aid booth is being
provided by the Pink Ladies,
Hospital Auxiliary.
The Optimist Club and Allied
Medical Careers Club also will
sponsor activities, however, their
projects have not been an
nounced.
Campus
Scenes
r
Biology 39 is
designated as the
“rump” room.
Student seen with
baby in papoose on
back wearing T-shirt
that reads ‘Tret Laid
Today.”
Two college coeda y
transferring to an all
male achooly consider
implications of males
throwing a
Gaines burger at their
feet
"The developer of the
fraternity project is having
difficulty in securing the needed
loans for construction due to the
considered high risk of fraternity
housing,” said Richard Trice,
president of the Inter-Fraternity
Council. The situation is similar
to that of Watson Hall, Trice
continued. “Guys have a ten
dency to get bombed and beat up
on housing. “However, under the
lease arrangements made by the
individual fraternities the groups
are losing nothing financially on
the venture, and stand only to
gain good housing at a reasonable
rate.”
“The new fraternity housing
will not be conventional dor
mitory type housing,” said Cecil
Dollar Depletion
Discussed By SGA
Consumer relations, a speakers’ association, and financial
unexpectations were three major issues discussed by members of the
SGA, accompanied by summer quarter disinterest at their Tuesday
night meeting.
SGA is planning to circulate a
questionnaire among the
students in regard to their
proposed Consumer Relations
Board, to be organized during fall
quarter.
The members also discussed
the past termination of the
sophomore class-sponsored
activities during Rat Week and
the funds remaining after such
action was taken last fall quarter.
At the time of termination
approximately six-hundred
dollars remained in the fund, but
is nearly depleted now. David
Parkman, Director of Student
Activities presented a statement
as to where the money had gone
over the past year, stating that
$4OO was used to cover the cost of
having “Flint” play for the last
Rat Week concert, and $6.80 was
spent for posters.
Handball Courts
Planned For College
An organizational meeting
was held last Thursday, July 27,
in the HPE building to discuss
the possibility erf adding hand
ball courts to the present
student facilities on campus.
The handball courts are
planned as a part of a multi
purpose area which is to include
six handball courts and a small
basketball-volleyball court.
The physical education
department estimates that the
cost for constructing such a
multi-purpose area would be
somewhere in the neighborhood
of from $6,000 to SB,OOO. Pete
Russell, Plant Engineer, is at
present drawing up plans to be
submitted for a professional
estimate.
Present plans are to begin the
project by constructing two
temporary handball courts, at a
cost of approximately S6OO, in
Auguit 4, 1772
Knotts. The project will offer
housing from two men to a room,
to a two bedroom unit with only
one man per bedroom. Individua’
rooms with baths will also be
offered.
“Hiis is a small apartment
style concept that will not b<
obligated to have a high rate oi
occupancy for upkeep,” statec
Knotts.
Both Trice and Knotts believe
that this concept in fraternity
housing will serve as a model foi
other institutions. “Two othei
colleges have expressed interes
in this concept of fraternity living
and will inspect the row upor
completion. They also hope to be
able to have a similar project a!
their schools,” said Trice.
Rick Waites, President,
authored a bill which was
presented as a measure to
initiate a Speakers’ Bureau under
the office of the Associate
Secretary of Public Relations.
The bureau would consist of
SGA members who would
volunteer their time to meet with
student organizations to discuss
issues relevant to college ex
perience.
The bill was passed
unanimously.
Mark Rowe, senator for the
humanities division, spoke of the
bureau saying he supports it on
the pretense that it “would work
as a laison between the students,
SGA and the administration, and
hopefully contribute toward
destroying the feeling of the
student body that the SGA is a
‘puppet’ to the administration.”
such a way that these courts
may be incorporated into the
completed multi-purpose area
when further funds are made
available. Construction of the
temporary courts should begin,
according to Bob Reeves, head
of the physical education
department, as soon as funds
can be acquired.
When completed, the hand
ball courts would be used, ac
cording to Reeves, for intra
mural competition, for classes,
and for recreation for individual
students. The addition of this
facility would also make
possible the formation of anew
sports club for handball en
thusiasts. West Georgia now
has seven sports clubs which
offer students one hour of credit
for fifteen hours of par
ticipation each quarter, for a
maximum of two quarters.