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SGA Constitution Changes
To Be Decided August 11
A referendum will be held on
Friday, August 11, on the
proposed changes of the Con
stitution of the Student Govern
ment Association of West
Georgia College. The voting will
take place in front of the Student
Center between the hours of 9
a.m. and 4 p.m.
Due to lack of space, the entire
revised constitution is not printed
here. However, copies of the
proposed document are available
to all students and may be picked
up in the Student Government
office downstairs in the basement
of the Student Center.
Briefly stated, some of the
many changes proposed by the
SGA in the constitution are as
follows:
Members of the Executive
Council shall be the same as
always with the exception of a
representative from the
Executive Council of the
Resident Hall Association and the
Minister of Finance.
Hie Senate will have a total of
18 undergraduate represen
tatives elected by the various
classes and divisions, and
Graduate representative (s),
formerly appointed by the Dean
of Graduate Students, will be
appointed by the S.G.A.
President.
Another change proposed by
News Notes
TIME CARDS
Students who plan to return fall
quarter are reminded to sign up
in the registrar’s office. Time
cards will be mailed out from this
list.
GRADUATION PRACTICE
Seniors are asked to note that
practice for graduation will be
held at 4 p.m. next Friday,
August 11, in the H.P.E. building.
RIDING CLUB
A horseback riding club is
currently organizing on campus.
Any interested students should
contact either Pam Bruggeman
at 832-2753 or Sally Roberts at 834-
3844.
Students may receive one hour
credit for participation in the
club each quarter for a
maximum of two quarters, which
need not be consecutive.
LIGHTS
Bob Reeves, head of the
Physical Education Department,
plans to meet with represen
tatives from an Atlanta lighting
company soon to receive a
definite estimate on the cost of
lighting West Georgia’s intra
mural fields.
FACULTY RECEPTION
To all Faculty: There will be a
reception at the President’s home
on Thursday, September 21 at 5
p.m. to ‘celebrate the beginning
of fall quarter” and to provide an
opportunity for new faculty
members to meet the old
members, according to Miss
the S.G.A. is in the temporary
senatorship program to create,
according to Minister of Finance
Bill Drive, “a more efficient
Senate.”
Instead of an unlimited number
of temporary senators, it is
proposed that there be six at
large senators. These at-large
senators will first go before a
screening committee established
by the Senate. If approved here
the candidate will then be voted
(hi by the Senate. These at-large
senators will have a full vote and
will be added at the rate of two
per quarter with the term run
ning for one calendar year from
the date of their installation.
Presently, WGC President
Ward Pafford has ultimate
authority over all courts of the
college. The revised constitution
would rest ultimate authority
over all the college courts in the
Judiciary Commission. Judiciary
Chairman shall appoint eleven
associate judges representing a
cross-section of the Student Body,
with approval of the Executive
Council.
Freshmen elections shall be
held no later than the first week
of fall quarter, and the remaining
class offices, division
representatives, etc., shall be
elected at the first of Spring
quarter instead of the last of the
Lafaye Cobb, Secretary of the
American Association of
University Professors.
The reception is being
sponosred by the A.A.U.P.
REUNION
The annual reunion of A&M
alumnae will be held Sunday,
August 6, in the Student Center.
The Fourth District Agricultural
and Mechanical High School
became West Georgia College in
1932.
COMMITTEE REPORT
Hie Committee on Faculty
Governance has assembled
background materials and
tentative reports of their work
and will make it available to any
interested faculty members and
students. Ask at the reference
desk in the library.
Former Student
Busted For Drugs
Carrollton Police arrested a 19-
year old former West Georgia
student and confiscated a large
amount of suspected drugs early
Wednesday morning at Jackson
Court Apartments.
Arrested was Pat Pruner, 19, of
Building 5, Apartment 9. Several
other people who were in the
apartment at the time of the
search were not arrested.
According to Sgt. Billy Joe
Reeves of the Carrollton Police
Department the following
THE WEST GEORGIAN
quarter, as has been the previous
practice.
All other things such as
methods of amending, use of
Robert’s Rules of Order in
parliamentary procedure,
meetings, vacancies, etc., shall
remain the same.
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DRILL TEAMS PRACTICE
As the trend changes from drill to dance-drill teams, students from
the Southeast gather to learn new dance steps to use in their half-time
performances. Mrs. Barbara Tidwell conducts such drill team clinics
all over the country.
Garmon Plans Trip
To Conrad Country
London, England, will be the destination for Dr. Gerald M. Garmon
assistant professor of English at West Georgia College, as he attends
the first International Conference of Joseph Conrad Scholars on
September 1-3.
Dr. Garmon was the only
Conrad scholar from Georgia to
be invited to attend the con
ference by its chairman, Dr.
Suzanne Henig of San Diego State
University. He has previously
served as recorder at two Conrad
seminars at annual Modern
Language Association meetings
and has had several articles
about the Polish author
published.
Hosted by the University of
London, the three days of
meetings will bring outstanding
Conrad scholars from all over the
world together to discuss his
works, Dr. Garmon said.
The series of lectures and panel
discussions will be published and
probably be covered by the
British Broadcasting Company.
Dr. Garmon will be a participant
in one of the panel discussions
concerning the contemporary
significance of Conrad.
suspected drugs were found
hidden in the apartment: four
dime-bags of marijuana, nine
bags of white pills, three con
tainers of benadryl. one bag of
small green pills and one small
container of assorted pills.
Sgt. Reeves said that the
apartment has been under sur
veillance for some time and a
search warrant was obtained for
the Wednesday morning raid.
Other officers involved in the
search were Donnie Bates, Steve
Smith, and Kirby Farmer
Drill Team Camp
Held On Campus
Students from eleven high schools and two colleges were on campus
this week for the Barbara Tidwell Drill Team Clinic. Mrs. Tidwell,
director of the Texas Strutters of Southwestern Texas State Univer
sity, along with two members of that drill team, conducted classes for
approximately 200 girls who attended the camp.
Mrs. Dan Parrish, formerly
Vicki Payne of West Georgia
College, is also traveling with
Mrs. Tidwell, who conducts about
ten such camps each summer all
over the country. Mrs. Tidwell
teaches drill team corps in
private schools in Texas and is on
the faculty at Southwestern
Texas State University.
The purpose of the clinic is to
teach new dance steps to
precision dance groups who will
“It will be interesting to talk
with people who know so much
about this great writer,” Eh*.
Garmon said. “The panel
discussion should be especially
interesting since the audience of
international scholars will
participate in an open discussion
following panel presentations.”
“Testing one’s ideas and
theories against the very steely
blade of the best scholarship in
the world should be both
challenging and exciting,” he
predicted.
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FAMILIAR DRIVER IN A STRANGE CAR
Robert J. Robinson, an eight year employee of West Georgia College
who became known to all as “R.J.”, finally got anew means of
transportation for delivering the mail. Mr. Robinson, who has been
delivering the mail twice a day to all administrative buildings and
dormitories, after two months of waiting got anew scooter to make his
rounds. He has been using the police buggy until the new one arrived.
AUGUST 4, 1972
be performing for sports event
half-time shows at their
respective schools.
“Dance teams are just
beginning to catch on in this
area,” Mrs. Tidwell explained.
“Many teams are changing from
drill to dance, or a combination of
both. We hope to teach them new
steps and to help them improve
their performances.”
Girls attending the clinic are
from the Georgia-Alabama-
Florida area.
Six Dates Set
For Graduate
Record Exams
Educational Testing Service
has announced that
undergraduates and others
preparing to go to graduate
school may take the Graduate
Record Examinations on any of
six different test dates during the
current academic year.
The first testing date for the
GRE is October 28. Students
planning to register for the
October test dates are advised
that applications received by
ETS after October 3 will incur a
$3.50 late registration fee.
Hie other five test dates are
December 9, 1972, January 20,
February 24, (only the Aptitude
Test is administered), April 28,
and June 16,1973. Full
details and registration forms for
the GRE are contained in the
1972-73 GRE Information
Bulletin. The Bulletin also con
tains forms and instructions for
requesting transcript service on
GRE scores already on file with
ETS.
This booklet may be ordered
from: Educational Testing
Service, Box 955, Princeton, New
Jersey 08540; Educational
Testing Service, 1947 Center
Street, Berkeley, California
94704; Educational Testing
Service, 960 Grove Street,
Evanston, Illinois 60201.