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WEST GEOUGIAX
The Official Student Newspaper of Weft Georgia College
LEE HOWELL
Editor-In-Chief
SALLY ROBERTS
Business Manager
News Editor Mary Zingleman
Features Editor Linda Hanson
Sports Editor ■ H * r P r
Staff Photographers Edgar Tirado. Mark Stone
Is This All There Is?
In your hands, you are holding the last issue of The
West Georgian for the summer session of this school
year. We will not be publishing again until the opening of
school in the fall. We think the rest will do us all a lot of
good.
It has been fun this quarter, and a little tiring
particularly for the staff on Wednesday nights. (If we do
not make it to class on Thursday mornings, our teachers
realize we are suffering the over-hang from an all
nighter in The West Georgian office; if we do manage to
straggle into our classes, our teachers always ask,
“How did you survive?’*)
The paper has been fortunate this quarter to have
some very able and loyal workers. We appreciate all
their efforts.
We are sorry that Mary Zingleman, one of the best, is
not going to be back in the fall, but we wish her well as
she transfers to the University of Georgia’s journalism
school. We expect to hear more and better things from
her in the future. We realize that she will be an added
addition to any news room anywhere she chooses to go.
We want to sincerely thank her for a job well-done.
We also want to express our heart-felt thanks to two
new members of the editorial staff this summer, Bill
Harper and Linda (LM) Hanson. Both of these in
dividuals —and we use that word to the fullest extent of
its meaning in these cases have done tremendous jobs
in their positions.
Linda has added anew spark to our campus feature
writing chores. Bill is a perfect example of our ad
monition to “stop bitching and start working” for the
West Georgian.
We would be remiss if we did not mention the long
suffering faithfulness of our managing editor, Sally
Roberts. She is a full-time student with a rather good
grade point average, a housewife and mother of a two
year-old son, and one of the ablest technicians to work
on the West Georgian recently. She also must have the
patience of Job to put up with the prolific profanity and
the tempestuous tantrums of the less-than-perfect
editor-in-chief.
Carole Griffith has served as our typist for the last few
weeks and will be back with us in the fall. This is the real
backbone job of this paper for the publisher demands
that copy be typed when it is sent to him —and it is
surprising what poor typers are good writers. Thank
you, Carole.
In passing, we also want to thank “radical Ricky for
making life interesting for us and giving us something to
smile about occasionally, and Chairman Bill, whose
eloquence contributed to the debates we have had this
quarter. (We are not saying what they contributed.)
The next regular issue of the West Georgian will be
published on Friday, September 22. The deadline for all
copy to be printed is September 20 at 6 p.m. We look
forward to receiving contributions from any and all
students who are motivated to write.
(We also look forward to getting some work out of our
new advisor, Dr. Ben Kennedy. He has been loafing too
much in his former job as history department head.
And, we don’t think he has been sweating enough or
getting as many sleepless Wednesday nights as we
have.)
We wish you all a peaceful respite from the grind of
college affairs. And the next time you “pop a top” or “do
a number,” think of us. We may be doing it too!
THE WEST GEORGIAN
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August 9, 1972
MEMORANDUM
To: Student Body of West Georgia College
Subject: Consitutional Referendum
As was announced in the August 4 issue of the West Georgian ,
the Student Government has been in the process of revising the
present student body consitution in an attempt to provide more
responsive student governance. However, it is our belief that the
majority of the student body deserves the right to decide for
themselves the merits of the revised document.
For this reason, the SGA Summer Commission has moved the
date of the referendum from Friday, August 11, to the second
week of Fall Quarter, 1972. One week prior to this, the revisions
will be printed in their entirety in the West Georgian for the
benefit of the entire student body.
Sincerely,
Ridk Waites
Student Body President
RW/sb
Editor’s Note: Last Week’s WEST
GEORGIAN carried a news story announcing a
referendum for the student body to vote to accept
or reject a proposed substitute for the present
Mary Zingleman
An Opening Farewell
By MARY ZINGLEMAN
This is more or less a farewell.
The last paper of the quarter...
my last quarter here at West
Georgia. It’s a time for
rumination and reflection on the
year I have spent here.
Most of the students, I realize,
are aware of me only as a name
on a page, if that at all. Still I
would like to share some of my
thoughts with you about this
college, and without sounding
ridiculous, about this place called
the South.
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S.G.A. constitution. That referendum has been
cancelled. The reasons are outlined in an open
“Memorandum’’ to the student body from S.G.A.
President Rick Waites.
large Southern California
college, I at first found myself
unaccustomed to the small town
atmosphere of West Georgia,
unaccustomed to less people and
cars, and frightfully unac
customed to, and unprepared for,
cold winters.
It was quite a shock to see
leaves fall from trees in bright
fire-burnt colors and patterns.
Winter brought bare-boned trees
dancing like ice-maidens under
brittle cold stars and moons. And
the wonder of the earth
awakening in soft fecund, sun-
AUGUST 11, 1972
green patches is something I will
never forget.
The strangess of anew climate
and new location didn’t last too
long. What I found in Georgia,
and since then, throughout most
of the South, was an almost
totally alien social culture (to
that in California, anyway) that
made me feel at home im
mediately. Courtesy, warmth
and hospitality seem to be
common to all, whether they be
Greek, freak, black or redneck. I
have made many close friends,
and I will hate to leave them.
The small-town atmosphere, I
must confess, has quite grown on
me. There is a slowness and ease
in daily living that allows one to
experience life before it manages
to slip away.
At WGC the relatively small
student body creates a sense of
community that is absent in so
many large, factory schools. It is
a very strange day when a walk
across campus does not bring a
hello from a friend. And most
West Georgia professors are
willing to talk to their students
even in a chance meeting at the
supermarket.
All these things may seem too
ordinary and too common to
require any comment at all. But
by stopping and thinking, I
realize how valuable they all are.
Granted, WGC is far from an
intellectual paradise, and the
South is not heaven upon earth;
but I would willingly trade all the
scraggly palm trees and Spanish
stucco smog-clogged housing
developments, the frantic eight
lane freeways, and the
seasonless, rainless California
climate for a few days of sudden
thundershowers, slower living
and a sense of belonging and
community, in the South, in
Georgia.