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AUGUST 11, 1972
Funny Money?
Squeeze That $
BY LM HANSON
In our economy oriented, complex nation, financial aid, either from
the federal government or private concerns reaches out to comfort the
Oklahoma dirt farmer who annually suffers the draught, the homeless
waif in foster care, the parapeleptic veteran of war, the industry in
need of expanded trade lines, and to help students nation wide in
financing their education on the higher levels.
Here at West Georgia College
the opportunities for educational
advancement via financial aid
are limitless. Under the scrutiny
of Mr. William C. Carter, the
Office of Financial Aid offers to
the otherwise unfunded student
money if you have terrific
grades, more if you are in dire
need to continue your education
and still more if you fit under
both categories.
The problems incurred by
being penniless, however, seem
trivial when compared to the
trouble involved to secure funds
from either the federal govern
ment, local scholarship funds,
banks, or private concerns
through the financial aid office.
To many students the trouble
is worth it; to most parents of
college aged youngsters it is
essential. There are annual
forms to be submitted, including
for most the Parents’ Confidental
Statement or Student Financial
Statement, the college
Scholarship and Loan Ap
plication, or the college Work
Application for placement with
either College Work-Study or
Student Assistant jobs.
Federal funds include CWSP,
National Defense Student Loans,
and Educational Opportunity
Grants. Under CWSP a student
may work an average of fifteen
hours a week and is paid $1.60 per
hour, ususally not exceeding $225
for the quarter. Students may
borrow up to SIOOO per academic
year in a NDSL, which accrues
interest at 3 percent and is
payable beginning the tenth
month after completion or with
drawal from school. EOG
provides needy students with not
more than half their total aid for
each quarter.
Scholarships available include
the West Georgia General
Scholarship and the Regents’
State Scholarship, both of which
are granted to the upper percents
academically and a student’s
need calculates the amount of his
award.
Other funds are available from
home-town alumni associations,
local civic and religious
organizations and lending in
stitutions such as banks.
Currently the most popular and
common of bank loans is one
which is secured through the
Georgia Higher Education
Assistance Corporation. These
loans earn an interest rate of 7
percent. During the first two
years of college a student may
borrow up to SIOOO per year,
Juniors and Seniors may borrow
SI2OO per year, and graduate or
professional students may obtain
Tak Won-Do Karate
Offered In Carrollton
The Carrollton Recreation
Department will be offering
classes in the Korean Art of Tak
Won-Do Karate beginning in
September. Hie instructor for the
classes will be Mr. Art Brown
who has a brown belt and is
working on his first degree black
belt.
Hie classes will be held at the
Health Clinic atop City Hall and
will be open to boys and men 10
years did and older. Ages 10-25
will meet from 7:00-9:00 on
SISOO for each year.
Many students complain of not
having money and really needing
it, yet their application for aid is
turned down by the office. These
GHEAC loans are available to
them, as well as the campus
sponsored SA program. As an SA,
a student works largely the same
as a CWSP student would, yet has
a limit of ten hours per week. SA
students often are paid at a
higher scale per hour than CWSP
workers, yet often hold the same
sort of job.
Consulting your current
bulletin for information on
financial aid will give you a good
head start over those who know
nothing and immediately run to
the financial aid office for ex
planations. The office is indeed a
itubub of activity, yet while the
people are friendly, they are too
often far from being clear or
decisive.
Making an appointment with
Mr. Carter is a surer bet than
trying to catch him in the office
when you have a free minute.
Following their obscure in
structions and filing out the
multitude of forms to meet the
non-prescribed deadlines also
will give you a better chance of
getting aid.
While the many stories about
securing financial aid are often
exagerated, it is difficult to deny
their truth.
So, if you feel your normal
pleas for aid will get you no
where, remember the director
and most of his staff are softies,
easily moved by either tears, or
if you are uncryable, a bit of
appropriate pressure. However,
the best movers are not always
the biggest gainers. What would
most stand in your favor are
good grades or ligit sob stories.
—Have Leaves, Will Travel
Trip To The White House
BY KURT WITTER
I recall the first day I met the
President. He had just called a
cabinet meeting to discuss the
world problems. The Secretary of
State took me out of his pocket
and offered me to the President.
How excited I was to be there! I
never thought when I was back in
Connecticut that I would ever be
this close to the President of the
United States. As he held me in
his hand, I thought of how I’d
gotten there.
Monday evenings and men 26 and
older will meet from 7:00-9:00 on
Wednesday evenings.
Classes will run continuously
A $5.00 fee will be charged each
student at the beginning of each
month. The fee will be paid to the
instructor and not to the
Recreation Department.
Men or boys interested in
participating are asked to call the
Recreation Department to sign
up. The number is 832-2496.
THE WEST GEORGIAN
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Students in a business policy class at West
Georgia College dramatise one of the business
problems examined by the class during the
quarter. The "actors” in the skit are (1-r) Lewis
Business Problems Are
Presented On Video-Tape
Stepping from the stage at
college graduation into the role of
a young business manager is a
tremendous change for most
graduates, and the business
administration department at
West Georgia College has found a
way to help its students prepare
for this change.
Through a business policy
course which makes use of the
college’s TV facilities, students
are actually seeing themselves in
the role of business managers.
Actual cases involving problems
encountered by businesses are
dramatized through skits
presented by various class
groups and video-taped in the
studio.
In the skits, several solutions
are presented concerning
problems in the areas of policy,
organization, human relations,
labor relations, and social
representation. A vote by the
class to determine the best
solution is followed by a
discussion of the alternatives.
The instructor then sums up the
day’s questions, pointing out the
My earliest memories are of
the plant bed where I lived and
grew up.
I had my first leaves by the
time I was two months old,, and
by the time I was five months old,
I was ready to be harvested.
After being cut, I was cured in
a barn over a charcoal fire for
four days. I was then packed in a
pile with my brothers and sisters
and put into a warehouse. There •
I stayed for several weeks to get
into good physical condition and
to acquire better coloring.
I finally developed a nice rich
mahogony color, and was then
loaded on a truck and taken to an
auction market. A buyer finally
bought me and packed me along
with my relatives in a large
hogshed, and there I lived for
several years, developing a
better flavor.
After my flavor had improved,
I was then sold to ta cigar -maker,
where I was blended with other
tobacco and used as a wrapper in
the making of a fine Havanna
Cigar, preferred by the
President.
While I was dreaming of my
past, the meeting came to an end.
The President picked me up,
removed my cellophane wrap
BUSINESS PROBLEMS
business principles involved.
Parts of the week’s skits are
replayed each Friday and
evaluated by class members.
Students are judged on their
familiarity with the case,
development of alternative
solutions, analysis of issues
presented and help the class
received from the presentation.
“Through this course we hope
students will begin thinking and
acting like business executives as
they are put into various roles
and have to make business
decisions,” Robert J. Stone,
assistant professor of business
administration and one of the
course’s instructors, said.
Dr. John A. Beall, Jr., also an
instructor of the course added,
“Not only do the students get the
feel of being managers, but they
also can see themselves playing
these roles just as their bosses
and fellow workers will see
them.”
“They can critique their own
performance as the tapes are
played back and see how ef-
per, bit off my end, struck a
match, settled back in his large
easy chair and inhaled my rich
aroma.
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fective their comments and
arguments are and what they can
do to improve themselves,” he
said.
Stone noted that since most of
the discussion in the skits is ad
lib, students get valuable ex
perience in presenting their own
ideas effectively, He said the
future executives also become
accustomed to facing the TV
camera which will be important
later as they make speeches,
sales pitches, or training films.
Dr. Beall concluded, “I am
sure our graduates will make
better managers due to their
participation in this course. The
classes have been effective
because they are both enjoyable
and informative.”
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