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Events Scheduled For
New Academic Year
A myriad of events await students who will be spending their 1972-73
academic year at West Georgia College. Fall quarter will feature two
big concerts— Bloodrock on Tuesday, October 17, and Bill Withers on
Friday, December 1. A series of out door concerts will be held in Love
Valley, alias the Stoned Zone, throughout the quarter.
Another important set of dates
to remember will be the fall
quarter recesses. The first will be
the Election Day recess, on
November 7. Thanksgiving
recess begins at noon on
November 22, and classes will
resume on November 27.
December 6 is scheduled as a free
day before exams begin on
December 7. Finally, the
Christmas recess (between
quarters) will extend from
December 13 through January 2.
Winter quarter will offer a
series of weekly coffee houses,
which usually begin at 7:30 p.m.
and run until 11 p.m. Students can
also look forward to a number of
art exhibits to be held in the first
floor gallery of the Humanities
building.
Major events of Spring Quarter
will include Parents Day, Spring
Fling, the Fine Arts Festival, and
Greek Week.
Parents Day, a college spon
sored day of special activities for
parents and families of all
students enrolled at West
Georgia, includes the presen
tation of awards during an
awards convocation in the HPE
Building,
Spring Fling is a week of
special activities for students and
faculty. Its purpose is to bring the
two groups together for
promoting good student-faculty
relations in an atmosphere of fun
for all. Activities include a bridge
The Sisters of Phi Mu
Welcome New Students
and wish for them the
best in the years to
come.
tournament, lectures, concerts, a
soap box derby, and other special
events.
The annual Fine Arts Festival
was innaugurated at West
Georgia in the spring of 1964. This
event, scheduled for May of each
year, presents a varied program
featuring students, faculty
members and professional artists
and musicians.
Greek Week, sponsored by the
Interfraternity Council, provides
a week of activities for frater
nities and sororities, including
concerts, athletic contests,
chariot races, beer parties, and
other “classical” forms of
recreation.
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Students congregate on the grassy plot in front
of the Student Center to gossip, meet new
friends, and relax after a hard day. And then
THE WEST GEORGIAN
Leisure
Students Fend Off Boredom
With Variety of Pastimes
BY LM Hanson
During their free moments,
which for some constantly and
for others occur only on
weekends. West Georgians are
observed flirting with that great
looking hunk of a guy in English
class, cheering for a favored
team during a weekly ballgame,
catching the hump-night flick at
the SSLecture, Hall, or sleeping
off a bad day.
All this leads to the conclusion
that there is a lot more to college
life than cramming for tests
cutting dull classes and buttering
up professors.
Yet even all this does not en
compass the total realm of
possible leisure time activities
enjoyed by West Georgians.
FOR EXAMPLE
For those who are more in
clined than their brethren, who
COMBATING BOREDOM
there’s the campus dog who usually joins the
group
do not mind the boredom of usual
activities, the City of Carrollton
offers a number of opportunities.
For food service complainers
there is a pizza joint of every size,
shape and flavor, a visit to which
can be followed by a flick at one
of the two local theatres. Then of
course there is the Family Drive
In with such features as “Women
In Cages.”
The county offers one of the six
top recreational programs in
Georgia, and readily available to
the college set is Tanner State
Park. The park has picnic and
hiking areas, a miniature golf
course and a beach, which is
much more spacious than Lake
Carroll, on Highway 166.
Tanners’s Beach is also a much
nicer place to take your date to
watch the submarine races.
There is rentable equipment of
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The Eta Sigma Chapter
of Pi Kappa Alpha
welcomes new students
to W est Georgia College.
SEPTEMBER 18, 1972
all sorts on campus and plenty of
land with which to utilize it in the
immediate area. Not only can one
easily locate hiking and biking
spots, but also obscure little
fishing ponds for a day of
relaxation and tension release.
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For those even more inclined or
rather who find the activities in
near proximity a bit dull, usually
occurring after many quarters’
frequence of such, Atlanta is only
51 miles to the northeast. Once
there the opportunities are
limitless
Summers in Carrollton may be
hot in some regards, but not in
all. So the otherwise unsatisfiable
people can gather up the gang,
locate some bread, and crank the
car for even more excitement
, 'lsewhere
Panama City’s beacnes ana
bikinis are about 400 miles away;
Jekyll Island about 425. Fort
Lauderdale is around 800 miles
south and 100 further is Miami.
Those with a really bad week to
forget need not hang it all up and
enlist in the foreign legion, for
New Orleans is around 500 miles
west, and offers both the thrill
and romance one would think a
Mississippi riverside town would.
Many may find themselves too
inhibited by one factor or another
to engage in much leisure time
excitement at all, but for them
there is always the powerful,
endless human imagination or
West Georgia’s own student
center to keep them off the
streets