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The Editor
The
Bushtail
Brave
Dear Ms. Editor:
Well, teacher evaluation
has come around for this
quarter, but of what value
is that little “piece of
paper”?
I’ve filled those damn
things out for the past three
years now and to what
purpose are they used? The
college won’t let us see the
evaluation reports, they
won’t or don't publish
them for us and yet we are
told that these so-called
student evaluations of
teachers are for our own
benefit!
1 charge and challenge
the WGC administration
with their own
“teachergate” cover-up.
The only way that they can
exonerate themselves Is to
publish these reports and
place them in every per
son's mailbox for them to
read and study.
How is a student going to
avoid a boring teacher or a
teacher who does not teach
if the college will not tell us
who’s who?
Tell it like it is. It's our
right to know!!!
The Bushtail Brave
Not Him
Dear Editor:
Last week, the West Georgian
printed the proposed traffic
appeals system drafted by the
SGA.
Under both the current and the
proposed systems, there is one
student member of the appeals
board. While the present system
calls for filling this position by
appointment made “by the Dean
of Student Affairs on recom
mendation of the Student
Government Association”, the
proposed system states the
student member of the board will
be “the Student Judiciary
Chairman chosen by the student
body.”
True, an automatic ap
pointment to the appeals board
will finally give this elected
person something to do.
However, this proposal
eliminates the possibility of self
nomination by a student who is
genuinely interested in working
on the traffic appeals board, but
who is not an elected SGA
member.
It does not guarantee the
Student Judiciary Chairman will
care at all for the job, while a
self-nominee would.
Under the current system, the
Student Government Association
no doubt submitted to the former
Dean of Student Affairs their
mimeographed list of standard
recommended appointees, but at
least anew or truly interested
student could manage to get his
name on this list and stand with
some sort of a chance for ap
pointment.
I realize elections on this
campus are often unsuccessful
attempts at soliciting the
opinions of all students. Yet, the
students ought to have a greater
say-so in the new traffic appeals
system than having a small SGA
committee, chaired by a little
known student, draft a proposal
and submit it to the ad
ministration for approval.
Attending general assembly
meetings, joining SGA com
mittees and task forces, and
drafting proposals does not mean
one is representing the student
body, only one’s self.
Name Withheld
Diplomas
Away
Dear Editor:
Within two weeks I will be
bidding a fond farewell to this
glorious institution of higher
learning. 1 will dive headlong into
the river of life to try out my
newly acquired water wings. In
the barely discemable future that
lies ahead, of what will I speak
when asked about my four years
as a college man?
My college career has been of
priceless value to me. The great
volume of literature which I have
read and later regurgitated, will
enable me to spout forth helpfull
bits of advice and wisdom to the
younger generation. College has
prepared me for the struggle
against the current of the
afore mentioned river of life. How
could I expect to survive this
plunge without first getting my
rubber ducky?
Ed Taylor
Whose
Calling
Dear Editor:
Many other colleges such as the
Universtiy of Georgia and
Auburn University provide
telephone service for every dorm
room. A house phone placed in
the lobby accommodates in-dorm
conversations. This system
would eliminate the intercom
method of communication
which is always broken or fails to
provide adequate hearing and
speaking.
Sharing a telephone with 30
other girls is not only irritating
but inconvenient. This large
number of popele competing for
the use of one phone gives rise to
the build-up of tension.
Sometimes the phone rings and
rings without anyone answering
it. No one bothers to answer the
phone unless they are expecting a
call. Many times messages that
are left with someone else fail to
reach the person who was called.
On Wednesday night, when out
of-town boyfriends usually call,
the phone is constantly busy.
People start complaining for you
to get off the phone and you must
remember that we are forced to
share.
Ten cents few every local call
adds up and many times for the
lack of change some necessary
long distance calls must be
neglected. If the phone becomes
out of service everybody is out of
luck.
I know it would be too much to
ask that a phone be put in each
Whose Calling
room and we do have the freedom
(but not the money) to get a
phone from the telephone com
pany but having at least two hall
phones would help matters a
little. A phone at each end of the
hall would reduce the number
sharing it to 15 and would make
things a little more comfortable.
Debbie Dickinson
Buttons
de Belly
Dear Editor:
“Playboy” should be sold in the
college bookstore. Many people
find "Playboy” in bad taste, but
with today’s fashions for women,
a casual stroll across campus
leaves little for a young man’s
imagination. Maybe before
“Playboy” is taken from the
magazine rack in the bookstore,
blinders should be issued to all
males on campus. Blinders,
besides being uncomfortable,
would keep students from
noticing the darkly tanned legs,
the widely exposed belly buttons
and loosely gyrating blouses.
It seem that “Playboy” is
always remembered for its
pictures of the female body, but is
hardly ever remembered for its
articles. The editors of
“Playboy” have articles and
stories by some of the most
famous authors of our time. The
authors are not confined to only
males, but many females as well
write for “Playboy”.
The fact that “Playboy” is
offensive to some people cannot
be overlooked. But there is also
no reason that articles of such
great quality as are found in
“Playboy” should be overlooked.
John Godwin
Dreadful
Scandal
Dear Editor:
President Nixon is in a very
difficult situation. If he has not
had anything to do with
Watergate he should release the
tapes.
The investigating committee is
trying to get to the bottom of the
Watergate scandal, and the
President should help them even
if it does endanger his term in
office. A President’s obligations
are to his country and if he is
involved in this scandal he should
face up to it.
By releasing the tapes he can
prove that he is not afraid to face
up to the investigating com
mittee. Right now, by the way he
is acting, it looks as though he is
also involved in this dreadful
scandal.
This situation is indeed difficult
for Mr. Nixon, but if he had not
had anything to do with this, he
should release the tapes.
Donna Poe
Slow Down
And Enjoy
Dear Editor:
Summer quarter is entirely
different from the other three
quarters here at West Georgia.
Buttons de Belly Not Him
Dreadful Scandal
The weather seems to control the
feelings and moods of the ad
ministration, faculty, and
students in that most things are
more relaxed and at a slower
pace.
The leisurely walk to class
during summer quarter could not
be believed by the “mad-racers”
during the fall and winter
quarters. Teachers seem to teach
at a more relaxed pace, too. Even
the usual tension from tests does
not accompany the high level of
tension in the other three quar
ters.
I wish this feeling would con
tinue, but I know when the fall
quarter begins, the rush will
begin, too. Why can’t we “learn”
to take it a little slower and enjoy
what we have when we have it,
instead of racing through classes,
and our four years of college.
Elaine Flanagan
Trust Him?
Dear Editor:
The President should release
his tapes to the Watergate in
vestigating committee because,
first of all, it would tend to make
the people of our country trust
him again, especially if the tapes
prove he has no connection with
the incident as he has asserted.
Next, the tapes should be an
answer to the complex problem
of who is and who isn’t telling the
truth to the investigating com
mittee. In essence the tapes
belong to the people, if they
belong to anybody, (it is a
detriment to our country that
they were made) and should be
released.
If they are not released this
country may never know the
complete truth and it is quite
possible it may witness the
second presidential im
peachment in its history.
Clarice Norton
Innocent
Guilt
Dear Editor:
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Diplomas Away
President Nixon has in his
possession should definitely be
released to the “Watergate”
investigating committee.
These tapes and documents
could be very important to his
“self innocence” or "self guilt”
as well as the innocence or guilt
of others. It would be a tragedy
for some innocent person to be
indicted by the courts for a crime
he did not commit just because
Mr. Nixon will not comply with
the “wants” of the committee.
Mr. Nixon’s future is at stake
as well ac the future of our
country because of his “sup
posed” involvement in the
“Watergate” affair. So if these
tapes and documents will prove
his innocence and restore the
American people’s faith in him as
our President, then he should
definitely release them.
Unless President Nixon does
release the “material” the
Watergate investigating com
mittee wants many people may
draw the same conclusion I have,
the tapes must prove his guilt.
Bennie Walker
Pat, Pat
Dear Editor:
Today I had a chance to read
the Friday, July 20th edition of
the West Georgian. I have an
opportunity to review most of the
college newspapers in the
University System, and may I
say that your edition of last
Friday, in my opinion, is one of
the better editions of a college
newspaper that I have seen
during my service on the Board
of Regents.
The newspaper seems to me to
be a good example of responsible
journalism, although I do not
profess to be any expert on the
subject. It has matters of
National and local interest,
particularly directed to the in
terests of the students.
May I congratulate you on this
particular edition.
s-David H. Tisinger
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