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WEST GEORGIAN
Second Front
Views Of The Woods
Land Use Program To Tour Locally
BY STEVE LINER
George Chard, assistant professor of fine arts,
has announced in conjunction with Miss Gail
Sherer. coordinator of community services for
the department of continuing education, that a
reader's theatre production of Flannery
O’Conner’s short story “A View Of The Woods
will be presented early fall quarter.
The production of “A View of the Woods” will
\h‘ part of a three part series of programs on land
use that will be presented at West Georgia, in
and in Warm Springs.
Funding for the program is coming from the
state committee for the humanities which is a
component of the National Endowment for the
Humanities.
The three part program will utilize West
Georgia personnel as well as lay persons from
the specific areas to be visited. Academic
humanists from West Georgia who will lead
discussions will be coming from the speech,
philosophy, sociology, and psychology depart
ments here.
“The need for a land use program in North
west Georgia is ever growing,” Miss Sherer said
"With the ever expanding urbanization of the
Atlanta megalopolis and 1-20 cutting through
here there is bound to be a great value shift
within the next few years. Planning is necessary
now so that the residents of this area will be
prepared for the future and can deal with them in
a way that will bo to the mutual benefit of
merchants, students, and rural residents."
The committee for the humanities will be
sponsoring many such programs during the next
year. The programs will follow this year’s theme
"Georgia Values in Transition: Land, Liberty,
and Learning." Although programs of this type
have been offered during the last two years, the
concept for the programs this year varies in that
it will strive to give Georgians an opportunity to
speak for themselves as to alternatives to
problems caused by the urbanization of this part
Judges Rules Limited Protection
For Tenured Professors In Layoffs
The Constitution provides only
limited protection for tenured
faculty members who are laid off
because of their university’s
financial troubles, a federal
district judge in Madison, Wis..
has ruled. Denying a preliminary
injunction sought by 38 faculty
members who were laid off by the
University of Wisconsin, Judge
James E. Doyle said it was up to
the state government, not the
federal courts, to determine
when financial exigency requires
the layoff of tenured professors.
While it may be “sound
university administration" to
involve tenured faculty members
in such decisions. Judge Doyle
said, the Constitution does not
require it. Once the state makes
its decision. Judge Doyle added,
faculty members need not “be
provided an opportunity to
persuade the decision-makers’’
that other departments, non
academic areas, or other cam
puses “should have borne a
heavier fiscal sacrifice" or that
“more funds should have been
appropriated to the university
system.”
The faculty members are
entitled only to an opportunity to
prove that they were laid off
of the state, according to a spokesman from
Continuing Education.
The opposed objectives of West Georgia’s land
use program are five fold. They are:
to educate the Northwest Georgia public
about the possible value changes that may result
from rapid population growth, urbanization and
economic change.
to provide systematic review and analysis of
the effects and consequences of earlier growth in
order to provide a basis for the formulation of
alternatives.
to stimulate interest in area planning and
development as a means of pre-planning for
significant area change.
to help create awareness of the processes
involved in exercise and control of development
of the physical environment and to encourage
free discussion. And,
to stimulate awareness of alternative
courses of action of urban growth and change.
Flannery O’Conner’s “A View of the Woods”
will help stimulate interest in the communty.
according to the spokesman. It is a short story
dealing with the struggles of a man and his
family for control of the land. In an effort to stay
ahead of progress and thereby win influence and
wealth an old man loses sight of the beauty of his
land and sells it a bit at a time for sub-division.
The crisis of the story is reached when he at
tempts to sell the land in the front of his house to
a man who plans to put up a gasoline station
complete with cemetery markers, junked cars,
pottery, and a dance hall.
We think that this will cause a reaction in the
public as they visualize their lawns turned into a
morgue for all the junk that few people would be
interested in and that completely destroyed the
beautv of the area,” Mr. Chard said.
Mrs. Estelle Condra is co-director for the
production.
arbitrarily or for exercising their
constitutional rights, Judge
Doyle ruled They should be
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DAYCAMP
Forty-three children, ages five to 12, have been participating in the
annual West Georgia College Day Camp. The camp, directed by Miss
Dot McNabb. West Georgia w omen’s athletic coach, began on June 11*
There is one more two week session following the current session.
According to Miss McNabb. the camp sponsored by the physical
education department, is a lab experience for students in physical
education 310 and 510.
provided an opportunity to show
that, both at a university hearing
and in court, he added.
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Theatre Workshop
Forms Stock Company
The third floor of the
humanities building has seen a
great transformation since last
quarter, but only in the Studio
Theatre The changes have been
made in preparation for the
workshop’s stock-like work for
the summer.
“The workshop is like a stock
company in that every piece of
theatre work is done by members
of the company,” Dr. J O. Link,
associate professor of fine arts
and director of the workshop,
said
Also like a stock theatre more
than one production has been
scheduled for rehearsal and
production in the same theatre.
Two productions will open the
same evening in the Studio. The
larger production will be Agatha
Christie’s famous “Witness for
the Prosecution’’ with another
show. “A Space Oddity,” being
produced on the same bill.
"A Space Oddity” is a one act
play written by WGC student
Jimmy Mann who will also serve
as director of the show. The play
is nowhere, at no time, with non
personalities. "Witness for the
Prosecution” on the other hand is
set in England and deals with the
murder trial of Leonard Vole.
Cast members for "Witness for
the Prosecution” will be Steve
Liner as Sir Wilfrid Robarts,
counsel for the defense; Robin
Pelham, and Romaine, wife of
the defendant; Steve Cignarella
as Leonard Vole; Carlton
Thomas as Mr. Myers, counsel
for the prosecution; Gary Baldy
as Mr. John Mayhew, Vole’s
solicitor.
Also, Brenda Carroll as Janet
McKenzie, housekeeper; Herbie
Giles double cast as both Carter,
Sir Wilfrid's chief clerk, and Dr.
Wyatt, police surgeon; Marianna
Hay as the other woman; Debbie
Estes as Greta, clerk to Sir
Wilfrid; Randy Dueringer as
Inspector Hearne, New Scotland
Yard; Tommy Moran, as the
Judge; Scott Evans as Mr. Clegg,
laboratory technician with New
Scotland Yard; and Ron Heyman
as Foreman of the jury.
" Witness for the Prosecution’
can be characterized as a
courtroom melodrama," Dr
Link said. "We are asking that no
one reveal the ending, because it
will ruin the play for those who
have not seen the production.”
As if renovating the Studio
Theatre and producing two plays
weren’t enough for the group of
about 15 people in the workshop,
they have also planned to build
some standard scenery for the
Studio which will make it truly a
second theatre stage for West
Georgia.
Tickets for the shows will be
available beginning July 29 from
9 a.m. to 4 p.m. by calling the
Fine Arts office (ext. 479) or by
going by there (room 115). All
tickets will be by reservation only
and students and faculty
members will be accepted by I.D.
Cost for non-students wiii be
$2.00.