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WEST GEORGIAN
Volume 41 No. 5
SGA: summer leaders surface
Gary Price, Student Govern
ment Association minister of
academic affairs, and acting
president surfaced this week with
reports of SGA progress in the
continuing efforts to reinstate
outdoor concerts, prolong library
hours, and conclude work on the
student activity budget.
As the result of an exodus by
SGA officers for the summer,
Price, a senior political science
major from Douglasville filled
the presidential position vacated
News Analysis
Drug Bust Possibility
Keeps Concerts Quiet
The controversial issue of the
outdoor concerts ban at West
Georgia College was again
brought to light this week when
Mark Veljkov, senior psychology
major from Roswell proposed a
radio show for campus station
WWGC concerning the ban.
Veljkov, an announcer for the
radio station who calls himself a
concerned student, presented a
plan for an on air discussion with
campus administrators con
cerning the ban to station
manager Dave Callaway.
Callaway said he is considering
airing the show pending
Veljkov’s compliance with
certain criteria
The plan proposed by Veljkov
included a live air interview with
assistant dean of student services
Charles Smith, and ad
ministrators Ward Pafford was
President and Dean of Student
Services Don Adams.
As spokesman for the ad
ministration on the concert ban
issue, Smith said Wednesday that
he has no comment of the
proposed radio interviews.
A spring quarter concert was
cancelled by Dean Smith when
student editors and radio station
workers decided not to comply
with requirements stated in
guidelines proposed by the ad
ministration’s executive council
to take positive editorial stances
on the issue. The editorials were
to reflect opinions suggested by
the council concerning the ban
and student requirements at the
concerts.
this action censorship
of the press, staffs of the two
media services did not reflect
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with progress report
for the summer by Lamar
Chambers, junior accounting
major from Marietta.
According to Price, the plea
made by the SGA to Mr. Charles
Smith, assistant dean of student
services, to reinstate concerts
has had little or no affect on the
outcome of the much debated
issue concerning the ad
ministration’s decision to ban
positive opinions in their
editorials, but instead the
newspaper blasted ad
ministrators for the “deciding
factor” requirement placed on
them to “sell out” through their
editorials.
Citing "flagrant illegal ac
tivities” at concerts as the
primary reason for the ban, Dean
Smith said what happened at the
Omni several weeks ago could
very well have happened to
students at West Georgia who
would have participated in illegal
activity at the concerts here.
“And this,” said Dean Smith,” is
something we can very well do
without.”
At a June concert in Atlanta’s
Omni, a massive sports-concert
facility in the downtown sector,
over 70 concert-goers were
arrested by undercover agents
for violation of the Georgia Drug
Abuse Act.
According to Dean Smith, the
administration is not opposed to
concerts, but instead with the
actions of the students that ac
companies concerts.
Cecil Knotts, director of
student activities said that he had
become increasingly worried
about the illegal activities that
accompany concerts, and that
following an incident involving a
student “shooting up” in a men’s
bathroom during a concert, he
and Phil Cagle coordinator of
student activities who witnessed
the aftermath of the student’s
action, approached Dean Smith
with news of their concern.
This, according to Veljkov
prompted action by Dean Smith
to consider a ban.
concerts last spring.
Price said that Cecil Knotts,
director of student activities gave
some positive information on
Tuesday. According to Price,
Knotts had a tentative booking
with an entertainer, but Smith
vetoed plans for the
arrangements.
Describing the concert
situation as a “funny
arrangement,” Price said that
West Georgia President Ward
Pafford gave Dean Smith the
right to make decisions con
cerning the concerts.
But, according to Price, there
are internal personality conflicts
when it comes to the outdoor
concert issue, and these are
hindering any decision.
Price also said that there have
been contacts with library of
ficials concerning the
lengthening of library hours, and
the problem of policy concerning
overdue books checked out and
not returned by faculty mem
bers.
Faculty members are allowed
to borrow books from the library
for one quarter, but, according to
library officials, the books are
frequently not returned by the
due date, and are sometimes
never returned.
Price has assumed the title of
minister of financial affairs,
vacated by Ray McConnell,
senior political science major
from Calhoun who is on leave for
the summer.
In regard to the budget
hearings of spring quarter, Price
said that he “has finally gotten
the budget wrapped up, after four
week’s work.” Price and Knotts
had to balance the budget for the
coming fiscal year ap
propriations, tangling with an
estimated $12,000 to $16,000
deficit.
With the help of Ron Taylor,
junior English major from
Riverdale who has replaced Mike
Morrow, a Doraville junior this
summer in the office of judiciary
chairman, the SGA has started a
drive to send out pamphlets
urging incoming freshmen to
register to vote, according to
Price.
HEW Sex Descrimination Rule
Means Little Here Says Reeves
BY SHERMAINE BETNER
Following a meeting this week
with a Health Education and
Welfare (HEW) department
official in Atlanta to explain the
affect of the new sex
discrimination laws to
educational institutions receiving
federal funds, Dr. Robert
Reeves, West Georgia College
head of physical education
department said that the rulings
would have very little affect on
West Georgia.
Gwendolyn Gregory, the HEW
official expressed the stand
made by the department, and
STEVE GAMMON
Vet Rep
VA Rep Due In Fall
To Aid Campus Vets
Beginning fall quarter, West
Georgia College will have a part
time veterans administration
representative on campus.
Mr. Steve Gammon, one of the
nearly 300 veteran’s on campus
recently, has been assigned to
carry out the VA new program in
the Carrollton area.
The program, designed to
provide personalized service to
veterans receiving educational
assistance benefits under the GI
Bill, was announced in May.
Stipulations in the program state
that each college in the nation
will have a veteran’s
representative on campus, or
have access to a traveling
representative from a nearby
college on a regular schedule,
according to a veteran’s ad
ministration public relations
official.
A Vietnam era veteran,
Gammon was one of the 1,327
veteran’s representatives hired
or assigned within the VA for
positions.
He received his orientation for
said that female students must be
given more opportunity to par
ticipate in sports and there must
not be any direct discrimination
in equipment, facilities, accesses
to facilities, coaching and op
portunity for competition.
Under the new federal law
which was signed into a bill by
President Nixon two years ago,
discrimination on the basis of sex
in education programs and ac
tivities are prohibited by any
educational program or activities
receiving federal funds.
Commenting on a statement by
Miss Gregory in which she said
“There could be no segregation
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Friday, July 26, 1974
the position at the VA regional
office in Atlanta prior to the
training session held at West
Georgia earlier this month.
According to Gammon, he will
be prepared to resolve individual
payment inquiries, and “the
many payment delays” caused
by changes of address, depen
dency status of change in school
courses.
He will also be on hand to
assure that proper certification is
made by both students and the
school, he said.
Gammon will serve as a liason
for all campus veteran groups
and brief them on benefit mat
ters, and consult with college
officials on VA matters.
Gammon, who served in the
United States Navy from 1967 to
1969, attended Ohio University
where he received a B.S. degree
in communication.
In addition to West Georgia
veterans, Gammon will also
service veterans attending
LaGrange College, Troup County
Tech, and Columbus Tech.
for phsyical education classes,”
Dr. Reeves said that West
Georgia students asked for
separate conditioning classes
because of the activities required
in the class. But a coed class was
also offered, but now all classes
are strictly coeducational.
Dr. Reeves also said that since
West Georgia programs are
leisure time, “carry-over ac
tivities,” the classes are on a
recreational basis.
Casper Weinburger, Secretary
of HEW said it would be January
1, 1975 and possibly later before
the regulations would actually
take effect.