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NEXT STOP, POLAND
Showmanship is the word for these WGC Singers. They are (l-r) Bill
Dekle, Charles Autrey, Norris Warner. Felton Dunn. Mark Greene,
and Steve Rudy. For the story of the Poland tour scheduled to leave
next week, see page 11. (Staff Photo)
“Discussions Are K ey"
Radio Program Proposal
Not Appropriate Says Adams
“Discussions are the key to
making decisions on the con
troversial outdoor concert
issue,” said West Georgia Col
lege dean of student services
Don Adams this week.
According to Dean Adams, the
plan submitted to WWGC radio
station general manager Dave
Callaway, by Mark Veljkov,
senior from Roswell, to confront
administrators and discuss the
problem on the air, was “not
appropriate.”
Veljkov, who says the program
idea is on the part of students to
find out why administrators
haven’t reinstated the concerts,
submitted the plan last week to
Callaway.
According to Callaway,
Veljkov will not be able to air the
program until fall quarter,
because administrators will not
You Can’t Keep ...
BY CAREY SMITH
A casket was rolled onto the
bottom floor of the humanities
building, Wednesday, students
crowded around, and West
Georgia College drama assistant
professor Robert Mathews
rushed up to check the
“deceased ”,
Suddenly the body sat up, came
to life, and started carrying on
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be back from vacations until
then
“It will probably be the second
week, because everyone must be
here or Veljkov will defeat his
purpose. The responsibility of the
concerts will be thrown off on the
administrator not present,” said
Callaway.
In reference to the proposed
program, Dean Adams said that
the thing to do now is to meet with
SGA leaders. According to Dean
Adams, “No discussions have
taken place concerning the
concerts this summer, not with
Dean .Smith or myself.” Adams
said that he had talked to
assistant dean of student services
Charles Smith briefly about the
concerts issue last week. Dean
Smith left early this week for a
conference.
Gary Price, a senior from
conversations with the students
around him
It sounds like a story in
“Strange But True!’ and probab
ly could be, according to the
corpse.
Mathews’ drama classes are
required each quarter to present
a three or four minute television
film with a student cast and an
Douglasville and acting SGA
president, said this week that he
had mentioned the concert
controversy early .his summer to
Dean Smith, requesting that
some action be taken on it.
As of Wednesday, Deans
Adams and Smith were still
‘sitting on the decision, according
to Price.
“Administrators are tight
lipped on the issue, but they have
been gone so much this summer.
I can understand, they need to
talk to the other SGA people,”
said Price.
Lamar Chambers, junior ac
counting major from Marietta
who was elected president of SGA
spring quarter, is on leave this
summer. Price, minister of
academic affairs, has replaced
Chambers for the summer
quarter.
original script.
One half of his class decided
this quarter to take a crack at big
businessmen in their film, and
proceeded to tape collegiate
“executive” Frankie Powers, a
Carrollton sophomore, doing all
the things big businessmen do
including dying.
The tape, aired on a close
circuit television, begins by
showing Powers at work in his
office, then proceeds to show him
dying and finally being seen in a
coffin while mourners file by.
As Powers tries to look serene
in the coffin borrowed from a
local funeral home, thoughts
about mourners passing through
his mind are recorded from a
monologue style script.
Fellow classmates play the
roles of money crazed wife,
domineering boss, mourning
secretary, and happy
replacement.
Filmed in the lobby of the
humanities building, funeral
parlor accessories accent the
bronze casket.
According to Mr. Mathews, he
is very pleased with the student’s
ingenuity.
Impeachment
Just In Time
For Bi-Centennial
NEWS ANALYSIS
BY STEVE LINER
If and when the President is
impeached, it looks as though he
will be tried on three general
charges rather than page after
page of specific ones.
The first article of im
peachment charges the President
with malfeasance dealing with
the Watergate Cover-up. Backing
up the charges are such bits of
evidence as John Dean’s
testimony, already eloquently
presented to the Ervin Com
mittee. The major premise of the
debate concerning this article
was that the President, who
made a campaign issue of his
knowledge of every intricacy of
the working of his office, states
rather unrealistically that he
knew nothing about the cover-up.
Supporters of the impeachment
movement question this since it
seems that every one of the
President’s closest aids were
involved. They ask if it is logical
that the President would not be
consulted on such a vital
matter.
The vote on Article I was rather
startling to both members of the
Congress and to political ob
servers. No one expected the
Republicans to lose so much of
their strength so quickly. The
vote, 27-11, seems to indicate an
exodus of Republicans to the side
ol the pro-impeachment
Democrats. Of the 18
Republicans on the committee
seven defected during the
original vote.
Such a margin makes the
political observers almost sure
that the President will face
impeachment. Last Sunday, after
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Friday, August 2,1974
the recommendation of Article I
Saturday night, the Democrats in
the House issued a statement
through the Deputy Majority
Whip that they were expecting at
least a two-thirds vote in the
House. And should the House vote
line up according to the com
mittee vote, this is precisely what
would happen. The committee
voted in favor by a majority of
about 70 percent.
The anti-impeachment forces
had scarcely gasped over the
first article before the second
article was passed. This time by
a vote of 28-10. And the third and
final article was passed in
exactly the same manner.
Article II charges the
President with illegal activities
in the name of national security.
It is under this article that the
President is under attack for the
formation of the “plumbers” and
for illegal campaign activities
not related to Watergate
specifically (including the illegal
use of the IRS).
Article 111 is considered to be
the weakest of the three. In this
article the President is charged
with the illegal (and according to
the debate, immoral) bombing of
Cambodia. There have been a
few snide remarks along the way
about national security that
reaches as far as Southeast Asia.
In general, unless the
President has another trick up
his administrative sleeve, it
seems a very imminent
possibility that he will become
the first man in the history of this
country to be thrown out of the
Oval Office. And all this in time
for the Bi-centennial celebration.