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CAREY SMITH
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Pafford’s Resignation
The announcement Wednesday
by IJr. Ward Pafford that he will
resign as president of the college
at the end of the current year
came as a surprise and a shock to
many members of the college
community. Dr.Pafford, who
came here from Valdosta State
College in 1971, will return next
year to Valdosta to assume an
English porfessorship.
Dr. Pafford, who stumbled on
his first step here by spuriously
calling students “punks and
bums'*, has still managed to
weather three stormy years of
drug busts, stories about rocking
chairs and frequent student
gripes rather well.
So it was a surprise when he
announced his decision to return
to teaching saying that an
evaluation of his own tem
perament and capacities as well
A Shot In The Arm
A much needed shot in the arm
has been given to campus health
services with the scheduling of
two long awaited clinics directed
toward the students.
A family planning clinic slated
to begin in October and a
venereal disease clinic scheduled
to begin next Tuesday have been
arranged by Dr. Louis J. Morelli
who took over as director of
health services in mid-summer.
In establishing these clinics,
Dr. Morelli has put aside at least
a year of deadend discussion and
ill concealed administrative
tears and taken positive steps to
update and upgrade health
services available to the
students.
More than a year ago Dr. John
K. Curtis, director of health
services at the University of
Georgia, made a consultation
visit to West Georgia and left
behind a list of recommendations
which included setting up of a
family planning clinic. Already
at that time, the Family Planning
Unit of the Carroll county health
department had offered to
Welcome Freshmen
We re sure it’s not the first time
you’ve heard it and we hope it
won’t be the last, but here from
us to the freshman class is a
welcome to a college career.
College--it’s a place of people,
ideas, decisions, and changes-a
different place from what you’ve
been accustomed. It’s a world of
new faces, new friends, and
occasionally, new foes.
You'll be allowed-no. ex
pected. to seek new ideas and
develop them. You'll be given
choices here before unavailable
to you and told that the decision
you make will be your own. You'll
find new chances to be an in
dependent individual and new
reasons to be a dependent team
member.
There will be new goals, new
as a belief that West Georgia will
shortly require a fresh com
bination of leadership and
management abilities, led him
to his decision.
Dr. Pafford indicated in his
announcement that he gave the
decision much thought and quite
properly considered his own
interests as well as those of the
college.
If there is one bright note in Dr.
Pafford’s resignation it is that he
has given plenty of time to the
Board of Regents and the Chan
cellor to pick an able successor
and carry out a smooth transition
of presidents in the coming year
And we are pleased to note that
Dr. Pafford has unconditionally
promised to continue working for
the beneift of West Georgia in his
remaining year here. We couldn’t
ask for more than that.
provide this program on campus
at regular intervals. Even though
Dr. Curtis strongly recom
mended to campus officials that
they accept the Health Depart
ment offer, the family planning
clinic got nowhere due largely to
what one administrator claimed
was fear of “community
repercussions.’’
We believe that the collective
community is wise enough to
know that ignoring or denying
any problem, if its exists, will not
make it go away. And we know
that Dr. Morelli realizes this.
While the Curtis recom
mendations termed the family
planning clinic, provided by the
health department, “not op
timal’’ it was. however, con
sio 'red “a good beginning step.”
At last, the family planning
service and a venereal disease
clinic will become available on
campus.
We applaud Dr. Morelli and his
efforts in bringing the long
awaited and long needed
upgrading of health services to
the students.
courses, new causes and new
convictions. Perhaps it’ll take a
little courage and cause a little
fear but you’ll likely see some
victories and no doubt live
through some defeats. Courage?-
that’s that first big exam. And
fear?- that’s when some
professor tells you,“time will
pass but you may not.”
Sometime during the college
years a thought as simple as an
idea or as complex as an ideology
may arise and you’ll probably
find all the tools at hand with
which to develop it.
We aren’t trying to dazzle you
with our prescience--to coin a
trite pun--but we think you’ll find
the possibilities in college to be
interesting if not downright
exciting. Here’s your op
port unity--welcome to it.
David Willingham
SMr #
i A Portfolio of Public Opinion
Following the recent
resignation of (ex) President
Richard Nixon, the West
Georgian, that renowned
Carrollton-based college news
paper, immediately dispatched a
crack reporter to Parts East on a
fact finding tour Said reporter
spent several days in and around
major cities of New England in
an attempt to analyze public
sentinment in regard to Mr.
Nixon’s early departure from
office.
After many tireless hours of
garnering facts and opinions, the
reporter returned to
his home office with a number of
“opinion selections”, one of
which we are pleased to
reproduce below. The following is
an actual interview between the
West Georgian reporter and a
Maintain
Your Goals
BY LAMAR CHAMBERS
SGA PRESIDENT
As has been the case each fall
for the last 68 years, anew
academic year begins and a large
number of new faces appear at
West Georgia College. As the new
arrivals intermingle with those
who have already spent many of
their waking hours in the
classrooms and over open books,
their presence brings about many
changes.
Too many times these new
faces with eagerness to learn and
fresh innovative ideas are stifled
and stagnated by their
predecessors. My profound wish
is that the new students keep
their individuality and maintain
their desired paths toward their
goals. I sincerely hope that this
year’s new developing at
mosphere will be one in which
individuals work together in an
effort to reach individual
educational objectives.
I have recently become ex
tremely concerned with the at
titudes prevelant among the
members of our college com
munity. If a degree is to be of any
significance, we must work
together to achieve an at
mosphere in which academic
excellence is given a pre-eminent
position. It is the student’s
responsibility to guard closely
the educational excellence of this
institution and pursue the goal of
academic excellence.
Let’s make this year the year in
which we return this institution to
the purposes for which it was
founded. Our new students can
provide the impetus and
leadership for this initiative.
[Action!
Action! is a service of the
Consumer Relations Board of the
Student Government Association.
Been ripped off lately? Got a
gripe and want to see something
done? All you have to do is take a
few minutes to jot down your
gripe on paper. Be sure to include
all pertinent details as well as
your name and how’ you can be
contacted. Then drop it in the
campus mail addressed to:
Consumer Relations Board, P.O.
Box 10035 or c-o The West
Georgian, P.O. Box 5.
Action! will appear as a
regular service each week in The
West Georgian ...
Man On The Street somewhere
in Maryland
WG: Excuse me, sir. You, sir,
could I see you a moment?
Man: Huh? Whatzat? Whad
daya want?
WG: well, sir, I’m a crack
reporter representing the West
Georgian, that renowned
Carrollton-based college news
paper. and I would like to ask you
a few questions
Man: I don’t talk to no
(deleted) reporters.
WG: But surely, sir, you could
spare a few moments to talk to a
young inquiring reporter such as
myself.
Man: You college boys are all
alike aren't you? Pushy, that’s
what you are. A bunch of pushy
bums and punks
WG: Really, sir, I hardly think
the term “bums and punks’
applies to many college students,
however...
Man: Aw, what the (deleted).
I’ll give you your (deleted) in
terview if it’ll shut you up.
WG: Thank you, sir. What I
was wanting...
Man: You’re going to ask about
Nixon, aren’t you?
WG: Yes, I was.
Man: Well I’ll tell you what I
think about that (deleted)
(deleted) (deleted). I think he’s
the biggest (deleted) (deleted)
that ever (deleted) with his
mother’s house shoes.
WG: I take it, then, you were
in favor of Mr. Nixon’s
resignation?
Man: In favor. (Deleted), I
think that (deleted) should have
jumped in the Potomac wearing
about sixty pounds of logging
chain. Hey, that reminds me of a
joke. It seems there was this
sheriff in Mississippi, and...
WG: Thank you, sir, but I’ve
heard that one already.
Man: Pretty (deleted) funny,
huh?
WG: Back to the subject. What
specifically, did you have against
Mr. Nixon as President?
Man: Everything.
WG: Everything?
Man: Yep, every (deleted)
thing. Old sick Dick was running
the country in the ground. We
were going to (deleted) in a
gravy boat.
WG: Surely you’re
exaggerating, sir. Mr. Nixon did
aid his country in some ways.
Man: Like what?
WG: Ending the Vietnam war,
for instance.
Man: That’s just like you
college draft-dodgers. (Deleted),
boy, anybody would’ve ended
that little conflict.
WG: I suppose that light at the
end of the tunnel was com
pliments of General Electric?
Man: Yeah, and you’ve got to
remember that he had that
(deleted) Hebe Kissinger
working for him. That guy could
sell D-cup Maidenforms to the
Nagasaki Finishing School for
Girls. That reminds me of
another joke. There were these
two fat Japs you see...
WG: I’m afraid I’ve heard that
one too. You seem to know a lot
about current events, sir. Are you
a politician?
Man: No. I’m a writer. I did
hang around Washington for a
while, though.
WG: Oh? I suppose you were a
personal aide to President
Nixon?
Man: No, I never made it that
big. But I did hear a whole mess
of rumors about what went on in
the White House
WG: Like what?
Man: Sick things, boy.
Downright (deleted) perverted
things
WG: Tell me a few of them.
Here. I’ll lean over and you can
whisper them in my ear.
Man: All right. (Several
seconds of Inaudible) Hey! What
do you mean whisper in your ear?
Are you one of them sweet boys
or something?
WG: I’m sorry, sir. It’s just
that I had a very domineering
mother, and...
Man: The birthday parties
were the worst.
WG: Birthday parties?
Man: Yeah, them (deleted)
Nixons were always having a
bunch of pervert birthday par
ties. The ones for David
Eisenhower were the worse.
People would be raising (deleted)
and blowing them crummy
noisemakers sometimes on up till
10:00 at night. Hundreds of people
would go reeling in and out of the
White House, drunk out of their
minds on Orange Crush and
cherry Kool-Aid. It was
disgraceful.
WG: Really, sir, that’s very
hard to believe.
Man: It’s true! And they were
always bringing a pony in to the
party. They claimed it was for
David to ride on. but I knew
better.
WG: Thank you. sir, I believe
that’s all we have time for.
Man: Wait a (deleted) minute.
I’m not through. I could...
WG: That’s quite enough, sir.
Man: ...tell you things that
would make your supporter curl.
I know...
WG: Really, sir, that’s the end
of the interview.
Man: ...stories about them
(deleted...
WG: Sorry, sir, we’re out of
tape.
Man: All right, (deleted).
WG: Yes sir. Thank you, Mr.
Agnew.