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Voice Speaks
The Editors:
In response* to the letter of
October 11 concerning WWGC
that appeared in the Letters to
ihe Editor column. I would like
to clarify some of the inac
curate statements made.
In reference to the “student
voice” logo being changed to
“music and ideas" , this is
simply a logo used for the
purpose of identifying our
station and differentiating
WWGC from other stations. The
logo was changed last year to
coinside with our first birthday.
Two students. Michael Booth.
Music Director, and Mike Ellis,
Program Director, came to me
and stated they were tired of the
“student voice" logo and
wanted to establish anew one.
They came up with the “music
and ideas” logo. I as Student
Manager okayed the change.
I admit we have an
nouncements every ten
minutes, during the day. At
night our announcements are
only every fifteen minutes. We
do this to keep our listeners
informed, not to sell them
anything.
As for WWGC being "one step
below top 40", that is absurd.
Ucording to “Modern Radio
Station Practices”, a top 40
station is “named because they
use a very restricted play list
lor music, airing only the top 30
or 40 best selling records and
repeating them....(top 40
stations) are usually charac
terized by a fast, even frantic
pace, youthful-sounding disc
lockeys. headline news in short
rapid bursts, much on-air
promotion, and singing station
identifications.”
The only thing WWGC is
guilty of is youthful-sounding
I) J.’s. As far as our educational
programming is concerned, this
is an F.C.C. requirement, not a
school requirement.
Do the students pay much of
the salaries for WWGC? The
answer is no This is the first
quarter WWGC has received
money tor staff positions. Only
seventeen cents of each
>tudent's eighteen dollars for
student activities goes to
WWGC, which in return
provides sixty-six hours per
week of music and information
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they to be token os representing those of the budent body ot large, the faculty, the staff,
ar the administration of this college.
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for the students.
Apathy? Our D.J.’s are
anything but apathetic. They
work three hour shifts to
three days a week for nothing
more than the experience. None
of our announcers are paid.
WWGC thrives on feedback
from the students, we want
their opinions so that WWGC
can better serve West Georgia.
However. “Douglas Marks”
(there is no one by that name
registered at West Georgia
College) does not appear to
have the guts to sign his true
name. WWGC wants opinions,
not a fallacious stab in the back.
Finally. WWGC is run by and
lor the students. I serve as Chief
Engineer and General
Manager, paid by the college,
but it is students that do the vast
majority of the work. While
WWGC is the station with
music and ideas” for the
students of West Georgia, we
still remain the student voice.
Dave Callaway
General Manager
Chief Engineer. WWGC
Challenge
lhe Editors:
On Nov. 5 voters in this state
have an opportunity to exercise
their rights as a citizen. The
inevitable question is, will they
lake *ime to do so?
I've heard many people say
that their one vote doesn't
matter, but it has been proven
and reproven that individual
votes are very important
Voting is the best way
Americans have to strengthen
and improve the government.
By this time some of you may
have been “turned off," feeling
that my challenge to vote is out
of date. I feel it is particularly
important for college students
to vote to show their concern
and interest in the government.
Although our society has
changed greatly, many people
still generalize college students
as “dirty hippies.” This
generalization is particularly
true in small town areas such as
the West Georgia area You
might ask why college
students should be concerned
with what the local people think.
Mv answer to this is that the
local government has much
control over the privileges and
entertainment that college
students can legally enjoy.
I strongly challenge everyone
to vote on Nov. 5, enjoying their
privileges as a citizen and.
hopefully, strengthening our
state through new leadership.
S. Cash
Parking
The Editors:
Recently you printed a letter
from a student who was
irritated due to the parking
situation at Roberts and Prit
chard Halls. There is still a
shortage of parking spaces
there. Something has to be
done. If the problem continues
as it has been, it won’t be long
before students start fighting
over parking spaces.
Apparently the administration
is taking the problem lightly.
In the middle of the parking
lot there are two areas con
sisting of grass and a yellow
curb. The only function they
appear to have is that of an
aesthetic nature. If these two
areas were done away with
some more parking spaces
could be created. Also, why not
widen the parking lot?
Whatever the solution, the
problem must be dealt with.
In the meantime, can’t the
campus police be a little more
understanding? We wouldn’t
want them to develop writer’s
cramp.
R. Edgar
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Bookstores
The Editors:
In the October 4th issue of The
West Georgian, there appeared
a student’s letter complaining,
appropriately enough, that
often there are insufficient
copies of textbooks to supply
students’ course needs. I agree
that this is a serious situation:
not only does it interfere with,
and even terminate, students’
study plans, in addition it is a
continuing source of frustration
and anger for faculty and
students. Myself included!
In other words, friends, while
it may be that some profs don’t
order enough books for classes,
in my case it pimply is that the
Campus Bookstore either
doesn’t get the books in on time
or “shorts” the order so as to be
sure they all sell! And does it
really happen that way? You’d
better believe it does!
And while we re griping about
the Campus Bookstore, let’s get
a few other things out, too. Asa
preface, I must admit that
neither bookstore is perfect.
Usually, however, the im
perfections which get in my way
are found in the one on campus.
First, I resent being charged
with the responsibility of
teaching courses and also of
having to wet-nurse the campus
bookstore through the evident
ordeal of having my books
-.tocked and shelved by the time
my classes begin. This has
happened enough during my
two years here to be the rule
rather than the exception.
Showing personnel how to use
ihe “Books in Print Index” to
find the price of a book, telling
personnel how to find the
publisher of a book, suggesting
to them that they might
telephone (yes, a long distance
call even) publishers to
determine critical information
about the prospective delivery
date of hooks, etc., etc., etc.,
this isn’t my job. It’s theirs, and
it’s about time they did it.
Another thing, I resent the
overt pressure from the
Administration that books be
ordered by faculty only from
Ihe Campus Bookstore. This
pressure has come out in memo
form and seems to me to be
unethical if not illegal.
The “suggestion” was
recinded when “the other
liookstore" threatened to raise
hell about it; but the effect is the
same. As long as there is
“support from The Top”, the
Campus Bookstore never will
become the business
organization it can no matter
who the Administration places
bureaucratically in control.
Free labor (i.e., CWSP) and
protection from outside com
petition seems just too heavy a
blessing to survive.
Finally, it seems less than
mature that a continuous war
be waged between the two
bookstores. 1 know and like and
respect at least some of the
personnel in both stores, and 1
have all my bookish needs
satisfied in one or the other by
the time it’s all said and done.
It doesn’t add anything
positive to the Campus
Bookstore’s image (or, as
implied above, to its efficiency)
to perpetuate this internecine
bickering. Seems to me that a
bunch of well-intentioned adults
ought to be able to come up with
something a bit better.
Andrew Short
Psych. Dept.
CPB
The Editors:
There is a rumor circulating
around campus that the College
Programming Board headed by
Cecil Knotts is planning to book
The Hues Corporation for a
concert.
Why not the Osmond Brothers
with Marie. Did Mr. Knotts
choose this group on his own?
Did he bother to consult the
people who pay for these con
certs? Namely, us students. It
appears that he did not.
I hope Cecil Knotts enjoys the
concert. I also hope the 15 or so
first quarter Freshmen that
attend with him enjoy it. The
rest of the student body will be
thinking of them.
Kenny Canady
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 he contacted. Then drop it in the campus mail ad
dressed to: Consumer Relations Board, P.O. Box 10035. or c-o
The West Georgian, P.O. Box 5.
Dear ACTION!:
Could you please find out what was done with the student
activity fees during this past summer quarter? To my
knowledge the only activity this summer was the publishing
of the newspaper. What happened to the movies and coffee
houses?
K. J.
Mr. Cecil Knotts, director of student activities, told AC
TION! that the Student Activity fees are divided into 26
different areas ranging from athletics to fine arts. Mr Knotts
said that most of the area are not active during the College
Program Board (formerly the UPC). However, there were
four movies this summer, as well as the newspaper, radio
station, intramurals and the game room being open
Presently the programming board gets $1.52 out of the $lB
activity fee and it was decided that the money be spent on the
movies rather than one coffee house.
Student Activity fees also went to the printing of the
“Brave Handbook", three freshmen orientations, and new
equipment for the drama department and opera workshop
THE WEST GEORGIAN, OCTOMR l 174
Foreign Policy
The Editors:
I would like to add some
comments in support of the
October 4 column by Charles
Autrey on United States foreign
policy.
I was in Chile during 1973 until
about one month before the
noted coup. The expenditure of
millions of our tax-paid dollars
to overthrow Allende cannot be
justified on the basis that our
government was opposing
“tyranny.” Anti-Allende forces
freely broadcast criticism of
economic conditions; opposition
parties held a majority in the
Chilean congress; a wide
spectrum of daily party
newspapers circulated. On the
other hand, 1 have vivid
recollections of one-half million
pro-AUende demonstrators
paralyzing downtown Santiago
for hours in support of his
government.
Consider the tragic human
effect of United States foreign
policy. The July 25, 74 issue of
the “New England Journal of
Medicine” (hardly a left-wing
propaganda sheet!) gives an
example. It describes how the
Allende government em
phasized better nutrition, en
vironmental health, and the
improved distribution of
medical care through con
sumer-controlled neighborhood
health centers. The current
United States-supported dic
tatorship had dismantled this
constructive system and has put
at least thirty-five physicians to
death
Dr. Richard Fagen, a
spokesman for the Latin
American Studies Association,
was in Chile as a consultant for
Ihe Ford Foundation. Last June
he gave published testimony
before the House Subcommittee
on Inter-American Affairs on
the brutal repression of the
Chilean academic community.
As arbitrary governments often
do, the Chilean military dic
tatorship dismissed nearly 4,000
university professors, cancelled
the registrations of thousands of
students for political reasons,
and burned hooks which looked
“subversive.” No one is per
mitted to criticize this ad
ministration.
Robert H. Claxton,
Assistant Professor of History
Action!
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