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Honors Program
Senate Unveils Plan To Faculty
BY BUBBA IIOVIS
The faculty senate voted last
spring to implement an honors
program, filling what
spokesmen for the group term
ed “a definite hole in the
curriculum.” A committee was
appointed to design the
program, and their proposals
have now been put forth to the
faculty and administration.
The committee, consisting of
Dr. Virginia Meehan, associate
professor of English, Dr. Cope
Goodwin. assistant professor of
history. Dr Waltraut Stein,
associate professor of
psychology, and Duncan Tye,
assistant professor of
economics, hopes to have the
program in full operation by
Spring Quarter. The first in
vitations to join the program
will be extended to ap
proximately st) freshmen whose
predicted grade point average
is 3.25 or better.
Any other students who wish
to participate in the program
are invited to join also. To do so.
a high SAT score supported by
above average high school
grades are needed Students
may also be nominated by a
professor, in whien ase letters
if recommendation from two
professors are required. The
same is applicable to any
student who has participated in
an honors program at another
college. Such requests are
studied by the committee or the
honors faculty.
Members of the honors
faculty shall be chosen by the
committee. A faculty member
may volunteer for such a
IHisition or be by
iheir department head. Com
mittee members said,
‘Members of the honors faculty
must be scholars in terms of
their academic training, in
tellectual interests, and con
tinuing study in their chosen
fields Thev'should above all,
however, prove superior ability
as teachers.”
A member of the honors
faculty must also have taught
here for at least one year.
Honors courses will be
designed to require the students
to make full use of their
abilities, according to the
committee's report. The
courses will be created jointly
by the honor students and
faculty, and will be specially
designated in the curriculum.
To remain in the program,
students will be required to
maintain a 3.0 average in the
honor courses.
There will be a specially
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designed meeting and reading
room in the library for the use of
the honor students, and special
living accommodations will be
made available to them. There
will be special receptions in the
fall and spring quarters, and a
banquet during winter quarter.
Commenting on her ex
pectations, Dr. Meehan said.
“The program will provide a
greater opportunity than has
existed in the past for the many
fine students who come to West
Georgia to fulfill their in
tellectual abilities. It will
enable them to act even more
like the salt that has not lost its
savor.”
St. Louis Jazz Group
Will Perform Here
The St. Louis Jazz Quartet, a
musical ensemble that has
performed at colleges from the
deep South to Alaska, will
present a concert in the HPh.
building on Tuesday at 8 pm.
The concert, presented by the
West Georgia Mutual Concert
Association, is open to members
as well as to college students
who present an identification
card Membership to the con
cert association will be sold up
to performance time.
A feature of the group’s
performances is the singing of
Ms. Jeanne Trevor, a jazz
singer.
As one reviewer phrased it.
‘She made an old-fashioned
ballad like I'm Old Fashioned’
soft and sensuous as velvet, and
she belted out the end of Billie
Holliday’s Fine and Mellow
Blues’ with brassy authority.”
The group has slightly
enlarged the ‘‘three B's’ by
including in their repertoire
works by the Beatles, B. B.
King. Bach, Buck Owens, and
Badfinger.
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Edward Nicholson, who plays
keyboard instruments, has had
a career with jazz combos,
appearing on television and in
jazz clubs.
Drummer Charles Payne and
bass player Terrence Kip
penberger are also performers
in their own right. Payne’s 10-
minute drum solo, and Kip
penberger’s intricate bass
ligures. in which he makes the
instrument sound like a sitar,
are a main part of the program.
Correction
In last week's West Georgian,
Pete Stallings was listed as
studying toward his associate
degree in criminal justice. He
has received his associate
degree and is working on his
bachelor’s degree in sociology.
Also, he will complete the in
ternship program Nov. 29, not
Oct. 29.