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“FRANKLY SPEAKING"
.'AND WE THANK *XJ TOR ALLOWING
US TO BE ALL TOGETHER THIS THANKS*
GIVING, REALIZING OF COURSE THAT
SOME OF US ARE MORE AU TOGETHER
THAN OTHERS*.
Letters
Parking
The Editors:
In regard to the recent letters
concerning the various parking
problems on the campus, which
have appeared in "The West
Georgian”, I believe some
comments should be made
regarding the situations at
Roberts Hall and Pritchard
Hall:
Mr. Charles E. Smith,
assistant dean of student ser
vices for student life, and Mrs.
Vicki L. Carrithers, director of
housing, have carried this issue
to the Executive council, over
which the President presides.
Obviously the persons
responsible for constructing the
halls were not as much con
cerned with parking for
residents as they were with
providing rooms. At the time of
the construction of Roberts
Hall, there were three students
living in rooms built only for
two; therefore, additional
rooms took priority. Also, fresh
men were not permitted to have
automobiles on campus in those
days.
It is my understanding that
West Georgia College does not
receive funds in its budget for
paving because it is done
through the State Highway
Department. However, since
the energy crisis approximately
one year ago, State Highway
Department funds for paving
have been curtailed. This has
been confirmed by articles
which apppeared in some
spring issues of the Atlanta
papers.
On occasion, when it ap
peared that budgeted funds
would not be needed for the
original purpose, the college
arranged to use such funds to
contract private companies for
small paving jobs.
Further, it is my un
derstanding that the process for
securing paving through the
State Highway Department is
quite complex insofar as the
college must request the
authorization to pave from the
State, then .the Carroll County
Road Department must be
contracted for the paving.
Apparently this procedure was
designed to keep costs at the
lowest possible level, but in
achieving that goal, con
siderable time is usually con
sumed between the initiation of
the request for paving and the
actual paving. Also, the college
by Phil Frank
must prepare the area for
paving at its expense. *
When the complicated
procedure described above is
combined with the problems of
the college’s very tight budget
in the maintenance and
development areas, it is most
difficult for administrators to
respond quickly in alleviating
the parking problems at
Roberts Hall and Pritchard
Hall. However, I feel certain
that a solution will be seriously
considered along with solutions
for other campus problems
when it is financially possible to
do so.
Donald W. Adams
Dean of student services
LETTERS POLICY
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letters from our rentiers on lofiies of
penernl mol i iim/iux interest.
letter* to he /trinletl must include
name of M riler. In tertian institutes,
mimes it ill In- it ilhheld if ret/uesl is
mode.
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The Editors:
I am a tri-chairman on the
College Program Board. We
brought a concert to the campus
this fall to see if students
wanted more. That’s not our
decision to make after this.
Drugs and alcohol in the gym
that night will mean an end to
concerts this year.
I’d like to know why Andy
Short was never recognized for
his fine work with the West
Georgia judo team. When a
$15,000 student activity financed
debate team receives more
distinction for coming in fourth
in Podunksville than all the
work and time Andy has spent
coaching several state ranked
tournament players and hun
dreds of PE credited hours for
students, I wonder where all the
fairness and pursuit of ex
cellence is at this college.
How come all the SGA of
ficers are in the ATO frater
nity? Does this fraternity turn
out such a fine quality of man or
doesn’t anybody else give a
damn?
How come everybody’s so
hung up on being black and
white again? I thought we
agreed on that *0 years ago.
Michael Styles
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WASHINGTON - Candy
may still be dandy, but its
cost may soon make it a lux
ury only the rich can afford.
Sugar, the prime confec
tionary ingredient, is now
rivaling oil as the fastest ris
ing commodity on the world
price index. A five-pound
hag of sugar cost 88 cents last
vear. Today, it runs nearly
$2. r >o
The reasons are complex,
but a large share of the price
rise can be laid to
unserupulos brokers and
greedy sugar refiners.
The brokers set themselves
up as middlemen, contract
ing desperate customers and
More Spaces
for Beauty
The Editors:
What a joyful surprise it was,
albeit a momentary em
barrassment, to the members of
the performing arts to find the
public clamoring for seats at
two recent fine arts per
formances, “Godspell” and
“Trouble in Tahiti.” These
people are not accustomed to
dealing with crowds, so we
must be patient and tolerant.
Perhaps this clamoring for
seats indicates a reawakening
of the college community to the
beauties of fine arts, the
creations of our students,
faculty, and visiting per
formers. There is much of
beauty to behold in the output of
our students and faculty in the
humanities building.
So, let us for a moment on
occasion put aside our
marketing strategies, our
complex financial statements,
our fractured rocks, our
dessicated cats and frogs, our
rap sessions, and even our
administrative burdens and
proceed to view and appreciate
the efforts reflected in student
and faculty recitals, in the
output of the art department,
and in the art of debate.
Let us demand that more
spaces be made available for
the audience at all these events.
Would it not be appropriate for
student and faculty recitals to
be held in the gymnasium so as
to accomodate the crowds until
a more appropriate place can
be constructed?
The band performances
should have such an attraction
that the only adequate spot for
the occasion would be Love
Valley. Yes, let us all proceed to
the performances, putting our
cases aside and enjoying
beauty. Let it not be said of us
that we marched through life
without seeing any beauty
therein.
J. Lincoln DeVillier
Fraternity
The Editors:
I was really disappointed
when I picked up a “West
Georgian” last Friday and the
Friday before that and saw no
article; not even a word about
the Delta Tau Delta fraternity
which just happened to go
national Nov. 2.
We are now the chapter Zeta
Xi.
I suppose it was too much to
ask, but it would have been nice
to have been recognized; at
least to not be totally ignored. I
Jack Anderson
Sweet Tooth Is Hurting
offering them sugar. Once
they get an offer, they get the
sugar from a supplier they
have worked a deal with. The
increased costs go into the
broker's pocket.
Many legitimate sugar
refiners are also taking ad
vantage of the short sugar
supply to raise prices well
above their costs. Sugar in
dustry profits have ballooned
by as much as 500 per cent.
Of course, market pres
sures have played the most
significant role in the price
boost. Worldwide, sugar con
sumption has simply out
paced sugar production. The
oil-rich Arab nations have
know all the Greeks realize how
much the charter means.
I wasn’t here a few years ago
when the other fraternities went
national, but I sincerely hope
you all weren’t as rude and
inconsiderate to them as you
were to us.
Jeanie Smith
Noise
The Editors:
1f...y0u live in the north or
west wings of Pritchard Hall,
and your room just happens to
face the parking lot, then you
are one of the lucky ones who
get to experience the dumpster
blues.
Every couple of mornings,
between 6:30 and 7:30, the
garbage truck comes roaring
into the parking lot, grabs the
dumpster, lifts it overhead,
dumps it, and then bangs it to
make sure its...empty. The
truck begins to set the dumpster
back down, but about halfway,
it seems to jump out of the
truck’s hands and lands on the
asphalt, registering about 3.7 on
the Richter scale....
Bart Reynolds
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THE WIST GEORGIAN. NOVEMBER 33. t 7
helped inflate demand, hid
ding up prices on the interna
tional mark“t to satisfy a
newly developed sweet tooth
And poor crops forecasts
around the world mean
further increases in the
future.
In America, sugar’s out
rageous price has consumers
either boycotting or hoarding
the product. Only dentists and
nutritionists, it seems, are
heralding the sugar pinch.
The food experts have found
that sugar is the only food
without nutritional value.
And the dentists, of course,
hope that less sugar will
mean fewer cavities.
GETTING TO KNOW
YOU: President Ford travels
to the Soviet Union this week
with a head full of advice
from Secretary of State He
nry Kissinger.
Kissinger gave Ford a
favorable report on his secret
19-hour talks with Soviet
leader Leonid Brezhnev. The
Soviet leader was cordial but
cautious. Kissinger reported.
He clearly wants to continue
the Russian-American de
tente.
But Brezhnev made it clear
that he wanted to get to know
the new American President
before substantive talks get
underway The first Ford-
Brezhnev However, the two
leaders will undoubtedly
foray into some ticklish
areas.
Ford, for example, is con
coined about the Soviet
buildup of mobile missiles.
These missiles can be moved
by train, truck or plane. They
can even be fired on the
move It would be almost im
possible. then, to set up an ad
vance defense system.
The first dramatic test of
the new Russian missile was
conducted u'hen Kissinger
was in Moscow about a month
ago
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