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CHRISTMAS PRESENT These children
exchanging holiday smiles at the annual Kappa
Delta Christmas party for underprivileged
children are indeedahappy break from the sights
of shoppers hustling to buj' expensive gifts for
Forum Holds First Meeting
Campus Beer Issue
Center Of Concern
BY MARGARET CLARKE
A discussion of college policy on beer and wine
resulted in an attack on the Student Government
Association at a recent meeting of the Forum of
Campus Organizations.
The policy as it now stands states that beer and
wine cannot be served on campus except in the
privacy of a student’s dormitory room. Forum
members present wanted to find out how to
suspend the rule to allow students to drink at
concerts.
Dr. John Martin, college vice president, said
that only Faculty Senate committees, on which
students may serve, can initiate “anything that
involves policy or negative change. The senate
may accept or reject, but it may not change.”
Both Dr. Martin and Dr. Ward Pafford,
president, pointed out that the students were
represented by appointed members of the
SGA. Dr. Pafford added that it was “hard to get
a quorum up” for the committee meetings
because the students are not there.
“It’s just that the students are so apathetic;
that’s the problem,” one student commented
Bill Kraus, a tri-chairman of the College
Programing Board, wanted to know when the
meetings were held so that others could go since
the SGA people did not attend. Dr. Martin an
swered that students should confront the SGA
with the problem and ask them what they plan to
do.
In response to these charges, Lamar Cham
bers, SGA president, said in an interview that
there is a shortage of students who are really
interested. “Any student who is interested can be
put on one of the committees. Just come by and
see me.” he said.
As for students not showing up for the
meetings, Chambers said that he knew of only
three or four committee meetings held this fall.
According to Chambers, the committees notify
the students. The only reasons he could give for
students missing the meetings would be the
postal problem at West Georgia, or the “students
forgetting.” He reiterated his desire for more
interested students to replace the represen
tatives. Continued On Page t>
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Volume 41 No. 17
December 6. 1974
yuletide cheer. Coming from area primary
schools. 12 children had their holidays
brightened Monday as they received candy
stuffed stockings and toys from the sorority
sisters.
Some Students Not
Content With SGA
Several issues of importance to West Georgia
College came under the scrutiny of the Forum of
Campus Organizations at its first meeting Nov.
21.
Included in the discussion were the role of the
Student Government Association as represen
tatives of the students, the reliability of The West
Georgian as a source of news, and the fate of Z-6,
the new building on the perimeter road.
Bill Kraus, a tri-chairman of the College
Programing Board, accused the SGA of not
representing the students well enough in the
Faculty Senate. He expressed a hope that the
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BRAVES WIN Tony Stroud, West Georgia guard adds two
points to the Brave score as the Braves defeated North Georgia 98-
59 W ednesday night in the season opener. Story on page 7.
Regent Bill
Progress Delayed
By Holiday Recess
BY BUBBA HOVIS
A legislative recess has
delayed efforts by the Student
Advisory Council (SAC) to pass
a bill which would put a student
representative on the university
systems Board of Regents.
Many observers are saying
that the bill will be forgotten,
with this latest delay causing a
loss of interest. But Lamar
Chambers, Student Govern
ment Association president and
representative to the SAC, does
not think it will be forgotten.
Chambers, asked about the
possibility of the bill dying,
said. “I certainly hope not. 1
think they (the legislature) will
use good judgement and pass
the bill next year.”
Chambers also said a petition
originally planned by the SGA
to be circulated on campus this
week has been delayed until the
second week of the winter
quarter. The petition will seek
to call attention to any student
support of the SAC bill, ac
cording to Chambers. It will be
available for endorsement in
the student center and dor
mitories.
The bill, first proposed by
Senator Bobby Rowan last
January, is now almost a year
old. It is now being studied by a
subcommittee of the Senate
University Committee, and has
been involved in legislative red
tape since its beginning.
The bill, if passed, would
allow Georgia voters to decide
its fate in a constitutional
referendum. If favored by the
voters, the SAC would nominate
three students for the position,
with the governor making the
final appointment. The position,
according to the bill, would
change hands annually so that a
fresh flow of student ideas can
be maintained.
Opponents of the bill are
asserting that there is enough
student input on the Board of
Regents already, and that a
student Regent would not
provide any more meaningful
ideas. They believe that if
student ideas are not reaching
the Regents, it is due to a
failure on the part of the SAC.
The bill’s proponents are
arguing that the SAC can only
act in an advisory capacity.
They believe that their ef
fectiveness can be enhanced by
having a student on the board
Committee Sets
President Criteria
Guidelines establishing “flexible” criteria for
the next president of West Georgia College were
established at the second November meeting of
the advisory search committee.
In the report from subcommittee A, which was
responsible for writing the criteria, Nancy
Boxhill, spokesperson for the group related the
committee’s idea for guidelines to be used by
subcommittee C. The C committee will be
screening the applicants who have expressed
interest in the presidency.
The advisory search committee was selected
by University Board of Regent’s Chancellor
George Simpson in October after President
Ward Pafford announced plans to resign at the
ena ot the academic year.
According to the guidelines, which Ms. Boxhill
stated “are not absolute,” qualifications for an
“ideal president” include that he or she has a
“proven record of successful administrating
leadership within a sizeable organization over a
reasonable peiod of time, not limited to one
organization,” and “experience in working with,
and being responsible to people of varying
backgrounds and interests.”
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with full voting powers.
Senator Don Ballard, a
member of the subcommittee,
admits he is more interested in
improving present com
munications than adding a
student Regent. He said the SAC
should hire “a full-time
executive secretary to coor
dinate communications among
its members and keep in close
touch with the Regents.”
Student Apathy
Flops Concert,
Kraus Asserts
BY JOEY IIUCKKBA
A “lack of interest on the part
of the students” was the main
reason Monday night s concert
was not a success, according to
Bill Kraus, one of the tri
chairmen for the College
Programming Board.
Kraus said that ap
proximately 600 students at
tended the concert and after the
performance of the Chapparals
only 200 stayed to hear Tracy
Nelson. Kraus said this was
because Tracy Nelson was late
and The Chapparals had to play
for such a long time. “By then,
the audience was so small she
probably could not perform
professionally because she
needed someone to listen to
her,” he said.
Regarding the money
situation, Kraus said that the
CPB did not lose money since
the concert was paid for out of
the CPB’s allotment from the
student activity fees. “We took
in about S3OO, which was enough
to cover the sound system that
we provided,” he said
According to Kraus, the poor
turnout could not be attributed
to a lack of publicity since the
announcement was in the
paper, on the radio, and posters
had been placed all over
campus. “It was simply the fact
that many students were not
interested enough to get
together and lister: to some
music,” said Kraus.
Kraus also said, “Students
have got to quit being Greeks,
freaks, whites, and blacks and
get involved in activities like
this concert. This is the whole
purpose of the CPB - to get
students involved.”