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WEST GEORGIAN
Volume 41 No. 18
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These are a few of the approximately 2500
students who registered on Monday for winter
quarter x classes • They endured long lines and
Dorm Living
More Students Moving On Campus
BY ROBBY SMITH
Changing student values and
rising costs of off-campus living
have combined to create an
upsurge of students living in
campus residence halls this
year, according to Vicki
Carrithers, director of the
housing department.
“I think students have
changed their values since the
1960’5, when the number of
students moving off the cam
puses began increasing,” Mrs.
Carrithers said. ‘‘This plus the
fact that more economical to
live on campus have led to the
upswing we are seeing right
now.”
She explained that while the
college students of the 60’s were
very "anti-establishment,”
students today don’t hold the
same attitudes. “I think what
happened in the 60’s was good,”
she said, “because it led to a
huge housecleaning in a lot of
areas. But today, values have
changed among college
students in this respect.”
Still, the major factor in the
increase in dorm residents is
the economy. The housing
director said that a great
number of students explain as
they file for campus housing
that “they simply can’t afford
to live off campus anymore.”
The number of students living
on campus this quarter is ex
pected to be around 1200 to 1250,
a four percent drop from last
quarter’s total of 1305. This drop
is traditional each quarter. Last
year at this time the figure
dropped six percent.
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Registration
many were flagged for non-payment of traffic
and library fines. But Elizabeth Parker,
registrar, said that everything ran smoothly.
This increase in the number
of dorm residents is expected to
continue, leading possibly to the
re-opening of dorms that have
been vacant for some time.
Mrs. Carrithers said, “I expert
to see a big upswing next year in
the number of students filing for
on campus housing.”
These increases have made
the number of available rooms
drop quite a bit, unlike the
recent past, when rooms, were
easily available. This will hurt
the students who “walk in” to
the housing office looking for
residence space. This quarter
alone, there have been about 40
walk-ins, according to officials
at the housing office. This figure
is expected to drop as the space
available on campus continues
to grow smaller.
Off campus housing is still
very abundant, which has
slowed the rush of students back
to the dorms as compared to
other colleges, where student
living space outside the colleges
is slim.
Regents ’ Test Offered Monday
A special administration of
the Regents’ Test has been
scheduled for Monday at 9 a.m.
in the social science lecture
hall.
According to Mrs. Mary
Helen Ford, coordinator of the
testing, all students with 75
hours or more who have not
taken the test, should be
present.
“Letters were sent to these
students advising them of
scheduled test dates and of the
The big increase is expected
next fall, when Mrs. Carrithers
expects students to file for more
dormitory space than has been
requested in the last few years.
This tremendous influx will
probably lead to more open
dormitories on the campus than
in any time recently, Mrs.
Carrithers said.
‘No Cuts In Budget Foreseen -
Finance Chairman McConnell
No cuts are expected in this
year’s finance committee
budget according to Ray
McConnell, minister of finance
for the Student Government
Association, McConnell, who
has predicted a budget of about
$230,000 for the committee, said,
“I believe the budget will be
about the same as last year’s
and I don’t think we will have to
cut back again this year.”
McConnell, who prefaced his
fact that failure to take the test
this quarter would disquality
them for registration beyond
winter quarter,” said Mrs.
Ford.
Because so many of these
notices were unclaimed in the
post office, this special ad
ministration has been
authorized.
Questions should be directed
to Mrs. Ford in Mandeville Hall,
phone 834-1416.
Search For President
Enters Second Quarter
BY ALLEN GUNTER
Members of the advisory search committee to select the next
president of West Georgia College entered their second quarter of
work yesterday with hopes of wrapping up procedural guidelines
for interviewing the approximately 180 applicants.
The interview guidelines were the work of a sub-committee,
designated ‘B,’ and were subject to approval by the tull committee.
The committee was also expected to hear a progress report from
another subcommittee which was set up to initially screen ap
plicants for the president’s job.
Dr. Donald Wells, Committee Chairman, and head of the political
science department, said that several applicants remained to be
screened. He also discounted earlier reports that any of the ap
plicants have been completely eliminated by the subcommittee.
The full committee has been meeting since early October in
attempts to find a successor for President Ward Pafford who an
nounced in September that he will resign at the end of the current
academic year. The committee, a 23 member panel of students,
faculty, and townspeople, was put together by Board of Regents
Chancellor George L. Simpson.
Members of the committee were optimistic that work would
move ahead on schedule with Dr. Wells saying earlier that he was
“delighted” with the progress of the group thus far.
The meeting yesterday was the first since Dec. 5 Much of the
committee work has been in closed door sessions and the business
conducted there has been a well kept secret.
While some sources indicate the committee is trying to complete
its job before Dr. Pafford leaves, Dr. Wells, who is the only official
spokesman for the group, says that no target date has been set.
“We’ll take as much time as needed to do a thorough job,” he
said. Dr. Wells said the committee would continue to meet until a
suitable prospect is found regardless of time involved.
Work last quarter by the committee involved establishing
procedural guidelines for soliciting applications, laying ground
rules for committee work, and the operations of the three sub
committees.
One of those subcommittees designated guidelines for the
screening of applicant dossiers while another worked matching
applications to those guidelines. The third, ‘B’ subcommittee, will
do the actual interviewing of applicants.
Members of the ‘B’ subcommittee are:
Dr. Thomas A. Carrere, associate professor of education; Dr. H.
M. Fulbright, superintendent of Carrollton city schools; Dr.
Sumner Long, chairman of the geology department; and Dr.
Melvin Steely, associate professor of history.
Another member, Shirley McClure, student, is not enrolled this
quarter. There is no indication yet if a replacement will be named
on the subcommittee.
ray McConnell
remarks by saying that all
plans and figures at this time
were “very tenative,” added
that the entire finance com
mittee should be formed by
February. After that, he said,
work on the budget for the 1975-
76 fiscal year will begin “about
April 10.” The committee will
conduct studies and hearings
leading to the final proposal,
which should be presented to
the administration by May 10.
Although McConnell is at this
time the chairman of the
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finance committee, a search is
on for a possible replacement.
McConnell said, “We are in
terested in finding anew
chairman for this year’s
hearings and work. I have been
the chairman for the past two
years and I would rather step
down and let someone else
handle the job.” He added that
he would still work with the
committee in an advisory post.
He also said that the new
chairman will have to be ap
proved by the new president
elect of the college, who is still
unknown at this time.
Whether McConnell remains
on the committee or a
replacement is found, com
mittee selection is set to begin
immediately. The seven
member panel will have
representatives from the SGA,
the publications board, athletic
department and a represen
tative from the cultural areas.
In addition to this, there will be
a vice-chairman and a chair
man.