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Psychology Faces
‘Chronic’ Problem
BY BOBBY SMITH
A “chronic” understaffing situation has forced
the department of psychology to declare a
moratorium on all incoming graduate students,
according to Dr. Mike Arons, head of the
department.
The moratorium, which was instituted this
quarter, will continue until “student size is
reduced to a managable level or new staff
positions are made available to the department,
Dr. Arons said. The moritorium, the first of its
kind at West Georgia, is the result of a consistent
understaffing problem which has plagued the
department for the past five years.
Dr. Arons said. “For the past five years, ac
cording to administration figures and based on
the Regent’s EFT formula, the department has
been short for each year between seven and 11
faculty positions.”
The EFT formula mentioned by Dr. Arons is a
special system devised by the University System
of Georgia to help the Board of Regents gauge
which institutions, and which specific depart
Pres. Search Continues
Campbell To Visit WGC
BY ALI EN GUNTER
The last of four applicants
thus far scheduled for in
terviews by the advisory search
committee which is seeking a
successor to President Ward
Pafford will be on campus next
week
Dr. Leslie C. Campbell. 42.
currently Dean of the School of
Arts and Sciences at Auburn
University, will be here
Wednesday and Thursday for a
series of interviews and
meetings with committee
members, faculty members and
students
Part of the itinerary will
include a session for students,
faculty, and administrators to
meet Dr Campbell. The open
session, from 10:30 until 12
p m., will be in meeting room
three of the student center on
Wednesday
Meanwhile, the 23 member
search committee, chaired by
Dr. Donald Wells, head of the
political science department,
was expected to meet to
determine if any other “ex
ternal” candidates will be in
vited for interviews. Wells said
that if the committee decides
not to call any additional people
from outside the college it
would then outline procedures
tor interviewing the applicants
from within present college
ranks.
Al least five people now at the
college are on the applicant list.
Committee members, in
cluding Wells, have made
several “fact finding” trips to
surrounding states in past
weeks “It’s just a step to insure
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ments in each college or university, are qualified
to be awarded new staff positions. The plan is
based on how many students the department
serves. These numbers of students are then
converted to quarter hours and the final number
of new staff members each institution deserves
is then computed.
This shortage has forced members of the
department to carry heavy overloads and, in
some cases, have overloaded classes, both on the
undergraduate and graduate level, well above
the optimum capacity. “But, despite this chronic
situation, last year the department received no
new full-time positions,” said Dr. Arons
The only positions the department has
received have been the transferal of one two
thirds position from sociology, and
replacements for one instructor who retired and
another who is on academic leave of absence.
Dr Don Chandler, who was transferred from
sociology, is workino with anew program,
organizational development, which has placed
almost 100 new students in tne graduate division
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that we leave no stone unturned
in selecting a candidate,' he
said
Wells said that the trips were
made lo gather information
about current applicants as well
as seek additional possible
names for the candidate list
That list presently contains
names of more than 180 people
and. as in past weeks, Wells
again said that none of the
names have been eliminated.
“There are several other
people we have an active in
terest in.” Wells said, “but we
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PETE SCHANDOLPH, freshman from
Savannah, is shown inspecting the condition his
dormitory room was left in, following a search
conducted by Detective Kenneth Webb and
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haven’t ruled out anybody.” He
added, “Just say that there are
up to 10 applicants that we have
a really significant interest in at
this time.”
A New Orleans native, Dr.
Campbell received his doc
torate in history from the
University of Mississippi in
1967. He has been in his current
position at Auburn since 1972
and prior to that he was
professor of history at Arkansas
College. He is married and has
two daughters.
Hicks Named
Chief Of Police
Sergeant Jody Hicks, a shift
commander at the West
Georgia College department of
public safety, has been named
acting director of the depart
ment, effective Feb. 15. He said
that there are no real problems
to be worked out at the present
time. He did say that there
would be “a few administrative
changes in departmental
procedures.”
Hicks said he feels that the
relationship between campus
police and students “could be
better.” “1 would like to see a
little more openness between
students and the department.”
JODY HICKS
Probe Continues
Into Dorm Theft
BY BUBBA HOVIS
Public safety officials are still
questioning suspects following
the Feb. 1 vandalism of a
dormitory vending machine.
According to Kenneth Webb,
detective in charge of the
inquiry, a cigarette machine at
Roberts Hall was broken into
shortly before midnight on the
Feb. 1 date. Investigation into
the matter has led to the
questioning of several people,
and the issuing of a warrant to
search the room of one student.
Pete Schandolph, the student
whose room was examined, said
he arrived in the dormitory at
approximately 11:45 p.m. on
Feb. 6. only to find Detective
Webb and Sergeant Jody Hicks
already there. Also present was
a crowd of approximately 30
people. The throng had
gathered in the hall outside of
his room, and was watching the
Sergeant Jody Hicks of the campus police. The
officers were looking for cigarettes allegedly
stolen from a vending machine.
Hicks said that plans to
change the one-way street will
“undergo study,” but no
definite plans have been made.
Hicks said he believes, “There
are an adequate number of
parking spaces, but they are
just not all convenient, so the
students have to do a little
walking.” He said that there
will be “better marking of
parking areas, and possibly the
designation of a few more
spaces for students.”
Hicks joined the staff as a
patrolman in 1970 and was
promoted to sergeant and shift
commander one year later. He
expects to receive the associate
of science degree in criminal
justice from West Georgia this
summer and is also pursuing
the B.S. in sociology degree.
On a temporary basis, Hicks
replaces Dock Johnson who is
resigning his position to accept
a partnership in a fire and
police equipment sales com
pany in Montgomery. Hicks is
the son of Mr. and Mrs. E.S.
Hicks Jr. of Yatesville, where
his father is postmaster.
two officers probe the premises.
Schandolph said he was
startled when a search warrant
was shown to him, and it was
implied that he had helped force
open the machine. The warrant
stated that the policemen were
looking for “properties taken by
the act of unlawful theft from a
... cigarette machine in the
lobby of Roberts Ha 11...” It went
on to describe the particular
company and identification
mark by which the cigarettes
could be traced.
According to the document
given to Schandolph, four items
were confiscated. They were a
starter gun, a package
containing one cigarette, and
two wooden planks. Schandolph
said the starter pistol fires only
blank cartridges, and is used at
track meets. He also said the
cigarette was legitimately
purchased, and the two boards
were used to support
bookshelves. He further ex
plained that Detective Webb
had a “ridiculous idea” about*
the planks being used to force
open the machine.
The probe also extended into
the hall, as Detective Webb
climbed atop a chair and began
searching the attic with a
flashlight. The crowd became
agitated, and began questioning
the procedures of the officers,
referring to them as the
“campus gestapo.”
The people gathered in the
hall were not the only ones upset
by the investigation. Bill Webb,
hall director, left the room at
one point, saying, “I don’t know
much about law and order, but
this is ridiculous.”
The crowd then moved to the
lower lobby as the officers
waited for a car to come and
take them back to the public
safety department. Sergeant
Hicks was then asked to specify
the object of the search. He
said, “I don’t know. I was just
on regular duty when Detective
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