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WEST GEORGIAN
V
Hodgkins’ Disease
BY JAN CASH
As Told to Trudy Smith
The worst thing any one can
do to another human being is to
pity him Pity destroys. On the
other hand, consideration of his
feelings and understanding
helps him to find his own
strength, and this is what gets
us through tough times.
This insight came to me after
I'd been through what polite
people would call a period of
frustration. I call it Hell,
because I was reacting to the
doctor’s revelation several
years before I came to West
Georgia College that I was
suffering from Hodgkins
Desease
Hodgkins is a malignant
disease of the lymphatic
system.
For me, it is presently in a
state of remission.
After my friends found out
about it, I felt like I had a big
wart on the end of my nose. 1
looked to them for their support
and encouragement, but they
were mysteriously out-of-sight.
When I did find them, I tried
to joke about it because they
looked at me so seriously that it
seemed that someone had torn
the floor out from under me and
left me falling.
Pretty soon, I began to see
myself as they did—someone to
be pitied and also someone I
didn’t like.
Looking back, I can see why it
APRIL SHOWERS
Kim Eason, a junior earth science major from Atlanta watches
as David Dingier, a junior math major from Moreland, Ga.
prepares to face the monsoon rains.
Friday, April 4, 1975
West Georgia College/ Carrollton/ Ga. 30117
Atlanta Station May Prompt
Campus Radio Power Boost
Volume 41— No. 28
BY JANICE STILL
West Georgia College’s radio
station WWGC and Radio Free
Georgia (WRFG) are involved
in negotiations that could in
crease the output of the campus
radio station from 10 watts to
100 watts.
According to Dr. David T.
Seiber, assistant professor and
I Call It Hell’
JAN CASH
all happened.
I was afraid of how my
friends would accept me and
this made them uncomfortable.
Joking about myself then was
an unnatural thing for me to do
because really, deep within, I
didn’t have what it took to be
light-hearted.
It wasn’t long until I had
another shattering experience.
The guy that I was dating and
liked so much suddenly fled.
That’s when I decided I had to
do something to get my will to
live back again. I did. And now,
it’s a different story.
My life started to change
when I changed my en
vironment.
I moved in with an aunt in
Atlanta for my senior year in
high school. It was nice to be
treated normally again. My
classmates didn’t know I had
the disease and very soon, I
acting director learning
resources center, WRFG ap
proached WWGC last year
requesting their frequency of
89.3, and after some hesitation
WWGC turned down their offer.
WRFG wanted the rights to
broadcast on WWGC’s
frequency after it increases its
power output.
began to feel normal and good
about myself. It was about that
time that I realized what was
happening and I liked it. I was
getting my will back to live
again. I felt very much alive.
Sure, I had days when I didn’t
feel like doing a 50-yard-dash,
but it was good just to put one
foot in front of the other and to
know that my best foot was out
front.
Now, I am a sophomore at
West Georgia. The college is
like home to me, but then, I feel
that way just about anywhere I
go. I think that may be because
I have learned to accept myself.
That’s not to say that I don’t
have times when I hit a low
point, because occasionally, I
do get low. I’m not one of those
super-positive people, but I am
a fighter.
My new friends at West
Georgia have been a big help to
me.l don’t talk a lot about my
situation, but when I do, it’s
natural for me to kid about it.
My roommate is the kind of
friend the whole world needs,
and I’m lucky to have her.
Last quarter wasn’t easy; I
had to drop a couple of classes
because I got the “bug.” Having
the extra time on my hands
gave me a chance to do some
things I wouldn’t have had time
to do as a full-time student. I’m
a construction paper “freak,”
so I made posters for the dorm.
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Theft Indictments
Expected For Six
BY ROBBY SMITH
Legal proceedings against
five of the six West Georgia
students charged with the
February vandalism of vending
machine in a campus dormitory
are slated to begin next week.
According to Detective Ken
Webb of the campus Depart
ment of Public Safety, the
students will be brought before
the Grand Jury on April 7. It is
expected that all five will be
indicted by the Grand Jury.
Webb said following the hearing
before the Grand Jury, the
students, if an indictment is
returned, will be arrainged
April 11. The Superior Court
session for Carroll County
begins April 14. Webb said, “I
believe the cases will be tried in
this term.”
The five students, identified
as Carlos Lopez, Michael Born,
Jerry Land, Pete Schandolph,
Presently WWGC and WRFG
occupy the same frequency
without impending on each
other’s territory. However, if
WRFG increases its power
there would be a conflict. Thus
WRFG hopes WWGC will take
on the frequency of 90.5.
WWGC is perfectly willing to
do so if WRFG will provide the
necessary equipment to make
the change and if they will have
and engineer a study made to
insure WWGC that the 90.5
frequency is available, ac
cording to Dr. Seiber. He also
said that this equipment will
have to meet the approval of the
station management and the
only cost to WWGC will be that
of installation.
Another item under
discussion is the payment of
filing fees to the FCC by WRFG.
These fees would be necessary
because all air wave changes
must be cleared by the FCC.
Once an agreement is
reached by the two parties and
WRFG signs this agreement,
then it will have to receive the
approval of the chancellor, the
state’s attorney general, and
the Board of Regents. It’s likely
that this will involve a con
siderable amount of time as
there is a lot of red tape in
volved, said Dr. Seiber.
He said that the Board of
Regents is going to be “par
ticularly careful” in dealing
with such a matter and in ob
serving all the transactions
between WRFG and WWGC.
Dave Callaway, general
manager of WWGC, said, “No
one is trying to axe anyone.
We’re just trying to work out an
agreement.”
According to Dr. Seiber, such
an agreement would be
beneficial to WWGC in that it
would offer the chance to make
improvements which have long
been denied due to the lack of
funds.
WRFG is a non-commercial
FM station based out of Atlanta.
According to Roger French,
program director of WRFG, if
WRFG is to survive, it must
increase its number of listeners
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and Gene Eden, are charged
with two felony offenses. One is
theft by taking and the second is
criminal damage to property in
the second degree.
These two charges carry a
maximum penalty of 15 years
for each of the five students.
A sixth student, Tony
McLaughlin, is charged with a
misdemeanor, receiving stolen
goods. His case is expected to be
tried in June session of the
Carroll County State Court.
The charges have stemmed
from an alleged vandalism of a
cigarette vending machine in
Roberts Hall on Feb. 1.
According to reports, students
ripped the machine open and
then took an undetermined
amount of cigarettes and
change.
The alleged vandalism was
reported immediately to the
campus police department and
an intensive investigation
followed. The probe was
culminated March 5 and 6 when
Lopez, Land, Born, Eden,
Schandolph, and McLaughlin
were arrested.
Since the initial arrests, the
police have not ruled out the
possibility of more arrests.
Tuesday, Webb said, “There is
still the possibility that more
arrests may be made in the
future.” Earlier, Webb said the
investigation will continue until
final disposition of the case is
made in the courts.
The investigator continued
Tuesday that new evidence has
been turned up during the two
month investigation of the case.
He also said that this evidence
may lead to new witnesses for
the state’s evidence.
Presently, four of the six
students who were arrested are
still attending West Georgia.
The other two, Schandolph an
Eden, withdrew from the
college at the close of the winter
quarter. No disciplinary action
has been taken against any of
the students as of present.
Activity Budgets
Deadline Near
Guidelines for new program
funding requests have been
released by the Student
Government Association
finance committee. Requests
for funding must be submitted
by Friday, April 11.
The guidelines for the budget
requests, as stipulated in a
statement released by the
committee, are as follows:
A description of the goals and
objectives of the organization
should be specifically stated,
including a listing of all an
ticipated program benefits. The
statement should “fully
deliniate the desirability of the
program.”
An evaluation of the ef
fectiveness of the programs
should be included. The com
mittee will use the evaluations
to study the degree of at
tainment of the goals set up by
the organization.
A complete listing of the
budget should be included in
this report. The organization
should submit three budgets.
The first budget should reflect
the minimum level of funding
required to maintain the
program on a permanent and-or
larger scale.