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Editorial
Opinion
Student Activities
Budget Farce
Have you ever wondered what happens to the S2O student
activity fee which you pay every quarter you attend West
Georgia? Supposedly, it goes to finance those activities that
students want or need. The way it works, in theory, is that
the student finance committee holds hearings where in
terested students come and present their case for funding of
whatever interest or organization they represent. The
committee (the chairman of which is elected by the
students) weighs all the information they have received,
allocates the funds, and then sends the budget on to the
President of the College. He then presents it to the Board of
Regents for formal approval.
Now, the way it works in practice is this: the student
finance committee holds lengthy hearings, allocates the
budget, and then sends it on to to the President. The
President, without lengthy hearings, then allocates the
budget according to his whim and sends it to the Board of
Regents.
Does something seem to be wrong here? You bet.
The Student Government Association has an elected, and
presumably paid, student finance chairman and a student
finance committee to allocate the student activities fee.
Obviously, as was shown above, their allocation is
meaningless. The student activities budget is decided upon
by the administration of this college. Without allowing the
press to see the budget before it is finalized, they reallocate
the budget.
Thus, in reality, students have no say as to where their S2O
goes - the S2O students pay for student activities. One is
obliged to recall an axiom that was used quite a bit before
the United States was the United States. It goes something
like, “Taxation without representation i5...” Well, you get
the idea.
WEST GEORGIAN
Rubin Stacy /?#&?) Mehaffey
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Debra Newell
Losing A Dorm
Sometimes I cannot help wondering if the
reality within which I exist is the same that
others experience. I really had cause to ask this
question the night a friend and I lost a dormitory.
It began simply enough. I was going to return
some books to another friend who lived in
Strozier due to lack of space in Roberts.
My friend and I entered Strozier through a
front lobby Although it was nine p.m., not a light
could be seen. The lobby was completely
deserted. An uneasy silence permeated
throughout the darkened, hot building. There
were no rosters of students, no blaring stereos,
no televisions, no voices.
We ventured forth into one corridor, down it,
then another. Row after row of closed doors
greeted us.
There was a telephone, but it was not equipped
with a dialing mechanism.
Not one light seeped from underneath any
door. All were locked. Not one sound indicated
that we were not alone.
Somewhat disturbed by this lack of any sign of
human life, we tried the stairs to the next floor. It
was equally desolate. We spied a door on which a
sign read, KEN WEBB, HOST. Summoning my
courage, I knocked hoping this person could offer
some information. There was no answer.
My friend queried, “What if he has been dead
three days?”
Frank Gregorsky
Symbols Of Incompetence
President Carter ought to fire
Andrew Young. He is a clear
exception to the blandness of
Carter’s administration, but for
all the wrong reasons.
Our U.N. Ambassador is
incredible. He has equated lan
Smith of Rhodesia with Idi
Amin of Uganda. A former aide
to Amin, Henry Kyemba, fled
that country, wrote a book on
his ex-boss, and told Mike
Wallace that any comparison
between Ugandan terror and
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Rhodesian inequality is absurd.
Young, however, did get some
support from Uganda for his
most recent charge that there
are “hundreds, perhaps
thousands of political prisoners
in the United States.” No less an
authority than Idi Amin
declared Sunday that Young
had “told the truth about his
Not only could we not find any people, we could
not find a third floor. I knew one had to exist
because my friend’s room number was 308.
We tried stairway after stairway only to find
ourselves at our original starting place. We
continued this futile search until we made our
way down one totally darkened stairway which
led into a concrete wall and were met with spider
webs and a huge insect. That was enough.
We made a bee-line for the lobby. My friend
kept saying, “Are you sure people live here?”
Despite my continued assurance, she did not
seem convinced.
We finally stumbled upon an entrance to
another wing of the structure. Lo and behold!
There was light, air conditioning, and a
television somewhere in the distance. En
couraged, we stealthily made our way down the
hall.
Suddenly, a familiar face appeared around the
comer. Simultaneously, we grabbed the wall,
jumped and yelled, “Thank God! It’s David
Neale!”
The books I had been carrying showered from
the heavens.
He stood calmly looking at us as if he
questioned our mental faculties as we sighed in
relief.
We eventually found my friend’s room. He
wasn't there.
country.” The outspoken
ambassador does have his
defenders.
Young is very popular with
many African nations —and all
of them are left-leaning
military dictatorships, with
Tanzania somewhat of an ex
ception. He sees no problem
with their governments, but is
bugged by South Africa and
Rhodesia. He was instrumental
in persuading Carta 1 that the
fledgling transitional govern
ment in Rhodesia, consisting of
black moderates seeking
peaceful change and whites
interested in achieving “one
man, one vote,” should be
denounced by the U.S. Mr.
Young expects them to turn
over all power to the terrorists
that have been murdering black
and white Rhodesian civilians
since 1972.
Angola, Zambia, and
Mozambique provide bases for
these guerrillas and are thought
by Mr. Young to have
reasonable rulers. They are not
the color of lan Smith, and they
are distinctly non-democratic.
Andy Young’s political
philosophies are his own
business, but he is our man at
the U.N. and an important
spokesman for American
foreign policy. By acting
inanely, he is a detriment to the
U.S.
So why does he still hold his
job? It is said that Carter
“can’t” fire him because he is a
“symbol” to the black com
munity, and the importance of
symbolism has never beat lost
on Jimmy Carter.
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