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Editorial
Opinion
CPB Looking Better
ft's good to see all the activities planned for the first week
of school. Though Mike Manion, Mel Carraway, and the
College Programming Board have often been criticized for
having too few popular events and a general lack of sound
planning, they seem now to have come up with a varied,
well-thought-out plan of events. The West Georgian
congratulates them, and hopes that this new trend con
tinues throughout the year.
Student Activities
The various clubs and organizations on campus are busy
now recruiting new students into their folds. Activities can
play a major role in the "total college experience (as the
recruitment brochures say)” and should be taken ad
vantage of Especially worthy of attention are the various
service organizations, almost all of which are roughly
controlled by students. At the very least, investigate one or
two of these and sec if you might be interested in working
with them
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Parking fines don’t create the only
problem, though There are a plethora of
financial marks against you that can prove
fatal. Returned checks, unpaid library
fines, and lab breakage are but examples of
the many reasons you “will not be allowed
to continue to matriculate.”
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Perhaps this has all tended to frighten
you a little bit, but it need not do that.
Probably the hulk of West Georgia’s
students never run across any serious
problems, but problems are there lying in
wait. By exercising precautions, such as
reading everything you sign and studying
information you get from the college, you
will be likely to avoid serious difficulties.
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Harry Crews an and Georgia
Harry Crews was raised in the backwoods of
southern Georgia, Bacon County (Alma) to be
exact.
And all of his eight books remind you of that.
Old stores with RC Cola signs in front of them
Blacks working for whites at slave wages
Illiterate talk ("Chile, I gone git you sompin
else.’’). Bulldog fights. Rattlesnake roundups
Religious fanatics. Crews knows them all.
Crews always has unbelievable characters and
unbelievable endings to his books In "A Feast of
Snakes,” his latest book, the hero, Joe Lon
Mackey takes a double-ought shotgun and goes
on a shooting rampage at the roundup The
rioting crowd drops him in the snake pit quietly.
The Gospel Singer is almost treated like a god
in his hometown of Mystic, Ga. —a real town in
south Georgia They think he can heal with his
smooth singing voice. But The Gospel Singer
is different from other gospel singers. He
despises going back to Mystic because he thinks
Letters To The Editor
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The Editor:
The news of the infamous
controversy between the
honorable administrators and
the distinguished faculty of the
Psychology Department of
West Georgia of the County of
Carroll, has reached beyond the
far corners of (he Shire, into the
enchanted forest of Imzadron
in the land of Iffish.
We. of this sacred land, have
reason to believe that you have
been poisoned From our an
cient knowledge of alchemy, we
have deduced that you gen
tlemen appears to be
manifesting symptoms linked
to a toxin which we have
isolated through meticulous and
rigorous study in our
laboratories. Traces of this
toxin were discovered in the
waterways of the County of
Carroll. Reliable sources have
given clues which unabashedly
point to dark figures from far
off lands, who are believed to
have dumped unknown quan
tities of this toxin into a well
known creek. Unfortunately,
this toxin has spread amongst
the Ytinilucsam algae, a unique
strain of the plant unknown
anywhere in the world except in
the rather isolated vicinity of
the aforementioned creek.
Through exposure to the toxin,
this rare species of algae has
begun to produce a poisonous
gas which has been released
int* the atmosphere. The
densest concentration of the
vapour hangs heavily
over the hallowed halls of
wisdom which distinguish the
campus of your college.
Certain persons’ chemical
make-up has been found to be
more susceptible to these
vapours than most. The
prognosis is alarming, as the
combination of vapour to your
body chemistry is believed to
the people are (he lowest, filthiest people he has
ever known The Gospel Singer lives like a rock
star on the r<ad, sleeping with girls and living it
up
Crews also has a flair for the freaky In "The
Gypsy’s Curse," the main character walks on his
hands because he doesn’t have feet His body is
cut off at his waist. Also, he is deaf and mute
he talks with his hands. And he has a normal
girlfriend
Harry Crews knows his turf He grew up poor,
during the Depression. He lived in an old shack
at the end of a dirt road in the middle of nowhere.
In all of his books he captures the feeling of the
very small town It would appear that nothing is
going on in t hese places, but a closer look reveals
the insane and demented people.
Crews has also written some interesting non
fiction in Esquire and Playboy. Fiction or non
fiction, he writes well about the South.
cause an upsurge in the
production of testosterone,
which renders the victim a
slave to these hormonal con
centrations It was necessary
for us to go back through
manuscripts hundreds of years
old to find a single notation of a
document which exists in a
sacred archive known only to
wizards This rare document
contains an exorcism for the
purging of your malady. We
have updated this exorcistic
ritual so that it may benefit all
th<se who today suffer under
the influence of this plague.
Allow us to insert a note of
caution, the ritual will invoke
forces much greater than
mortal man is capable of
comprehending with his
presumptuous, self acclaimed
omnipotence. We implore you to
approach this remedy with
reverence and awe.
EDITOR’S NOTE: The letter
above was unsigned, but the
postmark on the envelope in
dicates that “the enchanted
forrest of Imzadron” lies
somewhere in San Francisco,
California. The West Georgian
is in possession of a copy of the
ritual, if anyone wants to try it
(it requires quite a few people).
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Pontentual for (’BE?
The Editor:
In light of the letter which
was printed for me in the last
issue of The West Georgian
regarding the school budget, I
would like to add the following
post script. In that letter I
questioned the direction the
school was going, particularly
with its current obsession
toward competency-based
education.
I graduated on the 13th of
August. The speaker at the
commencement exercises was
a Mr. Charles McDaniel, a man
whom I understand is State
Superintendent of Schools for
Georgia and has recently
completed a bid for public of
fice. The content of his com
mencement speech was most
interesting. I say interesting not
because it was different from
any other commencement
speech; it contained the same
number of trite trivialities
which dominate every com
mencement speech.
What fascinated me was the
theme of his speech, a theme in
which he talked about the
potentialities of the students
who stood before him ready to
graduate. Potentualities, in
fact, was the recurring
message throughout the bulk of
his speech. There was only one
small problem there is no
such word as potentualities.
The correct word is poten
tialities
Now I ask you, is this an in
dication of what competency
based education has to offer? Is
this why Georgia schools rank
in the bottom half of all the
schools across the country?
Until we put people who know
what they are doing in office,
we will continue to have the
same sloppy schools, the same
problems we have been facing
for years, the problems which
for some reason we think we
can solve with competency
based education.
The defense rests.
Mark Askren