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Faculty Expresses Dissatisfaction With Administration
Working Conditions, Lack of Dialogue, Inconsistency Condemned
BY SCOTT FREEMAN
The executive council of the
West Georgia chapter of the
association of American
university professors (AAUP)
met with President Maurice
Townsend Tuesday on the
subject of a recently released
faculty survey conducted by the
organization.
Taken spring quarter and
completed by 273 (50 per cent)
of the faculty, the survey ex
General Faculty Meets
Lewis : Students Should Work Harder
BY RICKY MEHAFFEY
West Georgia students are not doing the
necessary research and reading essential for
college work, Vice President John Lewis told
faculty members at the first general faculty
meeting of the fall Friday, Sept. 22.
"I concur with the old-fashioned belief that a
college graduate should be literate and well
educated,” said Lewis. “Our students are not
using the library as much as other college
students.”
Lewis also reported that last year’s recruiting
campaign was very successful as 19 students
with SAT scores of over 1200 enrolled at West
Georgia this fall. He said that the school is
shooting for 50 next year.
West Georgia has tightened its admission
standards, Lewis said, as the summer Regent
Exams scores were the second best in the history
of the school, but other colleges have also raised
admission scores
Competition for students should become tough
over the next decade because of declining birth
rates, Lewis said, “and our enrollment pool
could decrease by 25 percent by 1990 because
students will want to go to the best colleges.’’
Another troublesome spot the vice president
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given a taste of Greek life at parties like these, designed not only to convince the students
that “this frat is for me,” but also to allow the brothers to screen the incoming freshmen.
A story about rush week and the Greek system at West Georgia is on page 7. inside.
pressed dissatisfaction with
promotion procedures, the
administration’s effort to im
prove graduate education,
tenure policies, the lack of
dialogue between faculty and
administration in regard to
academic policy, working
conditions and the lack of
consistency and articulation of
the administration on the ob
jectives and policies on matters
of importance among others.
expounded on was the high amount of students in
special studies. This fall we have 380 taking
special studies and some can’t keep up at that
level.”
Also, at the meeting, President Maurice
Townsend said that an ad hoc committee will
decide in the near future if students should have
to pass the Regents’ Exam before entering their
junior year.
“The answer on that will probably be ‘yes,’”
Townsend said. “Our NTE scores are not that
good, and even though this is a systemwise
problem, the chancellor has said that this can’t
go on.” Dr. John Ferling, American Association
of University Professors (AAUP) president at
West Georgia, spoke on AAUP goals for 1978-79.
Included were: salary increase of 10 percent,
plus annual increment of 2.5 percent;
hospitalization to be paid in full by the state; and
the establishment of 70 years as the mandatory
retirement age.
Also at the meeting, members of the West
Georgia review, the speakers Bureau, and the
West Georgia educators credit union spoke
briefly, and new faculty members were in
troduced.
Of the 24 questions only one,
pertaining to dialogue between
administration and faculty in
shaping academic policy at the
departmental level, was
received by the responding
faculty in a positive vein.
Dr. John Ferling, AAUP
President, said that Townsend
was "very candid” in the
meeting and termed it a very
frank discussion.
"The President wanted to
know our feelings and we
wanted to raise questions and
Two Co-eds Threatened
By Local Non-Student
A local man who allegedly verbally assaulted and threatened
two coeds in the food services center parking lot Wednesday
morning is being sought by campus police, according to Jody
Hicks, investigator.
The suspect, a non-student with a rural Carrollton address, “has
been making himself scarce” since the incident, Hicks said, but
they expect to pick him up in the next two days. He faces charges of
terroristic threats and acts, simple assault, and criminal trespass.
Michael Byrd, a West Georgia student from College Park, was
arrested Thursday, Sept. 22, by campus police and charged with
driving under the influence, obstruction of justice by resisting
confinement, and two counts of simple battery.
Byrd was stopped by campus police and arrested for reckless
driving. When he resisted arrest, Hicks said, assistance was called
in and Byrd was taken to the Carrollton police department.
After he refused the toximeter test, a fight broke out between
Byrd, a West Georgia public safety official and a Carrollton police
officer. The Carrollton officer suffered a broken hand, and the
campus officer is under observation in the coronary care unit of
Tanner Memorial Hospital. During the scuffle with Byrd, the
campus officer, who had only recently returned to work after
suffering one heart attack, showed symptoms of having another.
Other cases under investigation by the department include a
forgery case, in which a check was allegedly stolen from a student
and cashed in the business office, and a false report from a student
that his car had been stolen.
The number of thefts and burglaries this quarter is already
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Construction on Back Campus
May Force Three Week Closing
New construction on Back
Campus Drive and the ongoing
construction of the WGC library
annex set the pace for the
parade of building projects on
campus this fall.
According to Pete Russell,
director of campus develop
ment and engineering, a recent
allocation of $27,000 by the
University System of Georgia
Board of Regents, in addition to
state funds contracted through
the City of Carrollton, will make
it possible to build curbing,
improve drainage, and repave
the Back Campus Drive area by
the end of the present academic
year. But prior to this con
struction, some of the present
pavement will be removed due
to the extension of a six-inch
water main from the Callaway
Building to the student center.
“It will provide quicker ac
cess to water for fire-fighters in
case of a fire in this area. This is
something we’ve been wanting
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exchange information with him.
“The general point we
made,” he said, “was that the
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to do for years,” Russell said.
Included in the Back Campus
Drive area is the college
auditorium.
Library annex construction,
also on Back Campus Drive,
began during summer break
and will continue for the next 18
to 24 months. According to
Russell, the project was
delayed for two months due to
budget problems and technical
difficulties associated with
necessary space and safety
adjustments encountered in
construction.
The project is the result of a
2.1 million dollar allocation
from the Board of Regents
which will effectively double
present library stack space
and, in the words of WGC
president Dr. Maurice Town
send, “fulfill West Georgia
College’s needs for the for
seeable future.”
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