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I I MMBMM| MM 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 W mm Hr t - ffl' fßfl rMfmfm I 11H4 1 ’ X l \ml mjIHI m r & 1 4ILL JTrv m ifPi ; Ip 9 * -WIBK 'ml v Delta Tau Deltas ‘cheer on the fraternity’ during rush week. Potential pledges are 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 Continued on page 4 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 Today Is Last Day to Register For This Fall Quarter's Graduation Applications for December 1978 graduation must be made by September 29. Undergraduates should go to the registrar’s office, and graduate students should go to the graduate office in Man deville Hall. exchange information with him. “The general point we made,” he said, “was that the Continued on page 3 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.” Traffic associated with Continued on page 19