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VOL. 45-NUMBER 20
Budget decision expected soon
Budget should please most
A NEWS ANALYSIS
BY RICK MEHAFFEY
The 1979-80 proposed student activities budget
is one that should please a lot of people on
campus.
Of the 57 organizations, only three The West
Georgian, student government, and athletic
administration received cuts from 1978-79
budgets.
The other 54 categories either received in
creases or got the same amount as this year.
This was due to the proposed $4 increase in the
student activity fee by the fund committee. The
recommended budget calls for a $24 student
activity fee and a total budget of $288,000.
Most people contacted by The West Georgian
were satisfied with their budgets.
Dr. Chester Gibson, debate coordinator, said
that he was “satisfied” with the SI,OOO increase
of $16,000 from $15,000 debate received. “It will
help with the increased cost of transportation.
And since we have recruited the top three high
school debaters in the state, the extra money will
enable us to offer financial aid to them.”
In its justification for debate’s increase, the
committee said, “We recognize the excellence of
the program and its contribution to the
reputation of West Georgia. The increase of SIOOO
seems warranted to cover increased costs of
travel and operational expenses such as student
assistants, telephones, etc."
Gibson said that West Georgia’s debate budget
enables the team to compete on a national level.
He added that West Georgia’s budget is com
parable to Emory’s and Georgia’s, but schools
West Georgia competes with, such as Southern
California, receive funding of around $40,000 per
year.
Athletic director and head basketball coach,
Roger Kaiser said that “We (the athletic
department) got our fair share, but it’s still not
enough. We need more money to compete with
Reginald Eaves says to blacks
'make yourselves better world'
BY RICKY MEHAFFEY
Blacks cannot become
complacent, Fulton Cos. Com
missioner A. Reginald Eaves
said Wednesday night at West
Georgia, but should strive to
make a better world for black
people.
Eaves, speaking for the black
student alliance at Kathy
Cashen Hall, in com
memoration of Dr. Martin
Luther King’s birthday, told the
audience that we cannot
recognize what society is doing
to black people.
“They are assassinating us
by our character by pitting
blacks against blacks. The
technique is to divide and
conquer. Malcolm was trying to
bring the truth and they told us
he was militant, and we
believed them.”
Eaves also said that the
Atlanta press is attempting to
destroy him by printing lies and
saying he is a racist.
“Some people still believe
that anything printed in the
newspaper is truth. When I ran
for Fulton Cos. Commissioner
The Atlanta Constitution said I
other schools, but I realize that other
organizations need money, too.”
Athletics received $110,911, an increase from
$97,687. Administration was cut SSOO, but every
other category under athletics either increased
or remained the same.
Kaiser pointed out that other South Atlantic
Conference schools receive large private
donations from private businesses because the
schools are located in larger cities.
The committee’s reasoning for the increase
was to “offset the increased cost of living
associated with these sports.” It proposes in
creases in all phases of the women’s budget
principally because of Title IX guidelines. “We
have no other resource for the women’s athletic
budget than student activity funds.”
Kaiser also said that every other school in the
SAC has higher athletic budgets than West
Georgia. While 1979-80 budgets from SAC schools
have not been finalized now, a check of 1978-79
budgets by The West Georgian revealed that
some schools received as much as $20,000 more
than West Georgia. Valdosta State was allocated
$145,357, a hefty 50 percent of the total budget.
The 1979-80 proposed budget would allocate
38.5 percent of the total budget at West Georgia
to athletics.
The college programming board was allocated
$24,800, a $4,800 increase from this year. The
committee’s reasoning included:
1. “Inflation that is hurting everyone in every
area is also hurting the CPB.”
2. “More weekend programming needs to be
incorporated into this increase."
3. “There is a need for more daytime
programming to attract commuters.”
4. “On an entertainment-recreational basis,
West Georgia lacks the quantity and quality of
programs found in other schools comparable in
size.”
See BUDGET Page 3
had no chance of winning. They
said I couldn’t even carry the
district I lived in. Yet, despite
all opposition from the press, I
won.
“I say what I believe in. I
don’t care what the press or
anyone else says.”
Eaves said that unless black
people do something to stop the
skid backwards, “we’re going
to give our children a world
worse-off than we inherited.”
He said that the situation has
worsened for blacks today. He
Firemarshalsaysthatauditorium is firetrap
BY MICHAEL BYRD
Fire marshals inspected the old auditorium three weeks ago and
found numerous violations which will have to be corrected within 60
days.
According to James Burroughs, assistant professor of speech
department, the officials were “not happy with the facility.’’ Even
though renovation is scheduled for the building, a converted 1930 s
gymnasium now used as both a theatre and learning resource
center, modifications not included in the money allocated for the
renovation will have to be made to bring the facility up to fire and
safety standards.-
Fire marshals want storage space re-done, especially areas
where paint and other flammable liquids are kept. They also
complained about insufficient room for exits, and will require that
pointed out that, in 1969, the
average income for black
families was $5400 and for white
families it was S9OOO. Today
that gap has increased from
$2600 to over S6OOO.
“The unemployment for
blacks is about 40 percent to 45
percent in metropolitan areas,”
Eaves said. “Black men with
masters’ degrees are being
hired as guards for $24 a day.
See EAVES Page 2
BY SCOTT FREEMAN
A final decision on the 1979-80
student activities budget by
President Maurice Townsend is
expected in the “next week or
so.”
The SGA student finance
committee completed its report
March 14 with several of their
own recommendations in ad
dition to the ones made by the
joint student-faculty com
mittee, who reviewed the
budget prior to the SGA and did
the basic allocations.
The finance committee’s
report was sent back to the
student-faculty (SF) group.
That group rejected all of the
second panel’s revision, then
sent the proposals to Townsend
and Dean of Student Services
Bruce Lyon.
While the SF committee
proposed a $4 increase in the
student activity fee, SGA felt
that a $5 increase, with the
additional revenue going to the
College Program Board, should
be implemented.
They recommended a cut in
the athletics budget, to be made
up by the “selling of student
tickets to games (i.e.,
Bickers will resign
BY ROBIN STACY
Assistant director of student
activities, Beth Bickers, has
resigned her position effective
June 29 to return to high school
teaching. “I want more time for
me,” Bickers said, “And in
teaching I can have my sum
mers free.”
Mel Caraway, director of
student activities, is accepting
applications for the position,
and is looking, “locally, within
the state and regionally,” for
applicants. “I hope we can find
someone to fill the position right
here on campus,” Caraway
said.
Both Caraway and dean of
student services, Bruce Lyon
expressed regret at Bicker’s
leaving. “I’m disappointed that
she’s going,” Caraway said,
“She’s made a tremendous
positive contribution to our
program here, and good people
are hard to find.”
Lyon said that Bickers, “has
been enthusiastic and very
professional in her work with
students and others on campus,
there be at least five feet of aisleway for theatre spectators. Wiring
inadequacies must also be corrected.
Burroughs says that fine arts personnel will take care of the aisle
space and will cut down the seating area, allowing more
passageway and possible more stage area. The scene shop and
lumber storage will have to be moved, he said. An extension of the
60 day deadline has been granted on the wiring problem because
the theatrical production has already begun.
Director of plant operations Robert Townley plans to install a
sprinkler system in the building. Townley also intends to build a
concrete storage area for combustible materials.
According to Burroughs, the incident, “points out the critical
need for the Board of Regents to make available funds for a fine arts
center and to start on 4t. We’re being restricted in our ability to do
theatre.”
FRIDAY, APRIL 6, 1979
basketball) or a faculty activity
fee required of all faculty and
administration,” with the
money also going to the CPB.
In addition, they felt that “all
scholarships should eventually
be funded by other means
than... the activity fee, although
not funded through individual
departments.”
The committee recom
mended that S3OO be set aside
for the PSC united nations club
to be “budgeted to them after
they firmly established their
application to become a
recognized organization on
campus.” The club was denied
activity funding by the SF
committee.
In rejecting the SGA finance
committee’s report, the SF
committee said “All options
must be explored relative to
scholarship funding rather than
being limited to student activity
funds” and suggested that the
student activity committee of
the faculty senate study and
make recommendations con
cerning the total scholarship
process.
See DECISION, page 3.
and I am sorry to see her go.”
Bickers said that her decision
to quit had been, “a difficult one
to make, because I feel com
mitted to the program here.
This job just takes up more of
my time than I want to
sacrifice.”
Caraway said that, while,
“student activities tends to
have a large turnover rate, both
Beth and Sue Konrad before her
helped stabilize a not so stable
program.”
Deadline for applications for
the position is April 13, and
Caraway hopes to have made a
decision by May 1. Applications
and resume’s should be sub
mitted to Caraway in the
student activities office.
A Bachelor's degree is
required for the position, and a
Master’s degree in student
personnel, counseling, or a
related field is preferred.
Experience in student ac
tivities, union, programming,
Greek advising or a similar
area would be helpful.