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VOL. 45—NUMBER 23
Lack of quorum stops greek gift
BY SCOTT F REEMAN
Because the SGA Senate lacked a quorum in its
Wednesday meeting, the Interfraternity and
panhellenic councils will not be receiving any funds
from the SGA budget to defray the cost of a dance
scheduled for tomorrow night as part of the celebration
of Greek Week.
According to Sharon Wilkerson, SGA vice president,
President Tony Jones approached the executive
council about transferring SSOO from the SGA budget to
the greeks around the first of April.
The council consists of Wilkerson, Jones and
judiciary chairman Randy Evans.
She said she brought the matter up for full con
sideration before the senate. “Anything involving the
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Emerson Moore, Black Student Alliance advisor and assistant to
the director of student activities right, and a West Georgia student
welcome Vivian Malone Jones (center) to campus.
Placement program lacking
BY LINDA HELTON
The day you have been
waiting for is almost here. You
have worked hard to prepare
yourself for a meaningful and
challenging career and now you
must go about finding the right
job in your field. The most
logical place to seek help would
be your college placement
office. But at West Georgia,
that help may not be available.
Moses Holmes, director of
financial aid and placement, is
the first to admit that his office
is not meeting the needs of the
graduating senior. “Placement
is still in the infancy stage
under student services,’’
Holmes says. “We are trying to
do what we can with the present
facilities. However, I am so
involved with financial aid that
I only have seven or eight
percent of my time left to spend
on placement.’’
Holmes said the ad
ministration is aware of the
problem and hopes to move
placement from financial aid
and place it in student
development. Budgetary
problems, however, are
creating problems here.
Holmes said, he feels a
college the size of West Georgia
should actively seek companies
to interview seniors, but the
college averages only 20 to 25
agencies coming on campus
during a year. “A school the
size of West Georgia should
have at least 50 to 75 agencies
coming on campus to recruit.
Georgia Tech, for example, had
630 recruiters on campus during
the 1978-1979 school year. Some
WEST GEORGIA COLLEGE, CARROLLTON, GA 30118
of them even came more than
once, for a total of 916 visits. ’’
Holmes said he would like to
see West Georgia institute a day
where students could be in
troduced to many different
fields and companies with
which they would like to in
terview.
In addition to sponsoring
career days, placement offices
often publish a bulletin letting
students and interested alumni
know of job opportunities. Some
even publish weekly alumni
placement bulletins, and also
help students find part-time
summer employment. “West
Georgia should be concerned
about their graduates after they
leave,” Holmes said.
Despite the time and
budgetary problems faced by
the placement office, several
large companies will be on
campus in the next few weeks.
They are: Georgia Power, the
Navy, Milliken, a textile
company, and J.C. Penney.
A student who wishes to in
terview with one of the com
panies should go by the
placement office located in
Mandeville Hall and pick up a
packet. The forms in the packet
and a resume should be
returned to the office before the
interview.
Holmes suggested that a
more active placement office
would not only benefit
graduates but also boost the
image of West Georgia as a
institute. “We should show the
public that we are proud of our
product,” he concluded.
allocation of SGA money should go up before the
senate,” she said.
That group approved the SSOO transfer to the greeks
provided the Greek Week dance was open to the public.
The senate stipulated that the greeks would sponsor
a dance next spring in the SGA’s name in return for the
transfer.
However, according to Wilkerson, that figure was
reduced to $350 by Dr. Bruce Lyon, dean of student
services.
“He was looking over our budget and told us we had
to cut down and that he would cut the figure to $350.”
She said that the $350 figure made the senate vote
“invalid” which prompted the attempt at anew vote at
Wednesday’s meeting. Only four senators showed up
Black awareness week
First black grad of Alabama discusses
keys to success for black women today
BY TAMMIE POGUE
Vivian Malone Jones, the first
black student to graduate from
the University of Alabama, and
presently a “political activist,”
was the guest speaker Tuesday
as part of the “Challenge of
Blackness” series sponsored by
the BSA and the Kappa Tau
chapter of Alpha Kappa Alpha
sorority.
Speaking to about % black
students, mostly female, Jones
discussed “the keys to success
for black women in today’s
society.” She told the audience
that they obviously knew one of
the “keys,” the advantage of a
good education. But there are
problems in seeking em
ployment, she said. Being a
black female is a double
jeopardy, according to Jones.
“There are many people who
Budget decision due by early May
BY SCOTT FREEMAN
Because of uncertainty about
other fee areas, a final decision
on the 1979-80 student activity
fee budget by President
Maurice Townsend may not
come until the first of May,
according to Dr. Bruce Lyon,
dean of student services.
“The budget is entirely in the
president’s hands at this time,”
he said. “However he wants to
wait on a final decision until
uncertainty about other fee
areas, such as residence life
and food services, are cleared
up.”
Townsend also wants a clear
picture of the school’s overall
budget before making any
decision, said Tracy Stallings,
director of college relations.
“I think that he wants to have
all the pieces together. He
wants an idea* of what the
school’s academic and
auxiliary budgets will be in
addition to the activity fee
budget.”
Stallings added that Town
send, along with Vice-President
John Lewis, director of fiscal
for the scheduled meeting.
Anew figure of $250 was to be voted. That amount
would have paid for the band at the greeks’ dance.
Mel Caraway, director of student activities, said that
he would be “opposed to using SGA money to support
the dance if it wasn’t going to be open to all students. If
you’re going to use activity money, the event should be
open to everyone.”
He said that he felt the idea of transferring the
money developed when a fund raising project by the
IFC and Panhellenic councils fell through earlier this
year.
Wilkerson said that because the failure to get a
quorum for yesterday’s meeting , the greeks would
now not get any money from the SGA budget.
might say yes, but on the other
hand, the fact that you are
black and the fact that you are
women gives you a better
chance of getting employment.
But the statistics just don’t bear
that out. I’ve gone to recruit
ment drives where there were
black women who said ‘I didn’t
have any trouble finding a job;
surely it must be easy.’ ”
Jones called these women the
“selected few.”
“We still occupy the lowest
jobs. 1 haven’t done any
research on this campus... but I
would venture to say that by
and large, you’ll find black
women located not only, say, in
clerical jobs, but probably in
the lowest of the clerical jobs.”
Jones, who has held positions
with federal agencies,
suggested that working for the
affairs, Ken Batchelor and
James Wash, director of in
structional and research ser
vices, was in Atlanta Wed
nesday at a meeting to get in
formation on the Board of
Regent’s allocation to the
college, and details on putting
the academic budget together.
Preliminary work has been
done on the auxiliary budget,
according to Harrison Holmes,
acting director of auxiliary
enterprises and director of
personnel, but it will not be
complete until an academic
budget is put together.
Included under the auxiliary
budget are housing, the campus
bookstore and food services.
Lyon said that he recognized
that a number of organizations
are eager for a student activity
budget decision. “Our goal was
to have the whole process done
by April,” he said. “I think
under normal circumstances
we would have, but with so
much up in the air and the
Regents’ tuition hike it just
wasn’t possible to do it by the
FRIDAY, APRIL 27, 1979
government was one of the
safest jobs. She also suggested
to her audience that they stay
informed of what type of majors
are currently in demand. ,
“When l was working in a
personnel office, we had to turn
down all kinds of people with
degrees in sociology and
history, for example, when we
were crying for engineers.”
“When seeking employment,
keep in mind excellence, the job
scene, and the fierce com
petition. Be mobile. Many times
the jobs are there, but you have
to go to the jobs.”
Jones told the audience about
her “five-year plan” which she
uses in making “basic decisions
in my life.”
“Right now, I’m not earning a
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first this year.”
He added that he hoped a
decision would be made about
an increase in residence hal)
fees by the end of April. “Once
that is done, a decision on the
activity budget should be for
thcoming.”
One of the major areas of
concern for Townsend is ex
pected to be the $4 increase in
the student activity fee
suggested by the joint student
faculty committee which
studied the budget in March.
Later the SGA finance
committee, which reviewed the
initial committee’s findings,
wanted an additional increase
to raise the recommended hike
to $5.
While the student-faculty
committee rejected the ad
ditional fee increase, sources in
the administration have said
that a possibility, but, with
students facing other increases
in tuition and possibly housing
and food, they worry about
overburdening students
financially.