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placement office essential
It’s that time of year again, Spring, when young men’s
(and women’s) fancies turn to love, the grass turns to green
and college students who are leaving school turn to their
placement office for help in finding a job.
Due to the small size of the placement office at West
Georgia, however, the help available here may not be as
great as it could be.
Our administration has expressed concern about at
tracting a higher caliber of students to West Georgia.
An important part of attracting better students is a strong
placement record for graduates. As Placement Director
Moses Holmes has said, “We should show the public that we
are proud of our product.” Indeed.
To make the public as proud of that product as we are, we
must make it aware of the value of a West Georgia diploma,
and that value will be judged in the job market.
A strong, full-time placement office would help make
good, high-paying jobs available to our graduates. These
jobs would attract better students, and the students would
make West Georgia a better school, all around.
A placement office does not seem to be a good place to
save money. We urge the administration to make every
effort to improve it.
good jobs, debaters
Thanks to the debating team of Paul Weathington and
Randy Evans, coached by Chester Gibson, West Georgia is
making a mark in the world. We extend our heartiest
congratulations to them, and to the entire debate squad, for
a job well done.
Placing third in a major national debate tournament is an
honor not to be taken lightly. When the West Georgia team
was awarded their trophy, the audience stood and cheered.
This type of accolade can only improve the school’s
recruitment picture.
The debaters should enjoy the acclaim of the entire
campus; they have earned it.
LEbtiERS
sex farce
The Editor,
Some parson, claiming to be a
graduate student at West
Georgia, has recently been
calling persons on the telephone
asking personal questions about
their sex life. He claims that
this is a part of a research
project carried out at the
college.
As I, for several years have
been doing professional sex
research, some persons have
expressed their belief that 1 am
responsible for the above
telephone calls. Accordingly, I
wish to state that I am not in
any way connected with the
individual. Furthermore,
professional ethics prohibit
categorically that so-called
“sex surveys” be done over the
telephone, and I am not in
volved in activities prohibited
by professional sexological
standards. IF YOU SHOULD
RECEIVE A CALL OF THIS
NATURE, I RECOMMEND
THAT YOU HANG UP YOUR
TELEPHONE.
At this time I would also like
to express my appreciation to
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those 386 students who filled in
the sexual attitude survey this
last winter. The results are now
compiled, and we hope that the
West Georgian will have a
write-up shortly. Those in
structors who administered the
questionnaires, but have not
received the summary of the
responses are asked to contact
me for a copy of the results.
Sincerely,
Ernst Bjerkerot
'poor taste'
The Editor:
Your last week’s paper in
cluded a picture on page 2 of
Elizabeth Diaz, our
homecoming queen. The
caption under this picture was
in very poor taste. Everyone
whom I have talked to has said
that it was an insult to
Elizabeth. I am insisting that a
letter of apology be written to
Elizabeth on the front page of
this week’s paper. 1 feel that
this is the least that you could
do to right last week’s wrong.
Sincerely,
Jim Pope
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Some of you may not have seen last week’s
West Georgian (we’ll get to that in a minute),
with a couple of stories that irritated none too
few people. Aside from the regular rumblings of
the masses, the front page story on the alleged
SGA-Greek collaboration and a photo caption on
page two attracted unusual attention.
The former case is a matter for other per
sonnel and higher authorities, but the case of the
miscued caption is a story I can get at. It’s got a
smack of chivalry, and being a male chauvinist
capital Pig, it’s right up my alley
Even more so, with the turn of events, my
duty.
Enjoying whatever was at hand, I sat in front
of my dorm last Friday when a fellow drove up
and promptly began unloading bundled
packages of that day’s issue of The West
Georgian ( I told you we’d get to the paper
thing.) Bali parking the figure, he stacked out of
harms way, 1,500-plus papers. That’s over 18,000
pages
Quick to the obvious as 1 am, I knew he didn’t
have a kennel of dogs or even one BIG dog, with
the dorm rooms leaning toward too small at best.
Something was up.
TO THE RESCUE
Wasting no time on this scoop, I talked to him
the next day.
“What’s with all the fishwrap?”
“Well, you know that picture on page two?”
“The cute chipee?”
“Yeah, I didn’t like the way that caption was
written. That girl is a friend of mine, and I didn’t
think that was a good way to put it. She was just
over here. I had her stop by so she could see I got
all the ones that I could.”
“That’s it?”
“Uh-huh ”
He was just being a nice guy. Rescuing a
damsel in distress, as it was.
At first I wanted to snicker a little bit; after all,
guest column
permanent record is permanent
By MERALD E. THOMAS, JR.
REGISTRAR
Please allow me to clarify statements made by
Cheryl D. Lovell in her guest column in The West
Georgian, Friday, April 20.
Her column referred to “removing of grades
from a student’s transcript,” which in turn could
change the cumulative grade point average.
If students and faculty members have a
misunderstanding about the removal of grades
from a transcript, they should refer to the un
dergraduate issue of the West Georgia bulletin,
page 86.
“The cumulative grade point average is
calculated by dividing the number of hours
scheduled in all courses attempted in which a
grade of A, B, C, D, F, or WF was received into
the number of grade points earned on those
hours scheduled. The cumulative grade point
average is recorded on the student’s permanent
record (transcript). Institutional credit shall in
no way affect the cumulative grade point
average.”
“A total of 20 hours of work in which a student
made grades of D and F and in which he-she
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father knows best
somebody would have had to pick up the extra
papers on Monday. Unwittingly, he killed two
stones with one bird. Then I wanted to snicker
again, as shades of the Fulton County Solicitor
who ran around confiscating Larry Flynt’s
Hustler Magazine played through my mind Our
very own campus "moral scribe.”
I thought nothing more of it until the thought
hit me that there might be legal ramifications
involved here. However, checking with the West
Georgian’s adviser (the paper’s version of a
corporate lawyer), and discovering there was no
precedent by which to rule other than the battle
cry of “Free Press,” I was a bit betwixt myself
in the matter.
The “Free Press” badge may very well hang
mighty in jurisprudential matters, but then, the
caption reeked of the obvious. The complexion of
the matter changes as certain ethic codes come
to play. Restitution must be made, in honor.
Someone called for the immediate neutering of
the caption writer. Well, no one owned up to the
caption, so that idea went by the breeze
• ME A CULPA
Sometimes, things get a little hectic (crazy,
maybe) in the editing of even a relatively small,
albeit award-winning, college newspaper. In the
wee hours, the imagination is strained and
deliberation is very, very taxing. Sometimes,
things just have a way of getting by without an
honest effort of judgment; a glance, a scan and a
nod
Whatever the rhyme to the reason, it appears
as a dirty limerick. We are behooved to repent.
We can’t take it back, but we apologize.
And we do.
My dad always told me that it’s not just what
you say, but how you say it. I guess that’s what
this is all about.
And to our knight in shining armor, we deliver.
Cheap! two-fifty and two flights of stairs,
fella.
later made higher grades may be eliminated in
computing his-her grade point average for
graduation. No more than 10 hours of the above
20 can be in the student’s major field. All entries,
however, remain a part of the student’s per
manent record (transcript). For transfer
students, hours dropped in transferring are
included in the 20 hours total. Repeating a course
more than once requires the approval of the dean
of the school through which the student’s major
is offered. No course in which a student has
made a C or above may be repeated.”
All course work completed at this school and
other schools is indicated on the student’s per
manent record. As indicated above, the D’s and
or F’s from other school or schools can be in
cluded in the total of twenty hours of work that
may be eliminated in computing his-her grade
point average for graduation.
The only way that a grade may be removed
from a permanent record is in a case where the
grade was incorrectly posted.
Merald E. Thomas, Jr.
Registrar
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