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VOL. 46—-NUMBER 2
Bus Run Threatened;
Plansto Renovate
Snack Bar Considered
Decisions to discontinue the
campus bus service and to
renovate the student center
snack bar are "still up in the
air," according to college of
ficials.
Bill Fite, director of
auxiliary enterprise, says a
proposal to ax the bus service is
in a "holding situation" and
that a decision has not yet been
made.
The auxiliary enterprises
director says the impetus for
the proposal comes from a
consensus of administrators
that the cost of the service "far
outweighs its value to the
student body."
"On the other hand, we would
like to be able to provide
transportation for students,
especially handicapped
students, who need it."
Lower gas allocations for the
campus operation of motor
vehicles and campus-wide
budget cuts threaten to end the
three-year old service.
“Right now the money we’re
spending on a few students is
taking away from a lot of
people. We’ve got to shift our
resources to where the demand
is to the best benefit of the
students,” Fite says.
Meanwhile, a recom
mendation to implement a
phased-in renovation of the
student center snack bar awaits
Student Dies
Funeral services were in
Newnan this week for Jonathon
Mark Cates, a 20-year old West
Georgia student who died early
Saturday morning in Atlanta’s
Piedmont Hospital.
Cates sustained massive
head injuries in a June 18 one
Many of Carrollton’s gas stations have cut hours.
WEST GEORGIA COLLEGE, CARROLLTON, GA 30118
review by campus officials
The new plan will allow
students to use their meal
tickets to buy a certain value of
items in the snack bar, making
it more convenient to use.
Marketing concepts brought
in through an ARA planning
group which is preparing a
blueprint of the proposed new
renovation, will improve the
atmosphere in the snack bar,
making it a place to socialize as
well as to eat," and- college
administrators hope - to im
prove revenue from the ARA
food service. The college
receives a small commission on
the volume of students served
by ARA.
The proposed renovation
would seek to speed up service
by reverting to “parallel line"
service and would ac
commodate an expected in
crease in volume this fall when
the new ARA meal ticket plan
goes into effect.
How much will the proposed
renovation cost?
College officials don’t know
yet, but both Fite and Ken
Batchelor, Director of Fiscal
Affairs, think the figure will be
under $50,000.
Batchelor adds, "Right now,
the renovation is a recom
mendation, that’s all.”
The present facility currently
serves around 400 persons a day
and already "does pretty good
for us financially," says Fite.
car accident in Carrollton. He
had been listed in critical
condition in Tanner Memorial
Hospital’s intensive care unit
until he was transferred to the
Atlanta hospital 10 days later
for examination by
neurosurgeon specialists.
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West Georgia College’s Phi Beta Lambda chapter brought home five national awards at the 1979
National Leadership Conference held July 5-9 in New Orleans. Front (l-r) are Enor Lam, Newnan
freshman, who competed in Data Processing I, Carrollton senior Hiram Altman, who placed sixth in
business law, and back (l-r) are Theron Rose, junior from Ellijay, who competed in Data Processing
11. Van Wilshire, junior from Atlanta, and local chapter president, and Beth Crouch, Roswell fresh
man, who competed on the state level in the talent division.
But Enrollment May Not Climb
Applications For Fall Up 1 3.6%
Fall quarter freshman ap
plications are coming into the
West Georgia admissions office
13.6 percent faster than they did
at this time last year, according
to Admissions Director Doyle
Bickers.
But Bickers is not about to
predict an increase in
enrollment over last fall.
“There’s no way we can see a
good increase for this fall,”
Bickers says, and adds that the
college admissions field has
changed dramatically.
"There’s no way for us to know
what to expect this fall,” he
said.
Bickers, in his second year as
director of admissions, says
subtracting, from a potentially
small increase in freshman
enrollment next fall will be a
possible decrease in commuting
students due to higher cost of
transportation and the loss of
the campus learning labs
program formerly conducted
through the college this past
Remember 1973?
If you liked 1973, you will
probably love the summer of
1979.
Shortages of gasoline and
dramatic increases in its cost
have dominated the news as
stories of rationing and long
lines at the pump in some
northeastern states and
California are related in the
press.
Though there have been
relatively few interruptions in
supplies of gasoline to local
dealers, Carrollton and West
Georgia College have not been
immune to the "gas crunch."
Surveys conducted in the past
fall.
To add to the muddle, Bickers
says he can’t be sure what
percentage of the fall ap
plicants will be accepted and
enroll or the rate of application
changes.
"The last few years we have
seen application seasons peak
at earlier times in the year."
Meaning that most prospective
students are applying to
colleges earlier in the year than
in the past.
These changes and a
decrease in the rate of ap
plicants enrolling have made
things difficult to predict.
When the rate of applications
failed to taper as expected
Bickers fears anew wrinkle will
appear in the enrollment
prediction game.
"It doesn’t make sense. Fall
quarter enrollment predictions
are increasing all over the
state. Yet the state has
provided statistics which show
that the number of high school
month by WWGC, the campus
radio station, indicate the price
of premium gasoline at two
Carrollton stations will go over
the one dollar a gallon mark
and that the average price of
gasoline has risen in four weeks
at an annual rate of around 45
percent.
In addition to price increases,
the availability of gasoline has
been restricted at times. Most
dealerships in Carrollton have
had reduced monthly
allocations to work with this
summer causing local shor
tages during the last week of
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FRIDAY, July 13, 1979
graduates available for
recruitment is down.”
‘‘l’ve called Valdosta State
and Georgia Southern and they
report the same things. I think
it’s multiple applications," he
says.
Multiple application is a term
applied to applicants who have
applied at more than one
school.
Regardless of what the figure
is next fall, Bickers says the
college must prepare for lower
enrollments in the future.
The lower enrollments,
largely a function of a falling
birth rate, will force the West
Georgia admissions office to dig
harder for prospective
students.
“We’ve got to continue to
intensify our campus
marketing, mobilize the
campus for recruitment, and
get accustomed to a "bigger
slice of a little r pie.”