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IftP ML* T f ■HE ~m -v “• tiJL, i * ,s —■-“■ t3ME WE5t SEDRSian 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. m ‘ ' Jflr Jr WM 1' M ■li sjifc pjj ■ Mi Hp " **' I n *so- * f | I * tit ' * 1 I HH ml Jm h ; n * J \ 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 Continued on page 3 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.”