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With an extensive cut in book purchasing power, the library annex may have more space than
books.
Departments Expect Hardships
While some departments
anticipate no major problem as
a result of the reduction of
books each department can
order through the library, many
departments view the pospect
as a hardship.
According to Dr. Herman
Boyd, physics department
chairman, “The college is
losing ground and we’re losing
time if we want to become a
first rate institution.”
Dr. Edwart Gilbert, biology
Throw Mortar Boards in Ring
Stallings, Doxey Seek Mayoral Position
BY 808 BOLDING
“A hundred people could run against me and if the
people want to reelect me, they will. If they don’t want
me, they’ll elect someone else -and that’s just the way
I feel about it.”
That’s the way Carrollton incumbent Mayor Vince
Cashen feels about running for reelection against two
West Georgia College based opponents—Dr. Bill
Doxey, a professor of English and Dr. Tracy Stallings,
director of college relations.
All three have declared their candidacy for the
mayor’s post which goes up for grabs in a September
4 general election.
The job pays $62.50 a month according to Mayor
Cashen and he’s “not about to get rich off of it.”
Cashen, who is involved in a suit with the company
he used to manage, Nova Products, says he wants to
“continue to run Carrollton like a business.” Nova
Products ousted Cashen and his son from the com
pany’s management earlier this year causing suits,
countersuits, and lots of adverse publicity.
Nova Products says Cashen mismanaged the
company.
Though the adverse publicity may have damaged
him politically, Cashen’s opposition isn’t talking about
the Nova business. They’re talking about city business.
Dr Bill Doxey who’s running on a “no more progress
for Carrollton” platform, wants less business in
Carrollton.
WEST GEORGIA COLLEGE, CARROLLTON, GA 30118
department chairman, feels
that a cut back in new books is
especially detrimental to the
instruction of sciences and
comments, “It is making it
almost impossible to offer a
good program.”
Teachers of the arts express
similar concern. Dr. Bruce
Bobick art department
chairman, notes that his
department is offering anew
course in graphic design next
year, for which new books will
be needed.
Members of the education
departments have solved their
problem to some extent by
accumulating and maintaining
their own materials center.
Faculty collections are also
made available to students.
However, as onewho does not
have such resources available
as Boyd says, “We will suffer,
but we will survive.”
“I don’t see what good this CBS plant is going to do
for Carrollton except help the developers make a
profit. I don’t want Carrollton to lose its small town
quality. We need to talk about improving the quality of
life - not exploiting the land to make some developer
up in Hilton Head rich.
Cashen points out that the city has grown rapidly in
his four year term as mayor and wants to follow
through on plans to expand the city.
“Carrollton’s tax digest has to grow by about eight to
nine percent a year in order to maintain the present tax
level. If we have no growth and we have no progress,
then taxes can only go up because costs are going up.’
the incumbent mayor says.
Doxey says that he believes that growth will only
increase the city’s tax rate. He adds, “It is a political
myth perpetrated by politicians.”
“As things get larger, we will get more problems.
We’ll need more fire protection, more policemen, more
sanitary facilities, more sewer lines, and more water.
If you want an idea of how tenuous Carrollton s water
supply is, I invite you to come take a look at the Little
Tallapoosa River where we get our water. I think a
good pole jumper could leap across it in places.”
Leaping into the race as the third candidate for the
mayor’s seat is West Georgia Director of College
Relations Dr. Tracy Stallings.
Extensive Budget
Cutbacks Leave
Bare Bookcases
For the fourth straight year,
the library’s operating budget
has been cut. This year’s
reduction is the most extensive
one, according to Director of
Libraries, Charles E. Beard.
Even though the library has
substantially lowered its travel
and supply budgets, the book
acquisition budget has been
sliced from last year’s figure of
$98,019 down, to between $20,000
to $25,000.
“We’re hoping the damage
will not be irreparable to our
collections development,”
Beard said. But he added that
since most book titles sell out in
two to three years, it is im
possible to play catch-up.
According to Beard, the past
four years have not been good
ones for library book
acquisitions and he is con
cerned that gaps are beginning
to show up in some collections.
Dr. Don Wells, chairman of
the political science depart
ment, feels this concern is well
founded. “The damage is
already showing up, par
ticularly in the area of public
administration. The research is
taking new directions and we
can’t afford to get behind in the
literature,” he said.
Though Stallings says he does not believe in change
for the sake of change, he does believe in “orderly and
managed change, progress, and improvement.”
Stallings adds that growth is “bound to occur” in tne
Carrollton area due to the area’s attractive resources.
“I will apply my energies to work toward continual
improvement of the quality of life for the citizens of
this fine town.”
As one of the few Carrollton natives in the upper
levels of the college’s administration, Stallings has
been President Townsend’s “town-connection” for the
last four years and that may draw the ire of Doxey,
who has frequently criticized the Townsend ad
ministration.
When asked if he felt any pressure about running
against a college administrator, Doxey says no.
“I’m a teacher and Dr. Stallings is an administrator.
They are two different jobs. I recently saw a picture in
the paper of some of the administrators spitting
watermelon seeds. If that’s what administrators do,
then I’m glad I’m teaching,” he says.
Stallings refused to verbalize any opposition to either
of the candidates for mayor, but added, I m sure
Doxey is a good runner.”
The qualifying deadline for the mayor’s election is
August 20. The deadline for voter registration is August
2.
FRIDAY, July 27, 1979
The continuing decline in
student enrollment has
prompted the Board of Regents
to cut West Georgia College’s
1980 fiscal year budget by
$246,000. College officials have
decided to cut the library’s
budget to partially compensate
for the loss in state revenue.
Dr. Richard L. Dangle, dean
of the school of arts and
sciences, said, “I wish we didn’t
have to cut the library as bad as
we did. But it is the only place
where we have chunks of money
readily available, money that
we can cut quickly.”
'The damage is
already
showing up.'
“We had a choice, fire faculty
or cut book acquisitions. The
choice was easy to make” noted
Dr. John Lewis, dean of
faculties and vice president,
“Obviously we are not pleased
but if you have to you have to.
We, of course, cannot continue
to operate in this way.”