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Because of ihr West Georgian's Tuesday press run. a full account of the SGA
election tabulations were unavailable for this week's edition. However, the unof-l
ficial winners in the three tup offices were obtained by presstime, and are marked]
accordingly. Complete election results and full story will be carried in the May 21
edition.
VOLUME 46-NUMBER 32
Beth Lawrence Resigns
By JOHN PLOUFFE
After serving 18 months as the
Assistant Director of Student
Activities to the college, Beth
Lawrence has resigned iher po6t
effective today. May 14. In her
letter of resignation to Student
Activities Director Mel Caraway,
personal reasons were cited for the
departure
“I have decided to pursue a
career as a high school guidance
counselor or perhaps as a history
teacher,” Lawrence informed the
West Georgian during a weekend
interview The young woman, who
holds a master s degree, is cer
CASSI Makes Her Debut
SIGI Gets A Mate
By GLOVIS GORE
SIGI, thie computerized program
that will help you plan for your
career, has anew friend CASSI.
CASSI, Computer Assisted Study
Skills Instruction, is now in
operation to help students learn
more successful study habits
Both SIGI. System of Interactive
Guidance and Information, and
CASSI reside in Mandeville Hall.
Room 136 inside a television screen
hooked up to a telephone The
telephone line connects with a
larger computer storage system at
the University of Georgia or
Georgia Tech
“SIGI or CASSI can treat you
more as jyi individual than a friend
or someone else would," explained
Dr Jerry Hall. Assistant Dean of
Student Services. Director of the
Student Development Center and
counselor “Both can answer
questions logically and tirelessly.”
Evans Cancels SGA Banquet, Citing Lack of Funds in Budget
By MICHAEL BYRD
A banquet honoring 1979-80
Student Government Association
officers has been cancelled in one
of three "executive orders” issued
by SGA president Randy Evans
Funds remaining in the SGA
budget for this year are insufficient
to hold a banquet, forcing the
\\ hat is this? How is it c onnected with
our campus? There is more to this
s\ nihol than meets the eye and you will
see it everywhere" in the near future.
Match for the story in next week's
issue.
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WEST GEORGIA COLLEGE, CARROLLTON, GA. 30118
tified in both educational fields of
her choice
“I also plan on pursing a per
sonal life,” Lawrence further
commented, “which I have not had
much time to do recently "
First assuming her duties for the
college in August of 1978, the
assistant director spent most of her
time as an advisor to the Inter
fraternity Council. According to
one college fraternity member.
“Beth was the kind of person who
gave 100 percent all of the time."
Her departure comes at the close of
a successful week of Greek
festivities jointly sponsored by the
“Of course, it can only respond to
what a person puts in There’s an
old computer saying: G.1.G.0
Garbage In, Garbage Out.”
There are five sections to the
SIGI program First, a person has
to decide what is important to him
or where his values lie. What
satisfactions do you want from an
occupation?
Then, find out where these
satisfactions can be found Com
pare the occupations that are being
considered and plan how to go
about reaching the one that has
been chosen And strategy. Which
occupations fit your values best?
"What your job is depends on
what you want your life to be like,”
explained Hall.
"SIGI and CASSI are interactive
type computer programs,” he
continued "A student gives in
formation about himself and the
computer listens.
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planned dinner to be cancelled,
Evans said.
The executive orders are the first
in the history of the West Georgia
SGA. according to Evans In ad
dition to the directive cancelling
the banquet, the second order
commands SGA officers to pay for
SGA shirts if they have no* already
done so A third order prohibits
expenditures “unless they are
authorized and co-signed by the
president of the Student Govern
ment Association ”
The lack of funds to cover the
banquet ($124 left in the budget) is
a result of “past procedures
concerning expenditures,” ac
cording to one of the three orders.
Evans explained that some
senators have bought supplies
from the coUege bookstore, and
charged the amount to the SGA
without clearing the purchases
with the SGA president.
Evans also expressed doubts that
all the supplies were needed, or
were being used exclusively for
SGA business. He said that the
problem had gotten so bad in
recent weeks that he had “the
i 'tJSsEn
IFC and Panhellenic Council.
Speaking of his assistant in a
recent article published in the
April 23rd edition of the West
Georgian, Caraway said of
Lawrence, “She’s super to work
with She's a self-starter and un
dertakes things on her own
initiative.”
The departing “creative”
assistant will be returning to her
hometown of Boone, North
Carolina, to accept a position as a
Baptist church's youth director.
"It's only a part-time job," said
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secretary hiding supplies ”
The SGA president said one of
the Senators, whom he declined to
name, charged four notebooks to
the SGA. “Four notebooks for SGA
business?” Evans asked
rhetorically.
College bookstore sources
revealed that besides $194.40 spent
for SGA shirts which will be
reimbursed by the senators, vice
How the Student Government Spent Its S6OOO Budget This Year....
Salaries —— s3llO
Telephones sB7s
Supplies $ 574
Beer for Spring fling s44l
SAC Conferences ; 5506
♦ CWSP Matching Funds : * 275
* SQS
Maintenance —— —— ,
Total $5876
♦ Student organizations
receiving funding through student
activities funds must match that
amount of money paid College
Work Study Program employees.
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Pam Millis (above) of Kappa Delta sorority takes time-out to wave as she pedals
through the Trike Race during Greek Meek activities. Tri-Delta’s Carla May (left)
and Chi Omega's Stac> Stull (right) strut their stuff in Monday's Swimsuit Contest.
Stull won the competition. More Greek Meek photos inside. (Photos by Michael
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Beth Lawrence
president Michael Stiggers
emerged as the bookstore’s most
frequent customer charging
supplies to the SGA.
Among those items charged to
the SGA by Stiggers: 10 pens, two
markers, one legal pad, one
mechanical pencil, notebooks,
erasers and a desk calendar
Upon learning this information,
the West Georgian attempted to
WEDNESDAY, MAY 14, 1980
Debate Gets
2 From USC
By MICHAEL BYRD
In what has been called a "major
coup” by debate coach Dr. Chester
Gibson, two top-ranking University
of Southern California debaters
will transfer to West Georgia next
year.
Kelly Sager, “probably the top
woman debater in the country,”
according to assistant debate
coach Walter Ulrich, and Jeff
Arrington both decided to debate
for West Georgia College next
year
The decision came after a con
troversy at USC which resulted in
the firing of both the head debate
coach and the assistant coach. The
firings came after it was learned
that some football players at the
university had signed up for a
debate class and been given credit
Polling Plan Vetoed
By MICHAEL BYRD
A proposal to include campus
residence halls as voting locations
in the SGA election April 13 was
defeated last Tuesday, and im
mediately became a campaign
issue.
Presidential candidate Cary
Ichter believes the proposal was
defeated through the actions of
another presidential candidate,
Michael Stiggers. Ichter said that
by not allowing dorm voting, “the
SGA is attempting to disen
franchise the people of the dorms."
"These are the same people who
are crying for student input,”
Ichter added.
contact an SGA spokesman Friday,
from 1:30 p.m. until 5:00 p.m but
no one was available for comment.
The total amount spent for
supplies this year was estimated to
be S6OO, according to Evans
According to figures provided by
the Student Activities Office, the
SGA spent $1014.68 for supplies,
including $441 spent for kegs of
beer for this year’s Spring Fling.
All figures were obtained from
the Student Activities office, and
were rounded to the nearest dollar.
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without attending.
Ulrich said that both debaters
had approached West Georgia
The Registrar would like to
remind students that Wed
nesday, May 14 is the LAST
DAY to EARLY REGISTER
for the SUMMER QUARTER
coaches this season at a national
tournament. The assistant debate
coach said that Arrington and
Sager may have based their
decisions on the quality of West
Georgia’s debate program, and its
success in recent years
West Georgia placed a team
among the top 16 teams in a recent
national tournament.
Ulrich speculated that next
year’s debate season may be “one
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It is Ichter’s belief that
“Stigger’s support comes from the
student center".
The political newcomer said that
the proposal to include dorms as
polling locations, a recom
mendation made by SGA president
Randy Evans, would greatly in
crease the number of voters
participating in the election of
student representatives this year.
Past elections have been plagued
vyith poor voter turnout.
But according to SGA adviser
Emerson Moore, the election
committee, a subcommittee of the
SGA Senate, has made an effort to
increase the number of balloting
locations, and has in fact added a
voting location in the Education
Center.
The proposal was defeated
because there would be an
inadequate number of volunteers
to supervise voting at all the
residence halls, Moore explained
Moore believes that with enough
election workers, the plan to in
clude residence halls as voting
locations could work
“It could be pulled off,” Moore
said. “I don’t see anything wrong
with it. It’s something we should
consider for future elections.”
Evans said the option to include
dorms as voting locations would
not violate the SGA statutes, but
was defeated by the election
committee, of which vice president
and SGA candidate Michael
Stiggers was not a member.
“There was no hanky-panky,”
Evans said.
Ichter called the defeat of the
proposal to allow residence hall
voting, “not a sincere effort to
increase voter participation.”
“The last thing I want to see is to
have this election cut down racial
lines,” said Ichter. “But it looks
like that is what will happen.”