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5 Sirens Signal Campus Tornado Drill Today
By MARK McCLOLD
If you are walking to class this
.morning you may find yourself
interrupted by screaming of sirens
and a loud voice
No. it’s not a nuclear disaster
It’s all part of a state wide tornado
drill to prepare for the funnel clouds
that often accompany spring in the
southeastern states TTiis is the third
year for the drill. North and South
Carolina will be joining Georgia this
year Alabama will conduct a
state-wide drill tomorrow. March 5
According to Bill Tuttle, chief of
Public Safety, the exercise will have
two phases During the watch portion
of the drill, department heads and key
administrators will be notified that a
practice tornado watch is in effect
Messages will also be relayed on the<
campus radio station, WWGC as they
will be reviewing their role in the
process Dunng the warning phase,
five Public Safety vehicles will be
dispersed across campus warning
students with a yelp siren and a p a
system There will be no disruption of
classes, however Students should go
about their normal business but
become aware of what they would do
The drill is expected to be
staged sometime
between late morning or
early afternoon.
in a real .tornado watch Tuttle is
asking that students note the time and
location when they hear the sirens as
a survey will be distributed in the
upcoming weeks to determine the
efficiency of the drill “We want to
find out how effective it was and how
fast we can warn the campus,” said
Dr Gerald Sanders, assistant pro-
Asbestos Tests Will Cost $7,000
BY M ARK Met LOUD
School officials have received a "firm
quotation" of S7.(MX) on the cost of
asbestos tests in campus buildings
"Now we have to get with the
business end and find out how we will
fund it." Pete Russell, director of Cam
pus Development The original
proposal, drawn up by Joe Martin, an
engineer from the Law of Engineering
and Testing Cos., stated the costs to be
around SIO,OOO
Russell said he is fairly certain that
the school will have the tests conducted
and also speculated that President
Maurice Townsend will try to get help
from the Board of Regents on the costs
But "it won t be much, if any." he said
If the school decides to have the tests
conducted, an engineer would be taking
samples froms the already (Student
Center Gunn Hall) as well as Pritchard.
Boy kin. Row and old Strozier Halls
According to Russell, investigators
would be using the air transmission
electron tests which cost approximate
ly $375 a sample Three samples would
be taken from each building to deter
mine the amount of asbestos in the ceil
ings. .After the tests have been con
ducted and analyzed, the company
would give officials a recommendation
on what to do.
The two opinions for curing the pro
blem would be spraying the existing
ceiling or tearing it down. Recent
Townsend's Office Site of Break-in, See Page 4
WEST GEORGIAN
lessor of Geography who is charge of
the project. The dnll is expected to be
staged sometime between the morning
and early afternoon.
“It’s the very best system we can
afford.” says Tuttle who hopes the
school can buy an alarm system
primarily designed for emergency
situations in the future
late February marks the beginning
of the most dangerous time of the
year for Georgia's tornado season
According to a report by the National
Weather Service, 72 people have been
killed in Georgia since 1952; 62 of
those facilities occurred during the
months of March, April, and May.
Weather authorities say Georgia can
expect 20 tornadoes to develop over
the state in 1981. During 1980, 32
tornadoes were reported giving the
state a rank of ninth in the nation.
Sanders said the West Georgia area is
highly susceptible to tornadoes
because, “We, along with central and
western Alabama, are in a mini-belt.”
On May 12, 1980,. the National
Severe Storms Forecast Center in
Kansas City issued a tornado watch
for Central Missouri Two hours later
a tornado was detected and a tornado
warning was issued Sirens were
sounded in the town, Sedalia, giving
people ample time to take cover. The
tornado hit a mobile home park and
destroyed all of the 65 trailers there
The proprietor of the park had a plan
which specified that the residents
should take shelter in the basement of
his home. ’Hie plan probably saved
100 lives because 100 people took
refuge in his basement. “Every
household needs a plan,” Sanders
said
“We are more concerned with
students in buildings and dorms and
whether they will be able to hear the
sirens or not,” said Tuttle.
evidence gathered by the Environmen
tal Protection Agency, however, says
spraying may only aggravate the pro
blem
Russell said once a dieision lias been
made on funding tests, a contract would
follow with the actual investigation on
beginning 10 days thereafter
Weathington May Be Top Speaker
By JEFF STYLES
West Georgia may be able to boast
of having the top debater in the nation
in its graduating class this spring.
Paul Weathington, a senior from the
Carrollton area, has an excellent
chance of being the country’s number
one speaker in the college debate
program.
Weathington, who has been debat
ing since he was in the eighth grade
at Central High School in
Carrollton, has been a dominating
factor in the debate scene in the last
few years. He was ranked fourth in
the national ratings last year and all of
the students ahead of him were
graduating seniors. He has been
chosen first speaker in three
tournaments so far this year and has
placed lower than the top five.
Weathingtons progress has not
gone unnoticed by the schools that
value debate highly Last week he
WEST GEORGIA COLLEGE, CARROLLTON, GA. 30118
BY MARK McCLOIT)
The West Georgia Braves basketball
team received a bid to the NCAA Divi
sion II South Regional playoffs Sunday
after beating Conference champion,
Valdosta State, 71-67 Saturday night in
the South Atlantic Conference cham
pionship in Valdosta.
The Braves, currently ranked
seventh in the nation in Division 11, will
fly to Orlando. Fla., tomorrow before
play ing Florida Southern Friday night
at7p.m
The win over the Blazers marked the
first time a West Georgia team has won
in Valdosta since the series between the
two bitter rivals began in 1957 The win
also knocked Valdosta out of a chance
for possible regional bid and improved
the Brave's record to 22-4 overall
"We want to know if it’s going to
be disruptive and that’s why we want
to forewarn the students,” Sanders
said.
Tornado Safety Tips
1 When a tornado threatens, your
immediate action can save your life! y
WWGC DJ's Split Over Format Question
Station Manager Mike Manion takes a shift at WWGC.
Station Halts 24-Hour Broadcasts
By MICHAEL BYRD
If you’ve tuned the dial over to 90.5
on one of your “all-nighters” recently,
you’ve noticed a different sound for
the campus station - nothing. The
station has dropped the 2-6 am.
“graveyard” shift because of a
manpower shortage.
It should stay that way until the end
of the quarter, according to Jerry
Mock, director of Learning Resources
The loss of one DJ and the suspension
of another on the 2-6 a m. shift left
WWGC with the problem of filling the
slots four nights a week. It is station
manager Mike Manion’s policy as
well as Jerry Mock’s, “that if we can’t
received an offer from Baylor law
school for a full three-year scholar
ship.
The Leon Jaworski Scholarship is a
prestigious award that only three
students a year qualify for. It is based
solely on the students LSAT scores,
debate record and grade point
average Although Weathington is
admittedly excited about being a
recipient for such an honor he has not
yet committed himself to only that
school. Both the University of Georgia
and Emory have excellent law schools
and he has not ruled out the
possibility of going there
When asked about the difficulties of
keeping his grades up while debating
Weathington commented, "I’d like to
thank the W est Georgia community as
a whole, especially the librarians and
teachers that have helped me out so
much I’ve had a hard time attending
many classes and the teachers have
been very understanding. ’ ’
l’he Braves trailed the most of the
first half until Stanley Brewer gave the
team its first lead, 34-33. The Braves
then reeled off six unanswered points to
lead 40-33 at halftime.
The Braves led for the most of the se
cond half except for a 57-57 tie with
seven seconds left in the game. Leading
68-62 with only 1:05 left, it looked as
though the Braves were going to find a
new way to lose the Blazers as they so
often have in so many different ways in
Valdosta Valdosta closed the lead to 69-
67 with 22 seconds left, but some ex
cellent defense by Calvin Booker made
up for some missed one-and-one free
throw situations by the Braves as they
held on to win, 71-67.
Stanley Brewer led the Braves' scor
ing attack with 23 points while Lamar
Frady added 16 and Daron Richardson
15.
Continued on page 7
2. Stay away from windows,
doors, and outside walls. Protect your
head. Most tornado deaths are caused
by head injuries.
3. In homes and small buildings,
you should go to the basement or to
Continued on page 8
be consistent, we ll drop back. "
It was rumored that the loss of one
of the DJ’s because of suspension
came out of a personal conflict with
Manion. John "Bear” Johnson, one of
the late night DJ’s, had had a
difference of opinion with Manion not
related to station business But
according to both Manion and
Johnson, that had been straightened
out before the suspension. “It just got
twisted into a thing where Mike was
getting back at Bear,” Manion said.
“Bear and I have no differences
now.”
Continued on page 4
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Paul Weathington
WEDNESDAY. MARCH 4. 1981
West Georgia employee Danny Gillespia did his part Tuesday afternoon when
the Red Cross Blood Drive came to the college campus. Gillespia is being assisted
by Alpha Phi Omega Service F'raternity member Ricky Peacock.
Red Cross Draws Donors
Officials said 138 donors gave blood
in the Red Cross Blood Drive
sponsored on campus last Tuesday by
Alpha Phi Omega service fraternity.
Although 170 people turned out for
the drive, 32 prospective donors were
turned away-for various reasons such
as anemia, thin vein lines, or because
they were taking medication. A
questionnaire and a blood sample, to
determine any such conditions are
part of the donating process.
By MICHAEL BYRD
For a group of disc jockeys at
WWGC who want to change the
station’s format, time is of utmost
importance. If the proposed power
increase goes into effect late this
summer with the present formal, it
will be too late to make changes, they
say.
Another factor playing heavily on
their idea to move the station towards
a more “progressive” format is the
possible removal of WBTR from the
airways in the near future. If that
happens, these DJ’s say, along with
the power increase, management at
the college station will feel compelled
to fill the void-with the present
format. WWGC could then become
the dominant, indeed only radio
station in the Carrollton area catering
to the “popular rock” audience in the
area.
It is these factors that will lock the
college station into its present format,
one that some student disc jockeys
feel is too much like “96 Rock" as one
of them put it.
Station Manager Mike Manion
believes the format is quite flexible,
however. It is an AOR (album oriented
rock) format, he says, and still allows
the individual DJ’s quite a bit of
freedom. "If it is as tight as everyone
(DJ’s) says it is we would sound like
Top 40,” he said.
Heading the list of the “movement”
away from the present direction of the
station are names like Barry
Easterwood, a veteran of the station,
and Brett Johnson, another station
regular Both do regular shows which
the station calls "special program
ming.”
Easterwood runs “Exposure”, a
weekly four-hour show that consists of
only imported music. It recently
celebrated 50 airings on the station.
Johnson does “Good Vibrations,”
Debate Teams Get National Bids
By debbie GODBEE
For the first time, two W est Georgia
debate teams have received bids to
participate in the National Debate
Toymament in California in April.
The nation's top 16 teams are
selected to participate in the
championship rounds based on their
debate season records. This is the
ninth consecutive year that West
Georgia has been invited to compete
and it is only the second time in the
history of the National tourney that a
school from the Southeastern United
States has received two first-round
bids.
* The team of Paul Weathington,
senior from Carrollton and Kelli Sager
senior from Wenatchee, Washington,
will participate, in addition to the
team composed of Jeff Arrington,
sophomore from Twin Falls, Idaho,
and Cary Itcher, senior from
Douglas ville.
Red Cross officials from Atlanta and
local nurses come on campus to
conduct the blood drive every four
months, according to Emerson Moore,
fraternity adviser and assistant to the
Student Activities director. A four
month period is needed for the body
to adjust after giving blood, and some
people on campus give every time, he
said.
Sigma Nu was recognized as having
the most participants in the drive with
10 donors.
which features “oldie” music.
Easterwood has always stood for a
philosophy of increasing the diversity
of the station. “I think they should
pull some of the albums out of the
back room,” he said. He has called
WREK, the student station of Georgia
Tech, the "best student-run, non
profit station in Georgia.” It is his
belief, as well as Johnson's, that since
the station doesn’t have to cater to
advertisers who want to reach the
audience, they can provide
music that isn’t heard on Carrollton or
Atlanta stations. It should go back to
its philosophy of being “an al
ternative” that it had at its inception,
he believes.
Johnson says that the format is still
quite flexible as is. “I don't like it,
but you can stretch the format towards
punk, new wave, if that’s what you
want to do, or jazz rock But it’s not
enough I think there should be more
special programming, like All that
Jazz, Good Vibrations, and Exposure.
One DJ tried to get a bluegrass show
but couldn’t," he explained
"We should not be going in a
commercial direction. The songs that
are in our rotation are the same as
those in 96 Rock (WKLS, in Atlanta)
We can become a 96 Rock, or we can
provide an alternative, said Manion.
Manion, on the other hand, believes
that the station has more concerns
than just the college audience. “My
argument is that the station reaches
far beyond the college community. If
it is run as anything less than
professional, then we ll come up with
those kinds of results. I'm committed
to making this the best station it can
be while I'm running it.”
Manion and Chapmhn, point out
that some of the ideas forwarded by
some of those a bit newer to the
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Both of the teams have placed in
the top 10 in all of their tournaments,
during what Coach Chester Gibson
has called, “without question the
finest year for the debate program at
West Georgia "
The team of W eathington and Sager
has competed in eight tourneys during
the 1980-81 season They placed first
in the University of Kentucky and
Middle Tennessee State University
tournaments, second in four, fifth in
Ine and ninth in one
'.The Ichter-Arrington team has
competed in seven tournaments. They
have placed second in one tourna
ment, fifth in one, and ninth in three.
“It’s a tribute to a lot of research
by the students and an honor for the
college because we've never had two
teams selected to participate. We've
never been more optimis ic,” Gibson
said.