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f A Guide To
West Georgia
Jargon
, THE CAMPUS RAG: That’s us.
LONE VALLEY: A large grassy area between the Student Center and the
H.P.E. Building. Where some couples have been seen performing extra
curricular activities.
PUBLIC NUISANCE: Nicknamed so by students; the campus police, Public
Safety.
ROAD TRIP: When five students cram into a Volkswagen and drive to
.Alabama for liquor
FRONT CAMPUS DRIVE: Where all the college bigwigs’ offices are located.
PASS-OUT: A drinking game in which you may learn the evils of over
indulging.
PRAYING TO THE GOD OF PORCELAIN: What many freshmen do after
playing pass-out.
Z 4 SICKNESS: Formally called the Food Service Building by college of
ficials. Students have chosen alternative words to describe it, but we can’t print
them in this newspaper. Mess Hall; Cafeteria.
RA: Your dorm den mother.
GREEN SHEET: What you get from your RA when you’ve been a bad little
kid.
THE BYPASS: Carrollton’s own 1-285, which circles (The 4-lane)
metropolitan Carrollton.
THE FARM: A non-greek fraternity.
ENO: No matter what you hear about this, it’s probably wrong. Or right. Or
something. What it looks like is a group of people dressed in common, sensible
clothing you know, lace, sheepskin and tights —with painted faces. But it
isn’t...
FROGGY BOTTOM: Parking lot across from Bowdon Hall.
QUADRANGLE: The grounds between the Humanities, Math-Physics, and
Social Science Buildings.
GEEK: One of the many, rather disaffectionate terms used to describe
members of a fraternity or sorority by people who do not belong to said group.
G.D.1.: A term used to describe the non-Greeks by those people who take
pride in belonging to said group.
HIT, TOKE, PULL, DRAG, SNORT, BLAST, ETC..,: One of the many ways
one can utilize to obtain one of the infamous dorm “green sheets” or if the situa
tion is right a tour of the new Carroll County Correctional Institute.
TOUCHY-FEELY CLASS: Introduction to Psychology.
BRANCHING IT: Spending an evening at the favorite local bar and dance
hall.
GATOR: The frenetic and intimate dance the Kappa Sig orotners pertorm
with each other —a prelude to their Greek affections for one anotner
CAMPUS KnJJER: A sadistic yet amusing fad that enables students to
become professional assassins without bloodshed. (It is mentioned here
because of the distinct possibility of its revival during fall quarter.)
SPACE CADET. AIR HEAD, FREAK: One of the many labels attached to
anyone not wearing khakis and izods by tunnelvisioned conservatives.
Glaucoma patients.
THE BRIDGE: Where many of the above spend their nightime hours.
BREWSKI: Preppy’s word for beer.
RANBURNE: Small town in Alabama where you can buy liquor. Take 166
west.
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No dates allowed on weeknights...
Attendance at chapel is required...
No dancing in the women's dorms
Freshmen are allowed one date a
week...
BY DEBBIE GODBEE
If West Georgia freshmen had been
given a list of rules like these when they
checked into their dorms this week,
many of them probably would have im
mediately repacked their belongings
and returned home.
But, there was a time when these
regulations and many others like them
were included in West Georgia’s stu
dent code. Here are some other ex
amples from student handbooks since
the 19305:
Too frequent meetings or displays of
affection between male and female
students were considered in violaton of
the student conduct code and reason for
disciplinary' action.
Girls were not allowed to ride or sit in
parked cars with young men. All nights,
with the exception of the weekend
nights, were considered closed with no
dates allowed. On these closed nights,
men and women students were not to
get together after 6 p.m., the supper
hour.
Freshmen were allowed one date a
weekend, while sophomores were
allowed two dates each weekend. All
students were required to sign out
before leaving the campus, no matter
what the reason.
On Sundays, students were allowed to
socialize on front campus between 3
and 5 p.m. The student handbook advis
ed that students use the two hours
between Sunday lunch and the social
hours to rest in their rooms.
Attendance at chapel and student
assemblies, which were held twice a
week, was required of all students.
Female students living in tne
residence halls were not permitted to
go to town in the morning, except for
church services, without special per
mission of the Dean of Women.
On Sundays, women students, in
groups of at least three, were allowed to
walk as far as the Maple Street School.
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No. This is not the latest in preppy fashion. This is the way students really looked
in the days of “no girls in shorts” and “weekend dates only.” (Photo by John
Steed).
Men and women students were not
allowed to use gym facilities at the
same time. Several periods during the
week were set aside, however, for
group dancing, folk dancing or mar
ching tactics for both sexes.
College History Often Ignored
As most students here at Wes*
Georgia work their way up the
academic scale and strive to reach that
seemingly unattainable goal of
“graduation,” it seems that few of
these people ever stop to think about
where they are. Of course, everyone
knows that they are at West Georgia, in
the thriving metropolis of Carrollton.
But what does that really mean?
What sort of niche has WGC carved for
itself in the annals of history? It would
probably surprise most students to find
out just how rich this college is in
history and interesting anecdotes. Even
though it would be impossible to set the
entire history down in print, here is just
a sample of some of the things that
West Georgia historians could tell you
about
In the first year that our school
became officially known as West
Georgia College. (Before 1934 WGC was
a renowned high school by the name of
the Fourth District Agricultural and
Mechanical School), an interesting
THE WEST GEORGIAN, WEDNESDAY SEPTEMBER 23. 1981
Smoking was prohibited whenever
the student was in the gym, on the play
ing field, or at anytime or place when
he or she was wearing the official
athletic uniform of West Georgia.
sight graced the pages of the first year
book, the Chieftain. It seems that in
those innocent, pre-WWII days, the
Nazi regime was only a gleam in the
eye of a power-mad wallpaper hanger
and the memories and trappings that
are now associated with Hitler’s Ger
many were then unknown or at least
unblemished. And that is how the of
ficial symbol of West Georgia became
the swastika. On every page of that
year’s annual and even on the hand
some leather cover you can find an or
nately designed swastika surrounded
by leafy branches and other decora
tions. The reason for this particular
choice of symbolism stems from the
fact that the school logo or “mascot” if
you will, was the American Indian. And
the American Indians revered the sym
bol as “an emblem of the sun or fire,
and hence of life.” The mystique that
the Indians granted the "four corners erf
the world” in worship and sports was
personified in the four arms of the
swastika. Fortunately, after the rise of
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Male callers in the women’s
residence halls were expected to leave
the halls within five minutes after the 10
p.m. curfew bell was sounded.
Women were allowed to wear gym
suits and shorts only in the gym or on
the tennis courts. Women on their way
to gym classes had to wear raincoats
over the shorts, regardless of the
weather.
All radios in the dorms had to be turn
ed off by 10:30 p.m. There was an addi
tional 75 cent charge for students who
used radios in their rooms.
Women were allowed to ride in cars,
but not in trucks or on the outside of
trucks.
Communication by women from their
bedroom windows was not permitted.
Students who slipped out of their
residence halls at night were required
to withdraw from the school at once.
All residence hall students were re
quired to take their meals on campus.
All women students were required to
live on campus.
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the Third Reich the symbol was aban
doned. For more information on this
subject one could speak to Myron House
in the Irvine Sullivan Ingram Library.
Another interesting artifact is the
new symbol for West Georgia which is
the Mclntosh Memorial. It was finally
decided that a concrete piece of history
would be used to become the “unique
and unequivocal” trademark of WGC.
Chief William Mclntosh was a chief of
the Creek Indian nation and a brigadier
general in the American Army. Mcln
tosh had a large piece of granite hewn
into steps near his home so that visiting
guests could mount their horses easily
while visiting his home near Car
rollton. The 200-year-old stone was
brought to West Georgia in 1916 when it
was used as a cornerstone for the
women’s dormitory. After being
removed from that site, it was brought
to its present resting place at the mid
dle of the Front Campus Drive. You’ll
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