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VOLUME 47-NUMBER 16
Quarter to be Extended
BY MARK McCLOUD
Two class days will be tacked onto
the end of winter quarter to compen
sate for days missed during Georgia's
snowstorm two weeks ago. John T.
Lewis, vice president, had originally
announced that students would have
to make up three class days on Satur
days.
Lewis said the reason for the
change was to,' make it as least as in
Board of Regents Will Hear SGA Protest
BY MARK McCLOUD
The Board of Regents will hear
an appeal by West Georgia’s Stu
dent Government over the Faculty
Senate’s decision to return to the 50
nunute class schedule in their
February meeting Michael Kay,
SGA president received word Mon
day from Henry Neal, executive
No Homecoming Parade Again This Year
BY JACKIE ELLIOT
Due to several organizations’ lack
of interest regarding the homecoming
parade, the parade was cancelled this
year,” says Lisa Kerley, chairperson
of the homecoming committee.
The homecoming committee, made
up of 12 members, sent out question
naires to every organization on cam
pus. Each questionnaire consisted of
six questions concerning participation
of the organization in a parade or a
yard display.
Out of the 20 organizations question
ed only 13 responded. Ten said they
would participate in a parade; five
would participate in a yard display.
Two of the organizations responded
that they would like to see a yard
display and another three said they
would like to see either the parade or
the y ard displays.
Due to this apparent lack of in
terest" in participation the parade
was cancelled
However, homecoming festivities
including the selection of a homecom
ing queen w ill go forward and, as in
the past, be the highlight of the social
life of winter quarter. On Jan. 28 the
candidates for homecoming queen
will be announced at the basketball
game. (See page 7 1. Also, on January
28 and 29, voting w ill take place for the
top five finalists.
Then, on Feb. 1, the names of the
five finalists will fie posted at the Stu
dent Center. Voting for homecoming
queen will take place on Feb. 4 and 5.
The winner will be announced at the
halftime of the homecoming basket
ball game on Saturday , Feb. 6. The
game, which begins at 8 p.m., is with
Albany State
Cable-TV in Dorms in Planning Stages
BY JIMMY ESPY
Slowly and almost silently the pro
spect of getting cable television for
the West Georgia campus has been
gathering steam. Recent activity in
this area is still in the research and
planning stage, but there is apparent
ly serious discussion under way. The
key individuals in the issue appear to
be student government President,
Michael Kay, Director of Learning
Resources, Jerry Mock, Dean of Stu
dent Services Bruce Lyons, and local
cable systems manager Earl Hines.
While nothing concrete has been
planned, some information has
become available. Several options are
being considered concerning the wir
ing of the campus. Two possible
systems appear to be the most likely
of the various options. One would call
for the school to purchase it’s own
antenna receiving equipment and
wire the campus itself. The other
would require a hook-up with the local
cable television system Twenty
CATV, Inc.
If the first option is pursued, it will
require that the school do all its own
wiring of dormitories. Ideally, the
school would then be able to produce
some of its own programming through
the already existing television studio
located in the education center. Some
form of receiving equipment would
then have to be purchased and in
stalled, probably a large antenna.
If the second option is chosen, the
campus would hook onto the local
cable system owned by Twenty
CATV, Inc. A cable hook-in would pro
bably be fairly simple, as Maple
See Homecoming Hopefuls Page 7
WEST GEORGIAN
convenient as possible to accom
modate working students."
said, however, that if any other days
are missed during the quarter, Satur
day classes ould be scheduled.
Classes were originally scheduled
to end on Wednesday, March 10 with
exams scheduled March 11-12, and 15-
17. Gasses will now be extended
through Friday, March 12. Saturday,
secretary of the Regents. The
meeting is scheduled for Feb. 10 in
Atlanta
“1 was shocked, at least they are
going to hear it. I just can’t believe
it." said Kay who didn’t expect the
appeal to be acknowledged, i had
a feeling he i Vice Chancellor Ver
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I-ack of organizational interest will keep a Homecoming
parade sidelined for the third consecutive year and once
Along with announcing the
homecoming queen will be the nam
ing of the winners of the banner con
test and the staff-person-of-the-year
awards.
Homecoming week is filled with a
schedule of events and entertainment
that includes a concert featuring
"Jasmine” at Z-6 on Feb. 2 at 8:30
p.m.; the movie "The Pink Panther
Strikes Again” on Feb. 3.
The five homecoming queen
finalists will be introduced at the Ixmg
Branch Saloon Feb. 3 and, on Feb. 4, a
'We want to do whatever we can to
improve academic life in the residence
halls'-Lyon.
Street directly in front of the campus,
is already wired.
“It’s available now if the college
wants it,” said Twenty CATV systems
manager Earl Hines, "if the college
sees fit.” Hines, who has had some
contact with the school’s building
maintenance and grounds supervision
departments on the matter, says that
he would have every room on campus
wired within 30 to 60 days and could
begin working almost immediately if
given the word by the college ad
ministration.
The CATV service would provide
channels 2,5,11,17,36 and 46. Channel
9c from Chicago also would be broad
cast, as would space satellite cable
services ESPN (24 hour sports), SPN
( movies, news, sports, talk shows),
and C-SPAN (live House of Represen
tatives) among others. The popular
cable product HBO would not be
available immediately, but might be
added later if demand is sufficient.
Hines suggested an approximate
charge of $4 a room per quarter. This
rate, substantially lower than the nor
WEST GEORGIA COLLEGE, CARROLLTON, GA. 30118
March 13, has been added as an exam
day in addition to the original
schedule. Spring vacation will begin
March 18 Graduation ceremonies are
still scheduled for Sunday, March 21
at 3 p.m.
Students who missed four class
days because of two-hour block
classes will have to make up work in
accordance with the instructor and
academic dean.
non Crawford) would call the
president and stick with it, (the
decision) but he didn't. Isn’t it
great?” Kay said.
Kay had filed an initial appeal
with President Townsend in early
January but was denied on the
grounds that the president believ
ed there were "sound academic
again, the election of a homecoming queen will be the
highlight of the winter event.
concert by Erin Isaac will be held at
Z-6. These concerts at Z-6 are free for
ID card-holders, $2 for those without.
The homecoming basketball game
with its halftime coronation will be
followed by a dance featuring the
Mighty Majors” and "Tara”. ’The
dance will begin at 10 p.m. and last
until 2 am., $2 admission charge for
students and $3. for non-students.
A number of students interviewed
on campus expressed disappointment
at the cancellation of the plans for the
homecoming parade.
mal cost, results from bulk rate
charges being in affect. A large new
market, like a college or a hotel, is
able to get the cable service at a con
siderably cheaper price than in
dividual households.
According to Dean of Student ser
vices Bruce Lyon, the cost of CATV
service would result in a direct users
fee to be added on to the normal dorm
fee each quarter. If the school sets up
it’s own system, then the expense
would be shouldered by the school
itself. “We want to do whatever we
can to improve academic life in the
residence halls,” commented Lyon.
Whether or not the administration
chooses to go with CATV or a system
of its own, much will depend on the
reaction of the student body. First,
there will have to be a definite sign of
interest on the part of students living
in the dorms. The administration will
have to be confident that there will be
enough support for even slight in
creases in dormitory fees. Also, the
ability of the school to do some of its
own programming is considered very
LEWIS
reasons to return to the 50-minute
class period.”
The Student Advisory Commit
tee, a committee composed of the
state college’s student government
presidents and vice presidents, is
also scheduled to meet February
10.
“I think it’s a very ignorant thing to
do because homecoming is not
homecoming without a parade,” said
freshman Doug Andrews. And
Rodney Crawford, junior, said, “I feel
that no homecoming parade Is like
Christmas without Santa Claus. Also,
I feel that the organizations should be
ashamed for not participating in a
homecoming parade.”
While homecoming has been the big
event on the West Georgia campus,
there has not been a homecoming
parade since 1978.
important by some of the cable pro
ponents. The desirablility of such a
system seems obvious, but funding
will have to come from somewhere.
There is currently no great high
level involvement concerning cable
television on campus. All parties
seem willing to proceed at a patient
rate, going one step at a time and
making no expensive mistakes. Pro
gress has definitely been made since
last year when it wasn’t even a major
priority on anyone’s list. The student
government has now made it a priori
ty and will surely press the matter as
much as the student body demands.
Cable seems to have solid support now
in each of the offices where it has been
looked at, most notably in the offices
of Learning Resources and Student
Services.
Georgia State Students Protest Hike
BY MARK McCLOUD
Student Government president
Michael Kay says he will decide
next week whether his officers will
participate with a group of Georgia
State students to protest a tuition
increase that the Board of Regents
plans for next fall. The increase
would occur annually until
students were paying 25 percent of
the total cost of general operations.
Governor George Busbee en
dorsed the 15 percent hike for all
University System institutions last
October to begin next fall.
Most opposition to the increase is
WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 27, 1982
203 Students Flunk;
88 Earn Perfect GPA
BY ELLEN WILSON
Out of 4533 undergraduates, 306 peo
ple were sent notices of dismissal for
academic reasons following fall
quarter, according to Vice President
and Dean of Faculties, John Lewis.
About one-third of these were given
administrative waivers or readmitted
on appeal. “Actually, only about 202
or 204 students were dismissed,”
lA'wis said.
At the same time, 88 students had
perfect or 4.0 cumulative grade point
averages (GPA). Of these, 57 were
freshmen, 24 were sophomores, and
seven were juniors or seniors.
Full time students who do not pass
at least five hours in a given quarter
and freshmen failing to earn a
cumulative GPA of at least 1.6 after
attempting 45 hours will be dismissed
according to the 1981-82.
Undergraduate Catalog.
"Students other than freshmen will
be evaluated quarterly on the basis of
cumulative GPA for the total number
of hours attempted...A student failing
to earn the cumulative GPA required
for the total number of hours attemp
ted...will be dismissed,” according to
the Catalog.
Any student who has attempted
between 1 and 45 hours and whose
GPA is below 1 .6, one who has attemp
ted between 46 and 90 hours whose
GPA falls below 1.7 and one who has
attempted 91 to 136 hours and has a
GPA under 1.8 will be dismissed.
At the end of fall quarter, 684 or 15
percent of the students who had at
tempted between 1 and 45 hours had
cumulative below 1.6. Of students who
hud attempted 46 to 90 hours, 181 or 8.9
percent had cumulative GPAs lower
than 1.7. Of students who had attemp
ted over 90 hours, 82 or 1.8 percent had
cumulative GPAs of less than 1.8.
Out of 4533 undergraduates enroll
ed, not including the above totals,
there were 555 students, 12.2 percent,
who had cumulative GPAs under 2.0.
These students have been placed on
academic warning.
The reason that the number of
students who were sent letters of
dismissal and the numbers of students
whos GPAs are not up to par do not
coincide, according to Ix'wis, is that
the school "normally gives students
Drinking Bill Withdrawn;
TougherD.U.l.Laws Seen
FROM WIRE REPORTS
Senator Joe Thompson, D-Smyma,
has withdrawn his controversial bill
which would have restored the legal
drinking age in the state of Georgia to
21. He said he realized that the pro
posal had no chance of passing.
Thompson instead will concentrate
on passing tougher drunk-driving
laws. Thompson was the sponsor of
the bill that raised Georgia’s drinking
age from 18 to 19 two years ago.
Thompson said he will introduce bills
later in the legislative session that
would cut the blood-alcohol content
level from .10 to .05 as the legal limit
for prosecution. Thompson said some
states have a .08 limit while many
foreign countries have a .05 standard.
“Drunk-driving is the number one
problem of highway safety,” said
Thompson. “The probability of hav
ing an accident is twice as great with
a blood alcohol content of only .05 per
cent, one-half of the presumptive level
of intoxication in Georgia. It’s seven
times as great at .10 percent,” he add
ed.
Georgia law now allows violators to
plead nolo contendre, “no contest”, to
driving under the influence on their
first offense. Maximum fine on first
offenders is a SIOOO fine and/or a year
in jail. However, most violators now
being voiced by the Georgia State
student government. Rallying
behind the slogan, “We refuse to
take a hike”, Georgia State
students plan to hold meetings on
several of Georgia’s state college
campuses. "Inasmuch as students
are currently faced with financial
aid cutbacks that have already
forced one in three to take fewer
courses or drop out of school com
pletely, we feel the timing of such a
recommendation is highly ques
tionable” read a press release
from Georgia State’s SGA. Larry
Alcoff, an SGA senator, has
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45 hours to prove themselves. Those
students in the 1 to 45 hour classifica
tion who have not completed three
quarters are not subject to
dismissals.”
“Students in that category were
sent notices of academic distress.”
According to sending such
notices is a matter of courtesy rather
than practice because “warnings are
already stamped on the grade
report.”
"A student who is dismissed or
denied readmission has the right to
appeal. The appeals procedure is in
itiated by mailing a letter to the
Chairman of the Appeals Subcommit
tee of the Academic Policies and Pro
cedures Committee in care of the of
fice of the Vice President and Dean of
Faculties,” according to the catalog.
The 100 students who won their ap
peals this year had several reasons
for appeal according to Lewis. These
included deaths in the family, auto ac
cidents and GPAs “so close to stan
dards that we gave them a second
chance,” Lewis said. “The appeals
committee hears all kinds of stories;
there isn’t a story they haven’t
heard,” he said.
“A dismissed student who is read
mitted on probation must attain the
cumulative GPA required for general
enrollment or make significant pro
gress toward doing so (earn a GPA of
at least 2.0 in at least 10 hours of
course work during the first quarter
of re-enrollment. Otherwise the stu
dent will be dismissed again. A stu
dent showing significant progress
may continue to be enrolled on proba
tion in order to earn the required
cumulative GPA so long as the stu
dent continues to make significant
progress each quarter. When the stu
dent meets the requirement for
regular enrollment he or she is no
longer on academic probation,” the
catalog says.
According to the catalog, "A
dismissed student may apply for re
admission for any quarter beginning
12 months or more after the date of
dismissal, or the summer quarter
following the first time he or she is
dismissed for academic reasons. In
either case, the student will be placed
on probation.”
'We want 1o eliminate
the 'free' first time'
-Thompson
pay a fine of around SIOO.
“We want to eliminate the ‘free’
first time. 'The way it is now, your first
offense is really a freebie,” Thompson
said.
Under his bill, no first offender
would plead no contest, and judges
could probate or suspend sentences
only in hardship cases. Instead of the
SIOO, the minimum fine would be $320,
and the jail sentence would be reduc
ed from 10 days to two days. Second
offenders would also be fined up to
SIOOO. On their third offense, violators
could lose their license for five years.
Thompson said judges aren’t really
imposing any jail sentences for first
time offenders, so he was more in
terested in seeing them lose their
licenses for a mandatory 60 days. His
bill would make two-day jail
sentences optional on first offenses
and mandatory on the second offense.
declared the proposition “ar
bitrary” and said it was decided
upon without considering student
input.
Georgia State senators are
declaring that the current hike
reflects a lack of respect towards
the reality of students as con
sumers. They are also recommen
ding that the Board of Regents hold
a series of public hearings in the
educational centers where the
greatest number of students would
be affected by the increase. This
would enable the Committee on
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