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VOLUME 47-NUMBER 24
Reagan Plan Could Hit
Fall Term Financial Aid
By KIJ.EN WILSON
I Although the total unpact of Presi
dent Ronald Reagan’s budget cuts on
financial aid may not be felt until fall
of 1989 according to school officials,
Somi students may have to look for
alternatives for funding their educa
tion as soon as the coming fall
■tarter.
Iw 11 Smith, assistant dean of stu
dent services, said Thursday he
doesn’t expect cuts this fall to be as
lai ge as those next fall." but students
Can probably expect "a smaller
award late and those with less need
■ay not get an award at all.”
■Even so. there are alternatives
available on campus now and these
programs are expected to grow while
financial aid decreases.
* The office of cooperative education,
coordinated by Bruce Brewer, got its
start on campus in October of last
year and began placing students in co
op positions last quarter
| Interest in Army Reserve Officer
Training Corps (ROTC) is presently
being studied on campus and could
provide another alternative for
students whose financial aid is cut as
parly as next fall.
JOB LOCATION
AND DEVELOPMENT
| “More and more students are turn
ing to us it’s becoming a necessi
ty ’ Robiason said Friday and she
feds that JDL will attract more
students over the next two years while
student financial aid cuts stabilize,
i When students come in to the office,
Robinson said, they fill out a registra
tion form which is kept on file. The
form includes information on the stu
dent’s work experience, what he or
she is looking for, and where the stu
dent can be reached if a job they
qualify for becomes available.
H When a job does come open, Robin
son looks through the files and finds
students’ forms which match the
employer’s requirements and chooses
students to send to the prospective
employer.
Sfrlio.se students w ho registered with
the office first will get first crack at
the jobs they qualify for if they can Ik*
reai bed in time. Robinson says it is
very important that the student give
enough information so that JDL can
locate him or her when a job is
available.
After students are sent to
employers, JDL does a follow-up to
see if they were hired. The office also
chert- later to see what the employer
think about his student employee.
“Nine times out of 10 we get a good
response ifrom employers),” Robin
son said. "This is really good because
then the employers call us back when
they need other workers.”
TV JDL office’s services are
available to students currently enroll
ed at West Georgia, but not. Robinson
said, to graduates and former
sladei ' Jobs located vary from
spur-of-the-moment typing and yard
work * i office and fast-food work
A total of 161 jobs w ere located for
the 477 students who came into the of
fice last quarter
JD; works with employers in Car
roUtc; and surrounding areas as far
as Atlanta and with home towns of
part tcular students for part-time,
Business Career Day Offers
Information Into Job Market
■. Representatives from 22 companies
will be on hand to meet with students
during the Fifth Annual Business
Career Day set for Wednesday. April
14. in the food services building.
2 It’s the finest collection of person
nel directors we’ve ever had on cam
gjpus for the event,” said Dr. Lynn
Holmes, placement office director.
Eclectic
The deadline for submissioas for the
1982 edition of The Eclectic literary
magazine has been extended to
Wednesday, April 7.
Artwork primarily is being sought,
but literature will also be accepted
during the extension of the submis
sions period which was originally set
to end last quarter, said Editor
Richard Parker.
Collection boxes are at various loca
tions on campus; the English office is
also a collection point.
WEST GEORGIAN
weekend and break employment for
students. They have contacts
throughout the U.S. for summer
employment.
"I am pleased with the appreciation
students have shown." Robinson said.
They come by and thank us when they
do get the job and they appreciate the
effort even if they don’t get the job.
They know the job market is limited;
they’ve been beating the bushes them
selves trying to find jobs before they
came to us.”
For more information about JDL,
contact Robinson in Mandeville Hall
or call 884-1421.
C( M tPERATIVE EDI CATION
Cooperative education, according to
coordinator Brewer, is a balanced
combination of valuable work ex
perience in the student’s major field
and regular college study. r
“A number of students may lx*
unable to continue their education
without help because of (Reagan's)
budget cuts, and that may be a good
result,” Brewer said. If students turn
to cooperative education to work their
way through college, they will gain
needed experience and exposure to
the work world before they leave
school, the program coordinator said.
“Nobody loses with co-op. The
students learn what their field is real
ly like; they get experience in the
'real world’. The employers uses the
program to recruit and train good
workers. And the school turns out bet
ter, more rounded graduates,”
Brewer said.
Although students working in the
co-op proram may not be making as
much as graduates working in similar
positions, they make enough to pay
for living expenses and to defray the
cost of college, Brewer said. Salaries
vary with different positions and
some are very good. Brewer cited as
an example one position which went
unfilled last quarter but would have
paid SBOS a week.
“And co-op graduates start off with
higher salaries than fellow graduates
w ithout the experience. They often get
company benefits i while in co-op) and
sometimes they start their seniority
with the company while in school,” he
said.
Presently art, political science,
mass communications, recreation,
biology, accounting, business,
mathematics, chemistry, education,
georgraphy, and physics majors,
among others, can be accommodated,
but if interest is voiced by students of
other majors. Brewer can come up
with positions for them, too, he said.
“It may take a couple of quarters,
but if the students are there we can
find the jobs,” Brewer said.
Among companies presently par
ticipating in the co-op program are
IRS, Social Security Administration,
NASA, FAA, Ixxkheed, Southwire,
National Security Agency, Georgia
Power, Georgia Natural Gas,
Seientific-Atlanta, and Burroughs
Company.
Some departments have approved
the awarding of academic credit for
cooperative experience
Brewer urges any student who is
considering options other than finan
cial aid for the coming year to talk to
him.
w ho cited CBS Records, IBM Corpora
tion, Georgia Power Company, the
Federal Bureau of Investigation and
the Lockheed-Georgia Company
among the companies which will be
represented.
The event, which is sponsoicd by
Holmes’ office and the Accounting
Club, provides a great opportunity
for students to get to meet these
representatives,” he said. Although
Business Career Day is informational
only, students will have the opportuni
ty to talk personally with th<
representatives. "It is not a recruiting
day but it is done to give information
on the job market. West Georgia is us
ed as a point of contact.”
The Business Career Day program
has grown bigger each of the 15 years
it has been held. Last year between
300 and 400 students participated,
Holmes estimated and he expects
even more this year. In the past there
was a problem with attracting
students from outside the business
school to the event. “Virtually
everyone from the business school
WEST GEORGIA COLLEGE, CARROLLTON. GA. 30118
“Even if their major is not listed,
we may lx* able to find something for
them, it could be that no one in their
major has talked to me and let me
know there was interest in that area,”
he said.
For more information on
Cooperative Education, contact
Brewer at room 125, Mandeville Hall
or call 884-1463.
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Compromise May Quiet
Doomsday Predictions
By ELLEN WILSON
Despite “Doomsday” predictions
by politicians and other officials.
Assistant Dean of Student Services W.
H. South thinks there will be com
promises in the Reagan budget.
“We’re going to receive heavy
cuts,” he said, “but I do not feel they
will be as bad as the worst forecast.
"The Reagan cuts have a lot of sym
pathy in the public, but I personally
feel that support of education is not
the place to start cutting,” Smith said.
Smith said there are two ways
schools can cope with the cuts that
w ill come down, probably not this fall
but next fall, and he thinks West
Georgia will probably apply both of
them in a “middle of the road” ap
proach.
" For students who qualify schools
will have to either lower the percen
tage of need met or they will have to
let a small number of students receive
aid.”
In the first case, Smith said, if there
were a student with a need of $2,000 he
might be presently receiving about
$1,500 to SI,BOO or 70 to 75 percent of
that need. This is what West Georgia
presently tries to do. With the finan
cial aid cuts, a school might have to
Jail Day Raises Over
$6,000 for Scholars
Monday’s Jail and Bail Day event,
sponsored annually by the Presiden
tial Scholar’s program raised
$6,617.06 for scholarships for good
students.
Although the day’s proceeds fall
short of the SIO,OOO goal set by pro
gram coordinators, they expect the
total amount will be collected through
bail money for people who had
schedule conflicts Monday which kept
them from being arrested for bail
money and through a mailout to alum
ni asking for support for the scholar
ships.
in spite of the rain on Monday, the
“jailees” were whisked away from
their various offices to a jail set up in
front of the library and remained
comes but hardly anyone else,” said
Holmes. Also, he said, students tend
to think this is for seniors only, but “it
is ideal for other students too.”
Career Day will begin at 8:30 p.m.
with coffee and doughnuts on the
lower level of the food services
building. Each personnel director will
give a presentation between 9 a.m.
and 12:30 p.m. They will be available
to aaswer students’ questioas between
2 and 4 p.m.
Other participants will be AT&T
Ixrng Lines, Burlington Industries,
C&S National Bank, Carrollton
Federal Savings and Loan, Dale
Carnegie Institute, First National
Bank of Birmingham, Georgia Pacific
Company, Georgia State Merit
System,'internal Revenue Service,
J.C. Penney’s (Retail Management
and Computer Programmers),
Milliken and Company, Richway,
West Georgia National Bank, John H.
Harland Company, Southern Com
pany and Burroughs Corporation.
W.H. SMITH
cut down to meet only 60 to 65 percent
of a student’s $2,000 need or $1,200 to
$1,300.
In cutting down the number of
students receiving aid a school would
have to give little or no awards to
students with smaller needs. “I don’t
know where the cut-off point would
have to be,” Smith said.
West Georgia will probably do some
of both, he said.
Another passible cutting place will
be at the financial aid deadline.
Financial aid applications were sup
posed to have been turned in by April
1 and those applications which made
the deadline will be processed and
awarded first and the possibility ex
ists that money may run out this year
before the award process is com
pleted.
Students who do receive financial
aid can expect their award letters to
be late this year because the process
will be in limbo until anew continuing
resolution is adopted so that the finan
cial aid budget for next fall can be
stabilized.
They may receive a smaller award,
it may come late and those with less
need may not receive an a ward at all.
there until they were bailed out. All
contributions from the day will go to
the scholarship program.
Five Presidential Scholarship reci
pients are selected annually to
receive $250 for each of their four
years at West Georgia College. Selec
tion is based on high school grade
point average, SAT scores, an essay
judged by the English faculty, high
school and community activities and
an interview with West Georgia Col
lege officials.
The Presidential Scholars program
Among thase" incarcerated for the t
event were: Student Government*
Association President Michael Kay,t
College Program Board Chairman’
Paul,Head Football Coach
Bobby Pate, Jim Docherty, track
coach and intramurals director;
Franci Boemer, English instructor;
Roger Kaiser, basketball coach and
athletics director; Bruce Lyon, dean
of student services; and Tracy Stall
ings, director of college relations and
Carrollton mayor.
Interest in ROTC Gaining Support;
Lyon Confident of Program's Chances
By ALLEN ADAIR
Will West Georgia re-instate an
ROTC program?
“It will be offered if we can have a
reasonable response from 40 students
or more,” said Dean of Student Ser
vices, Bruce Lyon. Lyon says that so
far 36 students have expressed an in
terest and he has also received in
quiries on a regular basis.
According to Lyon the program will
not be taught by West Georgia facul
ty. “Georgia State University will ac
tually run the program,” said Lyon.
West Geogia will serve as a satellite
station of this operation.
Lt. Colonel Nils Johansen will be on
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 7, 1982
Debate Team
Finishes Fifth
In Nationals
By ELLEN WILSON
West Georgia’s debators, Alex
Peragine and Jeff Arrington placed
fifth in the four-day National Debate
Tournament held at Florida State
University over the weekend. They
were one of 62 teams to compete in the
tournament and one of 16 to receive an
automatic invitation to the tourney.
Peragine and Arrington entered the
debate with a second place rank
behind the University of Kansas. They
defeated the Kansas team in the oc
tafinal round and went on to defeat
teams from Baylor, Wake Forest,
University of North Carolina, Univer
sity of Utah, Bates College and
Sacramento State.
Full House Expected Next Year;
Applications areLlp 19 Percent
A 19 percent increase in application
acceptances for fall quarter as com
pared to last year predicts another
crowded year at West Georgia, accor
ding to John Ix*wis, vice president of
the college.
Along with this rise in acceptances,
is a rise in rejections. There has been
an almost four to one rise in rejec
tions, for the fall of 1982, as compared
to the fall of 1981.
WGC *
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Carrollton Mayor Tracy Stallings is pictured doing some hard time in the
WGC Jail. Stallings, along with 72 other West Georgia staff and faculty
members, and some Carrollton residents, braved drizz.ily weather Monday to
help raise money for the Presidential Scholars Program. ( Photo by Rick Gove.)
the campus April 22 and May 3 to talk
to students interested in this program.
Lyon feels that the ROTC program
can be beneficial to students in the
last two years of the program. This
will become increasingly important
with Reagan’s cutbacks in financial
aid, said Lyon.
In order to reach students, Lyon
says that the letters will be sent to all
resident halls. He pointed out that in
coming students are being informed
by the admissions office.
Currently Lyon says that ROTC will
be offered for the May 10 preregistra
tion, adding that he feels “pretty con
fident” that enough students will sign
up for the program.
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Peragine is a senior from New
Orleans and Arrington is a junior
from Twin Falls, Idaho.
They entered the elimination
rounds with a 6-2 tournament record
with loses to Dartmouth and Southern
Utah and were eliminated In the
University of Liuisville on a split
decision in the semi-finals for their
fifth place showing. Debate Coach
Chester Gibson was “plased” with his
team.
This is the fourth consecutive year a
West Georgia team has placed among
the top 10 in the Nationals, which
decide the final rank of the year for all
teams. It is the second consecutive
year West Georgia has placed fifth.
“We anticipate another lull house
year, but that of course will depend on
many things, including the retention
level this year,” Lewis commented on
the possibility of another crowded
campus next year.
Suspension notices have been sent
to 350 people, which is over the
number in 1981; of course enrollment
is also up in tha| period, explaining
part of the riser
Tony Baumann, vice president of
SGA, said of the program, “It is a
good idea in that it will provide some
degree of certainty about post college
employment.” Baumann added that
this would help those who are not sure
about what they want to do with their
lives. David Little, freshman who at
tended Riverside Military Academy,
said, “If it’s tight knit I wouldn’t mind
being in it.” Michelle Shackleford, a
freshman majoring in physical educa
tion, replied, “It might benefit West
Georgia in the long run.” Kevin Peek,
freshman, said, “I think it will lie fine
for thase interested just as long as it
doesn’t involve me. ”