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WEST GEORGIAN
VOLUME 48, NUMBER 16
Caraway Resigns
Breeze Acts As
SA Director
The resignation last month of Stu
dent Activities Director Mel Caraway
led to major personnel changes in that
office this quarter.
Alison Breeze lias been named ac
ting director of student activities and
Mike Mead is new acting assistant
director, according to Dean Bruce
L> on, of student services.
A search to permanently fill the
director's position will be made in the
early spring, Lyon said.
Carawa> had served in the office of
Student Activities for seven years, he
said in an interview last spring.
Breeze came to West Georgia dur
ing the summer as assistant director
of student activities. She received a
B.S. in recreation and parks ad
numstration from Murray State and
an M.S. m higher education from
Southern Illinois.
Mead received an A.B. in speech
Lame Duck Session
Rests 'B3 Fed Aid
Budget At $7.1 Billion
WASHINGTON, D.C. (CPS) - In
the final 1983 federal higher education
budget passed by the lame duck Con
gress just before Christmas, federal
college programs avoided the drastic
cuts proposed by President Reagan,
but didn’t get much additional fun
ding, either.
After inflation is figured in, the col
lege budget actually shrank
somewhat.
Congress' final continuing resolu
tion which, barring an unexpected
congressional consensus, should
earn’ campus programs through next
September, amounted to $7.1 billion,
effectively the same as the 1982 fiscal
year higher education budget.
President Reagan had asked Con
gress for a $5.1 billion 1983 college
budget.
In 1981, federal campus appropria
tions totalled $6.8 billion.
Some specific programs within the
budget fared better than others.
For example, the student aid budget
rose by $25 million. Both Guaranteed
Student Ix>ans and College Work-
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Financial Aid Workshops Planned
Financial aid hopefuls plow through reams ot con
fusing paper work every winter in preparation for the
next school year’s aid applications. There are often
misunderstandings about the forms and student er
rors cause delays in processing and therefore delays
in aid aw ards year after year.
The Financial Aid office recognises this problem
and has set up a series of workshops to help students
understand the forms they must fill out and alleviate
errors.
Monday, Jan. 24, Tuesday, Jan. 25 and Thursday,
Jan. 27 are the dates set for the workshops which will
be held in the Social Science Lecture Hall. The forms
CARAWAY
from West Georgia in 1981 and is now
a graduate student in public ad
ministration. He has also been
employed in the student activities of
fice as a student assistant and as a
sports writer for the Bremen
newspaper.
Studv programs got marginal in
creases, but the State Student Incen
tive Grants program suffered
substantial cuts.
The president had wanted Congress
to slash $l.B billion from the aid pro
grams.
Congress made its biggest college
cuts in the College Housing I nans pro
gram, which administrators draw on
to build and maintain on-campus
housing.
legislators cut $l6O million or 80
percent of the total from the hous
ing loans for fiscal 1983, which stret
ches from October 1, 1982 through
September 30, 1983. It was one of the
few iastances in which President
Reagan got the cut he wanted.
The process is about to begin again,
however. In late January, President
Reagan is due to make his 1984 fiscal
year budget proposals. Administra
tion officials told an October conven
tion of financial aid administrators to
expect the president to once again
propose broad cuts in student aid pro
grams.
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necessary to apply for aid for fall of 'B3 will be made
available after the workshops. Financial Aid is also
preparing a pamphlet to explain aid award pro
cedures.
Students will have the opportunity to ask Financial
Aid officials any questions they may have about stu
dent aid during the workshops and all present aid
recepients and those who feel they might be even
remotely qualified for grants, loans or other aid are
encouraged to attend.
For more information about the workshops contact
the Financial Aid office, Mandeville Hall, Front Cam
pus, 834-1265.
Covers the Campus Like Kudzu
WEST GEORGIA COLLEGE, CARROLLTON, GA. 30118
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Our football Braves have left us with another momenta
of their great season... (They didn't actually do it
themselves, but they were, in some way, behind the
Students Face Parking Dilemma;
May Says Space Is Available
By KIM POPHAM
Though enrollment has dropped 2.5
per cent (294 students) this quarter,
WGC students returning from the
holidays, still faced the dilemma of
zoned parking: more cars than
spaces.
According to Jeff May, assistant
chief of police, a broad, 10 page list of
recommendations dealing with this
problem has been put together.
“I’m not at liberty to discuss them
(the recommendations) until they are
presented to Mr. (Kenneth C.j Bat
chelor, vice-president of Business and
Finance, sometime next week,” said
May.
“There’s ft lot of work involved,”
May went on. “It’s not just a simple
Sign of the Times
sign.) If all our athletics teams excell, we could turn
Front Campus into a miniature billboard parkway...
Keep up the good work, folks. (Photo by Fred I A-dbetter.)
matter of digging up ground and
throwing cement down. People don’t
consider problems like drainage.”
The problem seems to be most pro
minent at Cobb Hall. Because Cobb is
located on Front Campus Drive,
space is limited.
Cobb resident Barry Taylor said, “I
had to park across from Bowdon Hall
one night.”
Other Cobb residents expressed a
desire to convert some more spaces
on Front Campus Drive into zone L
(Cobb cars) parking areas.
However, May said, “Campus
visitors need readily available spaces
to park. The other spaces (on Front
Campus Drive) are for faculty and
staff, and they are always full.
Professors Can Drop Absentees;
Policy Adds Space Deletes Goof-offs
By SHIRLEY BROWN
Effective spring quarter, a faculty
member may drop a student from a
class if the student has not attended
the first two days of classes and has
not contacted the professor.
This new policy, passed by the
faculty senate, allows a student who
has been put on a waiting list for a
class or simply one who desires to be
added to a class a chance to join the
class even though it begins the
quarter with a full roll.
“This policy has a two-fold pur
pose,” said Dr. W. H. Smith, assistant
dean of student services. “It makes
additional space for students who
really want to be in a class and it
prevents students from ‘goofing-off’
on the first two days of classes. ”
Smith said the new policy was also
established to cut down on students
Yearbook Would Require Fee Hike
Student Referendum Held Thursday
Bv THOMAS BALLENGEK
Does West Georgia College need a
student annual? That no doubt will be
a very talked about issue in the up
coming weeks, for a group of students
are attempting to resurrect the Chief
tain, which was the schools annual
before it was ceased as a result of stu
dent apathy.
The main force behind the proposed
revival has been Patti Hinton. She
along with eleven other brave souls
have accepted the challenge of bring-
WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 19, 1983
May said that converting the facul
ty and visitor spaces into Cobb park
ing areas would only add five or six
more spaces. “That would not solve
the problem.”
May pointed out that students who
cannot find a zoned parking space
may park in undesignated areas such
as lot 3 between South and Foster
Streets.
“I know that’s inconvenient,” May
commented, “but the space is
available.”
Though Public Safety is constantly
working on the parking problem, no
immediate solution seems attainable.
So, for right now, honk if you love
parking.
dropping and adding classes without,
going through the proper procedures.
This practice has caused some
students to remain stuck on a waiting
list.
Dr. Robert Myers, chairman of the
academic policies and procedures
committee said that the policy was
adopted because too many students
were signing up for class then chang
ing their minds and not returning to
class because of illness or financial or
other reasons, and as a result, the
class rolls are shown as full when they
are not. Then, another student who
was on a waiting list for that class
wouldn’t know if there was an opening
until later in the week.
“We want to make sure that all
seats are filled by the students who
desire seats,” said Dr. Myers.
Dr. Noel Powell, professor of
mg a yearbook back to West Georgia.
Even though the group faces an uphill
battle, it is not inconceivable that
West Georgia College students could
once again have an annual available
to them, perhaps by the Spring of 1984
In order for WGC President
Maurice Townsend to approve the
idea for renewal, it would appear that
the group would have to show it could
be to an extent self-sufficient. The
college has already been besiged with
budget cuts, and with the apparent
future affiliation of the athletic
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Police Forces
Investigate
Possible Rape
Early Friday
A West Georgia College student
reported to police that she was ab
ducted and raped by an unknown
assailant, according to Jeff May,
assistant chief of police of Public
Safety.
The victim, a 17-year-old freshman,
first reported the incident to Public-
Safety and then to detectives of the
Carrollton police department. She
said she was taken to the home of the
assailant in Carrollton early Friday
morning where she was raped.
Because of her age, police have ob
tained a court order asking that Tan
ner Memorial Hospital perform
medical tests at the victim’s request.
Besides Public Safety, Det. Lt.
Tommy Hosey of the Carrollton police
department is investigating the case.
P.O. 80x...
Contrary to popular
belief, campus residents’
post office box numbers
don’t change every time
they move from one dorm to
another or from room to
room. New post office
policy allows the box
number to remain the same
for each student for the en
tire year. To make the pro
cessing of mail faster and
easier students are asked to
have all their mail address
ed with the post office box
number.
business education, explained that the
policy was initiated to help the student
and not to cause any conflicts with the
student and his instructor.
The policy declares that the faculty
“may” drop a student, Powell went on
to explain. It is the student’s respon
sibly to contact the professor if the
student is unable to attend class dur
ing the first two days of the quarter
but does wish to remain in the class.
The policy aroused mixed feeling
among the student body as well as
faculty. Some students questioned
had concern about the short drop-add
period.
“The (drop-add) time period should
be expanded to three or four days,”
said Ann O’Conner, a transfer stu
dent. "A student does have the right to
miss the first day if he choses to do
so.”
department w.cn the Gull South Con
ference, student activity fees would
almost certainly be raised. The ques
tion is, are students willing to withs
tand yet another hike in their fees to
provide West Georgia with a year
book?
The proposed rise in fees would
amount to a figure between $5 and $lO.
Considering that as of this quarter ap
proximately 5800 students attend
WGC, the total derrived from the ex
tra fees would amount to between
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