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SGA finishes winter business
By Angela Webster
A review of the past quarter’s ac
complishments and a preview of the
spring quarter objectives highlighted
the last Student Government Associa
tion meeting of the quarter.
“Let’s come back ready to work
next quarter,” vice-president Rod
Dawson told the senators at their
regular Monday meeting.
According to Dawson, the quarter
has been a productive one. The
organization sponsored the credit
card drive (Dawson described it as
“mildly successful” since approx
imately half of the money has yet to
be collected), requested the con
struction of the bus shelter which can
now be seen at the Tyus parking lot,
and worked hard to find a solution to
the parking problem.
Although the SGA had to admit
Civil Rights activist speaks at West Georgia
He was beaten and left unconscious
in the streets of Montgomery,
Alabama; he was arrested and jailed
40 times between 1960 and 1966 and
yet, John Lewis is still around to tell of
the civil rights movement and its im
pact on the nation and the world.
Speaking before a small crowd of 30
people the night of Feb. 28 in the
Social Science Lecture Hall, Lewis
told of his beginnings in Civil Rights,
and gave eye-witness accounts of
events that happened during the
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Atlanta councilman and civil rights
activist John Lewis spoke on campus
last week. Lewis, a close associate of
Martin Luther King Jr., described the
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Tuition freeze is rejected
LANSING, MI (CPS)- Some state col
leges now say they probably won’t
take Gov. James Blanchard’s inven
tive deal to hold tuition down for the
1984-85 school year.
Officials at the state’s two largest
campuses—the University of Michigan
and Michigan State-say the deal
would cost them thousands of dollars
each.
Last month, Blanchard offered to
increase state funding for Michigan’s
14 public colleges and universities if
the schools agreed to freeze tuition at
this year’s levels.
The campuses have raised tuition
an aggregate 85 percent over the last
five years, the governor’s office
found.
Now it appears many of the schools
will hike tuition again instead of
holding out for more state money.
“Based on our projected enroll
ment,” explains MSU spokesman Ed
Zabrusky, “for each one percent in
crease in tuition, Michigan State will
gain $733,000.”
But each percent increase in state
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defeat in its attempt to solve the pro
blem, the senate seemed satisfied
with its own efforts on the matter.
Senator Tony Pamigoni headed the
movement to see whether students
might be willing to park at distant
parking lots (Tyus and Z-6) if they
could get a discount on their parking
permit. Pamigoni found that students
would not park at the distant lots,
even for a discount.
After confronting this brick wall,
Pamigoni met with Chief Tuttle of
Public Safety to see if freshman com
muters might be restricted to the dis
tant parking lots. Expecting only 500
or 600 freshmen to be commuters,
Pamigoni found that there are 1100
commuting freshmen, too large a
number to be restricted to the two
parking lots.
troubled 60’s and the feelings that
were present throughout the
‘ ‘segregated South. ’ ’
It was in southeast Alabama, where
he grew up, that Lewis first came into
contact with “the system of segrega
tion and racial discrimination.”
“I was bussed, long distance, over
unpaved roads to attend over
crowded, poorly-staffed, segregated
schools,” said the stocky Atlanta City
Council member “The so-called Black
Schools.”
civil rights struggle of the 1960 sand
talked of the continuing struggle by
blacks for equality.
funding is worth “only” $459,000, he
points out.
University of Michigan officials
maintain “an optimistic wait-and-see
attitude” towards Blanchard’s pro
posed trade-off, says WMU
spokesman Michael Matthews.
They’re “still looking at (the cost
benefit factors) of the proposal,”
however, and won’t decide whether to
take Blanchard’s offer for several
months.
“Some schools want to have their
cake and eat it too,” complains Blan
chard aide Richard Cole.
“Some universities are saying this
is a really great alternative to pricing
their students out of the market,” he
says, “and other institutions feel
they’re more financially strapped,
and that raising tuition is not going to
lose them future students.”
Cole expects the state legislature to
approve the trade offer anyway “in
the next 30-to-45 days.” After that,
schools will inform the governor if
they will accept the proposal.
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Pamigoni said that this was the
“third type try we’ve had” and that
now there is “almost nothing you can
do.”
“You’re just admitting reality,” he
said.
Despite the rejection of the parking
proposal, Dawson said “we did our
homework this time. We went out and
literally counted parking spaces.” He
said that the SGA used their findings
to submit a “coherent” proposal to
Public Safety.
Senator J. C. Watt is also busy with
an effort to prevent any further
disclosure of student’s GPAs to the
heads of dorms. According to Watt,
the Registrar’s office provides the
computer printout which lists room
numbers with two GPAs beside each
room. In smaller dorms like Cobb
“It was a closed society,” continued
Lewis. “And everywhere I turned, I
found closed doors.”
But at the age of 15, he witnessed
the “birth of the civil rights move
ment when I saw a young, Black, Bap
tist minister on television who dared
to stand up to the present system of
Alabama.”
“As I watched this man, I knew that
Martin Luther King Jr. was a moral
leader and was speaking for all
humanity.”
Asa college student of Fisk Univer
sity of Nashville in the late 50’s, Lewis
found people, like himself, “who were
willing to give up their lives for a
higher purpose.” This resulted in
their collectively attending “non
violence workshops” where they
studied the philosophies of non
violence and where they also planned
series of “sit-ins” to apply these
teachings.
In early 1960 at a downtown
Nashville department store, this
group of Black and White students
had their first test of sit-in. There they
were told they wouldn’t be served
(because of their color).
According to Lewis, incidents such
as these “helped spread the move
ment throughout the South like wild
fire.”
John Kennedy, then a 1960 presiden
tial nominee, said of these sit-ins “By
sitting down, these young people are
standing up in the American tradi
tion.”
But Lewis wasn’t satisfied with just
sit-ins. Under the Kennedy ad
ministration, when the Supreme
Court ruled it unconstitutional to
segregate passengers on interstate
bus travel, this strong-spoken Black
man and a group of people known as
“Freedom Riders” decided to test the
court’s decision.
“On May 4, 1961, we started out
from Washington to the deep South on
buses (Blacks and Whites sitting side
by side) and we didn’t experience any
Public Safety Report
By Jeff Broadhurst
As the quarter comes to a close,
book thefts are on the rise. So far,
Public Safety has arrested two
students who were responsible for
four book thefts last week.
Ricky Keith Cole, a WGC freshman
from Powder Springs, Georgia, was
arrested last Thursday afternoon. He
was charged with stealing books from
a room in Aycock Hall Wednesday
afternoon, as well as the theft of other
books from a vehicle in the parking lot
across Bowdon Hall next to Foster
Street
Also arrested last Thursday for
book thefts was Patrick J. Agnew, a
WGC freshman from Grayson,
Georgia. Agnew was charged with
two counts of receiving stolen proper
ty. All recoveries were made in the
bookstore.
Other book thefts took place in the
Humanities building between March
1-2, and during lunch at Z-6 March 2.
So far, none of these books have been
recovered.
In other news, someone smashed
out the back windshield of a 1980 Pon
tiac Sunbird between late afternoon
March 1, and early morning March 2.
A rock had been thrown which
resulted in $lB2 damage.
Also between March 1-2, four wire
wheel covers were stolen from a 1979
Monte Carlo in Bowdon Parking lot.
So far, no recovery has been made.
“Someone had to see some of these
crimes being committed,” says
Public Safety Captain Harris. “We
must have student assistance if they
see it being done,” says Harris.
Hall, said Watt, it is easy for the dorm
head to discover the GPA of a student.
“My gripe was that dorm heads had
access to school information,” said
Watt. “I want them to make it a little
more confidential.”
Watt has since talked to head of
Residence Life Tom Martin who “has
been very cooperative.” Now a prin
tout of random numbers will be pro
vided, but it will list no floors or room
numbers, thus maintaining the con
fidentiality.
Dawson said that he was pleased
with the work of the SGA this quarter
and is proud of what has been ac
complished.
“This quarter we had a very good
attendance rate,” he said, adding that
he would like to “commend all the
senators for a quarter well-done.”
violence until we arrived in Rockhill,
SC where we were beaten while at
tempting to use a restroom labeled
“White Only.”
It was incidents such as these, ac
cording to Lewis, which prompted At
torney General Robert Kennedy to try
to persuade the Freedom Riders to
stop these trips. “But we wanted to
continue."
The continuing violence on the
South’s bus lines led the ICC
(Interstate Commerce Commission)
to end all rules of segregation concer
ning interstate bus travel.
Lewis not only applauded the
“movement” itself for bringing about
social change in the South and the rest
of the United States, but he also prais
ed the presence of the media for
enabling the country to view, sym
pathize, and realize the troubles and
needs of the “segregated few.”
In an early 1965 voting rights march
in Selma, Alabama where par
ticipants were confronted by
Alabama mounted police armed with
clubs and whips, the nation watched
on TV as protestors were attacked
and seriously injured while trying to
lead a peaceful demonstration.
“People got angry when they saw
what happened in Selma,” said Lewis.
“And this anger, accompanied by
President Lyndon Johnson’s televi
sion statement that ‘We shall over
come,’ helped bring about the 1965
Voting Rights Act.
“This was just one example of how
the media’s presence aided the “Civil
Rights Movement” by broadcasting
the problems of the South to the
American Audience.
In his closing statements, Lewis
remarked that he was proud of what
he helped accomplished in those
disturbed times and of the changes of
the past twenty years, but he quickly
reminded the audience, “We’ve come
a distance, and still have a ways to
go.”
Harris realizes that many people do
not want to get involved. However, the
chances of becoming directly involv
ed in trials are low. “A good percen
tage of crimes never make it to court
because of lack of evidence or over
whelming evidence.
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Computer rumors false
(CPS) - Rumors that a substantial
campus black market in computers
has arisen in recent weeks appear to
be false, but campus officials worry
that one may appear soon along with a
difficult sales war with off-campus
computer dealers.
A USA Today newspaper story in
late February alleged a large com
puter black market was forming on
campuses as students buy the
machines at a discount from their
schools, and then re-sell them to
others at a profit.
But a College Press Service check
with a number of campuses now sell
ing computers at a discount indicated
that, while officials worry that a black
market may appear, none seems to be
functioning yet.
Apple, for one, had shipped only
about 48 of its new Macintosh com
puters by the end of last week, making
a black market in the machines very
small, if it exists at all, says company
spokesman Daniel Lewin.
“It’s not like scalping football
tickets,” adds Gregory Marks, who
oversees computing programs at the
University of Michigan. “For a stu
dent to buy 10 computers (to re-sell) is
beyond most students’ means.”
Nevertheless, all concerned say
they’re watching campuses closely
for telltale signs of emerging illegal
computer traffic, newspaper ads of
fering to buy “used” computers,
students individually or collectively
buying more than one machine at a
time, etc.
“We’re going to monitor the cam
puses real closely,” Lewin cautions.
“I would not want to have any of our
plans published.”
Besides the 24 schools that recently
arranged to sell Apple Macintoshes at
a SI2OO discount to their students,
scores of other campuses recently
have started to sell computers cheap
ly to their communities.
Fourteen universities have signed
up to buy and sell new DEC 350 com
puters at 65 percent discounts.
This fall, Drew University will give
all incoming freshmen Epson QX-10
micros for about SI7OO each. Normal
retail price for the machines is over
S4OOO.
Zenith, IBM, and Texas In
struments, among many others, are
developing similar discount ar
rangements with hundreds of cam
Karen Bennett of Mableton, (standing) advisor Dr. Don
Nixon, Vince Collins of Decatur, Wylie Kirk of Newnan,
Rodney Barron of Austell, Judy Wright of Whites burg,
Mike Abercrombie of Douglas ville, and Rhonda Roper of
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puses.
And many others are letting
students choose their own brands in
campus bookstores. All the brands
normally are sold at discount prices.
Not surprisingly, then, ads have
already appeared at Drexel and at
Notre Dame, asking students if they
want to sell their new computers.
Notre Dame officials, among
others, have developed a few stop-gap
measures to abort the market.
Students who buy from Notre
Dame’s store must sign a “first
refusal clause” that “states the per
son cannot sell the computer for a
period of one year,” bookstore
manager Ric Haley says.
The university will sue if it finds out
the student violates the agreement, he
warns.
The University of Michigan is bran
ding all the machines it sells with a
“U of M” symbol and serial number
to discourage black marketeers.
Michigan also makes students pro
mise not to re-sell the machines for
two years, or to pay a S2OOO “liquida
tion fee” to the school if they do.
Apple will now ask students for a
“moral commitment” to use the dis
counted Macintoshes only for
schoolwork, to keep them for a
minimum of two years, and to
understand that re-selling them may
be grounds for expulsion at some
schools.
And though other schools are keep
ing a data base of serial numbers and
names, and others involve banks to
gain a partner to help bear future
legal fees when pursuing black
marketeers, anti-crime measures
come down to “people believing
they’ll be in trouble” if they re-sell the
computers, Marks says.
“It’s not going to be water-tight,”
he concedes.
“I don’t think Apple will pursue
50,000 people, do you?” asks Peter
Lange, sales manager of Mighty Byte
Computer Center in Medford, N. J.
“I don’t think a lot of this has been
thought out,” laments Garis
Distelhorst, head of the National
Association of College Stores.
Distelhorst worries not only that
stores will lose sales to black
marketeers, but that colleges that do
sell computers often aren’t set up to
service the machines afterward.
But Apple’s Lelwin says a third of
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