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WEST GEORG IAN
VOLUME 51, NUMBER 7
G. Liddy slated to speak Thursday night
By Ris Cowan
He served the longest prison term
of any other figure in the Watergate
scandal of the 1970’5.
When asked by Sen. Sam Ervin
during a closed session of the
Watergate Committee, “Do you
solemnly swear to tell the truth, the
whole truth and nothing but the
truth, so help you God?” he flatly
replied “No.”
More than 10 years later, G. Gor
don Liddy, who touts himself as
“THE number one speaker in the
country,” will lecture before an anx
ious audience tomorrow night at
West Georgia College’s Health and
P.E. building.
Liddy, who now boasts of making
over 200 appearances annually, was
sentenced to 20 years in the Danbury
Federal Penitentiary on nine felony
Debaters come away
with tourney award
The West Georgia College inter
collegiate debating team opened the
1984-85 debate season by winning two
awards at the first major national
debate tournament held at Vander
bilt University September 28-30.
More than 40 of the top teams in
the United States gathered to begin
the debate year which will culminate
with a National Championship Tour
nament in April 1985.
James Sizemore, a sophomore
from Leesburg, Georgia and Scott
Foster, a senior from Calhoun,
Georgia won the award as the fifth
best team in the tournament. The
West Georgia duo advanced to the
elimination rounds with victories
over Texas A&M University, West
Virginia University, Mercer Univer
sity, Adrion College, and Henderson
College.
These five victories placed them in
the sudden-death elimination rounds
as the field was narrowed from 42 to
the top 16. In the first sudden-death
elimination round, West Georgia
was paired against the “B” team
from Dartmouth College. West
Georgia won a unanimous vote from
the panel of three judges and ad
vanced to the quarter-final round as
the field was narrowed to the top
eight teams. West Georgia was
paired against the “A” team from
Dartmouth College. Sizemore and
Foster lost to Dartmouth and finish
ed in fifth place. Dartmouth College
Retention rate a statewide problem
by Paige Green
In 1978 and ’79 the Board of
Regents, along with the office for
Civil Rights, designed a plan for
state colleges and university insititu
tions to study their retention of
undergraduate students.
West Georgia College began its
study in 1980. The study consisted of
three major surveys and a record of
the retention of students in a four
year cycle. After the first year
W.G.C. had lost approximately *16%
of its students, 12% above the na
tional average. The following year
there was another 19% decrease for
a total of 65% from the original
enrollment. Going into the final
year, only 27% of the original group
remained.
At first glanc, these statistics are
SAT sco res rise in 'B4, Ga. second lowest
NEW YORK,(CPS) - After slipp
ing slightly last year, students’
scores on the Scholastic Aptitude
Test (SAT) show modest increases
this year, according to the College
Board, which runs the nationwide
SAT program.
But educators’ happiness about
the improved test scores was quickly
dampened by remarks by U.S.
Secretary of Education Terrel Bell,
who credited President Ronald
Reagan’s education policies for the
good news.
In a news conference called in
Washington, D.C. the same time the
charges stemming from his part in
masterminding the Watergate Hotel
break-in of June 17, 1972. In April of
1977 President Jimmy Carter reduc
ed Liddy’s sentence by 12 years “in
the interests of equity and fairness
based on a comparison of liddy’s
sentence with those of all others con
victed in Watergate-related pro
ceedings.”
During the Watergate hearings
and even during prison life, Liddy re
mained silent as to his role and the
roles of his co-conspirators in the
Watergate affair -a queer silence
which earned him the media
nickname “the Sphinx.”
In April of 1980' Liddy broke that
silence in a poignant and frank
autobigraphy titled simply Will in
which he revealed his peculiar plots
to kill columnist Jack Anderson by
won the national championship in
1984.
When tne awarus were presented
to the top ten individual debaters in
the tournament, West Georgia also
received recognition. Scott Foster
was named the eighth best in
dividual debater out of the 84 par
ticipants.
Dr. David Svaldi, Assistant Pro
fessor of Speech at West Georgia, ac
companied the team to the tourna
ment.
Dr. Chester Gibson, Director of
Forensics, announced that Sizemore
and Foster have been invited to par
ticipate in a round-robin tournament
among the top 18 teams in the nation,
to be held at the University of
Virginia in late October. In commen
ting about the team’s performance
at Vanderbilt, Dr. Gibson said that
“West Georgia debaters have work
ed very hard in preparing for this
first tournament. As long as we can
stay among the top ten or so teams in
the nation, I will be pleased. If you
get out of the top ten it becomes very
difficult to have a chance for the na
tional championship.”
Dr. Gibson also commended Dr.
David Svaldi for preparing the
debaters on a ‘ ‘very difficult topic. ”
The 1984-85 topic is “Resolved:
That the United States should
significantly increase the explora
tion andor development of the space
beyond the earth’s atmosphere.”
alarming to say the least. But as Dr.
Richard Folk, Director of Budget
and Resource Services, explained,
the statistics do not tell the complete
story.
“Many students come to W.G.C.
with the intention of transferring
after completing their core cur
riculum,” stated Dr. Folk. “It is not
fair that they are included in our
failure to retain students,” he con
tinued. Others such as “stop outs,”
those who quit school and later
return to graduate, also decrease the
retention rate.
Aside from these exceptions there
are those students who do not return
because of academic dismissal. Dur
ing the 1983-’B4 school year 915
students were dismissed for
academic reasons. That is an in
College Board was releasing the
scores officially in New York, Bell
told reporters “the gain in S.A.T.
scores reflects the concern for ex
cellence in schools that is sweeping
the nation,” adding he was glad the
recommendations made by a
presidential commission on ex
cellence “are being followed. ”
Bell went on to imply Reagan’s
call for excellence in die nation’s
schools and his support for more str
ingent disciplinary policies, have
helped SAT scores rise over the last
four years.
College Board and other education
West Georgia College,Carrollton, Georgia 30118
placing a massive dose of li3D on the
steering wheel of Anderson’s car,
poisoning the prison dinner tray of
fellow convict and Watergate cohort
E. Howard Hunt in addition to
describing the reasons for the
Watergate break-ins.
“He (Liddy) was forever
volunteering to rub people out,”
Hunt once said in a 1980 television in
terview after refusing to appear with
Liddy. Hunt and others in the Nixon
administration undoubtedly con
sidered Liddy’s preoccupation with
“eliminating the enemy” as more
than strange; in fact President Nix
on once said in a White House tape of
Liddy, “He must be a little nuts.”
Liddy’s past lecture tours of col
lege campuses have sparked vehe
ment protests from students and
Tuition still on rise
West Georgia College students as well as other University System
students, may have to brace themselves for yet another tuition hike ef
fective summer quarter, 1985 if the Board of Regents decides that
another increase is necessary.
The increase, which would be the fifth in five years, will be decided
this spring by the Board of Regents, who will review the continually
rising cost of education, and decide if a hike in tuition is needed.
Tuition is based on the student absorbing 25% of educational costs
and the state paying the remaining 75%. The Board of Regents has
raised tuition at the rate of 15% a year, for the past four years to
restore balance to this ratio which, over the years, has become un
balanced by escalading inflation.
The need for financial aid has risen greatly in the last few years but
the funding “doesn’t go up enough to compensate for the increase” in
tuition, said the office of financial aid. Tuition may rise again but
financial aid will not increase accordingly.
The student activity and health fees have also risen. These fees enti
tle each student admission to most entertainment and athletic events
sponsored by the college.
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MATRICULATION CUSTS
crease of 52 students from the
previous year. In comparison, only
236 students were dismissed during
the 1974-75 school year, a difference
of about 11% based on student body
population. Lowered admission stan
dards are attributed to this increase
A variety of reasons have been
sighted to explain the decreasing
retention rate nationwide. A survey
of 947 state college presidents cited
inadequate academic advising as the
leading cause of the losses. Inade
quate curricular offerings ranked se
cond. According to student input
around campus, W.G.C. is no excep
tion to these downfalls. Of those in
terviewed, 35% said they have never
seen their advisor.
The obvious question is how can
these problems be changed? It is a
officials immediately complained
Bell’s press conference was “a
breach of etiquette” and “political,”
stressing that better teachers and
schools not presidential pro
nouncements helped improved
SAT scores.
Nearly one million high school
seniors take the SAT each year. Col
lege, of course, use the test results to
help screen potential students.
Nationwide scores on the math
portion of the SAT increased three
points this year, for an average
score of 471, the College Board
reports.
faculty members across the U.S.
over the exorbitant fees charged by
Liddy to appear and the ethics of
paying such fees to hear a “common
criminal” speak.
Such controversy has not escaped
Liddy’s speaking engagement at
West Georgia as several professors
have called on the local media to por
tray more accurately to students
Liddy’s questionable past as a
government official (see this issue’s
Letters to the Editor on page two)
and charged that Liddy’s approx
imately S4OOO appearance fee “could
be better spent.
Such a large crowd is expected at
tomorrow’s engagement that the
program had to be moved from the
Education Center to the campus
gymnasium.
question that Vice President Dr.
John Lewis adressed last week at
meetings with staff and faculty
members. “I want to make them
aware of the problem,” stated Dr.
Lewis.
Asa result of these meetings and
numerous follow up studies by Dr.
Lewis and others, W.G.C. has laun
ched a major retention awareness
campaign. “A great deal has and is
taking place as a result of our study
of retention,” stated Dr. Folk. Anew
“101” program for the orientation
and advisement of students was
created. Its purpose is to assist
students in adjusting to college life.
A Black Achievement Program was
created in an effort to encourage
Average scores on the verbal sec
tion of the test are up one point over
last year, to 426.
Although both scores remain far
below the 1963 record highs of 502 for
math and 478 for verbal, educators
see them as hints that the long
decline in SAT scores finally has
been reversed.
SAT scores hit bottom in 1980, with
an average math score of 466 and
verbal score of 424.
Bell’s claim that Reagan’s policies
are responsible for the score in
creases is “simply impossible,” says
College Board spokesman Fred
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CONTROVERSIAL NIXON AIDE, G. Gordon Liddy, will speak at
West Georgia College tomorrow night in the Health and P.E. building.
VOTER DRIVE
Shaping up
As of 12 noon on Monday, 122
students had taken advantage of the
voter registration drive being held in
the library and registered to vote,
said Student Government Associa
tion president Tony Parnigoni at
Monday’s SGA meeting.
Parnigoni said that he predicts the
SGA will have no problem register
ing at least 200 students before the
end of the drive, which he says has
been running well. Parnigoni attend
ed a Georgia Student Association
board meeting on Sunday and noted
that some schools were having a lot
of trouble conducting a drive.
“It (the drive) really made us look
good as a school,” said Parnigoni.
To augment the voter registration
drive, the SGA is trying to obtain a ■
“patriotic” video that is running on
CBS which encourages people to
vote. They hope to show the video in
the library.
Also at Monday’s meeting,
Judiciary Commission Chairman
Carl Martin presented his recom
mendations of students to serve as
justices on the commission. Seven
fjill-time justices and two alternates
were named, but they were not voted
on since a quorum was not present at
the meeting.
Martin and Parnigoni disagreed
on whether the SGA could vote
without a quorum. The SGA Con
stitution says that two-thirds ap
proval of the Student Congress is
necessary to ratify the justices. Par-
7 Days Left to Register to Vote
The GENERAL ELECTION will be Tuesday, November 6,
1984.
If a student wishes to vote in that election and is not
registered, or is registered elsewhere and wishes to vote in Car
roll County, he must bring two types of identification to Ingram
Library.
Students WILL NEED: I),identification to show who he is. A
student ID or a driver’s license will suffice.
2) something showing his current address. (If a student lives
in a dormitory, he must bring a document showing campus ad
dress. ) A letter sent to him, a receipt, a bill, a bank identifica
tion card, a check, or a fee slip will be acceptable.
ABSENTEE BALLOTS for persons living in the state of
Georgia are available at the library. If a student lives elsewhere
and wishes to have an absentee ballot for his home state, contact
the election official in that state.
If a student lives in the state of Georgia and his residency is
within a 300-mile radius of Carroll County, the deadline for mail
ing in requests for absentee ballots is Friday, November 2,1984.
If a student lives in the state of Georgia and his residency is
300 miles or more from Carroll County, the deadline for mailing
requests is Thursday, November 1,1984.
The VOTER REGISTRATION DEADLINE is Tuesday, OC
TOBER 9,1984. Students may register at the library during the
following hours:
MON-THURS 8:00am-10:00pm
FRI 8:00am-5:00pm
SAT 10:00am-5:00pm
SUN 2:00-10:00 pm
Moreno.
“SAT scores are attributable not
only to schools, but to books, televi
sion, and everything else a child is
exposed to over 17 years,” Moreno
explains.
Besides, Reagan’s call for ex
cellence last year “couldn’t possibly
have any effect” on student’s test
scores this year, he says.
Because the SAT tests a wide ar
ray of aptitudes developed over a
student’s lifetime, there is virtually
no way to improve scores in a year’s
time, he adds.
This year’s minor increases pro-
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nigoni said this meant two-thirds of
the entire Student Congress must be
present in order to vote, but Martin
said that the Constitution meant that
two-thirds of the members present
must vote approval. Parnigoni end
ed the discussion by scheduling a
special meeting for Tuesday after
noon to vote on the justices.
Asa part of “A Day for West
Georgia,” the SGA is holding a tui
tion raffle (value: $360). Parnigoni
told the senators that raffle tickets
would be distributed at the Tuesday
meeting. Five hundred of the tickets
have been printed, and they will sell
for one dollar each.
SGA vice-president Debra Globe
asked the senators their opinions on
trying to start a yearbook. She said
that a meeting for students in
terested in working on a yearbook
will be held Wednesday night at 7:30
in rooms 204 and 205 of the Student
Center.
Denise Fulcher, a political science
major, was introduced to the group
as the new SGA representative to the
Carrollton City Council. She and
Parnigoni went to the city council
meeting on Monday night.
Fulcher will also be one of three
SGA representatives to the Georgia
Student Association; the other two
representatives are Juanita Parks
and Cay Creel. Parnigoni said that
the GSA’s activities include lobby
ing, voter registration and alcohol
awareness.
bably are due to a combination of
such things as accelerated curricula
in elementary and junior high
schools, better teachers and
teaching methods, an increase in
educational programming on televi
sion, and perhaps even the
classroom computer invasion, Col
lege Board officials point out.
Moreover, “the increase in math
scores is largely attributable to (the
improved performances of)
women,” says College Board Presi
dent George Hanforf, while the in-