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•THE WEST GEORGIAN, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 3,1984
Geology students take to the hills
By Cheryl Young
Frantically attempting to put
more stuff into less space, twelve ex
cited geology majors flocked around
a blue van parked behind the
Callaway building Tuesday, August
21, packing to go on their 28 - day
Western field trip.
leaving Carrollton in the late
afternoon, the students drove 475
miles before camping at Village
Creek State Park, Arkansas. The
first night away from civilization is
somewhat interesting. Everyone has
to learn how to pitch tents, cook din
ner for a group, and to cope with ex
haustion.
The real work began in Coleman’s
Quartz Mine w here the students dug
for quartz crystals. Some big sand
stone slabs were lying free in the
mine, and the students used chisels
and rock hammers to break up the
sandstone and extract prized quartz
crystals. Most of the mineral collec
ting in this mine was done with
shovels and sledge hammers.
Minerals were collected as they
came from the earth with globs of
dirt still surrounding the rock. The
minerals are not cleaned because
the dirt protects the minerals during
transportation. In order to keep the
rocks from breaking each other into
pieces, the specimens are boxed in
beer flats. Delicate specimens are
placed in egg cartons before being
put in larger boxes.
“Each trip is unique. You sort of
have to play it by ear.” says Dr. Cur
tis Hollabaugh. assistant professor
of geology and leader of this year’s
trip. Dr. Hollabaugh received his
doctorate in 1980 from Washington
Alan the underdog thrives on competition
by Rachel Boehl
A college without a bookstore?
What about a football game without
any football players? Both are pretty
unlikely but what is worse is a
bookstore without a competitor;
which is what West Georgia College
students have had to deal with for a
long time; until now the introduc
tion of Alan’s Bookstore.
Who is Alan? He is Alan Castro, 21,
a native of Long Island, New York.
However, he moved to Georgia
seven years ago and plans to stay, at
least for a while. The West Georgia
College Senior describes himself as
“a Northerner with Southern
charm.”
Alan got started in his business
quite by chance. It started out as a
project in Economic’s class. Alan
was recognized for his entrepreneur
spirit and came to realize that he
could beat the system; thus he set
out to do so. He says, “It was the
natural and only thing to do.” He has
been in business since Fall 1983. He
calls his business here, “ just the
start of a conglomerate.” Alan has
driven 40,000 miles this year all over
the United States and Mexico. He
has been scoping various campuses
for future bookstores. Through his
travels he has met hundreds of
authors and faculty members at dif
ferent colleges. Alan has learned
more than any textbook could ever
reveal he has learned about the
real business world. His first hand
experience has caused him to have
“a mental high people lined up
outside the door causing commo
tion, it is a feeling that one can only
get from first hand experience. ”
Alan’s Bookstore has more to offer
than books. He wants to appeal to
Greeks and people who knew him
when he was a student, and to un
satisfied customers in general. He
feels college students are “cost con
science.” He says this about his
business, “it has a ‘no frills appeal’,
I greet customers with a smile, the
desk may be cluttered but I’m
serious about what I’m doing. I love
being the underdog. I thrive on it.”
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The western field trip is somewhat
of an initiation rite for the geology
majors because they are “entering a
new world of geoiogy and seeing
something besides saprolite,” says
Dale Elliot. Saprolite is the muddy
remains of decomposed rocks which
are mostly seen in the south.
However, in the west, “the rocks are
unweathered and literally jump out
at you,” said Jim Bowman, a partici
pant in the 1983 western trip.
“The outdoors is our lab, ” stated
Dr. Sumner lx>ng, geology depart
ment chairman. The fieldtrip is of
fered to expose the students to a wide
range of geology.
According to Greg Hall, the best
part of the trip was the day spent in
Glacier National Park, Montana,
where everyone hiked eleven miles
up to the glacier and “played on the
ice.”
Grading is based on a field
notebook which is kept by each stu
dent for the duration of the trip. A
field notebook is a daily journal of
what is seen. Cross sections of
geologic areas, diagrams, maps,
draw ings of crystal shapes, and writ
ten descriptions of rock formations
are some of the things which are in
cluded in field notebooks. The
notebook’s content is left to the stu
dent’s discretion.
“ Yeah, I like it. I loved it. I got to
see a lot of places and learn a lot
about geology. In the desert (Utah),
we had to take our own water, ”
stated Robin Billingsly.
much of the student population he
has recruited, but his estimate is
close to twenty percent. He has 80%
of 100 aind 200 level textbooks, with
emphasis on the School of Business
and meeting the needs of Educa
tional and upper level Psychology
students. He guarantees lower
prices and has a limited quantity on
all titles. He also has quarterly
specials.
The Campus Bookstore is self
supporting, and is owned and op
perated by Auxiliary Enterprises.
The Director of Auxiliary Enter
prises, Jimmy Stokes says, “this fall
quarter is about the same as last fall
quarter.” “The Campus Bookstore’s
responsibility is to provide all needs,
goods, and services that West
Georgia student’s require.” “We are
a comprehensive bookstore. We
carry many low profit items, some
that we even lose money on, but we
have more services than Alan’s.”
They stock every book that WGC’s
students need, all art supplies,
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“I wouldn’t go again, but I enjoyed
the hell out of it,” declared Terry
Spell.
September 2 found the geologists
in Washington exploring a mine
where they dug for autunite.
Autunite is a radioactive uranian
mineral. Collecting radioactive
minerals was “an experience” said
Jack Callaham.
The minerals are collected by
group effort. After returning, the
crystals are cleaned and divided
evenly between the field trip par
ticipants. If the department’s
mineral collections is in need of a
specimen which was collected dur
ing the summer, it is donated by the
field trip members.
Frequently camps are pitched in
national parks because of their easy
access, spectacular geology, camp
ing facilities, and museums. Also,
national parks furnish free camping
for educational trips.
“We get up and do geology ’till the
sun goes down. I loved every minute
of it. The routine gets tiring, but I
never get tired of looking at the
rocks or learning geology,” says Jim
Bowman.
The rocks and minerals which
were collected on this year’s trip will
be used for upcoming study projects.
Some of these studies will involve the
chemistry of the rocks, their for
mation, the events which occurred
during and after the cooling of the
parent magmas.
Being a geologist is “like being a
detective and solving a mystery to
understand the earth’s geologic pro
cesses,” commented Dale Elliot.
Dr. Richard Sanders, assistant
Physical Education supplies, and
special order books. “The Campus
Bookstore is not out to make a profit,
just to provide a service.” It costs
more to run the Campus Bookstore,
since it is not owned by the school.
Auxiliary pays rent, utilities, and
employees, just to name a few. The
textbook price is established by the
publisher and there is a twenty per
cent profit margin. However, the
profit margin is below the actual
overhead of the Bookstore. To sum it
up in Mr. Stokes’ words, “every time
we sell a book we lose money. On a
$25 book the overhead is $6 and the
book sells for S3O. That results in a
loss of at least one dollar. It takes
people to inventory, sell, and help
student’s find the books they need.
But, that is why we are a service to
students we don’t mind.”
Some comparative prices on New
books are:
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professor of geology,said, “General
ly speaking we have free days where
nothing is planned. The best thing to
do is do your laundry. Students
usually go see something of interest
located near camp.
The selection of a faculty member
for the Western trip is usually done
on a volunteer basis. However, the
faculty members are usually rotated
to allow different focuses for the trip
according to the instructor’s area of
specialization. The faculty member
who leads the trip has “a very tough,
responsible job,” Dr. Sumner Long
said.
“The problem is you come back
just before the quarter starts. You
are tired and want to take a week off,
” observed Dr. Tim Chowns, pro
fessor of geology.
The Western field trip is a 5 - hour
credit course offered by West
Georgia College to any interested
student. The course lasts for the
duration of the break between sum
mer and fall quarters. In depth
knowledge of geology is not a pre -
requisite for this course.
“The worst part of the trip was the
1500 mile all night drive home while I
was trying to catch up on my
notebook,” said Jack Callaham.
The purposes of this trip are “to
serve as an introduction to the
geologic provinces of the Western
United States, to provide experience
mapping geologic formations, and to
expose the students to a wide variety
of landforms, structures, and
minerals which they can’t see back
here in the east,” concluded Dr. Cur
tis Hollabaugh.
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The opening of Alan’s has not caus
ed the bookstore to change their
business in any way. Jimmy Stokes’
says, “We can’t make a profit on
everything we sell. This is a hustling
business, and we are fighting a los
ing battle. Everytime he (Alan) sells
a book it hurts us.” But camps for
drill teams, bands, etc. are provided
in the summer to offset their losses
thoughout the year.
So it is your choice who to buy
books and other items from. Both
businesses offer advantages and
various services. But it might be to
your advantage to check both places.
There are no definite statistics on
who is winning ‘the war’ as of yet.
That is something only time will tell.
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around a discovery in Colorado. (Photo by Jack Callaham)
Faculty art on display
by Cheryl Young
“Morning Glory” a batik by Mary
Hogan, is one of the featured works
in the West Georgia College Art
Department Faculty Show. The
show, which opened on September
20, will be on display daily in the first
floor gallery of Cashen Hall through
October 12.
Batik is the process of painting on
silk with dye. Wax is put in places
where the color white is desired.
After the design is completed, the
wax is ironed out between sheets of
paper.
“Morning Glory” shows a use of
geometrical figures. The
background is composed of grayish
green squares interrupted by a pat
tern of trailing morning glories. The
flowers themselves have also been
portrayed in a way which is more
geometrical than life-like. The colors
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create a sense of tension.
“Lilith at the Gate” by Bruce
Bobick, art department chairman, is
also in the show. Bobick’s portrait of
Lilith was drawn from a model.
Bobick uses a unique approach to
color and space. Some of his work is
charactericized by bright, vibrant
colors in central areas while the re
mainder of the picture is comprised
of pencil lines. Bobick says that he is
interested in the “use of unused or
negative space” in pictures so that
the eye is not overwhelmed by color.
Derrill M. Maxwell had several
colored pen drawings. One of them,
“Mesa II”, uses earth tone colors for
the complete picture. The tan sky
and brown sun are a different ap
proach to the traditonal blue sky.
The mesa is drawn in orange colors
which are similar to the clay found in
Geogia’s soils.