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D a yf or W eS t Georgia Brings Home The Gold
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WEST GEORGIAN
VOLUME 51, NUMBER 9
COLLEGIATE
EXCERPTS
Student wards
off machoto
with broom
Emory party-goers were
suprised a few weeks ago when an
non-Emory student showed up at
a school party wedding a
machete and began swinging it at
several other students. With
much daring, an Emory student
took the challenge to defend
himself and others with a
broomstick. The machete
swinging offender was found to
have on his person two additional
knives. He was later charged with
assualt with a deadly weapon.
< Courtesy of The Emory Wheel)
Supreme Court
Justice begins
Tech birthday
Supreme Court Justice Sandra
Day O’Connor, the only woman
ever to be appointed to the
Supreme Court, lead the way in
Georgia Tech’s Centennial
celebration with lecture to ap
proxiamately 4000 Tech students
and others last Monday night.
O’Connor, who normally accepts
only four or five speaking
engagements a year, is listed by
the World Almanac and Book of
Facts at the top of the list of the
nation’s “25 Most Influential
Women.’’
O'Connor told the Tech crowd
that higher courts were not
always able to bring forth solu
tions to problems and that, as
such, greatly depended on
legislators and other non-lawyer
officials to help bring about fair'
changes in the law. She asked
that non-lawyers become more
involved in politics and legisla
tion, saying that their perception
and knowledge was needed to br
ing about fair and just laws.
(Courtesy of The Technique)
Tickets go
on salo for
Bravos gams
Coming off Saturday’s exciting
52-31 shootout victory over Liber
ty Baptist College, the West
Georgia Braves will make a short
trip to Columbus to take on
Valdosta State in the Riverbend
Classic.
Out to avenge a 1983 loss to
Valdosta State, the Braves hope
to get another super performance
from quarterback Cater Pierce.
Gulf South Conference offensive
player of the week for the last two
weeks, Pierce will be facing the :
number two ranked defensive
unit in the conference.
Students may purchase tickets
for the game in the Football Of
fice for $5, with ID. The office is
open from 8-5 with tickets
available through Friday after
noon. Tickets for non students are
|7.50.
Additional festivities at the
game will be provided by the
always entertaining San Diego
Chicken. So, for a chicken and a
licking (West Georgia over VSU),
make the trip to Columbus.
Gingrich says Mother Jones did "hatchet job'
They took who I really am and turn
ed it upside down .
Newt Gingrich
By Angela Webster
Managing Editor
The November issue of Mother
Jones magazine, which contains
what some have called a “hatchet
job” on Sixth District Congressman
Newt Gingrich, has been in great de
mand in the college library this past
week.
“Newt Gingrich: Shining Knight of
the Post-Reagan Right” is the arti
cle in which freelance writer David
Osborne criticized the inconsisten
cies between the Congressman’s
public image and his private life.
In the page-and-a-hialf introduction
to the piece, which Gingrich himself
found “pretty neat,” Osborne called
the Congressman “an unabashed
probusiness, anticommunist, Moral
Majority version of Gary Hart.”
The remainder of the article,
however, was less than flattering,
discussing at length some of
Gingrich’s personal problems, most
notably the circumstances leading
up to his divorce from his first wife,
Jackie.
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I had to prove to
myself that it was true.
David Osborne
If (Osborne) can
destroy me by slurring
me I’m a lot less
dangerous.
Newt Gingrich
The article in Mother Jones quotes
Gingrich as saying that he would not
discuss his personal life: “I’m not
going to get into those details or the
questions about 1974.1 think there is
a level of personal life that is per
sonal.’’
Several of Gingrich’s former staff
members are quoted criticizing him.
Osborne interviewed Lee Howell,
who was editor of the West Georgian
and press secretary to Gingrich dur
ing the 1974 campaign, and who now
Anew breed is pumping iron
By Ris Cowan
The Mr. Atlases of West
Georgia College will soon be forc
ed to make room in their domain
of bodybuilding for the newest
breed of iron pumpers on campus
-the Ms. Atlases.
In the past month a group of
about 70 West Georgia coeds have
been busy “toning their muscles’’
student weight room near the ten
nis courts in an effort to bring
better “definition” to their
feminine figures.
“Muscles are ‘in’,” claims
Ruth Dicks, assistant coordinator
of Intramural Sports and initiater
of the weight training program
for women. “Skinny and thin us
ed to be ‘in’ for women but now
muscles are ‘in’ and it (lifting
weights) makes the girls feel
good about themselves; they look
good and their clothes fit better. ’ ’
Ms. Dicks enlisted the help of
19-year-old Kristy Causey and 22-
year-old Dana Vitali, who she
says are paid because “they
know what they are doing,” to
organize West Georgia’s first
women’s weight training pro
gram, designed to break down
the barriers of a normally male
dominated sport. “We felt like
the intramural system needed
some vitamins something to in
clude the girls,” Ms. Dicks said.
Although forced to use ani
quated weights and equipment,
the women pursue their new
found sport with enthusiasm and
seem confident that power-lifting
(a goal-oriented facet of
West Georgia College,Carrollton, Georgia 30118
serves as Political Editor of the
Clayton News-Daily.
Howell was described as one of “a
string of disillusioned friends and
associates.”
Osborne quoted Howell: “Newt
Gingrich has a tendency to chew peo
ple up and spit them out. He uses you
for all it’s worth, and when he
doesn’t need you anymore he throws
you away.”
In a telephone interview Monday,
Howell objected to Osborne’s
describing him as ‘ ‘disillusioned. ’ ’
“I’m not particularly disillusioned
with Newt,” said Howell, “no more
than I am with any person in politics
now.”
Howell noted that if he had been at
odds with Gingrich after the 1978
election, Gingrich would not have
served as best man in Howell’s 1979
wedding.
Though Gingrich said that
Osborne “came to Carrollton deter
mined to do a hatchet job,” Howell
said that while the article was indeed
a hatchet job, he felt that Osborne’s
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purpose in writing the article was
‘ ‘to make money on it. ”
In a letter to the editors of Mother
Jones, Howell wrote “On two in
stances, the author lifted some items
of gossip... (and) I flatly told him
that I had no way of knowing
whether the stories were true or not.
However, in the article both were
printed as fact and attributed to
me.”
The two incidents in the article
which Howell objected to being
Wommn In thm wmlght room
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FEMALE BODYBUILDERS at West Georgia tone their bodies as
part of a sport mama never told them about. (Photo by Ris Cowan)
weightlifting) and bodybuilding
(aimed at toning muscles and
burning off fat) will become more
popular with female students on
campus. Men, however, are not
allowed to lift with the women
because many first-time female
lifters often feel “intimidated”
by the greater upper body
strength of men.
Another aspect of the weight
training program which turns
some women off is that many find
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U.S. CONGRESSMAN and former West Georgia Col
lege professor Newt Gingrich with local staffer
credited with both concerned Jackie
Gingrich.
In an interview with the West
Georgian on Monday, Osborne, a
freelance writer from East Haven,
Connecticut, showed surprise when
fccfc* that Howell denied telling the
two'incidents. Osborne played a tape
over the phone in which Howell not
only talked about the two incidents,
but also brought up one of them on
his own. “Are you ready for this?”
he asked Osborne.
Howell later said that he stood by
his original view that Osborne
brought up the items, but Howell did
admit that his “recollection may be
faulty.”
Charles N. Kahn 111, another
former Gingrich aide interviewed by
Osborne, also objected to the way he
was quoted in the article and wrote
in a letter to Gingrich: “It was
stupid of me to talk with Osborne and
I am ashamed that I am even quoted
in such an article.”
Gingrich, however, does not argue
with Osborne so much as with L. H.
(Kip) Carter, a former Gingrich
staff member and one of Osborne’s
major sources.
“I want to make this very
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they experience an average
weight gain of approximately
five poKmds after the first two.
weeks of training. This has been
attributed to the fact that newly
toned and built muscles weigh
more than the fat in the body but
the weight usually fluctuates
bade and forth between gain and
loss.
“You don’t have to get tag and
bulky,” reassures Kristy Causey.
“Just tone up your muscles. ”
Catherine Brock in Carrollton. (Photo by Jane Cooper)
SGA Fills Vacant
Senate Positions
By Ris Cowan
Student Government Association
President Tony Pamigoni and the
SGA Executive Council filled seven
senate positions left vacant by re
cent resignations and the association
Monday afternoon overwhelmingly
approved the appointments.
Pamigoni said that some applica
tions for the positions were turned
down this past week in favor of more
qualified candidates.
In addition to voting on the new
senators, SGA members debated
whether they should support a
measure to revive a yearbook at
West Georgia College amidst sug
gestions by SGA Vice President
Debra Globe that the yearbook be
funded in part by a five-dollar hike in
the Student Activity fee from $55 to
S6O.
Some members, however, ques
tioned the fairness of the proposal to
new Winter and Spring quarter
students who would have to pay the
higher fee but would not be able to
receive a yearbook by the time they
enroll.
The last WGC yearbook was
distributed in 1981 but the idea was
dropped the following years because
it “lost a faculty advisor and student
interest” according to Director of
Student Activities Linda
Picklesimer. The SGA plans to
WWGCGets
New Signal
By Nancy Moss
WWGC, the West Georgia College
radio station, will soon have its new
antenna up, sitting on the highest
point in Carroll County.
This powerful piece of equipment
operates from a 500-foot tower which
will be erected on top of Oak Moun
tain, four miles from campus. Not
only will this antenna extend the
reception of WWGC by 30 to 35 miles,
it will produce a clearer, rfiore
distince sound.
Jerry Mock, the faculty supervisor
of the station, realizes the competi
tion they have “with the Atlanta sta
tions as well as the surrounding local
stations.” However, the new signal
will be more powerful than the pre
sent one and will help them in this
competition.
“We operate on a low budget,” ex
plains Mock,“so we have to do the
best we can with the finances we
have.” The station, he says, was
“very lucky to get the SSO thousand
grant from National Telecom
munication and Information Ad
ministration.” The two main
reasons for receiving the loan were
based on the age of the present
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distribute a questionaire to students
which will ask if they would like to
see a yearbook again in the near
future.
IN OTHER SGA BUSINESS:
•Parnagoni announced that the
SGA-sponsored tuition-raffle draw
ing was postponed from Oct. 10
because all of the sold or unsold raf
fle tickets had not been turned in by
members.Parnagoni also said that
the SGA had incurred a loss of $lB9
from the raffle which was to benefit
A Day For West Georgia.
•SGA members prepared for the
recent Credit Card drive on campus
which is expected to net the associa
tion one dollar for every credit card
issued as a result of their drive. Par
nagoni said the money from the
drive will be used to fund the SGA
leadership Scholarship. A similar
drive last year raised $175 for last
year’s scholarship recipient Sam
Peabody and Parnagoni has set new
goal of $225 for this year’s efforts.
•Parnagoni also announced that he
plans to ask the college’s ad
ministration for “a special alloca
tion” of SI3OO to meet expenses that
were not adequately covered by this
year’s SGA budget. The request will
be sent to Vice President of Student
Services Bruce Lyon for considera
tion and then forwarded to President
Townsend for final approval.
equipment and the current coverage
of the station.
WWGC operates with a 35-year-old
transmitter. The station has in
vested in anew transmitter that will
produce stereo sound. “We know the
old one is going to go sometime,”
said Mock. “The grant is to go
towards new operating equipment
anyuway.”
Mock, who is also Director of Lear
ning Resources for the college, ex
plained that his department
“provides the support to operate the
station.”
WWGC is a non-commercial
operation that began in 1973 when a
group of students decided to form a
campus station. Mock explained
that, with their non-commercial
license, they are free from most FCC
regulations. The federal regulatory r
agency “does not define any
guidelines so the college can make
the station what they want,” accor
ding to Mock. The only restriction is
that they can’t sell advertisements.
The station serves primarily as a
teaching tool for students studying
mass communication.
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