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WEST GEORGIAN
VOLUME 51, NUMBER 10
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Bozo runsfor
president in 'B4
Bozo The Clown, the television
down who played Larry Harmon
for 35 years, has decided to throw
his wig into this year’s political
•arena and run for President of
the United States.
Bozo, who recently made a
campaign stop at Georgia In
stitute of Technology, is reported
ly spending his life’s savings on
his November bid for the
presidency and admits that his
write-in campaign stands little
chance of success against Ronald
Reagan or Walter Mondale.
Bozo told the Georgia Tech
crowd that the main crux of a
Bozo presidency would consist of
working towards an end to the
nuclear arms race. He also added
that he believes his clown suit
and friendly personality would
disarm the Soviets, leading to an
atmosphere of trust and negotia
tion between the U.S. and the
Soviet Union.
(Courtesy of the Georgia Tech
TECHNIQUE)
Asbestos removed
from dormitories
Asbestos, a suspected cancer
causing building insulation
material, was removed from ap
proximately 43 percent of
Georgia Southern College’s on
campus housing facilities this
summer at a cost to the Board of
Regents of over half a million
dollars.
Workers from a Valdosta
based contracting firm donned
special coveralls and face masks
before wetting the dangerous
material and scraping it from
ceilings and other parts of the
dorms.
A state-wide study conducted
last year rated GSC second only
to Georgia Tech in the number of
dormitories containing asbestos.
Six other academic buildings at
GSC still remain contaminated
with asbestos but officials claim
the level of cointamination poses
no immediate danger to the
students. Although no firm date
bas been set for removal of the
additional asbestos, money to
meet the estimated $320,000.
removal costs are expected to be
allocated in the next session of
the Georgia legislature.
(Courtesy of the GSC
GEORGE-ANNE)
College critic,
author visits
Emory students
Lisa Bimbach, controversial
author of the tongue-in-cheek
College Book recently paid a visit
to Emory University (a college
she rated as having the worst
school spirit in the country) to
promote her new book and was
met by a small crowd of students
who mostly disagreed with her
criticism of Emory life.
Doubts have been raised con
cerning the reliability of Bim
bach’s interview material with a
number of Emory students
charging that Bimbach did not
take an acurate sampling of
views and data on Emory.
Bimbach countered by saying
she conducted a survey of Emory
students’ habits and lifestyles in
1983 and even met with members
of the campus newspaper to
shape her evaluation of the
school.
ATO falls under
financial strain
By Ris Cowan
News Editor
The West Georgia chapter of
Alpha Tau Omega decided last Mon
day to disassociate itself from its na
tional fraternity because of over
whelming indebtedness and what
local president Ron Hannah describ
ed as “a lack of interest in ATO at
West Georgia College.”
Besides being at one time behind
on the fraternity’s S6OO house
payments, Hannah also said he felt
ATO could not survive on campus
because the group lacked support
from the national arm of the frater
nity.
“They’re not helping us out the
way a national organization should
there’s just a lack of support,”
said Hannah who was unable to be
more specific.
“The big thing, though, was lack of
interest in ATO here at West
Georgia. Nobody (the brothers)
cared anymore and we’re kind of
embarrassed for the national
organization to come down and see
how bad it’s become,” Hannah add
ed.
The accumulation of over S2OOO in
overdue bills to both the national
fraternity and local businesses pro
mpted the 31-member frat last Sun
day night to pass a petition amongst
its brotherhood asking that they sup
port a break-away in the hope of for
ming anew, unrelated fraternity on
campus. Hannah said that “all but
one or two of the brothers" signed
the petition.
According to Hannah, the bulk of
ATO’s debt (about $1975) was incur
red when previous frat brothers
from the late 1970’s used initiation
money to make house payments
rather than sending the dues to its
national organization. When this
year’s brotherhood sent their sllO
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CONGRESSMAN NEWT GINGRICH and democratic
opponent Gerald Johnson toss the issues at last Tuesday
night’s debate moderated by West Georgia College
Former Grenade medstudent
to share invasion experience
By Ed Henderson
On Thursday, October 25, one year
to the day after the United States in
vasion of Grenada, one of the
medical students who was living on
the Caribbean island at the time, will
be on the West Georgia campus to
speak to several classes, tour the
school and hold a press conference.
Granville Batte was enrolled at
Grenada’s St. George Medical
School when the U.S. troops landed
in 1983 in response to the take-over by
a Marxist group of the English
speaking island a few weeks before.
Batte is one of 89 former medical
students from the Grenada ex
perience who will be speaking at
campuses across the country.
He is being sponsored by USA
Foundation, described as a non
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tional frat, officials applied the
money to the old debt and placed
responsibility for the balance of the
debt on the current group.
A group called the Atlanta Alumni
Association, made up of ATO
alumns, had been helping West
Georgia’s ATO pay most of their
bills but, when it became apparent
the fraternity was in financial
straits, insisted on more control over
the membership’s financial dealings
to the point of directing whose names
should be on a bank account
signature card and managing the re
cent sale of the ATO fratemmity
house to Kappa Sigma.
It is that insistance which has left
a bad taste in the mouths of Hannah
and other ATO’s who had raised ap
proximately S9OO this past summer
only to have their account closed by
their bank and the money given to
their adviser, Dr. Carl Perry, to hold
until “things settle down.”
While Hannah and other members
of ATO wonder about the fate of the
S9OO and whether they will ever see a
share of it, Perry has said the money
will be used to pay off local debts in
town first and then the balance will
be sent to help rectify the debt owed
to ATO’s national fraternity.
Dr. Bruce Lyon, Vice President of
Student Services at WGC, said that
he felt the money left over after iocal
bills were paid should be set aside
for use by a possible new ATO
organization on campus and
“probably should not be sent to the
national fraternity.
Larry Lilliard, Province Chief for
the Georgia Eta Phi chapter of ATO,
has said that the S9OO should be used
to pay off local debts and the balance
sent to the national fraternity.
Lilliard said also that any
outstanding balance on the debt
would not be inherited by anew ATO
fraternity organization at West
profit, non-partisan student educa
tional foundation. Batte’s visit to
West Georgia is part of a nation
wide affair billed by USA Founda
tion as “Student Liberation Day... a
commemoration of the courage of
the students and servicemen involv
ed in the Grenada rescue. ’ ’
The celebration will begin with a
nationally broadcast documentary
on Grenada Wednedsday evening.
“We’re excited to have been
chosen as a host school for the first
Student Liberation Day,” said
Rebecca Martin, 22, a political
science sophomore from
Douglasville and chairperson of
West Georgia Republicans. “We’re
looking forward to reminding our
fellow students of the lessons of
Grenada.”
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ONE-TIME ATO house now belongs to Kappa Sigma after buyout. (Photo by Jane Cooper)
Georgia but that the charter now
held by ATO would be revoked until
anew frat is organized.
lilliard refuses to accept the
premise that ATO no longer exists at
West Georgia and when asked if the
decision by the West Georgia ATO
membership to disassociate from
their national fraternity would mean
the eventual death of ATO on cam
pus, Lilliard replied, “Definitely not.
We are strongly committed to hav
ing an ATO fraternity at West
Georgia College. Even if there are
only two or three students who want
to have an ATO, there will be one. ”
As of Monday afternoon, ATO
president Ron Hannah apparently
disagreed with Lilliard.
“As far as we’re concerned, ATO
is no more at West Georgia," said
Hannah.
debate coach Dr. Cheste. Gibson. (Photo by Paige
Bullard)
Jack Abramoff, chairman of USA
Foundation, said, “West Georgia
College was selected because of its
standing in the community and its
excellent national reputation.”
Granville Batte will speak to Dr.
Mel Steely’s history classes
Thursday morning. At 10 a.m. the
visitor will hold a press conference
in the Social Science lecture hall
followed by a lecture and a student
debate. A film on Grenada at 12:15
will be followed by Granville’s ap
pearance before the class of Dr. A. S.
Hanser, head of the history depart
ment.
Congressman Newt Gingrich’s
staff played a key role in getting the
student to the West Georgia campus
to discuss Grenada’s impact on
foreigh policy.
WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 24,1984
Gingrich pegged
'showboat' in debate
By Angela Morris
What started as a debate spon
sored last Tuesday by the Carrollton
Jaycees between 6th District Con
gressman Newt Gingrich and
Democratic challenger Gerald
Johnson ended up as a one-sided bout
which enabled the incumbent to
tighten a grip on his local popularity
in the upcoming election.
In his opening statement before a
clearly partitioned throng of over 100
spectators and supporters at West
Georgia College, Johnson charged
that Gingrich is a “showboat” and is
‘more concerned with public rela
tions than he is with public works."
Ihe challenger also said that con
stituents are tired of politicians who
blame all governmental problems on
past administrations and are not
willing to take responsibility
themselves.
Gingrich denied being a
“showboat” in his five-minute open
ing statement and explained that the
controversy between himself and
Speaker of the House Tip O'Neil,
which was given treatment on at
least three major T.V. networks,
was prompted by O’Neil.
Gingrich later reaffirmed his con
fidence in winning re-election by put
ting forth a challenge to the au
dience: “If you don’t want to fire the
incumbent, there is no race.”
Johnson was eager to say that he
and his party did not plan to make
use of the “gutter tactics” recently
aimed at Gingrich in the November
issue of Mother Jones magazine.
Although he was contacted for com
ment by the magazine, Johnson said
be declined to give any further state
ment on the matter. Gingrich also
bad no comment on the issue.
Both candidates agreed that
Federal budget cuts are necessary in
the immediate future, and Johnson
suggested that many governmental
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ministration as the most wasteful of
such agencies.
The two rivals were at log
gerheads, however, over the possible
implementation of a “Star Wars
type” satellite weapons system as
proposed by President Reagan.
Gingrich stressed that the space
weapons program would cause an
“element of uncertainty” that would
deter any aggressive move by the
Soviet Union toward nuclear war.
Johnson rebutted by saying
America cannot afford an expensive
satellite weapons system and
asserted that "no one can win an
arms race.”
The controversial topic of legaliz
ed abortions was then thrown to the
candidates for discussion and
Gingrich was not hesitant to state his
view on the matter.
“It would be wrong to ask those to
pay (for abortions through faxes)
who think it’s murder,” Gingrich
said. Johnson allowed that although
be feels abortion is permissible in in
stances of rape and incest, he would
“not support abortion as a means of
birth control.”
Although Johnson predicted vic
tory for his party in the Nov. 6 elec
tion, he also said in his closing state
ment, “I know the incumbent will be
hard to beat.” Johnson ended his
pitch by asking the audience and
panel, which consisted of represen
tatives from the league of Women
Voters and local radio and print
media, if they had received enough
service from Gingrich to compen
sate for the 3 million dollars spent by
the taxpayers on the incumbent in
bis past two terms as congressman.
Gingrich responded by
enumerating the various services he
and his staff had provided for the 6th
district and in closing said, “The
America that was is not the one that
is coming. America is in a period of
enormous change.”