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WEST GEORGIAN
VOLUME 51, NUMBER 11
COLLEGIATE
EXCERPTS
PRESIDENTS WILL PUSH FOR
I TOUGHER GRADE RULES
■ FOR FROSH ATHLETES
The National Collegiate
Athletic Association’s (NCAA).
14-member President’s Commis
sion says it will ask the NCAA s
January convention to make it
harder for freshmen athletes to
play varsity sports.
The presidents want frosh to
have a combined 700 on the
Scholastic Aptitude Test or a 15
on the American College testing
exam, and maintain a 2.0 in cer
tan high school courses.
The effort to get tougher on
freshman athletes began last
year, but many minority
educators fear the new rules ef
fectively would eliminate many
blacks from varsity sports, thus
lessening their chances of going
to college.
COLLEGES NEED MAJOR
CHANGES, A PANEL SAYS
The Study Group on the Condi
tions on Excellence in American
Higher Education, a group of
educators, has delivered a criti
que of U.S. colleges to Secretary
of Education Terrel Bell.
They hope the document will
spur the kinds of reform talk that
followed the “Nation At Risk”
report on high schools in April,
1983.
The group says the number of
high schoolers who don’t attend
college, the decline of faculty
buying power, the student
dropout rate and the drop in
liberal arts enrollments are
“danger signals” colleges are
stumbling.
SOUTHERN CAL STUDENTS
SCALP DORM ROOM CON
TRACTS
Housing is so tight at USC that
some students were able to sell
their $l5O a term dorm rooms to
others for S3OO.
Housing chief Bill Thompson
condemned the scalping, but add
ed there’s no law under which to
prosecute the students.
Thompson suspects the prac
tice may be widespread.
EDUCATION SECRETARY
BELL SAYS AVOIDING
STOCKMAN CUTS WILL BE
MAJOR GOAL
Terrel Bell told the Chronicle of
Higher Education that his biggest
job in a second Reagan Ad
ministration would be to keep Of
fice of Management and Budget
Director David Stockman’s
budget axe away from the U.S.
Department of Education.
“I think one of our useful roles
is to continue to persuade David
Stockman that education is such
a high priority that you have to
put it alongside national defense
when you consider budget
levels,” he said.
ENGINEERING STUDENTS
MAY BE THE WORST
CHEATERS AT TEXAS—EL
PASO
UTEP’s College of Engineering
turns in the most cheating
reports of all university depart
ments, probably because
engineering courses are so hard,
department Chairman Robert
Reid says.
Reid adds most of the reported
cheaters are foreign students.
Tuttle: Parking remedy
notin the near future
For a lot of West Georgia students
especially commuters the fight
for parking spaces can be a frustra
tion unparelleled.
And to be sure, there is a reason
for that. .
According to Public Safety’s Chief
William Tuttle, the college, as of
mid-October, had doled out nearly
4000 parking permits to the campus’s
approximate 2500 parking spaces.
The 1500-count difference is large
ly reflected in commuter parking:
610 designated parking spaces com
pared to an astonishing 2340 permits
outlayed, conceivably leaving com
muters 1743 spaces in the red.
Of course, commuters may indeed
choose to park their vehicles in
perimeter areas such as the Z-6
parking lot, at spots along back cam
pus drive and in what is not-so-kindly
known as “froggy bottom”, a lot
located between Foster and South
Streets.
However, Tuttle in part defends
the college’s commuter and “in
general” crowded parking situation
by citing that “just because we have
2340 (commuter) decals out, that
doesn’t mean we have 2340 vehicles
on campus.”
And of course, says Tuttle, there
are other compensations:
•Students registering during fall
quarter may not be here for the rest
of the quarter or the year.
•Several students have more than
one vehicle registered. Some, for ex
ample, may have a auto plus a
motorcycle, and some even have
three vehicles registered.
•Vehicles are often replaced, and
G rab your grass skirt
and ’Go Hawaiian'
By Angela Morris
West Georgia’s Hawaiian
Homecoming festivities will begin at
7:30 p.m. this Friday with a presen
tation of the Homecoming Court at a
pep rally held in the gym.
Students and organizations will
compete for prizes in “Yell like
h ” and banner contests. The
West Georgia College Band and the
Bravettes Drill Team will perform
at the pep rally, and Better Brands
will sponsor painter cap givaways.
Homecoming Day activities in
clude the traditional Homecoming
Parade, beginning at 11 a.m. with
Rick Camp, Atlanta Braves pitcher
and West Georgia College alumnus,
as this year’s Grand Marshall.
Floats decorated by Greeks,
organizations and local businesses,
and marching bands from West
Georgia, Carrollton High School and
Temple High School will also be in
cluded in the parade, which will
begin at Carrollton Junior High
School and continue through Adam
son square, down Maple Street to the
West Georgia College Alumni House.
The second annual Maple Street
Mile Run will also begin at 11:00
originating from the A&P parking lot
and end at the Alumni House.
A parade watch party will be held
West Georgia College, Carrollton, Georgia^ollj*_
so must have another registration
sticker. “That eats up a lot of
decals,” he says.
•Vehicles that are sold, wrecked,
tom up, or “have a bumper tom up”
must get anew decal.
•Any time a student moves from
one dorm to another, anew decal is
issued. “This happens very frequent
ly during the first two to three weeks
of fall quarter,” says Tuttle.
•Students who move either off or
on the campus must get another
decal.
With all these compensations in
mind, Tuttle maintains that “we
have enough spaces on campus to ac
comodate the students overall.” In
fact, he says, the college is “for
tunate to have as many spaces as it
does....A lot of people (for example,
students at the University of
Georgia) are paying SSO. SIOO, $l5O
just to park. ”
Strangely enough, even though the
largest disparity existing between
number of available parking spaces
and decals sold is is with commuter
parking (called “S” zone), Tuttle
says that most complaints come
from “M” and “L” zone parkers.
Those complaints, he says, are
generally from females who fear
parking in those zones’ “overflow
areas late at night.
However, their is little hope in the
near future of remedying the pro
blem since there is “no more
suitable land” in the M and L areas.
Tuttle makes it clear that such
complaints are really unfounded
when one considers that the “$6 that
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at the Alumni House from 11:00 a.m.
to 1 p.m. A concession stand will be
provided by the Carrollton Jaycees.
After the parade, Bobby Pate’s
Football Braves will square-off at
Grisham Stadium with the
Statesmen of Delta State University
at 2:30 p.m. West Georgia’s 1984
Homecoming Queen will be announc
ed and crowned during half-time.
A Homecoming dance will top off
the evening at 9 p.m. in the Food ser
vices building. “Generation” will be
performing a variety of popular
dance music, while students com
pete in a dance contest sponsored by
Better Brands. Admission will be
two dollars with a WGC ID and three
dollars without.
Other activities at WGC during
Homecoming weekend include the
“Off the Square Art Show” which
will be held at the Education Center
all day Saturday, November 3, and
Sunday, November 4. This exhibition
is sponsored by the Carrollton Junior
Women’s Club, and all proceeds will
go to local charities. Various alumni
activities are also slated.
Members of the College Program
Board decided on this year’s
Homecoming theme, “Go
Hawaiian,” after considering
several suggestions made by
members of the Board.
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Last Saturday night in Atlanta, only moments after
the Michael Jackson concert, a horse-drawn tour buggy
and an automobile collided at the intersection of
Techwood and Spring. According to by-standers, it ap
peared that the horse had been suddenly spooked and in
SG A gears up for Homecoming;
discusses cable TV in dorms
By Angela Webster
Managing Editor
Plans for manning this week’s
Homecoming Queen elections topped
the agenda at Monday’s Student
Government Association meeting.
This year’s voting will be a two
part process, with elections being
held on both Tuesday and Thursday
of this week.
On Tuesday students will vote for
their five favorite candidates, with
the top ten vote-getters being named
finalists. Thursday students will vote
for one of the ten to become the
Homecoming Queen, and the names
of the five candidates who received
the most votes and will make up the
court will be revealed at Friday
night’s pep rally. The Homecoming
Queen will be announced during half
time at Saturday’s football game.
Linda Picklesimer, Director of
Student Activities, told the SGA
Monday that five of the Homecoming
candidates were disqualified
because either they did not have a 2.0
GPA or they did not have sophomore
or higher status.
Picklesimer noted that ballots had
already been printed, but the girls’
names will be marked out.
In other business at Monday’s
meeting: .
•SGA president Tony Pamigom said
that the new edition of “Stallnotes”
was scheduled to be distributed on
Med student tells of Grenada
by Nancy Moss
Last Thursday, when medical stu
dent Granville Batte, 28, came to
West Georgia to tell of his first-hand
experience of being in Grenada dur
ing the U.S. invasion one year ago,
he stirred a political controversy on
campus between the College
Republicans and the Young
Democrats that almost overshadow
ed his visit.
When questioned about the public
impression of his visit being a
Republican campaign affair Batte
denied knowing of any partisanship
in his appearance on campus spon
sored by an organization called USA
Foundation. Then, Batte, a dark
haired, slender young man, went
back to describing the invasion.
Batte arrived in Grenada in late
August 1983 to begin his second year
of study at St. George Medical
School.
“I had no idea of what a third
world country was all about before I
went,” said the Kentucky native. “It
The old meets the new...
Wednesday.
•Senator Todd Jordan reported on
last week’s Student Activity Com
mittee meeting. Jordan said the
main points of discussion were the
budget submissions and Who’s Who
applications. Jordan said there is a
Nov. 1 deadline for turning in Who’s
Who applications. The committee
has already received 75 applications,
but only 52 can be accepted.
•Parnigoni termed last Tuesday
night’s campaign issues forum “a
success,” with 35 students in atten
dance.
“(Bill) Doxey was great,” said
Parnigoni. “He led the show. It went
real well.”
Alfred Evans, SGA senator and
West Georgia debater, moderated
the event.
At Monday’s meeting, Evans gave
a report on the “Get out to vote
committee which will, along with the
College Republicans and Young
Democrats, sponsor a student shut
tle van to a local voting site for the
Nov. 6 presidential election. Evans
said that Plant Operations will pro
vide a 15 passenger van for 35* per
mile, the costs of which will be
shared among the three sponsor
organizations.
•Senator Ed Henderson reported on
his research concerning getting an
automatic bank teller installed on
campus. Henderson said that the
took a lot of getting used to. ”
Batte spent the first eight weeks of
the new school year getting used to
the unpredictable supply of water,
food, and electricity. “You will
never know what it is like studying
for a bio-chemistry exam at 11: 00 at
night with two candles and no cool
air.”
On October 19, of that year
Grenada’s premier Maurice Bishop
was killed by the People’s Revolu
tionary Army headed by Gen. Hud
son Austin. Immediately Austin im
posed a 24-hour curfew for seven
days in his continuing attempts to br
ing the island under his control.
“It was a shoot-on-sight curfew
which meant if you walked on the
front porch you would be shot
down,” said Batte. He said he
“realized I was fair game if caught
outside the house.
On Tuesday, October 25, he was
awakened by his bed shaking with a
sound like “a whole bunch of cars
backfiring at once. ”
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Trust Company Bank is the only
local bank with hook-up access to the
Avail system, an interlocking
system which accepts bank cards
from 80% of Georgia’s banks.
•The SGA also discussed getting
cable television in the dorms. Evans,
who is also an RA, said the cable
system that the Residence Hall
Association (RHA) is discussing will
provide better reception on channels
2,5 and 11, and students will have the
option of adding features such as
HBO and The Movie Channel.
Evans said the RHA has discussed
getting the system for next quarter,
but Assistant Dean of Student Ser
vices W. H. Smith, who attended the
Monday meeting, said that “winter
quarter sounds early to me. ”
Evans encouraged those who sup
port acquiring the cable sytem to
speak to people in the RHA.
“The more people who ask, the
more likely it will move faster,” said
Evans.
Smith noted that if the cable
system is installed, students will pro
bably have an additional fee tacked
on to their room charges. One
senator asked whether this would be
fair to students who do not have a TV
in their room, but Pamigoni said
that these students will likely watch
the TV next door in their neighbor’s
room.
It was the Americans coming in.
“There was very intense bombing
and by early afternoon we were hop
ing the Marines would rescue us. ”
The students were directed by the
school administrators to gather in
five or six rroms that had been pro
tected with mattresses covering the
windows. They had to lie down in
these rooms until school officials
made contact with the invading
Marines.
“I remember looking out the win
dow as some of the students ran to
the helicopter and seeing the sand
rippling up at their feet from gun
shot,” said Battes. At one point a
loud speaker from the helicopters
ordered the students to hit the
ground to avoid being hit by enemy
fire.
“That was the first time I ever saw
50 or 60 medical students do anything
at the same time,” Batte chuckled.
Batte said, “I have no doubt in my
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