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■THE WEST GEORGIAN, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 14, 1987
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SGA discusses new budget
By Tray Baggarly
Managing Editor
The new year was rung in by the
Student Government Association
(SGA) last Monday with the an
nual reviewing of the proposed
SGA budget for the coming fiscal
year.
Once the air had cleared and all
the items had been reviewed, the
senators approved the budget with
a unanimous vote.
The total proposal showed an in
crease of only $101.75 over last
year’s figures. Included were
slight increases in travel, supplies
and materials, stipends, and a
sizeable decrease in
telecommunications.
The trial budget was raised to
SISOO from $1,393, which goes
towards officers’ travel to SGA
conferences. A $49 increase was
allotted for supplies, and a $165.75
increase was made in stipends.
This is used to pay four officers
Book to soon be published
Creek Indians brought to life
By Eric Cravey
Staff Writer
When one enters Dr. Benjamin
Griffith’s Mandeville Hall office,
he is surrounded by paintings, an
expansive couch, a portable “jam
box” cassette player and books
about such subjects as world
travel, college administration and
American Indians who once ruled
the lands.
The Macon native holds degrees
from both Mercer University and
Northwestern University and has
a newfound interest in American
Indian culture. After teaching
English at Tift College, Mercer
University and West Georgia Col
lege, he was named Dean of the
WGC Graduate School, a job he
has held for the past 13 years.
While he was waiting in line to
pay his taxes at the Carroll County
court house a couple of years ago,
a plaque dedicated to the memory
of Chief William Mclntosh, Creek
Indian leader of the 1800s, caught
his eye.
Mclntosh is the subject of a book
Dr. Griffith is currently awaiting
publication by the University of
Alabama Press entitled “Mcln
tosh and Weatherford: Mixed
blood Creek Indians.”
“Mclntosh and Weatherford,
between them, actually knew
Presidents Andrew Jackson,
Thomas Jefferson and James
Madison,” said Dr. Griffith.
“Weatherford fought on the side of
the ‘Red Sticks’--those who were
rebelling against the Whites.”
Chief Mclntosh was born the son
of Captain William Mclntosh, a
Tory, and a full-blooded Creek In
dian woman in the town of Coweta
near present-day Columbus in
1778.
“Captain Mclntosh was sent to
the Creek country to recruit red
soldiers to fight for the British in
1776,” said Griffith.
Captain William Mclntosh was
unsuccessful at recruiting Indian
soldiers, so he returned to Savan
nah “to marry a cousin and beget
another set of sons”. According to
Griffith, in 1790, many accounts
mention numerous mixed-blood
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During the one and a half hour
probation-revocation hearing, the
prosecution, led by investigating
officers May and Lieutenant Ellen
Rainey, presented six witnesses,
many of them Chi Phi members.
Other witnesses were from the
State Crime Lab, and it was shown
in forensic reports that Bonner’s
urine sample had shown traces of
marijuana.
Bonner was the only witness for
the defense.
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clerk. This year’s proposed
amount is $3165.75.
SGA President Rodney Smith
said the decrease in telecom
munications was due to the newly
installed telephone system on
campus. In the past, all offices in
the student center simply paid a
percentage of the entire phone bill
for the building, no matter what
the individual bills were. However,
the new plan calls for each group
to receive their own bills and pay
only their part. Because of that,
the bills for SGA will not be as
much and less money will be need
ed in that area.
The total proposed budget for
the new year is $6,241.75 as com
pared to $6,140 from last year. The
proposal, along with all other stu
dent activity budgets, are due on
Linda Picklesimer’s (director of
student activities) desk by 5 p.m.
today. From there they go to com
Creek offspring with British and
European names due to the 300 or
so white men who lived in the
Creek Nation.
Chief William Mclntosh belong
ed to the part of the Creek Nation
known as the Lower Creeks who
were “willing to assimilate the
white life style”.
“The Upper Creeks were against
whites and wanted to keep their
nativistic life style,” said Griffith.
“The Lower Creeks were with the
whites and with Mclntosh.”
When he was 20, Mclntosh met
with U.S. Senator Benjamin
Hawkins, a Creek Indian Agent
from North Carolina. According to
Griffith, each Indian tribe or na
tion had a federally appointed
agent.
“They had agents for all the In
dian tribes. They represented the
Indian to the U.S. government,”
said Griffith.
From that time on, Hawkins had
made friends with Mclntosh and
helped to bring out his leadership
potential for the Creeks and for the
government.
“He (Hawkins) apparently saw
very early the talents and perhaps
the tractibility of young Mclntosh,
who at age 20 supplied beef for sl2,
for one of Hawkins’s council
meetings,” said Griffith.
The Coweta tribe of the Creek
Nation made Mclntosh an underl
ing chief at age 22, Griffith also
said.
“When he was just 27, he was one
of six Creek chiefs that went to
Washington to debate (a treaty)
with President Thomas Jeffer
son,” said Griffith.
Mclntosh began his military
career with the Creek War in 1813
that was part of the War of 1812
which began as a civil war bet
ween the Upper and Lower Creeks,
according to Griffith.
“The Creeks were just really
decimated by the war; they were
poverty stricken,” said Griffith.
“They (the whites) were forcing
themselves into the Creek Nation.
There were skirmishes and one
side reacted to the other. Mclntosh
became a pawn.”
Bonner
The prosecution must now
receive an indictment from the
Grand Jury if Bonner and Walker
are to go on trial. “We have a good
chance of getting an indictment,”
said May. Inside sources say both
men will probably plead “not guil
ty” if indicted.
If both men are indicted, ar
raignment will be held on Jan. 19.
The trial, if necessary, will take
place Jan. 26. Bonner faces a max
imum 20-year prison sentence if
Poll
“I was surprised, we had never
been selected for such an honor
before,” said David Parkman,
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think most people took it as the
farce that it is. If your represen
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mittees for approval or disap
proval and will be due on Presi
dent Townsend’s desk by Feb. 27.
In other business, the senators
reviewed legislation passed last
quarter and said much had been
done by the school over the
holidays to act on that legislation.
It was reported that Cobb Hall
had won its long battle to have an
ice machine and cable television
installed. Both are now in place .
Also, additional lighting was plac
ed on campus in the area around
zone S between the library and the
gymnasium.
Another idea which evolved
from the SGA was a crosswalk on
back campus at the Baptist Stu
dent Union. That walk was recent
ly completed and is located at the
corner of West Georgia Drive and
Foster Street. The walkway was
designed to help the conditions for
pedestrians in the mornings dur
ing class change.
The climactic final battle of the
Creek War, the Battle of
Horseshoe Bend, was fought about
75 miles from Carrollton according
to Griffith.
“In effect Jackson ended the
war by signing a treaty with allies,
taking away from them 20 million
acres of good land as indemnity for
the actions of the hostiles,” said
Griffith.
The hostile Creeks were being
watched constantly by a group
formed by Benjamin Hawkins call
ed the Lawmenders.
“Hawkins started the group to
punish any Creek who did
something against any white
Mclntosh-led group,” said Grif
fith. ‘‘Being a part of the
Lawmenders started his (Mcln
tosh’s) enmity with the Upper
Creeks.”
The final blow to the Upper
Creeks came in 1802 when Mcln
tosh spoke for the Nation by sign
ing a treaty that saw all Georgia
land reclaimed from the Creeks
which included his plantation,
Lockchau Talofau, in present-day
Carroll County.
A few months later, Mclntosh
was warned of the danger that sur
rounded signing the treaty by a
chief who opposed it. After having
his life threatened, Mclntosh went
to the state capitol at Milledgeville
to speak to then Governor TK
Troup, his cousin, and asked for
protection.
Just before dawn on April 30,
1825, his home was burned by Red
Sticks, according to Griffith, who
then shot him and later dragged
his body from the house to be stab
bed to death.
Mclntosh was looked at as being
both a military leader and a mar
tyr to the whites and Upper Creeks
of the 1800s.
June 30, 1987 will bring the
retirement of Dr. Benjamin Grif
fith, who said he will have more
time to travel to libraries and
research similar topics.
“I would like to write some more
books about Indians,” said
Griffith.
convicted.
Because of the impending indict
ment hearings and other legal
matters, fraternity rush for this
week was cut back to informal
“Meet the Brothers” parties at all
Inter-Fraternity Council (IFC)
member houses. Tim Evans, assis
tant director of student activities
in charge of greek affairs, said he
would comment later on details
surrounding the cutback in rush
activities.
tative happens to say the right
thing you can make the list. I’m
sure it brings attention in one way
to the school but we are not ter
ribly excited or disturbed about
making the list.”
PIZZA
New business involved mostly
new ideas and suggestions for the
improvement of the campus this
quarter.
Rodney Smith himself offered
some suggestions he would like to
see implemented or studied this
year. They included the paving of
the Brumbelow parking lot which
will benefit student parking, in
tramural event parking, and park
ing for the new fine arts center to
be located across the street.
He also suggested extending the
library hours to 11 p.m. for
students who can’t study until
later, and transforming the library
smoking room into a general break
area for all students.
Vice Ppresident Jay Stewart ad
ded he would like to see two-man
tables installed on the balcony
overlooking Love Valley at the stu
dent center. He said this would be
a good place for students to have
lunch in the spring and summer
months.
Recruitment underway for
quality resident assistants
By Lorelle McAvoy
Staff Writer
The Residence Life Office at
West Georgia is getting a positive
start to recruit Resident
Assistants (RA) for next fall
quarter.
“In addition to getting a good
quantity of RA applicants, we are
looking for good quality people,”
said Valerie Benton, spokesperson
for the RA selection committee.
A required class will meet once
a week for two hours beginning the
end of winter quarter continuing
until mid-May to guide those who
are serious about wanting the RA
position. The first half of the
special quarter-long class is struc
tured towards helping the students
to become “overall a more well
rounded individual,” according to
Benton. Topics such as student
development, verbal and non
verbal listening, and confrontation
handling are examples of what will
be discussed during the first half.
The second half of the quarter is
geared towards the expectations of
the RA role and crisis prevention.
This class will be graded like a
normal class.
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Resident Managers, who oversee
Assistant Head Residents in the
larger dorms, and RAs from the
different dorms the student is in
terested in, the Hea Resident or
Resident Manager will go through
the process known as “RA draft”.
“We stay in the room locked up
until we all decide who we want,"
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Each person chosen will then be
contacted and notified of the dorm
in which they will be working.
Often students who are set on
working only in a particular dorm
will not accept the job if they are
chosen elsewhere. This gives
students on an alternate list a
chance.
Benton is expectiifour to five
openings in Bowdon Hall next
year. Thirty to fourty positions are
expected throughot ‘ the campus,
according to Resid j Life Direc
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“Nine times out of ten, it will
work out the way the student
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night shifts a month from 7-12
p.m., and they must also work all
or part of a weekend during the
quarter depending on how the
Head Resident sets up the system.
Applications may be picked up
at the Residence Life Office in
Mandaville Hall. Janurary 20 is
the deadline to turn them in. Three
references, a 2.0 GPA, and no
outstanding academic or social
problems are part of the re
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