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The West Georgian
INSIDE
Wednesday
October 21,1992
Inside Front. 2
•Crime Watch
•VP Interviews
Perspectives 4
•My Turn
•Community Voices
Features/A&E 8
•Video Review
•People Profile
Sports 10
•First and Ten
•GSC Standings
Classifieds 14
Class Work 15
•Your Real Horoscope
•Plebes
On Campus
• Sex in the ’9o's will be
held tonight 7-9 p.m. in
the PAC. It will include
a panel presentation
and a question & an
swer session.
• WGC Happenings-p. 2
Weather
73
Partly cloudy,
lows in 40's.
Sunny tomorrow,
high 70°
Serving the West Georgia College community
Fall quarter
enrollment
hits record
high
By Courtney Morris
Editorial Assistant
West Georgia College’s fall 1992
total enrollment hit 7,717, the high
est ever according to Registrar
Gordon E. Finnie.
This fall’s enrollment is up from
1991 ’s enrollment of 7,521, and new
student enrollment is 2,282. Fresh
men enrollment is up 63 students to
1,5 31, yet other classes suffered some
loses. Sophomores are down by 26
students, juniors are down by 50
students, but seniors are up by 27
students.
Women continue to out number
men more than two to one. This fall
4,945 female and 2,773 males are
enrolled.
Black student enrollment also
climbed from 1,116 in 1991 to 1,145
in 1992. However, Native Ameri
can, Hispanic and Asian enrollment
dropped from 122 to 115 this fall.
Pandemonium erupts as Braves clinch second title
Isss. aH|
Nikosane Moses, a WGC student, celebrated the Braves' win of the National
League crown by joining hundreds of other students in an impromptu street
parly outside Roberts Community last Wednesday night Oct. 14
WGC Championship season
flashback Page 12
Student braves cold weather
WGC Freshman Pinar Tug, 20,relaxes outside the student center
yesterday Oct. 20 .
Phrto oy Mark Zimmerman
By Rob Goldsmith
Editor
Approximately 600 students cel
ebrated in front of the Student Cen
ter as part of the pandemonium that
erupted in the streets and WGC
residence halls Wednesday night Oct.
14, when the Atlanta Braves took the
seventh and deciding game of the
National League Championship. The
victory over the Pittsburgh Pirates
gave the Braves their second NL
championship in as many years and
sent them back to the World Series.
When the game ended at ap
proximately 11:45, all acrosscampus
students began celebrating one of
the most incredible comeback wins
in baseball’s post-season history.
Studentseverywhere poured out into
A DAY
surpasses
goal by
$ll,OOO
By Jennifer Gilbert
Staff Writer
The college and community
worked together to raise
$528,879 during the annual A DAY
fundraising drive which ended last
Thursday, Oct. 15.
This years A DAY raised $ 11,000
more than last year’s A DAY, which
contributed $519,000. The money
will be used for scholarships, short
term loans and work study programs
that will benefit over 1,000 students.
According to Daniel Jackson, A
DAY chairman, the event actually
started in July with corporate and
advanced solicitations. At the
breakfast which was held Thursday
morning to kick off A DAY’s ac
tivities, total donations of $339,059
were announced.
Photo by Mark Zimmerman
Please see "A DAY", pg 3
the streets and parking lots of WGC
and continued celebrating well into
the morning.
“It was awesome,” said Jason
Bahr, a resident of Roberts Hall.
“Everyone started running up and
down the halls yelling.”
A resident assistant in Strozier
Annex, Carlos Thomas said, “Right
after the game, about 200 people
came walking through Strozier, like
a train of tomahawkers. It was very
peaceful though, not destructive like
last year. It showed a sense of unity.
Blacks and whites, men and women
were all celebrating together,” Tho
mas said.
As students celebrated wildly,
cars began to circle the campus,
Please see "Braves", pg 3