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P. 1 v t&l* % mmm j \T^' •.vM. . volume 57 - Issue 6 Former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich to visit UWG '• 'C * ' ,'fl( In'' , \ .. ' ~ , o msSSsSmmsSs^SSmSamß^^Sm^mmßm^Bm!^^mßßSsS§^aS^^m^BSSmm§ll^Sl^SSs^sm If!''' ' 1 i *> ISISjHj J| ffi. I:. ” Photo courtesy of Gingrich Communications By Johnathan Davis Sniff Writer jdavis23 @ my.west go .edit For many students at the University of West Georgia, attending a college that once counted former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich among its facuity is a mark of pride. Newt Gingrich is best known for his role in re-invigorating the Republican Party during the 1990 sand leading it through the Clinton Sitting down with Sethna: An interview with the President By Ellis Smith News Editor el l i sthe red @ gmail.com The West Georgian had a chance to sit down and have a chat with Dr. Sethna, president of the University of West Georgia, and ask hint a few questions. Recently serving as Chancellor of the University System of Georgia, his resume stretches to almost 13 pages, and he comes across as an extremely motivated and intelligent individual. But one of the most important things to know about Dr. Sethna is that he is qualified to speak for himself. Here is Dr. Sethna in his own words. Q: When you were a student, what challenges do you remember facing and overcoming? A: It was a tough time. I went in as an undergraduate student in electrical engineering; it was a very rigorous and competitive program. Most of the other students were better prepared to handle it than I was, so I had to struggle. It was a 5-year lock-step program, and this is after a 2-year arts and sciences program, so it was a full 7-year program, and not because I was goofing off or anything, this was a full program. The faculty the West Georgian administration. This week, Gingrich will be coming back to the UWG campus for an event called Solutions Day, for his non-partisan organization, American Solutions. Newt Gingrich became the Speaker of the House of Representatives following the 1994 mid term elections, in which Republicans gained 54 seats and took control of the House for the first time in forty years. The cause of that shift is conventionally was brilliant, it was a first class university, but not very helpful. So it actually has helped me formulate my own teaching style, because, I do what they Pjßl. 1 Jw w* -s f*'; y\ 1 Zy* *-/* 1 didn’t, and I try to help students. Q: You mentioned the fact that there are 100,000 students coming to the University System of Georgia. Currently we have 260,000 in the system, so we’re looking at 360,000. UGA is pretty much full, In News 4 * Mi t Constitution Day becomes big success. WWW. I 111 WINK, (OKI. I ANA PM believed to be the result of Gingrich's “Contract with America," which laid out various reforms proposed by those Republicans seeking election or re election in 1994. Following the election, Gingrich was the leading member of congress and he became Speaker of the House. During his time as speaker, he frequently stood off against President Clinton; the most famous example of the contention between GA Tech is pretty much full, and we just received the Princeton Award for the sth year in a row - A; And we have been formally designated something called a robust tier of universities, four of them have been selected for this designation, and we are one of these four. So that’s that vision for the future, to be generally recognized; it’s on paper now, but being on paper doesn’t get it into the mind of current In Opinion Students respond to Jena Six outrage. the Republican speaker and the Democratic president was the shutdown of the federal government in 1995. Because of the need to balance the federal budget, cuts were necessary, and President Clinton had different priorities from Republican leadership. Gingrich led congressional Republicans to not pass the budget that they did not agree with. From Nov. 14 through Nov. 19, 1995 and Dec. 6 and future students. So five years from now, we want to be in the mind of future students who will say, “I have a scholarship to go anywhere, I want to go to West Georgia.” Q: What can students and alumni expect as far as a timeframe for the stadium, and speaking of capital projects, how are we going to expand to help take 100,000 students, do we have a plan to expand our physical property? In Sports UWG loses one of its own. through Jan. 6, 1996, the federal government ceased non-essential functions. Eventually both sides reached a compromise, and the budget was passed, much closer to the GOP proposal. While the shutdown came as a political blunder for Gingrich, he achieved most of his goals. After years of battling w ith the Democratic Party, both in Congress and the White House, Gingrich decided to leave both his A: First of all the 100,000 are not just coming to West Georgia, they will go to several other institutions, some of them will first go to 2-year schools, and then go to a place like West Georgia, so we are not planning at West Georgia for 100,000. Now to answer your question about facilities and land and so on. Yes, our land in a matter of weeks will increase rather substantially. Our current In Entertainment Ugly Betty returns for new season. WEDNESDAY. SEPTEMBER 26. 2007 position as House Speaker and as congressman. Since then, he has still remained politically active; he is a senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, a Distinguished Visiting Fellow at the Hoover Institute, and is a contributor on the Fox News Channel. He also published “Winning the Future: A 21st Century Contract with America" in 2005. See NEWT pnge 3 acreage is 375 acres. We expect to add a large chunk, you can do a reverse computation, it will end up being 621 acres, so its going from 375 to 621. and we are getting this donation of land from the city. The terms of the deal have been signed between the Mayor and Acting President Tim Hynes, but we have not got active approval yet from the Board of Regents. The stadium is only a matter of money. We want to break ground as soon as we have a reasonable amount of money to go forward. The potential sources of money are external, we already have got a lot of good donors to make substantial contributions of pledges, alumni giving, which we can do a whole lot more on, and conceivably, a student partnership, which could be a fee of some kind. So we need to package a whole deal to get where we’re going. The total cost is likely to be in the sl6 million range. So we’re likely to piece together that sl6 million package from a combination of different sources of revenue. Q:lt will hold 9.(XX) students? A: 9,000 See SETHNA page 2