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SGA Takes New Responsibilities The Student Government activities instead of its real activities and will advise stu- aid, curriculum, academic being made to the Faculty
Association has recently re- objective—participating in dent personnel in developing standards and library com- Senate that the number be in-
vamped its entire set-up, decisions of the college. a student activities pro- mittees. creased to two, giving the
separating the SGA from Cameron said that this has gram," Cameron said. Students will be able to SGA more representation,
activities and concentrating been achieved by (l)-forming The SGA will be comprised vote on all proposals made by Cameron commented,
more on the actual governing a new activities committee of one member from each of the committees. " T o do this it will call for
of the student body. completely separate from the recognized clubs at West- Temporary representatives an amendment to the consti-
According to Harold SGA, and (2).by helping stu- ark. on the committees are tution of the Faculty Asso-
Cameron, dean of students, dents in the association build These are the Art Guild, Lyndell Parrish, library; ciation,'' he continued,
in past years the SGA was a frame-work in making the Baptist Student Union, the Robert Allen, academic stan- Under the new set-up, SGA
somewhat isolated from the decisions in Westark policy. Music Guild, DECA , the dards; Gordon Reynolds, members will select their own
rest of the college functions. Making up the new acti- Dramatics Club, the Engi- financial aid; and Grover officers for the following
"Many times the SGA met vities committee will be stu- neering Club, the Nursing Alvis, curriculum. year,
and discussed ideas but there dents Faith Davis, Calvin Club, Phi Theta Lambda, Phi Cameron explained that a Cameron concluded that the
was not a real workable way Evans, Nancy Congour, Billy Theta Kappa, the Physics faculty-student panel is being re-organization of the SGA
to get their proposals into Rogers and Jerry Irvin and Club, SNEA (Student National formed to select the perma- will give the students more
the mainstream of the faculty members Curtis Education Association), the nent representatives on the voice in college policies,
college," Cameron com- Ivery, Ronald Mitchell, Mrs. College Republicans and the four committees. " SGA will be a vital force
mented. Carol Guffey and Dean College Democrats. Although at the present in promoting the general wel-
He added that the student Cameron. In addition to this, SGA has there is only one student rep- fare of students through
government's main involve- "This committee will con- a representative on four resentative on the commit- active participation in the
ment was providing student sider all types of student faculty committees—financial tees, a recommendation is governance of Westark."
By Danny Allen
Volume XXII - Issue II Westark Community College, Fort Smith, Ark 72901 September 13,1972
Ten Students Recipients Of Private Scholarships Ten private scholarships
have been awarded to stu-
dents at Westark this year.
Private organizations give
the scholarships to the col-
lege to be utilized by deserv-
ing students.
The William Meltzer
Memorial Scholarships Fund
awarded a full tuition
scholarship to Westark.
Sophomore Ralph Brown
received the grant. -He is a
resident of Fort Smith and
lives with his parents, Mr.
and Mrs. Ralph Brown Sr.,
on Bluff Ave. He is a
graduate of Northside High
School and plays baseball for
the Lions.
Sophomore Ronda Collins
was recipient of the scholar-
ship given by the Fred B.
Faulkner Memorial Scholar-
ship Fund, which is set up by
the Fort Smith Kiwanis Club.
The one-semester tuition
grant goes to a nursing stu-
dent. She also received the
scholarship last year.
The Alpha Pi Chapter of
Delta Kappa Gamma in Fort
Smith offered a one-semester
tuition scholarship to a fe-
male major in education.
Freshman Pam Jackson of
Mansfield was awarded the
scholarship. She is majoring
in elementary education.
Pam Clark, sophomore
from Winslow, received the
scholarship given by the
Liberty Chapter of the Order
of the Eastern Star.
Charles Blaschke won a
full-year tuition scholarship
awarded to a student major-
ing in business. This grant is
given by the Arkansas
Bankers Association.
The Van Buren Rotary Club
also gave two scholarships to
be used by the college.
Recipients were Bradley
Ball and Clyde Hayre, class
valedictorian from Van Buren
Cheerleader Tryouts Set For Friday
Tryouts for cheerleader for
the 1972-73 school year will
be held at 9 a.m. Sept. 15 in
the Westark gym.
"All freshmen girls who
are full-time students and
have a grade point of 2.0 or
better are eligible to try
out," said Nancy Congour,
head cheerleader.
A panel of approximately
25 judges made up of admini-
strators, faculty, representa-
tives of the basketball and
baseballs teams will select
four girls to replace the
vacancies left by the 1972
graduating cheerleaders.
On road trips, only the
sophomore cheerleaders and
one member of the freshman
group go along with the team.
The freshmen members al-
ternate the trips so as to en-
able each one to attend an
equal number of road games.
High School.
Lowell Green was awarded
the North Little Rock Cham-
ber of Commerce scholar-
ship, given each year by that
organization.
Freshman Ethan Westfall
received the Prince Wilmon
scholarship, which is com-
prised of private ^nations.
He is a graduate of North-
side.
The Edna Bedwell Scholar-
ship for the Sparks Auxiliary
was given to a nursing stu-
dent for one semester.
Virginia Naegle, freshman,
won the scholarship. She is a
graduate of Scranton High^
DAVE LANDSBURG, Westark's first ad-ministrative intern,
takes a moment out of his schedule to relax in his office. Landsburg is assist-ing Dr. Ben Whit-field, academic dean, this year as part of his training.
Intern Likes School, Area By Claude Legris
Westark has its first ad- Landsburg will be at West- Community colleges seem
ministrative intern in Dave ark for one academic year, to be a good idea to Lands-
Landsburg. after which he hopes to write burg, who believes that
Landsburg is working with his dissertation for his Ph.D. smaller colleges have a
Dr. Ben Whitfield, academic on a longrange academic plan stronger student orientation,
dean, and as assistant to the for Westark. like small schools of other
dean. Through this training. Some may know a young kinds. He added that often it
Landsburg hopes to become lady on campus named Sandee depends on the institution in
an academic administrator. Landsburg and wonder if she that some are more personal
Landsburg holds a master's is any relation to Westark's than others.
degree from Michigan State, new administrative intern. Landsburg who is a native
and a bachelor's degree from Sandee is Landsburg's wife
Albian College in higher education. She is a student and a stu- of Michigan, seems to enjoy this part
A professor of Landsburg's dent worker at Westark, and of the United States,"particularly
knew Westark President holds a bachelor's and is the winter monthes," Landsburg added.
Shelby Breedlove, "and it was working on her master's de- Landsburg and his wife do
through this relationship that gree. Mrs. Landsburg has not have any definite plans
I secured the position," said also taught both junior and for the future after their stay
Landsburg. senior high school. at Westark.
Nurses Association Seeks New Image Terrorists Intolerable
An Old Hand Reads Palms
Marked by festivity, gaiety and the brotherhood of
competition, the 20th Olympiad continued nine days
under near perfect conditions.
Athletes were setting new world records. The
usually horrible weather of Bavaria was beautiful
for the games, as if the ancient Greek gods had
planned it so.
Then came the tragedy. Eight Arab terrorists
disguised as athletes stormed the Israeli teams
resting quarters, killing two members and holding
nine others as hostages. The guerillas demanded the
release of 200 Arab prisoners held in Israel.
As the terrorists attempted to escape, the nine
hostages were blown up in a helicopter, five Arabs
were shot and killed, three were wounded and 15
were still being sought last Friday.
Never has such a tragedy befell the games,
designed to bring harmony between all involved,
including the nations themselves competing.
Such action by the terrorists is intolerable and
should be met with punishment for all involved. This
punishment should be severe enough that no ftirther
disturbance will affect the peace of the Olympic
games or of any other type of competition.
A membership drive is now dent Government, Grover
underway for what might be Alvis; representative to the
the largest organization on State Association, Mary Johns
campus, the Westark Nurses and reporter, Deanna Oliver.
Association, according to ' 'We have had one meeting
Grover Alvis, one of the offi- so far this year, about three
cers of the group. weeks ago, at a local
Officers for this year, cafeteria, which served as
chosen last May, include a kind of reorganizational
president, Jim Eacret; first meeting,'' said Alvis.
vice president, Lottie All; The sponsor of the organi-
second vice president, Doug zation is Sara Edmiston,
Ford; secretary, Billie Gib- nursing teacher assistant,
son; treasurer, JeanMickens; ' 'We would like to change
representative to the Stu- the image of the organization
this year," Alvis said, "from
a club that puts on shows to
an organization that will work
for the betterment of the
nursing students."
Alvis went on to explain
that when the nursing pro-
gram at Westark was set up,
it was organized to serve
about 35 or 40 students, and
now there are from 90 to 100
in the freshman nursing
classes alone.
"Some examples of curri-
culum change would be to get
more books for these courses
in the library, and to try and
see if we can change some
non-transferable courses to
transferable," said Alvis.
"The work that we hope to
do this year, will benefit the
freshmen students more than
anyone else, because we are
planning for the years
ahead," said Alvis. " I believe
we have twice the potential
than ever before and a chance
to become the biggest organi-
zation on campus."
By Claude Legris a reading done usually depends on the person," said
Many have probably heard Madame Gena. "Some read-
or seen ads about her, al- ings are longer and some are
though nothing extravagant shorter."
like a biUboard. jj ve been giving read-
Some have gone to fmd out j^gs for a very long time now.
If what they see and hear is ^bout 10 years I think," ex-
re^ly true. plained Madame Gena. " I was
If you have driven down ^^^h the power to tell
Towson Avenue lately, you ^hese things when I was
may have seen a small buHd- smsdl; my mother had these
ing with a sign out front powers also," she continued,
bearing a large hand situated ^Qu^d that I could see
as if saying "stop." This ^Yiin^ in peoples' faces, and
building houses Fort Smith's ^^^^ things; I also studied
new palm reader. Madam ^ ^ ^ ^ ^^^ years,"
Gena, and her family. g^id Gena.
When someone hears about
a person such as Madam "How does she do it?"
Gena, he automatically thinks " I look at the lines in the
of a dingy old building with a hand, and I am able to tell the
dark stuffy back room by past, present and future," she
which you enter through a explained,
curtain of beads. "Sometimes I can just look
One might further imagine at the person's face and tell
an elderly lady with a scarf things about his personality,"
around her head and each she said,
fingernail painted a different Madame Gena gives a lot of
color, leaning over a crystal credit to her mother,
ball. It seems as though this "You can't read up on how
sterotype is hardly the cor- to do it; you have to be taught
rect one in this instance. to a certain extent," she con-
A smiling young lady greets eluded,
you at the door, and you walk So next time you are driv-
into a spotless living room. ing down Towson Avenue, and
From this point on, anything see the hand that looks like
goes. it's saying "stop," do so.
"The time it takes to have You mi^t be surprised.
THE HAND urges "stop," and the palm reader inside, a new addition to the city, is just a little bit different than the dreamed-up images of those in her pro-fession.
Registration To Be Held
If you haven't registered to
vote, remember this date:
Wednesday, Sept. 27.
This will be the date for
Westark students to register
from 9 until 2 p.m.
County Clerk Ruth Carmack
will be upstairs in the Student
Union, with a new streamline
registration process that
takes only a few minutes,
according to Richard Hudson,
political science instructor.
Anyone in Sebastian County
will be able to register in
time for both the municipal
and national elections, with
the cutoff dates for these
elections in early October.
Last year, the County Clerk
registered about 200 students
when she visited Westark.
This should provide an ex-
cellent opportunity for those
who have not registered yet,
Hudson said.
September 13.1972 tbe Ckfllesiaii Page 3
Library Gets NewAAaterial
Vets Start Organization
During the month of August
the Westark library acquired
an abundance of new material,
including 300 new books, 57
audio visual tapes, and
several reference books
ranging from philosophy and
the arts, to geography and
travel.
"The audio-visual ma-
terials deal mainly with the
field of secretarial science,"
said Max Burns, librarian.
" W e have magnetic trans-
cription belts which gives
practice to the shorthand stu-
dents in the business depart-
ment." The belts will be
transferred directly to this
department.
The amount of materials
which the library receives
each month varies. The
requests from members of
the faculty play an important
role in deciding what is
needed to increase the bene-
fits that Westark students
will get from the added
material.
Each month a list of new
materials is sent to faculty
members to inform them of
what is available. Other than
this, there will be no active
drive to publicize the acquisi-
tion of the new available
materials other than telling
the students personally when
they inquire as to what
sources are available.
The new books will be
placed on prominent display
on the north side of the
library. Later, they will be
placed in with the regular
collection. However, the
audio-visual material will be
placed in with the collection
now on hand.
A new organization for
veterans is being organized
at Westark and the club will
have a three-fold purpose,
according to Jerry Irvin, who
has been working on plans for
the group.
"The purpose of the or-
ganization is to help veterans
on campus be aware of all
benefits, readjust them to
school life again, and try to
obtain additional benefits,"
he said.
Next meeting for the vete-
rans is tentatively scheduled
for noon Sept. 20 in the Stu-
dent Union.
"This meeting will enable
us to elect officers, and start
work on a constitution," said
Irvin.
Irvin stressed that the or-
ganization is not limited to
Vietnam veterans.
AREA HIGH SCHOOL students participating in a new cooperative program at Westark work in the typing lab, left, and in the elec-tronics area, right.
Westark Starts Program For Area High Schools By June Wait
An exploratory program for
high school students has been
organized at Westark for the
first time this fall in the form
of a high school-college co-
operative program.
Under this program, high
school students chosen by
their respective schools will
attend classes for half a day
at their high school and then
begin classes at Westark at
12:30.
Boys are offered courses
in drafting, sheet metal,
welding, and various other
vocational skills. The pri-
mary emphasis for the girls
will be placed on the business
field with typing, shorthand,
and office machine courses
offered.
"This will allow the stu-
dents to establish career
areas that they cannot get in
high school," said Dr. Ben
Whitfield, academic dean, and
head of the program. " W e
feel that we are better
equipped to accomodate the
students at Westark than are
the high schools," Dr. Whit-
field continued.
Five area high schools are
participating in this program
at the present time.
In some courses, special the first phase. During the
classrooms are set aside to second phase, the number of
accomodate these extra stu- areas in which students may
dents. In other courses where participate will be reduced so
special equipment is needed, that the emphasis may be
the students meet in regular played on skill building,
classrooms used at other Third-year students will be
times of the day by Westark allowed to enroll in regular
students. college courses. Credits they
There are three phases to obtain for these courses will
the cooperative program. The be transferable to their high
students attending now are in schools to aid in graduation.
Rock Buff
Cheech and Chong Still Going Higher
It might not seem too unusual when an album is in the top
10 one week, and hits the number three spot the following
week. But in the case of Cheech and Chongs' "Big Bambu,"
it is a bit rare.
It's been quite a while since a comedy record has been in
the top ten, no less number three, but the album seems to
have caught on, with "Sister Mary Elephant" being my
favorite cut.
"Billboard" has picked Rod Stewart's "Never a Dull
Moment" to be a million seller, and the album has only
been out for four weeks.
"Carlos Santana and Buddy Miles! Live!" has been on
the charts for nine weeks now, and went from the nine slot
to eight this week.
Three Dog Nights' "Seven Separate Fools" seems to be
climbing the charts, rising from 14 to 11 this week and
promises to keep climbing.
An up and comer is number 134 at the present time,
but Seals and Crofts' "Summer Breeze" plans on going
places.
Here's how the top five albums shape up this week:
''Chicago V " has captured the top spot, followed by "Honky
Chateau" by Elton John, Cheech and Chonfe's "BigBambu,"
Rod Stewart's "Never a Dull Moment," and Alice Cooper's
"School's Out" still in fifth spot.
By Claude Legris
Page 4 theC(^eglao
PRACTICING FOR TOURNEY - Sophomore Ralph Brown takes aim for the bullseye as he practices for the intramural archery-tournament licheduled to begin Sept, 20.
September 13,1972
Lions to Face JBU in Fall Season Opener
Following a week of inter-
squad action, the 1972-73
Westark baseball team
travels to Siloam Springs
Saturday for the opening of
the vail season with John
Brown University.
John Brown, a four-year
college with a strong base-
ball program, is coached by
former major league star
Wally Moon and always sports
a tough contest for the Lions.
With the Labor Day vacation
and a field that needed work,
the baseballers were able to
spent only six days in condi-
tioning before the inter-squad
play which began Sept. 4.
Preparing the diamond for
fall ball, the players devoted
their energies to work on the
field Sept. 7 and 8.
Despite the late arrival of
a tractor which ''must have
been coming from Cairo,
Egypt," according to Coach
Bill Crowder, head baseball
mentor, the infield was made
playable.
Coach Crowder explained
that the inter-squad games
gave him a chance to see how
the players performed in
game situations and to give
new players experience.
The fall schedule features
six doubleheaders with the
season ending Oct. 6 against
Eastern State at Wilburton,
Okla.
Also slated to battle the
Lions are John Brown in two
doubleheaders and the College
of the Ozarks, also in two
twin bills.
The 1972-73 Lions boast
10 returning sophomores and
several top high school
signees. However, several
athletes playing basketball
will not participate in the fkll
program.
Intramural Activities Announced for 72-73
Westark intramurals are
well underway, with deadline
for the second activity—
archery—set for this
Thursday.
Flag football, which was
the first activity, began Sept.
12, according to Coach Wayne
Cook, sponsor.
Play for women's powder
puff football will start
Sept. 20.
Following the archery
tournament, which also be-
gins Sept. 20, will be the
horseshoes doubles tourney.
The last date to enter teams
in this event will be Oct. 5
with play starting Oct. 9.
The Westark bowling
league will begin play Oct. 2
on every Monday night at 8:45
p.m. The teams will consist
of 4-man mixed teams.
Bowling will conclude the
fall list of activities.
Sports skills are next on
the intramural program.
The football distance throw
will be first on the list Sept.
25. Next will be the football
distance kick on Oct. 2.
On Oct. 9 competition will
be held in the football extra-
point kick, followed by the
rope jump on Nov. 6.
Winter activities will begin
with the 5-man basketball
round robin to be started on
Nov. 8. The single elimina-
tion tournament will start Play starts Feb. 20. Entries
Jan. 15. must be fixed by Feb. 16.
Play in the table tennis The second of three groups
tournament will begin Nov. 8 of sports skills activities is
followed by the 3-manbasket- next in the program. Basket-
ball tournament on Jan. 16. ball free throw and the up's
Volleyball is next on the contest will be held Jan. 18
intramural lineup. Last day and Feb. 28, respectively,
to enter the mixed teams will g ^ intramurals brings
be Jan. 24; play begins Jan. softball on March 22, shuffle
board doubles on March 7 and
An eight-ball pool tourney tennis singles on April 19.
will follow with entries ^ , xu • i
closing on Feb. 5 and games f ' ^ ^ Z Z u startinp- two davs later program will be the softball startmg two days later. ^ ^ ^ ^^^ ^^ ^^^^ ^ ^ ^ ^^^
The final winter activity softball distance throw on
will be singles badmitton. April 16.