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Georgia Southern University Digital Commons@Georgia Southern The George-Anne Student Media 10-31-1974 The George-Anne Georgia Southern University Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.georgiasouthern.edu/george-anne Part of the Higher Education Commons Recommended Citation Georgia Southern University, "The George-Anne" (1974). The George-Anne. 756. https://digitalcommons.georgiasouthern.edu/george-anne/756 This newspaper is brought to you for free and open access by the Student Media at Digital Commons@Georgia Southern. It has been accepted for inclusion in The George-Anne by an authorized administrator of Digital Commons@Georgia Southern. For more information, please contact [email protected]. -£4-S-RHM* Y OCT 3 11974 Boo! GEORGIA SOUTHERN COUEQll e-annepublished by students of georgia southern college Vol. 55 No. 10 Siatesboro, Georgia Thitrsdiiv. October 31. I!»71 ./. I. Clements Athletic Director Dies Sports Complex GSC Athletic Director J.I. Clements died Friday afternoon, October 24, in Emory University Hospital, where he had undergone heart surgery to replace the three major arteries in his heart. To Be Built At GSC Clements came to GSC in 1948 and spent the next 19 years as head Construction on the Statesboro- of Siatesboro will provide half of baseball coach. During this time he coached the Eagles to the World Georgia Southern Sports Com- the required amount, and the Series four times and the national championship in 1962. plex should begin by February, other half will be provided by a In 1963 Clements was named National Association of Intercollegiate according to Tom Browne, Athletics' Coach of the Year. In 1973 he was named Sports Ad- matching grant from the state Director of the Statesboro ministrator of the Year by the Georgia Athletic Hall of Fame. Department of Natural Recreation Department. Clements retired as Head Baseball Coach in 1968 to take over the Resources. post of Athletic Director. The complex should be com- Clements received his Bachelor of Science and Master of Arts pleted by April or May, Browne The sports complex will include degrees from Eastern Kentucky Teachers College. said. three multi-purpose ball fields, which can be adapted for Under Clements' direction, GSC's baseball, golf, and tennis teams baseball, Softball, or football. A have reached the finals of the NCAA championships during the last The $143,000 complex, which will be located near the parking two-story service building will two seasons. include rest rooms, concession A native of Ray City, Clements was responsible for hiring Ron Polk, lot at the Intramural Fields on who was the NCAA baseball Coach-of-the-Year in 1973, and Larry campus, is a joint venture between the city of Statesboro and stands, and storage rooms on its Chapman, who was just recently brought into replace J.E. Rowe as lower door, and press boxes on the Eagles' head basketball coach. the college. The project is the the upper floor. first of its kind in the state. Clements is survived by his wife, Reba; a daughter, Jana; and a J.I. Clements son, Carroll. Georgia Southern College is Browne said that the lighting furnishing the land for the for the complex will be the most complex, and Statesboro is advanced type available. "It is The House Is Back handling the financing. The City the same type used by the Atlanta Braves," he said. "The complex will have some of the best-lit ball fields in the state." Ghouls Promise Thrills For All Other features of the complex include scoreboards for each Tonight will be the last of three rooms to allow for the unseen nights during which the GSC. functioning and control by the field, a sprinkler system, and Student Recreation and Parks staff. portable bleachers. The sports complex will be Society Haunted House will be Every outside light source is open. The House is located on the blocked off to take advantage of corner of Lee and Highway 80 and used jointly by the college and the the theory that people are always community. An agreement has will be open from 7 until mid- frightened by the feeling of night. The price of admission is 50 been worked out between the vulneralility in the dark. The only city, the college, and the Board of Cents. light present is the black light. Regents, Browne said. Phi Epsilon Kappa has been Most of the materials and props providing a hayride from the have been used in previous Each quarter, a schedule for Statesboro Recreation Center to Houses, but much of it comes the use of the complex will be the House and back at regular from donations from the com- drawn up, specifying when the intervals. The cost is 25 cents. munity. Once at the house, the "victim" The Execution Room is a prime fields are to be used by the will be conducted on a ten to example of the work involved in college and when by the city. fifteen minute tour which will designing and executing the The complex was designed by include such scare sequences as House. In this room a guillotine an execution room, a spider has been constructed, and an the firm of Hendley, Akins, and room, and, of course, a Dracula eerily realistic execution takes Ellenwood. Contractor bids will room. place. All the trickery is achieved Anything eerie can be found at the House - even spooks in trees. begin in November, Browne said. The House is constructed on the by directing the eye to the most frame of an incomplete house. All advantageous position and by the a tunnel appears for his escape. the walls in the house are of extremely careful set-up in- The profits will go to sponsor cardboard and were designed for volved. other Houses and to bring in NEXUS Handles size and shape to achieve the The two coffins in the room are speakers for the Recreation desired effect. There are real as are the sound effects. Department. Refreshments will corridors within and between the These effects are all common be served at the House. Students' Complaints Special thanks should be given sounds amplified and distorted. NEXUS is the name of the chosen for the CCC's complaint to the various business and other One room in the house is CCC's new complaint line, ac- line because "it ties together all groups in Statesboro who have designed to befuddle space cording to Helen McMahon, Vice- sources of action for solving donated materials, and perception. The cardboard walls President of the CCC. students' problems," McMahon especially to Mr. G.C. Coleman, are mechanically moved in "The object of NEXUS is to said, who donated the house. toward the victim, and suddenly allow students to cut some of the Some of the sources the line red tape in finding the best place will consult are the Housing Co-op Will Offer Students to go to solve problems," said Appeals Board, the Traffic Court McMahon. "Students with Committee, and the various CCC complaints about housing or officers and committees, Reduced Grocery Prices consumer affairs around town, or students with complaints should Plans for a Food Co-op for all interested and economically-minded about the cafeteria, bookstore, cau between 1:00 and 5:00 p.m. students have been underway since the beginning of Fall Quarter, professors, classes, or grades on "if we can't help the student, according to Larry Abbott, CCC President. campus should call NEXUS." we will take his name and get in It is the objective of the Food Co-op to form an association of food The NEXUS extension is 430, touch with him later as to whom consumers; to seek reduced price food sources; and to purchase these the CCC office extension. he should direct his problem." goods under a payment plan and distribute these goods at the lowest "Nexus" means "a tie or "We guarantee we will answer possible cost. 'Connection.'" The name was your complaint," McMahon said. Students on the Food Co-op committee have contacted sources in Savannah and Metter, and price comparisons are being made in Statesboro. The Committee has not located a freezer, however, and is Inside This Week in need of one. :•; George-Anne Poll .5 $ No date has been set for an opening. Plans are still being completed, >• Funnies 7 ■> and Abbott said that if things go well, a membership drive will begin :•: Crossword Puzzle 8 -:j within two to three weeks. •: Action - Reaction 10 :•: Recreation major transformed All interested people should contact the CCC and place their names •:■ Halloween Feature 11 * into a ghoul. on the mailing list for notification of meetings. Page TWO •the george-anne- Thursday, October 31, 1974 WVGS Schedules Training By Bill Grove community. G-A Staff Writer Michael Oreste, the Director of WVGS, the new campus radio News and Special Programs, will station, will hold a general be responsible for the develop- meeting for all students in- ment of a news staff. Students terested in being trained for the will be trained in news research, various areas of station operation copy writing, tape editing, and at 7:00 Monday night, November news announcing. 4. Students may sign up for These training sessions will training sessions in announcing, occur in progressive stages public relations, or news and where a student must show special program production. proficiency in one stage before Bill Grove, the WVGS Program moving to the next. Director, will be training the announcing staff. His training sessions will include an orien- Soccer Club tation to the broadcasting equipment, an introduction to Receives Funds the FCC Rules and Regulations, and the presentation of the The CCC recently approved a request for funds by GSC's Currently under construction completed within a year, ac- Cook also stated that the station's educational and musical format.

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