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Georgia Southern University Digital Commons@Georgia Southern The George-Anne Student Media 3-5-1981 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" (1981). The George-Anne. 930. https://digitalcommons.georgiasouthern.edu/george-anne/930 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]. SGA elections, candidatesBaa .n„ t% I I Masquers'M. musical ac hit —See pagenr 2 —Seepage 11 The GEORGE-ANNE Volume 61, No. 15 Georgia Southern College Statesboro, Georgia March 5, 1981 GSC approves athletic fee increase By DON FAIN According to Clark, $5 of football program does not program for the 1981-82 the sports program in order tion and gas prices have The Athletic Fee the increase is to be used for become a reality, then the school year. to meet the TAAC require- made travel expenses Committee and GSC a possible football program $5 designated for football According to David ment that each conference increase. "Air travel has President Dale Lick and $3 is to be used to pull would go to existing athletic Wagner, athletic director, school participate in six skyrocketed," said Wagner. approved a 67 percent the men's and women's programs, with the pos- there will be a debt "in sports. Wagner said that He also cited "unreal- increase in the athletic fee basketball program out of sibility of "reassessing the excess of $30,000" by the soccer was not in the istic" budgeting for the on February 27 effective debt. fee" if GSC football does not end of the basketball current budget; thus, the current budget. Wagner spring quarter, according to Bill Cook, vice president materialize. season. contingency funds of the said that last year's Frank Clark, Athletic of Business and Finance, Clark added that even if Wagner said that the athletic department were basketball budget was Committee chairman. said that the $8 increase for the college does not initiate . financial problems are spent to fund the soccer $78,000 and this year it was The $8 increase is spring quarter would be a football program, the $5 attributable to becoming a program. decreased to $72,000. He "contingent upon the used solely for pulling the may be used to stabilize the member of the TAAC In addition, the TAAC explained that decreasing Regents' approval at their athletic program out of athletic program with the conference, inflation and requires traveling longer the budget in light of March meeting" on March debt. thought of the possible unrealistic budgeting. distances in order to play joining the TAAC con; 10, Clark said. Clark said that if the approval of a football Soccer had to be added to conference schools. Infla- See INCREASE p..3 SGA conducts football debate By CHERYL JONES the start-up costs of at least "GSC had a football $250,000 can be met lick finds football fund raising team up until 1943. Since through independent that time, one of the most funding. 2) That the so positive time is major problem asked questions has been: development of the football 'When are you going to start program at GSC not have a By DAVID THOMPSON money to the program, another football program?' negative impact on the "A community effort... while a soft pledge might be We now have a president other athletic programs or something that the whole a simple oral agreement. who plans to answer that academic programs of the community, meaning The start-up cost of a question," said David college. 3) That the GSC southeastern Georgia, football program at GSC "Bucky" Wagner, athletic football program begin at should help us with..." said has been set at $250,000. "In director, in a forum discuss- the highest divisional level GSC President Dale Lick hard and soft pledges we ing the possibility of of competition as finances describing the fund raising probably have over football at GSC. and other circumstances effort to start up a football $100,000," Lick said. According to Wagner, permit. 4) That the college team at GSC. "We have pretty good the Football Committee has secure appropriate outside "I think we've got a size numbers of people recommended that GSC consultants to develop and fairly good chance of working for us in a number pursue the establishment of implement the football succeeding, but in all of communities around a football program in the program. 5) That the honesty, I don't have southeastern Georgia," fall of 1981" under the football program be $250,000 in hard pledges up Lick said. "The whole thing LEW TIPPETT following conditions: 1) developed consistent with to now." Ahard pledge, said is churning. What we're That the football program all rules and regulations of Lick, is a written promise to finding is that we've got so Electrocution takes be financially viable; that See FOOTBALL p. 6 donate a cetain amount of See FUND RAISING p. 6 GSC student's life Depression By DON FAIN instructions and then A GSC student died stopped," Johnson said. Monday night as a result of "After about two minutes, I Study reveals that seven percent of students say they are depressed an apparent accidental walked out onto the stage and I saw his feet dangling electrocution while working By KATHY BURKE from the port and I called up on the stage lighting in "We found that 26 percent of the students at Georgia McCroan Auditorium for to him." Southern were experiencing at least some form of depression, When Thompson failed the Miss GSC pageant. ranging from very mild to very severe. About one percent of to answer, "I ran and turned Ralph Frederick Thomp- the sample was rated as very severely depressed," Charlene son Jr., 24, a last quarter off the power and went up Black, associate professor of sociology, reported in a seminar there," he continued. senior majoring in speech, on "Southern Blues." was pronouced dead on He found Thompson Black explained that she and Dan Nagelberg, assistant arrival at 11:45 p.m. at laying face down on the professor of psychology, conducted a survey last fall quarter to Bulloch Memorial Hospital. instruments with his feet determine the amount of depression among GSC students. She Thompson, was adjust- dangling out of the port in said that she felt they surveyed a good cross section of the the ceiling. ing the overhead lighting campus. with Eric Johnson, a GSC Johnson added, "I "There were 643 persons in the survey; 578 were white, 56, student, when the accident pulled him off the instru- black, half were freshmen, most were full-time students, 23 occurred. According to ments and began to give percent belonged to a fraternity or sorority, four percent were Johnson, Thompson was up him mouth-to-mouth veterans, and 11 percent worked as their primary source of in the ceiling focusing the resuscitation." income." lights while Johnson was Johnson said that he Other findings of the survey were that seven percent of the on the stage turning the failed to respond. Running See DEPRESSION p. 13 circuits on and off per out the right side of Thompson's instructions. McCroan Auditorium, "He'd been hollering See THOMPSON p. 3 Page 2, March 5, 1981, The GEORGE—ANNE Candidates for SGA offices state their platforms V By CARL BERGERON best of my ability." had announced their candidacy for the William's Center Coffee House. A panel, Twelve students have announced their Among the candidates for the office of office of SGA Coordinator of Academic including four SGA representatives, John candidacy for office in the SGA. vice-president is Reginald Miller, a junior Affairs, were disqualified by the election Nolen, Dean of Students, and one Available positions include President, and president of Kappa Alpha Psi, who committee because they had not been representative each from The George Vice President, Coordinator of Academic would favor a "three dollar increase" in enrolled for a full quarter of school at GSC Anne, WVGS, and the SUB will question Affairs, Coordinator of Auxiliary Affairs, the student activity fee. "It's a good idea, prior to their candidacy, according to the candidates on issues concerning GSC and Bugetary Affairs. but we're going to have to show the Barbara Morrison, committee chair- students. All students are asked to attend. Don Johnson, current SGA wtudents where its going." person. Elections for the SGA officers will be Coordinator of Budgetary Affairs, is a Angie Smith, a junior and present The current SGA will sponsor a held on March 10, with voting machines candidate for the office of president. "I SGA Office Administrator, would also meeting of all the candidates on being set up both in Landrum and support a reorganization of the current like to see the establishment of a Student Thursday, March 7, at 7:00 p.m. in the Williams Center from 8 a.m. until 7 p.m. SGA constitution, providing for the Senate. "It would bring more establishment of a true Student Senate to organization and coordination to the afford the students of GSC greater SGA. I'd also like to see Campus Security influence in their SGA. make a public monthly crime report so The candidates: they will be aware of our security The George-Anne endorses candidates problems." —See page 4 Kenneth Cook, junior and General Business major, is in favor of having a their names, In addition to constitutional changes, "dead day" before finals and Johnson advocates a student discount computerized registeration.

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