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.