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Vol. XI, No. 14 THE HILLTOP NEWS LAGRANGE COLLEGE LAGRANGE GEORGIA May 31. 1969

LC To Graduate 67 LaGrange College will

confer 67 bachelor of arts de- grees at its 138th commence- ment exercises on Saturday, June 7.

Ivan Allen Jr., mayor of Atlanta for two terms, will de- liver the commencement address to the 67 graduates at 11:00 a.m. in the college gymnasium.

At 2 p.m., also in the gymnasium, Dr. Henry will a- ward an honorary doctor of laws degree to Mayor Allen and con- fer undergraduate degrees on the

Ackerman, John Lawrence Adams, James Lamar Anderson, Edward Jelks Barnes, Ronald Lee Baynard, John Thomas Braun, Philip F., Jr. Byers, Kenneth Wayne Campo, Frank Edward Clayton, Arthur Ulmont Cochran, Marc Laney Conner, Larry Wayne Conner, Terrence Alan Conway, Joel Thomas Cook, Austin Pope, III Culpepper, Frances Marion Daniel, Brenda Reams Daniel, Thomas Davidson, Lillian Dewar, Melvin Arthur, Jr. Etheridge, Ronald Charles Fraser, Judy Carol Freeman, Katherine Krafka Gambill, Stephen George Gudger, Garland Keith Harrell, John Louis, Jr. Hassig, Edward Harker Haut, Evelyn Hargett Hawkins, Harry Albert Hays, David Russell Hinton, Patricia McDonnell Hudmon, James Wallace, Jr. Jackson, Barry Nathan James, Nancy Elizabeth Johnson, Stacy Sackett King, Wanda Elaine King, Susan Buchanan Kiser, William Alton Lacher, Richard Louis Logan, Edward Van James Massey, Kenneth Claude McLean, Joseph Dean Miller, Ernest Eugene, Jr. Mills, Patricia Ann Opdycke, Gerald Chris Palmer, Annette Clare Pierce, Donna Mae Presness, Roger Fredric Quinn, Patricia Gail Rainey, Michael Lee Reese, Miguelita Ritter, Thomas Daniel Scott, Glennis Ray Sheffield, Daniel Allen Smith, Christine McLaughlin Starr, Kirby Wightman, II! Stephens, Barbara Cook Talley, Roger Neal Thacker, Philip Gerald Thacker, Susan Strom Upchurch, Beverly Cleave I and Van Dalsem, Elizabeth Lee Wade, Charles Royal, III Wagnon, Betty Alicia White, Jean Rholetter Whitner, Katherine Porcher Williams, Martha Ann Williams, Robert Perry

Allen, a prominent busi- nessman before defeating now- Gov. Lester G. Maddox for the Atlanta mayor's post in 1961 announced earlier this year that he will not seek to remain in office after his current term ends in January of 1970.

On Friday evening, June 6, the graduating seniors and their families will be honored at a reception at the President's home.

Those to receive de- grees on June 7 are:

Biology Health and Physical Education Health and Physical Education Business Administration Mathematics History General Science English Business Administration English English Business Administration, Eco. Business Administration Business Administration Elementary Education Elementary Education Business Administration, Eco. Mathematics History Economics Speech and Drama Art Business Administration Chemistry General Science Business Administration History, Social Science Religion Business Administration History Chemistry History, Social Science Social Work Social Work Business Administration Business Administration Speech and Drama Business Administration Economics Business Administration, Eco. Chemistry Speech and Drama Social Work, Psychology Economics General Science English English Elementary Education Health and Physical Education Elementary Education Speech and Drama Elementary Education Mathematics English General Science English Business Administration English Social Work Social Work Social Work Religion Social Work English Elementary Education Psychology General Science

Winners of "Spring Cleanup" These representatives of fra. ternities and sororities were the winners of the contest. Each

group was presented with a check in the same amount from The C&S Bank of LaGrange.

Kappa Sigma Chartered At LC

On June 6, 1969 the Kap- pa Sigma Colony of LaGrange College will become an official charter of Kappa Sigma National Fraternity. Thirty-five Kappa Sigma pledges will become char- members of the LaGrange Chap- ter. The group will be initiated by the Epsi Ion-Omega Chapter of Georgia State College.

Also present will be Dis- trict Grandmaster Robert L. King, Jr. and Assistant Grand- master V. Clyde "Skip" Left- wick, as well as representa- tives from the Kappa Sigma Chapters of Mercer, Auburn, Georgia Southern, Georgia Southwestern and Georgia Tech.

Kappa Sigma National Fraternity was established at the University of Virginia in 1869. It has 166 chapters throughout the United States with a Brotherhood of 114.000.

The groups advisor is a Kappa Sigma Alumni, Bob Chris- tian of LaGrange.

WESLEY FOUNDATION ELECTS NEW OFFICERS

The LaGrange College chapter of the Wesley Fellow- ship met recently and elected a slate of officers for year 1969- 70. The United Methodist spon- sored organization is designed to meet the religious needs of all students on campus, regard- less of church affiliation.

Those elected to offices were: President-Joyce Foun- tain, a Junior majoring in Reli- gion from Byromville, Georgia. Vice President-James D. How- ell, a Junior majoring in His- tory from Dalton, Georgia. Se- cretary-Treasurer-Mary Ann Mi ley, a Sophomore majoring in Religion from Savannah, Geor- gia. Program Chairman-Frank Key, a Junior majoring in Psy- chology from Atlanta, Georgia. Inner-Faith Council Represen- tative-Joyce Spence, a Junior from Decatur, Georgia majoring in Religion.

Past president Betty Wag- non, a graduating senior, con- ducted the installation services in the College Chapel, and she urged ea ch member to carry out the duties of their respective offices to the best of their abi- lities.

Dr. David Naglee is the advisor to Wesley and he anti- cipates a very active and con- structive year on the LC cam- pus for the organization.

PRESIDENTS

ROUNDTABLE

The last session of the Presidents Roundtable was call- ed to order on Monday, May 19. Dr. Henry spoke, saying that this had been a very good year for LaGrange College. He cited the many good assemblies we had along with several other programs that had been quite successful. He cautioned the group of campus leaders not to listen to those minorities who were harping on just the few bad things that had gone wrong this year. He reminded the group that the good assemblies we had far outweighed the bad and that the minority was only remembering the bad. He told us about the new financial pro- gram that the school is under- taking and explained that when it is completed LaGrange Col- lege would never have any trou- ble competing with any other

college or university in the country. Dr. Henry then discus- sed some academics with the group explaining how scholas- tic standards were either with the average overall college rat- ings or excelled them in certain fields. The table was then open- ed for discussion.

The program concluded with some discussion about gra- duation. Mayor Ivan Allan of Atlanta will be the speaker at graduation. Dr. Henry also told the group about a fu II page ad- vertisement which Time Maga- aine is giving the college. With no further discussion the meeting was closed until next year.

CIRCLE K

PRESENTS AWARDS

Circle K Club at LaGrange College, a service organization sponsored by Circle K Interna- tional, presented two new a- wards at its recent spring ban- quet.

Charles Stevens of Buena Vista, new president of the LC chapter, presented Rober Pres- nell of Augusta with the club's initial "man of the year" award. The senior English student was recognized for his "loyalty and work on every club project dur- ing the past year."

Marion McEachern of Fa- yetteville, received the newly established Circle K award as the member having the highest academic average. He is a jun- ior majoring in English.

Kenneth Scroggs of Nor- cross, a Circle j< member who works as a probation officer with the LaGrange-Troup County Juvenile Court, discussed the recent "Spring Cleaning" in LaGrange. He challenged his fellow members tobecome imme- diately involved in community development projects.

Presentations were also made to immediate past presi- dent John Watson of Orlando, Fla., and LaGrange, and out- going club sweetheart Susan Kaysen of Jacksonville, Fla.

Debbie Mays of Stock- bridge is the new club sweet- heart.

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Tom Conway

This is an editorial Reprint from "The West

Georgia", West Georgia College

Editorial

There comes a time when everyone has his day in court, and this is the HTN day.

For an entire school year the HTN has sat back and re- mained silent while a minority of students sounded off on one gripe or another.

There have been about five mimeographed papers sent out by individuals who appa- rently were toocowardly to come and talk with the proper sources about their problems. They nev. er approached the editor of the HTN with their complaints. They never wrote a signed let- ter to the editor, so their com- plaints could be properly an- swered in the HTN. Not one of these individuals who were "brave?" enough to send out a mimeographed paper once offer- ed to help with the Hilltop News in any way whatsoever. They never attended one meet- ing or wrote one article for pub- lication.

Why should they, when it's easier to buy a 15C stencil and a S1.25 package of mimeo paper and "be your own editor for a day."

Some of the gripes had to do with the traditional fraterni- ty and sorority rivalry. But how can these "editors for a day" justify their complaints, when they themselves never lifted so much as a finger for the HTN.

The newest shift from boredom seems to be the new paper called the "TILLI." This

paper is published by an "over- whelming" minority of two peo- ple who are far older than the majority of students on campus. It is understood that these men are ministers, but what are they doing on a college campus stir- ring up controversy?

Proper reporting carries responsibility and takes time and effort. It doesn't take much effort to mimeograph a stencil of material that hasn't been iho- roughly investigated.

Each issue of the Hilltop News costs roughly S110.00. Each issue involves hours of typing and still more hours of laying out and proof-reading, not to cpunt the time the busi- ness manager spends soliciting enough advertising to pay for the entire cost of the operation. Each issue involves a week at the printer.

The Hilltop News operat- ed independently this year at the sacrifice of quality. It re- ceived no funds from the SGA. One and one-half pages of ad- vertising were necessary to pay for a four-page paper. This will not be the case next year when the HTN will be receiving funds from the SGA and will be on a weekly basis.

Anyone wanting to play editor, might well play reporter first.

If you won't work for the HTN, how do you justify grip- ing about it?

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Ga. Drink Laws Not Up-to-Date

Dear Editor, I am proud to be a citizen of

Georgia. Georgia is a progressive state in such a way that it allows 18 year olds to vote. In fact, Georgia is only one of the two states in all 50 that allows 18 year olds to vote. The voting age in Georgia was lowered from 21 to 18 during the term of governor Ellis Arnall. One reason for this was that the Arnall adminstration felt that any person who was old enough for the draft was old enough to vote.

I am with Senator Herman Talmadge's proposal for national 18 year old suffrage 100 percent. Georgia is very lucky to have this man who is so vitally interested in young people, and believes that all young people should vote at age 18 in every state in the union.

I previously stated that Georgia was progressive, but this state still has a few antiquated laws. In Georgia, a person is considered a minor until he is 21. A male is eligible for the draft at 18, but he is not allowed to purchase beer until he is 21. He may give blood to the Red Cross at 18 only with his parent's consent, but yet he can shed his blood on the battlefield and his parents can do nothing to prevent the draft from taking their

"minor" child away irom them before he is 21.

CHANGE LAWS Since Federal law says a

person is mature enough to go to war at age 18, then the state of Georgia, and all of the other states should change their laws so as to make age 18 old enough to be legally of age as mature adults and consequently old enough to enjoy the privileges that people 21 presently do. If this law has anything to do with whether or not one is mature enough to make sound decisions concerning his personal life, let me remind you that people can be mature adults at age 18 and yet some people still act childish at age 21 or even still, at age 40.

UNIFORM CHANGE „ If the law is not changed for

civilians under 21, an exception should be made for our men in the armed services who are under 21. I believe that our men in uniform, and men who are old enough to be in uniform, and shoulder a rifle in the armed services of the United States, is old enough to decide which candidate to vote for, and make his own decision about whether to drink or not to drink.

As you know, in Georgia, the people under 21 voted to help get our state legislators in office. If the people of West Georgia College feel the same as I do on this issue, k is your duty as a citizen of the State of Georgia, to write your congressman about your feelings on the issue.

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SUMMER MEANS

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Just Grazing

Well, it's that time again so lets hit the pasture for one last look at the sports situation on the Hill. First, the L.C. ten- nis team put out a great effort even with the lack of support they got from both administra- tion and students alike. They wound up the season with a seven and four record overall and a five and zero conference slate. The team finished second in the conference to West Geor- gia in the Conference tourna- ment at Georgia Southwestern. It was only a break in the origi- nal drawings that gave the pan- the loss by a score of 16 to 14. Stuart Clay won the number one singles and Chris Stagg and Ralph Kuhn took numbers three and five respectively. Clay and Ronnie Allen took the number two doubles title in the tourney. All the Panther netmen will re- turn next season with the ex- ception of team captain Ralph Kuhn, and with a little support, both financially and morally the squad should be a 'smash- ing' success. The only thing standing in their way is a lack of money and the fact that po- werful Columbus College will be in the Conference next year. Columbus' entire team plays under scholarship while L.C. gives one of it's few assets a meager $600 budget for a years operations.

Moving now to the Pan- ther's basketball prospects for next year, coach Mariotti has signed four new freshmen pros- pects and a junior college transfer to replace the five players he is loosing this sea- son. The coach seems to think that his team next year looks like one of the best ever on pa- per and will be used as a build- season for what should be a very exciting future for the L.C. Panthers.

On the intramural scene. Kappa Phi captured the W.A.A. overall sports trophy by winning volleyball and basketball and placing second to the indepen- dents in softball competition. The new officers for the asso- ciation are Pres. Ann Martin, V.P. Connie Lyle, Sec. Karen Samble, and Treas. Marry Ellen Wayne. Although the girls are loosing a fine leader when they Miss Canady, they still look forward to another fine year.

In Fraternity action The Kappa Sigma Green Wave is well on it's way to sweeping intra- murals as they have already taken football, basketball, and volleyball and are leading soft- ball with one game remaining to be played. The Greenies moved into first place with a win over Pi Kappa Phi seven to one behind the outstanding pitching of Ronnie Mason. Mason allowed the Pi Kapp Raiders but two hits in taking the win. After the loss Pi Kapp is tied for second with the In- dies each with eight and six records. Kappa Sigma has not won it yet since a victory by the Independents and one by the Raiders in Thursday's final day of play will throw the league into a three way tie for first place, all three teams having identical nine and six records. Kappa Sigma needs a win to as- sure them of the title.

The new officers for the Men's Atheletic Association are Pres. Ron Bruccoliere, V.P. Pug Hitt, and Sec. Treas. James Lee Garrett.

The Whiffle Ball Tourna- ment on first floor Broad Street has been postponed indefinitely due to harrassment from a cer-

tain neighbor. Leading the Lea- gue at this point are Ronnie Mason with a high of four home runs, and Clay Clark with a batting average of an unbelieve- able .550. In order that the lea- gue resume play we suggest that all interested parties write to Dean Love or Dr. Henry so that the sport does not die out or go underground with TILLI.

Well, that winds up ano- ther year and all I ask is that next year, the editors and staff of the HTN get more support and assistance from their rea- ders. With just a little effort on the part of a few more peo- ple L.C. could publish a damn good paper.

Tom Conway (Cow)

MAA OFFICERS LaGrange College's two

athletic associations -- which sponsor intramural sports pro- grams for men and women at the college — have elected officers for the 1969-70 school year.

Bruccoliere of a junior majoring

Ronald Delran, N.J., in speech and drama, is the new president of the Men's Athletic Association. The new president of the Women's Athletic Asso- ciation is Rebecca Ann Martin of Atlanta, a junior majoring in social work.

Other MAA officers are Lewis Melvin Hitt of Miami, Fla., vice president; and James Lee Garrett of Buena Vista, se- cretary and treasurer.

The MAA governing board includes fraternity representa- tives and elected members of the male student body. Students elected to serve on the 1969-70 MAA council and their fraterni- ties are George Russell Holden Jr. of Atlanta, Beta Rho; Wil- liam Osborne Mims Jr. of Jack- sonville, Fla., Pi Kappa Phi (Gamma Nu chapter); Randall Stuart Roy of Jacksonville, Fla., Gamma Phi Alpha colony of Kappa Sigma fraternity; John Joseph Jasak of Staten Island, N.Y., Sigma Nu Pi; and Wallace Walther Staff of St. Petersburg, Fla., independents' representa- tive.

Other MAA officers are Con-sjance Faith Lyle of Auburn (Ga.), vice president; .Karen Elaine Samble of Jacksonville, Fla., secretary; and Mary Ellen Wayne of Flowery Branch, treas- urer.

The MAA council includes sorority representatives Patricia Ann McAfee of Roberta, Alpha Kappa Theta; Peggy Ann Stud- still of Lakeland, Alpha Phi Beta; Violet Anette Lyle of Au- burn (Ga.), Kappa Phi Delta; and Barbara Jane Laughman of Hanover, Pa., independents' re- presentative.

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