LaGrange College - Quadrangle Yearbook (Lagrange, GA)

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A-20 The 1980 Quadrangle You Say You Live At Broad Street? If I didn ' t know any better. I d think a bunch of animals lived in this place. I ' ll be glad next year when I can move out of this place. You have to know which shower head to use, or else you ' ll get no hot water at all! When you wake up in the morning there ' s sometimes a line to take a shower since only one or two of the heads work. We got a fire extinguisher blasted off while we were sitting in our room, minding our own business. I saw that the door was on fire - luckily I had a pitcher of water in the room and I put it out. I came home after the weekend - people had thrown up in the bathroom and not bothered to clean it up afterwards. The smell was awful. They painted the second floor hall, then threw smoke bombs down the hall to finish the job. My fan cut out on me and the heat almost killed me. This guy came staggering down the hall and asked me if I could help him find his room - I really felt sorry for him. The dogs seem to like it up here. People wash their greasy pots and pans in the sinks and never clean them out - it ' s hard to find a clean one before I go to bed at night. Students who reside in Broad Street (Boatwright) Hall admit that conditions are not the best there, but conditions are not that bad. And while the vandalism and cleanliness problems are primarily the fault of the students who live there, there seems to be an actual absence of authority or order there. Students on the campus who were questioned about the conditions at Broad Street will remain anonymous, but this reporter found that while they wished to remain unnamed, they expressed a genuine interest in a project to improve living conditions in the dorm. People on the campus don ' t seem to realize what conditions are like here, said one resident. Some nights you can ' t even get to sleep at a decent hour for all the noise in the halls. The basic problem seems to lie in the lack for misappropriation) of authority in the facility. Students can get away with practically anything they want to. This would not be a problem if only the students committing the actions would be affected. However, when innocent bystanders and residents are affected by the situation, some attention should be called to the problem. ' bell ' s ROOM 1 M White M. White Vandalism in the Broad Street Dorm is a major concern to those who live there. The phone is disconnected at times by persons who actually rip the cord out of the wall. Doors are decorated in an entertaining fashion with no regard for future residents who will live there.

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The 1980 Quadrangle A-19 Dr. Hagood Inaugurated Dr. Charles L. Hagood was inaugu- rated LaGrange College ' s twentieth president Friday morning, April 20, 1980, in ceremonies in Price Theater. Charles D. Hudson, Chairman of the Board of Trustees, presided at the ceremony attended by college trustees, officers, representatives of learned societies, educational associations and foundations, members of the senior class, officers of the student govern- ment, members of the alumni associa- tion, the LaGrange College Singers and interested students. After the ceremony of investiture, President Hagood told the audience, ' Our only rationalization for existence is that dream our forebears had nearly a century and a half ago of providing quality education within a personalized setting against the backdrop of a religious faith. Never have we, never can we, not never do we desire to compete educationally in terms of numbers or physical resources. To describe the philosophy that will enpower us to achieve our appoint- ed destiny as a Christian college is exceedingly difficult in this pluralistic age and even more difficult to actualize. It involves more than advertising our faith by organizing prayer groups, displaying bumper stickers and button- holing people with stories of conversion. Rather than providing simplistic answers that fail to hold up in hard hours, it means an honest confrontation with life ' s complexities. Whatever else is involved in being a Christian community on the college level, it does mean responding seriously and sympathetically to human needs and individually preparing persons to realize their fullest human potentials. Of necessity that calling will involve our willingness to be ever open to the infinite wisdom of the God who alone understands how our dreams can be translated into reality. Bishop William R. Cannon, Re- sident Bishop, Atlanta Area, The United Methodist Church, gave the principal address including the follow- ing points: The abiding Christian contribu- tion to college life is the institutional recognition of the supreme importance of good character. We cannot really educate unless we apperceive a set of values, a standard of life above and beyond the mere acquistion of know- ledge, sacred as well as secular. The test of LaGrange College will be the quality of the lives of its graduates - their contribution, not only to themselves and their families, but to the society and the world, he contin- ued. Will the times in which they live and work be better because of them, because they have lived in those times? Our mission is not merely that of dispensing knowledge and teaching students how to earn a living: it is to aid them in the formation of their good lives. The formal procession, with Dean Malcolm Shackelford as Grand Mar- shal, was composed of representatives of colleges and universities throughout the United States and abroad. It was led by representative of Katholieke Universiteit, Leuven, Belgium, founded in 1425, and concluded with the representative of Gordon Junior Col- lege, established in 1972. Bishop Cannon led the prayer of consecration following the inauguration and LaGrange College Chancellor Waights G. Henry, Jr., former pre- sident, gave the benediction. Very few students ever have the opportunity to experience the inaugura- tion of a college president, especially their own president. LaGrange Collge students that attended the ceremony saw a historical event for the school, and it will be remembered as a memory of college life.

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The 1980 Quadrangle A-21 SGA Proclaims Dean Love Day Declared in honor of retiring Dean of Students John R. Love, May 16, 1980 was proclaimed Dean Love Day by the Student Government Association. Max Wood, SGA President, pre- sented Dean Love a commemorative plaque and framed resolution designat- ing the special day, which read as follows: WHEREAS, John R. Love has served as Dean of Students at La- Grange College from 1965 to 1980, and WHEREAS, he has rendered of his time untiringly to all students, and WHEREAS, he has supported all campus organizations by buying 103 raffle tickets, 47 bar-b-que dinners, attending 167 basketball games, 62 dances, innumerable intramural games, and gained 12-3 4 pounds from partak- ing of 75 bake sales, and WHEREAS, he has badgered students, bonded students, and bragged on students, and WHEREAS, he has been awa- kened at 3:00 a.m. time and time again, been the prize of a scavenger hunt, a Big Brother to some, and friend to all, and WHEREAS, he has issued 77 Vi more parking violations than parking permits, and WHEREAS, he has been a real ' DEAN OF LOVE, ' We declare Friday, May 16, 1980, as DEAN LOVE DAY and acknowledge it to the entire campus on behalf of the student body. G. Jasinski Representatives of campus organizations participated in the surprise at dinner which was kept secret in order to surprise (startle) Dean Love. With a dining hall table as his throne, King Love expressed his deep and sincere appreciation to the students for the gesture. G. Jaainaki G Jaainaki G. Jaainaki