Flashback

Students submitted a proposal for rule changes to the Georgia State College for Women’s CGA, whose name was not fully given. One item on the proposal: the ability to smoke in public. At the time, women were not allowed this freedom. While the majority wanted the rule to change, others did not want the town to worry about GSCW students negatively influencing its teenage daughters.
April 1, 1952
Vol. 29 No. 9

Parks Memorial Hospital recieved a renovation during the spring of 1965. The refurbrished hospital was “bright, modern and comfortable,” reporter Fran Reynolds wrote. Parks Memorial Hospital renamed Parks Memorial and received another renovation that was completed in 2009. The building is the home of College of Health Sciences, which includes the nursing, kinesiology and outdoor education departments.
April 1, 1965
Vol. 40 No. 10

Several important changes were proposed to the judiciary system of the College Government Association of Georgia College. The changes included: the name of the Honor Council being changed to Student Judiciary, the student body electing one chairman to vote only in case of a tie, an investigator appointed by the chairman regarding student conduct and the abolishment of the current honor code. Those changes needed to be approved by a two-thirds majority in the Senate and then be presented to the student body for ratification or rejection
March 31, 1972
Vol. 47 No. 4

Issues of The Colonnade from 1925 to 1975 are now available to be viewed on microfilm in the library.

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