Student Life
Students have access to more than 150 student organizations covering academics, cultural/international, departmental/educational, professional and honor groups, politics, science, religion, service, recreation and sports, and social fraternities and sororities.
UWG's marching band is known as "The Sound that Lights the South" and consists of over 140 members. It is known for its high energy and athleticism. Each performance finishes with the band dancing to the final number. The Jazz Percussion Group has also performed throughout Europe and the United States as well as jazz festivals and state conferences. The JPG has brought numerous honors to the university since their beginning in 2003.
The pedestrian campus also includes a library with 561,900 volumes, a gym, computer labs, tennis courts, baseball fields, soccer fields, a nature trail, a quarter-mile (400 m) running track, a climbing wall, and basketball courts.
The University also operates noncommercial radio station WUWG FM 90.7 MHz. It has been on the air since 1973 (as WWGC until 2001), serving all of Carrollton and Carroll County as well as the student body of the university. Originally a diverse college radio station, it is now a listener-supported public radio affiliate of Georgia Public Broadcasting, simulcasting the GPB Radio network at most times.
In the fall of 2009 the university did a soft launch The WOLF Internet Radio. The station officially debuted in April 2010, after two months of limited programming from its studio in the basement of the Anthropology Building. The station's motto is "For students by students." Two grants from the Technology Fee Committee, totaling about $72,600, kick-started the station.
The world's only hand-painted replica of the Bayeux Tapestry is located at the University of West Georgia by the Art Department. It is displayed in the third floor atrium of the Humanities building. Dr. E.D. Wheeler, former judge and former dean at Oglethorpe University, commissioned the work and donated it to UWG in 1997.
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