1972-01-27 The Auburn Plainsman

              THE AUBURN PUINSMMI
VOLUME 99 AUBURN UNIVERSITY AUBURN, ALABAMA THURSDAY, JANUARY 27,1972 10 PAGES NUMBER 12
Widespread publicity
precedes appearance
of campus evangelist
An unusual wave of publicity
preceded evangelist Josh McDowell's
return to Auburn this week. A Campus
Crusade for Christ worker called Mc­Dowell's
speeches "the most-publicized
events on campus this year."
Advance publicity for McDowell in­cluded
articles and an advertisementin
The Plainsman, announcements over
WEGL, painted store windows, printed
materials, notes on blackboards, list­ing
in the Spectra Information Service
and sound trucks circulating through
the streets.
Asked why the publicity was so ex­tensive,
Jim McCool of Campus
Crusade said, "Schools all over are try­ing
to get Josh—and for us to have him
twice in a nine-month period—well,
we're more than privileged. So
naturally we wanted to get as large a
crowd as possible and publicity is the
key to getting crowds."
McCool estimated that about $90 had
been spent on publicity for McDowell.
"That's not a lot of money, but we had a
lot of manpower and a real good ef­fort,"
he said.
Especially effective, in McCool's opi­nion,
were the notes chalked in the
corners of classroom blackboards.
"Organization is the secret to that. We
had a publicity chairman in charge of
blackboards alone. I don't know exact­ly
how many people worked on that,
but thev did a thorough job."
Advance publicity for McDowell was
too thorough for some students, how­ever.
"Those blasted sound trucks kept
coming by on the street every hour, and
I was studying—I mean trying to
study. I couldn't hear myself think."
"It seemed like they were making
religion into a circus," complained
another student. "It was unreal."
One instructor was less than
enthused over McDowell's ap­pearances.
"Whatever you do, be sure
not to go see him," he said, in half jest.
All the advance publicity, however,
apparently had its desired effect, as an
estimated 3,000 students heard Mc­Dowell
speak. s
A uburn may have
major rock lest
Although Rod McKuen's April 28 Ho­rizons
appearance now seems unlike­ly,
an outdoor rock festival on Max
Morris Drill Field featuring sitar vir­tuoso
Ravi Shankar may serve as a re­placement.
Horizons Dir. Sonny Strange said
Monday that problems with booking
agencies have all but canceled the Mc-
Kuen appearance. As an alternative,
SGA officials are planning—"al­though
nothing is definite"—Au­burn's
first major rock festival tenta­tively
scheduled for April 14 or May 26
or 27, "Free to the people."
Strange hopes to center the spring
festival around Shankar and another
big-name performer, yet unnamed.
Costs of the festival would be covered
by the McKuen allocation and, "hope­fully,"
assistance from the Social Life
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Children of married students |
will be admitted to the Tennessee 1
basketball game Feb. 5 and to the 1
Alabama game Feb. 19 on a trial -
basis through the efforts of the ,
Student Senate. Both parents
must accompany the children §
and present ID's at the gate.
Children must sit with their pa- I
rents and "keep cool."
Committee, sponsors of campus big-name
entertainment.
Local entertainment would supple­ment
the two big-name performances.
Possible choices for the unnamed slot
include Jefferson Airplane, Traffic,
Mountain, Black Sabbath, Leon Rus­sell,
Jethro Tull, Black Oak Arkansas,
Cosmic Evolution, and Emerson-Lake
and Palmer.
The proposed festival would need the
support of the Social Life Committee,,
said Strange, if the second big-name
group is to be scheduled. The Horizons
director said that the Committee may
be able to supply the necessary $10,000
or so if the upcoming Allman Brothers,
Chase, and Beach Boys concerts are
box office successes.
SGA Vice-Pres. Anthony Copeland
thought the festival could be carried
with success, although there are tech­nical
problems—crowd size, crowd be­havior,
litter, proper accommodations,
construction of a bandstand—that
would have to be solved.
Copeland emphasized that past ex­periences
with the "movie orgies"
which attracted large crowds last
spring and fall indicates that "people
will cooperate with rules when they rea­lize
that abuse will threaten future
events of a similar nature."
Josh
Senate defeats measures,
foils discipline proposal
The Student Senate Monday night
defeated measures to district the off-campus
senate area, to delay all disci­pline
decisions until President Phil-pott
rules on the discipline report and
postponed action on a proposal to make
the position of station manager of
WEGL-FM an elected position.
The districting proposal would have
divided the off-campus area into three
districts with three senators elected
from each one. Presently, all nine of the
off-campus senators are elected at
large.
Bill Anderson, senator from the
School of Business and author of the
proposal, said that the plan would en­courage
more candidates .to run since
they would have a smaller area in
which to campaign. Anderson also said
that because of the smaller area the
cost of running for office would be
greatly reduced.
He added that it would bring the
senators closer to the students since
they would have a defined area to re­present.
Rob Lofton^ off-campus senator, said
that he didn't think the plan would ac­complish
its purpose of bringing the
Senate closer to the people it re­presents.
"Let's face it, how many of us
this year went back to the students to
find out what they thought. Just be­cause
there were districts wouldn't
make anyone go back any more often."
Other objections were raised that it
would be impossible to make sure that
everyone voted in their proper dis­tricts.
After extended debate the motion
was defeated by a vote of 15-10.
Following the defeat of the pro­posal,
Anderson said that he thought
the Senate was shirking its respon-siblity
and that he would likely bring
the plan up later for another vote.
Jim Lester, off-campus senator,
sponsored the resolution that would
have requested the University Dis­cipline
Committee to postpone action
on all discipline cases until President
Philpott makes a final decision on the
matter.
The Senate discipline recommenda­tions
are currently being studied by an
Advisory Committee appointed by
Philpott. Sources close to the matter re­port
that the committee will complete
its study by the end of the quarter.
Lester said that since the new dis­cipline
policy would likely be more
lenient—it would be unfair to try stu­dents
under the old policy when the
new one is so close to being enacted.
Other senators objected and said
that this proposal would create a
serious backlog of cases and would
leave many students uncertain of their
standing.
It was also said that since many of
the proposed changes in the discipline
policy involve the use of drugs and that
many of the cases now before the Dis­cipline
Committee involve areas other
than drugs it would be unfair to make
all students wait.
In a voice vote the senate decidedly
defeated the measure.
In other action the senate approved a
resolution requesting that Governor
Wallace "seriously consider" ap­pointing
a woman to the Board of
Trustees.
The resolution advocating the ap­pointment
of a woman to the Board of
Trustees was made necessary by the
death of long-time Board member,
Roberts Brown, last November.
The motion that would have made
the station manager of WEGL an
elected position was tabled for two
weeks.
A resolution requesting that Pat Sul­livan's
jersey number bepermanently
retired won unanimous approval.
The next meeting of the Student
Senate will be Feb. 7 at 6:45 in the
Comer Conference Room.
Josh draws
large crowds
By Patti Lair
Plainsman Staff Writer
Riding into Auburn on a wave of
painted shop windows and colored
pamphlets, Josh McDowell, the travel­ing
representative of Campus Crusade
for Christ, spoke to large crowds of stu­dents
earlier this week.
Monday night, Josh spoke before a
crowd of about 850 on the prophecy,
"What You Don't Know May Hurt
You." Tuesday at noon, he spoke on the
nine reasons why Christianity is intel­lectually
feasible, "The Nine Point
Whammy." Tuesday night, before an
audience of about 1800, Josh brought
his lecture series to a close with a talk
on how to achieve "Maximum Sex."
"What You Don't Know May Hurt
You," concerned the Biblical prophe­cies
about the second coming of Christ.
"Prophecy," he stated, "is given to con­firm
the Bible as God's word. Not only
does it strengthen the believer's faith,
but it induces the non-believer to con­sider
Christianity more seriously when
these prophecies start coming true."
He noted that a few years ago people
laughed at the thought of any of these
prophecies being realized. But accord­ing
to Josh they stopped laughing so
hard when the key puzzle part, the re­turn
of the Jew to the land of Palestine,
fell in place on May 15,1948. He sees the
military-political powers mentioned in
prophecy as forming: Russia to the
north, the Arab Alliance to the south,
China to the east, and the Common
Market to the west. The Battle of Ar­mageddon
should, according to Josh,
take place with these powers on the
plain of Megiddo in the Middle East.
Josh then began an in-depth listing
of a number of fulfilled and soon to be
fulfilled prophecies which will culmi­nate
in "the seven year countdown."
This seven year period will be the time
of reckoning. It will begin when the
"Age of the Church" ends. It will be
during these seven years that humani­ty's
fate, salvation or self-destruction
shall be determined.
He recommended that the book of
"Revelations" should be read, not in a
symbolic sense, but as a realistic des­cription
of what today's weapons are
capable of.
He pointed out that his remarks were
not the official view of Campus Cru­sade
or anyone else. But that they were
the result of his own inves-tigation and
research.
In his talk on "Maximum Sex," Josh
emphasized that the purpose of sex is
not merely procreation. Sex allows two
people to unify as one. Not only physi­cally,
but also as souls and spirits. If
one of these three dimensions—physi­cal,
soul or spiritual— is left out, the re­lationship
is diluted so that the maxi­mum
potential is not realized.
According to Josh, there are three ba­sic
barriers which prevent maximum
sex or maximum unity from being
achieved. These are 1) being satisfied
with a lust love instead of a true love, 2)
spiritual development being initiated
in the wrong way in the relationship,
and 3) premarital sex.
After finishing his schedule in Au­burn,
Josh traveled to New Orleans
where he will speak on the Louisiana
State University campus.
Paulsen speaks Tuesday
Pat Paulsen, 1968 Straight Talking
American Government (STAG) Party
presidential candidate, will speak
Tuesday at 8:30 p.m. in Memorial Col­iseum.
Paulsen's program, "Pat Paulsen
Looks at the 70's," is described by
promotional material as "an amalga­mation
of comicality, irrationality and
unconformity."
Best-known for his unsuccessful
presidential campaign of 1968, Paul­sen
denied rumors of his candidacy
until the last minute, saying, "I have
not only denied it to nationwide
audiences on television, but spent con­siderable
time and expense traveling
around the country, visiting and
subsidizing groups of loyal supporters
who denv it too."
Paulsen finally yielded and decided
to enter the race. Guided by his cam­paign
manager Tom Smothers, he
waged a full mock campaign, complete
with two 89-cent-a-plate testimonial
dinners.
Although Paulsen did not win the
presidential election, he was honored
by President Nixon who gave him
Inaugural License Plate number 0000.
Informed sources are hinting that
Paulsen may be preparing to have an­other
shot at the nation's highest of­fice,
but Paulsen has not announced
his intentions at this time.
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Paulsen
Paulsen was born in Washington
and grew up in San Francisco. He
worked at a variety of odd jobs before
he succeeded as a coffee-house
comedian. Paulsen has been charac­terized
as a "comedian with sad eyes
and a body to match who, with unglib,
leathery, beat face can get a laugh
without telling a joke."
The Smother Brothers, Tom and
Dick, gave Paulsen his "big break."
They featured him in weekly editorials
on their comedy hour, and the first edi­torial
Paulsen did drew 4,000 letters.
His subjects ranged from the war on
poverty: "We can win the war on
poverty by shooting a 100 beggars a
week," to sex education "I amopposed
to sex education in the schools. Let kids
today learn it where we did—in the gut­ter."
For his effort Paulsen received an
Emmy Award for the 1967-68 season.
University Concert Committee presents The Trial'
The nightmarish ordeal of a man ac­cused
and tried for an un named crime
is the subject of "The Trial," by Franz
Kafka, which will be presented tonight
at 8:15 p.m. in the Student Activities
Building.
The violently controversial adapta­tion
of Franz Kafka's novel has been
variously interpreted as a parable of a
guilt-ridden man and a clairvoyant vi­sion
of totalitarian society, "The Trial"
is produced by the National Players
and presented by Auburn University
Concert Committee.
Joseph K., the respectable bank ma­nager
of "The Trial," is arrested one
morning with no specification of charg­es
against him. He is allowed to go
about his business as usual, although
he is under arrest.
Soon Joseph's worlds begin to en­tangle.
Day and night, reality and
nightmare become indistinguishable.
He realizes that he is a victim of the op­pression
of law, the stringency of au­thority
and the torture the state can in­flict
on an individual.
Definition of drug apparatus baffles police
I t . Could you be ar- Druo low rested for p°s"
• sessing any of
these items? Don't ask police officials.
They are as confused as anypne over
the ambiguous law concerning drug
paraphenalia passed last year by the
legislature.
By Peter Zurales
Plainsman Staff Writer
Although two persons have been ar­rested
on drug "paraphenalia" charg­es
in the Auburn area alone, authori­ties
are still baffled by what legally
constitutes such apparatus.
Auburn Police Detective Lt. Frank de
Graffenried stated that the exact na­ture
of the law would not be known un­til
cases are tried and court interpreta­tions
are handed down.
Section 507(a) of the Alabama Penal
Code states: "It is unlawful to possess
an opium pipe or any device, contri­vance,
instrument, or paraphenalia
used for unlawfully injecting or smok­ing"
illegal drugs.
The law is unclear on many points.
The terms "any device, contrivance,
instrument, or paraphenalia" are am­biguous.
Further, it is not clear whether or not
persons may be charged with posses­sion
of paraphenalia without being
charged for possession of an illegal
drug at the same time. As the law reads,
literally, it is not necessary for illegal
drugs to be present for an arrest on pa­raphenalia
charges. It would seem,
however, from studying the law, that
an illegal drug would be necessary to
prove that the instruments were ac­tually
used for illegal purposes.
Section (b) of the law goes on to say,
"It is unlawful to visit or to be in any
room or place where any (illegal drug)
is being unlawfully smoked or used
with knowledge that such activity is oc­curring."
Penalties here are not so vague. Con­viction
for the first offense on either of
these sections could mean as much as
one year in the county jail. Conviction
of a previous drug offense in Alabama
or any other state could mean impri­sonment
anywhere from two to fifteen
years.
Guilty without cause and without
any knowledge of his guilt, Joseph K. is
finally driven to his only free­dom—
death.
Actor-director-writer Jean Louis Bar-rault
and Andre Gide, called a giant of
French literature, collaborated to pro­duce
this stage adaptation of Kafka's
novel.
Critic Martin Eslin has described the
Gide-Barrault adaptation as "bring­ing
the dream world of Kafka to a tri­umphant
unfolding on the stage." He
names Kafka as a decisive influence on
the Theatre of the Absurd.
"The Trial" is one of three works of
fiction on which the posthumous fame
of Franz Kafka, who died in 1924 at the
age of 41, rests. 'The Trial," "The Cas­tle,"
and "Metamorphosis" have
achieved the status of modern myths.
Auburn students will be admitted
free upon presentation of their student
I.D. cards. General admission for fa­culty,
staff, and townspeople will be $2.
Tickets are on sale in room 306 of the
Auburn Union and will be on sale at the
door.
THE AUBURN PUINSMMI Thursday, January 27, 1972
Housemothers
"Housemothers or appropriate chaperone substitutes
must be present in the fraternity house during the open
hours of visitation," according to Katharine Cater,
dean of women. Coed visitation has been forbidden in
approximately nine fraternities which have failed to
meet this requirement.
Enrollment increase
Preliminary figures on enrollment at Auburn's two
campuses for winter quarter show the combined num­ber
of students registered is 15,197 for a 4.8 per cent in­crease
over the same period last year.
Dr. Wilbur A. Tincher, director, Educational Services,
said 13,618 have registered at the main campus for a 1.4
per cent increase over last winter's 13,434.
Two innovative courses
Two new "innovative" courses will be offered next
quarter through the Family and Child Development e£-
fice of the Department of Home Economics. Offered at 8-
9 a.m. Monday-Friday will be "Consumer Oriented Le­gislation"
(SE 333), a chronology and history of con­sumer
legislation. Also offered at 9-10:30 a.m. Monday
and Wednesday will be "Women's Changing Roles and
Potentialities," an analysis of women's roles in present
society.
Home It Deportment Head
Dr. John Touliatos, assistant professor of the School
of Home Economics since September, has just been
named head of the Department of Family and Child
Development.
Student Opinion Surveys useful in starting campus programs
By Pat Malone
Plainsman Staff Writer
"How many children do
you plan on having?"
"What contraceptives do
you use or plan on using in
the future?"
These are some examples
of questions that students are
asked by the Student Govern­ment
Association sponsored
"Opinion Surveys."
Susan Hultgren, director of
the survey program defines
her job as, " ask questions,
get the results, and get them
back" to the organization re­questing
the information.
The polls are useful in get­ting
campus programs
started according to Miss
Hultgren. "Why institute a
program if you don't know
how students will react to it,"
she added. .
An example of how the
SGA can use results of the
surveys is the proposed stu­dent
golf course. "Do the stu-
China: hot topic
Sigma Delta Pi
Sigma Delta Pi, Spanish honorary, is taking applica­tions
for membership. To be eligible, one must have a 1.5
grade point overall and have had at least one Spanish li­terature
course. Applications are in the Foreign Lan­guage
Department on the eighth floor of Haley Center.
Deadline is Feb. 1.
The drama, debate and
controversy centering
around the recent seating of
Communist China in the
United Nations is expected to
unfold in miniature when Au­burn
conducts its second an­nual
Model United Nations
on Feb. 3-5.
An estimated 250 college
students from about 15 dif­ferent
universities are ex­pected
to attend the event to
be held in the Union
Ballroom. Each student
selects a country then
represents that country in
debate and resolutions dur­ing
the Model U.N.
The three-day event will
feature and address Feb. 4 by
Amb. William Tapley Ben­nett
Jr., deputy represen­tative
of the United States in
the United Nations Security
Council.
Ed Rudd, SGA secretary of
political affairs, said, "Reg­istration,
thus far, indicates a
large number of students
seeking to represent Red
China.
"We had some hot issues
last year with the mid-east
crisis and this year looks to
be equally eventful with the
recent admission of Red
China into the U.N.," Rudd
said. /
dents want it or not?" of­ficials
wondered. The
surveys indicated that they
did.
The survey questions
usually come from organiza­tions
such as The Inter-fraternity
Council (IFC)
SGA, and University com­mittees.
However, anyone
can make suggestions or pro­pose
survey questions.
"People don't realize what
students think," claims Miss
Hultgren. In her opinion;
answers to the survey ques­tions
are usually very level­headed.
"On the contracep­tive
question for example
only two or . three answered
that they never planned to
use one," she said.
Final results go to various
University officials such as
President Philpott, Dean
Cater, Paul Till of Universi­ty
Relations or SGA officers.
Survey results are also sent
to organizations such as As­sociated
Women Students
and the Student Senate.
Because the first survey
conducted last quarter was
mainly for the use of
organizations, the results
have not been made public.
The results of the second sur­vey
should concern some
areas of general interest to
the public. Results will be
sent to the "Birmingham
News" and other outside
publications.
According to Miss Hult­gren,
the compiled statistics
are "verv accurate." At least
two per cent of student en­rollment
must be polled (300
students). This is the
standard set by Sonny
Strange, last year's director
of the surveys.
Usually, at least 450 stu­dents
are questioned, how­ever.
Classes are carefully
chosen to provide a true
cross-section of Auburn stu­dents.
Students surveyed are
asked to indicate their sex,
class, and curriculum;
names, however, are never re­quested.
After the completed sur­veys
are checked for errors,
they are sent to Mary Martin
Hall where a machine re­cords
the answers on tape.
This tape is sent to Com­mons
for printouts of results.
Presently the surveys in­dicate
only results in terms of
numbers of students; in the
future, Miss Hultgren hopes
to break the data down in
terms of sex, class and
school.
The director added that she
had encountered problems
with her committee of as­sistants;
of the 15 people on
her committee last quarter,
three remain* This loss is
due, sne said, to conflicting
schedules and loss of in­terest.
She is wary of volunteers:
"Too many volunteers aren't
good in our case because the
quality of the work must be
carefully controlled."
Future activities for the
survey committee include the
possibility of conducting a
poll similar to "Playboy"
magazine's student survey
published annually in the
September issue.
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Senate holds hearing
about health services
The Student Senate will
hold public hearings con­cerning
health services Mon­day
at 3 p.m. in HC 1203,_
Anthony Copeland, Stu­dent
Government vice-presi­dent
and president of the Se­nate,
said that the purpose of
the hearing was to inform
students of what the Senate
was doing in this area and to
find out what students
thought about the health ser­vices.
Copeland said that he
thought the Senate had not
been doing a^oodjenough job ^
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ion. He s i r a t h a t the Senate
had been relying on student
opinion surveys and they are
a "bit too slow."
At its last meeting the Se­nate
passed resolutions pro­posing
that the University
ask the American College
Health Association to evalu­ate
student health services at
Auburn and to set up a stu­dent
operated dispensary to
act in conjunction with the
School of Pharmacy.
Copeland, said that his of­fice
had received more com­plaints
this quarter about
Drake Infirmary than it did
on the Library last quarter.
He went on to say that this
led him to believe that servic­es
at the infirmary were get­ting
"worse rather than bet­ter."
He added that most of
the complaints were about
the service in general.
Don Haisten, senator from
the School of Pharmacy said
he had studied health service
situations in many other
schools and found that Au­burn
was one of the worst.
Haisten said that he hoped
that the hearing would help
to focus attention on the ques­tion
and to get more students
interested.
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Partners aid students
If B^MJ (UN**
Arts, Sciences enrollment increases
'Auburn students are"
branching out and exploring
new possibilities, and it
seems that they're turning to
the liberal arts," said Dr. Ed­ward
Hobbs, dean of Arts
and Sciences.
Dr. Hobbs was referring to
a major enrollment shift at
Auburn over the past two
years. In that time, engineer­ing
enrollment has declined
26 per cent while arts and
sciences enrollment has in­creased
nearly 25 per cent.
Dean of Engineering J.
Grady Cox attributed the de­crease
in enrollment to seve-
Pettigrew speaks
on behavior
at 2 day seminar
"Racial behavior must be
changed before feelings of
racial prejudice can be
erased," Harvard Professor
Thomas F. Pettigrew said in
his first address at a seminar
on "Prejudice in Human
Relations" Monday after­noon.
The seminar was co-spon­sored
by the Departments of
Counselor Education and
Sociology and supported by
the University Lectures Com­mittee.
"The norm is to be racist,
and until actual behavior
changes, the norm will not be
changed. The acceptance of
blacks has not occurred until
after desegregation of major
institutions," the investiga­tor
and writer on racial ten­sion
also said.
Dr. Pettigrew said "that
these norms are changing
faster in the South than in
the North.
Racism in institutions is
not necessarily deliberate.
Certain policies which dis­criminate
against blacks
may have been instigated to
serve other positive func­tions.
This institutional
racism, then, must be cor­rected
by a new structure in
the system that will still
serve the functions of the old
system but is not racist," Dr.
Pettigrew said.
"Institutional racism sup­ports
individual racism, but
it need not be headed by
racists. It is also difficult to
combat effectively," Dr. Pet­tigrew
said.
He said that there are
predominantly black and
white colleges side-by-side,
particularly in the South,
that could benefit from each
other. He suggested that Au­burn
and Tuskegee Institute
could cooperate more with
each other.
A film, "The Black and
White Uptight," followed the
lecture. There was panel and
group discussion on the film.
ral factors, nationally and lo­cally.
"Nationally, there is a
lot of anti-technology feel­ing,"
he said. "And, of course,
there are the widely-publiciz­ed
cutbacks in the space and
defense industries that have
left engineers unemployed."
Dr. Cox said, however, that
these cutbacks are "much
overplayed."
"Of course, the days of en­gineering
students getting
five or six job offers when
they graduate are gone," he
noted. "But students are av­eraging
one job offer, or more,
when they graduate. There
are very few unemployed Au­burn
engineering gradu­ates."
A local factor in the de-_
cline in engineering enroll­ment
is the presence of six en­gineering
schools in the
state, according to Dr. Cox.
"That's an awful lot of engi­neering
schools in relation to
the population of Alabama,"
he said.
Entering freshmen have
shown a preference for the
arts and sciences curricula.
Forty per cent of entering
freshmen in fall, 1971, enrol­led
in arts and sciences.
"Admission policies have
hurt engineering enroll­ment
too," said Dr. Cox.
"More girls are being admit­ted
each year, and unfortu­nately,
not many of them
sign up for engineering."
Dr. Hobbs attributed the in­crease
in arts and sciences
enrollment to new programs
and departments in the
School of Arts and Sciences.
"The economic situation has
given us some former e n g i ­neering
students," he said.
"But the School of Arts and
Sciences is coming into its
own."
"The newly-organized de­partments
of Political Sci­ence,
Sociology, and Geology
are creating quite a bit of in­terest,"
he noted. "And the
new curricula in Law En-
IK votes to make
house mother optional
By Ricky Gordon
Plainsman Staff Writer
In a special meeting Tues­day
night, the Inter-fraterni­ty
Council (IFC) voted to
make the employment of a
fraternity house mother op­tional
with the final decision
resting on the brothers of
each house.
Another resolution passed
would permit each fraternity
to regulate house visitation
hours for coeds with the re­gulations
registered with
Dean of Women Katharine
Cater.
Also passed was an amend­ment
to their constitution
which will make the presi­dent
of each fraternity the of­ficial
representative to the
IFC. Previously the fraterni­ties
had the option of select­ing
a member other than the
president to represent them
at the meetings. The amend­ment
was revised to allow the
fraternity to be represented
by the president's immediate
successor in the event that
the president is unable to at­tend.
Before the revision, the
fraternity would lose its vote
if the president was not at the
meeting.
Tom Jones, president of the
IFC, cited several reasons for
the proposal of the amend­ment.
Among those mention­ed
were the inexperience of
some of the representatives
and their inability to speak
knowledgeably on affairs
concerning their fraternity
and campus. Jones believes
that the presidents' council
will open new vistas of com­munication
and understand­ing
in the Greek system be­cause
the presidents are more,
aware of the attitudes and thet
forcement and Hospital Ad­ministration
are attracting
students."
Dr. Hobbs also said that
Auburn graduates are doing
well in getting accepted in
professional schools.
The decline in engineering
enrollment necessitated dis­missing
two faculty mem­bers,
according to Dr. Cox.
"We hated to have to do
it—they were both very com­petent
men."
The increase in arts and
sciences enrollment has
created some problems, espe­cially
in chemistry labs. "We
do want to keep the quality of
teaching up, so we have clos­ed
the chemistry lab sections
when they fill up to prevent
overcrowding," said Dr.
Hobbs. "But, on the whole,
the faculty has kept pace, and
we're very pleased with the
job they're doing."
Students who switched
from engineering to arts and
sciences gave varied rea­sons
for their change. "I
switched because I flunked
calculus," said one student.
"I wanted to branch out
and take some electives—es­pecially
psychology," said
another. "I saw three years of
labs, technical courses, and
math ahead of me—I didn't
see how that was going to
help me relate to other people
or find out anything about
problems of their fraternity/ life.'' '
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Applications available
for Tiger Cub positions
Applications are now be­ing
accepted for editor and
business manager of the 1972
"Tiger Cub."
Applications may be pick­ed
up at the Office of Student
Affairs until Feb. 7 at noon.
The Board of Student Com­munication
will meet shortly
thereafter to select the editor
and the business manager.
The qualifications for these
positions include the follow­ing:
each candidate must
have completed at least 80
quarter hours prior to the
quarter in which the selec­tion
is made; each candidate
must have a cumulative
grade point average of at
least 1.00; and each candi­date
must be a regular under­graduate
student.
Each candidate must have
one year's experience on any
Auburn publication. Each
candidate must agree that he
will help orient his succes­sor.
Each candidate must agree
that he will accept and fol­low
the Board of Student Pu­blication's
Statement of Poli­cy
for the "Tiger Cub" and to
comply with any rules and re­gulations
adopted by the
Board. Copies of these regu­lations
may be obtained from
the secretary of the Board.
By Greg Lisby
Plainsman Staff Writer
If you are a student and are
having problems in biology,
mathematics or history, the
Study Partners Program
may be able to help you.
Evaluation Services, a divi­sion
of The Student Develop­ment
Services, is sponsoring
the program in hopes that it
will help students who might
have troubles in their courses
and adjusting to university
life. While specifically aimed
to help freshmen and soph­omores,
all undergraduate
students are welcome.
The sessions are held in
Haley Center, Monday-
Thursday, from 7-10:30 p.m.
The history study partner is
in Room 1224, biology in 1226
and mathematics in 1222.
When asked about the pos­sibility
of study partners in
other fields, Mrs. Elizabeth
Powell, psychometrist and
coordinator of the program,
replied that if she received
several requests for a study
partner in a particular sub­ject,
steps would be taken to
try to obtain one.
As for the study partners
themselves, Mrs. Powell
says, "Study partners were
selected because of their high
academic standing and are
approved by the respective
academic departments in
which they are tutoring."
Debby Akers, 4GHY, is the
study partner in history; Dan
Allen, 4BI, in biology; and
Dan Cole, 4AE, in math­ematics.
Several students who have
sought help from the Student
Study Partners Program
were asked their opinions of
the effectiveness of the pro­gram.
Philip Atkinson, 2LT, said.
Dean Rusk
cancels
at Auburn
| Dean Rusk, former Secre-
* tary of State and nowprofes--
sor of international law at the
University pf Georgia Schoor
of Law, was unable to appear
at Auburn yesterday be­cause
he contracted a case of
the flu, according to Lowell
Ledbetter, activities adviser,
Office of Student Affairs.
Rusk was scheduled to
speak for several Political
Science classes, for students
in Haley Center at 4 p.m., and
for the initiation banquet of
Alpha Lambda Delta/Phi
Eta Sigma honorary fresh­man
society.
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Football and religion
If we didn't know better, we'd think
there had been a football game this
week.
All of the store windows in town are
painted up and every blackboard on
campus is filled with slogans and an­nouncements.
The obnoxious sound
truck cruised around town all day
Monday and Tuesday disturbing bu­sy
students and afternoon nappers.
But it wasn't a football game or a
pep rally that everyone was so excit­ed
about. It was instead, the fact that
evangelist Josh McDowell spoke on
campus this week.
All of this excitement demonstrat­es
to us t h a t Auburn students hold the
rather dubious distinction of being ex­citable
over only two subjects—foot­ball
and religion.
We have no quarrel with the idea of
fever-pitched emotional displays
about the pros and cons of Howard
Cosell and Josh McDowell, but we do
wish that some of this energy and en­thusiasm
could somehow be put to
constructive use.
We wish, for example, that all of
those students who have been so fired
up about hearing Josh speak this
week, would next week demonstrate
their avid Christianity by cranking
up a giant campaign to fight poverty
in the Auburn area or to help solve
some of the other crucial problems
that plague our society today.
It's a shame to let such energy go to
waste.
Antiquated rules
Dean of Women Katharine Cater
last week sent out a directive to coeds
ordering them not to visit a fraternity
house where there is no housemother.
Miss Cater's original memo listed
only four such houses but she now
says she has learned that some eight
or nine fraternities have no house­mother
and therefore may not be vi­sited
by coeds.
There is one exception to this direc­tive
though. If any of those fraterni­ties
are having registered social ev­ents
with chaperones, the girls will be
allowed to visit.
We hope Dean Cater is kidding.
Drawing out antiquated rules about
housemothers and registering par­ties
is certainly not going to do any­one
any good.
There is, in the first place, no possi­ble
way to enforce such silly direc­tives.
In addition to t h i s problem, very
few fraternities have taken any of
these rules seriously for the past seve­ral
years.
We find it somewhat amusing that
fraternities are subjected to regula­tions
t h a t do not affect trailers, apart­ments
or boarding houses. According
to the rule books, communal living
is perfectly legal except in a house be­longing
to a chartered fraternity.
We hope the Committee on Frater­nities
and the dean of women will
move quickly to change the rules.
Drake Infirmary
SGA YiGftJ^es*.Anthony GopeJ^hd
said this week t h a t hisjoffice and the
SGA Ombudsman have received
more complaints this year about ser­vice
in the University Infirmary than
about any other topic.
So the Student Senate will begin
holding public hearings on the infir­mary
Monday at 3 p.m. in H.C. 1203.
Students who have serious com­plaints
should make it a point to at­tend
the hearings and speak up.
In the past when similar situations
have resulted in complaints from stu­dents,
there has been a notable lack of
willingness among complainers to
help solve, the problems „w ..th.e„op-portunity
was preselgjgd.
Such was the caseorie year ago
when the Student Senate began at­tempting
to revise the football ticket
priorities and sales procedures. Very
few of the students who had com­plained
so' actively were on hand at
Senate hearings to help find solu­tions
to the problems.
We hope there will be a big turnout
Monday afternoon.
If not, we can only assume that
everyone is satisfied with the servic­es
presently offered by Drake Infir­mary.
Musk poll
Last week The Plainsman r an on its
back page a ballot for our first annual
music poll.
Since that time, we have received
numerous requests for extra copies of
the issue for people who wished to
vote in the poll but would not find a
copy of the paper.
For anyone interested in voting, we
have prepared some mimeographed
copies of the ballot which are avail­able
now at The Plainsman office in
the basement of Langdon Hall.
Students, faculty members and
administrators are all eligible to vote
and we hope interested persons' will
come by to fill out a ballot.
The results of the poll will be
printed in the Feb. 24, issue of The
Plainsman. In addition to being in­teresting
reading, we hope the results
will provide a clue to officials in
charge of entertainment at Auburn.
Come by and pick up a ballot. We'd
like to hear from you.
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The women's liberation
movement has gotten a lot of
publicity since it got rolling a
few years ago. But the leaders
of the movement feel that too
often the media coverage has
been incorrect or misleading.
So now the women's libera­tion
movement has created its
own magazine to voice opi­nions
and serve as an unof­ficial
organ of women's lib.
"Ms." (pronounced miz) hit
the newsstands for the first
time this week. Billed on the
cover as "The new magazine
for women," it's filled with
such articles as "How to Write
Your Own Marriage Con­tract,"
and "Down With Sexist
Upbringing."
From a journalistic point of
view, the magazine is
beautiful. It conforms to the
latest trends in appearance
and design and captures the
reader's interest and imagina­tion
with lively graphics and
catchy titles.
But to someone who sup­ports
and follows the libera­tion
movement, "Ms." is some­thing
of a letdown. It's not a
letdown because of any dis­agreement
with the articles or
because the contents of the
magazine are uninteresting.
"Ms." is a letdown because it
is full of articles and points of
view to which the American
public has already been ex­posed.
"Ms." in its first issue points
out, for example, that women
should be allowed free abor­tions
on demand, that married
women should be paid by their
husbands for doing house­work,
that child day-care cen­ters
should be set up by the
government to care for
children of working mothers,
etc., etc.,etc.
These demands have been
tossed around for several years
and are beginning to be tiring.
In addition to the lack of new
ideas, the revolutionary
rhetoric used by many wo­men's
lib leaders is a little ab­surd.
But perhaps the reason that
the ideas and the rhetoric and
the magazine itself are boring
is the fact that the whole basis
of women's liberation is really
a very simple idea.
The magazine and the wo­men
who put it out sound like
revolutionaries only because
the males who control Amer­ican
society have continued to
refuse to accept the very simple
idea that women are just as
good as men.
Women's liberation is a
movement to accept women as
human beings. Women are
asking to be given the same
treatment and opportunities in
life that men are given now.
The women have been
driven to write and speak like
revolutionaries only because
their very simple requests
have been rejected, ignored
and even laughed at.
To put it mildly, these wo­men
have gotten a little mad
about the whole thing.
Can you blame them?
JUtofld
Electoral problem still unsolved for 7 2 election
"Maybe if we just ignore
him, he'll go away," said
Richard Nixon to Hubert Hum­phrey
in a cartoon drawn at
the height of the 1968 pres­idential
campaign.
But the man they were talk-,
ing about, George Wallace,
didn't go away. Neither did the
problem he raised—the pro­blem
of our dangerously out­moded
system of electing the
president.
* When Wallace threatened to
deadlock the 1968 election and
throw it into the House of
Representatives, a loud clamor
for reform was beard from all
quarters. People as diverse as
Senator John Sennis from Mis­sissippi
and Senator Birch
Bayh from New York agreed
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that a change was necessary.
Immediately after the elec­tion,
an amendment to elect
the president directly had wide
support and passed the House
by a large margin. President
Nixon gave his support to the
direct-election plan, and it
looked as if Americans would
finally be able to elect their
president without the dis­torting
influence of the Elec­toral
College.
With the threat of a dead:
locked election gone, however,
the Senate balked at giving
citizens so much direct power,
and a coalition of senators
from small states killed the
measure.
The problem of electoral re­form
went unsolved.
Now another presidential
election is coming up, and Wal­lace
is off and running again.
His aides say his 1972 strategy
will be more effective. Instead
of squandering his resources
on a national campaign, they
say, Wallace will concentrate
on the South and make only
token effort in other regions.
If Wallace wins all the
Southern and border states,,
(and he plans to) he will be able
to,decide.who will be president
in an otherwise deadlocked
election. Presumably, Wallace
would make a deal
("covenant," as Wallace calls
it) with one of the other can­didates
to get Wallace's sup­port
in the Electoral College, or
the House, if it should get that
far.
George Wallace has a very
good chance of deadlocking
the presidential election, and
it is already too late to pass
an amendment to solve the
problem. A plan proposed in
1968 seems to be the best way
to neutralize the threat that
Wallace could foil the people's
will.
Under the plan., all the pres­idential
electors would pledge
po vote for the candidate
receiving the greatest number
of popular votes. Wallace has
accused the sponsors of this
plan of trying to circumvent
the Constitution, but if Wal­lace
really thought he were the
people's choice, he would
readily agree to the plan.
It would make Wallace pres­ident
if he won more popular
votes than any other can­didate.
It is clear, then, that
Wallace knows he cannot win,
and that he is in the race only
to deadlock the election and
gain personal political power.
With electors pledged in ad­vance
to support the voters'
choice, Wallace would be strip­ped
of his bargaining power,
and no candidate would have
to make a deal with him. After
the election, Congress' first
priority would be to amend the
electoral process to avoid
future crises. ""'
If the problem is just ig­nored,
it won't vanish. Maybe
if we do something about it, "it
will go away."
Compliment-Teacher, I don't need you anymore
Dr. A.K. Cadenhead
Assc. Prof, of Education
"We don't teach them; they
learn."
While it might appear that
the above statement is a play
on words, in reality there are
significant differences in the
behaviors involved. In one in­stance,
the spotlight is on the
behavior of the teacher; in the
other the behavior of the learn­er
comes more into focus.
While most people would say
that teaching and learning are
inextricably linked, in reality
this may not be the case. To as­certain
the linkage, one must
follow up the teaching act to
see if learning has really oc­curred.
Few people would argue with
the idea that educational in­stitutions
exist primarily for
the purpose of facilitating
learning. This idea is particu­larly
true at the public school
level, and it is also vital to the
instructional function in insti­tutions
of higher learning. If
this is the case, obviously the
spotlight must shift to learner
behavior, focusing on chang­es
whicb occur in students
rather than on what the
teacher does in the presence of
groups of students. The effec­tiveness
of teacher perfor­mance
should be measured in
terms of student performance
rather than in terms of teach­er
behavior looked at in isola-
An important part of the
teacher's i responsibility is
that of making some determi­nation
of what is really signi­ficant
in his field. Signifi­cance
does not necessarily
mean what he likes to teach,
but rather what is important in
his particular discipline for
students to learn. No class at
any level, should ever be view­ed
as a captive audience for a
teacher's ideas. Instead, the
teacher should seriously ask if
the ideas are significant from
the standpoint of the subject
matter and appropriate for the
particular students who are
present. In addition to teacher
preference, tradition often de­termines
what makes up a
course of study. Content is in­cluded
sometimes simply be­cause
it has always been in­cluded.
Its significance to the
goals of modern students
might need to be questioned to
a greater extent. If the crite­rion
of significance were ap­plied,
one wonders what areas
of existing curricula would no
longer receive attention.
Learning, of course, occurs
in the educational institution,
but a great deal of meaningful
learning occurs outside the
classroom. The teacher can ca­pitalize
on this reality, mak-
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ing serious efforts to relate
what is learned in the more for­mal
setting to the world out­side.
A legitimate complaint of
students is the fact that suffi­cient
relationships do not ex­ist
between the education they
receive in the classroom and
their lives outside the school or
university setting. What is
done in the classroom is often
viewed as rather artificial.
This artificiality can be reduc­ed
if formal and informal
learning- can be linked more
closely.
An important function of
education is to free the indivi­dual
from ignorance, preju­dice,
and provincialism. This
liberation comes about more
readily if the individual can re­late
what he is studying to
himself as a person who exists
in the real world. Mastery of
content and/or skills prescrib­ed
by someone external to the
individual is not synonymous
with liberation. Hence, the
teacher serves an important
function in assisting the stu­dent
in relating content or
skills to himself and to his life
in the real world. Content
alone does not liberate; the in­dividual
must see how the con­tent
can serve him and his own
purposes in life.
Perhaps one of the most va­luable
contributions a teacher
can make to a student is that of
assisting him in assuming
greater responsibility for his
own learning—helping the stu­dent
learn how to learn. In ord­er
to do so, the teacher must be
willing to let his own function
shift dramatically. This new
function calls for a unique kind
of teacher behavior, the kind of
behavior which will no doubt
come nearer inspiring life long
learners. Satisfaction in teach­ing
will come from the stu­dents'
growing independence
in making decisions and in di­recting
their own learning ex­periences.
This kind of
teacher behavior will also be
rewarded by the greatest com­pliment
a teacher can receive
at any time: "Teacher, I don't
really need you anymore."
Students have more power than faculty
By Bruce Gilliland
Secretary of
Academic Affairs
The professor looked up from
his desk as he thought about
the request a student had just
made of him. He had been
sought out because he was
dedicated to educating stu­dents,
not just instructing
them, and because he was
knowledgeable on the subject
in which the student was in­terested.
The student had wanted to
know if the professor would be
willing to take part in a discus­sion
with other students about
the structure of Auburn
University, its authority
relationships and policies
which affect the operation of
the University. The discus­sion
was to be part of an Extra­curricular
Studies Program
course designed to help stu­dents
gain a better under­standing
of the many facets of
Auburn.
He had been a critic of
several policies and pro­cedures
he felt were detriment­al
to the efficient operation of
the University and to its
education of students. In a few
instances, he had made
individual attempts to bring
about some change, but with­out
success. However, the stu­dent
believed this honest man
would be willing to voice his
ideas about what he con­sidered
to be the University's
bureaucracy.
His answer came quickly.
"No."
The student was "surprised.
"Why?"
It would do no good, he said,
and it would only get him into
more trouble. He had made
public statements before
which were critical of his
superiors' lack of effort at im­proving
educational pro­grams
and had only suc­ceeded
in "getting his head
knocked in." He no longer
believed that it was possible
for a faculty member to do any­thing
about the problems with­in
the University.
The student asked about the
University Senate, but the
professor just laughed. The
student admitted that, in six
months, the only significant
policy cbange he had seen had
be«»n one initiated by students.
"You know," the professor
said, "the students have more
power on this campus than the
faculty members. The ad­ministration
will listen to
them but not to the faculty."
"Our goals are different,"
said the student. "We're con­cerned
with protecting the stu­dents'
rights. The faculty is
more concerned with acade­mic
excellence."
"Is it?" the professor asked.
"I doubt that academic excel­lence
is a criteria at not only
Auburn, but also at many
other universities. It's certain­ly
not the dominant goal of the
administration."
"That's a harsh indict­ment,"
the student said.
"Then why do so many pro­blems
go uncorrected? What
about tbe administrator who
refused to help a professor be­cause
the professor had
pointed out problems within
the administrator's area of
concern? Why are you stu­dents
so concerned with
academic grievances?
"Why does it take a year to
get a new graduate program
approved? What about the
instructor who is rumored to be
in line for a major administra­tive
position, yet professors
and graduate students alike
agree that he is teaching his
course both poorly and incor­rectly?
Why have some stu­dents
done more research work
and publication than some of
their professors?"
He stopped. "I'm sorry, but
I've got to live here. I've given
up trying," he said as he
turned back to his work.
"Well, I'm sure I can get
someone else," the student
replied. But as he got up to
leave, he did not know whore to
go.
Letters to the editor
Thursday, January 27,1972 THE AUBURN PUIN*MJW
University Student Senate refuses proposal to postpone discipline cases
Editor, The Plainsman:
Again we are confronted with the re­luctance
of both university admini­strators
and students to come out of
their caves, or ivory towers as the case
may be, and do something to correct
Auburn's present unjust discipline sys­tem.
The most recent obstacle to change
was the refusal of theStudentSenateto
pass a resolution that would have re­quested
Dr. Philpott to postpone cases
under the present system until final ac­tion
is taken on the new proposed code.
The revised code is now held up in an
advisory committee.
It appears that the Senate's objec­tions
to the resolution were that post­ponement
of discipline cases would
create a backlog for the committee and
leave the students concerned "hang­ing."
Other objections were that not all
the cases involved drugs and that sus­pension
of discipline hearings might
jeopardize the safety and welfare of the
University community.
These objections of the senators are
over-cautious and unfounded. First, the
number of cases coming before the dis­cipline
committee is small enough (ex-cept
during times of large drug busts)
that no significant backlog would re­sult
from a six week postponement. The
students would not be left "hang­ing"—
they have already been hung. It
would furthermore be in the best inte­rest
of the students concerned (espe­cially
in drug cases) to have their hear­ings
delayed until a fairer discipline
system can be introduced. Lastly, it is
hard to imagine the local police allow­ing
a person who is a genuine threat to
the campus to remain at the Universi­ty-
Anyone acquainted with Auburn dis­cipline
knows that it is university self-interest
and not the individual's wel­fare
that is paramount. And anyone ac­quainted
with various personalities in
the Student Senate knows that in the fi­nal
analysis they will always give in to
the wishes of the administration rath­er
than stick out their necks for the stu­dents.
The situation is now that Auburn is
operating under an oppressive disci-,
pline system; the proposed revision is
in committee and may be compromised
in major areas later; the University is
up to their old tricks again in discipline
and the Student Senate is too scared to
open their mouths.
John L. Saxon 3GPO
Marc McElhaney 3LSY
Hypocrisy
exists at AU
Editor, The Plainsman:
Terms such as "radical" and
"maximum sex" on any other
advertisements seem to bring nothing
but cries of "decadent youth" and
obscenity. When used by Campus
Crusade for Christ, however, they sud­denly
become accepted as lily white.
Just one more example of the double
standard that exists on this campus.
Harlan Stafford, 3GSC
'New Breed'
helps game
Editor, The Plainsman:
I was glad to see the letter from Mrs.
Myers in the Jan. 13 issue of The Plains­man
regarding the sloppy and appa­rently
unconcerned attitudes of those
cheerleaders cheering at the Auburn
home basketball games. She beat me to
the typewriter for it was obvious from
her letter that our thoughts were the
same.
However, I was much encouraged by
the change in attitudes at the Georgia
game. The squad actually wore neat
clothes, cheered the team on and off the
floor between periods, attempted to
bring the faculty into the cheering acti­vity
and presented the fans with a wel­come
and vivacious group of pom-pom
girls. All this, I feel, added to the moral
support given to Coach Bill Lynn's cag-ers.
The appearance of the pep band
since the Florida game is also a wel­come
sight and a much more welcome
sound than sleepy time music played
over the amplifying system in the Coli­seum.
Even player Jim Retseck stated in
the "Opelika Auburn News" that hav­ing
the fans behind them during the
Georgia and Florida games was like
"having a sixth man on the floor." Au­burn
has a good team this year...they
work as a team and have individual
skills that seem to click when the fans
cheer them on.
Let's not let this fine team die in the
shadow of our already famous football
team...with "Big Ernie," "Leaping
Leapheart," "England's English,"
Henry Harris and Jim Retseck we have
as fine a starting line-up as any team
in the SEC.
Come to a basketball game and see
them in action...helped, of course, by
our "New Breed" of cheerleaders, pom­pom
girls and pep band.
Mrs. H. N. Engel
Thursday, January 27
Auburn University Concert Committee presents "The Trial,"
8:15 p.m. Student Activities Building.
Reader's Theatre production, "A Leonard Cohen Postiche,"
8:15 p.m. 1203 Haley Center.
Kappa Alpha Theta Founder's Day.
Auburn University Sport Parachute Team, 7 p.m., Union
Building.
Friday, January 28
Free Spectra Movie, "Hotel," 7 and 9 p.m., Langdon Hall.
Saturday, January 29
A.U. Children's Theatre Production "Gammar Gurton's
Needle," 3 p.m. and 7:30 p.m.
Dinner Dance, 6:30 p.m., Campus Club and Faculty Club,
Willow Point Country Club, Alexander City.
Free Spectra Movie, "Hotel," 7 and 9 p.m., Langdon Hall.
B.S.U. Skit Night, 7 p.m., at the Baptist Student Union.
Sunday, January 30
A.U. Children's Theatre Production "Gammar Gurton's
Needle," 3 p.m. and 7:30 p.m.
Free Union Movie, "Hotel," 7 and 9 p.m., Langdon Hall.
Monday, January 31
A.U. Children's Theatre Production "Gammar Gurton's
Needle," 7:30 p.m.
: Free Fine Arts Movie, "General," 7 and 9 p.m., Ballroom.
Auburn Chamber Music Society "Juliard Quartet," 8:30 p.m.,
Langdon Hall.
•
Tuesday, February 1
Registration for spring quarter.
Bridge Lessons, 7:30 p.m., Auburn Union.
Horizons Symposium, Pat Paulsen, 8:30 p.m., Memorial Col­iseum.
Circle K Club Meeting, 9 p.m., HC 1224.
Wednesday, February 2
Registration for spring quarter.
Auburn University Choral Concert, 8:15 p.m. Union Ball­room.
Aerospace Engineering presentation: "Preparing for the Job
Interview," 7 p.m., Wilmore 155, open to all A.U. students.
NOTES AND NOTICES
Delta Delta Delta social sorority is going to award a $400
scholarship to a full-time undergraduate woman student on the
basis of academic record, contribution to campus life, and
financial need. The winner need not be a sorority member and
will also, by virtue of having won the local competition^ be
eligible to compete for a $1,000 National Tri-Delta scholarship.
Applicants should pick up forms at the Dean of Women's office
and return them no later than March 1, 1972.
NOTES OF INTEREST
Interested people and groups are needed for planning and work­ing
on Earth Week Activities, April 17-22, sponsored by Zero
Population Growth. All ideas and talents can be used. Contact
ZPG at 821-7994 or 826-6645.
All graduating seniors who will not be on campus spring quar­ter
can make arrangements for a copy of the 1972 Glomerata in the
Glom Office, 314 Union Building from 1 to 4:30 p.m. daily.
The Opera Studio of the Music Department will present an
"Evening of Opera" the first week in May. Scenes will be selected
from works by Verdi, Puccini, Mozart, Menotti and Barber. Any­one
interested in auditioning for any of the scenes may contact
Mary Joe Howard, 208 Music Annex, 826-4165. Opera Studio, MU
228, Offers one credit hour and meets in the Music Hal! at 3 p.m.
Attention March Graduates—All candidates for undergraduate
degrees in March are being notified to report to the Registrar's Of­fice-
Graduation Section for a final credit check. All under­graduates,
except Student Teachers, must have a credit check their
final quarter in school. All letters will be mailed by Feb. 2.
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THE AUBURN PUINSVUN Thursday, January 27, 1972
Children's Theatre presents play
Theatre
The loss of a prized possession
touches off plenty of action and
funny moments in the Auburn Uni­versity
Children's Theatre adaptation of "Gammer Gurton's
Needle." Ann Ingram, 4TH, and Jef Lanier,3TH, are featured
in this world premiere of the early Renaissance English farce.
Photo hv R.C. Dennis.
By Patti Field
Plainsman Staff Writer
A modernized version of
"Gammer Gurton's Needle,"
early Renaissance English
farce, will stage its world
premiere here.
First performances of the
original musical production
of the Auburn University
Children's Theatre will be at
3 p.m. and 7 p.m. on Satur­day
and Sunday.
In a combined effort, the
entire cast h a s completely re­written
the original script on
the Old English version and
added some songs to up date
the Renaissance comedy. All
changes have been developed
under the watchful eye of
Director Leo Comeau.
The style h a s been changed
from iambic pentameter
rhyme to prose, and the lan­guage
has been simplified so
that children can under­stand
it.
According to Director
Comeau, "In all my ex­perience
and years, t h i s is the
funniest children's play I've
ever worked with." The basic
plot remains similar to that
of the orginal.
The story deals with a lady
who loses her most prized
possession, a steel needle.
The fun arises when every­one
joins in the search for the
lost object. The needle is
finally found but in the pro­cess,
there is lots of action,
movement and fun.
Members of the cast in­clude
Mike Young, 2LPO, as
Diccon the Bedlam; Lee
Jackson, 2TH, as Hodge the
servant; Patty Gerringer,
4SED, as Tib the maid; and
Carol May as GrammerGur-ton.
Henry Cadenhead, 4TH,
appears as Rock, Gammer
Gurton's son; Ann Ingram,
4TH, a s Dame Chat; Bill Per­kins,
4PIR, as Doctor Rat, the
Curate.
Jef Lanier, 3TH, plays
Master Bayly the judge, and
Mary McCurtry, 2TH is Doll,
Dame Chat's maid.
Students will be admitted
Quartet performs
The "First Family of
Chamber Music in the Uni­ted
States," the Juilliard
Quartet, will perform select­ed
music Monday at 8:30 p.m.
in Langdon Hall.
The Juilliard Quartet, cele­brating
their twenty-fifth an­niversary
season, is thequar-tet-
in-residence of the Juilli­ard
School of Music in New
York and has been quartet-in-residence
at the Library of
Congress in Washington.
They will be using the in­valuable
Stradivarius in­struments
obtained through
their activities in Washing­ton.
Student tickets are free up­on
presentation of I.D. cards
and can be obtained one week
prior to the Concert a t the Au­burn
Union desk.
University Concert Choir
presents madrigal fable
"The Unicorn, the Gorgon,
and the Manticore," a unique
twentieth-century madrigal
fable, will be presented Feb. 2
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per word ($1 minimum).
Please bring check or exact
change to 109 Langdon Hall
before 10 p.m. Monday.
by the University Concert
Choir at 8:15 p.m. in the
Union Building Ballroom.
The University Dance
Council under the direction of
Dr. Louise Turner will assist.
Dr. Terrance Anderson,
director of the concert choir,
stresses that this composi­tion
of Gian Carlo Menotti is
unique for our time with roles
being danced and ac­companied
vocally and
instrumentally.
The work concerns the
three Sundays of a poet, a
strange old man living in a
castle, shunning i h e parties
of a nearby countess, not at­tending
church, and retreat­ing
from the follies and
frivolities of his neighbors.
The roles of the story will
be danced by members of the
University Dance Council.
free on presentation of I .D.
cards. Tickets are $1 and
reservations may be made by
calling 826-4154 or a t the box
office in the basement of the
Music Building Annex.
Following the production
at Auburn, the cast will car­ry
the play throughout the
state and deliver 30 per­formances
over a period of
three months. The tour will
include Crippled and Re­tarded
Children's Hospitals.
After the state-wide tour, the
play will be made into an
hour special for educational
television.
4 Hotel' -
Spectra's
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"Hotel," Spectra's free
weekend movie, is based on
the bestseller by Arthur
Hailey, and filled with sus­pense,
drama and romance.
In this second film from the
author of "Airport," the plot
includes everything from a
grand financial struggle to
the tender love story of Rod
Taylor, who stars as the
manager of the St. Gregory
Hotel, and Catherine Spaak.
The real people and real
situations centering around
the St. Gregory Hotel create
the suspense and drama in
this excellent film.
"Hotel" will be shown at 7
and 9 p.m. Friday through
Sunday at Langdon Hall.
Keaton stars
in 'The General'
Buster Keaton stars in
"The General," which is a
1926 dramatic comedy next
in the series of Fine Arts
films.
The story is about Union
raiders in the Civil War who
penetrate the Confederate
lines, steal a locomotive and
run it back to a Yankee out­post.
Keaton is Engineer John­nie
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"The General" will be
shown Monday at 7 and 9
p.m. in the Union Ballroom.
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THE AUBURN PUIN*MIN Thursday, January 27, 1972
Randy
DONALDSON
Sports Editor
Okie wrestlers
are big winners
Trent Miller and David Cathey are thinking of writing a
book entitled "How two state wrestling champs from Okla­homa
City's Classen High School ended up in Auburn" or
"Nationals, here we come."
Coach Arnold "Swede" Umbach will probably keep a co­py
at his bedside.
Because, you see, Miller and Cathey have kept Umbach
grinning all season long by compiling a 12-1 dual meet record
between them, by each winning the Atlanta Open wrestling
meet in their weight classes, and by virtually demolishing
their SEC opposition.
Miller, for instance, had his closest contests with confe­rence
foes last week against Alabama and Florida. He beat
his Alabama opponent 6-0, and his Florida contestant 8-2.
His dual meet record is 6-0.
Cathey hasn't come close to losing to an SEC opponent,
either, although he has dropped one dual meet match to East
Carolina, giving him a 6-1 dual meet mark.
Started at 0U . . .
Miller started his collegiate wrestling with (many Auburn
fans cringe at this name) Oklahoma. But, a dispute with the
coach there sent him searching for another wrestling home.
"The coach at OU wanted me to drop to 115 pounds," Miller
groaned as he remembered, "and my normal weight is 145."
"I told him that I didn't think I could do it, so he took me off
scholarship.
"Don Cathey (David's brother, and also a wrestler here)
was down here, and he recommended Auburn to me. So I
talked to Coach Umbach, and he told me to come down and
try out, and see what happened after that."
David Cathey listened to his brother's advice, too, and aft­er
sitting out a year while attending Oscar Rose Junior Col­lege
near Oklahoma City, came to Auburn.
Both Miller and Cathey have noticed a difference in the
wrestling between their home state and Alabama, if not in
quality, in interest by the fans.
Take if seriously
"People take wrestling a lot more seriously up there,"
Cathey said. "It's really more of a profession than a sport.
They put more emphasis on it, and they cater to the wrest­lers
a whole lot. QOfiS •'•'•• •• *
"They are able to give more scholarships, which, in turn,
creates more competition, and just a bigger wrestling pro­gram."
Miller agreed. "I think if the people learned more about
wrestling here in Alabama, they would like it a whole lot
more. When Oklahoma wrestled Oklahoma State (the na­tional
champs), the meet was televised and there were 6,000-
7,000 people watching in person.
"But people down here just can't get interested when they
don't know what's going on."
Things are different, too, in ways not connected with
wrestling.
"Auburn is a good deal more conservative than OU is,"
Miller said, "but I like it conservative.
"The people are nice here and things are more relaxed.
Things are relaxed more in wrestling, too, so you get to try
more things on the mats."
Cathey has spotted another difference.
"The people are nice in Auburn, but I just wish that we had
more places to eat.
Weight conscious
"When you have to as conscious of weight as 1 am (Cathey
wrestles at 126) you're always thinking of eating. So that is
why I notice the lack of places to eat."
Cathey came to Auburn at right around 150 pounds in Sep­tember,
and has had to struggle to stay at the 126 pound com­petitive
level. His routine when he weighs over 126, and a
meet is approaching, sounds gruesome.
"If I am a good bit over, I will put on two sweat suits and
(See Page 9, col. 1)
Rebound
Al Leapheart grabs off a rebound,
while four other of his teammates
rush to help in basketball action
earlier this year in Auburn. The Tigers finish up the current
string of road games with a contest against Vanderbilt in
Nashville Saturday.
Road trip tough
for Lynn's Tigers
Takedown
Auburn's Trent Mil­ler
scores a take­down
in his match
against Alabama's Mike Van Schoick in
wrestling action here last week. Miller is un­defeated
in dual meet matches this year, and
is considered a favorite in the 134-pound
class for the SEC crown. He and David
Cathey are Oklahoma transplants, and the
subject of Sport Editor Randy Donaldson
column this week.
Wrestlers lose to Florida
travel to Baton Rouge
By Jim Dailey
Assistant Sports Editor
Following a convincing
victory over Alabama's mat-men,
Auburn's grapplers saw
a five-match win streak end
against the Florida Gators
Monday. The Gator wrestlers
edged the Tigers 20-18, in a
triangular meet in
Gainesville, Fla.
Coach Umbach's wrestlers
had soundly beaten the much
improved Gators in an earlier
home match, 33-6, but were
unable to duplicate their vic­tory
this time around.
The Tigers did come away
with a victory, however, de­feating
Florida State, 33-12.
The split brought Auburn's
overall record to a .9-2 mark
analeft Umbach wondering
what happened.
"I just don't know what
happened," moaned Um­bach.
"We just didn't wrestle.
I think we sort of had a men­tal
letdown after our big vic­tory
over Alabama."
The Tiger defeat must not
be considered entirely their
own fault because Florida
certainly had a lot to do with
it as Umbach attests.. "We
had a wide margin of victory
over Florida in our last match
in regards to the team score,
but when you look at the
individual matches you
realize how close Florida
was," said Umbach.
Team captain Mike
Roberts, at 167, kept his
string of victories intact as he
captured his 26th match
without a loss, pinning his
Florida State opponent and
winning by default against
Florida. Robert's win skein is
blemished only by a tie and
includes 14 victories from
last season.
David Cathey, at 126, and
Trent Miller, at 134, swept
both of their contests as the
two Oklahoma City natives
continued to shine in the
lightweight divisions for the
Tigers.
However, another big win
streak came to an abrupt halt
against the Gators. George
Calloway, at 190, had
notched 12 consecutive vic­tories
but experienced the bit­ter
taste of defeat for the first
time this season.
Heavyweight Larry Hill
was also beaten, but his tre­mendous
victory over the
Tide's big John Hannah will
be long remembered by Au­burn
wrestling fans.
Hill defeated Hannah, 11-7,
and had the crowd on its feet
for almost the entire match.
The four time State heavy­weight
champion from Alex
City, wrestling for the first
time this year, nearly pinned
the National Prep champion
from Chattanooga twice.
Hill weighed in for the
match at 270 pounds, close to
the heaviest of his career. But
Hannah, not to be outdone,
tipped the scales at 305
pounds in street clothes.
Hill's status for the up­coming
weekend triangular
meet against LSU, Tennes­see,
and Mac Murray is in
doubt due to his shoulder, but
Umbach expects the rest of
his squad to be in top shape.
The meet will be hosted by
LSU and Umbach is anti­cipating
spirited competi­tion.
"LSU is getting tougher,"
commented Umbach. "Some
of their wrestlers who did
compete earlier in the year
have returned and should
make them stronger. I also
hear Mac Murray, of Jack­sonville,
111., has a real good
squad."
All of the Tiger's
remaining matches will be on
the road with the big one, of
course, the SEC champion­ships
at Knoxville, Feb. 25th
and 26th.
Umbach, Tiger head
mentor for 26 years, has
added another star to his
growing list of accomplish­ments.
He, along with Dr.
Warren Johnson of the Uni­versity
of Maryland, have
completed a revised edition of
"Successful Wrestling," first
printed in 1953. The book has
been termed "far ahead of
any other book on wrestling"
by Thomas Clayton, Mary­land's
first wrestling coach.
By Randy Donaldson
Sports Editor
If the Auburn basketball
team's trip to Nashville Sa­turday
to play Vanderbilt is
anything like last week's
road trip, then the team
would just as soon stay at
home.
The cagers went through a
two-loss trip, an 89-66 trounc­ing
by Alabama and a 79-72
clipping by Georgia, which, if
nothing else, showed the Tig­ers
how really difficult it is to
win on the road.
For example, Georgia and
Florida each lost to both Au­burn
and LSU on the road,
but both were able to defeat
mighty Kentucky on their
home courts. Georgia also
has defeated LSU at home, as
well as Auburn. Only Ten­nessee
and Mississippi have
been able to win more than
one road game in the SEC.
Gary England, the junior
guard in Auburn's offense, is
well aware of the difference
that a road game makes.
"Road games are harder
because when you go out
there on the court, you feel
like everyone in the place is
against you," he said after an
extra-long practice session
this week.
"It's not really the noise
that bothers you, but just the
fact that they are all pulling
against you.
"There's the little things
that make some difference,
too. You're not used to the
home team's floor, or the
backboard, so that can affect
how you play."
But while the home-court
advantage probably had a
part in both of the losses, it
was the poor play of the cag­ers
that told the final out­come.
"We just played lousy,"
England said. "It was like in
other games, we didn't start
well, and then we just never
got started.
"We just stood around and
did nothing in the Alabama
game."
Dan Kirkland had a simple
analysis for the Alabama de­feat.
"They played a good game,
and we played a bad one."
While the Alabama con­test
was a completely bad per­formance,
the Georgia game
featured one half of play that
Coach Bill Lynn said "was
just about as well as we can
Play."
In that second half, after
being behind by 12 points at
halftime, Auburn cut the
Georgia lead to three points
at 75-72 with two minutes left
Sullivan, Beasley
await NFL draft
The pro football futures of
Auburn's most famous foot­ball
pair will be decided Tues­day,
along with possibly
other Auburn seniors, when
the National Football League
holds it annual, massive col­lege
draft.
Pat Sullivan and Terry
Beasley have been listed by
pro scouts as one of the top
three collegiates at their posi­tions,
so an early, high draft
spot is assured for both.
"I really don't have much
choice about where Twill go,
of course, but I would like to
go somewhere I could be hap­py,
and where there isn't a
whole lot of disagreement
between the players and
management," Sullivan has
said. "I'm really anxious to
see what happens, though."
Beasley had no pre­ferences
either. "I just hope
that I get the opportunity to
play pro ball, and I'll be hap­py
wherever I go. I'll just go
to the team that needs a wide
receiver I guess."
Surprinsingly, one of the
most often mentioned pos­sible
pro draft picks is Terry
Page. Page, a highly-touted
high school star from Mobile,
was plagued by injuries in his
collegiate career, and con­sequently
did not play much.
But pro scouts have shown
much interest in his size (6-3,
225) and good speed.
Three Auburn lineman
have been receiving scrutiny
from the pro ranks, too, those
being Danny Speigner and
Larry Hill on the offensive
line, and Bob Brown
defensively.
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to go in the game. And the
closing of the gap was done
despite the fact that Georgia
hit all but three of its field
goals in the half, an unbe­lievable
83 per cent.
But Georgia hit four free
throws in that final two mi­nutes
to clinch the victory, re­venging
Auburn's earlier 79-
73 win.
But those games are being
forgotten in anticipation of
the contest with Vanderbilt
Saturday.
"Vandy has been a kind of
up-and-down team this
year," England said, who re­turns
to his home state to
play the game. "Kentucky
beat them by over 20 points
Monday, but they have play­ed
some really good basket­ball,
too.
"We really don't know
what to expect from them, we
just know that we need to win
the game."
In addition to the two varsi­ty
losses, the freshman squad
suffered three straight defeats
in the last week dropping its re­cord
to 6-3. The frosh lost to
Georgia Tech (79-69), Ala­bama
(86-82), and Georgia (70-
63) in their first three road
games of the season.
Basketball Stats
Retseck
Kirkland
Harris
England
Magri
Leapheart
Johnson
Christian
R. Smith
Beavers
B. Smith
FGM-FGA
89-210
82-186
58-146
56-116
27-55
33-55
32-49
24-61
11-29
4-10
1-2
Brent Sutton 0-6
PCT
.424
.440
.396
.483
.491
.600
.653
.393
.379
.400
.500
.000
REB-AVG
133-9.9
65-5.0
92-6.8
42-3.0
51-5.6
49-3.2
52-3.7
7-0.5
44-5.5
2-0.3
0-0.0
8-2.3
PPG.
16.1
14.8
12.2
10.0
8.1
7.3
5.7
5.5
3.6
2.8
0.6
0.5
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Thursday, January 27, 1972 THE AUBURN PUINCMAN
1 By Armand DeKeyser
1 Intramurals Editor
Sewell Hall and the Bomb­ers
and LCA and SC are
heading for momentuous
showdowns. All four teams
are leading their divisions.
Sewell Hall and the Bombers
are tied for the lead of Lea­gue
4 in the Independent lea­gues
and LCA is tied with SC
in Division 2 of League A.
SC and LCA will play on
Feb. 24, the last game of the
season for both teams. The
Bombers and Sewell Hall will
play on Feb. 16.
LCA had quite a scare in
their contest with KS. Even
though the score, 67-54, is a
fairly large margin of victo­ry,
the game was very close.
At half the score was knotted
up at 23-all.
Men's Intramurals
Sewell Hall, Bombers
*LCA, SC pace cagers
T hind ads host meet Saturday
LCA managed to pull the
game out of the fire within
the last three minutes of play
and won going away.
SC won in a romp over TZ,
100-32. Rick Wilker was the
leading scorer for the SC's
with 18 points. However, the
scoring was very well ba­lanced
for the SC's with four
others scoring in the double
figures.
DC continued to ride high
with a lop-sided win over
BTP, 70-25. Jimmy Stanfield
led the winners with 20
points.
Sewell Hall won their game
with the Mike Moore's, 89-63.
Scott Blackmon tossed in 26
points to lead the victors.
The Bombers, Sewell Hall's
rival, did not play this week.
Donaldson
(Continued from page 8)
run two or three miles before I go into the dry heat room," he
said. "When I go in there, I concentrate on counting to about
1500, because if I just sat there, I don't think I could last.
"After about 15 minutes in there, I will go run some more, or
wrestle some, then go back into the heat room for about 15
more minutes.
"Then I just don't eat or drink anything.
"I don't see how anybody can ever sleep the night before a
meet, because I get up two or three times to see how much
longer it is until I can get a drink of water."
Instead of the regional qualifying system to determine
who goes to the national championships in March, as was
done last year, the SEC champ will be able to go to the na­tionals
this year. Both Miller and Cathey have their sights
set on that competition.
"I think I should be able to qualify for the nationals," Mil­ler
said. "I have been able to beat just about everybody in the
Conference so far, so I'm hoping I will make it to the nation­als.
"I give a lot of credit to Coach Umbach for the success
we've had this year," Miller went on. "I knew that he was a
good coach when I came here, but he has surprised me with
all his knowledge about wrestling. The coach at Oklahoma is
one of the best around, and Coach Umbach knows as much,
if not more, than he does."
Cathey, too, has his eye on the nationals in College Park,
Maryland. "That's what everyone is doing, and I'm shoot­ing
for the nationals, too."
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The Knubs split their two!
games. They defeated Gone
Street Cougars, 87-32. M.
Huskey's 24 points helped
propell them to victory. In
their other game, the Knubs
lost to the Howitzers, 65-55.
Fred Ethridge scored 25
points to fire-up the Howit­zers.
APO whipped the AU Jay-cees,
52-47, but lost their se­cond
game of the week
against the Gunners, 66-45.
The Rip-offs lost both their
games this past week. The
Bunch just barely slipped by
them, 57-55. Hot Tea also de­feated
them, 67-54. Sixteen
points by Webb and
McClanahan paced Hot Tea.
In the Dorm division, Div.
K defeated their Neighbors
K-2,63-26. Vic Sharek contri­buted
32 points to the win.
Div. N barely got by Div. L,
50-48 with Copeland's 18
points led Div. L.
Div. A and T won big in
their games. D. Wilson's 28
points helped push Div. A
past Div. O, 64-48. Div. T
smashed Div M, 66-37. J.
Thompson tossed in 33 points
in Div. T's victory.
Many people have called
The Plainsman and the In­tramural
Department com­plaining
that they have not
seen their team's name in the
paper. Because of space limi­tations,
not all teams can be
mentioned each week. Be­sides
that, few people realize
that there are over 85 basket­ball
teams playing intramu­ral
basketball.
With the marathon track
meet out of the way, Au­burn's
track team will settle
into a more normal sort of
competition Saturday when
it takes on South Carolina
and Clemson in a triangular
meet in Memorial Coliseum
at 7:30.
The all-day affair of the Au­burn
Invitational Indoor
Track Meet was a big suc­cess,
but the South Carolina-
Clenison battle is occupying
more of Mel Rosen's atten­tion
now.
"It should be a close meet
between Auburn and South
Carolina," Rosen said. "But
Clemson could possibly de­cide
the winner.
"By that, I mean that
Clemson should be able to
score some points, but where
they do score, I think, will de­cide
the winner of the meet.
"Clemson hasn't run much
indoors this season, but
South Carolina looks like a
veteran team. South Caroli­na
finished second in the
ACC indoor meet last year, so
they should really be a good
team."
The feature event of the
meet could well be the Mile
run, with Jim Schaper of
South Carolina, Jason Hill of
Clemson, and Kit Brendle of
Auburn the main competi­tors.
Both Hill and Schaper
have recorded times in the
mile under 4:10.
Auburn's best performanc­es
in the nearly 10-hour track
meet last Saturday went to
Bresler in the 600-yard dash
and the mile relay team.
Both copped first places in
their events.
Tim Curry and Steve Rich­ards
finished second in their
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A disease of epidemic proportions is
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The short leaf pine trees around Che­wacla
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Bulldozers are now at work on park
land to clear the area of dead and dy­ing
trees to prevent accidents from fal­ling
trees and to salvage lumber from
the infected areas.
Heavy equipment has entered the
tracts and is leaving its mark on the
long time refuge of many Auburn stu­dents.
The state land along Shell Toomer
Parkway presents a most dismal spec­tacle.
Large areas of woodland have
been stripped of trees and are marked
by the tracks of heavy equipment.
The normally scenic drive from the
park entrance to the top of the moun­tain
is disrupted in acre tracts of log­ging
operations. The section of park
land along the gravel road to the quar­ry
is also the site of major timber cut­ting.
The area known by many stu­dents
as the "swing" where the road
makes a sharp left turn is hardly the
same place. The area that a few months
ago was a natural woodland, replete
with songbirds and poison ivy, is now ,
a rutted muddy logging trail. Pulpwood
truck tracks and fallen tree trunks ob­scure
the path to popular Town Creek.
Upon seeing the desecration, many
students became indignant, but inves­tigation
reveals that the State Depart-
The mud resulting
from fogging
operations is in
contrast to the
loblolly pine needles
still unaffected
by Tittle Leaf/
ment of Parks and Recreation is just as
upset as any ecology-minded student..
The trees are dying, and are creating
hazards to the forest. Chewacla park
manager John Meredith said that the
disease luckily does not affect the long-needle
pine or the hardwoods, but that
the short needle pines are doomed. The
present lumbering is an attempt to sal­vage
as much lumber from the dying
trees as possible, so the money can be
used for improvements of state parks,
Meredith said.
The disease, called "Little Leaf," is
caused by a fungus that lives in the soil
which prevents the roots from absorb­ing
nitrogen, Dr. Terry Davis, assis-
, tant professor of forest pathology said.
"The problem is complex because the
soil has poor internal soil drainage.
The fungus attacks the small feeder
roots of the short leaf pine. The other
trees, expecially loblolly can become in­fected,
but it's not as severe," Davis
said.
Last spring a survey was taken of the
park area, and there were 3,001 dead
trees standing, with many more infect­ed
and countless numbers already on
the ground. Now a lumber company is
under contract to cut all of the short
leaf pine and clear the land of dead
trees. A total of 388,864 board feet of
pine is to be cut, Meredith said.
"We had to cut the trees to keep them
from damaging things," Meredith con­tinued.
"Recently one fell on a stu­dent's
car and did enough damage for
him to have to submit an insurance
claim. And several times we have been
without power because a dead tree fell
across the lines. One morning this
week the power was off four hours be­cause
of a dead tree," Meredith said.
"The thing that's really tragic is the
other trees that are being damaged in
getting the timber out, but it can't be
helped," he said.
Clearing damages
even some
healthy trees.
Photos by John Creel
and R.C. Dennis.
Davis said, "It is really a sound prac­tice
to remove trees in this fashion.
Often beetles will infest dead or weak­ened
trees if they are left standing.
Then there is a danger of the beetles at­tacking
healthy trees."
The problem of "Little Leaf is not
restricted to the park area, Davis said.
Trees are infested with the disease
throughout what is known as the Pied­mont
area, the belt north of the coastal
plain running from Virginia to Missis­sippi
and Louisiana.
The disease became significant in
the 1930's, but there is as yet no cure for
it, Davis said. Walt Kelley in the
department of botany and micro­biology
is working on some aspects of
the way the fungus reaches the tree
now, but there is no economically
feasible way to prevent or stop the
disease. The short leaf pines usually
don't reflect the symptoms of the
disease until they are 18 or 20 years old,
but then they begin to sicken and die
from the cutoff of their nitrogen sup­ply.
"Sure this timber cutting is defacing
the park, but they didn't have much
choice. They could have just let those
trees die, but then it would have been
more expensive to get the dead trees out
and they would have presented a
hazard to the park," Meredith said.
Correction: On the focus page of
last week's Plainsman, it was
stated that, "Those trailer parks
outside the city limits of Auburn
and Opelika have no fire protec­tion."
The Plainsman has since
been informed that at times, the
fire department of the city of Ope­lika
has answered calls outside of
its city limits.