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VOL. 78 ALABAMA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE, AUBURN, ALABAMA THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 27, 1951 Number 1
eMiss Homecoming'
Election Date Given
Nominations Deadline Monday;
Five Finalists To Vie For Crown
By Bunny Honicker
The nominations deadline for "Miss Homecoming" candi­dates
will be 4 p.m. October 1, it was announced today by
T. O. McDowell, superintendent of political affairs. A campus-wide
election has been scheduled for October 9 to elect "Miss
Homecoming," who will reign over the annual Blue ^"-
Homecoming week
SMII ES AND HANDSHAKES
2nd.
Although the plans released to
The Plainsman must be approved
jby the Student Senate today, Mc-
' Dowell stated, the early Home­coming
dates this year necessitated
an early release of plans to student
organizations in order to hold the
election before Homecoming.
Each college operated dormitory,
fraternity, sorority, and organiza­tion
recognized by the Student
Senate is eligible to nominate one
candidate for the position. All
nominations should be turned in to
McDowell at the Student Govern­ment
office or the Sigma Nu house.
Five Finalists
The candidates will then meet at
Social Center October 2 at 7:30
p.m. to be judged by the qualifica­tions
board made up of five Au­burn
townspeople. This board will
select five finalists who will vie
for "Miss Homecoming" honors in
the student election.
Qualifications for "Miss Home­coming"
state that only under­graduate
women students who are
members of sophomore or of some
higher class and who have com­pleted
one or more quarters at
Auburn are eligible to compete.
And no student may hold both the
titles of "Miss Homecoming" and
"Miss Auburn" in the same aca­demic
year.
Last season's Homecoming queen
was Martha Sue Bailey of Mont­gomery.
Her court was composed
of Beverly Benson, Betty Cox, Jean
Hamilton, and Mary Helen Lloyd.
Band To Perform
In HaEffime Show
Football fans from the Loveliest
Village will get their first peek at
the '51 edition of the Auburn
Marching Band Saturday after­noon,
Sept. 29, between halves of
t h e Auburn-Vanderbilt football
game.
Under the direction of David
Herbert, the ninety-odd orange
and blue clad musicians will take
the field being led by Drum
Majors James Elkins, junior in
music from Bessemer, and Al'en
Hamilton, sophomore in architec­tural
design from Decatur.
The.band will perform between
halves at each football game being
held in Cliff Hare Stadium. They
will journey to Atlanta October
20 for the Georgia Tech-Auburr
Same and to Birmingham, Decem­ber
1, for the Auburn-Alabama
classic. Prior to the Georgia-Au­burn
contest in Columbus, Novem-?
ber 17, the band will parade
through the downtown section.
Concerning plans for the fall
quarter, Herbert said, "The first
rehearsal is 1 p.m., Thursday, Sept.
27 in the b a n d hall located
on the top floor of the music build­ing.
Regular rehearsals will be
held- at 1 p.m. thereafter. Any
[qualified musician is welcomed
land urged to try out for the band."
The band director further stated
Ithat girls who play musical instru-
Iments and are interested in trying
V^ut for majorettes are urged to
contact him for audiences.
Present majorettes Jean Stokes,
l?radsden; Betty Houston, Jackson,
Miss., and Nancy Entrekin, Colum-
|uis, complete the marching organ-ation.
Colonel G. D. eeii
To Head NROTC;
Staff Changes Hade
Several changes in the staff of
Auburn's Naval Reserve Officers
Training Corps were announced
today by the NROTC office.
Col. George B. Bell, USMC, has
been appointed commanding offi­cer
of the unit, as replacement for
Capt. Lewis M. Markham, Jr.,
USN.
Bell reported here in July from
duty with the Marine Corps Head­quarters
in Washington, D. C,
where he headed the special serv­ices
branch of the personnel de­partment.
Markham now com­mands
a destroyer squadron at
San Diego.
Lt. Comdr. Thomas H. Abbott,
new freshman naval science in­structor,
came to. Auburn from
Fleet Aircraft Service Squadron 6.
Abbott, a graduate of the Univer­sity
of Alabama, relieved Lt.
Comdr. Edward K. Haisey, who
presently is serving on the staff
of the commander of Fleet Air
Wing 5.
•Lt. John D. Tompkins, a graduate
of State Teachers College at West­chester,
Pa., reported to the local
unit from his post as operations
officer of the destroyer Bausell.
He replaces Lt. (j. g.) John D.
Exum as sophomore naval science
instructor. Exum is now serving
aboard the destroyer radar picket
ship Newman K. Perry-
New enlisted men on the NROTC
staff include Joseph P. O'Neill,
quartermaster first class, and H. V.
Snider, fire controlman first class.
The new commanding officer, a
native of Los Angeles, was gradu­ated
from the United States Naval
Academy in 1936 with the degree
bachelor of science in engineering.
Before coming to Auburn he com­manded
battalions at Camp Pen­dleton,
Calif., and at Parris Island.
During World War II he par­ticipated
in the Okinawa cam­paign
as a battalion commander
with the Fourth Marines. He was
awarded the Silver Star, the Pur­ple
Heart, and the Presidential
Unit Citation.
6,000 Fall Enrollment
Predicted By Edwards
Tiger Grid History
From '92 To '49
Will Be Published
WELCOMING NEW STUDENTS at the freshman reception held Sunday evening at the presi­dent's
mansion are (lacing camera) Director of Student Affairs, James E. Foy and Mrs. Foy; Dean of
Women Kathcrine Cater, and President and Mrs. Ralph B. Draughon. (A.P.I, photo by Barton Perry.)
Tryouts For Comedy
To Be Held Monday
Tryouts for parts in "—But Not
Goodbye," the Auburn Players'
first production of the fall quar­ter,
will be held at the Y Hut
Monday, Oct. 1, at 7:30 p.m., Tel­fair
Peet, director, announced to­day.
"—But Not Goodbye," a light
comedy, will open in Auburn
Thursday, Nov. 3, and will la\er
be taken on the road. Eleven out-of-
town showings are already
scheduled, and several others arc
pending. The Players' special
portable stage will be used for
the performances.
"There are a number of excel­lent
parts in the play," comment­ed
Pect, urging students, especial­ly
freshmen, to attend the try­outs.
Burton Releases Season's Pep Plans;
Urges Student Support For Friday Rally
Plans for the 1951 pep rallies were released today by
Tommy Burton, chairman of the Student Spirit Committee.
Included among the activities for this year's 10-game sche­dule
are the pre-game pep rallies, dances, the Wreck
Tech Pajama Parade, torch parades, ODK-Glomerata Beauty
Ball, and other traditional spirit
APhiO Bookstore Open
Through September 28
The Alpha Phi Omega book­store
W i l l be open through
Friday, Sept. 28, for student book
sales according to Herb McQueen,
APhiO president. Located in
temporary building 2-B, the book­store
will be open from 3 a.m.
until 4:30 p.m.
Payout period for students sell­ing
books in the exchange will
begin Monday, Oct. 1.
'LOVELIEST OF THE PLAINS'
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auburn Alumnus Named
"o Football Honor Court
An Auburn alumnus, Charles W.
Lreit, '07, was recently named
lipresenlative on the Honors Court
the Football Hall of Fame.
(Grantland Rice, dean of Ameri-
In sportswriters, is chairman of
| e committee.
demonstrations. /
"We hope that all the students
will get out and support the team,
beginning Friday night at our
first pep rally," stated Burton.
"The Tigers are going to be fight­ing
with all they've got this year,
and we want to show them we're
behind them all the way," he said.
After tomorrow night's pep
rally in Cliff Hare Stadium, the
first event of this year's activities
will be an All Campus Dance in
the student activities building
urday night at 8:30. The Auburn
Knights will play.
Pep dances will be held follow,
ing five of the rallies, beginning
October 18 in the student activi­ties
building after the Wreck
Tech Pajama Parade. Previous to
this, however, will be two Home­coming
Dances, sponsored by the
Social Committee, and held in the.
activities building October 12 and
October 1.3. The first v/ill follow
Friday night's pep rally in the
stadium and the latter will cli­max
Homecoming activities Sat­urday
in the activities building.
Election of the 1951 cheerlead­ers
will be held in Hare Stadium
during the Wofford pep rally on
Thursday night, Oct. 4.
In succession, the other pep
dances planned by the Pep Com­mittee
to follow the rallies will
be held October 25, following the
Tulane game rally; November 8,
following tile Mississippi game
rally; November 16, following
the Georgia game torch parade
rally, and the final Alabama
game ri lly and dance on Novem­ber
29.
The Auburn Knights will play
for all pep dances. The orchestra
for the Homecoming hops has not
yet been announced.
LOVELY Virginia Young, Auburn, is the first coed to appear
in the fall "Loveliest" series. She is a freshman in secretarial
training. (A.P.I, photo by Barton Perry.)
Glen P. Nail Joins
Ag Education Staff
Dr. Olen P. Nail joined the fa­culty
of the A.P.I, department of
agricultural education at the be­ginning
of the fall quarter.
Doctor Nail comes to Auburn
from Louisiana State University
where he received his Ph.D. de­gree
in August. At A.P.I, he will
be assistant professor of agricul­tural
education and will also su­pervise
the field work of agricul­tural
education students. \
He received his B.S. degree
from Mississippi State College in
1939. In 1948 he received the M.S.
degree in agricultural education.
Before going to L.S.U. to work
on his doctorate Doctor Nail
taught vocational agriculture in
schools in Scott County, Miss.
ROTC Department
Lists Staff Additions
The Army ROTC department
announced the arrival of five new
men yesterday who will serve as
instructors and service personnel
for the Auburn military depart­ment
during the school year.
Lt. Col. Simon A. Stricklen,
originally of Gordo, has been ap­pointed
senior branch instructor
for the signal corps unit. Stricklen
initiates his service here immedi­ately
following a tour of duty in
Quito, Ecuador.
The new senior branch instruc­tor
for the corps of engineers is
M a j . Kenneth T. Sawyer, a
Michiganite who succeeds Lt. Col.
J R. Hershey. Sawyer's most re­cent
assignments have been with
the 1951 ROTC summer group and
the engineer school, both at Ft.
Belvoir, Va.
Sfc. David R. Dayton, formerly
attached to the 82nd Airborne
Davision at Ft. Bragg, N. C, has
been named supply sergeant.
A new assistant enlisted instruc­tor
for the armored corps unit is
Sfc. Francis J. Ruddy, also former­ly
attached to the 82nd Airborne.
M/Sgt. Henry B. Underwood,
whose most recent assignment was
at Ft. Benning, Ga., is new motor
sergeant at the military hangar.
Glom Photographers
Begin Work October 4
Gaspar-Warc photographers will
arrive on campus October 4 to
begin portrait photography for the
1952 Glomerata. A continuous
schedule from 8 a.m. until 5 p.m.
on week days will run until Oc­tober
20.
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Students are urged to bring ap­pointment
cards when reporting
for portraits, and keep the ap­pointment
time. If students find
it impossible to keep appointments,
they are requested, te come by the
Glomerata office in Samford base­ment
to schedule a new sitting be­fore
the time of the old appoint­ment.
New sittings will not be
given to students who miss their
appointments and do not notify
the Glomerata office. No pictures
except those made by the official
photographers will be used.
Girls are requested to wear
white or pastel blouses. Boys are
urged to wear a light shirt, dark
tie, and light coat.
By Dave Laney
With football in the air, all old
grads of Auburn will soon be re­miniscent
of the Tiger football
teams which existed in their col­lege
days. Some's thoughts will
be of the first edition of the Tigers
under Dr. George Petrie while
younger alumni will remember the
days of the Hitchcock brothers,
Monk Gafford's field day against
Georgia in 1942, and efforts of
Travis Tidwell.
These are only a few highlights
included in James S. Edson's new
book entitled War Eagles! The
Tigers of Auburn which is a foot­ball
history of Auburn from the
beginning in 1892 through 1949.
The book was submitted for ap­proval
in 1950 to the Auburn presi­dent,
the athletic difector, and the
alumni president, all of whom
advocated its publication. None of
these leaders has a financial inter­est
in the book, but all are pleased
that it has been edited.
With but very few exceptions,
the book contains a writeup of
every game played, pictures of all
teams with faces identified where
possible, lineups of both teams in­cluding
substitutes in more than
90% of the games, pictures of
prominent campus buildings, war
casualties a n d All-Americas,
season by season record, results
over the years with conference
opponents, roster of football "A"
men and the like.
Dedicated to William B. Pater-son,
'02, and to the football play­ers
who have made this history
possible, the book is now in the
hands of the printers and is due
out shortly. Since there is no way
of estimating the number of books
needed, orders are being taken in
advance and there will be no ex­tra
copies printed. Anyone desir­ing
a copy of this volume may
write to Treasurer G. H. (Monk)
Wright, Auburn.
Convocations, Dances, Football
Part Of First Week's Activity
Enrollment of approximately 5,800 to 6,000 students at
A.P.I, for the fall quarter has been forecast by Registrar
Charles W. Edwards. Although the exact figures won't be
known until next week, Edwards' prediction represents an
increase of 400 to 600 enrollment over the spring quarter.
Included in the enrollment are
some 1,000 new students who ar­rived
Sunday, according to Ed­wards.
In addition, there are a
great many hold-over freshmen
who entered during the summer
'quarter, and also approximately
400 to 500 transfers.
Student Handbook
Issued This Week
The 1951 Tiger Cub, student
handbook, is being distributed this
week to students throughout the
campus. New students received
copies during t h e orientation
period, others were circulated
among fraternity houses and dor­mitories,
and the remaining copies
are available to students who de­sire
them, in the Student Affairs
Office, Samford 101.
J i m Raulston, McMinnville,
Tenn., edited the booklet, and John
Salmons, Auburn, served as busi­ness
manager. The Board of Stu­dent
Publications filled these posts
by appointment last spring. Assist­ing
in the publication of the 128-
page guide were Henry Nichols,
art editor;. Jim Hay good and Jack
Appleton, assistant editors, and
Charles Rollins and Mike Ruggueri,
advertising editors.'
Designed mainly as an aid to
new. students, the Tiger Cub is a
helpful source of information to
all students and college personnel
on many phases of Auburn activity.
Between the blue and orange
covers of the handbook are sec­tions
devoted to the campus, a
student service directory, the col­lege
calendar, the administration,
the schools, college rules and regu­lations,
student government, fra­ternities
and sororities, campus
organizations, activities, religious
life, sports, and miscellany.
Beard Releases Ticket Information;
Rules For Student Purchases Cited
Student ticket information was
released this week by Athletic
Director Jeff Beard, who urged
cooperation of students in pur­chasing
their tickets during the
1951 football season. Guest tickets
will be available at the regular
game price to all games except
Alabama.
Rules released by Beard pertain
to the use of the student activity
book.
The rules are:
1. A student must use his or
her own activity book. If several
students wish to sit together at a
game, come as a group for your
ticket purchase. You cannot buy
another student's ticket.
2. Student activity books will
not be replaced if lost. Please be
careful with your book and be
sure your riame appears on the
cover in ink. Do not let anyone
else use your book. We will be
forced to take up books that are
fraudulently used.
Tickets will be sold at the field
house. After much consideration
it has been decided to put the
tickets to all games on sale begin­ning
September 24 and keeping
them on sale through November
16, stopping sales to each game on
the date printed in student activity
book and listed below.
In this manner a student may
buy his tickets to all games at
once if desired. The ticket win­dows
will be open Monday through
Friday from 8:30 a.m. to 12 a.m.
and 1 p.m. to 4:30 p.m.
No student or wives tickets will
be sold on the day of a game.
Married students will be given
a book that will allow their waves
to buy tickets to campus games at
approximately half price. This
book will be issued free at the
field house upon presentation of
the student's activity book. Prices
for wives' tickets aie $2 for the
Vanderbilt and Florida games,
$1.25 for Louisiana College and 50
cents for the two freshmen games.
Dates on which the ticket sales
for each game will end are Van­derbilt,
September 28; Wofford,
October 5; University of Alabama
freshmen, October 5; Florida, Oc­tober
12; Georgia Tech, October 12;
Tulane, October 19; Louisiana Col­lege,
November 2; Mississippi, No­vember
2; Ga. Tech freshmen, No­vember
2; Georgia, November 9;
Clemson, November 9, and Ala­bama,
November 16.
Moore Lists Prices
Of Glomerata Space
Contracts for space in the 1952
Glomerata will be signed October
9 and 16 according to Bill Moore,
business manager. Social fraterni­ties
and sororities will sign on
October 16 and all other organiza­tions
on October 9.
All contracts must be signed on
these dates in order to insure space
in the Glomerata, Moore stated,
and the number of pages that will
be used by organizations must be
known before definite plans can
be made for the rest of the book.
Prices for Glomerata space are
$80 for a double page, $50 for a
single' page, and $35 for a half-page.
In addition to these prices
there will be a charge of 50 cents
for each individual picture and
$5 for each group picture or snap­shot
on the page.
While a 12 per cent drop in en­rollment
over fall a year ago had
been anticipated, Edwards says
that there is a chance that the
freshman class will be as large as
the one of last year. This fall's
enrollment is expected to be near­ly
1,000 lower than that of last fall.
A.P.I, enrollment hit its peak in
the fall of 1948 when the total
reached 7,660.
Freshmen attended a reception
and picnic supper Sunday after­noon
at the home of President
Ralph B. Draughon. An evening
convocation followed in t he
Graves Centre Amphitheater, at
which Dean of Faculties M. C.
Huntley presided. The convoca­tion
sermon was delivered by the
Rev. Joel D. McDavid of the Au­burn
Methodist Church.
Monday's schedule of orienta­tion
included placement tests, con­vocations,
and physical examina­tions.
Vice-president D. W. Mul-lins
presided at a convocation in
the Amphitheater at 7 p.m., at
which time Doctor Draughon gave
"The History of A.P.I." Mullins
gave a brief talk on the "Present
Organization of A.P.I."
Student leaders were presented
at a convocation Tuesday night
from 7 until 9 o'clock, with Bill
Brooks, president of the student
body, in charge.
All Auburn churches held re­ceptions
Wednesday night to wel­come
new students to the campus.
The receptions were sponsored by
the Student Council on Religious
Life.
Classwork for all students began
today. A convocation for all
women students followed by a Pan
Hellenic Convocation will be held
tonight at 7 in Langdon Hall.
All new students in home eco­nomics
will attend a tea Friday
afternoon in Smith Hall. The tea
v/ill be sponsored by the Dana
King Gatchell Club.
A giant pep rally preceding the
Vanderbilt game on Saturday will
be held Friday night at 7 in Cliff
Hare Stadium. All students are
urged to attend.
Following the Vandy game on
Saturday, the orientation period
will be climaxed by an informal
All Campus Dance in the student
activities building. The Auburn
Knights will play.
A tea honoring all new women
students will be held in Social
Center Sunday, Sept. 30, from 3
until 5 p.m., sponsored by the
Women's S t u d e n t Government
Association.
Ip the event of rain, all activities
scheduled in Graves Centre Am­phitheater
will be held in the
Sports Arena.
CheerleaderElection
Set For October 4
Three new cheerleaders will be
elected at the Wofford pep rally
October 4, it was announced today
by Dennis Calhoun, head cheer­leader.
Two boys will be selected
to fill the spots vacated by Johnny
Durham, Birmingham, and Bill
Goodwyn, Montgomery. One girl
will be chosen to replace Marian
Watson, Decatur.
Interested students are request­ed
to contact Calhoun at the Kappa
Alpha h o u s e before Monday,
Oct. 1. Candidates will begin
practice at Alumni Gym with the
squad on October 2. The prelimi­nary
elimination and final judging
will be held at the Wofford rally
with the final selection being made
by a panel of judges chosen by
the Student Spirit Committee.
Selection will be based on such
factors as audience response, gym­nastic
ability and personality. The
three winners will begin work
with the squad at the Auburn-
Wofford game on October 5.
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Churches Open Doors To Frosh;
Students' Religious Life Stressed
By Leta Ann Casey
New freshmen on the campus
will find many opportunities for
a well-rounded religious program
offered by the Student Council
on Religious Activities and the
churches of Auburn.
Auburn churches are sponsoring
parties during orientation week
for new students, and a wide
variety of party themes will be
used, including a "kid party" and
a "square dance." Numerous recep­tions
and informal coffees are
also being held. All these func­tions
are sponsored by student
religious groups.
The Canterbury Club for Episco­pal
students is under the present
supervision of Marion Hansen,
acting student secretary. Vespers
are held by the Canterbury Club
each Sunday at 5:30 p.m. This is
followed by supper. Bishop Car­penter,
High Bishop of Alabama,
will be in Auburn October 11 to
give the freshmen students an
official welcome at the Bishop's
banquet.
A Corporate Communion for
new students and members of the
Canterbury Club Vestry will be
held Sunday morning at 8 o'clock,
followed by a breakfast in the
McDowell Room.
The Newman Club is the Catho­lic
student group on the campus.
Meeting time for the Newman Club
is on Mondays at 7:30 p.m. On
Wednesday evenings there are re­ligious
services followed by a rec­reation
period.
A coffee time is scheduled for
9:30 Sunday morning for Methodist
students in the Wesiey Foundation
building. A brief singspiration will
follow until time for Bible classes.
The Wesley Foundation's Method­ist
student organization, welcomes
new students to Sunday evening
supper at 6:30. A fellowship time
consisting of forums, films, speak­ers
and games follows these sup­per
meetings. Coffee chat time is
an informal gathering for students
each Tuesday from 4 until 6 p.m.
Calendar of Events
SPECIAL EVENTS
September 27-October 2 -Spe-cial
Examinations
September 27—Classwork begins
for all students
September 28—Pep Rally and
Dance—7 p.m.—Stadium and stu­dent
activities building
September 29—Football — Au­burn
vs. Vanderbilt—Cliff Hare
Stadium—2:30 p.m.
CLUB MEETINGS
October 1—Blue Key—Samford
Hall—5 p.m.
W.S.G.A.— Social Center — 6:30
p.m.
Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia—music
building—6:45 p.m.
Society for Advancement of
Management — Wilmore 234 — 7
p.m.
Phi Psi — Textile Building — 7
p.m.
Auburn Players Tryouts—Y Hut
7:30 p.m.
Phi Eta Sigma—201 Samford—
7:30 p.m.
October 2—Sphinx—Social Cen­ter—
5 p.m.
Dairy Science Club—AH 217—
7 p.m.
Alpha Phi Omega—Wilmore 232
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This group is now under student
director Joe Neal Blair.
Presbyterian Group
Westminster Fellowship, t he
Presbyterian student organization,
meets at the Westminster House,
148 South Gay. Sunday evening
at 5:30 the group begins fall activi­ties
with a supper followed by
vespers at 6:30. Jack Fisler, direc­tor,
states that the recreation
facilities of Westminster are always
open to the students.
Jewish students have an up-and-coming
organization on the cam­pus
known as the Hillel Counselor-ship.
This organization meets in
room 114, Tichenor Hall. B'nai
B'rith sponsors the group, and Ed
Kaplan is the student director.
Lutheran students may look for­ward
to informal supper meetings
held each Sunday evening at 6, in
the new student recreation room.
The function is sponsored by the
Lutheran Club. The dedication of
the new church building, located
at 446 South Gay, will be held
Sunday and all freshmen are in­vited
to attend.
There will be a Saturday social
in the form of a "get-acquainted"
wiener roast sponsored by Church
of Christ students to welcome
freshmen. This event will be held
at Chewacla State Park immedi­ately
following the Vanderbilt
game. Students desiring to attend
are requested to meet on the steps
of Ross Chemistry Building 30
minutes after the end of the game
for transportation to Chewacla.
A. B. Parsons, Baptist student
secretary, announces that the First
Baptist Church, 100 East Glenn,
will greet the freshmen at an "open
house" Saturday at 7:30 p.m. This
will be held in the recreation room
which is open to students at all
times. The student group is the
Religious Life works in conjunc­tion
with the Student Council on
Religious Education to give a well-grounded
religious program on the
campus.
During the year, the new stu­dents
will become more aware of
the vital part which the churches
and the Student Council on Relig­ious
Activities play on the campus.
The Council sponsors and promotes
a campus-wide religious program
which includes Religious Emphasis
Week and National Brothei'hood
Week. The Faculty Committee on
Baptist Student Union.
New Living Quarters
Occupied By Women
The critical housing shortage for
women students at Auburn has
been somewhat alleviated by the
addition of two new living quar­ters
being run under college regu­lations.
Women students have
taken over the old Lambda Chi
Alpha house and the Mitcham
House, formerly the nurses' home.
Mrs. Ruth Dillon will serve as
housemother at the old Lambda
Chi residence and Mrs. Kate Shell-burne
will be housemother at the
Mitcham home.
'Greeks' Booklet
Now In Circulation
Distribution of the 1951 Greeks
fraternity information booklet be­gan
this this Week to all new stu­dents,
with the majority being
handed out during the orientation
period. Others were circulated
among fraternity houses and dor­mitories.
Published each year by the
Interfraternity Council with the
hope that the students entering
Auburn might more fully know the
various aspects of fraternity life
on the campus, The Greeks is ah
easy aid to incoming students in
deciding Where tb place their
fraterrtity merwbership.
Editor of this year's Greeks was
Ed Martin, Sylacauga, who was
appointed by the Ihterfraterhity
Cduhcil last spring.
The Greeks acquaints the new
students with the system of pledg­ing,
the seriousness of choosing the
right fraternity if they pledge, the
social life arid activities, arid the
cost of fraternities.
Included in the booklet are sec­tions
concerning the fraternity
policy, life in the fraternity, activi­ties,
pictures arid a short history
df each local chapier, coloriiesj
foundation and purposes of the
Interfraternity Council and the
important r u l e s pertaining to
rushing.
Welcome Back
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Welcomes you bdck to school
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a wide variety of the
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Back to school fashions by
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Cobblers by Prima
Cover girl.
Architecture Staff Adds Heck, Collins
The appointment of Robert W.
rleck as assistant professor of
architecture and Walter S. Col­lins
as instructor in music was
announced this week by Frank
Marion Orr, dean of the School
of Architecture and the Arts.
Both men assume their duties at
Auburn this quarter.
Collins holds a B.A. and B.
Mus. from Yale. Prior to his ap­pointment
at Auburn he was di­rector
of choral music at the
Hotchkiss School at Lakeville,
Conn., director of the University
2—THE PLAINSMAN Thursday, September 7, 1951
T
Glee Club of New Haven, assis­tant
director of the Yale Music
School Chorus and director of the
world famous Whiffenpoofs. He
will have charge of the Men's
Glee Club, Women's Glee Club,
Mixed Chorus, and Singing En­sembles
at Auburn.
Heck holds a bachelor « archi­tecture
degree from the Univer­sity
of Notre Dame. He was a
member of the faculty oflhe de­partment
Of architecture! at the
University of Florida befoie com­ing
to Auburn. Heck will teach
architecture and design. \
Nancy Leigh No. College Auburn
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Dear Student:
We wish to congratulate you on your choice of Auburn as the school to com­plete
your education.
For many years Auburn has beeh recognized as an outstanding school for the
training of students for their chosen profession.
Auburn has particularly tried to train her students for service in their own lo­cale.
We think this to be a most remarkable and worthwhile endeavor as we like to
think our own boys and cjirls Will grow up to make good citizens of Alabama and the
South.
It is likewise notable that her graduates have migrated to other sections where
they have achieved positions at the top in their respective fields.
Again We congratulate you on your choice of schools. Auburn is not only not­ed
for her instructional school, but likewise in the fields of Experiment Station Re­search
and Extension Service.
In keeping With Aubufn's reputation as a school, we wish to call your attention
to the smail part we may have played in the education of her students.
Sihce 1878, Burton's Book Store has been the chief source of supply for student
needs. We specialize in this field and regardless of your choice as to a course, we in­vite
you to visit us and give us an opportunity to make your acquaintance.
We take this opportunity to welcome you to Auburn.
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3—THE PLAINSMAN Thursday, September 27, 1951 PAN-HELL PREXY
Numerous Scholarships, Loan Funds
Made Available To Students At API
By Dave Laney
Recently a conscientious young sophomore whose parents
and relatives were unable to "foot" the college expenses for
him was faced at the end of the quarter with a serious prob­lem.
Due to insufficient funds he would be forced to with­draw
from school, thereby losing his draft deferment, as v^ell
as pushing back his anticipated
graduation date.
Having heard someone recently
mention a loan fund'from which he
considered himself eligible to bor­row,
he inquired to find further
information from his faculty ad­visor.
With this connection he
ultimately procured financial aid
through the loan fund and has
been in school since as a regular
student. He is one of the many
students who have taken advan­tage
of this opportunity to further
their education at Auburn.
It is evident that at Auburn, like
any other state school, there are
a number of students who, as this
lad did, must cope with serious
financial problems during their
college career. Many of them are
unaware of the scholarship and
educational loan funds which
have been set up especially for
these money-short students.
A provision of organizations or
individuals, these loans and schol­arships
are available to needy
students who are worthy of receiv­ing
pecuniary aid. For some of
these scholarships and loans only
special groups may apply, but
others are open to any student re­gardless
of his religion, sex, or
school major.
Scholarships h a v e specific
amounts of money to be given the
students over a stipulated period
of time, while the loa»s may be
extended from quarter to quarter,
providing the student's scholastic
standing warrants continuation of
the loan. The. interest rate on
these loans is comparatively small.
As a rule, an Auburn freshman
may procure a loan if he is highly
recommended, and if his recom­mendation
is backed by an average
of "B" or better in high school.
The loan is limited to the payment
of basic school expenses for each
quarter and is required to be se­cured
by a promissory note, usually
with three endorsees plus the
student's endorsement.
Any student who needs financial
aid may obtain further informa­tion
by referring to the Tiger Cub,
student handbook, or consulting
his dean or faculty advisor.
The Welcome Mat is Out
New Store Hours
open
All Day Wednesday
Beginning this week and continuing on through the
regular quarters our store will be open all day on
Wednesday—to better serve you.
Our employees will continue to receive a half day
holiday each week as in the past.
PARKERS
Auburn's Leading Dept. Store
The Referee's shrill whistle pierces
the crowd-born excitement . . . the
pigskin takes to the air. Our quar­terback
snatches it and charges
forward . . . the visiting team
closes in . . . our hero dodges and
weaves, finally to be
downed by the visitors on
their own forty yard line.
T h e game's
b e g u n .'. . .
likewise you
are beginning
another mile­stone
in your
e d u c a tional
career. Just as
the success of
t h e football
p l a y e r de­pends
on his
training, con­dition,
and co­operation
o f
h i s team
mates, so will your success depend on your conditioning (study),
training (application), and cooperation of teammates (instruc­tors).
Now wc can't take the place of the coach nor' the umpire but
we do love that "Monday Morning Quarterbacking" and we say
right here and now "If" you get your books and supplies from
Burton's the job is as good as done.
Since 1878 wc have been the main source of supply for students
coming to Auburn and we invite you to visit us before you pur­chase
your books, drawing instruments and laboratory equipment.
Our stock is composed of such Nationally known lines as
Dietzgen, K&E, Grumbacher, Weber, Devoe and Raynolds draw­ing
sets and art supplies. Shcaffer Fountain Pens, National
Blank Company's loose leaf notebooks, Eagle Pencil Company's
fine Mirado pencil, and Elliott's College Seal Stationery.
Burton's Book Store
"Something New Every Day"
API Greeks Announce Rush Plans;
Parties, Smokers Featured Activities
Rita Kelly
Sororities7 Rushing
Begins Tomorrow
Rushing by the nine Auburn
sororities will begin for new co­eds
tomorrow morning, Rita Kel­ly,,
president of the Pan-Hellenic
Council, announced today.
Pan-Hellenic Convocation will
be held tonight in Langdon Hall at
7 o'clock, at which time rush rules
will be explained by Ruth B. Wil­son,
assistant dean of women. Of­ficers
of 'the Pan-Hellenic Coun­cil
will be introduced and infor­mation
about the sororities given
to the prospective rushees.
Immediately following dismiss­al
of convocation, girls will sign
up for rush and pay their rush
fee of 50 cents. This fee goes to­ward
the publication of the Pan-
Hellenic Handbook which is given
to all new coeds. Girls are re­quested
by Miss Kelly to bring
this handbook with them to the
convocation.
Rushing will be carried on
throughout the day with silence
periods from 6 p.m. until 7 a.m.
Sorority information may be
given only at regularly scheduled
rush parties held in the chapter
looms. This year an extra party
has been added to the schedule,
which is planned to give rushees
more time to make up their minds
about the choice of sororities.
Lambda Chi Alpha
"Tea will be served" at a recep­tion
for rushees Thursday evening.
A pre-game party is planned for
Friday and a buffet supper after
the game Saturday. A "Smorgas­bord"
Monday, musical entertain­ment
Tuesday, hay-ride Wednes­day,
"oriental" dance Thursday,
and a stag supper are planned.
Omega Tau Sigma
A "pre-vet" rush party Thurs­day
and a smoker for freshmen in
the School of Veterinary Medicine
are planned for Friday. A house-dance
Saturday and "Open house"
Sunday with a buffet dinner for
rushees, faculty and members, and
a party Tuesday by the Wives
Club are on the calendar.
Sigma Phi Epsilon
A smoker Thursday night will
be followed by a house-dance Fri­day
night for members, rushees
and dates.
Alpha Tau Omega
The "Knight's Combo" will ren­der
melodies for a tea-dance from
4 to 6, Thursday afternoon. Din­ners
are planned for Friday and
•Saturday nights. Other plans in­clude
a smoker Tuesday, a stag
party Wednesday, an "Esquire"
party Thursday and a breakfast
Saturday.
Sigma Alpha Epsilon
Thursday, rushees will be honor­ed
at a buffet supper and Friday
there will be a dance at the frat­ernity
house. A "jazz band"
will play for a dance Satur­day
evening at the Opelika Coun­try
Club. Skits and a smoker
Monday night will be followed by
a buffet supper and housedancc
Wednesday and a banquet Thurs­day.
Kappa Alpha
Rushees are invited to a smoker
Thursday and Sunday dinner. The
Kappa's are having a housedance
Monday and the showing of a film
on Wednesday at their smoker.
Phi Delta Theta
Smokers are planned for Thurs­day
and Monday. A Bowery ball
Friday, Sunday dinner, buffet sup­per
Tuesday, football film Wednes­day
and a party with the Alpha
Delta Pi's Thursday are the Phi's
schedule rush parties.
Sigma Chi
House dance with the Chi
Omega's is on the calendar for Fri­day
night preceded by a party for
the rushees on Thursday. A buffet
supper Saturday, a smoker Mon­day
and a buffet supper and Tea
Dance with Alpha Gam's Thurs­day
are planned.
Pi Kappa Alpha
The "Pike's" are having a smok­er
Thursday and a buffet supper
with the Alpha Delta Pi's- before
the pep rally followed by dancing
at the.house. "Open House" Satur­day,
buffet dinner Sunday, a talk
by Doctor Draughon Monday, a
dinner in the Jungle and dancing
with Phi Mu's Wednesday will
complete their plans.
Pi Kappa Phi
Two smokers are on bill for
Thursday and Tuesday nights. A
gambling party with paper money
and a house dance will take place
Friday after the pep rally. Sunday,
a buffet luncheon for rushees and
Friday a trip to the Wofford game
will wind-up their rush parties.
NOTICE
Coach Joel Eaves announced to­day
that basketball practice for
freshmen and varsity will begin
Tuesday, October 2 at 3:30 p.m. in
the Sports Arena.
Freshmen are required to bring
their own equipment.
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Phi Kappa Tau
A film on football will add vari­ety
to a smoker Thursday and a
house dance is booked for Friday.
"Open House" for everyone Satur­day
from 6 to 8 p.m. and Sunday
from 7 to 11 p.m.
Delta Sigma Phi
A smoker Thursday, buffet
luncheon Friday, buffet supper
and party after Vandy game and a
Sunday dinner for rushees are
planned. Thursday night a stag
party will take place at the house.
Sigma Nu
Friday there will be a party for
rushees and Saturday the Sig's will
entertain with a buffet supper.
Another party is planned for Tues­day
followed by a smoker Thurs­day.
Alpha Gamma Rho
Before the pep rally a picnic
supper will be served and a French
night club party will take place
after the rally. Sunday there will
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Theta Chi
A buffet supper and smoker on
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"honky-tonk" party on Friday
night is scheduled by the Chi's.
Also a smoker on Monday and a
stag supper on Tuesday are plan­ned.
Fraternity rush week is offici­ally
scheduled to begin today.
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when he tackled the cigarette tests! But he pecked
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To The Class Of 1955
Although you freshmen have received
dozens of welcomes by now, the editors of
The Plainsman are still going to add their
greetings. We'll even assume a little un­warranted
authority and extend you a
welcome-on behalf of the student body.
A well-planned orientation program
ended yesterday, and you should feel like
a genuine freshman by now. The oppor­tunity
to meet college officials, representa­tives
of your school, student leaders, reli­gious
workers, and classmates has been
given in the four-day program. The Tiger
Cub, freshman handbook, has given and
will continue to give you information con­cerning
college activities.
But you won't like it here unless you
want to. Only you can develop a system
for studying. It's up to you to say- "Hi."
No one can make you feel welcome here
unless 5'ou cooperate.
In addition to the hours of advice that
has been given during Orientation Week,
we would like to offer one more thought.
Do not forget that your main purpose here
is to obtain a degree. * We are in no way
discouraging participation in extra-curri­cular
activities. They are a desirable part
of a well-rounded college education. But
academic studies come first. If, however,
you believe you have time for and are in­terested
in extra-curricular activities, the
Glomerata. The Plainsman, and dozens of
organizations on the campus welcome your
services.
You freshmen are arriving in Auburn
during one of the most expansive periods
in the history of the institution. Under the
capable leadership of President Draughon,
facilities for learning are increasing every­day.
New buildings are going up, faculties
are being enlarged, and courses of study
are being revised and modernized. And
part of it belongs to you. It's, your respon­sibility
to see that it's well used.
'More And More' <:3rs^S
A Horse Tale from Aesop's Stables
Recommended Reading-Student Body Constitution
Printed elsewhere in this issue as a com­plete
copy of the constitution of the stu-sdent
body. And The Plainsman heartily
endorses it as recommended reading for all
students unfamiliar with its content.
Replacing the ambiguous, even contra­dictory,
constitution which was formerly
in effect, the new document was drafted
last year by former Plainsman editor Ed
Crawford, a student committee, and fac­ulty
advisor. The outmoded constitution,
a relic of the pre-war days, was replaced
with a highly functional document which
was a revision and modernization of the
old edition.
After two months work the committee
produced a constitution based on the fed­eral
document, establishing three separate
branches of student government to replace
the all-powerful Executive Cabinet.
New officials and committees were es­tablished
to spread the work of an ex­panding
student government program over
more students, powers and duties of offi­cers
were clarified, election regulations
were revised, and trivial portions were
junked. The re'sult was the present con­stitution
which received student approval
in a campus-wide election last winter.
A well-written and complete constitu­tion
is the nucleus of a functional and effi­cient
student government program, but
student understanding and interest in the
document converts a group of officers and
ideas into a mature organization, benefit­ing
all students.
And So-War Eagle »
Auburn's cheering squad will man the
megaphones tomorrow night for the first
and one of the most important pep rallies
of the quarter. The initial rally marks a
new era of football on the Plains, and, con­sidering
all indications, the rejuvenated
Tiger will be out to prove the fact Satur­day.
However, all that will be asked of stu­dents
will be the same old spirit, the Au­burn
Spirit. The rally will need more
than cheerleaders, new yells, andu.mega.-v.
phones. It will need every student', giving/
his loudest support to Coach Shug Jordan's
"boys." It will need every student to
prove we're really out to beat Vandy.
Hard work on the part of the Student
Spirit Committee and cheerleaders has laid
We Doff Our Rat Cap
With the beginning of the new scho­lastic
year Auburn's landscape from Toom-er's
Corner to the forestry plot is already
planted with traditional rat.caps and their
. fledgling owners. Usually accepted as a
prerequisite for a properly clad freshman,
the rat cap is a significant part of Loveliest
Village customs and traditions.
This year it is even more significant-
It marks the start of a new cooperative
spirit between Auburn merchants and stu­dents,
and is a wholesome action in the
sometimes stormy relationship. At the re­quest
of student government officials, local
merchants handling the sale of rat caps
agreed to withhold cap sales until the end
of the freshman orientation period, thus
A New Name For An Old Building
a good foundation for the rally. Pep books
containing Auburn's yells and songs have
been printed and distributed to all new
students, the cheerleaders are back in top
form, and new uniforms have been donat­ed
to the cheering squad by Auburn alum­ni.
And on the practice field the football
metamorphosis from a group of men to a
team has gradually taken place since the
beginning of drills on September 1.
Coach Jordan and Captain Ed "Foots"
Bauer are expected to' be at the rally to­morrow
night to give brief talks. It's up
to the students to respond with more and
louder "War Eagles."
And so—"War Eagle"
giving the student-government-sponsored
Rat Cap Committee the opportunity to
handle the sale.
The action on the part of the merchants
funnels the rat cap profits back to the stu­dents
via student government activities
with only a small portion of the sum going
to the Rat Cap Committee and the college
for handling, freight, etc. Although the
amount made on rat caps will not reach
a breath-taking sum, the money will great­ly
aid student government in its rapidly
expanding program.
To the* Auburn Gift Shop, Burton's,
Hawkin's, Parker's, and the College Sup­ply
Store, who cooperated in the matter,
we doff our rat cap.
We just can't help giving one big
"Whoopee" for the so-called New Build­ing's
new name—Tichenor Hall. This ac­tion
on the part of the college this summer
came as a complete surprise to us when
we arrived back on the Plains last .week.
Having been frequently used in Plains­man
editorial columns, the no-name-for-the-
New-Building topic had become one of
our favorite editorial subjects, and we are
just a wee bit sad to see-our favorite pass
on. But, too, it was a bit embarrassing to
explain just how long a building could be
new on the campus with even newer-than-new
buildings going up all the time.
We've maintained all along that there
were plenty of name topics available for
new buildings—topics ranging from alum­ni
to streets and even to flowers, and we're
more than glad to see the New Building
take the name of a past president of the
college.
Auburn Plainsman
Published weekly by the students of the Alabama Polytechnic Institute, Auburn, Alabama.
Editorial and business office on TicXenor Avenue, Phone A.P.I. 242
Deadline for social and organizational news is Saturday noon.
JIM EVERETT Editor
GENE MOORE Mng. Editor
Jim Jennings . _ Associate Editor
Walter Albritton Associate Editor
Dave Laney Associate Editor
Kokomo McArdle Sports Editor
Walt Everidge Feature Editor
TOM MORRISSEY Business Mgr.
Jack Johnson Ass't. Bus. Mgr.
Dick Gilliland ..... Advertising Mgr.
Scooter Hale _.. Assistant
George Bellous Assistant
Sonny Bruner Circulation Mgr.
Juanita Harp „ Exchange Editor
Bettie Jones _ . - _ Staff Secretary
STAFF
Billy Anderson, Leta Ann Casey, Tom Duke, Prude Fancher, Bob Gaddis, Gordon Hig-gins,
Sonny Hollingsworth, Bunny Honicker, Jerry Little, Joanne Lucci, Martin Mednick, Rich­ard
Mills, John Schermer, Bill Spiers, Bob Smith, Jim Wilbanks.
Entered as second-class matter at the post office at Aubun., Alabama
Subscription rates by mail: $1.00 for 3 months, $3.00 for 12 months
By Gene 'Moose' Moore
Once a pony time a papa Horse, named Charles*, and a
mama Horse, named Mrs. Charles, had a lovely young daughter
named Grace. This Grace—or 'Race, as she was called for
short—was really a hunky head of horse (pardon the expres­sion)
flesh; she was the Farm Divine. And she knew it.
'Race would sit around in the withers away to nothing if you
sun a lot, baskin' her gaskins,
clad in the scantiest saddle blan-k
e t imaginable. Whenever a
gentleman friend passed, she
would smile, showing a row of
pearly teeth so pretty that they
just made you want to stop to
count 'em. Yessirree. Well, sirree,
at this rate it wasn't long before
she attracted the attention of Ali
Bab-O, a handsome Arabian stal­lion
who was in the clover.
It was love at first sight for
Ali, who believed in such things
as love at first sight. He sidled up
to 'Race and whispered, "Hay,
babee, how's about you and me
putting on the feed bag tonight?"
But 'Race had been raised at
Hialeh, and she had bin around
plenty. After all she wasn't barn
yesterday! She kept up with the
Gallop Poll, and she understud
about men; she knew that to keep
Ali interested, the mane thing
was to act coy. This'll be a cinch,
she thought. She blinked her
large brown pensive limpid dark-lashed
eyes and said, "Gee, Mr.
Bab-O, it's nice of you to ask li'l
ole me, but I just washed my
forelock and I'm afraid I may be
catching colt. I'm a little horse,
too." She coughed several times
for effect.
Unabashed, the wealthy Ara­bian
pleaded, "I'm not one to stir­rup
trouble, and maybe I oat to
wait and ask you another time,
Cutie, but I just feel as if I'll
won't go with me tonight."
Finally, after much begging on
Ali's part and much stalling on
'Race's, she consented to accom­pany
him to the luxurious Dia­mond
Horseshoe for supper that
night.
They caused quite a commotion
as they entered the restaurant,
Ali attired formally in tails and
'Race poured into a gown of im­ported
burlap that made all the
other horses' large brown pen­sive
limpid dark-lashed eyes
bulge, and caused the wives of
several to adjust blinders on their
spouses. Proud Ali was the per­fect
gentleman; he found a com­fortable
chair to Percheron and
told her to make free with the
menu. By this time, you see, Ali
fetlock he'd like to change 'Race's
name to his, and he wanted to
impress her with his wealth. Dis­playing
impulsiveness typical of
a desert chieftain, he decided to
propose on the spot.
Now it happened that 'Race's
favorite food was an expensive
imported fruit pie. She ordered
several of these delicacies, and
all the time Ali was proposing, she
was eating. " 'Race," Ali began,
his large brown pensive limpid
dark-lashed eyes all aglow, "I'll
bit you're tired of this humdrum
life in the corral, aren't you?"
"Mm?" mmed 'Race, dreamily
gulping down foreign pastry.
"Don't you understand?" urged
Ali. "I'm tired of all this foaling
around. I want to saddle down,
and I want you, 'Race fairest, to
rein over my domain. I just won't
feel stable until I have you.
Whatayasay, kid? Can I take you
home to Mother?"
"I'll think it over," 'Race said,
signalling the waiter to bring
more fruit pies.
"Aw, quit stallion," went on
Ali. "Let me lead you up the
bridle path. I want to marey you,
'Race."
"Oh, stop wagon your tongue,
you filly old thing," laughed the
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Charles
Horse, still being coy. "Didn't I
tell you I'd think it over? Right
now I want some more of these
little pies."
'Race ate. And ate. And she
ate. Every time the waiter would
put a tart before the horse, she'd
gobble it down and ask for more.
Finally, after she had eaten ap­proximately
12,743 expensive im­ported
fruit pies, Ali began to get
a little tired. In desperation, he
asked, " 'Race, are you thinking it
over?"
But 'Race was too busy eating
tarts to answer. Suddenly Ali be­came
furious.. "Look at you," he
bellowed. "You've eaten so many
of those costly cookies that, rich
as I am, I may be uneighble to
pay the check. And still you re­fuse
to think over my proposal of
marriage. I've had enough of you,
Horse; shoo!" Ordering more pies,
'Race didn't even hear him.
Moral: You can feed a Horse's
daughter, but you can't make her
think.
* of 327 Burroughs Drive, Sny­der,
N.Y.
Columnist Finds Registration Crushing;
Comments On Status of Auburn Rats
« By vJim Jennings
This columnist, along with hundreds of other part time
residents of the Loveliest Village, arrived early Monday morn­ing
to begin a final visit of some nine months.
He soon learned upon arrival that an issue of The Plains­man
was scheduled for Thursday and that it was desired that
he immediately exercise his tal
ents for writing columns.
Usually the columnist tries to
deal with matters of weight and
importance, but on this occasion
he found this a difficult matter,
for before he began the column
he was crushed, although he ar­rived
in high spirits. The matter
which had crushed him had great
weight—the weight of immense
lengths of red tape.
This was the matter of regis­tration.
The columnist had managed to
maintain relatively high spirits
throughout the long line (which
near its end degenerated into a
small mob) in and around Sam-ford
Hall to gain a small sheet
of paper granting with outstand­ing
graciousness the right to go
through the process of registra­tion.
He had endured with great
patience the important-sounding
speech of his dean that said the
students there assembled really
knew all the processes of regis­tration
and therefore needed no
explanation.
He made no protest when he
discovered that no Auburn catalo­gues
were available in the stu­dent
activities building for con­sultation
about details of courses
listed in schedule booklets. He
suffered in silence when' he dis­covered
that the courses he de­sired
to take were all scheduled
at the same hour and that the
courses he would have substitut­ed
were not given this quarter,
and again when he made the
great trek from the student acti­vities
building to the military de­partment
and back again to ob­tain
one small punch card and
get the stamp of the military de­partment
on his registration mat­erial.
These trials were not limited to
this columnist alone but were the
common and average lot of all
victims of a highly confused and
confusing registration procedure.
The columnist could not complain
for he had thousands of compan­ion'
sufferers, many of whom
would have been able to spin
greater tales of woe.
But with victory in sight, just
three people down the table at
which fees were to be extracted,
the final and completely crushing
blow fell. A punch card was miss­ing.
The columnist could not pay
his fees without this card. The
sentence of doom was pronoun­ced.
A trip back to the registrar's
representative. A repeat perfor­mance
of the great trek. Back to
the student activities building.
The columnist's spirit was not
bent. It was broken beyond im­mediate
repair.
* * *
Auburn has a new crop of
freshman. It is easy to tell in most
instances who they are, with or
without rat caps. Most freshmen
look bewildered at almost all
times. This columnist not only
looked bewildered in those days
now so long ago. He was bewild­ered.
So, freshmen, do not give up
hope. A majority of you will pro­bably
survive, even though the
rats, according to the "Rat's Ex­cuse
For Living," rank only
slightly above rats from Alabama
and Georgia Tech, one of the low­est
known forms of animal exis-tance.
* * *
Congratulations to Jim Raul-ston
for an excellent job of edit­ing
the Tiger Cub, with one major
detraction. Where is the "Rat's
Excuse For Living"?
Foot's Note
By Dave "Foots" Laney
What have you done today that
you hated the worst?
My worst experience was mak­ing
that 8 o'clock class this morn­ing.
I was sleeping nicely this morn-
J ing j:ajt 7 when punctual Jerry
(Doc) Moore, our veteran house-boy,
entered to awaken me from
my perch on the top sack of my
double-decker bunk. Old Doc,
who in pre-war days was presi­dent
of the Auburn Ebony Coun­cil
(colored houseboys, waiters,
and porters), has been pulling the
houses's tenants out of bed at the
same time each schoolday morn­ing
for the last 40 years. .
When he began shaking the
bed, I, now half awake, imagined
that a senior-sized earthquake
had seized the house and my hap­pier
days were near an end. A
quick downward plunge followed
by an abrupt halt caused me to
open my eyes to observe what I
thought may have been the Gold­en
Gate and Saint Pete. But no,
it was Doc Moore's smiling face
that I saw.
Wide awake now, I picked my­self
from the floor, thanked Doc
for awakening me, and hastened
downstairs to read the morning
paper. As I entered the dining
room, an ardent grid follower who
was checking the sports page
spoke approvingly of Naylor
Stone's daily column, but dropped
his cup of coffee when an ex-
Bama man quoted Zipp Newman's
recent reports on the Tide.
Finishing my eggs and toast, I
realized it was time to leave for
my initial class of the quarter.
Grabbing my roommate's only
pencil, I departed. Arriving at the
classroom with the sound of the
tardy bell, I eased in and sat
down. I received an icy stare
from the instructor when I an­swered
an unorthodox "present"
to his calling of my name from
the roll.
Alas! Another quarter had be-gun.
Characteristically Collegiate
By Bob Gaddis
~ I'vi IbltN INVIflD ••'• ' •
—to the All Campus Dance
Saturday night.
"I see you are not a gentleman,"
hissed the lady on the street cor­ner
as the wind swept her skirts
over her head.
"No," he smiled, "and I see you
aren't either."
* * *
She doesn't drink
She doesn't pet
She doesn't go
To college yet.
* * *
Nit: "What kind of dress did
she wear to the party last night?"
Wit: "I can't remember. I think
it was checked."
Nit: "Really? That must have
been quite a party."
* * *
"Was your friend shocked over
the death of his mother-in-law?"
"Shocked, he was electrocut­ed!"
* * *
Prof: "Can you tell me any­thing
about the great chemists of
the seventeenth century?"
Auburn freshman: "They are
all dead, sir."
(
J.print.d from July 1951 lnue of E.qulr. Copyrlohl 1 »51 by Eiqoire, ln«)'
•"Well, sir, there I teas in the second chukkerj
and my pony stumbled"/'
Well, Things Could Be Worse;
How About Unsplit Banana Splits?
By Walter Albritton
•Classes again. Ugh! Well, guess we have to face it, fellow
comrades, it's once again grind time. What a thought! Don't
reckon it's so terrible, though. After all, fall is the best time
of the year for us college folk. Think of the fun we'll have
wondering whether Auburn is going to win any football
games this year.
Then, too, speaking of football, we already have at least
one consolation before the season even begins. And that is,
as one witty Tiger rooter has expressed it, that "the Tigers
can't possibly do any worse this fall; the only way they can
go is up!"
Even though truer words were never spoken, I still argue,
as I did then, that such a view is a pretty sad one to take in
looking over Auburn's gridiron chances for 1951. Too many
times victory is lost, in many things other than football, for
the sole reason that the pessimistic outlook is employed by
an individual or group. It's one thing to be pessimistic for
good reason, and it's an entirely different thing to be pessi­mistic
over the anticipated accomplishments of a team that
is trying as hard to produce as are the Tigers.
I believe that once the spectators of Cliff Hare Stadium
have seen the Plainsmen gridders in action Saturday, the
opinions of those pessimistic rooters and of many others will
have changed 100 per cent. If not, I promise here and now
that thereafter, I shall spell'the latter half of "pessimistic
rooters" with two t's instead of two o's!
Seriously, every Auburn student should dig up that opti­mistic
Tiger smile (that's been in mothballs since sometime
back in 1949) and get out and yell his lungs loose from his
adam's apple for the Tigers. If we ever climb up that tail,
slippery S.E.C. ladder, it will surely be the direct result of
cooperation, not only among the team members but among
the student body and team as well.
The student body's cooperative part is whole-hearted sup­port
and that of the team is to give the students something
to yell about. Pardon the personal reference, but you can
take my word for it that the Tigers are going to do their part
this season. Let's not allow studying to interfere with our
getting a college education; let's get behind the Plainsmen
and show them a cheering squad like Auburn's never see^i
before.
By the way, the thrill of those pre-game pep rallies should
be shared by every student. They represent another big rea­son
why fall is the hottest time of the year. Of course, we
all wake up the morning after, cussing the fact that laryngitis
is our reward for such a display of pep. But after all, where
is the fun in college anyway, unless it's found during the
pigskin season. Pep rallies, freezing weather, thrilling foot­ball
games—win or lose, trips to the games, pajama and torch
parades, dances, the Alabama game at Legion Field. Ah yes,
autumn showeth great promise!
Mainly because I was recently the proud winner of two
huge bets on a couple of football games, (one for 20c and the
other for 25c) I am, in the following sentences, going to
stick my neck out and make a daring prediction on the out­come
of Saturday's battle-between the Tigers and Vandy.
First of all, I forecast a victory for Auburn. I hesitate, how­ever,
in predicting the actual score. That's a toughie. But
since I got reckless enough to assume the role of this week's
amateur Auburn prognosticator, I'll step on out into the deep
water with this shot in the dark—Auburn 35, Vandy 26. (I
delight in hurriedly leaving this prophet business without
further ado.)
You know, even with those little demons, classes, around
to bother us this fall, we ought to remember that ours is not
such a bad situation after all. Why, imagine our predicament
if any of the following things should occur in our fair village:
(1) The moon falling on Samford Hall (and the clock re­maining
unharmed). (2) A frustrated freshman's discovering
the secret of nuclear explosive (example: the atomic bomb)
after eight hours of attempted registration. (3) Ownership
of Auburn being relinquished to Andre Gromyko as the re­sult
of a wild poker game with Doctor Draughon. (4) All
co-eds' being drafted and A.P.I, being turned into a military
school for boys. (5) General MacArthur's opening a news­stand
in the center of the quadrangle. (6) The Casino, South­ern
Club, Raines and the other hot spots of the town going
out of business. (7) Congress* passing a bill outlawing the
splitting of bananas in banana splits. (8) Dogs' turning into
fierce monsters that would bite professors. (9) An Auburn
astronomy student's inventing a machine that proved the
Milky Way was not really milky.
Wow! Double Wow! When does my first class start?
This isn't such a bad place after all.
i .
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5—THE PLAINSMAN Thursday, September 27, 1951
ft
WAR EAGLES, ETC.
Traditions, Customs At Auburn
Keep Spirit Alive On The Plains
By Gene Moore
Have you noticed it too? Every cry of "War Eagle" seems
louder than the one before. The longer one remains on the
Plains, the more aware he becomes of the'famous, durable
Auburn Spirit.
The Auburn Spirit, an intangible friendly ghost which
h a u n t s a true Auburnite with an
overpowering pride in his institu­tion
and in himself as a part of
MAGNOLIA'S SIAMESE TWIN
t h a t institution, is one square in
t h e patchwork quilt of tradition
at A.P.I.
Customs and traditions have
been n u r t u r e d through the years
and passed on to succeeding stu­dents
by each class. Without t r a ­dition,
Auburn would be merely
another institution of higher
learning; with them, it is a far-flung
brotherhood embracing all
men who remember Auburn as
home. Tradition is the foundation
for Auburn's individuality.
"War Eagle," the renowned
b a t t l e cry of the Auburn Tiger,
is an outward manifestation of
t h e Auburn Spirit. Tales of the
origin of this tradition are many
and varied, but the familiar, com­pelling
words will be heard
wherever Auburn men gather.
Closely related to the Auburn
Spirit is the air of friendliness
which prevades the campus. For­mal
introductions are not neces­sary
at Auburn; everybody speaks
to everybody.
Nestled close under the wing of
Samford Hall is the Lathe. The
huge machine was used to manu­facture
arms for the Confederacy
during the War between the
States and was later retired to
i ts present honorable position on
t h e campus. Legend has it that
t h e wheel will turn automati­cally
upon proper stimulation.
Near the Lathe is another land­mark,
the Petrified Stump, al­legedly
presented to the campus
as a gift from the daughter of
t h e president of. the college.
The biblical passage "wide is
t h e gate, and broad is the way,
that leadeth to destruction" could
well apply to Auburn's Main
Gate; for since the day it was
built, no freshman has legally
walked through it. Asphalt walks
have been built around the gate
for the convenience of freshmen,
and "destruction" in the form of
A Club paddles awaitheth the
f i r s t - y e a r man who regardeth not
this tradition.
One of the big days of the fall
q u a r t e r is Homecoming. Spon­sored
by Blue Key honor society,
t h e celebration recalls alumni for
nostalgic reunions. Fraternity
houses and dormitories are decor­ated
for the week end, with prizes
for the winners. A special dance
is held, and a Homecoming
Queen is chosen to reign at the
game.
All freshmen, sleepy or not, are
required to don their most color­ful
sleeping apparel for partici­pation
in the Wreck Tech Pajama
Parade, held every year in con­junction
with the pep rally pre­ceding
the Georgia Tech game.
Freshmen carry banners and lit­ters,
shouting encouragement to
the Tigers and predicting impend­ing
doom for the Yellow Jackets.
Throughout each fall quarter
men train for the Omicron Delta
Kappa-Wilbur H u t s e 11 Cake
Race, held during the first part
of December. All able-bodied
freshmen are required to take
p a r t in the running of the 2.7-
mile cross-country race. The win­n
e r ' s prizes include a large cake
and a kiss from Miss Auburn. The
first 24 men who follow him
across the finish line receive
smaller cakes and candy kisses.
Rat Rules are the freshman's
code of living during his first
year at Auburn. Every member
of the genus Rattus must learn
these regulations and abide by
them:
Do not walk through the Main
Gate under any circumstances.
Always carry matches for the
use of upperclassmen.
Learn thoroughly the "Rat's
Excuse for Living," so that you
may repeat it with proper ex­pression
upon the request of any
upperclassman.
Speak to absolutely every one
you meet on street or campus.
All freshmen will be present at
all mass meetings.
Learn and be able to sing both
verses of Auburn's Alma Mater.
Know the whereabouts of cer-tain
familiar landmarks which
you may be asked to locate.
Learn the Auburn Creed thor­oughly.
Wear your rat cap at all times
until Auburn defeats Alabama
December 1.
A STILL GREATER AUBURN will be the result when this modern four-story dormitory for
men is completed next year. Linked to Magnolia Hall by covered walkways, the $875,000 structure
will accomodate 502 students. "The combination of this new dormitory with Magnolia Hall will
make up one of the outstanding housing units i n the South," states Dr. H. D. Vallery, coordinator
of men's housing. (A.P.I, photo by Barton Perry)
NOTICE
All veterinary medicine students
who were unable to make appoint­ments
for Glomerata pictures dur­ing
the regular scheduled periods
may make appointments at the
student, affairs., office,. Samford
Hall 101, from September 27 to
October 4. Office hours are from
8 to 11 a.m. and 1 to 4:30 p.m.
Brian Afierne's Prose, Poetic Reading
Initial Concert, Lecture Presentation
By Walter Albritton
Brian Aherne, star of stage, screen and radio, will be the
first presentation of the A.P.I. Concert and Lecture Series,
it was announced today by Dean Katharine Cater, chairman
of the Concert-Lecture Committee. Aherne will appear on
October 24, giving portions from plays in which he has starred
and reading from prose and poe- , _ _ , , _ , , . . ,
don Hall. The choir is composed
of 62 members appearing for the
first time in this country, with a
r e p e r t o r y ranging from Bach to
Broadway.
Pulitzer prize winner Hanson
Baldwin, will be the fourth at­traction
on F e b r u a r y 14, in Lang-don
Hall. The first lecturer of the
series, Baldwin is m i l i t a r y editor
for the New York Times. He r e ­cently
returned from a tour of
inspection in Korea and the Far
East.
April 10 is the date set for
piano virtuoso Benno Moisewitch,
to appear in Langdon Hall. Moi-try.
Second of the series will be
J o h a n n Strauss' operetta, "Die
Fledermaus," which will be p r e ­sented
by Hurok Attractions. Irra
Petina, mezzo-soprano; Adelaide
Bishop, coloratura soprano; Mit­chell
Bartlett, tenor, and Lloyd
Thomas Leech, tenor, will be
heard with the company of 65.
The operetta will be presented
November 5 in the student activi­ties
building.
The Singing Boys of Norway, a
boys' choir, will be the t h i r d p r e ­sentation,
F e b r u a r y 11, in Lang-sewitch
has played under Tos-canini
and has been decorated
for his w a r - t i m e concert work in
Britain. He last toured the United
States in 1948.
The final attraction of the ser-
, ies will be a lecture by Doris
Fleeson, April 24, in Langdon
Hall. Miss Fleeson is Washing­ton's
top woman political column­ist.
Her daily column is syndicat­ed
to sixty newspapers all over
America. She will speak on "De­mocratic
Ideals and Realities."
Each attraction of the series is
free to all students; to gain ad
mittance, students must show
t h e i r student activity book at the
door. All of the concerts and lec­t
u r e s will be held in the student
activities building or Langdon
Hall, each beginning at 8:15 p.m.
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Auburn Players Tour
Announced By Peet
The Auburn Players will tour
agfein this fall, Prof. Telfair
Peet, head professor of Auburn
dramatic art, announced today.
This fall will mark the 33rd
season for the Players, and their,
seventh year of on-the-road pro­duction.
The theater group was
organized in 1918, and for the past
j six years the Players have toured
Alabama and portions of Georgia,
employing a method of portable
| scenery and lighting which they
developed for such travel.
Generally, the Players prefer to
give showings within a 100-mile
radius of Auburn, arriving at the
auditorium by mid-afternoon to
set up scenery, and then, after the
play is over that night, returning
to Auburn at once. Since the group
is composed entirely of students,
and such a trip requires much
time and effort, the Players do not
accept bookings on consecutive
nights unless the second night
comes oh a week-end.
Professor Peet stated that plans
are being shaped up for the fall
production, a comedy, "—But Not
Goodbye," to be presented in a
series of off-campus showings
from the second week in November
through the middle of December.
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Governing Constitution Of The Alabama Polytechnic Institute Student Body
PREAMBLE:
We, the students of Alabama
Polytechnic Institute, in order to
establish an organization of self-government,
to promote a wide­spread
interest in student affairs,
to promote a clear and continuous
exchange of ideas between the
students and the administration,
to further the activities of student
life, to develop a greater spirit of
progressive citizenship, and to as­sume
the fullest responsibilities
and powers of self-governm,ent
not inconsistent with the policies
of the administration of Alabama
Polytechnic Institute, do ordain
and establish this Constitution for
the student body of Alabama
Polytechnic Institute.
ARTICLE I—Name of
Organization
The name of this organization
shall be the "Student Body of Ala­bama
Polytechnic Institute."
ARTICLE II—Purposes
The purposes of this organiza­tion
are to deal effectively with
matters of student affairs, to per­petuate
the best traditions and
ideals of Alabama Polytechnic
Institute, to promote the best of
good will and understanding be­tween
faculty and students to the
end that the work of this institu­tion
may be made of lasting value
to the students, to control all mat­ters
which are delegated to the
student government by the admin­istration,
to work with the admin­istration
in all matters affecting
the welfare of the Student Body, to
enact and enforce such laws as are
deemed necessary for the promo­tion
of the welfare of the students,
and to control and direct student
activities in order that they may
be conducted for the best interests
of the Student Body as a whole
and to the credit of Alabama Poly­technic
Institute.
ARTICLE III—Membership
Section 1 All registered, under­graduate
students of Alabama
Polytechnic Institute at Auburn,
Alabama, are, upon payment of
the Student Activities Fee, mem­bers
of this organization, such
membership to be subject to all
rules and regulations as may be
herein or hereafter enacted by this
organization.
Section 2 Only members of this
organization shall be entitled to,
vote in class and Student Body
elections.
ARTICLE IV—General
Organization
Section 1 The Student Body of
Alabama Polytechnic Institute
shall be organized into three
branches: The Legislative, the Ex­ecutive,
and the Judicial.
Section 2 The Women's Student
Government Association shall con­stitute
an independent executive
department of this government,
and shall govern only and ex­clusively
on matters pertaining to
women students. The President of
Women's Student Government As­sociation
shall be a member of the
Executive Cabinet of the President
of the Student Body.
Section 3 The organization of
classes shall constitute an inde­pendent
part of this government.
Class government shall be sub­ject
to all laws enacted by the
Student Body and will be govern­ed
by the rules and regulations
found in regard to class organiza­tion
and government herein and
hereafter enacted by this orga­nization.
ARTICLE V—Legislative Branch
Section 1 AH legislative powers
granted herein shall be vested in
a Student Senate, whose member­ship
shall be elected from each
class of the Alabama Polytechnic-
Institute.
Section 2 Each of the five classes
at Alabama Polytechnic Institute
—freshmen, sophomores, juniors.
seniors, and fifth and sixth year
students—shall be entitled to rep­resentation
in the Student Senate.
Section 3 Representation in the
Student Senate shall be as fol­lows:
(1) Fifth and Six year stu­dents
- - l senator
(2) Senior class 5 senators
(3) Junior class ... ... 4 senators
(4) Sophomore class 3 senators
(5) Freshman class . 2 senators
Section 4 The membership of
the Student Senate, except fresh­man
senators, shall be elected for
one year in the spring quarter
elections by a plurality vote of
their respective classes. Freshman
senators shall be elected in the fall
quarter elections. .
Section 5 All vacancies occur­ring
in the Student Senate before
the fall quarter elections, except
during the summer quarter, shall
be filled in the fall quarter elec­tions.
Section 6 All vacancies occur­ring
after the fall quarter elections
and during the summer quarter
shall be filled by appointment by
the President of the Student Body
with the approval of two-thirds of
the membership of ^jg, Student
Senate.
Section 7 PROCEDURE
(1) Two-thirds of the member­ship
of the Student Senate shall
constitute a quorum to do busi­ness;
but a smaller number may
be authorized to compel the at­tendance
of absent members in
such manner and under such
penalties as the Student Senate
may provide.
(2) The Student Senate may
determine the rules of its pro­ceedings,
punish its members for
disorderly* conduct, and with con­currence
of three-fourths of the
membership expel a member.
(3) The Student Senate shall
meet at least every two weeks
during the school year, or at the
call of the President of the Stu­dent
Body, or upon the written
request of a majority of the
membership of the Student Sen­ate.
(4) All enactments of the Stu­dent
Senate, including changes in
the laws of the Student Body,
shall be passed by a majority vote
unless otherwise specified in this
Constitution.
Section 8 POWERS AND DU­TIES
(1) To select from within the
senior membership of the Stu­dent
Senate a President Pro Tern
at the first meeting. The President
Pro Tom shall serve as a presid­ing
officer of the Student Senate
in the absence of the Vice-Presi­dent
of the Student Body.
(2) To elect from within the
Student Senate at the first meet­ing,
an assistant clerk, who shall
serve as acting clerk in the ab­sence
of the Secretary of the Stu­dent
Body. However, as' acting
clerk he will merely record all
enactments by the Student Senate
and will vote in all proceedings.
(3) To set up permanent or
temporary committees from with­in
the Student Senate membership
as it sees fit. These Student Senate
committees, temporary and per­manent,
shall be governed by the
rules and regulations provided for
Student Senate committees in the
Laws of the Student Body.
(4) To approve by two-thirds
vote all members of the Executive
Cabinet of the President of the
Student Body except the Presi­dent
of WSGA and the President
of the Student Council on Reli­gious
Activities, both of whom
will automatically become mem­bers.
(5) To override the veto of the
President of the Student Body by
a vqte of two-thirds of the mem­bership
of the Student Senate.
(6) To create or abolish any
Executive Cabinet post upon
recommendation by the President
of the Student Body with the ap­proval
of two-thirds of the mem­bership
of the Student Senate.
(7) To charter such subsidiary
organizations as may be deemed
necessary for the proper function­ing
of the government or the
general welfare of the entire stu­dent
body. All rules and regula­tions
governing and regulating
chartered groups will be provided
in individual chartered constitu­tions
for each group. These char­ters
must be approved by two-thirds
of the membership of the
Student Senate. The constitutions
of all chartered groups supported
by the Student Activities Fee must
be included in the Laws of the
Student Body.
(8) To enact or revise Laws of
the Student Body.
(9) To grant to all student orga­nizations
and publications the
privilege of establishment on the
campus, and to set standards for
the recognition of such organi­zations.
(19) To vote articles of im­peachment
against the President,
;.he Vice-President, the Secretary,
ind the Treasurer of the Student
Body or any other Student Body
officer.
(11) To fully comply with all
the duties and powers established
for the Student Senate in this
Constitution or the Laws of the
Student Body.
Section 9 Any exercise of the
"orcgoing powers or any action of
the Student Senate may be re­viewed,
altered, or rescinded by
a majority vote of the students
voting in a campus election. Upon
receipt of a petition signed by 10
per cent of the Student Body of
Alabama Polytechnic Institute and
containing a statement of such ex­ercise
of power or action to be
voted on by the students, the
President of the Student Body
shall direct that an election be
held. If 25 per cent of the stu­dents
enrolled at Alabama Poly­technic
Institute cast votes in the
election the outcome of the elec­tion
will be final.
ARTICLE VI—Executive Branch
Section 1 All executive powers
granted herein shall be vested in
a President of the Student Body.
The president of the Student
Body shall be assisted by a Vice-
President, a Secretary, a Treasur­er,
an Executive Cabinet, and
such administrative officers as he
shall appoint in accordance with
this Constitution and the Laws of
the Student Body.
Section 2. The President, Vice-
President, Secretary, and Treas­urer
of the Student Body shaJ.1
be chosen for a term of one year
by a plurality vote in the spring
quarter elections.
Section 3 VACANCIES
(1) If the office of the President
should become vacant before the
fall quarter elections, it shall be
filled in a special election held
simultaneously with the fall quar­ter
elections; but if such office
should become vacant at any other
time, it shall be filled by the Vice-
President.
(2) If the office of the Vice-
President should become vacant
before the fall quarter elections, it
shall be filled in a special elec­tion
held simultaneously with the
fall quarter elections; but if such
office should become vacant at any
other time, it shall be filled by the
President Pro Tern of the Student
Senate.
(3) If the offices of both the
the President and Vice-President
should become vacant after the
fall quarter elections, the President
Pro Tern of the Student Senate
shall assume the office of Presi­dent
unless the Student Senate
shall see fit to call an election to
fill said vacancies.
(4) If the office of either Sec­retary
or Treasurer of the Stu­dent
Body should become vacant
before the fall quarter elections, it
shall be filled in a special ele-tion
held simultaneously with the
fall quarter elections; but if it
should become vacant at any other
time, the President of the Student
Body shall fill the vacancy by ap­pointment
with the aproval of
two-thirds of the membership of
the Student Senate.
Section 4 The President of the
Student Body shall have the fol­lowing
duties and powers:
(1) To execute the laws enacted
by the Student Senate.
(2) To call and preside over
meetings of the Executive Cabi­net.
(3) To submit to the Student
Senate for approval his proposed
budget for the year.
(4) To appoint all members of
the Executive Cabinet with the
approval of two-thirds of those
voting in the Student Senate.
(5) To remove at will any mem­ber
of the Executive Cabinet.
(6) To recommend that the
Student Senate create or abolish
Executive Cabinet positions.
(7) To fill all vacancies in the
Student Senate occuring during
the summer quarter and after the
fall quarter elections with the a p ­proval
of two-thirds of the mem­bership
of the Student Senate.
(8) To call special meetings of
the Student Senate.
(9) To bring before the Student
Jurisprudence Committee charges
against any Student Senate ap­proved
organization for violation
of provisions governing the regu­lating
such organizations.
(10) To veto acts of the Stu­dent
Senate. If the President docs
not veto any act of the Student
Senate within 10 days after pas­sage,
such act shall become law
without the President's signature.
(11) To have published in the
official college newspaper in at
least two issues prior to all elec­tions
a notice of the time and
place of such election, including
notice of such vacancies as are to
be filled in said election.
(12) To examine quarterly the
book and records of the Treasurer
of the Student Body, all members
of the Executive Cabinet, all ad­ministrative
officers, and all sub­sidiary
organizations.
(13) To attend all meetings of
the Student Senate.
(14) To require when requested
a written interpretation by the
Student Jurisprudence Committee
on any provision of this Constitu­tion
or the Laws of the Student
Body.
(15) To execute all powers and
duties found in this Constitution
and the Laws of the Student Body.
Section 5 The Vice-president of
the Student Body shall have the
following duties and powers:
(1) To execute the duties and,
powers of the President to the Stu­dent
Body in his absence.
(2) To preside over all meet­ings
of the Student Senate and to
cast a vote in the Student Senate
only in case of a tie.
(3) To perform such duties as
the President of the Student Body
may assign to him.
(4) To appoint the members of
all committees of the Student
Senate and serve as an cx-officio
member of all such committees.
Section 6 The Secretary of the
Student Body shall have the fol­lowing
duties and powers:
(1) To serve as recording secre­tary
of the Executive Cabinet.
(2) To serve as Clerk of the
Student Senate.
(3) To send to the office of the
President of the Student Body
within 48 hours after enactment
all laws passed by the Student
Senate, and to return to the Stu­dent
Senate all legislation signed
or vetoed by the President of the
Student Body.
(4) To keep and make avail­able
to the Executive Cabinet and
the Student Senate a permanent
record of the Constitution and
Laws of the Student Body.
(5) To serve as manager of the
Student Body office and handle
correspondence.
(6) To have all laws passed
by the Student Senate approved by
the Student Jurisprudence Com­mittee
before such are entered in
the permanent records of the
Student Body.
(7) To have all acts and decis­ions
of the Student Senate pub­lished
in the official student news­paper
in the next issue following
adoption.
(8) To perform all other duties
as may be given him by the Presi­dent
of the Student Body.
Section 7 The Treasurer of the
Student Body shall have the fol­lowing
duties and powers:
(1) To establish and maintain
an audit system for all Student
Senate-approved organizations on
the campus in accordance with the
Laws of the Student Body.
(2) To present to the Student
Senate and to have published in
the official college newspaper
quarterly written financial • r e ­ports
on all activities supported by
student activities fee.
(3) To supervise the work of
the Superintendent of Finance.
Section 8 The members of the
Executive'Cabinet of the President
of the Student Body shall have the
following duties and powers:
(1) To execute under the super­vision
of the President of the Stu­dent
Body all Laws of the Student
Body.
(2) To meet at least weekly with
the President of the Student Body
to discuss and determine adminis­trative
policy.
(3) To meet with the Student
Senate to discuss legislative or stu­dent
problems.
(4) To appoint with the ap­proval
of the President of the Stu­dent
Body all members of their
respective departments.
(5) To perform all duties of
their respective Cabinet positions
as provided in this Constitution
and the Laws of the Student Body.
ARTICLE VII—Judicial Branch
Section 1 All judicial powers
granted herein shall be vested in
a Student Jurisprudence Commit­tee
composed of one faculty mem­ber,
who shall be appointed by the
president of Alabama Polytechnic
Institute with the approval of
two-thirds of the membership of
the Student Senate and who shall
serve as presiding justice, and six
students, who shall be appointed
by the President of the Student
Body with the approval of two-thirds
of the membership of the
Student Senate and who shall
serve as associate justices.
Section 2 All members of the
Student Jurisprudence Committee
shall take office upon appointment
in the spring quarter and shall
serve for a period of one year or
until their successors are appoint­ed.
Section 3 The Student Jurispru­dence
Committee shall have the
following duties and powers:
(1) To have sole jurisdiction in
all cases involving the interpre­tation
of the Constitution and
Laws of the Student Body and to
have such interpretations pub­lished
in the official college news­paper
within one week after the
rendering thereof.
(2) To have jurisdiction in all
cases involving offenses against
the provisions of this Constitution
or the Laws of the Student Body.
(3) To render within one week,
upon request, a written interpre­tation
of any part of this Consti­tution
or the Laws of the Stu­dent
Body.
(4) To hear and adjudge a de­cision
in all cases of impeachment.
(5) To elect at the first meeting
a clerk from among the student
members who will be responsible
for keeping a permanent written
record of committee proceedings.
Section 4 All decisions of the
Student Jurisprudence Committee
shall be decided by a majority vote
of the student membership.
ARTICLE VIII—Class
Organization
Section 1 The senior, junior,
sophomore, and freshman classes
shall organize as separate classes,
and such organizations shall con­stitute
separate a n d distinct
branches of the Student Body.
Section 2 Each class shall elect
the following officers in the fall
quarter elections:
(1) A President, who shall serve
as chief executive of the class and
who shall call and preside over at
least one class meeting a quarter.
(2) A Vice-President, who shall
assist the President in the execu­tion
of the administration of the
class and who shall assume the
duties of the President in the ab­sence
of the latter.
(3) A Secretary-Treasurer, who
shall record minutes of all class
meetings, handle all correspond­ence,
keep all class money and
submit a quarterly financial report
t
to the Treasurer of the Student
Body.
(4) A Historian, who shall com­pile
a record of the activities of
the class and who shall file such
record with the Secretary of the
Student Body prior to the end of
the spring quarter.
Section 3 All vacancies shall be
filled by appointment by the
President of the Student Body
with the approval of two-thirds
of the membership of the Student
Senate. ,
ARTICLE IX—General Elections
Section 1 Schedule for elections
shall be as follows:
(1) The election of ail Student
Body officers, except freshman
senators, shall be held on the
second Thursday in April.
(2) The election of all class of­ficers
and of the freshman mem­bers
of the Student Senate shall
be held on the last Thursday in
October.
(3) The election of the Editor
and Business Manager of publica­tions
under the supervision of the
Board of Student Publications
shall be held on the second Thurs­day
in April.
(4) All special elections shall be
held on a date designated by the
President of the Student Body.
(5) The President of the Stu­dent
Body, upon the approval of
two-thirds of the members voting
in the Student Senate, may change
the above designated dates for
good and sufficient reasons.
Section 2 Election procedure
shall be as follows:
(1) The Superintendent of Po­litical
Affairs, who will be a mem­ber
of the Executive Cabinet of
the President of the Student Body,
shall be responsible to the Presi­dent
for conducting all elections in
compliance with the Constitution
and Laws of the Student Body.
(2) The senior members of the
Student Senate shall be responsi­ble
to the Student Senate for
tabulating the results of all elec­tions
within 12 hours following
the closing of the polls.
Section 3 Voting qualifications
shall be as follows:
(1) Students are eligible to vote
in the election of class officers for
the class in which the students
are currently classified by the
Registrar of the Alabama Poly­technic
Institute.
(2) Students are eligible to vote-in
the election of members of the
Student Senate from the class in
which the students will be classi­fied
by the Registrar of Alabama
Polytechnic Institute the fall quar­ter
immediately following the
spring quarter elections.
(3) All students are eligible to
vote in the elections of President
of the Student Body, Vice-Presi­dent
of the Student Body, Treasu­rer
of the Student Body, Secretary
of the Student Body, and Editor
and Business Manager of the pub­lications
under the supervision of
the Board of Student Publications.
(4) All students are eligible to
vote in any special election af­fecting
the entire student body.
Section 4 Qualifications for can­didates
for Student Body and class
officers shall be as follows:
(1) All candidates must have
either a 2.0 overall average or a
2.5 average for the preceding
quarter.
(2) All candidates must be en­rolled
in school during their entire
term of office, except for unavoid­able
reasons.
(3) Candidates for class offices
and for membership in the Student
Senate may qualify only in the
class in which they arc eligible to
vole.
(4) Candidates for President and
Vice-President of the Student
Body shall be members of the
senior or of some higher class.
(5) Candidates for Treasurer
of the Student Body shall be a
member of the junior or of some
higher class. »
((5) Candidates for Secretary of
the Student Body shall be a mem­ber
of the sophomore or of some
higher class.
(7) No candidate may run for
more than one elective Student
Body position in the same quarter.
(8) No student may be elected
to more than one class or Student
Body office in the same year, and
no elected Student Body officer
may serve as1 Editor or Business
Manager of any publication under
the supervision of the Board of
Student Publications.
(9) All candidates must be in­terviewed
and approved by the
Student Body Board of Election
Qualifications, which shall insure
that all candidates have complied
with the above qualifications. The
membership of this Board shall
consist of the President of .the
Student Body, the Vice-President
of the Student Body, the President
Pro Tern' of the Student Senate,
and the Superintendent of Political
Affairs.
m
Section 5 The procedure for the
qualification of candidates for
Editor and Business Manager of
publications under' the supervision
of the Board of Student Publica­tions
shall be as follows:
(1) The qualifications for such
candidates shall be determined by
the Board of Student Publications.
(2) All candidates must be in­terviewed
and approved by the
Board of Student Publications be­fore
their names may appear on
the ballot.
Section 6 Qualifications for can­didates
for the title of "Miss Au­burn"
or "Miss Homecoming"
shall be as follows:
(1) Only undergraduate women
students who are members of
sophomore or of some higher class
and who have completed one or
more quarters at A.P.I, shall be
eligible to qualify.
(2) No student may hold both
titles in the same academic yenr.
(3) E a c h college operated
dormitory, each social fraternity,
each social sorority, and each or­ganization
recognized by.the Stu­dent
Senate shall be eligible t'o
nominate one candidate for the
positions.
(4) The nomination shall be in
the following form:
"We, (nominating body), do
hereby nominate (name of candi­date)
for the t i t le (name of t i t l e ) ."
(Signature of nominee)
" I hereby accept the nomina­tion."
(Signature of nominee)
(5) If more than five candidates
are nominated, the Superintendent
of Political Activities shall appoint
a Qualifications Board consisting
of five members, none of which
may be students, to select from
the candidates the five finalists
whose names shall appear on the
ballot.
(6) If less than five candidates
are nominated for the title, the
President of the Student Body
shall nominate the required num­ber
of five candidates.
Section 7 The installation of
Student Body officers and their
term of office shall be as follows:
(1) All Student Body officers
elected in the spring quarter
elections shall be installed at a
banquet to be held each year sub­sequent
to May 1 and prior to May
15 and shall hold office for one
year or until their successors are
installed. At this banquet the
President of Alabama Polytechnic
Institute shall administer the
following Student Body Inaugural
Oath:
"I do solmenly promise to sup­port
the Constitution and the Laws
of the Student Body of Alabama
Polytechnic Institute and to per­form
the duties of my office to the
best of my ability, so help me
God."
(2) All class officers shall as­sume
office immediately upon
election and shall hold office until
their successors are elected. The
President of the Student Body
shall administer the Student Body
Inaugural Oath to all class officers
within one week after their elec­tion.
('.',) The installation and term
of the office of Editor and Busi­ness
Manager of the publications
under the supervision of the Board
of Student Publications shall be
regulated by the Board of Student
Publications.
ARTICLE X
Method of Amendment
Section 1 All amendments to
this Constitution must be pro­posed
by one of the following
methods:
(1) By a vole of two-thirds of
the membership ofv the Student
Senate.
(2) By a petition presented in
writing to the President of the
Student Body carrying the sig­natures
of 10 per cent of the
membership of the Student Body.
Section 2 All proposed amend­ments
to this Constitution must
be approved by the Student Juris­prudence
Committee to insure
consistency in both form and con­text.
No amendment shall be
voted upon by the Student Body
without such approval by the Stu­dent
Jurisprudence Committee.
Section 3 Proposed amend­ments
to this Constitution must
be published in the official stu­dent
newspaper in at least two
issues prior to the date on which
a vote is taken by the Student
Body.
Section 4 Proposed amend­ments
to this Constitution shall be
adopted by a majority of the stu­dents
voting in a general election,
provided that ballots are cast by at
least 25 per cent of the member­ship
of the Student Body.
Section 5 All amendments to
this Constitution shall be incor­porated
by the method of dele­tion
and substitution, and those
amendments which are additive
shall be placed in additional sec­tions
or paragraphs in the arti­cle
to which it pertains.
ARTICLE XI
Schedule for Adoption
Section 1 This Constitution shall
take effect immediately after ac­ceptance
by a majority of the stu-j
dents voting on this Constitution.
Section 2 The present President
of the Student Executive Cabinet
shall immediately become Acting
President of the Student Body.
Section 3 As Acting President of
the Student Body he shall have
the power to fill those positions
provided in t h i s Constitution
which he feels are necessary for
the proper functioning of student
government until permanent offi­cers
are elected and installed.
Section 4 Permanent officers
shall be elected in the spring quar­ter
elections on Thursday, April
12, 1951, and shall take office upon
their installation at the inaugura­tion
banquet.
Section 5 If this Constitution is
approved by a majority of the stu­dents
voting on this Constitution,
Article XI shall not be published
in any future publication of this
Constitution.
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Tigers Open 1951 Season With Commodore Battle Saturday
Kickoff Time 2:30 At Cliff Hare Stadium
Jbrdan Makes Debut As Auburn Head Mentor
By Kokomo McArdle
The Auburn Tigers hit what is hoped to be the come-back
trail Saturday when they open with the Vanderbilt Com­modores
at Cliff Hare Stadium. Kick-off time is 2:30 p.m.
Suffering the worst season in Auburn football history last
year, the Tigers are trying to rebound from 10 consecutive
losses. A new coaching staff, in­cluding
the addition of head
Coach Shug Jordan, and the work
they have done last spring and
this fall have brightened hopes
on the Plains.
It has been a complete rebuild­ing
job for the coaches, and the
boys have responded well. With
almost no injuries to date, the
Auburn football team is in nearly
Paul B. Williamson, nation­ally-
known sportscaster, picks
Auburn "with 115 scholarship-frosh"
to d e f e a t "off-year
Varidy" in this Saturday's game.
Williamson last year predicted
the upset defeat of Notre Dame
by Purdue.
top physical condition. At this
time last fall, the team had at
least 10 men who were on the in­active
list because of injuries.
Conditioning prevented a recur­rence
this fall.
Wade To Pace Vandy
Quarterback Bill Wade will
pace the Vandy attack Saturday.
Last year the Commodores' quar­terback
completed 14 of 22 passes
against the Plainsmen, and in
rline whirlwind minutes he led
his men to 34 points in the second
quarter. His favorite target, All-
America Bucky Curtiss is gone,
but he still has ends Malcolm
Cook and Ted Kirkland on the
receiving line.
Auburn will open with at least
two sophomores, and might open
with a lot more. Guard Ed Dun­can
and Right Half Charles Hata-way
look like sure starters while
Center Ed Baker and Fullback
Herman Howard are potential
starters.
Defensively, sophs Vince Dool-ey,
Bob Burns, and Robert Duke
look like starting backs, along
with freshman Bobby Freeman.
Duncan will probably open at a
guard whether his team is on of­fense
or defense.
Veterans Anchor Team
Old timers Allan Parks, Dwight
Hitt, Ed Bauer, Homer Williams,
and Joe Tiburzi will anchor the'
team, and Lee Hayley and Dave
Ridgway make Auburn followers
think their ends are as good as
any in the SEC.
Parks will get the call at quar­terback;
Hitt will be the left half
(he has been a defensive special­ist
for two seasons); Bauer is
back at guard; Tiburzi will be a
tackle choice, and Williams will
be the fullback after two years at
center.
Saturday's game is billed as the
battle for the SEC cellar. Auburn
has been placed last in pre-season
forecasts and Vanderbilt is listed
just one notch above. It will be
the 26th meeting of the two clubs.
Vandy has a better record against
the Tigers than does any other
team. It's 18 wins, six losses and
one tie.
CAPTAIN FOOTS
Ed Bauer
Kokomo's Korner By Bill McArdle
AUBURN
Hayley (200) ....
Tiburzi (225) ....
Duncan (208) ..
Bruce (205)
Probable starting lineups:
Pos.
L.E --
VANDY
. Cook (188)
L.T. Billings (217)
L.G. '-.- Philpot (195)
C Farris (195)
Bauer (208) R.G - Cheadle (205)
Mulhall (197) _ R.T. Werckle (215)
Ridgway (185) R.E. . Roderick (195)
Parks (175) Q. B. mm ...Wade (207)
Hitt (178) L.H. Foster (174)
Williams (180) F. H .- Lakos (185)
Hataway (186) R. B Allen (180)
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. Back in 1925 an Auburn football team edged a Vanderbilt
eleven, 10-9, and since that time the Tigers haven't been
able to beat a Commodore team. What's worse Auburn has
dented the Vandy goal line only twice in a string of eight
consecutive setbacks.
Since the series began in 1893, the teams have met 25 times.
The Commodores have taken 18 of the engagements, and one
game ended in a deadlock. Auburn has one consolation in
that they have the biggest winning margin for any single
game. In 1920 the score was 56-6 when the Tigers lost only
to Georgia and Georgia Tech. That same season Washington
and Lee fell to the Tigers, 77-0; Howard was bounced, 88-0,
and Birmingham-Southern was beaten 49-0.
• Last fall Vanderbilt finished seventh in the conference
with a 3-4 loop record. Their over-all mark was 7-4. Gone
is the fabulous combination of Wade-to-Curtiss, but Wade
returns to hold up his part. Wade will be
completing his" third season as a first string
quarterback. Heralded in 1949 as a sure
All-America, Wade never quite lived up
to expectations, but with two years of ex­perience
and his press clippings forgotten,
he is destined to be one of the South's top
backs this fall.
In last week's 22-7 verdict over Middle
Tennessee, the Commodores worked with­out
Wade. He was ejected from the game
in the first quarter for slugging. To evaluate the Vanderbilt
team without Wade is like evaluating a hot dog without the
weiner.
Newcomers To The Rescue
Sophomores and junior college transfers are certain to play
a vital role Saturday afternoon at Cliff Hare Stadium. Sopho­more
lineman Ed Duncan and Ed Baker
have been standouts almost daily since the
opening of fall practice, and transfer Left
Tackle Bill Turnbeaugh (245) is expected
to do as much for Auburn's defensive line as
bottled beer did to Pabst Blue Ribbon.
Vince Dooley, Robert Duke, Bob Burns,
and Bobby Freeman are good prospects to
open in the Tigers' defensive backfield, and
all are sophs except Freeman, who is the
squad's number one freshman standout.
Tucker May Be On Hand
' Latest reports on Bill Tucker sa.y that 1950's leading offen­sive
gainer is improving and might be on hand to watch Sat­urday's
opener. The Tigers received their hardest blow when
Tucker was stricken with polio late this summer. Tucker
scored more points than did anyone last year (13), gained
more yards passing (414), and had the greatest individual
total offense than any other Plainsman.
Persons seeing Tucker often at the Crippled Children's
Hospital say that he may be back on the Plains as early as this
winter, and Bill contends he will be back on the gridiron by
next fall.
'Big Boy' Can Be A Big Help
Charles (Big Boy) Littles might be the boy who can best
further Auburn's 1951 football fortunes. As a prepper at
Andalusia, Littles averaged over 12 yards per try, which isn't
bad in any league. He was out with a bum knee for much
of his freshman season here at Auburn, but
looked like varsity material when he was
able to run against the upperclassmen.
This spring and part of the late summer
Littles again had the knee trouble and seem­ed
doomed for mediocricy. But in the last
week and a half "Big Boy" has caught fire
and has shown the spunk and know-how
that made him the most sought-after high
school star in the South.
Williams, Howard, Langford, Burns, and
Littles are all after the bucking-back position with Williams
pacing the quintet, but at one time or another in the last
year each has been in the driver's seat.
TURNBEAUGH
LITTLES
Tigers Hold 2,313-Point Advantage
Over Gridiron Opponents Since 1892
By Walt Albritton
Here's one for Ripley! Even
though Auburn has never been one
of the really great football powers
of the natio.i, or even of the
Southeastern Conference, and
even though Auburn suffered her
worst season in the history of the
school last year by losing all 10
games, the Plainsmen's football
fans and players of old and new
can still proudly proclaim the fact
that in more than 50 years of
football, statistics show that Au­burn
is out in front of her oppon­ents
in the scoring department by
a huge margin of 2,313 points.
Since beginning football at the
Plains in 1892, Auburn has played
without a break, except in 1943
when the grid machines of most
colleges were interupted by World
War II. Two years after the war
the Plainsmen presented one of
their greatest scoring combines as
the roaring Tigers knocked over
one opponent after another to
score 298 points in eight games.
Auburn facts and figures at the
close of the 1951 season showed an
impressive record. The 57 Tiger
teams since 1892 have played 457"
games, winning 236, losing 186 and
tying 35. Total points scored are
6,982 for Auburn and 4,669 for
the Tiger opponents.
Those teams played by Auburn
include such intersectional foemen
as Ohio State, Wisconsin, Army,
Michigan State, Rice, Texas, Vill-anova,
Santa Clara, Texas A.&M.,
Boston College, Marquette, Duke,
Loyola, Detroit, Carlisle, Manhat­tan
and Southern Methodist.
Old Piedmont Park in Atlanta,
Ga., was the scene of the first
football game ever to be played by
Auburn in intercollegiate athlet­ics;
Auburn beat the University
of Georgia, 10-0. Today the game
is recognized as the first football
contest to be played in the Deep'
South.
The-, first Tiger football coach,
the late Dr. George Petrie, coached
Auburn's first team to one other
victory in that initial season—a
26-0 win over Georgia Tech. How­ever,
losses to North Carolina and
Trinity kept the Tigers' record at
two won and two lost in the first
year of play.
In the 57 years of grid activity,
Auburn has played in only one
bowl, that being the Orange Bowl
in Miami, Fla., in 1938, when the
Tigers defeated powerful Michi­gan
State, 6-0. At that time, Jack
Meager, ah ex-Notre Dame grid
star, was head coach of the strong
Auburn squad. Meager^ overall
record while coach at the Plains
was 48 wins, 37 losses, and 10 ties.
Auburn also played Villanova at
Havana, Cuba, on Jan. 1, 1937,
during Meager's regime; the game
ended in a 7-7 deadlock.
Unbeaten Auburn teams num­ber
four since the birth of the
pigskin game at the "Loveliest
Village," as sensational grid ma­chines
were produced by Auburn
at the turn of the century in 1900,
1904, 1913, and 1932.
The 1900 team posted a record
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of four wins, while allowing only
one opponent to score. This was
the year that the Tigers crushed
the University of Alabama, 53-5.
Mercer and Florida were vic­tims
of the 1913 team, which
trounced the two colleges respec­tively,
53 0 and 55-0. Eight wins
were recorded by the Plainsmen
in the supposedly unlucky year as
they held opponents to only 13
points.
Coach Chet Wynne guided the
Tigers to nine wins in 1932 when
their only blemish to a perfect
record was a 20-20 tie with South i
Carolina.
It is interesting to note that the
final statistics at the end of the
1940 and '42 seasons showed an al­most
identical record for the
Tigers and their opponents. Dur- !
ing both years Auburn had exact­ly
the same number of wins, loss­es
and ties—6-4-1. In '40 Auburn
scored 170 points against 153, and
in '42 they clocked off almost the
same, 174 against 133.
Along with other top-ranking
colleges, Auburn has had her
share of the high-scoring games.
Among some of the outstanding
scoring marathons chalked up by
the Tigers are wins over Howard,
78-0; and o v e r Birmingham
Southern, 61-0.
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8—THE PLAINSMAN Thursday, September 27, 1951
Infra-Squad Game Pleases Jordan;
Charlie Littles Sparks Plainsmen
By Walter Albritton
An intra-squad gafne in Cliff Hare Stadium Saturday pro­duced
a broad smile on the face of Auburn Head Coach Shug
Jordan. For the first time since fall practice began Septem­ber
1 in the Loveliest Village, Jordan seemed pleased with
the performance of his Auburn Tigers.
After a torrid two-hour imita-
HOMER'S ODYSSEY
tion-game scrimmage, climaxed by
the sudden appearance of Old Man
Rain, the head mentor said that he
liked the way the Plainsmen were
"coming back" with plenty of fight
and hustle.
The bull-like line smashing of
fullback Charlie Littles was a
thing of magic to watch Saturday.
The Andalusia sophomore sparked
the workout by chalking up four
TD's, two of which were thrilling,
zig-zagging 80-yard scoring jaunts.
His other two were plunges of nine
and four yards each.
Fullback Homer Williams was
accredited with the longest run of
the game. Williams took the ball
in the end zone from quarterback
Allan Parks, plunged through the
line, broke into the open on his
own 40, and was never touched
after that as he coasted his way
98 yards to score.
Parks drew praise for his snappj
ball handling, and he connecter1
on several long passes. His best
toss was a 45-yard fling to end
Dave Ridgway, who pulled in the
aerial and battered his way across
the goal. The play covered 69
yards.
Mobile quarterback Vince Doo-ley
showed his ability as a passer
in the fray. End Bill McMurry was
on the receiving end of Dooley's
best toss, a 47-yard completion
good for one of the 12 TD's scored
by the Auburn combine during the
afternoon.
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Dr. Robert T. McMillan, profes­sor
of sociology at the Alabama
Polytechnic Institute, has been
granted a leave of absence to be­come
an agricultural adviser to
the Republic of the Philippines.
He will direct the planning and
FULLBACK HOMER WILLIAMS is shown making his way
upfield for 20 yards in last Saturday's intra-squad game. Blocking
is Dwight Hitt (No. 21) and Hal Harris (No. 61) The scrimmage
was closed and was held under game-like conditions, including
game uniforms and referees. (A.P.I, photo by Barton Perry)
Four New Fraternity Housemothers
Welcomed To Plains This Quarter
By Bill Spiers
Another new term at Auburn will see the coming of four
new housemothers to Auburn fraternities, one housemother
having been at Auburn several years ago and three taking
their initial experience with Auburn boys.
The start of the summer quarter saw Mrs. Hazel Maynard
of Theta Chi and Mrs. Ted Sugg
of Sigma Pi beginning their work,
but this fall will be their first op­portunity
to observe the start of a
regular Auburn term.
Mrs. James Wallace, who will
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Dudley Spence, should be given
mention for his exceljent punting.
The slightly-built blond kicked six
times for a,n average of 46.6. Two
spiralled beautifully down the field
for 50 yards each, and his lowest
mark was 42 yards.
Joe Davis looked exceptionally
good at his extra point kicking
post. The Macon soph kicked 24
out of 26 attempts without a flaw;
he kicked two after each score.
The game got off to a ragged
start, but the work of the fighting
Tigers looked more and more im­pressive
as the afternoon wore on.
With only a week to go before the
Vandy game, the "secret" practice
session revealed one outstanding
fact, and that is that the Auburn
Tigers are determined to show
their fans and supporters that
they'll be on the "comeback trail"
this fall with all the fight they can
musler, whether they make Tt or
not.'
VJhei e's jinxev ?
be "mom" for the SPE's, is no new
acquaintance to "housemothering,"
having been with the SPE's from
1932 to 1936. She has consider­able
experience with girls as well
as boys, having served as dietitian
at the Pine Mountain Camp for
Girl Scouts in West Point, Ga., for
three years. Her two daughters
attended Alabama College i n
Montevallo, where she finished in
1932.
Theta Chi fraternity considers
itself very fortunate in having Mrs.
Hazel Maynard of Americus, Ga.,
as its new housemother. Although
Mrs. Maynard is new to the Theta
Chi's, she has visited the Auburn
campus on several occasions and
has "fallen in love with Auburn."
Mrs. Ted Sugg comes to the
Sigma Pi fraternity from the Uni­versity
of Alabama where she was
housemother for the Phi Kappa
Sigma's for five years. Her home
School of Agriculture
Adds Richard Davidson
Dr. Richard S. Davidson was
appointed plant pathologist, and
professor of botany and plant path­ology
this week by Dr. E. V. Smith.
dean of the School of Agriculture.
Dr. Davidson will conduct re­search
on diseases of peanuts and
will teach courses in botany and
plant pathology. He fills the posi­tion
vacated by Dr. Coyt Wilson;
who became assistant dean of the
school January 1.
Before coming t o Auburn,
Davidson was assistant plant path­ologist
at the Rhode Island Agri­cultural
Experiment Station, 1945-
46, and at the Ohio Agricultural
Experiment Station from 1947 to
1951.
was originally Haleyville, where
for several years she was engaged
in hotel work.
The Phi Delta Theta's will get
their first glimpse of their new
housemother this quarter. She is
Mrs. Genevieve Davis of Evanston,
111. Mrs. Drawbough of Delta
Sigma Phi introduced her to Au­burn.
It was with Mrs. Draw-bough's
assistance that she learned
of the Phi Delta Theta's vacancy.
This will be her first experience
as a housemother.
With these four new house­mothers
and the others on the
Plains, it is certain that Auburn
frats will be well taken care of
this year.
Tiger Theatre's
Weekly Program
That red hot comedy team of
Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis
will bring their uninhibited ca­pering
to the screen of the Tiger
Theatre beginning with a special
late show Friday at 11 o'clock,
with regular showings Sunday,
Monday and Tuesday, when
"That's My Boy" sets up shop.
Jerry and Dean have checked
out of the barracks and into the
dormitory for a hilarious try at
college life and judging from the
advance reports, this is the fun­niest
adventure of them all. The
anemic college boy of the piece
<s Jerry. His eyes burn, his feet
hurt and he gets allergies from
just breathing. Jarring Jack
Jackson, his very All-American
father, wants him to put down
his pills, pick up a football and
bull his way through the line.
Jarring Jack talks the coach into
putting his boy on the squad,
and room mate Dean, the husky
backfield star who's throwing
the campus lasses for a loss,
dees hi* best to help mold this
gangling mass of putty into a
football player. But nothing hap­pens
until a torrid co-ed gets
hold of Jerry. Then he warms
up to athletics, and becomes one
of the strangest football heroes
that ever scampered down a
gridiron.
The uncompromising story of
marriage that should never have
been is told in a highly realistic
style in "Pickup," which will be
the Friday and Saturday attrac­tion
at the Tiger Theatre. The
stars include Beverly Michaels,
Hugo Haas. Allan Nixon and
Howland Chamberlin. Miss Mi­chaels
is the come-on gal whose
pickup of middle-aged and lone­ly
Hugo Haas precipitates a dan­gerous
triangle that includes
Allan Nixon. Funny color car­toon
"Little Problems" and
'Those Who Dance", an enter­taining
novelty, complete this
enjoyable program.
organization of a rural self-development
project for the is­lands.
This is one part of the ECA
program of reconstruction which is
now under way in the republic.
McMillan came to Auburn from
Oklahoma A&M Collqgc in 1949
as a specialist in rural sociology.
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