1968-02-22 The Auburn Plainsman

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To Foster The Auburn Spirit
Library ranks low
The Ralph B. Draughon Li­brary,
despite improvements
since 1962, still ranks below
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on the library see page
five.
VOLUME 95 AUBURN UNIVERSITY AU3URN, ALABAMA THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 22,1968 10 PAGES NUMBER 18
Arab-Israeli conflict moves to Auburn scene
By BOB PAYNE AND JIMMY REEDER
Assistant News Editors
Syrian Arab Republic representative to
the United Nations.
TELEPHONE INTERVIEWS
The two representatives d i s c u s s ed
Middle East problems in separate telephone
interviews with the Plainsman.
"The main cause of the conflicts in the
Mid East is the Arabs' denial of Israel's
existence, and the refusal of the Arabs to
negotiate for peace," Arnon declared.
"The problem primarily is the occupa­tion
of Arab territories by Israel," said
Tomeh. "When we speak of what compro­mises
the Arabs are ready to make, the
question should be put to the Israelis.
Ask the Israelis what compromises they
would be willing to make. They are oc­cupying
Arab territories; they have driven
the Arabs from Palestine, the original
indigenous population.''
"I don't know what kind of compromises
Israel should make," Arnon said. "The
only way to get peace is to negotiate. I
would suggest the thing to do is to get
the Arab states to come to negotiate with
,us, and that they are unwilling to do. Not
only are they unwilling to negotiate, but
they claim they continue to find themselves
in a state of war with Israel."
BLOCKADE OF AQABA
War broke out in the Mideast in 1956
and 1967, after the United Arab Republic
established a blockade in the Gulf of
Aqaba to deny Israel access to the Red
Sea. When asked to comment on this To-men
said, "Prior to 1956 the Gulf of Aqaba
was not open to Israel. As far as freedom
of seas in the Gulf is concerned, the
International Law Commission looked into
MICHAEL ARNON
Diplomats, Hatfield
address ACOIA today
Conference enters second day;
afternoon features U.N.r Africa
By LYN SCARBROUGH
Morning addresses by two Middle Eastern officials
with opposing views on the tense Arab-Israeli situation
will open today's activities at the Auburn Conference
on International Affairs.
Oregon's Senator Mark
Hatfield will speak at 8
ACOIA-1968. INTERNATIONAL YEAR FOR HUMAN RIGHT
Site chosen for capital campus
By BOB SIMS
News Editor
The site of the Montgo­mery
branch of Auburn
University has been an­nounced
by u n i v e r s i ty
officials.
The s i t e , a 500-acre
"McLemore Site" in East
Montgomery, will be purchased
for $750,000.
The property is owned by
William H. McLemore and his
brother, A.J. McLemore, Jr.,
and is located between U.S.
80 (Atlanta Highway) and 1-85.
The announcement of the
site was made jointly by Pres.
Harry M. Philpott and George
Wallace, representing Gov.
Dr. Funderburk to head
All's Montgomery branch
The appointment of Dr. H. Hanly Funderburk Jr. as
vice-president of Auburn's Montgomery Branch has been
announced by Pres. Harry M. Philpott.
Dr. Funderburk is pre­sently
the assistant dean
of the Graduate School and
formerly taught in the De­partment
of Botany and
Plant Pathology. He will
assume his new position
with the Montgomery
Branch March 1.
"After considering a number
of p o s s i b i l i t i e s for this
position, both inside the Uni­versity
and throughout the
country, we are pleased that
Dr. Funderburk meets the
qualifications and has agreed
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Lurleen Wallace.
Final selection of the pro­perty
was made by a special
site selection committee of
the Montgomery Chamber of
Commerce upon approval by
the university.
"The McLemore property
was chosen after considering :£
each of 15 sites for their over
all cost, accessability to pre­sent
facilities in Auburn, soil
condition, relative noise and
other hazards and sewage-water
access," said a univer­sity
spokesman.
Funds for the purchase are
being provided by contribu­tions
from the City of Mont­gomery,
the County Board of
Revenue, business, industry
and local citizens.
The implementation of the
Montgomery branch was legis­lated
Sept. 8 by the signature
of Governor Wallace.
"Enrollment will begin with
a freshman class, including
an estimated 300 students, and
an additional 1,000 or more
students presently attending
the University of Alabama
Extension Center, said the
spokesman.
Five million dollars in bonds
will be sold and turned over
to the Board of Trustees for
construction and operation fi­nancing.
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!;!iblishment of an Auburng
^branch in Montgomery!;!;
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p.m. tonight following after­noon
addresses by John
Stoessinger, a United Na­tion's
political affairs dir­ector
and George Houser,
an African expert.
Michael Arnon, consul
general of Israel in New
York, will speak at 9 a.m.,;
and Ambassador George
Tomeh, permanent repre­sentative
of the Syrian Arab
Republic to the United
Nations, will follow at 10.;
See more on ACOIA, page 3
The afternoon will feature
speeches by John Stoes­singer,
political affairs divi­sion
director for the United
Nations, and George Houser,
executive director of the
AmericanCommittee on Africa.
Stoessinger is scheduled to
speak at 1 p.m. and Houser
at 2.
Highlighting the remainder
of conference activities will
be speeches by Republican
Senator Mark Hatfield of Ore­gon,
and National Urban
League executive director,
Whitney Young. Hatfield's
address is to be at 8 p.m. to­day
and Young's at 10 a.m.
tomorrow.
Hatfield will be listed as a
presidential candidate on the
collegiate straw poll, CHOICE
68, in which Auburn will parti­cipate
April 18.
An academic freedom panel
will discuss all aspects of
academic l i b e r t i e s with
emphasis on the proposed
speaker ban bill, tomorrow at
9 a.m. Panel participants will
be- state senators Tom Radney
of Alexander City and Alton
Turner of Luverne,
Houser, who has been per­manently
banned from South
Africa, will speak on "Apart­heid,"
the practice of separ­ate
government structures for
Negroes and whites in the
same country. This type
government is used in South
Africa and Rhodesia.
He received his ban as a
result of work with the Ameri­can
Committee on Africa
which was particularly inter­ested
in depth information on
the country. South African
leaders were apparently dis­pleased
with committee acti­vities.
A frequent African traveler,
Houser is a member of the
Advisory Council of African
Affairs of the Bureau of Afri­can
Affairs in the State De­partment.
He attended the
three All-African Peoples Con­ferences
and was at the found­ing
conference of the Organ-
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Fund Drive collects
$9,000 for charity
By DAVID HILL
The annual Step Sing
c losed out All- C a m p u s
Fund Drive activities last
week with announcement
that almost $9,000 was col­lected
by p a r t i c i p a t i ng
campus organizations. This
total,' the second largest
amount collected in drive
(history, was over $2,000 be­low
the set goal.
Graduate assistants
facing draft call
President Johnson's recent decision to refuse draft
deferments to graduate students except in the medical
field could cost Auburn University much of its teaching
personnel, according to Graduate Dean W. V. Parker.
Graduate teaching and re­search
assistants provide,^00cupationaldeferments,
the equivalent of 105 full-time
teachers and 63 full-time
researchers on the
Auburn campus today.
Areas most affected
would be English, I?4 story
mathematics, physics, chem­istry,
economics, education
and zoo logy-entomology
courses and defense and ag­ricultural
related research in
engineering and agriculture.
At a time when college
classrooms are literally burst­ing
with additional young
people, the result could be
disastrous, Dr. Parker said.
These students could not
be replaced immediately-if at
ail-since other universities
would be losing their gradu­ate
teaching and research as­sistants
also. Adding further
Hatfield-H GOP hopes to win'
Wallace forces 'dovish nominee
By JIMMY REEDER
Former Gov. George Wal­lace's
presidential candi­dacy
will force the Republi­can
party to n o m i n a t e a
peace candidate for the pre­sidency
"if the Republi­cans
hope to win" in the
opinion of Sen. Mark Hat­field.
The Oregon Republican ex­pressed
the view Tuesday in
a telephone interview with
The Plainsman. Hatfield will
address the Auburn Confer­ence
on International Affairs
tonight at b in the Student
Activities Building.
According to Hatfield, Wal­lace
will attract the conser­vative
voters who support the
military intervention in Viet­nam.
To offset this loss, the
dovish Hatfield said, the
Republican party must offer
an alternative to the present
policy in Vietnam. Without
such a choice, there will be
no inducement for the more
(liberal elements to switch to
the Republican party and thus
no victory for the Republicans
in November.
MUST OFFER CHOICE
"I would, of course, like to
see my party make this choice
of a peace candidate out of
true conviction, not for poli­tical
expediency alone," Hat­field
said. "The mathematics
of the election make victory
impossible without offering a
choice on the Vietnam issue."
Wallace, campaigning in
Pennsylvania, could not be
reached for comment. Wallace
has been quoted on other oc­casions
as saying it doesn't
matter who the Republicans
nominate because there is no
difference between the two
major national parties.
"I have no personal choice
for the Republican nomination
at this time," Hatfield said.
' 'Those prominently mentioned
for the nomination have not
made their views clear on the
Vietnam issue. Therefore, I
won't name a 'favorite horse'
until further statements are
made."
NIXON AHEAD
"I don't know who will win
the Republican nomination,"
continued Hatfield. "If Rocke­feller
makes a good showing
in the Oregon primary, he may
well win it. At the present
time Nixon seems to be ahead
of the field."
Hatfield had previously
called for an unconditional
halt to the bombing of North
Vietnam as a prerequisite to
peace negotiation. "I don't
restrict myself to wanting a
halt in the bombing. I call
for a change in the character
of the war through de-Ameri­canization
of the war. We
should train the Asian troops
to fight their own war. Our
troops should then be with­drawn
under a carefully plan­ned
schedule."
"The Asians show less and
less inclination to fight their
war.The more we Americanize
the war, the more we seem to
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to the problem is the lifting of
which could conceivably take
many of the young instructors.
If replacements for the
teaching staff were available,
salaries would be from 50 to
100 per cent higher than cur-
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Kappa Alpha Theta, with
$1,529 collected, won sorority
and overall awards for the
highest contribution. They
were presented a color tele­vision
set by the fund drive
committee. Sigma Nu took
fraternity honors with S'iSO,
and Alpha Phi Omega led in­dependent
organizations with
$128.
Phi Gamma Delta, for the
third consecutive year, won
fraternity Step Sing competi­tion
with an instrumental
version of the Negro spiritual,
"Summertime." Kappa Delta
took first place honors in the
sorority division, singing,
"Hello Young Lovers."
Kappa Alpha Order and
Alpha Omicron Pi took runner-up
positions in fraternity and
and sorority competition.
Ginger Van Hooser, spon­sored
by Sigma Nu fraternity,
was named Miss Auburn
Spirit. Other contest finalists
were Katie Darity, Connie
Blanton, Jeannie Clayton,
Hettie Pippin and Linda Wood.
The winner is the finalist
whose sponsoring organization
raised the most money for
the fund drive.
loveliest of the Plains
1 cannot tell a fie'
Loveliest Suzanne Kirkland celebrates George Wash­ington's
birthday in a striking manner. The 5-7 Birming­ham
freshman has blue eyes and Auburn hair. An ele­mentary
education major, she lives in Auburn hall and
is an independent. (Photo by Curtis A. Mauldin)
2-THE PLAINSMAN Thursday, February 22, 1968
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\6n other campuses
Off war meet
stirs protests
By John Reynolds
"Thank you Mr. and Mrs. Taxpayer for supporting the
Communist effort." This caption appeared on a placard
carried by a picket during the Kentucky Conference on
War and the Draft at the University of Kentucky.
A move by some Kentucky legislators to ban this anti­war
conference was futile. Five hundred people attended
the symposium where they heard the bombasts of speak­ers
on the Vietnam War, President Johnson and the draft.
Some community leaders in Lexington made accusa­tions
that the conference was Communist dominated.
One of the conference speakers, Kentucky Prof. Wen­dell
Berry, a poet and novelist, advocated drafting only
those men over 40-that is, he said, if the Washington
administration truly desires peace. He said the draft
system discriminates by shipping Negroes and lower
class citizens to the battle zones.
STUDENT PROTESTS PARKING FINES
A 8200,000 court suit has been filed in Tampa, Fla.,
questioning the legality of fining students for parking
and traffic violations at the University of South Florida.
Harold R. Hooks, a freshman at USF, entered the case
in the 13th Judicial Court of Hillsborough County citing
as defendents USF President John Allen and Regents
Chairman Chester Ferguson. Hooks has asked he be
granted $100,000 from each of the two men. Hooks dis­putes
the University's right to levy fines and determine
the outcome of campus traffic violations.
Hook pleads in his suit for the "return of all monies
illegally collected by the University."
With a petition containing 2,000 signatures, Hooks
was denied a conference with Florida Gov. Claude Kirk
to discuss the matter last fall.
Already, a junior at the University of Arizona has
succeeded in his attempts to have university traffic ci­tation
provisions ruled unconstitutional in Arizona.
Huntley retires;
Hew post created
Dr. Michel C. Huntley, dean of faculties since 1949,
will retire June 30 after serving more than 40 years in
higher education.
"Under Auburn's new
plan of administrative or­ganization,
the title Dean
of Faculties will be dis­continued
and a new posi­tion,
Dean of Undergraduate
Studies will be established
July 1," said Pres. Harry
M. Philpott.
Dr. Taylor D. Littleton,
assistant to the vice-presi­dent
for academic affairs, is
being appointed to fill the new
position, Dr. Philpott announ­ced.
• After graduating from Mill-saps,
Dean Huntley taught
there and held positions with
the Jackson Daily Clarion-
Ledger and the Memphis Com­mercial
Appeal before entering
Emory University's graduate
school.
He joined the faculty of
Birmingham-Southern College
irr 1925 as asstteistie- ptofes*
sor of English and baseball
coach, leaving there to do
further graduate work at Johns
Hopkins University.
In 1930 Dean Huntley joined
the Southern Association of
Colleges and Schools which
had instituted a program of
accrediting. He became recog­nized
throughout the region
and the nation for his assis­tance
to the institutions of
higher learning in the South
in strengthening programs to
meet standards for accredi­tation.
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AC0IA, draft rule, new branch head top news
ization of the African Unity
in Addis Ababa in 1963.
Senator Hatfield will dis­cuss
"Vietnam and America's
Mounting Dissension," and
Young will speak on "The
Current Dilemna-Challenge
and Opportunity." Hatfield
has been mentioned as a
possible vie e-presidential
nominee, and Young is one of
the more i n f l u e n t i a l civil
rights leaders.
The keynote address was
delivered yesterday by Dr.
Paul Lehmann, professor at
Union Theological Seminary
who spoke on "The Church's
Role in the Human Rights
Struggle." He was followed
byGeorge Mulgrue, information
liason officer for the Food
and Agriculture division of
the United Nations who dis­cussed
"The Third World."
Conference s e s s i o n s are
being covered throughout Ala­bama
and parts of surround­ing
states by newspapers and
television. The conference
topic is "The International
Year for Human Rights" in
conjunction with the 20th
anniversary of the United
Nations Declaration of Human
Rights.
Hot field...
lose. The casualty figures
go up and up," Hatfield said.
FUTILE POLICY
"Our policy is a dead end,
futile policy. We have less
security now than ever before.
The countryside of Vietnam is
not safe, the cities are not
safe, even the American em­bassy
is not secure," he
continued.
"The administration's po­licy
is causing an increasing
amount of disbelief in their
ridiculous statements and
claims. The American people
will stay away from the polls
in disgust with both parties
if we don't offer the people a
choice by nominating a'dove'
on the Vietnam war," Hat­fieldcoHcladed.
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Arab-Israeli...
the matter in 1956. The Com­mission
said Egypt was within
her rights when she closed the
Gulf of Aqaba because the
Gulf falls within her terri­torial
limits."
"International law is very
clear on this point," said
Arnon. "The law says if there
is a gulf with more than one
country bordering , it, there
should be freedom of passage
in it at all times. Indeed,
there was a convention on
freedom of the seas at Geneva
in 1958. The Arab states tried
to bring up their argument,
but they were not upheld.
There can be no one-sided
state of war in which they
should be allowed to blockade
and in which we should have
to sit back and do nothing."
United Nations troops which
had been deployed at the
mouth of the Gulf of Aqaba
were ordered removed from
Arab territory by Premier
Nasser of Egypt in May, 1967.
"The UN troops were on
Egyptian soil only with the
consent of Egypt. Egypt asked
for a re-deployment of these
forces, but Israel refused
completely to have these
forces on its soil," said
Tomeh.
"The troops were stationed
there to guarantee Israel's
access to the gulf," said
Arnon. "There was no reason
to move them to Israeli ter­ritory,
100 miles from the
mouth of the gulf."
Tomeh declared that the
problem of the Arab refugees
is a cause and a manifestation
of the Palestine problem, but
offered no suggestions for
solving the difficulties. :
REFUGEE PROBLEMS
"There are two refugee pro­blems
created by the war,"
said Arnon. "that of the Arab
refugees and that of the Jew­ish
refugees. Most of the
Jewish refugees have been
absorbed into Israel because
life in the Arab countries was
made impossible for them. The
Arab refugees should be re­turned
to the Arab countries."
"We proposed in UN debate
that there be separate negoti­ations
on the refugee issue
alone," Arnon continued.
"The Arabs won't negotiate
because what they want to
use the refugee problem as an
instrument of political war­fare."
"Israel is occupying Arab
territory," said Tomeh.
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"Before negotiations can
proceed, there must be a
withdrawal of Israeli troops
from all territory occupied
after June 5, 1967."
"It is true that Israel has
taken some Arab territory,"
said Arnon. "The Arabs un­leashed
this war and what
they should do now is nego>
tiate with Israel to work out
a peace settlement establish­ing
secure and recognized
boundaries free from threats
or acts of force as recom­mended
by the UN Security
Council. We are certainly
willing to n e g o t i a t e such
boundaries if the Arabs will
do so."
Discussion groups will be
held in sorority chapter rooms
this afternoon at 3:30. Arnon
will appear in Dorm C while
Tomeh will appear in Dorm H.
The sessions will last 45
minutes.
Funderburk...
to undertake this responsi­bility,"
said Dr. Philpott.
"His d i s t i n c t i o n as a
teacher and researcher, his
administrative ability shown
in his Graduate School respon­sibilities,
and his devotion to
serving the youth of our state
make him an ideal choice for
the leadership of the Montgo­mery
Branch. I am confident
that he will give able direction
to the development of a pro­gram
of excellence," Dr. Phil­pott
continued. '
Dr. Funderburk, a native of
Carrollton, is 36 years old.
"I am honored to have the
opportunity to help establish
a branch of Auburn University
^at Montgomery," Dr. Funder­burk
said. "Because of the
enthusiasm that the people of
Montgomery have shown and
because of the r e s o u r c es
available at Auburn Univer­sity,
I am optimistic about
the success of the branch.
"The task of building a new
campus and recruiting a
faculty will be difficult, but
if we continue to get the nec­essary
support we will get
the job done," continued
Funderburk.
Dr. Funderburk attended
Auburn University where he
earned the B.S. and M.S.
degrees. He holds the Ph.D.
from Louisiana State Univer­sity.
He was one of the first
six professors at Auburn to
be awarded the Alumni Pro­fessorship
for his achieve
ments in teaching.
Dr. Funderburk has been a
member of the Auburn Re
search Council, the Auburn
Research Foundation, and the
Auburn Science Development
Committee. He is also a mem­ber
of Phi Kappa Phi, Alpha
Zeta, Gamma Sigma Delta,
and Sigma Xi honor societies
and of several professional
societies and organizations.
Dr. Funderburk is the author
of numerous publications
based on his research at Au­burn
and has presented many
papers before scientific groups
in this country and abroad.
Draff change...
rent costs and "current
costs" are already straining
budgets across the nation as
well as in Alabama.
Even more important, ac­cording
to Parker, is the fact
that these graduate assistants
will become full-time teachers
in the future. A reduction now
in teachers being trained will
result in an increased short­age
of trained teachers in "the
future. Perhaps equally im­portant
would be the loss of
graduate students working in
research and extension under
the latest draft regulation.
Some, if not all of the cur­rent
extramural programs,
many in the area of national
defense and defense-related
areas, would have to be cur­tailed.
Many such programs
are already contracted for.
Others would be withheld and
loss of such funding could
also greatly affect existing
salaries as well as modern
equipment and buildings.
At Auburn, as elsewhere,
Dean Parker fears that a
serious reduction in the num­ber
of graduate students-some
will be physically unfit,
over-age, »ir women (approxi­mately
30 per cent)-will re­sult
in less adequate and less
effective graduate programs
"at a time when the state,
region and nation need to be
increasing advanced scienti­fic
and technical training
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available in each area and
whether or not draft quotas
can be filled without cutting
into the graduate schools."
As it now stands, Dean
Parker says his colleagues
feel there will be a 25 to 50
per cent decrease in graduate
school enrollment.
Runoff settles
three AWS posts
Cookie Cook, Betty Baker
and Nancy Young scored run­off
victories Tuesday to join
Nancy Tilden, Becky Brad­ley,
~ Sara Cook and Jackie
Jones as Associated Women
Students officers for the next
year.
Nancy Tidlen, 3SED, was
unopposed for president, and
Becky Bradley, 3VD, Sara
Cook, 2SED, and Jackie
Jones, 2SED, captured the
vice-president, secretary and
IAWS contact positions in
last Thursday's election.
With no candidate receiving
a majority vote for treasurer,
social chairman and town
representative, these posi­tions
were forced into the
runoff election. Cookie Cook,
1SED, defeated Ellen Vann,
1PG, for treasurer, Betty
Baker, 1PPY, beat Lucy Mc-
Cord, 1PE, and Nancy Young,
1SL, won over Ethleen Smith,
1CH, for these offices.
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Address-Mr. Michael Arnon: "Israel's Strug­gle
for Peace"
Address-Mr. George Tomeh: "Refugees:
Barrier to Negotiations"
Luncheons at Fraternity Houses
Address-Dr. John Stoessinger:"CrisisAreas
Before the United Nations"
Address-Mr. George Houser: "Aparthied"
Question and Answer Sessions:
1. Mr. Michael Arnon (AO Pi Chapter Room)
2. Dr. George Tomeh (Phi Mu Chapter Room)
3. Dr. John Stoessinger (Alpha Gam Chapter
Room)
4. Mr. George Houser (Kappa Delta Chapter
Room)
Dinners at Fraternity Houses
Address-Mark Hatfield: "Vietnam and Ame­rica's
Mounting Dissension"
FRIDAY
Panel on Academic Freedom with State Sena­tors
Tom Radney and Alton Turner, Auburn
history professor Glenn Eaves, and National
Student Association representative Rick
Wiedmons
Address-Whitney Young: "The Current Di-lema-
Challenge and Opportunity"
Ten years of growth for ACOIA
By LINDA GREENE
The 1968 version of the
Auburn Conference on Inter­national
Affairs (ACOIA)
which opened yesterday,
has a long and eventful
history behind it.
The ACOIA began almost
11 years ago as a seed in
the imagination of two Auburn
students. What began as a
student experiment has devel­oped
into a full scale student
effort to bring top authorities
to the campus from throughout
the world to speak on world
problems.
It all began in November of
1957 when it was announced
in the Plainsman that two
students, Stewart McKnight,
Jr. and Don Meadows had
organized a committee de­signed
to promote "more stu­dent
interest in world affairs."
After McKnight made a trip
to Texas A & M to a spon­sored
Student Conference on
National Affairs, he and mea
dows worked with the possibi­lity
of holding similar con­ferences
here.
The first ACOIA, sponsored
by the Student Senate, was
held March 27-28, 1958. It
was the first time that a stu­dent-
directed, student-support­ed
conference was held on the
Auburn campus.
NO SINGLE TOPIC
There was no single area
of concentration during the
first conference, therefore
discussions ranged from U.S.
foreign policy to the situation
in the Middle East to the
USSR. The main speakers to
address this first conference
included U.S. Sen. John Spark-man,
Frank Gibney, senior
features editor of Newsweek
magazine, and John S. Gorrell,
foreign trade specialist for
the U.S. Department of Com­merce.
The following year, the con­ference
was again sponsored
by the Student Senate. Thai
year a theme was adopted:
"Western Europe-Key to Fore­ign
Policy?" Chairman Ray
Daniel coordinated the April
2-3, 1959, conference. Speak'
ers included such outstanding
leaders as Hanson W. Baldwin,
military editor of the New
York Times, and Douglass
Cater, then Washington editor
of The Reporter magazine. The
number of colleges represented
at the conference grew from 16
to 20, and Auburn sent 60
official delegates.
The following year, 1960,
brought the expansion of
ACOIA from a two-day to
three-day conference. A stu­dent-
faculty advisory com­mittee
was organized, more
emphasis was placed on the
round-table discussions at
the conference, and the Brook­ings
Institute efficiency ex­pert
came to observe the pro­ceedings.
"Mexico and the Caribbean
Area" was the theme of the
1961 conference, under the
leadership ofRonnieMcCullars
for the second year.
Other speakers that year
were Dr. Riis Owre, Dean of
the graduate school at the
University of Miami, and Dr.
William Manger, former assist­ant
Secretary General of the
Organization of American
States (OAS).
'LATIN AMERICA'-1962
The fifth annual ACOIA, in
1962, under the direction of
chairman Stan Sikes, centered
around "The United States
and Latin American Affairs."
Congressman Armistead Selden
of Alabama's sixth congres­sional
district was among the
leading speakers. DeLesseps
S. Morrison, then U.S. Am­bassador
to OAS, and Dr.
Jose Miro Cardona, president
of the Cuban Revolutionary
Council in the U.S. were Dre-sent
to present their views.
In 1964 the conference was
revived. Ned Pierce was
After months of effort-ACOIA 1968
- The last of the Friday night crowd trickled out, laugh­ing
and talking, discussing the world situation. Still
. inside a few people went between chairs and down aisles,
gathering debris. Tired cameramen loaded equipment, and
student workers removed stage decorations. Soon the Stu­dent
Activities Building was quiet and dark. The 1967
Auburn Conference on International Affairs was history.
But already plans for this year's conference were under­way.
Several potential topics had been tossed around,
and possible improvements were numerous. A big job lay
ahead.
Soon after student government elections, Sam Phillips
was named 1968 conference chairman by Charles Bentley,
newly elected student body president. Phillips was pub­lications
chairman in 1967. He soon named three vice-chairmen-
Don Brown, Mike Watson and Lyn Scarbrough;
secretary-Lynn White; and several other committee
ll63.fi S
- Two topics were considered-"United States-Soviet
Relations" and "Human Rights." The final decision
came when Phillips attended the Collegiate Council of
the United Nations in New York.
While there, Phillips spoke with Morris Abrams, head
of the American Jewish Committee, who suggested
; "Human Rights: A Prerequisite to Peace," as a speech
! topic. It was from this idea the conference theme was
• taken.
; On this trip Phillips also heard speeches by John
; Stoessinger, political affairs division director for the
: United Nations, and George Mulgrue, information liason
' officer for the Food and Agriculture Organization of the
; United Nations. Both later accepted ACOIA invitations.
FIRST INVITATIONS SENT
'. When Phillips returned, he contacted several committee
- members to discuss possible speakers and informed Presi-
\ dent Philpott on speakers desired by student committee
: members. By mid-July letters of invitation had been sent
to several persons, including United States Senators
Edward Brooks of Massachusetts, Richard Russell of
Georgia and Mark Hatfield of Oregon.
; About this time, work had started on the conference
brochure. The 32-page informative bulletin, edited by
Sherry Smith, was done at a cost of $1,000 as compared to
$600 last year.
For the first time, a general article on the conference,
". introductions by both Phillips and Miss Smith, and a 12-
• page pictorial essay have been added. In the essay port-
; ion, quotations by ranking government officials and photo-j
graphs from the Peace Corps, Birmingham News staffers
Jim Jacobson and Tony Falletta, and VISTA were used.
Later in August, Student Body Vice-President Jimmy
Fuller, Interfraternity Council President Steve McMillan,
and Bentley went to Washington, D.C., to contact Hatfield
and Massachusetts Sen. Ted Kennedy. It was necessary
to change the conference date to accommodate Senator
. Hatfield.
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Prior to beginning fall quarter preliminary contacts
were made for conference press coverage. After 1967 suc­cesses,
hopes were high for wide ACOIA coverage.
Lyn Scarbrough, who coordinated overall press and
publicity relations, was assisted primarily by Jimmy
Reeder, David Hill, Billy Tucker and several other com­mittee
members. University Relations released conference
speakers to state newspapers.
Two sets of conference publicity posters, printed by
Auburn Duplicating Services, were distributed by Guy
Rhodes and John Braddock.
Television arrangements were coordinated by James
Yeaman, radio and television supervisor for University
Relations. Press kits, including biographical sketches
of speakers, glossy photographs, tape recordings ,and
schedules, were sent to television stations in Alabama
and Georgia. '
EDUCATIONAL TELEVISION SCHEDULED
Auburn Educational Television informed the committee
in the fall that without additional funds it would be im­possible
to repeat live coverage given the previous year.
No funds were available from the conference's $7,000
budget. However, financial assistance from Southern Bell
Telephone and the Auburn Interfraternity Council assured
television broadcasts by early winter quarter.
Including funds provided by the Lecture and Concert
Series and advertisements by local merchants, the entire
budget was near $8,500.
For the first time, Study Day featured outstanding local
speakers prior to ACOIA. Birmingham News staffers
Jacobson and Falletta and Federal Judge John Godbold
appeared before packed crowds in the Union Ballroom in
January. Cynthia Dixon, Study Action Committee Chair­man,
headed the one-day conference.
Art work for brochures, posters and stage sets were co­ordinated
with a central theme. This work started near
the end of fall quarter.
"We wanted something which would look good on tele­vision
and be meaningful to the conference," Phillips
said. "Carol Cunningham made the pattern modern, abs­tract
and simple. We hope it will drive home the meaning
of our topic.
Two other innovations have been added to the 1968 con­ference.
A bookstore, arranged by David Hill, is selling
Interviews at campus engineering
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about 25 different books concerned with different aspects
of human rights. Authors include Whitney Young, John
Stoessinger and several former ACOIA speakers.
The second new idea is luncheons and banquets for
each speaker in fraternity houses. In past years a limited
number of meals were served at the ACOIA committee's
expense. Rodney Nolen and John Irvine directed banquet
arrangements.
CONFERENCE COMMITTEES WORK
Several other committees have worked on various con­ference
aspects. The Delegations Committee, headed by
Don Brown, has invited several groups from other univer­sities
to attend the sessions. Correspondence and arrange­ments
were handled by Lynn White, Mark Marsh, and a
secretarial committee. Taffy Wallace led the Faculty Re­lations
Committee which secured dean's excuses and
worked withfaculty members for cooperation in conference
attendance.
Miss Auburn, Julie Archer, has worked in conjunction
with the War Eagle Girls and Cwens to line up ushers and
hostesses for conference sessions.
"We have made a departure from the fairly non-contro­versial
image of ACOIA in recent years," Phillips said.
"We feel students like to hear new and varied opinions."
T.
to
chairman that year with Dr.
Jesse M. Richardson and
James ti. Bagwell being facul
ty advisors. Foreign aid was
the topic of discussion for
such outstanding speakers as
Eleanor Lansing Dulles, "a
distinguished economist and
diplomat" and Drew Pearson,
one of America's foremost
syndicated columnists.
"Poverty and the Popula­tion
Explosion" was the
theme of the 1965 meeting.
One of the most informative
speakers was Dr. John Rock,
a developer of the birth con­trol
pill. Other speakers were
Sen. Ernest Gruening, Demo­crat
from Alaska, and Dr. Tran
Van Chuong, former South
Vietnamese diplomat and
father of Madame Nhu. Chair­man
for the year was Harry
Hooper, with Dr. Max Autrey
and Professor Claude McNor-ton
serving as faculty ad­visors.
Gerald Rutberg was chair-icheir views of world alliances.
man of the 1966 ACOIA.
Walter Herbert, minister
graduate students at Berkeley,
Maj. John H. Napier, former
Auburn Air Force commandant
of cadets and Fred J. Baum-gardner,
chief of FBI's inter­nal
security division, spoke
on topics centering around
"Subversion in the Sixties."
Last year six experts on
world alliances addressed the
three-day conference under the
direction of Charley Majors.
Educational television and
radio coverage enabled people
all over the state to watch
the event. Dr. Richard Gard­ner,
senior advisor to UN
Ambassador Arthur Goldberg,
Bruce Munii, UPI's bureau
chief at the United Nations,
Dr. Hillis Lory, retired State
Department specialist on Rus­sian
and Far Eastern affairs
and Armistead Selden, Ala­bama
congressman presented
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ACOIA is underway
To the d i s t i n g u i s h e d group of
speakers gathered on campus for the
Auburn Conference On International
Affairs, we extend a special welcome.
We are most pleased to have vou
among us so that we may learn from
and with you.
For the student body, • we have a
special reminder. If you haven't made
plans to attend the conference which
began yesterday and continues through
today and tomorrow (see schedule,
page 3), do so. If you fail to attend,
you will be missing one of the finest
three-day short courses on current af­fairs
that has ever been offered here.
So, make your plans to attend, and in
this way, welcome this outstanding
group to the campus yourself.
USSPA and the student left
"What resulted was sheer anarchy,"
says Time magazine of the annual
conference of the U.S. Student Press
Association held in Washington this
month. The conference planners, it
seemed, gave a new type of conference
planning a try r non-planning. This
year, commented one USSPA leader,
"we were resolved to change.;;the
conventional authoritarian pattern"
which past.conferences have followed.
They succeeded; and, in the process
embarrassed themselves in front of
prominent citizens, including U.S.
Sen. Euguen McCarthy, and member
college newspapers who sent repre­sentatives
to the conference.
The conference never did get around
to discussing newspaper work. One
conference session, which almost got
down to business was interrupted
when the lights went out and Commun­ist
propaganda movies flashed on the
walls supported by a "booming sound
track." When Sen. McCarthy gave his
speech, "three New Letters started
to heckle him." At the close of his
speech, six others carried a coffin
down the aisle and dumped McCarthy
campaign buttons from it onto the
floor.
The Plainsman, along with about
400 other college newspapers, is af­filiated
with USSPA, but we have
never sent delegates to their confer­ence.
The conference failure raises ob­vious
questions about'the future of
USSPA. Several financial backers of
the annual conference have withdrawn
their support, But, further, this most
recent failure raises another question
about national student organizations
in general, which, along with the non­organized
new student left, have been
prominent in the news in recent
months.
Where is the student power move­ment
headed?
In an article in The New York Times
Magazine on January 21, George F.
Ksnnan, former ambassador to Russia
and professor at the Institute for Ad­vanced
Study, made some observations
about the radical left on the campus-1
the same group which has control of
USSPA and other national student
organizations.
Kennan quoted Woodrow Wilson's
vision of the perfect place of learning:
"I have had sight of the perfect
place of learning in my thought: a free
place and a various, where no man
could be and not know with how great
a'destiny knowledge came into the
world-itself a little world; but not
perplexed, • living with a singleness
of aim not known without; the home
of sagacious men, • hardheaded and
with a will to know, debaters 'of the
world's great questions every day and
used to the rough ways of democracy;
and yet a place removed-calm Science
seated there, recluse, ascetic, like
a nun; not knowing, not caring, if the
truth but come in answer to her
prayG».;.A place where the ideals
are kept in heart in an air they can
breathe; but no fool's paradise.; A
place where to hear the truth about
the past and hold debate about the.
affairs of the present, with knowledge
and without passion; like the world
in its self-possession, its thorough
way of talk, its care to know more
than the moment brings to light; slow
to take excitement, its air pure and
wholesome with a breath of faith;
every eye within it bright in the clear
day and quick to look toward heaven
for the confirmation of its hope. Who
shall show us the way to this place0"
asked Woodrow Wilson.
Certainly not the students who dir­ected
the USSPA conference; and cer­tainly
not other students connected
with what is known as "the new left
on campus" in this country.
With many more failures like the
USSPA conference, the students of
the radical activist left will find
themselves out of controlr replaced
by the outraged, responsible, majority
who come closer to subscribing to
Wilson's ideal.
Another eyesore
The activity of the Auburn Confer­ence
On International Affairs in the
Student Activities Building calls at­tention
to another bit of ugliness
which seems as immune to improve­ment
as Sorrento's burned out ruins.
This other bit of ugliness is the
dilapidated temporary walkway cover
which was erected for Pres. Harry M.
Philpott's inauguration. ;Since its use
then, the cover, constructed of wood
and plastic, has become ragged and
ugly. The plastic covering has become
torn and shredded; and in places, all
that's left of the s t r u c t u r e is the
wooden framework.
Perhaps there is a need for such a
covering over the walk between the
Sports Arena and the Student Act
Building.;If so, then the present
structure should be improved. If not,
then the ugly temporary covering
should be removed.
Perhaps someone in authority will
be embarrassed by the eyesore while
attending this week's conference. And
then perhaps something will be done
to correct it before another event
brings off-campus guests to Auburn's
Student Activities Building. It's about
time.
George Wallace...
Tm not so bad
after all, am I?'
By Brute Nichols
"See there?" George Wallace asked.
'I'm not so bad after all, am I?" And the
hour-long interview was over. Wallace, after a hurried farewell,
was gone down the capacious hallway of the state capitol to
tend to other business. For the first time in more than an hour,
the Governor's office was not filled with the fast-talking Wal-lace-
with his twanging voice charm-which is a very real
and pugnacious manner. phenomena.
And we were left standing. Further, in an hour, you
in the midst of silent memora­bilia
to contemplate the man
and the interview just con­cluded.
The banty rooster tag is
aceurate-the former Governor
is small in stature, smaller
than I had expected, but he
is animated and cocksure.
Wallace answers questions
forcefully-but seldom in com­plete
thoughts. He often talks
at length in sentence frag­ments
and occasionally his
logic suffers from this habit.
Sometimes he appears to talk
in unfinished fragments pur­posefully-
edging close to a
particular position but never
quite taking it. One example
is this unfinished reference to
Negro rights: "Negroes are
citizens of this country and
are entitled t o . . . "-almost,
but not quite. At other times,
the fragmented speech seemed
to be the unintentional result
of a rapidly moving thought
process.
His demeanor throughout
the interview was pugnacious,
almost combative-but never­theless
dignified and cordial.
Though I disagreed with what
he was saying, I nevertheless
began to feel an emotion
somewhere between grudging
respect and fascination for
the colorful political spect­acle
unfolding in detail be­fore
me ..
"See there? I'm not so bad
after all, am I?" he had said
at the end. And the question
lingered a moment unanswer­ed.
Maybe.
If George Wallace were the
corner grocer, owner of the
local hardware store, your
insurance agent, or a member
of your church instead of the
segregationist -c on servative
candidate for president, may­be
he wouldn't be "so bad
after all."
He can be quite appealing.
He's energetic and competi­tive
and these are appealing
qualities. Further, he's be­lievable.
But of course, there's more
than masterful political tech­nique
to consider; what Wal­lace
is trying to sell is more
important than how he's sell­ing
it; although at close
range, one could easily be-
^ come tangled in the fascina­ting
maze of the Wallace
can't really expect to scratch
completely through the polish­ed,
hard surface which the
experienced politician has
developed. But, Wallace helps
the observer just a little and
maybe just enough. In the
midst of overly simplistic
"solutions" (despite his pro­testations
that he's not offer­ing
simple solutions), he
drops not-so-subtle, sinister
hints to the inner workings of
the Wallace mentality.
The key word is, in fact,
hatred.
Until last week, I had al­most
come to believe that
Wallace really has not intend­ed
to foster hatred between
the races in this country. 1
had almost come to believe
that he had been the victim
ofcircumstancesandthe slurs
of his enemies, benefiting
from but not actually encou­raging
this hatred.
But, the fact is, that under­lying
the charm and political
technique, is Wallace-encou­raged
hatred. And this hatred
is not only directed in varying
degrees toward the Negro race
which may be getting to uppity,
but it is also d i r e c t e d at
" p s e u d o - i n t e l l e c t u a l s"
(which includes nearly every
thinking person who opposes
Wallace), and his enemies in
general.
He gives himself away-talking
about the junior col­lege
program: "Mississippi
has had 17 operating for
years, so why can't we have
15. We got a million more
white people." And he adds
quickly, "Of course, they're
for Negroes too." But the
damage is done. _
And-after the tape recorder
was cut off he said wait until
you get to be a parent and you
send your daughter to an in­tegrated
school and she comes
home after having been mo­lested,
"you'd be a racist
too."
With a few notable except­ions-
bond programs for public
construction, aid to the aged,
the war in Vietnam-he doesn't
talk in positive terms; he
talks venomously, in between
smooth phrases, in negative
terms.
The question is, "How can
a man expect to build tomorrow
with a negative, hate-based
attitude?"
fn the beginning. . .
Energy for creation,
or for destruction
By Bob Payne
In the beginning there was Energy...
__ spreading its boundless strength, heat and
power to the limitless reaches of this universe and the next
. . . cataclysmic forces raging unheeded through the depths of
nothingness.
A whirling vortex of power concentrated its fury, and fusion
occurred; a proton was born, ments combined and recom-
Vast negative forces ampli- bined, creating myriad sub-
This week: letters to the editor-page 9
fied their strength and created
an electron-spinning it
around the proton. The first
atom of hydrogen came into
being. The process continued
at a furious rate.
Huge volumes of hydrogen
gathered together, and the
Energy of its fusion into heli­um
sent out waves of light;
the stars were formed. Fusion
continued and the elements
were created.
As they spun through the
nearly-vacant space, the stars
passed each other and tore
balls of glowing gases from
one another. These balls of
gases cooled and formed
planets.
On one of these planets-the
third one c i r c l i n g a
medium-sized, yellow star-hydrogen
combined with its
great grandchild oxygen to
form a substance called
water. Evaporation and con­densation
commenced, and
rain fell quietly on the pla­net's
jagged surface. Light­ning
played across the skies.
The water collected in de­pressions
on the rock shell
of the planet, and vast oceans
covered three-fourths of its
surface. In the mineral-laden
water the hundred-odd ele-stances.
One of these complex
substances, formed under
certain conditions of light,
temperature, pressure and
humidity, was different from
the rest. It moved and fed on
minerals in the ocean. Life
began with this tiny, single-celled
creature.
As eons passed, life-forms
became larger and more com­plex.
Gradually plants and
animals inhabited most of the
ocean's waters, and eventual­ly
moved to the land. Plants
sprang up on the fertile
ground and spread their leafy
branches up into the pure air.
Then the animals began to
dwell on the earth. They had
to undergo physical changes
to meet the demands of the
new environment, but soon
their offspring roamed the
plains and swamplands. Some
crawled, some walked and
some flew.
One species of these
creatures-hairy, muscular
animals which swung through
trees-began to walk around
on the ground on their hind
legs. Their brains increased
in size and strength. They
built shelters to protect them­selves
from the weather and
wore the skins of other ani-
Nypocrisy.
PUEL
Stagnant socialism..
Sun slowly settles
on British Empire
By Joe Lehman
The sun never set pn the Union Jack at
the turn of the century. Great Britain, the
Queen of the British Empire, had risen to the heights of world
domination; Her navy was all-powerful; her economic stature
unprecedented.
Only 22 years ago Great Britain emerged from World War II
victorious; her Empire safe.
She was the equal of the U.S..
as co-leaders of the Western
world. Her military structure
was still mighty.
But now, the Empire is
gone; Great Britain,after cen­turies
of world leadership, is
accepting the role of a small
power.
The pound, which with the
American dollar formed the
bulwark of the world's trading
currency, has been devalued.
Her economy is suffocating;
she cannot gain entrance into
the European Common Market.
Her military power is so weak
she cannot meet her commit­ments
in the Middle East or
the Far East.
The power that was Great
Britain's will now be remem­bered
only in history books...
but why? What are the reasons
behind the decline and fall of
the British Empire?
Great Britain is an island
of stagnation. Her people,
her economy and her indust­ries
all have stagnated, and
this internal deterioration has
caused her fall from the world
power structure.
The three basic reasons
which prompted Britain's in­ternal
problems are found in
her aging industries, the rigid
class distinction of her soci­ety
and the concepts of soci­alism
which her government
has employed.
Britain was the birthplace
of modern industry and for
many years her industrial
power dominated the world
economy.
However, after World War II
British industries did not
convert from less efficient
pre-war methods to the highly
efficient automated methods
of modern industry. Other
countries such as Japan,
France and West Germany
rapidly updated and enlarged
their industrial facilities
leaving Britain behind.
Britain lost this race for
two reasons: first, the unions
resisted modernization and
second, management felt that
the old ways were good
enough.
As a result British industry
has lost markets to other
countries' more efficient and
competitive industries.
As surprising as it seems
to those who are unfamiliar
with the British social struc­ture,
a sharp class distinct­ion
exists which limits the
opportunities of talented
young Britains.
"Lower-class" young peo­ple
of ability have little
chance for self-improvement
since most British youths do
not qualify class-wise to
finish high school much less
to go to college.
Even those who are fortu­nate
enough to attend higher
institutions seldom study
business or engineering since
these are considered low-status
careers. Instead, the
British school system has
been oriented towards train­ing
leaders for the Empire
rather than of managers vital
to modern business.
The concepts of socialism
which were implemented in
Great Britain by the Labor
Party over the last 20 years
have proved fallacious.
The "cradle-to-the-grave"
welfare state has provided for
the people so well as to stifle
individual incentive to pro­vide
for oneself.
In addition, the cost of
financing the socialist pro­gram
has increased by 50 per
cent in the last five years.
This uncontrolled rise in
government spending has
helped cause the periodic
financial crises which have
damaged Britain's economy.
Attempts to meet these
financial crises with"Social-ist
planning" have failed. As
a result, Britain is plagued
with a high unemployment
rate, a dangerous wage-price
spiral and a huge and contin­uing
deficit in the balance of
payments.
So now the end has come.
Britain has had to devalue
its pound and withdraw com­pletely
from the world power
structure in an effort to solve
her staggering internal pro­blems.
ma Is.
They developed the concept
of language and made noises
in their throats to communi­cate
ideas. They built cities
and wrote books; they con­quered
the land and painted
pictures to glorify them­selves.
Laughing and loving, fight­ing
and dying, generations of
men, as the creatures called
themselves, continued their
life on the planet. They pol­luted
the air and water, and
slaughtered the other animals.
They cared for their sick and
injured while building engines
of their own destruction. They
preached of love for one
another, but they hated each
other too much. They mingled
music with the sound of
marching feet.
The men set down rules of
conduct, telling each other
how to think and how to act.
They tried to destroy indivi­duality,
and they called this
Society. Individual rights
were sacrificed for the
"good" of all.
The people went around
singing "Born Free" and
'' Jailhouse Rock" in harmony.
They greeted each other with
a smile on their lips and
malice in their hearts. They
reached for the stars, but
they didn't even know what
went on inside their own
heads.
They explored thousands
of ideas and wrote books on
every subject from How to
Build a Bridge to How to
Blow Up a Planet-which they
had learned to do by unleash­ing
the energy of atoms. But
what else could happen; after
all, in the beginning there
was Energy.
U.S.: purged,
reaffirmed,
or forgotten?
By M e Buftin
"We hold these truths to
be self-evident: That all men
are created equal. . ."
For nearly 200 years the
innocent minds of countless
millions of American school
children have echoed those
words. And somehow, perhaps
because of
the 3,000
m i l e s of
ocean be­tween
them
a n d the
w o r l d l y
c o u r t s of
E u r op e ,
those words
have fooled
those child­ren
and the men that they be-come.
But they haven't
fooled anyone whose skin is
black.
The self-deception thjit had
insulated the conscience of
America from its own hypo­crisy
came to its end in the
1960's before the irrevocable
evidence of reality. The hopes
and then the despair of the
civil rights movement un­masked
America for what it
was. The Negro asked, with
a clarity that could not be ig­nored,
for the rights, privi­leges
and opportunities pro­mised
by the Constitution,
the laws, the documents and
the ideals of America. And
he was denied them.
To the generations of
young Americans educated
from kindergarten to college
to respect and revere the
principles upon which their
country was founded, that
denial must be convincing
proof of the hypocrisy of
America. But hypocrisy is a
strange and wonderful thing.
It offers the pleasant advan­tage
of gratifying one's de­sires
and at the same time
satisfying one's conscience.
In the face of such a seduc­tive
proposition, many have
succumbed. It has been so
easy for even college stu­dents
to ignore and even con­done
the evils of their society
and slip untroubled into its
security.
Many, of course, have not
succumbed. Disillisioned and
faced with this vast exercise
in national hypocrisy, they
have turned to cynicism or
violence. Armed with the
certainty that there is no good
at all in America, they have
set out to discover and re­veal
the rottenness at the
core. Black and white alike
have embarked on a program
to purge the evils of their
society by violence and fire,
and possibly revolution. Their
intent and their purposed may
be frighteningly revealed this
summer.
There are also those who
have refused both hypocrisy
and revolution. They have
perhaps been disillusioned
by the realization that Ameri­ca
is not the nation of '' liber­ty
and justice for a l l ' ' that
they had been educated to
believe. But they have been
able to view the conditions
which caused their realization
as not permanent. In the
1960's America has failed t
produce the rights and free­doms
for its citizei 5 that i
had guaranteed th< m. Tha
does not mean, however, tha
those rights will never b
produced. Seeing the desire
and ideals of a nation in con
flict, these moderates hav
understood that the ideal
cannot triumph immediately
Their belief is that ultimatel
justice will prevail, but tha
it will take time, and that i
must be worked for.
The number and strengt
of the people who hold th
last view may well determin
the future of America. Th
division between the hypo
crites and the revolutionist
is growing, and the point a
which a peaceful solution t
the problems of America wil
become impossible is drawin
near. It will take time befor
a generation to whom integra
tion is not only a moral bu
a natural necessity can com
to power. If they fail, the
America will become a natio
either purged by near revol
tion or scorned from its pos'
tion as democracy's beautif
alternative to communism.
5-THE PLAINSMAN
Since moving from Martin Hall in 1962
Library improved, still ranks
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low
By JOE LEHMAN
Ed. note: This i s the first of a two part
report on the library. Next week, The
Plainsman looks at administration plans
for improving the library.
"Auburn will never be a true university
until it has a great library," said Dr. Carl
Benson, a long standing member of the
Library Committee.
"A great library attracts great teachers
because of the research facilities it pro­vides.
The same research facilities serve
to interest top-notch graduate students in
a particular university.
'' Libraries are a common way of measur­ing
graduate schools," he added. "The
research facilities for English, history,
philosophy and many other fields of study
are books and if the books which explore
singular topics in these fields are not
available, the required research is impos­sible,"
said the Hargis professor of Eng­lish
literature.
Auburn is rapidly growing and expand­ing
its educational programs, especially
its graduate programs.
For example, a recent proposal for es­tablishing
a doctoral program in history
here stated, " .. .an inadequate library is
present the greatest single deterrent to a
Ph.D. program in history at Auburn."
However, the library has" made progress
since it was moved from Mary E. Martin
into its present building in December,
1962.
The old library could seat 374 persons
and had 75,000 volumes directly available
for student and faculty sue. Thrity-seven
staff members were employed in 1961, and
the total budget for 1960-61 was $265,000.
Today, the library seats 1,850 has
slightly over 500,000 volumes readily
available for general use and has 64 staff
staff members. The total budget for 1966-
67 was $542,000, more than double the
budget six years ago.
Neither budget includes expenditures
for student help. The 1966-67 budget does
include $124,000 from the Auburn Develop­ment
Fund. The fund, composed of alumni
contributions, was established to provide
the library with $787,000 from 1963-68 for
the purchase of books and periodicals.
RANKS LOW;
Despite these improvements, the library
still ranks lower than most southern uni­versity
libraries as shown by "Statistics
Of Southern College and University Lib­raries,
1965-66." This report was com­piled
by Jewel Allen of the Louisiana
State University Library.
One important area of comparison in the
report is the ratio of library expenditures
to total educational expenditures. Auburn
spent 2.5 per cent of the total educational
budget on the library and ranked 18 in
comparison to 25 other southern universi­ties.
These schools are emphasizing the im­portance
of maintaining a quality library
by allocating a large part of their total
funds to the library budget. For instance,
J Rice University spent nine per cent of its
total educational funds on its library, and
the highest ranked SEC school, Alabama,
spent 4.6 per cent. Auburn is well below
;'• the four per cent average expenditures for
all institutions listed.
The average number of volumes available
per student enrolled is another area for
comparison. Auburn ranked 22 in the report
with 38 volumes available per student, far
below the average of 85 volumes per stu­dent
enrolled. Duke, a heavily endowed
private institution, ranked first with 255
volumes available for each student's use,
and the highest ranked SEC school, Ken­tucky,
has 91 volumes per student.
Auburn ranks at the bottom in every other
area of comparison in the report. For ex­ample,
Auburn stands 21 in expenditures
per student for library services and 23 in
expenditures per student for books, peri­odicals
and binding. The average per stu-
ACQUISITION PROCEDURES 'INEFFICIENT, CUMBERSOME„ SLOW
Books Reach Shelves After Six Month Delay
dent expenditures was $96; Auburn's ave-rage-$
50. The average per student ex­penditure
for books, periodicals and bind­ing
was $41; Auburn's expenditure-$22.
In each case Auburn's expenditures are
about one-half the average.
RECENT REPORT
A recent report prepared by three lib­rary
specialists shows the areas in which
the Draughon library is adequate and where
it is inadequate.
The organization of the library with the
public services provided by the humani­ties,
science-technology and social sci­ences
divisions and technical services
organized into an acquisitions and cata­log
division was termed "sound."
Professional library staff members inter­viewed
by the consultants were found to
be competent and performing their work
well. Dr. Clyde Cantrell, director of the
library, backed this up when he said, "We
have a highly qualified, diversified staff.
Six of our 24 professional staff members
hold doctorates."
The "ample, well-designed" library
building was found to permi t flexibility
and control and to provide adequate room
for additional book stacks. The building
is also attractive and conducive to study,
according to the consultants.
The central information desk was termed
"highly desirable" and the librarians
"helpful and courteous to library users."
Present library holdings "appear to be
basically sound and well chosen, but ob­viously
inadequate in coverage."
NEED ONE MILLION VOLUMES
A crash program with the goal of increas­ing
the library's holdings to not less than
one million volumes of high quality mate­rials
was recommended by the consultants.
This figure is twice the number of volumes
presently in the library and is "necessary
to cope with the needs of Auburn's in­creasing
enrollment and expanding gradu­ate
and research programs*
A minimum of $500,000 in legislative
appropriations per year is "essential" to
buy the books, periodicals and binding
necessary to reach this goal. The amount
of legislative support for these items for
1966-67 was $151,000, one-third the "es­sential"
amount.
As the library increases its holdings
and services additional professional staff
members and funds for their salaries will
also be needed. Concerning these recom­mendations
Dr. Cantrell said, "Additional
funds and personnel presents one of our
greatest needs. The library is successful
only to the extent that it provides a real
service to the students and faculty. We
are attempting to do the best job possible
in providing library services for the cam­pus
under the circumstances, but we need
a larger budget and staff."
In January, the Library Committee made
recommendations to the administration
based on a study and analysis of the con­sultants
report. In a memorandum attached
to these recommendations Dr. J.H. Yeager,
chairman of the Library Committee, said,
"Adequate financial support for the library
is the need of paramount importance."
ADDITIONAL STAFF
In addition to supporting the consul­tants'
recommendation for $500,000 of
legislative support for library resources,
the Library Committee recommended library
salary increases of $110,000 to provide
additional staff members. A total of 19
new staff positions were proposed includ­ing
eight academic or professional employ­ees
and 11 non-academic or clerical em­ployees
to meet the library's needs.
The visiting consultants made additional
recommendations concerning problem areas
in the internal procedures of the library.
The most important of these were con­cerned
with library resource purchasing
procedures and the present arrangements
for binding. The present system requires
six months in most cases to obtain new
materials for the library and two to six
months to have periodicals bound. As a
result, books and periodicals which stu­dents
and faculty members need for re­search
are not available.
According to the consultants, the pre­sent
procedures of the Acquisitions Divi­sions
in placing new materials in the lib­rary
are "inefficient, cumbersome and
slow," and cause a "great deal of wasted
effort" in the library and the business
office. Much of this is due to the number
of steps necessary to obtain new materi­als.
ACQUISITION PRODEDURES
For instance, a book order is initiated
by a professor, approved by the department
head and sent to the Acquisitions Divi­sion.
There, unless a duplicate is already
in the library or the book is out of print, a
vendor and fund account are assigned and
the purchase order prepared and sent to
the business office for approval.
After a time lapse of about nine weeks,
the order is sent ot the vendor. If the ven­dor
has the book on hand about a months
delay is encountered for handling and
shipping. If the book is not readily avail­able
the delay is much longer.
Eventually, the book is received and
classified according to the Library of
Congress classification system. Then
cards are prepared for the division and
main catalog files and for the book itself.
Finally, after another month's elapsed
time the book is sent to the division for
shelving and is available for public use.
Recommendations based on the consul­tants'
findings and designed to eliminate
some of these unnecessary steps in ac­quiring
new materials have been made by
the Library Committee.
These include the discontinuation of
departmental allocations and the establish­ment
of a blanket purchasing policy for
library materials. Also, it was recommend­ed
that the Acquisitions Division Head be
appointed deputy purchasing agent for
library resources and purchasing proce­dures
be established in agreement with
the business office to prevent duplication
of effort and cost.
PROVIDE BETTER SERVICE
The Library Committee believes enact­ment
of recommendations such as these
would conserve the Library's limited funds
and provide its users with new material
in less time.
Library users also experience difficulty
in obtaining periodicals which are out of
the library in the binding process for a
period lasting from two to six months. The
consultants recommended that arrange­ments
be made to have the binding done
on a schedule which requires bindery
materials to be out of the library no longer
than 30 days. Twenty of these days should
be working days at the bindery plant. The
results of this recommendation would
again be to provide better service for
library patrons.
The consultants' :report listed several
other recommendations. Some of these
include the preparation of a comprehen­sive
long-range plan of library growth and
development, provision of an informative
Student Library Handbook, more adequate
smoking areas and an assistant library
director.
The consultants urged that the reclassi­fication
of all the library resources to the
Library of Congress system be completed
as soon as possible. Included in this rec­ommendation
was the distribution of the
Petrie Collection to the appropriate di­visions
as well as the transfer of subject-oriented
periodicals from the general
periodical collection to their related
subject areas in the library.
Faculty support for the library was al­so
recommended. The outside book circu­lation
was found to be "low for the size
of the student body, the extent of gradu­ate
work, and the centralized nature of
service." The consultants felt that fac­ulty
members could promote further use
of the library.
The consultants' report was prepared
by Ralph E. McCoy, director of Universi­ty
Libraries at Southern Illinois Univer­sity;
Robert W. Orr, director of libraries,
Iowa State University; and Ralph H. Par­ker,
director of ^libraries, University ot
Missouri.
«
Thursday, February 22, 1968
Outmoded facilities!
(served for 50 years
:¥ Auburn's library facilities remained in the same build- :•:•
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# ing for over a half a century prior to the construction of *
$ the Ralph B. Draughon Library. %.
;•:• The old library in Mary E. Martin Hall was considered :§
!•:• adequate for an enrollment of 1,500 when it was opened §
gin 1909. Auburn's enrollment in 1961-62, the last year of :§
:£the library's operation in Martin,was about 8,500. •§
g The library could seat only 374 people at that time. •$
[:•: Volume holdings numbered 270,000, one-third the number :$
j* needed in 1961-62, but only 75,000 volumes were directly^
•:•: available to the student due to restricted shelving space. ;§
i:j The building was old. Its facilities were wearing outS
8 and its atmosphere wad dull. In addition, it was a closed ;•:•
;•;• shelve library where staff members located materials •§
•;•: which users requested. #
% Dr. Clyde Cantrell, director of libraries, appointed Dr.::-:
[gA.F.Kuhlman, a library consultant, to formulate plans fori-i:
*:a modern library in September of 1959. •:•:
900,000 VOLUME CAPACITY |
% Kuhlman's plans called for seating capacity of 2 , 2 0 0 ,3
S s p a c e for 900,000 volumes, open shelving for 90 per centgj
g:of these volmues, centralization of a l l the library's hold-:-?
5 ings and a closed shelve reserve book system. §:
•:•: The divisional plan in which all library resources are®
if catalogued under the main headings of humanities, social$i
•g sciences, biological sciences and physical sciences wast§
•ft to be utilized. tjj:
:£ Student conference rooms, thesis writing cubicles andi^i
|:j: faculty study areas were to be provided. ||
:•:• All of these features would be housed in a spacious, fe
•:•: modern building which would feature air-conditioning andj&
:•:• fluorescent lighting. fij:
BOND ISSUE FINANCED CONSTRUCTION
"ft j.""
6 The planning stage rapidly evolved into the construe-::-:
igtion stage a s the p r e s e n t s i t e was purchased in March of S
ft! 1960. At the same time the Birmingham architecture firm!:-:
igof Van Keuren and Davis completed drawings for the:§
^building which was to be five times a s large a s Martin. •:•:
:•:• A $100 million bond i s s u e was authorized by the s t a t e j£
:ftlegislature to finance the two and one-half million dollar-:::
iv- structure. In addition, a special fund, the Auburn Develop-:-;:
•i-iment Fund, was established to provide $780,000 for the-:-:
:•:• purchase of books and periodicals for the new facility, x-
•i-j Ground breaking ceremonies were held on Jan. 1 1 , 1961;:$.
i-jithe building was finished in December of 1962 and open-•:•:
ij-jed for use a t the start of winter quarter, 1963. §•
:$ The structure was named the Ralph B. Draughon Lib-|i
ijjrary in honor of the retiring president in May, 1965. :•;•
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New construction to add
48 married students' units
Construction has begun
on a 48-unit addition to the
married students' apart­ments
in Caroline Draugh­on
Village, bringing the
total of apartments in the
complex to 384.
The new two-bedroom units
will be identical to the 96
air conditioned apartments
built three years ago. The vil­lage,
built in 1959, provided
240 apartments.
Paul Henry, director of
Auxiliary Services, said the
tentative completion date for
the new complex is August.
The University hopes the
apartments will be in oper­ation
by next fall quarter.
"Additional apartments are
necessary because of a tre­mendous
need for ireasonable
and livable space for our mar­ried
students," Henry said.
"There are not enough facil­ities
at present to take care
of these students," Henry
said.
The University is finan­cing
the construction of the
the new apartments through
the sale of private housing
bonds.
Rent for the apartments
will be $84 a month. This in­cludes
one furnished bedroom.
Students will receive utili­ties
free except electricity.
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6-THE PLAINSMAN Thursday, February 22, 1968
Tiger
Topics Tigers have chance to rock SEC boat
^J - Bv DAVID BAILEY Rhnt.s. OTIP forward Dosition H B H H i l l l l l l l l l l l l H
By Richard Wittish
Sports tiltor
'Plain' Observations
The Sports Arena, Cliff Hare Stadium, Plainsman
Park. These locations must be cursed by the Florida
Athletic Department the year round.
Once again Auburn deflated a Florida Southeastern
Conference basketball hope at home in the Sports Arena,
much as the Tigers did last February by crushing the
Florida five's chance at the SEC crown.
Florida has never beaten Auburn in football on the
Plains, and the Gators' last two visits to Cliff Hare
have seen national rankings and darkhorse title cam­paigns
wiped out by the Tiger gridders.
And last spring Florida invaded Plainsman Park for
a two game series which would decide the SEC's east-division
baseball championship. The Gators were badly
beaten in both games, as two Ocala, Fla. products, Q.V.
Lowe and Jim Blauser, pitched the Tigers to victory.
Put up your dukes
If the events of the past week are any indication of
things to come as far as Auburn sports are concerned, it
might be wise to include provisions for a boxing ring in
the list of facilities for the new coliseum. Basketball
players Wallace Tinker and David Hurt mixed it up with
a few of the Florida Gators last Saturday night. Florida
center Neal Walk provided the provocation, jostling
Tinker around. When Tinker reacted. Walk's teammate
Gary McElroy stuck his nose into things and promptly
had it broken by one of Tinker's flailing elbows. Hurt,
who rooms with Tinker, saw his roommate being picked
on and joined in from the bench, hitting McElroy about
the head. Tinker and Hurt were ejected while Walk
stayed in to shoot five foul shots, four of them due to
technical fouls on the Auburn roomies... An Auburn fan got
into the act last Thursday night during the Auburn-Troy
State wrestling match. After losing a 2-1 decision, the
Troy State 160-pound entry heard a few remarks from a
fan and walked over in front of the seats, pointing out
the offender and warning him to hold his tongue. The
wrestler then walked down to the Troy bench, then
climbed into the stands heading for another heckler.
One of the fans stood up and landed a punch, then was
swarmed upon by the 160-pounder. It took three other
wrestlers to pull the Troy Stater off the heckler, who
was duly escorted from the Sports Arena.. .Things just
won't be the same in the new place, what with the seats
a good distance away from the area of competition.
At last, golf for Auburn
Everett Harwell, local clothing store owner, informs
that a new nine-hole golf course will be .ready .to. open
sometime between April 15 and'March'15,"depending' on
weather conditions.
The operation is especially designed to give Auburn
faculty and students a chance to play golf at reasonable
prices. Five hundred faculty-student memberships are
in the process of being sold at a first-come-first-serve
basis. The $25 membership will allow purchasers to
play at half price over a one year period. Regular green
fees will be $1.50 for nine holes and $2.75 for 18.
The course, named Auburn Hills, is located off the
Opelika Highway on the site of the former Golf Center
driving range.
Harwell and half partner Robert Liemback "feel like
there is a real need for this type of thing." Liemback,
a student in textiles, turned pro two weeks ago and will
operate the entire function.
TOM BOERWINKLE
Tennessee Giant
By DAVID BAILEY
Auburn's c a g e r s head
n o r t h to Tennessee and
Kentucky with a 6-8 South­eastern
Conference record
and a chance to shake up
the SEC standings.
Tennessee and Kentucky
have been among the Confer­ence
leaders all season, and
Auburn, which has four SEC
games remaining on its sche­dule,
needs a win in at least
one of these contests to have
a chance to break even for the
1967-68 season.
The Tigers will be in Knox-ville,
Tenn., Saturday in hopes
of extending the Tennessee
Vols' three-game SEC losing
streak. Monday night Auburn
will meet the team that is in
,the driver's seat in the race
for the SEC championship, the
Kentucky Wildcats.
Tennessee has lost three
straight games in SEC compe­tition,
all of them coming on
the road, against Georgia,
Kentucky and Vanderbilt. The
Vols only other SEC loss came
away from home against the
Florida Gators. The last time
the Vols lost an SEC game at
home was against the always
tough Vanderbilt Commodores
back in the first part of the
1965 season.
STRONG DEFENSE
Tennessee relies on their
strong defense, which allows
opponents to make only 38 per
cent of their shots from the
field. Another strong point of
the defense is their slow de­liberate
offense.
Leading the stingy defense
is all-America center candi­date
Tom Boerwinkle, who
stands seven feet tall and
weighs 260 pounds. Tn is
leaves no doubt as to why his
teammates call him the
"Bull."
The top scorer for the Vols
is Bill Justis, a 6-1 guard who
is lethal with his outside
Spring?
It's jus f around hot comer
By MIKE ANDERSON
Spring practice in the
winter?
Major league baseball
spring practice is a tradi­tion
in American sports, but
baseball practice at Auburn
and in the Southeastern Con­ference
begins in the winter,
since the regular season gets
underway in the spring.
Auburn's baseball Tigers
began practice on Feb. 1 for
the coming season, and the
sessions will continue into
the middle of March.
Gymnasts win last dual meet
By CURTIS A. MAULDIN
Performing in its last
dual meet of the season,
Auburn's gymnastics team
overwhelmed Dekalb Col­lege,
146.4-113.7, last Sat­urday
in Alumni Gym.
The club captured firsts in
six of the seven events held
"The club generally did a
good job, with the exception
of Aubrey Bowles, who is re
covering from a wrist injury,"
said Coach Ed Bengtson.
Even so, Bowles captured
four firsts and placed second
three times. Bengtson almost
held him out of the meet due
to the injury incurred during
a practice session.
Bowles paid little attention
to the injury, although it did
seem to hinder his perfor­mance.
DeKalb also had a lot of
injuries," said Bengtson,
"and the meet probably would
have been closer had they
been able to bring everyone
with them,"
Auburn recorded two wins
and two 11 losses in dual
meets this season.
The club recently lost to
Eastern Michigan in Auburn.
"Even though we lost we
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Sports Spectacular
Blond Sandra Ballard is all set for the tration major from Anhiston is the first fan
warmth of spring and the excitement of of the season. Sandra is a Kappa Alpha
baseball. Relaxing in Plainsman Park's Theta and resides in Dorm 4.
bleachers, the junior secretarial adminis- (Photo by Curtis A. Mauldln)
Regular
about 3:30
until 5:30
goes down.
practices start
p.m. and continue
or until the sun
The Tigers begin
by running a mile and follow
it with a period of calisthe­nics.
Next comes the part of
practice devoted to instruct­ion,
and the end of practice is
followed by more running.
The purpose of winter prac­tice
is to- round the players
into good physical condition,
and to build stamina for the
long 36-game season to come.
Conditioning is gradual as the
Tigers wish to avoid pulled
muscles and sore arms.
GETTING IT RIGHT
One of the important aims
of winter practice is the cor­rection
of bad habits and the
teaching of baseball skills.
According to Coach Nix, the
way to improve a player's per­formance
is "not only to tell
him what he's doing wrong,
but what he must do to correct
it. Old habits must be broken,
and new ones must be prac­ticed
until they become second
nature.
"Weekday practices are de­voted
to fundamentals and
procedures, while weekends
are used for game type prac­tices,
similar to the controlled
scrimmages of football," he
continued.
On "weekdays', tlie' pitchers'
have been in the bullpen learn­ing
hurling techniques and
procedures, working day after
day to establish consistent
control. To gain this control,
proper body position and fol­low
through must be learned,
a process much more complex
than the average fan realizes.
PITCHING MACHINE
Meanwhile hitters use the
pitching machine to take bat­ting
practice and work on in­dividual
adjustments, such as
body positions, swing, and
grip, as well as timing. The
pitching machine is ideal for
this purpose since it is rhy­thmic
and can be adjusted to
work on the individual batter's
particular weakness.
Those not awaiting their
turn at batting practice take
fielding practice.
Weekend practices are a
time for trying out skills
learned during the week in the
form of batting practices under
game conditions. The squad is
divided into two teams, but
the pitchers are not allowed
to throw curves or at full
speed. The team works on
good play while the pitchers
concern themselves with style,
control arid learning the know­ledge
required for various
game situations.
shots. One forward position
is firmly held by Tom Hen-drix,
a 6-5 senior, while Bobby
Croft, 6-10, and Larry Mans­field,
6-8, alternate at the
other post.
QUARTERBACK HANN
Guard Billy Hann rounds out
the starting five. Hann is the
team's quarterback and
smoothest ball-handler. He is
the type of ballplayer that
doesn't score much but hurts
opponents with good passes
into the middle for easy in­side
shots.
Kentucky, unlike the Volun­teers,
relies on a fast moving,
quick shooting offense for
points. In an early season
game the Wildcats hit 18 con­secutive
field goals.
One of Kentucky's three
SEC losses this year came at
the hands of the Auburn Ti­gers.
The Tigers secret that
day was to outshoot and out-hustle
the Wildcats.
Kentucky is led by the
scoring of guard Mike Casey,
6-4, and forward Dan Issel, 6-
8. The defense revolves
around 6-6 center Thad Jaracz.
Phil Argento, 6-2 guard, and
Mike Pratt, 6-4 forward, add
the finishing touches to a
team that works smoothly and
with poise.
BILLY HANN
Vol's Playmaker
Auburn upsets Gators,
falls to lowly Rebels
By ED RUZIC
Auburn looked a gift
horse in the mouth Monday
night as the Ole Miss Re­bels
dumped the Tigers,
57-56, in Oxford. The loss
evened the weekend action
at 1-1.
The Tigers knocked Flo­rida
out of the SEC title
chase Saturday night, 75-63,
with a big assist from until
then unknown Bobby Ray John-
AUBURN'S WALLY TINKER SHOOTS
Gators, Tigers Converge Under Basket
Wrestlers 'mat' Troy,
earn four pins in win
By REED EDWARDS
The biggest problem en­countered
by the Auburn
wrestling Tigers as they de­feated
Troy State, 35-3, last
Thursday night, was keep­ing
the Troy wrestlers on
the mat.
Relay team sparks fine performance
in Mason-Dixon Invitational meets
By LEWIS VON HERRMANN
Mel Rosen, Auburn's
track coach, was pleased
with the T i g e r s ' perfor­mance
in the Mason-Dixon
Invitational Indoor Track
Meet in Louisville, Ky.,
Saturday.
The mile relay team placed
second and set a school in­door
track record by running
the event in. 3:19.6. Alvin
Bressler, Pete Ginter, John
Kipp, and Joe Bush are the
relay team members.
Other scoring performances
were turned in by Jack Marsh,
who placed fourth in the triple
jump with an effort of46'3l/2'.'
Mickey Jones finished third
behind former Olympian Ralph
Boston with a jump of 23' in
the broad jump.
Joe Bush placed fifth in the
600-yard run with a timeofliors Jones and Marsh will
1:11.7. His time was the fast- compete in the triple jump and
est of all the Southeasternjbroad jump.
Conference runners this year Sophomores Kipp and Bill
and was his own all-time Land will run in the 1000-yard
record.
"This meet helps us a
great deal to get ready for the
SEC meet," Rosen said.
"It was good that so many
members of our team were in­vited
and it was a very en­couraging
meet because of the
times recorded by the team. We
have one more meet, the Chat­tanooga
Invitational, this
week-end, and we may do some
experimenting to see if some
of the middle distance runners
can do well in other events."
Auburn will carry a full
team to 'Chattanooga for the
meet.
Seniors Bush and Ginter
will enter the 600-yard run
and the mile relay, while jun-run.
Soph Werner Biersdoerfer
will run with senior Vic Kel-ley
in the two mile. Kelley
ir also slated for the mile
with freshman Jim McAuliffe,
and may run a leg of the two-mile
relay.
On three different occas­ions
Auburn was awarded pe­nalty
points due to Troy
wrestlers running or crawling
off the mat.
WILD MATCH
The wildest match of the
night occurred in the 160-pound
class in which Auburn's Larry
Szutenbach narrowly defeated
Buddy Tremaine, 2-1. Szuten­bach
made several successful
takedowns just out of bounds.
Tremaine, displeased with the
outcome of the match, engaged
in a scuffle with several heck­lers
in the crowd.
After this incident, the
crowd came to life as they
watched the next match in the
167-pound class. Auburn's
Eddie Dyer was narrowly de­feated,
5-4.
QUICK PIN
Mark Stern made up for this
loss in an earlier match, 145,
that really pleased the crowd.
,, , „ Troy's Steve Stabler tried in
wiBlla rcryo mEprwetien iann dt hRei cskhyo tH epautth, v a i^ t 0 g e t of f t h e ma t, with
and Eddie Branch and Vaughan
Lewis will pole vault.
Donny Fuller and Robert
Maxwell are expected to run
in the 60-yard dash and mile-relay,
respectively.
Rudy Rivers wiil represent
Auburn in the high jump while
Lane Roland will team up with
with Land, McAuliffe, and
Kelley in the two-mile relay.
no success. Stern grabbed him
by the left ankle, jerked him
back, and then proceeded to
pin him in less than one min­ute,
50 seconds.
In the 123-pound class Au­burn
team captain Bill Mc-
Keand put his opponent in a
painful double-chicken-wing
pinning combination. The pin
came in the second round.
son.
The Tigers missed threel
one-and-one free throws in
the final minute to wipe out
come-from-behind rally that)
gave the Tigers a brief one
point lead.
Ole Miss had a 10 pointl
half time lead and led 15 pointij
at one time.
The Florida game was difl
ferent.
There were three minutes
left in the first half, and AuJ
burn had lost a 10 point leacj
and was trailing by eight.
WORRIED FANS
In a normal situation, some
fans might not be too worried
because the entire second half!
remained to be played. But|
this wasn't a normal situation
and the Sports Arena crowd
knew it.
Forward Wally Tinker, Au-|
burn's leading rebounder and
scorer, had been ejected fron
the game for fighting. Auburn's
David Hurt had also been re-j
moved as a result of the inci-|
dent.
Coach Bill Lynn surveyed
the problem and decided to pufl
Bob Willis in at Tinker's vaj
cated forward spot. It wasn'j
Willis' night as he couldnj
find the handle.
ON THE BENCH
Lynn looked a little fartheJ
down the bench and sent iif
Bobby Ray Johnson.
Bobby had only played ll
two games this season, scor-j
ing a grand total of no points I
and more recently had not eve j
been a member of the traveling
squad.
A few seconds later, John!
son had his first encountel
with Florida* s 6-10 center NeaJ
Walk. An Auburn player had
taken an outside shot anq
missed. Johnson, a junior, bea
Walk to the rebound and wal
in the process of shootinj
when the big Gator foulej
him. Johnson had his chancj
to make his first points
of the 1967-68 season. John|
son made both shots.
From that point on, the gar
belonged to Bobby Ray John
son and the Auburn Tigers.
DOWN BY SIX
As the Tigers entered thl
second half they were stilT
six points behind. Johnsoi
started the second half an|
played the rest of the way.
And when the going go
rough, Bobby showed thl
crowd what he had. And he ha I
a lot. He had a shot from deel
in the corners that he swishel
four times. He had spring i|
his legs that out-jumped mos
of the Gators, the tallest pla>
ers in the SEC.
Auburn won the game o|
the 10 unexpected points
Johnson, the 17 points of bot|
Carl Shetler and Bill Alexarj
der, and the 16 points of Re
Jackson.
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MIKE GRISWOLD COMPLETES PERFORMANCE STALWART AUBREY BOWLES ON PARALLEL BARS
Gymnastic club faults' difficulties
By CURTIS A. MAULDIN
Starting with two boys four years ago, the Auburn
gymnastics club has overcome numerous hardships and
difficulties to become one of the most highly respected
clubs of the Southeast.
"We don't get any recognition from the University or
the conference," said Coach Ed Bengtson, "and we face
problems with finances and morale."
The Auburn Club is not a recognized varsity team and
is in no way associated with the athletic department,
according to Bengtson, who is a physical education
instructor.
The team has grown to a present strength of IS parti­cipants.
Coach Bengtson obtains his players from stu­dents
in his physical education classes.
"There is no competition on the high school level in
the state from which we are able to obtain players,"
said Bengtson. "It is only through the diligence of the
gymnasts that we are able to compete.
"All of the boys are determined and work with a lot
of interest in gymnastics and want to learn. The caliber
of work has improved monumentally. We have a real fine
group.'' LITTLE EXPERIENCE
All of the boys came to Auburn with little if any ex­perience
in the sport. Because of this, the club has a
disadvantage when competing against teams who receive
players on scholarships and high school experience.
The club works year round in order to make up for-these
disadvantages. "We are able to give other teams
good competition," said Bengtson.
Even though Auburn faces high caliber teams, it has
been able to win the Southeastern Amateur Athletic
Union senior men's championship for the past two years.
All but two of the SEC schools have gymnastics teams
or clubs. Bengtson says the sport is tolerated here at
Auburn and, in the last 10 years the sport has progressed
considerably in the South.
The sport means a lot to the boys on the team and they
gain much self satisfaction from practicing and compet­ing
in the meets. All of the boys are quite enthusiastic,
according to Bengtson.
STRENGTH AND COORDINATION
Some of the events require a great amount of strength
and coordination, while others rely on balance. Each of
the seven events require a mount and dismount besides
the execution. Judging is made in these three categories.
Gymnastic meets are not judged in the same manner
as other sports. Each event is judged individually in each
different event. Each event has a maximum number of
points, and the performance is rated to the maximum. The
different events have varied amounts of points that can
be earned.
The seven gymnastic events are the rings, side horse,
high bar, long horse, parallel bars, floor e x e r c i s e s,
and trampoline. There are various movements and exe­cutions
of each event which make them difficult to per­form.
When they are done properly, the most points are
earned.
When performing in a meet, the individual events are
totalled to obtain a composite score, which is the team
meet score.
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A HANDSHAKE AND A GROUP DISCUSSION
AXO's notch victory
in bowling tournament
By LINDA NUNNCLLY
Women's Intramural Editor
The Women's Intramurals
Association bowling tourna­ment
was held last week
with the top three teams
from both Tuesday and
Thursday leagues partici­pating.
The Alpha Chi Ome­ga
team, consisting of Jean
Wojohn.Ann Clement, and Pat
Lynch, won the tournament
with a total of 841 pins.
The Pi Phi's were second
with 802 pins and Dorm K I
was third with 778 pins. Top
game was bowled by Pat
Sherman (Kill) with 173 pins.
Top 2-game series belonged
to Barbara Taylor (KAT II)
with 308 pins,followed by Pat
Lynch(AX) with 306 pins.
CAGE RESULTS
The basketball results were:
Dorm 6 over Dorm J, 30-13;
AOPi over Pi Phi, 15-13; Chi
O over Dorm 12, 34-6; and
Tri Delts over KAT, 32-21.
Auburn's entries in the
Troy State Sports Day brought
home three first places. The
volleyball team defeated Troy
State by a good margin, and
whipped Georgia Wallace
Junior College, 14-16, 15-0,
15-9. Charlotte Tate played
and beat Sherry Straiton (also
of Auburn) for the badmitton
trophy, and Sallie Lamb went
undefeated to win the table
tennis tournament.
Auburn's first Basketball
Sports Day will be held Sat­urday,
at 9 a.m. in Alumni
Gym.
Gymnasts...
(Continued from Page 6)
enjoyed the meet more than
any other we have participat­ed
in here," said Bengtson.
"They had a great club, and
we benefited a lot from watch­ing
a real good team perform.''
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7-THE PLAINSMAN Thursday, February 22, 1968
Ruz' Intramural Mews^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Losing basketball teams
also possess standouts
By ED RUZIC
Unless some drastic up­sets
occur I can safely as­sure
all readers that the
four league champions will
be Kappa Alpha, Omega
Tau Sigma, Sigma Nu and
Phi Gamma Delta. The play­off
will be a double elimi­nation
affair between these
teams, starting around the
first of March. More exact
dates will be available next
week.
When it comes to picking
all-star teams, it is a natural
tendency for players from
losing teams to be disregard­ed.
This week I would like to
give recognition to players
who aren't on first place
teams; players who are rela­tively
unknown; players who
probably won't make the all-star
team-not because they
are not good enough, but be­cause
their teams are not
doing as well as others.
GOOD SHOOTERS
One of the more outstanding
shooters, ball-handlers, and
playmakers this season has
got to be Burk Wyatt of Pi
Tech defeats frosh
with 2nd half surge
By JIM PARKER
Assistant Sports Editor
Auburn's freshman bas­ketball
team dropped a
close game to Georgia Tech
in the closing minutes, 04-
60.
"We just didn't play
well," Coach Larry Chap­man
said.
The Auburn freshmen made
more than their share of floor
mistakes as they gave Tech
the ball 18 times without
making an attempt at shooting.
"The boys weren't ready
mentally," said Chapman.
"When you aren't ready men­tally,
you do foolish things
like walk with the ball or
stay in the lane too long."
AHEAD AT THE HALF
Auburn had a two point lead
going into the dressing room
at the half, but it was not
enough. Tech came back out
in the second half to outscore
the Baby Tigers by six.
Auburn's free throws were
the thing that hurt the most.
They only hit for 10 of 21
free throws, which is below
their regular percentage per
game and their season's aver­age
of 76 per cent.
Center Mike Scott, who has
been out most of the season
due to a shoulder operation,
played well, taking 12 re­bounds
and hitting for three
points. His :play plus Joe
Sigur's defensive work kept
Auburn on top for most of the
game.
Forward Gary Franks was
high scorer for the Baby
Tigers with 15 points. He is
the lone Auburn freshmen to
outscore guard John Mengelt
this season and he has done
it twice, but by only two
points each time. Mengelt hit
13 against Tech. Franks
bucketed 32, while Mengelt
hit for 30 against Vanderbilt
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an equal opportunity employer
earlier in the year.
Saturday will find the Au­burn
freshmen in Knoxville,
Tenn., facing the Tennessee
Volunteers in their first meet­ing
this year.
Kappa Phi. He hit 34 against
Delta Chi in a losing effort
early in the season and last
week was the main reason the
Pi Kappas were leading the
KA's going into the fourth
quarter. He played with a
sprained ankle throughout the
final period, but was unable
to keep the pace as PKP
bowed. 62-49.
Bill Floyd of Phi Kappa
Tau is another superior player.
He has consistently scored
over 20 points and is the main
factor that has kept the Phi
Taus from being run off the
court.
The Lambda Chi's haven't
made many waves this year
but they sure drained the SAE
lake last week. Their upset
victory was led by Charles
and Jack Parker and Shorty
Piel. Victories over TKE and
PKA have given the Lambda
Chi's a respectable season.
WILLIAMS HELPS
The addition of John Wil­liams
has turned the Theta
Xi's from a medicore team in­to
a fearsome opponent. After
an early defeat without Wil­liams,
they have bounced
back with four straight wins.
The Sigma Chi's are in a
tough league and have suffer­ed
only one defeat, but it will
keep them out of the playoffs.
Jay Bode, Tom Wheeler, and
Frank Cox have taken turns
being the big man during the
season.
DONT fight It.
Kappa Sig is another
League 3 team that has shown
better than average play. Billy
and Basil Broadway, along
with Larry Kabase have pulled
them through.
Other players that deserve
recognition are Otto Gaylord,
Delta Chi; Mike Nix, TKE;
Buster Williams, SAE; and
Posey Hinds and Bob Smith,
ATO.
FRATERNITY SCORES
Fraternity scores from last
week are Theta Xi 54, Alpha
Psi 47; Kappa Alpha 62, PKP
49; PKT 55, PDT 47; Sigma
Nu 76, Theta Chi 56; Chi Phi
38; SPE 33; Sigma Chi 64,
BTP 41; PGD 55, AGR 38;
LCA 60, SAE 45.
Independent scores are:
Hasbeens 57, PJ's 43; BSU
56, PDC 36; Nesep 49, Chevs
46; Sec. 5 over CIA by forfeit,
Thunderballs 44, Hornets 35;
PCS 28, Knights 27; Air Force
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8-THE; PLAINSMAN Thursday, February 22, 1968
For fraternities <r. • 1
Officers favor
rush changes
By ROY SUMMERFORD
Pres. Harry M. Philpott
has encountered little op­position
from fraternity pre­sidents
over his demands
for a dry rush drinking rule.
Most fraternity presidents
interviewed by The Plains­man
said stricter rules are
needed, but they failed to
agree on just how strict the
rules should be. However, all
agreed the present rule, which
permits individual members to
serve alcoholic beverages to
rushees but forbids chapters
to do so, is ineffective and
poorly enforced.
ENFORCEMENT
Bill Rodgers of Beta Theta
Pi called for greater enforce­ment
of the present rule. "I
don't think we'd be in this
predicament if the rule had
been enforced, and certainly
with a larger rush patrol vio­lations
would be discour­aged,"
Rodgers said. "But
with a strictly dry rush, more
emphasis would be placed on
material aspects, and the
fraternity with the newest
house would draw the most
pledges."
Mike Elliot of Phi Kappa
Tau agreed: "There is a de­finite
need for more control,"
he stated. "In the past we've
had loose controls, and the
rules were often violated. But
now they want to go from one
extreme to the other."
However, Bill Ginn of Sigma
Pi fraternity disagreed. "The
present rule is obviously too
hard to regulate and ambig­uous,"
he said. "It was meant
to be a dry rush, but there are
too many loopholes.
CONCESSIONS
"The present rule is ob­viously
not working," Ginn
cbntinued, "and we must make
some concessions to show the
administration we are willing
to work tbwajrd a solution to
our own problems." pk
Kim Smith of Sigma Phi tsilon set the tone for most
Ihe other replies when he
said, "Dry rush would help
fraternities more than it would
hurt them."
"All the drinking during
rush gives the impression that
drinking and parties are the
sole purpose of fraternities,"
Smith said. "Rushees tend to
overlook all the good for which
a fraternity stands, and non
drinkers often feel they have
no place in a fraternity," he
continued.
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said, "Rush is becoming just
too expensive for most fra­ternity
members. Serving
liquor continuously is of no
benefit i1 everyone else is
doing the same, but not to do
so when the others are would
toe taking too big a chance of
losing rushees.
"Dry rush would give a
false impression," he sail
"for there is drinking in fra­ternities,
and there is no need
to try to hide it. A big im­provement
would be to elimin-;
ate drinking during open
house."
Ben Smith of Sigma Chi
said, "Fraternities can adjust
to dry rush without any pro­blems
if it is completely en­forceable.
The administartion
faces a legal problem in that)
it can not officially recognize
and thus condone underage
drinking."
FRATERNITY PURPOSE
Dick Bentley of Delta Sigma
Phi observed, "The only
reason boys just out of high
school want to join a frater­nity
is for the parties. They
tend to ignore' the purpose of
fraternities," he said. "Rush
should equate the rushee with
what fraternity really is and
not just what the parties are
like."
"The rushee needs a well-rounded
look at fraternities
during rush. However, neither
continuous drinking nor dry
rush would present a true
picture," Bentley said.
PRESIDENTS AGREE
Most of the p r e s i d e n ts
seemed to agree that the most
desirable policy would be one
which limited drinking to only
one or two "party nights."
"Some drinking would pro­bably
be necessary to help
the rushee determine if a fra­ternity
drinks as much or more
than he is willing to accept,"
said Lance Wells, Lamda Chi
Alpha president. "But this
could be accomplished in one
night of drinking, and with no
drinking the rest of the time
the rushee could make his
decision more open-mindedly.
"Drinking is definitely
overemphasized at present,"
declared Mike Strickland,
Alpha Tau Omega president.
"If it were permitted only on
certain nights, then perhaps
rush could be shortened, and
the rushee could manage to
get a better picture of the
fraternities since he wouldn't
be drinking all the time," he
said.
For student Larry Revet
Blindness 'not big problem'
'WET' RUSHEES MAY BE NO MORE
Probable Dry Rush Rule Faces Little Opposition
Improvements planned
in woik-study program
By ROY RILEY
Assistant Managing Editor
Help is on the way for Auburn's work-study program.
Auburn ranks 20th among the 37 state universities,
colleges and junior college^ in Alabama in the federal
matching fund program, but
of educational s e r v i c e s,
says plans are underway to
improve the program here.
Students involved in the
program are employed in
University offices as lab
technicians, library assis­tants,
office assistants and
in other positions.
The program was established
in 1964 and enables schools
to employ students with signi­ficant
financial troubles. The
Department of Health, Edu­cation
and Welfare administers
the funds.
"To be eligible for as­sistance,
a student must have
a need for employment," John
Dunlap, director of student
financial aid said. ' 'In the
past, we have not had as much
money with which to work as
some other schools."
FEDERAL GRANT
Eighty-six students are in
the program, and the Univer­sity
has a grant of $20,427,
one of the lowest in the state.
The University of Alabama,
for example, has 980 students
in the program and has a grant
of $310,507.
"We pay 15 per cent of a
student's salary, and the fed­eral
funds pay 85 per cent,"
Dr. Wilbur Tincher, director
Tincher said.
Tincher's office took con'
trol of the program last year:,
and he plans to increase the
number of participating stu­dents
soon.
IMPROVE PROGRAM
"We need to find somefunds
in order to improve the pro­gram,"
Tincher said. "We ihad
a cut back on all federal funds
last year, and wehn several
new schools opened, our share
of the state allotment de­creased.
"We understand that a bill
is now pending that would
allow us to pay only ten per
cent of the student's salary
while the federal government
would pay 90 per cent, and
this would help,. oLiagucse,"
Tincher said.
By MEL PULLIAM
"Blindness is not that big a problem," says Larry
Fievet, Auburn's first totally blind student. He has been
blind since the age of 18 months.
"I guess you might say that I finesse my blindness.
In other words, I just assume I'm not blind," he con­tinued.
At the end of his first quarter here, Larry had a grade
point average of 1.58. He had prepared his parents for
the worst. "I told them not to be surprised at anything.
I really didn't know how I'd done when I got through with
tests. I did know that it was somewhere between a three
point and an F ."
Larry agreed with his mother and father: "You can do
better." And that't exactly what Larry plans to do.
"There are so many things people don't expect you to
do that you can do as a sightless person," Larry said.
''Most don't expect you to be able to do anything."
QUICK WITH WIT
Larry's outgoing personality disarms almost everyone
he meets, and puts them at ease at once. Very talkative,
but interested in everything said to him, Larry has a
quip to throw out with most every sentence.
He calls the red and white cane he uses to "recog­nize
terrain" his "wonder stick." He describes his
month-long visit to Talledega School for the Blind the
summer before he entered Auburn as a trip to "pick up
some tricks of the trade."
While in high school at John Carroll in Birmingham,
Larry kept a high B average and found time to earn a
ham radio license, play a bass guitar in a local band and
work part-time at a local radio station. He was in the
National Honor Society.
"The only reason they let me work at the station,"
Larry joked, "was so they could use my records. I have
a collection of rare pop records; you know the type-the
classic classics."
As in high school, Larry uses a tape recorder, records
and braille books to study at Auburn. His sister,Cathy, a
sophomore here, also helps by reading his textbooks to
him in the afternoon, as does a student furnished Larry
by the university. "They pay him, but I found him,"
Larry says.
J.D. Barron, Larry's roommate, escorts him to his
first class every morning. "Larry doesn't let his handi­cap
get in his way," Barron said. "He does everything he
can, and I'm trying to let him do more. One of these
days I'm going to let him go to that first class all alone."
EAGER AND INTELLIGENT STUDENT
In class, Larry is all business. His first quarter
French teacher, Dr. Charles Fugler said of him, "Larry
impressed me from my first contact with him. He seemed
intelligent, and much older than he actually was, and he
did remarkably well with his 3raille books. He had no
self-sympathy," Dr. Fugler continued, "and his eager-
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ness to dwell in academic pursuits might well be copied
by other students. He was interested in learning; there­fore,
learning and knowledge were not forced on him, as
it is in some cases."
When Larry applied for entrance to Auburn the only
out-of-the-ordinary thing he did was to visit Registrar
Herbert Hawkins' office and discuss problems that
might be encountered.
"Really, I don't think Mr. Hawkins quite knew how
we were going to pull it off, but he seemed to think that
everything would work out," Larry said.
"Larry took the SAT for his entrance test and didn't
score badly at all on it," Hawkins said. "He is intelli­gent
and has incentive. I'm looking forward to seeing
how he progresses."
During Larry's stay at Talladega, he was more of a
teacher than a pupil. He taught Braille to some of the
younger students there.
, LEARNED BRAILLE AT FIVE
"I owe my parents a lot. They're the ones who have
helped me so much. One thing they did was to learn
Braille and teach it to me when I was five years old.
That was the reason I already knew the Braille alpha­bet
when I went to Talladega."
At Talladega Larry learned how to keep paper money
separate by folding it different ways and how to use his
cane. Larry, however, had learned many advantageous
tips before be arrived at Talladega. As Larry says,
"Anybody can develop an ear."
During an interview, Larry pointed out that everyone
in the room was standing. His roommate, J.D. threw
down a dime on the floor and Larry recognized it by the
ringing sound it made. Reaching into his pocket, J.D.
juggled the change in his pocket, and before he could
get another coin out, Larry said, "You have a quarter
in your pocket, right?" J.D. pulled out a quarter.
Barron hit a wastebasket with his foot twice, and
Larry converted a Coke can into the trash.
IMMEDIATE AND FUTURE GOALS
After one quarter in school, Larry's immediate goal is
to raise his point average. "I think this quarter should
be better," Larry said, "mainly because the studying is
coming along better than it was at this time last quarter.
I have some good instructors, too, which helps."
As for future goals, Larry hopes to eventually become
an interpreter in the diplomatic corps.
A lot of time, effort and hard work will lie ahead
of Larry Fievet if he expects to achieve his ambition,
but he views this challenge like others he has faced.
"I look at it this way: Give me a chance to do some­thing,
and if I can't do it, I'll let you know."
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9-THE PLAINSMAN Thursday, February 22, 1968
Committee wants
dorm rule altered
By JOHN REYNOLDS
A marked change in the rules governing women's
housing specifications has been recommended by the
Student Welfare Committee.
The committee passed a resolution suggesting an
"alteration in the Univerr
sity housing policy in that
all women students age.21
and over should not be re
quired to reside in Univer
sity housing. The recom
mendation is made in light
of the present shortage of
women's housing, the antici­pated
increase in enrollment
and the change of policy re­garding
transfer students.
The concensus of the com­mittee
members was that since
a 21-year-old female is con­sidered
an adult in Alabama,
it should be her alternative to
reside in an apartment.
Signing the resolution was
Bill Satterfield, superintend­ent
of the Student Welfare
Committee.
Several facets of the coed
housing situation, including
underlying causes of the
shortage were discussed at
the committee meeting.
The possibility of con­verting
one of the older, wo­men's
dorms into an "honor,
dormitory" was discussed as
a step toward easing the
housing shortage. In an "honor
dorm'' a girl would not be sub-1
ject to compulsory meal
tickets, definite curfew hours
or other regulations now in
effect at all campus housing
for women.
Alumni Hall received the
most serious consideration for
a conversion to an "honor
dorm." It was emphasized by
Satterfield, however, that the
committee only discussed the
feasibility of such a dorm. The
Associated Women Students
organization is officially ad­vocating
a specific proposal.
Satterfield added that a
possibility exists that only
independents would apply for
rooms in an "honor dorm." He
said sorority members would
probably reject the idea of
leaving their sisters in order
to gain more personal free­dom.
He explained that his
proposal would not affect
those under 21 as would the
"honor dorms."
Because approximately 500
additional units are needed
for incoming women next fall
and only 179 will be avail­able,
a change in policy was
regarded by the committee as
a necessity to alleviate the
housing shortage.
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Notes & Notices » :
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Notices should be limited to 50 words and should
be in the Plainsman office, 108 Langdon Hall, no later
than Friday preceding the desired publication date.
PRE-VET CLUB
The Auburn Pre-Vet Club
will meet Monday at 7 p.m.
in Thach, Room 202. Dr. John
E. Sailda will speak on small
and large animal practice.
Those needing transportation
should call John Slaughter at
821-2437 or Mark Keaise at
887-9275.
KEYSTONE CLUB
The Keystone Club will
meet for bridge Monday, at
7:30 p.m. in the home of Mrs.
Frank Orr. All wives of stu­dents
and faculty in the Build­ing
and Technology Depart­ment
are invited to attend.
HARP AND FLUTE
CONCERT
Two faculty members of the
Music Department will appear
in a concert at Langdon Hall
Sunday at 3 p.m.
Frances Lapp Hunter,
flutist, and Marjorie Tyre,
harpist, will perform works
by Bach, Handel, Debussy,
Salzedo and Varese. Dr. J.
William Tamblyn will assist
in a Sonata for Harp and Piano
by Carlos Salzedo.
SING-OUT AUBURN
Sing-Out Auburn rehearsal
will be held every Thursday
at 7 p.m. at the Baptist Stu­dent
Union. Interested persons
may contact Randy Diamond
at 887-9819 for further infor­mation.
SEMPER FI MEETS
Semper Fidelis Society will
meet Monday at 7 p.m. in
Broun, Room 201.
Dr. Jack Turner will dis­cuss
"The Psychology of
Leadership."
VETERANS ASSOCIATION
The Auburn Veterans Asso­ciation
will meet Tuesday at
7 p.m. in Room 213 of the
Union Building. The Public
Information Office of Maxwell
Air Force Base will conduct a
30-minute question and answer
period on Vietnam.
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RINGS OFFICE OPEN
Students who will graduate
in 1968 or