1968-01-11 The Auburn Plainsman

              THE AUBURN PLAINSMAN Bob Payne
To Foster The Auburn Spirit
Ever heard of Drens, paribs,
sepas, and simuls? Read the
Plainsman's answer to Aesop,
APaynedfable on page 4. The
Plainsman's newest columnist
makes his debut.
VOLUME 95 AUBURN UNIVERSITY AUBURN, ALABAMA THURSDAY, JANUARY 11, 1968 10 PAGES NUMBER 12
'Red Shoes'ends
Saturday night
By ROY RILEY
Assistant Managing Editor
"The Red Shoes," first production of the University
Children's Theatre, concludes Saturday with perform­ances
at 2 p.m. and 8:15 p.m. A performance at 8:15 is
scheduled tonight at the Players Theatre on College
Street.
Students are admitted free
Seibold asks
trial delay,
sanity test
By DAVID HOUSEL
Managing Editor
A decision will be issued
tomorrow on Edward Albert
Seibold's request that his
trial, scheduled to begin
Monday in Opelika, be post­poned
until a sanity inves­tigation
can be held.
Circuit Judge L.J. Tyner
will announce his decision
on Seibold's second request
for postponement.
Seibold's lawyers, Jacob
Walker, Jr. and Hoyt W. Hill,
both of Opelika, presented
the motion to Judge Tyner
Monday.
The 21-year-old former
Auburn student has pleaded
not guilty by reason of insan­ity
to charges that he
murdered Sarah Elizabeth Sin­clair,
18, Mary Lynn Sinclair,
7, and Mary Durant, 8, Sept.
6. 1967.
He has pleaded innocent to
charges that he shot and at­tempted
to kill Mrs. Juanita
Sinclair, mother of the slain
Sinclair girls.
(See Page 9, Column 4)
of charge but must make re­servations
at the drama of­fice
in the Music Annex.
LeoA.Comeau who directed
"The Fantasticks" earlier
this season will direct. Co-meau
is also in charge of the
newly formed Children's The­atre.
NOT CHILD ACTORS
"A Children's Theatre does
not signify child actors." he
said.' 'It means that the plays
given are designed especially
for children, but adults act
out the parts.
"Adults also enjoy these
plays, and I recommend it
highly," he said.
The play, based on a fairy
tale, is set in Denmark over
100 years ago. The story cen­ters
around a magie pair of
red shoes which causes any­one
who puts them on to dance
incessantly.
ABDUCTION
A traveling gypsy abducts
a young girl by enticing her
with the red shoes. All ends
well as she escapes with the
help of a sympathetic clown.
The characters are Karen
(Donna Sue Waller), Nels
(Ronald CI eg horn), Snogg
(Chuck Taylor), Jemmo (Jared
Davis), Burgomaster (Chuck
Butterworth), and Grandmother
(Anne Morrow).
STARS OF 'RED SHOES' POLISH PERFORMANCE IN REHEARSAL
From Left: Chuck Taylor, Donna Sue Waller, Jared Davis
Infirmary braces
for flu epidemic
By ROY RILEY
Assistant Managing Editor
Prospects of a campus-wide
flu epidemic are high,
according to Dr. Morgan
Brown, director of Student
Health Services. But Dr.
Brown says the infirmary
5,000 schedule adjustments
rabe registration questions
By JIMMY REEDER
The computer regis­tration
system will be re­examined
in the light of
the schedule adjustment
period held last week, ac­cording
to Assistant Regis­trar
Homer Fisher. "There
is no point in holding com­puter
registration if we have
to_re-do the whole thing man­ually,"
Fisher said in refer­ence
to the over 5,000 sche­dule
adjustments made this
quarter.
Many adjustments were due
to students trying to fit class
schedules to part-time jobs.
However. 2,521 students re­ceived
less hours than they
requested; of these, 200
lacked more than one course.
Of 11.521 students who re­gistered
by computer, 9,000
or 78.1 per cent of the stu­dents
registering by computer,
received complete schedules.
POSITIVE ATTITUDE
Fisher attended a meeting
of the academic deans at
which the matter of registra­tion
was discussed. "I feel
the deans have a very positive
attitude toward the problems,"
said Fisher. "They realize
the manual aspects fo regis­tration
were unsatisfactory.
We will now be allowed to
shift class times to hours
when more students can take
(See Page 9, Column 4)
is equipped to handle any
flu epidemic.
"Only 1,900 students
took the flu shot when we
offered it without charge fall
quarter," he said, ' 'And it is
too late to take it now.
' 'We almost reached the epi­demic
stage during the final
two weeks of the fall quar­ter,
and if we had been in ses­sion
two more weeks, we
would have had an epidemic,"
he said.
Administrative workers at
Drake Infirmary and Lee
County Health Office were
not able to supply figures con­cerning
the number of cases
reported either last quarter or
this quarter.
"I advise all students to
Deferred grades
Candidates for degrees in >j
March must clear all de-g
ferred grades (Incomplete-:::
and Absent Examination) •:•:
by Jan. 19. Correspon- %
dence work must be •:•:
cleared (final taken) by-:-:
Feb. 8. S
stay out of the inclement
weather as much as possi­ble,"
Dr. Brown said. "Get
plenty of sleep."
Brown said the infirmary
was prepared for an epidemic
fall quarter and he said his
staff is prepared for an epid­emic
now.
"We have stocked our
shelves with medications in
case of an emergency," he
said. "We also have extra
beds and we can get addi­tional
nursing help when we
need it."
ACOIAto hear
Whitney Young
on civil rights
Director of Urban League
to speak on U.S. problem
By LYN SCARBROUGH
Assistant Editor
Whitney M. Young, Jr.,; executive director of the
National Urban League and a prominent civil rights
leader, will address the 196S Auburn Conference on
International Affairs in February. He will discuss
civil rights problems in the
United States.
Young is considered
among the more moderate
civil rights proponents and
was called "the most im­probable
of the Negro revolu­tionaries"
by Newsweek maga­zine.
He is the second speaker
announced by conference
chairman Sam Phillips. United
States Senator Mark O. Hat­field,
an Oregon Republican
whose appearance was an­nounced
last quarter, will ad­dress
the conference on "The
Human Rights Question of the
Vietnam War." The general
topic for this year's confer­ence,
to be Feb. 21-23. is
"The International Year for
Human Rights."
"Whitney Young is one of
the most outstanding speakers
our conference has attracted
in recent years," Phillips
said. ' 'We feel that of all the
leaders working in the civil
rights field, he is capable of
giving one of the best views
of the i s s u e s from both
sides."
Vietnam war critic
schedules lectures
Robert McAfee Brown, noted theologian and Vietnam
dove, will speak at the Annual Lecture Series sponsored
by the First Presbyterian Church Feb. 18-20.
"We invited Dr. Brown here because he was an out­standing
Protestant observ­er
at the Ecumenical Coun­cil,
Vatican II, held from
1963-65, and because an
out-spoken critic of U.S.
policy in Vietnam," said Rev.
Begins Monday
'Help-Em' clothes drive
to aid Vietnamese kids
POVERTY'S CHILDREN
Orphans Of War-Torn Vietnam Need Clothing
Two small light tan hands will rub
slowly over the bright orange and blue
emblem on the white tee shirt.
A smile may brighten the little South
Vietnamese boy's dark eyes as his fin­gers
slowly trace the colorful Tiger and
the words, "I'm a little Auburn Tiger."
Maybe the orphan won't know what the
words mean, but Sgt. Charles Muscat, a
former Army ROTC instructor here will
try to tell him how Auburn students and
townspeople are trying to help him and
children who have suffered from war like
him.
That's what "Help-Em" is all about.
It is Auburn's effort to answer Mascat's
request that his old school help his unit
clothe and care for war orphaned children.
Help Children. That is the literal
meaning and purpose of "Help-Em."
"Em" is the Vietnamese word for
children.
The Campus Drives Committee is
sponsoring the week-long clothes drive
which begins Monday at 8 p.m. and runs
through Saturday.
Bri'ce James, superintendent, of cam­pus
drives and Paul M. Nix, chairman of
"Help-Em," are heading the campaign to
collect summer clothes for the children.
Muscat, in a letter to a student friend,
said summer clothes were the only type
usable since the temperature never went
below 80 degrees.
The drive will be for all types and
sizes of clothes including adult clothes,
but Muscat has a special need for clothes
to fit children 1-14 years of age.
"We are not trying to win the war with
clothes," Nix said, "but if this personal
contribution helps, that's fine. The main
thing is the need of the South Viet­namese."
Muscat is working with a civic action
project," Nix added, "and since the
South Vietnamese are our allies, it is
our duty to create good feeling. This is
of the best ways we can do it."
James emphasized that townspeople
will have to help if the drive is suc­cessful
in getting clothes of smaller
sizes.
Clothes may be left at the Union
(See Page 9, Column S)
John Kuykendall, associate
minister of the First Presby­terian
Church and minister to
the students.
"WAR MORALLY WRONG"
"Dr. Brown believes the
war is morally wrong and that
ministers have a right and
responsibility to offer the
church as a sanctuary for
those who do not wish to be
drafted for service in Viet­nam,"
according to the Rev.
Mr. Kuykendall.
Young has received less
national public notice than
some militant civil rights lea­ders,
and he has often disa­greed
with them. However, he
is one of the most influential
leaders in governmental and
business circles where deci­sions
are made, according to
Newsweek magazine.
In regard to Negro civil
rights, Young advocates a
policy of deliberate action and
tangible results.
"What we ask now is that
for a brief period there be a
deliberate and massive effort
to include the Negro citizen
in the mainstream of American
(See page 9, Column 1)
WHITNEY M. YOUNG, JR.
Inside today
•jiDionne cancels Pg. 2
•:•: Editorials Pg. 4
% New Sports Editor...Pg. 6
:§ Choice '68 Pg. 8
:£ Nuclear fuel Pg.10
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Fortenberry heads
new department
The appointment of Dr.
Charles N. Fortenberry as
head of the new department
of political science was an­nounced
this week by Dr.
Wilford S. B a i l e y , vice-president
for academic af­fairs.
Dr. Fortenberry, presently
chairman and professor of
political science at the Uni­versity
of Mississippi, will
assume his duties here Aug. 1.
Commenting on the appoint­ment,
School of Science and
Literature Dean Edward H.
Hobbs said, "We are very
fortunate in securing the ser­vices
of Nolan Fortenberry.
I have known him for many
years and feel that he is the
best possible person to chair
this important area of the
University."
Dr. Fortenberry has taught
political science and govern­ment
at the University of
Illinois, Pan-American Col­lege,
Texas A & M, and North
Texas State University before
joining the faculty at the Uni­versity
of Mississippi in 1946.
He holds the B.A. and M.A.
degrees from the University of
Mississippi and the Ph.D.
from the University of Illinois.
Among his publications is
Mississippi State Government
and Administration, published
by T. Y. Crowell Co., which
he wrote with Dr. R. B. High-saw,
head of the political
science department at the Uni­versity
of Alabama. Among
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1-Bowl
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g game in Felton Little'lf
J* Park at 7:30 p.m., Jan.&
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ijj: chased from members of :£
$ Sigma Nu or Theta Chi :§
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£ go to the All-Campus *:
:§ Fund Drive. The Drake S
| | High School Band will :§
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:$ time ceremonies. j|
loveliest of the Wains
'Where's the fire?'
Tired of old men making fire inspec­tions?
Loveliest Nena Carter is certainly
an improvement, wouldn't you say? A Chi
Omega pledge from Columbiana, the 20-
year-old brown-eyed brunette is a junior
transfer student from Alabama College
majoring in elementary education. Nena,
a Dorm A resident, enjoys horseback
riding in her spare time.
(Photo by Curtis A. Mauldin)
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2-THE PLAINSMAN Thursday, January 11, 1968
i Kappa Phi honorary
initiates 53 new members
Fifty-three students were initiated into Phi Kappa
Phi, highest scholastic honorary on this campus, at the
close of the quarter.
The 32 undergraduate and 20 graduate students were
honored as persons in the,
top five per cent of their
classes.
Undergraduates include
Judith Hall, Eston W. Orr,
Martha L. Graves, James E.
Logan,Nancy L. Moore, Sandra
A. Priest, Rebecca Jones
Harris.
Brenda J. Hughes, Renae G.
Tolleson, Robert E. Wingard
Jr., George R. McKay, Mary
B. Ogles, Martha S. Parker,
Jacqueline Ann Smith.
Barbara Jeter Christison,
Johnny L. Prater, Ronald E.
Sortor, Nathan J. Adams Jr.,
Dennis E. Carlton, Elton A.
Hopper.
Clifford Escue Capps,
Susan Skelton, Dianne G.
Liles, Patricia A. Smitherman,
Daniel 0. Windham, Alan W.
Fitch, Barbara Wittel Mcln-tyre,
Carole Hodges Campbell.
Nancy He nry Betts, William
W. Whorton II, Angelica A.
Buttram, and Donald C.
Wood.
Graduate students include
Michael V. Fahey, Roland D.
Hicks, Joel Mark Elliott,
John A. Leo III, Verna L.
Brantley, James L. Batson.
Robert R. Hogsette III,
Vijay K. Ralhan, Robert N.
Culberson, Wayman L. Duffey,
Lewis A. Ward, Gordon J.
Johnson, John S. Hodgson Jr.
James F. Long, R. Michael
Thomas, Paul J. Alexander,
Allen W. Lacy, Tommy C.
Davis, Betty M. Woodward,
and Maria Goretti Te-Yung
Shen.
ENTERTAINMENT
COMMITTEE
The Popular Entertainment
Committee will meet Monday
at 4 p.m. in Room 322 of the
Union Building. Van Treada-way,
chairman, urges all mem­bers
to attend.
Philpott appointed
commission chairman
Auburn's President Harry M. Philpott has been ap­pointed
chairman of the newly-formed Alabama Educa­tional
Study Commission.
The commission, created by the state legislature at,
its last session, is as­signed
the task of studying
A l a b a m a ' s educational
needs for the next ten
years.
In its report to the legis­lature
in May of 1969 the 21-
member commission will pre­sent
plans to meet educational
demands for all levels of
schooling from kindergarten
to graduate school.
Thirteen gubernatorial ap­pointees,
seven legislative
members and Dr. Ernest Stone,
state superintendent of edu­cation
will serve on the com­mission.
Working with Drs.
Philpott and Stone are Lt.
Gov. Albert Brewer, Sen.
Fred Folson, Sen. O. J. Good-wyn,
Speaker of the House
Rankin Fite, State Rep. John
W. Cook, State Rep. Hugh D.
Merrill, State Rep. Ira D.
Pruitt, Dr. Elizabeth Y. Davis,
Dr. James Edmondson, Dr. D.
L. Howell, Mrs. J. D. Johns,
Dr. Lillian Manley, Charles
McNeil, H. Clyde Reeves,
Frank Samford Sr., Vernon St.
John, M. D. Thornton, William
Thrash, and Graham Wright.
In science the credit goes'
to the man who convinces the
world, not to the man to whom
the idea first occurs.
Sir William Osier
Genius is nothing but a
great aptitude for patience.
Georges Louis De Buffon
"life and death, dawn soft ladders of memory"
This Quarter As In The Past
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Dionne cancels
Jan. 31 show;
to appear later
Dionne Warwick will not
appear Jan. 31 as previous­ly
announced. Her sche­duled
performance was can­celled
due to a television
appearance.
"Arrangements are being
made to reschedule Miss War­wick
on March 4 or April 23,"
said Van Treadaway, chairman
of the Popular Entertainment
Committee.
"However," he said, "since
March 4th is the Monday of,
dead week, she will probab­ly
be rescheduled for the
April date."
Treadaway explained that
Miss Warwick's cancellation
was legal according to a
"television clause" in her
contract. The clause called
for 30 days notification and
a telegram cancelling her ap­pearance
from the William
Morris Agency was dated
Dec. 29.
A final decision con­cerning
a new date for Miss
Warwick's appearance will be
made next week by the Popu­lar
Entertainment Committee.
Miss Warwick also can­celled
engagements at three
other schools.
Nichols announces
staff changes
Plainsman staff changes for
the winter quarter were an­nounced
last week by Editor
Bruce Nichols.
Richard Wittish will replace
Sports Editor Guy Rhodes who
will continue as a sports staff
writer. Rhodes, who has held
the top sports post since the
spring of last year, is giving
up his position because of
heavy scholastic commitments
this quarter.
Joe Lehman, who served
last quarter as a news editor,
will move up to assistant
managing editor. Lehman will
replace Ed Gouedy, who was
assistant managing editor last
quarter, and will join Roy
Riley, who began work as
assistant managing editor in
the fall.
Roy Summerford, exchange
editor during fall quarter,
will fill Lehman's news editor
vacancy.
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Alumni gym — future uncertain
By ELAINE WILSON
When a student walks into the main hall of Alumni
Gym, he hears the familiar creak of the floors and smells
the chlorine odor of the pool. He is reminded of days in
physical education-a tiny locker in which he was ex-pected
to stuff clothes and books-people watching from
the balcony as he struggled to leam the inverted breast-stroke-
watching Samford clock from third-floor folk
dancing class.
These memories, familiar to any student who has ever
had a physical education class in Alumni Gym, will soon
become a thing of the past.
When the new coliseum is completed, all physical edu­cation
classes will be held there. And Alumni Gym, one
of the oldest buildings on campus, may be torn down.
William H. Guerrin, school architect, has tentative plans
to use the space for the new wing to the Union Building.
Alumni Gym, which was dedicated on Feb. 22, 1916,
replaced the one-room frame building which had served
the physical education department since 1895.
When plans were announced in 1924 to build a new
gym as memorial to the World War I dead, Thomas Bragg,
professor of chemistry, headed the drive to raise the
necessary $50,000. A celebration was held, with the en­tire
student body and faculty marching from Langdon Hall
to the site of the old gym behind Samford.
When one of the speakers at thededication was talking
about the first gym, he was corrected by Dr. Thach, who
stated that the first physical education class was held
on two uprights and a horizontal bar which ornamented
the campus in "prehistoric" days.
Auburn has come a long way from uprights to a coli­seum.
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3-THE PLAINSMAN Thursday, January 11, 1968
Campus modeling board
selected by Fashion Inc.
Fashion, Inc. initiated its
annual selection of a modeling
board recently "to provide a
new, more sophisticated ser­vice
for a growing university.''
Ten members and three al­ternates
will serve on the
board for fashion shows in
Auburn and on campus. The
board will help with the Best-
Dressed contest sponsored by
Fashion, Inc. and will serve
as a fashion advisory counsel
for the University.
The ten members of the
- Modeling Board Selected to
serve during 1968 are Nena
Carter, Roye Annette Deer-
£ man, Paula Holley, Mary Hol-man
Johnson, Gail O'Bryan,
Jane Morgan.Penelope Powell
Gena Phillips, Peggy Dockery
and Evvie Carr. The three
alternates are Dianne Dea
vours, Cay King, and Betsy
Vance.
Selections to the board were
made from a field of 60 con­testants
sponsored by sorori­ties
and dorms. The coeds
modeled their own clothing
and were judged on poise,
grace, modeling ability,
choice of clothing and how
well they project a fashion
image.
Judges for the selection of
the board were Miss Janice
Pickett, a graduate student
in Clothing and Textiles, who'
taught a charm course in a
leading lady's ready-to-wear
shop, Mrs. Kathy Bergloff,
a professional model, and Dr.
Arthur Fourier, chairman of
Auburn's Department of
Health, Physical Education
and Recreation.
Fashion, Inc. which will
sponsor the Modeling Board
each year is a club spon­sored
by the School of Home
Economics. Its purpose is to
promote a knowledge of fash
ion on the campus.
Begin The Winter Quarter With A Hew Years Resolution—
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Debaters defeated at Miffsops;
Vanderbilt slated this weekend
HEY, MARGE! WHAT'S MY COMBINATION?
NEW POST OFFICE FACILITIES SPEEDS MAIL DELIVERY.
(Photo by Curtis A. Mauldin)
Coed post office installed
in quadrangle dining ball
By LILA FLINT
Construction of a coed
post office in the quadrangle
dining hall was completed
between fall and winter
quarters, providing private
mail box facilities effec­tive
this quarter.
Plans for moving the
the postal headquarters, lo­cated
in the Social Center
since the late 1930's, were
made when the dining hall
was remodeled last summer.
The dining hall is located
south of the Social Center in
the women's quadrangle.
The new location was used
for distribution of sorority
rush material fall quarter, but
individual mail boxes and
postal equipment were not
installed until December. The
post office location was for-,
merly used as a student
If
we were
happy
with the wqrld
the way it is,
we wouldn't
need you.
Kids choke on polluted air. Streets are jammed by
cars with no place to go. Italy's priceless art and
libraries are ravaged by floods. This is the way the
world is, but it's not the way it has to be. Air pollu­tion
can be prevented. Better transportation can
be devised. Something can even be done about the
weather. Many people at General Electric are
already working on these problems, but we need
more. We need help from young engineers and
scientists; and we need help from business and
liberal arts graduates who understand people and
their problems. If you want to help solve important
problems, we'd like to talk to you. We'll be visiting
campus soon. Drop by the placement office and
arrange for an interview.
G E N E R A L ^ ELECTRIC
An equal opportunity employer
lounge.
The new facility provides
542 post office boxes, the
same number available in the
social center office. Addi­tional
filing space was also
constructed.
Dean of Women Katharine
Cater said that the new facili­ties
are better equipped, more
convenient and will improve
postal service. The post
office, which serves dorm
numbers one through ten and
Dorm 12, is much larger than
the one it replaced.
Darnell Giddens will remain
as mail clerk.
Auburn debaters were de
feated in the semi-finals of a
debate tournament held last
weekend at Millsaps College
in Mississippi.
Mary Fisher and Lewis Page
completed six rounds and were
one of 16 teams to enter semi­finals
competition before they
were knocked from a chance at
the tournament championship
in the first quarter finals.
Also competing in the tour­nament
was Auburn's second
team, composed of Bob House
and Eric Bruggink.
Miss Fisher and Page will
attend a selected tournament
at Vanderbilt University this
weekend. "This tournament is
one of our toughest," said
Jim Vickrey, debate team
sponsor. Only the top 24
teams in the East were in­vited
to participate.
Bob House, Eric Bruggink,
Bill Shealy and Mike Peace
will represent Auburn in the
debate tournament at Agnes
Scott College in Atlanta this
weekend.
Plans for the team this quar­ter
include trips to California
Tech and Harvard. Vickrey
urges interested debaters to
contact him at Samford 201.
All the historical books
which contain no lies are
extremely tedious.
Anatole France
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This time, Hershey's right
Lt. Gen. Lewis B. Hershey, director
of the Selective Service, may have
been way off base when he suggested
that draft boards cancel the deferment
of students who obstruct the selective
service system, but his latest recom­mendation
has some merit.
Speaking at the opening of a selec­tive
service general training confer­ence
in Montgomery, the general advo­cated
universal military training for
American youth. Provided the general
has no proposals for making such a
program mandatory, we can find no
fault in this latest pronouncement.
Argued the general, and accurately,
we think, " . . . the regulated life mili­tary
training imposes... tends to up­grade
young American citizens educa­tionally,
physically, and morally... it
would eliminate many behavorial pro­blems
we have today."
Such training can indeed be very
valuable to the development and matu­rity
of an individual, as well as valu­able
to the defense of the country, and
it should be available to every young
man during his formative years.
But, further, we applaud the general
for his continued outspoken contradic­tion
of growing and disturbingly veno­mous
anti-military sentiment, despite
his recent public thrashing. This anti-military
sentiment has been manifested
in unfortunate ways and now approach­es
the limits of reason, common sense-and
threatens to exhaust public pa­tience.
Naturally, because of their age,
many students have become involved
in the anti-military movements. They
have obstructed recruiting by the mili­tary
and by ppvate industry, Dow Che­mical
Co. for instance, which is known
to hold contracts for producing war
materials. The obstruction has often
been violent.
Anti-military wrath has not been
confined to the campus; violent dis­turbances
have erupted at induction
centers away from the campus. These
incidents of violence are disgusting.
Further, the support, direct and in­direct,
which some heretofore respect­ed
citizens have given draft resistance
has, unfortunately, added impetus and
direction to it falsely encouraging
many easily impressed young people
break the law.
Apparently bowing to the anti-military
trend, many universities are
giving up the practice of requiring two
years of ROTC training, putting the ,
program on an entirely voluntary basis;
and several institutions have abolished
ROTC altogether, thus encouraging
antagonists of the program to perse­vere.
We hope, however, that other uni­versities
will have the wisdom to re­tain
ROTC, if only on a voluntary
basis. The program should remain on
the campus, at least for the foresee­able
future.
As unfortunate as the fact may be,
we need a strong military to preserve
what peace there is left in the world;
the draft and ROTC are two programs
which the Congress has settled on
for fulfilling this need. At present, we
are not in a position to discontinue
them.
And Hershey's comments in Mont­gomery
call attention to the fact that
the military is far from being the ab­solute
evil which draft resistors,
peace demonstrators, and recruiting
obstructors try to make it seem.
It's unmitigated theft
A shadow is being cast on the honor
of the Auburn student body by a few
undesirable characters and, perhaps,
by a few good guys who have made an
error in judgement as to what consti­tutes
a prank and what is pure, unmiti­gated
theft.
We were disturbed to learn that Cameo
Vending Co., Inc., the firm which owns
and services most of the vending
machines on the campus, has reported
damage and theft losses of approxi­mately
$4,000 on its campus business
for the fall quarter-$3,100 in one
night.
Possibly the $3,100 loss can be
blamed on non-students; serious da­mage
was done to two machines and
another was stolen between quarters.
We hope Auburn students were not in­volved.
Nevertheless, if you calculate the
average loss per day without including
the large theft in the total, the figures
say that Auburn students are stealing
$11 per day from Cameo, a consider­able
sum. When you add the $3,100 in­to
the total, the figures become astro­nomical.
According to the owner, losses had
been running as high as $1,800 per
year before last fall quarter; so the
rate has risen considerably, even if
you consider only the $900 which was
lost a little at a time.
At any rate, the authorities are con­cerned
with the phenomenal increase
in losses. If you have been guilty of
vandalizing the machines or of beating
money out of machines just for a
prank, be informed that the incidents
are not pranks and that if you are ap­prehended,
you can be charged with
vandalism and petty theft.
If you steal more than $50, you can
be charged with grand larceny, a fe­lony.
In addition, you may be subject
to dismissal from the University.
A word to the wise should be suffi­cient.
Let's stop this wasteful foolish-nish
before someone gets into serious
trouble with the police.
Appropriate bnphasis. . .
A lady in New Orleans
on New Year's Eve
By Bruce Nichols I
The second-rate comedian finished his
bit, the house lights came on, and the New
Year's Eve crowd scraped their chairs across the floor,
bumped tables, rattling empty glasses, and began to move
groggily. The place had been full and had hardly emptied
before a new audience pushed and shoved in out of the
drizzle which puddled Bour­bon
Street.
The bad weather had not
kept many people away this
New Year's Eve; the alleys
of the French Quarter were
crowded. It was a good night
for business.
We sat cramped, but dry,
sipping our first round of
drinks. The high balcony we
had been directed to occupy
was narrow and hung close
to the ceiling; however, ex­cept
for an age-worn post to
the right of center-stage, the
view was good. That is, we
could see everything in the
room well; the view of the
inside of the nightclub with
the lights on left much to be
desired.
Apparently, the i n t er*
mission was longer than usual
because some deep, obnoxious
voices across the room began
to yell and clap for the strip­per
to come out. But my drink
was good, and the changing
crowd had caught my interest;
I hadn't noticed the delay.
The emcee had said some­thing
about a tour bus just
before intermission, and I
had looked then,unsuccess­fully,
for the tour-looking
people; now I spotted them.
At least, I saw several
elderly couples staying close
together and I didn't think
they would be wandering the
Quarter alone and without
transportation.
Among them was a parti­cularly
uncomfortable-looking
couple. The woman looked
sixty and had on support-style
shoes, pearls, and a
blue print dress which she
had bought on the last trip'to
the city-maybe four years
ago. She was followed closely
and dependently by an elderly
man who looked warily from
side to side keeping one
hand on his billfold pocket,
but only out of suspicious
reflex for I felt sure that
grandmother really had their
money in her voluminous
purse. They could be com­fortable
again only on the
bus moving toward the hotel,
and ultimately home, friends,
and church, I suspected.
A heavy, greasy, boy-man
added to their discomfort by
jostling the old lady roughly,
elbowing his way past with
the hand of a cheap dye,
long-hair blonde firmly
gripped in his. The girl was
drunk and on her way by
gave the old lady an alcohol-smelling
"Happy New Year,
Mums!" The little woman's
nose crinkled all the way
through her frown.
As the old couple disap­peared
into the revelry out­side
in the wet street, they
were, no doubt, bumped again
roughly; this time, however.
and often on the short journey
to the bus, it would be acele-brator
dressed well in a dark
suit who was paying too much
attention to the brunette or
blonde bit of radiance at his
side. He would probably spill
his drink on the old woman,
who, perhaps, would give a
muffled cry of disgust. When
he noticed her, he would slur,
"Happy New Year to ya,"
and laugh aloud carelessly,
for this was New Year's Eve,
a time to be careless and not
a time for a, plain, old, wet-blanket
lady.
When they completed the
agonizing trip to their bus,
they were bruised and wet,
but relieved, he clutching
her stronger arm in exhaus­tion,
she warming to the
touch and feeling happily
protective.
But now the stage lights
were up in the club, the
house lights were off, and
the featured stripper blotted
the old couple out for the
moment.
The girl began her erotic
routine slowly; but since
there wasn't much to take
off, the preliminaries were
short. Soon, most of the fea­thers
and glitter and sheer
semi-clothing were gone.
She stepped voluptuously
back and forth across the
stage; and the darkness that,
for her, was the audience,
came hoots, whistles, and
obscene encouragement for
her.
The girl looked like she
might have had a good figure
before the silicone treat­ments
had given her new,
ridiculous dimensions. And
her face, though hardened and
plasticized by excessive
make-up, seemed passably
pretty. But that didn't seem
to matter, for she didn't smile
or wink or: wince with that
artificial face. That inner
part of her which had an ex­pressive
face, soft eyes, and
the capacity for warmth was
somewhere else, if it existed.
She concentrated only on
swinging her artificial body
teasingly.
But in reality she wasn't
tempting at all; only wild
fantasy could make her seem
so. She seemed not real, not
human. And as the stripper
danced, the old woman was
not the only one in the Quar­ter
who was wondering, "Why
did we come here? To cele­brate
a totally man-made
holiday: the changing of num­bers
on a man-kept record"?
But, except for the old lady
and a few others, l i t t le
thought was given to whether
the holiday was merited,
much less observed with the
appropriate emphasis.
A Payned fable. . .
Understanding-a
universal lack
Bf Bob Payne
Once upon a time there was a world. It
was a nice, friendly world with a flourine-methane
atmosphere, oceans of hydrochloric acid and bright
orange beaches of germanium di-fluoride. Violet plants
swayed in the gentle breezes and grew higher to catch more
of the life-giving warmth from the turquoise sun.
Animals dwelt in abun- their third leg. By clicking
their jaws they could commu­nicate
with their fellows. The
progress they made was as­tounding.
The animals were
pushed out of the way as most
of the land soon came under
their domination.
dance in this fair world.
Three-legged gorps roamed
the lavender grasslands; jet-black
simuls swam in the
tepid waters; and slender
green paribs moaned softly
as each of the 13 moons rose
above the horizon.
The animals were perfectly
content with their life. No
wars split the night with the;
clamor of gunfire, and the
land was safe from the rav­ages
of metal monstrosities.
Then something changed.
Some of the scarlet sepas
who lived in the purple trees
began to walk around on two
legs instead of three. These
sepas were smarter than the
unchanged ones. They dis­covered
that they could pick
up things with the claws of
But these changed sepas,
who called themselves Dren.
were still not content. The
consuming desire to have
more of everything drove them
onward. They began to steal
from themselves as they had
from the helpless animals.
With their thievery the Lie
was born among the Dren.
They used the Lie to get
what they wanted. Anything
was all right as long as they
didn't get caught.
The Lie was bad enough
I'M A.N UNt>ERDO<=v."
Accept limitations. . .
Positive peace moves
must come from U.S.
By Sam Phillips
Now that "peace on earth" has been
stored with all the other Christmas glitter
in kitchen pantries and upstairs attics, we can settle down
again to the rigors of a nation at war. Much had been written
prior to the temporary cease fire in Vietnam (now a Christmas
tradition) about the possibilities of extending that calm into
a negotiated peace. This idea,
of course, never saw fruition;
one begins to wonder about
our sincerity to seek a settle­ment
short of a complete sur­render
from the "north."
Obviously, the President's
five-point peace plan was a
move toward preparing the
American people for negotia­tions,
it did not, however, de­part
from the old hard-shell
line effective in a day of
limited nuclear capability.
Our concession that dis­cussion
with the National
Liberation Front would be
"useful" was probably the
President's main policy re­vision.
It was a nicely worded
Christmas gesture couched in
hopeful terms that will prove
insignificant to the steps
necessary to halt the war.
Over half a million U.S.
troops now occupy South Viet­nam
in support of a govern­ment
generally described as
corrupt and unstable. The
American soldier is increas­ingly
described as demoraliz­ing
the Vietnamese, and the
United States is primarily
responsible for the inflat­ionary
rate in Vietnam last
year of over 30%, highest in
the world. For a country with
no imperialistic designs, the
United States has come unpre-cedentedly
close to coloniz­ing
South Vietnam. Yet, these
faults are recorded as the
necessary liabilities of a war
"to halt communist aggression
in Southeast Asia."
The prospects for improve­ment
are very dim. General
Westmoreland promises yearly
that slight escalation coupled
with 100,000 additional troops
will bring the National Liber­ation
Front to its knees. It
hasn't.
Westmoreland has secured
the support of the Johnson
administration for continued
bombing north of the DMZ with
the stated purpose of halting
infiltration from the north.
The effect has been minimal;
yet, we continue, disregarding
repeated assurances from
Hanoi that cessation in the
bombing is the first step to
negotiation.
A halt in the air war in the
North would serve a dual pur­pose.
Mainly, it would test
Hanoi's resolve for peace,
and secondly, it would im­press
upon the rest of the
world, particularly Europe,
which resents our policy of
gradual escalation, that we
are, in fact, seeking a peace­ful
solution. The shallow argu­ment
of prestige loss fails.
We will damage our image
by flagrantly Refusing.jthe ap­parently.-
singular, Channel, to
settlement short of WW in.
Ours is not the sole respon­sibility
of defending against
all aggression and civil up­heaval.
We have neither the
financial capabilities nor the
manpower resources to police
the world. These limitations
coupled with our rising do­mestic
problems make it im­perative
that we explore the
use of international agencies
such as the United Nations as
a means to ending the war.
Reconvening the Geneva Con­ference,
an often suggested
alternative, can only meet
with success if we are willing
to demonstrate our sincerity.
Nothing thus far has come out
of Washington to indicate our
interest in pursuing peace
with momentum equal to our
war effort. Such a policy is
not unreasonable and should
be our goal.
Until then, men of peace
will continue to haunt the
American conscience, and
Goat Hill with its following
will continue to reply,
"Cursed be the Peacemakers
for they shall be called the
children of degenerate hippies
and traitors."
when they used it on each
other, but a Dren using the
Lie on himself was infinitely
worse. Soon no Dren was
certain what he himself or
any other Dren meant when
they spoke. The Dren had lost
the ability to Understand.
The clicking language was
still there, but the Lie had
so twisted the speech and
thoughts of the Dren that
comprehension became impos­sible.
Communication of ideas
gradually slowed to a halt. A
Dren could no longer be cer­tain
he was transmitting his
thoughts and concepts to his
fellows. He could not even
tell exactly what he himself
was thinking.
As time passed they ad­justed
themselves to the situ­ation.
They forgot what Un­derstanding
meant and were
content to fool themselves
and each other.
But there was one Dren
whowasdifferent.lt had been
abandoned by the others of
its race and left to the ani­mals.
It grew up among the
sepas, the gorps, the paribs
and the simuls. The Under­standing
that was lost to the
other Dren was reborn in It.
It rediscovered the meaning
of knowing what It was think­ing.
When It returned to the
'civilized' world of the Dren,
It was sad because they could
not Understand. It tried to
show the Dren how to Under­stand,
but they wouldn't or
couldn't see. The Dren would
not believe that they were
wrong and It was right.
They began to hate the
harmless little It because It
was different. Maybe It's
coloring was a shade lighter,
or maybe it clicked a little
softer. Anyway, they finally
stoned poor It to death. Yet
they didn't even know they
had killed It. But then. It
could Understand and they
couldn't.
Registration. . .
Expectations
of computer
unfulfilled
By Roy Summerford
Since its start last spring
computer r e g i s t r a t i o n has
been beset by problems.
That first quarter manj
seniors failed to receive
courses they had requestec
and needed for graduation.
This was followed by last
fall's regis­tration
in the
sports arena.
Conditions
there, with
the ridicu­lously
long
l i n e s and
large crowds
in such
small place,
made it the
worst registration in several
years.
Last week's drop-and-add
ordeal may have been the
last straw for computer regis­tration.
More than 5,000 stu­dents,
in essence, carried out
a re-registration of their own.
Over 2,500 of these failed to
get even a complete schedule
in the original registration.
From their public state­ments,
registration officials
seem as disgusted with the
present set-up as many stu­dents.
(See story on page
one.) The registration com­mittee,
before spring quarter,
is expected to consider dras­tic
changes in computer regis­tration
or its abolition alto­gether.
It is obvious from the
past experiences that one of
the s t e p s will have to be
taken.
The system thus far has
oeen as time-consuming as
the former system, and often
more so. In fact the student
has been required to do every­thing
he had to do in the
former system except actually
pull cards. To save that one
step, students must wait for
weeks often to find out that
they did not get the schedule
they requested and then en­dure
a drop-and-add period as
bad as the original regis­tration.
Registration workers
must also go through the time
consuming and tedious chore
of programming the computer.
It should be clear to the
committee by now that stu­dents
will accept schedules
only so long as they are the
same as requested.
One registration official,
after examining the reasons
for schedule adjustments re­marked
that so many students
listed job conflicts that prac­tically
every student at Au­burn
seems to be working
this quarter.
At least 5,000 students
appear to want greater con­trol
over their schedules than
the computer allows them. It's
impossible for a student to
explain to a computer why
he must have a certain course
or why he does not want a
course at a certain time or
with a certain instructor.
The problem encountered
by the computer this time
which caused so many incom­plete
schedules was lack of
class sections.This has long
been a problem and will con­tinue
to be due to lack of
funds. It's poor consolation
to say that students always
managed to overcome that
problem with the formei
system.
There is no perfect plan.
However, the best plan would
probably let students pick up
their data cards and plan a
trial schedule with alternates
one day and pull cards the
next. The computer could
then be used to record sche­dules
after they became
official.
Utters Policy
The Auburn Plainsman
welcomes all c r i t i c a l,
complimentary or informa­tive
letters to the editor.
Letters of less than
250 words have a better
chance of being printed
promptly. All letters are
subject to standard edit­ing.
Letters should be type­written
and triple spaced,
and must reach The Au­burn
Plainsman, P.O. Box
832, Auburn, Ala., no later
than the Sunday preceding
publication.
r.
letters to the editor
Readers comment
on movie, cards
Alpha Gams, fijis
get highest grades
5-THE PLAINSMAN Thursday, January 11, 1968
LITTLE MAN ON CAMPUS
: The War Game'-
war brought home
Editor, The Plainsman:
National crises and inter­national
tensions are some­what
predictable. Their impact
on political, social, and eco­nomic
arenas are tempered by
the anticipation of their oc­curence.
On the contrary, the
emotional and physical impact
of a thermonuclear attack is
instantaneous and unan­nounced.
"The War Game," a British
production artistically com­parable
to "Georgy Girl" and
"Morgan," depicts Britain
immediately before, under, and
after an attack of short dura­tion.
Only the actual attack
is short. The options open to
the survivors and the respon­sibilities
of officials for dis­position
of bodies, property,
and services repulse the mili­tant
"anti-ismist."
Possibly meant to be edu­cational
for civil defense pre­parations
on a pivotal island
known for its studied calm­ness,
"The War Game'r is a
shattering experience for Ame­ricans
whose families have
known war only as a happen­ing
in a far away place where
Dad or Glenn has served time.
And those were conventional
wars.
"The War Game" will be
shown on Jan. 13 at 10^30 p.m.
in Noble Hall Study and Jan.
14 at 7 p.m. at the Wesley
Foundation on South Gay St.
The film runs for approximate­ly
an hour.
Eric D. Steele
2SL
Air Force captain
thanks AU students
Auburn professor
publishes essay
A new work by Dr. John
Nist, professor of English,
has been published this week
. by Brown University Press.
"Old English Poets-15
Essays," contains an essay
by Dr. Nist, "Metrical Uses
• of the Harp in Beowulf."
Edited by Robert P. Creed,
•• the volume has been pub­lished
in honor of Brown's
200th anniversary.
Included with Nist's essay
• are works by professors from
California, Stoneybrook,Liver-pool,
Pennsylvania, Brown,
Neuchatal, Harvard, Ten-
• nessee, Geneva, Oregon, Cor­nell,
and New York.
The author, linguist and
specialist in the history of
English, has been on the
Auburn faculty for two years.
His latest book, "The Moder­nist
Movement in Brazil," was
released earlier this year by
,the University of Texas Press.
He has published more than
.100 articles, essays, poems,
,and reviews, and is author of
.a number of books.
Editor, The Plainsman:
I would like to take this
opportunity on behalf of my
men and myself to thank Au­burn
students, alumni, and
faculty for your thoughtful-ness
and patriotism at this
Yuletide season. Whoever was
responsible for the sending of
the Christmas cards to the
troops in Southeast Asia de­serves
a medal for humanita­rian
concern and brotherly
love. The total amount of
goodwill and admiration the
troops must feel for Auburn
University can never be mea­sured,
but I can assure you
that this effort, and previous
record-breaking blood dona­tion
efforts, will assure Au­burn
a very special place in
the hearts and minds of all
the military.
Being an Opelika native
and former Auburn student
makes me doubly proud of you
all.
Robert E. Gray, Capt. USAF
Alpha Gamma Delta and Phi
Gamma Delta topped grade
• point averages among social
sororities and fraternities fall
quarter.
Alpha Gamma Delta com­piled
a 1.3816 average while
that of Phi Gamma Delta was
1.7271.
Included below with the
social sororities and fraterni­ties
are Omega Tau Sigma and
Alpha Psi. These are listed
for comparison only, as they
are not members of the Nation-nal
Conference.
Alpha Gamma Delta 1.8816
Pi Beta Phi 1.8028
Chi Omega 1.7879
Delta Zeta 1.7710
Alpha Delta Pi 1.7208
Kappa Kappa Gamma 1.7194
All sororities 1.7071
Kappa Alpha Theta 1.7010
Alpha Chi Omega 1.6999
All women 1.6924
Kappa Delta 1.6692
Independent women 1.6403
Delta Delta Delta 1.6312
Former student
held for theft
Bobby B. Garret, 22-year-old
former Auburn student, is
being held in the Lee County
jail awaiting Grand Jury trial
for burglary and grand lar­ceny.
Garret allegedly broke
into the Auburn registrar's of­fice
Jan. 3 and attempted to
steal the typewriters in the
office.
Garret, a Birmingham resi­dent,
was reported to have
been seen by a night watch­man
while attempting to re­move
the typewriters through
a window of the office at 2 a.m.
Garret was arrested in
downtown Auburn and charged
with breaking and entering on
Jan. 3 at 6 a.m.
College Relations Director
c/o Sheraton-Park Hotel, Washington, D.C. 20008
! Please send me
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H & A Dormitory robbed
during Christmas break
"^JS COUNSELOR HAS APVlSEP ArtE TO EXCUSE YOU
FfZOM ALL HQMElrAKK FOR A FEW R*VI''
By JOHN REYNOLDS
Those weren't the foot­steps
of Santa Claus on the
roof of H & A Dorm during
the Christmas holidays. It
would have been extremely
difficult for the plump Saint
Nick to slip through a 2 ft.
by 3 ft. opening in the attic
as did the intruder.
Whoever visited the unin­habited
dormitory brought no
presents for the vacationing
students. Instead, he stole all
the articles he could squeeze
through a passage from the at­tic
to the roof.
Students at H & A reported
to the police accounts of mis­sing
belongings. Records,
books, and a stereo comprised
the bulk of the t h i e f ' s or
thieves' booty.
Bruce Higdon, counselor at
H& A, said that approximately
$200 worth of records were
stolen. A heater and some al­coholic
beverages were pil­fered
from one room. Yet in
one instance only books were
taken, while a stereo and other
valuables were overlooked.
Most of the books have turned
up at book stores in Auburn.
A total of 12 rooms were
looted, but at present it is not
known when or exactly how
the burglary occurred. Inside
the building investigators have
discovered numerous finger­prints
believed to match those
of the thieves.
Lt. Frank de Graffenried of
the Auburn Police Department
said that numerous thefts are
reported by students through­out
the year, but the victims
continue to make the same
mistakes. Residences with
unlocked windows and doors
are particularly vulnerable. He
suggested that as an extra
precaution anyone leaving
school for an extended period
such as the Thanksgiving or
C hristmas holidays should
padlock his door where pos­sible
and carry home small
items of value.
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Thursday, January 11, 1968 6-THE PLAINSMAN
Vandy invades Tiger Country
for final Snorts Arena visit
By GUY RHODES
Vanderbilt, one of the nation's top basketball teams,
comes to Auburn Monday night for its final appearance
in the Sports Arena.
Pre-season expectations of Vandy's claiming the SEC
championship have dimmed
with conference losses to
Florida and Kentucky.
The two conference set­backs
are the only mars on
the otherwise perfect Vandy
record. The Commodores have
downed Atlantic Coast powers
North Carolina and Duke. In
the Sugar Bowl championship
game Vandy stopped undefeat­ed
Davidson, tenth ranked in
the nation at the time.
The top performer for the
Commodores this season has
Tiger
Topics
By 6UY RHODES
Spirit frfifor
The Las. (otamii
In my position as sports editor during spring quarter
last year and fall quarter this year, I have had the op­portunity
to write about two things I love-Auburn and
sports.
There have been many wonderful friendships gained and
experiences shared during my tenure.
Among them is Auburn's baseball team finishing as
the 2nd ranked team in the nation and winning two games
in the College World Series. This has to be one of the
brightest moments in the history of Auburn athletics.
AN OVERALL EFFORT
And what more can be said about the overall effort put
out by coach Ralph Jordan and his 1967 edition of the
Auburn football team. From all indications such play will
continue next year and for many years to follow. Auburn
supporters can be proud of the recruiting job that coach
Jordan and his staff have accomplished.
Yes, it has been enjoyable to write about the efforts
and accomplishments of the Auburn athletic department.
But now it's someone else's turn.
This will be my last column as sports editor and there
are a few people I want to thank in print for their help.
THANKS TO 'GREAT RUSTY'
Roy Riley, my predecessor as sports editor, was always
there when needed. Roy is a fine individual and as a
newspaper man, there are very few who can top him.
David Housel was sports editor when I started last fall,
and I'm grateful for his indulgence with the "rookie.'* t
As to the future, Richard Wittish will be the new sports
editor.
During his last two quarters Richard has helped us out
of a lot of jams by sitting down at the last minute and
typing out a story we needed.
With the same type of help from his staff which I re­ceived
from mine, I'm sure that the sports section under
the Wittish "regime" will be an excellent one.
There's not much more to say, but good luck, Richard.
Tiger
Topics
By Richard Wittish
Sterfs Uitor
Tkt First Cohmn
It was Sunday night and my column, my first column,
was still unwritten.
"How do you write a sports column, anyway? "I asked
Roy Riley as we walked past the soft drink machine out­side
the Plainsman office.
Riley, an ex-Plainsman sports editor, answered with a
smile.
"Write like Benny Marshall."
I left the office on that, stepping out into the 28-degree
darkness and wondering if this was the same advice Roy
had given Guy Rhodes when Guy became sports editor
last spring quarter.
ADVICE WELL TAKEN
Whatever advice Guy received during his two-quarter
term as sports editor was well taken. His efforts played
a large part in making this paper the award winner it is
today, and for two quarters his product has lived up to
the slogan found on the Plainsman's sports flag: "Best
Sports Coverage in the SEC."
Working for Guy was a great experience, probably be­cause
it was more like working with him than for him. He
was always ready to help solve a problem or give advice,
as he still is. Guy Rhodes made a great many friends
both in the Plainsman office and outside its walls.
These thoughts and others wandered through my head
as I shivered home to pour some anti-freeze into my car.
THINKING ABOUT WINTER
There were thoughts about the upcoming quarter and
what it held sports-wise, also.
There will be plenty to read about this quarter, as an
enthusiastic sports staff brings you accounts of Tiger
endeavors in basketball, wrestling, gymnastics, indoor
track and other sports; continued coverage of intramurals
by Linda Nunnelly and Ed Ruzic, a newcomer replacing
Jimmy Poole, who did an outstanding job during his year­long
stint as men's intramurals editor; and some new
wrinkles, including the "Great Tiger Tales" of Rusty
Riley.
And, who knows, maybe even a column or two in the
grand manner of Benny Marshall.
been junior guard Tom Hagan,
last year's sophomore of the
year in the SEC. This season
Hagan is averaging around the
23 point per game mark, good
enough to rank fourth among
SEC scorers.
Other starters are Bo Wy-nandt
and Bob Warren at the
forward posts. Perry Wallace
at center and Kenny Campbell
at the guard opposite Hagan.
One interesting battle that
should develop is between
Auburn's 6-7 sophomore cen­ter
Bill Alexander and Vandy's
sophomore pivotman Wallace.
Alexander will have a two
inch height advantage, but
Wallace, the first Negro to
play varsity basketball in the
SEC, has tremendous leg
spring and pulls in about 11
rebounds a game.
Wallace Tinker and Ron
Jackson will be at forwards for
Auburn with Tom Perry and
Captain Alex Howell at the
guards.
Tinker is the leading scorer
for the Tigers, hitting just
over 17 points a game. Perry,
Howell, and Alexander are all
averaging double figures.
Game time will be 7:30 with
the Auburn and Vanderbilt
freshmen meeting at 3:30 the
same afternoon.
LOOKING FOR SOMETHING
TO DO?
Anyone interested in writ­ing
sports for The Auburn
Plainsman see or call Richard
Wittish at the Plainsman Of­fice
in Langdon Hall, phone
826-4130 or 887-9321. Plenty
of work to do and room for
rapid advancement
RONNIE JACKSON BATTLES FOR REBOUND
During Action Against Mississippi State
(PHOTO BY JIM PARKER)
AUBURN'S BOB MILLER LOSES BALL IN HEAVY OLE MISS TRAFFIC
Bewildered Tigers .Grimacing RebehSsSurronnd Lonely Basketball
(PHOTO BY JIM PARKER)
Cagers maul Ole Miss, fall to Bulldogs
By RICK MORROW
B i l l Lynn's Auburn
Tigers returned home after
nine straight road games to
play Ole Miss and Missis­sippi
State.; The taste of
home was sweet at first
but didn't remain that way
for long.
The Tigers bowed 66-62 to
the Bulldogs after opening
their homestand with a 90-71
victory over the Rebels.
It has been said by many
college coaches that floor
mistakes can kill a team. Au­burn,
after taking a 32-31
halftime lead over State, made
five floor mistakes the first
five times they handled the
ball in the second half. From
there until the end of the game
Auburn played catch up but
never quite caught the Bull­dogs.
The victory was not out of
reach for either team as the
lead changed hands 13 times
during the course of the game.
But the closest the Tigers
could get to victory was when
they were only two points
down with 1 minute and 20
seconds to go in the game.
At that point the Tigers had
to foul State and hoped that
they would miss their foul
shots. But State didn't miss
in the clutch. They made 10
out of 12 free tosses in the
last 3 minutes of play to ice
the victory.
LEADING SCORE
Tom Perry, Auburn's junior
forward, carried the Tigers
throughout most of the game.
He cashed in 18 points with
four assists and nine re­bounds.
Billy Alexander mus­cled
in 15 points mostly in
heavy traffic under the basket.
Wallace Tinker also had 12
points, all coming in the first
half.
State was led by DaVe Wil­liams,
a senior forward, who
had 18 points and 14 rebounds.
Tom Payne, in his third year
as a starter for State, scored
16 points mostly on foul shots.
Saturday night. Auburn out-shot,
out-hustled, and thor­oughly
out-played the Rebels
of Ole Miss in a game that
saw defensive-minded Auburn
put on an offensive show.
After hitting 67% of their
field goal shots. Auburn car­ried
a 48-29 lead into the
dressing room at halftime.
Substituting frequently
throughout the second half,
Auburn on to their 19
point lead and won 90-71.
LEADING REBOUNDER
Billy Alexander, Auburn's
6*7" center, poured in 25
points and hauled down 11 re­bounds.
Most of Alexander's
points came on pin-point
•assists from Bob Wills, Perry,
and Tinker. Tinker also added
14 points along with his nine
assists. Perry and Alex Ho­well
each had 10 points.
Mississippi's fine sophomore
guard, Ron Coleman, led the
Rebel charge with 25 points.
Jerry Brawner added 14 points
and 9 rebounds.
Auburn's record now stands
at 6 and 6 overall and 1-3 in
the all important SEC stand­ings.
The two most recent
losses sustained by the Tigers
have come on four point de­cisions.
Coach Bill Lynn calls
this team a "fighter" and
"a team that never gives up,"
but says they can win, and
will win.
WALLACE TINKER BILLY ALEXANDER TOM PERRY
Matmen compete in VPI meet
"A warm-up for the season"
is how wrestling coach
"Swede" Umbach describes
his team's entry in Virginia
Tech's quadrangle meet in
Blacksburg, Va„ Saturday.
"(We hope to have the boys
get some tough competition in
Blacksburg before we start
our regular season," said
Umbach, who coached the
Tiger matmen to a South­eastern
Intercollegiate Wrest­ling
Association title last
year.
Also competing in the four-team
meet will be North Caro­lina
State and a team to be
named. The meet is a round
robin affair, with each team
wrestling the three others in
separate matche s.
The Tiger grapplers spent
the weekend wrestling each
other in challenge matches,
in order to establish the num­ber
one competitors in each
weight class. At present top
spot holders are: Ken McGin-sey,
115-pound class; Bill
McKeand, 123; John Butcher,
137; Larry Szutenbach, 160;
Eddie Dyer, 167; Chuck
Weiss, 177; Tom Gambill,191,
and Terry Brennan, heavy­weight.
Undecided weight
classes are: 130-pound class,
Gordon Moseley and Jim Voss;
145, Darrel Daniels and Mark
Stern, and 152, Dewitt Starnes
and Johnny Cook.
The VPI meet will be the
wrestling team's first action
since Dec. 1-2, when Um-bach's
crew competed in the
15-team Georgia Tech Open
Tournament. The wrestlers
competed unattached on an
individual basis, with some­times
as many as 30 men en­tered
in each weight class.
Bill McKeand won a first
place in the tourney and
earned a great deal of praise
from Umbach, who added that
"we had real good comments
from observers on our overall
performance and had as many
people in the final matches as
any other school there."
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7-THE PLAINSMAN Thursday, January 11, 1968
•Men's Intramurals*
$*) SN's, DCs lead
m& fraternity stars
•k^tV By JIMMY POOLE
f*At the end of fall quarter, all-star ballots were sent
out to all fraternity sports chairmen in an effort to fairly
select fraternity football all-stars. After tabulating the
vbtes, the following all-star offensive team was select­ed
End Benny Hitch (a
nearly unanimous choice,
he played for Alpha Gamma
ftho); end Otto Gaylord
(Delta Chi); guard Ronnie
(fceawell (Phi Kappa Alpha);
guard Roy Thames (Delta Chi);
center Bill Thompson (Sigma
Nu); quarterback Butch Shal-froop
( another nearly unani­mous
choice, he played for
Sigma Nu); flanker Danny
Stanley (Alpha Tau Omega);
Slocking back Preston Phoe­bus
(Delta Chi); and blocking
Back Joe Justice (Sigma Nu).
: OUTSTANDING PLAYERS
I Named as outstanding de­fensive
players were: Jerry
Henry (SN), Eddie Webster
(DC), John Carr (ATO), Roger
Wiggins (PKT), and Lloyd
Brook (BTP).
Offensive team players
deserving honorable mention
i ;#ere: end Jerry C r o w d e r
Commuters
claim WIA
laurels
' By LINDA NUNNELEY
Women's Intramural Editor
The Women's Intramurals
Association congratulates
'the' Commuter's Club for
ginning the 1967 WIA Vol­leyball
Tournament fall
•quarter. The Commuter's
^defeated Chi 0 15-6, 13-8
(timed game) in the finals.
- 4 Other scores showed Chi O
beating Dorm B 15-8, 15-4;
Dorm K I beating Dorm A 15-
8, 15-8; and Commuter's Club
beating KAT II 15-4, 15-11 to
qualify for the semi-finals.
The Commuter's Club then de­feated
Korm K 16-14, 12-15,
15-8, and Chi O beat DZ 15-6.
15-6 to go into the final round.
This winter quarter the big
sport will be basketball. Team
rosters should be submitted by
Jan. 12.
BOWLING ROSTERS
Bowling tea'ms must also be
submitted to the WIA office by
Jan. 12. Teams will consist
of three girls. The leagues
will meet at 4 p.m. Tuesdays
and Thursdays beginning Jan.
16. WIA pays for the bowling
.unless a girl is absent and
does not get a substitute, in
which case she must pay.
Other winter sports include
swimming, badminton, and co-rec
badminton.
LATE SHOW
FRIDAY 11:15
XA MAN CALLED
DAGGER'
(PGD), end Phil Tankersley
(KA), flanker Dave Bell(TKE),
and blocking back Charles
Summerlin (TC).
The final results in frater­nity
football competition fall
quarter were: first place-
Sigma Nu; second-Delta Chi;
third-ATO and fourth-Alpha
Gamma Rho.
FRATERNITY BASKETBALL
Fraternity basketball begins
tonight at 7 and will continue
on Tuesday and Thursday
nights through February 28.
Any breaks in the schedule of
the Student Activities Building
will cancel games.
The four fraternity lea­gues
are: League one: DC,
PDT, SP, KA, PKP. League
two: SAE, LCA. TKE, DTD,
OTS, PKA. League three: TC,
SN, SC, DU, BTP, KS, ATO.
League four: AGR, DSP, CP,
TX, PGD, AP, SPE.
Two of the independent
leagues will play their games
on scheduled afternoons be­ginning
at 4:30. These lea­gues
are: League one: INM,
PME, BZ'S, Lumberjacks.
League two: Wesley, POC,
Alpha Phi Omega, and Rebels.
The other four independent
leagues will play on Mondays
and Dormitory teams will play
on Wednesdays. The inde­pendent
leagues are: League
one: PGS, Chevs, Knights,
Nesep. League two: Hornets,
PJ'S, Balls, Has Beens. Lea­gue
three: Townhouse, Phi
Delta Chi, Navy, Baptist Stu­dent
Union. League four: Air
Force, Sec 5, Bandits, Cam­pus
Inn.
Since I am in need of more
time to study Building Con­struction
and work as IFC
sports chairman, this is my
last column for the Plainsman.
The new Intramurals column­ist
will be Ed Ruzic.
Plainsman
gymnasts
edge Tech
By CURTIS MAULDIN
Paced by high scoring
senior Aubrey Bowles, the
Auburn gymnastics team
edged Georgia Tech Satur­day
in Atlanta, 147.6-144.2.
The team faces Georgia
Saturday at 2 p.m. in Alumni
Gym.
"The University of Georgia
is the strongest and most im­proved
team in the South,"
said Coach Ed Bengston.
"however, we have a l so
shown tremendous improvement
over last year."
Bowles tallied 53 points in
the Tigers' first meet. "Aub­rey
performed well and
steadily," Bengston said.
Bowles, captain of the
team, placed first in one
event and s e c o n d in four
others, while Ed Blocher and
Bill Oggs took firsts.Bengston
said the team "looked pretty
good generally speaking after
the holiday layoff."
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CHRISTMAS TOUR TOUGH ON TIGERS
By MEL PULLIAM
The Auburn Athletic De­partment
gave i ts basketball
team an all-expense paid
Christmas gift, but after the
gift had been opened Coach
Bill Lynn and his young
squad were looking for the
exchange counter.
Not that Auburn didn't get
its money's worth; two third
place finishes in a four-team
tournament in Tampa and an
eight-team gathering in Okla­homa
City were like eating
fruitcake on Christmas Day.
However, by the time the
seven game Christmas vaca­tion
road trip was over, the
travel weary Tigers were
ready to repay the Christmas
favor by playing a few games
in the "barn" that is Auburn's
Sports Arena.
ON THE ROAD'
In Auburn's first 10 games,
only one was played within
the State of Alabama. That
meant Auburn played nine
straight games on the road,
counting Vanderbilt and Wake
Forest before the holidays
arrived. The two games with
Ole Miss and Mississippi State
this past week were welcome
changes for the Auburn team.
During the holiday tour. Au­burn
played against three of
the nation's top five scorers:
6-11 soph Bob Lanier of St.
Bonaventure. Rich Travis of
Oklahoma City University, and
Pete Maravich of Louisiana
State.
Two of the three losses
during the holidays were to
teams ranked in the nation's
top ten. Both victors, St.
Bonaventure and Oklahoma
City University, went on to
win first places in the Tampa
and Oklahoma City tourna­ments,
respectively.
FIRST STOP
The first stop on the Tiger's
travelogue was Atlanta,
courtesy of the Georgia Tech
Yellow Jackets. Auburn left
i ts defensive calling card,
getting a 63^-52 win, before
departing for sunny 75 degree
weather and Tampa, Fla., for
a pre-Christmas tournament.
At Tampa, Auburn lost to
nationally ranked St. Bona­venture
the first night, 77-73-
Center Bob Lanier hit 15 of 20.
field goals and bagged 34
points against the Tigers. A
second half revival of the
Auburn offense put the Tigers
past Rutgers in the consola­tion
game, 70-62-
After four days of rest. Au­burn
pushed on to Oklahoma
City and the nation's oldest
holiday tournament, the All-
College Classic.
SEMIFINALS
Auburn landed in the semi­finals
by beating Arkansas,
65-58- The Tigers then faced
Oklahoma City and had to
combat Rich Travis, "the best
shooter Auburn has ever
faced," according to Lynn.
The 6-1 Travis hit for 39
points and Auburn went down,
78-68-
A 76-61 win over a good
Virginia Tech team seeded
first at Oklahoma City earned
the Tigers third place.
Lynn considered the Virgi­nia
Tech game to be the best
that Auburn played during the
holidays. At the outset Vir­ginia
Tech switched from zone
to man-to-man defense until
they fell behind. Forced to
play man-to-man after that,
the Gobblers watched the
Auburn shuffle work to near
perfection the rest of the
night. Auburn hit 65 per cent
from the floor.
Junior forward Wallace
Tinker, scoring 53 points in
three games and playing a
good defensive tournament,
was named to the five-man
all-tournament team.
Auburn ended its Christmas
tour with a visit to Cajun
country. LSU, and. the Cow
Palace. As one observer des?
cribed the agricultural show-place
that LSU basketball
calls home, "It's the only
basketball arena in the coun­try
where you can get manure,
on your tennis shoes."
LSU ROYALTY
The doormat of the SEC
until the reign of King Press
Maravich and Prince Pete be­gan
last year, the Bengal
Tigers beat mistake-prone
Auburn, 76-72- Pete's daddy,
the coach, got two technical
fouls within five seconds for
his contribution to the game.
His son did somewhat better
by putting in 55 points to
keep his national scoring lead
Intact.
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By MIKE ANDERSON
Thirty-one high school seniors have signed football
grants-in-aid, with 20 of the signees coming from Ala­bama.
Georgia contributed nine prospects, Tennessee
and Florida one each.
Auburn coaches are parti­cularly
high oh four of the
Alabama recruits, namely Pat
Why should you
confide in a guy
you've never met
before?
Because the guy we're talking
about is a college recruiter from
Alcoa. And the only way to play it
is honestly.
He'll be on campus in a couple of
days. And here's what we recom­mend
you do at the interview.
First, lay your cards on the table.
Tell him what kind of work would
really turn you on.
Then, sit back and listen while he
explains how your plans figure
into Alcoa's plans. (You'll be
surprised how versatile
Aluminum Company of America
can be.)
So make it a point to meet Alcoa's
recruiter. He's a confidence man
you can really trust.
Interview date:
Tuesday, February 6
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Change for the better
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Sullivan and Phil Cochran of
Birmingham, Terry Beasley of
Montgomery and Wade Boyette
of Mobile.
Sullivan was probably the
most sought after quarterback
in Alabama high school his­tory,
and his extensive list of
offers included one from nat­ional
power Notre Dame. Sul­livan
compiled over 2000 yards
total offense in his last two
years at John Carroll High
School, and was named to
Kickoff Magazine's high
school All-America first team.
75 OFFERS
Boyette, also a quarterback,
but of the drop-back-and-throw
variety, received approximate­ly
75 offers from various
schools throughout the nation,
including national champ
Southern California. A big
fellow at6-4, and 210 pounds,
Boyette is a fine all-round
football player.
Beasley was signed mainly
to play flanker or split end,
his p o s i t i o n at Lee High
School. Beasley has sure
hands and is extremely fast.
He is a member of the state
champion 440-yard relay team
and holds the current state
220-yard dash title.
Cochran played center and"
linebacker in high school, but
is slated to see duty exclus­ively
at the defensive spot for
the Tigers. Phil's brother Dan
was an All-Southeastern Con­ference
gridder at Alabama.
Other top prospects are
David Shelby, a halfback who
scored 90 points in his senior
season and Sammy Oates, a
quarterback from Georgia.
RILEY SIGNED
Also signed was John Riley,
Auburn's outstanding kicking
specialist, a non-scholarship
player last fall.
Although the recruiting cam­paign
pleased Head Coach
Ralph Jordan, he said that it
was difficult to tell at present
just how well Tiger recruiters
had done.
"You never know just how
well you've done until the
boys you've signed become
seniors," said Jordan. '£Jome
of our recruits who do not re­ceive
much publicity in high
school and are relatively un­known
to us when they arrive
turn out to be our best. You
must wait until they become
juniors and seniors before you
can really judge your suc­cess."
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(By the author of "Rally Round the Flag, Boys!",
"Dobie GMis," etc.)
1968: ITS CAUSE AND CURE
Are you still writing "1967" on your papers and letters?
I'll bet you are, you scamp! But I am not one to be harsh
with those who forgot we are in a new year, for I myself
have long been guilty of the same lapse. In fact, in my
senior year at college, I wrote 1873 on my papers until
nearly November of 1874! (It turned out, incidentally,
not to be such a serious error because, as we all know, 1874
was later repealed by President Chester A. Arthur in a fit
of pique over the Black Tom Explosion. And, as we all
know, Mr. Arthur later came to regret his hasty action.
Who does not recall that famous meeting between Mr.
Arthur and Louis Napoleon.when Mr, Arthur said', "Lou,
I wish I hadn't of repealed 1874." Wfcereirpbn the French
emperor made his immortal rejoinder, "Tipi que nous et
tyler tu". Well sir, they had many a good laugh about that,
as you can imagine.)
But I digress. How can we remember to write 1968 on
our papers and letters? Well sir, the best way is to find
something memorable about 1968, something unique to fix
it firmly in your mind. Happily, this is very simple be­cause,
as we all know, 1968 is the first year in history that
is divisible by 2, by 5, and by 7. Take a pencil and try it:
1968 divided by 2 is 984; 1968 divided by 5 is 393%; 1968
divided by 7 is 281%. This mathematical curiosity will not
occur again until the year 2079, but we will all be so busy
then celebrating the Chester A. Arthur bi-centenerary
that we will scarcely have time to be writing papers and
letters and like that.
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Another clever little trick to fix the year 1968 in your
mind is to remember that 1968 spelled backwards is 8691.
"Year" spelled backwards is "raey." "Personna" spelled
backwards is "Annosrep." I mention Personna because I
am paid to write this column by the makers of Personna
Super Stainless Steel Blades, and they are inclined to
withhold my check if I omit to mention their product.
Not, mind you, that it is any chore for me to sing the
praises of Personna, for it is a seemly blade that shaves
you cleanly, a gleaming blade that leaves you beaming, a
trouble-free blade that leaves you stubble-free, a match­less
blade that leaves you scratchless. If you are tired of
facial slump, if you are fed up with jowl blight, try
Personna today... available both in double-edge style and
Injector style. And if I seem a bit excessive in my admira­tion
for Personna, I ask you to remember that to me
Personna is more than a razor blade; it is also an employer.
But I digress. We were speaking of the memorable as­pects
of 1968 and high among them, of course, is the fact
that in 1968 the entire House of Representatives stands
for election. There will, no doubt, be many lively and inter­esting
contests, but none, I'll wager, quite so lively and
interesting as the one in my own district where the lead­ing
candidate is none other than Chester A. Arthur!
Mr. Arthur, incidentally, is not the first ex-president to
come out of retirement and run for the House of Repre­sentatives.
John Quincy Adams was the first. Mr. Adams
also holds another distinction: he was the first son of a
president ever to serve as president. It is true that Martin
Van Buren's son, Walter "Biinky" Van Buren, was at one
time offered the nomination for the presidency, but he,
alas, had already accepted a bid to become Mad Ludwig
of Bavaria. James K. Polk's son, on the other hand, be­came
Salmon P. Chase. Millard Fillmore's son went into
aluminum siding. This later became known as the Mis­souri
Compromise.
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8-THE PLAINSMAN Thursday, January 11, 1968
On Other Campuses
Students fight;
police sit by
• By John Reynolds
Fist fights, shouting and broken windows marred the
San Francisco State College campus in December, but
President John Summerskill insists that his refusal to
summon police prevented a major riot.
Summerskill, who is currently being investigated for
his handling of the student disorder, blames the incident
on outsiders from all sections of the nation. He declares
that the trouble at his college is a result of underlying
problems shared by all of America's youth.
Many political leaders in California have taken issue
with Summerskill's stand. California Governor Ronald
Reagan commented, " I can't see any extenuating circum­stances
with regard to force and violence on campuses;
.the time to act is now."
Glen Smith, the college's vice president, asserted that
the college administration "had the activists cornered
and the campus unified. We won a victory, and you people
have given it away."
"There'll be unity now," said the vice president of the
state college's academic senate, Prof. Eric Salaman. "It
will be a unity of hostility."
STUDENT CONDUCTS VIETNAM POLL
In a poll conducted by a Harvard student at 19 private
colleges and universities in the Northeast, 26.7 per cent
of those replying are extremely disgruntled with the U.S.
involvement in the Vietnam war. Of the 20,000 cooperat­ing
in the survey 665 students favored violent means of
dissent-even sabotage. Only 14.9 per cent indicated that
the war is worth its financial burden.
UNIVERSITY BANS RECRUITERS
Proposed denial of deferments to students demonstrat­ing
against the draft now has colleges reacting to Selec­tive
Service Director Lewis Hershey's revised policy.
The president of George Washington University, Lloyd
Elliott, has banned military recruiters from the campus.
He acted under the suggestion of student representatives.
Elliot says he will lift the restriction when Hershey res­cinds
his order.
BOSTON UNIVERSITY DISCONTINUES ROTC
Boston University will no longer include ROTC in its
curriculum after September 1968. Howard University has
already taken a similar stand. At the University of Ala­bama,
students no longer must take ROTC in order to
graduate.
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By LYN SCARBROUGH
Assistant Editor
All Auburn students, re­gardless
of their age, will
have the opportunity to vote
for president in 1968 in a
collegiate straw poll spon­sored
by Time magazine.
The presidential primary,
officially named CHOICE 68.
will give an anticipated five
million college students at
over 2,400 campuses across
the country the right to show
their preference.
VOTE APRIL 24
The nationwide vote will
be April 24. and enrollment in
a participating college or uni­versity
will be the only test
of voting eligibility. Results
of the primary will be indepen­dently
tabulated and made
available to all media, in­terested
organizations, and
individuals.
Jimmy Bryan, vice-president
of the Interfraternity Council,
has been appointed by Charles
Bentley. student body presi­dent,
as campus coordinator
for the program.
"This project will provide
an excellent opportunity for
Auburn students to become
informed on today's issues
and express their opinions,
with no restrictions on age,"
Bryan said. "We hope that the
student body will show a
great deal of interest. We plan
to present the major issues
on campus to supplement what
knowledge will be gained
through national news cove­rage."
Notes & Notices
The Plainsman is happy to print meeting announce­ments.
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.
THE WAR GAME
"The War Game," a movie
banned in England because of
its frankness in dealing with
the affects of a nuclear war
in Great Britian, will be shown
at 7 p.m. Sunday night at the
Wesley Foundation.
SPEECH CLINIC
The Speech and Hearing
Department needs volunteers
for an experiment on modifi­cation
of stuttering behavior.
Anyone with a stuttering pro­blem
who would like to parti­cipate
in the experiment de­signed
to help stutterers
should contact Dr. J. B. Ran-ney
in Samford 204.
MONITORING CLASS
The Radiological Monitoring
Class will meet each Monday
night at Leach Nuclear Science
Center through March 4.
Classes are from &30 to 8:30
p.m.
The purpose of the class,
sponsored by Lee County
Civil Defense, is to inform the
public on what might take
place during and after a nuc­lear
attack and to train them on 1
what to do and how to cope
with the problem.
SUMMER JOB MOVIE
A movie and discussion on
summer jobs in Europe will be
presented Jan. 16 at 7 p.m. in
Room 213 of the Union Build­ing.
ATTENTION STUDENT
WIVES
Anyone with keypunch ma­chine
training in search of a
job should contact John Ball,
personnel director, in the
basement of Langdon Hall or
call (826-4145).
Several clerical positions
are also open.
SHOULD A GRADUATE IN
ENGINEERING OR THE
SCIENCES EXPECT...
/ AN OUTSTANDING PROFESSIONAL
CLIMATE?
/ GUARANTEED JOB STABILITY?
/ RAPID CAREER ADVANCEMENT?
y EXCELLENT GRADUATE STUDY PROGRAMS?
y A TOTAL "FRINGE" PACKAGE?
y AN UNLIMITED RANGE OF ASSIGNMENTS?
y THE BEST IN FACILITIES AND EQUIPMENT?
y AN OPPORTUNITY TO CONTRIBUTE?
SO DO WE!
CONSIDER THE UNUSUAL CAREER-START
OPPORTUNITY TO JOIN THE OUTSTANDING
PROFESSIONAL CIVILIAN STAFF OF THE
ARMY MATERIEL COMMAND
The Army Materiel Command is an unusual technical
organization of great size and scope, with some
150,000 civilians employed in laboratories and instal­lations
throughout the United States.
YOU ARE INVITED TO APPLY!
AMC has many entrance-level positions, ideal as a
career-start for you, with outstanding developmental
opportunities — as you will see when you join this
highly qualified staff. Projects are vital, interesting,
so absorbing many scientists choose to pursue a life­time
career here. As you advance, salaries and bene­fits
accrue to make your AMC career rewarding,
highly lucrative as well as important! AMC is con­cerned
with research, development, design and pro­duction,
testing and evaluation of all equipment
developed and used by the modern Army.
HERE ARE A FEW DISCIPLINES OF THE MANY
IN WHICH THERE ARE OPENINGS
NOW FOR YOU!
Electronic & Electrical
Engineering
Aerospace Engineering
Biology & Related Fields
Mathematics/Statistics
Chemistry & Chemical
Engineering
Mechanical Engineering
Industrial Engineering
Metrology & Calibration
Physics
AMC will be interviewing on campus on
January 30, 1968
or write to: U.S. Army Materiel Command
Technical Placement Office
1627PeachtreeRd.,N.E.
Room 113
Atlanta, Georgia 30309
An Equal Opportunity Employer
Bryan said that plans are
being made to conduct govern­ment
and publication elections
in conjunction with CHOICE
68. A committee, to be named
by Bryan, will join the Poli­tical
Affairs Committee in
planning and supervising the
voting.
DEBATES PLANNED
The student government
plans to set up political de­bates
on national issues in­volving
student supporters of
each candidate. Political
rallies, organized campaigns
and help from student politi­cal
groups are also being
discussed.
Bryan said that all students
interested in coordinating the
program or in presenting is­sues
for any candidate or
political party should come to
the Student Government office
from 1-4 p.m., Monday through
Friday.
The national project is be­ing
managed by a Board of
Directors composed of 11 stu­dent
leaders, each from a
different region of the coun­try.
The board is establishing
guidelines for the primary,
designing the official ballot,
and providing overall direction
and leadership.
FULL EXPRESSION
Ballots will be provided by
the project's executive office
and distributed to the partici­pating
campuses. Project
leaders say the ballot will be
structured to allow "the ful­lest
and widest possible ex­pression
of opinion."
The student voter will indi
cate his age and political
party affiliation or preference.
The presidential candidates
will be grouped by party, but
students will be allowed to
cross party lines. All persons
seriously mentioned as presi­dential
candidates and all an­nounced
candidates will be
included on the ballot.
Voters will indicate three
choices for president, but the
first choice will be the only
one used in the actual primary
tabulation. The second and
third choices will be used for
statistical analysis.
THREE OTHER ISSUES
In addition to indicating
their choice of presidential
candidates, students will
have a chance to vote on three
issues of national concern,
each with four to six possible
responses. The selection'
these issues will also
made by the Board of Direc
tors.
The national board is opt
mistic about the success'
CHOICE 68. "We expect
turn out upwards of two nri
lion votes on campus-enoug
to command the nation's cot
sideration and attention/
board spokesman said.
ALABAMA SCHOOLS.!
Three universities in Ala
bama-Jacksonville State Uni
versity, the University,-
Alabama, and Auburn-hav
already agreed to participate
Administrative costs art
being financed by Time magi
zine, but the publication'Wi
have no part in planning
supervision.
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Continued from page one
Young accepts, Registration stalls
life," Young said in October,
1963.
• He said that proposals are
needed for mass attack on
educational deprivation, pro­viding
special job training and
placement, eliminating ghet-toes
and offering increased
services "to help Negro fami­lies
develop a deeper sense
of parental and community
responsibility."
In April 1964. testifying be­fore
a special subcommittee
an the administration's anti-poverty
program, Young said
~hat responsible Negro leader­ship
"desperately needs some
tangible evidence of the inten­sions
of this country to right
a historic wrong."
, , He charged at an Overseas
.Press Club luncheon in 1963
that "the 'white' press, radio
and television had, for its
own purposes, inflated the im­portance
of Negro nationalist
or any Negro leader who is
willing to say he hates white
people."
"The Negro is in revolt,"
Young has said, "not to
change the fabric of our soci­ety
or to seek a special place
in it, but to enter into partner­ship
in that society."
Young describes the Natio­nal
Urban League as "a nat­ional
professional community
services agency'' which seeks
to"'break down discriminatory
patterns impeding the progress
of the Negro population toward
first-class citizenship."
"You can holler, protest,
march, picket and demon­strate,"
he has said, "but
somebody must be able to sit
in on the strategy conferences
and plot a course. There must
be the strategists, the re­searchers
and the professio­nals
able to carry out a pro­gram.
That's our (the National
Urban League) role."
Young, a 46-year-old gra­duate
of Kentucky State Col­lege
and the University of
Minnesota, has served as
Urban League executive direc­tor
since Oct. 1, 1961.
He is a member of the Pre­sident's
Committee on Urban
Housing, the National Advi­sory
Council of the U.S. Of­fice
of Education, the Advi­sory
Committee of the Depart-m
ent . of Housing and Urban
Development and the Commis
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sion on Law Enforcement and
Administration of Justice.
He is an alternate to the
14th session of the General
Conference of UNESCO and
in the fall of 1967 he served
as a member of the United
States Election Observer Team
to Vietnam.
Registration. . .
them. In the past we were un­able
to suggest changes in
class schedules," he conti­nued.
Other changes in the regis­tration
process will deal di­rectly
with reasons for sche­dule
changes. One reason is
part-time jobs conflicting with
class hours. In the future, stu­dents
will be able to list their
work-hours on the course re­quest
forms. These hours will
be blocked out and the com­puter
will not assign classes
during these times.
REASON FOR CHANGE
Another reason for schedule
changes is a student failing
the prerequisite to a course
given him by the computer. It
is possible that schedules
would not be distributed until
the first of the quarter. On
notice from the registrar's of­fice
the computer would re­assign
the failed course.
Fisher noted that while
many universities had found
computer registration inaccur­ate
and inefficient, Auburn's
system has two features lack­ing
in other systems: a choice
in class hours and alternate
choices.
"Use of the computer has
been worthwhile," said
Fisher. "The technical as­pect
of registration has gone
well. We must work at the ad­ministrative
level now."
Seibold. . ,
Tom Young, the prosecutor,
told the Plainsman Monday,
that he planned to ask for the
death penalty.
Seibold is accused of break­ing
into the Sinclair home,
shooting Mrs. Sinclair, and
killing the girls while Cathy
Sinclair, his ex-girl friend,
hid in a closet.
He was arrested near Miami
on Sept. 16 and after Florida
governor Claude Kirk signed
extradition papers, was re­turned
to Alabama Dec. 17 to
stand trial.
Seibold could choose to be
tried for all three murder
charges at once or he could
choose to be tried separately
for each charge.
His lawyers have not in­dicated
which possibility
they will choose.
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Vandals cost Cameo $4,000
SGT. G. M. MUSCAT
Clothing. . .
Be smart. Be sure. Buy now at your Chevrolet dealer's.
Building, Bill Ham's
cleaners and the Army Hanger
from 8 a.m. - 4 p.m.,Monday
through Friday.
Persons who wish to do­nate
clothes but cannot get
them to one of the pickup
stations can call the Auburn
Union desk and leave their
name, address and time they
want the clothes picked up.
Arrangements are being
made to get the clothing to
Vietnam as soon as possible,
maybe in time for Vietnamese
New Year's celebration.
"The fact that Sgt. Muscat
thought enough of Auburn to
ask us for help is one reason
we can't afford to let him
down," Nix said.
Fortenberry. . .
other works are "A Handbook
for Mississippi Legislators"
and" A Guidebook of the Chan­cery
Clerk."
The new department, an out­growth
of the department of
history and political science,
will utilize several of the
faculty presently teaching in
that department, according to
Dean Hobbs. He estimated
that the political science de­partment
will have approxi­mately
12 faculty members.
& ATTENTION MARCH &
| GRADUATES $
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:•:; grees in March will be •:•:
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:§ report immediately when
$. notice is received.
By JAMES THORNTON
Vandals wrecked equip
merit and stole merchandise
and cash from the Cameo
Vending Corporation last
quarter, which amounted to
almost $4,000 losses on and
off campus, stated William
B. Capps Sr., owner of the
company.
Losses last quarter alone
more than doubled Cameo's
yearly average losses, Capps
said.
An estimated $3,100 in
damages and money was lost
on the night of Dec. 21, bet­ween
quarters, when vandals
struck at three locations on
campus, the Union Building,
Magnolia Dormitories and the
Pi Kappa Alpha House.
Vandals also wrecked Cameo
vending machines in various
off-campus apartments several
times last quarter.
Auburn Police Chief, Fred
Hammock, stated that the
police are doing everything
possible to stop the vanda­lism.
"Although we can not put a
guard on every machine in
town, we are doing every­thing
we can to catch those
doing it and we watch as close
as we can," said Hammock.
"We usually lose about
$1,800 a year and last quarter
we lost $4,000. Not only do
we have trouble with vanda­lism,
we also lose a large
amount of money when filed
down pennies are used for
dimes.
"We take about $7.80 in
pennies from the machines on
campus each day," Capps
said.
Police officials reported
that vandalism is a felony and
is punishable by either a fine
or prison sentence.
Defacing coins is a three
year offense.
Of the 38 people employed
by Cameo, 17 are Auburn stu­dents.
Capps stressed that the
corporation will be glad to
refund any money a student
loses in a machine. The Uni­versity
Bookstore will refund
the money and make any com-plaints
to Cameo.
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10-THE PLAINSMAN Thursday, January 11, 1968
Auburn graduate research
Peaceful use of nuclear energy seen in future
By SAM JOHNSON
Imagine a s i n g l e fuel
source powerful enough to
meet the world's energy
needs for thousands of
years.
Bob Howie, a graduate
student in physics, is
heading "Project Spartan"
which deals with harness­ing
thermo-nuclear power for
peaceful purposes In effect,
he is trying to produce a con­trolled
hydrogen bomb and
capture the energy released
from it. This energy can then
be released as a tremendous
'fuel' for the production of
power to meet the world's
energy needs for years,
Howie has been working on
this project of his own con­ception
for more than a year
in the physics department.
The early stages of this
project will be Howie's
master's thesis and the latter
stage his doctorate disser­tation.
Howie is assisted by
three other graduate students
in physics, Jack Lloyd, Joe
Buck and Don Frodge, and
Dr. Raymond Askew, a
faculty member in the physics
department.
INTENSIVE RESEARCH
For the past 15 years a
rather intensive program of
research and development
has been directed in the
United States toward this
specific goal, the develop­ment
of a true thermo-nuclear
reactor. Howie is following a
simple design which he con­ceived
in a basic form in the
ninth grade.
As of yet, there has been
no great success by anyone
in achieving the goal, but
progress is being made.
Several complex methods are
being used by different re­search
teams throughout the
United States.
Howie explained in lay­men's
terms what his goals
are, and why he is trying to
achieve them.
SUPER WEAPON
"Shortly after the con­clusion
of the Second World
War," Howie began, "the
United States astonished the
world by introducing a second
'super-weapon'--the hydrogen
bomb. This new device es­sentially
dwarfed the atomic
bomb in destructive capa­bility.
In fact, it even used
the atomic bomb as a mere
fuse to set it off."
"The atomic bomb ex­ploded
as a result of
'fission,' a process in which
heavy atoms are split to pro­duce
smaller atoms. This
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by a tremendous re­lease
of atomic energy."
"The hydrogen bomb,"
Howie continued, "is ex­ploded
by a contrasting pro­cess
called 'fusion,' which
is a method of taking small
atoms and compressing them
together to make large, heavy
atoms. This method is accom­panied
by a much greater re­lease
of energy. Man has
learned to control nuclear
fission, but he has not
learned to control the more
advanced step of fusion.
PEACEFUL ENERGY
"Since the initial develop­ment
of the hydrogen bomb,
men have dreamed of har­nessing
its awesome energy
for peaceful purposes, such
as electrical power pro­duction.
These men have pro­posed
the construction of
reactors such as I am trying
to develop to 'burn' the fuel
in a hydrogen bomb.
"Unlike uranium, which is
used for the fuel in the
fission or atomic bomb
reaction," he further com­mented,
"the fuel for the
fusion, or hydrogen bomb
reaction, is very plentiful and
may be taken directly from a
huge source. This fuel,
which can be extracted
directly from sea water, is
known as 'deuterium.'"
"In each gallon of sea-water,
exists approximately
l/8th of a gram of deuterium,
which can be extracted at
the cost of less than four
cents. However, if this much
fuel is burned in a thermo­nuclear
reactor, its energy
output would be approxi­mately
equal to that of 300
gallons of gasoline, or ten
tons of TNT.
"Once man can harness
this tremendous energy
source, it will be possible to
meet all of the energy re­quirements
of the world for
over one billion years at
approximately l/100th of the
present cost."
PRIMARY FORM
Howie is basically trying
to construct a primary form
of the thermo-nuclear re
actor which could heat the
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deuterium and keep it con­tained
so it can be released
under a controlled process.
Dr. Askew, his master
professor, felt that Howie
should do his own con­struction
' in addition to
designing it. Because of
this, Howie has been using
all the surplus supplies
available in the physics de­partment.
By Christmas of 1966, he
began designing and building
the second stage, and by
February, 1967, the third
stage was on the drawing
board. He was joined by
Lloyd in the spring of 1967
and by Buck and Frodge in
the fall of 1967.
FIRST STAGE
In the first stage of Project
Spartan. Howie developed,
through the use of an electro­magnetic
shock tube of his
own design, a method of tak­ing
low temperature gases,
combining them with high tem­perature
gases, and producing
what is equivalent to a light­ning
bolt which travels through
the tube in an extreme frac­tion
of a second. This stage,
which has already been cons­tructed
and successfully fired,
is still in the perfecting pro­cess.
The second stage, which is
presently under construction,
is a replica of the first stage,
except that it will be turned
around so that the shock
waves produced will collide
at a pre-determined point
and cause the gases to be
heated instantly to several
million degrees Fahrenheit.
The third stage will be a
large electro-magnet, which
will capture the hot gases in
a type of magnetic field when
the shock waves collide and
then compress the gases to
10 to 20 million degrees Fah­renheit.
HOWLE OPTIMISTIC
"If this last stage is acl
complished." stated Howie
"we will have realized sue
cess. We are very hopeful and
optimistic, but it is very hard
to predict something whicfl
Mother Nature has never done
It is a tremendous challenge
and a dangerous process, bul
we are using every precaution,
and taking our time."
Howie and his team spenJ
approximately five to sevej
hours a day working on Pre
ject Spartan. When asked wha
they do each day, Buck coml
mented. "If we're not consl
tructing, designing or compill
ing data, we're just sitting
and thinking."
The final shot of the firs
stage will be fired sometiml
in the spring of 1968. Th|
entire project will be con
pleted in two to three years. I
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