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VOLUME 98 AUBURN UNIVERSITY AUBURN,ALABAMA FRIDAY, MAY 7 1971 NUMBER 24
HRF moratorium results
in confrontation at Union
Sit-in
The argument which
resulted in a sit-in at
the SGAoffices Wednes­day,
began when SGA Pres. Jimmy Tucker,
second from right, interrupted a speech by
Jim Mengel, 4GPO, center, to inform him that
public address systems could not be used
during class hours. Mengel protested the
law and later led over 200 students to Tucker's
Union Building office.
Rare Earth to appear
in concert on May 14
By John Samford
Plainsman Editor-elect
The Human Rights Forum's
"strike against business as
usual" resulted in a major
confrontation between student
demonstrators and Student
Government Association of­ficials
Wednesday. A crowd
of over 200 held a sit-in on
the third floor of the Union
Building to protest the Cam­pus
Advertising Law relating
to the use of public address
systems during class hours.
The group also confronted Col.
Andrew Lamar, professor of
Military Science, Pres. Harry M.
Philpott and Dean of Women
Katharine Cater on issues re­lating
to the war in Vietnam,
University discipline pro­cedures
and women's rules.
The controversy over the use
of P A systems began around.
11:15 a.m. when Jim Mengel,
4GPA, attempted to deliver a
speech on the incident at Kent
State University last spring.
SGA Pres. Jimmy Tucker
informed Mengel that use of the
P A system was prohibited
during class hours. After a
lengthy argument the system
was shut down.
The law permits use of an
amplifier only during the first
10 minutes of each hour between
classes and from noon until 1
p.m.
At 1:30 p.m., a group of about
250 students marched to the
hallway outside the SGA offices
in the Auburn Union and chanted
and sang while five represen­tatives
of the group negotiated
with Tucker in his office.
The group demanded a special
session of the Student Senate
to consider changing the law
concerning P A systems.
Tucker refused to call a
special session but did agree
to invite the Senate and demons­trators
to hold an open forum
Wednesday night in Haley
Center.
At 3 p.m., the group began a
march which led first to Broun
Hall where it was demanded that
Colonel Lamar notify his im­mediate
superior and Pres.
Richard M. Nixon that this group
favored the setting of an im­mediate
withdrawal date for all
American forces in Southeast
Asia.
The march then proceeded to
Samford Hall where Pres. Harry
M. Philpott was asked to attend
the special Senate forum to
discuss the campus advertising
law, to take immediate steps to
approve a resolution adopted
recently by the Auburn chapter
of the American Civil Liberties
Union which called for immediate
changes in the University Dis­cipline
Code and to accompany
the group in their march for
peace in Vietnam.
President Philpott replied
that he could not accompany the
students on the march or go to
the Senate meeting due to
See page 5, col. 5
Phi Kappa Phi
picks initiates
The Rare Eartn, rock group,
sponsored by the Auburn Afro-
American Association, will
present a concert at the Me­morial
Coliseum next Friday
at 8:15 p.m.
Tickets are on sale from
nine a.m. to five p.m. at the
Coliseum box office, and at the
Auburn Union. General admission
tickets are $3 and reserved
seats are $4 and $5.
In conjunction with the ap­pearance
of Rare Earth, Auburn's
Afro-American Association is
Graduation fees of $10
should be paid at the
Cashier's Office by May
25 by all students ex­pecting
to graduate in
June. A S5 late fee will
be charged after May 25.
also hosting a Black Arts Fest­ival
May 14-16 which will be at­tended
by black students from
throughout the area. Over 300
high school students are ex­pected,
in addition to college
students from Auburn and Tus-kegee..
Registration of visitors will
begin Friday afternoon at 2 p.m.
At 5 p.m. a delegate from the
Southern Christian Leadership
Conference (SCLC) will speak
in the Student Activities Build­ing.
Rev. Ralph Abernathy, presi­dent
of the SCLC and planned
speaker for this meeting, will
not be able to attend as he will
be in Budapest at this time.
Proceeds above the cost of
the band will be used to provide
a scholarship fund for incoming
black students and for establish­ing
community programs to aid
the underprivileged.
May 15 at 9:30 a.m., a general
session will be held in the Au­burn
Union. A speaker will talk
on black culture and history.
At 11 a.m. there will be an art
exhibit in the Bradley Lounge.
The exhibit will consist of ori­ginal
art contributed by black
students.
After lunch in the cafeteria,
a band contest will be held. High
school combos will compete
for a cash prize. In the evening,
' 'The Reflections,'' from Tuske-gee,
will play at the Festival
Ball held in the Student
ivities Building.
May 16 at 10 a.m., choirs from
the high schools attending will
participate in a "sing-in" in
the Auburn Union Ballroom. At
1 p.m., another general ses­sion
will be held.
Dr. John Cashin, former can­didate
for governor, Representa­tive
Fred Gray from Tuskegee
and Dr. John M. Pressley,
psychologist with the VA Hospital
in Tuskeegee, will hold a dis­cussion
on the problems of drug
abuse. This session will close
the activities for the weekend.
Senate faces problem
in allocation of funds
By Thorn Botsford
Plainsman News Editor
The Student Senate faces "an almost impossible task" in
upcoming allocation proceedings, Ken Farmer, chairman of the
Senate Budget and Finance Committee, stated.
A total of approximately $259,-
130 will be available to dis­tribute
among campus organiza­tions
requesting $364,185 from
the Student Activity Fund for
activities next year. The com­mittee
met every night this week
and will continue deliberations
on student allocations next
week.
"The committee feels that all
of the requests are worthwhile,
but some requests will have to
be modified or cut," said Farm­er.
After completing the alloca­tion
study, the committee will
make a formal recommendation
to the Senate. "We hope to be
finished in time to report to
the Senate May 12," said Farmer.
The estimated balance from
last year's allocation is $14,-
130.21, a total which will be
added to the income from 1971-
72 Student Activity Fees which
is estimated to be $245,000.
Most organizations have re-
See page 5 col. 7
Pres. Harry M. Philpott is
to be among this year's Phi
Kappa Phi initiates.
Phi Kappa Phi, the first honor
society to recognize superior
scholarship in all fields of study
takes into membership the high­est-
ranking students from the
entire University and it is the
only honorary scholastic society
on campus which selects its
members from all schools.
Dean Emeritus Dr. Fred H.
Pumphrey of the School of
Engineering and Dr. Edwin B.
Smith, dean of agriculture, have
also been chosen for member­ship,
in recognition of their
outstanding achievements in
the fields of teaching and ad­ministration,"
said S. Blake
Yates, marshall and vice-pres­ident
elect of the Auburn Chapter
of the fraternity.
Wednesday at 4 p.m. a re­ception
was held in the Union
Ballroom to honor those selected
for membership. The initiation
will be May 27.
"Phi Kappa Phi is the top
scholastic honor society at
Auburn," said Yates, assistant
to the dean and instructor in the
School of Pharmacy. The society
was organized in 1897, and the
Auburn chapter was established
in 1914.
This year, for the first time,
certain juniors with a 2.8 grade
point; average or better are in­cluded
in the selection of under­graduates.
Seniors in the top five
per cent of their class are tapped
if they have a 2.4 grade point
average. The top ten per cent of
the graduate school who have a
2.7 average are selected for
membership.
This year one junior, Mrs.
Dana Beshears, 3PY, was chosen.
Other undergraduates are Sarah
L. Arendall, 4SED; Roy Mason
Arnold, 4BI; Judith Barrett,
4EED; Joseph F. Barth, 4CN;
Beverly Beaird, 4SED; Michael
P. Bess, 4ME; Patricia Blanken-ship,
4PS; J.R. Boddie, 4EE;
George R. Boiler, 4IE; Margaret
L. Bunn, 4EED; John H. Camp
Jr., 4LEC- William J . Camp, 4EC;
Carol A.Chandler, 4SED; Patrick
S. Cheatham, 4PS; Alberto Chei-sa,
4AR and Beverly Joyce Cope,
4HE.
Kay Ellen Cotney, 4EED;
Edwin M. Crawford, 4AC; Thomas
Craig Davis, 4AC; William R.
Davis. 4MCH;Cheryl Diane Dean,
4EED; Mary Ellen Denmore,
4EED; James H. Dixon, 4AM;
Madge H. Dunmeyer, 4SED;
Rodney Wayne Dunn, 4GMH;
Edward Allen Fountain, 4PM;
Judy Allen Fuller, 4GCH; Sharon
Gandy, 4EEP; R.A. Gates, 4EE;
Peter H. Glawe, 4FI; Linda O.
Hardie, 4SED; Ann Hollis Hig-gins,
4SED; Marcia Hilliard,
4SED; Ronnie Hyllyer, 4MCH;
Ronald G. Horton, 4GEH; James
See page 5, col. 6
Mortar Board selects 25 at Honors Convocation
Mortar Board, senior wom­en's
honorary, made its
annual selection of new
members at the Associated
Women Students honors con­vocation
on April 26. Twenty-five
women were tapped for
their outstanding qualities
of leadership, scholarship
and service.
Election of new officers
included Beth Avret, 3GPO,
president of the honorary
with Patti Kime, 3FCD, vice-president,
Carol Crawford,
3GMH, secretary and Sue
Turner, 4PY, treasurer.
New members include Lane1
Agnew, 4GEHS, who has a
2.62 overall average. Her
activities include Pi Kappa
Alpha little sister, Kappa
Delta sorority and Cwens
extension secretary.
Beth Avret is past pres­ident
of Alpha Lambda Delta
and a member of AWS Exec­utive
and Judiciary Council.
She has a 2.72 overall av­erage.
Debbie Brown, 4SED, has
a 2.19 overall and is pres­ident
of Alpha Gamma Delta.
She is also Sigma Alpha
Epsilon little sister and
was a cheerleader.
Charlene Bunting, 3EED,
is Gamma Phi Beta president,
Cwens member and a Sigma
Pi little sister. She has a
2.50 overall average.
Marion Cox, 3FL, has a
2.28 overall average, was
assistant to the chairman of
Horizons Symposium and
also a member of Cwens.
Carol Crawford, 3GMH, is a
War Eagle girl, a junior
counselor and a member of
the debate team. She has a
2.46 overall average.
Martha Ann Dunn, 4SED, is
an AWS officer, member of
Cwens and Alpha Gamma
Delta and has a 2.76 overall
average.
Inza Fort, 3GPO, with a
2.12 overall, has been active
as AWS Secretary, Judiciary
Council member and was a
Chi Omega officer.
Beverly Fredrick, 4SED,
has a 2.17 average, and was
the secretary of Alpha Gamma
Delta. She was a member of
Cwens and is the president
of Delta Omicron.
Marva Ann Gillam, 4SED,
was chairman of the Black
Arts Festival and worked
with the Afro-American .is-sociation.
She was also on
the President's Advisory
Committee Program for the
Disadvantaged and has a
2.43 overall.
Anne Hipp, 3SED, has a
2.21 overall and is a member
of Cwens and Kappa Delta
Pi. She is also a junior coun­selor.
Angela Johnson, 4PY, is
the past president of Alpha
Gamma Delta and is a mem­ber
of Rho Chi. She is a
Tau Kappa Epsilon sweet­heart
and has a 2.05 over­all.
Patti Kime, 3FCD, is the
second vice-president of
Alpha Delta Pi, a student
senator and president of Sig­ma
Chi little sisters. She
also has a 2.11 overall av­erage.
Dee Lee, 4GSP, with a
2.70 overall, is president of
Alpha Delta Pi, War Eagle
Girl and an Alpha Tau Omega
little sister.
Cheryl Lehman, 3VED, has
a 2.50 overall and is a mem­ber
of Cwens. She is the
pledge trainer of both Angel
Flight and Alpha Delta Pi.
Judy Pace, 3GMH, ispres-ident
of Chi Omega and a
senator from education. She
has a 2.69 and is a member
of Cwens.
Anita Page, 3HPR, is
president of AWS and Kappa
Kappa Gamma. She has a 2.37
overall and is a member of
Kappa Delta Pi.
Amy Lynn Philips, 3HPR,
has a 2.26 overall and is a
cheerleader. She is also a
War Eagle Girl and a member
of Kappa Delta Pi.
Marsha Prather, 3SED, is
the vice-president of Alpha
Lambda Delta and the trea­surer
of Alpha Delta Pi. She
has a 2.56 overall average
and i s a member of Cwens.
Kathy Rice, 3NF/SED is
the vice-president of Alpha
Chi Omega and is Omega Tau
Epsilon sweetheart. She has
a 2.09 average and is a
member of Omicron Nu.
Jane Sinback, 4HME, has a
2.69 overall and is the pres­ident
of the War Eagle Girls.
She is the vice-president of
Alpha Gamma Delta and a
senator from Home Econom­ics.
Susan Spratlin, 3EED, is
the president of Alpha Delta
Pi and a Cwens adviser. She
is an Angel Flight Officer
with a 2.38 overall.
Becky Stanford, 3SED, is
the rush chairman of Chi
Omega, Pershing Rifle Spon­sor
and Glomerata features
editor. She has a 2.24 over­all.
Sue Turner, 4PY, is the
secretary of Alpha Phi Alpha,
a junior counselor and a Phi
Delta Chi sweetheart with
a 2.45 overall.
Linda Weldon, 3SED, is
the Chi Omega vice-president
and is a member of Kappa
Delta Pi and Sigma Alpha
Eta. She has a 2.56 overall
average.
WMm
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THE AUBURN PLAINSMAN -2 Friday, May 7, 1971
HRF moratorium attracts 300
Col. Andrew Lamar, professor of military science.wasoneof
HRF ROD those confrontedWesnesdayafternoonasapproximately200stu-
• dents held a march Wednesday to commemorate those students
killed last spring at Kent State University. The crowd demanded that Colonel
Lamar do everything in his power to help end the war in Vietnam.
Dean of York Cathedral
speaks on history,humanity
History, not race or blood,
is what defines one nation
from another to make "for­eigners"
of us all, the Dean
of York Cathedral, England,
said at Auburn this week.
The Very Reverend Alan
Richardson, distinguished
theologian-historian, was
last of the year's Franklin
L e c t u r e r s , speaking on
"History, Humanity and the
University."
"Because of reverence for
the past, people need to in­vent
a history if they don't
have one," Richardson said,
adding, "Historians take
over from the poets a sense
of belonging. They are the
k e e p e r s of useful myths.
They must not only be know-l
e d g e a b l e but have rich
imagination to i n t e r p r et
people to themselves."
Strength comes from his­tory,
through what men have
done in the past, the Dean
continued. He cited Biblical
religion as important to the
understanding of what is go­ing
on in Israel today.
Auburn ME professor
president of ASEE
Dr. Donald M. Vestal Jr.,
head, Department of Me­chanical
Engineering, at Au­burn,
is the newly-elected
president of the Regional
American Society for
Engineering Education
(ASEE). He is the first
from Auburn to attain this
position.
Vestal will serve as pres­ident
of the Southeastern
region extending from Vir­ginia
to Mississippi.
Vestal will assume his
duties for the one-year term
beginning in July. He was
vice-president of the region­al
ASEE in 1965, and has
served as chairman of the
Mechanical Engineering
Division of the Southeastern
Region.
Other Auburn faculty mem­bers
were also recognized.
Dr. J. Grady Cox, dean of the
School of Engineering, was
elected vice-chairman of
the Administrative Unit. Dr.
R. I. Vachon, alumni profes­sor
in Mechanical Engineer­ing,
served as a member of
the Resolutions Committee.
Dr. Joe W. Reece, as­sociate
professor of Me­chanical
Engineering was
elected secretary of the
Instructional Unit, and Dr.
Gerald E. Tanger, mechan­ical
engineering professor,
was elected secretary of
the Mechanical Engineering
Division.
Humanism, which cannot
exist apart from science any
more than science can exist
apart from the humanities, he
said, is part of the tradition
and developed in the uni­versities.
"The very word,
'universities' emphasizes the
relationship of each subject
to the other, challenging the
university to unite all schol­arly
endeavor in search of
knowledge."
While at Auburn, Dean
Richardson visited classes.
in English, history, and phil­osophy,
and met informally
with students. His visit fol­lowed
two previous Franklin
lecturers, David Reisman
and Walter Heller.
Dean Richardson was
educated at Liverpool Uni­versity
and at Exeter Col­lege,
Oxford. Early in his
career he was closely as­sociated
with the Student
Christian Movement in
England.
He has held a number of
ecclesiastical posts, in­cluding
those of Chaplain of
Ripon Hall, Oxford, and
Canon of Druhan Cathedral.
He was Tutor in Jesus
College, Oxford, and served
for 10 years as Professor
of Christian Theology at
the University of Notting­ham.
Dean Richardson has vis­ited
in the United States
several times previously as
guest lecturer or professor
at leading institutions.
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By Thorn Botsford
Plainsman News Editor
A moratorium on "business
as usual' • sponsored by the
Human Rights Forum attracted
limited participation Wednes­day
as most s t u d e n t s at­tended
classes.
During the day, approxi­mately
300 students gathered
on the Haley Center Mall to
listen to speeches and con­duct
"open discussions" on
topics ranging from the war
tin Indochina to campus rules
for women.
Due to a campus advertis­ing
law, speeches over the
public address system could
only be delivered between
classes-about a ten minute
period-except d u r i n g the
noon hour.
Operational problems with
the public address system
prevented Jim Mengel, 4GPA,
from delivering a speech at
9 a on. concerning the anni­versary
of the Kent State in­cident.
Mengel spoke later
in the morning.
Joseph Thompson, history
instructor, spoke at 10 a.m.
on the "relaxation of cold
war tensions and other is­sues
relating to United States
foreign policy." Thompson
said that the recent "ping-pong
diplomacy" with China
and the defeat of further
Supersonic Transport (SST)
appropriations were examples
of the "new relaxed atti­tude."
Emphasizing that the SST
defeat was "one of the few
times that the power of the
American military had been
challenged," Thompson was
optimistic about the nation's
future priorities regarding de-
Evangelist's
youth revival
starts May 9
A six day ' 'youth oriented''
revival featuring evangelist
Bill Sauer is scheduled to
begin Sunday night a 7:30 in
Duck Samford Park. Sauer,
described as an evangelist
with "that Billy Graham
vitality," will speak each
night, Sunday through Friday
through thts sponsorship of
the East Alabama Crusade
for Christ, a trans-denomina­tional
evangelism committee.
Rev. Paul Dixon Sr.,
publicity chairman for the
Crusade, said that 40 dif­ferent
churches in the Lee
Macon, and Tallapoosa
County areas are co-operating
with the Crusade.
According to a publicity
release, Sauer "has spoken
in many churches and
schools, with over 3000
people making public com­mitments
of their lives."
Sauer is a graduate of the
University of Tulsa in Tulsa,
Oklahoma.
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needs. He expressed concern,
however, over the growing
division in American society
between groups characterized
as "longhairs" and "hard-hats."
Thompson said that
the future welfare of the
country depended upon the
r e c o n c i l i a t i o n of these
groups.
Pat Curtis, who headed
the Trout party ticket in the
recent Student Government
Association election, spoke
on the "discipline" problem
at Auburn. Labeling continued
d i s c u s s i o n on the issue
"trite," Curtis encouraged
students to adopt a "non­violent,
activist" approach
to change the existing dis­ciplinary
code and present
women's rules.
"Plan your own pressure
group," said Curtis, "Then,
after politely asking the ad­ministration
to stop stand­ing
on your heads, you have
a right to stronger action-legal
action-if there is no
response," he added.
Rev. George Telford, pas­tor
of the First Presbyterian
Church of Auburn, spoke at
noon on the war in Southeast
Asia. (Rev. Telford's speech
is reprinted in full on page
12.)
Millard Grimes, editor of
the Opelika-Auburn Daily
News, spoke at 12:30 p.m.
on the "right to dissent."
Grimes said that the first
examples of American dis­sent
were expressed in
grievances against King
George III before the A-merican
Revolution. He
said that dissent was a
"constant, effective, and
powerful factor in our coun­try."
"The most extreme case
of dissent in our country
resulted in the Civil War,"
said Grimes. He added that
the assassinations of na­tional
leaders in recent years
are dangerous signals that
dissent may have reached
a chronic level. "The major
question before us today
concerns the extreme limits
of dissent," said Grimes.
"Coed involvement at Au­burn"
was the topic of a
talk delivered by Beverly
Bradford, editor of The
Plainsman. "I can't really
get too enthused about speak­ing
on coed involvement to­day,"
said Miss Bradford.
"Most of the people I want
to reach are either in classes
or dormitories preparing for
an afternoon nap," she added.
Speaking on the same topic,
Anita Page, president of the
Associated Women Students,
said that amendments to
several existing rules for
women had been submitted
to Pres. Harry M. Philpott
for approval. The adoption of
optional meal tickets, the
abolishment of curfews for
sophomore women, and dorm
visitation for men are among
the proposed changes. Miss
Page said that most Auburn
s t u d e n t s "care" about
changing the present rules,
but are reluctant to become
involved in the changing pro­cess.
Because of a sudden de­cision
by moratorium organi­zers
to "sit in" at the SGA
office to protest the present
advertising law, John Saxon,
chairman of the American
Civil Liberties Union, did
not deliver his scheduled
speech on "Civil liberties
and Auburn Students."
Between speeches, stu-,
dents were urged to talk with
the scheduled speakers in
an open discussion format.
Many students were at­tracted
to a display table set
up on the mall by a group of
ministers who called them­selves
the "CampusMinisters
for Peace." Rev. Walter Por­ter
of the Baptist Student
Union said the ,ministers
wanted to display their con­cern
about the war by distri­buting
literature published
by clergy in regard to Viet­nam.
One pamphlet listed
various facts on the Vietnam
war and another provided in­formation
about prisoners of
war.
Faculty member appointed
chairman of FDA committee
Dr. Donald E. Hayhurst,
professor of political science
at Auburn, has been recently
appointed chairman of a
Federal Food and Drug Ad­ministration
advisory com­mittee.
Sec. Elliot Richardson of
the Department of Health,
Education and Welfare re­cently
announced that
Hayhurst's chairmanship
of the Poison Prevention
Packaging Technical Ad­visory
Committee would be
immediately effective and
last until April 14, 1973.
The PPPT Advisory Com­mittee
was established by
passing the 1970 Poison
Prevention Packaging Act.
Under the terms of the
federal act, the advisory
committee is to be composed
of not more than 18 members
representative of HEW, the
Dept. of Commerce, house­hold
substances manufactur­ers,
scientists, medical
practitioners, consumers,and
household container manu-
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Ph.D. from Pittsburg, where
he wrote his doctoral dis­sertation
on consumer pro­tection
and the FDA. He has
also written monographs
and articles and has
lectured on the subject of
consumer protection.
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Concerts allowed
with restrictions
Campus outdoor rock con­certs
will be allowed in the
future with certain restric­tions,
under a resolution
passed by the Social Life
Committee last week and ap­proved
by Pres. Harry M.
Philpott.
Civil rights
legislator
here May 11
George M. Johnson, law­yer-
educator and civil rights
legislator, will visit the
Auburn campus as part of
the University Lecture
Series May 11 and 12.
His public lecture, "The
Student and the Law," will
be at 4 p.m. Tuesday, May 11
in Haley Center 3195.
Johnson was educated at
the University of California
where he received the A.B.
and law degrees. He prac­ticed
law in California early
in his career.
He served as general coun­sel
on the President's Com­mittee
on Fair Employment
Practice from 1942-45. During
1945-58 he was affiliated
with the Association of
American Law Schools,
serving for a term as chair­man
of its Committee on
Legal Education.
Johnson was also dean
of the Howard University Law
School from 1946-58. He has
been, since 1958, a member
of the U.S. Committee on
Civil Rights. He was vice
chancellor for the Univer­sity
of Nigeria from 1960-64,
and is currently, a member
of the faculty at Michigan
State University.
The concerts have been
temporarily suspended for
the past weeks while the com­mittee
studied the problem
of violation of state drug
and alcohol laws at several
previous concerts.
The terms of the resolution
are as follows:
1. Any group desiring to
sponsor a concert must work
in conjunction with the Stu­dent
Government Association
or the Auburn Union,
2. Any concerts held out­side
can begin no earlier
than l p.m. and end no later
than 9 p.m.
3. All performing bands
must maintain a reasonable
volume level.
4. The sponsor must pay
for any supervisory action
that is required by Univer­sity
police.
5. The sponsor will work
to provide internal control
and security to adhere to
campus rules and regulations
and state laws.
6. The sponsor must pro­vide
maintenance and clean­up
after the concert.
7. All concert advertising
is restricted to the Auburn
Campus.
Dean Katharine Cater,
chairman of the Social Life
Committee, said that the
Baloney Brothers, 'sponsors
of past concerts, came before
the committee and expressed
a desire to continue the con­certs
and to provide internal
control.
Dean Cater said that the
Baloney Brothers felt they
could better control the prob­lems
concerning drugs and
alcohol by appealing to the
crowds to work in conjunc­tion
with the University.
Dean Cater expressed the
belief that the participants
in the concerts could clear
up the problems and hoped
that no further action need
be taken by the University.
Friday, May 7, 1971 THE AUBURN PUINWUN
What can you say about a cement mixer that fell in a hole?
Tmck SfOfV That iC l 0 0 k e d absurd lying helplessly on its side by the
*'"** *, , w " 7 Fisheries Building like a giant overturned shopping cart. But
the story has a happy ending; the truck was set upright and lived to mix again.
Guidelines given to ovoid
delays in VA payments
Neil R. Smart, director of
the Montgomery Regional Of­fice
of the Veterans Adminis­tration,
announced recently
that any students attending
Auburn under the veteran
students G.I. Bill are respon­sible
for notifying the VA of
any changes in their status.
The following suggestions
were offered to students to
avoid delays in receiving
their checks:
1. First-time G.I. Bill stu­dents
should get their Cer­tificate
of Eligibility from
the VA at least a month be­fore
registration.
2. Certificate of Eligibility
should be given to Regis­trar's
Office at time of regis­tration.
They will complete
the reverse side and forward
to VA.
3. Veterans re-enrolling
should make sure that the
Registrar's Office forwards
to VA his Certificate of Re-enrollment
(VA Form 21E-
1999).
4. A change in credit hours
means that VA Form 21E-
1999b must be sent in by
the Registrar immediately.
Veterans should confirm that
this is done.
5. A new wife or baby will
affect the training allowance
VA can pay. Report added
dependents. Get VA Form
21-686c. Declaration as to
Marital Status, from Regis­trar,
local service organiza­tion
representative, or VA
office nearest you. Send this
form in to your VA Regional
Office with proof of the
change, i.e., birth certificate,
marriage certificate, divorce
decree, death certificate,
etc.
6. A change of school or
course must be reported to
VA. Get VA Form 21E-1995
in well-head of the actual
change as the VA may not
be able to OK the change.
7. When VA writes anyone,
there is a claim number
shown on the letter. It is an
8-digit number with a "C"
prefix, that should be mem­orized.
8. Time is of the essence
and speed in doing these
things will enable the VA to
pay you on time. It is the
veteran's responsibility to
see that these things are
done.
History speech
Phi Alpha Theta, his­tory
honorary, is spon­soring
John B. Wolf from
the University of Illi­nois,
Chicago Circle. He
will speak on "The Bal­ance
of Power" at 4
p.m. in Haley Center
2370 on Monday.
Extramural
monies
decrease
During the month of April,
Auburn received a total of
18 extramural contracts and
grants representing a total
of 8784,724 in supportof
teaching, research and ex­tension
programs of the Uni­versity.
Compared to the month
of April a year ago, this
represents a decrease of
14 per cent in the receipt of
extramural funds. Also, com­pared
to the previous month
this year, this represents a
decrease of 15 per cent in
extramural funds.
"This situation," accord­ing
to Dr. Ben T. Lanham
Jr., vice-president for re­search
at Auburn, "is largely h
a reflection of continuing '
current Federal fiscal pol­icies
and of recent major
cut-backs in Federal sup­port
of scientific endeavors
in higher education. Auburn,
like other major universities
in the country, is receiving
its share of these effects.
"For the country as a
whole," Dr. Lanham said,
"These effects on higher
education have been drastic.
In many institutions, re­search
laboratiries have
been closed, support of
faculty and graduate re­search
has been seriously
curtailed, graduate fellow­ship
programs have been
eliminated and hundreds of
scientists have been forced
to reorient their efforts to­ward
areas and problems in
which they may be both
less interested and less
productive.
Birthday
Pollution came over on the
Mayflower.
Pres. Harry M. Philpott
was presented with a
special cake on his birth­day
yesterday as he "rapped" with students in Sam-ford
Park. The cake was presented by SGA Pres,
Jimmy Tucker in the name of all Auburn students.
Tucker claimed that the presentation was "definitely
not a political maneuver.''
THE AFRO-AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF AUBURN UNIVERSITY
PRESENTS Friday May 14 , at 8:15 MEMORIAL COLISEUM
RARE EARTH
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and Coliseum box office
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Editorial Page
The Environment
We are lucky here in Auburn.
When we look up at the sun, we
have to squint. Not so in Birmingham
just 120 miles away where the sun is
often a softly glowing, ill-defined
blob and the particulate matter level
trebled the 200 critical level last
month.
Our drinking water is adequate,
and our supply sources are not in
immediate danger. We are not in the
path of aircraft flight patterns; most
of us rise to the buzz of alarm clocks,
not the thunder of turbojets.
But let's not kid ourselves. Aubum
does have pollution problems. We are
lucky only for the time being. Now
we can escape from classes to Che-wacla,
but the lake is slowly, steadi­ly
filling with silt.
Lake Wilmore, once the city water
supplier, is now useless as a supplier
because of the siltation process. The
Chewacla area popular for "creek-banking"
smells like sewage.
Even if pollution in Auburn presents
no immediate health problems here,
areas down stream are affected by
the pollution from Town Creek which
empties ultimately in Mobile Bay.
From an esthetic point of view, the
odor from areas of chewacla destroys
the attractiveness of the scene.
As we enjoy the warm spring ,sun
perhaps we should remember the three
laws of ecology proposed by Dr. Barry
Commoner, director of the Center
for the Biology of Natural Systems
at Washington University in St. Louis:
(1) Everything is connected .with
everything else. (2) Everything goes
somewhere. (3)Thereis no such thing
as a free lunch.
. Or being lucky forever.
Pharmacy School
Pres. Harry M. Philpott has com­mended
Gov. George C. Wallace and
the Alabama Legislature for passing
a bill which provides $4 million for
"acquiring and providing facilities"
for Auburn's School of Pharmacy.
"As we expand the University's
role in helping with the solutions of
some of the great problems relating
to health care," said President Phil­pott
in a statement released Wednes­day,
"we call on , all of those who
have demonstrated their interest in
pharmacy education at Auburn to sup­port
the school as we plan for a 'new
day for pharmacy.'"
We join President Philpott in com­mending
Governor Wallace and the
state legislature and in asking for
the help of those who insisted on
keeping the Pharmacy School on the
Aubum campus. But we feel that
the real credit for what will surely
be a great step forward for Auburn,
should go to President Philpott him­self
whose tactful but persistant ef­forts
have made it possible.
Teacher Evaluation
We c o n g r a t u l a t e Bert Rice and
t h o s e who worked on this year's
Teacher-Course Evaluation under his
direction. The format of the evalua­tion
booklet is excellent, and the
number of students represented makes,
this an effort far superior to those in
the past.
We have often heard department
heads, deans and administrators men­tion
that they occasionally use these
evaluations to spot problem courses
and ineffective teachers. We would
like to ask now why student evalua­tion
should not become a formal part
of the evaluation and promotion pro­cess
at Aubum.
The tenure system, whereby teach­ers
are given job security that they
may remain uninhibited in criticizing
and advocating change of accepted
theories and existing political and
economic institutions, is under fire
from several sides. Most of this cri­ticism
is financial; critics see tenure
inflating college costs by causing
undue turnover in the untenured be­ginning
faculty ranks while providing
lifelong job security for incompetents
in the top echelon, thus driving down
overall faculty salary levels.
Yet it is the administration of the
tenure system, not the system itself,
which seems at fault. Higher educa­tion
in America needs some measure
of protection of academic freedom,
but at the same time it desperately
needs the kind of good management
that can cut out and prevent those in­efficiencies
which are driving college
costs upward.
The problem lies in the use and
a v a i l a b i l i t y of feedback. Good
management demands adequate quan­tities
of valid feedback, yet the eval­uation
and promotion process at Au­burn
d e n i e s a voice to a primary
source of relevant feedback-students.
Evaluation comes from tenured col­leagues,
department heads and deans
through subjective review of teaching
credentials, research, publications
and professional standing. Nowhere
does student evaluation formally en­ter
the picture, if at all.
But if teaching is the major goal
of the University, then clearly con­sideration
of student evaluation needs
to be a formal part of the overall eval­uation
and promotion process-and a
major part. Although students may
lack the academic competence which
comes from continuous study in a
field, they are in a better position
than any faculty member to accurately
judge whether a teacher is ably and
effectively disseminating knowledge.
Bert Rice and his Teacher-Course
Evaluation group have shown that a
valid survey can be produced. What
i s needed now are administrators with
the courage to utilize such a survey
as a management tool to help correct
some of the teaching inefficiencies
that have so long been ignored.
THE AUBURN PUIN*MMI
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Beverly Bradford
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Rusty Eubanks
Typically myopic Human
Rights Forum (HRF) members
and their supporters focused
on trees to the total exclu­sion
of the forest when .in
the middle of moratorium day,
they stomped off in anger to
occupy the SGA office and
demand that the campus ad­vertising
law, passed last
quarter by the Student Senate
after weeks of debate, be
changed immediately .so the
demonstrators could operate
a public address system at*
Haley Center during class
time.
Their protest became ludi­crous
in light of the blatantly
obvious fact that if the mora-torium
had been properly
planned, the rule concerning
use of the PA system would
have been known to the de­monstrators,
and they could
have voiced their protest at
the last Senate meeting.
As it was, the incident ap­peared
to be planned because
th e demon strator s needed
something-anything-to con­front
someone-anyone-with,
because confrontation seemed
appropriate on moratorium day.
The war and its horror was
quickly and completely for­gotten
as the demonstrators
rushed off to sail paper air­planes
down the hall outside
the SGA office. Afterwards,
they marched on Broun Hall
to demand that Col. Andy
Lamar, director of the (en­tirely
voluntary) Army ROTC
program,halt the Vietnam war;
then to President Philpott's
office where they demanded
that he halt the war and re­vamp
the discipline system,
then to Social Center where
they harrassed Dean Cater
about women's rules (after
having totally ignored AWS
President Anita Page, our
only real hope for rule change,
when she spoke earlier in the
Students can point to 'dead wood' in faculty
About every two weeks a
group of students and facul­ty
members file into a small
room in Haley Center, sit
down, pull out little slips
of paper, and begin discus­sing
them. This is the Uni­versity
Senate's Teaching
Effectiveness Committee. The
slips of paper are sugges­tion
s from students as to how
teaching effectiveness could
be.improved.
The slips are gathered by
Committee members from the
Committee's suggestion
boxes. There are never more
than a dozen, and they go
something like this: "Prof-fessor
X is a dirty fink."
"Why doesn't Dr. Y give
back his quizzes?" "887-
3230."
There is usually very lit­tle
information given by the
student. Most suggestions
seem as if they were written
by a student who just walked
out of a room where he
thought he had been shafted
by a quiz. There is even a
peculiar lack of the usual
clever, graffiti-like jargon
that usually plagues sugges­tion
boxes.
As a student member of
the committee, I can sympa­thize
with a few of the wri­ters,
but I am embarrassed
by the response-or the lack
of it. Arguments for academic
change just do not carry
much weight when existing
mechanisms for improvement
are largely ignored.
And these suggestion
boxes area legitimate means
of improvement. Each sugges­tion,
no matter how trivial,
is reviewed and discussed
by the committee, then is
passed on to the instructor,
his department head, and his
dean (if the suggestion re­lates
to a particular course
or instructor) or to the ap­propriate
administrator. The
committee keeps track of how
many suggestions relate to
.whom, so that if a signifi­cant
number of suggestions
are not acted on, the commit­tee
knows about it.
I suppose the problem is
that students do not know
their own strength. If one
student drops the committee
a short note full of obsceni­ties
about a particular course
or professor, little is likely
to be done, although the ap­propriate
people will hear
about it. But if an entire
class writes a detailed cri­ticism
of a course or profes­sor,
chances are, much will
be done about it, especially
right now.
With the current financial
crisis, the word is out that
teachers, especially unten­ured
ones, will be looked at
closely by administrators.
The hunt is on for dead wood,
and right now student opin­ion
probably means much
more than it ever has before
at Auburn-if students will
take the time to make them­selves
heard.
Some suggestions for sug­gestions:
Be reasonably brief,
but back up your allegations
with examples or facts. Try
to get several classmates to
co-author your suggestion.
Encourage all members of
your class to write the com­mittee.
Use a business-like
format for your suggestion;
if you are serious, chances
are the person who reads the
suggestion will take you
seriously.
It is time University ad­ministrators
started respond­ing
to the student voice in
academic affairs. The forum
for d i s c u s s i o n of change
exists, but its effectiveness
depends on the students it
represents. If students do
not begin now to take advan­tage
of the avenues of change
which are available, the cre­dibility
of the entire concept
of student equality in higher
education will be lost.
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Mother- foundation for self-reliance, departure
The high intensity lamp
stretches awkwardly and
throws an ellipse of white
light on a blond desk top,
crumpled chewing gum wrap­pers,
a cold coffee mug, page
237 of Intermediate Calculus,
3 dull No. 2 pencils, a yel­low
legal pad and a worn pink
pearl eraser.
Across the room suspended
in black, chartreuse lumines­cent
dots glow quietly, per­sistently.
It is 4:32 a.m.
I light a cigarette, wad the
empty pack, lob it toward the
spot where I last saw the
wastepaper basket, hear paper
and cellphane hit the floor.
"I don't get it. If this is
the derivative of that, then
this over here should work.
But it doesn't," mumbled
low.
I sink in the chair that
is hard against my spine,
shake my left foot that is
asleep.
I wish I were five years
old and could let Mother do
it," another low mumble. I
rub the cigarette out in the
ashtray and remember that
if I were five I could go to
sleep.
Any problem I had, my
mother could solve. If the
boys next door threw dirt
clods at me, if Laura wouldn't
let me have my gun and hol­ster
set back, if my puzzle
pieces wouldn't fit, whatever
happened, Mother could fix
it. I didn't have to worry.
"That wouldn't work now.
Mother never had intermediate
calculus," as the pins and
needles subside.
It is 5:10 a.m. according
to the glowing dots. The quiz
is in three hours. I don't
know how to work the prob­lems.
* * *
All of that, thank heavens,
is four years behind me. I
don't quake over quizzes.
I've become callous to the
all-nighters. I passed the
course, and the grade I made
on that particular calculus
test is immaterial.
I worried through my day-to-
day dilemmas long before
I came to college. However,
once physically separated
from her, my mother could no
longer be my "just in case"
emotional backstop.
When I needed to be my
own person, I could. "My
job is to make you able to
rely on yourself as soon as
possible," was her credo.
Hers was a formula of de­mands,
sensitivity, under­standing
and humor.
* * *
When I sent her a Mother's
Day card, I signed it asScott,
a person who loves her and
just happens to be her
daughter.
day.)
Then the marchers ad­journed
to Graves Amphi­theatre
for a rock concert,
the significance of which, in
the midst of a moratorium on
"business as usual*' tocon-sider
U.S. involvement in the
Vietnam war, is difficult to
grasp.
In terms of effectiveness,
the day's efforts were a total
loss, The demonstrators, in­stead
of following the stated
goal of the Student Mobiliza­tion
Committee (SMC) to carry
out the moratorium on a
person-to-person level by en­gaging
others (i.e., largely
apathetic Auburn students) in
discussions of the war, in­dulged
in a juvenile display
remindful of trick-or-treating
or a panty raid. Their activi­ties
bore no hint of the calm,
reasonable approach to dis­cussion
of the Vietnam war
which was intended by the
SMC as a fitting memorial to
the six students who were
slain last year at Kent and
Jackson State Universities.
I cannot conceal my cyni­cism.
It may be the result of old
age encroaching on a gradu­ating
senior, or of senility
claiming another Plainsman
editor at the term's end. But
I was sorely disappointed in
those few Auburn students
with whom I share a pas­sionate
disavowal of U.S. in­volvement
in Vietnam and out
misplaced national priorities.
Women's rules at Aubum
are repressive and in need of
change; but that change is
being sought, calmly and per­sistently,
by Anita Page
through AWS. That is the only
way it will be brought about
at Auburn.
And the University's dis­cipline
system is in crying
need of restructuring. But a
Student Senate committee
under Chairman Bruce Gilli-land
is currently enmeshed
in an exhaustive study of the
problem and will recommend
change in the fall. Gilliland,
like Miss Page, is proceed­ing
calmly and persistently;
and ultimately, I believe, ef;
fectively.
But women's rules and;
discipline policies have no­place
in a war moratorium.;
And student activists who;
compose less than one per
cent of the Auburn student;
body, but hotly demand change
to occur at their command
though they have refused to
inform themselves of, or be^
come involved in, ongoing
efforts for orderly change,
do not command anyone's,
respect. g
I present our campus acti­vists
with a modified version?
of a familiar anti-war slo-i
gan . . . what if they gave a
moratorium and nobody earned
Unless they abandon theif
childishness and appeal to the
reason of a significant nunv
ber of Auburn students to1
win their support, HRF menu
bers may find out at thei&
next moratorium. -I
Student voice needed on Athletic Committee
By Bob Wilson
Student Senate Ticket Committee
Students are now ordering football
tickets under what may be one of
the best systems yet outlined by the
numerous committees which have
studied ticket problems. Merely or­dering
tickets, however, is like the
proverbial iceberg. The real problems
are out of sight, hidden beneath the
murky waters that surround the atti­tudes
of the Athletic Department and
the Athletic Committee toward the
Auburn student.
Attitude problems are far more
serious-and therefore far more dif­ficult
to solve-than the simple me­chanics
of distributing football tick­ets.
Auburn Athletic Director G. W.
Beard, Director of Ticket Sales, Bill
Beckwith, and Assistant Director of
Ticket Sales, David Housel, have
been very cooperative and helpful in
formulating present ticket policies.
Agreeable solutions were reached
in all but two areas, validation of
non-student date tickets, and provi­sions
for a non-student husband.
Beard and Beckwith adamantly op­pose
both the two proposals. They
say the validation of tickets is im­possible
and contend that no school
in the country has a non-student
husband policy. Perhaps the policies
of the University of Mississippi
should be checked. The Rebels have
a non-student husband policy, and
Ole Miss is certainly not that far
behind-or ahead-of Auburn.
After numerous meetings with
Beckwith and Housel, it became
apparent that no agreement could be
reached. Beckwith then graciously
volunteered to get Beard to present
the student proposals to the athletic
committee, which, according to Beck­with,
must approve all of Auburn's
athletic policies.
Beckwith said it is "out of the
question" for a student to attend
the Athletic Committee meeting
because the meetings are closed.
No one, he said, other than those
invited, could attend the closed-door
sessions. In his 20 years at
Auburn, he said he had attended
only two or three meetings. The
Athletic Committee, as portrayed
by Beckwith, is a different group
than the one described by members
of the committee, who were unaware
of the closed-door policy, but stated
that seldom did anyone other than
Beard, Beckwith, and committee
members attend.
Now to the question: why can't
a student appear before the Athletic
committee and present proposals
for the major changes in ticket
policy? Beard, a man of integrity
and the most successful athletic
director in Auburn history, will
surely make a valiant effort in pre­senting
proposals. But Beard, or
any other man, will be in a pre­carious
position presenting pro­posals
which he himself considers
unworkable. A student who supports
the proposals should be allowed to
present them to the committee, show
why they are needed, how the changes
could be made, and answer any
questions the committee might have.
To take the issue one step further,
why not have student representa­tion
on Auburn's Athletic Commit­tee?
A proposal for a non-voting stu­dent
member was presented to the
Auburn administration summer quar­ter.
There has been no action, and
the proposal appears to have been
lost within the drawers of Auburn's
often inefficient bureaucracy.
A top level administrator in Sam-ford
Hall has said that the NCAA
forbids student representation on
athletic committees. He apparently
has received some bad advice from
his athletic advisers. Kentucky, a
member of the Southeastern Confer­ence,
has student representation^
and Georgia Tech, a long-time NCAA
member, has three students on itg
athletic committee. "
Then, why not Auburn? N'
There has been no satisfactory
answer. There has been no answer
at all. A definite "yes" or "no-*
would be more acceptable than ad­ministrative
silence.
Students do not want to "run" the
Athletic Department. We do not want
to "expose" anyone. We merely
believe students have the right to
have an accredited representative at
meetings of the Athletic Committee
which formulates policy for Auburn's
athletic program, an integral part
of Auburn student life.
Is this too much to ask?
We think not.
And if student representation difd
nothing else, it would end, once
and for all, the enigma of student
proposals being given to the Athletic
Department for presentation to th;e
Athletic Committee and never being
heard from again.
letters to fhe Editor Friday, May 7, 1971 5- THE AUBURN PUINSMHN
'Nation not buih on flags, statues, bells or songs'
Editor, The Plainsman:
In your letters concerning
WEGL's sign-off, it was stated
that Jimi Hendrix's arrangement
of the National Anthem is not
fitting.
Not fitting for what?-a country
split because of an undeclared
war in Southeast Asia or a
people in a futile battle for white
supremacy and black power.
A country is not built on
flags, statues, bells or songs.
Patriotism is not based on
traditions, nor is it straight
down the line,"my country can
do no wrong."
A person with concern for the
welfare of his country will
seek changes towards the fulfill­ment
of its ideals, and will not
find contentment in the uphold­ing
of traditions.
Agreed, Jimi Hendrix's ar­rangement
of "The Star-Spangled
Banner" is quite different than
the traditional ai angement, but
the bombs and the rockets are
still there.
But then again, maybe you
are right. Maybe Jimi Hendrix's
National Anthem is not fitting.
Maybe, instead we need a song
for peace.
Michele Poole, 3GC
'Radio sign off
right for '71'
Editor, The Plainsman:
I would like to take an op­portunity
to commend the manage­ment
and staff of WEGL for the
work that has been done in the
operation of the station.
WEGL is a station that all
Auburn students can listen to for
information concerning students
as well as entertainment.
As for the use of Jimi Hendrix's
version of the National Anthem
AWS recommendations
submitted to Philpott
• The adoption of optional meal tickets by fall quarter and
the abolishment of curfews for sophomore coeds with parental
permission are among the recommendations recently submitted
to Pres. Harry M. Philpott by Associated Women Students.
Anita Page, AWS president,
said that President Philpott
promised to give the recom­mendations
full consideration
before commenting on them later
this month.
AWS has also recommended
that junior coeds with parental
permission be able to live in
apartments off campus, and that
male students be able to visit
dormitories during certain hours.
If approved, the "male visita­tion"
proposal would allow the
coeds in each dorm to decide
whether or not they wanted visit­ation.
The hours of 8 p.m. to.
12 p.m. on Friday and Satur­day
and the hours of 1 p.m. to
6 p.m. on Sunday have been,
established as guidelines, and
coeds in each dorm will decide
upon visitation schedule within
these guidelines.
Many other recommendations
have been sent by AWS to Dean
of Women Katharine Cater for
approval. Among these are ex­tended
hours for freshmen, a-bolishing
fees for overnight
guests in dorms, and the elimina­tion
of mandatory AWS convoca­tions.
Others include the elimina­tion
of the AWS handbook quiz,
optional dorm meetings-with the
exception ot the first meeting
each quarter for new students
and mandatory in and out cards
for overnight use only.
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for a sign-off, it would appear
that Hendrix's version is ap­propriate
for a 1971 college-operated
radio station, and
Hendrix's version is more pa­triotic
than "Dixie," which is
a common sign-off for many
stations in the area.
Music has changed through
the years, and the musical talents
of Jimi Hendrix in his version
of the National Anthem is ap­propriate
for a radio station
that has a majority of listeners
who belong to Hendrix's genera­tion
of music.
Larry J. Moore,2GSC
'Theft causes
heavy burden'
Editor, The Plainsman:
This letter is addressed to the
thoughtless person that stole my
books last Friday from the Wo­men's
Lower Quad Dining Hall.
It has hurt me to realize that
there are people as low and self­ish
as you on the Auburn cam­pus.
Both you and I are students
working to get through college,
needing all the money we can
get our hands on to do it.
But, instead of trying to help
your fellow "sufferers" and try
to lighten their load, you decide
to steal from them, putting a
heavier burden upon their shoul­ders.
You have not only stolen
my money, but also the valuable
time that it will take to recopy
my notes, etc.
How would you feel if you
came back from lunch to find
came back from lunch to find
your books and notebooks had
been taken? I felt very de­pressed,
unhappy and ashamed
to be a member of such an un­feeling
race of human beings.
Please think again about what
you have done. It constitutes a
petty theft and I'm afraid you're
going to bump into bad trouble
that can be avoided.
If you will leave my books,
etc., downstairs in the lobby of
the dorm or return them to the
place you found them in the din­ing
hall, I would appreciate it
more than you know, and nobody
else will ever find out about it.
Name Withheld by Request
'Progress must
be controlled'
Editor, The Plainsman:
I was both amused and sad­dened
by the "Speaking Out"
article of O.N. King, April 30,
1971.
Amused, because he feels
that persons who are for ecol­ogical
and population controls
are "superpatriots" on the one
hand and "leftists" on the other;
and saddened, because he feels
that these persons are trying
to make life more unpleasant
and less comfortable for every­body.
As a member of both Zero
Population Growth and the con­servancy
clubs, I can personally
state that the aims of these
organizations are far different
from what Mr. King believes
them to be.
The main object. of all the
ecological groups is to "pre­serve"
the quality of life. No
one has any intention or desire
to return to the days of the
caveman, however, if we do
not deal wisely with our natural
resources, we may very well
end up that way, if we are lucky.
All that is asked of business
and government is that a reason­able
amount of their profits are
put into controlling the destruc­tion
of the environment, and to
find more ecologically sound
ways of providing their com­modities
so that our future
generations will have something
to share.
There is no question but
that we need more technology,
however, what we must decide
is the "kind" of technology that
is needed. I suggest that
if any of the readers are sincerely
interested in these very important
problems, they attend a few
of the meetings held by the
aforementioned organizations
and see what is really happening
and what each one can do.
Michael E. Friedman
Assistant Professor
Continued from page 1
HRF moratorium and results
Wanted:
Students to
work on
The Plainsman
926-4130
Ik pay is ferny ($0.00),
previous engagements but that
he sympathized with the" move­ment
for peace. He invited any­one
interested in talking with
him to do so on Thursday when
he held a "rap session" in
Samford Park.
After speaking with President
Philpott, the group moved to
the Social Center where Dean
Cater fielded questions con:
cerning women's rules for ap­proximately
30 minutes.
The march broke up after the
meeting with Dean Cater but
several students proceeded to
Graves Amphitheatre for a rock
concert.
Ten of the 30 student senators
and approximately 50 students
were present at the special
Senate forum.
John Saxon, chairman of the
ACLU, led off the discussion
with a recommendation that the
Senate strongly consider a recent
resolution passed by ACLU
recommending a complete revi­sion
of the discipline code so
that University discipline would
concern purely academic in­fractions
and would not cover
any areas of personal morality.
The resolution called f a a
"hands off" policy by the Uni­versity
in cases of violations
of non-University-related civil
or criminal offenses, and
recommended changes in pro­cedures
for discipline so that
students' civil rights would not
be violated.
Other topics of discussion
included the campus advertising
law and the general problem of
communications on campus.
Many of the students present
felt that a bulletin board and
the use of P A systems in the
area of Haley Center would
greatly improve communications.
Pbi Kappa Phi
M. Howard, 4AR, and Princie L.
Ingram, 4SED.
Joseph E. Johnson, 4AE;
Martha N. Johnson, 4EED; Paul
J. Johnston, 4AC; Bobby Earl
Jones, 4AG; Cynthia L. Bashore
Jones, 4AC; Jane Kerby, 4ED;
D. B. Kinsey, 4EE; Mary Kath­leen
King, 4SED; Marilyn Lee,
4FM; R.B. Leggett, 4CN; John
M. Lyon, 4AE; Lexa Lucille
Magnus, 4SED; Lucy M. McCord ,
4EED; Kathy J. McKnight, 4SA;
Betty Mitchell, 4BA; Ann Mordic,
4MU; Kenneth H. Morgan, 4MH;
George W. Nunn, 4PM and"Agnes
M. O'Brien, 4BA.
Janice Lano Parker, 4FCD;
Ronald E. Paulk, 4ME; William
B. Poucher, 4GMH; James M.
Prichett, 4BA; Herbert E.Randall,
4GPO; William H. Redmond,
4BI; Nancy Carol Richter, 4FCD;
Brenda D. Roehn, 4ED; Charles
H. Sabens, 4CH; Judy Shelton,
4BA; Robert T. Skelton, 4PS;
Wanda Snow, 4BA; Jane A. Stacey,
4AC; Ruth G. Stewart, 4SED;
Darrell G. Taylor, 4CE; Lewis
M. Thomas, 4PD; Thomas B.
Traylor, 4PM; A.C. Troy, 4EE;
Alan C. Turnham, 4PM; Mary
Ann Wages, 4SED; Hoyt M.
Warren, 4GMH; Judy L. Williams.
40A and Sarah Bowling Williams,
4BI.
Those tapped from the Grad­uate
School are John L. Adrian,
6AS; Cheng Hsiong Chen, 8ME;
Joan Christopher, 6PG; Judith
W. Comer, 6SP; H.C.Ellis, 9ZY;
George R. Gardner, 6AS; Robert
E. Gray, 6HY; Charles Hill, 6PG:
Albert W. Johnson, 9ZY; Robert
E. Johnson, 6MH; Albert B.
Kitchens, 6HY; William G. Legg,
6FE; Sheng Shong Lin, 6AN;
Douglas H. Powell, 6FAA;
John C. Propes, 8MH; Thomas
F. Roney, 6AS; James R. Sid-bury,
9MHGeraldW. Smith, 6AE;
Tina H. Straley, 9MH; John Van
Cleave, 9MH» and Robert H.
Wynne, 8CED.
Allocations
quested more money this year.
The Student Government As­sociation
alone has requested an
increase of $19,650.
Seven organizations are re­questing
money for the first
time. Among these, the Afro-
American Association, black
student's organization, has re­quested
the highest amount of
these organizations with $7,-
800.
Other requests include SGA,
$73,050; Women's Intramurals,
$4,150; c o n c e r t s , $26,550;
Plainsman, $44,776.05; Re­ligious
Affairs, $2500; Asso­ciated
Women Students, $7880;
Tiger Cub, $3344.50; Men's
Intramurals, $33,709.85; Au­burn
Union, $59,500; Glomerata,
$57,350; WEGL, $18,746.50;
lectures, $16,500; War Eagle
Girls, $300; Livestock Judging
Team, $1870.50; American Civil
Liberties Union, $955; Rugby
Club, $366.80; Sports Parachute
Club, $1996 and Alpha Eta
Rho, aviation fraternity, $2,-
840. tm • ,.., .
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THE AUBURN PIAINSM^M -6 Friday, May 7, 1971
Title to be decided in
final two SEC games
Baseball Statistics
BATTING SUMMARY
Photo by Glenn Brady
_ . . -- Dave Blodgett eases back into
PlCkOlf first b a s e following a pick-off
attempt ,bv an Atlanta Baptist
pitcher. Auburn baserunner have stolen 93 bases on
the year, so the opposition must pay close attention
to the tnreat of an Auburn tneft. Blodgett and other
Tiger reserves won over tne Atlanta school 8-6 Monday.
The Howells are
a talented family
Family traditions have always been a good thing for Au­burn
athletics. Take for instance the Yearout family of
Birmingham. Gusty was an All-Conference performer for
the Tigers a few years ago, in addition to being captain of
the football team. Now, his brother, Tommy, has been
named alternate captain for the 1971 football squad as well
as being a stellar performer in the line for Auburn.
There is also the current family team of Milton and Alvin
Bresler running for the Tiger track team. Both of these
athletes have been a great aid to the Auburn athletic pro­gram,
Alvin as a football and track star, and Milton as one
of the best hurdlers in the nation.
Speaking of Sports
Sporti Editor
toady Donaldson
This fall another family tradition will begin when Rex
Howell enrolls as a freshman basketball player for the
Tigers. The family tie, of course, is with Alex Howell, who
was captain of the basketball team in the '67-'68 season,
and a fine playmaker for Auburn for three years in a row.
Rex comes to Auburn with a very impressive set of
credentials from his high school days. At Early County
High School, in Blakely, Ga., he broke every scoring record
that his brother had set before him, including career marks
in total points and average. He totaled 2342 points in four
years for the class "A" school for an average of over 21
points for his career. His last year there he was able to
score at an outstanding 27.13 points per game.
Coach Bill Lynn, the man of over 100 pursuing coaches
that was lucky enough to land Howell, says that his strong
points are his quickness and ability to move the ball,
leadership, and playing sound defense. In the Georgia
district tournament last fall, this defense of Howell's
against Tommy Taylor, of arch rival Cairo, Ga., allowed
his team to advance to the state tournament.
As a result of his performances, he was featured in the
February issue of the Letterman Magazine as one of the top
30 high school basketball players in the nation and was
selected on the District Four Ail-American Team.
Howell led his team to the championship in class "A"
basketball in his junior year, and then last season,
although his team didn't win the top spot, he was the leading
scorer and Most Valuable Player in the state in his senior
year.
All four years that Rex played was under the tutelage of
Tommy Whitehurst, who compiled a fabulous record of 96
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Having shown that it
can withstand the pressure
by beating Vanderbilt two
of three games last week­end,
the Auburn baseball
squad is challenged again
today and tomorrow when
it meets the Georgia Bull­dogs
in single games in
Athens.
While the Tigers visit
Georgia, Vanderbilt meets
the Florida Gators in three
game series in Nashville.
These facts leave several
possibilities open regarding
the championship of the
SEC's Eastern Division race.
If both Auburn and Van­derbilt
sweep, then there
will be a tie for the first
place spot in the division,
as both teams will then sport
11-5 conference records. A
sweep by either club while
the other team drops a game
will result in a championship.
And if both teams lose a
game, then it will also be
a tie. In that case, there will
be a playoff at a neutral site
to be named later.
Suppositions aside, how­ever,
the Tigers rose to the
fore of' the division on the
strength of two gutsy pitch-
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ing performances by Earl
Nance and Rick Eisenacher
last weekend in Nashville,
after having lost the first
game of the series to the
Commodores.
In that first game, as
several hundred Vandy fans
sat just a few feet from the
playing field, Jack Van
wins and only 18 losses and four straight trips to the state'
tournament in that time. The only other time that the school
was in the state tournament was when Whitehurst's uncle,
Bobby Davis, was the team's coach and Alex Howell was
the star of the team his senior year.
So, Rex Howell is an outstanding basketball player.
Auburn, though, has never recruited and outstanding basket­ball
player that has all the other talents on the side that
Howell has.
Yperen experienced a wild
streak in the fifth inning, and
the Commodores were able
to score four runs. From
that point on, with the ex­ception
of Joe Haefner's
sixth home run of the season,
Jeff Peeples silenced the
Auburn bats and Vandy came
away with a 5-1 win.
Then, in the second game,
under the pressure of a do­or-
die situation, Nance
pitched a three hitter and
Auburn hitters clobbered the
usually stingy Vandy pitch­ing,
and the Tigers romped
to a 6-1 win. Key blows in
the game were Nance's two
hits and a two RBI single
by Ken Dempsey.
In the rubber game of the
series, Eisenacher responded
in the clutch situation with
by far the best game that he
has pitched this season. He
allowed only three hits while
striking out 14 Commodores
and held them scoreless as
Auburn hitters plated nine
runs. It was the first time
that Vandy had been shut out
the entire season.
TT , 'i , . Martin's fine day gave him
Haefner was the big gun a t o t a l o f 4 g h i t s o n t he
for Auburn offensively, as l e a v i n g h i m o n l o n e g n of
he got three hits including t h e 0 1 d A u b u r n m a r k g e t in
two doubles and drove in a 1 9 6 7 by S c o t t y L and
run. Also, Wayne Hall was G e o r g e Simmons.
Albert Johnson named
new Tiger signee
an unexpected source of
power as the third baseman
hit only the second home run
of his collegiate career to
dr ive in two runs.
Coach Paul Nix decided
to give his regulars a rest
in the contest in Auburn
Monday, and their replace­ments
responded with a come
from behind 8-5 win over
Atlanta BaDtist College.
Bill Lawrence won the
game in relief of Lyn Jones,
and helped himself with the
bat with two hits in two times
at bat, one of them a double.
Bennett Shuman also had a
good day at the plate with
three hits and two RBI's.
Then, with an easy 5-1
triumph of Alabama Tuesday,
the Tigers recorded their 11th
victory in their last 12 con­tests.
Joey Martin upped his
average 17 points with four
hits and Van Yperen won his
sixth game of the season in
completing a sweep of the
two games that were played
with the Crimson Tide this
year.
A galf champion . . .
The most obvious place to start on his other abilities
is his golfing prowess. Last year he was the number one
man on the class "A "championship golf team, and he has
won the district tournament this season. He has a very
excellent chance of going on to be the state's best high
school golfer.
If he goes on to be the best, it will be similar to a situa­tion
that occurred to Howell when he was 14 years old.
That year, he entered a junior tournament here in Alabama
which included golfers from age 18 all the way down to 13,
Howell was in a lower bracket, because he gave away four
years to some of the best senior high school golfers in the
state, much like the situation he faces in competing against
the much larger schools in Georgia. Howell not only won
the 13-14 age bracket in that match, but he also had the
lowest individual score for all divisions.
Somehow, in the midst of all those athletic pursuits,
Howell was learning to fly. When he reached 16, the first
age that law allows a student license to be issued, there
was Howell getting his. He now flies almost everywhere he
goes.
With all that time being consumed, you would bet that
Howell's grades weren't the best. There just is no waythat
one human being could do all that other stuff, and still
make acceptable grades, right? Wrong. Howell is ranked
number one in his class, having made straight " A ' s " in
his entire high school career. He is President of the Beta
club, too.
Rex and Alex aren't the only members of the Howell
household that have notoriety, either. Their father is mayor
of Blakely, or at least he was until just last week. He then
left the mayorship to become the full time city-manager of
the town.
Definitely a talented family, the Howells. If they live up
to the tradition that families of athletes have established
at Auburn, then there is a very little doubt that Rex Howell
will be an all-star performer on the court for the Tigers.
By Ray Wheeler
Assistant Sports Editor
Albert Johnson a six-foot,
seven-inch forward from Ala­bama
Christian Junior Col­lege,
became the third bas­ketball
player to sign with
Coach Bill lynn's Tigers
last Wednesday, joining All-
Americas Rex Howell of
Blakely, Ga., and Sylvester
"Silver" Davenport of Soddy
Daisy, Tenn., as Tiger
signees.
Johnson, a high school
All-America from Carver,
and "the best to ever play
at Alabama Christian" ac­cording
to his coach Willard
Tate, averaged 17.6 points
and grabbed 16.3 rebounds
per game last season.
"Albert will probably be
used at forward. He can
shoot from outside and has
good accuracy from 15 to 18
feet away. He doesn't need
to be able to shoot from any
farther away with his size.
He will fit right in with our
style since we were in need
of another front-liner last
season. It takes four men
up front," said Coach Lynn.
Johnson joins Howell and
Davenport, both blue chip
athletes, respected for their
scholastic and character
qualities as well as their
playing ability. They elected
to come to "War Eagle Coun­try"
over such schools as
Western Kentucky, Kentucky,
Jacksonville, N.C. State
and South Carolina.
Janet Fox
sweeps to
tennis win
By Debbie Wilson
Women's Intramurals Editor
Aubum walked away with
a clean and impressive vic­tory
last weekend at the
Southern Women's Athletic
Conference Tennis Tourna­ment
in Carrollton, Georgia,
the home of West Georgia
C o l l e g e , Auburn was
awarded the team trophy for
first place, Georgia Southern
claimed second, and the
West Georgia ladies grabbec
third place.
J a n e t Fox of Auburn
clinched the singles with
consecutive wins over De-
Kalb College, Georgia
Southern, Georgia College
and West Georgia. Margaret
Russell, Babs Welch, Beth
Inman, Linda Hale, and
Cathy Scott followed the
lead with wins through the
first rounds.
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Andy Merchant
Joe Haefner
Ken Dempsey
Jack Baker
Pete Rancont
Bill Cameron
Wayne Hall
Don Donaldson
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Jack Van Yperen
Rick Eisenacher
Larry Kain
Lynn Jones
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Another mark that was
erased in the last game was
the SEC's stolen base mark
of 78. The Tigers now have
93 thefts on the year, but
Vanderbilt has also broken
the record, so there is no
definite fact that Auburn will
hold the record at the year's
end.
Photo by Glenn Brady
_# . Rick Eisenacher steams across
USenaCher ttie Plate> scoring another run
for the high scoring Auburn
baseball team. Eisenacher pitched one of the best
games of his college career against Vanderbilt last
week, giving the Tigers the one-half game advantage
that they now enjoy in the SEC's Eastern Division.
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Cliff Here award to be presented Friday, May 7, 1971 7- THE AUBURN PUINSM*M
Bresler named top senior athlete
Alvin Bresler, senior
wingback and outstanding
trackman from Shades Val­ley
in Birmingham, Ala.,
will receive the Cliff Hare
Award, the highest honor
an Auburn athlete can at­tain,
at half time cere­monies
of the A-Day game,
according to an announce­ment
by Athletic Director
Jeff Beard.
Bresler was a clutch pass
reciever playing opposite
Terry Beasley on the 1970
football team and closed out
his career with a great game
against Ole Miss in the Gator
Bowl. Bresler caught four
passes for 102 yards and a
touchdown against the
Rebels. Two of his catches
were inside the two-yard line.
During the regular season
Alvin caught 23 passes for
530 yards, a 23.0 average
per catch. He also caught an
85-yard touchdown pass
against Georgia Tech that
went into the record book as
the longest pass play in Au-ourn
history.
So far this spring Alvin
las turned in the best SEC
^ime in the 440-yard inter­mediate
hurdles, 51.4, which
is two-tenths of a second
better than his teammate and
brother Milton's time in the
same event.
Alvin also runs legs on
both the.mile and 440 relay
teams. In some meets he
competes in the 100 yard
dash and 220 yard dash. He
was drafted in the sixth round
by the San Francisco 49ers
of the NFL.
The Cliff Hare Award win­ner
is selected by the Au­burn
Faculty Athletic Com­mittee
from nominations by
head coaches of the various
Trophy prospecf Sullivan
backed by Whatley,Brock
sports. It is given in the
name of Cliff Leroy Hare, a
member of Auburn's first
football team, professor of
chemistry, Dean of Chemis­try,
faculty chairman of athle­tics,
and President of the
Southeastern conference.
Dean Hare believed, "ath­l
e t i c s make men strong,
study makes men wise, and
charaoter makes men great,"
Therefore, this award is given
each year to the student who,
in addition to athletic and
scholastic achievement, ex­hibits
in great degree the
qualities of leadership, in­tegrity
and courage.
Bresler will receive the
award from Auburn Univer­sity
President Dr. Harry M.
Philpbtt.
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By Richard Little
Plainsman Sports Writer
Auburn Tiger football fans
are looking with glee to the
1971 season, as Heisman
Trophy candidate Pat Sulli­van
returns to the quarter­back
spot.
The situation is very si­milar
to that at Ole Miss last
year, when Rebel football
fans suffered an attack of
Archie Manning fever, con­fident
that he would capture
the Heisman Trophy and
lead his team to an unde­feated
season.
Manning, however, suffered
a broken arm midway through
the season, eliminating his
chances for the honored a-ward,
as well as being a
cause of late-season Rebel
losses to LSU and Missis­sippi
State.
In case of a similar injury
happening to Sullivan, Tiger,
coaches have concentrated
on back up men Ralph Brock
and Wade Whatley during the
first two weeks of spring
Photo by Glenn Brady
A major part of every winning
J e f f team's program is the kicking
game, and spring training gives
this pnase of the game a lot of attention. Here Gardner
Jett, with Dave Beck nolding, practices on nis place
kic ks.
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training, allowing them to
run the number one and two
offenses.
Brock is a six-foot, 186-
pound red-shirt, with three
years of e l i g i b i l i t y left.
Whatley, the Tiger freshman
quarterback in 1970, is a
six-foot, three-inch, 195-
pounder from Macon Academy
in Tuskegee.
The number two spot was
vacated by Tommy Tray lor,
called "the best backup quar­terback
in the Southeastern
Conference" by head coach
Snug Jordan.
O f f e n s i v e co-ordinator,
Gene Lorendo, is uncertain
right now as to who will re­place
Tray lor.
"At present, it's a two
way battle between Brock
and Whatley as to who will
back up Sullivan," said Lor­endo.
"It's too early to say
for sure, and both boys have
some good days."
"The two are a different
kind of quarterback. Brock
is the better passer, while
Whatley is more of a runner,"
continued Lorendo.
"We have to see which
one will give us the most ef­fort.
Their execution is not
up to par, but that is what
we will work on this spring,
and I hope to eliminate much
of that problem," said Lor­endo.
"This spring, we are going
to keep it simple for our
young people, like Wade and
Ralph, so as not to confuse
them. Besides that, we are
going to leave it up to them,''
said Lorendo.
Hen's Intranwrals
Coward leads
PGD to victory
By Richard Little
Plainsman Intramurals Editor
The Phi Gamma Deltc*3
Joe Coward dominated the
fraternity division of the In­tramural
Track meet finals
last Tuesday, leading the
Fiji's to first place.
Coward finished first in
the broad jump, 440 and 220
yard dashes, and ran the
final leg for the victorious
Figi's 880 yard relay team.
Behind the Phi Gams came
the Delta Chis, who took first
in three events, with the
Lambda Chis, the Sigma Nus,
and the ATO's f i n i s h i ng
third, fourth, and fifth, re­spectively.
The Phi Gams got other
multi-performances from Dan­ny
Lowery, who finished
second in the 880 yard dash
behind teammate Billy
Waters, and in the mile run.
Jim Sartin, a member of
the Fiji 880 relay team,
turned in yet another per­formance
in the 220, finish­ing
just one-hundredth of a
second behind Coward.
The Delta Chis were paced
by Vic Graffio, who ran a
10.7 second 100 yard dash
to win that event and first
place performances from Ed­die
Gaylord in the 120 yard
low hurdles, and Mike Cordes
in the high jump.
In the other two fraternity
events, the Alpha Tau Ome­ga's
Duncan Getty heaved
the shot put 53 feet to win
that event, and Nick Holmes
won the mile for the Phi
Delta Thetas.
Campus Inn had a strong
showing Tuesday, winning
four events the tieing one,
while besting the fraternity's
times in two runs, and equal­ing
them in another.
Steve Hickman won the
mile in a time of four minutes
and 57 seconds, eight se­conds
better than Holmes'
time in the fraternity meet.
His Campus Inn teammates
Charlie Krausse tied BSU's
Doug Weeks in the 880, also
besting the fraternity mark.
In the other independent
events, David Justice, of the
Campus Inn team, was the
only one to compete in the
high jump. His teammates
Rick Choron and Mark Hill-man
won the 120 low hurdles
and 440 yard dash, respec­tively.
Bill Barnett of the
Air Force won the 100 yard
dash. Bob Haun of Division
K swept the broad jump, and
the BSU 880 relay team won
their event.
The Badminton tournament
will be held next Monday,
Tuesday, and Thursday. All
games will start at 7:30.
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THE AUBURN PUINSMM -8 Friday, May 7, 1971
'Efficient use of resources depends on awareness
Ed. Note: This week's Campus Color section fo­cuses
on pollution. The following is an editorial
comment by Dr. Donald R. Street, associate pro­fessor
of economics and geography.
The increased awareness of environmental problems
in recent years has not necessarily involved a propor-'
tional increase in understanding of the problems. So­cial
costs have been tolerated in the past, in large
part, because of the lack of understanding by the
general public that the costs often amounted to one
group stealing from another.
The most commonly mentioned social costs are air
pollution, water pollution, uncompensated injuries to
persons and noise damages. These damages have often
been associated with manufacturing processes in the
past, but have certainly not been limited to manu­facturing.
The social costs of production processes have been
felt in terms of damages to property values, loss of
the usefulness of water, losses of income potential
by injured parties, costs of repainting property apd
even washing the clothes a second time due to preci­pitate
fallout of nearby industries. Lack of proper
laws to "internalize" these social costs amounts to a
passive legitimization of the crime. It is also true that
many laws which have been passed simply have not
been enforced.
Not all types of social costs can be described lc
simply as one group short changing others. In some
instances all could be losers. Certain ecologists are
concerned with the possibility of an air pollution-induced
ice age in which man would not be able to
survive.
Future alternatives may be foreclosed by certain
actions of businesses and households which entail
non-reversible processes. Elimination of entire species
is a case in point. One recognized function of all
economic systems is to protect the resource base. If
the resource base is damaged, future income will be
reduced.
The population must understand ecological problems
if the nation's resources are to be utilized efficiently.
The first task involves teaching people to demand
cleanups in the damage categories. The second task
involves teaching the consuming public that it must
be willing to pay the bill.
Aside froti the fact that it is questionable whether
industry has a "conscience," any time previously
unpaid aosts of industry are forced to be paid, the
price of the product must take the amount of this cost
into consideration.
In short, we should expect to pay a higher price for
electricity if the utilities are required to build cooling
towers to prevent heating river waters to intolerable
levels. We should expect to pay a higher price for
steel and automobiles if clean-water laws and clean-air
laws cause the producers to install filtering devices
for their waste. If special gasoline mixes are required
to prevent air pollution from internal combustion en­gines,
we should be prepared to pay the difference in
cost if there should be a difference.
It should be obvious that the groups using the pro­duct
in which the social costs are not internalized are
in essence benefiting from the purchase of products
at lower prices because of what is "stolen" from the
public. Benefiting pressure groups and lobby groups
are therefore likely to resist legislation designed to
force these costs into the price of the product.
While all economic problems are "people problems,"
not all have technically "correct" answers. Moral
values are often involved. However, in view of the
known technical information we must ask ourselves
certain questions such as: Can we"afford to continue
to produce tail fins and other gadgetry on automobiles
(and perhaps a new version each year) if some social
damages are done in the process? Can we afford to
produce 400 to 500 cubic inch displacement engines
for automobiles (when perhaps 200; would be suffi­cient)
in view of the wasted resources in extra tires
worn out, damaged highways because of fast starts
and stops, and extra noise created?
Planned obsolescence has been thought of as a
way to make the income multiplier work in the creation
of economic goods. However the corresponding econo­mic
"bads" have often been overlooked.
People are a form
of pollution to ZPG
Pollution isn't just beer
cans on the beach or streams
filled with mercury-laden
fish. To the Zero Population
Growth organization, pol­lution
also means having
too many people too close
together.
Their primary solution
for people pollution is birth
control.
"Limit your own family
to two children-one to re­place
the mother and one to
replace the father. It is the
third child that starts the
population explosion," a
ZPG namDhlet advises.
It further s u g g e s t s,
"Encourage your friends and
children to do this too."
ZPG was started in 1968
by Dr. Paul Ehrlich, author
of "The Population Bomb,"
Charles Remington of Yale
and Richard Bowers, an at­torney
in Old Mystic, Conn.
By July, 1970, ZPG boasted
a nationwide membership
roll of 20,000 in 220 ZPG
chapters.
According to Ann Phillippi,
1BI, the Auburn chapter of
ZPG was started last year
by Mary Ann Van Hartesveldt.
The chapter, headed by co-presidents
Charles Otto,
2PV, and Miss Phillippi,
now has about 35 members.
Although Otto and Miss
Phillippi are equipped with
some rather grim statistics-in
10 years, for example, there
will be 30 million more peo­ple
in the U.S. and 100 mil­lion
more in 35 years-they
say ZPG's purpose is not to
create hysteria, but to act
as an information center for
people concerned about
overpopulation.
"The national ZPG office
sends us a list of people
connected with certain bills
which, if passed, could help
ease the population problem
or bills we consider detri­mental,"
said Otto. "At the
beginning of each meeting
we write letters to these
people to let them know how
we feel about the bills."
ZPG's effort are not
fruitless, says ZPG advisor
Dr. Michael Friedman, as­sistant
professor of chemis­try.
Besides passage of the
new abortion law in New York
which Friedman considers
tangible evidence of changing
attitudes, subtle changes
also occur.
"We can't cram ZPG's
objectives down anybody's
throat, although I wish we
could sometimes. It's really
better though to be cautious,
to get people to sit down and
reflect on the effect of over­population,"
he said.
One of ZPG's objectives
is to popularize adoption,
according to Friedman.
"People have been socio­logically
conditioned to have
their own children. A re­education
program is es­sential
so that people will be
more willing to adopt,"
he said.
Otto said ZPG plans to
contact married students
living in on-campus housing
and invite them to attend
ZPG meetings.
"I think it's better to
invite them. It would probably
be pretty risky to gb door-to-
door talking about birth
control," Miss Phillippi
laughed.
She said she doesn't want
to be considered a "fcub-versive
hippie who thinks
that we ought to grind up
every child after the second
one. I'm concerned about
convincing people to volun­tarily
control the popula­tion."
Most Auburn students
come from rural areas and
don't realize the problems
overpopulation causes, Miss
Phillippi said.
With this is mind, ZPG
set up an information booth
on the Haley Center mall on
Earth Day and showed a film
on the effects of overpopu­lation
on the environment.
One of the sheets handed
out to students at the infor­mation
booth charged that
Americans tend to equate
growth with progress.
"Growth means that the
population expands and more
facilities are built to take
oare of the greater number
of people," it stated.
"Progress means that an
improvement has taken place
in the quality of our lives."
The sheet listed some of
the problems caused by over­population.
As the population of the
United States increases
forests are stripped to provide
housing. Sonetimes damaging
floods ensue in areas bared
' of trees and protective vege­tation,
it said.
Also, cities financially
strapped by demands for
more schools, hospitals and
roads often cannot provide
adequate sewage treatment
plants. Asa result, the sheet
charged, lakes and rivers
filled with sewage "die,"
as does the wildlife depen­dent
on them for water.
"Everything boils down to
population," Miss Phillippi
concluded. "The more people
you {jet, the more problems
you have."
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Chewacla Lake 'filling up
By Thorn Botsford
Plainsman News Editor
, "Muddy" may be the best
word for describing the lake
at Chewacla State Park
after a heavy rain. The lake ,
used for swimming, fishing
and boating, is currently
receiving an overload of
soil with each rainy season.
There is evidence that the
lake is "filling up" with
soil to a point that will
render the lake useless.
What is happening to the
lake at Chewacla is a result
of siltation-a process where­by
soil, which was removed
from the land by erosion,
is deposited in a lake by a
connecting river or stream.
According to J.H. Black-stone,
instructor of land and
water economics, excess soil
erosion is the root of the
problem at Chewacla lake.
Soil erosion is a natural
process that occurs during
heavy wind and rainstorms,
washing topsoil from the
land into nearby rivers or
streams. When no plants are
present to anchor the soil
in place, erosion reaches an
acute stage, carving gulleys
and crevices.
The construction of roads
and buildings contribute to
the erosion process by
leaving stretches of land
barren for an extended period
of time. Too often, good
topsoil is washed into near­by
rivers that carry it to
the bottom of the lake such
as Chewacla.
Other lakes in this area
have received excess de­posits
of soil due to soil
erosion. Lake Wilmore,
formerly the source of Au­burn's
water supply, was
rendered useless a couple
of years ago by a siltation-soil
erosion process.
Soil not deposited in lakes
is washed downstream into
a bay or gulf area. Mobile
3ay is currently undergoing
a natural siltation process
which might gradually turn
the bay into a swamp in
less than six hundred years.
Increased erosion due to
construction along Alabama
rivers may be accelerating
the "filling" process,
bringing about the ruination
of the bay in a shorter period
of time.
Besides clogging water­ways,
erosion can cause
extensive damage to the
fertility of the land. Since
much of the "good" soil
is washed downstream,
plants do not adapt well to
to the deficient land. Animals,
in turn, depend directly and
indirectly on plant life, and,
thus, cannot survive well on
eroded soil.
There are ways, sometimes
expensive, to control erosion
caused by human mismanage­ment
of the soil. Blackstone
said that the siltation pro­blem
at Chewacla lake, for
example, could be solved
by replanting barren areas
cleared for highway cons­truction
near the lake.
One of the answers to the
problem lies in new proce­dures
of construction. At
a greater cost, the builders
of roads, shopping centers,
and homes could delay the
removal of natural foliage
until the day actual con­struction
begins.
The Alabama Water Im­provement
Commission has
the authority to control
activities that may pollute
the state's waterways.
Technically, construction
without erosion preventive
measures could be stopped
on the grounds that the
eroded soil would eventual­ly
clog waterways in the
state.
But in Alabama, as in
most states, such control
is difficult to administer.
Erosion caused by con­struction
is a collective
process. It would be dif­ficult
to determine which
construction, if not all,
contributed significantly to
the erosion process, said
Blackstone.
The solving of erosion
problems is complicated
by conflicts between groups
concerned with different
aspects of conservational
problems. The case of
channelization of rivers
illustrates the conflict bet­ween
those who want to
reduce natural erosion and
those who want to preserve
a natural balance of life in
the rivers.
Farmers who own land
around a natural, meandering
stream sometimes find their
productive acreage decreased
during heavy rains which
wash top soil downstream.
To remedy the situation
agricultural officials can
"channel" a river by cut­ting
a deep, straight gulch
that di sects the curving
stream. ,
The slow moving water
in the stream moves into
the straight gulch speeding
the water movement and kil­ling
fish and other river
life. Some ecologists have
complained about the pro­cess,
contending that im­portant
parts of the life
chain around the streams
have been wiped out.
Another problem related to
erosion involves the wash­ing
away of fertilizers and
pesticides into waterways
from eroded soil banks. The
nitrates and phosphates in
fertilizers and pesticides
can cause excessive growth
of algae on the surfaces
on lakes and ponds. After
a while, the algae begin to
dominate the water surface,
blocking out sunlight that
underwater plants need to
support underwater life
cycles.
Soil erosion is considered
by some to be a form of
"pollution." In the long
range, some have predicted
that constant erosion, in­creasingly
compounded by
human mismanagement of
the soil, may change the
geographical location of
bays and gulfs, and contrib­ute
to the rise of synthetic
substitutes for natural
landscapes.
Committee
plans minor
in ecology
By Bob Quigley
Plainsman Staff Writer
Establishment of a minor
in environmental studies is
the goal of the Auburn Com­mittee
on E n v i r o n m e n t al
Quality headed by Dr. iKeith
Causey.
Although a number of cour­ses
related to the environ­ment
are now offered by vari­ous
departments. Causey said
the eight faculty members
and eight students on ;the
committee are studying the
procedure for creation of a
comprehensive environmental
studies program which would
unify the courses.
Causey is hopeful this
program would eventually be
included in the University
curriculum as a minor.
"The main problem facing
us is the need to coordinate
the different departments.
There needs to be an ex­change
of ideas among the
departments," said Causey.
"People should be in­formed
about existing cour­ses
and what is being pro­jected
for the future."
C o u r s e s now offered
which require no prerequi­sites
include: Conservation
in the United States, ZY
206; Man's Food, DH 101;
Animal Ecology, ZY 306;
Wildlife Biology, ZY 326, and
General Plant Ecology, BY
413.
C o u r s e s which require
junior or senior standing in­clude:
Economic Develop­ment
of Rural Resources, AS
411; Economic Aspects of
Water Resources Manage­ment,
AS 412; Land Econo­mics,
AS 409; Air Pollution,
CE 424; World Resources
and Their Utilization, GY
407, and Population Prob­lems,
SY401.
Three University courses
related t o environmental
study include: The Meaning
of Environmental Quality, U
301; Psychological Study of
the Community, U 400, and
Introduction to Planning, U
401.
Existing courses give stu­dents
a "fairly good" back­ground,
said Causey, but the
subject matter in such an ex­tensive
field often becomes
overly generalized, especi­ally
since there is little co-o
r d i n a t i o n among depart­ments.
"If a minor in environ­mental
studies was estab­lished,
it would be possible
to draw all the loose ends to­gether
and provide a compre­hensive
program of excellent
educational value," Causey
said.
Conservancy is individuals...
Plainsman photo by Joe McGinty
__ , . D o not dump, tne sign orders. But obviously people have ig-
WO flllflipiflO noted it. Dumping is one of the ugliest, though not the most
dangerous, forms of pollution. Some cities combat litter by
sentencing anti-litter law violaters to pick up trash on roadsides.
By Linda Comett
Assistant Copy Editor
" I t ' s a means by which
conservation-minded individ-duals
and organizations in
Alabama can unite their
effort toward improving the
quality of our state's
environment."
"It is a coalition of
interested people from all
over the state who value life
other than human life and
who attach a value to this
life other than monetary."
"It is housewives, biVd
watchers, zoologists, stu­dents
all kinds of people
who are concerned about the
exploitation and waste of
nature."
It is the Alabama Con­servancy
as defined by mem­bers
of the Auburn chapter.
More specifically the Con­servancy
is a non-profit,
tax-exempt organization with
over 6500. members. It has
grown up from a small
nucleus founded in 1967 by
a Birmingham housewife.
The Auburn chapter was
founded just last year, and
now has 54 members.
The Conservancy has set
itself an ambitious list of
goals: stopping unnecessary
channelization of streams
which destroy spawning
grounds for fish and removes
ground cover for small
animals which live near
the stream; fighting the is­suance
of oil drilling rights
in Mobile Bay; taking
measures to minimize the
use of pesticides and fight
ing their misuse,.
The biggest state-wide
project now underway is the
establishment of Bankhead
Wilderness. The proposal in­volves
having 11,000 acres
of Bankhead National Forest,
located in Northwest Alabama
set aside and protected from
any sort of permanent con­struction.
This includes
roads, and any interference
with the natural environ­ment.
Attendance of members at
hearings in Moulton and
Cullman has helped the
Conservancy get the support
of the state legislature and
Governor Wallace. According
to Dr. Keith Causey, pres­ident
of the Auburn chapter,
"The governor and legis­lature
have been very help­ful
and have backed the
Conservancy on almost all
of its proposals."
Senator John Sparkman
(D-Ala.) has introduced the
Bankhead proposal to the
Senate, and it will soon be
introduced in the House.
The Auburn chapter has
its own local projects as
well. Major among them are
the prevention of pollution
of Town Creek from the South
Gay St. pumping station,
and plans to investigate
possible pollution by gravel
trucks traveling on the State
Parkway.
As with the Bankhead
movement the Conservancy
accomplishes its goals
through education of the
public (a display about the
Bankhead is now set up
at King Discount), petitions
from informed citizens and
extensive correspondence
from individual members.
"Before I joined the
Conservancy," said Fred
First, 6ZY, "Inever bothered
to write. I figured my one
letter wouldn't make any
difference, but when I found
all these other people
concerned about the same
things that concerned me,
and all of them were writing
their legislators, I changed
my mind."
"The Conservancy is a
very effective organization,"
according to Dr. Robert
Mount, who is a member of
the state board of directors
of the Conservancy. "We
can't lobby because we are
a tax-exempt organization,
but our methods have been
working very well. Of course
since there is no equivalent
organization in the state,
we have a large job to do."
The Auburn chapter is
currently engaged in a cam­paign
to interest more people
in helping with the "large
job." The chapter sponsored
a visit by wildlife artist
Ray Harm on May 5. At
this time prints of one of his
paintings were available
for $10 to anyone who joined
the Conservancy or renewed
a membership. Yearly dues
are Si for students and $3
for others. Membership is
open to anyone. Meetings are
held on the first and third
Tuesdays of the month in
Funchess 336.
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Chlorine,
tests
assure
pure
water
Friday, May 7, 1971 9- THE AUBURN PUIN$MIN
James Gilbert, manager of the Auburn Waterworks Board,
Mfafer examines a water sample in the laboratory at the water
treatment plant. Numerous tests are done at the plant to
insure the purity of the city's water supply. Plainsman photo by Roger Wentowski
By Martha Evans either the livestock or fertilizer, it would have no legal
Plainsman Features Editor means to stop the detrimental action, said Gilbert.
Turn on the faucet. Fill a glass with water. Drink it.
It's safe.
So says James Gilbert, head of the Auburn Waterworks
Board.
Gilbert said the four-man staff at the water treatment
plant on the Montgomery highway constantly checks Au­burn's
water supply for contamination and, with the help
of generous doses of chlorine, makes sure it is fit for
consumption.
"We check the water at least three times a week as it
comes from Lake Ogletree to the water treatment plant,"
said Gilbert.
The water is tested for odor, for mineral content and
microscopically for plant life.
Every two months, samples of water from the watershed
(the region from which the lake receives its water via
Chewacla Creek and its tributaries) are tested in addition
to the regular samples from the lake itself.
At the plant the treated water is checked every hour to
insure the presence of chlorine which kills bacteria. Six
times a day, the water is tested for relative acidity or
alkalinity. (Excessively acid water corrodes pipes.)
Another daily test is for mineral content. The concen­tration
of minerals determines the amount of lime and
aluminum sulfate which will be added to the water to set­tle
out the minerals.
The State Health Department laboratory at Montgomery
also periodically tests Auburn's water supply, Gilbert said.
Once a month samples of raw water as it enters the plant,
treated water and at least four additional samples from
various points along the system are tested in Montgomery.
One of the most important of the tests is for the presence
of Escherichia coli, a bacteria which grows under the same
conditions as typhoid bacteria. If E. coli is detected,
immediate action must be taken, Gilbert explained
The State Health Department also comes to Auburn once
a month to test the treated water for flouride content.
Too much flouride can cause discoloration of teeth.
Gilbert lists four main causes for concern in the water­shed
area south and east of Auburn and Opelika which
could, if not carefully watched, pollute Auburn's water
supply: the Uniroyal plant in Opelika, a cattle farm, a hog
farm and fertilized farmland.
The Uniroyal plant in Opelika disposes of some non-polluting
industrial waste in Chewacla Creek, said Gilbert.,
"We and the State Health Department make sure Uni­royal
abides by state guidelines," he said.
Both the cattle farm and the hog farm have ponds located
in their pastures which are connected to tributaries of
Chewacla Creek.
The Waterworks Board keeps a close check to make
sure that harmful viruses are not transmitted to the water
supply from the livestock, Gilbert explained.
Gilbert termed the use of fertilizers containing large
quantities of phosphate and nitrogen by farmers in the
watershed area potentially the most dangerous source
of water pollution.
Since the fertilizer is water soluble, heavy rains cause
much of the fertilizer to drain into the city's water source
where it stimulates the growth of algae.
" I t ' s just like feeding algae steak-they love i t ," he.
explained.
Changes in temperature also affect the amount of algae
in the water.
"We've found that when the temperature is between
65 and 75 degrees, the concentration of algae is greater,"
he noted.
The algae causes problems because chemicals just be
added to the water to kill it. An excessive amount of
chemicals can cause the water to have an unpleasant taste.
The dead algae also releases odorous oils which the plant's
filters can't completely get rid of.
If the board did find excessive pollution caused by
"I have no doubt we could talk to the people involved
and work out a solution," he said. "The man who raises
hogs or cattle wants to know about any virus we might find
as badly as we do, because his livelihood depends on
healthy animals."
The county could also pass a zoning law which would
prohibit the raising of livestock in the area, Gilbert said,
although he admitted he would be reluctant to initiate
such an action.
Once the water reaches the treatment plant, it receives
three doses of chlorine.
"The most effective one is when the water first comes
into the plant," he said, "but if we don't"get all the
bacteria then, we still have two more chances."
Someone is on duty at the plant 24 hours a day, he added.
Nationwide, the water industry has shown concern about
the continued effectiveness of chlorine, said Gilbert.
"One of these days, one virus will become immune to.
chlorine or a new virus will appear that chlorine can't
kill," he explained. "Researchers are looking for a better
sterilizing agent than chlorine but so far they haven't come
up with anything."
The treatment plant was expanded last summer from a
four-million gallon daily capacity to a six-million one.
If the University continues to expand, within 10 years
the plant will have to jump another two million gallons in
daily purification capacity, Gilbert said.
Chewalca, Coliseum
safe swimming spots
Pollution is not a factor
at the two favorite swimming
spots for Auburn students-
Chewacla and the Coliseum
swimming pool.
However, the pool does
have an algae problem- one
which has troubled Coliseum
manager Wayne Murphy since
the pool opened in 1968.
Murphy explained that
when water was allowed to
stand in the deep end of the
pool algae eventually grew
in the stagnant water. And
the microscopic plants still
grow despite generous doses
of chlorine and algaecide.
At Chewacla, the problem
is not industrial or farm pol­lution,
but siltation which
is gradually filling the lake
with soil. (See related story,
page 8, col. 4)
There are also traces of
magnesium, mercury and
other metallic elements in
the water at Chewacla, ac­cording
to Park Manager
James G. Murphy. But the
elements are present in such
slight amounts that they pose
no health problems.
The algae problems at the
pool were not solved during
construction when plastic
coating was applied to the
bottom of the pool. The Coli­seum
manager said that the
plants still grow up through
the coating.
Chlorine in gas form is
regularly added to the pool
water. Chlorine tablets are
also added when the algae
increases to the point gas
is ineffective. The algae­cide
is used primarily to
clean the bottom and sides
of the pool.
The temperature of the
pool-82 degrees in winter
and 75 degrees in summer-also
makes control of the al­gae
difficult, said Murphy,
since the plants thrive in
warm water.
The pool is drained once
a year and scrubbed. Before
the algae was brought under
control, the pool had to be
drained three times a year,
Murphy said.
Murphy also has problems
with the pool's filtration sys­tem.
Since the pool is in
constant use both day and
night, the filtration system
can't adequately clean the
water as it recycles, he ex-
, plained.
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resuh of car exhaust
By Richard Little
Plainsman Intramurals Editor
Auburn has no smoke-belching
factories, but it
does have automobiles which
are responsible for most of
the air pollution in the area.
' 'Environment,'' a non-profit
magazine published by the
Committee for Environmental
Information, estimates ve­hicles
account for 60 per
cent of all air pollution, and
as much as 90 per cent in
areas where industrial con­trols
are set or no industries
exist.
At present, the U.S. Emis­sion
Standards for cars are
set at 2.20 grams per mile of
hydrocarbons and 23 grams
per mile of carbon monoxide.
Levels before 1966, when
controls were set, are more
than three times that amount.
Some 14,000 cars are
registered with the campus
police. Using the conserva­tive
control emission stan­dards,
these cars alone emit
at least 332,000 grams of
carbon monoxide per mile.
Students with small foreign
cars are as guilty of pol­luting
the air as those who
drive larger American models,
according to a test run on
1970 cars by the California
Air Resources Laboratory,
Their report showed no
direct relationship between
the size of an engine and its
amount of emissions.
A Chevrolet with a 454-
cu. in.engine, the fourth lar­gest
engine tested, had the
lowest pollution output.
The three cars having the
highest pollution output were
two Porsches, one with a
192-cu. in. engine and one
with a 122-cu. in. engine, and
a Volkswagen with a 102-
cu. in.engine.
The effects of automobile
emissions are dangerous-
The most plentiful, and per­haps
most harmful, pollutant
is carbon monoxide. This
colorless, tasteless, odor­less
gas has been known to
overcome victims without
warning.
When inhaled, carbon
monoxide produces carboxy-hemoglobin
which reduces
the blood's ability to carry
oxygen to body tissue.
Most other car pollutants
are harmful only in large
concentrations. However,
lead compounds, which have
been reduced in no-lead gas­olines,
can cause severe
illness or death if they reach
the bloodstream.
Benzepyrene, another by­product
of an internal com­bustion
engine, has been
cited as a cancer-producing
agent. Like many other pol­lutants
including smog
(hydrocarbons and nitrogen
oxides), it is dispersed into
the air by incomplete com­bustion.
Incomplete combustion oc­curs
most frequently in high
compression engines which
compress the gasoline more
than conventional internal
combustion engines. This
compression results in bet­ter
acceleration and more
horsepower, but also in less
complete burning of fuel.
Many possibilities for
decreasing emissions have
been presented since Con­gress
set a January 1, 1975,
deadline for elimination of
90 per cent of all harmful
car pollutants.
One possibility is the
adaptation of a giant fly­wheel
which would wind it­self
up when connected to
an electrical source, then
slowly unwind to propel the
car.
Steam engines have also
been suggested, but the two
most promising ideas seem to
be use of an afterburner or
catalytic converter. Both
operate on a system of re-burning
emissions.
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THE AUBURN PUINSMIN -JO Friday, May 7, 1971
Ray Harm talks on folk medicine, woodpeckers and conservation
Plainsman photo by Roger Wentowski
Wildlife artist Ray Harm came
ArtlSt t0 Auburn this week to promote
membership in the Alabama Con­servancy.
He gives lectures across the U S because
he wants people to understand the importance of con­servation
and the intricacies of nature.
By Martha tivans
Plainsman Features Editor
Wildlife artist Ray Harm,
in his own articulate down
home manner, talked about
woodpeckers, gave his re­cipe
for homemade cough
syrup and praised the Ala­bama
Conservancy while
speaking to an audience of
some 200 people Wednesday.
There was a time when
Harm, the son of a violin-playing
mountaineer herba­list,
was afraid he'd die
owning "not much more than
my bedroll, by horse and
saddle."
"Things were hard in the
twenties . . . " he wrote in
his autobiography published
in b r o c h u r e form by the
Frame House Gallery, Inc.,.
of Wildlife Art in Louisville,
Kentucky.
"We were poor . . . about
as poor as possible, but
like thousands of others we;
managed."
While still a teenager, the
now meticulous painter of
wildlife left West Virginia
for Nebraska where he tra­veled
the rodeo circuit. In
1945, he joined the Navy and
served a three-year stint as
a radio operator in the Paci­fic.
After his discharge, Harm
headed West again as a ranch
hand. That's when he got to
thinking about dying with
just a bedroll, a horse and a
saddle to his name. He was
eligible for financial assis­tance
from the government
for college so he decided to
get an education.
The Cleveland School of
Art liked his work, but since
Harm hadn't graduated from
high school, wouldn't enroll
him. So Harm went to the
Cooper School of Art in
Cleveland instead.
Trying to build up an art
clientele in Ohio, Harm got
discouraged and was about
to head back West when, as
he says, "just like in the
movies, I was saved."
The president of the Uni­versity
of Kentucky saw two
of Harm's prints in Vero
Beach, F l o r i d a , and ap­pointed
him artist in resi­dence.
Harm was also com­missioned
to paint some 20
eastern species of birds.
"I've always said going to
school took time away from
my education. Any time I
spent in the classroom would
have been time away from
nature. My background, liv­ing
outdoors the way I did,
is why I paint with authority
now," said Harm in a tele­phone
interview a week be­fore
coming to Auburn.
Harm has received honorary
d o c t o r a t e s , dined at the
White House and shown his
works in the top museums
and galleries.
"Becoming known has en­abled
me to publicly take up
various banners representing
conservation efforts and be
heard," he said.
He t r a v e l s around the
country by plane giving lec­tures
and painting. (He has
p a i n t e d w i l d l i f e in the
Colorado desert, the Rocky
Mountains, the Everglades,
the Appalachian Mountains
and the High Sierras.)
"I'll be 6,000 feet up in
Ecology conference
"Economic Planning for Environmental Quality in
Alabama" is the topic for the Second Alabama En­vironmental
Conference scheduled for fall quarter.
Deadline for faculty members to submit papers for
presentation at the Conference is June 30. Draft copies
should be submitted to Conference Chairman Rex K.
Rainer.
A nine-member review committee will select about
five papers for inclusion on the Conference program.
Each paper submitted will be evaluated on its po­tential
contribution to the Conference theme, com­petency
of the author and its relation to completed
and ongoing work.
Additional information may be obtained from Fred
M. Hudson (826-4320)or James C. Warman (826-5075).
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my plane and see rivers that
are pure black. You could
virtually, 'walk across the
water.' When I see something
like that I think to myself,
that would be a good place
to drop down and start talk­ing,"
he said.
Much of his time now is
spent trying to bolster anti-strip
mining programs in the
Cumberland Gap region of
Kentucky near the Tennessee
line where he lives, said
Harm.
"These ugly coal trucks
rattle up and down the road
with signs painted on them
'Beauty is a biscuit.' The
strip mine operators want to
convince the miners conser­vationists
like me are trying
to take the bread and butter
out of poor people's mouths,"
Harm commented.
The artist favors a return
to deep mining using modern
safety methods, since he be­lieves
reclamation of land
that has been stripped has
not proved effective.
More miners would be em­ployed
if deep mining were
to replace strip-mining, Harm
said.
"The real irony is that
the biscuits are only going
into the operators' mouths,"
he added.
Harm doesn't use a camera
to capture the likeness of the
wildlife he paints. Instead