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THE AUBURN PLAINSMAN
VOLUME 99 AUBURN UNIVERSITY AUBURN, ALABAMA THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 4, 1971 14 PAGES NUMBER I
SGA president
will have seat
on AU board
By Keith Bedwell
Plainsman News Editor
Jimmy Tucker, president of the
Student Government Association, said
this week that he will serve as the
student representative to the Auburn
Board of Trustees in its next meeting in
March.
The position was created last month
by order of Gov. George C. Wallace. The
student representative will voice the
opinions of the students to the other
members of the board, however he will
not have a vote.
Tucker said that it was decided that
the president should serve as the
student representative since he al­ready
had a working knowledge of
school affairs. He added that an
amendment to the SGA constitution
would be offered for a vote by the
students next spring, authorizing the
president to act as the permanent
student representative.
The governor's order left the manner
of choosing the student representative
up to the individual schools. The order
applies to all state-supported schools.
Tucker said that the representative
will provide a channel for student
opinion to reach the board. He said that
while the representative would pro­bably
"not have very much influence,"
it was a progressive step.
Tucker added that he thought the
students should have much more in­fluence
on the board and on how the
University was run. He said that he
thought this would do much to estab­lish
a balance between student and fa­culty
influence.
Tucker said that he would have liked
to have seen a voting member ap­pointed,
but he added that this would
not be possible at this time since that
would have required an amendment to
the state constitution. This procedure
would require approval by the state le­gislature
and a majority vote of the
people.
Fifty participate in demonstration
. . . Gov. George C. Address Sa
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with members of
Future Farmer's of America after his
speech to the group here last Thurs­day.
Wallace spoke to a crowd of about
300, explaining his feelings on state
legislature actions and Alabama's
financial situation. Photo by R.C. Den­nis.
Governor addresses FFA -
everything running all right
By Carl Poteat
Plainsman Staff Writer
What's happening with the legisla­ture
in Montgomery? "Everything's
running all right," according to Gov.
George C. Wallace as he addressed the
members of the Future Farmers of
America last Thursday night in Haley
AIM sponsors march
Members of the newly-formed Au­burn
Independent Mobilization (AIM)
committee observed National Morato­rium
day yesterday at Auburn by
staging an orderly demonstration in
Haley Center Mall. Anti-war literature
and black armbands were passed out to
the crowd and impromtu discussions
on the war in Vietnam were held with
students.
David Greene, president of AIM, said
the purpose of the demonstration was
to "make people aware that there is a
war still going on." "We want students
to ask why we're still in Vietnam, and
to show their dissatisfaction that we
are," said Greene
The AIM was formed only two weeks
ago. Membership since that time has
reached over 50. In the future the AIM
hopes to work with the SGA on drug re­habilitation,
the Zero Population
Growth committee on population con­trol,
and with the Auburn city council
on the appointment of a student
representative.
Plans are also in progress for a
"sleep-in" at the library if opening
hours are not soon revised.
The AIM is a local organization. It is
not connected with the Human Rights
Forum or the American Civil Liberties
Union.
The AIM encourages students in­terested
in demonstrating for peace to
go to Atlanta Saturday and partici­pate
in the anti-war rally to be held
there.
Center.
Wallace told a crowd of approxi­mately
300 people that the state go­vernment
"has saved over a million
dollars in this experiment of going
without a budget." "I have extended
this time," Wallace said, "just for the
purpose of seeing if we couldn't do on
less, and we have."
Wallace also said that he felt that
this experiment would have an effect
on the length of the regular sessions of
the legislature. "I think when they (the
legislature) come back next time they
won't take nine months in passing any
bills. They stayed over a long time
before, and that was too long," said
Wallace. "However, they did accom­plish
quite a bit in the special session,
and I feel that they are going to accom­plish
much in the next few weeks when
they get back to Montgomery."
The governor attempted to disprove
rumors that Auburn might be forced to
close due to the lack of appropriations
for education. "Your school's running,
and salaries have been paid," said
Wallace. "We're operating all right."
Wallace began his speech by relating
part of his background. Raised on a
farm in Barbour county, he cited the
poor conditions that existed at that
time, but said "nobody worried about
how poor they were. Thev didn't know
See page 5, col. 0
Local police receive call
to remove ACLU members
Police officers were called last Thurs­day
and Friday mornings to remove
members of the campus chapter of the
American Civil Liberties Union
(ACLU) from the Auburn fire station
where the Lee County Board of Reg­istrars
was conducting voting reg­istration
procedures.
According to campus ACLU Chair­man
John Saxon, ACLU members
were refused permission to observe reg­istration
procedures Friday morning.
The members in turn refused to leave
the fire station when Board Chairman
Mrs. Buck Norris said that there was
no room in the building for the
observers.
Mrs. Norris had no comment about
the incident.
Last Thursday morning, Saxon
visited the registrars along with Mrs.
Mary Ann Campbell, a non-student,
who asked the registrars why she had
been required to fill out a "student
form" on the previous day. After some
heated discussion, the police were
called to ask Saxon and Mrs. Campbell
to leave.
Auburn Police Chief Fred Hammock
said that on both days the officers were
called by someone in the fire depart­ment.
"It seemed to boil down to the stu­dents
possibly interfering with reg­istration
since the room where the reg­istrars
were located was so small," he
said.
Hammock said that the officers were
unaware that the students were mem­bers
of ACLU.
The "observers"—Saxon and two
student directors—contacted an as­sistant
United States district attorney
in Montgomery who said he would take
the matter of "observation" under
advisement.
Saxon said that the registrars were
"making their own laws as well as
twisting the present state laws to keep
undesirables—students and/or young
people—from registering to vote in Lee
County."
The ACLU chairman also said that
the registrars claimed that the ACLU
members could be arrested for trespas­sing.
Later, after checking with lawyers,
Saxon said that the trespassing charge
was probably not valid legally.
Last Thursday, when Saxon ac­companied
(non-student) Mrs. Camp­bell
to the fire station, the registrars
told them that Mrs. Campbell had to
filll out a "student form" because her
husband was a student. The registrars
also said that a final judgment on Mrs.
Campbell's application could not be
made until her husband had filled out
registration forms.
"We realize the state law's provision,
whereby a wife takes the residence,
thus the status, of her husband but
what we asked the registrars Thurs­day
was why a husband must neces­sarily
register before his wife can
receive a certificate. They refused to
discuss the matter further and referred
us to the probate judge's office in
Opelika, where we discovered, as we
suspected, that the officials there had
nothing to do with voter registration,"
Saxon commented.
During the discussion Thursday,
Saxon asked to see Mrs. Campbell's
registration forms but was not allowed
to see them. He then requested a copy of
a blank "student form" that all stu­dents
must fill out when registering.
His request was denied.
A fireman subsequently called the
police Thursday after Saxon and Mrs.
Campbell refused to leave. When the"
police arrived, Saxon and Mrs. Camp­bell
agreed to leave and headed for the
probate judge's office in Opelika.
Mrs. Norris had no comment con­cerning
this incident.
Saxon explained later that the in­cident
Thursday convinced the ACLU
Board of Directors to send the 'obser-
See page 5, col. 6
Wallace to host
Vet dedication
Dedication ceremonies, presided over
by Gov. George C. Wallace, for the
recently completed $6 million Veter­inary
Medical Complex will be held
Sunday at 1:30 p.m.
The ceremony will be held at the en­trance
to the Basic Science Building,
largest of the buildings in the educa­tional
complex. Tours will be con­ducted
through that building and the
adjoining Large and Small Animal
Clinics following the ceremony.
Derby Baby This pledge beat
out the crowd
to be chosen
Derby Baby as a conclusion to the an­nual
Sigma Chi Derby held last Fri­day.
The Derby included competition
between sororities in relay races and a
"blind" pie eating contest. Kappa Kap­pa
Gamma, with 22 points, was the
winner by a wide margin. Contestants
in the Derby Baby contest were attired
by the sororities. Photo by Glenn
Brady.
The executive vice president for the
American Veterinary Medical As­sociation
(AVMA), Dr. M.R. Clarkson,
is scheduled to give an address, fol­lowed
by the dedication and a response
by Pres. Harry M. Philpott.
The complex represents more than 15
years of planning and construction, all
undertaken during the deanship of Dr.
James E. Greene, present dean of the
Veterinary Medicine School. Its com­pletion
brings together all of the
school's facilities on a 240-acre site on
Wire Road about two miles southwest
of the center of the campus.
There are six major buildings in the
complex, with auxiliary buildings and
an $80,000 incinerator nearby. In addi­tion,
the State Toxicology Lab and the
USDA Regional Parasite and Disease
Lab—two agencies which are not a part
of the University but which work
closely with the school—are in the im­mediate
vicinity.
The Large Animal Clinic and
Animal Health Research Lab were
constructed in 1960. The other four
buildings in the complex—the Basic
Science Building, Small Animal Clinic,
Animal Tower, and Veterinary
Library—were completed in May of
this year.
Equipment for the new facilities has
been provided through pledges and
donations from veterinary alumni and
friends and the Auburn Veterinary
School Development Fund Drive con­ducted
under the auspices of the Au­burn
University Foundation.
The public is invited to attend the
dedication ceremony and to tour the
new facilities.
THFAUBUPN EumsMAM Thursday, November 4. 1971
News Shorts
Library hours
Dr. Clyde Cantrell, director of Libraries, announced
this week that the Library will be open each Tuesday
until 11 p.m.
Announcements regarding closing time will not be
made until 15 to 20 minutes before the Library is to be
closed.
Another announcement will be made exactly on the
closing time stating "the Library is now closed and
locked." Only with the last announcement will Library
employess begin the process of turning out lights,
moving furniture into place and cleaning up on the
various floors of the Library.
Cantrell also announced that longer hours for the Li­brary
during finals will be made public soon.
Oranges
The SGA Political Involvement Committee will meet
at 3:30 p.m. today in Bradley Lounge to discuss changes
in the SGA elections laws. Anyone, who has com­plaints
about the way campus elections are
handled—particularly former candidates—is urged to
attend. Chemistry Building
Auburn's Board of Trustees has voted to ask legisla­tive
approval to name the chemistry building at Auburn
the Charles Richard Saunders Chemistry Building.
The name will honor Dr. Charles Richard Saunders
who has served in professorial ranks at Auburn since
1932, until his retirement from the faculty Sept. 1.
Dr. Saunders also gave leadership to Auburn's School
of Chemistry as its dean from 1950 until 1968, when the
school was dissolved and made into a department. He
was named Dean Emeritus at that time, but continued
with the department as a professor.
Fashion Sewing Style Show
The wives of Auburn Engineering Students will spon­sor
a Fashion Sewing Style Show, Tuesday at 7:30 p.m.,
in the Union Ballroom. Tickets are $1 and may be pur­chased
from club members or at the door. Door prizes
will be given and the general public is welcome.
Radiological Safety Officer
Robert L. Bell has been appointed Radiological Safety
Officer at Auburn effective last Monday, Pres. Harry M.
Philpott announced this week.
Bell is a native of Hammond, Ind., and a graduate of
Purdue University. Since 1969, he has been with the
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center at Greenbelt, Md.,
as non-ionizing radiation protection officer for the Cen­ter.
He is a member of the Health Physics Society and reg­istered
by the District of Columbia Board of Health as a
health physics consultant. He is the author of "Micro­wave
Radiation: Its Potential Health Hazards and Their
Control," and other publications.
Bell will replace Dr. Carl H. Clark, who has served as
acting radiological safety officer at Auburn for the
past year.
Cake Race
The forty-second annual Wilber Hutsell Omicron
Delta Kappa Cake Race will be held on Nov. 17 at 3:30
p.m. -
All first quarter freshmen, excluding scholarship
athletes, are eligible. The participants will run a 2.7 mile
length course that will begin at Petrie Hall and end at
the Coliseum.
The first 25 finishers will be awarded cakes.
Man or Machine
A debate on the proposition of "Man or Machine" will
be the highlight of the convention of the Alabama Coun­cil
of the American Institute of Architects at Auburn on
Nov. 12-13.
Charles Colbert of New Orleans, and Nicholas Negro-ponte
of Cambridge, Mass., will be the debaters, with the
program beginning at 3 p.m., Nov. 12, in Langdon Hall.
Following a 6:30 p.m. banquet, the debate and its sum­mary
will continue in a downtown motel at 8 p.m.
No 'Keep Off Grass' signs
There are no "keep off the grass" signs at Auburn and
University officials want to keep it that way, allowing
students and tourists to enjoy the well-kept lawns on
the main campus.
There have been no written rules as to the use of the
lawn for sports, according to Col. L.E. Funchess, di­rector
of Buildings and Grounds.
"The general rule," said Colonel Funchess, "is that
there should be no organized or extensive use of open
areas around our academic buildings which will ruin
grass or damage shrubbery. This applies particularly to
the areas adjoining College Street."
Colonel Funchess pointed out that there are areas
which may be used by fraternities and other groups for
touch football and other organized sports such as the
drill field or the area across from the stadium.
Funchess is urging the cooperation of all student
groups in using areas other than those adjoining Col­lege
Street in order that grass and shrubbery along this
route may be maintained in good condition.
Registration
Students who turned in course requests for winter
quarter, 1972, should make necessary arrangements
now to complete registration by payment of fees during
the period of Nov. 29 through Dec. 3.
Schedules for students not clearing fees by Dec. 3 will
be canceled.
Gift IFC Pres. Tom Jones
is shown shaking
hands with Dick
Troxell, president of Auburn University
Jaycess, after the IFX contributed a $1000
check to the fund for a new cage for War
Eagle IV. Dean of Student Affairs James E.
Foy, and Alpha Phi Omega sweetheart
Carleen Foote watch the presentation at
Saturday's game. The Arnold Air Society
also contributed $271. The present total is
$4081.43, on the way to a goal of $10,000.
Jimmy Farris (left) is War Eagle's caretaker.
Photo by R.C. Dennis.
Local stores hire few students
By Larry Gierer
Plainsman Staff Writer
"I'm sorry I just can't hire
everybody," said Rodney
Jones, manager of Parker's
clothing store. All but three of
Parker's employees are
Auburn students. Even at
this rate he still only hires
one out of every five appli­cants.
While checking around
town to see what the job si­tuation
was, this reporter
seemed to find the same
answer everywhere.
Manager Don Tidwell, of
the local A & P, said, "Every
quarter I get jillions of appli­cations,
but now I can only
handle nine students
working."
Harvey Johnston of J & M
Bookstore now employs 24
students. At the beginning of
the quarter he received over
200 applications for work but
could only use 16. "I wish we
could make better use of this
great labor force, but we only
hire what we need." Students
here are hired on a quarter to
quarter basis," he said.
Store Manager Melvin
Kern of Howard Brothers
Discount Store now employs
20 students. He said that
hundreds of applications are
taken each quarter, but that
only a few people can be
hired.
Hardee's restaurant
Manager Melvin Cox said
that out of over 50 applica­tions,
he could only accept
around 10.
At AMPEX, 75 Auburn stu­dents
are employed. How­ever,
the company receives 30
to 40 applications for part
time jobs a week. When there
is an opening, they go back in
the files and take the earliest
applications received.
The personnel department
at Diversified Products in
Opelika said that the com­pany
has stopped hiring part
time help and is now laying
off students. There are no full
time jobs available.
Personnel Director Benny
Gardner of West Point Pep-perell
said that they employ
25 students but he could not
even begin to guess how
many applications they re­ceive.
Charles Roberts, director of
the Student Financial Aid Of­fice,
said that his office could
not handle part time jobs due
to a lack of funds. Roberts
does post some job openings,
however, on the bulletin
board in the Haley Center
Lounge.
At present, 400 students
are on the University Work
Study Program. To qualify
for the program a student
must show that he has a fi­nancial
need based on his
parents' income for the job.
Roberts said that he would
like to start a student em­ployment
service through the
financial aid office but since
80 per cent of the present
funds come from the federal
government it would be im­possible.
SGA Pres. Jimmy Tucker
said that the SGA is present­ly
studying the idea of a
student placement service si­milar
to the one used at the
University of Tennessee.
This placement service
would provide summer jobs
by writing to all the major
corporations and alumni in
the state and requesting in­formation
on job openings.
The questions asked would
concern the type of job avail­able,
hours and the length of
employment. All of this in­formation
would be divided
according to types of jobs
wanted and section of state.
It would be up to students to
contact employers.
Jimmy Blake, senator from
the School of Arts and
Sciences, is in charge of a
committee that is looking
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into the possibility of estab­lishing
a student placement
service. He said that his com­mittee
has sent letters to all
the schools in the South in
order to compare the dif­ferent
financial aid programs
utilized. Plans are in the
making for such a service but
nothing is definite yet.
Steve Woodley, manager of
the Auburn Chamber of Com­merce,
said that the main
problem is the increasing
number of students looking
for part time jobs each year.
Woodley said that he is
looking forward to seeing
more jobs for students in the
future. He predicted that the
new convention center
planned for Auburn would
probably be utilizing student
labor.
He added that the city is in
the process of developing a
new shopping center where
Sears, a possible new store,
has estimated that they
would need around 200 em­ployees.
Woodley feels that
most of this number would be
students.
The main selling feature of
the new industrial park loca­tion
for future Auburn indus­try
was available student
labor, said Woodlev.
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Extra curricula Studies Program
to offer free, unstructured courses
"Radical Sociology," "Ac­tion
Ecology," "Innovative
Education," "Appreciation of
Country Music"—these are
some of the courses that will
be offered free to students, fa­culty
members and the
general public through the
Extracurricula Studies
Program (ESP) next quarter.
Jimmy Tucker, president of
the Student Government As:
sociation, commented upon
the philosophy of the new
program: "Each course is not
intended to be simply an­other
subject that you must
attend and study. Rather
each course should be one in
which the student can attend,
enjoy, and then, if he so de­sires,
go home and forget for
another week."
Marion Cox, ESP chair­man,
said the program was to
be "very unstructured"
meaning that the partici­pants
for each course would
decide in an initial meeting
upon meeting places, times
and the nature of instruc­tion.
Registration for ESP will
be in the Haley Center lounge
from 9-3 p.m. Nov. 10-12.
Anyone who is unable to re­gister
during these days
should contact the Ombuds­man.
Other courses include
"Basic Photography,"
"Health Foods," "Objecti­vism—
Ayn Rand," "Simple
Automobile Mechanics,"
"Disorientation" and
"Women's Liberation."
Instructors for the courses
are now being selected by the
ESP Board of Directors, a
sub-committee of the SGA
Academic Affairs Office.
Miss Cox said that the direc­tors
were considering "any­one
qualified" for instruc­tors,
not just faculty
members.
Presently operating on
"scanty" funds, ESP could
possibly obtain films, special
speakers and visual aids next
spring if student response is
good next quarter, Miss Cox
added.
Some of the courses, such
as "Action Ecology," will
focus away from classroom
lectures to field investiga­tions.
"Students in the eco­logy
course will have a
chance to go out and do some­thing
about environmental
problems in this area," said
Miss Cox.
The photography and au­tomobile
mechanics courses
will be simple, basic courses.
Students must provide their
own cameras for the photo­graphy
course.
The "Disorientation"
course is designed to "clear
up ambiguities about campus
activities." Student leaders
will conduct the course
which, according to Miss
Cox, is ideal for freshmen
who have been through fresh­man
orientation.
The "Innovative Educa­tion"
course will explore new
teaching techniques; to
replace the standard lecture
approach.
The Ayn Rand course will
concentrate on the philoso­phy
of the famous author of
"The Fountainhead" and
"Atlas Shrugged."
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George Lampros, Class
of 1916, arrived in
Auburn for Homecom­ing
celebrations in style. He rode a Yellow
Cab from Atlanta with a meter reading of
$62.00. The long fare began when his plane
from Detroit arrived in Atlanta two hours
late and his ride to Auburn had already left.
The six hour bus ride would have meant
missing Friday evening's alumni supper, so
Lampros engaged cab driver Homer McClen-don,
and his cab, and arrived in the "Love­liest
Village" for the first time in 55
years—with time to spare. Photo by John
Creel.
Author to lecture on sexuality
i A noted author and
speaker on human sexuality
vyill deliver a lecture entitled
"Heir Pollution and Adoles­cent
Sexuality" Monday
night at 7:30 p.m. in Haley
Center 2370.
Dr. John Tyson, associate
professor of obstetrics and
gynecology at Johns
Hopkins University Medical
School, will focus his discus­sion
on sex education
methods, birth control for
adolescents, the connection
of drug abuse to sexual re­sponse,
and the signs, symp­toms,
and treatment for
venereal disease. An open
discussion with students will
Dr. John Tyson
follow the lecture.
The program is being spon­sored
by the Associated
Women Students and the
Student Government Asso­ciation.
Tyson is a Fellow of the
Royal College of Surgeons,
the American College of Ob­stetricians
and Gynecolo­gists,
and the American
College of Surgeons. He
serves on the Medical Advi­sory
Board of Planned Pa­renthood
of Maryland and is
a member of the American
Association of Planned Pa­renthood
Physicians.
As an author, Tyson has re­ceived
wide publication in the
United States and abroad.
His main research interest is
intra-uterine growth and de­velopment.
Business Council hosts rap session
j "We are not looking for a
super-specialist in some
field—we are looking for
people with an understand­ing
of the basics of their field,
put also with a knowledge of
a wide range of subjects.
Business schools need to give
increasing emphasis to the
fields of history, literature
and the arts."
j This statement, from Lem
Colley, vice-president of
Russell Mills in Alexander
City, summed up the state­ments
of six other business
leaders from across the state
who were invited to Auburn
to participate in a "rap
session" with students in the
School of Business.
Other businessmen parti­cipating
were G. T. Nelson,
vice-president in charge,of de­velopment
of the Alabama
Power Company; Ken Lott,
executive vice-president of
the Mobile Merchant's Na­tional
Bank; William Land,
vice-president of the Harbert
Construction Company;
Duncan Lyles, president of
Lyles Construction Com­pany;
Carl Happer, vice-president
of personnel of
South Central Bell, and
Lamar Ware, president of
Ware Jewelry.
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The businessmen met with
approximately 30 students in
the Eagle's Nest Friday
morning. The meeting was
sponsored by the Business
Council, a group made up of
the presidents of clubs within
the School of Business.
"It sounds like we are
asking for everything from
our personnel, and we are,"
said Colley. "Newcomers in
the business world should
show an intellectual curio­sity,
and be, a t the same time,
profit-oriented people who
know the game and how it is
to be conducted."
"After a high level of tech­nical
competence has been
achieved, it is those emplo­yees
who are people oriented
who will probably go on and
succeed," said Nelson.
Lott added, "We are look­ing
for two things—people
who can communicate and
people who can get along
with their fellow-man."
"The danger I see in total
management thinking is that
of forgetting that it is the last
man in the organization, the
man with the shovel, who
makes the money," said
Land.
Rafferty pinpoints
"five sore spots'
T h u r s d a y . November 4. 1971 THF AURUBN PUINSMMI
By Royce Harrison
P l a i n s m a n Staff Writer
"If teachers do not address
themselves to the teacher-parent
relationship, they are
going to find themselves in­creasingly
alienated from the
'main source' of their
s t r e n g t h as a profes­sion—
the millions of parents
who support public schools,"
Dr. Max Rafferty told mem­bers
and guests of the
Opelika Exchange Club.
Dr. Rafferty, dean of the
school of education at Troy
State University, is a former
public school superintendent
from California. He spoke on
"Education's Sore Spots" at
the Exchange Club's regular
meeting last Thursday night.
Rafferty outlined what he
termed the five "festering
sore spots" in modern educa­tion.
They are—the credi­bility
gap, the morality gap,
the frill gap, the sex educa­tion
gap, and the pro­paganda
gap.
On the credibility gap Raf­ferty
explained, "A highly
indignant mom complained
to the principal about me one
day some years ago. It seems
that I had sent her son home
from school for disrupting
the institutional decorum.
" 'And all Neddy said,' she
concluded triumphantly,
'was, yes sir.'
"I had to admit to the puz­zled
principal that all Neddy
had said was 'Yes Sir.' What
he hadn't told his mother was
that he had said it in the
school library during a study
hall, after having been told to
pick up 12 books which he
had purposely knocked off
the shelves. Moreover, he
said it in a roar which rever­berated
clear around the cam­pus.
"You will note that Neddy
did not lie, but mom was
crouched at home waiting
with quivering antennae for
someone at 'that school' to
get out of line at the expense
of her child. She never
bothered to get the teacher's
side."
Teachers resent "being
condemned automatically on
the word of one of the pupils,
who admittedly is both im­mature
and ignorant," he
went on to say.
The morality gap, Rafferty
said, is t h a t in our democratic
system, all of us make the
laws that govern us. One of
the teacher's functions, is to
show his "youthful captive
audience" how to change the
laws in an orderly way.
"A teacher who condones
the breaking of democ­ratically
enacted laws by
those entrusted to his care for
any reason, is not a teacher.
He is the 'Pied Piper' of
destruction."
The frill gap according to
Rafferty, is a course taught at
public expense which is un­justifiable
in terms of the
money spent to teach it, pupil
time involved and the con­tribution
to the development
of the student's potential.
I n s t r u c t o r s who, for
instance, side with the dope
peddler, should be "drum­med
conspicuously out of
education."
Such a course is ninth
grade social studies, which in
Rafferty's opinion, should be
replaced by a freshmen world
geography course. Twelfth
grade senior problems could
be dropped in favor of senior
economics.
The Sex Education Gap
was defined by Rafferty: "We
are the first generation to let
its authors and playwrights
wallow in vileness," he al­leged,
attacking the modern
novel, stage and screen
plays. "The novel today is
rapidly becoming a pathway
to deviance. . .and advertise­ments
are turning every­thing
to one medium—sex.
"To combat the nation's
wide epidemic of sexual delin­quency
stemming from this
rash of pornography, parents
sit back with their six-packs
watching the boob tube, and
say 'Give them a stiff shot of
compulsory sex education.'
But that will not stop sex
delinquency.
"Sex education for high
school children may add to
their total knowledge of
themselves and do some
good, but the schools cannot
answer the problem of
delinquency. Today's youth
need sex education about as
much as Custer needed more
Indians."
"It will take clubs like this
one and involved parents
demanding decency from our
kids to resolve the problem
and to have our children
grow up as we should have."
The Propaganda Gap, was
explained by Rafferty asking
should admitted com­munists
or activists "be
given the keys to the campus
and permitted to serve up
their versions of history and
economics to captive
audiences of teenage under­classmen?"
Rafferty says
"Yes."
'"There would be no
kick coming from me if Gus
Hall mounted a soap box
right in the middle of my
alma mater's . quad—if
another soap box within rea­sonable
hearing distance
was occupied by the familiar
and formidable figure of J.
Edgar Hoover, who would be
given the immediate op­portunity
to bat Hall's lies
out of the ball park as he
served them over the plate.
"I object to giving any ex­tremist
a free, unhindered,
unrebutted crack at the kids
on a tax-supported campus.
And I don't want the rebuttal
to come six months later from
some kindly, doddering,
super-antiquated professor
emeritus either. I want it to
come from some out-of-town-er
with the same expertise,
gumption and reputation as
the original propagandist.
Halloween is not just
ringing doorbells on
a dark night and candy
in a plastic pumpkin. For the disadvantaged
Goodies children of Auburn there was a party, cour­tesy
of Delta Tau Delta and Delta Delta
Delta, with all the goodies a kid could wish
for. Photo bv John Creel.
SGA negotiates for golf course
The Men's Intramural
Organization is presently
negotiating with the sur­rounding
golf courses for a
student-golf program. Under
this program, any Auburn
student will be allowed to use
the course on presentation of
an I.D. card, paying only a
green fee.
State auditor
will speak
Bids for the cost of the pro­gram
have been taken from
Auburn Hills Golf Club and
Pin Oaks Golf Club. Part of
the $35,000 surplus from Stu­dent
Activities Fees will go
towards sponsoring the pro­gram
if approved by the Bud­get
and Finance Committee
of the SGA. The plan will go
into effect spring quarter if
passed.
Before any further plans
for submission to the Finance
Committee can be made, pos­sible
student participation
must be known. Anyone
interested in the program or
wishing information may
contact the Ombudsman.
j/flf mm
Hlelba Till Allen
The Auburn Student Ac­counting
Association will
sponsor a talk by Melba Till
Allen, Alabama state auditor
at 7 p.m. in the Haley Center
Auditorium, room 2370. Mrs.
Allen, in addition to her
duties as state auditor, is an
active member of the
American Business Wo­men's
Club, the Eastern Star,
and a member of the board of
directors of the Lurleen B.
Wallace Courage Crusade.
The Auburn Student Ac­counting
Association cordial­ly
invites all students and
faculty to attend this meet­ing.
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Editorial Page
The registration battle
The student chapter of the Ameri­can
Civil Liberties Union dived head
first into the student voter registra­tion
battle this week when Chairman
John Saxon confronted the Lee Coun­ty
Registrars two days in a row and
was chased away by the police both
times.
We realize t h a t we should avoid per­sonal
or emotional attacks on people
because we disagree with their beliefs
or their politics. But we can't help
snickering at what Saxon said when
an Auburn fireman (the registrars
were located at the fire station this
week) told him "These ladies have
asked you to leave."
Saxon, who says he simply asked a
few questions and told the registrars
he wished to observe them, said,
"They're not ladies and I'm not leav­ing."
It seems that the registrars have
found it accommodating to be as rude
as possible to students trying to regis­ter
to vote. They have in no way acted
like the good public servants they are
supposed to be.
While Saxon might have over­reacted
a little, we can't blame him for
being mad. And we're certainly glad
to see that someone is interested
enough to put up a fight.
The ACLU is strongly considering
a law suit against registrars all over
the state for discriminating against
students attempting to register to vote
in college towns. We support this en­deavor.
But an action that ACLU is plan­ning
that will have a much more im­mediate
effect is t h a t of sponsoring a
voter registration drive on campus.
They have planned to use members'
own cars to shuttle students to Opeli-ka
to register.
Perhaps if they can get enough
students to go, the registrars will get
so hassled that they will drop their
rude "Don't call us we'll call you atti­tude,"
and will begin to understand
that students, just like all other citi­zens,
must be treated like human
beings.
One thing that could greatly assist
the ACLU in their efforts now that
they have gotten the ball rolling,
would be t he assistance of t he Student
Government Association in the re­gistration
drive. The SGA could
perhaps charter a bus to take students
to the Lee County Courthouse.
The time has come, we think, for
students to stand up and demand
their constitutional rights from the
Lee County registrars. It's time to
declare war.
But we recommend that it be done
in a nice way. When students go to re­gister,
by the busload we hope, they
should remember not to lower them­selves
to act in the rude way t h a t the
registrars have acted.
Students should remain cool and
calm and simply ask for what right­fully
belongs to them—the right to
vote.
ISP
The Student Government Associa­tion
h a s come up with a plan for a free
university program t h a t we think can
be both beneficial and fun for Auburn
students. The program is called ESP
which stands for Extra-curricular
Study Program.
A similar program was attempted
three years ago and was a miserable
failure. It was poorly organized, the
courses were not chosen according to
student interest and, most of all, there
was not enough publicity.
ESP, so far, seems to have none of
these faults. The courses to be offered
next quarter include such things as
simple automobile mechanics, basic
photography, action ecology,
women's liberation and radical socio­logy.
The program seems well-organized
under the direction of ESP Chairman
Marion Cox and publicity is already
being circulated.
The courses will be taught infor­mally
with classes meeting once a
week. They will in no way resemble re­gular
University courses but will be
offered free for the fun and enjoy­ment
of interested students.
The success of the program depends
entirely on student support. Courses
that don't attract interest will be dis­continued
and those t h a t are popular
will be continued with possibly more
sections added.
We encourage students to check
with the SGA for a list of courses and
sign up for those of interest.
Our student trustee
The decision this week by the Stu­dent
Government Association that
SGA Pres. Jimmy Tucker will serve as
the non-voting student member of the
Board of Trustees could be most sig­nificant
to future Auburn students.
Tucker said that a constitutional
amendment will be submitted to a
student vote in the spring that would
make the SGA president assume this
duty automatically in the future.
We feel that the SGA president will
always be well qualified for the job be­cause
he will be familiar with the
workings of the University and will
be an elected official of the students
rather than an appointed officer.
Despite the fact t h a t the position of
the student trustee is weakened by the
non-voting status, the opportunity to
simply voice an opinion to the board
will go a long way toward increasing
the role of the student in University
governance.
We hope that Tucker and all future
SGA presidents will take the job seri­ously
and will endeavor to accurately
represent the students to the trustees.
We also hope that Tucker, if he is
given the privileges of the other trus­tees,
will enjoy his free trip to what­ever
post-season bowl game our foot­ball
team attends.
THE AUBURN PUIN*MM
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John Somfonf
Students lack commitment to fight poverty
Driving through the campus
or the town of Auburn, you'd
never know it.
Indeed, many students have
attended Auburn for more
than four years and never
known about it.
But it's here—in some cases
only three blocks from the
campus.
Poverty is what it is. If you
don't believe me, spend an af­ternoon
driving down some of
the back roads that turn off the
Loachapoka Highway. Or
drive north from the campus
on Donahue Drive until you
cross the railroad tracks and
then slow down to take a care­ful
look at the faces and houses
you will see.
A right turn on the dirt road
where the Opelika High­way
becomes a four-lane yields
a similar sight. Hungry, cold,
tired, defeated faces that some­how
still manage to smile is
what you'll see—faces that cry
out for the comfort and help
that could so easily be pro­vided
by the individuals and
groups that make up
Auburn University.
There are an estimated 1,100
families in Auburn, most of
them black, with an income
below $3,000 a year. The liv­ing
conditions of these and
other families are deplorable
with some 650 homes having
no indoor plumbing.
The University has gone a
long way in recent years
toward helping to solve some
of the problems. The Coopera­tive
Extension Service has
begun teaching families how
to get proper nutrition without
spending too much money, an
experimental program of ad­mitting
disadvantaged high
school graduates to Auburn
who had neither the money nor
the admission requirements
was attempted last year and
the School of Education is now
teaching several courses that
prepare future teachers for
dealing with disadvantaged
children.
In addition to these efforts,
several individuals and groups
associated with the Univer­sity
have taken on projects to
help the poor. Circle K, for ex­ample,
last year took groups of
local youngsters on several
educational and recreational
field trips to such spots as the
Birmingham Zoo and Six
Flags Over Georgia. Fraterni­ties
often sponsor such events
as parties for kids enrolled in
the Head Start program.
But most of these efforts,
though helpful, are, in the
words of a local social worker,
"token." Auburn students and
the University itself lack a
sincere commitment to fight
poverty in the area and conse­quently
the problem has re­mained
and even worsened in
recent years. And while
human beings three blocks
away go on living amidst the
horror that is poverty,
students go on devoting their
time, energy and money to ri­diculous
projects like building
a $10,000 cage for War Eagle.
A local social worker com­mented
this week that "This is
the most apathetic student
body I've ever seen." I hope he
was more correct in his later
statement that "most of the
students don't know how
really bad off some of the
people, especially blacks, are
around here."
If students have not been
active in fighting local pover­ty
because they are ignorant of
it, then perhaps there is still
some hope. If, on the other
hand, students are truly apa­thetic,
the outlook for the
future of the poor in
Auburn is not so bright.
One significant step that
could easily be made would be
the creation of some central
committee or individual to co­ordinate
community social
service efforts among
students. The Student Go­vernment
Association is
already involved in commu­nity
relations to a certain
extent and it seems that it
wouldn't be too difficult to set
up a director of community
social service.
Working with local social
service organizations, such a
director could coordinate the
feeble student efforts that al­ready
exist so that they would
do the most good. And perhaps
he could work to get students a
little more aware and a little
more concerned about what is
going on in their own back
yard.
Alice Murray
McKuen tells audience of love and life itself
Rod McKuen strolls casual­ly
across a stage, half stands,
half slumps in front of a mi­crophone,
and holds an au­dience
of 3,000 or more spell­bound
for a three hour concert.
McKuen, called the "poet
laureate of our time," is the
best-selling poet of his era and
the best-selling, living author
in hardback. On stage last
Friday at the Three Arts
Theatre in Columbus, he de­monstrated
the phenomenal
audience appeal that has
caused thousands to flock to
his concerts throughout the
world.
Half singing, half whisper­ing
his own compositions,
McKuen tells the audience of
love and life itself. He has a
voice that he says "sounds like
I gargled with Dutch Clean­ser"
that cracks on a few notes,
but makes the listener feel as if
McKuen is personally speak­ing
to him, not just to some un­defined
darkened room.
Clad in jeans and a pullover
sweater, McKuen moves from
a microphone stand to a stool,
and clutches a tennis shoe
clad foot in one hand as he
talks of his cat Sloopy and his
sheepdog Mr. Kelly. Then he
breaks into his best seller,
"Jean" while the audience is
held in an almost trance-like
spell.
The concert is a mixture of
sad, sentimental songs, jokes,
light melodies and even in­cludes
a sing-along.
One of the light moments is a
sing-along of a McKuen song
currently number one on the
charts in Holland. "Soldiers
who want to be heroesnumber
practically zero, but there are
millions who want to be civi­lians"
is a light lilting "anti­war
in general" melody, and
the entire audience joins in as
one, under McKuen's leader­ship.
In answer to critics who call
him a sentimentalist, McKuen
says, "I write about life and
death, love and hate, war and
peace. And if I didn't write
about that, I don't know what
the hell I'd write about."
McKuen has been criticized
of oversimplification in his
works, and he is dismissed by
many other poets as irrele­vant.
He is, however, a man who
puts into words the feelings of
a generation. He sings of his
loneliness and his inability to
communicate. His songs speak
of the small, simple everyday
occurences of daily life, as the
passage of time and the
warmth of the sun and all the
small pleasures and sorrows of
just being alive.
For millions of people, Mc­Kuen
represents the simple
man, who speaks of all the
everyday events of life. Al­most
a twentieth century
Wordsworth, McKuen has be­come
spokesman for the com­mon
man. He had only four
and a half years of formal
schooling, and has worked in
all kinds of odd jobs from cow­boy
to psychological warfare
scriptwriter.
McKuen has been said to
love animals even more than
people. He surrounds himself
with a menagerie of, at the mo­ment,
three English sheep­dogs,
five cats and a box turtle
named Wade. One of his
foundations, Concern, is
entirely devoted to pumping
funds into the creation of
animal shelters and clinics as
well as scholarships for veter­inary
students.
One of his poems expresses
his love for animals: "There
ought to be capital punish­ment
for cars that run over rab­bits
and drive into dogs and #
commit the unspeakable, un-pardonable
crime of killing a
kitty cat still in his prime..."
(from "Stanyon Street and
Other Sorrows," 1966).
One of McKuen's biggest
concerns is maintaining the
basic integrity of his work. "I
want to remain as honest as I
possibly can," he said. He re­fuses
to think of himself as a
money machine or a mere
entertainer, but rather as
someone "concerned with his
time, who wants to illuminate
a moment or moments—a girl
on a street looking at you in a
certain way, a touch, a smell, a
sudden memory, the way
something looks right
now—that's my definition of
poetry."
Perhaps McKuen is, more
than anything else, the poet of
today. Whether his work will
endure is a question left up to
future generations. For now he
speaks directly and meaning­fully
to a great many people
and is a tremendous dynamic
live entertainer.
He says: "I sing songs for
people I can't have/ people I
meet once and.will never see
again./ It is for me a kind of
loving./ A kind of loving, for
me.
A guest editorial
Higher education must respond to needs of new age
By Dr. Edward H. Hobbs
Dean, School of Arts and Sciences
The planet earth and the "House of
Intellectuals" are both under attack.
Each, in its own way and in one form
or another, have always been under
siege.
Higher education, while raising its
sights, must be faithful to its cen­turies-
old heritage. But it must recog­nize
that the continuing pursuitof our
time-honored responsibilities will re-'
quire no less couragethan wisdom, no
less a sense of the future than a sense
of history.
No age has the right to destroy
man's most consequential, if not most
loved, institution. Yet rigid ad­herence
on the part of academe to old
methods, old priorities, old curricula
and old perspectives cannot be
tolerated. If the university so fears
self renewal that it becomes in­flexible,
it may go the way of the
dinosaur.
We must hold fast to our academic
traditions and responsibilities, yet
respond to the call of reasoned criti­cisms
and plausible reforms. We must
put our houses in order before others
come in to do it for us. A house which
is not relevant is not a house in order.
It must become so.
Higher education should respond
internally and externally to the needs
of a new age. It should take the form of
a new vision and an expansion of
intellectual horizons. There must be
renewed awareness that to remain
relevant today and tomorrow we need
to grapple with the future as well as
with the past and present.
A report to the recently established
President's Environmental Quality
Council calls for the creation of
Schools of Human Environment at
colleges and universities for the pur­pose
of "problem-focused education
and research directed toward peo­ple—
their need and desire for a
satisfying life in pleasant surround­ings."
The report criticized universities'
hesitancy in promoting interdis­ciplinary
and problem-oriented activ­ities,
calling the "world's academic
community surprisingly muted" in its
attitude toward solving environ­mental
problems. Most faculties and
administrators, as well as students,
need a sense of genuine urgency about
our dead-serious plight as well as
technical and social information to re­verse
the environmental trends. Some
ecologists fear it may already be too
late.
We need to raise our sights to a
global future—for the sake of
relevance in education. We need to
determine exactly to what higher
education is to be relevant, and with
what priorities and intensities. We
need to pay as much attention to the
future as to history.
Our planet is also under as­sault—
chiefly from an exploding
population and the technology which
man has devised. The urgent pro­blems
of earth—population, hunger,
poverty, pollution, race—can only be
solved on an international
basis—surely proper concerns for
organized scholarly inquiry.
Government agencies, industry, re­presentatives
of business and the
professions, as well as humanists,
must appreciate the consequences of
failure and respond to the problems of
the globe and to the needs of the
future. Educational institutions all
over the world must'engage both in
self-renewal and in intensified inter­national
exchange. We must sharpen
man's awareness of the perils that
beset us all if our global future is not
properly rationalized.
Institutional renewal is not an in­novation
in the life of a university.
What is different today is that renew­al
and revision must be made more
quickly than before in order to equip
the young to cope with the ultimate
problem of survival.
This is the call for making educa­tion
relevan t in our time. We must pro­duce
citizens spiritually and intel­lectually
prepared for a dedicated
struggle with urgent world problems,
solutions which have for too long
been postponed or sidestepped.
The business of the assault on the
globe is not somebody else's busi­ness;
it is the most pressing of our
obligations as academic leaders.
Each academic discipline can con­tribute
to the awakening of the new
college generation and of the public to
the degradation of human existence
and the perils forseen in an un­controlled
future. The ultimate ques­tion
is, of course, survival itself. But
the quality of our lives needs enrich­ment.
It is not enough simply to sur­vive.
Our aim should be not just a
bearable society, but a truly good
society.
The testing of man will be
determined in large measure by how
well colleges and universities the
world over marshal their talents and
disciplines in the interest of making
the natural environment more agree­able
to human needs. If we review our
curricula, we shall, no doubt, find
oblique references to many problems
ofglobal dimension. But we shall also
find that little systematic planning
has been done to establish priority
and coordination of materials
relating to world problems. Co­ordination
demands cross-dis­ciplinary
relationships which are at
times difficult to maintain.
Every curriculum in every institu­tion
of higher learning should be
analyzed in terms of its contributions
to the student's understanding of
critical global issues. An interdis­ciplinary
study of our planet and its
future is essential. At least one course
in global futurism should be
incorporated in every student pro­gram
of study.
The feasibility of creating under­graduate
and graduate majors in
global futurism should ajso be ex­plored.
Should we produce such
generalists as world economists.world
sociologists, world historians and
world ecologists? Can we accept the
proposition that universities must not
only prepare the seed-bed for citizen
understanding, but also nurture
specialists who can cope with tech­nical,
social and economic problems
on aworld-wide scale?
Other possibilities for considera­tion
are the formation of schools of
environment or schools of global
futurism, interdisciplinary councils
on world environment, international
participation in the formation of an
agenda of global concerns to which
colleges and universities should ad­dress
themselves and the reexamina­tion
of our graduate education to
determine if it is sufficiently
cognizant of the state of the world.
There must be more experimenta­tion
with new patterns of world co­operation,
especially institutions of
higher learning; the establishment of
appropriate fellowships, the adop­tion
of imaginative educational forms
which will emphasize problem-focused
education, and research
directed toward people—the propaga­tion
of a sense of urgency among our
clienteles.
It just may be that what it takes to
save the university may also be what
it takes to save the planet. To allow
our vision to focus short of the global
perspective is to fail to understand
that we are one people under one God
sharing one small planet, one
environment. Ours is a closed
environment and our dependence on
one another is inescapable and ir­revocable.
Thursday, November 4, 1971 THE AUBURN PUINSM*N
Ombudsman Continued from page ?
Crisp
has turned into a
Finally the sy­rupy
Southern
Indian summer
pleasantly crisp
autumn season. As the leaves fall,
Becky Sexton, 2GSY, leans back and
enjoys it all. Photo by John Creel.
Q.) Why is there only one incom­ing
line for the student informa­tion
number?
A.) There are two incoming lines al­though
there is only one number to call.
If one of the phones is busy it will auto­matically
switch to the other line. Also
there is an automatic answering phone
newly installed which has a taped list
of all activities going on on campus for
that week. The number is 826-4061.
This should take the load off the phone
at the information desk.
Q.) What portion of the proceeds
from ticket sales to home football
games goes to opposing schools
and what goes to Auburn?
A.) It varies on a game to game basis
and depends on the type of contract
that we have with the individual
school. With some schools we split 50-
50. With others we have a contract that
guarantees the individual school a
certain amount. All the rest after the
opposing school has been paid goes to
Auburn.
Q.) Can students get food
stamps?
A.) Students can't get food stamps
here but they can apply for commodi­ties
if they meet the requirements.
There is a maximum level of income
that cannot be exceeded by the indivi­dual
applying. Any person who is
claimed as a dependent on a parent or
guardian's income tax return isn't eli­gible.
A student who is a non-resident
may apply as long as he meets the fi­nancial
qualifications. For more infor­mation
call the Commodity House at
745-6787.
Q.) Do students who work for the
University have to pay the occu­pational
tax to the city of Auburn?
Is there a penalty for not having
paid it?
A.) Students working on the Work-
Study Program do not have to pay the
tax. If a student is listed as a perma­nent
employee by the Personnel Office
then he has to pay it. Although the Uni­versity
does not deduct it from their sa­laries,
employees are still responsible
for paying the occupational tax. There
is a penalty charged on taxes not payed
since the tax first went into effect in
March, 1970. Tax forms and rate sche­dules
for both the tax and the penalty
are available from the revenue clerk at
Auburn City Hall.
Governor's address
The SGA Political Involve­ment
Committee will meet at 3:30
p.m. today in Bradley Lounge to
discuss changes in the SGA elec­tions
laws. Anyone, who has com-plainsts
about the way campus
elections are handled—par­ticularly
former candidates—is
urged to attend
they were poor, because they had no­body
in Washington to tell them that."
Stating that conditions are much
better now than they were 20 years ago,
Wallace said he feels that agriculture is
going "to come into its own" in the
future. He emphasized the importance
agriculture plays in the role of world
peace, in that a strong army, in order to
be strong, must eat and the country
must have an adequate agricultural
system to provide the food.
Citing the improvements made
during his administration in the areas
of road building and mental health fa­cilities,
Wallace was highly critical of
the foreign aid programs currently em­ployed
by the federal government.
"We're giving away all of our money to
these countries that kicked out our own
friend, the Nationalist Chinese," said
Wallace. "We ought to cut every dime
off to them." Wallace said he was in
favor of spending the money on high­ways
and hospitals here in this coun­try,
and not having it go down a "rat-hole"
by sending it abroad.
The governor was preceded by Presi­dent
Philpott who stressed the impor­tance
of agriculture at Auburn. He com­mented
on Auburn being known as a
"cow" college and the lyric, "You can
take Auburn out of the country, but you
can't take the country out of Auburn."
He said agriculture was a main and
vital part of Auburn, and that being
known as a "cow" college is more pres­tigious
than degrading.
Wallace's appearance on campus
was not publicized on request of his
press secretary. Faculty members and
students of the School of Agriculture
were notified of the speech by leaflet.
ACLU
vers" to the fire station Friday.
One board member Berry Wooley,
2GC, commented: "We have dis­covered
so many inconsistencies in the
procedures of the registrars that we felt
that they would operate in a more
equitable way if someone was
observing, yet not interfering with, the
registration process."
Saxon concluded after the incidents
that the "ACLU condemns not only the
state law they (the registrars) claim to
base their decision on, but also their il­legal
and arbitrary procedures that
deny qualified students and citizens
from voting in Lee County."
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Senior criticizes Plainsman columnist Finals
Editor, The Plainsman:
What did he say? This was my
question after reading the editorial by
Keith Bedwell in last week's Plains­man.
His article was an elaborate exercise
in onomatopoeia; but, what did he say?
I am referring to the editorial entitled
"Every expression of being alive neces­sary."
In two-thirds of his column, Mr.
Bedwell poured personality into other­wise
ordinary weekend incidents; and,
to my amazement, he managed to por­tray
"high octane exhaust fumes" in
romantic prose. A group of people in
drunken stumbling came to life and
staggered right out of the page at
me_ t r u l y artistic composition.
Here Mr. Bedwell should have stop­ped.
In his attempt to "discover what
Auburn really is, what people really
are," he fell into the concept of equating
uniqueness and truth. He said: "The
thought occurred to me that perhaps
everyone is right and everything is
true." His last sentence reads: "Per­haps
every expression of being alive, of
being human, is necessary and in its
way inherently true." Surely Mr. Bed-well
realizes the complete hopeless­ness
of his analysis. I'm sure that he
does, because, in the sentence im­mediately
preceding this last quote, he
says, "Perhaps.. .in order to have truth
you must have lies." My question is: if
everything is truth, where are the lies?
Truth is an absolute; it can be held up
in the light and examined. In other
words, truth can be communicated; it
can be transferred from one person to
another and shared.
Historical facts are communicable
truths. But, Mr. Bedwell has tried to
present personal experience as
absolute truth. No two people can view
an identical incident and be able to des­cribe
its implications in the same man­ner.
The fact that the incident occurred
is unquestionable; but, human
emotions have been so created as to
make each of us individual.
The article stated: "Because these
things are personal perhaps you will
not agree with me. My words will not
convince you of anything. . ." On the
contrary, Mr. Bedwell, your words have
convinced me that you, like so many
people today, have tried to find a last­ing,
communicable truth in your ex­periences—
and failed.
Jim McCool, 4EE
Final examinations in all subjects carrying fewer
than three (3) hours credit and examinations for courses
carrying three or more hours credit but meeting fewer
than three lecture days per week (other than the Tues­day-
Thursday sections of World History, English Com­position,
and English Literature as noted below) will be
administered on the last lecture day or during the last
laboratory period preceding Monday, Dec. 6.
If examination conflicts arise as a result of irregular
lecture times, the department concerned should arrange
for the examinations to be administered at a time con­venient
to the instructors and students.
""Special World History Exams
Tuesday, December 7 8
2 1
6 p.m. 3:40
*Special Eng. Comp. and Lit. Exams 7
Wednesday, December 8 10 9 -
Thursday, December 9
7 a.m.
3
11
12
4
7 - 9:30 p.m.
9- 11:30 a.m.
• 3:30 p.m.
• 6:10 p.m.
• 9:30 p.m.
11:30 a.m.
• 3:30 p.m.
- 6:10 p.m.
9- 11:30 a.m.
1 - 3:30 p.m.
3:40 - 6:10 p.m.
1
3:40
Date Class Hour
Monday, December 6 9
1
5
Exam Time
9 - 11:30 a.m.
1 - 3:30 p.m.
3:40 - 6:10 p.m.
*To eliminate conflicts and provide examination
periods of adequate length, examinations for English
Composition, English Literature, and World History
sections which meet on a Tuesday-Thursday schedule
will be administered at night in accordance with the
above schedule.
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14. Gorham Chantilly Bowl
15. Lunt Victorian Vegetable Dish
16. Leonard Silver Ice Bucket
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18. Seth Thomas Clock
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30. Hagerty Silver Polish Kit.
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THE AUBURN PUIMSMMI Thursday, November 4. 1971
Some of the supplies
Dnar needed to make your
DvBl 0Wn beer are shown
above. A good batch, according to a certain
staff expert, takes 24 to 39 days to mellow.
First the ingredients ferment in the large
jugs, and then are removed to the bottles. On
the far left is a capper; a hydrometer (far
right) measures the specific gravity of the
contents in each bottle. Photo by Bill White.
Code contains 'inexplicable' laws
"It shall be unlawful for
any person in the city to sell
to any person under the age
of 21 years any sneezing
powder, itch powder or stink
bombs."
Section 15-8 of the Auburn
Code will no doubt be of great
comfort to anyone who has
been, in the past, assaulted
by a person under the age of
21 armed with sneezing
powder, itch powder or stink
bombs.
Although the code was
completely revised in 1955, a
few inexplicable, delightful
and sobering laws remain on
the city's books.
In addition to being pro­tected
from sneezing powder,
et. al.j residents need not fear
the rigors of dancing or walk­ing
marathons within the
city limits, since these evils
have been outlawed.
Hypnotists are no longer a
threat either. Section 15-32
provides that no person in a
hypnotic, catatonic or other
unconscious state may be ex­hibited
in excess of one hour a
day.
Placing a severe cramp in
the style of many Halloween
celebrants past and future is
section 15-21, which makes it
unlawful for any group other
than a theatrical cast to
display or exhibit a living
person as being dead, or in a
casket, tomb or other "recep­tacle
for the dead." Nor can
anyone be buried alive, in
fact or in pretense. (No provi­sion
is made for a dead
person being exhibited as
alive, however.)
Although few persons
would feel any immediate
pressure from section 15-8,
summer bathers are subject
to arrest for appearing in
public in a swimming suit
more than one block from a
pool.
If a bank robber manages
to pull off his theft without
being arrested, he still faces
prosecution under section 15-
22. This ordinance makes it
illegal for any person to
appear on Auburn's streets
wearing a mask, so as to deli­berately
conceal his identity.
Hopefully, this law was not
strictly enforced on Oct. 31.
Apparently a holdover
from the unhappy Ku Klux
Klan days, section 15-14
states that no crosses may be
burned on private property
without the occupier's per­mission.
Many students might well
be interested in at least two
more of the sections:
Section 15-57—"Whoever
shall make any vulgar and
immoral or indecent signs to
or before another shall be
deemed guilty of indecent be­havior."
Section 15-75 defines va­grancy
in a number of cases,
including "any able-bodied
person who wanders or
strolls about in idleness, or
lives in idleness..." and "any
person who is a common
drunkard."
Graduate Student Council
opposes new library hours
In reaction to numerous in­quiries
and complaints from
graduate students concern­ing
the reduction of hours of
operation of the Library, the
Graduate Student Associa­tion
(GSA) has recently
passed a resolution express­ing
the position of its council
on this matter. The resolu­tion
reads as follows:
Whereas, a large portion of
the Auburn University aca­demic
program is concerned
with post-graduate studies,
Whereas, a significant
number of graduate students
have suffered because of new
and shorter library hours,
Whereas, one purpose of
the Graduate Student Coun­cil
is to express the feeling of
graduate students,
Be it therefore resolved
that the Graduate Student
Council inform Library ad­ministrators
of the Council's
total disagreement with the
new library hours enacted
summer quarter and con­tinuing
through fall quarter,
Be ^further resolved that
the Graduate Student Coun­cil
requests library adminis­trators
to seek other means of
saving money other than cur­tailing
hours of operation.
The G SA feels that the re­duced
hours of operation
during the late evening
places an extreme hardship
on many graduate students
who do not have an opportu­nity
to use the library facili­ties
during the morning and
afternoon because of other
commitments such as work
or teaching responsibilities.
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AUM, main campus enrollment
shows increase for fall quarter
By Jimmy Pate
Plainsman Staff Writer
Fall quarter enrollment
figures for Auburn show an
overall increase of 5.4 per
cent over last year and a total
enrollment of 16,046.
Enrollment of the main
campus increased 2 per cent
from 14,229 in 1970 to 14,503
this year. Enrollment, on the
Montgomery campus in­creased
from 992 in 1970 to
1,543 this year for a 55.5 per
cent rise.
Among the different
schools on the main campus
there were various degrees of
enrollment increases and de­creases.
The School of Arts
and Sciences had an in­crease
of 18 per cent; the
School of Home Economics
enrollment increased 12.6 per
cent; and the School of
Architecture and Fine
Arts increased 7.5 per cent.
The School of Engineering
showed a decrease of 13 per
cent; the School of Pharmacy
dropped 7 per cent; and the
School of Education lost 3.8
per cent.
The School of Arts and
Sciences had the largest
number enrolled with 3,122.
This was 474 more than last
year's figure. Dean Edward
H. Hobbs of the School of Arts
and Sciences said that the in­crease
is part of a trend that
started in 1967 when several
new departments were ad­ded
to the school. He added
that the largest increases in
enrollment have come in the
last two years.
Dean Hobbs cited several
reasons for the recent growth
in enrollment. These in­cluded
leadership on the part
of department heads and
faculty use of new Haley Cen­ter
facilities, and the develop­ment
and growth of the
geology, sociology and
political science depart­ments.
"These are coming in­to
"jHieir own now as
established departments,"
said Hobbs.
He also said, "We have
made a lot of curriculum
changes and improve­ments."
Some of the most
popular new curriculum of­ferings
are law enforcement,
pre-pharmacy, optometry,
physical therapy, public
administration, and oc­cupational
therapy. Dean
Hobbs also commended the
work and facilities of the
foreign language laboratory
and the speech and hearing
clinic.
Tortured
for Christ!
. Milan Haimovici
Lutheran pastor Milan Haimo­vici
spent eight years in Ro­manian
jails passing through
indescribable tortures. The
Communists placed him bare­foot
on burning coals. He was
savagely beaten in the groin
and made to empty barrels
filled with the human waste of
thousands of prisoners with his
own hands. However, his faith
withstood all these trials. Even
Communist officers as they
spoke later about it, were filled
with such respect that they
took off their hats when speak­ing
about this living saint.
Thousands of Christian pris­oners
died in Romanian Com­munist
jails. A complete ac­count
of their courageous faith
and stand for the Lord is con­tained
in the book TORTURED
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Concerning the overall in­crease
in enrollment Hobbs
said, "Growth is fine if you
have the faculty and
facilities to handle it."
The largest decrease in
department enrollment was
in the School of Engineering
where there was a drop of 328
students from last year. Dean
J. Grady Cox of the School of
Engineering said that the
drop in enrollment was no
surprise.
One reason he gave for the
decrease was the national
publicity that has been given
to the unemployment pro­blem
in the space industry re-
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cently. He also said that there
is a general anti-technology
feeling across the nation at
present. "The sad thing
about this is that most of the
publicity is valid for the
Northeast and the West
Coast but not so valid for the
Southeast," he said.
Dean Cox also pointed out
that recent developments in
the engineering programs on
other campuses in the state
may have affected enroll­ment
at Auburn. "There is a
tendency for students to go to
the programs nearest them,"
he said. He also said that
some companies are greatly
reducing their college inter­viewing
programs, but Au­burn
is still being contacted.
General Electric has cut their
interviewing from 17 schools
in the Southeast to four. Au­burn
is one of the four.
"Relative to other
academic areas, oppor­tunities
in engineering are
good at Auburn," said Dean
Cox. He said that although
there has been a decrease in
the number of job offers,
there is still an average of
more than one job offer per
student.
The next largest per­centage
decrease in enroll­ment
was in the School of
Pharmacy. It had a 7 percent
drop but only 16 less stu­dents
than last year. The
School of Education de­creased
by 103 students this
year or a drop of 3.8 per cent.
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Mormon student
requests SGA charter
"We want to become one of
the biggest organizations on
campus," remarked a mem­ber
of the Church of Jesus
Christ of the Latter Day
Saints, commonly known as
the Mormon Church.
For a student organization
presently claiming only 10 af­filiates,
the ambition is a
large one, but Ken Kline,
2GC, thinks that a Latter
Day Saints Student Associa­tion
(LDSSA) is not an impos­sible
dream.
"The association would be
a social and a service club
designed to appeal not only to
Mormons, but to those who
would like our brand of activ­ities,"
said Kline.
Kline emphasized that the
organization, which has re­quested
a charter from the
Student Senate, was not just
for members of the Mormon
Church. "We would spon­sor
events where attending
LDSSA members would be
expected to live up to the
morals of the Church, how­ever,"
he said.
The morals include a pro­hibition
on tobacco, alcohol,
coffee and tea during LDSSA
meetings. These moral
requirements are church
traditions.
Kline is a member of the
local Latter Day Saints
Church which is head­quartered
in what looks like a
residence on Ross Street. He
estimates that the church has
about 35 to 40 regular mem­bers.
"Most people don't know
we're in the area," said Kline
who is also on the varsity
track team. "We're the fast­est
growing church in the
world; all but one person at
our last meeting were con­verts
to the Mormon faith,"
he said.
Kline said the student as­sociation
would perform ser­vice
projects such as helping
poverty victims. For social
activities, Kline foresees
dances, concerts, and intra­mural
sports.
Interested students can ob­tain
information by calling
Kline at 826-4119.
Students encountering this ra-
D 0 0 ther t n r e a d b a r e equine during a
casual tour of the Vet School build­ings,
find their own stares matched by a face which still has a
lot of personality—and teeth. Photo by bill White.
News Poll finds students
uninformed on U.N. issue
A poll of 40 students taken
by The Plainsman last week
indicated that students are
generally unknowledgeable
about the recent expulsion of
the Taiwan government
from the United Nations.
Those polled were asked to
predict the outcome of the
ousting of Taiwan in order to
admit Red China into the
United Nations.
The responses of the 40
students fell into the follow­ing
four categories: 65 per
cent did not know enough
about the event to state an
opinion; 23 per cent foresaw
unfavorable consequences
for the United States; 10 per
cent predicted no noticeable
change in American policies
and 2 per cent believed the ex­pulsion
would benefit the
United States.
Margaret Reeves, 4BI,
stated, "Little countries have
a definite place in the United
Nations. The United States
needs Taiwan as a friend."
Not believing the outcome
to be particularly dramatic,
Janet Davis, 1GC, said,
"Taiwan is not as impor­tant
as it was when it was ori­ginally
seated in the United
Nations."
Marty Beasley, 3PY, made
the distinction that "They
(Red China and Taiwan) are
two different countries.
Taiwan has done nothing
wrong. Why should they be
ousted?"
In reference to the large
population of Communist
China, Lyb Brown, 4FCS,
stated, "Peking will have the
greater impact in the future;
so, between the two, Taiwan
should have been expelled."
She added: "A dual arrange­ment
would be preferable,
though, allowing both
countries a seat."
Margo Koelling, 2GPO,
predicted that "If the United
States pushes it, which I
think they should, Taiwan
will be readmitted."
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Thursday, November 4, 1971 THE AUBURN PUINSMUM
Fund launches new program
in attempt to reach $44,000
In its attempt to reach a
goal of $44,000, the Auburn
United Fund is launching a
new program this year.
In the Fund Drive for
independent charities which
was launched today, young
people will distribute pledge
cards and a special edition of
the "Auburn Bulletin" to
every house in Auburn. There
as small or as large as
individuals want to make
them.
Distributing the pledge
cards and "Auburn Bul-
• letin" will be the Boy Scouts,
Girl Scouts, Key Club, Inter-
Act Club and Junior
Civitans. Auburn's Circle K
club will also assist.
Adult groups collecting the
cards are the Civitans,
Kiwanis, Kiwanis of Greater
Auburn, Lions, War Eagle
Lions, Rotary, Ebeneezer
Baptist Church, A .M .E .
Zion Church, St. Luke's
C.M.E. White St. Baptist,
Bell Baptist, Auburn Jay-cees
and Women's Club.
There are few males
who don't respond
to the attentions of a
pretty girl, and War Eagle IV is no excep­tion.
When a coed stopped by at a football
Admiration game to admire his plummage, War Eagle
puffed out his chest, fluffed up his crown and
accepted her admiration with regal reserve.
Photo by Bill White.
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'"Each child loved'—that
is the aim and hope of the
Clergy Counseling Service.
We want every child to be
wanted and for the parents to
be able to plan their children
and take good care of them."
The Rev. George Telford of
the First Presbyterian
Church explained the aims
and workings of the Clergy
Counseling Service (CCS) to
the Oct. 26 meeting of
Auburn's chapter of Zero
Population Growth (ZPG).
"Each Child Loved," a movie
about CCS narrated by
Candice Bergen which will
also be shown on national te­levision
soon, was presented
at the meeting.
"We try to point out all of
the alternatives to the girls
who come to us for counsel­ing,
to help them think
through their problem
pregnancy," the Rev. Telford
told a group of ap­proximately
60 persons. "We
do not make it our job to pres­sure
them one way or
another."
"There are those in every
religion who feel that a girl
with a problem pregnancy is
getting her just punishment.
I can see no point in bringing
another unwanted child into
the world," Telford said.
"It is true that occasional­ly,
as shown in the film, the
precautions taken are not
adequate, and even married
women find themselves
carrying a child they do not
want. However, in a much
greater number of cases, I
find that the girls who come
to me for counseling have
taken no measures to pre­vent
pregnancy at all. They
perform a marvelous self-deception.
They tell me that
the" •** not use birth control
deviceo . nauae that would
be like admitting that they
plan to behave promis­cuously.
"For whatever reason a wo­man
finds herself with a un­wanted
pregnancy, she still
must make an important
decision. We try to point out
all aspects of every decision,
and after she has made up
her mind what to do, we give
whatever advice we can on
how to go about it. The deci­sion
for abortion is a difficult
one to make, but some wo­men
feel that they simply
cannot bear having a child at
the time."
Women who decide on an
abortion must do so during
the first 10 weeks of preg­nancy,
the Rev. Telford said.
Obtaining an abortion in
Alabama requires extensive
testimony by doctors and
psychiatrists that a woman
would be affected
detrimentally, either
physically of psychological­ly,
he said.
For women who are
healthy, both physically and
mentally, a fully-licensed
clinic in New York takes
cases relayed to it through
CCS, he said. "Only after a
counseling session with a
CCS member will a woman
be admitted, and once in the
clinic she receives additional
detailed counseling."
A loan fund has been setup
for girls who do not have the
money necessary for the visit
to the clinic, said the Rev. Tel­ford.
Future plans for ZPG in­clude
working with the SGA
on a survey of student opi­nion
on issues related to the
organization's goal of no
more than two children per
family. The survey will be
conducted during the second
week in November.
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At the same time, a booth
will be set up in front of Haley
Center with literature about
population-related problems
such as pollution,
psychological effects of over­crowding
and food shortages.
Plans are also being made
to bring a leading ecologist to
Auburn before Earth Day.
"We are trying to get Paul
Ehrlich (author of "The
Population Bomb") to make a
lecture tour of the South­east,"
said Charles Otto co-president
of the Auburn ZPG.
"Our problem is that we got
our charter this year after all
of the SGA money had been
allocated, so we can only sug­gest
to the groups with in­terests
similar to ours that
Ehrlich be brought to Au­burn."
will be no solicitations, and
the "Bulletin" will carry
special stories on the
activities and budgets of the
various organizations seek­ing
financial assistance.
On Sunday and Monday,
adult volunteers will call on
the 6,500 households to pick
up the donations or pledge
cards. Unless some notation
is left at the door, there will be
follow-ups on all not at home
on the designated days.
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iPhi Kappa Phi selects 53 students
A1YS considers nigfcf watchman system
Mary Ann Cundiff
P l a i n s m a n Staff Writer
The night watchman
proposal has heen the major
point of discussion at the past
two weekly Associated Wo­men
Students (AWS) meet­ings.
At the Oct. 25 meeting a
report was presented by the
night watchman committee
proposing to replace the key
system with a night watch­man
system.
According to the regula­tions
of the key system a
sophomore, junior, or senior
girl with parental permis­sion
may check out a key and
come in at any time, return­ing
the key by 10 a.m. the fol­lowing
day. But the pro­blems
are caused when the
keys are lost. The entire sys­tem
has to be changed and
new keys made for everyone
with key permission. Even in
the smallest dorms, the cost
of changing the locks is $140.
The night watchman sys­tem
would provide watch­men
to patrol the dorms on
set schedules. They would
open the dorms for the stu­dents
who had self-regulat­ing
hours.
The night watchman com­mittee
is now investigating
the cost and efficiency of the
night watchman systems.
They have been contacting
other colleges such as Kent
State University and South­ern
Methodist University
who have night watchman
systems.
According to Beth Thomp­son,
chairman of the night
watchman committee, "The
system t h a t we're working on
now would allow Auburn
coeds to use their ' self-regulating
hours without fear
of financial loss."
Also announced at the
meeting was that the noted
New York gynecologist John
Tyson would be speaking on
"Heir Pollution and Human
Sexuality" in an AWS and
SGA sponsored program,
tomorrow night, at 7:30 in
Haley Center 2370.
At the AWS meeting held
last Monday Jimmy Blake, a
Club charters subject to revocation
The following clubs have
not cooperated with the
Organizations Board of the
Student Senate in updating
the club files, and are subject
to the revocation of their
charters:
School of Agriculture: Au­burn
Collegiate 4-H Club;
Poultry Club; Zoology Club;
Gamma Sigma Delta.
School of Architecture: Art
Club; Omicron Kappa Pi;
Scarab.
School of Arts and
Sciences: Auburn Debate
Council and Chemistry Stu­dent
Advisory Council.
School of Business;
National Collegiate Associa­tion
of Secretaries; Omicron
Delta Epsilon; American
Society of Personnel Man­agement.
School of Education:
Sigma Alpha Eta; Physical
Education Club; Kappa Delta
Pi; Phi Delta Kappa.
School of Engineering: Au­burn
Aero Club; Alpha Eta
Ombudsman poll favors
gynecologist at infirmary
Last week's Ombudsman
"Question of the Week" asked
students if they were in favor
of putting a gynecologist on
the Infirmary staff for the
purpose of giving advice on
and prescribing contracep­tives.
Of the 71 students who
voiced their opinions by call­ing
in. 97 per cent were in
favor of hiring a gynecolo­gist
for the infirmary and 3
per cent students were
against hiring the gynecolo­gist.
51 per cent of those
students in favor were males
and 49 per cent were female.
Results of the survey will
be sent to the Infirmary, Zero
Population Growth, Presi­dent
Philpott, Dean Cater,
the Student Welfare Com­mittee,
The Rev. George Tel­ford,
president of the Clergy
Consultation Service for Ala­bama,
the Student Senate,
Jimmy Tucker, SGA presi­dent,
and University Rela-
AU artists
show work
Six Auburn artists will be
among those whose work will
be shown in the Seventh An­nual
Columbus Square Art
Exhibition in Columbus, Ga.
The show, which will be
held Saturday and Sunday
on the Mall of Columbus
Square Shopping Center
Over 120 entries have been
accepted for the show which
will be juried by Irving Sha­piro
Of Chicago, director of
the American Academy of
Art.
Paintings at the show will
be for sale, with 10 per cent of
the purchase price of each
going into the Columbus
Junior Women's Club Scho­larship
Fund. A student is
presently attending college
on a full scholarship made
available from this fund.
Prize awards for this year's
show total $1600.
Artists from the Auburn
area who are exhibiting work
in the show are Mary I). Keat-ley,
Conrad Ross, Janice
Ross, Betty Corless, Donald
G. Hatfield and Douglas
Olson.
The art exhibition is spon­sored
by Columbus Junior
Women's Club, Columbus
Square Merchants Associa­tion
and the Columbus
Museum of Arts and Crafts.
tions.
This week's question is "Do
you think Auburn needs a de­partment
of religion?"
Rho;AIME;Tau Beta Phi; Pi
Gamma Tau; Alpha Pi Mu.
School of Pharmacy: Phar­macy
Council and Phar­macy
Wives Club.
School of Veterinary Med­icine:
Auburn Veterinarian;
Student American Veter-inaryMedical
Association;
Pre-Veterinary Medicine As­sociation;
Jr. American Vet­erinary
Medicine Associa­tion
Auxiliary.
Club Constitutions are
needed from the following
groups: Phi Psi; Eta Kappa
Nu; Auburn Student Chapter
of the Wildlife Society;
American Institute of
Interior Design; Sigma Phi
Sigma.
Club presidents should go
by the Student Activities Of­fice
on third floor of Mary
Martin Hall to fill out the
required information sheets.
One was thin,
fair and cleancut.
One was tall,
dark and freaky.
Both were
sensational.
Doak Walker ripped
apart college gridirons
I in the late 1940s.
Lew Alcindor waj
Pthe same kind of
menace on the
courts in the late 1960 s.
"The Doaker"and"Big '
Lew." Both appointed
this month, to Sport's All-1
Immortality team of the las! 25
years.
Just part of the great moments
and the great'memories that
began before you were born.
All featured in our November
Silver Anniversary issue.
Plus Eugene McCarthy
recalling his days in bush
league baseball.
Sport Magazine for November.
It's starting a small sensation
at your newsstand, right now
Celebrating 25 momentous years of
bringing you, and your father, into the action.
member of t he Discipline Re­port
Committee of the SGA
spoke about the 40 points
contained in t he disciplinary
report presented to Dr. Phil­pott.
He briefly explained the
points and asked for the
backing of the AWS.
Fifty-three students, 40 of
them undergraduates, were
elected to membership in Phi
Kappa Phi a t its recent fall
business meeting. A recep­tion
honoring the newly-elected
members will be held
in the Union Ballroom today
at 4 p.m.
Dr. Wilford Bailey, vice-president
for academic
affairs will be present to wel­come
the new members.
Phi Kappa Phi is a scho­lastic
honorary which draws
its membership from the
upper five per cent of the
senior class from each under­graduate
school and from the
top 10 per cent of students in
graduate school.
Officers for the Auburn
Chapter of Phi Kappa Phi
this year are Dorothy
Sherling, president; Blake S.
Yates, vice-president; Lei-land
Driscoll, secretary-trea­surer;
E. L. McGraw, Public
Relations Officer and Ernest
A. Phillips, Marshall.
Those elected to member­ship
in Phi Kappa Phi in­clude:
Nancy Lane Agnew,
4GEHS; Charles W. Al­derman,
4AC; Randal P.
Andress, 4EE; Thomas Clif­ford
Andres Jr., 4AM; James
T. Blackwell, 9SED; Francis
W. Bonner, 9AED; Gerald
Bresowar, 6CN; Maurice
Kay Brown, 4VM; Catherine
Buettner, 4SED: Rachel N.
Butts, 4AC; CharlyneL.
Chennault, 4AC; Leonard
Christian, 4BT; William R.
Clay, 6CN; George L. Cobb,
6MH; Elizabeth de Graffen-reid,
9SED; Mary H. Ford,
7CED.
Sue Yarbrough Gover,
4SED; Dean Gohn, 4AC;
John M. Goodloe, 4PS; Bar­bara
J. Haines, 4SED; Don
Michael Hudson, 4PS;
Sharpe Winston Johnson,
4VM; Judy A. Kennedy,
6MH; Marjorie M. Killham,
4SED; Mary E. Killough,
4GEC; Harriet E. Lane,
4SED; Diana D. Lee, 4GSP;
James K. Lowder, 4BA;
Michael G. Lucas, 4EE;
Michael K. Lynam, 4BA;
James A. McCool Jr., 4EE;
Walter C. Merrill, 6EE.
Dora Mae Norris, 4SED;
Charles M. Owsley, 4AY
James Ritchie Pearce, 4VM
Robert Earle Pearson, 4BA
Michael W. Peters, 4PM
Harry Glenn Ponder, fillF,
Suzanne K. Reneau, 4BA,
Fred Richter, 9EH; John W.
Romine, 4PL; Elizabeth J.
Rye, 4SED; William I,
Shanks, 4CE; Harold Swain,
4GHY; Lydia Jane Thomas,
fiMH; Patrick Napoleon Trot­ter,
4VM; Donald Evans
Tumlinson, (VM; Kenneth B.
Walkley. 4AE; Nick O. Wil­liams,
9MH; Susan Wil­liams,
4GBI; Dorothy I). Wil­son,
4GPO; Eric Roger Win­chester.
4VM and Robert
Therron Wingard. 4EE .
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Poverty haunts homes
in University backyard
By Mary Anne Hall
Plainsman Staff Writer
Poverty is a human condition as painfully real in a rural
university town such as Auburn as in any northern city
ghetto. Within Auburn, many face the problems of poor
housing, unemployment and inadequate food and medical
care.
"There is a tendency among some people to completely
blame a person for his status but the problem is really so­ciety's
problem," Mrs. Lucy Leger, director of the Headstart
Social workers commented.
An estimated 1,100 families in Auburn have an annual
income of less than $3000. Still others with a slightly higher
income cannot afford decent housing, food and other neces­sities.
"Sure, you can look at what we've done and say it's good,"
one social worker says, "but when you think about how bad
it still is, you want to give up, almost."
There are families in Auburn living in overcrowded sub­standard
housing. Children miss school because they have
no school clothes. Some families remedy their own ailments
because they cannot afford medical expenses. Mothers who
find work cannot afford to pay a babysitter to care for the
children. There is not enough food. Debts mount.
The major poverty areas in Auburn are located in the west,
northwest, and northeast peripheral areas. Along the
Loachapoka highway and in the area between North College
and North Gay streets known as Draketown are some of
Auburn's worst poverty pockets.
In these areas there are houses without kitchen facilities,
baths, showers and toilets. Rodents and insects pose health
problems. Some 650 houses in Auburn have only partial or
no plumbing.
Mrs. Jesse William, local head of the National Welfare
Rights Organization told of one severe case in which an el­derly
woman must crawl into her old shack because it is
unsafe to open the front door.
Approximately 62 per cent of the inadequate housing in
Auburn is occupied by non-whites, yet non-whites occupy
only 26 percent of the city's total housing, Dennis Griffin, as­sistant
director of the Lee County Council of local govern­ment
said.
Several factors cause the housing problems, according to
Griffin. Students compete with low income groups for avail­able
housing. High land costs and zoning requirements
defeat efforts to build low cost housing. Private investors see
no profit in the construction of low cost units. Large tracts of
land held in large estates and owned by the university are
unavailable for development, Griffin said.
There are approximately 290 available public housing
units in Auburn. An additional 290 units are planned to be
built within the next three years. Presently there is a long list
of families waiting to move into the project housing. Still
many cannot afford to pay the project rent, which is based on
a salary percentage.
Another related problem is transportation. Many low
income individuals either do not own cars, or own cars that
do not run and cannot afford to pay for repairs. There is a
great need for volunteers to transport people to clinics, to the
commodity foods, and to the agencies providing other
services.
A lack of sufficient food is a major problem also, Griffin
added. While many of Auburn's poor make use of the com­modity
foods program this "is certainly not enough to last
the whole month," one Lee County case worker said. It is ne­cessary
to supplement this with additional food. People on
special diets, such as diabetics, are limited in the commodity
products they can use, but they can hardly afford to pur­chase
specially prepared products. A lack of transportation
prevents some families from obtaining their commodity
foods in Opelika. There is an emergancy food program in
Auburn which will provide money to needy persons who run
out of food and have no money. However, Vista workers have
found many persons suffering from malnutrition.
There is also a lack of jobs available, Mrs. Lucy Lochlin, di­rector
of the social case workers with the Lee County Depart­ment
of Pensions and Securities, said. Related with the em­ployment
problem is the need for more day-care facilities for
working mothers. "High school graduates and trade school
graduates have the same opportunities available to them as
the tenth grade drop out," commented one of the county
social workers.
"The major employment opportunities in Auburn are con­nected
with the University or are service oriented," accord­ing
to a report published by the Lee County Council of Local
Government. "Manufacturing employment is low (6.5 per
cent) because the recent industrial expansion in Lee County
has tended to attract employment from outside the county.
Less than 8 percent of the non-white labor force is classified
as white-collar workers."
"One of the greatest needs that we have is for working
mothers to have licensed facilities to care for their children
while they go on a training program of accept employment,"
Mrs. Lochlin said. Many mothers cannot afford to pay a
babysitter to care for their children while they work. Some
day-care facilities are provided at the housing projects but
there is a particular need for more centers to care for infants
under age three.
Auburn requires the purchase of a $15 license by women
operating a day-care home. In a day-care home about five
children are cared for in a private home while the mothers
work. This fee discourages some qualified women who
cannot afford it, Mrs. Lochlin said. The county department
of pensions and securities issues a license free of charge to
qualified women, but Auburn requires the additional license
to operate in the city.
Perhaps the most painful part
of poverty in a relatively
prosperous community is the op­portunity
for comparison. For the "haves" there is the
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degeneration of the neighborhood, the unsightly houses in
need of repair. For the "have-nots" there is a growing
resentment and shame.
Plainsman photo by Bill White.
Various groups aid the disadvantaged
By Bill Wood
Plainsman Staff Writer
Poverty relief in Lee County is cha­racterized
by a unique blend of federal
programs, church mission aid, and in­dividual
involvement.
"We think that this business of
giving food baskets to the poor on
Thanksgiving and Christmas is like
saying 'We love you' twice a year and
'You can go rot' the rest of the year,"
said one relief official. "But," he con­tinued,
"there are a lot of committed,
hard-working people here who are
doing a lot more than saying 'We love
you' to the poor at Thanksgiving and
Christmas."
One of the main areas groups are
working together in is "self-help hous­ing,"
or providing loans and assis­tance
for low-income families to build
or improve their housing.
Under such loans, the poor can own
their own homes, often making pay­ments
that amount to less than the rent
they were paying for substandard
housing.
Groups involved in self-help housing
include VISTA (Volunteers In Service
To America), the Auburn
SocialConcerns Council, in coopera­tion
with the East Alabama Coopera­tive
Housing, Inc., and the Presby­terian
Community Ministry. One local
business which has had a self-help
housing program for 30 years is the E.
L. Spencer Lumber Company.
Over 100 homes have been built
under the Spencer program, which
provides poor persons with financing
when they can get it nowhere else. In
the last two years, the government
FHA 235 program has supplemented
interest payments, broadening the
Spencer program somewhat.
Newer self-help housing programs
include those of the Presbyterian Com­munity
Ministry and East Alabama
Cooperative Housing, Inc., both with
the assistance of VISTA and Head
Start workers.
As a national program, VISTA
started with the passage of the Econo­mic
Opportunity Act of 1964. VISTA of
Lee County began operations in 1967,
sponsored by the Alabama Council on
Human Relations.
VISTA is now operating with a staff
of 21 volunteers working in the areas of
self-help housing, welfare rights, trans­portation
for the poor, increased job
skills for domestic workers, day care,
mental health, alcoholic care, family
planning and physical health.
The VISTA program is designed to
operate in one place for five years and
set up programs, and then move on to
another location. Since VISTA of Lee
County was founded in 1967, it is due to
cease operations next year. Present
efforts are aimed at founding indepen­dent
agencies and other groups which
will carry on when VISTA is gone.
One such group is a household
technicians co-op, recently founded for
the benefit of domestic workers.
Through the group, many domestic
workers will increase their skills, en­abling
them to secure higher-paying
jobs. The co-op was made possible by a
$3000 grant from the National Presby­terian
Church.
Another agency which will remain
when VISTA is gone is East Alabama
Cooperative Housing, Inc., afederally-assisted
self-help housing group. The
Farm Home Administration, Depart­ment
of Agriculture, provides financ­ing,
and a number of VISTA volun­teers
now help to coordinate the
program. VISTA help will be with­drawn
when VISTA of Lee County is
(See page 10, col. 3)
Plainsman photo by Bill White.
Students'apathetic'about poverty
By Royce Harrison
Plainsman Staff Writer
Auburn officials say the University
has taken a lead in the fight against
local poverty but the student body is
characterized by local social workers
as "one of the most apathetic. . .I've
ever seen."
"When I came here I was real excited
about having the University right here
with all its resources—we thought stu­dents
would pitch right in and help,"
said a volunteer supervisor with a local
poverty program. "Well, all we've had
is token support. This is one of the most
apathetic student bodies I've ever
seen—most of the students don't know
how really bad off some of the people,
especially blacks, are around here. It's
like University was a world in itself
over there."
"Token help is almost—well is, worse
than no help at all," said another
volunteer worker, "because when some­body
says they want to help, we get all
fired up you know, and then it's such a
letdown when they quit."
Examples of such token efforts are
numerous according to local
volunteers. A self-help housing worker
described an incident in which a fra­ternity
volunteered its help on a pro­ject.
"I told them to come to one of our
projects (repairing the roof of an old
house) and we'd finish it up in a day.
We all had a big time—they came with
several cases of beer, raising hell—but
we didn't get much done. And what we
did finish was so lousy I had to redo a
lot of it."
Despite the lack of support from stu­dents
though, the University is en­gaged
in several programs designed to
alleviate some of the problems caused
by poverty in Auburn and Lee County.
One of the basic areas in which the
university is working is in the field of
nutrition. The Cooperative Extension
Service is working with the U .S.
Department of Agriculture and the
Federal Extension Service to utilize
paid non-professional aides to reach
and teach poverty-stricken households
more about the basic foods needed
daily for proper nutrition, as well as the
purchase and preparation of the foods.
Aides were trained and supervised by
county extension service offices to con­tact
the low-income families, help them
overcome their most pressing pro­blems
by introducing the family to
community resources such as the food
stamp program, to PTA. or the com­munity
health clinics.and then to work
with them on a nutrition education pro­gram.
The program is under the direction of
Mrs. Mary Coleman, assistant direc­tor,
Cooperative Extension Service.
Mrs. Coleman estimates that 38 per
cent, about 70,000 families, of Ala­bama's
population have incomes of
less than $3,000 per year. Only 18,500
families, however, are on the Ex­panded
Food and Nutrition Program,
but between June and September of
this year at least 3,000 new families
signed up.
In 1968 Pres. Harry M. Philpotf
called a special committe to survey the
ways in which Auburn was assisting
the lower socio-economic class. The
committee reported some 20 different
projects or programs under way, from
the research of individual faculty mem­bers
to the efforts of the Cooperative
Extension Service in its 4-H programs
and other services. Six recommenda­tions
were made for further con­centrated
effort to help the dis­advantaged,
because it felt that Au­burn
was not doing all that it could do.
The six recommedations were: to set
up an office to coordinate the Universi­ty's
projects for the disadvantaged; to
establish courses (credit or non-credit)
within the University that deal with
problems of the disadvantaged; to set
up institutes for the teaching of
teachers to work with the dis­advantaged;
to orient disadvantaged
high school students about the Univer­sity;
to identify and recruit high-potential
disadvantaged high school
students and get them into higher
•education either at Auburn or else­where;
and to establish a more inten­sive
Extension program.
To date, five of these recommenda­tions
have been, and are being
administered. Dr. Ben Lanham, vice-president
in charge of research said a
program to orient high school students
about Auburn has not been established
because there has been no satisfactory
recommendation made to Pres. Phil-pott.
Such a program would have to be
financed with federal funds, Lanham
said, "because we can't use student fees
on high school students."
In the field of coordination Dr. W. B.
Hill, assistant to the director, Co­operative
Extension Service, has been
appointed coordinator of programs for
the disadvantaged. His work, he ex­plains,
has taken two main approches.
One is to extend the resources within
the Schools to organizations which
help disadvantaged people; the second
approach is to register more dis­advantaged
students. He urges any
group interested in assisting dis­advantaged
people to check with him to
find the most fruitful direction in which
to aim their efforts.
Auburn has no remedial courses to
allow educationally disadvantaged
students to catch up with other stu­dents,
according to Dr. Wilbur Tin-cher,
director, Educational Services.
He commented that Auburn has of­fered
some remedial courses in the past.
Most junior colleges, Tincher added,
have special programs for remedial stu­dents.
Dean of Undergraduate Studies Tay­lor
Littleton, Chairman of the Cur­riculum
Committee, said that
emphasis is placed upon educating
teachers of the disadvantaged instead
of directly educating the dis­advantaged
themselves. Within the
last two years, the Department of
Family and Child Development has
been added to the School of Home
Economics, and one course there­in—
The Child in a Culturally Dis­advantaged
Family—is the only course
dealing with a poverty situation.
Nevertheless, the School of Educa­tion
offers several curricula concern­ing
the disadvantaged: The Adult
Basic Education Program, which
instructs the teachers of illiterate and
semi-illiterate people, has the only
undergraduate program in the nation;
the Vocational Rehabilitation Service
provides guidance, training, and job
placement for handicapped citizens;
and there is a special education pro­gram
for persons with special pro­blems
that keep them from learning
normally, such as deafness, blindness,
and emotional problems.
The School of Education has held
institutes designed to help alleviate
problems stemming from desegrega­tion
of public schools. Also, professors
in the Adult Education Department
hold institutions and workshops from
time to time, that provide training for
volunteers and para-professionals who
instruct the educationally dis­advantaged.
Last fall, seven high-potential, dis­advantaged
black students from Lee
County high schools were admitted to
Auburn with fees and books paid for
(half by grant, and half by work-study
job). All seven had academic difficulty
culminating in suspension. As to why
they did not succeed, Dr. Tincher, di­rector
of the project, named four rea­sons:
lack of adequate study space at
home; difficulty in understanding
professors; trouble with study
skills—taking notes and picking the
important lecture points; and inter­ference
between schoolwork and job.
More important Tincher said, the stu­dents
had a lick against them in the
first place because they did not meet
Auburn's academic admission
standard. Henceforth registration will
be open only to those who meet the
academic requirements, he said.
The task of identifying and en­couraging
capable black students to
come to Auburn is being shouldered
largely by D.C. Madison, who was
employed at the start of classes this
quarter as admissions counselor in the
Office of High School and Junior Col­lege
Relations.
Dr. Fred Robertson, vice-president
for Extension was designated by Pres.
Philpott to take a look at some problem
areas in the state with the idea of using
University resources to help solve com­munity
problems. An opinion survey in
Chambers County showed the most
pressing problems, and gave Robert­son
and his faculty committee ideas for
long-range programs aimed at up­grading
the social well-being of the
people.
The committee decided to im­mediately
undertake the development
of a sanitary waste disposal system for
the county. By State law, every county
was to have such a system in operation
by September 1, 1970; but Chambers
County had none. Auburn's Civil En­gineering
Department was asked to de­sign
a system, and in the fall of 1970,
Professors Grady Harmon and Carter
Harrison assigned the project to 14 stu­dents
enrolled in CE Design 1. The stu­dents
completely studied the county,
learning population growth trends,
location of the center of the population,
possible landfill sites, etc., and came up
with a master disposal plan which even
includes a proposed budget. The plan
was submitted to the Chambers Coun­ty
Commission in April, 1971.
THE AUBURN PUINMMI IO Thursday, November 4, 1971
Wayne Moore and Kathy East
\ •>• / engage in a close conversation dur-nllSBf
ing practice for the Department of
Theatre presentation of "The Miser." The play opens Nov. 10
at the Auburn University Theatre.
Photo courtesy of the Department of Theatre.
Barber ends years
of work in Auburn
By Linda Cornett
Features Editor
"I had eight brothers who
needed hair cuts. One of my
brothers who was a barber
gave me some of his tools so
he wouldn't have to spend all
of his time clipping when he
came to visit."
C. M. Clinkscales ex­plained
his beginning on a
career which ended last
Thursday when he closed his
shop on Magnolia Avenue
after 16 years of barbering in
Auburn.
In that time his clients in­cluded
. Dr. Ralph B.
Draugh'on, former Auburn
president, Dr. Charles
Weaver, chancellor of the
University of Tennessee, and
Pres. Harry M. Philpott.
"I am not retiring because I
do not have customers," said
Clinkscales, "but I am pastor
of a Baptist church and I
need to have more time for
that."
Rev. Clinkscales' life-long
career (I've been cutting hair
all my life.") began when he
was in high school, where he
spent every study period in
the school basement
trimming his classmates.
"My sophomore year at
College I arrived with 75
cents in my pocket," he said.
"The football boys had not
had a haircut since I left be­cause
the barbers in town
were charging 50 cents and
most of the students could not
afford it." He spent two days
trimming the team, at 25
cents a head, and made
enough money to continue
college.
Later, when Rev. Clink­scales
went to the Southern
Baptist Theological Semi­nary
in Louisville, Ky., he
again set up his shop in one of
the dorms. "I cut more
preachers' hair than anyone
in the world during the time I
was at the seminary," he
said.
During the years when he
was a full-time Baptist mi­nister,
he dropped barbering
as a profession. When his two
sons wanted to attend
Auburn, however, Rev. Clink­scales
set himself up again as
full-time barber and part-time
preacher.
"Auburn has the nicest
people I have ever worked
with including those at the
seminary. And that is speak­ing
well of Auburn," he said.
"Auburn has certainly
changed since the days when
I started my business. Back
when there would be 30,000
for a game, the streets down
here on Saturday morning
would be filled with hundreds
of people. The out-of-towners
would come by to say hello to
their friends, and the town
people showed up to see who
had come for the game. Now
the out-of-town crowd goes to
the stadium early and the
Auburn residents don't come
near town because they know
they won't be able to park."
Rev. Clinkscales has also
observed changing hair
styles to accompany the
changing times. When he
began, the pompadour was
the look.
"In the '30's no boy ever
wore any hair in his face. You
put vaseline on the hair and
used a stocking or skull cap to
get the hair back just right,
and it would stay that way all
day."
"The flat top style started
in Germany, and the soldiers
brought it back with them.
Everyone had to have that
stripdown the middle of their
heads no matter what kind of
hair they had. You could use
moustache wax to hold the
hair up if it was too soft."
What does Rev. Clink­scales
think of the long look
of 1971?
"I prefer not to answer. My
favorite is the full look, but
not shaggy and long over the
collar. I think the pressure for
long hair comes from the
wives and sweethearts. They
want their men to be stylish.
Last Saturday I cut a foot
long pony tail off of a boy
who had not had a haircut in
two years. His girlfriend was
begging him not to get it cut,
so I gave her the pony tail,
and gave him a hair cut.
Con timed from page 9
Various groups aid disadvantaged
terminated next year.
Head Start is another federal
program active in Lee County. Aimed
at helping preschool disadvantaged
children, Head Start is under the direc­tion
of the Office of Education, Depart­ment
of Health, Education, and Wel­fare.
In addition to offering pre-schoolers
educational experiences, the Head
Start program provides the children
with two cooked meals. Head Start
sessions are held in Trinity Lutheran
Church and the First Presbyterian
Church.
The Auburn Social Concerns Coun­cil
was established two years ago by
the churches of Auburn to alleviate po­verty.
It is composed of representa­tives
of the local relief committees of
most Auburn churches, as well as re­presentatives
of several civic clubs.
One program of the council is the thrift
shop held each Saturday in the old
Roman Catholic mission. In this
program, donated goods are sold at
rock-bottom prices to the disadvan­taged.
Profits from the thrift shop pay
for new shoes for poverty-stricken
children.
The council also supports a
Children's Emergency Fund and has
been instrumental in having certain
streets paved. The council encourages
its members to undertake other projects
independently, moving in their own,
self-determined direction.
One active church group is the Pres­byterian
Community Ministry. A 100-
member incorporated group, the body
gets its funding from three sources—a
$20,000 grant from the National Pres­byterian
Church, matched by a $20,000
appropriation from the First Presby­terian
Church of Auburn and $20,000
from individual monthly contribu­tions
by the members of the ministry.
With the help of VISTA and Head
Start workers, the ministry works pri­marily
in self-help housing, providing
low-interest or interest-free loans for
improving sound houses and building
new ones.The ministry is not restricted
to housing programs: its purpose, ac­cording
to its charter, is to "conduct a
ministry of compassion," helping the
poor in any way possible.
Originally an entirely Presbyterian
venture, the ministry now includes
many involved individuals from all
segments of the community.
Helping the poor is not without its
setbacks, however. The Alabama Le­gislature,
for example, recently made a
change in welfare laws which cut off
payments to 600 people in Lee County
alone.
Student help is welcomed by the anti-poverty
agencies in Lee County.
Project workers, however, stress that
volunteers should be totally com­mitted
to change, and that token help is
almost as bad as no help at all.
Students with cars who can help in the
VISTA transportation program are es­pecially
needed. Volunteers are asked
to call the local VISTA or Head Start of­fices.
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By Amy Dyer
Plainsman Staff Writer
"The Miser" a French
Comedy by Moliere, will be
presented November 10-13,
and 17-20 by the AU Depart­ment
of Theatre.
The play is directed by Dr.
A. Cleveland Harrison. It
was first produced in 1668
and later translated by
George Kernod