1973-04-13 The Auburn Plainsman

              Students elect Ed Milton SGA President...
The 39 per cent of the Auburn student
body that turned out in yesterday's
election overwhelmingly selected Ed
Milton, 4LHY, over Chip Stilwell, 4AM,
as the president of the Student Govern­ment
Association for the coming year.
Milton polledi- 3417 votes, or 70 per
cent, to Stilwell's 1464,30 per cent for a
total number of votes cast in that race
of 4881.
Milton is to-take office at the SGA of­ficer's
installation banquet Tuesday
night.
In the latter stages of the campaign
week, two obviously different cam­paign
styles had evolved from the
Milton and Stilwell camps. Milton's
stumping technique, described by him
as serious, was apparently better ac­cepted
than Stilwell's campaign, which
was one of exposure and saturation.
During the campaign, Milton
pledged to restructure entertainment
booking immediately after taking
office. He said that a full-time enter­tainment
director or an outside agent
would be better equipped to book big-jiame
groups than isthe-present stu-
ED MILTON
•Polls 70 per cent vote
dent entertainment director, who
works through the Social Life commit­tee
and Auburn Coliseum manage­ment.
He also promised to emphasize minor
sports and women's athletics, in
cooperation with the Athletic Depart­ment.
Milton.saidhe would work to improve
the Student Health Center, to set up a
student credit union and check-cash­ing
service and to set up a student
Xerox machine with five-cent copies.
Milton pledged to work for library
reform, concentrating on longer hours
and more temperate conditions. He
said he would stress public relations,
establishment of academic credit for
student activities and establishment
of a campus magazine.
The defeated Stilwell had based his
campaign on two main points: lobby­ing
for 18-year-old legal privileges in
Alabama and improved public rela­tions
for the SGA.
On entertainment, Stilwell said
booking big-name concerts should be
"in the hands of students," and ob-jected
to the role of the present Social
Life Committee.
Both candidates were interviewed on
WEGL-FM's "Perspectives '73"
program Tuesday night. During the in­terview,
a chief point of controversy
was the campaign style of each candi-date.
Stilwell characterized his campaign
as one to get his name "before the
public," and his issues as "simple and
concise." Stilwell campaigners had
used free potato chips and chocolate
chip ice cream in an effort to induce stu­dent
voters to remember the name
"Chip."
Stilwell said his campaign was de­signed
to appeal to the "common man,"
independent and Greek.
Milton defended his campaign from
charges of elitism, noting that he had
lived off-campus as an independent
before getting involved in student go­vernment.
He said that improvement
in student government would benefit
all students, not just student govern­ment
leaders.
Milton modified a comment he had
a THE AUBURN PUINSMMI THIS PAPER
VOLUME 79 AUBURN UNIVERSITY AUBURN, ALABAMA 36830 FRIDAY, APRIL 13, 1973 NUMBER 21 22 PAGES
Gives strike authority
Labor union threatens to shut University
By Jimmy Johnson
Plainsman News Editor
The Laborer's International Union
of North America received unanimous
permission Sunday afternoon to call a
strike against Auburn University if the
LIU felt the action was necessary in
future correspondence with the Univer­sity.
Granting the permission was a
group of 300-400 of the University's
non-budgeted, hourly-paid, non-academic
employes assembled at the
United Rubber Worker's Local No. 753
meeting hall in Opelika.
The meeting in which the strike vote
was taken began shortly after 4 p.m.
—R. C. Dennis
Miss Auburn
Debbie Lowe, 3GFLS, is con­gratulated
by friends after hear­ing
the news that she won the
Miss Auburn title over four con­t
e s t a n t s in yesterday's elections. A
brown-eyed brunette from Or­lando,
Florida, Debbie is Panhel-lenic
President and past Rush
Chairman. She has also been a
calendar girl and is Phi Gamma
Delta Sweetheart. Considering
Miss Auburn's role a s mainly one
of public relations, Debbie says she
is looking forward to her year as
Auburn's official hostess.
when LIU representative E.G. (Bart)
Bartlett called upon one of the Univer­sity
employes in the audience to deliver
an invocation. Then, from behind a
short, table-top podium on which was
plastered two bumper-stickers reading
"Save America/Buy Union" and
"Sparkman," Bartlett introduced LIU
Regional Manager Howard Henson.
Henson began his remarks with an
Abraham Lincoln quote which said
that the working man was the back­bone
of America and that anyone
against the working man was un-
American.
Henson then directed his statements
against the University saying, "There
is a lot of fleecing going on. The forgot­ten
people are those who work for
government agencies." He told the
crowd that the agencies had money to
pay the employes more but that they
were at the bottom of the list. When he
said "when money is appropriated, by
the time it gets to the workers it is all
gone," the audience responded with ap­plause
punctuated with "amens."
"We do not advocate strike; we do not
desire strike," he continued.
"When we came to Auburn we felt
that we had at last met sensible leader­ship.
They assured us that if we went
and got check-off organization it would
be proof of desire for a union," said
Henson. He went on to say that the
union found 79 per cent in favor of a
union.
"That should make it legal," he said.
He continued that the LIU was told to
Iwait, at that time, until Pres. Harry M.
Philpott returned from his leave of ab­sence.
They waited, he said, and no­thing
happened.
"We still don't have recognition.
We've got to wipe out the idea that we
can't have a union. We are going to
have a union," he said in a rising voice
which drew more applause from the
.employes.
"We will shut Auburn University
down unless they change their at­titude,"
he said in the same tone. Again
there was applause.
"There are those who feel that things
never change," he said, returning to his
normal, powerful voice. "We know they
do. We see it at the grocery story every
week, but our checks don't get any big­ger,"
he said.
He concluded by telling the crowd,
"I'll stand with you till hell freezes
over." He then quickly asked how
many were in favor of giving the union
committee the power to call a strike.
Everyone in the room raised a hand,
and there were a few enthusiastic
shouts. Henson then asked if there
were any opposed, but no one indicated
such.
After Henson sat down, Bruce Carr,
an LIU representative who has been
negotiating with the University on an
unofficial basis, addressed the crowd.
"I'm a peace-maker. I will talk all day
and night to prevent a strike. But I
have talked to everyone from the
Governor on down, and I think it's time
to do more than talk," he told the
crowd.
"There's no going back now; we've
got to go forward," Carr concluded.
After Carr's words, Alfred Hazel, a
young, black LIU representative, took
the podium.
Hazel began with the statement,
'We're going to tell Philpott that the
situation is hot; he's going to have to
do-do or get off the pot."
Hazel then told an anecdote about a
farmer who had a basically good mule
except that the mule had to be struck
with a fence-post before he would mind.
"If it takes striking the hell out of
that University to get it to move, we'll
do it," he said to a round of applause.
After the meeting, Carr said, "We are
still hopeful to work something out, but
if we can't, well, I think you can see the
feeling of this group."
Stilwell to protest returns j§
'regardless of results'
By Mike Kenopke
With the Stilwell campaign
"Regardless of the results, we are go­ing
to protest the returns," charged
Chip Stilwell an hour before the elec­tion
results for the SGA presidential
race were in.
At the Stilwell campaign headquar­ters
in the Sigma Alpha Epsilon house,
supporters openly expressed fears of
"something irregular" in the tabula­tion
of the votes. That too was before
the final results were in and was based
Imid# today
Entertainment: Uriah Heep will headline a
concert next Thursday in Memorial Colise­um.
Plainsman staffer David Williams
looks at both Heep and Billy Preston, warm-up
performer for the concert. Page 20.
Features: Auburn's
library, with its
shortcomings and
its good points, is
the subject of a com­prehensive
study.
Focus, page 6.
Sports: John Mengelt, former Auburn bas­ketball
great, relates what it's like to play
with the pros. Page 15.
on speculations concerning why re­turns
had not yet been reported.
When the news of Ed Milton's vic­tory
was announced shortly after 11
p.m., Ed Rudd, campaign aide to Stil­well,
said: "That can't be right."
Members of the Stilwell campaign
staff then concluded that the best al­ternative
would be to request to see the
computer sheets that were rejected by
election officials earlier that night. Stil­well's
staff would search for "irregula­rities."
Bitterness reigned among the Stil­well
group after the returns came in. "I
don't understand it, we couldn't have
been beaten that bad. Something's rot­ten,"
said Stilwell's fiancee, Karen
Jones.
Stilwell, who had visited the com­puter
center an hour before the final an­nouncement,
did not comment on the
final returns.
At the computer center, SGA Pres­ident
Jerry Batts strongly denied that
any irregularities in balloting oc­curred.
Earlier in the evening, Stilwell had
been in good spirits while conversing
with supporters, drinking scotch, and
listening to music. Suspicion of "ir­regularities"
mounted as announce­ments
over delays in election tabula­t
e STILWELL, page 14)
made at a Monday meeting of Omicron
Delta Kappa leadership honorary sug­gesting
that ODK is an "elite." Milton
said he didn't mean to use the word
"elite," but added that he was proud to
be an ODK member because of its work
in lobbying for change this year.
Milton said his campaign issues were
not "concise and simple," because the
problems of student government are
complex. He characterized his cam­paign
as "serious."'
Wilson Vice-president...
This black cat got an early
s t a r t in hexing the presiden­tial
campaigns of Ed Milton
(left) and Chip Stilwell by
crossing their paths atop
Early start —Steele Holman
Haley Center's fourth floor
Wednesday. Today is Friday
the 13th, a traditional day for
bad luck.
Mike Wilson overwhelmed Bobby
Bright by 2,804 votes to win the SGA
vice-president's office in Thursday's
elections. Wilson compiled 3,634 votes
while Bright polled 830.
Wilson said he will work for better
rapport with the Senate as president of
the body. The SGA vice-president
serves as president of the Student Sen­ate.
Wilson said he plans to work for
"more rapid activation of the Senate"
after he takes office. He said there is
often an "administrative lag" when
new senators take over, uninformed of
work that has already been done.
Wilson said he feels that his know­ledge
of past projects will aid him to
move projects already under way with­out
breaking stride.
MIKE WILSON
.New SGA Vice-President
and Barron Treasurer
BILL BARRON
.Wins Treasurer post
Bill Barron defeated Alice Murray in
Thursday's race for SGA Treasurer by
1,104 votes. Barron received 2,733 votes
to Ms. Murray's 1,629.
Barron's qualifications for the posi­tion
include his experience as a
member of the Senate Budget and Fi­nance
committee, senator from the
school of Engineering and Chairman
of the Academic Credit committee.
Barron feels that publication of the
SGA expenditures is necessary. He
said that many students pay their $5.50
per quarter student activity fee with­out
realizing where their money goes.
The treasurer is required to report quar­terly
to the Student Senate, on projects
receiving student activities funds.
New religion department
to start fall under Armour
Dr. Rollin S. Armour, professor of
religion at Stetson University in De-land,
Florida, has been appointed pro­fessor
and head of the newly planned
Department of Religion, which will
open classes next fall, Pres. Harry M.
Philpott announced this week.
The new Department of Religion has
been established in the School of Arts
and Sciences following two years of
study on the possibility of developing
such a program. Favorable student opi­nion
was found during the study to be
sufficient to warrant the new depart­ment.
Dean Edward H. Hobbs, comment­ing
on the appointment, said, "We in
Arts and Sciences at Auburn Universi­ty
are most pleased to be able to initiate
our Department of Religion under the
leadership of Dr. Rollin S. Armour.
"He is a mature scholar, a master
teacher, andhas held this year the pres­idency
of the Southeastern Region,
American Academy of Religion. He
comes to us highly recommended and
won the appointment at Auburn
against keen competition from
numerous exceptionally well qualified
candidates."
At the same time, it was announced
that John Wells Kuykendall, former as­sociate
pastor of the First Pres­byterian
Church at Auburn, will join
the department Sept. 1 as an instruc­tor.
. Armour, a native of Miami, Fla.,
holds the B.A. from Baylor University,
the B.D. from Southern Baptist
Theological Seminary, and the S.T.M.
and.Th.D- from Harvard University.
While at Harvard, Armour was a re­search
scholar at Harvard's Center for
the Study of World Religions. He also
held a Harvard Fellowship for study at
the University of Zurich, Switzerland.
Kuykendall is a member of the Amer­ican
Society of Church History and the
Presbyterian Historical Society. He is
married and has two children.
Flection coverage
Complete coverage of Thurs­day's
student elections is con­tained
on this page and page 14,
the back page of this section.
Tabulated results appear on page
14, along with stories of school
office and district senate races.
To provide complete returns,
The Plainsman's staff had to
submit election pages after mid­night,
resulting in a delay in dis­tribution
of papers on campus
this morning. The Plainsman
apologizes for the delay.
1 Confident, collected Milton
knew he 'couldn't lose'
By Thorn Botsford
With the Milton campaign
Cool, calm, collected, confident... Ed
Milton emerged from his campaign
central upstairs in the Kappa Sigma
house shortly after 11 last night and
read the results of the SGA presiden­tial
election to his supporters gathered
in the living room.
"Milton—3417; Stilwell—1464." Pan­demonium.
Milton flashed a smile and
traveled to the Lambda Chi Alpha elec­tion
celebration to announce that
"we've run on a number of serious
issues and we've got to get to work im­mediately."
Few students need ask "Who is Ed
Milton?" Yet, he has another political
background that did not surface dur­ing
the campaign. A staunch Demo­crat,
he worked diligently for former
U.S. Senator from Georgia, David
Gambrell, last summer.
He may have learned a few "thou
shalt not's" about campaigning from
Gambrell's losing effort. A student of
politics and politicians, Milton admits
he's obsessed with "Southern history
and Auburn."
Earlier, Milton was asked what he
would do if he lost: "I couldn't lose. I
can't even think about losing," he com­mented.
All night, friends of the Milton cam­paign
drifted in and out of his cam­paign
office—a small room cluttered
with the chords of three telephones, a
motley collection of empty bottles, ash­trays
crammed to the brim, papers con­taining
"classified" information on
political "contacts," the remaining
crums of a chocolate cake.
Throughout the long wait for the
returns, everyone was confident of a
Milton victory. "We sent all the ner­vous
campaign workers to the compu­ter
center," said one worker. And sure
enough, Milton's campaign manager,
Stan Blackburn, a literal bundle of
nerves, was inspecting the returns and
computer failures at the center along
with "supercharged" campaign aide
Jimmy Blake.
Between intervals of disappointing
"computer failure" announcements,
Milton sat in the midst of a small crowd
in his office and talked about his cam­paign:
"You know, I want to meet with Stil­well
tonight. However the election
comes out, we need to get together and
cool things down. This election has left
too many wounds. We've got to heal
them so the SGA can start to work im­mediately
on our problems," said
Milton.
Milton thought his "toughest" cam-
(See MILTON, page 14)
THE AUBURN PUINSMJW Friday, April 4, 1973 page 2
'Twilight Zone's Serling chides government, TV
By Mike Kenopke
Plainsman Staff Writer
Network television was
chided for tasteless program­ming
and government
criticized for "trying to
muzzle the mass media" in a
speech by noted television
writer Rod Serling Wednes­day
night.
Serling, creator of televi­sion's
'"'Twilight Zone," re­lated
the topics in a general
speech on the arts, the media
and American society. The
speech was entitled "The
Twentieth Century and
Other Insanities."
Serling's appearance was
sponsored by the Horizons
III lecture series.
"The mass of Americans
are not a selective audience,"
Serling said. He said that in
our pursuit of the good life we
have pushed away reality,
and television appeals to us
because it pushes part of real­ity
also.
Serling said this unreal­istic
portrayal of life can be
viewed evey night on televi­sion
in the form of the new
detective shows that are now
taking over television. He
said the violence on these pro­grams
can do much more
damage to a young person's
mind than a "couple on mat­tress
in motel" scenes in
SERLING MAKES POINT DURING SPEECH
. . .Before Auburn students Wednesday
—Winston Tinnon
movies that some people are
always complaining about.
"We would be better served
by programs that depict what
life is really like," Serling
said. He said that if some lit­tle
green martian were tp
land on this planet and the
first thing he did was watch
television, he would think we
were a society of muggers,
murderers, and thieves.
In pointing to the increas­ing
loss of taste by the televi­sion
industry and the
audience, Serling pointed out
a recently aired play called
"Long Days Journey into
Night" which was a whop­ping
failure. His answer to
the failure of this play was to
present his idea of a 3-hour
medical program that might
appeal to today's breed of
television viewer called "The
Circumcisibn of the Jolly
Green Giant."
Serling also analysed some
programs that he said were
typical of the caliber of pro­grams
shown today. They
were: Let's Make a Deal,
which is in his words was a
story of avarice and greed,
and the Miss America
Pageant, which shows young
ladies doing their thing, and
their thing is doing simple*
singing and dancing with all
the talent and sincerity you
would find in wrestling
shows or the roller derby.
Serling said that although
his stories deal with the un­usual
aspects of life, they are
a stringent reality compared
to other shows on television.
"There are two types of
films," Serling said, "Porn­ographic
and artistic." He
said "porno" films are not a
recent development of so­ciety,
but that they have been
around for years. Previous to
today's censorship laws, he
said, they were known as
"stag" films and were shown
— Winston Tinnon
SERLING TALKS
. . .With Auburn student
in the back room of Amer­ican
Legion halls and other
such places.
"Sex is a part of our time,"
Serling said. He said the act
of love carries beauty and ful­fillment.
When sex is lowe °d
to the "thank you ma's
level all the beauty is gone, he
said.
Serling said sex and filth
are two different things. And
he said that filth isn't just
edicted away either. He said
the place for censorship is at
home using one's own judge­ment.
The attempted supres-sion
of filth often ends up in­volving
politics.
Serling said that Vice-Pres­ident
Agnew and other high
ranking members of the
Nixon administration are
claiming that the press is not
being objective when, accord­ing
to Serling, it has some­times
been too objective. He
said over the last 15years the
press has been as neutral as
possible.
The Nixon administration
has been "getting it easy"
compared to other recent ad­ministrations,
according to
Serling. He said what the ad­ministration
wants instead
of actual objective reporting
is pro bias.
Serling said the purpose of
art in all forms is to enter­tain.
He said all artists
should probe the despera-tlons
of our time and should
ue ciuie to speak out for what
they believe and what they
don't believe. Serling urged
all aspiring artists to not be
afraid to "tell it like it is." He
added that just because some­thing
"tells it like it is,"
doesn't necessarily make it
art.
"There is a cultural meet­ing
ground between the ar­tist
and the audience," Ser­ling
said. In showing this he
quoted Charles Dickens by
saying, "Humanity is our
business."
Serling said it is not suf­ficient
to write or Ijsten to all
the evils in society, but one
has to do something about it.
He said "To know and not to
care is the ultimate obscen­ity."
Serling said Wednesday
was the first time he had been
in Alabama since he was
stationed at Fort Benning in
1942. He said his only
Fulbright scholarship
awarded to AU coed
—Winston Tinnon
STUDENT ACTIVITY BUILDING PACKED WITH STUDENTS
. . .To h e a r Serling speech
Kim Mallett, 4GFL, has
been awarded a Fulbright
scholarship to study in a Ger­man
university during the
1973-74 academic year. The
Montgomery coed plans to
graduate at the end of sum-mi*:,
quarter, shortly before
leaving forjSermany.
£2*f$*e FuiBright-Hays pro­gram
was instituted shortly
after the second world war by
a legislative act to promote
international exchange of
scholars and students. Reci­pients
of the Fulbright
awards spend one year study­ing
in universities abroad.
The awards are made on
the basis of academic
achievement, intellectual
curiosity, leadership and
evidence of interest in inter­national
affairs.
Applications for the 1974-
75 Fulbright competition will
be availlable at the begin­ning
of the fall quarter.
Qualified students in­terested
in the program
should contact Dr. Joseph
Harrison or Dr. Allen
Cronenberg of the History
Department.
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memory of Alabama was be­ing
knocked unconcious in a
bar in Phenix City and being
arrested, stripped of his rank,
and spending eight days at
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Serling said he was speak­ing
at Auburn because he
was currently out of work.
When asked if he was going
I back into television, Serling
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Local stores feel meat boycott effects
—Mike Nicholas
AUBURN COUPLE BUYS BEEF AFTER BOYCOTT
. . .Many ranchers a r e withholding beef from market
'Forum' termed successful;
enrollment nearly doubles
By Dale Crail
Plainsman Staff Writer
Two weeks ago, President
Nixon ordered an indefinite
ceiling placed on rising beef,
pork and lamb prices. Three
days after his announce­ment,
thousands of house­wives
banded together in a
nation-wide boycott of meat
with hopes of forcing meat
prices even lower.
The week-long boycott
ended Saturday, leaving in
its wake the threat of a count­er-
boycott by ranchers, and
promises by consumers to not
only continue boycotting
meat, but to intensify their
protests.
Ranchers, faced with in­creasing
feed costs on one
side and President Nixon's
retail price ceiling on the
other, have started to with­hold
livestock from the
wholesale market. This
drives wholesale meat prices
higher and causes a short­age
of meat for the con­sumer.
In Auburn, Claude Smith,
meat department manager at
Kwik Chek in Glendean
Shopping Center, reports re­ceiving
only 75 per cent of the
By Jennie Poole
Plainsman Staff Writer
"Forum" (U-201), Au­burn's
academic enrichment
experiment, is proving to be a
definite success, according to
Dr. Charles Brown, philoso­phy
professor and director of
the "Forum" program.
Brown revealed that since
its innovation in winter quar­ter,
1973, "Forum" has near­ly
doubled its enrollment.
pBnMTni"iMii^iiiiiirfT'0'V'iW,i1ri
crfidu._cauxs.e»_o.ffered on .a...
pass-fail basis, in which stu­dents
attend a minimum of
seven designated events dur­ing
a quarter for credit.
The course offers a highly
diversified selection of pre­sentations,
including lec­tures
on literature, art, go­vernment,
history, and busi­ness;
symposiums on eco­logy
and the energy crisis; a
wide range of concerts,
ballets and poetry readings,
Brown said.
More than 20 events for
"Forum" credit are being pre­sented
during this quarter.
Harold Koontz, Mead
Johnson Professor at Univer­sity
of California Los An­geles,
whose topic will be
"How to Fail in Manage­ment
Without Really Try­ing,"
will speak Thursday in
Langdon Hall at 10:30 a.m.
William Halperin will
speak on "Weimar Revisited:
Another Look at the German
Republic, 1918-1933," at 3
p.m. Thursday in 1203 Haley
Center.
William H. Sewell, Benja­min
Minge Hugger lecturer,
will speak on "The Role of So­ciology
in Society" April 23,
at 3:30 p.m. in Comer Audi­torium.
Also on April 23, at 4 p.m.
in 2370 Haley Center, H. W.
Janson, Herzfield lecturer,
will lecture on modern art.
The University Brass En­semble
will present a concert
April 25, at 8:15 p.m. in Lang­don
Hall.
Harold W. Chase, Profes­sor
of Political Science at the
University of Minnesota, will
discuss "The Madisonian
Model—Is it Still Viable?"
April 27, at 11 a.m. in 2370
Haley Center.
Craig R. Thompson, Schell-ing
professor of English li-
,,.ter;ature a t the University of
Pennsylvania and noted au­thority
on Erasmus and Sir
Thomas More, will speak on
"Renaissance Humanism in
Literature," later in the
quarter.
Other coming events in­clude
a Reader's Theatre pro­duction
of "A Celebration of
Life in the Works of Thorn­ton
Wilder;" a concert by the
University Singers and the
Counselors to discuss
career -making
The second session of a
workshop on Career Deci­sion-
Making and Student
Financial Aid has been
scheduled for Monday and
Tuesday. School counselors,
college student personnel
workers, teachers and ad­ministrators
will be attend­ing.
Primarily, the workshop
will help young people make
a decision on the choice of
careers. Registration is still
open, however, 52 have al­ready
indicated their inten­tions
of attending.
Dr. Jo Ann Harris of Villa
Park, 111., will be the guest
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merchandise he orders from
the warehouse. "I'm still feel­ing
the effects of a shortage
where the packers held meat
off the market," said Smith.
Each of the three major
food stores in Auburn felt the
effects of the boycott, but
none lowered meat prices.
Each store also recorded
similar increases in meat
sales during the two weeks
preceedingPresident Nixon's
price ceiling.
At Kwik Chek, cheese and
dairy products, which are in­cluded
in meat sales, doubled
in sales volume the Saturday
Concert Choir; a production
of "King David" by the Uni­versity
Orchestra, Chorus
and Dance Council; a Na­tional
Energy Crisis Sympo­sium
sponsored by the Ala­bama
conservancy; and
Robert Penn Warren, nove­list
and critic, the quarter's
second Franklin lecturer.
Brown believes that aca­demic
lectures and exposure
to the arts and current af­fairs
constitute a valuable
part of the university ex­perience.!
."„'"......
"The greatest benefit that
any student could derive
from 'Forum,'" Brown said,
"is not the 'easy' one-hour
credit. Rather, it is the enjoy­ment
of encountering a new
idea, of understanding some­thing
not understood before,
of savoring an artistic pre­sentation."
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analysis
before the boycott began.
Smith added that meat sales
were off 17 per cent during
the week of the boycott.
"Th at was a little more than I
had anticipated," he said.
Horace L. Payton, man­ager
of the A & P food store,
325 N. Gay St., reported meat
sales to have increased
slightly preceding the ceil­ing
price. "People seemed to
be stockpiling on meat be­fore
prices rose again," said
Payton.
Marvin Broadhead, man­ager
of Super Foods on South
Gay St., said his store's sales
were down two to three per
cent during the boycott.
Broadhead attributed his
low loss 60 to 70 per cent of
his customers being stu­dents.
"Most parents are foot­ing
the bill," he_said, "And
if the student wants steak
instead of hamburger, he'll
buy steak. I expect to make up
for it in sales this week."
Broadhead reported re­ceiving
little comment on the
boycott from customers.
"Some people would say they
were boycotting, but most
people said they had to eat, so
what's the use," he said.
Tommy Mann, manager of
Auburn University's Retail
Meat Sales Room, said he
noticed a slight drop in sales
last week. "But I had less
meat to sell too," he added.
Mann also reported an in­crease
in meat sales preced­ing
the boycott. "I think peo­ple
bought enough meat from
us (before the boycott) to last
through the boycott," he ad­ded.
Most student wives, usual­ly
operating on a strict bud­get,
are feeling the pinch of
high meat prices.
"At the beginning of the
school year, I was buying
three kinds of meat a week,
but now I buy only one kind
and the grocery bill is the
same," said Mrs. Fred Pep­per,
1118 Lakeview Drive.
Mrs. Rod Clark, 339 S. Gay
St., feels that the boycott will
only seve to force the price of
meat substitutes such as
cheese higher. "I'd boycott
meat if I thought it would do
any good," she said.
Smith also feels that the
president's price ceiling will
not be strong enough alone to
lower meat prices. "The grow­ers'
price is not fozen," he
said, "And if something is to
be done about meat prices,
Nixon should freeze the grow­ers'
as well as the feed sup­pliers'
prices.
"I really don't think it's fair
to boycott meat without boy­cotting
everything else that's
increasing in cost," added
Smith.
Department director
leaves for one year
Dr. Frank B. Davis, head of
the Department of Speech
Communications for the past
18 years, has been granted a
leave of absence of one year.
Davis has also requested
that he be relieved of his ad­ministrative
duties as de­partment
head upon his re­turn
in September, 1974, ac­cording
to Dean Edward H.
Hobbs, School of Arts &
Sciences. Davis will con­tinue
as a member of the
faculty.
Hobbs announced the fol­lowing
members of a search
committee which will study
and recommend persons to be
considered as a successor to
Davis:
Dr. William S. Smith,
chairman, Dr. Phyllis Phil­lips
and Dr. David Ritchey,
all of Speech Communica­tion;
Dr. George Horton,
Marketing — Transporta­tion;
and Dr. Richard
Amacher, English.
speaker. Chief resource
speaker will be Winston
Bruce of the University of
Mississippi. Charles Ro­berts,
director of Student
Financial Aid at Auburn, Dr.
R. Douglas Smith of Char­leston,
W. Va., Dr. Richard W.
Warner, Jr., and Dr. Wayne
E. Werner of the Auburn
School of Education will be
conference lecturers.
Dr. James Berryman of the
Alabama Department of
Education will welcome
participants, while Auburn
Extension Vice-President
Fred R. Robertson will intro­duce
the speakers.
We're pushing you. But you won't have to.
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Page Four Friday, April 13, 1973*
Congrats • • •
We extend our congratulations to
the winners of all the campaigns
this week. Surely they are as ex­hausted
from campaign maneu­vers
as students are from watch­ing
them (and hearing them!)
maneuver.
Before anyone gets down to
serious business, however, we want
to have a bit of fun with the presi­dential
candidates, Ed Milton and
Chip Stilwell. In the midst of a
furious war of rumours and cam­paign
trinkets Tuesday night, both
answered questions on a WEGL in­terview
and, for the most part.of­fered
the listening audience little
more than a reeking assortment of
grandiose pretensions, confusing
contradictions, petty insinuations,
and mischievous fabrications,
(hiccup)
Politics can bring out the lowest
sort of rhetoric in candidates,
pressed for time and caught up in
campaign exhaust, who otherwise
are quite reputable or, at least, rela­tively
normal individuals. That's
our explanation for the farcical
WEGL interview.
At this writing, we don't have
complete campaign results. So we
contribute the following not as a
commentary on winner and loser
but rather on candidates who
wanted an office so badly that they
seemed desperate in their ap­proaches
to "the issues" this week.
Surely the winner of the SGA
Presidential race will return to
"normal" when he takes office next
week. Initially he deserves the best
wishes of all students. They stand
to benefit from a successful
SGA—one that sincerely attempts
to make good, .many of the ambi­tious
promises of the campaign.
So after reading our exaggerated
version of the WEGL -inter­view—
which is simply a mild
protest against meaningless rhe­toric—
grant amnesty to the ex­hausted
candidates. And support
your SGA.
TktXiiWllPI«ni»«"
Fun, fun, fun..
WEGL: How would you restructure the
entertainment situation if you were
elected? Would you do away with
Coach Murphy and the Social Life
Committee?
Milton:No, I don't think we should do
ajvay with Coach Murphy. He's pretty
good with the spotlight. About enter­tainment,
well—I don't like to compare
Auburn with the University of Ala­bama.
Let that never be said. I would
hire an agent... he would know what's
best.
Stilwell:I want to put entertainment
back into the hands of the students.
Just as the students in the Student
Senate handled the Horizons contro­versy
with ease, so can other students
manhandle entertainment. Care for a
chocolate chip cookie?
WEGL: No thank you, Chip. But I will
have some of that cbocolate chip ice
cream. Now, Mr. Milton, your cam­paign
leaflet says you were the influen­tial
student in securing the right to vote
for students. How were you the stu­dent?
Milton: Well, don't get me wrong. We
had a lot of help on that: the Attorney
(general of the State of Alabama, the
founding Fathers, the U.S. Congress,
^ut they couldn't have done it without
us. We spoke to sororities and fraterni­ties.
Someone had to do that vital func­tion.
Stihvell: Back to the student vote. You
jnay have butted in on that, but you
Were not influential in securing the
fight for Auburn students to purchase
liquor. Care for a vodka collins on
(hipped ice?
WEGL: No thank you, Chip. I'm still
Chipping away on these potato chips
Vou gave me before we started. Now,
speaking of chips, Chip, we have a
;alled-in question here from a student
vho thinks you are insulting his intel-igence
with all this chips business.
Vhat about that?
Stilwell: What's in a name? A buffalo
;hip by any other name would smell as
oul. I know I have a fun name. And
rankly, students are so stupid— uh, cy-lical—
these days that we thought get-ing
my name out was a dandy idea. Ed
itudd came up with it. He is not, how-
;ver, my campaign manager. But back
o chips. We like to have fun, fun, fun.
; lilton: Well, I think this is a serious
(jampaign because we will be doing
s erious work next year like supporting
1 le ODK cake race. All of us elite stu-
( ents are in ODK (aside) Chip is not in
ODK. Got that, Don?
Stilwell: Well, my campaign is for the
common man—like those in Naval
ROTC who are always welcome to visit
me at the SAE house.
Milton: Well, I was an independent
once, until I came to my senses and de­cided
to join the elite. Back when I was
an independent, I lived in some of the
lowest rent places. So I know how it
feels. Like other major figures, I have
walked among the multitudes. And it
just goes to show that even the lowest
rent people can someday get into ODK.
Stihvell: Ed, care for one of my cam­paign
combs? You seem to be having
trouble with your hair.
Milton: You've been in my hair all
week. It drives away my many female
admirers.
WEGL: Both of you want better publi­city.
Chip, what if the campus media re­fuse
to cover your proposed press con­ferences?
Would you try to control the
press?
Stilwell: Well, OK, they would want to
comb—uh, come—to our press con­ferences.
We would serve potato chips
and coke just like on the Bear Bryant
show. And if the press didn't fall
for—ahem, care for t h a t . ..
WEGL: You're so right, Chip.
Stilwell: . . . we would simply have to
count on WLS in Chicago to carry our
message to the people.
Milton: Well, I wouldn't take my publi­city
to WLS. Even the Kappa Sigma
Little Sister slush fund wouldn't cover
that.
WEGL: Well, we've about run out of
time. Does either of you have a final an­nouncement?
Stihvell: Tomorrow we will have the
servies of one hundred trained chip­munks
who will parade around the
Haley Center concourse with all my
fun, fun campaign placards. They're a
fun group, those chipmunks . . . just
chips off the old block.
Milton: Well, we can have fun too. The
little sisters (hey, hey) have all chipped
in, uh, I mean donated, money to spon­sor
a guest appearance of my famous
fraternity brother, Taylor Boyd. Taylor
will entertain the elite in the Sigma Tau
Delta English honorary tommorrow
with some more original perversions
on the English language. The public is
invited.
WEGL: Thank you, gentlemen. Don
Mosely reporting for 91 news.
—Thorn Botsford, Bill Wood
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Rock and roll music is not for the brain
"Rock and roll is here to stay."
My friend, the harmonica player, has
an orgy with those words every time he
mounts the bandstand.
And so does the audience. Pushing
their drinks aside, they strut to the
dance floor and, in an instant, trade in
every bit of their dignity for the vulgar
passions of rock and roll.
That's right. Rock and roll is
vulgar—as well as rude, crude, course,
primitive, and downright "wicked."
Yeah. That's why it's so much fun.
It's a momentary rebellion against
anything or anybody you want to rebel
against: your self-righteous wife, your
cheating girl friend, you pedantic
teacher, your books, your work, your
problems, your entire life style.
Now, I'm not talking about all the re­fined
innovations and complications,
labeled "heavy" or "progressive" that
have evolved from rock an roll. I'm
talking about the real, greasy thing.
And if we have to define it, suffice to
say it's usually a "variation" on a three
chord progression.
If you still don't know what I mean,
you'll just have to meet Leeroi, har­monica
player and rock and roll singer.
To be honest, Leeroi is primarily a
blues addict. He talks of strange
creatures like Howlin' Wolf, Leadbelly
and Lightnin' Hopkins. He also ap­preciates
whatever we should label the
state of rock today. Indeed, it's even
rumoured around Leeroi's home town
that he occasionally listens to "clas­sical"
music and reads poetry.'
Yet, in addition to (or despite of )all
these qualifications, Leeroi is a perfect
candidate for a Ph.D. in rock and roll. I
know. He taught me a few things about
it.
My lessons began the day I was
asked to "jam" with Leeroi's band.
They needed a saxophone player "to fill
in a few holes," and—lo and behold-since
no other saxophone player was in
town that weekend, I was invited.
An alumnus of a high school march­ing
band, I was a clarinet player who
one day decided it would be fun to play
around on a sax. A real loser on the
horn, I couldn't play jazz—that was too
hard. And I certainly couldn't join a
country club combo—I didn't read
music very well and, besides, the very
thought of attempting to revive Glenn
Miller's "In the Mood" turned my
stomach. I
"Have no fear, you'll fit in here,"
Leeroi consoled me before the lesson be­gan.
"Just play Ibis and this and this,"
he said, "and you can't miss." (Like I
said, he reads poetry.)
At the snap of a finger and the shake
of a tambourine, the. music filled; the
room with a rapture^-that is, a rat­tle—
and a thump slurred against a
bang, all systematically repeated a few
dozen times under a firing line of notes
some might mistake for a "melody."
Well, it wasn't a minute before it was
time to "fill in a hole." I cleared my
throat, adjusted the mike, and played a
few notes.
Immediately, everyone stopped rock­ing.
The drummer tried to muffle a
laugh and the guitarist turned to face
the wall, his head bent as in prayer to
mourn the death of a teenaged angel
killed in a motorcycle accident.
"Now, come on—play it funky," said
Leeroi. "You ain't supposed to play it
pretty. We don't wanna sound like the
piped-in music at the Holiday Inn. Spit
in your horn!"
I didn't understand. Indeed, spit in
my horn!
"Yeah, let the saliva run up and
down the horn. You gotta make that
thing warble and grunt and wheeze
and slurp."
After a few tries, my horn was
warbling. In a hour's time, I had it
squeeling. And, before the night was
over, I had learned how to sound like a
rooster, a locomotive, a machine gun,
an automobile exhaust pipe, and two
swine in love.
It's difficult to explain why I enjoyed
learning how to play rock and roll. I've
Thorn
Botsford
been trying to figure that out for a long
time. Regardless, whenever I have a
chance, I "jam" with Leeroi's band.
Perhaps an answer can be found be­tween
the lines of a passage from
Aldous Huxley's "The Doors of Percep­tion":
"In a world where education is
predominantly verbal, highly educated
people find it all but impossible to pay
serious attention to anything but
words and notions. There is always
money for, there are alway doctorates
in, the learned foolery of research into
what, for scholars, is the all-important
problem: who influenced who to say
what when?". . .But, "if we are to re­main
sane, can we possibly do without
direct perception, the more unsys­tematic
the better, of the inner and
outer worlds into which we have been
born. This given reality is an infinite
which passes all understanding and
yet admits of being directly and in
some sort totally apprehended. It is a
transcendence belonging to another
order than the human, and yet it may
be present to us as a felt immanence, an
experienced participation."
Translated, Huxley is making a case
for non-verbal communication and
non-verbal esthetic experiences. Rock
and Troll, like the more sophisticated
formsof modern rhythmic music, has a
curious effect—one "which passes all
understanding"—on masses of people.
Yet it is "apprehended." The effect can
be compared to that experienced by
tribal natives through rhythms al­though
not to the far more passive
relationship, say, between classical
musicians and their audiences.
The difference is physical. And the
catharsis involves more than a
fashionable quickening of the pulse.
Animal like, the music evokes raw
energy.
Rock and roll musician J. Geils says
it best: "Rock and roll is for the groin
and not for the brain."
Tuna casserole? Thanks, but no thanks
t M i*"t r* i o o t QU
Students, faculty and townspeople
all over Auburn—and the United
States—are sitting down to meat at the
dinner tables, after a week-long boy­cott.
But just what did the boycott do?
Not much, it seems.
Nationwide, the boycott caused the
demand for meat to drop off sharply.
That put several thousand meat proces­sing
workers temporarily out of work
but had little effect on meat prices.
In Auburn, the boycott was even less
effective in forcing meat prices down. A
check with three local grocers revealed
that there was really little boycotting
done, since many households stocked
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up on meat before the boycott started'
and bought meat again as soon as it
was over. A great many other food
shoppers completely ignored the boy­cott
and bought meat as usual.
Bill
Wood
So the boycott, even where it was
widely observed, did little to affect
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meat prices. Even its secondary goals
of showing off consumer "muscle" and
popularizing meat substitutes may
have failed.
"The boycott is good, in a way," a
leading consumer advocate said dur­ing
the middle of the boycott last week.
"The consumer needs to rattle his saber
a little bit, to keep producers and stores
on their toes," he added.
This effort seems to have backfired.
The consumer "rattled his saber"
across the country (He barely
unsheathed it in Auburn) but ithad no
real effect at all. Producers were wil­ling
to take a little loss by letting meat
spoil or cutting back meat inventories,
rather than let the consumer know his
"saber-rattling" could affect prices.
Consumer "saber-rattling" didn't
work, and now food shoppers have gone
back to the meat counters in search of
fresh meat this week, willing to pay
high prices for it.
Many meatless dishes were prepared
and eaten during the boycott. But for
each household that got hooked on a
new meatless delicacy last week, there
was probably one household whose dis­dain
for vegetarian casseroles and
cheese loaves was only increased by
the absence of steaks, roasts, and, yes,
hamburger.
Last week's meat boycott failed.
Future ones will too. The one factor
that's really to blame for continued
higher meat prices is our affluence and
the way we've become hooked on meat.
In our free market economy, over­priced
items just don't "sell." Con­sumers
buy substitutes, and the de­creased
demand for the over-priced
item forces sellers to mark the prices
down to a reasonable level.
This mechanism hasn't worked in
the case of meat because the American
consumer is so affluent and status-conscious.
His household has a lot of
money—over $10,000 per year on the
average—and he is willing to fork out a
lot of that money to buy meat.
The American consumer wants
choice cuts of meat, not only for their
nutritional value, but for the status as­sociated
with them. He wants meat, not
fish. He wants steak, not hamburger.
When the consumer gets a raise in
pay, he celebrates with steak and con­tinues
to consume more meat, even
more than is necessary or desirable for
good nutrition.
Given that kind of high demand and
little prospects of greatly increased
supply, it is likely that meat prices will
continue to rise. They can only be
slowed temporarily by short boycotts
or temporary ceilings.
Tuna casserole, anyone?
Female med-student defies Am Landers, grandmothers
Women's Libber—the mere term con
notes a hardened breed of ex-Southern
belles who have traded a dimple and a
smile for the right to compete with men
on the same level and with the same
Rheta
Grimsley
amount of competence and skill. There
is another less obvious aspect to this
sexual revolution, however. If the
reader will forgive my constant re­ference
to my sister, a perfect illustra­tion
for this more obscure dimension of
the problems the "liberated woman"
faces, I'll use the life and example I
know well.
Even if she wasn't my sister I'd have
to admire her. I'm duly impressed with
her grades and her admission to Med
school, but I must also pay homage to
the fact that she has overcome social
frowns and whispers to "make it on
her own." She has ignored the old
maid jokes at family reunions, the Ann
Lander's columns sent her by well-meaning
grandmothers, the jealous cri­ticism
of Home Economic roommates
and through it all has achieved a status
I view as important.
By now everyone reading this envi­sions
a small stout girl with horn­rimmed
glasses, old beyond her years,
diving expectantly into a medical jour­nal
to pass the time. Let me assure you
that this is not the case. I can say with
sisterly pride that beauty alone would
have been sufficient to place her in a
comfortable position free ot any
problems except occasional conflicts
between hair appointments and bridge
club days. But fulfillment and self-res­pect
seemed to be first priority on
Sister's criterion for a complete life,
and suddenly a bridal shower did not
seem the answer.
Most everyone, unless particularly
narrow-minded, recognizes by now
that academic and intellectual su­periority
is not a matter of sex. Yet,
while most accept this professionally
and acknowledge that women are not
mentally inferior to men, the social at­titude
of many people has a crippling
effect on most women who place im­portance
on developing their indivi­dual
potentials instead of simply a
marital relationship.
Sister never understood why she had
to have help with anything, even as a
child. From her first flying leap from a
gym set, to her decision to postpone
marriage until her own life was com­plete,
she demonstrated an indepen­dence
that frightened parents, boy­friends,
and even me. "All alone"
seemed a horrible way to describe her,
until I saw what a treat she must ex­perience
by living "with herself."
At this point the reader has conjured
up a really delightful beauty in a man's
garb screaming, "I can do it myself."
Let me once again stop any forming
misconceptions before they defeat my
purpose. Femininity, as illustrated by
Sister, is an inner quality, not depen­dent
on people of the opposite sex or a
reflection of one's relationship with
them, but instead on an innate and un­avoidable
spirit of softness within a
woman. How can one lose her femini­nity
while perfecting and polishing the
very essence of womanliness, her in­ner
self?
I'm sure there were times when Sister
found it difficult to study on Friday
night ("Good gosh, she's a fanatic")
and when her far-reaching goals did
not satisfy desires of the moment. Even
my mother's criticism of her cooking
abilities and innumerable references to
a friend whose daughter "antiqued a
whole bedroom suit for her mother"
must have been depressing. My eager­ness
to be a part of a wedding and have
a married sister to visit had to be evi­dent
at some times, and I sigh with
relief that Sister followed her own in­clinations
and thus avoided a trap
which society sets for all "pretty little
girls."
There are many lifestyles, some of
them restricted by social indifference,
that women may never even know exist
because the road paved for them by tra­dition
is big, bold and hard to miss.
This road is bordered with social
taboos and its path lighted by the
warm tones produced as approving
voices sing in harmony, 'Motherhood,
children, the family unit, a woman's
place, TRADITION!" Sister took inde­pendence
like a sling and hacked her
way through white dresses, afternoons
by the pool and shopping sprees in At­lanta.
She finally arrived to the out­skirts
of this well-trodden road.
Free of its syrupy grasp, she could
hear the same voices, now echoing
"Too bad, too bad, that's too bad," and
she could see a high stack of books, a
peanut butter sandwich and a debt. But
she was free. She had made it through
the social barriers and had emerged in
a wonderland of opportunity and per­sonal
achievement. And she had come
through it all without losing an ounce
of femininity, charm, or beautv. She's
self-reliant, she's confident, she's free
(yes, she's still single), and she's my
sister!
^
Even from up here in the cave, Willie
could tell that student campaigners
were spending a lot to get folks to vote
for them.
Gee, they were spending a lot!
Student Government must be like
real government—for the people, of the
people. . .
And buy the people.
Milton getting students right
to vote untrue, soys reader
Editor, The Plainsman:
During the late and not so great poli­tical
campaign, Ed Milton—candidate
for SGA President—claimed in his
pamphlet, that he was "the student
who was instrumental in getting Au­burn
students the right to vote in Lee
County." This is not the truth.
In the first place, it was Attorney
General Bill Baxley and Mr. Hank Cad-dell
who got Auburn students the right
to vote in Lee County. More important­ly,
though, Ed Milton was not involved
in the student efforts to gain that right
or in the effort to register students in
1971. It was the members of the Ameri­can
Civil Liberties Union who lobbied
for change, confronted the Board of Re­gistrars,
and risked arrest. In January
of 1972, when four students went to
confer with Mr. Baxley, Ed Milton was
not among them. Mr. Milton did not or­ganize
the voter registration drive in
April, 1972—the drive that registered
1000 Auburn students in Lee County. I
have no doubt that Ed supported the
move to allow students to register in
Lee County, but he was in no way "in­strumental"
in that movement.
Auburn political campaigns are far­cical
and meaningless. The publica­tion
of untruths and exaggerations
does not improve the situation.
John L. Saxon
Class of '72
Reader suggests chaperone help
new trustee conduct his affairs
Editor, The Plainsman:
I was greatly disappointed by the
thinking and reasoning of our most re­cent
addition to the Board of Trustees. I
was insulted, in fact, by his implica­tions
that you and I would turn the wo­men's
privilege into an orgy scene be­yond
compare. The good and decent
man obviously has little respect for our
judgement and behavior patterns and
even less respect for the women of our
campus. He does strike me as being the
kind of man my father was, and I do not
,want4i«B parental guidance. Show me a
verse in the Bible where it says the Au-
Burn Trustees shall have the right to
dictate the rights of young adults
—not children. I suggest that someone
be appointed to chaperone the good
man in the conduct of his affairs—as he
is, after all, someone's child.
Scott Tape, 3GPO
page 5 Friday, April 13, 1973 THE AUBURN PUINSMJW
Another view
Vote for ice-cream man?
Editor, The Plainsman:
It is election time again and all
across the campus interested students
are analyzing the issues and compar­ing
the platforms of the respective
candidates. In many areas ot the
campus equally uninterested students
are apathetically showing little or no
response to the many efforts being
made to generate a new interest and a
new enthusiasm for SGA.
I have always been a proponent of
SGA and have believed that although
its powers are indeed severely limited,
it does serve a useful purpose and is a
valuable institution in itself. However,
in spite of this feeling as to the use­fulness
of SGA and the willingness to
support it, I can not for the life of me
understand what is going on in the
minds of the candidates.
Do people at Auburn vote for a pres­ident
or an ice-cream man? Do people at
Auburn want a Miss Auburn that can
represent them and this university or
do they want the girl on the Auburn
campus that gives away their favorite
treat?
In my opinion a circus display of
good things to eat speaks well for the
Melrose Company, but it doesn't say a
wJr JCtiUBt Md^ x?
HT
thing about the guy that gives it away
(except maybe that he has more money
than sense). I cannot help but feel that
the gimmicks that have saturated
these campaigns have done nothing to
enhance the chances of any of the "can­didates"
(perhaps entertainers is more
suitable). I feel that whatever chance
these people may have had for victory,
they have come close to "giving away."
John Mcintosh, 1PB
Conflict —R. C. Dennis
Conflict of candidates and is­sues
is symbolized by these two
presidential candidates' signs
framed by campaigners. Two
r e a d e r s of The Plainsman
comment on the candidates and
campaigns (upper left and upper
right) in l e t t e r s to the editor.
'Veterinary school not guilty
of women discrimination9
Attitude of library personnel criticized by student
Editor, The Plainsman:
I am a fifth-year architecture stu­dent
and since the ^School. °f
Architecture has its own library, I have
not had much occasion to use the facil-itiesof
themain library. I havebeen en­gaged
in research for my thesis for the
last two quarters, however, and have
been forced to use the main library to
obtain much of my resource material.
My experiences in the course of this re­search
have not made me regret my
lack of contact with themain library up
to now.
I do not referheretotheoppressive
climate, ridiculously early closing
times or exorbitant late fines; these are
matters of common knowledge to al­most
every Auburn student, whether he
uses the library or not. These things
have been complained about (and been
perennial campaign issues) since I en­rolled
here in 1967. What bothers me
most and is possibly at the root of some
of the above-mentioned problems is the
attitude of many of the library person­nel.
Recently, I took a book I was using in
my research back to the library to re-
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new. I was told at the desk that there
was a readers request for the book so I
gladly relinquished it so that someone
else might have a chance to use it. After
leaving the book in the library for two
weeks I returned to check it out again,
only to be told that the book had been
checked out to a carrel (available only
to graduate students and faculty) and
that there was no limit to the length of
time a book could bekeptout in a carrel.
I then asked for the name of the car­rel's
"owner" so that I might contact
him and make arrangements so that
we could use the book at our mutual
convenience. I was informed that li­brary
policy prohibited the release of
the names of carrel rentors! I was told
that my only access to the book would
be to use the book at such times as the
person was not in his carrel, then only
within the library and returning it at
the close of the library each day.
There may be reasonable justificd-tiorsfbr
this curiousipolicy (idtftpugh
none immediately sprmgs^tdtnindji but
I was unable even to inquire what they
might be. I happened to be in the li­brary
near closing time when this oc­curred,
and was referred by the girl at
the main desk to the person in charge
for further information. This, it turned
out, was the woman who had left the
desk around 10:20 to, as I overheard her
say, "turn off some lights and see if we
obnoxious students and that there are
many who are also gracious and help­ful
to users of the library, but that does
not excuse the actions of the others who
act as if the library was their own per­sonal
province and that they are doing
students a favor by letting them dis-
Editor, The Plainsman:
I believe that no .discrimination
against women exists in the admis­sions
policy of the Auburn School of
Veterinary Medicine. If any dis­crimination
against women is present
in the process of applying to vet school,
I think that it might occur at the under­graduate
level due to "over-protective"
pre-vet advisers who have reserva­tions
concerning the ability of a wo­man
to endure the long hours and
strain of vet school.
Personally, I have received only en­couragement
and help from the per­sons
associated with admission to the
Auburn School of Veterinary Med­icine.
I feel, as Dean Greene pointed out
in your article, that a well-qualified wo­man
certainly has an equal chance
and, perhaps, a slightly better chance
of being accepted for vet school as a
well-qualified male applicant.
Melanie Moore, 2VM
Letters
can't run some of these people out of
here." Consequently, most of my ques­tions
were directed to her shoulder or
back as she moved around turning off
lights and closing up. I was forced to
give up my attempts to find out any
more about this situation when, in the
middle of my half-uttered question.she
turned and disappeared into the bowels
of the library;- - •-:-'i I
I realize that the staff members of the
library work hard, that they encounter
rupt their carefully arranged book-stacks,
much less question their
authoritarian policies. I sometimes
wonder if these people's dream of a
"perfect library" would be one in which
all the books were kept on the shelves
and never checked out, all tables clean,
all ashtrays empty, all halls silent, in
short, one in-which there were no
bothersome students to clutter up their
wonderful, private domains.
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THE AUBURN PUINSMJW Friday, April 13,1973 page 6
The library, a maze of collected wisdom
Just how "good" is the library?
The answers to that subjective question will vary as much
as the individuals who have "definite" opinions about the
matter.
To a freshman student who views the library as a con­fused
maze of numbers, dusty books and poker-faced cus­todians,
the answer may be influenced by the fact that the
library has no copy of Bach's ' Jonathon Livingston Sea­gull
' in the browsing collection.
To a graduate student researching the number of hairs on
Henry VIII 's nose, th e answer may be determined by the fact
that the library does not have a copy of the latest study of
Tudor nose characteristics.
Therefore, to acquaint one critic with the other as well as to
provide background for anyone else's subjective response,
The Plainsman features staff offers the following series of
articles on the library.
Who decides what books the library will buy? Are stu­dents
and faculty members satisfied with the academic qual­ity
of the library and the availability of related volumes? Are
study conditions the best possible at all times?
A University sponsored self-study committee, headed by
Dr. Bernard Breyer in the English Department, attempted to
analyze the library staff and services last fall. The resulting
report offered both tabulated student and faculty responses,
evaluative summaries and recommendations from each dif­ferent
school in the University system and the library self-study
committee.
A drive-in book drop, better listening equipment, repaired
clocks and elevator controls, expanded branch library facil­ities
and better heat control were all suggested in comments
made by the various schools. The School of Education went
so far as to describe the library as "cool and unfriendly"
whilethe School of Arts and Sciences reemphasized that Au-burn
ranked 19th among 26 selected southern universities in
the percentage of educational fund allotted to the library,
and 26th with respect to actual monies spent for library ser­vices.
Breyer's committee made several suggestions to improve
administrative and clientele relations, including an orienta­tion
program for students ("short of a formal course") and an
information desk "in plain view" to answer questions that
students might have about library policy. The report also ad­vocated
automation of the check out system, a reduction in
student fines, more extensive encouragement of the use of
microforms and the addition of more photocopying
machines. To resolve the ever-present 'longer hours' re­quest,
the committee suggested leaving a single large read­ing
room open to the public with a small staff available to
supply "urgently needed" material. Using class rooms as
late night reading rooms was another committee idea. v
Concluding that the Auburn library is "seriously sub­standard
in numbers of books, periodicals, and personnel"
the self-study urged the immediate appointment of a com­mittee
to make long-range plans for library improvement.
Meanwhile some library personnel claimed that the study
was "not scientific" since "such a small portion of the cam­pus
was polled." A total of 340 (out of 814) teaching faculty
and 775 students responded to the survey.
While Auburn's library may warrant improvement, there
are many merits often ignored by students preoccupied with
an immediate assignment. Reading rooms, seminar rooms,
typing areas, microfilm reading rooms, closed carrels for
faculty members and graduate students and a projection
room are only some of the less conspicuous study aids the li­brary
offers. About 60,000 volumes a year are added to the
library's collection of books and periodicals. There is
room for 2,500 students to sit and study at the same time.
AU LIBRARY MAKES IMPRESSIVE PROFILE
. . .Is subject to praise a ^ b ^ ^ r a i . .
—R. C. Dennis
Library studied
ocus Quality and quantity evaluated
Reviews guide purchases
By David Barrett
Plainsman Staff Writer
Auburn University's li­brary
subcribes to more than
5000 magazines and jour­nals
and buys thousands of
books each year—but who de-cieds
which ones?
Books and periodicals are
of two types: general interest
and study-reference. The
general interest readings are
located in the 'browsing
room' on the first floor, with
study and reference books
filling most other areas.
"We're practically always
accepting suggestions," said
Ms. Helen H. Peet, biblio­grapher
of Humanities,who
decides wh at books will be or­dered
for the 'browsing
room'. "I think we succeed in
providing books for all in­terests
whetner tney are for
skin diving, science fiction,
Buddhism, nature, art or the
best sellers," she continued.
Her desk on the second
floor was outfitted with an
impressive stack of book re­views.
During the interview a
lady walked in and recom­mended
ordering a book she
had read good reviews about.
"Okay, just fill out this card,
please," Ms. Peet replied.
Th e card was for the title and
publisher's name.
If a book order is requested
Ms. Peet first makes sure
there really is such a book
and then orders it, usually.
Books for professors and gra­duate
students have the high­est
priority but recreational
reading is ranked next, Ms.
Peet indicated. "We usually
make several orders a week,"
she said.
"A lot of times people ask
us to get a book they don't
know we already have. Other
times we've already ordered
the book," Ms. Peet ex­plained.
"But sometimes it
takes a year or two for the
books to get here. We've been
trying to get 'Jonathon
Livingston Seagull' for no
telling how long.
"The bulk of the money
from book fines goes to the
books and magazines in the
browsing and recreational
reading section," she con­tinued.
Last fiscal year (July
1 to June 30) 1535 books and
magazines subscriptions and
631 records were ordered for
the 'browsing room.'
"I scan all the major
mediums for reviewing
books, including the 'New
York Times Book Review,'
'Publishers Review,' 'Book
Week' and 'Library Jour­nal,'"
Ms. Peet said. The
American Library Associa­tion
recently picked '43 Not­able
Books of 1972.' The li­brary
either already has or
has ordered all 43, she re­ported."
All 109 winners of
the National Book Award
have also been ordered. Ms.
Peet, who has been selecting
the recreational books since
1956, said that more than 60
were ordered before the list
came out.
"I think we get what we
need, commented Ms. Peet.
"For instance, we just or­dered
a periodical and three
books on 'back-packing.'
There's a current interest in
this kind of thing so we or­dered
the books. Right now
I'm looking out for books and
magazines on motorcycles,"
she said.
"Some students have a bad
habit of clipping photos from
certain magazines, especial­ly
those considered prono-graphic,"
Ms. Peet said.
"Sometimeswe must get two
subscriptions to the same
magazine. We can't bind the
magazines if they're not com­plete
and we have a lot of in­completes,"
she explained.
One example is "Playboy,"
which the library has re­ceived
since May, 1967.
The study and reference
books are selected by the se­parate
departments in the
schools. In the Political
Science Dept. for example,
any requests from teachers
are referred to Dept. Book
' Chairman Dr. Thomas I.
Dickson. Dr. Dickson in turn
sends in the title and pub­lisher's
name to the library.
"Money usually runs out
by mid-year," Dickson said,
"but we get a supplementary
budget from the Graduate
School." The library sends
out periodic financial reports
to show departments how
their balances stand.
In the Speech Dept., one of
the teachers, C. Douglas
James, is the 'library chair­man.'
Dept. Head Dr. Frank
B. Davis said, "Our budget is
just barely adequate." Dr.
Davis said the library wasn't
"as good as it ought to be "but
that the library is "trying to
do the best it can."
Dr. Dorothy M. DiOrio,
head of the Foreign Lan­guage
Dept., said her depart­ment
ha'd a 'library commit­tee'
of teachers from the se­parate
languages. "We've
found the library to be very
cooperative,"' she said, but |
sne expressed some disap­pointment
with the 'disconti­nuance
of "quite a few perio- j
dicals."
Each year the University
Library Committee makes a
budget dividing Auburn Uni­versity
funds among the se­parate
schools, according to
library Director Dr. Clyde H.
Cantrell. "This budget must
be approved by the Acade­mic
Vice Pres., Dr. Taylor D.
Littleton." In turn, the Deans
of the schools decide how
much money will go to each
department in that school.
By George Brooks
Plainsman Staff Writer
"Our library is seriously
substandard in numbers of
books, periodicals, and per­sonnel,"
concluded a recent
University committee that
assessed the academic stan­dards
of the Ralph B.
Draughon Library and its
subsidiaries.
Dr. Bernard Breyer of the
English department chaired
the committee that con­ducted
a study of all aspects
of the library. When the com­mittee
began studying the li­brary's
collection of books
and periodicals it ran into
two main difficulties.
MS. PEET READS BOOK REVIEWS
. . .Preparing for future selections
-R. C. Dennis
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The first problem was to
determine what scale should
be used in trying to rate the
quality of the library. Quan­tity
of books was the first
basis for evaluation.
From 1963 to 1972 the li­brary
has increased its hold­ings
from 338.339 volumes to
826,649—500,000' addi­tional
volumes. Yet at the
same time, nine new doctoral
programs and several
masters programs have been
established. Eash of these ad­vanced
degree programs re­quires
a higher percentage of
books per students.
So the committee decided to
survey each of the three
major divisions of the li­brary
on the basis of both
quantity and quality of the
books.
. . . . .
In the Humanities Divi­sion
the committee declared
" . . . there are not a great deal
of books, but the volumes
they do have are well chosen
and relevant." The commit­tee
considered the periodi­cals
and European literature
in the original languages to
be two major weaknesses in
the humanity department.
The collections for archi­tecture
and fine arts are
termed "adequate for under­graduates
but inadequate
otherwise." The books avail­able
on music are "new and
well-chosen" but limited in
number. The art books were
"minimal, possibly because
of their expensiveness. The
committee claims that the
philosophy collection "needs
more breadth in coverage."
Adhering •"the policy to
duplicate books and
periodicals "only when
necessary," the Science and
Technology section of the li­brary
faces the problem of
split collections, some of the
books being housed in the
Veterinary Medical Branch
Library located three miles
from the campus. This was
cited as a "weakness" by the
committee's report, and
results in "two dependent,
collectively adequate, yet in­dividually
inadequate" li­brary
collections.
One "critically weak"
section of the library is the
Social Science Division. His­tory
books for United States
and Southern history were la­beled
"fair," Latin Ameri­can,
African and Asian his­tory
holdings "inadequate"
and Russian and English his­tory
are "adequately co­vered."
Psychology, sociology,
anthropology and political
science collections all need
improvement, according to
the report. Books for the
School of Education are only
fair with more materials'
needed in early childhood
and junior college education
levels.
The nine individual
schools each made a study of
their own library needs and | brary's quality of resources.
how- they were met. The
School of Arts and Sciences
registered the most out­spoken
complaint with the
claim that "only twoof the 12
departments feel that the li­brary-
collections are ade­quate."
Other school com­plaints
were concerned with
problems other then those of
academic quality.
"Lack of concern by the in­dividual
schools and stu­dents"
was the second chal­lenge
that the self-study com­mittee
faced, according to
Breyer. While the study re­vealed
that the library was
"seriously lacking" in both
quantity and quality, neither
students nor faculty felt par­ticularly
deprived.
Of the 332 teachers who
responded to the survey con- i
ducted by Breyer's, commit­tee,
only 25 felt that the li­brary's
book supplies were in­adequate
for teaching pur­poses.
Only 72 felt the hold­ings
were inadequate for re­search
purposes.
Only 30 of the 715 students
answering the survey ques­tion,
"For your needs, are li­brary
holdings good, fair or
poor?" labeled the collec­tions
as "poor," and an over­whelming
majority (425) felt
they were "good."
This apparent discre­pancy
between the commit­tee's
findings and the stu­dent-
faculty survey indica­tions
led Breyer to remark
that "most students aren't
very interested" in the li-
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Library9s 'short hours9
receive much criticism
By J a c k James
Asst. Features Editor
"It's ridiculous!" said one
Auburn coed when ques­tioned
about the library's
closing hours.
"People don't start study­ing
until 10:30. We're not
babies anymore and we're
not ready to go home and go
to bed at 10:30."
Some students have just
begun working up a little
"mental sweat," when a voice
comes from out of the walls
informing them that the li­brary
closes at 10:30—this
happens nightly, Sunday
through Thursday. No one
hears the voice on Friday and
Saturday nights, simply be­cause
there is no such thing
as Friday or Saturday night
at the library—it closes at 5
p.m. and 6 p.m., respectively,
on these nights.
Students gripe and candi­dates
for SGA offices promise
to make library hours longer.
However, not all students
who visit the library are an­noyed
by the "early" closing
hours. In a 1972 self-study of
the library a student ques­tionnaire
indicated more
were satisfied with the li­brary
hours than were dis­satisfied.
In response to the
question "Is the library open
enough hours to meet your
needs?" 593 students said yes
and 151 said no.
Still, the protest goes on
and if the questionnaire indi­cation
is representative of the
entire campus population,
then there is a minority quite
effective in making its voice
heard.
"People don't understand
the problems of financing,"
said one library official. "It is
ridiculous to keep the library
open for a handful of stu­dents;
the light bill alone
would be astronomical."
Expensive operation of
lights is not the only reason
for closing the library at an
hour which many students
consider early, because ac­cording
to Me.S. E.Geiger, it
takes a la?#eilkWld'6ffer the
complete reference service
that students demand. To
offer this service for a longer
hours would require a larger
staff and as a result, more
money.
Money h as a very direct re­lationship
to the operating
hours of the library, and the
administration's efforts to
cut corners where possible
doesn't make lengthened
hours seem likely even after
the influence of SGA elec­tions.
Also, an indication in
the 1972 self-study of the li­brary
that present alloca­tions
may not be enough to
maintain its "good collec­tions"
does not allow much
room for speculation that any
of the library's future funds
will be used to lengthen
its schedule.
In the spring of 1971, the li­brary
closing hour was
ch anged from 11 p.m. to 10:30
,p.m. Sunday through Thurs­day;
from 11 p.m. to 5 p.m. on
Friday and from 11 p.m. to 6
p.m. on Saturday. The li­brary
now has in its posses­sion
"piles" of tally sheets re­cording
the number of stu­dents
who come in at each
hour. The administration re­quested
the survey in order to
find out when the library was
used the least. With the
threat of budget allotment
cuts imminent, tally sheets
are still being kept.
Library hours at three
other universities in the
southeast are slightly longer
than Auburn's, and sources
at all three said they receive a
few requests to make library
hours longer.
The library at the Univer- -
sity of Alabama is open until
midnight Sunday through
Friday, and until 5 p.m. on
Saturday. According to a li­brary
official at the Univer­sity
of Alabama, these hours
are criticized frequently and
people complain because the
library is not open late on
Saturday.
The University of Tennes­see's
library closes one hour
later than Auburn's and its
assistant director says there
are few complaints about the
present system. The reason
may be that the first floor of
the library remains open all
night for study purposes
only.
Hours at the University of
Georgia are 8 a.m. to 12 p.m.
Monday through Friday and
9 a.m. to 6 p.m. on Saturday.
"Some say the hours aren't
long enough," said Georgia's
library director. "One gra­duate
student started a cam­paign
to get people to push for
extensions in the library's
hours about three years ago,
but nothing much has been
done since then to alter the li­brary's
schedule." He added
that the science department
of the library stays open until
2 a.m.
Some concessions have
been made to satisfy those
who press for longer hours at
Auburn. There is a night
book deposit box on the west
side of the library, and the
"old" schedule is resumed
during final examinations
times.
Wove/' library services ignored
By Candy Williamson
Plainsman Staff Writer
Interested in looking up
your family's history? Per­haps
a test is coming up in an
agronomy or zoology course
and you need a test file. May­be
you're interested in what
your hometown paper said
last week and you don't have
a subscription. The Auburn
student with these and other
needs should visit the Uni­versity
library.
While most students recog­nize
the value of the library's
sources as a necessary evil
for the much-dreaded term
papers, they fail to take ad­vantage
of the many unique
services that the library pro­vides.
The library contains
spacious reading rooms, with
glass walls that provide a
panoramic view of each floor,
open book stacks to aid the
student in his study, con­temporary
furniture, and
flourescent lights that some
students say have a sleep-inducing
"hum." Also
located in the library are se­minar
rooms, typing areas
and microfilm reading
rooms. Three coin-operated
xerox machines are avail­able
in the library for those
who need quick, exact copies
of printed material, but who
don't have the time to copy it
by hand.
The first floor houses much
more than the film room that
students have usually visited
at one time or another during
their career at Auburn Uni­versity.
The 'browsing room'
offers several shelves of cur­rent
fiction on such diverse
subjects as womens' lib, the
occult, and Elvis Presley. A
collection of popular
magazines includes McCalls,
Esquire, Glamour, Sports Il­lustrated,
Ebony and
Cosmopolitan.
Other interesting topics in
the browsing collection in­clude
books on macreme and
ecoupage for the crafts-minded,
books on yoga and
organic gardening for the
health "nut," and for those
who like to sing but don't al­ways
know the words to the
songs there is a selection of
songbooks to choose from.
A listening room with
stereos is also placed on the
first floor, with re­cords—
classical and
rock—available for use in the
library only. An Archives
room contains Civil War
manuscripts, University re­cords,
a file of Philpott's
speaches and a copy of all Au­burn
Profile scripts aired on
WEGL.
The library also contains
98 closed carrels for use by
faculty members and grad­uate
students engaged in li­brary
research, and a projec­tion
room with 108 theatre
seats for viewing special
educational films.
Included in the Special Col­lections
room, located on the
first floor, are the Alabama
Collection, The Auburn
University Collection, the
George F. Petrie Memorial
Collection, The Treasure
(Rare Books) Collection, the
Map Collection, newspaper
clipping files and other
materials.
With knowledge of what
city a person, company or
agency is located in, one can
probably find the address or
phone number of that par­ticular
party by using the col­lection
of phone books found the. girls.
HEAT AND HUMIDITY SOMETIMES UNBEARABLE
. . .Causing study difficulties
—R. C. Dennis
'Heated' controversy continues
in the second floor of the
library.
"There are several racy
books stashed away in the
first floor reseve room that
someone upstairs won't per­mit
out on the main
shelves—but that's a secret!"
revealed one librarian who
wouldn't give her name.
Henry Miller novels and
some scientific sex studies
are hidden here, according to
By Diane Uthlaut
Plainsman Staff Writer
Frantically fanning his fever-ridden body, pausing to wipe
the sweat from his brow as he pores over his research, he at
last slumps to the floor in total unconsciousness. A scientist
in search of the cure for cancer collapsing in the throes of ex­haustion?
No, the tragic account of the Auburn student who
was overcome by heat prostration while completing his term
paper for EH 103 in the Ralph B. Draughon Library.
Exaggerated? Perhaps, but many seem to feel that the tem­perature
conditions in the library are not conducive to a vital
need of the students who visit there—breathing.
Grumblings have been heard throughout the campus
about the uncomfortable temperature in the library, but then
Auburn students gripe about a number of things. A letter to
the editor in a recent edition of The Plainsman disclosed the
issue in the opening maneuver of this "heated" controversy.
"Walking through the front doors of the library, you're met
by a heat wave," commented William Golson, one of the co-composers
of the complaint. "I've been studying there for
four and a half years and plan to be spending a lot more time
there. I just felt like something ought to be done about that
muggy, stifling humidity in the library."
The least temperature change outside is magnified inside
the library and there have been several occasions when the
heat has becof&fc dnbeaf ahle, accbfiling to some library per­sonnel
who also feel that the library's temperature is a
problem. During the most recent of these heat spells, finals of
winter quarter, a survey was taken of the temperature in
various departments. Results? Temperature readings from
86 to 92.
Recipients of the numerous complaints from students and
target of remarks about the "cold-blooded librarians," the li­brary
personnel are not, contrary to popular belief, warming
up their frozen bodies. The employes of the library claim they
have no control over the temperature; there are no indivi­dual
thermostats that the librarians can change and the
windows are constructed so as to be opened easily. Although
they have learned to live with the temperature variance, li­brary
personnel are sympathetic to the students attempting
to study and "wish that some solution could be found."
"Yes, there have been several occasions when the heat has
become uncomfortable," remarked Clyde H. Cantrell, li­brary
director, who believes the problem has been over­stated.
"But, when we sent a memorandum to Buildings and
Grounds about the situation, we received a reply from Col.
Funchess that they were checking the equipment and would
rebalance the heating system if necessary."
Cantrell said that it was difficult to keep such a large
number of people comfortable but that "we try to keep the
public as happy as we can and are doing the best we can."
On the technical side, Buildings and Grounds Superinten­dent
of Maintenance and Operations William H. Mims says
that in a building as large as the library, thegeneral heating
system that is installed is as effective as possible. "Of course,
you have problems with anything mechanical," stated
Mims, "as well as human error, and the occasions when the
heat has been uncomfortable were under unususal circum­stances
that should have been corrected earlier."
This quibble over the temperature conditions in the li­brary
was not intended by its instigators to become a major
controversy. "We're not trying to start any crusade; we just
wanted to draw attention to the fact that students are un­comfortable
and to fire some action," said Golson.
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THE AUBURN PUIN*MAN Friday, April 13,1973 page 8 New chief lived with students
Thief?
—Steele Holman
Chief Millard Dawson and members
of the campus police department cut
chains and impounded unregistered bi­cycles
from the Haley Center con­course
and Hill dorms Tuesday morn­ing.
Dawson said the bikes were im-pounded
because they were not reg­istered
with the University and could
be claimed after registering them and
paying the $1 registration fee. He also
said no students would be reimbursed
for the bike chains which were cut.
By Frank Whatley
Plainsman Staff Writer
A police chief living among
college kids? That's what Ed­ward
R. Blodgett, Auburn's
new police chief, did earlier
this year while awaiting his
approval as chief by the Au­burn
city council.
While visiting Auburn last
January, Blodgett stayed at
Dexter Arms and said what
impressed him most about
Auburn was "the people
being more genuine, friendly
and honest."
Blodgett, a native of New
York, took office March 5,
succeeding Thomas Kernen.
Kernen resigned last Sept. 1,
for "personal reasons" fol­lowing
suits filed and won by
two former policemen ques­tioning
the reasons for their
dismissals from the force.
Blodgett said the Kernen
affair would affect his work
and may cause him to be
"more cautious" but that the
only way to overcome the
memory would be "for every­one
to get a professional atti­tude
and approach."
Blodgett plans several "in­novative
changes" in the
operation of the police force,
but declined to elaborate
upon them, pending the city
council's reaction. The pro­posals
involve promotions,
working hours and altering
the number of police on duty
so that more are patrolling
during crime-prone hours
than at other times.
After answering an ad in
the professional journal
"Police Chief," Blodgett was
chosen from 160 applicants
for the Auburn post. Asked if
he feels he was chosen be-
Army health professions scholarships
available to All pre-med students
By Bill Norton
Plainsman Staff Writer
Auburn students majoring
in pre-medicine pre-den-tistry,
preoptometry, vet­erinary
medicine or clinical
psychology, are eligible for
the Army's Health Profes­sions
Scholarship Program,
according to Col. George G.
Tucker Jr., professor of
military science.
The program offers an op­portunity
for students to re­ceive
scholarship support
and serve as an officer in the
Army Medical Corps, Tucker
said, if the applicant qualify.
After acceptance into the
program, a student would re­ceive
$400 per month plus tui­tion
expenses. . • 3 fTW
The student would retain
an inactive status while com­pleting
school and be called
up for active duty 45 consecu­tive
days of the year. An Au­burn
student could serve his
45-day active duty while re­maining
on campus. He
would not be required to at­tend
any drills.
Upon graduation from
medical school, the par­ticipant
would be commis­sioned
as a second lieute­nant
and would be required to
serve one year's active ser­vice
for each year of par­ticipation
in the program
with a minimum of two years
post-graduate active duty.
The student would serve in
his field receiving full pay,
with benefits and advance­ment
opportunities as any
other officer, Tucker re­marked.
Residency and
internship periods can be
completed while serving his
tour of duty, he said.
High school seniors who
have been accepted to college
and are planning medical ca­reers
can apply before they
graduate, Tucker said. Age
waivers are available for vet­erans
and students in their
last two years of school.
Interested students may
contact Capt. Wayne Byrd,
21 IB Broun Hall, for further
information.
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cause he was not from the Au­burn
area, and so, untouched
by the Kernen affair, Blod­gett
said he presumed he was
hired because he was "the
best qualified for the job."
He pointed to his ex­perience
as security head at a
Federal reservation near As­toria,
Oregon for his qualifi­cations.
Located near Astoria is a
campus of the University of
Oregon (UO). Astoria has a
population of about 10,000,
but the Oregon campus is
larger than Auburn Univer­sity,
Blodgett said.
Auburn compares favor­ably
with UO at Astoria in
crime, but there appears to be
less violent crime and fewer
drug problems here, he said.
Blodgett remarked that he
hadn't given much thought
to the method of enforcing
Alabama's marijuana law,
which makes possession a
misdemeanor and selling a
felony. He commented,
though, that his job was to
"enforce the law fairly." He
said he also hopes to work
closely and cooperate with
the campus police.
Blodgett attended the Uni­versity
of Southern Califor­nia
and has also taken
courses at Los Angeles State,
East Los Angeles State, Port­land
State and at the Univer­sity
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page 9 Friday, April 13, 1973 THE AUBURN PuiNSfcUN
Auburn professor works to create mechanical heart
Dr. John E. Burkhalter, as­sistant
professor of aero­space
engineering, is near
completion on the first in a
series of experimental work­ing
model mechanical hearts
that hopefully will lead to re­placement
hearts for criti­cally
ill or terminal heart
patients.
Burkhalter's new heart,
which now more resembles a
gigantic shiny bullet than
that marvelous muscular
"ticker" that keeps people
going, is set to be trans­planted
into a 400-pound calf
this summer.
"Our purpose in develop­ing
this calf heart is hope­fully
to replace the human
heart one day," he ex­plained.
"As a whole, ex­periences
with heart trans­plants
from human donors
haven't been too successful.
We need to have a reliable re­placement
heart available
without having to depend on
other dying patients.
"Use of this type heart
would come only as a last
resort with the terminal pa­tients,
those who otherwise
would surely die," Burk­halter
continued. "A success­ful
transplant patient should
be able to live a moderately
sedate life, as a business­man,
perhaps."
The professor explained
that power for the heart's
tiny electric motor would
have to be available at all
times. A special vest-type
garment could be plugged
into a wall outlet at home, or
into an automobile's electri­cal
system while driving. The
vest would be able to store
enough power to operate the
heart for up to a half-hour, he
said, but that would be the
limit by itself.
The heart itself is. being
built here at Auburn by Burk­halter
with the University of
Texas cooperafihg in the
project.
The twin-chambered
aluminum heart will weight
slightly more than three
pounds, three times as heavy
as a normal heart and use
ventricles (chambers),
constructed of a synthetic
fiber-reinforced rubber.
These bag-like ventricles will
protect the blood and
segregate it from the metal
structure of the heart itself.
The electric motor turns a
cam that alternately
squeezes the blood-inflated
ventricles producing the
pumping action of the heart.
The entire device will be en­cased
in an inert synthetic
material to protect the pa­tient.
"The synthetic fiber-rein­forced
material is not re­jected
by antibodies within
the patient's own body and
therefore doesn't compound
the problems ..of heart trans­plants,;"
' Burkhalter said.
One of the major problems
with past human heart trans­plants
has been the rejection
of the new heart by the pa­tient,
often causing death.
Burkhalter said that the
two major problems with
past mechanical hearts, clot­ting
and, hemolysis, should
be solved with this new heart.
Clotting can occur any place
in the heart where the blood
is not continually circulat­ing.
Hemolysis is the des­truction
of the red cells in the
blood due to their injury by
the mechanism. "We hope
that we've solved both of
these problems," he said.
"Mechanical heart assist
devices have been around for
a good while," Burkhalter
said, referring to pace­makers,
synthetic valves and
arteries, and assist devices.
"But the few other mechani­cal
hearts developed in re­cent
years proved only mo­derately
successful because
of one or both problems.
Chambers County getting student help
BURKHALTER HOLDS MECHANICAL HEART HE DESIGNED
. . . Heart will be transplanted in calf this summer
Fiji's earn top winter grade averages
By Ron Mask
Plainsman Staff Writer
Phi Gamma Delta (Fiji)
fraternity earned the highest
composite grade point
average (g.p.a.) among Au­burn's
social fraternities
winter quarter, according to
E. Garth Jenkins, assistant
dean of student affairs for
fraternities.
The Fiji's distinguished
themselves by earning a com­posite
g.p.a. of 1.801.
David Cleveland, Fiji pres­ident,
said, "It's really good
that we can keep a high aca­demic
standing. We em­phasize
scholarship as an im­portant
part of our fraternity
program."
Ranking second in
academic standing was Beta
Theta Pi with ag.p.a. of 1.714
and Pi Kappa Phi was third
with 1.704. Lambda Chi
Alpha ranked fourth with
1.643, while FarmHouse
ranked fifth with 1.636.
Sororities did better
scholastically than fraterni­ties
last quarter. They earned
a composite g.p.a. of 1.819
while fraternities earned a
1.520.
Winter quarter's sorority
pledge classes also earned a
higher composite g-p-a..than
fraternity pledge classes.
Sorority pledges earned a
composite g.p.a. of 1.295 com­pared
to fraternity pledges
composite g.p.a. of 1.142.
Alpha Epsilon Pi had the
top pledge class average of all
social fraternities with a com­posite
g.p.a. of 1.548.
Alpha Epsilon Pi also
showed the greatest aca­demic
improvement among
all social fraternities. Twenty
iwo of Auburn's 25 fraterni­ties
showed an improvement
last quarter in composite
g.p.a.'s over fall quarter.
Thirty six per cent of Au­burn's
male Greeks earned a
g.p.a. superior to all under­graduate
men's average of
1.594.
Forty eight per cent
earned a g.p.a. superior to the
all fraternity average of
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Independent undergrad­uate
men did better scholas­tically
last quarter than fra­ternity
men. Independent un-dergradate
men earned a
composite g.p.a. of 1.620
while fraternity members
earned a composite g.p.a. of
1.520.
Auburn's veterinary frater­nities,
Omega Tau Sigma
and Alpha Psi, earned com­posite
g.p.a.'s of 2.245 and
2.198.
Civil engineering stu­dents,
under the direction of
Dr. Lansford C. Bell, have be­gun
a project to assist the
Chambers County Commis­sion
with its change from
District Rule to the County
Unit form of government.
Under the County Unit Sys­tem
all highway construc­tion
and maintenance pro­jects
are performed on a coun­ty-
wide basis rather than by
various districts.
The students plan to re­commend
construction and
maintenance priorities that
would hopefully benefit a
significant number of Cham­bers
County residents. The
recommendations will be
based on population den­sities,
traffic patterns and a
comprehensive inventory of
the county road system. A
unique procedure has been
developed by the student
team that assigns a "suf­ficiency
rating"' to each road
within the system.
Of particular concern to the
group is the more than 3000
miles of unpaved roads in
Chambers County. The con­dition
of existing bridge
structures, the need for addi­tional
bridges and the use of
new "prefab" bridge struc­tures
are also being studied.
The Chambers County
Rural Development Commit­tee,
County Engineer Luther
Pierce and the Cooperative
Extension Service are also
working in the project. The
Alabama Highway Depart­ment
and the East Alabama
Planning and Development
Commission are also provid­ing
data for the study.
A similar student civil en­gineering
project was con­ducted
in Chambers County
during the winter quarter of
1971. This study was con­cerned
with the development
of an effective and efficient
solid waste management sys­tem
for its county. A county-operated
landfill was recom­mended
to an subsequently
constructed by the Cham­bers
County government.
A second phase of the cur­rent
project will be con­ducted
during the 1973 sum­mer
quarter.
This study will make recom­mendations
for locating,
staffing and maintaining a
county-wide maintenance
facility. Both studies will be
presented to the Chambers
County Commission by
August 31.
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The Garden Club of Ala­bama,
Inc., (GCA) is current­ly
conducting a fund raising
campaign to finance the re­locating
of its state head­quarters
building at Auburn
University. The building is
now in the fine arts center
area. It will be moved to a
new location on the campus.
GCA state headquarters is
cottage 22 of the Graves Cen­ter
cottages. In the past, the
cottages have in turn housed
4-H Club groups, National
Youth Administration youth,
Naval communications
school students, athletes,
military groups and ed­ucators.
Many of the cot-
Auburn student injured
in car-bicycle accident
tages are now being dis­mantled.
Cottage 22 was leased for
use by the Garden Club of
Alabama, Inc., as headquar­ters
in 1963. Following its re­location,
the cottage will be
renovated, updated and its
grounds will be landscaped.
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in Lee County Hospital after
being injured in a car-bicycle
accident April 4.
Stephen E. Bowden, 4PM,
301-C East Thach Ave. was
injured when the bicycle he
was riding collided with a car
driven by Thomas P. Ander­son,
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The accident occurred
when the car, which was tra­veling
west on Roosevelt Ave­nue,
turned right into a park­ing
space and hit the bicycle,
which was also traveling
west, according to Campus
Police Chief Millard E.
Dawson.
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THE AUBURN PUINMUN Friday, April 13, 1973 page 10
University Senate becoming
more effective—Brooks
By Pat Gilbert
Plainsman Staff Writer
The University Senate sets
the number of days per quar­ter,
determines what days
will be holidays, establishes
hours for Ralph Draughon
Library and recently set up a
student grievance code.
But what is it?
It is a relatively new aca­demic
governing body at Au­burn,
whose membership
consists of the president and
vice-president of the Univer­sity,
the dean of Undergra­duate
Studies, the deans of
each of Auburn's 10 schools,
the director of Educational
Services, the director of li­braries,
the dean of women,
the dean of student affairs,
the Student Government As­sociation
president, Asso­ciated
Women Students presi­dent,
one elected representa­tive
from each formal acade­mic
department, one elected
representative from each
school without formal de­partments
and one elected re­presentative
from the library
staff.
Established in 1968, the
Senate actually has two con­stitutions,
the Constitution of
the General Faculty and the
Constitution of the Univer­sity
Senate.
According to the Constitu­tion
of the University Senate,
its purpose is to serve in an
advisory capacity to the Uni­versity
president on acade­mic
policies such as mini­mum
standards for admis­sion,
academic curricula, the
academic calendar and the
effective utilization of the
University's facilities in the
academic program, scholas­tic
standards, policies
governing the University li­brary,
research and exten­sion
as related to the instruc­tional
programs composi­tion
of University commit­tees,
and student-faculty re­lations.
The Constitution of the
General Faculty states that it
is to be concerned with the
welfare of Auburn person­nel.
Its powers do not encom­pass
the academic program.
Dr. George Brooks, head of
Industrial Engineering, is
chairman of the Senate.
Commenting on the effec­tiveness
of the Senate, Dr.
Brooks said it has gained "in­creasing
effectiveness." He
special
REPORT
explained that a new demo­cratic
body, such as the
Senate and the General
Faculty, experiences grow­ing
pains in an effort to es­tablish
a reputation. The
Senate has gained ex­perience
because four or five
years ago they couldn't have
handled the Student Grie­vance
Code, he said.
The standing committees
of the Senate are the Execu­tive
Committee, the Rules
Committee, the Curriculum
Committee, the Library Com­mittee,
the Calendar and
Schedules Committee, the
Student-Faculty Relation-
•ship Committee, the Acade­mic
Facilities Committee, the
Teaching Effectiveness Com­mittee
and the Academic
Standards Committee.
Students are involved in
many committees of the
Senate. The Calendar and
Schedules Committee
consists of the Director of
Educational Services and
eight other members, at least
two of which are students.
The Student Faculty Rela­tionships
Committee
consists of an equal number
of faculty and students. This
committee concerns itself
with "the interrelationships
between students and facul­ty
in the academic programs
of the University." The
Teaching Effectiveness Com­mittee
is composed of an
equal number of faculty and
student members and is "con­cerned
with a continuous
study of ways to improve
teaching effectiveness."
Life-giving blood
—R. C. Dennis
Life-giving blood runs through a tube into a bag at
Auburn's Red Cross Blood Drive. Late Thursday, a
Spokesman for the drive reported that Auburn's 2,800
pint goal had been reached. The worker said the drive
would continue past the 6 p.m. deadline since many
no BuijnrjJsi /?9i
students were still giving. He urged all students to do
their part for the blood drive and give a pint of blood.
The theme of this y e a r ' s drive was "The Value of Giv­ing."
Robertson to be Lamar Society director
Dr. Fred Robertson, vice-president
for extension, has
been appointed to the Board
of Directors of the Alabama
Chapter of the L.Q.C. Lamar
Society. He has been as­signed
to the Project Com­mittee.
The Lamar Society, en­compassing
13 southern
states, is a laboratory for the
generation of ideas and acts
as a a catalyst for programs
directed to practical solu­tions
of southern problems.
Dr. Frank A. Rose, former
president of the University of
Alabama, heads the na­tional
organization.
The society promotes con­structive
change, unencum­bered
as far as possible of
ideological, racial, political
or partisan considerations,
according to society spokes­men.
A recent example of the
• •
activity of the Lamar Society
is the establishment of the
Southern Growth Policies
Board, a south-wide, inter-go­vernmental
agency that
hopefully will achieve the
same kinds of success in its
field as that achieved by the
Southern Regional Educa­tion
Board in the field of
higher education.
Robertson has served as
vice-president for extension
at Auburn since 1966. Prior to
that, he was director for the
Cooperative Extension Ser­vice
at Auburn. In his present
position, he is responsible for
all programs in continuing
education, community ser­vices,
and other extension
activities involving Auburn
University.
A native of Kentucky,
Robertson was reared in West
Tennessee. He holds the B.S.
and M.S. from the Univer­sity
of Tennessee, and the
Doctorate in Public Ad­ministration
from Harvard
University.
Prior to his appointment to
Auburn University, Dr.
Robertson has served as a
county agent, agricultural
economist with the Tennes­see
Valley Authority, and as
a professor of agricultural
economics at Pensylvania
State University.
Other directors of the Ala­bama
Chapter of the Lamar
Society are Young J. Boozer,
Tuscaloosa; Oliver W. Brant­ley,
Troy; Ralph W. Calla­han,
Anniston; Dr. Robert W.
French, University of Ala­bama
at Birmignham; Rabbi
Milton L. Grafman, Bir­mingham;
Fred D.Gray, Tus-kegee;
Dr. Robert Guillot,
Florence; Lister Hill Jr.,
Montgomery; George A.
LeMaistre, Tuscaloosa; Dr.
Herman Long, Talladega; Ed
Mauldin, Sheffield; Bert S.
Nettles, Mobile; Dr. John
Nixon, Birmingham; John A.
Robinson III, Huntsville;
Barrett Shelton Sr., Decatur;
Leroy A. Simms, Huntsville.
Joel Smith, Eufaula; Mrs.
Jean Sullivan, Selma; Vin­cent
Townsend Sr.. Birminer-ham;
Simeon Wilbanks Sr.,
Alexander City; W.J. Hearin,
Mobile; A. J. Cooper Jr.,
Prichard; Mrs. William C.
McDonald Jr., '• Birming­ham;
E. B. Haltom Jr.,
Florence; Harold Albritton,
Andalusia; Dr. John
Burnum, Tuscaloosa; James
B. Boone, Tuscaloosa; Ri­chard
Dominick, Birming­ham;
and Sister Xavier, Bir­mingham.
Shop displays
arts and crafts
beginning today
Joe Wesley sits at the pot­ter's
wheel molding a vase
from the piece of clay in his
hands. Near the front win­dow
is a long-haired male,
Bob Perreiia, working on a
leather desk. Sound like a
place in Underground
Atlanta or perhaps a side­walk
art festival?
It's really the Why Not
Shop in Auburn and these are
just two of the scenes one can
view this weekend.
Today and tomorrow the
shop will feature its arts and
crafts with many demons­trations
going on. Not only
can one watch a potter or belt
maker, but Ms. Mary Thrope
will be present to demons­trate
basket weaving.
Students, as well as towns­people,
can bring their wares
to the shop, and after talking
with the management of
course, put them on display
and sale. Included in the
original crafts are candles,
paintings, balancing figures,
copper sculptures and a host
of other things.
Something one might want
to look at with interest, but be
unable to buy, is the player
piano in the shop. Dated
around 1912, the piano is a
player style but requires a
person to pump it in order for
it to play.
Nothing to do this week­end?
Take a walk up town
and view the wares of stu­dents
and townsfolk at the
Why Not Shop.
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Veterinary professor
will retire January
Friday, April 13, 1973 THE AUBURN PUINMHN
Dr. Fred G. Schell will re­tire
Jan. 31, 1974, after 17
years as a member of the
faculty of the School of
Veterinary Medicine. Since
1958, he has been head
professor for the Department
of Large Animal Surgery and
Medicine.
"Dr. Schell has con­tributed
greatly to the School
of Veterinary Medicine and
its valuable assistance to the
livestock industry of Ala­bama
through his dedication
to teaching and research,"
said Pres. Harry M. Philpott
in making the announce­ment.
"We appreciate the ser­vice
he has given to Auburn
and wish for him and his
family continued success and
happiness."
With the announcement of
Schell's retirement, Dean
James E. Greene also an­nounced
the selection of a
search committee to seek
potential candidates to re­place
Schell.
Dr. Charles S. Roberts,
director of the State Veteri­nary
Diagnostics Laboratory
at Auburn, will serve as
chairman of the committee.
Other members are Dr. Marie
H. Attleberger, Dr. Thomas
A. Powe, and Dr. Donald F.
Walker of the Large Animal
Surgery and Medicine facul­ty,
and Dr. W. M. Warren, de­partment
head of Animal
and Dairy Sciences.
Schell, a native of Am-bridge,
Pa., received the
D.V.M. from Auburn in 1941.
He had done further studies
at Ohio State University.
Before returning to Au­burn
in 1956 as associate
professor of jurisprudence
and ethics, Schell engaged in
private practice at Franklin,
Tenn. He left his profession
for a brief time to work with
industry but moved back into
the field in pleasure horse
management and equita­tion.
From there, he returned
to Auburn.
As head of the Large
Animal Surgery and Med­icine
Clinic at Auburn, Schell
has participated in the
School's most spectacular
period of growth. His own de­partment
was the first to lo­cate
in new facilities on Wire
Road in 19»60. Plans then
were to proceed with the other
buildings, but these were de­layed
for lack of funds for an­other
ten years.
In the meantime, Schell's
own professional faculty
tripled. Hospital and am­bulatory
cases more than
doubled. Research, which
was almost non-existent
when he became department
head, became a well-funded
program and today in-page
11 Friday, April xa, iyia i w t n u w i w • IMM*W~M
Students design future habitat
Germany lecture
Dr. S. William Halperin,
modern European historian,
will present a public lecture
at 3 p.m. Thursday in 1203
Haley Center on "Weimar
Revisited: Another Look at
the German Republic, 1918-
33." This event is designated
for "Forum" (U201) credit.
low society 5
Dr. Ted Little, student legal
adviser, will speak at the
Tuesday meeting of the Au­burn
Law Society at 4:30 p.m.
in the Haley Center Eagle's
Nest. It will be the last day
dues are payable. All
interested persons are in­vited
to attend.
Free University
The Free University course
"Travel Through Europe"
will meet Thursday at 7 p.m.
in 3204 Haley Center instead
of at 8 p.m.
Education honorary
Kappa Delta Pi, education
honorary, is considering stu­dents
for membership. A list
of candidates has been
drawn up and faculty mem­bers
in the School of Educa­tion
have copies. Students
who have completed 90 quar­ter
hours in education with at
least a 2.00 overall grade
point average should contact
their adviser if their name is
not on the list.
Young Republicans
The Young Republicans
will meet Tuesday at 8 p.m. in
1208 Haley Center.
Career counseling
Career counseling in the
School of Engineering will be
held in the Aerospace En­gineering
and Aviation
Management departments,
April 17,24 and May 1, from 1
p.m. to 2 p.m.; Civil En­gineering
department, April
17, 24 and May 1, from 2 p.m.
to 3 p.m.; Chemical En­gineering
department, April
18, 25 and May 2, from 1 p.m.
to 2 p.m.; Electrical En­gineering
department, April
18, 25 and May 2, from 2 p.m.
to 3 p.m.; Industrial En­gineering
department, April
19, 26 and May 3, from 2 p.m.
to 3 p.m.; Mechanical En­gineering
department, April
19, 26 and May 3, from 1 p.m.
to 2 p.m.; Materials En­gineering
department, April
16, 23 and 30, from 1 p.m. to 2
p.m.; Textile Engineering,
Textile Management and
Textile Chemistry depart­ments,
April 16, 23 and 30,
from 2 p.m. to 3 p.m. Any stu­dent
unable to meet at the
scheduled times should
contact Charles Griffin, pre-engineering,
104 Ramsay
Hall.
Campaign pictures
- • • t' • >
Student elections can­didates
who wish to pick up
their pictures which ap­peared
in The Plainsman's
election supplement may do
so at The Plainsman office in
Langdon Hall beginning
Tuesday.
Hosts, hostesses
Anyone in their soph­omore
or junior year at Au­burn
who is interested in be­ing
an official University
host or hostess may obtain
application for the War Eagle
Girls or Plainsmen at the
Union Desk in Haley Center
Lounge and return them by
Tuesday. Interviews for War
Eagle Girls candidates will
be April 23 and 24 and for the
Plainsmen, candidates, April
25 and 26. Interviews will be
scheduled upon the return of
the applications. Candidates
must have a 1.00 overall
grade point average.
HI deadline
The deadline for all notices
to appear in For Your
Information is Tuesday at
noon for the following
Thursday edition of The
Plainsman. Absolutely no
notices will be taken after
this time.
PAT banquet
The Kappa Pi chapter of
Phi Alpha Theta will hold a
banquet April 20 at 7 p.m. at
the Heart-of-Auburn Res­taurant.
Dr. S. William Hal­perin,
modern European his­torian,
will speak after din­ner.
Reservations may be
made through the History
Dept., 7030 Haley Center.
DR. FRED S. SCHELL
. . .Will retire in January
volves, most of the faculty in
all areas of study in the de­partment.
And the clinic, one of the
largest in the country, is no
longer an outpost from the
rest of the school. New build­ings
for the basic sciences in
veterinary medicine and the
Small Animal Clinic have
brought the entire school
together in one of the most
modern complexes of its kind
in the nation.
Schell is a past president of
the Tennessee Veterinary
Medical Association and a
member of AVMA, Amer­ican
Association of Equine
Practitioners, Alabama
V.M.A., Alpha Psi of which
he is past president, and Phi
Zeta.
VD awareness
national topic
of 30-day drive
April is "VD Awareness
Month" across the country.
In cooperation with the
federal government, the
National Association of Re­tail
Druggists has launched a
massive venereal disease
education and prevention
program, which is centered in
community pharmacies.
"Pharmacies are, in a very
real sense, health centers and
are an authoritative source of
information," a spokesman
for the association said. "The
accessibility of a pharmacy
in practically every com­munity
makes it the logical
place to disseminate such in­formation
because of the
pharmacist's knowledge of
both VD treatment and pre­vention."
The association has urged
Auburn druggists to display
posters and hand out pham-phlets
to educate people on
the prevention and treat­ment
of venereal disease dur­ing
April.
Training, skills,
experience are
employee assets
The three points in a job ap-plicaion
most important