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
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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.
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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
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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
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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.
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diversified selection of presentations,
including lectures
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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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Editorial Page
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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Woard of Trustees, administration, faculty, or student body of Auburn University.
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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by the Kernen affair, Blodgett
said he presumed he was
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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
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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.
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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,
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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.
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use by the Garden Club of
Alabama, Inc., as headquarters
in 1963. Following its relocation,
the cottage will be
renovated, updated and its
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The accident occurred
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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
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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