1974-05-30 The Auburn Plainsman

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Senate rejects Devore as administrative vice president
By Rheta Grimsley
Features Editor
The Student Senate refused to approve
Dudley Devore, 2GPO, as administra­tive
vice president of the Student Govern- •
ment Association at its meeting Mon­day.
Devore's nomination, which was
presented to the Senate by SGA Pres.
John Wiley, failed to receive the
necessary two-thirds majority of the
senators present by a vote of 23-4.
In a discussion preceding the vote,
John Thrower, past Interfraternity
Council rush vice president, said that
Devore as this year's rush vice president
would not have the "time to devote" to
the job of administrative vice president.
"This is nothing personal against
Dudley at all," Thrower said. "But as
past rush vice president, I know how
much time it takes.
I'm not that familiar with the work­ings
of the SGA, but I do know that last
year Mike (Waller) spent a great deal of
time with it (the job of administrative
vice president). I think this appointment
would hurt the administration of both
organizations."
After being recognized by the Senate,.
Wiley said, "I know a lot about Dudley
Devore. I've talked with him about this at
length. He's expressed faith in himself to
me that he would have the time to do it."
Tommy Eden, off-campus senator,
said that he recalled Devore "dropping
out of the Senate race because he didn't
have enough time.
"Dudley works with the Union, he's a
Plainsman and treasurer of his social
fraternity, if I recall correctly. He just
doesn't have the time to fill the office,"
Eden added.
"This is extremely hard to talk about
since I'm with IFC, too," Ricky Ray, off-campus
senator and also secretary-treasurer
of IFC said. "We're supposed to
be a well bound and close-knit group, but
I don't think Dudley has time, either."
An acting administrative vice presi­dent
can be appointed for the summer if
the Senate does not meet again in spec­ial
session. Wiley said he "will probably
appoint Devore as acting administra­tive
vice president for the summer and I
will probably resubmit his name in the
fall for approval."
"I can't speak for my senators," Decker
said. I don't know what other considera­tions
there might have been for not
approving the appointment, if there were
any."
Several sources indicated that Mike
Waller, administrative vice president in
the Milton administration, was the Sen­ate's
choice for the job. Waller finished
second to Wiley in the SGA presidential
race earlier this quarter.
"I was surprised to see that Waller
wasn't appointed," said Dave Dyson,
senator from the School of Arts and
Sciences. "The opposition obviously
involved the time factor. "I know that
this time a lot of appointments were
made late and on the basis of
enthusiasm. This is great," continued
Dyson, "but these people will need a lot of
directions from someone who knows
what he's doing."
Wiley said Waller did apply for the job
but for "various reasons" Wiley said he
thought Devore was the man for the job.
"The president and the administrative
vice president should work very closely,
almost as one," he said. He said he
thought he could work best with Devore.
i nc PLAINSMAN V
Volume 80 Auburn University Auburn, AL 36830 Thurs., May 30, 1974 Number 27
AWS rules changes
24 Pages
approved by Philpott
—Dave Brown
Homeward bound
Many an Auburn male will be able to sy mputhize with
John Walker, 4INM, as he tries to cram a year's collec­tion
of clothes and Auburn momentos into a car that's
already bursting at the seams. Betty Ann..Porter,
1EED, stands by helpless, hoping to make up for all the
trouble with a winning smile.
By Christy Hudgins
Assistant Features Editor
Self-regulated hours and voluntary
sign out for sophomore through senior
women have been approved by Pres.
Harry M. Philpott. Male visitation on a
trial basis for summer quarter will be
considered by the Board of Trustees June
3.
Other changes in women's rules in­clude
a revised form for overnight per­missions
and a midnight dorm closing
time on Sunday through Thursday for all
women students. The 2 a.m. closing time
of Friday and Saturday will remain the
same.
The new closing time will eliminate the
11 p.m. curfew previously applied to first
quarter freshmen and freshmen not
maintaining a 1.0 average. Under the
new ruling, second and third quarter
freshmen also may have self-regulating
hours with parental permission.
In working to change women's rules,
Associated Women Students officers
based their proposals on the results of a
survey of Auburn women made early this
quarter. AWS Pres. Glenda Earwood
said this survey was broken down into a
student's class and location of her living
•quarters in order to more adequately
represent the varied opinions of stu­dents.
"The survey," Earwood said, "indi­cated
a clear dividing line between
sophomores and freshmen" on the issue
of self-regulated hours. A total of 79 per
cent of women answering the survey
were in favor of self-regulated hours
without parental permission for sopho­more
women.
Fo rty-two per cent favored this per­mission
for third quarter freshmen, also.
The resulting decision, based on the sur­vey,
placed the stipulation of parental
consent of self-regulated hours for se­cond
and third quarter freshmen.
The reason, according to the executive
Solicitation denied
board of AWS, that first quarter fresh­men
will be denied self-regulated hours
or voluntary sign-out is that such per­missions
were opposed by the majority of
women students. Earwood cited cur­rent
freshmen opinion as one of the
major forces opposing a more liberal po­licy
for incoming freshmen.
See RULES, page 3
Extension employes
"hard-working'-Jones
Lack of funds blamed for library's low rating
By Steele Holman
Plainsman Staff Writer
Faculty disinterest in the Draughon Library is the
main cause of its low standing among libraries in
Southeastern schools, according to Allen W. Jones,
chairman of the University Senate's library
committee.
The library's low standing is a result of the adminis­tration
allocating such a small percentage of the
total budget and this is because the faculty is not
concerned with the condition of the library, Jones
said.
"It is recommended that a college spend at least five
or six per cent of its total budget on its library. Auburn
puts about 3.6 per cent of its budget into the library,"
Jones said.
A study of libraries of 24 Southeastern institutions
for the 1972-73 year by the Association of Southeast­ern
Research Libraries in January, 1974 revealed that
Auburn is 18th in the number of volumes held, with
616,611, excluding microfilms and 22nd in volumes per
student at 46.
Auburn is 14th for the number of periodical titles,
with 6,253. For the amount per student spent on books
and periodicals, Auburn is ranked 22nd, with $30.36
and in total library expenditures Auburn is 23rd with
$1,077,053. This is $79.49 per student, putting Auburn.
23rd among the 24 schools.
"The programs that cry loudest are the ones that get
the money," Jones said. "If nobody on the faculty is
complaining about the library, the administration
isn't going to put more money into it.
"It's the things that attract publicity for Auburn
that get money. If they can show a need for a wind
tunnel or an air-conditioned chicken house, they get
it. It's hard to convince them to buy dusty old books,
especially when they just sit over there.
According to the figures Jones presented to a Uni­versity
Senate meeting, the library budget for books
and periodicals was nearly static from 1968 to 1972.
The budgets were $413,933 in 1968-69, $393,495 in 1969-
70, $429,336 in 1970-71, and $394,860 in 1971-72. The
1972-73 budget was increased to $449,681, a seven per
cent increase over the 1968-72 average.
See LIBRARY, page 3
By Frank Whatley
Assistant News Editor
Charges of pressure put on extension
employes to contribute to the reelection
campaign of Lt. Gov. Jere Beasley were
denied Tuesday by Ralph R. Jones, direc-
.tor of the Auburn cooperative extension
service.
The Monday edition of the Birming­ham
Post-Herald stated that Beasley re­ceived
$3,200 in contributions from ex­tension
employes in the Democratic pri­mary
race, but did not say whether the
contributions were solicited or not.
"We've been most patient with the
loose charges the politicians have made
in! the campaign," Jones said. He
characterized his employes as "hard­working
andconscientious"and said that
the extension service "is not in politics."
Jones said the extension service was
cooperating with an investigation into
alleged solicitation of political contribu­tions.
He said he was unaware of any re­sults
of the investigation carried out by
the office of the vice president for exten­sion.
Vice President for Extension Fred R.
Robertson and University Pres. Harry
M. Philpott were unavailable for com­ment
at press time on the progress of the
investigation.
The solicitation charge is also under
investigation by United States attor­neys
for possible violation of the Hatch
Act, which forbids political solicitation
of employes in federally funded pro--
grams.
Beasley has denied that pressure was
exerted on county extension employes to
contribute to his campaign. A check of
names on Beasley's financial statement
submitted last week with Secretary of
State-Mabel Amos revealed the names of
55 extension employes "some of them
thinly disguised," according to the Post-
Herald.
"Because the names on the disclosure
form were not exactly the same as those
listed by Auburn University, such as the
use of initials instead of first names, and
because some donations may have been
made in other names, the number of
extension service employes on the form
may be larger than the 55 identified," the
Post-Herald reported.
Robertson was said to have contri­buted
$100 to the Beasley campaign,
according to the Post-Herald. Beasley's
financial report lists a $100 contribution
by a F. R. Robertson.
No other names were mentioned in the
Post-Herald story but all other contribu­tions
were of less then $100, except one.
That contribution was for $500 made by
an extension worker described by Beas­ley
only as being from Beasley's home
twon of Clayton, AL.
The Post-Herald reported that the
employes had been asked to contribute so
as to gain the lieutenant governor's fu­ture
support for pay raises and increases
in retirement benefits for extension
workers.
As lieutenant governor, Beasley headed
a special budget committee for higher
education in the state. But "the
lieutenant governor doesn't have the
power to do the things they say I
promised," Beasley said.
Graduation in absentia
Some seniors don't stay around for final 'moment of glory'
By Kathy Suhorsky
Associate Editor
Some 1,350 Auburn students are scheduled to be
graduated in the Coliseum June 6 but many of
them will not be there to pick up their diplomas.
Although their names will appear on the printed
program which is the University's official record
of commencement, they will not be called out as
part of the ceremony.
According to Registrar Thomas A. Stallworth,
about 30 per cent of the undergraduate and 50 per
cent of the master's degree candidates will go
another route—they will be graduated in absen­tia.
Stallworth said the number of in absentia grad­uates
has stabilized in the last couple of years. "It
runs about 25-30 per cent since graduation exer­cises
were made voluntary in 1971," he said.
All a student has to do in order to skip the
graduation ceremony is fill out a .card at the
Registrar's Office to let the University know he
will not attend. "It's strictly at the student's dis­cretion,"
Stallworth said.
He said students choose not to attend gradua­tion
for a variety of personal reasons. "Some have
employment and want to get away as quickly as
possible," he said.
A few students each graduation are attending •
another school not in the area in order to complete
their degree requirements, he explained. There are
about three to 12 students each quarter in this
situation, he said.
Stallworth said some students are not gradua­ted
with their class because they owe a debt to the
University. If the debt is not paid by graduation
day the University puts a hold on the student's
diplomas and transcript.
"But the majority of in absentia graduates don't
come because they simply don't want to," Stall-worth
said.
In absentia graduates seem to agree with Stall-worth's
evaluation of the situation. "My parents
couldn't come so I sure didn't want to sit through
that by myself, besides I had to work that day,"
said one March graduate. "I picked up my diploma
from some secretary in the Registrar's Office."
"You're not graduating with your class," said
another in absentia graduate. "Graduation is for
high school."
Even some of the students who receive their
diplomas in the traditional style would rather
have taken the in absentia route. "The only rea­son
I went was because my parents made me go,"
said one March graduate. 'Another . student,
who will face the Coliseum in cap and gown June
6, said, "I'm doing it solely for my parents. I was
planning to hit the beaches a week early."
But not all degree candidates share the feelings
of the in absentia crowd. "I wouldn't have missed
it for the world," said one recent graduate. "It's an
honor to go through the ceremony and get recogni­tion
in front of the whole school."
"I went to school for fouryears and if I can stand
it that long I can certainly go through the cere­mony
for a couple of hours," said another degree
recipient.
Stallworth said if a student fills out the neces­sary
form his diploma will be mailed to him or he
can pick it up in the Registrar's Office. He explain­ed
that the forms are necessary so seating can be
arranged at the Coliseum and mailing slips can be
prepared.
Stallworth said 230 students or 35 per cent of the
648 winter degree candidates were graduated in
absentia.
The percentage of in absentia graduates runs
differently in different schools, he explained. In
March the school with the highest percentage of
in absentia graduates was the Graduate School
with 52 per cent.
The School of Education ranked second with 40
per cent of its March degree candidates choosing
not to attend the ceremony. The School of Phar­macy
had the best attendance record; only 17 per
cent of the school's degree candidates were gradua­ted
in absentia in March.
Stallworth said the percentage of in absentia
graduates probably will be lower this quarter than
it was in March. So far, he said, only 270 or 20 per
cent of the June 6 graduates have applied to be
graduated in absentia. This number probably will
increase some he said, as graduation day
approaches.
"More people show up in the spring," he said.
"It's the traditional time to graduate. The class is
larger, probably because more' people move
through coM0r*t the normal pattern."
Although undergraduate and master's degree
candidates can avoid the commencement exer­cises
by filling out a simple form, doctoral candi­dates
must write to the Dean of the Graduate
School, Paul F. Parks, if they wish to skip the cere­mony.
"We encourage all our doctoral candidates to
come to graduate," Parks said. "We do not de­mand
they come; we will accept any reasonable ex­cuse."
When asked why he felt students did not go to
commencement exercises, Parks said, "It's mainly
because so many of them have pressing demands
on their time."
Parks said he felt if a student were the first in his
family to receive a degree, then commencement
exercises are very important to the student and to
the family. "It has a lot to do with the education or
the family itself," he said. "After so many genera­tions
of college graduates, it doesn't mean as
much."
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THE AUBURN PUINSMMI Thurs., May 30, 1974 page 2
27 SGA presidential appointees named, approved
By Kheta Grimsley
Features Editor
The 27 remaining Student Government
Association cabinet appointments wen
approved without discussion Monday night
by the Student Senate. After voting against
SGA Pres. John Wiley's choice for adminis­trative
vice president , the Senate
unanimously approved the rest of the cabinet
positions.
The following appointments were
approved:
Executive Assistants—Terry Worth, Bill
Black, Kevin N. Carroll;
Press Secretary—Jim Carson;
Teacher Course Evaluation—Monty
Collins;
Free University—Kary Thornbury;
Model United Nations—Nanci McCray;
Intra-School Coordinator—Tammie
Devore;
Director of Ombudsman—Rex Yancy;
Director of Minor Entertainment—Greg
Dawdy;
Director of Summer Jobs—Dave Watkins;
Coordinator of Auburn Union—Eddie
Holland;
Director of Campus Drives—Jeff Bunn;
Directors of Spirit—Greg Waters, Brenda
Schambach;
Director of Minority Relations—George
Smith;
Director of International Relations—Jas-want
S. Bajwa;
Legal Aid—Wayne Hollar;
Directors of Student Opinion
Surveys—Mike Hembree, Ken Scheiner;
Director of Student Lobby—Bill Price;
Directors of Elections—Pat Battles, Ken
Henderson;
Directors of High School and Junior
College Relations—Clark Hungerford,
Marcia Sneed;
Director of Community Relations—Tom
Fincher;
Director of Interschool Media—David
Page;
Director of Publicity—David Stegall;
Assistant Director of Horizons—Betty
Propst;
Appointments for SGA and University
committees also were considered by the Sen­ate.
The following appointments were
approved:
Academic Honesty—Virginia Martin,
Hugh Henderson, Bruce Donnellan;
Athletic Committee—Mike Trapani;
Concessions Board—George Pierce,
Spades choose 10 students
for top AU men's honorary
Lipscomb Hornsby Dyson Decker Abernathy
Ray
Trapani
Waller
Webb
Wood
Ten men were tapped at a
breakfast this morning for
Spades, "Auburn's most se­lect
men's honorary."
Honored for "their contri­butions
toward the better­ment
of Auburn" were: Bill
Abernathy, John Decker,
Dave Dyson, John Hornsby,
Denson Lipscomb, Ricky
Ray, MikeTrapani, Mike Wal­ler,
Lee Webb and Danny
Wood.
The new initiates were
chosen by outgoing Spades
Bill Alvis, Bill Barron, Dave
Gamble, Ed Milton, Bill
Stone, Bill Thrasher, Mike
Vann, Bill Wood and Mike
Wright. The tenth 1973-74
Spade was Danny Lowrey,
who died in s scuba-diving
accident last July near Live
Oak, FL.
'.,;. .The,, names of the ,new
Spades have been posted on a
large'''*• &gh on' the Union
Building lawn bearing the
Spades insignia.
The purpose of Spades, set
forth in the constitution filed
in the Student Affairs Office,
is "to gather the most prom­inent
and influential men of
the class and of the institu­tion,"
independent of social
and other relations.
The new Spades, represent­ing
Auburn's 10 most out­standing
men, are, with their
qualifications:
Bill Abernathy, 4ME, Omi-cron
Delta Kappa leadership
honorary, president of Kappa
Alpha Order, 1974-75 Student
Government Association
treasurer.
John Decker, 3LEH, ODK,
1973-74 student senator, 1975-
75 SGA vice president.
Dave Dyson, 3FI, ODK,
Squires sophomore honor­ary,
1973-74 and 1974-75 stu­dent
senator.
John Hornsby, 3CE, Cam­pus
Crusade for Christ,
administrative vice presi­dent
of Interfraternity Coun­cil,
IFC president during Low-rey's
unexpired 1973-74 term
and for 1974-75.
Denson Lipscomb, 3GPO,
ODK, rush chairman and re­cording
secretary of Phi
Gamma Delta fraternity,
1973-74 and 1974-75 student
senator, and 1974-75 Student
Senate president pro tern.
Ricky Ray, 3ACF, ODK,
1974-75 IFC secretary-treasur­er,
1974-75 student senator. ;
Mike Trapani, 4SED, ODK,
president of Delta Chi frater­nity,
1973-74 and 1974-75 stu­dent
senator.
Mike Waller, 3GPG, 1973-74
administrative vice presi­dent
of SGA, 1972-73 director*
of All-Campus Fund Drive,'
1974-75 president of ODK.
Lee Webb, 4GSC, student
senator at Florida Southern
College, WEGL power in­crease
study, 1973-74 WEGL
station manager.
Danny Wood, 4MK, ODK,
1973-74 president of the
School of Business, 1974-75
student senator.
William G. Vincent, Kathy Graves, Noel
Brown, Dave Dyson;
Foreign Students— Rafael Alfonso,
Orlando Moron;
Lectures Committee—Bert Young, Mike
Schlitt, Leigh Ann Stegall;
Library Committee—Guss Lott, Jan Cox;
Orientation Committee—David Stegall,
Clark Hungerford;
Performing Arts Committee—Robin
Roberts, Max Harbuck, Rheta Grimsley, Don
Chambers, Valerie McDonald;
Recreational Services—Mike Trapani,
Dave Dresher, Luanne Nix;
Student Financial Aid—Robert Reynolds,
Shad Williams;
Religious Affairs Committee—Allen B.
Patterson, Randy Pittman, Linda Vanstrum,
Mary E. Medders;
Traffic and Parking Committee—Jan E.
Bellow, J an Cox, Tommy Eden, Mike Wright;
Jurisprudence Committee—Mike Waller,
Ruth Russell, John Thrower, John Mcintosh,
Katherine Latvala.
Health Committee members were not
approved. Mike Trapani, senator from the
Graduate School suggested that "a woman
should be on the committee to represent the fe­male
needs." The suggested members were
Mike Wright and John Mcintosh.
Student members of the University
Discipline Committee also were approved.
John Thrower, Chuck Tatum and Debbie
Meadows were chosen from the eight names
submitted by Pres. Harry M. Philpott and
Wiley. Mark Hart and Luanne Nix were
chosen as alternates.
Members of the Board of Student Communi­cations
were approved after much discus­sion.
Bill Abernathy and Charley King or
their representatives will represent the stu­dents
on the Communications Board along
with Wiley this summer. Three remaining stu­dent
members will be chosen fall quarter un­less
a special session of the Senate is called.
Senators could not vote on nominees that
had not been interviewed according to Deck­er
and only three of the eight were present.
Gary Cowen, 3PM, was not approved by the
Senate. The nominees present said they had
not received notice to appear before the Sen­ate.
Gus Lott, senator from the School of
Engineering, said, "There had to be some
responsibility somewhere that the people be
notified." Decker said later that "It's the
Senate's responsibility to interview and
approve the appointees, not notify them that
they're being considered."
A resolution submitted by Off-Campus
Senator Tommy Eden stating that the Sum-flier
Senate Traffic and Parking Committee
"takes on as their first duty analysis of the
traffic and parking problems" was passed by
the Senate.
Luke Flatt, off-campus senator, proposed
another resolution that would establish a sep­arate
account for the funds of War Eagle Girls
and Plainsnfth. "Budget and finance had a
lot of trouble determining if the request is in
order," Flatt said. The Senate passed the
resolution.
A resolution requesting "that the monthly
financial records of the Auburn University
Auxiliary Enterprises be made available to
the Senate Committee an Auxiliary Enter­prises"
also was passed by the Senate.
A majority vote of the Senate also approved
a change in the Code of Laws that was pro­posed
by Robin Roberts, senator from the
School of Architecture. Chapter 402, section 3
in the code specifies that each school council
be "composed of a representati ve(s) from each
club, honorary, and organization . . . and
other representatives as provided for by the
constitution of eachcouncil."
The Senate also approved two special allo­cations
at the recommendation of Budget and
Finance Committee Chairman Dave Dyson.
The Senate approved $1,750 for the Tiger
Sharks sports club.
A $1,025 allocation for the Auburn Singers
also was approved. Dyson said, "There are 41
members and that means we're allocating
about $25 each. We're setting no precedent at
all by this allocation, but it is great public
relations for the Senate." Dyson said latei
that the "allocation muy not be approved by
Pres. Philpott becuuse of an earlier agree­ment
he had made with the University
Singers about financing the group. He might
feel that it's too strong a precedent."
—Brent Anderson
Penny pinching
Debbie Andreas, University Bookstore employe, not
only tells the customer how much money to give her,
but suggests the kind of money she'd prefer. A sharp
rise in the price of copper on the world metal ex­changes
and the hoarding of up to 30 billion coins as
"piggy bank" fillers make pennies precious items.
Football player, student
arrested on drug charge
Auburn football player
Sullivan Walker, 1HPR, and
Steve Shoaf, 1PN, were
arrested Tuesday and
charged with possession of
hallucenogenic mushrooms.
The two were found with
the mushrooms in their
possession when they were
arrested May 16 for tres­passing
on a farm on Shell-
Toomer Parkway, according
Police Vice and Narcotics
Division.
The mushrooms were sent
to the State Toxicologist's
Office in Montgomery. The
report received Tuesday said
the mushrooms were deter­mined
to be psilocyhin.
Possession of psilocyhin
mushrooms is a felony under
schedule one of the Uniform
Controlled Substance Act,
Continuing Education offers
everything from art to golf
to a member of the Auburn according to police.
The summer quarter Con­tinuing
Education program
will offer a wide variety of
new courses. "We are pleased
to be able to repeat some very
popular courses as well as to
offer a number of new
courses," said Dr. Jeanne E.
Werner, program coordinator
Among the new courses are:
Junior Life Saving; Alter­ations;
Canning, Freezing,
Pickling" 'and'.'.Preserving
Foods; Summer Wild Flower
Identification; Basic Picture
Framing; Severe Weather
Preparedness; Parent Effec­tiveness
Training; and Golf—
The Short Game.
Courses which are being
repeated include: Art for Chil­dren,
Beginning Swimming,
Tennis for Beginners,
Gymnastics, Beginning
Typewriting, Intermediate
Tennis, Beginning Ceramics,
Program Planning for Day
Care Centers, Nursery
Schools and Kindergartens
II, Women's Self Improve
ment, The Best Possible
"You," Rapid Reading,
Mathematics Refresher,
Beginning Swimming, Home
Flower Arranging, Begin­ning
Oil/Acrylics, Guiding
tKe Young Child, Folk Guitar
I,' Composition' in Painting
and Drawing, Sewing I,
Beginning Shorthand, Ten­nis
for Beginners & Inter­mediates,
Outdoor
Golf—Beginning, Shorthand
II and Intermediate Type­writing.
Registration for the courses
will continue through June 21
either by mail or in person at
208 Samford Hall.
Werner said the course
offerings have been expanded
to provide opportunities for
all age groups.
Inquiries should be directed
to the conference office,826-
5101.
One and two bedroom, furnished apartments, air-con­ditioned
and non-air conditioned, available to rent sum­mer
quarter 1974.
The husband and wife may be the full-time student to be
eligible to live in Caroline Draughon Village. Also, pre­viously
married students with one child living with the
parent are eligible.
Caroline Draughon Village
Call Caroline Draughon Village Office 826-4477 for
further information.
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page 3 Thurs., May 30, 1974 THE AUBURN PUINCMAN
radleys Olympic team sports-'mock combat'
By Steele Holman
•Plainsman Staff Writer
I The United States should
Dt participate in the Olym-lc
Games until some changes
re made in the games them-
Jelves and in the United
nates' Olympic rules, accord-jig
to Bill Bradley, basket-
Ian player for the New York
Knickerbockers and a parti-jipant
in the 1964 Olympics.
Bradley also spoke about
Irofessional sports in his
Lddress to approximately 400
persons at the Student Acti-ities
Building last Thurs­day.
He was the last Hori-
|ons IV speaker for the year.
"The purpose of the Olym-lic
Games is to promote peace
and understanding among
nations. I believe the Olym­pics
have gone in an opposite
direction and that the United
States shouldn't participate
in them until there are some
modifications made," Brad­ley
said.
Team sports should be eli­minated
from the Olympic
games, he said. Team sports
pitting one country against
another look too much like
mock combat, Bradley said.
"There is too much glorifica­tion
of the country. What is at
stake in team sports is a na­tion's
prestige, and, there­fore,
antagonisms are heigh­tened."
All medals for winning
events should be eliminated,
Bradley said. The only medal
Library From page 1
The 1973-74 expenditures
rill be more than $450,000,
Jones estimated. The 1974-75
guest is for $567,710, a 26 per
tent increase over the 1973-74
budget.
While the budget allow­ance
for books and period­icals
has risen about 10 per
pent over the last six years,
the average price per volume
for books has risen from $7.60
\n 1967 to $12.32 in 1972, a 62
per cent increase. More re-bent
figures are unavailable,
Jones said.
The average subscription
»st8 for periodicals rose from
W3.23 in 1972 to $16.20 in 1973,
122 percent increase, accord­ing
to Library Journal. Cer-ain
scientific journals have
lad much greater increases in
subscription costs. Physics
tters has increased from
4.00 in 1970 to $576.00 in
^974, a 586 per cent increase.
"The majority of this Uni­versity's
faculty is not inter­ested
in this library," Jones
said. "The library is the
[laboratory for many of the de­partments!
on this campus
and it is essential that stu­dents
in these disciplines use
|the library.
"A professor is not doing a
student a favor if he doesn't
send him to the library. An
(instructor who simply has his
students read their texts and
ives the same lectures quar-er
after quarter without
change is not doing a very
|good job."
Jones also said that faculty
members are not taking ad­vantage
of their depart­ment's
book chairman to or­der
books for their fields.
Each department gets an
allocation of money to pur­chase
books in its field for
library use. "Very few faculty
members regularly place
orders; some do occasionally
and some hardly ever order
books.
"It has to be a professor's
devotion to his field that
makes him order books," he
said. You just find a few in
each department so devoted.
There are many good teach­ers,
but they don't help build
their field's collection' of
books. It is essential to a grad­uate
program to have the
material to work with.
The library has not kept
pace with the needs that new
growth has placed upon it,
Jones said. The enrollment
has grown, bringing the need
for more efficient services.
New departments which re­quire
many volumes to sup­port
them have been
established, he said.
Also, new graduate pro­grams
are being started,
which require books in their
fields for thesis research.
These needs have served to
dilute a budget already strain­ed
by the rising cost of publi­cations,
Jones said.
Jones and Draughon
Library Director William C.
Highfill said they are opti­mistic
that the library will im­prove.
"The administration
has promised to provide more
money,".Jones said. ...
\ ^ e q i b r a r y staff has be­come
more service oriented,"
Highfill said. "Their current
attitude is that it's over here
for the students to use and we
want to do everything we can
(•o help them use it."
that should be given is for
someone who breaks an
Olympic record, he con­tinued.
In this way, players
will not be competing against
each other but against a
record, Bradley said.
"I didn't get much of a feel­ing
from that gold medal. The
good part is meeting the other
athlalw in the Olympic Vil­lage.
That is what should be
emphasized, the friendships,
not the competition.
Bradley said the sole cri­terion
for choosing U. S. ath­letes
for the Olympics should'
be open competition among
anyone interested in trying.
He said the standards for
amateurism are different in
individual countries. "I say
let's abolish the amateur rule
for U. S. Olympic partici­pants.
Let the fastest man in'
the United States run the 100-
yard dash."
The U. S. Olympic
Committee should put its own
house in order, Bardley said.
The coaches should be chosen
for skill and not for their
seniority, he maintained. The
committee, which is sup
ported by private donations,
should open its books to pub­lic
scrutiny, he said.
To cut Olympic costs, Brad­ley
said the Olympic Games
should have a permanent
home in Greece and they
should be two months long
instead of three weeks.
"Why not make the Olym­pics
a world youth festival,
with not just sports, but art
events, concerts and the like
so that young people from all,
over the world could come to
be together."
Recruiting young athletes
for college scholarships is a
sad aspect of sports, Bradley
said. "It's an adult especially
trained to manipulate a boy
during late adolescence when
he's very impressionable. It's
not a good thing, but it
happens.
"I believe that in big-time
collegiate sports, we should
recognize that he's a profes­sional.
He should have the op­tion
to get a degree or to have
a pleasant four years of life,
helping the school get reve­nue
through its athletic pro­gram.
"Women have as much of a
place in sports as men do. It's
absurd that they had . to go to
court to let a little girl play
Little League. Sports is for
health and I certainly want
healthy women. What might
be avoided are the mistakes
and excesses of men's ath­letics
such as the high-pres­surized
competition and the
"win at any cost'attitude," he
said. -
Bradley said winning a
championship is a feeling
that only lasts about six
hours, or overnight, but it's
worth it. "The next day, meat
prices keep going up, the
waiter spills coffee on me and
life goes on. It's not neces­sarily
better or higher than
playing in a rock band or get­ting
an 'A' in physics. It's just
a different feeling that makes
life pleasant, another human
experience.
"What am I going to do
after I get out of basketball? I
don't know," Bradley said.
"I'll probably go into politics
if the wind blows right. If it
doesn't blow right, I'll just
drift out to sea and fish." i
KNICKERBOCKER'S BILL BRADLEY
. . . Wraps up Horizons series
—Robin Paris
Rules From page 1
H. F. Vallery, assistant to
the president, said he expects
changes to continue. "We
can't," he said, "do the same
thing every day." Melanie
Whatley, Quad senator said
students are upset at the pros­pect
of paying $5 for I. D.
validation but a fee, has not
yet been determined.
Chief Millard Dawson,
head of campus security, said
that the current night watch­man
service must he entirely
self-supporting in the future.
Presently validation fees pay
for only one-half of the cost of
maintaining night watch­men.
Caroline Fiest, secretary of
AWS, said that wage in­creases
will incur an addi­tional
financial burden. A
third source of added finance,
according to Earwood, will be
the necessity of hiring addi­tional
night watchmen to
handle the increased number
of latecomers and provide ser­vices
to freshmen dorms.
Earwood said that the
money for the night w^itch-
^ n v & a l ^ b ^ ^ v t o ^ j y j
room rent. She sail, hotofiferj
that this "would be unfair
since everyone would have to
pay." Adding the expendi­tures
"to tuition would also be
unfair," she said.
Becau8e_66:38 per cent of
the women students preferred
a night watchman to a key
system, Earwood said the
University should continue
this policy. Whatley said she
disagreed with the watch­man
system, but was uncer­tain
about an alternate plan.
Calhoun said that the "key
system was not satisfactory
to women students because it
was unwieldy." Under the key
system, the loss of a key re­sulted
in the replacement of
all the locks and keys in a
dorm.
Calhoun commented that
"a night watchman system is
necessary to keep security
uppermost in the mind of
everyone."
When questioned whether
the new rules would make
dorms more competitive with
off-campus housing, Vallery
said that the attractiveness of
a dorm was based on a total
program. He said that per­missions
comprised only a
small portion of this pro­gram.
Hes Calhoun said that
she had never considered
dorm-apartment, .competition,
as a treason: for changes in
womens' rules.
Katherine Latvala, former
AWS secretary-treasurer,
said that some people will
comment that "things are far
from being liberal." "The pur­pose,"
she said, "was to find
out what women wanted."
Calhoun said she was con­cerned
about women wishing
"to throw out all the rules.'.'
She said that she "would
hate to be in a system where
there was no sense of govern­ment."
Whatley said she was dis­appointed
that the new rules
were not more liberal. She
credited the AWS, however,
with "some maturity in not
asking for the moon." "Per­haps,"
she said, "these are the
first steps that should be
taken."
On male visitation, 83.69
per cent of thewomenanswer-ing
the AWS survey were in
favor of a dorm vote to deter­mine
visitation policy. The
total amount of women favor­ing
male visitation was 67.86
per cent. The plan proposed
by AWS would require a
majority vote to allow male
visitation.
Each hall would vote on the
issue, so the possibility would
be open that a person wish­ing
to remain in a dorm allow-..
ing male visitation could sim­ply
move to another floor
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which prohibited visitation. date.
Specified hours for male
visitation would be from 5
p.m. to midnight on Friday,
Saturday and Sunday. Male
visitors would be required to
sign in and out at the desk. A
male would not be permitted
to go to his date's room with­out
being accompanied. A
roommate would also reserve
the right to request a guest
leave the room. Men would
not be allowed to visit in any
other room beside that of their
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According to Earwood,
Dean of Women Katherine C.
Cater supports the male
visitation plan on a summer
trial basis. The plan will go
before- the Board of Trustees
on June 3. Pat Heath of SGA-AWS
Relations said she was
"pleased with the plan."
Another change imple­mented
is a revision of the
blanket permission form
regulating over-night per­missions.
The form will no
longer be applicable to those
students who are classified as
sophomore and above. All in­coming
freshmen that are liv­ing
in University housing
must, however, file a form
with their head resident.
The form has been reduced
from nine items to four. These
include permission to spend
the night out of a University
dormitory at a place other
. than home during the week,
permission to spend the night
out of a University dormitory
at a place other than home
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Parking mania
Playing the parking game requires nerve, imagination--and money
Plainsman Entertainment Editor David
Nordness is just one of hundreds of Auburn
students who plays the parking game on
campus. Below, Nordness recounts his
experiences with the Campus Police and'
their dreaded white tickets.
—Editor's note
I played the game and I lost. I admit it. The Cam­pus
Security Police are too much for me. I will park
my car in the legal space no matter how far I have
to walk.
Mine is not a story of an occasional ticket but a
long, desperate and very expensive battle with the
uniformed symbols of authority on this campus.
This conflict does not come from any criminal
tendencies or any real leftist leanings, for in all
other areas I am a law-abiding, dues-paying,
responsible and extremely school-spirited stu­dent,
none
It is a singular weakness. I just hate to park in "D
zone" parking spaces. Anything else will do: "A
zone," "B zone," loading zones, "R-l zone," nond
zones and even an occasional "C zone."
There is really no difference between any of
these forbidden spaces since, in typical authori­tarian
style, everything is either black or white.
Parking in the most distant "C zone" carries the
same penalty as double parking in Harry Phil-pott's
personal space.
This is part of the irrestible challenge of illegal
parking, it encourages you to think big. In my vast
experience I have found the most successful, most
undetected spots are right under the noses of the
campus police.
The Health Center parking lot right down the
street from the Security Office or the spaces on the
inside of the L-Building right across the street are
examples of this theory. Parking is safe there and I
have never been ticketed there though I never
leave my car in one of these spots for more than a
couple of hours.
There are also places that should be avoided.
Lots behind Haley Center are very well patroled
more than every hour. The lot in back of Tichenor
is a bad risk too, since teachers have been known to
call the police and report your under-registered
vehicle.
One of the first lessons to be learned in parking
your car illegally is try to keep it inconspicuous.
Don't park badly or next to a yellow curb—it is the
first thing they notice.
Another trick that never works with these clever
protectors of proper parking is leaving a ticket on
your car. I have used this little trick four times in
the last couple of years, sure that it would work
every time. Yet every time I returned to my car, my
wiper blade held down not one but two little white
parking tickets.
Some of my favorite illicit stopping places have
been in front of the Union Building, in the "A
zone" between Biggin and Wilmore and in back of
Broun Hall.
It is important to remember to get to class a little
early because choice lots fill up fast. In fact, after
oversleeping a little one morning, I hopped in my
car and raced toward campus and found that every
illegal space I have been using already was occu­pied.
I finally gave up and parked in a city space and
didn't put a dime in the meter. That was illegal,
too, but it just wasn't the same.
It is not because I am really that lazy or afraid of
doing a little hiking on my way to class. During my
freshman year I was without the luxury of an auto
and was quite happy. Walking was not even ques­tioned,
though I seldom did turn down a ride.
Even when I first got my wheels I did not think
twice about walking from the Coliseum to Haley
Center and beyond. But as time went on, I found
little tricks, little spots where I could park if I were
late to class. It was habit forming and I could no
longer settle for needless exercise at eight in the
morning, the rain or the heat of an afternoon class.
But the blame was not all mine. I fell into the
wrong crowd. Without knowing any better I
started hanging out with guys who had no sense of
right and wrong zone. They laughed at tickets.
Two of the most flagrant of this group were a
pair named Steve and Ted. They referred to the
dreaded white University parking tickets as cou­pons,
laughing and saying they would save them
up until they had enough to trade them in on an "A
zone" sticker.
Ted had what seemed like the foolproof plan. He
simply did not register his car, since it had out-of-state
tags and could not be easily traced. Then
when he had enough little white cards he sent
them home for his parents to write on the back that
they had gotten the tickets and they came back
with a far away postmark.
Sensing that something was less than legiti­mate,
Campus Security made Ted the object of a
massive search. He made the mistake of becoming
a creature of habit and parking in the same place
all the time.
The police tried waiting by his car but he was
always too smart for them and would walk by
unconcerned if he saw a uniform leaning on his
illegally parked Mustang.
Then it happened. Ted thought he was save one
day, got into his car and tried to leave. A white
unmarked car driven by what looked like an inno­cent
coed blocked his path and within seconds two
Campus patrol cars, with flashing blue lights,
flanked Auburn's most daring illegal parker.
H e was taken to the Security Office and his mas­sive
file was pulled out. The car was slapped with a
blue "D zone" sticker and Ted was slapped with e
record fine. Only Chief Dawson's sympathy kep
the bill less than $100.
Steve was not quite as inventive in his methods
and after collecting two tickets a day going to hie
morning and afternoon classes he resorted to &
desperate action. He held a boycott of class for at
much as a week at a time. It was not very success­ful.
Unfortunately I did not learn from my friends'
episodes. I just kept getting worse and worse. I got
at least ond every couple weeks, once raking in
three in three hours.
You can follow two courses of action when the
minions of proper parking leave reprimands on
your car. Either you store them in a small con­tainer
such as a glove box and hope they forget
about it or face the charges within the first 72
hours and try the lower rate. They never forget
I think I have tried about every angle on plead­ing
a ticket. You can: pitifully beg on hands and
knees, plead complete ignorance of the entire mat­ter,
become totally and irratioanlly enraged and
threaten never to pay, try to become their friend
and and smile your way out, or say someone stole
your car and illegally parked it to get back at you.
All these methods will be equally successful; you
will pay the man and leave with a deeper under­stand
of the words "hatred" and "frustration."
Of course the Campus Police don't get you every
time, in fact they ha ve not even gotten me a third of
the time. But somehow it seems a hollow victory
when they can just keep zapping you with $3 or $6
every time they get lucky.
But what really drained the gambling spirit
from my soul was the ground-breaking on the new
Campus Security Complex on campus. What can a
simple college student do to compete with the ever-vigilant
parking patrol? Especially when they
flaunt their success before you by building a brand
new command post with your fines over the last
three years.
Since I have been at Auburn I have had my car
seven quarters. In that time I have received as
many as 30 tickets. The first one every year cost $1
and the majority were about $12 if not paid
promptly.
That would buy a nice pair of hiking boots and
the exercise would do me good. So I am abandon­ing
my life of crime and parking in my proper
place. I hope all you teachers with "A zone''
stickers appreciate it.
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Mortar Board, Omicron Delta
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to Auburn.
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Bike lanes for Wire Road proposed
By Joyce Harrison
Plainsman Staff Writer
The Traffic and Parking
Committee has submitted a
memorandum to Pres. Har-y
M. Philpott suggesting "that
consideration be made for
the addition of bicycle paths
in the plans for converting
Wire Road into a four-lane
highway."
"The lanes would probably
go as far as the Vet School,"
said DennisWebster, head of
a subcommittee on bicycle
lanes.
"If the paths were instal­led,
it would cost the state
approximately $50,000 to
$70,000 more. Auburn hopes
that the state would consider
favorably the location of bike
paths," Webster said.
"Yet, because of excessive
cost estimations, the proba­bility
of bike lanes on Wire
Two students arrested
for drug possession
Kelly V. Strawn, 1GC, and
David S. Tysinger, 1FY, were
arrested Monday afternoon
and charged with possession
of marijuana and hallucino­genic
mushrooms.
Police said the pair was
stopped on Turk Road by cam­pus
police, who said they
found the psilocybin mush­rooms
and a small residue of
marijuana in the ashtray
while searching the car.
Possession of psilocybin
mushrooms is a felony under
schedule one of the Uniform
Controlled Substance Act,
police said.
Road is doubtful," he added.
: Webster said other pro­posals
conducive to a more
expedient localization of bike
traffic were rejected by the
Traffic and Parking
Committee.
A bike lane was proposed
starting on Duncan Drive
extending to the comer of
Thach and Haley Center
where a large number of bike
racks could be placed in the
wedge of the parking area be­hind
Haley Center. A major
east-west route from the east
side of College Street on
Thach Avenue continuing
past Haley Center also was
introduced.
"We were trying to provide
a safer traffic route for
cyclists from fraternity hous­ing
and married student hous­ing,"
Webster said.
"Our proposals were reject­ed
primarily because paint­ing
the bike lane would
minimize the volume of traf­fic
controlled on Thach and
would further i congest traf­fic,"
Webster said. , ,
Elimination of some A and
B zones influenced the rejec­tion,
he said. "We were going
to supplement the reduction
of those zone spaces by de­creasing
the number of zone
allocations," Webster said.
Bike lanes would have
eliminated the Philpott's
visitor parking which could
not have been replaced ex­cept
perhaps by establishing
parking spaces around Ross
Circle.
"Our job," Webster said,
"was to see about bike lane
location, not to allocate park­ing
spaces.""We're in prime
bike riding times and the
lanes are really not being
used. Perhaps it's because of
their location, yet we have a
considerably larger number
of vehicles than bikes (3,000
registered bikes). Less than
half of these are regularly rid­den
and less than that por­tion
use the bike lands," Web­ster
said.
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Prof claims children's books have'relevancy'
Children are reading more,
earlier and above their age
levels and they are learning,
according to Joan Nist, in­structor
of educational media.
There are more informa­tion
books on more subjects,
than ever before — many of
them with parent appeal be­cause
the subject matter
sometimes highly technical
at most "educational," is writ­ten
ineasy-to-understand lan­guage.
Nist. said.
And while fantasy is teas­ing
the taste of adults these
days, realism is invading chil­dren's
stories, including new
stories dealing with one-parent
homes, drugs and
homosexuality, she said.
The trend began about 10
years ago with the word
"relevancy," and the first eth­nic
books made their way into
the literature, Nix explained.
"These stories emphasized
children first and black se­cond,"
Nist said, "but along
the way, books such as
'Huckleberry Finn' and 'Bre'r
Rabbit' were discarded as
presenting stereotypes no
longer acceptable. Other
books, while not racially
AU employes
plant garden
near stadium
University Athletic De­partment
maintenance men
have cultivated a vegetable
garden within sight of Haley
Center between Petrie Hall
and the north end of Jordan-
Hare Stadium.
"It is my understanding
that the laborers do the work
on ' their own time, during
lunch breaks and after
hours," said Lee R. Hayley,
athletic director. The space
has not been used sinoe the
north endzone of the stadium
was enclosed. "As far as I
know, there has been no
abuse of any rules. It's com­pletely
dead space."
Hayley said that he was
unaware of the garden's exis­tence
before seeing a photo­graph
of it in the May 23 issue
of The Plainsman.
Milton Thurston Jr. mana­ger
of equipment and plants
for tRe*"Atfitetlc'Departmeht,
said that he has let mainten­ance
men plant little garden
plots in their spare time for
several years. "Nobody uses
it, it's just there all the time, so
they planted the garden
there," he said.
WILLIAM ALVERSON
. . . New assistant
Alverson gets
appointment
in Ag School
William J. Alverson Jr. of
Fort Payne has been
appointed as assistant to the
dean in the School of Agricul­ture,
according to Dr. R.
Dennis Rouse, dean and direc­tor
of the School of Agricul­ture.
Alverson has worked in
Auburn's Cooperative Exten­sion
Service since 1965, serv­ing
as Extension Farm Agent
in I>ee County from 1965 until
1971. He was named as an
Extension Farm Agent in
Dekalb County in 1971 and
will remain in this position
until his appointment
becomes effective May 15.
After transferring to
Auburn from Snead 'Junior
College in Boaz, Alverson
earned a B.S. degree in
agricultural science. He also
holds a masters degree in
adult education at Auburn.
As assistant to the dean,
Alverson will help students
select courses each quarter.
He will assist in evaluating
college transcripts of stu­dents
transferring to curri­cula
in the School of Agricul­ture
at Auburn and will visit
junior colleges in an effort to
acquaint students with the
agricultural programs and
policies regarding transfer
credit at Auburn.
'degrading' were simply ir­relevant.
"Unfortunately, a new de­fensive
type story is coming
out," Nist said, "where black
children live in Africa be­cause
it is not easy for them ir
the United States." Nist said
she does not espouse this phil­osophy.
Feminists also are hitting
the publishers, she said —
particularly in the textbook
market. She said she
anticipates that there will
soon be a number of new
books in the popular press
which create a new image for
the roles of both women and
men.
Other books used in
"bibliotherapy" teach a "les­son"
in a humorous way, such
as the hamburger tale of a lit­tle
fat boy whose appetite gets
him into trouble, she said.
But all is not lost for
parents and grandparents
whose reading diet was a des­sert
of fairy tales. "Old favor-,
ites, such as 'Peter Rabbit'
and 'Goldilocks,' are still
popular with pre-schoolers,"
Nist said. "Children still re­late
to animals and enjoy
'hearing' them talk."
For those who never really-enjoyed
the "classics," some
were never meant to be chil­dren's
books, Nist explained.
'"Alice in Wonderland' is an
adult book, and the third most
widely quoted after the Bible
and Shakespeare. Children
should be introduced to parts
of it," she said.
Shakespeare should be
introduced at the proper time,
Nist said, adding that there is
a movement to elevate the
Bard to college level. Bible
stories, when not "taught,"
seem not to be read — even as
literature, she added.
Some of the students in
Nist's classes are first ex­posed
to the Bible, mythology
and folklore through an
anthology text of children's
literature. Business students
looking for marketing trends
and football players who
want to understand poetry
are among some of her stu­dents.
There is really no fine line
separating adult reading
from children's, Nist said.
She said she feels that young
and even older adults should
be read to as well as children.
Part of the enjoyment and
learning comes in the shar­ing
of new words, descrip­tions,
thoughts and inter­pretation,
Nist said.
"Jonathon Livingston Sea­gull,"
she pointed out, was
written for children, but
adults are buying it. "The
Hobbit" is enjoyed by young
adults, she said, and where a
first grade vocabulary used to
be set at 350 words, the six-year
old now has a compre­hension
of more than 15,000
words.
Societal changes, educa­tion,
affluence, television,
travel, nursery school at early
ages — all may have some in­fluence
on new reading
material, Nist said.
"A child spends 15,000
hours per year in front of
television 11,000 hours in the
classroom. This should tell us
something."
THB FATHER'S DM
SURPRISE H M WITH
SOWS HEAVY Necking like the
exciting ties you'll
find at Sons & Har­well.
In styles and
colors that're strictly
heavy! (In case you're
unfamiliar with what
a tie is, it's an out-o-
sight new thing to
wear around your
neck.) We normally
sell our ties-forS.tK onrri-'oielM
bucks, but since it's
Father's Day and all
we're letting 'em all
go for only $4. You can
charge it with us, or
with Master Charge
and BankAmericard.
Either way your
purchase is, like they
say, unconditionally
guaranteed. This
Father's Day, get him
to stick his neck out
And wear a tie from
Sons & Harwell.
SOMS&HARWELUm
In Village Mall.
Where you can get
up to your neck in
fashion without going
over your head.
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Tree-trunk thoughts
A U greatness not in showy things
There's a tree in Samford Park, on the library side,
whose limbs touch the ground all around. Inside the
branches and next to the trunk, though, there's a hol-lowed-
out place where you can sit quietly and not be
noticed by people happening by.
I was sitting in there one night not long ago when
The Plainsman's newsroom was especially stuffy and
I couldn't think straight enough to writea routine edi­torial
that would have been easy any other time. I just
sat and thought and looked out into the warm Auburn
spring night. . . .
What is it that makes Auburn great? I considered
the question a while and thought about the things
that happen at Auburn that have real meaning, and
about how empty and false the showy things are.
The football games are an example. Each victory is
a sign of Auburn's greatness, some say.
No. I can't buy that. I looked at the lights that dot­ted
Haley Center's dark form and decided that if a
Chemistry 101 study group up there grasped the con­cept
of empirical formulas, that added more to the
greatness of Auburn University than an entire unde­feated
football season.
Then there are the showy public meetings of the
Student Senate—parliamentary jungles entwined
with "whereases," "move the pre-vious questions,"
and "be it therefore resolveds," that don't really
amount to anything.
The strength of the Senate lies in its members do­ing
their homework and making their proposals
sound. It involves research in the library and inter­views
in administrator's offices, and they aren't
nearly as glamorous as the Monday night follies
enacted in the Union Building.
I looked at the Union and felt mild regret that some
student proposals hadn't been researched well:
enough and had died because of a lack of behind-the-scenes
work (not because the show wasn't impressive
enough.)
Now somebody was walking tiredly down the Sam-ford
Hall steps toward the official administration
parking lot a few feet away from "my" tree. Some
administrator had been putting in some late hours,
doing some work he might never get credit for.
Hidden dedication. That's what made Auburn
great, I decided. Through the years, people working
behind the scenes and not getting a lot of credit have
made Auburn great. Auburn was a lot like the tree I
was leaning against—it had been a sapling when my
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grandfather studied here, a mature and growing tree
when my dad did. And now it's a towering evergreen,
providing shelter for a frustrated philosophers under
its limbs.
I stood up and brushed off the seat of my jeans. I
head-ed back toward the office, stopping long enough
in Ross Square to avoid crossing paths with two peo­ple
walking hand in hand, and very engrossed in each
other.
As I approached the Union Building's back side,
there was only one light on—the one in The Plains­man's
newsroom. It was a Tuesday night and the sun
would come peeping over Mag Dorm before some of
our hard-pressed workers would go home to grab a few
hours' sleep before returning to meet the final dead­line.
Here was the particular example of hidden dedica­tion
contributing to Auburn's greatness that I knew
best. As editor this year, I went to a lot of showy pub­lic
functions, like a convention in Chicago where we
were honored with collegiate journalism's highest
award.
But that's not what The Plainsman is all about. The
personal victories won by the staffers that worked on
the paper is worth more than all the journalism
awards in the nation put together, including the
Pulitzer Prizes.
As in everything else at Auburn, The Plainsman
won't be made or broken by the showy public things,
but by a lone writer, photographer or editor working
in the night with his solitary light intruding of the
darkness of the Union Building.
To him, or to her, and to all the other people that
made Auburn and worked for the betterment of
Auburn, I offer my congratulations and my deep
appreciation—and the hope that I may be considered
one of them.
Progress, Auburn style
The brick tree planters on the patio of the Auburn Union
addition were a crowning jewel to the expansion—until a
check revealed that the walls around them were supposed to
be much lower. Under the architect s specifications the walls
were supposed to be constructed so students could sit on them.
What to do? In true Auburn style, these workers remedy the
problem.
Editorial photography
—Dun Dough tie
Editorials Commentary
Page Six Thurs., May 30, 1974
What's in a name? 'Craig's9 identity
Continued AU growth:
the priee is too high
Auburn, Loveliest Village of the
Plains—when I first heard that expres­sion
I thought it was corny, now I think
it's isadi...Auburn is no longer a village,
and with.new high-rise buildings going
up all over campus—it isn't even that
lovely anymore.
When I first came to Auburn as a trans­fer
student from Penn State the first
thing I noticed about the campus was its
trees—there were trees everywhere. I
couldn't believe there was a university
left that had trees, flowers and people in­stead
of cement, concrete and computer
numbers.
But even in the short time I've been at
Auburn I have seen it grow and I've
watched the progress with alarm. I be­came
particularly worried when I rea­lized
that the chief administrators were
pointing to the construction sites with
pride, despite the alumni who were dis­concerted
when they tried to find their
way around campus and were faced with
a monstrosity like Haley Center
Perhaps I'm being pessimistic but
somehow I can see where Auburn is
heading. Penn State started out as a
land-grant college about the same time
as Auburn and now it's a factory turn­ing
out a steady stream of B. A.'s on an
assembly line • schedule. I'd hate to see
that happen to Auburn.
It's not that I don't want Auburn to be
the top school in the state and one of the
best in the nation; I just don't want to see
it lose the charm that has made so many
students proud to claim it as their alma
master.
I'd like to see Auburn concentrate on
improving the programs it already has
rather than expanding into undeveloped
Kathy
Suhorsky
areas in a vain attempt to offer every­thing
to everyone. There are plenty of
areas already on campus where those
who have the time, inclination and
money can pump their resources without
expanding the school to an undesirable
degree.
Our health center and our library have
been proven inadequate through numer­ous
studies and nearly every department
on campus could use the kind of assis­tance
that doesn't come from a construc­tion
company.
It's time to stop the growth of Auburn,
now before it spreads like acancer infect­ing
every branch of the University. It's
time to stop bragging about increased
enrollment statistics and focus on creat­ing
a campus where people can walk to
any building in 10 minutes and see faces
they recognize along the way. It's time to
stop before professors can no longer
remember the names of their students
and students become mere numbers on a
computer printout sheet.
I'd hate to see this happen to Auburn.
When I visit the University after I grad­uate
I want to be able to recognize Sam-ford
Hall and the park which makes it so
special. I want to be ableto look at the old
clock tower and feel like it still belongs to
the campus. I want to be able to walk on
campus and see a better, but not a big­ger,
Auburn.
As I cover my reactionary typewriter
for the last time, I'm forced to pause and
wonder how Auburn will remember me,
considering the somewhat dubious
notoriety I sometimes think I have achie­ved.
And the more I think about it, the
funnier it is and the harder I have to re­strain
myself from dying laughing.
I'll probably be remembered by the
computer in the registrar's office by my
student number—255-94-3503. Has a nice
ring to it, doesn't it? I've grown quite
fond, of, it since I've been at Auburn and
it's'gotten to the point that I can almost
say it in one breath.
As ridiculous as it may sound, when I
was a first quarter freshman, 1 had a
teacher who called roll by student num­bers.
I never could figure out how he did it
because it seemed to me that it would be
harder to read off a list of numbers than
it would be to correctly pronounce stu­dents'
last names.
The only problem with my assump­tion
was that he couldn't do either. To
him, I was 255-94-3502—Lisky. I should
have realized right away that I was
going to have problems.
When I was a sophomore, I joined The
Plainsman's staff possibly thinking that
if my teachers saw my name spelled
correctly in the newspaper, then maybe
they wouldn't mispronounce and mis­spell
it so quickly and easily. Fat chance.
It used to be that when I was asked my
name, I'd say it and expect the person
asking to know how to spell it. Then I
started saying and spelling it, too. Now,
it's gotten to the point that when asked, I
reply, "Lisby—L-I-S-B as in'boy'—y." If
that doesn't work, I generally give up.
I can remember the time I went for a
credit check and the checker wouldn't be­lieve
the way my name is spelled. She
kept insisting that she'd always seen it
spelled "Lispey."
When I tried to assure her that it's
never been spelled that way, she looked
at me squarely and asked, "Are you sure
that one of your illiterate ancestors
didn't misspell it somewhere back along
the line?" I have yet to be able to think of
a response that would not be considered
"inappropriate."
Once I called Peet Theatre to make
reservations for some play they were pre­senting.
After the beep signalling me to
record my message, I said how many
tickets I wanted, specified the perfor­mance
and then spelled my name, care­fully
and distinctly enunciating each let­ter.
When I went to pick up the tickets, the
girl looked at me and asked, "Aren't you
Greg Lisby?" Being appropriately im­pressed,
I replied, "Yeah. How'd you
know?" "Oh, I see your picture in The
Plainsman all the time," she said.
As I left, I looked at the ticket envelope
which read, "Lisbey, Greg." I can't seem
to win for losing.
I did a long-distance telephone inter­view
for The Plainsman once and the per­son
I was interviewing promised to send
me some more material for my article the
next day. Sure enough, the next day the
package arrived air mail special de­livery,
addressed to "Craig I.*sbuy." You
tell me how to pronounce it. :
A couple weeks ago, Pres. Harry M.
Philpott called The Plainsman office and
asked for me (by first name, mind you) to
come to his office for the announcement
of his new food services plan. When I
arrived, he introduced the other people in
the room and turned to me said, "This is
the managing editor of The Plainsman,
Greg Lisenby." I seem to recall smiling
rather weakly.
When I returned to the office, several
staff members thought up some good
quickie come-backs, which I really
should have used. The best one had me
turning to President Philpott and say­ing,
"Thank you, Dr. Philputt." I still
haven't quite decided if I would have had
the nerve to say that. But, if nothing else,
it would have been interesting to watch
the room's reaction.
Now it's time for me to graduate and as
my row walks to the stage and hands our
name cards to the registrar, I fully ex­pected
for my card to get turned upside
down in the stack and for my nameto be
announced to everyone in the Coliseum
as, "Kqsyi .) \joii<u;)."
Then I'll walk across the stage and
shake President Philpott's hand as he
says, "Congratulations, George," think­ing
all the time, "So much for the last
shred of my identity."
Our opinion
Toward equality: significant rule changes
Women's rules at Auburn were signifi­cantly
liberalized under a plan approved
by Pres. Harry M. Philpott this week.
The plan moves the status of women
students a few steps closer toward equa­lity
with that of men students, which
should be the goal of rules changes. Un­der
the plan, only first-quarter freshmen
women will be denied the right to regu­late
their own hours and sign out
voluntarily. Second- and third-quarter
The media: they're just doing their job
freshmen women can gain these rights
with parental permission.
Male visitation, which has previously
met with inflexible and unenlightened
denials from the administration, will be
considered by the Board of Trustees
June .'i for a summer trial. The adminis­tration
is finally conceding that male
visitation is worth considering—and this
is a much more open-minded attitude
than has been exhibited in the past.
Streamlining of permission forms and
the adoption of dorm closing hours of
midnight and 2 a.m. also were approved
this week.
We applaud these changes and hope
that women's rules at Auburn will
continue to be liberalized until equality is
achieved.
More reasonable women's rules will
help keep the dorms competitive With off-campus
housing, something which needs
to be done in view o 1 l'h i I pott's controver­sial
food services plan, which is drawing
many complaints from on-campus resi­dents.
A trial of male visitation, if approved
by the Board of Trustees, will show if all
the horror stories dreamed by the
administrators opposing it over the
Readers of The Plainsman:
The school year 1973-74 at Auburn was
to have been a year of better public rela­tions
for the Student Government
Association, and it was. The SGA reach­ed
out to its public through "encounter
sessions" in the dorms, visitation efforts
and its publications.
But what many student leaders meant
by "better public relations" was "better
media relations" with The Plainsman
and WEGLFM. And in this area, it was
not a good year—not because there was
anything wrong with the relationship
between the SGA and the campus
media, but because the student establish­ment
misunderstood the nature of
independent news coverage. Although I
can't speak for WKGL, I would like to tell
you about some attitudes which The
Plainsman encountered.
Student leaders expected our reporters
to be snowed by their pronouncements
and not to question them. By "better
media relations," they meant convert­ing
the student newspaper into a puppet
for them.
Naturally the student establishment
was upset when the so-called "dirt^dig-gers"
of The Plainsman looked beyond
the public front of SGA and came up with
some less than favorable stories.
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from the editor*.
In fact, our staffers aren't "dirt-dig­gers;"
they're students likeyou. And they
think it's pretty important that you know
what your elected officials are doing and
how they're spending your student acti­vity
money, even if it's not convenient for
the student establishment.
There was nothing wrong this year be­cause
The Plainsman didn't write weekly
praises for the hotshots on the third floor
of the Union Building. It's nobody's
"fault" that the campus press was
independent; it's to a lot of people's cre­dit.
Some student leaders visualize an
ideal world in which they received
periodic bouquets of roses from their
campus newspaper. This setup wouldn't
do them any good at Auburn with its
intelligent and healthily skeptical stu­dent
body.
If the campus press passed along bald-faced
lies, or even subtly slanted news to
favor the student establishment, stu­dents
would quickly lose any faith in the
newspaper's pronouncements.
When The Plainsman favored the stu­dent
leadership's proposals this
year—such as the one on the Health Cen­ter—
it had meaning, since students
knew we weren't afraid to speak out
when we disagreed with them, as we did
on student activity fund spending.
There was no fixation on attacking
SGA, either, as anyone in the adminis­tration
can tell you. Although we didn't
have a dragnet out to collect mud to
throw at administrators, we did"scoop"
the state press several times with stories
of administrative abuses.
Oddly, administrators recognized bet­ter
than student leaders The Plainsman
isn't a toy newspaper staffed by college
boys and girls.
I'll leave predictions about the future of
overall campus media relations to
Auburn's prophets. But I can predict
with some confidence that the staff of
The Auburn Plainsman will be indepen­dent
and vigorous next year—and every­one
will benefit.
Bill Wood
Editor
THE AUBURN PUINSMMI V
Bill Wood, Editor
Judson Landrum, Business Manager
associoreD coLLeciaTe PRess
Rheta Grimsley, Editor-elect
Mitch Garriott, Business Manager-elect
Editorial Board members: Managing Editor, Greg Lisby; Editor-elect, Rheta
Grimsley; Associate Editor, Kathy Suhorsky; News Editor, Mike Kenopke; Edi­torial
Board Chairman: Editor Hill Wood.
Sports Editor, Larry Gierer; Technical Editor, Nancy Franklin; Copy Editor,
David Barrett; Photographic Editor, Brent Anderson; Entertainment Editor, David
Nordness.
Associate Business Manager, Sally Wallace; Local Advertising Route Managers,
Gene Gordon and-Mike Hickman; Advertising Layout Specialists, Dottie Still and
Debbie Easters.
Assistant News Editor, Frank Whatley; Assistant Features Editor, Christy Hud-gins;
Assistant Sports Editor, Carolyn Roop; Assistant Copy Editors, Jodi Leach
and Cindy Goree; Assistant Technical Editor, Biz Binnings.
Associate Fiance, David Bartlett; Rabbit Emeritus, Merman (Deceased).
The Auburn Plainsman is the student-edited newspaper of Auburn University.
Signed columns represent the opinion of the writer, while unsigned editorials
labeled "Our opinion" represent the opinion of The Plainsman's Editorial Board.
years have any real basis in fact. A sum­mer
trial would prove whether they are
right or wrong.
Since immediate equalization of rules
would certainly be vetoed by the
administration, changing the rules in
gradual but significant steps can be an
effective technique, as was shown this
week.We commend the Associated Wo­men
Students for doing their job in get­ting
the plan approved and the Student
Senate for endorsing it.
The Board of Trustees should approve
the male visitation trial for this summer,
just to see how it works, if for nothing
else. It's certainly worth a try.
And the push for equalized women's
rules must be continued, for equality is.
in the end, the only fair rules system.
Our library
The Draughon Library just celebrated
its l()th birthday and as one of its pre­sents
received a ranking of 23rd out of 24
Southeastern Libraries from The
Association of Southern Research
Libraries.
One of the reasons for this has to be the
low budget allocations for the library by
the administration which marked only
about 3.6 per cent of the total University
budget for the facility.
We join with the University Senate's
library committee in recommending that
the administration increase its library
funding from the current 3:6 per cent to
six per per cent of the total University
budget.
A good library is essential to a presti­gious
institution of higher learning and
it is the responsibility of both the faculty
and the students to furnish the drive to
provide needed resources.
Pay page 7 Thurs., May 30,1974 THE AUBURN PUINSMIN
'Just wage9 a relic
of medieval theory
In their joint opinion in the May 23 edi­tion
of The Plainsman, Rev. August H.
Englert, C. M., and Rev. Eugene F.
Sheridan, C. M., take a hard-boiled,
unsentimental line with respect to the
clerks and secretaries whose salaries
cannot accommodate the new minimum
wage for household help. "Then, a domes­tic
in the home is someone they cannot
afford. They might have to look for other
solutions. . . ." Quite so. But will these
"other solutions" include work for their
present employees? In most cases,
obviously not.
The good Fathers speak of the dignity
of labor, but they evidently believe that
there is more dignity in subsisting on
public welfare than on labor—since that
is exactly what many domestics will be
driven to when the $1.90 hourly minimum
is implemented.
All of which goes to illustrate the inher
ent economic absurdity of legislating
wages. Yet such legislation is not only
economically absurd; it is morally
wrong, for it represents coercive inter­ference
with the right of free contract.
Fathers Englert and Sheridan
characterize 75 cents an hour as ar»
"unjust wage." My wife and I can testify
from sad personal experience that,
whether they style themselves "maids"
or "household technicians," there are
domestics in Auburn for whom even as
little as 75 cents an hour is gross over­payment.
But quite aside from this
consideration, if someone offers work at
75 cents an hour, and another person is
willing to accept it, what gives any
branch of government the moral
authority to forbid such a transaction?
There is nothing unjust about any wage,
however low, which is the result of mu­tual
agreement.
I am a great admirer of Gothic archi­tecture,
chivalry, and many other
features of the Middle Ages. I am not an
admirer of medieval economic theory.
The "just wage" is a relic of the static,
caste society of the 13th century. Msgr.
John A. Ryan and his disciples notwith­standing,
it has no place in a common­wealth
of free men and women.
Just to show that proponents of social
and economic folly have no monopoly on
the right to use ecclesiastical titles, I sign
myself
Rev. Robert V. Andelson, Ph.D.
Professor of Philosophy
Alum thanks
Plainsman
for support
Many people, including Gov. George C.
Wallace, members of the Auburn Board
of Trustees, state officials, Auburn
alumni and friends of Auburn, played
significant roles in the recently con­cluded
successful drive to provide
Auburn University with a long-awaited
adequate Student Health Center.
However, one of the greatest contri­buting
factors that assured the success of
this drive were the many efforts you and
the other members of your staff made
through your editorials exposing the
inadequate Student Health Center and
urging the Auburn students to vote for a
student fees increase to help finance the
Health Center improvements.
My wife and I want to thank you from
the bottom of our hearts for the deep con­cern
shown and efforts exerted by your,
your staff, and the many students who
involved themselves ' so deeply and
wholeheartedly in this humanitarian!
A close race for Lieutenant Governor Bob Bedwell
Class of '49
readers!
Kent State called American tragedy
'Glomerata review boring'
What does it take to please some peo­ple?
I thought this year's Glomerata was
excellent, particularly the color photo­graphy.
Curtis A. Mauldin in trying to be
a "professional critic" was both boring'
and needlessly critical of a fine year­book.
The intensity, quality and richness of
the color photography was certainly
some of the best I have seen in a college
yearbook. Mauldin kept saying the Glom
did not represent Auburn. He never
specified what he meant or what changes
he would have made but I think the
absence of "freaky types" who are
usually allotted entirely too much space
and the presentation of realistic settings
and situations all students can relate to
was refreshingly evident in the 1974
Glomerata.
The only improvement I could suggest
would be to cut out or better use the ex­cess
space allotted for frats.
John W. Singer, 3SED
I write in reply to the opinion written
by James T. Hilburn in the May 16th edi­tion
of The Plainsman regarding Kent
State. At best I regard Mr. Hilburn's
opinion a negligent misrepresertation of
fact
The real tragedy of Kent State is the
fact that so many of the American peo­ple
have swallowed stories of this sort
that allege self-defense on the part of the
National Guardsmen.
The following is a list of the students
killed or wounded by the Ohio National
Guard, their distance from the Guards­men
when they, were shot, and a descrip­tion
of their wounds as taken from the
Justice Department's summary of the
FBI report.
1. Joseph Lewis, Jr., 71 feet away. Shot
while making an obscene gesture. One
bullet entered his right lower abdomen
and exited from his left buttock. The se­cond
bullet caused a through-and-through
would in his lower left leg.
More staff opinion
Flat broke
IllJH
Poverty pinch close to home
In voluntary compliance with the new
ethics law, I'm about to disclose my
financial situation to the world:
Poor.
That's the size of i t I'm flat broke.
Even the one-dollar checks are bound to
mount up someday, and when you start
taking the long route to Super Foods be­cause
you're scared some long bracleted
arm will reach out from your bank and
strangle you while chiming
"overdrawnnnnn" in cash register tones,
you know it's time to reassess your
worth.
There's got to be an answer, you say.
The logical end-of-the-quarter solution
that pops to mind, of course, is selling
your textbooks.
I never bought them.
Well, there has to be something else of
. value that everyone owns. Not so. High
school senior rings with your initials en­graved
on the inside just don't go for
much these days, I've found. And a hair
dryer I used to bake under before the days
of the "blown look" isn't worth $5, or at
least not to the people I've offered it to.
Everyone has the same problem this
near the end of the school year, I think.
But when I don't see anyone • else going
Rheta
Grimsley
to the Free Union Movie three times in
one weekend, I indulge in a little well-deserved
self pity.
Food's still a bargain, I reason.There
are a lot of inexpensive places to dine in
Auburn. But by the time you "have it
your way" with a hamburger, french
fries andCoke, you've spent well over half
the refund for your Constitutional Law
book. And by supper time you're too
broke to patronize a Cameo machine, no
less eat a well-rounded meal.
Clothes. Well, who needs clothes in the
spring, anyway? A pair of cut-offs, a
halter top and some sandals won't run
over $50 at the most. (Just don't get
them dirty because you have to pay 35
cents to wash now.)
And end-of-the year gifts. There's al­ways
some co-worker to honor, some
roommate you'll never see again or some
party to attend that requires a gift. I'm
beginning to think if someone starts the
"passing the hat" routine again, I'll grab
the hat, put it on my head and run. So
much for sentimentality.
It's easy to get depressed now-a-days.
Remember when the gas station atten­dant
would give you strange looks if you
asked for 50 cents worth of gas for a high
school "cruising'excursion? Think of the
look you'd get now. It's hard to imagine.
In fact, it's hard to imagine a gas station
attendant, period.
I long for the good old days when I
didn't know and didn't care how much
anything cost I knew then that money
just didn't really matter. Free-lance writ­ing
in Europe would take care of me and
my stifled ideas. (If I start saving now, I
might see Europe after retirement.)
Oh, things aren't really so bad. I just
get this way occasionally—the week be­fore
payday. To pull myself from the bot­tom
of the barrel blues I just do as I've
always been told, and "think of the little
kids in China." I'll survive. We all will.
I'd write home for money but I can't
afford the increased postal rate.
Nixon can almost be forgiven everything
Americans are very particular what
they want their President to behave like.
They don't mind a little bribery; that's
just a petty felony that's to be expected of
politicals just as veneral disease if to be
expected of prostitutes. So bribery is
okay.
They don't care if the President sets up
secret organizations to spy on them.
That's his business, and besides, how
can you be unfair to "commies" like Dan­iel
Ellsburg?
They don't even think twice about
most of President Nixon's birthday
cards being postmarked at various
federal prisons. He can't help it if 38
"over-zealous" aides got the'... "impres­sion"
that he wanted them to break the
law "for the good of the country."
They don't mind the fact that the Presi­dent
ignores court orders. After all, it's
those liberal courts that have gotten this
country in the mess it's in anyway. It's
justifiable that he won't turn over
subpoenaed tapes; they're his, aren't
they? He can wrap presents with them if
he likes, right?
The President could have done all
these things and not come close to being
impeached. He made his mistake by
skimping on his income taxes and shoot­ing
off his foul mouth.
You see, Americans can forgive a guy
for bribery, extortion, jury tampering
and contempt of court. (Although they
did get a little peeved when they found
out Nixon had paid less in taxes thanhis
son-in-laws.) However, when the Presi­dent
of the United States says 'such
blasphemous words as "damn", "hell"
and (expletive deleted)—that is just
going too far.
A President can do anything in office
he likes as long as he pays his taxes,
doesn't cheat on his wife and doesn't
cuss. Americans don't like cussing or
cheating Presidents—it's just un-Ameri­can.
It seems President Nixon's biggest
mistake was not in being dishonest; it
was acting like 95 per cent of adult
Americans do.
It kinda makes you feel sorry for the
guy. How can Americans expect a man
with no moral fiber not to curse or try to
cheat on his income tax.
"It's just not fair!" President Nixon
Dennis
Bailey
says. And how can you blame him?
Americans are very choosy people.
They're looking for that five per cent of
adults that pay their taxes, sleep with
their wives and don't even say "darn"
when angry.
So get rid of him, they say, and I agree.
President Nixon should be impeached,
but not because he cusses or tried to take
advantage of a tax loophole; impeach
him because he's a dishonest (expletive
deleted).
It'll be hard to find a man who has
done everything "necessary" to get elect­ed,
including taking bribes, who's not
going to say a dirty word now and then.
2. John R. Cleary, 110 feet away. Shot
while standing laterally to the Guard.
The bullet entered his upper left chest
and the main fragments exited from the.
right upper chest.
3. Thomas Grace, 200 feet away. Shot
on the back of the left ankle. Fragments
exited from the top of his foot.
4. Alan Canfora, 225 feet away. Shot in
the right wrist, a through-and-through
wound.
5. Jeffrey G. Miller, 265 feet away. Kil­led
instantly. Shot while facing the
Gaurd. Bullet entered his mouth and exit­ed
at the base of the posterior skull.
6. Dean R. Kahler, 300 feet away. Shot
in the left posterior side. The bullet
traveled from back to front and from
above to below, fracturing three verte­brae.
He is paralyzed from the waist
down and will probably remain a para­plegic.
7. Douglas A; Wrentmore, 329 feet
away. Shot in the left side of the right
knee, causing a compound fracture of the
right tibia. The bullet exited on the right
side of his knee.
8. Allison B. Krause, 343 feet away.
Fatally wounded. The autopsy report
said immediate cause of death was a gun­shot
wound with massive hemorrhage,
and penetration of the left lower lobe of
lung, spleen, stomach, duodenum, liver,
and inferior vena cava, caused by a bul­let
similar to , .30-caliber military,
ammunition.. The bullet had fragmen­ted
after penetrating the upper left arm
and entering the left lateral chest.
9. James D. Russell, 375 feet away.
Shot in the right thigh and the right fore­head,
both injuries minor.
10. William K. Schroeder, 382 feet
away. Fatally wounded. Shot while
apparently lying prone on the ground,
facing away from the Guard. The bullet
entered his left back at the seventh rib,
some fragments exited at the top of his
left shoulder.
11. Sandra L Scheuer, 390 away.
Fatally wounded. Shot through the left
front side of her neck. Bullet exited on the
right front side, severing her jugular
vein. She bled to death.
12. Robert F. Stamps, 495 feet away.
Shot in the right buttock. The bullet pene­trated
four inches.
13. Donald S. Mackenzie, 730 feet away.
Shot while running in the opposite direc­tion
from the Guard. The bullet entered
the left rear of his neck, struck his jaw­bone,
and exited thorough his cheek.
JuBt the distances between the Guards­men
and their victims make the charge of
self-defense contemptible. The Guard
was neither under assault of surround­ed.
In fact, they were marching away
from the area where they had been
partially encircled when they turned
almost a complete 180 degree turn and
;fired on the crowd.
The character of those killed also dis­credits
the guard's claim of self-defense.
Bill Schroeder was an ROTC
cadet. Sandra Scheuer was just passing
through the parking lot when the fatal
shots were fired.
For those of you that still doubt that
the Guardsmen's actions were
murderous I urge you to study the se­quence
of photographs of what hap­pened
that day. These are available in a
publication entitled "The Truth About
Kent State," by Peter Davies and The
Board of Church and Society of The
United Methodist Church. It is paper­back,
a very cheap $3.50. One owes it to
one's conscience to know the truth.
Richard Rush
Class of'73
Wild Willie Jesses up;
reveals identity and splits
Well, it's about time for Wild Willie to
pack up and leave his cave home near
Auburn. You see, old Willie is graduating
this quarter and he's moving away.
For you folks who are still wondering
who Willie is, he's themischievousside of
Bill Wood, the editor of this paper. Bill
thinks Willie has done a good job over the
last two years.
Willie has poked fun at some folks that
badly need to laugh at themselves a little
more—student leaders, the administra­tion
and especially the Greeks.
Willie would especially like to thank all
the folks that wrote him nasty letters.
WILD WUIIFS-1
y;\,-;:"'v,' " witj
, Too bad they weren't clean enough to
print And to the "student wife" who told
Willie he is a disgrace to the University
and the community, Willie thumbs his
nose and says "nyah, nyah, nyah."
For all you who'd like to retaliate
against Willie, you're out of luck. You'll
never catch him, not now that the last
issue of The Plainsman is out.
Willie's enjoyed his existence, and just
wants to remind you: When you have a
split personality, you're never alone.
Athletics problem enrages reader
I have been reading with interest our
copies of The Auburn Plainsman lately
which have been reporting the sad state
of women's athletics at Auburn. I was
particularly enraged to read that Presi­dent
Philpott considered women's sports
as "clubs."
What does he think that men's
athletics used to be? Hasn't he ever heard
of "ball clubsT' At one time or another
every type of sport has begun as a
club—with proper promotion and fund­ing
these clubs turn into the big sports
which men's athletics are today.
The administration's policies in re­gard
to women's athletics is a reflection
of their illegal and demeaning treatment
of all women who attend Auburn. It is old
hat to repeat over and over again the
sensible arguments of the many stu­dents,
faculty, and concerned outsiders
who have tried to improve the treatment
of women in the past and who are still
trying now.
Other than the changing of a few token
rules, Auburn has not made any pro­gress
toward the equalization of treat­ment
toward women since I was there
(1967-72). The administration doesn't in­tend
to.and will not until a suit is brought
Looks Ike Dr. Philpott
is busy solving
Mother student
grievence. I bet he's
glad the quarter's
almost over.
Hell HO.
He's in
thinking up things
to rile
next
MY
''but I'm n o t always
against the university for their crimes.
What I could tell you about unfair
treatment of women at Auburn would fill
a book. However, further argument is not
going to help.
Until the administration fully funds
women's athletics and begins a strong
affirmative action program for women
students, I will cease any and all alumni
contributions to the University and will
send money instead to the head of
women's athletics. I will also urge fellow
alumni to do the same.
If reasoning won't change any minds .
around Auburn, perhaps money will.
Sue Painter, M. Ed.
Mother gives
daughter credit
for integrity
I have been reading with great in­terest
your articles on certain movies and
the groups trying to ban certain books
and magazines. My daughter paid me
one of the greatest compliments (I think)
when she said, "Mom, you give me credit
for having enough sense and integrity to
see any movie, read any book, and yet
choose for myself the value of these
things!"^
If we didn't keep the "free press" where
would this country be today?
My only gripe with AU (a few years
ago—seems like a century): I cam-,
paigned for McGovern and AU students
treated me like an outcast when I wore
my McGovern button on campus. ,
Political-wise, most students are not in- •
terested enough in national politics—
they must be readying themselves to do .
something for this country in D.C. where
they can be heard!
Please do not print my name if you
should happen to use this letter. My
daughter would kill me.
Name withheld by request
THE AUBURN PLAINSMAN Thm*., May so, 1974 pages More readers' opinions
Test grading not fair'
with computer system
Picture this:
You are working a problem on a
physics test. Knowing the correct
formula to use, you have the problem
correctly set up and ready to solve. How­ever,
in order to work the problem, you
need to know the sine of 30 degrees.
Alas! You do not know it, it was not
given by your teacher, and you do not
have an HP-45 calculator or a slide rule.
You miss the entire problem; whereas,
someone with the calculator gets it right
because he merely presses a button to ob­tain
the necessary value.
, You may ask, "Why was partial credit
not given for setting up the solution?"
The answer is this. The test is a com­puter
graded, multiple choice exam
where only your final answer counts. A
computer cannot look at scratch paper
and see that you knew how to work the
problem.
Another case:
Two of the choices of answers differ
only in the power of ten, that is, decimal
place. Mislocation of the decimal could
cause you to again lose all credit for the
problem. Or perhaps you make an arith­metic
error in calculating. You still miss
the whole problem.
In all the above situations, no credit at
all is given because of the fact that the
test is computer scored. These are some
of the reasons I feel computer graded
physics tests are unfair to the student.
When a student misses an entire prob­lem
due to a math error, his true know­ledge
of physics is not reflected in his
resulting grade. Credit for setting up the
problem should be awarded because this
displays the student's actual knowledge
of the principles and formulas .involved.
Another injustice is the advantage the
calculator-equipped student has over the
slide-rule-equipped or pencil-and-paper
equipped student on this type of test. The
most difficult thing about trigonometric
functions for these students is punching
the right button on the calculator. Math
errors by these students are also more
highly improbably than by the more
unfortunate.
The solution to the problem as I see it, it
this: a return to the teacher-graded exam.
Teachers may argue that this takes too
much of their time, but it is the only way
fair to the student in judging his ability.
If a class is very large, compromise bet­ween
computer and personal grading.
Allow the student to turn in scratch
paper along with the computer sheet
Then, if an argument arises over whether
or not the student knew what he was
doing, a look at the scratch paper will
satisfy all parties.
Rod Michael Uuraski, 2PM Hand calculator: unfair advantage? Editorial photography
—David Brown
'Students cause trouble9
Smoking dangerous:
As a member of an organization that
provides ushers for many concerts, I was
not really shocked by the students'
opinion "Hassle: Concert smoking ban,
harassment protested" May 23. I feel
that the students themselves bring on a
'Whose ideas
should be
discounted?
Dr. D. McKown in the May 16th edition
of The Plainsman is quoted on page 17 as
mentioning several views which should
be ignored; specifically, "a rabbi's
opinion on ham or a priest's opinion
on= the joys of marriage." Shouldn't the
list be extended to include an atheist's or
agnostic's opinion of God?
Dr. M. A. Cutchins
Associate Professor
School of Engineering
good deal of the trouble. Let's look at the
situation objectively, however.
The law says that in any building used
for the public, there will be no smoking.
The Coliseum falls in this category and
signs to this effect are posted in
conspicuous places throughout the build­ing.
The students could not see the reason­ing
behind the smoking ban above the
ground floor. The reasoning is simple: If
a hot ash (which is hotter than many peo­ple
think) were to fall on a person's hair
or clothing, and it were to catch fire, that
person would panic.
The panic would spread and many peo­ple
would be trampled in the mad rush to
get out. Let's face it, the steps in the Coli­seum
are steep. Several persons could be
killed because of one person's lack of
consideration.
Many peopleobject to cigarette smoke,
some are even allergic to it. I personally
do not smoke, and do not like it.
Experience has shown that most
smokers are very inconsiderate of those
around them.
Most of the people I have asked (as an
usher) to stop smoking, gave me a great
deal of trouble about it, and continued to
smoke. I have even had to call the police
to help out, the only time that I have seen
a policeman "harass" anyone about it.
The amount of grass at this last con­cert
was appalling. I'm not really sur­prised
that the police used dogs. The
policemen that I talked to about the prob­lem
said that there was just too much to
try to control.
In the future, I ask the people attend­ing
the concerts to remember, that the
ushers are students like themselves. The
ushers are not paid, they receive no
special privileges or feeling of power, and
they're not there to watch "their free con­cert."
The students would probably enjoy
their concert more if they would spend
less time "harassing" the ushers and
police and sit back and watch the perfor­mance.
James H. Lake, 1LE
Mideast: grave, after grave • • •
Immediately after the outbreak of the
Yom Kippur war, as the Egyptian Army
stood on the eastern bank of the Suez
Canal, the national news media reported
that the Arabs were claiming to have re­asserted
their masculinity. The embar­rassment
of the 1967 war had been
washed away. The "myth" of the invinc­ible
Israeli soldier had been shattered.
At the time, I found it hard to see how a
sneak attack against Israel on its most
holy day could be equated to Arab
masculinity. But if that is how Ham's
descendants define manhood, so be it.
However, it wasn't long before the
'Waters' opinion of life
in Mag uninformed' ...
Mag
Dorm:
a drag?
Doug Waters' opinion of last Thurs­day,
"Life in Mag Dorm is a drag..." was
both uninformed and untrue. We agree
that stereos are too loud, but isn't the
same true of all on-and off-campus hous­ing?
The same is true of loud talking in
the halls and knocking on people's doors
at all hours of the night.
Magnolia Dormitories has come a long
way in the past three years. Residents
may paint their rooms to suit them­selves.
Many divisions have pleasantly
decorated their halls. Three years ago,
girls' visitation was not allowed; now
girls may visit from 12 noon to 12 mid­night
on weekdays and Sunday. On Fri­day
and Saturday, they can visit from 12
noon to 2 in the morning.
The dorm has added a washateria,
three television rooms, a weight room,
study lounge, and a recreation room with
pool tables, ping pong, foosball, air
hockey, and a great stereo system.
Magnolia Dormitories has improved
steadily and is continuing to improve
every year. With the increasing unity
among Dorm residents, Magnolia
Dormitories is quickly becoming recog­nized
as a force to' be reckoned with on
the Auburn campus.
Further, there is a waiting list for stu­dents
requesting housing in Magnolia
Dormitories.
David L. Wood, 3LE
John L. Johnson, 4LE
Douglas E. Hill, 2LHY
Manny Russo, 4RSR
Timothy E. Hughes, 2CE
Raymond Brooks Kersh, 1VA
Melvin Wood, 3FIM
Ive Ford, 3PV
Charles Bush, 3GHY
Bob Christian, 1PN
Gary T. Ognibene, 2AE
... Mag residents OK,
boarder enjoys dorm life
I would like to voice my disagreement
with what Doug Waters said about Mag
Dorm in last week's edition of The
Plainsman. Doug complained that resit
dents of Mag bothered him by talking
loudly in the hall, playing record players
too loud, knocking on his door at all
hours of the day and night, and entering
his room without knocking.
I have lived in Mag for two years and I
have really enjoyed it. I have made
friends here at Mag that I will not forget
as long as I live. The men on my division
are kind and considerate. We all get
along well and all of the things Doug
Waters was writing about seldom occur
in my division.
In the two years I have lived at Mag, I
have become well acquanited with the
staff and I have no complaints about
them. All of the staff are friendly and sin­cerely
interested in the welfare of the resi­dents.
The dorm is not in too good shape
physically. The building is old, but it is
not run down. A series of improvements,
began in the fall, have certainly added to
the appearance of Mag. I have found the
dorm a comfortable place to live. It has
many more assets than faults.
The rent is cheap and utilities are free.
Most of the residents are nice. I am sorry
Doug Waters didn't enjoy Mag as much
as I do.
Joe (Bear) Bryant, 2GPG
Israelis had emasculated the Arabs once
again and saw some of Africa in the
process.
The treachery of the Yom Kippur at­tack
was mostly overlooked by national
leaders. Shortly thereafter they were all
in line, puckered up, as they groveled for
the Arab's oil.
Today, once again, the Arabs are at­tempting
to assert their masculinity.
Only now they avoid the Israeli army,
preferring to wage their war on civilian
non-combatants, specifically females
and school children.
Each new incident brings outpourings
of professed concern by world leaders but
the groveling goes on. Everyone claims
to be concerned. The question is, are they
more concerned with criminal attacks on
the non-military population or with keep­ing
that oil?
Predictably Israel retaliates for these
brutal massacres. Just as predictably
they are accused of similar massacres.
But one must wonder when proof of the
Israeli "atrocities" will reach our TV
screens. We see the mass burials of slain
Jews. All the Arabs offer are stale tales
from some information office.
Meanwhile the wheels of America"(an"d
Europe) keep on turning — with Arab oil
and Israeli blood. Yes, Henry, the situa­tion
is grave, after grave, after grave.
Glenn L. Hess, 3GP0
"AMP MOW, LADI&5, WITHOUT fURfHEK ADO, OUft SP&lAU
5 T £ A W FOK THIS A R W 0 O N , . . . "
Dawson }s help rejected;
reader redefines religion
Rev. Henry L. Dawson's concern for
the students seemingly lies in his desire
to blind them with his doctrines, which to
my mind would only serve to perpetuate
his job and ideologies, not to educate the
students.
My concern could be wasted on Daw­son
if he were to think I am merely
another advocate of the Devil (in whom I
neither believe). He would not accept
then my love for him and this hurts me,
but I can forgive him.
My wish is that he, like others, would
realize that there is an increase in the
earnest searching by some individuals to
relate the ideal of perfect love (agape') to
the earth-bound existence we find our­selves
in. This approach has at last
included transcending one's own culture
and traditions and giving an honest
chance to other formulations (past and
present) of truths, and this may
unfortunately alarm Dawson.
Instead of being tolerant of this move­ment,
he advocates a totalitarian reli­gion
requiring submission to a vengeful
god who paradoxically created us in his
image and yet deems the nude human
body a sinful sight. At any rate, that is
the impression Daw son's ideas, words
and actions have made on me.
If his beliefs are too firmly rooted to
change, perhaps he can still engage him­self
in more Christian-like methods to
advocate his beliefs, and not forcibly
close sales of magazines, slander
publishers, and commonly condemn
creaters of movies and books that want
to expose and explore different facets of
life.
J. Wells, 4GSY
TM a verifiable technique, says student
Christy Hudgins' article in the May 16
edition of The Plainsman which consist­ed
of faculty and a local doctor's opinions
of Transcendental Meditation (TM) was
valuable in one respect—it pointed out
how little people know about the techni­que.
First, TM is not a religion. It isn't a
philosophy, it isn't spiritualism, not
mysticism, not a placebo, not
Scientology, not self-hypnosis, and not
most thingspcopleseem to think it is. His
a technique—a scientifically verified
(and verifiable) technique.
The reference to TM as "a bunch of
Eastern nonsense" probably refers to the
fact that the Maharishi Mahesh Yogi is
an Indian monk. To dismiss it as "East­ern"
and to disclaim it for Western use is
a valid as discounting the application of
the law of gravity for the Chinese be­cause
Newton was an Englishman.
No belief in the technique is required
for its effectiveness, but the results are of­ten
subtle (like brushing your teeth).If
you didn't know that brushing made it
less likely for you to have cavities you
might not bother to brush, simply be­cause
the refreshing feeling isn't so pro­found
as you might have liked.
I'd like to emphasize that the validity
of TM isn't based on opinion or subject­ive
valuation. I started the practice two
years ago, after reading an article in
Scientific American on meditation. Dur­ing
the period of Transcendental Medi­tation,
oxygen consumption, carbon
dioxide elimination, cardiac output,
heart rate and respiratory rate signifi­cantly
decrease. The metabloic rate is re­duced
by an average of 16 per cent, while
after about six hours of sleep the
maximum drop in metabloism is only six
to ten per cent.
As for the "money angle," TM is
taught by a federally tax-exempt, non­profit
educational organization. The
course fee goes only to provide wider
availability for the technique.
Much research has been done (and is
continuing) on the effects of TM, and
some references publishing results of
these studies are:
—Scientific American, "The Physiology
of Meditation," February, 1972.
—The Phi Delta Kappan, "TM as a
Secondary School Subject," December,
1972.
—California Business, "Pillar to
Post," January 4,1971.
—The Synapse, "Transcendental
Meditation a"nd its Potential Role in
Clinical Medicine," Dec. 7, 1973, and
—Maryland Law Forum, "TM as
Applied to Criminal Justice Reform,
Drug Rehabilitation and Society in
General," Winter 1973.
In essence, there is anabundance of re­search
information for anyone
interested, especially educators and
medical practitioners.
Lawrence S. Vinson, 10IND
Where is Bill Wood's humor?9
To Editor Bill Wood:
It is worth noting that in your column
on the "Auburn Man," you gave us not a
hint about his academic abilities. Where
is your humor?
John S. Goodling
Mechanical Engineering Department
TIGER
TOPICS
with Mark Murphy
Basketball's back
Mark Murphy, the 1974-75 Sports Editor, replaces
retiring Larry Gierer as columnist in the final edition
of the current school year. —Editor's note
Dr. Bob Davis and his staff have given Auburn basketball a
shot in the arm with an unprecedented recruiting year for the
Plains.
With only one scholarship left the Tiger coach has inked
four Prep All-America players and a fifth who made honor­able
mention.
Davis, widely known in coaching circles for his winning re­cord
at Georgetown and in international competition, has
made recruiting his number one priority. In fact, the first
thing Davis and his assistants did when taking the job last
year was to hit the road searching out talent. The assistant
coaches spent the lion's share of the year recruiting instead of
coaching.
"We almost broke up several marriages," commented
Davis. "I've only been home ten days since March 4.1 saw all
of our recruits, except Krivacs, play at least five games. I saw
Mitchell play 20 games and saw Patrick play 15 games. I alsn
saw a lot of practices. Normally recruiters don't stay at it tha
hard.
"When I came here I was doubtful about being able to sign
top players. A school itself won't attract athletes. Take Notre
Dame, a few years ago they were having a hard time recruit­ing.
Great coaching by itself won't do it either."
Super recruiting
Davis cited five key aspects to successful recruiting. "A
good reputation is basic. Auburn has this good academic
reputation all over the country. You better believe high schooi
guidance counselors will look that up. Auburn has a nice faci
lity and a good campus atmosphere."
The next key aspect to recruiting is the head coach. "I have
a pretty good reputation for winning and that helps." Davis'
"pretty good" record is in the top five in NCAA winning
percentage.
"A third key is a good agressive staff. Larry Phillips is a
real hard worker. He and I recruited Mitchell and Patrick.
John Lykins has plenty of recruiting experience from his
years at Kentucky. Herbie Greene was responsible for in-state
recruiting. He played for Auburn and is well known in the
state."
Greene signed Wayne Bracy, Phillips scouted Jim Krivacs,
while the signing of Stan Pietkiewiz was a group effort.
"When we signed Pietkiewiz we were in heavy company.
Kentucky and Wake Forest had their entire staffs there that
day. Marquette and Houston had several coaches there also."
A fourth key is support. "You have to get assistant coaches,
school and alumni support. When I came here I couldn't sense
that kind of support for basketball. It was already here in foot­ball.
We have it now, it's not as good as I would like, but it's
getting there."
The final part of the. doctor's prescription for healthy
recruiting is student support. "The reception an athlete gets
from students when visiting campus is important. Our stu­dents
are interested in athletics. They talk about them and
attend them well. In the 6()'s at some places the students had
opposition to athletics. We had some of this at Georgetown
and it made recruiting tough."
"Davis added, "When he comes here and hangs around the
student lounge he is likely to hear somebody talking about
sports. Also, when you introduce a prospect here, students go
out of the way to make them feel welcome.
"The total image is so important. Without any of these five
points, you are in trouble when recruiting."
Recruits rate high
There are three basketball player rating services colleges
rely on to find the top prospects. The Garfinkel of New York,
the Bones of Ohio, and the Buchalter out of Florida. Players
are rated on a scale of up to 5+. A 5, 5-, 4 t 4-, 4, and 3' are all
major college prospects.
Last year superlative freshmen Kddie Johnson apd Pepto
Bolden came to Auburn with 4+and 4 ratings.
This year Bracey and Mitchell will come with 5+ tags.
Krivacs.Patrick and Pietkiewiz were rated at 5. Transfer from
the University of Arizona, I )ale Deschamps, had a 5*rating in
high school in Chicago.-He choose Arizona over Auburn and
started there as a sophomore, but dropped out of school when
a coachingjchange was mndf\ He contacted Auburn and sat
ouTfiis junior season as a red-shirt.
Davis commented, "If you learn to recruit at a place like
Georgetown, with its little crackerbox gym, then it is a lot
easier here at Auburn. Plus, I've been doing this for 20 years
* and I should know what I am doing by now."
Davis feels that a local jetport would be a big boost to
recruiting. "This is our only hangup that keeps out of the
hub. The interstate to Montgomery is a big help though.
Most kids from cities like Louisville, Chicago, Dayton, or St.
Louis expect a 45 minute drive to the airport, so the trip from
Montgomery isn't too bad.
"I've learned a lesson about flying prospects into Colum­bus.
We had a kid in from Dayton last year and he wanted to
sign, but after coming in on the back road through the woods
and the farms he was scared off. He believed all of those
things that Alabama told him about Auburn."
No malpractice
Rumors around campus, which Bill Bradley's speech added
further fuel to, have caused worry that Auburn is being
investigated by the NCAA .
When asked about this the doctor. replied. "They will
investigate any school that signs an Afl-American. I'm sure
that Georgia, Kentucky and Vandy will be investigated, too.
"That is standard procedure. It has been going on forever,
and it should. A couple of years ago when Kentucky had a
super recruiting year they went over them with a fine-tooth
comb. They found nothing and they will find nothing wronp
with us."
Davis commented on the basketball situation here before he
took over. " Coach Lynn is a fine coach and a fine men. H"
surrounded himself with some lousy assistants. He lost a lot
of alumni support and it finally got to the point when tor
many things were going wrong to make the program well
without a drastic change."
"We are not a solid contender now, and we sure aren't going
to set the woods on fire until we get some experience. I think
we could make a title team in four years. This year we should
finish sixth or seventh at best."
Several published sources have said Auburn has had oneol
the best recruiting seasons of any team in the nation. A
Tennessee scout told this writer he believed Auburn beat
everybody including "you know who" out in Los Angeles.
With the enormous increase in basketball interest and
emphasis throughout the league Auburn needed a big recruit­ing
year just to stay even. Kentucky", Tennessee, Vandy and
Georgia have done very well also. Hopefully the Tigers have
done better. Davis summed it up well saying, "Wehavecomea
long way since last year." Nobody can argue with that.
iThurs., May 30, 1974 Section Twc SPORTS
Clanton finishes successful career
—Dan Doughtie
BASKETBALL COACH BOB DAVIS INSTRUCTS
...Tiger netters had super recruiting year-
By Carolyn Roop
Assistant Sports Editor
When the announcement of
the .1974 Outstanding College
Athletes of America was
made last week, one Auburn
student had been selected. In
light of the controversy over
women's athletics, the
announcement has special
significance, because
Auburn's Outstanding
College Athlete is a woman,
Reita Clanton.
Athletic directors and
coaches from across the na­tion
nominated the athletes
on the basis of leadership, ser­vice,
scholarship and out­standing
athletic accom­plishment.
Reita is now eli­gible
for the Outstanding
College Athletes of America
Hall of Fame Awards.
Besides being nationally
recognized for her abilities,
Reita is perhaps Auburn's
most versatile athlete. She is
a twoyear All-Stater in two
sports and All-American in
another.
Five Tigers head for NCAA
track championships June 5
By Gordon Cone
Plainsman Sports Writer
Five members of the Au­burn
track squad travel to
Austin Texas on June 6 for
the three day NCAA Track
and Field Championships.
Hurdlers Danny Smith and
Jim Carson, sprinter Clifford
Outlin, distance runner
David McKannan, and dis­cus
thrower Bret Dull will
compete.
Clifford Outlin, who has al­ready
proven himself a world
class sprinter by winning the
U. S.-USSR dual meet in Mos­cow
with a world record time
for an American, hopes to
continue in his winning ways.
He is the NCAA 60 yard dash
champ.
"I think I can do all right in
Texas," Outlin said, "but it's
never easy." Outlin said he
expects Tennessee's Reggie
Jones, who he defeated for the
SEC title last week in Gaines­ville,
Fla., to once again be in
the contest.
"Sure, Jones will be right up
there, but I really think that a
9.4 could win it all. And, I
think I will do it," Outlin
reported.
Danny Smith will run the
intermediate hurdles, and has
a best time of 52.0 for the sea­son.
He placed second in the
SEC in a very close race, los­ing
to Florida's Bob Rambo in
the last few yards. Mike Lee of
Kansas is currently the
collegiate leader with a best
time of 50.0.
Jim Carson, who also plac­ed
second in the SEC, could
place in the meet. Carson waf-defeated
by LSU's Larry
Shipp in the conference meet,
fighting him all the way for
the leadr "Shipp, who'is now
the nation's best high
hurdler, is also ranked
oh most world lists. Carson
has recorded a 14.0 clocking in
the event.
Sophomore Bret Dull ex­pects
to improve on his last
year's performance in the
meet. Dull did not place there,
and was recently defeated in
the SEC. Dull lost his title by
only three inches, throwing
173-7. Dull's best toss this year
was 178-1.
Huntsville freshman David
McKannan will return to 3
mile competition for the meet,
after placing second in the
SEC six mile.
"I am happy to be making
the nationals my freshman
year," McKannan said. "You
get to compete against the
very best in the nation, and
that is what it's all about."
McKannan has a best time of
13:47 for the year.
The senior, majoring in
physical education, trans­ferred
from Alexander City
Junior College after her
sophomore year and was per­suaded
to try out for the
volleyball team here. "I didn't
know anything about volley­ball
but I went ahead and
tried," said Clanton. She
must learn quickly because
she made All-State both years
and was also named to the
All-Tournament team in the
East Tennessee State Invita­tional
Tournament.
Basketball was another
story. "I knew I wanted to
play basketball," Reita
stated, and did just as well in
that sport making All-State
for two years.
At last Monday's first
Women's Intercollegiate Ban­quet,
Reita literally carried
away an armful of awards.
She was named Most Valua­ble
Player in both basketball
and volleyball, and was also
given the mostOutstanding
rebounding and offensive
player awards in basketball.
Reita also joined the ranks
of Auburn all-time greats Pat
Sullivan and Terry Beasley
when her number 12 basket­ball
jersey was retired from
future competition.
Reita was visibly moved by
the announcement from
basketball coach Susan
Nunnelly.
"As for the MVP awards,
Reita stated, "It is almost not
right to have one because
everybody is important. Any­body
who contributes to the
team is valuable. I will accept
this award as a remembrance
of you."
During the summers, Reita
plays Softball with an Ama­teur
Softball Association
team from Montgomery. The
team went to nationals and
Reita was named All-Ameri­can
which puts her under
consideration for the ASA
Hall of Fame.
Reita feels that she's gotten
a lot out of the athletic pro­gram.
"The experience is so
valuable," she related. "You
really learn how to get along
with people from a lot of
different places and back­grounds.
'I've learned a lot
more from the coaches and
the program than I've ever
gotten from books." -----
The experience has proved
especially valuable since
Reita is majoring in physical
education. "It gives a special
insight into people, and a
different relationship with
the instructor than in class.
By watching them I can see
the bad points and the good,
and learn from both of them."
The only dark spot in her
sparkling athletic career is
the indifference of the univer­sity
administration towards
women's athletics. "I'm
really insulted that President
Philpott thinks our program
is just a club activity. We work
two hours a day, six days a
week, and feel we represent
the University well. We put a
lot of time and effort into the
athletic program and feel we
deserve a little support."
(See, CLANTON, page 10)
*****
—Dan Doughtie
ALL EVERYTHING ATHLETE REITA CLANTON
...Women's athletic proponent
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THE AUBURN PUINSMM Thurs., May 30, 1974 page 10
Lambda Chi Alpha,
Kappa Sig both win
—Dan Doughtie
LONG JUMPER DRAWS CROWD IN INTRAMURAL MEET
. . . Competition was intense
Leach becomes third
Clanton
From page 9
unbeaten Tiger pitcher
By Sandy Pierce
Plainsman Sports Writer
It all started with Little
League baseball in Selma,
Alabama, for Terry Leach. At
eleven years of age it was dis­covered
that Terry could
throw harder" than all the
other boys so for nine years he
continued to pitch. He is still
pitching. This year Terry
Leach had a record of nine
wins and no losses for Auburn
University. He is only the
third pitcher in Auburn his­tory
to go undefeated in a sea­son.
„
"I got a slow start," says