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Wiley leaves office with call for unity
By Pat Fife
Asst. News Editor
"The games are over — it's time for the
SGA to do as it professes to do or give the
money back to the students to use for
what they think is' worthwhile," stated
John W. Wiley, outgoing Student
Government Association president, at
the swearing in banquet for the new SGA
officers Monday night in the Union Ball­room.
Wiley told the surprised audience that
the Senate needed to be responsive to the
needs of the students.
"You're not there to represent your sor­ority,
fraternity, or honorary," he stated.
According to Wiley, the SGA was not a
unified group, but was divided into three
factions. Wiley said one faction was the
Spades, another was the Senators and
cabinet officers, and the third was John
Mcintosh and himself.
Wiley said, "It appears to me that the
Spades are 10 guys saying, 'I know
what's best for Auburn University, so
let's do it! I detest it," he added.
Wiley stated that he saw no reason for
the Spades except as an honorary. He
compared the situation to a Watergate. "I
don't agree with what the Spades repre­sent
themselves to be," he related.
Wiley said there was obstinance on all
sides, which resulted in things not get­ting
accomplished.
John Decker, vice-president of the SGA
and a Spade, introduced Wiley as a presi­dent
who had changed the SGA from a
body of social elite to a body "of plain
folks."
Wiley responded by saying, "You
mean we could have been friends all this
year, John." "Just kidding," he added.
Wiley said the quarreling among the
SGA was similar to a hog being in a
house.
"Hogs serve a good purpose in their
place, but if you let them in the house,
they will stomp on the table," explained
Wiley.
Wiley said he knew the hog was in the
house because it left muddy footprints all
over the table.
"Students see us quarreling among
ourselves and boosting our own ego
while we overlook the students' needs,"
said Wiley. "This is the hog in the
house," he contended.
Wiley pointed out that, "We need to
take a good look behind us, gang, be­cause
nobody is following us."
Wiley stated that students behind a
unified SGA can accomplish good
Seals and Crofts concert confirmed
By David Botsford
Entertainment Editor
After a "long string of continuous has­sles"
and "near cancellations," Seals
and Crofts have been contracted to per­form
in Auburn May 23, SGA Entertain­ment
Director John Boggs confirmed
Tuesday.
Tickets for the Friday night perfor­mance
will be $4.50, $5.50 and $6.50, and
will go on sale May 12 at the Memorial
Coliseum box office.
The duet of Jim Seals and Dash Crofts
has released six albums on the Warner
Brothers label and their "mellow rock"
style has produced several hits includ­ing,
"Summer Breeze," "Diamond Girl"
and "Unborn Child."
Boggs said he had encountered pro­blems,
during the "effigy period" when
he was under heavy criticism,
negotiating with Seals and Crofts na­tional
promotion agency in Baltimore.
The concert will be the last one for the
spring quarter, according to Boggs. The
Student Government Association has al­ready
sponsored two concerts, John Den­ver
and Tim Weisberg, this quarter.
Boggs explained while the JoLn Den­ver
concert was a sellout and made some
$5,000 clear profit for the SGA, Wiesberg
played to a small audience in the Stu­dent
Activities Building and lost $1,800.
"Only about $850 was taken' in," the out­going
entertainment director said.
Linda Ronstadt had been considered
earlier by Boggs for a spring concert.
"The agency lied," said Boggs explain­ing
he was told she would come no fur­ther
south than Tennessee. Ronstadt is
scheduled to perform in Huntsville May
16.
Boggs said losses, such as those incur­red
by the Weisberg concert, could be
compensated for if the entertainment
committee was allocated money by the
SGA like Spectra, Performing Acts and
Horizons. Boggs said a resolution is pre­sently
before the SGA Senate de­signating
$20,000 to entertainment.
committee
things, but that he got caught up in poli­tics.
"I didn't get warned, but I'm warning
you," he emphasized.
Wiley felt that the SGA should be able
to represent the students without tear­ing
each other down. "We are not there to
get something for ourselves, but for the
students," he again emphasized.
Wiley thanked President Harry M.
Philpott, Dean James E. Foy, and the
other administrators, saying, "It is incre­dible
what they do for the student body."
According to Wiley, "People do not rea­lize
what they do for the student body
and that they go out of their way to help
us."
Wiley closed his speech saying, "I've
learned more about myself in the last
year than the previous 20."
Bert Young, the newly elected SGA
president, then took the oath of office
from Philpott and gave a short accep­tance
speech.
"Looking back on John's remarks, I
hope to strive for a spirit of cooperation
and the betterment of Auburn," stated
Young.
Young said he hopes to see Auburn pro­gress
in its great tradition of "coopera­tion,
unity, and getting things done. ""I
issue a challenge to be unified."
—Dan Doughtie
JOHN WILEY LOOKS ON AS NEW PRESIDENT INSTALLED
. . .Outgoing president had harsh words for the SGA
Auburn TV receives color funding
Half the long awaited funding for
Auburn Television color equipment has
been released by the Federal Depart­ment
of Health, Education and Welfare
(HEW).
The entire grant of $453,750 was
approved last June but then delayed
after the Federal Communications Com­missions
refused to renew the Alabama
Educational Television Commission net-
Mildew causes problem in Mag
By Wells Wallace
Plainsman Staff Writer
Past the neat offices, potted plants and
adviser's apartments on the first floor in
Magnolia Dorm lie the conditions that
some residents feel have not been main­tained
properly by the administration:
the showers.
The showers in divisions, A, E, F, H,
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and I all have a splotchy coat of mildew
on the roof and some have windows co­vered
with algae. The places smell
moldy; some have water standing on the
floors; most have paint peeling from the
roof.
"Stalactites'bf fungus as long as 5V4
inches have formed where water seeps
through cracks in the ceiling and some
students have.attempted to find how
much they grow per day.
Dr. Charles Schroeder, director of the
dorms, was aware of the condition in the
showers but said complications and pri­orities
had thus far prevented an imme­diate
clean-up.
Schroeder said the energies of the
maintenance crew have been diverted to
repairing the air conditioners for those
students who had paid for this service.
PEELING PAINT AND GROWTH ON SHOWER CEILINGS BRING COMPLAINTS
. . .Director says improvements in Magnolia Dorm will be made
He added that the chemical, muriatic
acid, needed to remove the existing mil­dew
would have to be ordered from
Columbus, GA and said cleaning could
begin by the end of spring quarter.
| "We're aware that we have physical
limitations," Schroeder said and added
that the administration was considering
'recovering the showers with ceramic to
1 cut down the amount of mildew.
Schroeder said the humidity and lack
of ventilation in the showers encouraged
the growth of mildew.
"One thing about college students that
concerns me is that they aren't asser­tive.
Only one graduate adviser speak­ing
for one student has brought up the
condition of the showers," Schroeder
said and added that he wished students
would voice their complaints and give
his staff more feedback.
"I didn't think it was our responsibi­lity
to complain," said Jimmy McDan-iel,
2PB. "Somebody is just not doing his
job."
He and other residents of Division F
formed the first complaint about the
showers two weeks ago. Last Friday,
they were given some relief when main­tenance
workers cleaned the mildew
coating on the walls of their showers.
But mildew still flourishes on the walls
of most showers; water still stands on the
floors; and the paint still continues to
fall from the roof. Cleaning and renova­tion
has been limited to simple main­tenance.
work license. Auburn Television is one of
eight production centers for the state net­work.
Some $226,875 was released with the
remaining money being delayed until the
equipment is installed and inspected by
HEW.
The announcement, was made
Wednesday by President Harry M. Phil­pott
and Robert E. Dod, general mana­ger
of the Alabama Educational Tele­vision
Commission (AETC).
"We are delighted that HEW has
released this grant," said Edward Wege­ner,
director of the Auburn facility. "We
can now resume program production for
the state network, something we have
not been able to do for the past few
months.
"Release of this equipment grant in no
way, however, eases the licensing situa­tion
for the state network. Long-term
planning by the commission is still being
held up and will be until the FCC rules on
the new applications."
Major equipment to be purchased with
the grant money, partially matched by
university funds, will include color stu­dio
cameras, videotape recorders and
equipment for color film origination,
according to Wegener.
World's largest bottle
Old-timers remember 'pop'ular store
By Betty Douglas
Plainsman Staff Writer
McCollum's Grocery now occupies land at the junc­tion
of Highways 280 and 147 about five miles from
Auburn. It's an ordinary, one story building. But its.
predecessor, also a grocery store, was anything but or­dinary.
The Bottle, as it usually was called, was a large re­plica
of a pop bottle. It stood 64-feet tall, the height of a
six-floor building. The diameter was 49-feet at its
widest part.
As Mr. Cecil Saxon, Gulf distributor for the service
station adjoining the store, said, "There was enough
lumber in The Bottle to build five five-bedroom
houses."
t h e structure was built in 1924, by Mr. Fred Wil­liams
on land owned by Mr. W.W. Bradley. Williams,
"Cherry Cola" as he was commonly called, ran the
Nehi Bottling Co. in Opelika. Bradley owned the land.
Williams built it in the shape of a Nehi drink bottle,
to promote and advertise Nehi Orange, which had
just been introduced. So there would be no mistake
that the new flavor was on the market, the building
was painted a bright orange.
The ground floor was the grocery store and service
station. "It was the first store in the area," according
to Mrs. Miliken Earnest, Bradley's daughter. "Before
then there were just rolling stores," which sold items
from the back of a wagon as it traveled from house to
house.
The second and third floor were living quarters and
storage areas. The neck of the bottle had windows for
use as an observation tower. From this vantage point,
visitors could see miles and miles of countryside.
A bottle cap, measuring 16-feet in diameter, served
as a "roof."
An oak stairway spiraled around the inside of the
structure.
"I never really paid much attention to it," recalled
Mrs. Earnest, who grew up next door. "I realized peo­ple
came from miles around to see The Bottle but I
couldn't understand why. I just thought everybody
had a bottle like ours."
Situated on the Florida Short Route, travelers con­stantly
stopped there to eat and get gas. "We called
them 'snowballs' because most of them were nor­therners
going South to escape the cold," says Mrs.
Earnest. Her aunt served barbecue and brunswick
stew at a stand behind the building. It burned in 1932,
a year before The Bottle did.
However, Mr. C. B. Priester, a life-long resident of
the community, explained there were not a great deal
of tourists in those days, "but those that did travel all
stopped in to see The Bottle."
Mrs. Earnest fondly remembers that Minnie Pearl
of country music fame stopped there once. She got out
of the car, turned to us and said 'How-dee,'just like she
does on television."
President Franklin D. Roosevelt also visited the
' store on his way to make a speech at Auburn Univer­sity.
According to Mrs. Earnest, "People still come
through and ask about the Old Bottle—especially old
Auburn alumnae and tourists. Sometimes young peo­ple
even come by to see the site their parents had
talked about. It was really well-known."
Mr. George Robertson of nearby Gold Hill Com­munity,
said that "everyone in the area knew where it
was. We sort of used it as a universal meeting place"
Mrs. Earnest remembers The Bottle as "a man's
world. Ladies didn't spend a whole lot of time there.
The men would though. They sat and talked about the
crops and cows and such. There was also a time when
there was a party every Friday night on the balcony
above the service station. My father never would let
me go down there though, because it just wasn't the
type thing ladies did.They had a swinging good time
Really whooped it up."
The Bottle led a famous but short life. Early one
summer morning in 1933, the structure caught fire.
Many people thought it started from a furnace or gas
lamp, although no one is really certain.
The blaze immediately swept through the wooden
building. Mrs.Wilson.aunt of Mrs. Earnest and store
proprietor at the store, was alone.
Mrs. Cora Moreman, a nearby resident recalled that
"Mrs. Wilson made it out to the balcony. From this se­cond
floor, she jumped into a sheet held by a group of
men."
The Bottle no longer exists, but the name certainly
does. Many maps still list the area as The Bottle, Ala­bama.
Also, Trailways Bus Line offers a ticket to The
Bottle.
But more important than these materialistic re­membrances
are the memories of those people whose
lives were touched by the store.
Most of the people directly involved with building
are now dead. And many of those that are living, have
memories dimmed by the years.
But regardless, the story of the Bottle will live on as
long as there are people to tell its story. The Bottle was
a symbol of a way of life, an era, a generation, a cul­ture.
THE LARGEST BOTTtB IH THB WORLD
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THIS UNUSUAL STORE STOOD NEAR CAMPUS
. . .Largest bottle in the world burned in 1933
THE AUBURN PUINSMMI Thurs., May 1, 1975 page 2
Chief Justice Heflin asks support
for reform in Alabama prisons
By Sherri Hughes
Plainsman Staff Writer
Howell T. Heflin, chief jus­tice
of the Alabama Supreme
Court, called on citizens to
support the volunteer-crimi­nal
justice system in Ala­bama
and to help change the
basic ideas of the system at a
banquet of the Volunteers in
the Criminal Justice confer­ence
Friday night.
Heflin named juvenile
crimes, the adult parole sys­tem
and professional crimes
as the three areas that need
the most attention.
He said the three purposes
of the criminal system are to
insure justice, protect society
and correct wrong-doing.
"It is rather inescapable
that America is in the middle
of a crime wave," Heflin said.
"Because of this we must re­think
our basic ideas to im­prove
the court system."
In the past, according to
Heflin, society has depended
on "swift and sure trials and
punishment." In contrast
with this he believes the legal
process shouldn't "begin with
the arrest and end with the
punishment." It must be fol­lowed
up with work by proba­tion
and parole officers.
Heflin said the juvenile pro­blem
is the "most disconcert­ing"
and should have top
Priority.
According to Heflin, juve­nile
arrests increased 1,600
per cent from 1952 to 1972. Of
total annual arrests, 75 per
cent of the offenders are un­der
25 years of age.
Alabama courts treat juve­nile
cases in a "hodge-podge"
way, he said. Juvenile judges
often have no training. "The
fate of juveniles has been left
to chance," he said.
Under what Heflin called
the "new juvenile code," juve­niles
would be given uniform
treatment, regardless of their
county size, and every child
would appear before a law-trained
judge.
The second most important
problem, according to Heflin,
is the adult parole system.
The capacity for inmates in
Alabama prisons is "grossly
inadequate," he said, adding
that prisons become a "gradu­ate
school for crime."
Heflin encouraged rehabi­litation
work which he said
cannot be possible without
volunteer workers.
The third most important
area of concern, according to
Heflin, is the professional cri­minal,
the criminal who has
committed more than one
crime.
There are only a few thou­sand
of these criminals, said
Heflin. "If we could remove
professional criminals, we
could solve a lot of problems
including juveniles and
drugs," he said.
According to Heflin, the cri­minal
should be removed
from society on the fourth
felony.
With the help of volunteers,
there can be a new bridge be­tween
the courts and the com­munity,
Heflin said. "The
court becomes the referral
tool.The probation officer be­comes
the screening tool The
volunteer becomes the re­habilitation
tool."
Volunteer workers reduce
the work load of the paid staff
and cut the cost of keeping the
criminal in custody, Heflin
said.
"The citizen's support of the
law is one reason we have
been able to keep the repub­lic,"
Heflin concluded.
Writes lectures today
on publication design
HEFLIN CALLS YOUNG
. . .said juveniles'
Nick English
CRIME WORST PROBLEM
fate left to chance
Raymond Waites, vice
president for Design
Research, will be on the
Auburn campus today and
Friday for a slide presenta­tion
and lecture on publica­tion
design, and for design
seminars with students in the
departments of Art and
Architecture. His slide lec­ture
will take place at 2 p.m.
today in Biggin Auditorium.
After graduation from
Auburn in Visual Design ten
years ago, Waites attended
Pratt Institude and later
worked in New York on a
series of graphic design pro­jects
involving art direction,
design management, photo­graphy,
illustration, produc­tion
and printing.
His clients included McKes­son
and Robbins, Seventeen
Magazine, the United Church
Herald, Unicef, The Collec­tors
Eye, Ingenue Magazine,
The New York Times and the
Home Furnishing Daily. In
addition to these activities, he
found time to develop several
fabric designs for the Meri-mekko
organization in Fin­land.
He became art director for
A. D. Publications in 1972,
and served in that capacity
until he assumed his present
position a short time ago. His
work is featured in the book
Publication Design, by Roy
Paul Nelson.
In the last year, his designs
have appeared in the New
York Art Directors One Show,
the Society of Publication
Designers Competition, and
in the Graphis Annual.
Following his lecture on
publication design, Waites
will hold seminars with stu­dent
groups concerning port­folio
preparation in seeking
jobs after graduation.
Controversial science writer speaks at AU
—Dan Doughtie
COSMOLOGIST THEORIZES ON CATASTROPHES
. . .Dr. Velikovsky spoke to overflow crowds
"The human1 race is irra­tional
because we do not know
our past," Dr. Immanuel
Velikovsky, controversial
science writer, told audiences
Monday and Tuesday.
Velikovsky presented two
lectures to students and
faculty as part of the Frank­lin
Lecture Series at Auburn.
Speak to full houses, Veli­kovsky
said that in order to
avoid self-made catastrophes
in the future, the human race
must fully understand the
natural catastrophes of the
past.
. "In historical times," Velik­ovsky
said, "catastrophes of
global dimensions took place,
caused by extraterrestrial
agents." In a series of contro­versial
books published in the
1950s, Dr. Velikovsky theo­rized
that a comet had passed
Earth in 1500 B.C., causing
great destruction and the
events of the biblical Exodus. •
The comet, according to
Velikovsky, eventually
settled into orbit as the planet
Venus.
Velikovsky said the human
race had suppressed its
memory of the catastrophes
through "racial amnesia,"
but that its traditions survive
in classical mythologies.
"All ancient religions," he
said, "sprang from the same
source — an astral one of
planetary worships."
Describing himself as "a
heretic in more than one
field," Velikovsky explained
that "what I was doing was
reconstructing the past of
civilization, the human race,
and the solar system . . . I
encountered violent and con­tinued
opposition."
Velikovsky's first book,
"World in Collision," was
published in 1950 and caused
certain members of the scien­tific
community to protest to
the publisher. Faced with a
threatened boycott of its text­book
division, the firm was
forced to transfer the book
rights to another publisher.
Many viewed the incident as
attempted academic suppres­sion.
Velikovsky followed
"Worlds in Collision" with
"Ages in Chaos" in 1952 and
"Earth in Upheaval" in 1955.
Each book offered additional
evidence of global catas­trophes.
"Today," Velikovsky told
his audience, "scientific finds
confirming my views are so
numerous as to require a new
book, which I'm writing."The
discovery of radio emissions
from Jupiter.amagnetosphere
around Earth, and the high
temperature of Venus are new
confirmations of his theories,
Velikovsky stated.
The Russian-born writer,
now an American citizen,
commented that today's
young majority tend to favor
at least a serious considera­tion
of his views.
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Friday, May 2 - 6:30 p.m.
AND
Saturday, May 3 - 8:30 a.m. -
6:00 p.m.
Speakers
The Rev. Karl Stegall
The Rev. John Ed Mathisen
The Rev. George Mathison
*
Registration it $3 which include, all meals Saturday.
Pre-registration i ( encouraged,
Call Wesley Foundation at 887-3101 or come by 134 S. Gay St.
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cents for adults and 25 cents
children.
Canoes and other equip
ment can also be renteu.
Beginning in June the re­creation
area will be open all
week through Labor Day.
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Professors, students debate
pageS Thurs., May 1, 1975 THE AllBURN PUlNftfUN
Speculation varies about end of world
By Pat Ftte
Assistant News Editor
The question of when and how the
earth will come to an end involves a
variety of answers and interpretations
both physical and religious.
"The earth's eviction notice from the
solar system will come when the sun ex­pands."
said John D. French, associate
professor of physics and professor of as­tronomy
at Auburn.
French explained that in five billion
years, the sun will have burned ten to fif­teen
per cent of its hydrogen into helium.
He stated that at this point, the sun will
burn helium and will "swell up into a red
giant, expanding as far as Venus and
singeing the earth."
According to French, astronomers stu­died
the stars for years before arriving at
this conclusion. French said the evi­dence
supporting this conclusion is
"overwhelming."
Jay Lorenzen, 3GHY, a member of
Campus Crusade, said that according to
the Bible, everybody would be on the
verge of killing each other in the Battle of
Armageddon, when Christ will return in
time to establish a new kingdom.
William Douglas, 4GHY, also in Cam­pus
Crusade, explained the Christian
theory known as Rapture. "Apostle Paul
tells how Christ will come in the clouds
and all Christians will be resurrected as
He was," Douglas said.
Douglas said everyone else will be left
on earth. "For the first three and a half
years, there will be Anti-Christ who will
come up with all the answers."
Douglas related, however, that three
and a half years after that, the Anti-
Christ will show his true nature, and the
earth will be rough.
Lorenzen said on this return the Bible
says Christ will rule on earth for one
thousand years and then create a hea­venly
Jerusalem, at which time the earth
will end.
Andre Kole, an internationally known
illusionist wrote a pamphlet for Campus
Crusade entitled "Journey to the
Known," in which he lists 27 signs of
Christ's return in the near future.
One sign, according to Kole, is the Mid­dle
East crisis. Kole writes that the Bible
has said the final events of history and
the second coming of Christ would cen­ter
around Israel.
Kole said Jesus predicted a new Jewish
temple would be constructed before his
return. According to Kole, there is in­creasing
talk among the Jews about
building a new temple. <,
Kole said the Bible also describes a
great army of 200 million that marches
westward over the Euphrates River to en­ter
into the last war of the world, the bat­tle
of Armageddon. Kole points out that
Red China now boasts of an army of 200
million men and they are an enemy of
Russia.
Gennady M. Kosolapoff, professor in
chemistry, explained a theory which
speculates the earth will eventually spin
close enough to the sun to burn out.
"As the earth orbits the sun, it rubs
against cosmic particles and gases," ex­plained
Kosolopoff. "The friction from
this contact will cause the earth to even­tually
lose energy and slowly spiral
down into the sun," he said.
Kosolopoff related that a Russian
satellite recently dropped to earth due to
friction caused by the earth's atmo­sphere.
According to Kosolopoff, this is
an example of what will happen to earth.
Kosolopoff also discussed the theory of
the sun burning up its hydrogen. He said
it is not certain whether the sun would ex­pand
due to the burning helium or if it
would) contract, causing the earth to be
engulfed in ice. "There is damn good evi­dence
that in several billion years, the
sun will burn much of its hydrogen."
Kosolopoff said these ideas are ab­stract
and "none of our children or
grandchildren need to worry."
According to Vath Krisnamurthy,
4MCH, of the Hindu faith, Hindus be­lieve
the universe will be dissolved in ap­proximately
430,000 years.
Krisnamurthy explained everything
comes in cycles in the Hindu religion, in­cluding
the existance of the universe.
According to Krisnamurthy, one day
in the life of supreme conciousness of the
Creator lasts for 4.3 billion years. At the
end of this period, the Creator sleeps for
another «1.3 billion years, at which time
the universe does not exist until the
Creator awakens again.
Krisnamurthy said this period of 4.3
billion years is divided into 1,000 periods
called Yogus. Each Yogu lasts for 4.3 mil­lion
years, then an incarnate of the
Creator comes down to dissolve the uni­verse
and reconstruct it. again using
those who were good to begin the new
Yogu.
The universe is, therefore, dissolved
and reconstructed 1,000 times before the
supreme creator sleeps for 4.3 billion
years, explained Krisnamurthy.
Krisnamurthy stated that at the be­ginning
of each Yogu, people are all
good, but at the end of a Yogu, people
have become mostly bad, at which time
the universe is dissolved and begun
again.
Krisnamurthy pointed out this belief is
more associated with the ritualistic, or­thodox
aspect of Hinduism, rather than
the philosophic area of Hinduism.
Howard E. Carr, physics professor,
said he does not see why people worry
about the end of the earth at this early
date. "People should realize the earth is
much more permanently new, and in­stead
of worrying about the problem of
earth leaving them, it seems they should
be concerned about the problem of them
leaving the earth," he contended.
Registration schedule released for summer, fall
General Instructions:'
Students changing schools on campus must report to
the Registrar's Office for an official registration permit
and relevant instructions. Transfers from other colleges
must obtain official permits and pertinent instructions
from the Admissions Office.
Students should report to the Chemistry Department
in advance of the registration date to determine place­ment
in CH 102 or CH 103 if these courses are to be
scheduled winter quarter.
Currently enrolled and former students including
those changing schools will prepare Course Request
Forms for the 1975 summer and fall quarters by schools
according to the following schedule.
Agriculture
Except for the Biology and ADS majors shown below,
students should clear their course requests in Comer 109
in one of the following periods. Students attending Fores­try
Summer Camp or going to Ocean Springs this sum­mer
may register for both quarters during the registra­tion
period.
Wednesday, April 30
Thursday, May 1
Friday, May 2
Tuesday, May 6
Wednesday, May 7
Thursday, May 8
1-4:30 p.m.
8-12 and 1-4:30
8-12
8-12 and 1-4:30
8-12
8-12 and 1-3
Architecture and Fine Arts
Architecture (including Interior Design): Freshmen,
April 28-29; Sophomores, April 30; Juniors, May 1;
Seniors and Fifth Year Students, May 2; Department
Office and Design Studios, Biggin Hall 210.
Art: May 5-8. Department Office, Smith Hall.
Building Technology: May 2-3 in class or Department
Office, 108 Biggin Hall.
Industrial Design Program: April 28-May 2 from 1-5
p.m. Industrial Design Office, Biggin Hall 95.
Music: April 28-May 2 in Department Office, Goodwin
Music Building.
Theatre: April 28-May 2 in Department Office, Univer­sity
Theatre.
Arts and Sciences
Students who plan to register for the 1975 summer or
fall quarters should pick up registration materials in
their respective departmental offices on Monday, May 5,
and complete their registration not later than Wednes­day,
May 7.
Students in special curricula and those with declared
majors will complete registration procedures with their
departmental advisors.
Business
• Students should report to Thach 210 from 8 to 4:30 p.m.
for accomplishment and approval of Course Request
Forms, April 28 through May 8.
Education
Undergraduate registration for summer/fall' quarter
— April 28-1.lay 8.
Students in the School of Education and in the Dual
Objectives Program who will have 47 hours or less at the
end of the spring quarter, 1975 will register in HC 3084.
Home Economics
Consumer Affairs Department — 4:30-5:30 p.m. April
30-May 1.
Nutrition and Foods Department—4:30-5:30 p.m. May
1.
Family and Child Development Department — 3-4:45
p.m. May 6-8.
Engineering and Pre-Engineering
Registration for engineering and pre-engineering stu­dents
will be April 28-May 8 in 104 Ramsey Hall.
The Graduate School -May 6-8.
Students will report between 8 a.m. and 4:30 p.m. to
complete Course Request Forms.
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Ice machines have been
ordered for dorms open dur­ing
summer quarter and ID
validation cost will be
lowered from $4 to $3 begin­ning
summer, according to
AWS president' Alison
McClure.
During winter quarter,
McClure obtained an alloca­tion
from the Concessions
Board to buy ice machines for
Dorms J, K, G, H, and Noble.
"They have been ordered,"
McClure said, "and hopefully
they will be here in the early
summer."
"I'm hoping we can get on a
program where we can buy
several machines a year until
all the dorms have them. I've
talked with Garth Jenkins,
assistant dean of Student
Affairs, and he says we might
be able to do this," McClure
said.
Referring to the lower
validation fee, McClure said,
"After looking at figures and
seeing how the money is
spent, Dean of Women
Katherine Cater said it would
be possible to lower the cost
since more women are now
getting their IDs validated."
According to McClure,
Mitzi Morton, first vice presi­dent,
worked with Dean Cater
and Assistant Dean of
Women Betty Thomas in get­ting
the cost lowered.
Over 60 per cent of all upper '
class women living on cam­pus
now have their IDs vali­dated
and the increased num­ber
enable the lower fee,
McClure said.
The Junior Counselor Pro­gram
is presently taking
applications from junior
women
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Editorials
Thurs., May 1, 1975 page'
Wiley was right
We admire John Wiley's honesty.
In evaluatine the performance of the Student Government Associa­tion
for the past yearputgoing president John Wiley suggested if theSGA
did not become a more effective force it should "give the money back to
the students to use for what they think is worthwhile."
Wiley's somewhat startling speech seemed to indicate he realizes what
we've been saying all along. The SGA is simply not a government of, by
and for the students. Occasionally a good project is sponsored by the
SGA, but as for being the voice of the Auburn student, it simply is not.
Wiley seemed to think the problem of an ineffective SGA was caused by
the divisions within the SGA. He brought backroom talk right into the
open Tuesday night and called a Spade a Spade. Both he and incoming
president Bert Young made a plea for unity, supposedly unity of all the
power in SGA, be it Spade or anti-Spade.
We agree with Wiley's premise that 10 men cannot possibly know what
is best for all men and women at Auburn University. But we hasten to add~
that neither can a Senate and executive cabinet, however united they
might be. We urge responsiveness to student wishes, not unity for unity's
sake, for the coming year.
If Wiley's theory about the Spades is correct, then a unified SGA under
Bert Young might be unified under the influence of the Spades, consider­ing
Young (as SGA president) is a prime contender for the self-perpetuat­ing
honorary.
More than a few students believe the Spades control campus politics at
Auburn. If Young is truly concerned about unity and winning the trust of
the students, he might refuse to be tapped into Spades, unless of course he
has already accepted membership. This would leave him completely free
of any partisan political obligations or at least the shadow of doubt about
the Spades honorary.
A year with a non-Spade SGA president does not mean a good year for
SGA. But at least it would show a single-minded allegiance by Young to
the students. If what Wiley says is true, years when the president of SGA
is a Spade (almost always), things run smoother, more gets done and
everyone's happy. It seems the students have little to do with the whole
thing. That's sad commentary on the responsiveness of the SGA to the
students.
The senators, SGA officers and even the executive cabinet have a
responsibility to listen to the voice of the students. They are elected by the
students to be representatives, spokesmen and champions for the general
student population. They are expected to take the ball and run, guided, of
course, by the whim of the students. If they're not interested in the ball
game, they have no business running for office.
Wiley knows (like not many of us can) the problems and frustrations of
trivial battle between politicos that delay positive action for the stu­dents.
It's only natural he'd make a call for unity. But we'd like to qualify
that unity he's calling for — let's make it a unified effort to hear the
Auburn student, to seek out the desires and complaints and truly bring
positive change to Auburn University.
Red tape sickening
Red tape, the bureaucratic kind, has bogged down plans for the renova­tion
of the Student Health Center. Blame cannot be placed on any single
individual or agency for the delay of more than a year on the renova­tions,
which the students authorized by referendum in last spring's
general election.
The students, rather, 3,113,of them, voted to raise the student health fee
to $15, meaning an $8 increase in their tuition. Some 1,351 students, inci­dentally,
voted to maintain or decrease the current level of service.
. Three different sets of plans, i.e. schematic, preliminary, and detailed,
have to be examined by several state agencies in Montgomery before the
contract can be let. The schematics were sent to the capital, and in due
course, the preliminary plans followed them. The preliminary plans
couldn't be accepted, it seems, because one of the agencies had lost the
schematics before they were approved. -
The University has to supply more schematics before the preliminary
plans can be examined. We hope the preliminary plans won't be lost, so
that the detailed plans can be approved without further delay.
The detailed plans should have been approved by May 1 so the con­tract
can be let by July. Now one campus official is betting that it will be
July before the plans are approved and even later than that for the bids.
The shame of it is that while these plans are being batted around by
the various planning agencies, Auburn students who have been paying
the additional $8 each quarter are graduating without seeing any of the
fruits of their extra expense. \
We realize and appreciate that two doctors have been added to the staff
and three more will join it in the summer. And granted, the renovations
won't be completed for two or three years after construction begins, any­way.
Still, we regret that the graduating students have nothing but huge
coils of red tape to show for their $8 per quarter investment.
Weunderstandthat red tape is part and parcel of public functions, but
when the snarls strike as close to home as the Student Health Center
renovation, we get impatient. In fact, we're sick over the delays.
And easily lost
Plainsman credibility precious
Rheta
Grimsley
"Beset as he inevitably will be by
favor-seekers, special interests,
press agents, public relations men,
and operators of all kinds, he must
keep himself scrupulously indepen­dent
of their favors and pressures.
This means that he must be strong
enough to make himself unpopular
with those who can smooth his path
or make life pleasant for him.
"He has the obligation to keep the
channels of the press open for a com­petition
of ideas, since only through
such a competition will the people be
able to arrive at their own decisions
of what is right and good."
These idealistic guidelines are taken
from "A Newspaperman's Credo" by
Max Lerner. They are only portions of
eight responsibilities shared by all news­paper
men and women. s
Due to John Wiley's frankness and a
letter to the editor from a past Plains­man
editor, the honorary Spades is once
again a hot topic for political conversa­tion.
"I hear Clinton Stewart was tapped
two months ago...", "The Spades are
crooked...", "Mike Wright's a nice guy so
the Spades must be legit..."
I've heard all these comments and
more, not just this year, but since com­ing
to Auburn four years ago. The names
change, and most students would be
hard-pressed to name two of the 10 most
outstanding men on campus. But the
shadow is still there. The freshman still
has those doubts, and the senior has
most likely decided one way or another
how he or she feels.
My main concern is with The Plains­man
staff, the freedom of the college
press and the shadow cast over our pa­per's
credibility if the editor is tapped
into Spades. I was extremely lucky; since
I'm a female I was not temptedby an of­fer
of Spade membership.
Other editors won't be so lucky.
According to "The Newspaperman's
Credo" (incidentally, it's included in a
basic journalism text used by the Uni­versity's
journalism department), it
would behoove the editor to refuse mem­bership
in Spades. If Spades is only an
honorary (as some hasten to assure me),
then a picture in the Glom will be all
that's sacrificed for a year out from un­der
the shadow cast by false and stupid
rumor. But if, on the other hand, Spades
is more than an honorary, if Spades in
the past or in the present have a hand in
how things are run at Auburn Univer­sity,
then it's even more obvious that the
editor should have no part in the group.
Let me say again that I was lucky not
to have been offered membership in
Spades before having a chance to think
the whole thing through. I might have
accepted, thereby pulling The Plains­man
under a shadow of influence (if riot
direct influence) of the most talked about
"honorary" on campus.
"An obligation to keep the channels of
the press open..." is an obligation not so
easy to fulfill. And believe me, special in­terests
and favor-seekers appear like the
plagues of Egypt as soon as you're
named editor. It's not an easy thing to
tell old friends "No, we don't have room
for that in this week's paper. There's too
much good news to run club minutes."
A good editor could never win a popu­lar
election twice, and a good editor pro­bably
wouldn't want to.
We are extremely lucky at The Plains-man.
Pressure from advertisers doesn't
scare us; there are always more adver­tisers
where those came from. There are
no censors, no circulation problems and
we can be pretty picky about the quality
of news items that appear in our publica­tion.
To let petty politics stick its greedy
finger in this perfect pie is wasteful, to
say the least.
Most of what I've said simply reit­erates
Beverly Bradford's letter, but I sin­cerely
believe the points are worth mak­ing
again. The Plainsman and its influ­ence
are worth fighting for, worth strug­gling
to keep above reproach and "scru­pulously
independent." There can be and
have been editors- who as Spades were
not influenced by the affiliation. But the
doubt was always there.
"Why don't you expose the Spades?"
someone always asks at any gathering of
political-minded students. Well, the
Spades have been exposed. Everyone
knows they have' some kind of political
Ippon!
power, if it's just that their names get
mentioned more than the average run-of-the-
mill student, obviously giving them
an advantage in political life. Some
groups of Spades are scrupulously hon­est.
Others are notSome are of a mixed
variety of Honest Abes and Shady Sams.
But the point is the reputation of the
group.The long shadowcast by member­ship
is harmful to the paper even if the
group isn't harmful.
So I plead with future Plainsman edi­tors
who may read this column. Consider
the responsibility of a newspaperman,
treasure the credibility of The Plains­man
and give the students what they pay
for — a truly free college press.
As the saying goes, Caesar's wife must
be above suspicion — so must Plains­man
editors.
Flash — Flash — Omicron Delta Kappa voted Wednesday against
mailing applications to females for possible fall membership. The na­tional
organization of ODK, a leadership honorary, allows both men
and women to be selected. Each individaul chapter, however, can de­cide
if they wish to invite women to join. Auburn University's chapter
of ODK is one of the last not to include women in their membership.
Mississippi State is the only other school in the southeast besides Au­burn
that has an all-male ODK chapter. Congratulations Auburn
ODK.
Judo builds confidence, not muscles
Christy
Hudgins
track record, and my brother — 6 feet 2
and 200 pounds — plays a mean game of
football) it was pretty easy to feel some­what
like a klutz.
I don't believe I've ever felt quite as
happy, however, as when I telephoned
my parents and told them I placed se­cond
in a judo tournament. Everyone
shared a good laugh — so the kid who'
walks into walls and trips going up stair­ways
did something like that.
People tease me about judo and I usu­ally
don't tell my dates that I'm inter­ested
in the sport.' Yet, I often steal secre­tive
glances at my trophy (my very first
trophy) which my roommate insists on
putting in a place where everyone enter­ing
will see.
It's a good feeling and a one-hour
course has done a lot toward changing
my outlook on life. I think I'm a better
person for it.
"So you're taking judo. Remind me
never to ask you out."
They say it with a smile and every boy
I know has said it. Sometimes I wonder if
there is some underlying sincerity. I also
wonder why men think a girl would need
to use judo on a date... unless he was plot-'
ting something. I really didn't mean to
throw the last guy that kissed me good­night
— he just got in good position for
ogoshi and I couldn't resist.
Seriously, when I walked into my judo
course for the first time I expected to see
some hefty, muscular women. Instead I
found a class of southern belles — some
were short, some shapely, some ever.
beautiful. None of them looked like they
were out to beat up on their male counter­parts.
Some, like me, came to learn self de­fense.
For a few girls, taking the course
meant terminating a romance. Boy­friends
couldn't understand why they
weren't protection enough. They be­moaned
the appearance of an occasional
bruise on their girlfriend's legs or arms —
not realizing the injuries many girls re­ceive
in the feminine sports of tumbling
or trampoline. Their loved one's femini­nity
was lost.
There was nothing boyish, however,
about the tiny 14-year-old girl who took
home the grand champion trophy from
last Saturday's meet. Competing against
college-age women, she soon became the
crowd favorite. And if you ask any of the
men at the contest, they'll tell you there
was "absolutely" nothing boyish about
the tall blonde who captured first place in
the heavyweight division.
What judo has done for many of the
girls in the class is build self-confidence.
Men build their confidence by perfor­mance,
while women often rely solely on
beauty — which is much more relative
than a black belt or a plaque or trophy.
Judo has helped to build my self-confi­dence.
I have never been the athletic type
— in fact, body coordination isn't exact­ly
one of my stronger assets. Before tak­ing
the course I couldn't even turn a
somersault. Coming from a family of ath­letes
(my father played football for Geor­gia
Tech, my sister broke the state 440
On a fence . ..
Ifs easy to be feminine and free
For most of my life, I've remained on a
fence. My strongest opinions have not
been about social, economic or political
situations in the world, but about those
things that affect me personally.
Women's liberation has been a move­ment
that I have not been able to ignore.
Bi>cau8e of this, I have worked out a com­promise
which I think offers women the
best of two worlds. Other semi-liberated
women know the system. The guidelines
below are presented for the benefit of the
male companions of these women.
Hold doors open and open car doors for
her when taking her to classes, on a date
or to church.
Never do the above when taking her to
a NOW meeting.
• Never say "barefoot and pregnant" in
the same sentence. When she is preg­nant,
tell her often how beautiful she is.
Never say "dumb broad," "chick,"
"damn women drivers," or "what a
body!" Do not ogle or whistle.
Agree with her about what great
strides women have made towards
equality.
Never say, "If women want to be equal
to men, give 'em guns and make soldiers
out of 'em."
Agree that women should get equal
pay for equal work. Agree that job discri­mination
against women must be
stopped.
Never say, "No wife of mine is ever go­ing
to work."
Do not think of her as a sex object. If
you cannot control your thoughts, don't
let her know what you're thinking.
When she wears a dress, don't ask her
why her legs are out of hibernation.
Don't act surprised that she has legs.
Be romantic. (Remember heron Valen­tine's
Day, Christmas, her birthday, the
anniversary of the first time you kissed
her, Groundhog's Day and the 4th of
July.)
Remember her with flowers. A dozen
red roses is proof of true love, especially if
you have to go without supper for two
weeks to pay for them. (Don't tell her
about the sacrifice, just make sure that
she finds out about it.) Daisies are nice,
too, and are cheaper than roses. Wild flo­wers
picked while picnicing at Chewacla
are good also, and they're free.
Never say, "...but nice girls don't
smoke ... don't drink ... don't cuss ..."
while you are smoking, drinking and/or
cussing.
Compliment her. Build her up and
she'll do the same for you. Listen to her
when she's down. Advise her, but only
when she asks for help. Treat her like a
woman.
In other words, be a gentleman, be a
true Southern gentleman, but don't be a
chauvinist. -
THE AUBURN PUINSMAN
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Rheta Grimsley, Editor
Mitch Garriott, Business Manager
ACP rated "All American"
Steele Holman, Editor-elect
Nancy Franklin, Business Manager-elect
Editorial Board members: Managing Editor, David Nordness; Associate
Editor, Frank Whatley; News Editor, Mike Jackson; Sports Editor, Mark
Murphy; Features Editor, Christy Hudgins; Editor-elect, Steele Holman;
Editor, Editorial Board Chairman, Rheta Grimsley.
Technical Editor, Tina Likos; Entertainment Editor, David Botsford; Photo­graphic
Editor, Dan Doughtie; Copy Editor, Jodi Leach.
Assistant News Editor, Pat Fite; • Assistant Sports Editor, Carolyn
Roop; Assistant Copy Editor, Diane Uthlaut; Assistant Photographic Editor,
Dave Brown; Assistant Features Editor, Maureen Drost; Assistant Entertain­ment
Editor, Jimmy Parham; Assistant Technical Editor, Bonita Apperson.
The Auburn Plainsman is the student-edited newspaper of Auburn Univer­sity.
Signed columns represent the opinion of the writer, while unsigned editor­ials
represent the opinion of The Plainsman's Editorial Board.
Many Auburn grads are in an excel­lent
position to ruin themselves finan­cially
and to deprive future Auburn stu­dents
of the funds they need to complete
their college educations.
The grads in this position received stu­dent
loans, and an increasing number of
them are subtly stealing the money by ei­ther
declaring personal bankruptcy or by
simply refusing to repay.
This isn't a trivial problem this writer
has decided to harp upon. Nearly 20 per
cent of the fall enrollment, about 3,137
students, received some $3,486,000 in
loans from two general sources: Univer­sity
sponsored loans and student guar­anteed
loans from commercial lenders.
The small number of persons who es­cape
their debt make it difficult or im­possible
for other students to get their
loans.
. It's not that a lot of people take loans
with the deliberate intention of not re­paying
them, it's just that they enter a
binding legal and moral obligation
which they do not have the maturity to
handle.
Exact figures weren't immediately
available at the Bursar's Office, but bur­sar
Ernest Phillips said that the number
of delinquent loans (those 120 days or
more past due) has doubled over the past
two years whereas the number of loans
and the amount borrowed only in­creased
by five percent. Five or six years
ago, Phillips said, there might be only
one or two bankruptcies a year. Now his
office handles an average one or two a
month and recently had three in one
week.
In the case of delinquent loans, it
seems that a graduate, two to five years"
out of school, might conveniently move
without telling the school his forward­ing
address.
A person may file a voluntary bank­ruptcy
under federal law if he declares
that his liabilities exceed his assets. A
court then hands practically all, I re­peat,
ALL of the bankrupt's assets over
to a trustee in bankruptcy. This means he
may lose his home, any land he may own,
his business — anything that can be li­quidated
into cash. The bankrupt is only
allowed to keep $1,000 of personal pro­perty
and $2,000 worth of real property,
which may be land or a building. Then
the trustee divides the liquidated assets
proportionately among his creditors.
Bankruptcy laws are a procedure
whereby an honest person can get out
from under debts he cannot possibly re­pay.
They must not be an easy out for
some recent graduate to get away from
his creditors.
All bankruptcies leave scars on a per­son's
credit rating, but a bankruptcy as
smelly as one by a recent college gra­duate
would shoot down his credit rating
for life, making it extremely difficult to
obtain a good loan in later years. There is
no such thing as a secret bankruptcy,
and the same goes for delinquent loans.
The same of it is that persons who
could but don't repay loans don't just
hurt themselves. These people keep other
deserving students from getting their
own student loans.
When a graduate cops out on a univer­sity
loan, he is depriving one student of
'one loan, because the graduate's repay­ment
is the new student's principle. When
the grad escapes a student guaranteed
loan, the commercial lender isn't neces­sarily
deprived of the funds to give ano­ther
a student a loan. But after a bank
gets burned two or three times, it gets out
of the student loan business altogether,
depriving dozens of prosjjective stu­dents
of a possible loan source.
For those crumbs who don't let the
thought of casual stealing bother them,
there is a little added incentive to mak­ing
good on their loans. After a certain
length of time, delinquent student loans
can now be turned over to the Internal
Revenue Service for collection. And the
Feds always get their crumb.
Putting readers
in their place
Once again, we'd like to remind you of
your place in The Plainsman. All signed
letters to the editor are welcome. Please
type them double-spaced, not more than
250 words and submit them by Sunday
night before each Thursday publication.
We'd like to hear your opinions on edi­torial
content, campus issues or any­thing
inspiring you to'write.
Religion...
'. . . all roads lead to the Divine9
page 5 Thurs., May 1,1975 THE AUBURN PUlNiMIN
Editor, The Plainsman:
With reference to Rheta Grimsley's edi­torial,
I often wish fervently that con­servative
Protestants could see the Truth
that some Westerners and all Eastern
religions have known for centuries. Peo­ple
are different. Therefore it is only na­tural
that they may need to use different
approaches to experience the Divine.
For years I wandered the spiritual
gamut from "fear-pressure" faith to ath­eism,
until I found the approach I am
most comfortable with. It was a disap­pointment
to come to Auburn and find
people who "know I won't make it" be­cause
my path is different from theirs.
All roads lead to the Divine if it is
really the Divine the seeker is after. It
will be a truly beautiful day for us all
when even fundamentalistic Protest­ants
see this. I once asked a Hindu man
on campus if a person had to be a Hindu
to approach the Divine. He smiled softly
and replied, "Of course not."
Davy Jones, 3BI
Letters
to the
editor
'. . . the Bible is our standard'
Bike lane network ' • • • Personal faith counts'
suggested by reader
Editor, The Plainsman:
While we are looking for answers to the
traffic and parking problem on campus
we might look back to a solution that was
at least partially implemented during the
1973-74 school year. That was the year
3,920 bicycles were registered with the
campus security office. Quite simply put,
between 20 and 25 per cent of those that
use the campus expressed a willingness
to use the bicycle as a means of transpor­tation.
Figuring that the average bike
cost around $90, an investment of
$320,800 was made by those who wished
to use bicycles. We can assume that these
people were acutely aware of the advan­tages
of cycling to have invested this
much money.
To actually realize the benefits of this
investment the people would have to use
their bicycles. The trouble was, the cam­pus
planners, specifically Colonel Fun-chess,
director of Building and Grounds,
refused to match the cyclists' invest­ment
with a system of bicycle lanes that
would have encouraged the use of those
bicycles. As things stand today one has
to be very brave and skillful or a fool to
try and use a bicycle on campus. In this
situation the administration has failed
in recognizing the needs and desires of
the population and an opportunity to
solve a basic and nagging problem has
so far been missed. Since no provision
has been made to accomodate these peo­ple
who had the vision to go out and pur­chase
bikes, the number registered on
campus this year has fallen to 2,824.
It is not too late to implement the re­mainder
of this solution to our traffic and
parking problems. If a well-planned sys­tem
of bicycle lanes are built they will be
used, and there will be fewer cars and
problems. I respectfully suggest that a
complete bike lane network, be thought-out
and then built as the money becomes
available, rather than using the piece­meal
approach that has been used in the
past. And bicycle lanes should be separ­ate
and distinct from streets and side­walks.
If bike lanes are to function they
must be used exclusively as such.
I urge all cyclists to make your pre­sence
known by getting out and using
your bikes. Then possibly there will come
a time when pedestrians and motorists
will want us to have bicycle lanes as
much as we want them ourselves.
Richard Rush, '73
Reader notices
'people sounds9
Editor, The Plainsman:
The area between Haley and the Union
Building was like a park Wednesday. In­stead
of traffic noise, you could hear peo­ple
sounds—talking, footsteps and skate­boards.
Freedom from dodging cars, the
quiet and the cancelled classes made All
Pedestrian Day very pleasant. I would
like to see cars kept off campus several
days a week from now on.
Fred Diggle, 3EE
Editor, The Plainsman:
Rheta Grimsley is to be commended on
her tactful handling of a touchy subject
in her editorial of last week's Plains­man.
Although neither of us are Bap­tists,
we have both been subject, at one
time or another, to the pressures of their
typical revivals. We have been shouted
at, appealed to, threatened with hellfire,
and (as a last resort) given large but tem­porary
guilt complexes. Needless to say,
we have remained unforgiven sinners,
even if only in the eyes of a select group.
If a person has a relationship with
God, it seems that the relationship
should be between that person and God,
and his faith reflected in the life he leads.
His faith should NOT be used to relieve
pressure placed on him during an emo­tional
moment. In other words, during a
revival, he should not feel compelled to
profess his faith simply in order to
satisfy' the revival leader.
We do not intend to offend anyone; if
their faith works for them, that's well
and good. But they should remember
that personal (but not hidden) faith is
what counts; not a public show of emo­tion-
studded "faith." Thanks, Rheta.
Claudia Swift, 3SMU
Lisa Schrank, 3SMH
... Try some
more churches *
Editor, The Plainsman:
This letter is in response to Rheta's edi­torial
about a Baptist church revival
meeting (4/24/75). I agree completely
with her that "faith can't evolve from
fear." I have also been to some revival
meetings where the scare technique was
used, and I don't like them either. I feel
sorry for you, Rheta, if that's all you've
ever been to in a Baptist church. I can't
imagine growing up in such an atmos­phere
of fear. Try some more churches,
Rheta—give them a chance. And if you
are ever in Birmingham, I invite you to
the best— Woodlawn Baptist, 5600 1st
Avenue North.
Cathy Miller, lEEC
Please
to the
type all letters
editor. Thanks!
Alpha Tau Omegas
present their side
Editor, The Plainsman:
After reading the last two editions of
The Plainsman, some of the Brothers of
the Alpha Tau Omega Fraternity would
like to express or rather present our side
of the episode that occurred during the
Viking Party, which we might add has
yet to be presented.
We have from the very beginning
admitted that the accident involved was
our fault and that we should have been
punished for it. This statement was pre­sented
to both the IFC Court and the
Committee on Fraternities and, we also
suggested that we should be penalized,
although not quite so severely. We also
made phone calls and sent letters of apol­ogy
to all parties concerned, as well as
i immediately paid the $50 worth of medi­cal
bills which, by the way, were for X-rays
for a scraped arm. All parties stated
that either the situation was fine or for­gotten,
and one father even stated that,
"Yes, I remember, it hasn't been too long
since I was in a fraternity."
We would also like to publicly apolo­gize
to the University for damage that
was certainly done to its reputation. We
have offered our services to the Univer­sity
for any way or ways that we can
amend or repair the damage done.
Finally, we would like to say that we
respect the job that the committee mem­bers
did for it was a duty that had to be
done, though we question the harshness
of the penalty.
But allow us now to present a few facts
before we are eternally branded "belli­gerent
heathens." We have tried to base
the last couple of years stressing two
points — having a good time and being
an asset to Auburn University. This we
have done. We think that the articles
lately about the Viking Party have
clearly demonstrated that we have a
good time, so we will not bring it to your
attention again.
Last year we won the All-Campus
Trophy for the most money donated to
the drive which goes to local charities.
This year we are again in contention for
the award. At present, we are still strong
in the running for the Ralph Draughon
Award which is presented by the IFC for
most outstanding service to the commun­ity
by a fraternity, we were the first
fraternity to volunteer to play Draper
Prison in both football and Softball, we
have had Christmas parties and Easter
egg hunts for underprivileged children,
and we participated in every Greek
Week function, even the Field Day,
which was cancelled because of the lack
of fraternities entering. Also last fall, we
assisted Alpha Chi Omega sorority in
raising over $1,100 for cystic fibrosis.
There are many more we could bring up.
These points we never wanted to bring
out in public because they benefited the
groups intended for and not ATO. But we
did feel that at this time and due to the
circumstances resulting from the report­ing
of the incident that they were neces­sary
and we had to come to our defense.
Any fraternity would do the same. We
had also hoped that the penalty and the
original article in The Plainsman (with
respect for a journalist duty to report)
would be enough punishment, but appar­ently
not. Hope was, that the matter
would pass on by. It is a shame that one
incident has completely overshadowed
all the good that has been done.
We would like to close with a few
observations. There are other frater­nities
that have their theme parties and
"raise a little hell." This we believe is
necessary for the Greek system and we
support their actions. In fact, last week
while taking my date to the dorm, I had
to use a flashlight in order to avoid the
horse manure all over the sidewalks.
What would have happened if a prospec­tive
student visiting the campus had
stepped in it? Who knows, one might
have. Finally, let us say to you fellow stu­dents,
please do not condemn us, for
wasn't it once said, "let ye who is not a
sinner, cast the first stone."
John Thrower, 4LPO
Mark Walter, 4MT
Don Dison, 2PB
Editor, The Plainsman:
I am writing in reference to your
column entitled "Faith Can't Evolve
From Fear" in the April 24th Plains­man.
I agree with you that the Southern
Baptist church uses the wrong methods
in its efforts to fulfill the Great Com­mission
of Jesus Christ—"Go therefore
and make disciples of all the nations..."
Matt. 28:19. I have found this to be true
for most denominational churches. They
each have their techniques, whether it be
instilling fear of hellfire, peer pressure, or
watering down the Christian message so
it fits in comfortably with today's
society.
I, too, was raised in a denominational
church (Presbyterian), but rather than
scaring us to death, it was so wishy-washy
and lukewarm that the Bible
seemed like a collection of nice stories
and as long as I became a member and
took communion I was bound for hea­ven.
I didn't need-to be "saved"—I was
"saved" when I was baptized as a baby,
even though I slept through the whole
ceremony. I can't blame people for being
turned off by "church." Jesus Himself
said, "...because you are lukewarm and
neither hot nor cold, I will spit you out of
My mouth." Rev. 3:16.
My whole purpose in writing this let­ter
is to show that there is a vast dif­ference
between (1) what most people
think a Christian is (one who is a church
member, "good person," or one who goes
forward to make his decision because his
emotions have been stirred up, he's
scared of hell and besides all of his
friends have already gone forward) and
(2) actually meeting Jesus Christ per­sonally
as Saviour and Lord.
When I went away to college I thought
I was a Christian. After all, I was a
church member and I did take commun­ion.
But I soon realized it meant nothing
to me and quit going to church. For the
FIRSTtime I had toface reality—religion
classes that "disproved" everything I
ever learned in Sunday School, philo­sophy
classes, and atheistic professors,
who must have known best since they
had Ph.D.'s. All I saw in the future was a
life of getting married, raising a family,
accumulating possessions, and acquir­ing
more knowledge, all of which would
end in a meaningless death. I had no real
purpose and could foresee no lasting
satisfaction from my life. I couldn't face
it so I tried drinking, drugs, and all the
immorality that goes with
them—escapism—"eat, drink and be
merry for tomorrow we die."
One day in my last quarter of my sen­ior
year, I realized I couldn't stand it any­more!
There had to be more to life. Out of
desperation I went to a Christian Center
near campus. They welcomed me in and
shared the gospel with me. I began to
realize why I was so miserable, that God
had created man originally to have fel­lowship
with Him. But man rebelled
against God, wanting to be his own boss
and that's where sin began. I was miser­able
because of guilt and separation from
God. All my efforts to be good were as
filthy rags in His sight. (Isaiah 64:6).
The Lord wanted me to humble myself
and come to Him. He provided the ONLY
way by sending His son Jesus Christ to
earth to die in my place. Jesus said, "I am
the way, and the truth, and the life; no
one comes to the Father, but through
Me."'John 14:6) He took the punishment
that I deserved and instead promised me
ABUNDANT life (John 10:10) filled with
peace, love, joy, health and prosperity
NOW and eternal life to come. All I had to
do was decide I wanted to change and let
Jesus make my life what He wants it to
be. He created me so He should know far
better than I what's best for me. I realized
I had to accept Jesus as Lord FIRST and
then He would give me the power to live a
good life as I continued to study His Word
(Bible) and talk with Him in prayer.
After that day I asked Jesus to be my
Lord, my life began changing in an
amazing way. It was slow at first, but I
was losing my desire to drink or enter­tain
myself someway. I didn't have to
seek diversion any longer, I could face
reality - JESUS! I knew who I was, why I
was created and where I was going. I
found I'd rather be with other Christians
singing and praising the Lord or read­ing
the Bible. This life was so good that I
couldn't help but tell people about it!
Just in the past five months my life has
gotten even better! I've discovered what
it means to be baptized in the Holy Spirit.
Jesus said, "You shall know the truth
and the truth shall make you free." (John
8:32) I'm finding out more and more
what He meant! "But when He, the Spirit
of truth comes, He will guide you into
ALL the truth." (John 16:13) I have some­thing
better to rely on than my logic and
common sense, the Holy Spirit teaches
and guides me from God's Word.
Now, the Lord has led my husband and
I to a church that is very much like the
church in the Book of Acts in the Bible
(which is the model for what a church is
meant to be). We meet in our minister's
home and the Holy Spirit has complete
control. We rejoice together without peer
pressure or fear. The Bible is our stand­ard.
We are finding by experience that
every word of it is TRUE and that by
FAITH we can live the life that God in­tends
for us.
Most churches today lack these two all-important
things, the baptism in the
Holy Spirit and complete FAITH in the
entire Bible, from beginning to end. That
is why so many today have such a bad
impression of the church, and as a re­sult,
a superficial relationship with the
Lord Jesus Christ.
"And these signs will accompany
those who have believed: in My name
they will cast out demons, they will speak
with new tongues...they will lay hands
on the sick and they will recover." Mark
16:17-18.
Charlene Dunn, Auburn
Reader reflects on Kent State and dissent
Editor, The Plainsman:
Sunday, May 4, will mark the fifth an­niversary
of the tragic killings at Kent
State University of four young students.
It is a day to pause and reflect both why
they died and where this country has
gone since.
Words, like winds, bend with prevail­ing
winds. In the climate of opinion of the
past few years, the word "dissent" has
undergone a decided transformation. For
most of our nation's history it clearly
meant speech, the unorthodox idea. Then
during the 1960s, civil rights protestors
took to the streets to fight segregation,
and the word became associated with
demonstrations as much as with speech.
As protest increased and broadened, dis­sent
came to be used to describe and de­fend
a wide variety of physical acts, in­cluding
violence toward property and of­ten
toward people.
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The explanation many protestors of­fered
for their switch from verbal to
physical dissent was that no one paid at­tention
to words alone. Sit-ins, lie-ins and
marches became an expression of gat­hering
frustration over a society that no
longer seemed to respond to the more tra­ditional
forms of dissent.
The ultimate debasement of language
became violence, which is essentially a
confession of ultimate inarticulation.
There was a severe contempt for lan­guage
as the federal government vowed
it would not listen to nor be affected by
those dissenting. From the 1968 Na­tional
Democratic Convention in Chica­go,
through both Kent State and Jack­son
State, and eventually culminating in
the riotous and bloody days in the early
1970s, the government forces physically
crushed and imprisoned the Agnew-la-beled
crops of "effete snobs," "tomen-tose
exhibitionists," and "the criminal
left." By May, 1971, the government had
successfully ended street disorders, but
only by employing both persistent and
ruthless methods.
Yet today there still remains a critical
need for the language of dissent. What is
most distressing is the absence of
ACTIVE disagreement with the Admini­stration.
The scandals of Watergate, pre­sidential
income tax cheating, the Ells-berg
break-in, the milk fraud, ITT deal­ings,
and the numerous indictments, con­victions,
and resignations of high
government officials, have all caused a
dangerous crisis in confidence. /
What is now necessary is the critical
summoning of the will to act. It is a time
when the nation is in need of healing,
when the voice of dissenting language
should once again be elevated by those
people whose perspective on society mat­ches
their passionate committment to its
improvement.
Those people who would either pass­ively
and blindly accept, these govern­mental
criminal and moral wrongs, or
puraue«selfish interests while blaming
others, have failed in their duty as citi­zens;
they are as responsible for this na­tion's
slow internal disintegration as
those men in the positions of power who
actively (and sometimes deliberately)
extend and deepen the crisis in confi­dence.
In the words of John Stuart Mill,
"in this age the mere example of noncon­formity,
the mere refusal to bend the knee
to custom, is itself a service. Precisely be­cause
the tyranny of opinion is such as to
make eccentricity a reproach, it is desire-able,
in order to break through that
tryannny, that people should be ec­centric.
Eccentricity has always abound­ed
when and where strength of chara­cter
has abounded; and the amount of ec­centricity
in a society has generally been
proportioned to the amount of genius,
mental vigor, and moral courage which it
contained. That so few now dare to be ec­centric
marks the chief danger of the
time."
Pause for a moment on May 4, and
ponder the haunting words of Cicero: "It
is due to our own moral failure and not to
any accident of chance that, while re­taining
the name, we have lost the reality
of a republic."
Rick Halperin, 9HY
She loves me, she loves me not....
A question of great debate in the spring, with answers coming
in a thousand soft whispers,
coy grins and reaching hands.
THE AUBURN PUINMUN Thur8., May 1,1975 page 6
Dames Club provides plate
for student wives to meet
By Tim Lockhart
Plainsman Staff Writer
"We feel that it is a great
get-acquainted vehicle for the
married students," said
Evelyn Jordan, wife of Au­burn
University's head foot­ball
coach, in reference to the
Dames Club, an organization
of the wives of University stu­dents.
"So often married students
just don't have a chance to
meet each other," Jordan,
Dames Club Faculty spon­sor,
continued, "and Auburn
can be a pretty lonely place
when you first move here and
you don't know anyone."
Explaining that many of
the women who are members
of the Dames Club are stu­dents
themselves, Jordan
gave the example of the presi­dent
of the club, Sally Baker,
who is a junior majoring in
social science. Baker said the
basic purpose of the club was
"to acquaint student wives
with one another and serve as
a friendship group and also as
an information outlet to the
married students. The
whole idea is meeting people
and making friends."
According to Jordan, the
club holds meetings once a
month at the Social Center
unless they decide to have a
special meeting. "We have a
special degree which we con­fer
on the girls when their
husbands graduate," she
said. "We call it the P.H.T. de­gree—
for "Putting Hubby
Through School.' " She said
that the P.H.T. degree will be
given to some of the club's
approximately 30 members
by Polly Philpott, also a
sponsor of the club, on May
21, when their husbands fin­ish
their work here at the Uni­versity.
"The programs of the club
vary from quarter to quar­ter,"
Jordan said, "depend­ing
on what the girls want to
do. Right now we have a bri­dge
club and a ceramics club.
The next meeting will be on
canning fruits and vegetables
at home. Sometimes we get to­gether
and make Christmas
decorations. Our next acti­vity
will be to make crafts to
sell at the Crafts Fair that will
be held in May. The money
will be used for whatever the
girls want to use it for."
The club also engages in
charitable activities, Jordan
said. "We bought clothes for
one of the girls at the Girls'
Ranch and gave her Christ­mas
presents and carried her
through a whole year."
Explaining that "we don't
have a typical married stu­dent
anymore," Jordan said
one of the big problems the
club encounters is letting peo­ple
know that all student
wives—not just those living
in the Carolyn Draughon Vil­lage—
are eligible to be mem­bers.
Concluding that the Dames
Club was "strictly a sharing
of ideas and fun," Jordan
said, "It's just a way for mar­ried
students here at Auburn
to get to know one another."
Students work on plans
for all-pedestrian campus
—Dan Doughtie
Job hunting
Spring quarter nears an end and thoughts of stu­dents
turn to fall registration, finals, placement of next
year's football tickets, the beach, house parties and for
many, summer jobs. Jobs provide money for next
year's education, living and amusement for those lucky
enough to find them.
By Susan Harrison
Plainsman Staff Writer
Pesdestrian Day proved
that a closed interior campus
was a possible solution to
both the energy crisis and the
growing parking problem at
Auburn, Jan Cox, chairman
of the Senate Traffic and
Parking Committee said.
"The feedback on Pedes­trian
Day from the students
was favorable. There were
fewer complaints than we ex­pected
and many students
who opposed the idea at first
.were actually pleased," Cox
said.
Cox said faculty members
were the major opponents to
Pedestrian Day, many be­lieving
that it was a plot
against them.
"The students told me they
liked not having to dodge cars
or scream to talk with each
other but one faculty member
cussed me out while I was
working Wednesday," Gus
Lott, a student senator, said.
Faculty members' failure to
attend classes was the com­mittee's
major disappoint­ment
with Pedestrian Day,
Cox said.
The Association of
Engineers is now working on
a plan for a permanent inter­ior
campus which would in­volve
closing off probably
three main streets on cam­pus.
No date for completion
has been set.
"I would definitely like to
see a plan for a closed cam­pus
passed. I think it's a great
idea and I would try to get mo­ney
for it," Bert Young, SGA
president, said.
"I'm working on a plan in
which certain streets with a
large pedestrian flow, such as
Thach Avennue, would be
closed off for a two-week test­ing
period. If the results were
favorable, the plan could be­come
permanent," Tommy
Eden, vice president of the
SGA, said.
According to Lott, "A
closed campus is the best solu­tion
to the parking problem
since it would alleviate the
problem and could be imple­mented
the easiest at little
cost. I don't actually expect it
to be used in the near future."
A student survey with five
or six questions on Pedestrian
Day is now being compiled,
Lott added.
Campus Calendar
PsiCfci
Cruikshank
Dr. William Cruikshank
will speak at the annual ban­quet
of the Auburn-East Ala­bama
Council for Excep­tional
Children in the Union
Ballroom, Wednesday at 7
p.m. Cruikshank, a noted
authority on learning disabi­lities,
is professor of Educa­tion
and Psychology and di­rector
of The Institute for
Study of Learning Problems
at the University of Michi­gan.
Everyone is invited and
tickets to the banquet can be
purchased from CEC mem­bers
or the Auburn Special
Education Department.
Sociology
Alpha Kappa Delta, the
sociology honorary, is .plan­ing
a May initiation and in­vites
anyone who thinks they
may be qualified to contact ei­ther
Dr. M. Adams or Judy
Sherer in the Sociology De­partment.
The requirements
are: An overall gpa of 2.0, a
gpa in Sociology courses of
2.0, a minimum of 18 hours in
Sociology, including one of
the following courses: Social
Theory (SY 402), Research
Methods (SY 370), or Social
Thought (SY 309). The dead­line
for contacting the Socio­logy
Department is Monday.
"Johnny Carton"
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Speech Basketball clink Nome Economics
Psi Chi and the Depart­ment
of Psychology will pre­sent
Arthur L. Benton, Ph. D.,
world- renowned neurologist
and psychologist, who will
speak on "Hemispheric Cere­bral
Dominance."
Benton is professor of
neurology at the University of
Iowa Medical School and will
speak at 4 p.m. on Monday in
3195 Haley Center.
His speech will sketch the
evolution and present status
of man's knowledge of hemi­spheric
assymmetry of func­tioning.
Pre-Vef
The Pre-Veterinary Assoc­iation
will be meeting Mon­day
at 7 p.m. in 144 Large Ani­mal
Clinic. Dr. John Jagar
will be presenting a program
on reproduction in horses, in­cluding
a film on the birth of a
foal.
The Auburn University
Student Speech and Hearing
Association will meet Mon­day
at 7 p.m. in 1224 Haley
Center.
A women's basketball cli­nic
will be held at the Sports
Arena at 4:15 p.m. from May
5-8 and from May 12-16. For
more information contact Su­san
Nunnelly at 826-4317.
Business banquet Economics
The Auburn University
School of Business will host
its seventh annual Honor's
Day Banquet on May 13 at
6:30 p.m. in Terrell Dining
Hall.
Outstanding students and
faculty members in the
School of Business will be
honored at the banquet. Fol­lowing
dinner and the
awards, James Robinson,
Montgomery mayor, will be
the guest speaker.
Christian living
VICC, a seminar in Chris­tian
living, will be held at the
Wesley Foundation, 134 S.
Gay Street starting Friday at
6:30 p.m. and, also, on Satur­day
at 8:30 a.m. Everyone is
invited.
The Auburn Economics
Society will sponsor the film
"Inflation" on Monday at
7:30 p.m. in Thach Audi­torium.
A short meeting will
follow. Everyone is invited.
Amateur Hour
Anyone interested in
appearing with Ted Mack on
the Amateur Hour can audi­tion
on May 12 and May 13.
You must sign up in 228
Auburn Union between today
and May 9.
The Auburn Student Home
Economics Association will
meet Monday at 7 p.m. in 144
Spidle Hall. Vivian Osborne
will speak on the "Rewarding
World of Nutrition."
AID
AED Pre Medical Hono­rary
Society will meet Tues­day
at 7 p.m. in 1203 Haley
Center. The guest speaker for
this meeting is Dr. Hauzuri, a
well known neurosurgeon
from Columbus, GA, who is a
graduate of Emory Univer­sity.
All interested students
and faculty are invited to at­tend.
Before the meeting, a spe­cial
meeting will be held for
all newly tapped students at 6
p.m. in 1203 Haley Center
concerning their upcoming
initiation into AED.
Secretary test
given today
Auburn University will ser­ve
as an examination center
for the 1975 annual Certified
Professional Secretaryexami-nation
to be administered
today and Friday.
The examination is open to
all secretaries who meet the
specific educational require­ments
in combination with
specified years of verified
secretarial experience, ac­cording
to assistant profes­sor
Evelyn Bond of the voca­tional
and adult education
department.
Applications for the 1976
examination are now being
accepted by the Institute for
Certifying Secretaries, 2440
Pershing Road, Suite G-10,
Kansas City, MO, 64108.
Astronomy
Dr. Arnold Heiser, asso­ciate
professor of Astronomy
at Vanderbilt University, will
give a public lecture May 8 at
8 p.m. in 307 Parker Hall. His
lecture on "Galaxies and Cos­mologies"
will discuss the ori­gin
and structure of the uni­verse
as interpreted from cur­rent
information on galaxies.
Heiser is coming to Auburn
as part of the American As­tronomical
Society's Harlow
Shapley Visiting Lecture­ships
in Astronomy. This is a
program whereby outstand­ing
scientists in the field of
astronomy- visit college cam­puses
throughout the United
States.
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Off-year for basketball talent
By Mark Murphy
Sports Editor
Nobody :Could realistically expect Auburn's basketball
coaching staff to match the 1974 list of signees it was able to
attract to the Plains. And frankly, so far, the recruiting busi­ness
has been mediocre when compared with last season.
The first Tiger signee, 6-8 Cedric Hordges of Montgomery's
Robert E. Lee High, was a bonafide prep Ail-American. He is
the only one the Tigers will sign though. Last year Mike
Mitchell, Myles Patrick, Jim Krivacs and Wayne Bracy all
earned that honor. Stan Pietkiewicz was an honorable men­tion
All-American.
The second signee, 6-8 Jeff Adams of Lake Weir in Florida,
which is Eddie Johnson's high school, is not the answer to
Auburn's number one recruiting priority — a dominant big
man. If you want to see Adams play next year, I would advise
you to get to Memorial Coliseum early — about 5:15 p.m. when
the junior varsity game starts. Johnson's little brother will be
a senior next year after a great junior year as Adams' team­mate.
The younger Johnson is considered by some to be at
least as good a prospect as Eddie.
Last week Auburn signed 6-10 Dennis Tindle from a small
high school in Whitley City, KY. The four-year high school
starter wasn't a dominant high school big man, but he has the
potential to help Auburn someday; however, I don't think the
other Tiger centers will be losing any sleep because Tindle is
coming to town.
Other than Hordges, the only other freshman who might
help the varsity next season would be 6-4 Dom Fucci, named
"Mr. Basketball" in Kentucky prep ball last year. Fucci
signed with Auburn this week after narrowing his choices
down to Auburn and Cincinnati. He played forward in high
school, but will have to make the transition to guard in col­lege.
-No big men to be signed
Tiger coach Bob Davis doesn't know when his recruiting
will be wrapped up for this year. The staff of Larry Phillips
and John Lykins, along with graduate assistant and junior
varsity coach Bob Pritchett, won't sign more than five this
year. They already have their eyes on some high school
juniors who could be dominant men in the middle, because
competition for that kind of player is intense.
Why didn't Auburn get a seven-footer who could shoot like
Eddie Johnson, play defense like Wayne Bracy or jump like
Mike Mitchell? There just weren't any to be recruited this
year.
Last season the high school senior crop was loaded with
top-notch basketball.plavers.Thi8 year it wasn't, especially in
the East where AU must recruit. California was loaded with
talent, but as far as Davis and Auburn are concerned, they
might as well have been in Siberia.
It would take a minor miracle to get a really talented player
to leave the basketball-conscious West Coast and come here.
Traditionally the good California players stay near home
which is one of the reasons the Pacific Eight Conference is so
strong.
According to Davis, other than Hordges, there were only
two big men in the East who could have stepped into Auburn's
starting lineup and given his team a lot of help. A big center
out of Baltimore named Gibson, who has signed with Mary- •
land and Darryl "Dr. D." Dawkins from Florida are two any
coach would want. "Dawkins overshadowed everybody in the
state of Florida," Davis noted. "He doesn't have any business
anywhere but in the pros."
There was speculation AU might sign a 7-2 center from
Chicago named Dore or a seven-footer from South Bend, IN,
named Sudhop. Auburn has apparently lost in the battle for
these two, but Da vis doesn't appear too upset about it. "After
I watched them play in all-star games, I decided they would
be thirdstring centers at Auburn." Sudhop is leaning towards
Purdue and Dore towards hometown Northwestern.
Davis was upset about losing Indiana prep star Rich
Valviucious, a 6-5 swing man, who will play for Indiana and
Bobby Knight. Commenting on the player who narrowed his
ftioices to AU and Indiana, Davis said, "Everybody in the
United States was after him. He is the first guy we have really
recruited hard and lost. We did a real good recruiting job on
him."
Another reason Auburn's recruiting wasn't as good as last
year is that Davis just didn't spend as much time on the road
sweet-talking high school basketball players. Last year Davis
admitted recruiting was his top priority. In fact, he watched
Mitchell play 20 high school games. With his Tigers in the
thick of the SEC race this season, Davis' priorities gladly were
changed.
-Few All-Americans in South
Considering the lack of talent in the East and South,
nobody can blame Davis for staying near home until the col­lege
season was over. Last year in Georgia alone there were
six prep Ail-Americans. There were none there this year and
you would be hard pressed to find six in the entire South.
Of the SEC schools Kentucky, runnerup for the national
championship, has picked up the most highly regarded
player. Bill Willoughby, 6-9, a New Jersey native with moves
like Fly Williams, decicided to play ball for Joe Hall. You can
count on seeing Mr. Willoughby's name again. Kentucky has
signed some other good players to try to fill in the gap left by
four graduating starters.
Alabama has probably had the next best recruiting year,
but with two key starters gone and almost no bench, they
needed help desperately. The only Bama signee Davis would
probably have wanted is 6-5 All-American forward Reginald
King from Birmingham but Auburn never put a lot of effort
into recruiting him or any other forwards. With Mike
Mitchell, Pepto Bolden, Myles Patrick and others returning at
forward, there would have to be some talented and unhappy
people sitting on the bench. Looking at SEC recruiting as a
whole, Davis predicted that, "Nobody has signed more than
one player who has the potential to start next season."
Last year's signees were highly regarded on the Garfinkel
of New York, Bonds of Ohio and the Buchalter of Florida
scales, which are rating services colleges rely on to find top
prospects. Players are rated on a scale of one to five, with five
plus reserved for the very best. Juniors-to-be Johnson and
Bolden came to Auburn with four-plus and four ratings
respectively. Bracy and Mitchell were tagged five-plus, while
Krivacs, Patrick and Pietkiewicz were rated as fives.
This year Hordges is Auburn's only five. King of Alabama
got the same rating. Centers Tindle and Adams earned four-plus
and four marks respectively. Fucci is rated as a four-plus.
Anybody down to a three is considered to have potential to
play major college ball. The other players Auburn is trying to
persuade to play here are rated four-plus or lower.
The two new Tigers to watch are Hordges and Fucci. "He
will play," Davis predicted in a matter-of-fact tone when
asked about Hordges. "We had a real battle signing him.
Pittsburgh and South Carolina wanted him desperately,"
Davis added.
Commenting on Fucci, Davis said, "I don't believe he will
break into the starting lineup. He will push some people
though and make themreally work. Fucci is aready player who
likes to make people battle him. He is the kind who is always
hustling, diving for loose balls and drawing charges — the
kind of player who could sneak into the starting lineup."
Fucci, a native of Lexington which is the home of the Univer­sity
of Kentucky, was not courted by the Wildcats because,
according to Davis, they didn't want to take the time to con­vert
him from a forward to a guard.
-Thomas could help varsity
With one exception, Davis sees no help for the varsity from
this year's junior varsity team. That exception is big, strong
center Emmett Thomas, an. intimidating. 6-8 leaper and shot
blocker, who can shoot from inside or out. Why he was kept on
the JV squad most of the year is a mystery to me because he
toyed with most of his opponents at the JV level. "He will be in
there going for a starting job next year," Davis said about the
junior-to-be. "He will be giving the others some trouble."
With a year of experience under their belts, plus some addi­tional
help through recruiting, and no losses to graduation,
the Tigers should be giving the rest of the SEC some trouble
next year.
TIGER DEFENSE PUTS A HALT TO A PHIL GARGIS RUN
. . .Defense has been improving this week
—Dave Brown
Sanders 'over the hump' says coach
CHRIS VACARELLA DEMONSTRATES VEER FORM
. . .Offense is moving well for AU
—Dave Brown
After grueling NBA seoson
By Carolyn Roop
Assistant Sports Editor
Making the first inter­ception
of the spring in Satur­day's
scrimmage wasn't
much of a big thing to Rick
Sanders. "I was just in the
right place at the right time,"
said the second unit strong
linebacker.
But the interception and his
overall aggressive play
caused linebacker coach
Frank Young to say that Rick
has begun to get "over the
hump."
Rick has sort of been play­ing
out of position," stated
Young. "He was moved to in­side
linebacker about half­way
through last year. After
playing fullback in high
school and during his fresh­man
year, he has a good bit to
learn at strong linebacker,
but is doing real well now and
is real aggressive."
The 40-yard return was cut
short of the goal line when
Rick was run out of bounds at
the seven. "I should have
gone all the way," he laughed,
joining the rest of the defense
on the sideline. "I guess I've
lost all my old high school
fullback speed."
Switching to defense was
quite agreeable to Rick. Al­though
he was the number
three rusher on the 1973 fresh­man
team with a 5.1 average
per carry, he says he wouldn't
fit into Auburn's veer.
"I like playing defense," he
said. "It's a real challenge. We
concentrate on technique a lot
more than in high school
where defense is mostly ramb­ling
around.
"And I like playing on a
team like the one we have
now," added the Oneonta
native. "We don't have any
real stars, everybody just
plays as a team. If I never get
a lot of recognition and
honors, I'll get a lot of satis­faction
from playing as part
of a team."
Off the football field, Rick
takes his education in physi­cal
therapy very seriously. "I
wasn't really getting into the
school part of it until I got a
job last quarter at Lee County
Hospital. Working there I got
the feeling that I really was
helping people and I liked it.
"Also, I had an uncle who
was paralyzed on his left side
by. a stroke. Now he's walk­ing
by himself and doing
everything he needs to after
therapy."
One person Rick isn't help­ing
is Carl Hubbard, the man
ahead of him on the football
field. They have a refreshing,
friendly rivalry going. Carl
was the first on the field to
-congratulate' him on the inter­ception.
"I'll be glad to get rid of him
next year," joked Rick. "But
seriously, he deserves to be
number one. He's been
around and knows what he's
doing. But I'm going to be
pushing him all the way and
he knows it. At least I'll keep
him from being lazy."
RICK SANDERS
. . .Has potential
Rebuilding the defense that
lost eight key players doesn't
worry Rick, at least not now.
"I was a little worried at the
beginning of spring drills," he
commented. "But after Satur­day
I'm not anymore. We
really started getting toget­her.
We weren't perfect but we
showed the offense we were
on the field. The coaches told
. us that if we could stop our of­fense
we'd be pretty darn
good. I think we will be."
Sanders, once a promising
young runningback, could be
giving his buddy Carl
Hubbard a fight for a start­ing
position, and if he does,
more than just a few people
will be sr-dng Sanders is
pretty darn good himself.
Time to relax for John Mengelt
By Mark Murphy
Sports Editor
"I'm 25 years old but my legs are closer to 50," says former
Auburn All-American John Mengelt, who is now a member of
the Detroit Pistons of the National Basketball Association.
Auburn's only All-American basketball player has the dis­tinction
of being the only Auburn graduate to ever play pro­fessional
ball in the NBA. The leg weary alumnus will have
five months to rest those overworked legs because the Pistons
were eliminated by the Seattle Supersonics in the playoffs.
Mengelt, who started most of the time at guard opposite pe­rennial
all-star candidate Dave Bing, averaged over 12 points
per game while playing about 26 minutes per contest in the 48-
minute NBA games.
In his three varsity seasons at Auburn, the 6-3 guard from
Elwood, IN, averaged 19.4, 26.8 and 28.4 points to lead the
team each campaign. He easily owns the single season and
career scoring records at Auburn.
The sharp-shooting redhead has been with Detroit for three
seasons after spending his rookie year with the Cincinnati
franchise, which has since been m'oved to Kansas City.
What does the man, who expects Boston's Celtics to repeat
as NBA champions, consider to be the main difference bet­ween
college and pro competition? "Everybody is an All-
American in the NBA so the difference is like night and day,"
Mengelt declared. "Traveling about ; 200,000' miles in six
months is the hardest adjustment I have had to make."
Mengelt isn't completely satisfied with his play or the situa­tion
at Detroit. "I don't think I could ever be fully satisfied
with my contributions to the team. If I was on another team, I
could do a lot more things to help the team and I would pro­bably
be playing a lot more.
"I like Detroit as a city though it is a little cold," grinned
Mengelt. "The franchise just changed ownership so in June
when they talk money for next season, I'll know exactly how
much they think of me and how much I think of them.
"I thought we had a real good chance to win it all this year,
but we had some people who were more worried about talking
in ability. Largely because of Mengelt's play, Coach Bill
Lynn's Tigers posted 15-10,15-11 and 11-15 campaigns. After
Mengelt graduated, AU slipped to 10-16 and 6-20 marks.
"I thoroughly enjoyed my years here," Mengelt declared.
"It would have been nicer though to play under the new situa­tion."
One of the most memorable evenings for Mengelt was Feb­ruary
14, 1970, when the Auburn junior threw.in 60 points
against visiting Alabama in a 121-78 rout of CM. Newton's
club. "That game was pretty wide open," Mengelt re­minisced.
"That was probably my best shooting game.
"The final game of my career was the one I probably had the
most control over. I scored 38 points and had 13 assists
against Ole Miss." AU won that game 86-85. In 1970 he scored
47 against Ole Miss, 41 against Kentucky and 40 against Van-dv.
In 1971 he racked up 48 against Vandy, 45 in a 91-85 upset
"/ wish I would, have been able to play here now because
it is an entirely different situation. When I was here I don't
think basketball took a backseat to football—it was in the
trunk."—John Mengelt
a good game than playing one. I'm not going to mention any
names but there will be some trades involving some big name
players."
By coincidence. Mengelt played basketball for current Tiger
head mentor Bob Davis when the second-year Tiger coach
was still at Georgetown. Between his junior and senior sea­sons
in the summer of 197Q, Mengelt was on an American col­lege
all-star squad that toured Europe with Davis as its coach.
Mengelt remembers the summer as one of his favorite experi­ences.
"I wish I would have been able to play here now because it is
an entirely different situation," volunteered Mengelt. "When
I was here I don't think basketball took a backseat to foot­ball—
it was in the trunk." Unfortunately for Auburn,
Mengelt was head and shoulders above the rest of the squad
MENGELT SHOOTS FOR AUBURN
. . .Still all-time AU scorer
of North Carolina State and 40 against Georgia. As a sopho­more,
Mengelt got 42 against Coach Aldoph Rupp's Ken­tucky
club, and after that performanceRupphad his men dou­ble
or triple team the Tiger star.
How much longer will Mengelt stay in the NBA? "That is a
very tough question," replied the personable former Tiger
who visited Auburn last weekend to attend the Tipoff Club
Awards Banquet. "It depends on a lot of things, but I would
like to play 10 years which would be six more. I won't quit be­cause
of a money situation. What I am contributing and how
the team is doing and so forth will influence when I retire.
"For seven months a year I don't see where you can find a
tougher occupation mentally and physically for every game."
Last summer Mengelt worked with a sporting goods firm in
Detroit, but he wouldn't be spending his off-season there this
year. Mengelt and his wife, who celebrated their third anni­versary'
a week ago today, are looking for a beach house in
Florida where they hope to spend the summer.
The six-foot-three guard says the little and quick back court
men give him the most trouble. Calvin Murphy of Houston
was mentioned as being particularly tough. Nate "Tiny"
Archibald of Kansas City was a Mengelt teammate for a year,
. so the AU star knows most of the moves of the prolific scoring
"For seven months a year I don't think you can find a
tougher occupation mentally or physically than NBA bas­ketball.
It is very hard to get up mentally and physically
for every game. "—John Mengelt
guard. "Practices are much tougher because everyone knows
your moves," Mengelt declared.
Mengelt says New York's Knicks are tough for him to score
against because they play a zone defense, which is illegal in
the NBA. Walt Frazier and Earl Monroe, the highly touted
Knick guards, are over-rated in John's opinion. "You will find
a lot of New York athletes are over-rated," he said.
Mengelt played four games on national television this sea­son
and one of the favorite stories the commentators like to
. tell about him is that John was a great linebacker for Coach
Jordan at Auburn. "I think that story got started when I was
in New York City," Mengelt commented.
"I did have some chances to play football in college but
never played. One night in the dressing room at Madison
Square Garden I said I might have been better off to play foot­ball
because I was tired after 18 consecutive days on the road.
I guess that is how the story got started."
Mengelt was a top-notch high school quarterback who turn­ed
down football offers from Notre Dame and others. After his
basketball career at Auburn was finished, the Dallas Cow­boys
of the National Football League drafted him. "There was
so much difference in the money the Cowboys and the Pis­tons
offered me there was only one decision I could make,"
Mengelt said.
The former Tiger star, who is thoroughly pleased with the
success of Auburn's program under Davis* may before too
long lose one of his distinctions. Considering the caliber of
players at Auburn these days, it won't be surprising if in a few
more years the Tigers will have more alumni in the NBA. But
for now, Mengelt has that honor all to himself.
T H E AUBURN PUINCMMJ Thaw., May 1,197s page a
Tigers host Bama and Jacksonville
By Gene Vandiver
Plainsman Sports Writer
Auburn's baseball team tra­vels
to Athens for Friday and
Saturday afternoon games
against the University of
Georgia.
The Tigers return home
Monday to meet Jacksonville
State (AL) in a twinbill which
is set to start at 1:30 p.m.
Tuesday Alabama will visit
Auburn for another twinbill.
Georgia is in a fight with
Irish kicker signs
—Dan Doughtie
MARK HATCHETT RACES HOME FOR A RUN AGAINST MISSISSIPPI STATE
. . .Baseball team won a pair against Bulldogs
In an effort to shore up its
questionable place-kicking
game, the Auburn football
team has awarded its 30th
and final scholarship to Neil
O'Donoghue.
The native of Dublin, Ire­land
will be Auburn's first
soccer-style kicker. He came
to the United States three
years after his father, who
was a world class soccer play­er
for the Irish national team,
died.
O'Donoghue was adopted
by an American priest. For
the last three seasons he was
a member of the St. Bernard
College (A'L . . soccer team,
on which he won All-South
and Ail-American honors.
The new signee is a six-foot-six
200 pounder, who will
have two years of eligibility at
Auburn beginning this fall
because St. Bernard dropped
soccer.
Tennessee for the Eastern
Division crown. The Bull­dogs
lost an 8-3 decison in Au­burn,
but bounced back to
split the series when Tiger er­rors
gave Georgia a 2-1 win.
"They hit fairly well," said
Nix, "but I am not too im­pressed
with their pitching
game. However,, our hitters
are so inconsistent they don't
hit well not only against good
pitchers, but against almost
any pitcher."
The Tigers who are 19-14 af­ter
sweeping a pair from
Mississippi State, are 6-6 in
the SEC East going into the
Georgia series.
Nix says he doesn't know
much about Jacksonville but
did admit, "I know they al­ways
have a pretty good
team. They usually have two
or three pitchers who can pit­ch
well.'
In a doubleheader at Tus­caloosa
earlier this season,
Auburn dropped the opener, 2-
0 but rallied back to take the
nightcap 12-0.
LSU, with an 18-2 league
mark, has clinched the SEC
West. The Bengals are the
only team in their division
playing better than .500 ball
in the SEC.
Baseball team drops two games at Vandy
By John Carvalho
Plainsman Sports Writer
Any hopes the Auburn
baseball team had for the
Eastern Division baseball
crown weredimmedFriday at
Vanderbilt as the Tigers drop­ped
both ends of a double-header,
8-5 and 3-0, to the
Commodores. Monday AU
swept a nondivision twinbill
from Mississippi State, but
Tuesday's series finale was
rained out.
In the first game, back-to-back
home runs by Steve Rea
andDennisBaileygave the Ti­gers
a quick 2-0 lead in the top
half of the second inning. The
Tigers threatened again in
the third inning, with two
men on and only one out, but
David Duffner and Richie Ho­ward
both took called third
strikes to end the inning.
In the bottom half of the
fifth inning, with Vanderbilt
trailing 2-1, Rich Duncan,
their right fielder, hit a three-run
homer to highlight a five-run
rally which gave them a 6-
2 lead. The Commodores
added two more runs in the
next inning to up their lead to
8-2, and a late rally by the Ti­gers
in the final inning was
too little, too late, as the Ti­gers
lost, 8-5.
Davis May was tagged with
the loss, while Lewis Key of
Vanderbilt was credited with
the victory.
In retrospect, Coach Paul
Nix said, "The inning we had
two on, and one out with Ho­ward
and Duffner up, got
everything going Vandy's
way. We had as many hits as
they did, but in the next game,
we didn't disturb them with
any hits."
This lack of hitting gave the
Commodores a 3-0 win, as
Bob Latimer of Vanderbilt
scattered three hits in notch­ing
the victory. Joe Beck-withgave
up only two hits for
Auburn, but one of these was
a two-run margin of victory
homer by Duncan, his second
of the afternoon.
Terry Leach, who hasn't lost
a game in two years at Au­burn,
prevented a Vanderbilt
sweep of the series, and up-ped
his record for this season
to 5-0, as the Tigers defeated
the Commodores 4-3 on Satur­day.
A sixth-inning home run by
third-baseman David Duff­ner
snapped a 3-3 tie. Auburn
scored its other runs on dou­bles
by Dennis Bailey, who
drove in one run, and Tom
Morton, which knocked in Au­burn's
other two runs.
Auburn then edged
Mississippi State on Mon­day,
5-4, in a game which
Coach Nix called "typical of
other games. We only got five
hits against a pitcher who
hadn't pitched but two-thirds
of an inning all year (Jim
Yaggi)."
Jim Handley was the start­ing
pitcher, but he was chased
in the third inning, after
'squandering a 2-1 Auburn
lead as Mississippi State
rallied for three runs.
Mark McClanahan came
on in relief, following Matt
Waller, who was also re­moved
after giving up a run.
McClanahan, a sophomore,
held State scoreless for four
innings, scattering three hits.
. A two-run single by short­stop
Mickey Miller high­lighted
a three-run rally in the
fourth inning which lifted the
Tigers to a 5-4 victory.
In the second game of the
doubleheader, Robert Hud­son,
a sophomore, held the
Bulldogs to only one hit as
Auburn coasted to a 6-0 vic­tory.
"It was the best outing he's
had this season," Nix com-
Tennis team faces busy schedule
By John Carvalho
Plainsman Sports Writer
After a third place finish in
a four team tournament and a
dual competition victory over
Columbus College, the 5-9 Au­burn
tennis team faces four
matches this week before the
SEC championships.
Auburn will have a full
schedule in their last week be­fore
the SEC meet. They will
travel to Oxford Friday to
play the University of Mis­sissippi,
and to Nashville
Saturday, to play the Van­derbilt
Commodores. Monday
Auburn will host Georgia
Tech and Tuesday Samford
visits the Tigers.
Auburn's tennis team fin­ished
third in the Crimson
Tide Classic, held this past
weekend at the University of
Alabama. The Alabama team
won with 76 points, followed
by Southeastern Louisiana
with 60 points, Auburn with
55, and Samford with 44. Ala­bama
will host the SEC meet
which runs from May 8-10.
In the number one singles
bracket, Drew Evert finished
third, after being seeded
fourth. He won his first
match, beating Chip Wade of
Alabama, but was beaten by
Terry Moor, the number one
seed. 6-1. 6-4.
Jackie Bushman, also play­ing
in the number one brac­ket,
finished sixth. Jay Pease,
playing in the number two
bracket, lost his first match,
but won his next two to finish
fifth in the draw, right be­hind
Chuck Highley, who
lived up to his fourth seeding.
Auburn did not place a
player in the top four in the
number three bracket. Brad
Milton, after being straight-setted
in his first match,
swept through his next two to
take fifth place. Fred Ponte
took seventh.-
In the doubles action, the
team of Evert and Bushman
was seeded second. They won
their first two matches, but
were upset in the semifinals
by the third-seeded team of
Pierre and Wade of Alabama,
6-4, 7-5, losing again to finish
fourth.
Pease and Milton finished
tenth, reaching the finals of
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lanetf, Opefto, Auburn
the consolation draw with a
tight 4-6, 7-5, 7-6 victory over
the team of Upton and Lucky
of Samford.
The team of Highley and
Rusty Gordon, helped by a
first-round bye, finished se­venth
out of 12 teams in the
doubles.
The Tigers returned home
to play Columbus College on
Monday in their only dual
meet of the week. They came
out a winner, 7-2.
Two singles victories kept
Columbus College techni­cally
in the match, provided
they could win all three dou­bles
matches. However, this
was not to be, as Evert and
Bushman won the number
one doubles match 6-2, 6-0, to
clinch the victory.
What's
New
for
Spring?
Cotton.
mented. "He pitched his kind
of game. He threw a lot of off-speed
pitches, which broke
the batter's timing. It's a de­ceiving
thing.considering the
caliber of people we are play­ing
against. Still, it was a
great performance. He (Hud­son)
was pleased with him­self.
Maybe he's found his
niche."
Gary Willoughby (1-3) took
the loss, as Hudson improved
his record to 1-2.
As Nix pointed out, "The
season's not wrapped up for
us. We're playing because the
game is complicated. The
only way to get better is to
play. All the games we are
playing now are important."
Looking back at the week
which saw the Tigers title
hopes go out the window, with
a 19-14 record, Nix com­mented,
"I'm disappointed
that we lost some crucial
games, but there's not a thing
you can do. You can't hit and
you can't pitch and you can't
catch for them. You can teach
them, and the desire's there,
but that's all."
"If desire was the only
thing, every player would be
doing a lot better," he con-
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Dennis
Bailey
Out in left field
Steak or shrimp?
By Dennis Bailey
Plainsman Sports Writer
I've been told that a few years ago, while Auburn was in t he
thick of an SEC race and locked in a 1-1 tie in a conference
game, a freshman asked a benched senior what he would do in
such a crucial situation and the senior catcher looked at the
freshman and said, "I can't decide."
"Whether to bunt or hit-and-run?" the freshman asked.
"No," the senior replied. "I can't decide whether to get steak
or shrimp for dinner."
Every baseball team I've ever been on has had people with
bad attitudes. I hear that bad attitudes cost football teams
football games. Well, baseball is not football. It can be won or
lost with a single pitch, bad hop or pool call despite gobs of
determined effort.
Tensing to hit a fastball like you tense to make a*goal-line
stand only slows your bat. Trying to throw a fastball with all
. your might, as you would strain for an extra yard, will only
slow your arm down and make your fastball go straight
instead of having natural movement.
—A gome of timing
Baseball is a game of perfect timing and rhythm. Of course,
we run over catchers, break up double plays, dive for ground
balls and crash into fences which some people call "gutty" (a
football term). But everyone on the whole team could play
"gutty" and if we don't get the clutch hits or clutch pitching,
we will still lose.
You see, baseball is the hardest game I know of to play well
and the most frustrating. I wish vou could hustle your way to
a .300 average. I wish that it was lack of hustle that
was the reason behind our failure to win crucial games. I tend
to agree with the best relief pitcher in professional baseball,
Mike Marshall, who said recently, "Either you can get t he job
done or you can't."
We haven't collectively gotten the job done so far this year.
But trying to use a football mentality to figure out the pro­blems
of a baseball team is like trying to use mathematics to
criticize poetry.
-Wort is xno less'
The effort put forth by the 1975 team is no less t h a n the
effort shown by the 31-13, 1974 team. If anything, some of us
have tried too hard, and in this game, trying hard doesn't get
the job done. Trying too hard is even worse.
But as bad as it may seem, no one on this year's team sits
around during crucial road games trying to decide whether to
order shrimp or steak.
They order both . . .
In a shining example of togetherness and teamwork, the
single members of the team will all get married September 6
just before the Braves-Astros game in Atlanta Stadium.
Following the ceremony, the brides will play the grooms in a
friendly game of fast-pitch softball with Coach Nix's grand­mother
starting on the mound for the brides. The winning
team will get free trips to Alaska and the losers will receive
free Spades lessons from Mickey Miller.
I was very happy to see my old roomie Robert Hudson get
loose and throw a shutout against Mississippi State. Robert,
who loves to fish anyway, finally brought his tackle box to
Plainsman Park and reeled in a fine string of large-mouth
Bulldogs.
AU ruggers blank Bama
Auburn's rugby team tra­veled
to Tuscaloosa last week­end
where they defeated the
University of Alabama 24-0
in the first rugby competition
ever between the two teams.
Auburn travels to Memp­his,
TN, this weekend to parti­cipate
in the Cotton Carnival
Rugby Tournament. AU is
now 3-2-1 this spring while
Alabama fell to 2-1.
The winners led 16-0 a t half-time
as senior forward Jim
Andrews, co-captain Pete
Pelham and Prop Bill Big
each scored a try while Cap­tain
Redneck Ron Crow add­ed
two conversions.
Outside center Charles Nea-bitt
smashed the Crimson
Tide backline and carried
three Bama players into the
end zone for Auburn's fourth
score.
Chad Smith, playing wing,
ended the scoring for the day
on a 25-yard burst.
Soc€er team falls to Georgia
By J o e Jackson
Plainsman Soccer Writer
Auburn's soccer team
dropped a 3-1 decision to the
University of Georgia last
Saturday in Athens.
At the half the match was
scoreless as Auburn got good
defensive play from goalie
Mike Haynes, who blocked
two penalty kicks.
The home team took con­trol
in the second half to hand
Auburn its second loss to go
with four victories. Auburn
won't be back in action until a
May 17 meeting against Geor­gia
Tech in Atlanta.
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By Gene Vandiver
Plainsman Sports Writer
Auburn's track team tra­vels
to Baton Rouge a s the Ti­gers
take on LSU, Mississippi
State, and Baylor Saturday at
7:30 p.m. Auburn was defeat­ed
by each of those teams in
the indoor season.
"We have two goals for this
meet," explained Auburn
coach Mel Rosen. "First, we
want to do a s well as we can,
and beat somebody. Second,
we want to get our best times
of the year, and try to qualify
a few more people for the con­ference
meet."
LSU is t he top-ranked team
in the meet, according to
Rosen, and Mississippi State
should challenge strongly for
the top spot.
"Auburn should take the
100-yard dash, the 220-yard-dash
and the steeplechase,"
commented Rosen. "Also,
there are some other events
we could place well in."
Last weekend Auburn com­peted
at the Penn Relays in
Philadelphia where team
scores weren't kept. A contro­versy
between Rosen and
Tennessee's coach occurred
when 100-vard dash starCliff
Outlin lost sole< possession of
first place in his speciality.
Outlin was declared the
winner of the race, but the
Tennesee coach, Stan Hunts­man,
entered a protest,
claiming his runner, Reggie
Jones, had edged Outlin out.
The head track judge looked
at the Accutrack photo, and
30 minutes later it was de­cided
Jones was the winner.
After a discussion with
Rosen, however, the match
Golf ream 10th at Schenkel
was declared a dead heat by
the officials who said both
had been timed in 9.4.
"The finish judges dis­agreed
with the head judge,
and that's why it finished a
dead heat," said the AU
coach. "Usually the Accu­track
will help, but in this
case it didn't. Jones had Out­lin
blocked out of the pic­ture."
Willie Smith, the seem­ingly
do-everything fresh*-
man, claimed third spot in t he
100-yard dash with a 9.6
clocking. Smith also com­peted
in the mile relay. That
team just missed qualifying,
posting a 3:16.5.
After qualifying in the pre­liminaries,
the AU 440-yard
relay team failed to place in
the finals. Gerald Russell and
Smith never managed to get
the baton exchanged, cost­ing
Auburn a place.
"Russell pulled up and fell
down," explained Rosen,
"anddidn't get the baton to
Smith."
Another fall cost Auburn a
high place finish in' the
steeplechase. J o n Fox fell, but
still managed to place ninth
among 25 competitors, clock­ing
in at 9:15.
J im Carson was the other
AU runner to do well, posting
a 14.0 in the 120-yard high
hurdles for a third place.
Female netters post 7—2 win
Auburn's women's tennis
team will be in action against
the University of Georgia
Saturday in Athens.
The Tigers, now 3-5,
stoppped South Alabama 7-2
Saturday in Auburn.
Coach Nanellen Lane, who
By Tommy Luckie
Plainsman Sports Writer
Auburn didn't match its
sixth place 1974 finish in the
prestigious Chris Schenkel
Invitational golf tournament
as Coach Anthony Dragoin
hoped, but the Tigers did
manage to claim 10th in a
very strong 23-team field.
Defending NCAA champ­ion
Florida led by Andy Bean
who fired a course record 63,
won the three-day tourna­ment
with a score of 1059.
Wake Forest was second at
1061 and N. C. State took
third at 1079.
Auburn, led by rounds of 72,
69 and 74 from Ed Davis,
totaled 1086.
Buddy Smith and Barrv
Holt finished two strokes be­hind
Davis with 217 totals,
and Johnny Coker shot a clos­ing
round three-under-par 68,
Auburn's lowest round, for a
218.
Track deadline May 9
By Howard Wight
Intramurals Editor
All teams interested in par­ticipating
in the intramural
track meet must register be­fore
the May 9, 3 p.m. dead­line.
In league A softball action
last week, Delta Tau Delta
used a six-run sixth inning to
down Sigma Nu by a score of
10-6. Other games had Fiji
and Alpha Tau Omega re­maining
undefeated. Fiji
whipped Sigma Chi, 19-2, a nd
ATO defeated Kappa Sigma,
23-6.
Other scores of league A
had SAE edging PDT, 14-13,
and KA slugging AGR, 25-10.
Sigma Phi Epsilon came up
with four runs in the last inn­ing
to edge Tau Kappa Epsi­lon,
.7-5, and remain unde­feated
in league B. TKE
jumped out to a 5-0 lead in t he
first inning and looked like
they were going to hold it un­til
SPE came up with their
last inning rally.
Phi Kappa Tau, last year's
champion, came off a first
game loss to Delta Chi to wal­lop
Sigma Pi, 17-17 a s they
scored in every inning. Clark
'Ted' Carnes came up with
five hits in the game to lead
Phi Tau.
Other league B scores had
Delta Chi shutting out Theta
Xi, 4-0, as fatum of DC
pitched a no-hitter; DSP out-slugging
KAPsi, 15-10, and
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