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Denver
Capacity crowd expected tonight
By David Botsford
Entertainment Editor
Popular country-rock singer-composer
John Denver will perform belore a
packed house tonight in Memorial Coli­seum
in the first concert of the spring.
There are no tickets available, accord­ing
to John Boggs, Student Government
Association Entertainment Director.
Boggs said the concert sold out about
noon, Monday March 31. Although
Memorial Coliseum seats 13, 239 people,
only 11,050 seats were sold. A movie
screen on which Denver plans to show
slides eliminated some of the seats. Some
seats behind the stage were also eli­minated.
Presley concert was the last rock concert
to sell out in Auburn.
Some students have complained that
they weren't aware that tickets were
being sold. Boggs said he didn't know
when tickets were to go on sale until a few
days before they did. At that time the last
Plainsman had already come out. Boggs
said Assistant Coliseum manager Tom
Sparrow was handling arrangements for
the concert.
John Denver, the 30-year-old blond-headed
tenor who doesn't look a day over
16, the rock superstar who says "Yes sir"
to hotel clerks, watches eagles through a
telescope on the roof of his $150,000 split
level home, picks litter off the sidewalk
and drinks milk instead of beer draws
hoards of teenagers, their mamas and
daddies and even aunts and uncles to his
sellout concerts.
Denver has released ten albums on the
RCA label. "Rocky Mountain High"
earned him a coveted platinum album
award. His latest release is a live album
entitled "An Evening with John Den­ver."
Time magazine calls Denver the Tom
Sawyer of Rock. Rock critics are some­what
harsher using such words as
"bland" and "like saccharine" to de­scribe
Denver's music.
"Liberty," a group that regularly tours
with Denver will help fill the bill tonight.
Denver will appear in Atlanta Saturday
night.
Denver bought his first guitar at age 13
after finding himself alone again after
moving to a new school in Montgomery.
Denver played at local clubs while at­tending
Texas Tech University major­ing
in architecture. In 1965 he joined a
folk group called the Chad Mitchell Trio
replacing Chad Mitchell himself. The
trio, like a number of folk groups during
that period, soon found themselves in the
red about $40,000. Denver turned solo
and eventually signed with RCA in 1969.
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Denver sees himself as being different
from other people in the business. Says
Denver, "That's part of why people like
me. I'm no different offstage than I am
onstage. Because you can't come to my
show without laughing with me and
laughing at me and having fun. And that
doesn't happen at a Rolling Stones con­cert."
Denver may like people, but he doesn't
appear to be too crazy about reporters.
While touring the South, Denver is not
giving any interviews or press passes.
Sims Hinds of Concerts West, promoters
for the Denver concert, said, "You can do
that when get to be that big. Led Zep­pelin
is the same way." Sims went on to
explain that Denver feels that it is not ne­cessary
to have press coverage on this
tour.
Denver has displayed a "take or leve
it" attitude towards television. "I think it
would be a beautiful thing to sing 'Rocky
dancing out in the flowers," Denver
states.
Denver says, "If people want to get
stoned and trip out on acid or Jesus,
that's their business. But if those things
don't work, I've got something that will:
love, appreciation and sincerity."
The Seals and Crofts concert tenta­tively
scheduled for spring quarter is still
in the negotiating stage, according to
Boggs. Boggs also said that he has
booked jazz flutist Tim Weisberg to per­form
in the Student Activities Building
April 20. Tickets to that concert will be
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THE AUBURN
PUINSMAN
Volume 81 Number 20 Thurs., April 3,1975 Auburn University Auburn, AL 36830 18 pages
Election date changed
to publish amendment
The Student Government elections,
originally scheduled for next Thursday,
have been postponed one day to April 11,
to adhere to guidelines outlined in the
SGA constitution.
According to Article VIII, Sec. 2, pro­posed
amendments to the Constitution
must be published in the official student
newspaper in at least two issues prior to
the date on which a vote is taken by the
members of the Student Government
Association.
The proposed amendment did not run
in the last issue of the Plainsman be­cause
a copy was not received until after
deadline.
According to the constitution, the pro­posed
amendment must run today and in
next week's edition. The election had to
. be postponed one day because the stu­dent
body will vote on the amendment in
the general election.
The amendment, if approved, will
amend Section 3 of Article VIII in the
method of amendments adding the
words Homecoming election. Section 3
would then read, "Proposed amend­ments
to this Constitution shall be
S^^^^S^ Constitu-tional
amendment to
be voted on in election
on page 7.
adopted! by a two-thirds vote of the stu­dents
v oti n g in th e general election or the
Homecoming election provided that bal­lots
are cast by at least 25 per cent of the
membership of the Student Government
Association."
The proposed amendment would al­low
the Student Senate to amend +he con­stitution
in the Homecoming election
in addition to the spring general elec­tion.
The constitution may also be
amended by a petition presented in writ­ing
to the SGA president carrying the
signatures of 10 per cent of the SGA
membership.
The postponement of elections also ex­tended
campaigns. Originally sche­duled
to run from 6 p.m. Wednesday,
April 2, to 6 p.m. Wednesday, April 9,
campaigns will now continue to 6 p.m.
Thursday, April 10, when posters must
be taken down.
Campaign statements by candidates
are required by 12 midnight on Thurs­day.
They must be submitted as an
itemized budget to the Board of Elec­tions.
The method for elections will once
again employ the computer sheet marked
by a soft leaded pencil. The votes will be
tabulated by a computer in the computer
center.
Many candidates and student govern­ment
leaders met at President Philpott's
house Tuesday, April 1, to introduce
themselves to other candidates and to
familiarize themselves with University
administration personnel..
Candidates raised many questions
and campaign issues at the meeting,
ranging from the extra fee charged on
girls' dormitories for air conditioning in
winter quarter to intramural facilities.
South's future values
explored at conference
Senate approves Pedestrian Day, salary increases
By Maureen Drost
Asst. News Editor
The Student Senate has approved an
April 23 "All Pedestrian Day" on cam­pus,
closing many streets and parking
lots from use by either students or facul­ty
between 6 a.m. and 4 p.m.
Monday night's meeting also resulted
in organization of a University Program
Council,to work in coordination with
Spectra to organize and plan all types of
entertainment at Auburn.
In other action the Senate passed 30
per cent salary increases for the next
SGA president, vice president and trea­surer
beginning next month, passed a
resolution supporting a bill before the
legislature giving equal rights to 18-year-olds
and cut the budget for "The Tiger
Cub."
The "All Pedestrian Day" plan will eli­minate
traffic and parking on Duggar
and Wilmore Drives and Tiger Street,
much of Graves Drive and West Thach
Avenue and parts of Mell Street and
Roosevelt and Duncan Drives.
Campus Security will have a series of
barricades to enforce the pedestrian day.
Roadblocks at South College Street and
West Thach Avenue and Duncan and
Roosevelt Drives will serve as entrances
for those people who have passes such as
the handicapped, placement service em­ployers
and parents of children in the
nursery.
Map of streets closed
for "All Pedestrian
Day" on page 9.
Members of the committee drew up the
map for pedestrian day.
The purpose of the special day is for
safety, conservation of energy and as a
solution to Auburn's parking problem.
The concept of a pedestrian day ori­ginated
fall quarter.
Jan Cox, Traffic and Parking Com­mittee
Chairman, 4GB, said that any­one
who needs a pass should get one by
April 23.
Gus Lott, Traffic and Parking Commit
tee member, 3EE, pointed out that the
Universities of Georgia, Tennessee and
Colorado, LSU and UCLA have pedes­trian
campuses. "If they can do it, why
can't we?" he asked.
The University Program Council could
eliminate having two major entertain­ment
events on the same night, accord­ing
to David Dyson, 3FI, Budget and Fi­nance
Committee Chairman.
The Spectra Programming Coordina­tor
and the directors of the seven council
committees will be members of the coun-
. cil. The committees are major entertain­ment,
special events, fine arts, Horizons,
recreation, publicity and hospitality.
The Auburn Union Program Director
and Assistant Program Director will be
advisors. The Auburn Union Director
will be project director.
The major entertainment committee is
responsible for bringing big name en­tertainment
in the form of popular
groups. The special events committee
plans such programs as mini-concerts,
street dances, coffee houses, talent shows
and the Mrs. Auburn pageant.
Programs in the areas of art, music,
humanities and other related fields are
the responsibility of the committee of
fine arts. Speakers are sponsored by the
Horizons committee. The recreation com­mittee
will organize activities in the area
of recreation.
The publicity committee will publicize
events, and the hospitality committee
will promote the image of Spectra pro­gramming
through such gatherings as
receptions and parties.
In conjunction with the organization
of the University Program Council,
several changes were made in the Code of
Laws. The position of Secretary of Stu­dent
Services was abolished in Chapter
100 which outlines the members of the
Executive Cabinet.
Also the position of Director of Hori­zons
Symposium was changed to the
Coordinator of University Program
Council,who has the directors of the
seven committees under him.
Chapter 101, the SGA executive salary
law, was amended to delete the salary of
the Horizons Symposium Chairman and
grant a salary of $60 per month from
May through April to the Coordinator of
the University Program Council.
An annual budget of $2,100 to pay di­rectors'
salaries was also approved.
Senators approved other changes in
Chapter 101, the SGA executive salary
law, to increase the salaries of the presi­dent,
vice-president and treasurer of the
SGA.
The salary of the president had a 30
per cent increase from $110 per month to
$145 per month and is allotted from May
through April. The vice-president's and
treasurer's salaries jumped from $70 to
$90 per month and are allotted from May
through April.
An amendment to change the salary
from $90 to $100 to make the figure more
aligned with salaries at other univer­sities
studied failed.
Dyson said the last change was in
1969. He said that after comparing work
loads of the officers the change was
thought to be good. He also said that the
percentage increase would make it easier
for future changes.
Senators also approved a change in
TheTiger Cub budget from $8,140.14 to
$6,523. Dyson explained that the sale of
advertising was unaccounted for at the
time the budget was organized.and was
submitted later.
Can the South maintain its traditions
and system of values in the face of ex­panding
industry and advanced techno­logy?
Will the South continue to ur­banize?
Will it be able to withstand un­limited
economic growth?
These questions will be studied and
discussed by over 150 top scholars this
week at Auburn University's Confer­ence
on Technology, Human Values and
the Southern Future. The conference will
be opened today by Conference Director
Dr. W. David Lewis, with an introduc­tory
address entitled "Technology,
Change and Human Values: The Big Pic­ture."
Poets, psychiatrists,economists histor­ians,
authors, sociologists, journalists
and other professional people from
throughout the South will gather here for
the conference.
Dr. Kenneth E. Boulding will kickoff
the proceedings with a keynote address
this evening at 8:15 in the Union Ball­room.
Boulding, a noted economist and
author from the University of Colorado,
will speak on "The North-South Pro­blem
as a World Pattern."
Boulding will be followed by a host of
renowned personalities, including
Robert Coles, who was termed "probab­ly
the most influential psychiatrist in the
United States" in a recent issue of
TIME. Coles, research psychiatrist at
Harvard University, will speak on "The
Changing South: Strengths and
Weaknesses," Friday at 8:15 p.m. in the
Union Ballroom.
James Dickey, celebrated author of the
novel "Deliverance," and of "Jerico: The
South Beheld," will wind up the confer­ence
with an address entitled "Reading
and Commentary," at 11:00 a.m. Satur­day
in the Ballroom. All public presenta­tions
will carry Forum credit.
In addition to the keynote addresses,
there will be group panel discussions led
by Paul Hemphill, Auburn alumnus and
author of "The Good Old Boys;" Ray
Marshall, Director of the Center for the
Study of Human Resources at the Uni­versity
of Texas and author of 13 books;
H. Brandt Ayers, editor and publisher of
the Anniston Stan Thomas Miller Jen­kins,
former president of Albany State
College; and Edgar T. Thompson, socio­logist
from Duke University.
I
The conference is being made possible
by a $107,000 grant from the National
Endowment for the Humanities. Dr. W. •
David Lewis, Hudson Professor of His­tory
and Engineering at Auburn, is di­recting
the conference and Dr. B. Eu­gene
Griessman, alumni professor and
head of the Department of Sociology and
Anthropology, is serving as associate
• director.
"The National Endowment for the Hu­manities
wanted to stimulate fruitful
interaction between academic and non-academic
fields," Lewis explained. Lewis
and Griessman travelled extensively
looking for ideas, and wrote a proposal
which was accepted by the NEH.
Lewis added, "There are things about
the South that make it the most pleasant
place I've ever lived. We need to discover .
what changes have taken place in the
South and decide whether we can ac­comodate
unlimited growth."
Alabama Educational Television is
filming interviews with people all over
the South in conjunction with the confer­ence.
This documentary is drawing both
national and international attention,
and Lewis says he hopes to present the
film 50 times or more to civic leaders and
business people throughout the South.
Apathy blamed
Elections abolished at Vanderbilt
Next week Auburn students will elect
which students will run their student
government with some 150 running for
various offices. Platforms and informal
speeches will call on students to increase
their involvement and support the SGA.
However, any apathy Auburn has
shown mav seem mild in comparison to
the dilemma on some campuses. At
Vanderbilt University, for example, the
students and administration have given
up on the student government complete­ly,
going so far as to not even hold spring
elections, according to the "Hustler," the
campus newspaper.
John Reed, the attorney general,
cooperating with Brad Millsap, presi­dent
of the Student Association, said stu­dent
apathy on Vanderbilt's campus
had reached such an extent that money
spent for elections was "unwarranted
and would not be spent," according to the
"Hustler."
Vanderbilt's Student Association is
the counterpart of Auburn's SGA. The
suspended elections will leave key offices
of the SGA vacant after April 15 when
new officers were scheduled to take
office.
\
Time to sow
Spring is the planting season for
Eddie Lanier, 6CE, and his wife Ani­ta
along with more than 200 other
students who have taken to the soil
to grow their own vegetables. The
land, near the married students'
apartments, was provided by Agri­cultural
Experiment Station. Stu­dents
could harvest as much as BOO
pounds of vegetables off their 25 by
30 ft. plot, according to Dean of Stu­dent
Affairs James Foy.
J —Dan Doughtie
According to the"Hustler,"a referen­dum
was put before students Tuesday,
April 1, raising two issues; whether the
SGA should be suspended and if an
interim president should be elected to
serve until a new government is formed.
Only one per cent of Vandy's student
body voted in the referendum. Eight-seven
per cent of those voting responded
yes to both issues on the referendum, the
"Hustler" stated.
According to the Hustler!'the Student
Association has no voice in academic af­fairs
and that issue has long been a con­troversy
at Vanderbilt.
Apathy had steadily increased at
Vandy culminating in last year's elec­tions
when three of the class presiden­cies
were unopposed, a spokesman for
the "Hustler"', said.
Millsap, whose term ends April 15, is
reportedly in favor of a new form of
government calling for representation
based on departments rather than
classes, the "Hustler" said.
The "Hustler" added Millsap wanted
the new government to have a voice in
academic affairs as well as extracurri­cular
activities.
The Daily Kansan, Kansas Univer­sity's
campus newspaper, reported last
month top offices in the Kansas U. stu­dent
government were uncontested; not
only were the offices unopposed, no one
applied for them, because of the load
connotation they had.
Candidates did eventually file for the
positions, the Daily Kansan reported in
later editions.
Apathy on student campuses across
the nation has increased, leaving stu­dents
without representation on cam­pus.
While Auburn elections have never
achieved a large voter turnout, usually
near or slightly under 40 per cent, the
Student Government Association on
campus has never run into such serious
problems as suspended governments.
THE AUBURN PUINOVUN •"»"••• APril 3-1975 page 2
University utility bill increases greatly
ELECTRICITY IS AUBURN'S BIGGEST UTILITY
. . . The bill has doubled and is expected to go higher
—Dan Doughtie
The University's utility bills rose last year
212 per cent, according to L. E. Funchess, di­rector
of Buildings and Grounds.
Auburn's energy bill rose from $689,000 in
the 1969-70 fiscal year, to $1,027,000 for the
past fiscal year. "Based on our current con­sumption
to date and forecasts for the re­maining
fiscal year, Auburn's energy bill will
be $1.4 million for 1974-75," Funchess said.
Increasingly heavy fuel costs are the pri­mary
reason the University's energy bill con­tinues
to climb, and relief is not in sight. It
may, in fact, get worse if the proposed $3 im­port
fee on barrels of foreign oil is signed into
law, a University spokesman said.
"The price of oil here has increased 30 per
cent over the past year; natural gas, 29.3 per
cent; electricity, nearly 100 per cent; and the
price of coal, 400 per cent," Funchess said.
He added that coal is in short supply, and
that the University is subject to gas curtail­ment
during cold spells, increasing the
school's dependence on oil.
"We use No. 2 and No. 5 grade oil, both of
AU, City Polite team to fight influx of crime
A burglary prevention cam­paign
will be launched joint­ly
by the City of Auburn and
Auburn University during
the first week in April.
Directing the campaign
will be Patrick F. Pendergast,
coordinator for the univer­sity's
law enforcement pro­gram,
AU Security Chief Mil­lard
E. Dawson and Police
Chief Edward Blodgett of the
City of Auburn.
Pendergast said the cam­paign
"will provide public
education on how to mini­mize
the chances of getting
ripped off in a burglary. We'll
be able to record a description
of a person's valuables and
this information can be
turned over to the police for
their use in identifying stolen
articles.
"A service will also be pro­vided
in which residences can
be surveyed to determine if
there is adequate protection
against burglary," Pender­gast
added.
Members of Lambda Alpha
Epsilon, the criminal justice
fraternity, Explorer Scouts
and Lee Metro Jaycees will do
much of the work on a volun­tary
basis, according to law
enforcement officials.
The public in Auburn will
be notified that the local en­forcement
groups can make a
survey of valuable property
and some means of identify­ing
those residences sur­veyed
will be used, according
to Pendergast.
"We expect to take about a
year to get everybody
checked. Then we will only
have to worry about new resi­dents
each year," said Pen­dergast.
The plan has proved
to be very effective in many
areas of other cities, reducing
the crime rate by as much as
15 to 30 per cent, Pendergast
added.
"This is one of the bigger
problems faced by the city,"
said Blodgett. "The city aver­aged
one burglary a night for
a total of 361 cases last year,"
he said.
Dawson said theft involv­ing
student property has
leveled off during recent
months. Last quarter, his
force investigated 89 thefts
on-campus and 28 off-campus
involving student property,
and a total of 32 cases involv­ing
University property.
There were four reported
burglaries during spring holi­day.
Dee Hutsler, a resident of
Hyatt House, reported over
$1,000 worth of belongings
stolen, including stereo equip­ment,
24 eight track tapes and
60 albums.
Mancil Walden, 3PV, a resi­dent
at lot 104 in Gentilly
Trailer Park, reported $300 of
Horizons lists big names
JAMES KILPATRICK
By Beth Ingram
Plainsman Staff Writer
Comedian and humani­tarian
Dick Gregory and con­servative
columnist James J.
Kilpatrick head the list of
Horizon V's speakers for
spring quarter.
Spectra events for spring
include pianist Peter Nero
and a return performance by
Vince Vance and the
Valiants.
Gregory, renowned' for his
anti-war fasting, will speak
Wednesday, May 7. Begin­ning
in 1970, Gregory fasted
71days, dramatizing the drug
problem in America and in'
1971, Gregory announced he
would consume only liquids
until the Paris ..agreement
was signed.
Washington columnist,
James J. Kilpatrick, who ap­pears
regularly on CBS's ",60
Minutes" in the
"Point—Counterpoint" seg­ment,
will visit Auburn, May .
15. Kilpatrick is a frequent
panelist on "Meet the Press."
Popular pianist Peter Nero
will begin Spectra's musical
presentation when he per­forms
April 15 at 8 p.m. in
Memorial Coliseum. Ad­mission
is free and the public
is invited.
Returning by popular de­mand
is Vince Vance and
the Valiants who will ap­pear
Thursday, April, 17, at8
p.m. in the Student Act Build­ing.
IDs will be required for
admission.
stereo equipment and a tele­vision
stolen.
Residents at Lot 213 of Gen­tilly
reported stolen jewelry.
The value, according to the
police, is unknown.
The Security Office has
tightened its own program of
security in recent years, Daw­son
said, by providing closer
watch over vacant fraternity
houses during breaks and
storing girls' bi<jycles while
dormitories are closed. V
Dawson saicf the burglary
prevention program is Impor­tant
in that it will help people
become aware of how much
property someone else can
carry out in their hands.
Locked doors, home­owner's
insurance and a good
neighbor to help keep an eye
on things are good measures
of protection against loss of
personal property, according
to Chief Dawson.
which have gone up in price 80 per cent over
the past two years because of shortages,"
Funchess said. "Obviously, prices are not go.
ing to go down."
The cost of electricity has increased from
1.33 cents per kilowatt-hour in January of
1974 to 2.29 cents this past January, Fun­chess
said, "and 38.9 per cent of the current
electricity bill consists of the fuel adjust­ment."
January's bill was $58,750 compared to
$36,875 for the previous January. The latest
rate hike is expected to increase the cost per
kilowatt-hour 12-14 per cent, Funchess
pointed out.
"In 1971 the average monthly electricity
bill was not much more than what we're pay­ing
for the fuel adjustment alone now," he
added.
r
The electric bill constitutes the Univer­sity's
highest utility bill, and because of air
conditioning loads they are higher in the sum­mer
than in the winter, Funchess noted. Last
summer they averaged over $80,000 a month.
The completion of Goodwin Hall, and next
fall's expected completion of the new phar­macy
building, will push utility bills higher,
he reported.
"The University's conservation program
has had some effect on the consumption of
electricity," Funchess concludes. "Because of
the addition of new facilities and equipment it
is difficult to pinpoint our savings but they
have been between 5-10 per cent. We are con­tinuing
our efforts toward a more refined pro-
1 gram which should produce another 5-10 per
cent reduction in consumption without seri­ously
impairing our operations."
Domino's burglarized
Domino's Pizza was robbed Sunday night,
March 30, when burglars took $30 from an
open cash register, according to Daryl Die-ball,
manager of the pizza parlor.
"The Auburn University police noticed the
doors were opened about 6 a.m., so the rob­bery
must have happened slightly before that,
since we are in a well-lit part of town," Die-ball
said.
The robbers were probably in a hurry, ac­cording
to Dieball, because they took the mo­ney
and left numerous other valuable items
behind including a pair of calculators valued
at approximately $200.
"The robbers were obviously after the mo­ney,"
Dieball concluded.
There had been no arrest made at press time
and police were continuing an investigation
into the incident.
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ANNE RIVERS SIDDONS
was born in Atlanta, Georgia and
graduated from; Auburn University
with a degree in lihBtratibn.
JOHN CHANCELLOR MAKES ME
CRY will be published by Double-day
on April 4,1975. This is
the chronicle of a year set a-gainst
the framework of the four
seasons. Anne Rivers Siddons be­lieves
a year is a lovely and
unique thing and that the sum
total of our lives is the years
' we've had arid the year we are
living right now. Her work has
appeared in Atlantic, Ladies'
Home Journal, Good Housekeeping
and in the Georgia magazines,
Georgia and Atlanta. Ms. Siddons
is coming to Gayter's directly
from appearances in Atlanta on
"publication day".
PAUL HEMPHILL
was born in Birmingham, Alabama,
teethed on Class D Baseball in Grace-ville,
Florida and educated at
Auburn University and Harvard, where
he was s Nieman Fellow in 1968-1960.
THE GOOD OLD BOYS-A
collection of vignettes covering
baseball heroes of the 50's
contemporary music stars and
other "characters."
THE NASHVILLE SOUND-Delightful
anecdotes about music
in Nashville, "Hillbillyheaven"
including the Opry and The
Leaders In "White Soul."
MAYOR: NOTES O N THE
SIXTIES-About Atlanta's former
Mayor Ivan Allen, Jr. who
brought new industry to Atlanta
and survived Kingfa Issassination
with no crises.
JAMES DICKEY
was warded the 1966 National Book
Award in Poety for Buckdancer's
Choice. He has served as Consultant in
Poetry o the Library of Congress. He
was Poet-in-Residsnce at Reed College
and is currently Writer-in-Residence
at the University of South Carolina.
Dickey is a rare writer whom the
critics praise and the people read.
POETRY
Poems 1957-1967
CRITICISM
Self-Interviews
Babel To Byzantium
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pageS Tfcur.., April 3,1975 TllE AlMJRN PlJMNttUN
High school ACT, SAT scores show trend downhill
University and placement test officials are
investigating why the average standardized
test scores made by high school students have
been sliding slowly but surely downhill since -
about 1970.
The national downward trend is reflected in
test scores submitted by applicants to Au­burn
University as it is in other colleges, ac-.
cording to Dr. Wilbur A. Tincher, director of
educational services.
"The ACT (American College Test) people
say there are two possible reasons theaverage "
is dropping," Tincher states.
"One is that more persons in the lower half
of graduating classes are taking ACT than
used to take it, and these are less well pre­pared
academically than those in the upper
half — these may be people who are not tak­ing
college preparatory classes.
Psychologist studies
controlled heart rate
"The second reason ACT officials have ad­vanced
is that more high school students are
taking the test in the 11th grade and accept
- that score without repeating it in the 12th
grade," Tincher says.
The majority of Auburn applicants submit
ACT scores, although Scholastic Aptitude
Tests (SAT) are accepted.
Similar declines are noted in both kinds of
tests in average scores of applicants, accord­ing
to Dr. Tincher. The average ACT com­posite
score for entering freshmen in the fall
of 1970 — the peak year — was 23.4.
Since then, the average has declined at the
rate of .2 points per year to an average of 22.6
in 1974. The average SAT score of Auburn's
entering freshmen in 1970 was 1060.3, com­pared
to a 1974 average of 1032.3
Sam A. McCandless, program services offi­cer
of the College Entrance Examination
Board's \dmission Testing Program who
was quoted recently in "The Chronicle of
Higher Education," agrees — at least in part
— with the theory advanced by ACT officials.
He, too, cites the possibility that more stu­dents
are taking the tests as juniors and rely­ing
on those results. Overall, he says, stu­dents
improve their SAT scores by about 15
points when they repeat them as seniors.
Fred Hargadon, dean of admissions at
Stanford University in California, specu­lated
on the dwindling scores being the effect
of television and visual media.
"This is the generation of students affected
most by the media revolution," Hargadon
said. "Many of our students are 'viewing and
listening' types as contrasted with 'reading'
types.
"What students read outside of class and
apart from class assignments," said Har­gadon,
"does not seem to be terribly impres­sive.
Perhaps they quite realistically have
less reason to gain vicariously what they can
more readily experience than could their pre­decessors."
Hargadon'predicts that competition for the
academically talented students will become
increasingly intense.
McCandless said that institutions seeking
to prevent a decline of the scores of their en­tering
students would face a "marketing chal­lenge"
of increasing their appeal to a declin­ing
number of academically gifted students.
Auburn makes no special recruiting effort
for merit scholars and has not lowered its ad­mission
standdards from the usual Cover­age
for high school and a minimum 18 com­posite
ACT score, according to Tincher.
"Our standards are essentially the same as
when we began the admissions program in
1961 and already we have 319 more freshman
applications for next fall than we had for this
same period last year," says Tincher.
1
The average ACT
composite score for
entering freshmen in
the fall of 1970, the
peak year, was 23.4.
Since then, the aver­age
has declined at the
rate of .2 points per
year to an average of
22.6 in 1974.
J
How much self-control a
person can exert over heart
rate and blood pressure is the
basis of a psychological study
by Auburn psychologist Dr.
l^eonard H. Epstein.
"If a person could recog­nize
internal symptoms that
tell him his heart is accelerat­ing
to a dangerous level, he
might then apply learned self-management
techniques that
would return his heart rate to
a safe level," says Epstein.
He pointed out that recent­ly
developed non-drug tech­niques
such as bio-feedbacks
and relaxation training have
great potential in the treat­ment
of hypertension and an­xiety.
"We're interested in see­ing
if it's possible to teach a
person to detect changes in
his heart rate and blood pres­sure
that would help him con­trol
such disabling dis­orders,"
Epstein said.
Detection of these changes
is the necessary prerequisite
to self-control, according to
Dr. Epstein, whose work will
center on teaching subjects to
recognize change in heart
rate and blood pressure.
"Self-management of pro-
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blems such as cigarette smok­ing
is easily taught, because a
person knows when he is
smoking. In the case of in­creased
heart rate or blood
pressure, however, self-man­agement
is more difficult to
teach because the internal re­sponse
is not as easily recog­nized,"
Epstein explains.
In conducting the study,
Epstein will rely on the trial
and error learning technique,
as well as a relatively new
procedure known as fading.
"Trial and error learning
involves rewarding the sub­ject
for a correct response.
There is no reward for an in­correct
response.
"Fading, on the other hand,
involves creating a tem­porary
relationship to obtain
the correct response. For
example, every time a sub­ject's
heart rate accelerates
above a certain level, we flash
a light. As the subject begins
to relate the heart change to
the light, we gradually begin
to fade, or dim the light.
Ideally, by this time the sub­ject
will not need the flashing
light to detect the heart rate
change."
HEW rules affect posting of grades
Auburn University stu­dents
will no longer find their
grades posted on bulletin
boards as of this quarter. The
new University policy is in
compliance with HEW's
guidelines for state institu­tions
of higher learning un­der
The Privacy Rights of Pa­rents
and Students Amend­ment
of the General Edu­cation
Act.
President Harry M. Phil-pott
advised faculty and staff
of. the University's proce­dures-
for complying with the
guidelines.
"Grades on examinations
or in courses may not be pub­licly
posted using students'
bers," the memorandum
states. "If a faculty member
wishes to post grades, it must
be done in such a manner that
an individual student cannot
be personally identified by
other."
A University committee is
now developing recommend­ed
policies and procedures for
the University to ensure com­pliance
with the law, accord­ing
to Philpott who pointed
out that any educational
institution which does not
comply may lose federal
funds.
Faculty and staff also were
reminded that this new law
makes all letters of recom-names
or social security num- mendation written after Jan.
Class teaches female psychology
1, 1975 open to inspection by
the student, unless the stu­dent
waives that right in writ­ing.
Standard forms for such
waivers are being developed
for University-wide use, Phil­pott
said.
He also noted that, when a
student requests a letter of re­commendation,
it should con­tain
only a personal evalua­tion
and should not contain
information, such as grades,
contained in the student's
educational record. Informa­tion
in the educational re­cords
may be released only
with the written permission of
the student and forms are also
being developed for this pur­pose,
Philpott said.
The law defines educa­tional
records as those re­cords,
files, documents and
other materials which con­tain
information directly re­lated
to a student and are
maintained by an edu-cationalagency
or institution,
or by a person acting for such
agency or institution.
Philpott said this exempts
notes such as a faculty mem­ber
might make for grading
purposes. "The records can­not
be released to other of­fices
or persons or made a part
of the student's educational
records; otherwise, they
would be considered to be sub­ject
to review and inspection
by the student," he ex­plained.
I
Auburn University is of­fering
its third course in wo­men's
studies this spring with
the teaching of a course on
"Special Problems in the
Psychology of Women" in the
department of psychology.
The new course, offered to
juniors and seniors, will be
taught by Georgia Vallery,
Riley elected seminary trustee
Rhett E. Riley, University
business manager and trea­surer,,
has beeji, elected to the
Southern Raptist Theologi­cal
Seminary Board of
Trustees' I/Hiisville campus,
a graduate institution with a
student body of 1,500.
Riley was elected to an- un­expired
term, and will serve
through 1976. Election to the
board, which consists of
Baptist ministers and lay­men,
requires initial appro­val
by the executive commit­tee
of the Alabama Baptist
Convention.
Riley is a deacon of the
Lakeview Baptist Church,
chairman of the finance com­mittee
and director of the
adult Sunday school depart­ment
at the Auburn church.
Before his appointment as
business manager at Auburn
University in 1973, Riley ser­ved
as chief accountant from
1968. He joined the Auburn
administration in 1963 as
auditor.
associate professor of psy­chology.
Lectures on sex dif­ferences
in various aspects of
intellect will be given by Dr.
Julia Hannay and on child
rearing by Dr. Crystal Kelley.
"The course is not on the
printed schedule, and al­ready
we have 25 enrolled
who have learned of it by
word of mouth," says Vallery.
Both men and women have re­gistered
for the course, she
adds.
The course will allow stu­dents
to observe how social
and cultural variables affect
the American woman on an
individual basis, examine
how her physiology and psy­chology
are related and
develop an understanding of
some of the psychological cop­ing
mechanisms that women
use to deal with social situa­tions,
according to Vallery.
It will also look at the
socialization process and how
it affects women and men and
will examine the sex roles in
today's society.
Auburn's first course in this
study area was taught in the
spring quarter of 1972 by the
former dean of the school of
home economics, Dr. Norma
Compton. The course, "Wo­men's
Changing Roles and
Potentialities," was offered as
part of the family and child
development curriculum and
attracted only seven or eight
students, according to the pre­sent
dean, Dr. Ruth Gal-braith.
"We haven't offered
such a course since, but I
would hate to see it die," she
said.
A seminar in "Counseling
Women" was offered during
the winter quarter in coun­selor
education. That at­tracted
14 students, mostly
counselor education and fa­mily
and child development
majors, according to as­sistant
professor Marylu
• McEwen who taught nhe
course.
The focus of the seminar
was on considering the voca­tional
aspects and society's
conditioning, according to
McEwen. "We had to look at
the whole area, at the things
that have conditioned men as
well as women," she said.
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Editorials
I Thurs., April 3, 1975 page 4)
And it hurt
Elect an editor??
You can elect a man to be President of the United States, but you can't
elect a man to be a doctor. You can elect your governors, but you can't
elect your lawyers. You can elect someone to the position of U.S. Senator,
Mayor of New York, or Auburn City Councilman, but you can't elect
someone to be an engineer, an architect or a plumber.
The opinion of the majority can fill a position, but it can't bestow a skill.
Yet each year at Auburn, it happens. Students elect a doctor, a lawyer, a
plumber, each time they elect a Plainsman editor.
l i k e an SGA office, all a candidate must do to be Plainsman editor is
meet a few general qualifications and manage the majority of his consti­tuents'
vote. But there the similarity ends.
Upon arriving in office, an editor faces the physical task of actually
putting out a newspaper.
What are the rules of headline writing? What font and size should each
headline be? What are the rules of layout? What is editorializing? What
are the libel laws? What are the rules of objective newswriting? What col­umn
width should this article be set? What are the copy editing symbols?
What is a cutline? Who should be seen about this story? What shoudd he
be asked? What is a pica stick? What is a pica? What are the basic rules of
grammar?
While it's highly unlikely anyone totally ignorant of the beforemen-tioned
skills could slip past the pre-election scrutiny of the Communica­tions
Board, the popular election of a Plainsman editor causes other pro­blems.
Some candidates are infinitely more qualified than others, though
all may be familiar with the basics of journalism.
The newspaper staff does not change from year to year as the SGA ad­ministration
often does. In fact, it would be impossible to get the paper out
if everyone on the staff was a beginner or newcomer. So friction that in­evitably
results from an election for Plainsman editor hurts not only the
performance of the present staff, but also the new editor and his or her
staff. Campaign battles carry over into the newsroom marring the per­formance
of even a high caliber staff.
If all candidates for editor are equally qualified there is still another
problem to consider. Suppose staff members will work for one potential
editor, but they are totally opposed to another candidate and would re­fuse
to help on the paper if he or she is elected. This is a probability if
Plainsman editor continues to be an elected position. The campus at large
has no way of knowing who would get along with the staff and who
wouldn't.
We suggest the editor be selected by vote of the paid Plainsman staff
members. This includes a group of about 16 people, those who have
worked their way into a position of leadership on The Plainsman staff.
The advisor of The Plainsman should also be allowed to vote for the up­coming
editor, we feel.
The paid staff members would be the ones to vote, as opposed to all staff
members, to insure no candidate "stacks" the newsroom in his favor in
the weeks prior to the election. Those who wish to be voted on by the paid
staff members should still have to be approved by the Communications
Board, of course, and the basic qualifications existing now should
remain.
While we welcome any student who wishes to spend time and energy on
the newspaper staff, we feel those qualified to choose who should edit The
Plainsman are few. Never again should the editorship of The Plainsman
become a popularity contest...for the obvious reasons.
SGA/ Media
There is a distinct and important division between the media and the
Student Government Association at Auburn. Not unlike the relationship
between the press and government at a national level, The Plainsman is
only responsible for producing a newspaper to satisfy the people's right to
know. We are totally dedicated to this professional objective.
When election time nears, the inevitable question of Plainsman — SGA
relations surfaces. Eager-to-please candidates always pledge to work for
better relations between the studeni government and the free student
press. We want to say again what we've stressed before. A certain amount
of friendly skepticism between the press and theSGA i s a healthy thing.
Both agencies should be fiercely independent of one another.
The usual assertion for those candidates who maintain that better rela­tions
would be helpful is the claim that we're all in the ballgame for the
same goal — the goal being that of helping students. While the newspa­per
is dedicated to helping students by providing objective coverage of
campus government and other aspects of campus life, we cannot accom­plish
our goal by snuggling close to the SGA officers. Rather, objective re­porting
would be impossible if the relationship between the SGA and The
Plainsman became that of a government to their public relations organ.
The frequent claim from candidates that they will "put it in The Plains­man"
or "have it aired on WEGL" is not only misleading, but humorous.
While a newsworthy event involving.the SGA would never be ignored, the
student government at this University has no say-so about what makes it
into the weekly issues. One possible exception might be a requirement to
run proposed constitutional amendments with which The Plainsman
complies.
We cannot be an effective or entertaining newspaper if we succum 3 to
all the demands or whims of SGA candidates and/or officers. We were
not established at Auburn to serve the needs of the SGA; rather our pur­pose
is to put out an informative, yet colorful newspaper.
Don't take our word for the need for a definite separation of interests.
Ask any newspaper man in any town what the proper relationship be­tween
the press and the government should be. Better yet, think it out for
yourself. Does there really exist a need for "better relations"? We believe
the answer is an undisputable NO.
THE AUBURN PUINSMMI
Yale hit the nail on the head
8> assoaareD coLLeciare pness
Rheta
Grimsley
offers fine, programs in engineering,
aerospace mechanics, aviation manage­ment,
and architecture. But the liberal
arts faculty are weak as a rule, and the
education department, which attracts
about 90 per cent of Auburn women, is
downright rinky-dink. Science faculty
are conservative even by Auburn stan-
DOONESBURY
dards, while liberal arts teachers are
more liberal." They hit the nail on the
head, I'd say. It even reads like some­thing
The Plainsman might write, yet it
stings a little more when produced by
"outsiders."
Mention of past student efforts toward
voter registration and impressive
speaker line-ups were offered by "The
Guide," and in all fairness, if the statis­tics
are right (all enrollment data is ob­tained
directly from the school admini­stration),
I'd have to consider Yale's ef­fort
to capsule Auburn last academic
year successful.
by Garry Trudeau
"Auburn students say they are
happy. Women cite the marriage op­portunities;
men claim a good so -
cial life (the spirit of the traditional
Southern fraternities is by no means
dead, though membership is down to
about one-fifth) and a friendly at­mosphere.
Auburn is by no means a
great center for liberal thought..."
The above description of our Univer­sity
is no creation of mine, though I agree
basically with the look at Auburn.
Indeed, the paragraph is taken from
"The Insiders' Guide to the Colleges," an
annual publication of the "Yale Daily
News," New Haven, Conn. The "Guide"
is a nationally distributed paperback
compiled to include "the latest student
opinion on over 200 colleges across the
country," according to the editors. The
"Daily News" goes to the trouble to send
each college a copy of the previous year's
review, asking that the respective col­lege
newspapers make any revisions
needed to help represent the true situa­tion
at their respective universities.
Several years ago The Plainsman
must have failed to respond during the
time allotted for revisions. Auburn was
represented in the popular paperback as
a teeming recruiting ground for the Ku
Kiux Klan where the females are totally
defenseless, and football and drinking
are the only campus interests. The 1974
synopsis of Auburn seems more accu­rate;
so accurate, in fact, it's painful to
read. When an objective outsider eval-utes
your campus, it's ten times worse
than griping yourself.
"While the football players may still be
the BMOCs of the place, the wheels of
change are creakily turning at Auburn,
and you're likely to find a few politicos
and students among the sports fans
these days," the Yale editors wrote. Con­tinuing,
the writers admit "the atmo­sphere
around the campus has changed
radically during the last few years.
Racial and cultural bias—perhaps para­noia
would be a better word — are not
quite a thing of the past yet, but a look at
some of the activity among students
shows that George Wallace is not the
last word in political sophistication any
longer." While both you and. I know
George Wallace has not been popular
with Auburn students for some time now,
at least Auburn's not down on the record
this year as paranoid. And I agree with
the strong word radical used to modify
change. Attitudes at Auburn, while still
behind the times, have made strides for­ward,
relatively speaking of course.
"The Insiders' Guide" gives the stu­dents
credit for any improvement of
change on the campus. I concur. To quote
the booklet again, "The academic atmo­sphere
has also improved markedly,
again largely due to student efforts."
The synopsis is by no means a glow­ing
progress report, though. Quite can­didly
it calls resident talent "a vacuum,"
with few exceptions. "The school was
established as a technical institute and
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SGA e lections off to another bad start
Rheta Grimsley, Editor
Mitch Garriott, Business Manager
Editorial Board members: Managing Editor, David Nordness; Associate Editor,
Frank Whatley; News Editor, Mike Jackson; Sports Editor, Mark Murphy, Features
Editor, Christy Hud inns; Editor, Editorial Board Chairman, Rheta Grimsley.. _.
Technical Editor, Biz Binnings; Entertainment Editor, David Botsford:
Photographic Editor, Dan Doughtie; Copy Editor, Jodi Leach.
Assistant News Editor, Maureen Drost; Assistant Sports Editor, Carolyn Roop;
Assistant Copy Editor, Diane Uthlaut; Assistant Photographic Editor, Dave
Brown; Assistant Features Editor, Lauren Steele; Assistant Entertainment Editor,
Jimmy Parham; Assistant Technical Editor, Tina Likos.
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.
Election day is Friday, April 11. On
that day students will vote their wills,
hopes, prejudices and whims. If the past
is any indicator, about 40 per cent will
cast their ballots.
And if the past continues to be an indi­cator,
there will be a malfunction in the
ballot-counting that may well require at
least part of the election to be reheld —
not a run off, but actually holding the
election again.
At the very least the reporting of the re­turns
will probably be delayed several
hours because of malfunctions.
These forecasts are based on a two-year
record of incompetence and exten­sive
mistakes which is impressive in its
scope. Hut before the past is exhumed,
the present deserves a recap.
Election day is usually on Thursday
but this year it is Friday so that the text
of the referendum can appear in The
Plainsman in two issues BEFORE the
election. This isn't Plainsman policy but
a requirement of Article 8 of the SGA
Constitution. .
SGA Vice President John Decker, who
presides over the Student Senate.visited
The Plainsman Editor's office after the
last paper winter quarter and expressed
himself on the SGA failing to deliver the
text, which was entirely the fault of the
SGA.
In an effort to rectify the mistake, he
demanded that the text be run in the
April Fool's edition (!) and the regular
April 3 edition, so that the election could
be held on the usual Thursday.
Decker also said the SGA Jurispru­dence
Committee might force The Plains­man
to put the text in Rheta's Digest. The
Jurisprudence Committee has no such
power and Editor Rheta Grimsley said it
would happen over her dead body.
BeoaUse of the satirical and fictional
contents of April Fool's editions, they
never have been considered official.
Printing the text April 10, election day,
is fine but it is questionable legally: Arti­cle
8 states two issues BEFORE the elec­tion.
When The Plainsman obtained a list of
declared candidates from the Elections
Committee, chaired by Bill "Phantom"
Buller, the list contained some candid"
dates who had dropped out of the race
and some candidates weren't even on the
list.
To make matters worse, Assistant
Chairman Pat Battles said this was the
ONLY list the committee had.
As part of The Plainsman's coverage
of the campaign, campus-wide candi­dates
submit pictures, statements and at­tend
an interview. In order to do this The
Plainsman must know who the candi­dates
are and the candidates must in
turn know what we need.
The proper forms for the district and
school candidates were delivered to the
SGA office Tuesday, March 4, by Grim­sley
. Fuller had agreed that if the forms
were delivered by Tuesday, they would be
distributed when the candidates met in
the SGA office Thursday.
They weren't distributed and weren't
"discovered" until Friday, March 7.
When discussing that turn of events, Ful­ler
suggested an announcement over
WEGL "and hope for the best." If a hope
for the best represents the attitude of the
Elections Committee chairman, will Ful­ler
or Battles go the extra mile to insure a
flawless election day?
The SGA was under no legal obliga­tion
to distribute the forms. But Fuller
said he would, and the breach of the so­cial
obligation meant nearly 150 candi­dates
had to be telephoned one by one.
In a real sense, the problem with the
forms is The Plainsman's fault: we re­lied
on the Election Committee staff.
On the same subject, candidates for
Plainsman editor had until March 7 to
declare candidacy, according to a Com­munications
Board ruling. This is two
weeks later than the deadline for SGA of­ficers.
The SGA deadline is set by the
SGA and the Communications Board is
a faculty-student- administration or­gan
completely independent of SGA and
expressly charged with campus media re­gulation.
Decker attempted to move the editor­ial
deadline up two weeks and that deft
maneuver wasn't told to Grimsley until
the deadline day. Dean of Student Af­fairs
James Foy restated the deadline
and Decker didn't push it. Discretion is
the better part of...
The ballots this year are supposed to
be kept under lock and key but a PlairiS-man
staffer found the ballots sitting on a
cabinet in an open storage closet in Foy's
office.
Now for the past:
Item — The 1973 returns were five
hours late because the computer at Par­ker
Hall would not accept the ballots.
Some jokers defaced the ballots with
hand-written slogans and when the com­puter
scanned the bad ballots, all, good
and bad, were rejected. The defaced bal­lots
had to be hand-sorted.
Item — In 1973, candidates needed a
1.00 g.p.a. or a 1.5 the quarter before the
election. Reed Lannom had neither,
based on Auburn grades alone, but his
grades from Miami-Dade Junior College
put him over the top.
He won, but the election was chal­lenged
by the runner-up. The Jurispru­dence
Committee voted Lannom out, but
the Senate had the last word and left him
Mag Senator. The point is, it should have
been decided one way or the other, before
the election.
Item — Because of a programming er­ror,
the 1974 ballots had to be rerun
through the computer.Thecomputerread
some ballots for Quad and Hill senator
races, as being cast for off-campus can­didates.
The winners were the same but
three off-campus candidates had more
than 450 erroneous votes removed.
Humans make mistakes but there is no
reason for a third year of errors in SGA
elections. The Elections Committee gets
two chances per year and plenty of time
to have dry runs of programs, inspec­tions
of ballots and scrutiny of the candi­dates.
If computer voting can't be per­fected,
then a slower punchcard ballot
would be more reliable.
The election has to be perfect. I don't
think it will be. I hope I'm wrong.
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Letters
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Plainsman chastised
by AU Flying Team
Editor, The Auburn Plainsman:
I have just returned from a basketball
name in which the Auburn football sen­iors
played the Alabama football sen­iors.
It was exciting and enjoyable for all
who attended. All 260 people.
The ballgame was sponsored by the
War Eagle Flying Team to raise enough
money to send a team to compete in the
National Intercollegiate Flying
Association national championship air-meet
in Santa Fe, New Mexico. The Fly­ing
Team won the right to compete in the
na'tional competition by winning second
place in the regional NIFA airmeet dur­ing
fall quarter. The money was needed
because the Auburn University admini­stration
deemed it unnecessary to supply
the Flying Team with any funds. Need­less
to say, with only 260 people at the
game, the Flying Team lost money.
The only other fund-raising project in
the works is a regional airmeet to be held
March 8 and 9. The team will receive $10
for each person who enters, and the meet
is open to any pilot with at least 100
hours flying experience. As it appears
now, after expenses are paid, the Flying
Team will be lucky to break even.
Thanks to the help of the University
Relations Department, and especially
Drew McGowan, the basketball game re­ceived
good coverage in the area news­papers
and in the A. U. Report, a publi­cation
for the faculty and staff. How­ever,
The Plainsman, the major source of
events information for the Auburn stu­dent,
found it necessary to cut out infor­mation
on the purpose of the ballgame
and to place what was left of the article in
a spot which must have been designed to
be apparent only to people searching for
that specific article. This was the case in
both the February 20 and 27 issues. The
articles had been turned in on time for
the respective issues.
I won't lay the blame completely on
The Plainsman. I share the responsi­bility
of the fiasco along with the rest of
my fellow Flying Team members. All I
ask is that if anyone is going to Santa Fe,
New Mexico in April, please contact the
War Eagle Flying Team. We have some
members who would like to represent Au­burn
University in the national airmeet.
We may even have enough money to buy
you a full tank of gas.
By the way, the Auburn football
seniors beat the Alabama football
seniors 56-48. War Eagle.
Larry Davis, 4AM
Tucker called highlight
of Food Service Program
Editor, The Plainsman:
This statement is not a letter to the
Editor in that it is merely an attempt to
set the record straight concerning a fea­ture
article written by Frank Whatley in
the March 6, 1975 edition, entitled
Decker Advocates Use'of Surplus."-
Therefore, this letter might "be more
appropriately addressed to the readers of
The Auburn Plainsman than to its edi­tor.
As vice president of the SGA I was
more than happy to see the surprisingly
objective articles which shed both good
and bad.light on the actions of the Stu­dent
Government in the past year. But, I
was highly concerned with an entity
within the above mentioned article
which caused undue insult to an indivi­dual
not affiliated in any way with the
SGA.
In Frank Whatley's interview with me,
we were discussing the arguments that
the SGA had proposed to Dr. Philpott in
an attempt to abolish the fifteen dollar
additional fee dorm residents must pay if
not patronizing University Food Ser­vices.
In this context I stated "Students
should not have to bear the burden of the
indebtedness of Food Services since this
finnancial condition is the responsibi­lity
of the Administration and due to mis­management
of Food Services by the
University." In his article Mr. Whatley
quoted me as saying that I "blamed" the
"conditions" of Food Services on "the
mismanagement at the War Eagle Cafe­teria."
Mr. Whatley, in misquoting me,
transformed a highly ambiguous state­ment
into a very definite accusation
and, in so doing, attacked not a bureau­cracy,
but an individual. That indiv­idual
is Mrs. Inez J. Tucker, manager of
War Eagle Cafeteria.
Anyone who has experienced the hard­working
capabilities of Mrs. Tucker
knows that Mr. Whatley's misinter­pretation
of my statement was a gross de­formity
of her industriousness and
managerial abilities. Mrs. Tucker is one
of the obvious highlights of the Food
Services program. Although to some
readers this mistake may have seemed a
minor discrepency, its impact on
Alumni, Board of Trustee Members, and
Administrators was viewed in nothing
Special accounts
are not limited
reader says
Editor, The Plainsman:
In fairness to all banks in Auburn, it
should be pointed out that the last sen­tence
in the Feb. 27 issue about banking
charges is not true. It read: "Discre­pancies
between student and regular
banking rates persist among Auburn
banks." My experience indicates that the
various "special accounts" are not
limited to students but are available to
anyone who does not want to be charged
extra or an account which goes below
$200. These have been used for many
years by non-students.
Haniel Jones
Assistant to the Dean
School of Engineering
less than major proportions by Mrs.
Tucker.
Rheta Grimsley, editor of The Auburn
Plaisman, and Frank Whatley felt that a
retraction in this case was not appro­priate,
therefore, this letter may appear
" to be a personal apology to Mrs. Tucker.
If so, I have no reservations about it be­ing
taken as such for, I feel, nothing less
is appropriate.
John Decker, Vice President
Student Government Association
Editor's Note:
If there was a misunderstanding,
The Plainsman is glad to set the
record straight, but corrections or
"retractions" are made only when
there is no doubt about a mistake.
The Decker story did not reflect the
opinion of The Plainsman about
Food Services and the interpreta­tion
of Decker's remarks is the
result of an "ambiguous state­ment."
Science fiction
theories probed
Editor, The Auburn Plainsman:
Perhaps I am mistaken in my hopes,
but I trust that this is not the case in this
instance. I assume that a moderately
large portion of Auburn student body is
interested in reading and thinking of the
better varieties of science fiction. If that
is the case, it might be some fun to get up
a minor argument going on your pages,
that is until thehuntn'and fishn' season
arrives for many of the local citizens.
The argument: many writers of sci­ence
fiction from "Doc" Smith of the
1920s to contemporary Asimov and
Clarke liked to picture the world of Earth
and elsewhere in not very distant future
to be densely populated by fleets of space­ships
of huge and superhuge dimens­ions,
flying from here to yon, carrying
cargoes of rare goods from planet
ZZZYYYXXX to planet Earth or the re­verse.
Makes a flashy story and clearly
makes sci-fi sell books and booklets and
movies.
BUT: Considering the fact of life that
over the past 20 years or so two biggest
and most solidly wealthy nations of
Earth have been able to send out into
space a total of just a few hundred space­craft,
most of which are tiny obser­vation
vehicles and not load-freighters,
and considering that this was done at the
expense of a considerable part of total na­tional
product of these countries (not be­grudging
it in any way), the question
arises: how on Earth or in heaven can or
could any nation or group of nations ever
support literal fleets of space-freighters
year in and year out? Who would be able
to pay for it all and how? Since eco­nomics
is usually at the base of things, I
fail to see any logical way to make
Clarke's, Asimov's or Smith's world
stand up.
G. M. Kosolapoff (Chemistry)
Professor's behavior called 'rude9
Editor, The Plainsman:
Rollo May's lecture on February 24
was a ho-hum experience for me until
some fine discussion was prompted by
some good questions and comments.
However, I was disappointed and rather
shocked at the rudeness and poor judge­ment
of one gentleman, who interrupted
a young man who was attempting to ex­plain
his question in what I thought was
a reasonable and concise manner with a
crude and harsh blast, "What's your
question?"
I was even more shocked and amazed
when I later found out he was Professor
Andelson of the Philosophy Depart­ment.
Clearing away the issue of dis­courtesy
and blatant rudeness, coupled
with total lack of consideration and due
respect for the individual, this professor
tore to shreds the basic tenants upon
which higher education, and all civilized
life for that matter, thrive, and all with a
few terse words.
In my time, and his, colleges and uni­versities
were centers for free exchange
and sharing of thoughts, information,
ideas, insights, questions, solutions, and
anything related to the development of
the mind. Lectures such as these were a
primary and intensely important me­dium
used to achieve this.
I certainly hope this is still true, and I
think it is in most schools, but I wonder
about Auburn. To be fair, I should reduce
that to the philosophy department, and
even further in all fairness to Dr. Andel-son's
classes and lectures. I certainly
wouldn't want to ask a question or make
a comment in one of his classes if half
way through it he would snap at me, es­pecially
if there were over 600 people in
the class, which was the approximate at­tendance
at the packed lecture. At any
rate, philosophy class is the one place
where free exchange of thought should
be encouraged most.
I-was going to give Dr. Andelson this
message in person, but another gentle­man
was already giving his mind oh the
subject after the lecture. I overheard a
comment he made which appalled and
repulsed me further. He told the man,
"Oh, he just wanted to make a speech," or
something to that effect. First of all, one
of the basic freedoms of this nation and
perhaps the most treasured is freedom of
speech, which Dr. Andelson hindered,
and almost thwarted altogether. If I had
been the young man, I wonder if I would
have been able to refrain from some kind
of retort.
I was interested in what the student
had to say and thought he had a fresh
and refreshing insight into Christian­ity,
though complex and rather philo­sophical.
Yet the basic concept was sim­ple
and striking. Perhaps Dr. Andelson
has become impatient with such self-ex-k
Spring thaw
Spring break means different things to different people. To some the
white sand of Florida brings welcome relief from studies and the every­day
hassle of college life. For others the break meant riding home through
snowy countryside, watching the gleaming collection of flakes yield to
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Committee to clear up 'hearsay*
Editor, The Plainsman:
VD. You mention it, and all of a sud­den
almost everyone shies away. From
the crowd someone asks if it is caught off
a toilet seat; then there's a giggle. Some­one
remarks, "The clap isn't as bad as
the bad blood." And then questions
appear: "Can you get it from kissing?"
, "Is it caught more than once?" or "What
about the cure — penicillin?"
Very few people actually really know
any more than hearsay about venereal.
diseases.Since April is the nationally
designated VD Awareness month, there
is a VD Awareness Committee on the
Auburn campus composed solely of
pharmacy students, who have set up a
speaker's bureau available to any
organization wishing to learn more
about veneral diseases. The committee
members are willing to give freely of
their time to inform anyone or any group
of people about the nature of venereal
diseases — their prevention, control, and
treatment.
How many people know that there are
several different venereal diseases,
gonorrhea and syphillis being the two
most common types? Gonorrhea is the
most common infectious disease in the
U.S. next to the common cold. People of
ages 19 through 24 years are the most
common carriers of venereal diseases,
and Auburn students are not exceptions.
VD is not caught from a toilet seat, but
only through intimate sexual contact
with an infected person. The clap (gonor­rhea)
is not as serious as the bad blood
(syphillis).VD can be caught through
kissing if the partner has an infectious
sore in or on the mouth.
VI) may also be caught more than
once, for there is no immunity for any of
the venereal diseases, and as of yet there
is no cure which would completely
eliminate a venereal disease. Many times
gonorrhea (in 58 per cent of all females)
shows no observable symptoms, and in
other cases symptoms are passed off as
minor sores. Automatic disappearance of
a sore does not mean that the disease is
gone, but that the infectious organisms
are invading another system of the body
— reproductive system, central nervous
system, the heart, etc.
Before it happens to you or to a friend,
find the facts and answers to your ques­tions
and doubts about VD. Too many
people learn about VD only through
experience. Answers to any other ques- -
tions concerning venereal diseases can
be found at the pharmacy school by con­tacting
the Auburn VD Awareness Com­mittee,
chaired by Kim Stuerke. Exper­ience
is too high a price to pay for knowl­edge
about VD.
Greg Jackson, 4PY
pression, in which case he has no place
teaching anything, much less philo­sophy.
Second, I remember at least two
other such "speeches," one of a consider­able
longer duration. Neither one ended
with a question, but ended by asking Dr.
May, "Would you comment on that?"
After the rude interruption, Dr. May
spent over 20 seconds prodding the
young man to continue. He obviously
thought the question was a good one, and
it was indeed. It provided Dr. May with
an excellent avenue upon which to
conclude his lecture.
Third, let me emphasize that the col­leges
and universities are critical places
where free speech and communication
should be encouraged most. It concerns
and bothers me to see such a professor in
one of our institutions of higher learn­ing,
but most of all, I wonder if that stu­dent
will ever feel free to express himself
in another of those lectures or other such
learning or thought-provoking situa­tions.
At that age, or any other, such a
humiliating, insulting, rude, and deplor­able
incident could silence one, especial­ly
a more timid soul, forever. I would hate
to have that on my conscience.
I therefore suggest that Dr. Andelson
give it some thought, and certainly ad­vise
that he or anyone else, student,
faculty, administration, or "laymen" like
myself, refrain from such outbursts or in­timidating
statements, without excep­tion.
An American patriot stated, "I may
not agree with what you are saying but I
would defend to the death your right to
say it," or something to that effect. With
apologies to this great man, I would para­phrase
it thus, "I may not want to hear
what you're saying, but say it anyway."
Incidents like this remind me of en­croaching
totalitarianism, such as fas­cism,
or extreme socialism with its- rigid
controls. It is a part of human nature,
and I certainly hope it was a slip on Dr.
Andelson's part and not a habit, though
it certainly sounded deliberate.
In any event, I feel Dr. Andelson owes
the student an apology, as well as the
University. I hope future lectures or
events are not marred by such unfor­tunate
and potentially injurious situa­tions.
John Harrison, Birmingham
Meat industry defended
Editor, The Plainsman:
I would be remiss if I did not write re­garding
the "story" on the meat indus­try
by Miss Christy Hudgins in the
March 6, Plainsman. The story does not
deserve a rebuttal, however, I must con­vey
one thought to the author.
The free enterprise system is the bul­wark
of our economy. The constitution
guarantees certain rights including free­dom
of the press. However, withi
freedom goes responsibility. Miss
Hudgins exercised freedom of the press,
but completely overlooked professional
ethics and made irresponsible, un­founded
charges against an industry.
You, as editor, compounded a felony by
adding a note stating that "the situation
presented is factual." I challenge you to
prove this statement.
Dale L. Huffman
Professor
Animal and Dairy Sciences
Editor's Note: The Plainsman also
received five other signed letters
from students who were in Profes­sor
Huffman's classes winter quar­ter.
The students were given 10
points on the take-home part of a
final examination to react to the ar­ticle
by Features Editor Christy
Hudgins. Because of the volume of
letters received and the circum­stances
involved The Plainsman de­cided
to print only Huffman's letter
since it concurred with the others
mailed to the editor.
Phi Beta Kappa commends
those supporting Latin
Editor, The Plainsman:
The Phi Beta Kappa Members in the
Auburn Community, at their meeting on
February 26, unanimously adopted the
following resolution, presented by Pro­fessor
Ward Allen:
Be it resolved that the members of Phi
Beta Kappa commend and support those
students who are seeking to restore Latin
to the curriculum at Auburn University,
Since that time, we have heard the
good news that a class in Latin will be of­fered
Spring Quarter. We would like to
reiterate our support for all the efforts of
students, faculty, and administration to
establish a strong and complete liberal
arts program at Auburn.
We would also like to express our
thanks to The Plainsman for the space it
has devoted to this question and other
matters of concern to Phi Beta Kappa
members, and for Steele Holman's ex­cellent
article on February 27.
Charlotte R. Ward
President, Phi Beta Kappa Members in
the Auburn Community
Senior expresses hopes
for future action of SGA
Editor, The Plainsman:
In the last issue of The Plainsman, I
was finally assured that spring was
near, as the candidates were announced
for the spring SGA elections.
The SGA really gets fired up around
election time. The Senate has tackled the
big issue of reapportionment, thus they
will more accurately reflect the distri­bution
of students. The fact that there are
going to be more off-campus senators
leads me to assume the fraternities have
had a couple of good rushes in the years
since last reapportionment
After surviving three previous cam­paigns
and three different admini­strations,
I think some candid obser­vations
are in order, at the risk of ruin­ation
of my political future.
First, I hope those senators and exec­utives
that worked so hard to get elected,
work at least half that hard after they as­sume
office, In last year's campaign, it
was brought out that there was a "hog
in the house," unfortunately, hes still
there —sleeping on the couch. Exactly
what has the SGA done for us this year?
Reapportion itself, which it is consti­tutionally
required to do. I suppose that
. 'there were more street dances than in the
past, but what percentage of the student
populace is affected by them anyway?
You really have to dig deep to come up
with anything else, and there is nothing
of any real significance.
Horizons has been one colossal flop.
Vinny Price is the only speaker we've
had that was worth wading through the
Forum credit grade grabbers to hear. In
the past we've had U.S. Senators, na­tional
news media personalities, even the
obnoxious but entertaining Muhammad
Ali. The concert situation is even
more absurd. And don't you dare blame
that on Coach Davis. He's doing his job.
Granted, this quarter, no one has been
touring the South, but that does not ex­cuse
last quarter. Maybe Johnny Colora­do
and Seals and Crofts will draw well
enough to attract the really big name
entertainers here.
Often, I wonder how representative the
SGA Senate really is. I can think of one
senator, who since being elected by his
predominately independent consti­tuents,
has pledged a major frat, and
when he thought enough to vote, voted
along the lines that his frat would vote.
In the President's race this year, we
have running as usual, a freddy frat that
nobody has ever heard of, a Christian
disc jockey (also a big frat man), and gee
willickers, an independent woman. Now
that ought to be interesting. I've heard
that the Christian d.j. is the candidate of
the "chosen few." That fact, plus
charisma and good looks ought to be
enough to win, after all, it worked last
year.
If the. race proceeds in a fashion simi­lar
to last year's, I think I will spend all of
my energy toward getting some real
cheer leaders elected.
Douglas O. Walker, 4GSC
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THE AUBURN PUINSMAN THUM., APru s, 1975 page«
Embarrassed fans speak up about obscenities
'What's Auburn corning to?9
Editor, The Plainsman:
This is the first letter that I have ever
written to any type newspaper, but after
the demonstration by the Auburn stu­dents
on television Saturday during the
Auburn-Alabama game, I feel compelled
to write to you.
The obscenities shouted by the stu­dents
were deplorable. I live and die with
the fortunes of the Auburn teams, and
never in my 30 years of following the Ti­gers
have I been embarrassed by the stu­dents'
behavior. They were a disgrace to
One sees self- respect crumbling
Editor, the Plainsman:
During the last football season, we
were angered by the cowbells of Missi­ssippi
State which hampered our offen­sive
team. Due chiefly to Coach Jordan's
pressing the issue, the SEC has announ­ced
a ban on "artificial noisemakers."
Now we should look at ourselves. Our
basketball win over Alabama was tar­nished
by the conduct of a minority,
which reflects unfavorably on Auburn
people everywhere. For the elementary
and high school students who were
watching this televised game did not
give a favorable image of the Auburn stu­dent.
Throwing ice, popcorn, and other
objects on the playing floor, or the chant­ing
of that popular eight letter vul­garism,
does not do anything to glorify
Auburn.
This may be happening at other
schools also, which is Sufficient reason
in itself for our setting a standard of
crowd behavior higher than the other
SEC members. It would be good to know
that a basketball team could visit Au­burn,
knowing they would face a crowd
of screaming crazy •war eagles, but that'
the students are fair, and have a higher
code of conduct than elsewhere.
The chanting of the vulgarisms, and
the tantrum-like throwing of ice on the
floor is not the standard which Dr.
George Petrie gave us in the Auburn
Creed. I really hope that this game will
not be typical of Auburn basketball in ,
the future. If so, then our self-respect, as
well as the respect we wish from others,
will slowly crumble away.
• *
Jim Askew, '53
Auburn and the campus police should
have run everyone of them out of the
Coliseum. The chanting of the obsceni­ties
by the crowd was vividly heard over
the television and I am sure brought a
very negative reaction from the fans
around the Southeast.
Someone asked me yesterday "what
has Auburn come to?" and I was lost for
an answer.
The T.V. announcer was high in his
praise of the Auburn team and made a
point of mentioning that the Auburn
cheerleaders were voted number one in
the nation. It is a pity that our student
body has put itself in such a low light and
I hope that this never happens again. •
I hope that you might consider writ­ing
an editorial on the subject that would
have an influence on the fans in the fu­ture.
Dennis W. Calhoun, 1953
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 any
thing inspiring you to write.
'Crude9 behavior blastedr
Editor, The Plainsman:
I was most embarrassed by the be­havior
of the Auburn student body at the
Auburn-Alabama basketball game this
past Saturday. The throwing of paper
cups not only slowed the game but gave a
very poor representation of Auburn to a
. regional T.V. audience. The student body
-chant of "Bull Shit" - wBuH Shit?' fol­lowing
an official's judgemental call
against Auburn was in very poor taste,
crude and I'm sure, most embarassing to
the ladies and younger children present.
I trust you, the student leaders and the
Athletic Department will take steps to
correct such deviant behavior at future
sporting events.
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School spirit — limited by good taste?
If so, who defines what is in bad taste and what is not
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next to Bill Ham's Cleaners. To celebrate our opening we are going
to be selling diamonds at unheard of prices in a once-in-a-lifetime
sale. If you are considering ouying a diamond, come in and com­pare
our low prices with anyone. We will also be giving away a Free
emerald and diamond cluster ring worth $750 to some lucky custo­mer.
All you have to do is come in and register before the drawing
on Friday April 11,1975. Here are just a few of the specials we'll be
offering during our grand opening April 7-11.
JHitliiqOiflc Welcomes you back
VA ct. diamond earrings $ 89.00
Vi ct. diamond earrings $179.00
.33 Brilliant Round 145.00
.42 Brilliant Round 195.00
.44 Brilliant Round 225.00
.50 Brilliant Round 295.00
.59 Brilliant Round 450.00
.69 Brilliant Round 695.00
.89 Brilliant Round 895.00
1.50 Brilliant Round 1780.00
1.75 Brilliant Round 2250.00
2.00 Brilliant Round 2900.00
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for class
projects on
fabrics
and
notions
India
Cloth
solids and
Fraternity
& Sorority
needs including
sign doth
T-Shirt
Knits
Solids
&
Prints
Kinds
of Denims
and chambrys
Jerseys
Solids, florals,
tie dyes and
geometries
including Quiana
99* to $6.00
Sewing Circle fabrics has the largest
selection of fabrics and sewing needs
in Lee County and the best customer
service in town. Our knowledgeable
personnel is here to help you no mat­ter
how small or large your needs may
be.
Open 10:00 - 5:00 Mon. - Fri.
129 E. Magnolia • Auburn, Al. 36830 • Phone 821-0229 i
Sewing
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embroidery needs
super studs
seqmned appliques
embroidered patches
Wiss 6 Fukarshears
Swim
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supplies
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Forum offers elective credit
Unur.., April 3,1975 THE AUBURN PUlNMUN
Forum is an S-U (Satis­factory
- Unsatisfactory)
course offering credit for
attendance at a variety of
academically - related
programs: lectures, dis­cussions,
artistic presen­tations,
etc.
To earn a grade of S, a
student enrolled in
Forum • must attend
seven designated events
during the quarter. There
will be fifteen or more de­signated
events each quar­ter.
This is the procedure to
be followed.
A Forum coordinator
will be present at the main
entrance to the auditor­ium
prior to each desig­nated
event to hand out at­tendance
cards and Forum
event schedules.
Each Forum-enrolled
student will receive only
one attendance card, to be
completed by writing date,
quarter, name, signature
and student number.
No attendance cards
will be handed out after an
event begins, nor will
cards be accepted for the
granting of attendance be­fore
the event ends. Many
events last only an hour,
but some last well over an
hour.
Each Forum student
may hand in only his or
her own attendance card.
Should anyone hand in
more than one card, atten­dance
will not be granted
for any of them, and the
cards will be held for fur­ther
action.
Schedules of events
change. Thus we must
publish continuously up­dated
schedules. Updated
Forum schedules will be
available at the Union
Desk and at Haley 6080. A
schedule will be posted in
the lobby of Haley Center.
WEGL will also carry cur­rent
announcements of
Forum events.
Some auditoriums have
limited seating. Admit­tance,
in such cases, will
be on a first-come basis.
Forum attendance re­cords
will be posted three
or four times each quarter
on the bulletin board out­side
Haley Center 6080.
Forum speakers announced
JIM KILPATRICK
A partial list of events de­signated
for Forum credit
has been released by Dr.
Charles D. Brown of the
Philosophy Department.
Today at 3 p.m. in Haley
3195, Jim Kilpatrick of the
CBS radio network wjll speak
on the "Functions of a Net­work
Radio and TV and the
Preparation and the Pro­duction
of News Programs."
Following Kilpatrick's add­ress,
Evelyn Reed, an anthro-plogist
and a member of the
ning" on Wednesday, April 9,
at 2:30 p.m. in Langdon Hall.
Dr. Brown also announced
the speakers for the Southern
Humanities Festival to be
held April 3-5 will carry
Forum credit. All speakers
will be speaking in the Union
Ballroom; they range from
economist Kenneth F.
Boulding to James Dickey,
author of Deliverance.
An additional list of events
will be released next week.
Socialist Workers Party, will
speak on the "Origin of Wo­men's
Oppresssion" at 6 p.m.
in Langdon Hall.
On Tuesday, April 8, at 2
p.m., "The Individual and the
Organization" will be the
topic for Professor Leonard R.
Sayles when he speaks in Ha­ley
3195. Sayles is sponsored
by the department of mana­gement
Arch Winter, sponsored by
the department of architec­ture,
will speak on the "De­sign
Aspects of Urban Plan-
Auburn senior holds canine class
By Tina Likos
Plainsman Staff Writer
Graduation was held Sun­day,
March 9, from 2-3 p.m. —
at the University Meat Lab.
Eight canine graduates were
awarded diplomas in a
combination dog show-graduation
ceremony after
Mai stuck by car, dies of internal injuries
By Pat Fite
Plainsman Staff Writer
Auburn suffered its second
traffic fatality last Wednes­day,
March 26, when 81-year
old Walter T. Schreiber of 629
South College Street was
struck by a vehicle driven by
an Auburn student, Ronald F.
Lazenby, 418 N. Gay Street.
No charges were filed.
Schreiber, who is reportedly
a member of the Christian
Science Society, chose not to
receive medical attention, ac­cording
to city police.
Police said Schreiber was
struck Wednesday morning
in front of his house while he
Auburn alum wins air contest
An aviation management
graduate from Auburn Uni­versity
was selected as one of
six winners of the Southeast­ern
Regional Precision Flight
Team Championships held
here recently.
Gerald R. Grady, a 1974
graduate of the School of
Engineering, and former
member of the War Eagle Fly­ing
Team, will join the five
other regional winners at the
national championships set
for Santa Fe, N.M., April 17.
He is a native of Marietta,
GA.
David William Vegh of
Enterprise was declared
charrfpion of the meet held at
the Auburn-Opelika Airport.
The meet was sponsored lo­cally
by Alpha Eta Rho, the
professional aviation frater­nity,
and the Auburn School
of Aviation, in conjunction
with the National Pilots
Association and the Na­tional
Intercollegiate Flying
Association.
was returning from his mail
box across the street.
The police said they ar­rived
on the scene four
minutes later and immedi­ately
called an ambulance.
When the ambulance arrived,
Schreiber and his wife de­clined
to have him taken to
the hospital.
According to police, both
the police and ambulance at­tendants
administered first
aid on the scene while trying
to talk Mr. Schreiber into
medical aid.
Schreiber refused to go to
the hospital and died at 4:30
p.m. that day, said police.
Schreiber died of internal in­juries.
completing anine-weekcourse
of study in basic obedience.
Capturing first place in the
show was Major, a Labrador
retriever and the crowd fav­orite.
Dr. Patricia A. Teer, asso­ciate
professor of pathology
and parasitology, judged the
show.
The judging was based on
'exercises taught in the class.
The exercises included: on
leash — heel, sit, and figure-eight,
and off leash—long sit,
Gahery displays
student exhibits
A Communications Design
Exhibit will run in the
Auburn Union Gallery
through April 15.
The Trade oriented show
will feature over 100 pieces,
including graphic design,
illustrations and photo­graphy,
and is the work of stu­dents
in Auburn's visual
communications curricula.
long down, stand, call and
heel.
Cathie Smithy, 4GSY, is the
class instructor. She has been
teaching the course for four
quarters, but she has been
training dogs for much
longer.
"I trained
when I
said.
was
my first
fourteen,"
dog
she
Cathie uses her own dog, an
American Staffordshire ter­rier,
as a model during the
class.
The class meets once a week
for nine weeks (or the dura­tion
of the quarter) at the
Meat Lab. The course fee is
$20.
The class is open to any size
or type of dog. "Students" in
last quarter's class ranged
from an English sheep dog to
a basset hound to a Dober-man
pincher. The only basic
restriction is that the dog be
at least six months old.
"I sometimes make an
exception with young Dober-mans
or German shepherds,"
Cathie said, "if I see that their
owners are willing to give
time and patience to their
dogs."
Proposed S6A amendment
The referendum to be
voted upon in the Spring
General Election, if rati­fied,
will amend:
ARTICLE
VIII METHOD OF
AMENDMENT
Section 3. Proposed
amendments to this Con­stitution
shall be adopted
by a two-thirds vote of the
students voting in the Gen­eral
Election, provided
that ballots are cast by at
least 25 percent of the
membership of the Stu­dent
Government Associ­ation.
TO READ:
ARTICLE
VIII METHOD
AMENDMENT
1
OF
Section 3. Proposed
amendments to this Con­stitution
shall be adopted
by a two-thirds vote of the
students voting in the
General Election or the
Homecoming Election,
provided that ballots are
cast by at least 25 percent
of the membership of the
Student Government
Association.
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THE AUBURN Puiwguw Thun'April 3 » 1 9 7 5
Scotland Yard
inspector speaks
pageS
Chief Inspector D. Michael
Carter, management
specialist of The Police
College, Basingstoke, Eng­land,
will speak here April 9.
Chief Inspector Carter, who
is on special assignment from
the Metropolitan Police of
London, will be the Political
Science department's first
law enforcement guest lectur-
Lambda Alpha Epsilon
Criminal Justice Fraternity
and the local Fraternal Order
of Police are sponsoring an in­formal
reception for Chief
Inspector Carter April 8 at 8
p.m. in Union 202.
Chief Inspector Carter will
present a generalorientation
lecture at 11 a.m. April 9 on
"The Metropolitan Police
(Scotland Yard)" in 1203 Ha­ley
Center and a formal lec­ture
on "Police Management
in Great Britain" at 2 p.m. in
1203 HC.
Chief Inspector Carter
holds a B.A. in Special Social
Administration from the Uni­versity
of. Hull, Yorkshire,
and an external degree in
Criminology.
In addition to being a mem­ber
of Justice*, International.
Commission of Jurors, Bri­tish
Section, he is an associ­ate
member of the British In­stitute
of Management and a
member of the Association of
Programmed Learning and
Educational Technology.
Anthropologist speaks
on female oppression
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BUY rr RtettrL i/sewm/iDS/i
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EVELYN REED
Give to the
March
of Dimes
Lecturer and anthropolo­gist
Evelyn Reed will speak
on the "Origin of Womens*
Oppression" at Langdon
Hall, tonight at 6 p.m. The lec­ture
carries Forum credit.
Sponsored by AWS and the
Auburn chapter of the ACLU,
Reed has been touring 'Uni­versities
and colleges
throughout the nation lectur­ing
on her most recent book,
Woman's Evolution.
In her lecture, Reed takes a
million year expedition
through prehistory from can­nibalism
to culture and un­covers
the world of the an­cient
matriarchy.
Tracing the origins of the
incest taboo, blood rites, mar­riage
and the family, Reed re­veals
the leading role women
once played in advancing hu­man
social relationships.
Reed refutes "the myth that
human nature is to blame for
the male supremacy, greed,
wars, and inequalities of mo­dern
society."
Two anthropologists of Au­burn's
Sociology Depart­ment,
Frances French, assis­tant
professor of Sociology
and Anthropology, and Dr.
Ruth C. Busch, assistant pro­fessor
of Sociology and
Anthropology, are presently
reviewing Reed's book for se­parate
Sociology publications.
The public is invited to at­tend
the lecture.
Campus Calendar
Campus calendar
Campus Calendar an­nounces
club meetings and
special events free, space
available. Deadline for Calen­dar
announcements is noon
Mondays.
SHEA
The Student National
Education Association,
SNEA, will feature Bob
Welch, field coordinator for
the Alexander City, Ala­bama
School System, speak­ing
on "Discipline in the
Classroom" at a meeting
Monday. Nominations of of­ficers
for the coming year will
also be made. The meeting
will be at 7 p.m. in 1403 Haley
Center. Any persons inter­ested
may attend.
Gfoin photos
Final request is made for all
persons who did not receive
their proofs of photographs
from the photo studio taken
for the Glomerata in fall, 1974
to come by 315 Mary Martin
Hall by April 4. Some photo­graphs
need identification.
After April 4, no refunds can
be given.
Billiards clinic
A billiards clinic by Jack
White sponsored by Spectra
will be Monday, April 7
through Friday, April 11 in
the Auburn Union Recrea­tion
Room. Anyone in­terested
must pre-register in
the Recreation Room before
the clinic begins.
Wesley movie
"Like a Mighty Army," a
true story about James Ken­nedy
and the Coral Ridge
Church, will be shown at the
Wesley Foundation Sunday
at 7 p.m.
Campus Crusade
"If I Should Die," a touring
multi-media production of
Paragon Experience, is being
sponsored in the Auburn
Union Ballroom at 9 p.m.
Sunday by Campus Crusade
for Christ. The show explores
beyond death into the unna­tural
spirit realm through
rock music and imagery.
Bicycle touring
A free clinic on bicycle tour­ing
taught by experienced
cyclists will meet Saturday,
April 12 through Saturday,
May 24 at 10 a.m. at the Free-wheeler
Bike Shop. Usually
the class will ride for one to
two hours. The clinic's enroll-
Warm Surroundings
Cold Beverages
UVt
iNmmHMun
ment is limited. For more in­formation
and to reserve a
space, call Tom Perry at 887-
8117 before the first class
meets April 12. Topics to be
covered include riding posi­tion,
gear use, first steps to fit­ness,
hill climbing, route'
selection, cyclocamping and
basic bike maintenance.
Miss Auburn
Feminine Portrait, a spe­cial
production of the campus
radio station, WEGL, will fea­ture
the five candidates for-the
Miss Auburn title on the
program Wednesday at 7:30
p.m.
Accounting club
The Accounting Club will
hold a meeting Tuesday at
7:30 p.m. in 204 Auburn
Union. Any student inter­ested
in accounting may go to
the meeting.
Canoe club
The Canoe Club is having
an organizational meeting
Monday in 221 Forestry
Building at 7 p.m. Everyone is
invited.
Garden equipment
Garden equipment can be
checked out from the intra­mural
check-out service be­tween
2 and 6 p.m. Monday
through Friday.
Garage sale
A garage sale sponsored by
the Army ROTC Cadet Bat-
IM^
talion will be in the ROTC
Hangar Saturday from 9 a.m.
to 3 p.m. Proceeds from the
sale of donated items and
other sales will help defray ex­penses
for the 1975 annual
military ball scheduled for
April 12. In addition to the
sale of donated items, ar­rangements
are available for
the sale of individual con­signments
or tables at a
charge of 15 per cent of selling
price. For additional infor­mation
call 821-2183.
Street dance
Pan-hellenic is sponsoring
a Greek Week Street Dance
Saturday, April 12 from 8 to
12 p.m. in the Phi Delta Theta
and Pi Kappa Phi and
Delta Sigma Phi fraternity
parking lots. Jasper is the
band performing at the
dance. In case of rain, the
dance will be held in the
ROTC hangar.
Dog show
A herding dog exhibition
sponsored by the Pre-Veteri-nary
Club will be Saturday at
the Block and Bridle Arena at
11 a.m. Dr. Richard Karrasch
and his wife will be showing
their trained Border Collies.
Dr. John Nail will present a
program explaining his work
as veterinarian at the
Birmingham Zoo at a meet­ing
of the club in 144 Large
Animal Clinic at 7 p.m. Mon­day.
AID
Dr. Emil Wright, Jr., an
ophthalmologist at the Ope-lika
Medical Arts Center, will
speak at the Alpha Epsilon
Delta Pre-Medical honorary
society meeting Tuesday. The
meeting will be at 7 p.m. in
1203 Haley. Center. Wright is
a former Auburn student and
Alpha Epsilon Delta mem­ber.
Any interested students
and faculty are invited to at­tend.
A mandatory orientation
meeting for students inter­ested
in trying out for cheer-leading
is Thursday, April 10
at 7 p.m. in 3195 Haley Cen­ter.
Slides and a demonstra­tion
will be presented. The cli­nic
will be April 14 through 17
from 3 to 4:30 p.m. and 7 to 8
p.m. in the Student Activities
Building. Tryouts will be
April 21 through 24 at 4 p.m.
im Memorial Coliseum the
first day and in the Student
Activities Building the other
days. Qualifications are a 1.0
overall or a 1.5 the previous
quarter.
Delta Nu Alpha
Delta Nu Alpha, the trans­portation
fraternity, will meet
at 7 p.m. in the Eagle's Nest in
Haley Center Monday. Any­one
interested may attend.
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Thursday, %ri&yjk SataavfejK
married students
"The Married Student
Handbook," a Student
Government Association pub­lication,
is now available at
the Auburn Bookstore and the
Auburn Union desk.
Domes
Dames, the student wives
organization, will have a
banana split night at a meet­ing
Wednesday at 7:30 p.m. at
the Social Center. All student
wives are invited.
Home fc
The Auburn Student Home
Economics Association will
meet Monday at 7 p.m. in 144
Spidle Hall. The program will
be on management..
ror Sole: Gile. Mobil* Horn*, 12 x
51, 2-bedroom, air-conditioned,
central heat, shag carpet.
Barron's Trailer Park. 887-9495.
For Sale: 1972 Bultaco Pvrsang,
reaionable. Call Andy at 821-
0155.
For Sale: 1956 Chevy, V-8, power
steering, automatic, clean,
excellent condition. $350. 887-
9983.
For Sale: 1972 Honda 450 a .
$800. Excellent condition. 10"
extended forks. King ft queen
seat. 2-bars stock. Equipment
included. Call 821-2541 after 6
p.m.
For Sale: Component stereo
system. Changer. Eight track FM
stereo. Excellent condition. 887-
3139. $275.
Antique Weekly Special: Special
prices this week on our small
items. Brass, copper, wood, tin,
and iron. Welcome back to Spring
Quarter. Jackson Antiques, 1807
Frederick Rd., Opelika, AL, Phone
749-0939, (Leave Auburn on East
Glenn Street).
Five cu. ft. refrigerator. Super
condition, 6 mos. old. $110. Come
by 815 Cottage Lane, or call 887-
6523 after 3 p.m.
For Sale: U.S. Divers Scuba outfit.
Includes: tank with K-valve, regu­lator
with reserve, fins, wetsuit, 2
masks. Optional: bouyancy com­pensator,
knife must sell: $150
without options. Call 821-0222.
WANTED
October 26, 1929 Saturday Even­ing
Post missing cover. Serious
offer only. Also 1929 Georgia
Tulane game program. Call 821-
8771.
BUSINESS SERVICES
EUROPE - ISRAEL - AFRICA - ASIA
Travel discounts year-round. Stu­dent
Air Travel Agency, Inc. 5299
Roswell Rd., Atlanta, GA., 30342.
252-3433.
Needed: Female to share large 2-
bedroom trailer. In Ridgewood.
75/month plus utilities. Call 821-
7116.
Sales Rep Wanted: Student with
some sales ability needed in a
sales position on a part-time
basis. May choose own hours.
Excellent commissions offered.
Must have own transportation.
Call Allen Patterson at 821-9196
now to schedule interview.
Wanted: Pit-tootsies, weekend
travel, excitement, no experience
necessary. Send resume and
photo to Hot Grits MX Team, P.O.
Box 608 Auburn.
Wanted: Responsible babysitter
for 5-year-old. Part time week­days.
No weekends. Prefer mot­her
with children around same
age and lives within walking dis­tance
of Haley Center. If
interested. Call 821-7504 in
evenings.
Needed: Female roommate to
share 2-bedroom apt. $52.50 per
month plus utilities. 1 mile from
campus. 821-4716. c TOR RENT
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The University Shop
SPERRY
TOPSIDERS
$27.95
125 S. College
For Rent: Single rooms - $92.50
per quarter. Utilities paid. $35
deposit. Male only. Two blocks off
campus. 821-1723 after 6 p.m. or
887-6893 before 6 p.m.
For Rent: 3-bedroom 1 Vi bath, fur­nished
mobile home. $350 per
quarter plus utilities. Available
immediately. Call 887-7417.
For Rent: Room in large house,
362 W. Magnolia. $50 monthly.
Across St. from campus. Avail­able
immediately. Call 887-8206
any time.
Help Wanted: Part time.
Advertising coordinator, market­ing
oriented. Hours flexible,
salary open. 821-7786 9-5 p.m.
Summer jobs 8 week girls' camp;
Need counselors, water front and
other program specialists. Make
application and schedule inter­view
at 826-4448, Le LeRoy, HC
3084.
1 PAY $10 or MORE for high school
class rings. Box 38, Fraser, Ml,
48026.
Services Needed? Photography,
, scientific and technical for publi­cation,
thesis, or portfolios. Photo­micrography,
macro photo­graphy,
other techniques. Highest
quality. 4 years professional
experience. 887-8438.
OVERSEAS JOBS - Australia,
Europe, S. America, Africa.
Students all professions and oc­cupations
$700 to $3000 month­ly.
Expenses paid, overtime, sight­seeing.
Free information.
TRANSWORLD RESEARCH CO.
Dept. E4, P.O. Box 603, Corte
Madera, CA 94925.
j
Medical, Dental and law School
applicants. Perhaps we can help
get you accepted. Box 16140, St
Louis, MO. 63105.
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Foreign Car Repairs: Tune-ups,
brakes, new convertible tops,
engine rebuilding, or anything I
else that your car needs. 887-
6523. Lot No. 25, Barron's Trailer
Park.
Interested in an exciting summer
in Europe? An Osborne Tour is
your answer. Call campus repre­sentative
Jo Ellen Allen (826-
6361) for information.
San Juan! Nassau! St. Thomas! 7-
day luxury cruise for only $250.
Call campus representative Jo
Ellen Allen (826-6361) for more
information.
CANADIAN WILDERNESS CANOE
TRIP: Twelve day trip across lakes.
All equipment furnished! Co-ed
trip. Call Doug Darr at 821-7298
or 821-0666. Or see me before
April 21 at Klinner's Apts., 233 W.
Glenn, Apt. 25. c MISCEILANE0U- 1
c PETS ^
Let us help find a home for un­wanted
pets. For further
information please call: 821-
9607 or 821-9124.
To the guy who brought my
puppy, Flora-Jean, home after she
ran into your car; Thank You! She
has a broken foot, but she's doing
fine.
Fight Cholesterol build-up with
Lecithin—Kelp Combination. Get
Norwalk leci-Kelp caps.Toomer
Drug.
EPISCOPAL COLLEGE CENTER:
Discussion group "What is this
faith? Starts Tuesday 6:45 p.m.
after worship at 5:30 p.m. and
supper at 6 p.m. Sunday Services
8:30 and 10:45, 136 East
Magnolia. Rod Sinclair, Chaplain.
C/ripinal
GUS s
HOT DOGS
OUR DOGS DON'T BITE
184 Donahue
Across from University Apts.
OPEN: 11 AM- 11PM.
Mon -Sun
Phone: 887-9802
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Pedestrian Day
The Student Senate has approved a proposed Pedes- Bicycles, though are encouraged, in addition to pedes­trian
Day set for Wednesday, April 23. Subject to Pres. trian traffic. The plan is designed to ease congestion
Harry M. Philpbtt's approval, the plan would ban cars and end thru-traffic across the campus,
that day from travel in the striped streets on the map.
Griessman authors book on minorities
By John Beck
Plainsman Staff Writer
Auburn's Sociology Depart­ment
head has written a book
about an "explosive world
problem." Dr. B. Eugene
Griessman's book, entitled
"Minorities'" has taken him
seven years to create, five of
those years being spent at Au­burn.
The 365-page book con­cerns
just what its title sug­gests,
the sociology of minori­ties.
Griessman began working
on the book while teaching at
North Carolina State Univer­sity
when a former student re­minded
him that, at the time,
there were only a few up-to-date
books analyzing mi­nority
relations. Griessman,
who has his doctorate from
Louisiana State University
and has taught at William
and Marv and N.C. State,
compiled his book from a life­time
of experiences and what
he has learned at Auburn.
He has firsthand
knowledge of much of the ma­terial
in his book. Spending
two summers in Jamaica
when he was a teenager,
Griessman said, "It was
a pivotal experience in my life.
I lived in many cities during
my life but always in the
South."
He has been reared in a
society when prejudice
against blacks was prevalent
and it appeared in southern
institutions as well as in sepa­rate
bathrooms and eating
facilities. In Jamaica, which
is 98 per cent black, and where
there is no separation of
races, he realized minority re­lations
can be dependent
upon the situation and the
environment.
Griessman contends that
many people are mislead by
the term sociology and be­lieve
professors try to sway
their students' views about
society and social relations.
But according to Griessman.
sociology is a "scientific-study
of socil behavior."
" 'Minorities' is a textbook
designed for college students
who are beginning to study
intergroup relations. It deals
with minorities on that basis
Crew receives award
of outstanding engineer
A Goodwater youth major­ing
in textile management
has been selected as the Stu­dent
Engineer of the Year
from Auburn University by
the Alabama Society of Pro­fessional
Engineers.
Benjamin J. Crew, 4TM,
president of the Student Engi­neers'
Council at Auburn's
School of Engineering, re­ceived
the award at a recent
engineering honors banquet.
This award is presented
each year by chapters of
ASPE to exceptional engi­neering
students in colleges
and universities around the
state. From the respective
winners, the Student Engi­neer
of the Year for the State
of Alabama is chosen during
the summer.
Crew received the Avon-dale
Textile Scholarship and
is a member of Omicron Del­ta
Kappa leadership hono­rary.
He has served as a tutor
for other students during his
stay at Auburn and is presi­dent
of Phi Psi textile engi­neering
honorary.
of ethnic backgounds and
race," he said.
One of the unique features
of the book is that Griessman
obtained much of the infor­mation
by testing his theories
on his students at Auburn
and by using their reactions
and inclass discussions as the
bulk of his material. He has
combined this information
with what he has researched
from other sources. "Minori­ties"
presents, "as simply as
possible the basic concepts,
principles, and ideas of lead­ing
scholars."
Griessman refered in his
book to an experience that he
had with southern "social eti­quette"
while working as a
cashier in a supermarket in
which a white man had been
offended when Griessman
had called a black man "Mr."
He cited another situation
'that occurred when, while on
a journey to Montreal, Cana­da,
as an evaluator for a fed­eral
project to help the poor,
he witnessed a riot between
French and English speak­ing
students over what lan­guage
was to be spoken at
McGill University.
These are the type minority
struggles that Griessman il­lustrates
in his book and de­scribes
to his students.
Griessman's book provides
theories and ideas con­cerning
an answer to the
question, "What happens
when unlike people meet?"
With a thorough study of
group and social relations,
Griessman believes it can be
determined how people will
react in certain social
situations.
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Shortly after registration
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Football player flies high by radio
By Tim Lockhart
Plainsman Staff Writer
The plane dips and soars, its engine sounding like an
angry chain saw. A crowd of Auburn students stand be­low,
heads thrown back, mouths open, watching the pi­lot
put the plane through its stunts.
But the pilot is not in the plane; he is down in crowd,
and he sends his commands to the plane via the radio
that he holds in his hand.
"It's fun," said Steve Taylor, 4MK. "Why do I do it?
Why does anybody do anything? It's a challenge."
Taylor, a native of Atlanta, said that he began to build
model planes when he was about 14. "My dad got me
started," he said, "because he used to build them when he
was a kid."
"I've got two more planes at home," Taylor said, "and
one on the drawing board right now." He said that he had
been building radio-controlled planes for about two
years, but that he had started designing them only last
summer. "Maybe I can finish the one I'm working on
sometime spring quarter," he said.
The plane is powered by a single-cylinder, semidiesel,
glow-plug engine that runs on a mixture of alcohol, nitro-methane,
and methanol. The plane has a fuel capacity of
10 ounces and can fly for approximately 30 minutes on a
full tank. It is controlled by a radio which broadcasts on a
72.960 megacycle frequency and has all the controls of a
regular airplane.
"I've had several crashes," Taylor said. "If you let the
plane get too close to the ground, you're going to crash it,
so you have to watch it all the time so you know exactly
where it is and how high it is."
"This plane took me about three weeks to build," said
Taylor. He estimated that the planes cost about $85 to
build, but he added that they can cost as much as $600,
depending on the type and condition of the engine.
The radio unit can cost anywhere from $40 to $600, he
said, and the one which he uses runs about $300. It has a
range of 1,000 yards, but Taylor said that it wasn't safe to
let the plane fly that far away since the plane was not
visible at that distance and it was impossible to guide the
plane then. "You can't fly it if you can't see it," he com­mented.
Taylor said that he thought that interest in radio-con­trol
planes was growing. "The guy at the hobby shop has
started carrying parts for the planes," he said, "where he
didn't before."
"Talk to someone who knows something about it," was
Taylor's advice to someone wanting to get involved with
radio-control planes. "I'd definitely recommend for some­one
who wanted to know how to get into it to get someone
to teach you about it because you can avoid a lot of mis­takes
that way," he said.
Taylor explained that the biggest difficulty in learning
how to fly the planes was keeping yourself oriented with
the plane's position in the sky. "It's harder to fly an r. c.
plane than a real one," he said, "because you have to pic­ture
the angle of the plane — like, if the plane is coming
towards you, right and left are backwards."
Taylor has an impressive football career to match his
flying abilities. He was captain of the 1973-74 Auburn
University football team and he was AII-SEC and on the
second Ail-American team. "I was drafted in the ele­venth
round by the Houston Oilers and I was put on the
reserve team there after I had mononucleosis," Taylor
said. "I don't know yet if 111 play for them or not. Right
now, I'm just looking forward to graduation."
But no matter if he decides to play football or not, one
thing is for sure: Steve Taylor will keep on flying his
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Handicapped children
subject of conference
A conference on the Educa­tion
of Young Normal and
Handicapped Children has
been scheduled forApril 10-11
in the Auburn Union.
Dr. Henry L. Smith,
chairman of special educa­tion
programs at Auburn and
conference coordinator, cites
this area of study as one the
most important in the coun­try
today.
"We believe this conference
will focus on some of the more
important issues related to
the education, treatment and
training of young handi­capped
and normal chil­dren,"
said Smith, pointing
out that conference speakers
will be among leading author­ities
in this area.
The speakers will include
Dr. James J. Gallagher, direc­tor
of Frank Porter Graham
Child Development Center at
the University of North Caro­lina,
Chapel Hill; Dr. Bar­bara
Day, director, Early
Childhood Education Pro­grams,
University of North
Carolina; Dr. Herbert Quay,
director, Applied and Social
Sciences, University of
Miami; and Rep. Pete
Turnham, chairman,
Education Committee, Ala­bama
General Assembly.
Gallagher has directed and
participated in extensive re­search
relating to the excep­tional
child. He has written
four books and numerous arti­cles
on the gifted, retarded
and learning disabled child.
Quay, an authority on
childhood disorders, juvenile
delinquency and crime, is co­author
of "Psychopatholo-gical
Disorders of Child­hood,"
a textbook widely
adopted by colleges and uni­versities.
He is also editor of
the "Journal of Abnormal
Child Psychology."
Day is author of "Open
Learning in Early Child­hood"
and co-editor of "A
Guide to Resources in the
Southern Region."
Serving as conference coor­dinators
with Smith are Sue
Akers, coordinator for early
childhood education for the
handicapped, Alabama State
Department of Education; Dr.
Mildred Ellisor, professor of
early childhood education,
and Dr. John Touliatos, head
of the department of family
and child development, both
of Auburn University.
The initial conference held
at Auburn last year attracted
more than 300 professionals.
Smith has estimated that at­tendance
this year will be
around 600.
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U.S. MARINE CORPS OFFICER SELECTION TEAM VISITS CAMPUS
College it the first training ground for the majority of the Marine Corp*' future officers. Matt of the Carp*' offker pro­grams
require a bachelor's degree before commissioning, so it is an official Marino Corps policy to encourage college
students to stay in school and earn his degree.
Marine Officer Selection Officers visit colleges to offer advise and supply information to students interested in mili­tary
service in general and the Marine Corps in particular.
There are two major commissioning programs available to college students: Platoon leaders Class (PtC), and Officer
Candidate Class (OCC). PIC is open to freshman, sophomores and juniors. The program offers ground, aviation and law
options. An optional stipend is available to qualified members. Training takes place during the summer months only.
With training completed, commissioning can take place on the same day as college graduation. Seniors and recent gra­duates
who have not participted in the PtC program can take advantage of the OCC program. This also features
ground, air and law options. Unlike PIC, all OCC training takes place at Officer Candidate School, Marino Corps lose,
Quantico, Virginia.
Because ho is an officer himself, the Officer Selection Officer who visits your college can give you firsthand informa­tion
regarding the challenge of Marino training and the rewards of life as a Marine officer. He will be able to toll you of
his personal experiences with the kinds of responsibilities young Marino officer are given in their first commands...of­ten
while their civilian contemporaries are waiting for their first taste of responsibility in business.
For complete details see the Marine Corps Officer Selection Team on campus at the Union Building on S thru 11 April
I97S, between the hours of 9 A.M. and 2 P.M.
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A popular game
By Mark Murphy
Sports Editor
Of the 236 institutions that play college basketball, 56 were
invited to postseason tournament play this year.
The NCAA gobbled up the 32 best teams and the National
Commissioners Invitational in Louisville, which was won by
Drake, had an eight team field. In New York, the National In­vitational
Tournament picked up 16 teams not invited to the
previous two tournaments which are run by the NCAA, which
has the power in intercollegiate athletics.
By the end of the season Auburn was surely one of the top 56
teams in the nation. However, the Tigers had to view tourna­ment
action on the "tube" or read about it in a newspaper or
magazine.
Auburn's players wanted to go to the NIT in New York
which surely is losing more luster each season. If the tourna­ment
is going to claim to be the National Invitational rather
than the New York Invitational, it shouldn't flood its field
with Eastern and New England schools while ignoring teams
from other parts of the country that are much stronger than
some of those selected. There were some especially mediocre
teams invited to the NIT this season.
The loss to Georgia really knocked AU out of the tourna­ment
picture. If the Tigers had lost to Georgia early in the sea­son
it would not have mattered as much. But when the cellar-dwelling
SEC team pinned a 93-90 overtime loss on Auburn,
ending an 11-game Bulldog losing streak, with the tourna­ment
officials from the NIT and Commissioner's following
that contest, AU's tournament prestige was really damaged.
After losing to Georgia, as ^U coach Bob Dtvis pointed out,
few expected the Tigers to beat Alabama.
Auburn or Tennesssee could have gone to the Commission­er's
affair which was moved from St. Louis to Louisville. The
NIT would have invited Tennessee, with its starting New
York stars Ernie Grunfeld and Bernard King, if it had the
chance. But the Vols were forced to go to the Commissioner's
by the SEC and the NCAA. It is no secret that the New York
tournament is very jealous of the second year Commission­er's
tournament and vice-versa.
The new tournament has been very damaging to the NIT,
doubly so after theexpansion this season to 32 teams by the
NCAA Tournament. The NCIT might have picked the Vols
over Auburn just to spite the NIT and deny them a good draw­ing
card for the tournament which has been having atten­dance
problems the past few vears. I
Basketball is a very popular sport at the college level. In the
small college NCAA divisions, one and two, 330 schools field
basketball teams. In the NAIA, another small college organi- .
zation, 540 basketball teams were competing this past sea­son.
The women are getting into the act in growing numbers,
as 622 teams affiliated with the AIAW indicates.
-Recruiting seems tougher
Davis, and his assistants-John Lykins, Larry Phillips and
Bob Pritchett have found recruiting is tougher this year. One
problem they face is that the South is not loaded with good ta­lent
in its graduating senior high school classes as was the
case last year.
Another obstacle they have had to face is Auburn's suc­cess.
The old saw, "Nothing succeeds like success," is not nec­essarily
true in the recruiting busness. Last year a recruit like
Mike Mitchell could visit Auburn, look over the situation, and
realize he was almost sure to start.
This year a recruit knows he will be facing a challenge to
break into the starting lineup. After being the star in high
school, he probably won't be satisfied with sitting on the
bench for a year or so, or playing on the junior varsity.
The one exception is at center where t