1976-05-27 The Auburn Plainsman

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.Volume 82 Number 26 Thursday, May 27, 1976 Auburn, AL 36830 22 pages
AU budget cut possible
By Jackie Romine
Plainsman Staff Writer
The Alabama State Senate will
discuss recommendations today for an
approximate $8 million statewide cut in
funds for higher education. The Senate
Finance and Taxation Committee
recommended an eight per cent
across-the-board cut to all higher
learning institutions.
This cut could mean a $2 to 2.5
million cut in the Auburn University
budget, according to Ben T. Lanham,
vice president of administration.
Lee County Senators C.C. "Bo"
Torbert and T.D. "Ted" Little said
there will be a filibuster in the Senate
Thursday when the budget cuts come
to the floor.
"The purpose will be to let people
who have voted for this bill know that
we do not approve of all aspects," Little
said.
"If the cut is approved," Lanham also
said, "the institution (Auburn) will not
be able to handle it without raising
tuition, cutting salaries, decreasing
admissions or a combination of the
Departments state
attendance policies
By Susan Counts
Plainsman Staff Writer
Attendance policies for 12 de­partments
gained final approval from
Dr. Taylor Littleton, dean of Academic
Affairs on Tuesday. Other departments'
recommended regulations are still
under consideration.
History, Journalism, and Art History
are presently the only departments
which have proposed direct grade
penalties for inattendance to 100-Ievel
and 200-level courses.
The History Department stated its
policy as "entitling the student to one
unexcused absence per hour for each
course (three unexcused absences for a
three-hour course, five unexcused for a
five-hour course) without penalty.
For each unexcused.absence in excess
of that number he (she) is liable to de­duction
from his term grade of one point
on a scale of 100, or of an equivalent on
any other scale."
In addition to the disadvantages of
missing assignments or pop quizzes, the
Art History Department placed the
following restriction on its students: for
100-Ievel and 200-level studio courses—
"a final grade may be lowered one letter
for each two individual or class critiques
missed due to unexcused absences."
The most rigid regulations were placed
on attendance in the Journalism depart­ment.
"Three unexcused absences will be
allowed without penalty from lecture ses­sions
in JM220, JM221, JM223 and
JM224, and five points will be taken off
the student's grade for each unexcused
absence exceeding three...No unexcused
absences will be allowed for laboratory
sessions, but a student with an un­excused
absence may be permitted to
make up a session within two weeks at a
penalty of 15 points off the grade for that
session... A student with an unexcused
absence from a quiz may be allowed to
make up the quiz but will be penalized 30
points on that quiz."
The English Department, though not
giving any direct grade penalties,
expanded its control on attendance
through dropping students from lower
division courses. "After three un­authorized
class absences the teacher
shall send a letter of warning to the stu­dent
and a copy to the student's
academic dean. After the warning, if a
student is absent again, the instructor
may drop that student from the class
with a grade of "FA"...When a student's
total absences from class sessions exceed
one-third of the scheduled meetings of
that course for the quarter, the teacher
has the option of dropping the student
from the course with the grade of "w"
even if the absences have been excused."
Eight departments, including
chemistry, foreign language, religion,
pshchology, mathematics, geology.,
sociology, and biology, submitted
policies which stressed the importance of
attending class and completing the re­quired
assignments, but established no
penalizing regulations. In many cases
the attendance policy will be left up to the
discretion of the individual instructor.
three."
Torbert said the vote in the Finance
and Taxation Committee was 14 to 3 in
favor of cutting the education
appropriations. He said Mayer W.
Perloff of Mobile, Richard C. Shelby of
Tuscaloosa and himself were the
opposing members.
The House of Representatives last
week passed and sent to the Senate the
general fund budgets and education
fund budgets.
Auburn was restored its present
allocation of $40,320,000 by the House.
The House created a substitute
education budget after it rejected the
Wallace administration's recommended
$254,535 cut in Auburn's funds. Under
the Finance and Taxation recommenda­tions,
Auburn's total appropriations
would be $38,055,915.
Rep. Pete Turnham of Auburn
predicted in an article in the
Opelika-Auburn News that if the
bodies do not agree and the Senate
changes the bills, a House-Senate
(See BUDGET, page A-8)
Adios
It's time to put a big '10-7' on this year's volume of
The Plainsman, and answer the call of summer...at
least temporarily. The summer edition of The
Plainsman will begin coming out June 24, with Betty
Douglass, 4GJM, as editor. While we can't just turn our
backs and forget a year like 1976-76, with its trustees
rulings and budget cuts, we can turn to the 'Year in
Review' supplement for a complete review of this
school year, with every thing from football to fine arts
reviewed.
Ped'Mall to be permanent?
By Ruth Ann Dunn
Plainsman Staff Writer
There is a good chance the Pedestrian
Mall experiment conducted winter quar­ter
will become a permanent fixture on
the Auburn campus, according to former
student senator Layne Carruth.
Pedestrian Mall involved the closing of
several streets near campus between 7
a.m. and 7 p.m.
According to Carruth, a survey of
faculty showed 46.2 per cent favored the
Pedestrian Mall while 44.3 per cent
opposed it with 9.5 per cent remaining
neutral on the subject.
The survey was conducted by the
"A.U. Report", a weekly campus
newsletter.
"Most of the people that opposed the
Mall would have supported it if the hours
were 7 a.m. to 4 p.m. instead of 7 a.m. to 7
p.m.," said Carruth.
A poll of students tentatively shows
that 85 to 95 per cent of those questioned
favor the Pedestrian Mall.
A third survey conducted by John
McCarthy and the American Society of
Civil Engineers during the experimental
Pedestrian Mall involved counting cars
and observating changes in traffic flow.
The study showed that during peak
traffic hours, cars avoiding the barriers
placed on Thatch Avenue were rerouted
to Magnolia Avenue. .,..-... « :.
Traffic on Magnolia increased by 200
cars per hour.
Glenn Avenue traffic showed no'
change at all during the Mall.
Information on traffic conditions for
Roosevelt and Samford have not been re­leased,
Data collected on Auburn's Pedestrian
Mall is to be compared to a study done by
Bartholemew and Associates, a Mem­phis
concern, on a campus similar to
Auhiim
I According to Carruth, "This is a
highly credible study for planned traffic.
growth. It routes traffic around campus,
with peripheral parking.
Carruth added that parking places will
be lost
Once all studies are completed, a
presentation will be made to the
University Traffic and Parking
Committee, the faculty and President
Philpott for their approval.
William R. Transue, head of the
University Traffic and Parking
Committee waid, "We have yet to be pre­sented
with anything concrete, but many
of the members of the committee look on
it (the Mall) with favor, including my­self"
; If the proposed Pedestrian Mall meets
with the approval of these people, it will
probably go into effect next winter quar­ter.
As Layne Carruth says, "It's a good
idea from safety standpoint when you*
consider there's 8000 people walking and
three, or four hundred people driving. It
seems like the people walking deserve a
much higher priority than people
driving." r
Irregularities found in Auburn voting processes
By Christy Hudgins
and Lisa Harris
Plainsman Staff writers
While thumbing through the pages of the news­paper,
John saw his name listed among those
qualified to vote in the May 4 primary. So on May 4 he
cast his ballot. But John is a convicted felon and by
law ineligible to vote.
Sara, who lives in a University dorm, found she was
assigned to vote at the recreation center on the
Opelika Highway, while her suitemate was listed at
the fire station.
Both cases exhibit irregularities seen in Auburn's
most recent election.
In John's case, according to Probate Judge Ira
Weissinger, there is no way under state law to de­termine
if votes have been cast by felons or in the
names of persons who are dead or have moved.
Sara's case illustrates what a student intern deal­ing
with Auburn voting practices termed a •disper­sion
of the student vote." He said "a large percentage
of the women living on campus had to vote in wards
other than the one in which they lived."
The inability to determine if unqualified voters
have cast ballots stems from what Weissinger called
an "invalid procedure for today." No one is allowed to
see the poll list signed by each voter prior to casting
his ballot. The procedure is a carryover from the days
when paper ballots were used and a vote could be
determined by matching numbers on the list with
those on the ballot.
Weissinger said it is "always possible" that
inefficiencies in the system may lead to persons
voting twice—signing the name of a dead person or a
resident they know to be out of town.
"The potential for abuse is there and it can be and
may have been taken advantage of," said the intern.
The obstacles blocking improvement of the present
system are many. The Lee County Board of
Registrars is funded by the state to meet only 30 days
of each year and only seven of these days are set aside
to purge the voter list of "dead weight."
According to Mrs. Buck Norris, chairman of the
Board, definite proof of death must be provided before
a name will be removed from the list. Norris said a
member of the family must tell the registrars of the
death and provide information to guarantee the pro­per
identity of the dead person. "I'm not just taking
anyone's word that someone has died," said Norris.
This system has proved to be inadequate for many
Auburn residents trying to report changes. In Beat6
more than 50 dead persons were found on the rolls.
According to the intern, this may represent only a
small portion of the ineligible voters.
What several Auburn residents complained about is
the difficulty of contacting a registrar to remove a
name from the list.
The case of Harold E. Klontz has been shared by
several Auburn residents. Klontz said he reported a
death in 1961 and has been trying ever since to get
the name removed from the list. His wife reported the
death to the probate office in person and Klontz
News
Analysis
estimates that he tried to notify the Board between
eight and 10 times. He said he tried to contact the
registrars, but "no one knew exactly when they would
be in."
Some of the confusion comes from the fact that a call
to the probate office is not sufficient toremove some­one
from the voting list. Weissinger said he would
only deliver messages to the Board of Registrars and
preferred that the registrars be dealt with directly.
A drawer is set aside in the probate office for
messages to the registrars. "There have been times
when I might misplace a name though," said
Weissinger.
Often reports of death are made at the polling
places and then placed in the same envelope as the
polling list. Because this envelope can not be opened,
these reports can never reach the proper authorities.
Norris said the "best way to report a death is to drop
a note in the mail or call personally."
She added that if "a note does not get into my
hands, the name is not removed." In the past the
Board has received Lee County death reports from the
State Health Department in Montgomery. This prac­tice
stopped, however, a number of years ago when the
person sending the reports left the department.
Information on deaths is provided piecemeal now
from clipping obituaries from local newspapers and
from personal reports. "We try to keep up with the
paper," said Norris, "but to really make it accurate,
we have to have people report to us more."
(See VOTING page A-8)
Kunstler
Famous lawyer William Kunstler spoke in the
Student Activities Building Monday, sponsored
by Horizons. (See story on page A-8)
Photo by Bobby Smith
An editorial
A deep gloom surrounds Drake Student Health Center on
Magnolia Avenue. It's a pity. Two years ago it seemed that a bright
new day was dawning for Auburn health service.
The health center, called "a peculiar animal" by Administrative
Vice President Ben Lanham, a "glorified first aid station" by
Trustee Charles Smith, and unprintable names by hundreds of
Auburn students, definitely has problems.
It is time to solve them.
There's the matter of money-each student pays $15 per quarter into
a student health fund. Counting only from fall, 1974, the fund has put
about $1,528,515 into the health center renovation and operation.
Yet, there are many extra charges assessed goods and services
including bandages, some 14 different drugs, special tests and the
X-ray service. It's as though students pay $15 for the building, but if
they actually want service, they have to pay extra.
To top the obvious, some inside sources say students are not
getting their money's worth from their health fees. Unfortunately,
because they feared retaliation from health center officials, they
didn't feel free to talk openly.
There's a matter of service-well, is it really going to be a service
for the students or isn't it? Many people don't think it is now.
Is there definitely going to be patient parking at the renovated
health center?Why can't a patient take his X-ray negatives with him
when he's referred to another medical service? It's standard
procedure at other facilities.
Why shouldn't a doctor or at least a nurse be assigned to the drill
field during intramural games, where the injuries are most likely to
occur?
The potential for service represented by the fine health center
staff has not been approached.
Something is missing at the health center that not all the student
health money in the world can buy, that not even the most skillful
physician can provide, that not even the best possible medical
building necessarily houses: Compassion.
There are some students and others who blame this lack on the
staff. Although some individual acts may point to a lack of
compassion in some of the staffers. The Plainsman believes the
blame rests on other shoulders.
Genuine concern seems to have been pushed out of the regime
itself, in favor of something called "efficiency." We'd sooner have
compassion than efficiency, if we can't have both.
If there are no other reasons to suspect something's amiss at the
health center, the very fact that the staffers were afraid to talk to
The Plainsman about its internal operations points to a deficiency
somewhere.
Two men, Health Center Director Garth Jarvis and University
President Harry Philpott, must share most of the responsibility for
the quality of health center services, good or bad. The health
advisory committee is not in a position at this time to contribute
much to policy formulation.
A committee of concerned students have undertaken the good
task of righting the wrongs-whether real or imagined, of the health
center. Our hearts are with them.
To all the University officials who spoke their concern but not
their good names, come out and be counted. Your voices, are
needed.
Whatever must be done to clear the air around the health center
should be done. It time to set this matter straight.
[A probe into the health center appears on pages two and
three of today's Plainsman.]
THE AUBURN PLAINSMAN Thurs., May 27, 1976 A-2 Complaints, letters
called for Investigation
Over the past year, The
Plainsman Has heard numerous
complaints about services, or the
lack of them, at the Student Health
Center. Students claim they were
sicker than the infirmary said they
were or that they weren't properly
treated. A couple of University
officials have even said they felt
something was wrong at the center
and that there was a problem.
Because of these statements and
complaints, members of The
Plainsman —Steele Holman, edi­tor,
and Jodi Leach and Susan
Harrison, features editors—decid­ed
an in-depth study of the Health
Center was needed. As a part of
this study, they kept a 22-hour
watch on the place.
The early afternoon hours, from
1 to 4p.m., were the busiest, with
the late afternoon, from 4 to 7 p.m.
being second. Approximately 40
students came to the infirmary
during this second shift. From 7 to
10 p.m., 12 patients came in. At 10
p.m., the Health Center locked its
doors but students could ring the
bell to get service. The staff
member was asked to leave at this
Plainsman
Probes
Health
Center
time but the watch was continued
outside the center.
Students came in for all sorts of
ailments. One male student had a
hurt foot. When asked, he said the
treatment he received was
sufficient for him, that he'd been in
several times and hadn't died yet.
On the other hand, one female who
came in for treatment of a cold,
said, "You can say that I said the
infirmary is inefficient."
Some of the ailments included flu
symptoms, hurt knees and sprain­ed
ankles, colds, a neck hurt in judo
class, a kidney stone, allergies and
rashes, cuts and scrapes and a
request for diet pills.
Some students are satisfied with
the treatment they receive while
others feel they have been "ripped
off" and are not getting their
money's worth. Everyone has a
story to tell about themselves or a
person they know.
Many people however, are
satisfied with the Health Center
services and it is obvious there are
two sides to the story. The
Plainsman has attempted to
present the policies and issues that
have been brought to its attention
and seem to be sources of
controversy.
PARKING IS NOT ALLOWED IN FRONT OF STUDENT HEALTH CENTER
...Injured students have been asked to move their cars before getting treated
Source soys Jarvis inhibits nurses
Photo by Bobby Smith
Director answers questions of the
Dr. Garth L. Jarvis, Drake
Student Health Center Director,
was interviewed Tuesday after­noon
on questions of possible in­terest
to students.
Jarvis, who has much experience
as both a practicing gynecologist-o
b s t e t r i c i a n and hospital
administrator, took the position as
health center director in 1073. He
was formerly employed at Sibley
Memorial Hospital, in the Washing­ton,
D.C. area.
The interview is here presented in
"question and answer" form:
PLAINSMAN:What services or medical
items at the health center have extra
charges?
JARVIS: Laboratory and X-ray room
work requested by outside
physicians...special laboratory studies
like pregnancy tests and tests that are for
special groups.
PLAINSMAN:
Smears?
What about Pap
; JARVIS: They pay the lab, they don't
<• pay us. I don't know what that charge is.
;- (The lab is located at Lee County
5 Hospital. The test is administered at the
6 health center.)
1 PLAINSMAN: What about crutches
* and rentals of equipment?
! JARVIS: Crutches are loaned. If they
* don't return them, they have to pay for
- them. This is a real problem and getting
I worse. They don't bring them back when
' they're through with them.
PLAINSMAN:
bandages?
What about ace
JARVIS: Well, they can go uptown and
buy them at a drugstore if they want. We
charge for them here, so it's a
i convenience to the sudents that they
! don't have to go buy one and bring it
| back to be put on.
- There are a few special medicines that
t you have to buy in multiple doses at a
* drugstore. We keep it here, charge for it
* at cost as a convenience.
jj People taking allergy shots store their
' medicine here and either bring their
• syringes or pay for a syringe here.
I We stock basic antibiotics. Other
; drugs than that, the student pays for by
• prescription. A lot of the drugs the
'. student buy are on prescription.
• PLAINSMAN: Why isn't there a
- practicing gynecologist on the staff?
JARVIS: That's a specialty service,
and we give primary care only. All the
primary care doctors can do office
gynecology.
PLAINSMAN: You don't think that
with almost half of our students female
that we should have a gynecologist?
JARVIS: Not as long as the mission of
this health service is set up for primary
i care. Gynecologists primarily do surgery
; and obstetrics and we-don't do any of
that here.
PLAINSMAN: How many patients
have you seen as a gynecologist since
you've been here?
JARVIS: I don't know, I don't keep
track.
PLAINSMAN: Can you say how many
in the last month?
JARVIS: None probaby in the last
month. I only see them when another
doctor calls me in for consultation. Now
I've talked to several doctors about pa­tients,
including one last week.
PLAINSMAN: With eight doctors on
the staff, why isn't one at the health
center 24 hours a day, seven days a
week?
JARVIS: oeven or eight doctors can't
cover 168 hours a week. We haven't
enough in the daytime to take care of the
students. The health plan wasn't
designed or set up for this. It was set up
to have seven doctors available to see
patients. We keep one on call for
emergencies.
That's the way it was financed, that's
the way it was set up. The students can't
afford, honestly, to have a doctor 24
hours a day, I don't think...not for $15 a
quarter.
PLAINSMAN: Why isn't there a doctor
at the health center Friday and Saturday
nights, when a larger proportion of the
calls are for injuries?
JARVIS:/I just answered that question.
How do you know a larger proportion of
the calls come in Friday and Saturday
ni«ht?
PLAINSMAN: We heard it. (The
Plainsman did not feel free to reveal the
source of the information.)
JARVIS: Where did you hear it?..you
got some false information.
PLAINSMAN: Why isn't there any off-street
parking for patients at the health
center?
JARVIS: Why? You'll have to ask the
traffic and parking committee.
I assume you're talking about before
they started tearing everything up.
PLAINSMAN: Are there any plans in
the health center renovation for student
patient parking?
JARVIS: I don't know what they"U
come up with.
PLAINSMAN: You and the architects
didn't have anything to do with the
planning of the entire site?
JARVIS We didn't have any control
over the parking. There are some park­ing
areas around the building, yes.
PLAINSMAN: But did you as director
ask them to make so many spaces
available for staff and doctors?
JARVIS: You mean in the planning of
this? We talked about the number of
spaces we need. Then the architects and
I guess the people from B&G talked about
it. Most of the areas right around the
health service are set up for park­ing...
how it will be assigned, I don't
know.
PLAINSMAN: Why is bed-ridden
patient visitation limited to one hour in
the afternoon and one hour at night
while Lee County Hospital allows visita­tion
from 10:30 a.m. until 8:30 p.m.?
JARVIS: The patients we have in here
need bed rest and they don't get bed rest
if they have all kinds of visitors. Until we
started remodeling, if a patient was cap­able
of being out of bed, if he was non-infecive,
he was allowed to have visitors
10 a.m. until eight at night.
PLAINSMAN: We've heard that one
patient had hepatitis and his mother
drove all the way from Florida to see her
son and was only allowed in there one
hour.
JARVIS: She shouldn't have been in
there at all. That patient was in strict
isolaton, and in strict isolation, nobody
visits. That's to protect the people who
are in there.
PLAINSMAN: Why can't a doctor or a
nurse be assigned to the drill field
during intramural games?
JARVIS: If they do, they take people
away from here: they can't see patients
here. Instead of being available for
16,000 they'd be available for a few
hundred.
PLAINSMAN: What do you think has
caused the reputation to grow that the
health center lacks
students?
JARVIS: I don't think the health center
lacks compassion for students. I don't
think I've ever seen one of the doctors
who lacked compassion for students.
They may disagree with the students, but
I don't think they lack compassion.
I think we've had some nurses in the
past who have lacked compassion and I
think in the past, ther've been some
physicians who lacked compassion, but
none of the present ones.
PL AIN SMAN :Why isn't there some pro­cedure
for detaining attempted suicides.
We understand that as soon as the
immediate danger is over, that they can
walk out, and that's supposed to be the
very worst time for them to try again.
"JARVIS: WHEN an attempted suicide
is brought in here, the mental health
people see the patient and they make a
decison whether they're sent to the men­tal
health clinic or to the hospital to be
seen by the psychiatrist.
PLAINSMAN: What if at one or two
o'clock at night a girl in a dorm takes an
overdose of sleeping pills, her friends
bring her here and she's pumped. Do
they keep her here or let her go?
JARVIS: It depends on the doctor.
PLAINSMAN: Are there any plans to
expand service by offering classes in first
aid, nutrition, sex, personal hygiene, and
physical fitness?
JARVIS: That's the job of the health
education department, not ours. There
are no teaching assignments assigned to
physicians at this time. This is not part
of our assigned duty, as far as the
administration is concerned.
PLAINSMAN: What are your
aspirations; why would you personally
like to see the health center become?
JARVIS: I would like a place, personnel
and facilities, in which we can do first
class primary medical care. That's the
first thing we've got to be able to
accomplish before we even talk about
something else.
PLAINSMAN: We've tried to talk to
several people' on the staff, and they've
been extremely reluctant. Why do the
staff members' feel they'll be fired or
otherwise punished if they talk to The
Plainsman?
JARVIS: They won't be fired...unless
they give confidential information
out...med ical information.That's a no-no
in any medical facility.
PLAINSMAN: What about if they start
to talk about inter naloperations of the
health center? What their hours are, how
they like their jobs, this kind of thing?
JARVIS: I don't think anybody's ever '
had any problem on it. The only thing
they can't put out is confidential
information as to who's here and what's
being done for them.
PLAINSMAN: Have you ever told a
student he had to move his car before he
could be treated?
JARVIS: I've asked someone who park­ed
in the ambulance zone while the
ambulance was out to move. We had to
keep the zone open. It hasn't been people
who were traumatically injured...they
come walking in to see the doctor.
PLAINSMAN: Do you personally feel
that the health center should have off-street
parking available for sick stu­dents?
JARVIS: There should be spaces some­where
around the building where
students who are sick can leave their car
while they come in here...not to go to
class...that's the biggest problem.
prior to when they tore it up, they
always parked in back. They would get a
ticket and then we would certify to Chief
Dawson that they were a patient here
and he took care of it.
! Employes of the Student Health
Center stand to lose their jobs if they talk
to people outside the Health Center about
infirmary activities, according to a
source close to the Health Center.
"When Dr. Jarvis (director
Health Center) first came, he sent out a
compassion for memo on confidentiality which said not
to talk to anyone about what goes on in
- the Health Center. He never specifically
said The Plainsman or that we'd lose our
jobs, but we got the message," said the
source who refused to be named for fear
of .being fired from present employment.
"There is a problem. It all stemmed
from when Jarvis and Bowman came,"
business manager Charles Bowman
said. "I thought he'd (Jarvis) be good
when he first came and I made an effort
to get along with him. Maybe it was just
a personality problem."
The source went on to say Jarvis was
very "picky" and used the excuse policy
as an example. Students would be given
a slip of paper by the person at the desk
that verified their presence at the Health
Center, but only if they asked for it. They
couldn't come back later and get it.
"Jarvis just didn't go out of his way to
be helpful," the person said, "and he did
lack compassion, in my opinion.
"The attitude of the staff is a reflection
of Jarvis' lack of compassion," the source
continued. "The nurses feel inhibited by
Jarvis. There are just too many rules and
the nurses don't know what they can and
can't do. Students can't blame the nurses
for what goes on because they're only do­ing
what they're told to do."
Of the eight doctors at the Health Cen­ter,
the source said Jarvis is the only
gynecologist but that he has not seen a
patient since he's been there. "He used to
see students by referral, but not any­more,"
the person said. Dr. Darlene Hun­ter,
although not a gynecologist, does see
many of the female patients.
The source said most of the doctors are
older and have taken the job as a relief
from the rat race, wanting more free time
while continuing to practice. But the
source repeated several times that the
doctors are good. She said, "Darlene
Hunter is easy to talk to and Dr. Burk-hart
won'tletanything slip byunnoticed
;in a patient." , "'
The source also talked about the
services offered by the Health Center.
The person said they treat colds and give
shots but added that people who are
really sick usually don't go there. Extra
charges are placed on ace bandages,
allergy shots where the student pays 25
cents for the syringe, and any special
medicine other than the usual pills and
penicillin. The Health Center received
approximately $28,000 in fees other than
the student health fees. •
"They used to give physicals to the
athletes.rabies shots to the vet students,
and shots to the ROTC students going to
summer camps—this was all just
routine. They don't automatically do
that anymore. Now it has to be set up
and scheduled," said the source.
"They also won't let you check out your
X-rays. They used to let you but now
they don't," the person said. "I don't
know why they stopped unless people
weren't bringing them back, but I don't
see why the Health Center would even
want them."
In reference to the story about a stu­dent
who had to move his car from in
front of the infirmary before he could be
treated for a foot he had cut the night
before, the source said, "You cannot park
in front of the infirmary, or several
other places for that matter. Jarvis and
Bowman will call the campus police to
ticket the cars of both students and
employes.
"The Health Center could be a real
good place and should be with the num­ber
of doctors and nurses," the source
said. "Maybe when the new construction
is finished...No, I don't think even the
new building will improve the services."
Complaints? Talk to those in charge
It isn't unusual to hear complaints
about service at Drake Student Health
Center. Although some students compli­ment
it, many others downgrade it—for
inefficiency, for alleged malpractice and
for lack of compassion among the staff.
But it seems that most criticisms are
discussed with other students and not
presented to people who can change
things at the Health Center.
The breakdown in communication
appears to be because students don't
know where to voice their opinions, com­plaints
and suggestions.
Robbins Richardson, 2GPG, is the
newly appointed director of student
health. She will be starting a file of stu­dent
complaints which will be pre­senter!
to the SGA, to Health Center
Director Garth Jarvis, the University
Health Committee * and any other
committees which need the information.
Dr. Harold Grant, 213 Samford Hall, is
chairman of the University Health
Committee which discusses policy and
rules with Jarvis and his staff.
Donna Fisher, SAC, and Tom Forsyth,
4LPO, were the two senators who served
on the Health Committee for 1975-76.
Fisher said the committee was interest­ed
in any student grievances. The new
student representatives on the
committee are Pat Skaggs, 3MFL, and Al
Thompson, 2PB.
Grant said he had received only one
student complaint.about the Health Cen­ter
since Jarvis came herein 1973. Grant
said the complaint regarded treatment a
patient had received at night and he pas­sed
this information on to Jarvis to han­dle.
'
Grant also said, however, that Jarvis
was not responsible to the committee but
to President Philpott.
Ben Lanham, vice president for the
administration, can also be reached in
the President's Office. Lanham
suggested that students take their com­plaints
to the Student Academic
Grievance Committee.
New student members of this
„A1
ind
committee include Pat Skaggs, 3MFI
Scott, 6FAA, Kerry Bradlev, 1PH.
Gene Oswalt, 3PUB.
The chairman of this committee is Dr.
Charlotte Ward.
The Plainsman will also collect and
pass on any complaints received.
The following numbers belong to people to whom students
can take complaints regarding the Health Center.
Names and numbers
Robbins Richardson 826-5442
Dr. Harold Grant
Pat Skaggs
Al Thompson
President Philpott
Ben Lanham
Al Scott
Kerry Bradley
Gene Oswalt
Dr. Charlotte Ward
Plainsman
826-5110 (office;
821-1280 (home)
826-6225
821-3543
826-4650 (office)
887-3364 (home)
826-4650 (office)
'887-3755 (home)
887-7249
821-0903
821-2890
826-4264 (office)
887-7811 (home)
826-4130
A-3 ThuM., May 27,1976 THE AUBURN PUINSMJW
First aid station or doctor's office?
Opinions of University admini­strators
differ on the actual
purpose of Drake Student Health
Center. Trustee Charles M. Smith
III said in the winter quarter
student-trustee meeting that he
considered the Health Center a
"glorified first aid station."
In separate interviews, three
administrators commented on the
Health Center—its purpose and
how it fulfills that purpose.
Ben Lanham, vice president for
the administration, called the
Health Center a "peculiar kind of
animal...because it is in a
university setting."
"Most students go home unless
they are just too sick and then they
may go to Lee County instead of the
Health Center," Lanham said.
"For some reason, students don't
like to go there, but we hope that
with the renovation and more and
better equipment students will use
it more," he added.
Health Committee Chairman
Harold Grant said the Health
Center was more of a doctor's
office which provided home care
for patients who need to stay for
observation or direct care that
their roommates might not be able
to give.
"I don't believe that the Health
Center is inferior to any other
doctor's office," said Grant. "The
staff is top quality and the
equipment normally found in any
doctor's office (lab equipment,
x-ray equipment) will also be found
at the Health Center.
Grant has been chairman of the
University Health Committee for
almost six years and he said that it
is better now than it has been in 20
years, mentioning the increase in
the number of doctors.
An un-named University admin­istrator
said, "I think we're paying
more for lower-quality services
than ever before. Granted, we
have more doctors, but the quality
of the services had declined."
Grant said, "For the $15 a
quarter, a student can see a doctor
as many times as necessary
without having to pay a $10 office
fee each time.
"In my opinion, the students are
getting a good deal. As for the
stories of bad diagnoses, this
happens in all medical centers. I
think the Health Center's main
problem is an 'old image' that it
can't seem to abolish," Grant said.
In addition to the increased
staff, Grant said the money
collected from the extra $7.50 has
gone to combat general inflation
and an increased power bill.
When asked about the possibility
of having a doctor in the building at
all hours of the night, Grant said
that the Health Center can offer
anything that the students are
willing to pay for.
"Doctors come here on reduced
salaries since they don't have night
shifts but are only on call. If we did
have 'around-the-clock' doctors,
their salaries would be about 50 per
cent more than they are now,"
Grant said.
Lanham said that it was " a
matter of policy that a doctor is not
Source says center lacks compassion
"The University says, 'send your
daughters to Auburn and we'll take
care of them with dormitory rules,
and have them in by 12 p,m.' But if
they go to the health center, they
say, ' You're grown up now.
You're not sick, you just think you
are,' " said unnamed sources in
the University.
"If a student is really sick, he's
encouraged to go home to see his
own physician. On the quarter
system, missing two or three days
of classes can really hurt grades,"
the sources said.
"Also, they'll send a little girl to
her home town for treatment, but
there might be more and better
doctors on this campus than there
are in a lot of these small towns."
"They upped the student fee,
then started charging extra for
everything...They used to give free
rabies shots to the vet students and
free physicals to the athletes, but
no more," they said.
"The catalog used to point out
exactly how much service the
student is entitled to under the
health fee. Why is the catalog so
vague now? They have protected
themselves," the person said.
The health center is far from
fulfilling its potential as a service
organization for the students, they
said, and suggested that health
classes could be taught by the
physicians. For example:
"An educational institution of
this type should have some sort of
classes in human sexuality," the
sources said, adding that classes
in personal hygiene, physical
fitness, nutrition, and other health
matter could be taught by the
doctors.
"We think alcohol is a big
problem here, and it should be
treated just like any other drug.
There should be some sort of
education against its abuse here."
The sources also expressed
dissatisfaction with the way
attempted suicide cases are
handled at the health center.
"If they take someone in who has
'tried suicide, they don't keep them.
They either send them to Lee
County Hospital or home with
friends. This is the worse time for
the patient to not be closely
watched because they might try
again.
"They say they don't have any
way to take them into protective
custody until a parent or
responsible authourity can come
help them. Well, why don't they?
There are a lot of suicide attempts
here. It should be recognized as
one of the problems."
The source praised the staff: It's
great to have a woman doctor
who's so interested in students.
There is just one licensed practical
nurse, and the rest are registered
nurses. We are lucky to have that
situation there."
"But the place lacks compassion!
You don't find that attitude
anywhere else on campus. If the
rest of the campus has a rather
relaxed attitude, why shouldn't the
health center?
"The professors go out of their
way to help the students. We think
the health center should have the
same philosophy of service."
Nurse plans meeting
A representative of the Alabama
State Nurses' Association has
scheduled a meeting Friday with
four University officials "to talk
about health center policies,"
according to Harold Grant,
chairman of the University Health
committee.
"She said her purpose was to talk
about how the nurses could
improve the health service, not
about working conditions," Grant
said.
The Plainsman questioned Liz
Barker, director of the state
nurses' association, Tuesday
morning:
PLAINSMAN: Has this associa­tion
attempted to talk with Dr.
Jarvis or other University officials
about conditions at the health
center?
BARKER: I have no comment to
make at this time.
PLAINSMAN: Is it true that the
nurses there haven't been allowed
to complain at the University
personnel office?
BARKER: No comment.
Janice Pyle, superintendent of
nurses at the student health center,
was also ask about the nursing
association:
PLAINSMAN: Have the nurses
at the student health center
affiliated with the Alabama State
Nurses Association?
PYLE: Every nurse is an
individual member. As far as a
collective affiliation, I cannot
comment on that.
PLAINSMAN: Has this associa­tion
attempted to talk to Dr. Jarvis,
Dr. Philpott or other University
officials about conditions in the
health center?
PYLE: I can't talk; I sorry. I
don't mean to sound rude.
PLAINSMAN: Why won't
nurses talk to The IPlainsman?
Have you been told you would lose
your job if you talked to The
Plainsman?
PYLE: No.
PLAINSMANi. Will you deny
that any of these questions are
true?
PL YE: I am not going to be able
to comment.
CONSTRUCTION DELAYED ON HEALTH CENTER RENOVATION
...Caused by problems with plans and funding
present at all hours during the
night." He said that the policy was
developed on the premise that
there was not a need for a doctor to
be there all night.
"I'm not really sure wny
adequate parking hasn't been
provided for students," Lanham
said. "It is probably tied in with the
long-term plan for moving Building
and Grounds off campus. They
may be planning on having parking
there."
An un-named administrator said
he understood that the Health
Center was only averaging three or
four overnight students.
"Even so, the Health Center is
managing some type of kitchen
staff. It seems that catering might
be less expensive," the source said.
Grant said he thought the Health
Center looked into the possibility of
catering but that it proved to be
just as expensive.
The administrative source said
that he had heard about some
problems between the staff and
Director Jarvis. Grant said,
however, that he knew of no
problems between the staff and
Jarvis.
"There were a few problems
right after Jarvis took over but
they dealt mainly with coordina­ting
schedules and deciding when
staff personnel could take leaves."
When asked why some office,
other than President Philpott's,
wasn't given direct oversight of the
Health Center, Lanham said it was
the director's responsibility.
An un-named administrator said
that he believed Philpott didn't
want the Health Center to be more
than it is right now.
"Philpott's responsibilities are
too broad for him to give Jarvis the
leadership he needs," the source
said.
Visiting is restricted to only two
hours a day, one in the afternoon
and one at night. The reason for
this restriction according to
Lanham, is that it is Health Center
policy.
When asked who made Health
Center policy, Lanham said,
"Subjects originate with Jarvis,
his staff and the advisory
committee. Then they go to
President Philpott for approval. He
has the final say."
HEALTH CENTER TAKES X-RAYS OF STUDENTS
...But doesn't follow usual transfer procedure
X-ray transfers not 'standard'
An employe in an Opelika
medical center said that when a
patient has X-rays taken in one
doctor's office, the doctor "normal­ly
sends them (the negatives) with
the patient" when he's referred to
another doctor, "so that additional
X-rays would not have to be taken
at extra cost to the patient."
That is apparently not the case,
however, for X-ray negatives made
at the Student. Health Center.
"He (the student) can't take
them, no. They can be transferred,
yes...if he signs a release on them,
like any other medical record," Dr.
Garth Jarvis, health center
director, said.
"The student can't have them to
carry out there himself."
"The X-ray negatives are ap­parently
sent through the mail to
the physician or hospital.
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Editorials J ^ e w e r e n t fri^nds this year
Thurs., May 27, 1976 A-4
Liquor law
The Alcoholic Beverage Control Board has before it a request for
a liquor-licensed restaurant within one mile of the Auburn cam­pus.
To approve this license, the ABC will have to break a state law
restricting liquor sales within the one-mile limit.
While we disapprove of the one-mile limit, asking a state agency
to break the law to get around it is the wrong way to go about it. The
city should adopt an active role in passing a local-option bill re­moving
the restriction. If rumors that a local legislator is blocking
passage because of his special interests are true, the city council
should use the electoral power behind it to ask the legislator to
change his mind.
The city should not be passing the buck to the ABC. In doing this,
it is actively supporting defiance of the law. Whether we agree with
a certain law or not, breaking it is still wrong. Energies should be
expended toward changing unfair laws rather than encouraging
illegal and only temporary solutions.
Intramurals
Claude Saia begins full-time duties as intramural director June
and we await the moment anxiously. Saia has already been work­ing
behind the scenes, surveying present equipment and pro­grams,
but he wanted to wait until he was officially installed to
take affirmative action.
With his appointment, the administration promised to cooperate
with Saia's efforts. We call on the administration to keep this pro­mise.
Saia received a 19 per cent increase in his budget from the
Student Senate but it was still $22,000 less than requested. We feel
it is time the administration provided additonal money to the
intramural program above and beyond student act fees.
In doing this, the administration would beef up Saia's working
capital, thereby providing funds for better equipment and more
efficient programs.
We also feel a new lighted playing field is the most pressing need
for the intramural program because two sports, softball and foot­ball,
are played on turf. We think this idea is sound planning
because it allows for more games, meaning more participation and
a better program.
To Coach Saia, we say, "Good luck" and to the administration we
ask the fulfillment of a promise.
Night watch
Auburn University's women students should be careful when
walking on campus at night. There have been a few attacks
reported recently.
We feel there are other measures, too, which could help the
problem. The lighting situation requires the most attention.
Areas needing the most lighting are the Quad especially between
the Quad dorms, between the Quad and Hill and between dorms
two and five.
There are also not enough capable night watchmen for the
women's dorms. Women should not have to wait for long periods
of time to get into their dorms. At least four are needed in the
Quad and six on the Hill.
30
The number is a copyreader's mark placed at the end of a story, It
means the end.
This paper marks the end of The Plainsman's publication for the
regular school year. For many Plainsman staffers it also means a
goodbye to Auburn...a farewell to four years, a school and most of
what makes Auburn truly Auburn—the people.
The Plainsman is a little like an old home. It takes in some of the
qualities of each of its residents. More importantly, however, it
attempts to absorb each new year of which you are a part.
[THE AUBURN
PUINSMMI
Steele Holman, Editor
Nancy Franklin, Business Manager
Christy Hudgins, Editor-elect
Ken Edwards, Business Manager-elect
Editorial Board members: Managing Editor, Christy Hudgins; Asso­ciate
Editor, Maureen Drost; News Editor, John Carvalho; Features Edi­tor,
Jodi Leach; Sports Editor, Mike Jackson; and Editorial Board Chair­man,
Steele Holman.
Entertainment Editor, Rick Harmon; Copy Editor, Karan Sexton;
Technical Editor, Bonita Apperson; Photographic Editor, Dan Doughtie.
Doughtie.
Asst. News Editor, Lisa Harris; Asst. Features Editor, Susan Harrison;
Asst. Sports Editor, Gene Vandiver; Asst. Copy Editor, Betsy Butgereit;
Asst. Technical Editor David Boggus; and Asst. Photographic Editor,
Grant Castleberry.
1 The Auburn Plainsman is the student-edited newspaper of Auburn Univer-
I sity. Signed columns represent the opinion of the writer, while unsigned edi-
^Ltorials represent the opinion of the Plainsman's Editorial Board.
We weren't friends this year, The
Plainsman and I. We were brothers
bound by blood. Like brothers every­where,
there was rivalry and fighting as
well as joy and companionship.
As with blood bonds, we were never
really separated. Thoughts of "next
week's paper" haunted even those Fri­day
afternoon moments that should
have been carefree. And I wasn't above
slipping into the office on a Saturday af­ternoon
to try a little "catching-up."
The fights—seeing people quit the
staff, thinking up column ideas, trying to
catch a mechanical hare called a dead­line—
were rough. The paper beat me
more times than I like to remember, just
the way it did this week.
I have never been one of those people
who seem to take big jobs in stride...if it's
rough, it's rough. But even during this
last week's fight against The Paper, I
held the upper hand for a few moments
and took time to reflect on where Auburn
had come and gone in the last year.
There wasn't time to waste on the
year's passing issues such as Title IX, the
student trustee meeting, the compulsory
attendance policy or the cutback in fund­ing.
In another year, they'll be forgotten
by most grads.
I dwelt longer on memories of Au­burn's
crowds—the masses on Haley
Center concourse, the field of people eat­ing
at War Eagle, the writhing walls of
students in Cliff-Hare Stadium. Appre­ciating
certain faces in the crowd for
their familiarity, I paid respect to the
faceless mass that had helped shape the
Auburn years.
There were a few moments to think
about the deep emotional experiences
that had characterized the year—the
death of a grandmother, the separation
from someone very close, the triumph in
winning, and the pride in creating, the
weaning from a home of five years.
I could think of my education, in an
institution that gains respect each year.
The precious friends got the most
thoughts, because their part had been the
greatest. I appreciated them for making
the rough roads smoother, the good times
better.
It was good to think about David
Housel, and loyalty and guts of The
Plainsman staff, who hung on even
when they questioned its worthwhile-ness.
Now the chief pleasure lies in
seeing the eagerness of next year's staff.
They're ready to report news, meet
issues, and live life.
Even now, with The Paper pulling me
back into the fray for a few last hours,
it's so good to know the torch has been
passed.
The push worked. Col. Linwood Funchess, head of Buildings and
Grounds, promised a walkway connecting the back of Tichenor
Hall with the Union Building by the fall.
Taking idealism, optimism to the bank
Two years ago, I stood on top of Haley
Center with Bill Wood, watching the sun
set over Auburn. Bill was editor of The
Plainsman that year and would gra­duate
in June. As we stood there watch­ing
the sky turning pink and orange and.
dark blue, Bill philosophized on Auburn
and his years here.
Now I'm in the same position Bill was
in. It's hard to believe I finally made it.
Of course I'm not through yet—I still
have an internship to do. But I'm
through at Auburn. And while I've
always been called impractical, an
idealist and a dreamer, I find it hard to
look back and view it through rose
glasses, and equally hard to be optimistic
about the future.
There have been a lot of changes in my
three years here. I.D. validation fees for
women dorm residents went from $4 to$2
a quarter, which was nice. But a
validated I.D. is still necessary for adult
women to get into their dorms after cur­few
and that's not so nice.
Tuition was increased $8 to improve
the Student Health Center. Students
voted for the increase, hoping to make
the infirmary more than a first-aid
station. But students are still com­plaining
about the services they receive
and the charges on items such as ace
bandages.
In January, 1974, the Union Building
Cafeteria was opened while all others
were closed. Not wanting to walk from
Auburn Hall to the Union Building every
evening and knowing I could cook
cheaper than buy, I paid the University
$15 a quarter so I wouldn't have to eat
there. Later, since I couldn't eat as much
as they said I had to buy, I continued pay­ing
my $15 and enjoying Sam's cooking
at the Delta Sigma Phi fraternity house.
It was cheaper and a lot better.
When HEW set up their Title IX
guidelines, it seemed Auburn was really
in for some changes. The women stu­dents
looked forward to equal dorm rules
with the men and it looked like Auburn
was catching up with the times.
But I guess I really was being opti­mistic
because Auburn was moving but
not forward. The trustees voted to
equalize the rules by taking the women's
rules and applying them to the men,
right down to the visitation and curfew.
Maybe I'm being too optimistic again but
I don't think the men will stand for it. I
hope I'm not disappointed.
Of course some good has come out of
the HEW guidelines—the University will
be granting women's athletic scholar­ships
starting next year. But that seems
like a small step forward for such a giant
leap backwards.
Auburn's done a lot toward making me
look at life more realistically. You might
even say I've been disillusioned. But I
guess that's good preparation for the
"outside world." I've seen so many
issues come up working for the The
Plainsman you usually hear about them
first and get all sides. And I've seen stu­dents
get really riled about injustices.
But the clamor dies down just as quickly
as it starts and rarely is anything done
about it.
I'm leaving Auburn and its rules will
no longer affect me. But still, I would like
to hear in the future that the students are
treated as adults, capable of living their
own lives without unnecessary
University restriction.
I would like to hear that the Health
Center had greatly improved and had be­come
worthy of the money students are
pouring into it. And I would like to hear
that the University had stopped charg­ing
students for not eating.
And I have a feeling I will hear these
things. My little brother says he may
want to come to Auburn in two years, so I
hope the changes occur before then or he
and probably a lot of others won't enroll
at Auburn.
And to the person who reads this and
tells me how silly I am—no matter how
disillusioned I get at times, I guess I'll
always be an idealistic, optimistic
dreamer. And you can take that to the
bank.
|M(ipwMtti>i
WEGL: A new wave for an old AU tradition
Last week's Plainsman article by Ruth
Ann Dunn on the history of radio broad­casting
at Auburn University raises
some interesting questions on the future
of Auburn radio.
Recent events in broadcasting on both
state and national levels would seem to
require a more comprehensive role in
coming years for WEGL-FM.
WEGL is one of the only 11 facilities in
Alabama granted non-commercial radio
licenses by the Federal Communica­tions
Commission. Such a license dic­tates
that the station must fulfill the cul­tural
and educational needs of the local
community and can receive no funding
from advertising.
Of those 11 non-commercial facilities,
five are not yet on the air. Of the others,
five are college stations; the sixth is
licensed, to the Grace Baptist Schools in
Decatur.
Currently, with its mighty 380 watts,
WEGL is the second most powerfull col­lege
station in Alabama. The first? Are
you ready? Gadsden State Junior Col­lege's
WEXP-FM broadcasts at 3500
watt's, nine times more powerful than
WEGL.
In the very near future public radio in
Alabama will undergo some radical
changes. Now under construction is a
25,000 watt station at the University of
Alabama in Birmingham and a 100,00
watt one in Huntsville, licensed to that
city's public library.
Besides the example these and other
new stations will soon set, a recent FCC
Public Notice warns that college sta­tions
may be in hot water in the future if
their pro amming does not live up to the
public trust that a non-commercial
license implies.
That Public Notice indicates that the
FCC may soon require college stations
(many of which are using valuable
licenses as mere training labs for stu­dents)
to demonstrate how their pro­gramming
meets community educa­tional,
cultural and informational needs.
Stations not fulfilling those needs could
be forced to share air time with other
licensees or, conceivably, have their
licenses revoked.
Under the administration of outgoing
station manager Ned Browning,
WEGL's programming has already
moved toward meeting local cultural and
educational needs. In fact, intermsnfthe
variety of its programming, especially
musical, WEGL is probably the finest
radio station in the state, bar none.
Where CISP, in the span of a single week,
could a listener hear the equivalent of
"Soul Experience," "Jazz Primer,"
"Rogue's Gallery," 'American Swing,"
"International Concert Hall,"
"Options," "Folk Festival" and other
plus liberal doses of rock 'n' roll all on
the same station?
Beginning next quarter, new station
manager David Paulson and Program
Director David Petrizzi have more
changes in store to accelerate WEGL's
progress toward fulfilling its license.
More musical alternatives, such as blue-grass
and country-and-western, will be
offered and the block programming of
jazz and "classical" musics will be in­creased.
A pilot program toexposelocal
musical talent on a regular basis will
begin. Non-musical cultural and public
affairs programming wili also be in­creased.
The current direction of WEGL's pro­gramming
no doubt puzzles and per­haps
infuriates many students. Since
WEGL's operating budget comes from
student money as allocated by the SGA,
WEGL's programming should try to
satisfy the most students, right?
Thus the crux of WEGL's current
dilemma is exposed. In the eyes of the
almighty FCC, the source of a non-com­mercial
station's funding is irrelevant in
regard to fulfillment of its public trust.
And WEGL's recent power increase has
widened the station's effective broad­cast
radiusto forty miles. That distance
means ihe majority of the station's
potential audience is no longer students.
WEGL is caught between a rock (the
FCC) and a hard place (the students).
The Board of Trustees, the administra­tion,
faculty, staff and students of this
university don't seem to realize the full
potential of WEGL. The station could
become a highly effective medium for
spreading not only general cultural pro­gramming
but also the knowledge and
talent at Auburn to the entire populace of
southeastern Alabama and parts of
Georgia and Florida. The University
would thus go to the people who couldn't
come to Auburn.
WEGL is licensed to Auburn Univer­sity's
Board of Trustees. That group and
all other persons connected in any way
with this University should seriously
consider and then act toward changing
WEGL's current mode of operation and
funding. Another power increase, a lar­ger
operating budget, a full-time pro­fessional
management staff and other
such changes would make WEGL an
even better source of culture and
information than it now is.
j ^ ^"^"•^•| Thurs., May 27, 1976
L L e t t e r s JODK corrects discrep
THE AUBURN PLAINSMAN
ancies
Senate should represent
collective student wishes
Editor, The Plainsman:
Last year, before I became involved in
the SGA, I was a constant critic of its
members. I could notunderstandhow so
many students could accomplish so lit­tle.
But since I have become a student
senator, I have realized the continuous
struggle the SGA faces. There are many
students trying to make some changes,
but it is almost a hopeless cause.
However, there are just as many stu­dents
within the SGA who are making
things worse. On May 17, at a Student
Senate meeting, Senator John Bush sub­mitted
a resolution, that if passed, would
express the support of the students of Au­burn
University in dissolving the one-mile
limit on the drinking of alcoholic
beverages.
I could not believe my ears when many
of the senators decided they "must" vote
no! Hopefully, these students will realize
they are not representing the student
body. They are representing only a tiny
handful of students (their friends).
Their "excuse" for voting no was that
they would not want Auburn to become a
maze of bars like in Tuscaloosa.
Heaven help us! We can not keep
Auburn in the 1910s forever! These stu-ents
are putting their own ideals into
their vote. They have no right to do so.
They are senators for a purpose: to rep­resent
the students of Auburn Univer­sity.
Please express your feelings to
these students and make them represent
you!
Lesa Crocker
2PL
Editor, The Plainsman
After reading Mr. Carvalho's article
entitled "Honoraries: new victims oi
Title IX" (Plainsman, May 20, 1976), I
felt compelled to correct a few state'
ments concerning Omicron Delta
Kappa.
(1) Last week was not, as asserted, the
first time women were tapped into ODK.
In fall 1975, nine of the twenty new mem­bers
tapped were women. Thus, the
spring tapping was the second time wo­men
were tapped.
(2) Title IX affected those organi­zations
whose national constitutions
were single sex; the national convention
of ODK passed the "Alabama Amend­ment"
removing all mention of sex from
the national constitution. Thus, ODK
was never under any pressure to change
its local constitution or to tap any female
students.
(3) In October 1974, this circle of ODK
voted to "go on record as having no
philosophical disagreement with women
membership...but at the present time the
circle does not admit women yet reserves
the option to do so at a later date." From
that point onward, attempts were made
to admit women. Unfortunately, none of
these attempts passed by the required
majority, though it was opposed by only
a very small minority of the mem­bership.
This past fall, when once again
the motion was presented, there was but
one dissenting vote.
(4) ODK is not a "senior honorary" as
asserted by Mr. Carvalho. ODK is an
honor society for juniors, seniors,
faculty and Alumni designed to
recognize leadership in broad areas of
campus life.
I personally do not consider ODK and
Mortar Board overlapping organizations
as our grade point requirements differ
(upper 35 per cent of class and school for
ODK and 2.00 for Mortar Board), our
goals differ (Mortar Board aims more to-!
ward service while a member), our pur-!
poses differ (while both organizations]
state their purpose as recognition of"
leadership, Mortar Board also is "to pro­mote
and advance the status of women.")
and the overall character of the
organizations differ substantially.
While Mr. Carvalho's assertions may
apply to some previously unisex organ­izations,
I do not believe that they apply
to ODK.
Ken Henderson
4LPO
President, ODK
ODK, Mortar Boaid should not merge
Patience, safety diminish
because of lack of parking
Editor, The Plainsman:
As a victim of Auburn's lack of park­ing
facilities, not only is my checking
account quickly depleting but so is my
sense of security.
Usually late at night all the legal park­ing
places are taken, and I can only cir­cle
the area around my dorm so many
times before I run out of patience, gas
and time.
When I am alone, I refuse to park three
blocks off campus to avoid getting one of
those un welcomed slips of paper that Se­curity
has an obsession to write; I would
rather risk getting a ticket than my
safety.
Personally, I don't know the solu­tion
to this impending problem, but Mr.
Ruffin, as one of your supporters, I hope
you have some proposals to alleviate this
growing hassle and danger that the stu­dents
you represent are subject to.
Tina Root
1GJM
Editor, The Plainsman:
We tend to agree with John
Carvalho's article suggesting that
honoraries have definitely been
affected by Title IX. However, his
statement that "...ODK and
Mortar Board have in effect, lost
any distinction they had because of
sexual integration " cannot be
so readily accepted. In this letter
we would like to mention some of
the purposes and criterion which
make Mortar Board a distinctive
organization. We hope to refute the
suggestion that "the best solution
to this situation is obvious: merge
ODK and Mortar Board "
The first distinction between
ODK and Mortar Board can be
seen in the stated purposes of the
two honor socities. Whereas
Mortar Board is an honor society
dedicated to scholarship, leader­ship
and service, ODK's purpose is
one of recognition "to those who
have attained a high standard of
efficiency in collegiate activities
'Pride puts the Plainsman together9
Hello, Auburn I am a
Plainsman Staffer, and this is an
editorial. It is supposed to tell you
about the side you never see of the
paper the inside.
No, I'm not going to tell you cute
stories about 2 a.m. trips to the
Krystal or down-home proverbs. I
want to tell you about what it takes
to put this rag together and get it
ready for the printer. I think a lot of
students do not realize how much
work goes into the Plainsman, and
after working here for a while, I
would like to let you know.
This week will make four years
that I have worked for the
Plainsman, all the way from my
freshman year. Some journalism
majors don't even start until they
take some courses in journalism,
and I am not even in the
curriculum. So why would I do it?
Quite simply, it is called pride.
Pride in Auburn; pride in doing a
job well; pride in doing what I can
to see that the students get the best
paper possible. It's pride in putting
together a paper that is better than
last week's edition. A lot of people
in this office have that kind of
pride, and it goes a long way. It has
to.
That pride goe% a "long way when
we hear from students about what
we did wrong in the last
paper and what we did right. It
goes a long way when some club
president berates an editor about
why his club did not get featured
this week. It goes a long way when
editors try to think up an editorial
that will make Auburn better in
some way. That pride goes a long
way when a lot of the people down
here could just as easily walk out
as stay when we miss deadline.
It goes a long way when we think
of the test we aren't studying for,
or that paper we aren't writing.
Pride that brings staffers back for
four years in a row to work.
That pride is a lot of
compensation. For most down here
at the office, it is the only return
that they will ever receive. You
see, most of the people that work
down here get no pay. There are
about 20 people that do and 60 that
don't.
There just isn't enough money to
pay everyone. Some of us don't
want any, though. I work for the
Plainsman because I enjoy what I
do for it, and because it would
mean more responsibility than the
money is worth.
What I do here is make sure all
the lines of these stories you read
are straight, and the columns of
them are straight in vertical rows.
It is not really difficult work, but it
does require some time to learn
and some skill to do.
It also takes several hours,
Monday, Tuesday and all-day
Wednesday before we go to press,
to get all the copy run through the
proof readers and on to the pages.
It is the kind of work that can be
done, and you know if you did it
right or not then. It is the final step
from the reporter's start on writing
it several days before.
Most of the people who come in to
do this kind of work don't know
much about it, some never learn.
Some do, though.
I've been lucky, though. I've
never had to listen to irate students
about what we left out. I've never
had to make sure that all the pages
made it to the printers with
everything on them.
I have been privileged to work
for and with some fine people in
these last four years. I've been
fortunate to know people who
would skip class, not study for a
Thursday test, just to put that
extra effort into the Plainsman.
They didn't have to do it.
Pride.
I hope that I haven't rambled too
much. Underneath it all are a lot of
people who never get recognized. I
think back on all the people I have
known here through The Plains­man.
Some got their name on top of a
story. Some never even got that. I
never have before, and I never will
again. But I think the people who
work down in this office deserve to
be spoken of by one of their own,
about what it takes to be a
Plainsman Staffer.
Auburn Pride.
Dorm means people, memories
Looking through several dictionaries a
few days ago I came across three
definitions for the word dormitory.
Webster's Seventh New Collegiate called
it a "residence hall providing sleeping
"A building for housing a number of
persons, as at a school or resort" was the
definition given in The .American
Heritage Dictionary of the English Lan­guage.
Webster's New Collegiate Dictionary
termed it a "residence hall providing
rooms for individuals or for groups
usually without private baths."
And dormitory is from the Latin dorm-itorium
meaning sleep.
But to me a dormitory is much more
than a building or a place to sleep whose
function is to house some people. The
most important word in these defini­tions
is 'persons.' My dormitory has a
personality of its own and unique mem­ories
that go along with it. And that per­sonality
is a combination of all the per­sonalities
of the people I've known who
live here now and have lived here in the
past. Those memories are manifested in
all the times those people who are from
such states as Alabama, Florida, Geor­gia,
Tennessee and even NewJersey,
have laughed, cried, tailed and studied
together.
There are many memories. There are
the times we've all gone out to dinner on
Friday nights and were all so tired we
laughed at almost anything though it
wasn't funny and got quite a lot of atten­tion
but we didn't mind...and the other
times we've gone to dinner and acted a
little more sane.
I also remember all the birthday
parties we've had and one especially
where I used relightable candles which
couldn't be blown out—how I couldn't
get the candles off and nearly caught
the cake and ourselves afire.
Also there were the nights we stayed
up very late studying, talking, laughing
and drinking cokes and coffee, and the
times we've listened to each other's good
and bad comments about the guys we've
dated.
On another occasion we recorded dorm
soap opera for a friend of ours in the infir­mary.
And finally there's the unpacking and
packing and hellos and goodbyes as we
start and end quarters.
To me dorm life has been very special.
It's been wonderful to have someone
always nearby to listen to my doubts,
failures and successes.
Also I know though I'm not at the dorm
most of the time (because of classes and
work on The Plainsman) they still think
about me when I'm gone and are con­cerned
about me. They also know I feel
the same way.
I believe I've grown quite a lot, too, for
I'm much more mature and am more
ready to try and understand people and
their beliefs.
Dormitory life has been quite an
experience for me, and it is one I think
every college student should have. It's
something I miss every time I leave Au­burn.
Mortar Board sends applications
to all students, male and female,
who have obtained this g.p.a.
ODK's applications are only
sent to those who are previously
nominated to the selection commit­tee.
This all simply shows that the
two organizations have purposely
been created to be separate entities
and base themselves on different
customs.
We feel that it was invalid to
suggest that Mortar Board "just
taps members and does little."
Favorite Teacher selection is one
of the many activities Mortar
Board engages in as are activities
such as assisting with the
President's Picnic in the fall,
sponsoring speakers for the
Auburn campus with Mortar Board
funds, picking up the tab for
receptions honoring personalities
such as Doctor Joyce Brothers, a
tutoring program where Mortar
Board members volunteer their
time in scholastic aid to other
students and are presently working
on an organizations information
program to aid freshman students.
Mortar Board has a definite
challenge in that we must develop
different methods for accomplish­ing
the past purposes. We must
develop new ways for replacing the
sterotyped jobs of men and women
in campus roles. We will remain an
honor society for seniors concerned
with the advancement of women
(which falls into accordance with
Title IX rulings). There are no
other organizations with these
same concerns and standards so
that a merger
impossible.
would be quite
Mary Anne Thompson
President Sphinx Chapter Mortar
Board
Anne Neely
Vice President Mortar Board
ODK Member
Move from sex 'bias'
needed in honoraries
Editor, The Plainsman:
As an Auburn gradute, I am amazed at
how the 20th century has still bypassed a
certain portion of this campus, in par­ticular
John Carvalho, as demonstrated
in his article, "Honoraries: new victims
of Title IX." It is high time that universi­ties
realized that academic achievement
and campus and community service are
not sexually bound.
The saddest part is that it took federal
intervention, via Title IX, for Auburn
University, along with many other edu­cational
institutions, to acknowledge
that many of its traditions are discrimi­natory
and unfair, as exhibited in the
ODK keeping supports
present attendance policy
Editor, The Plainsman:
\V HEREAS, it is the feeling of Omicron
Delta Kappa (Senior Leadership
Honorary) thatAuburn Students should
be allowed to pursue their academic
careers free from a compulsory atten­dance
policy, and
WHEREAS, ODK feels that the Auburn
Student possesses the inherent right to
determine his own class attendance
policy, and
WHEREAS, ODK feels that compulsory
attendance is not the proper manner by
which to improve the academic atmos­phere
of Auburn University,
BE IT THEREFORE RESOLVED, that
ODK urges all Deans and Department
Heads to retain their present attendance
policies.
Jim Stewart
President, Omega Circle
1975-76
honorary "unisexual clubs."
As far as the death of Cwens being a
tragic loss to Auburn, it seems doubtful
that a name change and sexual integra­tion
will be so damaging if the ideals
remain the same. If indeed Cwens
"bases its ideals on the virtues of woman­hood"
(whatever they may be) as stated
hy Carvalhr., then its end should be
highly commended. Why should vir­tuous
womanhood (or manhood) be
rewarded through campus honoraries?
Their primary and only concerns should
be academic excellence, leadership and
service to the student community.
Having membership of both sexes in
these organizations will not undermine
the honorary organizational system of
Auburn any more than having a semi-racially
integrated school has lowered
Auburn's academic standards. It is time
to move from outmoded biases, be they
sexual or racial, and recognize human
achievement. The "new" honorariescan
fulfill this purpose "because o f Title IX,
not in spite of it.
Lucia F. Miree, '71
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'67 PLYMOUTH HAS JUST
TURNED THE CORNER, AND
THE TUMULTUOUS CROUP
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APPLAUSE!
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THE AUBURN PUINSMMI Thurs., May 27, 1976 A-6
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^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ Editor The Plainsman:
dais of deceit, trinkerv. misuse of nower. neonle for reform, for better laws, for a
tion. bv the mrnnrntinn nr fnr a nortair.
Program defended
Editor, The Plainsman:
After a year of being in the work-study
program, I have more than noticed that
work-study students and the program as
well are greatly misunderstood. A
common erroneous idea is that a person
must be poor to get work-study. It also
seems that some students think that part
of their tuition goes to pay the work-
, study students, thus causing their tui­tion
to be higher than it should.
Some people also think that work-study
students avoid work and feel that
they can comment on how little work the
work-study student does. More than one
work-study student has been accused of
getting paid for doing nothing.
Whether being poor is one of the re­quirements
to receive work-study de­pends
on your definition of poor. Yes, a
student must show a nee3 for this type of
financial assistance nut this need
doesn't pigeon nole one into the
classification of poor.
fl&iee students choose the alternative
of working their way through college
instead of simply not going to college at
all. Working one's way through school
used to be a virtue and people who chose
to do so were respected for their
incentive.
The idea that tuition finances work-study
programs simply is not true. The
tuition paid at a state university does not
begin to pay for each student's educa­tion,
much less finance the work-study
program. Tuition for that matter does
not pay all the teacher's salaries, which
come instead from state appropriations,
appropriations.
At times it may seem that work-study
students have little to do. No job is with­out
its slow periods. We do occasionally
find ourselves short of things to do but
more often than not we have plenty to do.
If we were not doing our job properly our
supervisors are the ones that will tell us
so. We do not need criticism from stu­dents
who do not know what our jobs en­tail.
It does seem strange that we receive
so much criticism from other students
and none from our supervisors.
Work-study is a job just like any other.
Work-study students work and are paid
only for the hours they work. It is not a
give-away progran..
Name Withheld by request
Editor, Liberty and justice for all. that is what
this country was founded upon. Today,
two-hundred years from the proclaim­ing
this land as a separate and indepen­dent
state from England, I find that this
country has lost the principles and
values that the men of the Revolution
were fighting and dying for.
Today in this country the representa­tives
which are elected by the people to
voice the public opinion voice their own
opinions and interests, and those
interests of big business. This is not
liberty nor justice. Large bribes, scan­dals
trickery, power,
these constitute our government today.
This is not what my ancestors fought
for; they didn't die so that we could for­get
what they died for. They fought for
liberty, for rights; for the rights of
speech, religion and protection, and to
form a government which is chosen by
the people, for the people.
We have a mockery of justice when
there is a double standard, one for the
ones with money or high position and the
other for the common person.
We have a mockery of liberty when the
government does not heed the cries of the
International students
excluded from Glom
people simpler tax system, for better protection
and a better way of life.
We have a mockery of government
when the government loses its communi­cation
with the people. When the govern­ment
does what it wants and ignores the
people's will.
The people have the responsibility to
speak out and change the governmenl
through peaceful means. The people
should bring charges against the cor­rupt,
demand equal justice be bestowed
upon all, curb the powers of officials,
remove the officials who are out of touch
with the common person.
The government must be by the peo­ple,
for the people; not for the corpora-smxwiiwf.
tion, by corporation or for certain
person, by a certain person. It must be
for all people, by all people or it becomes a
tyrant and must be crushed.
The students as citizens and tax­payers
have the responsibility of speak­ing
for what they believe is right. Speak
out now! The Board of Trustees, the
Governor, Senators and Congressmen,
all need to be told that they are doing
wrong or right.
Tell them now or you will be doing an
injustice to yourself by letting the rights
you have lag, until someday you won't
have those rights anymore.
George Whipple
2GHY
Glom thanks volunteers
Editor, The Plainsman:
The Auburn spirit is intangible, but at
certain events it becomes very tangible.
One of these times is when the Glomerata
is distributed to Auburn students.
The distribution of 12,600 copies of the
Glomerata is a big project. It involves
the lifting of approximately 85,000
pounds of paper and cardboard as well as
checking over 12,000 individual com­puter
cards.
Without the willing volunteer work of
the Alpha Phi Omega servicefraternity
members, Gamma Sigma Sigma mem­bers
and many other conscientious stu­dents,
the distribution of the yearbooks
would be either chaotic, very lengthy, or
very expensive.
Thus, Auburn students should be
grateful to the students who voluntarily
worked for hours, lifting and unpacking
the 60-pound boxes containing the year­books,
and searching for computer cards.
They kept lines of waiting students from
being excessively long (even when 6,926
books were handed out the first day) and
prevented high labor costs of distribu­tion
by paid workers.
Auburn students can be proud of the
excellent 1976 Glomerata, of its low cost
and for the free servicesof many stu­dents
who helped to distribute them. It is
a pleasure to work with the students who
edited the Glomerata as well as with
those who helped distribute the copies.
Edward B. Taylor
Advisor to the Glomerata
Editor, The Plainsman:
The yearbook was beautiful and all of
Auburn University's acitivities were
there except one, which I guess, was very
important to have.
The international students received a
note from their advisor. He called them
one by one on the phone to tell them to
meet at a certain time for taking pictures
to be in the yearbook.
We, the international students, spent
about two hours getting ready to take the
pictures.
Finally we hurried to get the "Glom"
and nothing was in there about inter­national
students.
The Glom staff claims that a contract
had to be signed, but we were never
notified of any contract we had to sign or
further action we had to take to have our
picture placed in the Glom.
It is a misunderstanding, but a sad one
because the international students and
their activities are so often for­gotten—
for example, we had coffee hours
every Tuesday and two covered dish
dinners and a big banquet and none of
these activities received coverage in The
Plainsman or in the pages of the Glom­erata.
We feel the Glom was very good, but it
was missing something when it forgot
the international students.
Marwan S. Haddad
3PM
Jordan (Mideast)
Editors note: Glomerata staff
members told the Plainsman the
group did not appear because no
attempt was made to sign the
contract until three months after the
deadline for such an action.
ItW'M I KM' 1
SPF#,,Bc*S? J
Summer apathy shouldn't stagnate year
Langdon not designed as theatre;
Haley better site for movies
Editor, The Plainsman:
As we all know, the UPC free movies
are currently being shown in Langdon
Hall. This building was not designed for
use as a theatre. The screen is so low that
a person has to crane his neck for two
hours just to get glimpses of the movie.
Also, Langdon Hall cannot accomodate
the large number of students who come to
see the movies. Many are turned away
repeatedly because of a lack of seats.
A solution to these problems would be
to show the movies in Room 2370 of
Haley Center. The screen in this room is
elevated well above the floor for clear
viewing and the larger room can acco­modate
more people.
Relocating the movies would appeal to
most students who support this great
Auburn pastime.
R.E. Kemp
1PN
Editor, The Plainsman:
As summer approaches I feel
that it is appropriate for Auburn
students to pause and evaluate
exactly how the SGA is dealing
with the problems that affect all
students. A pause and evaluation of
this sort is particularly significant
at this time of year.
As students leave the Plains and
a slower pace comes, the
interests and concerns of students
are altered. Along with the laziness
of summer can come an apathetic
attitude toward many things that
during other times of the year..
greatly concern students.
When people leave for the
summer and arrive in their
hometowns to spend several
months, it is easy to get caught in
the day-to-day hometown oc-curances
and forget what is
happening on campus.
In the past, the summer in this
respect has proved detrimental to
the SGA.
In the past students have left
Auburn completely, forgetting
about the many problems with
which they will be confronted again
in the fall.
The problem here is that student
government a c t i v i t i e s become
disjointed because they are not
able to obtain student input to
.guide their actions. Once this has
happened and fall arrives, much of
the quarter is devoted to gearing
up activity and in many cases
duplicating work that has been
done the previous spring.
It is my hope that this summer
the 7,000 students that remain at
Auburn will continue to provide
that input that is so vital in guiding
s t u d e n t g o v e r n m e n t ' s actions.
. Also, I hope that the other 9,500
students that leave will not lose
interest, but will continue to
discuss among themselves,
friends, parents and alumni the
many problems that must be dealt
with to create a "healthy" Auburn
community.
The thing t h a t w e ! must realize is
that the SGA is only as effective as
the students want it to be. Without
student guidance, the SGA cannot
adequately represent the needs of
the Auburn students. The assis­tance
of all students is a necessity
all year long, not just three
quarters of the year.
Buck Ruffin
SGA president
HAVEN'T YA HEARD..
"UN IVERSITY BOOKSTORE
"We will pay 50 per cent of |jj|# c o n v e n i e n t bookstore
new book prices that are used ^n m „ „
T i i " x -x u on campus,
summer or fall quarter if we have
received booklist.
We also buy other books at
wholesale prices."
Tips on Buying & Selling Textbooks That Could Save
You $ $ $
Today's emphasis is en getting the most eut of the shrinking dollar. The following facts and suggestions
are intended to inform the students and help them understand book buying and selling. Our main goal is
to serve the needs of the campus community.
NEW BOOKS
New textbooks are bought from publishers (who establish the retail) price at a small discount from the
retail price. The University Bookstore must pay the freight or postage charges, usually about 6 per cent, for
the books to be shipped to the store. If the course is dropped or the professor does not use the book, the
University Bookstore must pay the freight charges, another 6 per cent, to return these books to the
publisher. From the remainder of the discount, the University Bookstore must pay its overhead expenses.
USED BOOKS
Used books are bought from companies who specialize in handling used books and from students. The
University buys books from students at 50 per cent of the NEW BOOK price, if the book will be used during
the coming quarter, if we do not have sufficient quantities for anticipated enrollment, and if it is the cur­rent
edition. We also buy books for wholesale companies if they are discountinued. The company sett the
prices we may pay for them.
So that you will obtain the most money for your books, the University Bookstore offers following
suggestions:
1. Never rely on other students to tell you what hooks are requiredd. The best source is the Instructor
and the second is the textbook lists furnished the bookstore by the department.
2. Attend your first class meeting before buying your book. Refunds will be made only if you drop the
course and have course drop slip and cash register receipt for the book.
3. Take care of your books. Missing pages, or water soaked pages made a book worthless. Crib notes do
not affect the price.
4. Do not write or make any marks in the new books until you are certain you will complete the course.
No refunds can be made without books in original condition.
5. Sell your books -as soon as you are convinced the book is no longer needed.
6. Never accept any price for a stack of books. Oet a price for each book you sell. Our buyers have been
instructed to give you a price for each book.
7. We suggest you check ether store prices and then the University Bookstore prices before selling your
books.
8. Never attempt to sell a stolen book. This sounds trite... wo do net recommend stealing property for
any reason... but here are the facts. Occasionally a student will stoa a book and attempt to sell it. The
bookstore maintain open communication between themselves, the students, the University Mice and
school officials. A list of stolen title is kept at the book buying counters in each store. The risk* ft out­weigh
the small monetary gain. It it really worth it?
9. If your books are stolen, notify each bookstore givingyournameandthe author and title of the book
immediately. We will do our best to help you locate your book.
10. Buy used books when possible.
Example: New textbooks sells for $10.00
We buy used books for $5.00
We sell used book for $7.00
Wo will buy back for $5.00
This means you have used the book for $2.50 or 25 per cent of the now book price.
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Post card
will begin
Thurg., May 27, 1978 A-8
campaign
shortly
By Lisa Harris
Assistant News Editor
A mail campaign to the
Board of Trustees opposing
its decision on dorm visita-
Voting
(From page 1)
Norris said that the prime
responsibility for insuring
that the lists were accurate
was "up to the public." She
told one reporter that "if you
are interested in it (inaccur­acies
on the voter list), sit
down with the list and find
out who has died and moved
and report it to me and then
I'll take care of it."
Reports of convicted felons
are received from the Circuit
Court Cerk at the end of each
court session. Smith said he
has "never submitted more
than 60 to 70 names to the
Board for each session."
Probate judge-elect Hal
Smith said he felt "the Board
of Registrars need to meet
more often" considering the
time-consuming nature of the
job. He expressed an interest
in a legislative act proposed
by State Senator Ted Little to
have a full-time clerk placed
in the Probate office for regis­tering
voters and updating
the lists.
Weissinger felt such a move
"would be unfair to the
county." The registrars are
paid $20 a day for their ser­vices
and the judge said he
felt "We have so many other
needs for the money."
Weissinger added that he
didn't know whether the idea
of a full-time clerk would
work. "I think the registrars
should handle it. Not the
• Probate office."
The probate office is
responsible only for compil­ing
a list of qualified voters.
According to Weissinger, the
office receives five cents per
name published. There are
approximately 35,000 names
on the list, which brings the
amount to $1,750.
"People feel that I'm
responsible for things which
are wrong on the list," said
Weissinger. "It's not me
though. It's the registrars."
To help eliminate the possi­bility
of persons voting twice,
Weissinger suggested that
some means of identification
be required at the polls.
Norris said, however,, that
she thought such a . measure
"would take too much time."
"The coloreds might try to
vote twice,." said Norris, "but
I don't think a white person
would. They would be afraid
someone might know them or
the person whose name they
might be trying to vote un­der."
An "outdated system of
secrecy" prevents any deter­mination
of whether persons
are voting twice. According
to Weissinger, the appear­ance
of a large number of
dead persons on the voter
lists, however, is grounds for
an investigation.
Several Auburn residents
say they believe present voter
practices are inefficient, a
smaller number believe some­thing
may be amiss. And
some people jest about the
situation...like the council­man
who said, "Well, when
you get to my ward, you can
leave on the dead weight."
tion will begin shortly accord­ing
to SGA President Buck
Ruffin.
"We are going to try to send
the cards out before the next
Board meeting (June 7), so we
will try to get started now."
Ruffin would not give the
exact number of cards the
' SGA has had signed by
students saying only it was
"several thousand." He also
refused tonamethe trustee the
cards would be going to.
Besides the postcard
campaign, Ruffin said the
SGA is also sending letters to
parents and alumni asking
them to contact the Trustees
and oppose the policy.
"What we're trying ,to do is
to demonstrate to the
Trustees that their decision
was one that does not
represent the views of all
constituencies of Auburn
University or of the tax­payers
of the state of Ala­bama,"
Ruffin said.
Ruffin said he would be in
Auburn during summer
quarter "working as hard as I
can to get the rules changed
before fall." He said he did
not know if the SGA would
succeed in getting the
decision reversed.
"I will bring the matter up
for discussion at the next
meeting of the Board," he
said, "but I don't know how
amenable they will be.
"Until there is a change in
the character of the board, I
don't know how much we will
be able to accomplish,"
PSC race won
by McDaniel
Juanita McDaniel won a
convincing victory over Jim
Ziegler for Public Service
Commission President in the
Alabama primary runoffs
Tuesday. She gained 53 per
centof the vote to Ziegler1* 47
per cent, after trailing in the
general election May 4 by
several hundred thousand
votes.
In Lee County, Annette
Hardy won the Circuit Court
Clerk position by 201 votes
over Bobby Freeman.
Ford won in Oregon and up­set
challenger Reagan in
Kentucky and Tennessee.
Reagan won by large mar­gins
in Arkansas, Nevada
and Idaho.
In the Democratic races,
Carter won in the southern
and border states Arkansas,
Kentucky and Tennessee.
Frank Church won Oregon
and his home state of Idaho,
while California governor
Jerry Brown swept Nevada.
Church has now won all three
primaries he had entered.
Budget
(From page 1)
conference committee will be
appointed and the bills will
be rewritten by the six mem­bers
of the committee.
Rep. G. J. Higginbotham of
Opelika said he did not know
if there would be enough
opposition in the Senate to
combat the cuts.
He said Lt. Gov. Jere
Beasley "had been interested
in making the cuts inhigher
education appropriations.
"I'm sure the Finance and
Taxation saw fit to do it
(make the cuts) because of the
lieutenant governor,"
Higginbotham said.
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Kunstler raps FBI
WEGL's Back
A.U.'s radio station WEGL is back to full trans­mission
power after a breakdown in their transfor­mer—
the only of its kind in the nation. A special engi­neer
sent by the manufacturer in Sacramento, Calif.,
was flown to Auburn to repair the model transmitter.
Power was back to normal this week after several
burned-out parts were replaced.
Photo by Patti DiRienzo
Drive money
distributed
Money raised through
the year for the All-Campus
Fund Drive was allocated to
10 local and state charities by
the All-Campus Fund
Committee last Thursday.
The committee, chaired by
Temple Millsap, 2PN, met
with Director of Campus
Drives Brock Hill, 4GB, and
Sue Steele, Activities Ad­visor,
to decide what chari­ties
will receive money from
the $5,198.60 gathered so far
this year.
This year the allocations
specified by the committee are
are for the following projects:
Student Emergency Loan
Fund
Auburn United Fund
Project Uplift
Sheriffs Girls Ranch
Sheriffs Boys Ranch
Lee Co. Crisis Center
Campfire West
Auburn Heart Fund
Alabama Sight Association
International Living Center
reserve fund
BY K ATHIWILBANKS
Plainsman Staff Writer
"The FBI is the most
amoral, corrupt, over-sanctified
group that we
have in the U.S." William
M. Kunstler stated to a
large crowd Monday
night. Kunstler, national­ly
known for his defense
of Father Berrigan in the
Maryland draft records
burning and of the
"Chicago Seven," spoke
at 8 p.m. Monday in the
Student Activities Build­ing.
Reading an excerpt
Tom the "Church Re­port",
from a Senate
committee. Kunstler
pointed out that corrupt
organizations in addition
to the FBI including the
CIA, National Security
and local government.
The study, which Kunst­ler
urged his audience to
buy and read, contains a
list of the FBI's criminal
activities.
Kunstler cited such
examples as the FBI's
attempts to break up
marriages by sending
anonymous letters to
spouses, and attempts to
urge Dr. Martin Luther
King to kill himself by
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sending him anonymous
tapes.
For 33 years, Kunstler
said, the FBI has opened
mail and photographed it,
and burglarized in order
to obtain materials and
plant bugs. These events
are documented by testi­mony
in the "Church
Report."
"The FBI has set a
pattern for forty years of
moral, short haired men
fighting for right, when in
actuality they are a
brunch of crooks and
t h i e v e s , " Kunstler
stated.
Kunstler said the peo­ple
"in power" express
"a total disregard of
decency, a desire to kill
and subvert every law of
God in order to keep the
system going." He cited
three examples of cases
in which "men of minori­ty
groups were discri­minated
against and
almost put to death" in
trials in New York City,
Texas and Illinois.
"And," he continued,
"It isn't the Nixons who
start it. It starts at the
local level and goes on
and on."
On Watergate and
Nixon, Kunstler com­mented
"Richard Nixon
wanted to go out richer
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than he came in, and he
damn well succeeded."
Five presidents before
Nixon did the same thing,
but, according to Kunst­ler,
Nixon was more
honest- "he taped him­self."
Politics were also ap­proached
by Kunstler in
relation to the coming
elections. He said "We
are taking seriously peo­ple
who are running for
the presidency. Whether
they have big smiles,
little smiles or no smiles,
it won't matter whether
you vote or don't vote.
"The vote doesn't
change the system. To
vote makes it appear that
people are supporting the
system."
He urged his audience
to "think, and not waste
the two minutes it takes
to pull the lever to vote.
We have to begin to think.
Start with mistrust. Be­lieve
nothing until you
have filtered it through
your intelligence."
Kunstler said he wished
prisons were more hu­mane,
and that incar­ceration
and separation
be the extent of the
punishment.
Drug-related crimes
comprise a large number
of crimes, said Kunstler.
"I'm for legalization of
all drugs. Heroin, though
addictive, is not danger­ous
if you can get it and.if
it is pure." According to
him prohibiting drugs
only contributes to the
growth of crime.
In reference to the
recent drug bust of 12
students, he stated
"Those students should
be defended by every
other student on this
campus. The student, if
organized," he said, "is
dangerous."
About the recent stir he
caused with his state­ments
about the Ken­nedy
assassinations,
Kunstler commented,
"First of all, I made my
statements in Dallas—I
think my locale was
wrong. A Political
Science class asked me
what I thought of assassi­nations
and I said I could
approve of some, Hitler,
for example."
Then he commentedrin
reference to the Ken­nedy's
he thought they
were two of the most
dangerous men there had
ever been in politics, and
he was glad the
Kennedys weren't a-round.
According to
Kunstler the statements
then went out over the
wire with the omission of
the reference to Hitler.
If you have
an Off-Campus Phone
don't get caught
in a last minute jam.
Call 887-7011 and tell us when you're leaving
for the summer. We'll see that your phone is discon­nected
when you leave. If your fall address is
to be the same as your present address, you can
save money by using our Vacation Service.
Plus, you'll not be caught in another "jam" next fall.
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A-9 Thura., May 27, 1976 THE AUBURN PUINSMXN
I
Remodeling
Magnolia Dining
Hall will be reno­vated
this summer
for the first time
since it was built.
The dining hall has
not changed much in
those 25 years.
Perhaps the main
difference is the
longer hair of Au­burn
University's
male students. With
other construction
underway at Auburn
the renovations will
contribute to the pro­gress
being made in
updating Auburn's
facilities.
Mag renovation set
BY MARK WINNE
Plainsman Staff Writer
This summer Magnolia
Dining Hall will undergo
extensive renovations,
greatly altering its ap­pearance
and updating
kitchen and serving faci­lities.
Richard Wingard, di­rector
of Food Services,
said, to his knowledge
Magnolia Cafeteria had
never been renovated
actually. However, it has
been enlarged twice and
carpeted.
Wingard said the facili­ty
dates back at least to
1951.
ine renovations, hope­fully
to be completed by
September 15, will also
meet newer safety stan­dards,
as well as better
satisfying economic and
s a n i t a t i o n considera­tions.
Sewer and electri­cal
improvements will be
made.
Architect James Johns­ton's
plan calls for a new
serving set-up, with de­sert
and salad bars,
similar to those at War
Eagle Cafeteria, plus
other stations at which
drinks, sandwiches, piz­zas
and other items will
be available.
The main course serv­ing
area will consist of
three stations, at any one
of which one person will
be able to serve the
complete main course.
The new layout will
include semi-circular
booths similar to those at
War Eagle Cafeteria, but
with built-in seating.
This is aimed at
reducing the impersonal
atmosphere that might
occur in such a facility.
Wingard credits Magno­lia
Domitories Director
Dr. Charles Schroeder
and his associates for
input in this area.
Among other changes
will be new kitchen
equipment, a reduction of
kitchen space, the addi­tion
of two access
sidewalks from Donahue
Drive and Magnolia
Street and a small dining
room where a salad line
presently exists.
A patio outside the
"Quiet Appetite" late
night snack bar will also
be added.
SGA Senate passes resolution
supporting liquor restrictions lift
BY JACKIE ROMINE
Plainsman Staff Writer
* The SGA Student Se­nate
Monday night ap­proved
a resolution sup­porting
the removal of
the one-mile radius res­triction
on the sale of
alcoholic beverages and
•failed to approve the
special appropriation of
$1,000 to support the
Rodeo Club in national
competition.
In other action the
Senate approved the
appointments of mem­bers
to 18 University
Committees and appoint­ed
three committee
chairmen.
The resolution concern­ing
the one-mile limit was
recommended last week
by John Bush, Arts of
Sciences Senator, 2PL-Bush
withdrew his pre­vious
resolution which
stated a particular type
of establishment (a dis-coteque
set-up, bar and
inexpensive meals) and
replaced it with a new
resolution with no speci­fics
mentioned.
Bush said that along
with the resolution, the
Senate will urge the
Auburn City Council to be
selective in granting
approval to any liquor
licenses.
"We don't want a
Bourbon Street at Toom-er's
Courner," Bush said.
Susan Robinson, 2 FCS,
Home EconomicsSenator,
gave the Senate the
results of a survey and
table conducted last year.
In the survey, 58.6 per
cent of the 210 people
polled were in favor of the
sale of alcohol on cam­pus.
The table was
conducted on 56 people,
71.5 per cent of which
were in favor of the sale
of alcoholic beverages
within one mile of
campus.
The resolution was
approved by a 23 to 5
vote.
The Budget and Fi­nance
Committee recom­mended
the special allo­cation
to the Auburn
Rodeo Club. The $1000
would have been used
only for travel for the
Rodeo Club to go to the
Intercollegiate Rodeo fi­nals
to be held in
Bozeman, Montana this
June.
Steve Monk, 3PB,
chairman of the Budget
and Finance Committee
said the Rodeo Club had
tried to raise money by
sponsoring a rodeo and
seeking aid from the
Concessions Committee,
the Recreational Services
Committee and the Athle­tic
Department.
Although the vote was
19 to 9, the allocation
failed to mass. For
approval, 20 votes or 2-3
of the total membership
was needed.
The students selected
to University Committees
are follows: Academic
Honesty: Jeff Ockerman,
4FI; Gene Oswalt,
3PUB; and Melanie
Holmes, 4HPE; Athletic:
Kenny Hopkins, 2PB.
Others are Concession:
Gus Lott, 4EE; Bill
Purcell 4GSC; Karlenne
Hager, 3GSC; Steve
Monk, 3ACC; and Donna
Fisher, 3AC; Discipline:
Randy Schrimsher, alter­nate;
Jamie McPhail,
3FCDE, alternate; Al
Scott, 6FAA; Bob Burle­son,
2PB; and Cathy
Raymond, 3FM. Also
appointed were Foreign
Students: Habbin Hab-bad;
Ruth Barron, 3PM;
Health: Al Thompson,
2PB; Pat Skaggs, 3GFL:
Student Financial Aid:
David Leffard, 2PB, and
Dawn Halbrooks, 3FM.
Others were Student
Jurisprudence: Karen
Williams, 3GSC; Lynne
Hawkins, 3ACE; Mark
Limbaugh, 4ME; Steve
Boucher, 3AC; Ellis
Smith, 3LPO,' and Steve
Forehand, 2GED.
Lectures: Bill Purcell,
Thomas Moore, 2SS, and
Bruce McGowan 3GPO;
Library: Rick Abbott
3PUB,and Steve Boucher.
Other committee mem­bers
are, Student Insur­ance
Committee: Rick
Abbott; Orientation: Ella
Boyd, 2CT, and Mike
S e l l e r s ; Performing
Arts: Christy Hudgins,
3GJM: Don Marazella,
4MK; Jeanette Tomb,
3GSC", Sally Walker and
Charlie Payne, 1PM;
Recreational service:
John Moore, 2HPR; Mar­tha
McGeehee, 2VA;
Melissa Charlton, 3LPO;
Bryan Ratliff, 1PB; Lynn
Collier, 3PB; and John
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Pat Skaggs, 3MFL; Ker­ry
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Oswalt, 3PB; and Al Scott
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Emergency Loan Fund:
Rusty Parker; and Traf­fic
and Parking: Jane
Mounger, 3ACF; John
Bush, 2PL; Lynn Haw­kins,
3HML; and Jim
Stewart, 5AR.
Mark McCutcheon,
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THE AUBURN PLAINSMAN Thurg., May 27. 1976 A-10
Textbook costs draw gripes
STUDENT PREPARES TO SPEND MORE MONEY
. . .Bookstores say they barely clear profit
Photo by Gordon itugg
By Emily Johnson
Plainsman Staff Writer
Many Auburn University
ntudents have numerous com­plaints
about the high cost of
textbooks.
Students spend over three
million a year for their
textbooks but this seldom
accounts for more than two or
three per cent of the total
education bill estimates the
1967 Hunt Report of the Text
Book Publishing Industry
and the Ernest and Ernest Re-
.port of College Store Opera­tions.
Based on figures contained
in the above mentioned re­ports,
the text book dollar can
be distributed as follows:
author, 12.3 cents; publisher,
59.7 cents; bookstore, 20
cents; and taxes, 8 cents.
Students at Auburn have
basically two ways of buying
and selling books. The first
and more used method is
through bookstores such as
Anders, Johnston and Ma-lone
and University.
The alternative method is
to buy and sell books through
book exchanges such as the
one operated by Alpha Phi O-mega,
located in the Auburn
Union.
Ronnie Anders of Anders
Bookstore, Ashley Johnston
of Johnston and Malone
Bookstore and Elmo Prater of
University Bookstore each
stated that by buying used
text books, students are able
to save 25 per cent of the new
book price. Anders added, "if
a student buys a book that is
in terrible shape, (for
example; many pages are torn
out), he can probably save
Prices for new text books
are set by the publisher and
allow very little margin for
profit by the bookstore. Books
are bought from students for
half the new book price and
are resold for three fourths of
the new book price. Prater
gave this example: "if a stu­dent
buys a book costing ten
dollars, he can sell it for five
dollars. The bookstore will re­sell
if for seven dollars and
fifty cents.
"The condition of a book
doesn't really have much to
do with the price, unless the
book is in an extremly poor
condition," stated Johnston.
The determining factors
that affect the price of the
average textbook according
to Anders are the condition of
the book (whether it is new or
used), how many are avail­able,
date of the book's publi­cation
and whether the book
will be used the next quarter.
Prater said, "a book never
loses value if it is used again."
The average life of a text­book
at Auburn is one and a
half years.
"This figure is misleading
because in what publishers
term the 'hard curriculum,"
books are used much longer,"
said Anders.
The publishers make two
divisions, hard curriculum,
which refers to science and
history, and soft curriculum,
which is made up of Sociol­ogy,
Home Economics, Educ­ation
and the humanities, ex­cept
English.
The number of teachers us­ing
new books has a slight ef­fect
on the prices students
must pay for their books,
since there are no used books
available for students to buy.
Anders explained "Last
fall, almost all freshman
courses, with the exception of
one or two, used new books so
the students were forced to
buy new books. This fall, al-
' most all the books will be
used."
Anders, Johnston and Pra­ter
estimated that 50 per cent
of all the books sold were
used books.
, To get the best price when
selling books, according to
Prater, "Students should get a
price for each book rather
than a stack of books."
Prater also recomended
that students should hold on
to books that aren't being
used the next quarter for at
least one more quarter since
they may be used again later.
He said students should go to
their first class before buying
books to prevent being stuck
with unwanted books.
Books that aren't being us­ed
here again can be sold to
wholesale companies through
bookstores. These wholesale
companies will sell more at a
discount through booksales.
Alpha Phi Omega's book
exchange was founded in
1951, and has been located be­fore
in the music building and
Langdon Hall. The purpose
of the book exchange is to give
students a place to buy and
sell books for their own prices.
If a book is not sold, it re­mains
the property of the stu­dent.
Students set the prices of
their books; when the book is
sold, the student receives a
check for the amount minus
10 per cent. This 10 per cent is
used by Alpha Phi Omega for
service projects and main­taining
the book exchange.
"The book exchange would
be much better if more stu­dents
took advantage of the
service," stated Eddie Ma­jors,
member of Alpha Phi
Omega.
Majors also pointed out
that often students who
would like to buy their books
at the book exchange are forc­ed
to go elsewhere because the
book they need is not avail--
able.
A pamphlet published by
Wallace's College Book Co.
states: "The books you sell
will make it possible for some
other student to buy the books
he needs at a reduced price,
just as books sold elsewhere
may enable you to save on
your purchases."
Political science internships open
Several political science
internship positions are
available for summer and fall
quarters in Auburn, Dothan,
Tallassee and the Regional
Education Department of the
l^ee County Hospital, accord­ing
to Bill Kelly, assistant
professor of political science.
Internships are also avail­able
with a state senator and
in Washington, D .C, Kelly
said.
Internships on the munici­pal
level are especially bene­ficial
to students in the public
administration curriculum ,
Kelly said.
Auburn City Manager
Tyron E. Tisdale has noted,
"For the summer quarter this
year, we would like very much
to have (four) interns. They
would be used as special
assistants to the City
Manager to coordinate and
administer the regular muni­cipal
election in August of
this year. This would provide
an excellent opportunity for
four of vour students to learn,
by practical application, the
election procedure in munici­pal
government."
A new internship position
with a state senator has been
secured which is available for
fall quarter. This position,
according to Kelly, should
prove to be an excellent oppor­tunity
for the student who de­sires
to improve his research
ability in the area of the legis­lative
process and at the same
time improve his knowledge
of Alabama state govern­ment.
In addition it is most likely
that several new positions
will be opening for the fall
and winter quarters, said
Ke'llv.
Auburn students are also
encouraged to apply for
internship positions in Wash­ington,
D.C. under the
Lyndon Baines Johnson
congressional intern pro­gram.
Auburn students have
interned in Washington
during various academic
quarters.
This summer several Au­burn
students will be intern­ing
in Washington, D.C.,
according to Kelly. It is re­commended
students apply
early for these positions for
the fall and winter quarters
since competition is keen,
Kelly said.
Students in political science
and public administration
may receive up to 10 hours of
academic credit for an intern­ship.
In addition these students
may receive an additional
five hours of credit for a read­ing
course taken in conjunc­tion
with the internship.
Students majoring in other
fields may also receive
academic credit by register­ing
for U399. If interested,
contact Kelly at 7004 Haley
Center.
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The courses themselves prepare you for leadership positions ahead.
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hot Home Amusement Center & Audio Museum
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to hear and see an astounding new invention
John Herbert Orr, father
of American magnetic tape
recording, has broken
another sound barrier. He
has created the Digital 88
Piano Playorr.
This newly-patented
electronic wonder combines
the Space Age technologies
of digital tape and the
mini-computer. Attached to _______
any piano — your piano, in John Herbert Orr
fact — it records the music you play. Then, at the flip
of a switch, it plays back precisely what you have
recorded.
But you hear your piano playing
in a live performance-not
a tape recording
This is Mr. Orr's breakthrough. The Digital 88
Piano Playorr actually plays your piano. Instructions
from a mini-computer move the keys, pedals and
hammers exactly as you did — moments, weeks or
years before. It's as though an invisible pianist were
at the keys. But the sound filling your room is real
piano music, not sound from a tape.
Even the finest of tape recordings, as you know,
cannot quite equal the richness and resonance of a
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you live music whenever you wish.
Give your piano a memory -
and the power to teach
Mr. Orr's invention benefits piano pupils and
instructors. With the Digital 88 Piano Playorr attached
to his piano, a student can listen to himself play the
same selection precisely as he originally played it. He
may stop the repeat performance and start it again
as he wishes.
A teacher can leave a tape of the selection —
played by the teacher or anyone else — as a guide to
the pupil.
Invite a famous artist to play your
piano- in your living room
One day, the world's greatest pianists will record
on Digital 88 tape, as they do now on ordinary tape
and for stereo records. Then you will be able to insert
a cartridge, with one of your favorite selections, into
your Piano Playorr. Suddenly your piano will respond
as though the artist himself had stopped by for the
evening and accepted your invitation to play.
Eventually, thousands of cartridges will be
available —classical music, show tunes, popular
numbers, jazz.
Be a participant
in the history of music
Yes, at John Herbert Orr's Home Amusement .
Center and Audio Museum you'll have the opportunity
to use, to evaluate the Digital 88 Piano Playorr. But
there are many other worthwhile reasons to visit.
Mr. Orr is displaying dozens of instruments and
devices from his personal collection. No individual
has contributed more to America's audio history. No
one has a more interesting collection.
Only 250 Piano Playorrs- a limited
edition - will be produced for
collectors and lovers of fine music
Mr. Orr has supervised the attachment of his
invention to 250 beautiful pianos. These are for sale.
Each is numbered, signed by Mr. Orr, and registered in
the buyer's name. Each bears a small metal plaque
testifying to the instrument's unique place in history.
Will these marvelously-equipped pianos become
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Hear for yourself the Digital 88 Piano Playorr. It
is demonstrated every hour, on the hour, at the Robot
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for a private demonstration. Come and share
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Robot Home Amusement Center &
Audio Museum. 106 So. Eighth St.,
Opelika, Alabama 36801 7452153
Open By Special Appointment Only
Mr. John Herbert Orr
106 South Eighth Street. Opelika, Alabama 36801
Dear Mr. Orr:
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and the pianos to which it is attached.
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THE AUBURN PLAINSMAN -num.., May 27,1976 A-12
UPC runs Paper Chase
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By Rick Harmon
Entertainment Editor
"The Paper Chase," a story
of what students at Harvard
go'through in order to obtain
high grades, is this week's
free UPC movie.
The film will be shown
Thursday at 8 p.m. and
Friday, Saturday and Sun­day
at 7 and 9:30 p.m. in
Langdon Hall. Student I.D.'s
will be required.
"Paper Chase" is inspiring,
intelligent, well acted
and most of all entertaining.
The film is about a student
named Hart (Timothy
Bottoms), who graduated
from public university and
goes to Harvard law school.
Bottoms, playing in one of his
first major roles, turns in an
excellent performance, and
makes his part both funny
and believable.
While at Harvard, Hart is
determined to make high
grades. He and four other stu­dents
decide to form a study
group to prepare for his most
difficult class.
Each of the other four stu­dents
are stereotyped, but in
such a manner that one feels
he has met them before in
more than one class.
Kingsfield is played
sympathetically and super­bly
by John Houseman.
Houseman won an Academy
Award for his portrayal of the
p r o f e