Trustees reject housing plan; appove new athletic program
By Steele Holman
Editor
The Auburn University Boa-i of
Trustees rejected by a 6-2 vote Friday a
proposal by President Harry M. Philpott
to allow dorm residents to choose their
own degree of security and to allow men
to rent higher-priced dorm rooms.
The trustees did, however, approve
Philpott's proposals to change the
Athletic Department by adding a position
of assistant athletic director for
women's programs, who would then
help select a women's athletic staff.
Both of the proposals were made to bring
the University into compliance with
the guidelines set up by the Department
of Health, Education, and Welfare to implement
Title IX of the Educational
Amendment of 1972. Title IX prohibits
discrimination by sex in colleges which
receive federal aid.
The housing proposal, based on
recommendations made last summer by
a student-faculty committee, would have
given each dormitory the right to choose
what level of security it desires, within
University-set limits. They could set up
their own policies about visitation,
curfews, and other internal rules.
However, Philpott's proposal made it
clear that at least some dorms would
have full-security regulations, much like
' the present ones, and the residents there
could not vote to remove the security
measures.
The proposal would also have given
men access to the full quality range of
University housing, meaning that men
conceivably could occupy a dorm on the
Hill or in the Quad. Men would not occupy
the same buildings as women, the
proposal stated.
The recommendation also called for a
uniform housing brochure and contract,
and a new rate structure for housing
was devised.
Trustee Jack Tatum moved that the
proposals be rejected. Trustees Harris,
Walston Hester, Smith, Bamberg,
Tatum, and Henry Steagall voted to reject
them, while new trustees Sue
Fincher and Supt. of Education Wayne
Teague, Jr. voted against rejection.
Walston Hester had earlier asked
Philpott what would happen if the
recommendations were voted down. In
reply, Philpott said, "if we hold to our
present system as it is established, we
would be in noncompliance with the
guidelines. Conceivably, we would lose
federal funds."
"It strikes me that this is just coming
in the back door to an open dorm policy
in the University," Harris said, adding
that the proposal would bring about
what "seems like a long-range unwholesome
arrangement."
"We fully support the goal of equal opportunity
for women and men in education
and employment and intend to do
all in our power to uphold it," Harris
said. "However, our first responsibility
is to the students of this University and
to the people of this state.
"We are not at liberty to pursue
policies that threaten to destroy the
teachings of high moral principles,
which are the essential foundations to
any learning experience.
"We do not intend to do any course for
the simple purpose of the defiance of
lawful authority. Similarly, however,
we will not blindly follow a dictated
policy that offers no good and threatens
much disturbance to the primary
responsibility to this institution,"
Harris continued, reading a handwritten
statement on the back of an
envelope.
SGA President Bert Young told the
trustees that "there will be a choice
between a secure dorm and a nonsecure
dorm, and that choice will be ably made
by students before they start the year.
"Dr. Philpott has said that once a set
of rules are arrived at for a dorm, those
rules will apply until next year, within
University parameters. In my opinion,
these proposals should be adopted,"
Young said.
"We could end up with one or 10 un-secure
dorms. If so, it would happen that
way because of the choice of the
students. Priority would be given to
those wanting security," Philpott said.
Harris told the group he thought that
pressure from other students might force
students to choose (insecure housing
(See TRUSTEES, page 8)
ANDERSON, 4PB, TELLS TRUSTEES OF HEALTH CENTER
. . .Claims Board had more interest in Title IX
Photo by Dan Doughtie Health Center
care rapped
By John Carvalho
Assistant News Editor
Louis Anderson, 2PB, said he felt the
Board of Trustees "was more concerned
with Title IX" than his. complaint of being
refused treatment* at the Student
Health Center in a Saturday morning
trustee-student meeting.
The charge arose from a situation
which occurred during final exams fall
quarter, when a night duty nurse refused
to call a doctor to examine Anderson
after he complained of abdominal pains.
The pains turned out to be appendicitis,
according to Dr. Richard Harris
of Montgomery, Anderson's family
physician.
Anderson explained that he went
before the Board of Trustees "to let them
know what happened." He added that
he has not yet talked to University
President Harry M. Philpott.
Trustee Charles M. Smith III of
Montgomery said in reply to Anderson's
comments that he considered the Health
Center to be a "glorified first-aid station."
Questions?
Anderson agreed. "Right now, that's
all it is," he said. "If you put down
money at all, you should get
something," he said referring to the $15
allocated to the Health Center from
Auburn tuition.
Trustee Robert Harris of Decatur said,
"There is no magic formula to solve
this."
After Anderson presented his complaint
to the Board, Harris asked him if
he had any suggestions concerning
policy changes to prevent something
like what happened to Anderson from
happening again.
Anderson suggested that if a person
calls twice requesting a doctor the physician
should be notified.
Anderson said he felt his complaint
"was better presented to the trustees as
a whole," rather than in meetings with
individual trustees as was done last
year.
He said he thought it would also "give
the other students a chance to tell of any
complaints they may have."
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Volume 82 Number 10 Thursday, January 15, 1976 Auburn, AL 36830 18 p a g es
Estimated $15 dormitory increase voted for fall
By Steele Holman
Editor
On-Campus students face a 12 per cent
increase in their room and board fees beginning
summer quarter because of increased
salaries and food costs. The increase
was approved at Friday's Board of
Trustees meeting.
The increase will be about $15 per-per-son
for almost all dormitories. The increase
for a single room with a telephone
in Magnolia Hall will be $22, and the increase
in Dorm 12 will be $14. The food
price increase will also be 12 per cent.
The increase was necessary because of
"recent salary increases for dormitory
and Food Service employes and the continuing
increase in the cost of materials
and supplies," the resolution stated.
University Bursar Ernest Phillips said
Wednesday that the $15 charge assessed
to on-campus students who don't buy certain
meal plans would remain in effect.
The extra charge is used for debt retirement
for bonds which financed the dormitories
and cafeterias.
The Board also agreed to lease five
acres of land adjacent to the Montgomery
campus to the State Department
of Public Health for 30 years for the construction
of a public health laboratory.
Philpott was given the Board's permission
to make discretionary decisions
regarding the purchase of University vehicles.
A mistake in the wording of a
University loan to Alpha Tau Omega
fraternity for $32,000, approved at the
last trustee meeting, was corrected by the
Board.
The Board heard a debate between
Academic Vice President Taylor Littleton
and SGA President Bert Young on
the merits of changing the academic calendar.
Trustee Bob Harris, saying that
he had heard requests that the calendar
be changed, asked that written arguments
for and against changing the calendar
be sent to the trustees.
New calendar considered by Board
Board explains votes to students
By Christy Hudgins
Managing Editor
Speaking to students in Saturday's trustee question session,
six members of the Auburn Board of Trustees explained
why they voted as they did on the guidelines recommended to
them by President Harry Philpott.
The guidelines, while rejecting the concept of coed dormitories,
called essentially for the development of a secure vs.
non-secure dorm system. Students under this system would be
able to select whether they wished to live in an unlocked dorm
with visitation by members of the opposite sex(non-secure) or
a locked dorm without visitation (secure).
Four of the six trustees present at the meeting (four did not
attend) voted against Philpott's resolution. Charles M. Smith
HI said he was speaking for the Board when he said that he
was not rejecting the Title IX guidelines but only waiting until
the matter could be given more study and some changes
made in the proposal.
Trustee Walston Hester said, however, that he was "hoping
for a test case to come up on this."
Several rsasons were given for the rejection of Philpott's
recommendations by the trustees. Hester said the reason he
voted against it was "because I had a daughter here who told
me, 'Daddy, we might not have on anything but our panties
and bras and we couldn't walk across the hall.'"
State Rep. Robert H. Harris said he was "perfectly willing to
try to design a program which would preserve the quality of
good we have here at present," while trying to meet HEW
specifications. He later added that he felt it was the Board's
"duty to consider the impact of the recommendations on the
student."
"I'm not fully convinced there are not reasons of security
and administration which must be considered," said Harris.
"I'm not happy with the security and nonsecurity dorms.
They're fraught with potential problems. It should be possible
to develop a standard for all our dormitories," Harris
continued.
A student making reference to the continued mention of the
word "morality" in the Friday trustee meeting in which the
recommendations were rejected, said Auburn already had secure
and nonsecure adjacent dorms with Magnolia.
Hester replied saying, "I think you ladies need more protection
than the men...You have protection in a ladies' dorm."
A former director of a women's dorm at the University of
Alabama said she opposed male visitation on the grounds
that girls at Alabama were "being imposed on. Guys usually
have somewhere else to go. When a girl brings a guy in her
room you don't want to impose on them." She opposed the unlocked
door policy saying that there was no way to keep intruders
out, leading to rapes and stabbings.
When the trustees were questioned about why they referred
to students as kids and girls and boys, Harris replied that
"When you think of a student body you've got both age extremes.
It's hard to make one single category."
Trustee Sue Fincher, who along with Trustee Wayne
Teague voted for the acceptance of the recommendations submitted
by Philpott, said "kids is an unfortunate word. We all
use it."
Trustees voting against the Title IX recommendations said
they could not comment on the changes they would like to see
on the Philpott proposal.
Smith said he couia hot say anything until he heard from
the committees. Answering a student's question, he added
that he was not aware that there was a Title IX guidelines student
committee. (Philpott derived his recommendations to the
Board from the studies of nine faculty-student committees.)
Trustee Henry B.Steagall also said he could not state his
position on changes he would like to see in Philpott's
recommendations.
In questioning the decision to reject the proposals, students
probed possible reasons including moral implications and
political ramifications for such a decision.
Board members stoutly defended their "responsiveness to
the entire University."
In reply to a student pointing out the fact that this is an election
year and Board members are political appointees.Stea-gall
said he found the Board to be responsive and democratic.
"This is not a political thing." emphasized Smith.
Hester joined in the discussion saying "I assure you there's
going to be a big change in this country in November. If
there's not we're going to be in big trouble."
Harris who has consistently opposed male visitation on the
grounds that Auburn is a state university and should therefore
be responsive to the state and the people of the state,
when asked why male visitation was allowed at the University
of Alabama said that he was not sure "that parents
hadn't objected to the University of Alabama rules."
By Bonita Apperspn
Plainsman Staff Writer
A majority of the Board members
present at a student-trustee meeting
Saturday generally favored changing
the academic calendar so fall quarter
would end two weeks earlier. However,
they said they would like to study the
change before approving it.
Tommy Eden, SGA Vice President,
said one student brought up the subject
at the student-trustee meeting in order to
inform the Board that the University
Senate had not been presented with the
proposed change when it approved the
1976-77 calendar.
Eden said he felt Dr. Harry M, Philpott
had led the Board to believe that the University
Senate had been given alternatives,
when actually, he said, they
had been given no other choice.
Trustee Charles M. Smith III said,
"I'm in favor of the calendar change,
and will do what I can to promote it. But
right now it needs more study."
Trustee Henry Steagall was booedloud-ly
when he said he would "prefer the
semester system."
TrusteeWalstonHester Said he felt the
calendar change would cause a
hardship for working students. "In the
SGA survey, 700 students voted against
the calendar change. These were
probably the working students," he said.
Trustee Robert H. Harris said he approved
the change, but he felt "the
schedule must serve academic needs
first before concentrating on con-venience."
Trustee Sue Fincher strongly opposed
the change.
"I can see why students would like it
but I don't go along with it," she said. "I
feel going back one week early is
ridiculous. Also, the University break
coincides with the public school vacation,
so I can have all my children at
home at the same time."
While the Board has voiced support,
Philpott and Dr. Taylor D. Littleton,
vice president for academic affairs said
they are opposed to the plan, and say the
faculty "clearly opposes it."
The University cannot afford to have
such a long inactive period, Littleton
said.
No student basketball charge planned
By Mark Dyer and Jody Welker
Plainsman Staff Writers
The Auburn basketball program will
lose $150,000 in 1976 even with revenue
from the student activities fee, according
to Bill Beckwith, athletic business
manager.
If 6,000 students paid $1 for 10 home
games, it would add $60,000 in revenue
for the basketball budget, he added.
TRUSTEES STEAGALL, HESTER, FINCHER, HARRIS AND TEAGUE BREAK FOR A LITTLE LEVITY
. . .Board members participated in Saturday question session for students
Photo by Dan Doughtie
However there will be no charge this
year, according to Dennis Womack,
administrative assistant with the Auburn
Athletic Ticket office.
Womack said there are no plans for
any future admission charges. Such a
' charge would have to be approved by Lee
Hayley, Auburn University athletic
director, the athletic committee, and University
President Harry M. Philpott before
it would go into effect.
Beckwith and Womack agreed that a
$1 charge for tickets might prevent the
casual basketball fan from attending a
game because it was free, and would allow
the avid fan to get a ticket.
Beckwith pointed out that many students
got tickets to the Auburn-Mississippi
State game because they were being
handed out along with the Alabama tickets.
Only five of 6000 people who were
given Alabama tickets refused tickets to
the Mississippi State game, according to
Beckwith.
Womack and Beckwith listed several
plans to control the large crowds attending
basketball games. One possibility is
to issue different colored tickets for each
game, and to give only one ticket per person.
Another plan is to issue season tickets
along the same system.
By another system tickets could be
given out alphabetically, perhaps with
last names beginning with A-L going to
one game, and M-Z going to the other.
Beckwith pointed out that Auburn has
, one of the best situations for students in
the Southeastern Conference, when compared
to Kentucky, where only 3,400 students
get tickets to the game.
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SGA
Appointments shift Senate jobs
By John Carvalho
Assistant News Editor
The appointments of John
Bush, 2PL,to replace Gordon
Isbell as Arts and Sciences
Senator and Anita Gentle,
4AC, to replace Al Thompson
as Business Senator were approved
by the Senate at its
meeting Tuesday.
In other action, the Senate
added two students to the
University Discipline Committee,
passed a change in the
Code of Laws, defeated resolutions
concerning basketball
ticket distribution and
the Board of Trustees, and
passed a resolution commending
former football
coach Ralph "Shug" Jordan.
Bush was appointed to the
Senate by SGA President Bert
Young to replace Isbell, who
resigned from the Senate because
he was leaving Auburn
to enter dental school.
Gentle was forced to resign
from the Senate fall quarter
due to illness. Thompson was
appointed to her post for fall
quarter, after Senate President
Tommy Eden ruled that
she could return to the Senate
winter quarter.
Cathy Raymond, Senate
clerk, was appointed to the
University Descipline Committee
to replace Alison
McClure, who resigned. Raymond
had been an alternate
to the committee. Bob Burleson
was approved as an alternate,
replacing Raymond.
The Code of Laws change,
which was sponsored by
Kathy Graves, would allow
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banners to be hung from the
balcony overlooking War
Eagle Dining Hall.
Graves explained that there
is no such provision in the
Campus Advertising Law,
and the Union Building staff
had asked that such a provision
be made.
The phrase, "and designated
areas in the Auburn
Union," was added to the section
dealing with allowed
locations of signs and posters.
The resolution concerning
the Board of Trustees, which
read "the Student Senate expresses
its deep sorrow that
the Board of Trustees questions
the moral character and
integrity of the men and
women of Auburn University,"
was defeated after
much debate.
Lindy Harper spoke
against the resolution saying,
"It sounds sarcastic. It's the
wrong way of doing it." .
Nanc i McCray, also speaking
against the resolution,
said the resolution was "playing
politics," and was useless.
An ad-hoc committee, made
up of senators Randy Pitt-man,
Jenelle Mims, McCray,
and Carl Rush were appointed
to work on a resolution
similar to the one defeated
by the Senate.
The resolution concerning
basketball ticket distribution
was sponsored by Suzanne
Westbrook, Steve Boucher,
and Steve Monk. It recommended
that tickets be distributed
from 5 p.m. until 9
p.m., that distribution be
moved indoors, and that a
committee be formed to figure
out a better distribution policy
for next year.
Gus Lott said that there will
be no change this quarter,.
since $400 has been spent for .
posters to publicize the present
distribution policy, so
such a resolution would have
no effect.
The resolution commending
Coach Jordan was sponsored
by outgoing Senator Al
Thompson. It was passed unanimously.
fee flower
As the mercury dropped into the teens last week, one
of the Haley Center fountains was transformed into a
lovely blue daisy. The fragile flower was protected
from the sun's melting rays by Haley's towering walls.
International
Angry Nigerian demonstrators protesting United
States policy towards Angola broke into the grounds of
the U.S. embassy, plastering slogans on windows and
throwing sticks and stones at the building. There were
no injuries. The attack was the culmination of a protest
demonstration in which some 2,000 Nigerians marched
four miles from Yaba on the Nigerian mainland to the
embassy on Lagos Island. The attack followed two similar
ones elsewhere in Nigeria.
Spain's worst labor strife in years idled 75,000 workers
across the country and closed five large plants in the
Madrid area alone. Police in the capital routed hundreds
of demonstrators demanding higher pay, but no injuries
occured. On the political front, Barcelonia police arrested
13 rightists on charges of assaulting Basque sympathizers
in retaliation for the recent killing of 30 police-men
in Basque areas of the country.
Food facilities expand service
Students stopped for a few minutes in the cold air to
watch the fountain's flower form and to see how thick
the ice was. But a s all flowers must fade away, the ice
flower melted back into water.
Photo byDan Doughtie
National
In a television interview last Sunday, Gov. George C.
Wallace said that this year's try for the presidency would
be his last if he loses. In a separate interview, four other
Democratic contenders for the presidency appeared—
Jimmy Carter, former governor of Georgia, Sen.
Birch Bayh, Pennsylvania Gov. Milton Shapp, and
Oklahoma Sen. Fred Harris. When asked what they
thought of Sen.Hubert Humphrey's chances of being
drafted for the party nomination, all gave negative re-
1 plies.
I It was learned last Sunday that the late Pres. John F.
I Kennedy suffered from Addison's disease, a rare blood
I problem. The illness nearly killed him oh three separate
I occasions: in 1947, 1951 and 1954. The condition was
ft kept secret because it was feared it would destroy his
By Susan Counts
Plainsman Staff Writer
Various improvements and
additions made in university
food service facilities have increased
the availability of
facilities and convenience of
eating for Auburn students,
according to Paul Wingard,
director of Food Services.
"Though no changes have
been made in the types of
plans offered," explained
Wingard, "Alumni Hall has
been reopened after construction
and we are opening Terrell
Dining Hall on Saturdays
and Sundays for
"brunch'."
Monday was the opening
day for Alumni Dining Hall
following renovation it recently
underwent.
Improvements; in the cafeteria
include repainting of
various portions of the room,
addition of a small private
dining area, replacement of
the light fixtures, and installation
of air conditioning.
The entire eating area was
redecorated with potted
plants and awnings to give it
what Head Dietician Mary M.
Prather terms a "cafe 'atmosphere."
The serving method has also
been altered slightly by
' separating: hot and cold
foods, giving the arrangement
more of a "scrambled"
format. Drink dispensers
have been added, making it
possible for the students to
serve themselves when refilling
their glasses.
' The dining hall is open -
Monday through Friday,
operating during the following
hours: breakfast 6:30-9
j a.m.; continental breakfast, 9-
10 .a.m.; lunch W'«m.-1:30
p-m.; and dinner, 4:30-6:15
'p.m. Meal contracts, Chefs
Club cards, and cash are
honored at Alumni.
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Saturday, the cafeteria
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lunch foods from 10:30 a.m. to
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Dean sees 'discontent'
Growing discontent with
public education is symptomatic
of our times, according
to Auburn University's
new Dean of Education Dr.
Jack Blackburn, who took up
the reins in his new position
Jan. 1.
Discontent is not reserved
for the educational process,
he points out. "Throughout
the public segment there is
discontent with most every
kind of institution we have. I
think that there ought to
always be questions about
schools. We ought to change
as the needs demand that we
change, based upon our best
a v a i l a b l e information."
Blackburn states.
Noting, that schools are
being called to more accountability,
Blackburn suggests
that, more importantly, the
issue is "accountability for
what?".
"Somebody says 'I want
my child to be able to do this
by a certain time' and that
could be very desirable. But
that child may not be able to
do that, and it may not be
the teacher's fault.
"I do think we should hold
teachers accountable for certain
kinds of professional expertise,
and I think universities
should be held accountable
for helping them acquire
the expertise.
"One of the things we tend
not to hold people accountable
for enough is the whole
idea of designing curricula
and instruction in schools,"
Blackburn says.
Blackburn says he feels
that schools are not faced
with one particular kind of
problem but a multiplicity of
them. One of the most difficult
is that relating to a
philosophy of education.
"I prefer to distinguish
between 'schooling' and
'education'," he remarked.
"Education is a lifelong
process. Schooling, when a
p e r s o n is in grades
kindergarten through 12, or
even graduate school, is just
a part of the process of education.
"I think a lot of the schooling
going on was designed
for previous times. One of the
greatest problems of some
schooling today is that it
hasn't caught up with the
times."
An example, Blackburn
notes, is the tendency to lump
all students together, expecting
them to do the same
thing.
"I don't think we do
enough to work individually
with students," he says.
Individualized instruction
would not necessarily mean
that more teachers would be
needed, but it would require
more hands, Blackburn explained,
such as nonprofessional
aides.
"I think that communities
have to assume more responsibility
for the education of
its students. That might be
t h r o u g h finding more
avenues of financing, but
communities can help in
other ways through parental
help in making the school
more community oriented, involving
parents and even
other students, as instructional
aides," he points out.
Blackburn, former chairman
of the division of
curriculum and instruction at
the University of North
Carolina at Chapel Hill, cited
a model program in Columbia,
S. C, where this approach
has proved
successful.
"The greater rewards
appeared to be in the spin-off,
like in the reduction of van-d
a l i s m , disciplinary
problems and absenteeism.
There was also more pride
and fewer complaints from
parents," he says.
DR.JACK BLACKBURN CONSIDERS HIS NOTES
...New Dean of Education senses discontent in schools
Knowles aids workshop
Dr. Malcolm S. Knowles, internationally-
known adult educator,
will serve as a consultant
and resource person for
an adult basic education teacher
training workshop to be
held Jan. 17 at the Enterprise
State Junior College.
The workshop is being co-directed
by the Department of
Vocational and Adult Education
of Auburn University
and the Department of Adult
Education of Tuskegee Institute.
Both institutions are implementing
this workshop
and two future workshops
scheduled for the Mobile and
Talladega areas in conjunction
with special grants
made available through the
adult education division of
,the State Department of Education.
Knowles is currently professor
emeritus of adult and
community college education
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Blackburn is committed to
cooperative efforts between
the university, public schools
the state department of
education and professional
organizations in the education
of university students.
Referring to the Educational
Professional Development
Program in which Auburn
participated on a pilot basis
for two years, he expressed
hope that the program will be
refunded.
"One of the things I'm
most interested in is trying to
combine to devise some ways
in which the energies of the
university can best be used.
In the past, I think most
educational preparation
programs have tried to use a
shot-gun approach in which
we tried to be everything to
everybody. There's a great
merit to that, but I'm not sure
that that, in itself, helps improve
schooling for young
people as much as some other
approaches that might be
used," Blackburn states.
One approach might be to
develop a model community
program involving several
schools or school systems
concentrating efforts on
developing various competencies,
he suggested.
Although he is a newcomer
to Alabama, Blackburn
recalls that he has known of
the high rating of Auburn
University from his school
days in Panama City.
"I think an institution with
the reputation and resources
such as Auburn, a major institution,
can try to continue
to find some ways to improve
t h e preparation of
educational personnel. The
one we've talked about is, I
think, a very viable approach,
and this school has
an outstanding reputation
for leadership in teacher
preparation.
"But also, I think that the
question well worth discussing
is what the role of such
an institution should be," he
added, noting that a lot of
places in each state have
primary roles in the preparation
of teachers.
"The question is whether a
major institution should be
doing the same thing that
other colleges are doing, or,
as a leader in higher education,
try to come up with
some new ways of doing
things and set some new
priorities.
"The question ought to be
raised and aired, even if the
answer is not 'yes'.
Full house
There's more than.one way to pass the time while
waiting to get into the coliseum, a s shown by these four
Auburn students who were hoping for a good seat at
Saturday's Bama game. Rather than spend several
hours standing in the winter winds, a deck of cards was
produced, a game started, and all thoughts of standing
in line were forgotten, for the moment, at least. Perhaps
one of the students was hoping for a full house, or
at least hoping to be a part of one later in the day.
Photo by Dyke Helms r
AWS plans health week j
By Susan Counts
Plainsman Staff Writer
Student Health Week, an
AWS sponsored project designed
to inform and further
educate students of various
health problems, will be held
Jan. 19-23.
"It is the first year that we
have had a week like
this,"stated AWS first vice
president Mitzi Morton. "In
the past, we have had health
activities but not a whole
week filled with as many programs
and speakers as we
have this year."
A speech on the "Facts
About Health Insurance," delivered
by State Farm Insurance
Agent Tom Bryant,
will initiate the week's activities.
Monday night at 7 p.m.
Dr. Darlene Hunter of the Auburn
Student Health Center
will follow at 8 p.m. with a
slide presentation and lecture
on the female anatomy and
physiology.
Tuesday's programs will include
a discussion at 3 p.m. on
"Prenatal Care of You and
Your Baby" by Dr. James
Walker of Lee County Public
Health Department, followed
at 4:30 p.m. by a movie entitled
"Before Birth."
Also scheduled for Tuesday
is a lecture by noted psychologist,
Dr. Joyce Brothers.
This presentation is to be held
in the Union Ballroom at 7:30
p.m.
The topics that will be discussed
' on Wednesday include
"The Number One Drug
Problem: Alcoholism," "The
Types of Contraceptives and
their Uses," and a talk by
ophthalmologist Dr. Emil
Wright on eye care..
Thursday will conclude the
special presentations with a
full agenda of meetings. At 3
p.m., Red Cross First Aid Instructor,
Gus Lott, will demonstrate
the basic First Aid
Techniques. Dr. Marylou
Morgan of the department of
Health Physical Education
and Recreation will speak at 4
p.m. on "How to Feel Fit".
Mouth and dental care will be
covered at 7 p.m. by Dr. OH.
Tatum as he discusses "How
T6 Protect Your Teeth".
Two events are offered at 8
p.m. The first is a slide presentation
and discussion by
Dr. Samuel Coker from the
Auburn School of Pharmacy
on "Facts that will Blow Your
Mind About Smoking". In the
second meeting, a movie,
narrated by Dick Cavett, and
entitled "VD Blues," will be
shown.
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be held throughout the week.
Blood pressure tests will be
available to students in the
Haley Center and Union
Building lounges, Monday
through Friday from 11 until
3p.m. A display of contraceptives
will be set up in the library
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disease will be found in
the Haley Center and Union
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The meetings: a worthy path
The Real Issue
During Friday's Board of Trustees meeting, the trustees rejected
President Harry M. Philpott's recommendations to change Univer-sitv
housinar Dolicies so that thev would comply with the Title IX
guidelines of the 1972 Educational Amendments. After the rejection,
a committee was formed to study the matter further.
That committee, consisting of Trustees Bob Harris, Henry
Steagall, and Dr. Ralph Teague, was supposed to meet in Montgomery
Wednesday to discuss the guidelines with SGA president
Bert Young and Dr. Harold T. Grant, secretary of the Title IX coordinating
committee.
We hope that the committee and the whole Board, in its further
deliberations, will act on .the real issue at hand, whether students
will have the right to make their own choices, instead of acting on
the false issue of whether it is morally sound to allow unsecured
dorms.
We would also ask the Board to give weight to those views expressed
by the students who attended the student-trustee meeting
Saturday morning.
The Calendar
With more than 82 per cent of Auburn students responding favorably
to the idea of a calendar change to end exams before Thanksgiving,
we are hopeful that in its Tuesday meeting the University
Senate will give the proposal fair consideration.
Such a calendar change would of course involve some difficulties—
a shortened period for maintenance during the summer,
a lot of paperwork, even curtailment of much of the Christmas
business for local merchants.
One big advantage of a change is that the students will have the
jump on the Christmas part-time job market. Starting fall quarter
two weeks earlier, however, would not place most summer workers
at a disadvantage, because most summer student jobs end in the
last part of August, to accommodate the return of students to
schools on the semester system.
One argument against ending fall quarter earlier is that we'd
have to start winter quarter before Christmas, and that's not academically
sound. If it is so unsound academically to break winter
quarter, then it cannot be good to break fall quarter, either. Although
the class days following Thanksgiving are supposedly used
for review, new material is covered in almost every course.
The calendar change also seems more 'desirable • from a research
standpoint, giving faculty members five unbroken weeks for
research as opposed to three weeks in September and three and a
half weeks in December.
A change of this type is not an easy undertaking and would require
careful planning by all departments of the University.
Students whose homes are a great distance from Auburn seldom
get to go home for Thanksgiving because of the expense involved in
going, then coming back, then going again for the Christmas holidays.
It's a situation avoidable by changing the calendar.
We think these academic and non-academic reasons for moving
the calendar have some validity, and we hope the University Senate
will give them due consideration.
Steele*
Holman
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The student-trustee meeting Saturday
disappointed many of the 150 or so
students who came at that early hour.
But probably some of the trustees were
disappointed, too.
There are several reasons for this disappointment,
none of which is reason
enough to discontinue these important
meetings.
Most of the students' disappointment
comes from the fact that trustee thinking
just doesn't jive with student thinking.
Perhaps the students expected the trustees
to hear their grievances and questions
about University policy, immediately
agree with them, and pass resolutions
right there on the spot that would
set everything right with Auburn.
Another thing that disappointed the
students is the trustees' apparent lack of
knowledge of what's going on here. The
istudents' questions were met by blank
stares because the trustees didn't know
what the students were talking about.
Being a good trustee requires more time
than some of them seem to be giving the
job.
Most of these trustees have a frame of
reference wholly different from most of
Auburn's involved students. They're older
and more conservative. They have
other inputs to consider, not the least of
which are their consciences and what
they feel Alabama citizens desire in a
university.
This difference in frames of references
made many of the trustees' answers and
reasoning seem ridiculous to the students.
The trustees also had grounds for being
disappointed. When SGA President
Bert Young requested a student-trustee
meeting at the fall Board meeting, one
trustee asked the student leaders to
please provide a crowd with a more diverse
perspective than last year's group,
because it seemed hostile to them.
TRUSTEES, STUDENTS DIDN'T SEE EYE TO EYE
...But the meetings have great potential
Few students would enjoy sitting before
an audience so hostile as the one
which met for the first student-trustee
meeting in fall quarter 1974. It's
generally not human nature to enjoy
antagonism. Trustee Bob Harris said
that Saturday's student group was at
least less antagonistic than the first had
been.
There's another side of the coin of student
disappointment that the Board did
not act immediately to solve Auburn's
problems as the students see them. It's
that the Board didn't feel prepared to act
because in many cases it simply did not
understand situations. This unprepared
ness caused the frequent state-'
ment of "it needs further study."
So the meeting disapointed us. The students
think the trustees are a bunch of
dull, close-minded rednecks who pur-posedly
ignore student input. The trustees
see the students who went to the
meeting as either children or radicals
who don't understand the situation. Yet
thereareconcrete benefits to the meeting.
The students gave the trustees an earful
of what they think needs doing, and
that's something the trustees have
lacked in the past, except for talks with
student friends or children. Insofar as
it's important for the decision-makers to
know what their subjects want, the meetings
are extremely valuable.
That statement is easy to mouth, but
many of the riots and demonstrations on
non-Southern campuses were done for
the very right to have a say in university
matters. And these meetings we are
having may be a peaceful way to achieve
what others have gone to the streets to
gain.
The students who care about what happens
here can be gratified that they are
having an input into the decision-making
process, and with care, that input can i
grow in importance.
There are some very desirable improvements
that can be made on these
first two meetings.
The first is that they become regularly
scheduled events, and more than one
meeting per school year should be scheduled.
They should occur before, not after,
Board meetings that will affect student
life.
Next, some way to change the atmosphere
of the meetings should be devised.
It shouldn't always be an adversary
situation, students against trustees.
There should be the attitude of "Come, let
us reason together" to work out knotty
problems, More diverse students viewpoints
are desirable.
This may be wishful thinking, but
more students would attend these meetings.
It may be wishful thinking because
the vast majority of the students are willing
to let things flow along, either oblivious
to what's going on .or content to
curse at the administration without doing
anything else.
There were complaints that only six
trustees attended Saturday's meeting.
But six out of 10 is a far better ratio than
150 students out of a student body of
more than 16,000. What a wonderful
problem it would be if too many students
showed up to contain them in Haley
Center 2370.
For the trustee's part, they should
come to the meetings willing to give student
opinions some weight when they
vote on school policies. They should stop
thinking of us as children, and they
should realize that those students who
attend the meetings aren't necessarily
radicals who represent a minority view-point,
but concerned students trying to
reflect what they feel is general student
opinion.
The trustees should be well acquainted
with student problem's before
they attend these meetings. Instead of
evading questions or saying "It needs
further study," they should develop definite
opinions andpresent in a straightforward
manner to the students.
If the student can be expected to be less
antagonistic toward the trustees, then
the trustees can treat us like adults, inexperienced
though we may be.
Whatever the superficial results of
Saturday's meeting may be, it was a good
second step down a path well worth
following, toward free and reasonable
communication between the students
and the policymakers.
Misunderstanding causes Title IX fears
Health, Education and Welfare Title
IX guidelines—what are they?
One thing they are not is Title "X" as
one Auburn Trustee Board member mistakenly
believes. Nor were they put out
by HUD as another expressed.
And although at least one dorm mother
implied that if President Philpott's
guidelines were approved it might mean
coed dormitories in the fall, this, too, is
part of the legend which has grown up
around Title IX.
The onslaught of ideas surrounding
the HEW ruling are sparked by
fear—fear of changing the status quo
and fear of the unknown. Since the majority
of students do not understand Title
IX and a correspondingly large number
have not bothered to investigate its
implications, rumors are rampant and
their inaccuracy frightening.
For example, a number of women submitted
a petition to the Board ofTrustees
voicing their opposition to coed dorms. In
his recommendations, Philpott stated
clearly that dormitories would besep-arate.
The students' action appears to have
been done at the urging of their housemother,
who told the women that the
meeting had been called for them to voice
their opinions on coed dorms.
Other women have expressed fear of
being forced into a dorm situation with
male visitation and no locks on the
doors—the "unsecure" dorm referred to
in Philpott's recommendations. What
they have failed to realize is that under
the recommendations, both women and
men would be able to make the choice of
whether they wanted to live in a secure
dorm (with locks on the doors and no
male visitation) or an unsecure dorm.
The idea of letting the student choose
what type of dorm he would like to live in
has considerable merit. It guarantees
rights to persons on both sides of the issue.
The plan also calls for parental approval
on dorm selection for those students
who are minors, which should help
relieve the fears of those students who believe
freshman women "would go wild."
CzechVfiery martyrdom shows freedom9s worth
Guest
Columnist 1
Rick
Halperin J
January 17, 1969, was a cloudy, overcast
and freezing day in Prague, Czechoslovakia.
I was with a group of other
American students, and we had just
placed a wreath at the foot of the major
statue in Wenceslas Square in memory of
the Czechs who had died resisting the
Russian invasion of their country in August,
1968.
We faced the national museum, whose
exterior had been shredded by tank fire
and machine-gun bullets; the faces of the
people in the trolleys coming* into the
square reflected the pensive sorrow of defeat,
the bitterness of once again having
lost their freedom to a foreign invader. It
was shortly past noon.
Suddenly, in the midst of a crowd directly
behind us, and no more than 10
feet away, a huge flame burst forth.
With instant expressions of horror frozen
on our faces, we witnessed the self-immolation
of a young Czech student,
literally dying in behalf of his country.
There was no screaming, no blood. The
intense heat from the gasoline which he
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had poured over himself made it virtually
impossible for anyone to get near
enough to help. Chunks of burning cloth
flew in all directions; eventually, in what
seemed like an eternity, some people offered
their frantic and futile aid to a palpable
shape of a human being who was
by now beyond all recognition.
To read about politically protesting
death is one matter; to witness it, and
have the image and seed forever planted
in one's mind is quite another thing. Jan
Palach, a 21-year-old philosophy major
at Charles University in Prague, died in
the name of, and for the cause of, human
freedom.
And so it is that seven years after his
death, in the 200th anniversary of our
country, I pa'ise a moment to reflect both
on the past yeai 's significance and on the
hopeful possibilities within 1976 of a-chieving
a greater degree of human
freedom for people around the world and
within the United States.
Arnold Toynbee, himself a believer in
orderly historical patterns, once remarked
that some historians hold the view
that history "is just one damned thing after
another." Support for what he called
the "antinomian" view, or "freedom
from law" view seemed to come in 1975.
One damned thing after another, indeed;
also one tragic, surprising and perplexing
thing after another. The alarms,
the assassinations, the political! reversals
and the extremist cries werequite
overwhelming. The common reaction "
"What a year!" followed quickly by
"What next?"
Abroad, the rush of action seemed
headlong and haphazard. There was
continued violence in Northern Ireland,
upheaval and high ranking death on the
Iberian Peninsula, kidnapping and violence
in Italy and Germany, and continued
tension and conflict in both the
Middle East and Indo-China. That's not
all. A new internal war in Africa has carried
over into this year, involving many
outside powers, including this country.
Around the world, inspired by mass
communications, tutored by the pioneering,
millions of people, want more of the
good life. They feel more frustrated when
affluence, equality and education are too
slowly achieved.
In this heated situation, old institutions
are too often archaic and unresponsive
to change.
Instead of plunging forward with history,
the Kremlin continues its fear of the
"disease" of freedom;, one need look no
further than the continuance of the degenerate
symbol of mankind, the Berlin
Wall. The Vatican continues its ban of
the pill, a stance which brings many concerned
and religious people into conflict
with their consciences on issues involving
social affairs.
Until recently, our own people had a
boundless faith in steady progress, a
growing sense of social justice, a belief
that federal cash would solve the nation's
remaining problems. Yet, this decade
which began with a quest for moral
grandeur, has bogged down in the effort
to keep society from exploding.
Gone is the idea that a big power can
safely fight a limited war against a small
power. Our vast New Dealish programs
have failed to cure poverty; civil rights
legislation has left all minorities more
frustrated than ever.
For all the American faith in universal
higher education, many of the nation's
brightest youths have rebelled
against mass schooling that seems to ignore
their burning questions: What is the
good life, the nature of justice, the remedy
for society's evils?
Whatever the issue or nation, something
loosely called the "establishment"
resists aspiration and innovation. The
global result is growing impatience with
old political processes; a desire for direct
action is inflaming minds and causing
almost daily clashes that defy law and logic.
Witness the violence of the PLO, the
IRA or our own SLA.
In the United States, 1975 found a
seeming national trend toward conservatism.
The solutions for social justice
are no nearer. Today's blaring headlines
convey a warning for 1976: the big news
is what isn't being done in a thousand little
ways.
For example, there is no longer any excuse
for the intolerable living conditions
of some of our citizens, and it is incomprehensible
how the courts' justice can be
applied with a whim depending on an
individual's financial status.
The mass of people fail to realize both
that the ability to change events lies in
their non-violent actions, and that their
inaction only perpetuates the existing
evils of society.
Non-violent action would include direct
participation in political and social
concerns, such as community work, volunteer
summer aid to the underprivileged,
and a keen sense of responsibility
for voting in all elections at every level,
federal, state and local.
This year, like every year, should be
one of constant activity in the name of
justice, morality and human decency. In
the United States, women, blacks, Indians,
students and all other minorities
should come to recognize that their
plight is interwoven.
Instead of harping on devisive secondary
characteristics of sex, race, ethnic
background, etc., these groups should
unite in a common plea for benefits for
themselves, solely because they are individuals,
equal with all others by the very
fact of their existence.
Freedom is the right of every individual
to exercise his faculties as he will; its
rule is justice, its limits are the rights of
others, its source is nature, and its guarantee
is the law of morality. The hope of
moral reformation in the name of human
freedom therefore lies in the people,
whose sovereignty is one and indivisible,
and inalienable.
There are various ways of looking at
history: as fate, as chance, as an opponent
to be outwitted or a force from
which to hide. Americans treat it, at least
in part, as a problem to be mastered.
The words come back to haunt: "American,
where are you now, don't you care
about your sons and daughters? Don't
you know we need you now?" Call it pride
or pragmatism, on this fundamental belief
the United States was founded and
still stands—that people, as Jan Palach
was on one fateful day, need not be victims.
For those other students, who are of legal
age, it seems wrong to deny their
right to decide which type dorm they
would like to live in. Even within an
"unsecure" dorm there would be parameters
limiting the hours of visitation.
Visitation would not mean all night male
or female visitors, unless, as it is some-.
times seen now in Auburn's "secure"
dorms, a man is in the room illegally and
a roommate fails to protest.
One provision of Philpott's recommendations
called for women in a secure
dorm to make their own rules aside
from changing the dorm to an unsecure
one. This would mean no visitation or
unlocked doors.
Some other ideas held by many is that
the guidelines will abolish fraternities
and sororities and that men and women
will have to share the same bathroom.
Fraternities and sororities were specifically
exempted under Title IX, meaning
they will not be changed or forced to integrate.
As for sharing a bathroom with a
member of the opposite sex, those persons
suggesting such an idea must delight
in the scare it gives others. Such a
measure was never the intent of Title IX.
In reply to a letter received by The
Plainsman following a large section on
the HEW guidelines in the fall, I do not
believe I am alone in saying that the
HEW guidelines are not a plot to destroy
the white race either.
If there is widespread opposition to Title
IX, it should be aimed more toward
areas such as the forced integration of
male and female organizations designed
specifically for members of one sex.
Title IX should have the greatest impact
on the school system since the beginning
of desegregation. And despite
the absurdities told about it, the misunderstanding
of it and the probable failure
of those making the decisions regarding
Title IX to even read the guidelines
thoroughly, it still has its merits.
In blocking Philpott's recommendations,
the Board was rejecting a
considerable amount of work and study
by Philpott's legal advisors and others.
Much like Wallace once stood blocking
the door at Tuscaloosa, Wallace's Board
of Trustees is blocking the door at Auburn.
Unless the Board acts within the
next six months and its' action is approved
by HEW, Auburn University is
liable to lose federal funding. Trustee
Walston Hester and possible others, however,
would prefer going through the
courts rather than changing University
policy.
At the trustee-student meeting Saturday
it appeared that many of the viewpoints
of the trustees stemmed from a
lack of information and research on their
part. But their lack of knowledge is not isolated.
Most students at the trustee meeting
aside from members of the SGA,
came to listen only.
In a journalism class with students
who are supposed to express the most interest
in current issues, only three persons
even had a vague idea of what Title
IX pertained to.
We are a university of students, faculty
and yes, even trustees, unfamiliar
with the problems which face us, telling
jokes and evading questions or questioning.
If we do not improve, our plight will
be a sorry one.
Tickets,..
Don't giveBama fans our seats
Editor, The Plainsman:
Since when do we turn Auburn students
away from a home basketball
game to let an Alabama fan sit in the Auburn
student section? Isn't it bad enough
that a certain number of our students
cannot go to the game because of the
limited-seating policy? Do some A.U. students
have to make the problem worse by
furnishing their friends from the other
schools the precious student tickets,
making even more A.U. students sit at
home and listen to the game on the radio?
I say if they want to see the game
they can sit in the guest section like they
are supposed to.
It really did upset me that there were so
many Alabama students in our student
section. I could have croaked !!! I know
not having them there probably wouldn't
have changed the score, but it would
have let some of my friends that had to
sit at home come and watch.
Sure the NCAA tells us to be courteous
to the visiting fans, treating them as
our guests; but where does it say giving
them our tickets constitutes courtesy? I
pay a student activity fee so that I can
have my ticket and I'll be damned if I
want to give it up to someone from
another school.
When Alabama students or students
from any other school start paying student
activity fees, then we can let them
have our tickets . Until then, I say, let
them pay and sit in the guest section
where the guests are supposed to sit; or
better yet, next to the radio like lots of Auburn
students!
Name Withheld By Request
Fans want more student tickets
Editor, The Plainsman:
We would like to register a complaint
about the new student basketball ticket
system. Why does the student body only
get 6000 tickets when we were the very
ones that cheered the team to their good
home record? There are a few of us that
stuck with Auburn during their bad
years and now it is nearly impossible to
get tickets for all the "instant fans" that
always seem to appear with a winning
team.
Classes and labs make it hard to get
tickets under the new system. A new
.system needs to be developed or better
yet, go back to the old system. Why
was the new system developed? The 6000
tickets is less than half of the Coliseum's
capacity. More tickets need to be delegated
to the students.
We have talked with many students
who feel the same as we do and we don't
think Coach Davis wants the student to
turn turn sour toward the team just because
they can't attend the games. Something
needs to be done!
FO 440 class
Terry Pickard 4FY
Gary Chandler 4FY
John I^oflin 4FY
Ticket leaks should be closed
Editor, The Plainsman:
In a column about basketball tickets
written by Bill Lumpkin of the Birmingham
Post-Herald, Sports Information Director
Buddy Davidson states that, "If
you don't have a ticket, don't come down,
as we are already sold out."
What Mr. Davidson should have said
was if you don't have a ticket, go to the
[Vulcan Ticket Office at 3rd Av. and 20th
St. North in Birmingham, Ala., and you
can get all you want at $4.00 apiece.
Fantastic? It's true—that's what I did
last week. I walked into the ticket office
and asked if I could get two-tickets to the
Alabama-Auburn game. The agent told
me that I could get two or two hundred
and two, how many did I want? I settled
for six at $4.00 apiece (as you know, $1 over
regular price). These ticket numbers
start at Portal 11, Section 23, Seat no. 3.
Well, enough of my rambling. Tell
Coach Hayley, Mr. Davidson, Mr. Beck-with,
and other members of the Athletic
Department to close the ticket leaks and
we won't have to go to private organizations
to get tickets at inflated prices.
J.W. Watkins
119 Cotton Av.SW
Birmingham, AL.
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Wants fans
to behave
Editor, The Plainsman:
As an Auburn student and an avid
basketball fan, I resented the reactions of
'several spectators to certain calls made
by the referees during the Alabama game
last Saturday. Naturally, there were
some bad calls, but that does not justify
throwing objects onto the court. I'm all
for verbal disapproval, but I can't see
what throwing ice and paper on the floor
will accomplish.
Perhaps the guilty party wanted a
player or referee to slip on the ice.
Maybe they enjoyed making Jimmy
Ray Loyless or Eddie Johnson clean up
the court.
This type of reaction serves no purpose
other than obstructing the progress
of the game. Therefore, we should let our
indignation be heard, not seen on the
floor of Memorial Coliseum.
Patricia McArthur
2GJM,
by Garry Trudeau
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Haley Center
Phantom has
struck again
Editor, The Plainsman
Last fall quarter, a funny thing happened
to me. While studying for finals in
one of the classrooms in Haley Center, I-decided
to go downstairs for some candy.
I was perfectly unaware of what was
taking place upstairs while I was gone.
You can imagine my dismay upon finding,
as I returned to my room, that the
lights had been turned out, and the door
locked.
There I was, my face pressed to the
window, candy in hand and finals impending.
After thirty minutes of frantically
zigzagging through the corridors,
appealing to each nearby maintenance
engineer but failing to impress any, I returned
too tired to kick the door in.
I was mad. Now thoroughly desperate,
I appealed more urgently. No use, it
seemed no-man's quadrant. But
eureka!—there were my books, pens, and
lecture notes balanced carefully atop the
ashtray beside the door. I left Haley Center
mystified with these questions on my
mind: who is this elusive door-locking
phantom? Who sent him, and why? Do
not go into Haley Center after dark. The
halls are well lighted, but the rooms are
not.
Les Thompson
2GPG
pageS -Thura., Jan IS, 1976 T H E AUBURN PUWSMMI
Letters
Defends the language
Editor, The Plainsman:
I don't know why I'm answering the
"no more Spanish" letter in last week's
Plainsman: "Name Withheld" sounds
more like a bad student than anyone
with a legitimate complaint. But, unfortunately,
"Withheld" is not the only Auburn
student who feels this way, and as a
Journalism-Spanish major, I feel compelled
to reply.
(1) Anyone who waits until the "last
few weeks" of the quarter to start studying
any subject is either a genius or a
fool. I tend toward the latter view. Perhaps
if the writer had started studying at
the beginning of the quarter he would not
have had so much trouble.
(2) In five quarters at Auburn, I have
never had classes better organized or presented
with more concern for the students'
abilities than in Spanish. Perhaps
the writer merely learned haphazardly.
(3) If "Withheld" tried to order a taco in
a Spanish restaurant he would be laughed
out of the country. Tacos are strictly
Latin American. Perhaps if the writer
had paid attention in class he would
have learned the difference.(4) Anyone
who has been to three different colleges,
taken Spanish classes in all of them, and
is stilll having difficulty in basic-level
courses, deserves whatever he gets.
(5) Foreign language teaches more
about English than any advanced English
class ever could. You not only
have to learn the rules of grammar, but
also how to apply them and how to make
their correct use natural. As one
whose career will depend on my command
of the English language, I can say
that all the journalism and composition
classes I've taken haven't helped as
much as studying Spanish.'
In conclusion, "Withheld" sounds to
me like a frustrated student who is failing
at foreign language through his or
her own efforts, or lack of same. College
is a place for learning, it a person is unwilling
to apply himself to learning, he
has no business taking up valuable
space. And he should not be so blind as to
blame other people for his own failures.
Lisa Harris
3LJM
Students blamed for burglaries
Editor, The Plainsman:
Mr. Steele's article in last week's
Plainsman concerning the Christmas
burglaries was excellent. The problem
presented is a large one. I would like to
express my feelings on the matter. The
people who returned from Christmas
break to find their possessions stolen
have no reason to complain...since they
contributed to the crime.
Last winter quarter (1975), I sent letters
to every fraternity and sorority president,
every dorm mother, and had articles
published in the paper concerning a
way to at least partially solve the problem.
The War Eagle Crime Watch, a
joint project involving the Auburn
Police, Campus Police, and the LAE
Criminal Justice Fraternity, was offered
free of charge to the Auburn community.
The project was two-fold: (1) items of
value would be marked with a special
identification number that would be recorded
and filed for later identification of
stolen property, and (2) the updating of
security measures, i.e. how to burglar-proof
your residence.
The letters went unanswered. Everyone
wanted to complain but few wanted
to act. Student apathy was almost unbelievable,
and this very apathy and lax
attitude is what encourages people to
commit crime. (In one instance, the burglars
walked in and out the front door of
a frat house in broad daylight with some
residents still inside. Pretty daring until
you realize how easy it is.)
One person interviewed even went so
far as to shift the responsibility to the Auburn
Police. Had the person himself taken
certain precautions, his property
might never have been stolen. Instead, he
suggests the Auburn Police are not doing
their job. Pity! If he knew the Auburn
Police as I did, he would realize that they
are a dedicated group of individuals who
strive to do their best, often under adverse
circumstances.
I would like to reiterate here to this per-.
son, the students at Auburn, and residents
everywhere, the ultimate responsibility
for the protection of your property
lies with you.
I conclude with this question—"Will
you act now to prevent this from happening
again ?"
Dell Spry
President LAE Criminal
Justice Fraternity
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Cissy likes doing her part
'I WANTA PLAY LIKE THAT'
... Cissy decided she wanted to play trombone when she was eight years old.
Photo by Dyke Helms
By Sue Steele
Plainsman Staff Writer
There are some unusual
sights on the Auburn campus.
Cissy, Grooms is one
in particular. With trombone
in hand she travels barefoot
to the baseball field daily for
band practice.
Cissy is the only female in
the 32 member trombone section
of the Auburn University
Marching Band. The last
girl to play trombone for Auburn
left ten years ago.
Cissy never thought female
trombone players were
unusual until she was in the
tenth grade and a visiting
high school band came to her
hometown, Owen's Crossroads,
Ala., without a single
female trombonist.
Throughout elementary
and high school, Cissy had always
held the prestigious first
chair position in an all female
trombone section.
Why did Cissy start playing
trombone? She doesn't
know exactly but it's always
been her dream. Her sister,
Pam Grooms, remembers
when 8-year-old Cissy, after
an impressive trombone solo,
exclaimed, "I wanta play like
that."
Bishop works spinning discs
By Mary McCord
Plainsman Staff Writer
Some students wake up to a-larm
clocks ringing in their
ears. Others awaken to the
poking and grumbling of a
roommate. And some wakeMp
to music and Skip Bishop, the
early morning disc jockey of
radio station WEGL.
"This is Skip Bishop, your
song and dance man, reminding
you it's Thursday, Jan. 15','
said the six-foot, slender
blond into the microphone
during his six to eight a.m.
show.
Bishop, a native of Virginia
who calls Gulf Shores
home, said he usually spends
three hours a day at the
station preparing his shows.
His salary is minimal—
sometimes averaging
only $1 an hour.
He also has a Monday
through Friday nightly news
program called "Night Stories."
This is an off-beat news
show featuring unusual news
of today.
He swivels in his chair from
the panel covered with knobs
and buttons to change the records
on the two turntables at
the side.
"After a while you aren't
concerned with the mechanics
and become more concerned
with the artistic quality
of blending the music,"
said Bishop. He said he attempts
to make selections
that seem to go together because
he wants each song to
flow into the next.
Bishop said he tries to keep
his individual personality
separate from his radio
personality (hiring a program.
"If I didii't do this, then
it would be just two hours of
me rather than good music
and entertainment," which is
what he wants to provide.
A light flashes, indicating a
phone call, and Bishop answers
the phone.
'"Oh, Lonesome Me'. Sit
tight. It's coming up soon,"
said the blue-jeaned, 22-year-old
Bishop into the receiver.
Bishop explained that the
station receives a large number
of calls. Many are from
people requesting particular
songs.
He said disc jockies really
want people to call in because
they want to know what the
listeners would like to hear.
He said they sometimes receive
calls which are highly
critical and these are welcome
as well.
"I'm still new at this," he
said, although he has worked
at the station for more than a
year. He said he likes to keep
in mind his audience and the
time of day when selecting
music.
Bishop,4GSC, commented
that he wants to work in some
phase of broadcasting and is
also interested in education.
"I don't want to work really
hard at a job I don't like," he
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interested in it, then I don't
mind working hard."
Bishop's face is framed by
shoulder-length, curly—just
short of being frizzy—hair.
"I wear my hair long because
I think it looks best on
me this way," he said. "I cut it
sometimes but I always let it
grow back out."
Bishop said his full name is
Curtis Vance Bishop III. He
described Skip as being a
shortened variation of the
nickname "Skipper" hung on
him during childhood.
"It's eight minutes until
news and I don't see a newsman,"
Bishop said, the tone of
his voice changing slightly.
Several minutes passed. "I
may have to be the newsman
this morning," he added, raising
his eyebrows up to the rim
of his glasses.
He left the room, practically
at a run, and returned a minute
later with copy torn from
the teletype. He read it hurriedly
and then went on the
air.
He faltered over a couple of
words, but it was hardly noticeable
as he strengthened his
voice and continued.
"I have Monday mouth," he
later said. "It's a disease in
this business."
The newsman came in during
the newscast. When
Bishop finished, he went into
the next room and, in a boxer
stance, good-naturedly faked
punches at the tardy newsman.
A coed came in to prepare
for a short recipe show, bringing
with her a book of riddles.
"Ah..." Bishop sighed.
"Colonel Knowledge knows
all. Ask me anything," he
said to the woman, widening
his gray-blue eyes.
"What's the best way to
catch a fish?" she asked.
"Have someone throw it to
you," he answered correctly.
Skip was consistently correct
in answering the standard,
corny riddles and the two decide
to read some on the air.
"When I introduce you, be
sure and call me 'the infamous
Colonel Knowledge"'
he instructed her several
times.
"Wait a minute," he said,
peering over her shoulder at
the book. "I want to be sure
and get this one right."
"If I blow this," Bishop
said, "don't put it in your article.
I don't want to be cited
as a loser," he chuckled.
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The next year Cissy joined
the beginner's elementary
band. Measured side by side,
her trombone used to hit her
just above eyebrow level.
"I was one of the shortest
girls in my class when I first
began playing and my trombone
swallowed me."
Coming to Auburn was a
big step for Cissy. One of her
goals in life since fifth grade
was to play trombone in the
Auburn Marching Band. "I
had always come to football
games with my dad each fall
hoping to catch a glimpse of
the halftime show rather than
the game."
Cissy began at Auburn during
summer quarter to get a
head start before band .auditions.
She realized her
chances were slim for the nine
trombone spaces sought by 17
tryouts.
"I didn't sleep for two weeks
before tryouts," she said said.
"I was so scared to auditon
that I was afraid I'd forget my
name."
But Cissy got the job and
Dr. Billy Walls, band director
and a trombonist himself,
says that talent was the sole
reason for her selection.
Her first days as a "freshmen
band rat" were unforget-able.
Freshmen were traditionally
initiated into the
band by the harrassment of
upper classmen. One time
while the band was being
filmed by a Birmingham television
station, "Doc" Walls
and the trombonists played a
joke on Cissy.
She said, "One guy happened
to be talking to me
while he was resting on one
knee. Before I knew it, 'Doc'
had made all 31 players kneel
and face me saying in unison,
'Cissy, you are the most
beautiful girl we've ever seen.'
I was so embarrassed, especially
when I discovered
that the cameraman was filming
the whole thing."
"Doc," , as his band family
named him, calls Cissy the
moral builder of the horn section.
During her first year, she
was singled out right away as
the little sister of the brass instruments
requiring her skills
from cake decorating to dutch
treat dating. She began dating
the section leader; now
she says "we're all just buddies."
Cissy considered all the sacrifices
before she tried out
for the band.
"I realized that I'd be dateless,
melting in a wool uniform
with my hair hidden under
my hat, while other girls
would be sitting with all the
great looking guys in the
stands," she said.
But, she said, the prestige
and thrill of playing before
more audiences than any
other Southeastern Conference
member band outweighed
the disadvantages.
Cissy Grooms could easily
be mistaken for a majorette
instead of a ' horn player.
Without the disquise of her
uniform, she is a shapely 5'4"
with light brown hair and
eyes to match. Within her
masculine enviroment , she
retains her feminine identity.
She loves to surrprise "the
guys" by coming to band
practice prepared to march in
a dress.
Cissy's favorite expression,
"golly gee," will often
slip out in her country drawl.
She loves to listen to good
music, eat any and all foods,
and play softball. Her favorite
evening consists of watching
any kind of sports event.
Although she gives up dates
to football games, she makes
up for it by dating some of the
players themselves afterwards.
Cissy said she plans to complete
a degree in Occupational
Therapy and work with
handicapped people. She said
her relationship with God
through Jesus Christ is the
most important aspect of her
life., When she's close to him,
she said, everything turns
out alright; but when she's
not, She'll remind herself,
"guess who moved."
Now that the thrill of her
initiation into the horn section
has passed, she is a bona
fide member of the "Band
Family."
"Doc" can't scold the trombone
section for playing like
"sissies" anymore now that a
new Cissy has been added to
the group. Although the horn
section may ha^-a felt
threatened by her presence
at first, they now seem to
agree with trombonist Dan
Pitts. "You know, when Cissy
came, I really didn't like
the idea of having a girl in the
trombone section," he said,
"But now I'm glad she's
here."
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Little Theatre to become chapel
AUBURN LITTLE THEATRE CHANGES APPEARANCE AND CHARACTER
...Renovations will be from theatrical to religious
Photo by Dan Doughtie
By Margaret Brown
Plainsman Staff Writer
The small structure on the
corner of Thach Avenue and
College Street commonly
known to students as the Auburn
Little Theatre is now
undergoing renovations
which will change its character
from theatrical to religious,
with the remodeling expected
to be completed during
spring quarter.
When completed, the building
will be used as a non-denominational
chapel available
to students for religious
services, including weddings.
Storage areas will be
a v ailable so that articles used
in different religious services
may be stored on the premises.
The work on the building is
not meant to modernize it but
to keep it in its original state.
Using slave labor of plantation
owner Edwin Reese, the
original building was completed
in 1851. The structure
is the oldest public building in
Auburn, and once housed the
Auburn Presbyterian
Church.
Although equipped with
such modern conveniences as
air conditioning, heating and
carpeting, the chapel will
retain its rustic character.
The exterior will feature a
completely walled garden
with brick paved walks.
Benches, planters and a
bricked patio for outside activities
will decorate the garden.
Seclusion from more modern
structures will be helped
by the walls and by shutters
on the chapel windows.
Lighting and landscaping
for the chapel will be in keeping
with the old-fashioned setting.
John Robinson of the
Horticulture Department will
supervise the landscaping
plans.
A full steeple, a replica of
the original, will accent the
building. A post card picturing
the original steeple was
found among the heirlooms of
the Reese family and served
as the model. A concrete base
will stabilize the steeple
against high winds.
The interior will feature an
open roof exposing the old
wooden framework. The off-center
aisle will lead to a
draped altar which can be
closed when not in use. A lectern
for sermons, a balcony
for a choir or extra seating,
and an organ recess for a pipe
organ are also included in the
plans.
Professor Nick Davis of the
School of Architecture and
Fine Arts did the preliminary
planning. The overall- renovation
is being handled by a
firm from Montgomery.
If completed by the end of
spring quarter, a dedication
service will be held at that
time. No definite date for completion
has been set.
Petition opposes co-ed dorms
By Jackie Romine
Plainsman Staff Writer
A petition opposing coed
dormitories, as a result of
Title IX, was presented to the
Auburn University Board of
Trustees Saturday by Pam
Neidert, 1VA, president of
Dorm 6.
The idea for the petition
evolvedafter a dorm meeting,
according to Neidert. Wynell
McLain, house mother for
Dorm 6, urged the women to
go to the Board meeting to
express their opinions.
The future possibilities
mentioned by McLain,
including nonsecurity dorms
and men living in separate
dorms on the Hill or the Quad,
motivated concern among the
women.
McLain said she specifically
did not mention coed
dormitories at the dorm
meeting.
According to Neidert, "Lot
of the Board members, I
think.have the opinion that
the girls want coed dorms."
Wallace to speak here
Gov. George C. Wallace will
be the speaker for the Governor's
luncheon during the
1976 Alabama Highway Engineering
and Construction
Conference in Auburn Feb. 2-
4.
Joining the governor as
opening day speakers for the
conference will be Lester
Lamb of Washington, executive
director of the Federal
Highway Administration,
and State Sen. C.C. "Bo""
Torbert of Opelika.
The conference will be
directed toward state highway
department personnel,
roadbuilding contractors,
general contractors, heavy
construction engineers, county
engineers and university
faculty members.
Conference sponsors include
the Alabama Highway
Department, the Federal
Highway Administration, the
Association of County Engineers,
the Alabama Road
Builders' Association and the
Auburn University Civil Engineering
Department. The Auburn
University Engineering
Extension Service will conduct
the conference. All sessions
will be held in the
JoVonn Hotel.
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The Board thinks, Neidert
added, "The guys want coed
dorms; they want non-security;
they want' complete
freedom."
"It's just because the others
are the ones speaking up, so
we decided we were going to
say our piece, too,"Neidert
said.
Most of the women who
signed the petition were
freshmen, according to
Neidert.
"That's another reason
why the girls are really
interested in what's happening,
because they are
freshmen. They're going to be
here four more years,"
Neidert said.
"It's not so much what
they're proposing to do this
coming year, it is what is
going to happen in two years
and in three years,"Nei(Jert
said.
"We've chosen this school,
Auburn, because it's set up
this way and we don't want it
changed," Neidert concluded.
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THE AUBURN PUINSMMI T„urg., Jan. 15t 1976 pages
Little change
seen over
100 years
By Betsy Butgereit
Plainsman Staff Writer
One might imagine that 100
years ago the public would
have different concerns than
it does now. However, 100
years ago, in 1876 the topics
most on people's minds were
women's rights, China, the
upcoming national Centennial
and the economy.
In New York, a woman
donned a pair of pants to look
for her husband. She found
her husband all right, but the
police found her pants to be
all wrong. She was fined $10
for wearing pants in public.
Britain was carrying on de'
icate negotiations with Ch>
na concerning foreign policj
On Oct. 18, 1875, China if
sued a public edict declaring
that foreigners had the right
to travel in its interior. This
was a major change in their
policy.
Meanwhile, the United
States still forbade Chinese
women to immigrate.
Here in the United States
people were preparing for the
Centennial. The huge Centennial
exhibition, held at
Philadelphia, required much
preparation.
Mammoth sections of California
redwoods were shipped
across the nation. Art
pieces from across the country
were collected by a special
committee in Philadelphia.
Many public figures visited
the projected exhibition site
and commented favorably on
the work that was being done.
The biggest news a century
ago was the Ohio gubernatorial
race between Republican'
Rutherford B. Hayes and Democratic
incumbant William
Allen. Stories concerning the
race appeared in every newspaper
in the country.
The campaign was a fierce
one, centered around the economy.
Hayes advocated
streamlined finances while
Allen was accused of being an
inflationist.
Much to the shock of the
Democratic party, the "radical"
Hayes won the election.
The New York Times
termed it "the triumph of honesty
over a base attempt to
break the public faith and sully-
the-national honor."
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even though they don't desire
it. "I think we are fooling ourselves
if we think we can indefinitely
sustain a dual-type
system."
Philpott's reply was that
"there are still plenty of
people who want the secure
dormitories and regulations
that we have had."
"My own prediction is that
subsequently, at least for a
couple of years, I don't anticipate
much change from our
present situation. I still think
that most of the mommas and
papas are going to prefer to
have secure housing for their
daughters," Philpott said.
Board chairman Bamberg
ended the discussion by saying,
"I don't think we ought to
experiment with the boys and
girls who come to this institution."
Trustee Steagall suggested
that further efforts be made to '
modify Philpott's proposals.
"We will not stop," Philpott
said. "We will have to continue
this. . .the issue has
not been laid to rest. It will inevitably
come back to be dealt
with. This represents the best
thing we were able to work
out, but we'll get back to work
and try to find something
else."
Bamberg later appointed a
committee of Trustees Steagall,
Harris, and Teague to
work with the University on a
new set of proposals. Thecom-mittee
met after Plainsman
deadline Wednesday with
SGA President Bert Young
and Dr. Harold Grant, secretary
of the University's Title
IX guidelines coordinating
committee.
The proposal on athletics
passed unanimously after
Steagall asked that a trustee
be placed on the committee
which will nominate candidates
for the new assistant
athletic director post.
The athletic proposals allow
the new assistant athletic
director to assemble candidates
for positons in coaching,
publicity, training, equipment
management, and clerical
assistance for the women's
athletic program. The
staff is scheduled to be employed
by the opening of fall
quarter, 1976.
A woman student will be
appointed to the University
Athletic committee, and office
space and training facilities
will be provided for women
in the Coliseum.
The proposals did not call
for action about grants-in-aid
for women student athletes,
because the NCAA convention
now in progress is considering
grants-in-aid proposals
for men's athletics,
and their decisions could affect
the awarding of scholarships
to female athletes.
The deadline for compliance
in athletics is July 21,
1976.
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List released for forum credit events
A partial list of events designated
for forum credit has
been released by the Political
Science Department, Haley
Center 7080.
On Jan. 22, "Contax" (The
Consumer Tax-Payer Plan)
will be presented by Robert
Morrison in coordination
with the School of Business.
The program will be in Thach
Auditorium at 10 a.m.
Athletic chairman resigns
Follow the bouncing ball
"NFL Follies," one of two films in the University
Program Council's trial videotape program, was
viewed by the brothers of Farmhouse fraternity. The
film is a collection of some of the most humorous mistakes
and violent collisions of professional football.
The program and the concept have met with favorable
response all across campus, according to Ann Wilson,
assistant program director of UPC. Possible future
topics for videotape presentation are movies, lectures
and sports shows.
Photo by Grant Castleberry
Prospective teachers face jobless future
The U.S. Department of
Labor expects prospective
teachers in elementary and
secondary education to face
tough competition through
the mid 1980s, while employment
opportunities for engineering
graduates continue to
bo favorable.
. The supply of teachers will
greatly exceed the number of
available positions if patterns
of entry and re-entry
into the teaching profession
continue in line with past
trends, according to the report.
Enrollment in schools is the
basic factor that determines
the need for teachers. According
to the U.S. Office of
Education, the current downward
enrollment trend will
probably level off in 1977,
then rise again by 1985. The
increase in enrollment will
then create additional teaching
positions.
Until 1985, most teaching
positions will only be available
to replace deceased and
retired teachers or those who
have left the profession for
other reasons.
While demand for teachers
is leveling off, the number of
qualified graduates will grow
rapidly, and some teachers
may want to re-enter the profession.
So, a large proportion
of prospective teachers
will have to consider other
professions.
Even though the teacher
job market is highly competitive,
a recent survey found
continuing teacher shortages
in mathematics, industrial
arts, special education, and
some vocational-technical
subjects.
Associate Agriculture
Dean Charles F. Simmons is
resigning his duties as chairman
of the athletic committee,
according to Auburn President
Harry M. Philpott.
Philpott announced that
Dr. Wilfdrd S. Bailey of theDe-
Delta Nu Alpha
hosts speakers
on transportation
Delta Nu Alpha, the organization
which promotes
an awareness in the transportation
industry, will host
two speakers on transportation.
William Coleman, representative
of the Interstate
Commerce Commission of the
Birmingham Office, will
speak on "Deregulation in
Transportation." And
Frank Atkins, Department
of Transportation-Birmingham
Office, will speak on
"Field Functions of Department
of Transportation."
The speeches will be presented
on Jan. 20,7p.m. at 203
Auburn Union.
The presentation is open to
the general public.
partment of Pathology and
Parasitology will succeed Dr.
Simmons as athletic committee
chairman. Bailey accompanied
Philpott, athletic director
Lee Hayley, head football
coach Doug Barfield and
the assistant coaches to the
NCAA winter meeting in St.
Louis this week.
Simmons served as the fifth
faculty athletic committee
chairman in the history of Au-.
burn sports. The first was
Dean Cliff Hare, who served
in 1919-23 and 1930-40.
"Dean Simmons has
served as chairman of the
athletic committee for the
past eight years, and has
made significant contributions
to the committee's work
since his appointment to the
committee in 1950," said
Philp\>tt. "Working closely
with AU's presidents and athletic
directors, Dean Simmons
has been a key person in
advancing the University's
athletic fortunes.
"We are going to miss Dean
Simmons' guidance and wisdom
on the athletic committee,"
continued Philpott. "At
the same time, I know from
previous association with Dr.
Bailey that he will serve Auburn
well as athletic committee
chairman."
"1776" will be presented
Jan. 27 by the Columbia.
Artists in Memorial Coliseum
at 8 p.m.
A Gospel Caravan will be
given by Alabama College
Choruses in coordination
with the Afro-American
Association. This event is
scheduled for Feb. 8, at 3 p.m.
in the Union Ballroom.
In association with
•Performing Arts Committee
and the Afro-American
Association, "Festival Africa,"
will be presented by the
African Arts Ensemble at 8
p.m., Feb. 8, in the
UnionnBallroom.
Dr. Lawrence Kohlberg, on
the faculty of Harvard
University, will give two lectures
on Monday, Feb. 23 in
the Union Ballroom. The lectures
are scheduled for 1:30
and 7 p.m.
On March 4, an Americana-
Jazz Concert will be
given by the Maynard Ferguson
Band in coordination
with the Performing Arts
Committee. The concert will
be at 8 p.m.in Memorial Coliseum.
Student grant deadline
Today is the last day undergraduate,
students can apply
for grants under the Alabama
Student Assistance
Program, according to Financial
Aid Director Charles
B. Roberts, chairman of the
statewide program.
A bill enacted during the recent
special session of the
legislature established the
program which, with federal
matching funds, will provide
$600,000 in grants to students
who are Alabama residents
and attending Alabama
colleges and universities,
according to Roberts.
Grants for the last half of
the academic year will be
$150, Roberts stated, with
full-time students receiving
first prioity and half-time students
to be considered on a
funds-available basis.
"Students attending Auburn
University should send
their applications to me so our
office can attach a copy of
needs analysis to forward to
the commission in Montgomery,"
Roberts said.
"Others may apply through
their respective financial aid
offices."
Applicants must be
registered in an undergraduate
degree or certificate
program, Roberts pointed out.
Women's workshop set
Give a hoot!
Pont pollute.
An assertiveness training
workshop for women will be
held in the Auburn University
Union Building Jan. 23-
24 and in AUM's Goodwyn
Building Jan. 30-31.
The workshop is designed
to help women develop skills
needed to adequately express
their feelings and opinions in
personal and professional
situations. Included are lectures,
group experiences and
behavior rehearsal.
Registration at the Union
Building and the Goodwyn
Building from 6:30-7 will continue
through the Jan. 21
deadline. The fee, which includes
Saturday meals, is $35
at AU and $30 at
AUM. Workshop leaders are
Ruth Ann Lyman, a clinical
psychologist with the University
of Alabama College of
Community Health Sciences,
and Mary Jo Brazelton, a
counselor at the University of
Alabama Counseling Center.
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Perspectivei '76 - Monday at 8:00 p.m. a look at events, issues
and ideas affecting the University community.
FEMININE PORTRAIT-THE RIGHT TO BE —Tuesday at 8:00 p.m.
Discovering the world of woman, with an emphasis on the life of
the Auburn woman.
OPTIONS I- Wednesday, 8:00 pm.m an information magazine
program produced by National Public Radio.
DIMENSIONS - Thursday at 8:00 p.m. a variety of topics are explored
by Auburn students.
AUBURN TONITE - Each weekday at 6:00 p.m., the WEGl News
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page 11 Thurs., Jan. 15, 1976 THE AUBURN PUiNSMMI
PLEADS OR PRAYERS FROM VOL COACH?
...Tennessee assistant falls to his knees in last year's battle
Background Photo by Dan Doughtie
Hopes, fans, cheers and bands
WACTION
if Mitchell wants to go, he'll go. I hope they don't. 1 hope they
stay long enough to build Auburn to national contention. The
Tigers are not far away. All Davis needs is a strong, tall pivot
man and another guard in Johnson's class.
- Cops ore stupid
By Mike Jackson
Sports Editor
Auburn seniors' hope, the basketball team. "I live and die
with that basketball team," I heard a girl say in class the other
day. "I hope they don't fail me." "Why do you like basketball so
much," a girl sitting next to her said. "After what the football
team did...'Oh, I understand ."
A lot of hopes rest on the Auburn basketball team. Many
people envision a conference championship, a bid to either the
NCAA or NIT tournament, an Ail-American guard and a
Coach of the Year.
Lofty expectations for any team, especially a young team, to
uphold. But Auburn has survived. They haven't received any
national recognition. They are in neither the AP or UPI top 20,
but they have battled Duke, North Carolina State and Alabama.
The only bad performance of the season has come
against Duke; Auburn has played well in every other game.
Toss out the North Carolina St. game and the Alabama game,
both called "chokes" by a lot of people. State was helped immeasurably
by the referees. I didn't go; I have no first hand
knowledge, but reports from very objective writers and announcers
indicate that the Tigers did in indeed receive the proverbial
shaft.
The Alabama game was probably lost in the first 10 minutes
of the second half. Still The Alabama game was probably
lost in the first 10 minutes of the second half but Auburn lost its
11 point lead against Alabama when it shifted into a sagging
zone defense around Leon Douglas. The zone enabled Rickey
Jones and Reginald King to take eight to 10 foot chip shots.
And Auburn caught up when Davis switched defenses again;
but making up 10 points in 10 minutes against a good team is
too much to ask.
Regardless of the Alabama game, Auburn is a good basketball
team. They can stay on the court with any team in the nation,
barring none.
True, they almost blew their last game against Mississippi
State but State is no slouch team. They are very rough and aggressive
on the boards and they have a fine freshman, Gary
Hooker. Hooker may be another Mike Mitchell or Bernard King
with some development. State already beat Kentucky in Stark-ville
and they will beat others. I can't blame Bob Davis for saying
he doesn't look forward to going to State. Auburn may very
well get beat by State.
But Auburn is improved. They will not get blown off the court
like they did last year at Lexington, Ky., losing to the Wildcats
by 44 points. Eddie Johnson is more of a team player than ever
before and he recognizes when he should pass and when he
should shoot. Still, Johnson is learning. The whole team is
learning. Davis's offense is very complicated. Prior to the season,
he commented that Mitchell, Bracy and Pietkiewicz had
just learned the basic offensive patterns and were just ready to
begin learning the rest of his offense and defense.
Defensively is where the Tigers need the most improvement.
Most of them play good individual defense; Wayne Bracy plays
great defense. But they still need to learn to play team defense.
No one questions Auburn's offense prowess; just as no one recognizes
the Tigers as being a great defensive team. Mike Mitchell
admitted his need to concentrate on his defense. "My offensive
game is set; I really --need to get to work playing defense,
"he said.
Turning away from the basketball team and to the crowd, Auburn's
basketball fans are great. They get excited; they are
vocal; they give at least 10 points of encouragement to the team.
But they are also stupid. Cups on the floor may be cute to
some people but they are dangerous for both teams. The objects
are directed at the referees but if a player hit one of the cups
or a piece of ice going full or even half speed, he would slip and
his natural reflex action would be to instantly correct his falling
rather than just relaxing. That could cause torn ligaments,
sprained ankles and knees and hip pointers. The danger ia not
slight. The basketball court is not that small and the- players
cover every inch of it during a game. Referees get the message
from fans questioning their heritage. Don't endanger the players
by trying to hit the refs.
The cheerleaders are much better than they were last year.
I'm glad to see that they are moving away fr om the slow football
cheers and going to more jazzy, quick cheers more suited to
basketball.
-We wanna pep band
The band should take a lesson. The music the band plays is
great...for football but is is not suited to basketball. I'm not ob-jectionate
of having a band. It just needs to be smaller in the 10-
20 category and liv elier.like the pep bands you had in high
school, remember? Go to the Atlantic Coast Conference or to
the West Coast or to the Northeast where people live on basketball
and all you'll find are pep bands.
I remember last season when Tennessee came to Auburn and
a handful of Tennessee fans and a pep band came. The pep
band was great, playing Rocky Top and When the Saints Go
Marching In and other jazzy tunes. A pep band could play on
the floor, providing 100 more tickets for students or visitors.
We need a band, but we don't need 150 members rattling ova
eardrums. Fifteen people would put out enough volume and
surely someone in the group or in the music department could
come up with arrangements for some snazzy songs, rather than
the slow moving footbal songs the humongous band now plays.
Remember, football ended fall quarter. This is BASKETBALL.
It's faster and more exciting and it should be treated
differently.
Dorsey, King,Grunf eld await Tigers
By Mike Jackson
Sports Editor
Auburn hits the road after a brief home
stay and runs straight into a handful of
the SEC's best basketball players. First
the Tigers travel to Athens, GA., to face
Georgia's Bulldogs and last year's AU-SEC
sensation Jacky Dorsey ; then the
Tigers travel to Knox ville, Tenn.,
where they '11 face the Vols' Ernie Grun-feld
and Bernard King.
All three of the above mentioned players
made last season's All-SEC selections.
Dorsey, now a 6-7 sophomore, averaged
25.8 points per game, second in the
league and was one of the nation's top
point producers. Dorsey was topped by
only King who popped 26.4 per game. Auburn
fans couldn't see King last year as
Auburn beat the Vols in Auburn. King
was detected of having a substandard
grade transcript in junior high school before
the Auburn game and Athletic Director
Bob Woodruff ordered King benched
until the trouble was cleared up.
Dorsey isn't the only player the Bulldogs
have. Coach John Guthrie found
himself without a big pibot last year and
went out after 6-10 Lucius Foster, Foster
has responded well pouring in about 14
points per game from his center position.
He is also the best free throw shooter of
the starting five.
Guthrie also gets a lot of time out of his
guards, Walter Daniels, also a freshman,
and Tony Flanagan. Both Flanagan
and Daniels have over 35 assists.
Daniels averages 15 points a game, compared
to Flanagan's 10.
Georgia, 0-3 in the conference and 5-7
overall, has another Dorsey, Charlie, to
complement Jacky Dorsey at forward.
The former's specialty is crashing the
boards for rebounds. Charlie has averaged
around eight rebounds a game in
limited action. Both he and Tony Flanagan
have been sidelined temporarily for
academic problems.
But Jack Dorsey is what makes the
Bulldogs go. A tremendous one-on-one
player, Dorsey is the key to the Bulldogs
offense. The guards deliberately try to
get the ball to Dorsey, who is currently
averaging a steady 20 points per game
with close to nine rebounds a game.
On the other hand, no one player is the
key to Tennessee's 10-2 team(2-l in the
SEC). If a team tries to shut off King,
Grunfeld cranks up and takes up the
slack; and on the other shoe, if teams go
after Grunfeld, Coach Ray Mears instructs
his guards to go to King. And
Mears has the guards to work with.
Senior Doug Ashworth averaged only
nine points per game last year but
headed the league in assists, and is near
the top again this season. The other
guard, Mike Jackson, a 6-3 junior, produces
more points, around 13 per game,
but is just as capable of feeding Tennessee's
big forwards, called by some publications
as the two best in the country.
That's pretty elite company when one
thinks of UCLA, who has twobonafide
Ail-American forwards in Richard
Washington and Marques Johnson.
Still, King and Grunfeld prove that
they deserve the billing. Rarely do either
of them have a bad game and both rebound
as well as anyone in the SEC.
Rounding out Tennessee's top five is
freshman Irv Chatman, a 6-9 freshman,
who plays the pivot as well as any in the
league, according to Mears.
Chatman averaged 19 points per game
in high school and fought his way into
the top five after the first couple of games
of the regular season. No one has moved
him since.
Most Auburn players think they're ready
for the road trip.
"Saturday's game is looking pretty
big," Coach Bob Davis said. "Georgia
has some fine people and of course Dor-.
sey is their key."
Dorsey figures to be matched up with
Auburn's super soph Mike Mitchell, but
Mitchell sees nothing special about the
game. "We'll just take them one at a time.
The season is long." As far as Dorsey is
concerned, "We both just play ball. It's
another game. I look forward to playing
all the time. It ought to be good."
The Tigers also recognize that they
can't look to Knoxville too soon. "We've
got to play Georgia first; we can't think
about Tennessee until after the game,"
Mitchell said.
"We ought to be ready now. We've experienced
a big loss and we've played on
the road. It's just like home now," Mitchell
added.
"We've got it together, now," guard
Wayne Bracy said. "We better have it together
going to Georgia and Knoxville."
FRESHMAN CEDRICK HORDGES GRABS REBOUND
...Auburn second-half comeback quells an aggressive Bulldog team
Photo by Dyke Helms
Freshman help in field events
Auburn to shine in most events at invitational
"kMUb will shine
Mitchell has yet to face any real competition. He'll see some
this weekend with Jacky Dorsey and either Bernard King or
Ernie Grunfeld. It will be interesting to see how Mitch reacts to
the competition. I think he'll hold his own or win. He is one of
the best one-on-one forwards I've seen in a long time. He has,
moves to be in the pros and he will certainly go, as will Cedrick
Hordges.
Hordges is only a freshman but you can recognize the greatness.
There was big press build-up comparing Alabama's Reginald
King (from Birmingham) and Hordges (from Montgomery)
during last year's recruiting season. The majority of the
papers indicated that King wsa the better player. After seeing
both in action, I don't see how anyone can compare the two.
Hordges is far superior in every aspect. He's got better moves, a
better touch; he's far stronger and most importantly, he is a
smart basketball player. He thinks before he does anything. I
would be surprised to see Hordges at Auburn more than two
years. I don't know how Davis will keep the pros from waving
big money in front of him. If Hordges wants to go, he'll go. And
By Mike Forchette
Plainsman Sportswriter
The Auburn track team will
host an invitational match
this Saturday in Memorial
Coliseum, and surrounding
high school and Jr. College
teams, along with the University
of Georgia, will participate.
This invitational meet
gives Alabama's high school
athletes an opportunity to Bee
Auburn's track team and the
chance to compete against
college atletes on Auburn's indoor
track, according to Mel
Rosen, Auburn's head track
coach-
Rosen expects 30 schools to
send athletes to the meet.
At the beginning of the 1976
indoor track season, Auburn
appears perfectly balanced in
every aspect of track and .
field. But, after the competition
begins at the senior Bowl
and the Auburn Invitational,
a clearer picture will emerge.
Rosen feels that Auburn
will shine in every event except
in the 880, 10000 and 2
mile relay running events.
Auburn, weak in field competition
last year, has added
depth in the field events with
freshman recruits Harvey
Glance, Tony Easley, Ross
Schaffstall and Rob Will.
Easley and Schaffstall both
came to Auburn from Reston
High School, Reston , VA.
Easley runs the 50 yd. dash
and the triple jump, and
Schaffstall competes with
Will in the shot put.
Easley, who was widely
sought, said he chose Auburn
because of the coaches and
the atmosphere here. In comparing
high school with college
track, "college competition
is what I have been long
awaiting," Easley said.
Glance of nearby Phenix
City is the Alabama high
school champ in the 50 yd.
dash. Glance will compete in
the 50 yd. dash and the long
jump.
James Walker, also a freshman,
is the Georgia state high
school champ in the 60 yd.
high hurdles. Walker will
compete in the 50 yds. high
hurdles and the mile relay •
In the distance running .
events Auburn will be represented
largely by experienced
runners. Crosscountry
veterns Bob Montgomery,
David McKannan,
Neil Murphy, Rick Musick,
Mark Jordan. Terry Baker
and Jon Fox will compete in
the long distance events.
McKannan, who placed
fifth in the indoor SEC two-mile
and second in the outdoor
SEC six-mile in 1974 returns
to competition after an
injury, to his Achilles Tendon.
"I am not completely over
my injury, and I don't expect
to be able to run at my best.
But it's great to at least be
able to run and compete
again," said McKannan.
Clifford Outlin, who proved
to be a tremendous asset to
Auburn's 1974 and 1975 track
teams, will not be able to run
for Auburn because his eligibility
has expired. But, Auburn
is fortunate to have
Willie Smith returning.
Tiger swimmers dike Green Wave;
Crimson Tide to invade AU pool
By Robert Johnston
Plainsman Sportswriter
The Auburn University
swim team meets Alabama in
a dual meet at the Memorial
Coliseum pool Friday, Jan.
16, at 4 p.m. following a win
over Tulane Wednesday and a
second place finish in the
Tennessee Relays at Knoxville
last week.
The Tigers convincingly
beat Tulane as several Auburn
swimmers swam out of
their events (i.e. a long-distance
man swimming backstroke).
At press time the
swimming events were
through and Auburn held an
overwhelming 66-32 lead
going into the diving competition.
David Harbach led Auburn
as he won several events
and "left everyone behind,"
according to a bystander.
"It was a really good meet
and we found out everything
we wanted to know," Coach
Eddie Reese said at poolside.
Alabama has all of its
swimmers returning from last
year's team, which finished
fifth in the nation and second
in the Southeastern Conference.
The Tide has conquered
Coach Eddie Reese's troops in
dual meets in each of his three
years at Auburn, and both Auburn's
and Alabama's swimming
programs have made
astounding improvements.
Tide Coach Don Gambril will
be coaching the U.S. Olympic
swimming team for the third
time this summer.
"The biggest difference between
us and Alabama is that
they have people that have
gone real fast and we have
people that are trying to go
fast," Reese said.
"They can afford to rest a
little before the meet but we
have to continue to work hard
so we'll be ready for the conference
meet," he added.
Three Alabama swimmers
won gold medals in the Pan
American games, and Mike
Currington, only a sophomore,
won three.
Auburn also plays host to
the Canadian All Stars Saturday
at 7 p.m. in the Coliseum
pool. The Canadian
team is composed of the best
swimmers in the eastern sections
of Canada.
Tennessee won the Tennessee
Relays last Saturday,
completing with swimmers
from South Carolina, California,
Miami of Ohio and
Eastern Kentucky, along
with Auburn.
"We looked good, but they
looked great," Reese said of
Tennessee. "Tennessee is always
tough to beat in the middle
of the year."
Results of the event were
lost on the plane back from
Knoxville, but Reese singled
out freshmen Paul Asmuth
and Clay Parnell and juniors
David Harbach and Rick
Hartmen for fine performances.
The Tigers won most of
the distance relays plus the
400-yard individual medley
relay.
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Tied again
Tigers helped by Bama, Vols upsets
Jilt
STATE BATTLED AUBURN TOUGH INSIDE _ .
...Mike Mitchell ready to unleash "Sky Hook" against Bulldog
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