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END OF AN ERA
Ralph "Shug" Jordan, nearing the end of his 25-
year-long football career, watches his Tigers fall before
Florida 31-14. The man, despite this year's dismal
record, has been a winner on the football field,
pulling 175 victories, six ties, and 81 losses. Jordan
as head coach will pace the sidelines of Jordan-Hare
Stadium for the last time Saturday in the Homecoming
game against Mississippi State.
Photo fey Dan Doughtie
Wire Road widening planned
By Stephanie Wolfe
Plainsman Staff Writer
Plans to widen a portion of Wire Road
are 85 per cent complete, and the State
Highway Department needs only the
granting of the right-of-way by Lee
County and the city of Auburn before
construction can begin, according to J.F.
Freeman of the State Bureau of Surveys
and Plans.
"Surveys have been completed, and
the deeds for the land affected by the
widening should be handed over within
the next few days, " Freeman, said. "In
another 60 days, plans should definitely
be finished."
The plans call for a 2.35 mile stretch of
Wire Road to be widened to four lanes in
order to handle the yearly increase in
traffic flow. Freeman said that the state
was made aware of the growth in the
Wire Road area from counters placed on
the road a year ago, which revealed an
ever-increasing amount of traffic on the
road.
Construction will begin at the intersection
of Roosevelt Drive<andWire Road
and will continue four lane to Cox Road
where it will turn into two lane again. A
bridge over the Highway 267 by-pass will
eliminate the present traffic light at the
intersection of Highway 267 and Wire
Road.
"Tentatively, the highway construction
will get underway by next year,
but only if enough funds are allocated for
the project by the federal government.
The total cost should run in the neighborhood
of $1.5 to 2 millionand will
probably take about six months to a
year to complete," Freeman said.
The construction will be a revenue-sharing
operation with the money split
between federal, state and county departments.
The estimated cut in funds
approaches 65 per cent federal, 20 per
cent state, and 15 per cent county.
In January, 1975, James McGill,
environmental coordinator of the State
Highway Department, discussed plans
to widen a portion of Wire Road at a public
hearing held in The Auburn Union.
At that time, McGill said he would
talk to state officials about the traffic
problems to see if an alternative system
could be used until work on the road is
completed. Suggestions 'for temporary
improvements were concerned with the
traffic problems to see if an alternative
system could be used until work on the
troadtis completed. Suggestions for temporary
improvements were concerned
with the traffic lights at the intersection
of 267 and Wire Road and repaving and
painting the road. So far, no temporary
improvements have been made, according
to McGill.
The Wire Road construction was a
major campaign issue in the 1974 spring
election. Mike Waller, who ran for SGA
president,pledged that he would work to
see that Wire Road was widened.
Girl killed in collision
By John Carvalho
Asst. News Editor
Floy Tucker, 2RSM, of Uriah, Ala., was
killed in a head-on collision Wednesday
night. Oct. 29, near Alexander City.
The Alabama State Trooper Post in
Alexander City said the accident occurred
as Tucker was traveling west on
U.S. 280 approximately four miles west
of Alexander City.
Tucker was returning a 1972 Cadillac
to a relative in Sylacauga. According to
investigating officer Trooper J.H. Crad-dock,
Tucker collided head-on with a
tractor-trailer truck while trying to pass
a car. The Cadillac was totally destroyed.
Tucker was following a car driven by
her brother, Jimmy Tucker, 3AC. He was
not reported injured in the accident.
The victim died while being
transported by ambulance from Russel
Hospital in Alexander City to University
Hospital in Birminghan.. No
charges were reported filed.
Funeral services for Tucker were held
Friday at 3 p.m. at Johnson Funeral
Home in Monroeville, Ala.
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.Volume 82 Number 6 Thursday, November 6,1975 Auburn, AL 86880 26 pages
Trustees
Schedule change possible topic
By Christy Hudgins
Managing Editor
. A majority of the Auburn University trustees said they
would favor discussion of a schedule change allowing fall
quarter classes to end before the Thanksgiving break.
According to Bert Young, Student Government Association
president who serves as a non-voting member of the
Board, a student senate resolution including a tentative fall
schedule will be submitted to the Board at its quarterly meet
ing Friday.
The resolution, which is not on the formal board agenda,
calls for the termination of fall quarter on the Wednesday before
Thanksgiving.
A student-trustee meeting is not scheduled for this Board
meeting, although the majority of trustees said they would
support such a meeting based on the merits of the first such
session held last fall.
Vice President for Administration Benl TLanham said two
of the possible reasons a meeting had not been scheduled
were that "there is too much going on on campus" and that
"no arrangement has been made with the president of the
SGA and Dr. Philpott."
Young, explaining why he had not requested such a meeting
said, "Basically, I didn't think about it." He added that he
had "bad vibes about it last year" and thought of it "as a 'BS'
session."
Young said, however, that he would suggest a meeting for
winter quarter.
Most of the trustees said they did not foresee much discussion
of dormitory rules in the Friday meeting. The majority of
the Board said they opposed male visitation and did not believe
it would be brought up during the meeting.
Several trustees said they would take definite stands on the
implementation of Title JX guidelines pertaining to discrimination
on the basis of sex.
Trustee Robert Harris said he felt women should be provided
with athletic scholarships in "equal number to men in
the nonrevenue-producing sports.
"It's kind of simple to say male athletes receive scholar
ships and therefore there should be corresponding female
scholarships/'said Harris. "It's well and good to say you
should provide women with scholarships, but you may kill the
goose that lays the golden egg if you drain off money to the extent
that you can't provide funds for other sports."
Trustee Charles M. Smith said he would favor scholarships
for women in athletics only if the women were "in a spot
which brings in revenue to the school—if they participated in
football or baseball or things like that."
He added that he was "not in favor of the guidelines as they
are written" because'they are are not realistic at this point"
On the question of whether additional on-campus male
housing was needed, a majority of the trustees said they were
not familiar enough with the situation to make any kind of
conclusion.
Harris said, however, that he thought Auburn has found
the dorm situation suitable "without provisions for large*'
scale male housing facilities," adding that it was "a fiscal impossibility
to overcome this type of approach right away.
"I don't know if I'd be willing just because the guidelines
say to do this or that or the other, just because someone in
Washington said we must," said Harris referring to compliance
with Title IK. "They're (the Department of Health,
Education and Welfare) human and can make mistakes
too."
A different approach was expressed by Tustee Walston
Hester who said he believes the school will "have to do whatever
HEW pushes."
Other topics to be discussed at the meeting include granting
right-of-way authority for the widening of Wire Road to
provide a four-lane road from the campus to Interstate 85.
According to Lanham, "the project will be set up "following
the board's permission grant.
The Budget Committee is also scheduled to report on a new
budget.
Other items included in the agenda are the approval of
awarding degrees, acceptance of federal relief funds for hurricane
damage, formal approval of the supplementary retirement
program for the Cooperative Extension Service,
authority to proceed with classroom construction at Auburn
University in Montgomery and discussion of the settlement
of a bourWary dispute between the University and Farm ville
Baptist Church.
The board meeting will be held in Samford Hall and will be
open to the public for observation only, beginning at 2 p.m.
Auburn student killed
By Vickie Pierce
Plainsman Staff Writer
Charles T. Smith, 5PY, was charged
with first degree manslaughter in the
Sunday morning traffic death of 17-year-old
William C. Burch, 1 PL.
Burch was killed when struck by an
automobile as he walked down Dundan
Drive near the Student Activities Building.
Smith's Volkswagen, traveling
north toward Haley Center was reportedly
moving at a fast rate of speed.
According to police reports, the car left
the road where the street makes a sharp
curve, and flipped over on the left curb,
striking Burch.
Dr. William D. Lazenby said Burch
was dead on arrival at Lee County Hospital
after the accident, which occurred at
approximately 12:05 a.m. Sunday.
Smith was treated at Auburn University
Student Health Center and released
to authorities at 11 a.m. Sunday. He was
released on bail from Lee County Jail later
that day.
Lee County Coroner Clyde Weldon
said an Auburn University woman student
was the first to find Burch's body.
Weldon said the girl gave Burch mouth-to
mouth resuscitation which revived him
for a short time.
Weldon said Monday that Smith was
given a blood test to determine if he had
been drinking prior to the accident, but
results were not yet know. Smith is from
Florala, Ala.
Burch, a Sigma Chi pledge, was from
Ft. Lauderdale, Fla.
The funeral will be today at Christ
ynited Methodist Church in Ft. Lauderdale.
Burch is survived by his parents,
Mr. and Mrs. Henry N. Burch.
Officer Douglas Roundtree and Sgt.
. Robert Vallentine of the Campus Police
investigated the case, according to AU
Campus Police Chief Millard Dawson.
Pranks and prowlers
Lesser known events part of history
By Russell Nolen
Plainsman Staff Writer
Great moments in Auburn history? That should conjure up a bit of nostalgia in
everyone's mind.
One might say 17-16, FDR's visit to the campus in the 1930's, an old-timer could
add—1957, when the Tigers won the national football championship—the Elvis
Concert?
Well sure these are famous events in AU's past, but there are several other exciting,
yet less renowned, occurences.
An old story originating from 1925 involves a Model-T Ford sitting atop the roof of
Samford Hall. A group of boys took the car apart one day and broke into Samford
that night.
They carried each piece- of the disassembled car up to the roof where they put the
whole thing back together. Next morning the campus was shocked to see the car
parked neatly on the roof!
In those days there were few cars or buses and the train was the major source of
transportation for students attending the Plains. The train line serving Auburn ran
between Montgomery and West Point, Ga.
Students took a special delight in hiding near the tracks at night to wait for the
train to speed by. As the train approached the waiting students, they scurried out of
hiding armed with brooms and large buckets of sopping paint. They dipped the
brooms into the paint and held the broom against the train's side as it screamed
along down the tracks painting itself orange and blue.
The angry train owners had to clean up the mess with no guarantee that the train
would get safely through Auburn on its next trip without a fresh coat of orange and
blue.
Another popular prank played on the railroads was greasing the tracks. Students
would spread grease on the tracks in front of a parked train and get out of the way to
watch the fun. When the train started to move on, the wheels spun round and round
going nowhere—comparable to a car stuck in a ditch.
Not all_of the students' activities were confined to the campus. Some occurred in
nearby Phenix City Up until 1957, the city was overrun with nightclubs operating
illegal slot machines and male students trekked to Phenix City in droves to gamble
with the machines.
About that time the Auburn-Georgia rivalry, one of the oldest in the south reached
such a pitch that concerned, school officials decided to move the game to a neutral
field. They chose Columbus, Ga., across the river from Phenix City.
This was a good spot except for one problem. A Georgia state law, applying to
Columbus, stated that no man could carry a woman across the state line unless he
was married to her. So each year when Auburn and Georgia met on the Columbus
gridiron, the Tiger fans drove as far as the Chattahoochee River bridge on the
Phenix City side, where all the girls had to get out of the cars and walk across the
bridge while the boys drove to the other side. The girls would strut uncertainly
across the river in their high-heeled shoes. On the other side of the bridge, the boys
would wait for their dates to finish the short journey. There were many boys waiting
for their girls to return and traffic jams became common on the day of the game.
When Auburn freshmen were forced to wear rat caps, there was only one way to be
excused from wearing a beanie. This was by capturing a Georgia Tech rat cap. The
Auburn-Georgia Tech game, always played in Atlanta, was the scene of a wild ruckus
as the Tiger freshmen chased the Jacket freshmen around the stadium before and
after the game in pursuit of the highly valued Tech cap. The unfortunate Tech freshmen
did not have this rule, and they had to hang on to their caps for dear life as they
searched for a place to hide.
One famous rule affecting the freshmen at Auburn said freshmen could not walk
through the main gate. To enforce this rule, upperclassmen hid in the bushes
around the Rate with big paddles in their hands. Whenever an unsuspecting freshman
sneaked through the gate, the attackers sprang out of the shrubbery and gave
the violator a fierce whipping. This practice understandably ended when freshmen
World War II veterans, big and strong, passed through the gate and whipped the unfortunate
upperclassmen.
An event that prepsUed Auburn into national prominence was the streak, which
occurred two years ago. The campus became a leader in running around with no
clothes on after the first streaker ran across the concourse of Haley Center. The
streaker (a male) wore a red ski mask, socks and tennis shoes.
Overnight, the Lovliest Village was filled with nude bodies as couples streaked together
hand in hand and people rode bicycles in the flesh. Finally, the night before
winter, quarter finals, mass streaking hit the campus. During the break before
spring quarter, the excitement died down and the campus once more returned to its
normal routine—until new campus traditions and pasttimes are invented.
Chicago campers
Two Auburn students, Bruce
Alexander, 3PV, (right) and Bill
Salmon, 4BI, (left) considered the
temptation of getting good seats for
the upcoming Chicago concert
enough to force them to forsake the
comfort of their nice, warm beds.
The students camped outside the
Coliseum ticket office for 22 hours in
order to be the first to buy tickets for
the concert when the office opened
Tuesday.
Photo by Dan Doughtie
T H E AUBURN P U I N & M I N Thurs., Nov. e, 1975 page 2
Resolutions urge rule and calendar change
By John Carvalho
Asst. News Editor
Three resolutions were
passed by the Student Senate
at its weekly meeting on Monday
which would urge the
University to: (1) immediately
begin implementation of
the Title IX guidelines concerning
women's rules; (2) begin
fall quarter two weeks
earlier in order to have it end
at Thanksgiving; and (3)
have an alcohol possession
ban in Jordan-Hare Stadium
enforced equally for both
alumni and student*
In other action, the Senate
tabled a new cheerleader
selection committee law, approved
an Atlanta Rhythm
Section concert as part of the
All-Campus Fund Drive,
granted charters to five on-campus
organizations, approved
all Budget andFinance
recommendations and added
Al Thompson to the Public Relations
and Organizations committees
and Clinton Stewart,
SGA executive secretary, to
the Student Welfare Committee
as an ex-offifcio member.
The resolution concerning
Title IX said that "Any
further delay in implementing
the recommendations will
cause the job to be done in a
time frame which may not
allow the best effort on the
part of those students and
staff members involved."
The Senate expressed hope
that the Board of Trustees
would consider its recommendation
at the next meeting.
Unanimous approval was
given to it and another resolution
sponsored by Al
Thompson which would
begin fall quarter "early
enough so that it will end before
the Thanksgiving holidays,"
according to the resolution.
In submitting the resolution,
Thompson argued that
the present systemof coming
back for a week and one-half
after Thanksgiving causes
"added expense and unnecessary
travel," and gives students
who wish to work over
Christmas holidays "much
difficulty in securing employment."
Of all three resolutions, the
most debate centered around
Layne Camith's resolution to
treat student and alumni
equally in enforcing the alcoholic
beverage possession
ban.
Carruth argued that the
policy had been carried out in
the student section more than
in the alumni section.
An amendment was added
by David Stegall which would
have copies of the resolution
sent to Fred Lynn, director of
Concessions, and the head of
the Pinkerton Agency, which
patrols the football games at
Jordan-Hare.
i Gus Lott pointed out that
many students don't realize
that they can resist a search
by a Pinkerton agent.
An amendment by Tom
Forsyth to have a copy of the
resolution sent to the American
Civil Liberties Union
was defeated.
The new cheerleader selection
law was submitted and
tabled by Lott and Kathy
Graves. It differed from the
original bill submitted by
Graves in many aspects.
The new hill would not form
a cheerleader disciplinary
committee, but instead have
the cheerleaders decide on
their own rules and discipline.
The cheerleaders' sponsor
would be on the committee,
but as a non-voting member,
unlike the original bill, which
gave him a vote in the selection
process.
The cheerleaders themselves
would choose their own
sponsor, not the cheerleader
selection committee as stated
in the original bill.
The Atlanta Rhythm Section
concert approved by the
Senate will be sponsored by
Sigma Alpha Epsilon and Alpha
Omicron Pi on Wednesday,
Dec. 3, at 7:30 p.m. All
profits will go to the All-Campus
Fund Drive.
| Of the five organizations
granted charters by the
Senate in other action,
I three—the Auburn University
Full Gospel Business
' Men's Fellowship International
(AUFGBMFI), the Rac-quetball
Club, and the Au-
Iburn Dietic Association— '
were granted probationary
charters for one year.
The Auburn Rodeo Club
and the American International
Meditation Society
were granted permanent
charters by the Senate.
The Budget and Finance
Committee recommended
allocations which were also
approved by the Senate.
These recommendations included
$1234.39 to WEGL,
$504 to Recreational Services,
and $103.60 to Asoocia-ted
Women Students.
A transfer to $950 from the
Student Government
Association's telephone and
postage budget to the Public
Relations budget to cover the
cost of the Will Geer- Mike Wilson
presentation and the Auburn-
Alabama Better Relations
meeting was also approved.
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Whatley controls liquor role
Bicentennial Spirit
Professor Guy Bost holds the scale
reproduction of die bicentennial wall
located in the Bicentennial Committee
office in Auburn. Hie wall was designed
and painted by the senior art
students of Boat's class. The painting represents
and is significant of America's
history during the past 200 years and is
climaxed by the two large stars on the
wall.
Photo by Dan Doughtie-
By Stephanie Wolfe
Plainsman Staff Writer
Representative Charles W.
Whatley of Opelika is considered
to be the main obstacle
in obtaining a
legislative change which
would allow alcoholic
beverages to be sold within
one mile of the Auburn
University campus, according
to Mike Driscoll, director
of student lobby.
New calendar approved without change
By Susan Hazenfield
Plainsman Staff Writer
The Scheduling and Calendar
Committee recently approved
the 1976-1977
calendar drawn up by University
Registrar Tom Stall-worth.
The committee, which
is appointed by the University
Faculty Senate, has
recommended the calendar to ~
the Faculty Senate for approval.
Also submitted was a
recommendation that the
Faculty committee appoint
this committee in the spring
and the registrar'present the
calendar then to allow sufficient
time to review the calendar
and consider any suggestions
which might arise.
According to committee
chairman Dr. John Howard,
the committee had "insufficient
time" to review the
calendar. As it is, the committee
was appointed in October
and the calendar had to be approved
by mid-November.
Several issues, including
the possibility of beginning
school two weeks earlier in
order to end fall quarter at
Thanksgiving and the lengthening
of the quarter, were
brought up and discussed at
the meeting. However, Stall-worth
affirmed that "no formal
proposals" were presented.
Stallworth explained that
the calendar was basically
the same as this year's calendar
and that it "is a compromise."
He added, "It's not 100
per cent pleasing to each
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group." Dr. Robert Criss, a
committee member, reinforced
Stallworth saying,
"Any calendar is a compromise."
Stallworth pointed out that
"to start the calendar two
weeks earlier, students would
be registering the day after
Labor Day. This would interfere
with the girls sorority
rush." He explained that he
has a list of constraints to
work with in drawing up the
calendar and said, "It can't be
done using these constraints."
Howard added, "It's too late
to do anything about this
issue." He suggested that
since students voted for this
suggestion, which isshownby
the results of the ballot in the
1975 spring general election,
"The Student, Senate should
have made a formal proposal
recommending the holiday
schedule and sent it to the
committee as a recommendation."
This would enable the committee
to review it as a proposal
and consider the change.
Howard also recommended
this procedure for any change
suggested by the student
body.
After the calendar is approved
or disapproved by the
Faculty Senate, it will be sent
to University President
Harry M. Philpott for approval.
Driscoll said, "Whatley has
vowed not to allow any bill of
local concern to get out of
committee unless the money
situation in Lee County is
changed within the near future.
Not until there is
monetary equalization
among all schools in the
county will he agree to allow
bills pertinent to the city of
Auburn to reach the House
calendar."
For a bill of local
application to get out of a
House committee and reach
the calendar, it must first be
approved by all representatives
from that particular
According to Driscoll, when
Rep. Pete Turnham of Auburn
presented a bill to the
legislature which would
strike the one-mile limit from
the Code of Alabama,
Whatley voted against it;
therefore, preventing it from
reaching the House calendar.
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The Auburn City Council
conditionally approved the
issuance of three beer licenses
to local Zippy Marts located
within one mile of the University
campus three weeks ago;
however, the issuance was
then denied by the Alabama
Beverage Control Board
(ABO on Oct. 16.
W. Ralph Suttles, chief of
the Licensing Division of the
ABC Board, said, "The applications
were turned down because
of Title 29, Section 73 of
the Code of Alabama. The
law prohibits the sale of alcoholic
beverages within one
mile of an institution of higher
learning."
Suttles added that if the Auburn
students are concerned
enough about the matter, a
local bill could be introduced
in the state legislature which
would change the law in Lee
County alone. Only through
such a procedure will licenses
be issued to any liquor distributors
located within the
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Free, via halfway house
By Mike Nutt
Plainsman Staff Writer
A halfway house for former residents of Julia Tutwiler
Women's Prison, located one-half mile north of Wetumpka on
U.S. 231, is being set up in cooperation with Auburn University.
The house will probably go into operation in January in time
for winter quarter, according to Alan J. Shields, associate
professor of Sociology and Anthropology.
The purpose of a halfway house, Shields explained, is to
provide a structural base to aid the women in readjusting to
society.
"The concept is vou're dealing with two separate worlds,"
Shields explained."Unfortunately, it should not be. Prison is
isolated, and the transition is always hard. A halfway house is
used to aid in the transition to society. It helps to bridge the gap
so they don't have to plunge back into the same world they've
been in before and failed," Shields said.
According to Shields, the plan had been kicked around for
several years in conversations and meetings with the State
Board of Corrections, the State Parole Board, and Mrs. Doris
Wood, warden at Tutwiler; it will be the first such program for
women in this state.
"What society doesn't seem to realize," Sheilds said, "is 98%
of the prisoners come out without any type of programs. For example,
at Tutwiler, when you're released on free day, you're
given $10, a dress, and a bus ticket home, and you're supposed
to readjust to society. It's really to society's advantage to help
these people when they come out, because they're coming out
anyway. Obviously, we don't want them to pick up where they
left off."
Shields said the Auburn response has been good, with 'little
or no negative response" from the University administration.
About seven or eight women will live in the house, located
The World
This Week
By Russell Nolen
Plainsman Staff Writer
International
The United States and Soviet Union continued their
Strategic Arms Limitation Talks (SALT) in Geneva,
Switzerland, amid increasing doubts that any agreement
can be reached by the end of the year, which is the
target date for a new SALT treaty. Final agreement by
then is highly unlikely as it takes eight weeks to prepare
formal treaty texts, which means that the deadline has
theoretically passed.
National leaders in Argentina are trying to unseat
Pres. Isabel Peron by exposing a scandal she was involved
in. The controversy centers around a $7,000
check, and it could possibly force Peron to resign from office.
Government sources said that if Peron refuses to
step down, the leading opposition party and sectors of
Peron's own Peronist movement were prepared to impeach
her.
National
Vice President Nelson Rockefeller delivered a written
notice to Pres. Ford last Monday morning stating that he
would not run with him as a vice-presidential candidate
on the Republican ticket.
Prior to Rockefeller's announcement, Ford had dismissed
Secretary of Defense James Schlesinger^ . and
William E. Colby, director of Central Intelligence, in a
major reshuffling of his top national security posts. The
President also removed Secretary of State Henry A Kissinger
from his post as the national security adviser in the
White House.
The moves are viewed as a political face-lifting by
thePresident in response to what he and his closest ad-'
visers regard as mounting attacks on the administration
from Congress and the conservative wing of the Republican
party.
The government announced last week that about 18
million workers will pay up to $70.20 more in Social Security
taxes next year to help finance higher benefits for
retirees and adult welfare recipients. The Social Security
Administration will begin to levy taxes beginning Jan. 1,
1976.
State
Alabama's unemployment rate dropped slightly in
September, but the percentage of workers out of a job still
ran ahead of the national average,. - according to a report
released by the Industrial Relations Department
last Friday. The department said that 126,900 Ala-bamians
are on the unemployed rolls, representing 8.7
per cent of the work force. That figure, not seasonally,
compares with the nation's 8.1 per cent rate of unemployed.
Gov. George Wallace, sounding like a presidential candidate
on the stump, demanded last Saturday sweeping
reductions in social programs to ease the middle class tax
burden. He also called for tax reform policies that would
close loopholes which some wealthy persons use to avoid
paying taxes. His statements came during a convention
in Miami Beach. He is expected to formally announce his
candidacy for the presidency on Nov. 12.
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across from the campus on West Magnolia Avenue, next to the
new McDonald's.
A selection committee, consisting of Shields, the warden, the
deputy warden and the classifications officer at Tutwiler, will
choose the women from those who have expressed an interest in
the program. Some women have been studying in the Prison-
College program of Alexander City State Junior College. The
college also has programs at Draper Correctional Institute in
Elmore and Frank Lee Youth Center for youthful offenders.
"Selection is the key to success of any such facility," Shields
said. "No one will be released who is a threat to the community.'
We won't be able to take people that need serious treatment," he
continued. It will be possible for man y people in Auburn to meet
these people."
Shields said one fraternity, Phi Kappa Psi, and one sorority,
Delta Zeta, had already contributed time and money to the
program. He said the house will be funded solely on individual
contributions to the Edwina Mitchell Society, an organization
that Shields founded in memory of Alabama's first woman
Parole Baord member and former warden of Tutwiler. The
women's tuitions will be paid from federal and local grants.
All personnel working with the program will work on a
volunteer basis, Shields said. Hans now call for a married couple
to live at the house with the women, with a few hand-picked
juniors or seniors in psychology working with them.
Shields emphasized the program is still largely in the planning
stage. No final selections have been made regarding
anyone involved in the program, or the amount of money needed.
"It will be based on whatever we get," he said.
"The key to the whole program can be summed up in one
statement," Shields added. "We're not setting up a facility to
help the people, we're setting up a facility for people who want
help. You can't make anyone learn, or make anyone want help.
Every woman will have made a commitment."
Sheilds defended the program, saying "It is not a bleeding-heart
philosophy. It's just a supportive structure. This particular
one will operate as kind of a family base. There is no way
•to under-estimate the importance of a family."
Shields said he had looked at existing programs for men and
found that the smaller ones were more successful.
"Their success depends on how personalized they are. That's
why it's important that it be a private institution, and not state-owned.
Otherwise you have another correctional institution,"
Shields said. "The smaller the better. It's just like a family—if
you have three or four kids you can give them more time than
you can 13."
Shields carried the comparison to prisons, saying "This is
why Tutwiler is better (than larger institutions). At Draper you
have 1100 inmates; at Tutwiler you have 160. It's more personal;
the warden can know everyone by name."
"Success in this life has an awful lot to do with personal contact,"
Shields said. "Punishment should end when you get out.
We are told that you go to prison to pay your debt to society, but
society never accepts full payment of the debt."
AU-UA Better Relations
set game procedures
Student delegations from
Auburn University and the
University of Alabama met at
Auburn last week and set
guidelines for the pre-game
and halftime activities for
their Nov. 29 football game.
The AU-UA Better Relations
Conference agreed
that Auburn will play its alma
mater first as the schools
participate in pre-game ceremonies,
that the bands jointly
.play the National Anthem
with UA directing, and that
the UA band present its half-time
show first.
The delegations, which
have met in even years at UA
and in odd years at AU since
1948, agreed to contact their
respective coaches and other
appropriate persons and ask
them not to send the team on
the field if a band is still on
the field.
The bi-school conference—
dedicated to the improvement
of relations between
the two
schools—agreed that ho
floats will be permitted irt Le-gion
Field' in Birningham
where the game will take
place.
Another accord called for
directors of student spirit to
work to prevent signs derogatory
to the other university,
and for cheerleaders to work
to prevent derogatory cheers.
The joint committee also requested
that football scores
not be announced while the
bands are performing on the
field during halftime, and
that animal mascots should
be permitted for pre-game activities
and during the game.
Not to overlook any details,
the delegations agreed that
AU will publish the football
programs in this and all other
odd years, and UA in even
years. i
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AU plans SIMUN
and keynote Scali
By Biz Binnings
Plainsman Staff Writer
Students at Auburn and
other southeastern universities
will be given the opportunity
to argue and discuss
international affairs on Feb.
5, 6 and 7,1976. Participants
in SIMUN (Southeastern
Invitational Model United
Nations) will base their arguments
on the policies set by
each foreign country,"
according to Layne Carruth,
director of SIMUN.
John Scali, the keynote
speaker, is recently retired
head of the United States
delegation to the United Nations.
Earning fame as an
international journalist,
Scali's name was mentioned
in "The Missiles of October."
He is sponsored by SIMUN
and Horizons.
Students often dress in native
garb and address the
General Assembly in a
foreign language. The delegations
that best represent
their country's foreign policy
will be presented awards.
SIMUN is open to all
Auburn students and can be
taken for one hour of credit
given on a pass-fail basis.
The course number is U 305.
This is sponsored by
the Student Government
Association and the Political
Science Department.
Anyone interested should
fill out a registration form in
Haley Center 7080 or attend a
meeting on Thursday, Nov.
13, at 3:30 p.m. in 208 Union
Building.
This meeting is not
necessary for those who have
signed up already.
Country assignments will
be made on Nov. 20 at 3 p.m.
in 3195 Haley Center.
A final meeting before the
conference, required for all
those participating, will be
held on Jan. 22,1976, at 3 p.m.
in 3195 Haley Center.
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Editorials Thurs., Oct. 23,1975 page 4
Some time ago, I concluded that the
Warren Commission's version of the
Assassination of President Kennedy was
tncorrect. I went to the "Who Killed
:?FK?" program to see if my conclusions
'agreed with those of a professional, hut
instead I was disappointed to discover
that the program was conducted by an
entertainer whose sarcasm, emotionalism,
and oversimplication resulted
in a completely irresponsible portrayal
of the evidence.
:,l Mr. Harvey Yazijan of the Assassination
Information Bureau was even more
^elective and careless with the evidence
than the Warren Commission itself.
'Some examples:
- (1) Mr. Yazijan showed a picture of Oswald
with the murder weapon and declared
it to be a composite (head pasted
•on body) because the shadow of Oswald's
nose on his face fell straight down
while the shadow of his body on the
.ground fell to one side.
I The pose and lighting conditions have
been duplicated with a model, the
^shadow difference being caused by the
^difference between the vertical facial sur-
•face and the ground, not by actual lighting
difference. The photograph in question
was actually one of a pair. The mate
ta n d its negative were studied by the War-
»ren Commission.
- (2) Mr. Yazijan told us that one of
^Governor Connally's doctors testified
'that the bullet fragments in the governor's
body outweighed the material loss
of the bullet that is said to have caused
his wounds. We were not told that a
second doctor, more familiar with the
wounds, testified to the contrary.
(3) In the famous Zapruder movie we
saw the President being jerked backwards
(supposedly by a bullet from the
front). Unfortunately, the movie was
shown at nearly twice its proper speed,
making this motion more pronounced
than it actually is.
Incidentally, the guest speaker twice
described his copy of the film as
"bootleg." Perhaps he was avoiding saying
it was a flagrant violation of copyright
laws. The Zapruder film has been
under copyright by its owners since it
was developed and, contrary to two
Plainsman articles, was never
suppressed or released by the government.
(4) Mr. Yazijan showed a slide of the
view from the assassin's window as recreated
by the Secret Service. In this
particular slide, the presidential limousine
and its occupants were obscured by
a tree. Contrary to the speaker's sarcastic
implications, the Warren Commission
did not say that Oswald fired a shot
at this view. Instead, it used the photograph
to show a time when Oswald could
not have fired.
Throughout his presentation, the AIB
speaker displayed a low threshold of
"absolute proof." His photographic evidence
was of poor quality, many slides
being taken of magazine pages. He
skimmed over the serious, respectable
questions and concentrated on rumor
. and irrelevant coincidences.
Perhaps the AIB is helping encourage
public support of a new official investigation.
On the other hand, such presentations
as we saw here in Auburn may
only increase confusion of the facts and
add fuel to the growing public paranoia
toward all things official.
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% moved back to Magnolia'
Neglect of duty
The students will not have a chance to be heard.
Now, this fall, more than ever before, the Auburn Board of Trustees needs to have
student input because now Auburn faces more drastic, sudden change this year than
it has in the last 20 years. The HEW Title IX guidelines will bring vast change to
every area of campus life.
But there will be no student-trustee meeting, and the students won't have their
chance to voice their opinions on the changes that must be made. The trustees will
have Pres. Harry Philpott's opinions, they'll" have SGA Pres. Bert Young's
opinions, but not the great diversity of student opinion they need to make these important
decisions.
Vice President for Administration Ben Lanham gave two reasons that the meeting
was not scheduled: There is too much happening on campus now for the meeting,
and Bert Young, the student's elected leader, made no arrangements with Pres.
Philpott to have the meeting.
Too many things going on? What could be more important than for the governed
to speak with those who govern?
The SGA president's failure to arrange the meeting borders on negligence of duty.
He said that he basically hadn't thought about it. What has he been thinking about?
The need for the meeting had certainly been called to his attention, yet he made no
attempt to arrange the session.
The SGA president said there had been "bad vibes about it last year," and thought
of it as a bull session. Of course it was a talk session, but talking is a means of
communication. Talk makes things happen. It's a good thing our Founding Fathers
didn't say the First Continental Congress was just a bull session and fail to schedule
the Second.
The SGA president should constantly be looking into every possible idea to help
the Auburn students, and a meeting this quarter would have been a way to help them
and Auburn University greatly.
At least Young said he would suggest a meeting for winter quarter. We strongly
urge him and the SGA Cabinet to give all their efforts to scheduling a meeting input
into the weighty issues of the Title IX changes.
'Who killed JFK?9
added to confusion
Mag Dorm.
Every Auburn student has an opinion
on Magnolia Hall, whether it's good or
bad. Some think the residents have a
rough deal, with small rooms, communal
baths and crummy closeting.
Others think the dorm residents themselves
are rough deals and call them
names like "Mag Fag." They regard
them as a collection of short-haired engineers,
homosexuals, northerners and
other outcasts of society.
Many voices have been heard about
Mag Dorm, both in The Plainsman and
on the campus as a whole. But one segment
of campus life hasn't been heard
from, and that's the people who live in
the halls of Magnolia Dorm.
Monday night I strolled through those
halls, randomly choosing students to
talk to about life in the dorm.
Joe Stallings, in geography, and
Manny Russo, in counselor education,
were in Russo's room watching TV when '
I knocked.
"It's convenient to everything—Haley
Center, the stadium, the Coliseum. I lived
off campus in a trailer park three miles
from town. Out there I didn't feel so involved.
It was just so much more convenient
on campus, so I moved back,"
Stallings said.
"I moved here because a friend lived up
here. It's cheap; it's getting involved and
meeting people. You just don't have that
out there," -Russo said.
Rick McCann, a sophomore in marine
biology, lived off campus then moved
into a division in the dorm.
"Last year, I lived in the fraternity
house. Then I wanted to move out. But by
the time I moved, it was too late to get an
apartment, so I decided to live in Mag.
Do they get a lot of flak from other
people because they live in Mag? "All the
time," was one answer.
What about the Magnolia's old reputation
of perhaps having more than its
share of homosexuals? '
Jim Woodman, a resident advisor,
said, "I heard the Mag Fag reputation
was started by fraternities back when
they wanted to get people into their
houses, but this is just what I heard."
"Rumors like that get started, then
they snowball. Why don't they think the
women who live in the dorms are lesbians?"
Woodman said.
What's the dating situation at Mag?
"It is a good way to meet a lot of the
chicks from Alumni who come down here
to eat," McCann said.
But what about the girls in Noble Hall?
"This year, I prefer Alumni. There are
some really foxy-looking chicks there.
And my girlfriend lives in Alumni, so I go
over there most of the time," McCann
continued.
They have both good and bad to say
about the programs begun to make living
in the dorms more enjoyable.
"We've got more here than the girls do
in their dorms. We can do anything to our
rooms, paint them in any way, and the
only stipulation is that we don't do any
structural damage," Woodman said.
"Mag is changing a great deal. ...the
health room, the engineering division
with its computer hookup, and every hall
gets $8 per resident to spend on a party or
paint or something. They'll bend over
.backwards to do things for us. That can
be attributed to Dr. Schroeder (Magnolia
director Charles Schroeder)," Russo said:
Jack Dean, another Mag veteran, said
the residents had voted to have a free ice
machine installed but were refused it.
"We vote for something, then we don't
get it. It's what Schroeder wants, the students
get." He also said he thinks that
allowing the residents to paint their
rooms and halls is a way for the dorm
authority to avoid labor costs.
McCann said the food at Magnolia
Dining Hall has improved since the first
part of the quarter..
"I was sick for two weeks from it, it was
so greasy. I threw up in one of my classes
after having lunch there once."
Last year Mag was the scene of some
peculiar occurrences known as "Thursday
night riots."
"Some guy would walk into the quad
and shout 'Hey! we made it through Wed
nesday!' Then everybody started raising
hell. Other men would start hollering out
the windows at each other and making a
big fuss.
"One student even played the music
from the movie 'Patton' into the quad.
Then he climbed out onto an overhang at
Bullard Hall, and began stalking back
and forth, giving the speech Patton gave
at the beginning of the movie. Somebody
set off some fireworks. Finally, police
started coming to the riots, too. There
haven't been any more of them this
year."
I asked Rick McCann if he had ever
seen anything really wierd at Mag Dorm.
"Well, there was this roommate one
time. . ."
Discovering the South through people
Along the back roads of Alabama I
found my people—the scraggly men who
talk about fishin' and huntin', the
women clutching weathered handbags
in one hand and a rummage-sale hat in
the other, the little black boy in his new
suit on the way to Chicago and the little
girls all set for a trip to camp.
I found my people on Greyhound buses
last year.. .and when I found them, I discovered
something about myself.
^ To me, the South had always beenare- tbn of poverty and ignorance. It was the
eeding ground for the corrupt Southern
politician, for the crimes and atrocities
associated with the poor, for racial
tension and violence and for mental
stagnation.
Perhaps the most startling aspect of
my beliefs was that I had been a Southerner
all my life—a Southerner who could
never identify with the South.
I was never a part of the South, because
I was never a part of her peoples. I
was afraid to go beyond my own comfor-table
middle-class neighborhood—
afraid to talk to those slightly disheveled
old cronies who spent their day
fishin' for crappies and spittin' tobacco
juice.
I was afraid of the women, too, with
their loose-fitting cotton dresses, gnarled
and chapped hands, toothless smiles
and hand-me-down clothes.
I was afraid of what I didn't know.. .of
what I didn't understand.
Understanding first came in the form
of a piece of homemade fudge candy offered
to me by the 12-year-old boy sitting
beside me on the bus.. .the boy on his way
to Chicago.
His life's goal was to drive a Mac
truck—a goal which at first I couldn't
understand. As he spoke about the
trucks, his eyes began to widen and his
face became animated as he described
the cab of his favorite truck. Soon he had
me sharing his enthusiasm as he pointed
out features of the trucks we passed on
the road.. .and his mother stuffed us both
full of barbequed potato chips .
Then there was the old man who spent
most of his life shifting back and forth
between veterans hospitals. All of his
children were grown and he suddenly
found himself alone—the hospitals
helped to relieve that loneliness. While
puffing on a cigar, a big, thick and very
green one, he told about his little granddaughter
who occasionally came to see
him—how he teased her when she
scorched his favorite soup—how she
hugged her grandpappy.
I wondered if she really existed, or was
she just a myth to help the gray-headed
man through the hard times.
I met a woman running away from her
problems and a man traveling to help a
friend in crisis. I met a prostitute and a
and a traveling man of the Bible. I met
the young and the old, the crippled and
the strong, the problem-makers and the
problem solvers. . .
The people I traveled with weYe unlike
any others I had ever met before. Yet, in
the most important way they were the
same. . . they were human beings overflowing
with the passions and compassions
which give the south its uniqu-ness.
During those many bus trips I took last
year, I reflected on these people—this
mixture of mankind which seemed to be
bound together if only for a few hours.
They were the South—just as much as
the so-covered trees and red clay embankments.
They were the people of the
those tin-topped homes lining the highways.
. .the people who lived in the small
.towns where only the buses seemed to
pass.. they were the people I had come
to love.. .they were the South I finally
discovered.
Ever been to an SGA Senate meeting?
The Student Senate met Monday; were
you there? No.
All counted, there were three spectators
at the public meeting: myself,
Dean Ragan, who attends every meeting
since he is the Senate's adviser and a girl
who was covering the meeting for her reporting
class.
Other than that, there were no other
students present. The only way anyone
else would find out about Monday's meeting
would be to read The Plainsman's
story on the meeting, if they cared
enough to do that.
It's really a shame that no one cares
enough to come to the meetings, because
this year's Senate has done things that I
think merit at least some attention from
the student body.
They have passed the Campus Solicitation
Law, which will protect you, the
student, as a consumer from door-to-door
salesmen, or from tennis and swimming
instructors who make a profit giving lessons
on free University property.
They are presently considering a bill
which would give the cheerleaders more
voice in selecting their sponsor and rules
and regulations.
The resolutions they have passed voice
students' opinions, but students aren't
there when these resolutions are passed.
They have condemned the practice of
triples in women's dormitories.
The Senate has urged the Administration
to rectify safety hazards at Lang-don
Hall, where the free movies are
shown.
' A permanent coffeehouse at the Auburn
Union Building for daily entertainment
for the Auburn students was also
suggested.
The Senate has urged the University
administration to get their rear ends in
gear and begin implementing the Title
IX guidelines concerning unequal rules
in men's and women's dormitories now,
and not wait until the last minute.
A change in the calendar which would
end fall quarter at Thanksgiving, a matter
on the minds of many Auburn students,
has also been requested.
Sick of seeing the Pinkerton men and
the policemen hassling the students and
not the alumni for drinking at football <
games? So is the Senate, and they have
condemned this practice also.
Where were you when all this happened?
If the SGA was hoping that the an-swer
for this lack of student interest
would be revealed by the results of the
poll given on SGA Awareness Day, they
were mistaken, because the results given
by the students were so contradictory
and paradoxical that it made me wonder
if the students cared enough to answer
the questions conscientiously.
Consider this: 63 per cent of the
approximately 200 students polled answered
that they voted in the last election,
but only 27 per cent knew who their
representative was, a sudden drop in interest.
The SGAis a functioning body, according
to 69 per cent of the surveyed students,
but only 45 per cent of the students
felt they had a voice in this "functioning"
group.
SGA Awareness Day was worth the effort,
according to 72 per cent of the students
but only 49 per cent of the students
came out of this worthwhile effort recognizing
the functions of the SGA.
DOONESBURY
Apparently Auburn students will do
anything for a free snowcone.
Auburn students should simply start
coming to the Student Senate meetings,
to see they do have a voice in the SGA,
and the Senate is concerned with the students
gripes.
Also, if more students came to their
meetings, the SGA would appear to the
administration to truly represent the students.
Therefore, the adminstration would
respect the Senate's decisions more, and
the two could work together to possibly
produce some of the changes students
want.
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Letters Jon ^m^
On witchcraft
...'She didn't find answers9
Editor, The Plainsman:
The article, "Witchcraft Differs From
Popular Notion," in last week's
Plainsman was very interesting. I am a
born-again believer in Jesus Christ, by
God's grace, and the article interested me
because df my lack of knowledge of
witchcraft. I didn't learn much from
reading it. One thing that I did receive
from it, though, was a confirmation of
my belief in Jesus Christ as the only an-swer|
tothe questions and problems in life
that confront a person.
It was interesting to note that Marie
McCann found the answers to those
questions and problems neither in religion
nor in her witchcraft, since she is
not "very active in the craft down here."
The reason why it was so interesting
was because it is the truth—man or
woman will never have a true peace or experience
a truly fulfilling life until they
invite Jesus Christ into their life and allow
Jesus to live in and through themv
Marie is sensitive to people condemning
her for her beliefs; I do notcondemn
her because I, too, at one time was not in
God's light. God also doesn't condemn
her now, "For God so loved the world that
he gave his one and only Son, that whoever
believes in him shall riot perish but
have everlasting life.
"For God did not send his Son into the
world to condemn the world, but to save
the worldT through him. Whoever believes
in Him is not condemned, but whoever
does not believe stands condemned
already because he has not believed in
the name of God's one and only Son."
I ask Marie or anyone else to look at
what they believe and then see what God
has said inHls Word about life! I am sure
they will see the truth because God has
promised, "And you will seek Me and
find Me, when you search for Me with all
your heart."
John M. Henderson III
4AR
...'Began to feel trapped9
Editor, The Plainsman:
I am a born-again believer in Jesus
Christ by His grace, and I am writing in
response to the article on witchcraft in
last week's Plainsman, in hope that my
experience in the occult will be of some influence
on Marie.
I first got involved with the occult
world because I was spiritually weary
and curious of what was in the spiritual
realm. I studied white magic under my
roommate in high school who was a master
of Indian magic (American Indian.).
As I got more involved in the art, I
began to find myself trapped. I could not
put down my craft, for then I would be
vulnerable to attack on that spiritual
plane, and the farther I developed my
craft, the more vulnerable I became if I
put it down.
I had accepted my fate until on Oct. 16,
1974, I went to a Bible study in Mag
Dorm, which I had heard of only about
an hour before. After the study, I stayed
to talk with the leader of the study, Vann
Smith.
For some reason, I told him of my dealing
in the occult, after which he told me
how I could have a personal relationship
with Jesus Christ, and how in accepting
Christ as my personal Lord and Savior, I
would be free from the chain that bound
me to the occult world. That night I
prayed to receive Christ. Since then I
have grown in the Lord and his great
love, which I cannot help but share.
I write this not to condemn Marie, but
in hope that it might be a light showing
the Truth, the Way, and the LifeXJohn
14:6) so she may see them, and I pray
that God will use this letter to touch her
heart.
Steven Schaffer
1SMH
• •• 'Christ is only mediator9
Editor, The Plainsman:
This is in response to the article written
on witchcraft in the Oct. 30
Plainsman. It stated that witches and
witchcraft are not used for evil but only
good. I would like to point out what the
Word of God has to say about witches
' and wizards. (Wizard is used in the Bible
as the masculine form of witch, The Compact
Topical Bible, page 518.)
In exodus 20:2-3, God says, "I am the
Lord your God who brought you out of
the land of Egypt out of the house of
bondage. You shall have no other gods
before me." In the article it was stated
that witches have two gods, the Great
Horned God and Ishtar.
There is only one mediator between
man and God and that mediator is Jesus.
1 Timothy 2: 5-6 states, "For there is one
God and there is one mediator between
God and men, the man Christ Jesus who
gave himself as a ransom for all, the
testimony to which was borne at . the
proper time."
It is obvious that witchcraft is trying to
use another mediator to God. While the
members of this faith say that witchcraft
is not of Satan, they are being deceived.
Satan is their god because this
faith believes and does things contrary
to the Word of God. Second Corinthians
11:14-15 says, "And no wonder for even
Satan disguises himself as an angel of
light, so it is not strange if his servants
also disguise themselves as servants of
righteousness. Their end will correspond
to their deeds.
As I quoted above, there is only one
mediator between man and God, Jesus
Christ. The way to this mediator is to receive
Jesus as your Lord and Savior.
Revelations 3:20 states the simplicity of
this, "Behold, I stand at the door and
knock, if anyone hears my voice and
opens the door, I will come into him and
sup with him and he with me."
We as individuals must invite Him into
our hearts. Jesus can only come into your
heart through the Holy Spirit of God, and
then He gives us the spiritual insight to
see that witchcraft is not of God.
Tommy Turpin
4AC
Editor, The Plainsman:
I notice that the male editor of The
PlainsMAN doesn't think the DiOrio-
Hudson suggestion, that a woman be appointed
to fill the proposed new Vice-
President for Student Affairs position, is
in the "true spirit" of HEW Title IX guidelines.
What else is new?
If the suggestion is followed, the Administrative
Council of the University
will consist of 15 men and one woman instead
of the present 16 men and one
woman, giving women 6.25 per cent
representation instead of the present 5.88
per cent. The editor thinks this is discrimination
on the basis of sex.
So do I.
Fran French
Assistant Professor
Sociology and Anthropology 1 WElUWwi^minfttMrWSo^^ '
Shoplifting paranoia displaces courtesy
Editor.The Plainsman:
Wednesday, Oct. 22, my roommate and
, I were accused of shoplifting from the
"Vogue" store in the Village Mall.
The two of us were accused of stealing
one bra.
We had stopped at "Vogue" to look for
clothes to wear to the Bachman-Turner
Overdrive concert. I found two nylon
tops, one of which was low-cut. On the
way back to the dressing room, I picked
up a low-cut bra to wear underneath the
top. The material clung to that bra too
much, so the salesgirl brought me
another one. The second one didn't work
either.
My roommate took both bras back out,
and I paid for the two tops. As I was
writing the check, the salesgirl, a sweet
young thing, beamed at me and asked,
"You did bring those bras back out,
didn't you?" My roommate said yes, she
did, and we left the store.
They want
to stand up
and boogie
Editor, The Plainsman:
Ms. Charlotte Davis seems to be at a
loss to explain the poor attendance at
Auburn concerts and is astonished that
students are willing to drive hundreds of
miles to see entertainers at someplace
other than Auburn. Perhaps I can enlighten
her.
Could it be that students are not willing
to subject themselves to the environment
of the Coliseum? Could it be the
platoons of guards and ushers who roam
the aisles like disembodied spirits? Could
it be that you can't smoke? Could it be
that you can't drink? .
Could it be that you can't stand up and
boogie? Could it be that you can't approach
the stage? Could it be that you
would be busted instantly if you smoked
pot? Could it be that the vibes here are
so repressive that the enjoyment is nullified?
There are those at Auburn that don't
smoke, drink, dance, stand or boogie at
concerts. In my estimation there are
about four thousand of them. None can
deny that Johnny Cash was a great success
at Folsum Prison, but I'm not willing
to go to jail to see him.
Gary Wagoner
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We had gotten halfway down the mall
when we were stopped by a' matronly
woman who had hovered about us while
we were in the store. She said, "Will you
turn around and go back to Vogue?" We
marched back. As soon as we walked in,
the sweet young thing chirped, "Wait a
minute, maybe I didn't give her the one in
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The matronly woman proceeded to
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Since nothing turned up from the
search, we were told that we could go.
None of the salespeople apologized. Not
one of "Vogue's" employes said they
were sorry if they had caused us any embarrassment.
Later, my roommate and I realized
how ridiculous this whole thing was.
What is not so funny, is that the
Vogue's shoplifting paranoia takes precedence
over common courtesy.
Jeanne Holland
2GJM
His Christian faith beats
transcendental meditation
Editor, The Plainsman:
The recent interest in transcendental
meditation—posters in Haley, a table
and two meetings in the Union and an
article in the Auburn-Opelika
News—has prompted me to further
investigation. Students claim to experience
a sense of well being, get better rest,
achieve higher levels of creativity and
efficiency, and reduce their oxygen consumption
by obtaining the "fourth level
- of consciousness." All for a $65 starter
lesson.
As a Ph. D. candidate I, too, am concerned
about ways to better my academic
performance. In my life I have
found that a personal relationship with
Jesus Christ has provided me with these
same results plus assurance of the for--!
giveness of my sins and of eternal life. Je- .;
sus always gave an all-out effort and said ,
that when He came into my life I might
gain the same drive that he has.
Starting this relationship by inviting .
Jesus Christ to be Lord and Savior of {J
your life doesn't cost anything. It's free g
. for the asking. S-Tim
McKittrick
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THE AUBURN PUINSMMI ThUr8., Nov. e. 1975 gg* g
Head of Bell recalls A uburn
1928 ALUM WANTED THE BEST
.Frank M. Malone keeps up with Auburn
By Betty Douglas
Plainsman Staff Writer
"Yes indeed, I keep up with
Auburn," was the snappy reply
from Frank M, Malone,
past president of Southern
Bell, and an Auburn
graduate.
Malone, a member of the
c l a s s of '28, rose to
prominence in the business
world with the Bell System,
before retiring in 1974, after
46 years of service.
It is little wonder that the
Bell system would have hired
Malone, for his resume must
have sounded like an activity
roster.
He divided his time between
Spades, Blue Key and
Scarabs (all senior leadership
groups), the band, for which
he played clarinet for four
years, and R.O.T.C., to name
a few. Yet, his social life
probably did not suffer, since
he was president of his fraternity,
Alpha Tau Omega.
But in light of all this, he
modestly says he had little
time to get involved in activities
since he worked at the
Bank of Auburn for three of
his four college years.
Malone came to the Plains
from his hometown of
Florence, Ala., because, "I
wanted the best engineering
degree I could get."
After graduating in '28 with
a B.S. degree, Malone went
directly to work with
Southern Bell. In 1965, he
Women drawn to ROTC opportunities
By Jane Parry
Plainsman Staff Writer
This year more Auburn University
women are in ROTC
than ever before. The reason
for this situation, according
to Professor of Military
Science Col. Awbrey Norris,
is because women are becoming
smarter and are taking
advantage of the wider range
of opportunities offered to
them.
Approximately 20
women —with 13 of them
from the freshman class—are '
in Air Force ROTC, said
senior Air Force ROTC instructor
Maj. Pete Henderson.
These women, Henderson
said, participate in class and
laboratory exercises which
consist of some drilling but
mostly listening to speakers,
watching movies about the
Air Force or participating in
Air Force-related projects.
"Women are not treated
differently from the men; they
carry their share of the
workload," Henderson said.
Rank in ROTC teaches
duties and relationships of officers
and is used only for instructional
purposes, Henderson
said. The highest-ranked
woman in Air Force ROTC, he
added, is Jean Calhoun,
4DOA, a cadet captain.
Henderson described the
situation for Air Force ROTC
graduates, saying they are
commissioned as second
lieutenants during the
graduation ceremony. After
one and one-half years of service
they automatically are
promoted to first lieutenants.
Starting salaries are around
$10,000 a year, Henderson
said.
"Because of a congressional
ruling which says
that women cannot be put in
combat positions, women in
the Air Force cannot be pilots
or missile officers," Henderson
said. "However, they can
hold any other Air Force job,"
he remarked.
"Auburn University's
Naval ROTC program has
only three women, who are all
freshmen," said professor of
Naval Science, Col. Jimmie
Duncan. These women, he
added, train just like the men
in drilling and rifle carrying.
"Upon graduation Naval
ROTC members will be commissioned
as ensigns and will
then go to an officers' candidate
school," Duncan said.
"Women in the Navy," he continued,
" can hold a number of
jobs, but they cannot be
aviators or work on ships on
the battle line."
Norris said about 15 girls,
who are mostly freshmen, are
in the Army ROTC. They take
courses with the men in
leadership training, riflery,
basic tactics, map reading
and physical fitness. All
Army ROTC graduates leave
Auburn University with
ranks of second lieutenant
and then attend basic corps
training, according to Norris.
Auburn University's
Marine ROTC program has
no women, Duncan said.
became president, a position
he held for five years. During
these years, he was instrumental
in splitting the
company into its present form
of Southern Bell and South
Central Bell. Malone served
as the new company's first
chairman of the board till
March 1974.
API Homecoming
may have been first
The first organized college
Homecoming in the country
took place at Auburn University
(then Alabama Polytechnic
Institute) in 1913, if the
first president of the Auburn
Alumni Association is to be
believed.
"This is the first time in the
history of any American institution
that any such invitation
has gone out to its former
students," Thomas
Bragg wrote in the first issue
of the Alumni Quarterly in
1912.
The "Grand Home Coming"
was planned for June 1-
4, and in future issues was
dubbed the "Home Coming
Movement" by enthusiastic
press and alumni,
i
One thousand to 1,500 students
(the actual number of
graduates) were expected
from the 9,000 former students,
and sleeping quarters
were offered free of charge,
with meals to be furnished at
Smith Dining Hall "at minimum
costs."
Reduced rates on the railroads
were being explored,
and class reunions were to be
instigated.
At least 5000 alumni registered
for the event, which
began on a Sunday planned
for the 41st commencement of
the institutuion. The honorable
William Jennings Bryan,
secretary of state, was
scheduled to speak but
couldn't get away. The bac-caluareate
orator missed his
train, but "other speakers filled
in with inspiring rhetoric."
Twenty-four states were represented,
including "all of
the Southern 'States," and
Sunday afternoon was spent
in reminiscing by oldtimers
"who remembered a terrific
storm which came near to
making a clean sweep of Auburn
during the last years of
the Civil War, which carried
the Baptist Church away
without injuring the score of
wounded Confederate soldiers
housed there."
Monday was the "Day of
Welcome" with more speeches
and a baseball game between
alumni and "youngsters."
The score was 37-25 in
favor of the students. There
was also a lavish president's
reception and a Festival of
Lights.
On Tuesday the alumni
met It had already been noted
in the Quarterly that "Auburn
men make $75 to $125 a
month," and the treasurer reported
a balance of $10,000,
"for the mutual benefit of the
institution and alumni."
A banquet with barbecue,
"the only true Southern food,"
followed, and the Grand
Home Coming concluded
with alumni orations and
prizes to students.
W.H. McBride, class of'97,
came the farthest—from Pinole,
Cal. The Rev. W.F. Glenn
of Atlanta; class of '60, was
the oldest alumni.
Although no longer active
with the Bell System, he
maintains directorship of six
corporations, is vice president
of the Atlanta Arts Alliance
(he has a strong interest in
arts) and is a member of the
Board of Trustees for Emory
University and Young Harris
College in north Georgia.
His activities do not exclude
his Alma Mater. "I'm still
quite interested in the University
and continue to support
the Auburn Foundation." He
also served as president of the
Alumni Association in 1949-
50.
Malone says he makes
several visits to the campus a
year, noting that his last trip
was to the season opener
against Memphis State. "But
unfortunately I can't make it
there this weekend (for the
Homecoming game)," he added.
Malone Bays he knows
Coach Ralph "Shug" Jordan
and had a most favorable
comment to make about the
"legend." "He is a great man;
a gentleman of the first order
and highly respected by
' everyone, Auburn and non-
Auburn people."
Reflecting on the football
season, Malone said he had
watched Auburn football
come and go for over 50 years.
He philosophized that the
fans will just have to take the
bad with the good. "Of course,
the season hasn't been what
we expected, but," he
predicted confidently, "Well
come around again—
someday."
Malone now lives in the
northeast section of Atlanta
with his wife of 42 years, the
former Mary Evans Bailee.
("She was my high school
sweetheart.")
Malone commented that
1928 was a long time ago, but
it's obvious that he still
remembers some things over
the 47 years.
The campus was small
(about 1500 people) during
Malone's years and Ramsay
Hall was the newest building
on campus. "There were fewer
pretty girls then, no..."
Malone reconsidered, "There
were fewer girls, but they were
all beautiful."
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Bullets
Hollow points create controversy
By Nancy Evans
Plainsman Staff Writer
Because each individual officer on the Auburn police force
provides his own ammunition, Bob Williams, chief of the
Administrative Division of the department, said he didn't know
if local police were using hollow point bullets.
Recent controversy has surrounded the use of hollow point
ammunition, sometimes called dura dum bullets. Many police
officers say they need the added knock-down power which
hollow points provide, while civil liberties groups say the bullets
are "inhumane."
Hollow point ammunition expands upon impact, creating a
larger wound in the person being struck. It is often used to hunt
large game, such as deer because of its superior knock-down
power.
Williams said he felt that since each officer purchased his
own ammunition, the selection of the type of gun and ammunition
should be left to the discretion of each policeman.
A city police officer said most policemen used .357 magnums,
with a few using hollow points.
The use of hollow point ammunition has brought about
several arguments pro and con. "The question of hollow points
is easy to talk about sitting in an air conditioned office, away
from the action," said Williams, "but, when you're out there and
somebody's shooting at you, it's for real."
To emphasize the danger that a policeman faces in dealing
with armed criminals, Williams cited an incident that happened
several years ago in which a man fired a shotgun at a policeman.
According to Williams, the policeman shot and wounded
the man in the chest, but the man was able to shoot again at the
policeman.
Because the criminal has access to everything, Williams said
in order for policemen to offer adequate protection, they
need to possess the equipment "they" deem necessary to carry
out the job effectively. -
"An officer won't point a gun unless someone has something
dangerous aimed at him or another person. If someone is fixing
to shoot, it's better to stop him first."
Rick Halperin, a representative of the American Civil Liberties
Union in Auburn, said he felt that the use of .357 magnums
was uncalled for, and added, "I'm definitely opposed to the use
of hollow points. They are unjustifiable under any circumstances,
especially in a college town like Auburn."
According to Williams, the controversy over hollow points
has not really come to the surface in Auburn. One of the main
reasons, Williams said, is that the Auburn police rarely have
occation to shoot.
Williams estimated that Auburn police actually fire a gun at
somebody about once a year. However, he said he feels that police
should have adequate weapons to handle any situation that
may arise.
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By Bonita Apperson
Plainsman Staff Writer
Daily comments like, "How
many times do I have to drive
around this block before I find
a place to park?" are frequently
heard from students
and faculty alike.
More vehicles are registered
this year than there
are parking spaces available.
About 6,000 parking spaces
are available for the approximately
13,685 vehicles registered,
according to Chief
Dawson of the University
Security Police. He added,
"More cars have been registered
since Oct. 6, but not
enough to matter."
Changes in the zoning has
caused some of the problems.
Two "A" zone parking lots
have been changed to "B"
zone lots for the benefit of the
secretaries, but, according to
Dr. Ian Hardin, a member of
the University Committee on
Parking and Traffic, this has
not alleviated the situation.
Employes with ten continuous
years of service at Auburn
can now park in "A"
zones and those employes
with less than ten years service
park in "B" zones.
Registered faculty cars outnumber
parking spaces by
over 2000 so that they have to
take student parking spaces.
"It is futile to try to satisfy
those who raise the issue of
lack of parking spaces," Hardin
said. He said he believes
there is no solution to the problem
of lack of parking
spaces. Hardin was an Auburn
student from 1961 to
1965 and he says that the
parking situation was the
same then as it is now.
"Whatever solution is arrived
at will not make too
many more than half the people
happy," Hardin said.
The University Committee
on Traffic and Parking has offered
a solution, though it is
intended to benefit University
employees and not students.
The SGA Committee on
Traffic and Parking is trying
to solve some of the immediate
problems. Layne Car-ruth,
chairman of the committee,
said the University
Committee is starting to
develop a large-scale map of
parking areas and outline the
problem areas.
The SGA Committee on
Traffic and Parking is planning
a Pedestrian Week for later
this year. During this
week, part of Thach Street in
front of Haley Center and the
Union Building, and the section
of Roosevelt in front of
Parker Hall will be blocked
off.
The traffic will be rerouted
away from the center of cam-ous,
which would remove 60
'{paces currently being used.
If the blocks were made permanent,
it would alleviate
some of the heavier traffic
flow.
Carruth said, "The American
Society of Civil Engineers
is collecting data on
where people are going in .
automobiles, bicyles, where
pedestrians are walking to,
and data on the effect of traffic
from the University on the
town of Aubum. This will
help us decide on the best
course to take."
Other suggestions are a
one-way street traffic system
using a tramway system,
shuttle buses, or a network of
bicycle paths. Carruth said
that if the tramway system or
shuttle bus is used, most
parking would be on the
fringes of the campus. Then,
parking fees would probably
be raised and would be paid
on a quarterly basis, "tramway
routes for Auburn campus
have already been worked
out, Carruth added.
The SGA is also trying to
set slanted parking spaces in
front of dorms A,Hand Dand
take out three parking
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William Guerin, University
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"When the new Architecture
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The problem with a parking
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"The legislature is not willing
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any more buildings on campus,"
said Hardin. "Also, it
could raise parking fees, since
the cost for one car stall is
$2000."
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Shug Jordan
Not to be forgotten
« By Tim Lockhart
Features Editor >
When Ralph "Shug" Jordan came to the Plains in 1951 to be
head coach of the Auburn Tigers, "he was obviously very sincere
about rebuilding the Auburn football program," according
to Auburn Athletic Director Lee Hayley.
"It was obvious he had one thing in mind when he came
here," Hayley said. "He wanted to take Auburn straight to the
top."
Hayley played end under Jordan in 1951 and caught the
touchdown pass which gave Auburn a 14-13 victory over Florida
in Jordan's first Homecoming game.
"He demanded and got the very best from all of us," Hayley
said. "It was a lot of tough, hard work—but we went on to enjoy
the fruits of that labor."
Hayley described Jordan as "always fair" with him, and said
that Jordan always stuck with him throughout Hayley's coaching
career.
Speaking of Jordan as a "living legend of Auburn spirit,"
Hayley said, "He's been the rallying point for Auburn people
throughout the years.
"Fair but firm," Hayley said, "that's how I remember him."
Dr. Lloyd Nix, now a dentist in Decatur, Ala., was the quarterback
of the 1957 team which Jordan led to the national
championship.
Describing Jordan as "loyal to his coaching staff," Nix said
that Jordan always had time to speak to people he knew and to
• say hello.
"He was always the gentleman he is now," Nix said. "He was
always honest and straightfoward with you."
"He's meant an awful lot to the people who've played for
him," Nix said, "because he encourages people to do whatever
they want to. He wants people to do the very best they can—
both on and off the field."
Nix said the players on the 1957 team didn't think about the
possibility of winning the national championship until the season
"was almost half over."
"We just kept working out and up," laughed Nix.
Nix talked about the 1957 game when Auburn beat Houston
there 48-7.
"It seemed like we scored nearly every time we had the ball,"
said Nix. "But close to the end of the first half we had the ball
down near the goal line and Coach Jordan called me over to the
sidelines.
'"Just get the ball in the end zone, Lloyd,' he told me. Well, I
dropped back and passed—but the other team intercepted it and
ran it all the way back for a touchdown. Naturally, I felt real
bad about it."
Nix said Jordan came over to him then as the teams were
leaving the field and just said, "Lloyd, I meant our end zone."
"He got his point across and didn't make me feel bad doing
it," said Nix. "He's kind to everyone and always has been. I
don't know of any other coach who will visit alumni like Shug
will."
Referring to Jordan's contribution to Auburn University, Nix
said, "All of Coach Jordan's records and statistics will be forgotten.
But the man himself will never be forgotten."
Tight end and co-captain of the 1975 Tiger football team Ed
Butler said of Jordan, "He's always interested in talking to the
players.
"You know where you stand with him," Butler said. "He tells
you exactly how he.feels."
Butler said Jordan is "pretty quiet on the practice field, but
when he says something, everybody listens."
"He always emphasizes that we have to prove ourselves
every year," Butler said. "He tells us we can't rest on our past
performances."
Butler added that when Jordan talks about winning, he
speaks of winning for the team, not for the coaches.
"He always has a little story the day before the game to help
us get up for it," said Butler.
Recalling an incident in last week's Florida game, Butler
said, "The referee gave us the five-minute warning to be out on
the field, and when our captains went out there, the Florida captains
weren't on the field.
"Jordan went up to the official and said, 'Our captains are out
here and the Florida captains aren't. What are you going to do
about it? I dunk you should do something about it.' "
Butler added, "You have to be careful when you don't know
what he's thinking. That's when you have to watch out.
"He knows what he's doing," Butler concluded, "and that's
why he commands a lot of respect."
YESTERDAY AND TODAY-COACH JORDAN SHOWN IN 1951 (LEFT) AND IN 1975 (RIGHT)
. . .Jordan's coaching career spans 25 years at Auburn University
Jordan returns to the Plains
Homecoming
People and
Traditions
Auburn's homecoming
Shug's first and last
' Reprinted ' from the
-Auburn Plainsman,
• ; October 12, 1951
By Dave Laney
Plainsman Staff Writer
The Auburn-Florida football
game, fraternity decorations,
and the desi re to see old
friends will draw thousands
of Auburn alumni and former
students into the Ixjvliest Village
this week end for the
Homecoming festivities. In
addition to the two alumni-student
dances, at which the
Auburn Knights will play,
numerous other functions for
alumni and students will be
featured in the three-day
period. The sponsor of the
gala activities is Blue Key,
n a t i o n a l leadership
honorary.
For the alumni the week
end will start with registration
in the alumni office in the
textile engineering building
Friday afternoon. Following
registration the old grads will
be taken on a tour of the campus
and fraternity decorations
and then on to the Florida
pep rally at 7 p.m. Afterthe
pep rally, they will attend the
alumni open house at Dairy-land
or the first of two homecoming
dances in the student
activities building.
Members of the classes of
1901 and 1926 will hold their
50th and 25th class reunions,
respectively, during' the week •
end, convening for dinner tonight
and for a luncheon
Saturday. Tomorrow morning,
the Auburn band alumni
will have a club breakfast
at the Pitts Hotel, while the
Auburn Alumni Association
is holding a business meeting
and luncheon.
By Betty Douglass
Plainsman Staff Writer
Fraternity decorations, the
desire to see old friends and,
this year, the Auburn-
Mississippi State football
game will again draw
thousands of Auburn alumni
into the Loveliest Village for
the 1975 Homecoming weekend.
And not unlike 1951, Ralph
"Shug" Jordan's first season
as Auburn head coach, the
weekend is packed with many
varied events for the old and
new graduates.
Special guests for this
year's festivities are the members
of the Class of 1925, who
celebrate their 50th reunion
tomorrow and Saturday.
According to Kaye Lov-vorn,
editor of the "Alum'
News," registration begins
Friday afternoon in the area
of the Union Building overlooking
the War Eagle Cafe-taria.
But unlike 1951, this year's
Friday night activities are
limited to an Alumni Association
Dinner in the UB and
the Dionne Warwicke Homecoming
concert at 8 p.m.
The Saturday morning
events have changed little
during the Jordan Era. Coffee
will be served in the main
lobby of the Union Building,
with the 1925 class members
having a group picture made
at 9:30 a.m.
A pre-game luncheon is
scheduled in the Ballroom before
the the Tiger-Bulldog
clash at Jordan-Hare
Stadium.
That night the class dinner..
at the Heart of Auburn Motel
will conclude the weekend's
activities.
Registration and events
have been geared more
toward the reunion classes in
the past few years. Eleanor
Walton, of the Auburn Alumni
Association office, attributes
this to the increased
independence among the
alumni, especially the more
recent graduates.
"The older classes still get
together to tell tall tales, but
there's not as much togetherness
in the younger classes,"
she said. "They want to go
their way."
By the way, in 1951:
Auburn won the football
game, with Florida, 14-13, on
a thrilling touchdown pass to
Lee Haley, now Auburn
Athletic Director. The pass
came with just three minutes
left to play. A record crowd of
22,500 watched the upset of
the heavily favored Gators.
Theta Chi fraternity won
the decorations contest. Now
there is no money limit on the
Homecoming decorations like
the $50 in '51.
The Blue Key was a leadership
honorary for outstanding
junior and senior men
until 1962 when the local
chapter chose to merge with
ODK.
The Dairyland was a big
red barn located where the
Village Mall now stands. It
discontinued its open house
several years ago when,
according to an old grad, the
students and townspeople
started taking advantage of
the free food.
And, the Pitts Hotel is now
a vacant lot uptown across
from Campus Drugs.
Reprinted from the
Auburn Plainsman,
October 12,1951
By Phil Harrison
Plainsman Staff Writer
Auburn alumni can boast of having several ex-Plainsmen
['serving on the Auburn coaching staff. But when the board of
J directors disclosed the signing of a new head football coach on
j February 26, the old grads really had a backing to their
[braggartry.
Ralph "Shug" Jordan has taken the role of the sandman who
has changed the nightmares of Auburn rooters into pleasant
dreams. He replaced Earl Brown in the spring to take over a
team which had compiled a record of three wins, 22 losses, and
four ties. Jordan has already begun movements to remedy this
deficit, guiding his athletes through the first two games of'51 to
I come out victorious in both.
1 The 41-year-old mentor was born in Selma on Sept. 25,1910.
During his childhood, he acquired the nickname Shug because
'of his fondness for sugar cane, and the name has stuck with
him throughout his career.
Jordan began his brilliant playing career at Selma High
' School, starring in football, baseball, basketball and track. He
was elected captain by his teammates of both the football and
basketball squads.
After entering Auburn in 1928 as a civil engineering student,
Shug not only kept his athletic pace but also a top-notch scholastic
student. He received his freshman numerals in all four of
the sports in which he had starred in high school. However, he
gave up track after his freshman year because as head coach
Wilbur Hutsell said, "It's just plain confusing teaching a lefthander
how to throw a discus."
Moving up to the sophomore class, Jordan quickly
established himself as Auburn's stalwart center. He was also
high-scorer in the old Southern Conference as a forward on the
1929 edition of the Tiger cagers. As if this weren't enough, Shug
was also a dangerous southpaw pitcher on the diamond. In his
senior year, he hurled a 2-1 victory over Florida for the SEC
Championship.
During his stay at Auburn as a student, Ralph Jordan was
named to Spades, Scabbard and Blade, and Blue Key, in adoption
to membership in the A Club and Theta Chi fraternity.
Jordan was appointed freshman football coach following
graduation. He was promoted to the varsity staff as assistant
under Jack Meagher and tutored the centers. As proof of his
natural coaching ability, Shug brought three Auburn centers to
All-Conference recognition: namely: Walter Gilbert, Lester
Antley, and Tex Williams.
Uncle Sam interrupted Coach Jordan's career in 1942 and
Shug served his country in the European, Mediterranean, and
Pacific theatres. He was honorably discharged in October
1945, as a major, the recipient of the Purple Heart and the
Bronze Star.
Jordan wasted no time in getting reinstated at Auburn, and
he did most of the scouting during the '45 season for the Tigers.
He was named head basketball coach for the 45-46 term, but after
the season he shifted to the professional Miami Seahawks to
be again under his old friend Jack Meagher as assistant coach.
Another move in mid-season saw Shug transfer to Georgia as
Wally Butts' aide and as the Bulldogs' head basketball mentor.
Moved up in 1949 as head line coach due to Coach "Ears"
Whitworth's resignation, Coach Jordan figured he was in
Athens to stay. But the spring of 1951 found the A.P.I,
alumnus back at the Lovliest Village getting prepared to face a
tough fall schedule.
Immediately after* his appointment, Shug named his former
teammate, Shot Senn, as his line coach. Shot and Shug were
the respective end and center on the last undefeated Auburn
team, the 1932 Tigers. Jordanquicklybrought up two other ex-
Auburn stars in his staff. Joel Eaves was selected as chief scout
and Dick McGowan was appointed head freshman coach.
The booming start the Tigers made this year shows that they
had definitely worked hard, as their coach is a firm believer in
conditioning. Jordan began his proposed building program in
excellent fashion. Coach Jordan is especially interested in
promising sophs and freshmen who can benefit the team in the
future.
The student body is already becoming more familiar and
more fond of the curly-headed, friendly gentleman as the overwhelming
round of applause proved when he stepped up to
speak at the Vandy pep rally. With the toughest games of the
season yet to come, the peppiest Auburn spirit in years will be
backing one Ralph Jordan, Auburn's recent discovery of a wise
master.
Stadium grew in Beard-Jordan Era
By Marian Hollon
Asst. Feature Editor
Ralph "Shug" Jordan, head
football coach and associate
director of Athletics and Jeff
Beard, athletic director when
Jordan first started as coach
at Auburn, have both had a
profound impact on Auburn
football.
But few people realize that
these men began an era which
saw the Tiger's game site
moved from Drake Field,
where the Haley Center parking
lot is now, to 61,000-seat
Jordan-Hare Stadium.
The Beard-Jordan era
witnessed the building of two-thirds,
exactly 39,710, of the
stadium's seats.
This construction began in
when 7,290 permanent
seats were built on the west
side of the field. The Auburn-
Florida game, which ended in
a 7.-7. tie, was the first game
played in the stadium.
The following year, 4,500
seats were added to make the
east stands, at a cost of $10,-
000. The addition was completed
just before Auburn's
Homecoming game with
Clemson.
Fourteen thousand permanent
seats were added on the
east side just before the
dedication of Cliff Hare
Stadium in 1949. This addition
replaced the 4,500 seats
built in 1949. The seats now
totaled 21,290.
This was the stadium that
Jeff Beard inherited when he
took command of the Auburn
athletic program in 1951.
Auburn football began the
50s poorly, but the strategy
used by Beard helped correct
the problem.
An old Auburn classmate of
Beard's, Ralph Jordan, then
line coach at Georgia, was
called to coach the Tigers.
The first year of bis career
at Auburn, Jordan led the
team, which had a 0-10 record
in 1950, to a 5-5 record.
Two years later Auburn
went to the Gator Bowl.
The Cliff Hare Stadium of
1955 had a west stand seating
capacity of 19,000 and the
South's finest working press
box.
The stadium now had 34,-
000 seats and was the base for
Jordan's 1957 National
Championship team and unbeaten
1958 team.
Auburn's football continuously
improved and
Beard began plans to enlarge
the stadium for a fourth time.
The seating capacity, after
the enclosure of the south end
zone, was 44,500. Crowds continued
to be attracted by the
Auburn team and loyal fans
were content to be seated on
the Bermuda grass banks of
the stadium.
Auburn has been almost
unbeatable in Cliff Hare
Stadium, with a 62-7-1 record
at home since 1951.
Such success resulted in
even more seating-an additional
16,500 seats were
built in the north end zone.
This 1970 project led to a
61,000-seat capacity.
Walter Gilbert made Hall of Fame
By Jane Pitts
Plainsman Staff Writer
Auburn is famous for its
many great football players
and one of the most famous of
these is Walter Gilbert, the
All-American captain of the
1936 football team.
Gilbert was admitted into
the National Football Hall of
. Fame (located at Rutgers University
in New Brunswick, N.
i J.) during the homecoming
half-time in 1956.
He was the third War Eagle
to enter the Hall of Fame.
Former Coach Mike Donahue
and Ail-American half-back
Jimmy Hitchcock had been
admitted previously. '
After playing tackle and
center on the freshman team,
Gilbert moved to center permanently
when he joined the
varsity squad. He was named
All-SEC three years and Ail-
American two years.
Gilbert was known as a
superb player. Jack Meagher,»
head football coach at that
time, called Gilbert the
greatest center he had ever
seen.
Ralph McGill, former
sports editor of the Atlanta
Constitution, wrote, "Auburn
has in captain Walter Gilbert
a center who can measure
ability with any'pivot man in
the game."
Gilbert remembers football
in the 1930's as being
"tougher on players because
you had to play the whole
game. There weren't as many
substitutions as there are
now.
"I don't think the game,
though, was any rougher
than it is now," he added.
"The most exciting game I
ever played in," he said
recently, "was the Tennessee
game in 1936 in Knox ville. We
won 6-0. Tennessee has
always been a tough
and a good rival. It was very
interesting and exciting
game."
Besides being captain of the
1936 team, Gilbert was president
of the "A" Club and a
member of Pi Kappa Alpha
fraternity,( Spades and'
Omicron Delta Kappa, men's
honor saeisjBv
Gilbert bad the added distinction
of bang captain of
the team that played in the
only recorded bowl game in
which two United States
teams played on foreign soil.
On New Year's Day in 1937,'
Auburn tied Villanova 7*7 in
the Rhumba Bowl in Havana,
Cuba. Auburn's only score
during the hot afternoon
came on a forty-yard run by
Billy Hitchcock.
Gilbert was also a member
of the Auburn track team and, '•
according' to 'former track
Coach Wilbur Hutsell, he
made an outstanding contribution
to that I
"If he had had another year
or two, I think he could have
been a conference contender,"
Hutsell said.
"Gilbert was a very popular
young man throughout his
college years, a wonderful person
in every way and always
considerate of everyone,"
Hutsell added.
After graduating from
Auburn in 1937, Gilbert was
employed by Texaco Oil Company.
He spent four years in
Cuba as manager of Texaco's
Cuban Operations and two
years in Europe as president
of. Texaco's European
Operations.
Gilbert is now living in New
York City as General
Manager of European
Operations; however, he
plans to retire in a few years
and move to Auburn.
"My wifehas some property
out near Chewacla Park and
we plan to build a
there," he said.
JORDAN -HARE STADIUM;] HOME OF THE AUBURN TIGERS
.Jordan's 25 years at Auburn have seen the stadium grow to its present capacity
Photo by Grant Caatleberry
Pace 9 Thurs.. Nov. 6.1975 THE AUBURN PUINSMJW
Auburn's William Tell
started All archery
By Marian Hollon
Asst. Feature Editor
"Both football and baseball at Auburn have been of value in
my career," wrote the late Howard Hill, one of the world's
foremost archers. Hill, an Auburn student from 1920 to 1921,
was established as "the greatest name in archery" as a result of
the shots he performed for Erroll Fiynn in the 1938 movie "The
Adventures of Robin Hood."
Hill not only was responsible for the famous archery in that
film, but also starred in the movie, playing opposite Flynn as
Robin Hood's arch rival.
Hill, a native of Wilson ville, Ala., first gained athletic attention
as a football and basketball letterman at Auburn in the early
20s. He played end and blocking back for the Tigers and also
participated in the baseball and basketball programs.
As a senior end, Hill played for the Tigers, led by Mike
Donahue, and allowed hardly any yardage gains in his area.
One of the highlights of Hill's football career came when he
starred in the game against the famed Centre College team. He
held the players to five yards around his end.
At age 21, while he was a student at Auburn where he earned
the nickname "Mid Cat" from his classmates, Hill married
Elisabeth Hodges of Ashville, Ala
Hill wrote that Auburn was "a lot of fun, a great deal of work
. and a verv sore bottom most of the time."
He wrote about "shaved heads full of scars," perhaps in
reference to the traditions of Auburn fraternities at the time.
Hill mentioned "the fairness and sincerity of all the profs and
the element of fair play shown by all the students. He also
remembered "the nights after a ball game whether we won or
lost." All in all, his "thoughts of Auburn were pleasant."
Many sources report that Hill graduated in 1923 but he wrote
that he left Auburn in the spring of 1922.
Although archery had been an interest of his since the age of 6
because of his father's influence, Hill actually began his archery
career in Florida in 1928 when he set a new flight record
with a bow and arrow.
Hill claimed to have been the first man to shoot an arrow over
400 yards. This feat took Hill to the 1932 Olympics and to three
world's fairs.
Hill won all of the 196 National Open Field Archery Tournaments
he competed in from 1928-1941. He also added seven
national championships to his list of accomplishments.
The famed archer eventually moved to Hollywood where he
produced "The Last Wilderness," the first movie to feature
wildlife and archery.
Hill's performance in this film, which involved his killing an
elephant with one arrow while he rode bareback, resulted in his
gaining the title of "the greatest name in archery."
Hill performed all of the bow shooting in "Robin Hood,"
"Elizabeth of Essex " and "They Died With Their Boots On."
He also appeared in "Dodge City," "Virginia City " and "The
Bandits of Sherwood Forest"
Another production of Hill's, "Tembo," was a feature-length
movie shot in Africa. During the shooting of this film, Hill
bagged a bull elephant with a bow, making him the first white
man to accomplish that feat.
The movie was released in 1951 and ran for five years in the
U.S. and 57 foreign countries.
Other achievements to his credit are 32 short movies for
Warner Brothers and three for Paramount, a series of television
shorts, articles in popular outdoor magazines and two books on
hunting and wild life.
Shortly after retiring to his country home in Shelby County,
Ala., Hill was admitted, along with seven other athletes, to the
Alabama Sports Hall of Fame. A Birmingham News sports
editor once wrote that "never has one man so completely
dominated his sport as Howard Hill."
He thought of Auburn as "the most wonderful college in the
world, not that it has the highest educational standards of any,
necessarily, but the Auburn spirit, which none but an Auburn
man can fully appreciate, cannot be duplicated anywhere else
on earth."
Hill showed this appreciation by giving to Auburn its start in
the archery field and since the time when he was a student,
archery has been a leading sport here at Auburn.
The 20th century's "Robin Hood-William Tell" died of cancer
on Feb. 4,1975,at the age 75.
Mengelt goes pro in the NBA
By John Carvalho
Assistant News Editor
Auburn basketball is bouncing
back thanks to Bob
Davis, Eddie Johnson and
company, but back in the
"lean years" of the early 70s,
Auburn produced the only
Tiger grad to make it in the
pros: John Mengelt.
Mengelt, who plays for the
Detroit Pistons of the
National Basketball Association,
holds the single-season
and career scoring records at
Auburn. He averaged 19.4,
26.8 and 28.4 points a game
during his three years on the
Auburn varsity.
The 6 feet 3 guard from
Elwood, Ind., predicts a
successful season for this
year's Auburn team.
"They'll be at least as good
as last year," he saidlThey'll
probably be in the top 20 in
the pre-season polls, and wort
their way up from there."
His reasons for this predic
tion include strong freshmen
coming up, plus the advantage
Auburn has because no
one graduated.
Mengelt has a lot of respect
for Auburn head coach Bob
Davis.
"I have been friends with
Coach Davis ever since he
coached the team that went to
the World Games. He's a
super coach and a super person."
When Auburn wat
searching for a new head
coach, "I tried my best to help
Coach Davis," Mengelt admitted.
Both Davis and head football
coach Ralph "Shug" Jordan
would also probably appreciate
help from Mengelt in
beating Alabama, considering
Mengelt's luck
against the Crimson Tide.
"Alabama never beat me
when I was at college in two
games on the freshman team
and six on the varsity."
Mengelt missed last year's
Auburn-Alabama game, explaining,
"I'd like to see them
play, but it's been difficult. We
were in Atlanta to play the
night after the Auburn-
Alabama basketball game, so
I missed it."
Basketball in the South is
getting stronger, according to
Mengelt, and one of the
reasons is the more liberal attitudes
toward blacks.
"Since I've left there,
they've been letting the"
blacks play. I wish they could
have played when I was there.
It could have made me a
better player. "
"Instead of the case of a
black basketball player going
to the North to play basketball,
he would stay in the
South," he added.
Mengelt admitted, "Basketball
wasn't as big as football
when I was here, but I think
the football program will be
better because of basketball,
instead of the other way
around."
Mengelt also stressed the
importance of equal emphasis
on every sport.
"You need an all-around
s p o r t s program, with
emphasis on every sport, not
just football, he said. The
sooner you can build them all,
the sooner you can get them
all in the black instead of in
the red."
ONE OF AUBURN'S BEST
. . .Mengelt now plays for Detroit
MASTER ARCHER HOWARD HILL, FORMER AUBURN STUDENT, SITS ATOP HIS PRIZE KILL
. . .Hill's feat, killing a bull elephant with a bow and arrow, helped him to earn the'greatest name in archery '
Sullivan recalls AU
By Gene Vandiver
Plainsman Sports Writer
Pat Sullivan saw his first
Auburn game when he was
barely big enough to sell
cokes in Legion Field and he
vowed then to become an Auburn
Tiger someday. He kept
that vow and became probably
the most famous Auburn
player to ever don the
blue uniform.
Along the way, he managed
to set passing records
that may never be broken and
was named the nation's best
college football player in
1971, the year he won the
Heisman Trophy.
So now it's really ironic that
the man who personified Auburn
football in the late 60s
and early 70s seldom gets to
see the Tigers play.
"That's real unfortunate,"
saS#-Sttllivanv' "The Falcons
practice on Saturday mornings
and by the time it's over,
all I have time to do is go
home and catch the game o'n
the radio."
That doesn't mean Sullivan
isn't interested in Auburn's
football program.
"I keep up with Auburn,"
Sullivan said. "Anybody
who's ever been associated
with Auburn football or with
the Athletic Department definitely
wants to keep up. I'm
no exception."
Sullivan isn't usually remembered
for being on a losing
team.but for being on the
1970 team that lost one of the
two Homecoming games that
Jordan has lost in his tenure
on the Plains.
"That one Homecoming
game is sort of a bad memory,"
said Sullivan. "It was
when LSU beat us 16-9 in the
rain and it was the first time
anybody had beaten Coach
Jordan at Homecoming in 17
or 18 years.
"That game knocked us out
of a Sugar Bowl bid," Sullivan
continued. "I always
thought maybe on a dry field
we could've beaten them, but I
guess that's why they play
the game, to see who plays the
best under different circumstances."
Despite that memory, Sullivan
thought Homecoming
was always a special event to
the athletes.
"I was fortunate when I
played that we had the stadium
filled nearly every
Saturday, but it always
seemed to fill up more at
Homecoming," Sullivan reminisced.
"Homecoming gave a little
extra incentive," added Sullivan.
««Mr)r*airyf you have to
get up for every game. It's a
great experience to play at
Homecoming, though."
This is the last Homecoming
for Auburn head
Coach Ralph "Shug" Jordan,
the man who Sullivan credits
for much of his success.
Sullivan commented, "Of
course nobody connected with
Auburn football really wants .
to see Coach Jordan retire,
but it had to happen eventually.
It won't be the same. I
really respect him, both as a
coach and as a person."
The respect is mutual.
When Sullivan was playing
under him, Jordan frequently
praised him as being
a great leader and team player,
as well as being a person
who commands respect off
the playing field.
Sullivan's four -year option
with the Falcons ends this
year and many people have
been speculating on what the
former Auburn quarterback
intends to do.
"I'd rather not comment on
that," said Sullivan, "but I
will say I definitely plan on
playing pro football."
Though his picture still
hangs in places on the Auburn
campus, Sullivan himself
gets very few chances to
visit the Plains. In fact, the
last time he was in the Loveliest
Village was last spring,.
and that was purely a business
trip.
"Auburn hasn't changed
too much," said Sullivan,
"and that's good. Auburn's
still Auburn and let's hope
that it never changes, except
for t h e b e t t e r ."
SULLIVAN AND HEISMAN
. .Only Auburn player to win the trophy
AU photo
Auburn's Astronaut
Alum Ken Mattingly orbited moon
AUBURN ALUMNUS KEN MATTINGLY POSES WITH CREW MATES
. .Mattingly (left)yand crewmen of the Apollo 16 lunar landing mission
By Ann Slade
Plainsman Staff Writer
When Apollo XVI made its historic flight to the moon in April
of 1972, Thomas Kenneth Mattingly II, a 1958 graduate of
Auburn and former SGA President, was on board. Mattingly
piloted the command module around the moon on the 10-day
mission as fellow astronauts John W. Young and Charles Duke
explored a mountainous area of the lunar surface.
Mattingly was bom in Chicago and grew up in Hialeah, Fla.,
a suburb of Miami, where he attended Edison High School.
After graduation, Mattingly came to Auburn on a Navy ROTC
scholarship.
He lived in the Delta Tau Delta fraternity house and was a
sophomore senator, a member of Spades, Squires, Blue Key
Honorary, Pi Tau Sigma Honorary and was listed in Who's
Who Among Students in America's Universities and Colleges.
Mattingly received his naval commission after earning a
degree in Aeronautical Engineering. He spent five years in
flight training before he began flying as a test pilot.
In April, 1966, at the age of 30, Mattingly was one of 19 men
selected by NASA from over 350 applicants to train for future
manned space flights.
Mattingly's first actual flight was in 1972, aboard Apollo
XVI. Time magazine called him - "the most conscientious
member of the crew during pre-flight training."
Mattingly had good reason to be cautious. Shortly before he
was scheduled to make his first flight, Apollo XIII, the then
bachelor ^vas accidently exposed to German measles.
Mattingly had never had the disease or been immunized
against it. To prevent the first case of measles in space, NASA
replaced him as command module pilot. Mattingly remained on
earth and helped Houston secure the safe return of his ill-fated
Apollo XIII crewmates.
Ironically, the man who exposed Mattingly to the measles in
the first place was Charlie Duke, a fellow astronaut on the
Apollo XVI mission.
Mattingly's knowledge and skillful action helped avoid a disaster
during the lunar approach of his own mission. A crisis
arose after 12 orbits of the moon and the command module,
"Casper," and the lunar module, "Orion" had undocked in
preparation for landing.
The Houston Control Center ordered a wave off, a term
familiar to the two Navy men aboard, which applied to an abortive
approach to a landing on an aircraft carrier. It was the first
wave off since astronauts began moon landings in 1969.
Mattingly slowly nudged Casper closer to Orion and both
spacecraft orbited the moon almost nose-to-nose. On the
fifteenth revolution, the word came for the second attempt and
this time Mattingly's two crewmates made a safe landing on
lunar soil.
Referring to his lunar mission, Mattingly said, "You don't
have opportunities like that every day. When you don't, you can
recall in your memory other kinds of things, like how you felt on
a certain day and people's expressions."
Mattingly had mixed emotions about retumingtoearth. "It's
nice to come home, but when you get to do it once in a lifetime,
you kind of hate to come home."
Mattingly's involvement in the space program is far from
finished. He now lives in Webster, Tex., near Houston, with his
wife and three-year-old son. The Auburn graduate is still working
with NASA, designing and building a spacecraft called the
"Shuttle," the equivalent of the European space lab.
Mattingly compared his last mission with his present work.
"Apollo was for research, purely scientific. The Shuttle will be
practical with immediate benefits."
The Shuttle project consists of five "trucks," as Mattingly
called them, with a huge cargo van in back. The trucks will be
reusable and fly for possibly ten years each.
"The idea is to get the cost down so men everywhere can use
it," he said.
Four men from the Apollo project are working on the Shuttle.
Mattingly pointed out that another Auburn graduate, Henry
Hartsfield, will very likely be one of the men flying the Shuttle.
Mattingly called the project a "massive effort, going on two
years'.'
The first manned Shuttle should be ready by 1979 and Mattingly
added, "I plan to be on it."
A strict work schedule keeps Mattingly from returning to
Auburn very often. His last trip to Auburn was two years ago. It
didn't seem to have changed much to him from his days here.
"Auburn students have always been a very close group. More
colleges should be like Auburn," he said.
Mattingly asked if Dean Cater was as conservative as ever.
He laughed when he heard how many of the rules pertaining to
women were still in effect. He also inquired about the Dean of
Student Affairs. "If you see Jim Foy, tell him Ken Mattingly
said 'Hello.' "
"I honestly think Aubum is a great place," Mattingly concluded,
and when you leave you'll find out there's no other place
like it. I loved it there."
THE AUBURN PLAINSMAN ™ur9' N°v. e, 1975 page 10
Toni the Tiger
Ten ni lie attended A U
By Edna WaMon
Plainsman Staff Writer
Toni Tennille, vocalist for the Captain and Tennille,remembers
an Auburn of 10 p.m. curfews, spike high heels, corsages
and the romance in which she was "pinned to a Kappa Sig."
For two years, 1959-61, Toni, a native of Montgomery, attended
Auburn. During her years at Auburn, she was the girl
who traveled 300 to 400 miles weekly with the Auburn Knights,
singing with the band and starting snowball battles—one girl
against a multitude of male musicians.
With a laugh, Toni described living in Dorm II and a second
dorm with long white columns which was "funky." She remembers
some girls living in triples, but she had only one roommate.
'
"Auburn really had some strange rules back then," reflected
Tom. "Girls never wore pantsbecause'tt wasn't considered ladylike.
For football games the girls dressed up and all the guys
used to put flasks in their suit pockets."
Toni left Auburn for a musical career <vhich has recently
placed the Captain and Tennille number one on the
charts in the United States.
The popularity of the group has spread to other countries,
such as France, where "Love Will Keep Us Together" has recently
topped the charts.
For over five years Toni and the Captain, husband Daryl
Dargon, have been vegetarians.
"Sometimes we have to cook in our room because we can't get
health food on the road," said Toni,describing how she often
packs a box of health food before they go on tours.
Toni says she doesn't miss eating the Auburn staple—hamburgers.
"I don't miss Whoppers," said Toni, as she laughing
explained that she allows her non-vegetarian friends to eat
hamburgers "if they eat them on whole wheat bread."
An English major and music minor, Toni left Auburn and
moved to California with her parents where she became involved
in theater work, never returning to college.
Butenschon recently called Toni to congratulate her on the
success of her latest recording. For Butenschon, it was the same
old Toni—so excited, bubbly and sincere.
Auburn and the Auburn Knights are a tradition in the Tennille
family. Her father, a faithful Auburn football fan, also
played in the Knights when he attended Auburn.
One aspect of campus life which Toni "recalled was her
membership in Delta Delta Delta sorority. "I was very active'
the first year," said Toni, "but the second year I didn't have
time because of the Knights."
Sororities, for Toni, "were something mainly for your college
life—something you kind of forget about."
Yet, when she appears on college campuses, she sometimes
asks students about her sorority.
With a Southern drawl, Toni told about being pinned to a
member of an Auburn fraternity. "Do yall still do stuff like
that?" questioned Toni.
Curfew changes seemed to interest Toni.. The idea of ID
validation was unheard of during Toni's years at Auburn. Relief
from the 10 p.m. curfew came only to those students with
good grades.
Toni spends a good deal of her time on the road now, leaving
her two favorite pets with "dear friends." Her two bulldogs,
Elizabeth and Roderick, appear on the cover of LOVE WILL
KEEP US TOGETHER. The idea of taking the bulldogs on the
road appalls Toni almost as much as putting them i na kennel.
Life has been hectic for the Captain and Tennille'in recent
months. Appearing on the Johnny Carson show Monday, filming
Tuesday for the Midnight Special (to be shown Nov. 14),
leaving, Wednesday for a five-day filming session of the Perry
Como . Christmas Special was a week like many others for the
recently successful group.
Remembering the singer's two years with the Knighta.Frank
Butenschon, who played trumpet in the band, called Toni "the
sparkplug behind the band—a first-class person who was totally
dedicated."
"When everyone was tired, she was still up," recalled Butenschon.
"She kept everyone going."
Toni said she would like to bring her music back to her alma
mater but "they haven't asked me." In 1971 she played keyboards
with the Beachboys at an Auburn concert, but she has
not returned since.
FORMER AUBURN COED IS NOW PART OF CAPTAIN AND TENNILLE TEAM
. . .Tennille was female vocalist for the Auburn Knights
Auburn
By Steele Holman
Edfcto*
J Hill*
"We had a battle of the
bands with Georgia's dance
band, the Georgia Bulldogs.
They played a set first. Then
we got up there and played a
set. When we got through,
the Bulldogs wouldn't even
get back up on the bandstand,
we were so good."
The speaker was Doug Stevens,
of the Auburn Knights,
vintage late-40s.
The Auburn Knights are
the unofficial dance band of
Auburn University and have
been playing almost steadily
for all sorts of social functions
since 1928.
Big bands have been "out"
for the past several years and
the current band's engagements
are mostly at country
clubs and a few nightclubs.
Many Auburn students
haven't heard of them at all.
But the Knights in their
heyday were a dazzling group
of musicians and that heyday
covered more than 30
years of big band music in the
style of such greats as Glenn
Miller and Les Brown.
The memories of their Auburn
Knight years are very
much alive to the band's several
hundred member alumni
group, whose president is
Doug Stevens, of Decatur.
"I first heard the Knights
when I was 14 years old. They
were playing at the old Pick-and
jazz on the Plains
wick Hotel in Birmingham. I
had never heard anything
quite like it. From that time
forward, I planned to come to
Auburn and play in this
band," the drummer said.
Tommy Goff, a veteran of
the mid-50s band, also remembers
his first encounter
with the Knights:
"I first heard the Knights
when the trumpet section was
practicing in the temporary
buildings where the Union
Building is now.
"During a break, the lead
trumpeter came over and
asked me if I played trumpet. I
was so flustered that I said
'no,' " said Goff, who is now
the band director at Auburn
High School.
People used to crave to get
in the band. Some people used
the band to stay in school, Stevens
said. Others used the
school to stay in the band,
Goff said. He said that during
his time one guy from
New York City who was 36
years old came down and registered
as a freshman, just so
that he could play in the b