1977-03-03 The Auburn Plainsman

              Plainsman Volume 83 Number 16 Auburn, Ala. 36830 Thursday, March 3,1977
Liquor law passed
By Lisa Harris
News Editor
The Auburn City Council passed the final
ordinances allowing sales of beer and liquor in the
downtown area Tuesday night. Two business license
ordinances setting license fees for establishments
selling on-premise beer passed and were signed
by Mayor Donald Hayhurst, making effective last
week's zoning ordinance change.
The changes allow alcoholic beverages to be sold in
the downtown area and businesses along Magnolia
Avenue under certain conditions, includ­ing
requirements on dining room area, proportion of
food to liquor sales and distance from churches and
schools.
An ad hoc committee of the council, chaired by
Denson Lipscomb, had been working on the
ordinances since October, after a law prohibiting sale
of alcohol within one mile of a university campus was
declared unconstitutional by the Alabama Supreme
Court in August.
A liquor license for the Subwav on West Magnolia
Ave. was approved and a request for a license for
Solomon's Sandwiches was sent to the Board of
Zoning Adjustments. Solomon's is in the Institutional
zone, where a license request must have the approval
of the zoning board before any council action can be
taken.
In other action, the council tabled a resolution
recognizing an Auburn student non-voting repre­sentative
to the city council until the next regular
meeting. SGA President Buck Ruffin said he "feels
sure it will pass" at the next meeting. He said the
position will be elected during the SGA spring elec­tions.
No council member voiced opposition to the
substance of the bill itself, but most said they felt that
since this was the first time many of them had seen
the bill, it needed further study.
Several license requests were withdrawn at the
meeting by representatives of businesses which did
not meet the minimum requirements tor ucenses.
Jerry Chanel, who withdrew his request for a license
for Chanelo's Pizza, told the council he "cannot
afford to have a rejection for a license on my
record."
Don DeMent, owner-operator of Momma Gold­berg's,
also withdrew his request for the same
reason. Neither establishment has the minimum 1000
square feet of dining area required under the zoning
ordinance for a restaurant to serve alcoholic bever­ages.
The council rejected applications from Pasquales
Pizza, the Kopper Kettle, the Tiger Cub and Over the
Hump Sandwich Shop. Pasquales does not have the
minimum distance of 100 feet between it and the Au­burn
Methodist Church, and the other three did not
meet dining area requirements.
Four licenses in the B-2, or highway zone, were
granted. Pizza Inn and the Study Hall were granted
on-premise beer licenses. The Father and Son, a club
planning to move into the building formerly housing
the Undergrad, received an on-premise liquor
license. The Auburn Hills Golf Course received a beer
license.
(See LIQUOR, page A-2)
Itching? That's not any rash-manv
measles cases reported ^ ^ f f f i S ^ ^ i i S i i ^
By Jackie Romine
Assistant News Editor
Randy Kirkland, 4MK, began to
itch Monday night while working
diligently at the computer center.
It was hot and he was wearing a
flannel shirt, so he decided it was
heat rash.
Donna Fisher, 4AC, also began
to itch as she studied Monday
night. It was her sweater, she
thought; sweaters make you itch.
After taking a shower, she noticed
that she had a red rash. Oh well,
she thought,it's just a rash.
It wasn't Randy's flannel shirt
or Donna's sweater plaguing
them--it was the sudden outbreak
of measles sweeping the campus.
Numerous cases of measles
have been reported among Auburn
students during the past month.
Dr. Garth L. Jarvis, director of
the Drake Student Health Center,
said, "In the past, during late
winter and early spring, measles
were prominent, but we have more
cases now than we've had for the
last couple of years.
Jarvis declined to disclose the
number of students who have been
hospitalized with measles at the
health center because it would be
"against my professional ethics."
The majority of the cases
involved German measles or
Rubella, the symptoms of which
include a generalized rash, swell­ing
of the glands at the hairline
and below the ears, photophobia
(eyes extremely sensitive to sun or
bright lights), runny nose,
scratchy throat and a cough. Not
all persons will have all the
symptoms, according to a spokes­man
for the health center.
Most students said they had no
pain other than an occasional
headache.
Another' type of measles is
rubeola, whose symptoms are
much the same as the less serious
rubella. Both are highly conta­gious
and can be transmitted sev­eral
days before and after the
symptoms appear.
A viral disease, measles is
transmitted by coughing or sneez­ing,
Jarvis said.
Jarvis said most people had the
measles as children and have
developed an immunity to the
disease. "Some people, though,
never had any of the childhood
(See MEASLES, page A-2)
(Setiter of attention Photography: Gene Vandiver
It's always nice to be noticed, and who should know
better than the Auburn track team, who made the
rest of the Southeastern Conference stand up and
take notice as the Tigers captured the 1977 indoor
conference championship this past weekend in Baton
Rouge, La. Coach Mel Rosen gave his team a day off
Monday, and some members of the team spent their
free afternoon posing for picture. Jim Killian, a
photographer for University Relations, took the op­portunity
to get a photo of Auburn's version of the
"Fabulous Five:" (kneeling, left to right) Tony
Easley, Harvey Glance and John Lewter; (standing)
Willie Smith (L) and James Walker.
Fund cut sought
AU accused of discrimination By John Carvalho
Managing Editor
A state legislator has asked the
federal government to cut off
funding to Auburn University and
other predominantly white col­leges
because of discriminatory
hiring practices.
State Representative Alvin
Holmes of Montgomery made the
request in a letter written to
Secretary of Health, Education
and Welfare Joseph Califano.
Holmes said he expects an answer
by next week.
According to statistics from
President Harry M. Philpott's
office, only .56 per cent of
Auburn's faculty is black, or five
professors out of 894.
Holmes has further threatened
to "systematically sue every
school in the state, step by step,"
should Califano refuse to cut off
federal funding.
"It's pathetic," said Holmes.
"The schools are basically in
violation of the Civil Rights Act in
not integrating their faculties."
Holmes said his actions have
been criticized by some because
he is black, but added, "I want to
do everything I can to help the
schools in this state. It would be
just as wrong if Alabama State
University, (a predominantly
black university), would discrim­inate
against hiring white faculty
members."
Philpott, responding to Holmes'
charges, said, "I'll admit that we
haven't been able to employ as
many blacks as we would like to.
However, we hope the number will
increase."
Auburn University has estab­lished
an "affirmative action"
program to promote the hiring of
blacks, but Holmes disputed the
usefulness of such a program.
"Each school in the state has an
affirmative action program," he
said. "But having it on paper and
not implementing it is like not
having one."
Philpott recently traveled to
Washington to meet with HEW
Secretary Califano, but it was
confirmed by Philpott and Cali-fano's
office that the affirmative
action program was not discussed,
nor were Holmes' charges.
Philpott also said Auburn has no
immediate plans for action to
respond to Holmes' charges. "I
don't think we need to take any
action," he said. "We will continue
Children should be given right
to vote, Dr. Spock suggests
Photography: Vtcfcey Hunt
SPOCK OPENS STUDENT HEALTH WEEK
.Former pediatrician said, "Children are people, too."
By Lisa Harris
News Editor
Dr. Benjamin Spock, pediatri­cian-
turned-political activist, told
a student audience Monday that
"children are people too" and
have the right to be free from op­pression
and abuse.
In a talk that started off Student
Health Week, Spock said, "Chil­dren
should be given responsibili­ties,
including the right to vote, as
soon as they express an interest in
them. Children can often come to
understand points of view more
easily than adults. They have not
become cynical."
The People's Party, to which
Spock belongs, also favors allow­ing
children to leave home and
find lodging elsewhere if they feel
they are being abused. "I person­ally
don't agree with this," Spock
said. "It's too easy for a misun­derstood
child to think he is being
mistreated."
Spock's political activism, to
which he devotes all his time since
retiring from pediatrics in 1968,
began in the early 1960s when he
was "reluctantly persuaded" to
join a nuclear disarmament group.
His initial interest was pediatric,
he said, because "if there was no
test ban treaty, more children
would die around the world from
cancer, leukemia and other radia­tion
diseases."
The United States has essential­ly
become "a police state," Spock
said, because "there are so many
people who think the government
would decide what to do. This is
why we have gotten into the FBI
and CIA running the country."
Spock said he is often askeo
what qualifies him to make polit­ical
comments. He said, "In a
democracy, private citizens are
meant to be informed. It is the
business of every citizen to know
what is going on and then to holler
his head off when he sees some­thing
wrong."
Poverty, discrimination and
lack of quality medical care are
three major areas Spock said he is
now working on. "There should be
free, quality medical care for
every American. It shouldn't be
the privilege of the well-to-do. And
it's indecent when a country can
afford to help its poor but allows
them to live in poverty and
degradation," he said.
"The government is being run
for the benefit of big industries,"
he said. "The United States has
been involved in the affairs of
other countries, all the way from
the war against Mexico to Viet­nam,
in order to protect U.S. in­terests.
This is why the domestic
needs of Americans are not being
met," he said.
While working against the Viet­nam
war in the late 1960s, Spock
traveled extensively to universi­ties
across the country. "This is
how I really got to know the
South," he said.
"I had a lot of anti-South preju­dices
before that, but I found that
Southern students were just as
liberal, and much more polite and
better dressed than Northern stu­dents,"
he said.
to make our reports to HEW, and
advertise on all new positions.
We're still trying to recruit all the
blacks we can."
However, Holmes suggested
Auburn go one step further. "I
would suggest that Auburn hire a
person whose only responsibility
would be to recruit blacks," he
said.
Auburn Vice President for A<*
ministration Ben Lanham said th^.
University has no plans to hire
such a position at this time. "Mr.
Holmes doesn't understand and
know the procedure at Auburn of
appointing people," said Lanham.
"You just can't use a personnel
office to hire professional people."
Holmes claimed the majority of
the state legislators agree with
him, as well as Dr. Richard
Thigpen, executive vice-president
at the University of Alabama.
"Holmes is entirely correct
when he says we do not have
enough black faculty," Thigpen
told the Crimson White, University
of Alabama student newspaper.
An unidentified lobbyist repre­senting
Auburn tried to "hog-wash"
Holmes, he claims, by
telling him Auburn University
wasn't in violation of civil rights
laws.
Inside Today;
BUSTED -
Auburn students reveal what it's
like to be arrested for possession
of marijuana. (See page B-6)
A ROOKIE'S VIEW-Entertainment
Editor Rick Har­mon
tries his hand at reviewing
the Atlanta Ballet. (See page
A-12)
HOSTING THE CHAMPS -
This weekend Memorial Coli­seum
will be the site of the South­eastern
Conference wrestling
championships. (See page B-6)
The Auburn Plainsman A-2 Thurs., Mar. 3, 1977
Philpott meets with HEW head
By Vanessa Hester
Plainsman Staff Writer
Housing, Education
and Welfare Secretary
Joseph Califano has as­sured
Auburn President
Harry M. Philpott that
Carter will include funds
for student financial aid
in his proposed budget.
Califano made the
promise during a Feb.
15 meeting with Philpott
in Washington, D.C. It
was Philpott's second
Washington trip in ten
days. He is currently
serving as president of
the National Associaton
Trailer fires cause concern
Photography: Dan Doughtle
Furnace fire
Firemen examine a burnt floor
furnace where a fire originated
Monday night in a duplex house on
Lakeview drive in Auburn. The duplex
is owned by G.T. Nichols and was
rented to Corey Brown, 40H, and Rod
Pop well. The fire started on Brown's
side of the duplex. It was caused by a
shortage in a 220 line which was too
close to the floor furnace. There was
fire damage to the bathroom and
around the floor furnace and to the
ceiling in the hallway. No one was at
home at the time of the fire
Liquor
From page A-1
The business license
ordinances passed unani­mously.
Major debate
came over the issue of
whether to consider li-;
quor license requests at
that meeting or put them
off until the March 15
meeting.
Some council members
said they felt members
The world
this week
By John Beck
Plainsman Staff Writer
should have the oppor­tunity
to review the indi­vidual
cases before vot­ing
on them. Others
pointed oufc%i$$l$tie li­cense
requests had for
the most part bejji on file
for four to six months
and ample time had been
given for study. The mo­tion
to table the requests
was defeated 3-6 with
Councilman James Earl
Kennamer, Hoyt Warren
and H.C. Morgan favor­ing
the move.
By Susan Counts
Assistant News Editor
Recent trailer fires in
the Auburn area have
caused concern among
students regarding the
safety of mobile homes
against fires.
According to Captain
Hubert Carmack of the
Auburn fire depart­ment,
trailers do not
have more fires than
Measles
From page-A-1
diseases, especially per­sons
from rural areas."
Vaccine immunizations
are available for both
types of measles. Most
states require vaccines
for rubeola before child­ren
enter grammar
school.
Jarvis said immuniza­tion
for rubeola is recom­mended
for females be­fore
they enter the child-bearing
years. This is
because German
measles, if contracted
during pregnancy, can
cause birth defects.
Jarvis said students
with measles should go
home if within reason­able
driving distance and
stay home until the rash
is gone. If possible
students should stay con­fined
at home a few days
after the rash fades be­cause
the disease can
still be contagious at this
stage.
He said other students
living in dormitories,
fraternity houses or
' other close' living 'situa-.
tions should definitely go
home or check in the
health center to avoid
spreading the disease.
Students have also re­ported
cases of chicken
pox and mumps. A
spokesman from the
health center would nei­ther
confirm nor deny
the reports.
conventional homes,
however, statistics show
fires in mobile homes
cause three to five times
more damage than in
conventional homes.
"Mobile homes burn
more rapidly than regu­lar
homes do," said Paul
Moore, manager of Gen-tilly
Trailer Park.
"There are not more
fires in trailers, though."
Often more injuries oc­cur
in trailer fires, said
Carmack, "because of
toxic gases released
when synthetic materials
in them burn. Mobile
homes have a large
amount of these materi­als
because these are
lower in cost as well as
weight."
Carmack said these
toxic gases are especial­ly
dangerous in mobile
homes because of the
layout of their struc­tures.
The absence of an
attic causes the gases to
spread in greater densi­ties.
The open hallways
in most mobile homes
provide an open area in
which heat and fire can
travel because of a lack
of separations to delay a
fire's spread.
Carmack said trailer
fires seem to be more
common because more
are being used.
"One out of 27 people
now live in mobile
homes. The production
of mobile homes in­creased
from 103,700 to
600,000 between 1960 and
1972, a 600 per cent
increase."
This increase has been
visible in the/ Auburn
'area because of the ne"ed '
for low cost housing.
One safety "measure
now being used by many
trailer users is the instal­lation
of smoke and heat
detectors.
Judy Brewer, co-owner
of Metro Mobile Homes,
said all new mobile
homes are required to
have smoke detectors. If
a trailer is moved, a
detector is required be­fore
the electricity is
connected.
According to Brewer,
there are two types of
detectors: electric and
battery-operated. The
battery-operated de­tectors
are often pre­ferred
because an elec­trical
fire could make the
other type useless. She
added trailer park man­agers
have requested es­timates
of supplying
their rented trailers with
the detectors.
A detector's alarm
sounds when a certain
density of smoke is
reached. The devices,
however, are not sensi­tive
to smoke from cigar­ettes
in the room unless
they develop into a fire.
"The detectors could
significantly lessen the
number of fatalities,"
said Carmack, "because
more people die as a
result of smoke inhala­tion
rather than the
flames themselves."
Other safety actions
which could lessen the
severity of fire damages
and injuries include hav­ing
an extinguisher avail­able,
using only author­ized
personnel to install
and repair electrical fa­cilities,
using only ap­proved
appliances and
electrical gadgets and
exercising fire drills.
Carmack said fire
drills could be a signifi­cant
help in case of a fire
because the drills reduce
the panic of those in­volved.
,.. '/Other than exercising
these regular precaution­ary
measures, there is
really no answer to
stopping the fires," said
Carmack. "There are
going to be fires, in
homes as well as trailers.
Sometimes they just
come in numbers as they
have lately.
International
AMIN'S MEETING CALLED OFF - After
detaining all Americans in Uganda to meet with
them to "express appreciation for their work,"
President Idi Amin first postponed the meeting
then finally called it off. He had told the United
States not to mount an invasion similar to the
Israelis' raid on Entebbe a year ago, and
warned citizens to be ready for an attack,
because, he said, the presence of the aircraft
carrier Enterprise off the coast of Kenya "must
be taken seriously."
ETHICS BELL BEFORE CONGRESS - Action
in the House this week centers around a
proposed ethics bill limiting the amount of
income Congressmen may receive outside of
their salaries. The bill does not consider outside
businesses nor investment returns but would
limit payment for speeches and tours.
H. G. Balfour Co,
National
NATIONAL FISHING LIMIT EXTENDED -
The Coast Guard began patrolling two million
more square miles of ocean Tuesday as the
United States extended its fishing boundaries
from 12 to 200 miles. Congress extended the
limit because of injury to the American fishing
industry due to foreign fishing pressure.
GOVERNORS PLEASED WITH CARTER - In
the annual state of the union meeting at the
National Governors Conference, a group of
governors met for two-and-a-half hours with
President Carter. Afterwards they expressed
satisfaction with the effort he is making to
strengthen federal-state relations.
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of State Universities and
Land Grant Colleges.
Other, topics discussed
were research programs,
graduate studies and
money needed to main­tain
these programs.
Philpott said aside from
the necessary costs of
books, information and
facilities, there was a
large indirect cost for the
operation of research
programs including
heat, light, janitorial ex­penses
and administra­tive
expenses.
These expenses vary
from one university to
another, so it is difficult
to set a certain amount
for each college to use,
Philpott said.
Califano also reported
to Philpott that President
Carter favors strong im­plementation
of Title IX
and of Title VI, which
would provide more edu­cational
programs for
the handicapped. Cali­fano
said Carter is inter­ested
in universities col­lecting
information on
the American family and
how to strengthen it.
Carter has said he be­lieves
that failure of
families to develop
strongly constitutes a
serious social problem.
Philpott returned to
Washington Feb. 19 a
second time to meet with
President Carter, along
with Califano, Dr. Mary
Barry, Assistant Secre­tary
of HEW and Ernest
Boyar, Commissioner of
Education. The large
number of reports which
universities must submit
to state and federal
agencies was discussed.
Philpott said he felt the
reports were too numer­ous
and the information
submitted sometimes ir­relevant
and repetitious.
The group also agreed
the position of education
in HEW needs to be given
greater status.
The creation of region­al
libraries to supple­ment
individual schools'
purchases of books and
periodicals was also dis­cussed.
Philpott said he
agrees with the idea and
said, "It would eliminate
a great expense and bur­den
on trying to obtain
and house books." Each
university in the region
would have access to this
regional library, and
whenever material is
needed one would send
for it from the library.
Philpott appeared
Feb. 22 before the House
Sub-committee on
Science, Research and
Technology with admini­strators
from three other
schools.
Philpott said,
"Universities do not wish
to make a profit from re­search
programs, but on
the other hand we do not
want to lose money by
conducting them." If
money was lost it would
have to be made up from
either state funds or by
raising tuition and stu­dent
fees.
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Constitution change planned
By Steve Short
Plainsman Staff Writer
. A major drive to re­place
Alabama's 76-year-old
constitution is cur­rently
gaining moment­um
in the state. This
drive could possibly lead
to the adoption of a
totally new, modernized
constitution within the
next two years.
At 120,000 words, the
Alabama Constitution is
16 times longer than the
Food stamps could aid
independent students
Lazy river sunset Photography: Patty D'rtieruc
A warm breeze, cool water and a
rubber raft - these things combined
to make a perfect afternoon for this
Auburn student, Wilkes Harper, 2MB.
It's still not quite spring but not quite
winter either. Warm days follow cold
days, as winter slides into spring.
Research lab set for vets
By Beth Young
Plainsman Staff Writer
With the recent million
dollar appropriation to
the Auburn School of
Veterinary Medicine,
plans are being made for
, , the construction of the
! Scott-Ritchey Research
; Center, which should get
^underway in the spring.
m. Rhett Riley, business
j j manager and treasurer
3. of Auburn University,
NJsaiA he hoped bids would
be taken in the spring.
He said work has be­gun
on plans, and the
research lab should be
completed in about a
year's time.
He said the money
used to fund the project
came from the Eleanor
Ritchey estate. Ritchey
specifically stated in her
will that the money go to
research for small ani­mals.
The first income came
two years ago with the
initial figure of approxi­mately
$380 000. Since
that time the income has
accumulated to more
than $1 million. The
budget committee of the
Board of Trustees au­thorized
a budget of
$1,160,000 for the project.
Dr. Steven F. Swaim,
neurosurgeon at the
Veterinary School, said
the new lab facilities will
be used for clinical path­ology,
including blood
tests and blood chemis­tries.
He also said the re­search
program will be
dealing more with micro­biology
with emphasis on
a virology unit.
He said further re
search is planned or
canine distemper vi­ruses
which are extreme­ly
serious problems caus­ing
complications in the
central nervous system.
AU Blood Drive
collects 3,636
pints of blood
A total of 3,636 pints of
blood was collected by
the American Red Cross
this week in Auburn
University's "Beat
'Bama" Blood Drive.
A goal of 4,000 pints
had been set with a
challenge issued to the
University of Alabama.
The University of Ala­bama
accepted the chal­lenge
and will try to beat
the record in blood drives
conducted throughout the
calendar year.
Auburn University set
a national record in 1967
with 4,812 pints, and
since 1972 has challenged
other universities with­out
losing.
A total of 55,051 pints
has been collected at
Auburn since 1952.
The research clinic will
be mainly concerned
with neurological illnes­ses.
Electro-diagnostics,
checking the brain waves
of cats and dogs, will be
heavily stressed.
Swaim said a grant
began in Auburn in the
late 50s by K. A. Scott to
study diseases of small
animals with emphasis
on cardiology. Since
then the emphasis has
changed to neurological
diseases.
He also said in keeping
with Ritchey's wishes the
research center will be
concerned primarily with
companion animals such
as cats and dogs.
The building will be
located at the south end
of the Small Animal
Clinic and will be built in
two phases. One of the
phases will eventually
include facilities for pri­mates
such as monkeys.
The personnel at the
new lab will consist of
those presently employed
at the Small Animal
Clinic.
The new research lab
will be headed by Dr.
Benjamin F. Hoerlein
with other faculty mem­bers
doing outside re­search.
Self-supporting stu­dents
who have trouble
making ends meet may
be able to supplement
their income with food
stamps.
Primary candidates
for food stamps on the
college level would be
single or married stu­dents
but could also
include several students
living together estab­lished
as a household
unit.
The food stamp pro­gram,
now fifteen years
old, assists low-income
families in buying more
food of greater variety to
improve their diets. Par­ticipants
purchase food
stamps with a sum of
money based on family
size and net monthly
income. The food stamps
received are of a larger
value than the amount
paid.
To be eligible for
stamps, single or family
households must satisfy
nationwide' standards
and must have a place to
cook meals.
For instance, maxi­mum
monthly income is
$215 for a one-person
household, $300 for two
people, $427 for three,
$540 for four and $640 for
five people.
Income is considered
to be all money received
by any member of the
household including
wages, scholarships, edu­cational
grants, fellow­ships
and veteran's edu­cational
benefits and all
payments from any
source which can be
considered a gain.
Resources, including
cash in hand, savings in
banks, U.S. Savings
bonds, stocks, land and
buildings (except the
family home) are also
considered in establish­ing
eligibility. Each
household is allotted
$1,500 in resources.
To apply for the pro­gram,
the head of the
household should report
to the welfare office
located in Opelika at 214
Monroe Ave. He or she
will be asked for the
location of the household,
the total monthly income
of the household, and the
amount paid for doctor's
bills and rent by the
household.
Food stamps can be
used in authorized stores
to purchase almost any
food or seeds and plants
used to grow food. The
stamps cannot be used to
buy liquor, beer, cigaret­tes,
soap or other non­food
items.
"The public, for the
most part, is against
students getting food
stamps," explained Lou­ise
Huskey, supervisor of
the food stamp program
in the Auburn-Opelika
area. "They seem to feel
if a student can afford
college, and possibly a
car, he doesn't deserve
food stamps. This isn't
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eligible as any candi­date."
According to Huskey,
student misuse of the
program is not as com­mon
as one might think.
"Since the establish­ment
of the Lee County
branch in 1974, there
have only been two or
three students involved
in claims cases," said
Huskey.
Penalties for violating
the food stamp laws
include both fine and
imprisonment.
Prior to 1974, Lee
County operated on the
Commodity Program.
"The program started
out to be a surplus food
program where excess
food products were dis­tributed
to the needy.
Later, the government
started buying food and
supplying a wider vari­ety
of products," said
Lucy Locklin, director of
Pensions and Security.
"When the program end­ed,
recipients were get­ting
a good variety of
foods."
The Food Stamp pro­gram
became mandatory
for all states in 1973.
U.S. Constitution and is
the longest document of
its kind in the nation.
The Constitution was
adopted in 1901 and has
been amended 360 times
since then, with 61 per
cent of these amend­ments
being added since
1960.
Proponents of a new
constitution believe the
most efficient method for
adopting one is the con­vention
procedure. Sen­ate
Bill 182. currently
before the State Legisla­ture,
provides for a state­wide
referendum in
which voters will mark
whether they are for or
against such a constitu­tional
convention.
If the convention is
approved, a total of 210
delegates will be elected
to represent the people.
Two delegates will be
elected from each exist­ing
Alabama House Dis­trict
and will meet in
Montgomery in early
fall, 1977, to rewrite the
1901 constitution.
The necessary re­search
has already been
done by the Alabama
Constitutional Revision
Commission, which
worked four years to
draft a model document.
A support staff for the
delegates would be pro­vided
by the Alabama
Law Institute and the
Legislature Reference
Service at no cost to the
public.
If a revised constitu­tion
is adopted by the
convention delegates, the
document would then be
submitted for public ap­proval.
Backers of the bill
claim a constitutional
convention would cost
the state around $600,000.
They estimate the 20
constitutional amend­ment
elections held since
1960 have cost Alabama's
taxpayers $10 million.
Another argument for
a new constitution is
250 of the 360 amend­ments
apply to only one
county. For instance, in
the latest statewide elec­tion
voters were required
to decide whether or not
Mobile County could im­plement
a mosquito con­trol
program.
Spearheading the drive
for reform is the Citizens
Committee for a Consti­tutional
Convention. The
committee is coalition of
concerned citizens v/ho
claim no political affilia­tions
or ties to special
interest groups.
According to Mark
Sparkman, committee
chairman' for the Third
Congressional District,
the group plans to spend
over $100,000 in a mas­sive
publicity campaign.
The thrust of the cam­paign
will be to educate
legislators and the voting
public of the need for a
new constitution.
Sparkman said senti­ment
in Lee County
seems to be very favor­able
to a constitutional
convention.
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Editorials
'Wallace, it is time to move on'
T h u r s . , Mar. 3, 1977 A 4
Auburn politics
Politics, especially power politics, have no place on a University campus.
However, Auburn's current policy of having Governor Wallace appoint
members of the Board of Trustees certainly does bring politics into an area
where it is not desired.
A look at the University of Alabama's method of appointing its trustees
shows that in this area the Crimson Tide has us beat. At Alabama, the Board
of Trustees elects its own new members, with these appointees subject to
approval by the State Senate.
While this does not eliminate politics from the selection process, it does
create a more professional, educated and interested board.
A look at Auburn's Board will reveal that several of the trustees were
obviously appointed to the Auburn Board as a reward for a political favor;
certainly not viable criteria for selecting members to run an institution of
higher learning.
Track team
Championships don't come easily, especially in the Southeastern
Conference, and the fact that SEC schools have such a wide range of talented
athletes makes the task even more difficult.
But Auburn's track team brought home all the marbles this weekend at the
SEC indoor track championship meet in Baton Rouge, La. The War Eagle
victory was also the first-ever indoor title for an Auburn team.
Track takes team work, but it also takes a lot of individual effort, and its
that individual effort which makes a sport worth watching — when the sport
pits the athlete against himself.
Auburn's victory says a lot for the track team. It proves that the tracksters
are good — a fact generally recognized all season. It proves they are
well-coached. And it proves that the sports scene at Auburn isn't dead.
Many tend to forget there are sports at Auburn other than football and
basketball. The track team's victory is merely a reminder of that fact.
The team and coaches deserve commendations for winning the tough SEC
meet. They deserve all the credit they may get.
Goodbye
Spring will bring some changes on the Plainsman staff, with graduation
depleting our ranks by three — the three M's.
Associate Editor Maureen Drost is leaving The Plainsman after three years
to instruct aspiring high school journalists.
Technical Editor Mark Sparkman will leave to intern in political science and
later marry summer 1976 Plainsman Editor Betty Douglass (Just goes to prove
The Plainsman is a close crew!).
Assistant Sports Editor Mike Forchette, another third-year veteran, will be
graduating. He plans to stay at Auburn for an extra quarter though, saying,
"It would be too strong a culture shock to leave right away."
Upcoming positions include photo editor Dan Doughtie taking on the
associate editor post, Brad Davis as assistant sports editor and Dewey English
as assistant to the editor.
The Plainsman wishes you good luck on exams and an enjoyable break.
We'll see you spring quarter.
Ped-Mall
Pedestrian Mall should be made permanent. Since its beginning Jan. 24 it
has proceeded without major difficulties and has successfully eliminated
traffic between 7 a.m. and 4:15 p.m. on Thach Street from the lower Social
Center Drive to Duncan Drive and on the section of Tiger Street by Thach
Hall.
Gates, rather than barriers, should be considered for a permanent
Pedestrian Mall. They would be more aesthetic, practical and would probably
last longer than barriers.
Special attention should be given to traffic flow in the city of Auburn and
Auburn University periodically to make sure it is not hindered by Pedestrian
Mall.
TheAuburn
Plainsman
Christy Hudgins, Editor
Ken Edwards, Business Manager
Editorial Board members: Managing Editor, John Carvalho; Associate Editor, Maureen
Orost; News Editor, Lisa Harris; Features Editor, Susan Harrison; Sports Editor, Gene
Vandiver; Editor and Editorial Board Chairman, Christy Hudgins.
Entertainment Editor, Rick Harmon; Copy Editor, Betsy Butgereit; Technical Editor,
Mark Sparkman; Photographic Editor, Dan Doughtie.
Asst. to the Editor, Brad Davis; Asst. News Editors, Susan Counts and Jackie Romine;
Asst. Sports Editor, Mike Forchette; Asst. Features Editor, Ruth Ann Dunn; Asst. Enter­tainment
Editor, Dave White; Asst. Copy Editor, Jeanne Regan; Asst. Photographic Edit­ors,
Grant Castleberry and Gordon Bugg; Asst. Technical Editor, Huey Davis; Staff Art­ists,
Kelly Shultz, Jack Mallette, Lloyd Bridges and George Jeng.
Advertising Director, Ken Edwards; Local Advertising Route Manager, Susan Franklin;
Asst. Advertising Route Manager, Mary Gardiner; Advertising Representative, Jo Ann
Metcalf: Layout Specialists, Larry Klein-, Ken Harvey, Becky Dickson and John
Brinkerhoff; Circulation, Don Powers and Ed Hamff.
The Auburn Plainsman is the student-edited newspaper of
Auburn University. Signed columns represent the opinion of the
writer, while unsigned editorials represent the opinion of The
Plainsman's Editorial Board.
Christy
Hudgins
George C. Wallace, it is time to move
on. The South has outgrown you. The
nation does not need you.
The time is fast-approaching when the
State will no longer tolerate the
corruption beneath that Confederate flag
on Dexter Avenue...when the people will
demand professionalism over cronyism
and integrity ovet demagoguery.
It will be a time when yout brother
Gerald won't be making two to four
dollars more than othet dealers on the
going price of asphalt when he deals w^th
the State...a time when Jack Anderson
will not be able to report that brother
Getald also profited by $400,000 through
agreements on what brands of liquots
would be sold in Alabama...and when
businessmen such as Warner Mathis
won't be saying they wete forced to pay a
$500 per month retainet for non-existent
legal fees to deal with the State.
Men such as former Finance Director
Seymore Trammel will not be speaking of
"engineeting agents" whose duty it is to
advise businessmen of how much to divvy
up during elections under a direct
Wallace otdet.
Legislatots will not have to agree, as
they did in 1975, to fotfeit money from
the special Education Trust Fund for the
Highway Department ot suffer the
consequences of losing road money, and
"the bulldozers will start tearing up the
blacktop."
An unused printing press costing
thousands of dollars and putchased from
Wallace cronies will not be found unused
in a State Highway building.
Pictures of Albert Btewet won't appear
at election times — shaking hands with
black Muslims. Not will his ptegnant wife
or bikini-clad daughters appear in
doctoted pictures surrounded by leering
young black men.
Television viewers will not be asked (as
they wete in 1970) if they wanted a black
State Troopet stopping their wives at
night.
People will not always be so gullible as
to believe voting for anyone other than
Wallace will result in a black takeover in
the State as 1970 political ads purported.
Alabama is tired of serving George
Wallace. She is tired of bending her knee
to supplicate the maniacal demands of a
man who continually seeks power only to
assuage an inner craving fot glory, for
love.
Alabamians aren't the naive voters of
almost two decades ago. Emotionalism
and rhetoric do not have the same
impact. Wallace can no longet dismiss
the question of why Alabama's growth
has lagged behind the test of the South
by saying, "The people of Alabama
don't really care about those statistics."
We do care.
We can no longer be fooled by claims
that property tax is low because we know
consumer taxes ate high — and that low
property tax is what goes to a sadly
lacking education system. We can look at
per capita income and employment as a
measure of Alabama's fare through the
Wallace reign.
It cannot be denied that there have
been some positive actions in the State
during the Wallace yeats, but then again
there are few leaders who act in a
negative manner. Alabama could be
leading net neighbors, instead of
thanking God for Mississippi — so she
won't always be last.
Why is the State consistently lagging
behind het sister states? One reason is
"Segregation now! Segregation tomor­row!
Segregation forever!"
He kept the promise for many years.
It was kept when he stood blocking the
door to two black students at the
University of Alabama. It was kept prior
to that when Director of Public Safety Al
Lingo said he was informed, "If you
can't get something on them (derogatory
information on the black students), get it
on their daddies and mamas."
Wallace was readily able to obtain such
information, too. By his executive order,
the Sovereignty Commission was esta­blished
to seek out communist agitators.
Among those investigated by this and a
politikin' southern-style. It's politikin'
which places Wallace cronies at the head
of juniot colleges, instead of profession­als.
It's politikin' which puts top
associates on the Auburn Board of
Trustees. It's politikin' which means
surrounding the Governor's office with
some of the least intelligent people in the
State, so the Governor can call the shots.
It's southern rule which places almost
every appointed office (numbering more
than 5,000) in the State in Wallace's
hands — and a substantial majority of
the legislators at his beck and call.
The system and the man have been the
cause of bloodshed and the abridgment
of right and law across the state.
Wallace has been described as a
politician without a conscience. He was
dismissed from military service with a 10
pet cent disability for psychoneurosis. It
has been written that he allowed his wife
to run for governor without telling herof
possible malignant tissue in her abdomen
discovered earlier by a doctor.
He is a man without integrity — a man
who not only sways with the political
winds, but the source of their turbulence.
When he lost to Ku Klux Klan
gubernatorial candidate John Patterson in
1958 (Wallace was endorsed by the
NAACP), Wallace began his chameleon
performance. "I will never be out-nigger-ed
again," he swore. The act climaxed
with his inaugural rallying cry of
second commission, the Commission to
Preserve the Peace, wete sevetal notable
black leadets, including Mattin Luthet
King; many Auburn University profes­sors
and others such as Morris Dees.
In 1968 he used the Sovereignty
Commission to obtain infotmation about
his opposition—Scoop Jackson.
In 1969 the organization worked for
the removal of Alabama from the Federal
Voting Rights Act, with one of the
reasons for such action being the
alarming increased rate in illiterate
Negroes—to the point where blacks could
possibly control "12 counties by 1970."
It took a representative with a personal
interest (Sovereignty and Battleship
Commission members were sent to his
hometown to campaign against him) to
help rid the State of the Commission.
The Sovereignty Commission was used
to inform registrars concerning which
people should be allowed to vote. (It was
Wallace's opinion that illiterate persons
should not be allowed.) It also employed
lawyers to block integration.
The Commission to Pteserve the Peace
was used to produce a $35,000 film on
the march from Selma, with many
asserting that its purpose was to film
miscegenation along the way.
The Commission's 1965 Biennial
Report states that King "was closely
advised, if not controlled by the
communists." It warns of plans by blacks
to mount a challenge to white legislators
in black majority districts saying such
thteats "can't be btushed off lightly." It
explains how when one Alabama black
espoused "one man one vote" and
"fteedom now" he was using common
communist venaculat. The report is
concluded by a hope that the commission
"will prove even more effective fot the
citizen opposing the far left."
Wallace,"the liberal" of 1958,did a
turnabout when he told a reporter, "Let
them call me a racist. It doesn't make any
diffctence. A whole heap of folks in this
countty feel the same way I do. Race is
what's going to win this thing fot me."
In tecent yeats the tune has changed
again — now he cloaks his racism more
firmly behind his states-tights stand.
But, the facts temain the same and a
majot pottion of the tumult and loss of
lives in the 60s owe theit otigin to the
fiesty little governor. It is a cagey man,
though, who can tell the blacks not to
pay any attention to what he says because
it is political rhetotic and cry white
suptemacy from the other side of his
mouth. Wallace has never stood for
blacks or whites.
He has stood fot George C. Wallace.
He has used black leaders just as he has
used the Ku Klux Klan. Impetial Wizatd
of the KKK Robert Shelton said at one
time, "We made him governor in 1963
and now we must make him president.'
Shelton was used as an- advance man in
Wallace's national campaigns along with
a second Klan affiliate who often served
as a speech-writer. Even the Klan was
rewatded through the crony system, with
it's buteau of investigation hired out
through Shelton by the State.
It was Wallace essentially who ordered
the billy-clubbing of blacks matching to
Montgomery. It was Wallace who heckled
blacks at Auburn to the point of
embarassment just a few years ago.
Some say there is no morality in
politics and certainly there has been little
of that precious stuff in Alabama politics.
But the tide seems to be turning. Many
see an erosion of the penettating powef
which once was Geotge Wallace.
Many are demanding public service of
their public servants — not self service.
Many are demanding convictions, morali­ty
and lawfulness among theit lawmakets.
The South is coming of age.
In eatly fall, Wallace told a confidant
he would launch his campaign for U.S.
Senator John Sparkman's seat in January.
His plans were foiled when Press
Secretaty Billy Joe Camp and Auburn
Trustee Red Bamberg returned from a
visit to the Senator's office empty-hand­ed.
They had apparently asked something
"brasher" than the teports of question­ing
related to asking the Senator to
announce his retirement early and
endorse Wallace.
Sparkman's reported reply: "I always
wondered what it would be like to run
against George in Alabama."
It was a highhanded tactic by a man
who apparently stoops to great depths —
a demagogue still stepping stones to that
envisioned peak of power.
Senatot Wallace? The nation doesn't
need him. Look what he's done for
Alabama.
Coming out of the closet-Heat yogurt'
"Yeech — How can you eat that stuff?
You'd put anything in your mouth,
wouldn't you?," my best friend would
say with a look of horror and disgust on
his face.
I just give him a bird-eating grin and
continue to eat my yogurt.
Yes, I admit 1 eat yogurt.
When you admit liking yogurt or are
seen eating it -in public, you are
immediately labeled as a "dirty,
natute-loving, brainwashed yogurt-eating
weirdo."
I feel like a member of a minority and
a victim of disctimination. "Don't sit
near me if you're going to eat that
cutdled crud."
But I can understand why people
stereotype yogurt eaters. Once I too
despised them with a passion — ready to
insult them at the drop of a spoon. Being
like most people, I criticize without
knowing what the heck I'm talking
about.
Look at the name "yogurt." The word
is enough to turn people against the
stuff. It sounds like it would taste like
soured elephant's milk.
But like a Moonie who has supposedly
seen the light and has gone off the deep
end in a religious fervor — I turned to
yogurt.
It happened one lonely "freshman"
day before I ever attended my first class
at Auburn. I had broken my glasses the
night before by sitting on them, and was
now having to feel my way through drop
and add.
Through the blur I saw what I thought
was ice cream in a Haley Center lounge
vending machine. I deposited my money
and discovered my mistake. "Oh yuk,
yogurt," I said.
In my disgust and blindness, I tripped
over the chair I had planned to sit on.
After safely securing myself in the seat, I
tried to calm myself. "Can I eat this
stuff?"
I was the only person in the lounge,
except for a guy who was circling like a
vultute. The closer he got, the more
uneasy I became.
He finally sat down at the table with
me, stared into my eyes and asked, "If
that Coke machine walked over here
and killed you, would you go to
heaven?"
It was a different approach I must
admit, but I was in no mood to tackle
such a question.
Trying to keep my cool I nonchalantly
opened the yogurt and took a mouthful
before I realized what I was doing.
Doughtie
"Hey, this is good." I immediately
forgot the young gentleman and finished
the yogurt. All I needed to make the'
story complete was a sunset to ride into.
I've been harrassed ever since by
members of the Yogurt Inquisition. But I
endure because I know I am right and
they are wrong.
Several members of the Inquistion
linger about the Plainsman office
disgracing the name of yogutt. But I like
to see theit faces when I trick them into
tasting the "awful" stuff. They ask,
"What is this stuff?" I tell them, and
they act like they've been kissed by a
dog. Some are converted on the spot,
some take warrants out for my arrest.
Besides tasting good I found that many
doctots believe yogutt eaters live longer.
Some studies have shown yogutt to have
an antibiotic value of 14 units of
pencillin.
One report I tead said yogurr improves
your sex life. But how can that be? No
one will come neat you while you're
eating it.
Administration hedging blocks shuttle bus
Whatever happened to the proposed
shuttle bus system?
Good question. Apparently a case of
last-minute hedging on the part of the
administration has thrown a cog into the
works, and prospects don't look bright.
An article in the Jan. 20 issue of The
Plainsman reported that "a shuttle bus
system for the Auburn campus will begin
operation within the next two or three
weeks," according to Jamie McPhail,
SGA secretary of Student Welfare. All
that was needed was Ptesident Philpott's
approval.
But that was enough to stop the
project. Philpott refused to approve the
shuttle bus system, rcportedlly for two
reasons.
First, the SGA could not use one of the
University vans, as was originally
planned, since the vans were booked up.
Now the SGA is searching private
dealerships, so far without much luck.
"There's got to be a van around
somewhere," says MacPhail. "We've
been calling different dealerships in the
state and even in Columbus, but nothing
yet."
The other reason Philpott gave for not
approving the system was high insurance
costs. University Business Manager Rhctt
Riley checked with one insurance agency
and discovered that if you can get it, the,
insurance is expensive.
Right here the plot thickens. On one
side, you have SGA president Buck
Ruffin, who says he believes Riley should
John
Carvalho
have checked with some other insurance
agency to see if another company could
possibly give better rates.
However Riley claimed that no one has
come to him about going to another
courier to determine if the quote the
University has is out of line. It would be
possible to check with another agency,
but Riley said he didn't consider it
necessary.
Riley has also said he would^not begin
checking with other companies for rates
unless first directed to do so by Philpott,
which has not happened.
Another interesting result of all the
haggling about insurance and equipment
is that, should the system be approved,
those students taking advantage of it will
have to shell out a little money.
Ruffin agrees with Philpott, that the
system should be financially self-support­ing.
The SGA will probably charge a
small fee because if the SGA supported it
out of student activities fees, they would
be charging all of the students for it.
So, what you now have is the shuttle
bus system, a month ago a near-reality,
but now apparently far from being
approved.
The University's reluctance to approve
a permanent shuttle bus system may be
based on some reasonable argument, but
what is disttessing me is that the
University would not even approve a
one-month trial for the shuttle bus
system.
"You have to tty something first,"
agrees Ruffin. "If they tested it and it
worked, that would be fine. But if they
tested it and it failed, they could say,
'See, we tried it but it didn't work."
Of course, someone in Philpott's
position doesn't have to explain the
actions he takes; he just acts and ignores
the criticism.
The University's reluctance possibly
can be chalked up to PR, public
relations. By approving the shuttle bus
system, the administration would by
implication be acknowledging that there
is a rape problem on campus, something
which won't add many women to the
student tally.
So, women walking across a badly
lighted campus late at night still walk in
fear. Auburn University administrators
have a responsibility to alleviate this feat.
By disapproving the shuttle bus system,
they arc shunning this duty.
Letters
Meet Idi Amin, King of Scotland
Thurs., Mar. S, 1977 A-5
AU's special people Lauren
Steele
Maureen
Drost
People. That's what makes Auburn
University special. Students, professors,
department heads, deans, administra­tion,
Buildings and Grounds staff and
others give Auburn its special color,
personality and interest.
Auburn, actually any college, is
peculiar in this regard. College life
involves breaking away to an extent from
one group, the family, and becoming
dependent on another group, those at
Auburn.
Many students though, especially
seniors, have forgotten the importance of
these people in their lives at Auburn.
Barbra Streisand said it this way:
"People, people who need people, are
the luckiest people in the world."
It's easy to see why this would be true
of seniors. That rare disease called
senioritis which only happens during a
student's senior year is an affliction for
which little can be done. It brings about
a kind of laziness, a slowing down, which
is hard to get rid of.
And that symptomatic lack of
enthusiasm on the part of seniors is also
understandable. Just take a look at the
job outlook. The Department of Labor
predicts there will be more college
graduares than jobs available through the
mid-1980s, meaning many college
graduates may have to work in jobs not
needing college degrees. In Alabama the
number of graduates is expected to
exceed the number of jobs by 1,150.
Those in architecture, communications,
education, law and pharmacy are going
to have a particularly hard time.
Don't Jet the shadow of the future
outweigh your Auburn experience.
Relationships with people are an
important part of student life at
Auburn.
Think of the first time you walked on
campus, the first time you went to class.
You probably felt at least a little
alone. Then think of a quarter or two
later when you knew people in your dorm
or apartment and in your classes—and
knew more what to expect of professors.
You probably felt a little more
comfortable.
People make this University work.
They are the students and professors who
make classes worthwhile, the athletes who
put the excitement in sports events, the
people who bring entertainment to this
campus, the people you see at the
beginning of the quarter and have to
leave at the end of the quarter.
You share good and bad times with
people.
Sure, all experiences aren't happy.
Some people can make life difficult. But
it's still worthwhile to get involved in
something other than academics. After
all, the physical, social and religious sides
of people don't stop when they go to
college, they continue and they need to
be developed.
So, if you've got senioritis or are an
unenthusiastic senior, try to get inter­ested
by becoming involved; but leave
yourself time to enjoy the people you can
come into contact with now and the ones
you've come to know in the past. Take
time for what is important to you.
He came to power through a bloody
military coup in 1971.
He claimed credit for Jimmy Carter's
electron.
He banned the sale of all "imperial­istic"
newspapers in his country.
He expelled 50,000 Asians—most of
the country's shop owners and skilled
workers—thus throwing the economy
into a tailspin.
He has brutally murdered an estimated
one million of his countrymen. Entire
tribes have been rounded up and
massacred.
He proclaimed himself King of
Scotland.
He sentenced British lecturer Dennis
Hills to be executed and would have
done it, had British Foreign Minister
Fames Callahan not crawled on his knees
before him to beg for Hills' life.
He has choked the economies of
neighbor states Rwanda and Burundi,
both of which are entirely dependent on
his country's trade.
He claimed Israeli commandos used
"nuclear grenades" to facilitate their
famous rescue-attack at Entebbe Airport.
He and his family took to the tanks
early one morning, turning their guns on
their own palace. His three-year-old son
fired anti-aircraft weapons at imaginary
invading fighter planes.
He ordered troops to gun down dozens
of students at a national university
because they had. "made fun" of one of
his sons.
He calls himself Doctor, Field Marshal,
King, Beloved Leader. He dresses his
350-pound frame in royal garb and
surrounds himself with an entourage of
50 kilted men bearing bagpipes.
He has made himself president for lite.
He is Idi Amin Dada, dictator of
Uganda.
Amin is murderous, vengeful, oppres­sive,
ruthless and syphilitic. He might
pass for a comic opera figure were it not
for the horrors of his strong-arm regime.
Most leaders of civilized nations
privately deplore Amin's murderous
antics, yet publicly hide behind veils of
silence.
Amin's fellow African presidents resent
the deranged dictator's embarrassing
actions. Amin has done irreparable harm
to the Organization of African Unity's
reputation.
Those who oppose black control of
South Africa and Rhodesia readily point
to Amin as an example of the chaos
which they claim would er after
majority rule is established.
Can the world community sit passively
by and allow Amin to continue his
senseless slaughter?
Amin's recent actions bear more than
accidental resemblance to Hitler's anni­hilation
of Jews during World War II. In
fact, Amin has publicly praised Hitler
and has emulated his actions. „
Even Amin's usual allies and financial
backers, the USSR and the Libyan Arab
Republic, have remained remarkably
silent in recent months. Not even radical
leaders like Libya's fanatical Col.
Gaddaffi wish to be identified with this
buffoon.
This week Big Daddy Amin may have
bitten off more than even he can chew.
Following soon after Jimmy Carter's
statement that the rest of the world is
disgusted with Amin's tyrannical regime,
Amin ordered ail Americans residing in
Uganda be detained.
No one is sure what Amin will do.
Speculation has ranged from immediate
execution to praise and awards. Even
Carter, determined to establish himself as
the world's moral leader, has seemingly
backed off from his earlier strong
anti-Amin stance to appease the unpre­dictable
field marshall.
If Amin kills an American a full-scale
international incident will surely follow.
The United States closed its embassy in
Kampala in 1973, and relations have
further deteriorated since.
Carter was right. The civilized world
has grown tired of the fat murderous
clown. Amin may not be able to
continue his reign of horror for much
longer.
This poses an interesting question of
ethics. Should American or any other
government interfere with the interna!
affairs of other sovereign states?
While I remain critical of Central
Intelligence Agency covert activities
aimed at overthrowing governments in
Chile, Viet Nam and Cuba, I would tend
to soften my criticism in the event of
intervention in Uganda.
In the name of sanity something must
be done.
Hitler met world-wide opposition. His j
wonton slaughter of Jews sparked a spirit
of international unity to fight the
common foe.
Yet Amin is no Hitler. He is not a
military genius and he controls only a
rag-tag, ill-fed and often disloyal military
force. Attempts on his life are almost
weekly occurrences, but Amin has
uncannily thwarted all.
I do not envy Jimmy Carter. He may
be forced into the unsettling task of
ordering actions he finds personally and
morally wrong.
Something must be done to oust Amin,
and soon. It appears the rest of the world
is looking to the United States to
shoulder the leadership role.
With the painful memory of Viet Nam
still fresh in my mind, I hope Carter's
actions will be wise, and ones which will
not commit us to full-scale war in Africa.
War Eagle coffee and other least favorite things
I'm a pretty patient person. But after
two years of independent college life, I've
found there are a lot of things that get on
my nerves, things which sometimes make
life dreadful. Things like:
• . •
—Monday mornings
—8 a.m. classes any day of the week
—getting to your first class and having
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nothing to write with but a yellow
hot-liner marker on yellow legal paper
—Alabama springs, where one day you
sit in the sun getting a tan and the next
day it's back to six sweaters
—pens that smudge
—people who say, "you'll be a better
person for going through all this."
—all-nighters
—spending all night typing a Spanish
paper, handing it in, then remembering
you forgot to go back and put in the
accent marks
—War Eagle coffee
— being so tired you have to drink War
Eagle coffee to keep from falline out
Lisa
Harris
—trying to disco-dance in tennis shoes
—dryers that eat socks
—going to the laundromat and
running out of dimes before your blue
jeans dry
—the guy in Super Foods who doesn't
get his checkbook out until the cashier
tells him the total
—people who don't signal before they
turn
—going home with the flu, expecting
sympathy, and finding everyone else has
it too
—being the only senior in a Funda­mentals
of P.E. class because you forgot
to take it earlier
—warm spring showers, and no
umbrella
—uppity freshmen
—finally getting a chance to sleep and
the phone starts ringing every 20 minutes
with calls from people you haven't heard
from in months
—finally finding the time to read the
office copy of Time and someone's
ripped it off to use for a group discussion
—sitting down to enjoy the sun on the
concourse and finding out a caterpillar
beat you to the space. Squish!
—city councils whose favorite phrase is,
"This needs study. Let's table i t ."
—having to write a column like this
because you didn't get an idea until
Monday afternoon and it was due Sunday
night.
Freedom: 'You have to draw that line'
Editor, The Plainsman:
In response to Lauren Steele's editorial
concerning Larry Flynt's conviction, I
would like to applaud the Ohio court's
decision in this very controversial matter.
True, I believe the First Amendment is
one of the most valuable safeguards of
this country. However, to say that this
judicial precedent is a product of
"reactionary, extremist hysteria" is in
itself a product of reactionary, extremist
hysteria.
And accusing the Burger Court of
falling "down on its task of protecting
Lemmings not birds says SGA candidate
Editor, The Plainsman:
RE: your editorial, "Bird Watching"
First let me mention that your new
"plummage" did not go unnoticed.
Now for the important comments that
must be made concerning your miscon­ceptions
of Lemmings. Lemmings do not
make a "perennial appearance each
spring" but have a more erratic cycle of
life. It has been concluded that a cycle
exists with an average periodicity of three
to four years. A Lemming year is viewed
as beneficial by some, but the others
usually try not to concern themselves.
Lemmings are members of the family
"Intrinsica humoria" not "Farcica
Former Lemming manager
calls Plainsman editor bird
Editor, The Plainsman:
In comment to your editorial on the
feathered force, I must add this. You
must be a bird too. You must belong to
the "extinctcia humoria" family. What's
wrong with a little laugh at our prob­lems?
Especially when it is mixed with
genuine concern.
Last year during spring elections I saw a
I spirit and morale at the Alves nest which
is uncommon in Auburn. I had never
seen so many diverse species together for
one cause. (Contrary to popular opinion,
I they all weren't hippies. There were
I several people without love beads, a few
J had on shoes, and there were even a
(couple of sets of add-a-beads in the
|group.)
Last week an acquaintance asked me
Iwho I supported in the elections last
Ispring. When my reply was Alves, he
Isecmed totally shocked. The acquaint­ance
then said, "It must be disappoint­i
n g to back a losing candidate."
It was my turn to be shocked. It was
certainly disappointing, but losing I'm
not so sure about. Since elections last
spring I have seen many of Alves'
platform ideas floating around campus.
Dorm restrictions have been re-evaluated,
and not long ago even you, editor, wrote
on the helplessness of open teacher
evaluations. I have also seen articles in
favor of changing the grading scale from
a three-point to a four-point system (not
just to give credit for D's, but for
standardization of the grading scale).
All these things were big issues in
Alves campaign platform. If you don't
believe me, I think I can find you a copy.
The same copy he passed out to students
during elections. If all losing candidates
could contribute this much, I'm not sure
we would need any winners.
Alves and his supporters must seem
like strange birds, especially in Auburn,
where people are afraid to voice their
opinions. Yes, I agree, I have seen a lot
of squawking birds here. But since I have
had no course in ornithology, and I don't
know their Latin name, I can only call
them by their common name—chicken.
K. Thompson, 4RSM
Alves Assistant Campaign Manager, 1976
humoria" as you mistated; and are noted
for their barking, not squawking. Their
short life-spans terminate, for the most
part, with suicide, but this is not an end
in and of itself but rather a martyr's fate.
Lemmings do not exist on such an ex­clusive
diet, as you seem to think. True,
attention is the staple but it is supple­mented
with social commentary, moral
philosophy and political reform. (Satire is
a mere seasoning.)
I hope that the real purpose of the
Lemmings is now apparent, but if it is
not, just let me add that Lemmings are
not birds.
Oscar M. Saliba Jr.,4AR
Lemming Party SGA vice presidential
candidate
P.S. The official Lemmings number 18
and are impressed, not repressed.
civil liberties" bears little resemblance, as
well as examples, to what an Ohio State
court ruled.
If Mr. Steele would stop alluding the
two court systems and read up on more
current news he would not take such a
radical stand and he himself would stop
trying to interpret the law. (By the way,
Marbury v. Madison (1803) gave the
judicial system the right to interpret the
laws and Miller v. California (1973) gave
Letters to the editor must be received
by 5 p.m. Sunday at The Plainsman of­fice,
Auburn Union basement. Please
type and double space, limiting total
words to 300. Some form of identifica­tion
should be presented with the letter.
Please include your TELEPHONE num­ber.
the local courts that right concerning
pornography.)
In addition, to say that former Justice
Black "ruled out governmental censor­ship
even in cases of 'National Security'"
is a cheap shot in that the Pentagon
Papers (1971) dealt with Vietnam policies
of the Kennedy and Johnson eras and did
not present a "clear and present danger"
(Schenk v. United States, 1919) since this
country was under the Nixon Administra­tion
at the time.
However, enough of those petty gripes.
My main argument lies in the theory
"Freedom; yes, but draw the line
somewhere." Whether Mr. Steele and
others wish to admit it or not, our
Constitutional laws did not come from
the depths of the minds of a prophetic
groups of politicians, they evolved from
past governmental theories and religious
laws (e.g. the Ten Commandments).
To allow someone such as Larry Flynt
to continue to print obviously porno­graphic
material will not ensure rhe
continuance of basic freedoms but it will,
for all practical purposes, diminish
governmental policy that is necessary for
a strong nation.
My views are not puritanical, but I
would like to include an example of one
society in history that declined when
decaying morals and governmental
ineptitude were rampant—the Roman
Empire. In closing I would like to add
that although Lauren Steele made some
very good points in his editorial, Flynt's
conviction will not destroy the law, but
instead defend the basis of these laws.
George Zekoff, 1PL
Surveys should be more representative
Editor, The Plainsman:
I am currently taking a statistics course
and am quite concerned about an article
in your Feb. 24 issue entitled "Are stu­dents
'sots'?" I feel that the article has
potential, but who are you kidding?
There is no way that a sample of 30 could
represent a population of 17,000 and still
retain any level of accuracy. When The
Plainsman conducts a survey in the fu­ture,
I hope more care will be taken
taking a sample.
David Bailey, 2AM
PE class wants use of facilities in Student Act
Editor, The Plainsman:
Why is it that, when we pay money to
come to school and take certain courses,
we are not always allowed to use all the
facilities of the building* in which our
class is held? We, who are in PE 125
basketball class which meets every
Monday, Wednesday and Friday from 2-3
p.m. in the Student Act Building, do not
understand why we are sometimes not
allowed to use both courrs in the
building.
times this has happened
men were working in the
Several
because
building during our class period. Why
can'r the workmen come at some other
time, when a class is not meeting? We
Reader wants radio coverage of Tiger baseball
Editor, The Plainsman:
Like many Auburn students I found
out that the Auburn Tigers open their
baseball season today. I also discovered
that I am not going to be able to hear
this ball game. Phone calls to WAOA,
WAUD, WJHO, WFRI and WEGL all
produced negative answers. No local
radio station intended to carry the two
opening ball games. One today (Feb. 24,
1977) or the game tomorrow (Feb. 25,
1977).
WEGL,however, does plan to carry all
Southeastern conference away games. I
suspect the reasons for this are, except for
WEGL, economic. There is considerable
expense involved in bringing an away
game back to Auburn by wire or other
methods.
My point is this, Auburn did quite
well at baseball last year, we won the SEC
last year, and we are expected to do quite
well this year. If Auburn students wish to
hear away baseball games that are
non-conference games they must con­vince
the local radio stations that it would
be in their interest to carry such games.
This can be done by a letter or phone
call to the local stations asking them to
carry the games. This shows the stations
that they have listeners, listeners sell ad­vertisements
which support the stations.
Also, WEGL should be contacted to
find out why they don't plan to carry all
away games. Again I suspect the problem
is money. Solving this problem may be
quite difficult.
If you wish to hear the away games, as
I do, let the local stations know how you
feel. In any case I hope to see you at
Plainsman Park for the home games.
J. Frank Easterling, 6PO
only use the Student Act Building three
hours a week.
We realize that there are a lot of other
activities which go on in this building
during the week, but surely some
arrangement can be worked out. We
very strongly resent the tact that we are
sometimes kept from using one of the
courts especially when we have paid to
have a class in this building. It is rather
difficult to play on just one court with a
class as large as ours.
Alan Barnes, 1PG
John Cheney, 1PN
Carol Brelsford, 1GC
Ginny Spruce, 1HPR
Ron Harris, 1PPY
Ginny Farris, IADS
Dan Kingsbury, 4ME
Melvin Jackson, 3ME
Bill Burkhalrer. 2PB
Jeff Jenkins, 1FY
Greg Edwards, 2PB
Susan Muller, 3PV
Merry Martin, 1FCD
Tanya Densmore, 1PB
Jenny Barnett. 1PPY
John Solodqa, 1PN
Jayne Kandlin, 1GEH
More letters
Real hunters don't shoot eagles
Thura., Mar. 3, 1977 A-6
Majority not right
Editor, The Plainsman:
I would like to thank Mr. J.W.
Duncan, Arts and Sciences administrator,
for his letter concerning capital punish­ment
in The Plainsman of two weeks ago.
However, there are a few considerations
surrounding his statistics that need
pointing out. Although the polls used
show the national majority favor the
death penalty, this does not prove the
penalty is right and just. It's way past
time we took a look at the facts that
cannot be altered by opinion or swayed
by polls.
The death penalty has in the past been
employed to deter and punish crimes
ranging from stealing a loaf of bread to
mass-murder. And as we can see it has
never been, and is not now, effective.
Face it. the "deterrence argument" is
vague and unreliable. There is no
possible way to determine how many
have been dererred from violenr crime by
threat of the death penalty, but
abolitionists can easily prove how many
have not been deterred. There is
undeniable proof of lower capital offense
rates in those countries and states that
have abolished capital punishment.
And what about those who are put to
death and later found to be innocent?
Consider how many times it has
happened—even in those "without-a-doubt-
guilty" cases—and we can easily
predict it will continue to happen.
Anyone who argues economics and
"until we find a better way..." in
support of the death penalty simply isn't
concerned with justice and the worth of
life at all. Let us live up to our standards
of civilization and not resort to ineffective
barbarism that serves only as vengeance.
Perhaps we should all heed the words
of Frederich Nietzsche who a century ago
said, "Beware all those in whom the
desire to punish is strong." This reminds
me of the current Dawson Five murder
case in Georgia where a deputy remarked
to a defense team member, "1 know we
don't have much of a case on these boys,
but they are the only ones we could come
up with."
James M. Locke, 2LPA
Editor, The Plainsman:
I am writing this letter in response to
the article by Dan Doughtie, "Wounded
eagles treated at AU vet clinic," which
appeared in last week's Plainsman. In
the article it was stated by Sidney A.
Woodson, a senior resident agent of the
U.S. Wildlife Service for the Mississippi
area, that "the eagles were probably
shot by deer or duck hunters who have a
tendency to see a big bird and want to try
out the old rifle to see how far away they
can hit something."
This accusation leaves the unen­lightened
reader with the idea that all
hunters go around shooting at anything
and everything that moves "just to try
out the old rifle." This most certainly is
untrue.
Recently anti-hunting activities have
put every hunter in the spotlight, so that
one hunter's personal reputation and
ethics becomes the reputation of all
hunters. Bullet holes in signs, senseless
killing of pet animals and livestock,
littering the woods with garbage and
hunting private land without permission
are a few examples of the actions of the
so called "hunter."
Hunters have been equated with the
disappearance of everything from the
passenger pigeon to the saber-toothed
tiger. In reality it was the sportsman who
successfully passed laws prohibiting
market hunting of game and the use of
unfair methods.
While it is true that wildlife belongs to
the public, it is the hunter who has set
up the programs for protection and
preservation of any "endangered
species," as well as all other wildlife.
These programs are supported by
revenues received from the sale of
hunting licenses, and excise taxes on
firearms, ammunition and other hunting
equipment. It is true that the wildlife
belongs to everyone, but who is footing
the bill?
The ignorant hunter doesn't know how
to handle his weapon properly, safely or
efficiently. He knows little about
hunting technique or the characteristics
)f the game which he pursues, and
probably has never heard of the Rules of
Fair Chase.
Please do not judge all hunters by the
actions of a scant but highly publicized
minority. The eagles at the Vet Clinic
were not shot by a "hunter," just some
trigger happy slob walking around the
woods with a gun.
Clark Astin, 5PY
Only 'slobs' shoot eagles
Zohair critical of AU
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Golf team reprimands paper
Editor, The Plainsman:
Contrary to popular belief Auburn
University does have a golf team! This
team just happens to be the defending
Southeastern Conference Champions.
They are leaving next Wednesday, March
2, 1977, for Tallahassee, where they will
defend still another title they won last
year, the Florida State Invitational.
However, as far as I can tell, you at
The Plainsman could care less, or at least
it seems that way due to the fact that you
have not printed one single article this
entire year about this successful team
and, last year, you only put a very small
article in one corner of the second page of
your paper about our SEC victory. And
after all, how many other teams at
Auburn can say that they're the
conference champions?
Other than that you have not wasted
(as you would see it) one breath of air on
this team. This really says a lot about the
way you must feel!
Someone who cares!
DonShirey Jr., 3MT
Editor, The Plainsman:
The International Student Association
has a unique problem. People have to be
literally forced to accept any official
position in the Association. Posts which
are ordinarily coveted are now apparently
abhorred. Excuses abound, but the
writing is on the wall. Do you dare to
read it.
The University has apparently become
so obstinate and -restrictive in its policies,
and tries to maintain such a heavy thumb
on internationals, making it clear that
euphoric praise of Auburn is not only
expected but is mandatory, that students
feign disinterest or overwork. The
F.S.A.'s Mrs. Jordan is of course too
involved in her own interests, and easily
manages to be out of town for this quar­ter's
only international gathering (a
covered dish dinner). Sometimes she is
even more explicit about her prejudices.
Last quarter, she done gone and flat
refused area newspaperperson—refused
to be photographed with them foreign­ers.
Afterwards someone managed to
coax her into posing for the Glom.
The responsibility for initiating a
meaningful intercourse between Ameri­cans
and internationals, lies squarely with
the Americans. The foreigners have not
only taken the first (and a huge step) by
coming here, but because of the
horrendous task that is involved before
they can come, they have in effect already
taken many a step down the road to
involvement. Americans in much greater
numbers need to organize with the
internationals to show that the efforts of
those foreigners are appreciated. Those
already involved deserve pur humblest
thanks.
Of course, the average American is
unaware because the administration at
Auburn (which should know these facts)
has failed in its duty to dissiminate
effectively information such as this. On
the contrary, it doles out a sensitive office
such as that of the F.S.A. to an
The Plainsman welcomes the
correction of any content error. To
submit a correction either call
826-4130 or write: Managing Edi­tor.
The Auburn Plainsman, Au­burn
Union, Auburn, Ala. 36830.
Gay advertisements have not produced results
Editor, The Plainsman:
This is in response to the anonymous
letter of Feb. 24 dealing with gay rights.
The late Dr. Alfred C. Kinsey's statistics
were a tremendous breakthrough, but I
have some statistics of my own. Several
weeks of running classified ads directly
advertising gay rights information has
produced pathetically little response from
the predicted 2,000 potentially interested
persons (a figure which totally ignores the
existence of gay women).
I do not imply that Dr. Kinsey's
figures are far from the mark; I know
better. I am saying that most gay people
are taking an option which was never
open to most minorities—hiding their
identities rather than doing something
actively to end their oppression, and
crying bloody murder all the while.
I have questioned my acquaintances,
Mr. Withheld, and you are not among
them. Why? Are you a member of the
National Gay Task Force, Gay Rights
National Lobby, Gay Activist Alliance,
Mattachine Society or even the American
Civil Liberties Union? These are all
groups working actively to win equal
rights for gay people. Have you written to
your Congressional respresentatives to
urge their support of the gay rights legis­lation
which has been introduced in the
House of Representatives? Or have you
been too busy slinging your sour grapes
at blacks and other minorities who are
' 'doing something'' to improve their sit­uations?
Straight society is being (albeit slowly)
educated to the realities of our situation.
People are learning that gay people are
not monsters and do not pose a threat to
society as a whole. People tend to fear the
unknown more than that with which they
are familiar; in becoming more visible,
we become less fearsome and better un­derstood.
Still, we have a long way to go
and cannot afford to sit back, gripe and
wait for somebody else to do that which
must be done.
Alan R. Handleman
Auburn resident
/C7 /u. Cou&be
incompetent, haughty and unfeeling
woman probably because her husband is
none other than the powerful University
trustee and former Coach Shug Jordan.
Maybe it wants to emphasize its roots in
the bigotry of the past. Maybe it wants
to assume leadership of the bigotry in the
present.
Zohair Mogri, 4EE
Editor, The Plainsman:
In reference to The Plainsman article,
Feb. 17, regarding "Wounded Eagles
Treated at AU Vet Clinic," by Dan
Doughtie, I would like to ask:' How in
the world could any grown responsible
man go out into the woods and fields of
his homeland and shoot down his
national symbol, the eagle?
This person is "not" your typical
American hunter; he is "not" a
-fespectable citizen; he is an immature
slob.
The American bald and golden eagles
are on the endangered species list which
means their numbers are way to low to
allow hunting. Besides, why should we
hunt a species whose predatory habits are
beneficial to man in that the eagle helps
control pests that plague the farmer?
Unwise use of pesticides and this
relentless slaughter by misinformed, im­mature
individuals has put the American
eagle where he is today—one step away
from extinction. Do not get me wrong;
most American hunters are intelligent
sportsmen dedicated to the preservation
of our wildlife. They hunt surplus game,
preventing massive starvation and serious
parasitic outbreaks. The majority of.
American hunters control their emotions,
are not trigger-happy; and God knows,
they can identify their game properly.
This article is aimed at the slob who
walks the woods, sees an eagle soaring
above him and decides to try his skill at
shooting a flying target. The
eagle-shooting slobs provide ammunition
for the anti-hunting campaigners. They
are committing treason to true sports­men.
These fools do not deserve to enjoy
the privileges of the respectable American
outdoorsmen. All I can hope is that the
next time one of these ignorant slobs
draws a bead on our national symbol, a
law enforcement agent happens to be on
the scene.
Thomas Madigan, 3WL
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• - - : . . . . : . •• 'Four-laning'Wire Road
still involves lots of 'its'
Everything, including... Photography: Gordon B un
...the sink of Ross Hall. No one knows why these
engineering students decided to remove the sink at
Ross Hall during Engineers Week, but we don't think
it's a new contest for the festivities. Then again, who
knows, maybe they'll try to see who can fill it up with
the least amount of water.
Senate tables code changes
The Student Senate
tabled proposed changes
Tuesday night in the
selection of the Glomer-ata
editor, the drives
law and the organiza­tions
laws until next
week's meeting.
The changes will be
discussed at a meeting
Monday at 6:30 p.m.
In other action, two
students were approved
to fill vacancies in the
Senate. Anne Farmer,
2FCDE, was approved as
the new Home Econom­ics
senator and Donna
Fisher, 4AC, was ap­proved
as an off-campus
senator.
Former Home Econ­omics
Senator Susan
Robinson and Off-Cam­pus
Senator Cathy Ray­mond
were dropped from
the Senate because of
excessive absences.
The change in the se­lection
of the Glomerata
editor was proposed by
Steve Escobio, men's on-c
ampus senator. His pro­posal
would make the
Glomerata editorship an
appointed position.
The change in the
Drives Law (Chapter
1004) was presented by
David Gibson, SGA sec­retary
of student ser­vices.
First, he said in section
1004.1 "campus drive" is
defined as "any non-com­mercial
solicitation on
University property." It
was not previously de­fined
in the Code of
Laws.
Next Gibson said in
section 1004.2, the pro­posal
extended the time
limit to four weeks on
when drive plans should
be presented to the di­rector
of Campus Drives.
And finally, in section
1004.7C the proposal says
"money collected for the
all campus fund shall be
A bill exempting twjo
and four year colleges
from the provisions of
the Sunset Law has been
passed in the Alabama
Senate and is now in the
Education Committee of
the House of Representa­tives.
The Sunset Law allows
for legislative supervi­sion
over state institu­tions
for periodic check­ing
to determine if the
institutions are still vital
and necessary.
Sen. Bert Bank of
Northport, who spon­sored
the bill, said state
institutions of higher edu­cation
were exempted in
his proposal because
"they are not going to do
away with any of these
institutions and review­ing
them will be a waste
of effort."
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20%
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Red X
Socialites
Joyce
Footworks
Cobbies
Spauldings will be 15% off
table of assorted fall styles
limited sizes
$5.00
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turned over to the Direc­tor
of Campus Drives not
more than 30 days after
an event is held."
The change in the or­ganizations
law was pre­sented
by Lynne Hawk­ins,
women's quad sena­tor,
who is also chairman
of the Senate's organiza­tions
committee.
The proposal will elim­inate
two sub-commit­tees
which formerly reg­ulated
school organiza­tions
and campus- wide
organizations.
The proposal would put
all such regulation under
one committee.
The Senate Jurispru­dence
clarified two Con­stitutional
clauses at
their past two meetings.
Article IV, Section 2,
Number 7, was agreed to
mean a senator auto­matically
(without no­tice)
forfeits his mem­bership
in the Senate
upon absence of five
regular meetings.
Article IV, Section 2,
subsection 6 was ex­plained
to mean that
seeking office referred to
election day, which is in
spring quarter, and that
the "previous quarter"
was regarded as the last
quarter in residence
By Jack Mallette
Plainsman Staff Writer
With a little luck, the
city of Auburn may again
get the chance to widen
Wire Road to four lanes,
provided the necessary
city, state and federal
funds are available.
Auburn Mayor Donald
Hayhurst was quick to
point out, however, that
there are still a lot of
"ifs" involved in the
project.
The proposed project
would include four-laning
Wire Road to the Auburn
city limit at Webster
Road, with an overpass
over Shug Jordan Park­way,
at a total cost of
approximately two mil­lion
dollars.
According to Ray Bass,
state highway director,
all state funds are al­ready
earmarked for fis­cal
year 1978, but if a
project was behind
schedule and Auburn was
"ready to go," he said
the Wire Road project
may receive the go-ahead
and the necessary
funds.
According to Hayhurst,
being "ready to go"
constitutes another big
"if" and depends largely
upon the City Council's
wishes. The City would
need to secure the neces­sary
right of way, most
of which is University
land, and move the ne­cessary
utilities and sew­er
lines to make room for
the expansion.
This would involve a
cost of "somewhere be­tween"
$100 thousand
and $180 thousand, ac­cording
to Hayhurst, and
the City Council would
need to appropriate these
funds.
"The University has
had its fingers crossed on
this for years," Hayhurst
said. "It's the opportuni­ty
of a lifetime, and if
they (the state) will pro­vide
the money, it would
behoove us to go ahead
and act on this matter."
It will not be known
until October whether
state funds will be avail­able.
Hayhurst also said,
"Wire Road is one of the
most heavily-traveled
and dangerous roads in
the area." City Council
member Dr. H. C. Mor­gan
Jr., assistant dean
of the Auburn Veterinary
School, agreed.
"I have to travel that
road every day, and the
least little mishap can
cause unbelievable prob­lems.
For instance, if
the traffic light (at the
intersection of Shug Jor­dan
Parkway and Wire
Road) is inoperative, it
backs traffic up for 30-45
minutes. And you have
to consider that there are
about 1500 trailers in this
area and nearly 500 cars
traveling to and from the
Vet School."
City Council member
Denson Lipscomb said,
"...this was a pet project
of mine when I was at
Auburn (1975), and it
looked like we were go­ing
to get it then, but the
City couldn't come up
with the money and we
had to postpone the pro­ject.
I personally would
like to see it accom­plished."
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Small devices warn of radar
Photography: Dan Doughtie
KNOWN AS FUZZ BUSTERS
.They allow motorists to avoid radar used by state troopers
By Dewey English
Plainsman Staff Writer
Small electronic de­vices
that allow motor­ists
to avoid radar used
by state troopers are now
available in some Ala­bama
stores.
"We don't have a law
against them," said Ala­bama
State Trooper Lt.
John W. Davis, "A lot of
trucks are equipped with
them."
Known as "fuzz bust­ers,"
the radar detector
monitors the beam of the
police radar, picking up
the fringe radar areas
and warning the driver
with a loud bleeping
noise.
The devices are slight­ly
larger than a pack of
cigarettes and plug into
the car's cigarette light­er.
They can spot mov­ing
and fixed position
radar.
A local businessman
who sells the "fuzz bust­er"
said the device re­ceives
only the rays fired
by the police speed detec­tors
and warns the mo­torist
at approximately
twice the distance from
car to radar beam.
Following Virginia's
lead, the Minnesota State
Legislature is consider­ing
a bill to ban the
devices.
"Fuzz busters" sell
widely for $100 or less
and "build it yourself"
kits are less than half
that price although their
effectiveness varies with
the builder's skill.
The Auburn Police De­partment
has two hand
operated speed detect­ors,
but officers com­plain
about their exten­sive
maintenance re­quirements.
"Our speed detectors
are effective," said Au­burn
Policeman H. E.
Maxwell, "but they are
expensive and hard to
maintain. We are only
using one because the
other is being serviced."
According to Davis,
most of the speed detect­ors
purchased for the
state patrol are the light,
hand-held "radar gun"
models.
"We use them quite
extensively," he said.
"They are helpful in
enforcing the law and
keeping highway safe­ty."
However Davis feels
the "fuzz busters" will
not become a safety
problem like the CB
radio. Almost one of
every three cars in the
United States has a CB
radio and Davis feels
that many times drivers
have become carried a-way
with helping speed­ing
motorists.
"We hear CB operators
all the time telling other
drivers that there aren't
any 'smokeys' on the
road," he said, "But they
might not know about
road conditions or other
hazards."
Gasp—dust chokes Alabama
By Susan Counts
Assistant News Editor
Tons of topsoil blown
into the Alabama area by
winds from the western
plains states reduced vis­ibility
to one-half mile in
Auburn last Thursday,
according to D. R. Davis,
Auburn University's Na­tional
Weather Service
meteorologist.
The winds, originating
in Kansas, Oklahoma
and Texas, reaching a
speed of 90-100 miles an
hour, picked up dry top-soil
and carried it across
Finals scheduled
i Final examinations in subjects carrying fewer than
three hours credit will be administered on the last
lecture day or during the last laboratory period pre­ceding
Friday, March 11.
Final examinations for courses carrying three or
more credits but meeting fewer than three lecture
days shall be administered at the time designated in
the examination schedule except when conflicts of
examinations with other courses at the same hour
occur. When certain examinations within a depart­ment
are scheduled at the same hour and a signifi­cant
number of students would have conflicts, the de­partment
concerned should arrange for the examina­tion
to be administered during one of the special
examination periods listed in the schedule. English
Composition, English Literature and World History
courses which meet on a Tuesday-Thursday schedule
will have examinations administered at night as
shown in the below schedule.
Date Class Hour Exam Time Grades due at
Registrar's Office
Friday, March 11
Special examination period (See above)
7-9:30 p.m. 9 a.m.-Mar. 14
Saturday, March 12
9 a.m.
7 a.m.
lp.m.
Monday, March 14
11 a.m.
12 noon
4 p.m.
9-11:30 a.m.
1-3:30 p.m.
3:40-6:10 p.m.
9-11:30 a.m.
1-3:30 p.m.
3:40-6:10 p.m.
11 a.m.-Mar. 14
1 p.m.-Mar. 14
3 p.m.-Mar. 14
11 a.m.-Mar. 16
3 p.m.-Mar. 16
9 a.m.-Mar. 17
Special examination period and special English
Composition & Literature exams (See above)
7-9:30 p.m. 9 a.m.-Mar. 17
11 a.m.-Mar. 17
1 p.m.-Mar. 17
9 a.m.-Mar. 18
Tuesday, March 15
8 a.m. 9-11:30 a.m.
2 p.m. 1-3:30 p.m.
7 p.m. 3:40-6:10 p.m.
Special examination period and special World
History exams (See above)
7-9:30 p.m. 9 a.m.-Mar. 18
Wednesday, March 16
10 a.m.
3 p.m.
5 p.m.
9-11:30 a.m.
1-3:30 p.m.
3:40-6:10 p.m.
9 a.m.-Mar. 18
9 a.m.-Mar. 18
9 a.m.-Mar. 18
Special examination period (See above)
7-9:30 p.m. 9 a.m.-Mar. 18
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the country and into the
southeast. The loss of
topsoil caused severe
damage to the already
drought-injured land in
the western plains state.
Don Ramage, assistant
foreman in Auburn Uni­versity's
mechanical
shop, said no damage
had been caused to filters
or other facilities be­cause
of the dust.
Auburn's police depart­ment
reported no acci­dents
with respiratory
ailments. Birmingham
suffered extensively be­cause
the air pollution
count passed the emerg­ency
level of 600 particles
per cubic centimeter to a
maximum amount of
1,829.
Airline pilots reported
the clouds of dust were
one mile high.
"It's awfully dry out in
the plains states," said
Davis. "It's possible that
high winds could do this
same thing again. It
could blow the soil here
again or it could take ft
somewhere else."
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Thurs., Mar. 3, 1977 A-9 The Auburn Plainsman
'Obies Oldies' plays '50s hit music 3
<• By Jayne Handlin
Plainsman Staff Writer
It's Friday at 2 p.m. A listener tunes in to WEGL.
And what does he hear? "Obies Oldies," a show
featuring popular rock music from the 50s and 60s.
According to recent surveys, it is the second most
popular show on the station.
Steve Oberman, 4LPG, president of Auburn's
Broadcasting Honorary, and Brian Larson, 4MBI, are
the two disc jockeys of the show. They believe it is
"popular because the idea of the show is "to have
fun."
"People like the show because we play good hits,
ususally the top ten during those years. It makes
them think back to the things they used to do in junior
high and high school," Steve said. "Also, we try to
make the show seem like it is actually happening
back in those days."
\ The show, which started last fall, began with about
a half-dozen records. They now have over 100
records. The music played is from the pre-war
period; therefore, it is happy and carefree.
„ Oberman and Larson get a lot of requests for songs
and for dedications. Most of the records they have
are either bought through the radio station or they
buy them themselves.
They said WEGL now has one of the most complete
oldies collections in the South.
"Often people will come in and give us old records
they think we might use," Oberman said. "Some­times,
people will come in and ask us to play a record
they brought with them and after we play it, they
take it back home."
Besides playing rock music from the 50s and 60s,
Larson, the "Actual Factual Man," tells a little
history about the song or group.
The show also has several contests. The most
popular is called "Stump the DJ." In this contest, a
person calls in, is put on the air and asks a question
about the music of the 50s or 60s. The disc jockey has
90 seconds to find the answer. If he doesn't find it,
then the caller gets to go down to the station and pick
out a record from a box of "45s."
"Two other contests we've tried are a sing-along
contest and a give-out-a-question contest," Larson
said. "In the sing-along, a person calls in and we let
him listen to a record for 10 seconds, and then he tries
to sing along with the record. Then another person
sings with the same record and all the people at the
station decide who the winner is. In the other contest,
we ask a question and let our listeners try to find the
correct answer."
"Having contests has put something more into the
show," Oberman said. "It makes it more like shows
people remember. Besides, people love contests and
love to win."
However, Oberman said he had a hard time getting
an oldies show to "go over." The show started at the
very bottom of the ratings.
At first, Oberman did most of the talking and
Larson put up the records and gave the weather
reports. But Larson has now become more a part of
the show. >
"Brian digs up sound effects and plays them
without letting me know he's going to," Oberman
said. "He does it to try to make me mess up on the
air. We both try to crack jokes, which sometimes
bomb and sometimes turn out pretty good."
"Obies Oldies" also has special programs featuring
groups such as the Beatles, the Beach Boys or Elvis
Presley. During the show, they play mainly the
music of the featured group.
They say there are a few problems with the show,
and the major one is lack of publicity. They said a lot
of people simply don't know about the show and
others don't realize the show is now on from 2 to 5
p.m. in the afternoon, which is an earlier time than
when it first began. Another problem is most of the
records are Oberman's, who is graduating this quar­ter,
and he will be taking the records along with him.
However, Oberman has been training his brother to
take over in his place.
" 'Obies Oldies' is unique. It is the only show of its
kind between Montgomery and Columbus," Oberman
said.
"We have a really good time doing the show," said
Oberman. "But it keeps us busy. We hardly even
have time to move around. By the end of the show,
we're both pretty tired.
"We record the show whenever possible. Brian and
I listen to the tapes later to try to learn how to
improve it. We think that's a real important part of
having a good show."
Oberman and Larson both said it would be nice to
have people come and give them suggestions. They
also said they want anyone to feel welcome to go
down to the station and watch the broadcast of
"Obies Oldies."
"Just call first and let us know you're coming,"
said Oberman. "After all, only so many people will fit
in the broadcasting room."
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...He's on the air Friday at 2 p.m.
Charges may be illegal
By Terrell McDaniel
Plainsman Staff Writer
Students who are as­sessed
excessive service
charges on returned
checks may not be legal­ly
obligated to pay those
rates, according to Rick
Middleton. Alabama as­sistant
attorney general.
"The law says that two
dollars is the acceptable
rate, and theoretically
one could refuse to pay a
charge over that amount
if he had not legally
agreed to do so," said
Middleton.
He referred to Section
234 (19) of the Alabama
Worthless Check Act
(1971) which reads
"banks dishonoring a
check and the place of
business to whom the
check was issued would
be allowed to assess the
person who drew the
check a service charge of
two dollars, ($2)."
"Of course, you run
into some very practical
matters at this point,"
said Middleton. "What's
a legal agreement? If an
individual had verbally
agreed to pay a given
charge he would be
bound to do so, but I
seriously doubt if reading
a sign is entering into a
contract.
"Another obvious pro­blem
is that if too much
hassle arose, businesses
could simply refuse to
cash checks, and that
wouldn't help anybody."
Bad check charges
vary around the Auburn
area, but some mer­chants
maintain that a
$2 charge just isn't
enough.
"We charge four dol­lars,"
said a local pizza
restaurant spokesman.
"Two dollars is what our
bank charges us, and the
other $2 goes for proces­sing.
"We have to send a
notice on bad checks.
Postage, printing and
manpower costs us the
extra $2. We certainly
aren't making a profit on
this."
Middleton agreed some
businesses require more
than the statutory a-mourit
for processing.
"You can't expect
them to operate at a
loss," said Middleton.
"But you don't necessar­ily
have to pay their
charges; neither do they
necessarily have to cash
your checks.
Middleton said that $5
is not necessarily unreas­onable
but an individual
should ask where the
money goes. "I imagine
we could safely say any­thing
over $5 is exces­sive,"
he said.
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The Auburn Plainsman A-IO Thure., Mar, s, IOT7
Is college education worth it? 1
Photography: Gordon Bugg
LATE NIGHTS AND NO SLEEP
..Experts say diploma may be losing Its value
Campus Calendar
CAMERA CLUB -
The Camera Club will
hold a special meeting on
outdoor portraiture in
Samford Park Saturday
at 2 p.m. (Sunday in case
of rain). Members of the
Auburn Modeling Board
will pose. The Camera
Club will meet for a
regular meeting Monday
at 7 p.m. in 360 Auburn
Union.
ARTS AND
CRAFTS SALE -
The Rehabilitation
Club will hold an Arts
and Crafts sale Tuesday
from 9 a.m. until 4 p.m.
on the Haley Center Con­course.
"CELEBRATE LFFE"-
The New Vibrations, a
choir of 34 Christian
teenagers from the First
Christian Church, Hunts-ville,
Alabama, will be
singing a musical "Cele­brate
Life" at the Village
Christian Church March
13 at 11 a.m.
TAILORING -
Anyone wishing to take
tailoring during summer
or fall quarter, please
sign up on the Home
Economics bulletin
board in Spidle Hall.
EXCEPTIONAL
CHILDREN -
The Student Council for
Exceptional Children will
meet Monday in 360 Au­burn
Union at 7 p.m.
WOMEN'S FCA -
The women's chapter
of the Fellowship of
Christian Athletes will
meet Tuesday at 9 p.m.
in the Auburn Union.
GEOLOGY AUCTION-The
Geology Club will
sponsor an auction of
mineral specimens, fos­sils
and books Tuesday at
7:30 p.m. in 2182 Haley
Center.
COMMON CAUSE-Alberta
Murphy, state
coordinator for Common
Cause will hold a news
conference in Union
Building 205 at 10 a.m.
Monday, Mar.7. All inter­ested
persons are invited
to attend.
MODELING -
The University Model­ing
Board will present a
fashion show given by
Polly-tek Sunday at 6
p.m. at Stoker's Restaur­ant.
ANCHOR SPLASH -
Delta Gamma will
sponsor Anchor Splash
April 16 at 7 p.m. in
Memorial Coliseum.
CIRCLE K -
The Auburn Circle K
will meet Tuesday at 6:30
p.m. in 317 Auburn
Union.
Yogurt Power
Is Coming!
Flavor Island
SIERRA CLUB -
The Sierra Club will
meet today at 7 p.m. in
the Auburn Union.
KAPPA SIGMA
ALUMNI -
The Kappa Sigma Fra­ternity
is sponsoring an
Auburn-Opelika Alumni
dinner Tuesday at 6 p.m.
Call 887-7097.
ALPHA EPSELON
DELTA -
Alpha Epsilon Delta,
pre-med honorary, will
meet Tuesday at 7 p.m.
in 3195 Haley Center. The
public is invited.
ENGINEERING
WIVES -
The wives of Auburn
Engineering Students
will meet Tuesday at 7:30
p.m. in the conference
room of the Textile
Building.
FANTASY GAMING -
The Fantasy Gaming
Club will meet Friday at
7 p.m. in the Auburn
Union.
TAX SERVICE -
The Accounting Club Is
offering free tax service
to all students. Bring all
tax records and W-2
forms to Mell Hall on
Tuesdays or Thursdays
from 1 to 5 p.m. The
service will last until
April 15.
GRADUATE BUSINESS
STUDENTS -
The Association of
Graduate Business Stu­dents
will meet Friday at
11:30 a.m. in 204 Auburn
Union.
HHAO -
The Health and Hospi­tal
Administration or­ganization
will meet
Monday at 7 p.m. in 2222
Haley Center.
MODEL CONGRESS -
1977 Model Congress
will hold a delegate
meeting Monday, March
7 at 4 p.m. in HC 2213.
All interested persons
are invited to attend.
STUDY AREAS -
Study areas available
are the English Composi­tion
Lab in Haley Center,
open 8 a.m. to 4 p.m.,
Monday through Friday;
the Geography Map
Room in Tichenor Hall,
open 7:45 a.m. to 4:45
p.m., weekdays; the
Math Resource Room in
Parker Hall, open after­noons
on weekdays and
7:30 to 10 p.m. Monday
through Wednesday; the
Physics Resource Room
in Parker Hall open from
2 to 5 p.m. and 6:30 to
9:30 p.m. Monday
through Thursday.
ASHEA -
Auburn Student Home
Economics Association
will meet Monday night
at 7:30 p.m. in 220 Spidle
Hall.
AU PRESS CLUB-The
Auburn University
Press Club will meet
Tuesday, March 8 at 6:30
p.m. In Haley Center
3203. Ben Davis, manag­ing
editor of The Mont­gomery
Advertiser, will
be the guest speaker.
By Ann Slade
Plainsman Staff Writer
In 1976, the starting
salary of U.S. college
graduates was only six
percent above that of the
average American work­er,
according to an April
1976 article in "News­week."
A college diploma,
which many people see
as the necessary ticket
for the journey through
American life, is seen by
some as rapidly losing its
monetary value.
The college graduate's
salary advantage
reached a peak of 24 per
cent in 1969, the last
boom year in the college
job market, and has been
rapidly declining since.
For the first time since
the Great Depression,
numerous college gradu­ates
today are standing
in unemployment lines
beside less educated
Americans or taking jobs
for which they are over-qualified.
"Newsweek" states
"one recent study sug­gests
as much as
27 per cent of the nation's
work force may now be
made up of people who
are overeducated for the
jobs they hold."
In 1969, the lifetime
economic advantage a
recent college graduate
could expect for the price
of his degree was 11 per
cent. By 1974, it had
fallen to 7 per cent.
Experts say the
straight economic argu­ment
against college will
be valid for some time.
The traditional college
education may never a-gain
hold automatic fi­nancial
rewards, job se­curity,
and the upward
social mobility it once
promised.
Harvard economist
Richard Freemean and
MIT Prof. J. Herbert
Holloman have been stu­dying
the college job
market for the past sev­eral
years.
"We have arrived at a
point where a growing
number of people may be
destined to remain un­deremployed—
or, by 1m-plicaton,
overeducated,"
they concluded.
"Today's Education"
magazine says a college
degree is no longer worth
a young person's invest­ment
because of its de­clining
economic return.
Colleges must stop try­ing
to sell higher educa­tions
to potential stu­dents
primarily on the
grounds of economic ben­efits,
says the education
magazine. Many stu­dents,
it says, given de­sirable
alternatives,
wouldn't be in college at
all.
Harold L. Hodgkinson,
director of the National
Institute of Education in
Washington told "News­week":
"It's a mistake
to operate on the as­sumption
that all 18-year-olds
should go to col­lege."
Hodgkinson warns that
for the first time in
American history, large
numbers of young people
may deliberately choose
to become less educated
than their parents.
Official University hosts
have diverse duties
Schedules available
Students will pick up schedules and pay fees to
complete registration for spring quarter, 1977, in the
west concourse of Memorial Coliseum March 7-10.
You may pick up your schedule and pay fees any
hour during the periods as follows:
Monday, March 7
9 a.m.
l p . m .
Thursday, March 10
through 12 p.m.
4 p.m.
Students not clearing fees by Thursday, March 10
will have their schedules canceled.
Late fees will be charged to currently enrolled stu­dents
who register after March 10, 1977.
Final registration and schedule adjustment for
spring quarter will be March 24 and 25. Classes begin
March 28.
By Brooxie Sharpe
Plainsman Staff Writer
Welcoming officials,
greeting dignitaries and
giving campus tours are
just a few of the duties of
Auburn War Eagle Girls
and Plainsmen, the offi­cial
student hostesses
and hosts of the Univer­sity.
The group, consisting
of 14 War Eagle Girls
and 12 Plainsmen, who
wear orange and blue
uniforms, also works in
the press box during
football games, repre­sents
Auburn at recep­tions
and teas, hosts the
Auburn Kick-Off and Tip-
Off Clubs during game
seasons and meets pros­pective
athletes and their
parents.
"Specifically, we work
campus-wide with a lot of
emphasis on the Athletic
Department, University
Relations, the Alumni
Office and High School
Relations," said Carl
Bartlett, president of the
War Eagle Girls and
Plainsmen. "We pro­mote
Auburn in all of it's
aspects."
The group began in
1967 when an Auburn
student, Margaret A. Se-grest,
organized a group
of Auburn women to act
as hostesses for Univer­sity
functions.
The group, which oper­ated
under the Student
Government Public Rela­tions
Committee, grew
with great interest, and
in 1968 eight Auburn men
joined the organization to
help in welcoming Uni­versity
guests and greet­ing
dignitaries. The idea
for the men's group,
called the Plainsmen,
was formed by Donna
Massie, president of the
War Eagle Girls at that
time.
The War Eagle Girls
and Plainsmen are chos­en
through a series of
interviews every spring1
quarter. They are select--
ed by an interview board
which includes the-group's
president, one
other officer and three
University staff or facul­ty
members. Poise, per-,
sonality, and overall ap­pearance
are considered
in the selection.
According to Bartlett,'
"250 applications were
taken for only 18 vacancy
ies last year." The
tentative date for the,
1977 interviews is the
third week in April, Bart­lett
said.
Bartlett also said the
organization will once
again sponsor their
"Beat Bama" Bed Race
during spring quarter*
This activity will benefit
the Alabama Sheriff's.
Girls' Ranch. The tenta-.
tive date for that event is=
March 3.
The 1976-77 War Eagle
girls are Ginger Mullins,:
3VHE; Keigh Parish,-
3EEE; Nancy Hollands
4IND; Barbara Mangel;
3GSC; Anne Griffin,
3GFL; Debbie Felts.j
3SSC; Dottie Pipping
4SMU; Carole Wade/
3NF; Cindy York, 4FCD;.'
Ann Neely, 4EEE; Janet
Mounger, 4AC; Beverly1
Boerner, 4HEQ; and
Debbie Baughman,'
4GJM. There are alsoi
two honorary members
of the War Eagle Girls,,
Miss Auburn, Linda Es-,
kind, 4MK; and Mrs^
Auburn, Judy Davis,
3FCD.
The Plainsmen are
Carl Bartlett, 4FI; Rob-bins
Taylor, 3FIL; Ricky;
Pate, 30H; Al Scott,"
6FAA; Rhett Bentley,
4PB; Stuart Wilson,
4MKT; Jim Bradberry^
4AR; Bill Cunningham,}
3EE; John Richardson,;
3PM; Evan Smith, 3CE;»
Billy Ainsworth, 3MK;!
and Jim Stewart, 5AR. t
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Thurs., Mar. 3, 1977 A l l The Auburn Plainsman
Facelift of Auburn may begin, if funds available
By Jimmy Grimes
Plainsman Staff Writer
A long-planned facelift
of downtown Auburn
may begin soon if fund­ing
is available.
• A set of drawings and
blueprints for renova­tion,
prepared by Har­mon
Engineering of Au­burn
and the Columbus
architectural firm of Big-gers,
Neal and Clark, are
being displayed at a
series of three public
hearings.
The area covered by
the plans presented at
the second public hearing
Thursday night includes
College Street between
Thach and Glenn Aven­ues,
and Magnolia Aven­ue
between Gay and
Wright Streets.
The plans include the
underground placement
of all telephone power
lines and other aerial
utilities in this district.
The replacement of side­walks
and installation of
simulated brick en-tranceways
in front of
doors to businesses are
also included.
Stairs and ramps for
the handicapped would
be put into the split-level
sidewalk on College
Street, and the curb at
Toomer's Corner would
be extended approxi­mately
to the end of the
parked cars to either side
of it. The plan also
includes improvements
for the College Street
median.
New street lights, side­walk
lamps and traffic
light standards are a
part of the plans. The
new standards would sus­pend
traffic lights from
arms extending from
street-corner posts.
Trees and greenery
would be planted along
the sidewalks in the area
with steel tree guards
around the bases of the
trees.
Another proposal ten­tatively
included in the
plan would be to reroute
Tichenor Avenue, now
one-way running east, so
it would run west, thus
directing the main flow
of traffic around the
main part of downtown.
If this were done, the
traffic light at Tichenor
and College Streets could
be taken down.
Actual work on the
project would take about
six months, but the
$450,000 price tag could
slow things down consid­erably,
they said.
"We have $75,000 in the
community development
fund which could be used
for putting the utilities
underground," said Com­munity
Development Co­ordinator
Frank Scully.
"Where the rest of the
money comes from will
have to be worked out
according to what the
citizens of Auburn
want."
One possibility is the
$334,000 in third year
federal revenue sharing
funds the city could be
eligible for in October.
The city must send a
plan for using the funds
to the department of
Housing and Urban De­velopment.
If the plan is
approved, the city will
get the money.
The renovation plan
could be the plan submit­ted.
Last year, Auburn
received funds to up­grade
sewers in low-income
districts.
Aside from the money
problems, the plan still
has a few steps to go
before it is a reality.
"After we get through
with the hearings," said
Scully, "Jim Findley (of
Harmon Engineering),
Paul Weathrington (of
Biggers, Neal and Clark)
and I will have to sit
down and sift through all
the suggestions made at
the hearings and lclude
them in the plan."
The last of the public
hearings will be held
tonight at the Auburn
Council Chamber in City
Hall. The first was
Feb. 8 and the second
was Feb. 24.
Included among the
citizen suggestions at
Thursday's hearing were
proposals to add bike
racks, a "gazebo" at
Toomer's Corner to hide
newspaper boxes and a
suggestion the plan be
extended to cover the
east side of Gay Street
between Magnolia and
Tichenor Streets.
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Buildings made accessible
to handicapped students
By Ted Laseter
Plainsman Staff Writer
Auburn is continuing
its program to provide
building accommoda­tions
for handicapped
students and visitors in
compliance with Section
502 of the Rehabilitation
Act of 1973, which pre­scribed
standards to
make buildings and facil­ities
accessible and us­able
by all including the
disabled.
According to Linwood
E. Funchess, Director of
Buildings and Grounds,
Auburn's building modi­fication
program was put
into effect two years ago.
"The University com­pleted
a project summer
before last," he said,
"with the aid of govern­ment
grants and local
funding. We installed
wheelchair ramps in Lit­tle
and Bullard Halls and
widened several bath­room
doors to make
facilities more acces­sible."
He said the biggest
project now is providing
elevators in the older
buildings as well as those
recently constructed.
He said all new build­ings
will have to provide
accommodations for the
handicapped, including
the architecture building,
now under construction,
and the pharmacy build­ing.
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