1977-02-17 The Auburn Plainsman

              Volume 83 Number 14 Auburn, Ala. 86830 Thursday, February 17,1977
City Council
Non-voting student member proposed
By Al Smith
Plainsman Staff Writer
An SGA proposal to place a
non-voting "ex-officio" student
member on the Auburn City
Council will be brought before the
council in its next meeting.
The proposal is an alternative to
a proposal to change Auburn city
elections to fall quarter when
more registered students would be
able to vote.
"Ex officio" means the position
is held by virtue of an office, and
the SGA would make the student
an elected cabinet member of the
SGA.
The resolution passed the stu­dent
senate Tuesday night and will
go before the city council.
SGA leaders feel the election
change does not have enough
council support to pass at this
time.
SGA Pres. Buck Ruffin said,
"We must establish a rapport with
the city council first, and then the
election change could be brought
up."
Ruffin said the student member
would eventually receive a vote on
the council. If it works out, he
said, the proposal for changing the
election date could be studied.
Auburn Mayor Donald E. Hay-hurst,
who strongly favors the date
change said, "The SGA is backing
off on the idea (of the election
change). That's their prerogative,
but they're missing their goal."
He said the "opportunity is
better than ever" to bring the
election change proposal before
the council.
Secretary of Political Affairs
Gene Oswalt said, "We would like
to think Mr. Hayhurst is right, but
we feel that the council is not
ready to make the decision yet. I
don't think Mr. Hayhurst under­stands
that the council is not
behind us at this time."
Oswalt, with director of student
lobby, Gary Sanders, conducted an
SGA study, interviewing eight of
nine council members.
Oswalt said, "Half of the popula­tion
of this town is student.
Though they may be individually
transient, they are collectively
permanent. The students should
be allowed to voice in the local
government.
"However, after talking with the
council members, we realize they
do not support the change at this
time, although none are unalter­ably
opposed to changing Uie date
in the future."
According to Oswalt, the pro­posed
student member would
serve as a formal, constructive
voice in the council. It would be
an excellent means for weekly
in-put, he said. The main purpose
of the student member would be to
look into the possibility of chang­ing
the election date.
Denson Lipscomb, city council
member and a recent Auburn
graduate, has been approached by
the SGA to present the student
member resolution at the council
meeting.
Lipscomb said, "I will first have
to study it with the City Manager
before it is presented. I personally
feel it would not accomplish much.
If the sole purpose is to study the
'date change then I believe an
independent study could be just as
effective."
It is not legally necessary for the
election change to be brought
before the city council. For the
resolution to become law it must
be passed by the Alabama State
Legislature.
Hayhurst said, "I doubt the local
legislators would vote toward the
plan if it were not first approved
(by council)."
Lipscomb agreed the council
should vote on the proposal before
it would be sent to the Legislature,
and added he would favor the
resolution.
Dr. Hoyt Warren, council mem­ber,
feels any council action would
have no effect on the state
Legislature's decision.
"I don't think the council would
have anything they could do about
it," he said. "The Legislature
could do it on their own without
word from the council."
Warren said, "I would not be
opposed to whatever the Legisla­ture
ruled on it." When asked if he
would support the proposal if it
came before the council, Warren
answered, "I didn't say that."
Walter Giddens, council mem­ber,
said there is no reason for the
date change proposal to come
before the council.
"I wouldn't have any reason at
this point to not support the
proposal if it came before the
council," Giddens said, "but I
really would need to hear the
opinions of the other members (of
council) before I could say for
sure."
Oswalt said all council members
except Giddens had been ap­proached
concerning the matter,
but when Council Pres. Bill Allen
was asked his opinion, he replied
he had been In Washington for the
past week and refused to make
any comment on the subject,
saying he knew nothing about it.
Hayhurst believes the present
proposal for an "ex officio"
student member on the council
would not achieve a great deal.
There is already a place on the
agenda of council meetings for
citizens to bring up any matter
before the council, he said, and an
SGA member could be present at
all meetings for this purpose, ac­cording
to Hayhurst, that would
serve the same purpose as a
non-voting student member.
Ruffin holds that the "votes
aren't there" for the election
change resolution to pass, and that
the new proposal would provide
the first step toward taking action
in this matter.
Hayhurst said, "It is just im­proper
to not allow students the
opportunity to vote.
"I don't believe citizens should
worry about students not acting
properly or trying to control the
council. After all, the college
students are the best educated of
all the voters."
'Gord's Gold' Photography: Dan Doughtie
Gordon Lightfoot brought his mellow brand of easy
listening music to the Auburn Coliseum Friday,
entertaining a somewhat small crowd of about 4500
fans. Lightfoot included selections from his greatest
hits, including "Sundown" and his latest, "The Wreck
of The Edmund Fitzgerald." The concert has been
labeled the only major concert of winter quarter by
UPC, who will also bring a popular soul group, Brick,
to Auburn for a free concert Wednesday. Details on
both concerts are in the entertainment section, start­ing
on page A-8.
Mathews: 'South is emerging'
By Christy Hudgins
Editor
"The problems before us and the
things we need to do won't be les­sened
one iota because a southern­er
is in the White House. Someone
has to stay home and grow the
peanuts."
With this message, University of
Alabama President and former
HEW Secretary, David Mathews,
returned to his early childhood
home of Auburn Wednesday night
to a crowded Chamber of Com­merce
banquet.
Mathews told the Union Ball­room
group of the South he saw
emerging and its "change of pos­ture"
from the "nation's number
one problem, to its number one
opportunity.
"There was a time we could
stand apart from government and
say what 'they' did," he said.
"Now, it would be hard to do that
with a neighbor from Georgia in
the White House."
He said he was particularly im­pressed
by the message of one
businessman at a Future of the
South Conference. The business­man
related how he had listened to
men in Massachusetts who spoke
differently, not just with a differ­ent
accent, but a different mes­sage.
"They were talking about
what they were going to do with
the country, while we talk about
what they're going to do with us."
Maybe we need to revisit that
fram of mind," urged Mathews.
Mathews also saw the South as a
part of the country rich in re­sources.
"The people who had
everything when we had nothing
are now coming to buy and pay
worshipful attention," he said.
Mathews also saw the South as
a part of the country rich in re­sources.
"The people who had
everything when we had nothing
are now coming to buy and pay
worshipful attention," he said. A
quilt will bring more in New York
than anything plastic."
Mathews also said the South's
greatest resource was not neces­sarily
in "the fertility of its soil,
the richness of its resources or the
goodness of our people" but in its
attraction as a place to live. "New
York and New Jersey are fine
places," said Mathews, "but you
don't hear people saying, 'Gee, I'd
like to live here.' "
"We are in command," said
Mathews...in command of "eco­nomic
changes of a magnitude
we've never seen" and "the most
profound economic and political
transformation ".we have known in
the last 100 years.
Cleaver sets speech
on 'American values'
Wounded eagles treated at AU vet clinic
By Dan Doughtie
Photographic Editor
One golden eagle and two bald
eagles are being treated for gun­shot
wounds at the Auburn Small
Animal Clinic after being brought
here by federal wildlife agents.
The three eagles are the only
ones found alive out of 25 reported
shot in the three-state area of
Louisiana, Mississippi and Arkan­sas
during the past three months,
according to Sidney A. Woodson,
senior resident agent in the Divi­sion
of Law Enforcement of the
U.S. Wildlife Service for the Mis­sissippi
area.
According to Woodson, the ea­gles
were probably shot by deer
and 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."
Dr. Greg Boring, assistant pro­fessor
of small animal surgery and
medicine said the first one, a gol­den
eagle, arrived Feb. 8 after be­ing
found shot near Lake Charles,
La. The next day Woodson, also a
pilot for the Fish and Wildlife Ser­vice,
brought an injured bald eagle
to Auburn from Little Rock, Ark.,
and transported another injured
bald eagle from Paris, Ark., Tues­day.
According to Boring, the first
bald eagle had been in a greatly
"depressed" state when it arrived.
It had apparently been on the
ground for three to four weeks
before it was found, because its
talons and tailfeathers had been
worn down from walking around."
But Boring said the eagle's
condition has greatly improved
and it should fully recover.
The eagles need about two hours
of attention each day from Bill
Hickey, 5VM, and Jack Hume,
4VM, the two students in charge of
caring for the birds.
The recovery and rehabilation
period for injuries of this type is
usually three to four months
according to Woodson. Should an
eagle fail to be successfully
rehabilitated then it would be
loaned to an institution capable of
caring for the bird-
By Brooxie Sharpe
Plainsman Staff Writer
Eldridge Cleaver, former Black
Panther Party information direc­tor
and author of "Soul on Ice,"
will speak Monday at 8 p.m. in the
Student Activities Building, spon­sored
by the UPC Horizons VII.
Cleaver, who has spent seven
years as a fugitive In Cuba,
Algeria, the U.S.S.R., Africa and
France, has returned as a self-pro­claimed
conservative defending
free speech and the traditions of
this country.
A product of the black ghetto of
Los Angeles and the California
prisons of Soledad, Folsom and
San Quentin, Cleaver left the
United States in 1969, fleeing a
prison sentence. The sentence was
imposed on him for a parole
violation and for involvement in a
violent encounter with the Oakland
police on April 6, 1968, in which
Cleaver was wounded and Bobby
Hutton, Black Panther national
treasurer, was killed.
Cleaver was born in 1935 in
Wabbeska, Ark., near Little Rock.
He was convicted on a marijuana
charge at age 18, beginning a
12-year cycle of prison sentences.
While in prison, Cleaver earned a
diploma from Bay View High
School in California. At this time
he also was converted to the Black
Five finalists selected
in Miss Auburn contest
WOUNDED EAGLE EXAMINED BY VET SCHOOL PERSONNEL
.Jack Hume, 4VM (left) and Dr. Greg Boring check wings tor injuries
Photography: Dan Doughtie
The five finalists in the Miss
Auburn contest were announced
Tuesday night. They are: Leslie
Bosshard, 2VA; Cheryl Clements,
2VA; Cindy Harney, 3EEC; Susan
Long, 3EEC; Lynn Unger, 2SMU.
Thirty women had entered the
contest, and the list was trimmed
to 20 by a committee of students
and non-students. The finalists
were selected by a five-member
committee including: Dr. Taylor
Littleton, dean of Academic Af­fairs;
Dr. William Highfill, direc­tor
of the library, who substituted
for Littleton during part of
Tuesday's interviews; Millard
Grimes, publisher of the Opelika-
Auburn Daily News; Charlotte
Davis, activities advisor; and Mrs.
Betty Fuller, mother of former
Miss Alabama Freida Fuller
Christian.
Muslim faith and began seriously
writing for the first time.
Upon his release from prison,
Cleaver became a well-known
lecturer on many college campus­es
throughout the United States.
As a lecturer, Cleaver said he
"sought to inspire and motivate
black students, particularly those
with ghetto backgrounds."
During his exile Cleaver encoun­tered
the slavery of Algeria and
the communist politics of Cuba's
Fidel Castro. Cleaver also said he
was shocked at the racism of
Arabic Africa.
Now with his voluntary return,
Cleaver has proclaimed, "The
American political system is the
most free and most democratic in
the world. The system needs to be
improved, with democracy spread
to all areas of life. All of these
changes must be conducted
through our established institu­tions."
Although his perceptions of our
political system have changed in
the last seven years, Cleaver still
feels there is a "racial and
economic injustice here." But he
adds, "The American people are
several generations ahead of the
world."
Inside Today
READING LIGHTFOOT'S MIND-This
week's entertainment sec­tion
features a review of Friday's
Gordon Lightfoot concert. (See
page A-8)
MY OLD KENTUCKY HOME-Sportswriter
Brad Davis is a na­tive
Kentuckian, and he returned
from a trip to see the Auburn-Ken­tucky
game with a unique first­hand
view of the Wildcats' faithful.
UNLIKELY BAMA GRAD-Dean
of Student Affairs James
Foy has been at Auburn for nearly
30 years, and in today's issue of
The Plainsman relates some of his
most interesting experiences.
The Auburn Plainsman A-2 Thurs., Feb 17, 1977
Engineers toss up a few ideas
The tow truck cometh
Photography: Dan Doughtie
It seems that this Firebird should have found
another nest, rather than yield to the temptation of a
vacancy beside a fire hydrant. According to Capt.
Hubert Carmack, of the Auburn Fire Department,
there has been a recent increase in this type of
parking problem. Students faced with the opportunity
to park next to a hydrant might do well to remember
that they are liable for any damages and injuries
occurring in a fire when help is prolonged because of
the location of their car.
SGA sponsors Blood Drive Feb. 22
By Dana Kerbs
Plainsman Staff Writer
The Annual Blood
Drive, sponsored by the
SGA, will be held Febru­ary
22-24 in the Haley
Center Lounge.
Setting 4,000 pints as
this year's goal, SGA, in
conjunction with the
Birmingham Regional
The world this week
By Betsy Butgereit
Plainsman Staff Writer
International
RICHTER SCALE REVISED-The 40-year-old
Richter Scale, used to measure earthquakes,
has been revised, changing the ratings of pre­vious
"great" earthquakes. The new system
changes how the higher magnitudes of the scale
are computed. Based on this system, the San
Francisco earthquake of 1906 has been scaled
down, while the 1960 Chile quake was found to
have released 62 times as much energy as be­lieved.
National •
CARTER COULD PLACE LID ON HOSPITAL
CHARGES-According to the Chicago Daily
News, President Carter is considering placing a
government lid on hospital charges. His plan
would save $792 million in Medicare and
Medicaid costs in 1978. Carter was expected to
introduce his national health insurance proposal
next year.
State
WALLACE MEETS WITH LEGISLATORS-Gov.
Wallace met Monday and Tuesday with
members of the Alabama House. He was ex­pected
to try and cement as much support as
possible for his programs. Neither of his budget
bills, introduced in both houses last week, have
been taken up yet.
Red Cross, will conduct
the three day project
from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. on
Tuesday and Wednesday
and from 12-6 p.m. on
Thursday. Last year's
drive, which netted 3,684
pints, was held in the
Student Activities Build­ing.
Martha McGehee,
3VA, blood drive chair­man,
said, "We're hop­ing
that by expanding
into Haley Center instead
of the Student Activities
Building, we can avoid
long lines and serve
more people."
Registration will be up­stairs
in Haley Cen­ter
while donations will
be given downstairs in
the lounge where 72
tables will be set up. Ap­pointments
can be made
for the first two days by
calling 826-5059, but the
third day will be oper­ated
on a first come first
serve basis.
Nurses and other quali­fied
personnel from the
Birmingham Red Cross
will be assisted in the
preliminary work, such
as taking temperatures
and hemoglobin samples,
by Auburn pharmacy
students, medical and
laboratory technology
students, and members
of Alpha Epsilon Delta,
the pre-med honorary.
"While the actual pro­cedure
of giving blood
takes only five to seven
minutes, a donor should
count on 45 minutes for
Seniors,
Last chance to
order caps and
gowns is Friday,
February 18
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HALEY CENTER
the entire process," said
McGehee. "We also
suggest students should
eat something both be­fore
and after giving
blood to keep their blood
sugar level constant."
In order to encourage
participation, there will
be competition between
sororities, fraternities or
any other organization.
"An "Early Bird' a-ward
will be give to the
group that gives the
highest percentage on
the first day," McGehee
said.
A challenge has also
been extended to the
University of Alabama to
try to top Auburn's total,
which last year placed
third in the world for
three day blood drives.
First and second places
were also taken by Au­burn
in 1967 and 1975.
To donate blood, one
must be at least 18 years
of age and weight at least
100 pounds. Other ac­ceptability
factors will be
covered in the medical
history.
Playing golf with Fris-bees
instead of little
white balls, modern cata­pults
hurling volleyballs
instead of boiling oil, and
balsa wood bridges sup­porting
hundreds of
times their own weight
are just three of the
activities planned for Na­tional
Engineers' Week
February 20-25 at Au­burn.
In the Fourth Annual
Structures Contest Mon­day
students will put
their construction and
design skills to the test.
Competitors will build
their finished entries
from prepared kits and
then add more and more
weight to the structures
until they fail.
The winner is deter­mined
by the amount of
load it carries in relation
to its weight. Kits are
available for $2.50 from
the Engineers' Learning
Resources Center
(ELRC) in Rarnsay Hall.
The contest will be held
at 1:30 p.m. in 202 and
208 Auburn Union.
Tuesday's competition
offers a new challenge
for those entering the
First Annual Frisbee
Golf Match. A course will
be set up on the Max
Morris Drill Field at 1:30
p.m., and competitors
will follow basic golf
rules in trying to throw
the Frisbees into desig­nated
containers.
A $1 fee is required and
includes the cost of a
Frisbee for each compe­titor.
More information is
available at the ELRC.
The final Engineers'
Week contest borrows
some pages from history
in bringing back an early
weapon of war — the
catapult. There is no
entry fee for this compe­tition
and the rules say
no chemical reactions or
compressed air devices
are allowed, but anything
else is.
Competition will be di­vided
between fraternity
and independent cate­gories
with prizes for
each division. Each ma­chine
will be required to
hurl a regulation volley­ball
with reasonable dis­tance
and accuracy.
Competition begins at
1:30 p.m. Wednesday on
the Max Morris Drill
Field.
Other activities include
three featured speakers,
the head of NASA's Vik­ing
Mars program, a
Space Shuttle astronaut
and the chief engineer
for Walt Disney World
will be on campus during
Engineers' Week.
Beginning the week,
Harvey C. "Tom" Jones,
director of the Reedy
Creek Utilities Company
at Disney World, will
look behind the scenes at
the Florida amusement
area.
Jones has been with
Disney World since con­struction
began in 1969.
Before joining them, he
was the Supervisor of the
Harbor of New York. He
has commanded an engi­neer
group during the
Korean War and a com­bat
engineer battalion in
Vietnam.
Wednesday night, the
man who directed the
first successful unman­ned
exploration of the
planet Mars will be on
campus. James S. Mar­tin,
Jr. vice president of
Advanced Programs and
Planning for Martin Mar­ietta
Aerospace and
former Viking Project
Manager for NASA, will
speak in the Auburn
Union Ballroom at 7:30
p.m.
The Viking Project was
NASA's largest, most
complex unmanned flight
project. Martin served as
project manager for
eight years until this
December. Prior to this,
he was head of the
Advanced Space Project
Office (Unmanned) and
Assistant Project Mana­ger
of the Lunar Orbiter
missions.
The third speaker sche­duled
for Engineers'
Week at Auburn is Col.
Henry Hartsfield, an Au­burn
University graduate
and astronaut with
NASA's Space-Shuttle
program. Hartsfield will
be the featured speaker
at the Engineers' honors
banquet Friday at 7 p.m.
in the Auburn Union
Ballroom.
He has been a NASA
astronaut since 1969 and
was a member of the
astronaut support crew
for Apollo 16 and in the
same capacity for the
Skylab 2, Skylab 3 and
Skylab 4 missions.
Both Jones' and Mar­tin's
presentations are
open to the public and
tickets to the Engineer­ing
honors banquet are
on sale by members of
the Student Engineers
Council.
Student Health Week
highlighted by speech
By Cheryl Talbot
Plainsman Staff Writer
Dr. Benjamin Spock,
the free-thinking child
psychologist who
changed the course of
family-raising philoso­phies
in the 1960s, will
kick off Student Health
Week (Feb. 28-March 4)
with a talk Feb. 28 at 8
p.m. in the Union Ball­room.
Student Health Week is
a cooperative effort of
University and commun­ity
health agencies de­signed
to inform students
on health matters most
directly concerning
them, according to the
SGA, which is co-spon­soring
the events.
On March 1, Dr. Alfred
Kent, a Lee County tho­racic
surgeon, will give a
lecture and slide show on
smoking and health. The
presentation will be at 7
p.m. in Langdon Hall.
At 8 p.m. March 2 in
the Pharmacy Building
Auditorium, the movie
"V.D. Blues" will be
shown.
Dr. William Long, an
adolescent specialist
from Jackson, Miss., will
speak at 7 p.m. March 3
in the Pharmacy Build­ing
Auditorium on the
"Dynamics of the Ado­lescent."
Long will dis­cuss
the social problems
that result from the ado­lescent
legal age being
23.
Other activities during
the week are the blood
pressure screening at the
Auburn Union Lounge
and Haley Center lounge
all week 11 a.m. to 3 D.m.
In the Village Mall in
Auburn, diabetes screen­ing
will be done March
4-5.
Medical eight minute
spot films will be shown
throughout the week in
the Auburn Union.
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World issues debated at SIMUN
By Lisa Harris
News Editor
Subjects ranging from
the Palestine Liberation
Organization and terror­ism
to the law of the sea
were debated and, in a
few cases, resolved at
the 1977 Southeastern In­vitational
Model United
Nations held at Auburn
last weekend.
The conference, model­ed
after the United Na­tions,
gives students an
opportunity to learn
about foreign policy and
politics from a practical
view. About 200 partici­pants,
representing 70
countries, discussed res­olutions
proposing solu­tions
to international
problems while attempt­ing
to pass those that
agreed with their coun­try's
philosophy.
The political and secur­ity
committee, headed by
Gary McClanahan, was
the scene of heated de-
Mathews sees conflict
MODEL U.N. DELEGATES MAKE DECISIONS
.They decide the fate of the world for a few short days
Photography: Gordon Bugg
Valeriani challenges'Utopian rhetoric'
By Lisa Harris
News Editor
Disarmament, a new
Panama Canal treaty,
.the Middle East and
•southern Africa are ma-
• jor foreign policy areas
'. Pres. Jimmy Carter will
I have to cope with, NBC
;News State Department
J correspondent Richard
• Valeriani told students
I last Thursday night.
J Valeriani, keynote
• speaker for the 1977
; Southeastern Invitational
•Model United Nations
'held last weekend, called
iCarter's hope of elimin-lating
nuclear weapons
;"Utopian rhetoric."
j "From a strategic
•viewpoint it doesn't
'make any sense," Valer-liani
said. "We would just
lhave to increase the size
;of conventional forces,
;and the smaller the nu-
•clear arsenal is, the
•greater is the temptation
'to knock it out."
The differences be­tween
foreign policy in
;the Carter and Ford
•administrations is one of
•style rather than sub­stance,
Valeriani said.
"There has been a swift
repudiation of the Kis­singer
'lone ranger' style
of diplomacy," he said.
"We have seen a change
to a lot of rangers, and I
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think Secretary of State
Cyrus Vance will do
more overseeing and ap­pointing
of trained ex­perts
to negotiate and
visit."
Valeriani does see
some changes coming,
especially in relations
with Latin America. "I
think there will be a new
policy toward Cuba. I
think we can expect a
start of diplomatic rela­tions
sometime soon.
"We will also see some
progress toward a new
Panama Canal treaty,
which will give Panama
eventual operation of the
canal and jurisdiction
over the present Canal
Zone territory," he said.
However, he continued,
"Ratification (of a new
treaty) will take some
selling. The canal is a
psychological and emo­tional
issue, and though
the conservative opposi­tion
to a new treaty has
lost some force, it is still
formidable. This is one
area where Carter will
have to really fight."
Valeriani said there is
a growing feeling in
southern Africa that the
U.S. position of letting
the British take the lead
in negotiations is not
enough, and that the U.S.
may have to get more
heavily involved.
"The hard line whites
in South Africa and Rho­desia
still expect Ameri­can
or West European
help in the crunch, be­cause
statements against
apartheid have not been
followed up by action,"
he said. Valeriani cited
the continued U.S. impor­tation
of Rhodesian
chrome as an example of
the lack of action.
"But, if Carter's work
to repeal the Byrd A-mendment
(which per­mits
the importation of
chrome from Rhodesia
despite an economic boy­cott
of the country)
works, it might dispel the
hope in Rhodesia of
American help. It might
increase the influence of
moderates in South Afri­ca
and maybe lead to
some constructive ac­tion."
Valeriani said the
United States would need
to get used to the fact
that it "is no longer the
undisputed king of the
world's mountain."
"We are still the most
powerful country in the
world," he said, "but we
have begun to see the
limits of power. We are
beginning to realize that
economic interdepen­dence
has become more
than a rhetorical cliche,
and that we will have to
live with the rest of the
world.
"The U.S. must contin­ue
to provide leadership
for the free world, or
there will be no leader­ship
at all."
A conflict presently de­veloping
between educa­tors
and the government
is due partly to a feeling
that "the government is
making universities into
homes for bureaucrats
rather than intellec­tuals,"
Dr. David Math­ews,
president of the
University of Alabama,
said in a talk to Auburn
students Tuesday.
MatheWs was in Au­burn
for a Chamber of
Commerce banquet, and
in an earlier speech spon­sored
by Pi Sigma Alpha
political science honor­ary
he said there is a
growing concern that ed­ucation
is seen by the
government not as a
partner but as something
to be controlled.
He said that at the
beginning of the century,
the partnership between
government and educa­tion
produced such ad­vances
as land-grant col­leges.
But, he said,
recent increases in regu­lation
had led to an
attitude of resentment
among many educators.
Mathews served as
Secretary of Health, Ed-
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two years before return­ing
to the University of
Alabama. He said run­ning
a university is hard­er
than being HEW Sec­retary.
"It's more like
hand-to-hand combat,"
he said.
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a large problem in the
area of preventive medi­cine,
according to
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many government medi­cal
agencies act only
after a crisis exists,
rather than acting to
prevent it.
"The rate of use of
preventive medicine is
going down, despite the
immense scientific ca­pacity
of this country.
For example, only 60 per
cent of school children
are innoculated against
common diseases," he
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terrorism, sub­mitted
by the Libyan
delegation.
The resolution, which
excluded "freedom fight­ers"
from a definition of
terrorists, provoked a
major floor fight, and
eventually passed, when
it reached the General
Assembly, which was
chaired by Secretary-
General Lee Ann Fuller-ton
and the committee
chairmen.
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Committee, headed by
Rusty Parker, and the
Social, Humanitarian
and Cultural Committee,
headed by Sheree
Graves, produced resolu­tions
calling for the ex­pulsion
of Israel, a move
which was defeated in
the Security Council, and
several proposals on de­velopment
and world !
hunger.
The Security
Council, chaired by Janet
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of Vietman to the
U.N., border problems
and proposals on apar­theid
and the Middle
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reacting as their country
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second place, In­dia,
form Columbus Col­lege;
honorable mention,
United Kingdom, from
Auburn.
In the middle power
category, first place
went to the Syrian dele­gation
from Columbus
College; second to the
Libyan delegation from
Auburn, and honorable
mentions to the Greece
and Venezuelan delega­tions.
In the Small Powers,
first place went to Peru
from Alexander City Jun­ior
College, second place
to Benin, from Auburn
and honorable mentions
to Bangledesh and Maur­itius.
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Compromising
' The fight is over.
The SGA has abandoned the effort to change the voting date for Auburn
city elections, and we can only wonder why.
The SGA says it doesn't think the City Council would approve changing
the voting date from August to a month when more students would be at
school, even though Auburn Mayor Donald Hayhurst thinks otherwise. Now,
a chance to resolve one of the worst discriminations against students has been
abandoned by those students possessing the greatest chance of pulling it
through.
The alternative proposal is indeed only a meaningless scrap of meat, tossed
to the students instead. What the SGA is pulling for is a non-voting student
member of the City Council.
Compare the two proposals. If the voting date were changed, there is a
good chance there would be more than one student on the City Council, with
full voting rights. Instead, what the SGA wants is to have a student member
who might as well be sitting in the audience.
We urge the SGA to take up the fight again. We do not want the voting
date changed just to stick a couple of students on the City Council. It is a
matter of principle, the principle of students' rights which the City has been
dodging for years. Elections in a city simply should not be held when half of
the city's residents are not present. A trade-off of an ex-officio councilman for
the voting rights of Auburn students is a travesty.
When the students are helping the City deny their rights, we are past dis­crimination
and in accepted second-class status.
Dorm fee unfair
Requiring a dorm resident to either choose a meal plan or pay a $15 fee
apparently is not enough. Cooking is restricted in dorm rooms and inade­quate
wiring is cited as the reason. Perhaps this rule also insures better busi­ness
at University cafeterias.
Students can leave popcorn poppers, hot pots and other cooking appliances
in the dorm kitchen—at the risk of having them stolen, that is. Head resi­dents
are required to check the rooms for appliances. If any are found, the
head resident must take them from the student's room and put them in the
dorm kitchen or in a storage closet. They are kept until the student can take
them home.
Any student caught cooking in the dorm is sent directly to the University
Discipline Committee.
If the electrical wiring system is the reason for prohibiting cooking appli­ances,
it seems that high-powered hair dryers, electric rollers, stereos and re­frigerators
are just as hazardous.
A distinction has been made between grooming and cooking, and yet an
inadequate wiring system is at the bottom of the issue. The electrical risks
involved in residence halls should command more than restrictions; action
should be taken to improve wiring systems in University dorms.
At one time, both cooking and grooming appliances were allowed; and at
one time, there was no fee for not eating in a University cafeteria. We would
like to see a return to that time.
Teacher grading
Teacher evaluation. Not a bad idea.
For several years we have heard our SGA will implement a new teacher
evaluation plan.
Where is it?
Student evaluation of teaching ability is imperative. This information needs
to be published and widely circulated. This could be used not only as an aid
to students choosing professors, but as an individual guide to professors
wishing to improve performance.
The SGA used to print a book with results of extensive classroom question­ing.
Most Auburn students have never been afforded the opportunity to
grade their teachers.
Some schools encourage teacher evaluation. Other schools leave it up to the
professor.
We feel there needs to be a uniform teacher evaluation procedure pro­ducing
extensive student input.
Education requires dialogue between teacher and pupil. Auburn professors
grade students everyday. We want to see Auburn students get an equal
chance.
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Ken Edwards, Business Manager
Editorial Board members: Managing Editor, John Carvalho; Associate Editor, Maureen
Drost; 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,
David Boggus; 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 and Jack Mallette.
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.
The pill: we can't ignore reality
She was in love, got pregnant, had an
abortion broke up with her boyfriend
and returned to school. She's one of the
many Auburn women the school denies
exist.
She's the one that lived in a dorm—
the one the Dean of Student Life
Katharine Cater would not allow to see a
50-item help list handout because it con­tained
a reference to birth control.
She's the one the Health Centet
denied the pill because "we're not going
to take on one specialty service until we
can take on all of them."
She's a victim of her own judgement
and that of University politics—politics
which call for looking the other way be­cause
that's the best way to avoid flak.
She's a reality at Auburn though, and
it's about time the school faced up to it.
No matter how much the University
would like to deny it, problem pregnancy
counseling (which usually leads to an
abortion decision) wasn't set up in
Auburn to meet the needs of native resi­dents—
it primarily serves students. And
while it may be nice and moral to say
there is no need for birth control at Au­burn,
it just isn't correct. You can't cope
with a problem by ignoring it.
So we continue our bit of hipoctacy...
seeing no cause and ignoring the effect.
Christy
Hudgins
And as Dt. Sydenham Alexander, direc­tor
of the Univetsity of Alabama's Health
Center, pointed out, we tend to pre­judge—
thinking those who advocate
birth control are immoral, and those who
are taking the pill ate always doing so for
birth control. The pill is prescribed by
doctors for several reasons other than
preventing ptegnancy.
Many other refreshing ideas are
emanating from Tuscaloosa, where in­stead
of opetating under a "first aid"
policy, the Center has a philosophy of
"comprehensive primary care—doing
anything for you that your family doctor
would do at home." Its services include
annual tuberculosis drives, 24-hour lab
and X-ray, a pharmacy with reduced
prices (which Auburn helped establish),
full physical therapy, orthopedic work
Murder for freedom
Lisa
Harris
Throughout the ' world groups of
people are fighting for their identities,
for freedom to live as a group in an area
they call a homeland. The dissatisfied
are everywhere: American Indians,
Greek and Turkish Cypriots, Palestin­ians
in the Middle East, black nationalists
in southern Africa, Protestants and
Catholics in Northern Ireland.
The groups all have noble aims, which
I cannot refute; nor would I want to.
There is no cause more noble than that of
self-determination—it is the basis of our
society.
But thete is one thing about some of
these groups which troubles me so deeply
that I find it difficult to sympathize with
such causes. And that is the hypocrisy of
placing such a high value on self-deter­mination
while cold-bloodedly murder­ing
othets, taking innocent lives in the
name of "freedom."
Why do some people have to take
human lives in order to make a point?
How can they rob others of their right to
live in peace and freedom from fear and
rationalize it as "self-detetmination?"
And why are some groups so stubborn
that they leave dissatisfied groups with no
way to change theit destiny except
through violence?
In southern Africa, for example, white
minorities have governed South Africa
and Rhodesia for more than a hundred
years, blatantly discriminating against
black majotities who ate only now
beginning to express their frustrations.
The white governments stubbornly refuse
to consider change in any form, and the
blacks have turned to atmed revolt. I
can almost understand it.
But the fact that they ate angry at a
government gives them no cause to
brutally murder seven white missionaries
in an act as cruel, and as racist, as those
the southern African governments have
perpettated.
It's the same in the Middle East—Pal­estinians
kill Israelis and Israelis kill
Palestinians, not because of wrongs
committed, but because of ethnic
differences. In my mind both groups are
racists.
The problem of terrorism is a symptom
of an even larger attitude — the accep­tance
of violence in pursuit of personal
goals as a matter,of course. In a world
that calls: itself civilized, the acceptance of
wholesale mutder is barbaric. Most wotld ,
leaders seem concerned about who the
violence-is directed against, but the fact it
exists at all doesn't seem to worry
anyone.
But it wotries me. I worry about the
futute of civilization, because civilized
man cannot coexist with barbarian man.
One or the other must prevail. And right
now it looks like the good guys arc
losing.
(including casts), a consulting dietician
for those with diet problems, two psy­chologists
and a urologist.
The list also includes a seven-mem bet
staff in gynecology which serves 40-50
women daily. If a woman wishes to be
placed on the pill she consults the doctot,
receives a pelvic examination and a pap
smear and then goes to the student
pharmacy. This visit is followed by a
checkup in a month and then again after
six months. Accotding to Alabama ad-ministtatot
William B. Hays, if a woman
wants a checkup at any time between
scheduled visits, she may make an
. appointment.
Although Alexander said he could not
determine the number of University
women tcceiving the pill through the
Health Centet, a Tuscaloosa minister who
works in conjunction with the Centet said
it was probably about 3,000.
The numbers can't be that high in
Tuscaloosa and minimal in Aubutn. And
not evety Auburn woman can go home to
het doctot as the Aubutn Health Center
suggests. Appointments are difficult to
schedule—how many gynecologists wotk
on weekends? How many students can
afford to visit their hometown doctor in
Maine or Idaho? How many students can
even affotd a doctot in Opelika? And
what about those students who are on the
pill for reasons othet than birth control—
the ones who need closet observation?
The Aubutn community is not suffi­ciently
manned to meet the gynecological
needs of the entire student population.
It is a cop out for the University to say
it cannot provide services beyond pap
smears (paid for by the student) and
treatment of immediate abnormalities—
when failure to provide bitth control may
tesult in death...the death of an un­wanted
fetus.
It is a cop out to say, "If I provide
women with the pill I should provide
men with prophylactics" because for one,
the Univetsity would not be paying for
the pill, just prescribing it. Prophylactics
aten't prescription drugs either A third
point is not all women take the pill
for birth control.
Even aside from providing the pill, the
University has been negligent in its deci­sion
not to have even one practicing
gynecologist. (The Health Centet Ad­ministrator
is a gynecologist, but accord­ing
to his staff, only sees patients on a
consultation basis). With almost half the
students at Aubutn women, such an
omission seems striking.
What spells the difference between
Aubutn's Health Program and that of
other superior ones? Dr. Alexander said
he looked to the students fot the verbal
and monetary suppott he needed to ex­pand
services. The gynecological program
was initiated through a student-faculty
advisory board similar to Auburn's
Health Committee. The program was
paid for by an increase in student fees.
Looking back to 1974, students voted a
Health Center-related fee increase for
'..'increased services." Perhaps the next
time such an increase is voted, the stu­dents
should designate specifically whete
they wish those funds to be spent. There
were those who suffered the delusion that
increased services meant providing in­creased
gynecological services, a student
pharmacy or free ace bandages. And
while the Center should be compli­mented
for decision to hire additional
personnel and purchase new equipment,
many students were not undet the
imptession that the money would also be
used fot renovating the building.
If Auburn wished to expand its Health
Center services it could. What seems to
be blocking such a move is the paternal­istic
attitude of administtators. What the
University has failed to learn, which every
good parent knows, is you have to
cut the apron sttings sometime—that's
why many students are at Auburn instead
of a hometown university or junior col­lege.
Morals can't be dictated either. It
seems a more realistic if less idealistic goal
to prevent pregnancies than to change
people's morals once they have reached
the college level.
The University has shown ^some con­cern
for the welfare of Auburn students.
The prime concern of the administration
should be to alleviate any significant
problems facing the students. Because
there is no doubt that birth control is a
significant problem on this campus, if
this administration wishes to act in a
positive way it should do anything within
its powet to immediately remedy the sit­uation
students now face.
Free Larry Flynt: First Amendment in dire straights
The District Attorney was elated. He
flashed a broad smile to the television
cameras and paused to talk with
reportets.
"This
publish,'
mem bets
will limit what people can
he told them. The gathered
of religious and community
action groups crowded in, cheering the
victor—the dragon had been slain.
The occasion: The conviction of
America's foremost porno king on
obscenity chatges. Multimillionaire
Hustler magazine publisher Larry Flynt
faces up to 25 years in prison.
A momentous decision? You bet. And
I feel potentially the most ill advised and
dangerous one in the judicial histoty of
this country.
The question is not whether Flynt's
magazine is or is not obscene. It is.
What is at stake is the most basic
constitutional.safeguard: freedom of the
ptess. That First Amendment guarantee
makes no exceptions—pornography, ob­scene
materials or even advocating
anarchy.
However, the well-meaning jury in
Ohio has taken the task of interpretation
of this freedom in its own hands. That is
what is alarming about Flynt's conviction.
If Flynt's guilty verdict stands, the
court is opening the doot for illegal
manipulation of an unwise, questionable
doctrine. Following this ptecedent, a
jury in Mississippi or Alabama could
prohibit a publisher from printing a news
expose of statewide governmental cor­ruption.
We might immediately adopt
the repressive doctrines of censotship
common to communist states.
If we leave freedom of the ptess in the
hands of local or state scrutiny, we cannot
insure that self-serving, uneducated
judges and juries will not use this power
for theit own purposes.
Freedom of ithe press is too valuable a
possession to relinquish. Thomas
Jefferson once said that given the choice
between a govetnment with no free pre»j
or a free press with no govetnment, he
would take the lattet.
The First Amendment is listed fitst for
a definite reason. It is the most
Lauren
Steele
impottant safeguard the Ametican people
have.
The Alien and Sedition Acts of the
1790s and the Smith Act of 1940 bear a
definite resemblance to the Flynt convic­tion.
All three contradict the explicitly
stated principles of the First Amend­ment.
These resttictions on freedom of speech
or press invariably are products of
teactionary, exttemist hysteria.
Richard Nixon's conservative Burger
fallen down on its task of
civil liberties. Longtime
of freedom of publication.
Justices Hugo Black and William O.
Douglas ate gone, and due to the loss of
their leadership the Court has softened its
stand.
Justice Black ruled out governmental
censorship even in cases of "National
Court has
protecting
champions
Security." He wrote
Pentagon Papers case,
vs. United States:
publication of news
coutts would wipe
in the landmark
New York Times
"...to halt the
by tesort to the
out the First
Amendment and destroy the fundamen­tal
liberty and security of the vety people
the Govetnment hopes to make secure."
While Larry Flynt is probably the most
vile, perverse and lewd individual in the
country, his conviction must be over­turned.
No one is forced to buy pornography.
No one is required to expose himself to
Flynt's publication.
The District Attorney's gleeful state­ment
claiming this conviction "will limit
what people can publish," shows not
only his naivete, but his lack of
comprehension of the possible far
reaching consequences of the precedent.
Free Larry Flynt -not because we
condone pornography, but because we
must stand strong to protect out rights.
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Letters
Why can't students read, write?
Ttiurs., Feb 17, 1977 JL»
Return student tests
Editor, The Plainsman:
The actions of many instructors prompt
me to write this letter. Concerning the
issuance of examinations, I can't help but
ponder the question of ownership. Do
these tests, after being give to the
student, not become the property of that
student? It has been my experience that
only a few professors will say that they
do. Apparently many instructors don't
recognize the fact that people learn from
their mistakes. Consequently, since
many students' mid-terms are not
returned, and they have no idea which
questions were missed, identical ques­tions
are missed on the final exam.
What is the purpose of the univer­sity—
to assign grades or to insure that
mistakes are transformed into correct
answers? The latter must always remain
the most important if universities are to
fulfill their prescribed goals.
I'm not representing an organization
with the intention of creating a
monopoly with its test file, but rather an
individual's right to something he is
entitled. Tests in one's major field can
serve as a concise guide of answers to
questions which may arise in a person's
later career. If he had his tests, he would
always have a brief summary to the
particular course of study.
Furthermore, I do not feel that an
instructor should have the right to keep a
student's test as an excuse for not making
up a new exam for the quarters to follow.
Anyone with the intellectual capability of
obtaining a doctorate is just as capable to
compose new exams. I feel that the tests
I have taken are my property—I don't
make a habit of writing my name on
things that aren't mine.
J. Keener Lynn, 3PUB
Musical review criticized
Editor, The Plainsman:
I would like to comment briefly on the
coverage given to the "Catch a Rising
Star" show by Miss Susan Camp in last
week's Plainsman.
First, the song "Nothing," sung by
Mr. Terry Dobson, was not, as Miss
Camp put it, "an undoubtedly original
composition." It was written by Mr.
Marvin Hamlisch and is from the current
smash Broadway musical, "A Chorus
Line."
Second, Mike French and Ken Elmer's
fine performance included only one song
from "Godspell," not several.
Third, there were only four amateur
acts, not five, as Miss Camp stated.
And lastly, but certainly most impor­tant,
Mr. Dobson, whom Miss Camp
termed as receiving "more applause for
his song than his voice," won first place
in the competition and has been invited
to perform at the "Catch A Rising Star
Night Club" in New York City, which,
after all, was the purpose of the whole
show.
Next time, Miss Camp, I would urge
you to be more exact in your coverage of
an event such as this.
Jeff Meadows, 4AM
A bill has been proposed in the
Alabama Legislature which would require
students to take tests before they leave
high school to demonstrate their
knowledge of the basics of reading,
writing and mathematics.
Other states such as California have
already made similar moves, perhaps
demonstrating the public's concern that
students graduating from high school
may not have these skills.
This concern is a real one, for it has
been shown especially in the nation's
colleges that students graduating from
high school are not as well educated as in
the past. The dropping SAT and ACT
scores is another good indication of this
trend.
Testing, if used wisely with the
students' attitudes in mind, could help
reverse this trend by telling schools about
student needs. Then it would be up to
the schools to train these students in
these deficient skills before graduation.
It is hard to determine the exact
reasons for this failure on the part of the
schools, but a start has been made to
correct the failure in at least one area —
reading.
A committee on Standards for Teacher
Education and Certification, formed a
few years ago by the State Department of
Education, is working to upgrade the
status of reading education in Alabama
and get elementary and secondary
education teachers certified in reading
instruction.
Alabama is one of the few states not
requiring formal preparation in reading
for prospective elementary and secondary
education teachers. The Committee
hopes to present its recommendations to
the State Board of Education for approval
by July 1, 1977. At that time it will ask
for reading instruction programs for each
of three types of certification, with
emphasis on elementary school reading
preparation.
This emphasis on reading has
implications for Auburn University just as
it docs for the other colleges in Alabama.
It could lead to increased education
enrollment at Auburn, for example. For
Maureen
Drost
other students, it may result in increased
abilities to handle class and homework
assignments because of broad-based
reading programs and improved study
skills.
The committee's wide ranging interests
are important, especially in the area of
elementary school reading. Many Auburn
University students who went to Alabama
elementary schools may look back in
despair at their elementary school reading
programs or lack of them. It's time for
more uniform, more defined elementary
school reading programs.
After all, a child's first years in school
are very important in developing reading
skills, and in many cases it's easier to
correct problems early than to miss or
ignore them for several years. A child's
attitude, in particular, is being formed in
these years, and it's important to have a
good reading program to foster this
attitude rather than correcting a poor
attitude later.
It's also noteworthy that the committee
has set up certification requirements for
middle school and high school education.
A high school English program can help
in reading as well as other skills. Some
Alabama students haven't experienced
such programs, but perhaps they could
with better trained teachers and good
programs.
There is one basic fault with the
certification procedures, which while it
won't negate the usefulness of the
measures, is worth considering. Having
reading courses for education students is
good, but it doesn't guarantee good
reading instruction. That ultimately
depends on the people taking the
courses.
Questions about a decline in academic
standards at Auburn University are
frequently heard. A sound program of
reading certification could silence some of
those questions. The sooner the program
is approved the better.
Blood: gift of life for mankind
Guest
editorial
Martha
McGehee
Auburn has a chance to show its spirit
next week, and every Auburn student
and resident has a chance to be a part of
the show. For the twenty-sixth
consecutive year the SGA is sponsoring a
Blood Drive. The dates are Feb. 22,
23 and 24. The public is invited.
There will be a chance for everyone to
work and give. Prizes will be awarded for
competition. Even more important to
Auburn is a challenge with the University
of Alabama. According to a rumor, that
prep school is contemplating surpassing
Auburn's contributions this year. Due to
the nature of Auburn's drive, there's
little chance of that, but we want them to
see that for themselves.
The Auburn SGA Blood Drive is
unique in many ways, especially in the
totals we reach. No other college has
come close to our national record of
4,812 pints, given in 1967 at the height
of the Vietnam War. We suffered an
"off" year of 2,111 in 1971, but have
climbed steadily since, up to 3,684 in
1976. The goal of 4,000 pints in 1977 is
within easy reach.
The large totals reflect the drawing
power of the Blood Drive. Participants
include students, faculty, staff, the
Auburn community, Greeks, inde­pendents,
ROTC groups, service groups,
"loners", "joiners" and "tag-alongers".
The drive may be "the" social event of
the year, unrivaled for active participa­tion
by the entire college community.
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Occasionally I am surprised at the
immaturity of students who are sup­posedly
adults. I am referring to the
reply in last week's Plainsman to Lynn
Turner's letter (Feb. 3, 1977).
Miss Turner was simply complaining o£
the extreme cold in Cary Hall, which I
too have experienced (last winter quarter
when I took BI 103). She made no
reference to the conditions in Biggin Hall
which I also know are worse than those in
Cary. Instead of attacking a student who
was attempting to initiate change in her
own situation, why couldn't these
anonymous architecture students follow
her example? And if these students
would make a trip up "the hill" maybe
they will be reminded that a new
building is under construction for them.
Another point I would like to bring
out is my disgust at the immaturity of
fifth year students who can only express
themselves in vulgar terms. If they can't
opinions, maybe they
should keep those opinions to them­selves—
after all Miss Turner was not
ashamed to take claim to hers.
Vicki Canaday, 2WL
Hot air rises
from Biggin
basement
Editor, The Plainsman:
We in the basement of Biggin Hall
would like to reply to the letter from
"Names withheld, 5AR," who were
complaining about the cold on the upper
floors of Biggin Hall.
Well, we in the basement would like
to reply that warm air rises. So you suck
it up, crybabies!
^ sign their names and openly stand
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Administrator argues for capital punishment; cites rights of victim
EEddiittoorr , TThhee PPllaaiinnssmmaann : One could entreat with Christy by No one knows whether the death
right to live without fear in our own has been increasing steadily since 19<
Christy Hudgins' well written editorial
on the foolishness of capital punishment
was probably read by many with delight
by those who feel that capital punish­ment
is not the answer to crime, and with
dismay by those who sec the death
penalty as only a just price a cold­blooded
murderer should pay.
One could entreat with Christy by
responding that a murderer who is
executed will no longer be a burden on
society, whereas the murderer who is
imprisoned for life will cost the taxpayer
thousands of dollars which could be
better used elsewhere. Also, if such an
individual is paroled, there is always the
danger of recidivism.
penalty is the ultimate answer to this
question, but until something better
comes along I feel it is the way we must
deal with the problem. Oftentimes we
forget the victim who received capital
punishment at the hands of a murderer.
What about the rights of past and future
victims? It is my view that we have the
Wilson made her own special mark on Auburn
Editor, The Plainsman:
I should like to commend Ms. Debra
Holley for her informative article about
Janet Wilson in the Feb. 10 issue of The
Plainsman. Ms. Holley managed to
capture much of the charm and grace in
Miss Wilson's character. And how
appropriate it was that Miss Wilson's real
identity as the daughter of General Louis
H. Wilson, Commandant of the United
States Marine Corps, was revealed to this
campus only a few short weeks before her
graduation in March.
I believe that before The Plainsman
article was published only a few of Miss
Wilson's closest friends knew that she was
the daughter of a very distinguished
American General. Miss Wilson wanted
it that way. At Auburn she was
determined to make her mark never as
the general's daughter, only as "Janet
Wilson." I have known Miss Wilson
during most of her undergraduate career.
Only recently did I come to know who
she really was, and then only by accident.
As a student in several of my classes,
Miss Wilson proved to be an exceptional­ly
able student academically. As Director
of the Model United Nations Conference,
she demonstrated a kind of personal
dedication, combined with a superb
organizational ability which one rarely
sees. Miss Wilson is a truly gifted human
being. Her grace, her charm, her wit
and above all her quiet modesty and
humility will be the memories I have of
her.
May I use this space to commend also
another truly gifted person and a friend
of Janet Wilson, Miss Lee Ann Fullerton
of Arlington, Va. As Secrctry-General of
the Southeastern Invitational Model
United Nations, 1977, Miss Fullerton
organized and directed one of the finest
conferences I have ever witnessed. Her
selfless devotion to the Model U.N. over
several years' time and her willingness to
give so generously of her time and talent
contributed enormously to the success of
the SIMUN Conference. Miss Fullerton is
a young woman of incredible ability.
Not only is she highly competent
academically, she is also a person with a
sparkling personality, a friendly smile and
a quiet modesty. Her sterling human
qualities could perhaps best be described
as pure gold.
I often think how lucky I am. What a
pleasure it is to teach at Auburn
University, where one has the opportun­ity
to instruct and to work with such
gifted and marvelous human beings!
Daniel J. Nelson
Associate Professor of Political Science
right to live without fear in our own
homes and towns. Victims of murderers
have their rights and privileges taken
away without due process. It is always
incomprehensible to me that so much
more time and attention is paid to the
criminal than to their innocent victims.
We could go on and on with this
dialogue. I doubt I shall persuade Miss
Hudgins to my way of thinking, but at
least she should be exposed to a point of
view which is held by a majority of
people in this country.
For example, a Gallup Poll taken in
April, 1976, showed that 65 per cent of
those responding supported the death
penalty, 28 per cent opposed it and 7 per
cent were undecided.
According to the National Observer
the number favoring the death penalty
has been increasing steadily since 1966
when only 42 per cent of those
questioned by Gallup supported it.
Additionally, a Jan. 8, 1977, plebiscite
on capital punishment conducted by the
National Observer showed that 84.4 per
cent of those who responded favored
retaining it, whereas only 15.6 per cent
favored abolishing it.
The message I got from these polls is
that the people of this country are getting
tired of murderers and are telling us that
we should make them pay the same price
their victims paid.
J.W. Duncan
This year's drive is in Haley Center.
The move from the Student Activities
Building began as a simple matter of
cooperation with the physical education
classes since it was difficult to make up
the 21 classes they missed. It has also
added to a philosophical change, since
the drive is now in the middle of campus.
The SGA has resumed the active role
which it had not taken the last two or
three years. The Blood Drive Committee
has made every effort to involve diverse
student organizations, from ROTC units
to pre-medical professional groups.
Having the Blood Drive in the very heart
of campus should draw even more
people.
The response to the Committee's
efforts have been exciting. The Drive
will need more than 700 student
volunteers, and Auburn groups have
responded generously to requests. No
volunteer will be turned away because of
a surplus, but no job will have to go
undone.
The importance of the Auburn Blood
Drive extends far beyond the Auburn
community. The Red Cross depends on
us completely for the entire week the
drive occurs. In a typical week, 20 to 30
Bloodmobiles and industry drives are
held throughout Alabama. But the week
of our drive, we are the "only" blood
drive in the state. We use every nurse
the Red Cross can muster, much of its
equipment, and a great deal of its staff's
energy. In return for the investment of
its manpower and equipment, the Red
Cross depends completely on Auburn.
Since giving blood is not an everyday
experience, some advice can help novice
donors. Two major problems for blood
donors are being rejected as a donor or
getting "light-headed" after giving. A
few simple precautions can save a lot of
discomfort.
The basic requirement is that a donor
be healthy and rested. Before giving, a
little planning should be done. Plan to
give when you will be most rested, maybe
early in the week on Tuesday instead of
Thursday. Eat a good meal before you
go. If you're prone to low blood
pressure, take a brisk walk before you go.
Also, plan enough time to rest a little
after you give. Average time from
registration to completing the donation is
40 minutes. Plan on an additional 10 or
15 minutes in the canteen. You'll feel
better for it.
Above all, remember the brief
discomfort caused by donating blood is a
small sacrifice compared with the good
that blood can do. No amount of
technology can produce blood. People
have to give it to those other people who
need it. You have that chance to give.
Please take the time and give a little.
Administrator
School of Arts and Sciences
Correction
John Carvalho's column last
week calling for a Dean of Student
Housing contained a few factual
errors which The Plainsman would
like to clear up. First, all housing
concerns, along with other areas of
campus life, are under Dean
Katharine Cater in the office of
Student Life. Dr. Ed Taylor is not
head of off-campus housing, nor
does the Office of Student Affairs
handle any aspect of housing.
Chefs Club acknowledges error
on data processing of bills
More
letters
See page A-6
Editor, The Plainsman:
The Auburn University Food Service
Chef's Club has become more popular
than anyone anticipated. The Club was
set up to handle approximately 2,000
accounts. Over 5.000 accounts were
established during fall 1976. This
resulted in monthly statements being
approximately one month late.
New equipment has been purchased,
and additional personnel have been
acquired. We now have the capability to
handle the increased number, and
monthly statements will now be mailed
on time. The January statement will be
mailed on Feb. 21; the February state­ment
will be mailed on March 7; there­after,
monthly statements will be mailed
about the tenth of each month.
Popularity sometimes has its price. We
apologize for the delays and inconve­niences
during this fall and winter, but
we appreciate the wonderful response to
the Chef's Club.
Richard M. Wingard
Director of Food Services
Editor's note: The Plainsman would
like to discourage unsigned letters except
in unusual circumstances. If you are
convinced of your point, why not sign
your name. If you can't, please sign your
name with a request that it be withheld.
Unsigned letters will not be published.
More letters Israeli buffer zones wise insurance
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Editor, The Plainsman:
According to the American Collegiate
Dictionary, Zionism is a modern plan or
movement to colonize Hebrews in
Palestine. See Balfour Declaration.
The Balfour Declaration (Nov. 2,
1917) states that the British government
"view with favor the establishment in
Palestine of a National home for the
Jewish people," but that "nothing shall
be done which may prejudice the civil
and religious rights of existing non-Jewish
communities in Palestine."
After reading this, I was a little
surprised because it doesn't sound at all
like the SIMUN delegation is making it
out to be, but then I noticed some other
discrepancies in their letter. First of all,
they said that there is no such thing as an
"Arab terrorist." A terrorist is anyone
who uses terror tactics (executions,
torture, guerilla warfare, highjackings,
etc.) regardless of membership in any
group. Second was the statement that
"Israel was stolen from the rightful
owners in 1948." Down through history,
this tract of land has changed hands
many times because it was a natural
invasion route between two great
civilizations, Egyptian and Mesopotami-an.
At the time modern Israel was being
formed, Great Britain was in the process
of giving Palestine its independence, but
technically Great Britain still had
ownership of Palestine there was no
Palestinian National Government.
Another point I'd like to make is that
the Israelis forced no one out in 1948.
Palestinians left because of the war that
broke out or because they did not want to
live in a country controlled by the Jews. I
can understand this because no one wants
to live under the domination of another
culture.
The SIMUN delegation also stated that
"Israelis have not been content with that
aggression and seized more lands after
the 1967 conflict." This statement
ignores the fact that the Arab countries
were the initial attackers in both wars.
The Israelis by taking new territories are
simply establishing buffer zones as
insurance against future attack.
The SIMUN delegation also says that
"the point of a peaceful settlement of
the Middle Eastern conflict has been
passed. Unless the Zionist return
Palestine to its rightful owners, the
Zionist state of Israel must be de­stroyed."
I would like to point out that
the Hebrew people have lived in
Palestine from the time of Moses to the
Moslem takeover, a considerable portion
of civilized history. The delegation
suggests giving Palestine to its rightful
owners, but none of the delegation are
leaving their homes or property to the
American Indians, the rightful owners of
the United States.
Anthony Cooper, 2MRB
Munich shows Arab terrorism
Disrespect for treaties, white racism begin at home
Editor, The Plainsman:
In recent times there have been heated
arguments concerning the honor of the
Red Stick faction of the Muscogee
Indians. A basic comprehension is
necessary to understand the many faceted
conflict in Alabama:
1. There is no such thing as a "savage,
barbarious Red Stick;" they are merely
brave warriors fighting for freedom.
2. The tract of land now known as
Alabama (as opposed to Alba amo) was
stolen from its rightful owners in 1814.
Since that time the proud Red Sticks have
been homeless.
3. White Alabama colonists are
inherently racists. It is a simple matter of
definition. Enslavement of Negroes is
condoned, and the Baptists never mix
with those of other denominations.
4. The destruction of the illusionary
Anglo territory of Alabama is imperative
to any settlement. Red Stick lands were
snatched from these nature-loving
peoples. The white colonists have not
been content with their encoachment and
have continuously broken treaties in
order to seize more lands.
5. The Red Sticks have been forced to
retaliate against the white colonists'
aggression.
6. The territory of Alabama is a
puppet of the U.S. Government. The
whites have been deluded so long by the
U.S. Government that they have lost
their judgment.
7. The whites respect no treaty and
refuse to face reality...
Enough of this game my friends. Let
us adhere to the factual contest of history
and events and not espouse partial-truths
of sensationalism. The implica­tions
of violent and destructive action is
far too serious for bluffing.
A peaceable solution in the Middle
East is most desirable for all.
I request that my name be withheld as
I have no personal argument with
anyone, only an extreme hatred of
deception.
Name withheld by request
Editor. The Plainsman:
After reading the letter submitted by
the Arab Republic delegation, I feel
compelled to voice some sort of rebuttal.
If this group of SIMUN delegates is using
the letter solely for academic purposes,
then they must disregard the following
statements.
In the interest of saving space, let me
just say that most of the points you have
listed show no lack of research, but an
immense lack of intelligence. First, the
tract of land you refer to was not stolen
but simply reclaimed. I won't even go
into your racist comment.
Secondly, I was under the impression
that the U.N. was an organization
interested in peace. After reading point
four, it seems that you need to think of
another solution to the problem. I don't
think destroying an entire race of people
is the answer.
In point six, you say that the U.S. is a
"puppet" for Israel. It seems that after
the twenty-some odd years we've been
involved, that any attached strings were
cut long ago.
Freedom fighter assassin asks immunity
Editor, The Plainsman:
Having been denied the right to
explain my actions by the Secretary
General, I wish to state my reasons here
for assassinating the Libyan delegate,
Lauren Steele.
I take upon myself all responsibility for
this assassination. I am an independent
agent who acted alone, without the
direction of any country recognized by
the United Nations.
However, I am a member of B'nai
B'rith and demand political immunity on
the grounds that I am a "Freedom
Fighter" in mortal combat with aggres­sive
forces, "specifically" resolutions of
anti-Zionism passed by this body, as well
as terrorist acts sanctioned by this body in
the form of Arab terrorists against people
of the Hebrew origin everywhere.
I thank the Libyan delegation for
proposing and securing the passage of the
resolution under which this immunity is
possible.
Michael DeCarlo, 3PO
The Assassin
Editor's Note: DeCarlo was only
portraying a character within the SIMUN
and is not a member of B'nai B'rith.
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. '
Finally, in point one, you stated that
there was no such thing as an Arab
terrorist. Think back to the summer of
1968, when eight members of the Black
September Movement slipped into Mun­ich
and after holding 11 Israeli athletes
hostage for 23 hours, brutally murdered
these innocent people to show "what was
what." Are these the "peace loving,
God worshipping people" that you are
defending?
Name withheld by request
Libyan role
explained
Editor, The Plainsman:
We, the delegates of the SIMUN
Libyan Arab Republic, want to admit we
were role-playing in our letter last week.
Our rhetoric was in character with the
stance taken by the Libyan government, a
rhetoric that is no doubt radical,
pro-Arab and anti-Zionist.
The problems that face the world
concerning the Middle East are very
grave. These problems can only be
compounded by an attitude that one side
is necessarily "right" or that'the other
side is completely "wrong." In the
interests of intellectual curiosity and in
fairness to both sides (both sides of this
question are made up of human beings),
we should keep an open mind and simply
realize the fact there is more than one
side to any question. This especially holds
true concerning the questions of the
Middle East.
Lauren C. Steele, 4 GJM
Mark S. Sparkman, 4LPO
Fran Stromei, 2EEE
Victoria Porter, 3VED
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Editor, The Plainsman:
Concerning the letter from the Libyan
delegation to the SIMUN that appeared
in The Plainsman last week: you've got
to be kidding! They stated that Arabs
are not terrorists, but "freedom fight­ers."
Freedom fighters do not slaughter
innocent men, women and children.
But the Arabs have. Fact: The PLO is a
blood-thirsty terrorist organization and
"a rose by any other name is still a rose."
The Libyan delegation submitted many
other claims, all of them totally
ridiculous. Read their letter in last
week's Plainsman and then go to the
library and read the back issues of every
news magazine in the collection. Every
shred of information about the Middle
East shows that there was not a shred of
truth in the letter printed in last week's
paper.
One complaint against Israel in last
week's letter was that the Israelis "refuse
to face reality." As far as facing reality
goes, the Libyan delegation must realize
that the nation of Israel is here to stay
and that until the PLO stops their acts of
terrorism against innocent human beings,
they will be recognized and treated as the
murdering savages that they are.
Paul McCracken, 1JM
Libyan delegation among 'murderers, terrorists'
Editor, The Plainsman:
I would like to commend the members
of the Libyan Arab Republic Delegation
to the SIMUN on their obvious wit and
intelligence shown in the letter of Feb.
10, 1977 to The Plainsman.
The letter I am referring to was an
exceedingly clear and well written
condensation of many statements made
by Abu Daoud, Yasir Arafat and other
spokesmen for the P.L.O.
I cannot, however, accept the stand
they take, regardless of the rationaliza­tion
or justification to which they ascribe.
If these four seemingly intelligent
students (Mr. Lauren C. Steele, Mr. Mark
S. Sparkman, Ms. Fran M. Stromei and
Ms. Victoria Porter) accept the stand they
espouse, I feel compelled to categorize
them alongside the amoral murderers and
terrorists whom they support.
If they do not accept these statements
as the truth, but are only supporting
them as a sincere exercise in role playing,
then I can only view them as talented
word twisters whose wit exceeds their
wisdom.
If true, I hope for their sake that they
learn to recognize the impact which
declamation (flawed and empty though it
may be) can have, and that they, like
wise children, learn to cease playing with
the matches of inflammatory rhetoric.
Kenneth B. Smith, 3SSS
SIMUN delegates show 'ignorance'
Editor, The Plainsman:
Since the United Nations was formed
for the express purpose of maintaining
world peace, how can Auburn's SIMUN
justify sanctioning (so-called) freedom
fighters? The actions of these "Freedom
Fighters" are the very evil which the
United Nations is committed to oppos­ing.
Our delegates to SIMUN showed
the complete ignorance and disregard
they have for the UN's stated purpose by
pasing S.P.D. 4 and defeating S.P.D. 2.
G. W. Hagler, 3MRB
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| Men to live on the hill?
Potted plant
Photography: Dan Doughtie
Is it take a plant to lunch week? Actually, this
Auburn student probably just bought this plant at the
plant sale sponsored by the Horticulture Forum. The
sale, held Valentine's Day on the Auburn Union
Gpa scale change
called 'too costly'
Patio, lasted from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Plants varied in
size and type, giving students an ample supply of
prospective garden additions.
By Ted Laseter
Plainsman Staff Writer
Men in suites on the
Hill? This may have
seemed unlikely to many
Auburn residents in the
past, but it may become
a reality as the result of
new housing options pre­sently
planned for
1977-78.
The changes in housing
opportunities for men
and women are the result
of Title IX specifications,
which state in regard to
housing, "a recipient
(Auburn University)
shall not, on the basis of
sex, apply different serv­ices
or benefits related to
housing."
According to Dr.
Charles Schroeder, dean
of men's housing, men
have been very limited
as to the type of Uni­versity
housing they can
choose.
"The new housing pro­gram
Auburn is develop­ing
is one other schools
have had a long time,"
he said. "Men will
especially benefit from
the new options as they
will no longer be re­stricted
to Magnolia and
Bullard Halls.
He said a student can
request any one of eight
types of housing accom­modations
currently of-
By Lyn Henagan
Plainsman Staff Writer
The question of con­verting
to a 4.0 grade
system has been raised,
but Auburn registrar
Tom Stallworth said the
amount of time and
money needed to convert
outweighs the gain.
Auburn University,
University of Alabama
and Vanderbilt Universi­ty
are the major south­ern
universities using the
3.0 system. When stud­ents
apply for profession­al
and graduate schools,
they usually must con­vert
their 3.0 grade aver­age
to a 4.0.
The question of con­verting
to the 4.0 system
was brought up around
1974 by the School of Arts
and Sciences because
pre-law and pre-medi-cine
students were more
affected when they ap­plied
to professional
school.
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Any move to change to
the 4.0 system would
have to be made through
the University Senate
with final approval by
President Harry M. Phil-pott.
Stallworth said the ma­jor
argument against
converting to the four
point system was the
amount of time and mon­ey
it would take for little
actual gain.
Stallworth said a con­version
to the four point
system would have to be
posted on each student's
record. Thirty to thirty-five
computer programs
concerning grade infor­mation
would have to be
changed. Probation and
suspension regulation
would also have to be
studied.
New academic records
and grade report forms
for the registrar's office
would have to be used.
Additional staff would
have to be provided to
handle the increased
work load to update cre­dit
checks toward grad­uation,
recalculate trans­fer
grade points, and
calculate grade averages.
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fered by the University.
The eight housing
types are clearly enu­merated
on a new re­vised
housing application
and include both the Hill
and Quad dorms.
"For example,"
Schroeder said, "men
can specify a desire to
live in air-conditioned or
non-air- conditioned
suites, and women can
indicate a preference
for single room accom­modations."
Under this system, if
the University maintains
1,200 spaces for students
in Type I housing (suites
of two double rooms with
connecting bath; private
telephone, air-condi­tioned;
rent $160 per
quarter) and 400 men
and 800 women applied
for Type I housing, Au­burn
would by law have
to attempt to provide
about one-third of Type I
housing for men and
two-thirds for women. In
this situation, about one-third
of the Type I
housing would be located
in separate residence
halls, provided for men
students.
Schroeder said within
the next two months,
students living on-cam-pus
who plan to live in
University housing for
1977-78 may fill out an
Auburn University Hous­ing
Application and a
Housing Agreement from
Schroeder in Magnolia
Hall or from Dean Kath­arine
Cater, dean of
student housing.
...and the race begins
February 18 Declaration of intent due
18 Last day for declarations of intent,
4:30 p.m.
22 Candidates meeting, lecture on
Finance, 7:30 p.m., mandatory
March 1 Candidates Quiz — 7:30 p.m.
(Mandatory)
April 4 Candidates Meeting — 7:30 p.m.
(Mandatory)
6 Campaigns start — 4:30 p.m.
13 Campaign Posters must be down — 6
p.m. Campaigns end 12 Midnight
14 Elections: 8 a.m. — 4:30 p.m.
Room numbers where candidates' meetings are to
be held will be announced in The Plainsman of at the
SGA office. Declaration of intent forms are available
in the SGA office.
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The Auburn Plainsman A-8 Thurs., Feb 17, 1977
Lightfoot sings solid concert
Gordon Lightfoot and
opening act Lynn Kellogg
performed for this quar­ter's
UPC-sponsored ma­jor
concert Friday in
Memorial Coliseum, be­fore
some 4,200 people.
Lightfoot writes and
sings strong, tuneful,
rock-tinged folk music.
With his back-up band,
he performed 15 tunes
Friday night: love songs,
folk narratives and just
plain "people songs,"
each fun to listen to and
professionally done.
Opening with the easy,
laid-back '' Summertime
Dream," Lightfoot and
band radiated a solid,
assured music from their
small stage set-up.
Following with "The
House You Live In,"
another cut from his
SUMMERTIME DREAM
album, Lightfoot's com­forting
baritone voice
and guitar strums joined
with the band's guitar
picking, lazy bass lines,
sparse, strong drum
work and vital steel gui­tar
fills.
Playing and feeling the
music together, Lightfoot
and band combined hon­est,
assured, "just like on
the record, Ma!" song
renditions with an inti­macy
and vitality an
album just can't convey.
Drummer Barry
Keane, bassist Ed
Haynes, steel guitarist
Pee Wee Charles and
guitarist Terry Clements
form Lightfoot's back-up
band. They're all long­time
friends of Lightfoot
and they all helped him
record SUMMERTIME
DREAM last year.
Together, they create
an alive, relaxed, no-non­sense
music. With Light­foot's
voice and rhythm
guitar, their music gains
even more movement
and a message.
Today's pop music poet
laureate, Lightfoot
writes lyrics that mean
something and sound
good too. Lightfoot sang
honest-to-goodness love
songs, "Spanish Moss,"
' 'Beautiful;'' involving
narratives, "Canadian
Railroad Trilogy," "The
Wreck of the Edmund
Fitzgerald;" subtle, yet
devastating social com­mentaries
"Don Quix­ote;"
and other songs
about people with people,
"If You Could Read My
Mind," "Sundown."
Lightfoot's warm, rich
voice and purposeful vo­cal
deliveries and phras-ings
transformed his ly­rics
into delightful, sen­suous
reality.
His band turned his
songs' simple, steady
chord progressions into
natural, hypnotic motion
— in a manner as subtle
and effective as a turning
waterwheel.
Together, their words
and music formed a
beautiful sound that
didn't intrude, but capti­vated
when one sat down
and took it all in.
Lightfoot's between-song
dialogue with the
audience didn't get
across as clearly as his
music did, except for
when he said he'd intro­duce
the members of the
band. Lightfoot then left
the mike, shook hands
and kibbitzed with his
friends and casually
walked back — and that
was that.
Vonnegut video shown
Photography: Dan Doughtie
SHORT, BUT SWEET
...Lightfoot brings "summertime dream" to AU's winter
Beginning Sunday,
Feb. 20, the UPC Visual
Arts Committee is pre­senting
a videotape film
entitled "Between Time
and Timbuktu."
The film will be shown
on the UPC Videotape
system at different loca­tions
within the Union
Building.
"Between Time and
Timbuktu" is a television
The Auburn Plainsman
After Hours
play written by Kurt
Vonnegut Jr.
The plot involves an
amusing story of the
future. Sonny Stevenson
(played by Bill Hickey)
is shot into space as his
prize in a futuristic jingle
contest. Outer space is
inhabited by characters
from Kurt Vonnegut's
novels.
"Between Time and
Timbuktu" is a very
funny 90 minutes. Its
humor is derived from
the wry sarcasm of
Vonnegut's best novels.
Mr. Hickey is especially
effective in his role rep­resenting
the awkward­ness
and simplicity of the
average human.
The comedy team of
Bob and Ray appear as
NASA officials in a par
ticularly funny skit. Th'
theme of the show grows
from the fears in Vonne­gut's
mind until he has
discussed everything
from the military mind
to conformity.
Vonnegut never really
offers any concrete solu­tions
to the problems he
discusses, but it never
seems to matter once
Vonnegut starts senti­mentalizing.
Kevin McCarthy ap­pears
as a prophet of
harmless lies, and adds a
great deal to the film
with his part.
At one point our space
traveling hero reveals
what is surely the idea
behind the film. When
confronted with a char­acter
representing the
epitome of evil, Sonny
tells him he is fighting
Newman brings western law, humor to free flick
"The Life and Times of
Judge Roy Bean," a
western starring Paul
Newman, is this week's
UPC free movie.
The film will be shown
Thursday at 8 p.m. and
Friday, Saturday and
Sunday at 7 and 9:15 p.m.
in Langdon Hall. An
Auburn ID is required for
admission.
"The Life and Times of
Judge Roy Bean" was
one of many "spin­offs
of "Butch Cassidy
and the Sundance Kid, "
according to Pauline
Kael of New Yorker
magazine. The two films
resemble each other in
several ways.
John Milius is respons­ible
for the screenplay of
"Judge Roy Bean."
Milius was at one time a
student of the highly
famed University of
Southern California film
department. Although he
is only in his twenties,
Milius has already
penned several success­ful
movie scripts. The
influence of John Ford is
easily seen in Milius'
writing.
Most of Milius' films
have expressed a senti­mentality
of Western life
that is unreal and yet
entertaining. "Jeremiah
Johnson" was one of
Milius' earlier and less
successful attempts to
create a new style, myth­ic
Western.
John Huston directs
the film and lends it his
considerable reputation
as do several of his actor
friends who appear in
cameo roles. However,
the mark of Huston's fine
directing ability is not
truly on this film. The
plot is filled with such
highly emotional issues
that Huston is unable to
control them and still
present a moral state­ment
with this film.
In the movie, Paul
Newman portrays an out­law
(Roy Bean) who is
ignobly treated by a town
full of rough characters.
Bean returns to the town
and administers his own
brand of frontier justice.
The movie may be
delving into an expres­sion
against the cruelty
of the Old West, but it is
hard to tell.
Bean is portrayed as a
heroic revenger who in­creases
his power by
hanging his enemies.
Personal tragedy drives
Bean into a hegira in the
desert which lasts 20
years. After his fling
with hermitism, Bean
reappears in the town to
once again bring it jus­tice.
There is an ample sup­ply
of violence in this
film. The brutality is jus­tified
in the script by the
rottenness of life por­trayed
in the movie's
setting. There could be a
philosophical statement
in here, if one considers
that this film was made
at the height of the Viet­nam
War.
Miss Kael in her re­view
seems to suggest
that all the action films
of this period were little
more than Hollywood's
attempt to justify Viet­nam.
One must admit
that Bean is a bit ex­treme
in his administra­tion
of justice. However,
he resembles many other
heroes of older Western
films in this respect.
It is interesting to note
that this film is loosely
based on actual char­acters;
Hollywood added
much to embellish the
plot, but some of the in­cidents
are factual, and
this lends credibility to
this entertaining modern
western.
— Stephen K. Simpson
Simpson is a frequent
film critic for The Plains­man.
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the game of "Death
against.. .imagination.''
That doesn't exactly
clear up all the loose
ends in Vonnegut's film,
but it does help us
understand him a bit
better. After all, Vonne­gut
admits himself that a
lot of his ideas are
unfathomable.
— Stephen K. Simpson
Simpson is a frequent
film critic for The Plains­man.
His Auburn audience
probably took Lightfoot
(in a devil-may-care
mood) too seriously. So
after his announced last
number, "Trilogy," no­body
stood and raised
cain for more. Lightfoot
played for only 70 min­utes.
Singer-guitarist Lynn
Kellogg, with guitarist Al
Freidman, opened the
Lightfoot show with eight
straight-forward, coun­try-
flavored songs.
Kellogg sang her own
enjoyable, fairly simple
songs about love and
relationships. She also
slipped in a delightful
medley of songs she
wrote for ABC's "Ani­mals,
Animals, Animals"
and a solid closing per­formance
of Dylan's
"Forever Young."
Unfortunately, Kel-logg's
"countrified" sec­ond
soprano voice was
too heavily amplified,
and pierced ears
throughout the Coliseum.
Kellogg never esta­blished
a comfortable
rapport with the au­dience,
either, though
she tried awfully hard —
maybe too hard. It's not
often a tall, intelligent,
beautiful blonde doesn't
get a good audience res­ponse.
-Dave White
White is assistant ent­ertainment
editor and
frequent music critic for
the Plainsman.
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Photography: P»llv Di Rienzo
PARRAZZO ROCKS OUT
.strong stage presence grabs audience attention.
By Lisa Walsh
Plainsman Staff Writer
Since Jan. 29 Auburn
children have been find­ing
a delightful alterna­tive
to Saturday morning
cartoons. It's the Auburn
University Theatre free
puppet shows directed by
Richard Cunningham,
new director of the Chil­dren's
Theatre in Au­burn.
Each Saturday in the
Village Mall at 10 and 11
a.m. hundreds of kids
have seen live theatre in
action courtesy of Au­burn
students, whose
majors range from thea­tre
to history.
The stage is located
between Record Bar and
Vogue at the back of the
mall. The fairy tales are
enacted by student pup­peteers
using muppet
puppets designed by
Francis Fuselier.
Although many parents
leave their children at
the shows while they go
shopping, those that stay
are often entertained by
the fast moving, comical
scripts which Cunning­ham
selected, rewrote
and adapted.
Although it is almost
impossible to hold the at­tention
span of children
Parrazzo 's rock'n 'roll
rouses AU audience
Previous information
had led me to believe
that I would be seeing a
cross between Gino Van-nelli
and Jose Feliciano
when Johnny Parrazzo
took the stage Monday.
Close, but no cigar.
Parrazzo's 'fro does
make him look like Van-nelli,
but I don't know
where his resemblance to
Feliciano comes in.
Parrazzo shows a
strong stage presence,
and truly caught the
audience's attention with
his extended conversa­tions
about smoking
roses, among other
things.
When Porrazzo took
the piano, he showed a
talent to rock out that
was a relief, considering
the last quality high-deci­bel
output concert was
about nine months ago,
and Auburn's hard rock
fans had been forced to
listen to the likes of
Denver and Lightfoot.
Most of the good-time
rock was accompanied
by a solo by Marvin
"Kingfish" Smith, who
was another Ronnie Mon­trose,
strutting around
and laying down some
decent licks.
Of course, the concert
was not perfect. This was
partially due to Parraz­zo's
insistence on vary­ing
the pace, mixing in
slow songs that interrupt­ed
the continuity and
were of lower quality
than the rowdier mate­rial.
One of these songs,
"Lovin' on Borrowed
Time," was the best
slow-paced song Parraz­zo
presented. The lyrics
were somewhat inane,
("Lovin' another man's
woman is lovin' on bor­rowed
time"), but the
tune was catchy.
Don't get me wrong.
Parrazzo was good. The
highlight of the night was
an extended medley bas­ed
loosely on Stevie Won­der's
hit, "Living for the
City."
I liked Parrazzo's ver­sion
better. It abandoned
the monotonously driving
disco rhythm of Won­der's
version, but substi­tuted
a more jazz-like
treatment of the tune
that really clicked.
Mixed in with that song
were a strong drum solo
by Robin Smith, which
spared the cymbals for
the most part, and a
hard-driving, fast-paced
piano version of "I Saw
the Light" by Parrazzo.
I don't think I'd be
exaggerating if I refer­red
to Parrazzo as an
up-and-coming personali­ty,
a term that is often
misused. He had express­ed
a somewhat reserved
opinion of Auburn's
usually quiet audiences.
"I couldn't believe the
response I got," he said.
"It made my week. I
really didn't think they'd
respond like that."
Porrazzo's group had
recently completed a
tour with B.J. Thomas,
and a possible deal with
MCA / Rocket records,
the label through which
Kiki Dee, Neil Sedaka
and Cliff Richard have
broken through, is in the
works.
So, it is not inconceiva­ble
to predict that the
next time Porrazzo
comes to Auburn, we
may have to shell out
some money.
Still, it bugs me to no
end...How in the world
can they say he resem­bles
Jose Feliciano?!
—John Carvalho
Carvalho is managing
editor of The Plainsman
and a former entertain­ment
editor.
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aged 1-10 for an entire
half hour, the Auburn
actors seem to do a good
job, and while some of
the kids' attention may
stray the adults' eyes re­main
glued to the stage.
The kids start arriving
about 9:45. Then ' a t 10
a.m. out pops Robert V.
Rudner, 2HY, dressed in
brown tights, elf shoes, a
plaid top with billowing
satin rust sleeves and
matching shorts.
He is Bartholomew
Baggins, the king's pup­peteer.
His job is to
warm up the crowd and
introduce the show.
Rudner said he really
enjoys working with the
kids. "I've had to stop a
few popcorn fights and
think of a few quick an­swers
when the kids ask
why the fairy dust looks
like sawdust, but all in
all I'm having a great
time."
Before "Beauty and
the Beast" Rudner was
talking to a three-year-old
boy who asked in a
serious voice, "Is the
beast going to be scary?"
Rudner assured him he
could handle it, but when
the beast appeared on
the stage the boy came
running to him in the
middle of the show and
asked, this time in a
frightened voice, "Is that
monster coming back?"
He must not have been
too scared, because the
monster came back that
day and the boy came
back the next week to see
"Hansel and Gretel." He
even got there extra
early to get a front row
seat.
At the end of each show
the puppeteers invite the
children to come up,
touch the puppets and get
a closer look. The en­chantment
trance breaks
when they see the pup­pets
are not real.
' 'The children really
believe the puppets are
real, and when we pop up
after the performances
they say, 'Where did ya'll
come from?' " said Pam
McCullar, 2EED, puppe­teer
for Gretel.
"One of their first
questions is 'Where are
their feet? How do they
move around on stage?'
It's hard for them to
grasp that we're the ones
doing it," said McCullar.
She said afterward the
kids are not interested at
all in the puppeteers;
they direct all questions
to the puppets and al­most
ignore the puppe­teers
altogether.
' 'One weird thing about
being a puppeteer is that
while an actor can see
the reactions of the
crowd, we can't see the
audience at all," said
McCullar.
The puppeteers first
practiced in the acting
studio with mirrors.
"Mirrors help you to
adjust to what it looks
like, because it is a
natural tendency to keep
the puppet's nose stick­ing
straight up in the air,
and it was hard to stop
doing that," McCullar
said.
The man behind the
scenes is Greg Beron,
3TH, the stage manager
who runs the show the
day of the performance.
Beron usually spends
15 hours a week with the
rehearsals and perfor­mances
of the produc­tion.
For this he is only
receiving three hours of
receiving three hours
credit, but says he enjoys
the work.
Beron will be doing the
light design for "The
Real Inspector Hound,"
a coming Auburn theatre
production which will
also be directed by
Richard Cunningham.
In May the puppet
shows will be touring
Clay County and Dade-ville
schools.
The puppet show this
Saturday at the Village
Mall will be "Rumple-stiltskin,"
with shows at
10 and 11 a.m.
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Students come to 'Cabaret'
Photography: Greg Bugg
CLIFF AND SALLY TALK IT OUT
.Marilyn Byrd, Robbie Bouchillon work on "Cabaret"
By Ruth Ann Dunn
Asst. Features Editor
"What good is sitting
alone in your room?
...Come to the Caba­r
e t !"
Seventy-five Auburn
students, heeding this ly­rical
advice, left their
uninteresting rooms to
enter the dreamlike at­mosphere
of Telfair B.
Peet Theatre to audition
for the John Van Druten
musical Cabaret.
Tryouts for the musical
sponsored by the Auburn
University Theatre De­partment
attracted a
conglomeration of aspir­ing
actors from across
campus.
Brick brings jazz, disco
fusion for free concert Brick, a five-man dis­co-
jazz band from Atlan-ta,
will perform for a free
concert in the Student
Activities Building on
Wednesday at 8 p.m.
Brick's single "Dazz"
rocketed to the top of
'' Billboard' s " national
hit singles charts in De­cember,
reaching num­ber
three on the pop poll
and staying number one
for three weeks on the
rhythm 'n' blues chart.
Both "Dazz" and
Brick's first album,
GOOD HIGH, are cer­tified
gold records.
Brick plays a very
danceable music that
fuses disco rhythms and
the free-form melodies of
jazz, as the word "Dazz"
might imply. The band is
particularly proud of its
' 'subdued vocals and
funky rhythmic sound."
Having recently played
concerts with groups like
the Spinners, Ohio Play­ers,
Commodores and
Brass Construction,
Brick will play at least
five concerts with Rufus
and San t a na next month.
Brick is Jimmy Brown,
lead vocals, flute and
sax; Eddie Ions, drums;
Donald Nevins, key­boards
; Reggie Hargis,
guitar and vocals; and
Ray Ransom, bass. The
quintet has played to­gether
for two years and
records for Bang Re­cords.
Two thousand free con­cert
tickets will be issued
at the Union Building
desk. One ticket per
student will be issued
upon presentation of an
Auburn ID card. Tickets
will be distributed 10
a.m.-8 p.m. on Monday
and Tuesday and 10 a.m.-
5 p.m. on Wednesday.
Any tickets remaining
will be distributed at the
door Wednesday; tickets
will be required for ad­mission.
Doors will be opened at
7 p.m. for the concert.
Chairs will not be pro­vided.
Weekend Update/Area entertainment
Atlanta
Johnny Mathis will give performances at 7 and 10
p.m. in the Civic Center tomorrow. Tickets are $6.50
and $7.50.
The Statler Brothers, Tammy Wynette and Ronnie
Milsap will give a concert in the Civic Center Sunday
at 3 p.m. Tickets are $4.50 and $6.50.
Queen, with special guest star Thin Lizzy, will be in
concert at the Omni Monday. Tickets are $6.50 and
$7.50.
Ry Cooder will be at the Great South East Music
Hall and Emporium Feb. 25 and 26.
Janis Ian will perform in the Civic Center Feb. 23
at 8 p.m. Tickets are $5.55 and $7.50.
Bruce Springsteen will perform in the Civic Center
March 2 a t 8 p.m. Tickets are $5.50 and $7.50.
Birmingham
Queen and Thin Lizzy will perform in Boutwell
Auditorium from 7:30-11 p.m. Tuesday.
Emmylou Harris will be in concert on Feb. 27 a t the
Concert Hall.
Kiss will perform in the Birmingham Coliseum
March 3.
Billy Joel will give a concert in the Coliseum March
10.
Fleetwood Mac will petform in the Coliseum March
12.
Columbus
Blue Oyster Cult and Rush will perform in the
Columbus Municipal Auditorium Tuesday. Tickets
are $6.
No set type of person
auditions for a musical
said the play's director,
Dr. Ralph E. Miller of
the Theatre Department.
"There a r e a lot of kids
that try out for musicals,
though, that don't try out
for regular shows," he
said. "There's a demand
among your students to
do musicals.
' 'An overwhelming
number are non-music
majors.
"For past musicals the
student either had to be
able to sing or dance.
But not for 'Cabaret.'
You had to do both well.
"We call this double-barreled
talent."
"Cabaret" varies from
past Telfair Peet musi­cals
"Boyfriend," "Guys
and Dolls" and "Okla­homa!"
in other ways,
also.
"We chose 'Cabaret'
because it was different
from anything we'd ever
done. We liked the state­ment
it makes — that we
must be responsible for
the world and society we
live in.
"Life is not just a
cabaret. I t ' s serious."
The play is based on
the period of 1930 through
1932 and the events lead­ing
to the rise of Hitter's
Third Reich.
"People turned their
backs on reality. The
German society was
completely decadent. All
they wanted to do was
p a r t y , " said Miller.
This wild party tone
and tempo is carried
throughout the musical.
"The music is much
more difficult because it
is modern. The rhythms
are a little more tricky
but we thought it was
worth the e x t r a work."
And work is the correct
word.
Practice began imme­diately
after the selection
of the cast.
Groups of performers
rehearse almost every
night, three hours a
night, for six weeks.
"I make them work
very hard because I
know when they look
good they'll have a great­er
sense of self-satisfac­tion."
An added hardship on
the performers is the
length a musical runs.
"We open a day earlier
for musicals because
they're so popular. All
performances of past
musicals have sold o u t ."
All totaled, there will
be seven performances
of "Cabaret," including a
noon matinee on closing
day, Sunday Feb. 27.
Evening performances
will run from Monday,
Feb. 21 through Satur­day,
Feb. 26, beginning
at 8:00 p.m.
"All together, cutting
all kinds of corners, the
show will cost us about
$5,000," stated Miller.
The cost of the original
Broadway version of
'Cabaret' reached
$800,000.
Elaborate sets must be
built, proper lighting
must be wired and daz-zeling
costumes must be
sewn.
The material alone for
one character's costume
costs $25 a yard.
The costume designer,
Francis Fuselier, had to
go to New Orleans to get
that material. Nothing
like it could be found in
the Southeast except at
Mardi Gras.
After investments are
made in money and time,
there is no assurance
that all will run smoothly
during rehearsals or on
opening night.
Miller recalls an inci­dent
from last year's
musical "Oklahoma!" in
which one member of the
cast got carried away
literally.
"A dancer, trying to
elaborate on his part,
kicked this other guy in
the nose and broke it,"
said Miller.
Rehearsal stopped long
enough to take the injur­ed
actor to the hospital.
Knowing the time and
hard work involved,
Miller said, " I t ' s an enig­ma
to me why people get
involved in musicals.
"I guess some of them
do it because they're
hams. Some need the
experience so they can
go on to a teaching or
professional position.
Some do it because
there's nothing else to do
winter quarter.
"Some do it because
the musical is the only
outlet for their singing
and dancing talent on the
Auburn campus.
"The joy and the thrill
of doing something well
is also a part of it.
There's just darn few of
us who a r e lucky enough
to excel and have some
feeling of accomplish­ment
outside of class.
"That sense of accom­plishment
is needed to­day."
Greeks step out tonight
The Interfraternity
and Panhellenic Councils
will once again sponsor
the annual Step Sing
competition tonight at
7:30 p.m. in the Auburn
Memorial Coliseum.
This will be the thirty-second
annual rendition
of Step Sing, originally
called the "Sphinx Sing"
because it was a service
project of the Sphinx
senior women's honor­ary.
The first Sphinx Sing
was held in 1945 in
Langdon Hall, with 3
fraternities and 5 sorori­ties
participating.
Each group was al­lowed
to sing two songs,
the sororities going first
because freshman and
sophomore women had to
meet curfew.
The winners were Sig­ma
Alpha Epsilon fra­ternity
and Kappa Delta
sorority. There was no
Sphinx Sing in 1946, but
the following year it was
reinstated, and has been
held annually ever since.
When the Sphinx hon­orary
disbanded in the
'50s, Sphinx Stag was
carried on by Mortar
Board, the new senior
women's honorary. In
the early '60s it was
combined with skit night
and renamed "Capers"
under the joint sponsor­ship
of Mortar Board and
Blue Key, a men's lead­ership
honorary.
In the late '60s the I FC
and the Panhellenic
Council were given con­trol
of the event, and
Step Sing as it is today
evolved.
Last year's competi­tion
was won by Alpha
Delta Pi sorority and Phi
Gamma Delta and
FarmHouse in the large
and small fraternities.
This year 14 sororities
and 20 fraternities have
signed up to stag.
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The Auburn Plainsman A l l Thurs., Feb 17,1977
Senate'nursing'newpri • ] • • sal
By Susan Counts
Assistant News Editor
A committee report
recommending the pos­sible
establishment of a
nursing program at Au­burn
was given at Tues­day's
meeting of the
University Senate.
The Senate also intro­duced
a resolution to
provide more academic
scholarships based on
Journalism adds
news classroom
Sick leave Photography: Gordon tuigu
Classroom attendance was down this
week as the Student Health Center was
crowded with students with flu
symptoms. Symptoms related to the
flu are aches and chills, severe
headaches, fever, and coughs with
SGA Senate proposes
student on city council
congestion. Students are more sus­ceptible
to the flu virus if they let
themselves get run down and do not get
enough sleep, said Dr. William B. Turk
>f the Health Center.
By Jackie Romine
Assistant News Editor
The SGA Student Sen­ate
Tuesday night ap­proved
code of law
changes which would al­low
for an "ex-officio"
student member on the
Auburn city council. The
student member is sub­ject
to the approval of
the city council.
The ex-officio member
will be elected by stu­dents
in spring elections
and will be a member of
the SGA cabinet.
To run for ex-officio
city council member, a
student must have a 1.0
grade point overall or a
1.5 g.p.a. the previous
quarter, be at least a
sophomore in standing
and have lived in Auburn
and attended Auburn for
three consecutive
quarters (excluding sum­mer
quarter).
Friday at 4:30 p.m. is
deadline for submitting
declarations of intent to
run for an office in the
spring elections.
By Julie Spafford
Plainsman Staff Writer
A newly-equipped
classroom has been add­ed
to the facilities of the
Journalism Department
this quarter, in an effort
to give students exper­ience
in the practical use
of newsroom equipment.
A typesetting machine,
a headliner, a Compu-tape
machine, 22 type­writing
tables, 12 paste­up
tables, an AP state
wire, a processor and a
waxer were furnished for
3203 Haley Center by
University-appropriated
funds for the depart­ment.
Courses which are pre­sently
using the new
classroom equipment in­clude
Beginning News-writing,
Copy Reading
and Editing, Reporting
and Technical Journa­lism.
According to Jack
Simms, head of the Jour­nalism
Department, a
journalism and commu­nications
advisory coun­cil
was set up in 1973.
This council was com­prised
of people from off
campus — "people out in
the field." In April, 1976,
they made recommenda­tions
in consultation with
the faculty and others.
As a result, the admini­stration
appropriated
$30,000 to the Journalism
Department.
"We had a pretty good
idea of what we wanted,"
said Simms, "so the
equipment began arriv­ing
in early November,
and the last of it arrived
during the Christmas
holidays.
"We're proud of it. We
think we've got a very
good newspaper labora­tory,"
said Simms. He
said he felt the real
advantage was that it
gave the classes a real
"newsroom flavor."
"We think it will be a
very big boost in helping
place our interns."
merit for Auburn stu­dents.
Dr. Taylor Littleton,
Auburn's vice president
for administration, said
the Curriculum Commit­tee
was recommending
to Pres. Harry M.
Philpott that the Uni­versity
propose the es­tablishment
of a bacca­laureate
degree nursing
program if extra funding
could be provided by the
legislature.
"For some years, the
local medical associaton
has been extremely anx­ious
for Auburn to do
this," said Littleton.
"Pres. Philpott has not
been very responsive in
the past because various
nursing schools were al­ready
established
throughout the state."
According to Littleton,
however, there has been
an increase in response
due to the local need for
baccalaureate degree
nurses.
"There seems to be a
tendency for nurses to
practice in the same area
in which they receive
their degree," Little
said. "The ratio of nurses
wtih baccalaureate de­grees
is very low in this
area."
Littleton explained the
only way the program
could be implemented
satisfactorily would be if
separate appropriations
were provided by the
legislature. According to
him, no funds would be
taken from other areas to
finance the program.
The recommenda­tion
will be considered by
Philpott before any
formal proposal is made.
Following a request by
SGA Pres. Buck Ruffin,
the Senate introduced a
resolution to increase the
number and availability
of academic scholarships
based on merit for Au­burn
students.
Other business con­ducted
at the meeting
included the passage of a
resolution that the Rules
Committee of the Uni­versity
Senate submit
nominees from which
University Committee
members be selected.
Seven of nine indi­viduals
who will compose
the Honors Program
Committee were also
named. This committee
would be charged with
assisting faculty interest
in an honors program
and exploring all factors
involved in the establish­ment
of such a program.
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The Auburn Plainsman A-12 Thure., Feb 17,1977
Dean Foy
AU spirit personified
By John Carvalho
Managing Editor
If the Auburn spirit were to be personified, chances
are the resulting character would closely resemble
Dean of Student Affairs James E. Foy.
His work with the Student Affairs Office brings him
into constant contact with Auburn students, some­thing
both Foy and the students seem to enjoy.
"Auburn has got a personality and enthusiasm and
a sense of goodwill among the people," he said.
"There's a friendliness that means a lot to me."
Lynne Hawkins, chairman of the Student Senate
Organizations Committee, returned Foy's compli­ment.
"He's so interested in whatever you're doing,"
'Auburn has got a person­ality
and enthusiasm and a
sense of goodwill among
the people.'
she said. "He's concerned for the betterment of the
students and gives them the best treatment he can
provide."
The students who visit Foy in his Mary Martin Hall
office are usually greeted by a friendly, smiling man
with his shirtsleeves rolled up and a desk full of
paperwork, but always ready and willing to help.
The walls of his office hold plaques from
organizations such as Phi Beta Kappa and Phi Kappa
Phi, two academic honoraries, as well as a
photograph of him and another Auburn student
sitting in the rumble seat of a jalopy yelling the
familiar cry "War Eagle!"
But Foy's duties at Auburn include more than just
going to pep rallies and speaking to clubs.
Sometimes he has been called on to help the
University cope with urgent problems, such as in 1964
when Auburn was ordered to integrate.
Smiling in retrospect, Foy likened the situation to
the comedy show "Sanford and Son," when the elder
Sanford grasps his heart, looks heavenward and says,
"Elizabeth, this is going to be a big one!"
"I would say Auburn did exceptionally well, though
I'm willing to admit that we weren't the first to
integrate,'' said Foy. ''It's part of the Auburn Creed:
'I will obey the law.'"
At the time, administration formulated a set of
guidelines each student would have to sign before
returning to school for winter quarter, when Auburn's
first black student, Howard Franklin, would enter.
"If students felt they couldn't live with it, they could
seek to transfer," Foy said.
Wingard fixes errors
The tardiness and er­rors
of Chef's Club state­ments
are being correct­ed,
said Richard M.
Wingard, director of
Food Services.
Mistakes are due to a
data processing error
which has been discov­ered
and corrected, Win­gard
said. Correct bills
should be in the mail
now. Incorrect bills
should be disregarded.
Bills have been late,
according to Wingard,
because Chef's Club offi­cials
did not foresee the
popularity of the plan
during fall quarter, 1976
and did not have the staff
needed to process the
large number of state­ments.
Wingard said more
people have been hired to
process Chef's Club
statements.
The number of stu­dents
with Chef's Club
accounts rose from 3,000
to more than 5,000 by the
end of fall quarter, 1976,
said Wingard.
Correct statements
dated December 9, 1976
were mailed February
11, 1977. Bills dated Jan.
27,1977 were mailed Feb.
21, 1977, and those dated
Feb. 24, 1977 are sche­duled
to be mailed
March 7, 1977. With the
March 7 mailing, Chef's
Club will be back to once
a month billing, Wingard
said.
Foy said conditions were better for such a change
as integration in the winter than in the fall because
"Auburn is a volatile