1976-10-07 The Auburn Plainsman

              The Auburn Plainsman
™.m»** Number? Thursday, October 7, 1976 Auburn, Ala. 36880 _J8pages_
B & G votes
not to strike By Marian Hollon
Plainsman Staff Writer
A reasonable wage increase and
the resolution of some of the
problems of Buildings and
Grounds (B&G) workers prevent­ed
a strike vote by members of
Laborers International Union Lo­cal
240, according to John Oglesby,
chief union steward. Dr. Ben T.
Lanham, vice president for admin­istration
discussed these and other
changes with B&G maintenance
employes several hours before
union members were scheduled to
meet for a vote.
Lanham explained some of the
University's policies which have
been under fire by B&G workers
such as hiring, advancement prac­tices
and salary levels. He also
listed many fringe benefits work­ers
receive.
For every dollar that employes
earn, the University adds 26 cents
in fringe benefits for hospitaliza­tion
and unemployment compensa­tion,
** Lanham said. According to
Lanham, employes* group, medi­cal
and life insurance has been
raised without an increase in their
premium payment.
According to Lanham, non-bud­geted
workers received a wage
increase on Sept. 26 and all other
workers got a raise on Oct. 1. This
3 per cent wage hike is relatively
the same throughout the Universi­ty,
Lanham said.
Lanham added that wages were
of top priority in the budget every
year. "The task was difficult this
year," said Lanham, "because the
State Legislature cut appropria­tions.
But by careful planning,
salary/ saving and postponing
some maintenance needs, we were
able to accumulate funds for a
small increase. The next legisla­ture
will meet in February and
we'll be there."
Employes and labor union lead­ers
had charged the University
with favoring outsiders or military
men for job positions within B&G
and a lack of advancement oppor­tunities.
Lanham said the University has
always been committed to obtain­ing
the best qualified workers for
"every area and job." He pointed
out qualifications and attitudes are
necessary factors when filling a
position. "If someone lacks these,
he should obtain them through
training or experience, even if it
does cost time and money,"
Lanham said.
If a vacancy occurs, the admini­stration
first "looks at employes
within the unit and considers
records and job attitudes. For a
higher level job, qualifications are
posted and anyone interested may
apply," Lanham explained
He said when no one is qualified,
only then are those from the
outside brought in. Lanham added
that to date there have been 14
promotions from within B&G,
one-third of these moving to the
position of assistant foreman.
Lanham listed other benefits
employes receive such as sick and
annual leave, holiday pay, indivi­dual
orientation for new employes,
and personal and group counseling
for workers* first two months.
Foremen and assistant foremen
receive supervisory training, ac­cording
to Lanham, and he praised
the regular employes meetings
held in some shop areas, saying
these are helpful to both workers
and supervisors.
On Sept. 23 the Board of
Trustees added another advantage
for workers. "A private consulting
firm has been authorized to come
and study all current B&G pro­blems
and recommend changes
that need to be made," Lanham
said.
As for the future, Lanham said
there will be even more changes in
B&G jobs and job assignments,
and adjustments will have to be
made. Lanham said, "B&G work­ers
cannot expect their jobs to be
the same after ten, five, even two
y e a r s " Lanham said he expects
the B&G work load to increase
because of the continous growth of
the University, which has the
largest enrollment of any state
educational institution. "There
will be more works orders to
process and more campus facili­ties,
including the new Pharmacy
(See STRIKE, page A-2) Photography: Dan Doughtis
Inside Today
DAZZLING DEFENSE -
The Auburn defense turned in a
fine performance in Saturday's
10-jO victory over Ole Miss, and
defensive coordinator P.W.
"Bear" Underwood was mighty
pleased. (See page B-l)
BUYERS BEWARE -
As a service to Auburn con­sumers,
The Plainsman offers the
first in a series of consumer-ori­ented
columns by staff writer
Annie Jones. (See page A-3)
SUMMER CONFERENCES-Auburn's
enrollment is down
during the summer, but the
campus is by no means deserted,
as many organizations hold con­ventions,
meetings and clinics on
the Auburn campus. (See page
C-6)
Rebel router
Big Rodney Bellamy puts the crunch on Tim Ellis at the
AubuVn-Misslssippi game in Jackson on Saturday. The Tigers *******
second consecutive Southeastern Conference game by beating me
Rebels 10-0, the first shutout in two years for the Tigers. The defense
•. M ra» urTiu tn Ml vards total offense, which isn't hard when the
S S e n Z K e r s s^n"mosTo7 their time in the Ole Miss backfield
S S g ^ b ^ c a r r i e r T E l l i s shows his reaction here to the "impression"
Bellamy left on him.
Rebels 10-0, the first shutout in two years ior «•« *i«™». — « Mag demands visitation change
, J By Betty Douglass * o„tftr, trtiH tho o-roun efforts didn't understand what was goini
News Editor
' 'We are going to get out and stir
up this campus. No riot, just close
to it," Duncan Powell, 4FAA, told
360 Magnolia Dormitory residents
Monday night.
The men gathered in the dorm
cafeteria to discuss the newly
imposed limited visitation.
Powell, a dorm resident advisor
and recently appointed SGA direc­tor
of men's housing, called the
encounter "not for complaints but
to get ideas.
Buck Ruffin, SGA president,
explained what the SGA had done
on the matter.
A committee composed of stu­dents,
faculty and administrators
recommended dorms be classified
as 1) no visitation, 2) limited
visitation and 3) open visitation.
Ruffin said the Board of Trust­ees
rejected the committee's re­port
and formed a special subcom­mittee
to give the question more
study.
It was this subcommittee that
presented the current policy of
"visitation on special occasions."
Students become active in fail campaigns
By Susan Counts
Plainsman Staff Writer
Campus activities seeking Au­burn
students' political interest
and support in the Nov. 2 presiden­tial
election have been scheduled
by students promoting each of the
Carter and Ford campaigns.
Telephone canvass programs,
transportation provisions to the
polls and information distribution
on campus are among the projects
individually planned by student
supporters of both party tickets
According to Helen Moore,
"J^Y altprna-e staU committee-woman
for the ioung Democrats,
(YD) a voter registration drive
sponsored by the YD will be held
on campus before the Oct. 18
registration deadline.
"Bo Torbett, the Democratic
candidate in this election is going
to try to bring registrars on
campus to promote student regis­tration,"
she explained.
Steve Escobio, tGPO president
of Auburn's Young Democrats,
added the group would assist
students in questions concerning
registration, applying for absentee
ballots or general election ques­tions.
Literature mailouts supporting
the Ford campaign are of the
promotional measures planned by
student workers, according to El­sie
Timberlake, chairwoman of
the Republican party for the 3rd
Congressional District.
Gene Oswalt, :?PUB, president of
Auburn's Young Republicans, stat­ed
much of their energy would be
used in personal contact with
students. "We want to ask Carter
supporters for specific reasons
they have in promoting their
candidate and give them reasons
why we are for Ford. We don't
want to argue because that's no
way to discuss politics.
"We mainly just want the stu­dents
to be interested in the
election one way or the other. Of
course we'll promote Ford, but we
want to also create interest in just
the election itself."
According to Frank Duke,
4GHY, coordinator of the Auburn
campaign for Carter, there are
tentative plans for a debate with
Ford campaigners to be aired over
WFIGI-.
•We would like to have yet
another debate before the stu­dents,"
he stated. "We have
challenged the Ford supporters to
one — any time, any place, any
forum — but as of yet, they
haven't accepted the challenge."
The Young Democrats and the
Young Republicans are student
organizations each consisting of
approximately 30-35 active mem­bers.
Mamie Owens, the Auburn
University coordinator of the Ford
campaign, explained that student
volunteers supporting the candi­dates
of their choice make up a
temporary type of organization
separate from but working with
the student party organizations.
Groups supporting a candidate in
an election year may total from
100-200 students.
(See POLITICS, page A-2)
Ruffin told the group efforts
were made all summer to per­suade
trustees to change their
vote.
Two days before the August
meeting, Ruffin said he thought
there was enough support to
implement the original commit­tee's
plan.
"On Friday the trustee called
and said he had changed his mind
and would vote against the resolu­tion."
Ruffin earlier had identified the
trustee as one who carried two
other trustees' votes with him.
The matter consequently was
not brought up at the meeting
because, Ruffin said, "all deci­sions
are made before the Satur­day
meeting," and he knew it
would not pass.
"We don't want to get a losing
reputation and be ineffective the
rest of the year.
"I'm not trying to incite a riot,
but we can't be complacent. We
have to show them we are not
satisfied," he said.
Powell and Ruffin told the
spirited crowd most of the pro­blem
lay with the fact that
on-campus women think if men get
# open dorms there is a "chance"
" they will.
"Women in the dorms were
hesitant (to support the open
visitation plan) because they
didn't understand what was going
on," Powell said. Under the
proposal dorms would, as they do
now, vote on visitation hours.
"On campus residents are the
people you have to get behind us,"
he said.
A questionnaire is being circu­lated
in women's dorms to get
their current feelings on visitation.
According to Powell, 56 per cent
of the total possible hours for
visitation are being used by
women.
Followed by loud boos from the
residents, Ruffin said "One trustee
said the men in Magnolia are just
a drop in the bucket" compared to
the 17,500 total student enrollment.
"A lot feel this way," he added.
Each person was urged to write
his parents and ask them to get in
contact with the trustees or the
governor's office.
They were told, "The Board of
Trustees responds to pressure."
When asked by one resident why
the whole student body should be
taken into consideration when
"this only concerns 700 of us,"
Ruffin said, "They are concerned
with the morals of the whole
student body and concerned with
the women living on campus.
Protecting the rights of the minori­ty
(those who prefer not to have
visitation) is their rationale.
"I don't think that is the right
rationale, and that is why we want
to change it."
Bernstein slates speech
on campaign dirty tricks
By Lisa Harris
Assistant News Editor
Carl Bernstein, the Washington
Post reporter who helped uncover
the Watergate scandal, will ap­pear
as the first Horizons VII
speaker Monday at 8 p.m. in the
Student Activities Building.
Along with Bob Woodward,
Bernstein broke the story of the
alleged "dirty tricks" of the Nixon
White House. Their investigations
eventually uncovered widespread
corruption in the executive office
and led to Nixon's resignation.
Bernstein and Woodward have
written two books. The first, "All
the President's Men," was about
the investigative work involved in
uncovering the Watergate scandal.
It was published in 1974. The
second,"The Final Days," was an
account of the last days of the
Nixon administration and is a
more personal account of the
events.
Bernstein began working at the
Washington Star as a copy boy at
the age of 16. He was promoted to
full-time reporter at 19. He has
worked for the Post «»»"*<» 1"*""
The Auburn Plainsman Thurs., Oct. 7, 1976 A-2
To vote or not to vote
League answers questions
By Maureen Drost
Associate Editor
Just as Pres. Gerald
Ford and former Georgia
Gov. Jimmy Carter are
preparing for the presi­dential
elections, Au­burn's
League of Women
Voters is trying to inform
Auburn citizens about the
upcoming elections.
The presidential elec­tion
is Nov. 2 and the
constitutional amend­ment
election is Nov. 23.
The League of Women
Voters is a non-partisan
group which does not
support candidates but
does take positions on
issues. Its purpose is to
inform citizens and en­courage
their participa­tion
in politics and go­vernment.
Membership is open to
all citizens 18 years or
older.
Recently the League
distributed 2,000 voter in­formation
sheets to Au­burn
students and 200
voters' keys to married
students.
In addition one League
member, Blanche Ste­phens,
tried to have ex­tra
registration days and
on-campus registering
for students, but she was
unsuccessful.
The national League is
sponsoring the presiden­tial
and vice presidential
debates. The next de­bates
will be Oct.' 11
between the vice presi­dential
candidates Ro­bert
Dole and Walter
Mondale and Oct. 22 be­tween
Ford and Carter.
OH the Nov. 2 ballot
will be Ford and Carter,
former Georgia Gov.
Lester Maddox of the
Alabama Conservative
Party and Communist
candidates Gus Hall and
Jarvis Tyner.
Prohibitionists Ben­jamin
Bubar and Earl
Dodge and Libertarians
Roger McBride and
David Bergland will also
be listed. Eugene Mc­Carthy
will not be on the
ballot because he did not
have enough signatures
on his petition to be on
the ballot.
The constitutional a-mendment
ballot will
have three parts. One
section calls for giving
the probate judge a re­gular
salary as opposed
to the present fee sys­tem.
Under the present sys­tem
the probate juries
collects fees, and then
the staff is paid with this
money.
According to Sue
Flood, Auburn League of
Women Voters president,
this system was enacted
in earlier days in Auburn
and other small commu­nities
for efficiency.
But with the growth of
these communities "no
one knows how many
fees are taken in," Flood
said.
Flood said the salary
system would be "above
board and public." It
would also save Lee
County some money,
Flood said, adding some
people estimate the pro­bate
judge now makes
about $60,000 yearly.
The salary system
would give the probate
judge a salary of $30,000
plus another possible
$5,000 for presiding over
the Lee County commis­sion.
This amendment would
enable the probate judge
to authorize clerks to
register voters at any­time
from 8 a.m. to 5
p.m. during the week
instead of the present
hours of 9 a.m. to 12 p.m.
and 1 to 4 p.m. on the
first and third Mondays
of each month.
This salary system
would become effective
Jan. 18, 1977, when the
new probate judge Hal
Smith, takes office.
Also on the ballot will
be the bond issues for the
Tennessee - Tombigbee
Waterway and the enlar­ging
of the state docks to
prepare for the handling
of more coal.
The last day to register
before the elections is
Oct. 18 from 9 a.m. to 12
p.m. and 1 to 4 p.m. at
the Lee County Court­house.
Applications for absen­tee
ballots must be made
no more than 60 and no
less than five days before
the elections to the clerk
of the circuit court of the
county the person wishes
to vote in.
The ballot must be
completed, notarized and
mailed to the clerk of the
circuit court and must be
received by the clerk by
6 p.m. the day of the
election.
Local Ford supporters
desiring more informa­tion
or wanting to help
their candidates should
contact Elsie Timberlake
at 821-7900.
Local Carter suppor­ters
can contact Houston
Elkins at 821-9983 or
Frank Duke at 887-5109.
The national address of
the Republican Party is
Politics
From page A-1
Several Auburn stu­dents
have attended state
and national party con­ventions.
Oswalt; Betty
Douglas, 4GJM; James
Patterson and Nancy
Franklin, 4RSS, traveled
to Kansas City for the
Republican National
Convention.
"It was a great ex­perience,"
said Oswalt.
"We attended seminars
and speeches, really got
involved in the conven­tion
activities and got to
meet lots of people, in­cluding
most of the Cab­inet
members. I guess
the greatest part was
when I got to meet and
talk with each member
of the President's fami­ly."
Oswalt also expressed
hi« enjoyment of the
feeling of unity and co­hesion
in the Republican
party. Oswalt was nam­ed
Statewide University
Chairman at the conven­tion
and is now respon-
Strikes
From page A-1
Building and the Fine
Arts Building, which will
be completed in about a
year," he said.
One problem that has
not been met, according
to Lanham, is the lack of
adequate space for work­ers.
The administration
is now seeking support
for a capital improve­ment
program to estab­lish
new and relocated
work areas.
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' 'The objective of
B&G," Lanham said, "is
to provide support to the
University for its teach­ing.
The continued
growth of the University
calls for even more
support from B&G, Food
Services, the Coliseum
and others."
Lanham ranked educa­tion
as being the number
one concern at Auburn.
He said everything else
is secondary and has a
supporting role. He
added, "If we fail, then
the teaching function will
suffer and we'll have to
take the consequences."
sible for coordinating the
registration and cam­paign
of the universities
throughout the state.
Duke and Moore at­tended
the state Demo­cratic
convention in Bir­mingham.
Banquets, re­ceptions
and seminars on
prison reform, the educa­tional
trust fund and the
state party organization I
and development were
among the events sche­duled.
Headquarters for each
of the parties have been
established in Auburn, .
with Ford's station locat­ed
directly above Her­bert's
Music Store and j
Carter's headquarters
situated in the University
Motor Lodge.
All we can
tell you is that
men who
don't smoke
live about
6 years longer
than men who
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Persons can write to
the Democratic National
Party at 1625 Massa­chusetts
Ave., NW, Wa­shington,
D.C. 20036.
Other information can
be directed to Sue Flood
at 821-1396.
Phone books
to be ready
in November
The Auburn University
Directory will be avail­able
in early November,
according to L. B. Wil­liams,
publications editor
University Relations.
The directory includes
student's name, class,
curriculum, school and
home address, and
school phone. Faculty
and staff listings include
department, title or posi­tion,
school and home
address and phone.
Students may pick up
the directory at the Al­pha
Phi Omega Book
Exchange.
Department heads
may obtain copies for
their staff and faculty
members at the Person­nel
Office:
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"Fearless Freddie,
Auburn's new star a
traction, attempts to le~
over Brantley Bro~
1PD, and three stacks
The Plainsman. Fa
Freddie took the camp-by
surprise last week
he staged between-cla
thrill shows. Freddi
broke his own record b
jumping over seven pe
sons. According to r
ports, Freddie will a
tempt to jump over
record 10 persons Frida
at 4 p.m. at an upto
Auburn store.
Photography: Roy Adams
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i
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ever been before. Created especially for the woman who wants
beautiful jewelry as well as a college tradition.
If you're not sure you want a college ring, be sure to come in and
take a look at the ArtCarved Fashion Collection. Because if you didn't
want one before, you will now.
ArtCarved is not for women only. They offer the finest selection of
men's college rings, including exciting
new gold signet rings for men.
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A-3 Thurs., Oct. 7, 1976 The Auburn Plainsman
ips for apartment problems
By Annie Jones
Plainsman Staff Writer
| Have you ever moved into an apart-lent
to find something important
m't work? Have you ever not re­ceived
your $50 deposit back despite
leaving your apartment in good condi-lion?
Landlord-tenant problems are not
jtnusual in Auburn. Moving off
lampus has its advantages, but many
Itudents are not sure how to go about
renting an apartment and getting
(reated fairly in the process. There
precautions a student can take as
rail as recourse should problems
irise.
Landlords are at somewhat of an
advantage in Auburn because of the
shortage of off-campus housing. Most
apartments in Auburn require a year's
lease, so students should be selective
when looking for an apartment and be
thorough.
The SGA provides a "Student Hous­ing
Survey" which lists most of the
larger apartment complexes in Au­burn
and their prices and conditions.
If you are interested in living in an
apartment building this free booklet
can save you a lot of time. If you are
looking for a house or duplex, your
best bets are checking the classified,
rental listings and personal sources.
When you find a place you would like
to rent, do not be too hasty in signing
the lease. The most important advice
about leases is to thoroughly read than
before you sign. Remember you are
legally bound to your lease.
The Auburn
Consumer
The following clauses are example of
things to look for since these clauses
are found in some leases in Auburn:
"The lessor shall, in no event, be
liable for damages..."
"...the lessor reserves the right to
make such adjustments in the rent as
may become necessary..."
"The lessor in person or byagents
shall have the right at reasonable
times, to enter the leased premises
and inspect same..."
If you find a clause like this in your
lease, see if your landlord won't
change it or omit it from the lease.
Any changes must be initialed by you
and your landlord for them to be
binding.
Avoid co-signing your lease with
your roommate. This would make you
responsible if they didn't pay their
share of the rent. Each person should
sign a separate lease putting the
responsibility to pay on each indivi­dual.
If you think you may need to sublet
your apartment, check to see if
provisions of this are in the lease and
request clarification if not. Be careful
in subleasing because you are respon­sible
for the condition of the end of
your lease.
Almost all landlords require a secur­ity
deposit and getting money back at
the end of your lease is not always
easy. Terms describing the security
deposit are often vague.
Check the apartment with your
landlord when you first move in. If
you find any defects in the apartment
make a list of them and have your
landlord sign and date the list. If you
leave your apartment clean and in the
same condition, excluding normal
wear and tear, as when you moved in,
you should be given the whole deposit.
If your landlord refuses to refund your
deposit there are legal recourses to
take.
The Off-Campus Association has
retained a lawyer for students to
consult on landlord or lease problems.
Contac t Student Services, 821-8126, for
details.
A student may also file suit at the
Small Claims Court. A person may
sue without an attorney and the cases
are heard by a judge. To start
proceeding, go to the Court of Common
Pleas in the Lee County Courthouse in
Opelika. A Clerk will give you forms
to fill out to which the defendant is
given five days to reply. If there is no
settlement the case will go to trial.
Take along documents and receipts for
you must prove the person owes you
money. The loser pays for court costs.
For more detailed information on
improving landlord-tenant relations,
the SGA furnishes a booklet free to
students entitled "Landlord-Tenant
Handbook" which gives a more detail-picture
on the subject.
Other campus organizations which
can help in this are : The Off-Cam­pus
Housing Association (821-8126);
Director of Consumer Protection (SGA
Office: 826-4240); Student Legal
Advisor - Don Adams (Mell Hall:
826-4744); Small Claims Court (745-
4241); Auburn City Hall (821-1900).
Photography: Grant Castleberry
Hi-yo, tuba!
Tom McClain, 3EE, seems ready to take off after
last week's "Gone with the Rebels" pep rally. The
spirited crowd later cheered the Tigers to a 10-0
victory over Ole Miss.
Lice found in dormitory
Painter in progress Photography: Ford Rtslay
Cynthia Dean, 3VA, exhibits that
"good old Auburn spirit" while paint­ing
a window downtown before th<>
Auburn-Ole Miss game. Window
painting is one of the many traditions
followed during football season.
By Roxanne Anderson
Plainsman Staff Writer
Three girls living in a
women's University
dormitory confirmed re­ports
that two mattresses
in their room "were
crawling with lice."
One of these girls, who
was treated at the stu­dent
Health Center for
lice contamination, said
on her second visit there
a doctor intimidated her
by suggesting she had
been infected through
sexual contact.
"One morning she found
several small bugs on
herself which looked like
moles," said one room­mate.
"That's when we
decided she'd better go to
the infirmary to be
treated," the other said.
Upon her first visit to
the infirmary the in­fected
girl was asked if
she had recently moved
into a new residency.
"Since I had, but didn't
tell the nurse it was in
the dorms, she sug­gested
I get my landlord
to burn all the mat­tresses
in the room im­mediately.
"Then the nurse told
me infested beds often
proved the source of the
problem," said the girl.
"On my second visit,
after my roommates and
I discovered lice co­vering
two mattresses in
our room, I told a Health
Center doctor where the
lice had obviously ori­ginated
and were bree­ding
from.
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Editorials Do employes have free speech]
Thurs., Oct. 7, 1976 A 4
Band escort
State troopers escorting the band home from football games order other
highway travelers to pull over to the side and let the band's six-bus convoy
pass.
We question whether a police escort is necessary. The results are often
chaotic as motorists try to return quickly to narrow, congested highways. The
gas consumed by two high-speed police cars and six buses traveling well over
the speed limit is wasteful.
Even if the escorts could be justified, pulling motorists over is not.
The consequences could be very serious. We would rather have the band
returning a little late than have some motorists not return at all.
City Council
The outgoing City Council deserves a vote of thanks for doing what they
thought was right for residents of the City of Auburn and all those
connected with Auburn University.
City Council President Eugene Stanaland has been a hard worker during his
four-year term. The Plainsman wishes good luck to him and to the new
Council and its president Bill Allen.
It is our hope the new Council members will be hard workers like their
predecessors and will always keep in mind the best interests of all Auburn
residents.
Last chance
The initiative has to be in your hands now. If you want to vote in the Nov.
2 election, if you want to have a share in the political processes of this country
for the next four years—then register to vote.
Oct. 18 will be the final day for registration. The Lee County Court House
in Opelika will be open from 8 a.m. - noon and 1 - 4 p.m.
Various groups on and off campus have been working to make registration .
more accessible to students and other townspeople. Until recently (a State
law was passed calling for a permanent registrar in the Court House) their
efforts had netted minimal results. Restrictive registration hours serve to
disenfranchise a large segment of the Auburn population.
If you want something badly enough you usually put out extra effort to
achieve your goal. If you want a good president in 1977 why not make your
voice heard...why not battle those forces which keep students out of the
political mainstream. Why not register and vote.
Debating issues
The second debate between candidates Gerald Ford and Jimmy Carter was
held last night, and, like in the first, each candidate evaded some issues and
left some questions unanswered. But also like in the first, the debate offered
an insight into the minds of the two men running for the nation's highest
office.
The most important product of these debates is not their entertainment
value. It is the American people having a chance to see the candidates as
closely as is possible in this electronic age, and using what they learn to vote
responsibly.
The next debate, between vice-presidential candidates Walter Mondale and
Robert Dole,will be held Monday, Oct. 11. The last one between Ford and
Carter will be Friday, Oct. 22.
So even if the debates seem "dull" to viewers weaned on situation
comedies, they should be watched. Viewers should concentrate on what the
candidates are trying to say in order to make an intelligent choice Nov. 2.
Largest ever
Please pardon this self indulgence, but I could think of no better place
than the editorial page to thank the staff for its hard work on last week's
paper.
The first paper this year was unique in two respects: it was the largest
paper ever put out in the history of The Plainsman, and it came closest to
meeting deadline of any first edition in recent years.
We would like to try to continue this precedent throughout the year, and
we invite you to take a more active role in The Plainsman.
If you are interested in writing, come by the office and ask for an
assignment. If you are especially interested in an issue or just feel you have
something to say that would be of interest to students, write a letter to the
editor.
— Christy Hudgins
IheAuburn
Plainsman
Christy Hudgins, Editor
Ken Edwards, Business Manager
Editorial Board members: Managing Editor, John Car-valho;
Associate Editor, Maureen Drost; News Editor, Betty
Douglass; 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. News Editors, Lisa Harris and Jackie Romine; Asst.
Features Editor, Carol Williams; Asst. Entertainment Edi­tor,
Dave White; Asst. Copy Editor, Jeanne Regan;
Asst. Photographic Editor, Grant Castleberry; Asst. Sports
Editor, Mike Forchette ; Asst. to the Editor, Brad Davis.
Advertising Director, Ken Edwards; Local Advertising
Route Manager, Susan Franklin; Assistant Advertising Route
Manager, Mary Gardiner; Advertising Representative, Jo
Ann Metcalf; Layout specialists, Larry Klein and Thomas
Lloyd; 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.
"Look, what I told you a few minutes
ago will have to be off the record now. I
just made a call and if anything comes
out on this they'll know it came from me
and I'll lose my j o b ."
"Well, what you've said is correct, and
it really is something people should be
made aware of, but you've got to under­stand
my situation. I'll be coming up for
a promotion soon, and I need that
money. You know our salaries are com­parable
to nothing as far as national pay-scales."
"You caught me unaware. I didn't
know what I was saying...the impact it
might have. I'm answerable to some
other people and I've been told not to
say anything."
"If you print that, I'll deny that I ever
told you."
What these faculty members and
administrators have to say about job
security are remarks not at all uncommon
to a journalist. What is unique to Au­burn,
however, is tlte frequency of these
atguments and the emotions surrounding
them.
It is disconcerting to see University
employes quaking in fear of a question
already answered on the pages of yestet-day's
paper or to relay a well-known tid­bit
of information under the 'strictest
confidence.
Christy
Hudgins
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It is even more disturbing to see the
fervor with which they plead that the in­formation
they have rendered not be
used. Some have become overwrought at
the thought of information being re­leased
whicn is common knowledge or
has been released already be superiors.
It is not uncommon for a University
employe to talk freely and, then in the
time interval it would take for him to
make a call, telephone the office to
rescind any information he may have
provided. During the first call he is
friendly and cooperative, but in the
second he is usually nervous and upset.
One professor described the situation
as "an iron rule, with little tolerance, no
freedom of speech and little freedom of
action."
The fear many have expressed seems
genuine. From where it stems nobody
seems to know or wants to tell. It would
be unfair also to speculate on the names
which have been suggested.
If a situation does exist which is as
restrictive as many have claimed and
othets have indicated then perhaps both
faculty and administration should re­evaluate
their role in a free society.
Democracy is only an idea. It become;
a reality to the extent that these ideas ar|
believed and practiced.
A Cuban refugee professor once toll
me that communism begins in the mind
of men, and the first place to enter thl
mind is in the schools. This is not tl
imply that Aubutn is communistic, but il
does give one reason for emphasizing th^
concepts of democracy in our schoo
systems.
When a professor may not speak freelj
(even outside the classroom situation]
about matters he believes should be open
to the public, when employes are willing
to lie to protect their job security...then
something is amiss.
I have worked as a reporter for The)
Huntsville Times and The Plainsman; fo«
a publishing company; and as an
assistant press sescretary for a U.S.|
senator...but I have nevet encounteted
situation even approaching Auburn's inl
scope. I have never dealt with such
large cross-section which is so consumed!
with fear in dealing with the press.
Individual freedom should not be trodl
upon. Yet at the same time strength isl
required, and even sometimes risk, to|
follow convictions.
Life teaches one big lesson: doingI
what you believe to be right isn't always]
the easiest road.
I've learned that lesson...sometimesI
the hard way, by having to live with myl
conscience.
Can administrators and faculty live |
with theirs ?
Plains speaking: it was better unknown
PLAINS, GA.~This small Georgia
town used to mean nothing more to me
than a speed zone along one of the
quicker routes from Auburn to Interstate
75.
That was all before Jimmy Carter got
the presidential nomination. Now Plains
is no longer a small town; it is a
Disneyworld exhibit.
Reporters covering the campaign found
much to write about in Plains. Story after
, story was printed about the town's 683
residents, its quaint Main Street setting
;ind other images that said to the reader
in New York, "Now here is what a small
town is like."
I visited Plains ovet the summer while
driving to Auburn, excited about just
seeing what it looked like. I hatbored no
illusions of small town charm or
down-home hospitality. In other words, I
had visited and lived in small towns
before, so I thought I knew what to
expect.
First, Plains has lost any small town
charm it once had. The gullible tourist
can buy a tour of Plains for $3 and see
sights visible from the highway. Included
ate such spectaculat stops as chutches,
Youth illiteracy, who should we blame ?
SAT test scores lowest in two decades
" I t ' s obvious in our modern world of
today there'sa lot of impreciseness in
expressing thoughts we have."
This sentence from a December 1975
issue of Newsweek was written by an
18-year-old college freshman, and it
points to a very important message —
many college freshmen here at Aubutn
and elsewhere throughout the United
States cannot write.
Anothet indication of the serious
nature of the problem is the average 1975
verbal Scholastic Aptitude Test score. The
average score in 1975 was 10 points lower
than the year before. In fact these 1975
scores were the lowest in two decades.
It seems a ttagedy to me that after 12
years in school students can't exptess
their thoughts on paper. Somewhere
during those years some people were
cheated.
And it wasn't just the people who
weren't intetested in writing who wete
cheated.
Columnist James J. Kilpatrick reported
that tecently at the University of
' Wisconsin an English usage test was
administered to students interested in
journalism careers. Two hundred people
took the test, and 125 of those 200
failed. The flunking rate was twice the 30
pet cent of the ptevious year.
The fault lies with everyone.
Much criticism is placed against today's
elementary, junior high and high school
teachers. Some people say there's too
much grammar emphasis. Othets say
there isn't enough. Poor background in
, the basics of syntax, structure and style is
given as another reason.
Then there are the teasons of not
enough writing, repetitious topics and
poor topics. Some people also say thete
' aten't enough reading assignments, and
othets say there's not enough variety in
teading assignments.
All these criticisms give the impression
teachers are inept. But this is only one
side of the criticism. Some teachers are
poorly trained. Other critics say integra­tion,
overcrowding and increased work­loads
have led teachers to forego
assigning essays and go to short-answer
homework.
And criticism of students focuses' on
television. Newsweek teports that most
language expetts say time spent watching
television could be devoted to reading.
Television, as opposed to reading, is
often a passive activity, offering little
challenge to the mind.
Even education innovators are targets
fot criticism. Many people chatge that
writing has been discouraged because of
creativity in the English classroom — the
expansion of English courses so students
can work with communications media
like film, photography and videotape.
These same critics say that even where
writing is still taught this creative
approach discourages style, structure and
Maureen
Drost
and grammar because it hinders the
spontaneous flow of wotds.
The solutions are almost as diverse as
the reasons for the problem, but perhaps
these solutions can be summed up in two
categories: the immediate solutions and
the long-tetm solutions.
One immediate solution is Auburn
University's lab to help students with
freshman composition. While it doesn't
correct the problem as early as it should
have, it does help encoutage students
who ate now having trouble- with their
writing.
Another immediate solution is aimed
rowatd future English teachets. In
addition to absorbing information from
education curriculums students should do
more reading and writing on their own.
If they feel comfortable with their
command of the English language, theit
students will too.
A long-tetm solution would be a
revamping of the English cuticula to
include more reading and writing. But
since education innovations are slow this
solution will have to wait.
I do not advocate the kind of English
education James J. Kilpatrick talks about.
Some of his ideas are outmoded. The
composition of English classes has chang­ed
so much since he was in school.
He tecalls his own English education
and says, "As childten, we had spelling
bees; we wrote weekly themes; we
diagtammed sentences; we were made to
memorize great chunks of Longfellow,
Poe, Wordsworth and Shakespeare.
"If I mistake not, Latin was then
requited of those who intended to go on
to college.
"We were blessed with teachers who
maintained discipline — teachets who
loved to teach, teachets who were not
preoccupied with the check-off, the
union shop, fringe benefits and rigid
enforcement of the seven hour day."
Schools are much more complex than
they used to be when Kilpatrick was
young. Today's teachers, at least some­time
in their careers, have to be
concerned with the check-off, the union
shop, fringe benefits or rigid enforcement
of the seven-hour day.
However the really important elements
in Kilpatrick's potttait of a perfect
teacher are this teacher's love of teaching,
his knowledge of what he is teaching and
a knowledge of his students.
With teachets possessing these ele­ments
there isn't much excuse why
students entering Aubutn should not
know how to write.
stores and houses, now edified by the
•;perrre of the man who once trod there
...and now takes a token walk
occasionally just for the cametas.
Of course there is the remodeled train
station, now national headquatters for
the Cartet campaign. Though it appeats
otherwise, the train does not drive to
Tomoftowland or even Yesterdayland. It's
all just part of the image.
Then there are the people. Evetyone
has read Time and Newsweek articles
about the Plains-folk, how down-home
thev are and what gosh-awful friendly
types they are.
. My encounter with a resident ot Plains
was less than touching. I enteted the
press headquattets thete since I was doing
a story for The Jacksonville Journal, and
asked where I could find Mr. Cartet that
day.
A high school-age flunky stopped me
and with obvious visions of being a Secret
Service man demanded, "What do you
want?"
I tepeated that I was from The
Jacksonville Journal and just wanted to
take some pictures. "Mr. Carter is testing
at home and won't be available at all
today," he said. (Meanwhile I spied the
sign advettising that day's Cattet-media
softball game.)
I wasn't expecting the people to fall
ovet themselves to help me, not am I
trying to say all the Plains people are like
that. I just wanted a little courtesy, and
didn't find it.
Thete was something else equally
disturbing about the Plains illusion.
Driving down Highway 280, you can see
the charming element of Plains, the
picturesque houses with immaculate
lawns that get written about so often.
But dtiving down the state toad to
Smithvillc, southward, you get anothet
view of Plains that is apparently too
unpleasant to be filmed ot wtitten about.
Thete are shacks with red clay yards, a
run-down church having a Sunday social;
this too is Plains, though it is almost
hidden as an embattassment.
Plains, Ga.
I think I liked it bettet when I didn't
realize it was thete.
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Letters
Drink your liquor in the closet
T h u r s . , Oct. 7, 1976 A-5
Let foreign students work
Editor, The Plainsman:
Thank goodness it's Friday—and I cry
myself to sleep. Though I have much
practice, it's still not easy to weep. Yet
who do I think I am, that I should cry for
me.
I got the law told to me today, and I
was told to be grateful for America's
generosity..
Some international students need to
work to pay for ilicir educational
expense; in the U.S A The Immigration
Naturalization Service (IN Si) has been
making u tougher and harder on
international students to work.
To begin with, there are not that many
international students in the U.S.A. to
justify such an attitude, but since these
several thousand jobs lie so heavy on the
economic consciousness of the INS. let
them be reminded that the "equation of
balance'' is not as simple as thai.
There are many American citizens
working unhindered all over the world,
and these are not poor students trying to
eke out the tattered pieces of an
educational budget. Most are very highly
placed and priced. They also create
secondary jobs in the USA by biasing
their companies or institutions in favor of
American products.
Also the INS has phrased in such terms
its directives for employing international
students in hourly Universiry jobs, that it
ran be easilv distorted to put an interna­tional
student totally at the mercy of his
"generous" employer. Many a "gener­ous"
employer quickly learns to use the
international student as a cheap pliable
tool which can be discarded callously
when that becomes expedient. The
official Aubutn University policy, as I
have been given to undetstand by
University officials, incorporates this
attitude.
The economics of this issue can be
spinned and counterspinned, but can the
moral question be ignored? Humanism
:.nd liberalism are regarded as the fotces
that shaped the mind of Americans and
guards the principle of man's equality.
This should be most apparent in the
American universities.
But, for example, one of the great
principles in America is that of proper
counsel and representation for all people.
The international student advisor is
supposed to counsel and act on behalf of
the international student rather than just
read him the law. Then what is one to
think if the pressure from the INS is
supposedly so great that an international
student advisor finds it necessary to play
"patsy" ot "stool pigeon" for the INS?
Justice and equity indeed are concepts
of value, of right and wrong, of fair and
unfair, of moral and immoral...
The law is corrupt and definitely
unjust. The generosity is fickle and reeks
of selfishness.
Zohair S. Moeri, 4EE
John Echols sat under an oak tree in
front of his apartment.
It was a warm May afternoon in 1974 .
He was drinking a beer, not unlike
thousands of Auburn students relaxing
on a spring day.
Within the hour he was booked at the
Auburn Police Department under city
ordinance 2%.
An archaic, double standard law, it
reads, "No person shall possess or drink
malt, vinous, spiritous or other intoxi­cating
liquors...in any public place...ex­cept
in places where such liquors are sold
at retail for consumption on the
premises."
Last Friday the Alabama Supreme
Court upheld the Auburn ordinance.
Betty
Douglass
The main legal question was whether
the apartment yard "was a public place."
In a 7-2 decision, the Court defined
the term.
The majority* opinion author, Justice
Sam A. Bcatty, wrote, "Even though
Echols was in the yard of his apartment
house he could be observed from a public
Product recycling urged
Editor, The Plainsman:
Auburn now has three recycling
centers. Let's all get out and do our part
in contributing to a sane envitonmental
life-style—a life-style that can only start
with each individual, and you start in the
home.
Auburn has aluminum can recycling
every other Monday afternoon from 1:30
—4 p.m. The recycling ttuck parks at
the uppet parking lot of the Coliseum,
off Roosevelt Drive. People are paid for
their aluminum waste. Save your beer
cans (except Schiltz, which uses steel
cms), aluminum foil, aluminum pie
plates, etc.
Paper recycling is located at the Village
Mall, on the Auburn-Opelika Highway.
It is in a truck trailer at the upper end of
the Mall parking lot.
Save your newspapers, magazines,
paper bags and other waste paper.
Glass recycling is going to be at the
new Earth Market Cafe on South Gay
Street. Save your bottles, jars, etc.
Now all we need is recycling for steel
cans. Most soft drink can sand some beer
cans arc made of steel. You can tell steel
cans from aluminum pans by the big
' seam on the back of steel cans. It would
be a shame to throw away these when
they could be recycled.
Lloyd Malone, 3VA
American call to action issued
Rick
Halperin
It is hard to view events on the
domestic scene today without feeling that
the dark days for the nation are still with
us. It may be that we were in greater peril
when we were less worried, when all the
present evils were layered over by our
national smugness. We may even be on
the mend, despite being enormously
clever at avoiding self-examination.
Out society is in desperate need of
reform, and in November many people
will go to the polls to vote for a
president. All of the candidates, like
many reformers, come to their tasks with
a little package of desired changes, and
the implication is that if appropriate
reforms are carried through and the
defects corrected, the society will be
wholly satisfactory and the work of the
reformer done.
This is a primitive way of viewing
societal change. The true task should be
to design a society capable of• continuous-change,
renewal and responsiveness.
" TH£ CHAPTER ONJ WATERGATE HA5 IF SUNK PA&E-S / "
Politics isn't 'way out1
Editor, The Plainsman:
Now that the Auburn city elections are
over, and much emotional fervor has
subsided, it is my hope that real rational
consideration can be given to the subject
of student involvement in local govern­ment.
Given the fact that many candidates
for local office made student involvement
in city government part of their plat­forms,
it would seem that the local
governmental environment is now set for
consideration of alternatives that would
call for direct participation of students in
Auburn government.
There is no doubt a need for students
to participate in the formularion of local
policies since these policies will directly
or indirectly affect all Auburn students.
The (act is the University and the City are
intertwined into one Auburn communiry
1 om which neither can "secede."
Auburn students reside not only on
University property, but the great majo­rity
of students live in housing out in the
Aubutn community. Obviously City
policies will have a direct effect on these
students' living environment.
By and large the economic foundations
of the community are supported by the
Aubutn student body. Since students are
direct participants in the economic
stystem of the community it seems only
natural that they should have a voice in
formulating local policies that directly
affect business from the standpoint of
both businessman and consumer.
Hopefully participation in local go­vernment
would alleviate some antago­nistic
attitudes that may exist between
parts of the business community and
student consumers.
The student body's approach to
obtaining student participation in city
government should not be antagonistic.
To the conttary, Auburn students should
cooperate to the fullest to achieve, from
among all alternatives, a stable position
of involvement that will allow for
adequate expression of all opinions of
citizens of the Auburn community.
Calls for student participation in
Auburn's government should not be
considered "way out," but rather should
be considered the outcome of good
common sense reasoning.
Buck Ruffin
SGA president
Unless we are willing to see a final
confrontation between institutions that
refuse to change and critics bent on
destruction, we had better get on with
the business of redesigning our society,
by initially eliminating the idea that
social change is a process which alters a
tranquil status quo. There is no tranquili­ty
within society.
The society capable of continuous
renewal will be one that develops to the
fullest its human resources, that removes
obstacles to individual fulfillment and
that emphasizes education, lifelong
learning and self-discovery.
Some steps have already been taken,
with the breakdown of racial privilege
and rhe attempts to equalize opportuni­ties
regardless of sex. However, we are
still far from having created such a system
fostering individual fulfillment.
To bting full justice and equality to all
our people is the historic assignment of
this generation. The problems will be
resolved not by sporadic violence or
hatred or bitterness from such groups as
the SLA or ethnic hijackers, or police or
CIA suppression, but only by patient,
determined efforts on all our parts.
More than anything else, the contem­porary
demoralization stems from a
severe breakdown in the relationship of
the individual to society.
For a variety of reasons, there has been
increasingly widespread hostility to insti­tutions.
It is difficult, for example, for
many people to understand an increase in
personal taxes while huge organizations
(such as organized religious institutions)
go virtually untaxed.
A relevant call to action would address
itself to that complacent lump of
Americans who fatten on the yield of this
society but never bring themselves to
solve its problems, to powerful people
who rest complacently with both outworn
and useless institutions and to Ameri­cans
srill uncommitted to the values we
profess to cherish as a people.
Magnolia resident urges students to act,
commends those attending rules meeting
Editor, The Plainsman:
I would like to commend those people
who attended the meeting Monday night
in Magnolia Cafeteria concerning the
presenr visitation rules. It was quite a
surprise to me that the meeting was such
a success.
Not only wete half the resident men
present, but even some women from
Noble Hall. The fact that these women
were present helped reduce the feeling
that they were in part responsible for the
reduction of visitation hours.
Their participation also led me to
believe that maybe the women at Auburn
are willing to accept the responsibilities
along with the benefits of Title IX.
I feel those who participated in this
endeavor for a change will gain a new
insight toward themselves and their
position in society. Through participa­tion
on various committees or group
actions, the residents, both men and
women, will become unified—not the
two distinct factions presently enforced
by the Housing Committee.
This solidification will no doubt bring
about an easier acceptance of all the
implications of Title IX. Secondly, an
individual of greater value to our
democratic society will emerge as a result
of working for a change through the
"system."
Knowledge of the implications of
power and influence in our microcosm
(SGA, Board of Trustees, 12-year
governor appointments, etc.) may be
extended to understanding the signifi­cance
of lobby groups, special committees
and the like in our national government.
A person who thinks of himself as an
insignificant individual probably is and
will always be unimportant. Anyone is
capable of criticizing and being indif­ferent,
but it is those who act on their
beliefs that ever accomplish anything.
Finally, should the visitation rules be
changed, the pride in the achievement
through the concettcd efforrs of many
will be difficult to equal.
Knowing there is this and much more
to be gained and nothing to lose, I would
like to see some Auburn enthusiasm
shown not just in the stands, but on
campus.
Keith Jung, 4CAG
Letters to the editor must be re­ceived
by 5 p.m. Sunday at The
Plainsman office, Auburn Union
basement.
street. Persons traveling the streer would
see him and his beer can."
If the matter didn't have such serious
implications, this could really be funny.
Imagine the possible moral degeneration
of someone walking along the stteet and
seeing, of all sinful things, a beer! Bless
their soul.
The Court's definition of "public
place" may be in the letter of the law,
but it is not in the intention.
Moral inference of liquor has nothing
to do with this matter. Excessive
intervention does.
The Courts have gone too fat. Public
place just shouldn't encompass private
property, whether visible from the stteet
ot not.
I do not advocate total freedom in your
front yard. Obscene or obnoxious
behavior that could really have a negative
impact on a passerby should not be
condoned. Good sense and prudent
principles should be the guidelines.
Dissenting Justice Richard L. Jones
called the decision "a classic example of
double standard tolerated by our criminal
law system."
In the minority opinion he stated, "A
common summer weekend in suburban
Alabama is the homeowner mowing his
lawn and quenching his thirst from a can
or bottle of cold beer.
"But these are not the citizens of our
state who are the subject of arrest for
drinking in public. Ir is the John Echols
of our society who get arrested."
H< added, "Taken to its logical
conclusion, the holding of these cases
would even outlaw beer at backyard
barbecues excepr on those estates large
enough to preclude public view."
Backyard barbecues don'r even begin
to rell the story.
Street dances and fraternity parties,
ttaditionally "spirited" rallies, could
cause a lot of trouble.
And lying out in your front yard for
some sun and relaxarion could land a
police record.
All can be raken to its logical
conclusion.
So in the vein of the Public Service
Announcement, let me warn you right
now—either don't drink or do it in the
closet.
Aunt Harriette can help you
Freshman, I hope it's not too late to warn
you about asking if the professor in your
class is Dr. Staff. He isn't because Dr.
Staff doesn't really exist. The "establish­ment"
just puts his name on the
schedules while deciding which professor
can adequately terrify or disillusion a 101
class.
There are some other things you need
to know, too. And more than likely you
weren't introduced to these during
pre-college counseling.
First, there are a lot of basic nicknames
for buildings and campus groups.
Sani-Flush, Fungus Hall and Helley
center will probably become part of your
life soon.
To be " w i t h i t , " you need to know a
name for each fraternity and sorority.
Actually, they are very easy: Baked
Potato Pie, Sigma Nurd, Alpha Grabba
Hoe, etc. You will really be "together"
if you know a song about each—not
necessarily complimentary.,
This may become so much fun that
you spend your Friday and Saturday
nights thinking of names for new
fraternities and sororities like Tri Pi, Re
Kappa Tire, I Eta Pi and Fly Delta Jets.
Then, there's Uncle Harry, more
formally known as President Philpott.
"Kitty" was a name bestowed on Dean
Katherine Cater, one-fourth of the
"establishment" mentioned above.
Regarding other campus matters, don't
pay too much attention to the results of
person stops maliciously dissecting
burn with nicknames, criticisms
Au-and
Susan
Harrison
the tests you drudged through during
pre-college counseling. But, likewise,
don't fail to find out the results. It's nice
to know you can always become a
plumber or a funeral home director if
your present plans disintegrate.
If you're from "the sticks" of a state's
rural section don't scream when someone
offers you a Tic Tac. It's just a breath
mint—not drugs.
Remember that blind dates are, for
some reason, parr of life. And there's
really no need to get upset over a bad one
for it will soon be a source of continuous
laughter.
Since you are probably accustomed to
realtionships with your grandmother and
dear Aunt Harriette, you may be able to
handle relationships with juniors and
seniors.
You see, many of these elderly
students are experiencing the Senior
Syndrome and when this is contracted, a
cynicisms.
Instead, the little parts become com-plementaty
to the whole. The eagle is
more than a bird and the people here in
Auburn are more than students.
When you see students taking pictures
of Samford towet, they ate not necessarily
freshmen sending home souvenirs, nor
are they clock nuts They are very likely
seniors trying to pteserve something on
film that can't really be preserved.
The elderly will probably advise you to
enjoy every minute of your "higher
education." As a member of this age
group, I do advise this.
Every student who leaves Aubutn takes
a little bit of it with him (possibly a
Buildings and Grounds garbage can).
Likewise, every student who comes to
Auburn adds something to it.
Keep in mind that The Plainsman
needs you; so does the Glometata. The
SGA needs you; so does Student Action.
Honoraries and professional organizations
need you; churches and religious centers
need you; and so does the new guy or
girl next doot.
If you remember this, you will be more
than a social secutity numbet at Auburn
University. You may even come to
identify with the T-shirt that states,
"Nowhere else but Aubutn," and
experience the Senior Syndrome early.
It's a nice illness, really.
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The Auburn Plainsman T h u r s . , Oct. 7, 1976 A-6
AU Chef's Club
becomes 'fad'
By J im Hooper
Plainsman Staff Writer
The "new fad" of the
75-76 school year has
become a necessity for
many this 76-77 term.
That necessity is mem­bership
in the Food Ser­vices
Chef's Club, the
one-year old food credit
plan where members
may charge meals at any
of the four University
cafeterias to their ac­counts.
The idea originated at
the University of Tennes­see
a few years ago
where Auburn Food Ser­vices
Director Richard
Wingard was assistant
director of Tennessee's
food program. Their
"Dining Club" became
Auburn University's
"Chef's Club" when Win­gard
took his present
position two years ago.
The actual implemen­tation
of the program
was delayed until June,
1975, to allow time for the
Food Services staff to
familiarize themselves
with the procedures used
in the program.
Only about 200 students
participated in the ex­perimental
run in sum­mer,
1975, but the num­ber
of club members
grew from 2,500 at the
beginning of Fall quarter
last year to 3,200 at the
end of spring quarter.
Summer membership
jumped to 5,000 and is
still growing.
According to Chef's
Club secretary Kathryn
Loughman, the Chef's
Club card is free of
charge since it is "a
service to the students."
Students are given the
option of placing $225 on
deposit to avoid a $15
surcharge if living in a
University dormitory.
Any unused money left in
the account at the end of
the quarter is forfeited to
the University.
Most students choose
to receive monthly state­ments
to be sent either to
their parents' home ad­dress
or their own cam­pus
address, according to
Loughman.
When a student applies
for a card, secretaries
cut a card on the addres-sograph
machine after
assigning the proper
number. Numbers are
composed of six digits
with the first signifying
the classification of 1-
food service employees,
2-faculty and staff, and
4-all other students.
The last number was
added this fall to distin­guish
between original
cards and those used to
replace lost cards. A
zero designates a stu­dent's
first card, a one
means his second card,
and so on.
The number was also
tacked on the end of the
six-digit number to pre­vent
fraudulent use of
lost cards. All illegal
charges turned in are
kept on file in the Chef's
Club office. Investiga­tions
in the past have led
to the prosecution of two
people who illegally used
cards to charge food.
The staff is looking for
ways to lighten the load
of their bookkeeping
work of the 100,000 to
120,000 transactions each
month.
Relief will come this
January with a new disc
type computer, to be
housed in the Chef's Club
office, which will replace
the computer time used
presently on the main
computer. The system
will be much faster and
will eliminate many er­rors
found on the key­punch
system.
Loughman also
stressed all unpaid bills,
if left delinquent for a
number of months, are
turned over to a local
collection agency. Let­ters
are sent to the stu­dent
and parent after the
first two months followed
by phone calls and visits
by the collection agen­cies.
Anyone wishing to get
on the popular eating
bandwagon on campus
should go by 170 Auburn
Union and apply for a
Chef's Club card.
High blood pressure
screening dates set
Community high blood
pressure screening ses­sions
in the Auburn-Ope-lika
area have been an­nounced
by Dr. Sam T.
Coker, professor of phar­macy.
The screening will be
by pharmacy students
under the direction of
Coker.
Sessions will be con­ducted
Oct. 8-9 at the
Village Mall from 2-9
p.m. on Friday and 10
a.m.-5 p.m. on Saturday
and Oct. 16 and 23 in the
Pharmacy building lobby
from 9 a.m.-12 noon.
Other sessions are Oct.
30 at the Downtown Mall
in Opelika from 9 a.m. to
5 p.m. and Nov. 6 at
Glendean Shopping Cen­ter
from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.
According to Coker,
the service is free and
participants will be given
a record of their blood
pressure along with edu­cational
materials.
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Between 630 and 1,000 persons were killed by
Hurricane Liza which ripped across the southern
Baja peninsula last week with winds up to 130 miles
per hour and then struck the Mexican coast. The
storm cracked a 30-foot high earthen d am and nearly
washed away the city of La Paz.
Rhodesian Prime Minister Ian Smith's decision to
yield power to his country's black majority in two
years time makes it appear a race war in that
country and South Africa will be avoided. The
decision was made following Secretary of State
Henry Kissinger's diplomatic mission into southern
Africa. Back in the United States, Kissinger, in an
address to the United Nations, refuted accusations by
the Soviet Union of "gimmickry" and of seeking to
preserve racial oppression in Africa.
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magazines, are now at a standoff, each with 43 per
cent of the vote; 14 per cent of the nation are still
undecided.
The major issues still are questions of illegal
campaign contributions, Carter's "Playboy" inter­view,
the recent racial and obscene comments by
Secretary of Agriculture Earl Butz and his
subsequent resignation. President Ford acknowl­edged
he had gone on golfing trips as the guest of
corporate officials, and Carter admitted he had spent
weekends at a resort owned by the Brunswick Pulp
and Paper Co.
President Ford signed the largest tax revision bill
ever passed through Congress. The Legislature
continues current tax cuts but makes thousands of
other tax law changes that will benefit working
parents, the elderly, farmers and some corporations
such as railroads.
The Ford Motor Company and the United Auto
Workers reached an agreement Monday on a
contract that would end a 20 day old strike, but there
are a few questions left to be answered. The major
concession in the agreement is the future establish­ment
of a four day work week.
Congress overrode President Ford's veto of a bill
providing $56.6 billion to the Departments of Labor
and of Health, Education and Welfare. The President
said he vetoed the bill because it called for nine
billion dollars more than he had recommended.
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A-7 Thurs., Oct. 7, 1976 The Auburn Plainsman
Philpott approves plan
to move B&G complex
By Sarah Ramsey
Plainsman Staff Writer
Auburn President
Harry M. Philpott has
approved a planning pro­ject
relocating the Buil­dings
and Grounds
(B&G) complex on the
outer boundaries of the
campus.
William Guerin, cam­pus
planner and archi­tect,
is responsible for
MONKEYS HAVE A NEW HOME
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Psychology just 'monkeyin' around'
By Roxanne Anderson
Plainsman Staff Writer
There's a lot of monkey
business going on at Au­burn
University, particu­larly
in the Psychology
Department where 10
Rhesus monkeys were
recently donated for its
continuing research pro­gram.
The monkeys were
given when Franklin and
Marshall College in
Pennsylvania decided to
reduce the size of i*-s
overcrowded colony, ac­cording
to Charles M.
Rogers, an animal be-haviorist
and associate
professor of psychology
at Auburn.
Rogers said the mon­keys,
a type of Macaque
or shortlegged ground
monkey, are kept behind
the Psychology Lab in
modified dog runs, which
were once part of the old
AU Veterinary Small
Animal Clinic.
' 'Current experiments
may prove these lower
primates can recall in­formation
received from
different sensory chan­nels,
specifically through
touch and vision, to solve
problems," Rogers said.
Bubba Griffin, 4GPG,
and Jim Hall, 9PG, said
they assist Rogers in a
test which measures the
monkey's sequences of
reactions.
Another experiment
uses color photographs
and common household
objects.
Hall said graduate stu­dent
Dan Malone, 9GPG,
"is ironing out some mi­nor
problems" in a test
which may show mon­keys
can feel for and
identify a hidden object
after seeing a picture of
that object.
Rogers said most of the
monkeys used at the Psy­chology
Lab were bred
from the original colony.
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sister for Lambda Chi fraternity and hails from Montgomery.
Auburn—
20 years ago
Plainsman editor­ial,
by Lenny Payne,
speaks out against
the Boswell Amend­ment.
This is a state
amendment which if
passed would place
unjust property and
literacy require­ments
on blacks.
Appearing in the
"Rice and Old
Shoes" column were
six newlyweds—
Rigas-Coward, Ware-
Goode, Thornton-
Seawell, Tamplin-
Stevens, Johnson-
Roach and McCor-kle-
Hall.
most of the preliminary
planning of the project,
according to Dr. Ben
Lanham, vice president
for administration.
Three sites, including
one on Hiram Lane near
Caroline Draughon Vil­lage
apartments are be­ing
considered, Lanham
said.
The cost of the project
can be determined only
after the site is chosen
and preliminary plans
are made, Lanham said.
No funds are presently
available for the com­plex,
he said.
"There has been a re­quest
made to the legisla­ture
in the past to relo­cate
Buildings and
Grounds out of the aca­demic
area of the cam­pus,"
Guerin said.
The project has been
placed at the top of
Auburn's capital needs
list and will be funded as
soon as the legislature
releases funds for the
University's building
purposes," Lanham said.
Lanham said he hopes
a site will be selected and
tentative plans will be
drawn up within a year.
Relocation of the B&G
complex will relieve traf­fic
and parking problems
on campus and make the
site available for an aca­demic
part of the cam­pus,
Guerin said.
The initial structure,
Guerin said, will be a
large general warehouse.
This building is neces­sary
to centralize and
organize the University's
storage, he said.
"It is practically im­possible
to keep a proper
inventory on what is now
stored."
Presently items are
stored throughout the
campus in all available
storage space, Guerin ex­plained.
"Due to the lack of
proper storage facilities
many items which could
be used later are dis­posed
of," he said.
"But the legislature
has refused to grant the
necessary funding for
constructing such a pro­ject,"
Guerin said.
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The Aiixrn Plainsman Thurs., Oct. 7, 1976 A-8
Council asks
for ABC store
Car tags Photography: Dan Doughtie
three letters followed by a bicentennial
emblem and three numbers. The
name of the county is given at the
bottom of the tag. The new tags will
be in use for five years.
.. New Alabama car tags, which have
a bicentennial look this year, are now
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The numbers have been replaced by
United
AU and UA students form lobby
By Jackie Romine
Assistant News Editor
Students from Auburn
University and the Uni­versity
of Alabama are
now forming a State Stu­dent
Lobby. Gene Os­walt,
3PUB, one of the
initiators of the lobby
group, said a statewide
group would provide a
better bargaining posi­tion
for students and
closer contact.
"Put together all the
representatives in the
Alabama legislature who
live in a city with a
university and they ac­count
for almost 90 per
cent of the legislature,"
Oswalt said.
Oswalt, along with
Buck Ruffin, SGA presi­dent,
and Andy Bolt,
2PL, proposed a bill to
the legislature this sum­mer
requiring a student
voting member on the
boards of trustees at Au­burn
University and tho
University of Alabama.
The bill was killed in a
house committee after
passing the Senate 26-1.
Representative Walter
Owen of Tuscaloosa de­tained
action on the bill
saying it should be
placed before a public
hearing. The day the bill
was scheduled before the
committee Owen re­ceived
eight telegrams
requesting a public hear­ing
on the bill.
"If we had a student
lobby then," Oswalt said,
"we would have been
more prepared to push
the bill."
Oswalt said the lobby­ist
had no contact with
opposition against the
bill.
"We will, for sure, in­troduce
the bill in the
February session."
The statewide lobby is
still in the early stages,
Oswalt said. The stu­dents
involved at Ala­bama
are trying to form
their own student lobby
group. After the UA
group is established, Os­walt
said, they will join
with Auburn in recruiting
interested persons from
colleges aroynd the state.
Oswalt said the lobby­ists
want to strive for
maximum communica­tion
and to be well pre­pared.
"We're not trying to
make junior legislators
out of ourselves. We
want to avoid that," Os­walt
said. "There has to
be a wide consensus. We
won't just jump into any­thing,"
By Lisa Harris
Assistant News Editor
The newly-elected Au­burn
City Council met
Tuesday night and heard
from Mayor Donald Hay-hurst
on Auburn's debt
status, received petitions
opposing liquor sales
downtown and approved
a petition to the Alcoholic
Beverage Control Board
for establishment of an
ABC store in Auburn.
Mayor Hayhurst said
he was optimistic about
Auburn's financial state,
despite a $6-million debt
in general obligation
bonds.
In a first move on
controlling expenditures,
Hayhurst voluntarily eli­minated
his own salary
or will reduce it to a
token $1 per year.
A resolution asking for
the location of an ABC
retail outlet in the city of
Auburn passed by a 5-2
vote with Frances Hale
and Hoyt Warren oppo­sing
it.
Giddens said having a
state store within the city
limits would bring "quite
a bit" of additional re­venue
to the city.
The store would have
to pay a yearly license
fee and some profits
from the store would go
back to the city. The
request now goes to the
state ABC Board.
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A petition opposing
granting of alcohol li­censes
in downtown Au­burn
and "nearby areas"
was presented to the
Council with 138 signa­tures.
The petition asked
the Council to avoid li­censing
liquor or beer-serving
establishments
within the vicinity of
"churches, schools or
business establishments
frequented by families,
children and young teen­agers."
No action is expected
on the license requests
for about a month. A
committee headed by
City Manager Earl Tis-dale
and including the
city engineer, the city
planner and other city
officials is studying the
requests in order to re­commend
ordinances
regulating the sale of
on-premise liquor and
beer.
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A-9 Thurs., Oct. 7, 1976 The Auburn Plainsman
New home
Re-entry into society made easier
By Susan DeShazo
Plainsman Staff Writer
Despite widespread concern that per­sons
confined in prisons and juvenile
homes should be re-integrated effec­tively
into society, there has until
recently been neglect regarding such
re-integration programs for the men­tally
and emotionally disturbed. Now,
since the establishment of Transitional
Homes in Alabama, this area of con­cern
is receiving well-deserved atten­tion.
At the Transitional Home, 300 Opelika
Rd., persons discharged from state
mental hospitals, or persons who need
help but not hospitalization, live to­gether
in an environment designed to
promote personal independence in the
community. The home serves Lee,
Chambers, Russell and Tallapoosa
counties.
According to the Alabama Depart­ment
of Mental Health, "...it is recog­nized
that many people suffering from
mental or emotional disorders should
remain in the community for treat­ment.
This will reduce the amount of
inappropriate and-or unnecessary ad­missions
(to mental health institu­tions)."
The idea for the Transitional Home
evolved after Alabama laws regarding
commitment to mental health hospi­tals
were declared unconstitutional,
according to Louise Everett, director
of the Home.
"Until then, " said Everett, "people
could be committed to the hospitals
without knowing it. Now everybody
under such a consideration must un­dergo
a commitment trial to deter­mine
whether hospitalization is war­ranted."
Everett explained that everyone
already in mental health hospitals
prior to the court decision also under­went
're-commitment trials' to deter­mine
whether their confinement was
necessary. "When the dust settled,"
she said, "a lot of people were
released — maybe as many as a few
hundred across Alabama. Many were
sent home and advised to keep in touch
with their local mental health centers.
Some, though, didn't have a home to
go to."
In consideration of these cases,
funds were allocated to the State
Department of Pensions and Securities
under HEW's Title XX to alleviate the
problem. According to Everett, the
idea for a transitional home came
from the state and was set in motion
last April under the East Alabama
Mental Health - Mental Retardation
Board.
The Transitional Home also serves
as a pre-care center for persons who
have some emotional or mental
disturbance which might be treated
without hospitalization. "Hopefully we
might prevent a commitment," said
Everett.
The Transitional Home, which can
house up to ten clients, includes two
connected houses with accomodations
for both men and women. While there
each client receives $30 per month
from the $100 thousand allocated to the
home each year from the Department
of Pensions and Securities. In addition,
said Everett, the funds cover all
overhead salaries and pay for gro­ceries
and other supplies required by
the Home.
Besides Everett, the staff includes
Phyllis Blow, bookkeeper and secreta­ry
; Bernice Jackson, community coor­dinator;
John Acker, home manager;
and Tommy Farr, activity director
and relief home manager. Together
they evaluate each client individually
and establish his level of integration in
the community. Then they outline
goals for treatment and effective ways
to achieve each goal.
"It's called a home for a reason,"
stated Everett, "Our goal is to get
these people to be more independent in
the community. That includes partici­pation
in keeping up a home, and
things like shopping and getting
around in town."
Everett said many people who leave
mental hospitals have been removed
from everyday activities like cooking
and yard care for long periods of time
and need re-instruction in such areas.
Under staff supervision and teaching,
participation is the main emphasis at
the Transitional Home.
"Everybody helps out with the
cooking and housework," explained
Blow. "We have laundry facilities and
everyone keeps up with his own wash.
Not having to rely on someone else is
important here."
Recreation and social involvement
are another important consideration at
the Transitional Home. "We have a
constant turnover in activity," stated
Everett. "We want to do what the
people who live here are interested'in
at the time. Right now bingo is the big
thing; next week it might be some­thing
else."
Center moving ahead
Photography: Susan DeShazo
RESIDENTS OF THE TRANSITIONAL, HOME
.Former mental patients prepare for return to community life
By Kim Roberts
Plainsman Staff Writer
Plans for a campus
International Center are
now through the prelim­inary
stages and pro­gress
is moving at a
steady pace. An archi­tectural
sketch for the
new center has been
drawn and approved.
The next and most im­portant
step is to raise
the estimated $400,000 re­quired
to meet building
and furnishing costs.
The Center, which will
house approximately 32
foreign and American
students, will be located
at College and Miller
Streets at the present site
of the Art Annex Build­ing.
Biggin Hall will
serve as the new home
for the Art Department.
The International Cen­ter
will become a social
Men's dorm director appointed
By Jackie Romine
Assistant News Editor
The SGA Student Sen­ate
Monday night ap­proved
a new director of
men's dormitories and a
career awareness pro­gram.
Duncan Powell, 4FAA,
resident advisor in Mag­nolia
Dormitory, was ap­proved
as director of
men's dormitories.
Powell replaces Jack
Dean, 4GPO, who recent­ly
resigned the position.
Career Explo, ap­proved
by the Senate, is
a program designed to
enable students to learn
more about opportunities
available in their respec­tive
degrees. The pro­gram
is scheduled for
Jan. 24 to Jan. 27, 1977,
with lecture times from 6
to 9:30 p.m.
Each speaker will be
requested to explain the
education and experience
obtained prior to his job,
the actual steps and cir­cumstances
leading up to
his job and the pros and
cons of his job.
Stanaland says responsibility,
blame are Council's duties
By Maureen Drost
Associate Editor
"Each Councilman
should be ready to as­sume
responsibility and
not blame something on
someone else. It is
inappropriate to hide be­hind
the mayor, the city
manager or anybody
else," said outgoing City
Council President Eu­gene
Stanaland, advising
the new City Council.
Stanaland, who is also
associate professor and
department head of eco­nomics,
said he was in a
"unique position" as city
council president be­cause
of the revenue
sharing and recreation
money available to the
Council.
The approximately $4-
$5 million in revenue
sharing funds was used
for new Auburn buildings
and community develop­ment,
according to Stan­aland.
The new City Hall,
Police Department, Ani­mal
Shelter and some
new restrooms at Duck
Samford Park as well as
planning for water and
sewer services for those
who do not have them
were the result of these
funds, Stanaland said.
Stanaland said Auburn
is unique in its handling
of the money because it
placed the money into a
fund which will be paid
into by Auburn residents
to maintain the amount
in the fund.
The recreation money
totaling $900,000, accor­ding
to Stanaland, was
used for the new recrea­tion
center, upgrading of
city baseball fields and
the purchase of the muni­cipal
golf course with
Opelika.
A junior high school
swimming pool and 10
city tennis courts under
construction are also due
to the recreation money,
said Stanaland.
The overhauling of the
personnel system and the
liquor pouring and ani­mal
control licenses
granted are other major
highlights of the past
council term, Stanaland
feels.
Though Stanaland said
he received "quite a
sense of achievement"
by working on the city
council, he said there
were disappointments
also.
Stanaland said the
council failed to get as
much out of the money as
possible, citing the fail­ure
to get another fire
department and a main­tenance
building.
The recent cam­paigning
with its hints at
secret meetings of the
council, according to
Stanaland, was unfair to
the former council. Stan­aland
said the state­ments
were a good "poli­tical
ploy."
' 'I just hated that some
people thought we were
dishonest," Stanaland
said, adding people can
disagree with the former
council, but people can­not
criticize it for trying.
' 'I don't know what the
recent vote indicates. It
may show fault with the
system. People always
decide in their best inter­est,"
said Stanaland.
Stanaland said he has
no other future political
plans. He said he plans
to "adjust to the time
difference" and enjoy the
freedom of not having to
worry about council
problems."
Stanaland has enough
to keep him busy, he
said. In addition to his
department responsibil­ity
and giving speeches
as public relations for
Auburn, he is a member
of some Montgomery
committees and works
with continuing educa­tion.
It was an honor, Stana­land
said, to have an
effect on people's lives
and an education to be­come
aware through the
years "how government
works and what it costs
to provide a lot of things
most of us just take for
granted."
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Faculty and Staff
Officers of each school
will be responsible for
selecting the speakers.
In other actions the
senate approved an ad
hoc committee to be se­lected
by Vice President
Al Thompson to review
Auburn student radio sta­tion
WEGL.
Rusty Parker, 3PM,
off-campus senator, re­commended
forming the
committee because, "A
lot of students are not
satisfied."
Parker said he "would
like to see what type of
programing would be
successful."
The senators appointed
to the committee are
John Bush, 3PL; Tavia
Copenhaver, 3PT; Steve
R. Forehand, 3GED; Joe
McEnerney, 6BY; Rusty
Parker, 3PM; and Stuart
Patton, 2PPY.
The Senate tabled until
next week's meeting a
motion by George King,
4IE, requesting an in­crease
in the retail price
of imitation leather invi­tations
from $1.25 to
$1.64. King said the
increase is necessary be­cause
of an increase in
the wholesale prices.
Dennis Schilling, 4PB,
off-campus senator, said
the motion should be
tabled to allow senators
time to investigate how
profits from invitation
sales are divided.
King said these profits
are divided between him­self
as director, the SGA
and business expenses.
Schilling said he had
discussed the matter ear­lier
with Dean of Student
Affairs James E. Foy,
who recommended
tabling the motion.
According to King, this
week's delay could cause
these invitations not to be
ordered in time for fall
graduates.
Because of confusion
on parliamentary proce­dures,
the Senate, though
wishing to reconsider
King's motion, was un­able
to vote on the mea­sure
again.
center for all foreign
students on campus. "It
will be a real valuable
cultural exchange for
both foreign and Amer­ican
students," said Dr.
Richard Amacher, presi­dent
of the Auburn Inter­national
Center.
Many social and edu-ucational
functions will
take place at the new In­ternational
Center some
of which will be dances,
international dinners,
film presentations and
lectures.
Excuse given
for pep rally
The Wreck Tech pa­rade
and pep rally has
been scheduled for next
Wednesday at 3:30 p.m.,
according to Jeanette
Wilson, 4SSS, SGA direc­tor
of spirit.
Because of the rein­statement
of mandatory
attendance for freshman
and sophomore level
courses, absences must
be cleared with profes­sors.
Dr. Taylor Littleton,
vice president for aca­demic
affairs, announced
that since Wreck Tech is
an approved University
function, excuses will be
granted.
Students are requested
to consult with the pro­fessor
before Wed­nesday.
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^TheAuburn Plainsman Thurs., Oct. 7. 1976 A-10
Whatley denies
he's anti-Auburn
By Tom Forsyth
I Plainsman Staff Writer
| Charges that State
• Representative Charles
Whatley has been anti-
Auburn don't settle light­ly
with the outspoken Lee
.County dairy farmer.
, A two year legislative
; veteran, Whatley asserts
jwith a touch of defiance
"that he has not attempted
'to defeat a single piece of
[Auburn local legislation
•in the statehouse. He
;:claims to have pushed
(measures beneficial to
'. Auburn students when
pother Lee County repre­sentatives
wouldn't take
; a stand.
'. Representative What-
!;ley, an Auburn graduate
'•in dairy science, spon­sored
the Landlord-Ten­ant
bill pushed by the
Auburn Student Govern­ment
last year to regu­late
the return of secu­rity
deposits.
; But Whatley freely ad­mits
to having blocked
several local bills by
Auburn Representative
Pete Turnham in the last
legislative session.
"Absolutely true," he
said. "One was to set up
a recreation authority
and a parking authority
;for Auburn. Another was
Jto change council elec­tions
to staggered terms.
•For various reasons, he
.'(Turnham) was against
;my bill. Well, I took
appropriate action a-gainst
his."
Controversy is nothing
new to Whatley. Last
iyear the colorful legisla­t
o r was embroiled in a
-dispute with the Auburn
Water Improvement
'Commission (AWIC)
pver his dumping of
waste from his dairy into
Chewacla Creek. Or­dered
to desist from the
practice due to concern
pver the strong odor and
taste of Auburn water,
Whatley coined a new
Jvord for the . AWIX,;,
^Damnenvironmeritalists-
|ust like damn
Yankee used to be, and
still is."
Whatley's legislation
would have relocated 5
per cent of the $2.5 mil­lion
in city and occupa­tional
taxes raised an­nually
by Auburn and
iOpelika to the county
[school system. What­ley's
district is predom­inantly
rural Lee county.
In an effort to secure
passage of his own bill,
Whatley prevented the
House Local Legislation
committee on which he
sits from acting on the
Turnham measures for
Auburn.
After the defeat of his
tax legislation at the end
of the session, Whatley
ceded to the wishes of the
other four Lee County
representatives, thus al­lowing
final passage of
the Auburn bills.
"I didn't feel it appro­priate
for Auburn citi­zens
to suffer just be­cause
I didn't get the
legislation I wanted,"
Whatley responded in ex­plaining
that deadlocking
tactics were not in oppo­sition
to the bills or to
Auburn.
"I could have killed
those bills if I were
against Auburn. But
every single bill pro­posed
by the Auburn de­legation
was passed and
signed by the governor.
Absolutely."
An "anti-Auburn"
image wasn't helped by
what he contends was a
misrepresentation of his
stand of the one-mile off
campus ban on liquor
sales. What raises What­ley's
ire is that he says
he hasn't had a stand.
According to Whatley,
the" issue never came
before the state legisla­ture,
yet local media
charged him as being a
proponent of the ban.
The state Supreme Court
has since overturned the
one-mile law.
"Evidently some folks
think I blocked it. Well
we never had the bill in
the legislature...And they
said I killed it! Paul
Davis;, though,
has a pretty good reputa­tion
for not knowing what
the facts are," Whatley
said.
Paul Davis, editor of
the Auburn Bulletin,
could not recall making
editorial comment on
Whatley's role in the
liquor issue. "He is still
hacked off over the co­verage
of hearings be­fore
the AWIC on the
waste problem last
year."
"Personally, it suits
me fine to serve liquor on
campus to keep students
from driving off to get it.
They do it at LSU and
Florida," he said.
Whatley's clear con­cern,
however, is for the
rural country he repre­sents.
His frequent
claim is that "the city
folks have been taxing us
without representation."
He now stands for the
Home Rule Proposition
to give taxing power to
Lee County.
While his district in­cludes
a small area of
Auburn, Whatley can be
counted on to continue his
battle for rural Lee Coun­ty
even if against his
Auburn colleagues in the
legislature. He remains
unconvinced that the
countians have received
their fair share.
Besides, as Whatley
says in his fiesty style,
"That's where my votes
are."
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Two bulls seem to be contemplating game strategy
as they eye a basketball which was rolled into then-pen
at the Large Animal Clinic. The duo's stall was
recently covered with a new flooring hoped to be
better than the old wood shavings - remnants from
the old Memorial Coliseum floor currently being
replaced. Dr. Thomas Powe of the Large Animal
Clinic said the clinic is not assured of receiving all
the remnants from the coliseum floor because much
has already been discarded. Max Bahose 1PV and
Brian Hilson 3CJ were the "lucky" two who, after
four hours of scrapping and prying, retrieved the
original AU insignia once centered on the basketball
court.
AU union roc
repair work
nearly finishe
By Jackie Romine
Assistant News Editor
The Buildings ant
Grounds department has
been repairing a leaking
Auburn Union roof this
summer.
"We are in the process
of winding that up," E.T.
Williams, superintendent
of maintenance and oper­ations,
said, "We should
be finished in the next
week or so providing it
doesn't rain."
Williams said the roof
was not damaged nor
was it worn out.
"When the original
building was built in 1952,
expansion joints in the
roof were not satisfac­tory,"
Williams said.
When additions were
added no extension joints
were installed," he said,
"causing a leak in the
section of the roof above
the SGA offices.
"So we have added two
extension joints where
there were none and re­placed
a section of the
roof next to the other
expansion joints," said
Williams.
Williams said he had
no idea of the cost of the
project.
"When you tear into an
existing building you
cannot be sure how much
it will cost," he said.
"We just did what we
had to do to get it done."
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A-ll Tlmrg., Oct. 7. 1976 The Auburn Plainsman
Cafeteria
Locations:
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ALUMNI CAFETERIA
Alumni Hall on South College St.
M-Th, 7 a.m.-8 p.m., F, until 1:30 p.m.
Sunday Buffet 11 a.m.-1 p.m.
Manager: Mary Beth Prather
TERRELL CAFETERIA
Terrell Hall on P. 0. Davis Dr.
M-Th, 6:30 a.m.-6:15 p.m.,
F, until 1:30 p.m.
Manager: Peggie Webster
WAR EAGLE CAFETERIA
Auburn Union on West Thach Ave.
M-F, 6:30a.m.-8p.m., Sat., 8a.m.-8p.m.
Sunday 11 a.m.-1 p.m.
Manager: Inez Tucker
MAGNOLIA CAFETERIA
Magnolia Hall
M-Th, 6:30 a.m.-6:15 p.m.,
F, until 11:30 p.m.
Manager: Carol Dillard
THE FILLING STATION
Terrell Hall
M-Th, 9 p.m.-midnight,
Sun, 6 p.m.-midnight
THE WAR EAGLE GRILLE
Auburn Union
Normal cafeteria hours
Sunday 5-7:30 p.m.
THE KITCHEN
Quad Center (Women's Dining Hall)
Sun.-F,5 p.m. until midnight
THE QUIET APPETITE
Magnolia Hall
M-Sat. 9 p.m. until midnight
Sun. 6 p.m. until midnight
Auburn
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Looking for the right food plan?
Try Auburn's only
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No, we are not a bank, but we do have a variety
of services which aren't available anywhere else in
Auburn. First there is our meal contract plan. Meal
contracts offer unlimited seconds and are non-inflationary.
Contract meals are served at Alumni,
Terrell North and Magnolia Cafeterias and the prices are
non-inflationary for the quarter.
Secondly, there is our charge plan,
available in all our cafeterias.
Known as the Chefs Club, this
plan offers a deposit option
or monthly billing. And of course,
what good FULL—SERVICE
establishment will not accept cash?
Not us, we'll accept cash at our
cafeterias and all students, faculty
and staff are welcome to dine with us
Just Phone
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826-5785
(JPUL)
This number offers daily lunch and dinner menus.
Our FULL—SERVICE restaurants
aren't hard to find. In fact, we have
eight branches, including short order
locations in Magnolia and Terrell
Halls and in the Union.
FULL—SERVICE restaurants are
hard to find anywhere. In Auburn
we're the only ones. And besides
our food is as good as our services.
So why not join us? If you have any
questions concerning any of our
meal services come by or call us at:
Auburn University Food Services,
Donahue Drive, in Auburn;
telephone 826-4067. Whatever
service you select, you can be
sure it's the best we have to offer.
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Tei.6 PHONE •X w ^ . i , /^ Mentors
Appointed to 'reaffirm student importance'
Deputy registrar bill
led by Sen. Ted Little
By John Carvalho
Managing Editor
Lee County residents
will be able to register to
vote any working day
they wish, thanks to a bill
passed by the Alabama
State Legislature.
The bill, sponsored by
State Sen. Ted Little of
Auburn, provides for a
permanent deputy voting
registrar under the pro­bate
judge, who will be
empowered to handle
most aspects of voter
registration including ta­king
applications and ad­ministering
oaths.
"I was primarily con­cerned
with the long lines
of people waiting to re­gister
to vote," said Lit-
WEGL power
restoration set
By Leslie Blackmon
Plainsman Staff Writer
The Auburn campus
radio station, WEGL, has
been operating on 60 per
cent power since its
transmitter was struck
by lightning this sum­mer.
Full power should
be restored this week.
The transmitter was
purchased from the Spar­ta
Corporation and was
still under warranty at
the time of the accident.
There was a dispute as to
who was responsible for
paying the damages.
Since the company does
not insure against da­mage
by nature, WEGL
is paying approximately
$300 for repairs plus ship­ping
expenses.
Money from the regu­lar
budget will be used.
No extra allotments have
been made to help meet
these extra expenses.
David Paulson, station
manager, said, "We'll
have enough money to
see us through the year,
but a $300 hunk does
hurt. It will definitely put
a strain on us."
The transmitter was
purchased when WEGL
made its initial power
change from 10 to 380
watts. This increased its
power radius from two to
10 miles. The transmitter
is actually 250 watts
strong, which converts to
380 watts in air waves.
The power shortage has
had a relatively small
effect on broadcasting,
affecting only those list­eners
on the periphery of
the radius.
Since its purchase the
transmitter has been pla­gued
with several pro­blems.
There was evi­dently
a fault in the
fail-safe system, which
should have shut off the
transmitter before the
lightning struck.
By Christmas this year
WEGL hopes to go ster­eo.
The cost will be just
under $3,000. Power out­put
of the station would
be unaffected by this
change.
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tie. In the past, the Lee
County Board of Regis­t
r a r s only met two days a
month to register voters.
"Whether it be in Lee
County or any county,
whether you're buying
car tags or registering to
vote, lines are going to
discourage people," said
Little. He added he
thought more people
would be able to register
to vote when the full-time
registrar begins work.
The bill will take effect
Jan. 18, 1977 when Pro­bate
Judge-elect Hal
Smith takes office.
Smith said he had not
decided who the appoint­ed
registrar would be but
added it would probably
be a clerk in the circuit
court office.
" I 'm proud of the bill,"
added Little. "It's going
to take a load off the
Board of Registrars and
make voter registration
a much more workable
process."
Although many metro­politan
counties employ
permanent voter regis­t
r a r s , Little said, "The
overwhelming majority
of counties don't."
Although the Auburn
University SGA Student
Lobby did not take an
active hand in promoting
passage of the bill, Little
said, "I knew they were
aware of the bill because
they work so closely with
me."
Little added he did not
encounter " a whole lot of
problems" in passing the
bill.
By Leslie Blackmon
Plainsman Staff Writer
History classes with
hundreds of students,
mile-long lines at lunch
and the feeling of being
Lr'tiii-sCormi'd !' John
Doe to 418-64-265H over­night—
uii are part of
being an Auburn student.
In fact they symbolize
Auburn's tremendous
growth over the past
iew ye<xis.
Auburn is the state's
largest university with
indications of continued
growth. This year's
freshman class is signifi­cantly
larger than thost;
of past years. University
officials welcome such
growth, but at the same
time, they express con-conern
in certain areas,
particularly that of
teacher-student re­lations.
Auburn has always
been noted for the close
relations enjoyed by stu­dents
and their profes­sors.
The past 10 years
have seen such a pheno­menal
increase in enroll­ment
that the degree of
personal contact has fal­len
sharply.
Concern over these de­velopments
led to the
formation of the Commit­tee
on Institution Re­newal.
Its purpose is to
examine the problems at
hand and to develop pro­grams
to solve them.
Faculty surveys con­ducted
by the committee
snowed most professors
feel the freshman year is
the most critical time of
a student's college ca­reer.
The committee's
answer to this problem
was the development of a
program for freshmen
called "Mentor.'
. Dr. Taylor Littleton,
vice-president of aca­demic
affairs, summed
up the purpose of the
Mentor Program when
he said, "We hope to
reaffirm, through this ex­perimental
program,
that the welfare of the
individual student is still
of primary importance at
Auburn University."
Some 150 freshmen,
chosen at random, will
be participating in Men­tor
this fall. They will
take a sequence of three
courses under the close
guidance of a senior pro­fessor,
or "mentor." de­fined
as a trusted coun­selor
or guide.
The sequence, which
will give students an op­portunity
to discuss their
early college experi­ences,
includes a one-hour
course in fall and
spring quarters. Stu­dents
meet with their
mentors in assigned
groups of no more than
12 or 13 persons.
A three-hour credit
course will he taken du­ring
the winter quarter.
Theoc cuui aes are espe­cially
designed and
taught by outstanding
professors. They will
stress the connection be­tween
scientific and hu­manistic
subjects studied
during the freshman
year.
"Many students do not
fully grasp the connec­tion
between certain re­quired
liberal arts cour­ses
and the more practi­cal
areas of study," Lit­tleton
said. "We are
trying to give the student
a clearer understanding
of these courses as they
relate to society."
The Mentors for this
year are Jack Black­burn,
dean of education;
Norman Brittin, lan­guage
professor; Grady
Cox, management asst.
professor; Charles Dar­ling,
pharmacy assoc.
professor; and Clarke
Holloway, anatomy and
histology professor and
department head.
Other mentors include
Edith Miller, Chemistry
professor; Jane Moore,
Health, P.E. and Recrea­tion
assoc. professor;
James Quagliano, botany
and microbiology profes­sor;
and William Smith,
speech communication
professor.
i ne Mentors have been
given no procedural out­line.
The program is a
flexible one to be carried
out as the mentor and his
students see fit. If the
program is a success,
there will be a gradual
expansion, so that more
students may take part
in it.- It is hoped the
program will eventually
serve all the students of
Auburn University.
Brayan Truelove, bo­tany
and microbiology
professor; Thomas War-bington,
foreign lan­guage
asst. professor;
and Richard Warner,
counselor education as­soc.
professor.
Large classes appa­rently
are here to stay
and there probably will
still be times students
feel they have eight num­bers
branded across
their foreheads.
But Auburn has made
a start toward recap­turing
the personal qual­ity
of instruction and
ritt^nti^M tn the indivi­duality
of each student.
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The Auburn Plainsman
Games People Play
Defense pleases coach
Photography: Dan Doughtia
UNDERWOOD'S DEFENSE STEADDLY IMPROVING
.Tigers accomplished 14 of 15 goals coach set before game
By Jim Hooper
Plainsman Sportswriter
"The Gong Show" had an Im­promptu
performance in Jackson,
Miss., last Saturday afternoon.
The Ole Miss offense got gonged.
The Auburn defense swung the
mallet with a 10-0 beating of the
Rebels.
The Mississippi game was a
defensive battle in contrast to the
previous week's 38-28 win over
Tennessee, with the only scores
coming off the foot of Neil O'Do-noghue
late in the first quarter
with a 44 yard field goal, and the
feet, of Phil Gargis as he scored
near the end of the game on a
five-yard touchdown run. Ole
Miss never penetrated the Tiger
30.
Defensive Coordinator P.W. Un­derwood
had nothing but praise for
his troops after their first shutout
since the 21-0 whipping of Tennes­see
two years ago. "There was a
lot of heart in that game Satur­day,"
he said.
The Auburn defense makes a
weekly practice of setting out 15
objectives before each game.
Against the Rebels, they met all
but one of the goals. Some of these
objectives include shutting out the
opponent, holding the other team
to under 250 yards total offense,
giving up less than 14 points and
allowing no mental mistakes.
Underwood said, "This was the
first time we've ever come close to
fulfilling all 15 objectives." His
defensive unit came close enough
last week to present their coach
with his first shutout victory.
Defensive end Jeff McCollum
was named defensive player of the
week for his performance against
theRebs. He had five big plays. A
"big play" includes tackles resul­ting
in a two-yard or more loss,
causing or recovering a fumble,
intercepting an errant pass or
knocking down a pass at the line of
scrimmage. McCollum also led
the team in tackles with nine and
had two assists.
He and twelve of his defensive
teammates were graded with a
"winning performance," which is
the player's overall performance
focused on technique, pursuit to
the ball, tackles, interceptions and
fumbles. In previous games the
Tiger defense graded an average
of four winning performances as
opposed to the recent 13.
Other players cited by Under­wood
were defensive end Joe
Shaw, who recovered the fumble
that set up Auburn's only touch­down
and had three tackles, line­backer
Kim Sellers who contribu­ted
five solo tackles to the victory
and freshman linebacker Freddie
Smith, who had two tackles for
losses, six assists and a fumble
recovery in the waning moments
of the game.
In looking forward to Saturday's
game with Memphis State, Under­wood
called the Memphis Tigers
"an established team that strives
on whipping conference teams.
They whipped Ole Miss and beat
us last year 31-20," he said.
"The offense did a super job
against Tennessee two weeks ago
and we won," Underwood said.
"We did a super job last week
against Ole Miss and were still
able to enjoy the win." Memphis State holds grudge-match potential
By Michael Forchette
Assistant Sports Editor
Auburn's football team will take
another trip this weekend as they
head to Memphis, Tenn., to chal­lenge
the Memphis State Tigers in
an evening battle in the Liberty
Bowl on Saturday.
The Memphis State game should
be special to any players, coaches
or fans who can remember last
year's game with State.
The Tigers breezed into Jordan-
Hare Stadium and captured a
stunning 31-20 victory over the
War Eagles in front of a crowd of
more than 55,000.
The game was a disheartening
loss for the War Eagles, and it
proved to be a preview of things to
come for last year's team.
Even though Saturday's game
will be only the second meeting
between the two teams, the contest
is already a potential grudge
game.
The incentive for the War Eag­les
to beat Memphis State is fairly
obvious. A victory in Memphis
would be the third straight for
Auburn, and it would be the first
non-conference victory for the War
Eagles this season. Plus, a defeat
like last year's at the hands of the
Memphis team is not that easily
forgotten in War Eagle Country.
Auburn's veteran defensive end
Jeff McCollum expressed his feel­ings
about the rematch with Mem­phis
State. "Well, I think that we
have a score to settle with them
after last year because they
messed things up for us," McCol­lum
said. "I think we are more
together as a team this year, and
we will take them more seriously
this year than we did last year. It
will be a whole new ball game."
As for Memphis State, it is
always a feather in an independent
team's hat to knock off a confer­ence
power, especially an SEC
team. Memphis State has already
chopped down Ole Miss, 21-18, and
Auburn is the next SEC team in
line for the Tigers.
Another reason is that this is
only the second year for Richard
Williamson, Memphis State's head
coach. Last year's win over
Auburn was his first victory as a
college coach. Auburn should also
be a big foe for Williamson
because he has deep ties with the
University of Alabama.
He had seven years experience
as an assistant coach at Alabama
under Bear Bryant. He also
played under Bryant from 1959
through 1962.
In fact, in his senior year as a
wide receiver he caught sopho­more
Joe Namath's first touch­down
pass. In that same year he
was an All-SEC selection and
named the team's MVP on offense.
Veteran offensive guard Dave
Ostrowski said he thinks the Aub­urn-
Memphis State game is al­ready
a grudge match for the War
Eagles because of the loss to them
last year.
"I can't help but to hold a
grudge against them," said Os­trowski.
"The loss shocked every­body,
and I think it destroyed us. ,
Losing the first game of the season
to a team that we were heavily
favored over just blew us apart.
We never really got over it
because we never regained the
confidence we lost in that game,"
Ostrowski said.
"I promise you that we won't
underestimate them this year.
Other factors that will help us beat
them are that we have a winning
streak on the line, and we also
have confidence and momentum
going for us," he said.
Ostrowski said coaches say it is
not good to hold a grudge against a
player or a team, but he said he
thinks that even the Auburn coach­es
have a bit of revenge in mind
for the Memphis State game.
As Ostrowski said, Auburn has a
great deal of confidence and mo­mentum
going for them, but the
War Eagles will meet a very sound
team in the Memphis State Tigers.
Auburn head coach Doug Bar-field
said he knows Memphis State
has a fine football team. "Auburn Dedicated
will have their hands full next
week," he said. "If Auburn keeps
up its kicking game, we will have
a good chance to beat Memphis
State."
Memphis State opened its season
with a victory over Ole Miss and
now has a 3-1 record, losing only to
a fine Tulsa team, 16-14, in Okla­homa.
Memphis State has yet to
lose at home this season, and the
Auburn game will be this year's
Homecoming for Memphis State.
Assistant football coach Joe Con-nally
was in charge of scouting
films for Memphis State, and he
said they operate out of the
I-formation and mix in the split
backfleld set.
' 'The first thing you notice about
Memphis State is their overall
team speed," Connally said.
"They have two excellent running
backs who are returning starters.
Last year their quarterback, Kip-py
Brown, hurt us, but this year
sophomore Lloyd Patterson has
replaced Brown.
"Patterson reminds you a lot of
Conredge Holloway of Tennessee a
few years ago. First, he is very
quick. He throws well on the run,
but the thing he does best is turn a
bad play into a big gain. When his
receivers are covered, he keenly
runs to daylight for big yardage.
"Memphis State also has a very
strong defense, and they mix up
their defenses well. Last year
they hurt us with a lot of stunts,
but since they are so strong this
year they have not stunted as
much as they used to.
"Also, they do a good job on all
phases of their kicking game, and
it is hard to find any weaknesses
about them.
"After two straight SEC victor­ies,
we will again have to come up
with a fine performance to win,"
Connally reported.
After Auburn's two consecutive
conference win, 38-28 over Tennes­see
and i0-6 over Ole Miss, it is
hard to tell which aspect of the
game is Auburn's strongest asset.
Against Tennessee, Auburn's of­fense
was unstoppable; and
against Ole Miss the defense was
impenetrable.
Auburn's defensive coordinator
P. W. Underwood said what con­cerns
him most about Memphis
State is "whipping them."
After seeing the game films,
Underwood said he thinks Mem­phis
State poses the biggest threat
to Auburn with Patterson's ability
to throw the ball well.
Underwood said he doesn't fore­see
any personnel changes In the
defense for Saturday's game. And
he said no one on the defense was
seriously injured in the Ole Miss
game. "We suffered the normal
bumps and bruises, but I don't see
anyone missing the game," he
said.
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