1978-02-23 The Auburn Plainsman

              The Auburn Plainsman
Volume 84 Number 16 Thursday, February 83,1978 Auburn, Ala. 36830
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By Dave White
Plainsman Staff Writer
Auburn University is illegally
operating its central campus
heating plant, according to Ala­bama
Air Pollution Control Com­mission
figures.
Physical Plant Director Paul
Kearney said he would withhold
comment until he received more
information from the Commission.
The state Commission's esti­mates
indicate that Auburn's cen­tral
smokestack will have emitted
about 116 tons of black soot, or
particulate matter, before the cen­tral
heating plant switches from
During coal to burning gas in the
spring.
The estimates, calculated by
Commission Director Jim Cooper
Friday, indicate the stack is and
has been emitting an average of
about 107 pounds of particulate
matter per hour, according to
figures based on section 4.3 of the
Air Pollution Control Commission
rules and regulations.
Auburn's central smokestack
emissions are possibly violating
the visible emissions regulations,
section 4.1 also.
Section 4.1 prohibits dark gray
stack emissions, (60 percent opaci­ty),
for more than three minutes in
an hour-long period without the
approval of the Commission direc­tor.
Cooper said no such approval has
been given Auburn University.
"I suspect Auburn University
will have to spend some money,"
said Cooper about possible manda­tory
clean up operations.
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He said smoke samples from the
stack must be made to legally
confirm the calculated emission
violations. He said the Commission
would be "perfectly happy" to do
the four to five-hour long stack test.
If and when a stack test confirms
the agency's pollution estimate,
Cooper said the smokestack opera­tion
by Auburn University "will be
illegal, and we will take action."
"It's our job to secure compli­ance,"
said Cooper. If the Commis­sion
starts legal action after a
stack test, he said, "compliance
isn't a choice Auburn Univeristy
will have."
Compliance would probably
mean installing control equipment
on top of the stack.
A separator capable of cleaning
up Auburn's main smokestack
emissions costs about $27,000, ac­cording
to figures given yesterday
by Terry Bartlett of Atlanta's
Cadre Corp., an air pollution con­trol
company.
Kearney said the Physical Plant
spent $109,000 on boiler work last
year.
Noncompliance with an emis­sions
cleaning order could result in
a maximum fine of $10,000 per day.
Kearney said his short-term plan
for cutting stack pollution included
fixing a device that blows larger
soot particles back for burning,
further training of boiler workers,
conducting a long range engine­ering
study on Auburn's heating
operations, and making sure stock­piled
coal stays dry.
The heating plant coal supply got
wet last month, resulting in
blacker, heavier soot emission.
Kearney said he didn't think
major drops in pollution levels
could result from these actions by
next winter.
The Physical Plant director had
said he would hesitiate to "pair
space age technology with horse
and buggy technology" in install­ing
a modern pollution control
device to the central heating plant
smokestack.
One of the heating plant's three
boilers was installed in 1947. The
other two boilers were installed in
1950.
Boiler improvements were made
last year when the refractors in the
coal burning areas were relined.
„ The Commission's estimate of
the smokestack's seasonal 116 tons
of particulate emissions was based
on boiler efficiency, stack height,
amount of coal burned and the ash
composition of the coal.
Kearney said the central heating
plant will burn about 2,600 tons of
coal this winter.
Buddy Graves, assistant director
of Physical Plant, said the coal's
ash composition is 6.7 percent.
Graves said the plant will not
switch from coal back to natural
gas "for at least a few weeks," and
possibly longer if cold weather
continues.
The 107 pound per hour average
pollution level was computed by
figuring 2,600 tons of coal burned
over a 90-day period, allowing coal-fired
operations until late March.
Housing requests closed
By John Carvalho
Editor
Housing applications for in­coming
freshmen have not been
taken since Feb. 15, according to
Dean of Student Life Katherine
Cater.
"Admissions are up from this
time last year by more than 8
percent," Cater said. "Because
A uburn readies for 'future shock9
By Becki Thomas
Assistant News Editor
Preparing for a possible "future
shock," campus planners are now
discussing a long range master
plan for the University compiled by
the consulting Harland, Bartholo­mew
and Associates of Birming­ham.
The plan focuses on long-range
goals, including traffic and park­ing,
housing and academic space
needs. Top priorities in the plan
include a permanent pedestrian
mall, engineering, adult educa­tional
and vocational facilities and
relocation of the Physical Plant.
According to Dr. Ben T. Lanham,
administrative vice president, 1985
enrollment is expected to reach
19,500 and will increase to 21,500 by
1995.
To alleviate traffic congestion, a
pedestrian mall will be esta­blished.
William Guerin, campus
planner and architect, said the
tentative boundaries extend across
Thach and down Mell Street.
Duncan Drive, along the west side
of Haley Center may remain open,
he said.
Lanham said, "Other than emer­gency
and delivery vehicles, no
traffic will be allowed on the main
campus, and there would be no
.parking on the central campus at
any time."
He said parking space would be
developed around the perimeter of
the campus, and University shuttle
buses would transport students,
faculty and staff to and from
parking areas to the central cam­pus.
The planners are now trying to
get input from other groups on the
pedestrian mall, Lanham said.
To compensate for the parking
lost by the pedestrian mall, the
planners are suggesting "different
possibilities" for additional spaces,
Guerin said, but did not elaborate.
In the area of building space
needs, the planners suggest reloca­tion
of the Physical Plant to the
perimeter of campus, and moving
of the engineering building to the
Physical Plant's present location.
However, there have been no pro­posed
sites for the vocational edu­cational
facility.
Funds for the project are in­cluded
in the governor's budget, to
be considered by the Legislature
during its current session. The $8.7
million recommendation is marked
for capital improvements, but does
not specifically name these facili­ties
as beneficiaries.
' 'It comes to us as a lump sum for
buildings," Lanham said. The total
cost for the project is $10.5 mil­lion,"
he said.
admissions are up, housing re­quests
are up. Last year we were
able to wait until March 1," before
cutting them off.
The decision "not to accept
housing applications from fresh­men
was made after estimating the
number of Auburn students living
on campus, and accepting as many
applications as there were open­ings
for.
"Anybody who lives in residence
halls will be given the opportunity
to live on-campus next year," said
Cater. "They have until spring
quarter to decide if they want to
re-apply."
Cater said after all applications
are received, dormitory alloca­tions
for next year will be an­nounced.
"In the past we've made
the decision before receiving appli­cations,"
she said. "But this year
we thought we'd wait."
Ernestine Lawhon, assistant to
Dean Cater, said it will probably be
the middle of spring quarter before
allocations are announced. "We're
getting ready to take the remain­der
of freshman applications to
Administrative Data Processing
Department," she said. "They
have all the others. "
According to Cater, the Univer­sity's
estimate of re-applications is
usually too low. "That's why we
have triples," she said, referring to
the policy of putting three residents
in one dormitory room. "We"
usually have more students than
we are able to accommodate."
The early housing deadline could
have some effect on enrollment fall
quarter, Cater said. "This past
year, there was housing available
off campus, but some parents
didn't want their freshman daugh­ters
living off campus, so they went
elsewhere.
"You hate to come up without
vacancies, especially when so
many parents want their daughters
to live on campus. This is not so
true with young men."
Southern Christianity Conference held on campus
Inside
Today
By Wanda Kenton
Plainsman Staff Writer
Prominent members of the
southern religious community1
gathered in Auburn last weekend
for a Southern Christianity and
Public Policy conference spon­sored
by the Religion and History
Departments,
Black Religion, The Jimmy
Carter Phenomena and Church-
State Relations, Inner Religion and
Social Concern, Pentecostal Re-,
ligion and Public Policy and the
topics discussed at the two-day'
event held at the Wesley Center.
Dr. Wayne Flynt, head of the
History Department, coordinated
the assembly along with Dr. Rollin
Armour and John Kuykendall of
the Religion Department.
"I've been working on this pro­ject
for two years," said Flynt,
"and I was extremely pleased with
the responses we've received."
Flynt said the purpose of the
conference was to explore the
spectrum of Southern religion and
concentrate on the relationship of
Southern Christianity to society.
Joseph R. Washington is profes­sor
of religious studies at the
University of Pennsylvania. A
noted author, he has written five
books and has greatly contributed
to the understanding of the black
American religion experience. The
first speaker of the agenda, Wash­ington
spoke on "The Peril and the
Promise of Black Religion."
"He was an excellent speaker,"
said Kuykendall, "and spoke in
elegant rhetoric." Kuykendall said
all speakers presented their talks
differently, but noted that Wash­ington's
was "especially unique."
"In the middle of his speech, he'd
begin singing a black spiritual
without any transition—and, he
had a beautiful voice," said
Kuykendall.
Another speaker, Ronald B.
Flowers, is associate professor of
religion at Texas Christian Univer­sity.
A specialist in church-state
affairs, Flowers spoke on "The
Jimmy Carter Phenomenon and
Church-State Relations." Flowers
works have been published in
various journals throughout the
nation.
"Inner Religion and Social Con­cern:
Thomas Merton" was the
subject spoken on by James T.
Baker, a history professor at.
Western Kentucky University.
Baker's essays have appeared in
several periodicals.
Father Gene Sheridan of St.:
Michael's Catholic Church was
"very impressed" with Baker's
presentation on Merton, a trappist
monk. Sheridan said the overall
presentation was "well-organized"
and "very interesting." He further
commented that he was "very
glad" he attended the conference
and felt he had "learned a lot."
One of the keynote speakers,
according to Kuykendall, was Dr.
Samuel S. Hill, a former depart­ment
head of religion at the Uni­versity
of Florida. Hill's topic,
"Modes of Southern Piety," re­ceived
much response. Hill has
written three books, all of which
concern the role of religion in
Southern culture. In his speech,
Hill discussed different ways in
which Southerners express relig­iousness.
The concluding speaker, David
Harrell, spoke on the "Pentecostal
Religion and Public Policy." He,
has taught at several universities
and has served as department head
of history at U.A.B. wehre he is
currently University Scholar. Har-rell's
topic included the history of
the Pentecostal movement and the
relationship of the charismatic
movement with the main line
(See CONFERENCE, page A-7)
Biggin stairs halt handicapped
By Lonnie Adamson
Plainsman Staff Writer
Every day Danny Coker climbs
the stairs at Biggin Hall—in a
wheelchair.
Coker, 3VA, has been working
with the President's Committee for
the Handicapped trying to have
barriers to the handicapped re­moved
from campus. In particular,
he has been working to have an
Concert bans removed
DRUGS-The
Plainsman probes students
and drugs—marijuana, alcohol, co­caine
and a host of others. (See
pages A-8, a, io, and 12).
SECOND CHANCE-Auourn's
Basketball team is hop­ing
to avenge an earlier loss to
Alabama as the two teams meet in
Tuscaloosa Saturday. (See page
B-l).
IN REVIEW -
The Plainsman reviews Au­burn's
annual musical, "Anything
Goes," which opened here Monday
(See page B-7).
The Social Life Committee
Wednesday afternoon removed the
two-week interval between all con­certs
at Auburn University at its
meeting in Mary Martin Hall.
The committee passed the
motion proposed by Coliseum man­ager
Wayne Murphy Feb. 1, which
states that "restrictions on the
length of time between shows be
changed in such a manner that It is
left to the discretion of the UPC to!
determine the time between
shows."
The motion passed by voice vote.
The old two-week time limita­tion,
passed last yoar, effectively
ruled out possible concerts by
Emerson, Lake and Palmer and
Crosby, Stills and Nash Nov. 16 and •
Nov. 17 because the proposed
concert dates were within two
weeks of the Interfraternity
Council Homecoming show of Kris
Kristofferson and Rita Coolidge.
Now, the UPC alone will decide
how close a proposed concert may
or may not come to an already
planned concert.
Under the new rules, the UPC
could bring a major concert to
Auburn within a few days of
another IFC or UPC concert.
According to UPC coordinator
Bruce McGowin, the new concert
rule will "let the students decide
how they want to spend thier
money."
IFC President Larry Stutts said,
"I feel like the other promoting
organizations should have a say in
establishing the time limit."
LONG CLIMB AT BIGGIN HALL
.Danny Coker, 3VA, scales obstacles to handicapped
elevator installed at Biggin to
eliminate the need for someone to
help him up and down the stairs.
Climbing the stairs is also a
danger to him. "One of these days
I'm likely to fall and bust my nose,
or something," said Coker.
An elevator shaft has been built
into Biggin, but the elevator car
and other equipment have never
been bought and installed.
William Guerin, campus planner
and architect, said an elevator was
included in the plans for renovation
of Biggin last summer. But Guerin
said he was told there was a good
possibility for a strike at the Dover
Elevator Company.
(See HANDICAPPED, page A-S)
Bulletin
NCAA officials have said that al­leged
student-athletes' use of head
basketball Coach Bob Davis's tele­phone
credit card could lead to
punitive action, the Alabama Jour­nal
reported late Wednesday.
Davis emphatically denied al­lowing
students to use the credit
card, which was canceled at his
secretary's request after the tele­phone
company told her about the
Incident.
He speculated the number may
have been overheard by an athlete
when it was being used by someone
else.
IheAubum Plainsman Thursday, February 28,1978 A-2
The world
this week
By Becki Thomas
Assistant News Editor
International
18 DIE IN CYPRUS AIRPORT - Fifteen bodies
were recovered early this week following an
attempt to free hostages held aboard a jet
commandeered by two Arab terrorists. The
bodies were recovered after gun battle between
the Egyptians and Cypriot troopers who pre­vented
the commandoes from storming the
airliner at Larnaca Airport in Cyprus. The
terrorists surrendered to authorities after the
45-minute battle Sunday night and 16 hostages,
including 12 Arab diplomats, walked away from
the jetliner unharmed.
TERRORISTS BOMB BELFAST - A powerful
bomb ripped through a suburban hotel packed
with more than 400 dinner guests in Belfast,
Northern Ireland, last week, killing or injuring
at least 20 persons.
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Easter
greeting
Here comes Peter Cot­tontail,
hopping down the
bunny trail...and all the
merchants are hopping
too, including University
Booksotre, which was
preparing its Easter dis­play.
Auburn students al­so
will be hopping...try­ing
to get back to school
for classes, which are set
to start the next day.
Photography: Gordon Bugg
Funeral held
for Mrs. McLain
Performing Arts budget passed
Funeral services were
held Tuesday morning for
Dorm Six's head resi­dent,
Mrs. Wynelle Hamil
McLain.
McLain, 63, died after a
heart attack Feb. 19 at
Lee County Hospital.
Affectionately known
by the girls in her dorm
as "Mrs. Mac," McLain
had been head resident of
Dorm Six, a freshman
dorm, since 1968.
Approximately 125
people jammed into the
lobby area of Dorm Six
Sunday night for a me-service
planned
residents of the
morial
by the
dorm.
Dean of
National
SENATE HEARS DRUG ALLEGATIONS - The
U.S. Senate met behind closed doors Tuesday to
hear intelligence committee reports on accusa­tions
that high officials of Panama may be
behind some drug traffic ing in that nation.
Congressional opponents of the Panama Canal
treaties hope the drug issues may help defeat
ratification of the treaties.
STONER ANNOUNCES CANDIDACY - Self-proclaimed
white racist J.B. Stoner announced
he will run for governor of Georgia, and said he
may consider running for U.S. senater, de­pending
on how incumbent Senator Sam Nunn
votes on the Panama Canal treaties. Stoner, who
has run unsuccessfully for past statewide offices,
said, "I am 100 percent against all of the civil
rights legislation that is being rammed through
the Georgia Legislature by the race-mixing Gov.
George Busbee."
By Dick Parker
News Editor
The Broadway show
"The Wiz" took one giant
step toward Auburn Mon­day
night when the Stu­dent
Senate approved the
1978-79 budget for the
Performing Arts -
If the $43,930 budget is
approved by President
Harry M. Philpott, "The
Wiz'' will play here some­time
in January 1979.
Other performances in­cluded
in the proposed
budget are "Godspell,"
"Bach Aria" and a show
by Count Basie.
The Performing Arts
Committee's budget is
approved early so ar­rangements
could be
made to book next year's
shows. Last year the bud­get
was $37,525, but the
$6,405 difference could be
made partially by a grant
of as much as $2,000 from
a state fine arts organ­ization.
In other action, the Sen­ate
defeated a proposed
constitutional amend­ment,
introduced by Sen.
Rick Abbott, which would
have combined the on-campus
men's and on-campus
married stu­dents'
senatorial dis­tricts.
A four-fifths vote
of the entire Senate was
required to approve the
amendment, which would
have then been placed on
the spring elections for
student approval.
Ronald Booker, mar­ried
students' senator,
said the married
students' senator speaks
not only for those living
on campus, but for all
married students.
Booker said a single
person would be less like­ly
to understand the
needs of the married stu­dents.
The motion failed.
Katharine
Student
Cater
Life
de­scribed
her as "an excel­lent
head resident."
Cater said, "She has
loved the girls and has
done all that she could to
help them.
"In turn they loved and
respected 'Mrs. Mac'
She has also been popular
with the boys who have
visited in the dormitory.
Everyone feels her loss
keenly.
"Mrs. McLain has
touched hundreds of lives
in the years since she has
been at Auburn and there
are many Auburn alumni
who remember her with
appreciation and affec­tion."
r I THE KNIT KNOOK |
State
SENATE CONSIDERS SUNSET RESOLU­TIONS
— The Alabama Senate began working
Wednesday on dozens of Sunset resolutions
leaving the House with nothing to do, but wait
until Sunset business is concluded. The Senate
has voted on a small number of the 279
resolutions that determine whether agencies,
boards and commissions reviewed by the Sunset
committee this year are continued or termi­nated.
Although the House has acted on the
entire list, the 1976 Sunset law prohibits the
Legislature from taking up other business until
final action is taken on the Sunset resolution.
State officials speak
in Auburn next week
State Sen. Donald Stewart of Anniston, a candidate
for the U.S. Senate, and Asst. Atty. Gen. Bill Stevens
have scheduled speeches on campus next week.
Stewart, whose major opposition includes Gov.
George Wallace and former State Supreme Court
Chief Justice Howell Heflin, will speak Wednesday at
4:30 p.m. in the Pharmacy Auditorium. He will talk
about feasible energy solutions.
Stevens, sponsored by the Society of Professional
Journalists Sigma Delta Chi, has been most recently
recognized for his stance in favor of a stronger open
meetings law in Alabama. He will speak Thursday at
4:30 p.m. in 2370 Haley Center.
Both speeches carry Forum credit.
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AS Thursday, February 23, 1978 TheAUbUTTI Plamsman
Student Senate evaluations coming to an end
Rusty Parker, 4MK,
was elected senator from
the School of Business,
and has missed three
meetings since he took
office. He serves as chair­man
of the Rules Com­mittee,
is a member of
the Athletics and Recrea­tion
Committee, and
serves as President Pro
Tern of the Senate.
He has sponsored no
code of laws changes, but
has initiated five resolu­tions.
One, sponsored also
with Rick Abbott, Opie
Smith and Tavis Copen-haver,
opposed closed
meetings of the Univer­sity
Health committee.
Parker also sponsored a
resolution concerning
Senate procedures and
revision of the grading
system. A third resolu­tion,
also sponsored by
Randy Schrimsher and
Doug Eddleman, called
for renaming the Auburn
Union Building the James
E. Foy Student Union.
Other resolutions called
for the Senate to approve
a new grading proposal
and senate procedures.
Parker's work In the
Senate includes providing
a program in the distri­bution
of basketball
tickets, and helping lay
down rules for the Senate
and committees to follow.
In his campaign state­ment
Parker said,
"...there were projects
begun I'm experienced
with, and would like to
see implemented suc­cessfully.
Experience is a
key factor in being a
successful senator, but
experience without abili­ty
is ineffective..."
Charlie Payne, 4MCH, "
was elected Arts and
Sciences senator and has
missed one meeting. He
serves on the Rules and
Code of Laws Commit­tees,
and is chairman of
the Academic Affairs
Committee.
During his term in the
Senate, Payne helped lay
down rules for the Senate
and committees to follow,
worked on rewording the
academic honesty code
worked with the commit­tee
and faculty on the
grading change proposal
and also approved code of
laws changes before they
were submitted to the
Senate. He is currently
talking with officials con­cerning
the establish­ment
of a late night study
area.
In his platform state­ment
made last spring,
Payne said, "...I will
carry on my effort to
achieve revision of the
academic honesty policy,
increase student aware­ness
of SGA projects,
encourage cooperation
with the SGA cabinet and
University administra­tion
to accomplish other
needed changes."
Payne has sponsored
no code of laws changes,
but initiated a resolution
with Jeff Stone support­ing
the University
Senate's recommenda­tion
to establishing an
Honors Program.
Randy Schrimsher,
4BSC, was elected sena­tor
from Architecture
and Fine Arts. He serves
on the Athletics and Rec­reation
and on the Budget
and Finance (B and F)
committees. He has
missed three senate
meetings so far.
Schrimsher's work in
the Senate includes re­searching
B and F pro­jects.
Currently, he is
working with the per­forming
arts committee
to merge that group with
the Fine Arts" Depart­ment,
and is trying to
implement a facultv ac­tivity
fee
He has proposed no
code of laws changes, but
has written a resolution
with Rusty Parker, and
Doug Eddleman concern­ing
Senate procedure and
a one to revise the
grading system.
Schrimsher ran unop­posed,
and did not submit
a campaign statement.
Opie Smith, 4FI, was
elected off-campus sena­tor.
He is co-chairman of
the Student Relations
committee and serves on
the Budget and Finance
Committee. He has
missed two meetings
since elected.
Smith has sponsored no
code of laws changes, but
has Initiated five resolu­tions.
One resolved that
the Senate "thank Gov.
George Wallace for his
past consideration" on
the Wire Road situation.
Another asked for ap­proval
of an ex-officio
member to the Student
Relations Committee.
The third, sponsored
also by Linda Johnson,'
thanked Dean Drew
Ragan for "his contribu­tions
to Auburn stu­dents."
A resolution
written by Smith, Rick
History has a purpose
By Joy Whetstone
Plainsman Staff Writer
"Americans would be
well advised to be at­tentive
to their past,"
said Dr. Kenneth M.
Stampp as he spoke on
"History in Crisis" Mon­day
afternoon.
Stampp, who is Mor­rison
Professor of Ameri­can
History at the Uni­versity
of California, Ber­keley,
expressed his con­cern
that history, as a
discipline in primary,
secondary and higher ed­ucation,
barely exists in
America. He attributed
this to three well-recog­nizable
criticisms o.
history.
"Most students have
three major criticisms o
history these being that
history has no vocational
value, is irrelevant (in
the immediate sense) and
is boring and badly
taught," said Stampp.
He added that the
rising disinterest in
history was apparent in a
survey taken in Califor­nia
high school in which
history was rated the
most useless subject, fol­lowed
by Latin, Music
Appreciation and Phys-ical
Education.
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Stampp said further
that the American myth
sees life as a new history,
having few or no links to
the past. He said this idea
was especially prevalent
in the '60s, when the trend
was to think of everything
in terms of right now,
instead of traditions and
heritage.
Stampp said that
history is essential for ar
well-rounded education.
He pointed out that, while
history may not prepare
a person technically for a
specific vocation, he will
not spend his entire life
working.
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He said Campus Plan­ning
was afraid things
might be "complicated"
if the strike came in the
middle of installation of
the elevator.
$60,000 to install the ele­vator.
Guerin said the Cam­pus
Planning Committee
is going to recommend
the Art Department move
some of its equipment
Paul Kearney, director from the third to the first
of Physical Plant, said it floor of Biggin making
could take as much as a the equipment more ac-year
and from $30,000 to cessible to Coker.
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Abbott and Tavia Copen-haver
opposed the Uni­versity
Health Commit­tee's
closed meetings.
Another initiated by
Smith thanked Jenkins on
past service to Auburn
University.
Smith's past work in
the Senate includes the
setting up and placing of
SGA suggestion boxes on
campus, arranging for a
WEGL-SGA forum show,
working with dormitory
visitation, and research­ing
B and F projects. He
is currently working with
the SGA newsletter, and
trying to have a forum for
SGA candidates.
In his campaign plat­form,
Smith said, "There
are a number of problems
that concern Auburn stu­dents.
The two that I am
especially interested in
are parking and teacher
evaluations. A lot is said
in regard to these two
issues, but I have seen
very little corrective
action..."
Mr. Auburn
championship
held Saturday
A Mr. Auburn contest
and powerlifting champ­ionship
will be held Satur­day
in the Student Activ­ities
Building.
|]_ The powerlifting com­petition
will begin at 10
a.m., with the "Mr. Au­burn
Open" set for 7 p.m.
Admission for both e-vents
is $1.50.
Chuck Steward, 4AC,
was elected off-campus
senator. He has missed
four meetings since he
took office. Steward
serves on the Student
Welfare and on the Or­ganizations
Committees.
Steward has sponsored
no code of laws changes,
but has sponsored a reso­lution
supporting Organ!
zations Day.
Other Senate work in­cludes
reviewing organi­zations
which have sub­mitted
charters for ap­proval,
planning the pro­gram
for Organizations
Day and working on land-lord-
tennant relations
with the off-campus mode
lease program.
In his campaign state­ment
made last spring,
Steward said, "...I would
like to think of Auburn as
a progressive university
in resolving its indif­ferences;
I feel I could
help resolve some of
them."
Billy West, 6BA, serves
as senator from the grad­uate
school. He replaced
Tom McCormick as that
school's senator Oct. 18.
He has missed one
meeting since he took
office, and serves on the
Student Welfare and Aca­demic
Affairs Com­mittees.
He has sponsored no
code of laws changes or
resolutions, but has
worked on the landlord-tenant
relations with the
off-campus model lease
program, and helped
revise the traffic rules
and regulations pamph­let,
and is currently
working on the grading
system change proposal.
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Editorials
Student Senate, relax!
Thursday, February 23,1978 A-4
Congratulations
The slogan was not "Gimme 4,373," but this year's Blood Drive should still
be considered a success. We did not reach the 5,000-pint plateau which had
been optimistically set, but Blood Drive Directors Amy Watson and Alan
Huffman, and the rest of the Blood Drive workers deserve a lot of credit.
The record of 4,812 pints, set in 1968, still stands. This year's total will rank"
as the second-most pints donated in a single Blood Drive.
But think about the possibilities. Approximately 4700 people tried to donate
blood, but more than 300 were turned away because of illness or using
medication. There was reportedly a shortage of beds and nurses the first two
days, causing some people to give up their attempts to give blood. And don't
forget, the 1968 drive which set the record was 24 hours long, six hours more
than this year's drive, and it's pretty certain that, given six more hours this
year, the goal of 5,000 pints would have been reached easily. Even one more
hour each day...but that's all just guessing, anyway.
"Gimme Five" was as much an impossible dream as it was a catchy slogan.
Still, to consider this year's Blood Drive a failure would be to ignore a job
well-done by a University and a community.
Smokestack
All winter long, students have complained about the black soot and smoke
pouring out of Auburn's central campus smokestack.
Now it looks like the Alabama Air Pollution Control Commission may start
complaining too, but when the Commission complains, people listen.
Commission complaints carry the force of law.
Having estimated that the smokestack pollution levels exceed four times the
legal levels for soot, or particulate matter emissions, director Jim Cooper and
the Commission are paying attention to Auburn's air pollution problem.
The Commission has to actually sample smoke before moving to stop it, and
one of the organization's 25 annual stack samples may be taken from Auburn
instead of Birmingham or Gadsden.
Cooper said the pollution problem seemed to matter to people in Auburn.
We feel it still does, and hope a stack sample and the ensuing legal action will
get Auburn to clean up its act—soon.
Cleaning up the heating plant's smoke will cost Auburn tens of thousands of
dollars. But flaunting possible Commission requirements would possible cost
Auburn $10,000 a day.
We feel the tons of soot bellowing from the smokestack has cost us all a lot
more than Auburn would have to pay. Who can measure the economic costs of
dirty cars, buildings, landscape and people? How many lung problems have
been aggravated when students walked through clouds of smelly soot?
Then too, how valuable is a clear atmosphere and clean air?
Smoke pouring from the smokestack is one Auburn landmark which every
breathing person should be glad to see disappear. We hope the Air Pollution
Control Commission and the administration will be able to pull off this
"disappearing act," and quickly.
We blew it • ->nc
Every newspaper makes its share of mistakes, but last week The Plainsman
must have made everybody's share.
First, we apologize to Kim Huddle, Alpha Chi Omega sorority president, for
saying she was Kappa Kappa Gamma sorority President Devaney Henley, and
vice versa, in a front-page picture from last week's Sigma Phi Epsilon
"Kidnap" fund-raising drive.
We also apologize to SGA Director of Elections Ron Taylor and Secretary of
Political Affairs Gary Sanders. A story announcing last Friday's deadline to sign
up for spring elections was inadvertantly omitted. Ron and Gary made a special
effort to make sure the story got printed, but it was somehow lost in the shuffle
between the typesetters and the page. (Of course, it should be noted that the
Auburn students came through once again, with several qualified candidates
running in every race, so our error was not as costly as we had feared.)
And to all the engineering students, our apologies for saying classes would be
cancelled today for Engineering Day activities. We hope you went to class,
because it was supposed to be reported that classes would be cancelled
tomorrow. We hope there aren't too many engineering professors standing in
front of empty classrooms today.
Anytime we make a mistake, please notify us. We know we're not perfect
(and proved it last week) but a mistake left uncorrected is even worse than
having to use space to correct mistakes.
We would like to be able to say similar miscues will never happen again, but
we can't. Let's just hope they don't come in such a conspicuously big bundle
next time.
The Auburn
Plainsman
Evaluations are over after this week
Student Senate, relax!
You can stop imagining that the
person following you in a trenchcoat is
a Plainsman reporter. You can stop
passing resolutions to send home to
your mother. You can now sleep at
night without wondering, "Oh God,
am I next? Will my constituents
realize that seconding a motion is
important?"
Yes, folks, this is the last week for
Senate evaluations.
We're relieved, you're relieved. I
can walk around campus without fear
of being lynched.
It should be a time to rejoice; let
the confetti and the Miller flow!
Sorry, but I'm not rejoicing.
Idealistically, evaluations should
make students aware of what their
senators are, or are not, doing. They
should show a correlation between
campaign promises, interest and
action. Evaluations should separate
the workers from those seeking merely
to use the title on a resume, or more
specifically, they should separate the
men (and women) from the turkeys.
And with SGA elections coming
next quarter, aspiring candidates
should realize from the evaluations
what's in store for them—work.
Evaluations should also wain candi­dates
of making outrageous campaign
promises that can't possibly be ful­filled.
But more importantly, evaluations
should let the student body know if
this year's Senate has been productive
or is just a reincarnation of the 80th
Congress.
Becki
Thomas
Regretfully, evaluations fell short of
the aforementioned goals.
At the beginning of the quarter,
Editor John Carvalho informed the
Senate of the forthcoming evalua­tions,
including the procedure to be
used in gathering information. No
one flinched. No one fainted. No one
jumped at the idea, but no one
objected to it, either.
After the first series of evaluations
were printed, several senators did
object to the Plainsman's procedure
of gathering information, which had
previously been explained to them.
But it was too late to change, even
if John had wanted to, which he
didn't. The evaluations had begun,
and each senator throughout the
quarter had to be evaluated in the
same manner, for the benefit of fair­ness
is for no other reason.
The biggest objection seemed to be
that The Plainsman didn't ask the
senators themselves what they had
been doing. We went to the commit­tee
chairmen for information on
specific projects the senators were
working on instead. Senators were
asked about their committee chair­men
when the latter were evaluated.
Senators evaluating themselves
might be biased, we reasoned. As it
turned out, chairmen were too,
because each one fully supported his
workers.
As I read over the printed evalua­tions,
it sounded as if all the senators
were hard-working souls. Some
aren't. Strike one.
Others said the evaluation itself was
not representative of the senators', or
of the Senate's work. I agree. Surveys
of any kind are not flawless. They
tend to concentrate on specific issues,
and omit other worthwhile ac­complishments.
One senator suggested that com­mittee
work, rather than Senate work,
be focused upon more heavily, or
entirely. Yes, evaluations may not be
the perfect indication of a senator's
worth, but in general, they are fair,
and as accurate as such a system
permits. Strike two.
A small minority of senators adopt­ed
a non-conformist attitude, which
at times manifested itself in rudeness.
The Plainsman wasn't doing the
evaluations correctly, they said.
Chants of' 'resolutions and code of
laws changes aren't proportional to a
senator's worth" echoed through the
Union Building's third floor.
Some senators even refused to give
out information. One committee
chairman even refused to help, then
later said everyone in his group had
done the same thing. He was
inadvertantly hurting his workers'
evaluation. Strike three.
The ballgame's over.
But the experience was not as grim
as it sounds. The evaluations are a
good idea, served a worthwhile
purpose and are needed. There's no
doubt though, that they could be
improved. Perhaps a council of SGA
members, including the Vice Presi­dent
(president of the Senate), com­mittee
chairmen, Plainsman editor,
news editor and reporter in charge of
evaluations get together and decide
how evaluations should be executed.
That way, each group will have input
as to how evaluations should be done,
and the blame, or credit, can be
attributed equally to each group.
Things to consider should include:
Should each senator be contacted
about his work or should committee
chairmen? Should resolutions and
code of laws changes be included?
Should the Senate have a voice in
rating each senator?
This plan would foster cooperation
of the two groups from the very
beginning, rather than fracturing
relations as this quarter's evaluations
seem to have done.
A senator once said a lot could be
accomplished if the SGA and Plains­man
could work together. I thought it
was a noble idea, for a dream. But it
doesn't have to be a dream, at least
where evaluations are concerned.
A new Senate, hopefully a hard­working
Senate, will be elected next
quarter, and we can start a whole new
ballgame. I hope neither team strikes
out. Evaluation is one game we need
to play together.
Alabama Legislature guilty of 'punting
One of the highlights in the
preliminaries of the 1978 political race
will begin Saturday when the Ala­bama
Press Association holds its
annual winter meeting. Nearly all of
the contenders in the race for
governor and lieutenant governor will
attend, and it will be a good time for
those prospective candidates to out­line
their positions on one of the key
questions in the 1978 race: what can
be done about the state legislature's
"punting" of difficult problems into
the state and federal courts?
"Punting", as the process is aptly
termed by State Senator George
McMillian of Birmingham, has be­come
one of our state legislature's
favorite pastimes. Unable to find
solutions to the difficult problems, it
simply won't act; in effect, kicking
the mess into the courts and forcing
public servants like Federal District
Court Judge Frank Johnson to make
the decisions.
Although this course of action is a
sad reality for the state's citizens, it is
politically helpful to the legislators.
Any solution to a highly contro­versial
issue is sure to be unpopular
with some voters. By allowing the
courts to settle the conflict, the state's
elected officials have a political
scapegoat, the courts, to blame for
state problems, and a fiery political
issue, "those federal judges".
An excellent example of "punt­ing"
was Johnson's Bryce Mental
Hospital ruling in 1971.
Taking the case into his court after
the legislature refused to come to
grips with the barbaric situation at
Bryce and Searcy Mental Hospitals,
Johnson ordered sweeping changes in
a set of 74 guidelines that would cost
the state approximately $100 million.
Gov. George Wallace, along with
state senators and representatives,
railed against Johnson's orders, with
Wallace accusing his longtime op­ponent
of trying to create a ' 'utopia.
Some patients were chained to beds;
other patients sometimes slept in their
own defecation because of overcrowd­ing;
only four psychiatrists were
staffed to meet the needs of 7,357
mental patients. This was ignored.
Today, the court-ordered improve­ments
remain largely unimplement-ed,
although there has been some
headway and the special problems
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facing the mental institutions will
return to the legislature once again.
Another issue, currently in the
news is the possibility of tremendous
increases in property taxes as land
values in the state are reappraised.
Wallace has announced he will call
the legislature into special session
before elections unless some sort of
"lid bill" to put a limit on the
increase is adopted.
The Alabama Farm Bureau is
pushing four bills to hold the increase
in property tax revenues at 20 percent.
Others who feel the problems with
the state's prisons, schools and mental
hospitals stem directly from a lack of
money, want a larger increase. A third
group wants no additional taxes and
no reappraisal.
I hope our legislature can find a
compromise solution, so whether it is
popular or unpopular, it will have
been made by that branch of govern­ment
responsible for creating the law.
Leave the courts to handle their own
duties and not those of the legisla­ture.
This weekend would be a fine
chance for those journalists in the
Alabama Press Association to pin
down the political hopefuls on how
they plan to bring an end to the
legislature's booting of its responsi­bilities
into the courts, so that laws
and legislation are enacted by elected
representatives, not an appointed
judge.
Perhaps a new state constitution
might be the solution or a governor's
working more closely with the legisla­ture.
Football is traditionally this state's
favorite sport and our legislature
might discover something that even
the youngest fan could teach them;
those teams that punt the most also
usually have the worst records.
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John Carvalho, Editor
Burrell Wilson, Business Manager
Editorial Board members: Managing Editor, Rick Harmon; Associate
Editor, Betsy Butgereit; News Editor, Dick Parker; Features Editor,
Jackie Romine; Sports Editor, Brad Davis; Editor and Editorial Board
Chairman, John Carvalho.
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Production Manager, Dewey English; Photographic Editor, Ford Risley.
Assistant to the Editor, Hank Marshman; Asst. News Editors, Becki
Thomas and Ann Hecht; Asst. Features Editor, Janet Hightower;
Asst. Sports Editor, Chuck Anschutz.
Asst. Entertainment Editor, Andrea Harrison; Asst. Copy Editor,
Danielle Murphy; Asst. Production Managers, Cheryl Meyer and
Katherine Livingston; Asst Photographic Editor, Vickey Hunt.
Advertising Director, Burrell Wilson; Layout specialists, Ann Gracey
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Sprouse.
The Auburn Plainsman is the student-edited newspaper of
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the writer, while unsigned editorials represent the opinion
of The Plainsman's Editorial Board.
Wallace has
overstayed
his welcome
"The king is dead. Long live the
king!" A friend of mine chanted after
Leon Spinks defeated Muhammed Ali
last week.
My friend will probably be singing
the same tune next fall after the
Democratic senatorial primary elimi­nates
George Wallace from the
Alabama political picture.
"King George I" has set himself
up for the kill. He's about to go the
way of Ali, Y.A. Tittle, Willie Mays
and Lester Maddox. They were all at
the top rung of the proverbial ladder,
but they hung around too long and
fell humbly in defeat.
For 20 years Wallace has been at the
top of Alabama politics, and this year
he has a chance to retire a champion.
So did Ali.
Tittle and Mays both overstayed
their welcome in sports and embar­rassed
themselves when their bodies
would no longer do what they
wanted. Wallace may not be embar­rassed
election day, but he has
definitely overstayed his welcome.
Wallace's opponents, relative new­comers
to statewide politics, arc
primed for the kill.
Four years ago Maddox, former
Georgia governor, was in a similar
situation to Wallace's current status.
Maddox was Georgia's outgoing lieu-tenant
governor and was running for a
Dick \
Parker
second term of governor. He would
have done better if he had run for the
state line instead.
Four years of constant dueling with
then-Gov. Jimmy Carter had not
enhanced his image with Georgia
voters. And Georgia had enough of
the backward bicycle rider's ax
handles and constant ravings against
every other Georgia politician, i.e.,
the liars, cheaters and hypocrites.
As governor, Maddox didn't do a
bad job. But a fairly progressive and
basically honest administration was
not what the voters remembered four
years later.
"People forget what you did, what
you accomplished, what you tried to
do," Maddox was recently quoted.
Wallace is not soon to be forgotten,
but when voters go to the polls in
August, they're more likely to re­member
his duels with Cornelia than
his governmental accomplishments^
And the recently settled divorce case
has left a sour taste in the months of
many conservative Alabama voters.
Wallace could learn a lot from
Maddox. Once a strong Wallace-for-
President supporter, and a presiden­tial
candidate himselr, Maddox is now
pitifully poor and sadly forgotten.
Bankers are hounding him for the
$182,000 he owes them—remnants of
his many political campaigns.
They don't forget, but the people
who pledged to help puy for tne
campaigns are long gone.
Maddox tried to make a comeback
in the restaurant business and failed.
Then he and one of his former
Pickrick dishwashers got together for a
routine called "The Governor and
the Dishwasher." It was a dismal
flop. Now the self-proclaimed voice of
the little man is hardly heard of.
In four years we may be saying the
same thing of Wallace.
Burton Cummings once wrote a
song about someone who'd "come
undone," that fits Wallace. "It's too
late. He's gone too far. He's lost the
sun. He's come undone."
Wallace's chances of winning grow
slimmer by the day, and should he
lose he would find himself looking for
a job for the first time in two
decades—and I don't think he could
make it in show biz.
Letters On letters, laundromats and roommates
Thursday, February 28,1978 A-5
Kampuchean delegation
1 proud to be obnoxious'
Editor, The Plainsman:
We are writing in reference to your
editorial and article of Feb. 9-
Amazingly enough, we Kampucheans
(not Cambodians) are easily able to
obtain copies of your fine newspaper,
even though we reside far away. Our
informants seem to be everywhere,
don't they?
As to the Kampuchean delegates
being called "obnoxious", we are
certainly proud of your fine compli­ments,
and hope to receive many
more in the future. The people will
triumph!
It is also necessary to compliment
the Racist South African bandit
porkers on their unique performance
at SIMUN. How such nice people can
look like fools (at their own doing) is
more than the Kampuchean mind can
handle.
Seriously though, SIMUN '78 was a
valuable learning experience for all of
us. Your campus is blessed with many
fine people, and we wish to thank
everyone involved, Lee and Julia
above all.
Jim Shriner
Jeff Sandler
Bill Amick
University of South Florida
Tampa, Fla.
If there are three things every
Auburn student has in common, it's
not school spirit, great grades and
wonderful food. It's mailing letters,
washing clothes and studying with
roommates. You can't escape any of
them, especially the problems they
cause.
With writing letters, you never
know if they're going to get mailed.
You never know if your clothes are
going to be there when you get back.
And with roommates you just never
know.
I really like to write letters. Now, I
realize a few dozen people out there
in the real world are just going to drop
dead of hysteria and shock if they ever
read this, but I really do like to.
My problem is I never have a
stamp. Well, that's not true. I did
have one a couple of times, back when
I was a freshman. But I made the
mistake of telling someone I did. And
pretty soon, 1 didn't.
At least everyone that borrowed
one had a good excuse.
"My mom's been in the hospital
for months with a frontal lobotomy,
and I just gotta get this to her.'' Or,
Betsy
Butgereit
"if I don't get this letter in today to
the 'Win a Date with Parker Steven­son
Contest,' I'll just die."
Of course, I could always take my
letters to the post office. But it's never
open at 2 a.m. or on Sunday, which is
when I remember I never mailed my
letters. And my mom gets a little bit
ticked when she's got to pay the
postman 13 cents to get my letters.
Of course, I could just call home.
But when the phone bill came, I'd
have to figure out who owes what to
whom, from where and how much tax
applies. And little things like phone
bills aggravate me.
So does washing clothes. I relish
washing clothes about as much as I
Circle Editor says he's 'not going to take it anymore
Let me echo the lunatic newsman in
last year's movie hit "Network: " I'm
mad as hell and I'm not going to take
it anymore! Who am I mad at? The
SGA will do for starters, but the more
I think about it, the more aggravated
I get at other institutions within the
University community as well.
I work with a quarterly student
magazine called The Auburn Circle.
You've never heard of it? Don't be
too ashamed. Chances are, it's not
your fault. The magazine is funded by
Student Activities Fees, and the
dispersal of th^t money is controlled
by the Student Senate, which has
allotted The Circle enough money to
print 6,000 copies per issue—only one
issue for every three students.
Reader reaction to last fall's issue
was good, but many students com­plained
that they had wanted a copy,
but couldn't find one, simply because
there weren't enough copies to jgo
around. Since every student pays for
The Circle through Student Activities
Fees, it's only fair that every student
should have the opportunity to read
it. However, the University popula­tion
is growing in leaps and bounds,
but The Circle's circulation has been
basically at the same level for years.
We decided to increase circulation,
if the powers-that-be would let us, to
9,000 copies. We talked to Dean of
Student Affairs James Foy who told us
there was still about $27,000 left in
the Student Activities Fee fund for
this year. Our request for $2,190
seemed acceptable in light of that.
The next step was to gain approval
from the University Communications
Board, which is comprised of admin­istration,
faculty and student repre­sentatives.
Unbeknownst to most
students, the Comm Board, despite
efforts to the contrary by some of
SGA-appointed student members,
tries to protect all of the University's
communications projects from the
over-zealous but uninformed ravages
of the SGA Senate Budget and
Finance Committee.
Guest
Columnist
Mark
Winne
The Comm Board approved the
increase, and incidentally, though
there were several abstentions, the
only nay vote was by one of the SGA
puppets.
The next stop along the bureau­cratic
byway was the infamous B&F
Committee. Here's how, in my
experience, B&F meetings work. They
talk to the project representative
requesting the money at the begin­ning,
and then they give him the old
"We'll vote on it later and let you
know" routine.
And that's just the procedure they
used on The Circle last week. Wait a
minute, we thought after we left.
They're not going to pull the
"Auburn City Council Shuffle" on
us. We went back to the meeting, but
it was too late. They had discussed it
amongst themselves, without The
Circle's interests represented, and,
apparently overwhelmed by the
"Don't offend your buddy sitting
next to you, all for one and one for
all" syndrome, they unanimously
defeated the proposal.
But hark! The SGA is not entirely
villainous. Along came Arts and
Sciences Senator Linda Johnson, defy­ing
custom, moving to grant The
Circle the request despite the B&F
vote. She and other senators made a
noble plea for student government
support of academic pursuits and
creativity.
B&F chairman Tavia Copenhaver
said that her committee had "set a
precedent" in the spring when they
had decided The Circle would print
6,000 copies. The absurdity of that
rationale is apparent. Following that
line of reasoning, anything the SGA
has done becomes a precedent. Yet
the only other argument offered by
The Circle's opponents seemed to be
one which Off-Campus Senator Rick
Abbott articulated: it just isn't
important enough.
That was it, a value judgement.
The motion was defeated 14-8. What
it boiled down to was not the
legitimacy of the request, but the
senators' pre-conceived attitudes, atti­tudes
so blatantly narrow-minded
that a high-ranking administration
official had warned us earlier in the
day that the "prevailing attitude"
seemed the primary obstacle in
gaining the needed funds.
Let me borrow once more from that
movie:
If you're ready to stand up and be
counted, to let the SGA, the Board of
Trustees or any other member of the
local establishment know that you're
wise to the game they're playing, put
down this newspaper and yell "I'm
mad as hell, and I'm not going to take
it anymore!"
Stand beneath the windows of the
SGA's Union Building offices and
scream the same. Go to a local land
baron at his real estate office and give
bim the message By vocalizing our
dismay, we once and for all are
letting them know that we are not
taking it anymore.
Editor's note: Winne is editor of
The Auburn Circle.
would relish cleaning the men's
bathrooms at Magnolia Dormitories.
There just flat out ought to be a
law against washing clothes. Maybe
the SGA can do something about it.
Then again, I take that back. If the
SGA got hold of it on a bad day, all
Physical Education majors would be
required to take Clothes Washing
101,102 and 103. And heaven knows
their load is rough enough all ready.
As it is, it's already impossible to
find a place to wash clothes when the
sun's up. And it's even harder to find
a clean place to clean your clothes.
It's such a rot to push clothes down
into a machine and have the thou­sands
of lint balls in there push back.
But I can cope with that. What I
can't cope with is having to wait a
couple of days to use the machines.
And if waiting to use a dirty machine
isn't humiliating enough for you, you
can always really depress yourself by
adding up how much it costs you to
tumble your clothes for an hour.
Those folks on T.V. have got it
made—just wash something white
and some fool yankee walks in and
offers you $90 to rip it in half. Ninety
dollars is at least enough to wash two
loads at Auburn.
And getting paid to rip up your
clothes is a darn sight better than
having people rip off your clothes
from the dryer. Let's be brutally
honest, folks, no self-respecting
machine eats a warm-up suit, a blouse
and several pairs of socks at one
spinning.
If someone out there were really
smart, he's set up 24-hour booths all
across campus and offer stamps and
change for a certain price. He'd be a
millionaire by spring quarter, especi­ally
if he throws in a Harrass-a-Room-mate
service on the side.
Not that I don't like my roommate.
I really do—I just wish she'd conven­iently
disappear at times. Like when I
twitched my nose.
You know that old saying, "Just
because you're paranoid, doesn't
mean they're not out to get you."
That describes my roommate perfect­ly-
I swear she plays around when I'm
not in the room. Then the second I
walk in, she jumps on her bed, goes
into agonizing writhes, complains
about how much she's been studying
and screams for everyone to shut up
and turn off their stereos.
Of course, when I have to study,
she entertains the entire membership
of the Block and Bridle club who
spend the evening practicing for the
next hog-calling contest.
And studying is such an excellent
tool to use to get even with me. For
example, if I want to study late, she
goes to bed early, so I have to be real
quiet. Then she gets up early when
I'm trying to sleep.
But I'll get her. Wait until she
needs me to mail her letters and wash
a few things. I'll fix her. I'll wash her
letters and mail her clothes.
Letters to the editor must be
received by 5 p.m. Monday at The
Plainsman office in the basement of
the Union Building. Letters should
be no more than 400 words,
preferably typed and double-spaced.
€Ped Mall would add to quality of campus life'
Editor, The Plainsman:
During the past several years, there
has been an abundance of rhetoric,
controversy, action and non-action on
the proposed "Pedestrian Mall" for
Auburn's campus. As the SGA
proposal finally is coming before the
University Traffic and Parking Com­mittee,
I feel that it is an appropriate
time to give the Ped Mall one more
vote of confidence.
After five years at Auburn, I
sincerely believe that the most enjoy­able
places on Auburn's campus
during the dav are Samford Park, the
area around Graves Amphitheatre
and Haley Center Concourse. An
obvious common characteristic of all
three of these places is the lack of the
presence of the automobiles to
disrupt an otherwise casual atmos­phere.
These places allow a complac­ent
setting in which to enjoy conversa­tion
with friends, throw a frisbee,
catch up on some reading, or enjoy
any other number of activities. Con­trast
these areas with a mad rush
across Thach, Roosevelt or Samford
Avenue during peak hours of activity
on campus in an attempt to avoid an
on-rushing car or PPD vehicle.
The pros and cons of the Pedestrian
Mall have been discussed in length
during the past few years, but it seems
that one major point we are escaping
is simply that a Pedestrian Mall would
add greatly to the quality of campus
life. I doubt very seriously if about
1,000 students, faulty and staff
members would meet and converse
every hour (an activity which numbers
indicate we enjoy) on Haley Center
Concourse if it was still the automo­bile
thoroughfare that it was 10 years
ago.
The city of Auburn, not unlike
many towns its size with similar
growth rates, is fast becoming an
automobile city. We need take
but one short glance at the
Opelika Highway, with all of its
trappings, to affirm this belief. The
University, however, has not been
totally usurped by the automobile,
and although enrollment and parking
needs continue to increase, I believe
that somewhere along the line we
need to stop and realize the need for
more "people places" on campus,
lest we become carbon copies of the
universities of the states to our
immediate north and east. Thus, it is
in this light that this student supports
the idea of a Pedestrian Mall and if
adopted, hopefully it will offer us a
more enjoyable and placid existence
on our campus.
Jim Bradberry, 5AR
'Inconsistent grading scales a grave injustice to AU students'
Atlanta Gay Conference announced
Editor, The Plainsman:
The third annual Southeastern
Conference for Lesbians and Gay Men
will be held in Atlanta, Ga. on March
31, April 1 and 2, 1978.
The steering committee is strongly
committed to having a broad spec­trum
of presentations and workshops
which would appeal to lesbians and
gay men not usually involved in gay
special and political life. This special
outreach includes blacks, hispanics,
younger gays, older gays and the
handicapped.
The conference will be held at the
Fox Theater and the Georgian Terrace
Hotel. For more information, write to
the Conference Committee, P.O. Box
5319, Atlanta, Ga., 30307.
Registration fees are $6 before
March 1 and $8 thereafter, including
at the door.
We hope several people from this
area will be able to attend.
Name withheld by request
Editor, The Plainsman:
As students near graduation, many
begin to worry about what will
happen when "D-Day" does arrive.
Finding employment is the primary
concern. This is not easy, and Auburn
University occasionally hinders some
students from getting jobs.
The main factor that determines if
a college graduate will or will not get a
particular job is his grade-point
average (GPA). Sure, who he is, who
he knows and what organizations he
was involved with are important, but
his GPA is the determining factor.
Auburn University commits a grave
injustice to many students because of
the inconsistent grading scales used by
the different instructors. Two stu­dents
of equal intelligence, studying
in the same curriculum, can have
GPAs that differ tremendously. Iden­tical
grades could be made by each
student, but because of these dif­ferent
grading scales, one student
leave the course with an "A" while
the other finishes with a " B ."
Since a student's future well-being
largeley lies in the grades he receives
in college, is it fair for a student to
rely on the so-called "luck of the
draw'' when registering for classes.
At Auburn University, grade-point
scales fluctuate from a five-point to a
seven-point to to a 10-point scale. If
they re using a seven-point scale, the
tests are made easier, whereas if the
instructor is using a 10-point scale,
the test is made more difficult. I think
this is bunk! Wouldn't it be more fair
DOONESBURY
to students if the University set up a
standard grading scale, regardless of
what the scale is, so a truer picture is
presented by a student's GPA?!
Hypothetically, in using some type
of standard scale, a score of, say, 84
would be a "B," regardless of the
teacher or the student. Thus, the
same standards are used to grade all
students. Not only would this benefit
students, but it would also benefit
interviewers and other employee
seekers. The more deserving students
would get the better jobs and the
company hiring would get the best
employees, based solely on grades.
This situation bothers me, and I'm
sure many other students are concern­ed
about it. Shouldn't this matter
receive some attention and investiga­tion?
After all, the main reason most
come to college is so he can get a good
job upon graduation.
Jimmy Dichiara, 4AC
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TheAlixm Plainsman Thursday, February 28,1978 A-«
Death
Families of dying patients are doctor's worst problem
By Jamie Smith
Plainsman Staff Writer
When Dr. William
Turk, now a physician at
Drake Student Health
Center, was in private
practice, the family of a
dying patient was one of
the biggest problems he
had to face.
Today, 13 years after
Turk's retirement from
private practice, the dy­ing
patient's family is
still seen as one of the
most important aspects
of death and dying.
According to Dr.
Chester Jenkins, an Au­burn
psychiatrist, people
feel the family is so im­portant
either because
the family members do
need a great deal of sup­port
during this trying
time or because others
find it easier to deal with
the family than with the
dying patient himself.
Whatever the reason
behind the attention
given to the family of a
dying person, Dr. James
Mathews, an Auburn
physician, believes the
doctor should spend a
great deal of time with
the family before the
death of its family
member, "psychological­ly
preparing them for the
death, and helping them
as much as possible to get
rid of guilt and anxiety
before the death."
The Rev. John Jeffers,
pastor of the First Baptist
Church in Auburn, said
that often the needs of the
family are more pro­nounced
than those of the
patient.
"In fact," Jeffers said,
' 'there are probably more
feelings of anger and re­sentment
to be dealt with
in the family than there
are in the patient; family
members are more likely
to ask 'Why me?' than the
patient."
Roger Dill, minister Of
the Auburn Church of
Christ, said it is hard for
the family members to
accept that a loved one is
dying because the dying
individual is a part of
them.
Because , the dying
patient needs to have his
close family members
around him, and because
the family's reactions
have a great influence on
the patient's attitudes,
Jenkins said it is impor­tant
for the family to
accept the patient's death
before it occurs. In this
way, family members
can grieve before the
patient's death, and they
can grieve with the
patient, Jenkins said.
Grieving, which Jenk­ins
called "an appropri­ate
reaction to a realistic
loss," helps the patient
and the family realize the
reality of the situation.
The funeral provides an
opportunity for the fam­ily
to further express its
grief. Dr. Charles Lair, a
psychology instructor at
Auburn University, said
the funeral permits "e-motional
catharsis."
Ministers view the fun­eral
as important. Dill
said the funeral is a "so­cially
acceptable way of
'closing the door' "; Jef­fers
said the funeral is a
"socially acceptable way
of 'closing the door' ";
Jeffers said the funeral
"marks the deceased
person in our minds in a
spiritual way"; and the
Rev. Charles Britt,
pastor of the Auburn
United Methodist Church,
said the funeral helps
"mend the social order,
which has been ripped
apart by the death."
However, "Britt also
said because the family
often feels guilty when a
loved one dies, the funer­al
director may capitalize
on this guilt.
"A lot of the par-aphenalia
at funerals,
such as very expensive
caskets, helps take care
of the guilt feelings of the
family," Britt said.
After a death has oc­curred
and the funeral
has been conducted,
many doctors, according
to Jenkins, continue to
make themselves avail­able
to the family and to
see if the family has
realistic needs which can
be helped by the doctors.
Jenkins said, "In time
of grief and sorrow, you
do not have to say words
of comfort; just your A
physical presence has an
impact."
Editor's note: This Is the
second of a three-part
series on death and the
community's reaction to
it.
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Short shots
Cheerleader
tryouts begin
next quarter
Cheerleader tryouts
will be held April 3-6 in
Memorial Coliseum. An
orientation meeting for
all interested students .
will be March 9 at 7 p.m.
in Union Building 321.
A clinic will be held
March 27-31 in the colise­um.
Candidates must have
a 1.0 gpa at Auburn or at
least a 1.5 for the previ­ous
quarter.
SPE kidnap
yields 3,000
pounds of food
Hostages were re­leased,
and more than
3000 pounds of food was
collected as ransom last
week during the Sigma
Phi Epsilon Kidnap.
The "hostages" were
sorority presidents, kid­napped
from various lo­cations
around campus
Feb. 15. To secure ran­som,
each sorority paid a
ransom of one can of food
per sorority member.
The donations were given
to the Auburn Police De­partment
to distribute to
needy families in the
area.
Gamma Phi Beta
placed first in donations,
with each member donat­ing
5.31 pounds of food.
Alpha Chi Omega placed
second, with 4 pounds
of food per member.
Check cashing
continues
at Union Desk
Students have a check
cashing service available
to them after downtown
banks lock their doors.
The Interfraternity
Council provides the ser­vice
at the Union Desk
Sunday through Thurs­day
from 5 p.m. until 10
p.m. and Friday from 5
p.m. until 8 p.m.
Checks of $5, $10 and
$15 may be cashed with a
10 cent charge on each
check.
Curriculum
combines
two courses
Auburn has a curricu­lum
for those wanting to
teach in the health field.
The curriculum, Health
Occupations Education
(HOE), in the depart­ment
of Vocational Adult
Education offers a B.S.
degree which leads to a
Class B secondary teach­ing
certificate.
The H.O.E. program
prepares the student to
teach in secondary
schools, area vocational
centers and technical or
junior colleges and to
coordinate continuing ed­ucation
programs at
public health! agencies.
Dr. Salim S. Halta of
the Vocational Adult Ed­ucation
Department, said
he encourages students in
other curriculums to take
courses in H.O.E.
"I believe in interdisci­plinary
education," Halta
said. "I have people from
Home Economics, Pre-med,
Pre-hospital admin­istration,
as well as from
the School of Business,"
A B.S. degree in HOE
requires the student to
take a "core" of health
occupations and adult ed­ucation
courses.
Halta said a Masters
degree program is being
planned for next year.
Club raffle,
fund drive
successful
Nora Jill Norman,
2GFL, won a Minolta
camera in a raffle spon­sored
by the Geography
Club. Proceeds will be
used for a Geography
Club Spring Field Trip.
Credit offered
for introductory
European tour
Dr. Gregory Jeane of
the Department of Geo­graphy,
Auburn Univer­sity,
is planning a four-week
European tour. The
tour will cover such cities
as Rome, Florence,
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There is an introduct­ory
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tour of Windsor Castle
and a half day introduc­tion
to the Louvre in
Paris.
Cost of the trip is $1,499
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meals per day. High
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Some University
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•A-7 Thursday, February 23, 1978 The Auburn Plainsman
Conference
From page A-1
churches of today.
The conference funded
by the Alabama Commis­sion
for the Humanities
and Public Policy, was
the first of its kind in
Auburn. Although it was
organized through the
History and Religion De­partments,
the program
was an educational com­munity
affair, and not a
University function.
Persons from outside
Alabama also attended
the affair. Alice Murray,
Auburn alumna and relig­ion
editor for the Atlanta
Consitution participated
in and observed the con­ference.
As a panelist for
the Pentecostal presenta­tion,
she spoke on the new
Charismatic movement.
"I feel as if I have
benefited greatly from
participating in and
listening to the different
aspects of the confer­ence,"
said Murray. She
attributed the successful-ness
of the conference to
the "wide variety of
speakers, their specializ­ed
knowledge, and the
carefully organized plan­ning
of the co-hosting
departm ents." Murray
Candidates
for SGA
to be quizzed
All candidates running
for SGA office are requir­ed
to take a special "can­didates'
quiz" next
Thursday at 7:30 p.m. in
3195 Haley Center.
The quiz will be the last
mandatory candidates'
meeting until spring
quarter, according to the
SGA elections schedule,
which we refuse to run
(just to be consistent).
Miss Auburn, Plains­man
Editor and Glome-rata
Editor candidates
are exempt from the quiz,
which covers the SGA
Constitution and Code of
Laws.
There is a list of pos­sible
quiz material in the
SGA office. If there is any
question about these
meetings, call SGA" Di­rector
of Elections Ron
Taylor at 821-0924.
further commented that
she'd like to see confer­ence
of this sort held on
an annual basis in Au­burn.
Rev. John Jeffers of the
First Baptist Church of
Auburn, said "I thorough­ly
enjoyed it, and I feel as
if I've gained new insight
into many tings." Jeffers
attended all five sessions
and said he, too, would
like to see more confer­ence
of this nature come
to Auburn.
When asked if he was
particularly impressed
with any of the presenta­tion,
Jeffers said, "They
were all outstanding, and
due to the variety of
topics, no one presenta­tion
could be singled out
above the others."
A student, Steve Clar,
2FL, attended the gather­ing
and said he felt the
experience "was good
mind foot." Clar said the
presentations wee "ex­cellent"
and said he was
most impressed with
Hill's topic of Modes of
Southern Piety.
Clar said he thought the
conference was a "mar­velous
idea," and that he
thought more conferenc­es
would "benefit the
community."
Another students,
Sharon Marbut, 3SSS, at­tended
the conference.
"Generally, the pro­gram
was very good and
the speakers were well-educated,"
said Marbut.
She said more publicity
was needed in the Univer­sity
because "it was
something students, par­ticularly
Christians,
would have enjoyed."
Marbut said she was
dissappointed in the
Jimmy Carter presenta­tion
because it "didn't tell
me any ting I didn't
already know." However,
she did say the rest of the
presentation and overall
organization was very
good, and that the pro­gram
"reflected well on
the History and Religion
Departments."
When asked if he had
thought about organizing
another conference,
Flynt smiled, and said
"We'll see."
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building, all fine arts stu­dents
eaten. (Fade into
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large, predominantly
white city, will speak
Monday at 8 p.m. in the
Student Activities Build­ing.
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recognition of Black Heri­tage
month.
Stokes, a Democrat,
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his margin of re-election
in 1969 more than doubled
his edge at the polls two
years earlier.
While mayor of Cleve­land,
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and general
praise from internation­al,
national and local
news media for the devel­opment
and implementa­tion
of the Cleveland
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a S1.5 bi'lion,
10-12 year efiort to revi­talize
and improve the
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in the community
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Magic mushrooms
pop up in pastures
Local law enforcement officials
agree on marijuana 'problem'
By Jackie Romine
Features Editor
Narcotics officers in Auburn, Lee
County and Opelika agree that
marijuana is the most widely used
illegal drug and the major drug
problem in the area.
Lt. Ronnie Watkins of Lee
County Sheriff's department said
with marijuana, "a lot depends on
what you consider a problem."
"If you consider all drugs a
problem, then marijuana is a big
problem here. But, marijuana use
itself does not cause a problem in
most cases."
A person who is under the
influence of marijuana, Watkins
said, is not a danger to himself or
anybody else.
"As long as somebody blows a
little reefer in his home, he's not a
problem, that is until he gets into a
car."
Driving under the influence of
marijuana is considered the same
as driving under the influence of
alcohol and the charge is the same,
DWI, driving while intoxicated.
Watkins said marijuana use is
"widespread and common. You
can't really go to a party now
without it being there somewhere."
Lt. Ted Murphy of the Auburn
Police department said Auburn's
only major drug problem is mari­juana,
"but, if you consider our
problem in comparison to some
major cities, we really don't have a
problem at all." Murphy disagreed
with the contention made by some
researchers and state and federal
courts that marijuana is relatively
harmless.
He said researchers at the Uni­versity
of Mississippi have estab­lished
that marijuana impairs
depth perception. "If you legalize
marijuana you have what I call
'another killer on the highway.' "
No reliable test has been devel­oped
to test drivers for marijuana
intoxication. Several hours are
required after the use of marijuana
for the drug to be detected in blood
or urine samples.
"We already have so many
deaths on highways due to alcohol,
legalizing marijuana will turn the
highways into a slaughter house,"
Murphy said.
Murphy said the Auburn depart­ment
is "after any seller of drugs,
any dealer, regardless of the size of
the operation."
Watkins said the degree of drug
traffic in this area varies great­ly.
"Some people just sell a'uuui. a
pound a week (of marijuana) for
extra money or to keep their own
personal supply.
"We concentrate on the major
violator first. Not the people who
go to a friend to buy. We want the
big seller who supplies the small-scale
seller."
Robert Brock of the Opelika
Police Department agreed with
Watkins saying the department's
major goal is always "climbing up
the ladder."
"Some guy with a couple of pills
or a bag to sell isn't our big
problem. We are always trying to
find sources relating to how it's
getting in the area."
Auburn's narcotic division made
about 50 arrests last year for
possession of marijuana, which
other officers say is about average.
Opelika made 168 total drug ar­rests
last year, including 81 felon­ies
and 87 misdemeanor charges.
This includes all drug and drug-related
arrests.
The maximum penalty for a first
charge of possession of marijuana
in Auburn is six months In county
jail and a $600 fine. The most
common fine is $214.50.
In Opelika, the maximum is a
$500 fine plus 180 days in jail per
charge. Brock said normally the
person Is fined $100 and is often
sent by the judge to Karma, a local
drug counseling center. Selling
marijuana in Opelika is a one to
five year felony.
In addition, moderate amounts of
amphetamines, or speed, circulate
the Auburn area. Brock said .am­phetamines
are subject to heavy
abuse.
Students use amphetamines to
stay awake for studying. These are
usually off the illegal drug market.
Brock said much abuse of am­phetamines
and barbituates, too,
center around the upper-middle
class individual who abuses legal
prescription doses of these drugs.
"These are just average people
using uppers to get going in the
morning and using downers (bar­biturates
or sleeping pills) to get
back to sleep at night."
Also, alcohol, far from being
illegal, is a problem for law en­forcement
officials. Brock said
alcohol has been "a long-time
problem."
' 'People don't look at alcohol as a
drug, but it is a drug and it is
physically addicting like any nar­cotic
is addicting."
Watkins said alcohol is by far a
bigger problem than marijuana
"with DWI and fighting in bars,
things like that.
Brock said PCP, or Phencyclln-dlne,
is a "very dangerous drug"
and is circulating fairly heavily in
this area. Called "tea" in the
streets, this local PCP is usually
sniffed as opposed to being in­gested
or smoked.
"PCP is an animal drug, not
meant for humans. Also, only a
thin line exists between a lethal
dose and the effective dose re­quired
for a 'high' " so overdosage
is a major threat," Brock said.
Other drugs such as cocaine, and
qualudes are present In the Auburn
area, but officials say to no great
extent, Watkins said cocaine is
generally too expensive for. most
students.
Heroin and other narcotics are
only minor problems for the local
; police. Murphy said he could
"count the number of heroin ad­dicts
in Auburn on one hand."
All three agencies have "almost
continuous" undercover opera­tions.
Usually the undercover a-gents
are new personnel or agents
on loan from other county or state
organizations.
Brock said, "Unlike the rest of
the department here, who only
answer complaints from citizens,
we have to go out and get informa­tion.
Nobody files drug complaints.
"It's a hard job, it really is."
By Ken Taylor
Plainsman Staff Writer
Have you ever walked an Auburn field in springtime
blemished with an occasional cow pattie and made an
extra effort not to soil your sneakers with these
carpet-staining fly dwellings? If you have, then
chances are you might have failed to observe the tiny
pileated plants growing from them (the fly dwellings).
Little did you know that if these were mushrooms
that contained the magic drug of psilocyben and you
chanced to eat a few, you might have left that Auburn
field to walk among day-glo windmills and purple
blossoms, dodging dancing spheres of multicolored
lights and clouds.
Psilocyben mushrooms, like mescaline, LSD, DMT,
Ololiuqui, and other, are a psychodelic drug, part of
the hallucinogen family. They have a long history of
ceremonial and religious use in Central America, and
their importance are suggested by large stone
mushrooms dating from about 1,000 B.C. found in
Guatemala with the figures of gods carved in the
stem. The name Teonanacatl given to them, can be
translated as "God's flesh" or as "sacred mush­room."
The species that contains the greatest amount of
psilocyben, the Ingredient that produces the psyco-actlve
effect, is Psilocybe Mexlcana, which is
indigenous to Mexico. Another species of "magic
mushrooms", which is indigenous to Alabama, is
Psilocybe Cubensis, but it doen't contain as much of
the psychoactive agent.
Psilocyben mushrooms, or "shrooms" as they are
sometimes called, are nauseous in their natural form,
much like mescaline in its natural form, peyote,
according to Dr. Richard K. Means, Health, Physical
Education and Recreation professor. However, an
occassional user said many people ingest the mush­rooms
directly because they can regulate dosage
more easily.' 'If you just throw the mushrooms in a pot
to boil, you really don't know what you are getting, as
far as potency is concerned."
Means also said doses of 50 or more mushrooms can
be fatal, whereas about 10 are needed for a "high."
Different ways to take the mushrooms include
eating them straight from the ground and boiling them
to make a kind of "psychedelic kool-aid."
The effects of taking psilocyben mushrooms vary
from person to person and have been described
different ways by different people.
Gordon Wasson, a 1930's New York-banker-turned-ethnobotanist
described his experience of eating
mushrooms with natives in southern Mexico as
traveling backwards and forward in time, entering
other planes of existence and even knowing "god.
Timothy O'Leary, the father of the modern psyche­delic
drug culture, started his drug experimentation
with mushrooms (before moving on to LSD) and
describes an experience of eating seven mushrooms
as the greatest religious experience in his life.
Other researchers have stated the experiences as
seeing different colors, Mexican motifs, and thi
illumination of normally trivial or unnoticed everyday
objects.
The number of users in Auburn was estimated by Lt.
Lonnie Watkins of the Lee County Sheriff's depart­ment,
"we have a few spree users and then only really
in the springtime. Some folks will go out when it's
warmer, after a rain, when the mushrooms pop up In
some cattleman's pasture. And we get a complaint.
But, there's not much abuse."
Lt. Ted Murphy of the Auburn Police department,
said it is against the law to possess, use or sell
psilocyben mushrooms. The mushrooms carry
penalty of one to five years in jail and%or a $1,000 fine
per year.
Auburn is almost famous for its mushrooms. Maybe
it's because of the warm, humid climate, or perhaps
it's our overabundance of cow pastures.
One student said two University of Tennessee
students showed up at his doorstep one Saturday
morning in search of these "magic mushrooms."
"They said they drove all night to get here because
they had heard about Auburn's mushrooms."
And sure enough, the Tennessee students came back
to the Auburn student's house that afternoon "with a
bag full" of psilocyben mushrooms.
An escape from reality or a vehicle to enlighten­ment—
there are many reasons for the use of
psilocyben.
And if there can be seen nervous-looking people
frolicking through cow pastures in the spring equipped
with large plastic bags and family-species-genius
labeling handbooks, examining closely the cow
manure, one could reason these people are not on a
botany field trip but more likely searching for
"shrooms" to go on there own personal field trip.
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The Auburn Plainsman Thursday, February 23, 1978 A-8
Dangers
Amyl nitrate can cause damage to brain cells, experts say
By Rosy Evans
Plainsman Staff Writer
"Amyl nitrate? Sure, I've heard
of it. You can buy it on the streets
in Atlanta and New Orleans. Why
I've even seen it in Auburn. But
isn't it illegal?"
Often called Lockerroom, Rush,
Highball and Blackjack, the
product is usually found in head-shops
and record stores. In most
cases it's sold as a room oderizer or
a liquid incense, but the drug is
potentially dangerous, experts say,
and is growing in potential for
abuse.
The real drug amyl nitrate is
used primarily for heart patients in
treatment of angina pectorus. It's
also used to revive fainting vic­tims.
It comes in ampules and a
liquid form and a high feeling can
Plainsman survey shows popularity
of recreational drugs with students
Who uses drugs at Auburn
University? How many? How
much? What kind? And why?
We wanted to find the answers
to these questions so last week
The Plainsman circulated more
than 400 surveys of student drug
use. Admittedly, the surveys
weren't distributed to a cross-section
of the Auburn student
populace under scientific condi­tions.
So, naturally, any findings re­sulting
from the survey can't be
applied to the Auburn student
population as a whole. Any gene­ralizations
will apply only to the
424 students who took the survey.
More than 50 percent of the
persons polled had tried mari­juana
at least once. More than
one-third use it occasionally or
more often. One-fourth use it
frequently and within the last
week.
Among freshman polled, 57 per­cent
have never tried marijuana,
while only 39 percent of seniors
have never tried the drug.
Four out of five persons said
they would know how to find
marijuana if they wanted it.
Two-thirds said they could get'
marijuana very easily.
More than half of the users said
they used marijuana, "because I
like the feeling of being high."
One-third of the persons polled,
including users and non-users,
said marijuana might be harmful
to the mind and body. One of four
said it hasn't been proved one
way or the other.
Even though it looks like every­body's
gone to pot, that's about as
far as it goes. Amphetamines are
the only other major drug In
which any substantial use was
recorded—28 percent of those
polled have tried amphetamines
at least once*
Five out of six
persons polled drink alcohol at
least once a month. The majority,
35.7 percent, drink several times
a month or once a week. Of those
who stated a preference, the
majority drink beer most often.
Three out of four persons said
they don't usually get drunk when
they drink. The most prevalent
reasons given for drinking were
"drinking helps me relax and
have a good time," (34.1 percent),
and "because I like the taste of
alcholic beverages," (33.5 per­cent.
)
Cocaine had been tried by about
14 percent. Barbiturates by 13
percent, hallucinogens by 14 per­cent,
methaqualone by 12 percent
and opiates by 11 percent.
Two-thirds of the people polled
do not smoke. Of the smokers, two
of three have tried to quit
smoking before and more than
one-half smoke low-tar and nico­tine
cigarettes.
be obtained by smelling the vapors
from the substance.
An employee of a novelty shop on
Bourbon Street in New Orleans
explained that "it Is not really
amyl nitrate that's being sold down
here. Just look closely at the signs
along the street. Not one spells
amyl nitrate correctly because if
they did the shops would be closed
down."
Amyl nitrate can be obtained
with a prescription but most drug­stores
in the Auburn-Opelika area
don't even stock it. The drugs
effects are similar to those of
Isobutayl nitrate.
High Times Magazine pictures
Captain Rush with his bottle of
"Potency, Power and Purity." But
at the bottom of each advertise­ment
is a notice stating that the
editors of High Times have deter­mined
the product may be hazard­ous
to one's health.
Although the product is a suc­cessful
room odorizer and some
buy it for that purpose, most use it
just to get high by sniffing it.,Still
others find it helpful in their sex
lives in giving a euphoric boost in
the last moments of sex.
When used for a "rush", the
effects are short-lived, lasting
from 45 seconds to two minutes,
according to the dose. But the dose
is hard to measure because of its
vaporous substance. The feeling
obrtained from sniffing the drug is
basically one of a rush through the
user's system. The product dl-alates
the blood vessels and simul­taneously
lowers blood pressure.
The lowered level of blood pressure
can cause a decrease In available
oxygen to the brain. The dialated
blood vessels can cause a high
feeling, but also can Increase intra­cranial
pressure causing damage
to brain cells.
Also, amyl nitrate can be partic­ularly
dangerous to persons with
glaucoma, because the drug can
increase intraocular pressure too.
An employee of Gandolf's of
Auburn said, "we sold the product
right before Christmas. But after
we found out about its harmful
potential, we took it off our
shelves."
One ad for "Rush" says that one of
its main ingredients is an orally
toxic poison. Nevertheless, the
courts have said that it's legal to
sell the product as an odorizer if
it's labeled as such.
The Federal Consumer Products
Safety Commission is investigating
the product, according to High
Times magazine. However, the
Food and Drug Administration has
said that it can't do anything unless
the product is being sold as a drug.
Amyl nitrate, as a recreational
drug, has been around for a few
years and costs between $5 and $9
per one-third ounce. A New Or­leans
headshop employee said the
shop sold three to four dozen
botUes per week to various types of
customers. Some discos in the New
Orleans area have obtained li­censes
to sell it also.
...PCP affects awareness
By Kerry Pate
Plainsman Staff Writer
In recent reporting for maga­zines
and news reports, writers
have quickly stated that Phencyc-llndlne
(PCP) is the new rage in
psychedelic drug consumption.
Actually, PCP Initially appeared
in 1966 in limited quantites in New
York City, and San Francisco. At
the time PCP was sold either as
"Peace Pills" (hence it's name) or
as THC the active ingredent In
marijuana.
By 1969, PCP could be found
under a number of different gusies,
including "Angel Dust," which is
PCP sprinkled on parsley or low-grade
marijuana for smoking.
This of course confused law en­forcement
officials which had ob­tained
'strange looking pot' from
arrests, only to find no marijiana
or THC to be found.
Phencyclindine was developed
and manufactured in the 1950's as
an intravenous anesthetic. Al­though
found to be quite effective,
the side effects which included
agitated, bizarre behaviour and
disturbances of speech, vision,
proprioception, and coordination,
led the drug to be discontinued for
human use.
Restricted to veterinarian
practice since the early 1960's, the
drug was orginally available
through Parke, Davis and Com­pany
as Sernl, for experimental
human consumption. At the pre­sent
the drug is distributed by
Bio-Ceutic Laboratories under the
name Sernylan, and is only obtain­able
for use in primates and other
animals.
The psyciiwi .glcal effects of PCP
vary remarkably with the dosage.
At low doses, the most prominent
effect is similar to alcohol intoxica­tion
including numbness, but with
increased doses analgesis and ane-sthesis
are noted; very large doses
can induce convulsions. PCP, like
most narcotics, affects the central
nervous system. Depending upon
the subject's mental state and
physical consciousness, the quan­tity
ingested will determine his or
her reactions. Because of such
widespread uncalculated after
effects, PCP is classified as a
highly volitle hallucinogenic drug
capable of unique reactions to the
user.
Bakker and Amini in a publica­tion
from "Comparative Psychia­try"
noted from subjective tests
that "the main effect on the pscho-logical
functioning of the subject
was a progressive disintegra­tion."
Further on, they typify their
research matter in stating "As a
consequence, a progressive nar­rowing
of field of awareness
was observed. Past and future
disappeared and the subject lived
only in the present...the changes in
perception came somewhat later
the disturbances in body image."
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Marijuana theories vary A-9 Thursday, February 23,1978 The Auburn Plainsman
By Jackie Romlne
Features Editor
Through the years, marijuana—Cannabis
Sativa—has been called a "liberator of sin," a
precipitator of violent crimes, and a "true
mirror" into impressions and intimate
thoughts.
Today, whatever you choose to call it,
marijuana has been smoked by 41 million
Americans and is used regularly by 11 million,
according to White House statistics.
Cannabis is the world's fourth most widely
used psychoactive drug, after caffiene, nico­tine
and alcohol. Also, with the possible
exception of speeding on the highways, pot
smoking is probably the most widely com­mitted
crime in the United States.
The two most common Cannabis prepara­tions
are the marijuana leaf and hashish.
Hashish is a hard brown cake of pure
Cannabis resin. It is five to ten times more
potent than marijuana because the active
ingredient of the drug, which produces the
"highs," Delta-8 and Delta-9-THC, tetrahy-drocannobinols,
is highly concentrated in this
resin.
Cannabis grows virtually everywhere in the
world and is the source of hemp fibers for both
rope and linen fiber. The THC can also be
synthetically produced, usually in powder
form. The first seizure of this illegally
synthesized THC was in Mobile, Ala.
Marijuana is a euphoriant which gives the
user a sense of well-being. Unlike alcohol,
marijuana is not physically addicting, al­though
it is psychologically habituating, or
capable of forming an emotional depenence.
Also, no withdrawal signs occur when use of
the drug stops.
The issue of tolerance, a situation in which
repeating administration of the same dose of a
drug results in diminishing effects, is still
widely debated. Also, there is some sug­gestion
of cross-tolerance with alcohol.
There are reports of reverse tolerance or
less drug being necessary with each succed-ing
use of the drug. This reverse tolerance
may be due to an accumulation of the active
agent (THC) in the body. In one experiment,
radioactively labeled delta-9-THC was found
to persist in the body as an active' metabolite
as long as eight days after use.
The "subsequential" theory of drug abuse,
that marijuana use will lead to the abuse of
harder drugs, the opiates or the hallucino­gens,
has never been proved one way or the
other.
No human deaths have been directly caused
by the use of Cannabis. The lethal doses of
delta-9-THC is estimated to be about 40,000
times as large as a psychologically effective
dose. The lethal effective dose ratio for
alcohol is about 10.
One major problem with marijuana is that
research has been short term, with most
projects beginning only in the late 60's and
early 70's. Because interest in and research on
the drug is a farily new phenomenon little is
known about long-term effects. Dr. Richard
K. Means, who teaches a Drug Use and Abuse
class at Auburn, said marijuana has only been
in the spotlight for 10 to 15 years. "We just
don't know enough about it to define Its degree
of usefulness."
Cannabis is a central nervous system
depressant and the reticular activating
system is particularly sensitive to the action
of THC. The effect of THC on brain tissue is
very similiar to short acting barbiturates.
Also, marijuana is not a hallucinogen, al­though
it has precipitated flashbacks In
former LSD users.
Marijuana also tends to increase the ap­petite
of the user, more commonly known as
the ' 'munchies.'' Researchers say this may be
due to the stimulation of the appetite center of
the thalamus of the brain. The drug also has a
minor vasodilating effect which is responsible
for the reddening of the whites of the eyes
(conjuctiva). Marijuana increases the pulse
rate of the user and dryness of the mouth and
throat are uniformly reported. One study
showed that Cannabis lowered testosterone
levels but the findings have not been repro-duceable.
Some researchers nave defined an A-moti-vational
syndrome in heavy users. Means said
the syndrome is a chain of symptoms
including "laziness, lack of personal cleanli­ness,
a very indifferent attitude."
The possibility of damage to chromosones
has been researched. But no clear cause and
effect relationship was established.
(See MARIJUANA, page A-10)
Abused and accepted
MARIJUANA USE COMMON
.An estimated 41 million Americans have tried It
Alcohol: 'theun
Photography: Vlctey Hunt
PROBLEMS SUPPOSEDLY RESOLVED
.Alcohol is an accepted escape for many of life's problems
By Jackie Romlne
Features Editor
Alcohol is the most universally
accepted and abused drug in the
world.
Of the estimated 100 million
people who drink in the United
States, approximately one-tenth,
or 10 million are problem drinkers.
Other statistics show that there are
an estimated 500,000 alcoholics
between the ages of 10 and 19 and
one out every 15 young people
today will eventually become an
alcoholic.
Because alcohol is socially ac­ceptable
and many users do not
consider it as a drug, the potential
for abuse is frighteningly high.
Alcohol is physically addicting.
The hangover so many have suf­fered
is a sign of early withdrawal.
These withdrawal symptoms cul­minate
in the DT's—delerium
tremors, which include hallucina­tions,
illusions, insomnia, sweat­ing,
convulsions and possible death
if not treated. DT's are possible Common drugs
Caffeine, nicotine part of everyday life
By Jackie Romine
Features Editor
That first cup of coffee in the
morning, the calming cigarette
smoked between classes and even
the mid-afternoon cola pick-me-up
all contain drugs.
Caffeine, the active ingredient in
coffee, tea, and cola beverages, is a
x tan thine, the oldest stimulant
known to man. Five ounces of
coffee usually contains 90 to 125
milligrams of caffeine. Cola bever­ages
contain from 30 to 45 milli­grams.
Coca-Cola contains a high­er
amount of caffeine than most
drinks—45 milligrams. Tea con­tains
30 to 70 milligrams per five
ounces.
In man, absorption of caffeine is
rapid after oral intake and peak
blood levels are reached 30 to 60
minutes after ingestion. The half-life
of caffeine is three to five hours
and no more than 10 percent is
excreted unchanged.
Dependence on caffeine is real.
One substantiated withdrawal
symptom is the headache which
can develop in habitual users (five
or more cups of coffee a day).
Some reports suggest that naus­ea
and lethargy may precede the
headache, but the only substanti­ated
symptom is the headache.
Caffeine isn't very toxic, but
convulsions can result from high
doses. Habitual users usually have
higher blood pressure and lower
heart rates than non-users.
Behaviorally, caffeine in thera­peutic
doses, 200 to 300 milligrams,
can cause a mood-elevation effect
and a basic alertness. Caf­feine
also seems to reduce bore­dom
and increase attention.
The active drug ingredient in
tobacco is nicotine which is one of
the most toxic drugs known. In
man, a lethal dose is 60 milli­grams.
A cigar contains enough
nicotine for two lethal doses, but
the smoker doesn't receive all the
nicotine in the cigar and absorbtion
of the drug is slower.
In most regular users, smoking
results in a constriction of the blood
vessels in the skin, a decrease in
skin temperature and an increase
in blood pressure. All smoke con­tains
carbon monoxide, with cig­arette
smoke being l percent car­bon
monoxide, pipe smoke two
percent, and cigar smoke, 6 per­cent.
The carbon monoxide combines
with the hemoglobin in the blood so
that it can no longer carry oxygen.
This is a major effect of smoking, a
decrease in the oxygen-carrying
ability of the blood.
Also, smoking during pregnancy
results on the average, in lighter
weight babies, a 200 to 300 percent
increase in the number of prema­ture
babies and twice as many
aborted and stillborn babies.
One study suggests that smoking
increases arousal and possibly "se­lectively
enhances the perception
of weak stimuli." Also, in rats and
mice, low levels of nicotine in­crease
motor activity and perform­ance.
There also may be a facilita­tion
of learning.
According to a report to uie
World Health Organization, the
control of cigarette smoking could
do more to improve health and
prolong life...than any other single
action in the whole field of pre­ventive
medicine.
only after long-term continueu use.
The ultimate result of alcohol
abuse is chronic toxicity, or alco­holism,
which is one of America's
most serious health problems.
Even though there may be an
increase In behavior, alcohol is not
a stimulant, it is a central nervous
system depressant.
Small amounts, two beers or two •
ounces of liquor, cause a mild
sedation, relief of anxiety and
disinhibition. With a six pack or six
ounces, the disinhibition increases
and a gradual loss of motor control,
faulty judgement and short-term
memory impairment occur.
An anesthesia effect and sleep
often result from drinking a pint to
a fifth of liquor or two to three six
packs. The effects vary in ex­tremes
with most individuals.
Alcohol consumption is relative­ly
high in this area. Lee County
reported the ninth highest net
profit from alcohol sales out of 37
wet counties in the state in 1974.
Students may be responsible for
a more than moderate amount of
this liquor consumption.
Drunken driving is a dangerous
result of alcohol use. In 1977, more
than 130 persons aged 24 or less
were arrested In Auburn for DWI,
driving while intoxicated. More
than 90 persons aged 24 or less
were arrested and charged with
drunkeness and other violations
of liquor laws. Also, according to
FBI statistics, 40 percent of all
arrests in the United States are for
"drunkeness."
The U.S. Department of Trans­portation
estimates that alcohol is
involved in more than 28,000 auto­mobile
accident deaths each year.
It is also reported that usually
these alcohol-associated deaths in­volve
alcoholics, not social drink­ers.
Even so, only blood level of .04
percent alcohol cause a reported 25
to 30 percent deterioration in driv­ing
skills (in skilled drivers.) In no
Amphetamines used as
study aid by students
By Lisa Rigsby
Plainsman Staff Writer
"What? It's already 12:30 and
I've got six more chapters to read.
I'll never make it. I better take
some of those diet pills my sister
gave me so I can stay awake."
Speed is the slang or street name
for drugs in the amphetamine
category. Amphetamines are con­sidered
to be agents that improve
mental and physical performance
when they are impaired because of
fatigue. Amphetamines at proper
levels increase the activity of the
activating system as well as other
brain areas.
According to Dr. Bryon Wil­liams,
professor of Pharmacology,
these agents are central nervous
system stimulants with the effects
centered on a part of the brain
stem called the reticular forma­tion.
Amphetamines, by Increasing
output of impulses from the re­ticular
formation to cerebral corti­cal
areas, can induce wakefulness,
increase alertness, mood eleva­tion,
elation and Increased activity.
The medical effects of ampheta­mines
were discovered in the
1930's. It was shown quite early
that amphetamines were a potent
dilator of the bronclal tubes and
could be efficiently delivered
through Inhalation. Amphetamines
are also used for narcolepsy, which
is the inability to stay awake;
depression, and in rare cases hy­peractive
children.
The amount of speed taken by an
individual affects the arousal level
of the brain. There are three
categories of dosages—the thera­peutic
dose, unlimited doses, and
excessive doses.
The therapeutic dose causes only
arousal in the central nervous
system. This is the type dose most
students use when cramming for
exams. The unlimited doses cause
changes in sex patterns and a loss
of appetite.
Excessive amounts of speed
cause paranoia, amphetamine psy­chosis,
and irratibility. Ah over­dose
of speed can result in seizures,
tremors and comas.
The amphetamine rush, which is
the effect most students are seek­ing,
produces an abrupt awakening
feeling as opposed to the drowsy,
drifting effect which occurs be­cause
of lack of sleep.
One student, an occasional
"speed" user, said, "I like the
effect of speeding. It makes me feel
as it I can accomplish most any­thing
set before me."
Another said, "The only reason I
use speed Is to stay awake for
exams. The only drawback to
speed is the let-down. Tou never
know when it's going to happen."
One regretful user said, "I used
speed once and I'll never use it
again. I was nervous and couldn't
sleep. I really felt strange, like I
was soaring or things were coming
at me too fast."
One widespread misuse of am­phetamines
is using them just for
kicks. Ten to thirty milligrams of
an amphetamine will make people
feel quite good, alert, talkative—a
"turned-on, it's good to be alive
feeling." This probably makes
them hyperactive and nervous or
jittery.
Another behavior effect brought
on by the use of amphetamines is
compulsive and repetitive actions.
The individual may compulsively
clean a room over and over.
The long-term use of ampheta­mines
can eventually lead to phys­ical
addiction. Certain features
occur when the use of ampheta­mines
is discontinued such as
depression, overeating, irratibil­ity,
and extreme fatigue. Most of
these symptoms usually go away In
a week or so, except in some cases
depression may continue. It is not
clear whether this is a result of the
amphetamine abstinence or a part
of the personality of the Individual
that led him initially to use stimu­lants.
state is the necessary level to be
declared legally drunk greater
than 0.15 percent.
Alcoholism is both difficult to
define and explain. Although some
evidence points to a genetic basis,
other researchers say individuals
who become alcoholics have a
faulty biochemical make-up.
Alcoholics have been extensively
studied psychologically and a fair­ly
consistent pattern emerges. Al-holics
apparently have a very low
frustration tolerance and often
little ability to persevere in a task.
Those traits, coupled with reported
tendencies to act impulsively,
sometimes with considerable hos­tility,
make it easy to understand
why alcoholics also report feelings
of isolation.
When alcohol intake occurs fre­quently
over a number of years,
physical dependence occurs and
withdrawal symptoms result in a
dangerous change in the body
physiology.
Physical manifestations of alco­holism
include blood-shot eyes and
redness and puffiness around the
eyes, a frequent hoarseness, in­flamed
stomach, nausea and loss of
appetite.
. Alcohol can also cause damage
to the stomach,. intestines, heart,
blood vessels and kidneys, can
destroy the liver and causes per­sonality
changes.
The physical dependence associ­ated
with the prolonged use of
alcohol is best seen when alcohol
Intake is stopped. The abstinence
syndrone that develops is medical­ly
more severe and more likely to
cause death than withdrawal from
narcotic drugs. The withdrawal,
symptoms, which include tremors
and delirium, don't appear until
blood levels drop below the intoxi­cation
level. And these symptoms
alone may be enough to keep the
drinker drinking.
Use of 'champagne
of drugs' increases
By Rick Harmon
Managing Editor
Cocaine use to be indulged In
only by the very rich and a few jazz
musicians, but more and more
people seem to be turning to the
"champaigne of drugs."
The white powder, which Sig-mund
Freud wrote his fiance was
"a magical drug" and fictional
detective Sherlock Holmes used
because it was "transcendentally
stimulating and clarifying to the
mind," has begun to gain populari­ty
on many college campuses.
Auburn is no exception.
"It's not very easy to get cocaine
at Auburn," said one student "but I
know a fair amount of students
here use it. Normally they buy it in
large cities. One friend of mine told
me he can get it for me anytime I
want it from Atlanta."
Users cite a number of reasons
for "coke's" growing popularity.
One of the reasons is that many
doctors seem to agree that unlike
narcotics, cocaine is not physically
addictive.
"I must know 30 or 40 people that
use coke," said one female student
"but I've only met one person who
ever got hooked on it."
Another reason that many
cocaine users turn to the drug is
that they feel the drugs effects are
much more pleasurable than drugs
like marijauna or alcohol.
"Sometimes pot or booze doesn't
really make you feel good," said
one student. Occassionally they
just make you feel depressed or
tired. But with coke you always
feel good. You feel peaceful,
happy, almost energized.
"I don't think I've ever talked to
anyone who ever felt