1977-10-27 The Auburn Plainsman

              Restrictions, traditions
Concerts bypass Auburn
By Dave White and
Rick Harmon
Restrictive regulations and Aub­urn
traditions forced the UPC to
pass up opportunities for perfor­mances
by Crosby, Stills and
Nash, Emerson Lake and Palmer
and England Dan and John Ford
Coley on campus this quarter.
Based on a decision by the' Social
Life Committee, requiring a two
week interval between major con­certs,
the UPC refused requests by
Crosby, Still and Nash and Emer­son,
Lake and Palmer to perform
at Auburn on Nov. 16 and 17,
respectively.
The UPC shied away from
signing England Dan and John
Ford Coley for Nov. 20, a Sunday,
because, according to UPC ad­visor,
Ellen Maloy, "major events
on Sunday nights had been turned
down in the past (by the Social
Life Committee.)"
Maloy said she received an
"unfavorable response" from
Dean of Student Life Katharine
Cater, when asked for an opinion
concerning a Sunday concert.
"It has been our policy in the
past not to have concerts on
Sunday night," Cater said. The
president (Harry Philpott) has
been against having them on
Sunday. I haven't talked to him
recently about it, but in the past
we have always been against it
because we thought of Auburn as a
small church going town. The UPC
would have had to have asked for
an exception."
Maloy did not press for an
exception for the Sunday concert
because she said her "impression
from Cater's statement to her was
that the SLC would refuse."
It was the SLC which mediated
the decision for a two week
interval between major concerts,
as a compromise between the UPC
and the Inter Fraternity Council
last May 2,1977. Some members of
the UPC voiced dissatisfaction
with the compromise, saying it
hinders the chances of the UPC
booking any other major concerts
during fall quarter.
"We're sort of stymied with four
weeks taken out of the quarter,"
said Sim Thomas, chairman of the
UPC's Major Entertainment Com­mittee.
"If promoters and organizers
offer us concert dates within the
four weeks surrounding the Home­coming
concert, we can't work
with them."
Thomas said lack of publicity
ruled out major concerts during
the first few weeks of a quarter
and finals took care of the last
week. Coupled with the pro­hibited
four week period, this
leaves less than three weeks in
which concerts could be booked.
"I am in favor of anything that
(See CONCERTS, page A-2)
The Auburn Plainsman
Volume 84 Number 5 Thursday, October 27, 1977 Auburn, Ala. 36830 28 pages
Jacks gets life sentence
By Susan Counts
Assistant News Editor
District Attorney Ron Myers
said Tuesday he thought there
were no reversible errors in the
court case of Robert Andrew
Inside Today
Jacks, a 1977 Auburn graduate
who was convicted of first degree
murder Friday and sentenced to
life imprisonment.
Jack's, attorneys have appealed
the case.
Jacks was tried for the murder
of Auburn dentist Farris Walker
who was killed last spring. He is
now being held in Lee County Jail.
Gary Cash, 4ADS, who was the
prosecution's key witness in the
trial and had accompanied Jacks
to Walker's house the night of the
murder, was granted immunity
for his testimony.
"As bad as I hate it, Cash was
granted immunity," said Myers.
"No one hates immunity more
than a prosecutor because it
means someone goes free. I don't
like it any better than anyone else
does. Cash should be in the
penitentiary."
Myers said Jacks was also
charged with first degree burglary
in the incident but would not be
tried on the charge because the
facts and the penalty would be the
same.
Cash, who testified Oct. 18 and
19, said he was with Jacks at the
time of Walker's death and saw
Jacks shoot Walker with a 22-
caliber pistol equipped with a
home-made silencer.
According to Cash, he had been
with Jacks several times prior to
the night of the shooting when they
had followed Walker's car. He said
the night of the shooting, he
entered Walker's house with Jacks
fired a shot at Walker.
Cash said the shot did not kill
Walker immediately, but that
Jacks strangled him to death. He
said they then took Walker's body,
some of his belongings and his car
to Phenix City, Ala. The belong­ings
were taken to make it appear
that Walker had taken a trip,
according to Cash.
Photography: Charles OopsJand
Splash!
Sigma Chi Derby day is fun, games and a little messy sometimes.
Alpha Delta PI coach Al Smith receives a direct hit from a water baloon
during one competition. Kappa Alpha Theta soroity won for the day by
accumulating the most points in events including Strlp-the-Slg,
three-legged races and spirit contest. The traditional annual event also
included competitions during the week and the crowning of a Derby
queen.
Plainsman receives
All American rating
The Auburn Plainsman has been
awarded its twenty-third consecu­tive
All-American rating by the
Associated Collegiate Press.
To win the award, a newspaper
must earn "Marks of Distinction"
in at least four of five areas: Holmes threatens Auburn ETV
BIRTH CONTROL-An
in-depth study of birth
control—methods, availability
and responsibility. (See page
A-8)
FREE CONCERT-Mother's
Finest, an Atlanta-based
rock-soul group, will
perform tonight in the Memor­ial
Coliseum. (See page B-8)
LEADERSHIP-or
lack of it. Sports Editor
Brad Davis says it's easy to
blame the coach, but there are
some things he can't control.
(See page B-l)
By Becki Thomas
Plainsman Staff Writer
State Rep. Alvin Holmes (D-Montgomery)
has threatened to
take action against the Auburn
Educational Television station
after charges against the agency
produced what Holmes said he
considered unsatisfactory results.
Holmes said comments made
more than a year ago on a
program hosted by his brother
irritated white viewers, causing
the agency not to renew his
brother's contract. Stinson Holmes
was co-host of the Auburn-pro­duced
"Harambee," a show focus­ing
on blacks in Alabama.
Auburn President Harry M.
Philpott investigated the matter at
the request of Rep. Holmes. He
said Monday the investigation was
complete and said Stinson
Holmes's contract was not renew­ed
due to a change in the show's
format.
"It is not surprising to me that
Dr. Philpott would take this
position with the other people
there," Holmes said. He said he
thought a white person would not
side with a black, "especially if
the black is Alvin Holmes."
He indicated he would attempt
to discontinue federal funding of
the ETV affiliate if he finds the
agency in violation of federal law.
Holmes said he would also offer
a resolution to the state legislature
when it convenes in January,
asking it to form a select
committee to investigate the af­fairs
and conduct of Auburn
Educational Television.
The program in contention was
aired April 5, 1976. Holmes said
white viewers had objected to his
calling Jefferson Davis and Robert
E. Lee "traitors" for trying to
"overthrow the Federal Govern­ment"
in the Civil War
J. Herbert White, Director of
University Relations, said Auburn
received no calls or letters
concerning the program.
White agreed with Philpott and
said the contract, which expired in
October, was not renewed because
of a change in the program's
format.
Stinson Holmes, now working as
a radio announcer at WXVI in
Montgomery, said, "how could I
host a program for three years
and then someone say that I'm not
qualified?"
He said he had received a letter
informing him the contract would
not be renewed because of a
change in format. No other
reasons were given.
At his request, the station sent
him a second letter informing him
of "other reasons" for his firing,
which he did not specify and which
he said were untrue.
coverage and content, writing and
editing, editorial leadership,
physical appearance and pho­tography
and use of graphics. The
Plainsman won marks in all five
areas.
"The Plainsman is good looking,
readable and exciting," the judges
said. "It makes Auburn come
across as a 'people place' where
things are happening in educa­tion."
The Plainsman's five-year
string of Pacemaker awards,
given annually to the best weekly
college newspaper in the country,
was broken this year. The Pepper-dine
University "Graphic," from
California was awarded the Pace­maker.
The judges had particular praise
for Plainsman Probes, copy-edit­ing
and proofreading, opinion
content, reader response through
letters to the editor and advertis­ing,
which received the maximun
50 bonus points.
Christy Hudgins, now in law
school at The University of
Alabama was editor during this
period. Ken Edwards was business
manager.
Candidates...
...opposed by 'babe in woods'
By Susan Counts
Assistant News Editor
"A babe in the woods" and three
candidates using their elected
offices for political gain was
Alabama State Sen. Sid Mc­Donald's
description of his likely
opponents for the 1978 gubern­atorial
race.
McDonald painted this picture of
his opponents during an informal
press conference preceding a
speech to Auburn students Tues­day.
The speech was part of the
SGA's "Great Issues Facing Ala­bama"
program, which includes
speeches by five Democratic
candidates for governor.
McDonald used the term "babe
in the woods" in reference to
Opelika businessman Fob James,
who is using his lack of experience
in state government as his plat­form
theme.
"I can see the attractiveness of
this type of platform," said
McDonald. "It's nice to be without
dirt on you for not having touched
the dirty political arena. But it is
another thing to go into state
government not having experience
and to try to correct it. I think the
President's major problems in
Washington come from not having
had experience with Congress."
He told reporters he was not
using his senatorial seat to
promote himself as three other
candidates were using their posi­tions.
"I came to Auburn today in my
own private automobile," he said.
"I expect those other candidates
would use a state automobile and
have paid state employees ac- |
companying them." 1
"We need a governor
who wants to help the state
rather than one who
working for self-interest.
McDonald used Alabama Lt.
Gov. Jere Beasley as an example,
saying he had spent $150,000 to
$175,000 on staff for self-promo­tion.
He said this total was more
than was spent by others in the
same office.
"We will best be served by a
governor who wants to do the right
things to help the state rather than
one who is working for self-interest,"
McDonald said. "I am
not a professional politician. My
strength is that I don't need this
office for my ego or income.
"I just want to do something
constructive for the state govern­ment.
Anyone who tries to do
something without this attitude
will not be successful," he said.
In his speech McDonald said
next year's election would be the
most important since 1962 because
it marks the end of the "Wallace
era."
He also said that curing Ala­bama's
"sick state government"
was one of the priorities he would
set if elected governor.
'...incorporate what you learn'
By Lauren C. Steele
News Editor
State Sen. George McMillan told
a predominately student audience
Tuesday night he hoped they
would incorporate lessons they
have learned at Auburn and take
their "youthful enthusiasm" into
the public sector.
McMillan, a candidate for lieu­tenant
governor, was sponsored by
the political science honorary Pi
Sigma Alpha.
Auburn SGA president in 1966,
McMillan urged students to get
Involved in campus politics and
activities.
"The strength of democracy is
the character we bring to it," the
Birmingham senator said. He
admonished those who had the
"bad habit" of feeling they were
above involvement in politics.
McMillan said one of the major
problems facing clean politics is
"Don't feel you are
above involvement in poli­tics.
Get involved, espe­cially
on campus. yy
that too many politicians bow to
special interest group pressure.
One way to stop special interest
dominance, he said, is to pass a
strong Corrupt Practices Act
which would let the public know
who is contributing to political
campaigns. He called present
Alabama campaign ethic laws
"antiquated."
McMillan, who has served in the
Senate since 1974, outlined his
work in the legislature.
He said he has advocated
strengthening the powers of the
Public Service Commission's to
regulate public utilities.
He said the PSC's staff must be
expanded to offset utility com­panies'
professional counsel.
McMillan said he was most
proud of his work for prison
reform. In 1975 he sponsored the
Prison Industries bill which he
said provides inmates with the
opportunity and obligation to work
during confinement.
The law's advantages are two­fold,
he said. Working instills the
work ethic and penal institutions
are provided with a means to
partially support their own pro­grams.
The candidate criticized present
Lt. Gov. Jere Beasley for making
the post a full time job.
"The office of lieutenant gov­ernor
is an important office," he
said, "but important in a limited
sense."
He said the primary objective of
the job should be to preside over
the Alabama Senate in an ob­jective
and fair manner.
McMillan said it was regretful
Alabama's government has left
many facets of administration up
to federal courts.
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TheAubum Plainsman Thursday, Oct. vt, lvn A-2
The world
this week
By Beckl Thomas
Plainsman Staff Writer
International
INDUSTRIALIST KILLED, MANHUNT
MOBILIZED- West Germany started the
biggest manhunt In its 28-year history last
week for the killers of industrialist Hann-Mar-tin
Schleyer. Terrorists claiming responsibility
for the death of Schleyer said they killed him
to avenge the trio of hijackers killed by West
German Commandos in Somalia.
PANAMANIANS APPROVE TREATY-Some
700,000 Panamanian citizens voted Sunday on
the canal treaties, with two-thired of the votes,
counted as approving the accords. The U.S.
Senate must vote on the treaties before
Panama gains control of the waterway by the
year 2000 a s outlined in the plans.
National
LYNARD SKYNYRD MEMBERS KILLED LN
CRASH-Three members of the rock band
Lynyrd Skynyrd were killed Thursday night
when the chartered Convair airplane. crashed
while attempting an emergency landing near
Gillsburg, Miss. Dead are lead singer Ronnie
Van Zandt, guitarist Steve Gaines his vocalist
sister Cassie Gaines, the pilot, co-pilot and the
group's road manager. The plane was en route
from a Wednesday night performance in
Greenville, S.C. to a Friday night concert at
Louisiana State University at Baton Rouge.
BERKOWITZ COMPETENT TO STAND
TRIAL-Alleged "Son of Sam" killer David
Berkowitz was declared mentally competent to
stand trial by a New York judge Friday,
despite contrary testimony from a court-appointed
pyschiatrist. Berkowitz's 24-year-old
lawyer said he will raise a defense of
innocence by reason of insanity.
HIJACKER KILLS SELF IN ATLANTA-A
29-year-old hijacker killed himself in Atlanta
last Thursday after releasing 13 hostages from
a jet he comandeered in Nebraska. Thomas
Michael Hannan of Sioux Falls, S.D. shot
- himself in the chest while his attorney tried to
convince him to surrender at Atlanta's Harts-field
International Airport. Hannan, who de­manded
the release of his jailed homosexual
lover, hijacked the plane 14 hours earlier on a
scheduled flight from Grand Island, Kan. to
Lincoln, Neb.
State
McCULLOUGH PLEADS GUILTY - Former
Opelika Mayor ^Bobby - McCullough, who
pleaded guilty to a felony in late September
shortly after he resigned from the city
commission, was given a three year sentence
last Tuesday. Six months are to served in
Federal prison camp at Maxwell Air Force
Base. The remainder of the sentence t e rm is
probation. McCuUough pleaded guilty to falsi­fying
bank records while he was presidnet of
Opelika National Bank, now the Bank of East
Alabama.
BAXLEY RULES AGAINST REED-Atty.
Gen. Bill Baxley ruled last week that Repre­sentative
Thomas Reed automatically lost his
seat in the House of Representatives be­cause
of his conviction of attempting to bribe
another legislator. Baxley prosecuted Reed of
charges of bribery, but was able to get a
conviction only on the misdemeanor charge of
attempting to bribe another legislator. That
charge carried no prison sentence and only a
$500 fine. Reed, the state president of the
NAACP, has filed notice of appeal of his
conviction.
Construction work beginning
at new local shopping mall
Preliminary construc­tion
work has begun for
Village Corner, a new
Auburn shopping center
located at the inter­section
of Glenn Avenue
and Dean Road.
The shopping center,
which was approved for
zoning by the Auburn
City Council in spring of
this year, is being de­veloped
by Village Cen­ters
Inc. of Atlanta and
is expected to be com­pleted
and open by June
1, 1978.
According to Dusty
Wiederhold of Village
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a Kroger Super­market,
a Treasury
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Concerts
From page A-1
benefits the student body, but not
at the expense of one concert over
another," said IFC President Pat
Jones, commenting upon a pos­sible
concert within two weeks of
homecoming.
Bruce McGowin, UPC coordina­tor
and SLC member, said the SLC
would probably have rejected the
CSN of ELP concerts, both within
two weeks of the IFC-sponsored
homecoming show.
"I don't think they would have
allowed the concerts because of
the potential to undercut IFC
tickets sales and because of the
SLC's commitment in the spring,"
said McGowin.
McGowin and Thomas said they
fejt there would have been a "good
Chance" of bringing CSN or ELP
to Auburn il the UPC sponsored
the homecoming show.
McGowin said he "couldn't see
the SLC objecting" to either
concert being held within two
weeks of homecoming if the UPC
handled both concerts, because
"there you're dealing with two
promoters' money, not any student
group's money, and the SLC
wouldn't have a commitment to
any student group."
Last spring the SLC approved an
exemption allowing the UPC to
bring Olivia Newton-John and Neil
Diamond to Auburn within two
weeks of each other.
McGowin and Thomas said they
would push this year for one
student organization sponsoring
all major concerts at Auburn,
through the SLC or "whatever
means present themselves."
"I feel the two week limitation
was a fair compromise," said
Cater. Of course, if the student feel
of course, if the student feels it
was a wrong decision and come
out against it, it can be brought up
again and we can redecide it.
"If it is redecided, I guess the
procedure will be that the SLC will
decide the issue again. There will
be student input. Both the UPC
and the IFC consist of students
and the SLC consists of a wide
variety of members, many of them
students."
Five of the six student members
on the SLC are fraternity or
sorority members.
It's time
Those 8 a.m. classes will seem even earlier for a
while after Daylight Savings Time ends Sunday
morning. Clocks should be set back an hour, which
means that 6:30 alarm clock ring will come almost
before dawn.
Landlord-Tenant Board
solves cases 'in hour'
Card confuses
owners, users
By Dana Kerbs
Plainsman Staff Writer
"At least three in­stances
have 4. already
been resolved within an
hour," said Gene Oswalt,
student chairman of the
Auburn Student and
Landlord Advisory Board
about the organization's
first fall quarter meeting
held Oct. 19.
The purpose of the
board, which was organ­ized
during winter and
spring quarters last
year, is to provide a
system for landlords and
tenants to settle disputes
in a cooperative manner.
Serving on the board
are area realtors Bill
McMillan, Judy Krista
and John Curry and
student members Os­walt,
4PUB, Bruce^Mc-
Gowin, 4GPO, and Canny
Dominick, 3GSCS. Randy
Schrimsher, 4BSC,
Charlie Payne, 4PM, and
Stuart Patton, 4PB, are
student alternates.
Complaints, accepted
from both tenants and
landlords, must be sub­mitted
in triplicate on the
proper form to McMillan,
president of the Board of
Realtors of Lee Country
or to Oswalt.
The complaint will
then be distributed to all
board members, who will
either accept the com­plaint
or reject the com­plaint
as invalid. If the
committee agrees to re­view
the charge, a hear­ing
will be scheduled
with both the complain­ant
and the respondent
present.
After a general discus­sion
on the complaint,
the board will hear each
party alone and then
issue a decision.
Both parties will have
two weeks following the
board's decision to settle
the matter.
Beasley
schedule
changed
Lt. Gov. Jere Beas­ley,
scheduled to spe­ak
as part of the
SGA's "Great Issues
Facing Alabama" ser­ies,
will speak Nov. 22
at 4 p.m. The UPC
calendar, which lists
his talk for today, was
printed before a chan­ge
in plans and could
not be corrected.
Student Buying Power
Cards distributed by the
SGA have caused some
confusion among stud­ents
and area businesses
over discounts offered to
students.
SGA President John
Bush said, "The cards
can be confusing. A
student has to read it
several times to make
sure he understands it."
L and B Marketing
Corporation, which man­ufactured
the cards with
the endorsement of the
SGA, has offered the
cards at other universi­ties.
Five area stores are
involved: David's Den II,
Herbert Music, The Ra-mada
Inn, Olin Hill's
Men's Clothing and Cap­tain
D's Seafood Restau­rant.
The card says four
of the stores offer a 10
percent discount on cer­tain
items.
Herbert Music has had
some serious problems
with the card. Store
Manager Jeff Comer said
"The statement about
our "full line of records
and tapes" is only to
advertise that we carry
these items. But students
are coming in and think­ing
they're being taken
because we're not giving
them discounts on recor­ds,"
Comer said.
Dave Harris, assistant
to the SGA President,
said, "The card is worth
it in one sense because it
helps students to get
acquainted with the Uni­versity.
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Phi I pott: 'Closed sessions protect personalities'
By Susan Counts
Assistant News Editor
Part of War Eagle
Cafeteria's utilities, paid
since its 1973 remodeling
by student activities fees,
will now be paid by Food
Services, President
Harry M. Philpott told
WEGL listeners Monday
night in his first live
station interview in more
than four years.
Philpott also explained
his views on recent
Health Center problems,
the policy of holding
closed "executive
meetings" and said he
was making no move to
fire football coach Doug
Barfield.
According to Philpott,
utility bills have been
paid by students because
Food Services was op­erating
in a deficit and
the University wanted to
keep cafeteria prices
low.
AU enrollment
increases again
Auburn University's
combined enrollment for
its two campuses this fall
is 22,165, an increase of
785 over the pre /ious fall
quarter, according to Dr.
Wilbur A. Tincher, dean
of student services. This
represents an overall in­crease
of 3.7 per cent.
The final enrollment at
the main campus is
17,977, an increase of 2.6
per cent over last fall's
total of 17,532. The Mont­gomery
campus has a
total of 4,188, an increase
of 8.6 per cent over last
fall's 3,857.
The main campus en­rollment
includes 16,022
undergraduates for an
increase of 2.7 per cent
and 1,975 graduate stu­dents
for an increase of
2.1 per cent.
Despite the July 20
cut-off for freshman ap­plications
and the short­age
of student housing in
the Auburn area, a re­cord
enrollment was
achieved, according to
Dr. Ben T. Lanham, vice
president for administra­tion.
"The shortage of suit­able
student housing was
a major factor in the
early cut-off date," Dr.
Lanham explained.
"Many prospective stu­dents
did not apply be­cause
of the housing
situation, and an esti­mated
100-200 students
who were admitted did
not enroll when housing
became a problem."
The School of Engin­eering
showed the
largest gain in enroll­ment,
with an increase of
approximately 15 per
cent, followed by the
School of Business with
an increase of 10 per
cent, Dr. Tincher said.
He said Food Services
was now operating in the
black, however, and will
be responsible for con­tributing
to cover the
utility bills. He said the
money was appropriated
in this year's budget.
Concerning the Health
Center, Philpott told
listeners he had accepted
the resignation of Garth
L. Jarvis as center ad­ministrator,
employed
Dr. Dunlap W. Oleson
and was still trying to
recruit additional physi­cians.
He said another
doctor was expected to
be employed in Dec­ember.
"We are trying to pro­duce
the best Health
Center we possibly can
with resources that are
available to us," he said.
Philpott said health
committee meetings
were closed to the press
and public because per­sonalities
were being
discussed.
"When you are discus­sing
personalities, you
just can't have open
hearings," said Philpott.
"It Is a recognized prin­ciple
in practically every
form of government. You
need to try and get at the
truth but still protect the
good name and char­acters
of people in­volved."
Philpott said it was
often hard to separate an
issue from a personality.
He added that the com­mittee
reviewing the
problems voted to hold
an "executive session"
or closed meeting.
"I didn't order the
committee to have closed
meetings," he said,
"They decided them­selves."
A student asked Phil­pott
why the University
protected Jarvis's "good
name" while the same
was not done for the two
fired Health Center
nurses.
Philpott said he knew
nothing of what the stu­dent
was referring to.
In answer to another
student question con­cerning
the right of stu­dents
to know what is
happening in the Health
Center, Philpott repeated
his opinion that subjects
involving personalities
should not be discussed
publicly. He added that
the committee members
who voted to allow a
meeting to be open or
closed to the public al­ways
had the ability to
make the decision fairly.
He said he thought the
power to make such a
decision would never
abused.
Also in the question
and answer period, Phil­pott
discredited the
rumor that football
Coach Doug Barfield
would be fired following
this year. He said both
Barfield and Athletic
Director Lee Hayley had
contracts which would
not run out until the end
of next.
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presented by Senate
The Student Senate
Organizations Commit­tee
presented Organiza­tion
of the Year awards
at a luncheon Saturday
as a part of the Senate-sponsored
Organizations
Day.
In previous years, only
one overall winner was
announced, but this year
awards were presented
in three categories:
service, professional and
academic honor soci­eties.
Senate does little
Ring figures corrected
The Student Senate,
with only one member
absent Monday night,
passed no major legisla­tion,
although committee
reports suggested next
week's meeting would be
more eventful.
Rusty Parker said the
Rules Committee is
working on a code of
laws change that, if
passed by the Senate
would make committee
meecing attendance
mandatory.
Tavia Copenhaver said
the Budget and Finance
Committee will take
budget requests from
sports clubs Nov. 7.
Those requests will then
be brought up at the
Senate meeting for ap­proval.
The Oct. 13 issue of The
Plainsman had a typo­graphical
error in a front
page story about a ring
company being removed
from the campus. The
story read that the Art
Carved Ring Co. offered
to pay the SGA $7.50 and
ringseller Ronnie Bat-taglia
50 cents commis­sion
for each ring sold.
$5.50 for the SGA and
$4.50 for Battaglia. At
present the Balfour Ring
Co. pays Battaglia the
same amount, $4.50, and
the SGA 50 cents.
Although the figures
were not correct, the
facts of the story were.
The SGA turned down
ArtCarved's offer of
more money per ring
commission.
Seven groups were con­sidered
in the profes­sional
division: Alpha
Eta Rho, Block and
Bridle Club, Council for
Exceptional Children,
Alpha Zeta, Tau Beta
Pi and Eta Kappa Nu
were considered for the
academic honor society
division. Tau Beta Pi was
named best in the di­vision.
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Editorials
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Wednesday marked Auburn-Alabama Better Relations Day, an annual
event which brings student leaders from Auburn and Tuscaloosa together to
exchange ideas.
However, we wonder whether such an occasion merits an expenditure of
more than $500 every other year, SGA Treasurer Steve Forehand's estimated
cost of such a program.
It's not the present SGA's fault. In the past, AU-UA Better Relations Day
has traditionally been a major event, at times meriting front page coverage in
The Plainsman.
But times have changed. Money is tighter these days, and anachronistic
programs such as Better Relations Day are better simply remembered as things
ot the past.
The SGA should realize that it's not an inherent duty to sponsor such a
program. A phone call to Bama could do just as well, and would cost a lot less
money.
And the issues discussed at the meetings are not vital. "We just discuss
what we can do that they can't and vice versa," said SGA President John
Bush. "And we'll discuss some things about the Auburn-Alabama game."
Teacher evaluation
Students denied opportunity for input
Birth Control
Auburn and birth control—the terms usually aren't associated.
But, with potentially more than 7,000 Auburn women to be at least
confronted with sexual relationships, Auburn and birth control should join
together for the sake of all persons involved.
Work on an Auburn Family Planning Clinic is in the preliminary stages
now as a part of the statewide Family Planning Project, locally housed in the
Lee County Public Health Center. The clinic will be an asset to the
community, but we feel the Family Planning project is doing the University's
job by supplying students with access to birth control.
Not only is the University negligent in providing birth control for student,
the administration has also failed to cooperate with Lee County Public Health
officials who say they want to provide free birth control services at the Student
Health Center.
A Lee County Public Health official said, "We've had conferences with
Auburn administration in the past about getting birth control facilities on
campus and we always hit a dead end."
We feel the administration should take positive, rather than negative,
action toward securing birth control and gynecological services at the health
center.
There are two ways to prevent tragic unwanted pregnancies—self-control
and birth control. If you can't have one, you have got to have the other.
Providing an option to Auburn students is not advocating lack of self-control,
it's just facing facts.
Bloody war
We are engaged in a "blood-y" battle with the University of Alabama, and
we're on the verge of losing. Last year Auburn University challenged Alabama
to top our blood drive total, and it seems they're on their way to doing it.
Since Auburn's major blood drives are held during winter and summer
quarters, we have already been credited for the year with 4,504 pints.
Alabama is 703 pints behind us with 3,801 pints to its credit. But Bama is
planning two more blood drives, expected to net another combined 800
pints, putting them approximately 100 pints ahead of us.
However, the Red Cross has agreed to count the Wesley Foundation's drive
today with Auburn's total. The Foundation is open today from 12:30 to 6
p.m. Please go by and give a little. Donating blood is always worthwhile, but
when you can Beat Bama at the same time, it is a pleasure.
On the air
Yes Virginia, there really is a Harry Philpott.
The man most students see or hear only at their freshman convocation
and graduation came out in the open a little this week as a guest on
WEGL's Community Forum.
Philpott gave Auburn students the opportunity to ask him questions and
for them to tell the president what they thought of him or Auburn
University.
We think his going on the air live was a positive step and a laudable
action.
The radio forum provided Philpott a verbal chance to explain his
position of on some important campus issues.
While we still disagree with his firing two Health Center nurses and his
defense of secret meetings, we were happy the students got the
opportunity to take their problems directly to the president.
Philpott did not have to consent to the radio interview, and we hope his
doing so is an indication of future openness with the students.
How many times have you angrily
pounded your head against the wall
because you were unlucky enough
to be stuck with a teacher who
cared little about whether you
learned?
Do you wish you could do
something about it? You almost
can't.
Teacher evaluation was meant to
give students a major role in
helping to improve Auburn teach­ers.
However, in practice it is a
farce.
The program was implemented
winter quarter of 1975 by Assistant
Dean of Academic Affairs Taylor
Littleton. "The purpose of the
program is faculy development," he
said. "We're trying to get each
professor to raise his own abilities to
higher levels."
So far it has not worked well, for
several reasons. Many teachers do
John
Carvalho
not even bother to let their students
evaluate them; others consider eval­uation
little more than a time-con­suming
formality and ignore stu­dents'
suggestions, considering stu­dents
unqualified to rate teaching
abilitv.
Unfortunately, it seems to be the
minority of teachers who hand out
evaluation forms and study them as
a means of self-improvement.
And it is ironic that the teachers
who do give out evaluation forms
are usually among the best instruc­tors,
or will be. I have taken courses
under some of the better teachers at
Auburn, and the distribution of
evaluation forms at the end of the
quarter is standard procedure for
them.
It's not hard to see why they're
such good teachers: they care.
However, while there are a lot of
Siality teachers here at Auburn,
ere are not enough. Too many
members of the faculty are arrogant
egotists who look down on students
and consider teaching a waste of
time. Still others are incompetents
who are afraid of the truth. You
wouldn't expect these teachers to
allow evaluation.
One reason for teachers evalua­tion
being so ineffective is that in
some schools it is optional. Dr.
Victor Zaloom of the School of
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Engineering described his school's
evaluation as being on an individual
honor system. "The faculy members
will pass out and collect the course
evaluation sheets," he said.
Armed with that bit of informa­tion,
I asked a friend who is in an
engineering curriculum whether he
had received evaluation forms for
any of his engineering courses. He
had not.
Also, there is an inadequate
system for enforcing evaluation in
those schools which require it on a
regular basis. In the School of Arts
and Sciences, for example, only the
department head and the instructor
can ever see the evaluation form. In
other words, a department within
the school could decide to never
allow evaluation, and the dean
would never know it.
The solution? Make quarterly
teacher evaluation mandatory, and
punish those teachers who consis­tently
refuse to be evaluated. It
can't force teachers to follow stu­dents'
advice, but perhaps having
the information will help improve
poor instructors.
I'm not trying to knock Auburn's
faculty; there are many good
teachers here. However, Auburn
students are tired of being saddled
with incompetent teachers who have
nothing more than tenure or
seniority guarding them. And the
faculty should care enough to be
interested, too.
There are many teachers who
argue, "Students evaluating teachers
is the same as patients evaluating
their doctors. They just aren't
qualified."
Dr. John Nist, an English pro­fessor,
has an answer for these
complainants. "A patient evaluating
a doctor?" he asks with a wry
smile. "What if the patient dies?
That's the worst evaluation."
Auburn students may be
"dying" ; there's no way of knowing
for sure. However, mandatory
quarterly teacher evaluation is one
of the ways to keep Auburn as
academically healthy as possible.
78-year-old CHFjust another old lady
The Auburn
Plainsman
John Carvalho, Editor
Burrell Wilson, Business Manager
Editorial Board members: Managing Editor, Usa Hants; Associate Editor,
Betsy Butgereit; News Editor, Lauren Steal*; Features Editor, Jackie Romine;
Sports Editor, Brad Davis; Editor and Editorial Board Chairman, John
Carvalho.
Entertainment Editor, Rick Harmon; Copy Editor, Margaret Fuller;
Production Manager, Dewey English; Photographic Editor, Ford Risley.
Assistant to the Editor, Hank Marahman; Asst. News Editors, Susan Counts
and Dick Parker; Asst. Features Editor, Janet Hkjhtower; Asst. Sports Editor,
Chuck Anschutz.
Asst. Entertainment Editor, Dave White; Asst. Copy Editor, Kim Peacock;
Asst. Production Manager, David Gibson; Asst. Photographic Editor, Vlckey
Hunt.
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Ann Gracey; Account Representatives, Mary Gardiner, John Brinkerhoff and
Paul Ferwerda; Circulation Directors, CD. Hlghtower and Don Powers.
The Auburn Plainsman is the student-edited newspaper of
Auburn University. Signed columns represent the opinion of
the writer, while unsigned editorials represent the opinion
of The Plainsman's Editorial Board.
She was just another old lady—a
78-year-old CHF (Congestive Heart
Failure) in 510-C. She had a name
like all the others, but who would
remember it? What did it matter
anyway? She was just a CHF.
I had admitted a lot of patients
the day the ambulance carrying
Mary Thompson arrived, siren
screaming in the night, lights
flashing, at my hospital. Her
chaotic intrusion into my clerical
world of intricate admission forms
and Blue Cross Medicare claims was
un welcomed.
The 10:30 p.m. phone call to my
office notifying me the Emergency
Room had a patient, a 78-year-old
CHF with no family, interrupted
my frantic search through the
Washington Star entertainment
section for a midnight movie where
I could unwind after a hectic day.
I trudged up familiar stairs as I
had already done six times since
- supper. Awaiting me in 510 was
another name to file, another face
to forget, another human being to
process. Routine.
I would gather detailed informa­tion—
special emphasis on billing—
then key it into an IBM terminal.
Mary Thompson would join the
ranks of thousands of faceless,
sterile entries which comprised a
hospital's data bank. A hundred
staff members would be required to
use complicated computer programs
to complete the processing which
my prying began.
The nurses on 5-East didn't want
Mary Thompson any more than I
did. They weren't trained to deal
with a CHF, but they were stuck
with her; the "heart wing" was
full. To them this old lady posed a
particular problem; to me she was
just an interruption, another
troublesome CHF.
When I was new on the job, my
stomach felt queezy when I was
sent into the dark, gloomy rooms of
elderly patients. Yet experience
quickly dispelled those fears, and
on the night Mary Thompson lay
moaning on Bed C, I was quite
comfortable—even callous.
This CHF would be no different
from any other, I thought as I
paused and parted the curtain
caging one of Mary Thompson's
three neighbors. Her neighbor lay
on, not in, Bed B, a ghastly harsh-white,
cracked shell gathered loosely
around useless limbs where taut,
creamy-smooth skin had once en­circled
strong arms.
She moaned. All old people in
pain moan if they can muster the
strength. This woman, a 75-year-old
Rt. Hip (broken Right Hip), looked
like a tragic trapeze artist tangled in
knots of rope. Her right leg, like
that of an abandoned marionette,
hung lifelessly from strong steel
traction bars.
There had been a time when
such a sight made me shudder. I
closed the curtain unaffected and
walked quietly to Bed C.
Mary Thompson was writhing in
pain when I first saw her. I lowered
my eyes to my clipboard and moved
close to her, softly explaining that I
was to ask her a few questions.
Before I could finish my opening
monologue, she screamed in agony
and seized my right arm, pulling me
down toward her.
"Oh my God," she cried. "I'm
dying. For God's sake help me!"
As suddenly as she had grasped my
arm, she released it—both of h~r
arthritis-gnarled hands instinctively
clutching her breast.
I was somewhat startled by such a
sudden outburst, but I retained my
composure. I complied with her
request as best I could, walking to
the nurses' station to report her
pain. Assured they had taken care
of the problem and that "510-C is
one of those complainers," I
returned to finish my job.
Mary Thompson was incoherent. I
am convinced -she really did know
her name., her address and, of
course, the name of her insurance
company, but the piercing pain
shooting through her body left her
unable to answer a single, question I
posed. Undaunted, I found her purse
and deftly extracted her wallet. Her
body shook violently while I quickly
jotted down everything I could
learn about 510-C.
As I wrote I suddenly noticed a
tingling in my hands and I began
Lauren
Steele,
to shudder as if a winter blizzard
had caught me stark naked. I
became increasingly aware of this
woman, 60 years my senior, who
began pleading with me to get her
a doctor.
Overcome with a panic like I had
never felt before, I ran into the
dimly lit hospital corridor and told
a nurse I had become terribly
worried about 510-C.
They had given her something for
pain, I was told. The doctor was on
his way.
I wanted to finish the admission.
I wanted to get back to my warm,
friendly office. I tried feebly to
comfort Mary Thompson, but my
words were so empty even I was
unconvinced.
She gasped deeply and once
again gripped my arm, digging her
fingers into my bare skin so hard I
bit my tongue to offset the pain.
I lost all semblance of calm and I
closed my eyes tight, hoping that
by blocking out the sight it would
go away.
I wanted out. I wanted to crawl
under the bed and cry. I was a
panic-stricken little boy who wanted
desperately to tun and hide, but
was too scared to move.
Mary Thompson was no longer an
insignificant number, a face to
forget. She became much more
than just another 78-year-old CHF.
She' dug her fingernails deeper
and deeper and deeper, deeper into
my arm as she heaved violently,
releasing her last breath.
I refused to look. I didn't have
to. Room 510 filled with stench.
Mary Thompson's lifeless hands
fell to the bed.
I felt guilty, ashamed. I had
demeaned Mary Thompson and
hundreds like her. I had dealt with
this feeling, loving, suffering
human being abstractly, aloofly,
nonchalantly.
I had catalogued her. I felt cold,
uncomfortable, as if I were the one
being numbered, processed, filed
away, forgotten, dehumanized.
Tears streamed down my face as I
stumbled weakly into the hallway.
"Patient 510-C just expired," I
mumbled almost incoherently.
"Patient 510-C just expired."
And I cried harder than I had
ever cried before.
Auburn not good example of democracy
Power.
In this land of democracy it ideally
lies in the hands of the people.
At the University of Auburn it lies
in the hands of one man — Dr.
Harry M. Philpott, president.
But then, the University never
professed to be a democracy. It is
more along the lines of a corporation.
Even a corporation has stockhold­ers
who have a voice in the major
decision making.
Not Auburn.
Auburn students pay upwards of
$1,000 to the University yearly, yet
have little say as to how that money
is spent.
Take professor tenureship, for
example. Who more than students
know which teachers are most
qualified to remain as University
employees?
But do we get a vote? No.
Teacher evaluations have been
talked about for years, but they have
yet to be fully implemented.
And what about health fees?
For $15 a quarter, what do you
get? A nice new building — with a
14-line phone system, a new pill
dispensing machine, an ultrasonic
cleaning machine, a walk-in refrig­erator
and beautiful $60 waste
baskets.
Of course we do get health
services, but four years ago when
Dick
Parker
health fees were doubled, students
were promised an increase in services
— not just an increase in facilities.
Were students asked how they
might like their money spent?
Forget it.
Naturally all fiscal decisions cannot
be voted on by the student body. But
there could be more input than there
is now.
Two students did play major roles
in the Health Committee's investiga­tion
this summer and are presently
involved in the committee's cost
evaluation study of the Center.
But that committee, as with all
University committees, has no direct
power to make changes. It can only
make recommendations. Philpott has
the final word.
Should one man make all the
decisions? I say no.
Not that Philpott would delib­erately
make a bad decision. As he
has said many times, he is lookinir
out for the welfare of all Auburn
students and employees.
But no man, even if he does have a
doctorate from Yale, has the wisdom
to make all the major decisions
concerning almost 18,000 students,
more than 1,000 employees and all
aspects of the University, from the
athletic department to the mainte­nance
department.
Yet one man does.
Philpott gets help from his
numerous advisors, but few of those
advisors are students. And though
it's our money being spent, we don't
know where it goes until after it's
gone. It is virtually impossible for us
to give advice on a decision because
we don't know it's being made.
Why not set up student-faculty-administration
committees, similar to
University committees, but with
power to make decisions, not just
advise.
They wouldn't be difficult to
implement. The University commit­tee
structure is already set up. All it
would take would be for Philpott to
give them ability to make decisions.
With those committees in action,
ptessure would be taken off the
president and students would have a
direct voice in the disbursement of
their own money.
We deserve that much. After all, i'
is our money.
Letters
Thursday, Oct. 27,1977 A-5
Taiwanese Presbyterian
Church stand defended
to
on
Editor, The Plainsman:
I write this letter, not in defense of
myself, but to defend the stand
taken by the Presbyterian Church in
Taiwan. Regretfully, the article in
last week's newspaper by a group of
Chinese students on campus empha­sized
the process of getting the letter
from the church to its final destiny
rather than of the message
President Carter:
' 'The enclosed Declaration
Human Rights was written according
to the instructions agreed on at the
meeting of the General Assembly
Executive Committee...The text was
written by people from all over
Taiwan; ministers, lay persons, after
much prayer and discussion and in
the full knowledge of the possible
consequences of our actions. The
final version was approved unanimos-ly
on Aug. 16, 1977. We are
directing this Declaration to you in
hope that you will give it prayerful
consideration...We believe that it
accurately reflects the hopes and
aspirations of most of our 160,000
members...The committee gave in­structions
that this Declaration
should be widely circulated both in
Taiwan."
The Declaration speaks for itself:
"As we face the possiblity of an
invasion by Communist China we
hold firmly to our faith and to the
principles underlying the United
Nations Declaration of Human
Rights. We insist that the future of
Taiwan shall be determined by the
17 million people who live there...In
order to achieve our goal of
independence and freedom for the
people of Taiwan in this critical
international situation, we urge our
government to face reality and to
take effective measures whereby
Taiwan may become a new and
independent country."
The boldness of this stand was
proven when last week's letter
appeared. The "popular opinion"
reflected by those Chinese students is
an example of what the church faces
when making the above declaration
in support of becoming a free nation.
Some people oppose church
involvement in political affairs.
Mahatma Gandhi is perhaps the
greatest example of non-violent
opposition in our age. Gandhi wrote,
"I could not be leading a religious
life unless I identified myself with
the whole of mankind, and that I
could not do unless I took part in
politics. The whole gamut of man's
activities today constitutes an indivis­ible
whole. You cannot divide social,
economic, political and purely
religious work into watertight com­partments."
The Presbyterian Church in Tai­wan,
as the Church world-wide,
strives for Peace for all mankind.
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'Athletes given
special help
during tests'
Editor, The Plainsman:
Our intent is not to damage the
reputation of the Athletic Depart­ment,
nor that ot the Auburn
University faculty. We only wish to
reveal the situation which now
exists.
Through anonymous sources, we
have found that some faculty
members give some students that
participate in University sports spe­cial
consideration when it comes to
tests.
At this time, it is not to our best
advantage to reveal names or
sources. It is common knowledge
that this situation exists. Our intent
is only to warn the participants.
This is not a threat, but a warning
that if this action continues, there
will be more letters of a more
revealing nature.
Name withheld by request
'Japan not undemocratic, militaristic'
Editor, The Plainsman:
I am surprised and puzzled by
Stephanie Wolfe's indication that
Japan is undemocratic and militar­istic.
Contrary to Wolfe's misgiv­ings,
Japan is probably the only
nation which is democratic and
non-militaristic in. the area.
I observe Japan" as the only Asian
nation where people have rights to
criticize the government publicly
They see independence as the way to and talk about the possibilities of
peace. Any continued struggle with different social systems and are able
Communist China will ultimately to join the political movements for
lead to war. different social systems without any
Stephanie Wolfe, 3SEA fea*.
Last year, former Prime Minister
Kakuei Tanaka was arrested in
connection with the Lockheed brib­ery
case. It is true that there is an
undemocratic political air in which
a person like Tanaka can be elected
as a Prime Minister. However, there
exists democracy through which
people can oust the Prime Minister
from the political world on account
of his wrongdoing.
Japan has rearmed as .Wolfe
indicated, but this does not indicate
militarism. The Washington Post of
March 13, 1977 published an
interview with the present Prime
'No end to football troubles with present head coach?
Editor, The Plainsman:
It's ridiculous. It's really ridicu­lous.
When was the last time you
heard of a team with as much
talent as Auburn's football team
lose 12 games in less than two
years? I challenge your memory to
come up with one.
After all, over the past two years
Auburn has had as good or better
recruiting years than any school in
the country. A quick glance at how
many prep-All Americans and All-
Staters are in this group will bear
out that statement. Additionally,
most observers would agree that
Auburn has an excellent group of
assistant coaches.
So, why is Auburn losing? Just as
is true in all sports, the ultimate
responsibility for a football team's
fortunes — both good and bad —
Health Center doctor praised;
hiring more like him urged
Editor, The Plainsman:
For the three years I have been at
Auburn University, all I have ever
heard or seen about the Student
Health Center were bad and
degrading statements about the
facilities and especially the doctors. I
must admit I'm just as guilty as the
next person about criticizing doctors
at the Health Center.
But for the first time since I have
been attending Auburn, I saw an
honest-to-gosh doctor. The doctor
Letters to the editor must be
received by 5 pm. Monday at The
Plainsman office in the Union
Building basement. Please type and
double space, limiting total words to
400. Some form of identification
should be presented with letter.
Please include your telephone num­ber,
even with anonymous letters.
'Quotations supposedly
made by me are
complete fabrications'
Editor, The Plainsman:
The quotations in your Oct. 20
issue story entitled "Unused com­puter
system costs AU $1,000 a
month" supposedly made by me
are incorrect. They are not merely
paraphrased versions or distortions;
they are complete fabrications.
Ben R. Barnes, Director
Auburn University Computer Center
I'm referring to is Dr. M.A.
Throckmorton.
I really believe Auburn students,
as well as the University, would
benefit greatly from more doctors
like Dr. Throckmorton.
I wold like to extend my personal
thanks to you Dr. Throckmorton.
Thank you.
Lisa Rigsby, 3PL
has to fall on the head coach's
shoulders. In Auburn's case, the
fortunes have been bad, and the
bottom line reads that a change
must be made and made soon.
Ordinarily, I would say give the
coach another year or two, but not
this time. I just do not see an end
in sight for Auburn's football
troubles with the present head
coach.
Shug Jordan spent 25 years
building Auburn into a national
contender and establishing a
winning tradition. This reputation is
still intact, but if Auburn continues
on its present course, all of Coach
Jordan's work will be forgotten. I
am trying not to be selfish here.
This letter is not for the fan's or
alumni sake. Rather, it is for the
player's sake. They deserve better
than they are getting.
Many of the players came to
Auburn with tremendous futures
ahead of them, some even with
Ero football possibilities. But one
y one, these players have had
disappointing careers. I would hate
to see this happen to such prom­ising
players as Joe Cribbs, James
Brooks and Frank Warren. I shud­der
to think what Bear Bryant or
Johnny Majors could make out of
these players.
I have waited as long as I could
to write this letter. But now I have
sat through 12 losses in less than
two years, most of which were of
the embarrasing nature. No attempt
will be made here to list possible
successors as head coach. My only
hope is that we act quickly, and
save as much of our program as
Possible. Surely, Auburn has not
een losing so long that you have
forgotten how good it is to be a
winner.
Don Marzella, '77
DOONESBURY
Minister, Takeo Fukuda in which
Fukuda responded indirectly to
American criticism that Japan
spends less than 1 percent of its
gross national product on defense
and is content to rely on United
States protection.
Fukuda said: "For the time
being we give the impression of
having a free ride, but the resources
we have not been pouring into our
defense we are contributing — and
can contribute more — for econom­ic
development of the whole
world."
Calling the need for global
disarmament "the major challenge
facing mankind in the future,"
Fukuda added, "In this endeavor I
think Japan's determination and
position will prove a very valuable
example."
Article 9 of the Japanese constitu­tion,
which is unique in the world,
prohibits war as a means of solving
international affairs. Although dip­lomatic
methods may require harsh
perseverence for the people in
Japan, we believe it is the best way
to^plve the affairs of the people in
the world. This is one of the
precious lessons from the war.
The economic structure of Japan
does not allow military expansion.
The economy of Japan totally
depends on the international trade
with almost all the nations in the
world. From the need for markets
to sell products, trade routes to
transport raw materials and final
products and productions of raw
materials, peace in the world is the
essential condition for the Japanese
economy.
Last but not least, I would like to
request Wolfe to remember one of
the rules in journalism. That is,
information for an article should be
obtained from multiple sources so
that one-sided, misleading judg­ments
will be prevented.
Kane Hattori, 6RSR
Old friend returns;
Doonesbury's back
An old friend has returned.
"Doonesbury," the Pultizer Prize-winning
cartoon strip, had not been
published in The Plainsman since
spring quarter, 1976. Since then,
we've received many requests from
Auburn students to resume carrying
the popular feature.
So, thanks to an allocation by the
SGA, and permission from the
Opelika-Auburn Daily News, the
whole Doonesbury company is back
on the pages of The Plainsman, as a
service to the students.
We hope they'll be able to stick
around for awhile.
by Garry Trudeau
Alumnus urges AU students
to beat Bama in blood drive
HEY, ZONK,
YOU KNOW
RICHARD
HENDRIE?
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THEDUDE
WH0UVESIN
McCLATCHEY
HALL?
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RIGHT, HIM. HES GO­ING
ON A TWO<W££K
FIELD TRIP, AND HE
WANTS USD ROOM
SIT- SEEMS THERE'S
BEEN A RASH OF
THEFTS IN HIS DORM.
/
THINK
I'LL PASS.
BUTPIEASE
THANK
HIM.
I
HEY.CM0N,
ZONK, IT
MI6HTBB
PUN!.
MIKE, WE'VE BEEN
LIVING OFF CAMPUS
FORTOOU0NG! I
W0ULDNTKNOWHOW
TO BEHAVE IN A
DORMITOKf!
I'LL SHOW
YOU! IT!S
EASY!
REALLY!
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NO, tt>
JUST EM­BARRASS
MYSELF..
\
Editor, The Plainsman:
As an alumnus of Auburn Uni­versity
I am proud of the fact that
our University has been the Red
Cross blood drive champion for
several years. I am also proud to
have participated in the largest
collections that have ever been
received by the Red Cross from a
university while I was in school.
Now I am a graduate student at
the University of Alabama. Auburn
is still number one in my heart,
even though I like The University
of Alabama very»much. In competi­tion
between the two schools as of
late dear old Auburn has not fared
too well, as if I had to tell you.
I am tired of being topped by
the university in almost everything.
It would certainly be a shame if the
student body there let the university
take away the only National
Championship that we, as Auburn
people, have ever been able to
consistently hold. What a shame
indeed.
As I stated earlier, I am now an
Alabama student and have partici­pated
in the blood drive to the
tune of four pints over the past
year, which under the blood drive
challenge counts the same as four
pints donated at Auburn. The
univeristy has not yet collected as
much blood as Auburn, but they
are planning additional drives be­fore
the deadline of the Auburn-
Alabama game to try and make up
the difference.
Please do not let the only real
Championship that most of us
really remember fall, and especially
let us not come in behind the
University of Alabama in yet
another area.
Thomas M. Long, Jr.,'67
ARE YOU STILL
GOING OVER TO
LIVE IN THE DORM
FOR. A COUPLE
WEEKS, MIKE?
UH-HUH. DID
YOU CHANGE
YOUR MIND
ABOUT COM-
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MISGIVINGS
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Student expresses hatred toward UPC, IFC
Editor, The Plainsman:
When I read the letter in The
Plainsman regarding the Home­coming
concert, I could not believe it
— pr should 1 say I could believe it.
But before proceeding to express just
a small measure of the wrath, hatred,
disgust and disappointment I feel
toward the IFC, UPC, Ellen Maloy,
etc., I will admit I am rather
surprised and slightly pleased that
the organizations involved spanned
the space of two decades in just one
short year in selecting the entertain­ment
for this year's Homecoming.
For the fourth year in a row, 1 do
not plan to attend the Homecoming
concert, but almost anything is better
than the nauseatingly nostalgic fiasco
that was last year's show. No doubt
there are plenty of students who
enjoy the music of Kristofferson and
Coolidge, and I hope they attend the
show and thoroughly enjoy them­selves.
However, for those grossly under-represented
and obviously few whose
tastes do not run along the lines of
Kristofferson and Coolidge it's time
again to hop in the car and head off
to the far regions of Birmingham,
Tuscaloosa, Mobile, Atlanta or
wherever there are those who share
our perverse tastes in music and can
get those musicians who we would
like to see perform.
I am an avid fan of CSN, and since
it was announced that they would
appear in Birmingham I have been
anxiously awaiting Nov. 15, when I
shall be seated in the Civic Center
come hell or high water, to see and
hear in person what I consider to be
the best assemblage of talent to have
hit the field of musical entertainment
in the past 10 or 15 years.
The thought that CSN might
possibly come to Auburn, of all
places, never even crossed my mind.
But the fact that the possibility of a
CSN concert, as well as ELP and Boz
Scaggs, never even "got beyond the
telephone stage," came as no
surprise. However, I could not help
but be totally upset that some inept
and incapable organization we all
know and love as the Social Life
Committee had some conflicting
guideline that the equally inept and
incapable IFC and UPC must follow
and, therefore, scheduling of the
event was not even considered.
Maybe the future will yield better
results in the quality and quanity of
musical tastes represented at Auburn,
but I am afraid that such a visionary
dream is "goirig to be a long time
coming."
Norman Sanders, 4GPG
WELL,
IT DOESN'T
SEEM TO HAVE
i CHANGED
-- MUCH, MIKE!
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COLLEGE
DORMITORIES
HAVE A MY
OF ENDURING,
ZONKER..
I
I CANT WAIT TO
START STACKING
EMPTY BEER CANS
IN A PYRAMID
ON THE MANTLE!
OH,YOU
ROMAN­TIC!
I
BUT CAN YOU
BELIEVE IT? WE'RE
LIVING IN A DORM
AGAIN! AN ACTUAL
COLLEGE DORM!
THAT WE
ARE.OU
BUDDY!
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ALMOST WONDER
WHATHESBEEN
MISSING ALL
THESE YEARS,
EH? I
ALMOST.
WHERE YOU
GOING?
I
THINK I'LL
CHECKOUT
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Lost your pet?
A-e
What would you do with a 3-foot AM Gatorre?
By Dick Parker
Assistant News Editor
What do you say to a
three-foot alligator star­ing
up at you from the
floor of your shower at 7
o'clock in the morning?
Some startled Fijis had
to come up with some
remark Monday morn­ing,
when a genuine
Florida gator invaded
the Phi Gamma Delta
house bathroom.
Before going greek,
however, the gator,
which the Fijis named
Ali Gattorre, had barely
survived the most hectic
night of his short life.
It began about 10:30
Sunday night at The
Plainsman office. Lauren
Steele took the call.
"There is an alligator
in the Haley Center
fountain," Lauren yelled
as he slammed down the
receiver. "Let's go.
Somebody get a cam­era."
There were a dozen
people in the office—not
one a photographer.
After recruiting the aid
of two Glomerata pho­tographers
Will Dickey
and Michele Stapleton,
the entire office headed—
most a bit skeptical—for
the fountain.
It looked a little funny
for a newspaper staff to
be fishing around the
fountain for the elusive
reptile. Dim lights and
filmy remains from a
soapsud prank kept us
guessing, but when a
shadowy figure slithered
through the water, we
knew he was in there.
Dickey got the camera
clicking, but the tempta­tion
was too great; David
Massey stepped in the
water to chase our prey
to the edge.
I reached in the water.
Got him!
(WONI FAgMSWogrM
But what do you do
with an alligator when he
tires of running around
The Plainsman office?
Ace photographer
Michele Stapleton came
up with the best of
several suggestions:
sneak him into her dorm.
The mission was to
smuggle the docile rep­tile
into Dorm F, then
into the bathtub of some
unsuspecting Alpha
Gams.
It was Michele's idea,
but we were game. Boy,
would Ann McBwen be
surprised in the morning.
Michele and I took Ali
up to the Hill in her car.
Lauren followed in his.
We couldn't find a
parking place, so Lauren
waited for us by the
backdoor. Then the
police arrived, wonder­ing
what Lauren was
doing at 2 a.m. behind
Dorm F. He came up
with something to tell
him and the officer
moved on.
As Michele and I ap­proached,
alligator in
hand, Lauren motioned
furiously for us to hurry.
We beat the returning
cop to the door, and after
I shoved Ali into Mi-chele's
hands, she disap­peared
up the stairs.
"Safety," we deluded
ourselves, "they didn't
see a thing."
We calmly turned and
headed to the car ever-so-
nonchalantly. Lauren
cranked up the engine,
but before we could
make our getaway, we
were surrounded.
"Are you the boys who
have been playing a-round
with the alli­gator?"
one of the uni­formed
officers asked.
"What alligator?."
Lauren lied. (Leaping
lizards. How did they
know we had an alli-
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"What did you give
that girl?" he asked me.
But before I could
answer Lauren inter­rupted,
explaining we
were just trying to get
Michele in safely.
"Let me see some ID,"
he said, obviously irri­tated
by our evasiveness.
"We've had it," I
thought to myself. "My
parents wasted their
time. I'm going to jail for
still don't sneaking an alligator into
the Alpha Gam dorm."
The officers held a
quick conference while
Lauren and I asked
ourselves how we got into
such a fix.
"Did you boys give
that girl a 23?" the
officer asked.
"A what?" Lauren and
I said together in feigned
ignorance.
"This guy is crazy," I
thought to myself. "Why
doesn't he just run us in
and get it over with?"
But he didn't. He let us
go. No evidence.
We had been lucky so
far, but we weren't off
scot-free yet. What if a
terror-stricken Alpha
Gam let off an untimely
scream?
We panicked. Back at
the office we -hurriedly
called Michele. She
wasn't in, her roommate
answered. How do you
tell a sleeping Alpha
Gam she might have
either a jailbird for a
roommate or an alligator
in her bathtub?
After we located Mi­chele,
we decided we had
to get rid of the evidence.
She stuffed Ali in her
purse while we switched
cars.
Michele tried to look
inconspicuous as she
clutched the wriggling
purse. "Just a study
date," her expression
seemed to say.
We took Ali back to the
fountain and waved as
our friend disappeared
into the murky depths.
End of story, right?
Wrong, wrong, wrong.
When I got home, Jack
Sherrer and Jim Smith
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poor-ole-Ali. Boy,
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out in the morning.
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all day Monday.
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Wednesday night and the
boys gave Ali to him
after supper. Although
his team is playing
Florida this weekend, he
turned down the scaley
gift.
Now it is up to pet store
owner Noah Bowman
and the Department of
the Interior to decide
Ali's fate.
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Cold weather expected winter
Thursday, Oct. 27, it77 The Aiixin Plainsman
By Becki Thomas
Plainsman Staff Writer
Auburn may become a winter-wonderland
again this year, ac­cording
to an Alabama meterolo-gist.
H.D. Bagley of WHNT-TV in
Huntsville, based his prediction of
snow on "climitological data
from the years gone by," noting
that Auburn is on the borderline
snowbelt which runs from Mont­gomery
to the extreme north of
Alabama.
"We have freak periods of
snow. You can never tell what
part of the state snow will hit,"
he said, explaining that condi­tions
for snow in the south exist
only if the moisture and the cold
air coincide.
Last year's snow was the first
snowfall since 1973.
According to Bagley and Bob
Ferry, a meteorologist at the
National Weather Service Bureau
in Birmingham, this winter won't
be as cold as the winter of
1976-77, which produced the
coldest temperatures on record in
Alabama since 1899.
"The general consensus is that
it won't be nearly as cold asjast
winter and temperatures will run
about average," Ferry said.
"Common sense says if we had
the coldest winter in 200 years
last year, then the odds are
against it (this year)."
Bagley added that the National
Weather Service odds are 30-to-l
against a reoccurance of last
year's frigid winter, but that this
winter "will be colder than ave­rage."
Ferry said the 30-and40 degree
temperatures which cut short
Auburn's usually mild October so
far this fall are unusually cold
when compared to other Octo­bers.
"The cold weather is concen­trated
over the Southeastern
•United States right now, rather
than over the Midweastern re­gion,"
he said, "because a
low pressure system is holding
the cold air in."
"Normally in November temp­eratures
are expected to reach
freezing point, but it's almost like
that now," Ferry said. "But this
is not an indication of what
•December, January and Febru­ary
are going to be like."
Many Auburn students, caught
by surprise by the seemingly
premature winter-type weather,
packed their summer clothes and
began to bundle up in warmer
sweater outfits. Red noses and
tissues also became common
sights.
University officials, remebering
the problems caused and com­pounded
by last year's winter,
are taking preventive action for
future severe winters.
Energy conservation, a major
concern at the national, state and
local levels last winter is still
attracting considerable attention.
Dormitory residents were given
the ultimatum in early October of
cutting down on electrical con­sumption
or paying increased
room fees.
"We're using so much electric­ity,"
said Dean of Student Life
Katharine Cater. "Girls in the
dorms are being wasteful. You
can walk down the hall and doors
are open, radios are going, lights
are on, and there's no one in the
room. If prices keep going up,
then room rent will have to go
up, too," she said.
Rhett Riley, University busi­ness
manager, would have to
make a study and submit it to the
Board of Trustees for approval
before the rent can go up,
according to Cater.
The University's energy costs
have increased almost 50 percent
over the past 12 monts, involving
an expenditure of $2.2 million,
said Dr. Ben T. Lanham, vice
president for administration.
E.T. Williams, Physical Plant
superintendent of maintainence
and operations, siad students on-campus
and off, can help the
nation's continuing energy con­servation
program by "burning
only the electricity that they
need. j
"Heat your room only to the
point at which you're comfor­table,"
he said.
Williams believes the amount of
heat required by a person de­pends
on his eating habits and
the type of clothes worn.
Williams said last winter
"caught most everyone by sur­prise,
especially the snow."
The main problem his office
encountered was a three-day de­lay
in receipt of No. 6 fuel oil
from Tuscaloosa, used to heat the
larger buildings on campus.
As a result, the University was|
forced to take certain actions |
including burning coal, cancelling
undergraduate physical education
courses and reducing heating i n|
the buildings to what Williams |
termed "maintainence heat," 661
degrees, instead of the usual 68
degrees.
Cancellation of classes during;
the snow by President Harry M.1
Philpott was "purely to let the;
students go play in the snow,'
Williams said, and not the result:
of a fuel shortage.
A frequent complaint registered
last winter by dorm residents,
especially from girls living on the
quad, was that of hot rooms from
steam radiators.
"The rooms became so warm
windows were open to let the hot
air out, which is a "waste of
energy," Cater said.
The Physical Plant Division has
reworked the pipe system, and
according to Williams, it is hoped
there will be better control on the
heat this year.
Williams said the primary rea­son
for wrapping the pipes was a
"safety aspect."
He said the pipes oould get hot
enough to burn but the Improve­ment
would cut down on heat
produced by the steam radiators.
Williams attributed the tem­porary
lack of heat in some of
the buildings on campus last
winter to a break in the pipes
rather than a heating system
failure.
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Physical Plant
installed three
tanks in the
Williams, the
purchased and
320,000 gallon
Basic Science
Building, Memorial Coliseum and i
Parker Hall as an "insurance and'j
operational improvement." j
"This will permit us to store
another 60,000 gallons of no. 6
fuel oil," said Williams.
AU, UA blood race to wrap up
By Kevin Loden
Plainsman Staff Writer
A race between Auburn
University and the Uni­versity
of Alabama for
the title of top blood
donor is rapidly coming
to a close and results up
to now show either school
could win.
The challenge made by
Auburn University start­ed
Jan. 1, 1977 and will
last the entire calendar
year.
Auburn has had its two
blood drives winter and
summer quarters and
has been credited with
4,504 units of blood.
The University of Ala­bama
had a small drive
two weeks ago and re­ceived
900 units bringing
their total to 3,801 units.
Alabama's system con­sists
of five small drives
as opposed to Auburn's
two large drives.
Alabama plans two
more drives before the
end of the year which
average 300 to 400 units
per drive, according to
Virginia Rogers of the
Lee County Chapter Red
Cross.
Wesley Foundation in
Auburn also has two
small drives; the first
received 74 units, and the
second will be this after­noon
from 12:30 to 6.
Auburn University has
never added Wesley's
totals to their own even
though no one has op­posed
the idea. Most of
the donors are college
students. However, Au­burn
could add Wesley's
totals which would give
the school breathing
room since Auburn is
only 703 units ahead at
this time.
Auburn University has
had an enviable record
for blood donations which
includes setting a nation­al
record on April 5 and
6, 1967 for 4,812 units of
blood.
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Approximately 50
members of Tau Kappa
Epsilon (TKE) fraternity
left Auburn Friday after­noon
and ran all night to
Atlanta, Ga.
No, they were not
pledges trying to escape
initiation harrassment—
the TKEs ran the 112-
mile distance one at a
time to raise money for
cancer research at St.
Jude's Hospital in Mem­phis,
Tenn.
"We were divided into
four sections," said
Chuck McGowan, origin­ator
of the idea, "and we
met Coach Barfield at
the 50-yard-line of the
field here at 1 o'clock
Friday afternoon. He
gave us the football for
the Auburn-Georgia Tech
game and somebody
from the first group
started running. Only one
person ran at a time and
almost every person end­ed
up running three
miles."
According to Mc­Gowan,
an Alabama
highway partolman es­corted
the TKEs to the
state line. At the state
boundary fraternity
members were met by
three Georgia state
troopers, a sheriff and a
man from the Civil De­fense
Department.
"Right before the
game about 15 of us ran
the ball onto Grant Field
and gave it to Coach
Barfield," said Mc­Gowan.
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IheAuburn Plainsman Thursday, Oct. 27,1977 A-8 1 The decision should be made by both people'
By Jackie Romine
Features Editor
"Since it takes two
people to make a baby,
two people should be
responsible."
Equal responsibility in
birth control and the
sexual relationship—it is
ar essential element in
adult relationships, ac­cording
to Mrs. Vicki
Sherman of Planned
Parenthood of Birming­ham.
But, "because of the
way we're socializing
men, we do not always
encourage this equal re­sponsibility,"
she said.
Equal responsibility
means discussing birth
control alternatives with
your partner and making
decisions together, Sher­man
said.
"With a commitment
situation, especially, the
decision should be made
by both persons. They
should talk about their
feelings on children,
birth control and the
sexual relationship."
Too often, Sherman
said, the man will not
discuss birth control with
his partner "until it's too
late."
Because so many of the
most effective methods
of birth control are
geared toward women,
Sherman said, the
women are often giving
full responsibility, and
men often assume the
woman has "taken care
of everything."
"I wish it were possible
for men to be more
involved. Leaving them
out of the birth control
situation just reinforces
this attitude of no re­sponsibility.
"When the use of con­doms
was the major
birth control method,
men had more responsi-
A Plainsman Probe
Birth Control
Auburn
No services now, free clinic planned
By Jackie Romine
Features Editor
Auburn Universicy
boasts some 18,000 stu­dents,
10,620 men and
7,357 women, but the
city of Auburn has no
birth control facilities
within its city limits.
Lee County Public
Health Center offers
free services in a family
planning clinic each Fri­day
and the Medical
Arts Center in Opelika
has five gynecologists
which charge $17 for
new patients and $12 for
regular patients plus a
$7 laboratory fee for a
routine examination.
The other free birth
control facilities are the
Russell County Public
Health Center on Thurs­days,
the Macon County
Public Health Center in
Tuskegee on Tuesday af­ternoons
and every third
and fourth Wednesday,
and the Montgomery
Family Planning Clinic
which is open daily.
The Lee County Public
Health Center is now
planning a family plan­ning
clinic in Auburn
one day a week. The
clinic is "strickly in the
planning stages," a re­presentative
said. She
said the clinic is still
indefinite because the
nurse practitioner sched­uled
to man the clinic is
no longer working in
this area.
A new practitioner
must be secured and
more details must be
finalized, she said, be­fore
a definite opening
date can be announced.
All public health cen­ters
provide free ser­vices
funded through the
Department of Health,
Education and Welfare.
These family planning
projects include the total
physical examination,
contraception, counsel­ing,
follow-up services,
health history, infertility
counseling, laboratory
tests, Papanicolaou
tests, patient education
and referral services.
Charles Chenier, dis­trict
administrator for
the family planning clin­ics,
said "I don't know
how long the free ser­vices
will last. Even­tually
patients will pro­bably
be charged accor­ding
to income."
He said the Auburn
clinic will be within
three to four blocks of
the campus. "We think
if we put the clinic near
the students, we will get
a better response. One
day a week, the students
can find time to come
by."
The clinics are staffed
by a doctor, present or
on-call, and a ~ nurse
practitioner, trained to
perform the examination
and prescribe contracep­tion,
Chenier said.
The clinics also pre­scribe
contraceptive de­vices
(prophylactics) for
men. The men must
have physical tests such
as for venereal disease,
urine and blood tests.
"We supply them, but
we aren't doing a com­plete
job with them,"
Chenier said. "With a
girl, it's easy, one pill a
day and it's covered."
"But with a man, how
many do you give him?
The guidelines say six
but how long will those
last? For some men,
those would last a year,
but for others they may
Photography: Goidon Bugg
LOVE CAREFULLY
.Clinics promote birth control
not make him through
the night."
The clinics are a good
thing, Chenier said. Spe­cial
programs for teen­agers,
under 19, are in­cluded
in six of the 11
counties in this district,
he said.
The Auburn will pro­vide
separate teenage
services in the after­noons,
he said.
"We have found that
teenagers feel better
about the situation when
no adult patients are
present. It's the old
folks that are making
the ruckus; it wouldn't
bother the kids."
Chenier also said the
V.D. tests are extremely
important at the clinics.
"We have discovered
quite a few cases of
V.D. which are referred
to state clinics."
In addition, he said at
least 30 cases of cancer
has been discovered at
the Macon County cen­ter
in about three years.
"Besides contracep­tion,"
Chenier said,
"just the complete year­ly
physical is worth the
effort."
Chenier also said no
abortion services are
provided, only referral
services.
"When it comes to
children and unwanted
pregnancies, I think peo­ple
should have a
choice. That's what
we're trying to do here
— is give people
choices."
bility," Sherman said.
"But now, the couple
needs communication."
In casual situations,
she said, "men and
women need to be re­minded
of their responsi­bilities.
Birth control pro­tection
should be dis­cussed
before the sexual
encounter,"
In these casual rela­tionships,
Sherman said,
the woman should "have
a few lines prepared-one
of which should
definitely be, 'Where's
your rubber?' "
SMerman admitted
most women would "not
have the nerve to say
that or anything like it."
The woman should con­sider
saying no in these
situations, Sherman add­ed.
Sherman said saying
'no' is sometimes more
difficult for the man
because of peer pressure,
but "some men definitely
experience these feel­ings.
"It really gets down to
each person saying and
understanding what sex­ual
intercourse means to
them. For girls, it often
means love; for guys, it's
often fun and games."
Among college women,
statistics show more
women getting pregnant
during their freshman
year.
"After that, as she
matures, the woman gets
her feelings together. She
decides whether to be
sexually active and acts
responsibly. The woman
has to decide to stay out
of relationships which
may lead to sexual activ­ity
or protect herself with
proper birth control.
Sherman said the col­lege
situation poses a
real emotional problem
because "the guy must
exemplify 'the college
man' to be accepted, and
the girl is still unsure of
the norms of sexual
behavior."
Charles Chenier, dis­trict
administrator for
Statewide Family Plan­ning
Project, agreed with
Sherman on the need for
equal responsibility, add­ing
that in the casual
relationship abstinence is
often the best form of
birth control.
"Usually there is no
love in the relationship,
which is bad. But if they
insist on the casual sex­ual
relationship, one
en
partner must take th
initiative for birth con
trol," Chenier said.
Sherman said she
courages patients to ge
involved with their feel
ings.
"They should feel
ease in their relation
ships. They should not
in the sex situation
they are not comfortabli
with it."
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The rights of pregnant women
considered first by Birthright
By Dale Walsh
Plainsman Staff Writer
"We believe In the
right of every pregnant
woman to give birth, and
the right of every child to
be born." This is the
basic philosophy of Birth­right,
according to Mrs.
Jude Peterson.
Birthright is a non­profit,
non-denomination­al
organization offering
help, advice and friend­ship
to pregnant women.
It is run strictly by
volunteers who receive
no salary, and all
finances come from do­nations.
"We are a very confi­dential
organization and
very understanding, non-judgmental,"
Peterson
said. "We don't make
decisions for anybody;
we just help them to
come to their own de­cision.
We are a very
caring organization."
Birthright is run ba­sically
on a telephone
basis. The organization
has a 24 hour referral
service, along with reg­ular
hours. If a woman
calls outside the regular
hours, she will be given
the telephone number of
one of the volunteers who
can be called at anytime.
The volunteer workers
for Birthright are not
required to have any
previous training. Mary
Lu McEwen and Earl
Higgins train men and
women who offer their
services to the organiza­tion.
Guilt and responsibility
Many fail to accept feelings
The Birthright center
was opened in Auburn in
1973. Because it is a
worldwide organization,
pregnant women wishing
to move can be sent
almost anywhere in the
world. Birthright was
begun because people
were concerned with the
treatment of pregnant'
women, married and un­married.
"Most women would
want to give birth and
would do so if conditions
were made possible for
them," said Mary Fran­cis
Wilkinson, a minister
of education at St. Mi­chaels
Church and also
a volunteer at the cen­ter.
"We are concerned
with the individual preg­nancy
and help for the
woman," said Peterson,
a mother of three. "It is
a positive organization
offering positive help."
"There are very few
adoptable children now,"
said Wilkinson. "Girls
will more frequently
i
keep their children. The;
don't have to feel stuck.
The Auburn center
the only one in Alabama
but there are two ma
ternity homes In th
state. The Florence Crii
tedon Home In Mobil
and the Salvation Arm
Home in Birminghar
offer pregnant women
place to live where the
may continue school an
still have their child.
The Birhtright cente
not only offers pregnane;
advice, it also sometime
advises about medica
and financial aid, vene
real disease and contra
ceptives, and it receive
some rape calls. Th
center also refers womei
to doctors for medica
advice.
Birthright does not re
fer for abortion. "Ou
object is to present th
alternatives to it," sai<
Wilkinson, but the cente
does offer empatheti<
counseling to girls
need before and after
abortion.
By Jane Pitts
Plainsman Staff Writer
sexual
to use
"If you are mature enough to have a
relationship, you should be mature enough
some form of birth control."
This statement seems to be the typical reaction to
the question of birth control among unmarried
students. How many students actually practice this
theory, though, is questionable.
"The use of the pill among college women is low,"
said Dr. Charles Rogers, a psychology professor
who teaches a course called Human Sexuality. "I
would say about one-third don't use any kind of
birth control."
One suggested reason is that using birth control
means planning a sexual relationship, causing guilt
feelings.
Rogers said this is definitely a prevailing attitude.
"Most girls don't advertise taking the pill," he
said. "Being prepared means making plans. They
feel if they're swept off their feet, It's all right. But
if there's pre-meditation, they feel guilty."
Rogers said many girls who do use the pill say
the_v are taking it for other reasons than birth
"Being prepared means
making plans. They feel if v^^tlTyw plan'aneaV,wyou'reFguuty,
they're swept off their feet,
it's alright."
regulating men-even
controlling
control. Typical reasons include
strual periods, reducing cramps,
acne, he said.
Rogers also said unmarried students have dif­ficulty
in obtaining birth control devices.
"It's just hard to get," he said. "Some girls do
things like taking each other's pills, and this is very
dangerous. A few girls are put on the pill by their
mothers when they come to college, but this is a
rarity."
A course in the Mentor Program for freshmen
entitled Sexuality and Values is taught by Dr.
Rollin Armour of the Religion Department and Dr.
Marylu McEwen of Counselor Education. Birth
control is one of the topics discussed.
"We tell the students to think about their own
values," Armour said. "We try to make them
understand that if one engages in sexual relations,
one should be willing to accept the consequences
and responsibilities."
Armour said most students come into the course
with little information regarding birth control. "We
"If you have any guilt at
all, it would be so much
more if you brought a child
into the world."
have a very basic discussion in class about the
different methods," he said.
McEwen said she had found two basic psychologi­cal
reasons for unmarried students refusing to use
birth control.
"The first is the idea that if it just happens, it's all
she
said.
"The second is that it may be a way to get a
commitment. Some girls think if they get pregnant,
they may get a commitment from the man. It
hardly ever has that effect, though. And if they do
get a commitment, it's usually short-term."
McEwen said not having birth control lnofrmatlon
is a problem.
"It's difficult to get into see a gynecologist," she
said. "A lot of students, especially freshmen and
sophomores, don't know how to approach the
situation."
"Psychological feelings concerning birth control
are really mixed, particularly for unmarried
people. There's guilt, deciding who's responsible,
the possible outcome of pregnancy. Most people just
don't know how to think about it."
McEwen said she had talked to unmarried women
who had become pregnant for the second or third
time.
"They say things like, 'I didn't think I would get
pregnant the second time.' People won't face it. But
it's like the cliche 'not to decide is to decide."'
Most women students asked believed it was a
joint responsibility, but as many said, "It's the girl
who suffers the consequences. The man can run
away from the problem, but she can't."
One male student said he thought birth control
was definitely needed In a situation Involving an
unmarried couple, but "I have never taken the
responsibility because I have never been asked to."
"I think It's fine for single people," one student
said. "If you have any quilt at all, it would be so
much more if you brought a child into the world."
Another student said she had a friend who was
living with her boyfriend, but using no form of birth
control. "She's just hoping she won't get pregnant."
A student who is living with her boyfriend now
said they had decided to take joint responsibility for
birth control.
"When we decided to live together, his mother
made me an appointment with a doctor who put me
"If there were any prob­lems,
he did not want me
on the pill We both have to
take the responsibility.
Why don't people
use birth control!
>>
on the pill. I had no trouble getting it; the doctor
knew the whole situation," she said.
"My boyfriend said if it messed me up in any
way—psychologically or emotionally—we would try
something else. If there were any problems, he did
not want me on the pill. We both have to take the
responsibility."
By Jayne Handlin
Plainsman Staff Writer
The biggest question in
birth control is why
people don't use it, ac­cording
to Rev. Jim
Woodson, of the Epis­copal
Canterbury Chapel
at the University of
Alabama and referral
counselor the the health
center there.
"Eighty percent of the
girls I counsel who are
having intercourse are
not using any type of
birth control," Woodson
said.
"If a girl goes on the
pill, It means premeditat­ed
sex, and she feels
guilty for having planned
to have intercourse. But,
if she doesn't take the
pill, she didn't plan it and
the girl does not feel as
guilty about it."
Many girls feel it is
wrong to go prepared on
a date because then their
actions are not spontan­eous,
which may not be
an appropriate way to
express the relationship
she has with her boy­friend,
he said.
"People need to se
their value systen
straight and come t<
terms with it, althougl
many girls can't seem t<
do this.
"A person has to dea
with his own sexuality
and accept the responsi
bility for his actions
because four out of fiv<
girls having intercourse
will get pregnant,'
Woodson said.
According to Woodson
the University of Ala
bama student health cen
ter will now distribute
contraceptives to stu
dents.
"We have many people
on the pill for various
reasons," he said.
Woodson is located
across from the health
center at Alabama and
helps students "wrestle'
with their problems,
especially the ones in
volving problem preg­nancies.
"I go talk to classes,
members of the Greek
system and everywhere™
that I can to make
students aware of what is
actually happening at
least 10 or 12 times
year."
A-9
Birth control methods
Thursday, Oct. 187, iw7 TheAuburn Plainsman
Each is different, all protect
PRECEPT1N
Photography: Vtekay Hunt
BIRTH CONTROL METHODS
.Vary in use, price and effectiveness
By Jackie Bomine
Features Editor
Each form of birth
control is different and
none works for every­body.
But they are all
capable of supplying
first-class medically ap­proved
protection when­ever
you want it and only
for as long as you want
it.
Oral contraceptives
(hormone birth control
or the pill) is the most
effective way (except for
sterilization) to prevent
pregnancy. They are also
convenient and, for most
women, free of serious
unpleasant side effects.
The pill must always
be taken under the con­tinuous
supervision of a
physician. Oral contra­ceptives
are of two types.
The most common, often
simply called "the pill,"
is a combination of an
estrogen and a pro­gesterone,
the two kinds
of female hormones.
The second type of oral
contraceptive, often
called the "mini-pill",
contains only progest­erone
and is less ef­fective,
about 97 percent.
. Going on the pill means
going on a schedule of
one pill per day for a set
number of days each
month—21 or 28—depend­ing
on the type of pill.
The day-by-day action of
the whole series protects
against pregnancy as
your body fails to release
its monthly egg cell.
If you are normally
healthy and under 40, the
risks you take on the pill
are still much less than
the health risks involved
with pregnancy and
childbirth. So the U.S.
Food and Drug Admin­istration
rates the pill
safe for most women.
The pill is less than one
in 100 theoretical failure
rate with an actual fail­ure
rate of two to five in
100 and is currently being
used by nearly 10 million
women in the United
States alone.
Concerning side ef­fects,
many women do
not notice anything, ex­cept
for more regular
t it rtion
7 guess it depends on how desperate a woman is'
By Marion Hollon
Plainsman Staff Writer
The room is modestly furnished, not elaborate,
|>ut pleasing. The fluorescent lighting adds even
lore brightness to the already cheery atmosphere.
le windows look out to the busy street and across
the bustling residential shopping center.
People, mostly women, sit randomly about the
3m on overstuffed couches, some drinking coffee,
lome looking over the selection of magazines
Itrewn on the coffee table. A woman enters the
am and calls for the next patient, breaking the
ill of the soft music from the stereo system.
This scene appears quite similar to any private
Ihysician's waiting room. However, these people
Ire waiting, or waiting for someone they've
|ccompanied, to have an abortion.
"And with proper care, the risks of an abortion
Ire minimal just as with any other type of medical
Treatment," said Nancy Miller, director of the
lontgomery Women's Medical Clinic, which admi-sters
first trimester abortions as well as general
ealth treatments for women. "In fact, abortion
hvolves less risk than actual giving birth."
1 The Montgomery Clinic's staff includes herself, a
lysician, two licensed practical nurses, two
2gistered nurses, one lab technician, an assistant
rector who counsels and sets appointments, an
lvironmental service employee who sterilizes the
juipment and the building and, for procedure
lys, two extra counselors with background degrees
psychology and sociology.
I The Columbus Women's Health Organization,
Irmerly the Ladies Center, has a staff of about 10
aople, including a lab technician, nurses and two
Iternating physicians. Besides abortions, the Co-
Imbus clinic also offers gynecology treatment.
lThe first trimester accounts for the first 12-week
priod of pregnancy, Miller said. The Montgomery
lime, the Birmingham Women's Medical Clinic
id the Columbus clinic offer abortions through the
rst 12 weeks.
I Several private physicians in Birmingham and
jscaloosa are also available to give abortions,
bcording to Ann McCrary of the Ladies Center.
I Some clinics in Atlanta and the Medical Center in
slumbus give abortions through the second trimes-
|r, according to McCrory, but federal law prohibits
portions later than 24 weeks.
(in the case of the Ladies Center, a suction D and
] or suction aspiration is used McCrory said. The
jcedure takes from seven to 10 minutes, she
Wed.
lThe procedure used at the Montgomery Clinic, a
"We ask women to come back in three weeks for
a follow-up check," Miller said. "The diaphragm or
I.U.D. is inserted then."
"We have no age limits," McCrory said and a
Supreme Court ruling bars requiring the consent of
a parent, she added.
"If the woman is under 18 years, we recommend
that she bring someone 18 or older to sign for her.
Since the patient is given sedation, we like for
someone to drive her home."
In its seventh week of procedures, the Montgo­mery
Clinic has given about 160 abortions, she said.
"Treatment of patients is on a professional and
friendly level," she said.
"We have a friendly, supportive atmosphere,"
McCrory said of the Columbus Women's Health
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Organization, "and everything remains confiden­tial."
Since opening in 1975, the Ladies Center has
handled 4,400 abortions, which averages about 2,000
a year, McCrory said. "Of these, maybe half are
married," she said. "The women are not limited to
any certain economic, racial or age group."
Yet about 1,000 teenagers a year turn to the
University Hospital in Birmingham for abortions,
"You can't think of it in
The Montgomery Clinic and the Ladies Center
charge $185 and $190, respectively. "Also a new
federal ruling states that Medicaid can't help pay
for abortions."
"I guess it depends on how desperate a woman
is," Miller said. "Having a physician who knows
what he's doing and sterilized equipment, a
woman's chance of survival is better if she goes to
a physician instead of a back room."
Several unmarried Auburn coeds described their
experience with abortions.
"You can't think of it in terms of right or wrong.
At least I tried not to dwell on it since it was the
only choice. When I was waiting to have the
abortion, I just wanted to get up and leave. I
wanted to jump out of the window. I sat there
trying to figure out whether to jump out of the
window or stay there and go ahead with it."
"I went into the abortion with an optimistic
attitude because of the way I was treated at the
clinic. But even though it (the procedure) didn't
hurt, I started screaming when it happened. Later I
was very depressed and moody, and I wanted to be
by myself a lot. I got pretty negative about men."
"I was pretty shaken up because one counselor
"Later I was very de­pressed
and moody and I
wanted to be by myself
alot. I got pretty negative
about men."
tried to push marriage on us. We decided against
marriage and having the baby because we didn't
want to put all this on the child."
"At first when I found out I was pregnant, I felt
very strong maternal instincts and love. But after I
thought it out, I realized the abortion was the right
thing to do at this point. I just wasn't ready."
periods. Nausea or
breast tenderness may
occur, but will usually go
away after the first
month or so.
Headaches, weight
gain, between-period
spotting will usually dis­appear
with time. If not,
the strength of estrogen
and progesterone in the
pills may need to be
changed.
Past or present condi­tions
that mean you
should not use oral con­traceptives
are: blood
clots or inflammation in
your veins, serious liver
disease, cancer of breast
or uterus, if you smoke
heavily or are 30 or more
pounds overweight, high
blood pressure, migraine
headaches, unexplained
bleeding from the va­gina,
asthma or infre­quent
periods.
Another type of hor­mone
birth control is the
Every-Three-Months in­jection.
The injection
uses progesterone only,
in a special, long-lasting
form. This method is still
being tested.
The Morning-After
Pill, which is actually a
whole series of pills, can
prevent pregnancy. You
begin taking them within
24 yours (72 at most)
from whatever time you
had sex and think you
ran risk of pregnancy.
This pill exposes you to
unpredictable side ef­fects,
however, and the
FDA approves it only in
special situations like
rape.
The intrauterine device
(IUD) is usually a flexi­ble
plastic coil inserted
into the vagina which has
a theoretical failure rate
of one to five out of 100
and an actual failure rate
of six in 100.
Some IUDs are made
of copper or have the
hormone progesterone
added. There is an in­creased
chance of in­fection
for IUD users
compared to women not
using them. Most serious
problems are rare, how­ever.
The diaphragm, used
with contraceptive
cream or jelly, is a
shallow cup of thin rub­ber
stretched over a
flexible ring which is
inserted in the vagina,
covering the opening of
the uterus.
Unlike the pill or the
IUD, a diaphragm is
at-the-time protection
and can be inserted up to
three hours ahead of
time.
The condom fits over
the penis lika a second
skin—it catches and
holds the semen, so no
sperm gets into the the
vagina.
The condom has a
theoretical failure rate of
three in 100 with an
actual failure rate of 15
to 20 out of 100. Most
condoms are made of
rubber, strong but al­most
transparently thin,
and also offer protection
against venereal disease.
Vaginal foam, cream
and jelly are used to
prevent sperm from
reaching the egg and are
most effective when used
with a condom.
Of the three, the foam
is the easiest to use, the
least messy and the most
effective. Spermicidal
foam has a theoretical
failure rate of three in
100 with an actual f allure
rate of 30 in 100.
The withdrawal
method, or coitus inter-ruptus,
has a theoretical
failure rate of 15 in 100
with an actual failure
rate of 20 to 25 in 100.
The rhythm method
involves the rhythm of
the woman's non-preg­nant
monthly cycles-hormone
buildup, egg
release, then in due
course menstruation.
The method depends on
calculating the time of
egg release each month
as accurately as possible
and avoiding sex on all
the days when pregnancy
is possible.
The rhythm method
has a theoretical failure
rate of 15 in 100 with an
actual failure rate of 35
in 100.
While some of the
latter methods described
have high failure rates,
none compared with the
"chance" failure rate
(while being sexually
active), which is 80 in 100
both theoretically and
actually.
Editor's note:
Much of the birth con­trol
information in this
article was taken from
literature published by
Planned Parenthood of
New York City, Inc. and
Syntex Inc.
Planned Parenthood provides
special prices for students
ction or vacuum aspiration, lasts from five to temtS Of right Or WrOng. At
iven minutes, Miller said. "The woman is
mined first to be sure she is pregnant and to
termine how far along she is.
|"The cervix is dilated and a local anesthetic is
/en," she said. "Vacuum aspiration is a suction
ethod in which the contents of the uterus are
|acuated. It's simple, but delicate."
le woman also receives a pap smear and a test
gonorrhea.
kfterwards, women are monitored in a recovery
>m for 30 to 45 minutes, Miller said. Before
Jiving, "we give them care instructions and
Iracycline or, if they're allergic to this, other
pdication.
least I tried not to dwell on
J; since it was the only
choice."
according to Vicki Sherman of Planned Parenthood
in the Birmingham area.
I hope and assume that clinics will eliminate
illegal abortions," Miller said, "but there will
always be women who can't afford it."
By Lisa Harris
Managing Editor
"There are two types
of people who have sex:
those who are responsi­ble
and those who aren't.
The responsible ones
make sure they don't get
pregnant."
Margie Cook, Execu­tive
Secretary of the
Birmingham Planned
Parenthood office, also
says Planned Parent­hood,
a family planning
agency founded in the
1930s, stresses responsi­bility
in birth control as
its main objective.
Begun in Alabama as a
group to fight infant and
maternity mortality, the
Birmingham office today
offers more than just
birth control pills.
In addition to gyn­ecological
examinations
and birth control devices,
the association offers re-
"We don't make a de-iion
for them or encour-ie
them to have an
iortion."
Voluntary sterilization:
most effective method
)uring the procedure, women experience any-ig
from sensation that something is being done
feeling nothing, to mild or heavy cramping,
ler said.
•There's no way to predict how much or little
scomfort a woman will have," she added. "It's on
individual basis. However, most cramping is
|y etiological."
•It depends on a woman's tolerance to pain and
\r emotional outlook," McCrory said.
Before the procedure takes place, though, both
_iics provide counseling sessions. These last at
ist three to four hours at the Montgomery Clinic,
Icording to Miller.
•A lot of the women have never even had a pelvic
im," McCrory said.
ie attitude of the woman is important also,
ler said. "We don't make a decision for them or
courage them to have an abortion. We explore
|ier alternatives and talk about them. We
courage women to talk about their decision."
group of five girls take part in the counseling
3sions, Miller said, and McCrory added that
ividual counseling is offered at the Montgomery
ic for those who want it.
session is an education process that deals
ivily with birth control," Miller explained.
If a woman chooses to use birth control pills, she
given her first packet of pills during the
seling. Both clinics also fit diaphragms
ert I.U.D's if a woman requests either.
and
By Janet Hightower
Asst. Features Editor
Voluntary sterilization
is a permanent means of
birth control accom­plished
by closing a pair
of tubes which prevents
sperm from contacting
the egg and resulting in
pregnancy.
According to the As­sociation
for Voluntary
Sterilization, most stu­dents
have not reached a
period in their lives
where they are ready to
end fertility, but to
make an informed de­cision
about birth con­trol
in different periods
of life, this method
should be considered.
Voluntary sterilization
does not involve the
removal of the repro­ductive
organs.
For a woman, the risk
involved is the same as
having a baby or an
appendectomy.
For a man, there is
even less risk.
Sterilization for
women, or tubal ligation,
may be achieved by a
number of procedures.
Laparotomy is a pro­cedure
done through an
incision in the abdominal
wall; the fallopian tubes
are cut and tied. The
may be done during
delivery or other sur­gery.
Mini-laparotomy is a
new technique which
may be done on an
out-patient basis. It in­volves
a 2.5 to 3 inch
incision made close in
the lower abdomen
where the fallopian tubes
are closed with bands or
ties.
Laparoscopy is a pro­cedure
done by a physi­cian
viewing the ab­dominal
cavity through a
tube containing a tele­scope
and light. Two tiny
incisions are made below
the naval through which
a laparoscope and device
are inserted to close off
the fallopian tubes. After
the procedure is com­pleted,
the incisions may
be covered with a ban­dage.
Colopotomy leaves no
external scars. The
physician is able to close
the fallopian tubes
through an incision in the
vagina.
Culoscopy is also a
vaginal approach and,
like laparoscopy, in­volves
the use of a
lighted instrument en­abling
the physician to
view and tie off the
fallopian tubes.
Male sterilization, or
vasectomy, is minor sur­gery
and is usually done
in the physician's office
under local anesthesia.
Two incisions are
made in the scrotum
through which the sperm
carrying tubes may be
lifted out, cut and closed.
For some time after
the operation, residual
sperm may be found in
the semen. Other contra­ceptive
methods must be
used until tests show
sperm are no longer
present in the semen.
There are no physical
changes other thar being
unable to reproduce. Fol­lowing
these sterilization
procedures, the woman's
menstrual period and
age of menopause are
unaffected. The man con­tinues
to have an erec­tion
and ejaculation.
Since voluntary sterili­zation
is permanent, it
must be thought through
carefully.
Situations may arise
where a person may
want more children, such
as the death of one or
more children, a divorce
with custody of the chil­dren
given to your
spouse, death of your
spouse, remarriage and
the desire for another
child with your new
spouse or the need to fill
the void created when
your children leave
home.
For further informa­tion,
write to Association
for Voluntary Steriliza­tion,
Inc., 708 Third
Avenue, New York, N.Y.
10017.
ferrals for services not
available from Planned
Parenthood and has
hired a counselor.
Fees for examinations
are based on a sliding
scale, Cook said, with
patients paying accord­ing
to income. "If some­one
doesn't have enough
money to pay, we'll still
see them," she said.
Special rates for stu­dents
are available. An
examination costs $10,
with supplies like pills
costing extra.
Cook said the center
charges the same a-mount
for supplies to all
patients. A month's sup­ply
of birth control pills
is $1, and an Intrauterine
Device (IUD) is $10.
Planned Parenthood's
counseling service is
used by individuals or
couples who have prob­lems
deciding about sex
or birth control.
The clinic doesn't per­form
abortions, but it
will refer women to a
place that does.
Those who come lo
Planned Parenthood are
almost exclusively
women, Cook said. "We
have almost no men
come in for any reason.
We'd like to change that,
especially since we have
a counselor. But right
now, the only
time a man comes in is
when a couple comes In
for counseling."
The group offers a few
community programs as
well. A teen program
coordinator goes to Bir­mingham
area schools at
the request of the school
to present a three-day
program for teenagers,
"learning about their
bodies, birth control and
mostly responsibility,"
Cook said.
Planned Parenthood
also operates an "out­reach"
program, which
sends people into low-in­come
areas to explain
Planned Parenthood.
This program is the only
one where the group goes
into the community with­out
a specific request,
Cook said.
There is no one "type"
of woman who comes to
the clinic, Cook said.
"Some admit they have
sex and have no hang­ups;
others might be
more hesitant. But the
mere fact they're coming
in shows they're re­sponsible."
Eighty percent of the
clinic's patients are be­tween
the ages of 19 and
24, Cook said. All ages
and income levels use the
clinic, however.
"I'd say those who
come in here are to a
large extent middle
class," she said. "It's not
strictly low-income.
There are several who
are obviously well-off
also."
A non-profit organiza­tion,
Planned Parenthood
is funded in part through
the U.S. Department of
Health, Education and
Welfare. Much of its
money comes from the
United Fund and from
private contributions,
Cook said. It is currently
run under the auspices of
the Birmingham Public
Health Department.
"Though we've been
here nearly 50 years, it's
only recently people have
begun to really use our
services. Sex has been a
very hush-hush subject.
It's something everybody
does, but only in recent
years have people begun
admitting it, and taking
responsibility for it." ,
The Auburn Plainsman Thursday, Oct. 27, i»77 Sanger starts crusade to better inform women
Margaret Sanger, a
nurse, a wife, a mother,
a rebel with a cause.
She found that cause
in the ignorance of
women about their own
bodies. She was willing
to give up everything—
her marriage, her child­ren,
even her own
health—so that women,
rich or poor, could re­ceive
the advice they
needed to decide how
many children they
would have.
Sanger's Crusade led
to changes in the law,
the organization of Plan­ned
Parenthood Federa­tion
of America, several
international organiza­tions
and the publica­tions
of Birth Control
Review.
The comstock law
against "vice" was
adopted by Congress in
1873. It labeled informa­tion
on birth control ob­scene
and forbade its
distribution by mall.
"Nice girls knew
nothing about sex or the
reproductive organs of
their bodies," Sanger
said. Sanger saw poor
families with families so
large they could not pos­sibly
take care of them.
Finals schedule
Final examinations in subjects carrying fewer than
three hours credit will be administered on the last
lecture day or during the last laboratory period
preceding Friday, December 2.
Date
Saturday, Dec. 3
Monday, Dec. 5
Class Hour
8 a.m.
7 a.m.
1 p.m.
10 a.m.
2 p.m.
5 p.m.
Special Examination Period and
History Exams
Tuesday, Dec. 6 9 a.m.
12 noon
4 p.m.
Special Examination Period
Wednesday, Dec. 7 11 a.m.
3 p.m.
7 p.m.
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1 - 3:30 p.m.
3:40 - 6:10 p.m
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1 - 3:30 p.m.
3:40 - 6:10 p.m.
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3:40 - 6:10 p.m.
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9 - 11:30 a.m.
1 - 3:30 p.m.
3:40 - 6:10 p.m.
At the turn of the cen­tury,
children were sent
to work in factories.
They were abandoned on
the streets or sent to
sweat shops.
According to her bio­graphy
there were
2,000,000 self-induced or
butcher shop abortions
annually, and 25,000
women died in child
birth. More married
women suffered from
gonorrhea than prostl-tues.
Women asked their
doctors how to stop the
babies from coming.
The physicians shamed
them for asking. They
asked nurse Sanger, but
she didn't know either.
Sanger had found her
crusade, but not the
weapons to fight with.
She began to search
for information in the
United States. She asked
physicians and did re­search
in libraries, but
she couldn't find the
information she needed.
She vistied France
where she observed that
small families were
more the rule than the
exception. The French
took family planning for
granted. The women
passed formulas for
birth control from one
generation to the next.
Some formulas were
more reliable than
others.
In Holland she learned
about the diaphragm,
which was being pre­scribed
by physicans.
There she also saw the
first birth control center
in operation.
On her return she set
her battle plans. She
wrote that her approach
would be "...a transfer
of power from nature to
the individual woman."
This is where her move­ment
got the name birth
control.
On March 19, 1914, the
first issue of "The
Woman Rebel" was
published. This was a
monthly magazine
edited by Sanger. It held
articles on anarcism, re­ligion
and violence, at­tacked
Comstock (the
one man press censor)
and announced her In­tentions
to break the law
of providing contra­ceptive
Information.
Through the magazine
she begged women not
to bring children Into
the world unless they
were physically, men­tally
and financially
capable of taking care
of them.
Four Issues were ban­ned
from mail because
they were declared ob­scene
by Comstock.
Sanger wrote asking
which articles were of­fensive,
but her letters
were unanswered.
Sanger started work
on her letters the first
how-to pamphlet on
birth control. "Family
birth control, "Family
Limitations." Printing
the information took the
shape of a modern spy
thriller.
Five men printed,
bound and packed the
pamphlets. Each man
did not know the others
exsisted. Workers in the
organization hid the
pamphlets anyplace they
could.
Sanger had arranged
a coded message to send
to the workers that
would signal the time
for the release of the
100,000 copies of
"Family Limitations."
Before the copies were
mailed Sanger was in­dicted
by the Federal
Government on nine
counts that could lead
up to 45 years imprison­ment.
Reasoning that she
couldn't accomplish any­thing
in jail, she fled to
London.
While her case
was switched from one
court of appeals to
another, she opened the
first birth control clinic
in America.
The movement grew
from an illegal organiza­tion
whose members
were subject to arrest,
to a respectable, Inter­national
organization
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A program for helping
diagnose heart disease is
being planned by the
University Physical Edu­cation
Department, al­though
it may be more
than a year before it
begins operation, said
Dr. Dennis Wilson of the
P.E. Department.
Wilson said the "stress
test" is essentially an
electrocardiogram of a
person doing some sort of
exercise, running on a
treadmill or riding a
bicycle. The test deter­mines
how well the per­son's
heart stands the
stress.
Wilson said the test is
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car instead of testing it
at idle. The exercising
may help detect some­thing
that cannot be
detected while the person
is at rest.
Lack of money is a
problem. Wilson said the
department already has
the basic expertise and
some equipment, but
they need more equip­ment
and a physician.
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