1977-11-23 The Auburn Plainsman

              BEAT BAM A! ra i
Tigers think they can do it this year
By Chuck Anschutz
Assistant Sports Editor
"Auburn doesn't stand a chance
against nationally ranked Ala­bama
this Saturday in the two
schools' annual showdown at
Legion Field in Birmingham."
Such is the opinion of most
sportswriters, as well as fans
across the state. There's just one
factor missing in this opinion.
The Auburn football team doesn't
believe it.
"I'm confident that we'll beat
them," said senior Auburn
flanker Ray Powell. "I'm sure
that Alabama will be up. But
their talent isn't as good as
everyone thinks it is."
And Powell isn't the only Tiger
who feels optimistic about the
game.
"The attitude on this team is
very positive," said senior safety
Rick Freeman. "It's very much
improved over last year. If we
play our game, we have a very
good chance of winning."
The Crimson Tide is ranked
second (AP) in the nation going
into the game and has a record of
9-1 (6-0 in the SEC). Auburn is 5-5
going into the game and 4-1 in the
SEC. Judging by these statistics
Auburn is clearly the underdog.
"We're not conceding any­thing,"
said Auburn head coach,
Doug Barfield. "We respect Ala­bama,
but we're not in awe of
them."
Barfield's analysis of the
team's attitude was "fired up but
realistic.
"I believe our attitude is
excellent," he said. "But it's
going to take a great effort to
beat them."
Auburn's strong point, Freeman
says, is a mature, scrappy
defense and a strong running
attack. Both were at their best in
the Tiger's last game, a 33-14 win
over Georgia in Athens.
Alabama, on the other hand,
displays one of the most danger­ous
running attacks in the
country as well as fielding one of
the SEC's best defensive 11
against the run.
"It's going to be very hard to
stop Johnny Davis, (Bama's
fullback)," said Barfield. "He's
definitely one of the best runners
around.
"And on offense, we hope to
have a few surprises of our own
for Alabama." -
Both Auburn and Alabama had
last weekend off so both teams
have had more preparation than
usual for this game.
While this will be Auburn's
final game of the season, Ala­bama
still has one more game to
play — Ohio State in the Sugar
Bowl. And that's one situation.
Alabama head coach, Paul
(Bear) Bryant, is worried about.
"We've got to get Ohio State
out of our mind and concentrate
on Auburn," said Bryant. "If we
don't we'll get beat and Ohio
State won't mean a thing. We've
also got to get our supporters to
stop thinking about Ohio State
and start thinking of Auburn."
Auburn is determined to make
the Ohio State game meaningless
to Alabama.
"It's a challenge to play the
number two team in the
country," said senior end Jim
Patton. "I think we'll beat them,
but .the seniors will have to show
a lot of leadership."
War Eagle coaches have posted
an article on a dressing room
bulletin board showing the state's
sportswriters picking Alabama to
take Saturday's game, and that
has fired up the team even more.
"A lot of people are counting us
out," said Powell. "We're having
to work harder to prove these
people wrong."
"I don't mind beng the under­dog,"
said sophomore fullback
Foster Christy. "It makes us
work harder and want to win that
much more."
"A lot of people are counting us
out," said Powell. "We're having
to work harder to prove these
people wrong."
The Tigers do have their work
cut out for them. Alabama's Jeff
Rutledge is one of the best
tandem quarterbacks in the SEC.
And when Davis and junior
halfback Tony Nathan aren't
grinding out yardage on the
ground, Rutledge will pass to
outstanding split end Ozzie New-some.
"Newsome is the best wide
receiver in the SEC, outside of
maybe Wes Chandler of Florida,"
said Barfield. "And after seeing
game films, I can see that
Rutledge is better than we
thought."
The Alabama defense might not
be as tough as It was last year,
but the personnel is still out­standing.
Barry Krauss Is a key defender
at linebacker, and the secondary
is also solid. Murray Legg and
Mike Tucker have played well all
year in the defensive backfield.
Wayne Hamilton, a big defen­sive
end, has also had an
outstanding season for the Tide
and won the defensive player of
the game in Alabama's game
with USC.
Bryant will be shooting for his
career victory number 272 Satur­day,
which would move him just
42 games shy of the all-time
mark of 314 victories set by Amos
Alonzo Stagg. Bryant announced
earlier this week that he would
stay on as Alabama's head coach
until he breaks Stagg's record.
But he must take them one at a
time, and Auburn is next in line.
"You can look at Auburn's
stats and see that they have some
fine football players," Bryant
said. "They have a good running
attack and some good people at
the skill positions. And they
always get up for the game
against us, so we have to be
prepared mentally."
As far as the series record
goes, the War Eagles have some
catching up to do. Auburn has
lost four Alabama games in a
row including last year's 38-7
defeat. The over-all record stands
23-17-1 in favor of the Tide, and
the last time the Tigers won was
in 1972, 17-16.
CHARLIE TROTMAN GAINS YARDAGE
.Will quarterback Tigers against Alabama Saturday.
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TheAuburn Plainsman
Volume 84 Number 9 Wednesday, November 23, 1977 Auburn, Ala. 36830 22 pages
Beasley
I'm AU's best friend' By Lauren Steele
News Editor
Saying it was "unfortunate"
that many Auburnites "misun­derstood"
investigations made
last year by his legislative budget
control committee, Lt. Gov. Jere
Beasley told a packed crowd on
campus Tuesday that he is not
against Auburn.
"I'm an Auburn graduate," he
said, "and I've been a loyal
alumnus. It bothers me to see it
in the newspapers that I was
attacking Auburn."
Beasley, who was the last
speaker in the SGA-sponsored
Great Issues Facing Alabama
speakers forum, explained his
subcommittee's investigation
which outraged Auburn graduates
across the state.
"Politically it hurt me," he
said. "I can't go to every Auburn
alumnus and tell him I'm not
against Auburn. I know I'm not."
Interstate complete to Atlanta
By Susan Counts
Assistant News Editor
Students traveling northeast on
Interstate 85 during the holidays
may have an easier trip due to
the recent completion of the
four-lane near Lagrange, Ga.
A 27.6 mile stretch of the
interstate which has been under
construction for more than ten
years, was opened Tuesday in a
ribbon-cutting ceremony by Ala­bama
Governor George C. Wal­lace
and Georgia George Busbee.
The completion of the stretch
finishes all construction required
to connect Montgomery with
Petersburg, Va.
According to Corporal Charles
Wilson of the Georgia State
Patrol, the new section of the
road was opened Tuesday at 4:30
p.m.
"We didn't have any problems
with the opening," Wilson said.
"The Highway Department
helped us with it and everything
went just fine."
At the opening, Wallace said
the completion was an important
milestone because it connects the
capital cities of Georgia and
Alabama. He added it would
create a boom in the intra- and long time."
interstate travel and commerce
between the states.
"I'm glad the road is com­plete,"
Wilson said. "They have
been working on it for a long,
Republican Guy Hunt
to speak here Tuesday
Guy Hunt, Republican candi­date
for governor, will speak here
Tuesday at 4 p.m. in Haley
Center 2370.
Although Hunt is not being
sponsored by the Student Gov-i
eminent Association as the five
Democratic candidates were, he
said he plans to speak on "great
issues facing Alabama" as the
others did. Hunt is being spon­sored
by the Young Republicans.
A probate judge from Cullman,
Hunt is currently the only
Republican candidate for gover­nor.
Hunt was co-chairman for the
Ronald Reagan 1976 presidential
campaign in Alabama. He plans
to kick off his own campaign in
December at a rally in Birming­ham
with Reagan present.
An Amway salesman, Hunt
boasts he is not a member of the
Bar Association. "I am not a
lawyer," he has written on his
literature.
The Hunt speech will carry
forum credit.
"PM A FRIEND OF AUBURN"
.Lt. Gov. Beasley spoke to students Tuesday
Do you know where in the world you are?
By Dick Parker
Asst. News Editor
Do you know where Wash-
1 ington, D.C., is?
If Dr. Gregory Jeane's
geography class is indicative
of the Auburn students, 80
percent of us don't. Twenty of
his 25 students couldn't find
our nation's capital on a map,
and 21 of 25 couldn't point out
New York City.
Jeane, since he came to
Auburn in 1974, has been
testing his students on current
affairs and world geography
regularly to give them a
chance to earn extra points on
exams. But he says the poor
grades his students are mak­ing
this quarter on their bonus
tests are "not anything new."
Jeane said the students' lack
of knowledge on current af­fairs
and world geography
"doesn't stem from college,
but from being poorly based,
poorly prepared.
"An inadequate secondary
and elementary education is a
problem," Jeane said. "Stu­dents
are taught to get
information just long enough
for an exam. They memorize
it, but that's not the same as
committing it to memory."
Jeane said 20 of 25 students
did not know where London is
on the map. "We don't even
know where in the world we
are," he said.
He also said only three of 30
students knew the reactions of
Arab nations to Egyptian
President Anwar Sadat's re­cent
trip to Israel.
"It's a cancer," Jeane said.
"Not just geography, but
politics, history, almost any­thing
you name, seven to nine
of 10 people can't answer
fundamental questions.
"There is an indication of a
lack of awareness of many
things. There is a general
knowledge level, but we're
turning out people who are
ignorant except for their spe­cialties.
"It's ironic," he said, "that
the American educational
system, considered the best in
the world, has such not-so-flattering
results."
By the time a student gets to
Auburn without a world under­standing,
Jeane said, the
damage has been done.
"If you ever miss it," he
said, "you've missed. There
aren't enough hours in the day
to go back and pick it up.
"The University is put in a
situation of having to provide
remedial work to prepare
students for college work.
That costs a lot of tax money
and takes a lot of additional
time."
But Jeane said students can
improve their world aware­ness
by listening to and
reading critically newscasts
and newspapers.
Jeane said he doesn't give
students the current affairs
test to "flaunt their ignorance
in their faces. Maybe indirect­ly
it'll shame them into
wanting to know more."
"We're intern? tional citi­zens,"
he said. "Just because
something happens halfway
around the world does not
mean it doesn't have an
impact on us, because it does.
"If you don't have a geo­graphical
awareness," he
said, "you're an ineffective
citizen. And heaven forbid if
you should get in the diplo­matic
corps."
In 1976 Beasley's team visited
the Auburn campus and reported
that many classrooms were not
being used. The Auburn admin­istration
viewed Beasley's actions
as an attack not just on Auburn
but on higher education.
"I know full well many people
of Auburn misunderstood my
actions," he said at a press
conference before the speech.
"We were not attempting in any
way to embarrass Dr. Philpott or
the administration."
Beasley did say that since the
inspection Auburn's utilization of
classroom space has improved.
"I am the best friend Auburn
lias ever had in government," he
said. "My criticisms were con­structive
and I had a good
relationship with Auburn until
some Auburn people decided to
go public."
Beasley said education has
been a real problem in the state
and insisted priorities need to be
set.
"Higher education would not be
the first priority," he said. "We
need to start with the bottom and
build up."
He said he would not take
money from colleges and univer­sities
to give it to elementary
schools, but would not take
money away from elementary
schools either.
Beasley pointed out that 85 to
90 percent of Alabamians do not
go to college, and said the state
owes them something.
Although many of those
attending the speech directed
questions toward education, other
issues were discussed.
Beasley outlined his plan to
lower utility rates and denied
Gov. George Wallace's accusa­tions
that he blocked legislation
which would have curbed rising
utility costs.
Inside Today
SCI-FI PROBE-The
Plainsman takes a closer
look Into science fiction: (See
page B-8).
LIME SINK-Auburn's
water supply could be
in danger if more sinkholes form
in the base of the reservoir. (See
page A-2).
CONCERT REVD2W-The
England Dan and John
Ford Coley is reviewed by
Entertainment Editor Rick
Harmon. (See page B-8).
OUT ON A IJMB-The
Plainsman's famous prog-nosticators
predict Kentucky will
finish first in the Southeaster
Conference basketball campaign.
(See page B-l).
The Aubum Plainsman Wednesday, November S3, 1OT7 A-2
this week
By Beckl Thomas
Plainsman Staff Writer
International
SADAT RETURNS TO EGYPT-After a
weekend visit to Israel, Egyptian President
Anwar Sadat arrived in Cairo Monday,
receiving a hero's welcome. Sadat and Israeli
Prime Minister Begin held a joint news
conference before Sadat left, with Begin saying
he and Sadat had reached a "momentous
agreement" of no more war, bloodshed or
threats between the two countries. Earlier,
Sadat told Jewish lawmakers that the main
issue in the Middle East is security for Israel,
and tied that security to a solution of the
Palestinian problem. Although the visit ended
with an unwritten non-belligerency pact, the two
agreed to work toward a negotiated Middle East
peace settlement.
National
FEMINISTS ENDORSE ISSUES-The federal­ly
funded National Women's Conference in
Houston ended its four-day meeting Monday,
endorsing 25 feminist proposals to be included in
a document that goes to Congress and President
Carter. The proposals include the Equal Rights
Ammendment, abortion, sex education and
homosexual rights. Approximately 20,000
women attended the conference, including such
speakers as Betty Ford and renown anthropolo­gist
Margaret Mead.
State
CHAMBLISS CONVICTED-A Birmingham
court jury found former Ku Klux Klansman
Robert Chambliss guilty of first-degree murder
for the death of a black girl killed in a 1963
church bombing and sentenced him to life in
prison. After the jury read its verdict and
sentence, Judge Wallace Gibson asked
Chambliss to approach the bench and offer any
reason why he should not agree with the jury's
recommended sentence. Chambliss said,
"Judge, your honor, all I can say is God knows I
never have killed anybody, never have bombed
anything in my life and was not down there at
the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church." Monday,
Chambliss was in the Jefferson County Jail
awaiting transfer to the Kilby Corrections
facility at Mount Meigs. Attorney General Bill
Baxley said the conviction is not the end of his
investigations on bombings and expects more
names and evidence to be presented to the next
Jefferson County grand jury.
Sociology
Dept. offers
European trip
The Sociology De­partment
Is offering
course credit for a
European tour during
summer quarter.
The trip will be 29
days long beginning
June 25 and ending July
24. Cost of the tour is
$1,499.
Students will tour sev­eral
major European
cities, spending four
days in Rome, three In
Florence, and four days
in Madrid, London and
Paris.
An overnight Mediter­ranean
cruise is also in
the offing.
Interested persons
should contact Baxter B.
Wright In the Sociology
Department at Haley
Center room 6096.
Movin' on
Sentimental value can be nice, but
In the case of a house it can create a
cumbersome situation as these
movers seem to be discovering.
Although the tree branches may.
prove hazardous for the movers
riding on top of the house, the
"mobile home" seems to be faring
well under the unusual circum­stances.
On the next go round,
however, the owner may decide to
change his attachment to something
a bit smaller.
Senate grants charters,
approves club changes
The student Senate's
next-to-last meeting of
the quarter was relative­ly
uneventful Monday
night with no major
legislation passed,
though necessary consti­tutional
changes and
charters for organiza­tions
were approved.
Probationary charters
were granted to Phi
Theta Kappa, national
scholastic honorary for
junior colleges, for an
alumni chapter; and to
the Council for Interna­tional
Relations and
United Nations Affairs
(Ciruna), a group which
hopes to represent Au­burn
at the national
Model United Nations
held annually in New
York City.
Permanent charters
were granted to the
Fantasy Gamers, Insti­tute
of Transportation
Engineers, Sierra Club
and University Outreach
for Christ.
In other business, an
All Campus Fund Drive
activity was, approved
for Delta Delta Delta
sorority and Sigma Pi
fraternity. "A Night in
Independent
group meets
Auburn independents
met Thursday to Insti­tute
a social organiza­tion
whose purpose is to
"have parties and social
events during the
quarter to give inde­pendents
the chance to
meet new people," ac­cording
to one of the
group's organizers.
The group will meet
again Jan. 5, in Haley
Center 2213 at 7 p.m. to
present and approve a
constitution.
New Orleans" is sche­dules
for Jan. 7 at 8 p.m.
with a casino, beverages
and food. Seventy-five
percent of all profits will
go the All Campus Fund
Drive.
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Sinkholes
Lime pits plague Auburn's water
By Beckl Thomas
Plainsman Staff Writer
While some cities in­herit
water problems
through water pollution
and drought, the city of
Auburn must battle
another of nature's geo­graphical
weapons—
sinkholes.
The problem occurred
in July when a fisherman
spotted the hole, or
"solution cavity," at the
edge of Lake Ogletree,
the reservoir which ser­vices
approximately
30,000 Auburn residents.
The Auburn Water
Board, by building an
earthen dike around the
hole, prevented the water
from entering the hole in
case the lake level should
rise. Auburn University
geologist Dr. Jack Car-rington,
called in as a
consultant, suggested the
Board seal off the hole
with a layer of imperme­able
clay.
Carrington said,
"There's always the pos­sibility
that another hole
will develop. It could
open up tomorrow or 600
years from now."
He defines a "solution
cavity" as an area
formed over long geo­logical
periods of time by
carbonate rocks in acidic
solution, such as rain­water.
Famous examples
of "solution cavities" are
the Mammoth Caves in
Kentucky.
Carrington said the
lake, built by Alabama
Power Company in 1942,
lies beneath a water solu­ble
marble bed, bounded
by a horse-shoe shaped
ridge extending from
Chewacla State Park.
Lake Ogletree is located
one mile east of the park.
Carrington, geology
faculty and students are
now mapping the area in
hopes this method will
enable them to tell
"more positively" what
is going on at the lake
and the surrounding
area.
Carrington said the
hole caused the water
level to drop about 4 feet,
a loss of about 240 million
gallons of water.
According^ Auburn's
Water Board Chairman
James Gilbert, the city
uses about 3 million
gallons of water a day.
The hole, 4 inches in
diameter, consumed 80
days of water usuage.
Carrington said the
possibility of another
sinkhole "is important to
me as a geologist and to
the people of the city.
Auburn has no effective
water back-up system,"
except a tie-in with Ope-lika.
According to Gilbert,
this would provide water
to Auburn in case of a
critical period, but he
didn't know how long the
city could stay on the
system.
He said the hole "made
us do a little thinking,"
and the Board is current­ly
contemplating two
other tie-ins "out East
Glenn" and in the Bent
Creek area. Other possi­bilities
for a new water
supply, should it be
needed, are the Chatta­hoochee
River and Lake
Martin.
Although no more sink­holes
have been dis­covered
since July, Gil­bert
said, "We've been
keeping our eyes open."
UPTOWN AUBURN
GOING OUT OF BUSINESS
SALE AT BOTH STORES
Entire Stock Of Mens And Womens Inventory
At Downtown Store, Must Be Liquidated.
Also, To Be Sold • Fixtures, Cash Register, Trucks,
Etc. Reductions Will Be Made At Both Stores.
$140,000 INVENTORY
TO BE LIQUIDATED
Junior Dresses $5.001 Womens Corduroys |0ne 1961 Corvair Van
Junior Tops $2.99 $7"
Junior Pants $10.00 Mens Pants $10.99
Womens Sweaters Mens Dress Shirts
$4.99 $8.99
Womens Crew Necks Mens Sport Shirts
$9.40
Womens Jeans
$10.99
$7.99
Mens Suits S39.99
Mens Jaans $10.99
Turtle Necks $5.99 I Mens Pants $9.99
Shells $4.99
STORE
CLOSED
Friday, Saturday,
& Monday
For Inventory
And Markdowns.
Mens Sweaters
$10.99
BEGINS
TUESDAY
November 29, 1977
8:00 AM to
10:00 PM
W " I O r oo Wed 10AM-9PM
Tuesday Nov. 29
Promptly At 8:00. Thurs 10AM - 9PM
Midway Store
Will Be Closed
Monday
For Mark-Downs.
One 1973 Ford
Courier Truck
Six Round
Dress Racks
Two Mens
Pant Racks
Four Hanging Racks
Two Cash Registers
Misc. Chrome Bars
All Jewelry,
Socks, Odds & Ends
TERMS
OF SALE
No Refunds
No Exchanges
No Phone Calls
All Sales
Cash & Final
No Alterations
,.i 10AM - 9PM
Sat 8 AM - 6PM
ALL SALES FINAL
ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTYS
roAsT'
UPTOWN AUBURN MIDWAY PLAZA
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A.s Wednesday, November 8», 1W7 The Auburn Plainsman
Two to debate energy crisis
Miss Glom
Photography: Mtartt Grupt
By Lisa Harris
Managing Editor
Russell Train, former
director of the Federal
Environmental Protec­tion
Agency, will debate
Leon Martel, vice-pres­ident
of a government-sponsored
"Think tank"
on the question "Is there
an energy crisis?"
Monday at 8 p.m. in the
Schedules to
be distributed
Winter quarter sche­dule
distribution will be
next week from 8 a.m.
to 4 p.m. daily in
Memorial Coliseum.
Tuition fees should
also be paid at this
time.
Student Activities
Building.
Tne debate, which
carries Forum credit, is
the last Horizons VII
event Of the quarter.
Train, who directed
the EPA from 1973 to
January of this year,
will take the position
that the energy crisis is
real, and that without
immediate action the
United States, and the
Have a regular
checkup.lt can save
your life.
American
Cancer
Society
world, is in danger of
running out of fuel.
Martel, is vice presi­dent
of the Hudson
Institute, a "think tank"
specializing in pre­dicting
future trends in
population, * economic
development and energy
and food consumption.
He co-authored "The
Next 200 Tears," a book
based on Hudson Insti­tute
analyses. "Except
for temporary shortages
caused by bad luck or
poor management, the
world need not worry
about energy shortages
or costs In the future,"
the book said.
Train, a lifelong con­servationist,
was chair­man
of the President's
Council on Environmen­tal
Quality and as
Undersecretary of the
Interior before being
appointed to the EPA.
The Council during
Train's tenure was re­sponsible
for the devel­opment
of environmen­tal
and legislative pro­grams
protecting the
environment, including
national land use policy,
surface mining regula­tion,
regulation of pesti­cides
and ocean
dumping controls.
Expressions of surprise and happiness are shown on the faces of these five
Miss Glomerata finalists. Debbie Fleming, 3GC, was named Miss Glom for 1978
Monday night. Her runners-up were: Cheryl Clements, 3SAT, Lisa Batley, 2NF,
Edith Lyle Smith, 2EEC, and Jean Roberts, 2GC.
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.
Faculty are not to make changes
in the final examination schedule
except as provided in the state­ments
above or as approved by
the vice president for academic
affairs.
Date Class hour
Saturday, Dec. 3 jj a m -
7 a.m.
1 p.m.
Monday, Dec. 5 10 a m -
2 p.m.
5 p.m.
Special Examination Period and
World 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.
Special Examination Period
Exam time
9 -11:30 a.m.
1 - 3:30 p.m.
3:40 - 6:10 p.m.
9 - 11:30 a.m.
1 - 3:30 p.m.
3:40 - 6:10 p.m.
7 - 9:30 p.m.
9 - 11:30 a.m.
1-3:30 p.m.
3:40 - 6:10 p.m.
7-9:30 p.m.
9-11:30 a.m.
1 - 3:30 p.m.
3:40 - 6:10 p.m.
7:00-9:30 p.m.
Biorhythm
The Biorhythm theory postulates that there are
certain metabolic rhythms that have a constant
cycle time in the human body, and are known
as inner clocks.
Two physicians, one a contemporary of Freud,
concurrently described a 23-day cycle that
correlated with physical vitality, endurance,
and energy; and a 28-day cycle that
corresponds to sensitivity, intuition, and
cheerfulness. A third cycle was observed by a
professor and others in the 1920s and 1930s,
and is a 33-day cognitive or intellectual cycle
that relates to mental alertness and
judgement.
All three cycles start up from birth or the
beginning of independent life. Although all
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Editorials
Wednesday, November 23, 1977 A-4
Car-pooling
The best way to have fun at the Auburn-Alabama game is to expend your
own energy by screaming your lungs out while conserving the energy of our
natural resources, and there's a way to do it.
Carpool; don't waste fuel by going to the game in separate cars. Just think
how much fun (and energy-conscious) it would be to pick up a couple of
Alabama students, stuff them in the trunk and hassle them after we've won
the game.
If you don't like Alabama students, load up with Auburnites. Just imagine
a compact car packed with eight (or more) of your fellow Tigers.
Seriously, though, everyone knows how terrible the parking situation is at
Legion Field, how hazardous it can be to leave a car parked there with the
wrong school's sticker on the windshield and how slow the
bumper-to-bumper progression gets along Arkadelphia Avenue.
Carpooling would save precious gasoline, alleviate the parking and traffic
situations and provide a good time, all in one.
Thanksgiving
Thanksgiving is tomorrow, and like many, we'd like to take this
opportunity to sit back and reflect on the many things we're thankful for. We
at The Plainsman staff consider ourselves a fortunate bunch, and there are
many people who are responsible and deserve a little credit.
First, we'd like to thank our advisor, David Housel, for all the help he's
given us. We'd also like to thank our typesetters, Beth Shaw, Jill Thomas and
Susan Sprouse, for faithfully attacking mounds of copy every week and
putting up with some pretty outrageous hours.
We would like to thank the Student Affairs Office, especially Dean James
Foy, whose retirement this year will certainly end an era at Auburn.
Thanks to our advertisers, for supporting us financially. And to our
subscribers, who have sometimes had to put up with late deliveries, or
sometimes the wrong newspaper, our gratitude.
WEGL Program Director Jim Teed and his "On The Air" show deserve our
thanks. The show is interesting and lively, and the highlight of our Sunday
nights here.
Thanks go out to Auburn students, who put out more than 4500 pints of
blood in two blood drives. And we're sure the Red Cross joins us in our
thanks.
Our janitor, Joe, and the rest of the Union maintenance deserve mention
for cleaning out enough garbage every week so we can find our desks.
We also would like to say "Thanks" to the many people who staff The
Plainsman, and put in long hours every week.
Krystal, Omelet Shoppe and Solomon's keep us fueled for these long
nights, and they get our thanks, too.
Three staffers who are leaving The Plainsman, managing editor Lisa Harris,
copy editor Margaret Fuller and Jane Pitts, deserve thanks for meritorious
service. And to associate editor Betsy Butgereit: Get well soon!
Oh yes, there are others, too:
Thanks to John Denver, for not coming here this quarter.
Thanks to the one campus policeman in 5,000 who didn't give a student a
parking ticket last week.
Thanks to the Social Life Committee, UPC and the IFC for giving us plenty
of time to study.
Thanks to the SGA Student Senate, for keeping our Senate reporter from
being too busy. ,
Thanks to Coach Doug Barfield and the football team for making our fall
interesting. (C'mon Bama, admit it: it's boring to win every week!)
And finally, to all the SGA: Watch out for hungry pilgrims tomorrow.
Gratitude
Dot Morgan and Inez Tucker are Auburn institutions, along the lines of
War Eagle, Dean Jim Foy and Maryland Fried Turkey.
Auburn is losing something this quarter when Mrs. Morgan, who has
supervised War Eagle Cafeteria banquet facilities since 1962, retires this
month.
And Mrs. Tucker, who has managed War Eagle Cafeteria since it opened in
1952, is retiring next month.
Both of these dedicated women have given of themselves to provide
Auburn students with good food, and the Auburn community with the best
banquets in east Alabama.
Thousands of Auburn students and visitors have been touched by the
generosity and leadership of these two dieticians.
We want to thank Mrs. Tucker and Mrs. Morgan for their years of service.
Our hats are off to them for a job well done.
We just hope their successors can fill their shoes — not an easy task.
The Auburn
Plainsman
John Carvalho, Editor
Burrell Wilson, Business Manager
Editorial Board members: Managing Editor, Usa Harris; Associate Editor,
Betsy Butgereit; News Editor, Lauren Steele; Features Editor, Jackie Romlne;
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 Marshman; Asst. News Editors, Susan Counts
and Dick Parker; Asst. Features Editor, Janet Hightower; Asst. Sports Editor,
Chuck Anschutz.
Asst. Entertainment Editor, Dave White; Asst. Copy Editor, Kim Peacock;
Asst. Production Manager, David Gibson; Asst. Photographic Editor, Vickey
Hunt.
Advertising Director, Burrell Wilson; Layout Specialists, Diane Byington and
Ann Gracey; Account Representatives, Mary Gardiner, John Brinkerhoff and
Paul Ferwerda; Circulation Directors, CD. Hightower 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.
Women's conference causes 'mutiny'
There seems to be some mutiny in
the ranks in the "war between the
sexes," with the battleground set in
Houston.
The National Women's Con­ference,
convening in the Astro-city,
has already been preluded by all the
charges and countercharges of a
Senate investigation, but promises to
be much more entertaining.
First, some background. A Nation­al
Commission on the Observance of
National Women's Year was set up
by President Gerald Ford in 1976
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Congress,
schedule
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meeting in
The project looked suspiciously
like a government-sponsored public
relations effort to support the Equal
Rights Amendment. The national
commission even sent a "suggested"
slate of resolutions to the state
conventions, with support of the
ERA among the "suggested" topics.
This offended many anti-ERA
women, and even some ERA
supporters, myself included. The
whole convention system had dam­aged
its credibility before it had even
gotten started.
The fun was yet to come. Things
went smoothly enough at the outset,
until the convention reached Minne­sota,
where a confrontation arose
betweeen abortion and anti-abortion
forces. Confrontation begat coalition,
as anti-ERA and anti-abortion forces
at the Missouri convention raised a
ruckus.
Finally, confrontation and coali­tion
begat chaos. The anti-ERA
forces dominated the Oklahoma state
meeting and even pushed through a
resolution which said being a
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housewife "is the most rewarding
and vital of professions. Busloads of
conservative women from Florid;
shouted down any and everything
discussed at that state's convention
The Hawaiian convention • was sup
posedly scandalized by an allegedly
lesbian skit.
Now the scene has shifted to
Houston. It has been predicted that
despite all the problems, the
women's rights forces will probably
still dominate. Still, reports say
virtually every hotel room in Houston
is filled, as combatants from both
sides have descended on the town
determined that their side should be
expressed, no matter how horribly.
However, the issue is more than
just women battling it out on
diametrically opposed philosophies
The whole credibility of the
women's rights movement is at stake
It brings up this question:
Although the leaders of the women's
liberation movement arc in the
public eye, do they really represent
the views of the majority of women?
I don't think so, and the "raucous
caucuses" of the summer prove this
out. Women, mainly housewives, are
insulted that their careers should be
degraded: even unintentionally, but
that is the implication of much of the
rhetoric.
This problem has been steadily
building up since the inception of
the movement and the frustrations of
supposedly unliberated women has
also been building.
And the way some ERA supporters
are planning to ask for an extension
on the deadline for passage of the
ERA, since it seems the ERA
destined not to pass, does not seem
above board. This and the raucous
caucus can only hurt the women's
rights movement.
I support the ERA and the
women's rights movements. Bui
fairness and justice come first. If
the majority of citizens do not favor
the ERA, then it is only right that
the amendment not pass. After all
this is a democracy.
Energy crisis is transition, not shortage
Is there an energy crisis?
That sounds like asking if "Star
Wars" will be a big box-office hit.
Carter didn't cancel his European
trip for nothing; there is an energy
crisis, but the crisis isn't a shortage of
energy materials.
Today's energy crisis resembles the
transistion period of the 1800s, when
Americans began to substitute coal
and petroleum for wood and whale
oil.
Ideally, this century's energy
switch would turn off natural gas and
oil and turn on solar energy and
fusion power.
Unfortunately, present-day tech­nology
can't produce solar energy
cheaply enough for mass consump­tion
and can't control millions-of-degrees
hot hydrogen, which the sun
can, for sustained fusion reactions.
We can't wait for better technol­ogy
before we lessen the importance
of gas and oil to this country.
Dave
White
America's oil production fell
behind demand in 1967 and natural
gas production peaked in 1973.
So between 1977 and 2000 or the
next technological breakthrough, the
government wants to reduce oil and
natural gas's share of America's total
energy out put from 75 to 50
percent.
America's coal and oil-shale will
last a few hundred years, the sun
should be around for awhile and
uranium reserves will likely last until
after 2000, so the government wants
to shift emphasis to nuclear reactors,
coal plants and home solar units,
while holding shale oil as its ace in
the hole.
Such an energy shift will cost
dearly and demand united policy
decisions and national resolve.
National Business magazine esti­mated
long-term energy costs at $1.3
trillion — and that's a crisis.
What's more, complete social and
economic costs aren't known of either
this immediate energy shift or mass
conversion to fusion and solar power
a few decades from now.
However, we can't afford to phase
out pumped fuels.
America's 1977 trade deficit will
be $25 billion, because we'll have
imported 3.2 billion barrels of oil, 46
percent of our national needs, at a
cost of $45 billion.
Not even the United States can
afford huge deficits indefinitely, and
many Third World countries are
faring worse with their oil-related
debts.
According to Time magazine's
Marshall Loeb, the United States and
a few European countries have loaned
$200 billion to developing nations
that could go bankrupt. This
"ticking time bomb," if it explodes,
would wreak havoc on the world's
money institutions.
Auburn has not only grown;
we realize it's maturing Looking back over the quarter and
trying to summarize events, one
would have an interesting revelation:
there hasn't been any good news
coming out of Auburn in almost
three months.
The school has been in the news
more than any other state institution
and most of that news has been bad.
First there was the conflict at the
Health Center which culminated in
Dr. Garth Jarvis's resignation as
Health Center director. Later calls
came to fire head football Coach
Doug Barfield, and Alumni Associa­tion
Executive Secretary Buck Brad-berry
created a furor when he blasted
the alumni for getting down on
Barfield.
Only two weeks ago it was reported
that the War Eagle Cafeteria was not
paying its power bills, and last week,
a policeman was forced to resign after
he allegedly pulled a gun on a
fraternity housemother.
These were just some of the
problems and no doubt there will be
more.
A question asked often is, "Why
did these things happen at a place
like Auburn? The most popular
answer is that they stem directly from
the backwardness of Auburn's
administration, but I attribute them
to a case of growing pains and a lack
of understanding of the changes that
have taken place here.
Perhaps Auburn just grew too fast.
Growing too fast isn't all that bad;
in fact, it's fairly normal. But, as
biologists have learned that it takes a
child's body time to adjust to
growing spurts, so it will take time
for Auburn to adjust to its
tremendous increase in students,
faculty and campus services.
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An unknown source once wrote,
"Auburn is no Harvard, MIT or
Alabama — Thank God for small
favors."
Auburn people have always
thought of the school as an old rock
nestled in the quiet anonymity of
eastern Alabama. Times would
change and the years would come
and go, but Auburn would always be
the same: a pleasant, unpretentious
place where men were men and
homegrown Southern values were
slowly nurtured.
That image isn't exactly accurate in
1977. Auburn resembles Harvard and
MIT a lot more than most of us
suspect.
Auburn football teams have
carried the school's name far and
wide. Facilities like the vet school are
well known. There has been too
much attention focused on Auburn
for it to remain hidden.
Also, the students are different.
The old Southern image of the
barefoot scholar who drove a tractor
to school is now a part of legend.
Sophistication is a better description.
Coming out of Alabama's high
schools are students more indepen­dent,
more vocal and more interested
than their predecessors in what is
going on around them than their
than their predecessors in what is
going on around them. It is this
generation that has raised questions
about Auburn liquor laws, care at the
Health Center and the quality of
their professors.
And if the students have changed,
then sooner or later, so must the
University.
It would be a shame if this interest
and concert were ignored. Reporting
that students were taking a greater
role in student government or
campus activities would certainly be a
welcome change of pace.
That day isn't here yet. There is
still some adjusting to do. It is likely
that there will be more conflicts and
confrontations, but they will eventu­ally
be solved.
Give Auburn's officials time to get
used to the fact that Auburn isn't
only growing in size; it is maturing
as well.
Even if America and other
countries could affort it, oil importa­tion
can't go on indefinitely.
World oil production will peak
around 1995. World energy use
increases 4 to 6 percent annually,
according to U.S. News and World
Report, and oil demand will exceed
supply in the late 1980s.
Such a shortage was predicted
decades ago, but nobody did
anything about it. America needs a
Pearl Harbor or battleship Maine to
help it wake up to reality.
I hope Carter's energy proposals
signal America's entry into our
current energy war.
The proposals stress oil and gas
conservation through increased oil
and gas prices and conversion to coal.
If passed, Carter's proposals,
though modified by Congress, will
probably raise natural gas prices from
$1.43 to approximately $2 per 1,000
cubic feet, costing consumers $30
billion.
A proposed wellhead tax on oil
would increase gas costs 3 to 5 cents
per gallon, costing consumers $1.1
billion.
The proposals would also probably
restrict production of poor-mileage
autos and allow low-interest loans for
insulation and solar equipment
installation.
Carter's energy bill would give
rebates and tax credits to industries
converting from oil and gas to coal,
and could cause savings of "up to 4
million barrels of oil a day by 1985,"
according to Newsweek, at a cost of
tens of billions of dollars.
I don't think the energy bill of
1977 hits America's pocketbook hard
enough to pinch the public into
energy reality.
Still, Carter's proposals are Ameri­ca's
first battle in our "mo-"1
equivalent of war.
It's going to take a pinched public
and real national sacrifice to
successfully convert to environmen­tally
acceptable coal and shale-oil
power, and eventually to fusion and
mass solar energy projects.
If America tackles the energy crisis
head on, today's oil and gas age will
someday look like the old wood and
whale oil days.
If we dodge the issue, today's
energy crisis is one war America will
lose.
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Letters Trailer parks denied City fire protection'
.Wednesday, November 23, 1977 A-5
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* Today's Student' labeled
'propaganda smear sheet'
Editor, The Plainsman:
Unkown to most Auburn stu­dents,
the trailer parks west of
Auburn, with the exception of
Ridge wood Village, are without fire
protection due to the fact that the
Auburn Fire Department is not
allowed to respond to calls outside
city limits. The City Council policy
states that fire protection will only
cover the city limits. Those living
outside this area do not pay city
taxes and, consequently, will not
receive fire protection.
There appear to be two feasible
solutions:
(1) A change of policy by the
Auburn City Council to extend fire
protection through police jurisdic­tion
three miles outside of city
limits as done by the Opelika Fire
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Lately, in Magnolia Cafeteria and,
I suppose, other places, there has
been distributed a small propaganda
sheet called "Today's Student." I
find this "paper" a little hard to
stomach as the writers do little to
hide their pseudo-scientific, ultra-rightist
Christian bias.
As a moderate preacher's kid of
Methodist extraction I really hate to
see any faction of the Christian
Church degenerate to taking cheap
pot-shots at the so-called opposi­tion.
In the Nov. 7 issue they went
so low as to dredge up Charles
Darwin's childhood and his
mother's death in an attempt to
show why his theory on natural
selection is wrong. I suppose the
next issue will give us the lowdown
on his sex life and his fascination
with big apes.
When the paranoid minority of
Christians discovers that scientists
and thinking people are not out to
destroy them, there will no longer
be a need for bigoted smear sheets
like the "Today's Student" to exist.
I am not protesting the paper's
distribution, but I would like to
know who distributes it here and
why.
I can see no use for this paper at
an institution like Auburn where
people are supposed to open up
their minds, not close them. I also
see no use in presenting such a
negative view of Christianity. Well,
there is one use for the "Today's
Student": it's great for when
you're defrosting the fridge.
Harrison Marshall, 2ZY
'Thanks, John, for disclosing
important campus issues'
Editor, The Plainsman:
I would like to congratulate John
Carvalho on his impeccable journa­listic
instinct. It seems that he alone
has hit upon the two most
controversial issues of the 70s: a
messy desk and a chemistry lab. I
comment you, John, for not only
discivering these terribly important
issues, but also for courageously
disclosing your personal opinions on
each of these, to say nothing of the
amazing wit with which they were
written (obviously meant to soften
such profundity).
Now it seem that because the
most serious controversies have
already been covered, the rest of
the year (possibly even the rest of
all time) must be devoted to such
trivia as war, poverty, politics, and
a B & G worker threatening to
work. However, it's not a time to
panic, for an issue may lurk in this
recently rendered "reporter's vac­uum."
Let's take a closer look. Ah, there
they are, other recondite issues:
there is a chair next to the messy
desk, a rug, a loose floor tile
(symbolic), and even, (dare mention
it)...a dead bug (infinite source of
debate).
For an issue that is still serious,
but with potentially amusing lines,
let's consider any class- other than
the previously covered chemistry
courses- taught at Auburn. There is
DOONESBURY
calculus (think of all those funny
formulas and clever squiggles),
history (funny quotes by Stalin,
Hitler, and Regan) and English
(Where we are taught 1001 ways to
say nothing). The list is virtually
endless. There is matter in this
vacuum. Let's not let it go
unnoticed.
So once again, John• congratula­tions,
and may these other firey
issues I have mentioned here be of
some service to you in your future
"editorials."
'Serving as an usher is not an easy job'
Editor, the Plainsman: ?•
Ushering is not an easy job. As
students we find it very difficult to
ask fellow students and adults to
"stop smoking," "move on" or
"please, no pictures" because we
understand their enthusiasm during a
concert. We have been ticket buyers
ourselves at many times. ;
John Chambless, 3AR
Plainsmanf students thanked for help
in Auburn beautification program ;
Editor, The Plainsman:
I wish to express my appreciation
and the appreciation of the Auburn
Beautification Council for the
publicity which you gave the Tidy
Tiger Committee of the Council in
your issue of Nov. 10 pertaining to
the commendation certificate which
was awarded to the Physical Plant
Division for the installation of the
new trash receptacles and lighting
on the campus.
I would like to express my thinks
especially to Lauren Steele and
Kevin Loden of your staff, for their
co-operation and assistance.
The University students, fraterni­ties,
sororities and other groups
have been most helpul in making
Auburn a more beautiful and
neater city through their efforts in
anti-litter, recycling, etc. ;
If each student and townperson
would do a daily "Boy Scout? deed"
of picking up and depositing litter
in containers, the city; and the
University would be as "clean as a
hound's tooth.
"Pitch in; keep it neat to the
center lines of the streets.''
Thank you for your cooperation.
K.G. Taylor
Chairman, Tidy Tiger Committee
by Garry Trudeau
We have been in our fellow-stu­dent's
position of simply wanting to
enjoy the concert without having to
worry about seeing the "mature
adults" Jackie Romine spoke of in
her editorial "Auburn students at
concerts don't need babysitters"
light up cigarette after cigarette
having been begged by ushers not to
smoke.
How many of these ' 'mature''
people snap flash pictures at the
distraction of others, having been
asked not to? Personally, I get tired
of helping drunken students after
they have fallen down the stairs, but,
as an usher, I will continue to.
Most people attending an Auburn
concert know the regulations con­cerning
smoking, as they usually
announce it before beginning, post
light-up signs on the floor, and have
placed other signs all throughout the
arena area. Also, I can't help but
doubt the sincerity of those who
think that their blinding flashes,
choking smoke, and alcohol breath
doesn't bother their fellow students.
It is true. Most people who attend
these concerts are mature adults, but
all are not. In the same respect, most
ushers do their job in a mature way,
but all do not. Perhaps the usher in
Section 39 was immature, but just
because one was "not good", by any
means doesn't mean that one can
sterotype all ushers as "not good."
In summation, it is hard being an
usher serving students, but we try.
So, please do not criticize us, as
ushers, until you have "walked a
mile in our shoes," or tried ushering.
Robert Gieselmann, 2PB
Editor's note: The Plainsman
received several letters from Coliseum
ushers, but only printed one because
of space limitations. The letter
printed is representative of others
received.
Department is one solution. Aub­urn
does have a "common courtesy
f)olicy" to come to the aid of those
iving in Opelika. However, due to
the fear of rising insurance rates,
the city of Auburn will not extend
fire protection to police jurisdiction.
(2) A second solution rests in
the Loachapoka community with the
establishment of a volunteer fire
department, since the trailer parks
on Wire Road with the exception of
Ridgewood Village are on Loacha-poka's
water system. A payment of
$1 per month per trailer and $3 per
month per house is the fee to
receive fire protection by a Loacha­poka
Volunteer Fire Department.
What a small price to pay in
comparison to a human life. This
payment would account for a
$130,000 loan needed to establish a
Loachapoka Volunteer Fire Depart­ment
with two locations—one in
Loachapoka community and the
other on Wire Road.
All we can say is "Get fired up
or burn!"
Pam Mahan, 2FCD
Tim O'Neal, 3GPG
John Moore, 4PV
Diane Bless, 2FCD
Laural Stewart, 2EEC
'Citizens without
water facilities'
Editor, The Plainsman:
Can you imagine your life
without any water or sewage
facilities? A survey of Railroad
Avenue in Auburn reflected that 48
residents are not adequately sup­plied
with water and sewage, or
that they are not supplied at all.
In fact, there is an "Outhouse"
just several feet off campus behind
the Pi Kappa Alpha fraternity
house.
An elderly lady with extreme
arthritis has to walk blocks to
receive her weekly water supply.
And in one case the "outhouse"
has been blown over, and the
residents are required to telieve
themselves on their back lawn.
The City of Auburn has received
a grant to install water and sewer
lines in low-income areas of the
city. The sewer and water lines are
proposed tor Railroad Avenue.
We, as students of Auburn
University and concerned citizens of
Auburn, consider this an urgent
project because of the water and
sewer facilities need by the families.
These citizens require and deserve
this service. Please offer your
support of any action initiated to
solve this problem.
Walter Stroud, 2PN
Elbert Steven Hughes, 4EC
Cyndy Peacock, 4VOA
Amy Davis, 2ED
Tonna Smith, 3FCD
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Alanet hops on news for broadcasts
VI
Textile designs graded
By Donna Cook
Plainsman Staff Writer
"The girls were ap­prehensive
at first, but
we were pleased with the
results," said Gary
Trentham, professor of
Clothing and Textiles,
about four of his students
who sent textile designs
to New York firms last
spring to be graded.
The students, Connie
Jarrett, Jenny Ward,
Vicki Findley and Linda
Conners, worked on de­signs
for grades in Trent-ham's
class.
Trentham said stu­dents
in Clothing and
Textiles find teaching
jobs "hard to come by,"
and most want to go into
industry. He said he
devised the plan to send
designs to New York
textile firms to see if his
students had "the abil­ity"
for industry work.
Students drew small
and large floral prints,
opulents, geometries,
juveniles and a historical
Russian print where re­search
had to be done.
The designs were done on
boards, using mathe­matical
calculations for
accuracy.
The designs were sent
to the firms where they
were graded for color,
dyes, technique and pat­tern
design. The firms
included CranTes, Avtex
Fibers, Prentempo and
Harper's Bazaar.
Trentham said his stu­dents
were given six
designs each, and they
had about five weeks to
complete their work.
After the designs were
graded in New York,
they were returned to
Trentham who assigned
grades for the quarter on
the basis of the firms'
grading.
Trentham said he was
pleased with the grades,
which were mostly A's
and B's, but said he
would "always like to see
even better grades, of
course."
Connie Jarrett, now In
graduate school in Cloth­ing
and Textiles, said she
was apprehensive at first
about "sending designs
all the way to New
York," but she was
pleased with her grades.
She said she would "en­joy
working for a New
York firm."
Jarrett said the de­signs
were done for cloth,
but "not necessarily for
clothes." She said some
companies used designs
for draperies and sheets.
By Lauren C. Steele
News Editor
Jay Lewis is providing
statewide news to the
people in Opp and Au­burn
and Birmingham
and Mobile...
The man who made
himself known to Ala-bamians
as editorial di­rector
for WSFA-TV in
Montgomery has left the
public's eye, but not the
public's view.
Lewis, who spoke to
the Auburn Press Club
last Thursday, left tele­vision
to begin the Ala­bama
Information Net­work
(Alanet), a radio
news service carried by
47 radio stations through­out
the state.
Lewis organized the
network during the sum­mer
and went on the air
Sept. 6. Thirty stations
subscribed initially, and
17 more joined the first
two months.
The venture has been
successful, he says, be­cause
his timing was
right and he does a good
job.
In three short months,
Lewis says, his team of
four newsmen has brok­en
more than 50 major
statewide news stories.
How can just four
people break major news
when hundreds of hungry
newspapermen are keep­ing
their eyes on every
town in the state?
Well, Lewis says the
secret is that his men are
based where state news
is generated, in Mont­gomery,
and that his
reporters work hard.
Jay said his reporters
know who to talk to in
Montgomery and
throughout the state. In­stead
of traditional
journalistic legwork, Ala-net's
reporters use the
telephone.
A statewide WATS line
and patience make up for
expensive and time-wast­ing
travel, Lewis said,
but when a big story
breaks and being there is
imperative, one of Ala-net's
people will break
away to get there.
Lewis said the key to
his network's success has
been a "futures file"
system. Each reporter
files each storv. and he
UFO
Photography: Gofdon Bugg
Orienteering team
wins fourth meet
By Denlse Dailey
Plainsman Staff Writer
The Auburn University
Orienteering Team won
its fourth meet Saturday
at the James J. Garman
Memorial Orienteering
Meet sponsored by Ten­nessee
Tech University.
Steve Owen, 4INM, won
first in individual com­petition
and Mat Maney,
4GB Y, won third place
individual.
Orienteering is a rel­atively
new sport consist­ing
of finding points on
the ground using a map
and a compass.
The AU team, formed
last year by Army ROTC
and under the direction
of Sergeant Major Ralph
Dunahoo, has won all
four of its meets this
year and has won first
place individual in each
meet.
The team consists of
Owen, Maney, Mark
Jordan, 4BSC, Pride
Nichols, 4FI, David Cun­ningham,
4VAG, Mark
Sission, 4ZY, Richard
Whilden, 2PN, Mark
Brooks, 2PB, J.D. White,
VAG, Charles McManus,
2PB, Greg Bugg, 2PN,
Scot Cop eland, 2ME,
Denlse Dailey, 1GJM,
Jack Stallings, 3PIR, and
Robert Dubois, 2LT.
At the Vanderbilt In­vitational
Orienteering
Meet Nov. 12, the Auburn
team won first place. The
first place individual,
Mark Jordan, set a new
record for finding points.
Mark Brooks won third
place individual.
At the Alabama Invita­tional
Orienteering Meet
Nov. 5, first place was
awarded to Auburn and
first, second and third
place individual went to
Owen, Brooks and
Jordan respectively.
The team won first
place at the Golden
Eagle Orienteering-Meet
at Southern Mississippi
University on Oct. 15.
First place individual
went to Owen and third
place went to Maney.
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checks back with the file
for any outcomes, con­clusions
or new angles
for a follow up.
Lewis said he started
the network to make
money and to provide a
service.
"Good radio stations
are few and far between
in Alabama," he said,
"and the small ones
operate with the fewest
possible people on the
smallest possible bud­get."
He said small town
radio news people "do
the best they can," but
the opportunities are lim­ited.
"When you're in Opp,
all you can do is Opp
news," he said. "You
have to go where the
news generates."
Lewis said his goal is
to provide news to small
stations as well as the big
ones, but not to put a
single journalist out of
work. In fact, he refused
to sign a station when the
station manager said he
intended to fire his news
staff.
Lewis makes money by
selling his service to
stations and selling ad­vertising.
Alanet charges $80 for
a 30-second spot. The
network broadcasts 12
newscasts a day, with 90
seconds of the five min­ute
broadcast devoted to
commercial advertising.
Alanet uses 60 seconds,
and local stations can use
the other 30 seconds.
Hours change
at cafeterias
All University contract
dining halls and cafeter­ias
will be closed after
lunch today and will
reopen for breakfast
Monday.
The Filling Station, in
Terrell Cafeteria, will be
open Sunday from 6
p.m. to 11 p.m.
The Quiet Appetite, in
Magnolia Dormitory,
will be open Sunday
from 6 p.m. to 12 p.m.
Lewis said he is in no
way cutting into the local
stations' advertising
revenue.
"Commercial radio
can have 18 minutes per
hour for commercials,"
he said. "We only have 18
minutes per day. We
cannot put a station out
of business."
A radio news network
is unique, he said, and he
is not required to have a
license. He is not broad­casting,
but transmitting
news on telephone lines.
Lewis began his broad­casting
career in 1964 as
a junior high school
student.
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Weights
'The good Lord didn't intend for bodies to go to waste'
By Janet Hightower
Asst. Features Editor
"The good Lord didn't
intend for us to let our
bodies go to waste," said
Billy Mitchell, 3CE, a
former member of the
War Eagle Weight Lift­ing
Club.
The purpose of the club
which meets bi-monthly
in the weight training
room of the coliseum is
PUMPING IRON
.Kelly Schultz, 3PM (left), Lindsey work out.
to promote and perpe­tuate
such activities as
competition weightlift-ing,
body building weight
training and physical fit­ness.
Charlie Lihdsey, 3GB,
club president, said the
benefits of the club are a
knowledge of the sport.
Opportunities to partici­pate
in tournaments, to
obtain recognition for
achievement in the sport
and fellowship with other
club members and com­petitors.
The self sponsored, self
coached group was orga­nized
five years ago.
Since then several mem­bers
have placed in state
and regional competi­tion.
In the Mr. North Ala­bama
body builders com­petition
Tob Richardson
placed second and Dan
Gilliland placed third.
In the Alabama State
Meet for power lifting
Bubba Griffin placed
second and Buddy Hayes
placed third in the 198
pound class. Billy Mit­chell
placed first in the
181 pound class and Tim
Ivery placed second in
the 165 pound class.
Richardson, who is a
body builder, said the
two programs for power
lifting body building are
different. "The power
lifters try to see how
much they can lift so
they can concentrate on
three main exercises;
bench lift, squats and
dead lifts, and they use a
lot of protein supple­ments
in their diet for
power.
The body builders
though are interested in
developing all parts of
their body so they do a
variety of exercises.
Richardson said the body
builders do not have to
stay on a strict diet but
two months before a
meet the participants go
on a low carbohydrate-high
protein diet in order
to burn off any excess
body fat.
"Body building is the
ninth most populai
sport," said Richardson
Books and movies like
'•Pumping Iron" have
increased the popularity
of the sport.
People are becoming
more health conscious.
They want to look good,"
said Richardson.
Richardson said there
are some misconceptions
about people who partici­pate
in weight lifting and
body building. "We're
not all vain. It's just like
Trophies awarded in Road Rally
By Susan Counts
Assistant News Editor
Forty contestants in
twenty cars competed
for trophies in Satur­day's
Alpha Epsilon Pi-
Gamma Sigma Sigma
Road Rally.
Six Auburn students
took the top individual
positions •in the rally,
with Theta XI fraternity
claiming the organiza­tional
trophey.
First place trophies
were awarded to Pat
Paul, 2PM, and Steve
Smith, 1PN, for com­pleting
the first portion
of the rally with the
most accurate mileage
and answering all
questions concerning the
second part of the rally
correctly.
Second place trophies
were given to James
Tamblyn, 9AED, ana
Cory Trawick, 1PN, Van
Swofford, 4AE, and Pat
Higginbotham, 1PN, re­ceived
trophies for third
place.
The rally was divided
into two parts: a
"Hound or Hare"
section and a "Clue"
section.
The "Hound or Hare"
portion was a 37.7 mile
route skirting the city
limits of Auburn which
contained about 30 inter­sections.
At each inter­section,
contestants had
to guess the direction in
which they should con­tinue.
Each decision, if cor­rect,
was confirmed by
a pink marking on the
road located two-tenths
of a mile from the
intersection. If a wrong
turn was made, no
marking would be seen
and contestants would
have to return to the
intersection and try
another direction. The
contestants finishing the
route with the mileage
closest to that of the
section won the most
points for that section.
The second section
was a 37 mile course for
which a list of appropri­ate
turns was furnished.
Each competing car was
also given a list of 20
questions concerning
things along the road of
the "Clue" section. The
questions were not in
the order in which the
items would appear and
some questions had
more than one answer.
The contestants with the
most questions answered
correctly won the most
points for the course.
The total points
earned on each section
of the rally were added
together to determine
the overall rally winner.
According to rally
chairman Jim Missil-dine,
Paul and Smith
were the only team to
answer each question
for the second part
correctly.
Each team competing
for the individual
trophies was charged an
entree fee of $2. All
organizations competing
were charged $5.
Winners of the rally
were announced Satur­day
night at JoVonn
Inn's Pub. The JoVonn
Inn donated one-half of
their cover charge for
Saturday night to be
added to the funds
raised by the rally.
All proceeds will be
given to the Muscular
Dystrophy Foundation.
At any price ;
you can afford to be choosy.
Because the value of every diamond is
determined by four characteristics (cut, color,
clarity and carat weight), you can always use
these qualities to your best advantage.
Perhaps you're attracted by the grandeur
of a large diamond. Well, sometimes a large
stone can cost the same as a smaller one.
Simply because it has a little more color. Or a
delicate birthmark hidden inside.
On the other hand, you may feel size isn't
the most important quality. Then you could
choose a diamond that's small, but perfectly
cut to sparkle with an icy-white elegance.
In any case, you'll be able to find one to
suit your personality. Because each one
is an individual, with its own combination of
characteristics. And you can use these
qualities any way you wish, to help you decide
what's precisely right for you.
But the important thing to remember is to
buy a diamond engagement ring you'll be
happiest with. You'll be sharing it for a lifetime
with someone you love.
And for that reason alone, you should
be choosy.
A diamond is forever.
any other sport."
Richardson said he be­came
interested in body
building because he
didn't like the way he
looked. "I was fat, and I
hated myself."
A member of the Au­burn
track team and
former high school foot­ball
player, Richardson
said he was always con­cerned
about good
health. I feel like I'm in
good shape now." He
said weight lifting is not
a team effort. It is
individualized."
There are different
levels of competition
both in body building and
power lifting.
Body building is di­vided
into three cate­gories
by either weight
or height of the competi­tor.
Power lifting is
divided into categories
by the weight of the
competitor.
Participants in power
lifting are judged by how
much they can lift in
their chosen exercise.
Body builders are
judged by their ap­pearance
and the deve­lopment
of the different
body parts.
There are three re­quirements
for be­coming
a member: the
person must be a stu­dent,
be interested in
physical fitness and at­tend
regularly scheduled
meetings.
Professor wins
$30 dinner
in drawing
Dr. John Kuykendall,
professor of Religion,
won a $30 dollar dinner
from C.L. Torbett's
restaurant in a drawing
held Sunday by the
Delta Tau Delta little
sisters.
Kuykendall donated
half the value of the
dinner to a needy family
for its Thanksgiving din­ner.
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Science fiction isn't alien to
Auburn students with a science
fiction club, courses and a
campus full of science' fiction
fans. However, a few people
may still be roaming campus
completely void of intelligent
work on these pages, taken
from classic science fiction
magazines, and some photos
are used courtesy of Dr. W.
David Lewis, one of Auburn's
resident science fiction experts.
'Possibilities'
Courses relate to technology and culture
By Dale Walsh
Plainsman Staff Writer
It's one of the most popular
genres of literature among young
people."
According to Dr. Douglas Alley,
associate professor of Secondary
Education, science fiction is be­coming
more and more popular in
today's society. For the past seven
years at Auburn there has been
one course which incorporates
science fiction. Within the next two
quarters there will be two more
courses dealing with science fic­tion.
Dr. David Lewis has been using
science fiction to teach history
since he began teaching at Auburn
seven years ago. The title of the
course in HY 380-Technology,
Society and the Environment, but
Lewis is in the process of changing
the title. "I want the title to be
more obvious," said Lewis, so the
title will be changed to Science
Fiction as Intellectual History.
When the course was first
taught, Lewis said he used little
science fiction. Now he use six
novels "as a means of getting at
history. The course uses six novels
taken from different periods of
history, the first being Mary
Shelley's "Frankenstein" written
in 1818. By studying science fiction
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Science Fiction
Wednesday, November 28, 1977 A-8
novels from different periods,
Lewis thinks "we can see about
the values and ideals of the period
through the eyes of the author."
The course covers periods from
1818 through Aldous Huxley's
"Brave New World and Colon
Wilson's "The Mind Parasites."
The 5-hour elective is elaborately
illustrated with slides.. Lewis, who
is also the faculty advisor for the
Science Fiction Club, enjoys teach­ing
the course. "The students
seem to like it."
Another course which will be
taught beginning winter quarter is
a three hour English elective
entitled "Science Fiction." "Sci­ence
fiction is a literature of
possibilities," according to Dr.
Patrick Morrow, associate profes­sor
of English, who will be
teaching the course.
"We will do representative types
of science fiction. It will be a
broad based course."
The course will cover several
classics, beginning also with Mary
Shelley's "Frankenstein" and
cover other novels including
Isaac Asimov's "I, Robot" and
George Lucas' "The Star Wars."
There will be a primary
emphasis on the work itself, as in
a standard English course. "We
will study the historical develop­ment
of the genre, relationships
between science fiction and the
culture."
Pre-enrollment in the course is
almost 30 students, ranging from
the interested and the fcurious
students to science majors.
"I'm sure we'll learn from this
course; it will become highly
modified in the future," said
Morrow.
"Science fiction is taken as a
valid field of study. I intend the
course to have intellectual respect­ability
and still be fun."
Spring quarter is the scheduled
time for another new course
dealing in science fiction. The
course will be SED 375, Science
Fiction in the Secondary School
Program. Alley will be teaching
the 5-hour elective designed "to
augment the teaching in the
content areas of the secondary
school curriculum."
Alley said he believes science
fiction should be used in all the
secondary classrooms to improve
comprehension, but that today's
teachers have no background in
this.
"Science fiction provides a
critical vantage point for commen­tary
on people and societies as we
find them today," he said. Alley
has a large collection of taped
radio shows and horror movies
which will be used in the course.
According to Alley, several
schools have begun programs
using science fiction. "Such pro­grams
are rapidly expanding and
have been especially useful with
reluctant readers."
He said science fiction can be
ncorporated into teaching almost
any subject to aid the student and
teacher both.
Movies and science fiction
Firstfilmin1902 By Rick Harmon
Entertainment Editor
Flying saucers, monsters and
alien beings may not be taking
over the world, but they have
already captured the minds of the
most movie goers.
Whether It is Godzilla demolish­ing
Tokyo while fighting a giant
moth or a spaceship drifting
peacefully through space to the
chords of "The Blue Danube,"
science fiction seems to have
taken over theatres everywhere.
It has not been an easy battle
for the films. No battle that uses
"I.was a Teenager From Outer
Space" and "Gammera The
Sonic Turtle" as weapons can be
considered an easy one.
The battle for recognition of the
science fiction movie has been
going on almost since the inven­tion
of movies themselves.
Science fiction was first
launched on the screen in 1902
when French director Georges
Melies took his audience on "A
Trip To the Moon."
If you saw Melies' film today,
you would probably think that it
looks hoaky and that the film's
scant plot Is merely a device to
tie together primitive scenes of
trick photography. You would be
right.
But back then people were
awed by the fantasy and its
equally fantastic effects and
science fiction began to take root.
After being nourished by such
movies as the 1910 film "A Trip
to Mars," and the 1909 film
"Battle in the Clouds," a film
which went so far as to forsee the
guided missile and television, the
science fiction film began to
blossom in Germany.
It was in Germany in 1926 that
Fritz Lang created the science
classic "Metropolis." The film
was the most expensive yet made
in Germany and the futurisitc
sets and models showed it.
"Metropolis" was one of the first
science fiction films that critics
took seriously.
One of these critics was H.G.
Wells who criticized Lang's por­trayal
of a futuristic society as
being ill concieved and unbeliev­able,
and set out to creat his own.
While Wells was working on his
city of the future, an English
director created somethig com­pletely
different.
In 1931 James Whale created a
monstor film called "Franken­stein"
and with it a genre that
would remain a part of science
fictiontfrom then one.
Only a few years and countless
monsters later, Wells had made
his film, the now classic "Thing
to Come." j
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The film was a break from the
earlier science fiction which dealt
primarily with fantasy and
ignored realism and ideology.
That was in 1936. The war
brought changes to the films of
the future.
One of these changes was that
America began to take over the
leadership in the production of
science fiction films. Another
change was that the films tended
to be more realistic and put a
greater emphasis on technology.
It was during this period that the
term "science fiction " evolved.
With the '60s came such
classics as "Destination Moon,"
which was written by Robert
Heinlein and was the first science
fiction movie to be filmed in
color.
In 1951 "The Day the Earth
Stood Still" was released.
The* late '50s and early '60s
marked the heydey of the cheap
science fiction films made with
as little taste as money. Most of
these were made to appeal to
young movie goers.
For the very young there was
the advent of the Japanese
monster movie, which included
the likes of Godzilla, Mothra,
Rhodan and almost countless
others.
For teenagers there were films
made for about the same level of
Intelligence which included such
winners as "I Was a Teenage
Werewolf," "I Was a Teenage
Frankenstein," "Beach Party
Terror" and "Teenagers from
Outer Space."
This space age depression was
brought to an end in 1968 when
Stanley Kubrick's "2001: A Space
Odyssey" ushered in a new
science fiction Renaissance.
Like most of the great science
fiction film breakthroughs in the
past, "2001" also had a great
budget. The film was one of the
most realistic science fiction
films ever made, with Kubrick
going to fantastic lengths to
insure scientific accuracy.
It was followed by a number of
other popular science fiction
films such as "Planet of the
Apes" and "The Andromeda
Strain," which also interwove
fiction with extensive realism.
Then last year came the
phonominal success of "Star
Wars," a film which put its main
emphasis on Flash Gordon-like
fantasy rather than realism.
The film proved how great the
science fiction market had be­come.
For years ever since the
success of the TV show Star
Trek, movie produces have rea­lized
the market was there, but
"Star Wars" paid off beyond
their wildest hopes.
The film's success has opened
up the doors for a stream of
other high budget science fiction
films, of. Which the biggest
would be "Close Encounters of
the Third Kind," a film which
cost cover $16 million to make.
"Close Encounters" is a film
about the first contact between
earth and an alien life form and
is a return to reality. Whether the
film on UFOs will take off like
"Star Wars" is uncertain but
either way science fiction is on
the planet to stay.
r
Monsters
and aliens
Science Fiction movies are.
here to stay. "Frankenstein,"
directed by James Whale, was
released in 1931. This classic
science fiction movie probably
created the entire genre of the
monster movie as we know it
today. "Close Encounters of a
Third Kind," released this
month was directed by Steven
Spielberg for Paramount
Pictures. Here, Francois Truf-faut
(r) as French scientist
Claude Lacombe asks Richard
Dreyfuss (1) to describe his
extraordinary encounter with
, alien beings.
Science fiction club provides speakers, discussions
By Danielle Murphy
Plainsman Staff Writer
"I enjoy it. It's the beginning of
the end of all of it," said Dr. Tom
Higgenbotham, professor in in­dustrial
engineering, as he ex­plained
why he is a member of
the Auburn Science Fiction and
Fantasy Club.
Jimmy Grimes, 2GJM, this
year's club president, said, "The
main purpose of the club is to
allow people of similiar beliefs to
get together." He said, "Science
fiction fans are notorious for their
clans."
Grimes said the 5-year-old club
sponsors a well-known science
fiction speaker each spring
quarter.
Some of the speakers accredited
to the club have been University of
Kansas professor, James Guhn,
who is alsoa science fiction writer
and scholar, Keith Laumer, writer
and Kelly Freas, science fiction
artist for paperback books and
magazines.
Grimes said the club is discus­sing
who its speaker will be for
the coming spring. "We don't get
enough money from the school to
sponsor more than one speaker a
year," Grimes said. "We pay for
the speakers through grants that
come through the office of Taylor
Littleton, vice president of aca­demic
affairs. '
"I've been reading science
fiction since I was very, very
young," said Grimes. "My father
was a science fiction fan, so I
was brought up around it."
Hlgglnbotham, one of the club's
facullty members, said his in­terests
in science fiction started
in grammar school. He said,
"That's how I got into the science
fiction field."
Past president of the club
Lindley Packston, 4MB, said the
club hasn't grown in size as the
result of "Star Wars' " smashing
success. However, he said there
are a number of new members in
the club this quarter.
Packston said the interests of
the club members vary. He said,
"One week we'll talk about hard
science fiction and the next week
we'll talk about fantasy.*'
Packston said science fiction is a
far-reaching subject. "Most of the
club members are science fiction
or engineering orientated." He
said, "It's a personal kind of thing
for them. You get into it In
yourself.
"We've had talks on psycholo­gy,
a move in the general field of
science fiction and more," Packs-ton
said." We have an open
meeting at the end of each
quarter and we are open for
suggestions at this time."
Packston said the club has
meetings that last for hours. He
said, "We sit down and drink
coffee and talk about science
fiction. It's kind of neat to watch
the interaction between them (the
club members)."
Packston said the club got
started four or five years ago.
"Several people just got together
and started a club." Packston
attributes the founding of the club
to John Campbell, 4IND.
The Science Fiction and Fan­tasy
Club ; has a number of
faculty members. Packston said,
"We have more faculty members
than most clubs. On the whole we
have about four or five faculty
members participating.
JdL Wednesday, November- 88, 1977 The AlixiTI Plainsman
Beep beep •
Computers play starring role
By Marian Hollon
Plainsman Staff Writer
Computers are now more than a
bank of information used to solve
business problems. They have
always had a starring role in
science fiction..
"The computer has been in­volved
with science fiction as long
as there has been science fiction,"
said Ben Barnes, director of
Auburn University's Computer
Center. "Before computers, people
tended to think up things a
machine could do."
Dr. W. David Lewis, history
professor, traced the fascination
with robots back to ancient times.
"The ancient Greeks and E-gyptians
speculated about statues
with moving body parts. In their
temples, Egyptians priests hid
behind statues and coordinated
movements.
"The advent of the computer has
raised many possibilities fpr sci­ence
fiction," Lewis said. "Science
fiction is full of stories with
creatures partially or wholly
artificial."
Some robots are docile servants
of man that know their place in
society and go by the rules. "In I,
Robot Issac Asimov presents an
optimistic view of the contribution
of computers," Lewis said. "Com­puters
have all the knowledge and
man lets the computer make plans
for him. But this also shows man
relinquishing much of his role in
making decisions for himself."
However, the main line of
science fiction deals with horror
tales. "In some novels, computers
have benign rule, while others
have robots with dangerous and
autocratic rule," said Carol Garr,
a former instructor in the foreign
language department who is pres­ently
taking data processing
courses at Opelika Technical
College. Gaar, who Lewis terms
an expert on German science
fiction, said that some authors
have presented robots that com­pletely
dominate man and take
over the entire planetary civiliza­tion.
After the development of
modern calculating devices in the
1600s, Lewis said one of the great
themes that came about in science
fiction was the possibility of
creating a machanical robot with
a computer for a brain.
"Even though a computer can
process information more rapidly
and accurately than a human
brain," Lewis said, "it has never
reached the complexity of a
human brain in inner connections.
"If a machine can reach this
complexity and if consciousness is
a function of complexity rather
than an invisible thing like a soul,
then an equivalent to man is
possible."
Lewis adds that with the present
computer technology and artificial
devices, it's possible to create a
flesh and blood organic person.
"With the various artificial organs
and connections with a computer
capacity, you could end up with an
android," Lewis said.
The big question that science
deals with, according to Barnes, is
whether or not a computer can
think as a human. "A thinking
computer appears in science
fiction today but it seems impossi­ble,"
Barnes said, "even to those
of us involved with computers. We
can't imagine how it could occur
because we don't understand the
way we think, much less the way a
computer thinks."
Barnes pointed out that in
Robert Heinlein's "The Moon is a
Harsh Mistress," a computer was
given a name and even carries on
conversation and seems to think.
"This idea seems quite farfetched
today and we can't conceive of
such a thing," Barnes said.
In the past, authors wrote about
several devices that seemed fan­tastic
then but that Barnes said
are reality now, such as guided
spaceships and patient monitors
with communications switched
by a computer.
"Jules Verne mentioned specific
inventions, such as the submarine
and the airship," Gaar said. "A
classic example cited a lot is the
science fiction writer from the 30s
who used a plot of an atomic
bomb," Barnes said. "The guy
was actually investigated."
Computers and science fiction
represent the impact of a systems
and quantitative view of human
beings rather than emphasizing
the individual, Gaar said.
"A number of science fiction
writers have a technical back­ground
and are involved in
systems, computers and a view of
the future," she said. "Others
show anxiety and insecurity of
people .who are afraid of systems
thinking."
Yet the future is inescapable,
Gaar said, especially for these
people who work with the future of
business and engineering. For
these people, the computer defines
the future.
"Science fiction presents a
world where the individual be­comes
a cipher and part of a
whole," she added. "Science fic­tion
deals with galaxies and
planets not individuals. Whether
the author is for or against this
systems mentality, he senses it
coming. It's not a bad thing, only
inevitable."
Science fiction: ' it stretches the mind'
By Jackie Romine
Features Editor
"Our human capabilities are
just unlimited. That's one reason I
like science fiction—it stretches
the mind."
Dr. W. David Lewis, history
professor and advisor to the
Science Fiction and Fantasy Club
at Auburn, uses his knowledge of
scienee fiction in Technology,
Society and Environment, HY380.
He can date his first encounter
with science fiction precisely. It
was a Jules Verne book bought at
Woolworth's, he said. "I read it
and it impressed me so much that
I wrote a paragraph in the front
saying why it was the best book I
ever read. It was in the summer of
1944, and I was 13 years old."
"I profoundly believe and tell
my classes that the interests you
pick up in your early adolescense
stay with you. i,The things I was
interested in at 11, 12 and 13 I'm
still interested in, but hopefully at
an adult level," he said.
"One reason I'm a historian, I
think, is because my father was
very interested in history, al­though
he never went to college."
Lewis said it wasn't until he
came to Auburn in 1971 that he
incorporated science fiction into
his classroom lectures.
"One of my standard complaints
is that history is often written in
the most boring manner when it
could be the most interesting
subject possible."
Taylor Littleton, now vice presi­dent
of Academic Affairs, asked
Lewis when he first came to
Auburn to develop a course to
bridge the gap between humani­ties
and technology.
"I felt science fiction was an
excellent way to do this," Lewis
said, "and then I practically
immersed myself in it."
In his courses, Lewis empha­sizes
the correlation between
science fiction and modern tech­nology.
He said Jules Verne predicted
heavier-than-air craft. Also in
Verne's "From the Earth to the
Moon," written in the 1860's, he
predicts the first moon shot
blasting off from Florida, orbiting
the moon and splashing dpwnjn
the. Pacific Ocean.
In H.G. Well's "The World Set
Free," Lewis said, "he not only
predicts the atomic bomb but
shows how humanity repents after
nearly destroying itself and builds
a new civilization of peace and
plenty."
Science fiction writers, Lewis
said, also warn of the dangers of
science and its misuse. Anthony
Burgess, whose book "A Clock­work
Orange" became a contro­versial
movie, shows obvious
reservations about the wisdom of
tempering with the human brain,
Lewis said.
"But we are already engaged in
it and will undoubtedly go much
further in the future. If he is right,
we had better know what we are
doing," Lewis said.
Lewis has his students read five
to six science fiction novels in the
course "as an intellectual
history." He includes Verne,
Wells, Mary Shelley's "Franken­stein,"
Aldous Huxley, Kurt Von-negut
and Colon Wilson.
"I'm fond of Wilson probably
because he's an optimist. He
believes in the future of humanity
and so do I ."
Humans only use about five
percent of their capacity, Lewis
said. "Although part of me is
skeptical about some paranormal
ideas about the mind, I am
sympathetic to the different ideas
on the power of the mind because I
believe this may indicate that the
human race has abilities that are
just in their infancies."
Lewis said the worst thing
society can do is to "pooh-pooh"
these people who are experiment­ing
with these ideas.
"They are trying to expand our
knowledge of human capabilities,"
Lewis said.
"Wilson believes in the future of
mankind and so do I. I don't think
we should just crawl in our bomb
shelters and forget it."
Lewis, who has "given profes­sional
papers here and there,"
said one of his "greatest frustrat­ed
desires" has been to someday
write science fiction or fantasy.
"I haven't shown much promise
yet, but I still have some ideas •
kicking around in my head." :
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HAVEN'T YA HEARD...
We will pay 50% of
new book prices for
books that are used
winter quarter.
We also buy other books
at wholesale prices.
UNIVERSITY
BOOKSTORE
TIPS ON BUYING AND SELLING TEXTBOOKS THAT
COULD SAVE YOU $ $ $
Today's emphasis is on getting the most out of the shrinking dollar. The follow­ing
facts and suggestions are intended to inform the students and help them
understand book buying and selling. Our main goal is to serve the needs of the
campus community.
NEW BOOKS
New textbooks are bought from publishers (who establish the retail price) at
a small discount from the retail price. The University Bookstore must pay the
freight or postage charges, usually about 6 %, for the books to be shipped to the
store. If the course is dropped or the professor does not use the book, the Univer­sity
Bookstore must pay the freight charges, another 6%, to return these books
to the publisher. From the remainder of the discount, the University Bookstore
must pay its overhead expenses.
USED BOOKS
Used books are bought from companies who specialize in handling used
books and from students. The University Bookstore buys books from students at
50% of the NEW BOOK price, if the book will be used during the coming
quarter, if we do not have sufficient quantities for anticipated enrollment, and
if it is the current edition. We also buy books for wholesale companies if they are
discontinued. The company sets the prices we may pay for them.
So that you will obtain the most money for your books, the University Book­store
offers the following suggestions:
Never rely on other students to tell you what books are required. The best source
is the instructor and the second is the textbook lists furnished the bookstore by
the department.
Attend your first class meeting before buying your book. Refunds will be made
only if you drop the course and have course drop slip and cash register receipt for
the book.
Take care of your books. Missing pages, or water soaked pages made a book
worthless. Crib notes do not affect the price.
Do not write or make any marks in the new books until you are certain you will
complete the course. No refunds can be made without books in original condi­tion.
Sell.your books as soon as you are convinced the book is no longer needed.
Never accept any price for a stack of books. Get a price for each book you sell.
Our buyers have been instructed to give you a price for each book.
We suggest you check other store prices and then the University Bookstore prices
before selling your books.
Never attempt to sell a stolen book. This sounds trite . . . .we do not
recommend stealing, property for any reason . . . .but here are the facts.
Occasionally a student will steal a book and attempt to sell it. The bookstores
maintain open communication between themselves, with the students, the
University Police and school officials. A list of stolen titles is kept at the book
buying counters in each store. The risks far outweigh the small monetary gain.
Is it really worth it?
If your books are stolen, notify each bookstore giving your name and the author
and title of the book immediately. We will do our best to help you locate your
books.
Buy used books when possible.
Example: New Textbook sells for $10.00 We sell used book for $7.50
We buy used book for $5.00 We will buy back for $5.00
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By Katherlne Livingston
Plainsman Stoif Writer
It doesn't look like
Auburn will be getting a
Wendy's Old Fashioned
Hamburgers restaurant
at least, not anytime
soon.
Plans to open a new
Wendy's within four
months halted last Wed­nesday
after an Auburn
Board of Zoning Adjust­ments
meeting.
The restaurant was to
be located on Magnolia
Avenue next to McDon­alds.
Bill Hulsey,
Wendy's representative,
siad "We would like to
locate near McDonalds
and vice versa. They
kind of complement
each other."
Hulsey said the com­pany
that operates
Cater scholarship offered
A graduate' fellowship
named In honor of Kath­erlne
Cater, Dean of
Student Life, will be
available to members of
Alpha Lambda Delta,
scholastic honor society
for freshmen.
The Cater fellowship
is one of 10 fellowships
being offered by the
freshmen honorary's
national council. Appli­cants
must be members
of Alpha Lambda Delta
and will be judged on
scholastic record, rec-commendations,
the
Times-Picayune editor
to speak here Nov. 29
Ed Tunstall, editor of
The New Orleans Times-
Picayune, will speak
here at 4 p.m. Nov. 29 in
3196 Haley Center.
Tunstall, who will
speak on "An editor
looks at the world," is a
native of Mobile. He has
been editor of the
Times-Picayune since
1974.
Forum credit will be
given.
Debaters given trophy
Two Auburn debaters
were awarded a fourth
place trophy for their
performance in the Sam-ford
Junior Varsity De­bate
Tournament, at
Samford University in
Birmingham Saturday.
Ronald Paluden, 2GSC,
and Joe Anderson, 4GSC,
(the Hobbits) won seven
out of eight preliminary
rounds at the tournament
to qualify for the finals..
They lost in the quarter
rounds to West Georgia
College, who went on to
win the tournament.
Three other Auburn
debate, teams were en­tered
in the tournament
but failed to win the
number of preliminary
rounds required for qual­ification
for the finals.
Wendell Dill, 2GED,
and Cheryl Burdine,
2PB, won four out of
eight preliminary
rounds. Two beginner
teams won three out of
eight preliminary
rounds. Members of
these teams were Sherri
Sumners, 4GSC, and
Nina Dill, 1GJM, and
Colette Radcliffe, 2PB,
and Butch Ledbetter,
3GSC.
Auburn's teams com­peted
against about 40
other teams representing
nineteen schools in the
tournament. They were
accompanied by debate
coaches, Connie Bacon
and Larry Underburg.
Tunstall attended Tu-lane
University and was
with the Associated
Press (AP) as sports
and news editor and
executive assistant in
New Orleans from 1952.
to 1962. He .was then
assistant chief of bureau
for five New England
states for three years.
From 1966 until 1969,
he was chief of bureau
for AP in West Virginia.
He was then appointed
chief of bureau in New
Orleans with responsi­bilities
for Louisiana
and Mississippi opera­tions.
Tunstall helped cover
the assignation of Presi­dent
John F. Kennedy
for AP in 1963 and also
covered several coal
mining disasters in West
Virginia.
While in Auburn, he
will also be a guest
speaker at the installa­tion
banquet of the
Auburn Sigma Delta
Chi, a professional jour­nalism
society, at 6 p.m.
Nov. 29 in the Quad
Dining Hall.
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of their state project,
and financial need.
Applications may be
obtained from the Social
Center and must be
received by the Alpha
Lambda Delta national
headquarters by Jan. 6,
1978.
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the location on Magnolia
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be convenient for stu­dents
to walk to.
A problem arose when
construction plans for
the restaurant were pre­sented
to the board. The
plans included an out­side
speaker and pick-up
window. Board members
said they did not want
drive in type restaurants
In the Institutional zone
surrounding the Univer­sity.
One board member
said the outside pick-up
window might cause
cars to line up on
Magnolia Avenue. Hul­sey
told the board mem­bers
that the Wendy's
would operate without
the pick-up window and
speaker if it was neces­sary
for the board's
approval.
During the discussion
the fact the board had
already issued McDon­alds
a license to have
pick-up window was
brought up.
When the request was
denied, Hulsey said he
would bring the issue to
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Sailing theseas . . . . . . . 1 | J L ., . Spicer fulfills childhood fantasy
By Penny Pool
Plainsman Staff Writer
"Mother Mother Ocean
I have Heard your call
I've wanted to sail upon
your water
Since I was three
feet tall."
Jimmy Buffet's song
about the sea could have
been written by Tom
Spicer 6RSR. He said
he's always had a child­hood
fantasy of challeng­ing
the open sea, and th
past summer he fulfilled
the fantasy. He sailed
from Ft. Lauderdale,
Fla., to Canada, stopping
at many points in be­tween.
He sailed on the
Aurorea, a 67-foot ship,
owned by Captain Lloyd
Logan. Logan, from Mo­bile,
has retired from the
Coast Guard. He bought
the ship to spend some
time with his son and get
to know him better. His
son had to werk last
summer, so he recruited
Spicer as a crew member
with Jimmy East who
also attends Auburn. The
final crew member was a
neighbor of Logan's,
Mason Lynn, a recent
high schood graduate.
It was Spicer's first
time sailing on open
water, he said, and his
first time scuba diving.
While scuba diving he
had another first—com­ing
face to face with a
shark 25 feet underwater.
He said it wasn't a big
shark, but he immediate­ly
went up and got out of
the water.
They sailed from Fort
Lauderdale to various
points, including North
Carolina and Massa-chusettes.
They stayed
on the open sea a good
bit, then put in at the
province of Nova Scotia
in Canada for six weeks.
It was a pleasure trip he
said, but work on the ship
was part of the package.
They worked on the ship
fitting and refinishing the
hull. Part of Logan's
purpose in sailing to
Canada was to get highly
skilled craftsman to do
the work less expensively
than in the United States.
Spicer said, "I learned
a lot about life and the
sea from Captain Logan.
He is an admirable man,
a highroller.
"I talked to many
people ui different oc­cupations—
crabbers,
shrimpers, lobstermen,
sealers—and found out
how they fished, ups and
downs, ins and outs of
their occupations.
"I met a captain of a
ship who goes up to the
North Atlantic to fish for
seal once a year. He had
taken a former pas­senger
boat, put a steel
hull on front to break
through ice. There was
beautiful wood in the
rooms on the walls and
floors. He said the baby
seals cost the most and
people like them
stuffed."
Spicer said everybody
had a shift to keep watch.
During that time they
had to steer the ship,
keeping careful records
of soeed and course-correcting
the course
when necessary.
He said he kept a daily
log, which was very
important to him. It's
something he really
wanted to do and
treasures now. In his free
time he whittled, learned
to tie sailor's knots, and
practiced his guitar.
Spicer plays the dul-cimar
and formerly
played with Folks and
Friends, an Auburn
band. He's also learning
to play the harmonica.
One of the most
interesting characters he
met, he said, was a real
pirate of the sea. He was
a rum drinker and rum
runner who had run guns
to Cuba during the
revolution which brought
Castro to power.
"Sailing is a romantic
dream that many people
have. I saw it in people's
eyes, a lot of childhood
fantasies about sailing. I
wanted to do it and I
did."
SPICER AND THE PIRATE
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The UPC is sponsoring
a 3-day wilderness back­packing
trip to Cumber­land
Island, Ga., Dec.
8-11.
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owned by the state of
Georgia, is virtually un­inhabited
as the state
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easter edge of the is­land,
while marshland
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brought to Georgia by
early Spanish visitors,
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island while deer and
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and food expenses.
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The Auburn Plainsman Wednesday, November 23, 1977 B-l.
Section D
'Shug' remembers '57
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By Chuck Anschutz
Assistant Sports Editor
One might call the year 1957 the
heart of Shug Jordan's prime as
Auburn University's head football
coach. His Tigers were 10-0 that
year and, as most people know,
were declared by the Associated
Press as the number one college
football team in the nation.
"I was very proud of that group
of players," Jordan said. "They
were very dedicated and worked
hard for that honor."
Jordan was in his seventh year
as Auburn's head coach and for
several years preceding '57, as
well as several years following,
the Tigers were establishing im­pressive
winning marks. From
1953 through 1963 Auburn won 36
games against only 14 defeats. But
the 10-0 championship season
sticks out in Jordan's mind as the
most memorable.
"You'd have to dig deep into
Auburn's history to find a record
like that," Jordan said. "We had
been having good recruiting and
the Auburn" fans were giving our
team real good support."
The Tigers had won their last
four games of the 1956 season and
optimism was high for '57. But
Jordan had to expell the team's
starting quarterback and starting
fullback over the summer for
disciplinary reasons and the head
coach lost a little of his optimism.
"I knew it would hurt the team
taking these players away like
that, but I felt if I left them on it
would hurt them more," Jordan
said.
Then the team was placed on
probation for recruiting violations
and what might have been the
final blow to the team's optimism
turned out to be a factor in
bringing the team together, ac­cording
to Jordan.
"Of course I don't recommend
probation," Jordan said. "But I
really think the players became
more dedicated when they learned
they were on probation. I believe
they were determined to prove
something."
Jordan moved a third string
halfback to quarterback (Lloyd
Tickets on sale
Individual student game tickets
for the Houston game Dec. 1 and
the South Florida game Dec. 3
will go on sale at Memorial
Coliseum Nov. 30-31. Hours will
be from 3-6 p.m.
The Coliseum staff also an­nounced
that the gates will open
at 5:30 p.m. for season ticket
holders, and 6 p.m. for regular
ticket holders.
Dennis Womack, athletic ticket
manager, said this week that
student season tickets remain on
sale at the ticket office until next
Thursday.
Nix) and moved second stringer
Billy Atkins to the first string
fullback spot. Jordan, the rest of
the team, and War Eagle fans
were more than satisfied with
Nix's and Atkins' performance
that season.
Going into the first game of the
season Jordan knew he had a good
first team but he was doubtful, as
were his assistants, whether the
Tigers had the depth needed to
have a good season.
"We were playing Tennessee, a
tough opponent, in Knoxville for
our first game," Jordan said. "It
was a tough ball game from the
beginning and after the opening 10
minutes the score was tied 0-0.
"We usually played out first
string for 10 minutes and then our
second for five and so on," he said.
"My assistants advised against it,
but I stuck with that game plan
and put in our second stringers.
They played well and everybody
knew we had depth."
The Tigers won that game 7-0
and continued in their winning
ways throughout the season. Going
into the Georgia game the Tigers
were ranked fifth in the nation and
that weekend proved to be a key
one for the Tigers.
"It seemed to be a fatal day for
the teams which were ranked
above us," said Jordan. "And it
almost was one for us too. Georgia
twice had the ball inside Our
15-yard-line, but we ended up
winning the game 6-0, in spite of
having to play on a muddy field."
The Tigers were ranked second
following that win and when
Auburn beat Florida State the next
week and Michigan State lost,
Auburn was ranked number one.
Alabama was the only game
remaining.
"There was no question in our
minds that an impressive win over
the Tide would assure us of the
championship," said Jordan. "And
by halftime of that game we had
built up a 34-0 lead.
"I think the fans wanted me to
really run up the score since
Alabama had beaten us 55-0
several years back. But instead I
kept in the second string and we
won 40-0.''
There was much jubilation after
that game according to Jordan.
Pep rallies and Toomers Corner
were a big part of the celebration
in a big Auburn win.
"Any 10 people who got together
that day would hold a pep rally,"
said Jordan.
"When you play as well as we,
did between 1953 and 1963 there
are going to be a lot of exciting
moments," Jordan said. "But the
climax has to be winning the
national championship."
Jordan, who now serves on the
Board of Trustees at Auburn,
coached football for 25 years at
Auburn and had the opportunity to
coach in the single platoon era as
well as the modern game of
college football.
"I guess I've always liked
having one platoon," said Jordan.
"It gave a guy who had been
getting blocked all game to turn
things around and block the other
guy back. There's a lot more
scoring today and the play is more
wide open."
Jordan has been out of coaching
since the conclusion of the 1975
season. He was only 3-6-2 that last
year, but he won 265 games, lost
175 and tied 83 during his Auburn
career. Now "Shug" is Auburn's
number one fan. He attends each
game, sitting wim his wife.Evelyn,
in the press box and is quick to
talk football or old times with just
about anybody.
Jordan smiles a lot now and has
a hello for anyone who crosses his
path. He's just a retired coach who
happened to coach 1957' s number
one college football team.
JORDAN(L) AND ALABAMA'S BEAR BRYANT CHAT
...Before Shug's last game with the Crimson Tide in 1975
Auburn cagers face Czechs Friday night
The Auburn basketball team
opens its 1977-78 season against the
Czechoslovakia National Team
Friday night in the Birmingham
Civic Center. The game is the
second half of a doubleheader
sponsored by the Birmingham
Lions Club. Alabama will face
Russia in the first game.
"We are ready to get started,"
said Auburn Head Coach Bob
Davis. "Our team is tired of
playing each other, and I think
Friday's game will be a good test
for us since Czechoslovakia has
such a powerful, physical team."
Davis added his team will be at
a disadvantage since the Czechs
have played 15 games across the
country and the War Eagles
haven't played any. "We've got to
get started sometime. We can't
really tell how we're doing. I
would have liked to ease into the
schedule, but we play one of the
best teams in the world to open up,
and then jump into Houston, who
was the NIT runnerup last year."
Davis said he has not picked his
starting five, but said it will come
from seven players.
"We'll probably decide that
night who will be our starters,"
Davis said. "I can tell you our
starting five will come from Mike
Mitchell, Myles Patrick, Stan
Pietkiewicz, Wayne Bracy, Bubba
Price and freshmen Bobby Cat-tage
and Earl Banks."
Mitchell, Patrick and Piet­kiewicz
have been three-year
starters, which indicates they will
likely have a starting role. Bracy
and Price were top reserves last
year and Cattage and Banks are
highly-touted freshmen.
One area which worries Davis
going into the season is lack of
depth. The War Eagles have only
11 players on the squad. "We lost
several people to grades and
injuries, which leaves us in a bad
situation.
"But our mental attitude has
been outstanding. I think that can
be attributed to our seniors, who
suffered through last year's
season. I think they want to end
their careers in style, and they've
really been putting a lot into it in
practice."
For Davis, it will mark the 41st
time he has coached against
international competition. Davis
has a 31-9 record against interna­tional
teams from Israel.Spainand.
Europe. His latest tour was in 1973
when he took his first Auburn
team to Israel.
Davis admits Czechoslovakia
will present a formidable foe for
the Tigers. "They always rank
among the top four or five teams
in the world, along with Russia,
Italy and Yugoslavia.
"They line up 6-11, 6-11 and 6-9
along the front line, but most of
their scoring on this tour has come
from their guards, Kamil Bra-benec
and Gustav Hraska. It will
be interesting to see how we line
up against them. I know it will
probably be a pretty rough game,
although we'll play U.S. rules."
After the opener against Czech­oslovakia,
Auburn returns home
for games with Houston, Dec. 1
and South Florida, Dec. 3. The
War Egales then hit the road until
Jan. 7, when they take on
Vanderbilt in the Auburn
Coliseum.
Luck
Alabama certainly seems to have more than it needs
By Brad Davis
Sports Editor
Well, Alabama's proverbial
"good luck" has done it again.
Someone finally matches or
betters the Tide's record, and
Alabama still goes as SEC
champion to the Sugar Bowl.
The Kentucky Wildcats have
completed their best season in 27
years, going 10-1 on the season,
and 6-0 in the SEC. The Crimson
Tide is currently 6-0 in the league
and a victory over Auburn
Saturday would give them a 7-0
mark, which would be a tie with
the Wildcats for first place.
Under the SEC agreement with
the Sugar Bowl, the Cats would
be the official representative of
the conference, since the Tide was
the last to go to the Superdome.
But, alas, the Kentucky team is
on a one-year NCAA probation
and is ineligible for a bowl bid or
the SEC crown.
There is certainly no doubt
Alabama has an excellent, well-established
football program, but
their luck is sometimes uncanny.
The felling here is that the
Southeastern Conference should
This
Sporting
Life
set an official number of league
contests that will count in the
final standings—one that every­one
will play.
This year Alabama and Ole
Miss play seven SEC contests,
while the other eight teams play
only six. Therefore, as was the
case in 1972, the Tide can have
one loss aiong with another team
and still be champions by virtue
of a better percentage.
There is the argument that
other schools have the privilege
of scheduling more SEC games,
but that doesn't justify the
current set-up. In basketball,
each school plays 18 conference
games—no more, no less. If a
school were to schedule another
SEC opponent in December, it
wouldn't count in the final
Kentucky picked to win 31st SEC title
The Kentucky Wildcats are the
overwhelming favorites to win
their 31st Southeastern Confer­ence
basketball title this winter,
according to a poll of The
Plainsman's Out On A Limb
pickers.
Auburn was a solid favorite
among the prognosticators to
take second place. The only other
solid pick was Georgia—a unani­mous
choice for the SEC cellar.
Five of the six pickers tabbed
Kentucky for the title with
Auburn football player Jim Pat-ton
choosing the War Eagles to
edge the Cats for the crown.
The pre-season All-SEC team
was chosen last Wednesday when
league coaches met in Birming­ham
for their annual press day.
Auburn senior forward Mike
Mitchell was named to that team,
along with Alabama's Reggie
King, Kentucky's Rick Robey and
Jack Givens and LSU's Kenny
Higgs.
Honorable mention awards
went to Alabama's Anthony Mur­ray,
Mississippi State's Ricky
Brown and Ray White, Florida's
Richard Glasper, LSU's Durand
Macklin, Ole Miss' Joe Kyles,
Tennessee's Reggie Johnson,
Vanderbilt's Charles Davis and
Georgia's Lavon Mercer.
The 1977-78 season marks the
46th year of Southeastern confer­ence
basketball competition.
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Kentucky
LSU
Auburn
Alabama
Miss. State
Florida
Vanderbilt
Tennessee
Ole Mis
Georgia
ANSCHUTZ
Kentucky
Florida
Auburn
Alabama
LSU
Miss. State
Vanderbilt
Tennessee
Ole Miss
Georgia
PATTON
Auburn
Kentucky
LSU
Alabama
Florida
Miss. State
Vanderbilt
Ole Miss
Tennessee
Georgia
CARVALHO
Kentucky
Auburn
LSU
Florida
Miss. State
Alabama
Tennessee
Vanderbilt
Ole Miss
Georgia
HARMON
Kentucky
Auburn
Florida
Alabama
LSU
Miss. State
Tennessee
Vanderbilt
Ole Miss
Georgia
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Auburn
Alabama
Tennessee
Miss. State
Florida
LSU
Vanderbilt
Ole Miss
Georgia
CONSENSUS
1. Kentucky —59
S.Auburn-53
3.LSU-41
3. Alabama—41
5.Florida-40
6.Miss. State-33
7.Vanderbilt-21
8. Tennessee —19
9.Ole Miss-13
1 O.Georgia-6
standings The same should cer­tainly
be true In football. It will
be interesting to see how much
longer the coaches in the SEC put
up with this situation.
Here and there and in between:
—Auburn's football players cer­tainly
disprove the theory that
athletes aren't too intelligent in
the classroom, as the Tigers
placed four players on the
Academic All-SEC football team,
more than any other school in the
conference. Tight end Dick
Hayley and center Marvin Trott
are on the first offensive unit.
Hayley has a 2.8 standing in
business, while Trott has a 2.4
standing in Pre-Optometry. Sen­sational
linebacker Freddie Smith
and defensive back Jeff Gray are
the War Eagles' representatives
on the defensive unit. Smith
carries a 2.4 in Education, while
Gray has a 2.4 in Pre-Med. Four
Auburn players also made the
honorable mention category.
They were Bob Butler and
Charlie Trotman on offense and
Ken Hardy and Jep Castleberry
on defense.
- F o r those of you who missed
"Community Forum" Monday
night on WEGL, which probably
means most of you, Barfield
revealed that the Auburn staff is
considering a switch to the
wishbone offense next year. "We
feel like we have the personnel to
make such a switchover, so we
are considering that as a possibil­ity
for next year," he said.
- The Auburn-Alabama rivalry
certainly extends beyond the
football field and basketball
court. It has now hit fever pitch
on the wrestling mat. Such a
pitch, that is, that first-year
Auburn wrestling coach Tom
Milkovitch has switched the home
match with the Tide from the
spacious Memorial Coliseum to
the close confines of the Sports
Arena.
— You have to envy Kentucky
basketball coach Joe Hall. At last
Wednesday's annual SEC press
conference in Birmingham, Hall,
after giving the normal humble
talk about how his team will have
a hard time in the SEC, went on
to say he expects the Wildcats to
contend for the national title. He
went on to say, "We will be a
much more physical team this
year than last year." Lord
preserve us.
TheAubum Plainsman Wednesday, November 28, 1977 B.2
Valavicious now a Tiger
The 'one that • • 4 away' returns
By Don Marzella
Plainsman Sportswriter
Recruiting stories are
many times like fish
stories—either bragging
about the size of their
catch, or talking about
the one that got away.
But rarely do you hear of
the one that got away,
but then got caught.
Bob Davis has such a
story—one about Rich
Valavicious, who played
two years at the Uni­versity
of Indiana, before
transfering to Auburn
last spring.
"We recruited Rich his
senior year, but lost him
to Indiana," Davis said.
"When he left Indiana
last year, we were na­turally
interested in
him."
Valavicious said dur­ing
his senior year in
high school, in which he
averaged 20 points and 12
rebounds and was named
a prep Ail-American, he
narrowed his college
choices down to Auburn
and Indiana. The Hoos-iers
were the victors in
the battle for him on two
main points, Valavicious
said. "Indiana was close
to my home (Hammond,
Ind.) and they had lost
one of their big recruits
(Sam Drummer) to
Georgia Tech, so I felt
that it was to my advan­tage
to go there."
As a freshman at Indi­ana,
Valavicious was the
sixth man on the national
championship team and
averaged four points per
game. He was named
honorable mention All-
American for his efforts.
Despite all the thrills of
his freshman year, Vala­vicious
said he was far
from happy. "I had
hoped the problems we
Bama beats Auburn in jayvee game
Alabama freshman
Kirk Parker was the man
of the day Saturday, as
the Tide junior varsity
beat the Auburn jayvees
In Birmingham, 14-7.
Parker ran a 51-yard
punt return and caught a
two-yard fumble In the
Auburn end zone to pro­vide
the two Tide tou