The Auburn Plainsman
Number 29 Auburn, Ala. 36830 Thursday, July 21, 1977 10 pages
McCurdy tried quietly
Cold sweat Photography: Mike Sellers
By Dick Parker and
Mark Sparkman
Plainsman Staff Writers
In a cloak of secrecy, James
McCurdy, 23, of Auburn confessed
to charges of disorderly conduct
and resisting arrest July 7, after
being arrested on the Auburn University
campus June 23. A charge
of assaulting a peace officer in the
performance of his duty was
dropped.
McCurdy's trial, originally
scheduled for July 18, as was reported
by the Plainsman, was
moved up 11 days at the request of
the defendant.
McCurdy, who was shot by arresting
officer Mike Feehan of the
Auburn University Campus Security
office in a scuffle following the
arrest, was fined a total of $300 for
both charges.
. When asked why he made the
arrest, Feehan said, "It would be
unethical for me to answer that at
this time."
Asked if there would ever be a
time when he could release the
reason for the arrest, Feehan answered,
"Probably not."
When Judge James Gullage,
who passed sentence on McCurdy,
was asked why he did so, he said,
"I don't remember exactly what
he (McCurdy) had done. He pled
guilty, but I don't remember all
the facts surrounding the incident.
We have a lot of small cases like
that."
Gullage suggested District Attorney
Ronald Myers might have
remembered more.
"I didn't stay in the courtroom
for the entire hearing," Myers
said. "I informed the judge that
Mr. McCurdy wished to plead
guilty so it wasn't necessary for
me to stay longer. I don't know
what else he told the judge."
Myers said McCurdy's lawyer,
Mike Nix, would know all the
facts.
"That's a hard question," Nix
said. "I think you need to ask Mr.
McCurdy for the answer. I'm not
sure I would answer it like he
would want me to."
McCurdy said, "I don't want to
talk about it. You'll have to ask the
district attorney about it."
Auburn ACTS lines
misused, abused
By Becki Thomas
Assistant News Editor
Auburn University houses 22
special telephone lines, known collectively
as the Alabama System
Centralized Telecommunications
line, and known to users as the
"ACTS" line.
The network permits authorized
personnel to make direct in-state
calls. The state bills the University,
and charges are paid from
general University funds. Pay-
Just weeks ago the library was burning hot librarian, sitting in front of her space heater. She
because of a broken air conditioning system. B&G is probably waiting for the coming of winter and
did an excellent job fixing the air conditioners- warmer weather,
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University makes adjustments for handicapped
By Maureen Drost
Associate Editor
Auburn University is now working
to comply with Section 504 of
of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973.
Section 504, which became effective
in June, prohibits discrimination
against the handicapped.
Section 504 will necessitate
making adjustments on campus
to provide access and equal
opportunities to "qualified handicapped"
people.
The measure states: "No
otherwise qualified handicapped
Individual in the United States, as
defined in Section 7(6), shall,
solely by reason of his handicap,
be excluded from participation in,
be denied the benefits of, or be
subjected to discrimination under
any program receiving federal
financial assistance."
In compliance with Section 504
President Harry M. Philpott has
asked deans of schools and directors
of other Auburn University
programs to submit to Dr. Harold
Grant by July 27 statements
saying their divisions will be fully
accessible to the handicapped by
August 2.
Grant is special assistant to the
President and coordinator of efforts
to bring Auburn University
into compliance with Section 504.
A committee of eight will meet
with Grant July 29 to begin work
on a self-evaluation of Auburn
University's non-discrimination
program for the handicapped
which will be due June 3, 1978,
the date for compliance in this
regard stated in Section 504.
Auburn University is in compliance
with the Section 504 regulations
in the new Auburn facilities
built in the last few years and is
making progress toward compliance
in the older buildings, according
to Campus Planner and
University Architect William
Guerih.
Guerin said it would be an
"expensive, continuing effort" to
Investigation of health director stalls
No progress has been made by
the University Senate Health
Committee in the investigation of
charges by Drake Student Health
Center nurses against Health
Center director Garth Jarvis.
No meetings have been scheduled
by the Health Committee,
according to SGA President John
Bush, student representative to
the Committee.
"I'd like to see the thing get a
move on and get things done
now," Bush said. "Fall quarter
isn't far away and this thing
needs to be cleared by then."
Bush appointed SGA Vice President
Gene Oswalt to replace Al
Thompson, student representative,
for summer quarter.
The nurses have expressed a
desire to begin the investigatory
hearings, but they haven't been
told when they will start. They
had planned to begin last week
but were stifled when the Committee
adjourned the meeting
when press representatives arrived.
The committee is meeting because
of nurses' charges of poor
administrative practices brought
Inside Today;
FOOTBALL PREVIEWED-The
Plainsman previews
Auburn's second and third opponents
of the 1977-78 football
season, University of Southern
Mississippi and University of
Tennessee. (See page 6)
BLUE GRASS SET MONDAY-Front
Porch String Band, a
four member bluegrass band
from Birmingham, will give a
concert at Auburn July 25 from
8:30-10:30 p.m. on Union patio.
The concert will be sponsored by
UPC. (See page 8)
forth in a letter originally sent to
Executive Secretary to the Governor,
Henry B. Steagall, an
Auburn Trustee.
The charges included Jarvis's
insensitivity toward the staff, his
running the Health Center like a
"personal fiefdom," his not considering
the nurses professionals
and his "doing all he can to make
life difficult for the nursing staff
at the expense of the provision of
good quality health care for the
students of Auburn University."
Jarvis would make no comment
in response to the nurses'
charges.
comply with the regulations. No
cost estimates are known yet,
however. Those will come after
Dec. 2, 1977 when Guerin completes
the transition plan to
change campus buildings and
make them comply with the
regulations.
National university business officers
predict that implementation
of the measure could cost a
total of $1.5 billion nationwide.
Guerin said most of the
changes made so far have been
for people confined to wheelchairs.
Guerin said the impetus
for the changes has come from
Auburn University itself and from
a state law concerning people
confined to wheelchairs.
Some of the changes include
the provision for wheelchairs in
the north span addition to the
stadium, lowering of curbs at
different places on campus, installation
of automatic door
operators at Ralph Brown
Draughon Library, Haley Center
and Auburn Union.
Completed changes include reinstallation
of elevators specifically
for the handicapped in Cary
and Thach Halls, marking of
reserved parking spaces, the installation
of the ramp at the east
end of Thach Hall, provision of
special toilet facilities for the
handicapped and campus housing.
The "qualified handicapped"
people referred to in Section 504
indicates those people who meet
an institution of higher learning's
standards for admission and participation
in the educational program
or activities.
A handicapped person as stated
in the Section is someone with a
physical or mental impairment
such as a physiological disorder,
mental retardation or emotional
and mental illness. These physical
or mental impairments must
be such that the person is limited
in one or more of his life
activities (such as caring for
himself, walking and seeing), has
a record of such a handicap or is
regarded as having the handicap
by the college or because of the
attitudes of others.
(See COMPLY, page 2)
ments are made monthly on a flat
rate.
According to business Manager
Rhett Riley, the ACTS line saves
the state money and is advantageous
in terms of service.
Auburn University also has a
wide-area telephone service line
(WATS), used to make out-of-state
phone calls. The WATS line user
must go through the operator, who
logs the call. Each department is
billed.
According to Riley, there has
been misuse of the line by students
and faculty. Riley said if someone
is caught misusing the line, first
he must repay the cost of the call,
"and beyond that it would depend
on the severity of the call."
A student may go before the disciplinary
committee, Riley said,
whereas a staff or faculty member
would go before the academic
committee.
The 22 ACTS lines, 15 of which
are for outgong calls, are found in
offices across the University.
Several student organizations also
have access to the line, such as the
Student Government Association,
The Plainsman and the
Glomerate. Dorms are not
equipped with the line.
Coordinating agencies like the
State Toxicology Lab on the Auburn
campus, also have an ACTS
line.
Riley said, "I am sure there has
been unauthorized use of the network.
You cannot have such a
system without unauthorized use."
When the system was first initiated
two years ago, Riley said instructions
were given to departments
to keep up on all calls, but
now it's not required.
"We constantly remind faculty
that it is for official use only."
(See ACTS, page 2)
Glance wins Holmes abolishment of budget subcommittee
By Lauren Steele
Plainsman Correspondent
MONTGOMERY-Lt. Gov. Jere
Beasley is no doubt entering the
governor's race, but he best shy
away from foot races, especially
with Auburn Olympian Harvey
Glance.
Glance is already one step ahead
of Beasley, and it appears he just
ran away with the lieutenant
governor's prize possession, the
senate budget control subcommittee.
How this bizarre state of affairs
came to p*-:s is the handiwork of
a clever black legislator from
Montgomery, Alvin Holmes.
Holmes is one of many opponents
of the legislative subcommittee,
and he grasped his
chance to get rid of it. During
this year's regular legislative
session, Holmes introduced a
resolution honoring Glance, who
earned a gold medal at the 1976
Olympics.
Well disguised in the last sentence
of the resolution was a
clause repealing Senate resolution
949--which set up Beasley's investigative
committee in 1975.
The resolution had passed both
houses and the Governor had
signed it before anyone, save
Holmes, knew it was anything but
an innocent accolade for Glance.
At first, Holmes feigned surprise
at this unusual situation,
but then admitted his manipulative
ploy.
After everyone, save Beasley
and his supporters, got a good
laugh over it, Holmes added
insult to injury, asking Atty. Gen.
Bill Baxley to deliver an advisory
opinion.
The fate of the committee fell
into the hands of Baxley, a
widely mentioned candidate to
oppose the lieutenant governor in
next year's governor's race.
Few capital observers envied
Baxley's predicament. If the
attorney general ruled in favor of
Holmes, he would be criticized
for playing politics. If he ruled
for the committee, he would be
aiding a political opponent.
Baxley announced his decision
this week; the committee was
abolished.
Baxley said he had no choice.
He said since the act which
established the committee was
legally repealed, the committee
had no legal authority upon which
to exist.
Beasley's committee made
headlines last year when it
charged widespread misuse of
state funds. Beasley's panel took
on Auburn University in 1975,
saying the University's faculties
were not being fully utilized.
Legislative committee members
received $50 per day during
the committee investigatons, and
many state officials, including
Holmes, accused Beasley and the
committee of wasting the taxpayer's
money.
Political observers have
charged Beasley with using the
committee to boost his gubernatorial
campaign.
Beasley, angered by Holmes'
and Baxley's actions, said the
committee has saved Alabama
taxpayers more than $75 million
during the last two years. He said
the move to abolish the committee
is evidence his actions have embarrassed
officials who have
wasted taxpayers' money.
Beasley said he had uncovered
"a great deal of waste, mismanagement
and some actual wrongdoing
in state government," and
said those who opposed the committee's
work simply did not want
to be looked Into.
The lieutenant governor said although
the committee has been
abolished, probes into state
government will continue under
the direction of the State Department
of Examiners of Public
Accounts and the State Fiscal
Office.
Photography: Wanda Kenton
HARVEY GLANCE WON WITHOUT BEING CONTESTED
...While Jerry Beasley's Committee was eliminated from future competition
The Auburn Plainsman Thurs., July 21, 1977 pages
The world
this week
International
CARTER, BEGIN TALK ON MIDDLE
EAST—Sources say Israeli Premier Menahem
Begin has presented President Carter a
comprehensive Middle East peace plan that
includes broad Israeli withdrawals. The plan
would pull back troops from the Sinai and the
Golan heights. It would also establish a
semi-autonomous Arab civil administration on
the West Bank of the Jordan River, it was
further reported.
The plan also calls for peace conferences to
convene in Geneva. There is no place in the
Begin plan to include the Palestinian Liberation
Organization (PLO) at those peace
conferences.
National
KOREAN SCANDAL PROBED-House
Speaker Thomas P. "Tip" O'Neill has urged
former Watergate special prosecutor Leon
Jaworski to take the job as chief investigator
of the U.S. House of Representative's Korean
influence-buying probe.
Jaworski has been mentioned along with
several other persons, including Watergate
prosecutor Archibald Cox, as possible candidates
for the job.
Senate studies library
By Terry Tope
Plainsman Staff Writer
The status of major
southeastern academic
libraries was submitted
in report form by Professor
of History and
Archivist Dr. Allen W.
Jones to the Auburn
University Senate last
Tuesday.
The report, which was
the main topic of the
meeting, contained statistics
on 26 major
southeastern libraries
and specific facts about
Auburn's Ralph Brown
Draughon Library.
In terms of enrollment
that each library provides
services to,
Auburn ranked 14th on
the list, catering to approximately
17,000 students
plus faculty and
administration. Auburn
was 18th in number of
volumes on hand averaging
nearly 50 volumes
per students. With a
total staff of 88,
Auburn's library ranked
, 21st providing one staff
member for every 194
students.
Jones said since 1973
the usage of the Library
has increased 70 per
cent, and because of this
he has set up a committee
to look into the
development of more
study areas for students.
Jones said the most
pressing problem for the
library is lack of space
for study room and
storage areas. The seating
capacity of the library
in 1963, when it
was built, was 2,000.
Today, the seating capacity
is 1,500 which includes
only about 1,200
places with tables for
studying said Jones.
Over Fourth of July
holiday, the library's
air conditioning went out
causing the humidity in
the building to rise and
reach a point high
enough to cause extensive
damage from mildew
to the microform
and government documents
section on the
north end of the first
floor. Most of the damage
effected microfilm
records, which contain
information dating back
to the 1700's in some
cases. The fourth floor
was also affected by the
mildew said Wilson.
Photography: Mike Sellers
Summer showers
Like a child hitting every puddle on through this puddle, cool her bare
his zigzag way home, this student feet and seek relief from the monoto-took
the long way around to stroll ny of summer school.
Comply
From page 1
Completed changes include
reinstallation of
elevators specifically for
the handicapped in Cary
and Thach Halls, marking
of reserved parking
spaces, the installation
of the ramp at the east
end of Thach Hall, provision
of special toilet
for the handi-and
campus
facilities
capped
housing.
The "qualified handicapped"
people referred
ACTS
From page 1
As for the students,
Riley said, "I have a
great deal of confidence
in them."
He went on to say,
"Even with the misuse,
it's a cheaper route than
to pay for individual use
(of phone calls.)."
Riley estimates there
are 400,000 calls per
month which are channeled
through the network
in Auburn. Although
he has no idea
concerning the number
of calls the University
makes each month, he
feels it has increased
significantly.
Riley said misuse
could be curtailed by
placing calls through the
operator, but it would
defeat the purpose of the
ACTS line. Another alternative
would be to trace
calls and take appropriate
actions.
Even with the problems
of ACTS line usage,
Riley said, "We're quite
proud to be a part of it."
to in Section 504 indicates
those people who
meet an institution of
higher learning's standards
for admission and
participation in the educational
program or
activities.
The resolution prohibits
discrimination of all
kinds against the handicapped,
specifically the
denial of opportunities to
benefit from or participate
in aids, benefits
and services, unequal,
ineffective, or different
aids, benefits and services
for the handicapped.
Failure to comply with
Resolution 504 could
mean a cut off of
federal financial assistance.
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Infirmary renovation delayed
Growing weeds Photography: Mike Sellers
While Buildings and Grounds employees are sweltering
under the July sun to keep lawns weed-free,
Sidney Bosworth, 6AY, is growing the pesky plants.
It's part of a project on weed identification for a
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Campus Calendar
PARENTS WITHOUT
PARTNERS -
Parents Without Partners
meets every Wednesday
at 7:30 p.m. at
the Presbyterian Student
Center. This international
nonprofit organization
holds parties, discussions,
lectures and outings.
Yearly membership
fee is $12, and any
three functions are free.
PARACHUTE CLUB -
The Auburn University
Sport Parachute Club
meets every Thursday
at 7 p.m. in the
Auburn Union. Anyone
interested in skydiving
or in related areas may
attend. The Parachute
Club will be conducting
two training periods
over the summer, and
openings are available
in each period.
FREE STUDY HELP -
Student Development
Services is offering free
study help Sunday
through Thursday afternoon
and evening at
Mell Hall and at Dorm
K. Help is available in
math, English, management,
accounting, economics,
journalism and
French.
SKI CLUB -
The Auburn University
Water Ski Club meets
Tuesdays between 4 and
8 p.m. at Still Waters
Marina. Call Elizabeth
Wiggins at 821-1997 or
Adonna Carroll at 887-
5018 for additional information.
BLOOD DRIVE -
The Kappa Psi Summer
Blood Drive will be
held July 28 from 12 to 6
p.m. in Haley Center.
Volunteers who wish to
help during the drive
should call Gloria at
826-4037.
DAMES CLUB -
The Dames Club invites
all married students
and spouses to
attend the July 27 meeting
at 7:30 p.m. in the
Social Center. The guest
lecturer is Ms. Susie
Jensen and the topic of
discussion will be
"LaMaze Childbirth."
For more information,
contact Anna Slaughter
at 826-4682 or at 887-8426.
By Terry Tope
Plainsman Staff Writer
Auburn University's
Student Health Center is
still behind schedule, and
-Building and Grounds'
Construction Engineer
Jim Wilson predicts its
completion around October
1.
The general contractor
for the Health Center,
J.G. Lockard Construction
Co., had designated
this past March 15 as the
completion date in the
original contract, said
Wilson. Change-orders
by Auburn requesting
additional work not included
in the original
contract have caused further
difficulties and delays
said Wilson.
Wilson said the main
delaying problem is the
difficulty in maintaining
the availability of health
services in the wake of
construction work.
To remedy this problem,
construction is taking
place in phases. Sections
of the Health Center
are completed one by one
to allow health employes
to gradually expand
into these completed facilities
with as little
interruption as possible.
Phasing tends to draw
out construction time,
said Wilson.
Auburn and its operating
contractors work in
agreement of the "General
Conditions of the
Contract" as formulated
by the State of Alabama
Building Commissions.
Under these conditions
exists a penalty clause
which deducts a six per
cent annual interest from
the total pay of the contractor
when completion
dates are not met. Wilson
said the penalty clause is
not being pushed because
"any judge would give
the contractor more time
due to the change-orders."
Student Health Center
Director Dr. Garth L.
Jarvis said Wilson always
consults him on
major details of construction
that might
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and so far there
has been no real problem.
Jarvis said, "Patients
are not being interfered
with and the
staff just works around
the construction."
The dust and the noise
of construction does not
create a good environment
for health-related
services, said Wilson,
and he commended the
Health Center staff for
being so cooperative in
putting up with all the
construction.
The $1.1 million contract
has been in progress
for two years and
is estimated by Wilson to
be 85 per cent completed.
Completion of the first
floor of the west wing,
basement-located facilities
such as physical
therapy rooms, storage
lockers, shower stalls,
elevator doors and pavement
for parking areas
are still in progress. The
project is something
Buildings and Grounds
would like to get out of
the way, said Wilson.
Retired professor honored
Donald M. Vestal, Jr.,
head of Auburn University's
mechanical engineering
department for
the last 17 years, has
been named professor
and department head
emeritus upon his June
retirement, according to
Auburn University
President Harry Phil-pott.
"Dr. Vestal has provided
this school with a
level of professionalism
seldom seen," School of
Engineering Dean Vincent
Haneman said.
"His talents are documented
in the speed
with which his department
was re-accredited
upon his arrival 17 years
ago."
A member of Auburn's
faculty since 1959, Dr.
Vestal came to Auburn
from Texas A&M, where
he was professor of
mechanical engineering.
He received a double
B.S. in electrical and
mechnical engineering
from Texas A&M in 1938
and an M.S. there in
1950. In 1962 he received
a Ph.D. from Stanford
University.
Vestal is a Fellow of
the American Society- of
Mechanical Engineers
and a member of the
American Society of Engineering
Education, the
Society for the History
of Technology, and Sigma
Xi.
He is immediate past
vice president of the
American Society for
Engineering Education,
a member of its board
of directors, and chairman
of Zone II, which
includes 14 states from
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Editorials Alabama needs to pass home rule
Thursday, July 21, 1977 page 4
We 're losing
Two-thirds of the Auburn Student Health Center's practicing physicians
have quit.
Most of its nurses have appealed to the Governor's office for an outside
investigation of the Health Center administration.
Auburn students have been up in arms over the Health Center problems
for years.
At least two of the four doctors who have left the Center cited "poor
administrative practices" as a major reason for their resignations.
One doctor said a cause of dissention at the Center was "We had a director
who was a doctor who would not lift a finger in a rush situation. He would
not give a hand in a pinch."
The nurses have other grievances.
"Dr. Jarvis... is doing all he can to make life difficult for the nursing staff
at the expense of the provision of good quality health care for the students at
Auburn University," the nurses said.
"He (Jarvis) stated he would never publicly defend a nurscs's action even if
she were carrying out his own direct order,'' they said.
Eighteen months ago many of these problems were presented to Dr. Harold
Grant, University Health Committee head. Nothing has been done. A year
ago The Plainsman ran a series of stories citing these same problems. They
have not been rectified.
The time for talk is passed. The time for action is now.
We are not sure Jarvis is the entire problem, but we feel more effective
administrative practices could have avoided much of the problem.
Dr. Jarvis should resign, or be fired and replaced by a more competent
administrator.
When a baseball team is losing, you fire the manager.
Auburn's health services are losing. The manager should be fired.
Fast Alvin
Alvin Holmes pulled quite a trick in ridding the state of Lt. Gov. Jere
Beasley's investigating budget control subcommittee.
The wily black Montgomery legislator slipped the death clause into a
resolution praising Auburn sprinter Harvey Glance, repealing the act wheih
established the committee.
Atty. Gen. Bill Baxley sanctioned the prank, issuing a ruling which, in
effect, pronounced the committee officially dead.
Jere Beasley has used the committee to grab headlines and to try to
demogogue his way into the governor's mansion in 1978.
Having the committee abolished could not have happened to a nicer
guy-
On the other hand we seriously question the tactics Holmes used.
We do not think state government should be a laughing matter. We
think opposition to the committee should have been openly voiced and the
resolution to take away Beasley's plaything should have been voted on in
the open.
We propose making such trickery illegal. A law which requires a summary
preamble to each resolution would take care of the problem nicely.
In the mean time, we are glad to see Beasley's committee go.
"Alabama is 20 years behind the
rest of the country," a recent visitor
to our fair state remarked. "Can't
your legislators do something to
speed up progress a little?"
They could, but they haven't yet.
In that ultra-modern edifice atop
Goat Hill, Alabama legislators waste
day after precious day voting on
matters of major concern to certain
counties and cities which are trivial to
the State as a whole.
For example, if Auburn wanted to
raise the salaries of its city employes,
the Legislature would have to
approve the raise. But why should
they have to? Why can't the
taxpayers of Auburn decide how
much to pay their own employes?
Representatives from Jefferson
County probably couldn't care less
how much an Auburn commissioner
makes. They have to spend most of
their time sifting through bills
making sure someone hasn't doctored
some silly resolution so that it
abolishes earlier passed laws.
There must be some solution to
the problem of having lawmakers
waste our money on matters that
could be handled locally.
Home rule is the answer.
Many states already have home
rule. In those states counties and
municipalities have the option to
pass laws and make restrictions not
already covered in state law books.
Those states' legislatures don't have
to worry about things foreign to 90
per cent of the state.
Our founding fathers demanded
states rights from the federal
government, but the states did not in
turn offer any rights to local
government units.
By not offering home rule, the
Legislature is indirectly decreasing
the voter turnout at election time by
the thousands. Voters are discouraged
by the maze of constitutional
amendments they must weed their
way through such as whether to give
Mobile County a mosquito control
program.
Many legislators are already in
favor of home rule, in a restricted
form. Auburn's State Senator Ted
Little believes home rule should be
decided by, home rule. In other
words, each municipality should
decide for itself if it wants home rule.
But why wouldn't a city want
home rule?
Dick
Parker
One reason is the city might place
an occupational tax on its citizens
without state approval. A dasterdly
deed. But Auburn already has the
detestible occupational tax, so we
don't have anything to worry about.
If Alabama state government is
ever to be run effeciently, home rule
will have to be enacted.
But perhaps our representatives
don't want efficient government..
They seem to want only power and
will go to great lengths to get it.
Certainly they won't be willing to
voluntarily give up power to the
cities, where it rightfully belongs.
The men of the House of
Representatives, the major obstacle to
home rule, make up a conglomeration
of everyday corner grocery sto
owners, used car salesmen good o
boys who get off on playing Go
with our taxes. They see themselv
as administrators or local matte
miles from their hometowns.
It's time someone set the
straight.
Next year is a gubernatori
election year. One candidate h
already come out in favor of horn
rule. We must demand that th
others follow suit. The people ca
make their voices heard loudest
the polls.
Standard for teachers is a mus
The Auburn Plainsman
Dick Parker, Editor
Burrell Wilson, Business Manager
Editorial Board members: Managing Editor, Rick Harmon; Associate Editor, Maureen
Orost; News Editor, Mark Sparkman; Sports Editor, Pat O'Connor; Technical Editor,
David Gibson; Features Editor, Penny Poole.
Entertainment Editor, Susan Camp; Copy Editor, Vickie Porter; Photographic Editor,
Mike Sellers; Assistant News Editor, BecU Thomas; Assistant Entertainment Editor,
Jenny Bonier.
Advertising Director, Burrell Wilson; Layout Specialists, Eddie Austin, Ann Oracey and
Patricia Griffin; Account Representatives, Mary Gardiner, John Brinkerhoff and Paul
Ferwerda; Circulation Managers, Keith Lee and Don Powers.
The media has been flooded for
years with information on why
Johnny can't read or write. Public
concern on the problem has grown so
much that some states now require
high school students, as a prerequisite
to their graduation, to demonstrate
on tests that they can read,,
write and work simple math
problems.
The basic idea of the test is sound.
To cope with the world, a person
needs the basic skills, so it is
defeating to a person who does not
have these skills to let him graduate.
However, this measure does not
make any provision for teachers, the
people mainly responsible for seeing
their students know, at the least, the
basic skills. Too many students
entering schools of education today
don't realize the gravity of the
situation or how to deal with it most
effectively.
Many people enter schools of
education because they feel they're
not suited to harder schools such as
law and medicine or because they
think education courses are crip
courses.
They don't give much regard to
their general feelings about people
and don't realize until they student
teach or until they start their
teaching jobs that you can know all
there is to know about a subject, but
if you are not truly concerned about
your students, you won't get much
teaching done.
This is why I believe that schools of
education ought to have much
stricter entrance requirements. If
pharmacy, medical, law, and veterinary
medicine schools have strong
entrance requirements, why
shouldn't education schools? Education
schools are just as important.
Maureen
Drost
After all, a person cannot successfully
complete any of the above schools
without the skills of reading, writing,
and arithmetic received from schools
in today's society.
What would be some of these
stricter requirements? The interview
of the applicant by a selected board
of education faculty and teachers
would be the most important part.
This interview could help gauge the
student's ability to communicate
with people ana his enthusiasm for
teaching.
A student's grade point average
would be another determining factor,
though to a much lesser extent. The
minimum of 1.25 (on a 3.00 scale)
could be used; however, in competing
with other students to
accepted into education schools, th
higher the grade point the better
Recommendations from educatio
professors and professors in th
student's major field could be a thir
requirement.
I realize other ways to improv
U.S. education such as decreasin
class sizes, eliminating discriminatio
and starting public education earlie
exist. But the most importan
element in the classroom in regard t
student learning is still the teache
and so the problem should be deal
with there first.
The 1976 Teacher of the Ye
Ruby Murchison emphasizes thi
major role of the teacher in th
classroom in these words: "I...hav
come to the conclusion that th
teacher is the decisive element in th
classroom....A teacher possesses th
power to fill a child's life with mise
or joy. A teacher can be a tool o
torture or an instrument of inspiration.
He or she can humiliate or
humor, hurt or heal... .What goes on
in the classroom must focus first on
students, then on the subjects to be
taught."
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Youth crime a product of poor 'raising'
ACP-named best college weekly
After reading an article entitled
The Youth Crime Plague? (re. Time,
July 11, 1977), I became inspired to
devote a column to the issue in hopes
the problem would gain more of it's
well-deserved attention.
The article is a slap in the face of
our whole business of "raising kids,"
which deserves quite a few more slaps
in the face.
Not wishing this writing to dwell
on the grotesque I will leave out the
details of particular incidents. But to
gain a deeper insight into the effects
of the problem, one should review
the Time article. The examples
contained therein will sum up the
scope and seriousness of the problem
well.
The only thing more frightening
than the examples is that there are
numerous more just like them. And
the acts are multiplying every day.
Time reports that more than half
of all serious crimes (murder, rape,
aggravated assault, robbery, burglary,
larceny, motor vehicle theft), are
committed by youths aged 10 to 17.
Now we come to the question of,
why? "
It seems classic to blame our
youth's "problems" that lead to
violent crime — which then becomes
our problem — on inadequate
homes, education (or the lack of it),
television violence, peer pressure, etc.
And this is true enough.
In areas where the breakdown of
the home is apparent, there is a
definite showing of increased youth
crime. Constant strife within the
home causes the youth to go outside
the family unit and search for a new
"family," a new sense of recognition,
and this search all to often leads
to the street gang.
Television tends to set the mood
for using force to "get what you
want." The cop shows display only
the romance of the crime, the drama
of the chase, the glory of the violent
capture, but never the dreaded
implications of the court proceedings
and jail. On any given night one can
easily count upwards of thirty
murders delightfully displayed on the
tube.
Then there's peer pressure. Many
gangs cannot be joined until the
prospective member can produce
evidence of an injurious act he has
committed. It becomes the accepted
norm to rob, cripple, or even kill.
In addition to these, much of the
problem lies within the courts.
Kiddie court" — as juvenile court
is referred to by the young offenders
— is "no big deal."
In fact, many cases never get to the
trial — or "fact-finding" — level
(the juvenile proceedings are filled
Jim
Locke
with such pampering euphemisms).
The cases are simply screened and
sent home under parental custody.
And those who do make it into the
courts are too many times thrown out
on the basis of a technicality. Many
times the witnesses do not show to
testify in fear they will suffer when
the youth is released. One must
remember that the target of these
juveniles are. the defenseless.
There seems, however, to be a
fjreat potential for deterrence if the
aw is upheld and the punishment
sure and swift. The offenders
themselves admit that they are not
afraid of the law because it is either
never carried out or dreadful enough
to fear.
Occasionally, though, a youngster
may be found guilty. And more
often than not such a case would
involve an "admission" (guilty plea),
to lesser crimes. This is mainly due to
either lack of evidence or lack of
witnesses.
And what is the result of such a
finding? Usually a release to parents
(back to that well-centered home life
again), with probation to begin at a
later date.
But let's take a look at the kids
who are convicted, and are sent to
the various institutions for delinquents.
There may be some very positive
side effects to such an action. The
kids back on the block in the ol'
neighborhood don't see their college
bucking the system by beating the
court and coming home. And this
seems to have a desirable effect on
their behavior. Good enough.
But what of the kid in the jail?
If it has been said that jails are the
greatest breeding grounds for new
and better (?) criminals, it could only
apply doubly so for those in juvenile
centers and detention halls.
Taking all of these factors in mind,
one can see the complexity of the
problem. There seem to be dead
ends to the solutions every way you
turn. Sending the kids home (i.e.
back on the streets with a new sense
of pride having beat the system)
certainly isn't the answer; jails only
create a better prepared and more
skillful criminal; and attempts at
rehabilitation are at the comedy
level.
But there have been a few persons
and organizations who have had
success in dealing with tough
juveniles. Some definite headway in
reducing recividism has been made
when the offender can be made to
see the relationship between the
atrocity of the act, the suffering of
the victim, and the cause of the act;
himself. When this is realized,
youths many times begin to feel great
remorse and start to show signs
toward improvement.
This is accomplished by forcing the
individual to realize that the
responsibility is his and his alone.
And that no amount of outside
influence — by peers, television,
family, or whatever — can justify
such acts.
While this may be a start to the
solution, it is by no means a cure.
The police could concentrate less
on enforcing such victimless crime
laws as marijuana and parking
tickets, and begin concentrating
more on the,really serious crimes: the
street muggings, robberies, and
murders. Their responsibility lies in
the protection of the public, not in
harassing. Most people are concerned
more with the life and well-being of
their neighbor, not if their car is
parked wrong or if their 17-year-old
is having a beer.
The courts are going to have to
treat adult crimes on an adult level.
Family court was designed for the
average, middle-class problem child;
not hardened street-gang members
with a bulging record of violent
offenses.
This is not to say that all cases
should be treated with an iron-hand
judgement. Definitely not. Each case
has its individual implications and
circumstances. And should be treated
on an individual level.
The kids with problems that can
be dealt with in a compassionate
manner cannot be ignored, nor
should they be grouped with the
serious offender. And it is important
— for the kid's sake — that he
receives the necessary attention.
However, those who cannot be
reached in any other manner must be
dealt with as what they are: serious
threats to the well-being of citizens.
We have no other choice. And of
paramount importance is that the
dealings be swift and sure.
To even begin to reduce the
problem, we must demand that those
whom we employ for our safety (the
police), take the responsibility for our
safety; and those whom we employ
for justice (the courts), begin
applying justice; and those whom we
look to for action (ourselves), to start
acting.
Letters Sparkman reports: The legislature
Thursday, July 21, 1977 page 5
I've been through it
Editor, The Plainsman:
This editorial is in response to
the feature concerning the resignation
of doctors from Drake Student
Health Center which appeared in
last week's Plainsman. As a
student with a medical record two
inches thick on file at the infirmary,
I feel that I'm qualified to speak
first hand concerning some of the
problems there-from a patient's
point of view.
According to last week's article,
"Drs. Oswald G. Burkhart, Darlene
L. Hunter, Thomas R. Hunter and
Fred M. Turbeville left the
center..." First, let me say that of
those four, Drs. Darlene L. Hunter
and Thomas R. Hunter are the only
two that I'm sorry to see leave! Of
the six previously practicing physicians,
four have prescribed for me
medicaton which other doctors told
me I was allergic to. In fact, one
of the physicians still at the center
prescribed a drug which, I believe,
caused my blood pressure to rise to
the dangerous level of 180/110. I
went to Drake for treatment. I had
to sign in, was seated in the waiting
room and eventually called to
screening. When asked if I could
walk upstairs to see the doctor, I
said no. I was then helped to
stand and instructed to go on down
to the emergency room, which I
did--unassisted. I was on my way
to passing out, but utter fear
helped me to stay conscious. I just
knew that I would again be given a
drug that I was allergic to, and that
I would surely die. Instead of
treating me, a doctor checked me
in, and gave me a vitamin C tablet.
I believe such treatment was extremely
inadequate, for my condition
did not change for six weeks.
According to last week's article,
Dr. Jarvis "...hasn't practiced for
years,' said one doctor, 'There's no
evidence that he's kept abreast with
medicine.'" That's great! He
wrote a prescription for me just last
week. Quite simply, if this is true,
I believe, he shouldn't be practicing
at all.
Concerning the nurses protest,
also covered last week: Since the
nurses are more familiar with the
charts, I'd trust them over the
doctors any day. Also, I don't
blame them for being angry for not
being considered part of the professional
staff; because, in my experiences,
the nurses have been at least
as competent as the doctors.
In my opinion, the infirmary
serves only one purpose: to treat
colds and flu. However, since
getting a prescription for an antibiotic
from our "doctors," is like
pulling teeth, I question whether
they serve that purpose effectively.
Therefore, I would not recommend
that anyone permit the infirmary to
treat them—even for a hang-nail!
Donna L. Glass
01CJ
Atty. Gen. Bill Baxley handed
down a decision last week that may
well close the lid on Lt. Gov. Jere
Beasley's special finance committee.
Thedecision came after state Rep.
Alvin Holmes' resolution commending
Auburn sprinter Harvey Glance.
The resolution contained a small
favor from the legislature in honor of
Glance: it abolished the Interim
Committee on Finance and Taxation.
The implications that could result
from this decision have state
legislators across the state buzzing.
In what must be considered
Baxley's affinity for the Divine Sense
of Humour, we find the barn door
open to let out the true instincts of
our Alabama legislators. As Beasley
sits in Montgomery with two dozen
double-yolks on his face, laying hens
from Slocomb to Eutaw are producing
legislative missiles for the next
session.
A good friend of mine, Jebediah
P. Walthall, is the head lobbyist for
the Acme Amalgamated Interest's
in my
asking,
Mark
Sparkman
Interest, Inc., a much-profit organs
zation that represents the interests of
the vested interests in Montgomery.
He knows every legislator in the state
by his first name and his bank
account down to the last cent. I
called him up this week to find out
what effect, if any, the Baxley ruling
would have on the legislative
processes in the upcoming session.
"What do you mean 'if any', you
idiot?" he shouted. "This thing is
going to be the biggest change this
state has ever seen. Why, it's bigger
than standing in the schoolhouse
door."
I languished a while
stupidity before meekly
"What sort of changes?"
"Well, if you don't know, I
suppose I'll have to tell you. After
all, what is a lobbyist for?"
"Providing enlightening information
to the ignorant, I guess."
"Correct. Ever thought about
becoming a lobbyist? Anyway, shut
up and listen.
"First of all, East Alabama Pete is
going to sponsor a bill commending
the Rev. Dr. Billy Graham for being
alive. Nobody will vote against
that."
"Who would want to? There is
nothing controversial or of any fiscal
worth in that passage that would
bring opposition," I said, quite
stupidly, I was to find out.
C'mon, Sparkman. You know
there has to be more to it. What
Pete is going to do is outlaw the sale
of alcoholic beverages in the state
except on Fridays the thirteenth that
fall on days also blessed with
We need not punish Korea for incident
No monuments for Kent
Editor, The Plainsman:
Lauren Steele's editorial proposing
to erect a monument for the students
killed at Kent State seems ill-advised.
If the intent is to honor them for
following their convictions, try to
remember that they were not
martyrs. They had not asked to die
for what they believed in. They were
killed accidendy, by Guardsmen who
panicked during a confrontation.
I'll include the four dead among
the ranks of tens of thousands killed
as a result of the war but I can't see
honoring them further merely because
they died publicly.
These students were not trying to
end a war. They were just attempting
to get the U.S. out. In doing so they
started a war of their own and were
among the first casualties. (I exclude
those other students who were
victims of campus bombings).
Peace was not a result of the
protest these students represent. The
war ended as all wars do; someone
eventually won. The protesters did
not bring peace they only took part
of the war home. That's not very
peaceful.
Thomas Smith
421-82-8846
03EE
An American helicopter, during a
mistaken venture over North Korea,
was shot down last week. Only one of
the four crewmen survived.
Nobody but the loved ones of the
four crewmen fully knows how tragic
the incident was. Still, it is safe to say
that such incidents are a time for
restraint, not rhetoric; they are a
time for thought and then action,
rather than action and then regret.
However, Sen. James Allen,
D-Ala., last week said, ' 'To let the
North Koreans get away with these
attacks invites greater arrogance and
threatens the peace in the Far East."
Senator Allen also advocated the
punishment of the North Koreans
who brought the chopper down.
It is almost funny to imagine the
Korean Reds punishing their troops
for bringing down an American
chopper. As for not letting the North
"get away" with the shooting, why
didn't Allen propose a plan of
revenge? The answer, of course, is
that when one gets beyond fiery,
emotionally satisfying rhetoric, the
idea of revenge — and the attendant
deaths of thousands of Americans
and Koreans — is an unthinkable
nightmare. Senator Allen should also
check with South Korea before he
advocates starting war, for our
purposes, on their peninsula.
Senator Allen judged the incident
according to "stateside" conditions,
and that was wrong. America is not
Korea. Using American conditions to
judge incidents in Asia will lead to
misjudgments.
If an American helicopter flew over
Toronto, and Canada then shot it
down, we would be correct in
judging the shooting according to
local conditions. Such judgement
would lead to the correct conclusion
that the shooting was a moral
outrage. Punishment of the Canadian
troops responsible would be
proper. However, Canada and the
United States do not represent two
opposed ideologies. Canada and the
United States are not competing for
control of North America.
The two Koreas, of course, are
competing (ideologically,) as well as
Landis
McGauhew
for control of their peninsula. This
competition has long kept Korea's
emotional atmosphere at a mercurial
point just this side of warfare.
Judgments of incidents that occur in
these warlike conditions, must be
made according to a different scale
than that which applies in America.
In short, we must judge according to
Korean conditions. We must take
time to sense how the North and
South Koreans view various' incidents.
We must take the lives of
Koreans, and American troops, into
account. If we don't temper our
judgments in this manner, our
judgements will be wrong. And
wrong judgements may lead to
actions that are costly, tragic and
regrettable.
In Korea's warlike conditions, the
American helicopter was viewed as an
unwelcome and potentially dangerous
intruder. It was then shot down.
Under the rules of the game, which
remember, is nearly a war, the Reds
felt justified in bringing the chopper
down.
If by the rules of the game we are
at fault, and are then punished for
our fault — even though the
punishment is unwarranted and cruel
by our standards — we must still stay
calm and restrained. An emotional
reaction from us would only raise
tempers on both sides.
Furthermore, North Korea could
have painted America as the agressor.
Since our helicopter indeed violated
their airspace, the North, in many
people's eyes, might have had a good
case. Resistance and angry words
from Washington would nave made
some nations more sure that America
had indeed acted agressively. America
already has too few friends. Let's
not lose the few we have, because of
thoughtless talk and attitudes.
We must realize that the two
Koreas are nearly at war. We must
judge Korean events according to
that realization. We must then
restrain our attitudes and reactions. If
we don't give thought to the
situation, if we don't withhold our
anger, we are only making the
situation worse. And the situation is
already bad.
I served in Thailand for a year. If I
go back to Asia with the military, as I
hope to, I'd like to return under the
same status as during my earlier
tour: noncombatant.
complete solar .eclipses. All this
in honor of the life of Billy Graham.
To vote against anything honoring
Billy Graham would spell certain
political defeat in this state."
"You're so right, Jeb. But tell me
something, who is this 'Pete'?"
"Sorry I can't tell you, Sparkman.
You see, I make it a point never to
learn the last name of a good ol'
boy."
' 'I see. But what else is going on
around the state in the awesome
minds of our beloved leaders?"
"South Alabama Dick has a good
one. He is going to commend
George Washington for crossing the
Delaware.''
"There has to be more to it," I
said.
"Now you're catching on. In
honor of Washington's achievement,
the bill will assure no student will
ever become a member of the
Auburn University Board of Trustees
unless he is black, majoring in
poultry science and belongs to an
otherwise all-white sorority.''
"But that's impossible! That's
insane! That guy is crazy as a loon!"
I calmly said.
"Yeah, but who is going to vote
against the Father of our country?
"And Auburn is in for more
trouble, too. Jere the barber is going
to condemn Adolph Hitler for
inhumane acts. In the same
paragraph he is going to condemn
Auburn University for the inhumane
act of having Harvey Glance. As
punishment, Auburn will receive no
funding for the next 99 years."
"Wow! What else is cooking
across Dixie's heart?" I queried.
"Well, George the doorman is
going to have his forces commend
mothers for cooking apple pies."
"And what is going to come out of
that?"
"In honor of both mothers and
apple pies, the Alabama legislators
will endorse George for the U.S.
Senate race and condemn Alabama
Power for existing."
"Tell me, Jeb, you are the
president of the most powerful lobby
in the state. What is the AAIII
going to have passed?"
"We're going to congratulate the
United States for being victorious in
World War II."
"Great," I said, "no one can vote rinst that. Now, what is the
cher?"
"Nothing major. We're just
(joing to abolish the Alabama
egislature. With the junk they're
putting out, who needs them?"
Prophecy similar to those 30 years ago
Editor, The Plainsman:
Frequently, from points at home
and abroad, there appears evidence
that Auburn University is accomplishing
its goal of assisting people
who desire to increase their capabilities
for making worthwhile contributions
to society. Less frequent, but
more spectacular, are the instances
where further development occurs in
those students who matriculated with
cerebrums already saturated.
In his interesting comments in the
July 14 Plainsman, Mark Sparkman,
apparently somewhat despondingly,
stated, "But face it, Auburn will
never change." Those who made that
same statement thirty years ago were
proven to be very poor prophets.
We cannot expect changes in
Auburn University to be as rapid, as
frequent, or as whimsical as the
changes which occur in, say, the
Plainsman. That fact should not be a
cause for great sadness.
G.B. Meadows
Asst. Prof.
Animal and Dairy Sciences
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Ihe Auburn Plainsman Thura., July 21, 1977 page 6
?So- Miss second football foe
AUBURN ELUDED TENNESSEE LAST SEASON
.The Tigers travel to Knoxville Sept. 24 for their first SEC game
Statt Photo
Editor's note: This la
the second in a series of
previews of Auburn's
1977 football opponents.
Next week The Plainsman
previews Mississippi
and N.C. State.
By Gene Vandlver
Plainsman Sportswriter
Southern Mississippi
will be Auburn's second
1977 foe when the Hat-tiesburg,
Miss., Eagles
face the War Eagles in
Jordan-Hare Stadium on
Sept. 17.
Fate wasn't kind to
Southern Miss last
season. The Eagles
limped through a 2-9
season when many
thought they could do
better. Head coach
Bobby Collins, who, like
Doug Barfield, hopes to
improve over his first-year
start, will rely
heavily on a ground
game that stars potential
Ail-American Ben
Garry.
Ihe Auburn Plainsman
Games People Play
Garry rushed for 1,236
yards last season and
will run behind a
capable offensive line to
boost that total this
year. The Eagles were
a rushing team last season,
but this year they
may pass more. Quarterback
Kenny Alderman
will put the ball in
the air to John Cannon
and Chuck Brown, along
with Garry.
Jeff Hammond, who
started the final two
games, which the
Eagles won, will probably
share quarterback-ing
duties.
Defense is a sore spot,
especially in the secondary
and along the front
line. Collins will be
looking for help from
Ron Taylor, Freeman
Horton, Clemon Ector
and Ricky Allen at linebackers;
J.J. Stewart at
tackle, Reggie Odom at
end and Thad Dillard at
nose guard have also
seen action, but none of
the secondary members
have seen much playing
time.
Auburn will journey to
Knoxville for its third
game, facing the Tennessee
Volunteers.
The Tigers' 38-28
victory over Tennessee
last season probably put
finishing touches on the
rapidly-diminishing popularity
of then coach
Bill Battle, who was
dismissed largely for his
inability to beat Auburn
and Alabama.
Tennessee's almost-obvious
choice for coach
was Johnny Majors, who
played tailback for the
Volunteers in the late
1950s. Alumni and supporters
lured Majors
from the University of
Pittsburgh, where he
produced a national
championship team and
a Heisman Trophy winner
in Anthony Dorsett.
Majors transformed
Pitt from a pushover to
a champion in only four
years, but times have
changed. NCAA regulations
will prevent him
from recruiting 70 freshmen
athletes in one sea-son-
which he did at
Pitt--in order to build a
team.
Offensively, Tennessee
may be suffering.
Majors lost much of his
scoring punch with the
graduation of the Randy
Wallace to Larry
Seivers passing combination.
Pat Ryan and
Joe Hough will figure in
the quarterbacking
scene and Billy Arbo
seems to be the best bet
to replace Seivers.
Running back Stanley
Morgan graduated also,
and there is no clear
choice for his slot now,
although Kelsey Finch,
who decimated Auburn's
defense last season, returns,
along with Bobby
Emmons, Frank Foxx
and Gary Moore.
Majors is making
some changes in his
defensive alignment,
switching from last season's
four-man front to a
five-man alignment.
Andy Spiva, one of the
SEC's finest linebackers
graduated, but Craig
Puki, Greg Jones and
Lyonel Stewart should
fill that vacancy.
Craig Colquitt will
take care of the punting
chores. Colquitt led the
SEC last year with a
42.5 average, and place-kicker
Jim Gaylor connected
on 26 of 27 extra
points last season.
Auburn fans have an unusual opportunity
The day before the
Auburn-Alabama football
battle in Birmingham
in recent years has
been a time of pep
rallies, last-minute bragging
and general antagonism
between fans of
the two schools.
Last year all that
changed a bit. Auburn
and Alabama played
Jacksonville and Purdue,
respectively, in a
basketball doubleheader
in the Birmingham-Jefferson
County Civic Center
on the eve of their
football duel. Fans
were reluctant to openly
pull for or against their
next-day opponent, thus
easing some of the pre-game
friction, at least
for that night.
This year another
doubleheader is scheduled
for the day before
the Iron Bowl and open
cheering for soon-to-be
football adversaries may
be the case. Good old
American patriotism
will be the reason.
Auburn plays Czechoslovakia
and Alabama
goes against Russia;
two U.S., more importantly,
two Alabama
teams, against two communist
teams.
What better objects
(excepting of course, the
basketball team of
Auburn or Alabama)
could be chosen for
thousands of psyched-up
loyals to direct their
building emotions at?
Both foreign teams
are well-coached and
have players experienced
in international
basketball. Czechoslovakia
made it to the
finals but lost to the
U.S. team coached by
Dean Smith in the 1976
Olympics. Russia, consistently
an international
basketball power, made
it to the semifinals in
1976.
Usually, seven of the
players on the 12-man
Czech and Soviet touring
squads are age 25 or
older. About four young
(college-age) players
are brought on tour to
give them experience.
The Czech and Russian
teams are "national"
teams-that is,
they are sponsored by
the government, of their
countries. The U.S. has
no such full-time national
team because of the
various college leagues,
the fierce competition
between schools here
and the professional status
of many of America's
best players.
The Czech and Russian
players are not professional
basketball
players because they do
not get paid for participation
on the National
team. Most of the
players do, however,
have government jobs
Pat
O'Connor
such as instructing physical
education, jobs
which probably allow
them ample practice
time.
It has not yet been
decided whether American
or international
rules will be used, but
the only major differences
would be a 30-
second clock and wider
lanes if international
rules are used. Those
rules are sometimes
considered for American
basketball, so a look at
them might be enlightening
to Auburn fans
William L. Wall, now
executive director of the
American Basketball
Association of the USA,
the governing body for
international play in the
U.S. Wall "was instrumental
in arranging the
Auburn-Czechoslovakia
match-up.
Tickets for the Nov. 25
doubleheader are not on
sale yet. They will be
sold from the Auburn
Coliseum and the Birmingham-
Jefferson Civic
Center. Student tickets
will be available, but
will be sold only at the
Coliseum.
Those may be the
tickets to an unusual
sight-Auburn and Alabama
fans joining to
cheer together for a few
hours on the eve of their
annual football clash.
But the apparent uniting
will, in all probability,
be short-lived. Rivalries
will be renewed and
tempers will flare even
before all the fans have
left the Civic Center,
and any friendliness
shown on the night of
Nov. 25 will be lost in
the roars of War Eagle
and Roll Tide in Legion
Field less than one day
later.
and players.
Auburn's coach, Bob
Davis, is not unaccustomed
to playing on an
international scale. He
has a 31-9 record against
foreign opponents.
In 1970 he coached an
American team which
included John Mengelt
and George McGinnis
that traveled behind the
iron curtain for some
games. The manager
for Davis's team was
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The co-recreation volleyball
season got underway
Wednesday night,
July 13, as the Elite
Feet Flite won its match
against Micro 12-15,
17-15 and 15-9. In other
action, the Bean Machine
beat the Over the
Hill Gang 13-15, 15-4 and
15-13.
In co-rec softball
Tuesday, July 12,
Wesley whipped Bean
Machine 13-3 behind a
second inning rally of 10
runs led by Biz Ben-nings.
In Conference I Softball
Tuesday, July 12,
KP slipped by ATO
12-11, Utopian Klutz
bombed SP 22-9, PKA
beat Bobby Overbeek
19-9, Zonk defeated
Baptist Student Union
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13-12 and Rusty's Oyster
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14-11.
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13, Toomer's Lodge
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Highllfes beat Militants
13-11, Patch topped Hot
Gri^s 10-1, Major's
Heroes clipped Men in
Motion 18-17, All Stars
defeated Adidas 17-6,
Best of the Rest shut out
Fisheries 13-0 and Uncle
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PHY-ZOO 25-9.
On Thursday, July 14,
it was SN 20, Navy 19;
and Utopian Klutz 15,
Overbeek 5. Ordinals
won by forfeit over Buzz
and Tatum's Talley-wackers
won by forfeit
over Robber Barons.
Beckwith
drives in
winner
Joe Beckwith drove in
the winning run Monday
> night as he scored his
second professional
pitching victory for the
San Antonio Dodgers of
the Texas League. His
Dodgers won by a 3-2
margin over the Jackson
(Mississippi) team in
Jackson.
The former Auburn
hurler's record as a pro
is now 2-2, and this was
the first time his team
had scored more than
two runs when he was
pitching.
page 7 xnur»., July ti, 1977 upurn nan Saia back from Hawaii By Pat O'Connor
Sports Editor
Auburn's Director of
Intramurals, Claude V.
Saia, returned recently
from Hawaii, where he
conducted a football
coaching clinic. Saia
headed the NCAA clinic
at the request of Phil
Mlnicola, chief of all
physical activities for
the U.S. armed services
in Hawaii.
Saia was in Hawaii
from June 25 to July 1
and the clinic ran from
June 27 to 30. Ex-
Auburn coach Sam
Mitchell assisted Saia
with the clinic.
Saia told Mlnicola at
Convention in Boston In
February that he would
run the clinic on two
conditions: that his wife
could go with him, and
that another coach and
his wife could come
also. That is where
Mitchell came in.
The clinic, which
stresses football fundamentals
and techniques
was videotaped by the
armed services and sent
to Washington, D.C. so
that it could be shown to
other armed services
coaches.
Saia said, "The clinic
was a great honor for
me and for Auburn University."
The "Hawaii Army
the National Intramural Weekly" reported in a
story about Saia that an
average of over 100
people attended each
session of the NCAA
football clinic.
Saia and Mitchell
coached on Auburn's
football team together
for almost eight years.
Saia was the offensive
backfield coordinator
and Mitchell was a
defensive coach.
Saia says his job as
intramurals director is
challenging and rewarding,
but that he misses
football and coaching,
particularly recruiting
and meeting people that
way.
He says he has three
goals as intramurals
director: to increase
facilities, to increase
participation and to increase
exposure. Since
he became Intramurals
director in 1976, participation
in intramurals
has increased and plans
for new intramural
fields have been completed
and construction
begun.
Saia says he has an
"open-door policy"-any-one
is welcome to come
and talk to him about
intramurals or anything
else.
During fall quarter, he
teaches a football course
for Auburn which gives
three hours credit. His
book, "Winning Football
Bible," is the text for
the course.
Construction begins on new IM field
Photography: Bobby Lindsey
Runaway
David Nicholson, 6VIA, finds the going hot this
summer, but, like many Auburn students jogs daily
anyway. The excessively warm weather has
popularized night-time jogging around Auburn, also.
By Chuck Chandler
Plainsman Sportswriter
Construction began
Wednesday on the new
intramural playing
fields, with completion
of the $227,000 project
expected by the second
week of October.
Claude Saia, director
of intramurals, said
heavy rainfall would be
the only obstacle keeping
the construction
company from finishing
by that date. Saia said
completion of the project
by the second week
of October would permit
intramural activities to
begin on schedule on the
new fields.
The playing fields, to
be located off Samford
Avenue across from the
Wilbur Hutsell Track,
will provide adequate
space for 12 football
fields or eight softball
fields. Water fountains
will be near all playing
areas.
Plans for the fields
also include a paved
road beginning where
Biggio Drive now. ends
and extending to Farm
Road.
AHSAA hosts
All-Star game
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By Terry Tope
Plainsman Sportswriter
On Friday July 29, the
Alabama High School
Athletic Association will
host its 1977 North-South
All-Star Football game
at Bryant Denny Stadium
in Tuscaloosa.
The game will feature
nine future Auburn
players recruited for
this fall.
Most of Auburn's football
coaching staff will
be present at the game.
Offensive Administrator
Dal Shealy says, "It's
an honor for these boys
to play in an all-star
game to climax their
high school career and
kick off their college
career."
Also coaches get a
sneak preview of prospective
player's
strengths and weaknesses
which may dictate
where efforts need
to be concentrated to
help the player when he
arrives, say Shealy.
Future War Eagles
playing in the All-Star
game include Frank
Warren, an All-State and
Ail-American from Philips
High School. Warren
was a Class 4A
champion in the shot put
and discus and plays
offensive guard and
noseman. Marvin Williams,
a middle guard
from Evergreen, comes
to Auburn with an
average of 17 tackles
per game in high school.
Linebacker Dennis
Rogers from Woodlawn,
All-State defensive end
Zachary Hurdy from
Hueytown and defensive
back Clifford Terry
from Huntsville will all
be here this fall to
strengthen the Auburn
defense.
Possible catalysts for
Auburn's passing and
running games include
quarterback Leo Campbell
from Georgiana, the
Birmingham News'
Class 2A player of the
year in 1976; All-State
and Ail-American split
end-running back Byron
Franklin from Sheffield;
tight end Brad Everett
from Alabaster, one of
the top 20 players in the
state; and tailback Tony
Hardick from Cottonwood,
an All-Stater who
rushed for nearly 1,900
yards last year.
Campbell, Hardrick,
Williams and Everett
will play for the South's
All-Stars and Warren,
Rogers, Hardy, Terry
and Franklin will play
for the North's.
The University of Alabama
will have 17 prospective
players in this
year's All-Star game.
Troy State will have six
and Jacksonville State
will have three.
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The Auburn Plainsman
After Hours
'String Band' performs
By Susan Camp
Entertainment Editor
"The Front Porch
String Band," a blue-grass
band from Birmingham,
will perform
July 25 from 8:30-10:30
p.m. on the Union Patio.
The performance is
sponsored by the UPC.
The four member
group is not only well
known in Birmingham,
where they perform in
various local clubs, but
they are also familiar
faces at many concerts
and festivals throughout
the south.
"The Front Porch
String Band," still a
young group in the
spring of 1976, performed
at the annual OTS
"DOgpatch Festival"
here in Auburn.
Since then they have
toured the south playing
at such gatherings as
Horsepens 40 Bluegrass
Festival near Steele, the
annual Birmingham
Bluegrass Festival, the
Miller's Landing Blue-grass
Convention near
Tallahassee and with the
Earl Scruggs Review in
Tuscaloosa.
A definitive term for
their style of music lies
somewhere between progressive
bluegrass and
country rock. Their
TOE TAPPIN' TIME
.Contemporary bluegrass Is their specialty
repertoire ranges from
such classic bluegrass
tunes as "Rollin' in My
Sweet Baby's Arms,"
"Rocky Top, Tennessee"
and "Stay a Little Longer"
to the more contemporary
"Paradise" by
John Prine and "Fallen
Eagle" by Steven Stills.
"The Front Porch
String Band" has
recently released their
first album, SMILIN' AT
YOU. The album includes
classic and contemporary
bluegrass
tunes, old-time instru-mentals
and some of
their own works.
Larry Lynch, who has
been with "The Front
Porch String Band"
since its origins in the
early 70s, plays mandolin
and fiddle. Claire
Lynch is lead vocalist,
rhythm guitarist, songwriter
and spokesperson.
Billy Sandlin, the
youngest member of the
group, is a versatile
performer, adept at
banjo, dobro, mandolin,
accoustic, electric guitar
and bass as well as
singing lead and backup
vocals. Bass guitarist,
Murray Ross, is the
newest member of the
band, having joined
them in the summer of
1976.
'Star Wars' succeeds with fantasy
George Lucas, the
author-director of
"American Graffiti,"
described the purpose of
his new film "Star
Wars," as "trying to
reconstruct a genre that
is lost and bring it back
in a new dimension."
He succeeded brilliantly.
"Star Wars," is a mixture
of Flash Gordon,
"The Wizard of Oz" and
modern day technology,
combined into one of the
most entertaining
movies that Hollywood
has produced in years.
The film issues in a
return to escapism. It
makes no deep message,
in fact no message at
all, except one shouldn't
go around capturing
princesses and blowing
up planets. Its only
purpose is to entertain,
which its blockbuster attendance
figures show it
is accomplishing.
The script has holes in
it that Solo could pilot
his Millineum Falcon
through. Why does
Oarth Vader wear a
breath screen throughout
the entire film.
What is Tarkins relation
to the empire? Who are
the rebels and what exactly
are they rebelling
against? None of these
are answered very fully
if at all.
Despite these flaws
"Star Wars" is a great
movie, perhaps one of
the greatest science fiction
films ever made.
Partial credit for this
must be given to the
superb special effects of
John Dykstra and John
Stears, and a script
which captures a wit
rarely found in science
fiction films.
But the main reason
for the film's success is
simple-fantasy. Few
films have captured the
imagination as has
"Star Wars."
The plot of the film is
almost inconsequential.
A beautiful princess,
Carrie Fisher, well lets
change that to a sarcastic
princess, is captured
by two evil villains,
Darth Vader, who is
always clad in black and
breathes through an air
screen, and Grand Moff
Tarkin, Peter Cushing,
who has created and
launched a death satellite
which can dissinte-grate
entire planets.
Luke Skywalker
(Mark Hamil) is drawn
into a plan to rescue the
princess along with an
old outlawed warrior
named Obi-Wan Kenobi
(Alec Guiness), a mercenary
pilot named Solo
and his co-pilot Chew-bacca
who is a giant
wookie.
Anyway, this group
along with two rather
competent robots attempt
to rescue the
princess and destroy
Tarkin's satellite.
Critically it is easy to
blast "Star Wars."
Except for an excellent
performance by
Guiness.
Not since Disney was
at its peak, has fantasy
been so enjoyable as in
"Star Wars," or a fairy
tale so captured the
imagination of adults.
—Rick Harmon
.. Harmon is managing
editor of The Plainsman.
Local band, 'Jazz Dazz', brings new sound to Auburn
By Michael Childs
Plainsman Staff Writer
"I don't do this for my
health," says Steve
Goodson of the new local
band, Jazz Dazz. "We
are a group of very
serious professionals interested
in bringing a
different kind of sound
to the local area."
Goodson has been
playing professionally
since he was 14.
"We're just tired of
playing 'Top 40' music,"
he says. "We think that
people are getting tired
of hearing Doobie Brothers,
Styx and Arrow-smith
type of music at
every party or club that
they go to."
The band specializes
in music from such popular
jazz composers as
Cannonball Adderly, Gate
Barbieri, Dave Bru-beck,
George Duke,
Ronnie Laws, Bob
James and Grover
Washington, Jr.
"We try to play a
mixture of current and
standard jazz," says
Goodson, who plays
electric tenor, soprano
saxaphones and flute.
"The main thrust of
the band is on improvisation,
which allows us
to play music that is
both listenable and
danceable. But we dare
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One of the key members
of Jazz Dazz is
Auburn-native, Jack
Fitzpatrick who plays
electric piano and mi-cro-
moog synthesizer.
He has studied primarily
with Dr. Bob Richardson
of AU's music department
and has spent
many years with such
popular local bands as
Zany Murphy, Menagerie
and Toys.
"Jack is a keyboard
genius, both musically
and electronically," says
Goodson. "He is the music
director and sessions
leader of the band and
arranges most of our
music."
Fitzpatrick and Good-son
had played together
before on numerous oc-cassions
and with various
bands, but finding
bass player, Dana Little
and drummer, Norman
Sinback was quite a surprise,
according to
Goodson.
"One day, this guy
walks in and hands me
a card that read...'Dana
Little, Bassist.' Then he
told me that if I could
find any professional
work for him, he would
be interested."
Little, an applied music
major at AU from
Gasden, has been playing
in numerous rock
bands for the past ten
years. He handles all
vocals for Jazz Dazz and
was ultimately responsible
for finding percussionist,
Sinback.
"Norm and Dana had
played together to the
AU Jazz Ensemble, so
when we needed a professional
jazz drummer,
he suggested Norm,"
says Goodson.
Sinback, a native of
Miami, Fla., is also an
AU music major and
plays drums to the university's
marching
band.
Although they have already'played
various local
establishments the
band expects to be playing
more this fall when
the main body of students
return to school.
Those who have seen
the band agree that
their sound reflects competence
and professionalism
through one of the
finest sound systems in
the area.
"We mix all of our
instruments through a
single mixing board to
attain the cleanest sound
possible," says Goodson.
"We also use a very fine
PA system that is absolutely
the clearest to the
area."
As Goodson sits back
and talks about the
band, he frequently
quips about stardom and
groupies. "I'm in charge
of all women affairs for
the band," he says widely
grinning. "Someone
has to handle all those
crazy groupies."
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western, is this
week's UPC movie. It
will be shown Friday,
Saturday and Sunday at
8 p.m. in. Langdon Hall.
An Auburn I.D. Is required
for admission.
The plot of this ribald
comedy centers around
Colorado to the post
gold-rush days. Lee
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pageS Thurs., July 81, 1977 The Auburn Plainsman
Atlanta Rhythm Section drummer stakes out world as territory
Jennifer Bonier
Asst. Entertainment
Editor
Robert Nix isn't exactly
what you'd call an
enigma in the rock and
roll business. As a matter
of fact, his maneuvering
tactics toward
the top of the rock and
roll pile are pretty
straightforward.
You see, he's got this
vehicle called the Atlanta
Rhythm Section and
he uses his pounding
rhythmical force in
drumming and his prolific
verse writing to push
them further and further
up the rock and roll
hierarchy.
Not just the area below
the Mason-Dixon
line, mind you. Nix envisions
the whole world as
Atlanta Rhythm Section
rightful territory.
So he doesn't particularly
care for the label
"southern rebel band."
"We're not just limited
to the south, you
know. We just finished
doing a tour of about 60
days all over the states
— a quite successful
tour. We headlined in
Santa Monica, Calif, and
they knew us there as
well as we're known
here. We're stars! It's
amazing what those records
can do for you.
They become your calling
card."
He also resents being
placed in the same category
as "dixie chickens"
Marshall Tucker, Grind-erswitch
and others of
the southern rebel heritage.
As he emphasized this
last point with a forceful
pound on the cocktail
lounge table, a frowning
waitress brought the order
of drinks and placed
before Nix some sort of
liquor concoction.
"Everybody drink up.
This one's on the record
company." Nix laughed
as he gulped almost the
entire drink in one swallow.
That's not all that was
on the record company.
A chaffeured black limousine
had been hired
to transport the boys
around the "big city"
while they were in Montgomery.
It wasn't always free
drinks and hired limos
for Nix though. After
graduating from high
school, he joined the
Candymen, Roy Orbi<-
son's highly praised
backup band and "went
to just about every country
in the world, five
times it seems!"
Fate soon had him in
Atlanta writing songs
for Bill Lowry. His first
hit was "Cherry Hill
Park" with Billy Joe
Royal.
The move to Atlanta
and association with
Royal led Nix to his
next major connection
and the first step in the
birth of the Atlanta
Rhythm Section.
"J.R. Cobb, the man
who is now our rhythm
guitar player, helped
write 'Tracy,' 'Stormy'
and some of the other
hits of Dennis Yost,"
Nix explained.
"Those songs were recorded
by Yost and
some studio musicians
billed as the Classics IV.
Actually we (the Atlanta
Rhythm Section) were
the Classics. The records
were hits, so we
decided we'd start writing
for ourselves.
"We were all making
a lot of money anyway,
Area Entertainment
Atlanta
Dan Fogelberg will be at the Fox at 8 p.m. July
21. Tickets are $7.50.
The Tangerine Dream concert scheduled for July
22 has been cancelled.
The Steve Miller Band will perform in the Omni
July 27 at 8 p.m. Tickets are $7 and $8.
Supertramp will be at the Fox August 5.
are $6.75 and $7.75 and showtime is 8 p.m.
Tickets
Leo Sayer and Melissa Manchester will perform at
the Fox August 11 at 7:30 p.m. Tickets are $7.75.
Kris Kristofferson, with special guests Rita
Coolidge and Billy Swan, will be at the Fox August
23 at 8 p.m. Tickets are $7.75 and $8.75. All $9.75
tickets are sold out.
Yes, with special guest star Donovan, will perform
at the Omni August 25 at 8 p.m. Tickets are $5.50
to $7.50.
Bob Marley, originally scheduled for August 12. is
now scheduled to appear in the Fox August 26.
Tickets are $6.75 and $7.75 and tickets for the
August 12 show will be good.
Peter Frampton will perform in the Omni August
30 and 31. The second show is sold out, but there
are still a few tickets left for $6.50, $7.50 and $8.50
behind the stage.
The Jacksons and the Sylvers will appear in the
Civic Center August 6. Tickets are $6.50.
The Commodores are scheduled to appear in
Birmingham August 12.
The Marshall Tucker Band is scheduled to appear
in the Civic Center August 13.
Yes and Donovan will perform in the Civic Center
on August 26.
Other
The Brothers Johnson, Brick, the Bar-Kays, Slave
and Maze will appear in Montgomery's Garrett
Coliseum tomorrow night at 8 p.m.
Peter Frampton will be in Mobile on July 24.
The Doobie Brothers with special guest Henry
Gross will appear at the Montgomery Civic Center
July 27. The first 3000 tickets will sell for $6, the
rest for $7.
Leo Sayer and Melissa Manchester will be in
Huntsville August 16.
Starbuck will appear at the Lake Eufaula boat
races August 27.
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so it didn't really matter.
Anyhow, we all got
together In the studios
and here we are. 'Dora-ville'
came out and was
a big hit for us, and it's
Deen our biggest AM
single to date."
His visions of conquering
the entire .global
territory are finally seeing
the first rays of
realization. Though the
group has been together
more than five years, it
is just beginning to extend
its popularity into
- the European market.
Lifting his arms in
gesture as if to include
the entirity of the galaxy,
Nix's conversation
turns to Europe.
"We've got a following
now in Europe. The
newest album (A Rock
and Roll Alternative)
just broke there, so it
could be platinum worldwide.
"It's really strange
because while our records
are being played
in Montgomery, Al.,
they're also being played
in Munich, Germany.
That can't be bad.
"You know something
else that's klnda
strange?" he muses as
he orders another brew.
"Lately our entire catalog
of albums Is selling
well, even the early
ones. MCA just repackaged
and released the
first two albums we did.
It sold more than 15,000
copies in four days in
Atlanta alone."
But that's just all part
of his strategy to reach
the pinnacle of stardom
— keep reaping from
the old as you're sowing
the new.
Nix doesn't limit his
star-gazing to the rock
and roll genre, however.
Among his personal
friends, he claims President
Carter.
"I love Jimmy Carter,"
he said with a nod
of his shaggy head. "He
was my man in '68. I
loved him then. I still
love him.
"And as for this bit
about the popularity of
southern bands rising
because Carter's President,
well...
"People tend to forget
there was a little band
called the Allman Brothers
In '68. I think all
this 'following on the
coattails' bit concerning
southern bands is not
necessarily true."
And that's all Nix
wanted to say on the
subject. He suddenly decided
he wanted to talk
about tours. He likes
them.
"It gets on the other
guys' nerves, but not
mine. Our recent tour
was really something. It
started off being a week
in the mid-west, then a
week on the east coast.
We went to Los Angeles
from there, and then we
went back to Chicago: It
seems like, for some
reason or another, when
you get a hit record,
people start adding you
to bills and you have to
start redoing plans and
things."
Of course, everyone's
heard or read of the
various ways groups
have of releasing steam
when on one of their
bone-grinding tours.
Their slogan should read
"Holiday Inns of Ameri
ca-Beware."
Atlanta Rhythm Section
is no exception.
When pushed to the
brink (or ten miles from
i t ) they can erupt in
explosions of violence
(all for fun of course)
with the best of them.
"We do get in a few
fights every now and
then," Nix admits. "But
it's all just fun, you
know. Of course, when
we have little tussles
within the group, we
never hit each other in
the face. Instinct, you
know. We might get
mad enough to kill each
other, but we stick to
body punches."
When it does get outside
the group and television
sets are seen flying
through hotel windows
and entire walls lie
in piles of rubble — well
that's another tab that
the record company probably
picks up.
Such is tne life of a
rock star — the life Nix
likes. As one person connected
with the business
has said, if you're good
enough and bring in the
money, those record
companies will do anything
for you, even wipe
your nose.
That's fine with Robert
Nix. He likes being
a star. Maybe that's
why he's still wearing
those dark glasses in a
bar that's even darker.
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Call Mrs. H.B. Dan-forth,
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Mobile home: 3 BR, 1Vi
bath, extra large kitchen
and utility; large living
room; storage shed;
shaded lot, brick patio,
washer & dryer. 887-9380.
Old Playboys for sale or
swap. Send phone number
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Call 887-8314. Available
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Beautiful Himalayan kittens
for sale. $100. Will
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weeks of age. Balance
due on delivery date. Call
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p.m.
Irish setters. Beautiful
quality pups! AKC.
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Mopeds. Authorized
sales, service & parts.
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or best offer. Call after 6
p.m., 749-8978.
For sale: VW bus, 1967;
good body, runs fine;
call 826-4539, ask for
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$3000. Call Eddie,
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1975 Dasher GT (VW);
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For rent, boys—three
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house; air cond., furnished.
Lease. Call
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bath, large living room,
foyer, and plant porch.
2.7 mi. from campus. $50
a month. Call Jack at
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For rent: house trailer
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Roommate neededl Studious,
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fall qtr. Call Jan,
887-7241 after 3.
For rent to boys: three
BR, two bath house;
stove & refrigerator, furnished,
air cond., lease.
Call 887-6735.
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kitchen, completely furnished,
available August
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after 5 p.m.
For rent: two bedroom,
big apartment for boys;
air conditioned; lease.
Call 887-6735.
Wanted: moderately
priced kitchen stove. Gas
or electric. Call 887-9372:
Roommate wanted for
summer and on through
school year. Located at
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FarmHouse. Rent $77.50
plus expenses. Call
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$25 Reward. Will pay
finder's fee for information
concerning house to
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Graduate couple need
two BR duplex or house
to rent fall qtr. Please call
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Wanted to buy: one or
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The Auburn Plainsman Thurs., July 21, 1977 page 10
Solar heat for classes in AU's future
By John R. Tompkins
Plainsman Staff Writer
Solar heating for
classrooms in Auburn is
still somewhere in the
future, according to
campus planner and
architect William
Guerin.
The only building now
using solar power is a
small structure built by
the poultry science department.
It was investigated
for use in the
third phase of the music-building,
and in the new'
architecture building,
but the budget did not
allow for the great expense
of solar panels.
Dean of Architecture
and Fine Arts Keith
McPheeters said mounts
for solar panels have
been installed on the
roof of the music building,
and the heating and
cooling system for the
music building and
architecture can adapt
well to solar power.
Two huge mega-therms,
water-filled
tanks, buried between
the two buildings, dispense
either hot or cold
water to the buildings
for use in the aircondi-tioning
or heating systems.
The new architecture
building will employ
energy-saving measures
which have not been
used in other buildings
on campus. The heating
and cooling system will
have the ability to run
independently in separate
parts of the building.
A reduction of total
window area and the use
of Venetian blinds sealed
within double-paned
bronze-tinted thermal
windows will help
reduce the loss of conditioned
air. In addition,
the windows have been
designed to open easily
for ventilation in an
energy crisis.
Guerin said solar units
were investigated for
use in the new Small
Animal Clinic, but the
complexity of the building
necessitated another
system.
It will employ a heat
exchanger, a device
which is necessary because
of the nature of
the laboratories in the
building. Health codes
necessitate the odorous,
contaminated air from
the labs be exhausted.
Normally, this would
prevent the recirculation
of conditioned air, but
the heat exchanger uses
coils in the exhaust system
to transfer heat to
incoming air before it is
conditioned.
David Pope, director
of Energy Conservation
for the Department of
Buildings and Grounds,
said no other buildings
which will utilize solar
are currently being
planned. He said that
wind - powered generators,
an adaption of the
windmill which has had
limited use in other
parts of the country,
would not be practical
because of the erratic
wind patterns in this
part of the state.
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AU teachers write textbooks
I M W W
By John R. Tompkins
Plainsman Staff Writer
Thirty-nine Auburn U-niversity
teachers in 72
departments have written
textbooks or laboratory
manuals which are
currently being required
in classes they teach.
Some departments
with teachers using their
own texts include Accounting
and Finance,
Botany and Microbiology,
Chemistry, Economics,
Geography, Electrical
Engineering, Elementary
Education,
English, Industrial Engineering,
Management,
Mathematics, Music,
Nutrition and Foods,
Pharmacy, Physics, Political
Science, Secondary
Education and
Mechanical Engineering.
The Speech Communications
Department has
more students in classes
where professors are
using their own texts
and laboratory manuals
than any other department.
More than 3,000
students were in these
speech communications
courses last year.
Bert Bradley, the department
head, wrote a
text required of approximately
500 of these students.
The book was
published in 1974 and is
in use in several other
schools including the
University of Florida
and the University of
Texas.
Bradley said he wrote
the book because he had
"a particular point of
view to express."
When asked how financially
successful the
text was, Bradley said
he considered it "moderately
profitable."
John D. Stone, assistant
professor of speech
communication, wrote
the laboratory manual
required in SC 202, a
course which a secretary
in the department
said has in excess of 700
students per auarter. .
In the Geology Department,
Ronald S.
Taylor, assistant professor
of geology, wrote the
laboratory manual required
in Geology 102.
It was published in 1976,
costs $7.95 and is in use
only in Auburn. Taylor
said the high cost is
because of the expensive
map reproductions, and
he said he does not feel
the price is extremely
high.
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