1978-05-25 The Auburn Plainsman

              The Auburn Plainsman
Volume 84 Number 26 'To foster the Auburn spirit" Thursday, May 25, 1978 Auburn, Alabama 38830 20 pages
Dorm 7 allocated to men,
resulting in more triples
By Travis Cork
Plainsman Staff Writer
Dorm 7 has been designated a
men's residence hall for fall quar­ter,
Dean of Student Life Katharine
Cater announced last Thursday.
The announcement ends two
years of concentrated effort by the
Magnolia Dormitory students to
have housing options outside of the
Magnolia complex.
The announcement also stopped
a pending investigation by the U.S.
Department of Health, Education
and Welfare (HEW) which was a
result of complaints alleging the
University discriminated against
men by providing them with inferi­or
housing.
Men gathered outside Dorm 7 at
2 a.m. Sunday to celebrate, chant­ing
''booze in every room and a girl
in every bed."
But that's not they way it will be,
according to Cater. The men will
have to abide by the same rules the
women do. They will have a male
head resident and be responsible
for locking the doors and voting on
the same visitation rules as the
women's dorms.
A storm of protest arose on
Monday, however, when Cater an­nounced
that women dorm resi­dents
could expect at least 50 more
triples next fall, partly because of
Dorm 7 being allocated to men.
But, the men will be subject to
triples also, said Cater.
"It (Dorm 7) will be run in the
same way (as the women's
dorms,)'' she added.
Title IX of the Education Amend­ments
of 1972 prohibits discrimina­tion
on the basis of sex under
federally assisted education
programs or activities.
Although Cater had previously
denied that the University housing
program discriminated against
men.^he later acknowledged that
without an alternative to Magnolia
Dorm for men, the University
would indeed be in violation of the
federal law.
According to Archie B. Meyer,
special assistant to the director of
the HEW Office for Civil Rights,
HEW had enough information to
initiate an investigation and had
intended to do so as soon as
possible.
However, because the University
will provide more housing for men
fall quarter, HEW will not be
investigating the housing program
to ensure compliance with Title IX
at this time.
Pressure to give men an alterna­tive
to Magnolia Dorm also came
from other sources.
On Feb. 20, the Student Senate
passed a resolution charging that
"Auburn University provides a
quality of living for men that is far
inferior to the housing provided for
women."
The Senate also urged that Cater
"act in an affirmative, decisive
and expedient manner in the spirit
of the law by allocating a facility,
other than Magnolia and Bullard
Hall complex as a men's residence
hall."
An organized group of Magnolia
Dorm residents also appealed to
Cater for more housing.
Dorm 7, which houses 92 stu­dents,
is classified as TYPE I
housing—air conditioned with
semi-private bathrooms.
The dorm currently houses Pi
Beta Phi sorority, which will move
to Dorm J.
Local sales tax referendum fails
By Lonnie Adamson
Assistant News Editor
Lee County residents defeated a
sales tax rererendum which would
have increased the county's tax by
one cent and provided funds for a
courthouse, jail and criminal jus­tice
center and schools.
Inside Today
YEAR IN REVIEW -
The annual year-end supplement
put together by Features Editor
Jackie Romine highlights this
week's Plainsman.
ALL SPORTS TROPHY-Coming
in second so many times
finally added up when Auburn
captured the SEC All Sports
Trophy. See page B-l.
The referendum failed by a vote
of 3493-2609. Approximately 17 per
cent of Lee County voter turned
out.
Auburn voters defeated the mea­sure
by a 1493-825 vote, Opelika
voters 1422-1044. The referendum
as passed by rural voters 719-568.
Out of 39 boxes in the county,
only nine held a majority of yes
votes. Eight of these nine were
from rural areas of Lee County;
none were from Auburn.
The referendum provided that 40
percent of the monies raised by the
tax should go for the courthouse,
jail and criminal justice center.
Sixty percent was set aside for
schools in the county.
A provision was made in the
measure that the tax would be
eliminated one year after the bond
issues were paid.
State Senator Ted Little of
Auburn, who aided in writing the
measure, said, "It's been a great (
day in Lee County. I think for too
long the people have been told by
politicians how to manage their
affairs."
Little said, "We will just sit and
wait to see what can be done to
fund the courthouse and criminal
facilities." Little said he is "very
pleased about the way the measure
went over."
Probate Judge Hal Smith said he
was "disappointed by the defeat of
the referendum.
"It's hard to get one (a tax) that
satisfies everyone," said Smith.
"I'm right here. I know we need
improvements in the jail and the
courthouse," said Smith. Smith
said the jail is "inadequate" and
"in humane."
"It's hard to find revenue
sources suitable," said Smith.
SGA President Jeff Stone wrote a
letter to the editor of the Opelika-
Auburn News urging students not
to vote for the referendum because
students are not allowed to partici­pate
in local government.
His urging students not to vote
for the referendum was just an
attempt "to make a point" that
students shouldn't have to support
the county if they don't participate
in the local government. "We
aren't against the county getting
money for the facilities," Stone
said.
Photography: Vickey Hum
Thief
Robert Palmer was beat after his eight hour drive from Clarksviile,
Tenn., when he arrived in Auburn last Friday. But a few scant nours
later, he went on stage at Memorial Coliseum to steal the show from
headliner Bob Welch. See Interview page A-8.
Woman's whereabouts remains mystery
By Julie Spafford
Assistant News Editor
Ann T. Cronley, 1VAT, dis­appeared
Tuesday May 16 and is
still missing. A woman fitting her
description was last reported seen
at the Tuskegee exit on 1-85 that
afternoon.
Cronley is a white female, five-foot-
six inches tall with green eyes
and brown hair, weighing about 135
pounds.
Anyone who has any information
on the whereabouts of this woman
should report immediately to the
Auburn Police Department at 821-
3000 or 821-1635.
Cronley's boyfriend, John R.
Wells, reported her missing to
Wallace
Auburn police last Thursday night.
She had not been seen since leaving
her Windsor Hall apartment the
morning of May 16.
Detective Ed Downing said yes­terday
that officials believe Cron­ley
was headed towards Mont­gomery.
Late Friday police received a tip
from a man who said he gave a ride
down 1-85 Tuesday, May 16, to a
hitchhiker fitting Cronley's de­scription.
The man said he dropped
her off at the Tuskegee exit.
The woman reportedly told the
man she was on her way to
Montgomery to visit friends.
Downing said that police "never
found any friends there," however.
Police received another tip Fri­day
from a person who said he saw
Cronley later that same Tuesday
afternoon at the Tuskegee exit.
The first caller said the woman
was wearing a light colored wind-breaker
and a blue backpack.
Friends confirmed that Cronley
owned such articles, and a search
of her apartment failed to turn up
the items.
The second caller said she was
wearing a red bandana, and
friends told police that she wore
one often.
It was thought that Cronley
might go visit friends in Louisiana,
and Downing said that the friends
had been contacted but said they
had heard nothing from Cronley.
Downing said that the police are
notifying other agencies and trying
to enlist their help in the search. He
said that officials feel "pretty sure
she has gone from the Auburn
area."
An ad appeared in the Personals
column of The Plainsman last
week which read: "J: You're a
great friend and have become very
special to me. I'll really miss you.
Love, C."
Wells thought this ad might have
been placed by Cronley. Police
checked with The Plainsman sec­retary
Jill Thomas who took the ad
and had her describe the woman.
The description did not match
Cronley's.
'When you're close to retirement you can say what you want'
Ford Risley
SPEAKING IN AUBURN
.Old Wallace vigor and new Gulf Shores tan
By Dave White
News Editor
"I'm going out of politics," said
Gov. George Wallace, "and when
you're getting close to retirement
like I am, you can say what you
want to say."
Wallace did just that last Mon­day
night, as he talked freely about
the education budget, the Legis­lature,
the South and the Auburn
campus before a banquet for the
Council for Exceptional Children in
the Foy Union Building.
The governor acted relaxed and
relieved, five days after his an­nounced
withdrawal from the U.S.
Senate race, and beamed with the
old Wallace vigor and his new Gulf
Shores tan.
Wallace said he would call a
special session of the Legislature to
pass the state education budget
and other bills "when I want to.
"You don't have me on the run
again now," he noted.
The governor hinted that he
might want to call a spcial session
when the education and property
tax lid bills are drafted to his
satisfaction, probably well into the
summer.
But he added, "They don't know
when, I don't know when; doesn't
anybody know when" the Legisla­ture
would be called.
Wallace said the session could
come when the legislators are
running for office, so he can "get
'em hoppin' to get out of there
(Montgomery)" and stop exces­sive
filibustering.
The governor attacked the "four
of five" senators that control the
flow of legislation of manipulating
"archaic, obsolete rules" in a few
committees.
He claimed those few senators
put gas, oil and electricity in­terests
before the need to pass the
state education budget.
Wallace commended the House
for refusing to pass the education
bill and its "hundreds of amend­ments"
in the "few hours" between
the Senate's approval of the bill
and the Legislature's adjourn­ment.
(See WALLACE, page A-2)
Complaints charge policemen
with drinking, sleeping on duty
By Dave White
News Editor
A complaint charging that a
Campus Security police officer was
drinking on duty last month was
filed with Campus Security Chief
Millard Dawson by another cam­pus
policeman April 26.
The Plainsman learned of the
complaint this week.
Dawson said yesterday that he
"feels like I have checked into the
situation" and that no punitive
action has been taken as a result of
the complaint.
Security specialist Mona Over-street
said that "from the investi­gation,
we may conclude that there
was no substance to the charge that
the officer had been drinking."
Neither Overstreet nor Dawson
would say who was interviewed or
what evidence was considered in
the investigation.
When asked point blank whether
he knew if the officer had been
drinking, Dawson declined com­ment.
"I feel like what I've done is the
right thing," said Dawson, al­though
he did not say exactly what
he did.
The campus police chief also
received oral complaints from at
least two policeman about another
officer in his department, who
reportedly was sleeping on the job
and taking extremely long breaks
at a local restaurant.
After the complaints, the officer
accused of sleeping on the job was
moved to another work shift, a
move Dawson said "may or may
not" have been related to the
complaints.
"I do my shifting and I place
people when I went to," said
Dawson.
Ihe Auburn Plainsman Thursday, May 85,1978 A-2
The world
this week
By J u l i e Spafford
Assistant News Editor
International
PARATROOPERS PULL OUT OF ZAIRE
CITY-After helping to evacuate 2600 white
foreigners from battle-ravaged Kolwezi, Zaire,
Belgian paratroopers departed, leaving French
legionnaires to patrol the corpse-filled streets.
The French and British made separate assaults
into Kolwezi Friday and Saturday, ending a
week of killing, rape and plundering by Angolan-based
rebel invaders. French officials in Paris
reported the rebels killed more-than.170 whites
after invading Zaire and capturing Kolwezi May
13.
National
BERKOWITZ DISRUPTS COURT-"Son of
Sam" David Berkowitz disrupted courtroom
proceedings Monday when he began screaming
that his last victim was a "whore." The girl's
mother, Neysa Moskowitz, jumped from her seat
and screamed, "You animal! How dare you say
t h a t ! " Earlier Berkowitz had to be restrain­ed
when he tried to jump through a seventh-floor
window. The convicted killer was to be sentenced
Monday, but because of his violent outburst,
sentencing was delayed until June 12 pending a
new psychiatric report. Berkowitz's .behavior
was in sharp contrast to two weeks ago when he
calmly pleaded guilty to six murders and seven
attempted murders.
State
FOUR DROWN IN LAKE MARTIN-Four
children drowned in Lake Martin Sunday a s the
overloaded fishing boat they were in capsized. At
the end of a day-long outing for four Our Town
community families, Hillman Young p r e p a r e d to
take his boat out of the water. The children In the
group began asking for another ride, and 18
people (15 of which were children) climbed into
Young's 15-foot boat which was powered by a 65
horsepower engine. Young started the boat not
realizing how full it was. About 150 y a r d s out, he
started to turn around when the boat wouldn't'
plane. The boat began taking water over the
back and capsized.
Student and teacher
named by honorary
Honors program begins
Photography: Vkkay Hunt
Last glance
Many Auburn seniors are taking one last glance at
the campus as they prepare to graduate and move on
to greater moments in life. These two students watch
people change classes, perhaps thinking of the paths
they have yet to walk in life.
Staffers win awards
By Dave White
News Editor
A modest honors pro­gram
featuring small
group work and inde­pendent
study will be
started in the School of
Arts and Sciences next
year, according to Dean
Edward Hobbs of Arts
and Sciences and Dr.
Taylor Littleton, vice
president of academic af­fairs.
"My notion is to start
small and center it in a
few departments in Arts
and Sciences," said
Littleton. "We'll develop
some kind of small
program and use that as
a model."
According to Hobbs,
"there aren't any par­ticulars"
yet concerning
the exact structure of the
program. The dean said
that department heads,
faculty, Littleton and he
would develop a basic
program outline some­time
in the summer, with
"due study and due atten­tion.
"Things like this do
take time," stated Hobbs.
The planned honors
program was recom­mended
this quarter by
the University Senate and
by several academic
deans. Littleton said the
program definitely has
"some expression of fac­ulty
sentiment."
A major obstacle in
future honors programs
is a lack of money, or as
Littleton said, "the rela­tively
high cost of educa­tion
in honors and spe­cialized
work.
"The main problem here
is supporting it proper­ly,"
said Littleton of the
program. The vice presi­dent
said money and sup­port
for the talk-stage
program shouldn't come
at the expense of meeting
the needs of all classes
effectively.
President Harry Phil-pott
has maintained that
Auburn didn't have suffi­cient
resources for a
"complete honors pro­gram,"
which he said
would have to feature
one-on-one tutorial pro­grams
and much smaller
classes.
The University presi­dent
said three weeks ago
that he didn't know the
reception that a request
to the Legislature for
additional honors pro­gram
funds would re­ceive.
The newly projected
program represents a
compromise between
Philpott's reluctance to
start an "all inclusive"
honors system and the
recently stated desire of
the University Senate and
many department heads
to develop some sort of
honors program.
Jackson chosen
Mag Dorm director
By Travis Cork
Plainsman Staff Writer
Smith Jackson, a grad­uate
resident adviser at
Magnolia Hall, has been
appointed to the position
of Director of Magnolia
Dormitories, according
to Dean of Student Life
Katharine Cater.
He will succeed Dr.
Charles Schroeder, who
resigned recently to be­come
Dean of Students at
Mercer University effec­tive
June 1.
A graduate student
here in counselor educa­tion,
Jackson received a
degree in counselor edu­cation
from the Uni­versity
of Alabama.
Jackson said he thinks
the programs started at
the dorm by Schroeder,
such as residents being
allowed to paint their own
rooms and hallways,
have been successful, and
he plans to continue
them.
He said that when resi­dents
participate in mak­ing
the dorm what it is,
they take pride in the
dorm.
Jackson also said he is
pleased with Cater's de­cision
to house men in
Dorm 7 because he feels
men should have an al­ternative
to the unique
dorm situation offered by
Magnolia Dormitories.
The Auburn chapter of
Pi Sigma Alpha, national
political science honor­ary,
named the outstand­ing
teacher and outstand­ing
student in the depart­ment
in 1978 at its spring
meeting May 8.
Dr. John Heilman was
voted outstanding teach­er
for 1978, and Harry
Montgomery, 4LPO, was
chosen as the year's out­standing
political science
student.
New members initiated
into Pi Sigma Alpha are
James Altiere, 4CJ;
Pamela Sanford, 4PUB;
Joe Sumners, 3PUB;
Tonya Miller, 4PTJB;
Dana Garrett, 4GPOS;
Ted Hess, 3LPO; Victoria
Bryan, 4PUB; James
Quinlan, 3LAC; Robert
Jones, 4CJ; and Hardie
Harris, 4LPO.
New officers for 1978-79
are Ted Hess, president;
Joe Sumner, vice-presi-secretary-
treasurer.
Outgoing officers are
Harry Montgomery,
president; Teresa Poor,
4PUB, vice-president;
and Robert Heath, 4GPO,
secretary-treasurer.
To be eligible for
membership in Pi Sigma
Alpha, a student must
have completed 11 hours
of political science above
the 300-level. A political
science GPA of 1.2 and an
overall of 1.8 are also
required. Dr. Daniel J.
Nelson is the faculty
advisor.
Plainsman staffers
Brad Davis and Lauren
Steele won first place
awards and Betsy
Butgereit and John Car-valho
took second place
awards last Saturday at
the Alabama Society of
Professional Journalists
awards banquet in
Birmingham.
Fifty-five plaques were
handed out to profession­al
and student winners in
print, print photographic,
television and radio
jOurnaliam categories.
Davis, this year's
Plainsman sports editor,
earned his award in
sportswriting after sub­mitting
several different
articles, as did last year's
associate editor Butge­reit
and editor John Car-valho,
who tied for se­cond-
place in columns
and commentary.
Steele, who was news
editor of The Plainsman
fall quarter, took first in
light features for an edi­torial
he wrote on work­ing
at a hospital.
Steele's light feature
article was picked the
state's best by Associated
Press newsfeatures edi­tor
Dan Perkes.
United Press Intern­ational
sports editor Mil­ton
Richman awarded
Davis his first place
award, and UPI's editor-in-
chief and vice presi­dent
H.L. Stevenson
judged Butgereit's and
Carvalho's columns.
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ATTENTION COLLEGE STUDENTS
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tuition, lab expenses, incidental fees, a reimbursement for textbooks, and $100 a month tax free.
How do you qualify? You must have at least two years of graduate or undergraduate work remain­ing,
and be willing to serve your nation at least four years as an Air Force officer. Scholarships are
available to students who can qualify for pilot, navigator, or missile training, and to those who are
majoring in selected technical and nontechnical academic disciplines, in certain scientific areas, in
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Air Force way of life. Your Air Force ROTC counselor has the details.
Call Megcr Bill Woods at 826-4355 or come by Broun Hall Third Floor.
Wallace
From page A-1
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Gateway to a great way of life. J
"The House did the
proper, prudent and re­spectable
thing in reject­ing
something it didn't
know anything about,"
declared Wallace.
The governor spent a
lot of time last Monday
talking about the South,
and its tenant farmer
heroes of the past and its
prospering industries of
the future.
"I always stood up for
the people of this region,''
remembered Wallace.
"I'm proud of the people
in this region; that's the
reason I ran for Presi­dent.
However, the governor
said that some of his
Auburn student polls
have made him think he
"should have a couple of
policemen come here
with me."
On this visit, Wallace
received a plaque of re­cognition,
and a very
friendly reception from
his audience.
"We've come a long
way," said the three-term
governor.
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Campaigns
SGA looks at problems
AS Thursday, May 85,1978 The Auburn Plainsman
By Vickey Hunt
Plainsman Staff Writer
An ad hoc committee
appointed by the SGA is
considering proposals
which include prohibiting
the use of paper cam­paign
banners and leaf­lets
in an effort to exten­sively
revise the student
election laws, Ron
Taylor, former di­rector
of Elections, said.
Taylor, a member of
the committee said he
liked the small handbills
which give a picture of
the candidate along with
brief campaign state­ments;
these were not the
ones which the com­mittee
planned to dis­allow.
"It's the handouts that
just say vote for so-and-so
that I'm talking about,
and the kind that you find
just stuck on your car
window," Taylor said.
"There was a problem
last year concerning the
tuffing of on campus
students mail boxes with
these leaflets also," he
said, "and I'd like to see
this prohibited."
Taylor said he wrote
his second letter to Bonny
Miller, spokesman for the
recent complaints by
several apartment man­agers,
telling her of the
progress of actions being
considered to remedy
problems caused by last
year's election cam­paigns.
Taylor said his first
letter to Miller has as yet
gone unanswered.
"We're working for
three things," Taylor
said, "trying to get the
best people into office,
trying to cut down on
expenses so more people
can afford to run and
trying to cut back on
expenses so more people
can afford to run and
trying to cut back on the
Utter."
Scott Gribbin, current
Director of Elections,
said the realtors had cer­tain
points with which he
couldn't argue, such as
the problems of litter and
damage done to apart­ment
lawns by the
dlggiiig of postholes in
order to erect large cam­paign
posters.
The abolishment of
door-to-door campaign­ing
is the realtors' de­mand
of which Gribbin
most contests. "We be­lieve
students should
have the right to cam­paign
door-to-door,"
Gribbin said, "especially
since this seems to be the
most effective way of
campaigning."
Taylor agreed saying,
"Ususally if a resident
doesn't want to be dis­turbed
by campaigners,
he just puts up a note on
his apartment door and is
left alone. I've never
known of a candidate to
go ahead and knock on
the door of an apartment
which had posted such a
sign."
Gribbin said he has
written to LSU, the Uni-verstiy
of Georgia and
the University of Ala­bama
asking for thler
student election rules.
"Our only response has
been from Alabama,"
Gribbin said, "but they
couldn't help us much."
Gribbin said that cam­paign
rules couldn't be
compared because of the
physical differences in
the campuses.
Students campaigning
at Alabama can put up
campaign posters in front
of buildings as long as
they're SO feet from the
entrances, Gribbin said.
This wouldn't be feasi­ble
for Auburn he added,
because in some places if
you're 60 feet from the
building's entrance,
you're already off the
campus.
"The thing we were
really looking for wasn't
included in Alabama's
election rules," Gibbin
said, "That was the pro­cedure
for the election of
Miss Homecoming."
Gribbin said the SGA
feels the election of Miss
Homecoming has gotten
"a little out of hand." Not
only is this a hard office
to campign for on a door-to-
door basis, but we're
trying to cut back on the
expense of running for
the office also, Gribbin
said.
In reference to the
realtors' demands as
stated in Miller's letters,
Gribbin said, "The SGA
and the student body are
going to have to work
with her, but everybody's
going to have to give a
little."
Serious work
As the last full week of classes roll around, some
who are more athletically inclined than academically,
find the time to exercise their abilities. Auburn
students are known to take their time at play as
seriously as their time at work, as can be seen from
the expression on the faces of these Softball players.
Photognpny; Gordon BUQQ
CASH AND CARRY
SPECIAL
Thursday, Friday, Saturday
Hynek floats in
By Julie Spafford
Assistant News Editor
Four of five document­ed
UFO sightings are
explained rationally. The
fifth one is not.
Or. J. Allen Hynek,
director of the Center for
UFO Studies in Evanston,
111., and technical advi­sor
for "Close Encoun­ters
of the Third Kind,"
will examine these pre­viously
unexplained
Board of Election
can now set dates
By Ann Hecht
Plainsman Staff Writer
The Student Senate ap­proved
a new code of law
change in its last meeting
of the quarter Monday
night.
Under the new Code of
Laws, the right of recom­mendation
for the date of
special elections will
come under the Board of
Elections. Originally, the
president of the SGA had
the power to recommend
the date of special elec­tions.
Another proposed
change in the Code of
Laws was tabled upon
recommendation from
Dean Drew Ragan. The
proposal stated that a
run-off election between
two candidates would be
held the day immediately
following Spring general
elections.
The present law states
that a run-off election
between two candidates
shall be held within seven
calendar days of the
Spring general elections.
Dean Ragan felt "the
Board of Elections may
want and need more flexi­bility
than that."
In other business, the
Senate passed a resolu­tion
presented by Senator
Kelly Cooper urging the
University to "take ac­tion
immediately to
grade or pave the soccer
field for parking spaces
to help alleviate the cur­rent
and rising traffic
problems of Auburn's
parking situation."
According to Cooper,
part of the Coliseum
parking lot and areas of
Donahue Drive will be cut
off because of the sta­dium
construction sched­uled
to begin this
summer.
The Max Morris Drill
Field is available to the
soccer team for prac­tices,
since the new inter-mural
fields have been
completed, she said.
The Senate also passed
a resolution presented by
Carol Cobble and Cooper
urging the state of Ala­bama
to construct Wire
Road into a four lane
highway.
In other business, the
Senate voted Christ! Som-ner
and James Ruzic as
student members-at-large
to the Elections
Board.
Jeff Stone, SGA presi­dent,
received the Sen­ate's
approval of Carl
Palmer, Kerry McAdams
and Stephanie Hutto as
members of the Traffic
Appeals Board.
A request made by
Kappa Kappa Gamma
social sorority to hold a
"Balloon Derby" fall
quarter was approved by
the Senate.
The Senate granted
permanent charters to
several organizations.
sightings when UPC Hori­zons
V m presents Hynek
in the Student Act Build­ing
today at 8 p.m. Forum
credit will be given.
For more than 20 years,
Hynek served as astro­nomical
consultant to the
U.S. Air Force in its
Projects Sign and Blue
Book, which processed
and studied UFO
sightings reported to Air
Force bases.
Earning his B.S. and
Ph. D. degrees in astro­nomy
from the Univer­sity
of Chicago, Hynek
later served as professor
of astronomy and direc­tor
of the McMillin Obser­vatory
at Ohio State Uni­versity,
was supervisor of
.technical reports at the
Applied Physics Labora-
?tory ofl John Hopkins Uni­versity
during World War
II and was assistant dean
of the graduate school at
Ohio State.
For four years he
served as associate direc­tor
of the Smithsonian
Astrophysical Observa­tory
in Cambridge,
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Senior leadership honorary
taps ten into 1978-79group
The 1978-79 members of
Spades leadership honor­ary
were announced this
morning at the group's
annual tapping break­fast.
Spades, organized in
1915 as the "10 most
outstanding seniors" on
campus, bases its selec­tion
on leadership capa­bilities.
New members
are voted on by the out­going
membership.
The 1978-79 Spades are:
Buddy Barfield, 3PB;
Matt Hall, 3ADS; David
Hopper, 3GSC; Allan
Huffman, 3CHE; Mark
Leberte, 3PB,; Jeff
Meadows, 3PB; Dick
Parker, 3PO; Rick Rey­nolds,
3AC; Jeff Stone,
3CE; and Larry Stutts,
4VM.
Barfield is SGA vice
president and president
of War Eagle Girls and
Plainsmen.
Hall is past-president of
the School of Agriculture,
and is now a student
senator from the school.
Hopper is SGA secre­tary
of political affairs.
Huffman is SGA execu­tive
secretary.
Leberte is head cheer- :
leader.
Meadows has been a
student senator for two
years and presently
serves as chairman of the
budget and finance com­mittee.
Parker is editor of The
Plainsman.
Reynolds is admini­strative
vice president of
the Interfraternity Coun­cil,
and treasurer of War
Eagle Girls and Plains­men.
Stone is president of the
SGA.
Stutts is president of
the Interfraternity Coun­cil.
JWass., where he was in
charge of the U.S. Optical
Satellite Tracking Pro­gram
and responsible for
the precise tracking of
man's first artificial sat­ellite
as well as for some
270 volunteer "Moon-watch"
stations in vari­ous
countries.
In 1960, Hynek came to
Northwestern University
as chairman of the Astro­nomy
Department and di­rector
of the Dearborn
Observatory. During his
15-year-stay there, he
was instrumental in the
'founding of the Lind-leimer
Astronomical Re-rch
Center and served
its first director.
Hynek stopped dis­missing
UFO reports 10
years ago because he felt
there were too many of
them from responsible
citizens and too many
simularities in reports
from all over the world.
He admits many sight­ings
are explainable but
adds, "...the UFO phe­nomenon
exists as at­tested
to by far too many
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Editorials Farewell
I've got too many memories to try to relate them all
Fill 'er up
The University is to be commended for finally recognizing the need for more
and better men's on-campus housing. Dean Katharine Cater's decision last
week to allow men to live in Dorm 7 fall quarter represents a rare departure
from tradition for Auburn University.
Only one small problem remains. Where will all the women who lived in
Dorm 7, or planned to live in Dorm 7, go? The sorority in residence will move
to Dorm J, taking over the Gamma Sigma Sigma service organization's chapter i
room. Gamma Sigma will move to another room within the building.
But what about the independents who won't be moving with the sorority?
Dean Cater announced Monday the women students can expect at least 50
more triples than last fall quarter, which would mean tripling up to junior and
senior class level, partially because of the new dorm allocation.
The heavy burden of triples will fall on independents, since sororities make
their own floor plans, and, by University regulations, the University can't move
girls into sorority rooms.
We applaud the University's decision to expand men's on-campus housing.
We only wish the decision had been made earlier in the year so more realistic
plans could have been made for fall housing. The decision would have seemed
to be inevitable and should have been planned for in advance.
Togetherness is great, but we might be getting carried away.
We got cents
They say a penny saved is a penny earned. The people of Lee County know
that, and many thought their pennies would best serve them by using them to
build a new county courthouse and by improving the county school systems.
But more people thought adding another one percent to the local sales tax
would not be in the best interests of the citizens of the county.
Anyone who has visited the Lee County courthouse knows it is, at best,
inadequate and must be replaced soon. And the school systems must be in
need of immediate attention since the legislature authorized the county-wide
sales tax referendum Tuesday.
But we agree with the county citizens who feel the burden of paying the
additonal taxes should fall on those who can most afford it. To ask the people
of Lee County who are on fixed incomes—some living on dirt roads and having
no running water—to pay the same tax rate as those living comfortably in the
beautiful residential areas of the county would be unfair and, for some,
backbreaking.
But the county would not only be asking the poorer citizens to pay more than
their share of the taxes, they would be asking the students to pay more than
their fair share.
We students who do not plan to stay in Lee County would be paying for
services we will never receive.
We hope the county will seek some other means, such as additional property
taxes, to finance the building of a new county courthouse and the upgrading of
the local school systems, but, at the same time, we ask that the funding be
done in a manner fair to all.
Farewell It's been a long hard year, and at least some of us are ready to hit the road.
To most Plainsman staffers the last paper of spring quarter is a dream come
true. To others it's a nightmare.
For three months, we won't be fighting dealine or administrators. No more
all nighters. No more classes to skip or test to fail—at least until next fall.
But to others in The Plainsman office, the last paper of spring is the saddest
of all. John Carvalho, Jackie Romine, Brad Davis, Andrea Harrison, Marion
Hollon and Burl Wilson will be leaving the office for the last time as staff
members this week. They say they'll be heading out into their versions of the
"real world."
Senior Managing Editor Rick Harmon isn't ready to leave the Loveliest
Village, so he'll be starting graduate school next fall and remain as a Plainsman
staffer.
John has his summer lined up, interning for the Associated Press in Atlanta.
Jackie has her life lined up—she and Frank are getting married next Saturday.
The rest of us will be back next fall to bring you a new edition of The
Plainsman.
The summer edition will start June 24 with Chuck Anschutz calling the
shots. And if this summer is an exciting as the last one, you folks who are
hanging around are in for an interesting quarter.
The Auburn
Plainsman
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and Julie Stafford; Asst. Features Editor, Beth Valen; Asst. Sports Editor, Chuck
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Auburn University. Signed columns represent the opinion of
the writer, while unsigned editorials represent the opinion
of The Plainsman's Editorial Board.
David
Farewell columns are not the easiest
things to write. There is so much to
say, so many memories to relate„.in
other words, I won't have to think up
worthless paragraphs to fill this col­umn
out.
Being Plainsman editor has been an
experience and an honor. Unlike
previous (though not all) Plainsman
editors, me and the paper got along
pretty well this year. Volume 84 had
its rough spots, but they weren't
impossible. Thanks to the staff, they
were relatively smooth.
I guess I've learned. After working
with Rheta Grimsley Johnson, Steele
Holman and Christy Hudgins my
previous three years, I had some good
examples to follow.
But it really hit me this week. Four
years on The Plainsman are coming to
an end. Monday, I was my usual
fuming self, wondering where in
blazes Dick Parker was. But Monday
night, after Dick had cleaned off my
desk and put the rest of my things in
the packing box, it hit me.
I'm gone. All that lame duck talk,
has-been joking, hit me in a different
way. I wasn't laughing anymore...I
was thinking.
I was thinking about that "uppity
freshman" who came to Auburn,
ready to set the world aflame in 1973.
He's changed now, still enthusiastic as
ever, but a little more discreet.
He's learned a lot from Auburn,
most of all from its people. The books
taught him how to make a living, as
the saying goes, but Auburn taught
him how to live.
He's criticized the SGA, but in the
end, concluded that it's a good
organization, though it has yet- to
reach his potential. And he's thankful
that he and the SGA officers he
criticized leave as friends. But then,
that's Auburn.
And as he sat in the office one day
last week, viewing the chaos that is
and always will be The Plainsman, he
felt sad. The Plainsman had given
him four good years. He knew it
would only be four when he started,
but the end crept up on him a bit too
soon.
John
Calvalho
Volume 84 passed by quickly.
Having to put out 56 pages, learning
we didn't win the Pacemakecr, trying
to put together a probe about the
Kopper Kettle in four days, elections,
the late April Fools issue, it all
merged together into one quick
experience.
And he kicked himself for letting it
pass by so quickly.
That former "uppity freshman"
took a long look at his four years on
The Plainsman. He reminisced
probably too long. But then that's his
character.
He thought about Betsy, Rick,
Bradr Dick, Lisa, Lauren, Gary, Mike,
Hank, Dan, John M., Chip and
Vicky, Jim, Fer, Stu, Steve, Jo,
Mark, Barb and paid them a silent
tribute for what they meant to him.
He thought about Thursdays,
about how much that ordinary day
controlled his life, how that elusive
deadline proved such an unbeatable
opponent.
He thought about his life outside
The Plainsman, how full it had been
how much fun it was and how hard
would be to leave.
He sat back and sighed. No falling
stars, but there was no need for any.
He could not think of anything his
Father had not given him.
But he was not sad. He was excitec
"Gonna Fly Now"? You bet. Four
years is an awfully long time, and he
had worked too long and too hard to
let circumstances get him down.
Even with graduation staring him
in the face.
"1 guess we've all got to move on
some time," he said, sighing.
I smiled. He was right. But then,
could I argue with him?
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City's sub-standard housing a problem
We students have a problem: there
is a lot of sub-standard housing in
this city. The major portion of this
sub-standard housing is being rented
at exorbitant rates to students. Be­cause
there is no surplus of housing in
Auburn, students have nowhere to
turn but to this sub-standard housing.
We have no choice.
It was in the effort to partially solve
this problem that I petitioned to the
Auburn City Planning Commission
on April 13 to amend City Ordinance
501.3, the infamous section of this
city's zoning laws which prohibits
students from living in most sections
of Auburn.
I am writing this column to clarify a
few points concerning my endeavors.
First, I feel that The Plainsman has
misrepresented my intentions. I am
not in favor of lifting all the zoning
restrictions against students as The
Plainsman has implied. My petition
called for an amendment to 501.3
which allow families who live in the
restricted zones to rent out any extra
rooms they might have to students.
(So as not to turn family dwellings
into boarding houses, a. built-in
control could be worded into this
amendment; e.g., "No more than 3
unrelated individuals may live in one
single-family dwelling...").
I do not want to abolish the law. I
just feel modest modification is
needed. But the possibilities this
modification could open up are great.
Suppose 500 families in Auburn
decided to rent out two extra rooms
each. This would be 1,000 more
housing opportunities from which
students could choose. If the students
then took advantage of these oppor­tunities,
the Auburn realtors who pass
off sub-standard housing on students
would begin to find their units
empty.
You better believe this would shake
them up. They would upgrade their
housing very quickly in order to get
the student dollars back into their
pockets.
There are some people who feel the
zoning restricitons are discriminating
against students and an infringment
on student's rights as individuals to
live where we please. They are. But I
am torn over the conflict between the
students' right to live where we please
and the right of the townspeople to
raise their children in a nice, quiet
neighborhood, with few cars, no loud
music or late night parties, and
neighbors who keep their houses
painted and their lawns mowed.
It is not a clear cut issue of only
students rights being denied. There
are some students who would assume
those responsibilities, but they arc in
the minority. We've got better things
to do while we are in college. Most of
us are not yet interested in protecting
the "integrity of a neighborhood",
mainly because most of us are not yet
property owners.
Letters to the editor should bt
typed, double-spaced and submitted
to The Plainsman office by 5 p.m.
Monday The total number of words
should not exceed 400 words. Letters
over the limit may be edited without
the writer's consent. Some type of ID
should be presented. -
Bob
Burton
Guest
Column
But, also on the subject of rights, I
feel that a home owner should have
moK power over what to do with his
home than the city of Auburn gives
him. I think home owners have the
right to rent out rooms in their homes
to whomever they desire. But by
exercising this right, a homeowner
would also assume the responsibility
of seeing that his tenant did not
DOONESBURY
infringe on the rights of this neigh­bors.
By this theory an amendment to
501.3 as suggested above could not
get "out of control".
To the community members'. ad­vantage,
an amendment as described
would add income to the landlord
and would give widows the opportun­ity
to have another occupant in their
home for added security.
The biggest problem I see in
realizing this change is that realtors
run this town and they are against the
change because it would give them
some competition. As any high school
senior knows, competition is the basis
of our economy and since dthere is no
surplus of housing as there is in most
twons, we pay unreasonably high
prices for low quality housing. .
And to those who would like to
take this power from the realtors an<)
put it in the hands of the majority
(the students), it's simple—vote. If it
is important enough to you that
students have more influence in the
way this town is run, get an absentee
ballot and vote in the city elections. In
the words of Student Legal Advisor
Henry Henderson, "He who exercises
his voting power controls".
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My immediate goal is to see that
people who come to Auburn Uni­versity
have good places to live. To
achieve this goal some changes in city
policy must be made, but I do not
think they need be drastic. However,
if further research into the housing
program shows they do need to be
drastic, then so be it. That's what
we'll fight for. Because we deserve (at
the prices we pay!) better places to
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Letters GTA defends his right to teach
Thursday, May 25,1978
Independents wonder where
they're going to live next year
Editor, The Plainsman:
We, the independent women of
Dorm 7, would again like to say,
"Nowhere else but Auburn!" No­where
else but Auburn do they place
90 men in the middle of the women's
dorm complex and kick 90 women out
of their dorm to do this. Nowhere else
but Auburn is this done two weeks
before the end of school so that the
women have ample time to find a
place to live for the fall.
Nowhere else but Auburn are the
independent women informed of this
move not by the Student Housing
Office or the dorm mother, but by the
maids. The sorority girls had been
informed the night before the chapter
meeting.
Nowhere else but Auburn does a
social sorority kick a service sorority
out of its chapter room so that they
can obtain a better status symbol on
the Hill in the process of this, move _
To Dean Cater, Mrs. Leischuck,
and the rest of the Student Housing,
we the independent women would
like to say thank you. Your advance
notice of the plan to move the men to
the Quad to maintain equality was
sufficient. We also appreciate your
guarantee of knowing where and who
we will live with next year. We agree
that the men should have better
choices of housing than Magnolia, but
your timing and methods of solving
the problem were lousy. We think
you will regret your decision, but
nowhere else but Auburn do they
always have to learn the hard way
from their mistakes.
Editors note: This letter was signed
by 20 independent women living in
Dorm 7.
Editor, The Plainsman:
Students Lynn and Horton in last
week's Plainsman contend that
^.0 Graduate Teaching Assistants work­ing
on their MA degrees are not
qualified to teach. As a GTA in the
English Department, I feel it is
imperative to defend my department
as well as others that employ GTA's in
full teaching positions.
The authors have no qualifications
to evaluate or criticize teaching
effectiveness, aside from their
dubious status as future graduates.
Any faculty member will agree that
emotional student criticisms like
Lynn's and Horton's are taken lightly.
Lynn and Horton do not cite any
specific examples, nor do they draw
upon any real concrete evidence to
support their case. At best, the
argument is ill-defined and full of
fuzzy-headed illogic.
The authors put "education" as
the purpose of a university into a
fallacious either/or question. Accord­ing
to them, the university exists to
educate one group to the mutual
exclusion of the other. As I see it, the
purpose of a university is to provide
an educational opportunity for all
students, both undergraduate and
graduate.
The authors also contend that
All supporting groups should be heard
Editor, The Plainsman:
In reply to the article on E.R.A. by
John Carvalho and the letters in
response, I would like to express my
opinion on why this issue (and the
women's movement in general) has
sparked such a controversy among the
American people, and suggest a way
of coming to terms with issues of
today to achieve common goals.
First, I stress the importance of
distinguishing between the "radical
feminists," the vocal minority, and
the average women concerned with
improving the opportunities and
rights of women, i.e., the silent
majority.
The first group embraces a radical
ideology which condones massive
day-care, and total restructuring of
family life.
The second group is unlikely to
hold a common opinion on any issue
except one: Women should have the
opportunity to develop themselves as
complete individuals (whether home-makers,
career women or both), and
be lawfully guaranteed these rights to
insure their equality.
Unfortunately, the first group has
been exploited by the media as
representatives of the women's move­ment,
and the second group has stood
by in quiet desperation, wondering
why their voice was never heard when
the polls were taken. The sensational­ism
of bra-burning demonstrations
have been deemed more newsworthy
than the accomplishments of hard­working
groups that have fought for
better working conditions or im­proved
health care for women.
As a result of the above mentioned
developments, most women, unable
to identify with the goals of the
"radical feminists" and "their"
movement, and frustrated by empha­sis
placed on issues they don't find
relevant, have lost interest in or begun
to work against the improvement of
the opportunities and status of
women.
A comical depiction of a power
struggle between the "radical leftist
group" (supposedly attempting to
undermine the family, home and
< social and political structure) and the
so-called "anti-E.R.A. Christian
forces'' (working to restore order and
decency) has become the way a lot of
people visualize the women's move­ment.
Those women in favor of the
amelioration of the existing status ot
women are ignored.
Few people argue with the goal of
equality for women, but everyone
argues about the means by which this
goal should be achieved. The voices of
millions of Americans who represent
the "silent majority" should be
expressed through new and existing
groups and organizations whose pur­pose
it is to improve our society.
Only through cooperation and hard
work can the rights of the majority be
heard and the rights of the majority
protected.
JoanieJackson, 4GSC
Section two is grab for power by Feds
Editor, The Plainsman:
In John Carvalho's article "The
E.R.A." he stated "the issue here is
equality" but he failed to mention
the effect of Section 2 of ERA: It's a
shame and a fraud to pretend to
discuss ERA, but refer only to Section
1.
Section 2 states: "The Congress
shall have the power to enforce, by
appropriate legislation, the provision
of this article."
This is a grab for power at the
federal level. This is the section that
would transfer everything pertaining
to women and everything which
involves any difference between the
sexes into a federal question to be
administered by the federal bureaus
and decided in the federal courts.
Section 2 would give the federal
Stovernment the last remaining area of
egislation that the Washington poli­ticians
have not yet gotten their
fingers into, including marriage,
marriage property law, divorce, child
custody, prison regulations, protective
labor legislation and insurance rates.
Congressman Edward Hutchinson
is quoted as saying, "ERA will shift
power to determine public policy
concerning women from the legisla­ture,
the branch most directly respon­sive
to the public will, and place it in
the judiciary, the branch least respon­sive;
and the federal judiciary is not
reachable by the people at all."
Mr. Carvalho also stated that "The
"E" in ERA stands for "Equal" not
" S " for "Same", but when ERA was
passed by the House Judiciary Com­mittee
it contained an amendment
which recognized that biological dif­ferences
exist between men and
women and federal and state laws can
reflect such legitimate differences
when necessary. However, ERA sup­porters
lobbied against this amend­ment
to ERA and all efforts to limit
the absolute sameness of treatment
for the sexes required by ERA failed.
"Equality of .rights under the law
shall not be denied or abridged by the
United States or by any state on
account of sex.''
Okay, I agree with the major point
of this pitch—that the point of paying
women less for equal work just
because they are women or giving
women only token representation on
the big corporate boards, the city
Sovernment, etc., is some sort of
iscrimination. But, now if a woman
feels she is being discriminated
against there are laws which allow her
to take the case to court. If ERA
passed there will be no difference, all
she will be able to do is still take the
case to court.
What is needed are carefully
thought out laws and some individual
courage not a constitutional amend­ment
with broad, uncertain, vague,
and perhaps unwanted consequences.
Deborah Giles, 4HRA
I've finally finished the struggle
Editor, The Plainsman:
It's done. I've finished the strug­gle.
Yes, it's been four years now that
I've called Auburn my home. As I
leave, I don't really know how to
think of Auburn. It's a school, but
more than that. It's a sports factory,
but more than that. It's a foundation
for Greeks, but more than that.
Auburn has all these "things" but
I ask myself in rigid introspection:
What has Auburn done for me? Am I
prepared for the "real world?" What
will I do now?
Auburn is many things to many
people because everyone is different.
By and large, that is why Auburn has
a diversified, perhaps strange, includ­ing
myself, student body.
We come here with a purpose be it
a B.S., M.S., MRS., MR., etc. A
common response heard among most
college students is, "College is pre­paring
me for my grand entry into the
real world."
I have no idea what the real world is
and I doubt anyone else does. If we
weren't here to prepare for the real
world, then we must be here for the
future.
I assume that college has two
fundamental purposes, to educate for
academic purposes and to facilitate
career aspirations.
Ask any history, English or educa­tion
major how tough it is to get a job
and you'll get quite a response. Are
we to criticize the humanities, social
science and liberal arts departments
for not preparing students? Of course
not.
To deny academics on priciple of
"monetary austerity' is ludicrous.
However, there is a special relation­ship
between the academic world and
the business community which is
frequently overlooked.
Academics think, create and origi­nate.
Businessmen combine, innovate
and develop. Academics feel business­men
are devoid of textbook mater­ials
which could double the busi­nessman's
profits. Businessmen feel
academics sit in libraries and write
articles to slap each other on the wrist
about how "their theory is the
optimal."
It seems to me that academics and
businesspeople could get a lot more
done if instead of fighting they
realized the importance of each
groups respective contribution to the
whole effort.
Business people can't do without
the new fresh ideas the resource
centers such as Harvard, Chicago and
Stanford turn out. But how could we
finance the efforts ot these univer­sities
without funding frm the large
corporations across the country?
It's time for the deans of our
universities to give some ground. It's
time for our corporate leaders to listen
to some of the new ideas that students
and academics have.
It's time for all of us to put a halt to
this waste of resources and combine
efforts to prepare the young men and
women of all over the world for their
life's aspirations, be it a professor, a
plumber or a businessman. It's time
for the universities and corporations,
professors and businessmen to work
together for the common good.
Thomas M. Lord, 4EL
/, as a graduating senior had 3 job
GTA's are "mostly concerned with
fulfilling their own degree require­ments."
Certainly, the GTA's are
here for the degree; however, I have
witnessed much selfless devotion to
teaching and all the responsibilities it
entails. The GTA's I know go out of
their way to meet the "educational
needs" of their students. Consider
the many hours spent in grading
papers, and the extra effort expended
in genuinely trying to make class as
interesting and educationally reward­ing
as possible—which is sometimes
met by blank stares and sleepy
countenances of a few students who
expect to receive an. education solely
by cerebral osmosis. Consider, too,
the hours of extra help and special
appointments that GTA's go out of
their way to provide.
GTA's are denigrated as "cheap
labor;" indeed, the pay is out­rageously
low for the responsibilities.
A GTA program is the only realistic
alternative to hiring a large number of
MA degree holders, a financial move
that would bankrupt the University.
Lynn and Horton suggest that new
students attend a junior college in lieu
of Auburn University, because the
teachers at junior colleges are "quali­fied."
This is erroneous advice. Many
"qualified" junior college instructors
have only MACT degrees—education
degrees that require little teaching
experience, no thesis and no profi­ciency
in a foreign language.
It seems that the authors regard the
attainment of an MA degree as a
magical event -of transmutation:
Voila!—the degree holder is auto­matically
a qualified teacher. In other
words, those holding an MA degree
are qualified and concerned, and
those that do not are unqualified and
unconcerned.
T.P. Greer, 6EH
'GTAs work just like Nazis9
Editor, The Plainsman:
As a sometime repeater of Fresh­man
English Composition 102, I feel
that I am in a position to expose the
poor quality of teaching that our
freshmen are receiving at the hands of
graduate teaching assistants.
The editorial in this week's Plains­man
about the poor teaching by
GTA's was absolutely correct, but
then we expect no less from our school
newspaper than the provocative and
startling truth. After all, out paper
has received. several meritorious
awards to indicate the quality of its
editorials. As informed students, we
must take it upon ourselves to save
ourselves from such perversions of the
academic system as GTA's. If such
atrocities in our educational system
are allowed to continue unchecked,
who knows where they will lead—
chaos in the University will ultimately
lead to the degeneration of American
society as we now know and love it.
Graduate teaching assistants can
best be compared to the Nazis in
World War II. They are experiment­ing
with helpless human lives and
disseminating fear and- ignorance.
They undertake pernicious experi­ments
on our unwilling freshmen to
gain their own end, which is, of
course, the furtherance of their own
careers in the Third Reich of the
Ninth Floor.
Even more disgusting than this,
however, the GTA's do not even have
terminal degrees. We all know that
people with terminal degrees are
smart:we may therefore infer that
people without terminal degrees are
not smart. As Alexander Pope so
succinctly put it: "A little learning is
dang'rous thing." Intelligent stu­dents
will also agree that the GTA's
are a lazy lot—all they every want to
do is write research papers for their
own seminar courses. Besides, if we
checked the records, we would un­doubtedly
find that these same
research papers are very often correct­ed
by the professors of the G;aduate
Faculty. If the GTA's cannot even
write papers without errors, how can
they teach us to write the papers
without errors? In a moral sense, how
can they feel justified in failing
freshmen when they themselves lack a
proper knowledge of English gram­mar
mechanics.
Put in its most elementary logical
form, GTA's should not be allowed to
teach because they are not good
teachers. If they were good teachers,
they would not fail so many students.
I firmly believe that we must either
get rid completely of all GTA's or
forget forever the educational prin­ciples
on which our university was
founded.
Don K. Ears, IBS
[The above letter was written by
Carolyn Leverett, 6EH.]
Students should register for elections
Editor, The Plainsman:
In talking with hundreds of young
people at various universities and
community college campuses across
the state, I have found enthusiastic,
involved, and most of all concerned
students taking active roles in many of
Alabama's State election campaigns
this summer. With the 1978 primary
date set for September 5, much work
remains to be done in a short period
of time and the young people are
taking up the slack and performing
well.
The voice of Alabama's youth is
being heard across the state but the
most important voice we have is
through our votes.
If you are not registered to vote,
please do so. It is a very simple
procedure:
1. You must be 18 years of age, and
have established residency of 10 days
or more in a county before you may
become eligible to register.
2. You simply go to the registrar's
office in your county courthouse and
apply. It only takes a few minutes and
jou must be registered 10 days prior
to the election date to vote.
If you are already registered but will
oot be able to vote in your county of
residency due to being away at school,
» simple procedure called absentee
voting in available for you to utilize.
1. You must file for application in
writing not more than 60 nor less than
is 5 days prior to the election.
2. The contents of your application
jneed not be in any particular form
but must contain sufficient informa-
|tion to identify you as the person you
jelaim to be. You need to include: fyll
/name, age, sex, address, where you
last voted, and the address to which
you desire the ballot to be mailed.
3. You should file your application
with the circuit court clerk in care of
your county courthouse at which you
are registered.
' 4. The absentee ballot must be
sworn to before a notary public
(almost always available in the school
business office) or other officer auth­orized
to acknowledge oaths.
5. The ballots, envelopes, etc. are
delivered to the clerks' office not less
than 21 days prior to the holding of
any election and will be sent to you as
soon as possible.
Please take the time and effort for
yourself and for the State of Alabama
as a whole and let the young people's
voice be heard loudly in this coming
election.
Buddy Fuller, 3FI
Dedicated Davis good reporter
Editor, The Plainsman:
This is in reference to the letters in
the April 27 edition of The Plainsman
regarding Brad Davis' qualities as
Sports Editor.
As a former staff member, I know I
cannot help but be somewhat biased
when it comes to my friends at The
Plainsman. I love them all, and some
of my happiest moments have been
spent in The Plainsman office. How­ever,
I do have-a degree in journalism
and believe I know something of the
abilities desired in a good reporter,
especially a good reporter on a college
newspaper.
One is, of course, the ability to
write well, and this Brad can do.
Graduation gives you a rush
Editor, The Plainsman:
Hot damn...graduation! Just the
thought of that gives you a rush,
doesn't it? Of course, there are a few
hassels along the way.
After four years of.Auburn you
should be ready to face anything a
bureaucracy could throw at you.
That's what I thought, but then I
ordered my invitations through
Auburn's SGA.
This highly organized group of
people who choose among themselves
for the honor of "governing" the
student body here arranged for the
invitations to be distributed one week
late.
To correct this error and gain fame
for their concern, they mailed the
invitations to those unfortunate
enough to be off campus their last
quarter as students. I can only extend
my thanks for receiving 80 fewer
invitations than I ordered, and paid
for.
Seeking to correct this error, I drove
over from Columbus and sat in their
comfortable office for two hours
waiting for Mr. Schrimsher to appear.
He, it seems, was in complete
With June 6 rapidly approaching
I'm short 80 invitations that should
now be in the mail, out two
unnecessary trips to Auburn, and
extremely hacked off.
I applaud Mr. Schrimsher for
taking the responsibility for the
invitations, but the entire operation
shouldn't rest on one man. Especially
when other activities keep him out of
contact all afternoon.
Wayne Goodson, 4SSS
Another is dedication to the paper
you work for. Brad cares about The
Plainsman and Auburn University.
He is a conscientious reporter, and
I've seen him put -in more than his
share of long and hard hours.
Integrity, honesty and credibility
are a few other characteristics of a
good reporter. The people who work
on The Plainsman, including Brad,
possess them, and I'm sincerely glad I
had the honor of working with them.
Evidently the experts in the news­paper
field are of the same opinion
because The Auburn Plainsman has
been cited on numerous occasions as
one of the best college newspapers in
the country.
For the students who classified The
Plainsman's printing of Brad's
columns as "obviously biased" it
might be well worth their while to
check with the Journalism Depart­ment
about the difference between
"column" and "article."
I can assure them there has never
been a column printed that was not
"obviously biased." That's what a
column is. Maybe the next time these
students write a letter, they'll get
their facts straight. As journalism
students learn the first day of
class—"accuracy, accuracy, accur­acy!"
Jane Pitts, '77
Writer says events of past yeai
have discredited Greek system
offers, two graduate asststantships and authority on invitations and though
a grant. I chose the grant at the o t h e r SGAers were sympathetic,
University of Miami for MBA work. Schrimsher couldn't be located.
Thanks given for help in Special Olympics
Editor, The Plainsman:
I would like to express my
appreciation to the following organiz­ations
and individuals in assisting in
the Auburn City Special Olympics
Program held May 18-19- Without
these exceptional volunteers and sup­port
personnel, these handicapped
students would not have been allowed
to experience this type of success in
athletic achievements. These faculty
members and students took time to
assist in every way possible. Some
supplied materials and equipment,
while others supplied themselves in
whatever capacity was needed.
Lambda Chi Alpha Fraternity sup­plied
the personnel to assist in the
actual functioning of our "Track-
Field and Superstars Day.'' *These
students participated in the actual
"running-off' of the events during
the two-day period.
Other individuals and organi­zations
participating were Coach Mel
Rosen of the Auburn Athletic Depart­ment;
Dr. Mary Fitzpatrick of the
Health, P.E. and Recreation Depart­ment;
and Dr. Robert C. Morris of
the Foundations of Education Depart­ment.
Individuals who took valuable time
were Harvey Glance, Freddie Smith
These young men helped, as
Lambda Chi Alpha, in every possible
way. Our handicapped students
idolize these athletes and when they
take time in noticing these students,
it is gratifying watching these stu­dents
faces glow.
Auburn, you're fortunate to have
such exceptional and special students,
athletes and faculty members. The
community needs you in more ways
than a sales tax referendum.
Thank you from all the students
and teachers from Auburn City
Schools.
Robert W. Powell
Auburn City Special Olympics
Director
Editor, The Plainsman:
Since my early days as a Greek I
have been a firm believer in the
fraternity and sorority system at
Auburn. Events of the past year,
however, have discredited the once
irrevocable truths I held concerning
the Greek system.
In every organization there are
those few people to whom everyone
looks for guidance and leadership and
in whom they entrust the power of the
group. I've learned to live with those
few people, the "power bloc,"
dictating the direction in which the
chapter moved.
It was always my consolation,
however, that when an important
decision was to be made, it was the
feeling of the whole chapter, not the
few in charge, that prevailed. Ap­parently
this is not so.
Over the past year, I watched as a
campus sorority slowly and efficiently
phased out a young woman who was
thought enough of to be nominated
for the presidency of that chapter at
one time. The penalty for the charges
levied was inconsistent and more
severe than the penalty for similar
charges in the past. The "power
bloc" won going away as most of the
dirty work was done during the
summer when there was no full and
active membership to voice an
opinion.
It appeared almost as if there was a
conspiracy. Most of those who did
know about it felt a grave injustice
was done. As I graduate this quarter, I
still find it hard to believe the
unfairness that was shown to the
individual involved.
The Greek system lends itself to
authoritative leadership. Perhaps this
is its greatest fault for when any
questionable use of power occurs, the
"railroading and power-hungry"
image of the stereotyped Greek is
merely reinforced. All authority
should be kept in check. Amongst
Greeks, the chapter usually serves this
function. In this case, however, all
must suffer: the chapter, the individ­uals
involved, and all Greeks in
general.
And so I salute the "power bloc"
of that sorority. You rewarded a
young woman who gave you three
years of hard work and effort with a
lifetime of painful memories and
bewilderment over how fate and her
so-called ' 'sisters'' could have been so
cruel.
Worst yet, all Greeks must suffer
for it!
David F Gul<ienKhuh.4Af
The Aubim Plainsman nnmday, M*y ts, uw A-8
're-evaluation of plans' (J- S - S @ l i a t G 'Re'Age is an issue
By Dewey English
Executive Editor
Taking the traditional
stance of a front runner,
Howell Heflin, former
Chief Justice of the Ala­bama
Supreme Court and
candidate for the U.S.
Senate, never wavered
from the middle road in a
Tuesday afternoon
speech before Auburn
students.
"It's too early to deter­mine
the difference in the
race," said Heflin, com­menting
on Gov. George
Wallace's decision to
drop out of the contest.
"We're going through a
re-evaluation of game
plans. He (Wallace) was
a dominant factor."
Although he believes he
Is the front runner. Heflin
said that he will now be
the major target of his
other opponents. He also
said i Gov. Wallace has
told him that he will not
take part in the election.
"This is an unusual
election year. It's going
to be a long hot summer,"
said Heflin. "1978 is the
year that starts the ap­proach
to the 21st cen­tury."
Tryouts for
summer play
announced
The Department of
Theatre has announced
dates for its summer pro­duction
of "Rodgers and
Hart: A Musical Celebra­tion."
Auditions will be held
June 14 and 15 at 7 p.m. in
Telfair B. Peet Theatre
and will be open to stu­dents,
faculty and all in­terested
persons in the
Auburn-Opelika area.
Speaking to a moder­ately
sized audience, Hef­lin
said he plans to run a
clean race, noting that
the Senate race is usually
run "on a higher plane"
being "more issue and
qualification oriented"
than the governor's race.
Heflin spent much of
his time discussing the
potential problems Ala­bama
will face in the
future as part of the
co-called "sun belt."
"Alabama can be the
number one state in the
sun belt. Leadership is
important. We need sales
persons who can sell Ala­bama
on a national and
international basis," he
said.
There are now about 33
pieces of legislation be­fore
Congress to give pri­ority
to the northern
states in receiving feder­al
dollars, Heflin said.
The language of the bills
gives northern states an
advantage, and he used a
recent "pothole" bill as
an example.
If passed, the bill would
give the state federal aid
to repair highway pot­holes
that are caused by
bad weather such as ex­treme
cold or snow.
"There are a lot more
potholes in Massachu­setts
than in Alabama,"
he said. "The U.S. Sena­tors
from the sun belt
must confront problems
facing our area with new
proposals."
Responding to a
question about how he
would have voted on the
Panama Canal Treaties,
Heflin said he supposed
"all the candidates say
they would have voted
against it." He added that
a more favorable treaty
could have been negoti­ated.
Photography: Mka Oyitt
Senate hopefuls
Howell Heflin, above, moved Into position as front
runner in the race for U.S. Senate after George
Wallace dropped out last week. "I think perhaps I am
the most experienced candidate in the race," said Sen.
John Baker, right, Wednesday afternoon as he, too,
campaigned for the Senate seat vacated by John
Sparkman.
Richard Shelby speaks today
By Mike Parekh
Plainsman Staff Writer
Sen. Richard Shelby, a
candidate for lieutenant
governor, will speak to­day
at 4:16 p.m. in 2370
Haley Center. Forum
credit Is offered for the
speech.
Shelby will speak at the
Horizon's symposium, a
student lecture series
which has invited all the
candidates for lieutenant
governor to campus.
A native of Birming­ham,
Shelby was elected
to the Alabama Senate in
1970.
Shelby was a city soli­citor
and prosecuting at­torney
for the city of Tus­caloosa,
after earning his
law degree from the Uni­versity
of Alabama.
Presently, Shelby is
chairman of the Legisla-
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tive Council and a mem­ber
of the finance and
taxation, rules, judiciary,
education, state govern­ment,
and insurance
committees.
He is also a member of
the Governing Board of
the National Council of
State Governments and
the Alabama Law Insti­tute.
The Auburn University
Flying Team took third
place in the national
flying championships
held from May 18-21 at
Murfreesboro, Tenn.
Ten team members
competed in landing ac­curacy,
navigation and
message drop events
while flying the three
competition aircraft they
flew to the event.
The team also com-
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peted in ground events
concerning aircraft
recognition, instrument
ground simulation, pre-flight
preparation and
flight computer ac­curacy.
Auburn won the na­tional
team trophy for the
ground events.
Van Swofford. 4AE,
took first nationally in
aircratt recognition and
second in preflight.
Tad Davis, 3AM, won
first place nationally in
computer accuracy and
message drop and Greg
Rains, 3AM, took tenth in
the nation in aircraft rec­ognition.
Other team competi­tors
were Alison Rey­nolds,
2AM, Haden Swift,
2AM, Mike Johnson,
3AM, Bob Burley, 2AM,
Steve Conn, 4AM, John
Regan, 3AM, Mark
Makowski, 4AM and Alan
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"We're looking for a
leader for the next de­cade
or more," said State
Sen. John Baker, a candi­date
for the U.S. Senate
seat of retiring Sen. John
Sparkman. "It is import­ant
that we look at who
we elect."
Speaking yesterday
afternoon before only a
handful of students,
Baker chose to forego a
formal speech, and
opened the floor to a
question and answer ses­sion.
Apparently, Baker
plans to make his age, 34,
one of the most important
issues in the campaign.
"It doesn't make any
sense to elect a senator
who will be 69 after his
second term," said
Baker referring to one of
his major opponents in
the race, Justice Howell
Heflin.
"By the time I reach
Heflin's age, I could have
served four terms in the
U.S. Senate. He has no
hope of being a commit­tee
chairman."
Baker has served eight
years in the state legisla­ture,
five of them as a
state senator. In 1975, he
was selected the hardest
working senator by the
capital press corps.
"In terms of exper­ience,
I think perhaps I
am the most experienced
candidate in the race.
Allen got his training and
homework done in the
state senate," he noted.
Gov. George Wallace's
decision to drop out of the
race has changed
the campaign, explained
Baker, because "it took
out a major opponent who
had 35 percent of the
decided vote in the state
wide polls." He now feels
that "any number of can­didates"
could be in a
run-off election.
"Sixty-nine percent of
the voters are now unde­cided,"
said Baker.
' "That makes it exciting.''
If elected, Baker would
vote against; the labor
reform bill presently be­fore
the Senate, noting
that although organized
labor has brought about
many necessary reforms,
he doesn't want to "dis­turb
the balance" be­tween
labor and industry
in the state.
"I've had people tell
me Alabama is the num­ber
one most attractive
state for industry," he
said.
Baker said he believes
that balancing the federal
budget is his most im­portant
priority. There
must be a halt to expand­ing
federal programs
"until we have a handle
on inflation," he added.
The candidate declined
to judge President
Carter's performance as
a whole, rating the Presi­dent's
first year and one-half
"issue by issue."
"There have been good
and bad things," he said.
"I would not have sup­ported
the Panama Canal
treaties."
Baker said he "sup­ports
the idea of human
rights 100 percent," and
"wouldn't have voted for
the arms sales," refer­ring
to the Senate's deci­sion
to sell the advanced
F-15 warplane to both
Saudi Arabia and Israel.
Our first obligation is to
protect "Israel's Integ­rity,"
he said.
Baker also said he is
"flatly opposed to send­ing
troops to Africa" to
counter Cuban and Rus­sian
threats, though he
emphasized that he is a
strong supporter of na­tional
defense.
"I don't see how we can
get more involved with­out
sending troops," he
noted. "We're doing all
we can from a diplomatic
standpoint."
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for McMillian
By Dave White
News Editor
"I will be elected to the
office of lieutenant gov­ernor
this year, largely
on the strength of young
people's support," de­clared
state Sen. George
McMillan last Thursday.
McMillan spoke before
a packed forum credit
crowd in Haley Center
2370, at the ninth of 10
Horizons-sponsored
lectures featuring candi­dates
for lieutenant
governor.
"There's no other
group from which I'd
rather get support than
from the young people in
this state," added the
young, tall state senator.
McMillan, an Auburn
graduate and SGA presi­dent
in 1966, has received
youth support so far in
his campaign, with vic­tories
in straw votes for
the state's number two
spot held at Auburn and
the University of Ala­bama.
He has many more
straw votes and cam­paign
speeches to
weather before the Dem­ocratic
primary Sept. 5
and November election.
"Gov. Wallace's with-drawl
from the United
States Senate race
merely underscores the
change that will occur in
the state political system
this year," observed Mc­Millan,
who wants to
bring about some of that
change.
The state senator said
he wants to bring a new
fairness and efficiency to
the lieutenant governor's
roles of presiding over
the Senate and selecting
Senate committee chair­men.
McMillan pledged to
"avoid commitments to
pressure groups," a pit­fall
he feels leads to
patronage in committee
chairman selection.
The candidate also
promised to work with
senators to cut the
number os Senate com­mittees
from 17 to 8 or 9,
and help create a "hard­working,
viable com­mittee
structure."
McMillan said the
present profusion of com­mittees
means senators
have to serve on three or
four of them, and often
miss meetings scheduled
at the same time.
A-7 Thursday, May 28,1978 The Auburn Plainsman
Bass calls for changes
in Alabama Legislature
By Lronnle Adamson
Assistant News Editor
Speaking as a Horizons
lecturer, Ray Bass, a
lieutenant governor can­didate
and former high­way
director, said a "cir­cus"
has developed in the
Alabama Legislature.
In 1971, the Legislature
was "inefficient," and it
has gotten worse since
then, said Bass.
He noted that the House
and Senate at least had
youth and independence
in 1971.
remarked that
people used to say "throw
the rascals out." The
candidate said the inef­ficiency
of the Legisla­ture
isn't all the fault of
the legislators, but of the
system by which the Leg­islature
is operated.
"It's time to revise the
system," said Bass,
noting that Capitol Hill
needs leadership and
some rule changes.
In particular, Bass
would like to abolish the
"5 o'clock adjournment
rule," place stringent
controls on filibustering,
improve the method of
recognizing lawmakers
on the House and Senate
floors, and control exten-
Having been the Ala­bama
state highway di­rector,
Bass is interested
in providing transporta­tion
in the state, which he
feels is "probably the
most important function
of government."
Bass said "volumes
and volumes" of plans for
highways in Alabama
exist, but "financial plan­ning
is missing."
At a press conference
preceding the Horizons
lecture, Bass recognized
that inefficiency exists in
education and that money
is not getting to students.
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The Auburn Plainsman Thursday, May 25,1978 A-8
Welch, Fleetwood recall memories
Bob Welch had just
finished singing about
"hot love in a cold
world," as the speakers
cooled down from the
band's hard rock accom­paniment.
Then a tall,
thin drummer jaunted on
stage and took over the
drum set.
The drummer was
Mick Fleetwood, and with
guitarist Bob Welch, half
of the old Fleetwood Mac
was together again on
stage at Auburn.
The duo, with Welch's
band, launched into an
old Mac song written by
Welch, the slow, re­served,
"FutureGames."
The lazy, cool, off-hand
vocals of the song soon
melted under Intense gui­tar
power chords that
rolled from Welch into
the audience.
As the electric chords
ebbed and flowed, Fleet­wood's
constant drum­ming
gained Increased
vigor, until both Inunda­ted
the audience with a
smooth-as-silk ven­geance.
The frenzied, rock'n'
roll tempest stirred up by
the raging guitars was
kept in line with Fleet­wood's
rock-hard rhy­thms
with Welch's plea­sant,
just-audible vocals
emerging from out of the
storm.
Fleetwood's crisp, pow­erful,
whip-lashing drum­ming
then drove Welch
and his band into another
VktayHunt,
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old Mac song, the aptly
titled "Hypnotized."
Cool-ps-ice vocals sung
over the waterfall regula­rity
as the Welch-Fleet-wood
dynamo lulled the
concert's scant audience
of about 2,700 through the
song and Into a still-mov­ing,
fade-out ending.
Then Fleetwood left,
and the half of the old
Fleetwood Mac was gone.
So was the highlight of
last Friday's Welch-Pal-mer-
Pousette-Dart con­cert.
Welch followed
Fleetwood's appearance
with some of the hardest,
heavy metal rock'n'roll
in existence, and Palmer
preceded it with a super
successful mix of rhythm
n'blues, funk and rock'n'
roll. But the mystique
surrounding late, great
groups of musicians was
gone with Fleetwood's de­parture.
Welch almost made up
for it, with the wild per­cussion
and constant flow
of high energy metal mu­sic
that made up his Paris
compositions and seeped
into his recent hits.
"Sentimental Lady"
and especially "Ebony
Eyes" each received
heavy-handed renditions
at his hands.
Robert Palmer laid on
the funkifled rock'n'roll
with his encore, "You're
Gonna Get What's Com­ing,"
and squeezed the
last bit of energy out of
his band and body.
From the syncopated
excitement of "Sneaking
Sally Through the Alley"
to the pleasant pop - soul
rhythm'n'blues hybird
called "Double Fun,"
Palmer smoothly showed
off his strengths in con­cert.
Palmer never let the
dance-centered disco mu­sic
he uses ruin the sit-and-
listen-to-the-music
aspects of his rock, black
jazz and pop music.
A few blasting guitar
chords usually ended too-long
forays into disco,
and tight pop vocal har­monies
and fast-paced
rhythms broke up the
rock'n'roll too.
While true blue fanatics
of any one particular
music style probably
weren't blown away by
Palmer's music, every­body
probably enjoyed
most of his set too.
The Pousette-Dart
Band flaunted yet ano­ther
type of musical fu­sion,
with its sometimes
country, sometimes blue­sy
and often upbeat rock'
n'roll.
The group's opening
song ably displayed its
musical expertise and in­novations
with a novel
mandolin lead and sensi­tive
instrumental back
up, all accompanied by
heavily-miked drums.
Pousette-Dart featured
the subtle intricacies of
virtuosity and harmony.
Palmer successfully
fused music for the mind
and dance floor. Welch
rammed home classic
acid rock with civilizing
vocals. But it took Fleet­wood
and Welch to make
the evening's magic.
Thanks to the UPC and
all concerned for the
memories-old and new.
-Dave White
White is a former En­tertainment
Editor of The
Plainsman.
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WELCH ROCKS OUT
.Before 'scant' audience Friday night
Langdon ends season
Palmer talks about life, music
By Becki Thomas
Associate Editor
Robert Palmer looked
tired. His 5 o'clock
shadow was two hours
ahead of schedule, and
his bus was two hours
behind. He and the band
had been on the road
eight hours, having
played a college gig in
Clarksville, Term, the
night before.
Palmer was tired, and
maybe that's why he
seemed to fit in with the
regulars at the Holiday
Inn Lounge—those that
come in after work on a
hot, Friday afternoon, to
talk and loosen up before
the weekend.
Palmer was sipping his
favorite, a gin and tonic,
but no one noticed. That's
the way Palmer planned
it.
The crowd had noticed
the bus parked outside,
with "Crystal Gayle" In
place of the destination
sign.
The bus was a decoy.
Palmer bought it from
country-western singer
Crystal Gayle, and never
changed the name.
Palmer was in the
Auburn area to perform
in a concert last Friday
night. The stop was part
of his concert tour, which
began in February.
Originally from York­shire,
England, Palmer is
no stranger to life on the
road. At 16, he began
touring in Europe.
"It was fantastic. I
wanted the opportunity to
get out of my hometown
and visit other towns and
see what they were like."
Palmer did his first
"real" tour three years
ago, which he describes
as a "showcase of clubs.
"Since then, the ball's
just kept rolling. At one
point, everything was
very non-stop, and I was
just continually living out
of a suitcase and settling
in whichever city I was
in.
"I seem to be addicted
to it (the road life)," he
said, although he doesn't
like it as a constant.
"After a while, in order
to keep any concentration
and keep doing what you
do objectively, then you
need to keep taking
breaks, otherwise you
just end up in a rut.
"I took about nine
months off to prepare the
new album, reorganize
the show, bring every­thing
up-to-date and try
to get everything ready."
The album Palmer
referred to is "Double
Fun," and one^of the
singles off that LP,
"Every Kind of People,"
has a bullet on the Bill­board
charts, hitting at
number 24 this week.
"Double Fun" has re­ceived
mixed reviews,
and Palmer's probably
read them all.
"I assumed I'd had a
lot of coverage one way
or the other. I've been the
darling of the press, so
it's about time they get on
my case.
"I don't really take It
(the criticism) personal­ly
and a lot of those views
tend to get personal. I
mean, if somebody likes
the record, then that's
nice, but I made it be­cause
I like making it."
Palmer's career began
in 1973 with the release of
his first album, SNEAK-IN
SALLY THROUGH
THE ALLEY, which is
now an FM classic.
Palmer quickly be­came
stereotyped as a
"reggae" artist, but
that's not how Palmer
classifies himself.
"It's a style I've picked
that seems to have picked
me as well. I do so many
different styles of songs...
I just see myself as a
singer, and I use all the
different styles to make
the songs.
"As an audience, I
don't like to get a record
where you put on the first
track and it sounds like
the same both sides. I like
variety," he said.
Palmer is variety. His
musical art form en­compasses
rhythm-and-blues,
reggae, soul, soft-rock
and love ballads. He
was Influenced by the
Motown recordings of the
60's, which were hard to
find in England.
"I went out of my way
to make it an influence —
I really dug Motown," he
said.
But no matter what
type of songs he records,
he pursues each album
with the ' 'same amount of
heat,'' striving always for
perfection.
The exposure Palmer
has received from com­mercial
airplay has cre­ated
many opportunities
for the 29-year-old artist.
Recently, he was invit­ed
to do a guest appear­ance
on "Saturday Night
Live," but turned it down
to appear on "Donnie and
Marie." Palmer said per­forming
on "Saturday
Night Live" was like be­ing
against a "brick
wall." As a guest on
"Donnie and Marie,"
Palmer could set up his
own stage, do his own
mixing, "and do it right."
The Auburn Plainsman
has offices in 2 Foy
Union. Entered as second
class material at Auburn,
AL., in 1967 under the
Congressional Act of
March 3, 1879. Subscrip­tion
rate by mall is $4.25
for a full year (this in­cludes
five per cent state
tax). All subscriptions
must be prepaid.
Palmer is definitely in
a position to call the
shots, but it hasn't always
been like that.
"I was involved In so
many things in the past
where anytime these
opportunities came up,
the band became the
victim of the opportuni­ties...
now I want the op­portunities
to be victims
of me."
Like one of Palmer's
songs says, "some people
can do what they like"—
and he does. He writes,
produces and even
designs his album covers.
Palmer's material is
drawn from experience,
and much of it is sex-related.
Said Palmer, " It's just
that I use that way of
doing it, writing a boy-girl
sort of lyric."
If he writes about the
dangers of ambition for
example, he won't focus
on the subject politically,
personally or socially.
He'll put It in a boy-girl
context, with the
message, "you're gonna
get what's coming."
Palmer's album covers
are as much a part of
Palmer as his music is. In
general, his covers are
haired beauty in a slip
playing cards, with
clothes strewn around
them. From the look on
the girl's face, she just
lost the game—and her
slip. Palmer's grinning.
What is the message
behing the covers?
"They have hundreds
of meanings at once."
Palmer laughed, but
still looked tired. He got
ready to leave the dimly-lit
lounge and retreat to
his hotel room overlook­ing
1-65.
Three hours later, a
rejuvinated Palmer en­forced
in his act what he's
always said in words:
"Musically, America is
where I belong." But Fri­day
night, Palmer be­longed
to Auburn.
"The Fantastic Planet"
is this week's UPC free
movie. The film will be
shown Thursday at 8 p.m.
and Friday, Saturday and
Sunday at 7 and 9:15 p.m.
in Langdon Hall. An
Auburn I.D. is required
for admission.
"The Fantastic Planet"
was originally released
as "La Planete Sauvage"
in 1973. The film is the
work of French director
R. Laloux
Very little has been
written in the American
Press about this foreign
science fiction film that
supposedly integrates
animated sequences and
real actors in a story of
interplanetary travel.
The curious can satisfy
their appetites by visiting
Langdon this weekend
and seeing for them­selves
this example of
foreign science fiction.
The last film that the
UPC Visual Arts Commit­tee
selected as a free
movie for this quarter is
the film "One on One."
This movie will be shown
next week in the midst of
provocative,
baffling—he
"cartoons."
sexy and
calls them
One of Palmer's covers
shows him with a black-
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' 'One on One" stars and
was written by Robby
Benson, a 21-year-old
actor who wrote this
screenplay with his
father as a vehicle for
himself.
Benson plays young
Henry Steele, who is
awarded an athletic
scholarship at a large
city college.
The film gets to be too
tough to swallow about
the time Steele arrives at
his new school and comes
in contact with real
human beings.
Steele as played by
Benson is a sickeningly
sweet character who just
can't seem to handle the
tough dirty world of col­lege
basketball. He is
confronted with nymph-maniacs
in the Athletic
office, drug-wise room­mates
in his dorm and a
tough old tyrant of a
coach on the basketball
court.
The audience is guided
toward rooting for the
young kid by director
Lamone Johnson's hand­ling
of the story and the
photography of Donald
M. Morgan, but one huge
obstacle that stands in
the way of the audience
ever accepting him as the
underdog hero Benson
meant him to be.
That is Benson himself,
or should I say more
specifically it is Benson's
childlike innocence and
those protuberant brown
eyes that keep the aud­ience
from even consider­ing
him as anything but a
freak.
In fact, the only thing I
felt in my heart after
watching Benson's
smarmy acting method
was a genuine desire to
purchase a Saturday
night special and blow the
sucker away.
That should show
Hollywood that we're sick
of those truer than life
heroic sagas for a while.
Overall, "One on One"
is a perfect film to take
someone you don't like
very much to.
-Stephen K. Simpson
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Members of the Yardbird Orchestra
prepare for a concert in the Orchestra
r > Hall of the Goodwin Band Building
tonight at 7:30.
The 82-piece ensemble will
play a variety of big band jazz
from the Count Basie era. Admission is
free and open to the public.
Promoter gives reasons
for concert drought at AU
By Scott Thurston
Entertainment Editor
Steve Greil, co-owner
of Sound Seventy Produc­tions
Inc., was in town
last Friday for the Bob
Welch concert, which he
promoted.
In an interview that
afternoon, Greil gave
some reasons for what
many feel had been a
decline in the quality of
major concerts at Auburn
over the past two years.
"It's very difficult to
get big acts to play at
schools. Schools that they
do play have track re­cords
for drawing large
crowds," the Mont­gomery
native said,
adding, "Auburn doesn't
have that track record. If
Auburn had a record for
drawing large crowds
consistently, more would
play here."
But according to Greil,
the blame doesn't rest
completely with the stu­dents.
"The big differ­ence
between Auburn
(and competing concert
sites) is that it is a small
town, and you need to
bring in people from
other, towns."
Greil went on to say
that student participation
at Auburn hasn't always
been that bad, and that
not being able to draw
upon a large non-student
population has hurt
University
Singers have
spring show
The Auburn University
singers, under the direc­tion
of Thomas R. Smith,
will present the sixth
annual Spring Show Mon­day
at 8 p.m. in the
Telfair Peet Theatre.
Admission will be free
and the public is invited.
This year's show will
feature pop and show
music form 1900 to the
present. A large portion
will include songs from
the American musical
threare.
Included will be songs
from "Hit the Deck,"
"Hello Dolly," "Annie,"
"Fiddle on the Roof" and
"The Wiz."
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Auburn's chances of
getting big name con­certs.
"As a promoter, I have
to weigh the risks of
making a large offer for
Auburn", said the young
promoter. "I may get
only one or two dates, so
I've got to choose places
where I can make money.
If a group like Fleetwood
Mac came to Auburn
they'd have to KNOW
they'd sell out."
Greil added that, based
on his experiences, he
had to doubt that even big
names such as the Eagles
or Fleetwood Mac would
sell out here.
Regarding the high
numbers and quality of
concerts a few years
back, Greil pointed out
that "the University used.
to promote its own con­certs."
According to Greil, "If
the promoter takes the
risk he'd probably go to
Atlanta or Birmingham.
If the students estab­lished
a good track re­cord,
promoters would
feel good about Auburn
and will get bigger acts."
Greil said that he has
never heard of the univer­sity
administration pre­venting
any groups from
appearing here.
However, he noted that,
"They run a very tight
ship over here," re­ferring
to the strict regu­lations
enforced at
Memorial Coliseum con­certs.
"If the atmosphere
was more relaxing, I'd
feel better about bringing
hard rock shows to
Auburn."
Greil had a final word
of advice for concert-goers:
"I'd urge all stu­dents
that in order to get
better shows here they
need to have a good turn
out at all shows."
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MORTALS IN LOVE
...Cast members in Shakespeare's satire of amorous folly
Inside a 'Dream'
By Steve Clar
Plainsman Staff Writer
Since I saw my name
on the call-back list for
"A Midsummer Night's
Dream" seven weeks
ago, I've received a
memorable glimpse into
the world of the theater.
The play presented to
the audience is like the tip
of a vast iceberg. Thous­ands
of manhours are
channeled into a show
that lasts only half an
evening.
Transforming Shakes­peare's
script into a live
play is an art. The work is
supervised by Ralph Mill­er,
director; Joseph Fal-zetta,
set designer; and
Francis Fuselier, cos­tume
designer.
These three levels of
production prepare for
seven weeks, to be united
with other technical addi­tions
during the final
week of rehearsals.
The actors' preparation
begins with reading
through the play, mem­orizing
lines and inter­preting
characters.
Performers para­phrase
their speeches in
order to fully understand
their parts. Their lines
become real reactions to
the events and other
characters in the play,
instead of mere verse
without motivation.
*i Learning lines is the
primary7'focus of these
fwet slow weeks. Actors
pace the corridors recit­ing
their parts. Curse-words
are prone to slip in
when amnesia strikes:
Each character's vocal
intonation and non-verbal
expression grows out of
the combined talents of
Miller and the actors.
Layer by layer the per­formers
acquire the
depth written in then-parts.
Relationships be­tween
characters begin
developing.
Warm-up exercises,
both physical and vocal,
begin every night at 7
p.m. "Lickity Lickity
Cut," for articulation;
"Way, Wah, Weh, Woe,
Woo" for diaphragmatic
support.
Blocking (the move­ment
and placement of
the characters on stage)
is set during the third
week of rehearsals.
After rehearsals, per­formers
randomly
assemble themselves on
stage to hear the direc­tor's
notes. "You must
have impeccable diction;
over-articulate or you'll
never be understood. The
key words are 'diction'
and 'concentration' are
Miller's nightly criticism.
There is a curious mix­ture
of work and diver­sion
during the early
weeks of rehearsals.
Actors, when their scene
is past, make trips to the
Filling Station for frozen
yogurt and lemonade.
The Green Room, the
congregation place of the
theater, is the center of
off-stage activity.
Performers sew cos­tumes,
jump rope, or
clown with the director's
daughter Sarah. Michael
Blue works tediously on
the fairies' handpuppets.
There is joking, game^
playing, discussion and"
sometimes even silence.
The next phase of re­hearsals
is perhaps the
toughest.
The actors have conned
their parts, characteriza­tion
is brought into full
bloom, additions to set
and costumes appear;
the play begins to gel.
Individual acts and
scenes, before practiced
separately, are drawn to­gether
and the play is
rehearsed in its entirety.
During these weeks, I
would often wake up
thinking Shakespeare.
Catching the tail end of a
speech from the play in
the day's first moments is
like being transported
into the waking world by
-butterflies.
Dr. Miller warns the
village rustics in the show
to avoid being "clever-precious,"
cute or self-impressed.
"Do not ACT," he tells
other performers. An
actor must train himself
to react naturally, to in­wardly
produce his mo­tivation
and then play off
the other characters.
At last tech week
arrives, that phase of
rehearsals in which the
separate levels of the
show are united.
Everything rapidly
snaps into place, the per­formers
gain command
of their elaborate sur­roundings,
and Shakes­peare's
verse is enhanced
by the technical additions
to the show.
Anticipation of an audi­ence
raises the excite­ment
in the theater to a
higher pitch. The day
seems to revolve around
going to the theater at
night.
The dressing room is
the scene of final prepar­ations
for the show.
The childhood joy of
dressing in costumes and
making-up one's face, a
grand escape even for
sophisticated college stu­dents,
is taken seriously
in the theater.
It is an essential tool of
the trade, and perform­ers
submerged in their
roles have no mind for
enjoying the self-mas­querade.
Acting is a seri­ous
business.
Opening night draws
near. Someone Writes
"Break a leg!" on the
dressing room chalk­board.
Perhaps this
play's presentation will
be as Puck suggests, "no
more yielding but a
dream." #
Its preparation, how­ever,
is an experience to
be remembered.
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A Midsummer Night's Dream
by William Shakespeare
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If laughter and ap­plause
be the stuff of
theater, then play on.
To the considerable de­light
of Tuesday's open­ing
night audience, the
Auburn University De­partment
of Theater pre­sented
their production 01
William Shakespere's "A
Midsummer Night's
Dream."
Its success as a crowd
pleaser cannot be
argued a scant 300 years
hence its premiere, and
the beguiling qualities of
Shakespeare's language
and ideas are still the
essence of the master
showman.
This. enchanting
comedy, written to re­semble
the masque spec­tacle,
is a satiric look at
the antics and folly of
mortals in love as they
are influenced and ob­served
by the fairies of an
Athenian wood.
It is Shakespeare's use
of foil, foolishness and
switch that hypos this
material into a realm
more significant than
mere spectacle, and its,
theme is as contempor­ary
and timeless as van­ity.
The words of the wood
fairy Puck, "O what fools
these mortals be," attest
to the spirit of revelry
that earmarks this play.
Theseus, Duke of
Athens, and Hippolyta,
Queen of the Amazons,
are to be wed. Interrupt­ing
this pageant is the
filial argument of Egeus
with his daughter,
Hermia, over her love for
Lysander and not the
more acceptable De­metrius.
Titania, Queen of the
Fairies, is jealously loved
by Oberon, King of the
Fairies, who employs
Puck, or Robin Goodfel-low,
to induce his mis­chievous
bidding.
Together with a band of
foolish artisans, who are
rehearsing the romance
of Pyramus for Thisby as
tribute to the Duke, they
all meet in a wood popu­lated
by spirits, sprites
and fairies for an evening
of delicious confusion.
Director of the produc­tion,
Dr. Ralph Miller,
has opted for a modern
interpretation of the ma­terial
as his players are
hardly Old Victorian
technicians.
Since the denoument of
the play is often farcical,
it is an effective method,
and success must be
measured by the physical
more than the sublime.
The delicacies of iam­bic
pentameter elude the
actors, yet their gesture
and spirit of playing are
certainly evocative of
this magical night.
Several players con­tribute
skillful interpre­tations
that suggest much
of what Mr. Shake­speare
had in mind.
Notable among them
are Katie Dickenson,
(4TH), as Titania, whose
presence and voice
create the icy beauty of a
fairy queen, and Bill
Crowe, (1TH), as the
masterful and treacher­ously
Indignant Oberon.
Julie Phillips, (3PRS),
delivered a gurgling and
infectious mischief to the
character of Puck.
Of the quartet of Athen­ian
lovers, the females
contributed the strongest
performances with Cindy
Nutt, (2TH), a willful
Hermia and Becky Calk
(2TH), a doe-eyed Helena.
Smaller roles were
attended strikingly by
Robert Rudner, (3GHY),
as Egeus and Robert Cox,
6TH, as Philostrate, both
of whom exhibited a flair
for Shakespearean verse
and manner.
The night, however, be­longed
to the merry band
of artisans, whose bumb­ling
play within a play
provide this show with its
lightest moments.
All of them, notably N.
James Thaggard,
(4GTH), and Rudy
Goldschmidt, (2TH),
were fine, but the final
and most vocal bravo
belongs to Buker Young,
(4TH), as Nick Bottom,
who, in the grand tradi­tion
of theatre, stole
every scene in which he
played with manic en­ergy.
Costumes, set and par­ti
culary beautiful lighting
and sound arrangement
were a visual thrill and
added Immeasurable to
the enchantment of the
evening.
For theatergoers who
demand the most
pleasure from their even­ing's
entertainment, "A
Midsummer Night's
Dream" will illicit no
favor and plays every
night through Saturday
with a Sunday matinee at
the Telfalr-Peet Theatre.
— David I cock
Hancock is a PIai,.sman
Theater critic
Ricca Salmon of Auburn
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Thursday, May « , ttw The Auburn Plainsman Auburn at night
/.oca/ bar owners complain about 'cut-throat' liquor regulations
By Scott Thurston
Entertainment Editor
Driving through
Athens, Gaines­ville,
Tallahassee or just
about any other college
town in the South, a
traveler can't help but be
amazed at the numbers of
bars and night clubs in
those cities.
The traveler would be
especially amazed if he
were from Auburn, where
the bar and night club
situation has been called
everything from "mixed-up"
to "pathetic" by the
bar owners themselves.
Among the local bar
owners, the consensus is
that the restrictive regul­ations
they must comply
with are the major pro­hibitive
factors to more
and better bars in the
Auburn area.
The owners are
agreed, however, that
greek life and the gener­ally
conservative nature
of the student body also
hurt the bar business
here.
One of the regulations
that the bar owners feel
discourages more bars in
Auburn is the ban on
draft beer.
As Mike Haught, man­ager
of The Pub put it,
"Draft beer would be the
biggest advantage this
county could have."
Chris Crocker of C.L.
Torbett's agrees. "I'd
make a lot more off of
draft beer," he said, add­ing
that, "I'd be able to
come down on price and
serve better beer."
According to Maurice
Weeks of Harry's, the
According to a city ordin­ance,
(actually a restate­ment
of a state law), only
those businesses defined
as a restaurant, hotel,
motel or private club
may be licensed to sell
liquor.
In effect, an establish­ment
selling liquor must
prepare and sell food and
feels that the inability to
sell liquor severely re­stricts
those who cannot
meet the requirements,
since "The money is in
liquor."
Weeks added that,
' 'You've got to do a hell of
a volume to make any
money with just beer.
Liquor is where your
lack of draft beer also
hurts the chance of
getting high quality dis­cotheques
in Auburn. "It
would take so much
money," he said, "and to
just sell canned beer? It's
just not worth it."
Another restriction that
many bar owners feel is
unfair are the laws con­cerning
the sale of liquor.
must meet requirements
concerning floor space
and seating capacity.
Currently, there are
only four liquor bars in
Auburn— Courtney's,
Stokers, C.L. Torbertt's
and The Pub, which does
not sell food but is located
in a motel.
Irving Stamps, owner
of The Blocked Punt,
money is in this type of
operation."
But according to the
owner of C.L. Torbett's, a
liquor license is by no
means a guarantee of
success. Crocker pointed
out that the city imposes
a 20 percent tax on the
amount of money that a
proprietor spends in pur­chasing
liquor.
Glomerata draws raves
Ten years from now if I
want to remember what
it was like being a senior
at Auburn University, I
know where I'11 look.
I'll turn to my 1977-78
Glomerata.
Because for the first
time since I've been at
Auburn, I've found that
the yearbook really ac­complished
its purpose,
which is to preserve the
year in words and pic-turcs
Some people say there
is too much copy, but I
think not. The editor of
this year's Glom, Mike
Sellers , said that there
was more copy this year
than In the past years
because "pictures alone
don't tell the story."
I f you take the time to
read the copy, I think
you'll agree that it's quite
interesting. Topics
ranged from Mrs. Phil-pott
to Plainsman Advi­sor
David Housel to the
Kopper Kettle song and
nearly all were enjoy­able.
With the copy to jog my
mind, the picture will
mean a lot more to me
years from now. And the
photography was defi­nitely
outstanding in this
year's Glom. Some have
called the yearbook a Will
Dickey portfolio. (He
was photographic edi­tor.)
The fact is that
Dickey often couldn't get
anyone to go out on photo
assignments and ended
up doing them himself.
But It really doesn't
matter who took the pic­tures
as long as they're
good. Which they are.
Interestingly, though,
Dickey is far from satis­fied.
His main complaint
lies with the color in the
pictures.
"The printers got the
color wrong," he said.
"It's very inconsistent
from book to book. The
entire beauty section
looks funny and so does
baseball. The colors
aren't even close to the
original transparencies.
"Either you got a green
Susan Long or a red
Debbie Flemming. There
is absolutely no excuse
for the color looking like
it did."
Dickey added that he
hopes that the printers
"won't get another
chance to mess up the
yearbook next year."
To be honest, I did
notice the colors were
a little off in a few places.
But that didn't take away
too much, in my mind,
from an overall outstand­ing
yearbook.
To anyone who thinks
I'm biased or blind, sure I
saw the typos and other
mistakes. But they
weren't as numerous as
they've been in past
years and In a volume
that size there are bound
to be some.
Some of the flaws are
the fault of the staff and
some can be traced to the
printer. I don't think
anyone can fairly say
that the flaws overwhelm
the yearbook as a whole.
Editor Sellers, who
says his is generally
pleased with the year­book,
acknowledged
some mixed feelings.
"We always try to
strive for perfection," he
said, "but you can't
achieve it, so we feel
some disappointment."
Well, I'm far from dis­appointed.
It's nice to
know that when I look at
the 1977-78 yearbook ten
years from now, it will
mean as much to me then
as it does now.
—Andrea Harrison
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"I don't get liquor
wholesale," Crocker
said, "so I pay the retail
price plus 20 percent —
that's rough. How can the
customer expect a break
in price?"
In addition, Crocker
said that, by state law, he
must use miniatures in
preparing mixed drinks.
Acordlng to Crocker, this
is but another handicap.
"You can get a fifth of
Bacardi for $6.35," he
said, "but all of my mini­atures
for one bottle
come out to cover $9.00."
Other regulations, par­ticularly
those requiring
bars to close at midnight
on Saturday and all cus­tomers
to be seated when
served, also draw the bar
owners' wrath.
The Pub was only re­cently
informed by the
Alabama Beverage Con­trol
Board that, in com­pliance
with a state law
prohibiting the so-called
' 'open saloon,'' it could no
longer serve people
standing at the bar.
The result, according to
Haught, has been a de­crease
in sales and an
increase in price. Haught
noted that, "The ABC lets
us get away with a lot, but
the law is the law and
they can only go so far."
Regarding closing at
midnight on Saturday,
Haught complained that,
"I've got to stop at 11:30
to get people out by 12 —
that's just cutting my
throat." Stamps agreed,
and estimated that he
could Increase his busi­ness
by 30 percent by
staying open until 2 a.m.
Sunday morning.
He added that, "It's
frustrating as hell to me
and to the students who
come to hear a band to
have to leave at 11:30."
Auburn city officials
argue that all the laws the
bar owners complain
about, excepting the 20
percent liquor tax, are
state laws, and that the
city could not change
them even if it wanted to.
License and Tax Ex­aminer
Len Eason cited
what he called, "a real
misconception" about
what the city does and
what the state requires
the city to do.
Dr. W.H. Taylor, di­rector
of the Chamber of
Commerce, explained
that the 20 percent liquor
tax is just another way of
obtaining revenues. Ac­cording
to Taylor,
"You've got to have these
revenues to help provide
the services that the stu­dents
demand."
Taylor also listed the
lack of a large population
or heavy industry as
reasons for the high
liquor tax.
Assistant City Manager
Barbara - Bramblett
stated the city's position,
"State laws exist, and we
are complying with them.
"As permitted by state
law, the city has adopted
ordinances dealing with
fees, taxes and physical
and geographical loca­tion
of establishments
selling alcohol."
Bramblett further
noted, "If it looks like the
deck is stacked against
bars, it is stacked down in
Montgomery, referring to
Legislature-passed liquor
laws.
Eason also pointed out
that, "If the bar owners
think it (getting the laws
changed) is such a big
deal, it seems to me that
they could get together as
an interest group and try
to get something done,"
implying that any change
in the laws would have to
go through