1979-05-03 The Auburn Plainsman

              THE AUBURN
PLAINSMAN Volume 85 Number 22 To Foster the Auburn Spirit Thursday, May 3, 1979 Auburn, Ala. 36830 34 pages
Trustees
May be subject to change
Good seats for A-Day? Photograph Sruce Hyef
If these folks are in Jordan-Hare Stadium to get a headstart on good
A-Day seats, they'll need more than those two soft drinks for sustenance.
Informed sources say, however, that this couple just wants to bask in the
fresh, ambient spring sun and the strawed cups next to them are just
right for cooling throats parched by a morning of classes and warm
weather. For A-Day ticket information, see page B-l.
Noise irks married students
By Becki Thomas
associate Editor
Kappa Sigma fraternity will go
before the Interfraternity Council
at 8:30 tonight as a result of a
written complaint filed by a resi­dent
of Carolyn Draughon Village,
the married student complex.
The complaint charged that the
group's parties on Friday and
Saturday nights produced noise
levels infringing on the rights of
married students.
Eddie Wheeler, president of IFC,
said the three-member court would
talk with Chuck Oliver, the frater­nity's
president, to determine
"what they are guilty of doing."
The court consists of two fraternity
presidents and Albert Sistrunk,
assistant dean of student affairs
and the IFC adviser.
Wheeler said it's "up to the court
to decide the punishment they see
fit." For example the court could
recommend social probation, ban
the faternity from intramurals for
one quarter or issue a written or
spoken reprimand.
Wheeler doubted the court would
recommed social probation, the
harshest option. "It's so severe
that there's no chance of it," he
said.
The Kappa Sigs could appeal the
decision to the Council of Fraterni­ties
and Sororities. And the
married student, if dissatisfied
with the court's decision, could
take his complaint to an outside
agency for further action. (The
student's name is being withheld
by Campus Security.)
Sistrunk said the student had
originally intended to have an
arrest warrant issued against the
fraternity, but after being inform­ed
of options by Sistrunk and
Security Chief Millard Dawson, the
student decided the matter could
best be resolved through Universi­ty
procedures.
Legality of f rat liqour sales
questioned by businessmen
By Tim Hunt
Plainsman Staff Writer
Questions raised this week con­cerning
the legality of fraternities
selling alcoholic beverages without
a license have left some University
administrators somewhat con­tused.
Albert Sistrunk, assistant dean of
Student Life, is looking for the
answers. However, at the moment,
he can only give opinions.
"Anyone in the business to sell
beer or liquor must be licensed to
do so," Sistrunk said. "If the police
or the alcoholic board wanted to
step in and put a halt to it they
probably could."
Many Auburn fraternities are
enjoying profits from beer and
liquor sales without possessing a
license or following the standards
set up for other local drinking
Establishments.
''•impaints have been voiced
from some local businessmen who
are opposed to the fraternities
practice of selling the liquor. Chris
Crocker, owner of C.L. Torbert,
said, "Besides the cost of a license,
there are the often unnoticed costs
associated with many of the stan­dards
required by the Alcoholic
Control Board."
Fraternities, unlike licensed
sellers, are not required to stop
serving at designated times. They
are also not required to make their
customers sit down while consum­ing
alcoholic beverages.
Crocker stated he has nothing
against fraternity sale of liquor "if
they would only be required to
adhere to the same standards that I
have to."
Steve Strother, owner of the
Hungry Hunter, is concerned with
the tax break, many fraternities get
by selling beer and liquor which
they purchase in other states such
as Georgia and Florida. "We pay
around $1,500-1,600 a month in
liquor taxes while fraternities take
the cream off the top of the sales".
Strother said although he thinks
the sale is illegal "the police will
not get involved as long as the ABC
Board does not get involved.
Pete McAlister, a local admin-strator
for the Alabama Alcoholic
Beverage Control Board, claims he
has heard of such activities and
feels they are definitely against the
law."
The question raised by J. Henry
Henderson Jr., student legal advi­sor,
is whether or not anyone wants
to enforce the law.
The complaining student wants
"relief from noise," and is not
adamently seeking legal actin or
bringing the fraternity before the
disciplinary committee, Sistrunk
said.
According to the IFC charter, the
results of a hearing must be issued
at the following meeting of the
council. Sistrunk speculated that in
this Instance, a special meeting
will be called prior to the regularly
scheduled meeting May 13 to re­lease
the results.
In addition to the noise com­plaints,
Dawson received com­plaints
from other Carolyn
Draughon residents concerning the
profane language sung by the
band. Other complaints indicated
beer kegs—illegal in Lee County-had
been seen at the Kappa Sig
house. Dawson said during that
two-day period, a total of 12 com­plaints
were received.
Dawson also said the Alcoholic
Beverage and Control Board has
been notified of the kegs. "This is
the normal channel concerning
untaxed beer," he said.
The problem which has resulted
in action taken against the frater­nities—
noise pollution—is a con­stant
source of friction between the
married students and all fraterni­ties
on the row.
See NOISE page A-3
By Peggy Sanford
Plainsman Staff Writer
Auburn's Board of Trustees may
undergo structural changes as part
of the proposed State Constitution
currently being considered in the
Legislature.
"The Governor believes that a
self-perpetuating system will help
remove the Board from politics,"
said Mike Waters, an administra­tive
aide to the Governor. "It
should provide for a more objective
Board which will presumably
make decisions without political
motives," he said.
The changes in Auburn's Board
of Trustees would entail a shift
from gubernatorial appointment of
members to a self-perpetuating
system where trustees themselves
fill vacancies. Their choices would
be subject to legislative approval.
The Board of Trustees for the
University of Alabama is already
selected in this manner.
The size of Auburn's Board
would be enlarged from 12 to 16
members. The members to be
chosen two from each of the seven
congressional districts, as opposed
to the present system which in­cludes
one from each of the old nine
districts with Auburn getting an
additional member. The state
school superintendent and the gov­ernor
would remain members.
While changes in the Board's
structure is being considered by
the Legislature, Lt. Gov. George
McMillan predicted while in Au­burn
last week that the sections of
the proposed Constitution relating
to those changes may be dropped
from the final document.
President Philpott apparently
feels that a loss of constitutional
status would be detrimental to the
strength of the Board of Trustees of
both Auburn and the University of
Alabama. These are the only two of
the 16 four-year colleges in the
state which are written into the
present constitution.
In a written statement by the
President, he warned that "If
constitutional status is withdrawn
from these major Institutions, they
could be subjected to annual
charges in structure and program
by the Legislature."
Waters said that he is "not
certain they (the Legislature) will
drop" the issue from the proposed
Constitution. Even if it is dropped,
he says that he does not believe it
would "open a floodgate of harm
for the University."
The ultimate authority over the
Board lies within the Legislature
now, Wfeters said. "The Legisla­ture
can always make changes
involving the Board. It can cut and
increase funding. It also could have
prohibited the move to Montgom­ery
if it had wanted to," he said.
However, as the Board stands
now, as a constitutional entity, the
Legislature can not structurally
modify it.
"The only thing that the Legis­lature
can't do now is alter the
Board itself or eliminate the Board
as the governing body over Auburn
University," Waters said.
Waters also said that he was not
certain what changes, if any would
occur in the makeup of the Boards
if the sections relating to that were
dropped from the proposed Consti­tution.
Ex- treasurer defends
debt to Food Services
By Kelly Kohler
Assistant News Editor
"I would have been shirking my
responsibilities if I had paid out
students' money when it was not
clear to me that the SGA owed
money to Food Services," said
former SGA Treasurer Bob
Burton.
Burton said, "It's not like a War
Eagle bill hasn't been paid in 18
months. The only ones that I didn't
pay were the ones that I wasn't
sure we owed money on."
The SGA still owes Food Services
more than $1,000 on debts that go
back to November of 1977, accord­ing
to SGA President Ron Taylor.
Becky Crosby, assistant director
of Food Services said that she has
seen at least two notations that
Burton had been contacted about
the debts in November 1978 and
again in February 1979.
Crosby said, "I saw several
pieces of paper with notations that
he (Burton) had been notified of
the debts at least twice and maybe
more. I feel certain that he was
contacted by telephone." She said
the notes indicated that Burton
gave "no response."
According to Burton, he was ' 'not
fully satisfied" that the SGA owed
money to Food Services and he had
informed Pam Forester, financial
advisor for War Eagle Cafeteria, of
this.
"I told Pam I didn't feel like the
SGA owed the money. I wasn't
satisfied because there were some
missing purchase orders," said
Burton.
See SGA DEBT page A-9
Evangelist returns with fire, brimstone
Inside
Though it's been nearly a year
since John Belushi's Toga fever
swept the country, the UPC will
jump on the bandwagon when it
sponsors a campus wide toga party
May 17. See Page CI.
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By Julie CulweU
Plainsman Staff Writer
"You all are being deceived. Could it
be that your professors are raping your
minds and you don't know i t ?"
Evangelist Jed Smock with his firey
words returned to Auburn's campus
Wednesday for the third time in two
years, causing a stir among students.
A laughing but listening crowd of more
than 100 showed mixed emotions as
Smock talked on repentance, the end of
time, his conversion and a variety of
topics prompted by student's questions.
Smock asked who in the crowd fol­lowed
Jesus. After a few hands raised,
he told the rest that they were going to
hell.
He went on to say that college students
knew very little about Christainlty and
the person of Jesus Christ because they
did not know what the Bible said about it.
"What's your knowledge of Jesus?",
Smock asked. "Probably something
from Hollywood."
He related a story to the crowd in
which he gave Ms Timex watch to a
man, simply because the man had asked
for it.
Smock said he knew God would
provide not only another watch but a
better one. Sure enough, a man in a
congregation where he was visiting gave
him a Seiko.
Upon hearing the story, a student In
the crowd asked Smock for the watch.
SMOCK RETURNS
..to preach on Haley Center concourse
The evangelist refused because he said
the student was "coveting" his watch.
The comment which met the most
response was when Smock said that he
had completely stopped sinning. He said
that as a Christian, he "did not have to
sin."
Cindy Lassiter, a journalism student
from the University of Florida, who was
traveling with Smock, said she first met
Smock when he spoke on the Florida
campus.
In the same loud voice, and with the
same emotionalism as Smock, Lassiter
related her own testimony to the crowd.
Crowd response varied. Some mocked,
some questioned, and some agreed with
what the two had to say.
One student said, "He preaches the
Bible, but he makes a lot of assump­tions."
"Everythink he says is true. It takes a
lot of guts to do it," said another.
"I can't handle this anymore," said a
third as she walked away.
According to Drew Ragan, dean of
Sudent Affairs, nothing could be done to
make Smock leave unless it could be
proven that he was disrupting student's
and teachers from their classes.
Smock told the Plainsman that he had
checked his public speaking out with the
law and he could speak anywhere
without a pemit, as long as he did not use
any form of amplication.
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Ihe Auburn Plainsman Thursday, May 3, 1979 A-2 Vives wants evaluation changes
Picnicking Photography: Gordon Buoo
By Vickey Hunt
News Editor
One member of the political
science faculty called outgoing
president of the General Faculty
Donald Vives' final address at last
week's faculty meeting "the best
speech I've heard there in the past
six years."
In the address Vives spoke on
several issues, including the adop­tion
of the 4.0 grading scale,
founder's day and the Jordan-
Hare stadium expansion.
He also stated a desire for the
chairman of the General Faculty to
serve as an ex-officio member of
the Auburn Board of Trustees,
urged support of the newly formed
Alabama Council of College and
University Faculty Presidents and
requested a possible reorganiza­tion
of the Faculty Senate to make
it more responsive to faculty.
But the main area of Vives
speech concerned the situation
here at Auburn concerning faculty
evaluation, which Vives called
"chaotic."
"The top administration makes
statements to the effect that
teaching is a major component of
the University. The deans of two of
the largest schools tell their faculty
that what really maters is
research. The faculty occupies
itself with concerns about mitiga­ting
the hazards of student evalua­tion,"
Vives said in his speech.
Vives said he did not wish to
argue over the merits of whether
teaching or research should be
considered in evaluating the
teacher's ability, but only that
there should be a decision made.
Perched atop a junction box in Samford Park, this squirrely looking
character enjoys a gourmet's delight, and at prices far cheaper than
anywhere else on campus. He was one of many picnickers this week, as
cooler temperatures were a welcome exception to the usually sultry
mid-spring weather.
Several University buildings
may contain radioactive blocks
By Julie Johnson
Plainsman Staff Writer
The possibility that concrete
blocks in the Nuclear Science
Center are emitting radioactive
radon gas is being tested by Robert
Bell, Radiological Safety Director
at the center.
Blocks in the Center, built by the
Auburn contracting firm Burns,
Kirkley and Williams, were pur­chased
from the Builders Supply
Co. in Montgomery, which ob­tained
the blocks sold from the
Tennessee Valley Authority from
1962-68.
Other Auburn University build­ings
constructed by BK&W during
those six years include Phase I of
the Women's Dormitories and
Carolyn Draughon Apartments
The firm also built Auburn High
School during that time.
Elbert Hall, manager of Builders
Supply Co. denied knowing the
blocks contained radioactive slag
at the time of their sale.
"We just found out recently when
a television crew came out to film
our concrete," said Hall. "But it
wasn't the radioactive slag they
filmed. We don't backlog our
blocks."
Bell, at the request of the Plains­man,
has begun testing his building
for the radon emissions. The test
consists of taking air samples from
the buildings and comparing them
with the Environmental Protection
Agency's danger level for radon
exposure. One disadvantage is that
the center has only one machine for
the testing and that it takes a
24-hour run to get accurate results
said Bell.
The blocks emit radon, a cancer-causing
gas produced by the
breakdown of radium, a substance
found in phosphate slag sold by the
Tennessee Valley Authority
throughout the South for use as a
filler in concrete blocks.
Aubrey Godwin, State Director
of Radiological Health, said that
the danger level of radon emission
was minimal if short exposure and
proper ventilation were observed
in the concrete buildings.
TVA sold the slag from 1953-78,
even though its scientists knew it
contained radioactive materials.
A large percentage of Auburn
buildings were constructed during
that 25 year period.
Sample testing in the Athens-
Muscle Shoals area is being con­ducted
under Godwin's supervi­sion.
According to him some 20-25
homes and schools are being tested
under the first step in an experi­mental
study.
"Samples are also being taken in
Tennessee, Georgia, and Mississ­ippi
although most of the testing is
in North Alabama," said Godwin.
Godwin said there had been some
200 statewide requests from pri­vate
individuals for sample testing
their homes.
"It's really up to the people who
fund us," said Godwin. He esti­mated
that the sample testing in
North Alabama was costing
$20,000, including travel time.
"The state is committed to the
first study," said Godwin, "But
after I don't know what will hap­pen.
It is a bit of a problem."
If buildings are found to contain
high 'evels of radioactivity, there
are few solutions.
One answer, according to God­win,
would be to coat the walls with
a special sealing paint that would
block the radon emissions. In­creased
ventilation would be an­other
method of reducing the
radioactivity, he said.
Godwin said if he lived in a home
being tested for radioactive slag,
he would not be worried.
"Interested, yes," said Godwin.
"From what I know today, I
would not be frightened," Godwin
said. "But with tomorrow's know­ledge,
who knows?"
Suggesting a two-part systema­tic
approach to solving the
problem, Vives said the first step
should be deciding exactly which of
the faculty efforts should be eva­luated.
"We have teaching, research,
extension, administration and Uni­versity
service as possibilties," he
said.
"Perhaps the evaluation should
center on one or two of these
areas." These areas could differ
from school to school or even from
department to department, Vives
said.
Once the evaluation areas are
defined, Vives said, it would then
be necessary to establish perfor­mance
standards.
"We need to distinguish quanti­tative
and qualitative aspects of
performance. If we are evaluating
more than one area of performance
we need to combine the evaluations
into an overall evaluation," he
said.
Vives said as the situation is now,
the Tenure and Promotion Com­mittee
tries to apply a system of,
"uniform standards to grossly di­vergent
schools which have grossly
.divergent expectations of their
faculty."
With the changes brought about
be redefining the evaluation
process, Vives said the role of the
Tenure and Promotion Committee
may be altered.
"If there is no variability, then it
can be a very effective decision­making
body," Vives said. If a
great deal of variability is allowed,
it's role may be better served as a
decentralized body with the C om-mittee
having only a veto power, he
added.
In his address to the faculty
Vives said, ' 'If research and publi­cation
is what really matters, then
student evaluation of teaching is
liable to be perceived by the
faculty as harassment an by the
students as a joke."
Vives said later in an interview,
that the question of at which level
student evaluations should play a
part is a difficulty one
"If the faculty could be evaluat­ed
only by students who are gen­uinely
interested in getting the
most they possibly can out of their
course, I don't think there'd be any
problem. The real concern has to
do with attitudes," he said.
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Vives said a decision must be
made concerning faculty evalua­tions
so there will be no more
contradictory statements concern­ing
anything to do with the proce­dure.
"A lot of schools are having
similar problems," Vives said,
"Auburn is not unique."
"Before you can evaluate, you
must decide on what is expected
and what you are going to weigh."
Spacey Photograpny: Jell Williams
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UPTOWN AUBURN • VILLAGE MALL
A-3 Thursday, May 3, 1979 IrvAUxm PbltlSITVWl
Council votes to let court decide on Bent Creek
By Don Sprout
Technical Editor
The Auburn City Council,
plagued with problems concerning
the city's payment, or non-pay­ment,
of the Bent Creek sewage
system, decided Tuesday night to
pay the sum called for by the Bent
Creek developers to the registrar
of the Tenth Circuit Court.
The court will decide whether to
pay the $150,000 bill or return the
money to the city.
The action of the council is the
result the most recent turn in long
history of the Bent Creek contro­versy
which began in 1976.
Council action Tuesday was in
response to the filing of a civil suit
by five private citizens along with
Mayor Donald Hayhurst against
the nine city council members in
both their official capacity and as
private citizens. Also named as
defendants in the suit are Billy J.
Kirkley, Wiley Williams, J. W. Nail
Jr., and the Rine Investment Com­pany,
all form the general partner­ship
of the Bent Creek Develop­ment
Company.
The suit was filed to halt pay­ment
of the $150,000 to the Bent
Creek Development Company, and
get a declaratory judgment from
C M
the court to have the contract
voided.
Along with Hayhurst, who said
the suit did not "orginate with him,
the five plaintiffs in the suit are R.
V. Wiley, Lewis B. Mackin, Doug­las
W. Schell, Anne Amacher, and
Edward C. Boyar.
"I feel my joining the taxpayers'
suit is in the best interests of the
Auburn community," said Hay­hurst.
As a plaintiff in the suit he
said he could not offer any more
comments.
Former Mayor Jim Haygood was
charged with violating State Ethics
act because he signed the agree­ment
obligating the city to pay
Easy rider? Photograpny: s a w Windham
Perhaps the crutches are for fending off unusually
large and ferocious dogs, or maybe this cyclist missed
a test in his eight o'clock class yesterday and plans to
plead cripple. If its the latter and his Instructor sees
him, he won't have a leg to stand on. After all, that
would be a pretty lame excuse.
Noise
From page A-1
$150,000 with a firm whose prin­ciples
were his legal clients in that
year.
The five citizens, advised by
legal counsel that no matter how
the State Eihlsa Commission ruled
on the ease involving former
mayor Haygood and the contract
with Bent Creek that the issue of
payment would not be considered,
decided to file their own suit to
prevent payment.
The five citizens, advised by
legal counsel that no matter how
the State Ethics Commission ruled
on the case involving former
mayor Haygood and the contract
with Bent Creek that the issue of
payment would not be considered,
decided to file their own suit to
prevent payment.
An executive session of the State
Ethics Commission last Friday
found Haygood innocent of the
violation.
Tuesday morning the plaintiffs
filed suit and papers were served
on the defendants that afternoon,
only four or five hours before the
City Council meeting.
AU professor
heads meeting
Sam Coker (Ph.D.), professor of
pharmacology in Auburn Univer­sity's
School of Pharmacy, has
been selected to serve as modera­tor
for the Hypertension Confer­ence
1979, sponsored by the Tuske-gee
Area Health Center.
I
The conference will be held May
21 from 8 a.m.-3 p.m. at the Gover­nor's
House Motel in Montgomery
and the public is invited to attend.
An afternoon session will be
divided into workshops for profes­sionals
and consumers. During the
consumer workshop, Dr. Coker will
speak on 'What About Those Pills."
Also on the program will be Jane
Moore (Ed.D), of AU's department
of health, physical education and
recreation, will speak on the topic
"Exercise? Me?"
A report by City Attorney Arnold
W. Umbach Jr. at the meeting said
since the council members were
named both in their official
capacity and as Individuals, they
will have a personal liability in the
suit.
He also noted that although the
city is not named as a party in the
litigation that for the plaintiff to
gain satisfaction (in the voiding of
the contract) the city will probably
be a party in the near future.
Umbach said he felt the best way
to protect the city from counter suit
involving late payment, or from
further involvement that it should
pay the amount called for by the
Bent Creek Development Company
to the court and let it decide how
the matter is to be handled. He also
suggested that the City Council
members request that the court
require the plaintiff to post bond
sufficient to pay court costs, the
legal fees of the defendants, and
against any damages that the
losing parties in the suit pay all
costs.
After the meeting, Umbach said
he did not know if the bond threat
would be sufficient to make the
plaintiffs withdraw from the case,
but as legal representative of the
council he would have the right to
question the "ability of the plain­tiffs
to pay the costs."
During discussion Councilman
Hoyt Warren said, "I have seen
you and others change position
many times because of new ideas. I
would like to see you put your best
shot into this document for the City
Council, and I don't believe you can
do that in four hours." Warren
added that he hoped the council
would delay decision for a few days
to consider the matter more fully.
Councilman James Earl
Kennamer said that two weeks ago
the city was notified by the Bent
Creek Development Company that
it was behind in its payments. He
also said the present council did not
really want to pay the bill but it
saw the agreement as a legal
obligation. "All we want to do is to
do what's right," said Kennamer.
Council president Bill Allen, also
said he was hesitant to act on the
matter at the council meeting.
"What does it work out to, if it ends
up we have to split the bill indiv­idually?
I like to take my time
when I have to make a $16,000
decision," said Allen.
Although several of the council
members voiced doubts about
making the decision that night, the
resolution to put the legal advice
into formal action passed by a five
to four vote. Warren, Allen, Lind-berg
Jackson and Mary Brooks
voted against the resolution.
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According to Sistrunk, "The
proximity (of the two groups) is the
root of the problem." Carolyn
Draughon Village, with a popula­tion
of 800, fronts the Kappa Sigma
House and several other fraterni­ties.
The two groups are divled only
by two-laned Hemlock Drive.
Jerry Cook, manager of Carolyn
Draughon Village, said, "The mar­ried
students feel like they have a
right to their peace and quiet." The
residents have no desire to keep
students from having parties or
social life, he said, but only want
the fraternities not to interfere
with the private life of married
students.
This is the concensus of the
majority of the residents and not
just a select few, he emphasized.
Oliver however feels the married
students think fraternities
shouldn't have parties at all. "But
as long as there's fraternities,
there's going to be parties," he
said.
Sistrunk, like all involved, is
concerned about the relationship
between the Greeks and married
students. He suggested that frater­nities
should think about controll­ing
the noise as a "public relations
move."
The problem has not been
ignored, however. For the past two
years the affected parties have
been meeting to discuss solutions.
Last week, alternatives were
discussed as how to effectively
keep party noise levels, especially
sounds from bands, from dis­turbing
residents. Cook said the
group even discussed calling in an
acoustic expert, erecting screens
to buffer the noise, and pointing
speakers in other directions.
One suggestion from the "sub
committee" of Kappa Sigs and
married students was put into
effect this weekend. According to
Oliver, the groups had agreeed
decible level readings should be
taken to determine if a complaint
was justified. An arbitrary figure
of 70 was jointly agreed upon for
weekdays and 83 on weekends. The
groups also agreed bands on week­days
would stop playing at mid­night
and at 1 a.m. on weekends.
Decibel readings taken by a
married students Friday night re­gistered
92, and read 85 Saturday
night.
Complaints were made to Camp­us
Security both nights.
"It's like we're stuck between
two groups that aren't going to
give," Oliver said, but acknow­ledged
the married students have a
"legal right to complain."
The complaints Friday night
were jusUfied, Oliver said, but the
ones made Saturday night weren't.
Oliver feels the married students
should have talked with Cook
Friday rather than calling Campus
Security, which warned the frater­nity
by phone but later came to the
house.
According to Oliver, one of the
officers said, "If you don't shut
down, we're going to arrest all the
(fraternity) officers."
Oliver said he informed the
officers about the agreement with
the married students, the officers
compromised, by asking the band
to lower the sound system volume.
Dawson said security officers
always "try to take as low a profile
as we can." Often a phone call Is
sufficient warning he said, and that
method is preferred to an on-site
visit to break up a party.
Tuesday night married students
and fraternity row residents met to
discuss problems which may arise
A-Day Weekend. The fraternities
agreed to two concessions which
both groups hope will avoid
another confrontation: to end all
band parties at midnight, and to
work with the band to keep the
noise level at a minimum. Decibel
readings will continue to be taken.
Although overall progress be­tween
both groups, as Cook admits,
is "slow," it's encouraging "that
we're still at the point where we
can sit down and talk to each
other."
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Editorials A Wednesday column-with help
Thursday, May 3, 1979 A-4
No feedback
In a general faculty meeting last week,
Donald Vives, former president of the Univer­sity
Senate, said "Dr. (Harry) Philpott has
stated in my presence that he doesn't want to
be asked by the (University) Senate to do
anything he is unwilling to do.
"...and he was ^quoted to me as saying that
the highest praise he could give to a retiring
dean was that he never asked for anything Dr.
Philpott was unwilling to grant," he con­tinued.
' 'While -there are implications of this that I
find disturbing, the practical effect is that
advice is generally neither wanted nor sought.''
That a faculty member in that position of
authority would be moved to make such a
statement before his peers speaks for itself.
Obviously, Vives was upset that the attitude
conveyed by the President has had "an
inhibiting effect on the Senate," which he said
is an "advisory" body to the President.
We commend President Philpott for his
frankness, but hope the attitude he apparently
holds for the University Senate or deans is not
the same as his view toward student interest,
ideas and concerns.
Can any administration function effectively
without honest, mutually respected commun­ication
and discussion with its faculty and
students?
Can any administration adequately represent
the needs of those same faculty and students
without requests and feedback?
We don't think so.
President Philpott has brought intelligent
viewpoints and an honest energy and devotion
to Auburn in his 13 years here, but freezing
outside input and ideas is no way to foster
progressive and enlightened leadership and
better ideas that could better Auburn further.
Leadership that stifles support and input
strangles its own vitality, and calls forth images
of an all-knowing, Big Brother form of
totalitarianism.
Deadline for all editorial copy is Sunday
night. Dealines are important in the news­paper
business because if one person misses
his, the whole paper will be late.
It's Wednesday afternoon. The sun is
shining, and my Softball team is playing in two
hours.
Make that one hour and 53 minutes.
And guess who is still trying to make that 6
p.m. Sunday deadline.
That's right—me, Dick Parker, right fielder
at heart, editor by profession. My heart, mind
and soul are on field three, but my duties and
my obligations are here.
It's an hour and 52 minutes now...and, here
comes that column.
I was going to write: about spring. About
the sunshine and butterflies. About Sunday
night Samford Park lovers and about cherry
cheesecake and strawberry ice cream.
But nothing would be more boring to you,
now, would it? Why read about those things
when you can enjoy them?
So instead, I'm going to reprint a letter,
without permission or expressed written
Dick
Parker
consent, from the Vinton, Va., Messenger,
edited by a former Plainsman editor Jerry
Brown.
"Editor's Note: This letter was sent to us by a
reader who couldn't indentify its authorship,
he suspected we might have written it, and
asks that we withhold his name.
"A newly married couple was looking for a
house to rent in the country. After finding one
they thought was suitable, they moved in and
made it their home. Upon arriving the wife
noticed that they didn't have a bathroom
commode so she wrote the landlord. Being shy
and modest, she hesitated to mention a
commode so she put B.C. The landlord, not
knowing what she meant by B.C., pondered for
a while and then decided she meant "Baptist
Church." He answered her letter as follows
Dear Madam:
"I regret very much the delay in answering
you letter but now I take pleasure in informing
you that the B.C. is located nine miles from you
home and is capable of seating 250 people. Th
is very unfortunate, indeed, if you are in the
habit of going regularly, but no doubt you wil
be interested to know a great number of
people take their lunch and make a day of it
They usually arrive early and stay late. The
last time my wife and I went (six years ago)
we had to stand up the whole time. It may
interest you to know a supper has been
planned to raise money for more seats. I would
like to say it pains me very much not to be able
to go more regularly, but it surely is not a lack
of desire on my part. As we grow older
seems more of an effort, particularly in cold
weather. I hope to see you there. Possibly we
can sit together.
Very Truly yours,
The Landlord
'7fM)B0[lN ?IMWM ^wjHk^k
Cool breeze
These gentle April showers haven't yielded
May flowers yet, but they have enabled the
University's physical plant to save about
$42,000 so far in air conditioning costs.
It's rare that we take the time to notice the
weather. Unless it's raining on our way to class
or it hasn't snowed like the radio promised, we
scarcely stop to appreciate it.
But the mild and breezy spring weather
Auburn has been fortunate enough to experi­ence
has saved the University about $3,000 per
day in cooling costs—and we've gone 14 days
beyond last year's April 18 "turn on" date.
And since University policy restricts turning
on the air conditioning until outside tempera­tures
pass 80 on three consecutive days Auburn
hasn't "merited" the cooling.
With Auburn's temperatures rising only into
the upper 70s and night temperatures falling
into the low 60s or high 50s, Auburn has a
chance to cool off under the stars.
The savings will help ride Physical Plant
through a time of rising fuel costs and projected
increases.
And it will ultimately benefit the students. If
we can look forward to continued mild weather,
the savings will continue to increase.
A plus in any surplus column will mean that
students and state taxpayers will not have to
bear the brunt of rising costs, provided Mother
Nature extends a hand.
Students won't face a possible increase in
tuition, and state taxpayers won't have to deal
with increased requests from Auburn University
for state funds.
So instead of racing to class across campus on
a sunshine-scattered May Day, and then
complaining about the heat once you get there,
why not adopt a different life style for a while.
Slow down. Wear some light cottony clothes
and walk a little more leisurely to class. Take in
the campus, the weather, and the friends you
haven't seen in months who will cross you path.
Enjoy a little of the slow comfort the South is
famous for.
We'll all benefit from it.
. /raiWlOIW/'/ir
It's tough to be an Auburn trustee
Free speech
Newspapers have to be acutely sensitive
about First Amendment rights, free expression.
It gives us our license to exist. But that kind of
freedom is a two-way street; if it is your shield,
so must anyone be enritled to it.
Evangelist Jed Smock has been in Auburn
this week, preaching hellfire and brimstone
from an extemporaneous, earthen pulpit on the
Haley Center concourse. He was jeered by
many, applauded by some, and admired for his
gumption—call it courage—by others.
Criticize his hardline, puritan theology if you
like, or agree with him is our so moved. Argue
with his if its civil and sincere, or, agains, argue
with his antagonists. But give him this: he has
has right to speak, to express his viewpoint.
Argue with him about nearly anything if you so
desire, because that's how truth wins out,
except no one has the right to silence him.
Too many students grumbled on the
concourse that Smock shouldn't be allowed to
speak at all, that he was a nuisance. That kind
of thinking is more narrow-minded than
anything the preacher said.
Fair warning?
It may not be next week, or even next year,
but the time will come when the Alcoholic
Beverage Control Board decides to crack down
on fraternities selling beer and liquor at special
events. And when that time comes, the
fraternity that gets caught first is going to be in
a heap of trouble.
Its no secret that some fraternities sell beer
and liquor at fund raising functions, and
sometimes at regular fraternity parties. Our
point here is not to awaken the masses to a
heretofore darkly held secret. Surely the ABC is
aware of the sales as is the Auburn Police
Department.
And if the ABC Board is not getting involved
because the fraternities are non-profit organ­izations
who often funnel money earned from
liquor sales to charity funds or social projects,
we can understand their inaction, though we
don't necessarily condone it.
But what we fear is that the ABC Board and
the city police do not take action against the
fraternities because of apathy to the situation.
And if that is the case, it may be only a matter
of time before somebody gets interested and
cracks down on the sales.
Complaints have been heard from several
local businessman licensed to sell liquor. Their
gripe is that the fraternity sales take away from
their own business.
Whether they have a valid problem is not
important here. What is important is that the
local liquor salesman could possibly put enough
pressure on the ABC Board to take action. And
the fraternities, unwarned, are sitting ducks in
the envent of a change of precedence.
If the ABC Board takes action in light of the
licensed sellers' complaints, we would hope
that action would first be in the form of a
warning. The board has allowed the sales to go
on too long to suddendly decide to take
stronger action. Fair warning is only just.
It's tough to be an Auburn University
trustee these days. Being pals with the
governor or a former Auburn football star is
one thing, buf fretting about your board being
abolished and replaced by a board of regents
is undoubted!} simply unbearable.
The Auburn University Board of Trustees
shouldn't be abolished because of its ex-jocks
and political supporters.
Among the grid stars, Morris Savage is a
capable, personable lawyer, Rep. Bill Nichols is
a popular, powerful politician in Washington,
Fob James is Gov. Fob James and Shug Jordan
has his name on a stadium.
Among the James or George Wallace friends
and cronies. Bob Harris is a shrewd politician,
Henry Steagall really listens to students and
M.B. McCartney promises to engineer con­structive
policies during his tenure, and
everybody tries hard.
Friends and football players aside, the
Auburn Board of Trustees should still be
abolished, partly because of friends and
football and partly because it is the Auburn
Board of Trustees, a provincial ruling group
designed to fend exclusively for Auburn from
among the flock of other state schools.
A bunch of clawing, clutching state boards
grabbing for the biggest chunk of state money,
each with a "one for one and none for all"
attitude, probably won't yield the most
efficient return from higher education's
money.
Too, if James ever dares to fight for quality
education and moves to close the least needed
colleges dotting the state, those school's
Dave
White £
m
boards of trustees certainly aren't going to
vote to wipe their schools out.
They'll vote to wipe other schools out,
maybe, but not their charges. No way.
Then, if programs need to be combined, and
say Auburn's business school should be moved
in with Tuscaloosa's for efficiency's sake, will
Auburn's trustees be ecstatic over the situa­tion?
They'd sooner send Joe Cribbs to play for
the Crimson Tide.
Efficiency, then, or the most effective
allocation of a scarce, depreciating college
fund, stands as a powerful argument for a state
board of regents.
The influence football and other friends have
had on the Auburn Trustees also dictates the
board's abolition.
Last quarter, agriculture dean R.D. Rouse,
ex-ag student Nichols and lots of powerful
alumni statewide swayed the trustees into
moving the new Physical Plant site.
A costly master plan study pinpointed
the most accesible spot, but the site was too
close to a livestock arena said Rouse, so his
friends on the Board ignored the professional
study and moved the plant site.
Then late fall quarter, seven of the 12
Trustees closeted secretly together and voted,
4-3, to commit $750,000 annually for 25 years to
expand the stadium.
That move drew the ire of several legislators
in Montgomery just last month, who quest on-ed
why Auburn spent alumni funds on a
stadium while President Philpott pleaded for
academic funding.
The legislators should have asked why
Trustees Robert Harris, Frank Samford and
Charles Smith, usually present at board
meetings, failed to show for the expansion
vote, or what kind of pressure Jordan and
others applied to squeak by with four "yea"
votes out of 12 trustees.
The legislators should have also wondered
that the expansion contract with Castle
Construction was inked only hours after the
four positive votes were recorded.
The Auburn University's Board of Trustees
in the last year alone has been pressured and
.n 'nipulated to vote for the special interests of
a few powerful people, probably harming
Auburn's long-range interests.
The trustees, and other state school boards,
also promote factions and disunity among the
state's higher institutions, just when a
comprehensive, united college planning and
funding scheme is demanded because of tight
money.
The Auburn University Board of Trustees
should be abolished, along with the other
boards, in favor of a state board of regents.
THE AUBURN
PLAINSMAN
Editorial Board members: Managing Editor, Scott Thurston; News Editor, VJckey
Hunt; Features Editor, Betsy Butgereit; Associate Editor, Becki Thomas; Sports
Editor, Chuck Anschutz; Entertainment Editor, Ford Risley and Editor, Dick Parker.
Tecrmical Editor, Don Sproul; Copy Editors, Beth Nicholson and Victoria Nelson;
Photographic Editor, Mark Almond; Art Director, Bill Holbrook and Intramurals Editor,
Buddy Davis.
Assistant News Editors, Lonnie Adamson and Kelly Kohler; Assistant Features
Editor, Peggy Sanford; Assistant Sports Editor, Barry Webne; Assistant Entertainment
Editor, Stephen K. Simpson; Assistant Technical Edtior, Steve Farish and Assistant
Photographic Editor, Jeff Hansard.
Business Manager, John Brinkerhoff; Associate Business Manager, Mike Sellers;
Local Advertising Route Manager, John Weatheriy; Advertising Layout Specialists,
Elaine Person, Susan Hettinger, Cindy Schrader, Nancy McKee and Rebecca Jones;
Advertising Salesmen, Dean Golden, Tim Hunt and Carol Ann Person.
Secretary, Joy Buf ford; Typesetters, Marilyn Kitchens, Connie Buf ford and Lorraine
Hyee.
Opinion
Thursday. May 3, 1979 A-5
Meet The Plainsman staff
•
Buddy
Davis
Of course we can't forget our most famous
moose, who has the distinction of getting a cow
elected, albeit as illegally as possible, to the
post of Miss Auburn. Next I think she plans to
elect a turkey president of the United States,
to replace the one that's currently serving.
In the business department, we have a shy
fellow who gets his kicks by stacking ads into
bizzare formations which make it almost
impossible to put any copy on them. His staff of
highly trained con artist go forth weekly into
the city trying to trick people into buying ads
which pay us poor lowly non-salesmen.
I wish I could think of something really
rotten to say about Joy, our secretary, like she
pulls the wings off flies or something, except I
haven't actually seen her do anything like that,
which is in itself suspicious.
The assistant features editor, we figure
deliberately lost a tennis match with our
editor-elect. I think she must either be bucking
for a bigger staff position or really be a terrible
player.
Speaking of next year's boss (bow your
heads, please) it is really difficult to describe
him. Someone who stays awake nights
dreaming up snappy things to say can't be
stable, and he's unstable even in his instability.
(If you understand that, we need people like
you. Apply now.)
Our present boss sort of likes labor, because
he has to publish this rag 30 times a year. He's
a really swell guy. I mean, gosh, how
down-home, cow-collegy can you get? Sort of
fits the atmosphere down here (especially after
the developer fluids start coagulating, a smell
that has to endured to be depreciated).
There are other people who appear, like
editor, a confused photographer who, in a fit of sharks to a sinking ship, only to fade away like
pique, volunteered for the job. And if you people who owe you money, which they usually
Some days I ask myself why I go through
what we all go through down here at The
Plainsman office. What kind of people would
work 40 or 50 hours a week for $11.
Eleven dollars a week doesn't go very far in
this world. It wouldn't be so bad, except that
my paperwork hasn't cleared the red tape yet.
tt will be another week before they pay me for
my past five weeks worth of labor.
The fact that some people get paid down
here came as a surprise to me, I expected to
5nd journalism majors who did this stuff just
a learn about putting out a newspaper.
There are many journalism majors down
lere, to learn, but they eventually gravitate
into paying positions.
I'm an aerospace engineer major, and our
photography editor is a pre-engineer. Which
eaves us rather confused at times, especially
when journalistic jargon comes into play.
"Why didn't you write skel lines? What do
you mean you don't know what a skel line is?"
You meet the darnest people down here.
There's "Chuckles", our wanton sports
sditor, who visits us on Wednesdays to see
liow we're progressing. Then there's one of the
moose" herd, a paranoid workaholic who
hinks Journalism is a disease.
Then there's our intrepid entertainment
do. Thirty cents for cokes adds up. Take our
resident Gadfly. (Please!) He lights himself
by appearing one evening a week to see if Dick
is going to print his indictment of whoever he
hates that particular week.
On the weekends, he goes to the big city of
Birmingham to catch up on his work, which has
something to do with professional journalism,
such a reporting on elections of cows to high
offices.
Somehow we've managed to steal a few
photographers from the Glom, so we have 23.
Since we really need only six, the rest have to
As for the newsroom itself, there is little to
be said. I'm not one to kick a dog when it's
down, no matter how mangy it is. Let's just
say that it is functional, although what the
function might be is open to conjecture.
Overall, its a unique experience down here,
and at 4 a.m., I'm willing to trade it all in for a
good night's sleep. Or even a good nap.
Hell, a daydream would be an even trade.
Letters policy
Letters to the editor should be 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.
really want to be freaked out, there's our
resident drug specialist who is trying for a
degree in mellow.
In our blossoming news department, the
usual gang of miscreants has been assembled.
Occasionally, one of them will accidentally trip
rato a news story, where they will become
msnared of the time-honored tradition of the
bureaucratic jungle's policy of spreading the
nost amount of confusion in the least amount
>f time.
In the news staff, several characters lurk,
rhere's another moose who has terminal be content to photograph the staff members in
writer's block, a confused Hobbit, a grouchy various awkward positions,
semi-married editoress and the faceless sea of
reporters who do most of our spying for us.
On the technical staff, we have a conserva­tive
freshman who thinks that the answer to
)ur over-population is to fry all those over 60.
ITien there's our "winged" tech ed who
subsists by ogling the female members of the
staff.
Under "Chuckles" in sports there's an
interesting fellow who has become amusingly
stereotyped in his behavior. On any given
ruesday, he will walk in, hurl curses at the
typewriter and storm out.
In the copyroom, our last in a series of
present proofers has fun watching our antics
through her "cage."
Our most valuable people are located in the
Typesetter's room, where a amorous band
member dispenses hugs and we have a weekly
contest to see how many new people we can
hire.
Glom reactions
Glom editor disappointed in election column
Editor, The Plainsman:
Mr. Parker, I'm disappointed in you.
Mr. Parker, you command a position of
respect. This respect comes from your intelli­gence
to view a situation and respond
accordingly.
According to your editorial of April 26, you
have lost my respect. You wrote on a subject
that you seem to know little or nothing about.
You did not go to all the sources, but instead
wrote a piece of biased journalism.
When you came to me and asked me about
the subject, you appeared concerned, and for
that, I am glad. You spoke with me for close to
45 minutes about the situation here at the
Glom and the one at The Plainsman. I told you
that there had been hard feelings, as there
would be after any election. I explained that
these feelings had been worked out and the
new Glomerata was starting to progress.
Mr. Parker, did you listen to a word I said?
I care about the Glomerata very much. It has
been a love-hate relationship, but I leave the
place knowing that we have gotten the job
done well. It hurts me, for you to accuse my
staff, many who had nothing to do with any
political campaigns, of being "the bunch of
little kids they are." The staff is broken down
into three groups: first the people who are
graduating, second those who will not return
because of personal or other reasons, and last
the people who will return, myself included.
Mr. Parker, I feel the members of my staff
are intelligent enough to make the decision for
themselves. They have given Auburn Uni­versity,
something many students don't give a
damn about.
Mr. Parker, "fun game, huh."
John Cook, 3GJM
Glomerata Editor 79
Business Manager '80
Editor should be appointed by board, not elected
Editor, The Plainsman:
Dick Parker's editorial last week only barely
touched the facts facing the Glomerata and
staff.
Each year personalities parley with each
other to win that beloved title of "editor."
Unfortunately, qualifications are only minimal
when it comes to the experience and know­ledge
needed to run a college yearbook. The
Board of Student Communications says you
have to have a year's experience on a campus
publication, a 1.0 g.p.a., and passed a certain
number of hours. But more than a year's
experience for the editor is needed to produce
a Glomerata. The job also requires an
experienced staff that has worked on a book of
its importance and size.
Experience and knowledge are gained as a
whole by a staff, not just an individual. And for
that reason alone the staff of the Glomerata,
like that of The Plainsman usually supports
one candidate each year to lead them.
Not because that person is the most
qualified and knowlegable, but because that
person is the sounding board, friend and one
individual the staff believes can pool their
resources and abilities to produce a good
Glomerata.
It is unfortunate that the staff can only voice
their support and cast only a single vote for
their candidate for editor.
As a past Glomerata editor, I think the staff
should have more voice in the choice of editor.
The choice shouldn't be left to a student body
who must only relay on campaigns.or to a
Communications Board that is either easily
swayed by political factors or knows neither of
the candidates.
Something should be done now to avoid the
bitterness that exists on both sides at the
Glomerata in the future, or the effects will
show in future yearbooks.
Mike Sellers,
Glomerata editor, 1978
Let's play the Plainsman editor game!
Editor, The Plainsman:
Let's play the Plainsman editor game!
Really, Dick Parker, I think you've overstep­ped
your bounds. As Plainsman editor, you
have a responsibility to consider all angles of a
controversy before taking an editorial stand.
I am disappointed in last week's column,
"Let's play the Glomerata editor game"
because you expressed an uninformed opinion
on a subject in which you have little
experience.
No, Dick, the Glomerata staff does not
function like the Plainsman staff, nor does it
desire to do so. The student body can evaluate
each contributor's work on The Plainsman
since the articles are signed and appear each
week, but the Glom is a one shot deal and we
work as a group to get each page in the final
form.
We can't sign our name to what we
contribute and it doesn't show up every week
so we can't get any feedback until it's too late.
The only people who know which staff member
is the most competent is the staff itself.
A great majority of the staff indicated that
they supported Curt LeVan for Glom editor.
Dick, I could hardly call this "telling everybody
how much they hated the little girl (LeVan's
opponent), and how bad they wanted to hit
her." Curt had an extremely good working
relationship with the staff and his opponent did
not.
The Glomerata staff does care what happens
to the Glom next year. That's why we
supported Curt LeVan and that's why we
reported his opponent's campaign violations.
Dick, I did not campaign for either candidate
and I have not been nasty to the editor-elect.
And yet you have taken it upon yourself to call
me and the rest of the Glom staff "children."
I won't be back next year, but it's not
because I "hate the little girl and want to hit
her." You see, the editor-elect has yet to
approach me about staying on the staff. As a
matter of fact, I heard today that she has found
a replacement for me. And you expect me to
come back next year? No way—I'm gonna take
my toys and play elsewhere...
David A. Strickland
Managing Editor,
Glomerata 1979
No one on the staff wanted to hit the little girl
Editor, The Plainsman:
Mr. Parker, as to your little fictitious fairy
tale which appeared in last week's paper
entitled, "Let's play the Glomerata editor
game," I would like to make a few remarks and
corrections.
Why should I, or any member of the 1979
Glomerata staff be insulted or made to feel
guilty by you for not wishing to work on the
Gomerata next year or for an editor which
some of us do not have confidence in? I feel
that we, the 1979 Glomerata staff, have
"loyally" served the Auburn students. And
contrary to your beliefs, we really don't want
the Glom to "go straight to hell." We do care
what happens.
As to your statement of, "all the little boys
and girls . . . wanted to hit her," that is a
flagrant out and out lie. No one on the staff, to
my knowledge, ever said they, "wanted to hit
her," or told anyone, "how much they hated
the little girl." What the staff told people what
that we felt Curt was more qualified. We also
stated that 11 out of 13 section editors and the
1979 and 1978 Glomerata editors supported
Curt. Fact not fiction.
You comment about the "neighborhood kids
went to the Student Senate and told how the
little girl had cheated" is exactly correct. After
the "little girl" committed the same campaign
violation, taping campaign literature to dormi­tory
doors, on three different occasions, after
having been warned not to do so by the
Elections Board, and then the Board not taking
any further action, our only alternative was
the Senate. The "little girl" did cheat!
The reason, Mr. Parker, that the, "old
gang," for the most part, has decided not to
work on next year's Glom is not as you put it,
"act like the bunch of little kids they are" but
because we feel betrayed. Instead of "inviting
all the other little boys and girls to play on her
team" the "little girl" went out and "got
friends from other neighborhoods to help her."
Now, after the election, she wants us to work
for her next year. She didn't need our help
back then, why does she want it now?
In the future, Mr. Parker, get all the facts
that have a bearing on the situation before
writing anymore uniformed, biased editorials.
It's been fun!
Meg Hooper, 4HRA
Cartoon was blatantly sexist
Cditor, The Plainsman:
The purpose of my letter is to bemoan the
nsulting implications of a cartoon that ran on
»age A-10 of last week's Plainsman next to an
rticle about improved job opportunities for
tusinesswomen.
The cartoon pictures an overly voluptuous
emale sauntering out of a job interview and
informing the dejected male applicants, who
slump over boxes of diplomas, that their
services will not be required. My complaint is
obvious, as are the cartoon's implications. I
r suggest that you refine your judgement in the
future.
Amy Dawes, 2GJM J2
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Remember Rat Caps?
Remember the Drill Field?
Remember Bugger Swaps?
Rememeber Biggio Flats?
Remember the Forestry Plots?
Well, anyway,
you remember that
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Alumni funds
Contributions enable better programs of growth in many areas
By Ann Weddington
Plainsman Staff Writer
Contributions from Auburn alumni play an important
"We have to support small groups such as the band
and help fraternities and sororities keep up with their
alums," Bradberry said. "We serve the students
part in upgrading Auburn and providing support for ^ j f f i S H t t E S ^ H S H E
the school.
The president's Annual Report states that overall
private support from alumni and friends topped the
all-time record established last year, with gifts of
cash, securities, equipment and real property totall­ing
$7,048,124 for 1978.
The Auburn Alumni Association benefits mostly
those students who are involved in campus groups that
need help keeping track of and corresponding with
their alumni.
Private support from alumni is important to the
school because, as President Harry M. Philpott says,
"it represents the frosting on the cake so to speak,
enabling us to have a better program of growth in
many areas."
Recently, money from Annual Giving, a mail
program asking for contributions from alums, and
money from specific fund raising programs have gone
to such things as constructing buildings for Veterinary
Medicine, Pharmacy and Music, financing student
loans, providing salary supplements for the endow­ment
of 15 professorships, and helping enable the
graduate program of the School of Business to become
accredited.
The School of Business Develpment Program has
reached $517,000 toward a goal of $831,000 and
probably couldn't afford the equipment and staffing
necessary to get the graduate business program
accredited without this support from the alumni.
G.L. "Buck" Bradberry, the Alumni Assocaition
executive director and also and director of develop­ment,
pointed out that to understand the different
aspects of alumni .contributions, one must know the
difference between the Alumni Association and the
Auburn University Foundation.
"The Alumni Association was officially set up by
former Auburn students in 1945, and has the twofold
objective of serving the University and enhancing it as
a school," Bradberry said. "There are old records of
an alumni association of sorts in the 1880s, but it was
not formally recorded."
From the $10 annual dues and $150 lifetime
membership fees of the Association's 22,069 active
members, $295,000 was taken in last year and went to
help support student organizations and
activity groups as they go out as alumni.
As another example of how the Alumni Association
helps students, Bradberry said that right now it is
working with Omicron Delta Kappa leadership
honorary to help manage a fundraising campaign to
set up and endowment fund for three scholarships.
According to its treasurer, Rhett Riley, also
University business manager, the Foundation is a
"self-perpetuating Board, organized for the exclusive
benefit of the University, but to receive contributions
from those not wishing to give directly to the
University, since it is a political entity with Trustees
appointed by the governor and might not have the
freedom to utilize the funds as the contributor might
wish."
to cultivate people and sell them on Auburn." Philpott
says. "But a great deal just depends on pure luck."
Ralph "Shug" Jordan, Board of Trustees member
and former head football Coach Emeritus, visits a few
alumni clubs a year, as does Philpott. Other members
of the athletic department are also favorite speakers.
"They feel I'm some sort of drawing card," Jordan
says. "This spring I'll visit several clubs, making
speeches to talk about the stadium expansion, whioh
I'm in favor of. and to encourage people to invest in
ticket priority seats."
feels a winning football team enhances
image and, therefore, increases contribu-
About 80 percent of given money is designated as to
how it is to be used, and people usually make their
contributions relative to where their interests were
when they were students here, Riley said.
Jordan
All the money from the Annual Giving Program Auburn's
goes to the Foundation, as do most of the funds, except tions to the school. He says that even though it's a sad
those from fund drives for specific projects. Riley said fact, something academically important, such as a
Annual Giving took in $700,000 last year. chemistry professor discovering a new element here,
_ • . . ... . . wouldn't gain as much recognition for Auburn as
Some large sums of money have been contributed Auburn's defeating Alabama in football,
for specific purposes. For instance, the largest
amount ever contributed by an individual-about $4 „j n e v e r t h h i t ht t o b e t h e ^ fllat
million-was from Mrs Eleanor Richey of Florida in m e d but f o o t b a l l > o r s o m e thlng has to be the
the late 1960son the advice of an Auburn student s c a t a l y s t t o g e t p e o p l e interested in the school," Jordan
father. said
Mrs. Richey wanted to do something to perpetuate
the care of small animals by leaving her money where
it would be the most beneficial. Her veterinarian, the
father of Auburn football star Tucker Fredrickson,
told her Auburn had an excellent vet school.
But why do alumni really want to contribute to
Auburn? An area alum and businessman contribute?
substantial amounts yearly. "I give because I've lived
a.r^'in'l hf»rp mo«;t nt mv lif** T w^nt *° cohrvol hert. and
I think Auburn needs special gifts." he said.
So Mrs. Richey provided in her will that her estate T h i s a l u m w n o p r efers to not be named, contributes
by left in trust until all of her 150 dogs died, so they m o n e y d i r e c t l y to the University and has done so in
would be provided for; after which the entire estate s e v e r a l areas, including scholarships. "There is an
would go to Auburn. Until this time Auburn would tremendous need for scholarship help to attract
In return for their donations to the Greater
Auburn Fund, which supports athletics, Bradberry
said alumni get priority in buying football tickets, and
"a chance to get together socially and share things
going on at Auburn."
The money that benefits the school and the students
most concretely is that which the alumni give directly
to the University, or in other words, to the Auburn
University Foundation.
receive the income from the trust
Bradberry says overall alumni contributions have
been increasing in the past few years and that the
Alumni Association is a strongly supported one. On a
percentage basis, Auburn comes in third in its number
of active memberships of alums for public universities
in the southeast.
It is behind only Texas A&M and Georgia Tech. In
overall private support to Southeastern public univer­sities,
Auburn ranks about sixth or seventh and is
usually first in Alabama.
How are all these people persuaded to contribute to
the school? "You just keep asking and do what you can
outstanding students. Providing some tuition for a
deserving student is what I like to help out with."
As Auburn's student body is growing faster than its
facilities, this alum believes it will be pointless,
eventually, for himself or anybody else to continue
contributing for scholarships or anything else because
' 'Nobody will get any good out of the scholarships if
there aren't adequate educational facilities, living
accommodatins, and parking spaces.
"And you can't just build a building here and one
there. I won't keep donating unless they come up with
a master plan to provide for growth where you're
going."
Cool weather saves about $40,000 in air conditioning costs
By Betsy Butgeriet
Features Editor
In the face of rising costs and
falling budgets, Auburn University
may have gotten a break from the
mild spring weather.
The University may have saved
more than $42,000 this fiscal year
over last year because the weather
hasnt warranted turning on the
air conditioning yet.
Director of Physical Plant Paul
Kearney said the University saves
$3,000 to $3,200 a day by not turning
the cooling system on.
' 'That's how much our bills jump
up when we turn the air condition­ing
on," Kearney said.
Kearney said the air conditioning
in 1978 was turned on April 18. As of
yesterday that meant the Univer­sity
had gone 14 days longer than
last year without air conditioning.
The University policy on air
conditioning says it won't be turned
on until outside temperatures
reach 80 degrees for three hours or
more on three consecutive days. i.
But the University isn't just
setting that much aside in a nice
cubbyhole. Kearney said physical
plant's spending is already running
about 25 percent more than its
allocated budget for the fiscal
year.
Kearney attributed this to fuel
adjustment costs and rising gas
prices.
Wholesale beef prices up 17 percent nationwide
By David Neel
Plainsman Staff Writer
Wholesale beef prises have in­creased
17 percent since January,
according to the United State De­partment
of Agriculture.
Experts say that prices went up
an average of 10 cents per pound
last week, with steak cuts seeing
the greastest increase, as usual.
Government agencies have pre­dicted
a 20 percent increase for
1979, but if prices continue to climb
at their present rate, beef will be 68
percent higher by year's end.
Dr. W.M. Warren, head of the
Animal and Dairy Sciences De­partment
said, "The increase in
beef prices is a simple case of
supply and demand."
Warren said that four years ago
a beef cattle surplus supplied 120
pounds of beef per person per year.
This oversupply drove beef prices
so low "cattlemen were losing
money hand over fist," said
Warren.
"Cattlemen were forced to
reduce the size of their herds."
Warren said, "and the reduction
has caused a beef shortage.
While beef prices are high at this
time, Warren said that he predicts
a price drop in the future.
If you are on a tight budget and
wondering what to do about meat,
experts say that pork and poultry
prices are relatively good at this
time and should be economical
substitutes for beef.
They recommend buying ground
beef, which can be stretched by
"Hamburger helper" type mixes
or personal innovation.
Stews made from lower cuts of
meat and leftover beef, well
padded with carrots, potatoes and
onions, are offered as another tasty
option.
Grocers add that products provi­ding
soup bases are now on the
market—all you do is add your
leftovers.
During summer months,
Kearney said the University's
Utility bills jump $80,000 to $100,000
or more per month depending on
outside temperature fluctuation.
Although the cooling system
hasn't been turned on campus
wide, Kearney said Physical Plant
is making an effort to air condition
events with large crowds of people.
The cooling system was turned
on in the Foy Union for Agriculture
Day and for certain lectures. It was
also turned on in Telfair Peet
Theatre during their recent per­formances.
Kearney said Physical Plant may
turn the air conditioning on in
dormitories soon despite the conti­nued
mild spring weather. He
doubts if it will be needed in office
and classroom buildings, though.
Kearney said he goes through
Haley Center several times a week,
checks the temperatures in the
inside classrooms that have no
windows for ventilation.
Kearney said the highest tem­peratures
he's recorded inside
been 81 degrees, which he consi­ders
comfortable.
He hopes the fair weather conti­nues.
"As long as it stays cool at
nighttime, and you get a chance for
those buildings to cool off, it will be
alright," Kearney said.
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A-7 Thursday, May 3, 1979 The Auburn Plainsman
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Rape: 'Close to death as you can be'
By Barbara Emaus
Plainsman Staff Writer
You, or someone close to you has
just been raped. Who? Why?
If it was like most rapes, it
probably happened in you own
home. You probably know your
attacker, and according to experts,
you might have even dated him.
In Lee County, you are most
likely to be between 13 and 40 years
old, although rapes have been
committed against infants and
persons in their 90's.
Pete Partins, coordinator of the
East Alabama Mental Health
Emergency Services said that
most rape victims tell her they felt
"as close to death as you can be
and still survive."
She said that the feeling is close
to the feeling of a person who lived
through an auto accident or a near
drowning.
Partins said that like most
persons who have had life threaten­ing
experiences, rape victims want
to talk about what happened to
them. "They want to be reassured
they are still alive," she said.
But rape victims don't always
have the usual outlets of family and
friends. They may feel too
ashamed to talk about the viola­tion,
or may even feel vaguely
guilty that they did not fight back
hard enough.
Some succumb to societal
notions that they somehow provok­ed
the attack, according to Dr.
Barry Burkhart, a specialist in the
study of rape.
For these reason, rape is seldom
reported. Burkhart estimated that
two out of three rapes go unreport­ed,
but the ratio may be as high as
nine out of ten.
If the victim decides to report the
rape, her first step will probably be
to call the police. The police will
take the woman to a hospital, if
necessary, and contact a counselor
from the East Alabama Mental
A s s o c i a t i o n ' s Emergency
Services. The service is avialable
24 hours a day.
The counselor stays with the
woman through the physical ex­amination
and sometimes even
through police questioning.
According to Partin, the Lee
County sheriff's department and
police department are usually
"very cooperative, concerned and
interested in helping."
If the woman is not able to go
home, the emergency services will
make sure she has a place to stay.
Partin says it is especially im­portant
that the woman does not go
home alone since she needs the
support of caring persons at this
time.
If the woman decides to take the
case to court, she will have a
meeting with District Attorney Ron
Myers in 12-24 hours. At this
meeting, Myers says he gives an
"upfront" explanation of what will
happen in court.
Myers says he doesn't do this
with most crime victims, but he
wants to "be sure she (the rape
victim) knows everything expected
of her" if the case should go to
trial.
"None have backed out when this
was done," he said.
The case then goes through
intensive pre-trial proceedings that
tries to establish whether there is
sufficient evidence against the sus­pect.
/
The process usually takes about
four months, Myers said. Teh
victim is expected to be present at
all proceedings.
If the case goes to trial, the
woman must be prepared for a
close examination of her private
life. The trial is open to the public
and the victim can be identified in
the media.
Myers said, however that few
people come to observe a trial
unless it is exceptionally sensa­tional,
and local newspapers have
agreed not to print the names of
rape victims.
Myers said the most Important
determinant of whether a rapist is
convicted is "the courage of the
woman."
"I have not lost a case yet where
a woman is willing to testify," he
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Burglaries on the upswing
By John Mangels
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. Spring in Auburn means base­ball,
beach weekends, graduation
and, according to Auburn police,
an increase in apartment burg­laries.
"Between quarter breaks are the
worst time," said Sgt. Ed Downing
of the Auburn Police Department,
"but weekends, especially holidays
when many residents leave town,
also bring an increase in burg­laries."
Downing said some thefts are
reported to police several days
after they occur, and others go
unreported.
"Our biggest problem, though, is
convincing students to take their
valuables with them in the first
place when they plan a trip," he
said.
According to Downing, a burg­lar's
priority list includes stero
equipment, televisions, cash,
jewelry and firearms. However,
some burglars are more unorth­odox
in their selection.
"I've seen some crazy reports,
everything from stolen food items
to sex nuts taking panties,"
Downing said.
"Probably the best protection an
apartment resident can buy is a
deadbolt lock," Downing said. He
said sliding glass doors and
windows were vulnerable areas,
but window locks and boards
placed in the tracks would help
discourage a potential thief.
Downing advised residents who
discover a burglary to get out of the
apartment and call police. "We tell
people not to touch anything on the
scene," Downing said.
"The decision to dust for finger­prints
is based on the amount of
physical evidence," he added.
Downing also advised residents
not to confront a burglar in their
apartment. "Most of these guys
are not armed, but you never know
what they might do," he said. "It's
best to get out as quietly as possible
and call the police."
According to Downing, police
efforts to reduce the number of
apartment thefts in Auburn include
extra patrols and the formation of
a crime prevention unit.
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in Auburn are relatively
easy for a determined burglar to
enter," Downing said. "If someone
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A-8 Thursday, May 3, 1979 The Auburn Plainsman
City's work nearly done
Businessmen continue downtown renovation
By Scott Thurston
Managing Editor
The city of Auburn's downtown
renovation, begun many years ago
on an informal basis, is almost
formally completed.
The washed gravel sidewalks,
wrought iron railings, old English
streetlamps and rounded inter­section
curbs have been set in
place. All that remains is to re­place
the power lines from which
stoplights are suspended with steel
poles.
Frank Scully, director of
community development for
Auburn, said the $635,000 project is
nearing completion and should be
finished within the month.
But according to Scully, as well
as nearly everyone else involved
with the project, even after the city
has spent its last dollar on the
renovation, the work will be far
from over. Apparently, it will be
time for the free enterprise system
to do its part to beautify Auburn.
"Hopefully the work the city has
done will encourage the property
owners to carry out whatever
changes to their stores they feel
necessary to carry out the village
theme," said Scully.
Scully was quick to add,
however, that while the city will
encourage storeowners to upgrade
their storefronts on their own, the
merchants are in no way obligated
to do so.
"When the city council approved
the plans for the renovation, most
of the downtown businessmen
supported the city's project, but
there is no obligation on their part
to do anything. What they do is
really up to them," he said.
Dr. Jack Taylor, executive dir­ector
of the Auburn Chamber of
Commerce, said the chamber Is
actively encouraging merchants to
make improvements.
He added that he feels since the
city went to the expense of reno­vating
the downtown area, "it is
the responsibility of the merchants
to make improvements.
"Obviously, the more attractive
the uptown area, the more business
It will attract," he said.
Many of the downtown business­men
apparently agree with Taylor
and have accepted their "respon­sibility."
Victor Vance, owner of Britewell
Shoes on North College Street,
already has completed improve­ments
to his storefront in the form
of a new canopy. .
According to Vance, when the
current city council approved the
city's project, there was an
"informal agreement" that the
storeowners would do their share
to Improve the looks of the down­town
area.
"We're trying to strike a basic
theme," he said. "Most of the
downtown buildings will lend
themselves to the traditional
village theme."
Vance said he knows of at least two
other merchants with definite
plans to upgrade and, "a couple of
otheres who've talked about it."
Vance also said he feels that
when a few owners have made
improvements, competition will
motivate more and more to follow
their lead. "The guy next door will
have to upgrade of get out," he
said.
Olin Hill, a longtime downtime
businessman and owner of Olin
Hill's Men's Furnishings, agreed
with Vance that the city project has
been beneficial to the community.
"It's the best thing tha's happened
to this town on a long time," he
said, adding that, "People from all
over hve noticed the change and
think it's great."
Hill said he has plans to refurbish
the exterior of his store sometime
in the near future.
Dennis Childs, owner of The
Bootery and past chairman of the
Downtown Merchants Committee,
said many downtown merchants
will have to improve the looks of
their stores "in self defense", but
that the change will be gradual.
Childs said the Merchant's
Committee has asked the same
architectural firm from Columbus
that did the plans for the city's
work, Neal, Greene and Clark, to
make suggestions to the mer­chants.
Childs said the firm is not charg­ing
for the consultation and that
Ed Neal, who is doing most of the
work, is an Auburn graduate who's
"doing out of his love for Auburn."
According to Paul
Weatherington, who works with
Neal, the firm has prepared a
sketch of the downtown area show­ing
how it will relate to the new
sidewalks and streetlamps. "The
changes we've suggested Involve
primarily the overhanging
canopies," said Weatherington.
Only one downtown merchant
contacted had any bad words for
the nearly completed renovation.
Frank Wideman of Furniture Mart
complained that the city, "has
been awfully slow. It ruined our
business last year, and they
haven't finished yet
Wideman also said the work had
blocked the parking space in front
of his store.
Wideman, who leases the build­ing
said he has no plans to upgrade
his storefront and that he's
currently trying to sell the
business.
The owner of the building, Mrs.
Lawerence Ennis of Auburn, said
she has no definite plans to
improve the looks of the building,
but added, "I want to do my part to
help, but I'm not sure what my part
Is yet.
One drastic change in the face of
downtown Auburn may occur
within the next years if the First
Alabama Bank obtains state comp­troller
approval to open a branch
or home office in Auburn.
Micheal Guy, vice president of
the bank's Notasulga branch, said
the bank now has an option to buy
property running from the current
site of the Baptist Student Union to
the corner of Glenn Avenue and
College Street.
Guy said if the bank's application
is approved by the comptroller's
office, the bank will immediately
open a temporary facility in "one
of the better existing buildings on
the property."
Guy added, however, that the
bank plans to eventually construct
an entirely new building on the
property.
RAMPS AND GRILLS
.Aid for handicapped as well a s aesthetics considered
Savage hopes other schools follow example
Pfwiogmpny:
PHONE BOOTHS PART OF PLAN
.Renovation to integrate all aspects of Auburn
By Kelly Kohler
Assistant News Editor
At the April 12 Board of Trustees
meeting, Auburn University led
universities and colleges across the
state in response to Gov. Fob
James' request for level funding in
higher education.
Members of the board voted in
agreement with a proposal pre­sented
by Morris Savage, a mem­ber
of the board and legal advisor
for the University, to work on a
budget to submit to the Legislature
that would request the same
amount of money they were appro­priated
last year.
Savage said, his proposal was not
a legal, binding contract," but
rather a verbal agreement bet­ween
James and the trustees.
Savage proposed that Auburn
would agree to ask for last year's
budget contingent upon two things.
One, that all universities and
colleges across the state would
follow suit and accept level fund­ing.
Savage said, this means "our
sister colleges will have to submit
their present budgets also."
Secondly, Savage proposed "a
good, hard look at higher education
by the Alabama Commission on
Higher Education (ACHE).
A close look by ACHE may be a
start in the direction of improving
post secondary education across
the state.
If another institution of higher
education should decide not to
follow suit and should propose a
larger budget to the legislature,
Savage said, "I don't know what
would happen. It would be each
institution for itself then."
The Legislature will vote on the
proposed budgets during its pre­sent
session.
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A-9 Thursday, May S, 1979 The Auburn Plainsman
Budget & Finance cuts Recreation budget $91, HI
By Steve Farish
Plainsman Staff Writer
The Student Budget and Finance
Committee has been holding
meetings this week, and has begun
to make tentative cuts in the
budgets requested by organiza­tions
supported by Student Activi­ties
Fees.
The proposed budget that has
suffered the most cuts so far is the
Recreational Services budget.
Director Claude Saia asked for
funding of $212,029 for 1979-1980, up
to $130,631 from last year.
Thus far, the committee has
reviewed $181,379 of Recreational
Service's budget, and has suggest­ed
$91,054 in cuts. The largest
suggested cut was one of $76,919 to
$52,000 for costs under the heading
of "supervision." A $4,000 cut was
also made in the recommended
fees for referees salary for next
year, bringing that total down to
$14,000.
Other proposed cuts in the Rec­reational
Services budget are in
the areas of equipment, trainers,
maintenance, supplies and
awards.
Some $28,900 of the Recreational
Services budget is still under study
by the committee. However, the
final tentative budget for the or­ganization
has been set at $90,325,
an- $8,927 increase over last year's
total budget.
The proposed budget for the
Glomerata received some exten­sive
cuts also. The yearbook re­quested
$105,675.75, a $7,334.75
increase from 1977-1978.
The committee tentatively re­jected
a request for a new $400
camera, and the photo supplies
budget was
$3,000.
cut from $3,200 to
Groups may pay for Union use
By Peggy Saaiford '
Plainsman Staff Writer
Conferences and those groups
which presently do not contribute
funds to the Union Building may oe
required in the future to nay for use
of its facilities, if Associate Union
Building Director Bud Smith has it
his way.
Conferences, which currently
pay nothing, constitute one of the
largest users of the facilities and
the greatest expeditures of sup­plies,
Smith said.
"The Union Building is close to
operating in the red" Smith said.
Student fees provide the largest
proportion of revenue for the build­ing,
about $7 of each student's
activity fees goes to the Union
Building.
"Student enrollment has not
grown substantially over the past
three years," he said. Therefore.
Union Building funds have not
increased enough to keep up with
inflation, he said.
The Union Building conducted a
survey last year into the cost of
labor needed to set up a room and
then to break it down and clean up.
The costs ran according to the size
of the room, but vary greatly
depending on the number of people
the room must be set up for, Smith
said.
The costs run about $15 a day for
a small room, $25 for a medium
room and $35 for the larger rooms.
The ballroom rent is $60 a day, but
costs for preparing it and cleaning
it up may run much higher, Smith
said.
Utility costs are not included in
these figures.
According to Smith, managerial
and staff positions have been cut
back in order to trim costs.
However, a point has been reached
where no more cutbacks can be
made, he said. "We are in a
position where users need to con­tribute
to the building's revenue."
"I think there's a positive feeling
by some who use the f acilities ona
regular basis that don't now con-
SGA debt
From page A-1
"I was definitely the one looking
into it for him," said Forester. She
declined to make further comment.
Burton said he notified Jeff
Stone, former SGA President,
about the outstanding debts as soon
as he found out about them himself
in "January or February" of this
year.
"I told him about the ones I
wasn't going to pay because I
wasn't sure we owed them the
money." he added.
"He could have gone over my
head if he had wanted to, but he left
it up to me, just like any other
outstanding debt," Burton added.
Burton added that he felt War
Eagle Cafeteria had made many
"billing mistakes." He cited an
incident where he received a bill
from War Eagle for which he had
no purchase order. Burton said the
SGA had been billed for a function
that never took place.
"The billing mistake resulted in
me believing we don't owe the
money," he said.
"There was also a lot of red
tape," said Burton. "We would
send vouchers request forms of the
SGA for funding of events from
Sfc-den t Affairs
"There was also a lot of red
tape," said Burton. "We would
send vouchers (request forms of
the SGA for funding of events from
Student Affairs) through and they
would be sent back for real bu­reaucratic
reasons."
Taylor said that Clay Howell,
SGA treasurer, was taking care of
the bills now and they would be
paid soon.
"I don't see any reason why we
don't owe that money, said Taylor.
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tribute and feel like they could
contribute a reasonable amount
and not hurt their programs,"
Smith said.
The extension services are a
good example, he added.
Charging room rent would
enable the Union Building to have
an income that would match ex­penditures,
Smith said. "As use
goes up, expenses go up" and
vice-versa.
For the Union Building to be able
to charge room rent the proposal
would first have to be presented to
the Union Board and
they i would have to
make a recommendation to Uni­versity
President Harry Philpott
who would have a final say, accord­ing
the Smith.
Small cuts totaling $90 were*
made in the areas of postage and
supplies from the University Book­store.
The proposed budget of the Uni­versity
Program Council, which
totalled $170,746.80, up $19,228.04
from last year, received only one
tentative cut.
Student Volunteer Services also
received only one tentative cut.
The committee trimmed the wage •
request of $368 down to $1,632. The
overall budget request of SVS was
$4,623, up from last year's $4,000
The committee felt that further
study was needed on the proposed
budget of The Circle, especially in
the area of printing costs. '.
If the Senate passes the budget, it
then will be sent to President
Philpott for final approval.
The committee has a total of
$507,210 in Student Activities funds
to dole out. The budget requests
originally totalled $653,086, $50,000
of which is available from profits of
the University Bookstore.
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Taylor
Parking, landlords, food services and Stone's projects are future SGA interests
By Myra Hunter
Plainsman Staff Writer
The run-off controversy about MCIII
the SGA presidential election will g a id
not affect his administration,
newly elected President Ron
Taylor said last week. Taylor's
73-vote run-off victory over Dave
Harris indicates how evenly the
vote was split between the two
candidates.
"I'm sure he (Harris) still feels
he is best for the job and I respect
that opinion. But I feel I'm best for
the job or else I wouldn't have
run," Taylor said.
The area that most obviously
needs attention is the traffic situa­tion,
Taylor said. "The best way to
get something done is to get
students on the University Traffic
and Parking Committee who are
willing to spend more time creat­ing
and presenting solutions to the
committee," he said.
Taylor also wants to publicize the
Landlord and Tenant Advisory
Board, composed of six-members
of the Lee County Board of Real­tors
and three student members.
| The board is designed as a medi­tating
force for students and land­lords.
"If there's no reason for a high
price, then it should be changed. If
there are reasons, then the stu­dents
should know them," Taylor
Another area Taylor is concern-.
ed about is Food Services. He said
food service personnel are very
cooperative with him in his efforts
to explain to students why food
students based on merit rather ment, Taylor said. Elections are
than financial need. "Some held now between spring and
scholarships were started this summer quarters when most stu-year,
but there should be more,'' he dents are away,
said.
Taylor is making minor cabinet
changes to utilize manpower more
efficiently, he said. The directors
of the Traffic and Parking Com­mittee
and Athletics and Recrea­tion
Committee are being moved
from the student senate into the
cabinet.
The director of Off-Campus Life
is being combined with the Secre­tary
of Student Life and the direc­tors
of Student Health and Student
Welfare are being combined.
The changes are made according
to how many well qualified persons
are available for the jobs. Tavlor
said. In only two days of interview­ing
for cabinet positions last week,
the president spoke with 86 appli­cants.
After the initial confusion
organizing the administration,
Taylor said he plans to be available
to students as much as possible,
because, he believes, "A major
part of being SGA president is to be
available to students."
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landlord and tenant, they can go to
the board for assistance before
resorting to a court visit. "Not
enough people know about the
board or think it will do them any
good," Taylor said.
With the year ahead of him,
Taylor's main objective is to make
his administration successful and
useful to students, he said. He said
several projects will receive his
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Other areas needing attention
are inadequately marked railroad
crossings and flre-hazad dorms, he
said.
Taylor plans to continue work on
several projects from former pre­sident
Jeff Stone's administration.
One of Stone's pet projects, the
proposed Student Activity Building
which the Board of Trustees has
said they would approve lacks only
the final details, Taylor said. "I
don't want anything to go wrong
between now and when it's built,"
he said.
prices are the "way they are." The SGA will also continue its
drive to have the date of city
Taylor also wants to make more elections changed so more students
academic scholarships available to can participate in local govern-
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A l l Thursday, May 3, 1979 Ihe Auburn Plainsman
Library's theft, vandalism bad, could be worse
By David Nell
Plainsman Staff Writer
Theft and vandalism are a pro­blem
at Draughon Library, but
University librarian Dr. William
C. Highfill said Auburn's troubles
are far beneath the national aver­age
for university libraries.
"Auburn had a loss rate of
approximately two percent per
year in recently acquired popular
vandalized to a degree.
"Window and door glass is
broken at least once each year,''
Highfill said.
He said someone made a mess
early this spring by throwing a full
can of beer through an open second
story window.
Highfill said there are three
major ways in which library ma­terial
is lost.
Maureen Harris, head of Social
Sciences on floor three, said that
popular materials and materials
necessary for various research
subjects are most prone to turn up
missing.
"Books about art, sports and
hobbies-books students would like
to keep, also vanish," she said.
Highfill, Harris and Caroline
Persons, a librarian in the Science
Highfill requested that students
discovering damaged' material
show it to a librarian so it can be
repaired.
Harris said that straight theft of
books and mutilation of material is
not on the rampage, but is some­what
of a problem.
She and Persons said they have
solved many problems by learing
which books to hold behind the
department desks, auto repair
manuals and medical dictionaries
for example.
They also request better coop­eration
from professors who assign
reading from certain books, asking
they at least warn the library and
they would prefer the books be
placed on reserve, so they won't
disappear.
Persons said that certain books,
especially those on computer tech­nology,
disappear early in the
quarter, and return at its end:
cases of short term theft or un­official
cheching out.
Harris said many books are
checked out and not returned by
mistake; students misplace the
books or think them returned.
"We have recieved books from
former students after 10 or 15
years," she said.
Highfill said the library is step­ping
up efforts to get books back,
and has set up procedures, such
as checkers at the doors, to dis­courage
theft. But those who want
to steal will always manage to find
a way, he added.
"If the students who do this
would just take the time to think,"
Persons said, "they'd realize they
are hurting themselves, their fel­low
students and those students
who will come after them."
CHECKING OUT FOR GOOD?
.Some books are stolen for shorts periods, others are never returned.
Photography: Tad I
material," Highfill said.
Highfill said that this is ex­tremely
low when compared to
Eastern universities in urban
areas.
"The City College of New York
has a loss rate of 20 percent per
year," he said.
Highfill said that book loss and
building damage cost the library
several thousand dollars a year,
and while much of the cost is
covered by overdue fines and
reimbursement for lost or
damaged books, the fine money
would be better spent on new
material.
Highfill said the building itself is
The first is the loss of a book that
was properly checked out but
never returned by the borrower.
Second is the damage or destruc­tion
of a book by an accident, such
as dropping the book while reading
in the bathtub.
Third is theft of material from
within the building,
Highfill said the first two are
normally paid for be the students,
but the third is not.
Periodicals such as "Time" and
"Newsweek" are robbed of pages
frequently. "We subscribe to many
periodicals on microfilm.as we
know the original copies will be
ruined, "he said.
First 'Aubie the Tiger9
chosen by committee
and Technology department on the
Fourth floor, agreed the worst theft
problem is caused by the "Razor-blade
bandits," who cut articles
from bound periodicals.
"It's just plain selfishness and
thoughtlessness. If they took time
to consider, they probalbly wouln't
do it, "Persons said.
Highfill said that photocopy
machines are present so students
can copy such material. The price
per copy was lowered to five cents
a few years ago, bringing use to
over one-million copies per year,
and also helping cut back thefts.
He said it is frustrating that
students steal the information to
save a nickle or a minute and cause
the library and other students so
much trouble.
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By Amy Leopard
Plainsman Staff Writer
Barry Mask, a sophmore in
Public Administration, was chosen
the first 'Aubie the Tiger mascot'
by a committee of students, faculty
and alumni Tuesday.
Mask, from Montgomery, was
chosen from 18 contestants in a
two-day selection process.
According to James Floyd, SGA
Director of Spirit, the applicants
auditioned with their own routine
to The Tiger Rag. The routines
were judged on creation, inno­vation
and rapport with the crowd.
The eight semi-finalists were then
judged in a personal interview on
the basis of neatness, aggression
and intelligence, Floyd said.
According to Mask, his duties
will include more than promoting
Auburn spirit at football games.
"I will be promoting Auburn on
ind off the field. Aubie will attend
ilumni functions and talk with
ilumni on a one-to-one basis. In
iddition, I will promote myself as
veil as Auburn. Whether in my
costume or out, people will know
me as Aubie, the Tiger."
Upon hearing the announcement
Tuesday night at 7:30 p.m. at
Toomer's Corner, Mask jumped up
and down and hugged his first
alternate-Vicki Leach, a freshman
in early childhood education.
Mask said he has grown up in the
Auburn area, and when he heard
Aubie's shoes needed to be filled,
he saidt"I knew that's what I
wanted to be."
He promised the people he beat
he wouldn't let them down.
Leach is one of the two alternates
chosen. The unusual number of
alternates was accounted for be­cause
Aubie will be asked to attend
an unusually high number of
events.
The other alternate is Bob
Harris, curriculum unknown.
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The Auburn Plainsman Thursday, May 3, 1979
A-Day
Forty walk-ons will help keep A U tradition
Photography: Bruce Hyw
FANCY FOOTWORK
.Running back James Brooks (21) shows ids stuff at Saturday's A-Day game
By Barry Webne
Assistant Sports Editor
The Auburn Tigers will play their
annual A-Day football game this
Saturday at Jordan-Hare stadium,
and Head Auburn Football Coach
Doug Barfield is hoping for a
constructive and controlled scrim­mage.
Auburn spectators will have a
chance to view the candidates for
back-up quarterback on the team.
In the running is Joe Sullivan,
Charles Thomas and Mike Blanch-ard.
"Mike Blanchard was having a
good day in our last scrimmage
before he got a hip-pointer. Charles
Thomas then came on strong in the
second half and moved the team
well," said Barfield.
Along with Auburn's regular
football squad, the Tigers will field
some 40 walk-on players who are in
the race for athletic scholarships
this season.
Assistant Auburn football Coach
Joe Conally said, "At the beginning
of the spring workouts there were
about 50 walk-on players, not it has
trimmed down to about 40."
Barfield said, "There are quite a
few walk-ons this year, a lot have
quit the squad, but there are still
several out at practice and they
seem to be doing well. I'm afraid to
start naming people in fear of
leaving someone out."
Barfield said among his top
walk-on players this year is Johnny
Green who is looking good at the
defensive back position along with
Alan Bollinger who has been the
back-up kicker for the team.
"Alan Bollinger has been kicking
well, he has a strong leg and he can
both punt and place-kick the foot­ball,"
said Barfield. "There are
others who have showed well at
practice. At the linebacker position
is Joe Vide and Doug Taylor has
looked good as a defensive back."
Barfield also pointed out that
Scott Riley has performed well at
the defensive end spot while nose-guard
Mike Lehey has looked good
as a lineman.
"Andy Beno has also played well
at practice," said Barfield. "Beno
has been playing the receiver and
defensive secondary positions."
Barfield commented that after
the A-Day game this weekend, the
Auburn coaches will be able to
evaluate the team better.
"I don't think the A-Day game
will be so spectacular, we are
limited to the number of players we
can use because of all the injuries.
What we are looking for though, is
a controlled and constructive
scrimmage, a good scrimmage."
Barfield said although spring
practice is almost at an end, he is
still undecided about which walk-on
players will get athletic scholar­ships.
"By the time fall comes around
we are supposed to have 95 football
players on the roster, from one to
four of these scholarships will be
given to walk-ons."
Conally said, "We can't give all
four of the scholarships now be­cause
in the fall we will have about
100 new walk-on players join the
squad, most of these will be fresh­men,
and we need to look at them
closely."
Barfield added, "We have four
scholarships left to award, and
right now we are over the 95
players. We may not use all four
scholarships this fall, but save
them for the incoming freshmen."
The annual Auburn event will
begin at 1:30 p.m. at the stadium.
This year's half-time festivities
include the presentation of the Cliff
Hare Award to Jeff Gray by
Auburn president Harry M. Phil-pott,
presentation of Miss A-Day
and presentation of the Ralph
Jordan Award by Ralph Jordan.
Admission to the scrimmage is $1
for Auburn students and $3 for
guests.
South African adds class to Tiger tennis team
By Becky Hopf
Plainsman Sportswriter
Derek Tarr is becoming a legend
in his own time. In one full season
and a part of another, Derek Tarr
has done more for Auburn tennis
than any other player in Auburn
history.
Auburn's top tennis player cap­tured
the number four singles title
at the SEC championships in
Lexington, Ky., last spring to
become the first tennis player in
Auburn history to do so.
"That championship came at a
very opportune time," said Auburn
Head Tennis Coach Steve Beeland.
"The win gave Auburn a sixth
place finish in the SEC champion­ships,
and it also gave Auburn
enough points to win the SEC
All-Sports trophy.
"It let a lot of people know that
Auburn had a tennis program, and
it took the steps needed to establish
Auburn as a tennis power in the
South."
The high finish in the SEC
tournament was not the only
Auburn record Tarr broke last
year as a freshamn.
Tarr, seeded at number four on
the team last year, won 21 of his
last 22 regular season matches. He
ended the season with a 23-4 overall
record which is also an Auburn
tennis record.
He played number two at doubles
where his team finished the season
17-6 and made it to the SEC finals.
"I felt good about last year,"
said the East London, South
African native. "I was 23-4 and won
the conference. This year I've
improved mentally. I've gotten
more confidence, and I'm winning
matches."
And winning matches is nothing
unusual for the blond competitor.
Tarr won both the flOrida Clay
Court Open in Miami, Fla., and the
Bancroft Classic in Atlanta, Ga.,
this summer. He finished second in
the Bancroft Championships and
the Georgia State Hardcourt Tour­nament.
"Over the summer I played a lot
of other number one college
players and beat them. It gave me
confidence because I knew I'd play
them again during our season here.
I felt that if I could beat them once,
I could beat them again,'' said Tarr
referring to the sudden switch from
the number four player for Auburn
last season to the number one
position this season.
So how does someone grow up to
be a Derek Tarr? "I started
playing tennis when I was 5," said
Tarr. "My parents used to play
socially. I used to watch them play.
When I was young, I just played
against my age group and just
competed. As I got older, I thought
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Attitude is key to enjoying
annual A-Day football game
By Chuck Anschutz
Sports Editor
To tell the truth, past A-Day
games have had a tendancy to bore
the heck out of me. It's not that I
don't like watching our football
team. I guess that the contest just
isn't what it's made out to be.
It has all the build-up of a real
game. You know, with the cheer­leaders,
open consession stands
and admission fee, one might even
be fooled into thinking he's going to
be watching a real game.
Unfortunately for those who
might be mislead, what we'll see
Saturday is an exhibition of our
players, not a game. The big
difference is nobody really cares
who wins.
Attitude is the key to enjoying
A-Day. If one goes into the game
expecting to be filled with all the
excitement of a regular season
game, one is likely to be dissap-pointed.
Saturday will however, be an
excellent opportunity to check out
the strength and depth of our
Tigers. I'll be seeking the answers
to a few questions. Has James
Brooks revived his agility and
quickness? Is our defensive secon­dary
as bad as everyone fears?
Can Charlie Trotman improve his
passing game? And which new­comers
are potential stars?
Odds and ends
Basketball coach Sonny Smith
made another impressive showing
In this
comer
about making a living out of it and
playing the circuit."
Tarr was recruited from his
home town of East London, South
Africa by Beeland. Tarr's coach
there, John Hammill, know
Beeland from playing tennis in
college, and Beeland told Hammill
he was interested in looking at
some of the players from South
Africa.
Tarr was also recruited by the
University of-Texas and the Uni­versity
of San Diego. He said he
chose Auburn because his coach
knew Beeland, and he didn't know
the other coaches. He said he is
happy with tha decision.
Auburn is happy with that deci­sion,
too. Tarr is an aggressive
competitor, and he holds this philo­sophy
about playing:
"When a player is on the court,
all he thinks about is winning. He
should always think aheda to the
next point. Even if he's losing, he
should just play for each point."
Concentration is essential to
playing good tennis, and this con­centration
can be broken by noise
from the crowd. Auburn's tennis
fans have been know to get very
involved in the matches.
"The noise has more effect ont he
other guy," said Tarr. "You've got
to get used to it. You've just got to
not even think about it."
Winning is important to every
athlete, and while each victory is
sweet, one may stand out more that
another.
"My best win this year was
against South Carolina, against a
boy who was Ail-American. I felt I
played a good match. I didn't make
any mistakes. I was very pleased
with my game that day."
Tarr is the second oldest in a
family with six children. One of his
brothers, 14, has started to play
tennis competitively.
South Africa is a long way from
Auburn, and Tarr admits that
sometimes he finds himself
missing home.
"Sometimes I think about my
family, and I miss them. But I thry
not to think about it."
Tarr made his first trip to the
United states and to Auburn last
January when he came here to play
tennis. He went home for the first
time this past Christmas, and he
played South Africa's Sugar
Circuit during the break from
classes.
This summer he plans to play the
pro circuit in Europe.
Tennis takes up a lot of time in
Tarr's life. To be good, he must
practice. "The main thing in my
training is to practice as hard as I
can about three hours every day. I
use the practice to develop skills. If
I think I'm getting stale-and that
happens from overplaying-I'U take
a few days break, but never more
than two or three? I helps to take
two days off."
Because tennis takes so much
time, Tarr said he doesn't get
involved in other clubs and activi­ties.
"I came here to improve my
tennis."
He's won many tennis trophies
and awards, but said Tarr, "My
main award is winning."
"I'd like to have a career in
tennis," said the soft spoken Tarr,
"but I've got to be realistic about
it. I'll go on the circuit for three
years. If I haven't made enough
money be then, then I'll quit and
teach it."
Photography: Bruce Hyer
CLUTCH PLAYER
...Derek Tarr wins as Auburn's number one player
New coaches to be broken in on Saturday
last week at the annual basketball
awards banquet. His outlook for
the future was especially encoura­ging.
Smith talked about his new
recruits but never mentioned sta­tistics.
"You can read about those
in the paper," he said. Instead he
boasted about character and off the
court performance. Hearing about
each of the newcomers, I was
impressed.
Award winners at the banquet
were Bubba Price (Andrew Gentry
free throw percentage award and
William Fickling assist Award),
Rich Valavicius (Doyle Haynes
field goal percentage award and
the Paul Lambert most dedicated
player award), Bobby Cattage
(Rex Frederick rebound award),
Mark Barnhizer (Roy B. Sewell
Scholarship award) and Kirk
Powers (Henry Steagall outstand­ing
senior award).
Houston Rockets Assistant
Coach Del Harris, a long time
friend of Smith's was the guest:
speaker. His positive, winning atti­tude
was one characteristic the two
coaches had in common.
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By Ed Moore
Plainsman Sportswriter
Saturday's A-Day game will not
only feature walk ons and reserves
battling for a starting spot, but
Auburn's new coaches will make
their debut as well.
The coaching staff has under­gone
some changes during the
winter and the two new coaches
that have been hired should help
the football fortunes of the Tigers
next season.
Offensive Line Coach Alex Gibbs
and Defensive Secondary Coach
S.E. Sullins are the two new
additions to the plains.
The two are not lacking cred­entials.
Last season Gibbs was the
offensive coordinator at
Mississippi State.
The positions became open last
fall when Offensive Coordinator
Dal Shealy left the team to take a
similar position at Iowa State and
Offensive Line Coach Jim King left
to take the same position at
Florida.
The annual spring game will
begin with these coaching line-ups:
Gibbs will coach the offensive line
and call many of the plays; Tim
Christian will coach quarterbacks
and call plays; Dave Beck, running
backs; Larry Blakeney, wide
receivers; Paul Davis, kickers and
tightends; Buddy Nix, linbackers
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GIBBS (L) AND SULLINS
.New Coaches fit in well at Auburn
and defensive ends; Sullins,
secondary; P.W. Underwood,
defensive line; and Head Coach
Doug Barfield.
"Gibbs is a good coach, he's real
professional," offensive lineman
Jim Sktuhan said. "That's what I
like about him. On the field he's all
business. He's hardnosed on the
field, but off the field we can kid
around with him. With some
coaches you can't do that, you
avoid them off the field, but not
with him. He's won a lot of people
this spring. I think we've had
better play calling than last year,
he knows how to mix it up well."
Gibbs has been described as a
Vince Lombard! type; he works
players hard, doesn't show favorit­ism
and rides the players on the
field, but is their friend off. He
appeals to the players emotions
and works as hard as they do.
"He's a fine coach, he really
knows his stuff," offensive line­man
George Stephenson said.
"He's a very emotional coach,
which is different that what we've
had. He motivates the players on
the field. It's been harder than
what we're used to, and he
demands a lot from us. He has a
good idea of the offense, he under­stands
it. Gibbs will help out
overall offensive game."
Sullins is another hard worker
that should help the team. He
coached at Mississippi State for six
seasons before coming to Auburn.
"He's dedicated and a real hard
worker," defensive back Bob
Harris said. "He's going to help the
program a lot. I like him, he's a
good coach."
At the time of his hiring Sullins
said, "I have always admired the
athletic program at Auburn and I
am looking forward to being here.
Coach Barfield has done an out­standing
job."
"This is a great opportunity to
return to my native South," Gibbs
said. "I am looking forward to
working for a coach, and in a
conference, that I deeply respect."
Tiger fans are looking forward to
watching the results of their efforts
and will see a hint of what's to
come Saturday.
Both coaches are 38, married and
have three children.
A-Day tickets
A-Day tickets will be on sale
before game time (1:30 p.m.
Saturday) on the east side of the
stadium only. Guest tickets are
$3 and student tickets are $1 with
an Auburn I.D. All tickets are
general admission and, because
of the stadium construction,
only the east side gates will be
open. Consession stands will be
open for the game.
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