1980-05-15 The Auburn Plainsman

              How humane is city shelter ?
By Peggy Wilhide
Plainsman Staff writer
The Auburn City Animal Shelter, located off
North Donahue down a winding dirt road
behind a garbage dump, may be one of the
most unattractive sights and smells in
Auburn.
Inside the small shelter an animal control
officer is watching television. Outside two
dead puppies lie in a cage gathering flies
while half a dozen other puppies clamor for
space. The dead puppies are finally removed
when a photographer begins taking pictures.
"There are approximately 15 dogs in the
pound at a time," said Animal Patrol Officer
Jeroy Perry. However, the condition of the
dog pound has been the subject of numerous
complaints by dog owners and the Lee County
Humane Society.
Edgar Glyde, president of the Society,
makes periodic visits to the Auburn Animal
Shelter. He said it is not uncommon to find
dead puppies in the cages. "I've even found
one dog with a broken leg," he said.
The Humane Society's main concern is the
lack of veterinary care provided by the
Auburn City Shelter. Glyde said the Lee
County Humane Society spent over $3,000
annually for veterinary care of their animals,
while the Auburn City pound spent only $224
per year.
Last December the Society presented the
Auburn City Council with a proposal to
improve the conditions of the Auburn
animal shelter. The Humane Society offered
to keep the dogs in their facilities if the
city of Auburn would continue to provide
dogcatching services to the community.
The cost of the four-year contract is
estimated at $25,810 per year, with continuing
costs estimate at about $ 13,400.
The plan includes a new building for the
Auburn city shelter located at the Lee County
facility. The plans are "too elaborate to
comment extensively on," said Glyde.
"The Lee County facility is a very good
shelter," said Dr. W.C. Neely, a member of
the Humane Society board of directors. It is a
much better facility than the shelter at
Auburn. Even the city council agrees to that!"
The proposal was referred to the Public
Safety Committee to investigate the financial
aspects of the proposal. Mary Brooks, chair­man
of the committee, said the committee
hasn't reached any decisions yet.
"Personally, I think that it is a procrastina­tion
game dealing in city politics," said Dr.
Neely.
City Councilman Denson Lipscomb said
"the decision probably would be made based
on next year's budget. Intially, until the
construction is completed, the proposal will
cost a little more. After that, the cost and
maintenance would be very comparable to
what the city is paying now."
Weely said the "long term care provided by
the Lee County facility would not be more, but
less than the city of Auburn is spending now."
Lipscomb said he felt it would be more
productive to accept the Humane Society's
proposal than to try to improve the present
conditions of the Auburn Shelter.
See DOGS page 3
Photography: Mark Almond
A YAWN OR A YELL FOR HELP?
.conditions at Auburn dog pound coming under fire
THE AUBURN
PLAINSMAN Volume 86 Number 24 Thursday, May 15, 1980 Auburn, Ala. 36849 20 pages
Alabama legislature
to confer on funding
Gloms are here! Photography: Mai* Almond
Glom distribution means yet another wait in line
for Auburn students, but the results are evidently
worth the wait. According to Glom Editor Claudia
Harris, some 6,600 students picked up their look at
the past year yesterday despite rainy weather.
Distribution will continue today and tomorrow in
front of the Glom office in the basement of the Foy
Union.
By John Mangels
Assistant News Editor
Alabama's $1,369 billion educa­tion
appropriations bill which
would give Auburn $61.6 million
cleared the House late last week
following approval by the House
Ways and Means Committee.
The bill has now passed both
houses of the Legislature and is
in the hands of a conference
committee. The committee must
work out differences between the
House and Senate versions of the
proposal, and is expected to make
its final report on May 19, the last
day of the regular legislative
session.
Senate and House versions of
the education appropriations bill
differed by approximately $5
million, but the amount of money
appropriated for Auburn is the
same in each version.
If the conferees reach
agreement and the Legislature
passes the bill under considera­tion,
Monday, the University will
receive $61.6 million in state
funding. That amount is $15.7 less
than the $77.3 originally
requested by the administration.
The $61.6 million figure
includes $43.1 million for the
general fund, $8.3 for the agricul­tural
Experiment Station and
$10.2 million for the Cooperative
Extension Service. Auburn Uni­versity
at Montgomery would
receive $6.7 million under the
proposed bill.
The appropriations bill now
being considered by the confe­rence
committee is one favored
by House leaders. An almost-identical
bill was defeated in the
House in mid-April.
Senate members of the confe­rence
committee are Sen. J.
Richmond Pearson of
Birmingham. Sen. G.J.
See BUDGET page 2
Senate passes bill
to back president
Registration begins Tuesday
By Jo Beth McDaniel
Plainsman Staff writer
After years of attempts,
Auburn students can begin their
role in the decision-making pro­cess
of the city government on
Tuesday, May 20.
Lee County registrars will be in
Foy Union lobby from 9 a.m. to 4
p.m. to register voters, making
them eligible to vote in city, state
and national elections, including
the Auburn city elections.
A registration drive called
R.A.C.E. or Register for Auburn
City Elections, will be encourag­ing
students and faculty to
register throughout the week.
According to Kurt Furst,
special assistant to the SGA pre­sident
and coordinator of the
drive, "Any student who has felt
cheated or has been affected by
any of the laws enacted by the
City Council should make sure to
register and vote in the city
elections this summer.
"The only way things will
change is if students show the
City Council that they are tired of
being treated like second-class
citizens and are serious about
changing things."
City elections are held once
every four years in Auburn. The
mayor, president of the council
and eight members are chosen.
Two council members, or alder­men,
are elected from each of the
four districts.
"Auburn students have the
power to change city election
results," Furst said. "Every
student's vote counts more in this
election.
"If we had 2,500 votes, we'd
have the deciding vote in four City
Council positions-the mayor, pre­sident
of the council and the two
council members in District 2."
In past years, District 2, which
includes the* University campus
and surrounding areas, has had
low voter participation. One
reason is because students were
not in school during the city
election, which was held in the
break between Summer and Fall
quarters.
The Alabama State Legislature
recently passed a law changing
city election dates to avoid con­flict
with state primaries.
Auburn's new city election date is
July 8, during Summer quarter
when almost half of the student
body is expected to be enrolled in
school.
All United States citizens at
least 18 years of age who have
lived in Auburn for more than 30
days are eligible to vote in
Auburn city elections. Students
not attending summer school may
vote by absentee ballot.
Absentee requests accepted
The City of Auburn is accepting
applications for absentee ballots
for the municipal election to be
held July 8. They will not be
accepted after July 3, although
the completed ballots may be
filed with the City Manager until
July 8.
Any registered and qualified
voter who expects to be absent
from Auburn on July 8 may cast
an absentee ballot. To be quali­fied
for the ballot, a voter must
have lived in Auburn at least 30
days prior to the election date.
Handicapped people may also
vote absentee. They can call the
Absentee Clerk at the City Hall,
821-1900. A city employer will take
an application to the person. A
physician must certify that the
person is unable to travel to the
polls.
Applications for all other people
must be made in writing to the
City Manger. The applications
can be taken to the City Hall or
mailed to P.O. Box 511, Auburn,
By Steve Farish
Plainsman Staff writer
The University Senate broke a
stalemate Tuesday and passed a
resolution welcoming new presi­dent
Hanly Funderburk to
Auburn.
An effort to amend the resolu­tion
by striking the phrase the
Senate "extends its congratula­tions
to Dr. Funderburk" was
defeated by only one vote.
One member of the Senate
complained, "I feel like the
people congratulating the woman
who won the race in Boston"
(Rosey Ruiz won the first place
for women in the Boston Mara­thon
recently, but she was dis­qualified
later when it was
learned she had cheated).
Former Senate Chairman
Cooper King disagreed. He said
the faculty needed to get behind
the new president, and this would
be a natural way to show it.
Another senator said he protest­ed
the process by which Funder­burk
was picked and not the
choice of the man himself.
The entire resolution was
tabled at an April 8 meeting of the
Senate when several members
objected to it.
The Senate "extends its congra­tulations
to Dr. Funderburk and
pledges to him its full suport in his
future efforts for the continuing
betterment of the University,"
the resolution read.
In other business, the Senate
passed another resolution calling
for the chairman of the Senate to
be placed on both the Administra­tive
and Executive Councils.
The Administrative Council
makes policy recommendations
to the president, Senate Chair­man
Sara Hudson said. The Exe­cutive
Council is a committee that
was set up last week by Funder­burk.
It will have the power to
make policy.
Hudson said it was her impres­sion
that the Executive Council is
only a temporary committee,
while the Adminstrative Council
is permanent.
Another resolution calling for
measures to be taken "so that the
implimentation of the procedure
reducing periodical holdings (of
the library) will not be necessary'.'
Library Director William
Highfill predicted that $75,000 in
subscriptions of the library will
have to be discontinued without
financial aid. He said the figure
amounted to approximately 10
percent of the library's present
amount of subscriptions.
A final resolution considered by
the Senate which would give
greater faculty influence "in de­termining
the budgetary priori­ties
of the University" was tabled
for consideration at a later date.
An election was held during the
meeting to fill two vacancies of
the Senate's Rules Committee.
Gordon Bond of the history de­partment
and Joe Boland of the
electrical engineering depart­ment
were elected.
See ABSENTEE page 2 I p o j p j p
Campus police still investigating coed attack
By Anne Harvey
News Editor
Campus police are still search­ing
for two men who attacked and
cut a first-year pharmacy coed
May 4 as she was leaving campus
about 8 p.m. to go home.
Capt. Donald Rogers of Campus
Security said "they had not found
very much yet, but we are still
According to police reports, she
left the Pharmacy Building where 1 #
she had been studying. When she
reached the sidewalk on the south
side of Miller Hall on Thach
Avenue she was grabbed by two
masked men and forced across
the street into the parking lot
behind Petrie Hall.
She was taken up the west-side
stairs into the adjacent parking
lot where she was attacked and
cut. Police said she was not
raped.
During the assault, estimated
to have occurred between 8:10
*
and 8:15 p.m., a truck drove into
the Petrie Hall parking lot,
scaring the assailants away.
A professor in Petrie Hall heard
someone pounding on the outside
door and screaming for help just
a few minutes after he arrived to
do some work.
He helped the girl and called
Campus Security. Campus police
received the call from the profes­sor
at 8:29 p.m. University ambu­lance
transferred her to Lee
County Hospital where she was
treated and released.
Both men were described as
white males with a medium build.
One was approximately 5-feet-8.
He was wearing blue jeans, a
short-sleeved shirt and a gorilla
mask.
The other man was approxi­mately
5-feet-10. He was wearing
blue jeans, a T-shirt and a rubber
Frankenstein mask.
Campus police are investiga­ting
the attack.
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about draft registration? The
Plainsman probes the subject on
pages 8 and 9.
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Alumni Cafeteria burglarized
By Abby Petti ss
Assistant Copy Editor
Alumni Cafeteria was broken
into early Monday morning, but
nothing was reported stolen, said
Willa McAnally, a spokesman for
Campus Security.
The break-in was reported to
Campus Security at 5:25 a.m.
Monday when a night
watchman for Security found a
pane of glass broken in the
outside door of the cafeteria.
The inside office window had
been broken out and the door left
open, McAnally said. Padlocked
file cabinets had been broken
into.
"We don't know if anything was
taken," McAnally said. "No theft
has been reported by the Alumni
people."
She said there are many times
when there are break-ins and
nothing is reported taken.
McAnally said the case is still
under investigation and they
can't say any more about it yet.
Essie Martin, a resident at
Alumni Hall whose window faces
the back, said she heard breaking
glass late Sunday night. She
heard a noise before the breakage
that sounded like attempts to
break the window.
"It sounded like someone
dropping their blinds at first. I
thought that because it was late
and that's the only thing I thought
it could be," she said.
"But after we heard the crash I
realized that it was someone
trying to break the glass. It took
him two or three trys.
"I didn't know that it was that
door. It just sounded loud and
right outside our window. We
looked out, but didn't see any­thing."
Martin said they weren't
bothered because "there's always
a lot of people walking back
through there, Security and
people cutting through."
Her roommate, Linda Barcz
said she was almost sure it was
around 11:45 p.m.
"It (the crash) happened right
before I went to bed and that was
about 10 til 12, so it must have
been quarter to 12 when it
happened. I'm pretty sure about
that time," she said.
Last week there was a report
that food was taken from the
Quad Dining Hall, McAnally said.
A chicken was taken from a truck
unloading, she said, and other
food had been reported missing,
also.
Richard Wingard, director of
Food Services, said this was the
first of this kind of incident.
"There's been trouble but this
is the first of this kind of thing,"
he said.
"There was a door kicked in
over Christmas at the Quad (cafe­teria),
but I don't think they got
in.
"We've had that sort of vandal­ism
thing, someone getting out his
frustrations or whatever, but no
break-ins like this."
When there is a break-in of this
sort auditors are notified and the
records are examined.
"It's standard procedure for
all the University, not just Food
Services, if something like this
happens, for auditors to be called
in," Wingard said.
New SGA Cabinet approved
Squire of Esquire
Richard Reeves, national editor of "Esquire" magazine and
syndicated columnist, will lecture in the Student Activities Building
Tuesday at 8 p.m. In 1971 Reeves became a contributing editor for New
York Magazine and also had columns in "Harper's" magazine. Since
1977 he has worked as national editor for "Esquire" and contributes a
column regularly on politics and the media. His syndicated column,
4."Richard Reeves," began in March 1979 and appears twice weekly in
about 100 newspapers across the country.
University Food Services trying
to cut out waste, save money
The SGA Senate approved the
recommendations of SGA Presi­dent
Trey Ireland for the 1980
Cabinet Monday.
The executive portion of the
cabinet will consist of: David
Armbrester, administrative vice
president; Amy Leopard, execu­tive
secretary; Jim Kee, Steve
Vinyard and Honey Howell,
executive assistants; Beth Dees,
press secretary; Jo Beth
McDaniel, assistant press secre­tary;
Kevin Conaway and
Dorothy Smith, assistant
treasurers; and Kurt Furst and
Beth Yost, special assistants to
the president.
Secretaries for the major
committees will be: Rip Britton,
By Abby Pettis
Assistant Copy Editor
Auburn University's Food
Services is trying hard to clear
itself of old debts by tightening up
management, said Harold Grant,
special adviser to the president.
Food Service grosses approxi­mately
$3.3 million a year. This
money comes from their various
cafeteria units.
In the three years from 1975-
1977, food Services was running
small deficits that totaled about
$500,000. "There is no clear
reason for the deficit," Grant
said.
"During the summer we
usually run into deficits because
there aren't enough students
here," he said. "We try to keep
down costs. Like last summer we
closed Alumni and the Quad
Cafeteria.
"Sometimes the deficits for the
summer can run $50,000 to
$100,000. December's a slow
month, too, with no students here.
We try to make up for these
deficits over the rest of the year,"
Grant said Food Services is a
non-profit organization, taking no
money from the university.
"Some years we come up a
little short, some years a little
over. The last two years we've
gotten ahead of the deficit. One
more year ahead ought to do it,"
Grant said.
To make sure these years come
out ahead Food Service is
watching management, Grant
said. "We make sure ther's no
waste going on, that there's no
extra expenses, like silver being
taken by students. We're trying to
save every penny, and we've been
relatively sucessful."
While food prices on campus
may have gone up, the scale on
which they're based has
remained the same, Grant said.
"Food Services bases it prices
on 40 percent of the raw food
costs, while commercial food
places off campus use the 30
percent scale," Grant said.
"What that means is that off
campus you pay $1 for 30 cents
worth of raw food, and on campus
you pay $1 for 40 cents worth of
raw food, he said.
"If you check prices off
campus, you'll find that we are
usually lower," Grant said.
Inflation has not been kind to
Food Services, he said, but
having so many a la carte cafete­ria
units has helped.
secretary of academic affairs;
Bob Shoulders, secretary of po­litical
affairs; Beth Johnson,
secretary of public relations; and
Donna Davis, secretary of stu­dent
life.
Directors of subcommittees
are: Laura Bailey, director of
intra-school relations; Ralph
Bishop, director of Model U.N.;
Mike Kennedy, director of volun­teers;
Carl Palmer, director of
elections; Elaine Brown, director
of student opinions; Dennis Ross,
director of student lobby; Bob
Jordan, liason to Auburn City
Council; David Strickland,
director of high school relations
and Tony Holland, director of
minority relations. y
Others are Amy Hodges, direc­tor
Of spirit; Barry Mask, assist­ant
director of spirit; Rosemary
Whittle, director of blood drive;
Faith Gibson, director of art;and
Thad McCormack, director of
athletics and recreation.
Also appointed were Steve
Hudson, director of traffic and
parking; Lucy Coughlin, director
of consumer protection; Al
Ulman, director of men's dorm
life; and Paula Marriot, director
of women's dorm life.
The Senate also approved
Ireland's propos s for appoint­ments
to Univers, y committees.
Bob Shoulders, JL~ Turner and
Ralph Egues will serve on the
Traffic Appeals Committee; Brad.
Everett on the Athletics
Committee; Liz Merril and Carol
Roberts on the Health Commit­tee;
David Strickland and Ann
Hines on the Orientation Commit­tee
and Beth Johnson, Ann
Harrel, Leslie Hawkins, Anne
Waggenspack and Beck Long on
the Performing Arts Committee
Also appointed were Ray
Briscuso on the Coliseum
Budget
From page A-1
Higginbortham of Opelika and
Sen. Lester Hill Proctor of
Sylacauga. Members of the
committee from the House are
Rep. Walter Owens of Centreville,
Rep. Rick Manley of Demopolis
and Rep. James Sasser of Ozark.
Auburn University President
Dr. Hanly Funderburk said the
University would ' 'remain under­funded"
if the budget were appror
ved by the Legislature, but signi­ficant
salary increases for faculty
were still possible for next year.
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Auburn 'unattractive' to black professors?
By Ford Risley
Associate Editor
Following the recent death of
Dr. Robert Reid, only two black
professors remain at Auburn,
despite a faculty population of
over 1,000.
Reid, a former member of the
history department, died April 25
at the age of 66 following an
extended illness. He was the first
and only black to achieve the rank
of full professor in the history of
Auburn.
The two blacks currently at the
professorial level are Dr. Earl
Higgins, an assistant professor of
counselor education, and Dr.
Baxter Wright, an assistant pro­fessor
of social work.
Dr. Taylor Littleton, vice
president for Academic Affairs,
said the chief difficulty in hiring
black professors is the "short
supply" and "strong competi­tion"
throughout the country.
"We try very hard to recruit
them as best we can," Littleton
said, but "they are being heavily
recruited by every institution in
the country,
"In the past, salaries have been
a problem at Auburn," he said.
However, the salaries the
University offers to prospective
black faculty today are
Rainer returning to old post
as head of civil engineering
By Jerry Marino
Assistant News Editor
Alabama State Highway
Director Rex Rainer, who resign­ed
from his position last month
will return to Auburn University
June 1 to resume his previous post
as professor and head of the civil
engineering department.
Rainer said his job as highway
director had always been consi­dered
a short-term job. He said he
had "always been on leave of
absence" from his position at
Auburn while holding the state
job.
Rainer had been a candidate to
succeed Harry Philpott as
Auburn University president, but
withdrew from the race April 2,
five days before Hanly
Funderburk was elected
president.
Rainer said when he withdrew
the situation was "getting out of
Dogs
From page A-1
"The shelter is only five years
old," Lipscomb said. "It is ob­vious
that the right attitude is not
present in order to maintain the
shelter. The city can't possibly
provide service compared to what
the humane society provides.'' j<
Auburn Animal Control Officer
^ t f i k e Dunn said they keep the
shelter as clean as possible. "We
feed the dogs every day and give
them water, too."
He said the revised dog ordin­ance
has not increased the
number of dogs at the pound
recently.
"I see more people walking
their dogs now," he said. "More
people are getting more into the
leash law."
All of these dogs are available
for an adoption fee of $5. The dogs
that aren't given away after 14
days are put to sleep. The city
Backgammon
tournament
A three-day double elimination
backgammon tournament will be
held next week on Tuesday,
Wednesday and Thursday from 4
to 8 p.m. at Darvo's on Gay
Street.
Applications for the tourna­ment
can be picked up in 8090
Haley Center and must be turned
in tomorrow by 5 p.m. The entry
fee is $2.50.
The Society of Professional
Journalists, Sigma Delta Chi, is
sponsoring the tournament.
ordinance states that the shelter
must keep the animals for seven
days.
Dunn said more of the dogs are
given away than are put to sleep.
hand," and "I felt my withdrawal
would hasten a decision."
The Montgomery job was origi­nally
for a six-month period, but
he stayed nine months longer in
an effort to obtain better funding
for the financially troubled
Highway Department he said.
The Alabama Legislature
passed a bill last week that will
increase the state gasoline tax by
four cents per gallon. The
increase is expected to bring in
approximately $91 million in addi­tional
revenue for Highway De­partment
projects. v
Assistant department head
Fred Hudson was acting head of
the civil engineering department
in Rainer's absence. He will
resume his former post when
Rainer returns.
Gov. Fob James appointed
Bobby Joe Kemp, Tuscaloosa's
district engineer, to replace
Rainer
"reasonably competitive" in
some areas, but "the higher you
go, the less competitive they
(salaries) get."
Dean Jack Blackburn of the
School of Education, also said the
salaries Auburn offers are a
barrier to hiring black professors.
He said he feels other universities
are "more competitive" because
they offer higher salaries.
Although black professors are
"much in demand," Auburn
should more actively recruit
them, Blackburn said.
Wright, who has been at Auburn
since 1977, but will be leaving this
year to become a member of the
faculty at Florida State, said he
feels many people at Auburn
"believe it is inappropriate to pay
competitive salaries to attract top
and highly qualified black
faculty.
' 'I wonder if there might not be
a real fear in having competent
minority faculty," he said. "It's
much easier to say there aren't
any qualified minorities around,
or that they wouldn't be in­terested...
when everyone knows
they are highly qualified and
would come if made reasonable
offers."
He said he believes Auburn has
an "attractive environment" and
the University could attract
blacks "if any effort was made to
show them there was an interest
in hiring them."
Others, like Blackburn, suggest
the "Auburn community might
not be condusive to attracting
blacks," but Blackburn said this
was "speculation."
Higgins said the lack of a strong
black community in Auburn could
be a deterrent to hiring black
professors. He said he thinks "it
is difficult for most blacks out­side
of Alabama to have any
sense of what Auburn is like."
Dean Edward Hobbs of the
School of Arts and Sciences, said
he would "hate to suggest such a
thing" but did not rule out the
possibility.
Littleton agreed, although he
did not point to the Auburn
community specifically. "It could
be that smaller towns in the
southeast are less attractive to
black faculty," he said. "Some
faculty may prefer to live in
urban areas."
Although the University hires
100 to 125 new faculty a year, not
many black professors apply for
positions, Littleton said. For this
reason, Auburn has been forced
"to go out and actively recruit
black faculty," he said.
Despite the University's ap­parent
lack of success in hiring a
large number of black professors,
Auburn has gotten into no trouble
with the federal government.
Auburn is audited periodically
by an agency of the Department
of Labor, but the University "has
not been severely criticized on
any of the audits," Littleton said.
"Auburn has been found to be in
compliance, but we have been
encouraged, as most institutions
are, to secure more black and
female faculty."
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Thursday, May 15, 1980 page 4
Alabama sells freedom for Saudi oil
Budget hopes, woes
Monday, the Alabama Legislature is
expected to pass an education bill appropri­ating
$61.6 million to Auburn University,
more than an 11 percent increase over this
year's state allocation.
An 11 percent increase certainly beats
level funding, but doesn't keep pace with
an 18 percent inflation rate. It is hoped new
lobbying efforts by a new administration
will finally bring Auburn an increase in real
buying power next year, by obtaining a
state appropriation increase that beats the
inflation rate.
We can be thankful, however, that the
uncertainties in Auburn's budget planning
that arise from special sessions of the
Legislature seem to have been avoided this
year.
President Hanly Funderburk's statement
that faculty raises will be made from the 11
percent increase is also heartening.
But realizing that Auburn's state alloca­tion,
after inflation, will drop 7 percent
from last year only points to hopes for next
year.
I finally got the green and blue dots to
resemble Arab figures.
Although the sound continued to play tag
with sudden bursts of static and the picture
still wasn't very attractive, considering I was
picking up the show from Columbus, Ga., it
really wasn't that bad.
The show was "The Death of a Princess,"
which was being aired by the Georgia Public
Broadcasting Station.
When "Death of a Princess" had been
broadcast by the English .Saudia Arabia had
become so angered, it had threatened
England with economic sanctions and
expelled England's ambassador from Saudi
Arabia.
When America's Public Broadcasting
Station announced it was going to show the
same documentary, Saudi Arabia spoke up
once again. It threatened America with
heavy economic sanctions and pejorative
political relations if the program was shown.
Many voices were added to the voice of the
Saudi's. America's major oil companies said
the PBS should use restraint in showing the
presentation because of the political and
economic atmosphere.
Rick
Harmon
Politicians like Alabama's own Bill
Dickinson said America had enough foreign
problems without causing new ones by airing
a TV show.
Because of these voices and the Saudi's
threats many stations refused to carry the
program. Alabama was one of those stations.
So I found myself staring at blurry dot
patterns from Columbus, Ga. to see if I found
anything particularly upsetting about the
film.
In truth, "Death of a Princess" was not
exactly a daring blockbuster. It seemed more
like the documentary films I used to fall
asleep while watching in history class.
Still, like the Saudi's I found the film
unsettling. While I watthed the film, I
thought about how proud we Americans are.
I thought about how I had heard friends say
America would never be conquered.
Yet, here I was watching a docudrama
complete with fuzzy picture and static
because a foreign country had decided they
did not want the information in the film to
reach me.
One oil rich nation had demanded that I not
be able to see a film containing a point of view
they did not agree with, and the state of
Alabama like many others had given in.
Many parts of America had willingly
allowed their communities right to free
speech to be stolen. This small nation had
caused America to give up one of its most
basic liberties
Saudi Arabia hadn't been forced to take
anyone hostage or launch any missiles-
All the Saudi's had to do was mention oil
sanctions, and we gave in. Americans may
not be able to be conquered, but we sure can
be bought.
I thought about this and stared at the
blurry images on the Columbus station. I
cursed. The picture wasn't very attractive.
Carter should resign over Iran
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Voting registration
Tuesday, Lee County registrars will be in
the lobby of the Foy Union from 9 a.m.-4
p.m. to register students to vote in Auburn
elections. There will probably be a line.
Students know the city council elections
this summer will be the only chance they
will have in the next four years to influence
the town in which they live.
They know this chance was only given to
them after a drive to change the Auburn
voting date to a time when most students
would still be in Auburn for school had
stalled.
A state law changed the voting date for
the entire state so elections wouldn't
conflict with state primaries.
It should be a long line Tuesday. Most
students will have realized how important it
has become for them to vote in the city they
live in for most of the year rather than their
hometowns.
The current city council has done a great
deal to help them realize this.
Some students realized it when they saw
the city council stall election reforms that
would finally have allowed students not to
be disenfranchised by the voting process of
a city they contribute so much to.
Some students may have decid»d that if
enough of them vote summer quarter, they
might not need to depend on the luck of a
state law being passed to keep city elections
from being held during summer quarter
break, when few students and faculty
members remain in Auburn.
Some students may want to vote in local
elections so a bike ordinance imposing fines
of up to $100 for riding your bike on the
sidewalk could be repealed.
Some may think the city council might
ask students about such ordinances, which
primarily effect students, if students helped
elected the city council.
Some students may want to register to
vote in local elections to repeal outdated
laws prohibiting them from living in certain
neighborhoods of the city.
Some students will want to vote in city
elections because they feel the laws of
Auburn have not always been enforced the
same for students and other residents of the
city.
Some may feel that if they vote, students
might not be arrested for wearing Hallo­ween
masks the day befote Halloween and
be made to raise bail or go to jail on the
charge.
Some students may feel it is both their
right and their obligation as citizens and
residents of this city to register and vote
here. r
Tuesday, the line of students registering
to vote in Auburn should be a long one, but
students will have a good deal to think
about while they wait.
President Lyndon Johnson wasn't known
for military restraint in Asia, yet he feared to
tread where Jimmy Carter rushed in
recently.
Some 100 American sailors on the U.S.S.
Pueblo were captured in what we considered
high seas piracy by the North Koreans in
1968. Immediately, U.S. warplanes on Oki­nawa
and a nuclear carrier were put on alert,
some ready to strike before the Pueblo would
have reached port under North Korean
escort.
But American and South Korean planes
weren't allowed to strike.
The Americans were held about 11 months
before they were released by North Korea's
communist regime. These Americans were
beaten, malnourished, manipulated as propa­ganda
pawns and continually humiliated by
their captors.
Yet no helicopter rescue raids were
attempted. No lives were lost as a result.
And some 100 Americans finally made it back
stateside.
Johnson condemned the "piracy" of the
North Koreans and the imprisonment of
those Americans, but he didn't make their
return the focus of his foreign policy with
Europe, the Soviets or even Asia.
Johnson didn't stay locked in the White
House acting and looking like a hostage
himself. He didn't milk America's tragedy for
all the votes it was worth in the few
primaries he competed in.
Johnson acted with restraint, didn't call
undue attention to America's weak position
and didn't benefit much politically from the
Pueblo debacle.
Carter, in Iran, suddenly altered a moder­ate
course for risky, unsuccessful military
action, has continually publicized our weak
position and has reaped votes, of support he
doesn't deserve since the February
primaries.
Even a successful helicopter rescue of the
50 Americans in the embassy in Tehran may
have worsened the Iranian situation.
About 100 other Americans not being held
in Tehran may have been imprisoned if the
other 50 Americans had been rescued.
Dave
White
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If Carter didn't consider that, he has
incompetent advisers. But if he considered
that and ordered military action anyway, to
ease domestic pressure, to bolster his image
of a tough decision-maker overseas or, God
forbid, to aid himself politically, then Carter
should resign.
Armed strength won't bolster his weak­ness
and vacillation.
A few weeks ago, Carter had almost all
Europe behind him in ordering diplomatic
and economic sanctions against Iran, and
then turned around and ordered a military
strike. A strike that couldn't have succeeded
with 100 other Americans in Tehran. A strike
European allies hoped to avert by their t.
united action with Carter.
Armed strength couldn't bolster his weak- '
ness and vacillation.
Carter has continually harped upon the
hostages and their safety, simultaneously
strengthening the Iranian militants' bargain­ing
position and his position in the polls since
November. The Iranians know they're in
control because Carter tells them they are,
not so indirectly.
But media exposure hasn't reinforced
Carter's weakness and vacillation.
Right now, military transports are ,
ferrying arms and equipment for 18,000
American troops to be stationed in the
Middle East region, presumably Oman,
Kenya, Diego Garcia and our carriers there.
Will Carter try to bolster his weaknesses
with the lives of 18,000 Americans? Can armsy*'
create a stable, consistent foreign policy
when used by a vacillating, diplomatically
inept president?
Carter should resign before any more
soldiers are killed, before any more countries
despair of American leadership.
Resign or be fired at the voting polls.
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Spirit
"C'mon, we got to scrap, we got to scrap,
let's go."
That quote, by a member of Auburn's
baseball team during Sunday night's SEC
playoff game, is a good example of the
attitude of the 1980 second-place-finishing
team.
This team had heart, and the intense
desire to win against what most considered
better teams. That's part of the Auburn
spirit.
!
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Accept Cubans for principles
By all accounts, Mariel Harbor, Cuba, is a
grimy industrial city with abundant poverty
and unemployment.
The weekly meat ration for residents of
Mariel is 12 ounces per person every nine
days. That's three quarter-pounders every
week and a half.
Such commodities as beans are scarce, and
luxuries are almost nonexistent.
It is from this " workers paradise" that
some 30,000 Cubans have departed for the
shores of America in the past two weeks.
They've come to the United States in
search of something that, in Fidel Castro's
Cuba, is even more scarce than beans. That
something is freedom, the freedom of
opportunity that Americans have always
boasted about providing the "poor and
huddled masses."
The issue now coming to the fore in
America is whether to continue to accept
these Cuban refugees. It is a subject that
confuses the best instincts of heart and mind,
and the debate has defied the usual political
labels.
Rep. Elizabeth Holzman of New York, for
example, is a ultra-feminist liberal who,
despite her espoused compassion for the
downtrodden of the world, wants the influx
stopped. All those Cubans, she and other
liberals contend, will take job opportunities
from blacks and other minorities already
beseiged by high rates of unemployment.
If we take all the refugees Castro allows to
flee Cuba, the argument goes we are inviting
another straw on America's already strained
Scott
Thurston
economic back. Besides, if we allow more
refugees, we are inviting Castro to empty his
country's garbage—in the form of common
criminals and spies (the former are not even
supposed to exist in Castro's communist
"paradise") into America's open arms.
Moreover, by taking the refugees, we are
perhaps playing into Castro's hands, since his
stated purpose in allowing the exiles to flee
was to get rid of the dissension they
represent.
On the other side of the argument are
people like conservative columnist George
Will, who one might expect to be wary of
immigrants inflating the country's welfare
roles.
In a recent column, Will explained his open
arms philosophy thusly: "Such people are a
resource more precious than all the oil under
Saudi Arabia.
"They are the kind of people who built
America...and who can help revitalize it.
America can never have enough of them."
Reinforcing Will's argument is the success
of Cuban refugees already in the United
States. While Miamians who've have the
benefits of American freedom handed to
them at birth complain about the Cuban
"takeover" of their city, they forget that
were it not for the energetic hard work of
those Cubans, Miami would have dried up
and rotted 20 years ago.
People who've spent 21 years in Castro's
perverted version of "paradise" aren't likely
to throw a long-dreamed-of opportunity for
personal and economic freedom out the
window.
Both arguments have obvious merit, and
that's what makes the issue so frustrating
—to come down solidly on one side or the
other is to ignore the rational, persuasive
argument of the opposing viewpoint.
Clearly, this is one issue on which America
must take a stand based on some guiding
principle rather than on such conflicting
facts. Given the current administration,
which thus far has publicly announced an
open arms policy but has fined boat owners
up to $1,000 for participating in the exodus
from Mariel, this is easier said than done.
But there are certain political and—dare I
say it— ideological principles at stake that
should provide the basis for a firm, non-flip-flopping
U.S. policy.
If the United States turns its back on the
Cuban refugees it will do two things.
First, it will throw out the window 204
years of humanitarian acceptance of refugees
from less successful political and economic
systems.
Second, and more importantly, it will fail to
seize an important opportunity to exploit the
modern failings of Castro's communism.
With Cuban influence in the Carribbean
growing at a pace commensurate with
America's receding power in the region, that
would be'a failure we can ill-afford.
By screening the refugees,rejecting com­mon
criminals and imprisoning spies,
America can project an image of decisive
action based on principle, and can thus turn
Castro's "garbage dumping" into an ideolo­gical
victory.
We should accept the Cubans as a matter of
principle. By doing so we might even
convince some people that principle is still a
part of American policy.
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Opinion
Thursday, May 15, 1980 page 5
Carter should heed Nixon advice
Ireland outlines new projects,
requests student participation
Editor, The Plainsman:
I would like to express my appreciation to
the more than 400 students who interviewed
for Cabinet and committee positions.
I would also like to extend an open
invitation to all students to participate in the
SGA. Directors of various committees con­stantly
need interested students to work on
various projects. Students with time and
interest should stop by the SGA office, 322
Foy Union, 826-4240.
The Cabinet has met and started working
on projects, including RACE, Registration
for Auburn City Elections. Last year we
succeeded in getting the city elections' date
changed so students can vote during Summer
quarter.
This Tuesday, registration for eligible
voters will be held at the Foy Union. Our goal
is to have 1,000 students register, and our
purpose is not to take over the city, but to
have our voice heard.
The second project, headed by Al Ulman,
involves the renovation of Magnolia Dorms.
Surveys that could make possible a govern­ment
grant are now in circulation in the
dorms.
A third project involves requesting a $1.50
student activity fee increase, so the
Glomerata, Plainsman, Tiger Cub and other
projects can be adequately funded. This $1.50
increase will come from the proposed tuition
increase the board of trustees is considering.
Other projects are still in the planning
stage and will surface later. I will try to keep
students informed of SGA activities, and
hope students keep the SGA informed of
their needs and opinions.
If we work together, we can make Auburn
a much better place.
Trey Ireland
SGA President
Since his resignation six years ago,
Richard Nixon has slowly but surely gone
from relative seclusion to a return to the
public limelight.
An interview last Thursday with Barbara
Walters on ABC's show "20/20" was another
of the steps Nixon has taken in his return to
public life.
The interview offered insights into Nixon's
re-emergence and into Nixon's recent public
criticisms of President Jimmy Carter's
foreign policy.
Walters tersely began the interview by
asking Nixon whether or not he thought the
country had recovered from the strain placed
on it by Watergate. Nixon, not in the
slightest offended by the question, said he
thought the country had indeed recovered
from both his presidency and the pain caused
by Watergate.
"Did (he) ever think during Watergate that
he might go under emotionally?" Nixon
responded simply "never."
"How will history regard (him)?" Nixon
said he thought society would "hold (him)
John
Farish
Talent will abound at meet
Editor, The Plainsman:
Famous Auburn cordiality will abound this
weekend from Friday through Sunday when
Auburn University hosts the 48th annual
Southeastern Conference track and field
championships at Wilbur Hutsell track.
In defending their championship, the
Tigers of Mel Rosen are hoping that their
graciousness will not appear in the competi­tive
field.
It now looks as if the top contenders to
dethrone Auburn, indoor champs too since
1977 in finally overcoming mighty Tennessee
Football recruiting criticized
Editor, The Plainsman:
The letter from Don Marzella in the May 1
issue concerning poor football recruiting
should be given serious thought by the
administration.
After following football closely for about 57
years, I believe Auburn recruiting the past
two years has been as poor, on paper
anyway, as any school in the history of the
SEC. There is no way to compete in major
league football with that type recruiting.
Alf Van Hoose of the Birmingham News
observed after the A-Day game that Auburn
does not have the manpower to be a
contender this year in the SEC. If that is
true, there will be no way to contend for at
least four more years, after losing many fine
seniors this year.
"Bear" Bryant cannot go on many more
years at Alabama, and when he does retire
Auburn's program should be strong and on
the upswing, to take advantage of his going.
If Auburn is headed for the SEC cellar, his
successor will have an easy time.
Regardless of this year's record, which
should be good if Brooks stays healthy, next
December's recruiting will be crucial, and if
not vastly improved over last year's, changes
should be made or we will not need an
enlarged stadium.
J.R. Griffith,'27
Vicksburg, Miss.
Pollution protest questioned
Editor, The Plainsman:
I must take exception to the attitude
expressed in last week's unsigned letter,
"Auburn—'filthiest village'." The writer
commended Steve Wombacher and his
"organization," F.O.O.T., for actually doing
something to preserve the environment.
What Wombacher did was to criticize the
practice of nailing a sign to a tree. The writer
expressed concern that too few Americans
respect our environment and understand the
delicate intricacies of the ecosystems on
which we depend.
His examples of this lack of concern
include, besides the tree incident, the
abundance of litter along our roads, and an
elderly gentleman clearing brush from his
property to reduce possible habitat for
snakes.
Although I support the writer's environ­mental
concern, I regret that he expresses an
unrealistic attitude that has given environ­mentalists
a somewhat undeserved bad
reputation.
Even the most ardent environmentalists
must realize that man (and all other
organisms) simply cannot exist with altering
the earth. The goal of most environmentalists
is not to stop all development at all costs, but
to ensure that we develop and use our
resources for legitimate needs using the best
techniques to minimize environmental dis­ruption
and destruction.
It's highly doubtful that the health of the
biosphere will be affected by the presence of
litter. It's also doubtful that the future of the
human race will be altered by the practices of
using some trees for sign posts, or clearing
some brush on private property.
If the writer's goal is to save one tree in
Auburn, I wonder if he knows how many
millions of board feet of trees are harvested
yearly worldwide, using often environmen­tally
disastrous clearcutting methods.
If the bushes in his neighbor's yard concern
him, I wonder if he cares that the rainforests
are being destroyed at an average rate of 50
acres per minute.
There are plenty of causes for serious
environmental concern. They include the
U.S. Government's plans for gutting existing
environmental legislation in order to more
quickly persue a reckless policy of short-term
energy supply via the environmentally and
economically disastrous synthetic fuels and
nuclear programs.
They include the fact that in 35 years, at
present growth rates, our population will
have doubled—there will be twice as many
people competing for the finite supplies of
resources left on earth.
It would be beneficial to the environmental
"movement" if we concern ourselves more
about the imminent environmental dangers
and work to offer environmentally and
economically acceptable alternative solutions
to the problems facing us all.
It is unproductive, at best, and often
counter-productive to focus on the relatively
insignificant aspects of man's impact on his
environment.
Ann. S. Causey
Instructor, General Biology
and Florida, will be Alabama, Louisiana
State and the Vols.
Some experts are giving Alabama a slight
edge as the favorite because of whipping
Auburn in a dual meet.
Carrying Auburn's main hopes for a second
successive track and field pennant will be a
distance contigent that won the SEC cross
country championship and also paced the
Tigers in their indoor triumph. Mike Muska
tutors the distance runners.
Alabama's forte is largely in the weights
and sprints. LSU is a versatile scoring team,
but is short of first and second point SEC
winners, and no one counts Tennessee out of
the running until the final event next Sunday
is history, and maybe not then.
Several of the feature attractions will
headline Auburn's freshman sensation
Stanley Floyd, Georgia's Mell Lattany and
Alabama's James Mallard in the sprints;
Auburn's John Tuttle and Tennessee's Sam
Jones in the steeplechase; and six quartets in
the 400 meters relay in Tennessee, LSU,
Alabama, Auburn, Mississippi State and
Kentucky, with only a second dividing their
times.
Leading the assault on smashing confer­ence
marks likely will be Alabama's Hreinn
Halldorsson in the shot put, Florida's Jim
Pringle in the high jump, Kentucky's Pat
McCulla in the discus, and Auburn's Billy
Blackburn in the decathlon, three of whom
already have smashed league records in
preparing for the SEC test at Auburn this
weekend.
Preliminaries will be held Friday in the 100
meters, long jump, shot put and high jump,
starting at 11 a.m. and the 400 meters at 5
p.m. with no admission being charged.
Attractions Saturday will begin with the
long jump at 3 p.m. and will run through the
10,000 meters final at 6 p.m. The Sunday
finals will start with the pole vault at 2:30
p.m., with the mile relay scheduled at 5:40
p.m.
Admission to the Saturday and Sunday
sessions will be $3 and capacity crowds are
slated to be on hand to cheer the Auburn
Tigers in defense of their crown on a track
that honors one of the world's most
illustrious coaches, Wilbur Hutsell.
Elmer G. Salter
Auburn
accountable" for some things, but that
because of his Vietnam and China policies,
the nation would believe that he strived for
"peace and freedom."
Nixon's most fascinating and most valuable
answers concerned questions on foreign
policy and in particular Jimmy Carter's
foreign policy.
On Iran and the hostages, Nixon said he
would, as president, have taken a view
similar to the Israeli government's when
citizens of Israel are being held captive.
"The hostages are soldiers of war," Nixon
said, adding that the feasibility of military
force should have been made evident from
the very start.
On the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan,
Nixon claimed that it never would have
happened under his presidency.
He would have begun bargaining with the
Cuban actions in Angola and Ethiopia in 1975.
From those he wo'uld have used SALT II or
grain sales as a bargaining tool. He would not
have waited for an Afghanistan to begin his
Soviet "containment" strategy.
onl
Would he, as president have gone to the
funeral of the late Yugoslavian premier Yosif
Tito. Yes, he would have gone, as a "signal"
to the Soviet Union to stay out of Yugosla­via—"
Don't mess around with Yugoslavia."
Now, everything Nixon said in the inter­view
and recent months could be dismissed
las the comments of a Monday morning
quarterback with enough hindsight to make'
better judgements.
; I don't think, though, that what the former:
president says can or should be easily li
dismissed. Nixon is still a valuable asset to,;
any American president predominately'!
because of his foreign policy expertise
Nixon's foreign policy was his strongest
point as president. He opened the door to
China and closed the American book
Vietnam. '
He instituted a workable relationship with
the Soviet Union and strengthened the Allied
ties in Western Europe.
His knowledge of foreign policy should be
utilized by President Carter as information
he could receive only from a former
president.
Nixon was asked in the interview Thurs-1
day how the people of New York City were
reacting to their new neighbor.
Nixon responded that "any town thatj
would support the Mets would support an
underdog."
The White House needs to take a long hard
look at what Richard Nixon is saying these
days. If he is smart, Carter will listen to the
things that "underdog" has to say and listen
well.
Just how gay are 'gays?'
Editor, The Plainsman:
Having followed the exchange of letters
concerning the acceptance of gays in the
Auburn community, I am bothered by a
recurring question.
Why do homosexuals insist on using the
word "gay" to describe themselves?
According to the "Random House Diction­ary."
gay is defined as, "having a joyous
mood, bright or showy, given to or abounding
in social or other pleasures."
"Random House" also defines gay as slang
for homosexual. The former definition seems
to have lost out to the latter.
Still another part of "Random House's"
definition for gay reads, "licentous; dissi­pated;
wanton." Should we now. assume that
gay stands for wasteful, extravagant, mali­cious,
sexually lawless and unrestrained and
immoral? Which definition is closest to the
truth?
During the UPC film, "The Maltese
Falcon," I heard many snickers when the
word "dick" was used. During the 30's and
40's, dick was slang for detective. I don't need
to mention today's meaning.
Given the possible meanings for "gay," any
homosexual claiming to be gay should cause
everyone to snicker.
Joel Baglien, 4PIR
Aubie thanks AU students
Editor, The Plainsman:
I would like to express my deep apprecia­tion
and thanks to all of the students and
faculty and alumni who helped make Aubie's
first year a success.
Your encouraging comments and enthusia­stic
response to Aubie made it easier for me
to perform, and also challenged me to please
you even more at each appearance. I hope
you enjoyed Aubie as much as I did.
I hope you understand why I refer to Aubie
and I as two different entities. Aubie is a
personality that has been defined by all of our
perceptions and expectations of him. These
expectations do not apply to me—Barry
Mask.
Many of you have said that I "made"
Aubie, but all of us made Aubie what he is.
That is the reason I believe most of us enjoy
and identify with him. He is Auburn spirit
Concern could save Alaskan lands
Editor, The Plainsman:
The Alaskan public lands debate provides
one of the greatest conservation opportuni­ties
to protect a portion of our country's last
wildland frontiers.
Over the past few years, this national
concern has been embroiled in a quagmire of
conflict between developer-oriented concerns
and environmentalist groups. The issue
centers around whether these currently
public lands should remain federally pro­tected
or assigned designations allowing
their resources to be commercially tapped.
Presently, the ultimate fate of these
unique lands awaits an all-important Senate
vote which has been inexcusably slow in
coming. Slated originally for the February
agenda, it is now scheduled for July 21. And
it's possible that the 96th Congress may not
resolve this vital issue at all.
The delaying tactics have been spear­headed
by Alaska Sen. Ted Stevens and Mike
Gravel. They represent the "Alaskan point of
view" sponsoring the powerful whims of the
oD, timber and mining interests which would
enliven Alaska's economy. Their hope is to
exploit the worsening energy shortages to
sway the opinions of pivotal legislators and
muster nationwide support.
If their strategy proves effective, the
poorly constructed Alaska lands bill appro­priated
last October by the Senate Energy
and Natural Resources Committee may
appear as a viable voting option. This bill,
coded S.9, emerged as a much weaker
version of H.R. 39, the Udall-Anderson bill
which passed the House in May, 1979.
To the profound chagrin of environmen­talists,
the Energy Committee's bill would
seriously undermine the future quality and
overall intactness of these fragile "national
interest lands." The bill would delete 37
million acres of essential habitat from
national wildlife refuges and 30 million acres
of wilderness.
Its shallow policy would mandate oil
exploration in areas critical to the Porcupine
caribou herd and allow mining . in two
proposed national parks through boundary
changes.
In direct opposition to the intense lobbying
by developers and maneuvering of the
Alaska delegation is a unified collection of
some 50 environmentally-oriented groups
known as the Alaska Coalition.
Based in Washington, D.C., the Coalition is
working prodigiously to counterattack the
Energy Committee's bill. Their contention is
that S.9 is an unacceptably weak bill that fails
to adequately protect Alaska's natural re­sources
from the corrosive, often greedy,
influence of developing interests.
Proponents of the Coalition's stand argue
convincingly "that 95 percent of Alaska's
high and favorable oil and gas lands, all seven
of its 'world class' mineral finds, timber
supplies adequate to maintain existing jobs
and a billion dollar budget surplus for 1980
will be available under the Tsongas-Roth
bill."
At present, these millions of acres are
temporarily set aside by presidential decree
until the matter is settled by congressional
legislation. Surely, a vocal majority of
Americans can exercise some degree of
personal sacrifice and perceive their obliga­tion
as stewards of our small planet.
Hopefully, that realization will spark them
to take the necessary steps to prevent the
signs of decay. For each time the land and the
creatures it supports are insensibly denuded
in exchange for short-term gains, the fabric of
earth's life -sustaining systems unwravels
just a bit more.
Persistent grassroots action is needed. If
concerned, write your senator.
John Hamilton, 6IP
personified, and we can all take heart in
knowing that each of us were instrumental in
starting this new Auburn tradition.
His life remains in the hands of the
students and alumni who follow us, and if
Aubie dies, then it is possible that the
Auburn spirit of following students and
alums has died also.
It has been a difficult decision to relinquish
my position as the person who was chosen to
act as Aubie, especially since all of my acting
came from the heart in order to personify the
true Auburn spirit and to give Auburn people
the outstanding performance, they, we, so
truly deserve.
I shall miss it all I'm sure, the publicity,
performing and meeting Auburn people. But
Aubie will still live and become a tradition
that we will be proud of. In his first year he
has already become the best mascot in the
nation's colleges.
He is the pacesetter for them all, and they
all are trying to catch him. But Aubie will
always outclass and outperform them. He is
light years ahead of them.
So although I am somewhat sad in giving
up something that has meant so much to me
personally, I am also happy that I did have a
good year, and was lucky to do what few
people will ever have the chance to do—to
personify a symbol of Auburn.
I can't be Aubie forever, and it is best that
the tradition be passed on to another person
to personify Aubie's second year. And I must
return my concentration to my studies.
Unfortunately, I didn't receive any grades or
credits for majoring in Aubie this year.
Of course I wouldn't trade my experiences
as Aubie for any grade point. But my primary
reason for being here is my education. And if
I can take care of my responsibilities and
accomplish a few other goals this year, then
there is always a chance for a comeback as
Aubie next year.
And again, thanks! All of you made Aubie,
not me. I just did what I had to do to portray
your definition of the true Auburn charac­ter—
Aubie.
Barry Mask, 3PUB
Environmentalists' sign didn't damage tree
Caution 6n1)iiying houses advised
Editor, The Plainsman:
I am writing to you students for the
purpose of saving you money. Nowadays
there is a great speculative boom in housing.
Millions of homebuyers are stretching then-budgets
to buy the biggest houses they can.
In fact, they use so much leverage that
their outstanding mortgage balances remain
approximately unchanged for many years.
Little do they know, there are two directions
that the price of anything can go: there is up,
and there is down. Do you think housing
prices will ever go down?
History shows that every great speculative
boom has ended with a crash. Soon there will
be a historic crash in the housing market.
Millions of home prices will fall far below
their mortgage balances, plunging their
once-proud owners deep into debt.
Millions of greedy homeowners are plan­ning
to cash in on your ignorance (even after
they could have taught you better in school).
So warn all your friends: Don't buy a house
until after the prices crash, and even after a
crash, there are always two directions that
the price of anything can go: there is up, and
there is down.
Contrary to popular belief, prosperity is
caused by investments for income, and never
by investments for capital gain.
Alan D. Phipps
Fargo, N.D.
Editor, The Plainsman:
I am writing in response to Steve
Wombacher's letter titled, "Trees need
protection too."
Mr. Wombacher opened his letter with the
statement, "There can no longer be any
doubt: the planet earth is in big trouble." He
arrived at this conclusion as a result of seeing
a poster nailed to a tree.
If he gets that depressed from seeing a nail
in a tree, maybe its time we begin searching
for a new program director. I mean, imagine
if he were to see some kids building a tree
house. He's liable to kill himself!
Now I would like to get to the main reason
this letter has been written. You, Mr.
Wombacher, did not see an ASEP logo on
this green sign. The Auburn Society for
Environmental Protection had only two signs
up on Earth Day, both of which were taped to
a table.
Secondly a single nail will not kill or
damage a tree or endanger our national
forests. As a matter of fact, nails have been
driven into trees in many of our horticultural
nut crops as supplements to the trees.
But I am not into proving whether or not
the nail did any harm; my point is that it is
insignificant. If you, Mr. Wombacher .have to
release your hostilities, at least do it in a
productive manner.
If the earth is in trouble, it is in trouble
because too many people are willing to sit
back and criticize others, who are at least
trying to do something productive.
In conclusion, I would like to congratulate
you on founding your new organization,
Friends of Trees (F.O.O.T.), and wish you the
best of luck. Tim Morales,
President ASEP
Book selling incident recounted
Editor, the Plainsman:
I had the unfortunate experience of trying
to sell two pharmacy textbooks at Anders
Bookstore. When I tried to sell the books, Mr.
Anders offered me $4 for about $13 worth of
current, usable editions of books.
When I told him the books were worth
more, he told me that I shouldr't think the
world owed me a living and I could take my
books and get out of his store.
I told Mr. Anders I didn't think the world
owed me a living. I was just tired of being
ripped-off and cheated.
Mr. Anders told me that in his opinion it
was pharmacists that are the people ripping
off society. The argument started to get
heated so I left the store.
Mr. Anders followed me to my car and
asked me if I would like to settle the matter
right there physically.
Finally, after leaving Anders, I went to a
competing bookstore on the corner and
received exactly what I expected for my
books.
All I want to say is maybe Mr. Anders,
your business might be better if you tried
treating your customers with a little respect.
Andrew Litavecz
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By Ann Bray
Plainsman Staff writer
The Auburn Police Department
reported 184 cases of drlving-while-
lntoxicated in 1979. This
averages to three and one-half
cases a week, but It takes only one
of these to cause a fatal accident.
In the fall of 1978, a survey was
taken on the Auburn campus. Dr.
Al Sis trunk, assistant dean of
Student Affairs, said that out of
the 160 students surveyed, 10
percent identified themselves as
having drinking problems, in­dicating
a need for an alcohol
abuse program of some kind.
Alcohol abuse is increasing
nationwide each year, and for
that reason,, the United States
Brewers Association has de­veloped
a new alcohol awareness
program entitled, "Think Twice..
About Drinking."
Frank Filgo, regional repre­sentative
for USBA from Mont­gomery,
said the major goal of
this program is to reduce alcohol
misuse.
"We are not condemning the
use of alcohol. There is a dif­ference
between appropriate use
and misuse, and we want to make
people aware of this," Filgo said.
There are about five programs
now in full operation in univer­sities
across the nation, but many
other schools are trying to get a
program of this type started,
Filgo said.
"We very much want to have a
program," Sistrunk said. "We
are going to continue to explore
all avenues to try to get one
started. However," he added,
"we are faced with limitations on
hiring."
Sistrunk said he would like to
start a program similar to the one
at the University of Florida. He
was referring to a well-known
program that has been in opera­tion
for four years at the Univer­sity
of Florida at Gainesville.
It is a state-funded Alcohol
Abuse Prevention Program under
the direction of Dr. Gerardo M.
Gonzalez.
The program at the University
of Florida is a student organi­zation
which provides peer
leadership and counseling.
"By using students, the other
students don't feel as if they are
being preached to," Filgo said.
Gonzalez has worked hard to
make the student program at the
University of Florida a success.
In his essay called "Positive
Prevention: A Promotion of
Health Approach," Gonzalez said
that he thinks the use of peer role
models enhances the program,
because "young people simply do
not like to be told what not to do."
The student organization at the
University of Florida is trying to
promote certain attitudes about
beverage alcohol on campus.
They say to keep in mind that
drinking should not be the pri­mary
focus of any activity, to
recognize another's right to drink
or not to drink and to avoid
encouraging or reinforcing irre­sponsible
behavior.
When hosting a party, the or­ganization
suggests to provide
non-alcoholic beverages when al­coholic
beverages are served.
The program also suggests that
hosts serve food or snacks at all
activities where alcohol is being
served because food slows down
the body's absorption of alcohol.
Don't be insistent about re­filling
drinks, "pushing" drinks
or pressing guests to have that
"one for the road," the FSU
program says.
The organization asks that
drinkers set a limit on the number
drinks they are going to have
ahead of time and stick by it.
The FSU program also advises
to discourage a driver who is
under the influence of alcohol
from driving. Provide transpor­tation
at social functions where
drinking is involved, they say.
The organization's most impor­tant
suggestion asks that in­dividuals
seek help if they think
they have a drinking problem.
IIJ his essay, Gonzalez said that
there is evidence that people who
know these points and practice
them run a smaller risk of de­veloping
alcohol related prob­lems.
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Student 'brushes up' on successful hobby
FLYING COLORS
.Beth Dees, 3GJM, touches up shirt
Mark Almond
By Rosy Evans
Features Editor
Ruining your mother's sheets
with spray paint won't always
turn into a profitable business
venture, but for one Auburn stu­dent
the practice has proved to be
rewarding.
Beth Dees, a journalism major
from De Funiak Springs, Fla.,
learned the art of airbrushing by
trial and error in her family's
garage three years ago.
Now Dees spends summers by
the beach in Panama City, Fla.
making up to $100 a day some­times
with her self-learned trade.
"On my best day last year, the
fourth of July, I made $250," she
said. "Of course I worked from
8:30 that morning to 12:30 that
night.''
For the past two summers Dees
has made enough money air-brushing
tee-shirts to pay for her
entire summer and college ex­penses...
food, clothes, tuition,
everything. "Well, my mom will
buy me a new outfit every now
and then," she admits "but I pay
for the rest."
Although airbrushing requires
some creativity, practice and
artistic talent, Dees makes the
process sound simple. "Once you
get the hang of it it's easy," she
said. "But it's awkward at first."
The technique involves painting
with compressed air using a type
of spray gun. The spray of paint
may vary from pencil line thin­ness
to a spray covering several
inches. The difficulty of the art is
mastering the compressor guns
lever control which determines
the amount of paint released.
support whatever you put on a
tee-shirt.
Dees says most of her requests
are mainly for beach scenes or
album covers. She said that last
summer when she worked with a
professional airbrusher, (one who
airbrushes year round) they used
stock scenes. These are pre-made
"On my best day last year, the
fourth of July, I made $250."
Mayor, councilman debate
whether city wili lose money
By Tim Hunt
Assistant News Editor
Auburn citizens will not suffer
any burden from the City Coun­cil's
move last month to borrow $2
million in general obligation
warrants, said Auburn Council­man
H.C. Morgan.
Last week Mayor Don Hayhurst
released a statement citing the
Council's failure to postpone the
borrowing of the money until
interest rates dropped, which
could eventually cost the tax­payers
an additional $33,668.
Hayhurst said the City Council
borrowed the money when the
prime rate of interest was set at
the highest in the nation's history.
In April when the Council bor­rowed
the $2 million, the prime
rate was 20 percent. Within a
three-week period following the
Council move the prime rate had
already fallen to 18^ percent,
Hayhurst said.
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"If they could have just waited
thirty days they could have saved
at least 1 percent on the $2
million," Hayhurst said. "That
would represent, for the eighteen
month period of the loan, a $33,668
savings for our citizens.''
Morgan said the Council moved
ahead at the high rate of interest
but the taxpayers will not be hurt
because about $1.3 million was
reinvested by the city at a higher
rate of interest.
"Profit is being made on the
money while potential projects
for the city are being planned,"
Morgan said.
Contrary to the statement is­sued
by the mayor, Morgan said
the members of council who
moved ahead with the $2 million
issue received a great deal of
financial advice on the matter.
"We could have made more
money for the city if we had
waited to borrow, but it's not
going to cost the citizens more
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because of our legal power to
reinvest," Morgan said. "We are
making a profit every month.''
According to Morgan, another
strong reason for moving ahead
was the availability of matching
funds which could be combined
with $260,000 of the loan for
improving dangerous intersec­tions
within the city.
"Our city engineers and re­search
groups from the Univer­sity
have completed a study on
our intersections which have the
highest accident rate," Morgan
said. "With our money and avail­able
matching funds we can
improve 17 of these intersec­tions."
Morgan said the upcoming city
elections may bring in new coun­cil
members and they will need
time to get the feel of their office.
Capital improvement projects
which the city needs may be
delayed if this Council did not
move ahead now with the $2
million issue, he said.
"It. took me at least six months
to even get a straight line," she
said.
When she finally did get the
hang of it, Dees set up shop
outside of a local hometown busi­ness.
"It was kind of funny," she
said. "I put an ad on the radio and
everything. But it seems that
most of my customers turned out
to be just friends."
A business man in Panama
City, Fla., heard the radio advert­isement
and asked her to set up in
his shop there. That was the
beginning of Dees' career as a
beach artist.
Working by the beach, the
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a tan, but she is also assured of
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Ihe Auburn Plainsman Thursday, May 15, 1980 page 8
State's congressmen
pass registration bill
By John Mangels
Assistant News Editor
When the last troops pulled out
of Vietnam In 1975, ending U.S.
involvement in this country's
most unpopular war, national
sentiment against the draft was
probably at its highest point. An
all-volunteer Army was subse­quently
instituted.
But only five years later,
though a majority of Americans
still do not favor a peace-time
draft, more than 70 percent do
advocate a return to registration
for the draft.
Most analysts attribute this
shift of opinion to the escalation of
world tensions and the cooling of
relations between the super­powers.
A recent Gallup Poll
showed 44 percent of Americans
aged 18 to 24 were in favor of a
return to the military draft, while
51 percent opposed mandatory
service.
Seventy-five percent favored
the registration of the names of
all young men in order to reduce
the time needed to call up men for
military service in an emergency,
while 20 percent were opposed.
President Carter's proposal
asking for $13.3 million to revita­lize
the Selective Service System
to register men was sent to
Congress in February. A compa­nion
proposal to register women
for the draft was defeated by the
House, but the male registration
proposal was passed two weeks
ago and is currently in the Senate
Appropriations Committee.
Carter's plan calls for all 19-and
20-year-olds to report to their
local post offices, possibly as
early as this summer, to fill out
forms listing their names,
addresses, birth dates and social
security numbers. In 1981 all
18-year-olds would be required to
do the same. Carter says '.this
would not be a move away from
the all-volunteer force* but
merely a time-saving measure in
the event of an emergency.
As the nation's military
commander, Carter is em­powered
to institute registration
and draft programs with or with­out
congressional approval, but
the funds necessary to finance
such programs must be appropri­ated
by the Congress.
A spokesman for Sam Nunn,
chairman of the Senate Appropri­ations
Committee, said Carter's
registration proposal had passed
in the House with relative ease.
"It was approved with a greater
margin than we expected," he
said.
"Consideration of the bill has
been postponed until this week,"
the spokesman said. "At this
point, Carter's proposal will pro­bably
be voted out of the Appro­priations
Committee and onto the
Senate floor. Once there, it's
Photography: Tom Palmer
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.ROTC instructors predict increased enrollment.
likely the proposal will be filibus­tered."
All of Alabama's nine congress­man
favor Carter's registration
proposal. Seven are opposed to
peace-time draft at this time,
with one representative in favor
of the draft and one undecided.
The nine also were against
Carter's defeated plan to register
women for the draft.
"Rep. (Bill) Nichols (of
Sylacauga) strongly supports re­gistration
for males and believes
it is essential to have a pool of
names available," press
secretary Tom Eiland said.
"Nichols has said he does not
feel it is necessary to abolish an
all-volunteer Army and return to
a draft at this time," said Eiland
"and he does not think registra­tion
is a step toward returning to
the draft system."
In a statement recorded in the
"Congressional Record," Rep.
Tom Bevill of Jasper said a
registration program was nece­ssary
"to counte* Soviet aggre­ssion...
and as a signal that Soviet
aggression will not go unchecked.
"It is time for Congress to
restore the U.S. as the strongest
military power in the world,"
Bevill • said. "Granting funds for
a registration program would
provide increased speed of mobi­lization
in an emergency. If we
fail to act, we will be committing
a dangerous error." Bevill's
press secretary said the represen­tative
"has not addressed the
draft issue at this time."
A spokesman for Rep. John
Buchannon of Birmingham said
the congressman might not be
totally against a peacetime draft.
"If circumstances continue to
change, it is conceivable that
Rep. Buchannon would vote in
favor of the draft," press secre­tary
Martin Christy said, "But
this time there is a very big
difference between registration
and drafting."
Rep. Bill Dickinson of Montgo­mery
voted in favor of Carter's
registration program, but for a
version with an attached amend­ment
requiring a classification
system for those who register.
A spokesman for Dickinson said
the congressman felt classifica­tion
was necessary in addition to
registration ' 'in order to make an
inventory of those males avail­able
for the draft."
The only one of Alabama* s
congressmen to favor a peace­time
draft was Richard Shelby of
Tuscaloosa. "Registration is
necessary as a way of locating
those men available for the draft,
and Rep. Shelby feels a draft at
this time would be a logical
extension of the registration
process," press secretary Kate
Clark said. "In terms of combat
readiness, it just makes sense."
WILLIAM SLOANE'S COFFIN
Demonstrators protest AU ban on anti-draft speaker.
Registration
and the draft
A Plainsman probe
A U draft protest minor in '60s
By Rosy Evans
Features Editor
The last time the draft issue
rumbled across the nation's
college campuses was in the late
60s and early 70s. At that time
campus unrest was rampant,
with students defying administra­tors
by holding demonstrations,
taking over buildings and burn­ing
draft cards.
The full force of the revolution­ary
quake was never really felt at
Auburn. However, the adminis­tration
and students here did
manage to create a few tremors.
There were only a few occa­sions
when the students and
administrators had face-offs. The
first one was related to the draft,
but was actually more a freedom
of speech issue.
In January, 1969, the Rev.
William Sloane Coffin, a Yale
Chaplain, was coming to AU to
speak out against the war in
Vietnam. He had recently been
convicted of advising young men
to dodge the draft and was out on
bail pending the outcome of his
trial.
The University decided that it
didn't want to pay Coffin's fee
because it didn't want to pay a
"criminal" to speak using Univer­sity
funds.
The issue was seen as a slap in
the face for freedom of speech by
the students who organized a
"funeral march for the death of
free speech." After the march, a
black coffin was placed on the
sidewalk at Ross Square where
supporters lined up to sign peti­tions
in favor of Coffin's appear­ance.
A small group of students and
university presidents sued Presi­dent
Philpott and the issue was
taken to the U.S. District Court
where Judge Frank Johnson
ROTC instructors give reasons for registration
By Buddy Davis
Plainsman Staffwriter
Selective Service registration is clearly
favored by local ROTC instructors. The
instructors declined to be quoted directly
for various reasons.
One said his reason was because two
three-star generals were forced into pre­mature
retirement over the last two years
after making public comments in opposi­tion
to government policies.
One instructor was very definite about
the need for registration. "It's time for
young men to live up to their obligation.
There has been too much 'Gimmee,
Gimmee, Gimmee.' Too many free rides. I
think it's ruined the moral fiber of the
country. Registration has got to take place,
we're just not making the numbers needed
for active duty personnel, or reserves.
"That we have no means at present for
getting people into service is incomprehen­sible
in a nuclear age," he added.
Another instructor said, "Although the
vote in Congress was rather close, it
appears that Congress feels registration is
necessary. The next war will be a come-as-you-
are war, basically. We won't have time
to build up or prepare as we did in the
past." He was referring to the House's vote
in favor of requiring registration for 20-and
21-year-olds.
He sees no problem with unwilling
soldiers. "People who were drafted in the
past recognized their duty, served their
time. The draft gave us an unusually high
quality of person." He said he didn't think
the Department of Defense was pushing for
the draft yet, according to their annual
reports.
A third instructor who became an officer
partially to avoid the draft said, "One of the
biggest problems today is the declining
birthrate. There are just not as many
people out there to volunteer. It's catching
up with us now."
ROTC enrollment would definitely in­crease,
they all agreed. "Although I
wouldn't say our enrollment has par­ticularly
increased yet. When congress
passes the registration bill, there will be a
definite upswing," said one. "If there was a
draft, enrollment would definitely in­crease,"
said another.
In the past, the draft had various
exemptions. One instructor feels that
college students should be exempt from the
draft, "although there would be a problem
with that. It would mean rich people would
get exempt, while poorer people would not.
But, as Jimmy Carter said, 'Life is unfair:"
This instructor also didn't see any prob­lems
with the involuntary soldiers. "No­body
wants to be in a war."
Another instructor felt " the essential
feature of the draft is the registration of
U.S. citizens-it will speed availability of
manpower resources."
handed down a ruling in favor of
Coffin, who was eventually
allowed to speak here.
' 'If Coffin had wanted to talk at
any other time, there would have
been no problem," said David
Housel, Plainsman editor at the
time.
"We were in the same situation
as we are now. The legislators
were trying to get the education
budget through," he said.
There was an ultra-conserva­tive
legislature in office and AU
would've seemed guilty of
"espousing anti-military view-.
points," he said. Housel went on
to say, "It was an image thing.
I don't think Philpott would've
said a thing if it had been at
another time," he said.
There was only one other
demonstration worthy of mention
during the era of campus unrest.
On Strike Day in 1971, students
gathered on the Haley Center
concourse and lawn to oppose the
Vietnam War and mandatory
ROTC.
' 'Neither of the demonstrations
were very big," said Housel.
"Auburn really had very little
trouble."
One event that stemmed from
Strike Day was a Glom burning.
"The Glom made a lot of color
pictures from that day. They
were all in the front of the book,"
he said. About 150 students got
angry, according to Housel,
because they felt those pictures
made Auburn look "hippie-ish
and semi-radical" so they met in
the parking lot by the baseball
field and burned them.
"Time has changed, the legisla­ture
has changed, the attitude of
this country has changed. That
was a unique time," said the
former Plainsman editor.
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NOW wants equal registration
By Karen Hartley
Assistant Features Editor
Although the House has re­jected
moves to require female
registration, many women have
considered the consequences and
reevaluated their opinions on
women and the draft.
Linda Shearon, ex-president of
the National Organization of
Women (NOW) at Auburn Uni­versity,
will not be affected by
any draft registration because of
her age, but says she is still
against the draft in general.
"But if we're going to have any
kind of draft system, women
should be drafted," she said.
As a supporter of voluntary
registration as opposed to manda­tory
draft, Shearon says she
believes people of a certain age
should give time for the good of
their country.
"It wouldn't necessarily have to
be military (service)," she said,
adding that people could sign up
for an area in which they could
best serve their country.
That way, if women wanted to,
they could sign up for the armed
Students support registration
By Rick Harmon
Editor
If legislation were passed or­dering
Auburn students to
register for the draft, 93 percent
of them would comply, according
to a survey conducted by a
political science class studying
polling procedures.
Using a randomly conducted
telephone survey of 165 Auburn
students, divided fairly evenly
between males and females and
the four undergraduate classes,
' John Heilman and his class
found 93 percent of the students
would register and 86 percent of
them would report for induction if
drafted.
The majority of Auburn stu­dents
favored registering people
for the draft, regardless of sex or
conscientious objections.
Citing equal rights and equal
obligations, 62 percent of the
respondants said females should
be registered for the draft.
Most of the 38 percent who felt
women should not be registered
said they felt this way because
women were not suitable for
combat.
Many of the students who felt
women should be registered for
the draft stipulated it should be
done only if women were not
assigned to combat units. Only 11
percent felt females should be
assigned to actual fighting.
Although many students cited
equal rights as reason females
should be forced to register,
Auburn students rejected the
Equal Rights Amendment by a
three-to-two margin.
Of 153 students who stated an
opinion, 92 favored rejection of
the ERA. Interestingly, a larger
proportion of females, 62 percent,
opposed ERA than male students,
49 percent.
Variables beside gender ap­peared
to have little relationship
to students attitudes to the legis­lation.
Most Auburn students, 53 per­cent,
also felt conscientious ob­jections
should not be a cause for
draft exemption. Only 35.5 per­cent
of the responding students
felt conscientious objectors should
not be drafted
forces, and even combat stations,
she said, adding that women are
no less qualified than men men­tally
or physically.
"Who's equipped to go to war?"
she asked. Little boys were given
G.I. Joe dolls and told how
masculine it was to go to war,
then when the war came along
everybody saw the realities, she
said.
"Nobody's equipped for that.
It's an utter shock for anybody.''
Shearon said she doesn't think
legislation to draft women would
pass in Congress, because there is
such an unpopular attitude about
the specifics such as men and
women bunking together. "The
legislators don't want to take the
political risk," she said.
On the national level, NOW has
taken a stand that women will
eventually have to be drafted.
According to the"National NOW
Times," the number of young
males in this nation will decrease
by 25 percent between 1980 and
1992.
This, coupled with an even more
limited pool of technically trained
men and the increasing complexi­ty
of modern weapons "leaves
little room for rational argument
against women's increasing
participation in the military, on
either a voluntary or involuntary
basis. The military simply will
not be able to operate without
utilizing women," the paper
stated.
If the draft and registration are
instituted, NOW believes both
must include women. According
to the"Times," "as a matter of
fairness and equity, no draft or
registration that excludes one
half of the population in 1980
simply on the basis of gender
could be deemed fair.''
The paper continued to say that
there is a constitutional question
involved in drafting women.' 'Any
registration or draft that exclu­ded
females would be challenged
as an unconstitutional denial of
rights under the Fifth Amend­ment."
Locally, some Auburn women
feel that since the Equal Rights
Amendment has not been ratified,
and they don't receive equality in
day-to-day living then they should
not have to serve as equals in
war.
Angela Robinson, a sophomore
in army ROTC doesn't think any
problems will arise. "They'll
never be drafted for combat,'' she
said, stating that it will not occur
because men will never commit
women to combat.' And men run
Congress, she said.
If women were to be drafted to
the front lines, Robinson said that
they will be subject to fighting not
one, but two fronts—men and
war.
Robinson said that there is
more to serving the country than
fighting in combat. "A lot has to
be done besides pulling the trig­ger."
That doesn't mean that women
aren't capable, she said, but that
they should be able to sign up for
anything they feel they're capa­ble
of handling.
Robinson said that if she were
drafted the reasons would be for
her country and its freedom. "I
don't see why I shouldn't have to
defend it."
As one of the few girls in her
drill company, Robinson 3aid she
receives "a lot of encouragement
from the guys already in there."
But concerning the issue of
women in combat, Robinson said
that from previous discussions
with drill company members, she
got the feeling that most of them
would prefer not having women in
theif combat unit. "They don't
feel like they can completely trust
them yet," she said.
"He doesn't want me out there
to hold that gun," she explained,
stating that men didn't want to
trust women with their lives.
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Campus Calendar
SIGMA DELTA CHI BACK­GAMMON
TOURNAMENT-A
backgammon tournament will be
sponsored by Sigma Delta Chi on
May 20, 21 and 22 at Darvo's from
4 to 8 p.m. each day. Entry fee is
$2.50 and must be turned in at
Haley Center room 8090 by May
16. Cash prizes will be awarded.
AG-ECON CLUB-The Ag-Econ
Club will sponsor a faculty picnic
for anyone interested in Ag-
Economics on Tuesday at 4:30
p.m. at Chewacla State Park.
LAMBDA SIGMA-There will be
an ice cream party for all
Lambda Sigma alums and new
members today at 4 p.m. in the
Tamarack Clubhouse.
ALABAMA STUDENT COALI­TION-
There will be a state-wide
conference of the Alabama
Student Coalition Saturday at 9:30
a.m. in room 203 of Foy Union.
PARENTS WITHOUT
PARTNERS-Parents Without
partners will hold an organiza­tional
meeting IYC, PWP's
youth ages 12-18 at 7 p.m. on
Monday at the home of Bill Boyer,
phone 821-3932. Parents Without
Partners will also host a program
entitled "I'm a Single Parent.
What's Parents Without
Partners?" at 7 p.m. Wednesday
at the Presbyterian University
Center, 123 East Thatch Ave.
AMERICAN SOCIETY OF
CIVIL E N G I N E E R S - T he
American Society: of Engineers
will hold a meeting for all mem­bers
faculty and interested
students on Tuesday at 12 p.m. in
the Textile Auditorium.
N.O.W.The National Organization
for Woman will sponsor "Stress:
To Tolerate or to Cope, That is the
Question," on Tuesday from 7-9
p.m. in Haley Center room 2330.
PI DELTA PHI-The French
Honorary, Pi Delta Phi, will have
a meeting for members and pros­pective
members this afternoon
at 4 p.m. in Foy Union 322. The
purpose of the meeting will be to
discuss banquet and elect new
officers. Next Thursday, May 22,
they will hold their initiation
banquet at 6 p.m. at the Hungry
Hunter. Cost will be $6.50 per
plate and must be turned in to the
foreign language department.
COLLEGE REPUBLICANS-The
College Republicans will
meet tonight at 6:30 in room 321 of
Foy Union. All people interested
in the fall elections must attend.
This will be the last meeting of the
year. Afterwards we will go to one
of Auburn's fine drinking establi­shments.
UPC FILMS-The UPC free
movie Friday will be "Animal
House." It will be shown at 8 p.m.
in Graves Ampitheatre. Imme­diately
following will be a best-dressed
toga contest and "Animal
House" dance.
GLOMERATA DISTRIBU­TION-
The 1980 Glom will be
distributed on May 14,15 and 16 in
front of the Glom office below the
War Eagle Cafeteria. Students
who have been here the past three
quarters will receive the Glom
free. There will be a $1.50 charge
for students who were here the
last two quarters, and students
who have been here only Spring
quarter will be charged $3.
Students are required to bring
their ID cards.
AUBURN UNVIERSITY EN­SEMBLE-
The Auburn Univer­sity
Chorus and Instrumental
Ensemble will perform in concert
on May 25 at 3 p.m. in Goodwyn
hall on the AUM campus. Tradi- (
tional favorites by Joseph Haydn,
Johannes Brahms, George
Gershwin and Cole Porter will be
featured. Admission to the
concert is free.
AUBURN SAFE ENERGY
ALLIANCE-The Auburn
Safe Energy Alliance will hold a
meeting for all interested persons
tonight at 7:30 in St. Dunstan's
Chapel, 136 E. Magnolia.
HEART OF DIXIE - T h e Heart of
Dixie Band Front Halftime
Camps will be on campus today
through Saturday.
ODK members named
Auburn's Omicron Delta Kappa
circle tapped 18 new members
and selected 10 new Squires last
night.
New members of ODK, the
national leadership honorary,
include
Dick Bishop, 4EE, fraternity
vice president, Tau Beta Pi,
band; Ray Briscuso, 3MKT, IFC
president and secretary-treasur­er,
pre-college counselor; Kevin
Conaway, 4FI, off-campus sena­tor,
Delta Sigma Pi, academic
honesty committee; Kim Drake,
3RSM, sorority president, War
Eagle Girl, Angel Flight;
Brad Everett, 3AC, All-SEC
academic football team, All-SEC
freshman football team, Squires;
Steve Farish, 3LFI, Plainsman
technical editor, Lambda Sigma
vice president, Phi Eta Sigma;
Ellen Hall, 3CDP, sorority presi­dent,
DeKalb College SGA presi­dent
and Who's Who; Jim Ham-ner,
3TC, engineering school
president, director of consumer
protection, SGA special asst. to
the president;
Rick Harmon, 6PO, Plainsman
editor, Sigma Delta Chi treasur­er,
Who's Who; Beth Holman,
3LEM, Circle Editor, Squires,
Lambda Sigma president; Liz
Merrill, 3NF, sorority president,
Pi Delta Phi vice president, Omi­cron
Nu; Taylor Morris, 4AR,
Tau Sigma Delta, fraternity
president and chaplain;
Norma Mungenast, 4CJL, UPC
coordinator, Angel Flight pledge
president, law enforcement
scholarship; Karen Phillips,
4AEC, Block and Bridle presi­dent,
Ag Council vice president,
dorm vice president; Tanya
Stacy, 4LEC, SGA treasurer, high
school relations director, sorority
president;
David Strickland, 3CHE,
Glomerata managing editor, Tau
Beta Pi, fraternity 2nd vice presi­dent;
Sara Jane Torbert, 4AC,
sorority vice president, Multiple
Sclerosis community chairman,
church music director; Leigh
Viverette, 4PRJ, SGA press
secretary, Tiger Cub editor,
sorority president.
New members of the Squires
sophomore honorary include:
Dell Barker, 1PM, Glomerata
staff, Kadettes pledge president;
David Bean, 1GJM, UPC films
committee, Plainsman sports-writer;
Tamara Davis, 1GC, traf­fic
and appeals committee,
sorority pledge president; :
Vanessa Gilbert, INS, Angel.
Flight, Concert choir; Tommy
Johnson, 1PB, off-campus sena­tor,
UPC outdoor recreation
committee;
Scott Morris, 1PM, Lambda
Sigma president, Concert Choir;
Martha Reiser, 1PCN, SGA public
relations committee, Lambda
Sigma treasurer; Dianne Ross,
1FLT, Glomerata asst. student
life editor, Theatre Upstairs lead;
Anita Joy Yeager, 1PRJ,
Glomerata staff, Lambda Sigma.
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Moore
Time
Despite loss
' Auburn is a
clutch team
By Ed Moore
Sports Editor
Sights and sounds at the 1980
baseball tournament at Gaines­ville,
Fla.:
Vanderbilt, perennial cellar
dwellar in SEC sports, was the
sentimental favorite among most
writers covering the playoffs.
Auburn appeared to be the second
choice of the small corp of
"unbaised" sportswriter...
Florida, the favorite again, was
elminated first, and it was the
third consecutive year the Gators
lost in the first round amidst
accusations of choke. To be fair,
however, Florida ran into Jeff
Calhoun of Ole Miss in the first
game, and after its opening loss to
Auburn, Vanderbilt was not about
to lose to anybody. Also, the
Commodores are 5-2 against
Florida this season...
j ^ . Calhoun is wanted by most pro
teams, and its no wonder, the guy
has a 90 plus fastball and his
curveball is better. The rap
against him, according to a
Dodger scout, however, is that he
doesn't finish what he starts. But
Saturday night he surprised
everyone, as he threw nine
innings, setting a new tournament
record with 14 strikeouts. In the
ninth, his fastball was clocked at
91 mph and he struck out the side
to preserve a 3-2 victory...
Although Auburn lost two
straight to finish second in the
conference, the season was a
surprising success. No one ex­pected
the Tigers to even be
there, and fans kept wondering
why the team was. Well, Paul
Nix's crew wasted no time exhibi­ting
its talent for winning close
games with clutch play, and that
was what was so exciting about
this team. I've rarely seen a
clutch team such as Auburn, and
even the Gator fans were mutter­ing
about Auburn's clutch per­formances,
hoping their team
would learn the same...
Florida's Perry Field needs a
revamping. "The Hill" in leftfield
is incredibly, just that, a hill. It's
a 12-foot slope, at its highest point
along the leftfield foul line,
sloping gently toward centerfield,
finally ending at the farthest point
in the park, at the centerfield
fence. Florida Coach Jay
Bergman asked the school to fix it
two years ago, but it told him it
would cost $18,000 and to forget it.
It may be advantage for the home
team's leftfielder, but let's face it,
it's bush...
Nix said that if his team won the
series it would be equivalent to
the 1969 New York Mets winning
the World Series. Too bad Auburn
did not get to play the 1969 Atlanta
Braves in the playoffs...
The fans voraciously agreed on
one thing throughout; the
umpires were cheating their
team. "It's hard to beat two
teams, especially the team in
blue," was the common quote
that was a common thread for the
fans. Everyone thought their
team was the victim of all the bad
alls. I was quite content to have
four umpires on the field instead
of the usual two...
Listening in on Nix as he
coached third base: "If you get a
fastball hit it to right, if you get a
curveball, pull it to left."
"Be alert out there, this is an
opportunity to come see me now."
"You too nervous to cut it son,
c'mon, we got to do it now."
"Hit him like you own him."
"C'mon now let's make them
pay for that, let's make them pay
hard."
"I put him there for you two to
set him in now."
"Be patient, you're going to get
a good pitch to hit."
"We need some out of you, we
need some out of you now."
"We need to get fat right now,
we need to get all the meat and
gravy we can."
And after Sunday night's win:
"I didn't want to play tomor­row,
it's too hot."
He's unorthodox, but no one can
fault his record. Saturday's win
gave him 800 victories, and only
10 other coaches can claim that.
Sports
The Auburn Plainsman Thursday, May 15,1980 page 11
Vandy powers to
SEC baseball title
By Ed Moore
Sports Editor
V a n d e r b i l t ' s high-powered
offensive machine was shut down
Saturday by fastball pitchers Phil
Deriso and Mark Shiflett 3-2, but
the Commodores rebounded from
that loss to win four straight and
the 1980 SEC baseball tournament
at Gainesville, Fla.
Vanderbilt came back Sunday
to defeat Florida 11-7, and after
that game .head Coach Roy
Mewbourne said, "It was scary.
It was what I thought it would be,
a lot of hits and shakey pitching.
From here on out it's going to be
like that. Everyone is just going
to tee the ball up and whoever hits
it best is going to win."
"i thought the winner of this
game would win the champion­ship,"
Florida head coach Jay
Bergman said.
He was right, and so was
Mewbourne.
After the win over Florida,
Vanderbilt played Ole Miss to
determine which team would play
Auburn for the championship.
The Commodores beat the Rebels
21-0 on Monday afternoon, then
beat Auburn Monday night 16-3.
Tuesday afternoon was a
rematch of Saturday's first tourn­ament
game, Deriso against
David Nenad, who was named the
MVP of the playoffs. But after
scoring 37 runs the day before,
Vanderbilt was not showing any
signs of tiring, scoring 13 runs on
15 hits, and becoming the first
team to come back and win the
SEC tournament after an opening
round loss. The win gave the
Commodores an automatic berth
in the NCAA Southern Regional,
beginning May 24.
Vanderbilt completely rewrote
the record books, scoring 63 runs
in five games.
Second year coach Mewbourne
was named the SEC Coach of the
Year.
Auburn moved into the winners
bracket with its 3-2 win, then
stayed there with a 7-4 victory
over Ole Miss Sunday night.
Johnny Tutt lined a two-out
single to center field in the bottom
of the ninth inning, driving in
John Metasavage from second
witht he winning run, for the
Tigers first win.
Metasavage had reached
second base on a walk by starter
and loser Nenad to open the
inning. Rodney Rushing
sacrificed Metasavage to second
base on a Bhort bunt in front of the
pitchers mound. Alan Mock, the
leadoff hitter in the order, then
filed out to left to bring up Tutt.
Tutt drove the ball up the middle,
over the mound, and it reached
centerfielfcer Hal Cohen quickly.
Metasavage, who only has
average speed, got a good jump
and Coach Paul Nix waved him
home. Cihen threw weakly
toward the plate, first baseman
Mike Pike ^ut it off and threw it to
the plate, and Metasavage was
safe sliding on an eyelash call,
prompting some argument from
the SEC's MVP, catcher ScotU
Madison.
Nix said there was no question
about whether or not to hold
Metasavage at third.
"I was thinking about holding
him up, but he's smarter than me,
he know's we play to win," Nix
said. "We were going to go for the
W, not leave him on third, that's
the way we play, put the pressure
on them."
Starter Deriso kept Vanderbilt
shut down through six innings
giving up onlyone hit and no runs.
But in the seventh Deriso got into
trouble, after a walk, wild pitch
and single to feftfield.
Nix said he was not surprised
by Deriso's food performance
and added, "Deriso's been pitch­ing
well of late, we were happy to
get that many good innings from
him.''
With Deriso in trouble in the
seventh, Auburn's fireman
Shiflett was brought in.
Steve Chmil doubled to left off
Shiflett driving in a run, but
Shiflett bore down and struck out
Jerry Williams, and Nenad and
Elliot filed out Nenad's fly ball
scored Vanderbilt's second run.
Deriso and Shiflett induced the
Commodore batters to popup all
day, and Vandy hitters never
reached the deep part of the