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Volume 87 Number 4 Thursday, October 23,1980 Auburn Univ., Ala. 36849 30 pages
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Clocking in
Although these two physical plant workers may not
have to punch a clock more than twice a day, after
their job repairing the Landgon Annex behind
Langdon Hall, they may want to. After a hot day of
work, the Sanford tower clock looms in the back of
everyone's mind, the chimes of each successive hour
seems slower and slower in coming. But at least in
the case of these workers, their problems are behind
them.
By Robin Simmons
Plainsman Staffwriter
Sen. Ted Little of Auburn has
proposed a bill to the <• state
Legislature intended to implement
"sound, fiscal responsibility" in
Alabama's government in an effort
to eliminate proration.
This bill, pre-filed Oct. 8 for next
year's legislative session in Feb­ruary,
calls for a re-building of
educational reserves and more ac­curate
state revenue forecasts on
which to base allocations.
Proration—a reduction in the
amount of funds allocated from the
state Special Educational Trust
Fund because of a misestimate of
state tax revenues—has plagued
Auburn University for the past
three years, Little said.
The University's reserve fund to
offset such weakened allocations
has already been partially absorb­ed
this year.
Little's proposal would prohibit
the Legislature from appropriating
more than 95 percent of projected
revenue for state-wide higher ed­ucation,
unless a percentage in­crease
is voted by four-fifths
majority vote in both the House
and Senate.
The 5 percent left over would be
invested to draw interest for one
year, Little said, creating a sur­plus.
That 5 percent lee-way would
mean a $65 million surplus in the
state's Educational Trust Fund by
September, 1982, Little said, al­lowing
the Legislature to appro­priate
additional funds from this
reserve in following years.
The bill also calls for the es­tablishment
of a Revenue Forecas t
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projections currently are inde­pendently
estimated by three
separate agencies whose findings
differ widely, Little said.
Because there is no "true and
valid anticipation of the revenues"
available to legislators, proration
of appropriated funds occurs,
according to the bill.
Put simply, "proration does not
occur until you appropriate the
funds that aren't coming in (the
state)," Little said. "The whole
idea is to build expertise in the
system."
Rather than three separate and
different budget figures, Little
said, the budget committee would
have to agree on one figure before
submitting it to the Legislature.
This way, the Legislature could
better decide what revenue is
actually coming in, he added.
The Revenue Forecast Control
Commission would consist of one
representative from the agencies
of the Legislative Fiscal Office, the
State Budget Office and the Center
for Economics and Business Re­search.
Previously, a legislator has
"hung his hat with whichever
agency he has more confidence
in," Little said. "We are (pre­sently)
getting independent pro­jections
and not a consensus pro­jection
to agree on.''
The bill's passage through the
Alabama Legislature could be
muzzled, however, because of the
Alabama Education Association's
fear that the bill could hamper
teacher pay raises, said Little.
"They feel it would virtually
elimfT,"te any possibility of
teacm ; j receiving pay raises this
year. If this fear proves true once
the bill is enacted, Little said he
would propose an amendment to
the bill "allowing allocations at a
more reasonable rate. I would
move it (allocations) to 98 percent
or whatever is necessary for ample
funding for salary improvements.
"I won t let the bill pass if I see
that it's going to prevent teachers
from getting salary increases.
We're losing too many excellent
teachers."
Little
Neither Auburn President
Hanley Funderburk nor Executive
Vice President Rex Rainer would
comment on the proposed bill
because both said they had no
knowledge of its content.
A major factor intertwined in
this budget maze not addressed in
the bill is that "the typical legisla­tor
and, likewise, the governor's
office, does not comprehend how
the weighted credit hour formula
works," Little said.
The weighted credit hour
formula to determine funds al-
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Committee begins evaluations of programs
By Steve Farish
Managing Editor
The priorities committee set up
by President Hardy Funderburk
last week, will be partly charged
with establishing a three-category
priority list for future funding from
the Legislature and the possible
consolidation of some University
programs, Executive Vice Presi­dent
Rex Rainer said Tuesday.
"We have asked the committee
to define the land-grant university
idea at Auburn," Rainer said, and,
"we have also asked them in a
gross sense to prioritize our pro­gress."
The first of three categories that
would emerge from such a prioriti­zation
would be those programs
"unique to Auburn," Rainer said.
He used the School of Architecture,
the only school of its kind in the
state, as an example.
Rainer said the second priority
group would consist of those pro­grams
"which have a long history
of academic achievement and
excellence." The Schools of Agri­culture
and Engineering, though
not unique in the state, would come
under this category, he said.
The final category would be for
"heavily duplicated programs,"
such as the School of Business.
Rainer warned that the categori­zation
could lead some to the false
impression that lower-category
programs would be the first to be
cut if need be.
"We are doing this simply to
prepare to defend ourselves at the
bargaining table," Rainer said.
"We must demonstrate the quality
in the programs."
Funderburk said in a faculty
meeting last week the committee
will be working to establish funding
priorities for both the University
and each of its schools.
The committee should be
finished with its work by the end of
winter quarter, he said. Its three to
five-year plan will begin to be
implemented before the end of the
school year, the president added.
The chairman of the priorities
committee is Dr. Paul Parks, dean
of the Graduate School. Sixteen
professors, deans and administra­tors
will serve with him.
Also to be formed before the fall
of 1981 are a 10-year study and
planning committee (required
under rules of the Southern Asso­ciation
of Universities and Col­leges)
and a revived administra­tive
council to oversee academic
problems and planning,
Funderburk said.
The moves to set up these com­mittees
are an effort to have "total
faculty involvement" in the
planning process, Rainer said.
Speaking to the professors,
Funderburk added, "I hope all of
you will have some input" into the
committees' work.
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sydicated columnist, brought his
special southern-style humor to
the Student Activities Building.
An interview with every
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Student still in critical condition after accident
By Kathy Jernigan
Plainsman Staffwriter
. Auburn student James H. Lamb
II, 19, remained in critical condi­tion
Wednesday following a hit-and-
run accident near campus
Friday night. Janice York, 20, also
an Auburn student, was arrested
and later freed on a $5,000 property
bond Monday in connection with
the accident, said Auburn Police
Sgt. Gary Black.
York, a sophomore in textile
management, was driving a
Datsun B210 west in the 700 block of
Magnolia Avenue late Friday night
at a high rate of speed when her car
struck Lamb, witnesses told police.
Witnesses said York stopped
near the end of Magnolia but
returned to her car and drove to
Dorm 3 where Black picked her up
at 12:30 a.m. and took her to the
police department for questioning.
York was arrested and charged
with leaving the scene of the
accident Monday afternoon at the
Auburn Police Department and
was released later from the Lee
County Sheriff's Department on
bond.
Lamb, a freshman forestry
student, suffered multiple head
injuries and was treated by the
Auburn Fire Department parame­dics
before being iransferred in a
campus ambulance to the Lee
County Hospital. Lamb was taken
to Baptist Hospital in Montgomery
and placed in intensive care
shortly after he arrived.
Students at the scene of the
incident told police that some of
them saw the Datsun coming and
thought it was going to hit a car
parked on the side of the road. The
students yelled warnings and some
pushed others out of the way but
Lamb failed to get out of the way in
time.
Lamb, of 243 Conway Trailer
Park, was on his way to the SAE
House when the accident
happened. Lamb is an SAE pledge
from Cottonwood, Ala.
"The pavement was wet and
there were a lot of cars parked
along the side of the road, as usual
on Auburn on a weekend," Black
said. "There were lots of students
walking around and traffic was
really congested too."
In a recent report from the State
Highway Department on the most
hazardous traffic areas in Auburn,
Magnolia Avenue was one of the
two intersecting avenues reported
to have the highest accident rate in
the city.
Iranian, Iraqi students worry about relatives in war-torn homelands
By Scott Thurston
Editor
Thirty three days ago, Iraqi troops crossed the
border into Iran, driving in what they hoped
would be a successful blitzkrieg against import­ant
Iranian oil ports and production centers
along the north side of the Persian Gulf.
Today, the blitzkrieg has become a sitzkrieg,
with the Iraqi attack bogged down in what most
analyists predict will be a long struggle between
the two countries despite the efforts of the United
Nations to resolve the conflict.
The Iran-Iraq war has further complicated an
already delicate political situation in the Middle
East. But politicians are not the only people who
have felt the effects of the fighting. The war and
its effects on the two countries are a constant
worry for Iranian and Iraqi students at Auburn.
"I am very sad to see the war because two
Moslem countries should not be fighting," said
one Auburn Iranian of the war. "I have a
shortwave radio, and when I hear 50 or 60 people
are dead, it doesn't make me very happy.
"I am real worried because I have a lot of
relatives in the area of the fighting, and 1 know
lot of nouses are destroyed. Bu.t I can't get
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through to them because all the communication
lines are down."
Another Iranian student whose family lives in
Khorramshahr, which has been the scene of
heavy fighting in the past two weeks, said he
receives no information about the war other than
what he see on television news broadcasts.
"I don't really know where my family is,
because the phones are all down," he said. "But I
bet they have left the town, except for my
brother, who is of fighting age."
A third Iranian student whose brother lives in
Abadan, the target of the southern thrust of the
Iraqi offensive, said he too has tried unsuccess­fully
to contact his family. "The feeling is not
good," he said, "because with war the danger for
those near it is always there."
None of the Iranians contacted said they had
definite plans to return to Iran immediately to
participate in the fighting, but all said they are
willing to go if called upon by the Iranian
government.
"I would go back if they call me," said one,
"but I don't want to fight anyone. I would not
fight at all if our country had invaded Iraq as
they did US. I have heard of about 200 students
who have gone back since the war began," he
added, "but none from Auburn have gone back'.'
"When I look at it logically, I see it would be
much better for me to stay in the United States
and get knowledge and then go back," said
another. "But if the government asked, I
wouldn't give it a second thought before going
back."
While the Iranians contacted have similar
feelings about returning to fight in the war, their
feelings on the causes of the war and its effects
on other issues, such as hostage situation, are
more diverse.
Technically, the conflict may be traced to 1975,
when Iraq was forced by the Shah—then at the
peak of his power in the region—to accept a
treaty giving Iran partial control, of the Shatt al
Arab, a strategic waterway that provided Iraq's
only access to the Persian Gulf.
Humiliated by what he considered a one-sided
treaty, Iraqi strongman Saddam Hussein seized
the recent chaotic state of Iran's internal affairs
as the moment to avenge the agreement and
regain control of the Shatt al Arab.
Iranian students here, however, see the war as
the result of many factors.
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Che 9uburn Plainsman Thursday, October 33. 1980 A-2
Faculty Senate discusses new fall quarter calendar
By John Mangels
News Editor
The Auburn University faculty
senate discussed an alternative fall
quarter calendar schedule and a
change in spring and summer
graduation program proceedings
at its meeting Tuesday afternoon.
New methods of obtaining library
funding and defining the faculty's
role in University policy making
was also discussed.
Though a standard calendar for
the 1981-82 academic year was
approved by the senate, an alterna­tive
fall quarter schedule could be
amended to the approved calendar
and go into effect next year if acted
upon by December, Registrar Tom
Stallworth said.
The alternative fall schedule
would have classes beginning
earlier in September and ending
with final exams before Thanks­giving.
Stallworth said students had
shown interest in such a revision,
but that the proposed schedule
would start before the faculty
payroll began on Sept. 15. The
revision would also cause "ap­proximately
1,000" Auburn
students to lose a portion of their
veteran's benefits for the month of
September because of the earlier
starting date "unless something
can be worked out with the
Veteran's Administration," Stall-worth
said.
The schedule proposal was re­mitted
to the senate calendar and
schedules, committee for further
examination and • for possible
future recommendation to the
senate.
Because of "problems with the
amount of time involved in gradua­tion
ceremonies and the lack of air
conditioning in the Coliseum where
the services are held," Graduation
Committee Chairman Robert
Smith said his committee had
recommended to the administra­tive
council that spring and
summer graduation be held in
Jordan-Hare Stadium.
Smith said the committee had
also recommended the Veterinary
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IRAN REJECTS CARTER'S DEAL FOR
HOSTAGES-President
Jimmy Carter's offer to lift the arms
embargo against Tehran if the 52 American hostages
are released was rejected Tuesday by Iran's funda­mentalist
leadership. The ending of the embargo
would unfreeze $8 billion in Iranian assets in
American and European banks, and make it possible
for Iran to get spare parts for its U.S.-made military
machine.
PHILADELPHIA WINS SERIES-The
Philadelphia Phillies won the first world cham­pionship
in its 98-year history Tuesday night, beating
Kansas City 4-1 to end the 1980 World Series. Pitchers
Steve Carlton and Tug McGraw, with the Series' Most
Valuable Player Mike Schmidt, delighted the roaring
crowd of 65,838 fans—the largest to watch a World
Series game in 16 years—with the long sought win.
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CARTER AND REAGAN AGREE TO DEBATE-Ronald
Reagan and Jimmy Carter agreed to stage
"The Great Debate," a 90-minute one-on-one debate,
Tuesday at 9:30 p.m. EST, in Cleveland, Ohio. The
two-segment debate will include domestic, foreign,
economic and defense issues. In the first segment, the
candidates will be questioned by a moderator and four
panelists and will have an opportunity for rebuttal.
The second segment will involve a back-and-forth
exchange between the two men. Carter and Reagan
will also make closing statements.
Graduate Schools hold separate
graduation ceremonies in the
spring in order to relieve some of
the time length problems of the
ceremony. Smith said two of the
schools, pharmacy and nursing,
already hold separate honors cere­monies
prior to graduation.
The administrative council will
discuss the senate committee's
recommendations before making
recommendations of its own.
A resolution proposing the addi­tion
of a 10 percent surcharge on all
athletic event tickets, with pro­ceeds
from the surcharge going to
Draughon Library because the
University's "financial crisis" is
"resulting in gross underfunding of
the library" was tabled by the
senate for further discussion.
A substitute resolution recom­mending
that the University allo­cate
"research overhead monies"
from government grants and pri­vate
industry directly to the library
was rejected by the senate, though
executive vice president Rex
Rainer is currently investigating
such a possibility, said library
committee chairman Don Olliff.
Discussion on the original resolu­tion
took two directions among the
faculty. Opponents of the proposal
questioned the concentration "on
athletic events and funding when
attendance at those events is pro­bably
largely non-University per­sonnel."
Those who favored the resolution
felt it could be used "simply as a
method of voicing our concern
about the library situation to the
administration.''
Though Olliff said the library
could "most assuredly use the
money" and "we'll take money
anywhere we can get it from," he
said he still has "very serious
questions" about the proposed re­solution.
'It's not the faculty's job to find
money to support a public univer­sity.
It's our job to recommend
what we need," Olliff said. He said
a proposal for a $12.50 increase in
student fees to go toward library
funding is currently being con­sidered
by the administration.
Faculty senate President Sara
Hudson's report on attempts to
gain faculty representation on the
recently formed executive council
prompted a 15-minute discussion
on the role of faculty in University
policy-making.
Hudson said she had been denied
ex officio membership in the exe­cutive
council, but had been ap­proved
to serve in the same capa­city
on the administrative council.
The administrative council will
replace the tentatively abolished
academic, research and extension
councils, Hudson said.
"The administrative council
serves as a forum for information
and advice, but is certainly not
going to serve in a policy-making
capacity," she said. "And accord­ing
to Dr. Rainer, the executive
council will not involve itself with
academic decisions. A dichotomy
exists between budget and aca­demic
matters."
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SGA Senate allocates extra funds
By Steve Farish
Managing Editor
The SGA senate appropriated
$22,732.50 to seven student activi­ties
Monday night after a heated
debate that lasted more than one
hour.
The point of controversy in the
recommendation of allocation by
the Budget and Finance Commit­tee
concerned the $1,150 that would
go to WEGL-FM, the campus radio
station, a sum that was approved
within the rest of the bill.
Sen. Russ Roberson argued that
the appropriation would not be'
enough. He charged that members
of the committee had not actually
been to the station "to see the true
problems."
Among those problems, he said,
were a lack of money for salaries,
disrepair of the production room
and the inability to purchase a play
series entitled, "Mind's Eye."
Budget Committee Chairman
Betsi Vogel contested Roberson's
allegations. "I very much agree
with the recommendation we
made," she said. "I feel as if we
look into the radio station quite
hard."
Vogel said her committee had
held the posture that salaries fqr
student organizations were being
funded too highly; therefore, they
had requested a cut in the WEGL
salaries last spring, a request that
WEGL had not followed.
The committee has held a policy
of increased scrutiny with organi­zations
which do not follow re­commendations,
she said.
The final vote on the WEGL,
appropriation and the entire fund
allocation was 22-6.
In addition to the WEGL appro­priation,
the senate appropriated
$13,117.50 to the Plainsman, $3,715
to the University Program Council,
$1,770 to the Tiger Cub, the official
student handbook, $732 to the liter­ary
magazine, the Circle, $1,748 to\
the SGA and $500 to the Lectures
committee.
The senate also set aside $6,672
for a contingency fund, bringing
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Animal shelter under fire again
By Peggy Wilhide
Assistant News Editor
A signed letter of complaint
protesting the inhumane treatment
of animals at the Auburn Animal
Shelter has been registered at the
Auburn Police Department by
Edgar Glyde, president of the Lee
County Humane Society,
The complaint, followed by a
letter to the City Council, was
made Friday and as of Wednesday,
had not been acted on by the police
department, according to Glyde.
"If I had made a complaint about
something else, the police depart­ment
would be right here," said
Glyde. "As far as I know, nothing
has been done about it."
Glyde filed his complaint after
finding three dead puppies in a
cage during a periodic visit to the
Auburn pound last week. The
Plainsman found a similar situa­tion
when investigating the dog
pound last May, when two dead
puppies, who had apparently been
neglected when sick, were found
laying in a cage with a half dozen
live puppies.
The conditions at the city pound
have been the subject of com­plaints
from the Humane Society
for almost a year. In December,
the society presented the City
Council with a proposal designed to
improve conditions for the ani­mals.
The plan included a new building
for the Auburn city shelter located
at the Lee County shelter, a facility
which is "much better than the
shelter at Auburn," according to
Dr. W.C. Neely, a member of the
Humane Society board of di­rectors.
The Humane Society of­fered
to keep the dogs if the city
would continue to provide dog-catching
services to the com­munity.
The cost of the four-year pro­posal
was estimated at $25,810 per
year, with continuing costs esti­mated
at about $13,400.
The proposal was referred to the
Public Safety Committee, chaired
by Mary Brooks, who investigated
the financial aspects of the pro­posal.
Glyde will meet with the council
and committee Friday to discuss
the Lee County Humane Society's
proposal, a decision which, accord-ding
to Council President Denson
Lipscomb, will be based on the
budget.
Local statistics conflict
with FBI reports
War Eagle? Photography: Will Dickey
The stone eagles at the entrance of Samford Park, presented to the
university by the class of 1917, had a visitor earlier this week. The
creature appears to be a cross between a peacock and a turkey. Whatever
it is, the paper mache fowl kept passers-by wondering.
By Kathy Jernigan
Plainsman Staffwriter
Crime in Auburn decreased
slightly in 1978-79, according to
uniform crime reports from the
FBI, but local police authorities
disagree with those statistics.
Mrs. Edna Nowell, administra­tive
assistant to the chief of police,
said that the national reports don't
take into consideration the number
of service calls policemen respond
to. There were 27,684 calls to the
Auburn police for response during
1978-79
Nowell said that "of all the
houses and apartments hit this
summer, about 66 percent of them
were students."
Burglaries increased in Auburn
by 31 percent with a resulting
Magnolia dorm denied funding
$244,720 property loss to citizens.
There were 380 burglaries in 1978-
79.
Larceny remained the most
serious crime in Auburn. "This is
particularly bad because the price
increases resulting from larceny
are passed on to the consumers,"
said Nowell.
The total crime index for Auburn
in 1978-79 was 1,212 for crimes
including murder, manslaughter,
forcible rape, robbery, aggravated
assault, burglary, larceny, theft,
motor vehicle theft and arson.
"Chief Harding has put out one-man
units to increase police cover­age
of the city," said Nowell.
Burglaries in the South increased
9 percent with the southern region
leading the nation in percentage
increases for murder, rape, bur­glary
and auto theft, according to
reports from the FBI.
Nationally, a 9 percent increase
in crime was the largest since the
recession years 1974-75.
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By Karen Hartley
Assistant News Editor
A $5 million request for the
renovation of Magnolia Dormitory
has been denied by the Office of
Housing and Urban Development
(HUD), said Bill Geurin, campus
planner and University architect.
The Aug. 15 request was never
formally denied, but Auburn Uni­versity
was informed by the Bir­mingham
office that the proposal
would not be forwarded to Wash­ington,
Geurin said.
"We were asking for the max­imum
that the program could
provide," he said. "We didn't earn
enough points on the system that
they based their criteria on."
Dr. Harold Grant, dean of Stu­dent
Services, saidj'the University
is going to do something. Exactly
what, we don't know yet. We're
trying to determine what would be
the best approach."
Because the funding did not
come tnrough, another source of
revenue might come from the
Magnolia residents.
Grant said he has spoken to some
of the dormitory residents and
because rent might be raised,
"they're not sure they would want
us to go to the extent that they had
previously been thinking about."
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located to an institution takes into
consideration the level of the class,
the complexity of the subject and
the salary of faculty members.
"Rather, the officials see X
amount of money going toward
18,000 students (at Auburn)," he
said. They think Auburn is in good
shape based on what faculty mem­bers
see is a large amount of
money per student, he said. Yet the
funding isn't as substantial as
legislators believe it to be, he
added.
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cover contest
The UPC is sponsoring a Cal­endar
Cover Contest to find the
best piece of artwork for the cover
of the winter quarter Calender of
Events. The winner's artwork will
be displayed on the cover and the
winner will receive $25.
Entries should be submitted to
the UPC office in Foy Union room
317. Deadline for entries is Nov. 3
at 4:30 p.m.
Anyone wanting more infor­mation
on the contest may call the
UPC office at 826-5292.
"Auburn has got to come out and
educate the legislators as to the
importance of this funding
formula," he said, "or else create a
more understandable formula."
Funderburk has stated • that a
major goal for the University's
lobbyist is to make the Legislature
understand how weighted credit
hour funding works.
And according to Little, the key
to success in solving Auburn's
budget woes is to make more of an
impression on Gov. Fob James and
the Alabama Commission on
Higher Education (ACHE) when
submitting the years' budget-
Before the Legislature makes
appropriations, three steps are
taken: Alabama schools offer a
proposed budget to ACHE; ACHE
makes their recommendations to
Legislature, and the governor pro­poses
his own revised budget to
Legislature.
"The momentum is always with
the governor's budget," Little said,
"because the office has built in
votes behind it." There are persons
committed to the governor's pro­grams.
"If we can get the governor to
give strong attention to Auburn's
budget, we'll have a lot of legisla­tive
support," Little said.
The alternatives are either to get
an 8 percent interest loan, or
possibly lessen the amount of
renovations, Grant said.
Although the loan was not ap­proved,
Al Ulman, SGA director of
On-Campus Men's Housing, said he
will continue to work on the two-year
project.
"The reason we went after the
federal funds was to alleviate the
financial stress of the University,"
he said.
When Ulman first saw the condi­tion
of the dorm, he was "really
floored," saying many areas
needed attention.
"The major features we are
concerned with are largely struc-trual,"
he said. "For instance, the
wiring is the same as that installed
when the building was built in 1947.
The air-conditioning is very bad in
Mag. The walls and ceiling need to
be redone, as does the fire alarm
system, and major Improvements
are needed in both bathroom pipe
fixtures and appearance."
Ulman said if the renovations
were not made, the deterioration of
the dormitory would take away
from Auburn's overall appearance.
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Scott Thurston, editor
Larry R. Klein, business manager
Thursday, October 23, 1980 Volume 87 Number 4 A-4
A new idea
For years, Auburn has been built on a
somewhat less than solid funding founda­tion,
but it has taken recent economic hard
times to fully reveal the fragility of that
funding base.
Under the current method of funding, a
large part of the money to run state
universities and colleges comes from the
state's Special Education Trust Fund. That
fund is supported mainly by sales taxes.
Obviously, it is a risky business to forecast
the amount of money available in the Special
Education Trust Fund each year. It is also
risky to fund higher education through the
fund, because any time tax revenues do not
meet projected amounts, the amount of the
shortfall simply doesn't exist and cannot be
appropriated.
The recent economic recession has caused
unemployment in Alabama to rise, thus
reducing revenues to the Special Education
Trust Fund from sales taxes. In short, the
Special Education Trust Fund has been
reduced before funds earmarked for higher
education could be doled out.
Hence, proration.
When it appears the Special Education
Trust Fund will not be able to meet amounts
budgeted to schools, the budgets of those
schools are prorated or cut back by a given
amount. This year, it was 6.8 percent.
Estimates of proration next fiscal year range
from 7 to 10 percent.
Auburn has been especially hard hit by
proration because, unlike most other schools
in the state, it has not had a large reserve
fund on which to fall back in financial
emergencies; thus, a proration of 6.8 percent
has meant painful cutbacks in areas like
clerical help, travel allotments and money to
hire new instructors.
But you know all about that, so enough
with the economics lesson.
State Sen. Ted Little (D-Auburn) pre-filed
a bill in the Legislature Oct. 8 that may
be a step on the road to injecting at least a
modicum of stability into the state's educa­tional
funding process.
Little's bill, which will be discussed in
February's legislative session, would set up a
Revenue Forecast Control Commission to
project tax revenues for the state. Currently,
widely-differing projections are given to the
legislature from three separate agencies, and
the legislature can do little but estimate the
correct amount.
The centralization of revenue forecasting
would have the obvious benefit of providing
the legislature with one set of projections
with which to work.
In addition, Little's bill would prohibit the
legislature from appropriating more than 95
percent of projected revenue to state-funded
education. The "extra" 5 percent would
eventually create a surplus in the Special
Education Trust Fund.
On its face, Little's bill makes sense. At the
very least, it is a step in the right direction, a
beginning towards a more stable method of
funding education in Alabama. And it has
the benefit of affecting all segments of
education equally, a merit that will make its
passage through a legislature characterized by
the provincialism of its members much
easier.
Ironically, President Funderburk, who has
often pledged to intensify Auburn's efforts
to work with the legislature to solve Auburn's
funding dilemmas, said Monday he knew
nothing of the details of Little's bill.
We thank Little for his concern for Auburn
and state education in general and urge
students and administrators to educate
themselves about what, for this univetsity at
least, will be a major issue in the 1981
legislative session.
One more chance
In 1976 about 15 percent of the voters
chose their candidates the morning of the
presidential election. Since Carter was elected
with only 51 percent of the votes, the election
was actually decided that morning, not
during the months of extensive campaigning
when the candidates were focusing on the
vital issues of the campaign.
We urge all students to find out now how
the candidates stand on the important issues
and vote for the man whose beliefs coincide
with yours. The man elected this Nov. 4 will
be with us for the next four years, and we will
have to live with his policies, foreign and
domestic.
If you are not already registered to vote in
Lee County, tomorrow will be the last day to
do so. A registration drive will be held at the
Civil Defense Office near the Lee County
Courthouse in Opelika from 9-12 a.m. and
from 1-4 p.m.
To be eligible to vote, a student must have
lived in Lee County for 30 day prior to the
election and must bring the names and
addresses of two registered voters in Auburn
who know him.
Make your vote count and our democratic
system work.
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Mostafa Sadami (not his real name) is a
worried man. He finds it hard to concentrate in
class, study at night or relax in his spare time.
Sadami's hometown, you see, is under attack.
Sadami is from the Iranian oil port of
Khorramshahr, where for the past week and a
half, Iranian and Iraqi troops have engaged in
daily street fighting.
Sadami came to Auburn two years ago to
take advantage of American educational
excellence. His goal was to earn a degree and
return to his native Iran to teach what he
learned here to other young Iranians.
Fifty weeks ago his world and plans were
overturned when Ayatollah Khomeini's regime
unlawfully seized the American embassy in
Tehran and took 63 Americans hostage.
Since then, he has had little contact with his
family and has only been able to listen to news
reports of the economic and social chaos that
reigns in Iran since the overthrow of the Shah.
And, of course, he has had to cope with the
constant threat of reprisals against Iranian
students in the United States by Americans
frustrated by their country's seeming inability
to protect or even free from bondage its
diplomats overseas.
The invasion of Iran by Iraq 33 days ago has
only made life worse for Sadami. He listens to
news reports nightly describing the savage
Scott
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street fighting in his hometown and Abadan,
10 miles to the southeast, and he wonders
about his brother, who is of military age, and
the rest of his family, which he hopes has left
the area. But he can only hope, because contact
with the war-torn area is impossible.
"It is real hell living like this," he says about
life over the past year. "It's an awful feeling. I
really wish it would all end right now before
any more damage is done."
It is probably safe to say that Sadami's
feelings are not unlike those felt by most
Iranian students now in the United States.
They came to the United States under an
entirely different set of circumstances and
conditions than now exist and the change has
perhaps affected them more than anyone other
than the hostages and their families.
Many of them do not like what they see
happening in their native land since the
Ayatollah gained control of what can only
loosely be termed the "Iranian government."
But here, thousands of miles from their homes
and their familes, there isn't much the
students can do but wait, listen and hope.
On the other hand, all of them remain
adamant that the overthrow of the Shah was
inevitable, and that it was necessary for Iran
to show American and the world that it must
be free to manage its own affairs. Not all of
them, however, agree with the tactics em­ployed
to do so. Some freely admit the
wrongness of the seizure of the American
embassy, and worry openly that the damage to
Iran's world standing may be irreparable.
These, obviously, are not the irrational,
terrorizing kinds of "students" who seized the
American embassy and appear to dictate Iran's
foreign policy.
Yet, some say they may never return to Iran
or their families, at least not until some order
and democracy is restored to the government
there. That is truly a shame, for their country
needs educated, worldly minds such as theirs.
After talking with just a few of these
Iranians, one cannot escape the feeling that the
30 Americans in Iran are not the only people
being held hostage by Ayatollah Khomeini.
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Dinnan pays high price for freedom
Dr. James Dinnan is not the criminal type,
but he recently spent three months in jail.
Dinnan, a 50-year-old professor of education
at the University of Georgia, was sentenced to
the three months and fined $3,000 dollars for
not revealing his secret ballot in a faculty
tenure vote.
Dr. Maija Blaubergs, the plaintiff in tht
case, had been denied tenure by Dinnan's
committee, but she sought reinstatement on
the charge of sex discrimination by the
committee.
In the Federal Court of Judge Wilbur D.
Owens last May, Dinnan held that his refusal
to reveal his vote was in accord with his
constitutional right to keep his secret ballot a
secret ballot.
In addition, Dinnan told The Plainsman
Monday his refusal was based in part on the
principle of academic freedom. "I was acting as
an agent of the University" on the committee,
he said, "and I felt that revealing my vote
would violate the integrity of the University."
Blaugergs made a strong case for revelation
of the vote, though. "He (Dinnan) has
absolutely no legal basis for his actions," she
said. "It is just his personal preference."
And just as Dinnan had his supporters in the
University, so did Blaubergs. Dr. Ellen
Mattingly, president of the University's
chapter of the American Association of
University Professors, said her organization
has refused to back Dinnan because no
explanation is given to the non-tenured person
about the committee's decision.
"In such a situation, the administration
carries all the weight and members of
promotion committees are responsible only to
the administration which can and does finan­cially
and professionally reward or punish with
impunity," she said.
Such rhetoric has some merit, but it does not
strike at the heart of the problem in the
Dinnan case—a violation of a principal of
academic and personal freedom.
For the courts to order a professor to reveal
a secret ballot vote is not unlike them ordering
a journalist to turn over his notes in a
confidential report (which too has been done).
We must not accept the encroachment by the
federal government into the academic or
journalistic world, for experience teaches that
such encroachment will eventually spread into
our private lives.
Dinnan has had to pay a dear price to
preserve his rights. He spent his three months
at three different prisons. He cleaned toilets
for the first month and then was "promoted" to
washing dishes in a kitchen where, he said, the
temperature often reached 130 degrees. As a
result of the heat, he is 45 pounds lighter than
when he went into prison.
We can deplore the situation of Dinnan from
this distance in a neighboring state, but the
question, "Could it happen here?" should still
gnaw at our thoughts.
Steve
Farish
Recently, a similar discrimination in tenure
case was indeed brought against Auburn
University by Dr. Donna Breen, a former
chemistry professor.
Federal District Judge Robert Varner did
not ask any members of the Auburn tenure
committee to reveal their secret votes in that
case, said Taylor Littleton, chairman of the
committee.
"We have been able to maintain the promise
(of the secred ballot) to our faculty," he noted.
"I hope we never are challenged on it."
A decision such as the Georgia one would
seem less likely to concern Auburn because
candidates turned down for tenure are given
an explanation by the tenure committee.
That does not mean, though, that a repeat of
the Dinnan case could not come in Alabama.
Varner ruled judiciously in the Breen case, but
an aide said recently that a similar case may
not get a similar judgment, commenting that
any decision would depend on the circum­stances
surrounding the individual case.
The Wall Street Journal addressed in an
editorial under the headline "A University in
Jail" the summary power of judges in general,
and the Dinnan case specifically.
"At the root of this jailing is yet another
example of federal intervention in someone's
private affairs," The Journal said. "Are the
interests of society best served if the
institution makes these decisions (concerning
tenure) or if they are made by the United
States Department of Labor or a federal
court?"
The obvious answer to that question is that
if a university wants to control the most basic
right of who it should hire or fire, it cannot and
must not give in to federal decisions such as
that one in the Dinnan case.
Five professors who served with Dinnan
were asked before him to reveal their votes,
and all five acquiesced.
Surely that is an ominous warning of yet
more governmental intervention into an area it
has no business in.
On Nov. 30 a hearing will be held in Atlanta
on whether to re-open the Dinnan case as a
class action suit against the university.
Blaubergs has seen a Department of Labor
report that she believes will prove there is
discrimination in tenure hiring there.
The saga of Dinnan, then, may not be over.
He may be once again subpoened as a witness.
Justice has already been dealt fairly to
Blaugergs (Dinnan's was the third committee,
for example, to reject her tenure application).
It is insulting to a man who obviously holds
academic principals very high to accuse him of
unprofessional pettiness and discrimination.
Five professors on Dinnan's committee were
asked to reveal their vote. Five acquiesced.
Dinnan stands alone now. Those who believe
government has intruded too far, however,
will soon stand with him.
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Opinion Grandfathers, baseball go together
Thursday, October 23, 1980 A-5
Agreeing with Fonda difficult,
but she's right about TMI
If it wasn't for Jane Fonda, I would probably
be against the reopening of the one undamaged
nuclear reactor at Three Mile Island, but
agreeing with her on any political issue would
cause me to lose a great deal of self respect.
The hearings that begin this week to decide
on the reopening of the reactor should be
enough to cause Jane and her buddies to start
marching around while their 'No Nukes'
cronies go stage a concert to celebr...I mean
protest.
The economics of the issue suggest that the
reactor should be reopened. The reactor has
been shut down for a little over a year and a
half, and energy that would have normally
been produced by that reactor has cost about
$300 million.
If the Nuclear Regulatory Commission
(NRC) should decide to keep the reactor shut
down, Metropolitan Edison, the company that
owns the plant, will be forced into bankruptcy.
If Metropolitan Edison goes bankrupt, a
number of other power companies in the
Pennsylvania region are expected to follow
suit.
Nonetheless, the major concern of the NRC
in these hearings should be whether Metro­politan
Edison's plant operators have the
capacity to deal with serious emergencies such
as the one that occurred at Three Mile Island
on March 28, 1979.
Experts say the problem may lie in the
designs of the plant. The Kemeny Commission,
Matt
Lamere
called by President Carter after the accident,
reported that plant designs failed to allow for
unforeseen errors in human judgment.
The NRC issued another report that said
this accident may have been less severe if the
plant's control room had been better designed.
It's probably safe to assume that the
undamaged reactor unit was designed in the
same way as the messed up reactor was, so the
possibility of the same thing happening again
cannot be ruled out unless some major changes
are made.
The NRC hearings could become very
lengthy; there's a lot to sift through. But when
it is all boiled down, I don't think the
committee can justify reopening the plant
without changes to prevent any further
accidents.
It's really kind of embarrassing, but I think
I'm on the same side she's on; I hope I'm not
losing my mind. Hand me a sign Jane, but keep
it down.
A timely truism: Grandfather's don't say to
grandsons. "Let me tell you about Franklin
Roosevelt's economic policies." They say, "Let
me tell you about the time I saw Babe Ruth hit
a home run in Yankee Stadium."
Like grandfathers, baseball endures. And in
this fall of simultaneous football, basketball,
hockey and the World Series, it is no wonder
baseball reigns as king by merit of its simple
grandeur and dignity.
What is it that makes baseball so grand?
What sets this sport on a pedestal above the
rest?
For such a question there is but one answer.
History.
Never in the annals of time have so
uncommon yet common as assemblage of
talents and personalities gathered for the
pursuit of one simple ideal. The history of that
pursuit is baseball. Baseball, then, is...
The Boston Braves coming from 26 games
out for first place to win the National League
pennant and beat the awesome Philadelphia
Athletics in the 1917 World Series.
It's an overweight outfielder for the New
York Yankees pointing to Chicago's centerfield
fence and hitting a home run towards those
bleachers, then mockingly waddling around
the base paths to the roars of the opposing
fans.
Baseball is Pete Gray, a one-armed out­fielder
for Montgomery, making it to the major
leagues to play for the new defunct St. Louis
Browns. Gray caught the ball with his glove
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hand, threw the ball in the air, caught it again,
and made his relay throw as quickly as other
players made their normal throws.
Baseball is old men (for some reason all old
men are baseball fans) who reminisce of the old
days when their heroes were faster and
stronger and hit the ball farther against
pitchers who were faster and trickier.
It's younger kids talking about how their
generation has the fastest and strongest...
It's Josh Gibson playing in Yankee Stadium
for the old Black Leagues' St. Louis club and
hitting a home run that the roof of the stadium
kept from traveling 600 feet.
It's Satchel Paige breaking into the major
leagues at the young age of 39 and pitching for
10 more years.
Baseball is Casey Stengel, the "ole per-fessor,"
and his unique psychology. For
instance it was Stengel who forever immortal­ized
the saying, "It's never over till it's over."
Stengel took the laughable New York Mets
from last to first in just a few years. In one
particularly bad season, the Mets fielded no
less than nine different third basemen.
It's names like Shoeless Joe, Preacher Roe,
Nippy, Mudcat, Rabbit, Pee Wee, and Splendid
Splinter and the Yankee Clipper. Also who
could forget the Hammer, the Iron Horse or
the Say Hey kid.
Baseball is the voice of Dizzy Dean on radios
throughout the South singing the "Waubash
Cannonbail" while the St. Louis Cardinals wait
out in a rain delay.
It is Lou Gehrig thanking Yankee fans and
teammates for making him "the luckiest man
on the face of the earth," knowing he was
dying of a deteriorating muscle disease,
amyatrophic-lateral schlerosis, which now
bears his name.
And it's Babe Herman, Brooklyn Dodger
base running genius, who once stole third with
a man on the base. "Hey," said one fan to the
other, "the Dodgers have three men on base."
"Oh yeah, which base?" said the fan next to
him.
Most of all, though, baseball is kids, short,
tall, skinny and fat in thousands of obscure
little leagues, making their own history and
swearing that someday they too will play in
the World Series.
And it's those same kids growing up and
getting their shot and making it to the big
leagues. That is the history of baseball. That is
what makes it America's game.
Sheiks, congressmen and soiled linen
A few observations on funding
Editor, The Plainsman,
The following are impressions formed dur­ing
recent years by one who is not qualified as
an administrator and who was last enrolled as
a student more than 30 years ago. They are
probably similar to impressions held by most
of the non-combatants throughout the state
concerning educational institutions.
1. Money is essential for the operation of a
superior institution.
2.Money is essential for the operation of an
average or below average institution.
3.Universities with the highest levels of
funding can construct and equip more facil­ities,
can attract people of renown to faculty
and staff and can conduct research in greater
volume than can institutions with inadequate
funds.
4. Money alone cannot produce an education.
Like a cake recipe or a mortar mix, if the
ingredients are in wrong proportions the cake
will be a disapointment and the structure will
be a hazard until after its collapse.
5. The quality of a university is dependent
upon the quality of its people, but if any
member of the staff, faculty, or student body
should feel that university A cannot function
without him, how does he explain the progress
being made by universities B, C, D, E, ?
6. A house divided against itself cannot
stand.
7. War Eagle!
G. B. Meadows
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The .Abscam trials are underway, and one
congressman has already been convicted. Such
an important judicial and political event should
command our attention, especially because of
the bad programming this time of year.
During my following of the case, I learned
that the congressman was convicted solely on
the basis of a taped conversation and some
soiled linen.
During the meeting at which the bribe took
place, neither the congressman nor the sheik
could speak each other's language, and they
were forced to use an interpreter. However,
the person they got was not a very good
interpreter, but had been faking it for years by
using a New Jersey accent.
The following is the taped converstion of this
meeting.
"Please ask the sheik why he asked me here
to talk with him."
"Sheik, the congressman wants me to tell
you that your tunic reminds him of a dead
yak."
"Please ask the congressman what he means
by that."
"Congressman, the sheik wants to know why
your face looks like a spatula."
"Please tell the sheik that I do not
Academic affairs aids students
Editor, The Plainsman:
One thing every student at Auburn Univer­sity
has in common is that he or she is involved in
academics. Overall, the academics at Auburn
are very well organized, however, the system is
not perfect. We, the members of the Academic
Affairs Committee of theStudent Senate, would
like to extend an invitation to any student who
encounters any difficulties with the academic
system of feels he or she has been treated
unfairly.
The purpose of the Academic Affairs
Committee is to aid students and establish a link
between the students and the administration in
order for problems to be solved in the best
possible manner.
If you have a problem that you feel the
Academic Affairs Committee could help to
resolve please let us know. You can either call
the Student Government Association office at
826-4240 or contact your school senator.
Bob Hawkins
The Academic Affairs Committee
Carter offers communication, not intimidation
Editor, the Plainsman:
The cold war is back, obviously brought on
by war and other agression, but more subtley
compounded by increasing U.S. paranoia about
its international status.
So many citizens believe major political
candidates when they say American interests
are not being defended and the United States
isn't "great" anymore. I say we are at our
greatest, but in danger of losing all the recent
progress.
The Nixon, Ford and Carter administra­tions
have tried to steer this nation away from
interventionalist policies with other nations. In
other words, we're letting other countries
think and act for themselves!
We signed a Panama Canal Treaty that
returned land to its proper owner and at the
same time ensured our right to defend and use
the facility. We erased one of the last remnants
of U.S. colonialism in that part of the world. So
many call such a noble action a "giveaway."
We established communications with one-fourth
of the world's population with the China
agreement and still managed to keep open
lines with Taiwan. We even managed to get
Taiwan and Mainland China to talk to each
other, a first since the revolution. So many call
it a "sellout."
Speaking of communication, for the first
time in history, an Arab nation is talking to
Israel about the countless problems in that
part of the world. That is an incredible
accomplishment.
It seems obvious that the greatest strength
a nation can possess is the ability to say out of
other nations' affairs. The United States can
be strong through friendship with other
nations, not by intimidating them.
Lets not step backward. Vote Jimmy Carter.
Mark J. Skoneki
3GJM
Dump Doug?
Barfield- Underwood tandem postpones 'inevitable 'rebuilding
Editor, The Plainsman •
After attending the last two Auburn-
Tennessee games and picking up Auburn-LSU
on the radio, I have concluded that the level of
Doug Barfield's ineptitude is staggering. In
fact, it is exceeded only by that of Bear
Underwood — an old crony whose job Barfield
chooses to protect at inexplicable risk to his
own.
How much longer must we endure the
Barfield-Underwood tandem? One would think
that a school competing in the same state with
a man who is arguably the best coach in the
history of college football would go all out to
hire the best available alternative. No one in
this neck of the woods (Washington D.C.) —
particularly the gleeful Alabama alumni — can
understand what is going on down there.
Without a doubt, Auburn — despite another
mediocre season — will upset somebody along
the way and the board of 'trustees, in another
ritual of compassion, will again give Messrs.
Barfield and Underwood new life. That can
only mean one thing — another year or two
will lapse before the rebuilding job that is so
inevitable finally gets under way.
A good alternative: Coach Alex Gibbs. My
Ohio State buddies swear by him. They can't
understand why the Buckeyes didn't keep him
around. If Auburn knew what it was doing it
would elevate Gibbs to jhead coach by
midseason so he could get a good jump on
recruiting — something Barfield hasn't done
much of since 1977.
James G. Phillips Jr. ,'61
Plainsman should support team, not Dorsey 's column
Editor, The Plainsman:
The Plainsman should quit patting itself on
the back for winning awards and examine the
kind of journalism it is publishing.
Tim Dorsey's editorial pertaining to Coach
Barfield was not only in bad taste but bordered
on slander. Criticizing a coach's ability as a
coach is one thing, but attacking his person­ality
is quite another.
Mr. Dorsey's comments were totally un­called
for and his opinion that "Coach Barfield
is not a well man" is absolutely unfounded. I
fail to understand how a man's entire character
can be judged on the basis of his coaching
ability.
The Plainsman should make an attempt to
promote among the Auburn students a
positive opinion toward the University's
football program, including its coaches, instead
of downgrading and defacing the head coach.
The negative feeling prevailing among the
student affects the team's attitude on the
field; the players begin to wonder if all their
hard work and practice is worth it.
The students of this University, including
the student newspaper, should voice their
support and spirit for the team instead of their
pessimism.
My father being a graduate of Auburn
University, I was brought up to believe
Auburn students and alumni had class and
style. Auburn fans have the reputation of
rising to every occasion and really boosting
their team with spirit and enthusiasm whether
the team is winning or losing.
With the rash of "Dump Doug" bumper
stickers and editorials such as Tim Dorsey's
I'm beginning to question Auburn's "War
Eagle" spirit.
Suzanne Bishop, 2SSE
Tim
Dorsey
understand his question. Tell him that I want
to know about the serious matter that he called
me here to talk a bout."
"Shiek, the congressman says that you have
the aroma of burning linoleum."
"What's all this foolishness about? I've come
here to offer the congresman a bribe of
$50,000. Hand hi?* this suitcase."
"The sheik asj - i,hat this suitcase is a
microwave hazard."
"What do you mean microwave hazard? It's
filled with money!"
"Sheik, the congressman says he wants to
put asbestos in your naval."
"I don't care if he wants to put Cheerios in
my naval! Ask him if he accepts the bribe."
"Congressman, will you grin until you get a
rash?"
"What the hell are you guys talking about!"
"The congressman says he accepts."
'.'OK boys, take him away and book him."
"OK boys, put syrup on his wrist watch."
"What's going on here! Some camel jockey
wants to talk about microwaves and my rash
and the next thing I know, he hands me some
money and Elliot Ness here arrests me."
"Elliot Ness, the congressman says to strike
yourself repeatedly with a tuning fork."
"This man is revolting! You congressmen
should have higher morals than to let us trap
you like this. Come on guys, get him out of my
sight."
"Congressman, Elliot Ness says..."
"And you! Knock off the New Jersey bit.
Give me a break!"
"Hey, wait! Why am I being handcuffed!
Where are you guys taking me!"
"Hey, wait! Why is my forehand being put in
a vault!"
From this evidence, the congressman was
convicted, expelled, and sentenced to serve on
a chain gang maintaining Tip O'Neil's swim­ming
pool.
Article on B&F allocations
corrected by funding chairman
Editor, The Plainsman".
Upon reading an article last week concern­ing
the student senate Budget and Finance
Committee's recommendations for the alloca­tions
of additional $25,732.50 of student
activities fees, I noticed two errors.
After checking The Plainsman, I discovered
that due to limited space the article was
missing a paragraph from the original copy.
The final paragraph of the article would
have read that the Budget and Finance
Committee recommends that all student
activity fee funded projects follow the sug­gestions
of the committee. The committee is
planning to continue research of the projects
and maintain records of its findings for the
B&F Committee next year.
The second error dealt with The Glomerata,
the only organization which did not request
additional funding. The article reported that
The Glomerata was denied additional funding.
I would like to commend The Glomerata editor,
Annnette Montgomery, for her cooperation
and frugality.
Betsi Vogel
Chairman, Budget and Finance Committee
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Letters
'Sugar coated pill' easier to swallow
Thursday, October 23,1980 A-6
'Trashy sportsmanship' protested,
actions dangerous, gve bad image
Editor, The Plainsman;
We would like to protest the obnoxious,
dangerous behavior exhibited by the Auburn
students at the recent Auburn vs. Tennessee
game in Auburn. Throwing oranges or any
other objects from the stands onto the
playing field is dangerous and out of place at a
major college game. The force of an object
being thrown could have injured some of the
Tennessee players who were the targets of the
objects.
It is obvious that this type of behavior
should be stopped, especially when national
sports magazines are beginning to report on
this type of incident. We hope that this type of
trashy sportsmanship can be stopped since it
reflects on the entire SEC. Thank you for your
time.
Kathy D. Jones
Robert K. Council
Charlotte, N.C.
Editor's Note: This is a copy of a letter sent to
the SEC Commissioner's office in Birmingham.
Young husband demands apology
for fraternity's 'crude' behavior
Editor, The Plainsman:
Definition of a college fraternity: "A student
organization formed chiefly to promote friend­ship
and welfare among the members and
usually having secret rites and a name
consisting of Greek letters. Men of the same
profession, tastes, character and class."
(Webster)
I, once being a proud participant of such a
classic order, enjoyed socials, engaged in
competition and. promoted enthusiasm toward
worthy money-raising causes. Our very own
purple natives held values of high regard for
Webster's definition, and I was proud to be
affiliated with these brothers of "character and
class!'
But then, there are those members of other
fraternities who appear to be inadequately
modifying the reputation of such a dis­tinguished
title.
L I had preferences, certain individuals
would be reading their obituaries instead of
these disgusting comments. Threats are
threats, but the rage of a married man is
something yet to be defined.
On the corner of Thach and College streets,
my wife of one month was walking with books
in hand conversing with a friend on her routine
path toward home. Inconspicuously, the two
tried walking through an oncoming herd of Phi
Delta Theta members obviously parading to
the drill field for the annual Georgia Tech
ritual, reeking with beer.
Her efforts to avoid the crude comments and
hands were to no avail when she was picked up
in the air and handled. Obvious class and
character. Boys, if you enjoy bodily contact,
I'm sure the cheerleaders or the Barfield squad
need your kind of enthusiasm on the field next
fall, but as for this demonstration of spirit my
wife deserves an apology, publicly.
I hope that this incident was not, or is not a
repeated one, carving another notch in your
honorable plaque. Your reputation and my
resentment can be controlled with an explan­ation
and an apology.
In response to Mr. Farish's Oct. 2 condem­nation
of the Democrat's "sugar-coated pill"
approach to economics, I must admit I find
President Carter's anti-inflation and unem­ployment
programs much easier to swallow
than the "stone knives and bear skin" approach
espoused by Gov. Reagan and Farish.
The age of classical economics ended quite
sometime ago when Sir John Maynard Keynes
showed that a point of economic equilibrium
could be reached at a level less than full
employment, and recent trends have shown
that "stagflation" is an even more persistent
problem than the unemployment problem
presented by Keynes.
Reagan, showing an astounding ineptness
for economic matters (which was labeled
"voodoo economics" by George Bush during
the primaries) had decided to ignore the
effects on inflation of dumping 30 percent of
Uncle Sam's tax revenues back into the
economy in one fell swoop. Reagan obviously
never looked at a word Keynes wrote.
Because of a small equation central to
Keynes macro-economic theory called a "multi­plier,"
that 30 percent injection of revenue
coula double, triple or even quadruple the level
of consumer income in America in a short
period of time.
Taking this point in mind one has merely to
recall what inflation is to see the horrendous
effect on inflation the Reagan tax cut would
cause.
Inflation is defined as a devaluation of the
value of currency. Values of consumer goods
have never really changed. A loaf of bread still
has basically the same value today as it did 35
years ago. The reason it costs more is because
our money is worth less today. A 1945 dollar
bill was worth over two dollars in 1979.
So much as to the definition of inflation.
What causes it is the next basic question.
Primarily, there are two causes of inflation.
We are suffering from both causes currently.
These causes are demand pull inflation (which
is too much money trying to buy too few
consumer goods) and cost push inflation (which
means that the basic price of some capital
goods, i.e. oil, has increased).
In a grossly over simplified manner the
value of your money can be viewed as the
amount consumer goods produced divided by
the amount of money in circulation. When you
increase the denominator of a fraction while
leaving the numerator constant the value of
the fraction is decreased, and if that fraction
represents the value of your money a decrease
in one will cause a decrease in the other.
Reagan's 30 percent tax cut could, as
previously mentioned, double or triple the
amount of money in circulation without
appreciably raising the production of consumer
goods. This could reduce the value of your
money by one half to one third, and that is just
what inflation is, the devaluation of money!
If curing inflation is Reagan's primary goal
then why is he going head over heels to
endorse a platform which could double or triple
inflation?
But enough of basic macro-economic theory.
Now I would call on Farish to explain his
statement in last week's Plainsman when he
said, "With a platform that almost exactly
mirrors the Democratic platform, it is the
Republicans who are now establishing the new
trends. It is the GOP not the Democrats
offering new answers to old problems." If the
two platforms mirror one another how can one
platform offer new ideas and the other one
not? This new form of logic could very well
cause Socrates to turn over in his grave.
Farish also claims that the Republican tax
cut would throw a road block on the
inflationary spiral. I claim just the opposite.
The Republican Kemp-Roth tax cut (better
known as the rich man's tax cut) would double
or triple inflation. It is Carter's "demand side"
economics that will end the inflationary spiral
by cutting down the amount of money being
senselessly injected into the economy.
In conclusion I must add that I am deeply
offended by .the Plainsman's blatantly parti­san
orientation and I hope that in the future the
editorial staff will make some effort to present
opposing viewpoints simultaneously.
Jonathan B. Saxon
2PO
Rundgren concert underrated
Editor, The Plainsman:
It was great to see an editorial on an
excellent, unheralded musician, Todd
Rundgren. Ms. Dawes was correct in her
description pf Rundgren as a "musician-producer
extraordinaire" with "inimitable
guitar leads" (unable to imitate for .us Hoi
Poloi), but her description of their (Todd and
Ian Hunter's) rendition of the Beatles' "Eight
Days a Week" only leaves doubts to her
qualifications as assistant entertainment
editor.
Her disfavor of Rundgren's "Just One
Victory" would have been disregarded by the
capacity crowd and shows yet another flaw in
her quasi-competent article.
The exclusion of Ian Hunter's remake of
David Bowie's "All the Young Dudes" and
Rundgren's "The Last Ride" as being with the
best of the night is an injustice to the readers'
intelligence.
With the backup band, Rundgren and
Hunter definitely were not as good as if Utopia
(Rundgren's regular band) and Mick Ronson
(played with Hunter in Mott the Hoople) had
been there, yet the concert was better than
expected.
Scott Rahm
4MK
Garbage-free camp area endangered by litterers,
finger pointed at those 'personally responsible'
I want one.
Name withheld by request
Editor, The Plainsman:
We would like to tell you about a popular place,
where many Auburn students go just to get
away from it all. This place is a small clearing on
the banks of the Saugahatchee Creek, east of
Loachapoka. It's a beautiful scenic area,
privately owned, where you can enjoy fishing,
camping or, in the spring time, swimming
around the small, natural waterfall.
In the past, the grounds have been
remarkably clean of litter. There are no trash
cans to collect garbage, and yet, the people, like
us, who enjoy the natural environment there try
to keep it that way. Each time we have camped
there, we have picked up after ourselves and left
the area the way it was.
But if y vant to enjoy this scenic area the
way it is, you d better hurry. Last Friday, while
we were camping there, another group was
having a party a few hundred yards away. When
we awoke the next morning, we found that they
had carelessly littered the area with beer cans
and other trash.
We do not wish to lay blame on any
organization that was represented; however,
we do wish to call this to the attention of those
"personally responsible" for what we see as an
inconsiderate act.
We hope that in that future these people will
be more considerate of others so that everyone
may enjoy this area.
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Election 80
Compiled by John Farish
With the Nov. 4 presidential
election only 11 days away, Ronald
Reagan and Jimmy Carter have
put their campaigning on hold to
prepare for this Tuesday's debate.
The decision to debate came last
Friday afterthe League of Women
Voters, the sponsor of past presi­dential
debates, dropped John
Anderson from the debate format
because of his sagging popularity
in nationwide polls.
Carter had refused to attend the
first debate between Reagan and
Anderson because of Anderson's
presence. Carter said the League
should not recognize a third party
candidate in the debate. Reagan
forces accused Carter of fearing
that increased Anderson support
would draw from Carter's own
support.
Students to
Carter accepted this new debate
because of the League's with-drawl
of John Anderson's name,
setting up the one-on-one debate he
had wanted all along, said a
spokesman for the president's
campaign committee. His strate­gists
hope that in the debate Carter
can draw out sharper differences
between the president and
candidate Reagan.
Carter will probably spend most
of his time attacking Reagan
rhetoric, especially his foreign
policies. The president will also
emphasize the positive actions of
his administration like the Camp
David Accords and deregulation
policies.
Reagan's goals for the debate
are two-fold.
He primarily wants to attack the
Carter record, focusing on the
represent
candidates in debate
The American Civil Liberties
Union (ACLU) is sponsoring a
debate between students repre­senting
four of the major presi­dential
candidates tonight at 7 in
Haley Center room 1203.
The ACLU is holding the debate
because "we felt that a lot of people
weren't sure about the candi­dates,"
said Jim Purcell, ACLU
student chapter president.
Independent John Anderson will
be represented by Rick Harper,
head of the Students for Anderson;
Democrat Jimmy Carter will be
represented by John Saxon, of the
Young Democrats; Ed Clark will
be represented by Roy Cordoto,
head of the student Libertarian
organization; and Ronald Reagan
will be represented by Jeff Anger-mann,
acting head of the College
Republicans.
The debate will start with a five
minute introductory statement
from each representative, followed
by a question and answer session
from a panel composedof campus
leaders and Plainsman staff mem­bers.
Each candidate will be allowed a
brief closing statement at the end
of the debate.
The panel will be composed of Al
Ulman of the SGA Cabinet, Randy
McRae, John Farish, Plainsman
associate editor, John Mangels,
news editor, Jerry Marino, as­sistant
news editor and Anne
Harvey, features editor.
economy, by emphasizing the neg­atives
of the Carter presidency,
like increases in inflation and
unemployment.
Reagan's other major aspiration
is to dispell the image of a war­monger
attributed to him by Car­ter.
Reagan hopes the debate will
give him a chance to display a
more moderate foreign policy than
that depicted by Carter's attacks.
Anderson, meanwhile, will try to
purchase television time either
immediately before or after the
debate to try to push his stagnant,
independent candidacy.
Reagan, Carter and Anderson
are all preparing their 11th hour
media blitzes. Carter and Reagan
went to the airwaves Sunday to
present major foreign policy ad­dresses,
and a series of half-hour
programs are planned by the two
candidates for the closing days of
the election.
Reagan is also having a question-answer
series for vice presidential
candidate George Bush.
One Newsweek source related
that Carter is having trouble pur­chasing
television time on NBC
because the financial beating the
network took on the boycott of the
Olympics ordered by Carter last
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'Kitchen'of f ers selection in dining
By Margaret Renkl
Plainsman Staffwriter
To many culinary enthusiasts,
just hearing the term "institutional
food" can bring a sour taste to the
mouth.
But to Becky Crosby, acting
director of Auburn Food Services,
providing a true selection of quali­ty
foods to Auburn students is a
challenge.
Crosby is particularly enthusia­stic
about the Food Services new
outlet which opened this quarter in
the recently constructed student
apartment complex. Called "the
Kitchen," the unit is a combination
bakery and deli and was designed
with the apartment dweller in
mind.
Bakery items such as eclairs,
cookies and brownies- are offered.
Customized cakes for any occasion
can be ordered. The deli offers
hoagies, pizza and tuna, chicken
and potato salads. The selection
varies daily as Crosby and super­visor
of the Kitchen, Diane Keith,
experiment with a menu to meet
the needs of the students.
In addition to the regular deli
products, meats and cheeses are
available for purchase by the
pound. Says Crosby, "The main
things we're pushing are the items
that already come from our facili­ties
like hoagies and pizzas, but the
students who have kitchens will
want meats and cheeses by the
pound, so we're trying to accomo­date
them.'"
Permanent hours of operation
have not yet been determined. The
Kitchen is currently open from 10
a.m. till 7 p.m. on weekdays, from
10 a.m. until 2 p.m. on the
Saturdays of away football games,
and from 8:30 a.m. until 12 noon
during home games. These hours
are subject to change. "If the
students want it open later at night,
then we'll try to accomodate
them," said Crosby.
Permanent pricing has not yet
been set, either. Crosby is still
comparing prices with those in
local grocery stores to make the
Kitchen's prices comparable. She
expects most of the prices she sets
to last through the academic year
because they will be based on
trends observed in rising food costs
during the 1979-80 year. But the
price for meats and cheeses will
fluctuate according to dealer costs.
Crosby has no plans to compete
with the grocery stores by selling
laundry detergent, canned-goods
and other items not directly related
to the ordinary Food Services
operations.
"We will sell anything that the
students want us to sell," said
Crosby, emphasizing that the menu
is subject to change. Some items
proved to be unneeded were pre­pared
jello and pudding.
Crosby encourages students to
ask for the things they would like to
see offered in the Kitchen. She and
Keith have been "overwhelmed"
by the student reaction. "Most of
the people who have been in, have
been extremely encouraging and
understanding. We explain that
we're not really all together yet
and they've really grown with us.
They haven't been put out at all by
the inconvenience," Keith said.
Keith's particular pride in the
Kitchen is the bakery. Started last
February as an extension of
Terrell Cafeteria, the bakery was
doing a booming business by May
she said. Keith and student
manager of the Kitchen, Theresa
Yeilding, do cake decorating for
the bakery. No book of styles limits
the buyer in what he may choose;
Keith likes the challenge of creat­ing
anything anybody can "dream
up." As long as it isn't obscene, she
will try to fill every order. "As
decorators we appreciate the
challenge when somebody asks for
something different," she said-
For example, once someone
asked Keith to design a birthday
cake with a picture of Pink Panther
wearing glasses.
"I thought, 'What am I going to
do?' So I called the girl and she
came back down and we tried to
sketch the Pink Panther from
memory and we couldn't get him
just right. It had to be perfect;
we're perfectionists. So the girl
walked up and down the halls of the
dorms on the Hill until she found
one of those bulletin boards that
kids hang on their doors with the
Pink Panther on it. She knocked at
the door, borrowed the bulletin
board, and brought it to me where
we sketched it onto the cake."
Though the Kitchen combines the
convenience of location and paying
through the Chef's Club with items
not found in other campus eating
spots, Crosby does not plan to offer
a duplicate operation anywhere
else. "I like each unit to have its
own individuality, and this concept
works well in the apartments
where they have refrigerators and
stoves; I'm not sure it would work
anywhere else!'The food is prepar­ed
in Terrell Cafeteria under the
direction of Raymond Getz.
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Writer Lewis Grizzard has 'feet nailed to Atlanta'
_ _ _ .. •, i^ J. x. *.».*_,- «,__ TD„„„I-J o „ „_~„i. v.„ sn„ni<c "'MV,e,+ nonnio Ar\r\'t knnw it hut Oni» thine OriKKurd By John Mangels didn' t l e a rn "T ma v not he ahl e tn tin a In
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Atlanta Constitution columnist
Lewis Grizzard returned Tuesday
night to "the little town where I
first took serious drunk," bringing
with him boyhood characters
Kathy Sue Loudermilk, Weyman C.
Wannamaker Jr. (a great Ameri­can),
and a Southern-tinged wit
which captivated a capacity
Student Activities Building
audience.
"I came down here for an
Auburn-Florida football game and
ended up drinking copious quanti­ties
of something like 'Old Tennis
Sock,'" the lanky journalist con­fessed.
"I was trying to drink my
date pretty, and now every time I
throw up I start to think War
Eagle.
"I'm really glad to be at this
marvelous engineering school,"
the University of Georgia graduate
said after enduring a 45-minute
wait while Physical Plant workers
searched for a working micro­phone.
"I tried to enroll at Georgia
Tech, but I didn't have enough
pimples."
Grizzard, sporting both Reagan
and Carter buttons on his blue
blazer and exhibiting political
knowledge as broad as George
Will, said presidential candidate
John Anderson' campaigning pro­blem
was "his underdrawers are
too tight.
"All Republicans look alike," he
continued, "and every time I hear
Photography: Will Dickey
GRIZZARD OF THE 'TIMES'
...Popular Atlanta columnist 'books' an engagement.
Students
"This war is not only a border
conflict but a religious war related
to problems in both countries,"
said one. "Shiite Moslem sects in
Iran have been encouraging Shiites
in Iraq to revolt against the
Hussein regime for years, and I'm
sure Hussein wanted to stop that.
"But I also think the U.Si has
some sort of role, though I'm not
sure what they're doing," he
added. "It is inconceivable to me
that the U.S. sends planes for the
defense of Saudi Arabia, when
everybody knows that Saudi
Arabia backs Iraq.
"I think eventually the U.S. will
intervene. That's the great danger
of it," he said. "I've heard of
thousands killed on both sides and I
don't see it stopping any time soon.
Other Arab states will have to get
involved, and that will bring the
United States into it."
Another Iranian student said, "I
see it more an an internal problem
Hussein has. Khomeini sees
Hussein as another Shah, a puppet
to superpower's influence, and he'd
like to have him overthrown.
Hussein knows that and is trying to
strengthen his position internally."
The effects of the war on the
hostage situation "depends on the
outcome of the fighting," he said.
"If it is successful for Iran.it will
make it easier for the hostages. But
I don't think the war will be over
very soon. It's going to go on for a
long time.
"This is an election year, and I
think the U.S. might have some
part in the Iraqi attack, but I see no
evidence of that."
"Iran will never release the
hostages as long as the war is
going on," said another Iranian,
* "because they feel strongly that
America is manipulating the
Iraqis. The only chance for a fast
end to the hostage crisis is that the
war ends very quickly."
Kusay Aljumah, a native of Iraq
studying chemistry at Auburn said
he knows "nothing more about the
war than anyone in the United
States." But Aljumah added that
he is very concerned about his
family, that lives in Basrah, just
across the Shatt al Arab from
Abadan and the target of several
Iranian air attacks.
"I am concerned for my family,
but I consider the entire country of
Ronald Reagan speak, he sounds
like he's trying to sell me a box of
Twenty Mule Team Borax."
Turning to the Democrats, "The
only difference between the Carter
brothers is that Billy has a foreign
policy," Grizzard said, but admitt­ed
he plans to vote for the incum­bent
president "because he's the
only president to invite me to the
White House to drink beer and sit
on the back lawn listening to Willie
Nelson."
Looking only slightly worse for
wear Wednesday morning after a
night of "singing every page of the
Methodist Hymnal and staying out
a little past my bedtime" (though
he did ask the hotel maid not to
walk so loudly on the shag carpet­ing
in his room), Grizzard conti­nued
the saga of how a native of
Moreland, Ga., became a twice
divorced, 34-year-old syndicated
newspaper columnist.
"My momma said I could have
made a million dollars if I became
a preacher," he said, "but hell,
what would I have spent the money
on?"
He began his newspaper career
as sports editor for the Athens
Daily News, and at 23, became the
youngest sports editor the Atlanta
Journal ever hired.
"I got really close to that job, did
it for five years, they made me city
editor and I quit in three months,"
Grizzard said.
In response to "the challenge of
working in a big market," he
accepted the position of sports
editor at the Chicago Sun-Times.
"That paper had the worst sports
section I had ever seen in my life,"
Grizzard said.
"I knew I could make a pretty
big improvement in it the first
week I was there,but I stretched
the process out over a year so they
would think I was doing something
useful.
"I made new friends in Chicago,
learned a lot, gave my second wife
her liberation (got divorced) and
felt like a prisoner of war the whole
time.
"I came back to Atlanta and
nailed my shoes to the ground—you
people are stuck with me for good.
You know, Atlanta will be a nice
place once they finish it."
"Most people don't know it, but
Moreland was a booming metropo­lis
before the Depression hit," he
said. "Now there's not much left.
They even tore down Steve's Truck
Stop.
"That place was a great place of
higher learning—I learned more at
Steve's than I did at the University
of Georgia," Grizzard said. "I
learned how to cuss, I drank my
first beer there and I learned about
love in the parking lot, if you know
what I mean."
One thing Grizzard didn't learn
at Steve's was knowledge of any­thing
mechanical. "I can't even
operate a shower curtain," he said.
But the thing Grizzard can do is
write, and the proof appears five
days a week—18 inches of copy in
the far left column of the Atlanta
Constitution city section.
"It's a very egotistical thing I do
now," Grizzard said "but I'm not
ambitious any more and I don't
want anyone else's job.
"I may not be able to do a lot of
things but I can write—I can try
and put into words the feelings a lot
of other people have but can't
express," Grizzard said.
"I think constantly trying to
analyze life in a column can make
you a little cynical,'' he s a i d , ' 'but I
hope I've remained an optimist."
And as Weyman C. Wannamaker's
infectuous grin breaks out on
Grizzard's face, you can't help but
believe him.
Student wills need consideration
By Pete Mohney
Plainsman Staff writer
You can't take it with you.
The old maxim about money and
death is as true today as it was
when some wit first coined it.
These days it is more important
than ever before that you decide
beforehand who will get your
worldly possessions upon your
death.
Few students willingly consider
the eventuality of their deaths, and
many people "think that wills are
for rich people," said Nancy Davis,
an Auburn attorney. Many people
think their family is nice enough,
so there will be no trouble dividing
property without a will.
Unfortunately, Alabama law­makers
have made sure that
trouble can be caused in the
settling of the estate of virtually
anybody. "Alabama tax laws, with
respect to gifts and inheritances,
changed significantly about five
years ago," Davis said. "Many
young people are asking their
parents to check their will to make
sure they function under the new
laws."
Parents are not the only ones
who should take a second look at
the subject. The number of stu­dents
who have a will is very small.
However, many of these students
are no longer legal minors, and if
such a student dies, his or her
possessions will be divided ac­cording
to existing laws in a way
that may not be at all like he or she
would have wished.
"Most wills written by students
are 'I Love You' wills, written by
married students," Davis said,
although some young people write
their wills on an item-by-item
basis.
An "I Love You" will leaves
most or all of the husband's or
wife's possessions to the spouse,
and provided for support for any
children. The wills most young
people write cost about $60, with a
lawyer's aid.
The real problem is that most
people never write wills, or they
write them incorrectly; not be­cause
they write them too late in
their lives. Alabama laws with
respect to will is "tedious and
exacting. Few people— almost
nobody without a lawyer's educa­tion—
could write a will that
completely conformed to Alabama
law," Davis said.
Wills have to be written in a
certain form and signed and wit­nessed
just so, or they are invalid,
or at best, easily contestable. The
best will is written with the aid of
an attorney, especially if it con­tains
a brief explanation why each
person is or is not included in the
will.
The correct time to write a will is
"as soon as you care who inherits
your possessions," Davis said. Ala­bama
law doesn't automatically
give all a husband's possessions to
his wife il there is no will, which
can cause court problems even
among friendly, cooperative
family members.
A will can be added to or altered
with a codecil, a writing similar to
making an amendment to a law,
with corrections or additions
taking legal effect regardless of
previous contents of the will.
Once a will is written, it should
be stored in a safety deposit box,
with the knowledge of the spouse or
family members involved.
The will is then almost impos­sible
to contest, unless it can
somehow be proved it was written
while intoxicated, insane or other­wise
in an improper state of mind.
.
Dressed in a blue button-down,
designer jeans ("they're not WUy.e^
Nelson jeans—that must be some^ '"%-
body's idea of a joke) and Gucci
loafers, Grizzard says he doesn't
return to Moreland much "because
the folks that live there throw rocks
at me.
From page A-1
Iraq my family, just as the United
States shows its concern for the
hostages in Iran."
Aljumah, who said he has felt no
pressure from his government to
return to Iraq and join in the
fighting, said he could not com­ment
on the causes of the war
because Americans "need an un­derstanding
of the third world's
history to understand this war.
"People of the third world
don't think about the real causes
but just act from their emotions
when they seg What Is going on in
this war," he said.
Aljumah said he knows of no U.S.
involvement on the Iraqi side,
adding that although he "really
likes" Americans and the
American form of government, he
feels the U.S. "has enough oil
without becoming involved in the
Middle East. The U.S. should con­cern
itself with aiding under­developed
nations more instead of
just getting oil from them."
He added that he has had some
"irregular" contact with his family
but relies mostly on television
news, which he "hesitates to
believe," for information about the
war.
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tChr Qubiirn plainsman Thursday, October 23, 1980 A-10 Campus Calendar
AU FENCING CLUB-There wlU
be fencing club meetings Monday,
Wednesday and Friday at 4 p.m. in
the Sports Arena for anyone who
would like to attend. Anyone inter­ested
in fencing is welcome to
come by and watch or begin
fencing. Call Dr. Rea at 826-4360
for further information.
CRISIS CENTER-Anyone over 16
years old is invited to train for
services in the Volunteer Listeners
Program from Oct. 24-26 at a
location to be announced. Inter­ested
persons should be caring,
open-minded and non-judgmental.
STUDENTS FOR ANDERSON-Interested
persons are invited to
attend general meetings each
Tuesday at 6 p.m. at Foy Union.
The meeting will be held in room
322 on Oct. 21 and in room 321 on
Oct. 28.
AU WATERSKI CLUB-Anyone
interested in waterskiing is invited
to attend weekly meetings on Tues­day
at 6:30 p.m. in Foy Union.
AUBURN COLLEGIATE FFA-The
FFA invites everyone to attend
its 2nd annual Hog Show and Sale
Oct. 25 in the Ham Wilson Arena.
The show begins at 2 p.m. and the
sale at 7 p.m. It is dedicated to.
Clyde Ware who passed away last
year and was the coordinator of the
first show.
PHI THETA KAPPA-There will
be a meeting Oct. 29 for alumni
members from junior colleges in
Foy Union room 322 at 5:30 p.m.
SWIMMING TEST-The depart­ment
of health, physical education
and recreation will give the swim­ming
classification test Oct. 23 at 3
p.m. at the University pool. All
students who have entered college
before the summer of 1980 and not
taken the test should report for the
test. It will also be given in 101 P.E.
classes.
GLOMERATA PICTURES-Any­one
who would like their pictures in
tl e 1981 Glom may have one taken
today through Oct. 30 from 9 a.m.
to 3 p.m. in Foy Union room 202.
The cost will be $1.
DELTA SIGMA PI-All members
are invited to attend a banquet at
Andy's Restaurant Oct. 28 at 6 p.m.
AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF
INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERS-There
will be a student chapter
meeting Nov. 3 for all AIIE
students and faculty at 6:30 p.m. in
the Eagle's Nest. There will be a
guest speaker from the Union
Camp Co.
BAPTIST STUDENT UNION-The
BSU will host a reception for all
international students on Oct. 26 at
4 p.m. at the Baptist Student Union.
Call 887-6521 for further informa­tion.
,
ENGINEERING STUDENT
PARTNERS-There will be a get-acquainted
picnic Oct. 25 for en­gineering
wives (husbands) and
family at 12 p.m. at Chewacla State
Park. This organization is for
spouses of engineering students.
BETA ALPHA PSI-There will be
a student presentation Nov. 4 en­titled
"The Role of the Independent
Auditor" at 7 p.m. in Tichenor
room 206 for anyone who would like
to attend. This will also be a
business meeting.
UNITED NATIONS AFFAmS
CLUB-There will be a meeting
Oct. 27 at 7 p.m. in Haley Center
room 3323 for anyone interested in
international affairs. UNAC and
attending Model United Nations
will be discussed.
SIGMA XI-The Auburn chapter of
Sigma Xi will hold its fall dinner
and lecture on Oct. 28 in the Union
Ballroom. Paid and associate
members are asked to go through
the War Eagle Cafeteria line from
6-6:30 p.m. for a complimentary
dinner. Dr. David Topel, head of
the department of animal and
dairy sciences, will speak on "Ma­lignant
Hypothermia Syndrome in
Humans and Swine," at 7 p.m. Dr.
Topel is internationally known for
his research in stress adaptation in
swine and for research in animal
growth and body composition. All
interested persons are invited to
attend the dinner (at their own
expense) or attend only the lecture.
ITALIAN CULTURE CLUB-Everyone
is invited to attend the
club's first meeting Oct. 28 at 7:30
p.m. in Haley Center 3212. It is a
new club that will have social and
cultural activities. Call Nancy
Gianna at 826-6144 or James Basso
at 821-3978 for further information.
AED PRE-HEALTH HONOR-ARY-
AED will hold the Fall
Initiation Banquet on Nov. 18 at 7
p.m. at the Auburn Conference
Center. Any student who feels that
he is eligible for membership and
has not been contacted, please see
Mrs. McDaniel in Haley Center
2046 before Nov. 11.
AED-There will be a winter
quarter planning session for all
interested pre-health students Oct.
28 at 7 p.m. in Haley Center 2207.
Dr. Stevens will not be present.
ALPHA ETA RHO- Mr. William
Kershner, author of several avia­tion
instructional manuals will lec­ture
on spin recovery and how to be
a safer pilot. The lecture, spon­sored
by Alpha Eta Rho, is open to
the public free of charge and will
be held 7 p.m. Oct. 28 in Foy
Union 208.
INTERNATIONAL, STUDENTS-Any
student who is currently In­volved
in the International Student
Association, or who is interested in
this organization, please contact
Charlotte Davis at 826-4710 or Mrs.
Evelyn Jordan at 826-4744. The
organization has provided no cur­rent
information and may be In­activated
if contact is not made by
Oct. 31.
AU Social Work Club
to hold conference
The Auburn University Social
Work Club is sponsoring the
Alabama-Mississippi Social Work
Conference today and tomorrow in
the Foy Union building. The theme
of the conference, "Hanging out
Sanity and Humanity—Our Chal­lenge
for the Future," will be
highlighted by keynote speaker Dr.
James Dumpson, assistant direc­tor
of the New York Community
Trust and Mrs. Velma Strode of the
Department of Labor. A series of
workshops and paper presenta­tions
will be included, and a
banquet will be held tonight. The
conference meetings are held from
11 a.m. Thursday to 6 p.m. Friday.
Senatorial candidates to debate
The League of Women Voters
will sponsor a televised debate
between U.S. senatorial candidates
Jim Folsom and Jeremiah Denton
Oct. 26. The hour-long debate will
be broadcast live by Montgomery
television station WSFA at 4 p.m.
from the House chamber of the
state Capitol. The Alabama Public
Television Network will also broad­cast-
a taped version of the debate
at 10 p.m. the same day.
The debate, which was organized
at Denton's request, will follow a
format similar to the one used in
last month's Re agan-Anderson
presidential debate. Three news
representatives, one each from
print, television and wire services
will ask questions of the candi­dates,
with a moderator presiding
over the session.
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AUBURN CHESS CLUB-A con­tinuing
tournament will be held for
four weeks, with one game played
each week. Everyone is invited to
attend Oct. 23 at 7:30 p.m. in the
Eagle's Nest. Bring clocks and
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SAFE ENERGY ALLIANCE-The
Auburn chapter of S.E.A. will hold
a special meeting Oct. 28 at 7:30
p.m. In the Presbyterian Univer­sity
Center, 123 E. Thach. The
speaker will be Dr. Everett Brett,
director of Natural Resource Cen­ter
and acting director of the
School of Mines and Energy De­velopment,
University of Alabama,
Tuscaloosa. He will give a slide
presentation on "Passive Solar and
Earth Sheltered Housing." Every­one
is invited to attend.
AMERICAN SOCIETY OF PER­SONNEL
ADMINISTRATION-Everyone
is invited to attend a
meeting Oct. 28 at 7 p.m. in Foy
Union room 205. The speaker will
be . Floyd Likens, industrial
relations manager of Opelika
Manufacturing. He will be speak­ing
on labor-management relation­ships
in an organized plant.
UNITARIAN FELLOWSHIP OF
AUBURN-The public is invited to
attend a program on "Science,
Technology and Deicide" by Delos
McKown, head of the philosophy
department, on Oct. 26 at 11 a.m.
Call 887-5274 for further informa­tion.
RUSSIAN CLUB-All persons in­terested
in history, culture and the
Future of the Soviet Union are
invited to attend a meeting Oct. 23
at 7:30 p.m. in Haley Center 8030.
Knowledge of the Russian lan­guage
is optional.
AQUA-TIGERS-All male students
are invited to try out to be the
official hosts for the Auburn
women's swim team on Oct. 28 at
7:30 p.m. in the Memorial Coli­seum
lobby.
MUM SALE -Mortar Board will be
taking orders for Homecoming
mums Oct. 29-30 on Haley Center
Concourse and Union Patio from 9
a.m. to 1 p.m. Colors available will
be bronze, white and yellow at $3 a
mum. Proceeds will go to an
academic scholarship. Mums may
be picked up Nov. 8 in Foy Union
lobby from 9 to 11 a.m.
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All Thursday, October 23, 1980 Cjjt gubutn plainsman
Junior Miss now Auburn student
By Abby Pettiss
Assistant Features Editor
A freshman is a different kind if
creature. They're in a new envi­ronment,
fresh from the safety of
home and the triumphs of high
school, making mistakes and
learning from them. There's noth­ing
special about being a freshman
except being a freshman.
That's how Monique Key feels.
The brown-eyed, dimpled freshman
doesn't consider herself as anyone
.to be singled out. But Monique is
special. She was Alabama's Junior
Miss for 1980 and was third runner-up
in the National Junior Miss
contest.
"It doesn't give me any advan­tages,
not really. I'm nothing spe­cial
here at Auburn. I'm just another
dumb freshman, running around
lost," said the Jasper native.
Still, people do react to her as
more than the 18-year-old coed she
is.
"When I went through (sorority)
rush I didn't make a big deal of being
the junior miss, but some people
knew anyway. I had girls in sor­orities
come up to me and say 'Didn't
I see you on TV this summer? I know
I did, but I can't remember where.'
I'd tell them I was Alabama's Junior
Miss and I went to the National
Junior Miss pagent. They'd get all
excited, telling me how great that
was. But really I'd rather they not
know. I'd rather they like me for
myself, not because I'm the junior
miss," she said.
Monique said the general reaction
of people when they find out she' s the
juniormissisoneof awe. "Peopleat
home were glad for me but they
treated me the same. I'm just the
same old Monique to them. But when
strangers see me and someone says
'she's Alabama's Junior Miss' they
say 'wow' and think I'm someone
special for it, but I don't feel any
different."
Coming to Auburn for Monique
was natural. "I always wanted to
come to Auburn. My mom went to
Auburn, so I've always been a big
Auburn fan," she said. I've been
down to a lot of football games to
visit, and my boyfriend graduated
from Auburn last year."
Monique came to Auburn with a
clear goal in mind. "I've always
loved math and been good at it. So I
Photography:
MONIQUE KEY
.feels being Junior Miss I s nothing special
Dickey
wanted to major in something that
had a lot of math in it. My cousin,
who goes to Auburn, said I might
enjoy industrial engineering be­cause
it has a lot of math in it. It's a
wide open field. I can go into a lot of
different jobs being an industrial
engineer," she said.
Making the good grades needed in
engineering won't be a problem for
Monique. Junior miss pagents are
different from other pagents be­cause
15 percent of the contestants'
scoring is judged on their high
school grades and college boards.
Monique's scholastic rating was
high enough to get her the Scholastic
Achievement Award when she went
to the Nation Junior Miss pagent.
"They give out five.awards for
things like youth fitness, poise,
talent and appearance," she said.
' "Those type awards are given on the
basis of what you do at the pageant,
but scholastic comes straight from
previous grades only."
Another difference in junior miss
pageants is -the absence of a
swimsuit competition. Monique
said she was glad about that,
pointing to a scar on her knee from a
ice skating accident a few years
earlief.
' 'I'd feel funny walking on a stage
in a bathing suit. I'd be thinking all
those people were looking at my
knee. Make-up doesn't quite cover it
up," she said.
Curiosity set Monique' s feet on the
path to the junior miss contest. "It
was something I always wanted to
t y just to see what it was like, ever
since I was a little kid, watching
them on TV. I always wanted to
experience it, so when they sent
letters to the high schools I decided
to go ahead," she said.
The path began with a local
pageant. "Different organizations
locally sponsor people, like the
Kiwanis. I was sponsored by the
Walker County Jaycees." she said.
She went on to win the January
state pageant in Montgomery, Ala.
This past summer Monique went to
the national pageant in Mobile,
capturing the third runner-up spot.
There is a responsibility to being
Alabama's Junior Miss.
"I speak at high schools and
march in local parades all over the
state," she said.**When the local
pageants start up again I'll go
around to them. And, of course, I'll
go back the night of the pageant next
year to crown the new junior miss."
Actually, the first pageant Mo­nique
ever won was when she was
10-years-old. "I was Alabama's Our
Little Miss. I've always enjoyed
performing. I guess it goes back to
all the years of piano recitals," she
said. Monique has taken piano
Jessons for 12 years, and continues
taking with a course at Auburn in
applied piano.
Playing the piano was her talent at
the junior miss contests.
' 'I really enjoy playing,'' she said.
It's one of the things I miss most
being here. At home I played all the
time, happy music when I was in a
good mood, music to fit any mood I
was in. Now, I go back to my
Court to crack down on ticket dodgers
By Sandra Lyle
Plainsman Staff writer
Because 30 to 35 percent of the
Auburn students who get traffic
tickets fail to pay them, Court
Judge Richard Lane has stated
that a 1977 law revoking defaulter's
driver's licenses and requiring
them to pay a $25 reinstatement fee
as well as the originalfine will be
more stringently enforced this
year.
Once a student's license has been
revoked, he must clear the original
fine with the court and pay the
reinstatement fee at the Depart­ment
of Public Safety before his
license will be reinstated.
Because of the paperwork in­volved,
a student may not be
notified of the suspension until he
attempts to renew his license.
In addition to the enforcement of
the 1977 law, several new regula­tions
were put into effect on Aug.
18, 1980, involving pedestrian,
motorcycle, bicycle and auto­mobile
restrictions.
The number of passengers in the
front seat of a car is no longer
restricted unless the passengers
interfere with the driver's vision or
his control of the vehicle.
The police department is crack­ing
down on illegal parking be­tween
sidewalks and curbs.
Regulations pertaining to bi­cycles
and motorcycles can be
summed up as follows: Bicycles
must be ridden as far to the right of
the road as possible, no more than
two abreast. Bicycles cannot carry
passengers.
Bicyclists must keep at least one
hand on the handlebars; motor­cyclists
must keep both hands on
.the handlebars. At night, a white
lamp is required on the front of
bicycles and motorcycles. A red
reflector is required on the rear of
bicycles.
A violation of the lighting rules
will cost the first-time offender $24.
Riding on campus sidewalks is
not allowed except on the west side
of College Street between Magnolia
and Thach avenues. Bicycles
parked downtown must be in bi­cycle
racks.
Motorcyclists are required to
wear shoes and provide footrests
for all passengers. Motorcyclists
are not entitled to the entire lane of
traffic.
The Auburn Police have an­nounced
that they are cracking
down on traffic violators. They
advise students to follow the regu­lations
to the letter, and if a ticket
is received, it should be paid
promptly.
If a student forgets to pay a
ticket, he should call the magis­trates
office at 821-4206, and one of
the magistrates will try to halt the
license revocation procedure and
void the $28 reinstatement fee.
Students with questions concern­ing
their legal obligations in traffic
matters may contact Henry
Henderson, University legal advi­ser,
at 826-4744.
apartment and there's no piano.
That's why I'm glad to be still taking
lessons. I wouldn't feel right without
playing."
The money to pay her music fees is
no problem. Monique's pageant
victories have yielded more than
simple glory.
"I got $5,200 from the state title
for tuition. I got $4,000 for being
third runner-up in the national,
plus $1,000 for the scholastic award
to use for school, books, room,
board. I write them and tell them
what I need the money for and they
send it to me. For instance, I live in
an apartment which isn't really a
necessary expense, so I write them
and tell them how much a dorm is
and they send that much and I pay
the difference."
It wasn't only money Monique
received.
"I got a lot of nice things when I
won the state pageant,'' she said.' 'I
got a $1,000 wardrobe from Gay-fer's.
I just walk in and get anything
I want. I got a full add-a-bead
necklace. I got a Kodak camera and
a lot of really nice things."
Monique'sdays of beauty contests
are not over. Her sorority, Alpha
Omicron Pi, has recently sponsored
her for the Miss Glomerata pageant.
"I like to experience the campus
contests, but I probably won't
actively seek any other pageants
on other levels.
"Still," she said, showing her deep
dimples, "I don't know what the
future will bring."
Breckenridge
AUBURN SKI TRIP
SPRING BREAK'81
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Last year's Spring Break Ski Trip to Breckenridge was an outstanding
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"Finals" take place on March 18. Store your books, pack a bag and head
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After a hard day on the slopes ski back to your Condo. From there the list
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Strength Research Center becoming widely known
By Anne Harvey
Features Editor
The National Strength Research
Center became a familiar name
during the "World's Strongest Man
in Football" and "The World Series
»of Powerlifting" contests last
spring, but not very many people
know what makes the center tick.
' T h e tick is the biomechanics lab,
run by one of the men who created
the center, Dr. Tom McLaughlin of
the physical education depart:
ment.
• "There's nothing else like it in
the Western world," McLaughlin
said. "The whole idea was an
attempt to bring together research­ers
from various areas doing re­search
in strength, focus in on that
research and conduct research on
an interdisciplinary level from all
of these areas."
Interdisciplinary means the lab
employs research from various
schools in the University, combin­ing
it for use in all areas of strength
fitness.
Researchers from three Univer­sity
schools—physical education,
veterinary and mechanical en