1981-01-15 The Auburn Plainsman

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V o l u m e g , Number 10 Thursday, January 15,1981 Auburn Univ., Ala. 36849 »8 pages
DOE: state
discriminates
in colleges
By JoBeth McDaniel
Assistant News Editor
More than half of Alabama's
black undergraduate college stu­dents
attend either Alabama State
in Montgomery or Alabama A&M In
Huntsville. Both schools have pre­dominantly
black enrollments.
Nearly 99 percent of the state's
white college students attend one of
Alabama's traditionally white
schools, such as Auburn.
According to a report by the U.S.
Department of Education recently
delivered to Gov. Fob James, those
facts show that Alabama has failed
to fully eliminate the facially dual
education system which segregated
black and white students by law
until 1954.
The federal agency has given
James 60 days to produce a plan to
fully desegregate the state's higher
education system. Failure to com­ply
could mean the loss of federal
funds for higher education or could
precipitate a court order requiring
action to desegregate the schools.
Janies*first reaction was that the
persons who issued the letter were
' 'out of their cotton-picking minds,''
but he later said the report may fit in
with his proposal to consolidate
several schools in Alabama.
Earlierthisyearthe governor had
talked of combining Auburn Uni­versity
at Montgomery (AUM),
Alabama State University and Troy
State University in Montgomery
into one major school, possibly to be
called the University of Mont­gomery.
The University of Alabama
in Huntsville and Alabama A&M are
also targeted for this type of merger.
James had proposed the consoli­dations
of the schools earlier for
economic reasons.- '-'We- may now
have a court order to do what we
already planned to do," he said.
William Thomas, DOE regional
civil rights director, delivered the
66-page report to Jam? s personally
Jan. 7. He prefaced the report with
an eight-page letter explaining the
charges and specific points of the
investigation.
The letter said the state had spent
money enlarging traditionally
white schools instead of developing
a desegregated system. Thomas
said the investigation had revealed
that UAH and AUM receive more
state money than A&M and ASU,
both traditionally black schools in
the same city, even though the black
schools are about 75 years older than
the other two.
See ORDER, page A-8
Departments cut courses;
faculties9 loads increased
Deep freeze Photography: Jennifer Johns
Sub-freezing temperatures provided the needed shock forcing students
back into the grind after recuperating during the holidays. But the shock
was a little more severe for students like Leslie Trowbridge, 1 PB. Leslie
returned from Florida, warm beaches and bikinis, to Alabama, cold wind
and long underwear.
By Peggy Wilhide
Assistant News Editor
Schedule adjustment, a process
better known as Drop and Add, is
usually characterized by long lines,
crowded corridors and grumbling
students. This quarter, however, the
lines seemed a little longer, the
corridors a bit more crowded and
the grumbling was even louder.
Most of the grumbling consisted of
studeht complaining that they were
unable to pick up needed classes.
Requests fell upon the sympathetic
ears of department heads who,
because of a hiring freeze imposed
by the administration last spring,
were not adequately staffed to
handled the class demand this
quarter.
According to Charles Hiers, head
of the art department, approxi­mately
200 students were refused
admission to art courses.
"If youhave 'X'number of student
and 'X' number of professors, you
are going to have to < cutback on the
number of students," said Hiers,
who feels the only long-run solution
to the problem is a cutback in
enrollment.
"Right now we are trying to
restrict those students who are not
art majors from enrolling in art
classes," said Hiers. "With the
exception of art history, the art
department will not be able to
service the whole university."
Hiers is considering "seriously
cutting enrollment" in the future,
but is concerned about the imme­diate
problem ot students who have
already been accepted to Auburn,
the only accredited art school in the
state.
"We will meet our committment
to these students," said Hiers.
The "limited enrollment" con­cept
was advocated by former
executive Vice President Rex
Rainer, who recently resigned his
position at Auburn, and by John
Porter, president of the Alabama
Council on Higher Education.
Funderburk said he is "not ready
toputalid on" enrollment because a
reduction in enrollment would mean
a loss of money for the University.
Professor Jack Simms, head of
the journalism department, said 75
journalism majors and minors were
refused journalism courses this
quarter.
' 'We had 80 requests for technical
journalism this past fall and we had
to cancel all three sections," said
Simms. "This quarterwe taught one
section of 26."
According to Simms, enrollment
will eventually "limit itself" by
discouraging students who are un­able
to get the classes they need,
forcing them to switch to another
major. "We have them stacking up
at the door," he said.
See FREEZE, page A-3
Art department considers
dropping graduate studies
The art department is "seriously
considering" discontinuation of its
graduate program because of
"sheer lack of space, equipmentand
faculty," said art department head
Charles Hiers.
The graduate program, which
presently accepts fewer than one out
of 20 students is up for reaesredita-tion
in 1983. Hiers is not willing to
risk the program's accreditation,
and is planning to cut enrollment to
one student until the situation
improves.
' 'Itis a sad situation when the only
professional terminal degree pro­gram
in studio arts in the state of
Alabama must close," said Hiers.
"Particulary so when considering
its strong reputation and the fact
that it is one of the oldest in the
region."
Social security check foul-up leaves students penniless
By Anne Harvey
Features Editor
Social Security is the ticket to
higher education for many students,
but the ticket has been temporarily
discontinued--and nobody knows
why.
College students from across the
nation, including about 500 from
Auburn, were notified last month by
the Department of Social Security
that their monthly checks were
going to be suspended. The reason
given was that the main office never
received their status reports that
were due last fall to qualify them as
students. But the students sent in the
forms.
That's where the problem starts.
Nobody knows where the forms are
or what went wrong or how to fix it.
Until it can be solved, students may
have to find other means to support
themselves.
Assistant District Manager
David Adams said he hopes every­thing
will be solved in the next few
weeks and students will get their
checks. But hope is all he can do
rightnowuntil some light is shed on
the problem by the central office in
Baltimore, Md.
"I can't pin down a definite time
period, since I don't know what the
exact problem is," he said. "It's
kind of strange because it didn't
affect all students. You'd think it
would be an all or nothing thing."
Adams said it was "an old
problem that we thought was
solved." The old problem goes back
to the first part of December.
Apparently the notices were sent to
students after many had gone home
for the holidays. Some students
managed to send in another form
soon enough to get things cleared up
and still get their January check.
But others weren't so lucky.
"I though everything was taken
care of,"said Mark Almond,3GJM,
after giving another status form to
the Opelika office. "But after I
didn't get my check, I called them
back and they said it would probably
be eight weeks before I got it. I asked
thetp if I would get my January
check at the same time and they told
rn/e I would get a lump check with
everything I would have gotten."
;' Almond, who supports himself,
depends on his Social Security check
because neither of his parents are
living. He also receives money from
a Federal Student Insured Loan for
each quarter.
"Luckily the money from the loan
came right before classes started,"
he said. "After tuition, bills and
textbooks, there is nothing left. I
have a little money built up that I
think I can go a month on. I'm pretty
sure I can do all right until the end of
February, that is, if no unexpected
expenses come up, like my car
breaking down."
Paul Strickland, 4PRS, also found
that his check had been suspended
when he came back to school this
quarter.
"I'm looking for a job right now,
but there just aren' t any jobs around
Auburn," he said. "My mother is
also trying to find other ways to
help."
Strickland isamember of the Beta
Theta Pi fraternity which is helping
him until his checks get started
back. "They are able to give me an
extension and I have someplace to
eat every night."
Strickland said this is the first
time anything like this has hap-pened
to him. "They've always been
real good. If there's a holiday, they
always send the check a day early.''
See CHECKS, page A-8
Inside
Sports editor Becky Hopf sings
the praises of Rowdy Gaines, who
picked up yet another swimming
award recently. Page B-l.
Campus Calendar
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Auburn's transition continues as Cox, Dye assume new positions
By Scott Thurston
Editor
When Dean Grady Cox got the call from President
Hanly Funderburk last month to leave his post as dean
of the School of Engineering and assume the office of
executive vice president, he was reluctant to accept
the invitation.
Cox had been on the engineering faculty at Auburn
for 22 years, and for the past two had guided the school
through troubled times. Yet it was that apparent
administrative ability which led Funderburk to
persuade Cox to, as he puts it, "widen my
perspectives" and accept the post.
Dr. Chester C. Carroll, vice president for Research,
was appointed last week to serve as interim dean of
engineering until a new dean is named.
Cox was appointed Dec. 19 to succeed another
former engineer, Rex Rainer, who left the post last
quarter to work with Gov. Fob James in Montgomery.
Cox inherits a position created by Funderburk last
spring to assist the president in the day to day
operations of the campus and to serve as a liason
between the administration and faculty members.
"I really think the administration as a whole is the
friend of the faculty,'' saidCox Wednesday of his role in
dealing with faculty complaints, "but I think Dr.
Rainer and myself have an advantage because we've
been here for so many years and know so many of the
faculty personally."
Cox said he will continue Rainer's practice of
meeting with "any group of deans, department heads
and instructors on their own turf to talk about policies
or just the University in genreal."
Although his heart was "strongly embedded in
engineering," Cox said he hopes he won't "be so
prejudiced as to think only in terms of engineering.
"I've always thought of engineering as a funda­mental
part of whatever university it is embedded in.
We are really very similar to any other professional
curriculum in a sense, so I feel very comfortable
working with them (deans and faculty from other
schools).
Cox attributes his success at maintaining morale in
the School of Engineering despite severe financial
constraints to a "super faculty, who perfopmed above
the normal call of duty." And although he said he is
Cox
aware of a general discontent among faculty across
campus, he added,' 'I have a feeling my opinion of the
faculty throughout the University will be the same as it
was in engineering."
The new vice president said he believes some of the
discontent may have been valid at one time, but that it
has "snowballedbeyond reasonable control" on some
issues. He cited the current financial problems of
Ralph Draughon Library as one example.
See COX, page A-10
By Becky Hopf
Sports Editor
While former Auburn head football coach Doug
Barfield was off in Hawaii last week mixing business
with pleasure as an assistant coach at the Hula Bowl,
Auburn's new head coach Pat Dye was busily putting
together his coaching staff. Dye became Auburn's
22nd head football coach on Saturday, Jan. 3, following
a 33-day search begun after Barfield resigned Dec. 1.
Dye has named seven assistants to his staff, who will
try to improve on last season's 5-6 record. He is also
reportedly trying to add former Auburn Heisman
Trophy winner Pat Sullivan and former assistant and
defensive back Dave Beck to the staff. Sullivan, who is
currently in the insurance business in Birmingham,
has been helping Auburn recruit this season,
especially during the waiting period when the Tigers
had no head coach.
Sullivan won the Heisman Trophy in 1971 and spent,
four years moving around as a professional football
player. The former Ail-American holds almost every
Auburn passing and total offense record.
Beck joined Auburn's staff in 1973 as an assistant to
Ralph "Shug" Jordan, and remained on Barfield's
staff until he resigned last year to go into business in
Childersburg, Ala. Beck coached running backs
James Brooks and Joe Cribbs when they made SEC
history last season as the first pair to gain over 1,000
yards apiece in one season.
While no official announcement has been made by
the university, offensive coordinator Alex Gibbs and
chief recruiter Frank Young reportedly will be the
only fulltime holdovers from Barfield's staff.
Auburn will have its first fulltime black assistant
coach in John Mitchell, who will move from Arkansas
to join the defensive staff. Mitchell, who was the
University of Alabama's second black football player,
was an All-American defensive end for head coach '
Paul "Bear" Bryant.
Bud Casey will join the offensive staff along with Neil
Callaway, one of Dye's assistants at Wyoming. Casey
is a former Georgia Tech assistant, but he most
recently coached at Texas Tech.
Frank Orgel was Dye's first staff appointment.
Orgel, who joined theClemson staff in 1980 to coach the
defensive line, will become Auburn's defensive
Photography: Mai* Almond
coordinator and linebacker coach. Two of Dye's
former assistantsat Wyoming, Wayne Hall and Bobby
Wallace, will also join the defensive staff. Wallace, a
former Mississippi State player, will handle the
secondary, and Hall will coach the defensive line.
Auburn's new head coach will bring another of his
former staff members, Oval Jaynes, to Auburn as an
administrative assistant.
See DYE, page A-9
VL\)t 9uburn INaiiwmart Thursday, January 15,1981 A-9
World this W66k~ Littleton speaks on tenure
International National
POLISH WORKERS THREATEN STRIKE-Indepen-dent
Polish labor leaders threatened to stage a two-hour
warning strike at noon Wednesday if the government
doesn't begin negotiations on their demands within 24
hours. An independent trade union spokesman said
selected factories in the city of Rzeszow on the Soviet
border wouldbe shut down unless negotiators arrived to
talk to some 300 protestors. Lech Walesa, head of
Solidarity, the country's largest trade union, said a
two-hour strike seemed reasonable, "but I hope they
make sure their watches don't jam." Though the
possibility of Soviet intervention to halt the labor unrest
remains, the official Soviet news agency Tass did not
comment on the demands.
HAIG DENIES WATERGATE INVOLVEMENT-Though
the Watergate scandal has been uncovered and
the trial long finished, questions continue to arise
concerning the involvement of certain persons in the
affair. One of those people is Secretary of State
designate Alexander M. Haig who denied any type of
involvement with the Watergate scandal in his
testimony to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.
Haig termed Watergate a s ' 'illegal and stupid" but said
that he could not render moral judgments on those
involved in Watergate. "I must leave that to others, to
history, to God." Sen. Barry Goldwater, R-Ariz., urged
the committee to approve Haig for Senate confirmation,
whileSen.Lowell Weicker, R-Conn., asked for rejection
of Haig's nomination. Goldwater said this country
would not have lived through the eight months it would
have taken for Nixon's impeachment, and that "Haig
saw his duty and tried to get Nixon to quit before he
ruined the country." Weicker said, "In the absence of
their superior's adherence to the law, honorable men
either speak up or get out."
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JAMES TO APPEAR ON 60 MINUTES?-Gov. Fob
James' press secretary, Chris Bence, confirmed
Tuesday that a letter concerning the governor sent to
Mike Wallace of CBS's 60 Minutes, Geraldo Rivera of
ABC's 20-20 and Bill Moyers of PBS' Bill Moyers
Journal. The letter, drafted by the governor's office,
suggests that James would be interesting material for
an interview. One reason cited was because he was the
only Democratic governor to refuse endorsal of
President Jimmy Carter's re-election bid last year.
On-campus alcohol law studied
By John Mangels
News Editor
The Social Life Committee is
currently considering a proposal
which, if approvedby the committee
and the administration, would per­mit
alcohol in certain areas of
on-campus housing.
Two students appeared before the
committee on Nov. 4 and requested
that the social regulation prohi­biting
the possession, consumption
or serving of alcoholic beverages on
the main University campus be
changed to allow alcohol in student
rooms in University housing.
Jim Pur cell, one of the students
who made the request and president
of the Auburn chapter of the
American Civil Liberties Union,
said the present ban on drinking on
the main Auburn campus is in
violation of students' constitutional
rights. He said it is unfair for
students living in Caroline
Draughon Village and the new
University apartments to be al­lowed
to possess alcohol while the
rest of the campus is banned from
doing so.
The request was referred to a
New University apartments
lose early fire alarm system
By JoBeth McDaniel
Assistant News Editor 1
The Auburn Fire Department has
disconnected the early warning fire
alarm system at the new University
apartments citing the rash of false
alarms as the major reason for
doing so.
Auburn Fire Chief Ellis Mitchell
said the students living in the
apartment complex will just have to
"call the Fire Department like
everyone else does."
Agriculture
Professor dies
Henry G. Posey, longtime faculty
member in the Auburn Universty
School of Agriculture, f orestry, and
biological sciences, died at his
home in Auburn, Thursday evening
January 8.
A native of Steelton, Pennsyl­vania,
Posey came to Auburn in 1950
as an assistant professor in the
department of forestry. He at­tended
Pennsylvania State
Forestry School, Mont Alto from
1926-1929 and graduated with honors
from North Carolina State College
withaB.S.F. degree in 1930. He later
received his M.S.F. degree from
North Carolina State College in 1950.
While at Mont Alto he played both
football and basketball, was direc­tor
of the orchestra, and school
pianist.
He is survived by his wife,
Elizabeth, and two sons, Webster of
Miami, Florida and Jimmy of
Auburn and three grandchildren.
Mitchell said he had discussed the
false alarm situation with Dean of
Students Dr. Harold Grant early in
November andrecommended that
the alarm be cut off between
quarters. He also said the alarm will
be disconnected "indefinitely."
From Sept. 13 to Dec. 6 the Fire
Department received a total of 32
alarms from the complex. During
this time there was only one real fire
at the apartments.
Five people were caught pulling
the alarms, an offense that warrants
a maximum penalty of a year in
prison or $1,000.
Mitchell said the internal alarm in
the complex itself works, so the
apartment residents will still hear
the alarm when it is pulled. The
difference is that the Fire Depart
ment will not be notified when the
alarm is pulled.
The Fire Department started
sending only one truck to the
apartment alarms last November
after receiving about 15 false
Alarms. Mitchell then said if the
alarms didn't stop, the department
would probably have to stop re­sponding
to calls altogether.
He also said other people on the
streets were put in danger when fire
trucks go through town responding
to a call.
subcommittee for study and recom­mendations.
The subcommittee's
proposal, which was submitted on
Dec. 2, recommends referenda be
held separately for students cur­rently
living on campus in women's
housing, mens housing and married
housing to determine the percen­tage
of students desiring wet or dry
living areas.
On the basis of these results,
the proposal recommends certain
areas be designated as wet or dry.
The number of wet or dry dorms in
each category should correspond to
the percentages revealed in the
referenda.
The proposal also states that
Dorms 6,9 and 10 will remain dry as
long as they are freshmen dorms,
and that in wet dorms no alcohol will
be permitted in public reception
areas. It recommends tha*t.»resir
dents of each wet dorm will vote
each quarter on whether to limit
alcohol use to in-room consumption
only.
The Social Life Committee is
requesting all interested persons or
groups, whether for or against the
proposal, to send pertinent infor­mation
and comments to the com­mittee
no later than Jan. 22. All
comments should be sent to Emily
Leischuck, secretary, Social Life
Committee, Cater Hall.
By John Mangels
News Editor
Saying he wished to "clarify some
issues which might have been
distorted," Auburn Vice President
for Academic Affairs Taylor Lit­tleton
spoke to the University senate
Tuesday afternoon on a proposed
tenure quota system and the funding
problems of Draughon Library.
"The University does not have
plans at present to initiate tenure
quotas in given departments or
schools,'' Littleton said in reference
to aproposal prepared for the bioard
of .trustees in which a limit would be
placed on the number of faculty
granted tenure in a particular
department.
The establishment of such a quota
system would enable positions to be
shifted from a less to a more
productive department and would
allow non-tenured positions to be
deleted if the need arose.
Littleton said it was hoped the
Tenure and Promotions Committee
wuld "be more conscious of the
spiraling of faculty coming into
tenure. Tenure is a committment to
the future, and with the decreased
mobility of faculty within disci­plines
(because of the granting of
tenure), the committee's judge­ment
becomes even more crucial,"
he said.
Littleton said that although some
departments were at 100 percent
tenured faculty, the University-wide
average was about 63 percent,
a figure he termed "moderate."
With the percentage of tenure
approval at 70-80 percent, an aver­age
turnover rate of 20 tenured
faculty per year and 40-50 new
tenure assignments per year,
Littleton said the situation could
become "uncomfortable" in the
future.
"All I am saying is the depart­ments
should be aware of this
(tenure levels) and become ex­tremely
judicious because they may
be closing themselves of f," Littleton
said. "Every department should
think about its tenure level and we
may call it to their attention."
The vice president said he did' 'not
have a very heartening picture to
paint" concerning the library, an
entity he called' 'a micrososm of the
whole University."
For the past eight-10 years, the
emphasis has been on maximizing
the library's collection through
making rather large committments
on continuing items, Littleton said,
j"We had been able to 'Wipe clean'
this obligation for continuing serials
at the end of each year, but with level
funding, this wiping clean of the
budgetary deficit is no longer
possible."
"Of the $1,066 million in the
library budget, $1,026 million is for
continuing obligations, leaving
$40,000 for the purchase of mono­graphic
items (books), so it's
obvious we won't be buying many
books this year," Littleton said.
"The only answer is to reduce
continuing obligations and increase
McMurtry, 51, succumbs
Services were held Tuesday after­noon
at the Auburn Church of Christ
for Thomas E. McMurt r;y, an Auburn
University faculty member who
was the victim of a heart attack on
Jan. 4. McMurtry, 51, was an
assistant professor in the technical
services department of the School of
Engineering.
A native of Tennessee,McMurtry
had worked as a machinist and
served in the U.S. Army before
earning his B.S. in industrial arts
education in 1958 and his M.Ed, the
following year, both from Auburn.
He joined the faculty in 1959 and was
made an assistant professor in 1963.
He later was an instructor at the
University of Missouri while work­ing
toward a doctoral degree.
McMurtry was a member of Phi
Delta Kappa education honorary,
the American Society of Engineer­ing
Education and the American
Welding Society, and had served as
president of the Auburn University
Faculty Club.
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the library's base budget," some­thing
the University "probably
won't be able to do to match the
inflation rate."
' 'I think we need to stop talking so
much negativism," Littleton said.
"The situation is unsolvable at the
present time, but the library has
made unusual progress in the last
few years and it's not teetering on
the brink. I'm getting tired of
hearing everyone poor mouthing."
In a brief report from the Library
Committee, Chairman Don Olliff
said the transfer of continuing
obligation items to department and
school accounts "is actually more
expensive than before," since order
forms must be filled out and
processed within the departments
and schools. Olliff also said the
transfer would "create gaps" since
departments and schools could
potentially overlook items pre­viously
purchased by the library
under continuing obligations. "The
real solution is to increase the
budget, not cut things out," Olliff
said.
In other faculty senate business,
President Sara Hudson said discus­sion
with Physical Plant Director
Paul Kearney revealed that any
energy savings gained by ending
classes before Thanksgiving (a
proposal the s enate considered but
failed to act on last quarter) would
be offset by the longer period of
summer building operation re-quiredby
suchaproposal. Veterans'
benefit checks for the month of
December could not be collected if
the University were not operational
during a portion of that month unless
it was proved such a shutdown would
produce energy savings.
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SGA 'relating' to administration
By Steve Far'sh
Managing Editor
When Trey Ireland and Scott
Smallwood campaigned and won
the offices of president and vice
president of SGA respectively, last
spring one campaign promise they
held in common was to work closely
with the new administration, who­ever
it might be.
The head of that administration
turned out to be Hanly Funderburk,
and both SGA leaders feel that to a
great extent their promise has been
achieved.
"Most of my time in office has
been spent with the new administra­tion,"
Ireland said, and,"I feel we
have really gotten our feet on the
ground with them.
"I think it's been a very open
administration on the part of Dr.
Funderburk, and I've been pleased
there."
Smallwood said inroads with the
administration are attributable to
"a gaining of credibility by the SGA
as a whole." The Senate president
said the process of allocating stu­dent
activities fees helped this
credibility, for "Dr. Funderburk
was very impressed with the way
the Senate Budget and Finance
Committee handled this process."
Faculty to buy books
By Karen Hartley
Assistant News Editor
Pending approval of the ad­ministration,
action will be taken to
transfer some of the book buying
reponsibility to the faculty to insure
that the Ralph Brown Draughorv
Library will end its materials
budget with a positive balance.
All but journals and binding costs
will be removed from under the
category of continuing obligations
and will be purchased separately by
faculty and library accounts, said
I ibrary Director Willian Highfill,
who proposed the change.
Such items as monographs and
University Press Publications
would then no longer be received
automatically. "We would be for­cing
schools with heavy commit­ments
to serials to decide whether to
keep them or to buy monographs,"
Highfill said.
Professor Don Olliff, chairman of
the library committee, said that this
was an intolerable situation. "What
we're doing is making it more
expensive. Order forms must be
filled out and processed in depart­ments,"
hesaid, adding that there is
also a factor of how well the faculty
keeps up with what it needs.
In a meeting Friday, the library
committee did not approve of the
recommendation but voted 5-4 to
add an amendment stating, "this
committee has reviewed the recom­mendation,
and representing the
faculty, we view this in horror and
deeply regret that these 'ad­ministrative'
moves are being car­ried
out."
In response to the recommen­dation,
Olliff said, "the solution to
the problem is more support, not
reduction." ,
One committee member said,
"They (the administration) gave us
$119,000 and told us to shut up."
That $119,000 was recently found
in the proration reserve to cover the
library' s budget deficit for last year,
but more support does not seem
forthcoming, said Taylor Littleton,
vice president of academic Affairs.
"With level funding, the*'wiping
clean of budgetary deficits is no
longer possible," Littleton told the
faculty senate Tuesday.
The administration is committed
in doing all it can for this year's
budget, he said, but admitted that,
"In all candor, we will probably not
be able to increase the budget to
match the inflation rate."
Other possible sources of revenue
may include an endowment fund to
be started for the library ..Littleton
said. "The library is not teetering on
the brink," he said, adding that
libraries at other schools are in the
same position that Auburn is.
Edward Hobbs, dean of Arts and
Sciences, said a $50,000 gift had
been made to the University. Dr.
Grady Cox, executive vice presi­dent,
later confirmed that amount
adding that it is a gift from an
individual toward an endowment
fund for the library.
Ireland agreed, adding that when
the SGA has come against the
administration, as during the effort
to extend library hours, "the key
was that we used conventional, not
radical means to present our
argument."
Both men predicted a quarter
ahead that would be dominated by
two large issues: the question of
alcohol on campus and a lobbying
effort for increased funding for
Auburn.
Ireland said the proposal to
permit alcohol in on-campus dorms
is now before the University Social
Life Committee, of which he is a
member. He said a subcommittee
has produced a proposal, but that it
does not have "enough specifics" so
he cannot support the move yet.
Ireland added the SGA has sur­veyed
on-campus residents con­cerning
the change and that the
results would play a part in deter­mining
a proposal of the committee.
Smallwood said he would support
the change if it stipulated that
drinking could be done only in the
dorm rooms and only by those of
legal age. He said he thought present
proposals concening alcohol use are
now "too vague."
Smallwood added that impetus for
a lobbying effort in the Legislature
for increased funding for the Uni­versity
has come from the Senate
Welfare Committee.
A bad scrape
Photography: Will Dickey
Parents like to prepare their children for the future—both the good and
the bad. Taking her child to drop-and-add was at least some consolation to
this young mother. Because even if she was unable to find any classes she
wanted to add to her schedule, at least she could look to her left and be sure
she had at least one good addition.
Freeze From page A-l
In the School of Business, the
department of management was
unable to fulfill 305 requests for a
basic management course during
pre-registration, said J.F. Henry,
head of the management depart­ment.
"We lost four budgeted faculty
positions because of proration,"
said Henry, which left his depart­ment
with 28 faculty members.
"When they called for 3-5 percent of
the budget back, the only way we
could give them money back was
from faculty positions."
Henry, who said he could use
about six more faculty members in
his department, is worried about
staying within the guidelines of the
AACSB (American Association of
Collegiate Schools of Business)
accreditation.
"We increased our student credit
hours by 35 percent, yet we have less
faculty than ever before," said
Henry, "We are pushing the upper
limits of the accreditation."
The department of marketing and
transportation solved its faculty
shortage problem by overloading
three specific professors, said de­partment
head Clinton Baker.
"We are taking care of more
students than I feel comfortable
with," said Baker, who cited a class
which usually contains 160 students
that now has an enrollment of 225.
Baker said he could also use six
additional faculty members to
"form a quality department."
The hiring freeze was imple­mented
in May by President Hanly
Funderburk as a result of uncer­tainties
in the budget. Requests for
exceptions to the freeze were to be
made through the office of the
president in the normal admini­strative
channels, said Funderburk.
Several departments heads
expressed dissatisfaction with the
numberofrequestswhichhavegone
through the presidents office and
remained unanswered. The situa­tion
was addressed when Funder­burk
met with the School of Arts and
Science department heads during
the Christmas break.
During the meeting, which was
described as "positive" by Arts
and Science Dean Edward Hobbs,
Funderburk apologized to every­body
within two weeks."
' 'I hope there will be some change
in the hiring approval procedure,"
said Dr. W. B. Hitchcock, whose
English department consists of 55
faculty members and 24 graduate
teaching assistants servicing 5,000
students per quarter.
"The problem is everyone has a
different definition of how many
faculty members will be adequate,''
said Hitchcock. "They tell us to
increase our freshmen composition
classes to 30, but if we did we
wouldn't be doing anyone any good.
"We've had hiring freezes before,
but they have never been quite so
cold," he said. Hitchcock explained
that during previous hiring freezes
the department was required to seek
administrative approval before
filling vacancies, but never had to
prove such "elaborate justifi­cation"
of need for additional
faculty.
"We have reached every senator
and representative by mail," Ire­land
said. "Now we are going to try
and reach them either by phone or in
person.
' 'We are trying to show them from
a student standpoint that we are
really hurting financially," he
added.
Ireland called the recent appoint­ment
of Dr. Grady Cox as executive
vice president a "good sign. There
seemed to be no influence from
Montgomery concerning the selec­tion,"
he said.
Smallwood called the appoint­ment
a sign of continuing growth on
the part of Auburn. "The smooth­ness
of that transition showed how
Auburn as a whole has matured," he
said.
The vice president said he now
feels an optimism about Auburn he
did not feel in the previous quarter.
He added the selection of Pat Dye as
head football coach and the standing
ovation Dye received from Auburn
' students at a recent basketball
game encouraged him.
Both reacted strongly to a recent
Department of Education report
that implicates Alabama's colleges
and universities in discriminatory
practices. "I just do not believe we
have denied people access to Au­burn
on account of color," Ireland
said.
Auburn could be forced to begin
affirmitive actions in hiring more
stringently than previously, Ireland
noted. "I am against the'hiring of
minorities simply because they are
minorities concept' that would
result, he added.
Plans for the construction of a
student activities building will
reach the final stages this quarter,
he said. A final architect's version
will be chosen soon, the ground
should be broken on the project in
about six months, he said.
Both said they had been impres­sed
thus far with the Funderburk
administration in its duties across
the campus.
"I would give the administration
light now a 'B* if I had to grade it,"
Ireland said. "They have done very
well with the situation they were
thrown into."
Ireland also gave the SGA a "B"
for the nine months it has been under
his direction. i'We have really
accomplished most of what we set
out to do," he said.
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Searching no more
Dye deserves lAuburn spirit'
Another search for a top university official at
Auburn University hascome to an end, and the
process once again seems to have fulfilled its
purpose despite itself.
Pat Dye, former head coach at the University
of Wyoming and assistant to a famous coach in
the northern part of the state for 10 years, was
appointed head football coach, and all
involved breathed a collective sigh of relief.
A process filled with rampant rumors of
Vince Uooley coming to Auburn, secret
meetings of the search committee across the
outheast and consistently outrageous com-nents
by trustee Charles Smith pulled itself
ogether in time to present Auburn a
op-flight coach.
Dye promised football players in a team
neeting he would be instilling discipline on
nd off the field. He should provide a strong
•ersonality as head coach.
Since the retirement of Coach Ralph
' 'Shug' 'Jordan, though, many have wondered
whether a coach with a strong, independent
personality could survive. Some attribute
Doug Barfield's lack of success to too much
interference by administrators and alumni in a
program that should have been his.
Alumni and administrators have promised
Dye their support of his efforts to build a
winning football program here. We hope that
support translates in to letting him run things
his way.*
Students gave Dye a warm welcome with a
standing ovation when he was introduced
before the Auburn-Kentucky basketball
game. It was a good example of that elusive
quality known as the Auburn spirit.
We hope alumni and administrators, like
they have promised, will show that same spirit.
Cox comes with credentials
While the search for a new head football
oach gathered headlines across the state, a
earch possibly more important to the future of
luburn was taking place in relative obscurity.
Dr. J. Grady Cox, dean of the School of
Engineering, was appointed executive vice
president to replace Dr. Rex Rainer, who left
under controversy on special assignment with
the governor.
Good comments about the appointment
have come from students, faculty and
administrators. Faculty have been especially
pleased, for Cox has much experience in the
classroom, and he should be able to easily relate
to their problems.
A good relationship with the faculty is
imperative in the position, for a major portion
of it concerns work as a liason between the
president's office and faculty.
Cox compiled an impressive record as dean
of engineering. Although his school had fallen
upon especially hard times of late, as he
outlined before the board of trustees
extensively 18 months ago, he has been able to
keep up its standards (the school received
preliminary high marks from one member of
an accredidation team that recently visited the
school) and not suffer a significant loss of
faculty.
His ability to do the most with a shortage nf
funds should make him an invaluable asset to
the Funderburk team.
Cox begins his job with one significant
advantage over Rainer. Fair or not, some
people held the impression that Rainer, a
friend of Gov. Fob James, had received his
appointment on the basis of that friendship;
therefore, he began with a stigma in the eyes of
some.
Cox begins with no such Montgomery
stigma. His is moreover the man it seems both
Funderburk and the faculty could agree on as a
good choice for the job.
Significantly, even faculty from schools
other than engineering have expressed
optimism about Cox.
He has a heavy load to bear, so we hope the
support expressed now translates into real
terms, and is not merely "honeymoon talk."
Dorm drinking
When an SGA committee member con­ducting
a survey on legal alcohol use on campus
recently asked a hill dorm resident whether she
would favor such a proposal, the girl replied
with surprise that she'd never known it was
illegal.
Either non-awareness of the law or blatant
violation of it seems to be the rule rather than
the exception on campus.
The Social Life Committee is now consider­ing
a proposal that would permit consumption
of alcohol within rooms of dorms which had
voted to approve it. We believe the proposal
adopts a realistic view toward the use of alcohol
on campus, especially in light of the fact that
alcohol is currently permitted in the new,
predominantly freshman populated Univer­sity
apartments.
Dorm residents report that enforcement of
the law varies from dorm to dorm, depending
on the dorm mother or resident adviser's
policy.
^ e believe on-campus residents have paid
for the right to the privacy of the dorm room
and what they do in this room, when not
affecting the rights of others, should be left to
their own discretion.
Many students hold similar views but many
do not. The only way for the Social Life
Committee to accurately gauge campus
opinions and make a judicious decision is to
obtain as much input as possible.
We encourage students to send their
opinions, pro or con, to Emily Leischuck,
secretary, Social Life Committee, Cater Hall.
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Will property tax be city scapegoat?
City finances and tax rates are usually among
the two or three things farthest from the minds
of Auburn students. But the city of Auburn and
all who live in it—even students—are facing an
important decision about the city's financial
direction.
For several months, city officials have been
toying with (public officials call it "studying")
the idea of a new local tax to generate additional
sources of revenue for Auburn's public school
system.
Different methods of taxation have been
considered, but the one most frequently heard is
a 16-mill, or 32 percent, increase in property tax
rates. Such a property tax increase, proponents
say, would provide the city about $650,000 in
new revenue, which could be used to stabilize
city school funding and insure it against the
prospects of reduced federal support.
Tuesday night, the City Council will hold a
public hearing on whether to bring the property
tax hike to a vote by way of a referendum this
spring. Regardless of public sentiment, though,
the proposal must be approved by the five area
legislators and the State Legislature before it
can be brought to the people. Nonetheless,
Tuesday's hearing will provide an indication of
taxpayer sentiment on the issue.
At first glance, it may seem the proposal has
little effect on Auburn students, since most do
not own property in the city. Students do,
however, rent apartments, houses and rooms
from people who do, and one needn't be Milton
Friedman to see that the easiest way to cope
with rising property taxes is by increasing rent s.
If the property tax is increased 16-mill, (the
Scott
Thurston
largest incremental increase allowed), students
can expect increases in already high rental rates.
Some city councilors, most notably Council
President Denson Lipscomb, believe the effect
on rents could be minimized by a stipulation that
if the tax hike is approved, the current 2 percent
rental tax -which landlords pay—and pass along
to renters—be eliminated.
Unfortunately, the council has taken a
backwards approach to the idea by opting to wait
and see what happens to the tax proposal before
dealing with the 2 percent renter's tax. At this
point, then, we must assume that a hike in
property taxes will cost student renters money.
City officials, including Mayor Jan Dempsey,
contend that city services will have to be
curtailed unless the new tax is approved. No
doubt, the city is in for trying times financially.
But before arguing the specificities of the
property tax hike, we must question the real
need to increase taxes of any kind, and
particularly property taxes.
Those who favor increasing property taxes
point out that Alabamians pay the lowest
property taxes in the United States.
Public officials in Massachusetts probably
once used the same kind of argument. Yet, last
November Bay State voters effectively rolled
back the fifth highest property taxes in the
nation through their approval of the widely
publicized "Proposition 2 1/2", which limits
property taxes to 2 1/2 percent of assessed
value.
Municipal officials throughout Massachusetts
argued incessently that approval of the measure
would produce catastrophic cuts in services.
Yet, as far as anyone knows (or, in this part of the
country, cares), the state is still alive and well.
The point is, property taxes have had a
tendency to be used as a scapegoat whenever
municipalities and states decided they needed
more money. In Massachusetts and California,
that habit was quelled only after property taxes
had become outrageous and only through rather
drastic tax-cutting measures.
At this point, Alabama cities may be able to
afford the luxury of raising property taxes
simply because they are now relatively low. But
if cities begin using the tax as a whipping boy
every time funds dry up or the economy goes
sour, how long will it be before Alabamians find
themselves voting on a Proposition 13 or 2 1/2?
It is a question broader than the intricacies of
city school funding which city officials are
confronting. But it is a question the city must
consider.
And students should consider this question as .
well as the prospect of paying higher rents if the
proposal passes.
NOW REPLACING CARTER V
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library problems aren't just kid stuff
The Ralph Brown Draughon Library is up to
its neck in financial trouble and the administra­tion
is looking in the other direction.
For two years, the library has been subject to
level funding. If there is no budget increase this
year and periodical costs continue to rise, the
library will be forced to trim as much as $200,000
in periodicals next year.
Besides the possible $200,000 cut in periodi­cals,
further inner budget reallocations of
$96,000 have already been made leaving almost
nothing for regular book purchases for the entire
1980-81 school year.
Although money has been made available to
eliminate last fiscal years deficit, the library
materials budget for this year is still grossly
inadequate to maintain its present purchasing
program.
This isn't kid stuff.
Even before level funding, the library was
ineligible to join the Association of Research
Libraries, and it is among the only three
university libraries in the SEC that are not
members. The other two are those at Mississippi
State and "Ole Miss. In a 1978 status report of
major southeastern academic libraries, Auburn
ranked 22nd of 26 schools for total library
expenditures per student.
The University also ranked 22nd in ratio of
total library staff to students and 20th in
volumes per student.
Even more startling are the 1978 statistics
which rank 40 southern college and university
libraries by the ratio of library expenditures to
the total expenditures of the institution. Auburn
is ranked 37 th.
It is appalling that a university of Auburn's
stature should rank so low. But it is horrifying
that a $200,000 periodicals cut should be
recommended and lessen its standards even
further.
The lack of funding and the periodical cuts
result in a severe blow to the academic stability
of the university. The primary victim of the cuts
is the graduate program. If up-to-date research
material is not maintained, an informational
vacuum will result.
When competing with other institutions
through publishing research results, graduate
students and faculty will be unaware of
innovations in their areas of study.
Through this naivete, they risk appearing
uninformed or uninterested in the latest
discoveries. This, in turn, jeopardizes Auburn's
prestige, as well as its chances for extramural
funding.
Karen
Hartley
Discoveries are being made at an unprece­dented
rate. If current material is unavailable,
educators and researchers will present outdated
information. Auburn will be producing second-class
work. As a secondary result, Auburn will
lose good professors who will not wish to remain
at an institution where they are unable to make
educational advances.
This isn't kid stuff.
In a meeting fall quarter. Dr. Rex Rainer, then
newly appointed executive vice president, told
the library committee what the administration
considered then to be its priorities. The
reconstruction of the engineering building was
first, the vocational adult education center
second by Legislature matndate and the library
third. Though the administration has these and
other aspects of the University which require
attention, they do not seem to realize the
magnitude of the library's financial difficulties.
The reason the library may only be a third
priority, I suspect, is because of the University's
inabilty to discover a source for 1 ibrary funds.
Yet, by ignoring the situation, the administra­tion
is not solving anything, but instead voicing
its lack of concern for the library. And by
delaying action, it is only compounding the
seriousness of the problem.
At the risk of repeating myself, this is not kid
stuff.
Though one suggestion was made to raise
graduate fees at the December board of trustees
meeting, it is not a sound proposition. By raising
graduate fees some graduates will consequently
be forced out of the program. And because some
graduates teach classes, these will be canceled
and subsequently add an extra burden on to the
University.
Even if enough revenue could be obtained
through this measure to enable the library to
purchase current material, the graduate
program will deteriorate. Another solution
must be found.
I believe the administration has two alterna­tives.
One, it can retain its stance and continue to
let the library remain of secondary importance.
Or two, it can realize it is impossiDle to have a
first class learninginstitution with a fourth class
library, and give the library's problems its full
attention until those problems are solved.
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Opinion
Thursday, January IS, 1981 A-5
Open meetings, extra seating:
some problems Auburn needs
Despite whatever problems we have at
Auburn, these are a few well never have to
worry about.
Sept. 19, AUBURN —In an unprecedented
move today, the stadium lights at Jordan-Hare
stadium were turned off in the middle of a
night game to save on lighting costs.
Sources say this may have been a factor in
the game which Auburn lost 124-117. Re­marked
one coach, "Well they keep the damn
things on all the time over at the library!"
The move was expected, however, when
pleas to alumni for additional athletic dona­tions
failed. In the words of an alumnus"We'd
rather spend the money improving the level of
education at the University."
Sept. 28, AUBURN-The Schools of
Business, Engineering and Veterinary Medi­cine
were put on probation today by the NCAA
for recruiting violations. The charges stemmed
from allegations that several alumni illegally
recruited professors for the three schools.
Among the specific violations were: visiting
the professors homes too many times, offering
to pay the professors for classes that they'd
never teach, and giving them cars, real estate,
women and subscriptions to National Geo­graphic.
The School of Arts and Sciences is about to
come off of a two-year probation for taking a
prospective teacher to Disney World.
Oct. 4, AUBURN —In a surprise decision,
the Auburn University board of trustees did
not hold a closed-door session. At the meeting
President Hanly Funderburk announced that
he would actually fund something. Funderburk
wasn't specific concerning what he would fund;
he just wanted to fund.
"He was quite open to suggestions as to how
to get rid of money," commented one trustee.
"At first we thought he was talking about
more re-modeling, but now we see he's talking
about school programs."
Tim
Dorsey
After the session. Gov. Fob James called to
congratulate Funderburk on his new policy
and told him that he could have all the money
the University needed.
Oct. 10, AUBURN—A record crowd of
75,000 turned out today for the season opener
of the Ralph Brown Draughon Library. This
marks the first time since the $13 billion
expansion that the library has been filled to
capacity.
"The extra seating has been needed for a
long time now," said an enthusiastic reader.
"I'm really enjoying all the new publications
that the school has bought. I brought the whole
family and we're staying out in the parking lot
in our Winnebago," he added.
Nov. 9, AUBURN—The Auburn City
Council rewrote all of its liquor laws this
afternoon. The new statutes allow the sale and
consumption of alcohol in most parts of the
city.
During the same meeting, the council
considered allowing bicycle-riders to use
sidewalks again.
There were even motions to allow students
to consume liquor while riding bicycles, while
on sidewalks.
Dec. 2, AUBURN—For the first time in
Auburn University history, make-up sales
have gone down. The add-a-bead, Izod and
cowboy hat markets have also declined. "We
just got tired of all that stuff," said one Auburn
co-ed.
King' s birthday important,
but national holiday too much
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. would have been
52 years old today. If not for the 1968
assasination in Memphis,he would be around to
see the dreams of he and his fellow nonviolent
civil rights workers become reality.
Thirteen years after King's death, though,
Americans black and white are still searchingfor
an appropriate way to honor the slain leader.
Some say a federal holiday would be appropri­ate.
Others prefer buildings and monuments be
erected or renamed in honor of the slain civil
rights leader.
The main debate though, since the death of
King, has centered around the holiday. Those
who favor the holiday and those who do not favor
it both have good points for their opinions.
Those who favor the holiday point out King is
more than deserving of the honor. His leadership
for the nonviolent acquisition of equal rights for
black Americans was restrained enough to keep
the civil rights movement from turning into a
civil war.
Led by King, blacks were able to make
immense social strides and were able to
influence the way this nation thinks of its black
population.
They maintain a holiday would be an annual
reminder in the areas that still require change.
One example of that idea is Atlanta's week-long
celebration, "A Charge to Keep in the
'80s -Eliminating Poverty, Racism and
Violence Through Nonviolent Social Change" A
holiday would continue King's dream, they say.
On the other hand, there are many who oppose
a new federal holiday to honor King. Many are
not opposed to King's ideas, nor are they
super-conservatives. Their opposition is based
mainly on practical considerations.
For instance, they point out a national holiday
would require passage by all 50 state
legislatures. Congress can only declare holidays
for Washington D.C. and for federal employees,
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and although states usually follow suit,
implementation of national holidays require
massive paperwork at several leveis.
Opponents also point to the abundance of
holidays already observed nationally (New
Year's, Washington's Birthday, Memorial Day,
Labor Day, Independence Day, Columbus's
Birthday, Veteran's Day, Thanksgiving and
Christmas), and argue there are already too
many. Besides, they say, if another holiday is to
be created, surely there are people even more
deserving of the honor than King, such as
Abraham Lincoln.
And, in an age of shrinking productivity, the
decry the cost in pay and lost work of another
national holiday.
I agree with those who oppose the new Jan. 15
holiday. Given our current economic state of
affairs, another holiday in the usual sense is
simply too costly.
Nonetheless,atribute to King is a good idea.
Some type of • ecognition by Congress of some
annual ceremony would be appropriate for the
memory of the King philosophy.
Also, the next time the U.S. Mint changes the
obverse of or issues a new coin,King could be
honored by having him on it.
It is important that he be honored. That the
dream continues is a tribute to Dr. King. That it
continue oh is our responsibility.
Federal power a threat to education
Michelle LaBorde, Lynda McNeal and:
Ramon a Car bo commit a crime every day they go
to school.
The trio of young ladies has drawn national
attention the past two weeks by refusing
Federal Judge Nauman Scott's order to transfer
from the all-white Buckeye, Louisiana High
School to an integrated school 15 miles away.
The case provides a textbook example of the
problems and confusions produced when the
federal and state governments clash over
jurisdiction of an area such as education, for
state Judge Richard Lee had earlier ruled the
girls did not have to transfer, even though they
did not live within the boundaries of the Buckeye
High School.
The power struggle between the two judges
began when Judge Lee, accompanied by state
troopers, escorted the girls to Buckeye in
defiance of the overruling of his decision by
Judge scott. Scott then issued an edict
forbidding the troopers from aiding Judge Lee,
and last Tuesday he issued orders that Judge
Lee appear before him today to give reasons why
he should not be held in contempt of court.
Typically forgotten in the swirl of controversy
are the three girls and their feelings. All they
wanted was the right to continue to attend their
neighborhood school, a school at which all three
had been very active and successful last year.
Since Brown v. Education in 1954, the federal
government has held the noble idea that
minority groups should have every educational
opportunity others have. As with most noble
ideas of the federal government, though, this
one has unfortunately been translated into a
disturbing maze of regulation that has tried to
artificially mix ethnic groups, especially blacks
and whites.
This artificial mixture of the races has,
according to black economist-sociologist
Thomas Sowell in a 1976 article, produced
results opposite of those the do-gooders would
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Farish
have hoped for. "Much evidence can be found
showing declining academic performances,
lower self-esteem by black children and greater
racial antagonism on the part of both black and
white children" due to these efforts, especially
forced busing, he wrote.
Such does not have to be the result, though. In
the late nineteenth and early twentieth
centuries, ethnic groups such as Italians, Jews,
Irish and Orientals began their climb on the
American ladder, including education rungs,
without the "help" of the government. It took
considerable time in every case, but the groups
were all to a good degree absorbed into
American culture at all social and economic
levels. The grandchildren of these immigrants
are looked upon simply as 'Americans."
Few in the government seem to understand
history, though, and the most frightening result
is that their ignorance is beginning to hurt closer
to home. Last week, an official of the federal
Department of Education (a fantastic waste of
taxpayer's money conceived as a "gift" to the
National Association of Education by President
Jimmy Carter) presented Gov. Fob James with a
report outlining "discrimination" violations in
Alabama's system of higher education.
The state, the report said, has encouraged a
dual system of higher education: one for blacks
and one for whites. It ordered the governor to
devise a plan to correct the situation within 60
days.
James reaction, "I think they're out of their
cotton-picking minds," was quite justified. It is
galling to have the federal government tell us to
implement a plan that is probably not only
unwise, but too expensive to afford at this time.
The federal government has a noose around
Alabama's colleges and universities, however.
That noose is money, which comes to the 14
schools in significant sums from the feds.
Here in Alabama, federal intervention will
produce a quagmire of court cases, confusion,
contempt for minorities and lowered standards
and performances. Why, oh why, cannot the
federal government let the state pursue a more
moderate course that would in the long-term
provide a better racial mix?
Sen. Daniel P. Moynihan, a former university
professor, paints a grim picture for the future of
federal intervention in the education processes
of the states. In the December issue of Harper's
magazine, he points out that the "power of the
purse" of the federal government means that
"universities must now expect a long, for
practical purposes permanent, regimen of
pressure for the federal government to pursue
this or that national purpose, purposes often at
variance with the interests or inclinations of the
universities themselves.
"There is nothing to do about this, save be
aware of it," Moynihan writes sadly.
I'm not sure I am as pessimistic as Moynihan
is. I truly believe the election of 1980 gave
conservatives a mandate to operate against
pervasive federal intervention. If they take
advantage of the mandate, a first symbolic and
forceful effort would be the dismantling of the
Department of Education.
As a result, the discrimination case against
Alabama could be forgotten. States like
Alabama would have one barrier down then, but
others would surely pop up.
Welcome, ladies and gentlemen of Auburn
University, to the Age of Big Government.
Pope may save Poland from Russia
If two years ago someone had predicted a
national labor union in Poland by 1981, he'd have
been told the prospects were as bleak as those of
a Pole being chosen Pope.
As 1981 dawns, a Polish Pope is in the Vatican
and millions of Poles are united behind
Solidarity, the Polish national labor union.
And though the thought of a Polish Pope may
once have been scoffed at, it is clear that his
remarkable personality and the prestige of his
position has not merely concided with but
largely enabled a near-revolution to occur in his
mother country.
Since the first worker's revolt in July, the
Pope, while not formally blessing the move­ment,
has openly sympathized with the workers'
demands for improvement.
Should the Soviets invade Poland The Pope has
promised to leave the Vatican for Poland and
stay until they leave. So once again, as it has been
throughout the centuries, the Church is the
greatest opposition to Communism in Poland,
except of course, Solidarity:
In contrast to our own country's origins of
freedom and individuality, Poland's history is
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filled with tales of brutal conquerors and bloody
wars fought between East and West. As a
nation, Poland has seldom enjoyed indepen­dence
from her neighbors, who have repeatedly
crippled her with their domination.
The years of domination taught the resilient
Poles one thing—to keep in mind who is the real
nation and who is the oppressor. It has been said
that the true Poland can be found not within the
physical boundaries of the country but within
the Polish people.
The Poles have been able to keep their
national identity largely through uniting under
the church. The Catholic church has always been
a national church, and one that has commanded
more respect and allegiance than the Soviets
couldever hope for with their Polish Communist
Party.
During the labor strikes, the church has
provided a paternal yet moderating influence.
While having shown no signs of withdrawing
support for Solidarity and the workers, it has
issued its strongest call yet for "internal peace"
and seems to be worried about Soviet
intervention.
Soviet intervention would surely mean the
end of all the newly-acquired powers of he
church, including its part as mediator between
the labor groups and the party.
But to what extent can the church actually
protect Poland from invasion? Though the Pope
has no army, his part in this issue warrants
considerable concern from Soviet officials
because of his prominance in the world.
Many of the 700 million Catholics in the world
will be watching and waiting to see how this
conflict will affect their church.
King's vision of peace needed again to save U.S.
Editor, The Plainsman, drains resources away from Editor, The Plainsman, being used to
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Why should there be a "Walk for Peace" on
Martin Luther King Jr.'s birthday, Thursday,
November 15th (at 4:45 p.m., starting at the
Drake Student Health Center)? Shouldn't we
get over this "obsession with peace" (as Haig has
described it) and get on with the business of
restoring our economy and strengthening the
military?
We laid aside arms limitation talks and
treaties and took up proposals for increasing our
military strength last year, well before Reagan
was elected. The Soviet Union announced it
would at least match our increase, indicating
more arms and tension escalation, not likely to
be relieved by our new 'president. Meanwhile,
revelations about development of the "Stealth"
bomber indicate the public is operating in the
dark when assessing what the actual strengths
are of the U.S. military in comparison to the
Soviet Union's.
With only 5 percent of the world's population,
our nation accounts lor roughly one-third of
total global military expenditures. Besides
being the world's largest arms exporter, our
military investment represents close to half our
federal budget. This helps fuel inflation, creates
far fewer jobs than alternative spending, and
relieve hunger, poverty, ignorance, and ill­ness—
both at home and abroad.
The proposed increases in military spending
are concurrent with proposed cuts in social
spending. While we strive to regain our military
superiority, we face a decline in our standard of
living relative toother nations. For example, the
United States is not even among the top 15
nations worldwide in such health barometers as
infant mortality and life expectancy.
War is simply not a sane, viable option for
resolving conflict in this age of nuclear
weaponry, yet we continue increasing our
preparation for it despite everyone hoping we
will never use what we have invested.
Albert Einstein once said, "The pioneers of a
warless world are the young men who refuse
military service." When our country was young,
Thomas Jefferson noted its spirit was "totally
adverse to a large military force." Today, the
peace movement draws few active participants,
but, fortunately, there is even less of a
constituency for war.
Efforts to build and sustain healthy communi­ties
will be stymied if we are hostage to
war-making priorities. Martin Luther King Jr.
had dreams of peace, dignity, and freedom for all
humankind. We need that vision now to avoid
reliance on military strength to define this
country's greatness and to confront our
dependence on overseas resources, in order to
rebuild our economy.
Larry Pedersen
St. Dunstan's Community Worker
Sales tax only fair solution for City Council
Editor, The Plainsman,
The City Council of Auburn is debating on
three alternatives which would increase city
revenues. The three alternatives include
increasing: sales tax [Vi or 1 percent), ad
valorem tax (16 mills or garbage fees
(2.50/month). I feel Auburn students should be
aware of what the effect will be of the different
alternatives.
As a recent Auburn graduate, a resident of
Auburn for the past five years and as business
manager of a local corporation which deals with
A uburn students on a daily basis, I feel qualified
to estimate how the different proposed
alternatives in increasing city revenues will
effect its residents.
I feel Auburn University students are a part of
the city of Auburn. Besidesthe very small
percentage that live in the nearby communities
who commute to campus, most University
students live within the city limits; students
must also feel they are a part of the city, as
evidenced by their request for the change in the
date of city elections.
In my opinion, two of the alternatives lad
valorem tax and garbage fee) almost entirely
ignore the student population.
Since most University students do notown
theirown home, the ad valorem tax increase will
omit University students from paying an
increase in tax. There may be a small number of
students who own their own car but I would
estimate a small percentage license their
automobile in Lee County, thus the same result
occurs.
I also feel that only a limited number of
students would be affected by an increase in
garbage collection fees. I conclude this by
believing there are a large number of students
who live on-campus, in apartment complexes
and in other dwellings who use community
garbage bins and who are not directly billed for
garbage collection.
The third alternative will be an increase in
sales tax. An increase in this tax will affect all
residents of Auburn, both the student and
non-student population. No matter what
category a resident is classified, he or she will
have to buy taxable items as basic everyday
living expenses. These items, such as food,
clothing, household items and entertainment,
areexpenses incurred by all no matter who they
are or where they live.
By a process of elimination, and since there
were on ly three major alternatives, I feel the last
alternative (sales tax increase) would be fairest
to all residents of the city.
I understand that the student population
would probably prefer either of the first two
alternatives. Why not? There would only be a
minimal increase in expenses for a few and no
increase for the majority of students. However,
if students realize what the effect will be down
the road, maybe they will change their tune.
If there is an increase in ad valorem tax or
garbage fees, who do you think will absorb this
additionalexpense?Nottheowneror landlord of
the apartment, trailer or house from whom the
student rents; it will be passed along to students
in an increase in rent. The idea of raisingrent and
blaming it on the city would be a golden
opportunity for landlords to raise rent in excess
of the necessary amount to cover the increase in
taxes or fees.
Thus, the student will pay in the long run.
Of course, no increase in either taxes or fees
would be ideal but with the increase in cost of
services which the city provides, there are only
two choices: either an increase in revenues
(taxes and/or fees) or a decrease in services.
In my opinion, a decrease in services would be
a step backward. For Auburn to continue to
grow and prosper, services the city provides
cannot be limited or decreased. I believe we all
would like for Auburn to remain the friendliest
and loveliest village. David Farmer
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Letters can help AU budget
Editor, The Plainsman,
Dear Students:
During the next few weeks the Alabama
Legislature will be drawing up the 1980-81
budget. In this budget the amount of money to be
allocated to Auburn University will be
proposed.
We are asking you, the students, to write
letters to the following legislators. We ask that
you would inform them of some of your own
overcrowded class situations, cutbacks, etc. We
would like to humbly solicite their help, realizing
that the State Legislature is also operating
ulider a very tight budget; however, due to the
fact that Auburn is the largest institution in the
state of Alabama and has already made huge
cutbacks, we feel it is vital that we receive some
financial relief for the coming year.
Any letters you can write will be appreciated.
The Student Government Association
Senator Richmond Pearson
Finance and Taxation
State Capitol 36104
Representative Walter Owen
House Ways & Means
State Capitol
Montgomery, AL 36104
Sid McDonald
Director of Finance
Room 104
StateCapitol
Montgomery. AL36104
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Letters
Thursday, January IS, 1981 A-6
Forces of sin threaten Auburn
with alcohol in dormitories
Editor, The Plainsman,
A recommendation to the SGA, President
Funderburk, the Social Life Committee and
the board of trustees concerning demon Irum
on campus.
I urge y'all to vote nay to any resolution
allowing 19-year-olds to have liquor on campus.
A sheltered, restrictive atmosphere is re­quired
here at Auburn for the following very
simple reason. Auburn students who live in
campus dorms aren't nearly as mature or
responsible as students at other universities.
Just because students at other schools drink
on campus and do it responsibly doesn't mean
we could; those students can handle the
responsibility whereas Auburn students can't.
The immaturity of the Auburn student is
well-established and unquestioned. In a Plains­man
feature last week concerning a resolution
to allow liquor on campus, a student was
quoted as saying, "Since freshmen usually
abuse rules like that anyway, I can't see giving
them any further freedom." Another declared,
"It's inevitable that people will abuse the
privilegc.if they allow liquor it's for sure to
get out of hand." Auburn is the only university
that I know of where students are assumed to
be irresponsible.
I hate drunks so I don't want anyone to drink
in their dorm room. If they want to dr^ik.they
can drive to a bar. I would rather people drive
while intoxicated than cause tension on the
hall.
There are myriad evil forces at work trying
to bring moral destruction to Auburn. Just a
few years ago, they won a major victory when
girls were allowed to leave the dorm without
signing out. Just think what would happen if
we allowed liquor on campus. The students
would then start pushing for unlimited
visitation and (Gasp!) co-ed dorms. Birth
control in the health center (Horrors!) and
other such abominations would be soon to
follow.
We would fall to the same monster that ate
Yale and M.I.T. Since they allowed liquor on
campus they have become virtual cesspools of
moral decadence and have been totally
discredited as institutes of higher learning. We
don't want to be like them. Righteous, we are.
Deeply.
So take heart and rise up against the
pervasive forces of sin that threaten to ruin
this lovery campus! Fight strong to keep
Auburn backwards!
David Cunningham, 3 AE
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Editor, The Plainsman,
Attached is an editorial I clipped from the
December 11,1980 Piedmont Journal. I thought
you and your readers might be interested in
what the editor, Lane Weatherbee, had to say.
Orange and Blue FOREVER!!!
RodDouglas
Piedmont
Normally, the field of college athletics is off
limits to me. We don't get the sideline passes, nor
do we get invited to the press parties sponsored
by the state's universities.
Please don't misunderstand and think I'm
complaining. Because of our limited staff,
complete sports coverage from the Gulf South
and Southeastern conferences are out of the
question for us.
But enough is enough. I went to school at the
University of Alabama. I even met Bear Bryant
once. I was an Alabama fan as far back as that
time termed as B.C.B. (before Coach Bryant)
when the Crimson Tide was nothing more than a
trickle.
I say this only to show that I have never had
any direct connection with Auburn University.
While I have never had any connection to
Auburn, I have learned to respect it as a fine
university that has fielded some fine teams in
sporting events.
I fully realize the War Eagle football program
hasnot been up to snuff for a few years. I am also
constantly inundated with the fact that Doug
Barfield resigned as head coach on The Plains
and Auburn is seeking a new coach.
Because of this, Auburn University, its
administration, coaching staff and football team
has become the object of ridicule from every
corner. As an Alabama fan, I resent that.
I'm sorry Auburn is having trouble and is
having to suffer as the target of many a cruel
joke. Somewhere along the line, people have
forgotten the football players at Auburn. I
realize they didn't have a good season, but along
the way, there were some great plays, some
punishment taken and some hard licks passed.
There were endless hours of practice and the
heartbreaking experience of defeat.
Somehow, thishaseludedthose who write the
headlines.
Someof the finest youngsters in the world are
Auburn students. Some really super people are
Auburn graudates. There are also some great
Auburn fans who have stuck by their school
during the lean years.
This, too, has escaped the sensationalism that
surrounds the vacancy left by Barfield's
resignation. For morethan two decades, it has
been really easy to be an Alabama fan. The
Tiders have chalked up national and SEC
championships, as well as appearing in (and
sometimes losing) major bowl games. Bama's
record is a major source of pride to many of us.
Our memories, though, are sometimes too
short. We fail to recall a few years back when, at
the end of the Iron Bowl, the scoreboard read
17-16, Auburn. Turning back further, Auburn
was the national champion in 1957.
During the whole thing, while a fine
educational institution, its students and tradi­tions
have been the subject of a great deal of
criticism. I would like to take time to compliment
an individual and a group. First, Alabama's Bear
Bryant, to my knowledge, has not made an
uncomplimentary remark about Bama's arch­rival.
The group I would like to mention is the
fine Auburn suporters, including the students
and alumni, who have taken unnecessary
insults, but continue to hold their heads high.
That's class, the kind of class which should be
associated with competition among this state's
universities.
From one Alabama fan to you folks, I'm sorry
there have been so many unkind remarks
directed at afine university. I sincerely hope you
search for a new coach is fruitful. I just wanted
y'all to know not everybody is against you.
Satire of Moral Majority justified
Editor's note: This letter was originally printed
in the Dec. 4 edition of the Plainsman. However,
the letter contained several typographical and
proofreading errors which may have distorted
its meaning. In addition, the letter contained a
sentence accusing Langley Pulpwood Company
of taking trees from the author's land. According
to Scott Langley, owner of die pulpwood firm,
Langley Pulpwood is in no way engaged in
harvesting trees, but rather buys trees from
other firms which are. Because of these errors,
we are reprinting the letter as it should have
appeared in the Dec. 4 edition.
Editor, The Plainsman,
I was delighted to read Tim Dorsey's satirical
article on the "moral majority" in the Nov. 13
issue of The Plainsman. Satire, farce and good
humor in general are desperately needed to
reduce and dissipate the insanity that threatens
to engulf our social and political affairs. When
those who label themselves the "moral
majority" and claim to support the "right to life"
are actually morally bankrupt worshippers of
death, humor is perhaps the best weapon.
The psychic condition of the "moral majority"
harbors a deep and savage hatred of life, vitality,
health and exhuberance. It traffics primarily in
hindrance, persecution and scapegoating. The
hysteria of such herd-like groups serves to
obscure the real moral issues of our day and to
maskovertlfe rtal problems we must confront if
we are to attain a loving, joyous and quality life.
Primarily, these groups wish to make "moral"
issues of sexual preferences, roles, activities,
and to coerce all others into conforming to their
fearful, repressed and fallen views of sexuality.
Their idea of "doing good" is to persecute gays,
hinder creative women and to attempt to control
the bodies of women and force them to have
unwanted babies.
In general, these attitudes reveal a degener­ate
and shriveled psyche which projects its own
evil and loathing on the body (especially the
female body) and upon organic life in general.
Figuratively speaking (I hope) such attitudes
are necrophilic in their orientation. These
attitudes were also shared by the Nazis in the
1930 sand40 sin Germany. Amongother things,
thousands of gay people were murdered in the
prison camps and women were oppressed
mercilessly and sometimes ruthlessly.
The same hatred of the body — again
especially the female body—is at the core of our
real moral problems of today. These problems
are all connected to the fact that we are literally
destroying the ground of our being, the planet
Earth, through pollution, war, overpopulation,
greed, etc. The "moral majority" apparently
favors this destruction and hence unwittingly is
tending toward its own destruction.
Otherwise, it is completely inexplicable to me
that whether or not I choose to have an abortion
or whether I choose to make love to a man,
woman or both should be of great concern to the
"moral majority", while much more serious
matters are not.
The "moral majority" is not a bit concerned
with (many) such moral problems. Perhaps
Tim's ideas are relevant here: It isn't in the
Bible.
Nuclear power plants and Three Mile Island
come immediately to mind. There were
pregnant women on Three Mile Island, and once
again, the "moral majority" did not care.
Thanks again, Tim. I hope this letter provides
some insight into those who attacked you.
Michael S. Littleford
Associate Professor
Foundationsof Education
Deposits
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Editor, The Plainsman,
Attention Ex-Stonegate Tenants who are
awaiting a return of your deposit:
On Jan. 8,1981, Mr. Allen Brinkley, attorney
for the Stonegate people, P.O. Box 203ff,
Huntsville, AL, 35804, called to ask that I notify
those of you who have not written him to do so.
He needs your facts covering your Stonegate
deposit and your address. ,
He hopes that you will get your deposit back in
February.
Henry Henderson
Legal Adviser to Students
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Alumni Cafeteria has been closed
effective this quarter and will be
converted to house the bakery now
located at Terrell Cafeteria, said
Becky Crosby, acting director of
Food Services.
"Alumni (Cafeteria) had been
losing money for a year now. It
started losing money when it
changed from meal contracts to the
a la carte meal plan last winter
quarter,'' Crosby said.' 'We thought
we could try a la carte and build on it
butitdidn'tworkout. Youhave fixed
and variable costs and we weren't
even making our fixed costs."
The transfer of the bakery from
Terrell will make room for the
reopening of North TerrellCaf eteria
for meal contracts, Srosby said.
' 'We hope to have it opened by the
end of spring quarter. We'll take the
drink machines and salad bar out of
Alumni. It's going to be a training
table for women athletes. We've
beenworkingwithDr. Davenport on
this for a while. So it will have
guaranteed business," she said.
The new cafeteria in Terrell will
be strictly for meal contracts, "but
we hope to attract girls from the Hill
who might want to follow a diet,"
Crosby said. "The food will be very
balanced."
Crosby said Food Services hopes
to have the bakery entirely moved in
by the beginning of spring quarter.
"We're trying to figure a way to
move the big oven from Terrell, but
it should be ready by spring
quarter," she said.
The bakery will be open to the
public. "It'll be open regularly like it
was on the Hill," Crosby said.
"We're thinking about bringing in
prepared salads and sandwiches for
the girls there (at Alumni Hall).
We'll sell milk and orange juice. We
want to see what the demands are
for at the location before We
commit ourselves to more than the
bakery over there."
The other cafeteria units on
campus are thriving, Crosby said.
She doesn't see any more closings in
the near future.
The employees from Alumni Cafe -
teria were ^ransfered to Terrell,
she said. "We referred our student
employees to other units for possible
job openings. We had one student,
who had been with us for several
years. We placed over at the
Kitchen," Crosby said.
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tEftt Auburn $lairmman Thursday, January 15, 1981 A-8
Heating failure chills dorms
By Keith Ayers
Plainsman Staffwriter
Many residents of on-campus
dorms woke early Monday morning
to find little or not heat or hot water
in their buildings, a problem caused
by a seasonal shortage of natural
gas compounded by a recent snap of
sub-freezing temperatures here,
Physical Plant Director Paul
Kearney said Tuesday.
The heating failure's effects were
felt worst in the Quad Complex,
where only one of the 12 halls had
adequate heating and hot water. Ina
telephone survey, it was found that
eight of the buildings were totally
withouthot water Monday morning.
In all but one dorm, Gatchell Hall,
Checks FrompageA-l
The mix-up has caused a lot of
extra work for the office in
Opelika and also the University
Registrar's office where all the
status forms must be verified.
"We've been flooded," said Carl
Johnson, manager in Opelika.
"We've done a lot of extra work. If
the system had worked, we would
not have been involved.
Johnson is referring to the new
system of filing status reports,
which some people speculate is one
cause of the problem. Status
reports were due on a staggered
basis until recently. Now most
reports are due in the fall and spring.
"Before, students would fill out
the forms and bring them to us and
we would ask the schools for
verification," he said. "Now the
students get them verified them­selves
and can mail the forms
directly to the payment office."
Gail Davis, who is in charge of
verifying the forms in the Regis­trar's
office, said five to 25 people
have been coming in each day with
their second forms.
"It's no problem for me," she
said. "It's just a hassle for the
students. Itdoesn'ttake long to have
it certified. I just call their files up on
the computer by their Social Securi­ty
number. This shows whether they
are full-time students. Then we just
stamp it with the Registrar's sig­nature."
What should students do if their
checks have been cut off?
"If a student contacts us, we can
make the necessary contacts,"
Adams said. "And if they don't get
Order
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The letter also said the state had
figanced expansions in Auburn
University's agriculture, home
economics, engineering and vet­erinary
programs while limiting
A&M's expansion of the same
programs. Both are land-grant
institutions.
The report stated that less than
two percent of the students enrolled
at Auburn areblack, as compared to
the University of Alabama and four
other traditionally white schools
where more than 10 percent of the
students enrolled at each university
are black.
The percentage of black teachers
was also discussed in the report.
Blacks make up about 2 percent of
AU's faculty, as compared to the
state average of 3.1 percent at
traditionally white schools. The
predominantly black schools em­ploy
about 95 percent black faculty.
Thomas stated in the letter that
"the concentration of black faculty
and administrators at the tradi­tionally
black schools and white
faculty and administrators at the
traditionally white schools again
confirms the racial identifiability of
these schools...the racial identifia­bility
of faculty and staff serves to
perpetuate the states former (seg­regated)
system by deterring stu­dents
from selecting schools without
regard to race."
In a statement concerning the
report, AU President Hanly
Funderburk said, "We believe that
Auburn University progrms and
policies are in full compliance with
applicable state and federal law."
The Department of Education
sent similar reports to South
Carolina, West Virginia and
Delaware after investigations of
segregation in their higher educa­tion
programs.
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should re contact the office."
Adams said students can also go
directly through the local office,
which can do the same as the district
office at this point.
Students may also be able to make
some temporary arrangements
through the Bursar's office.
"If a student has an emergency,
we'll see if we can help him in some
way or another," said Ernest
Phillips, assistant bursar. "We
might can work out something on a
short-termbasis, but nothing on a
long-term.
"Although we don't have an
across-the-board policy, we try to
work with the student. If the student
has a crisis, he needs to come talk to
us about it."
there was little or no heating
reported.
The problem also was felt but with
less severity in the Magnolia Com­plex,
where there was some hot
water, but not enough to go around.
Additionally, it was found in a
telephone survey that the heaters
were functioning, but at a below
normal capacity.
Kearney said the main problem is
the Physical Plant boiler system,
which operates most efficiently on
natural gas. On Saturday, the plant
used up the last of its apportionment
of natural gas and had to resort to
operating totally on coal and fuel oil.
' 'Coal is not as efficient as natural
gas in that we have to clean out each
of the three boilers once every
eight-hour shift," explained Kear­ney,
"It takes about one and a half
hours per shift to clean all of them
out, which means a loss of heating
capacity because of a loss of
pressure in the boiler system."
Kearney said the plant is allowed
a fixed amount of gas from the gas
company, and after that is gone.they
must use fuel oil and coal'.
"I hope by tomorrow (Wed­nesday)
we will have more gas and
more heat and hot water,'' Kearney
said.
Although it is on a totally different
boiler system from the older dorms,
the new Caroline Draughon Village
Apartment Complex is having heat-ingproblemsof
its own, according to
Assistant Housing Manager Jerry
Cook.
Cook said Tuesday that although
the boiler system for the new
apartments has plenty of fuel,
problems have developed with the
intricate "control" system of valves
within the heating apparatus.
"When a problem develops any­where
within the pressure system,
the mechanism has built-in safety
devices that automatically shut the
affected areas down, thus causing
isolated failures with the heating,"
Cook said.
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Either stone lacks maximum
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is worth less per carat.
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Dye A-» Thursday, January 15, 1981 tZThe Suhurn plainsman
From page A-l
Auburn assistant coaches Tim
Christian (quarterbacks),
Buddy Nix (linebackers), Larry
Blakeney (offensive line), P.W.
Underwood (defensive linemen),
S.E. Sullens (secondary),
Tommy Bowden (running backs)
and Jack Burns (wide receivers)
have all indicated they would like
to stay in athletics and coaching.
None have made any specific
plans or have made public any
offers for future jobs, but Nix has
reportedly talked to Jerry Stovall
atLSU.
Dye met with Auburn's football
team for the first time last
Wednesday evening, and the
former Alabama assistant told
the players' "there will be a lot
more discipline" on his team.
Dye said his discipling will
extend on and off the field from
the dorm rooms to the classrooms
to the dining room.
And Dye seemed to adhere to
this philosophy by starting drills
on Monday, two weeks before
players said they had anticipated
starting.
Dye received a standing ova­tion
last Wednesday when he was
introduced by Auburn President
Dr. Hanly Funderburk before the
Auburn-Kentucky basketball
game.
"It goes without saying that
I'm tremendously excited about
being here," said Dye before the
full house. "Our goal is to bring
tradition back to Auburn football.
I remember when the Auburn
football team was the most
feared in the South."
The 40-year old coach is a
former Georgia All-American
and was an assistant for Bryant
for nine years. Dye coached at
East Carolina for six years
compiling a 54-23-1 record. He
was head coach at Wyoming for
one season, and took the Cowboys
to a 6-5 record.
Dye resigned his position at
Wyoming on Dec. 23 to pursue the
job at Auburn. He was under
pressure by Wyoming to make a
decision about whether he would
stay there or apply at Auburn,
and Dye opted to go for the chance
of coaching at Auburn after
Georgia head coach Vince Dooley
turned the Auburn coaching offer
down.
"Ifeltlikel was the best choice
for the job. I also knew that I've
never been unemployed and if we
didn't get this job something else
would become available," said
Dye about his move.
"I discussed it with my wife,
Sue, and we felt that this oppor­tunity
may come along once in a
lifetime, and I was not in a
position where I would let the
administration at Wyoming force
me into making a decision that
would affect my coaching career
the rest of my life. I understand
the position they were in," Dye
said.
When asked about his contract,
with Auburn, Dye told the group
at the press conference an­nouncing
his hiring, "The search
committee was concerned about
my connections with the Univer­sity
of Georgia and the University
of Alabama. I don't have any
plans to go to the University of
Georgia. It's kind of an unwritten
law (that you don't go from one
school to another within the same
conference.)
"Eventhoughhe'sanative son,
I'm kind of surprised that Dooley
would consider coming back to
Auburn after having been at
Georgia for 17 years. I hope that
down the road somebody will
want Coach Dye. If they do, that
will mean we've been winning at
Auburn and will have the kind of
situation we want and we'll all be
having a good time. It's in the
contract that I wil not go to any
other Southeastern Conference
school in the next four years.
That's not problem with me."
Dye said the fact that Bryant is
nearing the end of his coaching
career did not influence his
decision to come to Auburn.
"This has been a great job for
years. It has been a great
opportunity for years."
"I don't want to speculate on
what's gone on in the last four
years," Dye said. "There could
have been some things there that
were very difficult for Coach
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Barfield, and maybe no coach
could have come in and done a
better job thanhe's done. But now
we have a new era. There will be
enthusiasm and the fact that
Coach Bryant is in his last years
should not hold Auburn back a bit
in the world."
Among his original plans to
improve the Auburn- team, Dye
expressed a desire to look into
running the wishbone, but since
his first week has been spent
busily recruiting high school
players, he hasnot had much time
to look closely at the personnel
currently on the team.
' 'If we have the personnel to run
it, I'd like to run it, but we're like
most wishbone teams now—
maybe a little more so than
most—we run eight or nine
formations out of the wishbone.
Our offense is a little different
from what Alabama and Okla­homa
are doing."
Barfield's resignation came
about under extreme pressure
from alumni, but Dye is hoping
the alumni will use more patience
in dealing with the coaches. "I
think the alumni are intellegent,
and they're going to be patient,
but at the same time it I were
them, I would expect to see some
improvement each week, and
each month. If I didn't see that I
wouldn't be satisfied either, and
that's the way it should be."
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t!Tfjr9uburn plainsman Thursday, January 15, 1981 A-10
Dean Rouse to retire from school of agriculture
By By Betsy Ivy
Plainsman Staffwriter
After 31 years of service, Dean Ft.
Dennis Rouse of the School of
Agriculture is retiring, effective
Sept. 1, 1981.
Rouse came to Auburn in 1949. In
1972 he became dean of agriculture
experiment station, a position he
held until Oct. 1, 1980.
Rouse, 61, raised in a small
Georgia town, said his decision to
make soil chemistry his career
came about for several reasons. In
high school, chemistry facinated
him. He found a job measuring
croplands for the agricultural asso­ciation.
The deciding factor came at
college. "I was at the University of
Georgia, and they told me I was
going to meet the master farmer of
Georgia, and I enjoyed listening to
him.
' 'I asked him who owned the farm
next to his and he told me his brothei
did. It was the poorest run farm I'd
ever seen. That raised questions in
my mind about agriculture and
people. That experience with the
master farmer had the greatest
impact on my career decision," he
said.
He chose Auburn because of its
friendliness. "It has been a delight­ful
experience in this community,
fighting thebattles of asmall town. I
can't think of a place I'd rather
live."
He said he would stay in Auburn
after retiring. "I was 29 years old
when I came, and I've been here 31
years, so Auburn is home. To live in a
place and raise a family where your
friends are give you no desire to go
back."
Rouse and his wife Madge raised
two children, David and Sharon, in
Auburn. Both graduated from
Auburn University. Rouse said the
highlight of living in Auburn has
been his work with the Auburn City
recreational swim team.
Although Rouse said Auburn itself
has not changed much since he
came, he said the School of Agricul­ture
has changed. Two achieve­ments
Rouse is particularly proud
are the developmentof soil testing in
Alabama and the addition of a new
research experiment station. Rouse
also worked to build the new George
Andrews Forest Sciences Labora­tory.
Future problems facing the school
are the "battle to maintain the
funding level" and the over­crowding
of office space, Rouse
said. "We have now at Auburn the
best research facilities in the
country." He said the school needs
the funding to maintain facilities, so
in turn they can recruit good faculty
and students.
Rouse, said he's retiring early
because he wants to set his own
schedule. "I guess I'm retiring so
early because administrators have
a responsibility to move on and let
younger people in. And also an
obligation to spend time with their
families. I think 60 is a good age for
administrators to move on."
After his retirement, Rouse plans
to pick up his old hobbies of raising
camellias and rhododendrons. He
also plans to hunt, fish and renew his
interest ip Indian artifacts. "And
my wife tells me I have a lot of jobs
around the house."
The retiring dean will also con­tinue
to help Auburn and looks
forward to holding the title of dean
emeritus. "You have all the plea­sures
of being a dean when you're a
dean emeritus, but none of the
resonsibilities."
In addition, Rouse plans to do
consulting work for other univer­sities
and to continue his place in
Washington on the Food Advisory
Committee of the Office of Tech­nical
Assessment.
NOW accounts available in Auburn banks
By Steve Farish
Managing Editor
NOW is here now.
THe NOW (negotiable order with­drawal)
account, the new interest-paying
checking offered by banks
since Jan 1 of this year, has
attracted much attention as a
potentially revolutionary force in
banking.
The idea of the interest-paying
checking account came from the
New England states, where the
practice has been permitted for a
numberof years, said John Duncan,
an operations officer for Central
Bank of Auburn
The philosophy behind the ac­count
is to give ' 'a break to the small
saver,'' Duncan said. This saver has
not previously been able to earn the
interest because he could not afford
to place large amounts of money into
interest-earning savings accounts,
he added, but now the saver "can
earn interest on his working
capital."
Duncan said one result of the new
accounts is a rise in costs of
maintaining accounts for banks
such as his. "Quite simply, we are
now payinginterest on money we did
not have to before." he said.
But the tradeoff for the higher
costs would come if customers
began to keep higher balances in
their accounts, combining money
they may have had in several
accounts previously into the one
account, he added. The minimum
deposit of $1,000 n the account could
help the banks, he said.
Increased savings would provide
banks with increased pools of
loanable funds, he said.
Some savings and loans institu­tions
have been offering an account
like NOW that requires only a $50
minimum deposit, he said. He
predicted, though, that such institu­tions
would soon raise the require­ment,
forbanksinNewEnglandthat
had tried the same "fast lost their
shirts. They cannot break even like
that," he said.
Duncan said response to the NOW
account has been "really good" so
far. He admitted though, that the
account is not generally one stu­dents
can use and that there has
beenlittle student response thus far.
"We've had some student ac­counts,
though," Duncan said. He
added NOW could help graduate
teaching students who can afford to
have larger sums in a bank without
having to have their deposits im­mediately
on hand. Also, i these
students would be able to write
checks on the NOW account In
distant states—something they
could not do when they had to keep
large sums in savings to earn
interest.
Duncan advised the potential
customer for a NOW account to
"shop arround carefully." He said
services and charges of the account
vary widely from bank to bank.
Mariner Rush
Orientation Meeting
Thursday, January 22,1981
Foy Union, Room 208, 7:30
f.m.
iterviews January 27,28, & 29
Applications available at the
Union Desk
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A comparison of NOW
account offered
in Auburn.
Auburn Bank
and Trust
Auburn National
Central Bank
Bank of East Alabama
Farmer's National
Bank
First Alabama Bank
Southern Bank
of Lee County
Minimum, balance
$1,500
$1,500
$1,000
$1,200
$1,000
$1,500
$1,500
Balance computed
when?
compounded daily
compounded daily
compounded monthly by
simple interest method
compounded daily
compounded daily
compounded daily
compounded daily
Interest rate
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Service charges
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$h if balance falls between
$1,000 and $1,500
$6 if balance falls between
$0 and $1,000
$6 per month if balance
falls below minimum
$7 when balance falls
below minimum
$7 when balance falls
below minimum
$7 when balance falls
below minimum
$7 if balance falls between
$0 and $999.99
$6 if balance ton* between
$1,000 and $1,499
$5 if balance falls between
$1,000 and $1,500
$6 if balance falls between
$500 and $1,000
$7 if balance falls between
$0 and $500
balance or monthly average 1
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Cox FrompageA-l Welcome Pat - Go Auburn
"As simple as this sounds," said
Cox, "the administration really
wants to support the faculty as best
we can in their performance of the
whole reason for this University's
existence. Wewantthe University to
thrive.
"Of course, we are going through
hard times, and we may have to say
no to some people some of the time.
That doesn' t make you any friends.''
Cox said he has discussed his
duties with Funderburk, and ex­pects
to be ' 'intensly involved with
on-campus operations."
' 'I expect not to be involved with
the Legislature, athletics or alumni
affairs," he added.
The former engineering dean said
he has no knowledge of disagree­ments
between Funderburk and his
predecessor, Rainer, butsaid he has
discussed his role within the admin­istration
with the president.
"My style is relatively simple,"
he said. "I expect the right to be
involved in discussions of policy
matters. After given that right, I
expect to support the policy arrived
at. But remember that support and
agreement are two different things,
and if something comes up which I
cannot support, I would ask to be
relieved in a compassionate way."
One issue on which Rainer and
Funderburk disagreed was the
concept of limited enrollment. Cox
said he, like Funderburk, has a
"natural inclination not to limit
enrollment.''
"Butatthe same time," he added,
"we want to have enough resources
to adequately serve our students.
There's a great conflict there. We
may have to do some limitation such
as we did in engineering, where
some programs are limited through
admissions from pre-engineering
and others are not. But I would think
any limit on enrollment would be
done within specific programs and
not for the entire University."
Cox said he maintains a "long-range
optimism" about Auburn's
future despite short range problems
here and broader problems in
Alabama's system of higher educa­tion.
But he believes many of the
problems are political in nature and
beyond the control of any particular
school.
"I subscribe to the general con­cept
of duplication (as a reason for
some funding shortfalls) to the
extent it may harm quality. I would
point out one area—engineering. We
have too many engineering schools
in Alabama. But I don't know the
solution. I don't know of anything
Auburn can do or should do to cut
other schools.
"Overall, I have some sympathy
with Gov. James' sentiments to
more effectively spend money for
higher education."
Cox said he can imagine "being
either very happy or very unhappy
about the governor's plans to con­solidate
control of higher education
in one body,' 'depending on who is in
charge of it."
i "I do feel comfortable though with
some objective analysis of the legal
and traditional roles of institutions
in the state. I think Auburn would
show in a very favorable light."
Cox said he will meet with
Academic Vice President Taylor
Littleton next week to discuss the
naming of a search committee to
find a new dean of engineering.
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