1981-12-03 The Auburn Plainsman

              .(Eb eiuburn Blainsmao 'To foster the Auburn Spirit'
Volume 88 Number 9 Thursday, December 3, 1981 Auburn University, Ala 36849 24 pages
Auburn Board of Zoning
denies student's appeal
Self-study <M/^'V*»
AU takes a close look at itself
By John Mangels
Managing Editor
Auburn administrators, faculty and students are
currently taking an in-depth, 18-month look at the
University—its structure, operation, problems and
future.
The seifs-study program is undertaken every 10
years as part of the ac creditat iori process required by
the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools.
The final document giving the results of the study
should be ready by the fall of 1982 for review by
faculty, administrators and the Board of Trustees.
The report will then be sent to SACS personnel to
prepare for an on-campus visit by an evaluation team
in the spring of 1983. The team will use the self-study
report as well as the on-campus evaluation in the
accreditation decision. That decision should be
announced in the summer of 1983.
"While the self-study report, is required for
accreditation, the primary purpose for it is the
benefit of Auburn," said animal sciences professor
Dale Huffman, co-director of the project. Huffman^-
William Lauderdale, foundations of education
professor, and a seven-member steering committee
are responsible for coordinating and directing the
study.
According to an SACS report, the self-study
program allows institutions such as Auburn to
"reassess their objectives, measure success in
attaining objectives, explore ways and means by
which educational efficiency may be improved and
• prepare for the ever-increasing demands by
society."
The final self-study document is actually a
combination of committee reports from all areas of
thev University. Each department was directed to
form a committee to report on its own effectiveness
and make recommendations and projections.
The department reports are reviewed as separate
entities; but their findings contribute to preparing
committee reports from each University school.
In addition to the department and school reports,
the final self-study document prepared by the
steering committee will contain reports from
committees "formed to analyze those concerns
common to all units within the University,'' Huffman
said.
Subjects examined by those committees include
Auburn's financial resources, faculty, administra­tion,
history and purpose, educational programs,
library, student development services, physical
plant, special activities, graduate program and
research program. Subcommittees are also ap­pointed
to examine various areas of these University-wide
concerns.
Lauderdale said committee appointments were
made to' 'try and achieve a balance among students,
faculty and administrators."
Huffman said he was not sure of the actual number
of people involved in the self-study program, but "a
substantial percentage of the faculty and staff" were
serving on committees. In the last study, conducted
See SELF-STUDY, page A-8
By Tim Dorsey
Technical Editor
The Auburn Board of Zoning
Adjustment voted unanimously
November 18 to deny an Auburn
student's appeal to live In a housing
zone, restricted to related in­dividuals
only.
David Taunton, of 241 Oak St., was
given notice on September 23 that he*
was In violation of city zoning laws
and would have to either move or '
have his roommate move by
October 28. Taunton, who is not
related to his roommate, was living
In an R-2 zone where unrelated
individuals are prohibited from
living together.
Auburn Building Official Dave
Harding said he has seen ap­proximately
ten similar cases in the
last three months, but this is the first
one to be appealed to the zoning
board.
At the board meeting, arguments
were heard from Taunton and a
number of residents. Several of
Taunton's neighbors expressed that
they wanted him to move because he
was breaking the law, even though
they said he was quiet and caused no
trouble.
Robert Horn, of 235 Green St.,
said, "My complaint isn't that they
arenotquiet, but that they are trying
to violate the city zoning ordi­nance
... It was based upon this law I
purchased my house and a number
of my neighbors purchased their
property and I believe we have a
right to protection."
Board member Dr. Gene Bram-lett
said that granting such an
appeal is out of the board's jurisdic­tion
since it is specifically pro­hibited
under city ordinance 501.3.
Another board member also
stated that the law is applied evenly
and does not discriminate against
students. "It just happens that we
are a college town and they are the
ones that get caught the most."
Taunton's appeal was denied in a
5-0 vote.
Most of the recent violations
Involving students are "heartbreak
cases," Harding later said in a
private interview. "These are kids
you wouldn't mind havng live next
door. They just got trapped into not
knowing the law."
Taunton has two options now,
Harding said. He can either appeal
the board's decision in circuit court,
or he can propose an amendment to
the ordinance to the city planning
commission, though similar amend­ment
have been turned down in the
past.
Bartee's husband, son file claim
By Lynn Brown
Assistant News Editor
The husband and son of Annette
Bartee, dean of students secretary
who was killed recently in a.car
accident, have filed two claims
against Lee County that seek more
than $1 million in damages.
Bartee was killed Nov.. 4
when the car she was driving
collided with an ambulance at the
intersection of Opelika Road and
University Drive.
The claims, made by Lodwlck H.
Bartee Sr. and Lodwick H. Bartee
Jr., both of Notasulga, are "a
preliminary step in filing a lawsuit
against the county," said Lee
County Commission attorney Yetta
G. Samford Jr.
One claim, asking for $1 million in
damages, states that the ambulance
driver, KenNunnelly, 23, negligent­ly
injured Annette Bartee, 57, by
carelessly driving the ambulance
over her 1980 Dodge.
The other claim also alleges
negligence against ambulance
driver Nunnelly because Bartee Sr.
was "bruised, contused and caused
to be sick and sore" as a result of
Nuhnelly's negligence.
Additionally, this claim, seeking
$250,000 in damages, states that
Bartee Sr. paid large sums of money
for doctors and specialized nurses
needed to treat Injuries caused by
the accident. Bartee fractured his
arm and several ribs in the mishap.
The collision reportedly occurred
when the ambulance was In the
inside lane of Opelika Road and the
car Mrs. Bartee was driving,
headed in the direction of Glenn
Avenue, was at the intersection of
University Drive and Opelika Road.
The ambulance, driven by Nun-nelly,
was en route to Tichenor Hall
with lights flashing and Its siren
going.
Mrs. Bartee was pronounced dead
two hours after the 12:01 p.m.
accident. Nunnelly was treated for
bruises and abrasions after the
accident.
The ambulance service made a
statement at the time of the accident
which said the ambulance driver
was using standard procedure of
reducing speed and checking for
vehicles in the vicinity before
entering an intersection. The state­ment
also said that the Bartee car
"suddenly appeared, traveling
through the intersection."
An investigation by the Auburn
Police Department was made and
its findings were turned over to Ron
Myers, Lee County district
attorney. Those findings, Myers
said, will be presented in January to
the grand jury for a possible
indictment.
No one has been placed under
arrest in connection with the ac­cident.
The claims, after being presented
Monday to the County Commission,
have been released to Samford.
The Plainsman takes a closer
look at student opinions and
administrative views of the cur­rent
housing problem in a probe
on page 6 and 7.
Campus Calendar A-8
Classifieds A-10
Editorials A-4
Entertainment B-8
Sports B-l
Recreation B-7
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Grant takes administrative leave of absence
By Virginia Martin
Assistant News Editor
Dean of Students Harold Grant
will take a year's leave of absence
beginning Jan. 1 to continue re­search
in his studies of counselor
education.
Dr. Pat Barnes, director of Career
Development Services before being
chosen as assistant dean of students
this fall, will act as dean in Grant's
absence.
Grant, whose request for leave
without pay was approved by
President Hanly Funderburk this
week, said he has been considering
this move since summer but made
his final decision a few weeks ago.
While away from Auburn, Grant
will be director of lay volunteer
missions for Trinity Missions, an
organization which operates in the
United States and Canada. Since
home base will be Holy Trinity in
nearby Russell County, he will
continue to live at his home in
Waverly.
Grant said his year of research
will involve an evaluation of the
Myers-Briggs Type Indicator, a
personality inventory which is help­ful
In vocational decisions and
predictions of work compatibility.
Grant has been studying the
indicator since 1964 when Auburn
first began using it.
' "This has been difficult to do as an
administrator, and the work I will be
doing for the next year will tie
directly into the study at a more
intense level," Grant said.
He said his research work will
help with his evaluation of the MBTI
because he will have a chance to see
how well it works in an actual work
setting.
He also said he thought this year's
work will help in his position when he
returnsbecause, "anytime we know
a little more or feel more confident,
it helps us In our profession.
' 'I understand Dr. Grant wishes to
give more time to some research in
his professional field of counselor
education, which is difficult to
perform under the rigorous duties
he faces in his administrative role,''
Funderburk said.
Barnes said Auburn has an excel­lent
student body and department
heads, and she expects this to
continue to work well together no
matter who is sitting in the dean's
chair.
"Certainly we mill miss his
(Grant's) dynamic leadership,"
Barnes said. She added, with the
help of the students and department
heads, everything should go
smoothly.
"I'm really sorry he's leaving us.
We' ve relied on his experience in the
past," Rip Britton, president of the
SGA.said, "buthe'sgottodowhatis
best for him."
Peter Riley, president of the IFC
added,' 'The dean of students' office
pretty much runs itself, but his
influence will be missed."
Engineering building plans begin
By Mom que VanLandingham
Assistant Features Editor
Auburn will advertise for bids on
the construction of an electrical
engineering building beginning in
January, said assistant University
architect Tom Tillman, who is
project coordinator.
The building is the first step in
following the recommendations of
planning consultant Dober and
Associates, Inc., who assessed re­quirements
for the University's
School of Engineering in 1978.
According to Dober's report, nc
engineering buildings have been
built in 20 years,and improvements
are needed for the school to "sur­vive,
hold its faculty, educate its
students and maintain its historic
excellence."
The report recommended the
construction of three new buildings,
demolition and replacement ot old
structures and efficient utilization
of existing space.
The new building is to be funded by
a bond issue providing $6 million to
the school. Date of construction
depends on when the University
receives proceeds from the bonds,
said Dr. Chester Carroll, dean of
engineering.
Tillman expects construction of
the building to be well under way In
1983 when the accreditation board
reviews Auburn's engineering
school for reaccreditation, he said.
Although the building is specially
designed for electrical engineering,
18 classrooms will be available for
use by all departments, Carroll said.
In addition to classrooms, the
building will contain a computer
area, special purpose labs, faculty
offices, a micro-electrolysis area
and a study lounge.
Carroll said the ouilding will
house "a special auditorium to seat
300 students which can be divided
into two classrooms of 150 each.
"This will allow teachers to have
large classes and still maintain a
high level of teaching," he said.
Carroll emphasized the necessity
of a laboratory environment for
teaching engineering. For the way
Auburn's engineering department
has grown, present labs have In­appropriate
locations and inad­equate
facilities, he explained.
The new four-story building will
occupy 96,000 gross square feet in
the area behind Thach Hall, Tillman
said.
The site was selected to conform
to the University's master plan and
will require razing the portion of the
physical plant complex south of its
driveway, he added.
A-2 The Auburn Thursday, December 3, 196
'Building shines,9 but fog still surrounds Maranatha
By Keith Ayer9
Assistant News Editor
Four years ,ago, the massive
colonial house on the corner of
Magnolia and Toomer stood cond­emned
and dilapidated. Its main
tenants, the brothers of Chi Phi, had
long since left.
The floors were creaky. The paint
peeled. It is reported that there were
holes in the ceilings so big that the
third floor could easily be seen if a
GluJent peered upward from the
first.
Today, that same old building
shines afresh - inside and outside -
looking as good as it did when it was
built many years ago.
Only now the building no longer
houses a family or a fraternity, but a
group of people who call themselves
"Maranatha," the Greek word for
"come Lord Jesus."
For many, Maranatha means a
place where Christians can come
together and live as one body. For
others, Maranatha is a misunder­stood,
mysterious cult-like organ­ization
which raises several
unanswered questions.
For Mark Vosel, one of the two
pastors at Maranatha House, it is a
place where students can live in
MARANATHA
..house got facelift for new tenants
Signs added, lots rezoned
By Susan Hurst
Plainsman Staffwriter
"We heard it was the most
dangerous intersection in Auburn,
so we thought something should be
done about it."
The above statement refers to the
intersection of Thach and Roosevelt
which the Traffic and Parking
Committee of the Student Senate
recently had changed from a two- to
a four-way stop, said committee
member Christie Glover.
Al Leathers, off-campus senator,
said a study was conducted on the
number of cars that go through the
intersection daily, and the results
indicated the change would be
feasible.
In addition, the traffic committee
has rezoned several campus
parking areas this quarter. The B
zone parking lot on Duncan Drive
will remain a B zone, but students
with R zone or R-l zone decals will
also be allowed to park there.
Three rows of the C zone parking
lot at Comer Hall at the corner of
Roosevelt and Mell will also be
zoned R-l. Miss Glover said this
change was made mainly because
there were not enough parking
places for the Quad dorm residents.
The traffic committee has also
made the recommendation that the
parking areas behind Dorms J and K
and across from the architecture
building be regraveled. Physical
Plant supervisor Paul Kearney said
the parking areas will be regraveled
during the Christmas break so as not
to inconvenience students.
Leathers said the Traffic and
Parking Committee is now working
on a plan to pave the gravel parking
lot across from the Campus Security
office if the funds can be raised.
Leathers said there are also plans
for a crosswalk in front of the
library.
close communion with God.
"Maranatha is a place where
Jesus is Lord. It is a place where
Christians can come and share their
love for God," he said.
"Maranatha is nationwide and
nondenominational. We are at
more than 50 universities across the
United States. Our goal is to bring
people together in a great revival to
Jesus," Vosel said.
The Auburn Maranatha House
consists of about 35 to 38 members
who live at the two houses and people
who live in the surrounding com­munity
who come to Maranatha
meetings on Tuesday, Thursday and
Sunday.
"We are Christians who lean
heavily on the word of God, the
Bible. We believe in the divine
inspiration of the Bible, the deity
and everlasting life through Jesus
Christ our Lord," Vosel said.
Maranatha has two pastors, Vos­el,
an Auburn graduate, and Rick
Pruet, an Ole Miss graduate who
has done graduate work here.
"There are all sorts of rumors
about Maranatha that have circul­ated
because people simply don't
want to come to me when they have
questions," he said-
"At the main house, we have 23
guys living upstairr.and my wife and
I live in an apartment downstairs. I
have heard rumors that the guys and
girls live together. That couldn't be
further from the truth," he said.
"The 12 or 14 girls that are in the
Maranatha fellowship live in a
house a block away from the main
house','Vosel said.
"The houses operate themselves
financially. People pay rent just as
they would do in a dorm setting.
Money that is contributed by the
members of the fellowship above
and beyond rent does not go to
keeping the house paid for. It is
used to carry out the goals of the
ministry and to pay for salaries of
the pastors," he said.
' 'I have even heard the rumor that
the Maranatha House takes all of a
student's paycheck and gives him a
certain portion. That is obviously
ridiculous," Vosel said.
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Vosel said another often mis­understood
idea about Maranatha is
the relationship between members
and their parents.
"Any parent who loves his child
would really want to know what is
going on when he joins Maranatha.
We are glad to talk with parents.
We are often suspect because we are
not affiliated with any one 'main
line' denomination," he said.
' 'For the most part, however, once
a parent really learns what Maran­atha
is all about he usually takes a
positive attitude.
' 'The only ones we have problems
with are those who reject the idea of
their children's becoming Christ­ians
at all," he said.
Another point that leads to confus-sipn
sometimes is . Maranatha's
view of dating, Vosel said, which
sometimes gets twisted around in
rumor.
"We believe in dating aftereng-agement
only. We believe that just
as Christians trust God for their
career, their next meal and other
needs, they should surely trust in
him for the most important decision
in life, choosing a mate. We believe
that God will speak to individuals
and let them know if they are right,
and there is no need to go out and
'play the field' to find a mate,'' Vosel
said.
"This belief is often twisted
around and used to spread rumors
about the house," he said.
Of all the Maranatha marriages
throughout the United States each
year, Vosel said there has never
been a divorce between a Maran­atha
couple.
"Our way is not the perfect way,
but it is how we feel God leads us. If
Christians don't agree with our
views, we don't call them 'unsaved.'
On the other hand, we don't comp­romise
our views," he said.
* 'In the past, we have had people to
live in the house a while and then
decide it isn't for them. That is fine.
If you feel God wants you some­where
else, we feel that is where you
should be," Vosel said.
Although Maranatha is often
misinterpreted by many people
because of its charismatic nature,
one local pastor said the house isn't
overbearing, dominating "cult"
many think it is.
' 'My dealings with the Maranatha
house have proven it to be a place
where people are excited about
Jesus. Any time you have a group
that outspoken about anything, it is
subject to some public curiosity,"
the pastor said.
A phone survey made of many
religious groups throughout Auburn
revealed sympathies of similar
nature about Maranatha.
One student—not a Maranatha
member—said he had a friend who
joined the fellowship, left and is still
friends with many people at the
house.
"Maranatha people are highly
committed," he explained, "They
don't want people who have been
brainwashed or who have resp­onded
just outof emotion. Spurof the
moment feelings wear off, but
Maranatha wants people who ded­icate
themselves voluntarily," he
said.
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A-3 The Auburn Plainsman Thursday, December 3, 1981
More hours, more fees cause grad school controversy
By Virginia Martin
Assistant News Editor
A recent increase in the research
and thesis requirements for grad­uate
students in the School of
Agriculture, Forestry and Bio­logical
Sciences-has caused cont­roversy
between students and adm­inistrators.
The controversy concerns inc­reased
fees, the wording of the
memorandum outlining the policy
and its legality.
The policy requires all thesis
option graduate students to register
for three hours of research and
thesis per quarter beginning winter
quarter.
' T.t exempts research associates
who are also graduate students from
this requirement because they are
restricted to 5 hours a quarter, said
Dr. Stanley P. Wilson, vice pres­ident
for the School of Agriculture,
Forestry and Biological Sciences. A
research associate, however, must
complete 15 hours when working on
his master's degree, 30 hours when
working on a doctorate and 45 hours
when working on a doctorate not
preceded by a master's degree.
Annual salary rates for graduate
research assistants will also be
increased by $240 to help pay for the
increase in fees. Wilson said the
reason for this was because they
didn't get a raise in October when
other faculty members did.
In a meeting of interested
graduate students yesterday, a
resolution was proposed requesting
that the implementation of this rule
be delayed until spring quarter and
that a meeting of graduate students,
research associates, their re­spective
academic department
head, Vice President Paul Parks
and Wilson be held to clarify and
discuss the policy.
If this proposal is not agreeable,
the resolution calls for a meeting
with those same people before fall
quarter graduation.
The resolution is being given to
departments in the school today for
graduate student and research
associates to sign it, andacopyof the
signed resolution will be presented
to administrators next week.
Wilson said the required hour
increase was imposed to bring more
money into the University and to
better illustrate the service the
school is providing its graduate
students.
' 'The University looks at weighted
credit hours as the product,'' Wilson
said. He added that the number of
hours a graduate student usually
takes doesn't represent the services
the University provides him.
"It is an unfortuate situation,"
Wilson said, "but graduate edu­cation
is the most expensive. In the
past few years, we have been lax in
requiring registration for research
Windfall plan passes
By Keith Ayers
Assistant News Editor
Auburn University could now be
one step closer to getting some badly
needed funding for capital improve­ments
since Gov. Fob James'
windfall package was passed in both
houses of the state Legislature
Monday.
The final approval ended almost a
month of discussion about the nine
bills making up the package, which
is designed to allow the state to make
needed improvements while pre­serving
the $460 million principal.
The governor will take the $460
million generated from leases paid
to the state by oil companies drilling
the Gulf of Mexico and buy U.S.
Treasury bonds. He will then use the
interest from these bonds to support
a. $520 million general obligation
bond issue in the state. By doing this,
"the governor will be able to use the
I money from the general obligation
"bonds to finance capital improve-
- ments now.
Furthermore, since the interest
from theU.S.Treasury bonds will be
retiring the state bond issue, the $460
million principal will not be used but
will be available for future Ala-bamians.
Auburn stands to gain by the bill
within the package that designates
money to various projects within the
state.
In the bill, $150 million is ear­marked
for improvements in educa­tion
facilities in the state. Of this
amount, $75 million will go to K-12
schools on a proportional basis.
Another $22 million has been
earmarked for the state's colleges
anduniversities.asum Auburn may
be able to share in. This money will
be distributed by the Alabama
Public School and College Authority
(APSCA) as it sees fit. Ideally, the
neediest schools will get the most
money.
The APSCA consists of Gov. Fob
James,WayneTeague, state super­intendent
of education, and Rex
Rainer, state finance director, all
statutory members.
Another $45 million has been
designated for general use for all
segments of education, from kinder­garten
to college, which will also be
distributed as need is determined by
the APSCA. Auburn could get some
of this money also.
Finally, $8 million has been
designated for improvements and
equipment purchases in the state's
technical schools. Since Auburn is in
this category, it could get some of
this funding.
With the money generated by the
plan, James wants to improve
public roads, highways, bridges,
.schools, prisons, mental health
facilities, the state docks, the capitol
complex and others.
Dr. Dan Holsenbeck, University
Relations director and liaison to the
Legislature, said he is satisfied with
the plan's passage.
He said,' 'Although $22 million is a
small amount in relation to the total
needs for improvement in higher
education in the state, we are happy
the needs of the state's colleges were
recognized.
' 'We will be applying for shares of
the other money (the other $45 and $8
million to be distributed by APSCA)
and are confident some of it will
reach us," he said.
Holsenbeck added that James
does deserve credit for the package
as do the legislators that saw the
legislation through.
"Most of us agree that the
package is a good thing," he said.
New lounge to open soon?
The Auburn City Council granted
a restaurant-lounge liquor license to
two out-of-state businessmen in its
meeting Tuesday night.
The license was withheld from
final approval until the site at 271S.
Gay St. can be reconditioned to meet
city standards for granting the
license.
In other action, the council con­sidered
an ordinance that would
change existing billboard regu­lations,
requiring the signs to be
placed at least 300 feet apart on the
same side of the right of way.
The present requirement says the
billboards must be constructed at
least 200 feet apart.
The ordinance will receive a
second reading and a final vote at
the council's next meeting in
January.
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required it simply to save the
graduate students money, but there
are many students in expensive
programs utilizing facilities and
faculty who are not paying for it.
"The unfortunate part is that we
didn't take care of it years ago," he
said.
The extra cost is one of the most
disputed aspects of the decision. If a
student is taking a total of less than
10 hours, it will cost him the regular
part-time fee plus $28 for each thesis
hour to comply with the ruling.
However, Wilson said that if a
student is taking 10 or more hours, as
many are, the fees will not be
increased because there is not
charge for more than 10 hours.
Bill Gates, a representative on the
graduate student council, said he
has heard complaints from some
students, and along with the raise in
housing fees and tuition, "a lot of
students feel it (the administration)
is putting pressure on us."
Gates said there have also been
complaints because there is no
'grandfather" clause in the mem­orandum
which spelled out the new
policy.
Most students believe the ruling
should apply to new students and are
concerned that research associates
close to graduation wouldbeforcedto
stay in school longer than necessary
just to fulfill these requirements,
Gates said.
He said that some students were
also concerned that those not on
campus during a particular quarter
would also have to pay the expenses
because of the wording of the policy.
Wilson said certain department
heads may waive requirements.
The policy wasn't written to cover
all details, said Wilson. He added
that a certain amount of flexibility
should be allowed when making
logical decisions.
One student thought perhaps this
type of fee increase was illegal.
Wilson said what has been done is
simply changing a plan of study.
' 'It does not require the consent of
the student," Wilson said. "That is
my interpretation. It can be tested
legally, but that is my assessment.
' 'It was a hard decision andnotone
I liked making at all, but it was a fair
and equitable one," he said.
The decision was made by
academic department heads in the
School of Agriculture,Forestry and
Biological Sciences in a meeting
However, department heads
voted "almost unanimously" to
require a specified amount per
quarter, Wilson said.
"We felt it would add up to about
the right amount that way,'' Wilson
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A-4 The Auburn Plainsman Thursday, December 3, 1961
QMuburnfilainsntan
Steve Fatish, Editor
Valerie Gay, Business Manager
'To foster the Auburn Spirit'
'Happiness was born a twin'
Cooperate on housing
Things have not gone as planned for Student
Housing since it was reorganized last year.
Authorities at that time promised that the
dramatic increases in rent they were proposing
would result in marked improvements in living
conditions. As the probe on pages A-6 and A-7
of this week's paper show, however, many of
the promises have not been fulfilled.
Dissatisfaction among on-campus residents
has reached a new high. For the first time in as
long as anyone can remember, vacancies
existed at the beginning of fall quarter in
women's housing.
Attempted solutions have often com­pounded
the problems. Changing Bullard
Hall to a female dorm and Alumni Hall to a
male dorm has resulted in discontent voiced by
residents of both facilities. Even $100,000
worth of renovations in Bullard Hall was noi:
sufficient to make good promises Student
Housing officials gave at the outset of their
administration.
Now it seems possible another rate increase
may be under consideration. When will all the
bad news end?
Nocatchall solution to the problem exists, of
course, but if students were included more in
decisions concerning the places wehre they live,
a better rapport and working relationship
would be formed between housing officials
and residents.
Some years ago, students were allowed to
paint and renovate their rooms in Magnolia
Hall. Not only did this work improve the
appearance of the dorm, it boosted morale in
the process. Such a program could be made to
work again to solve some of the problems in the
dorms.
For their part, students can begin to
encourage one another to have respect for the
dorms. Much of the present poor conditions
can be blamed on student neglect, both
unintentional and intentional, and even some
petty vandalism. If students show they can
maturely care for their living quarters, then
administrators will be more disposed to exhibit
the same kind of caring.
We hope students and housing officials can
begin to see one another in the light of striving
to provide better facilities rather than in the
darkness of mutual mistrust they find
themselves lost in now. Administrators must
begin to look at students as sources of
suggestions; students should try to likewise
provide legitimate criticism in an adult
manner.
The problems with housing can be solved if
both sides give some. The problems are so
severe, though, that this giving cannot begin to
take place any too soon.
Study merits attention
Phase one of Auburn's self-study project for
the Southern Association of Colleges and
Schools will come to an end today as
departmental reports are turned into their
schools' study committees.
' 'While the self-study report is required for
accreditation (of the University from SACS),''
said Dale Huffman, co-director of the project,
"the primary purpose is for the benefit of
Auburn."
That benefit is derived from the suggestions
for improvement in the University made by
faculty, students and administrators who are
serving on the self-study committees. From the
departmental level up, they will be offering
suggestions for improvement based on
extensive research and firsthand knowledge.
The danger of such reports is that, with the
thousands of pages they will compose, they
might simply be thrown on administrators'
desks and ignored.
Unfortunately, many administrators did
not pay much attention to the last report,
completed in 1972-1973. Co-director William
Lauderdale said results from that report were
"uneven," with some departments and
schools making no changes as a result.
We hope the results of these self-studies will
be read and taken seriously as high as the
president's office. The exchange of ideas
provides a much-needed step in improving the
communications process between Samford
Hall and faculty; results based on the
suggestions must be seen to make that step
complete, though.
We also urge those students involved in the
self-studies to take their duties seriously. The
work provides an outstanding opportunity for
close work with faculty and administrators, and
responsibility shown by student committee
members would mean more such cooperation
for the future.
The self-study project is tremendous, and it
is doubtful any one person will ever be able to
fully digest it.
The project will be the result of the work of
all sectors of the University. To ensure its
success, the support of those sectors will be
needed until the final phase, the visit to
campus by an SACS Accredidation Committee
in spring 1983.
For some it is 'farewell'
Fall quarter at the Plainsman has proved to
be a time of learning, experimenting and
growth. Just as we begin to settle in and feel
comfortable, however, we find ourselves faced
with the loss of four long-time staff members
who have been so vital to the success of the
paper this quarter.
Managing Editor John Mangels, a four-year
Plainsman veteran, will graduate at the end of
Policy
Letters to the editor must be typed,
double-spaced and turned into The Plainsman
office before 5 p.m. Monday. Those of more
than 300 words are subject to cutting without
notice, and the editor reserves the right to make
any copy conform to the rules of standard
written English.
All student letters must be presented with a
valid Auburn University ID card. Unsigned
letters will be accepted for publication without
prior discussion with the editor.
this quarter and take a job with "The
Birmingham News
JohnFarish, thepaper'sassociate editor, will
be graduating and moving to Charlotte, N.C.,
where he will join the Proctor and Gamble
Corp. in sales management.
NewsEditorJoBeth McDaniel will remain in
Auburn, but she will be trying to take as many
hours as possible winter quarter so she can
graduate at the end of it. The real world for her
will come then.
Finally, former News and Features Editor
Anne Harvey, who this quarter has provided
the Plainsman with some of its best-written
stories, graduates also. She is in the process of
lining up a job.
All of us at the Plainsman wish these
departing friends the best for their futures.
We also wish the readers of the paper the
most joyous and safest of Christmases and the
most prosperous of New Years. Look for our
publication again beginningjan. 14 of the new
year.
The Auburn Plainsman
Managing Editor, John Mangels; Associate Editor, John Farish; News Editor, JoBeth
McDaniel; Features Editor, Karen Hartley; Sports Editor, Briar. Love; Entertainment Editor,
Dave Bean; Photography Editor, Mark Almond.
Technical Editor, Tim Dorsey; Copy Editor, Karen Lovoy; Art Editor, Greg Tankersley.
Assistant News Editors, Keith Ayers, Lynn Brown, Matt Larnere and Virginia Martin;
Assistant Features Editors, Monique VanLandingham; Assistant Sports Editors, Russ
Lockhart and Bill Wagnon; Assistant Entertainment Editor, Alec Harvey; Assistant Copy
Editor, Lisa West.; Assistant Technical Editor, Amy Ccdburn.-
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Inevitably the questioner asks, "I bet you and
John always used to change places in classes and
on dates to mix up people, right?"
"No we didn't," I would answer from habit.
"People never had any trouble confusing us in
the first place."
If you have yet to discover the other guy on
this page who looks like me and spells his last
name the same way I do is not I (not even am I
egotistical enough to run two of my own
columns) but my twin brother, consider yourself
enlightened.
Demographers report one out of about every
90 births is a twin delivery. The relative rarity of
twins, then, explains why they must always
learn to expect questions such as the one above
from the curious.
Statistics cannot describe what life as a twin is
like, though. They cannot reveal how we think
and feel or how we are different, from others.
Being an identical twin, for instance, has its
drawbacks. People who do not know my brother
and me well tend to lump us together as an
entity, effectively ignoring the individual
attention we desire.
The situation often causes embarrassment for
these people. They find themselves talking to
one person who they believe is actually someone
else. Finding the truth leaves both parties
red-faced.
But it is a mistake if I leave the reader with any
impression except that I was incredibly lucky to
be one out of those 90.
Brothers are normally close simply because of
family ties. This closeness is increased in the
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case of twins, however, for in addition to having
these ties, they often find themselves to be best
friends too, sharing the experiences that such
entails.
John and I, for instance, have been almost
inseparable since birth. We enjoyed being with
one another, playing, exploring, inventing and
doing nothing at all. We had some friendships,
but there never existed any doubt about where
our greatest loyalties lay.
One advantage of this closeness was always
having someone else to talk to. Because John
was my age, it was likely he was experiencing a
growing pain like my own; his answers always
seemed to fit the situation.
The close relationship was one that could be
carried on regardless of location. When we
moved to Atlanta and later to Wisconsin, John
and I did not experience the initial loneliness of
being leftoutof the new society. We had our own
group of two, and that suited us fine until the
natural process of making new friends was
complete.
Fights did occur, of course. Even identical
twins do not see things identically all the time.
But the arguments were rarely too long or too
numerous. It is hard to stay mad for long at
someone who is as much like yourself.
These musings come to mind because the next
few days will mark a passage into a new phase of
life for my brother and me. He graduates at the
end of this quarter to assume a position with a
company in Charlotte, N.C. In March, he will be
married.
I would be dishonest is I said these changes in
his life and mine do not make me a little bit sad.
For the first time, we are going to be separated
for long periods, and he will not be at my side
when I need him most.
I realize too, though, growing older involves
things like separation, a first job and marriage.
Because I know he will do well, the sadness I feel
is tempered with excitement about the
possibilities he has before him.
Years from now, I will lie awake one night
thinking about the good times of the first 22
years of my life. I will associate the best of them
with my brother, and maybe, regardless of the
hour, I'll pick up the phone and talk to him.
After hanging up the phone, I shall remember
the words written on a plaque my mother gave
us some time ago.
I'll repeat to myself the words—"To have
happiness, one must share it. Happiness was
born a twin."
As I close my eyes, I'll think how happiness,
like me was given that great gift of being one out
of 90, and I'll utter a silent prayer of how thankful
I am because of it.
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A Christmas list for AU people...
I am cautiously anticipating Dec. 25.
Cautiously, I say, because I never quite know.
how to react to certain presents.Last Christmas,
for example, I became the proud recipient of a
dozen pairs of colorful undershorts which my
grandparents gave me, thinking that I'd find
them exciting. You'd think that after all these
years they could come up with something better,
like the Sly and the Family Stone album I got
them for their anniversary.
These and other inappropriate presents have
instilled in me the importance of gift lists.
This year I'm ready. Not only have I already
made up my own personal list, but I've also
compiled the following set of gift suggestions for
those hard-to-please Auburn personalities on
everyone's holiday list.
You could get Athletic Director Pat Dye one
official NCAA wrestling team (funds not
included). Greg Pitts, WEGL station manager,
wants a signal amplifier so his stereo can pick up
WEGL from his home two blocks away.
Most professors would enjoy a summer
internship teaching out in the real world.
Claude Saia, intramurals director and inter­national
playboy, needs more jewelry; Auburn
University needs another beauty contest, and
Fob James needs a new line of work.
The entire student body should chip in and get
the Auburn City Council a full year's supply of
college fun so it'll stop being grumpy and quit
harassing us.
Someone with UPC Coordinator Lexie
Palmer on his gift list should get her a
subscription to Billboard magazine so she'll
never again turn down a Bruce Springsteen
concert because "we wouldn't sell enough
tickets. Instead, we'll get Kenny Rogers."
The Plainsmen (not the journalists but the
guys in orange jackets at football games) need
someone to come into their living rooms
Christmas morning and throw out spirit
shakers, creating an eye-poking frenzy.
The members of CARP could use a more
sympathetic environment to pursue their
honest goals. Come to think of it, CARP could use
some honest goals.
If you're thinking about what to buy Dave
Rumbarger, the SGA vice president who has
everything, you might consider a class ring.
Besides getting the lowest-priced ring in town,
Dave would also receive a whopping sales
commission. (In fact, when Rumbarger was
appointed to the lucrative position of rings
chairman, SGA President Rip Britton was
quoted as saying, "Merry Christmas, Dave!")
Speaking of Britton, he would probably love a
new Student Activities Building.
And the perfect gift for President Hanly
Funderburk would be another remodeling job on
his house since he liked the first one so much.
Because of limited funds, however, we might
want to combine Funderburk's and Britton's
gifts. We could build a new wing on the
presidential mansion, but Hanly would have to
let fraternities come over and play basketball
Tuesdays and Thursdays.
For my editor, Steve Farish, I plan to get the
Ronco Editorial Headline Kit. The kit contains
several interchangeable headlines which will
cover all of Steve's columns, including "Reagan
is the answer," "My morals should become law,"
"Conservatives are your friends" and "Reagan is
still the answer."
But there's no use in fooling myself. I'll
probably lose all my lists and buy everything in a
mad Christmas Eve scramble.
I wonder if Funderburk likes Sly and the
Family Stone.
...and one for the White House
Ronald Wilson Reagan
1600 Pennsylvania Ave.
Washington, D.C.
Santa Claus
North Pole
Dear Santa,
I wanted to make sure I got my Christmas list
into you early this year. I know last year, with
the election and everything, I got my list in a
little late, and some of the things I wanted
weren't under the tree on Christmas.
First of all, I want some things for the guys I
work with, Santa.
For my adviser Richard Allen, bring a coat
with no pockets. Oh, and Santa, that Herman
Talmadge designer coat you brought him last
year?-You can take that one back.
For David Stockman, bring a copy of "Wealth
and Poverty" and highlight the part about his
being one of the brightest people in Washington
because of his supply-sided economic beliefs.
For George Bush (he's the vice president,
Santa), bring a higher profile and a hundred
polyester shirts as sort of a gag gift. I think
George'll get a big kick outta the shirts.
For Al Haig, could you bring some small
country for him to control and maybe some suits
for which the pinstripes aren't so pronounced?
Oh yeah, and also for Al, how about a copy of
Howard Cosell's autobiography so he can see
how silly he sounds some of the time?
For Michael Deaver, Edwin Meese and James
Baker, bring some other nickname besides "the
bigthree " and let them not have to worry about
the press's thinking everything I do is based on
how two of those three guys feel.
As for that Bob Packwood fellow, the
Republican who led the fight against the
AW ACS vote, Santa, give him a copy of the
Ayatollah's book, "Three Easy Steps to
Revolution in a Mideast Country."
For Nancy, I want you to bring a bunch of
paper plates because she won't let me eat off the
new ones, and she says the old ones are so
unacceptable I can't use them.
Now for me Santa. Bring me the following
things:
First, I want 4 percent inflation and 4 percent
unemployment.
Second, I want lots of new toys for the Army.
Maybe some new bombers or some more
missiles or maybe even just a whole lot of new
folks signing up for duty.
I also want you to make that Brezhnev guy
cooperate with me and take some of his missiles
outof Europe (thatisyourterritory.isn'tit?). He
is always so stubborn when it comes to simple
agreements.
A bunch of new Republicans in the House
would be a nice present, too, Santa. You may
want to go ahead and start working on that one
now so it will be ready for 1982.
Santa, this is the last thing I'm going to ask you
for. Keep it under your hat, and don't go ho-ho-
hoing this about, but I'd also like a couple of
good movie scripts if you have any.
You see, after this president thing, I'm gonna
want to get back into acting. You know, kinda
like George Burns, the short fellow with the
cigar. He's still doing movies, and he's a lot older
than I am.
But if you could manage a good script and some
good co-stars like that Robert Redford or Bo
Derek (she did a movie with an ape, too, you*
know), I would appreciate it.
Have a good Christmas yourself and don't
work too hard. Nancy will make sure there are
some cookies and eggnog for you when you come
down the White House fireplace this year. I
know how much you hated the peanut butter
sandwiches the last guy left you.
See you,
Ronnie Reagan
A-5 The Auburn Plainsman Thursday, December 3, 1981
Why choose reporting as career t
'Lou Grant' misleads viewers
about true nature of journalism
Monday nightl had the "pleasure" of watching
my first "Lou Grant" episode on television in
almost a year. Now I remember why I stopped
watching the show in the fir st place. It makes me
mad.
Within an hour, I saw several major
occurrences that would make any real-life Lou
Grant scream and pull his hair out.
The first and most obvious was a star reporter
was interviewing a woman for a major expose on
child pornography .After immediately confront­ing
the woman, who was forcing her 9-year-old
daughter to star in pornography films, the
reporter granted her confidentiality status,
which means the reporter made a deal with the
woman-if she answered questions, her identity
would not be revealed to anyone, including the
newspaper editors and the police.
The woman granted the interview, sat down
with the reporter and talked. So what did the
reporter do? She listened, not with a tape
recorder or even a pad and pencil, but with her
ears, relying on only her memory to help her
later write the story.
This tyge of mistake, God forbid, might
happen with the newest writer at a college
newspaper such as The Plainsman but never
with a seasoned reporter at a major metropoli­tan
paper such as the fictional Los Angeles
Tribune.
People inexperienced in newswriting just
cannot rise through the ranks of strict
competition to land a job like the one on the
Tribune. Even Janet Cooke, the infamous
Washington Post Pulitzer Prize loser, knew how
to take notes.
But so it goes in TV land. To the public
watching the series, that show represents How a
newspaper operates.
But such is not a newpaper's operation in
reality. Inaccuracies and false reports can lead to
ugly libel suits, which are too costly to a
newspaper's finances and reputation to ever be
risked by a showy front-page story. Journalists
and editors take truth and accuracy seriously, or
they do not remain in the business long.
Inaccuracies, intentional or not, do not pay.
. The bulk of problems in the media, however,
comes from inexperience similar to this. Every
day, reporters encounter unreliable, unavail­able
and unwilling sources. A seasoned reporter
learns to check every fact he can with another
source, though doing so is often impossible.
Reporters also find themselves inexperienced
on the subjects they must write about. Often a
reporter will write on garbage collection fees, a
traffic death and the weather all in one day. Since
one person cannot be expected to have expert
knowledge in all subjects, the journalist must
often rely on others for the information he needs.
JoBeth
McDaniel
In such cases, a story is only as good as the
source. When the story is published though, it is
the responsibility of the editors, the reporter
and the newspaper as a whole to make sure it is
accurate.
This responsibility, when given to an
inexperienced editor or reporter, is not always
metfor a variety of reasons. The most prevalent
reason is ignorance of the subject or not checking
every fact possible through another source.
Even Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein
admit to inaccuracies in several of the
Watergate investigative stories inThe Washing­ton
Post. These two received misleading
information from usually reliable sources in a
number of cases when there was no source
available to contradict the information; how­ever,
after the stories were printed they learned
of their mistakes.
Journalists can in some ways be compared to
policemen who must make split-second decisions
regarding human life. Newspaper reports
usually jo not determine life or death matters,
but they can and do affect peoples' professional
and personal lives. Though mistakes are made,
more often than not, the decisions reached are
the best in such situations. Inaccuracies are not
tolerated.
And, like policemen, journalists face drud­gery
in their work from day to day with only
occasional relief. Try attending 10 zoning board
meetings in a row or writing budget stories
every day for a week. When a reporter receives a
tip the mayor is embezzling funds or a policeman
is a cocaine addict, it is natural for him to
anticipate the worst when researching the
story, partly because it is a break in the routine.
Of course, reporters on fictitious papers such
as Lou Grant's Tribune never encounter
problems like these. Each week they break
earth-shattering stories that are splashed
across the front page, while reporters at real
papers attend boring planning commission
meetings.
Even at the planning commission meetings,
there is another major difference with real
reporters.
They, unlike Lou Grant's stars, humble
themselves enough to take notes.
"Mangels, are you ready to take your first
story?" the assistant city editor growled in my
general direction that morning early last June.
"Sure," I said as casually as I could, failing
miserably at keeping the eagerness of a rookie
intern out of my voice.
"Then take the information from the caller on
the city desk phone and write me a couple of
paragraphs for the early metro edition," he said,
and turned back to his flickering video display
terminal screen.
I reached for a brand new reporter's notepad
and glanced at the clock as I cradled the phone on
my shoulder. The hum of conversation and the
bustle of activity that characterizes the
"Birmingham News" city room made it easy to
be caught up in the illusion of being a veteran
reporter. I could almost see Lou Grant scowling
at me from behind his desk.
"Are you a reporter?" the high-pitched,
elderly voice on the other end of the phone asked.
"Yes ma'am," I said, and visions of a tip on a
nursing home scandal or the beginnings of a
poignant front page story on the plight of the
city's elderly poor started to dance around in my
head.
"Well," I'm a member of the Birmingham
Garden Club, and we want some publicity on our
annual fern show this month," she said. I could
hear the assistant city editor snickering in the
background. The rest of the noise was the
illusions I had about this profession shattering
around me.
I guess all of us wonder at one time or another
why we've chosen the careers we have. Those
questions about professions seem to become
more intense as graduation approaches, because
each of us, in his own way, is struggling to figure
out just what it is we've been doing at Auburn
these four or five years, and where those
experiences fit in the grand scheme of things.
So why choose journalism? That was the
nagging question that popped up every so often,
taunting me to come up with a rational answer.
The drawbacks to such a career seem painfully
obvious. We all joke about the money situation at
times, but the fact is that most newspapers just
don't pay very well. Beginning reporters with
undergraduate degrees are among the worst
paid of all college graduates. A 1980 College
Placement Council survey reported that the
humanities majors was $12,888; that figure is
about $500 more per year than most large
newspapers pay beginning reporters.
The hours can be a strain on health,
relationships and sanity at times. Those city
council and school board meetings on week-nights
are scheduled to accomodate their
members, not the reporter who has just worked
a ten-hour day and who must go back to the office
after covering those marathon sessions to write
a story for tomorrow's paper. t
The product we produce—the tangible proof
of our professional capabilities and worth—is
thrown away with the garbage every day. Each
of us as writers is only as good as our last story.
We have to prove ourselves every day.
And then there are deadlines. Remember the
feeling you get in the last five minutes of an
hour-long essay test when you just know you
can't finish? Imagine that feeling several times a
day, five days a week, multiplied by a city editor
whose only function in life is to stand peering
over your shoulder, glancing every few seconds
at his watch and tapping a pencil on the back of
your chair. That's what it's like.
So why put up with it? Why not quit
complaining and go into law or accounting, or
anything else where the hours are relatively
steady and the pay is good?
Part of the answer to those questions lies in
the natureof the profession itself. "Journalism,"
writer Melvin Mencher says, "is a service
profession, akin to teaching, cousin to preaching.
The prestige of journalists is not based on
income or social standing but on their committ­ment
to serving the public."
That's a rather fancy way of saying that most
of us who choose this profession are romantics at
hear t, whether we like to admit it or not. We like
to believe that we have a special calling, a desire
to keep you as a public informed by searching out
The Truth, whatever that nebulous concept is.
We may complain loud and long, but we put up
with the long hours and lousy pay because we
know there's something greater than all that.
We're getting the opportunity to do something
in the newspaper that we know we can't get
anywhere else.
The newspaper is our forum, the medium that
allows us to communicate with you as readers.
It's an outlet, and if we're good enough as
writers, and if the story itself is good, than the
paper gives us a stage where we can write, direct
andact out our own drama. It gives usa chance to
take ordinary words and string them together,
to layer and texture them in such a way that the
end product is a vivid, tangible image,
something that stirs emotions in you that maybe
you didn't know you had.
It's our ultimate goal and our ultimate
satisfaction to make you feel the same anger,
fear, frustration, awe, and joy that we feel when
seeing a story unfold, and then interpret those
feelings, trying to determine what they all mean,
why we felt them and where they should lead.
Oh, the things this profession has allowed me
to see...the fear in the eyes of a man who is
retiring after 45 years of work, that fleeting,
wistful last look around the factory from a man
who knows his days will now stretch away long
and empty...a young man whose fiance was
murdered, and who will spend the rest of his life
in a wheelchair because of a sniper's bullet, and
yet his quiet faith allows him to believe he can do
anything he makes up his mind to do...the casual,
almost callous way the ambulance attendants
stuff the body of a derelict found in a alley into a
zippered green body bag...the pure joy of
accomplishment on the face of a 75-year-old man
who is able to water ski again after open heart
surgery...a tired, bruised quarterback who at 21
has heard the booing of thousands of fans and
who must face himself on a long ride home after a
losing game...a troubled, confused 15-year-old
who experiences the first real feeling of
acomplishment in his life after conquering his
fears and rappeling down a 50 foot cliff...
If I can tell you of these things, but more t he
that, if I can make you feel them, than I've
succeeded. Auburn—not just the classes, but the
experiences here and, most of all, the people, has
helped me develop the ability to do that. I cherish
average salary offered to graduates with
tthhaatt ggiifftt,, aanndd II jjuusstt wwaanntteedd ttoo ssaayy thanks.
Reader urges action against Human Life bill
Editor, The Plainsman, In effect, this bill would:
The purpose of this letter is to shed some light
on the anti-abortion legislation currently
pending before the U.S. Congress.
The Human Life Bill (HLB S.153/S.1741) as
introduced by Sen. Jesse Helms (R-NC), seeks
to define the word "person" in the 14th
Amendment to include the fetus from the
moment of conception. At first glance, the bill
seems almost harmless. However, the fact of the
matter is, if this bill were to pass, the basic
constitutional rights of every American citizen
would be jeopardized. Not only will women be
unable to obtain legal abortions, but our system
of checks and balances and separation of powers,
as provided in the Constitution, will be
endangered.
1) Reverse the 1973 Supreme Court decision of
Roe v. Wade, which decriminalized abortion and
stated that "the word 'person' as used in the 14th
Amendment does not include the unborn."
2) Directly challenge the court's role as final
arbiter of the Constitution and as guarantor of
constitutional rights. Congress is given the
power to enforce the 14th Amendment not to
redefine its terms. Passage of this bill would
upset our delicate system of checks and balances
provided for in the Constitution.
3) Prohibit states from using public funds or
facilities for abortions, even if a woman's life is at
stake or if she is a victim of rape or incest (who
would like to be responsible for the child whose
mother put him up for adoption because he was
conceived through rape?).
4) Virtually eliminate amniocentesis, which is
a test done on the fetus to determine if it has any
birth defects or abnormalities. As of today,
several successful life-saving operations have
been performed on fetuses while
inside their
mothers' wombs. Without amniocentesis and
other pre-natal tests, these operations may
never have been performed.
As a final note, please remember that there is
no consensus in our society about the
personhood of the fetus before birth. Our
scientists cannot agree, and our religions cannot
agree. If a bill outlawing abortion were to be
enacted, this would be advancing one religious
belief over others and would jeopardize our
freedom of religion.
If you care about your basic rights guaranteed
by the Constitution, then please take some
action against this bill and others like it by
writing your newspaper and congressman and
expressing your support for the 1973 high court
decision. Please don't hesitate to take action as
this bill may come up for vote in less than a
month. Your rights are in grave danger.
Marcia Rossi
2PG
Quarterly financial statements
of activities projects reported
Editor, The Plainsman,
The following is the quarterly financial report
concerning the 1981-82 student activity Fee
projects. These figures are for the expenditures
and income to date of the student .activity
projects.
The Student Government Association was
allocated $39,949.00 and has spent $2,603.57,
With an income of $3,423.49.
The Auburn Circle was allocated $12,420.00
and has spent $48.05, receiving no income.
The "Glomerata" was allocated $78,489.06 and
has spent $100,014.73, with an income of
$9,975.93.
Performing Arts was allocated $34,450.00 and
has spent $206.69, receiving no income.
The Plainsman was allocated $39,001.78 and
has spent $35,598.27, with an income of
$24,850.81.
The "Tiger Cub" was allocated $14,700.00 and
has had no income or expenditure to date.
The University Program Council was allo­cated
$195,897.70 and has spent $41,217.37.
Religious Affairs-now a part of the University
Program Council-has spent $2,250 to date.
Recreational Services was allocated
$87,762.70 and has spent $20,642.32.
WEGL was allocated $28,389 and has spent
$4,075.13.
Virginia McGee
SG A Treasurer
JeffThomas
SG A Assists nt Treasurer
Critic's review 'inexcusable'
Churches exist as 'thermometers of superstition
Editor, The Plainsman,
lam writing this letter to show Jeffery Kipi's
religious ethnocentrism is not an all-pervasive
phenomenon at Auburn.
Mr. Kipi's letter regarding pornography in
the University's bookstore is full of assumptions
that simply are not supported by studies of
standards and his concept of "pornography"
have objective reality and are therefore
universal. I dare say he is confused.
Mr. Kipi asks if it is liberty when a "man reads
a pornography book and then goes out and rapes
a 10-year-old girl to act out the things he has
read?" Yes, of course it is, just as it is liberty to
read the Bible and then go out and stone a witch
to act out the things you have read.
Reagan economic plans need time
Editor, The Plainsman.
In his article of Nov. 19 "...President's
economic policy failing already," Ted Colquett
ends the column by saying the liberals can't wait
to tell President Reagan "I told you so."
Assuming Mr. Colquett is a liberal by the
contentofhisarticle.hewasrightinonecase, his
own.
He did not wait. All through the article
Colquett criticizes and condemns the economic
policies of the Reagan administration without
making one reference to the fact that the
economy is slow to react to any fiscal or
monetary manipulation. He also failed to point
out that the President's plan has only been in tact
since Oct. 1 of this year.
Colquett further either intentionally ignores
or is ignorant of the fact that no supply-side or
monetarist economist has ever proposed
government austerity and tight money policies
by the Federal Reserve Board as anything but a
"long run" solution. "Long run" means it expects
adversity in the early stages of the plan
but believe that, if economically sound policy is
followed, the goals of a revalued dollar and lower
interest rates will be obtained.
Colquett's, as well as most liberals', eagerness
to chisel out an epitaph for this infant policy only
demonstrates how biased they are in prejudging
the situation. Bias and prejudice, aren't those
two evils that liberals deplore?
D.Bruce Pet way
3 PL
Mr. Kipi's espousals of America's freedoms
are contradicted by his desire to restrict them.
He seems to be saying reading about crimes
causes an individual to go out and commit
crimes. If that's the case, then what he calls
"pornography" can hardly be as destructive and
morally degrading to American society as the
daily news.
Letters like Kipi's invariably cause me to
become philosophical. To my mind, ignorance
and boundless credulity stand alone as the most
magnificent of man's so-called "God-given"
talents. Consider those great monuments of
reality that, on occasion, are objectively carried
out in our society. One of his most glaring
assumptions is there is a God!
What, I ask, are the requisites of godhood? Is it
possible for a god to exist if there are no
worshipers? Think about it.
Mr. Kipi talks about pornography but fails to
define it. Apparently, he assumes his moral
credulity, the churches. Monopolizers of truth
and legislators of morality for centuries,
churches are the thermometers of superstition
in our society, and as weeds running rampant in
the garden of reason, they are growing.
Michael T. Belcher
1PN
Editor, The Plainsman,
I've delayed this letter as long as was humanly
possible, but this time your "music critic" has
gone too far. I don't know how Mr. Sparks came
to be a critic, but it was surely not on the merits of
his musical knowledge or his "snicker-snicker"
musical taste. His recent tasteless, unfounded
attack of Dan Fogelberg's latest album, THE
INNOCENT AGE, is a most inexcusable display
of ignorance for a person in a journalistic
position.
Just for the record, I'm disgusted, if not
actually mad, after reading Mr. Sparks'
somewhat ridiculous attempt at music criticism.
I respect other's opinions if they are expressed in
an informed and responsible manner, but this
album review displays neither of those qualities.
I don't know what "lovesick pubescent girl"
made Mr. Sparks so bitter toward Fogelberg,
but I'm sure his hostilities could be better
directed.
The album in question is in fact one of the
better albums out this year. Fogelberg, an
unbelievable musician, provides 90 percent of
the vocals and instrumentation on all his albums,
making each of them unique works of
individualism. INNOCENT AGE is no exception
and is likely to be his best.
Sure, Fogelberg isn't for everyone, but no
artist of his talent and ability deserves such an
irresponsible review. It may come as a surprise,
but a few of us little people out here care about
music and how it's handled. And you can be sure,
when it's been mishandled, one of us is going to
seek justice.
My advice to Mr. Sparks is play it safe, limit
your reviews to punk and disco, and leave real
music alone.
Randy B.Kirby
4AMH
Lobbying committee thanks faculty
Editor, The Plainsman,
The SGA Lobby Committee would like to
thank those faculty members who participated
in our survey. The insights the answers will
provide will be a valuable asset to our lobby
efforts.
If you would like a copy of the results, please
contact us at the SGA office, 826-4240. Those
faculty members who have already contacted us
will be receiving their results soon,
j The SGA Lobby Committee is proud to be
forking for our University. If there is anything
you may want us to attempt or suggestions on
$ur lobby efforts, please contact us. We are all
lere trying to make this University what it
hould be.
Wayne D. Lutomski
Assistant Director Student Lobby
A-6 The Auburn Plainsman Thursday, December 3, 1981
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Caroline Draughon Village
Caroline Draughon Village, also called married student housing, was built in the early '60s, and
has a capacity of 384 students. This year, non-married students are being allowed to live there.
Each map represents the approximate position of each housing area on campus.
Shaded buildings are t.hedorms, all other buildings are academic or administrative.
Design and Graphics by B.R. Davis
Landlords
Deposit money biggest cause of landlord/tenant disputes
By John Peck
Plainsman Staffwriter
Mention the word "landlord" to some
students and visions of upturned palms and
greedy eyes may come to mind. Henry
Henderson, student legal counselor at
Auburn, said landlord-tenant disputes are
the most frequent disagreements he is faced
with, and deposit money is the biggest
complaint.
But the problem is twofold.
"Most students are good about leaving
their rooms in good condition at the end of
their leases," said a spokeswoman for
FreemanRealty Company.' 'But as a whole,
they don't understand the importance of
cleaning. We'll usually send out a letter
explaining how and what to clean, but the
best advice for students who want their full
deposit back is to check first with the realty
company or landlord.
' 'Many times students will just leave town
and there is no other choice than to deduct
from the deposit and have the place
cleaned," she said.
Neil Sutphin, a senior majoring in
electrical engineering, lost part of his
deposit from an apartment he rented
summer quarter.
' 'I guess some of it was justified because of
laziness,'' he said,' 'but I thought we left the
place in better condition than what we were
charged for. If they expect you to leave the
place cleaner than you found it, a bigger
effort shouldbe made to repair the things you
find defective when you move there," he
said.
Van Northcutt of Northcutt Realty said he
recommends making a list of everything
that could become questionable later and get
it signed by the realtor.
"We make a list of everything in the
apartment and the condition when someone
moves out," he said. "However, if for some
reason a person wants to make out a list for
CDV Expansion
The Caroline Draughon
Village expansion was com­pleted
last year, and houses
both femaleand male students.
It has a capacity of 552 \
students. \
Residents say first taste ofBullard 6a shock9
By Melissa Shubert
Plainsman Staffwriter
"I couldn't imagine its being my home,"
said Bullard Hall resident Shelly Worthing-ton
when she saw her room for the coming
year. "Things got a little better once the
room was fixed up and I got to know my
roommate, but there are still a few
problems." •
So came a series of complaints about the
living conditions in Bullard Hall, where
women are living for the first time. Other
complaints concerning housing ranged from
the run-downbuildings in Magnolia Hall to
the poor living conditions for men in Alumni
Hall, previously a women's dorm.
Bullard HaU residents Minhwa Lai and
Cindy Nowak both described theirfirsttastes
of Bullard Hall as "a shock" and "dirty,"
while Deborah Wesson also commented
about the small amount of space in the
rooms.
Wesson said when she first saw her room,
suitcases in hand, she could only think of how
"all of my stuff will never fit into this
matchbox."
Oneof the main problems, still remaining,
say Bullard residents, concerns the bath­rooms.
Many girls said "the bathrooms
were "nasty" and not well taken care of.
Jerry Cook, assistant director of housing,
said part of this problem is many of the
fixtures in Bullard Hall are from 25-30 years
old.
Cook added there is a "possibility" some
fixtures will be replaced, but there are no
definite dates when any improvements will
be made.
Cook listed priority items to include,
replacing galvanized pipes with copper
piping to eliminate water leaks, which are
causing some rooms to remain empty and
completing a TV room.
"By no means are we through with the
work on the place," said Cook. "It has gone
well, and we have improved the conditions a
lot; that is not to say we are satisfied. I don't
think we ever will be."
Student Housing, said Cook, is self-sup­porting
and depends on rent money for
renovations. He said he could "foresee the
raising of rent as a possibility, "but the rent
structure for next year has not been decided
on.
Cook said he has talked to several Bullard
residents and received mixed reactions to
the living conditions.
"I have talked to students over there who
are pleased, and I have talked to some who
are not," he said. "It is the same in all
housing; students are different.
However, not all of the criticism toward
living in Bullard Hall is bad as some
residents say several improvements have
taken place.
' Nowak said things are "slowly improv­ing,"
and she is generally satisfied with
Bullard. Wesson, however, said many items
remain to be done.
' 'I feel as if, they're working on it, but they
are a long way from being finished. For the
amount of rent a student pays, don't feel
appropriate funds are being allotted to
provide for more livable conditions."
Magnolia Hall, adjacent to Bullard
Hall, shares many of Bullard's problems.
Dr. Harold Grant, dean of students said
Bullard and Magnolia were built around 1940
and have suffered from lack of maintenance
since then.
"The buildings have basically sound
structures," he said, "but have become
run-down with use and not enough main­tenance
put into them."
Grant said about $100,000 was spent this
summer on renovations in Bullard Hall.
Those renovations, said Grant, included
painting, installing shower stalls and
general "cosmetic" work to improve the
rooms' appearance.
Grant said this summer's work was not
enough but was all that could be afforded.
He said it would take $l-$2 million to renovate
Bullard and Magnolia.
Grant also said there have been plans to
renovate Magnolia for the last 10 years. He
cited two approaches which have been
drawn up. One involved building semi-pri­vate
baths and new utilities, and the other
provided for baths in hallways with bal­conies
for exterior exits.
But because of the cost, more than $?
million dollars at last estimate, those plans
have not been instituted.
Grant said Studlnt Housing's request for
federal loan money to air-condition Bullard
and improve heating and hot water has been
holography: Tom I'nliiier
A nice place to live?
Bullard Hall, recently converted from a men's to an all women's
dorm, has received a wave of complaints from residents concerning
fixtures, upkeep and possible fire hazards. Housing has already
begun the arduous task of cleaning up as it spent $100,000 on repairs
this summer, but officials say it will take another $l-$2 million to
completely renovate. Currently, housing is working on eliminating
water leaks and completing the television room. Pictured above is
the dorm's sundeck with insets featuring the community bathroom.
denied. Therefore, he said, "we will move
along as rapidly as we can."
Magnolia's occupants have complaints
similar to Bullard residents..*
Jim Shelton a Magnolia senate repre­sentative,
had these complaints and men­tioned
a "maintenance inspection" held
some time during the month.
Shelton said residents were told in a posted
bulletin their rooms would be inspected for
maintenance problems. However, the in­spection
included not only maintenance
checks, but checking for nail holes and tape,
confiscating various items and other in­quiries.
The following day, residents with
violations were informed by letters placed in
their mailboxes. .
Shelton and several others responded by
reporting the incident to the head resident.
Shelton said the problem was "pretty much
worked out.
"I believe rules are to punish people who
are blatant violators," he said' 'but trying to
find things—that is harrassment."
Shelton, like many others, blamed many of
Magnolia's ills on little past maintenance.
"The bathrooms don't look clean no
matter how much you clean them," he said.
"It has a raunchy appearance that gets
worse throughout the year."
Shelton said he would like to see Magnolia
Hall return to its policies of a few years ago.
Then, he said, residents could paint,
renovate or improve their rooms, in any
way, whereas now they cannot even put their
nameson their doors.
The more "liberal attitude," he said,
provided a sense of camaraderie among
residents. Now, said Shelton, people don't
care because they had no part in improving
or fixing their rooms.
Shane Wolverton said when he saw
Magnolia he thought it was "a dump."
Wolverton said things are not so bad now,
except for unclean bathrooms.
"I'dratherbeinDorm7,"hesaid, "butwe
have a good bunch of guys in our hall."
"Pretty dumpy" is what Phillip Dem-bowski
thought of Magnolia when he saw it.
He said things are better, but maintenance
could be improved. He cites Magnolia
residents' apathy as part of the problem.
Edward Graham agreed many students
don't care about Magnolia. But, headded, "it
is what you make of it."
In another transitory move by Student
Housing, men were put in Alumni Hall.
With the movement of women to Bullard
and the renovations undertaken there, Larry
Mizell, graduate resident adviser at Alumni
Hall, feels several important changes were
not made in Alumni.
Mizell listed several of the building's
problems, such as peeling paint, rainwater
seepage and holes in the walls, which need to
be repaired.
"Alumni wasoriginallyamen's dorm," he
said, "which was built in 1924."
Mizell said the dorm contains many of the
original fixtures, which have deteriorated.
He stated his main gripe was not with current
maintenance but with what was not done
over the years. Because of the neglect, he
said, there are "more problems than people
to meet the needs."
Mizell compared Alumni to Bullard by
calling it a "miniature Bullard Hall."
He said a lack of communication with
the maintenance department is one of the
biggest problems. Residents' work orders
are completed only sporadically, he said,
adding this causes a negative attitude from
residents.
Mizell also stated he is pleased with the
behavior of Alumni Hall residents, and there
has been minimal damage to the building
this quarter.
his own records, we'll sign it."
Students may find it surprising that thej
have no legal claim against landlords foi
failing to make repairs to anything othei
than pipes and roofs. The standard lease ii
Alabama has no clause in it that makes i
legally binding for a landlord to repair items
other than there.
But Northcutt said that policy is rarelj
practiced.
"We'll handle most repairs," he said
"Although we could legally refuse to do it
we'll send someone out who is trained to fiJ
things such as refrigerators, stoves an<
plumbing that may break down. The deposi
money is important because it secures the
student a place to live and assures; us the
room will be left in good condition when he
leaves."
However, a representative for Evans
Realty Company said the deposit money is n<
guarantee a place will be kept in good order
"We've had some cases where the tenan
leaves the room in worse shape than th<
deposit money would cover for damages,'
she said. "There are some who are reallj
good, but a few who are just ready to g(
home. If they'll cooperate with us, we'l
cooperate with them. It's got to be a mutua
thing. Sometimes deposit money must paj
for holes in walls and kicked down doors
Those doors cost $85."
Evans said deposit money is also used u
cover costs for long distance phone calls t<
tenants in case they failed to pay their ren
before going home for quarter break. It als<
must pay for garbage and trash pickup if the
student fails to take care of it. Cleanup costs
are their biggest expense, but it's supposec
to be an obligation of the student.
Frances Pick, property manager of Carj
Pick Realty agreed.
"The landlord's obligation is to tell th<
students what to clean. It's the student's
obligation to live up to the agreement on the
lease," she said. "An agency should try t<
provide the best managers, and the students
should get to know them.
"Crackerjack managers live on the
premises, have a firm grip on the situatioi
andkeepaneye on the complex. The key is U
provide good managers and maintenance,'
she said.
"When a student signs a lease, he'i
entering into a contractual relationship. We
publish a list of the things we expect, and th<
student makes a list of the things wrong witi
the place upon moving in. We have very little
problems from students except a fev
instances of irresponsibility. Those who trj
get most or all of their deposits back," he
said.
The best safeguard a student has to avoi<
disagreements at the termination of the
lease is to make sure he signs a list indicatin)
everything wrong with the place he'sTentinj
upon moving in. Consulting with the realtor
landlord or resident manager to understane
whatgroundsdepositmoneywillbewithhele
is also recommended.
If there is some question whether injustice
was done, free legal advice is available at the
office of Career Development Services
through Henry Henderson.
OCA of fei
but has $]
By Buddy R. Davis
Assistant Features Editor
Utility deposits might b? an easy item foi
students tohandle-if theyhavea few hundree
dollars lying around. But aside from yearlj
rent increases, utility deposits can take as
much as $272 out of a student's pocket.
The Off-Campus Association is one of the
only viable alternatives to the problem
Started in 1973 by members of the senioi
honorary Spades, the organization has abou
7,500 members, said Kelly May, president o:
Student Services, Inc., which owns the OCA
For $15, students pay a $5 service fee foi
having gas turned on, while the othei
deposits are negated by OCA membership
May said.
Many students "run away" from bills
May said, which has caused about $17,000 ir
delinquent accounts from phone, gas
electric and water utilities so far this
quarter. May added most of these accounts
are uncollectible and end up as ta>
write-offs for the OCA.
"You can really ruin your credit rating ir
college if you're not careful," he said. "Wc
don't want to ruin anyone's credit rating. II
he'll just come to us, sometimes we can wort
out problems with bill payment.
"We could offer more to the students if we
didn 't have so many deliquent accounts," he
said.
SSI, a non-profit corporation, is run by a
board of directors'of area merchants whe
prefer to remain anonymous, May said
' 'They don't get paid. They started it to help
keep money in the community," he said,
because the utilities take the deposit money
and invest it short term, out of the city.
Students who do "run away" frSm bills
usually have about three months to pay up
before being written off as a tax loss, May
said. "The utility will send us a list of OCA
members who are overdue. We then pay the
bills and send each individual two letters. Ii
he still doesn't pay, we then turn the case
over to a collection agency." May said.
Sometimes students just forget to pay the
bills and are surprised to receive letters
saying they owe money, May said. "Those
people usually pay as soon as they find out,
but a lot of times it (running out on bills) is
intentional. Those guys in Sewell Hall really
take us for a ride," he said.
Students usually join the OCA in the fall,
A-7 The Auburn Plainsman Thursday, December 3, 1981
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North Campus
The northern housing complex
consists of Bullard, Magnolia and
Noble dorms. Bullard and Noble
house female students, while
Magnolia houses male students.
Together, they have a capacity of
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Student housing
A Plainsman Probe
Editor's note: Housing, a recent topic
of much discussion among students,
has undergone a number of changes
this quarter. Dorm swaps and com­plete
changeovers in the housing office
are the result of Auburn's attempt to
solve the problem of increased demand
for additional on-campus housing. The
remaining problem is one of finding
funds to improve poor living conditions
in certain dorms. The Plainsman took a
closer look at student opinions and
administrative views about the pro­blems
of on-campus housing.
Alumni
Alumni Hall was built in 1924 and
holds 95 students. This year, the hall
is housing males, a change from last
year when it housed females.
I Alumni Holl
*""| Smith Hall
I jl—ANNEX
Under fire I'iioinirrapln: Mark Almond
Smith Jackson and Jerry Cook, housing assistants, watch an abortive attempt by a group
of students to stir up a demonstration.
Last Spring, several students attempted to get a protest rally together. Trying to gain
attention to the housing department's decision to move men out of Bullard, the group was
unable to find many supporters, and after going to Alumni Hall to add a few female students
to their ranks, the group was asked to disperse by Dean Albert Sistrunk.
The Quad
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1939, and have an estimated
capacity of 1,000. The quad
houses female students, with
theexception of Dorm 7, which
houses male students.
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Deficit of $600,000 only one of housing's many problems, director says
By Monique Van Landingham
Assistant Features Editor
When Gail McCullers took over as director
of Student Housing last year, she inherited a
$600,000 deficit, which she said she has been
unable "to touch."
"We've only survived," she said of Student
Housing's financial situation for the past
year.
She saidbecause of a lack of funds.resident
advisors (RAs) have been dropped from the
: payroll and will not be reinstated in the near
future.
"We had to cut out a lot of services,"
McCullers said. "Wecan'tafforddormfunds
services
r.OOOloss
when it moves over to the Alabama Power
auditorium, May said.
Money from OCA memberships goes for
maintenance on the building, on the refri­gerators
the SSI rents out and on the salaries
of c.nployees, including an accountant and a
lawyer on retainer, May said. The lawyer is
available to OCA members on request, he
added.
"Our salaries aren't that much; a lot of
times, we don't even take out our salaries,"
May said, adding that Robert Shoulders,
director of the OCA, is paid slightly more
than he (May) is.
"Shoulder's puts in a sizable amount of
time," May said.
or even ice machines." She said broken ice
machines have not been replaced in two
years because of the financial situation.
More vacancies on campus than usual this
year mean less revenue for Student Housing.
And, because Student Housing is in no way
funded by the state, it will receive no
monetary compensation from that channel.
In an effort to abate the difficulties
Auburn's housing faces, a variety of staff
changes have been made this quarter, said
Dr. Harold Grant, dean of students.
There are now five academic officials in
Student Housing. Jerry Cook, assistant
director of housing* has two
assistants, Smith Jackson and Ernestine
Lawhon. Also, to aid McCullers, the position
of associate director has been created and
was filled by Gussie Calhoun, former
assistant dean of students. "The staff
changes are...to help solve problems with
housing," Grant said. McCullers refused to
comment on the reasons for the changes but
hopes that with Calhoun, housing will
operate more smoothly.
Her responsibilities in the newly created
position include handling disciplinary action
against students who violate housing policy
or the student code of discipline and acting as
a liaison to Campus Security. In that
capacity, she deals with students who break
security rules for the dorm, such as abusing
visitation hours or propping doors open after
they should be locked.
Calhoun will also coordinate on-campus
accomodations for members of conferences
or meetings at Auburn during the summer.
The staff isn't all that has changed since
McCullers became director of housing. This
year, for the first time, students were
allowed to change dorm and room assign-'
ments on a specified "swap" day. Twenty-one
girls were relocated one Friday when
Burton Hall opened at 7 a.m. on a
first-come-first-serve basis. McCullers said
the idea worked well and would probably be
continued in the future.
Alterations in the process of issuing room
assignments have also taken place under
McCullers' direction. "We've tried to
change the assignment system so students
will at least know the type of housing (they're
assigned); they'll be able to cancel by July
1," she said.
If insufficient information is given to
prospective residents, McCullers added,
cancellation deadline is extended.
A third change McCullers brought to
housing was the elimination of triples.' "That
decision was based on many requests to do
The Hill
The Hill Dorms were
constructed in the '60s, and
haveacombined capacity of
1,300 students. The Hill
houses females only.
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As Auburn grows larger,
so do housing's problems
By Kyle Caldwell
Plainsman Staffwriter
It has been evident Auburn University has
a problem with parking space availability.
What may not be as clear is the University's
problem with housing.
Butaslongas Auburn continues to grow, so
does the headache for campus housing as it
faces the problem of finding room for
students.
"We'reawarehousingisnotfunctioningas
it should," Dr. Harold Grant, dean of
AU cheap place to live compared to other schools
By Buddy R. Davis
Assistant Features Editor
For being the largest college in Alabama,
Auburn University is conversely one of the
•heapestplacestolive.accordingtoasurvey
>f selected state colleges conducted by The
Plainsman.
It's possible to live on campus without air
;onditioning for $170 a quarter, or a studen:
:ould pay $360 a quarter to live in the new
Caroline Draughon Village addition,
iccording to figures released by Smith
racksoh, assistant director of housing.
Auburn which has I8,460students enrolled,
ould house about 5,247 students, Jackson
aid.' 'Now we have about 100 vacancies, but
/e v had 85 women and 25 men apply for
n-campus housing " for winter quarter, he
aid.
Auburn has recently switched over to a
ew typeof contractfor a full three quarters,
rhich is similar to other schools, Jackson
aid. "It's more restrictive than our students
re used to, though," he added.
Troy State University, which has about
,750 students, is the next cheapest place to
ve in Alabama. Air-conditioned residence
alls cost a student $180 a quarter. The most
xpens!vl$plac%to live is the upper level of
le married student housing section, with
vo bedrooms renting for $450 a quarter
ach.
Dr. Robert Williford, dean of students for
Troy State, said the university could house
1,805 students. "We're a little above the
maximum now because we never turn
anybody down for housing. By spring, we'll
be down to normal levels again," he added.
Nearly as large as Auburn, the University
of Alabama has more room for students, with
a possible 5,725 available spaces.
Students in on-campus apartments pay
about $200 a semester, while residence halls
cost about $350 for the same length of time.
"We turned away nearly 1,000 appli­cations,"
said Ron Gerstbauer, assistant
director of housing at Alabama, "but we
have some vacancies because we under­estimated
the amount of no-shows we'd
have.
'' Thebiggest problem we have is in terms of
security; we have had our share of criminal
acts. The students asked us to increase
security, and we did," he said.
Auburn's younger sister school. Auburn
University at Montgomery, only houses 336
people, said Dick Merritt, director of
housing at AUM. The university has about
3,500 full-time students, the majority of
which must live off-campus, he said.
Costs for on-campus housing range from
$270 a quarter for sharing a two-bedroom
apartment with three other people to $450 for
living in married student housing, he said.
'' We ha ve a waiting list each quarter. If we
had twice as much housing, we could easily
fill it," Merritt said. '
The University of Alabama at Huntsville
recently completed its first university-built
housing to add to some older housing the
school boughtwhen it was formed, said Patti
Reichart, assistant director of housing at
UAH.
It costs $350 a quarter to share a
three-bedroom unit with five other people in
the new dorm. A furnished one-bedroom
efficiency costs $790 a quarter, she said.
"We're more of a commuter campus,'' she
said, explaining the scarcity of housing on
campus. "We've got 456 spaces for about
5,000 students," she said.
The new dorms aren't exactly popular
with students yet, she said. "They don't like
living with so many other students. We've
got about 40 percent filled in the new dorm, as
opposed to about 90 percent in the older
apartments," Reichart said.
Samford University, with about 2,300
students, was the most expensive place to
live, according to a survey. A double room
With community bath costs $385 a semester,
while 2 people in a three-occupant room with
a private bath costs $518 for the same period,
said George Blanks, director of housing
there.
"There's is much more demand for
women's housing because we've got a
greater ratio of women to men here," he
said.
There were about 120 more applying
students than spaces this fall, down from
nearly 200 last fall, Blanks said.
Comparison
of State Colleges
Ratio of full-time students
to on-campus housing
Auburn UA Troy UAH AUM
percent 28 32 48 9 10
Figures for 1981-82
away with triples and many, many com­plaints
from parents who don't want their
children in that situation," McCullers said.
Triples are the result of overbooking, she
said. Previously, Student Housing booked
more students than there were places
available, and some residents were forced to
live three to a room. By dropping this
procedure, housing authorities also eli­minated
a reserve of students to fill
vacancies, McCullers explained.
This, along with other factors Including
increased rent, resulted In an unusually high
number of unoccupied rooms on campus this
year. A less sighifleant cause for vacancies
was the discontinuation of some women's
athletic programs making on-campus
housing no longer necessary for partici­pants.
students, said. "Some physical facilities are
not as they should be. New furniture is
needed in a lot of places."
Differences in rent in on-campus housing
as compared to off-campus housing are the
result of differences in facilities, he added.
' "There has always been some housing that's
better than others, but of course, that's no
justification for the current problems.
"You just can't do the reorganization we
did this summer and have everything
perfect," he said.
The reorganization included switching
Dorm 12 to a male facility and transforming
Bullard Hall into a female dorm, a change
which cost $100,000.
"We provide housing space on the
percentage of demand," Grant explained.
"This year, the percentage of females was
greater than that of males." Placing males
in Dorm 12 and females in Bullard Hall was
the solution, he said.
"Crews worked day and night over there
during the summer," Gall McCullers,
director of housing, said, "Everything was
painted; the lobby was reworked; a post
office was added, and the bathrooms were
redone." In addition to these changes,
McCullers said, phones were installed in
each room; TV cable was added, and
combination locks were put on some doors.
"We still have some things to do," she
continued." We' ve ordered carpet for the TV
lounge and more partitions for the bath­rooms.
We still have some urinals to take out
and are in the process of securing the hall
windows.
"There are approximately 450 girls at
Bullard Hall," McCullers said. "We've had
hardly any complaints and no major ones at
all."
Transforming Bullard Hall into a women's
dorm relieved the problem of overcrowded
housing. Yet, lack of finances for further
renovations still plagues Student Housing.
"Housing is an auxiliary enterprise,"
McCullers said. "That means we must
'make it or break it' on what we have. We
don't get state funds; when something
unexpected comes along, such as an
increase in utility rates, it can really shoot
your budget."
A-8 The Auburn Plainsman Thursday, December 3, 1981
Finals Sched
Class Hour
Saturday, Dec. 5
Monday, Dec. 7'
Exam Time
9-11:30 a.m.
1-3:30 p . m p
3:40-6:10 p.m.
10 a.m. 9-11:30 a.m.
2 p.m. 1-3:30 p.m.
5 p.m. 3:40-6:10 p.m.
Special Examination Period and Special English
Composition & Literature Exams. 7-9:30 p.m.
Tuesday, Dec. 8
9 a.m. 9-11:30 a.m.
12 Noon 1-3:30 p.m.
4 p.m. 3:40-6:10 p.m.
Special Examination Period and Special World
History Exams 7-9:30 p.m.
Wednesday, Dec. 9
7 p.m.
Special Examination Period
9-11:30 a.m.
1- 3:30 p.m.
3:40- 6:10 p.m.
7- 9:30 p.m.
GRADUATION, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 10, 2:30 P.M. MEMORIAL
COLISEUM
Final examinations carrying fewer than three hours credit will be
dministered on the last lecture day or during the last laboratory period
(receding Friday, December 4.
GOO-Level Courses: The professor teaching a 600-level course shall
determine whether aformal final examination is appropriate. If one is to be
given, it shall be scheduled at a time during the final examination period
which does not conflict with scheduled examinations for other courses in
which students in that course a r e enrolled. Generally, it is expected that the
exam will be given at the time exams are scheduled for other classes
meeting at the same hour.
Program director resigns
EncilDodge, the University direc­tor
of sponsored programs, will be
leaving Auburn because of dissatis­faction
with the reorganization of
the department of contracts and
grants, he said Wednesday.
Campus
Calendar
LEE COUNTY DEPARTMENT
OF PENSIONS AND SECURITY-Groups
are needed to prepare
Christmas stockings for needy chil­dren
in the community. If you or
you r group would like to participate,
contact Katey Likis at 749-8164.
SOCIETY FOR CREATIVE
ANACHRONISM-Anyone inter-ssted
is invited to attend weekly
meetings held Mondays a t 7:30 p. m.
in Haley Center, Room 2364.
CIRCLE K-Everyone is invited
to attend weekly meetings Tuesdays
at 6 p.m. in Foy Union, Room 360.
For information call 887-6875.
AUBURN UNIVERSITY VOL­LEYBALL
CLUB-Anyone inter­ested
in power volleyball is invited
to attend practices held each Mon­day
through Friday at 5 p.m. in the
sports arena next to the Student
Activities Building. For informa­tion
call 821-0445.
Dodge said he and Dr. Paul Parks,
vice president for research and dean
of the graduate school, had mutually
agreed on his resignation.
' ' P a r k s and I put it like this: they
do intend to reorganize and I don't
intend to be a part of the reorgani­zation.
"They are putting together an
organization that I don't particu­larly
want to fit into," he said.
Parks has announced the appoint­ment
of a committee to assist in the
search for a new director of con­tracts
and grants development.
Dodge said the person chosen for
this new position would be taking
over "about half" of his former
responsibilities.
Dodge, who h a s been at Auburn
since 1968, said he was not sure when
he would be leaving but added, "I
like the idea of leaving. It would be
appropriate to wait and see whatthe
administration has in mind as to my
replacement," he said.
Parks said the new director will
have "major responsibilities for
working with faculty to determine
their research interests, inform
faculty of research opportunities
and seek extramural funding for the
University research program from
state, federal and private sources."
Dodge said he has applied for
employment at several places, and
expects to know more before the
first of the year. "I'm not in any
hurry," he said.
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New codes should zip mail to students sooner
By Lynn Brown
Assistant News Editor
Students on campus now have the
chance to receive letters quicker—if
they use the additional four digits
recently added to the present 36849
zip code.
Auburn postmaster Charles M.
Dawson named several areas that
have already been coded. "The use
of these digits is strictly voluntary,
like the presentzip code system," he
said.
Self-study
Campus four-digit
Zip-code additions
Mail Room
Magnolia Hall
Noble Hall
Comer Rail
Quad dorms
South (Hill) dorms
SeweU Hall
CDV Extension
S8849-SS01
38849-4701
368494501
36848-4201
368494891
36849-4601
36849-4401
Bulk mail, however, will receive
the greatest advantages from the
new "zip plus-four" system.
Only the University has been
coded, though; Dawson said he
expects the entire residential area
of Auburn to be coded by March.
Within the nextyearandahalf, the
entire United States will be using the
nine digit system, according to an
article in Postal World. The ap­proach
is similar to the a r e a codes
used by telephone companies.
Dawson said a toll free number
will be available for reference when
the system is fully implemented.
The system, when fully imple­mented,
will have separate codes
for street blocks for business and
residential areas.
Yrotn fuiiif \-1
in 1973, 900 people participated.
Huffman said the various com­mittees
were given a specific charge
or direction to take, but the
structure of the committee was left
up to i ts members.
"We did ask them to avoid simply
documenting past histories and
telling where we've been and what
we've done,'' he said. "We asked the
committees to evaluate their areas,
to make interpretations and re­commendations
for improvement.''
Departmental reports are due
today while school reports must be
completed by April 1982, and Uni­versity
reports must be finished by
July. Huffman said it would be
" p r e m a t u r e " to speculate on any
changes that might be recom­mended
in the committee reports,
but " I don't know that there will be
any sweeping changes called for."
Lauderdale said recommenda­tions
for change made in the last
self-study report and by the SACS'
visiting committee before Auburn
was accredited in 1973 were followed
"very unevenly."
"Some departments and schools
made serious changes a s a result of
the last self-study and others
didn't," he said.
Huffman said "unevenness" in
response to recommendations was
made in 1971 and 1972 because
the University had just completed a
series of changes prompted by an
internal self-study program called
Project '67 only four years before.
"You don't really expect a lot of
changes to be made right on the
heels of the changes resulting from
Project '67," Huffman said.
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A-9 The Auburn Plainsman Thursday, December 3, 1981
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by Garry Trudeau
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By Nancy Blancato
Plainsman Staffwriter
WEGL, the campus radio station,
may begin airing a new talk show to
allow students to discuss the SGA
after the success of a show Nov. 19
that featured SGA off-campus
senators.
The original talk show was a part
of a WEGL program, "On the Air."
Book exchange
offers services
By Skipper Wilson
Plainsman Staffwriter
Auburn students can save money
and make money by selling their
books at the Alpha Phi Omega Book
Exchange in the basement of the
Foy Union Building, said David
Wallis, manager of the exchange.
Wallis said the book exchange
offers several advantages to Au­burn
students.
"The exchange is better than the
local bookstores because when you
sell your book here you get 75 to 80
percent of the original cost of the
book, whereas the bookstores will
only give you about 50 percent for the
same book," Wallis said.
Students can also save money by
buying books at the exchange, said
Wallis. He said book prices are
usually lower at the book exchange
than at bookstores because there is
no markup.
Wallis cited some disadvantages
to the exchange.
"When you sell a book, you do not
get paid on the spot as you do at the
bookstores," Wallis said. Instead,
the student gets his money after the
book is sold.
He said, "Even though it takes a
little longer for a student to get his
money from his books, he will get a
lot more for them when they are
sold.
"You can't lose by using the book
exchange because if we can't sell
your books for your price, you can
sell them to the bookstore," Wallis
said.
The book exchange will be open
more than usual during the end of
the quarter and the beginning of
next quarter said Wallis. It will be
open from 9-12 a.m. and from 1-4
p.m. on dead day, Saturday, finals
week and drop and add.
After that, the book exchange will
be qpeji during those hours on
Tuesdays only.
Alpha Phi Omega is a service
fraternity which has been engaged
in service projects at Auburn Uni­versity
for more than 50 years.
Alan Thomas, chairman of the
off-campus committee of the SGA
Senate, said more talk shows are
being planned for next quarter. The
programs will probably run for 30
minutes and will be about the SGA,
he said.
Thomas, a talk show participant,
said, "We were amazed at the
number of people who didn't know
what the senate or the SGA as a
whole did." Thomas said the show
was directed not only to off-campus
students.but to all students.' 'It gave
them a chance to find out what we 're
doing," he said.
Another effort to give students a
chance to voice their complaints
was made by the SGA earlier this
quarter when it divided off-campus
areas into districts. Each of the 12
off-campus senators was given a
district. The districts and the sen­ators'
names and telephone num­bers
were listed in The Plainsman so
students would know who their
representatives were.
Thomas said he hopes to see the
show continued next quarter on a
regular basis. "We were elected to
represent the student body, and lots
of times we have a poor knowledge of
what everyone wants," he said.
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ENGINEERS
Gulf Oil Corporation, a major energy company,
has job openings for all types of graduating
engineers who are interested in building a career
in crude oil and gas producing operations.
Duties include drilling, equipment installation
and maintenance, subsurface reservoir studies,
economic evaluation of producing properties, well
stimulation and reconditioning, and enhanced oil
recovery operations.
Training courses will be provided to accelerate
career development in oil and gas producing
and drilling operations. Positions are located in
Gulf Coast, Mid-Continent, Rocky Mountain, and
West Coast areas. Excellent employee benefits.
If you have interviewed with a Gulf
Recruiter or have sent us a resume, thank
you very much. If you have not, please send
your resume and transcript to:
J. R. Ligon, Jr.
GULF OIL EXPLORATION
& PRODUCTION COMPANY
P.O. Box 1166
Pittsburgh, PA 15230
Banquet rooms
available 25%
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AUBURN 821-3335
507 Opelika Rd.
OPELIKA 749-2950
. 920 Columbus Pky.
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MOTHER'S RESTAURANT IS OPEN FOR
BREAKFAST, LUNCH, AND SUPPER
A-10 The Auburn Plainsman Thursday, December 3, 1981
PLAINSMAN CLASSIFIED n s
wanted
Roommate needed 14' x 70* mobile
home, two bedroom furnished,
washer-dryer, private bath, all
electric, 821-9803.
Need Money for Christmas? Model
for swimsuit promotion. To $20-hr
parttime. ImpactServices 214-692-
1440.
Need 1 female roommate to share
apartment. $185 per quarter, 11/2
blocks from campus, 826-3717.
Roommate or subleasor needed
for apartment starting winter
quarter. One block from campus.
Call Mark at 887-7865 after 5 p.m.
Female roommate needed Winter
quarter. Eagle's West 821-0674.
Female roommate wanted. Spa­cious
clean two-bedroom trailer.
$85.00 monthly Vfe utilities, 887-
8265.
Female roommate needed winter
and spring, call Cheryl 821-6371.
Female roommate for winter
quarter in nice duplex. Must be
non-smoking, studious, mature.
Call 887-6797.
Wanted one off-campus student to
take over University housing lease
at CDV apartments. Call Jill at
826-4947.
Female roommate wanted. Must
be a responsible party-er. 420 E.
Magnolia $72.00 month plus Vi
utilities. Upper classman pre­ferred.
821-8197.
Male roommate needed for winter
quarter to share large 3-bedroom
trailor off Wire Road, quiet
neighborhood, V2 rent, utilities,
call Dennis at 821-6678.
Male roommate needed Eagle's
West, sub-lease winter spring
$105 per month, % utilities,
furnished 1-bedroom, kitchen,
821-5259.
Winter only female need to
sublease room in beautiful house
near campus, $105.00 month,
821-4435.
Wanted: Tenant for Lakeside II
winter quarter. Very affordable.
Great benefits. Pool, HBO, fire­place,
fully carpeted, etc. Call
Mindy 821-1406 or 826-3848 for
more information.
Roommate Needed to share two
bedroom apartment $112.50/
month plus utilities. Close to
campus. 826-3254.
Need ride to Washington, D.C.
area Dec. 9 or 10. Split on gas. Call
Ed 821-5960.
Female roommate needed to s hare
duplex. $75 per month, 1 /3
utilities. 821-5830.
Male roommate needed winter,
spring quarters to share two-bed­room
trailer behind Midway, $75
per month plus 1/2 utilities, call
Harvey at 749-0743 after 11 p.m.
Apartment or house needed for
winter quarter. Please call
826-6706 if you have one available.
rent
Roommate needed beginning
Winter quarter to share three
bedroom trailer at Ridgewood
Village. Call Steveat826-1895after
6:00 p.m.
Sub-Lease Winter, Spring quarters
one furnished two-bedroom
trailor, Tiger Trailor Park. $185.00
month, plus utilities. Jody or Paul
821-6091.
Two bedroom brick duplex full
bath, kitchen large living room,
HBO, gas heat. 887-9667 or call
Freeman Reality at 887-7436, $595
winter, $495 spring.
Private dorm rooms for rent,
$325Vaqt. utilities included, one
block from campus. 338 W. Glenn
Ave. 821-3368 or 821-6416.
For rent furnished apartment,
large, one bedroom, full kitchen,
dishwasher, $225.00, 821-2841
anytime.
Sublease 2BR brick duplex winter
and spring qtr. Ph 887-7698 or
887-9667. Address, 168 Cone
Street.
Roommate needed three bedroom
house on large wooded lot 2V4
miles from campus, $85 per
month. 821-3473 after 5 p.m.
Apartment for sublease beginning
January 1, Hyatt House Apart­ments,
821-6952.
Anyone interested in subleasing a
room on campus at a reduced rate
please call Marie Vonn, 826-2530.
Two-bedroom apt. for sublet
starting January. Huge den,
central heat-air, washer, dryer,
dishwasher, disposal, wall-to-wall
carpet, unfurnished, $295 mo.
on N. Ross. 821-1192.
Female roommate sub-lease 2-
bedroom furnished apt. Winter
and spring close to campus.
$67.50 month. 821-0925.
Sub-lease, 1 BR furnished,
separate kitchen, all utilities in­cluded,
air cond., 1 blk from
campus, $550 qtr., 887-6783.
Nice, inexpensive one-bedroom
apartment, large kitchen, low
utilities, available beginning
winterquarter. $145.00 per month.
Prefer graduate student or senior,
call evenings 821-5675.
Room in large house for rent.
Close to campus. House includes
living room with fireplace and
kitchen with full appliances,$115a
month plus VA utilities. Call
821-3262 ask for Greg.
Mt. Vernon Village has five ch-.ce
lots available, concret patios,
shady lots, swimming pool, wide
paved streets, call Crazy Alan
Davis, 821-0747.
Mobile home for rent, winter
quarter, excellent condition, Wire
rd area, call 821-1335, 887-7774 or
821-3302, 821-0870 or 821-7915.
Forrent, 3 BR house, with carport,
largeyard, petsallowed, 887-3605.
Sublease, furnished room, 1 block
from campus, reasonable, Free­man
Realty, 887-7698.
Sub-Lease, 2BR furnished Duplex,
winter qtr. $595, Spring qtr. $495.
Freeman Reality 887-7698.
Apartment forsublease Winterand
Spring, Eagle's West, 821-0674.
Sublease furnished one bedroom
apartment Lemans. Large rooms
$235 month. Available winter qtr.,
,821-8907.
Apt. for sublease Winter quarter.
2-bed room Tamarack. Call
821-4806.
Room for rent 12 minutes off
campus. 3-bedroom house, two
bathrooms, Call 821-8846 after
9:00 p.m.
for sale
For sale Honda CX 500 motorcycle
$1100.00 Phone 821-4052.
Atari, Tl, HP, computers, video
games and calculators. 16K com­puter
system, under $400.00.
Calculators (all brands) at whole­sale
prices. Call for price 749-0044.
Technics micro components-amplifier,
pre-amplifier, tuner,
cassette-deck, new $864. Asking
$740. 1-year old, 821-4977.
Ross Eurosport bike, backpack,
chain, all 10 months old - $140.00
Stereo (8-track, turntable, 2
speakers) - $45.00. Call Jane
887-5372.
For sale vintage red pick-up truck.
Must sell, no offer too low. Call
Hayes, 887-6492. ,
Lange ski boots, new condition,
fits mens size 9-10. $50.00. Call
evenings, 821-5675.
8 x 38 Trailer, gas heater, stove,
refrigerator, waterbed, negoti­able,
821-2197 after 5 p.m., (404)
327-6734, Christmas holidays.
Yamaha 250 good condition. Will
makegreatChrlstmasglft, $450.00
Call Joey at 826-1231.
For $75, large like-new toast-master
system III oven-broiler,
887-6246.
Furniture for sale, sofa, table,
lounge chair and other items.
Reasonable price and in good
condition, 821-4239.
General Electric refrigerator for
sale. Reduced from $150 to $100.
Must sell._Call 821-8296.
72 Cutlass Supreme, good engine
and tires. Transmission needs
some repair, call 821-7015.
HP-33E Programmable calculator
withcharger, case, 5 programming
books. Year old, excellent condi­tion.
Asking $45.00, 821-3159
CTed).
Full-blooded Cocker Spaniel
puppies for sale. Parti-colored. 6
weeks old. $65.00. Call 887-9031.
Bayley Plush-2 wet suit with hood,
two pair of boots, farmer John
pants, $175. Call 887-8005 and
821-3257 after 6 p.m.
1969Capella mobile home, 12x60,
two bedroom, central gas heat.
Call Amy 826-4786 before 3 p.m.
749-2170 afterwards.
For Sale Alvarez Banjo, like new.
Hard shell case. $425, 821-6640.
Typewriter for sale. Ask for Terri
887-7794. Perfect condition.
ForSalemobilehome14'x60'2BR
IV2BA, gas heat AC, front and
back porch, excellent condition.
205-640-6636.
Pecans for sale 75 cents per
pound, 826-5829 or 727-0206.
Ski the Summit Dec. 16 - Dec. 22.
Lodging 75.00 per person, Chalet
Keystone Resort. Positions
remaining 4-Gals1-Guy, 821-4695,
Joe Williams.
Going to Miami—need two riders
down and back - leaving Dec. 10.
Call Maria 749-4757.
Sound Systems Service. Quality
stereo/Audio repair. Call
821-6234, hours 12:15 - 5 p.m.
Add money and credibility to your
college career. Business oppor­tunity
with American Professional
Marketing Incorporated. Minimum
investment $127.00. Call Judy or
Ron Tejeda at 821-0194.
lost
Lost: Light and dark brown
warm-up suit jacket. Union Ball­room
Nov. 8. Reward! Pete
887-5701.
Lost, Bulova watch and 1 Toyota
car key on campus, 826-6431.
Lost HP-41 CV calculator re­gistered
with A Phi O and
identifiable. Please contact Bob
Lock Ph. 887-3867.
Lost: Anne Klein watch; snake
skin band. Between Haley Center
and stadium parking. Call Jenny at
826-1573.
Lost: Gold class ring. Garnet (red)
stone. Lost in Foy Union game
room. If found call Blake.
821-7585.
Lost diamond necklace with ear­rings
and a TI-35 calculator taken
fromabrownpurseinBurgerKing,
Friday November 20th. If you have
any information, please call
826-3574. $75 reward for return.
PLEASE!
Brown purse lost in Plainsman
office Sunday night. If returned, no
questions asked. 887-/160 or
826-4254.
Lost: Of great personal value.
Square bangle bracelet with
flowers and designes engraved all
over. Please call 821-3918 or
821-1598. Lots of sentimental
attachment. Reward offered. Re­turn
of the bracelet would be
greatly appreciated.
Lost: Glasses (silver), sketchbook
and notebook near Dorm E Nov.
13th, if found, please call
887-7377.
misc.
Need ride to Charolettesville, N.C.
Can leave Wednesday morning by
10:a.m. Please call 826-3255, ask
for Mary Frances.
Journalism graduates can now
start at the top. Two fine Ala.
weeklies available for small cash
outlay. Ideal for beginning
publishers. For details, call or
write: Wayne Chancey Consul­tants,
P.O. Box 86, Headland,
Alabama 36345. (205) 693-2619.
Typing: Experienced typists will
type dissertations, theses, term
papers, etc. Fast, accurate, de­pendable
service. Call 821-1842
after 5:30 p.m.; anytime week­ends.
Manager for small retail business,
requires responsible individual to
supervise daily sales, record­keeping,
and parttime employees.
Seasonal sales may require over­time.
Send qualifications to P.O.
Box 2532, Auburn.
personals
Dr. Bond, I enjoyed The Revolu­tion,
and can't wait for Napoleon to
come. Merry Christmas to you
and your family. V.G.
Dr. Spencer Joyeux Noel et bonne
annee. Love V.G. and C.G.
Engraver. Part or full time. Call
887-7768.
Sororities and Fraternities - Don't
pay more for sportswear and party
favors. Get the best for less! Call
Monty Rains, DJR Enterprises, at
821-5217. There is still time to get
your orders in for Christmas.
Need Typing Done? Good depend­able
service, reasonable rates,
821-4649. Ask for Susan,
convenient to campus.
Wanted to Buy, gold, silver &
diamonds, old class rings, wed­ding
bands & dental gold, highest
prices paid, Hill's Jewelry, 111 E.
Magnolia Ave., Auburn, Al.
887-3921.
Typing: Quality typing on IBM
Selectric. Good rates and fast
service, Mary, 826-1226.
Good Typing—Can you afford
less? Excellent university refer­ences.
Becky Simon, 887-6856
after 5 p.m.
Surprise! But it's only the first.
Happy 21st Birthday Doodles. I
love you, Betty.
To Kermit and Willene Huddles-ton,
December 10 is almost here
and I owe it all to you. Thanks for
everything. Darryl Huddleston,
Class of '81.
Two can play at this card game!
HEARTS.
HEARTS say: good luck on finals!
SSPLLAEVV
Baby sitter needed, my home
weekdays 2:30 - 5:30 p.m. Dec.
18-31 st. To care for 2 school-age
girls and do light house work and
must have car. 821-5049 after 6
p.m.
Dog boarding for Christmas.
Limited space so call now for rates
and time: 887-6002.
"Don we now our gay apparel"
Merry Christmas! Auburn Gay
Awareness P.O. Box 821, Auburn.
England Travel Seminar spon­sored
by family and Child
Development Credit for FCD
438 for f u rther i nf ormation and
details contact Mr. Britt 826-
4151.
Terri C. It's me who really loves
you. I'll wait because I know it will
be right. Take me—I'm yours. All
my Love, Mark D.
Have a Happy Birthday Pattycakes
McCarty!