1982-09-30 The Auburn Plainsman

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—Oscar Wilde
rolume 89 Number 1 Thursday, September 30,1982 Auburn University, Ala. 36849 48 pages
expects to get first look
ly Keith Ayers
Jews Editor
Results of an inquiry into the
Ispring resignations of two Auburn
Ivice presidents will probably
•surface at Tuesday's University
[Senate meeting, an inquiry that
Icould have profound effects on the
|administration of this University.
Three and a half months ago, Dr.
iTaylor Littleton, vice president for
{academic affairs, and Dr. Grady
ICox, executive vice president, re-
I signed their positions in the
| Funderburk administration.
Although the two didn't publicly
I give the reasons behind the resigna­tions,
the president's office reported
Bond says Cox,
Littleton want
Senate review
By Tim Dorsey
Editor
Executive Vice President Grady
Cox and Vice President of Academic
Affairs Taylor Littleton have ex­pressed
a need for the University
Senate investigation into their indi­vidual
resignations, said Senate
President Gordon Bond.
Cox said Monday, "I'm interested
in talking about it (the inquiry). I
don't care to make a statement."
Littleton did not openly say he
supports the inquiry, but stated he
felt it had been done "properly and
in a professional manner."
' 'I feel a little self-conscious about
the whole thing...it's quite a situa­tion,"
said Littleton.
Cox and Littleton have made no
public statements either supporting
or opposing the investigation.
Bond said he knows what Cox and
Littleton said to the investigating
committee and indicated there will
be some answers when the report
comes out Oct. 5.
Bond said he hopes the trustees
will reply to the findings of the
committee at that time. The board
must "make a firm statement as. to
exactly where they stand relative to
this administration so that thost
faculty members who are unhappj
with the administration will know
exactly what to expect," Bond said.
The senate voted to undertake the
investigation into the resignations!
Aug. 24 after it suspended the|
investigation from the beginning of
Summer.
Bond persuaded the senate to;
suspend its investigation July 13 and |
extend the suspension to July 27
after Trustees Robert Harris,
Morris Savage and Fob James
contacted him, requesting he hold
the senate back while the board
proceeded with its own investiga­tion.
The Board of Trustees made no
mention of any inquiry at its Aug
23 meeting.
"I was very upset. In retrospect, I
don' t think we had any choice," said
Bond in response to the board's
inaction. Though Bond said he wants
the board to respond to the senate's
See BOND, A-3
in a memo that the men wanted to.
return to teaching positions in the
University.
Unhappy with this explanation,
the University Senate launched an
inquiry on June 8 to look further into
the situation.
Since then, two months of touch-and-
go speculation between the
senate and the Auburn Trustees
have delayed progress. At its last
meeting on Aug. 24, the senate
renewed the inquiry, aiming to
make a presentation by Oct. 5, this
Tuesday.
In the course of deciding who
should conduct such an inquiry, a
chasm has developed between the
senate and the trustees.
Less than a week after the June 8
meeting that put the inquiry in
place, the senate met again. In that,
meeting, the inquiry was postponed
until July 27 after Senate Chairman
Gordon Bond told the group that the
trustees had asked for a chance to
look into the situation.
When the July 27 meeting of the
senate came, the trustees still
hadn't looked into the situation.
Again, Bond reported to the senate
that the board wanted more time to
do its study, and the trustees*
request was granted.
On Aug. 23, the trustees met in
closed session prior to their regular
meeting and talked with Cox,
Littleton and Funderburk con­cerning
the resignations.
Much to ttie surprise of the senate,
the trustees made no mention of the
inquiry in their regular meeting,
and made no report of any of their
progress toward resolving the ad­ministrative
crisis.
The next day, the University
Senate met again, this time openly
criticizing the trustees for what one
senator called a "breach of trust"
for not acting.
The senate not only officially
resumed the inquiry, but unani­mously
passed a resolution ex­pressing
its disappointment with the
way the trustees delayed the inquiry
without taking action.
An atmosphere of strict secrecy
1RAMPLING THE BIG ORANGE-Freshman half­back
Tim Jesse of Opp contributed to the Tiger s' victory
o'er the Tennessee Vols last Saturday, 24-14. Auburn's
win this year in front of a sellout crowd marks the first
time the Tigers have beaten the Vols in three years.
Auburn has rushed for over 400 yards in its first three
games and this week was ranked 17th in the UPI and 20th
in the AP polls. See related story about Auburn's win CI 4.
Rising risk
Police battle increasing DUI cases
By Lori Lee
Assistant Features Editor
Approximately $40,000 has been
designated to the Auburn Police
Department by the state of Ala­bama
to help In its two-year
campaign against drunk driving.
Editor's note: This is the first of
three articles in a series on drinking
and driving. •
Since 1981 the number of people
arrested for driving under the
influence (DUI), in Auburn has
steadily increased. This rise could
be attrbuted to lowering the drink­ing
age to 19 in 1979, said Edna
Nowell, administrative assistant to
the chief of police.
Four hundred cases of drunk
driving have already occurred this
year, she adds, and 99 percent of
Auburn drunk driving cases involve
college students. She added these
DUI's have a 99 percent conviction
rate, a conviction which carries a
maximum penalty of $500 and up to
six months in jail.
Af te r mapping Auburn DUI cases,
police have discovered most occur
Photography: Tom Palmer
DRIVING BLIND
.too many Auburn students drive drunk
around bars. They regularly patrol
high risk areas such as Highway 29,
Opelika Road, Glenn Avenue and
Dean Road, she said. They will not
"hotdog" or sit in front of a bar
waiting for people,but do patrol
these areas mentioned, Nowell said.
She cited October, November and
April as high-risk months because of
football season and the beginning of
warm weather, which encourages
drinking.
Beginning in October Auburn
police hope to film people who have
been brought into the station while
they take sobriety tests. This film
can then be used in court as legal
evidence.
"If a person refuses to take
sobriety tests, his license will be
suspended for 45 days,'' Nowell said.
This year, the second of the
crackdown on drunk drivers, has
shown success. Lastyear there were
three DUI fatalities, she said, but
none have occurred this year.
Sobriety is tested having a
driver touch his finger to his nose,
walk In a straight line and breathe in
an Alco-sensor (a small analyzer)
See DRINKING, A-2
has existed for the past month as a
31-member committee has inter­viewed
Cox, Littleton and others
Lnvolvedpartiestomakeapresenta-,
tion to the senate and then to the
entire faculty.
Bond said the group hopes to find
out if there are any problems within
the administration that would lead
the two to resign and to find out what
is needs to be done to : correct. a
"state of unrest" at the University.
"I'm absolutely sure that these
two men didn't resign because of an
overwhelming desire to go back Into,
teaching," Bond said. "We want to-find
out the true reasons for ttie
resignations."
Speaking for the president's
office, University Relations Di­rector
p a n Holsenbeck said earlier
thai the president is "more than
willing to participate in this or any
other inquiry."
One ofthe ironies in the situation is
that when the inquiry is completed
by ttie senate, the only official
means for taking action would be
through the Board of Trustees,
which has ttie unique responsibility
for administrative changes.
Although Bond said he doesn't
know whether ttie trustees would
use the inquiry, he does know that if.
a problem is found, it is possible the
general faculty could give another
See INQUIRY, A-2
Asbestos traces
spark inspection
By Keith Ayers
News Editor
Officials at Auburn University are
planning an inspection of all cam­pus
buildings after initial tests re­vealed
ceilings in several buildings
contain asbestos, a suspected
cancer-causing material.
Paul F. Parks, vice president for
research, said last week the Cam­pus
Planning Committee would
examine the situation immediately
amid indications asbestos ma­terials
are present in some build­ings,
including Haley Center.
"People are rightly concerned
about the problem and we want a
comprehensive program to decide
which buildings should get the
highest priority," Parks said.
He said the planning committee
will hire a private firm within the
next few days to examine all
buildings for asbestos and identify
the "hot spots."
"Once we have that report the
CPC can assess the areas that need
the most work the soonest. We have
a great need for a plan before we
begin because this is a big, expen­sive
problem," he said.
Concern about the presence of
asbestos surfaced two weeks ago
after one of the university's radio­logical
safety officers found a
substance that appeared to be
asbestos in the ceilings at Haley
Center.
A day later, Edward Hobbs, dean
of arts and sciences, issued a memo
to all departments in the building
advising them to make sure all
ceiling tiles were intact so the air
conditioning system would not blow
loose asbestos particles into class­rooms.
Hobbs also urged university ad­ministrators
to put Haley Center
high on the priority list for analysis
and treatment. "Although this stuff
has been here 14 years, it still gives
me an uneasy feeling," he said.
He asked the geology department
to estimate the amount and danger
of the asbestos in Haley Center. A
spokesman for the department said
results of the tests would be pre­sented
to Hobbs today.
Dan Holsenbeck, university pub­lic
relations director, said the
president's office wants to stop each
department from conducting its
own investigation. "We don't need
all of these 'informal' investi­gations.
We hope to handle this
problem systematically," he said.
Buildings where asbestos is sus­pected
include the women's dorm­itories
A through K, known as The
Hill; the CarolynDraughonVillage,
married student housing; and Haley
Center.
Haley Center is the headquarters
for the schools of arts and sciences
and education. It is used by about
6,900 students.
Proration specter still
looms in AU's future
By Patricia Vick
Plainsman Staffwriter
Governor Fob James declared
Monday a 10 percent proration
effective Oct. 1 in the state edu­cation
budget and his announce­ment
has alarmed Auburn Univer­sity
officials.
In a statement released Tuesday,
Dr. Hanly Funderburk, president of
Auburn University, said,' 'In effect,
this means that there will be no
increase in our state appropriation
for 1982-83." He added the situation
had "grave implications" for
Auburn and action on ttie matter
would wait until the situation had
been analyzed carefully.
Prior to James' announcement,
the Plainsman talked with Dr. Dan
Holsenbeck, director of University
Relations, who was aware of the
possibility of proration. "We hope
that everyone will manage effi­ciently
and effectively and will not
get themselves into a position where
proration would be that detri­mental,"
he said.
Proration is not new to Auburn
University. Holsenbeck said, al­though
Auburn was not under
proration this past year, the univer­sity
has been three of the last four
years.
"It (proration) is an ever-present
threat so long as there is a recession,
unemployment in the state and
interest rates in two digits," said
J.T. Vaughan, dean of the School of
Veterinary Medicine. He added
proration would be a special Injury
to the vet school since it's striving to
regain its full accreditation.
Vaughan said the school had not
developed any new programs that
proration could hurt, but added he
had hoped proration was just a
"doomsayer's prediction."
Lynn Weaver, dean of the School
of Engineering was also aware of the
possibility of proration prior to the
announcement, saying if it was
severe it could have an impact on the
school's accreditation since the
Engineering School will come up for
accreditation about one year from
now.
"We are already minimally
funded and any reductions will
severely handicap us," said Ben
Cooper, dean of the School of
Pharmacy. Cooper .was also con­cerned
about the pharmacy school's
accreditation and ttie cutback in
supplies resulting from proration.
Proration is a percentage cut
made in the state budgets when
sales tax and income tax receipts
drop off in a given month below the
state's budgetary predictions. The
Legislature bases Its budget predic­tions
on the past year's budget plus
See PRORATION, A-2
Inside
Space shuttle heroes
Mattingly and Hartsfield
come to Auburn. Read the
details, B-8.
News Brief A-2
Editorials A-4
Doonesbury A-7
Campus Calendar B-14
Sports c-1
Entertainment D-l
Recreation C-10
Tiger Scoreboard C-10
A-2 The Auburn Plainsman Thursday, September 30,19&
News Brief.
International
Beirut crises
The death toll in last week's
massacre of Lebanese refugees
inched closer to the 600 mark as
relief workers uncovered 19 more
bodies Friday in Beirut.
Lebanese president Amiu
Gemayel has ordered his
country's military prosecutor
general to look into the slaughter
last week that has been blamed on
Geymayel's own Christian
Phalange Party. . .
National
Woolco liquidating
One of the nation's largest depart­ment
chains is soon going to be
liquidated after two years of record
losses. Woolco officials in New York
said earlier this week that 336 stores
across the country, including 12 in
Alabama, would close in early 1983
after losing more than $19 million in
1981. Losses for this year are
already hovering at the $21 million
mark.
Woolco is a division of the E.F.
Woolworth company, which owns
the 1,300 Woolworth stores as well as
the Kinney's Shoe stores. The
Woolco stores, most of which are in
the Southeast, are being closed so
the company can invest further into
McDonald's sueing
The nation's largest ham­burger
chain, McDonald's, is
sueing Burger King for $20
million claiming their compe­titor's
newest advertising
campaign is misleading and
false. Burger King has unleashed
television ads claiming that they
have the bigger and better
burger. The ads claim that
"independent" research proves
that McDonald's and Wendy's
hamburgers lose to those of
Burger King. The two giants met
in court for the first time Monday
to begin to decide the "battle of
the burger."
In a preliminary hearing
Friday, Burger King was ordered
to release its research findings to
McDonald's for study. Burger
King'g, ads claim their burgers
are 20 percent bigger and are
grilled instead of fried, making
them tastier. In the meantime,
Wendy's has joined the fight by
challenging the big three to a
national hamburger taste test.
State
Wallace nominated
Winning the black vote of
Alabama, George Wallace
narrowly defeated George
McMillan in the Democratic
primary run-off Tuesday night.
As it stands, Wallace leads with 51
percent to McMillan's 49, but
McMillan said he would ' 'seek to
verify the returns."
Wallace is now looking toward
the general election on Nov. 2,
where he will go against Republi­can
nominee Emory Folmar.
Folmar, the mayor of Mont­gomery,
seeks tobecome the first
Republican governor of Alabama
in 110 years.
James in contempt?
A hearing will be held today in
Selma to see if Governor Fob
James will be cited for contempt
of court following statements
made recently by James urging
teachers to ignore a federal court
order concerning Alabama's
school prayer law.
U.S. District Court Judge W.
Brevard Hand issued an injunc­tion
on the controversial prayer
bill Aug. 9, prompting James to
tell teachers to ignore the order.
Ishmael Jafree, an agnostic
attorney, is requesting the
contempt hearing.
University
Alumni shuttle home
Auburn alumni Henry
Hartsfield and Ken Mattingly
have returned from their voyage
on the space shuttle Columbia
and will be,in Auburn this week
along with-NASA director Dr.
Richard Smith for a series of
events concerning the U.S. space
program.
Also present will be Governor
Fob James, Senator Howell
Heflin (D-Tuscumbia), U.S. Rep.
Ronnie Flippo (D-Florence) and
Auburn President Hanly
Funderburk.
fund making progress
Auburn University's $61.7 million
fund campaign for improvements
reached its $31 million half-way
mark this week, officials in charge
of the project announced.
The Auburn Generations Fund
(AGF), a program to solicit private
funds to supplement state funded
improvements at the university,
was launched Oct. 30 last year with
an announcement by President
Hanly Funderburk that $21 million
had already been committed "to
meet the challenges of tomorrow's
generations."
Last week the AGF announced
that more than $9 million had been
committed by the Greater Birming­ham
Area. Additionally, the faculty
and staff have contributed a total of
$672,000 in their "family"
campaign.
Executive Director of the Alumni
Association and Development,
George L. "Buck" Bradberry, said,
"The support thus far has been
simply exceptional. I think we'll
make our goal in plenty of time."
Since Auburn started the fund
drive new pledges have been coming
in at more than a million dollars a
month. Bradberry said he is opti­mistic
that the goal will be reached
by November 1984, a year earlier
than the original target date. "I'm
elated that we've reached the
half-way point," he said, "we're
ahead of schedule, but we still have a
long long way to go."
Funderburk listed several ways
that the university is benefiting
from AGF contributions.
The Forestry Education Center
near Andalusia acquired $3.8
million worth of adjoining land as a
result of an early commitment to
AGF.
The School of Veterinary Medi­cine
just acquired a $150,000 Equine
Surgical Unit.
Single professorships in the de­partments
of accounting and
finance, and another in the School of
Pharmacy have been endowed for
$250,000 and $200,000 respectively.
The Ralph Brown Draughon Li­brary
has received $300,000.
$400,000 is in use for emergency
equipment for the engineering de­partment
with an additional
committment of $500,000.
The matching of a challenge grant
from the National Endowment for
the Humanities, with $500,000
currenUy available for endowments
in humanities programs within the
School of Arts and Sciences.
Additionally, $312,000 has been
directed toward student scholarship
programs, and $500,000 from
private foundation funds has been
earmarked for construction pro­jects.
The president also said that
$196,000 has been committed to the
Montgomery campus.
The single largest donation of $5
million was made by a Birmingham
firm, the John Harbert Corporation,
toward the construction of the new
engineering building.
Because of the generous commit­ment
by Harbert, we can now begin
planning for Engineering Building
II, Funderburk said.
Bradberry said there are more
than 3,000 friends and alumni who
are working in teams around the
country to get funds for the drive. So
far the largest concentration has
been in Alabama, but Bradberry
plans to make contracts as far away
as California before the drive ends.
"The leadership of the program
has been very successful and the
attitude of the workers has been
great,'' he said.
Eagles Nest Grocery
.ocated at Eagles West Apartments
700 W Maanolia
Old Milwaukee
Bicyclists need own lanes
to reduce traffic problems
Drinking
while on the scene. If the police have
reason to believe a person has failed
any of these tests, they may bring
the person in for a breathalyzer test.
This small computer chemically
measures alcohol from the person's
breath.
Police will not stop someone for
DUI unless he has made a traffic
violation, Nowell said. Violcations
such as failure to stop at a traffic
light or stopsign, driving on the
wrong side of the road, driving too
fast or too slow, reckless driving an
any type of erratic driving are
possible clues of a drunken driver,
she said.
A person can pass the sobriety test
if there is less than .05 percent
alcohol in his blood. Between .05 and
.10 percent warrants extra evidence
such as erratic driving or failure on
reflex tests. A percentage of .10 or
more shows there is enough alcohol
in the blood to be intoxicating
whether it is obvious in the person's
actions or not.
' 'Other factors besides the amount
of alcohol in a person's body can
affect his motor skills. If a person
has recently eaten, is sick, sleepy or
depressed, his motor skills may be
affected', 'she said.
Nowell says if a person plans to
drink, he should plan a buddy
system. One person is the group
should drink none or little, she says,
and if a person is at a party and
realizes he has drunk too much, he
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should ask to spend the night. If
someone is at a bar and is too drunk
to drive, he should call the police,
she said, and they will take him
home.
When a friend has been drinking
too much to drive, Nowell suggested
taking his car keys, putting him to
bed or letting a sober person drive
him home and keep his car keys.
By Bobby Belfield
Plainsman Staffwriter
Across the nation, college admini­strations
are realizing the impor­tance
of bike lanes for students.
Construction of such lanes at
Auburn, city engineer Rex Griffin
said, would help keep the large
number of Auburn bicyclists
separated from campus traffic.
A bicycle lane, Griffin said, should
be "physically separated from the
flow of traffic,'' and should' 'have a
curb or some other barrier and be
four to six feet wide."
The traffic problems caused by
bicycles, said Auburn police chief
Billy Gene Holder, is a fairly recent
one.
"Twenty years ago there was no
bike problem in Auburn," he said.
Then he added, "there wasn't
enough bikes to cause a problem."
The bike problem began eight
years ago Holder said. The influx of
large numbers of students brought
about the influx of bike-related
problems.
Griffin sees the problem as one of
priority. "There is a tremendous
demand for parking in Auburn," he
said. The area used for parking
"could be used to fashion some
designated areas for bike lanes,"
but, "there is that problem of
money," he said.
Griffin, though not speaking offi­cially
for the city planning commis­sion
or city council, said he would
like to see cost estimates for a
Proration
the predicted growth in the next
year's economy. The problem of
prorationiscompoundedbyarecent
raise in salary for teachers and
support personnel which is not
proratable. This means the cuts
must come from supplies
day-to-day operations.
The state has two budgets,
general fund budget which was
prorated 15 percent and the edu­cation
budget prorated 10 percent.
and
the
Continued from A-l
Not all state officials were in
agreement with James' decision,
however. One local representative,
ranking House member Pete
Turnham said the governor acted
with'' far too much haste."' 'Usually
you don't declare proration until
later in the year," he remarked.
Turnham said he was also
"shocked" that James blamed the
Legislature for the shortage of
money.
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' citizens bike lane. "The University
should work with the City to try and
come up with a plan for the problem','
he added.
"Bikes are a traffic hazard be­cause
they move slow and motorists
can't pass," Holder said. "Per-
. sonally I would like to see some bike
lanes, but I do not feel the City can
afford it. The streets are too narrow
for the establishment of lanes
without major work being done."
Gainesville, Fla., the location of
the University of Florida, has the
best system of bike lanes Holder
said he has seen or knows of.
"They widened the sidewalk
areas and built ramps to designate
bike use and pedestrian use," he
said.
Without surveys and cost esti­mates,
the question of the necessity
of bike lanes at Auburn cannot be
sufficiently answered.
Bill Godwin, SGA President, said,
"The situation cannot be cured
over night. Godwin said he feels
' 'presently the University'spolicy is
to maximize parking spaces."
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Inquiry
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vote of no-confidence to" the
Funderburk administration such as
the one last February.
At any rate, most of those involved
in the inquiry are reticent to discuss
it before Tuesday's unvailing.
Both Cox and Littleton have
declined to elaborate, but Cox said
Monday that the senate is doing the
inquiry in a "proper" and "pro­fessional"
manner.
A similar silence has befallen the
Board of Trustees.
University senators said that
since the trustees didn't act on the
inquiry, they think it will be
incorporated into an administrative
evaluation the board is already
doing that will begin just after
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The Auburn Plainsman Thursday, September 30,1982
Songs have meaning for local band
By Melissa Shubert and
Monique Van Landingham
Plainsman Staffwriters
Four years of persistant effort,
striving for perfection, financial
sacrifice and a little inspiration
from a muse or two were essentials
which made possible the creation of
an Auburn band's first album.
Mike Davis, Tommy Harper,
George Konstant and Jim Leach, all
of whom attended Auburn Uni­versity,
comprise the band Muse.
When the group first presented its
own style of vocal-oriented music, it
was enthusiastically accepted by
Auburn audiences despite its devia­tion
from current musical trends.
' 'We are not as subject to changes
in the radio market," says Davis, a
music theory major. "We have a
luxury a lot of bands don't have," he
continues,, "because we have time
to pick the songs we want to play."
"We try to play the songs which
have meaning to us," Leach, an
Auburn drafting instructor, says.
Harper, who earned his degree in
psychology, agrees. "If songs don't
mean anything to you, it's just like
another job."
Konstant and Leach sounded the
group's first notes when they team-edupto
play atThe Casino. Through
this appearance Konstant, who has
degrees in both chemistry and
accounting and now works for the
University, was responsible for
Leach's first public performance.
Harper was at the time playing at
the Study Hall Talent Night and the
three came together through mutu­al
admiration.
"I didn't know them," he says of
LeachandKonstant. "I'd never met
them, but I used to go out and listen
to them all the time. I'd sit on the
front row and sing with them."
Leach recalls both »he and
Konstant going to watch Harper
play at the Study Hall, a student
hangout where "there was more
beer on the floor than in the
glasses."
Eventually the three began play­ing
together and Leach and Kon-stant
gradually adopted Harper as a
lead singer in place of their former
lead vocalist.
"It's kind of like cheating on your
wife," Konstant says in a joking
analogy of the shift from one lead
singer to another.
The trio had several successful
bookings despite the fact that for
months it had no name.
"We went through a lot of books,
all of Tommy's records and our
records, dictionaries, thesaruses
and everything looking for a name
for the band," says Konstant.
' 'The only thing we came up with
was Harmony," he continues, "and
that was already taken by another
band in Montgomery. So Tommy
found Muse in a Greek Mythology
book."
The muses were apparently ple­ased
with the choice because the
creativity they inspired soon landed
the group a job playing every
weekend at the Auburn Conference
Center.
Plainsman
Profile MUSE
Muse was also occasionally asked
to supply music for PSA's (Public
Service Announcements) on Au­burn's
public television station.
These PSA's provided Muse not
only financial gains, but also the
opportunity to work with Mike
Davis, post production editor of the
station.
Davis was then a member of the
band Sterling, "a top 40's band that
played the Holiday Inn circuit,'' but
soon developed an interest in Muse.
After rehearsing with the other
three, Davis became the fourth
member of Muse last November. "I
just kind of showed up one day and
stayed," he says. His instrumenta­tion
on the acoustic piano, Fender
Rhodes, synthesizers and percus­sion
is now considered an invaluable
asset by the original members.
Even more valued than his
musical ability is Davis' compati­bility
with other band members.
"If you're not getting along with
each other you can't hide it on
stage," Davis agrees.
"If there are some differences,
everyone seems to make room for
them and allows everyone their own
point of view," Leach says.
In fact, members say their group
unity is one of the main reasons for
their success and distinguishes
them from a number of local bands.
A second distinction is its album, Ir
Harmony, released earlier this
month.
"That makes us different from
99.9 percent of the bands around
here," Davis says.
"In Harmony'' was startedinMay
when "all the conditions seemed
most favorable for it," Leach says.
"All of a sudden it came to a point
when we decided it was the time to do
it," Konstant adds.
"It's a stepping stone," he contin­ues.
"When you walk in to book
yourself with the club owner, if you
have an album it makes your group a
little bit more credible."
Harper describes the album as "a
documentation of how far we've
gotten.'' But all agree the recording
of it was a learning experience in
itself, because each instrument can
be heard more clearly than on stage.
' *It lets you know just how good or
how bad you a r e , " Davis says.
"It can be a humbling experience
too." Leach says.
"If we did the album today, same
material, it would be a better
product," Davis says.
If given the chance to record it
again, members say they would
allow themselves more time and
would begin the cover at the same
time the album was begun. Dewey
Formby, a 1976 Auburn graduate,
designed the album's elaborate
cover and also contributed to the
musical end of the album as did Tim
Brice, a recent Auburn graduate, on
drums and Fred Lord, who some­times
appears with Muse in Auburn,
playing steel guitar.
Konstant says the album will
probably be distributed at the places
they play, Oz records and The
Record Bar in Auburn, Panama
City, Athens, Dothan and from the
stage in lounges where they play.
The album was recorded under
the group's own label, Above
Ground Records.
"We're carrying on a tradition,"
Harper says, explaining that Above
Ground Records was a locally
owned record store in Auburn which
each of the group's members fre-
AU practicing fishy' foreign relations
By Keith Ayers
News Editor
Researchers at Auburn Univers­ity
are getting some firsthand
experience in Middle East diplo­macy
and they quickly admit it's
fishy business.
The center of attention is a
bream-like fish common to both
Israel and Egypt which officials
hope will help bridge one of the
Middle East's oldest political
chasms.
Through a program called Co­operative
Marine Technology for
the Middle East, a part of the 1979
Camp David Accords, the U.S. State
Department and private interests in
all three countries have brought
Egypt, Israel and Auburn together.
Their goal is increased commercial
production of tilapia, a hearty fish
seen as aplentiful food source for the
Middle East.
'.Dr. Nell Smitherman, the Auburn
project director said, "These two
countries, by tradition, wouldn't
think of coming together one-to-one
so we go in and serve as an
intermediary.
"Egypt has the best (genetic)
strain of the fish which come from
the Nile, and Israel is much more
advanced in production technology.
Auburn has helped bring these
together and in turn has benefited
since we get the new strains, too."
- The actual exchange of the
species took place in May when
Smitherman and Ali Khater, an
Egyptian visiting professor at Au­burn,
took tilapia from the Nile to
Israel where scientists demon­strated
their advanced production
techniques.
"We had Israelis and Egyptian
sleeping under the same roof. I
wouldn't exactly call myself Philip
Habib, but we have really brought
these scientists together.
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Although the group would like to
make recording its top priority,
audiences still hold a certain attrac­tion.
"We are playing for other people
to enjoy music,'' Harper says,' 'and
the audience makes a lot of differ­ence
whether it is good or not."
Performing does get old they say,
but "everything gets old," Davis
says.
"But there's that one night in
every 50 where everything goes
perfect and the mood of the people
you're playing for is just right and it
makes you play as good as you can.
You '11 go through 49 mediocre nights
for that one good night," he says.
' 'The music itself is not tiring, it's
performing in the same atmos­phere,'
' Leach says.''Playing mus­ic
is the stimulant and we are
playing for other people to enjoy the
music. If the audience is genuinely
involved in the music we do a much
better job," he says.
Harper says it works both ways;
"the audience pumps us up and we
pump them up."
"The audience can sense," he
says, "if you're having a good time
playing for them."
"When it's good," Davis says,
"there's something about it you
can't find anywhere else. It's add­ictive.
We may joke a lot but the
music is the one thing that is most
important. There is still that chal­lenge
to let music happen and affect
people, and that's really what music
is for," he says.
Unfortunately, they have to deal
with the financial burden of the
business. "Money problems sum up
what we like least about it," Harper
says.
"Money is our big limitation,"
Leach agrees. "It holds us back
fromwhatwe'dliketodo. Withmore
money we could hire a drummer or
use sound equipment that would
optimize our potential," he says.
"We really want to expand our
boundries,'' he explains.' 'We would
like to break from the lounge
circuits," Konstant agreed, "and
get into more recording and con­certs."
No matter where success may
lead, though, they'll remember
where it started, Leach says.
'We'll probably always play in
Auburn. We'd like to always be able
to come back and play for our
friends."
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Volume 89 Number 1
Resignations inquiry
One of the worst side effects of the
Cox-Littleton resignations and the resulting
investigation is that the relationship between
the trustees and the faculty may have been
damaged beyond repair.
Trustees Robert Harris, Morris Savage and
Fob James were able to persuade University
Senate President Gordon Bond to get the
senate to postpone an inquiry while the Board
of Trustees took action. There was much-heated
discussion in the senate concerning the
dependability of the trustees, but when the
votes were cast, the faculty had decided to
support the trustees.
Then they waited and waited. Ultimately,
the trustees took no action and only delayed the
senate's investigation by several months.
The faculty showed good faith in waiting on
the trustees. Now that they have undertaken
the investigation themselves, let's hope they
can continue the good faith. We don't need
political undercurrents, and we don't need
people looking for a stick to smack Dr.
Funderburk with. We need some credible
fact-finding action. This is important business,
and if there is something going on in the
President's office, we need to get on it in a
professional manner.
Since Dr. Cox and Dr. Littleton have already
spoken to the senate committee investigating
the resignations, and since the report should be
out Oct. 5, we must also concern ourselves with
how we are going to react to the outcome. As a
whole, everyone has remained reasonable. We
must continue to keep our emotions out of the
picture or we could have need a debacle on our
hand. We don't need any more of that kind of
publicity.
One ironic note, however, did come out of
the this summer's senate activity. Bond
withheld almost all information concerning
this contacts with trustees and why he wanted
the inquiry suspended. The senate itself held a
closed meeting and excluded the press. Let's
hope the trustees' habits are not rubbing off.
Emphasize priorities
"The University's highest priority should be
the employment and retention of competent
faculty in all areas."
Thus begins the Stat i.ent of General
Priorities from February's Priorities Report.
Since the report came out, the question has
been whether it will merely be a set of
suggestions or a blueprint for immediate
action. The Plainsman solidly supports the
report and urges the administration to move
deliberately and swiftly in implementing the
recommendations contained therein.
Though careful planning for the imple­mentation
of the report is necessary, there must
first be a firm commitment to the goals in the
report and vigorous effort to move toward
them.
. ' - _ • •
With the current success of the Generation's
Fund Drive and the addition of the
engineering buildings, things may be ready to
turn around for Auburn University. But things
will turn aroundonly with strong convictions in
the administration for the goals contained in
the Priorities Report. And some things simply
can't wait.
The status of our library has been steadily
eroding for years. The report recommends
expansion and a drive to become a member of
the Association of Research Libraries. This is
something that should begin vesterday.
The report also reaffirms our responsibility
to land-grant functions, and goes on to say,
' 'All programs cannot be funded now at a level
to achieve highest quality.'' We therefore need
to shift emphasis to areas in difficulty such as
veternary medicine and Pharmacy, which have
established Auburn's excellence. Again, an
immediate concern.
We also must stress productive use of state
funds, the pressing need for high technology
equipment and a strengthened Cooperative
and General Extension program, as under­scored
by the report.
A desire for Auburn's future superiority
means getting started right now.
over asbestos
If you want to get into words with
heavyweight shock value, "asbestos" hastobe
right up there.
The Aubutn University campus is not yet in
shock over the recent asbestos findings, but it
could very well be. Recently, asbestos hazards
have been suspected in women's dorms A-K,
CDV and Haley Center.
Often the media has been accused of
"creating" paranoia over many issues. As a
rule of thumb, however, carcinogens need to
heip from the media to induce panic.
The administration has made statements
that they are on top of the problem, and there's
no reason to believe they are not. Nonetheless,
it wouldn't hurt if we had some concern in the
student body over this to make sure.
But who knows? A decade ago we passed a
student referendum to keep the Vietnam War
going, and last year we gave Gordon Liddy an
ovation. Maybe carcinogens will be the "new
thing" for Aubrn students.
We students have been characteristic^
apathetic. There is a difference between being
a radical and being concerned. We need "to
keep up with this one.
Winners inspire AU
People who can legitimately be called
winners often seem few and far between. But
on Oct. 2, "Space Day" on the Auburn
campus, Jordon-Hare Stadium will hold an
impressive assemblage of Auburn people who
deserve the appellation: winner.
Henry "Hank" Hartsfield '54 and Ken
Mattingly' 58,who took the name and fame of
Auburn University into orbit and before the
eyes of the nation on the fourth flight of the
space shuttle Columbia.will be honored on that
day and will join thousands of other Auburn
people in cheering another bunch of winners
with Auburn ties: the undefeated Tiger
football team.
The Tigers, under second-year coach Pat
Dye, are also representing the university well
and gaining national recognition and respect
with hard-hitting defense, a powerful rushing
game and a 3-0 record.
These highly publicized Auburn winners
serve to remind us of the thousands of other
winners Auburn University has produced and
is producing, and of the debt that we all owe to
this institution, no matter what its flaws.
And they remind us that the values
presented in the Auburn Creed, composed
many years ago by Auburn's first football
coach, Dr. George Petrie, have lost neither
validity nor power with the passage of years.
Make a point of reading and thinking about
the Auburn Creed this week and convening in
Jordon-Hare this Saturday to honor Auburn's
finest.
We were all freshmen once too
Everyone seems to write a "welcome
freshmen" column. Personally, I don't like
freshmen. They giggle too much.
Instead of saying how much I en joy having you
tiny people all over the place, I'll clue you in to
something that may be helpful.
No matter how hard you try, or how much you
think you're succeeding, you won't be able to
avoid acting like freshmen. There's no getting
around it—we all went through it and you will
too. The key to this problem is to act as much like
a freshman you can during your first year.
And don't worry what people think. Not only
is behaving like freshmen allowed, it's actually
encouraged. The idea is to get it all out of your
system while you can still be mistaken for high
school students, and thus not yet responsible for
your personality.
In short, being a freshman is license to kill.
Take my friend Jim, for instance, who became
ill during rush on the couch in the Delta-Sig
living room. It was terrible. The room was
crowded and little sisters recoiled in disgust. But
hey, he was a freshman. What could they do?
Here, then are some tips for making the most
of this immunity.
First, as soon as you get into town, buy as
many souvenirs as possible. This cannot be
emphasized enough. Buy everything you see
with the word "Auburn" on it: shot glasses,
flasks, jackets, macrame toilet covers. Only
after a few years will you understand that the
cool thing to do is buy the trinkets of other
schools.
When you have your ID cards made at the
Coliseum, write stupid things in the information
blanks. My own freshman year, for example, I
was 3-f oot-2 and weighed 14 pounds according to
my ID card. My hometown was "The Twilight
Zone." This was all very funny, I thought, until I
tried to cash a check.
For you female freshmen, there's a special
way to act like a freshman—go through rush.
This is very impressive. When people see you on
Squeal Day, they'll ask themselves questions
like, "Who says kids these days aren't serious
about life?"
And girls, don't forget to buy a soft drink at the
cafeteria and carry the paper cup all over
campus.
And if you're a male freshman, here's how to
pick up girls: Go into a nightclub and order a
beer. Drink the beer with your back to the bar
and scout the tables for women. Go in the rest
room and comb your hair. Decide you need
another beer. Spot a friend and start joking
around conspicuously to project the illusion of
popularity. Finally pick out a girl and ask her t<
dance. When she says no, say "It's just as well.;
had to go to the bathroom anyway." Go into th«
restroom and comb your hair.
Drinking is a major way to act freshman-ish
Here's how to do it. Drink as much as you can a;
long as it's free—wine, whiskey, beer, cham­pagne—
mixing them if possible. Ask people foi
cigarettes. When you go to the bathroom, stare
in the mirror, talk to yourself and laugh. Come
out of the bathroom, pick up abroom and pretend
to play the electric guitar in front of everybody.
Fall asleep under a hedge.
Your living accommodations can also be used
to express your maturity. Don't forget to give
your dorm room or apartment that "freshman
look." Furnish your room exclusively with
cantalope crates, cinder blocks, fish nets and
Pink Floyd posters. Stack all your empty beer
cans in the window for everyone to see. Take the
regular light bulb out of the refrigerator and put
in a red one. Have your mother give you some
plants. Let them die.
To resupply your domestic scene, you must
shop at the supermarket like a freshman. Buy
99-cent pizzas, cheap hamburger and potato
chips. Skip the "soap and household goods" aisle.
Pay the cashier with a check. Watch the check
bounce. Go the record store in the mall so the
hamburger can spoil in the car.
And finally, hold The Plainsman in high
regard. Believe everything we say. These
sentiments will pass only too quickly, so enjoy it
while you can.
A strange feeling when I return
Each fall, upon returning to Auburn, I
approach the campus with a special feeling. It
consists of a deep abiding apprehension, a wave
or two of paranoia and a twinge of intimidation.
Having by now come to expect its annual
occurance, I have dubbed this distinctive
mixture of emotions my Freshman Feeling.
It manifests itself in a trembling of the knees
when I enter an austere lecture hall in Haley
Center which has a seating capacity of 500, or
sweaty palms as I hand a botched registration
form to my dean for his approval.
While suffering an intense bout of the
Freshman Feeling, I can almost imagine myself
clutching one of those wretched orange note­books
they give you at orientation or bearing a
crimson letter "F" branded on my forehead.
After my freshman fall quarter, I tried to
convince myself I would never again be plagued,
but since I've experienced it every subsequent
fall, I've come to the realization that, for me, the
Freshman Feeling is inevitable.
I may be seen at the beginning of each school
year wandering around in one of Haley Center's
quadrants with my glazed stare fixed on the
numbers above each door in a desperate search
for the correct room.
You might also find me standing in the middle
of a busy corridor frantically trying to decipher '
the .abbreviated gibberish in faded computer
print on the student copy of my schedule.
More likely, you'll see me, having lost that
"student copy", frantically searching my person,
belongings, nearby students, etc. for that
all-important gibberish.
All of these are undeniable symptoms of the
Freshman Feeling. So is the knot at the pit of my
stomach when a teacher singles me out on the
first day of class for a merciless interrogation, or
the feeling of terror upon receiving a five-page
syllabus filled with academic feats I never dared
hope to achieve in a life-time, much less nine
weeks.
Paranoia, also associated with the Freshman
Feeling, frequently strikes when I'm in the
presence of self-assured upperclassmen. They
somehow always manage to be on hand to
observe my clumsy; attempts to master the
unwritten laws of Auburn student etiquette.
Of course, they are too well-composed to
snicker if I pull my arms loose from their sockets
in an attempt to open a door obviously made to be
pushed, or giggle when an armload of books
escapes my choke-hold to go skidding away from
me in all directions.
Nevertheless, such incidents tend to make one
a bit self-conscious, particularly when the upper­classmen
turn smugly to one another and
simultaneously mouth the word "Freshman",
I've decided, having survived that Freshman
Feeling for three years, that the apprehension,
paranoia and humiliation never diminish.
However, previous experience has been of some
value.
It has taught me to make a second copy of my
schedule as soon at I receive it and to find put
where each of my classes is before it meets. I
have learned that the most awesome And
impersonal of instructors can take on human
form and sentiments. I have seen tremendously
intimidating five-page syllabuses whittled
down to mere lists of objectives that are indeed
in the realm of human capabilities. I have also
found that upperclassmen don't really consider
freshmen scum of the earth. (Dirt under their
feet perhaps, but not scum of the earth.)
I realize that this optimism may be difficult to
believe for those now suffering the Freshman
Feeling. So, If it's any comfort at all, let me
assure you, you are not alone.
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"Procrastination is the thief of time."
What Edward Young wrote for "Night
Thoughts" over 200 years ago holds true more
today, particularly for those of us fortunate
enough to be at Auburn.
Auburn University offers as vast an array of
extra-curricular activites as one could hope to
find anywhere, and I offer this piece of advice for
the incoming freshman: get involved before the
time is gone! Before you know it, you'll be a
senior wishingyou had done things much earlier.
Sure, your first priority here is school. You
need to study to keep up your grades. However,
if you budget your time correctly, you can have
time to participate in a number of other activites.
And what a wealth of opportunities Auburn
has to offer! From top-notch theatre to an active
Greek System, Auburn has something to please
everyone.
Fall quarter is a time or organization all over
the campus, and activities take no exception:
The UPC is having organizational meetings, and
the Plainsman and the Glom are looking for
photographers and writers, so I thought I'd take
this opportunity to open your eyes as to what is
exactly available for students looking to join
these and other groups.
The largest organization on campus is the
SGA. As a student, you are automatically a
member of the SGA and you can vote in
elections. Take advantage of this and let your
voice be heard, so to speak. Attend the weekly
SGA meetings and show interest in the different
issues they discuss. The Student Government is
your organization; use it. If you're politically
oriented, you may even want to run for one of the
many offices available in the spring.
Another big campus organization worth
looking into is the University Program Council
(UPC). The UPC sponsors nearly all entertain­ment
events taking place on campus, and
students make up the membership.
Divided into nine committees, the UPC
sponsors major concerts such as last year's
Commodores and James Taylor and the
upcoming Jimmy Buffet concert, and also special
events such as street dances and classical
concerts.
The most popular service offered by the UPC
is the free movies offered every weekend at
Langdon Hall. There are very few places in the
country where you can see movies such as "On
Golden Pond" and "Star Wars" simply by
showing your I.D.
The UPC has an organizational meeting in the
fall, but you can join a committee anytime during
the year. Be prepared to work!
Committees are Indoor and Outdoor Recrea­tion,
Major Entertainment, Religious Affairs,
Fine Arts, Films, Special Events, Horizons and
Publicity.
Two other active organizations on campus are
the IFC and the Panhellenic council. There are 30
fraternities and 18 sororities at Auburn, with
nearly 40 percent of the student body in a greek
'organization.
Sororities hold rush every fall quarter, while
fraternities rush the first few days of fall,
winter and spring quarters.
Fraternities and Sororities are much more
than social clubs. They participate in university
and community projects, and they offer many
students a "horns away from home."
Every year, the IFC and Panhellenic sponsor
"Greek Week," a series of competitions between
greek organizations.
If drama is what interests you, Auburn
certainly is a good place to be. This year, the AU
Theatre Department is sponsoring five major
productions, ranging from "HMS Pinafore" to
"The Dairy of Anne Frank."
Auditions are open to everyone and are held at
the beginning of each quarter at the Telfair Peet
Theatre.
Communications are also very popular at
Auburn, with WEGL (the radio station), the
Glom (yearbook) and the Plainsman being
staffed nearly entirely by students.
WEGL broadcasts from Haley Center and the
Glom and Plainsman are located underneath
War Eagle Cafeteria. Students are welcome to
join year round.
For sportsminded students, Auburn has an
extensive intramural program, with competi­tion
for men and women in everything from
football and Softball to horseshoes and vc/jey-ball.
There are separate leagues for fraternities,
sororities and independents.
The Tiger Cub and Circle also look for staff
members year round. The Tiger Cub is an annual
handbook to acquaint students with the
university and its people, and the Circle is the
campus literary magazine, featuring work by
students as well as faculty members.
In addition to these major organizations on
campus, there are numerous specialized organi­zations
on campus that are active.
The Tiger Cub lists all of these organizations,
including all professional, religious and aca­demic
groups at Auburn.
In this column, I have skimmed just the
surface of a huge depth of extra curricular
groups at Auburn. Once again, make time your
friend. Don't wait until it's too late.
Sure, work toward that 4.0, but remember
that sometimes the best education is gained just
by interacting with other people.
A-5 The Auburn Plainsman Thursday, September 30,1982
Opinion A church or a chapter meeting.' ?
A major institution of learning
should avoid drinking problems
A week and a half ago, the Auburn City
Council repealed a two-cent per container tax on
beer, meaning that imbibers in this college town
may soon be saving 12 cents on a six pack.
' • While a valid concern of that decision for the
City is how to replace the loss of tax revenue, an
even more pressing problem has been lost in the
shuffle. Thatis the fact that Auburn has a severe
drinking problem.
When the city repealed the tax, it lost some
$122,000 per year in tax revenue. A little simple
division reveals the big problem.
At two cents per container, Auburn residents
would have had to drink 6.1 million beers to
produce $122,000 in taxes last year. City finance
director Barbara Bramblett said those figures
are correct.
Considering a total population of about 28,000
that means, on the average, that 218 beers were
consumed for every man, woman and child in the
City. That figure doesn't even consider wine,
liquor or other "spirits."
To put things in perspective, let's look at it this
way: if all of those beers were sold in cans, the
discarded aluminum would be right at 250 tons,
enough to build more than 500 aluminum engine
blocks.
In terms of volume, those 6.1 million 12-ounce
cans measure up to well over a half-million
gallons of beer. That's enough to fill about 100
average-sized gasoline trucks.
Keith
Avers
With alcoholism recognized as one of the
nation's most serious social problems, and with
DUI-related deaths hovering at around 30,000
nationwide each year, it is disquieting that
Auburn, whose population is primarily young
people, puts away so much alcohol.
It takes more than just an occasional beer to
maintain such high averages. The figures
indicate that Auburn has a disproportionate
number of card-carrying alcoholics.
Just like any other habit, the earlier in life one
starts, the harder time he has quitting.
As a pinnacle of intelligence and logical
thinking, it is difficult to see how something as
illogical as alcoholism can creep into Auburn. As
researchers work daily here to solve the
problems of the entire world, a problem is
developing right under our feet, a problem that
needs some attention.
It all comes down to a question of sobriety.
And in this day and time, this country can't have
too much of that.
After spending two years in Auburn, it's time
I found myself a church home here. It's time I
stopped occasionally visiting churches here and
filling out their visitor's cards to place in the
offering plate, time I stopped going back home
on weekends to go to my church there and time I
stopped just not going to church at all.
That's the decision I made a week ago last
Sunday morning as I woke up early and headed
for one of the bigger churches in Auburn. I
remembered how beautiful the Easter service
had been at this church last spring, and those
memories were bringing me back to another
service. I thought I might even join the church.
So there I was that Sunday morning,
bright-eyed and excited about becoming a
member of a church with such a huge
congregation, such a promising youth program
and such a fascinating history, dating back to the
beginnings of the city of Auburn and the
University.
But I didn't stay for the service that Sunday. I
never even srot to sit down because the ushers
couldn't find a place for me to sit. They said it was
because I wasn't in a sorority.
I'll try to explain.
First of all, I was late getting to the church. I
spent fifteen minutes looking for a parking space
before I finally succumbed to parking five blocks
away. But that was okay-the church is
downtown, and parking conveniently there is
never easy, even on Sundays.
As I walked into the awesome foyer a few
minutes before 11 a.m., I noticed that the line to
enter the sanctuary was shorter on the left than
on the right, so I headed to the left side.
An usher greeted me there, shaking his head
and telling me that he didn't know where to seat
me, and that I could look for a place myself. I
stepped into the sanctuary and gasped-there
was hardly an empty seat. The church was
almost full, and it looked wonderful.
Students who drive the ambulances
deserve more than they're getting
Editor, The Plainsman,
Parked behind the Drake Infirmary is the
university ambulance. It is paid for through our
fees, but who drives this vehicle? I found out that
the students who walk around campus with the
walkie-talkies are the E.M.T.'s (Emergency
Medical Technicians) who drive this ambulance.
These are students who have put in many long
and hard hours of training to provide other
students with assistance at any time. Some­times
these students are on call all the night
and are called to accidents when the rest of
us are sound asleep. In reward for their
dedicated service they are given free board in a
penthouse apartment in Magnolia Dorm. For
money-conscious people, that comes to approxi­mately
less than 50 cents an hour for their work.
My hat is off to those volunteers who have
given Auburn University a fine life-saving
system. Though we may not have been on of the
unfortunate who needed their assistance, we
owe these students our many thanks for being
there.
I am sad to find out that this ambulance
program is being phased out next year. We will
have to wait an extra ten or more minutes for a
private ambulance to arrive from the Lee
County Hospital and it will cost more than $100
just to be transported to the hospital. Somehow,
I believe that saving students' lives is higher on
my priority list than some of the other projects
undertaken by the University.
James M. Byrne
01 ON
ASEP alive and well in Auburn
hoping to promote interest in nature
Editor, The Plainsman,
The Auburn Society for Environmental
Protection is alive and working, bringing
environmental topics to your attention. I hope
you realize that environmental awareness is
needed to conserve energy and resources, and to
provide a healthy environment for the years
ahead. ASEP is interested in hearing, evalu-
AU prepares women
for successful careers
Editor, The Plainsman,
The fact that two Auburn women are in the
run off for state auditor position illustrates
something to me.
Founded and once a school primarily for men,
Auburn University now prepares women to
succeed in their chosen field, whether this may
be business or government, in competition with
women from colleges and universities no matter
where.
I'm especially impressed with the qualifica­tions
of Miss Ivey, while at Auburn, held five
campus-wide offices, was vice president of the
Auburn Student Government Association and
presiding officer of the Student Senate. She was
also selected "Outstanding Senior Women" by
five campus organizations.
It is this kind of opportunity and traing for
future leadership that makes me not only proud
of the successes of Auburn women, it also gives
me confidence in my selection of a university.
Caroline E.Brady
I stoodthere in the back of the church for a few
seconds before I spotted some half-empty pews
near the front of the church, so off I went to claim
a place for myself. But before I even got close,
another usher stopped me and asked me what
sorority I was in.
"I'm not in a sorority," I said. He looked over
my shoulder at the line of girls following me and
asked them the same question. They answered
affirmatively with three letters of the Greek
alphabet, and the usher escorted them to the
empty pews, pews marked by cards with Greek
symbols handwrittern across them and taped to
each pew.
I waited in the aisle, and when the usher
returned he said, "Maybe you can find a seat in
the balcony," as he ushered another sorority
group past me.
So I went back into the foyer and over to the
staircase. Each side was marked with a card with
Greek letters and an usher to tell girls that the
balcony was already full.
So I decided I'd try sitting on the right side. I
walked over and stood in the doorway. Ushers
were mingling around, and not one volunteered
to seat me. Then I overheard two ushers saying
to each other, "We're going to get in trouble for
having this many people in the church."
The choir was beginning to take its place
behind the pulpit, and I was still left standing in
the back of the church. Then it hit me. Do they
really care whether I stay or not? If I stay, will
someone get in trouble because there's so many
people. How could I be so bold to think that a
church this big would care if I moved my little
membership there? I left, walking past the
ushers and past the stragglers. No one said a
word to me.
I realize that I could have found a seat
somewhere. I could have walked the aisles
asking each row to move down until I got a seat.
But I didn't. After all that happened, I decided
that I wouldn't be satisfied even if I stayed. That
just wasn't the church for me.
And I realize that maybe I just caught the
church on a bad Sunday.
I realize that fire laws do limit the number of
persons allowed in a public building at a time.
But I believe that God protects us when we
gather in His name-even in dangerous
situations.
And I realize that sorority members are just as
important to a church as anyone else, and they
deserve seats as well. But. don't I deserve a seat,
too?
And I can't keep from wondering what my
attitude would be now if I had been invited to the
church for the first time, or if I had been a
freshman all alone in a new city, or if I had been
lost in Christ and needed some guidance.
The first thing I wanted to do that morning
was go home and feel sorry for myself. But I
didn't; I drove to a nearby Baptist church and felt
sorry for the church I had just left.
At the second church, which was as crowded
as the first, I walked in awkwardly, almost ten
minutes late and during a prayer, But I was
given a seat in a folding metal chair set up in the
side aisle. No one offered me a hymnal,
fortunately I knew most of the songs by heart,
and only two people said hello. But at least I got
to hear a wonderful sermon, and at least I was in
God's house on Sunday.
At least they let me sit down.
ating, and relaying all pertinent ideas and
information. Everyone's input is of value.
You may not have heard of ASEP, so I'll let
you know who we are. The Auburn Society for
Environmental Protection was founded in "79 by
Tim Morales, and chartered by the SGA in early
'80. In two and one-half years, ASEP has
sponsored four music festival events with an
environmental atmosphere. The event last
Spring was called "Earth Day." MUSE and
others played their songs, skydivers visited
twice, and Webster's lake was as picturesque as
ever..
ASEP brings environmental information to
the public during: their festivals and, also in
programs like the discussion on nuclear power
ASEP sponsored in February, '81. Now with our
energy rolling again, we will sponsor a video
program entitled "The Medical Implications of.
Nuclear Energy" and "The Last Epidemic" the
29th and 30th of September. The one hour video
will be shown at 12:10,3:10, and at 7:10, in Foy
Union room 213.
ASEP encourages recycling, and would like
everyone in this area to take the time and space
to conserve energy and resources. We would like
everyone to clean up loose garbage at Chewacla
so that we all can recreate in an esthetically
pleasing park.
If you would like to become a part of ASEP,
express an opinion or idea, or find out more about
the environment in Auburn, call 821-9027, or
write to The Auburn Society for Environmental
Protection, P. O. Box 522, Auburn. Don't miss
the video program—and War Eagle!
DougDonley
03AEC
Military offers important service to America
Editor, The Plainsman,
This letter is addressed to all students at
Auburn and from an officer in the Marine Corps.
The views expressed are solely my own and not
those of the Corps. I wish to tell you some of the
feelings and perceptions we have as Marine
officers, which extend to most officers in the
Armed Forces. The basis of all intense emotion,
depicted by many of you as being a warmonger,
is the realization that the United States does
indeed face a more serious and immediate threat
of military conflict than most people realize or
are willing to admit. In many areas of
technology, the Soviet Union is indeed ahead of
us; in Naval forces, the USSR is ahead by more
than 2 to 1 in numbers of ships; their army is
several times larger than ours and better
trained in all-round war-fighting skills.
It is true also that they have many faults left to
overcome, but that is not really what is
important. What we should focus on is not the
static situation as it is today, but where they are
in the building process. The Soviets have
vaguely expressed a strategy for continued
Summer Bloodrive
takes in 800 pints
Editor, The Plainsman,
For those of you who are just returning to
school and those of you who have been here but
do not know, I am happy to inform you that we
have broken all previous Summer Bloodrive
records with over 800 pints donated.
Because of this successful summer drive, the
shortage that was predicted in Alabam did not
happen. However, the need for blood is a never
ending struggle. Therefore, we have come up
with the idea of "Warm-up '83." It is a pre-5000
bloodrive for the one to be held in Jaunuary.
"Warm-up '83" will take place on October 6 & 7
from 12:00 til 6:00 both days. REgistration will
begin for the dirve during the time that student
I.D.'s are made. Be sure to sign up or make an
appointment. If this is not possible come
anyway. Your cooperation will be greatly
appreciated. I believe that this is going to be the
best year ever!
Director of Bloodrive '83
T.J.Lee
build-up of forces, which they are slowly
achieving. And what are we doing to counter
this? You tell me is we act concerned as a public.
And why am I harping on the Soviets? Because
the Soviets are in better control of the situation
than many writers would lead you to believe.
Don't make the mistake of being over joy ed by an
article which implies that the Soviet Union is
about to collapse. They have a leadership which
is very capable of solving problems and very
professional by nature.
Not only that, but they are in covert control of
many of the flare-ups around the world, such as
in Angola. Of course, we are aware of their
control in that country, but there are many such
incidents of which we are not quite so sure in
public.
We in the Marine officer corps are constantly
aware of what might one day confront us as
combat leaders. This awareness begins with the
severe test of physical stamina which every man
and woman must undergo to become a Marine
officer. The results are increased awareness of
physical appearance, a sense of duty to uphold
the highest standards and an intense motivation
to never allow defeat.
After one becomes commissioned, the polish­ing
phase begins. The Marine officer begins to
emphasize physical conditioning, appearance,
professionalism in work and conduct, and a
knowledgeable hatred of all forces acting
against liberty and freedom. It is important for
you, as college students, to realize that the
ROTC guys running around campus are not yet
the polished officers they will be. Some are more
mature and knowledgeable than others, but all
lack one or the other traits they will soon acquire
as officers.
There are no Santinis running around in the
officer corps. We do no put up with such
classlessness anymore; therefore, you should
not base you judgement of the officer corps on
such fictional depections. The order of the day
now is performance and professionalism of
extreme intensity.
To summarize, what I want you to remember
is that there are good officers and few bad ones
too. We do not always weed them out, but the
bad ones don't get far in the Marine Corps. We
are very serious about what we do and
constantly strive to improve. Always aware of
what America means and the alternatives to it,
the Marine Corps maintains a constant state of
readiness. We will be the first ones to fight,
possibly on such short notice as 24 hours,
knowing very well that our defeat could mean
the much broader success of the enemy.
We will never be defeated, as we never have
before. You, as future leaders of this nation,
must realize the place the military plays in our
country's freedom and demand the utmost
professionalism from their officer corps. Given
the necessary equipment to work with and a
sense that society appreciates their devotion to
duty, the officer corps will die in place before
allowing the enemy's victory and suppression of
your way of life.
LT. Jason M Williams, USMC
Classofl982
Mass arrests in Poland
clear out classrooms
Editor, The Plainsman,
Two recent articles in the "Chronicle of
Higher Education" are worth noting-by stu­dents
and teachers.
Fall registration began at universitites in
Poland. More than 4,000 vacancies were
reported. The reason? Although not officially
acknowledged, insiders say these vacancies are
due to mass arrests that occurred on August 31.
Students were demonstrating in support of
Solidarity. Here in the United States we are
guaranteed the right to demonstrate and
express our views. As Poland illustrates, others
aren't so lucky.
In a related issue, faculty members at a
university on the West Bank have been forced to
leave by Israel. All professors in the Israeli-occupied
territory have been required to sign a
controversial statement condemning the Pales­tine
Liberation Organization. Those who do not
are forced to leave the territory. That is like
Auburn professors bethfc required to sign a
statement supporting President Reagan or
supporting a nuclear freeze.
The lesson here is twofold: We should
appreciate the rights we have. We should work
to protect and maintain the rights our ancestors
fought and died for.
William H. Reid
Family Life Specialist
A-6 The Auburn Plainsman Thursday, September 30,1982
PLAINSMAN POLICIES
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Foy Union is donated by the University.
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cditionsovcrspring break,The Plainsman ,
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"I need a breather," explained
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young man's game. Since the
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leave was not announced, but the
artist indicated he will resume the
feature by the fall of 1984.
Trudeau said he views the time off
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1 "There are a few problems that
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A-8 The Auburn Plainsman Thursday, September 30,1982
.SECTION B Second Front
Thursday, September 30,1982
• Summer news summary, B-2
D School prayer controversy, B-3
THE AUBURN PLAINSMAN
FRESHMAN
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It's now just Wallace and Folmar
Wallace workers
celebrate win
By Keith Ayers
News Editor
With all the festivity of a summer
family reunion and the excitement
of a cattle auction, more than 500
supporters of Alabama's most
famous politician met in a Mont­gomery
auditorium Tuesday night,
waiting anxiously as vote tabu­lations
trickled in from across the
state.
Blue and orange Wallace stickers
were stuck on every chair, wall and
even on many people as the veteran
politician's state headquarters
were vibrant with self-proclaimed
grassroots Alabamians, who were
there to see the state's favorite son
return to political prowess.
Supporters with styrofoam derby
hats, and more T-shirts than ties,
mingled impatiently in a room
adorned with the state flag, the U.S.
flag and full-size portraits of the
ex-governor.
On one wall, dozens of newspapers
clippings highlighted the last six
months of campaigning. A host of
newspaper, television and radio
journalist waited patiently to write
the story's latest stanza.
As spectators engulfed Cokes and
sandwiches, campaign higher-ups
bellowed out the latest returns from
a raised stage.
Although Wallace tried desper­ately
this time to run an "issues"
campaign, the issues weren't im­portant
tonight. For these people,
George C. Wallace was issue
enough.
Although there were times when
the election bordered on being close,
there was a certain confidence that
was never broken. Even though an
occasional chorus of sighs went up
when McMillan would go ahead in a
given county, doubt was never the
right word, for these were Wallace's
people, and this was Wallace's state.
As crowds hovered around more
than a half dozen televisions scat­tered
around the auditorium, a
sharp sense of alarm went up from
the crowd. Suddenly, one Mont­gomery
television station was re­porting
that Wallace had fallen
behind substantially.
Minutes later, a sigh of relief and a
roar of laughter filled the room, as a
newsman on the station tried to
tactfully explain that the names and
numbers had accidentally been
switched.
A reporter from that station was
at the auditorium and got some
tongue-in-cheek jibes from cam-
Photography: Tom Palmer
paign higher-ups after the cor­rection
was made.
One campaign leader, Jack
Lofton, said if Wallace were in
control of the state's schools, the
state's journalists could learn to
read better and thus avoid such a
mistake.
"We could teach them the differ­ence
an 'M' and a 'W'," he said.
As the night dragged on, the
Wallace lead became larger. Ex­citement
turned into fatique and
eyes reddenedwith cigar smoke, but
the crowd stayed.
Finally, at exactly 10:20 p.m.,
Lofton told the crowd that the United
Press International had chosen
Wallace as the clear winner. A
three-minute roar of applause and
cheer rang out.
Minutes later, Lofton told the
crowd that the ex-governor was
coming to greet them. Not a single
person left.
At exactly 10:55, George Corley
Wallace arrived at the auditorium
and made his way across the
platform where his success story
had been told all night. From that
point on, it was vintage Wallace.
' 'I want to say I am very humbled.
We have won the nomination, and I
want to congratulate George mc +
Millan...I respect him for being a
tough opponent."
Mask contests house election loss
By Tommy Shovelton
Plainsman Staffwriter
For most Auburn students
summer is a time to go to the beach,
get a job to make money for fall
quarter or go to summer school.
For Barry Mask the summer was
a time to speak at political rallies
and travel the back roads of
Tallapoosa County campaigning for
votes in his race for the Alabama
House of Representatives District
62.
But for Mask the summer ended
on a sad note when he came 35 votes
from a runoff position in the Sept. 28
election.
Last Sunday, Mask sat on his
fraternity house bed reflecting on
his summer and contemplating his
political future.
The former Aubie was reserved
and as he talked he mentioned that
the long summer of campaigning
had taken some of the "fire" out of
his usually dynamic personality.
"Three months ago I thought that
surely if people vote by qualifica­tions
and straight answers to the
issues I should win. But that's just
not the way it is," he said as he
thought back.
' 'I guess it was sort of idealistic of
me to think that people would vote
based on just qualifications. Now I
realize they don't."
Mask's campaign, which began
May 29, was issue-oriented which
contrasted with his five other
opponents personality-based
campaigns.
He adm itted that he knew political
statistics showed that issue-oriented
campaigns usually ended
in failure, but he said that was the
only way he knew how to present
himself to the voters.
However, the political science
major said, he did find that people
were more interested in politics
than they wanted the politicians to
think.
Mask said he also found that
Alabama's election system is not
without problems.
On election night as the election
results came in Mask was winning
every box, he said, but at 9 p.m. the
results stopped being reported.
When the totals resumed again at
11:30 p.m. Mask began falling
behind.
He also said he understood that
people were voting as the results
were coming in.
Mask got his strongest indication
of wrong doing when he received two
anonymous calls from the county
courthouse saying he should ask for
a recount.
He did ask for a recount and was
allowed, along with other unhappy
candidates, to open several voting
machines in the county and check
the totals. When he made his check
he found more than 60 errors in the
final totals, but none substantial
enough to put him into the runoff.
"I don't mind losing," he said.
"I've lost many many times, but
losing because there were things
going on in the system that were
incorrect—that's another matter."
He then paused and said on the
other hand he should have won the
race outright. He says he wonders
whether he could have met more
people or made another speech. He
admits thatbeingonly 35 votes shy of
a runoff is hard to swallow.
His campaign started slowly be­cause
of the name recognition. It
was slowed further by his opponents
references to his youth and lack of
experience. However when the
23-year-old Mask challenged his
See MASK, B 16
Photography: Bryan Easley
CANDIDATE REACTION-When the votes began to tally up and George
Wallace appeared to be a sure victor in Tuesday's democratic
gubernatorial runoff, two things became evident. Wallace (above) will be a
tough one to beat in the Nov. 2 general election, and George McMillan,
(below) who never conceded until the last votes were in, is a highly
respected gentleman among the loyal fans who support him.
McMillan holds
on all evening
By Lee McBride
Assistant News Editor
From the beginning when the vote
count started trickling in, Lt. Gov.
George McMillan never led in his bid
for Democratic nomination for
governor.
However, one could never have
guessed it by the mood and outlook of
supporters at his temporary head­quarters
at Boutwell Auditorium in
Birmingham.
Supporters wer optimistic from
the beginning, saying immediately
that the race would be close.
As four televisions played around
the room, groups gathered to watch
election returns. When two major
Birmingham television stations
predicted early in the evening that
McMillan would win, supporters
went wild. Optimism turned to
confidence, and screams, cheers
and thoughts of the future began in
earnest.
Assistant compagin manager
Mary Barbston said it was a little
early to call the election, but "We'll
take any good news',' she said early in
the evening.
Other people in the hall were
pleased with the predictions, but
wary of the early call. Excited
conversation flooded the room. But
the conversations were spotted with
patches of reservation.
"It's too early to tell," said one
supporter. "It's a bit premature,"
said another.
Still, the predictions lifted the
mood of the crowd from sheltered
optimism to semi-confidence.
As more results began pouring in,
the district coordinator for Lee
County, Russell, Macon, Chambers,
Tallapoosa, Coosa and Clay
counties, was scurrying around
showingpeople the returns from Lee
County.
Walter Porter proudly announced
that Lee County had chose McMillan
over Wallace by more than 3,000
votes and the city of Auburn had
voted for McMillan by an over­whelming
total of 4,478 to 934.
Auburn student Michele Perkins,
04RA, said she had predicted a good
show in Auburn because she had
been campaigning and knew people
were planning to vote for him there.
Another Auburn student, Steve K.
Howell, 03ME, said he had really
thought McMillan would get more
votes than he did in Auburn.
As the night progressed, the
crowds grew thicker and supporters
were still fairly confident about the
outcome of the race.
Campaign Manager Mike Perkins
said that he couldn't be sure of the
outcome until all the figures were in,
but that McMillan had met some of
his goals in certain counties.
Birmingham City Council Mem­ber
Jeff Germany said black sup­port
made a major difference in the
campaign, including the support of
Mayor Richard Arrington.
See MCMILLAN, B-ll
Turnham vies for speaker position
By Keith Ayers
News Editor
The year was 1959 and the
Alabama House of Representatives
was convening for its regular
session. Among the new faces on
Goat Hill was a Clarke County car
dealer and a Lee County office
furniture salesman.
A few months ago, the Clarke
County man decided to seek another
term in the House and cast his bid for
the governorship. His na me was Joe
McCorquodale.
His Lee County colleague, who
has helped hammer out state law for
almost a quarter of a century, was
Pete Turnham of House District 63.
While Turnham's name is not as
familiar to state residents as Mc-
Corquodale's, it soon may be.
When the 1983 legislative session
begins in January, the Auburn
lawmaker will be running for
speaker of the House, a position
McCorquodale held for eight years.
"I want the House to select
someone who can get along with
most of the House members and
being from the middle of the state I
think I can get along with the folks
from both the north and south,"
Turnham said from his Auburn
office.
"I won't go in expecting the job,
but if the House wants me to have it
I'll be more than glad to serve. The
speaker has a great deal of influ­ence
on the thinking of the entire
House."
The speaker is elected by the
House membership. He assigns bills
to committees, recognizes speakers
from the floor and generally over­sees
the lawmaking process in the
lower chamber.
In the past the job has frequently
gone to a House member with
longevity and Turnham has that
qualification. He will be the senior
lawmaker in both the House and
Senate, starting his seventh four-year
term.
He was unopposed this year and in
See TURNHAM, B 16
Municipal News
AUBURN CITY COUNCIL
The Auburn City Council passed
three ordinances that repeal all the
local beer taxes and license fees.
The council passed the ordinances
due to the Alabama Legislature
approving a uniform beer tax law
which will apply to all munici­palities.
The new state beer tax law
includes a six-year provision of
recovery of the money lost by the
municipalities. City Finance Di­rector
Barbara Bramblett said the
city could expect to lose $132,000
next year and is in the process of
filling a claim for the six-year
recovery period.
The council also approved a $6.28
million city budget for 1982-83. The
budget includes money for five
miles of street resurfacing, 1,700
feet of sidewalk repairment, garb­age
collection, an extension of city
library hours, and for the first time
ever to be written in a budget,
drainage repairs.
TIGER CUB CLOSES
After 20 years, the Tiger Cub
cafeteria on College Street closed on
September 9.
John Jackson, the Tiger Cub
owner, never missed an Auburn
home football game in ten years.
Jackson was head coach of "The
Tiger Cub Coaching Staff." The
staff began just as local fans sitting
around drinking coffee and re­playing
the previous Saturday's
Auburn game on Mondays. "We
evenhad special membership cards
printed up, and a committee had to
approve people for membership,"
Jackson told a local reporter.
Besides football, politics was
another main topic of discussion at
the Tiger Cub. Jackson was very
involved in the political campaigns
of his favorite figures such as
Senator Jim Allen, Congressman
Bill Nichols and Governor George
Wallace.
BLACK TIE EVENT
The Lee County American Heart
Association is presenting a "Black
Tie at the Cabe re t" tonight at 7 at the
Auburn Conference Center and
Motor Lodge.
Tonight's event is a fund raising
event, the first of its kind in the Lee
County area. Tickets are already
sold out and next year organizers
hope to host two shows in order to
meet the demand.
TELEPHONE ORDERS
Some 6000 telephone orders were
placed by Auburn University stu­dents
at the beginning of fall quarter
this year, South Central Bell re­ported.
KEG ROLL
Five members of Tau Kappa
Epsilon are pushing a 50 pound keg
from New Orleans, La, to Milwau­kee
, Wis., as part of an overall effort
to raise $1 million to benefit St.
Jude's Children's Research Hos­pital
in Memphis, Tenn.
The five team members rolled
through Auburn on their trip
through ten states before they reach
their destination. This is the fourth
consecutive year, TKE has spon­sored
the keg roll.
The members of the keg roll are
selected from applications from 300
national TKE chapters. They were
selectedon the basis of their athletic
ability and also on their dedication
to St. Jude and their fraternity.
Interview with
President Hanly
Funderburk, B-5.
B-2 The Auburn Plainsman Thursday, September 30,1982
SUMMER NEWS SUMMARY
By Keith Ayers
News Editor
While summers at Auburn in the
past have been known for being long
and uneventful, 1982 took strong
exception to that trend as the
quarter was punctuated by several
highs and lows for the University.
In late June, Auburn hit a high as
Ken Mattingly and Henry Harls-field
became household names not
only here, but across the country as
Auburn grads piloted space shuttle
Columbia to a week-long excursion
in space.
Eyes on the Sky
The world looked on as Mattingly
— class of 1958 — and Hartsfield —
class of 1954 — loaded up a cache of
Auburn momentos to take into
space. Even after the trip ended
with a picture perfect landing,
appropriately, on July 4, Auburn
University and its contributions to
the space program stayed in head­lines
for weeks.
Eyes on the Administration
As Americans looked skyward,
Auburn eyes were on Taylor Lit­tleton
and Grady Cox. The two
Auburn vice-presidents resigned in
June, a move that many faculty
members saw as unexpected and
suspicious.
While the president's office said
the two left the administration to
take jobs teaching, the University
Senate wouldn't be pacified with
such an explanation. The group
immediately began an inquiry into
the resignations. The inquiry was
put on the back burner for a few
weeks, as the Trustees told the
Senate they would look into the
situation fully.
In a closed session hours before its
regular meeting in August, the
Board of Trustees talked with Cox,
Littleton and Funderburk to get the
straight story. Whether the Board
was happy with its findings is still an
unanswered question, as no report
was made in the regular meeting,
much to the dismay of the Univers­ity
Senate.
Two days after that Trustees
meeting, the University Senate met
again and voted to resume its
inquiry, hoping to give a full report
by October 5. That is where the
situation stands. (See related story,
page ).
Not as Fortunate
Even though the summer was
momentous for the school of engi­neering
with the space shot and a
new building inching skyward,
other schools across campus
weren't as fortunate.
On June 7, the Board of Trustees
voted to reduce the number of .
veterinary medicine admissions
from 100 to 90 to correct a critical i
problem of lack resources, space !
and instructors. It was a move to
insure that the 90 who are admitted
graduate from an accredited school.
Accreditation was also the name
of the game in the Pharmacy School,
as Dean Ben Cooper went before the
Trustees in August and reported
that the school will be facing serious
accreditation problems in two years
if teacher-student and dollar per
student ratios don't improve.
Cooper cited level funding and
inflation as the main culprits in the
problem. While the Trustees took no
official action, they did commit
themselves to look into the school's
budgetary problems.
No Illegalities
Both the Student Government
Association and the University
survived audits whose results were
made public this summer. No
illegalities were reported in either,
but procedural recommendations
were made in both.
Changes, Beer and Noise
As far as the city of Auburn goes,
Overbooking mistakes in housing
leave students stranded in Bullard
the key word was change. The City
Council will see five new faces out of
nine, including a new council presi­dent.
Victor Vance, a local business­man,
edged professor Charlotte
Ward for that spot. While the
elections were comparatively
clean, Vance did site Ward's support
of the noise ordinance and high beer
taxes as two areas where his views
differ.
Another change in the city was a
mid-Summer decision of the council
that made it illegal to discharge a
firearm in the city limits. Anyone
who shoots a gun in the city can be
charged with a misdemeanor
| carrying a penalty of up to |600 or a
maximum six months In jail.
Safe No More?
Auburn's reputation as a safe
college town was put in serious
jeopardy this summer as three
co-eds were raped and more than a
half-dozen other sexual assaults
were reported. All of the rapes took
place off campus, and Police Chief
Bill Holder says It Is the worst rash of
sexual crimes he has seen in his
career here.
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Not Much Deciding
The student vote undoubtedly
carried little weight in the Lee
County primary elections which fell
between quarters on Sept. 7. On the
" other hand, there wasn't much-deciding
to fee done as the two
congressmen representing Auburn
ran unopposed. The House will see
the return of Pete Turnham for his
seventh consecutive term (see re-latedstory,
page ). Ted Little will be
going back to Montgomery for his
fourth term In the Senate.
As expected, Auburn grad George
McMillan ran strong in the county,
taking some 45 percent of the votes
in the gubernatorial race. George
Wallace ran second with 32 percent
and Joe McCorquodale took about 20
percent.
By Ned Sweeney
Plainsman Staffwriter
About 48 newcomers to the
Auburn campus must have felt as
strange as passengers stranded at
an airport when the airline over­books
a flight.
Because of what housing officials
are calling a "lack of cancella­tions,"
the group of incoming
freshmen have had to spend over a
week in Bullard Hall, a dorm
previously closed indefinitely for
repairs.
Assistant Director of Student
Housing Jerry Cook said Bullard
was closed because of increased
heating expenses due to leaking
pipes which return the water con­densed
from the steam that heats
the building.
The leakage from the pipes has
also caused deterioration of the
ceilings and walls in some of the
rooms in the dorm which resulted in
those rooms being closed last year,
Cook said.
On Friday afternoon, Sept. 24,
Cook affirmed the letter sent to the
freshmen, saying that the freshmen
would be permanently assigned
housing no later than Monday, Sept.
27, when a list of men not showing up
for school was compiled.
On Monday afternoon, Sept. 27,
the men had received no word on
when they would be reassigned and
expressed dissatisfaction con­cerning
their predicament.
One of the temporary residents,
Jon Curren, 1CS, said that the
majority of bathroom facilities are
in terrible shape with many of the
toilets leaking on the floor or totally
inoperable.
Most of the residents agreed that
the dorm would be liveable if repairs
to the plumbing and heating
systems were made.
Another resident, Carlos
Gutierez, 1IND, said that a mother
helping her son to move in was so
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.This scene typical of what is found in Bullard Hall
hallways, including barrels and
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Another tenant, Pete Torres, IPIN ,
said the residents have no idea when
they will receive notification of their
permanent assignments, because
he has had no communication with
the housing officials. Torres said he
was upset, because he had applied
for housing in March and had been
guaranteed space on-campus.
KevenStewart, atransferstudent
in Bullard, said "...at least they
were honest about the housing being
on-campus."
Rusty Miller, 1PN, and Eric
Walters said they would have made
other arrangements, but housing
had guaranteed them a room for fall
quarter. They said they didn't know
of any residents having been re­assigned
yet.
Cook said there are no definite
plans for Bullard's renovation, and
no date has been set for its
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Clergy takes sides over question of prayer in schools
By Melissa Shubert
Features Editor
Battle lines are being drawn
across the nation and in Alabama
over the issue of prayer in public
schools.
This controversy, which began in
Alabama when Rep. Shelby Ward of
Opelika introduced abill concerning
prayer in public schools, has local
church and religious organizations
questioning the issue.
Ward says the bill, which contains
a written prayer, was "something I
needed to do."
'' I was tired of a minority of people
taking away from the majority,"
she adds.
Rev. Ronald Biel of Trinity
Lutheran Church says he feels it is
an issue the government should not
try to decide.
"To have prayer used as an
obligation for all people in public
school is something the government
should not say," Biel says.
"While we are a country founded
' on the principle of one nation, under
God and allegiance to the flag, we
are also privileged to recognize and
tolerate all religions," he says.
'' Correct working for a prayer used
for an entire class of students could
probably not be achieved,'' he adds.
"What one teacher might use
might not be what others would
use," he says. He added that a
teacher who is not a Christian could
slant the attitudes of students.
"I am very much in favor of
prayer," he says, "if everybody in
the classroom wants to do it."
"Prayer," Biel says, "is not a
manipulation of God but is an
expression of our religion through
prayer with God."
On the other side of the issue,
father John McElynn of St.
Michael's Church says he favors
passage of a national prayer law.
' 'I am in favor of a national prayer
law,'' he s a y s , ' 'because I feel there
is a place for prayer in the school
system."
McElynn says a certain amount of
time shouldbe set aside, perhaps not
exactly for a prayer time, but for a
"sense of acknowledging the fact
that people are dependent on a
supreme being."
Danny Doss, associate minister of
Auburn United Methodist Church,
says his church has not taken a
strong stand on either side.
' 'I wonder whether it is a big issue
or not," he says. "I personally think
it is not that big of an issue."
"I'm pretty much for it,'' he says,
' 'but you couldn't put prayer in the
hands of some people to direct it."
"The rising percentage of
Christians involved In politics and
lobbying is prompting people to get
involved in this issue," says John
Lambert of Maranatha House.
Lambert, who is in total favor of
the law, says when the Constitution
was written several provisions were
left out. "Society can change and
national bill, Lambert says, may be
decided soon.
"Sen. Howard Baker has said this
amendment has a lot more support
than the anti-abortion measure
which was tabled, "he says. "Ithink
the Senate will pass it, possibly
before the end of this Congress or the
new laws ned to be spelled out," he
says, "when it (the constitution)
was written, it was no problem. Now
things are more secularized and it is
time to spell out In the Constitution
that ttiis is a right." The future of the
next one."
"However,"hesays, "if the states
will ratify it is another question."
Although Rev. Al Jackson of
Lake view Baptist says he is not an
attorney and is in no position to
judge the prayer law, he says he
does support voluntary prayer in
schools. "I do support President
Reagan's constitutional amend­ment,"
he says, calling it a "much
needed corrective."
Jackson says that this amend­ment
will not coerce anyone and Is
written in such a way that those
choosing not to participate will not
feel pressure to do so.
Dave Bradford, evangalist at the
Auburn Church of Christ at 1400 N.
College St., says prayer is "some­thing
that never should have come
under legislation."
"I suppose I am one of those
persons who it doesn't cover
because they can't legislate what I
do," he says.
The Unitarian Church sides with
those who believe in separation of
church and state. Members say
prayer should be dealt with by the
family and not by-laws.
Rev. Dick Gilchrist of st. Dun-stan'sEpiscopal
Chapel says he also
believes prayer is an issue which
should be dealt with by the indivi­dual
families.
"I wouldn't want my child being
taught by teachers who have
different religious ideas than I do,"
he says. "What happens to children
encouraged to pray In public class­rooms
is it cheapens prayer and
teaches it Is something to do just
because someone told them to do it."
"an open-ended moment of
silence'' is what James Bankhead of
the First Presbyterian Church of
Opelika favors.
"I don't see anything wrong with
prayer in classrooms," he says,
"but I'm probably not in favor of a
fixed prayer the government
writes."
It is the prayer which the law
contains that Rep. Pete Turnham of
Auburn dislikes.
" I am for prayer in public schools,"
hesays, "butyoushouldn'twriteone
and put it in the bill. It should come
from their own heart.''
Turnham predicts the Included
prayer will be removed from the law
by the Alabama Supreme Court.
Auburn SGA president Bill
Godwin says he is "waiting on the
courts'' to see if the bill will hold up.
' 'I am for full voluntary prayer in
public schools," he says. Yet, he
added that they should not be
tailored to a specific religion.
NDSL, Work Study funds gone, V
Pell Grants, GSL's still available
The
Plainsman
By Paula Harrison
Plainsman Staffwriter
Although some federal aid pro­grams
on campus have been
exhausted, Pell Grants and Guaran­teed
Student Loans are still avail­able,
even to students who have not
yet applied for aid, said Larry
Ridgeway, director of financial aid.
The Pell Grant program, which
does not have to be repaid, pays
students up to $1,800 (not to exceed
half the total cost of education for a
year), Ridgeway said. American
College Testing, a private company
that processes the applications for
the government, has experienced
some problems which delayed aid
payments to students earlier this
quarter, but Ridgeway said the
processing is getting better and
faster.
The second type of loans still
available to students are the
Guaranteed Student Loans which
are interest loans insured by the
federal government. In this type of
program, participating banks loan
the money and pay the interest until
six months after the student leaves
school, then the student begins to
pay a minimum of $60 per month
until the loan is paid off.
Funds for the Pell Grant and
Guaranteed Student Loan pro­grams
are' 'open-ended, *' and do not
"run out," Ridgeway said. This
makes them different from the
National Direct Student Loan and
the College Work Study programs,
in which schools have limited funds
for distribution. Any student who
can demonstrate the need on the
required government form will
receive aid. By the middle of fall
quarter, some money may become
available through College Work
Study, a federal program where
working students receive pay for
employments campus jobs, Ridge­way
said.
Students may apply for financial
aid by coming by the Office of
Student Financial Aid, 214 Mary
Martin Hall. Financial aid packets
containing an ACT Family Flnan-cial
Statement and an ACT Alabama
Student Data Form are available
there.
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B-4 The Auburn Plainsman Thursday, September 30,1982
Health center 'dipping in' reserves,
may go broke by October, 1984
By Lee McBride
Assistant News Editor
University medical officals pre­dict
that because of budget *e-straints,
the Drake Student Health
Center will have to continue Its
practice of dipping into reserve
funds to maintain normal monthly
operations, a habit that could cause
the center to run out of funds by
October 1984.
For the past two years, the center
has been drawing from reserve
funds to operate, said Dr. Judith
Hood, director Student Health Ser­vices.
This year, budget for the center is
$1.25 million. Of that amount,$910,
000 comes from student fees. Fifteen
dollars from each student's tuition
goes to the center each quarter, said
Charles Bohmann, administrative
assistant at the center.
Despite these allocated • funds,
there is still a deficit of $338,000,
which will have to come from the
reserve funds before the fiscal year
ends next October.
The reserve funds, which pre­sently
total about $480,000, are those
funds which have been collected
from unfilled personnel vacancies
andleftover funds from years when
the $15 per student went beyond the
needs for the year, Bohmann said.
If; the situation doesn't improve,
the center will have only about
$140,000 in reserve funds at the
beginning of fiscal year 1984.
If the center is forced to draw from
reserve funds next year at the same
rate as this year, there won't be
enough money to continue operation
and the center will be in severe
financial difficulty in late 1983 or
early 1984, Bohmann said. "Some­thing
must be done before October of
1983."
The Health Advisory Committee,
appointed by President Funderburk
each fall, will be studying the
problem in the coming year, Hood
said.
Several options will be con­sidered,
including a possible in­crease
in tuition, charging for
certain laboratory procedures, or
cutting off certain services, she
said.
Dr. Pat Barnes, dean of students
and member of last year's Health
Advisory Committee, noted that the
cost of medication and equipment
has escalated, but allocations for
the health center have remained the
same.
She added that despite these
financial problems, the center is
still doing quality work.' 'Of course,
we are concerned with the problem
of dipping into the reserve funds, but
any business is concerned when it
dips regularly. When the reserve
money is used, it's gone," she said.
Lastyear's Health Advisory Com­mittee
began looking into the prob­lem
and considering the options
available, but no recommendations
were made.
AU ambulance service to be cut
By Lee McBride
Assistant News Editor
The Drake Student Health Center
has discontinued its campus-based
ambulance servce because univer­sity
medical officials say continuing
the service would be impractical.
Since 1952, the center has pro­vided
ambulance services for the
campus, but in July, the University
Health Advisory Committee voted
to suspend emergency transport in
favor of anew service now offered in
the county.
Dr. Judith Hood, director of
Student Health Services, said the
Emergency Transport Systems,
Inc. (ETS), which operates out of
East Alabama Medical Center, will
be handling emergency calls on or
near campus in cooperation with the
City Fire Department.
' ' The time difference in handling
the calls will be minimal','Hood said.
"The emergency vehicle may be
able to respond to a call quicker than
our unit could, because it always has
two people fully dressed and ready
to go. We often had to wake our
attendants."
ETS has a fleet of four emergency
vehicles. Combined with the Fire
Department's rescue squad, the
Health Advisory Committee felt the
new service could actually lend a
higher quality of medical care than
the university, Hood said.
The director added that the
ambulance services will no longer
be free, but the costs will be covered
for those who buy SGA student
insurance.
Dan Childress, vice president of
safety for the East Alabama Medi­cal
Center said the Fire Depart­ment
rescue vehicle usually re­sponds
to calls on campus first and
treats any injury before the ambu­lance
transports the patients.
He said the Medical Center's
emergency vehicles can reach cam­pus
within six minutes, and can
respond to calls to the Vet School in
nine minutes.
Auburn University bought its last
ambulance in 1972. At the time, it
was equipped with the most modern
equipment available. Ten years of
use has worn out the vehicle, Hood
said. Approximate replacement
costwouldbeabout$43,000, she said.
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PLAINSMAN INTERVIEW
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reflects on his first two years
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