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Volume 90 Number 16 Thursday, February 23, 1984 Auburn University, Ala. 36849 26 pages
Conflicting priorities plague budget committee
Budget and Finance cuts
$164,758 from requests
By Susan Hurst
Assistant News Editor
With the budgeting process
drawing to a close, the Budget
and Finance Committee of the
SGA has cut approximately
$164,768 from the budgets of nine
campus organizations and
publications.
The cuts were necessary,
according to committee Chair­man
Julie Harbarger, because of
a $164,368 deficit between the
organizations' requests and the
$662,286 the committee had to
allocate. The money being dis­tributed
to these organizations is
collected from the $8 student
activities fee paid by students
with each quarter's tuition.
The groups funded through the
student activity fees are The
Auburn Circle, The Glomerate,
Performing Arts Committee, The
Plainsman, SGA, Recreational
Services, Tiger Cub, UPC and
WEGI^FM.
The budget hearings this year
were moved from spring to winter
quarter to help the senators
become more familiar with the
budgeting process. In the past the
senator began the budget hear­ings
only a few weeks after tak­ing
office.
The change in the hearings
also allows the Performing Arts
Committee to present its budget
to the Budget and Finance Com­mittee
with the other eight organ­izations
under its auspices. The
committee has formerly pres­ented
its budget before the other
organizations. Performing Arts
was considered earlier because of
having to arrange several events
before the hearings.
The largest request this year
was made by Recreational Servi­ces,
which asked for a 150 percent
increase over last year's $76,700
allocation. At Tuesday night's
meeting, however, the organiza­tion
was budgeted $61,570, a
decrease from last year of 19
percent.
The Auburn Circle, which had
been zero-funded earlier in the
committee meetings, was put
back into the budget on Tuesday
with a 41.7 percent decrease in
last year's allocation. The new
budget of $5,395 calls for a
change in the magazine's format
to reduce operating expenses.
Under the compromise proposal,
the Circle would be limited to
6,000 copies per year to be dis­tributed
in any combination of
issues and number of pages the
editors choose.
The 41.7 percent cut is the larg­est
percentage cut made to an
organization this year.
The only other organization
slated to receive less money this
year than last is The Auburn
Plainsman, which has been allo­cated
$25,799.20 for the coming
year. This 3 percent reduction
will come from The Plainsman's
contingency fund, an emergency
fund which is not part of the pap­er's
regular operating budget.
The largest increase thusfar
has been to the Glomerata which
had received a 46 percent
increase prior to Wednesday
night's meeting. Although the
issue of reducing its $110,573
budget was expected to be
brought up at the meeting, there
was no word as to exactly what
would be proposed.
The student handbook the
Tiger Cub received the second
largest funding increase so far
with a 31 percent hike. It has been
budgeted $17,157.50 of the
$18,313 it requested.
The other organizations and
their allocations include:
—Performing Arts Committee,
which has been appropriated a 5
percent increase for a total of
$40,959;
—SGA, which has been approp­riated
an 8 percent increase for a
total of $42,527 and
—WEGL-FM, which has been
appropriated an 8 percent
increase for a total of $27,886.
The budget recommendations
by the Budget and Finance
Committee are expected to be
presented to the full student
Senate on Monday. The Senate
has the option of accepting the
budget proposal or sending it
back to the committee for further
evaluation.
The hearings for the Budget
and Finance Committee were
changed from spring quarter to
winter quarter earlier this.year
by SGA President David Herrick.
The hearings were changed
because senators used to begin
allocating funds only weeks after
being installed in office.
Editor's note: The figures in this
story do not reflect any changes
made by the Budget and Finance
Committee at Wednesday night's
meeting.
Photography: Suaan Whiddon
B U D G E T H E A R I N GS
CONTINUE—SGA senators
Curt Bilby and John Stein
consider budget proposals
from campus organizations
for the allocation of student
activity fees (above). The
Budget and Finance commit­tee
has been meeting since
last Sunday to distribute over
$600,000 to student funded
organizations, and they will
c o n t i n u e with hearings
tonight. Circle editor Mar­garet
Renkl (right) discusses
the future of Auburn's stu­dent
interest magazine with
members of her staff. The
Circle received one of the
largest cuts of all the organi­zations
and it has been pro­posed
that the whole format
of the publication be changed.
Photography: Boo Phillip.
'Circle9 faces
compromises
in hearings
By Lynne Hopkins
From Staff Reports
The format of Auburn's stu­dent
general interest magazine,
the Circle, may change after a
compromise solution was ap­proved
by the SGA Budget and
Finance Committee.
Last Wednesday the committee
cut off all funding of the Circle
because some committee mem­bers
felt that the Circle was not
reaching enough people, and that
it had strayed from its purpose of
being a general interest maga­zine
to becoming more of a liter­ary
publication.
The compromise approved by
the committee Tuesday night
allows the Circle to print two
issues a year in a 24 page news­paper
tabloid form. Tbe Senate
will ask the Communications
board to set guidelines for the-magazine
so that no more than 26
percent of printed material will
consist of poetry and prose of a
literary nature.
The Circle received $10,468 last
year to pay for the publication of
two issues. The Circle requested
$14,662 this year which was cut
to $6395 after the compromise
was reached. This figure repre­sents
a 41 percent decrease in
funding from last year.
In the Tiger Cub the Circle is
defined as, "Auburn's student
interest magazine, serves as a
forum for the writers and artists
within the University commun­ity.
It aims to appeal to a diverse
Auburn audience by providing a
variety of articles (either directly
or indirectly related to campus)
ranging from the sciences to the
arts."
David Caradine, off-campus
senator, said he approved of cut­ting
the Circle's funding because
it has "striven away from its orig­inal
purpose."
A suggestion made by Mark
Kantor, off-campus senator, was
to place advertisements in the
magazine to raise money. Circle
Editor Margaret Renkl said that
it would be hard for the Circle to
advertise because there are other
publications that would be more
cost efficient for advertisers.
Renkl emphasized the success
of the Circle this year by noting
that the staff has tripled along
See CIRCLE, A-2
Poll shows students in favor of Circle'
By Jeff Charnock
Research Editor
With the recent controversy
over the Circle and the SGA's
subsequent zero-funding of it, the
Plainsman decided to conduct a
telephone poll to determine stu­dents'
reactions on the matter.
The Plainsman contacted 172
students selected randomly from
this year's student directory and
asked them six questions about
the Circle and related matters.
The results for question one
showed that 52 percent of those
polled have read or read the
Auburn Circle, and 48 percent
have not or don't read the Circle.
Of that 48 percent, some were
freshmen who had never had a
chance to read it.
Question two's results showed
that 16 percent of the respond­ent
approve of the SGA cutting
off the Circle's funding and 73
percent do not approve. Eleven
percent had no opinion on the
question.
Results for question three in
the Plainsman's opinion poll
snowed that 85 percent would like
to see the Circle continue to be
published and 7 percent would
not. Eight percent of the people
had no opinion on this question.
Questions four and five were
not as easily tabulated as the first
three, but some trends were
noticeable. One trend in students'
responses w <. the Circle should
be able to publish whatever its
staff decided. Some of the stu­dents
said they felt that no cen­sorship
of the content of the Cir­cle
should exist.
Others said they felt that the
printing of the four letter exple­tive
was in poor taste and showed
no literary value whatsoever, but
they still didn't believe the Circle
should be kept from printing the
issue.
Still other students disagreed
completely with the Circle's deci­sion
to use an article with such
"profanity" and should not be
allowed to print if they were
going to use student activities
fees.
When asked why students
thought the SGA cut the Circle's
funding, students said probably
because of the article containing
See POLL, A-9
Do you read The Circle?
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52% 4«%
Do you approve of SGA cutting 16%
Circle funding?
Would you like to see The Cifde «%
continue to be published?
75%
7%
11%
8%
AaaMSL Affect!
hem
For this opinion poll, The Piainsmwi con­tacted
172 students selected randomly
Iron tbe latest student directory. In the
results for question six, the percentages
reported do not add up to 100 percent
because some students questioned gave
mora than one response for the organiza­tions
which affected them the moat and
least.
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Plainsman
Recreational Services
Tiger Cob»
SGA
UPC
WEGL
Perforating Arcs
Don't know
2%
4%
54%
11%
Arjv
12%
25%
4%
0
2%
29%
7%
0
7%
24%
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4%
17%
1%
4%
Vice presidential
applicants sought
A search and screening com­mittee
to consider applications
and nominations for the position
of executive vice president has
been named by Auburn Univer­sity
President James E. Martin.
The position is being adver­tised
nationally, with March 12
set as the closing date for appli­cations.
Applicants would be
expected to be available for
appointment prior to March 30.
The executive vice president
will assist the president in carry­ing
out the multiple managerial
responsibilities involved in the
leadership of the University,
including budget preparation,
institutional planning, and
state/federal legislative rela­tionships.
He will serve as acting
president in the president's
absence and work cooperatively
with other institutional vice
presidents.
Interim President Wilford S.
Bailey left the position of execu­tive
vice president and vice presi-dent
of academic affairs open
during the transition period to
allow the new president to fill the
vacancies himself.
Martin said he would like to
move rapidly to fill the position of
executive vice president but feels
that a vice president for academic
affairs will take longer because
he would like to consult the
faculty before making a decision.
Dr. Robert F. Hebert of the
department of economics is
chairman of the search and
screening committee. Other
members are Dr. Gale A. Bucha­nan,
director of the Agricultural
Experiment Station; James L.
McDonough, comptroller; Dr.
Edward H. Hobbs, dean of the
School of Arts and Sciences; Dr.
Marylu K. McEwen, associate
professor, counselor education;
Dr. Paul F. Parks, vice president
for research and dean of the
Graduate School; Dr. George E.
Ramey, professor and interim
head, civil engineering; Dr.
James O. Williams, chancellor of
AUM.
A-2 tCbtSuburn^laiiwman Thursday, February 23, 1984
Week in
Review
INTERNATIONAL
Marines begin redeployment
U.S. Marines began moving
out of Beirut Tuesday, going to
the U.S. Sixth Fleet vessels
waiting offshore. About 150
combat Marines left Tuesday,
leaving about 1,100 Marines
still onshore.
Secretary of State George
Shultz said it should take about
two weeks for the movement of
the Marines from the Beirut
airport to the ships to be
completed.
The men being moved
expressed relief at leaving Bei­rut,
but many think their job
isn't complete.
"I think our mission is just
half-done. Two hundred and
sixty Marines must have died
for a purpose, and that was sup­posed
to be bringing peace to
Lebanon. But we still got a
long way to go on that," said
Cpl. John Sisneros.
I srealis bomb Lebanon
Isreali planes bombed sites at
Bhamdun, Ain al Jadida and
Bikh Shtay. near Beirut
Tuesday and Isreali officials
added that an armored vehicle
patrol had advanced nearly
half the distance from the
Isreali line to the capital before
returning.
The military actions came
after signs that Lebanese
President Amin Gemayel
was considering a proposed set­tlement
to the crisis in his coun­try
that would include discard­ing
the May 17 peace accord
between Lebanon and Isreal.
NATIONAL
Mondale wins Iowa caucus
Democratic presidential can­didate
Walter Mondale began
campaigning in New Hamp­shire
Tuesday to capitalize on
his Iowa caucus win.
The Iowa caucus results
have caused a change in the
rankings among the democratic
candidates. Gary Hart and
George McGovern did better
than expected, with Gary Hart
finishing in second place.
John Glenn, who had claimed
to be the only one with a chance
at stopping Mondale's nomi­nation,
finished fifth among the
eight major candidates.
Even after his disappointing
finish, Glenn said he is still
enthusiastic about his cam­paign,
saying his Iowa defeat
was "not the end of the world."
"Bubble Boy" critical
David, the "Bubble Boy,"
was listed in critical condition
in Houston yesterday, three
weeks after he left his germ-free
world inside a sterile plastic
bubble.
The boy has fluid accumula­tion
around his heart and lungs.
Doctors drained the liquid and
were trying to find out what
caused it, said Baylor College
of Medicine spokeswoman
Susannah Moore Griffen.
STATE
Dunkins' appeal refused
The U.S. Supreme Court
refused to hear an appeal by
Horace F. Dunkins, who was
convicted and given the death
sentence for the 1980 rape-murder
of a woman in Warrior.
The Alabama Supreme
Court had already upheld a
lower courts decision before
Dunkins tried to appeal to the
U.S. Supreme Court.
Horse-racing bill changed
Legislators had to make further
concessions on a horse-racing
bill to keep Lt. Gov. Bill Bax-ley
from consigning it to cer­tain
death in the Senate.
One of the concessions is that
the tax on betting be raised from
2 to 3 percent on the first $150
million bet at the track per year.
After that the tax would be 5
percent.
Circle
with the number of submissions.
She added that 42 different cur­riculum?
were represented
through submissions to the
Circle.
Glen Fradenburg, SGA vice
president, stressed that the com­mittee
should consider where the
money would be the most benefi­cial
to students. He added that he
thought funding for the Circle'
should be cut because other pro­jects
sered a broader range of
students.
Chuck Ledbetter, off-campus
senator, stated that the Circle's
importance lies in being able to
give students an opportunity to
publish their works.
In order for the compromise
approved by the committee to be
implemented, there must be a
simple majority vote of the SGA
Student Senate.
Both the compromise and the
zero-funding of the Circle passed
by a 6-5 vote.
Senators voting for cutting off
Circle funding and in favor of the
compromise include Ken Guin,
Arts and Sciences senator, David
Caradine, off-campus senator,
Beth Milldrum, Education sena­tor,
Ben Reeves, Business sena­tor,
Lee Grasham, off-campus
senator and Bill Mathews, off-campus
senator.
Senators voting against zero-funding
and the compromise of
the Circle included John Stein,
off-campus senator, Curt Bilby,
graduate school senator, Doug
Beverly, off-campus senator,
Chuck Ledbetter, off-campus
senator, and Tucker Maddox,
Arts and Sciences senator.
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E-Day offers overview
of engineering field
By Lori Leath
News Staff
Around 2,500 high school jun­iors
and seniors from surround­ing
areas will participate in
Auburn's Engineering Day Fri­day.
Dr. Rod Jenkins, associate
professor of civil engineering,
said the event is designed to give
an overview of career opportuni­ties
in engineering plus giving
students a look at the process of
earning a degree in engineering.
Auburn has designated this
week as Auburn Engineering
Week to coincide with National
Engineering Week.
Auburn has not always coin­cided
with the national organiza­tion,
Jenkins said. Auburn's E-Day
Association began in 1972
and was formerly held on A-Day.
The first year, 110 students par­ticipated
in activities. In 1974, E-Day
was changed to coincide
with the National E-Day.
This year's theme is "Partners
for Progress."It stresses the need
for partnership among govern­ment,
industry and educational
institutions to meet two goals: to
provide sound education that
prepares young people for a tech­nological
future, and to keep Uni­ted
States competitive in the
world's market place.
The starting point will be Foy
Union, where students will regis­ter
and have a chance to view
displays from 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. on
Friday, Feb. 24'. There will be two
programs offered, one for stu­dents
currently enrolled at
Auburn, and the other for the
public. The first program starts
at 11:30 a.m. on Friday.
Jenkins said engineering stu­dents
will build a balsa wood
bridge that cannot be longer than
18 inches and see how much
weight it will carry.
The second program begins at
10 a.m. on Haley Center con­course.
It will feature an egg-drop
contest in which competing
students will build a box or con­traption
that will keep an egg
from breaking when dropped off
different floors of Haley Center.
The person who can drop their
egg from the highest point with­out
breaking it wins.
Other activities will include a
slide show which depicts the
school of engineering and differ­ent
aspects of Auburn, morning
refreshments, and tours of the
campus to be given by Plainsmen
and War Eagle Girls.
Thursday night before E-Day,
all persons involved with the
School of Engineering will be
invited to a banquet at the
Auburn Conference Center. Jen­kins
said 250 to 350 people are
expected to attend.
The guest speaker will be Dr.
Olin King, who is chairman of
the board of SCI Systems Inc. in
Huntsville, a micro-electronics
firm. Dr. King started his com­pany
in 1961 with three
employees in the basement of his
house. Today, his company is
Huntsville's largest industrial
employer with more than 2,900
people.
Jenkins and Lee Wallace, pre­sident
of the School of Engineer­ing,
are in charge of over 100
engineering students involved in
the preparations for E-Day.
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By S h e l t o n F OM
Assistant F e a t u r e s Editor
Everybody goes back to their
alma mater at sometime or
another, whether for football
games, reunions or their child­ren's
graduations, but very few
return to live in the president's
mansion. Dr. and Mrs. James E.
Martin are an exception.
Mrs. Ann Martin is an open,
outgoing woman who seems to
have the ability to make others
feel relaxed ant! comfortable. The
B i r m i n g h am native was an
Auburn student from 1953 to
1957, majoring in clothing and
textiles. She lived in Dorm 6, was
a Phi Mu, a n d for three years was
a cheerleader.
Like most students, Mrs. Mar­tin,
then Ann Freeman, had little
or nothing to do with the presi­dent's
home. "Of course, I knew
where it was, but I was never in it,
and I was probably never even on
the grounds."
She didn't even attend the
annual presidents' picnic for
freshmen held in the fall. Start­ing
Auburn spring quarter, she
said she felt like an "old-timer"
by fall and didn't go.
After graduation, Mrs. Martin
went to work as a home econo­mist
for Alabama Gas Corpora­tion
in Birmingham. In 1958, she
married J im Martin.
As his career progressed, it was
necessary for them to move. She
said she prefers living in small
towns and could think of nothing
nicer than having the cultural
advantages a university offers,
such as concerts and ballet, and
the atmosphere of a small town.
Although moving was neces­sary
for her husband's career,
Martin said it was difficult to
leave friends. "Every time you go
it's like leaving a part of you," she
added.
The move to Auburn was espe­cially
difficult since the Martins
had to leave their three children
in Arkansas. Mike is a senior and
William and Jill are both juniors
at the University of Arkansas in
Fayettvelle.
Mrs. Martin said she is deligh­ted,
though, to be back in Auburn.
When she was here as a n under­graduate
the University had
about 6,000 students. " I t ' s grown
and a lot of buildings and stores
have changed names but it still
has that feeling...a lot of things
are familiar. Downtown hasn't
changed. When I got to Toomer's
Corner, I felt like I belonged
here."
There are a number of people
still here who attended when she
was in school. Mrs. Martin said
she finds herself looking a t peo­ple
and thinking, "Did I know
you?"
She added that everyone has
been great in helping she and her
husband get settled. They've
Photography: Jay Sailora
Mrs. M a r t i n t a l k s about h e r school days a t Auburn.
received a "very warm reception"
and Mrs. Martin thinks people
are giving them every chance to
do their jobs.
But the president's wife real­izes
people won't always have
such a positive outlook. "We all
know it's not going to be 'peaches
and cream' forever. Anybody in a
job where you have to make deci­sions
has to stand by those deci­sions,
though, if he believes in
them," she explained.
Martin plans to get quite
involved in her role as the presi-dent's
wife. She said she is
excited about using the house for
luncheons and receptions with
various campus groups. She
wants to encourage groups to
come and use the house, which
has been decorated and fur­nished
by the University, she
added.
However, they intend to also
'use the house for their personal
use, Mrs. Martin said. "Some­times
it's nice just to have some
one over to watch basketball
rames."
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A-4 Wnt Suburn plainsman Thursday, February 23, 1984
(EbelluburnPIanisman
Volume 90
Alec Harvey, Editor
Margaret Strawn, Business Manager
Number 16
B & F problems
So much has happened with
Budget and Finance this year that
we hardly know where to begin.
What with controversies sur­rounding
The Auburn Circle and the
Performing Arts Committee, other
projects have literally become lost in
the shuffle.
However, looking at what already
.has gone on in B&F this year, it is
apparent that some projects are con­tinually
getting the shaft while oth­ers
are going along with unrealistic
increases.
For instance, The Auburn Circle,
which last year utilized just 2 per­cent
of the total allocation of student
activity fees, is now facing a 41 per­cent
decline over what it was allo­cated
last year. Other projects work­ing
at a loss are Recreational
Services with a 1.73 decline and The
Plainsman with a 2.99 percent
decline.
This is not to say that every pro­ject
should receive an increase. That
would be impossible, as
projects.
One question that members of
Budget and Finance have been
faced with this year is whether or
not to keep the Performing Arts
Committee of the University and the
Fine Arts Committee of the UPC as
separate entities. If not, should per­forming
arts be combined with fine
arts or vice versa?
While there are strong arguments
for both sides, we feel that certain
qualities of each organization
should be retained.
For one thing, the chairman of the
Performing Arts Committee is
always a faculty member. This is
not desirable since it is being funded
with student fees.
However, faculty input in this
area is a benefit that students
should not give up. Yes, students do
know what students what to see, but
faculty members have the expertise
to offer students a well-rounded
schedule of events.
Auburn needs new pool
I watched with pride this week as the
United States' athletes settled down in
Sarajevo and won three gold medals on
the last two days of the winter Olympics.
It was obvious as Scott Hamilton,
Steve Mahre and Phil Mahre accepted
their coveted medals that they had done
it as much for their teammates and
country as they had for themselves.
Following the pomp and circumstance
of the closing ceremonies I watched with
even more pride a special on how Los
Angeles was preparing for the summer
games later this year.
Granted, many of the facilities in and
around Los Angeles were meant for
events only of the magnitude the Olym­pics
can offer. The Rose Bowl in Pasad­ena
(that will house the soccer competi­tion)
and the Forum (where the
basketball competition will be held) are
only two of the fine facilities the city will
utilize.
However, even though Los Angeles
was the site for the Olympics in 1932,
some facilities needed to be constructed
for this year's Games.
The one thing that stuck out in my
mind was the swimming facility being
built at the University of Southern Cali­fornia
for the Games.
What will it take to do the same for our
world class swimmers here in Auburn?
Will Auburn have to be selected as the
site for the 1992 Olympic Games before
the swim team gets the facility it has
deserved and requested for so long?
I can honestly say I take more pride in
our swim team than I do in the 14 medals
won by Americans in Sarajevo.
To consistently be at the top of the
swimming heap among colleges and
universities in the nation, while at the
same time have to train in some of the
poorest facilities in the nation, is a trib­ute
to the team's will to win.
The men's swim team is currently
ranked 4th in the nation, ranked only
behind Stanford, Florida and Tennes­see.
The women's team is also ranked in
the top ten nationally.
I dare say this winning tradition
won't continue if something isn't done
about facilities.
It's hard to believe that a team that
produced the likes of Rowdy Gaines is
relegated to training in a less than
Olympic sized pool.
There are a couple of possible solu­tions
to this increasing problem.
The most obvious, and probably most
improbable, solution is for the athletic
department to fork over the 13 to 15 mil­lion
they have estimated a new pool to
cost.
Even though the football team has
been successful this year, it hasn't
grown enough to provide the necessary
funding for the swim team.
Somehow this seems all right, as foot­ball
is obviously the sport within a 250
mile radius of the Plains.
Which brings me to my second and
most possible solution.
If student activity fees were raised just
$9 a student for 42 quarters, Auburn
would have enough money to build the
pool. This sounds like a huge amount of
money, but it really would benefit the
university. This pool would benefit
many people not even connected with
the swim team. If anyone has attempted
to swim in the Memorial Coliseum pool
during prime operating hours, they
know how beneficial another student
pool would be.
The SEC championships can't even be
held in Auburn right now in our current
facilities.
In addition, this new pool facility
could draw world class athletes to
Auburn, instead of turning them away,
as in the case of Rowdy Gaines.
It seems that most people don't feel the
swim team is important enough to war­rant
such a large monetary expense.
However, if one just looks at the facts,
there really is no question about the jus­tification
of the expenditure.
The swim team is our most dependable
"national power" in sports, and it
should be rewarded with a more than
average training facility.
Smoker, take notice of neighbors
not the students.
For whatever it may be worth, The
Plainsman poll of this week indi­cated
that 24 percent of 172 students
polled felt the Tiger Cub was the
l e a s t - n e e d e d of the student
overin-forcing
away from some projects
that truly need it.
The problems with Budget and
Finance won't disappear anytime
soon. We're just glad it's over and we
won't have to fool with it for another
year.
On 'Circle' compromise
The Student Government Associ­ation
has reached what it calls a
"compromise" in the controversy
surrounding the funding of the
Auburn Circle.
The SGA's Budget and Finance
Committee took away all student
funding from the Circle last Wed­nesday
night, despite a large crowd
present to voice their support for the
magazine.
However, Monday night, Budget
and Finance Chairman Julie Har-barger
proposed a compromise solu­tion;
the Circle would be funded
$5,395 by the budget and finance
committee. In addition, a resolution
was passed with the funding motion
expressing a desire to see the Circle
revert to a tabloid form and stricter
guidelines for content be set up by
the Communication's Board.
This "compromise" would still
allow an outlet for creativity by stu­dents;
however, it would also drasti­cally
reduce the quality of content
and reproduction of the magazine.
Perhaps the most obvious quality
problem will be with photographs.
In the past, the Circle has contained
at least two or three pages devoted to
photographic essays or displays by
to student photographers at
Auburn.
No matter how precise the printer
can be, the quality of photographic
reproduction on rews print can
never attain that achieved by the
Circle in recent years.
There will be no contrast, and fine
detail will disappear.
Another aspect of the magazine
this compromoise will hurt is the
quality of material included in the
Circle.
Granted, short stories and poetry
remain the same in no matter what
outlet they are printed. However,
Budget and Finance has budgeted
the Circle for two 24-page issues.
This is an enormous amount of
space to fill up. Chances are that the
magazine would contain the quality
material included in it now but, in
order ot fill up the allotted number of
pages, would have to find filler
material. IThis would be a gigantic
step down for a magazine that has
been recognized as the number one
student interest magazine in the
South.
It has been said that it is ridicu­lous
to argue something if you can't
come up with a better solution. Well,
a better solution was suggested, and
we would like to support it.
After the initial compromise was
proposed, Senator John Stein pro­posed
a second compromise.
He suggested the Circle be funded
approximately $6,700 for 6.000
issues and 104 pages of the same
quality magazine now offered.
Included in this compromise was a
suggestion that the Circle be sold
instead of given away, thus giving
the Budget and Finance Committee
next year a true reading of how
many students do read the Circle.
This compromise would not only
let the Circle retain the quality it
deserves, but also would not put any
restrictions on content. Again, as
many have read previously in this
space, we see censorship as a clear
violation of the first amendment.
But Stein's proposal was never
recognized, so no one got a chance to
vote on it.
Thus, we are left with the original
compromise, whch appears to have
enough support in the SGA for it to
be passed when the budget is voted
on.
If this unfair compromise stands,
we hope the Circle will take advan­tage
of it—as best it can.
The magazine will have a circula­tion
of 18,000, so the Circle will
finally be available to everyone. In
addition, the increase in pages will
allow the staff to get a little bit of
input from every area of campus.
Perhaps if this is done, the Budget
and Finance Committe will see fit to
reallocate the Circle real funding
next year.
In essence, this compromise is the
lesser of two evils. Although it is
obviously not nearly what the Circle
would like to have, it is also not
zero-funding.
The SGA has left just one breath
of life in the Circle, let's hope the
magazine can start from here and
get back to where it was just nine
days ago.
intwtherewas something different
about Katheryn, but I couldn't pin it
down. She still procrastinated, loved
chocolate chip cookies and complained
about men. That was normal. But some­thing
had changed.
It wasn't until two days later that I
discovered why she was acting different.
She had done it—gone cold turkey. She
had given up smoking.
And she did it all on her own.
Although she only told a couple of people
about it at the first, she would periodi­cally
announce the number of days and
minutes since her final puff. It wasn't
easy, but she managed to live through
the nicotine attacks and social
pressures.
I was impressed. Cigarette addiction
is a serious matter, and breaking that
dependency is a golden achievement.
I only wish more people would follow
her example.
Nothing is more irritating than being
in a public place, only to be attacked by
the floating, strangling smoke of a
nearby cigarette. It is an inconsiderate,
unhealthy habit.
Smokers are also fairly touchy. They
usually don't take too kindly to being
[their Camel Light or
1 & Hedges elsewhere.
|elf-destructive habit.
earning every smoker
tlity (or likelihood) of
Iting to cancer on each
py can hardly wait to
?ht up.
J that is smoked, think
rs they are shortening
their lives. For that matter, think what
those puffs are doing to those of us sit­ting
around them. I don't like the idea of
someone else contributing to my own
demise.
There is a growing concensus against
smokers. National magazines, such as
The Saturday Evening Post, have begun
to refuse advertisements from tobacco
companies.
According to the latest issue of the
Post, the magazine has decided this will
keep its readership alive and flourishing
longer.
Even major personalities have begun
to campaign against the evils of smok­ing.
John Forsythe, the dashing 66-year-old
Blake Carrington on Dynasty, gave
up smoking 30 years ago.
In a recent magazine interview he said
he reserves his most bitter thoughts for
those who "Promote the habit of smok­ing."
He has become a spokesman for
the American Cancer Society and has
done several public-service announce­ments.
He also recently appeared before
a congressional subcommittee on behalf
of the society. I knew there was a great
guy underneath that tough image.
Yet, for all the evidence and cam­paigns
against it, smoking is still a pop­ular
habit for millions of Americans.
Among college students, the number
of smokers has declined from 20 years
ago, although the number of women
smoking has increased. Just notice dur­ing
finals how many empty packs of
cigarettes are left in the basement of
Haley Center and other study areas
where smoking is permitted. The ner­vousness
of college pressures is cutting
into the life expectancy of these
individuals.
Despite warnings, increasing cancer
rates and American Cancer Society
advertisements. Americans continue to
smoke their lives away.
But if there going to be smokers, there
should be greater designation of areas
for smokers and non-smokers. If I go
somewhere to enjoy myself; I don't want
that enjoyment spoiled by someone's
smoking habit.
On the flip side, I don't want them to
have less enjoyment. I simple want them
to do their enjoying among fellow smok­ers.
That way, they can revel in their
nicotine pleasure around each other and
not around non-smokers.
It's a shame there are not more
Katheryns out there. There are a few, but
not enough. What she did wasn't easy,
but it was probably one of the most
important decisions she will ever make.
And important things are never easy.
As the slogan says, it's giving yourself
the gift of life, as well as others the gift of
breath.
B&F shows need for more funds
Lynne
Hopkins
For only $24 a year you too can receive
free movies every weekend, a newspaper
every Thursday and shakers at football
games. And where else can you receive a
deal like this except through the quar­terly
payment of student activity fees?
This money is allocated each year to
finance several student organizations to
provide students with information and
entertainment meant to be enjoyed
throughout their college days. Although
this looks good on the surface, there are
obstacles which threaten the future of
these services.
With staggering increases becoming
increasingly important in the mainte­nance
of operations for all of our nine
organizations it is necessary to look at
the possibility of an increase in student
activity fees.
Right now a student pays a mere $8 a
quarter for many services which would
not otherwise be available. Where else
can you receive a year of newspapers for
$1.41 or a yearbook for $3.81. With the
cost of everything going up, Auburn
students have been able to enjoy a
number of services relatively free.
Because these organizations are stu­dent
oriented it is our responsibility to
work on improving their quality not
only for our time at Auburn but for
future generations. Right now, the only
way that seems possible is through an
increase in student activity fees.
Each year organizations are receiving
cuts in funding and at the current rate it
will only be a matter of time before these
services dwindle to nothing.
The last increase in student supported
funding was when $8.50 was added to
the students tuition which resulted in
the building of a new Student Activities
Center. This building gives us concrete
evidence that with student support any­thing
is possible.
The last time the fees were raised to
increase money for the funding of organ­izations
was in the fall of 1980 when it
was raised from $7.50 to $8. Another
more substantial increase is imperitive
to the longevity and quality of these
organizations and, without this we
could seriously jeopardize their services.
The nine student organizations that
receive money from student activity fees
include the Glomerata, the SGA, WEGL-FM,
the Tiger Cub, the Auburn Plains­man,
Recreational Services, UPC and
the Circle.
Because all of these organizations are
vital to Auburn's standing as a major
institution there must be some way of
providing them with appropriate fund­ing
for them to remain functional.
This shortage of money became
greatly apparent this year which
resulted in the SGA Budget and Finance
Committee having to drastically cut
funding for the Circle magazine.
Although this was not the main reason
the Circle was cut, the money situation
could have played an important part in
the decision.
This year the Budget and Finance
Committee was fortunate to receive
$30,000 from the Concessions Board
which only applies to this budget ses­sion.
This money may not be available
in the future and the money must be
found elsewhere.
With Auburn becoming a respected
and competitive force among South­eastern
universities it is imperative that
we maintain a well-rounded university
and student funded organizations pro­vide
the basis for what constitutes a
solid university.
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Fence's mystery
Due to a possible lack of com­munication,
there seems to be some
confusion as to what and where the
Physical Plant should or should not
construct. I, like others, have been very
curious about the purpose of a fence
which was erected outside the
Plainsman office and taken apart
recently. When I noticed the structure
being disassembled, I decided to
investigate its use, and my findings
were not very amusing.
The fence was constructed behind
Tichenor by the Physical Plant under
the direction of Professor James E.
Bagwell of the Department of
Geography, according to Frank Hudson
of the Division of Grounds Main­tenance.
It was to be used for a weather station
until the Department of Geography was
told that a new location for the station
would have to be decided upon since a
lamppost was to be constructed in its
place.
If the Department of Geography had
been told that the weather station would
have to be placed somewhere else before
the fence was erected, some unneeded
trouble would not have come about and
the Physical Plant would not have had
to exert some energy which could have
been exerted on other projects.
I had a few assumptions about the use
of the fence when it was constructed by
two diligent Physical Plant workers. I
figured there was a possibility that the
University had it put there to use as a
playpen for those Plainsman staff
members who have become senile from
heavy schedules or as a cage to punish
those of us who have gotten so wrapped
up in our jobs that we have put classes
further down on our lists of priorities.
When I was told that the fence would
be used to surround a weather station for
the Department of Geography, I was
glad that the Plainsman staff was safe
and that the space would be used
constructively. Now that the fence has
been taken apart, I'm wondering if the
weather station for the Department of
Geography will be stationed somewhere
else in the area and, if so, when.
Furthermore, why couldn't the lamp­post
be placed somewhere else so that
the location of the weather station
would not have to be changed?
I'm currently enrolled in a course
within the' Department of Geography
and strongly suppoprt the use of
instruments, including stations, to
experiment for classroom use. I believe
it's very inconsiderate for the Physical
Plant to place more importance on a
lamppost than on a useful tool for
classroom instruction. Surely there
could have been a more reasonable
decision made on the part of the
Physical Plant.
During my investigation of the
mystery of the fence without an obvious
purpose, I gathered information
concerning the funding for the fencing
project. According to Physical Plant
Director Paul Kearney, no one is being
charged for the cost of the construction
of the fence; however, other financial
factors still remain, one of which is
salary for the workers who constructed
the fence and then disassembled it.
Where will their pay come from?
Much of the funding for Physical
Plant projects is done through the
University General Fund. It would be
wasteful to have to take from this source
when the money could be used for more
purposeful causes.
I believe that either the Physical Plant
officials should better organize their
communications system to prevent any
further confusion and loss of time and
funds or the Department of Geography
should start consulting different
officials at the Physical Plant when new
projects arise.
I can't wait until the new weather
station is positioned—I'm sure it will
shed a lot of light on its location and aid
classroom instruction with its data.
Bad check causes problems
Editor, The Plainsman:
Due to my recent experience with a
"bad" check, I felt it would be of service
to remind you of certain provisions of
statutory law. Alabama Code allows for
a period of 10 days in which a person
who has issued a dishonorable check
can reconcile the matter.
However, if this period of time has
elapsed after the plaintiffs attempt to
notify the issuee, (usually by certified
mail) then that person becomes liable
and subject to legal prosecution.
The key word here is 'attempt' and the
recurring problem among college stu­dents
is that after moving, many fail to
provide an adequate change of address.
Because of this, the student may receive
the notice too late, or may not receive it
at all.
In my particular situation I did pro­vide
a change of address, but the person
who signed my certified letter failed to
forward those papers to me in time. The
result: I was arrested and a less than five
dollar meal soon cost me eighty bucks
(add court expenses and service
charges).
Regardless of my virtue in this situa­tion,
it was the law and I was subject to
it. However, there are certain pre-
What does sign mean?
cautionary measures which can be
taken to help safeguard against things
of this sort happening to you.
First of all, when you do move, be sure
to provide a change of address to those
necessary.
Secondly, have this change of infor­mation
amended on your check (it only
takes a phone call).
Finally, if you are put in the position of
signing for certified mail, then see to it
that the proper person receives it and
promptly. Since, if a situation develops
similar to mine, you could legally be
sued in a small claims court for punitive
damages. So you could be saving both
yourself and the other person involved a
lot of trouble.
Also, as a bit of "bonus" advice,
develop an adequate bookkeeping sys­tem
that will prevent these types of
errors from occurring in the first place.
One of my learning experiences here at
college is to exert some sort of self-control
when it comes to money matters.
I'm sure that you, like me, can literally
not afford for things of this kind to
happen. My wish is that you can profit
from these mistakes as I have.
Jim Long
2GSC
Editor, Th* Plainsman:
A sign at the cross walk at Haley Cen­ter
states:
NO STOPPING, PARKING OR
STANDING AT ANY TIME
What was that? We motorists must not
stop for students and faculty when they
cross the street? Or are pedestrians
expected to fly over the traffic?
G.M. Hocking
'Plainsman needs proofreaders
Editor, The Plainsman:
When it rains, it pours, and now con­fusion
really reigns! If "Martin takes
reigns of A.U." (Thursday, Feb. 16), does
that mean the end of democracy at our
cherished institution? Will the
monarchy at least be constitutional, so
that students can continue to go to the
polls?
Faculty, too, are concerned, for if Mar­tin
"reigns," we are already poles apart.
Maybe you need to add another proof­reader
at The Plainsman. Two heads are
better than one!
Mary M. Millman
Department of Foreign
Languages
Editor's note: This letter was submitted
containing 12 errors.
'Circle censorship victim
Organizations need more diversity
Editor, The Plainsman:
The social service organizations on
campus, such as Capers and Angel
Flight, to name a few, seem to be grow­ing
more Greek affiliated each year.
This is fine, since Greeks are defi­nitely
an active part of the Auburn
campus.
But I feel that if these social organiza­tions
are going to favor Greeks, they
should say so and be blatantly discrimi­natory,
instead of hiding behind being a
completely open service organization.
It is relatively impossible to find an
organization on campus that does not
have Greek membership, but Independ­ents
should be better represented in
these organizations.
It is not feasible to ask for equal
representation, since too many Inde­pendents
have already formed unfavor­able
opinions of these organizations
because they have been rejected once too
often. Greeks seem to get all the posi­tions
and, thus, have activities to
recommend them.
Independents need to make their pres­ence
felt. If a person tries to become a
member in an organization and fails,
just don't accept it. Try to find out why;
see what qualifications the successful
members have.
If membership was just based on the
individual and not what sorority or fra­ternity
they belong to and who their
friends are, this Independent would
have no reason to write.
An Upset Independent
More letters, A-6
The Circle saga continues with the
Budget and Finance Committee of the
SG A claiming to speak for the status quo
of Auburn students, and the Circle staff
claiming to represent the wishes of a
strong minority of intellectually minded
students.
The only problem is that the Circle
staff, under the editorial leadership of
Margaret Renkl, has statistics on now
many students are reached by the Circle
(8,000 copies of both issues were distrib­uted
last year) and the variety of stu­dents
contributing to the Circle (stu­dents
from over 40 different curric-ulums.)
The SGA continues to speak the
wishes of an assumed status quo. Is the
SGA right in its assumption? The SGA
has never consulted the student popu­lace
of its opinion on the Circle although
$2,000 is budgeted in the SGA's budget
for phone polls similar to the one in
today's Plainsman. However, one must
commend the SGA for taking this task
upon itself and doing the assumed will of
the student status quo.
A compromise was reached by the
committee which, in essence, allows the
publication of the Circle in newsprint
(which is a devastating cut in quality)
yet retains the threat of zero-funding
next year if the Circle doesn't conform to
strict guidelines in content. For my opin­ion
of this compromise, read the
Plainsman's editorial to your left..
The night to see B & F in action was
Wednesday a week ago when the Circle
was zero-funded. After the magazine
was exterminated, Glen Fradenburg
said to the crowd of Circle supporters
that these senators on B & F were doing
the best job they could and that they
were elected by the students and there­fore
in a position to do the students'
wishes.
He failed to mention that the ring
leader of the anti-Circle senators was
Ken Guin, last year's presidential can­didate
who lost and was appointed by
David Herrick to fill a vacant senate
seat. Guin was not popularly elected to
the senate, yet he was the most influen­tial
supporter of the Circle cuts.
With unsound reasoning, anti-Circle
senators filled the Foy Union Gallery
with arguments in an attempt to support
their opinion. They were successful.
Since these arguments have been
presented elsewhere in the Plainsman,
and since there is not enough room to
cover them all here, I shall focus my edi­torial
on the issue I believe is the root for
the zero-funding of the Circle.
The B & F Committee continues to
claim that the cut in the Circle is not an
attempt to censor the magazine;
(although zero-funding or strict control
through guidelines is the only way the
committee can legally do so) however,
their arguments for cutting the maga­zine
are so invalid that it is obvious why
the cuts were made.
One member, of the SGA's assumed
majority stood up at the meeting and
said because Auburn is a conservative
university, the committee should sup­port
the majority of students' wishes
and zero-funded the Circle for wanting
to print profanities.
Although disclaiming this as a reason
for zero-funding, B & F (by its actions
agreed with the speaker) and so voted.
Here, one can see the wishes of the
assumed majority being fulfilled. There
are, however, several problems with this
logic.
The student believed he was speaking
for the conservatives on campus. I like to
think that I am as conservative as the
next guy; however, this fellow is con­fused
about the definition of conserv­ative.
No true conservative would support
any form of censorship. Zero-funding
and editorial control definitely is
censorship.
A true conservative recognizes that
censorship of a minority sets a bad
precedent which could result in the
future censorship of supporters of such a
policy—if they ever lose their majority.
The first thing Lenin did after seizing
power in Russia was to impose strict
censorship which squelched his
oposition.
In the compromise reached by the
committee on Tuesday, guidelines are to
be set to control what the magazine
prints, therefore censoring the maga­zine
so that profanities and other con­troversial
material cannot be printed.
The Plainsman, in its unceasing
responsibility to present the news to the
University, printed the story on the Cir­cle's
controversy and used the word in
question several times.
Did the committee threaten to zero;
fund the Plainsman? No. Nothing was
said about the Plainsman printing the
word the Circle was threatened with
extinction for wanting to print.
UPC Films Committee shows free
movies in Langdon Hall, where not only
is the word used, but the actual porno­graphic
act is depicted on the screen.
Was the UPC threatened with any
type of censorship or zero-funding? No.
The SGA continues to spend fees on
shakers which are distributed to stu­dents
at football games. Many of these
shakers find their way into the hands of
drunk students who shout the very same
profanity in public, that the Circle is
being censored for trying to print.
Did the SGA censor itself by zero-fund­ing
the shakers because they are used by
students who say such profanities? No.
The whole matter is hypocritical. How
can B & F get away with censoring the
Circle yet ignore the same offenses
committed by other organizations?
If, because of the profanity, you sup­port
the censorship of the Circle (be it
zero-funding or being in agreement with
the SGA's control over the content) and
do not support the censorship of other
organizations which are guilty of the
same 'crime,' then you, my friend, are
also a hvoocrite.
Editor defends 'Circle' purpose
Every year the editors of The Auburn
Circle must defend the magazine from
members of .the SGA Budget and
Finance Committee who believe that
Auburn University doesn't need the Cir­cle,
that students don't read the maga­zine,
and that money spent on the Circle
could serve more students and serve
them better if it were spent on something
else.
Every year these committee members
are wrong.
When B&F voted last week to zero-fund
the Circle, the magazine staff
bagan to collect signatures on a petition
which calls for full funding of the Circle.
We hoped to convince a majority of the
SGA senators to reject the budget pro­posed
by B&F and to accept an alternate
budget which allowed for funding of the
magazine.
The Budget and Finance Committee
voted this week to fund a Circle which
meets certain stipulations. This vote
seems to be a compromise, but in effect it
is nothing more than a vote to zero-fund
the Circle and to start another magazine
by the same name, the committee has
agreed to support a magazine which is
printed according to the following stipu­lations:
1)A 24-page magazine must be
printed in tabloid form on newsprint; 2)
No purchase orders can be authorized
which allow for printing the magazine
in any format other than tabloid; 3)
18,000 copies of theis magazine must be
distributed twice a year; 4) No more than
25 percent of the magazine can be
devoted to "literature"—essays, fiction,
or poetry; the remaining portion of the
magazine must be journalistic feature
articles.
Most of the members of the Budget
and Finance Committee have no expe­rience
in publications. It would be irres­ponsible
of the committee to dictate to
the Glom editor how many pages must
be devoted to homecoming, or to the
Plainsman editor how many book
reviews or articles about the administra­tion
he may print. A committee which
has never tried to produce a magazine is
in no position to determine the content of
the Circle.
The magazine proposed by B&F won't
work. Newsprint does not permit quality
reproduction of art and photographs.
Thirty percent of the Circle has in the
past been devoted to the reproduction of
drawings, prints, and photographic art.
It is unreasonable to expect artists in the
University community to submit their
work to a magazine in which ink bleeds
frm one page to the next and only the
most obvious contrasts of shading are
visible.
The stipulation limiting content of the
magazine to only 25 percent "literary"
writing will likewise not work. Last
quarter the Circle received submissions
from students of 42 curricula. Not one of
those submissions was journalistic
writing.
People who want experience in jour­nalism
write for the Plainsman or the
Glom; people who write imaginatively
have only the Circle, for the issue which
will be distributed on Monday, the Circle
received 167 poems, 33 short stories, and
21 essays. Each year submissions to the
Circle increase, and each year the qual­ity
of the submitted manuscripts is
higher.
To limit the amount of space which
may contain imaginative writing is to
penalize the Circle for improving in the
one area which distinguishes it from
other student publications. In no other
publication can students read and write
poetry, essays, and short stories, or see
drawings, prints and photographs. Peo­ple
who write journalistic features
already write for the Plainsman; they
don't need another publication in which
to print their work. The Circle staff
prints feature articles when they are
submitted. Last winter only three of the
major stories were fiction. Yet of the six
articles I assigned for this issue, only
two were suitable for publication. The
others came in late, in need of major
revision, or not at all.
Members of the Budget and Finance
Committee want to change the Circle
because they believe that the magazine
doesn't appeal to students. It is true that
the Circle probably doesn't appeal to the
majority of students, but we never have
trouble giving them away during distri­bution,
and if the students who picked
up the 8,000 copies of the Circle pub­lished
last spring found even one or two
stories interesting, then the magazine is
filling a need on this campus.
The student body is diverse, not every­thing
in the Circle will appeal to every
student equally; we can't hope to please
all of the students all of the time, but we
can hope to provide thought-provoking
art and writing to those studetns who
are interested in knowing what student
writers and artists are doing in Auburn.
It is not necessary that the Circle pro­vide
something to interest each student
equally. The Glom and the Plainsman
offer what the Circle does not, just as the
Circle offers what they do not.
The recent controversy over "Being
Gay At Auburn" and "Me and Jimmy"
should have no bearing on whether the
Circle receives funds from student activ­ities
fees. The magazine reflects the atti­tudes
and opinions of the editor and edi­torial
boards, both of which change each
year.
As editor of the Circle this year, I
believe that my staff and I made a
responsible decision when we originally
agreed to include the stories in the mag­azine,
and I'll be glad to explain to
anybody who calls the Circle office why
we decided to use the stories.
But next year the editor of the maga­zine
might disagree with everything
that I believe the Circle should be. Per­haps
he might wish to print a story con­demning
homosexuality as immoral.
Perhaps this story might elicit angry
telephone calls and letters from people
like me who would find such a story
intolerant.
At a university, the loss of any
medium for the expression of edias and
information is a travesty. If we allow the
Budget and Finance Committee to kill
the Ci'rc/e—and they will if they try to
limit the content of the magazine to meet
their own narrow specifications—we
will have lost one of the most important
things Auburn University can offer its
students: a way to communicate ideas, a
publication in which articles, essays,
stories, poems, art, and photographs are
almost exclusively those of students, a
place where people of opposing view­points
can make themselves heard.
'Circle' should be more responsible
Editor, The Plainsman:
It should come as no surprise that the
controversy concerning the use of ques­tionable
language in the Auburn Circle
has arisen at the same time as much of
the controversy surrounding journalism
today. These days, apparently, it is not
vogue to be a journalist. We enjoy the
same public endearment as politicians,
lawyers and used car salesmen, the
pollsters tell us.
But such low esteem is, in part,
deserved, and the Auburn Circle con­troversy
is an excellent case in point.
Today, it seems, there is a lack of bal­ance
among the press between rights
and responsibilities.
The press enjoys a much-needed right:
freedom from government intervention.
But with that right comes a responsibil­ity:
the responsibility of policing itself. It
is that responsibility which, in the case
of the Auburn Circle and other cases,
has been forgotten.
An editor must make many decisions
with his audience in mind. The use of
language considered obscene by some is
one such decision. The decision is not
only made with the attitude, "We are a
free press, and we can do whatever we
please." There must also be the very
serious consideration, "Will this unne­cessarily
offend my readers?"
Language that would be considered
objectionable by a significant propor -
tion of the publication's readers should
not be included. The Plainsman made
this decision by excluding the word
itself—although it was replaced by a
very direct reference. The Circle serves
basically the same audience and made
the decision to use the word 22 times.
I must be brutally honest: I feel Mar­garet
Renkl, as editor of the Auburn Cir-cle,
failed in her consideration of the
readers by allowing the word to be
included in her magazine.
But there is a greater point to be made
here. It is the failure of the Auburn Cir­cle,
within its considerable freedom
(especially in view of the 1973 Univer­sity
of Mississippi case) to serve as its
own policeman.
I am merely pointing out that the
Auburn Circle, by parading its First
Amendment rights while shirking its
correspondent responsibility, has made
itself a pretty uncomfortable bed.
I hope this is a sobering lesson to the
student journalists at Auburn Univer­sity.
True, we in America are blessed
with great freedom of the press, and this
freedom is vitally necessary for the con­tinuation
of a strong democracy.
But also remember, that, free of
government constraints, the press must
shoulder the responsibility of policing
itself, of exercising sober judgment in its
decisions. Without such policing, there
is a development more to be feared than
government intervention: the continued
decline of the press in the opinion of
those it serves.
John Carvalho, '78
Editor, Auburn Plainsman, 1977-78
A-6 Cbr 9uburn plainsman Thursday, February 23, 1984
'Circle' supporters respond to B & F
Editor's note: There were 11 other letters
supporting the 'Circle' submitted this
week. Due to space limitations, they
were not run.
Editor, The Plainsman:
As a member of the Student Editorim
Board of the Auburn Circle, I would like
to explain what I believe are some of my
obligations, moral and otherwise, to the
magazine and to the Auburn student
body.
Mine is the formidable task of reading
and evaluating every poem, short story,
essay and article submitted to the Circle
for publication. Upon completion of that
task, all members of the editorial board
vote on which submissions will be
included in the magazine. I'm well-acquainted
with any doubts, hopes and
fears felt by those who offer submis­sions.
My first and foremost moral consider­ation
in deciding what I believe should
be printed is that I serve Auburn stu­dents
as conscientiously as I can. Since
we are all different individuals, and
since I cannot possibly anticipate which
submissions the majority of studenta
will like best, I believe I am morally obli­gated
to read, evaluate and select sub­missions
with regard for my, or any spe­cific
individual's personal beliefs.
There are students who criticize the
Circle, saying the magazine changes
from year to year and no longer fulfills
the purpose for which it was established.
I believe those students will find the
same lack of continuity, reflecting
yearly changes in editors and staff
members, in every Auburn student
publication.
Additionally, I believe that lack of
continuity is an elemental part of the
educational potential offered by student
publications. However, in spite of con­ceptual
differences from year to year, the
Circle has been and remains Auburn's
general interest magazine, created by
and for Auburn students.
One of the conceptual principles
behind this year's issues of the Circle is
to publish student submissions which
provide some picture of thoughts and
social environments with which the
average Auburn student may not be
familiar.
Furthermore, it serves not only as the
basis for my strong commitment to the
Circle, but also as one of the guidelines
by which I help decide the content of the
magazine.
Because some students are upset by
the content of one issue of the Circle,
selected by the staff members of one
year, they suggest that the unique, edu­cational
potential offered and estab­lished
by the Circle be "scrapped"
entirely.
I do not believe the general practice
among healthy individuals is to call in
the wrecking crew to demolish a house
simply because one does not care for the
color of the front door.
The Circle welcomes submissions and
staff members from the entire academic
community. The opportunity is there, for
anyone who doesn't like the content of
the Circle, to become im olved in chang­ing
it.
But by failing to support the alloca­tion
of a mere 2 percent of student activi­ties
fees to fund the Circle, you will des­troy
a tradition established in
accordance with the goals of Auburn
University, and in accordance with your
reason for being here.
I would take this opportunity to reiter­ate
a point made by Kim Vick in her
letter to the editor, published in last
week's Plainsman: if you do not care to
become involved in the solution to this
problem, you are indeed part of the
problem.
Jan Hosey
4GPA
Editor, The Plainsman:
I have just heard that the SGA has
voted for zero-funding for the Circle.
Whether the decision to abandon the
magazine was arrived at independently
or because of threats (real or implied)
from certain members of the central
administration, Auburn University has
taken a giant step backward.
Zero-fundere have won the battle but
lost the war. They have succeeded in
protecting our weak and impressionable
students and faculty from future expo­sure
to abominable, everyday four-letter
words in print, but they have also de­stroyed
the only truly wide-circulation
open forum for creative expression at
Auburn University.
The quality and morality of the Cir­cle's
contents are not the issues. The
opportunity to submit writing and art
work for publication, and the subse­quent
opportunity of an enlightened
readership to like or dislike what it reads
and sees are what the Circle has been
about.
To presume to protect people at
Auburn from what t hey read is arrogant,
because it shows that the SGA and its
zero fund cohorts think that they know
what we should read. To "protect" us
this way is also cynical, because it sug­gests
that we are incapable of determin­ing
for ourselves what is good, bad,
uplifting or obscene in what we read and
look at in pictures.
I consider the actions of the SGA to be
not only arrogant and cynical, but pro­vincial,
paranoid, regressive and even
repressive. Who do they think they are?
And, even more frightening, who do
they think we are?
Mark Price
Associate Professor of Art
Editor, The Plainsman:
Before we call out the vice squad for
Monday's distribution of The Auburn
Circle, I think some things should be
pointed out:
I waa informed in last week's letters
that the Circle has turned from a stu­dent
interest magazine to a forum for
"pornography,...sexual perversion,
...depravity,...and licentiousness" and
that we shouldn't be forced to pay for
this "trash" with our student activities
fees. If this were actually the case, I
would be protesting.too.
I am afraid that the "questions that
came to mind" during the recent Circle
controversy were blown out of propor­tion
by a very active imagination and an
open thesaurus. If people choose to use
such words as "pornography" and
"depravity," they must have proof to fill
them out.
This may be difficult since they have
not read nor even seen a copy of the short
story in question. Not even a twisted
mind could find anything "licentious"
or "sexually perverted" in its language.
As for this "trash": this "trash" was
just last year voted the best student
interest magazine in the Southeast. Per­haps
they could read an issue and see for
themselves. And just because they feel
one article might be inappropriate
doesn't mean the whole magazine
should be condemned.
The Auburn Circle can not and should
not cater to every student's emotional or
moral ideals. That is not its purpose. The
duty of the magazine is to serve as forum
for the university community, providing
a variety of interesting and thought-provoking
articles.
The editor and editorial boards of the
Circle judge hundreds of submissions
written by students and faculty in all
majors and pick articles that are well-written,
creative, but most importantly,
have underlying ideas that they feel
need to be voiced. Whether that idea is
right or wrong is left to the individual
reader—and it should be decided after,
not before, reading the article in
question.
A student interest magazine is highly
desirable for the type of education I want
to receive from Auburn University.
Without me, I feel that the name "uni­versity"
is a mockery.
Mary Evans
3GMH
Editor, The Plainsman:
One day last week I found in my mail­box
two items whose juxtaposition
affirmed the often-forgotten fact that
God is witty. The first was a copy of
Aura, the arts magazine from the Bir­mingham
branch of the University of
Alabama. The other was a note from the
current editor of the Circle saying that
the magazine was probably not going to
be funded for next year.
I had to shake my head at the irony.
While Auburn students like to sport
bumper stickers that proclaim,
"Auburn, The University of Alabama,"
or, "If Auburn is a cow college, why is all
the Bull in Tuscaloosa?" some of their
vigilant student leaders assay to gua­rantee
that Auburn falls farther and
farther behind in providing opportuni­ties
for creative students to express
themselves.
It is argued that the great uninterest­ing
mass of Auburn students should not
be expected to pay for a magazine that is
read by perhaps four or five thousand
students, truly enjoyed by one thousand
and composed by fewer than a hundred,
but one must realize that the students for
whom the Circle is truly significant
probably care little for free paper shak­ers
at football games or many of the
other services provided by their activity
fees; yet the bulk of their fees (not the
mere 15<t each student pays for the pub­lication
of the Circle) is spent on these
not-particularly-thought-provoking
activities.
However, I don't want to argue for the
value of the Circle in monetary terms. I
don't even want to dwell on the fact that
even UAB will leave Auburn even
farther behind if the Circle is abolished.
My interest is in the small creative
spark that somehow, against all expec­tation
and odds, has managed to survive
here and emit both heat and light in the
past cold decade of student devotion to
the measurable and material.
The charged atmosphere of a true edu­cational
institution depends upon the
confluence of many species of active
inquiry, some pursued by the many, oth­ers
pursued by the few. And as the field
of investigation and expression is nar­rowed,
the excitement of discovery fades
just a little in every area.
My concern, therefore, is twofold.
First, I am certain that the hard­working
and able few who contribute to
the Circle (perhaps a hundred just this
year, but over a thousand in the history
of the magazine) will feel the loss signif­icantly,
and will perhaps be discouraged
in their efforts to communicate their
hard-won discoveries through the
media.
Secondly, I am convinced that the loss
of the Circle will have subtle damaging
effects on those who pursue knowledge
in all disciplines.
The issue here is hardly the size of the
group most directly involved with the
magazine. Certainly it is not the vocabu­lary
in which discovery expresses itself.
The death of the Circle, like the death
of any individual, will diminish all of us.
At a time when Auburn is striving to
escape a reputation for provinciality
and narrowness, that would be a shame.
R.T. Smith
Alumni Writer-in-Residence
CALENDAR
Thursday, February 16, 1984 HLht Suburn JMamsman A-9
UNIVERSITY
ANNOUNCEMENT
Need free tax help? Beta Alpha
Psi will be assisting with tax
returns on Monday, Wednesday,
and Thursday, Feb. 27 and 29
and March 1 from 2-5 p.m. in Foy
Union Room 203.
Alpha Zeta garden plots will
be for rent March 1 & 2 from 8
a.m.-4 p.m. in Foy Union.
Do you have trouble organizing
material ito a coherent essay? Do
your essays meander from point
to point instead of presenting a
clear and logical argument? Do
you need a way of creating order
out of chaos? Help is now availa­ble!
Tips and techniques for suc­cessfully
organizing written
material will be provided at a
meeting on Thursday, Feb. 23,
from 4 to 5 p.m. at the Writing
Center (3183 Haley Center). All
interested individuals are invited
to attend.
Voter registration will be held
Friday, Feb. 24 from 8 a.m. to 4
p.m. on the first floor of Haley
Center and at Village Mall Sat­urday,
Feb. 25 from 10 a.m. to 8
p.m. Sponsored by American
Association of University
Women.
Applications are available at the
Foy Union desk for the Katha­rine
Cooper Cater Mortar
Board Scholar Award. All
students of sophomore standing
with a 3.25 GPA or better are eli­gible
for the $500 scholarship.
Preliminary interviews for War
Eagle Girls and Plainsman
will be held Feb. 27-March 1.
Applications are available at the
Union desk and must be turned in
and interviews signed up for by 5
p.m. tomorrow.
Cheerleader tryouta! Come to
the orientation meeting to find
out all about tryouta on Tuesday,
Feb. 28 at 7 p.m.,Room 246 in Foy
Union. Applications are availa­ble
at the SGA office.
How would you like to be Aubie
the Tiger? Tryouta are not until
Spring Quarter,but an important
orientation meeting will be held
Tuesday, March 6 at 8 p.m. in Foy
Union #205.
Delta Delta Delta is offering
two $400 scholarships to under­graduate
full-time women stu­dents.
Academic record, contri­bution
to campus or community
life, promise of service in the
major and financial need are
among the criteria considered.
Applications can be picked up at
the Financial Aid Office and the
desk of Dorm G. The deadline is
Monday, March 5, 1984. Any
questions call Gail Schapker at
821-5799.
p.m. in Room 336 Funchess Hall.
Plans will be finalized for Con­clave
at the Univeristy of Texas.
Members and others interested
are encouraged to attend.
Talons: Be at Burton Hall
tonight for an exciting meeting.
The festivities will begin at 6:30,
and a party will follow.
There will be a U.C.A.M. meet­ing
Thursday night, Feb. 23. at
5 p.m. inRoom 320 of Foy Union.
RELIGIOUS
EVENT
"Rata" Bible study will meet
each Thursday night at 8 p.m. in
Room 2370 Haley Center this
quarter. The study is sponsored
by the Fellowhip of Christian
Athletes and is led by John Deese
of Huntsville. All students are
invited to attend.
The Baha'i Club invites inter­ested
people to come to 816 N.
Gay St. at 8 p.m. every Friday for
an informal discussion about the
Cause of God. 821-7881. The
Baha'i Club invites interested
persons to attend weekly fire­sides
every Friday at 8 p.m.: call
821-7881.
Photography Club Meeting.
Interested in becoming a better
photographer? Come to the next
meeting. February 27, 7:30 p.m.
Haley Center Room 2226. For
more information call 821-3565.
Join the Auburn Univeristy Cir­cle
K, the largest collegiate ser­vice
organization in the U.S.
Help others and have a lot of fun
in the process. Meetings are 5
p.m. Mondays in Foy Union Rm.
321. All meetings are opened to
the public.
The Auburn Wildlife Society
will meet Tuesday, Feb. 28 at 7
L'il Bit Older Club: Gynecolo­gist
Dr. James Lyle will be dis­cussing
"Infertility and You"
and answering your provocative
questions. 7:30 p.m., 2326 Haley
Center, tonight. Over 22? Male or
Female, come on! Meet somebody
new. Information: 887-8376.
The Society for Creative
Anachronism will be having a
small war with our counterparts
in Montgomery this weekend.
Come and live the current Middle
Ages with us. Weekly meetings
are Thursday 7p.m.Eagle's Nest
Haley Center. For more info,
please call David 887-7374.
The Auburn Association of
Public Administrators will
hold a meeting Thursday Feb. 23,
at 7 p.m. inRoom 356 Foy Union.
All PUB majors and interested
persons are invited to attend.
Alpha Epsilqn Delta presents a
medical student board meeting
on Tuesday, Feb. 28 in HC 2207.
Medical studenta from the Uni­versity
of South Alabama and
the Univeristy of Alabama in
Birmingham will be present to
answer questions from students
about medical school.
Chess Club • The Chess Club
meets on Tuesday nights at 7
p.m. in Foy 204. Visitors
welcome.
The Pi Lambda Sigma meeting
originally scheduled for today
has been rescheduled for Thurs­day,
March 1 at 7 p.m. in Haley
Center Room 2326.
AU Pre-Vet Medical Associa­tion
will meet Monday, Feb. 27 at
7 p.m. Large Animal Clinic Room
144. Dr. Albert will show video
tape and discuss eye surgery.
Meet in front of Animal Science
Building at 6:30 if ride needed.
AU Pre-Vet Medical Associa­tion
will tour Tuakeegee Vet
school Saturday, Feb. 25. Meet in
front of Animal Science Building
at 7:15 a.m.
Overeaters Anonymous meets
every Monday night at 6:30 for
beginners, 7:00 for regulars, at
Grace Methodist Church in
Auburn behind Kroger's. Meet at
noon on Thursday in Room 106
Greene Hall at the Vet School.
For further information, call
Marion at 821-2390 or Emilyn at
887-9630 after 5. No fees. No
weigh-ins. We Care!
Alternative Realities will hold
its next meeting on Sunday, Feb.
26 at 7:30 in the Eagle's Nest. The
public is welcome.
Marine Biological Society will
meet Monday, Feb. 27 at 7:30 p.m.
inRoom 136 of Cary Hall. Dr.
Schroeder from Dauphin Island
will speak on vertical stratifica­tion
in the Gulf of Mexico.
Pi Mu Epsilon - The math
honorary will have a meeting,
initiation and a speaker on Mon­day,
Feb. 27 at 6:30 p.m. in Parker
Hall, Room 350.
The student chapter of the
Society for the Advancement
will meet Monday, Feb. 27,7 p.m.,
in Foy Union Room 322. All
members are urged to attend.
The Auburn University Geo­graphy
Club will meet on Tues­day,
Feb. 28 in Room 210 of
Tichenor Hall. Charles Tanger (4
GL) will show slides on Egypt,
and this will be followed by a
brief business meeting. Inter­ested
students, faculty, and
townspeople are invited to
attend.
The Auburn Fantasy Warga-mers
Club is back for another
quarter of deviltry and delight.
Just put up $1 for membership
dues and join in on the fun. For
more info, call Billy at 887-9788 or
Jon at 826-7809. The club meets
every Friday night at 6 p.m. in
Haley CenterRoom 2316.
Richard Mauk, the president of
the state Young Democrats. All
members and interested persons
are invited to attend.
UPC Fine Arts, Auburn Reha­bilitation
Club, and Alabama
Rehabilitation Association
(ARA) will present The Theatre
of the Deaf on Sunday, March 4,
at 8 p.m. in the Foy Union Ball­room.
A group of deaf and speak­ing
actors will be performing in
sign language voice.
The Auburn University Wind
Symphony will perform in con­cert
on Feb. 29 at 8 p.m. in the
Telfair Peet Theatre. Conductors
are Dr. Bill Walls and Dr. John­nie
Vinson. There is no admis­sion
charge.
A.U. Symphony Orchestra
Concert Sunday, March 4, at 8
p.m., Telfair Peet Theatre. There
is no charge for admission and
the public is invited to attend.
The 1984 Miss War Eagle
Pageant is now under way. The
pageant is a preliminary to the
Miss Alabama and Miss America
pageants and will be held March
29. If interested in entering call
821-2506. Entry deadline is
March 10!
SPECIAL
EVENTS
have been in the organization
over the years will share their
experiences, strength and hope.
The East Alabama Task Force
for Battered Women will be
holding a training session for
persons interested in volunteer­ing
to work for the victims of
domestic violence. The sessions
are scheduled for Monday even­ings
Feb. 27 and March 5. For
more information, call 745-3837
and leave your name and tele­phone
number. A Task Force
member will return your call.
"Returning to Work Semi­nar"
is Saturday, March 3 from
8:30 a.m.-Noon. Fee: $5. Topics:
job hunt, resume writing, inter­view
skills, follow up, values clar­ification,
continuing education,
Alabama State Employment
Service, Auburn ASUW's Profes­sional
Employment Information
Access System. Information Tel:
205-826-5101.
AU and Columbus College Con­tinuing
Education Departments
and L'il Bit Older Club present
"Dessert And Discussion".
6:30-10:30 p.m., March 2. Boykin
Community Center. Dessert
served. $12 before Feb. 27, $15
after. Info: 887-8376.
On Thursday, March 1, at 4 p.m.,
the Argentine Embassy in
Washington D.C., the Depart­ment
of Foreign Languages, and
Sigma Delta Pi will present the
Argentine film, La Guerra Gau-cha
(The Gaucho War), at the Vil­lage
Theatre on Gay Street. The
film has English subtitles. The
film, produced in 1942 by Lucas
Demare, has received several
international prices and deals
with the struggle for the libera­tion
of Argentina. A $2 donation
will be accepted.
University Sailing Club will
hold its weekly meetings every
Tuesday at 6 p.m. in Foy Union,
Room 356. For information call
Lynn Bryan 826-1102 or Liza
Maloney 821-4557.
The Young Democrats will
meet on Wed. Feb. 29 at 7 p.m. in
Room 322 Foy Union. The guest
speaker for the meeting will be
The AU French Honorary will
sponsor a lecture demonstration
of French Cooking World-Wide in
the demonstration kitchen of the
Auburn University Education
TV station, Thursday, Feb. 23 at
4 p.m. It will feature short dem­onstrations
of dishes from
French Canada, Haiti and
France. There will be a $1 demon­stration
admission fee.
Overeatera Anonymous will
sponsor a 8hare-A-Thon at
Grace Methodist Church on Sat­urday
Feb. 25. Begins at 9:30 a.m.
and enda at 3:00 p.m. Come and
bring a friend. OA people who
Builders' Guild Speaker—Roy
Ludwig, developer from Atlanta,
topic: "Building Wealth", Dudley
B-6, Tuesday, Feb. 28. 7 p.m.,
reception following, business as
well as technical majors
welcomed.
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Campus groups offer services
STATESIDE/WORLDWIDE TRAVEL AGENTS
By Bob Phillips
News Staff
From giving underprivileged
children a shoulder to lean on to
offering Auburn students text­books
at reduced prices, members
of four campus service organiza­tions
donate their time each
month to a variety of charitable
projects.
These four, Alpha Phi Omega,
Project Uplift, Circle K and
Gamma Sigma Sigma, are made
up of students, but offer services
to the community as well as the
University.
Alpha Phi Omega, a national
service fraternity, has been at
Auburn University since 1927.
The fraternity is open to men and
women and offers services to the
Special Olympics, shuttle buses
to blood drives, activities for Pro­ject
Uplift and the care of the
Auburn Mascot, War Eagle V.
The organization has also been
responsible for the placement of
benches on campus and the AU
sign located in front of Sanford
Hall.
The fraternity recently sent a
care package to the Marines in
Lebanon.
Alpha Phi's president, Gary
Shelton, said the fraternity's
major contribution to AU is the
book exchange which sells books
for students for a small fee.
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that contribute five to 10 hours a
week to service, Shelton said.
Pledges are required to work 35
hours in the book exchange and
other services and pass a pledge
test. Pledge fees are $20 with an
initiation fee of $40 while regular
dues are $20 per quarter. Rush is
usually held in the fall and win­ter
quarters.
Established on campus in 1973,
Project Uplift is a community
organization that offers services
to youths and families to prevent
juvenile delinquency. The pro­gram
is patterned after the Big
Sister-Big Brother program
which allows students to have a
one-to-one relationship with the
children.
Faculty advisor Joyce Watson
said the organization's major
contribution is to provide ex­perience
working with different
aged youths.
In Rev. Britt's class
There are 110 male and female
members of the organization who
spend three to four hours a week
with a child—a requirement after
pledgeship; for all pledges are
required to sign up for six hours'
training and then are inter­viewed
by a volunteer coordina­tor
before children are assigned
to them, said Miss Watson.
Although no money is required
for membership, an insured car is
needed to provide transportation
for the student and the child.
One of the leading interna­tional
clubs, Circle K offers ser­vices
to the community and cam­pus
and is also open to men and
women. Once a week projects
with the Girls'Ranch at Camp
Hill, East Alabama Services for
the Elderly, Kings Acres Juvenile
Home and area nursing homes
are requirements for members,
according to the organization's
president, Billy Parker. Circle K's
major contribution is the assist­ance
in the blood drive.
It has 29 members that con­tribute
as many hours as possible
to the projects. Pledges are
required to serve a number of
hours of services and meetings
before being initiated, Parker
said. Membership dues are $12
for new members and $10 for old.
Gamma Sigma Sigma, a
national organization, is a ser­vice
group for women with a 2.00
or higher GPA. The group
chooses a different organization
to help each quarter through
sales and raffles. Gamma Sigma
also helps with the blood drives
and Project Uplift.
Members of the group are
required to provide 13 hours of
service per quarter. Pledges must
work on projects and pass a
pledge test before being initiated.
Dues are $33 every fall quarter
and $5 winter and spring.
Students learn to select their mate
By Bruce McDouglad
Features Staff
"There are two great amateur
professions:marriage and parent­hood.
People are trained to
become doctors and lawyers and
engineers, but when the question
of parenthood or marriage comes
up, it's expected for you to know
what to do," the Rev. Charles
Britt, said. Teaching a course
called mate selection, his stu­dents
seem to like him, most of
them, and he likes his students,
most of them.
The aim of his course is to
"illuminate young men and
women to the various ways to
improve a relationship, no matter
how good it may be," he said.
Britt tries to show his students
that "there is always a way to
work things out in a relation­ship,
even though he or she
might not have thought of itl'He
considers his teaching an exten­sion
of his ministerial work, Britt
said.
Britt, born in Lockhart, S.C.,
moved often as he grew up
because of the business his father
was in. But he considers Tallas-see,
Ala.,his "home base," so to
speak.
From the time he was in ele­mentary
school, the church
played a vital part of his lite, Britt
said. He was active in various
church activities, and made the
decision to enter the clergy When
he was 16. His parents weren't
the type to send a young man off
to college for the simple reason of
going, he said.They wanted to
know why he wanted to go and
what he was going to do, Britt
said.
He made his decision and went
to divinity school at Vanderbilt.
After he completed post graduate
work at Auburn, he went over­seas
to become a missionary in
Africa, where he met and married
his wife. They've had two child­ren
since.
Britt stayed in Africa from
1947 to late 1954, when he came
back to the States. After assign­ments
to the pastorages of var­ious
churches in lower Alabama,
he was offered a position here at
Auburn. He accepted gladly.
Britt said he doesn't like to take
advantage of the classroom to
preach, even with the temptation
of a captive audience. But, con­sidering
his calling, it is next to
impossible for it not to slip
through just a tiny bit His stu­dents
don't mind, though, he said.
The professor hasn't allowed
his teaching to take up all of his
time, either. He is part-time pas­tor
at two different churches: The
Marvyn Church, and the
Watoola Church. He also has
several speaking engagements
lined up for the month of Febru­ary
alone.
Aside from this, Britt is always
glad to help out anyone coming to
him for advice. If he can't help for
one reason or another, he usually
knows the right person to refer
them to, he said. He has had sev­eral
past students come to him to
thank him for what they learned
from him, Britt said. He's a
warm, considerate person, and if
his students have anything to
say about it, he'll be here a while
longer, as one student said.
AAUW to
sponsor
registration
The American Association of
University Women is sponsoring
a voter registration drive for this
Friday, Feb. 24, in the Haley Cen­ter
lobby from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Barbara Bramblett, chairper­son
for the AAUW drive said,
"We recognize it's difficult for
campus personnel and students
to meet with registrars and we
hope that this drive, held on
campus, will give faculty, staff
and students an opportunity to
register to vote and to make that
opportunity more convenient to
them." The second day of the
drive will be held at Village Mall
from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.
Because of the importance of
this election year at all levels of
government, Bramblett said
AAUW urges everyone who is not
registered to vote to do so.
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A-8 Ebr auburn Jlaitwrnan Thursday, February 23, 1984
Month highlights black history
By Rhonda Good©
News Staff
Auburn is observing Black
History Month with many activi­ties
scheduled for the public to
participate in this week.
For several decades, the United
States has reserved the third
week in February each year to
reflect upon the events in black
history, said Associate Professor
of History Earl B. Higgins. The
week has been expanded to a
month.
Tuesday night, students
attended a financial aid seminar
in Spidle Hall which was spon­sored
by Kappa Alpha Psi, said
Jerome Dees, director of minority
relations.
Wednesday night a dramatic
presentation called "Portraits in
Black History" took place in the
Foy Union Ballroom, he added.
The presentation was sponsored
by the Afro-American Associa­tion.
Later Wednesday evening, a
Georgia senator and the first
black to be nominated for vice
president, Julian Bond, spoke on
"Black Politics in the 80s" in the
Foy Union Ballroom, Dees said.
The lecture was sponsored by the
UPC.
Sunday afternoon, there will be
a luncheon featuring a speech by
former New York State Con-gresswoman
Shirley Chisolm in
the Foy Union Ballroom. The
luncheon will be sponsored by
Delta Sigma Theta.
There will be a dramatic pres­entation
by Billie Jean Young at
3 p.m. Sunday in the Foy Union
Ballroom, he added.
In an Atlanta television pro­gram
two weeks ago, Atlanta
Mayor Andrew Young spoke on
the importance of recognizing
black achievements in history.
Young said in an article in The
Atlanta Constitution last week
that "it's criminal" to talk about
the Civil War and Abraham Lin­coln
and not to mention Freder­ick
Douglass, a black abo­litionist.
The Kennedy brothers, Young
said, received much of their
insight about the plight of black
Americans from Martin Luther
King Jr.
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Martin glad to be back on the plains
By Beth Hughes
Assistant News Editor
"It's really a nice feeling to be
back," said Auburn University's
new president Dr. James E. Mar­tin
about his recent move to
Auburn after a 30 year absence.
"Of course, things have
changed," he added, "especially
in size! The campus is a lot
bigger, and the buildings like
large Haley Center weren't here
30 years ago, but the old Auburn
landmarks are still around."
"The main change that has
taken place with the students is
the size of the enrollment," Mar­tin
said. "I don't think they are
much different or more spirited
CAUSE forum to help
students, president relate
The Coalition for Auburn Uni­versity
Students for Education
(CAUSE) will sponsor a forum
featuring President James E.
Martin this Tuesday at 7 p.m. in
Room 1208 of Haley Center.
The forum is being held so stu­dents
can become more familiar
with the new president and so
that the president will have a bet­ter
understanding of the needs of
the student population, accord­ing
to Pat McLoughlin of
CAUSE.
McLoughlin said that his,
organization sponsored the same
type of discussion session with
interim president Wilford S. Bai­ley
and he believes the forum
worked out well for everyone con­cerned.
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than the students of my day,
there's just more of them."
He added that he is really
impressed with the average ACT
scores of incoming freshmen and
thinks that is a real tribute to the
University. "I'm pleased with the
student body here. I think this is
an outstanding group we have."
According to Martin, the main
difference he has seen in the town
is the population increase. The
downtown area remains almost
unchanged except for a few busi­nesses
that have new owners.
Toomer's Corner still exists, but
"the Cub (a downtown cafe') is
gone," he said.
He added that it has been "hec­tic"
during the past week as he
.and his wife tried to get settled in
.their new surroundings, but it
has also been "exciting."
He has even seen some old
friends since returning to town.
Last Saturday after the basket­ball
game a reception was held in
the Conference Center for former
basketball players where Martin
said he ran into some "old team­mates"
he has not seen in some
time.
He commented it was also fun
to see the sons and daughters of
old classmates that are now stu­dents
at Auburn. He has had sev­eral
students approach him and
ask if he remembers their
parents.
As a student, Martin lived in a
small white house at Graves Cen­ter.
He said he never dreamed he
would be living in the president's
mansion one day. "I think it's a
nice home," Martin said. "It adds
a lot to the University, and I'm
delighted it's located on campus,
so close to everything. It makes
you feel more a part of the aca­demic
environment."
Martin said what he missed
most about Arkansas were his
three children he left behind in
school. "Of course, we had many
friends at the University and in
the community that we'll miss,
but we've done it before. We have
already begun to make new
friends here in Auburn."
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Drug research comes to class
Six years ago his drug research
began in the prisons of Delaware
and the streets of Harlem with
heroin addicts. Now, all the field
experience Charles Faupel
picked up about drug subcultures
and lifestyles will be taught at
Auburn University spring quar­ter
in a new class, "Drugs and
Society."
The assistant professor of soci­ology
plans to discuss addiction
to the major drug types, theories
of drug abuse, drug use among
youths, women and minorities,
drugs and crimes, treatment,
social reactions and research.
"It's no problem to get them
(drug users) to talk," Faupel says
of his research subjects. "They're
not portentous and it is relatively
easy to develop rapport with
addicts. They are paid $10 an
hour for their time but not for
information. It is important that
they realize the difference
because of their knowledge in
trading information with the
authorities.
"Also, I make it clear to them
that I am not with the police or a
treatment center. If they accept
this, there is no reason for them to
lie."
Faupel said he was only
conned by one man. After the
interview, "I said 'You're con­ning
me, aren't you?' The man
laughed and asked me how I
knew. That man is the only one
who ever called me later to tell me
he had a job.
"Actually the biggest problem
in dealing with addicts are their
memories. They usually re­member
a crime bigger than it
was. Much as we remember a ski
trip or vacation rosier than it
was." he said.
exciting and intriguing."
"But addicts do have ethics,"
said Faupel. He adds that they
don't lack moral conscience. In
the words of an addict to Faupel,
"There are some people and pla­ces
you don't hit. You don't hit
home."
As for addicts failing to get real
jobs. "They aren't interested in
Actually the biggest problem in dealing with addicts
are their memories.
—Charles Faupel
any. Voluntary rejection is not a
failure to achieve," he added.
Another popular view is that
"drug addicts are trying to with­draw
from life." That the addict
"shoots up," "goes on the nod"
for about three hours, and then
goes back for more.
"Listening to an addict talk
about 'being in the life' means he
or she is part of the heroin subcul­ture.
To them heroin is life," Fau­pel
explained.
The trend has been toward
more drug comsumption in Har­lem
and by women. "During the
19th century before it was illegal,
the people who used to use narcot­ics
were upper and middle class
women. Women were not allowed
to drink alcohol, so they smoked
The scientific community has
become more aware of drugs and
their effects; however, in popular
conception the myths still exist,
Faupel believes.
One popular view is that
addicts are "double failures." The
myth says they have failed at
getting a real job and have failed
as criminals.
"Wrong. Addicts are some of
the more successful criminals,"
he said.
Faupel asked a drug-addicted
burglar once if he would continue
to steal if he didn't have to. The
burglar answered, "You have to
understand when you go into a
house its like Christmas under
the tree. The house has some­thing
wrapped up in it. That's
opium.
"Now, instead, these women
are using valium and other pres­cription
drugs. Many women
physicain - hop , getting several
prescriptions and having them
filled at different pharmacies,"
he said.
The two main treatments for
drug addiction are methadone
and use of a therapeutic commun­ity
or residential treatment cen­ter,
according to Faupel.
Methadone treatment is a syn­thetic
drug possibly more harm­ful
than heroin. Heroin was deve-loped
as a treatment for
morphine and morphine as a
treatment for opium.
The second treatment, use of a
therapeutic community, requires
the addicts to abstain from any
drugs, including alcohol, and to
abstain from sexual activity.
They are only allowed cigarettes
and can eventually earn a week­end
visit away.
The courts work both these
methods sending serious crimes
to the communities and the rest
for methadone treatments.
Faupel said the goal of the
class is for students to come away
with a more realistic attitude
about drug abuse. "We assume
that if the drug is legal it is safe
and if illegal it is dangerous,
which isn't necessarily so.
Poll
the "profanity." Other students
attributed the cut in funding to
the need to save money. Still oth­ers
said it was because the Circle
containing the article would
reflect badly on the University.
Other reasons given were
because the Circle didn't reach
enough people, because it didn't
appeal to enough people, because
of the narrowmindedness of the
SGA and because of pressure
f r om the a d m i n i s t r a -
continued from A-l
tion.
The results from the last ques
tion showed that the Plainsman
was the organization students
•aid affected them the most and
the Circle was the organization
students said affected them the
least. When evaluating the rela
tive importance of those two
answers, however, the frequency
with which each publication
comes out should be taken into
consideration.
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12 Rewards
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entrances
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novel
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activity
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28 Source of
water
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38 Hikes
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cerium
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48 The ones
here
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point
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away
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7 God of love
8 Metal
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10 Sewing
implement
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Moslems
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boards
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jewelry
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mountain
ridge
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sorrow
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stone
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A-10 Chf Auburn plainsman Thursday, February 23, 1984
'Sexual literacy' goal of Westheimer's talks
By Missy Harris
Assistant News Editor
Sex therapist Ruth Westhei-mer,
Ed.D., also known as "Dr.
Ruth," "put certain philosophies
on the table" concerning modern
sexual myths in her unflinch­ingly
straightforward address in
Foy Union Ballroom Tuesday
night.
Westheimer, the host of an
hour-long TV talk show in New
York City, xecently gained noto­riety
for her explicit discussions
about sex while visiting on talk
shows such as "Late Night with
David Letterman" and "The
Tonight Show."
With the same startling open­ness
which prompted NBC's
David Letterman to temporarily
walk off the set in amazement,
"Dr. Ruth" told the overflowing
audience Tuesday why she
claims "we should stop making
people feel guilty" about sex.
Although a practicing sex
therapist by profession, the 4-
foot-7 Westheimer said the goal of
her lectures and talk shows is to
promote "sexual literacy,"
because "one can not do therapy
on the air...one can only
educate."
Her talk included several areas
where she said myths still
abound in 1984.
Westheimer first discounted
the Victorian attitude that sex is
only to be tolerated, but not
enjoyed, by women. She said that
attitude was instituted by Victo­rian
era mothers who advised
their daughters to "think of Eng­land"
when warning them about
their wedding night.
The idea that masturbation
can cause blindness, baldness
and insanity was also discussed
with Westheimer's blatant style
as a myth which is responsible
for much comtemporary guilt
about sex.
Fallacies which still exist con­cerning
causes of and beliefs
about pregnancy were also
pointed out by Westheimer. The
therapist said even today, some
women believe they can't become
pregnant the first time they have
sex.
She said there are 1.5 million
pregnant females who don't want
to be pregnant but are, because
"sexual literacy" is lacking.
Many of these women, she stated,
don't know how they got preg­nant
because they believe var­ious
myths surrounding sexual
intercourse.
"I believe abortion must
remain legal," Westheimer said.
"When I was young...only women
who had money could get an
abortion."
She also criticized the recently
proposed "squeal laws"' which
would require all federally
funded clinics to get parental
permission before giving contra-
Arboretum: haven to students
By Dena Crews
Features Staff
"It was just a little ol' hog pas­ture's
all it was."
That's how Bill Reynolds de­scribed
the 13 acres of land
directly south of the Auburn
University president's home. The
"little ol' hog pasture" on
Auburn's campus is now called
the Donald E. Davis Arboretum
and is the home of 1150 varieties
of trees.
The 13-year-old arboretum was
first proposed in 1959 by a School
of Agriculture Teaching seminar.
In 1963 a six-member arboretum
committee headed by Dr. Donald
E. Davis began work on the land
that had been set aside for the
project, but the idea didn't
become reality until Reynolds
was hired in 1969.
"Oh, they had built a pond and
fenced it in," the technical
assistant said, "but it took me
two years to clean it up. I pulled
up trees, sold some for timber and
had a big bonfire with some."
Although Reynolds reports to
the committee frequently and has
the help of three male students
about 10 hours a week, he is
almost entirely responsible for
the work that has been done at
the arboretum.
During his first year as techni­cal
assistant, he planted 35 trees
and by his third year.he had
given a new home to 115 trees.
Since he was operating on a
relatively low fixed budget, Rey­nolds
couldn't afford to buy
many trees, so he traveled
through the state and out into the
woods to mark trees he wanted.
In the spring he would go back
and dig them up and plant them
at the arboretum.
"I haven't bought $50 worth of
trees the whole time," he said
proudly.
The "outside laboratory," as
Reynolds denned it, contains
trees all native to Alabama with
the exception of a few Western
extremely valuable. "I don't
know which colors are worth that
much," Reynolds added with a
chuckle.
In addition to the trees and
animals, there is a new vinery
and a "hand-made" soil area con­taining
sand dunes, alkaline
areas and a marsh section. This
is useful for the study of "particu -
The "little ol' hog pasture" on Auburn's campus is
now called the Donald E. Davis Arboretum and is
the home of 1150 varieties of trees.
ceptives to girls under 18 years
old.
According to a recent survey,
Westheimer noted, only 3 percent
of girls now obtaining contracep­tives
from these clinics would
continue to do so under that
condition.
"We, as a society, have an obli­gation
to make contraceptives
available," she declared, and
noted, "We don't have an ideal
contraceptive."
Another area of ignorance
Westheimer talked about was
homosexuality.
"I see people in my office who
are scared because they've had a
homosexual dream," said Wes­theimer.
"A homosexual fantasy,
a homosexual dream, doesn't
mean a person is going to live a
homosexual lifestyle."
"We don't know the reason for
homosexuality," she said.
Westheimer's lecture featured
two short films, one entitled
"Quickie" and another entitled
"Orange," which she said
expressed her beliefs about the
legitimacy of aphrodisiacs.
The audience was allowed to
submit written and verbal ques­tion,
but only one person
addressed her verbally.
Although timid, the audience
was very attentive and stood to
applaud when she concluded her
presentation.
Westheimer's TV talk show,
"Sexually Speaking," is also on a
New York radio station and car­ries
a disclaimer which is
repeated three times each hour
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forest trees used for study.
Reynolds compared the Au­burn
arboretum to the one in Tus­caloosa,
saying, "The University
of Alabama has trees all in rows;
I tried to make mine more like a
native habitat in the woods."
Trees are only one part of the
beauty of the arboretum. The
park is also the home for squir­rels,
chipmunks, rabbits, quail,
doves, hawks and a number of
other varieties of birds.
"I had one squirrel and I could
say, 'Go get up that tree' and he'd
get up the tree. He'd do about
anything I wanted."
A bridge provides a walkway
across the pond that contains
approximately 30 multi-colored
Oriental carp, called Koi carp.
"Some are said to be worth $2,000
to $3,000 a piece, but I tell them
mine are worth 50 cents," Rey­nolds
said jokingly.
He said the fish are used in
pools in the Far East They are
sold according to their color com­binations,
with some types
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The "laboratory," built mainly
for the purpose of teaching, is
used by several departments at
the University, including Fisher­ies,
Wildlife, Horticulture, Biol­ogy,'
Forestry, Animalogy and
even Architecture. However, it is
open to everyone for personal
enjoyment.
Couples can be seen sitting
under the trees or holding hands
while walking on the bridge. At
nighttime, one might even hear a
lip "smack" or two. On sunny
afternoons in the spring, girls
wearing bikinis bask in the sun­light
while pretending to study.
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saying,"This program is not for
everybody. If it offends you, move
your dial. There is a classical
radio station next to mine."
Her Sunday program is spread­ing
to the West Coast and Mid­west
and receives 200 letters and
as many phone calls per show.
"Sexually Speaking" has been
very successful, Westheimer
explained, not only because she is
qualified and is "willing to speak
directly not talk around issues,"
but also because such a need for
this type of program exists.
Even though Dr. Ruth has
earned the nickname of
"Grandma Freud", she says the
real Freud was "sexually illiter­ate"
in terms of female sexuality.
He was, however, "absolutely
genius" in his findings about
children's sexuality, asserted
Westheimer.
Westheimer was born in
Frankfurt, Germany to Orthodox
Jewish parents, but was sent to
an orphanage in Switzerland in
1939 to escape the Holocaust. She
believes her parents were killed
in a Nazi concentration camp.
She immigrated to Israel at age
16 and became a Zionist. She
earned certificates enabling her
to be a kindergarten teacher and
a housemaid. She returned to
Europe in 1951 and took psychol­ogy
courses at the Sorbonne, and
then came to the U.S. in 1956.
She got her master's degree in
sociology from the New York
School in New York City in 1959.
Westheimer trained as a sex
therapist at New York Hospital
— Cornell Medicare Center,
where she is now a professor of
human sexuality. She also treats
sex problems in private practice
and is an instructor at Adelphi
University.
"Dr. Ruth's Guide to Sex" is her
book which is currently on the
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Thursday, February 23, 1984 Cbr SUiburn Plainsman A - l l
Aerobics and weightlifting
AU students, townspeople shape up for spring at Kaz
By Dena Crews
Features.Staff
"One, two, three, four, five, six,
seven, eight."
Clap, clap, clap, clap, "Five,
six, seven, eight."
"C'mon, two, three, four, You
can do it, six, C'mon Push it."
"One, two, three, four," clap,
clap, clap, clap.
"Bikini season is only three
months away! five, six, Feel it!
eight."
"Work those legs! three, four,
Keep! It! Moving! eight."
Purple, red, black, yellow and
pink-tighted legs are simultane­ously
jumping to the lively beat of
Michael Jackson. The legs come
in every possible shape, length
and width.
Some are starting to slow down
as strength drains from their
bodies. Other energetic legs seem
to be getting plenty of power from
their bodies.
Finally, all of the legs stop
moving—the music is slow.
Bandana-tied heads carefully
drop to leg warmer-wrapped
knees, sweaty arms gently sway
back and forth, tight muscles
enjoy a long-awaited stretch and
breathless voices sigh comforta­bly
with relief.
It's over one more time.
These sights and sounds occur
seven times daily during the
aerobics sessions in the ladies'
section of Kaz Fitness Center on
College Street in Auburn.
Next door in the men's workout
room, deeper "ughs," wild
"eeyahs" and encouraging
shouts of "C'mon, do it, do it!"
come from within the hard, rip­pling
and perspiring chests of the
masculine bodies "pumping
iron."
The man responsible for this
paradise of blissful recreation is
the strongest man in the world.
tie is 30-year-old Bill Kazmaier,
known simply as "Kaz" to most
people.
Kaz, the three-time winner of
the "World's Strongest Man"
contest and two-time "World
Champion Power Lifter" came to
Auburn in 1979 to do promotional
work for Diversified Products
and to be part of the coaching
staff for the Auburn University
Weight Lifting team. He brought
with him his 26-year-old girl­friend
(now fiancee) Sue Lens.
In 1981, they decided to open a
fitness center in Auburn so Kaz
could train in a positive, college
atmosphere in a town with few
distractions.
Lens, the business manager of
the center, says she and Kaz met
in their home state of Wisconsin
while Kaz and Sue's brother were
roommates at the University of
Wisconsin. The couple left Wis­consin
("It was too cold there!")
and headed for California where
they stayed for three years. When
Kaz got the job offers in Auburn,
they decided to fly south.
Kaz trains for competition in
12-week cycles, does promotional
work for health clubs and gives
seminars both in the United
States and Europe during his rest
times.
"It's a big thing in Europe,"
Lens says. "They really get into
weight lifting over there because
there aren't so many other sports
like in America."
You might wonder what one
does to be hailed "World's
Strongest Man." It doesn't take
all that much, just performing a
few simple tasks such as carrying
refrigerators, throwing barrels,
and pulling a Peterbilt truck—
17,000 pounds of Peterbilt truck!
The six-foot-two, 325-pound
"hulk" also holds the world
records for the bench press (661
pounds), the dead lift (806
pounds) and the cumulative total
of the bench press, dead lift and
squat (2,425 pounds).
In contrast to her jumbo-sized
fiance, Lens is a petite five-foot
three. Her raspy, low-pitched
and ears. I think everything else
is okay!)
She says girls are too critical of
their bodies, especially college
girls. "They're obsessed with
their weight; it's not so much how
they look, but what the scales
Girls are getting more and more
serious about working out.
—Sue Lens
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The 1,000 men and women who
are members at the fitness center
work out in separate rooms that
are connected by one door. There
are 13 types of machines for the
women to work with and about 25
for the men. Many women join
just for the aerobic classes, but
there is an overall increase in the
number who work out with
weights.
"Girls are getting more and
more serious about working out."
voice, that doesn't at all match
her size or