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Volume 90 Number 3 Thursday, October 13,1983 Auburn University, Ala. 36849 34 pages
ASLEEP AT THE HEEL-This little squirrel
is taking a break to relax on the shoe of Brad
Miller, 03 PM. Brad found the little creature
three weeks ago after the squirrel fell from a
neighboring tree. Miller has been feeding the
Photography: Jay Sailors
squirrel with a sugar solution from AU's
School of Veterinary Medicine. To prevent
himself from spoiling the animal, Miller takes
him outside to play with other squirrels but he
always returns home.
Committee to examine
ticket sale priorities
By Steve Humphries
News Staff
After an "exploratory meet­ing"
on Sept. 29, no recommenda­tions
have been made by the
committee to "review the policies
regarding (football) ticket (sale)
priorities," said Jack Simms,
chairman of the committee.
Auburn uses a system based on
donations to the Greater Auburn
Fund (GAF) to determine ticket
purchase priorities.
The committee was appointed
by Auburn University Interim
President Wilford S. Bailey after
receiving complaints from
alumni who could not get tickets
to the Alabama, Georgia and
Tennessee games.
Simms would not discuss the
details of the first meeting say­ing,
"Since we only have the
power to make recommendations
to the president, we would look a
little ridiculous releasing them
even before the president sees
them." He noted that at this point
nothing has been decided.
Other members are George
Bradberry, director of alumni
and development; Ken Guin,
Student Government Associa­t
i o n s e n a t o r ; Dr. James
Mathews, a physician who prac­tices
in the Auburn area; Kermit
Perry, assistant athletic director;
Lamar M. Ware Jr., an Auburn
jeweler; and William Beckwith,
Athletic Ticket Manager.
Ticket priorities are divided
into four categories with the first
two getting equal priority for
away games. Those giving a min­imum
of $3,000 and those giving
a minimum of $400 get first prior­ity,
while those giving $250 get
second priority and those giving
$100 get third priority.
Using this system, refunds
were made to everyone in the
$100 category for their orders to
the Alabama, Georgia and Ten­nessee
games.
Beckwith said that the dona­tion
system is necessary because
the GAF, along with football
ticket gate receipts, has to raise
enough money to support all
athletics at Auburn except men's
basketball. He said that without
this support the other sports
could not survive and he cited the
wrestling program as an
example.
Beckwith stressed that the
GAF is bringing in about $3 mil­lion
annually now "and just
keeping our head out of water."
Citing rising costs as the reason,
he added, "If we're going to sur­vive,
I would say that in three
years we're going to need $5 mil­lion
annually."
The GAF has nothing to offer
in exchange for donations except
football tickets, said Beckwith.
"The committee has got to decide
whether it wants to cut every­body
down or take care of the big
donor," he said.
He would not guess what
recommendations the committee
would make.
Neither would Simms. "The
committee will recommend what­ever
changes, if any, it feels are
appropriate," he saiH
Funderburk, Littleton testify
during Mayfield tenure case
By Lynne Hopkins
and Terri Knot
News Staff
A University official testified
in U.S. District Court Tuesday
that is was unfortunate that a
former assistant professor was
not brought up for consideration
for tenure after the alotted seven
year period.
Dr. Taylor Littleton, assistant
to the president, made the com­ment
in the U.S. District Court in
Opelika concerning the suit
brought against the University
; by a former music professor.
Former faculty member Lida
Mayfield, of the music depart­ment,
filed a suit against the
University alleging sex discrim­ination
and a physical handicap
as the reason for her not being
granted tenure during her twelfth
year of teaching at Auburn.
Littleton said that Mayfield's
failure to receive tenure after the
seven year probationary period
was "an issue that was over­looked"
and it was unfortunate
that she was not placed in the
process at the appropriate time.
Littleton said that when May-field
was brought up for tenure,
the university followed proper
tenure channels.
The first witnesses to testify
were former president Hanly
Funderburk and former vice pres­ident
for academic affairs Dr.
Taylor Littleton.
They were questioned about
the University's policies govern­ing
tenure procedures. Mayfield's
lawyer, Robert Meadows, alleges
that these policies have been vio­lated
in Mayfield's case.
The University currently
adheres to tenure policies in the
1940 Statement of Principles on
Academic Freedom and Tenure
which maintains that once
faculty members have served
seven years in a probationary
category they would be nomi­nated
for the tenure process.
However, Mayfield accepted
the position of instructor in 1970
and was not brought up for
tenure until 1981.
Littleton testified, "We try as
best we can to adhere to that
seven year period."
At the time Mayfield was
brought up for tenure Littleton
was serving as academic vice
president under Funderburk.
Littleton said while he was
serving in this position he sent
memorandums to department
heads stating that they must
initiate action on tenure proce­dures
on any faculty member in
his or her sixth year of service.
Littleton said that the major
consideration involved in the
granting of tenure is the compat­ibility
that a faculty member has
with colleagues in the department.
See TRIAL, page A-8
Former professor charges
discrimination in tenure
By Lynne Hopkins
New^ Editor
Preceedings began Tuesday in
a lawsuit filed against Auburn
University by a former professor
who claims that she was denied
tenure on the basis of sex discrim­ination
and a physical handicap..
Lida Mayfield, a former profes­sor
in the music department, is
suing the University for compen­satory
and punitive damages,
back pay and asking for rein­statement,
said Robert Meadows,
Mayfield's attorney.
Meadows said the major alle­gations
that wih be brought
against the University are that
they failed to adhere to policies
governing tenure requirements
and sex discrimination.
Meadows said that "when they
See MAYFIELD, page A-8
Dog sees world for student
By Leigh Light
Assistant Features Editor
Mike Jones likes to jog, go on
dates and eat out. He's a student,
waterskier, tutor and jokester.
He's also blind, but he doesn't let
that slow him down.
Mike has at least one distin­guishing
characteristic though-he's
most of the time accompan­ied
by a black labrador Seeing
Eye dog.
Three months ago, Mike went
to Morristown, N.J. to Seeing
Eye, Inc., a school where over
8,000 dogs have been trained as
guides. Each dog goes through a
three-month preparatory course.
This is followed by a month of
training with his blind master
who learns to interpret the sig­nals
received through the dog's
U-shaped harness and to direct
the dog with spoken commands.
(Only the dogs trained at this
particular school can be approp­riately
called Seeing Eye dogs.)
Although Mike enjoys having
a Seeing Eye dog, he has encoun­tered
some problems. The most
serious and irritating of these
problems occurs when overly
friendly people whistle, call or pet
his dog. "I realize that it's a natu­ral
reaction for people to want to
pet him, but it really distracts
him from his work," Mike says.
Also people who grab his arm or
the dog's harness or shouts words
or warning create difficulties, he
says.
Few people know the name of
Mike's dog for this very reason.
He asked The Plainsman not to
print it so people couldn't start
calling the dog by name.
Mike and his dog walk at a
brisk pace wherever they go. In
fact, keeping up with them can be
difficult. But keeping a quick
pace is necessary for this man.
Between his 20-hour courseload
in rehabilitation and early child­hood
development, serving as
vice president of the Student
Council for Exceptional Children
and tutoring, he stays extremely
busy.
The 14-year-old boy that
Michael tutors is also blind. His
teaching ranges from helping
with schoolwork and teaching
braille, to teaching social skills.
Mike lost sight in one eye when
he had glaucoma as an infant. A
few years later, he was hit on the
head with a baseball causing a
detached retina and blurred
vision in the other eye. He was 11
years old. After unsuccessful
surgery at a hospital in Boston,
the sight in that eye was lost.
Until three months ago, Mike
got around on his own, not even
counting his steps to find his
classes. Once he became familiar
with the area he says he would
"just know" when he got there.
But since getting his dog, he
can get to places even quicker.
The dog even goes into the class­room
with him, and lays next to
or under Mike's chair. Mike had
always assumed that his dog
slept during the classes, but one
day before class one of his profes­sors
said to him, "Is that dog
going to help you on your quiz,
too? He's been more alert in class
lately than you have."
With a sense of humor, Mike
sometimes can't resist taking
advantage of the ignorance of
sighted people. For instance, he
See JONES, page A-6
Better relations, more budget input
set as year's goals by faculty senate
By Tim Dorsey
News Staff
Better relations with the
Board of Trustees and more
budgetary input are two goals of
the Auburn University Faculty
Senate this year, said Curt
Peterson, senate chairman.
Peterson said the senate will
work toward "bridging the rela­tionship
between board and
faculty." He said dealings
between the board and the
faculty will "hopefully be posi­tive
and move away from con­frontation
that we faced in the
past."
The senate openly criticized
the board last year during a
controversy with former Presi­dent
Hanly Funderburk and
opposed the vice chairmanship
of R.C. Bamburg.
The trustees are conducting a
search for a successor to Fun-,
derburk, who resigned under
pressure in February. Peterson
hopes the senate can contribute
during on-campus interviews,
but that will depend on how the
search committee decides to
proceed.
"It is important to the faculty
to have some inpute in the pro­cess"
he said. Much of the con­troversy
surrounding Funder-burk's
appointment in 1980 was
the alleged exclusion of faculty
input by the trustees.
Peterson said he also wants
the senate to have greater
involvement in the University's
budget. He said the senate is
uninformed about monetary
matters and must gain better
understanding before it can
make a significant contri­bution.
He said the senate rules com­mittee
will decide this year
whether to recommend forming
a committee to advise the
administration on the academic
See SENATE, PAGE A-8 Jones and his dog are a frequent sight around campus.
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Week in
Review
The Middle-East continued
to experience instability this
past week, with the devalua­tion
of the currency in Israel
and Iran threatening to close
the Persian Gulf if its oil traf
fie is interrupted. Across the
nation, James Brady was
given a heartwarming wel­come
home and the president
of Panama told Henry Kissin­ger
that political violence
could hit his country if the
United States does not provide
more economic aid. Here in
Alabama, Birmingham mayor
Richard Arrington won a
second term and Emory F61-
mar defeated his challenger to
claim his third victory in
Montgomery mayoral races.
INTERNATIONAL
Israel's government raised
the price of basic foods by 50
percent and devalued the cur­rency
23 percent Tuesday. The
markets were deluged by
shoppers hoping to obtain
milk, meat and bread before
the increases go into effect.
And also on Tuesday, the
Iranian government warned it
would close the Persian Gulf to
all shipments of pertroleum of
Iraq attempts to interrupt its
crude oil traffic. A parliament
speaker said Tuesday that
anytime the Iranians feel it
necessary, they will put the
gulf "out of use."
In Seoul, South Korea, thou­sands
of mourners gathered
Monday to protest the Burma
bombing that killed 16
members of a South Korean
presidential delgation. The
country's president, Chun
Doo-hwan, said the rally was
aimed at him and said he felt
communist North Korea had
instigated the protest.
In Jeruselum, Yitzhak
Shamir was sworn in u»
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Faculty evaluation, poll topic
Israel's seventh prime'minis­ter.
He pledged to follow the
policies of Menachem Begin in
Lebanon and the occupied
Wee* Bank.
NATIONAL
White House press secretary
James Brady was welcomed
home on Monday by a crowd
lining the streets of Centralis,
111. Brady had not been home
after his appointment as press
secretary. He was shot in the
head in March 1981 during an
attempted assasination of
President Reagan.
E n v i r o n m e n t a l i s t s and
Democratic National Chairman
Charles Manatt said Monday
they plan to make President
Reagan "pay a political price
for Watt and his policies."
Interior Secretary James Watt
resigned Monday in the face of
increasing support for a reso­lution
in the Senate which
called for his resignation.
Watt said he felt "a different
type of leadership" is needed
for Reagan.
And the Reagan adminis­tration
said the Soviet Union
is using "propaganda tactics"
when threatening to suspend
arms control talks.
STATE
Fifty-eight percent of the
voters in Montgomery voted
for I n c u m b e n t Emory
Folmar in the race for mayor
held Tuesday. Folmar defeated
his challenger Franklin
James by about one thousand
votes.
And the state Supreme
Court will hear arguements
over proposed rewrite of the
1901 Alabama Consitution
next week. A state judge held
last week that the legislature
did not have the power to
revise the constitution.
Many students will be partici­pating
in an upcoming SGA
phone poll on Monday dealing
with the issue of faculty evalua­tions.
The poll, which was origi-anlly
planned for Monday but
cancelled because of threatening
weather, will ask students ideas
about the evaluations and the
type of questions that should be
included in them.
The results from this poll will
be presented later by Steve Cates,
SGA director of faculty-student
relations, to Curt Peterson,
chairman of the Faculty Senate,
and other representatives of the
faculty.
According to Cates, this meet­ing
is designed as a "give and
take" session for the students
and faculty to reach conclusions
about the evaluations that are
agreeable to both sides. The issue
will then be voted on by both the
Faculty and Student Senates.
Cates, along with SGA presi­dent
David Herrick, already met
with several University officials
who gave a positive feedback to
the evaluation idea. The two have
also been researching the possi­bility
of evaluations all summer.
Such an evaluation has been
used at Auburn before in 1969
and 1970.
Students responded to a ques­tionnaire
and the statistics were
printed in a reference booklet.
According to Peterson, though,
the plan "must not have worked
very well because it was not
continued."
The tentative plans for Cates'
ideas call for an evaluation to be
given during the last week of
class each quarter that will not
take up more than twelve to fif­teen
minutes of class time. The
results will be compiled and writ­ten
in a paragraph, summary
Student help offered
City Council rezones,
new development planned
By Laurie Grisham
News Staff
A plan to rezone the area on
East University Drive and
Dekalb Street, north of the
Moore-Handley Homecrafters
Inc., was approved by the
Auburn City Council Tuesday
night.
Cary-Pick Realty requested the
rezoning of this area for a new
housing development consisting
of 80 new town houses and 91
single-family houses.
Clyde Prather, Director of
Planning and Codes Enforce­ment,
said that the group devel­opment
housing project is to be
funded by the federal govern­ment
under a program called
Urban Development Action
Grant (UDAG).
UDAG was designed to help
low to middle income families
afford new homes without plac­ing
a financial strain on them. If a
family could afford a $35 thou­sand
home, and wanted a $50
thousand home, UDAG would
pay the difference. This differ­ence
would serve as the family's
second mortgage.
Prather said when the family
paid off the second mortgage, the
money would go back directly to
the city of Auburn to be used for
similar development projects.
Prather said the interest rates
under the UDAG program were
considerably less than those
found elsewhere.
If the grant comes through, the
area for the possible development
will include homes ranging from
$50 thousand to $75 thousand in
price.
Although the grant hasn't been
approved yet, Prather said the
development project and the
chances for grant approval are
good.
If the grant does not come
through, plans for development
of the area on East University
Drive will not be feasible, Prather
added.
By Rachael Osment
Features Staff
The "loveliest village on the
plains" can be less than lovely to
an incoming freshman or
transfer student who is lost in the
confusion of an 18,000-student
campus.
What those people need to
know is that there are people and
services ready to assist them.
Career Development Services
in Mary Martin Hall offers help
and information to all students
on campus, says Dr. Magdala
Thompson, director of the coun­seling
department.
A student can take advantage
of counseling, placement, testing,
and legal services. And for
freshmen or transfer students
these services can be invaluable
in developing assertiveness, says
Thompson.
Free seminars on time man­agement,
examination prepara­tion
and study skills are availa­ble
to students and can help aid a
new student in his adjustment to
Auburn, she says.
The trained staff directed by
Thompson helps students not
only with career and academic
planning, but offers personal?
counseling in family, roommate
and dating relationships.
Thompson urges students to
make an appointment with the
Career Development Services if
they need direction In any of
these areas.
For help in choosing or follow­ing
a particular curriculum, a
student should seek the advice of
an academic adviser. These
advisers help students with their
schedules and give information
about classes.
Journalism Department Head
Jack Simms says it is time con­suming
to deal with so many stu­dents,
but he doesn't mind taking
that time. If a student makes the
effort to find his adviser and ask
questions, he has a legitimate^
problem, says Simms. No ques­tion
is an unimportant one. There'
is no need for any student to be
embarrassed about asking ques­tions.
Even if a student doesn't
have a question he should seek
out his adviser and introduce
himself, Simms adds.
Students who feel lonely or
frightened can take advantage of
the Auburn Student Health Ser­vices
in the back of the Drake
Student Health Center.
Dr. Paul Crouch E.d.D., licensed
psychologist and coordinator of
mental health services, says the
center can help students work
through problems.
A troubled student does not
have to be chronically disturbed
to use the mental health services,
he says. Often students just need
to be listened to and a common
practice of the services for help­ing
students is group discussion
sessions.
A student may never need all of
these services at the same time,
but the Career Development and
Mental Health services and aca- .
demic advisers will be there when .
a student needs help.
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Cates was quick to add that no
numerical rankings of teachers
will be published. The booklet
will then be made available to the
students in time for pre-registering
during the next
quarter.
This summer, Cates discovered
that similar evaluations are used
at other universities, including
Duke and the University of North
Carolina, where they prove to be
very helpful. According to Cates,
there are two reasons why the
evaluations would be an asset
here at Auburn.
Primarily, they would be very
helpful to students during pre-registration.
"The results would
let the student know what to
expect from a class, what type
and how many tests would be
given, and what material would
be covered."
Secondly, the evaluations
would acknowledge the teachers
that are "doing a good job" and
point out weaknesses that can be
improved to others.
. "I feel that learning is more
than an acquisition of facts,"
said Cates. "Learning also comes
from the relationship between a
teacher and a student, and that is
sometimes just as important."
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A-3 tZTfte Auburn plainsman Thursday, October 13, 1983
Prank begins Tech parade
By Kelley L. plover
News Staff
The cry will be for the orange
and blue this afternoon as
hundreds of fraternity and soror­ity
pledges march in the tradi­tional
"Wreck Tech Pajama
Parade."
History notes that the event
dates back to 1896, the first year
that Auburn hosted the Yellow
Jackets, said David Housel,
Auburn's sports information
director.
On the night before the Tech
team was to arrive in Auburn, a
group of students, wearing paja­mas
and armed with buckets of
grease, sneaked out of their
dorms and greased a section of
the railroad tracks leading from
Atlanta to Auburn.
Consequently, on game day,
the Tech team train slid halfway
to Loachapoka, 10 miles away,
before stopping.
Besides having to walk back to
Auburn for the game, Tech was
defeated by the Tigers 45-0.
It wasn't until 1898 that Tech
agreed to play Auburn again, and
then only after University offi-
Senate—
cials promised them that the
tracks wouldn't be greased, Hou­sel
said.
To insure that everything ran
smoothly for the Tech team,
Auburn students were warned
not tp leave their dorms on the
night before the game. Despite
warnings, the students left their
dorms. Instead of greasing the
tracks, though, they held the first
official "Wreck Tech Parade," a
part of Auburn tradition today.
For the first time since 1979,
this year's parade will be led by
"Old Nancy," a restored coal
burning steam engine that is
maintained by the agriculture
engineering students, said Prank
Chalfont, Wreck Tech chairman.
He added that among the
parade participants will also be
Aubie, the Auburn band and the
cheerleaders.
The parade will begin at 4 p.m.
from the ROTC drill field and will
end at Jordan-Hare Stadium.
Auburn football coach Pat Dye
will be guest speaker.
Prior to the parade, fraternity
floats will be judged by a panel of
three judges, including two
Auburn community members
and one University faculty
member, said Leslie Green,
Director of Spirit.
The categories in which the
floats will be judged are original­ity,
artistic ability, theme and
construction, she added.
After the judging of the floats,
Miss Auburn will escort the
judges along the parade route,
where they will judge both fra­ternity
and sorority overall spirit.
The fraternity and sorority
displaying the most spirit will be
recognized at the pep rally along
with the first, second and third
place winners of the float compe­tition.
Green said.
The parade rules will be
stressed, and anyone who vio­lates
any of the rules will have to
go before the disciplinary com­mittee,
said Chalfont.
Some of the most important
rules include no spinning of the
floats, no drinking during the
parade or on campus grounds, no
running and no obscene para­phernalia
on the floats.
"This is a big tradition and it is
really neat to watch," said Green.
"We encourage everyone to come
put and follow the parade."
from A-l
impact of the budget.
As a member of the adminis­trative
council Peterson is the,
only faculty member with a voice
in the budget. He said, however,
that he was not knowledgeable
enough about the budget to pro­vide
the faculty with adequate
imput and would prefer the
committee.
He said it would be better for
the faculty to gain experience
now when the economy is on the
upswing rather than in hard
times when it might have to
"jump in and act in haste without
a plan."
Other matters the senate will
deal with this year include
response to an accreditation
report, a review of tenure and
promotions and an evaluation of
the academic calendar.
Peterson said the president's
office is preparing a response to
an accreditation review from the
Southern Association of Col­leges.
Wilford Bailey, AU Interim
President, has appointed ad hoc
committees in the senate to assist
in answering several parts of the
review.
The senate will also conduct an
evaluation of tenure and promo­tions
procedures.
Auburn was censured by the
American Association of Univer­sity
Professors in June for sex
descrimination in awarding
tenure.
Peterson said the evaluation is
not related to the censure, but
"we'll have to look carefully at
our tenure and promotions poli­cies
and see that they adhere
closely to AAUP standards."
Peterson said the Calendar and
Schedules Committee will report
to the senate in the next few
months on possibly changing
from the quarter system to the
semester system. He said one of
the advantages of semester sys­tem
is it allows more time for
faculty research.
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A-4 ©jtSuburnJMaiiuimaii Thursday, October 13, 1983
Qltl e^iuburn Plainsman
Alec Harvey, Editor
Margaret Straum, Business Manager
V o l u m e 90 Number 3
50 left, 49 to go
I t ' s n ow 50 a n d c o u n t i n g down.
The P r e s i d e n t i a l S e a r c h Commit­tee
h a s now narrowed its list of
p o t e n t i a l p r e s i d e n t s from 275 t o 50.
T h i s l a t e s t t r i m m i n g of t h e l i s t took
place when three subcommittees
met behind closed doors in Foy
Union two weeks ago.
The S e a r c h Committee, w h i c h h as
been meeting since March 31, h as
not released t h e specific qualifica­t
i o n s a n d c r i t e r i a t h e y a r e u s i n g to
judge a p p l i c a n t s , a n d h a s allowed
itself much leeway by not s e t t i n g a
definite t i m e limit for t h e selection of
a n ew president.
The secrecy involved in such a
committee is u n d e r s t a n d a b l e , yet
c a n t e n d to r a i s e a few eyebrows.
Most who were a r o u n d for t h e l a st
p r e s i d e n t i a l s e a r c h r e a l i z e h ow
i m p o r t a n t knowledge—and secrecy—
i n the process can be. The only
i n f o r m a t i o n r e l e a s e d b y t h e commit­tee
concerning qualifications has
been used i n t h e a d v e r t i s i n g for pre­s
i d e n t i a l a p p l i c a t i o n s , a n d t h a t was
l i t t le more t h a n general terms.
Committee members s a y t h e y are
pleased with t h e p r o g r e s s t h e y are
m a k i n g a n d p l a n to b e g i n meeting
on a weekly b a s i s . These meetings
will, a p p a r e n t l y , be used to further
n a r r ow t h e field of c a n d i d a t e s and
move along in orderly fashion to
selection a president.
A l t h o u g h we a r e n o t a w a r e of t he
q u a l i t i e s , qualifications and per­s
o n a l i t y the committee has its
s i g h t s set on, there seems to be
d e s e r v e d l y , m u c h c o n s i d e r a t i on
being placed on t h e i m p o r t a n c e of
t h i s selection. Secrecy is a good
aspect of s u c h a search, a s well as
careful a n a l y s i s a n d t h e r e p o r t i n g of
i m p o r t a n t of p r o g r e s s . T h e commit­tee
t h u s f a r h a s done well a t both.
We only a s k t h a t t h e committee
keep A u b u r n s t u d e n t s , faculty and
a l u m n i in mind when m a k i n g its
selection. A l t h o u g h we a r e confident
committee members h a v e t h e i r posi­t
i o n s well under control, it never
h u r t s to a g a i n a s k for a careful, l o ng
a n d h a r d look a t e a c h a p p l i c a n t.
The process of selecting a new
p r e s i d e n t for A u b u r n U n i v e r s i t y is
fully i n progress, a n d w i t h a s t r o ng
p r e s i d e n t to l e a d t h e way, A u b u rn
c a n m a k e i t s w a y b a c k to t h e t o p of
t h e S o u t h e a s t e r n college r a n k s—
where it deserves to be.
Mayfield case begins
The L i d a Mayfield t r i a l b e g a n t h is
week in U.S. District Court in
Opelika.
Since t h e t r i a l i s n ' t over yet, i t 's
not for us to s a y who's right or
wrong, but one t h i n g is certain—
J u d g e Robert V a r n e r ' s decision will
h a v e a l o n g l a s t i n g effect on A u b u rn
U n i v e r s i t y ' s faculty t e n u r e policy.
As i t s t a n d s now, t h e A U B o a r d of
T r u s t e e s endorses a t e n u r e policy
c o m p a r a b l e to t h a t found i n t h e 1940
S t a t e m e n t of Principles on Aca­demic
F r e e d om a n d Tenure, which
s a y s f a c u l t y members r e t a i n e d p a st
t h e maximum seven-year proba­t
i o n a r y period would be g r a n t ed
tenure.
T h i s i s n ' t a bad tenure policy—
when i t ' s enforced, a n d t h a t i s o n e of
t h e questions brought up in the
Mayfield suit.
Mayfield, a former professor in
t h e music d e p a r t m e n t , c h a r g e s t he
U n i v e r s i t y failed to a d h e r e to poli­cies
g o v e r n i n g t e n u r e requirements
a n d sex discrimination.
She i s s u i n g for c o m p e n s a t o r y a nd
p u n i t i v e d a m a g e s a n d b a c k pay, in
a d d i t i o n to r e i n s t a t e m e n t on the
music faculty.
Mayfield was informed in 1981,
after 11 y e a r s on t h e faculty, t h at
she w a s b e i n g released s i n c e s h e did
not have tenure. She appealed to
t h e n - p r e s i d e n t Hanly Funderburk
a n d was a g a i n denied tenure.
Mayfield then filed complaints
w i t h t h e D e p a r t m e n t of Education,
t h e D e p a r t m e n t of Labor a n d the
E q u a l E m p l o y m e n t O p p o r t u n i ty
Commission, a l l e g i n g she was dis­c
r i m i n a t e d a g a i n s t because s h e was
a woman a n d is h a n d i c a p p e d (she
suffers from a c o n t i n u i n g deteriora­t
i o n of h e r knee joints.)
If Mayfield wins h e r suit, i t could
m e a n t h a t A u b u r n will b e embroiled
i n similar law suits for years to
come. F u r t h e r m o r e , a one-year cen­s
u r e imposed by the American
A s s o c i a t i o n of University Profes­s
o r s (AAUP) a g a i n s t Auburn for
a l l e g e d d i s c r i m i n a t i o n a g a i n st
women, would most c e r t a i n l y be
extended.
On t h e o t h e r h a n d , if A u b u r n wins
t h e suit, t h e q u e s t i o n of t h e v a l i d i ty
of t h e m e t h o d of d e t e r m i n i n g t e n u re
will linger. Should everyone be
b r o u g h t up after seven years at
A u b u r n ? Should t h e opinion of fel­low
faculty members carry more
weight t h a n a n y other d e t e r m i n i ng
factor? And, p e r h a p s most impor­t
a n t l y , is Auburn University dis­c
r i m i n a t i n g w h e n it comes to g r a n t ­i
n g t e n s u r e to f e m a l e f a c u l ty
members?
C h a n c e s a r e t h e s e q u e s t i o n s won't
be a n s w e r e d for y e a r s to come; t h ey
may never be a n s w e r e d a t all.
We'll j u s t h a v e to w a i t a n d see.
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UPC to start new tradition
"Tradition by itself is not enough; it
must be perpetually criticized and
brought up to date."
What T.S. Eliot wrote nearly fifty
years ago holds true today, especially for
Auburn University.
Tradition is a strong part of Auburn's
past and present. Auburn is teeming
with traditions—from the ODK cake
race to the annual "Wrech Tech" and
"Burn the Bulldogs" parades.
These are all great events, and are all
a very special part of Auburn. However,
there is one "tradition" t h a t has needed
change for years and years, and only
recently has anyone been "daring"
enough to do something about it.
The University Programs Council
(UPC) has recently been trying to put
together a week-long Homecoming cele­b
r a t i o n , complete with fireworks.
Although this idea is being met with
much red tape, it looks like there will be a
small celebration as soon as this year.
What the UPC is proposing is not near
the scale of Alabama's "Bama Bash" or
Florida's "Gator Growl," but let's face
it—anything is better t h an what is done
now.
True, with the selction of Miss Home­coming
and the judging of fraternity
floats, OKD does make the day itself
special, but Homecoming deserves so
much more.
The UPC is proposing a week long ser­ies
of speakers and events culminating
with a big pep rally on Friday night,
complete with the band, Aubie, Univer­sity
Singers, skits and anything else
they may be able to schedule.
As a finale, the UPC wants to put on a
fireworks display. This last idea will
most probably never come to light,
because of the University's anxiety over
finding the proper location to set them
off.
However, even without fireworks, this
will be a noble effort.
The football team needs help in get­ting
psyched up, and a sometime-concert
and pep rally won't always do the trick,
especially with Homecoming games
against teams like Maryland.
There is no doubt the UPC is taking a
risk with this venture. If it flops, a sim­ilar
week could probably not be attemp­ted
for years to come.
On the other hand, if it succeeds, a s it
should, Auburn would be the proud
owner of a brand new tradition, a tradi­tion
t h a t has the potential to grow and
breathe much needed life into a dormant
homecoming week.
Social eyes bother Shubert
Melissa
Shubert
Sometimes, when it is most painful, I
realize there are several sets of eyes
watching me. Often those eyes belong to
people in classes, on the concourse or
walking down the street, but most often
these eyes belong to a non-physical
entity—society.
During the endurance of my 20 years
in American society, I have come to the
realization that the members of our cul­ture
have pre-determined and set social
conformities t h a t are expected to be met.
Our method of dress, our language, the
social mores we live by, and even the
grades we make in school are regulated
by the people we come in contact with
and are influenced by.
I have also come to t he realization that
I often do not fit into these social
categories.
Several days a week I struggle into my
classes laden down with books, half-asleep,
clad in sweats and a T-shirt. Col-
'CMcaylribtne.
lapsing into the desk nearest the door, I
noisily proceed to empty my duffel bag
of raquetballs, baby powder and books.
Often during this ritual, I get the feeling
that I am not exactly the best-dressed or
most sterotypical student in the class.
The "perfect people" in my classes, those
who never sweat and whose hair is never
messed up in the wind, probably feel a
stab of pity for me. "Poor thing," I can
just imagine them saying. "Her T-shirt
and sweats don't match her socks and
hair ribbons. And, just look at that
coiffe. What a mess."
Well, t h a t ' s true. We can't always be
perfect.
Our basic survival habits are also
dependant upon societal influences.
Take eating for example. Eating has
become, for me, a social event since com­ing
to Auburn. Meals are a relaxing part
of a n otherwise hectic college schedule—
a social event where friends mix and
devour all-you-can-eat buffets. It's just a
natural part of our society to sit and
relax, or conduct business, during a
meal.
On one hand, social mores and rules
can serve a useful purpose. They keep us
from being a conglomeration of socially
inept misfits and help maintain order in
our society.
On the other hand, they are somewhat
restrictive. Those who do not adhere to
them are often estracized, frowned upon
quiet game of Scrabble, you were
"weird." If they came to dinner dressed
in Jordache jeans and everyone else was
or simply designated as "weird." Being
an individual is difficult in a society so
set upon personality cloning.
Even the young generation is in on the
process. Working as a cabin counselor at
a camp this summer opened my eyes as
to how much impact society has had on
adolescents. Any child not spotting look-alike
clothes or sharing the same inter­ests
a s others was classified as "weird."
But not only people were "weird", habits
and interests were also weird. If you
didn't play racquetball, but enjoyed a
wearing Op shorts, they felt "weird."
Only conformity was "normal."
. As I said, there are both positive and
negative aspects to social mores. Often
the negative aspects are smoothed over
in efforts to "fit in" with others in
society.
Conformity is a secure feeling. But
those who break the rules of conformity
must also feel secure, for they are able to
set their own trends.
And those of us who are unable to keep
up with the social conformity and
unable to set our own trends struggle
along somewhere in the middle.
And, unfortunately, we keep wearing
sweats and T-shirts t h a t don't match our
hair ribbons.
6 0 WRONG?
Renovation, not destruction, is the answer
Far too many times we have pushed
forward in the name of progress, neg­lecting
to remember what we stand to
lose.
Currently Auburn is in danger of los­ing
one of its oldest and most prestigious
buildings—Broun Hall.
Buildings such as Broun Hall add to
the charm and character that epitomizes
the loveliest village on the Plains.
Broun Hall was built in 1903 and
named in honor of Auburn's fourth pres­ident
and resident scholar, William
Leroy Broun.
Broun's presidency represented a
turning point in Auburn's academic
achievements. At this time he brought
AU (then the Alabama Polytechnic
Institute) to the forefront in scientific
i n s t i t u t i o n s by creating separate
departments for the schools of physics,
mechanical engineering, veterinary
science and pharmacy. Women were
also first admitted to the University dur­ing
Broun's presidency with Broun's
own daughter, Katie, being the first
woman to graduate with a master's
degree in 1895.
The building is listed on the National
Register of Historic Places by the United
States Department of the Interior so no
federal funds are provided to aid in the
demolition. Federal funds are provided
for the upkeep for historic buildings
such as Broun Hall and by tearing down
the building this could hurt in AU
obtaining funds in the future at the
national level.
The AU Board of Trustees voted in
October of 1982 to tear down Broun Hall
in accordance with the Bartholomew
Master Plan Study of October 1981.
Instead of tearing buildings down
that do have such architectural and sen­timental
value to members of the
Auburn family, we should take a more
serious look at the possibility of
renovation.
Other University buildings have been
renovated in the past, such as Samford
Hall, Langdon Hall, the University
Chapel and Hargis Hall. These build­ings,
which may have been more eco­nomically
feasible to tear down were
renovated and now serve functional
purposes while remaining to enhance
the University's charm.
Renovating the building may cost the
University more, but wouldn't it be
worth it to save a piece of Auburn's
history?
New facilties are imperative to the
School of Engineering especially now to
help with problems that the school has
had with accreditation. But if we are
going to put so much money into these
facilties we should spend more time to
find a more appropriate location.
If we proceed to construct a modern
building in the site now occupied by
Broun Hall, it would overshadow other
historical buildings in that area such as
Langdon Hall and Samford Hall.
Part of what makes Broun Hall unique
is its varied architectural style. The por­tico
entranceway is surrounded by Doric
columns which is typical of the oldest
forms of Greek architecture.
This unique style of architecture is
part of the reason that students and vis­itors
to the campus are struck by the
aura of the building.
Broun Hall is a part of Auburn that
will long be remembered by alumni and
students and yet future generations
will* not be able to enjoy this building
whose presence has helped to shape
Auburn's heritage.
Managing Editor—Melissa Shubert, Associate Editor—Camille Cashwell,
News Editor—Lynne Hopkins, Entertainment Editor—Glenn Eskew, Fea­tures
Editor—Terri Knott, Sports Editor—Mike Marshall, Research Editor-
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Art Editorv-Victor Wheeler, Editorial Cartoonist—Joel Thomas, Assistant
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Entertainment Editors—Katheryn Barlow and Lisa West, Assistant Features
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A-5 %\\t Auburn plainsman Thursday, October 13, 1983
Needy will suffer
Katheryn
Bartow
"This is not a nefarious scheme to
deny people benefits. It's simply a pro­duct
of the workings of the bureau­cracy,"
Richard Coyne, a Medicaid Offi­cial
was quoted in the Oct. 9 issue of the
Alabama Journal and Advertiser as
saying.
He was referring to the Reagan
administration's proposal to give states
the power to restrict eligibility and to
reduce benefits for Medicaid recipients.
Should the rules revision go into effect,
3.7 recipients will lose a portion, if not all
of their benefits.
Medicaid should not be confused with
Medicare, which is an insurance pro­gram
available to virtually anyone 65 or
older. It is not affected by the new rules.
Medicaid is only available to people with
little or no income and only covers medi­cal
cost. Recipients receive no cash
benefits.
Coyne said the cutbacks are a product
of Bureaucracy. It is a shame that
Bureaucracy has no eyes or ears. Per­haps
if it did, the mass of red tape would
have seen the tears provoked by illness
that I saw three years ago when I
worked at the Texas Children's Hospital
in Houston, Texas. There is simply not
enough money available to poor families
with helpless, sick dependents. I cannot
fathom how further cuts can be toler­ated.
Perhaps if Bureaucracy could have
heard the father beg, "but my baby is
sick, I need this money, isn't there any­thing
you can do?" or if it could have
seen an infant in an incubator sup­ported
by Medicaid or better yet, per­haps
if it could watch the mother looking
down at this helpless child, it would find
another budgeting technique.
Bureaucracy cannot see emotion. It
only sees a new rule proposal which will
save a little less than $500 million a
year. In an economy such as today's,
money is vital to the strength of the
country.
However, perhaps if Bureaucracy
could see the same people I have seen
slothfullly waiting for their next unem­ployment
check it could crack down on
insolent cases. I, just one person, can
think of five people who have received
government checks when capable of
work. I have even seen these lazy people
turn down jobs. Surely Bureaucracy
could crack down and scrape up $500
million dollars. Maybe it would be easier
if it could see.
Another place it might scrape some
pennies is from undeserving Medicare
recipients. Those in need certainly
deserve the insurance. Maybe I just
know a lot of conniving people, but I
have seen an elderly woman open up a
reimbursement check from Medicare.
No sooner had she put it down did she
pick up another check from one of her
renters in Florida. She just happened to
own seven condominium complexes and
was reaping a large profit.
I am sure many Medicaid recipients
are undeserving. Thre are also some
Medicaid services which can feasibly be
eliminated, such as routine dental and
optical care. It's a shame that a needing
child must suffer because of an adult's
dishonesty.
Bureaucracy, that mass of red tape,
only understands figures and cutbacks.
Like a computer, it whizzes through
expenditures and lists the most conve­nient
way to cut cost. It knows not the
pleading father, the crying infant or
desperate mother. "The working of
Bureaucracy" provides a beautiful
haven for men like Coyne. With its red
tape, he is shielded from the helpless
pleas of genuinely needing families, and
takes pride in Bureaucracy's ability to
save $500 million.
sThtwE..
(*& X'J&U?.
Watt changed America
"The time has come." Thus began
Secretary of the Interior James Watt in
his letter of resignation to President
Reagan. And with the letter and a phone
call, Reagan "reluctantly accepted his
resignation."
A hush filled the newsroom as the
sighs of disappointment arose from the
press. The end of the Watt era.
"Now who am I going to caricature?"
Mike Geters was overheard saying.
"What on earth will we put on the
cover of Newsweek?" the editorial board
asked.
"How are we going to raise money
now?" the directors of the Sierra Club
muttered.
James Watt, the premier press-berated
member of Reagan's administration
finally resigned. His coup de grace was
another off-color joke, and the press—
which pounced on every word emitted
from his not-so-tight lips—devoured him
again.
Watt earlier survived comments like:
•Democrats and Republicans can be
d i s t i n g u i s h e d as "liberals and
Americans"
•Today's environmentalists can be
compared to the same forces that created
Nazism in Germany.
*An example of the "failure of social­ism,"
are the American Indians because
of the high levels of unemployment,
drug abuse and alcoholism found on
many reservations.
•The Beach Boys would attract "an
undesirable element" at their Fourth of
July concert on the Capital's Mall, so it
was cancelled.
But for his coup de grace to be an hon­est
attempt at humor, after unintention­ally
enjoying the limelight of the press
for so long, just seems unfair.
Trying to show the diversity and
unbiased makeup of a coal advisory
committee, Watt said the panel had
"every king of mix you can have. I have
a black, I have a woman, two Jews and a
cripple," to which he added "We have
talent."
It wasn't yellow journalism—Hearst
g t y l e _ w h i c h brought him down, it was
hie own fault; but has the Fourth Estate
lost its sense of judgement and fair play?
If Watt had unintentionally let this
slip in an opinionated manner, or even
maliciously said it, then he would have
no excuse; however, as turnabout would
have it, he was trying to play the game
the press has played for so long: adding
humor to the news.
Watt once said, "I want to change
America," and indeed he did by chang­ing
the exaggerated environmentalist
policies of the Department of the Interior
to ones which aided the development of
American resources for economic
growth and national security.
Watt's actions increased the use of
American coal over expensive imported
ones, thus supporting industries at
home with American raw materials.
United States dependence on imported
oil dropped through his opening up of
the Outer Continental Shelf for bidding
and exploration by oil companies.
Instead of spending more of the
annual budget for the acquisition of
lands to be added to national parks,
Watt earmarked the funds for the reha-biltation
of existing parks.
A controversial figure from the begin­ning,
Watt went into the office of secre­tary
of the interior with all intentions of
changing the liberal policies which had
governed the department for years.
As is usual in politics, the silent major­ity
remained silent and the conservation
extremists maintained their unchal­lenged
barrage against Watt's policies.
Environmentalists, however, should
remember that their opinions, however
divine, are often of interest to a select
few and that America's land belongs to
everyone including those who want to
develop the vast resources in fuel, land
and timber.
Watt understood the need to protect
national wildlife yet he felt his predeces­sors
had gone overboard. Up to the day
he resigned, Watt had support from the
president, his department and many
governors and political leaders from the
Western states which his policies influ­enced
the most.
Supporting decentralization, Watt
returned the land to the state and thus
the people.
The policies of James Watt were the
policies of a progressive America. They
were designed to alleviate an industrial
slump through nationalistic incentives.
Watt once said he would resign if ever
he became a political liability to Presi­dent
Reagan, and that was what he
meant by "The time has come." Now
who will the press pick on?
It's time for a female VP
Move over Mr. President and make
room for the first female vice-president
of the United States in 1984.
The National Organization for
Women (USA's largest feminist group
with 250,000 members) will endorse a
candidate later this year.
And it's about time that women have
a resonant voice in the nation's affairs,
not simply a smartly dressed wifely
image standing demurely behind the
man in charge.
After all, this country was founded on
the principal of freedom and representa­tion
for all, women and minorities
included.
Since the women's suffrage movement
in 1920 when they gained the right to
vote, it has been a long and arduous cru­sade
for equality.
By giving up the submissive role of the
uninformed housewife, women have
gained job opportunities, college educa­tions
and sexual freedom.
One-half of the female population is
employed, nearly one-third of those are
the head of their household. One out of
six are in professional jobs.
But women still have not obtained
equal representation in the government
which makes the rules all must live by.
Only 12 percent of elected offices are
held by women, mostly at state and local
levels. Congress has 22 women out of 535
members. And not until 1982 did the
Supreme Court see its first female
Justice.
Virtually 95 percent of women's legis­lation
has been sponsored and intro­duced
by women. The ERA, the Equal
Pay legislation, the Battered Spouse and
Rape Privacy Acts are among a few.
Imagine the deprivation women
would now face if compatriots had not
been present in this consequential
branch of the government.
Among other women's issues to be
tackled is the inalienable equal oppor­tunity
for women in employment, educa­tion
and other spheres, equality in social
security, marriage and divorce laws,
pensions and military service. These
benefits would have been provided had
the ERA passed by the states.
A feminist vice-president would com­plement
the liberalized views of the
Democratic ticket while keeping the
staunch conservatives of the GOP in
check.
The Republicans have yet to endorse a
woman candidate. Last week, though,
six Democratic candidates, Mondale,
Hart, Glenn, McGovern, Cranston and
Hollings, promised to consider a woman
for the vice-presidential slot.
Let us see whether these presidential
hopefuls fulfill their campaign promises
or choose to ignore them like so many
other post-election expectations.
Eskew should 'reexamine' thinking
Editor, The Plainsman:
In the October 6, 1983 edition of The
Auburn Plainsman, Glenn Eskew, in his
article entitled "Martin Luther King Jr.
Doesn't Deserve Holiday," posed the
question, "Is Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
worthy of the recognition of having a
national holiday named in his honor?"
He went on to give several reasons
which I conclude to be unjustified, sup­porting
that a national holiday should
not be granted in King's honor.
Amongst his reasoning was that a
King holiday was undeserving to be
included with other national holidays.
Eskew also suggested that King did not
fit the criteria that has been used in
determining national holidays. Before
one is subjected to any criterion, one
must question the purpose of the evalua­tion
and the makers of it.
He went on to state his reasoning
against a national holiday in King's
honor. I must agree with Eskew when he
wrote that "many unrecognized indi­viduals
have given their lives in support
and belief of what our country stands
for." But, at the same time I must ques­tion
what America has been standing
for.
King came on the public scene when
America was not really morally stand­ing
for anything in my estimation. King
came on the public scene when black
people were being treated as less than
humans by white America. I remember
all too well t h a t before King came on the
scene, the blacks had to ride on the back
seats of public buses.
I remember all too well before King
came on the scene that blacks couldn't
use certain public restrooms because
they were marked "for whites only."
I remember all too well that before
King came on the scene that blacks had
to sleep in their cars, if they had any,
when traveling because they were not
granted access to public lodging.
I remember before King came on the
scene blacks were not allowed to vote.
They were excluded from the political
system through such clever techniques
as literacy tests and poll taxes.
The list of injustices that have con­fronted
and continue to confront the
black people in America goes on and on.
One must not be black to understand the
impact these social, political and eco­nomic
injustices have had and continue
to have on the black people in America.
I think that Eskew needs to re­examine
his thinking. I also think he
needs to realize that King has done
much for America as a whole. King's
contributions are beyond comparison.
To compare King with George Washing­ton
as Eskew has done is to compare
apples with oranges; they just don't
match. The movement of King and his
contemporaries was a moral and spirit­ual
awakening to the conscience of
white America.
King came on the scene and told white
America that the racist practice t h a t she
was practicing was wrong and ungodly.
He told white America that all people are
created equal and that he would not tol­erate
the injustices that were being
inflicted on the black people. To this end,
he died tragically for what he believed.
I conclude that King needs to be
remembered not just for what he stood
for. History has shown that those who
do not remember their past are con­demned
to repeat it. I think that through
a King national holiday America will
remember all too well the punishment
that it has unjustifiably inflicted on the
black people in this country and that she
will dare not repeat it.
Earl Cooks
04IOM
Don't wait too long for King holiday
Editor, The Plainsman:
There have been some rumors floating
about that suggest we were too hasty in
honoring George Washington with a
national holiday. George's methods dur­ing
the Revolutionary War have been
criticized as Groucho Marxist. Some
senators now believe that comedians
were involved in Washington's boat trip
across the Delaware. It now appears
that George crossed the river to hear
some new British jokes about the Queen.
Considering these accusations, per­haps
the recommendation of Skew N.
Fax, chairman of the Conservative
Cherry Caucus, should have been
heeded. He wanted to wait about fifty
years before honoring George with a
national holiday. It seems Skew
believed that was the amount of time
needed for that infamous butt-of-a-joke
cherry tree to grow back.
Besides, maybe everybody would
forget about how great a guy George was
by then and not even worry about the
whole thing any more. Skew didn't par­ticularly
care to honor anybody that
wore a wig anyway. But, as everyone
knows, George got his day.
We can only hope that the country
doesn't slip again now that we're con­sidering
honoring Martin Luther King
Jr. with a national holiday.
Since Glenn Eskew said that some
senators said they "believe King himself
was a Marxist and that Communists
were involved in King's movement at
the highest levels," we should wait
awhile before rushing into this thing. I
don't know if it's true that King was a
Marxist, or that it matters, but when you
throw in words like Marxist and com­munist,
I know that something is wrong.
Forget that King brought about radical,
necessary change through peaceful
methods. Forget about King's message
of working together to correct injustice.
The thing that matters is that somebody
said communist.
It's wise that we're getting opinions
from a broad segment of the population
this time. Eskew said that Howard Phil­lips,
chairman of the Conservative Cau­cus,
said the vote on the national holi­day
should be delayed until the results of
an FBI investigation are made public in
the year 2027. By golly, if Howard Phil­lips
says wait, we should wait. If the
results of the FBI investigation show
that King didn't wear a tieto church one
Sunday we would have another 'George'
on our hands.
So what we need to do is wait. We need
to wait until we have a committee organ­ized
that sets some standards and rules
for the awarding of national holidays.
And we need to wait until we can have a
vote on honoring Martin Luther King. I
guess King knew what conditions would
be like and what was needed when he
wrote these words from the Birmingham
Jail:
"This wait has almost always meant
'Never'. We must come to see, with one of
our distinguished jurists, that justice too
long delayed is justice denied."
Martin Luther King Jr.
Daniel Givens
03CS
Fire official commends students
for administering vital CPR
Editor, The Plainsman:
On Wednesday, October 5, 1983, the
Emergency Medical Services division of
this department received a call to a
"man down" in front of Haley Center.
Upon our arrival there were two Auburn
University students administering
C.P.R. to the victim, an Auburn Univer­sity
Professor.
The students, Mathew Ellenberger
and William Eric Kidd, are commended
for their actions in performing imme­diate
and effective advanced life support
and the victim reaching the hospital
alive.
Auburn University and the City of
Auburn should be proud of the students
who take the time to become in volvd and
concerned about their fellow citizens.
Delilah R. Manning, Lt.
Emergency Medical
Services Coordinator
Honorary needs projects
Editor, The Plainsman:
There is a fairly new organization on
campus called Talons that was estab­lished
as an honor society in order to
recognize the outstanding leadership
and academic qualities of junior
students.
The purpose of the group is to encour­age
and foster leadership, scholarship
and citizenship among Auburn stu­dents,
to honor students of junior stand­ing
who have distinguished themselves
in these areas and to bring these stu­dents
together to share ideas and to
work towards the betterment of Auburn
University and the community.
We are just beginning our second year
on campus and are willing to offer our
services to any organization or project in
which we can be of assistance. Please
feel free to get in touch with me if we can
be of any help.
Sharon Collister
President, Talons
A-6 ffoguburnSlaiiuiinaii » Thursday, October 13, 1983
^roz/w Hall rescue
Preservationists attempt to thwart destruction plans
By Lynne Hopkins
News Editor
Preserving a piece of Auburn's
history is the main reason many
people have joined in the fight to
save Broun Hall.
Broun Hall, home of Auburn's
ROTC departments, has been
scheduled for demolition winter
quarter to make room for the con­struction
of the Engineering II
building.
Broun Hall was built in 1903
and named for Auburn's fourth
president and resident scholar,
William Leroy Broun.
Much controversy surrounding
the fate of Broun Hall has been
generated because it represents
Auburn's architectural history
and is listed on the National Reg­ister
of Historic Places by the
United States Department of the
Interior.
In October of 1983 the Auburn
University Board of Trustees
voted to tear down the building in
accordance with the University's
Master Plan.
The Auburn City Council as
well as students, faculty and
alumni of Auburn have joined
together to find an alternative to
the destruction of one of
Auburn's oldest buildings.
Councilman Joel Tremaine
presented a resolution to the
Auburn City Council last week
disapproving of the razing of
Broun Hall. The resolution was
passed by a unanimous voice
vote.
A copy of the resolution will be
sent to the Board of Trustees and
Tremaine says he hopes "the
Board will reconsider some alter­natives
and take another look at
the possibility of renovation."
The Auburn Heritage Associa­tion
has also taken steps to pre­serve
the building.
Louie James, chairman of the
association, says they have writ­ten
letters to the governor, lieut­enant
governor, members of the
Board of Trustees and the presi­dent
of Auburn to try and find an
alternative to the destruction.
James says he has had some
responses from his efforts but
most said he "was just too late" to
stop the destruction.
"Architects and the Board of
Trustees need to give serious
thought to keeping Broun Hall
because of its heritage and loca­tion,"
he said.
Last spring James says he met
with a group of students outside
Goodwin Hall and discussed the
razing of Broun Hall. Most of the
studens who attended were
enthusiastic and concerned
about the building, he said, and
hoped that students will initiate
movements to save Auburn's
past.
"If the students could take a
stand, that would be the greatest
influence because the student
body is what makes Auburn."
James says he feels that tear­ing
down Broun Hall and con­structing
the new Engineering
building in its place would
detract from the beauty of the
campus. When the new building
is constructed it would over­shadow
other historical buildings
in its location, he said.
Scott Vowell, a lawyer in Bir­mingham,
is currently research­ing
legal ways to try to save
Broun Hall.
Vowell, a 1959 alumnus, has
been corresponding with the
National Trust for Historic Pres­ervation,
based in Washington
D.C., to see what steps he can
take.
"Broun Hall is an integral part
of Auburn's campus and it would
be a shame to lose it," he said. "I
hope that the Board will see how
concerned people are and change
their mind."
Vowell is in contact with the
National Trust for Historical
Preservation's regional office in
Charleston, S.C., and is research­ing
other cases, similar to that of
Broun Hall, to try to find legal
grounds for saving the building.
He says he will not undertake
litigation unless valid grounds
exist for such an action.
The new Engineering building
will cost between 30 and 40 mil­lion
dollars and will be funded in
part by a $5 million donation
from Birmingham businessman
John M. Harbert.
The University has retained
the Houston firm of Goleman and
Rolfe to draw up the plans for the
new building.
The plans are expected to be
Completed during the spring
quarter of 1984, and construction
will begin soon after.
Because Broun Hall is pro­tected
by the Historic Preserva­tion
Act of 1966, federal funds
cannot be used in the demolition
of the building.
This classroom in Broun Hall could soon be replaced by a new building Photography: Bryan Easley
Jones
Photography: Bryan Easley
The front of soon-to-be-razed historic Broun Hall facing Magnolia Avenue
told a girl that he had just gotten
a new watch. When she asked
him how he could tell what time it
was, he explained that he could
tell by heat sensors in the hands
of the watch. As she felt the face
of the watch for the heat, he
began to laugh, flipping the face
up to reveal the braille under­neath.
"There's no heat in this
watch," he said. "But at least you
didn't say that you felt it."
Watching Mike and his dog
work together is fascinating. And
walking in Auburn is more than a
challenge even for sighted people
with the uneven sidewalks, ille­gally
parked cars and wildly-driving
bicyclists and motorists.
Mike's dog knows how to dodge
them all, though, and he does it
with great ease.
One thing that particularly
bothers Mike are those motorists
and bicyclists who don't stop at
crosswalks. His dog is trained to
take him to every crosswalk so
that Mike can safely cross. But
most people don't even slow
down, let alone stop, for
pedestrians.
Many people are surprised to
see that Mike's dog is a labrador
rather than a German shepherd.
However, the school does train
German shepherds, golden
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retrievers and boxers.
Mike lives alone in University!
Apartments. He says that hi
enjoys going out with friend/
eating Chinese food and e1
going to movies occasionally-
"especially romance andj
trigue." He's an independent!
private person, yet he has tf
castic sense of humor thatf
one at ease instantly.
He says that sometime.!
afraid that he comes acros; I
tie short when people try tl
him by the arm or try to ge
dog. "I do understand how
feel, but sometimes I just g«;t tired
of trying to explain," he says.
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News Staff
The War Eagle Supper Club on
Montgomery Highway has had
its Alabama Beverage Control
license reinstated, said owner
Jeff Gilmer.
Within the past few months,
two hearings have been held
regarding a complaint filed
against the club by Lottie Sides,
who lives across the highway
from the establishment. Sides
said she is bothered by the noise
from the parking lot, as well as
from inside the building.
At the first hearing on Aug. 25,
the ABC Board announced plans
to revoke the license, effective
Sept. 30. At the rehearing on Oct.
4, the Supper Club won the
appeal to keep the license.
Gilmer, co-owner of the Supper
Club along with his brother,
Hank, said he knows of no other
complaint ever brought against
the club.
Sides, who has lived across the
street from the Supper Club for 23
years said she feels the noise and
rowdiness, which keep her
awake, have worsened over the
past three years. She said she
would like the place to close ear­lier
or reduce the noise.
Jeff Gilmer said that he and his
brother have been making
improvements on the building
over the past two years and have
escalated efforts since the com­plaint
was made.
A new entrance has been con­structed,
complete with double
doors and an insulated hallway.
The windows on the side of the
building facing the highway
have also been insulated.
In addition, the owners have
contracted Harmon Engineering
to conduct a sound study.
They also have hired two
guards from Twin City Security
to patrol the parking lot during
business hours.
At the appeal hearing, the
Gilmers presented affidavits
signed by other residents sur­rounding
the Supper Club stating
they had not been disturbed by
the noise during September.
Affidavits signed by Harmon
Engineering and Twin City
Security noting the progress on
the building were also presented.
The War Eagle Supper Club has been a frequent nightspot for many years.
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What's orange and blue and
can be found hanging in dorm
rooms and apartments all over
Auburn? You guessed it—the
new, 1983 Aubie poster!
The poster features Auburn
University's famous hero, Aubie,
standing on a Georgia Bulldog
helmet showing off his "Tiger
Tough" strength.
The poster project is under the
direction of SGA's Assistant
Director of Spirit, Bart Harman.
"The idea for the Aubie poster
came from the input of many
people," says Harman, who is in
charge of the Spirit Subcommit­tee
on Aubie.
Harman said that much of the
poster's success is due to the help
of Hollie Johnson and Don
Moats, both in charge of posters,
who worked during the summer
bringing the whole project
together.
The poster made its debut at
the Florida State football game
earlier this season. It costs $2.50
and can be found on sale at home
football games. Harman said
they will be on sale in front of
War Eagle Cafeteria this week,
and they may soon be found in
stores.
Money from the sales goes to
the SGA, Aubie expenses and
toward the purchase of a new
Aubie suit. Organizations that
wish to sell the posters for fund
raisers may purchase them for
$2.00 each. Any interested group
should contact the SGA office.
The Spirit Committee, headed
by director Leslie Green, also has
several other projects planned for
the future. "The Wreck Tech
Parade is today, and the Burn
Bulldogs parade is coming up
soon. We're also working with the
UPC on a much bigger and better
Homecoming for this year," says
Green.
The committee also plans to
launch a Spirit Campaign for
basketball season which will
include selling T-shirts.
Group of five to rebuild AU debate program
A five-member delegation orig­inating
at the University of Kan­sas
has! come to give Auburn
University a debate team worth
speaking of.
The group was assembled by
Ken Himes who accepted the
position of Auburn's Director of
Forensics last winter while
completing his Ph.D. at the
University of Kansas.
Himes' mission at Auburn is to
rebuild the speaking program.
Already, seventeen students
have joined the program.
The new Director of Forensics
recruited four other accomp­lished
speakers to accompany
him to Auburn and promote the
University's debating program.
Included in the group are two
senior debaters from Kansas
State University who qualified
for the intercollegiate National
Debate Tournament; Margaret
Bachicha and Pierre Heidrick.
Bachicha and Heidrick will serve
as graduate debate assistants
while pursuing master's degrees
in Speech Communications.
Himes also persuaded two high
school debaters from midwestern
high schools to enroll as fresh­men
undergraduates at Auburn.
Robert Pittman from Winfield,
Kan., was the top speaker in Stu­dent
Congress and Randy Glazer
from Glennbrook South in Chi­cago
won first place in his div­ision
at the Illinois High School
State Tournament.
Auburn's most recent Director
of Forensics is currently the pres­ident
of the University of
Montevallo.
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Study partners
aid students
By Irene Trowbridge
Plainsman Staffwriter
Problems in English, math,
history and biology can be les
sened by becoming a part of the
study partners program.
The program was established
to aid students having difficulty
in a number of basic subjects.
There is no charge for this ser
vice as tutors are part of the
work-study program funded by
the federal government. These
11 student tutors are expected to
service from 350-450 students
this year.
According to Bonnie Bowers,
head of study partners, this ser­vice,
in its 12th year of exist
ence, is beneficial to both study
partners.
The study program operates
from Sunday through Thursday
from about 3 p.m. to 10 p.m., but
a more detailed schedule is
posted in the basement of Haley
Center.
Mayfield
deprived her of tenure, she was
deprived of the due process of
law."
Herb White, director of Univer­sity
Relations, said that the Uni­versity
has "denied all allega­tions"
in the Mayfield case.
The trial will be heard in the
U.S. District Court in Opelika
with Judge Robert E. Varner pre­siding.
The trial is expected to
last two weeks.
Mayfield was employed by the
University in 1970 after receiving
the degree of Bachelor of Music
Performance from the Cincinnati
Conservatory of Music. She was
informed in 1981, her twelfth
year of full-time service, that she
would lose her job because she
had not acquired tenure.
According to tenure policies
endorsed by the AU Board of
Trustees through the 1940
Statement of Principles on Aca­demic
Freedom and Tenure,
faculty members retained beyond
the maximum probationary
period of seven years would be
granted continuous tenure.
At the end of eight years on the
faculty, Mayfield was informed
by Dr. Wilbur Hinton, head of the
music department, that she was
required to have an advanced
degree. Mayfield then received an
advanced degree while continu­ing
to teach full-time.
On the week of March 9, 1981,
tenured faculty members voted
on her tenure and in a memoran­dum
from Dr. Taylor Littleton,
then vice president of academic
affairs, Mayfield was informed
that she lacked sufficient
departmental support to be con­sidered
for tenure.
Mayfield appealed the decision
of the promotion and tenure
committee to former president
Hanly Funderburk who denied
the appeal on July 13,1981.
Mayfield then filed complaints
with three federal agencies: the
Department of Education (Office
of Civil Rights), the Department
Trial
"It's not a popularity contest.
The candidate (for tenure) must
be able to work with reasonable
harmony with them (faculty)
over a period of 10, 20 or 25
years," he said.
The amount of time has never
been the basis for a faculty
member to acquire tenure, Lit­tleton
said.
Funderburk later testified, "I
agree with the Board of Trustees
not to grant tenure based on time
alone."
After serving on the faculty for
eight years, Mayfield was
advised by Dr. Wilbur Hinton,
head of the music department,
that in order to be considered for
tenure she must first receive a
master's degree.
Mayfield received the degree
from Georgia State University
while continuing to work full
time as an instructor.
Once she receive the degree she
was promoted to assistant pro­fessor
and was eligible to be con­sidered
for tenure.
Littleton said that a secret bal­lot
vote by tenured faculty
members in her department was
the first step toward acquiring
tenure. The majority of her col­leagues
gave Mayfield a negative
vote, therefore her department
head could not recommend her
for tenure to the dean of architec­ture
and fine arts, Dr. Keith
McPheeters.
The Promotion and Tenure
Committee then reviewed her
request for tenure, and it was
denied.
Mayfield then appealed the
decision of the committee to
Funderburk.
Funderburk testified that he
met with Mayfield and an advi­sory
committee to review the
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appeal which was later denied.
Frank Swinson, professor of
Mechanical Engineering and
former member of the Promotion
and Tenure Committee, testified
that several faculty members,
some being department heads,
have been granted tenure with­out
a majority vote of the faculty.
He later complained to the presi­dent
that this was reflective of
the inconsistency with the tenure
policy.
The defense made objections
that his testimony was irrelevant
to the case and Judge Varner sus­tained
these objections.
Mayfield took the stand yes­terday
as her attorneys attemp­ted
to prove that she had been
discriminated against.
Mayfield said that her work
and credentials were more sub­stantial
than her male col­leagues.
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of Labor and the Equal Employ­ment
Opportunity Commission,
alleging discrimination on the
basis of sex and handicap. (May-field
is suffering from a continu­ing
deterioration of her knee
joints which could eventually
become severely crippling.)
Because of the complaints filed
by Mayfield, the American Asso­ciation
of University Professors.
(AAUP) imposed a censure on
June 17, 1983 on AU for alleged
discrimination against women
when granting tenure.
The censure will be imposed for
a minimum of one year and AU
will be listed in Academe, an
AAUP journal, which serves as a
reference for those seeking a
career in higher education. The
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of punishment, but may hurt
AU's recruitment of faculty.
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Halev Center evacuated
Bomb threat delays royal coroner's speech
By Melissa Shubert
Managing Editor
Only minutes before he was
scheduled to begin, a lecture
Monday night by Dr. David Paul
was moved from a Haley Center
classroom because of a bomb
threat.
Dr. Paul, Her Majesty's Cor­oner
for the city of London and
the Northern District of Greater
London, was temporarily de­layed
in delivering his speech,
scheduled for 8 p.m., on the his­tory
of the English coroner sys­tem
and the inadequacies of the
American system. A Haley Cen­ter
janitor received a phone call
at 6:45 p.m. warning of a possible
bomb in Haley Center. The uni­dentified
caller said the bomb
was set to detonate at 10 p.m.
The lecture was moved from
2370 Haley to the Pharmacy
building auditorium while Cam­pus
Security searched unsuccess­fully
for the bomb.
The approximately 250 people
who attended the lecture, spon­sored
jointly by the schools of
Nursing and Pharmacy and the
departments of Political Science,
Sociology and Philosophy, saw a
calm and relaxed royal coroner
discuss the history of forensic
medicine.
Dr. Paul, London coroner since
1966, compared the current cor-taken
by English coroners. The
coroners pledge to determine
"who, how and by what means
the deceased came to his death."
A "building up" of the Ameri­can
medical-legal examination
system will begin with the com­munity,
he said, adding pressur­ing
legislators for a standardized
"A suggested gradual building up of the medio-legal
system must continue until there is an
effective system."
oner system in England to that of
the United States, which, he said,
is based on almost the same sys­tem
brought to the colonies in the
1800s.
One of the main objections Dr.
Paul voiced about the American
system is that policies governing
coroner qualifications and inves­tigative
procedures vary from
state to state.
The purpose of the office of cor­oner
in a modern community, he
said, is summed up in an oath
system is the only method of
achieving an effective coroner
system.
"In this grt it nation, you have
a mixture," he said of the policies.
To illustrate, he said Maryland
uses a state system, as does Mas­sachusetts.
But, he said, Florida
uses a country-wide coroner sys­tem,
San Francisco a medical
examiner and Los Angeles has a
coroner-medical examiner.
"You inherited it from us," he
said, adding the United States is
still employing 17th century
practices of no medical require­ments
and election of coroners. In
England, he said, 98.6 percent of
all deaths reported to his office
are investigated by autopsy.
That figure compares to 25 per­cent
in America, he said.
Hilda Wolverton, coordinator
of the lecture and a secretary in
the department of philosophy,
quoted an Alabama newspaper
by stating the state currently has
approximately 38 coroners who
have some association with a
funeral home, and only two cor­oners
in the state are certified
medical doctors.
"Medico-legal systems are
developed to serve the needs of
the community," Dr. Paul said.
"One that doesn't change will
fail. The only thing that can
make this change is pressure
from the community. A sug­gested
gradual building up of the
*Tnedio-legal system must con­tinue
until there is an effective
system," he said.
The coroner system began in
England in 1194 when "the
crowner," as the coroner was
called, was instituted to restrict
the corruption of the sheriff, Dr.
Raul said. At that time the only
qualification for the office was
knighthood and the major fiscal
function of the office was to raise
fines for the crown.
Since-that time, the English
system has instituted changes
which abolished the election of
coroners, making them an
appointed position, and also
establishing the coroner as an
appointed judicial figure, he said.
Dr. Paul outlined the duties of
the official English coroner as
the responsibility to investigate
all traumatic deaths, to deter­mine
the accuracy of statistics of
the cause of death, to investigate
accidental deaths involving
insurance and compensation
claims, to investigate the deaths
of citizens in jail or any type of
custody and in all suspicious
death cases.
He also explained that, in Eng­land,
the coroner sits as a presid­ing
judge in cases that must by
law be heard at inquest. Such
cases include all unnatural
deaths, custody deaths and those
involving serious allegations.
This type of death investiga­tion
is a combination of judicial,
medical and police inquiry, he
said. Identity of the deceased, the
precise cause of death and the
precise circumstances of the
death are all searched for during
the investigation. Dr. Paul said
he is responsible for all investiga­tive
agencies during inquiry of
deaths that fall within the set
jurisdictions. He also has arrest
power over sheriffs, although he
added this authority has never
been used.
Suicide, Dr. Paul said, is a
"legal verdict in the court" of
England. Three things must be
proven for this verdict, however.
It must be determined that a
patient died as a result of his or
her own act, the deceased
intended to take his or her own
life and a mental state conducive
to suicide must be proven.
Fire department expects top grade from inspection
By Bryan Crowson
News Staff
The Auburn Fire Department
is preparing for an inspection in
December by the Insurance Ser­vice
Office, which Fire Chief Ellis
Mitchell hopes will rank
Auburn's as one of the best fire
departments in Alabama.
The I.S.O. is commissioned by
insurance companies to rate fire
departments all over the country
on a scale of one to 10, one being
the best. Auburn was last
inspected in 1976 and rated four.
The only other departments rated
four in the state are Mobile,
Huntsville, Tuscaloosa, Mt.
Brook and Dothan.
Mitchell said he requested the
inspection because he expects to
be given a three on the basis of
improvements made since 1976.
Three is the highest grade in
Alabama, with only Birming­ham,
Montgomery, Homewood
and Opelika sharing the status.
Commercial fire insurance
rates should decrease with the
three rating, but residential rates
are already at their lowest with
the four, he said.
Auburn currently has four fire
trucks, with two added and two
replaced since 1976. The depart­ment
also has a ladder truck, a
tanker, a manifold truck and a
rescue truck, which was added
since 1976. Other improvements
include the switch to a larger
diameter hose, an increased
pumping capacity, an enlarged
filter plant, an improved water
system, the addition of a night-shift
chief and an improved
training program.
The department recently
bought three big nozzles and
eight breathing devices for
$11,000. "We already have more
equipment than we've ever used
at once, but we didn't have the
maximum points on the I.S.O.
inspection," said Mitchell.
Mitchell said Auburn has more
than $1 million invested in fire
equipment, with much more
invested in the city's water sys­tem.
The fire department claims
about 20 percent of the city's
budget.
Multi-story buildings and high
population density residential
buildings all in a concentrated
area make special requirements
on the Auburn Fire Department,
like the ladder truck and large
hose, Mitchell said. Apartments
loaded with personal belongings
create a higher fire load than
houses. This means a fire would'
be hotter than normal and travel
faster and easier.
Mitchell, a fireman since 1958
and Auburn's chief since 1965,
said students have been lucky to
have so few fatalities with as
many fires as there have been.
One reason there have not been
more deaths is that students are
young and agile and know what
to do in case of a fire, he said.
They are not helpless like elderly
people and small children, he
said.
The fire chief said the Saturday
night in February 1966 when the
SAE house burned down was
"the most miserable night I've
ever spent in the fire department."
The fire left one fraternity
member dead.
The fire was burning violently
even before it was reported, he
said, and the house "went up like
a cracker box." It burned so hot,
there was not enough water to
stop it, and fraternity members
ran over and broke the fire hose
while moving their cars, which
Mitchell said were safe anyway.
Since there were belongings in
the dead member's car, it was
assumed he had gone back into
the house to retrieve more and
was trapped.
"A classic example of how little
it takes to kill a person" was
when a girl died in 1973 in Dorm
B, said Mitchell. She had been
smoking in bed and caught it on
fire. The sheets were found in the
tub with the water running where
she had extinguished them. The
girl was found lying dead on the
floor, asphyxiated by the smoke
of the smoldering mattress.
Mitchell advised students to
give the fire department plenty of
room when there is a fire. The cur-iouB
sometimes interfere with the
firefighting.
"And if anything is on fire, get
out and call us," he said.
"That's what we're here for."
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33 1/3% - 50% off
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Entire stock of misses and petites. Blazers, skirts,
pants, and blouses
33 1/3% - 50% off
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selection of styles and colors from our regular stock
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B-l ttfct Auburn plainsman Thursday, October 13, 1983
Auburn-Tech
series rampant^
with tradition
When Ralph Jordan made the
commitment to bring Auburn
football back to its former
heights, the cry was not "Beat
Bama." Rather it was "Wreck
Tech."
At the time, Georgia Tech was
the bully of the South, running
roughshod over all comers,
especially Auburn. In 1951,
when Jordan was hired, the
Wramblin' Wreck had con­quered
Auburn 11 years run­ning
and would win four more
times before the jinx ended.
It was ridiculous; Auburn
would go to Atlanta every year
— Georgia Tech wouldn't hear
of coming over to Alabama —
and each time would come back
a beaten squad.
The day before the drought
finally ended, on October 14,
1955, the Plainsman ran an edi­torial
that embodied the
Auburn attitude when it came to
playing Tech.
"For many years Auburn Stu­dents
have made the trip to
Atlanta with but one thought on
their mind — to beat Georgia
Tech. And for the past 14 years
they have followed the long
winding road back to Auburn
with heavy hearts and with still
one though on their mind — to
beat Georgia Tech, next year."
A 14-12 victory that year
made for a short trip back, and
of the 15 trips that Auburn fans
have had to make to Atlanta
since then, they've returned
home happy 10 times.
Times change, but the memo­ries
linger on. Pat Dye, who
played at the University of
Georgia from 1957-60, well
remembers Tech's glory days.
"You take the teams they had
in the 40's and 50's and they
were something," said Dye.
"They had some great teams
then. I can remember when
Georgia Tech and Tennessee
were the dominant football
teams in the South. And Coach
Dodd, of course, was one of the
great coaches."
"The transition of power and
them shifting from the Sou­theastern
Conference has had
some effect on the series. How­ever,
the old Auburn and Tech
people realize the significance
of it."
Tradition, indeed, abounds in
this, the South's second oldest
rivalry. Tales about on and off
the field exploits are as plentiful
as gnats on a balmy summer
evening in a Louisiana bayou.
—In 1896, for example,
Auburn students, decked in
pajamas and carrying buckets
of grease, slicked the railroad
tracks that led from Atlanta to
Auburn the night before the
game.
When the train transporting
the Tech team approached
Auburn, the train slid 10 miles
down the tracks and the team
had to walk to Auburn. Auburn
won 40-0 and the "Wreck Tech
Pajama Parade" was born.
—In 1949, Georgia Tech head
coach Bobby Dodd, content
with a 28-0 lead, pulled his star­ters
at halftime. But Auburn,
led by future All-American
quarterback Travis Tidwell,
fought furiously back with three
unanswered touchdowns.
Dodd put the first-team back
in and Tech secured a 35-21 vic­tory.
It would be the closest.
Auburn would come to ending
the 14-game skid until 1955.
Auburn, in 1957, on its way to)
its only national championship,
made a second-quarter Billy
Atkins field goal stand up
against the fourth ranked Yel­low
Jackets to win 3-0. The vic­tory
propelled Auburn into posi­tion
to win the national title.
—The next year, Auburn
dominated throughout, but had
to hold on for a 7-7 tie when a
last-second field goal try by;
Tech fell short. The tie was the
only blemish in a 24-game
unbeaten string.
—In 1963, Auburn was a pro­hibitive
underdog despite hav­ing
a 4-0 mark. A record Grant
Field crowd saw Auburn pull
into its bag of tricks as quarter­back
Jimmy Sidle frustrated the
Tech defense with short passes
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OFFENSIVE EXPLOSION-The
Auburn offense must have been sit­ting
on a- time bomb the last few
weeks because last Saturday night
against Kentucky they exploded for
49 points. Bo Jackson, playing des­pite
a deep thigh bruise, and Randy
Campbell, again running an almost
mistake-free attack, were the stars
of the show.
By Jon Johnson
Assistant Sports Editor
After an impressive 49-21
thrashing of Kentucky last week­end,
the Auburn Tigers travel to
Atlanta this Saturday to face
Georgia Tech in what is one of the
South's oldest rivalries.
The Tigers and Yellow Jackets
first played in 1892, with Auburn
coming up a 26-0 winner. Auburn
heads into the game with a three-game
lead in the series, 42-39-4.
Georgia Tech grabbed their
first win of the season last week­end
as they upset North Carolina
State, 20-10. Previously, Tech
had dropped decisions to Ala­bama,
20-7, Furman, 17-14,
Clemson, 41-14 and North Carol­ina,
38-21.
Auburn Head Coach Pat Dye is
not taking the Yellow Jackets
lightly and feels Tech's upset vic­tory
last Saturday will give them
a big boost heading into the
game.
"Their win over North Carol­ina
State will give them renewed
confidence," Dye said.
"We had better be ready for a
big test this week in Atlanta."
Tech is led by one of the top
running backs in the country,
junior tailback Robert Lavette.
On the year he has gained 488
yards and scored four touch­downs.
He has led the ACC in all-purpose
running the past two
seasons. Lavette finished the
1982 season ranked 10th nation­ally
in rushing and all-purpose
receiving.
At quarterback, pass oriented
sophomore John Dewberry has
completed 25 of 43 for 241 yards
and two touchdowns.
He took over the starting duties
when Stu Rogers went down with
the knee injury.
His favorite target has been
Lavette who has caught 17
passes for 85 yards and one
touchdown.
The other starters at the receiv­ing
slots will be flanker Jeff
Keisler, a 5-11, 180-pound senior
and tight end Ken Whisenhunt, a
6-3, 232-pound senior.
On defense the Yellow Jackets
are led by inside linebacker Rob
Horton, a 6-0, 228-pound senior.
Horton leads the team in tack­les,
having accumulated an
impressive total of 62.
The other linebacker spots are
maned by sophomore Ted Roof
and junior Danted Jones.
Roof earned freshman All-
America honors.
The secondary is inexperienced
with the only veteran being
senior strong safety Jack West-brook.
Toby Lantz, a sophomore,
starts at one cornerback slot with
freshman Reginald Rutland at
the other. The free safety is
another freshman, Anthony
Harrison.
With the secondary being the
question mark of the defensive
unit, the Yellow Jackets could
find themselves in for a long day
if Auburn quarterback Randy
Campbell continues his impres­sive
play of late.
Campbell has now completed
32 of 67 passes for 410 yards and
four touchdowns.
Leading the receiving corps are
seniors Chris Woods and Ed
West.
At split end, Woods has caught
seven passes for 82 yards for a
11.7 average. West has corralled
six for 82 yards and a 13.7 aver­age
at tight end.
The Tigers continue to be led in
rushing by sophomore Bo Jack­son.
Jackson has run for 385
yards in 61 attempts with a team
leading seven touchdowns.
His running mate, halfback
Lionel James, has rushed for 295
yards in 54 attempts for a 5.5
average. Fullback Tommie Agee
has now accumulated 178 yards
See PREVIEW, page B-8
Brooks gains respect of family, track foes
By Jennifer Linn
Assistant Sports Editor
When Larry Brooks was grow­ing
up in Long Island, N.Y. he
had to contend with five brothers
and sisters for his mother's atten­tion.
Brooks, a mainstay on the
Auburn cross country team,
regards his competitive home life
as a reason for his success.
"Just the desire to run had to
start within myself," the Auburn
runner said. "Early on, my
mother played an important part.
I felt I had to bring back some­thing
every time I ran to prove I
was doing good."
At the end of his senior year in
high school Brooks didn't need to
prove himself to his mother any­more,
he had Tennessee and
Auburn doing that for him.
After being heavily recruited
by Auburn and Tennessee plus a
host of other schools, Brooks
decided to come to the Plains
because he knew most of
Auburn's team members.
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Brooks, now in his fifth year at
Auburn, has completed his eligi­bility
in indoor and outdoor track
where he competed in relays and
in the half mile. The one avenue
Brooks had not exhausted was in
cross country.
"Cross country running tests
me in ways that the half mile
never could," Brooks said. "It's
total survival for me and has
presented a new challenge."
"It takes more discipline for me
to train cross country," Brooks
said citing longer distances and
two practices a day as the reason.
Brooks said he suffers from an
occasional period where he
doesn't want to run, but added "If
for some reason I couldn't run, it
would be rough. It's something I
enjoy; just knowing that if I get
out there and practice I can
accomplish some of my goals."
Always the team man, Brooks
said, "I enjoy the team effort in
competition with everyone per­forming
well and pushing each
other.
"It's an ecstatic feeling to have
the whole team finish close
together," he said. Especially
when you know it's the guys in
the back who are keeping up
instead of the guys in front who
are lagging behind.
"It's good to have company on
a run and you can compare your­self
to how well you're doing with
the guy closest to you."
Brooks considers his best year
in track last year when he fin­ished
as runner-up in the 800
meters at the conference meet. "I
got off to a slow start the indoor
season and had two horrid
meets," he said. "It was great to
finish the way I did."
Although Brooks' favorite year
was his senior year, his favorite
race was in his junior year at the
Penn Relays. Brooks ran in the 4
X 1500 meter relay and the
Auburn team came in second at
the prestigious meet.
There's nothing about himself
that Brooks would like to change,
he said. "As long as I'm having a
good time and enjoying myself I
can't see changing anything," he
said. "You should enjoy what
you're doing and you should
enjoy the people who are doing
the same thing as you."
With the philosophy there's no
use crying over spilled milk,
Brooks said he has no regrets
over his collegiate or high school
career. "There's no reason to go
back and wish I could've run a
race over again. It's over and
done with," he said.
When Brooks graduates from
Auburn he plans to run with a
California based track team
called Athletes in Action. AIA is
sponsored by Campus Crusade
for Christ and Nike, Brooks said.
Brooks said he will stay in
Auburn and train, but compete
with the AIA uniform.
"I first became involved with a
group like AIA after my first two
years here. I was involved with
Campus Crusade on Auburn's
Campus and through them I
heard about a track team called
Youth for Christ. They have since
then dissolved.
"Then AIA sent a baseball
scout here and he told me about
their track program. From then
See BROOKS, page B-10
Smith aims for consistency
By Jon Johnson
Assistant Sports Editor
Auburn head coach Sonny
Smith says he hopes to put
together back-to-back winning
seasons and contend for the
conference championship as he !
spoke to the media during a '
press conference on Tuesday.
"I've always felt that you had
to have back-to-back winning
seasons before you could put a
solid program together. I think
that the things that we accomp­lished
last year were positive
and gave us some type of
momentum to go into this year,"
Smith says.
"I think the program made
some major steps forward last
year in the fact that we had a
winning season and in the fact
that we were one game out of
fourth place. I felt like there was
more interest in the program
than ever before.
The Tigers will have more
quality depth this year than at
any time since Smith's been
here and he feels the depth fac­tor
is an important one in the
league race.
"I do believe we have a chance
to have fairly good depth on the
ballclub and I really feel like to
be any sort of a factor in the
Southeastern Conference,
depth is something you must
have.
"We probably will play nine
people, but I do feel like there's a
possibility of 12 players playing
and helping."
The Tigers are blessed with
depth due to the outstanding
recruiting year put together by
Smith and his assistants, Mack
McCarthy, Roger Banks and
Tevester Anderson.
The freshmen signees included
Frank Ford, a 6-4 guard from
Kissimmee, Fla., Gerald White,
a 6-2 guard from Augusta, Ga.,
Richie Welsh, a 6-4 guard from
St. Thomas in the Virgin
Islands, Terry Martin, a 6-6
forward from Atlanta, GA.,
Howard Spencer, 6-7 forward
from Goldsboro, N.C., and
Michael Rutledge, 6-10 center
from Centreville, Ala.
Also signed were Carey Hol­land,
a 6-7 center from San
Jacinto (Tex.) junior college and
6-5 forward Vernia Strickland,
a sophomore from Gadsden,
who transferred from South
Carolina.
While the signees are all
highly regarded, Smith realizes
that none of them have played
under major college competition.
"The pressure of the freshmen
having to produce is one of the
major problems we face," Smith
says. "The southeastern Con­ference
is a difficult league for
freshmen. We're going to try
and break them in a little at a
time."
Smith does admit that there
could be as many as three of the
signees to start for the Tigers.
Those with the best chance are
guards White and Ford, along
with center Holland.
Both White and Ford were
prep All-Americans, while Hol­land
played on the national jun­ior
college champion last year.
Returning for his junior sea­son
will be All-American candi­date
Charles Barkley, who has
led the SEC in rebounding two
years in a row, along with
sophomore forward Chuck Per­son,
who is regarded as one of
the most promising players in
the league.
With the return of those two
starters, plus the combination
of the signees and other return­ing
veterans, Smith feels the
Tigers will once again be one of
See SMITH, page B-8
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With Barkley and Person crashing,boards, Smith sees hope
B-2 Wyt Stibium plainsman Thursday, October 13, 1983
Week 6:
Auburn vs.
Georgia Tech
Klckoff: 12:30 p.m. at Grant Field
This year's records: Auburn 4-1, Georgia Tech 1-4
Series record: Auburn leads 42-39-4
Last meeting: 1982 - Auburn won 24-0
Saturday's Grant Field clash will mark the 86th renewal
of Southern football's second oldest rivalry. From the
outset, this year's contest would appear to be a mismatch.
However, Georgia Tech has put together its most
impressive back-to-back performances of the year with a
loss to powerful North Carolina and an upset win over
North Carolina State.
But Auburn is also coming off its most impressive per­formance
of the season. The Tigers travelled to Lexington
Saturday night and used a machine-like offense to punc­ture
Kentucky's pride.
When Auburn Has the Ball
Against Kentucky, the Tigers unloaded a plethora of
backs that rolled up 383 rushing yards and led the way for
a 49-21 Auburn victory. The Tigers were able to give
youngsters like sophomore Alan Evans and freshman
Brent Fullwood much-needed playing time.
In addition, Randy Campbell turned in what Coach Pat
Dye called a "flawless performance." The senior quarter­back
threw only five passes, completing three for 53 yards,
but he made the right decisions in executing the Auburn
wishbone.
The return of Da vid Jordan also spells good news for the
Tigers.
The Tech defense will be sorely tested by the Auburn
run-pass barrage. The Techmen are yielding an average of
25 points per game going into Saturday's contest. Inside
linebacker Rob Horton is leading Tech defensively with 62
tackles. Other defensive standouts for Tech are defensive
end Boddy Hodge and defensive tackle John Davis.
When Georgia Tech Has the Ball
Quarterback John Dewberry, who stepped in after Stu
Rogers was claimed by a knee injury, has been the engi­neer
of Tech's relatively impressive outings against North
Carolina and North Carolina State. Dewberry has com­pleted
25 of 43 passes for 241 yards and two touchdowns.
The real offensive standout for Tech, however, is "Ramb-lin"
Robert Lavette. Lavette has started slow in 1983, but
rushed for 1208 yards and 19 touchdowns in 1982. He is a
threat every time he touches the football.
The Auburn defense gave up 21 points to Kentucky, but,
has been the case most of the season, came up with the
timely plays. Greg Carr continues to lead the Tigers with
40 solo tackles and 17 assists plus one interception.
Key Matchups
With the Tigers fresh off an impressive win that came
mostly via the ground, the Tech defensive line and line­backers
will be on the spot. Davis, Hodge and Horton must
play big parts in herding Auburn's running back stable.
If Lavette is right, the Tiger defense may face the most
explosive rushing talent they have seen this year. The
Tiger down linemen and linebackers will need to be wary of
the shifty Lavette.
If Lavette again falls victim to the mysterious nausea
that has plagued him this season, Dewberry will be forced
to go to the air. He will be facing an Auburn secondary that
has been a pleasant surprise thus far.
Update
Auburn and Tech both come nto the game having just
come off their most impressive performances of 1983. The
Tigers raised their record to 4-1 with a 49-21 massacre of
Kentucky. Georgia Tech broke the win column with a 20-10
victory over North Carolina State to go 1-4.
Auburn is fairly healthy going into the game. Tech
enters without Rogers and flanker Gary Lee, also with a
knee injury. Mike Travis, Tech's most experienced defen­sive
back, is doubtful because of a sprained foot.
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Robinson tackles 'big league'
By Vince Thompson
Assistant Research Editor
Auburn defensive end Gerald
Robinson pondered the question
as if the weight of the world
rested on his shoulders. He
paused a moment and then
chuckled.
"What do you mean, 'what is it
like to play in the big leagues?"'
he questioned. The "big leagues"
to Robinson could have been
anywhere outside of tiny Nota-sulga
High School, the 1A school
where Robinson prepped.
Auburn victory, its first over the
Tide in ten years.
"I really wanted to beat Ala­bama.
They didn't recruit me
until the end of the season and I
wanted to prove to them that I
could line up and play just as
good as those guys from the
bigger high schools," says
Robinson, whose hobbies include
swimming and dancing.
Robinson said that in his
freshman year he didn't expect to
be seeing a lot of playing time. He
said his only goal was making
the traveling squad, but to his
surprise he found himself having
and ever-increasing role in the
Tigers' fortunes every Saturday.
"It was a big surprise to me,"
says Robinson. "To tell yon the
troth, I would have been happy to
just make the travel squad, the
rest was just icing on the cake."
When asked about the influen­ces
on his life, Robinson said that
his familsy plays a very influen­tial
part.
Robinson comes from a large
family, consisting of six sisters
and five brothers. Robinson says
he feels that they are the main
reason he is at Auburn today.
"My family plays a big part in
my life," says Robinson, who
runs the forty yard dash in about
4.7 seconds and bench presses
about 315 pounds. "We are all
very close and I just try to the best
of my abilities so that it will
please them."
"I just love it when they come
down and watch me play," says
Robinson.
Auburn head coach Pat Dye
also plays a big influence in
Robinson's life. Dye is one of the
main reasons that success has
come so quickly for Robinson.
"Coach Dye has been a tre­mendous
influence on me," says
Robinson. "He won't let you sell
yourself short in anything,
whether it is football, school, or
just life in general. I really
respect him for that."
"I just want to contribute to the
team as much as I can, and I
think the rest will fall into place,"
says Robinson. "But the Sugar
Bowl sure would be nice."
With players like Gerald
Robinson, the Tigers may find
themselves in a very pleasant
situation when bowl-time comes
around.
Robinson
"Yes, it's a pretty small
school," says Robinson, a 6-4,240
lb. sophomore. "The only two
SEC schools to recruit me were
Alabama and Auburn. The
smaller ones in the state also con­tacted
me, but no other large
schools out of the state recruited
me. I guess they had never even
heard of Notasulga."
You can bet those schools have
heard of it now. Since his fresh­man
season, Robinson has
played a big part in the Tigers'
success.
Robinson had an outstanding
year as a freshman, making 18
tackles and playing his best
game against Alabama, the
school Robinson wanted to beat
the most Robinson had five tack­les
in that game and his pressure
on Alabama quarterback Walter
Lewis forced an early throw that
set up Bob Harris' interception
which helped preserve an
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