1986-10-16 The Auburn Plainsman

              Down to the wire
Gubernatorial candidates
come to Auburn looking
for support
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Football gambling
Point spreads lead to
gambling for Auburn
students
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Volume 93 Number 3 Thursday, October 16, 1986 Auburn University, Ala. 36849 34 pages
Professors file added salary complaints
By Stephanie Warnecke
Staff Writer
Professors David Michael Hall
of Textile Engineering and Wal-dir
Tedersoli of the physiology
and pharmacy departments have
filed complaints with the Equal
Employment Opportunity Com­mission
in Birmingham against
the University claiming age
discrimination.
Three other professors, Milton
J. Alexander, Winfred A. Shaw
and Charles R. Snow, earlier filed
complaints that are now
lawsuits.
The suit claims that the Uni­versity
is paying younger, less
experienced professors higher
salaries than older, more expe­rienced
professors in the same
position.
"In cases like this, they wait
things out as long as they can,
hoping the claimant will die,"
Alexander said, when asked
about the progess of the case.
The differences in salaries
among professors in the same
departments can be found in the
University Budget, located in the
Archives on the first floor of the
library.
For example, Leland Yaeger, a
new Economics professor, is cur­rently
earning $70,500 for a nine-month
period. On the other hand,
E.D. Chastain, another Econom­ics
professor, has been with the
University since 1956 and is
presently earning $30,200.
This situation can be found in
many of the departments of the
University. In Mathematics,
Richard Ball has been at Auburn
since 1954 and is paid $38,600
compared to Olav Kallenberg, a
new professor, paid $53,000.
receiving $50,700, and A. E. Hilt-bold,
here since 1955 earning
$41,700. Management professor
Charles D. Snow makes $34,300
after 17 years and Charles A.
Snyder, also in Management,
earns $45,500 after eight years.
"In cases like this, they wait things out as long as
they can hoping the claimant will die."
—Milton J. Alexander
Michael E. Friedman, a Chemis­try
professor at Auburn 18 years,
is earning $35,400 while S. D.
Worley, also a Chemistry pro­fessor,
is paid $48,000 after 12
years.
The department of Agronomy
and Soils has J. T. Touchton, a
Auburn professor since 1980
Dr. Paul Parks, vice president
of research, attributes these vari­ations
in salary to the commit­ment
to establish Auburn as a
leader in research. He said that it
is necessary to pay competitive
salaries in order to get the best
researchers.
Since President James Mar­tin's
arrival at Auburn, faculty
researchers have been "aggres­sively
sought," Parks said.
Research grants have increased
from $6.1 million in 1982 to an
expected $17.5 million this year.
Research also brings a lot of
money into the University, Parks
said. The state provides a foun­dation
of money for the Univer­sity
to build on, he said. This
money enables the University to
bring in better faculty and more
facilities.
The University and students
need faculty that have a balance
of teaching ability and research
ability, Parks added. A teacher
that is good in the classroom, but
not strong in researching is not
practical, he said.
Tenure and promotions are
based on both teaching and
research, Parks said, so a pro­fessor
not doing research will be
passed over and consequently be
unhappy.
Several teachers disagree with
Park's assertion that better
teachers are better researchers.
"People who are the greatest
researchers do the least teach­ing,"
Alexander said. Bruce
Herring, an Industrial Engineer­ing
associate professor, also
agrees that excellent researchers
make bad teachers.
Alexander also argues that the
researchers "have not brought in
an appreciable amount of money
to the University."
University gets $ 16.7 million
By Colleen Moran
Staff Writer
Auburn University set an all-time
record in outside support for
a month by receiving $16.7 mil­lion
for September.
The support was in the form of
contracts, pledges and do­nations.
Last month, the University
received two major research con­tracts
totaling $12.4 million over
five years. Dr. Paul Parks, vice-president
for research at Auburn,
said the University enters into an
actual legal contract fc>T~'trie~
research projects with the agency
or company.
The Alabama Farm Bureau
Federation has established the
first $1 million Eminent Scholar
Chair at Auburn. Farm Bureau is
providing $600,000, which will be
matched with $400,000 by the
state. This is a state program
approved by the Legislature in
1985 to aid colleges and universi­ties
in recruiting outstanding
scholars to Alabama.
The total amount will be put in
the bank and only the interest
will by spent. The money will be
used for the salary and support
for a person chosen for the aca­demic
and research position in
the department of agriculture
economics and rural sociology.
The money from the endow­ments
and grants is used for the
g r a d u a t e students, paying
faculty paychecks, promotion in
the labs and other necessities.
Usually the funds are not given
all at once but in yearly instal­lments,
Parks said.
Approximately $950,000 was
given in private donations and
pledges to the Auburn University
Foundation. This foundation
handles the money given by
alumni.
Illustration: Martha Jones
Also donated to the foundation
was $135,000 in support of a
major expansion for the Ralph
Brown Draughon Library. Parks
didn't know exactly when con­struction
on the library would
begin, but he did say the archi­tects
have just finished the plans.
Auburn Alumni and Develop­ment
officials report that com­mitment
toward the library
Construction projects
move ahead of schedule
By Sandra Ingrain
Staff Writer
Construction sites have
become commonplace around
campus with more than $36 mil­lion
being spent on several con­struction
projects.
The biggest project is the $15
million stadium expansion. The
expansion which will boost
Jordan-Hare's seating capacity
by 10,000 seats is ahead of sche­dule
according to Vice President
of Business and Finance Rhett
Riley.
Riley said the stadium may be
complete before its projected July
1987 finishing date because
workers have "not lost time
because of inclement weather."
The next major construction
will be to Ralph Brown Draughon
Library.
The Board of Trustees ap­proved
schematic plans for the
renovation of the library. Con­struction
to double the size of the
l i b r a r y should begin next
summer, Riley said. An architect
"can set in to planning" for the
$18 million renovation.
Several buildings around cam­pus
have been scheduled for
major renovations. A $1 million
plan for the renovation of Alumni
Hall has been put into effect. The
restructured building is expected
to house office space for the busi­ness
office.
Riley said a $1 million renova­tion
project is open for bids. The
project to convert the Quad Din­ing
Hall into office space for the
bursar's central and cashiering
office is in the planning stages.
Around $1 million was spent to
complete the major renovation of
Miller Hall. The work was done to
improve the building which
houses the School of Nursing,
Riley said.
Two recently completed pro­jects
on campus are the Nichols
Center, and the widening of Sam-ford
and College streets and
Donahue Drive.
The Nichols Center which will
house the various ROTC units
was dedicated Saturday, Sept. 27.
The completion of widening
Samford Avenue, College Street
and Donahue Drive has aided in
the traffice flow, according to
Riley.
The two streets were widened
"to improve the general flow
around campus and around the
perimeter," City Manager Doug
Watson said. The cost of the wid­ening
project was paid for by the
Alabama Highway Department
and not with city or University
money, Riley said.
"The University did pay
around $100,000 to relocate the
utilities that were located on
Samford Street," Riley said.
The construction of a parking
deck that will be behind Toomer's
Corner is scheduled for comple­tion
in January, Watson said. A
total of 310 spaces will be pro­vided
in the deck and its adjoin­ing
parking lot. Cost for parking
in the deck will be $30 per month.
expansion now stands at $2.5
million, or half of the goal for the
addition which will double the
size of the library.
Besides the two major research
contracts.theUniversity research
office reports that an additional
$3 million is anticipated to be
awarded to the University in con­tracts
and grants for September.
Final figures will not be available
until mid-October.
One of the University's largest
contracts ever—$9.9 million—
...was.jyuio.unced Sept., 19 by the
Naval Surface Weapons Labora­tory
for research involving the
Strategic Defense Program.
The Center for Advanced
Technology at Auburn is estab­lished
through a -four year con­tract
and allows for research in
three key areas—materials,
microelectronics and space
simulation.
Announced in Washington,
D.C. was a $2.5 million, five-year
contract to establish a National
Center for Asphalt Technology at
Auburn by the National Asphalt
Association Education Founda­tion.
Parks said the University
will receive $500,000 a year for
five years.
Parks said, "The research is
good for the state and the nation.
We will provide research infor­mation
for major highway
improvement that will extend the
lives of our highways." The cen­ter
will be a focal point for
research to improve the nations'
highways and will provide
national leadership for the indus­try
organization.
"We have a responsibility to
promote new knowledge because
of the size of Auburn University.
We owe our research information
to the people to be used for the
good of everyone," Parks said.
WHAT ARE YOU LOOKING AT? - Mary
Tesaro, Model Mugger instructor, and Tom
Elliott, a Model Mugger, show techniques on
what to do in case of attack. The demonstra­tion
was part of the Stop Rape Workshop
Photography: Sanaa Shaibani
given by the Auburn Tae Kwon Do Club. Elliot
wears a heavily-padded uniform and a helmet
to allow students to engage in actual contact.
For a story on the Stop Rape Workshop,
please see B-l.
Martin praises freshmen test scores
By Al Gross
Staff Writer
The University has the poten­tial
for "unparalleled prosperity,"
despite the current funding prob­lems,
President James Martin
said in a speech delivered at the
Fall Quarter General Faculty
Meeting.
Martin sung the praises of the
current enrollment and incoming
freshmen.
"We have always had good
freshmen ACT scores, but this
year they are outstanding," Mar­tin
said.
Freshmen ACT scores have
gone up for the third year in a
row, and this year they average
23.5. "And this," Martin joked,
"even includes our athletes."
The University's enrollment
this year is largest in the school's
130 year history, with 19,363
students.
A u b u r n also b o a s t s 46
National Merit Scholars, and
both Presidential Scholarship
recipients from Alabama.
Martin outlined future plans
that are already in the works, the
Photography: Sanan Shaibani
LABOR MOVEMENT
Two workers make final touches on new ROTC building
most notable of which will be the
addition to the library.
There will be $100 million
worth of additions to the Univer­sity
in the next five years.
Concerning the economic
situation of the University, Mar­tin
said since a major part of the
University's funding comes from
sales tax, it is never completely
stable.
"Money from taxes for educa­tion
is a roller-coaster ride," Mar­tin
said.
"Last year Auburn lost $4 mil­lion,
and this year it could be $17
million."
He said this, plus the increase
in students, impedes the process
of improving our education, and
there will be a heavier burden for
the students to carry by way of
tuition.
Martin was quick to point out
that a lot of what happens in the
future depends on what the new
state administration does about
school funding.
E arlier in the week, the Faculty
Senate heard more reports in
their attempt to discern whether
to change to the semester system.
The first report was on the
effect that the change would have
on junior college transfers.
Auburn now averages 783 jun­ior
college transfers a year, and
only 6-11 percent come in the
spring.
"In all probability," Kenneth
Nausbaum, leader of the five-man
committee, said, "if Auburn
changes to semesters, so will
most junior colleges."
The second committee reported
on the effect on the cooperative
education program. ,
Included in the advantages the
committee recorded concerning
the quarter system was the
See Faculty, A-12
A-2 Elu 9uburn plainsman Thursday, October 16,1986
'Campus Briefs'
Alcohol awareness
—The recently reorganized
Student Alcohol and Drug
Information Center has sche­duled
three meetings for
National Collegiate Alcohol
Awareness Week, October 20-26.
All of the meetings will be in Foy
213.
Karen Wedner, Southeast
region chapter advisor for "Boost
Alcohol Consciousness Concern­ing
the Health of University Stu­dents"
(BACCHUS), will speak
on "Responsible Choices and
BACCHUS" on Monday, Oct. 20
at 1 p.m.
Lacrica A. Foster of the Ala­bama
Beverage Control Board
will lead a workshop on "Liquor
Liability and Risk Management
for Campus Organizations,"
Tuesday, Oct. 21 at 3 p.m.
Alcoholics Anonymous, Al-
Anon and Adult Children of
Alcoholics will discuss support
groups for those interested, Wed­nesday,
Oct. 2 at 1 p.m.
The center which started in
1981, was reorganized at the end
of summer quarter after being
closed for about nine months,
according to Allan Lowman,
director.
Films, books, brochures and
other information are available
at the center which is located in
Foy Union 343.
Trained volunteers will soon be
available to speak to interested
groups.
"We're not here to tell you that
it'sallright, and we're not here to
tell you that it's notall right to
(drink)," Lowman said. "We're
here to show you the facts, and in
the end it's your decision."
—For those with a drinking
problem, those who have a friend
with a drinking problem or who
come from a home with a drink­ing
problem, Alcoholics Anon­ymous
and Al-Anon will meet
Monday, Oct. 20 at 8 p.m. For
more information call the Alco­hol
Information Center at
826-4240.
Veterinary honors
—Randy Graehler, veterinary
student, was one of 26 students
from across the nation who was
honored by Solvay Veterinary,
Inc., a Princeton, N.J., firm, for
his achievement in veterinary
school.
Graehler was honored at a
reception during the recent
American Veterinary Medical
Association annual convention.
Raffle
—Members of the Student
American Pharmaceutical Asso­ciation
will draw for the winner
of a four-day, three-night stay for
two at the Sheraton British
Colonial Hotel in Nassau,
Bahamas, and two roundtrip
Delta airline tickets on Friday,
Oct. 24.
Raffle tickets will be on sale
Wednesday and Thursday, Oct.
22-23, on the Haley Center con­course,
at the School of Phar­macy
or Foy Union, for $2.
Tickets are free with the purchase
of Delta Airlines T-shirts for $4.
The Bahamas trip is planned
for Nov. 26-29.
Money from the raffle will sup­port
such on-going programs of
the Student APhA as drug abuse
education programs to junior and
senior high school students,
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community hypertension screen­ing
programs and programs
involving the use of drugs in
pregnancy.
Minorities fellowships
—The Committee on Institu­tional
Cooperation's Minorities
Fellowships Program, sponsored
by 11 Midwestern universities,
will award about 40 fellowships
to members of underrepresented
minority groups seeking doctor­ate
degrees in many fields in the
social sciences, humanities,
sciences, mathematics and engi­neering.
Each fellowship is for
four academic years and will pay
full tuition plus a stipend of at
least $7,000.
Fellowships can be used at the
following universities: Chicago,
Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Michi­gan,
Michigan State, Minnesota,
Northwestern, Ohio State,
Purdue and Wisconsin.
American I n d i a n s , black
Americans, Mexican-Americans
and Puerto Ricans are eligible for
fellowships in all fields. Asian-
Americans are eligible for fellow­ships
in the humanities and cer­tain
fields of the social sciences
where they are underrepresented.
Applicants must be U.S. citi­zens
who hold or will receive a
b a c h e l o r ' s degree from a
regionally-accredited college or
university by August 1987. Stu­dents
who have received a mas­ter's
degree or are currently
enrolled in graduate study may
also apply.
Application deadline is Jan. 9,
1987.
For more information call (800)
457-4420 or write to CIC Minori­ties
Fellowships Program, Kirk-wood
Hall 111, Indiana Univer­sity,
Bloomington, Ind. 47405.
Seminary
—Bob L. Royall, a representa­tive
of Golden Gate Baptist Theo­logical
Seminary, will be in
Auburn on Tuesday, Oct. 28, to
talk with students who may be
interested in attending seminary.
Appointments with Royall
may be scheduled by contacting
Ben Hale at 887-6521.
Golden Gate Seminary is a
fully-accredited graduate theo­logical
institution located in
Marin County, California, five
miles north of the Golden Gate
Bridge and the City of San Fran­cisco.
It is one of six seminaries
owned and operated by the
Southern Baptist Covention.
Golden Gate grants a variety of
degrees in the fields of theology,
religious education and church
music.
Donations
—Ampex Corporation recently
donated $15,000 to Auburn's Col­lege
of Engineering.
Students'apathy
tested in survey By Frankie Minor
Staff Writer
Student apathy.
Do students today care about
t h e country, economics or
politics?
The Auburn Plainsman con­ducted
an informal survey of 50
students to find out what was
milling around in the mind of the
average Auburn student.
The students surveyed about
their political views failed to fall
into any one neat pigeonhole.
Although they overwhelmingly
support Reagan, less than half
the students described them­selves
as conservative, and while
only a few have been politically
active, many students expressed
concern about the governor's
race and other issues.
When asked to describe them­selves
politically, 46 percent said
that they were conservative, 24
percent liberal, 16 percent mod­erate,
8 percent neutral, 2 percent
fascist, 2 percent socialist and 2
percent "p.o.'ed."
When questioned about their
opinion of President Ronald
Reagan's performance in the
White House, 84 percent said that
they strongly approved, 10 per­cent
had mixed feelings, and 6
percent said that they were dis­satisfied.
Said Houston Bates,
01PN, "Reagan is my man."
Laura Baker, 03GC, said, "Rea­gan
has done better than I
expected, but it's still pretty
scary."
Students were much more dec­isive
over the Alabama gover­nor's
race. Forty-two percent
support no one, 34 percent sup­port
Guy Hunt, 10 percent are
undecided, 8 percent support Bill
Baxley, 4 percent Grace Jones
and 2 percent Charles Graddick.
Michael Cline, 01GC, summed up
many students' feelings when he
said, "There's no one worth vot­ing
for."
Eighteen percent said that they
have been politically active, with
the remaining 82 percent claim­ing
no activism. Tom Gentle,
03PRS, who described himself as
"very active," has participated in
anti-abortion marches and was
the chairman of the College
Republicans.
Mary Littleton, 04GEH, has
been involved in civil rights
activities and has campaigned
for George McMillan and Walter
Mondale. A few other students
said that they have taken part in
political campaigns, both on the
national and local level.
When asked if they felt
strongly about any political
issue, 52 percent said they were
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Years of growth
ME department has century celebration
By Kristi Francis
Staff Writer
The mechanical engineering
"epartment will hold a reception
culminating a centennial cele­bration
on Saturday, Oct. 18 from
9:30 a.m. until noon in the Wil-more
lobby.
"This weekend will be the tail
end of the centennial celebration
since festivities were held last
spring on 'A-day' weekend,"
Wickham Henkels, who is in
charge of special projects for the
department, said.
Last spring the department
celebrated its 100th year on cam­pus
by having a student contest
on the concourse ("Build the Next
Auburn Quarterback"); a recep­tion
for students, faculty and
alumni; formal ceremonies in
which awards were presented;
and a video tape which traces the
history of the department.
This weekend will be an infor­mal
get-together for alumni, stu­dents,
faculty and anyone inter­ested
in mechanical engineering,
Henkels said. A pictorial history
of the department will be exhi­bited,
and tours will be conducted
of the labs and other facilities
within the department.
"The reception is a good way to
keep alumni aware of department
needs. They are interested in
what students are learning here,"
Henkels said.
The alumni and visitors can
see not only what the department
needs, but also what the depart­ment
has gained.
Many improvements have
been made in the department
since 1984 in various labs, and
the department has plans for
expansion in the near future,
Malcolm J. Crocker, department
head, said. The department has
spent a total of $383,420 on
improvements over the past two
years. The breakdown of expen­ditures
is as follows:
—Improvements in the fluid
and heat lab amounted to
$36,874, which was spent on
building experiments for the lab
and for senior projects.
—Improvements in the stress
analysis and mechanics lab
amounted to $118,105. The
money was spent on buying
polariscopes, machines which
project images on the wall, so
students can make models of
beams and other objects for the
department.
—General improvements in the
design lab were $10,505.
—General improvements in the
measurements lab were $33,840.
—Improvements in the compu­ter
lab came to $76,003, which
includes the purchase of 20 per­sonal
computers and improve­ments
to their power.
—Improvements in the ther­mal
science lab were $91,358. A
turbine which was donated by
Exxon and a cooling tower are
being connected to a 2-year-old
boiler.
—Improvements in the mate­rials
lab amount to $16,735.
Other changes in the depart­ment
include the addition of six
faculty members to fill new posi­tions.
There has also been an
increase of space by 47 percent
Illustration: Martha Jonea
since 1984, Crocker said. The
department will branch into Ross
Hall as soon as construction is
completed.
The main office, the depart­ment
head, the secretarial staff
and 30 faculty offices will be
located there, according to
Crocker.
"The work on the building
started six weeks ago. It's an
eight-month project, but we hope
some offices will be moved by
Christmas," Crocker said.
In addition to learning about
the changes and improvements
in the department, the visitors
this weekend will have a chance
to study the history of the
department through the picture
display and also through a man­ual
entitled 100 Years of Mechan­ical
Engineering.
According to the manual,
George H. Bryant, a graduate
from MIT, was the first instructor
in "practical mechanics." The lab
was located in the basement of
Langdon Hall. In 1886 a forge
and foundry were added.
Beginning in 1886, the depart­ment
moved from place to place
until Wilmore Labs, its present
home, was completed in the late
1940s.
Wilmore was named for John
Jenkins Wilmore, who acted as
head of the department for 55
years until his death in 1943,
Crocker said.
The mechanical engineering
department has grown to the
19th largest in the country out of
280. The department is the
second largest in the College of
Engineering behind electrical
engineering, Crocker said.
"Mechanical engineering is a
middle-of-the-road program. A
graduate can branch into many
different directions," Crocker
said. Lucy Baxley: Party protects Hunt
By Sherrie Bloodworth
Staff Writer
The voters of Alabama do not
know enough about the Republi­can
gubernatorial nominee Guy
Hunt to make a fair comparison
between Hunt and Lt. Gov. Bill
Baxley, Lucy Baxley, wife of the
Democratic nominee, said at a
press conference held Tuesday in
Opelika.
Baxley charged the Republican
party with surrounding Hunt
and not allowing him to speak for
himself.
"You don't really know that
much about Bill's opponent,"
Baxley said. "The Republican
party has surrounded their cand­idate
and you get prepared,
statements. If questions are
asked, you hear from all these dif­ferent
officials in the Republican
party. But there does not seem to
be the opportunity for (Hunt) to
field questions on his feet where it
is his own knowledge, his own
philosophy, and his own ability
that is being put out there for the
people to see."
In contrast, she said, her hus­band
has been "subjected to
every kind of scrutiny imagin­able...
I have said to many people
throughout this year that you
have heard more about Bill Bax­ley
than you have wanted to hear.
You've heard more about Bill
Baxley than I wanted you to
hear.
"Every hint of anything some­body
has'cooked Up about him
t (has beerf)*paraded-acrosB the
front pages of the, media. The
sense of fairness would demand
that you have equal knowledge
about the other candidate before
you can make a fair assessment
or comparison."
In order to be able to make an
educated choice, Baxley said
voters should realize how impor­tant
it is that her husband is "the
only candidate who has held
positions in the three top
branches of government."
A governor will be handi­capped
if he does not know how to
work through the Legislature,
she said. "Bill has a total working
knowledge of how the Legislature
works. We don't have time to go
through the training process. Bill
offers experience to take over the
job."
"When there'are jobs or indus­t
ry to be brought to the Sun. Belt,
everybody is struggling and
competing for it. The representa­tion
that we make in this compe­tition
is up against, in every
instance, governors who have at
least a college degree, and most a
graduate degree, plus having
held positions of great responsi­bility.
I believe that if the voters
of this state really compared the
difference, they would see how
much better quality representa­tion
we would have with Bill.
There is no comparison."
"You're not seeing a Baxley
campaign spoken of through
consultants. He's tired, but you
are going to see Bill personally,
you are going to hear him, what
his plans are, and what he hopes
to do. We are stressing 'let's learn
as much about Guy Hunt as you
know about Bill Baxley.' And
then make the decision." Lucy Baxley
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Chris Roush, Editor
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Tommy L. Wofford, Business Manager
Volume 93 Number 3
We're Mad Too
If Alabamians were trying to get a
television soap opera based on their
state, then the plot of Alabama's
governor's race would help in the
effort.
First it was Charlie Graddick and
Bill Baxley in the runoff, which
Graddick stunned everybody by
winning, albeit with crossover votes
which he encouraged.
And then it was Baxley contesting
the runoff and having the Alabama
Democratic Party certify him as
their party's candidate for the
November main election. This was
followed, of course, by Graddick's
relentless tirades and emotional
speeches about how the system
doesn't like him.
In a recent Birmingham News/
Capstone pod, it showed Guy Hunt
in a virtual tie with Bill Baxley if
Charlie Graddick continued his
write-in campaign. However, if
Graddick were to drop out, the poll
shows Hunt to be leading Baxley by
a considerable margin. Hunt
acquired 50.4 percent while Baxley
acquired 38.2 percent.
The poll showed Graddick has
fallen behind in his write-in
attempt. Only 24.9 percent felt posi­tively
about Graddick, while 47.1
percent felt negatively towards the
attorney general.
The poll also shows t h a t 87.7 per­cent
of the voters who cast ballots
for Graddick in the runoff would
Vote for Hunt if Graddick were to
abandon his campaign.
Our recommendation is for Char­lie
Graddick to drop out of the race
completely. All he is doing is tearing
the state apart. True, Graddick has
been wronged, but it is time to get
this terrible mess over with and get
on to the issues. We are tired of lis­tening
to the bickering, and so is
everybody else.
There aren't many policy differ­ences
between the candidates, but
George Wallace has been governor
for so long we've all forgotten the
issues. And if you use t h e argument
that Guy Hunt has no legislative
experience, neither did Fob James,
but we elected him.
The only good t h i n g to come out of
this mess should be t h a t Alabama
will realize they need concrete
enforcement of crossover voting.
This has happened once. Be smart
Alabama — don't let it happen
again.
The state of Alabama has looked
bad enough in recent years. Will our
image take another serious blow?
Could we stand it?
The damage of the past six
months to the state of Alabama's
image, within the s t a t e and around
the nation, has been tremendous.
The candidates talk about bringing
in more economy to this state, but
would you bring a new business into
a state with our political turmoil and
who couldn't decide who was going
to be governor?
I t ' s made this state look bad and
the next four years look bleak. All we
can say is look for the future and
pray for the best.
Phi Beta Who ?
In 1872, Auburn University, then
the Agricultural and Mechanical
College of Alabama, became the
first land grant college in the south.
It h a s been obvious since then that
the main impetus behind this insti­tute
has been on the agricultural
and mechanical aspect of life —
what is practical in the world.
| Over the years Auburn University
did change slightly. A broader edu­cation
was offered and taking
classes in other fields besides tech­nical
was emphasized. Liberal Arts
began to be taught and more stu­dents
came to Auburn for these
; courses. But the main objectives
; behind this University still leaned
; towards engineering and agricul­ture,
while liberal arts was used as
support.
This brings us to the present day.
Auburn University is still mainly
focused on agriculture and engineer­ing,
and that is not bad. But if
Auburn wants to truly become a
university of high learning and
scholarly thought, the college of lib­eral
arts needs drastic improve­ment.
With this will come a chapter
of the prestigious honorary, Phi
Beta Kappa.
For Auburn to obtain a chapter of
Phi Beta Kappa, for which some
have worked hard for so long, it
must realize t h a t liberal arts h a s to
become a dominant division of this
university the way engineering and
agriculture are.
The University and its alumni
must also stop putting enormous
amounts of money and importance
in athletics and start steering it
towards academics and scholarly
work. What the alumni have done
already is commendable, but more is
needed. Not research and technical
improvements only, but liberal arts
and the sciences.
In 1978, the only time the honor­ary
actually came to Auburn for an
on-site inspection, Phi Beta Kappa
saw an absence of "well-defined
faculty leadership and control in the
f o r m u l a t i o n of academic poli­cy....
the faculty should have more
centralized authority to initiate
changes." This isn't any different
today t h a n it was in 1978.
Phi Beta Kappa also looked at the
faculty, the student body, the
library, and probably most impor­tant
of all to Auburn University, "an
adequate and dependable income."
Let's face it, until the state of Ala­bama
is ready to adequately and
dependably fund Auburn Univer­sity,
we are not going to make the
leaps and bounds in liberal arts
needed to acquire a Phi Beta Kappa
chapter.
That's why the Auburn creed be­gins
with "I believe t h a t this is a prac­tical
world." instead of "I believe
t h a t this is a theoretical world."
Auburn University, take at hard
look at yourself.
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Roush says spell it right
Chris
ROUSH .'
Have you ever wondered why every
week before a football game there
appears on business' windows down­town
those awful slogans telling
passers-by what the Auburn football
team is going to do this weekend?
You've seen them. Against Tennessee-
Chattanooga it was, "Maul the Moccas­ins."
For East Carolina, I got sick of see­ing,
"Make the Pirates walk the plank."
For Tennessee, the old stand-bys "Hang
Tenn" and "Nothing sucks like the Big
Orange" were rolled out one more time.
Slogans seen this past week range
from terrorist-like to nationalistic. They
included: "Vandalize Vandy," as well as
"Victimize Vandy," the weather-beaten
"Volt Vandy," the tread-worn "Stomp
the Commodores," the air-like "Vaporize
Vandy," the leathery "Buckle the Van-derbelts,"
the physical "Body Slam the
'Dores," and its cousin "Slam the
'Dores," the capitalistic "Go for the Gold,
Tigers," the sexually-overtoned "Violate
Vandy," the downright boring "Victory
over Vandy," and last, but not least, the
nationalistic "Kill the Commies."
What all of these slogans have in
common is the word placed before them.
I have never seen this word in actual
print anywhere but on these signs. It is
not in the dictionary. It is the bastard
word "sez."
Why do we use this aberration of a
word when we all know perfectly well
how to spell "says?" I have never seen
any form of the verb "to say" with the
letter z in it.
Auburn's violation of the English
language does not end there. We are also
prone to use the term "lil sis," referring
to the multifarious group of females who
are aligned with fraternities.
Need another example? Last week I
happened to walk by the windows of
War Eagle Cafeteria as members of our
University Program Council were paint­ing
messages to inform the beloved
students.
On the third window from the left read
the following dispatch: "UPC presents a
trip behind the Iron Curtian." Is there
some spelling rule that states i before a
when spelling a word that means
drapery?
Also on these glorious windows, the
UPC informs us about a Homecoming
buffet. I thought it was Jimmy Buffett.
But wait, I'm not through yet. Two
weeks ago, painted on the window of
your favorite pizza delivery store on
Magnolia Avenue, read the following:
"KD sez Chrush the Catamounts."
Believe it or not, it was there. I saw it
with my own eyes.
These signs are done by fraternity and
sorority pledges to gain spirit points.
The more spirit points you gain, the bet­ter
your block seating is next year in the
jam-packed student section.
I propose that we take spirit points
away from the next group that misspells
any word on their signs, including
"says." The fine could double the next
time.
Seems reasonable doesn't it? Guess
what the spirit committee tried to take
spirit points away for after the Tennes­see
game? Seems that one fraternity had
a sign at the game which said, "Spade
Smokey." Seems they weren't being
helpful in bettering relations with our
fellow students at Knoxville. Not to
worry, their sign the next week was the
unfathomable "Cannonade the Cata­mounts,"
although they did have a sign
at their house which said "Catamounts
cough furballs."
I am not proposing we do away with
putting up these dandy slogans. What
would we do without those tried and true
slogans of "Wreck Tech," "Beat the Bul­ldogs,"
and "Beat Bama." I would, how­ever,
like to never see again "Gig the
Gators."
What I would like to organize is a
group that my father gave me the idea
for. It would be called Society for the
Prevention of the Eradication of the
English Language (SPEL). I could get a
letterhead printed up and write nasty
letters to groups or businesses like Pre-skool
or Po Folks and berate them on their
poor use of the English language.
Chris Roush says spell it right or don't
spell it at all.
Chris Roush is editor ofThe Plainsman.
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Stadium scoreboard wasted money
Diana
HOUGHTON
As a senior, I have seen this Univer­sity
go through a lot of major and minor
changes through the years. The campus
has improved in a lot of ways, but I feel
that the recent addition of the $1.3 mil­lion
scoreboard was quite extravagant.
When this campus needs so many
tangible things that students would
directly benefit from, a scoreboard that
we will be able to look at for three
months out of the year seems ridiculous!
Of course, there was plenty of reason­ing
behind the "improvement of the
archaic scoreboard." Oval Jaynes, the
former associate athletic director, was
quoted as saying this has been a "prior­ity"
for several years.
I must explain that the Coca-Cola Co.
was the generous contributor of our new
million-dollar extravaganza though.
The funds were not generated from
alumni or the athletic department. Nat­urally,
there is a catch! Nothing is ever
free in this life.
Coca-Cola agreed to the deal without
permanent advertising provided they
had product rights in the stadium. This
project was heartily accepted by Presi­dent
Martin and the Board of Trustees.
Why not? Do you turn away a great
gift—no way!
After all, folks, the old scoreboard was
15 to 20 years old. Heaven forbid! What
about our science laboratories, dormito­ries
and classrooms that have asbestos
on the ceilings? These are conditions
that students must live with on a daily
basis nine to 12 months out of the year.
One of the Quad dorms has been in
existence since 1924, and others were
completed in 1956. The Hill dorms were
constructed in the 1960's. We are talking
about some old structures that could
stand to receive improvement. I won't
even discuss the inadequate laborato­ries
in Parker Hall. Attempts have been
made in removing asbestos from various
structures, but that takes time and
money, and the University never seems
to have much of either.
I think we can tolerate a scoreboard
that might go out every once in a blue
moon. After all, the new scoreboard
tends to distract fans and players from
the actual football game. Now that's
what I think is funny.
I have even heard that coaches have
an occasional hard time of getting the
player's attention because they were
looking at the board. The board makes it
easy for the fans. If you can't remember
the cheer—just refer to the board. It will
even show you when to clap your hands!
Give me a break.
What I want to know is why can't the
administration solicit funds like these
and put them toward more projects that
would affect the students and faculty by
improving the academic institution?
The John M. Harbert III Engineering
building is a prime example of money
channelled in the right direction. Har­bert
graciously gave $5 million to the
University, and he later received an
honorary degree for "distinguished ser­vice"
to Auburn. For years, he has
served on committees and has shown
legitimate academic concerns.
This donation of money aids in truly
strengthening the institution and was
sorely needed by the engineering school.
What really gripes me is that the
administration is constantly trying to
console the students and the faculty dur­ing
real problems we experience daily
with the explanation: "Sorry, we don't
have enough money." It gets old after a
while, especially when you see money
being lavished on ventures relating to
football.
Don't get me wrong—I love football.
War Eagle and all that good stuff! I will
continue to be a devoted fan, but I don't
want my education or quality of campus
life suffering at the same time.
Pat Dye deserves a round of applause
for his $1 million pledge to the Library
for the expansion. Currently, the facility
only accommodates 10,000 students. As
usual, hardly any work has actually
been done. Boy, that scoreboard sure
went up in a hurry, though!
The library expansion is to begin by
March of next year. We've heard that
story before; the conference center seems
to be a lost cause.
If Auburn Universityis to improve the
way it should, priorities need to be set by
the administration and those who care
to bestow their contributions upon us.
We are here to obtain an education, and
the professors are here to enlighten our
minds. Football is not the only thing
that makes Auburn tick.
All of us should not have to encounter
so many hardships along the way by
h e a r i n g excuses about Auburn's
limitations.
Diana Houghton is an assistant news
editor ofThe Plainsman.
A satirical viewpoint of America
Randy
GLAZER
American by birth, Southern by the
grace of God. I sure am glad I'm one.
America is the land of the free and the
home of the ignorant. It's a place where
people who have AIDS are separated
from society. It's a place where one can
still find a spokesman of the people like
Jerry Falwell. Best of all, it's number
one. It's the Land of Prosperity. It's
God's country.
We Americans certainly are proud.
And why shouldn't we be? After all, we
do have the greatest athletes and we are
the leader of the free world. We're
Rambo, the CIA and the protectors of
peace. If it wasn't for us, the whole world
would be communist because we're the
only country that can take on the Rus­sians
one-on-one.
We have but one flaw in this country
— the Unamericans. They are those
people who live here, but who aren't like
us. Unfortunately, there's quite a few of
them. They include: blacks, Orientals,
Hispanics, drug users, gays, handi­capped
people, poor people, Commu­nists,
Jews, atheists and Catholics (for
that matter, anybody that isn't like me).
And then there are those who are
socially ignorant like: yankees, people
with long hair, GDI's and people who
constantly criticize Ronald Reagan and
his policies.
Subversives who criticize the presi­dent
should be arrested and tried for
treason. After all, our president was
elected by an overwhelming majority so
he must be doing something right.
Besides, how could someone do an effec­tive
job in Geneva when he's got people
from his own country criticizing him.
It is for this reason that I have come up
with a proposal to end the indignity, the
weakness of the United States. Since
cost prohibits us from just exporting this
dead wood to another country a md liv­ing
beside them is an unbearable dis­grace,
and we can't stick them into a
certain corner of the country like we did
those Indians, I suggest we kill them. We
should start in Auburn and as soon as
people see what we're doing here, they'll
start formulating a cleaning process of
their own.
The executions should probably be by
guillotine. Even though this would seem
to be time-consuming, I think it's the
most patriotic way. The beheading could
take place on Cater Lawn on Homecom­ing
Night. It could be right before the
Jimmy Buffett concert. If we hold the
ceremonies on that weekend, we could
get national coverage because ESPN
will probably do the football game.
The criminal selection process would
be easy. Anybody you see on the street
with long hair — arrest him. Anybody
who talks too much in class — arrest
him. I'm sure it won't be hard to find the
blacks. Then we could go to the police
station and put out an All Points Bul­letin
on anybody who's ever been
arrested (unless it was on a football wee­kend
for public drunkenness). I'm sure
the police will cooperate; I don't think
they like these dredges of society any
more than I do.
Soon people will be telling on their
neighbors; brothers spying on their sis­ters
and kids turning in their parents.
After a while we'll be one big happy
homogeneous Ail-American family who
fervently worships our master, King
Ronald the first, Lord of America.
In the words of the immortal Adolph
Hitler, "We are the master race, we will
conquer the world." And the bumper-sticker
on the back of his Volkswagon
read, "Austrian by birth, Nazi by the
grace of God."
Randy Glazer is a columnist of The
Plainsman
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Vietnam POWS: what
can they be thinking?
Denise
SELF * t
I am a child of an Air Force vet, short
for V-E-T-E-R-A-N, that is.
Mention the Vietnam War to me — a
vivid flashback to 1968 — and the mind
fills with memories: my father's hand
waving frantically good-bye from an
airplane window, a tape recorder record­ing
my first solo hit," Jesus Loves Me" —
soon to be released overseas — and a
homemade sign inscribed proudly with
"Welcome Home Wes/Daddy" taped to
the living room window.
I'm lucky, extremely lucky for such a
sign and what it represents.
My father returned home safely from
THAT PLACE. Others weren't so
fortunate.
I'm referring to the 2,434 American
servicemen and civilians believed miss­ing
or otherwise unaccounted for in South-east
Asia and Americans whose
remains were doled out by the Vietna­mese
in the past 13 years with elaborate
and grotesque calculation.
Remember watching on TV the cof­fins,
calmly referred to as 'boxes,' deliy-vered
here and numbered by the U.S.
government for future analysis? At least
those family members know the status
of their men.
In view of POW/MIA awareness
week and talking with MIA family
members here, it is only fair to mention a
general consensus is taking root and
starting to sprout among MIA families
nationally.
Based on recent reports in Washing­ton,
D.C., MIA families believe a lack of
progress exists toward securing the
freedom of living or deceased Americans
in the Communist governments of Indo­china:
North Korea, Vietnam and Laos.
Just ask Mamie Stewart, wife of MIA
Col. Peter J. Stewart and housemother
of Beta Theta Phi. Ask Auburn students
Jean and Cappie Fallon, daughters of
MIA Col. Patrick M. Fallon. And ask
Auburn student Kim Goodrich, whose
father, Capt. Edwin Goodrich, was
returned July, 1985 after presumed miss­ing
in action since 1967.
After years of handing out petitions,
wearing metal MIA/POW bracelets and
attending the annual National League
of POW/MIA Family meetings, they
will tell you the same thing — the MIA
families have suffered too long hanging
in painful limbo.
Who can blame them for speaking
out? It's a tragic story, but probably a
familiar one in that Uncle Sam is
accused of playing hide and seek. Again.
Mounting evidence indicates that
American soldiers are being held in cap­tivity
and that the U.S. government
knows they're there, but it doesn't want
the American people to know because
they might demand their return, even if
it meant paying for them.
The United States can't afford to be
blackmailed, the Reagan administra­tion
says. I say pay.
Since the late 1970s, refugees escaping
Southeast Asia have brought here more
than 700 reports of live sightings of
American prisoners. Some reports are as
recent as last year, according to the U.S.
Defense Intelligence Agency which is
currently investigating the situation.
Secondly, a case remains pending in
federal court involving two soldiers who
are suing the government for inaction
on getting the POWs back. Sgt. 1st Class
Melvin Mclntire and Mark Smith, a U.S.
Army special forces major, claim the
government is denying them the right to
tell the public about their fact-finding
mission in Vietnam.
Thirdly, according to a Washington
Post editorial dated Aug. 19, 1986, in
1981, just weeks after President Reagan
took office, the new administration
learned that Vietnam wanted to sell to
the U.S. an unspecified number of live
POWs still in Southeast Asia for the sum
of $4 billion (less than the U.S. had
promised Hanoi in post-war rebuilding
aid).
It is unclear whether or not the offer
was passed down from the Carter
administration to Reagan. Before the
matter dropped, to his credit, Reagan
and his advisors are now trying to find
another way to get the men home despite
being opposed to paying for POWs on
the grounds that that would appear as if
our country could be blackmailed.
Hopefully, this is a new phase in which
the government is taking the initiative
to appear committed to getting Ameri­cans
home. There is no question that the
Indochinese governments have addi­tional
information on Americans still
missing.
Thirteen years have passed since the
signing of the Peace Accords officially
ended the Vietnam War. Questions,
however, still mount, and the debate over
the fate of MIAs prompts yet another
painful question: If Americans are still
he]d in captivity, what must they be
thinking about us?
Denise Self is a staff writer of The
Plainsman.
Apartheid can be stopped;
Christians should help out
Rich
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Apartheid is the system of racial dis­crimination
and economic oppression
employed by the government of South
Africa. I'm still amazed at the number of
students who don't know about this
hateful policy. Sure, they have heard
about trouble in South Africa, but they
don't know why the riots and murders
are happening.
Well, for those of you who are new to
this subject, just imagine a place where
the government controls every aspect of
your life, and you are denied the right to
vote. You are forced to live in "independ­ent
homelands" out of your country and
must travel several hours in over­crowded
buses back and forth to work
each day. You must carry a passbook at
all times. You make four times less than
another person at the same job, but you
don't dare complain because there are at
least five others who would take your job
just to be working. If you speak out
against the government you can be
beaten, tortured or killed.
Imagine this nightmare where five
million whites dictate how 28 million
blacks and Asians will live, and you
have imagined the harsh reality of
South Africa.
The people of South Africa are desper­ately
trying to regain the freedom they
had 300 years ago, but the Pretoria
government has no intention of allow­ing
a democracy where the majority
rules. That's why the riots and the kil­lings
are happening. In fact, since Sept­ember
1984 2,300 people have died pro­testing
apartheid.
The non-whites are even killing their
own. People suspected of being govern­ment
informers are "necklaced" by
mobs. That's when a gasoline-soaked
cloth is wrapped around the informer's
neck and set on fire.
What can we do to help these people?
Diplomatic measures as advocated by
President Reagan and Senator Jere­miah
Denton have failed miserably.
Desmond Tutu, Archbishop of Cape
Town, has said economic sanctions are
his people's best hope for the disman­tling
of apartheid.
More than 20 states agree with Tutu.
They are selling off their South African
investments. More than 70 U.S. cities
and more than 100 colleges have also
divested.
I have written many U.S. corporations
asking them to divest. Firms such as
West Point Pepperell, Phillips Petro­leum,
Coca-Cola, and Carnation have
sold their South African business inter­ests
while IBM, Mobil Oil, Xerox, Exxon,
and others remain as supporters of the
Sullivan Principles — guidelines calling
for increased employment and
advancement of non-whites.
Many of the major corporations
remaining in the country have imple­mented
commendable programs to
further the educational and career
opportunities of non-whites over the
long run. That's great for the few receiv­ing
these benefits, but the majority who
aren't want and deserve equal rights
now, and they're resorting to the only
option available to them: violence.
If all nations don't impose strict eco­nomic
sanctions against South Africa
soon, the nation will only drown in a
racial bloodbath that neither side can
truly win. The natives of South Africa
need help from somewhere, and I think it
would be in our best interest for that
"somewhere" to be the U.S. and not a
communist nation.
Again, what can we do? Write Presi­dent
Reagan and your Congressmen
and urge them to change our country's
policy of "constructive engagement."
University professors can make books
on apartheid, such as Hope and Suf­fering
by Desmond Tutu and Move
Your Shadow by Joseph Lelyveld, part
of their required reading for the quarter.
I wear a red ribbon — a symbol of the
growing movement against racism and
apartheid in South Africa — to publicly
show that I think apartheid is immoral
and must be abolished. This would be an
easy way for a student to take a stand on
this issue.
As a Christian, I know God would be
very disappointed in me if I were apa­thetic
and didn't try to help others in
such dire need. Am I alone in feeling this
way? You may call yourself a Christian,
or at least a humanitarian, but now is
the time to prove it. Now is the time to
end apartheid.
Rich Thigpen is a staff writer of The
Plainsman.
Letters
Prof jumps on Baxley bandwagon
Editor, The Plainsman:
As a former supporter of gubernator­ial
candidate George McMillan, I am
writing this letter to urge my fellow Ala-bamians
to cast their vote for Bill Bax­ley
in the November general election.-
Bill has the qualities, ideas, beliefs,
compassion, and vision I thought at one
time McMillan possessed: concern for
the plight of the elderly on fixed
incomes, concern for the handicapped,
the many unemployed people in Ala­bama,
and the average working person,
commitment to our Bill of Rights and
other fundamental principles for which
I believe our nation stands, concern for
truly substantive issues concerning a
quality education, such as a balanced
and rigorous curriculum. Bill is the only
candidate in the race who truly cares
about such issues.
Very frankly, when I was first person­ally
contacted by McMillan in early 1984
I never in my wildest fantasies or
dreams (I should say nightmares) would
have guessed George would have given
his support to Charlie Graddick. In the
first place, Graddick has been judged
guilty of breaking the law and of abus­ing
the power of his office as attorney
general to win the governorship. In the
man, who does not even have the cour­age
to confront Bill Baxley face to face in
public, were to be elected as a result of
the confusion brought on by the actions
of Graddick and McMillan. Bill Baxley
is the only man in the race who cannot
only help our state internally, but who
can also help change our national image
in a positive way.
second place, the occasion for George
personally corresponding with my hus­band
and I was when our pictures were
in the newspaper because we were run­ning
as delegates to the Democratic
party convention for Alan Cranston
before he dropped out of the presidential
race. McMillan sent my husband and I a
very nice laminated version of our
newspaper picture in which he included
a friendly and laudatory letter.
In that letter he said that he too
admired Cranston as a man and on his
stands on the various political issues.
The trip from admiration of Senator
Cranston in 1984 to the support of Grad­dick
in 1986 had to be a long and tortuous
one. One simply cannot get from sup­porting
Cranston to supporting Grad- <• -
dick without changing one's mind on the COllXITin O n i i e a r S aV
Michael S. Littleford
Professor
Boyte thanked
for hilarious
most fundamental political issues. A
person has a right to change his mind,
but he is obligated to his supporters and
the public at large to admit he has made
such fundamental changes and to
explain how and why he made them.
McMillan'8 silence on this aspect of his
political behavior is deafening to former
supporters like me.
With respect to the Republican candi­date,
Guy Hunt, it would truly be a
tragedy if this totally inexperienced
Forum invites participation, ideas
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Association is to promote the best
interests of the students of Auburn Uni­versity.
The SGA Student Forum Com­mittee
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have a productive year.
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Chairman Student Forum Committee
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Thank you Ken Boyte for finding The
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for allowing Boyte to spread the far left's
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that effectively read, "No Blacks." This
is a documented fact. Strike two for
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This Week
Five years ago-Faulty con­crete
joints in the year-old addi­tion
to Jordan-Hare Stadium,
which had caused water leaks,
could cost up to $75,000 to repair,
according to a study.
10 years ago-Approximately
six Auburn restaurants applied
i'cr liquor and beer licenses after a
state court declared unconstitu­tional
the one-mile limit on liquor
sales near a college campus.
20 y e a r s ago-Fraternities
were given a manual on fire-safety
standards approved by
President Harry Philpott. The
regulations followed a fire at the
SAE house in February which
killed one brother.
30 y e a r s ago-The student pol­itical
group, Young Democrats
Club, was formed on campus and
elected temporary officers.
Has Reagan lost
real chance for
nuclear-free world ?
Editor, The Plainsman:
Could it be more obvious that Ronald
Reagan has denied us the very real
chance to live in a world free of nuclear
weapons? Could it be more obvious that
as a member of the S.D.I, consortium,
Auburn University is aiding and abet-ing
that decision?
Michael E. Urban'
Associate Professor
Correction
A story on page A-2 of the Oct. 9,1986
issue of The Auburn Plainsman stated
that Todd Hawkley, ,21, pulled out of
Max Morris' parking lot onto Thach and
veered into the path of a student riding a
bicycle. Hawkley did not veer into the
path of the cyclist. The Auburn Univer­sity
police report stated that Hawkley's
car encroached into the path of the
cyclist. The Plainsman regrets any
misunderstanding.
In an article entitled "Services help
students manage problem areas" on
pages B-2 and B-4 of the same issue, it
was stated that screened student tutors
teach any student who needs help for
free. In fact, study partners employed
through the College Work Study Pro­grams
offer free academic support with
freshman level courses.
The story also stated that the Testing
Services Office conducts study seminars
to get people ready to take exams. The
agreement that Testing Services has to
supervise the ACT, MCAT, LSAT,
GMAT, GRE, etc., contains a clause
t h a t expressly prohibits anyone
involved in the administration of these
tests from conducting or helping to con­duct
preparation seminars for them. The
Plainsman regrets the errors.
It is the policy of this newspaper to
correct any errors of fact.
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Ignorance is alarming in sex education
Stephen
MCDANIE
He said there was only one good,
namely, knowledge; and only one evil,
namely, ignorance.
—Diogenes Laertius
The topic of sex education in our pub­lic
schools often becomes a raging
argument, especially between the Chris­tian
fundamentalists and the bleeding-heart
liberals. The former always state
that if sex education is taught in our
public schools the students will sud­denly
become obsessed with all types of
sexual activities, and the latter declare
that it is necessary in order to provide
teenagers with the plain facts about
their bodies and sex.
I firmly believe that igorance is the
worst crime that society can inflict on its
youth and, sadly, we are guilty of com­mitting
this crime to an excessive
degree. How many times has a teenager
been told not to do something for the
following reason: "Because."
We need to remember that the old pro­verb
of curiosity killing the cat still
holds in today's society, probably to an
even greater extent. It is natural for teen­agers
to ponder about their bodies and
what sex is like. Unfortunately, there
usually isn't an adult to answer their
questions and give them guidance, and
so they turn to their friends to answer
their questions. The end result is that
teen-agers are more confused than when
they started. Some people may reply to
this by saying, "Good, they're too young
to know about things like that anyway!"
Well, that's swell if you're a member of
the Cleaver family, otherwise, let me
show you what happens in the real
world.
Susan, a middle class 14-year-old girl
in junior high, has been hearing her
friends talk about Beth and her boy­friend,
Tom. Beth finally went "all the
way" with Tom and is currently the talk
of the school. A few months later, Susan
starts dating someone on a steady basis,
and one night things started getting
serious. Fortunately, Susan had pre­viously
contemplated what to do in just
such a situation; since Beth Wasn't in
trouble from her experiences Susan had
concluded that she was too young to get
pregnant, and what better way is there
for her to keep a guy?
Seven months later, Susan gave birth
to a premature baby and experienced
complications during delivery. Susan
died from her complications, and the
baby was brought into the world without
a family. <
I know this is an extreme example but
things like this happen, and all too -
often. Why did this happen? That can be I
answered in one word: ignorance.
Susan's mother thought she was too
young to be told about sex, her father
thought that his little girl would never
do such a thing, and her friends were as
knowledgeable as she was.
Ignoring the problem will not make it
disappear. We must give our children the •
knowledge and guidance necessary to
keep them from becoming the next
Susan. We should establish a course that
will instruct our children about their
bodies and the facts and consequences
of sex. I'm not speaking of making a
morals course, but a course that will
make our children knowledgeble.
What's that? You say sex should be i
taught in the home and not at school? If I
that is happening then why do we still \
have a problem? We must inform teen- \
agers to stop this problem.
You say I'm going to hell for support- \
ing such a thing as teaching our child- •
ren all about sex and that I'm causing
the fall of our society? I have but one §
response.
Ignorance is not innocence, but sin.
—Robert Browning
Stephen McDaniel is a staff writer of
rhe Plainsman.
A-6 £br Auburn Jlatiuiman Thursday, October 16, 1986
Gubernatorial candidates seek support here
Graddick continues race
By Diana Houghton
Assistant News Editor
Pushing "pencils of freedom,"
gubernatorial write-in candidate
Charlie Graddick spoke with stu­dents
Monday on the concourse
in an effort to "change the way it
has been in Alabama."
"It doesn't take a rocket scien­tist
to figure out the voting pro­cess,"
he said, "I'm confident that
all of you can write."
Stressing that he "won the
Democratic nomination fairly
and squarely," Graddick ex­plained
that the only reason that
he did not secure it was because
the party did not find him "suita­ble"
since he was not a "puppet
for the special interests."
"They don't care about excel­lence
in education or improving
our image," he said, "I can lead
the state into the 1990's with a
progressive plan."
Education is his "favorite sub­ject,"
and he said he believes in
teacher testing in order to "weed
out the mediocre and incompe­tent
ones." He also discussed his
fight for the enforcement of the
"no pass, no play" rule.
In reference to the proration
schools are facing, he said no
long-range planning has been
done for secondary education.
When asked about jobs and
economic development, Graddick
said he wants to appoint an
expert to run the Alabama Devel­opment
Office (ADO) and set up a
board that is representative of
business across the state. In the
past, he said the ADO has been
under funded.
"Our precious natural resour­ces
must be protected" was
another concern he voiced about
environmental management.
One student questioned Grad­dick
about how he was affording
the court costs. Graddick replied
some of the lawyers were hand­ling
the litigation free of charge,
and "one was not." "I'm passing
around a basket for donations,"
he joked.
He said that 470,000 votes were
"honestly cast" for him, and the
"five-man committee stole the
people's votes...They do not
represent the Democratic party. I
want to keep that kind of corrup­tion
out of power, and I will when
I am elected.
"I encouraged people to vote; I
did not dilute the black voting
strength," was his comment con­cerning
the crossover voting rule.
"The only thing I did wrong was
win," Graddick said and added
that the crossover rule has not
been enforced by the Democratic
party in the past. "This year it
was selectively enforced."
He emphasized that he wants
young people to take a stand in
t h i s election and not be
"apathetic."
This election boils down to
"good, poor or no leadership," he
said.
He said people are choosing
Republican candidate Guy Hunt
because they do not realize there
is a "viable alternative." Grad­dick
questioned whether Hunt
had the "mental toughness" to be
governor and added that "Hunt
better get ready for Democratic
candidate Bill Baxley's com­ments."
"Voting for me will not split the
conservative vote, but will be the
anti-handpicking vote," Grad­dick
said. He affirmed that "a
write-in vote will count."
On his switch from the Repub­lican
to the Democratic party,
Graddick said, in 1974 when he
was the assistant district attor­ney
in Mobile, his boss was a
Republican and encouraged him
to run for district attorney. His
parents were both Democrats.
Later, he became a Democrat
because it "represented the main­stream
of Alabama. I've never
liked party politics."
Hunt addresses concerns
Photography: John Craft
ON THE ROAD
Charlie Graddick, Guy Hunt visit campus
By Stephen McDaniel
Staff Writer
Republican gubernatorial can­didate
Guy Hunt in an appear­ance
last Thursday night in Foy
Union Ballroom told the approx­imately
200 people in attendance,
"I came here tonight to campaign
on the issues and solutions to the
many problems facing Ala­bama."
The following is a summary
of his address.
Q: What do you see as the
moat critical issues facing
Alabama's future?
A: There are definitely many
problems facing the state at this
time, but I think that there are
five major categories of para­mount
concern: our education
system, the image Alabama
exudes to prospective businesses,
the problem of eradicating crime
in our state, establishing a sys­tem
to help people with a drug
dependency and eliminate the
sources of drugs in our state, and
increasing the aid given to the
state's social programs while
using these funds in a more effi­cient
manner.
Q: What do you perceive as
the most urgent reforms
necessary in our education
system?
A: First and foremost, we need
to put an end to the ridiculous
practice of prorating our educa­tion
system. There is no way pos­sible
to improve our state's econ­omy
or image when we con­sistently
have education at the
bottom of our priorities. The state
government also needs to start
coming to the educators them­selves
and ask them what areas
need the most assistance and
methods of solving those prob­lems.
Finally, we need to make
testing of secondary teachers
mandatory, if they cannot pass a
basic literacy test, then they def­initely
cannot give our students
the necessary instruction.
Q: How do you propose to
attract more business to the
state?
A: I believe that we must con­centrate
on two major points in
order to make Alabama an
attractive place for businesses to
reside:
—We need to modify the com­position
of the Alabama Devel­opment
Office. It needs to have a
modern, professional image. This
office can be a major factor in a
business' decision of moving to
our state by giving Alabama an
image of being a progressive and
accomodating state.
—We need to stop lobbying for
the businesses that are failing;
instead, we need to start trying to
attract the businesses that are up
and coming. We need to start
attracting more high-tech indus­try,
and in order to do that we
need to keep our quality of educa­tion
foremost in our minds.
Q: What measures do you
plan on installing to diminish
the crime problem?
A: We need to show the public
that criminal activity will no
longer be tolerated. The penalties
for the more serious offenses
should be stiffened and capital
punishment revived. The people
are tired of hearing about a crim­inal's
rights; the public seems to
be asking the question, "Where
are our rights?" Finally, I feel
that a criminal should in some
way partially compensate the
public; one program I plan on
reestablishing is work release
programs where convicts work
on building and maintaining
roads and other public projects.
Q: What do you plan on
doing about the drug prob­lem?
A: I believe we need to assist
those people with a problem and
show them a new way of life. We
need to educate our children and
the public about the dangers of
drug use; e l i m i n a t i n g the
See Hunt, A-12
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Female roommate wanted to
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or Ginger. 821-7655, Lake-wood
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Balfour Class Rings on sale
Monday-Friday 7:45-4:45,
Room 332, Foy Union.
'76 Rabbit, good running con­dition,
new clutch. Sun roof.
$1,000. Call 826-0577, late
evenings.
For sale: Honda FT500 Ascot
motorcycle. Runs great Only
4700 miles. Call 887-6296
anytime.
Toyota Celica '74, new tires,
new battery, new generator,
runs well. $900. Call 887-5069.
Honda SX200, 1983, red,
includes two helmets. $675.
Call Tony, 821-3573.
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Captive r
McDaniel describes ordeal as prisoner for 6 years in communist Vietnam
By Rich Thigpen
I Staff Writer
Shot down in North Vietnam
Ion May 19, 1967, Capt. Eugene
"Red" McDaniel was listed as
Missing In Action until 1970
I when the Hanoi government
I acknowledged that he was a
| prisoner.
He was released on March 4,
J1973, after more than six years of
I captivity.
Because of his active role in
I camp communications, he was
one of the most brutally tortured
prisoners of the Vietnam War,
and is the author of Scars And
I Stripes, a book describing his
ordeal in a Communist prison.
McDaniel spoke to a crowd of
more than 300 people in the Stu­dent
Activities Building Tuesday
night.
His speech1 was one of the
highlights of POW/MIA Aware­ness
Week (Oct. 12-18), which
includes a showing of When Hell
Was In Session tonight at 6 p.m.
in Langdon Hall and a candle­light
procession around campus
Friday at 6 p.m.
McDaniel retired from the
navy in 1982 and is now founder
and president of the American
Defense Foundation and the
American Defense Institute, both
non-profit, privately-funded
organizations.
"With the Foundation, we
A*
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shape an issue and lobby for
strong national defense," McDa­niel
said, "and with the Institute
we educate."
Speaking on his involvement
with the POW issue, McDaniel
said, "I've come to the reluctant
conclusion that we left men
behind in Southeast Asia, and I
think as a nation we have to deal
with that. It's such an emotional
issue, especially with young peo­ple.
They see movies like Rambo,
MIA, and Uncommon Valor, all
three of those movies say we left
men behind.
"This is not a political issue,
this is a national issue. We're
talking about the fabric of
America—the individual. I speak
out because those men can't
speak out for themselves. I think
as a nation we owe them a Presi­dential
commission that can deal
full-time with this issue.
It might be impossible to get
the men out of communist captiv­ity,
but if we can't, let's at least
acknowledge their sacrifice. Our
government knows they're there
and needs to deal with it. The
public awareness that's building
in this country will not subside
until we get a solution."
His primary concern is around
the country of Laos. According to
McDaniel, the U.S. lost 569 air­men
and ground people, of which
311 were either MIA or known
captive at the time. As many as
100 were known to be captured,
he said.
"Not one of those has ever
returned," McDaniel said.
He said that there is nothing
worse than being a POW.
"You have no pride, no self-esteem;
your every action is dic­tated
by the enemy. He tells you
when to eat, when to sleep, when
to get up, and he tries to tell you
what to think. The food we were
fed was adequate, but never good.
"What happens to a man or
woman is not nearly as impor­tant
as how they react to that
which happens. From adversity,
you build a certain amount of
endurance. From that endurance
you develop a character, and
from that character you get hope,
and without hope, you can't live.'
On that hope I was able to sur­vive
2,110 days."
Encouraging his listeners to
write letters to their congressmen1
to support HR-129, McDaniel,
stressed the need to pass the bill.
"When you go into combat, you,
go prepared to be killed, to be cap-'
tured, to be wounded, to be a Pri­soner
of War; but you do not go^
into combat prepared to ber
abandoned."
For Stewart, the 'forgotten' are real
Photography: John Craft
LISTEN CLOSELY
Capt. Eugene McDaniel speaks on behalf of POW/MIAs
By Suzanna Etheridge
Staff Writer
Rejected. Forgotten. Treated as
"untouchables" by the people of
the country they served.
Veterans of the Vietnam War
were not welcomed home with
parades and cheers as were the
verterans of the first two world
wars.
They are a part of history most
people want to forget. But what of
those who did not return—those
unaccounted for?
Throughout this week Auburn
has honored these men with
speeches, parades and films dur­ing
the POW/MIA Awareness
Week. For many, understanding
this matter is an abstract con­cept,
but for Mamie Stewart the
issues are real.
Stewart deals daily with the
loss of her husband, Col. Peter J.
Stewart of the United States Air
Force, who is one of approxi­mately
2,500 men who did not
come home.
He was shot down March 15,
1966, while flying a F4C Phan­tom
jet over North Vietnam, west
of Hanoi near the Laotian border.
Stewart served in World War II
in the Pacific theater and during
the Korean Conflict of the 1950s.
He volunteered to serve in Viet­nam.
"It was six or seven in the even­ing,
almost dark," the Scotland
native said. "There were two
planes involved; only my hus­band's
was shot down. I found
out later that day. It was very dif­ficult
telling our six children
what had happened."
Since the end of the Vietnam
War, attempts have been made to
get the remaining POWs out of'
the country. «,
"There are talks to get things.
done, but then they (the federal
government) have been talking
for 12 years," Stewart said.
"The government did not have«
any proof of Pete's being alive or-a
prisoner, so they changed his>t
status in 1980," Stewart said. "He!
is currently listed as 'presumtive*
killed in action.' That means the
government has given up the?
hope of finding him. We never dicM
give up hope and we never will."u
Stewart did keep up with her
husband during the first months*
of his absence. He was based iflje
Ubon, Thailand. She received hist»
last letter the day after he was[o
shot down. He wrote "Honey, Id
believe in what I'm doing. It's^
necessary and you should believe. -
in it too." This message helps her; j
keep faith.
This week's celebration of the*.,
POW/MIA Awareness Week also o
contributes to this faith. ,.-,
"It's marvelous," Stewart said.,
"I think it will make a lot of peo-rj
pie aware of the problems the|
men who want to come home are'r
See POW, A-12
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Lost: Gold necklace with
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font available. Call 826-8320.
Spring Break '87, earn a free
vacation to Fort Lauderdale or
the Bahamas. Students
seriously interested in becom­ing
a campus representative.
Call 1-800-87-BEACH.
Free kittens, 8 wks. old. Call
826-6656 after 12 noon week­days.
Any time on weekends.
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Professional typing, WP,
letter-quality printer. $1.25
SDSP. 821-0645, 6-9 p.m., M-F,
anytime weekends.
Wrech Tech Parade — come
join the excitment. Located
right here on Auburn's cam­pus.
Thursday, 3:30 p.m.
With Mary Kay Cosmetics, try
before you buy. For a compli­mentary
facial, call Sales
Director, Debbie Hettinger,
826-8086.
The Final Draft: Professional
word processing and typing
services. Auburn's original typ­ing
service and still the most
dependable. Above Baskin
Robbins. Call 821-4813.
WordPower: Professional typ­ing
and editing on word pro­cessors.
Writing and typing of
resumes. Next to Burger King.
Call 826-3357, 821-0316 or
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Service
749-3481
Import
City
Auto
Parts
PC users: Letter-quality printer
copies for IBM software, oth-
* ers. $1.00 DSDP. Editing avail­able.
887-6333.
Interested In flying radio con­trolled
aircraft? Come join the
Auburn Planesmen Radio Con­trol
Club. For directions and
more i n f o r m a t i o n , Bobby
Chandler, 826-4110; Lynn
Lockron 826-4748. Spectators
welcome.
Professional type and word
processing, editorial assist­ance,
resumes, cover fetters.
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The Guitar Shoppe
* New & Used Fretted
Instruments
* Amps, P.A.'s Accessories
* Professional Sound
Equipment Sales
& Rental
* Discount Prices
* Layaway - Repair
* Guitar & Bass Lessons
Concert at the Shoppe
Nov. 1
"Anniversary Jam"
"For All Your Plckin' Needs"
Across from
the Auburn Depot
113Mitcham Ave.
821-6818
M-F 11-7 Sat. 10-4
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TINTING
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1514 2nd Ave.
Opelika
749-1418
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for Volkswagen
749-2406
1010 Frederick
Road
Opelika, Al.
36801
Draft Registration: "It's no big
deal?" For Draft Information
call: Volunteers for America,
1-800-433-1973.
Discount Long Distance Ser­vice
400 min.-$119, additional
400 min.-$85. Instant line
access. Sign up 5 people, get
your service free. 601-875-
4277 after 6 p.m.
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Fall-Ball Start* Soonl
Practices Every Wed. and Fri.
at 4 p.m. on the Drill Field
For more Info contact
Andrew Hart
at 821-8424
Visit our display
on Organizations Day
Typing, editing, writing assist­ance.
EHA tutoring; Rush ser­vices.
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Student resumes. $25.00-
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you. Lov, the loving Brats.
A.U. WaterSki Team: Con-gradulations
for another out­standing
and successful year.
Good luck at Nationals) J.G.
Karen, Happy Birthday! Next
time you're thrown for a loop,
don't get stuck between a bed
and a hard place! —Your White
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Ray Prime and Ronnie Cupp,
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'till Sunday. Love, your Chi Phi
Big Sis.
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A-8 Thursday, October 16, 1986
Friends for Alabama dedicated to children
By Allison Greathouse
Staff Writer
"Just look around at all the
faces on all the kids you see.
They're the pride of Alabama.
And they need both you and me."
These words are from the song
"Let's Keep the Music Playing,"
dedicated to the children of Ala­bama
to raise funds for the
Friends for Alabama (FA) Child­ren's
Fund.
The FA Children's Fund was
begun by Dr. Larry Barker of
the University, and his wife, Dr.
Deborah Barker.
"It actually originated with
Larry and me as we were watch­ing
a television show together,"
Mrs. Barker said. "It was a doc­umentary
about the city of New
York and the children who were
collecting their lunch money and
putting together a plane load of
grain to send to Ethiopia."
"We were touched by it," Mrs.
Barker said. "If they could put
together that kind of major event,
we could do something surely."
And they "surely" did do some­thing.
On April 28, a Friends for
Alabama kick-off dinner, the first
of many fund raising projects,
was held in Tuskegee to "start the
music playing."
"The intent was to keep the
music playing," Larry Barker
said, "not built around a one-shot
phenomena. Part of the philo­sophy
is to keep small grass-root
projects going to keep funds com­ing
in."
The War Eagle Five Road
Race, sponsored by the Auburn-
Opelika Running and Track
Association (AORTA), is the next
project to raise funds for the FA
Children's Fund
The race will be held Oct. 18,
Ag programs on display at Sun Belt exposition
The University's agricultural
teaching, research and extension
programs will be highlighted in a
major display at the Sun Belt
Agricultural Exposition, Oct. 14-
16 in Moultrie, Ga.
This year's Auburn exhibit will
focus on agronomy and soils
activities carried out through the
College of Agriculture, Alabama
Agricultural Experiment Station
and Alabama Cooperative
Extension Service, according to
Dr. David Weaver, chairman of
the exhibit committee.
He said the exhibit, which will
be housed in the University's 40-
by 80-foot orange and blue tent,
will give a broad overview of
Auburn activities dealing with
crops and soils.
In addition to the information
approach of the exhibit, Weaver
said, there will be entertaining
aspects as well.
For example, there will be a
putting green made of Auburn-developed
sodgrass, and visitors
will be able to compete for gifts of
Alabama peanuts.
A special feature will be serv­ing
of samples of an ice cream­like
product made of soybeans
and peanuts.
The educational components of
the exhibit include:
—A rhizotron, which shows the
development of plant roots
—Auburn's development of a
practical solution to the costly
fescue toxicity problem
—Demonstrations of soil test­ing
and plant breeding tech­niques
and herbicide calibration
—A giant monolith of soils of
Alabama and
—Satellite technology for fore-c
a s t i n g optimum planting
conditions.
Members of the Ag Ambassa­dors,
a student group that repre­sents
Auburn agriculture at var­ious
public events, will join
College of Agriculture teachers in
describing Auburn's agricultural
teaching program to potential
college students who visit the
tent.
Auburn has participated in the
Expo since its beginning in 1978.
The event, which is billed as
the South's largest farm show,
annually draws around 200,000
visitors from the Southeast to
view exhibits and displays fur­nished
by 500-600 commercial
and educational organizations.
Equipment and crop demon­strations
continue throughout
the event on farmland and
adjoining the show site, a World
War II Army Air Corps training
field (Spence Field), near
Moultrie.
with pre-registration at 7 a.m. at
the Best Western Auburn Motor
Lodge, 1577 South College St.
The race begins at 8 a.m. The five
mile race will be held on Shug-
Jordan Parkway(SJP), begin­ning
at the intersection of South
College Street and SJP, and end­ing
at the intersection of SJP and
North College Street.
Entry fee is $8 ($6 for AORTA
members). All who enter will
receive a free T-shirt and a
Friends for Alabama poster.
There will be eight race div­isions
for men and six for women.
First place trophies will be
awarded in each category.
Second and third place prizes
also will be given.
Funds raised through any FA
project will not be directly
dispersed to families, Mrs.
Barker said. The state Depart­ment
of Human Resources serves
as a screening agency for all elig­ible
recipients of funds raised.
"The first goal of the project is
to raise $27,000 so we can get in
on a federal matching program
through the state Department of
Human Resources," Mr. Barker
said. "This goal is probably real­istic
because of the funds already
raised."
If the $27,000 goal is reached,
"approximately three times that
amount will be attracted through
federal funds," Mr. Barker said.
This money will be used for
phase one of the project, giving
payments to Aid for Dependent
Children, those 18-19 years of age
in the State of Alabama who are
currently in school and want to
finish their education.
Phase two, a future project, will
allocate funds for an emergency
children's fund to be used for food
and medical expenses for quali­fied
recipients.
Phase three, also a future pro­ject,
will be the establishment of a
shelter care facility in a county
identified by the Department of
Human Resources in greatest
need of such a facility.
"The world seems to get much
stronger with every song we do.
Let's keep the music playing —
don't let it fade away," sing the
Friends for Alabama.
Auburn First Baptist Church
Welcomes New
Students To Auburn
As a student at Auburn University I have
found that Auburn First Baptist Church has
provided me with many valuable opportuni­ties
for growth. FBC has encouraged me to
participate in the indepth study of the Bible
and to use my talents in God's worship and
His service. They have also provided me with
valuable fellowship with other college students, faculty
members, and many other members of the community.
Come get to know us and enjoy the family atmosphere.
UPCOMING DATE Bill Moore
October 24—College Retreat
COME AND MEET our new pastor, Dr. Glenn Turner.
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To Auburn University Faculty and Staff:
"You are always welcome
at the Republican table."
J i —Whit Guerin Republicon Candidate U.S. Congress
"It's imperative everybody who calls himself a friend of
Bill Baxley get a check in."... Frazer advised Lee
County Democrat club members to increase the Auburn
faculty contribution before the general election saying,
"I'd struggle very hard to get Auburn University the
place at Bill Baxley's table it deserves."
—Rod Frazer Democrat, Baxley Finance Chairman
Excerpt from speech to Lee County Democrat Club Monday, August 19, 1986.
Ifs time to get serious.
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If Mozart tried to break into the
lusic publishing business in
America today, he would proba­bly
receive a nice rejection slip
elling him his work was excel-ent,
but not marketable "at this
lime."
Since Bach's time, the conflict
letween art and marketability
las contributed to the words
starving" and "musician" being
nked. But the situation in Amer-a
is worse than Bach's time.
"There can't be more than a
alf-dozen art music composers
the whole United States who
an make their living by compos-g,"
Dr. Robert Greenleaf, asso-iate
music professor, said.
The American market for class-al,
or art music, suffers from a
eputation of being too "high-row"
for the general public. "In
his country," Greenleaf said,
you don't have the tradition of
rt music that you have in
urope."
Despite these conditions, seven
embers of the music depart-ent
have had their work pub-jhed.
Most recently, Julia Mor-an,
associate professor, had two
ieces accepted by the Broadman
ublishing Company.
Mrs. Morgan composed a pre-ude
on hymn tune Diadem and
rranged J. S. Bach's Sheep May
afely Graze for organ duet, a
rly new music form using two
layers at the same organ. Both
ieces were written as solutions
musical "problems" that arose
i Mrs. Morgan's position as
lurch organist at Auburn
ethodist Church.
"For three Sundays following
aster," Mrs. Morgan said, "we
lai
sang a different setting for All
Hail the Power of Jesus' Name
for our opening hymn. I was able
to find preludes on the other two
hymn tunes, but not on Diadem."
Coronation and Miles' Lane
are the other two frequently
played hymn tunes used with the
text of All Hail the Power of
Jesus' Name.
The second problem was the
difficulty of playing Sheep May
Safely Graze, an aria from
Bach's Cantata 208, with only
two hands. "It has been arranged
for solo organ and it's awkward,"
Mrs. Morgan said. "It occurred to
me to see if it would lend itself to
an arrangement for two players. I
went to the library and looked at
the score and as soon as I saw it I
knew it would work."
The prelude is due for 1987 pub­lication
in Pedalpoint, a maga­zine
for church musicians.
Dr. Johnnie Vinson, professor
and associate band director, is
the most published of the seven
with 125 pieces. "Some Auburn
faculty do research," Vinson
said, "I write music."
Most of Vinson's pieces are
arrangements of popular music
for junior high school bands, but
he has had original compositions
published, such as Newcastle
March, and has arranged some
choir pieces.
He wrote an arrangement of
The Star Spangled Banner for
the University Concert Choir.
Some of his latest arrange­ments
for Hal Leonard Publish­ing
Company are There'll Be Sad
Songs, All I Need is a Miracle,
and Heaven , the theme song of
the television program "High­way
to Heaven."
Come With Me to Bethlehem
was composed by Dr. Harold
Kafer, department head. The
piece was written for chorus,
woodwind quintet and narrator.
Kafer wrote the piece in 1974
for a church choir he was direct­ing,
but did not submit it to
Shawnee Publishing Company
until 1979. It was published in
1980, the first music he had ever
submitted for publication.
"Most of my compositions are
instrumental pieces," Dr. Ran­dall
Faust, associate professor,
said. He has published six pieces
and has a "problem keeping up
with all the requests for instru­mental
music."
recorded on the Crystal record
label.
Faust said that if the evening
news spent 10 minutes every
night talking about what is going
on with American composers, as
they do about football, we would
have a very literate music public.
"People are trained to know
about football," Faust said.
"They don't realize that there are
l i v i n g American classical
composers."
"I teach and I play and I write,"
Robert Richardson, director of
jazz studies, said. He has 11 orig­inal
jazz pieces published by
The Musical Offering himself,"
Greenleaf said. "A lot of Mozart
wasn't published, especially his
mature work, because the public
wasn't ready for it yet, or had lost
interest in him."
And just because it is not pub­lished
does not mean it is not per­formed
and respected by the
composer's peers. "I think Dr.
Tamblyn is one of the best musi­cians
in the country. He has an
excellent symphony that has not
been published," Greenleaf said.
Two of his published pieces
were composed at the request of
David Summers, a bass trombo­nist
in the opera house orchestra
in J. F. K. Center for the Perform­ing
Arts in Washington, D. C.
For him, Faust composed Solil­oquies:
Double Concerto for Solo
Tenor Trombone, Solo Bass
Trombone and Trombone Octet
and Sonata for Bass Trombone.
Faust was commissioned by
the National Gallery of Art in
Washington, D. C, to write the
Concerto for Brass Quintet, Per­cussion
and Strings. His Celebra­tion
for Horn and Organ was
Pebblehill Music Publishers and
has written arrangements for
recordings and bands.
Richardson is also the director
of the jazz ensemble and has
written music for them. "If we
needed it for Saturday night, I
wrote it Saturday morning," he
said.
"It's (publishing) sort of like an
actress knocking on doors trying
to get her first job," Sylvia Gos-sett,
instructor, said. "Also it's a
matter of sending it to them at a
time when they're putting
together a catalog and need a
piece like yours."
The Shawnee Press published
Gossett's Jesus is King, a
sacred choral work. All of her
composition has been in the area
of sacred music. "The preoccupa­tion
with pop music in church
disturbs me," she said.
Dr. Thomas Smith, professor
and director of choral activities,
specializes in the arranging and
editing of early music.
Lawson Gould Music Publish­ers
published a collection of early
American pieces Smith edited
called Six Fuging Tunes. They
also published two early Ameri­can
Christmas hymns Smith
edited. "These were mostly done
with the bicentennial in mind,"
Smith said.
Smith composed Seal Us, O
Holy Spirit for solo voice, organ
and flute. Don Riddle arranged it
for chorus, and it was then pub­lished
by Fine Arts Music Press.
Smith's arrangement of Shout
and Sing for mixed choir was
published by Broadman.
Like Faust, Smith also thinks
the general public is not aware
that there are art music compos­ers
in America today. "Two or
three years ago we did a whole
concert of music composed by
local musicians," he said.
Some of the professors talked
about the "publish or perish"
syndrome. "The lack of publica­tion
is not necessarily a comment
on the artistic worth," Kafer said.
History supports Kafer's
statement. "Bach had to publish
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In an attempt to bring melody
jack to opera, music professor
•. Robert Greenleaf is working
"Under the Arbor," a musical
portraying life in the south dur­ing
the 1940s.
This opera is a work of art that
vill "involve the audience and
express the emotions of the char­acters,"
Greenleaf said.
He said that his opera will be
different from other operas of
today, because he utilizes a tradi­tional
tone that evokes a feeling
with the music. However, being
different is not what Greenleaf is
striving for in his musical. "I
want to be good," he said.
The music in many operas of
this century is composed of a lot
of "banging around" and harsh­ness
and added that there are not
many "good melodies" being
produced anymore, according to
Greenleaf.
In "Under the Arbor," the story
centers around 14-year-old Halle­lujah
Jernigan who comes to
Howard, Ala., to spend the
summer with her grandparents,
Papa and Momma Brown. Here,
Hallie rejoins with her black girl­friends,
Annie and Duck while
developing a new friendship with
Robert Lee.
Greenleaf says he is trying to
portray something more funda­mental
about the south during
that time. The opera will focus on
how a white family reluctantly
sticks with a black family during
a crisis.
"Under the Arbor" is based on
a short story written by Marion
Motley Carache, an Auburn Eng­lish
professor. The story would
"appeal to southerners in gen­eral,"
Greenleaf said. He said
that all southerners can relate to
these characters.
Greenleaf said it will probably
be 1988 before the piece can actu­ally
be performed.
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Book sales down because of high prices
By Kimberlee Allen
Staff Writer
I t ' s finally here again—,
football games, fraternity par­ties,
pep rallies, and, yes, classes
and books.
Books. Where dp the bookstores
get their prices? How do they
regulate the re-sale value of a
book? What is considered the
largest re-sale book? These are
just some of the common ques­tions
students ask when buying
books.
Elmo Prater of the University
Book Store says that book sales
may be down. Why, with enroll­ment
up again this year?
There are at least two good rea­sons.
One is that book prices are
on the increase and have been for
several years. Many students,
even with government help, are
having trouble paying the prices
asked for textbooks. However,
don't blame the bookstores.
Ronnie Anders, of Ander's,
Book Store, says, "We don't set
the prices for our books—the pub­lishers
take care of that for us."
The same response was heard
from J&M and University Book
Stores.
Another reason book sales may
be down, according to Prater, is
that "many students are trying to
get through school without buy­ing
as many books." Students do
this for many reasons, but a
major one is the high price of the
textbooks. One student said,
"Why pay a lot of money for
books when you can make it
through some classes without
them? I never take them to class
anyway."
Buying used textbooks and not
new ones will save the thrifty
student a few dollars. According
to Prater, the University Book
Store sells its used books for
three-fourths of the new book
price.
Just for curiosity, what are the
most expensive books a student
can buy?
Well, if you're in pharmacy or
architecture you can pay from
$35 to $90 for a text. Physics can
also be an expensive major with
$65 books.
The increased prices of books
have also made them a hot target
for thieves. Book stealing has
become a profitable business. Not
only do the thieves save money
by not buying books, they make a
profit by re-selling the stolen
books.
One way to prevent this is to
make the book identifiable so the
thieves cannot sell it. The easiest
way to prevent having a book
stolen is to leave it at home unless
it is needed. "The problem is so
bad," says Anders, "because
nobody will make an effort to
stop it."
If you do pay these prices for a
book and it doesn't get stolen,
what will the re-sale value be
after you are finished with it?
How much will you end up really
paying?
Trey Johnston, of J&M book
store said "If the book is used
here, we'll basically give you one-half
the price of a new book if it is
in good condition. I don't want
damaged books on my shelves."
The other bookstores also said
that one-half of the new book
price is the going rate on used
textbooks, provided they are in
good condition.
So, what are the best books to
re-sell? "Well," says Mr. Anders,
"of course they're the freshman
and sophomore texts. Most upper
classmen courses are very spe­cialized
and sometimes the stu­dent
doesn't want to re-sell
them."
Sometimes, however, book­stores
do give students a break by
running specials on their discon­tinued
texts. "Publishers change
editions about every two years
and we sell the old books for a few
dollars each," commented Prater.
"These old editions are a good
way to build reference material."
Faculty can charge travel
Faculty and staff whose work
involves travel will benefit from a
new corporate card contract
approved in the latest meeting of
the Board of Trustees.
Auburn has joined the Ameri­can
Express Travel Related Ser­vices
Company's Corporate Card
System as a means of paying for
airfare and other official travel
expenses.
The card works this way: When
a faculty or staff member needs to
travel, he or she can charge the
airline tickets, motel bills or other
related expenses to the card.
At month's end, he or she is
billed. Meanwhile, the employee
has had time to fill out appro­priate
paperwork to have the,
travel expenses refunded.
"The card, which is issued to
the University employee at no
cost, keeps the charges from
going on the employee's personal
credit card," James McDonough,
associate vice president for Busi­ness
and Finance, said.
"It enables faculty and staff to
keep their personal bills sepa-<
rated from business related costs.
As well, it keeps those who don't
have an American Express Card
from having to pay the annual
fee."
McDonough said the new sys­tem
will provide for more orderly
cash flow in the University.
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Hood retires from Agriculture
Dr. Joseph T. Hood has already
taught two generations of stu­dents
in the University's College
of Agriculture.
Though his Oct. 1 retirement
will officially end his distin­guished
career at Auburn, he will
continue to teach a course in gen­eral
soils, so don't bet against
him one day teaching a third
generation of Tigers.
Not only has Hood, who is a
professor in the Agronomy and
Soils Department, taught long,
he has taught well. He is consid­ered
by his peers to be the quin­tessential
teacher.
His former students read like a
listing of Who's Who, including
President James E. Martin and
Acting Dean of the College of
Agriculture Richard Guthrie.
"When I was an undergraduate
student at Auburn," Guthrie said,
"Joe Hood was considered to be
an excellent teacher—the man to
go to on questions concerning the
soil. In talking with students
today, they say the same things
about him now. To have main­tained
such a high level of stu­dent
recognition for such a long
period of time is truly out­standing."
Throughout his career Hood
has chosen to serve instead of to
lead, though when called upon to
hold important leadership posi­tions
on an interim basis, he has
done so with distinction.
He served as acting assistant
dean in 1980-81. He has served
two interim stints as acting
department head in the Agron­omy
and Soils Department, being
responsible not only for teaching,
but the department's research
program in the Alabama Agri­cultural
Experiment Station once
from 1982-83 and again since
1985.
He has assisted four genera­tions
of deans and directors of
the Alabama Agricultural Exper­iment
Station.
Hood is the only faculty
member in the Department of
Agronomy and Soils to hold a full
time teaching appointment, a
singular distinction for him since
joining the faculty in 1949.
His honors include: Most Out­standing
Teacher in the College
of Agriculture in 1981 and 1983;
Outstanding Teacher in the
Agronomy and Soils Department
in 1979 and 1981; the first Out­standing
Teacher Certificate
from the University Agricultural
Alumni Association; Alpha
Gamma Rho Outstanding
Teacher Award; ODK Outstand­ing
Teacher Award; chairman of
the University Senate and later
of the general faculty at Auburn;
President of the Auburn chapters
of Sigma Xi and Gamma Sigma
Delta honoraries; and he is a Fel­low
of the American Society of
Agronomy.
A native of Commerce, Ga.,
Hood earned a bachelor's degree
in soil science from the Univer­sity
of Georgia. He also holds a
master's from Purdue University
and a doctorate from Cornell
University. His legacy at Auburn
includes more than 8,000 under­graduates
and 100 graduate stu­dents
who have studied under
him.
Though assigned full time
teaching responsibilities, Hood
has made significant researh
contributions to the Alabama
Agricultural Experiment Station
in the area of fertilizer applica­tions
and the effects and use of
ammonium phosphate fertilizers.
Among Hood's students are
sons and daughters of students
from an earlier generation. This
living legacy, he maintains, is his
highest professional achieve­ment.
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