1989-04-13 The Auburn Plainsman

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'To foster the Auburn Spirit'
* Volume 95, Number 21, 32 pages Thursday, April 13,1989 Auburn University, Ala.
* NewsBriefs
Local
Last Thursday, close to
8,000 editions of The Plains­man
were stolen from several
sites around campus includ­ing
Haley Center, Parker Hall,
Thach Hall and Tichenor Hall.
That evening, around 9:30,
^ the papers were returned to
the recycling bin on the Haley
Center concourse.
t The papers stolen equaled
about half of the total number
of papers printed and dis­tributed
around campus.
, State
Some of the highest levels of
Dioxln have been found in the
* state of Alabama, according to
information from the Enviro-mental
Protection Agency that
• was released by Greenpeace
International.
The Dioxin, which was pro­duced
by two paper mills In
the state is one of the
strongest cancer-causing
chemicals that exists.
. Nation
The Mexican government
has taken into custody the
* country's top cocaine-traffick­ing
figure, 80 policemen from
his home base and several
, other law officials.
A three-month investigation
led to Saturday night's arrest
. of Miguel Angel Felix Gallardo,
43. U.S. officials named him
as head of an international
ring responsible for shipping
• two tons of cocaine into the
United States monthly.
World
The money Oliver North
used to pay for a car came
from a $15,000 family cache
. in a metal box not from the
Iran-Contra cash fund. North
said at his trial Monday.
The approximately $250,000
disbursed from the Iran-Con-tra
fund was recorded, to the
penny, in a spiral-bound note­book.
North said.
The notebook is no longer
available because North said
he destroyed it.
Weather
Today's weather should
bring increasing cloudiness
with a chance of showers and
thundershowers tonight and
tomorrow. Saturday should
bring partly cloudy skies for
the remainder of the weekend.
Highs will be around 70 and
the lows near 50.
North Florida: It looks like
more bad news. The beaches
will be cool with highs in near
70 and a chance of showers
on Friday. Weather for the rest
of the weekend should be
partly cloudy.
Index
Arts & Entertainment B-3
Auburn Weekend B-4
Bloom County. B-7
Campus Calendar. A-2
Classifieds A-8,9
Crime Report A-2
Extra! „ B-1
Letters A-11
Opinion A-10
Sports C-1
Senate leaders ask Smith to resign
By Vicki Vessels
News Editor
Faculty Senate chairman-elect,
Dr. Miller Solomon, has
recommended that Alumni
Association Director Jerry
Smith resign to save the Univer­sity
any further embarrassment.
'The person who is executive
director of the Alumni Associa­tion,
and thus coordinator of
fundraising for academics and
athletics, must be ethically
above suspicion," Solomon said.
"Repeated actions by Mr.
KAPsi gets
probation
for hazing
By David Sharp
Editor
The IFC Court placed Kappa
Alpha Psi fraternity on a one-year
disciplinary probation last
Monday for hazing incidents
last fall quarter, according to
IFC President David Chapman.
"The ruling is targeted to
encourage Kappa Alpha Psi to
re-evaluate their pledge pro­gram
and to eliminate any ele­ments
of hazing," Chapman
said.
However, Kappa Alpha Psi
President John Ivery, 04 AMN,
said the allegations are false
and that the hearing was unfair
because the fraternity was not
represented.
"I say the decision was unfair
because we were not there to
defend ourselves," he said. "We
didn't receive proper notifica­tion."
Kappa Alpha Psi may appeal
the ruling to the University's
Committee on Fraternities and
Sororities, which is composed of
See KAPPA, page A-8
Smith have compromised that
public confidence necessary to
cany out those duties."
Smith released a statement
Wednesday answering the
charges presented by Solomon
and echoed by the present
chairman of the Senate, Dr. Ben
Fitzpatrick
"While I am aware that two
members of the Auburn faculty,
as well as some state newspa­pers,
have called for my resigna­tion,
I have absolutely no inten­tion
of abandoning what I feel to
be right in this case by resign­ing,"
the statement said.
"It Is not surprising to hear
this demand from Dr. Ben Fitz­patrick,
since he circulated a
very unfair letter about me and
appeared voluntarily as a wit­ness
before the Alabama Ethics
Commission along with three
disgruntled employees of the
Alumni Association.
"I work neither at the pleasure
of Dr. Fitzpatrick or Dr.
Solomon nor certain members
of the press. None of the three
people to whom I have acknowl­edged
complete accountability -
President Martin, Batey Gre-sham
or Gilmer Blackburn -
have asked me to consider
resigning.
"Unless they do, I intend to
stay and do the job I was hired
to do, which is to run the Alum­ni
and Development office to the
best of my ability.
"Despite the negative publicity
I have received in recent weeks,
fully 95 percent of those alumni
and friends who have contacted
me have expressed their sup­port,
the great majority of Auburn
alumni, donors and friends is
best illustrated by the fact that
private support of Auburn Uni­versity
is up 14 percent over the
same period last year, while
Alumni Association dues are up
13 percent.
"Although certain members of
the press have suggested other­wise
without quoting their
sources, there has certainly
been no Indication that the
ongoing discussion of these
matters in the media has hurt
See SMITH, page A-8
Sigh... Staff pholo by Cliff Oliver
"Charcoal," also called "War Pug," takes a rest on her master's
shoulder at an Auburn tennis match last Saturday. The dog's owner
is Carol Black, wife of industrial engineering professor J.T. Black.
Senate delays
GSO decision
More time needed to study bill
By Becky Jeffers
Assistant News Editor
The Student Senate tabled a
bill Monday night which would
have established guidelines for
cooperation between the SGA
and the Graduate Student
Organization (GSO).
Approval of the articles of
cooperation were unanimously
postponed until next week's
meeting to make sure it could
comply with the Finance Law of
the student Code of Laws, and
so senators who had not seen
the bill before could review it
further.
"Before it passes, it needs to
comply with the law," said Bud­get
and Finance (B&F) Commit­tee
Chairman Tripp Haston, 03
LHY.
But GSO representatives were
not pleased with the postpone­ment.
"Of course we're disappoint­ed,"
said GSO President Bill
Revington, 09 PH. "I have to say
I am surprised that the SGA
Senate was not a little more up
to speed with the current status
of the relations between the
organizations."
SGA President Cindy Holland,
04 PRJ, defended the Senate's'
decision to review the bill fur­ther.
"I think the decision (to post­pone)
was very much in order.
The bill contains such a big
change, everyone needs to
understand it," Holland saidr-
The need for an outline of the
relationship between the GSO
and the SGA began about three
years ago when graduate stu­dents
expressed dissatisfaction
with their representation on
campus and wanted to separate
from the SGA
Discussion of the bill centered
around the proposal for funding
the GSO with an allotment
equal to 10 percent of the previ­ous
year's allocation to the SGA
"Right now there is no law
that allows this special provi­sion,"
Haston said. "It's a picky;
thing, but (the Finance Law) has1
to be amended to be correct."
See SGA, page A-8
Speaker says clouds cover Iran- Contra study
By Sarah Hicks
Staff Writer
An immense cloud might still
surround the Iran-Contra affair
for the majority of the American
people, but speaker John D.
Saxon may have enlightened
Auburn University students and
faculty Tuesday.
Saxon, former staff director of
the U.S. Senate's Iran-Contra
committee, spoke in Haley Cen­ter
on "Oliver North And The
Verdict of History."
Saxon, now special counsel to
the Senate Armed Services com­mittee,
touched on inherent
questions and problems with
the investigation, especially the
reasoning behind the initial
investigation and the lessons to
be learned from the affair.
"The whole situation was
close-holed and no notes," he
said. "People who should have
been in on the decision making
were not, and those that were
didn't write anything down to
keep any evidence."
What was left for the investi­gating
party was a cloud of
innuendoes and a lack of con­crete
evidence, Saxon said.
"It was difficult to reconstruct
the situation when individuals
went to any extreme to keep the
operation secret," he said.
Accountability, especially for
higher ranking officials, was one
of the important principles vio­lated,
he said.
"Covert operations are neces­sary
in the world we live in, but
they have to be legal, and they
have to be accountable," he
said.
The underlying reason for the
investigation was Congress'
opposition to the selling of arms
to Iran and concern about the
diversion of the funds, Saxon
said.
"We were sending lethal arms
to a virtual powder keg," he
said. 'We were hypocrites in the
eyes of our allies because we
were aiding one side when we
had claimed neutrality."
Saxon ended his presentation
with a heated question-and-answer
period that raised the
ethical question of whether the
investigation was handled in an
unbiased manner.
'We were not out to get any­one.
We were out to find the
facts," he said.
Staff photo by Chris McCalla
Saxon speaks in Foy
1917 grad shares memories
Students looked at Auburn differently then, he says
By Michelle Marek
Assistant News Editor
Photo courtesy of University Archives
'Happy' Askew displays lighter side of personality
Once upon a time. Auburn
was a typical one-horse, country
town. Few houses had water,
and there was a heat generator
near Langdon Hall.
During this time, the approxi­mately
814 students wore uni­forms,
and only three of these
students owned cars.
Although this may sound like
a fairy tale to today's hassled
Auburn student searching for a
parking space or pushing his
way through crowded halls, this
was Auburn In 1917, according
to William 'Little Happy' Askew,
a graduate of the class of 1917.
'We were all country boys. We
didn't have much, and we didn't
expect much," Askew said. 'We
just needed an education.
"There was one boy from
Macon who had a car, and he
was the most popular boy.
Because of the deep ruts in the
road, we usually had to push it
up a hill Just to get a ride In it."
Although Askew, 90. is blind
and bedridden ,he clearly
remembers his life at Auburn
more than 70 years ago - the
good times as well as the hard­ships.
Because the students had to
wear their uniforms all the time
- even when playing sports -
they frequently received new
uniforms. One boy, however,
kept the same uniform for the
four years he was at Auburn,
Askew said.
"He carried a pillow wherever
he went so he could sit on that
and keep his uniform clean," he
said.
Most of the students didn't
come to Auburn with much
money. Askew said his parents
sent him $25 a month, and his
expenses came to $22.50 a
month, Including his room and
meals.
"I never smoked or did any­thing
to spend money," he said.
'We didn't have much money."
See ASKEW, page A-8
A-2 (Ebe&iburnPlainsman Thursday, April 13,1989"
NewsWeek
Local
Mud lot to be payed, striped
Construction is set next week on the North Coliseum Park­ing
lot commonly referred to as the mud lot. The construction
includes paving, lighting and landscaping which will be striped
and zoned for 344 students.
The lot construction should take close to ninety days and
the physical plant recommends that students who normally park
in this lot to use the RV Lot at the Intramural Field House.
The construction should increase the number of cars that
can park in the lot by up to 150 spaces and will cost about
$415,000.
State
State budgets may get final approval
Both the general and education budgets should be given final
approval this week, according to state legislative leaders.
A $730 million General Fund budget for the fiscal year that
begins Oct. 1 was approved by the House Ways and Means Com­mittee
on Tuesday, while the $2.4 billion education budget will
probably go to the House floor for approval today.
Nation
New administration plans drug attack
The Bush administration plans to spend at least $70 million to
fight drugs in the nation's capital, William J. Bennett, director of
the national drug control policy office, said.
The plan includes expansion of a local law enforcement task
force, an effort to remove drug users and dealers from public
housing and an expansion of drug-treatment facilities.
Last year, Washington D.C. led the nation with 372 slayings,
most of which were drug related.
World
Foreign minister visits Soviet Georgia
Soviet Foreign Minister Eduard A. Shevardnadze visited the
Soviet Republic of Georgia Tuesday in an effort to make peace
after recent clashes between nationalist demonstrators and gov­ernment
troops.
Shevardnadze announced a rise in the death toll from the
unrest to 18 with the death of two more women while troops and
tanks patrolled the streets of Tbilisi, the Georgian capital. Pick-eters
disrupted transportation in the area.
Rebels under control in Haiti
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Lt, Gov. Prosper. Avril-announced Monday that the last of the
rebels fighting to overthrow the Haitian government for a week
have been brought under control.
Avril is not ready to call it quits on the army rebellion, he said
at a news conference.
Avril said all but 12 of the more than 400 members of a rebel
unit called the Leopard Corps, reported for military formation
Tuesday morning to accept the orders of a major who has been
named acting commander.
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NASA establishes data link to Auburn
By Kim Johnson
Staff Writer
Hie University has been cho­sen
by the National Aeronautics
and Space Administration to
participate in a pilot program to
establish a direct data link from
NASA to Auburn faculty and
students.
The program, called the
NASA/University Joint Venture
(JOVE) Initiative, was developed
for Auburn by Rick Chappell of
NASA and Dr. Joe Perez, head of
the physics department.
'The project is structured so
our faculty will teach class
while doing research with
NASA," Perez said.
JOVE will begin this summer
and will continue for three
years. "Right now, the program
is in its beginning stages," Perez
said. "NASA has selected three
universities to begin the pro­gram
and will add six colleges
each year."
"After the pilot program is
defined, we will work with other
colleges in the state to help
them devise a program," he
said.
Under the JOVE Initiative,
students and faculty will receive
and interpret data from such
NASA missions as the Dynamics-
Explorer I, which measures Ion;
movement in the atmosphere,
he said.
By participating in the p r o -'
gram, Auburn will broaden its
space research, enable its stu-dents
to participate in other J
NASA projects and encourage B
students to pursue space-relat- _
ed careers, Perez said. .
CampusCalendar
ANNOUNCEMENTS
Student Recruiter Applica­tions
are now available at
Cater Hall and Foy Union
Desk. Orientation will be held
in Foy 202 on April 26 at 4
p.m. Applications are due no
later than April 28 at 4 p.m.
Phi Delta Theta will hold its
4th annual road race for cere­bral
palsy Saturday, April 22
at 11 a.m. Over $500 in cash
prizes will be given away. Reg­istration
on concourse April
17-21.
Student Development Ser­vices
will offer the following
free seminars: "Improve Your
Speech and Enhance Your
Career," Thursday, April 13,
3:30-4:30 p.m. in Foy 205;
"Career Choice - Explore Your
Alternatives and Take Career
Interest Inventories," Monday,"
April 17, 3-4 p.m. In Martin
Hall 304; and "Test-taking
Power," Tuesday, April 18,
3:30-4:30 p.m. in Foy 205. For
more information, call 844-
4744.
Fine Arts Week April 17-21.
Events occur at noon at Dud­ley
or Biggin Halls. Events are
sponsored by the Fine Arts
Council and the Schools of
Architecture and the Fine
Arts.
Fine Arts Week-Beaux Arts
Ball Friday, April 21 from 8-12
p.m. at the National Guard
Armory, Dean Road. Bands
will be Factory 12, Bas Clas
and The Coolies. Tickets are
$6 in advance or $8 at the
door. Costume or formal wear
is mandatory.
The Speech and Hearing
Clinic is having free speech-language
or hearing screen­ings
Monday, April 17 from 2-
4 p.m. in Haley 1199. No
appointment is necessary. All
children must be accompanied
by parents.
Women's Studies Series
will sponsor Adriane LaPolnte
of the English Department
who will speak on "Sexist Lan­guage
in the Teaching of Writ­ing,"
Thursday, April 13 at 12
p.m. in Haley 2046.
Auburn Chapter of Cardi­nal
Key National Honor Soci­ety,
a campus-wide junior
honor society, is now accept­ing
applications. Applications
are available at Foy Union
desk and are due by April 14.
Pi Delta Phi, the French
honor society, invites applica­tions
from interested students.
Contact Dr. Pendergrass in the
foreign languages department.
The banquet is at Aubie's on
Thursday, April 27 at 6:30
p.m.
Alpha Xi Delta will hold
Men of Auburn Calendar try-outs
April 17-21 from 11-4
p.m. in Dorm 3. There is a $5
sitting fee, and tryout pictures
will be returned.
MEETINGS
Circle K will meet Wednes­day,
April 19 at 6:30 p.m. in
Foy 204. Use your spare time
helping others in our commu­nity.
Environmental Awareness
Organization will meet today
at 7 p.m. in Cary 136. Frank
Scully will speak about the
city recycling program.
American Production and
Inventory Control Society
will hold its Spring Jamboree
Friday, April 14 in Foy 213.
Speaking times for "Strategies
for Success in the '90s" are
9:20 a.m., 10:10 a.m.. 11:10
a.m., 1:10 p.m. and 2:10 p.m.
Marine Biological Society
will meet Monday, April 17 at
7:30 p.m. in Cary 136. All
members are encouraged to
attend this very important
organizational meeting.
Auburn Sailing Club meets
every Tuesday at 6 p.m. in Foy
321. Sailing lessons are given
regularly. For more informa­tion,
join us at the meeting.
Auburn Students of Objec­t
i v i sm will hold a special
meeting tonight. Call 844-
2913 or 821-5925 for details.
Ask for John.
Amnesty I n t e r n a t i o n al
meets every Wednesday at
7:30 p.m. in Haley 2224. Join
us at the meeting for more
information.
Diamond Dolls will meet
today at 7 p.m. in the athletic
department lobby.
Lee County AIDS Outreach
will meet Wednesday, April 19
at 7 p.m. at EAMC. Dr. Gary
Noble, deputy director for
AIDS at the Center for Disease
Control in Atlanta, will be the
speaker.
American Society for Per­sonnel
Administrators will
meet Tuesday, April 18 at 7
p.m. Room number will be
announced. There will be a
guest speaker. New members
are welcome.
French Conversation Club
meets every Thursday at 7
p.m. Meetings are at Denaro's,
and everyone is invited.
War Eagle Flying Team will
meet Monday, April 17 at 7
p.m. in Wilmore Labs 155.
Anyone interested in aviation
and would like to join the
team is invited to attend.
AU Sport Parachute Club
meets Thursdays at 7 p.m. in
Foy. For more information,
call 749-5531.
Habitat for Humanity will
meet Monday, April 17 at 5
p.m. in Foy 202.
Alpha Kappa Psi, profes­sional
business fraternity, will
meet today at 7 p.m. in Foy
208.
4 / 6 - A wallet was reported­ly
stolen from the lobby of
Dorm 4.
4 / 7 - A traffic accident on
the corner of Wire Road and
Highway 267 at 2:20 pm. Two
occupants of the cars were
taken to EAMC.
4 / 8 - The passenger win­dow
of a vehicle was broken
out by a cue ball at 2:32 p.m.
in the Sigma Nu parking lot.
- An Investigation is In pro­cess
for the theft of a book bag
containing a calculator, a
checkbook and three books.
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4 / 9 - A subject reported
that her $150 bicycle had
been destroyed in a rack in
the Nichols lot at 7 p.m.
4/10 - A bicycle parked at
Parker was reportedly stolen
at noon. The bike, valued at
$450, was not secured to the
rack.
- A pedestrian was trans­ported
to EAMC about 2 p.m.
after being hit by a car at the
corner of Donahue Drive and
Dorm Drive.
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Thursday, April 13,1989 Qlhe^luburnPlainsntan A-3
Disasters destroy
homes, not lives
By Becky Jeffers
Assistant News Editor
Contrary to popular belief,
disaster victims do not r un
around naked in search of food
and belongings, according to Dr.
Charles Faupel, sociology pro­fessor.
I These ideas that such victims
are left destitute and panicked
are two of the common miscon-c'eptions
people have about
emergencies, he said. A third
misunderstanding is that shock
experienced after emergencies
makes actions by the victims
impossible.
? 'They're not running around
fji a state of shock not knowing
what to do," he said. Instead,
victims tend to draw together to
support each other and to con­duct
rescue operations.
J Faupel refers to this strong
sense of others as an altruistic
dommunity. "The good of the
community is paramount," he
said. "People who would have
otherwise be stealing from
neighbors are pulling together
with them."
; People from other areas see
disaster victims as needy and
<)ften donate items they think
Victims need. The belief is that
Survivors have nothing but the
(Slothes on their back, however.
well-intended donations like
winter coats are not usually
needed in the South, he said.
Victims are usually not left
without food or shelter, either,
because businesses often give
away perishable produce and
meats, he said. "One Arkansas
man said he ate better than
ever" after a tornado hit his
area, Faupel said.
What Is really needed Is
money, Faupel said. Donations
can be sent to organizations like
the Red Cross which can dis­tribute
the funds appropriately.
The second misconception
that disaster victims panic is
also incorrect, he said.
Panic is defined as competi­tive
flight behavior during which
people run all over each other to
escape disaster, but in the case
of natural disasters this defini­tion
does not apply because
there are all kinds of escape
routes, Faupel said. "Panic
actually occurs when escape
routes are available but rapidly
closing," he said.
Widespread panic is so
expected that survivors often
comment about how calm every­one
acted after the disaster,
feeling that they responded in a
special way, Faupel said.
The biggest problem at times
of natural disasters is getting
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people to evacuate. "There's sort
of a fierce defiance that "we can
fight this one,' " he said.
Faupel accredits the news and
fiction media with helping to
spread the panic misconception.
Movies portray widespread,
uncontrollable panic in their
devastating scenes, he said.
Emergency officials also buy
into the panic idea. 'They are
hesitant to put out warnings
because they worry people will
panic," he said, adding that
some disaster manuals also dis­courage
warnings in the event
that they may be premature.
One of the reasons people
refuse to leave in the event of
bad weather is because people
believe that looting and crime
are rampant, a third misconcep-tion
of disaster situations, Fau­pel
said.
This misconception is also
based partly on accounts by the
media, which reports looting as
an expected result of disaster.
However, people sifting
through rubble may appear to
be thieving but probably are
not 'When devastation occurs,
people are looking for their
homes, and other people think
they are looting," he said.
"Things may be missing
because people may have come
home thinking the things were
theirs," he said.
Survival can increase as more
people realize that widespread
looting does not occur. "Know­ing
that can put people's minds
to rest," he said.
See STORM, page A-8
Auburn residents living in
trailers should find alternate
shelter during severe weather,
police say.
"The best thing to do is get
out of there," said Auburn soci­ology
professor Charles Faupel.
"High winds will throw those
things around like matchboxes."
Auburn Police Chief Steve
Woodall agrees. "A trailer Just
doesn't have the structural sup­port
for severe weather," he
said. "House trailers are more
susceptible to damage because
of the lightweight construction."
Trailer residents can find pro­tection
elsewhere such as relief
shelters, the basement of a
friend's home or even a nearby
ditch, Woodall said.
Faupel also recommends
purchasing a tone-alert that
receives radio signals from
emergency management direc­tors
at the sight of a tornado. "If
one (a tornado) would happen at
night, the radio would wake you
up," he said.
Trailers are not designed for
hard weather even when
secured by metal bans over the
top of the trailer and fastened
with anchors into the ground,
Woodall said.
The bans do not provide com­plete
security because they are
only placed at the end of the
trailer, not the middle, he said.
In addition, trailers are also
dangerous because they sit off
the ground on cinder blocks
which allow room for air to
sweep under and flip the struc­tures
over, he said.
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Life meets
Choice for
hot debate
By Vickl Vessels
News Editor
On their way to Washington
D.C., Pro-Choice activist Bill
Baird and Pro-Life activist Joe
Scheidler stopped in Auburn to
debate the abortion issue in Foy
Ballroom April 5.
Differing on the emphasis of
rights, Baird argued against
forced morality while Scheidler
argued for the fetus' cause.
"It has been necessary to sep­arate
the idea of abortion from
the idea of killing," Scheidler
said. "The result has been a
curious avoidance of the blind­ing
fact, which everyone knows;
that human life begins at con­ception
and continues until
death.
"It is only through a kind of
semantic gymnastics that peo­ple
can be fooled into believing
that abortion is not the unjust
taking of life."
Baird argues a different view
of conception and the religious
opinion. But Baird, who is a
Unitarian, does not believe the
soul enters at conception.
"My faith supports abortion -
so does the Methodist church;
so does the Protestant Council
of Churches; so does the
Church of Christ," Baird said.
"Are all of these people bad peo­ple?
Are all of these murderers
and evil killers?
"I think you'll find that most
of them are as decent as Joe
and anyone else on his side
think they are, but we see it dif­ferently.
The group that Joe
belongs to is referred to as
Christians. They're not Chris­tians.
They're bigots who dare to
think they have a right to block­ade
a door because their god is
better than my god or somebody
else's god.
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NOW leads rally in Capitol»
By Jill Waldhour
Staff Writer
Staff photo by Cliff Oliver
Pro-choice Baird (I) debates topic with anti-abortionist Scheidler
Staff photo by Cliff Oliver
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"Who appointed them as the
guardians of morality for other
religions?"
Scheidler, who is Catholic and
father of seven, primarily bases
his points on religion. The Com­mandment,
"Thou shalt not
kill," is not an arbitration, he
said.
Scheidler said he is disap­pointed
in the turn of society
and feels Baird is somewhat
responsible.
"We had five major venereal
diseases about 20 years ago. We
have 50 today," Scheidler said.
"We have incurable diseases
because of this magnificent sex­ual
revolution. What has it
brought us but anguish and
suffering and teenage suicide?
"Because of the loss of
responsibility and respect, our
society is groveling on the bot­tom
of the bucket today."
Another of Scheidler's prob­lems
is with birth control, which
he considers "disgusting."
An audience member ques­tioned
him about how he justi­fies
bringing more unwanted
children into the world while so
many already exist in orphan­ages.
He was also asked what
the Pro-Lifers are prepared to do
to help all these and future
unwanted children if the Roe vs.
Wade decision is overturned.
"As Mother Theresa said, 'If
you don't want your children,
you can give them to me.' I'll
lake any children you have to
murder just to solve your prob­lems.
"The orphanages are empty.
There are 10 million childless
couples looking for a baby, but
they can't find them because we
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The majority of the audience
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went back and forth in their
support of each side, but did
disagree with each speaker at
one point or another.
"There's a war going on,"
Baird said. "You are right in the
middle of a revolution."
In support of the Pro-Cholce
demonstration In Washington
D.C. Sunday, the Montgomery
chapter of the National Organi­zation
of Women (NOW) led a
march and rally April 9 at the
state Capitol.
The march started at 2 p.m.
at Crampton Bowl, stopped at
the steps of the Capitol building
and ended with a rally at the
Dexture Avenue King Memorial
Baptist Church, where Martin
Luther King Jr. led a march for
Equal Rights. The participants
paraded down Madison and
Dexture Avenues chanting, "We
vote - Pro-Cholce."
A small number of Pro-Life
supporters were present at the
steps of the Capitol handing out
pamphlets on the moral issue of
abortion. No attempts were
made to stop the march.
A speaker for NOW, J u ne
Ayers, said she was pleased to
see such commitment by so
many Pro-Cholce supporters.
Despite the rain, approximately
75 people participated in the
Montgomery march. .
In the United States, 21 mil­lion
women have had abortions,
Ayers said. A decision to over­turn
Roe vs. Wade may "force
women to go back to under­ground
butchers," she said.
Referring to her mother's situ­ation
with her unplanned preg­nancy
and having to give her
child up for adoption, another
speaker, Paola Maranan, said, "I
march for her...for the choices
she didn't have."
The Montgomery chapter of
NOW spoke of the regional
beliefs Pro-Life supporters are
Christians while Pro-Choicer
supporters are not. Although
abortion is a religious issue,
this stereotyping Is false,
according to NOW who sees
"anti-abortion laws as a viola­tion
of religious liberty."
Students from Auburn's main
campus who attended the rally-are
in the process of forming a
NOW chapter at Auburn.
The Supreme Court will meet
later this month for a decision
on Roe vs. Wade. If the case is
overturned, the issue of abor­tion
and Its legality will be given
to the states to decide, accord­ing
to NOW speakers.
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I Thursday, April 13,1989 CHheiubumPlamsmaii A-5
Health resources scarce for handling suicides
By Leln Shory
Staff Writer
Although suicide Is the third
leading cause of death among
college students, little help Is
available for Auburn students
considering suicide, according
to Auburn Psychology Professor
Barry Burkhart.
"Mental health resources here
are very scarce," Burkhart said.
"There's a counseling center
that has a short-term interven­tion
program, but they don't see
suicidal clients.
"I think that's a serious mis­take,
because what that does is
further cut suicidal people off
from their natural environment,
and one of the things we know
is that isolation, loneliness and
withdrawal are the contexts that
increase suicidal behavior."
Burkhart conducted a case
study entitled "Where Were You
In September?" which deals pri­marily
with a series of suicides
and suicide attempts at Andalu­sia
high schools In 1986.
Burkhart led a team of 30
people from the psychology
department at Auburn with a
planned intervention program,
and spoke to every student and
teacher at the school, as well as
many of the parents.
The team spoke to the stu­dents
in groups and found them
more than willing to talk.
"It was just like opening the
flood gates," he said. "These
kids were primed to talk. They
needed to talk. And as they
talked you could just see the
tension levels decrease."
After talking to the students,
the team met with all the teach­ers,
helping teachers continue
this process. ,
'Teachers don't get trained to
deal with this, and the whole
idea is so frightening that it par­alyzes
people. All we tried to do
was help them use their natural
skills as teachers and helpers,"
Burkhart said.
The title of the study came
from a student who thought the
program had been helpful for
his friends and himself, he said.
"The only thing he could think
of was where were we in
September, before the two sui­cides
and suicide attempts.
That has become for me a rally­ing
cry to get education and
schools sensitive to this issue.
It's not going to go away if you
hide your head in the sand," he
said.
Burkhart said he believes his
study can be used as a model
but because suicide is a rela­tively
rare event, it's difficult to
statistically prove that there
really is an association between
suicides.
'...in a survey of Auburn students,
about 15 percent of them will have
current suicidal thoughts.'
-Barry Burkhart
for other schools and communi­ties
who need to cope with the
problem of suicide.
"After doing this at a couple
of other schools, I think It would
be a good service to the schools
for the. state departments of
Education and Mental Health to
get together and form a crisis
response team that would help
schools do some general preven­tion
and also be prepared to
address crisis situations,"
Burkhart said.
It's not unusual for a school
to experience several suicides at
once. Burkhart said. There
appears to be "contagion effect,"
"My own notion is. in a survey
of Auburn students, about 15
percent of them will have cur­rent
suicidal thoughts." The
thoughts are fairly common,
Burkhart said.
"Usually these thoughts will
prompt support seeking. It
doesn't necessarily lead to suici­dal
behavior," he said. And if a
person has these support sys­tems,
then these thoughts will
usually go away, he said.
There's a threshold that a per­son
must cross before his
thoughts of suicide turn Into
actual suicidal behavior, and
when a suicide occurs, that
threshold is reduced, Burkhart
said.
"My guess is that the normal
Inhibitory mechanisms are neu­tralized
by someone else having
committed suicide," he said.
There's simply a tendency In
human behavior for it to follow
examples.
"For some people, especially
those whose threshold may be
low, or who are experiencing a
great deal of stress, they go over
the threshold. And If you just let
that happen, it can feed on
itself, and you can have several
suicides, more than Just one or
two."
Burkhart's team designed an
intervention to try to reduce the
stress in schools by addressing
the emotional processes such as
helping the students express
their feelings in an open way.
Burkhart said.
"It's interesting to me that
there is this enormous resis­tance
to talking about things
like suicide, or death or sex,"
Burkhart said. 'To me it's so
strange because what you're
saying Is that ignorance is bet­ter
than knowledge. It's fear of
the unknown."
Drugs are a big problem In
suicide, Burkhart said. "Kids
who use drugs as a coping
mechanism, as an escape, are
particularly susceptible. Drugs
don't make kids kill themselves,
but they do keep kids from
being able to engage in con­structive
ways of dealing with
their problems."
Acid rain could increase tree growth
By Kayla Bradford
Staff Writer
High levels of acid rain
increase the growth of our trees,
according to a study by the
School of Forestry.
The school has recorded Its
first results in a two-year, $1.2
million study on the effects of
acid rain and high ozone levels
on Alabama forests.
"It looks like the trees grow
i better the more acidic the rain
I Is," forestry professor Graeme
E Lockaby said.
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'' to house loblolly pine seedlings.
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• into the chambers, and effects
[ on growth are recorded by sen-
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i| Loblolly pines, which are the
;most Important industrial trees,
have growing seasons from 20-
25 years, he said. The pines at
the test site have been studied
for one growing season, and in
this period a fertilization effect
has occurred from the pollu­tants.
"I don't want people to think
that acid rain is good for the
trees," Lockaby said. "We've Just
gotten into the data enough to
get a glimmer on what has
occurred."
Lockaby said he believes neg­ative
effects of the pollutants
might be seen if research could
be extended to the entire growth
period.
Acid rain and ozone problems
are caused mainly from car
exhausts and the: .burning of„;
fossil fuels, Lockaby said.
In addition to Auburn, other
universities such as Duke, The
University of Florida, Clemson
and Texas A&M were selected to
participate in the project.
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Rumors waste time,
frustrate police effort
By Sarah Hicks
Staff Writer
There Is only one problem
with a good rumor.
People like It better than the
truth.
This Is one of the biggest
problems the University Police
have to combat, according to
Chief Jack Walton.
"Rumors take up most of our
time." he said. "And that leads
to a lot of frustration for the
officers."
All calls to the station are
followed up whether they seem
valid or not, Walton said.
"Regardless of how (the call)
sounds, we must take it seri­ously,"
he said.
Students have been known
to call in false reports for a
number of crimes because it
creates a diversion, Walton
said. This is especially popular
during finals.
It may seem amusing, but it
is possible to be arrested for
filing a false report, according
to Walton.
In addition, students enjoy
spreading crime stories
because it makes life a bit
more interesting, he said.
"Unfortunately, they like to
hear the words 'rape' and 'sex­ual
assault' even if they aren't
relevant," he said.
Once a rumor gets started, it
gets transformed by each new
speaker and spurs new
rumors, Walton said. "It's like
that grammar school game
where you whisper in a chain.
The end result always comes
out different," he said.
Rumor spreading conflicts
with the responsibility of the
police to warn the public of
any menaces and to keep up
the credibility of their warn­ings,
he said.
"It's frustrating to us
because we want to pass out
factual information, but people
Just aren't as Interested,"
Walton said.
The last reported rape on
campus occurred in 1974,
according to police reports.
The community was in a state
of mass hysteria, Walton said,
because the man was a serial
rapist.
"No one, including us, was
accustomed to anything like
that," he said.
Since then there have been
no reported rapes, although
there has been an average of
two attempted sexual assaults
per year, he said.
But the general feeling is one
of concern, Walton said. "Once
a rape takes place, the attitude
is never the same."
Rumors are affected by this
attitude, "especially on a col­lege
campus with such a large
concentration of peers," he
said.
Another complication is the
resulting stories that reach the
parents of students, Walton
said.
"Then we get a letter or call
wanting to know why there
have been 18 rapes so far this
quarter, and what are we
doing about the black midget
rapist in a motorcycle jacket
with a sawed-off shotgun," he
said.
Drug bill allows generic substitutions
By Julie Ryan
Staff Writer
If the Alabama Legislature
passes the one-line prescription
bill, Alabama consumers may
soon discover they are saving
money on prescription drugs,
said William Campbell, dean of
the School of Pharmacy.
The bill will permit physicians
to indicate that a brand-name
drug can be substituted with a
generic equivalent by simply
signing the prescription form,
Campbell said. For a physician
to prevent a generic substitu­tion,
he will have to write
"brand necessary" or "brand
medically necessary."
Brand-name and generic
equivalents are required by law
to be the same drug, Campbell
said. Both are approved by the
Food and Drug Administration
(FDA) and use the same guide­lines
and criteria for quality.
The difference between the
brand-name drug and the
generic equivalent is the manu­facturer
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University trying to get Phi Beta Kappa
By Uz Armstrong
Staff Writer
Administrators are working to
improve the University In hopes
of attracting a Phi Beta Kappa
National Honor Society chapter.
Attracting the society would,
"enhance the reputation of the
University and contribute to the
quality of degrees of the insti­tute,"
President James E. Mar­tin
said.
Last year, committees from
the organization reviewed more
than 80 schools, and only four
were given chapter charters,
said Mary Richards, dean of lib­eral
arts. All four of these insti­tutions
were private, showing
the prestige of the honor soci­ety,
she said.
"It would be a star in
Auburn's crown to have a chap­ter,
making it a truly compre­hensible
university," Richards
said.
An evaluation committee for
Phi Beta Kappa has cited some
improvements that the Universi­ty
must meet before receiving
national recognition as a cam­pus
chapter, according to Uni­versity
administrators.
Dr. Ronald J. Henry, vice
president of academic affairs,
explained why Auburn does not
have a Phi Beta Kappa chapter
now.
"There Is not a broad offering
of requirements in humanities,
sciences and social services for
all students," he said.
A committee may be request­ed
for a review every three
years, so the next visit may be
in 1991, he said.
During each visit, the commit­tee
critiques factors deemed
necessary for participation in]
the honor society. When they
came in 1985, "Auburn was told
not enough academic merit
scholarships were available, the
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library was In need of changes
and the honors programs on
campus were not well devel­oped,"
said Dr. Caine Campbell,
director of the University's
honor program and associate
dean of liberal arts.
But since the last visit, the
administration has made efforts
to meet the requirements,
Campbell said.
Henry said, "President Martin
has been active in increasing
the number of National Merit
Scholarships that come to
Auburn. There have been some
Increases, and the University is
planning to have more.
"In reference to the library, it
was under budget structure at
that time. Now, of course, there
has been a major capital cam­paign,
and the size will be
enlarged, and the holdings will
be increased."
The honors program is im­proving
and will continue to do
so, he said.
Although Auburn has a chap­ter
of Phi Kappa Phi, an organi­zation
for academic achievers, it
is not as distinguished, and
membership is more easily
obtained than Phi Beta Kappa,
according to Campbell.
"One of the values in having
Phi Beta Kappa is in getting it.
We are working harder to obtain
goals. Recognition of students is
prevalent, but it begins by
recognition of the University,"
Campbell said.
April 13th - 24th the
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Assistant Section Editors.
Application forms can be picked up in the
Glomerata office in the basement of Foy Union
and at Foy Union Desk. Previous yearbook
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the willingness to work and strive for excellence.
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University combines research, teaching
By Steve Henderson
Staff Writer
Institutions of higher learning
should equally enforce research
and teaching if they aspire to be
more than simply an extension
of high schools or vocational
schools, said J. Ivan Legg, dean
of science and mathematics.
f "A misconception shared by
many students, faculty and the
public is that research is detri­mental
to education. However.
' research significantly reinforces
the quality of education." Legg
said.
Teachers of the world's finest
Institutions inspire curiosity
and a desire to learn in their
students, he said.
"The ability to inspire derives,
in good part, from the educa­tor's
capacity to continue to
explore his or her discipline and
thereby maintain the vitality
needed to capture the student's
mind and imagination." Legg
said.
He provided other examples of
ways research benefits educa­tion.
"Most textbooks are five to
10 years out of date," he said.
'Textbooks are a starting point,
but are not a reliable source of
timely information."
Teachers practicing in their
fields can use a textbook to
build upon their subjects of
study, he said. Otherwise there
is no way to teach a student
that subject.
Legg made the analogy of a
mechanic who hadn't fixed a car
in 20 years trying to teach a
class how to fix a car. 'Teachers
that do nothing but teach and
prepare for class are bound to
be losers in the long run," he
said.
Legg noted that "a lot of peo­ple
are locked into teaching as a
classroom concept." However,
advanced undergraduate and
graduate students often learn
principally through research,
making research an extension
of the teaching process.
Legg said he Is trying to
encourage more situations in
which undergraduates work
with the faculty.
'Lighting plan may illuminate campus
* By Paul DeMarco
Assistant News Editor
A comprehensive plan to
improve lighting on Auburn's
campus is currently being stud­ied
by the physical plant
*"' Once developed, the study
would show where necessary
lighting needs to be added or
, enhanced, according to Stanley
Drake, associate vice president
for facilities.
"We are dividing the plan into
achievable increments," Drake
said. "If we took it in one chunk
it would be very expensive."
f1 The plan Includes implement­ing
new lights around campus
in three stages. The pedestrian
walkways and roadways would
be the first priority, then park­ing
lots and then walkways to
buildings.
* Once the sites of the new
lighting are picked, then the
cost estimates will be the next
priority, Drake said.
"We want to go to the admin­istration
with a complete plan,"
he said.
The plan should be presented
to the administration by the
end of May, and will be reviewed
by the Board of Trustees if nec­essary.
The root of the plan goes back
close to two years ago with dif­ferent
factors contributing to
the study.
Earlier this year, members of
the SGA toured the campus and
mapped out where lights were
needed. In addition, the physi­cal
plant completed Its own sur­vey
of the campus and plotted
out where additional lights were
necessary.
The surveys revealed Mell
Street by the Davis Arboretum
as a potentially dangerous area
because of the darkness and
vicinity to female dorms.
Lighting has also been added
to areas of campus which may
be under renovation, and the
entire lighting plan may change
depending on construction pro­jects,
Drake said.
"When the east concourse by
Parker needed lighting, not only
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did we improve the lighting in
the area, but the concourse was
dug up and replaced," Drake
said.
The last major replacement of
lighting on campus occurred
last fall when lights around
Dorms A, B, C and D were
added.
The lights were replaced, but
Drake said these lights cost
one-third more and gave off less
light than the other lights on
campus.
'We did not want these lights,
but the previous architect had
already established these lights
as standards," Drake said. "We
plan to eventually phase these
lights out."
Lights around the other Hill
dorms were removed, but tem­porary
lighting was added until
the dorms are completely reno­vated.
Once the dorms are
complete, the temporary lights
will be replaced with permanent
lights, Drake said.
In addition to academic bene­fits,
research provides formid­able
relief from economic pres­sures,
he said. "In many institu­tions,
salaries now constitute
over 90 percent of all state sup­port,"
he said.
"What suffers are the opera­tion
and maintenance budgets
and support services; that is,
laboratories, equipment, sup­plies
and the availability of per­sonnel
who provide many ser­vices
needed by students and
faculty.
"The financial pressures that
need to be overcome simply to
survive have never been so
intense."
Crucial pieces of equipment
frequently cost around
$500,000 - the entire opera­tional
budget of the college of
science and mathematics, he
said.
To meet such costs, the col­lege
draws in around $3 million
each year in research grants, he
said. Faculty members write
proposals to compete against
other universities for this
money.
The faculty members feel
pressure from administrators to
find external funding for their
projects, he said. However,
when the academic mission is
taken to extremes or viewed as
an end in itself, there is the
danger it will become distorted,
he said.
Legg said he believes that
administrators at Auburn try
to avoid these conditions.
"Auburn University is in the
position to maintain excellence
in the educational process as it
strives to bring its research mis­sion
into balance with its overall
academic objectives," he said.
"From the perspective of the
college of science and mathe­matics,
I have been involved in
tenure and promotion and
salary decisions that suggest
that we are making a' genuine
effort to provide excellence in
our Integrated mission of teach­ing,
research and service."
Bill
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Everett said. "As far as the
patient is concerned, it is a big
economical advantage," he said.
The prescription form used
now has two signature lines,
one for the brand-name drug
and the other for the generic
equivalent. "Many times the
physician signs routinely on one
side or the other, just out of
habit," Campbell said.
"The bill is directed at a small
number of physicians who sim­ply
never consciously separate
the two decisions of ordering the
drug and then asking the ques­tion,
'can it be a substituted
product?'" he said.
Dr. Gerald W. Everett, Drake
Health Center director, said,
"I'm kind of used to the two-line
form, but I can see how physl-ilCf
clans are so much creatures of
habit, they get into a routine.
"I wouldn't object to the one-line
form because physicians
will still be able to protect them­selves,
by specifying not to sub­stitute
with a generic equiva­lent."
The Federal government has
already passed a similar bill
that will take effect in 1991,
Campbell said. The bill will
cover outpatient prescription
medicines for those on Medi­care.
The legislative bill will apply
to all Alabama citizens, and the
Federal bill will only apply to
the elderly, he said.
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A-8 Qlbej^luburn Plainsman Thursday, April 13,1989
Smith
continued from A-l
private support of Auburn in
any way."
Solomon has also said he
would like to avoid further
investigations that might cause
the University more embarrass­ment
"I think further investiga­tion
might compromise, unnec­essarily,
others than Mr.
Smith." he said.
Solomon said he first stood
up publicly with his recommen­dation
before the full board of
the Alumni Association in Jan­uary.
He said Smith was pre­sent,
but Solomon would not
comment on whether he and
Smith had discussed the pro­posal.
Attorney General Don Siegel-man's
staff met with Lee County
District Attorney Ron Myers
April 6, reportedly deciding to
work together on the further
investigations. These follow the
state ethics commission's find­ing
probable cause that Smith
violated state ethics laws by
using his position for personal
financial gain.
This charge is based on
Smith's receiving $30,000,
along with Georgia business­man
Tom C. Tabor, for co-exe­cuting
the will of Lois Huff of
Decatur, Ga.
Myers has been reported as
saying a Lee County grand jury
may be called back into session
to hear allegations against
Smith probably some time next
month.
Siegelman made remarks last
week also calling for Smith's
immediate resignation. However,
the attorney general has now
expressed concern that his
remarks may have jeopardized a
grand jury investigation, but
said if Smith has violated the
ethics laws he will be prosecut­ed
to the fullest extent of the
law.
Kappa
continued from A-l
administrators, faculty mem­bers
and students.
Although representatives of
the fraternity did not to attend
the hearing, Chapman said "due
process" was served by the
court composed of four fraterni­ty
presidents and the IPC advis­er.
IFC Adviser John Hughes said
the fraternity claims it did not
receive the letter informing
them of the hearing. "They indi­cated
they didn't know about
the court hearing," he said.
"They were given every chance
to present their side of the
case," he said. The fraternity
was given notice 72 hours prior
to the hearing. Chapman said.
The fraternity was originally
brought before the court on
March 3, but the hearing was
postponed for more research
because of the severity of the
charges.
The fraternity was charged
with several forms of mental
and physical hazing Including
sleep deprivation and beating
pledges with paddles.
Charges were brought by the
Office of Student Affairs based
on testimony from track coach
Mel Rosen and two students
who participated in "pre-pledg-ing."
The two students did not
appear before the court, Chap­man
said.
Along with probation, the fra­ternity
will be required to attend
all IFC meetings this year and
notify the Office of Student
Affairs of any "pre-intiation"
activities, Chapman said,
"There are a lot of things the
IFC Court could do," Chapman
said. "We felt this would be the
most effective for what we want­ed
to accomplish."
There are no guidelines if the
probation if violated, Chapman
said. 'That would have to be
dealt with when it comes up."
Askew
continued from A-l
Because only three students
owned cars, passenger trains
were the common mode of
transportation in 1917, Askew
said. There were four local
trains which ran every day; two
in the morning and two at
night.
Not only did the train offer
transportation, but it also pro­vided
entertainment for the stu­dents.
The boys would rush to
see the trains pass by, he said.
"And I would be right in the
middle of them."
Another form of entertain­ment
was watching the eight
girls who were enrolled at
Auburn.
"We liked to watch them at
sunset when they were silhou­ettes.
They would get embar­rassed,
but we loved to do it,
and it was free," Askew said.
Askew is quick to add, 'You'd
better not say anything bad
about one of those girls,
because if you did you'd get
punched. They were all fine
girls."
Although the students of this
time had very few parties, they
had spring dances during which
nationally known orchestras
were booked to play. 'We had a
big time at these dances," he
said.
In 1917, seven national frater­nities
existed on campus and
Askew was charter member 19
of Lambda Chi, he said.
During this time. Lambda Chi
won the scholarship cup and
the tennis cup every year.
Askew said.
War was declared while Askew
was at Auburn, and he said his
class was quick to respond to
the call.
Dr. Charles Thach, the presi­dent
of Auburn at the time,
called all the boys together, and
told them whoever volunteered
in April would still receive a
diploma although graduation
wasn't until June, Askew said.
"About 85 percent of us vol­unteered
immediately," he said.
Because almost all the students
left school to go to war, this
class is often referred to as "the
famous class of 1917."
Not only were the campus and
the students different in 1917,
but the attitudes were also dif­ferent,
according to Askew.
"Dr. Thach always had his
office door open to the students,
and they could go in, sit down
and tell him their troubles,"
Askew said. "And he would
always remedy (your problems)
for you.
'The professors were waiting
to listen to you. Students today
don't study like we studied. I
think students were more sin­cere
back then about getting an
education, to make it."
The famous class of 1917 is
commemorated with a plaque
which hangs in the Alumni
building. Askew said he got the
names of 177 members of the
class and designed a plaque to
honor them.
In addition to the plaque.
Askew has also written a book
to commemorate this class. ,
'They were simple days, but
they were great," Askew said.;
"Those were great times, but
they're all gone. I'm the only one
left in Auburn."
SGA
continued from A-l
The bill also outlines the divi­sion
of responsibilities within
the GSO; representation of the
GSO within the SGA Senate and
University Committees; and
communication between the two
organizations.
Ties between graduate stu­dents
and the Senate would not
be severed by approval of the
bill. The Senate would still set
policies affecting graduate stu­dents
as members of the entire
student body, according to the
bill
The Senate would continue to
serve as the voice of the entire
student body, while the GSO
would act as official representa­tion
of the graduate student
population, according to the
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The GSO would be responsi­ble
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affecting graduate students,
presenting related resolutions to
the Student Senate and co-sponsoring
the VISA program
and the International World's
Fair in conjunction with the
Office of Special Programs,
according to the bill.
The Senate would continue to
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appropriate student activity' fees
through the B&F Committee,
the bill says.
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school senators would still be
based on the proportion of grad­uate
students to the entire stu­dent
body, according to the bill.
Storm
continued from A-3
Under disaster conditions,
private property also becomes
community property. "When
disasters hit there's a redefining
of properly norms," he said.
"It is perfectly accepted that
you would break into your
neighbor's house if necessary to
get a chalnsaw to clear the road
for emergency vehicles," he said.
"People see this as looting, but
It's expected behavior."
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areas because police'
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people, not to make arrests,
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Schwlnn 12 speed bicycle for sale. Great
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$125.00,826-1880.
1977 4-speed Chevette, reliable,
inexpensive transportation. New exhaust
system and rear tires. $400.00 060. Call
821-2654.
1987 Suzuki SP200, excellent condition,
2,500 miles. Buying new bike, sel before
Friday, $1,050.00,826-1851.
88 specialized Rockhopper for sale.
Hardly used. Will take best offer. Call
Carolyn, 887-7741.
Bose 501 under warranty $275.00. Sanyo
100W car amplifier, never used, $175.00,
821-7450.
1987 600 Nlnja, excellent condition.
Cargo net radar detector, Nolan helmet,
$2,800.00 OBO. 821-6283.
AKC golden retriever puppies, shots and
wormed. Call 749-7184 after 5:00 pm.
Stereo equipment - Alpine 7164 AM/FM
cassette deck, 3 linear amplifiers all in
excellent condition. David, 826-3596.
Sofa, recllner, stereo receiver with
turntable, $175.00. Will sell all or
separately, 887-9949 after 5:00 PM.
For Sale: 198214' X 70" Fleetwood trailer,
2 bedroom, 2 f-baths, W/D, central air, gas
heat, and stove, DW, refrigerator,
livingroom with fire place, located 440
Ridgewood village, phone 821-1264.
Mobile home, 1979 Champion 14X52,
under pinned, washer, dryer, partly
furnished, stonegate wooded lot,
$6,500.00,821-5645.
Flying lessons, learn to fly this spring!
Good rates and flexible hours taught. 887-
2616 (leave message).
Mongoose John Tomac Signature Series
Mtn. bike Centurion Ironman Expert.
Awesome bikes. Call Eric, 821-2819.
Contract overruns. Black three c-awer
student desk, DuraJe Wright Furniture and
contact sales, 1004, Opelika Rd. 821-
5522.
For sale 14 X 70 trailer washer and dryer,
fence, alarm, shed, 350 Ridgewood, 821-
6866, $9,700.00.
Summer sublease Courtyard Apartments
across KA house two female roommates
needed. Nice Girls. W/D, 826-3576.
Need 1 person for summer sublease.
Courtsquare. $1407month. All amenities.
Nice roommates. Call Dave, 821-1287.
Mobile Homes
for Rent
1,2 & 3 bedrooms
Also Brand New
Double Wide
3 bedroom - 3 bath
Call or Come By
Barrons Trailer Park -
Office
821-1335
Any time
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your business
Sublease Eagles West, 2 bedroom, 2 *
bath. Call Theresa, 821-7432. Available;
now. Rent $510.00 a month.
Fall occupancy 2 bedroom, 1 bath', *
duplex. 1 bedroom, 1 bath apartment 3*
bedroom, 21/2 bath Townhome. Call 826-'
0804 (leave message).
Summer quarter sublease desperately
needed for Cabana Apartments. Pool;
laundry paid, water, cable. Make offer;
821-5274.
Great house for summer sublease! 2
bedroom, 2 bath, screen porch, W/D.
Close to campus, furnished. For more
information call anytime, 821 -2479. '
Hey II Are you looking for a great condo at; *
a great price? I'm looking for someone-,
(male) to sublease my Campus Courtyard .
Condominium and am willing to sublease: .
lor only $135.00/month. Call Jeff at 821-11
8054.
Female roommate needed for summer1 ,
'89. Apartment includes washer/dryer,'
refrigerator, microwave, color TV. Will
have to share bedroom. Located at Tha
Brookes. Call 887-2521.. ., *i
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Sublease 2 bedroom apartment, 10
minutes from Haley. Includes washer and ,
dryer, dishwasher, trash compactor; loaded
come see. Cliff, 826-0583.
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Female roommate needed spring quarter.
Furnished two bedroom apartment,
$140/month. Share utilities. Call 821-
7952.
Habitat summer sublease option for next
year. 2 bedroom, 21/2 bath, W/D, $170.00
month. Call 826-3527. Pam, Liz, Debbie,
or Lisa.
Summer Sublease Village Green,
$117.00/month + 1/3 utilities. Pool,
, laundry. Close to campus, own room. Call
887-8589.
*
Spring sublease, private room for male in
* Village Dorm. $200.00 per quarter
including utilities! 821-8650.
Help! Graduating senior needs 1 or 2
persons to sublease one bedroom condo.
Beginning June 1. Call after 4 pm. 826-
6727.
Summer sublease, 3 bedrooms, 2 baths,
W/D, microwave, dishwasher. Shady
Glenn, up to 5 people. Call 887-3268.
Summer sublease 2 bedrooms, pool,
quiet and inexpensive up to 4 people.
Cabana Apartments. Call 821-5994.
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Female roommates needed to sublease
Northpointe duplex summer quarter or
ASAP. Fully furnished, hot tub, W/D. 4
bedrooms and 4 bathrooms,
$198.00/month + 1/4 utilities. Call 826-
6608.
Sublease for summer at Brookside
apartments. Have your own room and
bathroom. Includes W/D. Call 887-9344.
Immediate sublease for spring and
summer. Includes your own bedroom,
bathroom and W/D. Brookside apartments.
Rent negotiable. 887-9344.
Two roommates starting summer - spring
'90. Live poolside at the Brookes. Call
Ben, 887-2675, $175.00/month + 1/3
utilities.
Lakewood Commons 2 bedroom 2 1/2
baths. 404-373-2302 or 404-29W135.
2 bedroom furnished apartment starting
summer with a fall option. Close to
-campus. Central air, 2 girls. Rent total
:$290.00. 887-3544.
One bedroom duplex apartment. Quiet
* ^location, heat and air, private yard and
^parking, three blocks from campus, no
-pets. $270.00/month. Available June 1,
"jail 821-9558, after 5:00 pm.
•*• • • * ,
'Summer sublease Northpointe 2 females
own bedroom and bath W/D Jacuzzi option
•lor fall, 821-0233.
* • • *• ••• • •
Rummer sublease Crossland Downs, two
jbedroom, two bath, pool, tennis courts,
r* $reat price. Call 821-0867.
'Male roommate needed for summer
quarter. Private bedroom, pool, tennis
" courts. Reasonable rent. Call 826-0255.
Male roommate(s) wanted summer
Quarter. Have own room. Comfortable
• trailer. $130.00/month, negotiable. Call
^ay 887-8261.
'Fall quarter • spacious 2 bedroom
y apartment in quiet neighborhood,
xonvenient to campus and shopping.
p<itchen furnished. Fully carpeted, CH/AC,
ample parking. No pets. $320.00 per
;month, 887-3824 or 887-9865.
Large 1 bedroom apartment, quiet
neighborhood, 4 blocks from campus,
" -.partially furnished, plenty of parking. No
.pets. $235.00 per month, 887-3824 or
.887-9865.
> Summer sublease/fall option (2).
Furnished 2 bedroom. 2 girls,
•1145.00/month each. Call Beverly 887-
3544 or Pam, 821-0052.
Need female roommate. Large bedroom
in Patio home. Nice roommates
reasonable, call 749-2880, Cindy or
Kathleen.
Large older home remodeled - convenient
to campus. Freeman Realty, 887-7436 -
*• nights 887-7443.
3 Bedroom, 2 bath Brookside Apartment.
Full furnished W/D, AC. Sublease summer
* quarter. Call 887-5930.
Glenwood Apartments 1-2 persons,
" dishwasher, cable, $250.00 per month.
Two blocks from campus, call Mark 826-
3071.
0 New 3 bedroom, 2 bath Garden home
convenient to campus Freeman Realty,
887-7436-nights 887-7443.
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' New 2 bedroom, 2 bath completely
furnished with WD, microwave, complete
kitchen available fall quarter, convient to
campus. Freeman Realty 887-7436 -
nights 887-7443.
Female needed to sublease 1/2 of two
bedroom duplex. Beginning spring with
' option for summer. Rent $125.00 plus 1/2
utilities. Call 821-1531.
* Fall rent 2 bedroom condo, fully furnished,
4 years old, like new, $175.00 per person,
749-4393 negotiable to sell.
Female roommate needed summer
quarter. 2 bedroom furnished apartment,
close to campus. Call 887-3544 or 821-
7087.
2 bedroom duplex near campus AC,
heat, DW, WD, hookups, $315.00 month.
Available June 1 for summer with fall
option. Call 826-8026 after 5 pm.
Needed: Someone to sublease summer
quarter. Have your own bedroom. For
more information, call 887-7241.
Immediate occupancy 1 bedroom, 1 bath
apartment, furnished or unfurnished also
renting for fall, $225-250.00. Call 826-
0804.
Courtyard Apartments summer
sublease. Friendly female needs
roommate. Huge bedroom, W/B, W/D.
$150/month. June rent free. Call 821-
3498.
For sublease summer quarter 2 bedroom,
2 bath trailer. 202 Webster's Crossing,
$265/month. Call 821-5891, noon 5:00
pm.
Roommate needed summer quarter 2
bedroom trailer own room, $125.00 month
plus 1/2 utilities. Call Joe, 821-2347.
Summer sublease available with option to
renew for Fall. Less than half block from
campus. Two bedroom, spacious
apartment. Free water and cable, call 826-
6692.
WANTED
Needed Immediately full-time resident
manager for student apartments.
Apartment, utilities, salary provided
excellent opportunity. Call Lynn Puckett
821-4200 for appointment.
Wanted: Good undergraduate students
interested in pursuing graduate work in
economics. The department of economics
at Clemson University offers coursework
leading to the M.A. (thesis/non-thesis
options) and Ph.D degrees, with specialty
areas that include Industrial
Organization/Regulation, Public Choice,
Financial Economics and Labor
Economics. We have one of the top
research and teaching faculties in the
South and encourage close working
relationships between faculty and graduate
students. Financial aid in the form of
research and teaching assistantships is
available. For more information, contact
Prof. David N. Laband, Department of
Economics, Clemson University, 242 Sirrine
Hall, Clemson, SC 29634 (803)656-3969.
Female roommate wanted $122.50 for
rent plus 1/4 of all other bills. Call 826-
7462.
Overseas Jobs $900-2,000.00 month.
Summer year round, ail countries. All field.
Free information. Write UC, PO Box 52 or
cal 714-892-8096.
Need a ride to Fairhope April 21 and any
other weekend. Can Dave, 844-7929.
Cruise ships now hiring all positions.
Both skilled and unskilled. For information
call (615) 779-5507. Ext.H-266.
Fit for Life
Applications are now being taken
by Diversified Products Corp. in
Opelika for:
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Production Supervisors
with Metal Fabrication Experience
Welders
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Now Hiring!!! Pool managers, life guards,
swim instructors, swim coaches. For
counties of: Dekalb, Cobb, Fulton,
Gwinnett, Rockdale, Cherokee and
Clayton. Salary Ranges: $1,500-4,000.
Send resumes to: Professional Pool Care
Inc. 3390 Old Keondike Rode, Conyers,
Georgia, 30207, or call 981 -0892.
Dental assistant, experience preferred
but will train proper person. Call 821-4322
for interview or mail resume to Box 951,
Auburn.
Help wanted Chuck's Bar-B-Que, behind
McDonalds, Opelika Road. Apply in
person after 2:00 pm.
Counselors (male & female) for North
Carolina 8 week children's summer sports
camp. Cool mountain climate, good pay
and great fun! Experience not necessary.
For applications/brochure, Camp Pine
Wood 20205-1 NE, 3 Court Miami, Florida
33179.
Ryan's Tavern now accepting applications
for all positions. Day and night shift
available. Apply Monday-Friday, 2-4:00
pm.
Needed: young person to work yard
maintenance for elderly widow 8-10 hours
per week. $3.50 per hour. 826-8694.
Summer Jobs installing furniture in
apartment complexes June through
September. Must be willing to travel. Work
long hours. Good pay. contact Ralph -
T.Th.F, Wright Furniture and Contract
Sales. 821-5522.
Computer Science Internship for summer
of 1989 with national scholastic services
corporation in Montgomery, Al. Minimum
GPA of 2.5/4.0 required. Product research
and development with Apple II, IBM PC,
and Macintosh microcomputers. Send
resume by April 1, 1989 to: Herff Jones,
Inc., Division System Engineering, Box 17,
Montgomery, Al 36195-2301.
Light delivery person needed must have
own transportation. Please call 742-9538.
Telephone sales day and evening shifts,
full and part time. Please call 742-9538.
Need Important documents certified?
Contact Kim at 745-2285 after 5:00 pm.
Reasonable price.
Attention: Female Softball players
needed to complete last years playoff
team. Please call Jeff at 844-8821.
Typing papers (B&P, APA), form, etc.
Wordprocessing, letter quality printing,
electronic spell check. 9 a.m. - 9 p.m.
Monday - Saturday. Call Jo at Auburn
Typing. 821-4261.
Heading for Europe this summer (or
anytime)? Jet there from the Midwest or
Southeast for no more than $229, or from
the East Coast for no more than $160 with
AIRHITCH(r), as reported in the Consumer
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network morning shows. For details, Call
212-864-2000 or write: AIRHITCH(r) 2901
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Pros: Jenny Carlisle, Renee Bowden, Sue
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Jean Oglesby, Jack Hartsfield, ReNae
Morgan and Branna Sprewell. More men
are needed- 844-4430.
Alpha Kappa Psi Professional Business
Fraternity is holding rush for spring quarter
1989 on April 18 and 20. Applications are
available in Thach Hall and Tichenor Hall.
A photo is required.
Working to better educate Auburn's gay
community. We're Alpha Lambda Omega.
For information write us at P.O. Box 821,
Auburn, Al 36831.
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this summer. Call Jeff at 821-8054.
White mala grad student, late 20's, seeks
compatible female for close
friendship/relationship. Am nonsmoker,
nonreligious, traveled, workaholic,
opinionated, average looks, generally
competent, decisive but nonimpulsive, self
expressive, affectionate, privately
nonpushy; enjoy running, carpentry, karate,
birds, giving backrubs, reading,
conversations about ideas; dislike crowds,
dishonesty, and noise; seek someone
who's intelligent, decisive, travelloving,
physically giving, emotionally stable,
normal weight. Box 2284, Auburn.
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Parkway Animal Hospital. Please call 821-
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Hammocks, hammocks, beverage
funnels, window glass, puffy paint, pens,
giftware, Roach prufe. Auburn hardware,
887-8701.
Gain experience and earn money by
working on Fortune 500 Companies'
marketing programs on campus. 2-4
Flexible hours each week. Applications
being taken for immediate and fall 89
openings. Call: 1-800-821-1543.
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A-10 (Ihc.Suburn Plainsman Thursday, April 13,1989
Opinion
(DieDuburn Plainsman
Associated
Collegiate
Press
Columbia
Scholastic
Press
Association
Precious time wasted in lines
Serving Auburn University for 95 years
David Sharp
Editor
Kirsten Schlichting
Managing Editor
Sarah Watson, Copy Editor
Randy Williams, Sports Editor
Amy Durkee, A&E Editor
Stacy Moore, Photo Editor
Michael Malone
Business Manager
Hank Adkison
Layout Coordinator
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Dana Roberts, Features Editor'
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Contents are protected by Auburn University copyright regulations.
I can still remember the
morning almost as if it were
yesterday. The cool air was crisp
as I waited in line along with
other eager freshmen outside
the Coliseum. The line was long,
but the Auburn morning air
was refreshing.
It was good to be in Auburn.
It was good to be standing in
line in Auburn. It was still bet­ter
to be in Auburn standing in
line for season football tickets.
Since those silly days of pre-engineering,
I have grown to
love most things about Auburn,
but I have never been too fond
of standing in the numerous
lines offered by the ever-effi­cient
University.
I did some figuring the other
night and came up with my own
startling figure of how much
time I wasted standing in line at
Auburn.
Here is the breakdown -
David
Sharp
• An hour and a half in line
each quarter to pick up my
schedule and pay my fees. Mul­tiply
this times 12 quarters at
Auburn (the number is actually
quite larger for me) and you get
18 hours.
• An average of four grueling
hours trudging through Haley
Center each quarter at Drop
and Add - a total of 48 hours.
• An hour in line each quarter
at the University Police Depart­ment
because I waited to the
last minute to pay my tickets.
• An hour each quarter taking
care of library fines because I
waited to the last minute.
• An hour in line for football
tickets each year for another
four hours.
• An hour each fall waiting to
get my mug shot taken for my
student ID card - still another
four hours.
• Standing in line at War
Eagle Cafeteria is another enor­mous
waste of time - two hours
a week, 52 weeks, 104 hours in
line.
• My credit check took about
an hour.
• My graduation Junk will
average 6 hours.
• Fortunately, I never had to
wait in line for financial aid, but
I've heard it can reach upward
of 113.5 hours a quarter (but
we'll say six hours a quarter for
a total 72 hours.)
All the small bureaucratic
steps at our University added
up to a grand total of 261 wast­ed
hours, which is 10 and a half
days of standing in line. The fig­ure
does not even include wait­ing
for professors or other mis­cellaneous
diversions, nor does
it include off-campus ventures
such as waiting on groceries,
car repairs or utility bills.
These were hours that could
have been spent studying
(ahem), sleeping, watching car­toons
or goofing off in any num­ber
of ways.
The way I figure, the Universi­ty
owes me for my lost time. If
paid minimum wage of $3.35 an
hour, the University would owe
me and every other student
about $874 - for a total cost of
$17.48 million for each of the
20,000 students.
Don't you think it's time they
paid up?
David Sharp is editor of The
Plainsman.
An election
Auburn students stand
out for many areas: friend­liness,
loyalty, tradition -
and apathy.
It's been said a million
times that Auburn stu­dents
don't care, and they
demonstrated it yet again
at the polls last Thursday.
Only 24.7 percent of the
student body - 4,667 In all
- voted in the spring SGA
e l e c t i o n s last Thursday
despite a record number of
158 c a n d i d a t e s seeking
office, j Last year, approxi­mately
29 percent of the
students .voted* -,
On the-bright side, how­ever,
SGA e l e c t i o n rule
changes appeared to make
the campaign week run
more smoothly.
For the first time in a
long time, candidates were
forced to stick closer to the
Oil spill
Early this week, the 100-
square mile oil slick off
Valdez, Alaska, began to
break up in heavy waves
and wind. The slick came
about when an Exxon
tanker ran aground on
March 24, releasing 10.1
million gallons of crude oil
into the ocean.
Clean-up operations have
recovered only 12 percent
of the spill - approximately
18,000 of the 240,000 bar­rels
spilled.
While fishermen in the
Prince William Sound are
picking up the pieces of
their livelihood, Americans
will likely soon forget the
incident.
Unfortunately, though,
the environmental damage
has just begun.
The immediate effects of
the oil spill are the dying
fish, animals and birds,
including endangered
spending limit.
The rule changes also
eliminated car painting,
signs in store front win­dows,
writing on chalk­boards
and vehicles on the
concourse. These changes
turned out to be for the
best by making the cam­paign
less gaudy.
The idea was to make
students concentrate more
on the issues confronting
the candidates instead of
the flair, although we're not
s o sure it succeeded in
that.
From the changes men­tioned
above, we think the
Elections Board and the
SGA are working to make
elections work. Now, all we
need i s for students to edu­cate
t h e m s e l v e s on the
candidates and go to the
polls.
species such as the bald
eagle and sea otter.
Meanwhile, the bigger
problem lies in the long-term
effects to the fragile
aquatic ecosystem. The oil,
which is known to contain
carcinogens, will ultimately
work its way through the
food chain to the fish which
we eat (Kodiak, the nation's
leading fishing port, is less
then 6 0 miles away.)
Meanwhile, clean-up
efforts on TV have shown
workers literally scrubbing
the rocks on beaches to get
rid of the oil. Months from
now, the only remnants will
be tar balls which occa­sionally
wash ashore.
The damage to the envi­ronment
caused by Exxon's
negligence is immense;
public apologies and PR
campaigns cannot change
that.
Mudslinging
There was another elec­tion
important to Auburn
last week. That election
was for the 3rd Congres­sional
District.
Unfortunately, the mud­slinging
was more predomi­nant
than our campus'
spring elections.
As a matter of fact, the
mudslinging was reminis­cent
of the Baxley-Grad-dick
fight for the governor's
spot in 1986 and more
recently the presidential
campaign.
After 22 years of service
from the late Congressman
Bill Nichols, perhaps we
j u s t expected too much
from your average state
politician.
We hope Browder will put
behind the campaign
rhetoric and represent the
3rd district in a positive
way akin to that of Nichols.
Pranks overlooked source of fun
Hearing stories of my father's
collegiate days is a ritual of
going home. First he asks me
what I'm doing, then he pro­ceeds
to tell me what he did.
I'm beginning to think that I
lived in a boarding house at the
University of Texas for four
years; I know the tales so well.
The only thing that bothers
me is that his generation
seemed to have more fun than
we do. Where are the infamous
pranks of yesteryear?
Auburn students seem to
have lost their lust for practical
jokes.
My dad and some friends once
filled a room with furniture and
had to escape out the window,
going hand-over-hand by a wire
that ran from one dorm to
another. It took hours, and he
risked his life, but he still
chuckles. The best ones he still
won't tell me.
We get the occasional banner
across Haley Center or fliers for
someone's birthday. It's cute.
It's something besides a Hall­mark
card.
Piper
Lowell
Students today are too seri­ous
to explore the depth of
practical jokes. I'm not sure if it
happened with the change of
the decade or with Reagan's
inauguration, but students got
serious about 1980.
We work on "important"
things and consider getting
drunk a good way to relieve
stress. We take being serious
too seriously.
Does the seriousness pay off?
Will we be any more prepared to
meet our future than previous
generations of college graduates
because we didn't play pranks?
I doubt it. Developed creativi­ty
will stay important long after
classes fade into the same kind
of memory as your Junior high
locker combination.
Please don't flunk out of
school while striving for a fun
four years, but Auburn, lighten
up. Intricate pranks might be
too much to ask for the serious
student of the '80s. but here are
a few of the basics. *
• The "room-it" requires a few
people, but take all the furni­ture
out of someone's room
while they are out on a date.
Options are duplicating the fur­niture
arrangement on the yard
or hiding the furniture.
• The "car-it" requires a lot of
newspaper, but fill someone's
car (or room) with crumpled
paper (Please, don't steal all the
copies of The Platnsman for this
one.) Cover the windows with
Oreo halves, cream side down.
Roll it completely with toilet
paper.
• The "hall-it" requires string
and some patience. Run thick
string around all the doorknobs
on the hall and loop It through
a pulley so that opening one
door makes the others slam
shut and stay that way. Panel
the hall with cheap wood and let
people guess where the doors
are.
• The "front yard-roll it"
requires anything you can find.
Cover the ground with plastic
forks or pink flamingos; park
cars on it
If time is a problem, there are
quick and easy jokes. For exam­ple,
toothpaste under the car
door handle; powdered drink
mix in the shower head; Ora-Jel
on the tooth brush ...
You could even start out with
the Sally, Dick and Jane level of
jokes, short-sheeting the bed or
freezing underwear.
If these sound silly, demean­ing
or simplistic, fine. Please
think of something more origi­nal
and get students back
involved in fun, non-destructive
pranks.
Education is important, but I
want to have something to tell
my kids besides, "College. Oh
yeah, I went"
I
Piper Lowell is assistant tea- ;
tures editor of The Plainsman.
Pothole repaired, makes history
What a week I'm having.
It all began Sunday, like most
weeks do. I was sitting alone in
my trailer when my friend
Randy called to see if I wanted
to meet a friend of ours for din­ner.
Little did I know what was
in store.
As I was driving innocently
along talking politics with
Randy, I turned and noticed
that he had disappeared. Coin­ciding
with his disappearance
was a most horrendous noise, a
noise somewhat resembling my
car falling into an enormous
pothole.
I'm sure others know this pot­hole
in front of CDV just over
the hill across from the tennis
courts. We saw some small ani­mals
in the bottom of the hole. I
think they had mistaken it for
the new $8 million swimming
facility.
Randy, although shaken from
the ordeal, arose from his seat
and pointed out that my front
tire was making a strange noise
- a noise somewhat resembling
a busted tire with a broken rim.
We pulled into the junior mud
Vicki
Vessels
lot across from the ROTC hang­er,
and, sure enough, it was a
busted tire with a broken rim. I
proceeded to Jump up and down
until I fell into a period
of uncontrollable, hysterical
laughter.
Randy thought it was funny,
too.
So we walked to the Universi­ty
Police station to get a ride to
the Plainsman office. Upon
arrival, I told the dispatcher my
car was broken, and I needed a
ride to the office.
He told me that it is against
their policy to give anybody a
ride. In other words, he told a
poor, defenseless girl, alone at
night on campus (he didn't see
Randy) that she could not get a
ride for about five measly
blocks.
I also might insert here that it
was rainy and approximately 40
degrees outside.
Although this is my last quar­ter
here, I still thought the Uni­versity
Police were here for our
protection, especially with all
that's been going on around the
dorms this year. Silly me.
So, Randy, who was sick
already, and I walked to the
office, where we found our
friend David.
With my he-men in tow, we
went to fix the now-quiet tire
with the broken rim. Our friend
Super Dave took over the
responsibility of jacking up the
car. Of course, the more he
worked, the more the jack sunk
in the mud.
It never worked, so we went
for a Happy Meal instead.
I really do love Auburn Uni­versity
despite all its endearing
potholes, luscious mud lots and •
helpful police.
However, policies such as the
one demonstrated by the Uni- |
versity Police show how ridlcu- I
lous the University's bureaucra- *
cy can be at times. I wish they J
would get their act together and ;
remember that they are here to J
serve the students.
By the way, for the first time <
in history the University was on "
the ball. The pothole was fixed
the next day.
Vicki Vessels is news editor of
The Plainsman.
Correction
A mistake occurred in the
election results of the "Spring
Elections Extra" edition of
The Plainsman last Friday.
The results showed that two
candidates for vice president
of the School of Architecture,
David Khoo and Bryan
Hutchinson, had tied for the
position with 54 votes. Khoo
actually won the election with
65 votes.
The Plainsman regrets the
error.
Thursday, April 13,1989 (Ehejauburn Plainsman A-11
Letters
Story on stereotypes unfair
1/
Editor, The Plainsman:
My first thought after reading
the article entitled "stereotypes"
was of the desperation that the
Arts and Entertainment staff
must have to fill space. My sec­ond
thought, however, was how
unfair and unjust this article
was, not only to Greek women,
but to all college women.
Greek women represent
women from all walks of life.
The Panhellenlc system here
at Auburn prides itself on the
fact that every sorority Is filled
with diverse young women.
There is no possible way that
150 members of a sorority can
all have the same qualities.
In fact, part of the sorority
experience is to have 150 mem­bers
with different characteris­tics.
Sororities encourage wo­men
to get to know those unlike
themselves.
Perhaps this article was not
meant to be derogatory, but it
was. The stereotypes that were
mentioned (they need not be
restated) only represent the
ignorance that many people
have about the Greek system.
The Greek system fosters schol­arship,
social responsibility and
friendship.
We here at Panhellenlc feel
that our sororities are undoubt­edly
a group of diverse women
working toward the common
goals of scholarship, social
responsibility and friendship. It
was no surprise to me when the
sororities were characterized in
The Plainsman as being groups
of women only wishing to asso­ciate
with those like themselves.
I can't remember the last time
the Greek system was repre­sented
fairly or even decently In
The Plainsman.
I hope that those who read
the article do not group sorority
woman into the same stereo­types
that are suggested. They
are unbelievably false and inac­curate.
The diversity of these groups
only has to be seen through the
number of women at Auburn
involved In the Greek system.
Caroline Molchan,
Panhellenlc President
Editor's note: The story on
stereotypes of sororities was not
intended to be malicious; it was
intended to be a light-hearted
look at stereotypes which do
exist. However, the story suf­fered
from several flaws.
Number one, the writer's story
was based on interviews with
approximately 20 students
which does not represent an
accurate cross sampling of the
University.
Number two, names were
omitted of those who were quot­ed
for stereotypes, taking credi­bility
from the quotes.
Finally, the story did not men­tion
all sororities and did not
cast all In a favorable light.
The Plainsman regrets If any­one
was offended by the story.
'Ninth inning'
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' Tickets given without warning
Editor, The Plainsman:
You've all seen It - that little
slip of paper saying, "Hi, please
come by the University Police
Department and pay $25."
Well, once again, the AUPD
has decided to ticket people -
this time in the dirt lot next to
the Psychology Lab building.
Myself and a dozen others are
their latest victims.
Parking in the dirt lot Is a
madhouse - no parking spaces,
two-foot trenches (you know the
story). Now the AUPD says that
we block traffic with our park­ing
procedures such as parallel
parking with bushes which we
have done since fall quarter.
Now, without warning, it's ille­gal
to park like that.
On April 10, I saw my gift
from the AUPD and went imme­diately
to appeal. I was told that
the AUPD had suddenly begun
to crack down and signs had
been put up telling us not to
park there. As of April 11, no
signs could be seen.
I'm sure others feel as I do
because I was told of the other
complaints when I went to the
AUPD. All I ask Is that the
police department give some
warnings (signs, warning tickets
etc ...) Instead of suddenly tick­eting
us for something that has
been happening for eight
months.
Kyle Hannah, 03 CSS
Stereotypes suppress rights
Editor, The Plainsman:
After reading the article enti­tled
"stereotypes" last week, the
first question that I asked
myself was "what was the
author's purpose in writing the
article?" and "What good did
The Plainsman see in printing
the article?"
Any student who has studied
any history at all knows the
effects of stereotypes on soci­ety's
attitudes toward groups
and individuals. We can see that
the suppression of blacks since
the end of slavery has been due
to stereotypic ideas about the
black race created to keep
whites in control.
Of course, we can look at the
status of women in today's soci­ety
and realize that the inequali­ty
between the sexes has con­tinued
due to stereotypic images
portraying women as less intelli­gent
than men, less competent
in the workplace than men and
more capable of caring for and
raising children than men.
That is why I must wonder if
those women whose comments
have appeared in this article
also wish to shed their shoes,
virginity and self-respect and
get back Into the kitchen. It is
this type of stereotypic comment
that can set back women's
rights a good 20 years.
Although sorority stereotypes
aren't as damaging as racial
and ethnic stereotypes, they are
damaging to women since soror­ities
are women's organizations.
Portraying women as "unintel­ligent,
insincere, clones, dumb
and dingy" - no matter what fra­ternal
organization they belong
to - is damaging enough. Isn't It
time that we quit contributing
to our own suppression and
unite to promote our rights?
Until we stop classifying indi­viduals
on the basis of the orga­nization
they wish to identify
with, equality in the workplace
and on the college campus will
never be obtained.
Dana Wilson. 03 PG/GSY
Quote of the week
"Mental resources are scarce. There's a counseling center that has a short-term intervention pro­gram,
but they don't see suicidal clients. I think that's a serious mistake because what that does
Is further cut people off from their natural environment, and one of the things we know is that iso­lation,
loneliness and withdrawal are the contexts that increase suicidal behavior." - Barry
Burkhart, psychology professor
The week in history
10 years ago, 1979: Auburn's Board of Trustees voted to "hold the line" with a conditional
$53.9 million state appropriations budget. The budget was the same as the previous year's budget
Gov. Fob James said all the state Institutions would have to "hold the line" because state funds
were not available.
25 years ago, 1964: Students adopted a new Student Body Constitution by an overwhelming
majority. The new constitution made Miss Auburn the official hostess of the University, formed a
Freshman Advisory Council and allowed for a legislative branch of the student government consist­ing
of six senators.
50 years ago, 1939: A front page photo on the front page of The Plainsman featured Alabama
Polytechnic Institute's polo team, "the only one in the South."
Also this week, Chewacla park officials announced they would begin charging admission to the
park - 10 cents for adults and 5 cents for children ages 6-12. A season ticket cost $1. The park
boasted a lake, playing fields (for baseball, volleyball and horseshoes), picnic grounds with fire­places
and shelters and five furnished stone cabins for rental.
Socialism doesn't insure rights
Editor, The Plainsman:
In The Plainsman last week,
Nick Benge of the Auburn
Democratic Socialists (DSA)
beseeched us, for the sake of
our own Interest, to support
both socialism and the union
strike against Eastern Airlines.
The management tactics of
Frank Lorenzo may be question­able
- good employee relations
are usually desirable to attain.
Nevertheless, the economic
realities are that Eastern is a
money-losing operation ($1.5
billion since deregulation): I.e.
the flying public Is not willing to
pay what it cost Eastern to fry
them. Faced with Eastern's
losses of $1 million a day, a
competitive business must sell
assets and/or cut costs.
Last year. Eastern's wages,
salaries and benefits represent­ed
37.4 percent of operating
revenues, the highest in the
industry. Eastern wants to cut
wages by 20 percent and there­by
guarantee the Jobs of 11,435
employees. Machinists and bag­gage
handlers are currently paid
$18.83 and $15.60 an hour
respectively.
Mr. Benge disdains the fact
that wages and jobs are subject
to consumer demand and busi­ness
profits.
The machinists and baggage
handlers evidently have a right
to their jobs and salaries
regardless of whether the public
is ready and willing to compen­sate
them for their services.
It appears that Mr. Benge and
the DSA have given up trying to
convince us that it Is In our self
Interest for government to oper­ate
industries. Nationalization
of industry proved disastrous in
Great Britain and throughout
the world. Rather, he advocates
a seemingly more benign motion
of socialism - a paternalistic
system of state-imposed "checks
and balances" in the market
economy.
Here the original purpose of
"checks and balances" to protect
individual rights against Intru­sion
has been reversed as a way
to give credence to the idea of
more government intervention
In economic life. It Is not diffi­cult
to see that this will destroy
the original intent of "checks
and balances."
Not surprisingly, Mr. Benge is
proposing the fascist variant of
socialism where private owner­ship
exists on paper, but in fact
government has the ultimate
control over Industry. It is dis­turbing
that this variant of
socialism appears to be popular
among socialists, liberals and
even conservatives today.
I will honor a worker's right to
organize collectively and volun­tarily
- and peacefully deal with
management. I will also recog­nize
Mr. Benge's right to boycott
Eastern and Continental Air­lines
as he proposes.
But will Mr. Benge recognize
an Individual's right to earn and
keep profits and to conduct his
own business and affairs
according to his own convic­tions?
All of these individual
rights are guaranteed and
protested under capitalism. The
same cannot be said for inter-ventionism
and socialism.
John McCauie, 09 EC
Auburn Students of Objectivism
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Students try to end Auburn's inaccessibility
Disabled fight campus barriers
By Julie Gregg
Staff Writer
Some are in wheelchairs,
and some are without,
but several students and
faculty are meeting because of
their concern about the needs
of the disabled students and
faculty at Auburn.
Each presents problems con­cerning
the accessibility of
Auburn and possible solutions
to ensure the handicapped
access to their classes.
The circumstances leading to
the wheelchair-bound situation
of three of the young men may
help you Identify with them
more:
August, 1982: Mac McCul-lough
dove Into a swimming
pool and broke his neck.
May, 1986: Danny Powell was
thrown 80 feet from a car when
it slid off the road.
August, 1986: Ellis Carpenter
was working on a service project
when a roof collapsed on him.
Each accident resulted in
paralysis, confining all three
students to wheelchairs, but
they still attend their classes
regularly...at least they try to.
Accessibility problems some­times
prevent them from
attending classes.
For example, when an eleva­tor
is not working, there Is no
way for a physically handi­capped
person to get to class.
McCullough could not get to his
economics class when the eleva­tor
in Thach Hall was not work­ing.
Something as simple as a
stairway with no handrail can
prevent or frustrate access for a
disabled student.
To help ensure that needs of
this nature concerning the
handicapped are met, a com­mittee
was established: The
University Committee for Per­sons
with Disabilities.
The resources
available dictate
the slow process
of completing the
projects.'
| -George Emert
The committee's main con­cern
right now is the accessi­bility
of Mary Martin and Sam-ford
halls, according to Mary
Dyers, a graduate student
working with the office of spe­cial
programs.
Both of these buildings are
completely inaccessible, said
McCullough.
After the needs are defined,
the process for completing the.
requests is a slow one. 'There
are only so many things our
system can handle at one time,"
Dr. George Emert, executive vice
president of Auburn, said in a
presentation before the commit­tee.
'You (the committee) are
identifying more things than we
can handle at this time.
"The resources available dic­tate
the slow process of com­pleting
the projects," Emert
said.
The University is required by
law to provide equal rights to
handicapped students. Howev­er,
the law states that only the
programs have to be accessible
by the handicapped, according
to Grant Davis, assistant dean
of the administrative office of
student affairs and adviser on
section 504 of the Rehabilitation
Act.
This act requires the Universi­ty
to provide accessible ramps
or lifts to all new buildings con­structed
after the law was
passed, Davis said. This also
includes major renovations.
The guidelines in the Rehabil­itation
Act are not clear, accord­ing
to Charles Muller, architect
at the physical plant. There are
some gray areas when deter­mining
which renovations are
substantial enough to be legally
binding, he said.
Mary Martin Hall is awaiting
the redesign of a ramp which
would make the first floor
accessible. This would provide
access mainly to the admissions
office. The financial aid office
located on the second floor
made arrangements to accom-
Awareness
week helps
bridge gaps
By Julie Gregg
Staff Writer
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Staff photo by Stacy Moore
Mensi gets into her specially equipped van
modate the needs by meeting
the students on the first floor,
Emert said.
Mary Martin also houses the
office of the registrar, the place­ment
service and counseling
services.
Samford Hall is not accessible
either, but no apparent changes
are in progress. This building
houses the president's office.
And when McCullough want­ed
to talk with Emert, a meeting
had to be scheduled at a differ­ent
location because McCul­lough
could not get Into Sam-ford.
See ACCESS, page B-2
April 24, many will
begin building a bridge
- a bridge that will fill in
the gap betwee