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hursday, September 29,1994 Volume 101, Number 1, 68 pages
Horse industry
means big bucks
for Alabama
„ By Ashley Estes
News Editor
A study by an Auburn professor
has revealed that Alabama's horse
industry contributes $1.6 billion
per year to the state's economy.
Joseph Molnar, an alumni pro­fessor
in agricultural economics
and rural sociology, directed the
» Alabama Agricultural Experiment
Station study. He said that
although the Birmingham Race
Course contributes significantly to
income generated by the horse
industry, other private horse
shows and horse ownership play
a large part, as well.
"Actually if s shows and the use
and care of horses. We're kind of a
Western-style state," Molnar said.
The study found that produc­tion
and care of horses generates
demand for many products.
Horse owners must pay for food
and veterinary care, among other
expenses, said Molnar. Also,
Alabama horse shows and compe­titions
influence tourist spending.
Molnar attributes Alabama's
horse-related income to interest in
activities such as polo in
Huntsville and Birmingham, as
well as "skill events," which gen­erate
spending by horse owners
and spectators.
The horse-care industry
employs about 1,000 people, said
Molnar. Additionally, hundreds of
temporary jobs are created for
special events.
There are more than 76,000
horses in Alabama, most of which
are race, show, and recreational
horses. An average of $15,390 is
spent annually on each racehorse,
$11,005 on each showhorse and
$3,140 for each recreational horse.
"If s expensive to own a horse,"
said Molnar.
The study estimated that
Alabama spends more than $188
See HORSES / A-3
University quiet in Walton investigation
CONTRIBUTED PHOTO
Walton
By Jan CBffbrd and Greg Walker
Edtor, Associate News Editor
The big question on campus these days is,
"Will Jack Walton soon be former Auburn
Police Chief Walton?"
No one seems to know the answer, and as
far as the Auburn administration is con­cerned,
no one will until Walton is either ter­minated
from his position or reinstated.
In a telephone interview, Walton confirmed
he was on administrative leave at this time.
"As far as I know, I'm still on administrative
leave. I have not been notified otherwise," he
said.
Walton added he was unsure of the reasons
for his administrative leave.
AUPD Capt. Charles Nevin said he was not
at liberty to discuss the matter, and until he
was notified otherwise, he would serve as act­ing
chief in Walton's absence.
"I will be here for an indefinite period of
time," Nevin said.
Labeling the circumstances as a "personnel
matter," University officials have refused to
comment.
Pete Pepinsky, executive director of
University Relations, explained Aubum's pol­icy
of protecting the privacy of its employees'
job status.
"Anything involving (Walton's) status is a
personnel matter and therefore cannot be dis­closed,"
Pepinsky said.
Jim Ferguson, vice president of administra­tive
services, echoed Pepinsky's statement
when contacted about Walton.
"I wouldn't be at liberty to give you any­thing
at all on that matter," Ferguson said.
Darwin Liverance, director of University
personnel services defined administrative
leave as "a category one can be put into and
receive pay status without providing services
to the University for a specified period of
time."
Neither Pepinsky nor Ferguson clarified the
nature of Walton's unexpected administrative
leave.
On Aug. 21, the Opelika-Auburn News printed
See POLICE CHIEF / A-3
• OFFICIALS, SPEAK UP: Editorial calls
for openness on Walton matter
Page A-16
The Auburn Plainsman/BRIAN FITZSIMMONS
School's in.
Leaves aren't the only things changing with the beginning of autumn. This fall
quarter started earlier requiring students to meet their class expectations sooner.
Street vending may be curbed
because of little-known City
Code article now enforced
By David Kegnger
Staff Writer
Auburn sidewalks will now be
bare of vendors selling T-shirts,
class rings, clothes, bicycles and
other items.
Article X of the Auburn City
Code passed in 1975 deals with the
sale of wares on public right-of-ways.
Until recently, the ordinance
had not been enforced, even
though it has been on the books for
almost 20 years.
"I've been aware of it for a long
time. Nobody really worried about
it. It was no big deal," Trey
Johnston, owner of J&M Bookstore,
said of the city policy.
Johnston, also a member of City
Council, said he was notified the
day before school started that the
policy would now be enforced.
'The Codes Enforcement guy
caught a vendor illegally selling T-shirts
before the LSU game.
He turned and said, Took at
those guys selling programs.' One
thing lead to another, and an
abrupt decision was made,"
Johnston said.
"We always have several ven­dors
outside set up the first few
days of classes. We had already
scheduled AT&T, ArtCarved class
rings and Compaq for that week­end.
'The Compaq guy finally called
from Wisconsin and cancelled. We
didn't know what to tell him,"
Johnston said.
J&M is not the only business in
downtown Auburn that will be
affected. According to the code,
any business on College Street
between Thach and Glenn avenues
and Magnolia Avenue between
Wright and Gay streets is subject.
The confusion was shared by
Olin L. Hill, owner of The Man
With The Tape.
Hill said he hates to bring his
clothes racks inside, but he agrees
with the ruling.
"I think they wanted to make the
See STREET/A-3
* Car accident claims life of student
1 Auburn student
r dead after truck
•Ot
overturns
By Nicole Capps
r
Ass&anf Copy Editor
Cameron Reed Callahan, 04PO,
from Mobile died Aug. 20 in
Opelika in a one-car accident.
" C a m e r o n
was the type
of person, if
you met him
you would
know him in
10 minutes,"
said Clay
Will i a m s ,
(MAC, a friend
of Callahan's.
According to a report filed by
the Opelika Police Department,
Callahan and two fraternity broth­ers,
Kevin Owens, 02PO, and Brett
Megginson, 04FYO, were return­ing
from Grand National Golf
Course when
Owens' truck
tires dropped
on to the shoul­der
of North
Auburn Road.
B e f o r e
Owens could
get the truck
back on the
road, the truck
//
C- ctmeron zoos the type of
person, if you met him, you
mould know him in 10
minutes
CLAY WILLIAMS
Friend of Callahan's
Callahan
caught the cor­ner
of a bridge just east of the
Opelika Water Treatment Plant
and overturned.
Owens was treated and
released, while Megginson was
hospitalized. Both have returned
to classes. Callahan was pro­nounced
dead at the scene.
Callahan started Auburn four
years ago as a freshman. He was
active in the College Republicans
and his fraternity, Kappa Sigma.
He was to graduate this year with
a Bachelor's in political science
and planned on going to law
school.
"He wasn't a spectator, " said
Williams. "He
would find him­self
in a situa­tion
and come
out directing it."
H i s
father, United
S t a t e s
Congressman
Sonny Callahan
said, "He
enjoyed life."
Williams
describes Callahan as outgoing,
sincere and so good with people
that no matter where he went, he
knew someone, and everyone
remembered him.
Congressman Callahan said his
son "loved the water. He lived to
swim and ski." He also hunted
and fished with his family and
friends.
Kappa Sigma President John
Seibt, 04FI, said, "He liked to have
a good time. He lived the college
and fraternity life to the fullest."
Incumbent
Dempsey wins
mayor election
By Diane Hkkey
Graphics Editor
After months of campaigning, the
race for mayor came to a close Aug.
23, with Jan Dempsey winning the
race with 2,671 votes.
Close behind Dempsey was
Wanda West, a local business
owner. West received 1,446 votes,
113 of which were cast by absentee
ballot. Dempsey received 147
absentee votes.
Robert Schaeffer, the third candi­date
in the race and an Auburn pro­fessor
of psychology, received 322
votes, 16 of which were absentee
votes.
"I certainly liked the outcome (of
the race)," Dempsey said.
Dempsey has served 14 years,
one two-year term and three four-year
terms, as mayor of Auburn.
She has begun her fifth term as
mayor.
West was disappointed at the
outcome of the race.
"I thought there would be a
runoff between me and the mayor.
I thought it would be closer,
although I was very pleased with
the 1,400 votes I did get," West
said.
However, West did say her polit­ical
career is not over. "I will most
likely be back because I still see
things that need to be done."
West also was frustrated with
the absentee voting system.
"It is absolutely too difficult for
a resident to vote absentee. It was
difficult for the students to go up
to the mayor's office and vote,"
West said.
"Some of (the students) were
The Auburn Plainsman/DIANE HICKEY
treated rudely," she said.
Besides her frustration with the
absentee voting system, West was
concerned about the entire voting
system.
"Everything had to be done from
the Mayor's office. Alabama needs
an Election Governing Board," she
said.
"If you're running for office, you
should have nothing to do with (the
voting process),"she said.
Dempsey was satisfied with the
number of absentee votes. "The
absentee was about the same as
other election years,"she said.
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LOCAL
Auburn attorney loses license after failing to appear for public reprimand
Auburn attorney Jack F. Saint surrendered his license to practice law in the state of Alabama
in August, said J. Anthony McLain, a spokesman for the Alabama State Bar Association.
Saint failed to appear before the Bar to receive a public reprimand, one of the ways the Bar
Association can punish attorney violations, McLain said.
This disbarrment comes after more than one incident of professional misconduct, McLain said.
LOCAL
Company, University bridge language barrier with program for employees
Auburn University and Diversified Products, Inc., have developed an English-as-a-Second-
Language Program to assist non-English speaking employees.
The employee-students will contribute their time and the cost of their books. The industry will
contribute part of the employees' work time, teaching materials, space, utilities and the cost of
instructors. Auburn will develop the teaching plan and pay part of the administrative costs.
STATE
Police arrest seven, seize drugs, cars, cash in raid after 2 month investigation
MONTGOMERY — Seven people are in custody and three more people are sought after the
Sept. 23 drug raids, a part of "Operation Earnest and Ollie/'which is an investigation police say
has been ongoing since July.
Nine ounces of crack cocaine, four guns, money and automobiles were seized by police.
The seven face charges including trafficking in illegal drugs and unlawful distribution of a
controlled substance. Bonds set for the suspects range from $75,000 to $1.15 million.
— Compiled from Montgomery Advertiser news reports
STATE
Arsonist spared electric chair after setting fire that trapped two children
MONTGOMERY — Edward Earl Howard, 39, was convicted Saturday of setting a fire that
killed two children, but jurors spared him the electric chair.
After eight hours of deliberation, a jury found Howard guilty of murder, but not capital mur­der,
which carries the death penalty.
Howard was accused of setting a fire outside his estranged common-law wife's apartment
building. The fire spread up the stairwell, trapping the children.
Laurasenia Thompson, 11, died in the fire. Monterio Pearson died two days later in a
Birmingham hospital.
— Compiled from Montgomery Advertiser news reports
Street Continued from page A1
city look more dignified," Hill
said.
He said the city has allowed
vendors to sell outside on game
days and on special days.
"At least they allow us to sell
during ballgames."
Chris Hinds of Southside
Bicycles said although he regular­ly
had bicycles on display on the
sidewalk, he doesn't expect his
business to be hurt by the ruling.
"People buying bikes are going
to shop around anyway," Hinds
said.
"From what I understand, it
was primarily about safety, so
none of the businesses would get
sued.
"On football game days, there's
more people out the* 3, and thaf s
when they let us (sell outside).
They're the worst days to do it,"
Hinds said.
So far. the students' reaction to
the abrupt enforcement is mixed.
"It makes it easier for me to
dodge pedestrians when I ride my
bike on the sidewalk," Brad
Shuford, 04NFS, said.
Trip Montgomery, 03HHP, dis­agreed
with the law. "I think that
once a business is established and
it pays taxes, it shouldn't be a
problem.
"I think it looks good for
Auburn; it gives us character and
if s good for business," he added.
The exception for game days
was established after the Chamber
of Commerce sent a letter to the
Codes Enforcement department
asking that local business be
cleared on home-game Saturdays.
Horses Continued from page A1
million annually on horse care.
The Birmingham Race Course
paid $1.8 million in revenue to
state and local governments last
year. The year's admissions, bets
and concessions pulled in almost
$46 million.
Most of the horses raced at the
Police Chief
course were from out of state.
Horse owners and trainers spent a
considerable amount of time and
money in Alabama.
Alabama boasts 67 saddle clubs,
which sponsor at least 100 shows
per year. The shows were respon­sible
for $9.7 million last year.
Continued from page A1
Also, the state's 56 rodeos gen­erated
about $4.2 million, the
study said.
Molnar's study estimated that
every dollar spent in the horse
industry creates a "ripple effect"
that stimulates demands in other
horse-related areas.
excerpts from a letter Ferguson
allegedly wrote to Walton con­cerning
the matter.
According to the O-A News, the
letter read: "You are hereby placed
on administrative leave with pay
with no further authority, duties
or responsibilities as chief of
police."
When asked if he wrote the let­ter
or had knowledge of such a let­ter,
Ferguson reiterated his previ­ous
position on the matter with a
firm "no comment."
Also included in the Aug. 21
article were excerpts from an
internal memorandum sent by
Walton to his staff, which read: "..
Aug. 15, I met with all supervi­sors
and informed them that my
termination was pending immedi­ately.
"I had been told by Dr.
Ferguson . . . Aug. 12 that he
would terminate my employment
. . . Aug. 15 . . . if I did not resign. I
did not resign. I was not terminat­ed."
Walton said he does not have
the letters in his possession at this
time.
"I don't have the letters. I post­ed
those at the police department
before I left," Walton said.
Walton declined further com­ment
on the advice of his legal
counsel, Mays Jemison and Kenny
Mendelsohn, both of
Montgomery.
Jemison, who gave no formal
statement, explained briefly the
nature of Walton's case.
"Nobody has accused
him of doing anything criminally
wrong. It is a civil personnel mat­ter,"
Jemison said.
Jemison added that the decision
was in the hands of the University.
"The University has put Chief
Walton on administrative leave
with pay pending an outcome of a
personnel matter," he said.
"When they arrive at a (deci­sion),
they're either going to put
Jack back to work or they're not.
They're either going to terminate
him or they're not," Jemison said.
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By Chris Wflktrson
Staff Writer
Who can forget the days of ele-i
mentary school music class?
Artistic outlets included
Thanksgiving turkeys made of
. construction paper. Right before
Christmas, kids make Rudolph the
red- nosed reindeer out of the con­struction
paper they did not use in
November.
Though these classes may have
seemed insignificant at the time,
Nancy Barry, an assistant profes­sor
in the department of curricu­lum
and teaching, believes they
play a tremendous role in building
self-esteem. Barry researches the
connection between artistic cre­ativity
and self- esteem.
Barry and her students at
Auburn go to area schools with­out
creative arts programs and try
to improve students' self-images
through the arts.
Barry's project is intended to
"(help) the child explore beauty
through arts and to promote self-esteem
and foster creativity. "
Working closely with teachers is
another aspect of the program, she
said.
By getting together with the
teachers before a visit, Barry can
individualize a program for each
session. Each age group and area
has different needs, so a different
approach is necessary for specific
schools.
Children take part in activities
such as singing, dancing, acting
and creative writing.
Cultural studies and history are
emphasized in activities. For
instance, when making masks,
students learn about masks from
different cultures and their uses.
Then the students are given mate­rial
to make a new and different
mask with its own history and use,
she said.
"In the traditional classroom set­ting,
even if the arts are there, they
are detached. This program pre­sents
arts holistically," Barry said.
Many learning modes are
involved in hopes that a diverse
program will lead to 100-percent
involvement from the class.
One of the most important parts
of this program is the students'
involvement, Barry said. The pro­jects
are challenging and open-ended
so the child feels a sense of
accomplishment.
Since there are many different
ways to create art, and none of
them are wrong, all are successful.
Another important aspect of the
program is the process of reward­ing
creative thinking.
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Children can improve their self-image through the arts.
"When a student creates, there is
a wonderful intrinsic reward in
knowing you've done something
well," she said.
Some of the program's goals
include teaching students to work
well with others, value others' tal­ents
and give and receive con­structive
criticism.
Barry did much of her research
at Florida State University where
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Through student interviews,
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Becky Benton directs the
East Alabama Task Force.
Program
aids abused
women
ByAshkyEstes
NewsEdtor
The East Alabama Task Force
for Battered Women can pro­vide
an excellent opportunity
for students who are interested
in volunteer work.
The task force offers a 24-
hour hotline for women who
have been victims of abuse
from a husband or boyfriend.
Women who call the hotline for
help can talk to a counselor.
Becky Benton, executive
director of the program, said,
'The first question we ask is,
'are you in a safe location?' If
not, then they need to get to a
safe location." She added that
women should call a local law-enforcement
office for trans­portation
to safety.
The task force serves Lee,
Macon, Randolph, Chambers
and Tallapoosa counties.
"Most of our cases come from
Lee County, but then again, Lee
County is the most populated
county (we serve)," Benton
said.
The task force also operates
Safehouse, a confidential, tem­porary
shelter for women and
children who are victims of
abuse. While staying at the
shelter, women receive counsel­ing
and job assistance. Women
may stay at the shelter for a
maximum of 30 days.
Last year, 604 women called
the hotline. Of those, 104
women received shelter. T h e
shelter location is undisclosed
for security reasons.
If a woman can go to another
location, such as a relative's
house, she is encouraged to do
so.
Benton said abuse is not con­fined
to one economic level.
"It cuts through all economic
levels and through all educa­tional
levels," she said. "We've
helped wives of University pro­fessors
and welfare mothers."
University students also call
the hotline, Benton said.
"A lot of times, a girl will call
after an abusive incident when
she's back at her dorm, or when
he's left for class, if she lives
with him."
Recently, the task force has
implemented an educational
program for area schools.
"We try to find a class — say,
a lOth-grade health class — that
all the students pass through
throughout the year," Benton
said.
"We're trying to find some
college-age male volunteers
who would be willing to talk to
these students and say, 'hey, if s
not cool to treat a lady this
way.'"
The program also touches on
other types of abuse, such as
emotional and sexual.
Women typically leave an
abusive relationship five to
seven times before they leave it
for good, Benton said.
Society's attitude toward
abuse continues to be the most
surprising aspect of Benton's
job, she said.
"I like to think that ifs chang­ing,
but people still think that
what goes on behind closed
doors is not their business.
"Domestic violence is not a
male problem, and ifs not a
female problem. Ifs a people
,problem."
Outreach program to offer students GRE classes
By Ashley Estes
News Editor
Students who are worried about
the Graduate Record Exam can
find help in the Graduate
Outreach Program.
The program offers GRE classes
to help students prepare for the
test.
"We have not been able to get
the word out to the students as
well as we would like," said
Cheryl Hulsey, program developer
for the Outreach Program office.
"Many people take the GRE in
fall when they're planning to go to
school the next year," Hulsey said.
The class is offered each quarter.
Classes consist of four Saturday
meeting sessions.
This quarter's class is being held
for students who plan on taking
the GRE Dec. 10.
Classes meet in Haley Center,
Hulsey said. This quarter, classes
meet on away-game weekends,
except for the Arkansas game
weekend.
"We can't guarantee (the class
will raise a student's score)
because we don't know how much
work students will put into the
course," Hulsey said.
"We found that those who
attended regularly and did the
work were satisfied with the
results," said Hulsey.
The classes review math, verbal
skills, logic and quantitative com­parisons.
Different schools require differ­ent
GRE scores, and some schools
require different scores to enter
Master's and doctorate degree
programs, Hulsey said.
This quarter's classes will be
held each Saturday from Oct. 8-29.
Each session will begin at 9 a.m.
and end at 5 p.m.
Deadline for registration for this
quarter's classes is Sept. 30.
The class costs $175, and a $10
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New Auburn license plates feature the traditional Auburn logo instead of Samford Hall.
Auburn license plate sales on rise
ByTferryKrinvic
Stiff Writer
A new design and a new cam­paign
has sparked a sudden inter­est
in Auburn license plates.
No longer is Samford Hall on
the tag, but a new, easily recog­nized
interlocking AU logo has
attracted many first-time buyers.
"In the past, students have
expressed that the Samford Hall
designed tag was only significant
if you were familiar with the cam-pus/'
said Mike Jernigan, coordi­nator
of marketing for the tags.
The new design is more congru­ent
with other campus logos and
is recognizable throughout the
state.
Mike DeMent of the University
printing department and Jernigan
collaborated to come up with the
new design.
Both last year's undefeated
football season and the new
design have heightened interest in
the new tags.
Jernigan said he launched a
more aggressive marketing cam­paign
to promote sales.
He has expanded advertising to
include football programs and
alumni publications.
Jernigan then approached
Auburn business students for a
positive new marketing strategy
to spark student interest.
Student market research provid­ed
a new approach to tag sales: a
focus on the scholarship fund.
This year alone, the tags have
provided 30 academic scholar­ships
and raised more than $2 mil­lion.
All Auburn tags are tax
deductible, and of the $50 cost,
$48.75 comes back to Auburn
for an endowment.
The scholarship program is
available to in-state freshmen who
qualify academically.
The bill for the program was
first put through the Legislature in
1988.
Last year, the program graduat­ed
its first two recipients.
' I f s a popular way to show
support," Jernigan said. "Alabama
has been one of the more succssful
states using this program.
The tags appealed to a relatively
untapped market, but now with a
goal, promoting student scholar­ships,
this new campaign has been
a success.
"The money grossed on tag
sales this year has exceeded my
expectancy," Jernigan said.
Purchasing an Auburn tag is
easy; they are available at all coun­ty
probate judges' offices.
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Husband and wife team up to study bell peppers
By Charles Runnefls
Assistant News Editor
Bell peppers in a multitude of
colors could be a new cash crop for
Alabama, as well as an excellent
source of nutrition, say a husband-and-
wife team of University
researchers.
Horticultural specialist Eric
Simonne has grown different col­ors
of bell peppers under various
conditions and compared their
performances.
His research tests the peppers'
ability to grow in the Alabama cli­mate,
he said.
Simonne's wife, food scientist
Mary Simonne, has analyzed the
peppers for nutritional content.
Not only do the peppers grow
well in Alabama, they are also a
good source of nutrition, Mr.
Simonne said.
The peppers grow as well as the
traditional green pepper in
Alabama, he said.
"Most bell peppers are sold as
green peppers," Mr. Simonne said.
But the different-colored peppers
offer variety and a price as much
as five times that of their green
counterparts, which could boost
Alabama's farming economy.
"That would present a potential
for Alabama growers to have a
new crop and increase their poten­tial
income," he said.
"The major challenge comes
from the post-harvest period,
what happens once you remove
them from the plant."
No information currently exists
on this aspect of colored bell pep­pers,
he added.
Mr. Simonne measured the color
of the peppers with a machine so
that, no matter where they are
grown, a standard for classifying
them by color will exist.
"Rather than a subjective mea­surement,
it becomes an objective
measurement," he said.
"We need to instruct Alabama
growers how to handle them."
This includes information on
growing, handling and packaging,
Mr. Simonne said.
Mrs. Simonne, on the other
hand, has researched the nutri­tional
side of colored bell peppers.
"There's a lot of difference in
variety," she said. 'Tor vitamin C,
they range from 100 percent of the
Recommended Daily Allowance
to 300 percent per 100 grams."
Of the already vitamin C-rich
varieties of colored bell peppers,
orange ones have the most, Mrs.
Simonne said.
Nutritional studies like this help
people by showing which foods
are healthiest, she said.
Recent studies have shown that
vitamins C and E, also in high con­centrations
in the peppers, help
fight cancer, she said.
"It's nutritional information for
the public," Mr. Simonne said.
In this equation, he pointed out,
"everybody wins," including
farmers, grocery stores and con­sumers.
"We're in the process of compil­ing
all the results and trying to get
it ready for a national meeting of
the Institute of Food and
Technology," Mrs. Simonne said.
The Institute meets in summer
1995 in Anaheim, Calif., she said.
The Auburn Plainsman/BRIAN FITZSIMMONS
The Simonnes think bell peppers could be a cash crop.
Although the Simonnes have
finished their research for now, it
will resume next year with more
post-harvest studies, Mr. Simonne
said.
The Simonnes met at the
University of Georgia while work­ing
on their respective doctorates,
Mr. Simonne said.
Mrs. Simonne came to the
department of nutrition and food
sciences in the College of Human
Sciences, while Mr. Simonne went
to the department of horticulture
in the College of Agriculture, Mr.
Simonne said.
"If s really a cooperation across
colleges," he said.
The bell peppers were grown at
three outlying units of the
Alabama Agricultural Experiment
Station.
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As many as 150 students could
have jobs by January 1996, when a
new small-engine plant gets
cranked up near the new Auburn
Technology Park.
Briggs and Stratton, a world­wide
manufacturer of gasoline
powered engines, will begin con­structing
its new 23,000-square-foot,
$30 million facility in
October, and the plant should be
ready to begin operating in July
1995.
The principal market for the
small, air-cooled engines is the
lawn and garden industry.
The engines are also used in go-carts,
tillers, pumps and genera­tors.
At full operation, the plant
should employ as many as 500
people and produce about 6,000
engines each day.
Watson said the new industry
will help Auburn in several ways,
including increasing employment
in the area.
"If11 provide 500 quality jobs for
residents of East Alabama, and a
lot of those jobs will affect Auburn
students," he said.
The company will specifically
target second-shift positions for
the plant toward Auburn students,
Auburn city manager Doug
Watson said.
Employees will be involved in
the assembly, sub-assembly,
stamping and painting of the
engines.
The city was chosen from a list
of more than 10 possible sites after
about a two-month campaign.
The site was chosen for a variety
of reasons, including the infra­structure
and Auburn's enthusias­tic
people, George Thompson,
director of corporate communica­tions
for Briggs and Stratton, said.
Watson added that because the
company supplies a lot of compa­nies
in the South, a plant in
Auburn will help Briggs and
Stratton be closer to its target mar­ket.
'Tor a company of the stature of
Briggs and Stratton to choose
Auburn as a place to do business
is a positive thing," Watson said.
"It will help in the future in
attracting other businesses," he
said.
The city has attracted several
businesses recently, including
Terry Farms, the world's largest
producer of Morel mushrooms,
which also will establish a farm in
Auburn's new Technology Park.
The city will be responsible for
the $1.3 million development of
the Technology Park.
Groundbreaking for the new
park was in June.
The city also offered the compa­ny
an almost $500,000 local-tax
benefit package as an incentive to
build in Auburn.
Even though the city had to
fund development of the site,
Watson thinks the new plant will
have a sizeable impact on the city,
especially on the city's tax base.
"A payroll of that size will affect
the economy, as well as the com­pany
buying products," Watson
said.
With a payroll of $12 million, the
Wisconsin-based company today
has plants in Wisconsin, Missouri,
Kentucky and in Singapore and
Mexico.
The company also is planning
two other plants in the South,
includine one on Statesboro. Ga.
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Awareness
Environmental Awareness Week
Environmental awareness week is Oct.
24-28. In conjunction with the week,
:the Student ;G6^fnrnen|As^ociauon^^ is.
sponsoring an information table on the
concourse during the week. The encore
movie of the week is Medicine Man.
This movie is a presentation of environ­mental
awareness week to illustrate the
harmful effects of rainforest destruction.
Alcohol Awareness Week
Alcohol:; awareness week is Oct, 17-21. :
The week is co-sponsored by SGA and
Drake Student Health Center. On Oct.
17, a wrecked automobile will be on
trie concourse filled with beer cans.
Students will be asked to guess the
number of cans inside the car. The stu­dent
with the closest guess wins a
prize. IFC and Panhelienic are sponsor­ing
;a ;;Mocktail Contest on Oct. 18.
There will be an open bar of non-alco­holic
drinks to try your recipe. Mr. Ben
Padgett will speak at the coliseum at :
7:0Q p.m. Oct. 18. Yince and Larry, the
crash dummies, will be on the con­course
with information on Oct 19.
The AU theater will perform, also. On
Oct. 20 a luminary will be on Wire Rd.
for every alcohol-related death in
Alabama last year.
TODAY
Letter From The President
World AIDS Day
Volunteers will distribute red ribbons
on the concourse and in Foy Union on
•Dec. 1. The ribbons represent AIDS
awareness and remembrance. Some
classes willbe encouraged to partiei-pate
in an essay contest for extra points
and prizes. For more information con­tact
Russ Beasley at 844-4240.
Dear Fellow
Students,
Welcome back to
the Plains! Fall quar­ter
is always a very
exciting time at
Auburn, and I hope
all of you are look­ing
forward to it as
much as I am. Those of you
here for your first quarter as
an Auburn student will
soon learn what a special
place Auburn is, with its
spirit and traditions. Let's
get off to a good start by
cheering the Tigers on to
another undefeated season!
On behalf of the entire
student body, I welcome
the class of 1996 to Auburn.
You are about to begin one
of the greatest experiences
of your life. However,
Auburn, like all other
things, will be what you
make of it. Get involved!
The executive officers, cab­inet
members and senators
are excited about the pro­jects
we are undertaking,
but we need help from
each of you to complete
them.
With the first full quarter
of this administration
behind us, several
key projects are
already well under
way. This summer
we focused on
researching the feasi­bility
of a new transit
system for the cam­pus
as well as the
city, city election aware­ness,
campus safety issues,
and increasing the size of
the registration phone sys­tem.
Also on the agenda are
possible solutions to biking
problems on campus.
As I said before, we at the
SGA are excited and proud
to serve you, but we need
your help. It is your SGA;
every Auburn student is a
member. You can contact
us at 844-4240 or come by
the office at 332 Foy Union.
Become involved and help
Auburn remain the out­standing
institution it has
always been. Have a great
fall quarter!
WAR EAGLE!
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Michael T Musselwhite
SGA President
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Senate Summary
This summer proved to be a time of
research for the Student Senate.
Continuing with the guiding motto of
"Building Auburn," it also proved to be
productive.
The summer's activities brought the
usual business along with some refreshing
new tasks. The Code-of-Laws was broken
down and combed for errors and neces­sary
changes as is customary for the sum­mer.
New challenges such as elections,
organizations, and school councils were also the focus of sep­arate
ad-hoc committees. Each of these proved to be a valu­able
resource for improvement.
This summer also saw many resolutions. The Alabama
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Science in Motion project supervised by two of Auburn's pro­fessors
was commended for its service to Alabama high
schools. Education reform in the state was not only the focus
of another resolution, but it was also the subject of Dean
Richard C. Kunkel's address to the Student Senate. In other
news, the baseball team was also applauded for its stellar sea­son.
The regular meetings of the student Senate are Monday
nights at 7:15 p.m. with our first meeting scheduled for
September 26. I encourage all of Auburn's students to contact
their senators and voice their opinions and concerns so that
this year the student Senate can function more productively.
You can contact me at the SGA office in 332 Foy Union or via
E-mail at sga@mail.auburn.edu. I look forward to a productive
year.
Patrick T Scarborough
SGA Vice President
Aubie Calendar On Sale
The 1995 Aubie Calendar has just been
completed and is now on sale. This
calendar promises to be one of the
best. It includes Barkley, Bowden, Dye
and, of course, Aubie. Calendars are
$5 and can be purchased by mail. *
Please send orders to Aubie, 332 Foy
Union, Auburn, AL 36830.
Please include $1.50 for shipping and
handling for each order (not each cal­endar).
Freshman Forum
Freshman Forum is a branch of
Auburn University's Student
Government Association. It is one of
the highest honors a freshman can
receive. Freshman Forum is involved
in many activities. The members
attend Senate and Cabinet meetings,
compose a newsletter for freshmen
and take part in community projects.
Freshman Forum is a great way to
meet new people and get involved at
Auburn. Applications are currently
available in the SGA office.
Great American Smokeout
This year the Great American
Smokeout is on Nov. 17. A kick-the-habit
obstacle course will be on the
concourse. Students can compete in
obstacles such as the "butt stomp,",
"tobacco tunnel" and the "pipeline."
For more information contact Russ
Beasley at 844-4240
Volunteer's Drive
Volunteers drive will be Oct. 3-5.
There will be a brief orientation at
Langdon Hall. All projects will be
explained, and applications will be
available. Volunteering for an SGA
committee is a great way to get
involved with your campus and meet
new people. Remember it is your SGA,
so get involved.
Better Relations Day
Each year the various student leaders
at Auburn get together with student
leaders from other schools. The pur­pose
is to improve relations between
schools and exchange ideas. This year
Auburn's student leaders will travel to
the University of Florida on Sept. 27.
Student leaders from the University of
Georgia will visit the Plains on Oct.
20. Our leaders will visit the University
of Alabama on Oct. 25. Good luck to
our student leaders participating in
these events.
Sept. 29 Freshman Forum Orientation
Oct. 3-5 Volunteer's drive on concourse
Oct. 7 Homecoming Nomina (5:00)
Oct. 9 1st Interviews (1st Day)
(Oct. 10 1 st Interviews (2nd Day)
Oct. 10 Top 20 Announcements (10:00-Cater Hall)
::;Oct.;;Tbp 20 Interviews
Oct. 13 Top 5 Announcements (7:00-Pep Rally)
Oct. 13 Freshman Fornrri Applicatioris due
Oct. 13 Auburn/Florida pep rally
Oct. 15 Campaign Preparation Can Begin
Oct. 16-22 National collegiate alcohol
awareness week
Oct. 17 Drawings for color, ballet position
and concourse time
Oct. 18 Homecoming Pictures Made
Oct. 21 Publicity contacts due (5:00)
Oct. 24 Freshman Forum top 30 announcement
Oct. 24-28 Environmental awareness week
Oct. 26 Hey Day
Oct. 28 Freshman Forum members announcement
Oct. 28 ^burn/'Arkansas pep rally
Oct. 31 Campaigns Begin (3:00)
Budgets Due (4:00)
Nov. 1 Concourse Time 11:00/12:00/1:00
Nov. 3 Concourse Time 11:00/12:00
Campaigns End (9:00)
Nov. 3 Native American Day
Nov. 4 K u t e pep rally
Nov. 5 Elections for Miss Homecoming
Nov. 11 Burn the B^Udogsparade and pep rally
Nov. 15-161 3ohe rnarrow drive
Nov. 17 Great American Smokeout
Dec. 1 World AIDS Day
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By Ashley Estes
News Edtor
With help from the University, a
Eufaula entrepreneur has been
able to expand marketing of her
product both nationally and inter­nationally.
Sportz Bloc, a flesh-colored zinc-oxide
sunblock, is "probably the
most natural sunblock under the
sun," Martha McKenzie, its cre­ator,
said.
McKenzie, a former Miss
Alabama runner-up, thought of
the idea for the sunblock in 1990
when she was a swimming
teacher.
"I had been working out in the
sun, teaching swimming, and I
used to put white zinc oxide on
my face. I used to scare the chil­dren
when I had that on my face.
"When they came out with the
bright-colored zinc oxide, I used to
used that, but I figured there had
to be something I could put on my
face so I wouldn't look like a
clown," McKenzie said.
McKenzie worked with a
chemist for a year to develop
Sportz Bloc.
Tm not a chemist, but I knew
what I wanted," she said.
The end result is a flesh-colored,
zinc-oxide sunblock that is sweat-proof,
waterproof, non-toxic and
won't sting eyes.
McKenzie has formulated three
different shades to match skin
tone.
"You can mix shades to match
your skin tone," she said.
Sportz Bloc blocks all
Ultraviolet A and Brays, as well
as infrared sun rays.
"It keeps a great matte finish
when it gets wet," McKenzie said.
Sportz Bloc also can be used to
cover scars and even out skin tone,
she said.
When the Persian Gulf War
began, McKenzie got calls from
dermatologists who were con­cerned
about the U.S. troops head­ing
to Saudi Arabia.
Sportz Bloc caught on with sol­diers
because it is sand-colored
and doesn't reflect sunlight.
McKenzie contacted Auburn's
Small Business Development
Center for help when she first
began marketing her product.
"I knew that the SBDC helped
small businesses, and I contacted
them," she said.
McKenzie worked with various
University departments on
MARTHA MCKENZIE
Eufaula Entrepreneur and Inventor
marketing strategy and public
relations.
"Auburn was instrumental in
helping me and helping me under­stand
marketing," she said.
McKenzie continues to refer to
Auburn whenever she has a prob­lem.
"I still run into obstacles every
now and then, but the important
thing is, you can't give up."
Sportz Bloc is now available in
16 states through major drug
chains.
However, McKenzie plans on
expanding even further.
"I'm really excited about the fact
that I just signed two contracts for
national and international distrib­ution,"
McKenzie said.
While she doesn't yet know
what countries she'll be marketing
Sportz Bloc in, she said France,
Germany and Japan are possibili­ties.
Sportz Bloc is made out of state
and is marketed through
McKenzie's office in Eufaula.
Recently McKenzie has changed
Sportz Bloc's packaging from
round tubs to tubes.
McKenzie said although the
new packaging is more expensive
to make, if s more convenient.
"You don't have to worry about
the top coming off," she said.
McKenzie continues to receive
rave reviews of her new product.
"Auburn has been great as far as
publicity," she said.
"What Hike about Aubum is
even though it's such a big cam­pus,
they all work for the same
goal."
McKenzie worked not only with
the SBDC, but with marketing
Professor Danny Butler and his
international marketing class.
Students in the class do a com­plete
international marketing
analysis for a client.
Clients who use professional
analyses often pay as much as
$50,000 for the work, said Butler.
'They were very helpful,"
McKenzie said.
A half-ounce tube of Sportz Bloc
retails for $3.99 in drugstores.
McKenzie said that amount
should last several months.
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The Auburn Plainsman Thursday, September 29,1994/ A-11
Sophomore
remembers
first year
Greg Walker
So here I am back at Auburn,
and things couldn't be better.
Well, I guess they could. Hope
you guys don't mind, but I'm
going to gripe for a while and
then — well, I don't know
what then.
As I get settled in here at
school, a lot of things come to
mind. One thing I have really
been asking myself is, " How
in the world is this year going
to be better than last year?"
I had an AUsome year last
year. It was my freshman year,
and I attended my first college
football game, I wrote for The
Plainsman , which turned 100
years old, and I lived with
some great guys I had never
met before. I even worked at
Toomer's Drugs, one of the
most tradition-filled places in
Auburn.
Things were great. The free­dom
I felt here was so different
from the enclosed feeling I had
in my hometown of
Demopolis. Now don't get me
wrong, I didn't get wild last
year and do drugs or drink or
anything. I just had a great
time.
Along with the amazing
things I did, I also met some
great people.
But along with the good,
there is the bad. I do have sev­eral
regrets from last year.
I did a lot of things I wish I
hadn't done last year, like not
studying enough and not keep­ing
up with exercising.
I also let some things go I
wish I hadn't, but probably my
biggest regret is not taking
those extra three hours that
would have pushed me up to
sophomore status.
I hate meeting people who
ask me what year I am in
school because I have to say,
"Well, I'm supposed to be a
sophomore but..."
Not taking those three hours
also hurt my financial aid.
Instead of getting $3,500,1 only
get $2,650. How am I going to
pay rent on that?
Anyway, enough with the
nostalgia.
I was on the concourse
today, and I was accosted by a
lady wanting me to apply for a
Discover card. At first I said
no, but she offered me a free T-shirt.
So I said, "What the heck;
I'll just cut the card in half
when I get it."
Then a thought hit me. "Hey
you idiot, thaf s what you said
with that Visa card." I paused
for a minute and thought
about the free shirt.
Needless to say, I signed up
and got the shirt. Then another
thought hit me. "Hey, this is a
great way to add to my
wardrobe."
Images of the "Just Plant-It"
shirt I got for signing up for a
MasterCard and my AT&T
shirt danced through my head.
Granted, the shirts aren't of the
best quality, but they cover my
big belly and take dust off of
furniture as well as anything.
I think I'm going to look for
other things to sign up for so I
can get some free stuff. I don't
mind.
It is the college way, and if
you are a freshman and don't
believe me, just check the clos­ets
of upperclassmen.
I can just about promise you
will find something in there
they got for just signing on the
dotted line.
So if you spill something on
that favorite T-shirt, don't
worry. The American Express
guy will be here soon.
Greg Walker is Associate News
Editor for The Auburn
Plainsman.
Alabama to receive different area code
State runs out of telephone
numbers; southern half will
begin using 334 in January
By Ashley Estes
NewsEditor
Phone customers in South
Alabama will have a new area
code this January.
"Alabama has run out of num­bers
for the various uses and areas
of technology — car phones, cellu­lar
phones and the like," said Bill
Todd, public relations manager for
South Central Bell.
"A new area code is long over­due,
and it hit at just the right
time."
The new code will cover the
southern half of the state, includ­ing
Montgomery, Auburn,
Dothan, Andalusia and Mobile.
The state was split in this man­ner
to allow Birmingham and
Huntsville to remain in one calling
area and to group Mobile and
Montgomery together in the new
area.
"If s about a 65-35 split," Todd
said, since there are more cus­tomers
in northern Alabama.
To gain a new area code, a state
must apply to the North American
Numbering Plan, which assigns
states their area codes.
Alabama applied for a new area
code some years back, but was
denied, Todd said.
"Instead, we implemented the
10-digit dialing plan, where resi­dents
in Alabama dialed 205
before making an in-state long­distance
call," Todd said.
"But now, we are at the point
where we must have a new area
code."
Alabama's new code will be 334.
It will go into effect Jan. 15,1995.
It was impossible, said Todd, for
Alabama to receive an area code
mat contained a one or a zero. The
North American Numbering Plan
had run out of area codes contain­ing
these numbers.
.However, a four-month transi­tion
period is necessary, Todd said.
"People aren't going to be used
to the new area code."
During the transition period, a
call will go through with either the
334 or 205 area code.
On May 15,1995, calls using the
old area code will no longer go
through.
Instead, customers will receive a
recorded message instructing
them to call the new area code.
South Central Bell will conduct
an extensive information cam­paign
in late 1994 to educate cus­tomers
about the change.
"If s a sign that Alabama is pro­gressing,
and that people are using
technology," said Todd.
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Another Winn-Dixie will open near Wal-Mart next year.
Supermarket to open
at University Crossing
By Meg Conger
Assistant News Editor
Beginning March of 1995, stu­dents
will have a new place to
shop for groceries.
A new Winn-Dixie Marketplace
is being constructed and is sched­uled
to open in March of next year,
said Gus Bergstrom, director of
marketing for the Montgomery
division of the supermarket.
Construction began in June.
"(The area) is a good, growing
area of Auburn," Bergstrom said.
' I f 11 give us a better opportuni­ty
to serve the residents, students,
faculty and staff of the
University," he said.
"We've been needing one for
years and complaining that we've
had to go all the way to Kroger, so
it's great," said Kelly Freeley,
04AT.
The Winn-Dixie in the
University Crossing shopping
center will stay open, Bergstrom
said.
Even though the two stores will
be close together, he said, traffic
patterns and the growth of thi?.
area of town warrant the new
store.
Winn-Dixie officials also are
considering adding other capabili­ties
to the store, including a possi­ble
drop-off point for dry cleaning,
a one-hour photo lab and an in-store
deli, Bergstrom said.
The store could employ more
than 175 persons, Bergstrom said.
Sani-Freeze owner may change store
By Charts Runndb
Assistant News Editor
An Auburn tradition may once
again change in the near future.
Bennie Hunt, owner of the Sani-
Freeze in the South College Street
shopping center parking lot said
the restaurant may soon be moved
or changed altogether.
"The new business is not operat­ing
the way the old Sani-Freeze
did," Hunt said.
The new store lacks room for all
the items the old Sani-Freeze used
to sell, and the drive-through for­mat
of what used to be Tiger Time
xpress takes more people to
operate, he said.
Also, the higher rent makes the
place more expensive to operate,
he said.
AmSouth Bank, which has been
working with Hill and his wife
since the store moved in early
March, also factors in the equa­tion,
he said.
Hunt said the front third of the
old building was to be moved by
AmSouth and placed over the
front of the new building to pre­serve
some of the traditional feel
of the old Sani-Freeze, nicknamed
"The Flush" by students.
"It was an old, wood-frame
building, and it was built in the
mid-'30s," Hunt said.
"It had a tin-plate roof on it that
was painted green. It had person­ality."
Plans fell through on the move,
however, and the old building was
demolished in late March or early
April, he said.
The roofing material, the sign
and some of the brickwork were
salvaged, Hunt said.
The plan then was to build a
Sani-Freeze building similar to the
old one at the new location, Hunt
said.
Hunt said he and his wife told
AmSouth at several points they no
longer wanted to continue.
"On all those occasions they
reassured us and asked us to con­tinue
on with it," Hunt said.
After Hunt and his wife drew
up a plan for a new building, the
bank decided it was too expensive
and asked for a different plan, he
said.
The bank said the next floor
plan was also too extensive, he
said.
The bank proposed an alterna­tive
plan, in which it would
finance only a portion of the con­struction,
he said.
'Their new proposal only
allowed for about half of the new
structure to be finished, and it did­n't
do any of the necessary work
on the existing building," Hunt
said.
The Hunts would have had to
put $8,000 of their own money,
which they could not afford, he
said.
After the last meeting with
AmSouth, Hunt phoned the bank
and, taking the figure the bank
had given them, presented another
plan, he said.
Mike Graves, senior executive
vice president of AmSouth said,
the bank's involvement with the
Sani-Freeze began when the land
the old building was on was
leased to AmSouth as the site for a
new branch.
"When we realized the tradition
attached to the Sani-Freeze, we
made an original offer to try to
help move the front," Graves said.
AmSouth offered to pay what­ever
the cost was, although initial
estimates were from $10,000 to
$20,000.
Since the physical condition of
the old building wouldn't allow
such a move, the bank proposed to
recreate the look at the new loca­tion.
Graves said.
"In the end, it came out closer to
$50,000," he said. "What he want­ed
to do was a good bit more than
build a facade."
The bank already had invested
over $20,000 in the SaniFreeze,
Graves said.
"We just felt like we'd already
spent as much money as we could
afford."
"While we would love to see a
replica of the Sani-Freeze, there is
really no limit to the amount of
money that would be required for
that sort of operation," Graves
said.
Hunt and his wife have yet to
make a decision on the restau­rant's
future, he said.
They had hoped to make a deci­sion
before school started, he said.
The Sani-Freeze has been an
Auburn tradition since it was
opened in April 1960 by Hill's par­ents,
who still work there.
"People like the idea of being
able to come back and find some­thing
that was unique to their col­lege
years and it still be the same,"
he said.
Although the Sani-Freeze looks
different, the food and the people
serving it are the same, he said.
Students and alumni seem to
agree on the traditional value of
the Sani-Freeze.
Tom McClendon Jr., a 1979
Auburn graduate who came down
for the Auburn-LSU football
game, made a special trfp to the
Sani-Freeze with his family.
"You have to go there,"
McClendon said. "You can't leave
Auburn without going to the Sani-
Flush."
Joan Keller, a 1992 graduate,
agrees.
"We always come when my par­ents
are in town. If s a tradition in
our family."
To some, however, the Sani-
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Georgia residents, illegal alien arrested for shoplifting
By Meg Conger
Assistant News Editor
Auburn police arrested two
Georgia residents and an illegal
alien Sept. 19 in connection with
the theft of more than $5,000 of
merchandise from stores across
the state.
Danielle Words, 21, of Atlanta,
Charles Michael Julian, 26, of
Doraville, Ga., and Faramarz
Pechrak Manesh, 32, of Tehran,
were arrested and charged in the
incident.
Manesh was detained in the
Auburn City Jail until U.S. Border
Patrol took him into custody last
week.
A Glendean Drugs employee
called Auburn police about 7:30
p.m. when he noticed a woman
did not pay for items she picked
up in the store.
The police then caught and
arrested Words, Julian and
Manesh in The Corner Village
parking lot on Dean Road.
When the police searched (he
suspects' 1990 Honda Accord, offi­cers
found the razor and car­tridges,
several vaginal creams
and several vaginal suppositories
taken from Glendean Drugs.
The merchandise taken was val­ued
at more than $100.
Officers also found in the car the
merchandise missing from other
stores in the state.
Words will be charged in
Auburn Municipal Court with
misdemeanor theft and providing
false information to an officer.
Julian, who violated his proba­tion,
will be charged with provid­ing
false information to an officer,
also a misdemeanor charge.
Both will be tried in Auburn
Municipal Court.
Manesh was turned over to U.S.
Customs officials, who will decide
if he will be punished.
He will not be tried in Auburn
Municipal Court.
Additional information about
charges from other jurisdictions
was unavailable. Charges are
pending.
Auburn police representatives
were unavailable for comment
about the case.
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Approximately 110 Fort
Benning, Ga., troops were sent to
Haiti last week to assist in
Operation: Uphold Democracy,
while another group of soldiers
waits to leave, Griff Godwin, pub­lic
affairs specialist, said.
Members of the 988th Military
Police Company left Sept. 22 from
Lawson Army Airfield in Fort
Benning to join the multinational
peacekeeping effort in Haiti,
Godwin said.
The remaining members of the
988th, as well as all of the 586th
Engineer Company, were sched­uled
to start leaving Tuesday, but
were delayed until Wednesday, he
said.
Fort Benning officials
announced Sept. 14 that the two
companies would be on on alert to
leav at any moment.
The 988th Police Company usu­ally
maintains law and order, as
well as controlling traffic move­ment,
securing critical sites and
interviewing detained individu­als.
"We don't know exactly what
their mission might be," Godwin
said, "but their mission any other
time is to perform (military police)
functions."
The 586th Engineer Company
usually lays down floating bridges
over bodies of water to allow traf­fic
to cross, although it can build
fixed bridges, as well.
"The 988th's mission (probably)
revolves around security, and the
586th's probably deals with troops
getting somewhere," Godwin
said.
The duration of the troops stay
and the extent of their involve­ment
were also unknown to
Godwin.
"We're not sure when they'll be
coming back," he said.
The 988th consists of 174 troops,
while the 586th has approximately
200, he said.
The troops that left Sept. 14 took
with them their personal
weapons, several High Mobility
Multi-Purposed Wheeled
Vehicles, an all-terrain vehicle that
has replaced the military jeep, and
a two-and-one-half ton truck, he
said.
Twenty-seven members of the
988th and 38 members of the 586th
were scheduled to leave Tuesday
on a C-5 plane, the largest airplane
the Air Force has, he said.
The troops will join the 3,000
U.S. troops already in Haiti, which
include the members of the 988th
already there to insure military
leader Raoul Cedras steps down
by Oct 15.
In a settlement negotiated by
retired Gen. Colin Powell, former
President Jimmy Carter and Sen.
Sam Nunn, D-Ga., Cedras agreed
to allow the democratically-elect­ed
Jean-Bertand Aristide to return
to power.
The settlement followed intense
pressure from the United States,
including the threat of an inva­sion,
for a return to democracy in
Haiti.
About 15,000 U.S. troops are
expected to be in Haiti by the end
of the week.
Two dozen nations have also
pledged more than 4,000 troops,
United States.
The 988th Military Police
Company left Fort Benning in
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Thursday, Godwin said
The troops flew on both C-141s,
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Auburn project to stay in Haiti
By Tanya Hott
Staff Writer
A University agricultural project
in Haiti will continue despite the
threat of war.
Auburn has been involved in
the project since 1987.
In 1987, Auburn researchers
evacuated the island country.
They evacuated once again in 1991
after the coup to overthrow the
government.
The project was subsequently
suspended for a year, but the pro­ject
began again in 1992 without
interuption and should continue
until December 1995.
'The American Embassy will
decide when to get out," said Dr.
Dennis Shannon, assistant profes­sor
of agronomy and soils.
Aubum became involved in the
project through its involvement in
the Southeast Consortium for
International Development.
SECID is an association of pre­miere
universities in the south east
working to obtain funding for
research and activities overseas.
The University collaborates
with two other agencies on this
project, Care International and
Pan-American Development
Foundation. Auburn is the lead
institution for SECID in the pro­ject.
'The objective of the project is to
increase farmer income through
conservation processes and agro-forestry,"
Shannon said.
Frank Brockman, a researcher in
Auburn's department of agrono­my
and soils, was hired to man the
project.
The project is based in a rural
suburb of Port-au-Prince".
Brockman's main purpose is to
work in the fields with rural
Haitian farmers.
The researchers supply and
encourage the farmers to plant
trees.
These trees can help to control
erosion, conserve soil and be used
as fuel and lumber.
University researchers hope to
help farmers increase their crop
production and revenues. They
also hope to help farmers find
more markets for their produce.
Researchers hope by teaching
farmers about conservation they
can institute a more sustainable
agriculture.
Richard Guthrie, associate dean
of agriculture and assistant direc­tor
of international programs, said
an invasion would affect the pro­ject,
but he also believes it will
continue.
"I think the United States has a
strong interest in helping the peo­ple
of Haiti improve their food
production capabilities," said
Guthrie. "I don't believe the pro­ject
will stop."
"It's a lot of different experi­ments
all aimed at two things, sus-tainability
and productivity," said
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Auburn likes to have
its cake and eat it, too
The University made a mistake when it chose not
to choose between tonight's game and classes
Auburn makes a concerted effort to distin­guish
itself as one of the nation's finest
universities. In the last few years, we have
been concerned with proration's effect on the
learning environment. We have set up count­less
committees to search out the most quali­fied
leaders, and we have revised our core
curriculum to supercede our academic com­petitors.
Yes, Auburn is indeed concerned with the
intellectual formation and growth of its stu­dents.
But that message is a smidgen unclear
today.
It seems the football-frenzy usually rele­gated
to Saturdays invades the Plains today
— Thursday, a class day.
The bugaboo isn't football. The tension
arises from the powers-that-be's inability to
apply logic to the occasion.
As an opportunity for Auburn to receive
national attention, ESPN's offer was not
something the University could have
snubbed easily. Nor should it have!
And weighing all the components, that
decision was born. So where, Auburn, was
that same soundness when the follow-up
decision of whether to cancel classes was
made?
The Plainsman would like to offer a step-by-
step example of what it believes would
have been a systematic approach to this prob­lem.
Statement of problem: A Thursday foot­ball
game will disturb the weekly peace.
Solution a: Give students the priority. Do
not cancel classes; do not interrupt regular
parking routine. Outcome? Academic envi­ronment
left completely intact. Possible draw­back?
Traffic congestion and angry alumni.
Solution b: Give football game the priori­ty.
Cancel classes and clear all parking lots.
Outcome? Maximum game attendance.
Possible drawback? Academic environment
slightly marred.
In this case, compromise was not the way
to go. The Outcome here? Empty classrooms,
angry professors, a few, brave sore-footed
souls and many parking tickets — all of
which could have been avoided by a decision.
Students merit explanation
or pronto official decision
Auburn Police Chief Walton's effect on campus
safety makes his job status student business
Privacy is a slippery word. Wrapped up in
innate-right innuendo without ever sur­facing
as such completely, it tends to be
tossed about by those who would hide
behind its protective cloak.
Policy is another bandied term. So is proce­dure
. With the right register and inflection in
voice, it is amazing what these words can do
to stalemate curiosity. In all fairness, many
times the curiosity should be stifled if it
serves no productive purpose. Other times,
however, the curiosity is about necessary
information.
The Plainsman believes the present situa­tion
surrounding University Police Chief
Jack Walton's job status falls clearly within
the latter category.
As chief of police, Walton is/was account­able
to students for their safety. In undertak­ing
his job, he "assumed roles of especial
prominence in the affairs of society" and has
enjoyed "persuasive power and influence"
in this society — namely Auburn University.
These aren't Plainsman words; they are
U.S. Supreme Court words in Gertz v. Robert
Welch, a case that helped to define guidelines
between public officials and private individ­uals.
The private-personnel-matter meal served
on the silver "no-commenf'-policy plate is
insulting to students who have the right to
know the status of a man they understood
protected them.
How much longer, Auburn? Based on the
sketchy details that have somehow leaked
out, your personnel matter has lagged on
since late August.
Pontificate about privacy all you want, but
remember whose tuition is paying your
salaries.
Community-oriented program
deserves applause for insight
New student organization, IMPACT, aspires to make a
difference in Auburn community helping community
js- udos to a new program called
•**• IMPACT for seeing a need and doing
more than just talking about it.
IMPACT is a program sponsored by the
Student Government Association in con­junction
with Student Affairs.designed to
link students and faculty interested in
serving Auburn with community groups
who need volunteers.
Because it is still in its beginning stages,
IMPACT is working hard to gain exposure
on campus.
The Plainsman is impressed with the ini­tiative
of IMPACTs student leaders and
their willingness to start from scratch with
their idea.
In our opinion, this is the essence of
community esprit de corps: communities
helping individuals within those commu­nities.
We'd like to encourage everyone to look
around and take note of the variety of
ways our community could be helped.
Many legitimate organizations cannot
afford to hire a large staff, so instead vol­unteers
are desperately needed to help
out.
Evidently, IMPACT'S organizers did take
note. And in the true spirit of volun-teerism,
they gave of their time selflessly
in order to provide a mulnfaceted service
to others.
For more information about IMPACT,
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Clinton's Haiti policy: Vietnam flashback?
An evil military force holds power
in a small, third-world country in a
tropic region. The United States
deploys troops to that starving, under­developed
corner of the world to
"uphold democracy."
The military leaders of this country
realize they are facing the most power­ful
military in the world, so they
decide to use guerrilla tactics.
Troops are told to discard their uni­forms
and blend in with the civilian
population.
The people of the country are told
that the American oppressors have
come to steal away their freedom and
force them to give up their religion
and listen to headbanger rock 'n' roll
music 24 hours a day.
Although America has no interest in
this small country, and the native pop­ulace
does not want American involve­ment,
the powers that be decide mili­tary
action is justified.
There is dissension in Washington,
and Congress does not support inter­vention.
But the commander-in-chief
has a point to make. He refuses to back
down to some tin-god military dictator
who thumbs his nose at American sov­ereignty.
War is not declared, but U.S. troops
are deployed. The conflict is on, and
for what reason?
Somebody tell me if this sounds
familiar.
Perhaps you think I am alluding to
the current situation in Haiti. If so, if s
a good guess.
But you're wrong.
I'm talking about a similar situation
Chase Stephens
that occurred some 40 years ago.
Maybe you've heard of it.
It's a little incident in the Far East
called the Vietnam Conflict — it's only
a war if Congress supports it.
In this conflict, hundreds of thou­sands
of American citizens were sent
to a foreign land for years on end. And
for what?
They were sent to instate a little cap­italist
tin god to replace a little com­munist
tin god because the communist
tin god refused to cave in to our presi­dent's
demands.
Well, at least in Vietnam we had
Communism to blame.
But what about Haiti?
Jean Bertrand Aristide is just about
democratic enough to be Josef Stalin's
first cousin. He hates America and
everything for which it stands, and he
isn't any better for Haiti than any
number of thieves or drug lords the
administration could have chosen.
But Comrade Clinton doesn't seem
to care. He seems to see the situation
in Haiti as a way to earn credibility as
a foreign policy maker and maybe take
some of the heat off of the quagmire of
dissent and allegation that is his presi­dency.
Perhaps our fearless leader does not
see the parallel between his current sit­uation
and that of Eisenhower when
he first deployed troops to the Vietnam
peninsula.
All anyone has to do to see the simi­larity
is pick up a history book and
read about how military involvement
in Vietnam began. Why hasn't Clinton,
a well-educated man, seen where he is
headed?
Could it be because Clinton ran to
the Soviet Union while his friends
were being sent to die in the name of
their country?
Could it be because, while American
troops were in Vietnam he was busy
learning how to smoke pot without
inhaling?
Clinton was elected on a platform of
change in which a new government
learned from mistakes of the past.
But where is this thinking now?
And why do the news stories of
today reflect those of the '50s, when
the first troops were deployed to a
small peninsula in East Asia?
Will this administration truly learn
from those of the past and leave a
Haitian problem to Haiti?
Support and aide to a poverty-strick­en
country is admirable, but when we
begin forcing our ideals on every
country that has a problem, we open a
can of worms best left in the past —
and in the history books.
Chase Stephens is the Managing Editor
at The Auburn Plainsman
Paranoid delusions plague photographer
Did this ever happen to you? You
get up and feel great; your mind is
razor sharp and ready to learn some­thing
new. Just when you get to
class,you start to feel tired, as if you
haven't slept in days, and by the end
of class, you feel so weak you need
something with caffeine. You
look around and see that the room is
painted in one of three colors: standard
white, urine yellow or gas chamber
green. You know what I'm talking
about; it's disgusting.
But you go to your next class, and
on the way you feel your energy
renewed. When you get there, though,
you are back in the same mode you
were in your last class.
This sounds like some sort of weird
experiment, but it happens every day.
The cause must be in the class. Not
necessarily the content of the class but
the room it's held in.
I'm suggesting the University has
some sort of subliminal mind program
embedded in the walls. In other
words, the classrooms are sucking the
life out of you.
I know it sounds farfetched, but it
must be the case. In every building,
I've seen students enter in a fairly
good mood, but leave listless and
Brian Fitzsimmons
tired. The mind program must be in
the paint. Every year the University
paints the major buildings, and every
year more and more students feel the
same: tired and listless.
This could possibly extend all the
way back to the Kennedy assassina­tion.
The paint companies are the ones
who masterminded the so-called land­ing
on the moon and are behind the
latest trend toward making country
music a national identity. This is also
the reason that Generation X-ers are
considered slackers by most of the
population.
It is a conspiracy against us initiated
by the Painters Union to gain control
of the government by sapping our will
to live and our desire to succeed.
Now many of you see this as going
too far, but wait and see what happens
in 10 years. It could be the Dutch Boy's
face you see on Mount Rushmore and
the president's name will be Sherwin
Williams or Benjamin Moore.
Now, don't you see our dilemma?
We are stuck with the fate of having
our children learning the history of
Duron and the proper techniques of
brush cleaning.
My solution is to fight the painters
on their own ground. Arm yourselves
with glue and red velvet wallpaper.
Take on the painting establishment
and make them see that we know of
their plans to take over the world.
Warn your friends, and show no mercy
as we are on the verge of the Age of
the Roller. Make sure that our children
don't end up singing the new national
anthem to the United Brushes of
America.
One final thought remember the
painting classes in elementary school
and the kid who used to eat glue and
sniff the pain? Well, expect to see him
as the chief of staff under President
Glidden.
Brian Fitzsimmons is the Photo Editor
at The Auburn Plainsman
'Melrose Place' replaces psychotherapy
If you've ever spoken to me in per­son
for more than 10 seconds, then
you know that I live and die by
"Melrose Place." That weekly Aaron
Spelling high-camp festival is my
lifeblood, my elan vital, my raison
d'etre. .
It has been many days since I began
watching Billy and Allison's first ten­tative
gropings for love and accep­tance
in a cold, uncaring world, listen­ing
to the now-departed Sandy's
accent shift between Valley Girl and
poor white trash — a manifestation of
her own unresolved issues of identity
— I've waited with baited breath to
see whether the also-departed Rhonda
would speak more than one line, or
whether "the man" would oppress her
yet again.
In those days since the epic saga
began, I have often wondered what
draws me to this show like rednecks
to a monster truck rally or Jo to
destructive relationships with drug-smuggling
lunatics. Is it a subcon­scious
desire to see at least three peo­ple
get their faces slapped every
week?
Perhaps I long for the freewheeling
Shangri-la atmosphere of D and D
advertising, where the executives
traipse about in halter tops and span-dex
mini-skirts. Or maybe I am on a
quest to see if Billy's mouth contor­tions
and speech problems will ever be
attributed to massive brain damage or
some sort of mild autism.
After much reflection,! think I may
have hit on the true reason I plant
myself in front of "Melrose Place"
every week, cheering at the opening
Max Jones
credits, curling into a fetal position
and quietly sobbing when it con­cludes.
"Melrose Place" is operating as a
giant metaphor for the psychic battles
that take place in the minds of all its
viewers, including me. It is a flaxen-haired
psychoanalytic treatise, a glit­tering
plastic and stucco homage to
the theories of Sigmund Freud.
You want evidence? Pull yourself
out of whatever stage you are trapped
in and listen up.
Michael and Amanda serve as the
untrammeled id of the show. Freud
believed the id was the part of the
psyche containing all of our mad, irra­tional,
impassioned responses to our
surroundings.
Watch and learn as Amanda slaps
Jake before yielding to his amorous
advances. Or observe Michael
indulging his unbridled adulterous
lust for Sydney before turning his
attention to the ferret-faced, bewigged
Kimberly. These are characters who
have given themselves over to their
raging desires, and no force in the
world can stop them.
Bui that doesn't mean some people
won't try. Enter Jo and Matt, the virtu­ous
- and thus boring- superego of
the collective unconscious that is
"Melrose Place." Attempting to medi­ate
the unsanctioned actions of the
more evil characters, they meet an all-too-
common fate: they get the crap
beat out of them, both mentally and
physically. Plus, they suffer the further
indignities of having the worst hair on
the show.
Finally we are left with the ego, the
assertion of the "I" that tries to present
a rational, intelligent face to the world.
Meet Jake, a scruffy, leathery loner
who only wants to do the right thing,
but is frequently undermined by the
treacherous acts of the women he
reaches out to in the name of love and
well-conditioned hair.
Where do Billy and Allison fit in?
Well, Freud never wrote about slack-jawed,
drooling imbeciles or chip­munk-
cheeked whiners, so if s any­body's
guess.
The mystery is now explained. I
watch "Melrose Place" because it is a
form of introspection, a way of going
within myself without that nasty soul-searching
element. Thank you, Aaron
Spelling. As you did with "Fantasy
Island" and 'The Love Boat," you
have once again given me a way to get
in touch with myself, and you've
thrown in cocaine-addled strippers,
gratuitous bathing-suit shots and cat-fights
to boot. And they say therapy is
painful.
Max ]ones is Asst. Scope Editor at The
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Men are like dogs — they just don't understand
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"You possess the qualities that
attract beautiful women.
"You deserve an emotionally fulfill­ing
relationship that is perfect for
you.
"Love is not something you have to
strive for, it happens natur —"
Oops.
Sorry folks. Had my head­phones
on.
Oh, c'mon. Y'all know I don't
need any self-help tapes.
But women.
I mean, you could write a book
the size of War and Peace about
'em and not know a dang thing.
Meeting women is like playing
golf.
As soon as you get your swing
down, somebody comes along
with a better club, know what I
mean?
One of those brand new ones
with an oversized head and a
graphite shaft.
For as long as I can remember
liking girls, I can remember hat­ing
them.
See, like the late, great
American, Lewis Grizzard, I, too,
was spoiled by my mother.
I mean, when I was a kid, if my
mom heard so much as a sniffle
out of me, she'd jump in the car at
3 a.m. and get me a bottle of nasal
spray.
Nasal spray, incidentally, is
highly addictive. You build up a
tolerance till you're spraying it
like every 15 minutes, and even­tually,
your nose just cold slap
shuts. Of course, life is just not
very enjoyable if you're always
having to breathe out of your
mouth, so you have to go get
methadone treatment or some­thing
to come off it.
Anyway, whenever I was sick,
which was pretty much all the
time, I would just curl up in the
fetal position on the couch, and
my mom would fix me up with
lots of pillows and blankets and
rub my head and my back and fix
me a plate of corned beef hash
with toast, and she'd sit there
with me for hours and rub my
head till I was all better.
Those were the days.
My head hasn't been rubbed
since I left home.
Did I say that out loud?
But the point is, wouldn't it be
nice to be a dog?
Think about it. Everyone you
see wants to rub your head.
But then again, dogs don't have
it all that easy; they understand
their masters about as well as
guys understand girls.
Think about it.
You're a dog. You're walking
along, happy. No problems. No
worries. Kind of bored, but hey,
not thinking about much. Just
minding your own business.
Things are going fine.
And then, WHAM!
Master is beating the tar out of
you for something you must have
done, right? But you're thinking,
"What? What the hell did I do?"
But master keeps shouting in
some language you don't under­stand
and smackin' you in the
head.
Sound familiar?
How many times have we
asked, "Good Lord, what did I
do? Just tell me, and I'll quit doing
it, I swear."
But if s just so hard to learn the
Big Guy's language. Takes more
than a lifetime, I reckon.
And every time life smacks me
in the head, I ask myself, "Did I
crap on a rug somewhere?"
But training dogs to do their
thing outside is easy if you make
time to be with them in the early-on.
The trick is, you gotta catch
'em in the act. Then you simply
shout "No!" and take them out­side,
let them do their thing, and
then you just rub 'em on the head.
I grew up with lots of dogs, and
my dad and I taught them to wait
until I let them out of the garage
each morning to do their thing.
But by gosh, if I overslept, or
for some other reason forgot to let
them out by sunrise, sure enough,
they'd climb up on my car and
take a crap on the hood.
And thaf s a perfect analogy for
the cut-throat mentality of the
members of our generation. Sure,
people will play by the rules, but
slip up and give them a loophole,
and sure enough, they'll crap on
your hood.
But hey, don't let me get you
down. I'm just singin' the blues,
in like, Aflat minor or something.
So just get out there and pat
them dogs on the head one good
time, just for no reason at all.
As they say, what comes around
goes around.
It has to.
Somehow.
Of course, I know I've raised
the dangerous but nonetheless
intriguing question, are women
our masters?
And if so, where are they taking
us?
Well, I'll tell you, brother.
Either we're going for a walk in
the park, or they're takin' us to
the pound.
Erik Weber is a columnist at The
Auburn Plainsman
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Supreme Court race matters to AU lll:lllllllllill
Editor, The Plainsman::
We are writing to ask Auburn
students to pay close attention to
the Alabama Supreme Court race
in the upcoming election. The
make-up of the Alabama Supreme
Court is very important to
Auburn students who will soon
be entering the job market.
As I am sure many of you have
seen in recent newspaper articles
and editorials, Alabama has a
serious problem with large jury
verdicts that are disproportionate
to plaintiffs' actual damages. The
plaintiffs' lawyers who are win­ning
these verdicts are the leading
contributors to the election cam­paigns
of the judges in front of
whom they try their cases. The
citizens of Alabama pay the costs
of these verdicts in the form of
higher prices for consumer goods
and higher insurance premiums.
With a handful of wealthy
plaintiffs' lawyers controlling the
courts of Alabama, it has become
increasingly more expensive for
companies to do business in
Alabama. As a result, it is much
more difficult for people like
yourselves to find jobs after grad­uating.
An important step toward solv­ing
Alabama's problems is to put
judges on the Alabama Supreme
Court that have not been bought
by the plaintiffs' lawyers. We
want to call to your attention one
candidate in particular - Harold
See. We have had the pleasure of
getting to know Professor See in
the classroom at Alabama Law
School and believe that he would
make an outstanding Supreme
Court Justice. Unfortunately,
Professor See's opponent, Mark
Kennedy, is backed by plaintiffs'
lawyers who have already con­tributed
hundreds of thousands
of dollars to his campaign.
It is going to be an uphill battle
to get an honest, conservative
judge elected. We strongly
encourage the students at Auburn
University to vote for Harold See
and to spread the word that it is
important for Alabama's future to
put judges on our court who will
be impartial and who will not use
their position to pay-back cam­paign
contributors.
Thank you and War Eagle !
John Smyth
Class of '93
Pat Sefton
Class of '93
Jon Waggoner
Class of '92
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' 4 7 graduate misses
game-day shakers
Editor, The Plainsman:
Aubum is the greatest team to
watch on TV!
I am so happy to be able to
view them again this year, since I
cannot travel to the games any­more.
Auburn is known as one of the
most colorful teams to watch, as
well.
My question is what has hap­pened
to all of the thousands
upon thousands of beautiful
orange & blue shakers Auburn
has always been known for?
It looked so wonderful on TV
and exemplified the Auburn spir­it,
which I have tried to express to
friends up here.
Being Vanderbilt grads, they
just don't understand! The crowd
shots during the LSU game were
so plain.
Where are the shakers? Please
answer for me. My granddaugh­ter
is a freshman at A.U. this year.
She will get a clipping of your
answer to me. Best of luck.
War Eagle!
Eddie Smith
A.P.I. Class of 1947
Ole Miss compliments
courteous Auburn fens
Editor, The Plainsman::
As an Auburn alumna, I was
proud to be one of the 15,000 fans
who made the trip over to Oxford
when our Tigers played Ole Miss
on Sept. 3.1 was even more excit­ed
when one of the stadium
attendants told me the Auburn
alumni and students are "the
most courteous fans who come
through our gates."
I felt that such an unsolicited
compliment from another SEC
school should definitely be
shared with our alumni and stu­dents.
War Eagle!
Marsha Prather Bailey
Class of 1972
In the Sept. 22 issue, The Auburn Plainsman mistakenly reported that "Tiger," the University mascot is 10 years old when she is 16 years old. The Lee County
Trading Co. was mistakenly called Lee County Trading Post,and AU Theatre department was reported as having 2-3 plays per year instead of 2-3 plays per quarter. The
Plainsman regrets these errors.
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Campus Crime B-6
Classifieds B-15
Drake column B-16 ON THE PLAINS B Section
Thursday, September 29,1994
Campus BHefs... Possible AIDS cure found by AU
ON-CAMPUS
Severe weather alarms to be tested Wednesdays
Severe weather sirens will be tested weekly beginning Oct.
5.
The test alarms, which will last one minute to differentiate
them from real alarms, will be sounded at noon on
Wednesdays.
Alarms to indicate severe weather will last three minutes.
If severe weather occurs during the test time, the test will
not be conducted.
Alumnus establishes engineering scholarship
Auburn alumnus John P. Brandel has established an
endowed scholarship fund for mechanical engineering stu­dents.
Brandel scholars will receive $8,000 awards for four years
as long as they meet academic requirements.
Brandel, a 1957 graduate in mechanical engineering who
grew up in Orlando, has requested the committee give pref­erence
first to students coming from the Orlando area, then
from Florida and Alabama.
Youth center dedicated to former Auburn official
The 4-H Shelby County Youth Development Center has
dedicated an addition to Alabama's former Director of
Cooperative Extension and Vice President for Extension at
Auburn University.
The Ann E. Thompson Learning Resource Center was so
named for Thompson's support of the center's programs and
facilities, said Milton Wendland, chairman of the Alabama 4-
H Club Foundation.
The center houses computers and other teaching tools used
by the Alabama youth who participate in the club's activities.
OTHER CAMPUSES
Student group expelled from U of A convention
TUSCALOOSA— The Women's Honors Program was
indefinitely expelled from the University of Alabama's con­stitutional
convention Sept. 21, when representatives failed
to appear for a constitutional hearing.
The group was accused of falsifying their adviser's signa­ture
on constitutional convention application forms.
The issue will be considered further at this week's meet-ing.
Two other groups, College Republicans and the Student
Council for Exceptional Children also were accused of falsi­fying
advisers' signatures.
The constitutional convention will address the issue of dis­ciplinary
action against College Republicans at this week's
meeting.
The Student Council for Exceptional Children lost its right
to vote in the convention. However, the group will be able to
vote in later meetings for one week.
—Compiled from University of Alabama
The Crimson White
SGA begins
school year,
already busy
The Student Governement Association Senate met
Monday night to discuss plans for the new school year.
Stephen Hoffman, 03AR, student director of the new
Impact program, was the guest speaker at the meeting.
Hoffman explained to the Senate the purpose of
Impact.
"What we are trying to do is create better bonds
between the University and the community," he said.
Impact is a new organization, established to promote
volunteerism among the student population.
In other Senate news, Drew Ratterman, 03CLA, was
elected to replace Kerry Boyce as representative of
Recreational Services.
In the Cabinet meetings, the SGA volunteers drive
was announced. The meeting is scheduled for today
at 3 p.m. at Langdon Hall. Freshman forum orientation
is scheduled to follow the volunteers drive at 4 p.m.
Auburn professor discovers
extract that kills HIV in mice
By Charies Runndts
Assistant News Edior
An Auburn scientist has discov­ered
a plant extract that, along
with destroying retroviruses,
actually kills HIV, the virus that
causes AIDS ,in tests.
Emilio C. Mora, a professor of
microbiology in the Department
of Poultry Science, made the dis­covery
in February 1993 during a
routine extraction from a plant,
Mora said.
The result, a compound later
called MLH-4, proved to kill retro­viruses,
viruses known to induce
tumors and other diseases, when
introduced in mouse leukemia
cells, he said.
In June 1993, Mora submitted
the compound to the National
Institute of Health in Washington
DC, he said.
"By August 1993, it was con­firmed,
via phone, that my com­pound
did control HIV in tests.
"This compound has a very
strong potential for the future.
The NIH usually tries out thou­sands
of compounds per year, but
they have had considerable inter­est
in this," Mora said.
'To me, that signifies that this
has to be a little bit different than
anything they have."
Although many compounds
have been developed for fighting
AIDS, Mora said he knows of
none that actually kill the virus.
"My compound actually
destroys the virus," he said.
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Professor Truelove dies
The Auburn Plainsman/SCOTT BUTLER
Another day at the office...
An Auburn City Police officer copies the tag num­ber
from a vehicle as he issues a parking ticket.
Sixty-one year old
Auburn instructor
dies of heart attack
By Charles RunnePs
Assistant News Editor
One of the things University
Professor Bryan Truelove enjoyed
most was photography, friend and
colleague Curt Peterson said.
"He did a lot of black and white
photography," Peterson said. "He
would generally take his camera
everywhere he went."
During his many trips to Mexico
City, Truelove would-take pictures
of the people and places to capture
their essence and culture, Peterson
said.
When Truelove died of a heart
attack at 61 on the evening of Sept.
7, all he left those that knew him
were memories, like scattered pho­tographs
of past events.
Joe Cherry, head of the depart­ment
of botany and microbiology,
where Truelove worked, remem­bers
him as the man who often
cooked dinner for him and his
Bryan Truelove
Professor of microbiology
wife on Sundays, Cherry said.
"A simple Sunday dinner might
be a lobster salad with some ele­gant
steak," he said.
"He was very eloquent about his
speech and the way he handled
himself," Cherry added. "He was
a real scholar and a gentleman."
See TRUELOVE / B-3
Students find spirit button offensive
Bookstore recalls almost 3,000
"Trail of Tears" game-day pins
By Chafes Rmnells
Assistant News Editor
A football offense occurred two
weeks ago for the Auburn-
Northeast Louisiana game, yet it
had nothing to do with how the
game was played.
Instead, some Auburn students
were disgruntled by a game but­ton
with the slogan "Trail of
Tears" by the University
Bookstore The slogan alluded to
the Northeast Louisiana Indians,
bookstore director Pam Horton
said.
"Every year, there is a tradition
that the bookstore makes up
game-day buttons, and we give
them away free the day before the
game and during the game."
The game and the buttons were
the first of the football season, and
Horton, along with a committee,
chose the slogan from a list of sub­missions
from students and the
bookstore staff, she said.
"It was a consensus of many
people from several areas of the
store and outside," she said.
Don Large, vice president of
business and finance said, two
people called before the buttons
had even been passed out to the
general public.
One caller was emotional, while
the other simply explained how
the slogan was in