1989-10-19 The Auburn Plainsman

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Sports: Hollingsworth discusses next game c-1
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'To comfort the afflicted; to afflict the comfortable'
Volume 96, Number 4,28 pages Auburn University, Ala. October 19,1989
Alumni may file suit against Association
Paul DeMarco
Editorial Assistant
A group of Auburn alumni who hope
to recover lost contributions and assets
j that were questionably spent said they
are planning a class-action lawsuit
against the Alumni Association's offi-
| cers and directors.
The lawsuit would be filed to recover
I any mismanaged alumni fees and to
get to the truth of the entire affair,
said K.S. "Husky" Kirkwood, a poten-j
tial plaintiff.
"I hope this will help recover the
$125,000 settlement given to Jerry
Smith and anything else that was
gained by any individuals so that it
can be returned to the Alumni Associa­tion,"
Kirkwood said. "I j u s t don't
believe the truth has come out yet."
The class-action suit means the case
would represent all alumni unhappy
with the controversy that has sur­rounded
the Alumni Association for
almost a year.
Kirkwood graduated from Auburn
with a degree in agricultural engineer­ing
in 1950 after serving three and a
half years as a Navy pilot during
World War II. He now lives in Gold
Hill, where he farms and raises cattle.
Smith resigned as alumni director in
May, after months of questions about
his handling of state funds and a state
Ethics Commission investigation. In
September, the Alumni Association
Board approved a $125,000 settlement
for Smith to cover any remaining lia­bilities
between the parties.
"The alumni have been exploring the
details for filing the lawsuit," Kirk­wood
said. "It is highly probable that
the suit will be filed within the next
several months."
The lawsuit would seek the restitu-
W
There has been nothing documented in the entire
affair except for the King-Spalding report, but that has
not even been released.
- K. S. Kirkwood
tion for all association assets that have
been missappropriated, all legal fees
paid, executor's fees, the $125,000 set­tlement,
any miscellaneous assets and
punitive damages of $25 million for
loss and potential loss of gifts to the
association, said another potential
plaintiff who did not want to be identi­fied.
"If the suit is filed and the money
recovered, the funds would go back to
the Alumni Association," Kirkwood
said. "I understand that there will be
some prominent alumni also involved
in the lawsuit."
Kirkwood said he did not know the
numbers or names of other potential
plaintiffs in the lawsuit.
"I am involved because I love
Auburn and have had five generations
of my family attend the University,"
Kirkwood said. "I never get involved in
anything, but this really burns me up.
This is j u s t unreal that this has
dragged on for so long."
The potential lawsuit would name
Batey Gresham, Alumni Association
president; Jerry Smith, former Alumni
Association director; and the Alumni
Association Board members, the
source said.
Gresham declined comment on the
lawsuit yesterday.
"I frankly believe that this case
should be under a grand jury," Kirk­wood
said. "There has been nothing!
documented in the entire affair, except
for the King-Spalding Report, but that;
has not even been released."
Those involved in the potential law-;
suit have not determined if the suit;
would be filed in Lee County Circuit
Court or in U.S. District Court.
"I don't owe anybody any favors, or
have anything to gain, but just want to;
help Auburn," Kirkwood said. "No one
will say anything unless in front of a
jury."
[Members
lof NOW
detained
Elizabeth Lander
I Staff Writer
Two members of the National
I Organization for Women were
I detained by the AUPD Monday
I for attempting to hang a banner
advocating the pro-choice move­ment,
according to Capt. Melvin
I Owens of the AUPD.
Jane Orr, 04 HY, and Michelle
I Smith, 02 PB, were the students
attempting to hang the sign.
"They said were trying to do
(everything they could not to
arrest us," Orr said. "They did
not charge us. I went with them
'because I did not want to be
charged with resisting arrest.
"We're contacting the NOW
j Alabama chapter and getting a
lawyer. My civil rights have
! been violated."
Orr and Smith violated the
municipal code 13-7, Owen said.
The code prohibits the hanging
of any type of signs to public
j buildings and utilities, he said.
"In this particular case the
officers, Anderson and Norred,
were there when Orr and Smith
were putting the banner up," he
said. "They could have been
arrested for violating the munic­ipal
code. The officers chose not
to; it is up to their discretion."
The NOW rally had a high
turnout, Julia Batum, president
of NOW's Auburn chapter said.
At the rally, a representative
of the League of Women Voters,
Carol Daron, read a statement
concerning the recent Webster
decision.
"Because of this decision, the
exercise of one's constitutional
rights on reproductive choices
has become a matter of chance,"
Daron said.
Representing the NOW
Auburn chapter, Andrea Black-ert
argued the pro-choice plat­form.
"Legislation does not create
See NOW, A-6
Director says
mailings OKfd
Teresa Gaston
Assistant News Editor
Up, up and away...
Patrice Fry/staff
Volunteers from Kappa Kappa Gamma sorority and Phi Gamma Delta fraternity pre­pare
to release approximately 8,000 balloons for the annual Balloon Derby fundraiser.
Tickets for the balloons brought in more than $5,000 for Alabama Special Olympics.
The Alumni Association
received approval last year from
the postal inspector to send
mass mailings that have result­ed
in a recent investigation,
according to Dee Powell, interim
director of the Alumni Associa­tion.
"They OK'd everything we
mailed," Powell said.
It is the policy of the post
office to help organizations such
as the Alumni Association
decide what is appropriate to
mail under their non-profit
organization stamp, he said.
The association now has 30
days to respond to the charges
that they misused their non­profit
organization stamp to
send these mass mailings, said
Rhett Riley, vice-president for
business and finance.
Powell said that the associa­tion
is investigating the alleged
misuse of the stamp and will
respond appropriately.
The mass mailings in question
include promotional items such
as special chairs, clocks and
lamps with the Auburn emblem,
Powell said.
According to the letter, the
association violated its use of
the discounted rate by mailing
these items on behalf of busi­nesses.
The postal service is asking
the association to pay back
$14,000 of past due postage,
Powell said.
Riley said, "It's not a fine."
City must approve
destruction of trees
IFC upholds KA social probation Kriste Goad
Staff Writer
Fraternity banned from serving alcohol for quarter
Emily Riggins
Assistant News Editor
Kappa Alpha fraternity's
appeal of its limited social pro­bation
was denied last week by
the Committee on Fraternities
and Sororities, IFC President
David Chapman said.
The fraternity appealed the
Interfraternity Court's decision
that it should be denied serving
alcohol at all fall parties. It is
also not allowed to have any
socials or parties except for
band parties on the night of a
home football game, he said.
"The reason they were put on
social probation is because of
the incidents with the police last
spring and this summer," he
said.
But KA President Jeff Dyess
said, "We're not a problem chap­ter.
We never have been. We felt
maybe the probation wasn't jus­tified
and that's why we
appealed the court."
Dyess was notified of the IFC
Court's decision on Aug. 23, and
the terms of the probation were
listed in the notice, he said.
"There was a joint party
between us and the SAE's, and
there was an infraction with the
police involving some of the
guests at the party," he said.
The police complained that
the fraternity members and
guests did not show respect for
authority, he said.
There were also complaints by
the police during KA Old South,
he said. The members were told
they could not give out invita­tions
in the quad lawn, but
some invitations had already
been given.
"We'll abide by the IFC
Court's decision regardless of
our belief of guilt or innocence,"
Dyess said.
Chapman said fraternities are
usually fined for violations of
policy, but there was more than
one instance in a brief period
that the fraternity had broken
alcohol regulations.
When it razed the Maranatha
House on West Magnolia two
weeks ago, the University
uprooted the two overcup oaks
on the property against the rec­ommendation
of the City Tree
Commission, botany and micro­biology
professor and commis­sion
chairman Kurt Peterson
said.
"We examined the trees in
May and found their health sta­tus
to be satisfactory. We recom­mended
they (the trees) be pro­tected,"
Peterson said. "We even
suggested leaving a buffer of
land to protect the root systems
during renovation."
The major conflict which sur­rounded
the removal of the trees
was whether the city or the Uni­versity
had the the right of way,
and thus, the authority to
decide the trees' fates.
The University claimed the
city did not have the right of
way, according to Peterson, so
city officials requested informa­tion
from the attorney general.
The attorney general two weeks
ago rendered his decision, and
the trees were removed.
"It was the opinion of the city
attorney that the University
had removed the trees in viola­tion
of city ordinance," Peterson
said. "I did not recommend pros­ecution
against the University
at this time.
"In the future, if anyone
removes a tree on city right of
way, I would urge the city to
prosecute."
The city ordinance only pro­tects
trees on city right of ways
See University, A-9
Outside
The weekend weather will be
colder and windy with poten­tial
frost as early as Friday
night. Today and tomorrow,
conditions will be cloudy, but
skies should clear in time for
the light freeze. Daytime tem­peratures
will peak around 50
until Sunday, when sunny
weather will push tempera­tures
back u|i,
Building the
future
Part one in a three-part
series on
Architecture
Village Life B-1
Inside
Classifieds , A-9
Editorial & Comment A-10
For the record C-2
Forum A-11
Marquee B-2
Out On A Limb C-6
Smart Alex B-5
Sports C-1
The Inside Front A-3
Unibrows B-5
V^lage Life y B-1 v
A-2 The Auburn Plainsman October 19,198
Local
Freshman Forum members selected
The members of the 1989-90 Freshman Forum were
announced Monday. They are: Meredith Baker, Jeff Backus,
Ashley Clinton, Beth Davis, Wendy Davis, Heather
Deneke, Casey Gliddens, Scott Johnson, Martha June-man,
Nancy Lackman, Jennifer Sibley and Salina Waddy. State P
NAACP sues state over flag issue
The 11th U. S. Circuit Court of Appeals heard arguments
Tuesday on a lawsuit filed by the NAACP and a group of black
lawmakers against the state for flying the Confederate flag
above the dome of the Capitol.
The suit claims that flying the flag on a staff below the Amer­ican
and state flags is a violation of the plaintiffs' constitutional
rights.
Nation
Earthquake hits San Francisco
More than 270 people were reported dead after an earthquake
that measured 6.9 on the Richter scale hit San Francisco and
Northern California.
At least 200 people were killed when the upper deck of the
Nimtz Highway collapsed in Oakland. The two-level highway
fell at about 5:04 PDT.
World
U. S. to aid Soviets with perestroika
The United States is willing to aid the Soviets with advice on
price reform and the development of convertible currency in
order to help perestroika succeed, Secretary of State James
Baker III said in a speech Monday night.
Quotable 55-
"You really don't expect this sort of thing to happen at such a
good show." - drivin' n' cryin' manager Jim Barbar, on the
theft of the band's backdrop from last week's concert.
Navy's anniversary
celebrated by unit
Brandi Wilson
Staff Writer
Cliff Oliver/staff
Naval ROTC midshipmen turned out Tuesday as Auburn's
contingent celebrated the U.S. Navy's 214th birthday.
The U.S. Navy will have to do
"more with less" in the coming
years because of budget cuts,
naval ROTC professor Capt.
Richard Phelan told midship­men
at a ceremony marking the
Navy's 214th birthday Tuesday.
Phelan said with cuts in mili­tary
spending, the Navy would
have to depend more and more
on the "spirit of the American
sailor." The Navy has become
concerned with the quality of
life of the sailors, rather than
"just hardware," he said.
Phelan opened the "Navj
Birthday Message" with a briel
speech from the Secretary of the
Navy Larry Garrett. The speech
addressed problems that the
Navy has encountered during
the years such as budget cuts by
the U. S. government.
Concerning the celebratioi
itself, Phelan said, "We in th«
Navy and Marine Corps try to
have a little celebration of th<
traditions and customs, and this
is our small way of doing it."
"In over 40 national crises
since the end of the Vietnam
War, the Navy has participatec
in almost 85 percent."
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Campus Calendar
The Criminology Club will
meet Oct. 19 at 6 p.m. in 2104
Haley. Guest will be Dr. Stillwell
from Montgomery's Alabama
Forensic Science lab.
The Society of Professional
Journalists will meet Monday at
8:30 p.m. in Haley 3242. All those
interested in journalism are wel­come
to attend.
The Auburn Plainsman will
hold its weekly staff meeting
today at 5 p.m. in the basement
of Foy Union. Experience, while
helpful, is not required.
Alpha Epsilon Delta honor
society will meet Oct. 24 at 7 p.m.
in 136 Cary. The guest speaker
will be Dr. Lewis Menaher of
UAB dental school.
The French Conversation
Club will meet Oct. 25 at 7:30
p.m. in 3334 Haley. All French
students are invited to attend.
Young Americans for Free­dom,
an issue-oriented conserva­tive
organization, will hold its
first meeting Oct. 24 at 7:30 p.m.
in 205 Foy.
The Auburn Marketing
Club will meet Oct. 24 at 7 p.m.
in 206 Tichenor. A guest speaker
for the K-Mart corporation will be
featured. All majors are welcome.
Circle K will meet Oct. 25 at
6:30 p.m. in Foy Union 202. All
are welcome.
Beta Gamma Sigma national
business honorary will meet
today at 7 p.m. in 210 Thach.
Members only.
SGA's Alcohol Awareness
Week continues through Satur­day.
IFC and Panhellenic will
hold a pledge blood drive Nov. 6-7
at the Sigma Pi house. For more
information, contact Robert Peak
at 887-2644.
Billy Graham's film,
Caught, will be shown Oct. 22 at
6:30 at faith Alliance Church in
Opelika. For more information,
call 749-9516.
Organization of the Year
applications are due by Oct. 20 in
Cater Hall. For more information,
call Debbie Shaw at 844-4710.
The AUHHAO is pleased to
announce a 1989-90 scholarship
for juniors and seniors in ITA
curriculum. Please send queries
to Derrek Beavor, 1239 Autumn
Hill Lane, Stone Mountain, Ga.,
30083.
SGA organizations day will
be held Oct. 24 from 9 a.m. to 2
p.m. on Haley Concourse. For
more information, call 844-4710.
Drake Student Health
Center will hold four free "stop
smoking" classes from Oct. 25 -
Nov. 15. Call 844-4422 for details.
The Auburn University
Speech and Hearing Clinic
will offer a free screening today
at 2 p.m. in 1199 Haley, for more
information,, contact Shirley Lyles
at 844-9600.
The Crisis Center needs com­passionate,
caring people to serve
as telephone counselors. Training
sessions will be held this week­end.
For more information, call
821-8600.
The East Alabama Task
Force for Battered Women will
hold a volunteer training session
Oct. 24 -26. Volunteers are asked
to commit to three nights per
month. For more information, call
Sue at 887-9330.
Organization Awards will be
given by the SGA organizations
board Oct. 30 at that night's Stu­dent
Senate meeting. For more
information, call Debbie Shaw at
844-4710.
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The Inside Front
)ctober 19,1989 The Auburn Plainsman A-3
acial supremacy covering a nation
'ro-white groups
|seeking protection
br free expression
Bryan Bittle
Managing Editor
I n Tifbon, Ga., Bob Mercer, a former pest exter­minator,
is raising funds to seek the presiden­cy
on a platform which seeks to "scrap the
/hole system and establish a 'real' government by
the people."
His political program spells out a plan to estab­lish
America as an all-white nation, abolish
Congress, Supreme Court and Federal Reserve
ind outlaw labor unions, communism, abortion
md income taxes.
Mercer is only the beginning.
In Atlanta earlier this year, skinhead protestors
fathered on the steps of the Capitol building to
>rotest the celebration of the national Martin
.lUther King Jr. holiday.
This month in Murfreesboro, Term., hundreds of
rhite supremacist youth rallied and marched
|against civil rights for minorities.
In Jefferson County, three separate incidents of
|cross burnings were reported last month.
Currently, the University of Alabama is
lembroiled in controversy because a write-in candi-jdate
won Homecoming queen after the Afro-Amer-lican
Association protested that none of the 10 orig­inal
semi-finalists were black.
Approximately 50 years ago, Ralph Ellison wrote
|The Invisible Man about the plight of blacks in
lluskegee. In the 1960s, the civil rights movement
[reversed the roles, which pro-white leaders said
[pushed their movement into the shadows.
Now supremacist groups seem to be working
Itheir way out of the closet of taboo, reclaiming
members across the South and throughout the
nation, according to researchers at the Southern
Poverty Law Center in Montgomery, which moni-
See Pro-white, A-12
Outside looking in
Part two in a two-part focus on racism
Photo courtesy of Southern Poverty Law Center
Supremacy attitude
growing, not just
southern tradition
B. Bryan Bittie
Managing Editor
R acism has a new face.
No longer restricted to old-line
Southerners wearing white hoods, white
supremacists have updated their doctrines of hate
with the times and expanded to a more interna­tional
focus, according to Sara Bullard, research
director for the Southern Poverty Law Center in
Montgomery.
Contemporary racism is not as clear-cut as black
and white, Bullard said, and some of the shades of
grey are more dangerous because they appear
un threatening.
According to the Law Center, the larger groups
being monitored include:
• Neo-Nazi groups, which blend old-fashioned,
anti-semitism with the view that blacks, Jews and
the federal government are the enemy. Aryan
nation chapters such as Tom Metzger's White
Aryan Resistance of California are the most noto­rious
and violent of the neo-Nazis.
• Identity followers, including many subgroups
such as the New Christian Crusade Church,
believe that Jews are the offspring of Satan and
white Anglo-Saxons are the true sons of Israel.
They distribute a variety of religious publica­tions
like Racial Loyalty, Christian Vanguard,
The Torch and books like Moral Crimes That Are
Destroying America and Do All Races Share In
Salvation?
Connecticut resident James Farrands and
Michigan's Robert Miles use the idealogy to reach
parishioners. In the South, a key figure in the
movement is Thorn Robb of Arkansas.
• National Association for the Advancement of
White People, which promotes a pro-white philoso-
See Racists, A-12
hurch votes 120-5 allowing blacks to worship
[Melissa Denney
itaff Writer
ABaptist church in Selma
rescinded a "white-only" policy
on Oct. 4. Vincent Taylor, a stu­dent
at Selma University, and two of
his black female friends were turned
|away from the church on Sept. 24.
"The vote was a positive statement
Iby our church," said the Rev. George
Jones, pastor of Central Baptist
Church. "We have no negative feelings
and no bitterness."
After much publicity, Taylor was
allowed to attend the services on Oct.
1, when the 18 active deacons held a
special meeting and voted to "seat
anyone who comes to worship."
The congregation confirmed that
decision in a 120-5 vote at its general
business meeting.
Central Baptist Church has 1,300
members, 850 of whom currently live
in Selma, Ala., according to Jones.
Taylor has not attended the services
since Oct. 1, Jones said.
Taylor said in a letter to the Selma
Times-Journal that he was publicly
challenged by a Selma University pro­fessor
to prove he would be turned
away. The same letter accused Selma
University of white racism.
Taylor has been placed on "social
probation" for 30 days because of the
accusations, according to Ronald Peo­ples,
dean of students at Selma Uni­versity.
"We found that he (Taylor) was
engaging in behavior which adversely
affects the stated mission of Selma
University and/or the educational envi­ronment
of the college," Peoples said.
The new policy at Central Baptist
Church is for attending services only,
Jones said. Anyone seeking member­ship
must apply.
"The 'white-only' policy has been in
place since the civil rights era. No
blacks have ever attempted to attend
our church since that time," Jones
said.
"This has been a good experience for
our church. We are all in one accord."
No members have withdrawn their
membership, Jones said.
Selma follows on the heels of several
such incidents at Southern churches,
including one at Loachapoka Baptist
Church this summer.
Programs encourage
minorities at Auburn
Pam Radtke
Staff Writer
Attracting minority students to
Auburn is the focus of special
programs by the University, but
some student leaders said more is
needed to encourage blacks and other
groups to make Auburn their college
home.
Tiger Day, SummerTech and MITE
are three programs aimed at bringing
minorities into the Auburn community,
according to Cynthia King, assistant
director of Admissions in charge of
minority recruitment.
"Tiger Day is a day held by the
Admissions department in which
minority juniors and seniors with an
ACT of an 18 or better or an SAT of a
870 or better are invited to Auburn on
a football Saturday," King said.
"All of the special programs and the
academic areas of the campus are rep­resented
and the students get a chance
to talk to the people in these areas.
Then they get a ticket to the football
game," she said.
SummerTech is a program held in
conjunction with BellSouth to help
combat a national shortage of minority
managers in high-tech industries.
Fifty-one high school juniors have been
in the week-long campus program to
date, King said. J ^
The MITE program is a weekend
designed to introduce minorities to
engineering and has brought more that
575 high school students to Auburn in
the past 12 summers.
Another way to increase the minority
presence on campus and help minority
recruiting is to have a minority stu­dent
leader on campus, according to
Vivian Larkin, coordinator of the Spe­cial
Programs office.
"We like to get people involved in
SGA, UPC, honor societies and other
organizations on campus. When they
go out and win some position it helps
to increase their self-esteem," Larkin
said.
One of those student leaders is Carl
Davis, 04 FLTF. Davis is a member of
the War Eagle Girls and Plainsmen
and SGA secretary of public relations.
Last spring, he ran for SGA president.
"I came to Auburn as a challenge,"
Davis said. "You know the saying, if
you can make it in New York you can
make it anywhere. Well the same goes
for Auburn. If you can make it as a
black student here, you can make it
anywhere."
Although Davis thinks of Auburn as
his family and has a lot of pride in the
school, he said he realizes that minori-
See Minorities, A-12
Cliff Oliver/staff
The bust of George Washington Carver, who founded the Tuskegee
Institute, is located outside of the GWC museum in Tuskegee.
Auburn student John Clark was
fired by that congregation June 4
because he invited blacks to a revival,
he said.
"The idiotic philosophy of the 1960s
is occurring again," Clark told The
Plainsman for a story in the July 31
issue. "Today there are no white hats
or capes, but the racism is still there."
Whites use the excuse that blacks
worship in a different manner, Clark
said, but the reality is that "black
churches" exist because white people
won't allow them to worship in their
churches.
Greeks:
Sororities still
segregated in
southern states
Suzanne Miner
Staff Writer
From the perspective of an out­sider
looking in, the Auburn
sorority system would appear to
be in a time warp, trapped in the days
of segregation.
However, to most sorority members,
both black and white, Auburn's segre­gated
chapters are acceptable.
Dietra Crawley, president of Alpha
Kappa Alpha, a black sorority, said
her sorority was founded in the days of
segregation, and it was established to
help the black woman.
She said she would like to see
Auburn's sororities integrate, but is
comfortable with the way they are now.
"We're at peace this way. We would
like to see integration, but we aren't
pushing it," she said.
The majority of black students came
from high schools whej^e they were
homecoming queens, cheerleaders, stu­dent
government officers and top-notch
students, she said.
At Auburn, however, they experi-
See Sororities, A-12
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A-4 The Auburn Plainsman October 19,19*
SGA may renew
old escort service
Heidi Paff
Staff Writer
The SGA is considering reviv­ing
the Eagle Escort Program,
but only if student interest and
participation is high enough,
SGA Administrative Vice Presi­dent
Terry McCarthy said.
"The SGA would like to start
this program only if there is a
demand for i t and there are
enough volunteers and student
support to make it effective," he
said.
The old Eagle Escort program
was formed three years ago to
provide male escorts to walk
females across campus after
dark, but was disbanded soon
after.
The new program under con­sideration
would still provide
escorts to walk females across
campus, and may provide a van
to accommodate groups and
those who feel awkward walk­ing
with a male escort,
McCarthy said.
In addition to asking individu­als
to volunteer, the SGA hopes
clubs will volunteer their mem­bers
to provide escorts on a reg­ular
basis, McCarthy said.
"The reason we want to use
clubs is because in the past
there was a lack of volunteers.
To involve clubs would make the
program more efficient anfl gen­erate
more involvement. Clubs
pride themselves in doing a
good job," he said.
The old program failed
because it was not well publi­cized,
few males showed interest
in becoming escorts, and some
females felt awkward about
walking home with a stranger,
he said.
The SGA hopes to have
escorts in other central areas on
campus now, McCarthy said.
Band reports theft
John Yoder
Staff Writer
Ramon Scott/staff
Drivin' n' cryin' lead vocalist Kevn Kenney hams it up on
stage Friday night. The band's backdrop was stolen after
the show.
Although the drivin' n' cryin'
concert last Friday night was a
great success, the band left with
a sour taste in its mouth, band
Manager Jim Barbar said Mon­day.
The band reported late Friday
night that the multi-colored
hand-painted backdrop they
have used since March of this
year was stolen after the con­cert,
while the stage was being
taken down, University Pro­gram
Council adviser John
Burgess said.
"After the theft was noticed, it
was reported to the University
police. They went out looking for
it but found nothing," he said.
The five-foot by nine-foot ban­ner
depicting a lizard head com­ing
out of a "slaughter house" is
"pretty much irreplaceable,"
according to Barbar.
"(The band) had this banner
made in March of this year. It
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was painted by Pennville, Ga.
folk artist K. Allen Wilson," h<
said. Wilson is the grandson o
the Rev. Howard Fenster, wh(
created the album covers fo
REM's Reckoning and the Talk
ing Heads' Little Creatures
album.
"He painted this for us mainly
out of friendship, and we didn'
pay near the amount that it is
worth," he said. "An Allen Wil
son of that size is worth $3,000
$4,000.
"This is something that Allen
cannot simply duplicate. We hac
plans for using this design as
our next record cover and for T
shirts."
The band hasn't played in
Auburn since the Theta Chi
Woodstock fundraiser last Octo­ber.
"This, in a lot of ways, was the
best show that we've ever had,"
Barbar said. "We'd like to come
back, but everyone's kind of
upset now. It's really frustrating
for me. You really don't expect
this type of thing to happen at
such a good show."
The band does not want to
press charges against anyone,
he said.
"If the person or people who
took it would return it to the
UPC office we'd really be
happy," Barbar said. "It's the
kind of thing that will mean
more to the band than it ever
could to the person who took it."
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October 19,1989 The Auburn Plainsman A-5
Area gangs avoid
drug trafficking
Suzanne Taylor
Staff Writer
Fighting among teen gangs
exists in Auburn, but drug
trafficking within these gangs
is not a problem, according to
Auburn Police Lt. Frank
deGraffenried.
"Their biggest thing is
throwing rocks at cars and ter­rorizing
non-gang members or
members of other gangs,"
deGraffenried said.
Local black males between
the ages of 14 and 20 have
grouped together to form
gangs such as "The Super Pow­ers,"
"The Powers of Pain" and
the "Zulu Nation," deGraffen­ried
said.
"We estimate 120 to 150
members of each of these
gangs, and we do expect them
to grow since they are becom­ing
more organized and gain
more access to narcotics," he
said. "The patterns of organi­zation
of these young gangs is
the same way the 'Crips' and
the 'Bloods' s t a r t e d in the
70s."
Some gang members carry
knives and small caliber pis­tols,
and wear tattoos or brand
their names on their arms, he
said.
Gangs began to form in
Auburn in the mid-1980s with
the "Zulu Nation" and the
"Drake Town Raiders" being
the first organized gangs,
deGraffenried said.
The "Drake Town Raiders"
have diminished with the
emergence of smaller gangs,
he said.
Gangs identified as "The
Miami Boys" and "The L.A.
Boys" are dominant in Mont­gomery,
Gadsden and Dothan,
he said.
There have not been any
problems with gang activity at
Auburn High School, Linus
Fiely, assistant principal said.
"We have been extremely for­tunate
in that regard."
Thomas Petee, assistant
sociology professor at the Uni­versity,
said, "The probability
of deviate gangs in Auburn is
r a t h e r remote, but violent
gangs are certain to branch off
into smaller towns to establish
outlets for drug trafficking."
People tend to think of all
gangs as being like L. A.
gangs, such as the "Crips" or
"Bloods," that typify the image,
Petee said.
Gang members, depending
on the situation, may feel awk­ward
interacting with conven­tional
teenagers and join
gangs as a means for emotion­al
gratification, he said.
"Criminal gangs offer a
means for youth to experience
emotional bonds found in nor­mal
types of friendship situa­tions,"
Petee said.
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Robert Boyce
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The bad news is that more
than half of college seniors
would have failed a recent
Gallup Organization poll testing
their knowledge of history and
literature.
The good news is that Auburn
has already taken steps to place
more emphasis on an education
in the humanities, Vice Presi­dent
for Academic Affairs
Ronald Henry said.
The Gallup survey, funded by
the National Endowment for the
Humanities (NEH), shows that:
•24 percent of college seniors
thought that Columbus landed
in the western hemisphere some
time after 1500.
•42 percent of them could not
place the Civil War in the cor­rect
half-century.
•58 percent of them did not
know who wrote The Tempest.
•55 percent of them could not
identify the Magna Carta.
• 58 percent of them did not
know that Harry Truman was
president when the Korean War
began.
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the NEH recently released a
publication entitled 50 Hours
urging colleges to strengthen
their core requirements.
In a telephone interview NEH
representative, John McGrath
said, "Students simply aren't
being required to study in broad
areas of thought."
One reason for this problem is
that colleges expect students to
have a strong foundation in the
humanities from high school;
however, the Gallup survey
shows a problem that is system-wide,
McGrath said.
"By the time someone gets to
college, they should be taking a
much deeper look at such things
as literature, sociology, world
history and the sciences," he
said.
Henry said that a new core
curriculum, passed by the Uni­versity
Senate about two years
ago, will be presented for
approval to the board of trustees
in the near future.
"We are not proposing any­thing
as wide or as large as the
50 Hours publication suggests,
but the new core will be much
larger than the present one,"
Henry said.
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A-6 The Auburn Plainsman October 19,1989
University will soon clear dump site
Matt Smith
News Editor
An illegal trash dump behind
the Delta Chi house will be
cleaned up soon, and a "No
dumping" sign has been posted
at the site, facilities division
Maintenance Director Kirk
Tyree said Tuesday.
However, Tyree said the Uni­versity
would have to wait until
wet weather clears before it can
begin a cleanup.
"There's a lot of standing
water down there," he said.
"We'll have to get a backhoe in
there, some heavy equipment.
It's not a Sunday afternoon pro­ject...
There's a lot of concrete
there we need to get out. The
area's been graded, also; why, I
don't know.
"It's junk put there by con­tractors.
There are drain tiles,
pieces of hose and Cushman
tires."
Cushman is a manufacturer of
the small utility vehicles used
by the University and many
companies.
Tyree said he did not know
who was responsible for the
dumping.
"I haven't seen anyone, but I
have my suspicions," he said. He
did not elaborate. "It's an illegal
site, (but) I don't have any
authority to stop it," he said.
In addition, both Delta Chi
and neighboring Beta Theta Pi
fraternities had complained
about a foul-smelling runoff
from the dump, which flowed
through a ditch past both hous­es.
55
It's an illegal site,
(but) I don't have any
authority to stop it
-Kirk Tyree
Delta Chi President Jim
Ruble said the smell the frater­nities
had complained about
earlier this month has also
diminished.
"It was that first couple days
during rush that it was really
bad," he said. "If you go out
there, it still smells, but it has­n't
made it up to the house."
In addition, Ruble said a Lee
County health inspector visited
the site soon after the sign was
posted. He said the sign was
Dosted the week after an article
about the dump appeared in the
Oct. 5 issue of The Plainsman.
"The smell they're talking
about is grass clippings," Tyree
said. "The smell will probably
come back as those clippings sit
there, but it's down now because
of atmospheric conditions - it's
just not blowing up the hill."
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Ramon Scott/staff
About 160 people gathered in Felton Little Park Mon­day
night to support women's reproductive rights.
NOW members held
continued from A-l
morality, only illegality," she
said. "Women will make the
choice to abort regardless of
whether abortion is illegal or
not.
"We must insure the health
of these women who do make
that choice. Many radical anti-choice
leaders oppose most
ideas which could help women
achieve greater equality and
freedom.
"They want to return women
to the days when they had few
choices in controlling their
future."
Anti-abortionists handed out
flyers about abortions. Opelika
resident Roger Marber is
against abortion regardless of
circumstance, he said.
"You have to suffer conse­quences
in this world for what
you do," Marber said.
Christen McGlen, 01 GMS,
said, "I'm here expressing my
views. I'm against it (abortion)
and letting it be known."
Welcome Back Students!!!
The staff of Drake Student Health Center Personal
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At the same time, we recognize that the University
environment can often be stressful and difficult to
manage without help. If you should have personal
concerns and would like assistance, please feel free to
contact us at 844-5123 to schedule an appointment. The
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October 19,1989 The Auburn Plainsman A-7
Space
Center linking
departmental
space projects
John Yoder
Staff Writer
University officials have
announced plans for. the estab­lishment
of a center to strength­en
the various departments
involved with space research.
The Space Science and Engi­neering
Center will act as a link
between the departments, Paul
F. Parks, the University's vice-president
for research, said.
"We're trying to coordinate all
of the space programs on cam­pus,"
Parks said. "What the cen­ter
will do is provide direction
with a small staff and extramu­ral
sources.
"The center will broaden
bases, strengthen the Universi­ty's
Space Power Institute and
open opportunities for much
more diverse programs.
"A number of projects exist
now in the colleges of engineer­ing,
science, math and other
schools. And with this center we
hope to unify these programs."
The announcement of t he
Space Science and Engineering
Center came only a few weeks
after NASA announced that
Auburn is among five state
schools chosen for i t s new
National Space Grant College
and Fellowship program.
Auburn, along with the Uni­versity
of Alabama, University
of Alabama in Birmingham,
University of Alabama in
Huntsville, Alabama A&M and
Tuskegee University will each
receive funds directed toward
space research, Parks said.
The Space Grant program will
have two parts. A funding con­sortium
in various states
(Alabama's consortium is listed
above) will each receive $75,000
SGA sponsors awareness week
Chris Stewart/staff
in 1989 and an additional
$225,000 in 1990, he said.
Each school will receive
$100,000 in 1990 to be used for
fellowship programs involving
graduate students doing
research in space related areas.
"Auburn's research is directed
towards thermal management,
power supply, reliability of space
equipment, aeronautics and avi-
55
We're trying to coor­dinate
all of the
space programs on
campus.
- Paul F. Parks
ation," Parks said. "We are also
concerned with the disposal of
much of the junk that we and
other nations have left up
there."
Along with these projects
Parks said, "Auburn research is
being directed towards atomic
oxygen that is found in space
and the problems that are
linked with it and the corrosion
of space equipment."
Another program which has
recently arisen at Auburn is the
JOVE (Joint Venture) program.
"JOVE is a program that is
being operated in conjunction
with NASA and a number of
other universities in the
nation." Parks said. "In an
attempt to instill interest in the
space' sciences in undergraduate
as well as graduate students.
"NASA, through past and
ongoing missions, compiles mas­sive
amounts of scientific data
which will be shared with the
universities involved in t he
JOVE initiative.
"We also hope that there will
be some feedback into elemen­tary
and secondary schools, fil­t
r a t i n g interests in space
throughout the system."
An advisory committee, con­sisting
of Parks and members
from Academic Affairs and the
Alabama Cooperative Extension
Service, is now "looking for a
director for the Space Science
and Engineering Center, who
will be chosen on a basis of
national recognition as a leader;
someone who is well known in
the space community and hav­ing
ties with federal agencies,"
Parks said.
The University should hire a
director by fall 1990, he said.
Ashley McCarty
Staff Writer
Students attended an alcohol-free
band party last night and
will be taking voluntary breath
tests from the AUPD tonight as
part of "Alcohol Awareness
Week."
The Oct. 15-21 events are
sponsored by the SGA and coin­cide
with National Collegiate
Alcohol Awareness Week
(NCAAW).
"I think it is important to
make students aware that alco­hol
is a drug and that it can be
easily abused," SGA President
Scott Turnquist said.
Susannah Jones, 02 LPO, who
is director of "Alcohol Aware­ness
Week" wanted to bring the
week to the students rather
than the students having to
attend so many programs and
speakers as has been the case in
past years.
"People are more willing to do
things when it is brought to
them," Jones said.
"I believe that successful edu­cation
programming centered on
responsible drinking, etc., is
only successful when students
do not think that they are being
educated," she said.
"My main goal as director of
the Student Alcohol and Drug
Information Center is to help
students make responsible deci­sions
about alcohol and make
the students aware of the dan­gers
associated with substance
abuse," she said.
Tonight, the AUPD will be at
socials giving students breath
tests.
"This is not condoning drink­ing,
but showing how alcohol
effects people," Jones said.
The police will give the test to
people of different weights, peo­ple
who have eaten and those
who have not eaten. Also, they
will test people who have just
consumed different levels of
alcohol, she said.
In order to participate, stu­dents
must be 21 years old,
must sign a waiver and have a
safe way home.
All week, there has been a
casket in front of the Haley Cen­ter
Bookstore. The inside of the
casket is mirrored, so when stu­dents
look in the casket, they
see themselves. The sign on the
casket reads, "This could be you,
don't drink and drive."
A mock DUI trial was held
Tuesday night at Foy Union.
Judge Joe Bailey presided. Bai­ley
is a municipal judge who
presides over all DUI cases in
Auburn.
At the mock trial, there was
also a panel discussion. Issues
such as underaged drinking,
Alabama's DUI laws and fake
identifications were discussed.
The alcohol-free band party
was last night at the Lambda
Chi Alpha fraternity house fea­turing
the "Chill Bumps." The
event was co-sponsored by Pi
Beta Phi sorority.
The Student Alcohol and Drug
Information Center is part i>f
the SGA. :
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A-8 The Auburn Plainsman October 19,1989
RED
CROSS
GIVE BLOOD
Professor develops synthetic blood
Steve Henderson
Staff Writer
Karen Karaszewski/sraff
Researchers from the Univer­sity's
Pharmacy and Veterinary
schools are currently testing a
synthetic blood substitute to
determine its effects on the
metabolization of drugs in the
body.
William Ravis, head of the
project, described the compound
as a "totally synthetic material"
with oxygen-carrying capabili­ties
inferior to blood, but still
capable of sustaining life.
Since its introduction 10 years
ago by a Japanese medical com­pany,
the compound has been
tested on hundreds of humans
and animals and is now await­ing
approval by the U.S. Food
and Drug Administration.
The research team at Auburn
is "primarily interested in the
drug disposition - how drugs
are metabolized and absorbed"
in context to the presence of the
substance, Ravis said.
The substitute is a "paraflo-rachemical
material, encapsu­lated
and made into an emul­sion"
and has a milky white
appearance, Ravis said. The
substance takes the form of mil­lions
of tiny droplets in the
bloodstream.
The alterations in drug
absorption are because the
droplets are rapidly filtered
from the blood by the liver and
spleen and then remain there
for hundreds of days, Ravis said.
Tests on rats and dogs showed
that when 20 percent to 30 per­cent
of their blood was replaced
by substitute, the substitute dis­appeared
from the blood stream
in half a day, he said.
Drugs administered to the
animals shortly after the trans­fusion
remained in the blood
stream for longer than normal
periods of time before being
metabolized, he said. This
increased the intensity of the
drug effects on the animals.
However, drugs administered
months after a transfusion were
absorbed faster than normal
and had a diminished effect,
Ravis said.
"It will probably never serve
as a replacement for blood"
Ravis said.
The fluid must be accompa­nied
by high oxygen pressure to
be effective.
"Synthetics may never be
made optimum because of their
solvent type mechanisms,"
Ravis said.
The substitute is much better
than plasma expanders he said.
It has sustained life in animals
with their blood completely
replaced by the compound.
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The University phone system
is causing frustration for some
users, but the system is general­ly
more efficient and less costly,
Jim Stone, director of Telecom­munications,
said Monday.
The frustrations come from
users misunderstanding how to
operate the system, Stone said.
"I think we all have a few
functions that we know how to
do, but we have to look up the
rest," he said.
Training sessions for new
employees will be possible in the
future when the Division of
Telecommunications completes
its new building. A video tape is
being produced to help new
employees, Stone said.
"We do need strengthening in
that area."
To some University depart­ments,
costs may have seemed
to increase with the new sys­tem,
but they can't compare the
two systems directly, Stone said.
"In the past, you may have
had 40 people sharing the same
six lines. Now, each of those 40
people have a phone which can
be used separately," he said.
Although many departments'
equipment costs have gone up,
the phone system is not generat­ing
a profit, he said.
"It was never designed to gen­erate
a profit. The phone system
began with a $7 million indebt­edness,"
Stone said.
The added inconvenience of
authorization codes is resulting
in lower long distance costs
throughout campus, and
Auburn is monitoring the use of
the authorization codes to pre­vent
waste and abuse, he said.
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October 19,1989 The Auburn Plainsman A-9
University
cuts against
city advice
continued from A-l
and city property. Each street
has a certain amount of right of
way, and the city can control
how that right of way is devel­oped,
Peterson said.
"We've reached a point where
we must take a stand," Peterson
said. "I really believe they (the
University) removed the tree to
coincide with the design of the
site plan."
School Architect Charles
Mueller requested the tree com­mission
look at the trees in
early May.
"A site plan had already been
developed when Mueller made
the request to me," Peterson
said.
President James E. Martin
said he was unaware of what
was going on and has met with
Mayor Jan Dempsey since the
removal of the trees to discuss
further plans.
There were two entrances on
the original site plan, but the
University has agreed to have
only one entrance and to replace
the two trees removed with new
trees.
"While replacing trees, you
can't replace canopy," Peterson
said. "It will take years and
years for five trees to provide
the same canopy the two uproot­ed
trees provided.
"I do, however, think it is a
positive step taken by the Uni­versity
offering to replace the
trees."
The City Tree Commission
has made a recommendation
that no trees be replaced with­out
the approval of the commis­sion,
Peterson said.
A street tree master plan has
been devised to recommend the
types of trees to be planted.
Overcup oaks are good street
(canopy) trees and make ideal
shade trees, Peterson said.
"I'm assuming the University
will honor that recommenda­tion,"
he said.
"The tree commission is very
serious about protecting canopy
trees in the city of Auburn," he
said. "We should all be attempt­ing
to preserve them.
"Those trees clearly could
have been around for many
more generations."
CLASSIFIEDS Classified Advetisements are 200 per word (250 for non-students) with a minimum charge
of 14 words. Ads must be placed in person in our office in the basement of Foy Union.
Deadline is Tuesday at 11 a.m. For further information call 844-4130.
SALE SALE RENT
For Sale: '81 Turbo 280ZX Automatic
transmission, fully loaded very strong
runner, needs minor restoration, $3000.00.
If interested call Rusty 745-3424.
For Sale: Two chairs white - striped
$30.00, girl bedroom set: bed, night table,
dresser hutch all $100.00. Call Heather
821-8840.
For Sale: 12 x 60 Mobile Home located in
Starr's Trailer Park. 826-8466.
RayBan-Sergeneti Sunglasses save
40% on 300 models. Compare prices.
Fast shipping. Free Catalogue. 1-800-
4RAYBAN.
Trailer For Sale. 1983, excellent condition,
washer/dryer, dishwasher, central air,
fenced backyard, more. 821-6135.
For Sale: Fender Bullet and Peavy Pacer
Amp., great condition. $225.00 or best
offer. 821-6896.
1984 Nissan 200SX. Take over payments
plus $500.00 or best offer. Call Ed
(404)568-1942.
1982 Honda 450 Nighthawk, excellent,
new tires, battery, crashbar, backrest, book
rack. Call 826-0184.
Trailer For Sale: Two bedroom, one
bath, furnished, central air and heat,
washer/ dryer. Call 887-7200.
14 x 70 1988 2 bedroom, 2 bath, central
heat & air, covered deck, fully furnished,
brass & glass decor, great condition. 821-
3637.
For Sale Three year old Ball Python, forty
gallon tank, heat rock enclosure, very
gentle. $200.00.826-7326.
For Sale: Fuji 10-speed racing bike, great
condition, $200.00, price negotiable. Call
CJ, 8:30-4:00 p.m. 844-2352.
1988 Toyota Corolla, auto, 4DR, AC, PB,
PS, stereo cass., 19,000 miles, dark gray,
887-6700, $7,195.00.
12 x 65 3 Bedroom, 2 bath trailer for sale.
Including w/d, good condition. Located in
Gentilly. Call 826-0634. •
Market Discover Credit Cards on your
campus. Flexible hours. Earn as much as
$10.00/hour. Only ten positions available.
Call 1-800-950-8472. Ext. 3.
Class Rings By Balfour on sale Monday-
Friday room 332 Foy Union, 7:45 a.m. until
4:45 p.m.
For Sale 3 Auburn - Florida State tickets.
Call 826-0626.
Schwinn Super LeTour 10 speed, new
with water bottle, kryptonite lock, $220.00.
821-8948.
12 x 60 Mobile Home located in Gentilly
Park. 2 bedroom, 1 3/4 bath, AC'S,
screened porch, chain linked fence.
$6,000.00/0.B.O. Call 335-3028 or
335-3766.
1983 Isuzu l-Mark, 4 cycl., 4 drs, auto
AM/FM cassette, air, cruise, good tires,
73,000 miles. Call 887-3300.
For Sale Suntan booth, good condition.
Call 821-7324.
Must Sell Couch and chair
$130.00/O.B.O. Call 826-9470.
For Sale: Auburn -vs- FSU, Florida,
Georgia & Alabama tickets; student &
guest serious inquires only PLEASE! •
826-0488.
For Sale: Applause Acoustic Guitar;
excellent condition. $150.00/O.B.O. Call
826-0488.
For Sale Florida State and Florida tickets.
821-0666.
Semi-formal Dresses for sale. Perfect for
fall pledge, formals, geat prices, perfect
condition. Call Sherry at 887-3858.
1979 White Chevette in good condition.
Automatic 2-door. Price is negotiable. Must
sell. Phone 826-7590.
For Sale Onkyo Integrated Amplifier 80
• watts, channel and Onkyo tuner $265.00.
Call Dave 826-1608.
For Sale. Nakamichi TD 300 car stereo
$250.00. Call 887-6654 ask for Mike.
Round Trip Flight to Chicago from Atlanta.
October 25-29. Call 887-7100.
12 x 70 Mobile Home. 2 bedroom, 1 bath,
partially furnished, nice fenced lot, porch,
central heat and air, excellent condition,
$6895.00. Call 821-0815.
JOBS MISC. MISC.
RENT
Female Roommate Needed now for
Brookside. Rent $131.25 per month.
Please call 826-8602.
One and Two Bedroom Condos available
at Lakewood Commons. Call Nancy Hoff,
Pinewood Properties. 826-7500.
2 Bedroom Condo, 2 blocks from A & P,
walk or bike to campus. Washer/Dryer,
microwave, balcony, poolside. May rent as
1 bedroom. Call local 887-6445 or collect
881-2208.
Furnished Room For Rent, Ridgewood
Village,, $200.00 includes utilities,
telephone calls excluded. 826-6375. Twin
bed, mattress, boxspring, frames, brass,
head board $105.00.
For Rent: 1 or 2 bedroom Condos'. Call
Pinewood Properties 887-6575 ask for
Teresa.
Hudson Arms Apartments, One & two
bedroom apartments available. Call John
Wilkes, Pinewood Properties, 821-5880 or
come by office. Daily 1-5 p.m. 425 Opelika
Road.
Two Bedroom Condo available. Call
Maureen Stringer, Crossland Downs. 887-
6574. Short term lease possible.
New Duplexes For Lease January 1.
Large 3 bedroom, 2 bath units, available.
Call 821-4158.
Office Space at 233 E. Magnolia (2 blocks
from campus) includes reception rooms,
private entrance, 5 parking spaces, utilities.
Call 887-7486, 10-6 Mon. - Thurs.
10-5 Fri.- Sat.
Parking Spaces Available 2 blocks from
Toomer's Corner. Lot located at 233 E.
Magnolia (corner of Burton and Magnolia)
$15.00 a month. Call 887-7486 from 10-6
Mon.-Thurs. 10-5 Fri.-Sat.
PERSONALS
To The Brookes from Saturday - Thanks.
We were all lucky.
So Mert, where do we go from here?
Love, Sam.
Lori, Sigma Pi House last Sat. night - top
hall - 2:30 a.m. you poked my chest and
left! Your ph. #? Ring me up, (404)850-
1829 David.
Be There or Be Square! The OAK Cake
Race - Wednesday October 25.
Registration begins at 2:45 p.m. at the
Hutsell Track - Free! The Tradition Runs
On!
LOST & FOUND
LOST: Two Black Puppies with white feet.
Please call with any information. 826-6902
or 821-8181.
Found: A Light Beige and White
female kitty. Call 821-4947. Found at
Ross/Chewacla and Thach.
Barron's
Trailer Park
Mobile Homes for Rent
•Available now
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•Located in the
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call anytime
821-1335
WANTED
P a r k i ng
Space
Special
Now you can park
one block from
campus for the rest
of the quarter - for
the price of one
month. Thirty
bucks gets you a
Guaranteed space
anytime you
arrive.
Come by 137 S. Gay
between 12:30 & 1
or 4:30 & 5 pm
or call 821-7024
Wanted! Jump Pilot at Tuskegee Requires
Commercial, Instrument, C-182 time. Call
Lori, 727-7767 weekdays.
Wanted! Weekend Help at Tuskegee
Airport. Includes pumping fuel, office work,
cleaning, etc. Must work Nov. 24-26. Call
Lori 727-7767.
Gold, Silver, Diamonds, class rings,
wedding bands and gold chains. Highest
prices paid. Hill's Jewelry 111 E. Magnolia,
Auburn. 887-3921.
Spring Break 1990- Individual or student
organization needed to promote our Spring
Break trips. Earn money, free trips and
valuable work experience. APPLY
NOW!! Call Inter-Campus Programs:
1-800-327-6013.
Wanted: Auburn Football tickets; all
games; student & guest. 826-0488.
Wanted: Two non-student tickets for
Mississippi State game. Call 887-8286 after
5 p.m.
Agents Needed Now! No experience
necessary! We train! Call (318)468-2302
ext. P-814.
Wanted: Florida State and Alabama
tickets. Also need a student ticket
821-0666.
Wanted Four Tickets AU -vs- Florida. Call
844-8256 leave message.
JOBS
Earn $2,000 • $4, 000, Searching for
employment that permits working your own
hours, but still challenging enough for your
entrepreneurial skills? Manage programs
for fortune 500 companies, earn $2,000 to
$4,000. Call 1-800-932-0528, ext.H. Ideal
for grad students.
Excellent Summer & Career Opportunities
now available for college student &
graduates with Resort Hotels, Cruiselines,
Airlines, Amusement Parks and Camps.
For more information and an application;
write, National Collegiate Recreation
Serviife; P.O. Box 8074; Hilton Head, SC
29938.
National Marketing Firm seeks mature
student to manage on-campus promotions.
Flexible hours with earnings potential to
$2500.00 per semester. Must be organized
hardworking and money motivated. Call
Kevin or Myra at 1 -800-592-2121
Would You Like to offer Discover Credit
Cards? Are you available for only a few
hours/week? If so, call 1-800-932-0528 ext!
3. We'll pay you as much as $10.00/hour.
Only ten positions available.
Now Hiring Waitstaff, hostesses, and
kitchen help. Contact Jim Pruitt at
825-7021.
Part -time Help needed. Professional
cleaners Kroger Shopping Center. Please
apply in person.
Help Wanted: Legends Restaurant is now
hiring for all positions. Apply in person only
2 p.m. - 4 p.m., 1400 Opelika Road.
Overseas Jobs. $900-$2000 month.
Summer, year round, all countries, all
fields. Free info. Write IJC, P O Box 52-
AL01, Corona Del Mar, CA 92625
College Women Needed to teach dance
as assistant teachers, Experience is
required, Nix Dance Studios, 887-7520.
HELP WANTED:
Outgoing energetic
people wanted to fill
kitchen and
daytime/nighttime
server positions
Interviews held
Monday-Friday
2 p.m. - 4 p.m.
Apply in person only.
NO PHONE CALLS.
RYAN'S
1032 Opelika Rd.
MISC.
A Free Gift Just for calling plus raise up to
$1,700.00 in only ten days!!! Student
groups, fraternities and sororities needed
for marketing project on campus. For
details plus a Free Gift, group officers call
1-800-950-8472, Ext.30.
Wildlife Society Meeting Tuesday Oct.
24th 314 Funchess Hall. Everyone
welcome. Speaking: A.U. Raptor Program.
Lee County Aids Outreach (LCAO)
announces that October is National Aids
Awareness Month and Oct. 18 is Auburn-
Opelika Aids Awareness Day. Questions?
Information? Support? Contact LCAO, P. O.
Box 1971, Auburn 36831.
• R/C Cars
• R/C Boats
• R/C Planes
• Architecture &
Engineering
Supplies
• CA Glues
• Balsa Wood
FoodMax Shopping Center
821-3033
We Cut Glass. Baskets, giftware, bicycle
locks, and more. Auburn Hardware, 117 E.
Magnolia, 887-8701.
Typing - Resumes, Reports, B & P's - low
rates. 826-1594 after 5:30 p.m.
Win a Cake! Win a shirt! Win a trophy! Win
a kiss! OAK Cake Race October 25.
Registration begins at 2:45 p.m. Hutsell
Track.
Coming Soon: Pi Lambda Phi select
Rush. Call for information. 821-5735 or
821-1897.
DOD, Ovation,
Peavey, Fender,
Alvarez, Pearl
Guitar Accessories,
drums, sheet
music, reeds,
Instructional video rentals
P.A., Light systems
Guitar, Bass & Drum
Lessons
219 N. College St. 821-6818
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Helmets
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A-10 The Auburn Plainsman October 19,1989
(Tfic^uburn Plainsman
Serving Auburn University for 96 years
Paige Oliver
Editor
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Managing Editor
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Crossing lines
WITH THE NUMBER OF STUDENTS increas­ing
every year, putting a limit on Auburn's
enrollment was inevitable. But devising a plan
to maintain elbow room has become a necessary evil gone
awry.
. Under a new admissions policy effective immediately,
the University has eliminated out-of-state recruiting and
will defer applications until the first of the year for out-of-state
students who fail to meet the 26 ACT or 1100 SAT
score required.
Alabama students may rejoice in knowing they will
not be directly affected by the limitations, and many
would argue that's the way it should be. After all, this is
a state university partially supported by taxes paid by in-staters
and their families.
But there's a thin line between the innies and the out-ties,
and it's a mere 30 minutes due east.
Students in nearby Columbus, Ga., now have to meet
higher standards to attend Auburn than a student from
Tuscaloosa.
Maybe those Georgians have grown up with expecta­tions
of attending Auburn. Maybe they bleed orange and
blue. Maybe that 30-minutes-from-home idea is just more
convenient.
| They can still apply, but unless they meet Auburn's new
test score standards, their applications will be deferred.
And until a final word is heard from Auburn, they must
put other schools' acceptances on hold. Not unexpectedly,
many capable, talented students that could only enrich
the Plains won't wait.
,' Now take a look at the new standards. Auburn is a
good school, yes. But it isn't so good that it can expect
only honor students to attend from out-of-state. And since
recruiting those students has come to a halt, those with a
26 on their ACT or an 1100 on their SAT can probably cut
a better deal elsewhere.
! If the University wants to raise academic standards
across the board to limit enrollment, it deserves only
applause. But to raise them only for out-of-state students
does a disservice to those affected and more importantly,
Auburn, which will undoubtedly suffer a lack of enrich­ment
when the academic in-breeding takes its toll.
Off schedule
WHEN THE NEW SWIM COMPLEX is complet­ed,
it is expected to rank as one of the "fastest"
pools in America. In fact, the only thing slow
about this complex is the time it has taken to get started.
Students passed a referendum to pay two-thirds of the
total cost of the pool. Because -it will be used by the ath­letic
department as well, officials there agreed the
department would pick up the rest of the tab.
But that was during the spring of 1987.
Since then the $3-4 million project has turned into a $8
million complex. SGA officials grappled with University
officials last year to conclude how the additional costs
> would be covered.
And no matter how the costs were split, it was the stu­dents
who bore the brunt of it. With a tuition increase
that partially went directly toward the pool costs and
another portion going directly to the athletic department,
students have purchased a large chunk of the facility,
now in the preliminary sketch stage.
The project has taken far too long to only be in this
stage, but the SGA deserves recognition for pushing so
hard to get Auburn a first-class facility without compro­mising
quality.
Now it's up to the University to get the construction
going and meet its scheduled completion date. At the rate
things have been going, September 1991 is just around
the corner. • r.
Survey enlightens us to ignorance
OK, folks, get out your trivia
games and start watching
Jeopardy again. Another poll
just came out showing us how
dumb we are.
A survey published by the
National Endowment for the
Humanities last week reminded
us most college students think
the Constitution contains the
phrase, "Over 40 billion served."
We all know, of course, that line
is actually from Casablanca.
Gee, thanks, guys.
That made me mad. I was
furious. I was mad as hell, and I
wasn't going to take it anymore.
I decided to take my own poll
to show those supercilious (Web­ster's!
God, I love it!) bozos at
the NEH what they could do
with their survey. After inter­viewing
a random sample of my
peers, I was dismayed to find
that they're probably right.
Almost two-thirds - 62 per­cent
- of the 46 students I sur­veyed
at various bars in town
could not answer the famous
question posed by the National
Anthem: "O say, does that star-spangled
banner yet wave?"
Sample responses:
• "Star-spangled what?"
• "Didn't George Michael do
that one?"
• "Are you kidding? You could
go blind that way."
That's a trick question,
though. If you listen to the song
next time you go to the ball
game, you'll notice it never gets
answered.
Forty-three percent of the
respondents in the survey could
not tell me what world event
occurred on Dec. 7, 1941, but
the answers were a bit better
than the last. For instance:
• "Poland invaded Germany."
• "The Renaissance."
• "How the @*&% should I
know? I wasn't even born."
The correct answer, as the
rest of us know, is that the
Japanese bombed Pearl Bailey.
As the data came flowing in, I
was appalled at how hopelessly
stupid we are. Sixty-four per­cent
said Laurence Olivier had a
TV show with music and a bub­ble
machine. Seventy-one per­cent
could not tell me which
Marx brother wrote The Com­munist
Manifesto.
A staggering 94 percent
thought Jews were forbidden to
see Hamlet. Fifty-eight percent
claimed they used the teller
machine on the West Bank.
Don't hold me to exact num­bers,
though; the survey has
roughly a 50 percent margin of
error, since someone spilled a
drink on the napkins I used for
my notes.
Most shocking of all, even the
bartender couldn't add. There's
no way I could have run up a
$73 tab.
University officials must do
something. If this has not
already frightened them into
action, then try this: 29 percent
said the "n" in Auburn stands
for "knowledge."
America needs good 5-cent joint
What America needs is a good
five-cent joint.
The drug problem in the Unit­ed
States is indeed regrettable,
but when a country declares
war on its citizens (e.g. The War
On Drugs), then we have a prob­lem.
By keeping drugs illegal we
are simply trying to put out the
fire with gasoline.
In the United States, we are
free to do what we want as long
as it does not infringe on the
rights of others. We also hold
that we have an inherent right
to own property.
Our forefathers also took the
ideas of Thomas Hobbes and
came up with the radical idea
that Americans are individuals.
If indeed we do have all of
these rights, then our personal
bodies are owned by each of us;
we should be able to do with
them what we please as long as
it does not infringe on the rights
of others.
Michael
Gordon
Assistant
Village Life
Editor
Therefore, if I want to shave
my head, gouge out my eyeballs,
jump off Haley Center or shoot
heroin into my veins, it is my
body, it is my property, and it
should be my right.
Opponents of this change will
undoubtedly interject at this
point with the question, "But
what about all the innocent peo­ple
killed by the dealers?"
If.we legalize the substances
and have government regula­tion,
then the price will
undoubtedly come down.
Drug dealers will become
legitimate businessmen, the
allure of selling this super-cash
crop will diminish, and there
will be no need to fight for who
can sell on what street corner.
Local governments can
ascribe one of their "sin" taxes
to the substance and actually
make money instead of spend­ing
wildly on this futile war
against drugs.
Politically, this idea does not
play well, however. As the days
of this war go on, I am seeing
more and more people being
pulled over for fitting "the drug
profile," or watching the Georgia
police with dogs blocking traffic
on 1-85 to search random auto­mobiles.
The more our personal rights
get stripped away by the vari­ous
congressional bodies, the
more legalization of drugs will
become a viable political posi­tion.
Allowing people to be free and
giving them incredible liberty is
a difficult way to run a govern­ment.
This war on drugs allows gov­ernment
to overstep those
tedious things like the first 10
amendments, "for the good of
the people."
Americans must realize that
just because we have had rights
for 200 years does not mean
that we will always have said
rights.
Until we decide not to contin­ue
on this apathetic approach
toward everything pertinent —
except whether somebody uri­nates
on a plastic cross or burns
a piece of cloth — and take a
stand to stop the stripping of
our rights, we cannot keep our
government from removing our
rights one by one until we have
nothing left.
Of course, I wouldn't want
anyone burning the flag if I
wrapped myself in it either, but
that's another column.
Racial peace has long way to go
This summer, while working
at a seafood market irk Birming­ham,
I had a philosophical
debate about our past with a fel­low
employee who had a neck
roughly the shade of a ripe
tomato.
The discussion came about
simply enough. We were talk­ing,
mainly to pass a boring
night away, when he made a
remark about the physical
attributes of a young lady of ori­ental
descent in the store.
This is not what began our
debate, but r a t h e r that he
referred to her as a foreigner.
Although I am not known as
one of the great orators of our
time, I felt that someone of his
intellectual ineptness would be
an easy conquest, and I men­tioned
that if this young lady
were a foreigner, then so was
he, and the only true Americans
were American Indians.
To this he made several
unprintable expletives about the
Native Americans and ended
with several references to black
Americans on which I would
rather not elaborate.
Being from classical American
suburbia, this attitude shocked
me at first, but I was able to fall
back on my knowledge of history
and shoot back several
instances in the past of the
severe injustices that white men
have inflicted upon red, black
and yellow men.
The first thing I mentioned
was the lying, cheating and
stealing that my race has done
to the Indians in the name of
Manifest Destiny.
These acts, like the Mas­sacre...
er...Battle of Wounded
Knee (we are even unjust in our
history books. If the white man
won, it was a battle; if the red
man won, it was a massacre),
the Trail of Tears and the plight
of the Nez Perce are inexcusable
even by the most prolific of heal­ers
— time.
By this time my haunches
were up, and I opened up on
him about the Japanese-Ameri­can
relocations during World
War II, segregation, the KKK
and other haunting symbols of
our past.
These points, he said, made
no difference to him because he
had no part in it. He also called
me a "bleeding-heart liberal" (I
actually supported Jack Kemp
for president, a conservative
among conservatives) because I
had the gall to say that not
everything the United States
has done in the past was right.
The fact is that he does — as
do we all — have a responsibility
to the past.
We are all products of the
society that has produced such
great men as Martin Luther
King Jr., Abraham Lincoln and
the Cherokee chief Sequoia.
But it has also produced such
men and acts as George Wallace
standing in the school house
door, Bull Connor ordering the
water cannon and police dogs on
a peaceful demonstration, and
Andrew Jackson and his infa­mous
Indian removal policy.
Our society and our form of
government has a remarkable
ability to do the right thing, but
in human aspects nothing is
infallible, and we have a respon­sibility
for the injustices of our
history.
The saying goes "those that
are ignorant of the past are
doomed to repeat it," and this
has been proven over and over
again.
Keep this in mind the next
time you're studying for a histo­ry
exam while repeating to
yourself, "I'll never use this in
the real world."
We have come a long way
toward racial harmony in this
country, but a Confederate flag
still flies over our state Capitol,
and Native Americans still live
in poverty on arid reservations,
selling out their deep-rooted and
extremely proud cultures — not
to make a buck, but to survive.
Then there's the term "nigger"
(I shudder with the mention of
that one), which still rings in
the vocabularies of bigots
throughout the nation.
We have a long way to go, and
it is up to our generation to get
us there.
Forum
October 19,1989 The Auburn Plainsman A-ll
Letters
Academics last priority
Editor, The Plainsman:
Well, in its infinite wisdom,
the Student Senate has adopt­ed
a resolution calling for the
postponement of final exams
because of the Iron Bowl being
played in Auburn.
I must admit that when I
first read this, I was filled with
disgust, but, when I thought
about it more, the brilliance of
the precedent set is, well,
beyond words.
Indeed, what an incredible
bit of thinking by the Student
Senate and SGA President
Scott Turnquist because, at its
base, the resolution means:
When exams or academics
clash with the fun-loving activ­ities
of the student population,
then academics must be placed
in the background. What a fan­tastic
notion!
Think of it. When I was a
member of the Kappa Alpha
Order at Auburn, nothing
bothered me more than having
to go to school or having tests
during Old South week. I
mean, come on, when a man
(or woman) is busy celebrating
the gentlemanly ways of the
Old South, he has no need for
such distractions as aca­demics.
This idea could be carried
over to include other large
events such as fundraisers,
Hey Day and SGA elections.
Furthermore, other resolu­tions
could be drawn up and
adopted that called for the
postponement of education in
the face of such distractions as
homecoming.
When a student is busy
preparing for homecoming —
i.e. finding a date, working on
a float, preparing for the date,
saving money and making
plans with friends — he or she
certainly doesn't have time for
studying or preparing for class.
Thus, it would be only fair to
postpone the educational pro­cess
for the entire week of
homecoming.
In addition, other resolu­tions
could be adopted that
postponed tests and/or classes
for the week preceding any
weekend during which the
football game is sold out. Heck
Auburn starts playing football
before it s t a r t s educating:
therefore, this policy would
only fit into the logic of higher
education already adopted by
the University.
I more than agree with
Turnquist's assertion that this
resolution does not place ath­letics
before academics. I guess
it's just a fact of life at any
institution of higher learning
that when there are festivities
afoot distracting the intricate
thought processes of the stu­dents,
then academics must
assume its natural place on
the priority list — last.
Bret Pippen
Class of '88
Filipinos judged unfairly
Editor, The Plainsman:
I am a Filipino. I am also
happily married to an Ameri­can.
My sentiments run both
ways. I am not anti-American.
The article, "Philippine
bases crucial to United States"
(Oct. 5, A-8), fired up my senti­ments
for my own homeland
and people.
How narrow-mindedly were
we judged in our aspirations to
be free from the subtle imperi­alistic
tactics of the United
States whose foremost ideal
(as we were made to believe) is
the preservation of democratic
principles and human rights.
The growing anti-U.S. bases
movement in the Philippines is
not a ploy to "get as much
money out of the United States
as we can" as declared by Pro­fessor
Nelson in the article. It
is the stark and painful real­ization
on our part that we
have extended so much aid to
the U.S. already.
During World War II, the
Filipinos fought the U.S. war
against the Japanese. Manila
was bombed because of the
U.S. bases. The Filipinos alone
were not a threat to the
Japanese.
Our aid to the U.S. was the
lives of countless Filipino men,
women and children who
fought and died, not counting
the scars that still remain.
In 1946, before the U.S.
would grant us our "indepen­dence,"
the Parity Amendment
was rammed through our Con­stitution
to give Americans
equal rights as Filipinos to
exploit the natural resources of
my country.
In 1954, the Laurel-Langley
Agreement extended this right
to agriculture and industry.
Our ever-flowing aid to the
U.S. since then is our country
itself.
Many years after the last
American Governor-General
has left, the Philippines still
remains subject to the econom­ic
and political rule of the
American institutions.
The millions or even billions
of dollars that may go to the
Philippines is not a benevolent
aid from the U.S. It is merely
giving us back a pittance of
what has been taken away
from us. It is insulting!
Many countries in this world
are growing steadily without
the so-called U.S. aid. We will,
too. Sacrifice, we will, as we
already have. Only this time, it
will be for ourselves, not for
others.
And by the way, Professor
Nelson, should you need some­one
to talk to your class about
the U.S. impact on the Philip­pines,
please invite me. I'll
offer the Filipino perspective
at no charge.
Maria Fe Lagana-
Reutebuch
Counseling Psychology
Doctoral candidate
Racism: fWe all lose' in end
Editor, The Plainsman:
In reading Jim Quillin's edi­torial
entitled, "Majority dis­crimination
exists," I found a
kind of subliminal arrogance
and human insensitivity
involved in his thinking that
seemed to not only suggest
that black Americans excel
only when given preferential
treatment but further that we
excel at the expense of our
white brethren.
I invite Quillin (and others
that share his beliefs) to take
off their narrow blinders, and
look at the whole picture.
Most black Americans sim­ply
ask for a fundamental
change in the customary social
and economic prejudices
directed toward black Ameri­cans.
In that black Americans are
not allowed to merge quietly
into the existing social pat­terns
of Auburn or most other
institutions due to the color of
their skin, America as a nation
is asked to endure something
difficult to achieve — an artifi­cial
morality instituted
through governmental inter­ventions
such as Affirmative
Action programs.
I suggest that Quillin view
majority discrimination simply
as a symptom of a disease that
pervades our society — racism.
This is not an us-versus-them
type dilemma but rather
a question of what we can all
do to further the welfare of our
university, and in a larger
sense, our nation.
The programs that Quillin
cites as vestiges of reverse dis­crimination
are, to the con­trary,
outreach and recruit­ment
programs that seek to
find qualified minorities with
applicable job skills and aca­demic
i n t e r e s t s , and bring
these individuals into the uni­versity's
applicant pool.
If properly viewed, these
programs correct the underuti-lization
of our human resource
base.
Moving into a new decade
whereas black Americans will
occupy an increasing segment
of the labor force as the labor
force itself is expected to
shrink in size, it should be
clear that such programs as
Quillin attacked are necessary
to enhance the productive
capacity of our nation, not to
correct for past injustices.
In addition, such programs
provide for increased social
contact between the races,
making possible communica­tion
that can vastly alter atti­tudes.
Perhaps, now that Quillin
has sampled the savage effects
of discrimination, he will join
in moving toward a university
and a society that are capable
of acting in a colorblind and
non-discriminating fashion.
After all, haven't we dealt
with racial discrimination in
all its forms long enough to
realize that in the end we all
lose!
Carl Davis Jr.
04 EC
Show spirit, chant 'Tiger Meat'
Editor, The Plainsman:
As a member of the SGA
Spirit Committee, I have
noticed that the traditional
cheer "Tiger Meat" has been
overshadowed by a chorus of
boos as the opposing team
enters the Stadium.
The Spirit Committee feels
the booing by. the students
shows no class or sportsman­ship
on behalf of Auburn's stu­dent
body.
We do not want to advocate
that opposing teams be
cheered on, but that by yelling,
"Tiger Meat, Tiger Meat," we
welcome them as a unified
body to their downfall at Jor­dan-
Hare Stadium.
It is our opinion that we once
again establish the traditional
Tiger Meat cheer as a chant
that all students can partici­pate
in.
We hope that all students
and fans will join the cheer­leaders
in cheering the most
mind-rattling cheer of all.
Scott Rose
Assistant Spirit Director
Glance back
5 years ago, 1984: The University reported that black student enrollment increased 125 percent,
with total black figures jumping from 462 to 583. Total enrollment also increased to 18,888, 462
more than 1983.
10 years ago, 1979: A city ordinance prohibiting the riding and parking of bicycles on sidewalks
in downtown Auburn drew criticism from some students and several local businesses. A sign in the
window of Johnston and Malone Bookstore, however, seemed to give students a reprieve: "Due to
Auburn City government's continuing efforts to kill business downtown and harass students-
...please do not park bikes on sidewalk. Use our alley. We will not put you in jail!"
20 years ago, 1969: Students wearing black armbands protested America's involvement in Viet­nam
while other students wearing red, white and blue armbands showed their support for the
American soldiers in the war. The students were participating in activities centering around a,
nationwide Vietnam moratorium. Quote of the week
"Black girls aren't cheerleaders here, and they aren't Miss Auburn." - Dietra Crawley, Alpha
Kappa Alpha president, commenting on the "political" nature of Auburn's student body.
Letters
Ballet audience lacks courtesy
Editor, The Plainsman:
Sunday night I went see the
Alexander Roy London Ballet's
production of A Midsummer
Night's Dream.
How was the performance?
It's hard to tell.
It was difficult to keep my
attention focused on the stage
when there were so many
other things going on around
me. It was embarrassing to be
part of an audience that was so
rude.
I know that not everyone
regularly attends symphony
performances, ballets and the­atrical
productions as they
grow up. Still, "audience eti­quette"
is based largely on
common sense and simple
courtesy.
For those of you who are not
sure what is polite and what is
not, here are a few pointers:
• You should take your seats
as the lights are first lowered,
not after. It is also at this point
that you should put your con­versations
on hold.
• If you find, after the perfor­mance
has begun, that your
seats are awful, try as hard as
you can to wait at least until
the end of a dance, scene, etc.,
before you move. Waiting until
intermission would be even
better.
• If you are particularly taken
with a backdrop, costume or
grand jete, or if you want to
ask your date if this is worth
the extra credit, please do not
feel compelled to comment
then. Again, intermission is
the time for this.
• If you decide that no, this
isn't worth the extra credit",
make up your mind during
intermission, not after.
• When the lights are flashed
during intermission, this is the
signal to take your seats, not
the final lowering of the lights. -
As a member of an audience;!
there will always be things
beyond your control, such as
coughing fits and creaking,
chairs.
But if you use some good
judgment and the good man­ners
of which we Southerners
are so proud, the experience
will be more enjoyable for all.
Katy Ginanni
Class of 1984
GRE takes second to football
Editor, The Plainsman:
There was a football game
played in the Stadium last
Saturday. There was an exam
called the GRE administered
in Haley Center last Saturday.
There were plenty of parking
places for visitors, alumni and
others. The streets were
blocked off. There were no
spaces for students who were
there to take the GRE.
I came outside. I saw orange
people. I saw blue people. I
saw purple people. I saw
yellow people.
I looked at the space where I
parked my car. I saw a big
camper. I saw happy alumni. I
saw red.
Auburn is blue. Auburn is
orange. Let's play games. Let's
ignore academics.
Let's go to Auburn and
watch football and graduate
and become alumni and come
back to watch more football
and encourage the students to
do the same and impress them
with big campers and take
their parking places and have,
their cars towed so that they
won't be able to take their
exams and will have to become '
an alumnus for lack of better
things to do, but be sure to
come to the games, and really '
be sure that you spend lots of
money, otherwise you can't be ,
a good alumnus, but you will
be able to write long,
meandering sentences like this
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Racists
Stereotypes
change for
Klan, others
continued from A-3
phy based on the belief that
whites are being treated preju­dicially
David Duke, Louisiana legis­lator,
a former Nazi and
Klansman, ran for president
under the Populist banner.
• Skinheads, including young
Klan members and urban
s t r e e t gangs, sport shaved
heads, Nazi tattoos, combat
boots and a militant political
philosophy which advocates
violence as a way to "expatri­ate"
blacks, Jews, Asians,
Hispanics and homosexuals. In
Birmingham and Atlanta, they
call themselves Reich Skins
and Romantic Violence.
They have no national leader­ship
to date, since they use ran­dom
violence as a primary
weapon.
• Ku Klux Klan, in which
membership peaked at
5,000,000 in 1925, remains
steady at 5,000, despite recent
court decisions against the
United Klansmen of America
and the Southern White
Knights.
Sororities confront racism
continued from A-3
ence culture shock, Crawley
said.
"Black girls aren't cheerlead­ers
here, and they aren't Miss
Auburn," she said.
After thinking about it, she
said, "It's not because the girls
are black, at all. It's because
Auburn is so political."
Suzanna Etheridge, president
of Pi Beta Phi, a predominantly
white sorority nationally, said,
"Auburn is still, unfortunately,
very conservative and segregat­ed.
"Though the sorority is inte­grated
nationally, this chapter
will probably stay in tune with
the way other sororities in
Auburn are."
Zeta Phi Beta is nationally a
predominantly black sorority
that is in the process of being
affiliated on Auburn's campus.
Tammi Screen, president of
Zeta Phi Beta, said, "It is not
race that sets people apart, it is
personality. You hang around
people who you have things in
common with."
"Somebody has to take the
first step," Crawley said, "but
everybody is waiting for some­one
else to make that step."
Minorities use special programs to overcome barriers
continued from A-3
ty students have problems here,
and he doesn't like to paint too
positive a picture of how
Auburn deals with minorities.
"People don't promote racism,
but even worse, they hide
behind organizations which pro­mote
this type of segregation."
Davis said his first year was
so disappointing at Auburn that
he was ready to transfer to
Emory.
"I had this Utopian dream of
college," Davis said.
"I wanted to sit down with
other students and discuss our
thoughts, our ideas and come up
with our own answers. But my
first year, when I was at Mag
Dorm, all the other people want­ed
to know about me was about
my hair products."
But Davis overcame these
problems. "Race is only as much
an issue as you make it," he
said. "I don't have control over
how someone else feels about
me."
He found that by working
hard and being aggressive, he
could make his way into many
organizations on campus.
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"The respect level for a person
of color is really low. You have to
prove yourself before most peo­ple
will accept you," Davis said.
But he said he found obstacles
in the way.
"Auburn has the tendency to
sweep things under the rug to
maintain status quo. Until
recently, there were no black
students on the campus, and
Auburn had to rework its sta­tus."
Social problems aren't the
only problems that Davis has
had to face at Auburn. Instruc­tors
tend to single Davis out, he
said.
"If there are 300 students in
the room, the professor knows
me by name because I'm black,"
he said. "And I always get
nailed if I miss a class."
Other than being a role model
on campus, Davis said he has
tried to help the other black stu­dents
by being in the Special
Programs' big brother, big sister
program.
According to student affairs
specialist with the Special Pro­grams
office, Betty Todd, "The
big brother, big sister program
tries to match freshmen minori­ty
students with upperclassmen
in their same major areas.
"Currently we have 50 upper­classmen
in the program and
about 200 freshmen," Todd
said. "We have had a lot of suc­cess
with this program."
Another program is the men­tor
program, in which a minori­ty
or a white faculty member
takes a freshman under their
wing for the first year to help
him with any problems he
might have. Currently^ 60 stu­dents
are involved in this pro­gram,
she said.
The Special Programs office
also advises the Black Student
Action Committee.
"The BSAC works as a sup­port
system for minority stu­dents,
to give them complete
guidance to meet the needs of
the minority students," Todd
said.
To new minority students,
Davis said, "If you want to do it,
you can. Get all you can out of
Auburn. It might take a little
bit more, but it's worth it.
"It's Auburn's loss in the end
if they can't reach out to the
black population."
Pro-white movement growing
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Amy
continued from A-3
-tors racist activity.
"Racism is happening all over
the country," Research Director
Sara Bullard said.
Colleges and universities like
Auburn have been especially
targeted by supremacist groups
in the past few years, Bullard
said, since racist idealogies
depend on the young to carry
their message into the next cen­tury.
A recent report of The
National Institute Against Prej­udice
and Violence documented
incidents of racial violence on
160 campuses in the past two
years.
"Police have the difficult job of
protecting both the white
supremacists' rights to free
expression and the students'
rights to live free of fear," Adam
Cohen, staff attorney for the
Southern Poverty Law Center
said.
"They are counting on the fact
that people are going to buy
their line," Bullard said. "It
takes a while...to get educated
that groups built on racist prin­ciples
are a threat and a bigger
threat if they aren't countered
early. Kids are growing up with­out
a sense of what racist
oppression was all about."
"Many people feel threatened
by any advancement of minori­ties,
and they resent the intru­sion
of the federal government
in their lives, such as the Mid­western
farmers during their
economic crisis a couple of years
ago," she said.
Although the problem is not
merely local, Bullard said local
racist activities accentuate the
negative image of the South.
"No place is immune from
this," she said, "but of course it's
going to reinforce the stereo­types...
It will give people an
incredibly bad impression."
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Village Life
October 19,1989 Section B
Buif ding the future
iU I y I J J J J J J
Part one in a three-part series on Architecture
Foundations lie in philosophy L
Stephanie Elsea
Assistant Village Life Editor
Although many students perceive architecture as a glam­orous
and high-paying way to build a future and a
career, Auburn architecture professors are coping with
pressures beyond what most students realize, according to
Daniel Bennett, head of the department of architecture.
The professors are coping with the mounting problems of
enrollment caps, time factors, funding and their educational
goals meeting the desires of industry professionals, Bennet
^Because of the increasing enrollment at Auburn, the depart-lent
has been forced to implement a quota system.
"We get a little over four applications for every student we
accept," Bennett said.
"We can only accept 40 entering freshmen per year, which
limits University funding," he said.
Enrollment for the department now stands at approximately
800 students. Of that number, about 60 percent are from
Alabama,
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tecture.
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said.
departments within the School of Architec-ilding
science, industrial design and archi-of
architecture has four separate programs
;ure, interior design, landscape architecture
igree in planning,
•e and landscape architecture are five-year
undergraduate programs. These undergraduate degrees must
be followed by a three-year internship and a battery of nation­al
tests.
Once the internship has been completed and the tests
passed, the individual may then call himself or herself an
architect, Bennett said.
The education that an architecture student receives is dif­ferent
from that of other curriculums, such as liberal arts.
This is not to imply that one is better than the other, he said,
but that there are definite and distinct differences.
Two basic philosophies are taught to students of architec­ture.
The first is technical. "Students have all kinds of drawing^
structural, mechanical systems and energy courses, which are"
pragmatic," Bennett said.
These courses give students the skills that enable them to
compete successfully in the job market after graduation, he
said.
The other courses deal with philosophy and intangibles.
These courses "begin to build a philosophical ba^e for lifelong
learning," Bennett said.
It is the department's intention that tha-sfeident leaves
Auburn with the basic reasoning of "how to ajroroaqh architec
ture and an inquisitive mind so he contim^s vjpj grow and
learn," he said.
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All these opinions make my head spin f round
"Always opinions turning you round
Always opinions turning you down."
- Cy Cumin of the Fixx
I recently overheard someone com­menting
on the art review of Italo
Scanga's Biggin Gallery exhibit that
ran in last week's Village Life section.
The person said that the review was
completely unfounded and that the
reviewer didn't know what he was
talking about because each art piece
was worth $40,000. Since when does
the value of something make it art?
Well, I'm not going to ramble on
defending the reviewer. I shouldn't
Sieve to, but whjft a lot of people forget
Shayne
Bowman
Village Life
Editor
is that a review is one person's opinion.
If you always remember that fact, then
everything will go fine.
What a reviewer writes is not the
gospel, and it shouldn't be taken that
way. But it seems a lot of people do.
Sounds silly doesn't it? Let me
expound. V
I'm sure that many people have read
a review in The Plainsman and said,
"This guy or gal is way off. I loved (or
hated) that album (or movie, etc.)."
Possibly so.
But everybody's opinion is different.
Perspective is the key word here.
It's that half full, half empty thing.
There are several theories that peo­ple
use to immediately disregard a
reviewer's opinion. Here are but a few
of the kiss-off theories:
• The Power To Slam Theory - Many
believe that a reviewer merely slams
an album, movie, exhibit, etc., just
because he can. Rarely is that the case.
The reviewer, almost always, is offer­ing
his harsh opinion as a warning
sign. The reviewer is saying, "Take
heed, for this is worthless cow excre­ment!"
• Unfounded Assertions Theory -
This is the only valid criticism a reader
can give to a review. The reader may or
may not know something that is con­trary
to the reviewer's given facts.
Reviewers are never perfect because
they are people too.
• Yours vs. Theirs Theory - Or better
known as the "Nah Nanny Boo Boo
Stick Your Head in Doo Qoo" theory. In
the grand tradition of ethnocentrism,
everybody seems to think that their
opinion is the only opinion that exists.
Most often, both the reviewer and
the reader are right. Because it's just
an opinion. This government is
designed to let all people vocalize their
opinion.
So next time you read a review, or a
column for that matter, be objective.
The reason we run a review is for your
benefit. You, the reader. And while you
dog on someone's review, remember
that possibly you are wrong.
Or maybe I'm wrong. This is jus* my
opinion on opinion^. j
B-2 The Auburn Plainsman October 19,1989
7 • *
In the news,
Books
Hey, you too can write for Playboyl
Playboy Magazine has announced its 1990 College Fiction
Contest and is accepting original, unpublished stories up to 25
double-spaced, typed pages long.
First prize is $3,000 and publication in the October 1990
issue of Playboy.
All interested college students should send in a manuscript
and a 3" x 5" card with their name, address, phone number and
college affiliation to: Playboy College Fiction Contest, 919 N.
Michigan Ave., Chicago, IL, 60611.
Festivals
Washpot meat skins, fun at fair
The Horse Pens Forty Arts and Crafts Fair will take place
Oct. 20-22 from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Chandler Mountain in
Oneonta, Ala. The fair will include a smorgasbord of country
cuisine such as washpot meat skins, Old Aunt Martha Jane
fudge candy and scrambled steak sandwiches.
There will be craftsmen selling Christmas goodies, and the
Horse Pens "Hootenanny," a musical jamboree, will feature
"Three on a String" as the main attraction, along with gospel
sing-alongs and Oneonta's own "Ridge Runners."
Gourds, Gospel highlight Kentuck
The 18th annual Kentuck Festival, located in Kentuck Park
in Northport, Ala., will take place from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Oct.
21 and 22, with more than 175 a r t s and craftsmen from 16
states, who will display their goods in an array of media.
Musical entertainment can be seen at two separate locations,
with bluesman Johnny Shines as headliner. Also appearing
will be The James Brown Gospel Choir, Theatre Tuscaloosa and
several others.
The Rev. B. F. Perkins will be displaying his famous decorat­ed
gourds, and the Delta Saddle King, Cal Bruister, will be
crafting his leathers into custom-made saddles for festival-goers.
Food will be provided, with something for everyone's palate to
enjoy.
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Pet Sematary is theUPC Free
Movie playing at Langdon Hall
at 8 p.m.
Boat People is showing in
1203 Haley Center at 8 p.m.
The Nutcracker Suite tickets
are now on sale through Fastix
for the Dec. 14-17 run of the
performance at the Birming­ham
Civic Canter Concert
Hall. Call 939-FAST for infor­mation.
Widespread Panic is playing
at the War Eagle Supper Club
at 8 p.m., S. College St., 821-
4455.
Earth Beat is playing at
Denaro's at 9:30 p.m., 103 N.
College St., 821-0349.
Kenny Acosta and t he
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Blues, will play from noon
through 1 p.m. at Court
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Saturday
Friday
Kate and Co. is performing at
T.G.I.F. in downtown Opelika
from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m.
Italio Scanga: Transcend­ing
Visions painting and scu-plture
is showing for its final
day in Biggin Gallery from 10
a.m. to 4 p.m.
Pet Sematary is the UPC
Free Movie playing at Lang­don
Hall at 7 p.m. and 9:30
p.m.
Widespread Panic is playing
at the War Eagle Supper Club
at 8 p.m., S. College St., 821-
4455.
Oktoberfest is today at the
campus of Faulkner Universi­ty.
Call 272-5820, ext. 189, for
more information.
The Coosada Heritage Fes­tival
at the Coosada Commu­nity
Center is today, just out­side
of Montgomery. Call 285-
4727 for details.
Pet Semetary is the UPC Free
Movie playing at Langdon hall
at 7 p.m. and 9:30 p.m.
The UPC Religious Affairs
is having the Camp ASCCA
Work Party, and departs from
the front of Foy Union at 8
p.m. For information call 844-
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The Collectibles are playing
at the War Eagle Supper Club
at 8 p.m., S. College St., 821-
4455.
Bosch, from Atlanta, is play­ing
at Denaro's at 9:30 p.m.,
103 N. College St., 821-0349.
UPC Outdoor Recreation is
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Pet Sematary is the UPC
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p.m.
Kent DuChaine is playing at
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Monday
Health Screening at
Boutwell Auditorium from fr
a.m. to 6 p.m. in the Exhibition
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UPC Major Entertainment
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Student Activities Center at 8
p.m. Admission is free.
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Peet Theater at 8 p.m. The"?
play will run through Oct. 29.
Stan Taft is opening his
"Paintings and Drawings"
exhibit with a slide lecture at
4:30 p.m. in 92 Biggin Hall,
along with his opening recep­tion
from 5:30 p.m.-7 p.m. The
exhibit will run through Nov.
13.
Interview Follow-Up Work­shop
in room 204 Foy Union
at 6 p.m.
UPC Tigermania Week
begins with an outdoor band
party featuring "Revolver" on
the Student Activities Lawn at
8 p.m.
Wednesday
luesday
Sunday
Boat People is playing in
1203 Haley Center at 2 p.m.
and