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Volume 96, Number 34, 16 pages Auburn University, Ala. August 16,1990
Student jobs
vary in wages
SGA director of invitations
gets about $9,000 per year
Liz Armstrong
Editor
The Student Government Asso­ciation-
appointed director of invi­tations
is the highest paid student
position with annual earnings top­ping
$9,000, a recent Plainsman
survey shows.
"I think the amount is too
much, and I can only make
changes that go into effect for
next year's senate," SGA presi­dent
Terry McCarthy said.
This information is based on
the average of last fall and winter
quarters and multiplied by four.
The director of invitations earns
$2.50 per order and 20 percent
commission of the gross sales of
graduation invitations.
According to an SGA report,
last year's director of invitations
earned 52,377 fall quarter and
$2,143.99 winter quarter. Spring
quarter's results were unavailable.
Fall quarter, there were 382
customers, and the total income
before expenses for the director
of invitations was $11,168.27.
Expenses were as follows:
$1,573.80 for 244 name cards;
$1,087.21 for 667 leather holders;
$1,695 for 2,260 cardboards and
$3,177.70 for 7,390 French fold.
The director of invitations was
left with $8,061.07.
Out of this, S3.107.20 remained
for profit, and a portion of this
money went to expenses.
Labels cost $65; printing
charges were $117.40; mailing
costs were $133.45, and $150.00
was paid for labor.
Ten percent of this, or $264.14
went into the SGA's fund.
SGA's annual budget allots
$4,000 income from rings and
invitations.
During winter quarter, there
were 287 customers providing
$238..27 in SGA funds. This
summer there have been 449 cus­tomers.
McCarthy appointed fraternity
brother Mark Boles, 03 BSC, as
this year's director of invitations.
The appointment required Stu­dent
Senate's approval with a
two-thirds vote as specified in the
Tiger Cub.
"The Student Government
Association receives revenue
from it, so it should be obvious
that the SGA appoints the per­son,"
McCarthy said.
"It's a student service for us to
sell the invitations and rings, so
we should do it," he said.
He said the policy for this year
could not be changed.
"The commissions were set for
the coming year. The president
can only make changes for the
next term," McCarthy said.
Boles said he didn't know
exactly how many hours he
works.
"I don't know. It's a lot. It's well
over a full work week," he said.
He said he works everyday.
He said he had 2 to 3 people
that help him sell and distribute
invitations. He later said he had 3
to 5 people help him. He pays
them "usuall) about a base of $5
(an hour)."
He said he didn't want to say
the total amount he pays his
helpers.
Please see PAY page 4
Greenhouse receives facelift M^itou****-.
i^shman horticulture student Art McDow (left) and recent graduate Steve Strong remove
the glass panes from agreenhouse. Each of the structure's rafters has to be scraped,
primed and painted by hand. This greenhouse has been on campus for almost 100 years,
has been moved three times and now stands at the Paterson Greenhouse Complex.
Chewacla
suspects
arrested
Scarlett Poole
Technical Editor
Suit settlement stays secret
Anne Holliday
Staff Writer
A resolution concerning the
secrecy surrounding the June 28
out-of-court settlement was pre­sented
to the Senate Executive
Committee for discussion at Tues­day's
Faculty Senate meeting.
The age discrimination suit
resulting in the settlement was
brought against the University by
five professors.
The settlement provided that the
conditions of the settlement not be
made public by any of the parties
involved, Senate Chairman Gary
Mullen said.
The individuals presenting the
resolution are concerned about the
secrecy of the settlement as well as
the use of the legal system to with­hold
information concerning the
expenditure of state tax dollars,
Mullen said.
They believe this undermines
public trust in Auburn University
as a state-supported school, he said.
They also believe the lack of
comment on the settlement leads to
rumors including an alleged settle­ment
Figure of $3 million reported
in a newspaper recently, he said.
The individuals presenting the
resolution asked the Senate chair­man
to appoint a committee to
determine if the secret expenditure
of state tax monies is legal under
current federal and state public dis­closure
laws, Mullen said.
They also requested the senate
chairman discuss these concerns
with President Martin and copies of
this resolution be given to him and
the Board of Trustees, he said.
In dispelling a rumor he is leav­ing
the University, Vice President
of Academic Affairs Ronald Henry
said, "I was surprised to find that
my resignation was imminent when
I returned from a conference.
"I have neither applied for any
position nor have I been asked to
apply for a position elsewhere. I
have, in fact, not updated my
resume with respect to adding any­thing
from Auburn. I don't know
the basis for this rumor, but I
would certainly like to put it to
rest."
Henry announced the summer
commencement ceremonies arc
scheduled for Aug. 30.
Henry named four new alumni
professors selected for five-year-terms
beginning Oct.l.
He said student perceptions on
teaching are currently being ana-
Please see SENATE page 2
On the afternoon of August 6,
Kenneth Stafford and Jeannie
Thrash, residents of the Mont­gomery
area, were held at gunpoint
by three males near Chewacla State
Park.
"Allegedly, three guns were
involved in the incident," Auburn
Chief of Police Edwin Downing
said.
Three men, John W. Beck Jr., 22;
David R. Pickett, 20, and Derrick
A. Milling, 19, allegedly robbed
Stafford and Thrash of their pos­sessions,
then bound and gagged
the two victims. The men then fled
the scene in Stafford's pickup truck,
according to Auburn City Police.
"(Stafford and Thrash) were
bound and gagged about 20 min­utes,"
Downing said.
All three men were from Fort
Gordon, Ga. "It is my understand­ing
they were AWOL or about to
be declared as such," he said.
Later that day an off-duty Alaba­ma
State Trooper spotted the stolen
truck near Fort Deposit, Downing
said.
A nationwide lookout for the
men and the truck had been broad­cast
earlier that day, according to
Auburn City Police.
After being confronted by law-enforcement
officials in Georgian-na,
the three men jumped from the
truck into a wooded area, according
to city police.
The men were taken into custody
by officials in Bullock County near
1-85 the next morning after an all-night
manhunt, Downing said.
According to city police, the
three suspects have been returned
to Auburn and charged with first
degree burglary and robbery. They
have been transferred to the Lee
County Justice Center.
Democrats visit
Funds promised to University
Nyssa Green
Staff Writer
This year Auburn will receive an
additional $16 million in state
appropriations according to U.S.
Rep. Pete Turnham.
Monday state representatives
Turnham and Dutch Higginbotham,
guest speakers for the Lee County
Democrat Club, presented the
accomplishments of the last legisla­tive
session and the solid waste
problem in Lee County.
According to Turnham, the Uni­versity
was receiving $134 million
a year from the state's educational
funds, but starting Oct. 1, it will
receive $150 million.
"That means a 5 percent pay
raise for all the faculty and approx­imately
a 5 percent merit raise for
all state faculty members," he said.
The Lee County, Auburn and
Opelika school systems will also
receive substantial raises in their
budgets, he said.
"All of the teachers will receive
an 8 percent pay increase; our
retired teachers will receive an
increase in their retirement funds;
our state employees will receive an
increase in their retirement funds
and we will be able to exempt these
funds from our taxes," he said.
Turnham explained why the leg­islature
did not pass one of the gov­ernor's
drug bills.
"If we had enacted his bill, it
would have put every man, woman
and child in Alabama in jail for a
year if they smoked just a little
piece of marijuana and got caught.
We would've had to rent the jails
from Florida, Georgia, Mississippi
and Tennessee to have enough
places to put them. We didn't pass
Marie Thomas/Plainsman
Rep. Dutch Higginbotham
expresses concern over landfill
that bill because we think that
every person deserves a second
chance," he said.
However, he said the legislature
did pass a number of drug bills, and
more money will be given to local
authorities to aid in the fight
against drugs.
The Lee County Health Depart­ment
is on an improvement list,
along with many other counties in
the state, Turnham said. Lee Coun­ty
will receive $600,000 to upgrade
the facility. The county health facil­ity
will also be moved into a larger
building.
"You cannot imagine how
crowded they are," he said. One
million dollars for a new mental
health facility has been appropriat­ed
to Lee County. "No one will be
turned away," he said.
Expressing legislative concern
over adult illiteracy in Alabama,
Turnham said, "There are 251,000
people that could not read their
name if it were printed. There are
$1 million people that cannot func­tion
above a fourth grade level." To
help cope with this problem, the
legislature has incorporated a com-
•mittee on adult illiteracy, he said.
As chairman of the Judiciary
Committee, Dutch Higginbotham
Engineering student
dies in car accident
Mark Thomas/Plainsman
Rep. Pete Turnham says funding
will increase for County
discussed waste dumping problems
with the Salem landfill in Lee
County.
The Judiciary Committee han­dles
all bills that deal with solid
and toxic waste.
"In 1987 (the legislature)
increased the (dumping) fees from
$16 to $22 a ton where (prices)
remained until this year," he said.
Presently in-state dumping is $48
a ton, and out-of-state dumping
Please see BILLS page 2
Mary Frances Burdeshaw
News Editor
Karl Evan Uhrig, 04 CHE, died
Monday afternoon in a two-car
accident in Pelham, Sgt. Mike
Brasher of the Pelham Police
Department, said.
The 21-year-old from Monteval-lo
died instantly when the car he
was driving skidded into a car
stopped at a red light on Alabama
261, he said.
"Evidently, he was traveling at a
fast speed and wasn't able to stop in
time," Brasher said. The impact of
the crash split his car in two,
throwing the rear end one hundred
yards away.
When Uhrig realized he wouldn't
be able to stop, he tried to weave
in and out to avoid running into the
cars stopped at the red light, offi­cials
said. In the process, he lost
control and hit a car in the opposite
lane.
The driver of the car in the
southbound lane, Lori Upchurch,
19, of Pelham has a broken leg and
several cuts^Brasher said.
Faye Whidbee, the mother of
Uhrig's girlfriend, Beth, said "He
had traveled that path many times.
They had put a stop sign there that
he didn't know about around a
curb."
He was going faster than he
should have been to have the
impact on the car to break it in
two."
It's good he didn't suffer, she
said. "This is just a very tragic
thing."
Lots of family and friends are
coming in; they're all there support­ing
each other."
The family is doing okay; they're
probably in shock," she said.
Uhrig was a member of Omega
Phi Epsilon, the chemical engineer­ing
honorary; TAPPI, an organiza­tion
for the pulp and paper indus­try;
and AICHE, the American
Institute of Chemical Engineers.
The funeral was 10 a.m. today at
the First Assembly of God in
Alabaster. Rockco's Funeral Home
handled the arrangements. »
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page 2 The Auburn Plainsman August 16,1990
News Briefs
Local
Delivery man robbed
Two pizzas and $22 was taken when a Domino's pizza delivcryman
was robbed Sunday morning in Auburn.
Lawrence Ollice Jr. was making a delivery at Freeman Street and
Holiday Mobile Home Estates when the robbery occurred.
State
FBI seeks public's help
The FBI in Birmingham asked for the public's help Monday in
locating a typewriter which would provide key evidence in the slay-ings
of a federal judge and a Georgia lawyer who were killed by mail
bombs last December.
The typewriter, believed to be the source of the addresses typed on
both packages, was previously owned by Robert Wayne OFerrell of
New Brockton who later sold it from his store in Enterprise.
National
Americans leave Kuwait
At least 500 Americans have fled Kuwait despite Iraqi occupiers'
efforts to prevent non-diplomats from leaving, the state department
said Monday..
The Americans used a "number of ways" to flee, Margaret Tutwiler,
state department spokesperson, said. She declined to elaborate on
their methods or where they are now.
BILLS
continued from page 1
was raised to $112 a ton. He said
although he was not involved in the
establishment of the Salem landfill,
he has made a point to find out
exactly how it "reached this state."
Higginbotham said he thinks
many people wrongly assumed the
landfill would be used for waste
accumulated only in Lee County.
"Shortly after the landfill went
into operation, it was ruled that we
could not bar out-of-county waste
or out-of-state waste," he said.
Until two years ago, the landfill
had served Lee County, five other
nearby counties and three counties
in Georgia.
Now the landfill serves 14
Alabama counties and three coun­ties
in Georgia. "All of this took
place without any input from Lee
County governing bodies," he said.
Although the amount of waste is
limited, Higginbotham said he
spoke to environmental officials
that neither confirmed nor denied
whether the tonnage is checked to
monitor the amount of waste being
dumped.
County commissioner candidate
Charles Dunson said he feels the
county can begin improving its
waste problem by "implementing
house-to-house (garbage) collec­tion,
while at the same time make
Lee County a cleaner place to live."
Turnham and Higginbotham
encourage students to vote at the
Nov. 6 county elections.
"(Students) should learn the
importance of being part of the
government. Their involvement
gives politicians an insight on what
they want," Turnham said.
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SENATE
continued from page 1
lyzed in all classes taught this sum­mer
in order to verify the types of
questions needed for teacher effec­tiveness
evaluations.
"I would like to emphasize that
these purely are for test questions
and not for evaluative purposes,"
Henry said.
Calendar and Schedules Com­mittee
Chairman Christopher
Rodger announced the calendar for
the year after next has been sent to
senate members and is ready for
formal approval at the October
meeting.
Mullen requested senators con­vey
information included in the
minutes of senate sessions to col­leagues
in their respective depart­ments
so information can be passed
along.
In other business, senate commit­tee
nominations for the 1990-91
school year were unanimously
approved.
Final Exam Schedule
Friday, Aug. 24
Saturday, Aug. 25
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12 noon
4 p.m.
11 a.m.
1 p.m.
7 a.m.
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3:40 p.m.-6:10 p.m.
9 a.m. - 11:30 a.m.
1 p.m. - 3:30 p.m.
3:40 p.m. -6:10 p.m.
Monday, Aug. 27
Tuesday, Aug. 28
10 a.m. 9 a.m.-11:30 a.m.
2 p.m. 1 p.m. - 3:30 p.m.
5 p.m. 3:40 p.m.-6:10 p.m.
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3 p.m. 1 p.m. - 3:30 p.m.
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Campus Club invites all
faculty, academic staff,
members of the staffs of
federal and state agencies
having offices on campus,
and/or their spouses who are
newcomers to the University,
to a get acquainted coffee at
10 a.m. Tuesday at the home
of Mary Lou Matthews, 913
Janet Drive. For more
information, call 821-2161 or
826-6029.
Alcoholics Anonymous
meets every Wednesday at 7
p.m. at the University
Chapel located at the corner
of College and Thach.
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social development in
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beginning Tuesday, Aug. 14, 1990, until further
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August 16,1990 The Auburn Plainsman page 3
Distance from home creates philosophies
/ ? ^r Going home again harder for some
Scott Wilkcrson
Life Editor
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It is characteristic of the human
condition that home and the sense
of home changes with time and
experience. For some students, the
notion of displacement is especially
vivid because home is remote, their
sense of home, deep.
Christi Humphrey, 03 PM, is
among Auburn's derelict students.
Supplanted 500 miles from her
home in Chester, Va., she is a
divided self, stretched along the
interstate. She is both here and
there.
"I've been traveling back and
forth between here and home for
three years now, five times a year.
I used to travel with my sister who
has a car but who graduated last
spring. It's a geographical pain in
the a—," she said.
Derelict students can register
their travel requests, names and
phone numbers with the Foy Union
desk so other students with match­ing
destinations can contact them
and plan the trip.
Humphrey said planning these
trips has become a routine matter,
simply a consequence of having
progressed through one more quar­ter
of school.
"So far it has worked out pretty
well. I've had no bad experiences
with the people I've ridden with. In
fact, sometimes, as we talk, we find
we have some of the same friends,
which makes the world seem small,
but it doesn't explain why the two
of us have never mcL"
Because the drive from Auburn,
through Atlanta to Virginia can be
tedious, a kind of traveling commu­nity
organizes en route and cars
with Auburn stickers stay together,
a quietly surreal nomadic com­mune.
"The cars have a peculiar rela­tionship
with one another on the
road, a lot stranger, really, mine
with my ride. I've made the voyage
so many times, I hardly remember
any details. I do know 1-85 looks
the same from start to finish," shp.;
said.
For Humphrey, the idea of home.
and reconnecting with it has taken
on a kind of mythological reso­nance
in which the trip is not so
much a return as another venture
out.
"One thing's for sure, and that is
I have a special attitude about my
home. Not that other people don't,
but I guess in some way I take
home with me because it's so far
away. When people around here
complain that Birmingham is two
hours away, I say, 'okay, let's go.'"
Despite its philosophical under­tones,
Humphrey remains casually
distant from her realizations about
travel.
"I've had more bad experiences
with roommates than with people
in cars or the cars they drive or the
roads that guide them."
Natives
Being close
Too many tourists
to home offers convenience Students from Panama City, Fort Walton,
Katie Good
Features Editor
Some students don't have to travel far for a home-cooked
meal, to borrow the car or to get a hug from
mom. "Native" students from Auburn and Opelika can
enjoy the benefits of being close to home while
becoming independent.
"I like the convenience of living at home," Christy
Truitt, 04 CE, said. "I don't have to move everything in
one. day."
Truitt was born in East Alabama Medical Center and
has lived in Opelika all her life. She attended Auburn
football games while she was in high school.
Although she has always been an Auburn fan, Truitt
said she was not always sure she wanted to go to
Auburn. "I was offered a scholarship here and at Birm­ingham
Southern," she said.
She said her brother went to Birmingham Southern
for a while and then transferred home to Auburn. "He
told me (Birmingham Southern) was too small. He told
me to go to Auburn," she said.
Although sometimes she wishes she had gone to
another school, Truitt said, "I like Auburn. The people
here are so friendly."
Nancy Truitt, Christy's mother, said she thinks being
from Opelika has been an advantage for her since she's
been at Auburn.
"Going to high school here, she knew what college
was about. She didn't have the traumatic experiences
that some students have."
Christy lived in a dormitory for three years, but she
will be moving into an apartment next year.
Although she enjoys the benefits of being so close to
home, Mrs. Truitt said Christy doesn't come home
often. "She doesn't have to. She calls a lot
"It's usually me running things down there," she
said. "She doesn't have to come home to see her
friends from high school."
David Welch, 04 CPE, of Auburn, said he doesn't
make frequent trips home either. "I try my best to
make it on my own," he said.
Welch lived with his parents at home for the first
two years he was at Auburn. "The first year I lived
there, we didn't have any fights. The next year, we
grew weary of each other. They were ready for the
kids to get out, and we were ready to get out.
"I outgrew living at home, and as soon as I got my
first chance, I moved out," he said.
Now David lives in an apartment with his brother.
"They understand the problems we tend to have," he
said. "When I run low on food, it's not unusual for me
to borrow from the house."
He also said one of the advantages of going to
school close to home is there is always a place he and
his friends can go if they are running low on food.
"Occasionally they invite us over to the house for bar­becue
or something."
He said when he and his roommates would run low
on food, they could call his parents and they would get
out extra plates for them.
Welch also likes that he can borrow the car whenev­er
he needs it "I generally can still call if I need the
car.
"I try to do my best not to take advantage of (his
parents)," he said.
David's mother, Laura Welch, said going to school
close to home did not make David more dependent on
his parents.
"He almost never comes home for dinner," she said.
"He is the most independent person I've ever met in
my life," Mrs. Welch said.
She did say David comes home to borrow the car.
Another student, Dylan Burkitt, 02 AM, of Auburn,
said he decided to stay in Auburn because it was easier
than going away. "I already had a job here," he said.
Although Burkitt's parents recently moved away, he
said when he first started at Auburn, he went home
often. "I went over there and ate dinner a lot," he said.
"It was good to be able to go home, but I think it
probably would have been better if I'd gone away,"
Burkitt said.
Chris New, 04 CE, is from Opelika. He said he
always wanted to go to Auburn.
"Growing up in Auburn, I never really wanted to go
anywhere else. I dreamed of going here," he said.
New said he preferred staying close to home. "It
was easier going to school in Auburn. I, more or less,
knew where everything was located.
"A lot of students really don't like to stay around
here," he said. "I prefer staying closer to home."
Orlando say living there not always a party
Suzanne Taylor
Assistant Features Editor
After visiting Disney World or
one of Florida's beaches for a vaca­tion,
some students think they
would like to live in one of these
places permanently. But several
Florida natives say it's not always
exciting.
Denise Sandlin, 03 CS, says liv­ing
in Panama City Beach is not as
much fun as people think it is.
"During the winter there is not
much to do," Sandlin said. It's a lot
like Auburn in the winter, "real
boring," she said.
"People think we party there all
year long, and we don't," she said.
Rhonda Buckley, 02 GSM, a
native of Fort Walton Beach, said
the worst thing about living in Fort
Walton is the traffic.
"There is so much traffic, and
tourists don't know how to drive
when they don't know where they
are," she said. "They'll get in the
wrong lane and suddenly decide
they need to be three lanes over."
Lisa Fuller, 04 MN, said traffic is
"unbelievable" in her hometown of
Orlando because of all the tourists
visiting Walt Disney World and Sea
World.
Some tourists that visit Orlando
like it so much they end up moving
there, she said.
Buckley said tourists can be easi­ly
recognized by the way they
dress. "Some tourists you can spot
right off because they're wearing
those tacky T-shirts you can only
get from tourist shops," she said.
The good thing about living in
Fort Walton is being able to meet
people from all over, she said.
Buckley said she avoids places
such as restaurants populated by
tourists because the prices tend to
be higher, and the food is not as
good.
"It's expensive to do things dur­ing
the summer," Sandlin said.
Many popular bars raise their
prices because of tourists, but a few
lower their prices for the locals, she
said.
Sandlin said although she hates
not being able to go to the beach
anytime she wants, she does not
plan on moving back to Panama
City primarily because of the lack
of jobs. "The prospect of living in
Panama City all your life is real
grim," she said.
Buckley doesn't plan on living in
Fort Walton after graduation. "The
only thing to do in Fort Walton is
go to the beach," she said.
"I take it for granted because I've,
always lived there. When I'm here,'
I miss it," she said.
Fuller said, "A lot of my friends
think Floridians are cheesy, but
Orlando is not like that. It's just a
normal city like Birmingham or
Atlanta."
Professor expands international learning
Glover Graham
Staff Writer
George Cov'ignonlPlainsman
As a sociology professor, Mohan recently traveled to Madrid for the
Twelfth Congress of Sociology where he presented papers and lectures.
Raj P. Mohan, professor of soci­ology,
has been broadening
Auburn's horizons for the past 17
years.
Mohan, originally from India,
received his master's from the Uni­versity
of Maine and his doctorate
from North Carolina State.
In 1974 Mohan was the president
of uie Congress of sociology, and
in 1985 Mohan taught at the Uni­versity
of Calvary in Canada.
"I like the way students (in Cana­da)
always flocked to my office
after lectures. I wish that would
happen more often," he said.
Mohan recently attended the
"He's particularly interested in sociological
theory and has written several books."
-Dr. Murray Adams
12th Congress of Sociology at the
University of Complupence in
Madrid where he presented papers
and lectures. The congress meets
every four years.
Beginning Sept. 1, he will offer a
seminar for two weeks in Finland.
"He's a really good, well-round­ed
person," Murray Adams, associ­ate
professor of sociology, said.
"He's a fine family man as well as a
professor."
Mohan is the editor of the Inter­national
Journal for Contemporary
Sociology. "It's very well thought
of," Adams said.
"He's particularly interested in
international sociological theory
and has written several books,"
Adams said. He's written a biogra­phy
and a book about management
decision making, he said.
"Sometimes his subjects are
abstract," Philip Popple, head of
the sociology department, said.
Mohan said he has a wide variety
of interests!? but is particularly
interested in social stratification,
and problems of inequality.
He is usually chosen to attend
sociological conventions because
"he tends to meet people and he has
a iui oi international contacts, Pop­ple
said.
Mohan is fluent in several lan­guages
including Indi, Urdu and
English.
"He gives us international recog­nition,"
whereas Auburn might nor­mally
only be recognized in the
southeast, Popple said. He's been to
the Orient and Europe and has "a
broad range of interests."
Mohan said he enjoys traveling
to other countries because "it's
good to go away and meet new
people." * Y- -
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Students exercise faith
Professor and students swim and bike to raise
money and consciousness for trip to Kenya
Tracy L. Droessler
Assistant Copy Editor
An Auburn professor and three
students participated in a program
August 6 and 7 to raise money for
the Auburn Wesley Foundation to
take a trip to Kenya.
"Swim and Bike for Kenya" was
a project to raise funds for the
foundation's mission trip, David
Goolsby, director of the foundation,
said.
Charles Hendrix, associate pro­fessor
of palhobiology, swam 600
laps, the equivalent of about 20
miles, in the Auburn City Pool, he
said.
"This was just to raise money
and consciousness for Wesley's trip
to Kenya," Hendrix, adviser for the
foundation, said.
Hendrix said he was joined by
Corey O'Stecn, 03 ME, for the
swim. When O'Stecn was 5 years
old, he was diagnosed with heart
problems that should have limited
his physical activity, O'Steen said.
"God has done some big things
in my life," he said. "I'm just thank­ful
to God that I can do the things I
did. It's not anything the doctors
did; I just got better."
Hendrix said, "I appreciate (O'S-
"It's like a dream. I've
always looked at peo­ple
who've gone on
mission trips in awe."
-Meg Stockham
teen's) support and his enthusiasm.
He has a lot of spirit,"
The swim took a lot out of Hen­drix,
but he said it was worth it.
"At first it's quite easy," he said.
"Around 1 to 2 p.m., your shoul­ders
start to hurt.
"I was incoherent as far as my
thoughts were concerned that night.
"I was a prune. It looked like
lizard skin to me.
"A lot of people did a lot of sac­rificing
for me," he said. "For me
this was just a small sacrifice. It
wasn't much. A lot more people
have done a lot more."
Hcndrix's wife, Becky, and
daughter, Charlotte, 13, swam a lit­tle
way with him.
"I told David (Goolsby) I love
the Wesley Foundation, and I love
him, but I don't think I want to do
this again," Hendrix said.
Hendrix said he raised between
$100 and $150 for the mission.
Goolsby said, "We really appre­ciate
it. It's really thoughtful of him
to do this."
Meg Stockham, 04 HES, and
Sam Cooke, 04 CJL, bicycled 100
miles in approximately 7 1/2 hours
for the program.
"I wanted to do something differ­ent
I wanted to use my talents as
an athlete," Stockham said. "I feel
like I accomplished something."
Stockham said she will be going
on the mission to Kenya.
"It's like a dream," she said. "I've
always looked at people who've
gone on mission trips in awe. I
can't believe I actually get to do it."
Cooke said, "It was very satisfy­ing.
I always wanted to do it. It was
my chance to help them out a little
bit."
The money raised by the project
will help enable 20 members of the
Auburn Wesley Foundation to go
to Kenya to establish a medical
clinic, worship with the people and
educate themselves about the cul­ture,
Goolsby said. Through differ­ent
fundraising programs, nearly
$44,000 has been raised toward a
$50,000 goal, he said.
"We want to learn about how
they live and their faith," Goolsby
said.
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Elizabeth Lander
Assistant News Editor
Accusations of widespread
cheating brought against members
of a Psychology of Adjustment
class resulted in distribution of 16
Academic Honesty hearing notices
in the latter part of July, psycholo­gy
professor Robert Schaeffer said.
The proceedings are held regard­less
of whether the accused stu­dents
opt to present their case
before the Honesty Committee, he
said.
The students should exercise
this opportunity. "They would be
crazy not to," Shaeffer said.
"If the Committee is going to
work, those concerned have to pro­vide
input, for the thing to work
properly," he said.
Academic Honesty Committee
chairperson Robert Gudaskas, said
the hearing notices are sent by reg­istered
mail.
"All the students who were
charged (in Schaeffer's class) have
been notified," he said
The purpose of the committee,
comprised of three faculty and two
students, is to "consider the case on
the basis of the evidence present­ed,"
he said.
"If a hearing is requested, profes­sor
Schaeffer will appear with the
student and present the basis of (he
charge."
The committee will try to deal
with these cases as soon as it can
because other cases are still pend­ing,
Gudaskas said. "We are still
working on cases from spring and
winter quarter.
"The Committee reports its find­ings
to the Vice President for Aca­demic
Affairs Ronald Henry," he
said.
The committee makes its recom­mendation;
the final decision is up
to Henry, he said. He reports the
decision to the student and the fac­ulty
member that brought the
charges.
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The committee tries to be as fair
and constant as possible and the
secrecy of the proceedings is
designed to protect students' priva­cy,
Gudaskas said.
"A lot of faculty and students
have become more aware of the
honor code and what is considered
a violation of the code," he said.
Schaeffer said he is upset and
disappointed with his students. The
college experience is about the
exchange of well-thought-out ideas
and cheating ruins that, he said.
"You think that what you're
doing is giving a student the capac­ity
to think more effectively, to
think more rationally, to behave
more appropriately, and, in point of
fact, what you're really doing is
giving them an opportunity to
make a grade which will satisfy the
requirements to make the honor
roll or dean's list or the whatever in
order to graduate with a degree.
"There's a grand dream if you
don't go to college you can't make
any money; that's not true. Any
skillful artisan, whether he's an
auto mechanic or a plumber or a
ditch digger, is gonna make good
money. It depends on how hard and
creatively he works.
"It isn't necessary to go to the
university to earn a good living; it's
necessary to go to the university to
learn values- to learn to think effec­tively,
to express yourself appropri­ately
and coherently.
"What the (general) university
now is geared to do is to produce
diplomas not educated people,"
Schaeffer said.
In response to inquiries as to
why Schaeffer has not changed his
test format, he responded, "You
don't have to change the question,
it's the content that the person can
produce.
"I hate multiple choice exams,
but there's no alternative to those in
the larger undergraduate courses,
especially where the students won't
speak," he said.
Over the years Schaeffer has
found 5 percent of his students
could do equally well on essay
exams as they did on multiple
choice exams.
Students in the current Psycholo­gy
of Adjustment class were
offered the opportunity to speak
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Sue Wollmer, 04 LPO, said,
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show up for class three days of the
week. The fourth day we had the
opportunity to ask him questions.
Friday we took.the test. What was
supposed to be a five hour class
was really one hour."
"It was impossible to get an 'A'
in the class because he never
taught.
"He's almost testing students to
see if they'll cheat If the students
asked me to, I would testify against
Schaeffer before a committee."
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Delay, replay
The University is waiting, and waiting, and waiting.
The renovation of Haley Center's basement has been
postponed so much students and faculty might think it's a
dream the first time they make a purchase from Take Ten,
the cafe on the way. President James E. Martin announced
plans for the cafeteria in October, 1988. Renovation for
this project began more than a year ago and delays have
continuously prevailed.
Anticipation for the intramural field lights keeps grow­ing
with time. Once again, it's going to be almost unbeliev­able
to see the promised and projected project completed.
There will actually be nighttime games, and daytime
games won't have to end just in the nick of time- before
nightfall, that is. Maybe by fall.
Pause.
WEGL has been attempting to make the move from
Haley Center to Foy Union for three years now. The radio
station is waiting for the final drawings, but no one is quite
sure who has them. Others are waiting to occupy the cur­rent
WEGL space, and just about everyone involved is urg­ing
the move. More and more red tape keeps getting in the
way. President Martin gave approval last July. Now, if the
design plans get straightened out, maybe the moving plans
will, too.
Noisy quiet
I t can be difficult to concentrate in some of Haley Cen­ter's
classrooms while construction is taking place.
Taking a test with hammering in the background is nearly
impossible. The asbestos removal is important but should
not interrupt the primary purpose for which we are all here.
Money, money
Bryan Tatum, 04 GSC, who was diagnosed with
immunoblastic non-Hodgkin's lymphoma in October
had to drop out of school this quarter because he needs
funds to further his treatment. The University saw it fit to
charge him $100 for the withdrawal. This shows the ulti­mate
lack of compassion.
'Good news'
Congratulations to Professor Robert Greenleaf. The
state legislature and the University, with the help of
President Martin, have jointly secured $100,000 to go
toward production of Greenleaf's southern opera Under
the Arbor.
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Letters to the Editor
'Furious, fatuous feminists' only hinder
Editor, Plainsman:
You can always count on
those radical types, God bless
'em. Give them a piece of writ­ing
that they even think goes
against their particular ideolo­gy,
and they will proceed to
denounce it,, crush it beneath
their feet, vilify it's author,
and try to have him run out of
town on the proverbial rail.
Hell, they might even read
it.
But not likely.
I offer as testament to this
fact Scott Wilkerson's column
of two weeks ago, "Some femi­nism
equal to rhetorical tricks,
parlor games." I think some of
the more gung-ho members of
the feminist fraternity, sensing
an imminent attack, let their
eyes gravitate to the word
"feminism," scan the work that
indicated the article was an
assault on a minority faction
of feminism, not an attack on
the entire feminist movement.
And they read no further.
If they had, they would have
noticed the piece was about
"feminism in its more charm­ing
apparitions, particularly
that garrulous, ardent, angry
variety." This thesis is a far
cry from the blatant attacks
on "feminist rights" Ms.
Phillips and Ms. Slaymaker
read into the article. They
seem to have missed that
"furious, fatuous" was used to
America
raises
gas price
Editor, Plainsman,
In reading Michael Hatcher's
article, "Privacy, discrepancy not
same," I found myself in awe of
several things. The first was
Michael's lack of knowledge of
business. If he knew even the basic
assumptions of business, he would
have known the main point of busi­ness
is to maximize shareholder's
profit. His lack of knowledge on
this subject gives writers a bad
name.
Since we now know multi-nation­al
oil companies operate by maxi­mizing
their shareholder's profit,
we can approach the subject from
the angle of companies being com­petitive
with other companies and
not sticking it to people of the good
old U.S.A. These companies are
publicly held corporations, which
means their stock is owned by
Americans. These stockholders
elect a president of this company
we will call "Villain Oil Company."
Shareholders instruct this president
to maximize their profit. For multi­national
oil companies, such as
"Villain Oil Company," this maxi­mization
of profits is done at the
gas pumps. So when stockholders
want maximum profits, they ask for
higher gasoline prices.
So, we can see the American oil
company stockholders are behind
the raping of our pocketbooks and
wallets at the gas station. This
means the "Villain Oil Company"
people might be doing their job of
acting on shareholders instructions.
In closing, I have one question to
ask Michael. Do your parents own
stock in multi-national oil compa­nies?
If so, can you either tell your
parents you would like them to stop
investing in these companies
because it goes against what you
believe in or learn more about busi­ness
before you write another arti­cle?
As Shakespeare said, "It is bet­ter
to be thought a fool than to open
thy mouth and remove all doubt."
Tag Wagner
04 MIS
describe a subset of the femi­nist
movement, not the whole.
To possibly clear up this con­fusion,
I would like to divide
Mr. Wilkerson's "furious, fatu­ous
feminism" into two dis­tinct
classes: fanatical femi­nism
and fashionable femi­nism.
Fanatical feminism is a
holdover from a movement in
its infancy. This type of femi­nism
was necessary to get the
ball rolling but has far out­lived
its usefulness.
Practitioners of this brand
believe not enough, if any­thing,
has changed over the
past 20 years. They harken
from the days when,
overnight, common courtesy to
a lady became a demeaning
sexist ritual. They remember
when a majority of women
believed the title "Miss" was a
red bull's-eye painted on their
chest, and the title "Mrs." was
an albatross hung about their
neck.
The fanatical feminists have
always been a bit
schizophrenic. In their grand
quest to prove they are equal
to men in all respects Cwhich
they are not, just as men are
not equal to women in all
respects), they often become
like men, adopting traits they
would normally find repulsive
in males. Some are equally
demeaning to men as some
men are to women.
Some go out of their way to
prove they are just as crude,
rude, and socially inacceptable
as the stereotypical male.
Some try to give as good as
they got, wielding their recent­ly
found sexual power as the
doomsday weapon in the bat­tle
of the sexes. Or, as Dave
Sim so eloquently put it, "they
indulge in behavior that they
would otherwise find uncon­scionable
by virtue of what
they have between their legs
and the unspoken assumption
that no man is going to pass
up a chance to get close to it."
Some would, if they could,
sprout Johnsons and go pee on
a tree just so they could prove
they can do anything a man
can do.
Fortunately, the feminist
movement as a whole has
matured and moved on to
more sane and reasonable
means to their end. The fanat­ical
feminist is an endangered
species, though one wonders if
N.O.W. hasn't embarked on
some kind of conservation pro­gram.
Far more offensive, to my
sensibilities, is the fashionable
feminist (the class of which I
believe Ms. Phillips, Ms. Slay-maker
and Ms. Armstrong are
members). It's the "in" thing to
have a "cause," be it Green­peace,
P.E.T.A., Earth
First N.O.W, or whatever. I'm
not saying these are not valid
causes. They are, if you join
them for the right reason: you
believe strongly in their pur­pose.
But so many people join
these groups for the same rea­son
they join a fraternity or
sorority, that they bleach their
hair and get a tan, that they
get greek letters tattooed on
their ankles and other por­tions
of their anatomy. Every­one's
doing it. It's the cool
thing to do.
The fanatical feminists are
at least tolerable by virtue of
the fact that they actually
believe in what they are doing.
The fashionable feminists can
make no such claim.
The furious and fatuous; the
fashionable and the fanatical;
these are the kinds of femi­nism
Mr. Wilkerson was
speaking of. He made no
denunciations of the move­ment
as a whole. The feminist
movement has made great,
progress in eliminating the
inequalities visited upon
women for hundreds of years,
but they still have a long way
to go before women have the
across-the-board equality they
deserve. These "furious, fatu­ous"
feminists can only be a
hindrance to this process.
Ken Kirksey
04 CPE
Sentence not victory for women
Editor, Plainsman,
I am writing in response to "Last Sentence" which
appeared on the previous week's editorial page. The
article cited the set of shamefully light sentences
given to three men involved with the rape of a Flori­da
woman. It was then followed with the suggestion
this should be considered a victory for women. No
statement could be more false.
How can it be that two men involved with a vio­lent
crime such as rape receive no hard time? The
reluctance of the court to recognize sexual battery
was a crime worthy of incarceration fails women in
the greatest sense. The deliverance of light sentences
gives little deterrence To the convicted rapists and
virtually none to would-be committers. This gives
the message the law has made an inadequate com­mitment
to insure a woman's right not to be raped. A
true victory for women and victims would be found
in a required, minimum sentence for rape and all
violent crimes.
Standish Paul
04 HY/04 RL
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August 16,1990 The Auburn Plainsman page?
AUPD keeps public documents concealed under lock and key
POLICE RECORDS ROCM
Shannon Honcycull/Plainsman
Policy changes need enactment
The Persian Gulf crisis brings to
ght some deep-rooted problems in
.S. foreign policy.
To date, Washington has been
uccessful in isolating Iraqi Presi-ent
Saddam Hussein in his drive
or dominance of the oil-rich
:gion. Most of the world and the
rab community have followed
*resident Bush's lead.
However, this crisis is develop-ng
into a long-term batde of wills
vhich leaves Bush at a great disad-rantage.
In the coming months, and
ossibly years, Bush will find it
ncreasingly difficult to keep the
lliances he's pieced together dur-ng
the crisis.
With the passage of time, the
^rab states' support for Washington
vill wane and eventually cease.
Vhen this occurs, diplomatic chan-lels
to peace will be closed, and
Jush will be left with two choices:
var or withdrawal, both policy fail-ires.
What has led us into this crisis,
nd why will our policy eventually
ail?
One reason is a historic Arab
atred and distrust of Westerners,
specially Americans. They don't
asily forget Western colonial dom-nance
of not too long ago.
Arab nationalism has been at a
igh since the end of World War II.
irabs assumed they would be
loving toward real independence
/ith the end of colonialism. How-ver,
most Arabs still feel they are
ominated by Western powers,
lany have experienced Western
intervention into their systems.
Another reason for this historic
suspicion of the United States is
our support of Israel. Arabs feel
they have been ignored by the
United States. They don't feel
we've ever listened to them or con­sidered
their positions as important.
If Israel becomes involved, the
Arab states will dramatically shift
to Hussein's side. He will be able to
finger Israel as a common enemy.
Then the United States will be in a
real quandary; do we support Israel
or protect our oil?
Because of this distrust, the Arab
community will be leery, and pres­sure
on governments to end support
for the United States will mount.
Eventually, those governments will
withdraw support.
The failure of the United States
to back up its promises to Third
World and Arab states will also
lead to United States defeat in the
gulf.
One example of this is in Pana­ma.
After the invasion, the United
States promised to rebuild Panama
into a democratic state free from
U.S. control. Panamanian President
Guillermo Endara has done little to
gain popular support, and many
complain United States aid has
gone to strengthen the executive,
not the legislative branch. Some
fear the United States is trying to
build a puppet government in Pana­ma.
The Arab states have the same
fears. The United States has made
promises to protect Saudi Arabia
and Turkey, if attacked. In
exchange, they have shut down key
pipelines moving Iraqi oil.
They must be asking themselves,
"Will the United States really go to
war to protect us?" They remember
Vietnam and realize in a long,
bloody struggle, American public
opinion will turn against a war, and
the United States will pull out,
breaking its promise.
For these reasons, we will even­tually
be defeated in the gulf.
Policy makers must begin con­sidering
changes in our stance
toward Third World states. Until
Third World countries can feel
secure the United States considers
their interests as equal, we will
always be at a disadvantage in
Third World conflicts.
Our government must also con­sider
how we became so oil-depen­dent
on one region. We must
become more energy self-sufficient
by increasing domestic oil produc­tion
and developing alternative
energy sources like nuclear and
solar power.
If these policy changes are not
enacted, we will remain dependent
on world resources and find our­selves
increasingly powerless in
Third World affairs.
Tiger Cub makes great reading
Can't sleep tonight? Maybe you
ust need some reading material,
nd have I got a suggestion.
It's the Tiger Cub .
Grab your copy, if you can find
;, and read along. You just might
;arn something. There are some
lings we just don't read.
Now perhaps many of you
!urious Georges check out the
Auburn Life" section. Perhaps you
hould take a gander at the
Administration" section.
"Organizations" gives lots of
aluable information. Probably
jcoming students read the "Com-lunications"
portion.
"Student Services" is another
rea of outstanding information.
[ere you may find information
bout food services, housing,
ealth care and the Writing Center.
,'s truly a handy reference guide,
he school year calendar makes
anning ahead easier.
Are you still awake?
Rules. How many times have
>u been referred to the Tiger Cub!
•jo many times for me.
So, I read it, cover to cover.
"Rules" is the best part.
Although it is assumed you have
read this whole book, I know bet­ter.
Trust me, it'll do ya right
You knew you were supposed to
make room for this ritualistic read­ing
before your first day of class,
didn't you?
Tiger Cub explains Academic
Grievance policies, Social Regula­tions,
Speech and Demonstration
Regulations, Advertising and Dis­tribution
Regulations and more.
About 14 pages of small print are
devoted to the bylaws and such of
Student Government Association-as
approved March 7,1970.
Please don't fall asleep yet. You
might need to keep reading. I think
there should be a class called Tiger
Cub 101 with a final included.
There's .valuable information in
this handbook. There are also
pieces of the puzzle to put together.
For example, Title XI, Chapter
1004, (For those of you with your
head on the pillow- page 102) titled
"Director of Invitations." This stat­es!
the Director of Invitations shall
be appointed by SGA president
with approval of two-thirds of the
membership of the student Senate.
Okay, skip down- oh, never mind,
forgetful me. I forgot there's a new
clause passed at an April 10, 1989
SGA meeting (and not in the
book). This includes the "keep your
eyes open" clause: the Director of
Invitations receives 20 percent
commission from the gross sales of
invitations. I guess no one had a
calculator at that meeting, but, go
ahead, grab your bedside calculator
and make some calculations. Hmm.
That's 20 percent of students'
money for profit. Be sure to add in
the company's slice.
Now, roll over and fall asleep
and think of your fellow class­mate^)
cashing in.
Pleasant) dreams.
The Freedom of Information Act
states the public has the right to
inspect any document the executive
branch possesses, with nine excep­tions,
none of which include uni­versity
police records on college
campuses.
The topic of freedom of informa­tion
came up recently in one of my
classes, and we discussed the
press's right to public records.
Having a strong belief the public
should have access to all public
records, I decided to call AUPD to
inquire about their procedure for
obtaining information. The proce­dure
goes something like this:
1. Go to the station.
2. Fill out a release form.
3. The form is then given to
Chief Jack Walton for approval.
4. The information may be avail­able
within 72 hours.
Or it may not, as the case may
be. When I called, I also asked
about the policy for the release of
reports, and Chief Jack Walton told
me AUPD does not release crime
reports at all.
"You (the press) can't have
them," he said.
The information available is sta-
Katie Good
Features
Editor
tistical information, not specific
information about crimes, which
could only be found in concealed
reports.
Considering the Freedom of
Information Act, this policy of not
disclosing crime reports is a direct
violation of our right to public
records. This is not a privilege; this
is a First Amendment right
In the case of AUPD, I don't see
any need for approval or a waiting
period for any type of information,
unless the period is the time it takes
the records person(s) to compile
the information.
After further discussion of this
subject in my class, my professor
gave mc a copy of an article from
Editor & Publisher, a journalism
publication.
According to the article, the stu­dent
newspaper at Oakland Univer­sity
(Mich.), the Oakland Post,
brought a suit against the university
for refusing to release a police
report about a kidnapping and rape
which occurred in a campus park­ing
lot.
The university claimed the report
was "privileged information under
the Buckley Act." This act is other­wise
known as the U.S. Family
Education Rights and Privacy Act
On July 18, the day of the hear­ing,
the university agreed to make
the information available to the
paper. A representative from the
school said the university had
abandoned its case because the
paper's case was so strong.
Although some like to pretend
Auburn is a crime-free haven
where nothing bad ever happens,
we all know this campus isn't dif­ferent
from any other.
After the incident at Oakland
University, the editor of the Oak­land
Post, Meg O'Brien said, "It
put the university on notice that
even if you get rid of the pest, then
you're dealing with the big guys."
Eventually even Auburn may
have to deal with the big guys.
Glance back
5 years ago, 1985: Hand weights hit the market, weighing 1-3 pounds. The weights were designed specifically to
compliment aerobic training. Manufacturers called them the "ultimate exercise."
15 years ago, 1975: Plainsman sports staff reported a "very good chance" the Auburn homecoming game would
be televised in color.
20 years ago, 1970: All graduates, especially those with business degrees, were expected to have a hard time
finding jobs, because of government cutbacks in defense spending and a general economic recession. A University
Placement Services report showed a 25-40 percent decrease in the job demands of Auburn graduates.
30 years ago, 1960: The Council of Deans approved a policy containing revisions for the requirements for Con­tinuation
in Residence. The percentage of credit hours and grade points a student must have earned in all course
work attempted during the first through fourth quarters was raised from 50 to 60.
Quote of the week
"If we had enacted his bill, it would have put every man, woman and child in Alabama in jail for a year if they
smoked just a little piece of marijuana and got caught. We would've had to rent the jails from Florida, Georgia, Mis­sissippi
and Tennessee to have enough places to put them. We didn't pass that bill because we think that every person
deserves a second chance," state representative Pete Tumham, guest speaker for the Lee County Democrat Club,
said.
Do dance, make love, get down
Scooby, Scooby Doo. Where are
you? We need some help from you
now.
Or at least some advice. We have
a sense maybe the 90s are not sim­ply
about moving into the future
but also about repudiating the past.
That is to say: we believe an
anticipation of the century's end
has displaced our fondness for cer­tain
historical delights, specifical­ly,
delight in that most underrated,
much maligned, grotesquely con­victed
celebration of the self, the
70s.
If the 80s were about rethinking
the 60s, they were also about pre­tending,
among other things, the
transition from post-war confusion
to mega trend, corporate alienation
was not symptomatic of the 70s
with its absorption in flared pants
and flared egos.
But do not forget: everything
good as well as bad about the 80s
had definite antecedents in the 70s.
Thus, a slight recapitulation of
the recent past will not obscure our
view of or inhibit our progress into
both the near and far future.
We want not to relive the 70s but
to reinvent them. Oh, but to inspire
a more heightened awareness of the
decade of polyester leisure suits
and feathered hair parted down the
middle.
We want to dance. Let's do the
hustle and the freak. Everything
has passed us by since breakdanc-ing
insofar as dance trends have
gone, but nothing could surpass the
coveted groovy moves of the 70s.
Shake your booty in boogie won­derland.
We are family, all of us.
Grab your macho man, your brick
house, and get down tonight.
That's the way we like it, uh huh,
uh huh.
Get a group of your friends
together and rent Saturday Night
Fever, and revel in the exquisite
excellency of John Travolta. Meet
together daily at 3:35 p.m., tune in
to TBS, and catch reruns of The
Tracy h,
Droessler
Asst. Copy Editor
Scott
WHkersQp
Life Editor
Brady Bunch. Be Greg. Be Cindy.
Let your Jan, your Peter, be free.
Philadelphia freedom, shine on
us. K.C. & The Sunshine Band,
shine on us. Give us afternoon
delight.
Don't be afraid to rock the boat.
Go ahead. Rock the damn boat; tip
it over.
Let's all meet at the Copacabana
and have drinks with Lola. She sits
there so refined and drinks herself
half-blind. Let's lose our minds
along with her. Haven't we all had
a Tony in our lives anyway? We
can relate.
Wouldn't you give your hand to a
friend? We are your friends, your
peers. Give us a hand; let the 70s
grab you like it has grabbed us.
How sweet it is! Dy-no-mite!
Let's take .(.cruise on the Pacific
Princess. Let's order drinks from
Isaac; let's tour the deck with Julie.
And while we tour that deck, we
might have occasion to reflect on
that ghostly, ghastly decade, that
utterly splendid era that pulls at our
heartstrings even as we pull at our
hair.
Our contemporaries are tempted
here to lapse into heavy handed
social satire, mostly because our
collective histories lend themselves
so well to that abuse, but we hope
they are smart enough to know
satire begets satire and the 90s will
give our children as much reason
for laughter as the 70s gives us
cause for reverence.
Oh Scooby, your advice has been
much appreciated. I think you're
gonna have yourself a Scooby
snack. <V? u
page S The Auburn Flainsman August 16,1990
Computers crash lives
Disadvantages of technological age discussed
International program reborn
Elizabeth Lander
Assistant News Editor
The Partners of Americas pro­gram,
brought to the University 25
years ago but dormant for the last
five years, will make a come back
due to increased interest Tom Ivers,
senior advisor at the office of inter­national
programs, said.
A meeting will be held Monday
to exchange information about cur­rent
Partners of Americas activities
and discuss possible projects with
anyone interested in promoting
economic and social development
in Guatemala, he said.
The program is being brought to
life again due to considerable
interest expressed by people in
Auburn and at the University, Ivers
said.
"Partners of Americas and our
Sister University program are two
separate endeavors that are inter­related,"
he said. University of San
Carlos is an example of successful
achievement in promoting institu­tion
building.
Many people in Guatemala City
are also involved in the Partners
program as well, Ivers said.
The relationship, so far, with the
University of San Carlos has
involved cultural, educational and
vocational training exchange by
both parties, he said. "Our general
agreement allows for anything."
This program promotes the
development of technologies, he
said.
"On average, most people in
Guatemala don't finish the sixth
grade," he said.
An obstacle to development is
the multitude of dialects spoken, he
said. There are 27 different dialects
spoken by about four million peo­ple.
A program objective is "to teach
children in their own language,
while at the same time bring them
along in Spanish," he said. This
will bring the children of
Guatemala into the mainstream
without sacrificing their cultural
identity.
Everyday life in Guatemala is
exaggerated; the amount of "dan­ger"
people face in Guatemala City
is, "somewhere a little greater than
Auburn and less than New York
City," he said. "Things are not
nearly as bad as they appear in the
newspapers."
"(Guatemalan) public universi­ties
are very sensitive and have
often been very anti-U.S., political­ly
speaking, not personally. People
in Latin America make that distinc­tion
rather rapidly between politics
and the individual," he said.
"Public universities in Guatemala
have in most cases been pro-Marx­ist.
With the decline of Marxism,
there is an excellent possibility of
going in and influencing Latin
American universities in a positive
way to show them how the U.S.
has become great," Ivers said.
At the moment no Auburn stu­dents
are in Guatemala, but there
have been in the past, Ivers said.
There are currently a couple of
Guatemalan students at Auburn,
and the University is hoping to
recruit a visiting professor from
Guatemala.
Barbara Riddle
Staff Writer
The computer is often consid­ered
a wonderful marvel that has
made the most tedious work easier.
However, professor of psycholo­gy
Peter Harzem thinks computers
are isolating people from society.
"The number of people working
inside the home is increasing,"
Harzem said.
As a result, people are interact­ing
less, and people working inside
the home will know fewer people
and will become isolated, he said.
"Many jobs such as clerical and
accounting are being done inside
the home," he said.
Computers have not only affect­ed
the quality of work, Harzem
said, but also the quality of educa­tion.
"The number of people working inside the
home is increasing."
-Peter Harzem
Teachers wanted
Peace Corps works with University to select volunteers
Camille Chiles
Staff Writer
being taught by computer as a new
form of the correspondence course,
he said.
Auburn has not yet experienced
this trend, he said, but larger uni­versities
have already begun to use
this type of instruction.
"The most important part of edu­cation
is the experience one has on
campus," he said.
"Getting to know people, attend­ing
lectures, arguing, asking ques­tions
and getting to know profes­sors
are all important aspects of a
college education," he said.
However, many courses are now
Harzem feels this trend should be
recognized now, before it becomes
a huge problem.
Harzem suggests having educa­tional
leaders work together to con­sider
a possible solution for the
problem.
"Owners of large companies
should consider having smaller
work stations throughout the city,
instead of having one large corpo­rate
office," he said.
This would eliminate the com­muting
time of many employees,
which is often the deciding factor
to working inside of the home.
Auburn is one of several univer­sities
asked to help the Peace Corps
bring volunteers from overseas to
teach in rural Alabama schools,
College of Education Dean Richard
Kunkel said.
A contract for the program is
being developed, Kunkel said.
Columbia University in New York
already operates a similar project,
he said.
The teachers are to be financially
supported by a fellowship called
the U.S. Peace Corp Fellows Pro­gram
that will pay for expenses
such as tuition and room and board,
Kunkel said.
"We (the University) select for
those who really want to leach, and
who are culturally sensitive," he
said.
Andrew Weaver, head of the
department of curriculum and
teaching, said he hopes provisions
will be made in the final contract
for the Peace Corps to help Auburn
raise monies for the expenditures.
"These young people want to
serve the country. Salary won't be a
reason for the job. Interest in soci­ety
and welfare of people is what
they work for. There's a built in
interest for working and caring for
people," he said.
Once the nominated Peace Corps
volunteers have completed an
intense two-year teaching program
overseas, they return to the United
States and teach for four more
years, two years to obtain a mas­ter's
degree and two more years to
complete the contract, Kunkel said.
Peace Corps volunteers will
teach subjects such as science,
math and English, he said.
"Peace Corps returnees want to
work in rural areas where teachers
are scarce," Weaver said.
"I think everybody benefits, not
only the Peace Corps, but children
get at least one more good teacher,"
Kunkel said.
The program could be imple­mented
as early as January, making
Auburn the second university to
install this project, he said.
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August 16,1990 The Auburn Plainsman
K \ ^ L. FLATLINERS
Horror needs CPR
Flick rests in pieces despite director, cast
From the aisle seats
George
Govignon
Flatliners
Colombia Pictures
Michael
Hatcher
D+
Somewhere between life and
death exists mankind's notion of an
afterlife. Everyone wonders what
will happen to them after they die.
For the religious, there is heaven or
nirvana. The atheists believe death
is the end. The five medical stu­dents
in the movie Flatliners want
to know for themselves what lies
beyond.
Kiefer Sutherland (Young Guns
IT) plays Nelson Wright, sort of the
young Frankenstein and leader of a
group in search of the afterlife.
They intend to reach the afterlife
by termination and revival. What
they don't know is when they
return, they will bring their person­al
demons to life.
His band of merry doctors con­sists
of Julia Roberts {Pretty
Woman), Kevin Bacon {Tremors),
William Baldwin {Internal Affairs)
and Oliver Piatt {Working Girl).
Each one has to learn to atone for
their past mistakes.
Hatcher: This is one movie that
consists totally of sheen and sur­face.
That's not always bad when it
doesn't get in the way of the movie.
Unfortunately, it does in Flatliners.
The movie seems to exist only as
an excuse for freshly-faced brat
packers to parade around in medi­cal
scrubs. The "tension" never gets
to build, because as beautiful and
Gothic as the settings are, they rid
the movie of any terror it might
have had.
Govignon: I was really let down
by Flatliners. I expected something
belter than what I saw. The movie
had such a promising cast, but the
script never let them do anything
with their talent. The setting, how­ever,
was perfect for a Gothic tale
of macabre fiction. The old stone
buildings and dark, hazy lighting
help to add to the effect of mystery.
I thought, instead, what got in the
Five medical students, seeking to learn the nature of life, experiment
with death, bringing them closer to ultimacy and closer to themselves.
way was the story seemed to drag
and never really built to any level
of tension.
H: Most successful horror movies
are grounded in reality. This movie
is grounded in nothing but thin air.
How do the doctors get into medi­cal
school every night to kill them­selves?
And you should see where
they study. It looks like the Sistine
Chapel. It seems to be done for a
consciously artsy effect. This
movie would have been much bet­ter
if it had just gone for the gut
instead of trying to engage the
mind with all of the mumbo-jumbo
about atonement for our sins. The
script isn't strong enough to carry it
off, and neither is the cast. They're
all attitude and no characterization.
G: I completely disagree with that
theory. Every horror film I have
seen has been based in the unreal
Please see FLAT page 10
Kiefer and Roberts, Hollywood's hottest couple, star in Columbia's not
so hot thriller, Flatliners, an adventure into the mind, body, and soul. '..
Changing seasons
Soloist confronts future
The name David J. may not ring
a bell with many listeners as a solo
artist, but many have probably
heard of his involvement with the
electronic band Love and Rockets.
His new solo album, Songs From
Another Season, is completely dif­ferent
from his electronic, eclectic
work with Love and Rockets.
The album consists of mostly
acoustic guitar strumming, with a
smattering of electric guitar, saxo­phone,
harmonica, and drums, just
to give it more depth.
The album's featured single, "I'll
Be Your Chauffeur," is presented in
two versions: a lively version
including electric rhythm guitar
and drums, and the "Original Ver­sion,"
a slower acoustic version
with ghostlike saxophone backing.
Most of the songs are slow, acous­tic
tunes, such as the shuffling,
bluesy "A Longer Look." It con­sists
only of David's voice, his gui­tar,
and some haunting harmonica
work.
The album's mellow, moody feel
:hanges in "New Woman Is An
Attitude," where David pokes fun
it the fashion world's effects on
women. "Oscar de la Renta knows
what makes a woman beautiful," he
jokes.
Songs From Another Season prob-ibly
won't appeal to many Love
Nicholson returns with style
Chinatown sequel subtle evocation of period atmosphere
and Rockets fans, since the album
is totally different from the Rock­ets'
music. But it is, undoubtably,
an album that deserves to be lis­tened
to. It's a relaxing, even nar­cotic,
work well worth investing in.
-Mark Beasley
Music Review
Songs from Another
Season
David J.
Grade B
Sequels are a tricky thing. No
matter what happens, people will
compare it to the original. Few
sequels come out of this scrutiny
unscathed. The Two Jakes is one
of them.
Jack Nicholson {Batman)
reprises his role as Jake Gittes, a
private detective who earns his
money by spying on cheating
spouses.
But Jake has cleaned up his act
since Chinatown. His offices have
moved to a luxurious high-rise;
he has a beautiful fiance, and he's
even joined a country club. But
trouble is never too far away.
Sure enough, trouble starts
when Gittes meets the other Jake,
played by Harvey Keitel {The
Last Temptation of Christ). It
seems Jake's wife (Meg Tilly) is
having a little extra-curricular
activity, but things start to happen
when Jake kills his wife's lover.
Is it simply a crime of passion,
or is it a business deal gone bad?
If you know writer Robert
Towne's work, you know it's any­thing
but simple.
Nicholson acts and directs with
striking subtlety. For a man so
flamboyant in real life, he is an
amazingly simple actor. Oh sure,
Movie Review
The Two Jakes
Paramount Pictures
Rated: R
Grade: A
he can ham it up, as in Batman,
but his best performances are
restrained. He seems to have a
simple approach to acting- he
gets into character and stays
there. That approach has made
him into one of the best actors
today.
Gittes is a great character for
any actor to play. He is a man on
the edge- on the edge of
respectability and seediness and,
ultimately, life and death.
As a director, Nicholson
imbues each frame with a pervad­ing
sense of evil. Despite shaky
earlier efforts like Goin' South
and Drive, He Said, he shows he
doesn't just memorize lines; he
thinks about characterization and
telling a cohesive story.
While he is not the equal of
Roman Polanski, who directed
the original Chinatown, he is not
just a star with an ego trip. He has
something to say, and he says it
very well.
Equally impressive is the peri­od
detail. The look of the film is
wonderful- shimmering, yet rot­ten
to the core.
Towne, who has written Chi­natown
and Shampoo, also wrote
this summer's Days of Thunder.
His gifts are more fully realized
in The Two Jakes than they were
in the underdeveloped Days of
Thunder.
Like all great screenwriters
Towne makes his characters larg­er
than life, but fills them with
enough humanity to make you
care about them.
The script is filled with smart,
snappy dialogue that zings the
viewer with the incessant word
play between the characters.
One note of caution: If you
haven't seen the original, rent it.
But even if you haven't seen
Chinatown, you can still relish a
passionate, vigorous Nicholson- a
true artist who really cares about
what he produces. And in Holly­wood,
with all the brat packers
running around today with their
moussed hair and leather jackets,
that's a rarity.
- Michael Hatcher
Doing wrong thing helps us understand right thing
Dear Journalism god,
I come to you on bended knee. I
im suppliant. I am humble. I need
fou. I need your help.
I I have been writing columns all
marten I have talked about our
society's interest in film, the com­pter
revolution, dreams, the novel-st's
role in our culture, love, life,
leath, food and a host of other top­es.
But I cannot bear to think of
vhat this sort of behavior has done
o my soul. I hope you can forgive
is I may never forgive myself.
I cannot go on like this. I want to
c loved by everyone, (passive
oice). I want everyone to love me,
that's better, active voice). I do not
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Scott
Wilkerson
Life Editor
want to challenge or disrupt or be
different.
I want to write accessible
columns. I do not want to create
compelling images with inventive
language, and I do not want to sug­gest
there is any merit in writing
columns that fuse language and
love of language, wit and charm,
form and fun, decorum and ribaldry
(whoops, I can't use these unfamil­iar
words: good taste and bad taste
are better).
And, well, even if I overcome
this sense of failure, I may still
never be able to write accessible,
readable columns. But, I'll have a
clear conscience.
Also, no one will ever forget
those horrible, self-indulgent,
self-conscious ramblings, those
ridiculous harpings about nothing
at all.
In fact, that phrase might
describe the entire literary tradition
of which I am an irresponsible
member. Or rather I'm an irrespon­sible
member of it.
The more I become like others,
the less I have to fear. The less I
have to fear, the more time I'll
have. The more time I have, the
more I can think about being acces­sible
and readable and interesting
and friendly and maybe even cool.
Journalism god, are you accessi­ble?
Are you friendly? I am guilty
of such horrible sins against the
reader? It is not my right to care
enough to experiment on behalf of
someone else's imagination.
I've been pretentious. I've been
selfish.
All this talk about university
newspapers being a forum for ideas
is laughable. It's crap. So is the fact
that I have stayed away from con­tractions.
That's how real people
talk, so I should work to become,
well... more real, realer.
I figure since I know I don't have
answers to life's questions, I'm just
wasting column space by speculat­ing
on them. And this foolish
obsession I have with language:
what a bore.
How much more tedious can a
columnist get?
Not much.
Language is just words. I under­stand
that now. I apologize to my
editor and former editors who cri­tique
the paper each week and are
kind enough to point out inventive
writing has no place in a quality
publication.
Be they near or far, I salute my
mentors, my critics. They've shown
me truth; they've brought me light
Accessibility saved my soul.
•w
I repent,
Scott
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For moviegoers and moviemakers, this controversy illuminates the art
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to come as artists continue to up the ante for expressive freedom. How­ever,
in their bid for more and protected rights, artists risk alienating the
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and the supernatural. Movies like
The Shining were completely based
on the world of spirits and ghosts.
What caused Michael to go mad in
the Halloween series is an unim­portant
detail. Most horror films
deal with a broad subject and do
not spend important time working
out unimportant details. I felt the
idea for the story in Flatliners was
an original concept. Being based on
a supernatural subject did not
detract from this movie, but,
instead, the lack of direction by
Joel Schumacher ruined it
H: I agree the direction was mis­guided.
It was all self-conscious
art, and it took away from the over­all
effect of the film and rendered it
nothing more than a glossy, sleep-inducing
work of art. Schumacher
tries to make his film more impor­tant
than it is. It's all high concept
with a hollow center- very slick,
cynical filmmaking.
G: For the most part the acting in
this film was not all that bad. I did
like the way Roberts and Bacon
played their parts. The interaction
between them helped to, in some
way, breathe life onto a dead script.
I did not like the acting on the part
of Sutherland. His character was
just too hard to swallow. In the
beginning of the movie he was
everyone's friend, but towards the
end he becomes a sadistic, harsh
enemy to his friends. The script
never really called for this radical
change even though he has the
worst sin to atone for.
H: The best thing I can say about
the film is it was relatively short. It
was like being force-fed a million
images of avant-garde, Gothic art.
It looks beautiful, but after a while
it gets to be too much. It doesn't
enhance the movie; it only does it l
harm.
G: There is only one thing that
could be said about Flatliners; like
the characters of the story, this
movie needs artificial respiration.
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Air plummets off screen
Gibson and Downey fail to rise above bad script
Off they go into the wild blue
yonder bringing much needed sup­plies
to the local citizens of Laos.
They are the pilots of Air America,
but as a subject for a motion pic­ture
they can hardly get off the
ground.
Mel Gibson (Bird on a Wire)
stars as the seasoned aviator work­ing
for the CIA and trying to make
some money on the side. Robert
Downey Jr. (7969) plays the brash
young ace who has come to seek
fame and fortune in Eastern Asia.
The plot of Air America is a sim­ple
one. It concerns men dealing
with the harsh realities of a war.
Air America was an organization
of civilian pilots hired by the CIA
to fly the supplies of the war effort
in Laos. All of these pilots are liv­ing
on sanity's edge. Along the way
they get tied up in flying heroin for
Movie Review
Air America
TW-Star
Rated: R
Grade: C
an Asian General.
America at first seemed to be an
original story. As I watched the
movie, I was reminded much of
Catch-22, the characters of which
provided the comedy that made it
worth watching. It was not the
same with Air America.
As far as acting was concerned,
this movie had a great deal of
potential. When I saw the previews
for America, I was given the
impression Downey and Gibson
would be working as a comedy
team. Instead, the two actors spend
most of the movie flying separate
missions.
Gibson's talent was simply wast­ed
in America. I did not care too
much for his character and found
him without any depth at all.
The same was true of the perfor­mance
turned in by Downey. His
character was the outcast of the
band of pilots. All that he docs is
whine about his situation and the
job he is doing. He and Gibson are
actors better than the roles they
were given in this film.
America began as a movie to
look forward to, but was a real dis­appointment.
Despite a noble effort
by Gibson and Downey Jr., Air
America still stalled, crashed and
burned.
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page 12 The Auburn Plainsman August 16,1990
Athletes earn cash from summer jobs
Alex Powell
Staff Writer
For some Auburn students, hav­ing
a job during the school year is
an option to earn some extra spend­ing
money for school, but for
Auburn scholarship athletes that
option is restricted according to
the NCAA.
Scholarship athletes are allowed
to have jobs only during summer
quarter.
The athletes acquire the jobs
through the athletic department, or
they can get them on their own,
Mike Campbell, defensive lineman
for the Tigers football team, said.
Campbell, a criminology/pre-law
major, said he doesn't have a job
this year because he has 18 credits,
but he worked last year.
"Rob Selby, Jon Hudson and I
were in The Rental Center, and
they asked us if we wanted jobs so
we took them," Campbell said.
"We picked up and delivered
heavy things like the tents they
rent."
For most scholarship athletes,
scholarships cover tuition, books,
food and housing. But, when you
only have a job for a few weeks out
of the year, money can get tight.
"This is my fifth year in college,
and I have made it this far on the
money I make. My parents send me
some (money), and whatever I
make on a job goes to cover my
phone bill, washing clothes and
going out. We do have a couple of
Coach says
teams are
improving
Sullivan expects teams
to finish high in SEC
Chappell Chancey
Staff Writer
i ;The fate of next year's Cross
Country teams will be hard to pre­dict,
according to coach Kelly Sul­livan.
• .Sullivan said his team could fin­ish
anywhere from first to sixth in
the SEC.
;"On the men's side, we have no
idea how good we are going to be
because we graduated four out of
our top seven from a year ago," he
said.
Sullivan said his team has a
tough schedule, but it has a tradi­tion
to uphold.
"We have been in the top three in
the conference for the past five
years. With the team we have this
year, we're going to have to per­form
extremely well to place in the
top three again," Sullivan said.
"There are six teams, including
us, that have a chance to win the
conference," he said. "Plus, there
are three schools with a chance to
win the national title, Alabama,
Tennessee and LSU. That's a chal­lenge
for a group that's going to be
weeks during the school year
where we could work, but the
NCAA won't let us," Campbell
said.
One might think with the busy
schedules of the players they
wouldn't have much time to work.
"Our time is limited even during
the summer because we are up at 6
a.m. to run and workout in the
afternoons, but (employers) work
around your training schedule," he
said.
Ed King and Victor Hall, Auburn
football players, work this summer
at Flower's Bakery in Opelika.
King, an offensive lineman, got
his job by taking another Auburn
football player's place and said
sometimes money can get tight "I
got the job on my own taking Rod­ney
Garner's (football player)
place. Money starts getting kind of
tight around winter and spring
quarter," King said.
Hall, a tight end, has been work­ing
at Flower's Bakery just this
year and said this isn't his first job
in college.
"Last year I didn't work, but the
year before I worked construction
in Atlanta."
Hall said the summer is a good
way to build up money working a
job, but parents also help.
"You kind of have to build up
enough money, but you always
have your parents to get you
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Vols look for national crown;
Rebels, Wildcats want respect
Tennessee must overcome tough schedule to win national crown
Mike Shands
Sports Editor
George Govignon/Plainsman
Sullivan says the women's cross country team should benefit from
returning experience while the men's team will be more inexperienced.
Seventh in a series
very young and very inexperi­enced.
But, I have all the confi­dence
in the world because we've
been in the top three every year,"
he said.
They recruited two Junior Col­lege
All-Americans from Central
Oregon Junior College, Ken Andes
and Shawn Boyd, he said.
"We didn't recruit any freshmen
because we graduated so many
seniors that we had to bring in
some maturity," Sullivan said.
Assistant coach John Parks said
the team has a chance to be good,
even though it will be a tough year
in the conference.
"Scott Strand has the potential to
be an all-conference performer,"
Parks said. "He'll be our top per­former
most likely when the season
starts. Hopefully Andes and Boyd
can step in and work closely with
him, and that will make us a belter
team.
"We're looking at a very chal­lenging
season. It's going to be a
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Ole Miss
Coach: Billy Brewer
Last Year: 8-4
'90 Outlook: Dark
Horse
If history serves as a suitable
guide to how Ole Miss will do this
year, don't expect much from the
Rebels. In recent years after each
successful season the Rebels have
enjoyed, they have followed with a
disappointing season.
Last year, the Rebels finished
ded for fourth in the SEC. So this
year they should finish near the
bottom, right? Wrong. The Rebels
should be able to break the every-other-
year hex this year.
The Rebels are due for consecu­tive
good years but will have a hard
time. They lost their starting quar­terback
and all three starting
receivers from last year's team, but
will return most of the running
back and offensive line corps
including All-SEC candidate
Randy Baldwin at tailback.
"We lost all our receivers from
last year. This year our fire power
is Randy Baldwin.
"There is a sense of
purpose and together­ness
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-Bill Curry
Second in a series
"Russ Shows is going to be quar­terback
for us. He played last year
for us in short yardage situations
and did an excellent job. He's a tal­ented
player. He has the ability to
run; he has the ability throw," Ole
Miss coach Billy Brewer said.
The Rebels' strong point this year
could be defense. They return eight
starters but lose all-star outside
linebacker Tony Bennet.
"We've had a decent defensive
football team year in year out,"
Brewer said.
The Rebels must play Auburn
and Tennessee but could conceiv­ably
defeat the rest of their SEC
opponents this year.
Throw in solid kicking and punt­ing
games with last year's starting
kicker and punter back, and the
Rebels have a good chance to
finish near the top of the SEC.
Running, not passing, key to Auburn's title chances
Kentucky
Coach: Bill Curry
Last Year: 6-5
' 90 OutIook:Highly
Mediocre
Bill Curry will attempt to give
the Kentucky football team some
measure of the success its basket­ball
team has enjoyed.
He will stand a good chance with
an athletic director like CM. New­ton.
Curry spoke of the attitude his
team has and will need to win in
the SEC.
"There is a sense of purpose and
togetherness," he said.
Curry said he did not let his situ­ation
at Alabama affect his deci­sion
to switch to Kentucky.
"When you're in our business, if
you accept a job, you accept all of
the job, and you do it the best you
can. The way I am treated person- >
ally cannot become a factor. If it •
does, you can't focus on doing what«
you're supposed to do," he said.
To win, the Wildcats will need to;
play better than last year when they •
finished tied for seventh in the-
SEC. •
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MORE SPORTS
;After following Auburn football
for eight years now, I have devel­oped
an admiration for the aspects
of football which win games.
:Back in 1981 when Pat Dye
k walked on the Plains, he had a
coaching philosophy he acquired
from coaching under Paul "Bear"
Bryant, that running the football
wins national championships.
«
;If the Auburn football team is to
win a national championship this
yejir, it will come on the legs of
Stacy Danley and James Joseph.
"No, no," the Dan Fouts and
John Jefferson fans of the world
say. They believe the passing game
is the only way to win, and running
should only take place when play­ers
come on and off the field.
That philosophy is garbage.
With the talk of Auburn on the
verge of its national championship,
all I have heard is Auburn doesn't
have a quarterback and it doesn't
have a running back with break­away
speed. People are so used to
seeing a Bo Jackson, Brent Full-wood
or Reggie Slack type in the
backfield that they believe Auburn
can't win without that type of play­er.
Danley and Joseph are good,
these fly-by-night fans will say, but
they don't possess great speed to
win football games.
This is more garbage.
Auburn doesn't have an estab­lished
quarterback this year, but
what Auburn does have are two
running backs that both weigh
more than 210 pounds, average five
yards a carry, 20 receptions a year
and, plain and simple, can wear out
a defense.
Joseph and especially Danley,
are running backs that get better
and stronger as the game goes on.
When a defense is pounded play
i
after play by these two running
backs, along with King and compa­ny
on the offensive line, the defen­sive
is going to get tired, especially
against a ball control offense of
run-oriented team delivers.
Our quarterback is going to iiave
to be able to throw but not to the
degree that Jeff Burger or Reggie
Slack did. One doesn't have to have
a Dan Marino to win a national
championship. This year's team
doesn't have fantastic receivers like
Lawyer Tillman or Alexander
Wright to depend on, but it does
have quality receivers and running
backs that are consistent pass
catchers in big games.
Our offensive line this year is
going to be great, and this will be a
key factor for our running game to
work. Tight end Victor Hall is a
quality blocking/catching player
who I feel will be a big factor mis
season.
Auburn will need to give the ball
to Danley and Joseph and let them
run and block for each other until a
team stops them. Then that's when
Auburn will have to start looking
towards the conservative passing
game that will best fit this year's
offense.
Bear Bryant used this formula to
win national titles, and Pat Dye's
use of the same formula will do the
same for Auburn.
Football
• Most freshman
football players
began practice
yesterday.
page 15
Expansion
• Auburn's
coaches comment
on the addition of
Arkansas to the
SEC.
page 14
Sports Briefs
Football
Slack on sidelines with bruised chest
Reggie Slack will have to wait before he can show the Houston Oil­ers
his stuff. Slack is listed on a day-to-day basis as a chest bruise has
made it impossible for him to throw the football.
Slack, who was taken in the 12th round, is one of four quarterbacks
in Houston's training camp vying for the back-up spot to Warren
Moon.
Fan Day takes place Sunday
Auburn's football fans will get a chance to meet the members of
this year's team at Football Fan Day 1990 on the practice fields
behind the Athletic Center Sunday afternoon.
Both players and coaches will be available for autographs and pic­tures,
and free Auburn paraphernialia will be given away.
"We appreciate our fans and want to have a day just for them,"
head coach Pat Dye said. "We want them to know how much they
mean to our program."
Baseball
Price of Rose cards skyrockets
Having just reported to jail, Pete Rose has seen better days, but
owners of his baseball cards are celebrating a price increase caused
by greater demand.
A Rose rookie card in mint condition is now selling for as much as
$650, despite Rose being in prison for five months for income tax
violations. Ironically, one of his violations was not reporting cash he
was paid for appearing at baseball card conventions.
Other players who have fallen from grace have had their cards rise
in price. Denny McLain, who spent time in jail for racketeering, and
Wade Boggs, whose extra-marital affairs made headlines, had their
cards prices shoot up in value.
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Curry has hired Bobby Bowden's
son, Tommy, to coordinate the
offense. Bowden will install a
drop-back passing style of play,
which should take advantage of the
team's strong suits on offense this
year: quarterback, wide receiver
and offensive line.
The Wildcats return their starting
quarterback and most of their start­ing
receivers and offensive linemen
but lose their both of their starting
running backs, including sturdy
performer Alfred Rawls.
The Wildcat defense returns five
starters from last year (six, if
Randy Holleran is includfaT
Holleran. was an all-star caliber
player in 1988 but was forced to sit
out the entire 1989 season with an
injury), but lose all-star Oliver Bar-netl
from the defensive line.
Kentucky's only SEC wins this
year will probably come against
LSU and perennial cellar dwellers
Vandy and Miss State.
Tennessee
Coach: Johnny Majors
Last Year: 11-1
'90 Outlook: Contender
Tennessee would probably be a
consensus top five pick in the
country if not for a debilitating
schedule featuring games against
power-houses Colorado and Notre
Dame, conference contenders
Auburn and Alabama, and confer­ence
toughies Florida and Ole
Miss.
To compensate for this nasty
slate of opponents, the Vols return
nine offensive and eight defensive
starters.
The Vols offense is built around
a rock-solid line.
"We've got two tackles that are
as fine a pair of tackles as I've seen
in college football," head coach
Johnny Majors said.
He expects his receivers to per­form
well.
"Our receiving core is an excit­ing
group. I think it's as fine a
group as we've had," Majors said.
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The Vols are strong in the back-field
as well, returning their start­ing
quarterback and running backs.
Chuck Webb has the potential to be
an All-SEC or even an All-Ameri-can
running back.
The defense only loses three
starters, but those three were all in
the same area, the line, including
Auburn-killer, Marion Hobby.
The Vols were weak in pass
defense last year allowing 244.1
passing yards per game but return
all four starting secondary mem­bers
this year for added experience.
Tennessee could go through the
SEC undefeated this year if compe'r
tent replacements are found on the
defensive line, but it will probably
suffer at least one or as many as
three losses in the SEC.
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continued from page 12
big shoot-out at the conference
meet, then at the regionals, when
we try to qualify for the nationals,
we run into the ACC schools.
They have a couple of good teams
in Clemson and North Carolina
State," he said.
Sullivan said the women's team
has momentum going into next sea­son.
"We're coming off of the greatest
season in Auburn women's cross
country history," Sullivan said.
"We were supposed to come in
fifth in the conference, and we
came in third. We didn't get a bid to
the NCAA's last year, and we
should have."
Sullivan said he would like to
change the popularity of the sport.
"The number of people who are
participating in the sport across the
country is probably second only to
football," he said.
"Television doesn't do a good job
covering it. It doesn't get a lot of
publicity except in Olympic years.
It doesn't get the response in this
country like it does in Europe
because we have all of the profes­sional
sports. Track is not a sport
that gets a lot of TV exposure, and
TV sells sports."
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through the tight times. You always
need your parents," Hall said.
The athletes don't have to go
through the athletic department to
get a job, but it helps, he said.
"You can get a job on your own;
it really doesn't matter, but it is just
quicker to go through the athletic
department. You don't have to get
the job confirmed, but they don't
like you doing anything too strenu­ous,"
Hall said.
At first glance, you might think
working during the summer months
is an easy summer job, and it prob­ably
is to the normal summer
employee, but not when you have
to start working again when you
get home.
Hall works from 7 a.m. to 2
p.m., and then he works out until
5:30 p.m. with running, working
out with weights and catching.
It is a definite full-time job, Hall
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with fewer injuries to players
John Craft
Staff Writer
Auburn's baseball team should
benefit from last year's injury-plagued
season and improve in the
SEC, coach Hal Baird said.
During the season, the team lost
its top four starting pitchers and
had to replace them with relatively
inexperienced players. Baird said
he" has never heard of a team that
lost four starters and finished as
well it did, fourth in the SEC.
"Overall, I thought we played
really well. Considering the players
we lost, we probably finished high-erthan
expected," he said.
Baird said he is looking for
improved pitching next year.
"Most of the staff is coming
Eighth in a series
back. Our pitching should improve
because of last year's experience,"
he said.
The team lost several key play­ers,
including three underclassmen
to the pro ranks. Pitcher Mike
Ferry, center fielder Chris Hart and
catcher Tim Edge opted for the
professional ranks, Baird said.
Edge was an All-SEC catcher
last year, and will be "the most dif­ficult
position to replace. He was
the best in the league, Baird said."
Another player the team is losing
is All-SEC pitcher Tommy Young-blood.
"We'll miss him. He was a
leader and a productive player,"
Baird said.
Baird has signed 10 new players,
but said, "How quickly they can
contribute remains to be seen."
Auburn has gone to the SEC
Tournament five straight years. The
only other SEC teams to have done
this are Georgia and LSU.
"I think that we have made
steady and constant improvement.
Of course, we'd like to compete for
first every year," Baird said.
He said he was pleased with the
fan support for the baseball team.
"We've had our best attendance
at conference games, which are
most important," he said. "It's not
realistic to expect people to come
to every game, but there is a good
core of Auburn baseball fans."
Baird also wants better team
facilities and promotion.
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Auburn coaches glad to see new SEC members,
but some are nervous about tougher schedules
Alex Powell
Staff Writer
With the recent addition of
Arkansas to the Southeastern
Conference, Auburn coaches are
preparing for upcoming years of
competition against one of the
best athletic programs in the
nation.
All of Auburn's coaches are
looking forward to conference
expansion, but some aren't too
excited about competing with the
Razorbacks immediately.
"I'm awfully glad that Arkansas
won't get into the conference in
track until the following year,"
head track coach Mel Rosen said.
"They're talking about bringing
them in because of their football
and basketball tradition, but in
track they have been No. 1 in the
NCAA indoor track for the past
six years.
"It really makes for a tough
track conference with Arkansas,
so I'm glad they're giving us
another year to prepare for them,"
he said.
Rosen isn't the only nervous
coach. Head baseball coach Hal
Baird said the Razorback baseball
team has been a strong performer
in the SWC
"Arkansas has been competitive
in the SWC against Texas and
Texas A&M. They'll come right
in and compete right away," Baird
said.
The most important factor that
must be realized in the conference
expansion, Baird said, is not the
question of how many teams to
admit but the added expense and
travel lime.
"(A) hard question for me to
answer is the large distance to
travel. Expense is what hits us
right in the eye," he said.
The way the scheduling is laid
out, Baird said, Auburn plays
everyone in the conference. But,
if the conference is expanded to
13 or 14 teams, there wouldn't be
room on the schedule to play all
of the teams.
Baird said he likes anything
which will improve the confer­ence.
"We're excited about anything
to make the conference better.
We're all anxious about how the
logistics will work out in regard
to scheduling."
Basketball coach Tommy Joe
Eagles said that he favors expan­sion
and thinks that Arkansas is a
perfect first team.
"I'm an expansionist. I've been
for it all along, and with the addi­tion
of Arkansas it is a plus for all
the parties involved.
"Arkansas is an outstanding
academic institution and one