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Former professor backs Ramsey
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Sheltonsays
other players
support claims
Mark Littleton
and Paige Oliver
Staff Writers
The professor that assigned the
paper that has gained former
Auburn football player Eric
Ramsey notoriety for his charges
of racism in the Auburn program
said Ramsey was not alone in his
accusations of racial injustice at
the University.
Allen Shelton, a sociology
professor who left Auburn in June
when his temporary employment
was discontinued, reticently told
The Plainsman Tuesday that
several football players verified
Ramsey's claims while enrolled
in his classes.
"Eric mentioned the (racism) in
discussion. He was not the first to
mention things like that. Other
players also mentioned it,"
Shelton said.
"Some are on the team right
now. They verified some of the
things with me."
Shelton would not reveal the
names of the specified players,
Shelton said that he was not shocked by the claims that
Ramsey, shown here with his wife and son, made about Auburn.
but said that all were black and
none confirmed cash payments
aside from "fringe benefits - shoes,
meals, etc.," he said.
Shelton taught several classes
within the sociology department
See SHELTON, A-20
during his three years at Auburn,
including a class on minority
groups which concentrated on the
Antebellum and Jim Crow South.
"There were occasional
comments in the class comparing
the football program to the
plantation system," he said. "It's a
little crass, but it's compelling."
The classes were less than 25
percent black on average, and it
was not unusual for other students
and visitors from nearby Tuskegee
University to participate in
discussions, he said.
"There was a lot of tension,"
Shelton said of heated class
discussions about such things as
last spring's Old South Parade.
Beyond the racial implications,
Ramsey claims to have taped
conversations with various coaches
on the football team who promised
him cash payments, a violation of
NCAA rules. The charges have
prompted an NCAA investigation
into the program.
Shelton said he had no
knowledge of the tapes while
Ramsey was in his class in April,
and said the paper Ramsey
submitted alleging racist attitudes
within the program didn't "shock"
him.
"I had no idea. Eric said he had
some evidence. He didn't say what
kind he had," he said. "Eric told me
Bird's eye view...
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Auburn's War Eagle 6, Tiger, gets some exercise as she is
held by her Alpha Phi Omega service fraternity trainer.
A<X>ft worked with the University's eagles since 1960.
Dempsey urges students' support of tax
Christy Kyser
File
Aubum Mayor Jan Dempsey addresses the SGA Senate about
the recent sales tax increase which will fund K-12 education.
News Editor
Mayor Jan Dempsey requested
Monday at the SGA Senate meeting
that a better understanding between
the city of Auburn and Auburn
students be reached in terms of
addressing the city's recent tax
increase.
SGA President Jon Waggoner
said Dempsey asked for. an
understanding that Auburn K-12
was in dire straits and needed
immediate attention
"I asked what Mayor Dempsey
was planning to do to help her
constituents, namely the Auburn
University community," Waggoner
said. "I was hoping to see exactly
what she could do to help us out of
our current education crisis.
"She provided several solutions
on a state level, but I hope she will
continue to look into what she can
do as our community leader for
Auburn faculty and students,"
Waggoner said.
City Finance Director Levi
Knapp said there will be some $6
million generated from the tax in
Lee County. Auburn will provide
some $3 million, of which SI.5
million will be distributed to
Auburn K-12.
Dempsey told the Senate that she
wasn't in favor of a proposed 1-
cent state sales tax increase to
improve financial problems of
higher education.
"She said that was more like a
band-aid to fix a much bigger
problem," Waggoner said.
Dempsey was unavailable
for comment
Senator at Large Scott Johnson
said he favored the tax increase.
"I personally think the new tax is
just," Johnson said. "Education has
got to be funded some way."
Johnson asked Dempsey about
the status of the two golf courses
and water park and about city
expansion.
Dempsey told the Senate she
didn't have an exact date for the
opening of the golf courses, and the
water park was still in the planning
stage, Johnson said.
Dempsey said the city is not
taking expansion anywhere. That
expansion is directly related to
student enrollment at the
University, Johnson said.
Proration effects reach schools, universities throughout state
Other universities, colleges in state curtail spending,
face program cuts in effort to ease budget problems
Sue Ann Clifford
Staff Writer
Auburn is not the only state
school losing funding because of
the 6 percent proration in the state
education budget.
Ron Koger, assistant vice
president for enrollment manager
at the University of Alabama at
Huntsville, suggested students ask
President James E. Martin and
Chancellor Phillip Austin of the
University of Alabama at
Tuscaloosa to announce that
neither, "Auburn or Alabama will
play another game until a tax
reform is passed."
Koger said UAH has three
choices to resolve the proration
problem: lay off people, cancel
programs or cut salaries.
"Last year, we cut salaries 2 to
3.5 percent," Koger said.
With about 8,500 students
enrolled, UAH cannot afford to
cancel programs or lay off
employees, Koger said. Like
Auburn, UAH will continue to
freeze all hiring.
"At some point, with a reduced
staff, we will start losing students
"and it will produce a 'domino
effect,'" Koger said.
If the staff is reduced, programs
will be cut. When programs are
cut, students will not be interested,
he said.
UAH will lose about $1.7
million in state funding, Koger
said.
He said he is unsure of how the
problem will be solved.
"When you can't replace,
expand or renovate, you get down
to basic survival," Koger said.
John Walker, interim vice
president for administration at the
University of Alabama at
Birmingham, said proration has
"put us in a no-growth posture
which is injurious when you are
trying to grow."
UAB has been building and
expanding for the past few years.
"It looks like we are flourishing,
but the buildings were separately
funded from years ago," Walker
said.
He said UAB has to continue
channeling the money toward the
expansion of buildings or it will
have an economic effect on the
entire city of Birmingham.
UAB is not freezing all hiring;
they are "selectively replacing
employees," Walker said.
UAB has a committee that
decides when it's necessary to hire
new employees.
See OTHER COLLEGES, A-20
City gives schools
money to offset
shortfall of funds
Erica Seemann
Staff Writer
Auburn City Council approved
$350,000 for the school board
Tuesday to help offset this year's
proration of 6 percent
The money was approved as
additional funding for the school
system from the city's new sales
tax increase of 1/2 percent, which
will go into effect Dec. 1.
The money is needed to offset
the 2 percent raise in proration
since the school system set its
budget, Mayor Jan Dempsey
explained at the council meeting.
Each proration percentage costs
the school system $70,000, she
said.
Levi Knapp of the city finance
department said there is no way of
knowing how much more will go
to the school board.
Brian FitzSimmom/Staff
Cary Woods Elementary School will receive additional city
funding in an attempt to offset the effects of proration.
Knapp said the council is
committed to whatever the school
board wants from the estimated
$1.4 million a year generated by the
tax increase.
The teaching and teachers' aides'
positions that had to be cut because
of the proration will be filled again
with the approved money, said Ed
Richardson, superintendent of
Auburn schools.
See CITY, page A-20
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STILLWATERS COLLEGE
President Martin said the University will
offer support to the Japanese college
proposed for Lake Martin. Page A-7
PERSPECTIVE
Artist Thomas Brooks employs discarded
objects in architecture as a metaphor for
the human condition. Page A-3
NEW LITERATURE
Former Auburn professor Oxford Stroud has
written a splendid coming-of-age novel
called'MARBLES.' Page B-l
HOOP SEASON BEGINS
Men, women begin basketball season with
practices in the Coliseum. Pages C-l, 4
WEEKEND WEATHER
A nice weekend is shaping up.
However a front could bring in light rain
to start the weekend.
Tomorrow the highs should be in the
upper 70s, with the rest of the weekend
having high temperatures mostly in the
mid to low 70s.
Lows should hover in the 40s.
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Local
University professor receives recognition
Pulitzer Prize nominee for his 1990 book "Poor but Proud,"
University professor Wayne Flynt received the 1991 Alabama
Humanities Award Tuesday at the Alabama Humanities Foundation's
annual award luncheon, according to the Birmingham Post-Herald.
Flynt was charged by Michael Warren, presenter of the award, to
serve as both the poor's spokesman and the state's conscience.
State
Federal judge invalidates burglary conviction
U.S. District Judge Truman Hobbs officially released O.P. Hollis
from Draper Correctional Facility in Elmore County, declaring his 1959
burglary conviction invalid due to the lack of blacks on both the grand
trial juries, said The Montgomery Advertiser.
Nation
Confirmed Thomas limps from sensational snare
Clarence Thomas was confirmed by the Senate Tuesday night and
became the second black justice in history, ending one of the most
emotional and heated confirmation hearings ever, according to the
Associated Press.
Helped by Southern Democrats, Thomas edged by in a 52-48 vote to
take his seat as the 106th justice replacing the first black, and fiercely
liberal, justice Thurgood Marshall. Responding to the allegations of
sexual harassment by Anita Hill, Thomas said, "This is more a time for
healing, not a time for anger or for animus or animosity."
World
United Nations discovers atomic development
More ambitious and further advanced than generally believed, the
Iraqi effort to build a hydrogen bomb detailed the failure of the West's
intelligence, said The New York Times.
Not only do recent reports conclude that Iraq could have been making
atomic bombs in little under a year, but they also show research towards
a broad effort to increase thermonuclear capability.
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Auburn's Electrical Engineer­ing
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can make the day extra-special
by visiting Broun Hall between
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Present and retired professors
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If you need help writing your
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remember that Placement Ser­vices
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and planning to interview on
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registration session today at 3
p.m. in 202 Foy Union and one
on Wednesday at 5:30 p.m. in
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session gives you the informa­tion
you need to start the inter­view
process.
Arnold Air Society POW/MIA
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Saturday from 6 a.m. to 3 p.m.
A non-profit 60 mile relay from
Auburn to Montgomery to pro­mote
awareness about the
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call 826-1837.
In conjunction with Alcohol
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All those interested in a sup­port
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There will be a meeting for all
current and prospective English
majors and minors October 24
at 4 p.m. in 2116 Haley Center.
English Department faculty will
discuss how to plan an English
major in accordance with the
new requirement for a concen­tration
within the major, and
how to pursue a minor in
English. For more information
contact Dr. Dave Haney at 844-
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'50s Night B.O.P. for United
Way will be held at Auburn
Kroger Friday from 5 p.m. to 9
p.m. to raise funds for the Unit­ed
Way. There will be moon-pie
eating, lip-sync and hula hoop
contests, live radio remotes, raf­fles,
prizes galore and much
more.
Arnold Air Society/Angel
Flight POW/MIA Candlelight
Vigil will be held Oct. 24 at 5:30
p.m. at Max Morris Drill Field.
Guest speakers will include Col.
Bean, USAF, an Auburn Gradu­ate
and former POW.
Bananaman III, a 4 mile run/17
mile bike race will be at Chewa-cla
State Park Sunday at 9 a.m.
For information and applica­tions
call 821-8817.
Pi Sigma Alpha, the political
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Applications are available
in the Political Science Depart­ment
at 7080 Haley Center. The
deadline for submitting applica­tions
is Monday.
Four One Hour Smoking Ces­sation
Sessions will be available
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AU Women's Soccer defeated
UTC 2-0! Next game is Sunday
at Duck Samford Field at 1 p.m.
Come out and give support.
The Committee of Health and
Safety for the SGA will hold the
second of two self defense class­es
today from 5:30 p.m. - 7 p.m.
in Sashett Hall. For more infor­mation,
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Alabama will hold its October
meeting Sunday at 2 p.m. at the
U.A.B. conference Center at the
corner of 11th St. and 8th Ave. S.
the guest speaker will be Sena­tor
Fred Horn of Birmingham.
The topic will be request for
research funds from the Alaba­ma
Legislature.
Alexandre Herlea, a distin­guished
French historian of
technology, will speak at Eagle's
Nest, North at 4:10 p.m.
Wednesday on "The Birth of
French Industial Research Labo­ratories."
A native of Romania,
Herlea is Professor of the Histo­ry
of Technology at the Conser­vatoire
National des Arts et
Metiers in Paris, France. Every­one
interested is cordially invit­ed
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Alcoholics Anonymous meets
every Wednesday at 7 p.m. at
the University Chapel located at
the corner of College Street and
Thach Avenue. Everyone is wel­come.
For information, call 745-
8405.
Amnesty International is a non­profit
organization working to
release prisoners of conscience
around the world. Amnesty
meets every Wednesday at 8
p.m. in 2218 Haley Center.
If you are lesbian, gay, or bisex­ual,
you are not alone. The
Auburn Gay and Lesbian Asso-ciation-
a social and educational
organization-invites you to dis­cover
what we're all about.
AGLA is a "Gay Safe Zone";
come see for yourself. Meeting
are Wednesday's at 7:30 p.m. in
203 Foy Union.
The Society for Creative
Anachronism, is a non-profit
educational organization dedi­cated
to researching and recreat­ing
the middle ages as they
should have been. The S.C.A.
meets Mondays at 6:30 p.m. at
St. Dunstan's Episcopal Church
in downtown Auburn at 136 E.
Magnolia.
The Microbiology Club will
have Glom pictures made Nov.
5 at 6 p.m. in Gregg Pratt Room
in Student Act. Center.
The Graduate Student Organi­zation
is meeting today at 7:30
p.m. in 203 Foy Union. All are
welcome.
AU Sailing Club/Team meets
every Tuesday at 6 p.m. in Foy
Union - check front desk for
room number. Open to experi­enced
as well as non-experi­enced
sailers. We hope to see
you there.
The Science Fiction and Fanta- %
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meeting in 205 Foy Union at 7:30
p.m. Sunday. The topic will be *
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War Eagle Triathletes will meet
Tuesday at 7 p.m. in 204 Foy *
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are invited to attend.
Auburn Microbiological Soci­ety
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in Comer Auditorium. He will *
talk about microbiology oppor­tunities
in the NASA Space Sta­tion
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The Auburn Campus Civitan
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Sunday at 8 p.m. in 2116
Haley Center. Members are
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welcome.
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Everyone is welcome to join in
the service and fun.
The Marine Biology Club will
meet Tuesday at 7 p.m. in 136
Cary Hall. Dr. Mark Weisberg of
Dauphin Island Sea Lab will he
soeakine on "How Marino
Predators Track Their Prey."
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Criminology Club will meet
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Scott Wilkerson
PERSPECTIVE EDITOR
Simple art mirrors
complex worldview
It so goes without saying that perhaps we should
remind ourselves art is not only not particularly
about politics or religion or psychoanalysis, it is not
particularly about anything at all.
This week, it has been my pleasure to consider
these issues of
definition and,
happily, without
the constraints of
scholarly rhetoric
or the requirements
of exegesis.
Thomas Brooks'
magic city of
Ladonia is, in my
experience, among
the cleverest and
most charmingly
u n a s s u m i n g
examples of what I imagine we mean by self-expression.
Historically, the problem of articulating
information about the self or of characterizing the
individual is seen as a nexus from which cultural
notions of what may or may not be a relevant
aesthetic proceed.
Brooks' splendid creation strikes me as
remarkably informed, though it is at the same time,
remarkably free of formal concerns, as well as
perfectly delightful in its own context
But the question of contextuality is an academic
restatement of the question of relevance, which is a
bumbling, normative term in the guise of critical
charitability.
Thus, to some critics, works are either relevant or
contextually variable - that is to say: they either do
or do not square with the prevailing theoretical
preoccupations of the critic.
We, on the Perspective staff, align ourselves with
the artists who are both courageous and capricious
enough to do what they do not because it resonates
wildly, and these days that means favorably or, at
least fashionably, against the disposition of the art
community, but because they are trying to
understand their interior mysteries themselves
before they ask anyone else to interpret them.
Brooks said if his city were real, it would be a
good city with good people, a city in which there
would be no ghettos, no racism and everybody
would get along.
These are joyously unrealistic expectations even
for an imaginary city, but the beauty of this naivete
is that is permits us to speculate on the hope for our
own better world. I believe it is a serious matter
that Brooks, a boy of 15, has conceived so
wondrous a vision of what humanity might
become, and we, as Americans, cannot yet execute
the decent review of a Supreme Court nominee.
It should not surprise us when children speak in
vast, luminous terms because we have given them
so many reasons to want to change the world. One
could easily see children surrendering themselves
to ebullient fantasies of freedom, equality,
compassion, generosity and love.
Brooks may or may not suspect he has said
anything revelatory or created anything of
importance, but he knows what he likes, knows
what makes him happy.
I hope it is not the price of vision that the
visionary can not comprehend his conclusions or
enact his reveries. And, of course, we can not
expect reality to transmute according to our noble
agendas.
He correctly perceives nothing is perfect, and he
may be smart enough or resigned enough to begin
changing the world by making something beautiful
in his mind, which is no small accomplishment for
any of us.
The solution is already with us. We are in a new
age of industrial romanticism in which we may
legitimately imagine ourselves re-inventing,
recycling our society. And if we find it difficult to
believe this much in each other, it is because do not
fully believe in ourselves. That is a condition of the
post-modern world where everything is
problematic. This is the problematization of
innocence, the politics of dreams, the economics of
credulity.
One could do so much worse than build a magic
city and there is no question we should begin, like
Brooks, by building out from the center, using what
materials we have with us and whatever we can
find.
Artist creates idyllic Weltanschauung
Young sculptor
constructs a city
of imagination
Scott Wilkerson
Perspective Editor
Hidden in a pine and poplar glade,
streaked by the ambiguous, late
afternoon light, the intricate, obsessive
network of wood, plastic, metal and
stone is a grotesquely elegant celebration
of the used and the discarded, an
alarming, eccentric visual poem of things
lost and found.
Spiraling from a central cluster of
posts set vertically in the ground at
various heights.the structure is arrayed
in distinct patterns.
Covering fully 100 square feet, it is a
footnote to the industrial world written in
its own garbage.
Thomas Brooks, the architect of this
curious monument is a 15-year- old high
school student in Beulah, a small town
on the back waters of the Chattahoochee
River.
Brooks, reticent about his work, but
alert to the look and feel of his
environment, said, "At first, I wasn't
really thinking of anything much when I
was building. It was just something to
do. But once I got started, I couldn't
stop. That was about two and a half years
ago."
The project has become a three-dimensional
blueprint for Brooks'
imaginary metropolis, of which, he said
he is mayor, city manager, head architect
and sometimes citizen.
He said, "It's the magic city, the magic
city of Ladonia. Sometimes I look at
maps of real cities to see how they are
built. I look at the roads. I look at the
shapes."
Brooks added, in searching for
materials, he used those which most
closely approximated the structures he
imagined.
"Nothing is perfect. I just used what I
found. If it looked like what I needed, it
was in. I like pretending. I think
everybody ought to pretend now and
then."
He said he does not understand why
anyone else is interested in Ladonia
because, for him, it is a private act of
self-expression.
JeffSynder/Suff
Brooks has erected a sprawling, recycled metropolis centered on
his ideal of a more Utopian society in which our impossible dreams of
increase and equanimity are realized.
"I wanted to put it in a more secret
place, but I couldn't find one. I guess
where it is, is about as secret as it gets.
There aren't enough secret places."
Brooks said he has considered dis­assembling
the magic city and relocating
it farther from human activity and on a
more level surface, but the extraordinary
degree of detail managed with small
objects would be difficult to recreate.
"Someday I will have to figure out a
way to make more room for Ladonia
because it gets bigger all the time. I like
to add on to it because I like watching it
grow.
"Whenever I build more, I feel like
I'm helping something. All the bottles,
rocks, bricks, oil cans and air filters and
two by fours and egg cartons are where
they are because that's where they're
supposed to be," he said.
Brooks described Ladonia as not only
a model of a city in his imagination, but
also a vision of a better world.
He said everyone has a personal
method of reflecting on the world, and
that method does not have to be artistic
to be meaningful.
"If my city were a real city, it would
be better than the place we are now. It
would be a good city with good people.
There would be no ghettos, no racism
and everybody would get along."
Recycling no longer merely fashionable pastime
Melissa Klatt
Staff Writer
Recycling has become a topic sure to
be brought up at least once in every
household and workplace. Not only is it
brought up, but it always sparks a variety
of reactions from different people.
It has become known as a group effort,
something everyone should do. It is
promoted as a person's duty to the
community and even to the world.
Despite the hype, many people feel
that it is too great of an inconvenience to
separate what they call "garbage" into" a
bunch of bins.
There are, however, those who more
than respond to the pleas to "save the
planet" and make recycling a part of their
everyday life.
If you are a diligent recycler, you have
an aluminum bin, a plastic bottle bin, a
newspaper stack, and a glass bin
(separated by color, of course) all stacked
in your kitchen or dorm room constantly
reminding you that you are doing your
part.
Auburn students are a large part of the
efforts. Phyllis Gauker of the City of
Rob Check/Staff
Environmentalists hope new recycling facilities will make potentially
hazardous landfills unnecessary and obsolete.
Auburn Public Works Recycling
Program said, "As soon as school starts,
they are flooded with calls requesting
pick-up.
"Anyone who has the city garbage
service can call Public Works and
request to have their recyclable materials
picked up. Public Works will even sell
you (not for profit) the recycling bins.
You can later sell them back to Public
Works if you leave or cease the service."
People who recycle religiously already
know this, but recycling is easy in
Auburn. As a matter of fact, it's catching
on.
Gauker explained, 'The Public Works
department is picking up 45 percent more
recyclable materials from students and
residents this fiscal year in Auburn than
the last."
Public Works statistical records show
annual totals have risen to 112 tons of
recyclable material per year from 38 tons
at the end of fiscal year 1987 and is
increasing rapidly.
"Twenty-six Auburn businesses are
currently involved in the recycling
program offered by Public Works.
Efforts to get fraternities, sororities,
dorms, and other student housing
involved are underway," Gauker said.
There are still some people who want
something for their efforts. The
Recycling Center on Bragg Avenue
offers this option: The facility offers 20
cents for a pound of aluminum cans (20-
30 cans).
The Recycling Center is owned by
Robert Schaeffer, an Auburn psychology
professor.
People are encouraged to bring
cardboard, newspapers, computer paper,
car batteries, brass, lead, glass, and of
course, aluminum. They are unable to get
rid of plastics and magazines. "It's a
shame because they should be recycled,
too," Schaeffer said.
See RECYCLING, page A-20
Professor discusses aesthetics of found objects, artifacts of culture
Scott Wilkerson
Perspective Editor
V An object is used, then thrown
away, found and re-used, but not
by the same person nor for the same
¥ purpose, not as a utility, but as a
creation.For environmentalists,
recycling the used objects of the
^ world is a struggle to renew the
Jilanet, for artists, it is an act of
reinvention.
Joseph Gluhman, chairman of the
art department, explained the art of
found objects as a reversal of the
creation process.
"An artist who decides to work
with materials not immediately
relevant to his style or discipline is
questioning the definitions of art.
It's a pretty new, 20th century
pursuit, %i the main, but I imagine
the artistic impulse to use used up
things is much older. It does have a
history, there being nothing new
under the sun in the world of art
despite the heterogeneity of the
artists."
He said all art could be viewed as
a kind of recycling method as the
artist re-imagines the subject
"I guess in the sense that artists
who e*nploy the waste of a
pre-existing world are making
something wholly new, there is a
particular sort of re-use at work,
but you know, art in the best cases,
is a way of seeing, and if you see
something in a new light, it is, in
fact, new."
Gluhman said students
occasionally ask whether art made
from garbage or other used material
command^ the same order of
legitimacy as other conventional
works.
"I always encourage students not
to think of legitimacy or the
problem of establishing the
originality of art, but rather to
regard all things as equally
potential with respect to what the
creator of images can find in them.
There is no such thing as an
illegitimate tlrt form. Very often,
what we think as, say, primitive or
naive art is a popularization of high
art."
He explained isolation has
become less a factor in the
production of art using found
objects.
"This is clear in the primitive
experiments of very sophisticated
artists who are trying to investigate
the present, by*looking at the past."
News A-4
The Auburn Plainsman Thursday, October 17, 1991
Tuition hike possible for 1992
Whitney Wise
Staff Writer
A possible 8 to 10 percent
increase in tuition may become a
reality for Auburn students begin­ning
fall 1992, President James E.
Martin said.
Because of 6 percent proration in
the state education budget, another
increase may be implemented for
the entire University system.
Auburn's state appropriation was
reduced from $146.5 to $137.8 mil­lion
for the 1991-92 fiscal year.
The Board of Trustees has taken
many steps to compensate for the
loss of funding, including a hiring
freeze for all state-funded posi­tions.
'We could de­finitely
use more
teachers to eli­minate
over­crowded
class­rooms.'
- Cammie Harper
With fewer teachers, fewer class
sections are being taught, and these
classes are often overcrowded.
"If a tuition increase is imple­mented,
I think it should be used to
hire more teachers because it is
hard to get the classes you need,
and they are extremely crowded as
it is," Amelia Bedsole, 03EEC,
said.
Cammie Harper, 02GLA, agrees.
"I have noticed classes seem to be
larger this quarter, which I guess is
due to proration. We could defi­nitely
use more teachers to elimi­nate
overcrowded classrooms,"
Harper said.
Summer school will also be
affected by proration, but will be
held, contrary to rumors, Martin
said.
Resources will be cut during
summer quarter as they have been
for fall, winter and spring, but
classes will not be canceled, he
said.
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Senate forms tax reform committee
Faculty members join
6 other institutions
in study of funding
Ashley Day
Assistant News Editor
The ad hoc committee formed
at the Oct. 8 University Senate
meeting to study tax reform has
yet to convene, but faculty mem­bers
involved have set the
wheels in motion.
Auburn joined six other insti­tutions
in the state that have
already developed such commit­tees.
These include the follow­ing:
the University of Alabama
at Tuscaloosa, Birmingham and
Huntsville; the University of
Montevallo; Livingston Univer­sity;
and the University of North
Alabama, said Eugene Cloth-iaux,
chairman of the University
Senate.
"We want to collaborate with
all of the other colleges to try to
develop this program of tax
reform for education," he said.
"We want to try to get the state
to do something."
State funding of education is
based on an estimation of
expected sales tax revenue for
the following year. When a
recession hits, purchases are cur­tailed,
and sales tax revenue is
less than projected. This situa­tion
leads to proration, Clothiaux
said.
"What we need is an alternate,
more stable form of funding," he
said. "The ad hoc committee will
look into what can be done."
Qirn CUric/Staff
Eugene Clothiaux
Auburn has already cut main­tenance
budgets in all depart­ments
by 15 percent in an effort
to save money, said Don Large,
acting vice president for budget
and finance.
"We have some real problems
out there, and there is no good
way to resolve them," he said.
"We're probably in for a lean
year next year too."
Large said the University is
currently operating under a hir­ing
freeze. Further actions being
considered, should proration
increase, include requiring facul­ty
take off one day a month with­out
pay and implementation of
an 8 to 10 percent tuition hike.
Tuition provides only 15 per­cent
of the University's total rev­enue,
Large said.
History professor Wayne Flynt
was chosen to head the ad hoc
committee.
"Professor Flynt was chosen
because he served on the educa­tional
committee of the Torbert
Commission and is very knowl­edgeable
about tax reform,"
Clothiaux said.
The Torbert Commission,
which issued a report on tax
reform, was chaired by former
state Supreme Court Chief Jus­tice
C.C. Torbert.
The other ad hoc committee
members have not been named
yet, but Clothiaux said he
expects four members other than
Flynt.
"Flynt will suggest specific
faculty members he would like
to have on the ad hoc committee
to the rules committee," he said.
"We have specific people in
mind, but until we talk to them, I
would not want to name them."
Flynt was unavailable for
comment
The committee will be com­posed
entirely of faculty, but
Clothiaux said it will also work
with the administration.
'They are just as interested in
solving this problem as we are,"
he said. "President Martin is
already very active in this area as
are other administrators.
"We need to establish priori­ties
that benefit the state in the
long run. Education is one of
those, not just college, but K-12
as well.
"It is hard because it is an
immeasurable thing. It is in
yourself. You have to ask 'what
has education done for me?'
That is subtle and hard to mea­sure,"
Clothiaux said.
Large said tax reform could
help the situation if it were done
in the right way.
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Thursday, October 17, 1991
Martin welcomes new college
Lake Martin College
will receive support
from University
Amanda Brooks
Assistant News Editor
University President James E.
Martin said Auburn will welcome
the new two-year college that a
Japanese investor wants to build on
Lake Martin.
The multi-million dollar college,
to be known as Lake Martin
Collge, will be built at the Still
Waters Resort in Dadeville by
Anbun Sadoyama, president of the
Naha Kouto Preparatory School in
Okinawa, Japan.
According to a release from the
Alabama Development Office,
President James E. Martin sent a
letter to Sadoyama saying, "The
prestigous project you are
undertaking is welcome in this
state and should be a shining star in
our already excellent higher
education system.
"Lake Martin College will be a
unique attraction in the United
Satets and will not only provide a
special program for Japanese
students, but will also greatly assist
this state in our economic
developments."
The ADO release said
construction on the college will
begin in November 1991 to be
completed in September 1992.
The school will admit 300
students during its first year, with
the enrollment expected to increase
to 1,000 during the second year,
according to the statement.
About 200 jobs will be provided
by the school during its first year,
and the teaching staff will be a
mixture of Japanese and
Americans.
Sadoyama said he also plans to
build a hotel and a 60-store
shopping mall with Japanese
owned and operated business.
The cost for the complete project
is estimated to be $150 million.
Sadoyama said he hopes the
college campus will become a
travel destination for travelers,
especially Japanese.
Experience:
Nurses EARN degrees faster through special program
Sheila Wall
Staff Writer
Auburn's Educational
Advancement for Registered
Nurses, EARN, enables RNs to
earn their B.S. degree by
attending classes one day a
week for four quarters.
"A B.S. degree is important
for an RN because of the high
level of patient acuity and the
large amount of critical
decision making involved in
the job," said Shelia Virgin,
assistant professor of nursing
and EARN coordinator.
Virgin said this is the second
year Auburn has offered the
EARN program, and the
enrollment has increased from
nine to 21 students.
EARN graduate Rhonda
Braswell said, "It has given me
a lot more confidence in my
nursing skills."
Braswell was the primary
care nurse at the
Chattahoochee Hospice, Inc.
before graduation, but has
since been promoted to patient
care coordinator.
Mary Kay Burdette,
employee of East Alabama
Medical Center and student in
the EARN program, said, "It's
a wonderful program because
it allows me to obtain my B.S.
degree without interfering with
my job."
Auburn's program is unique
in comparison with other
university nursing programs
because it holds classes one
day a week, and it
individualizes in clinicals,
Virgin said.
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experience in a certain area,
then they don't have to
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clinicals, she said.
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News A-7
Experts' study proves fish scare not bacteria related
Lake Martin area residents rest assured
because bass deaths not caused by toxins
Bob Boyce
Staff Writer
Residents in one area of Lake
Martin can now rest assured
because studies by the Auburn
fisheries department reported that
the recent death of about 35 striped
bass was an isolated event.
Local residents notified state
biologist Dan Catchings Sept. 9
and 10 of an unusual number of
dead striped bass in the Chimney
Rock area of Lake Martin.
"He found about 35 hybrid
striped bass or hybrid white bass on
\the surface ... and brought the fish
here for us to examine for disease
problems," fisheries professor John
Plumb said.
"We didn't really find much of
anything as far as diseases were
concerned.
'There were bacterial infections
on the skin of a couple of fish, but
Lilte bacteria] were more a
contributing factor in the die-off,
not the sole factor," Plumb said.
A bi^ogical fluke that could be
analo^'us to the beaching of
whalrs is the most likely
explanation for the recent die-off,
he snid.
Homicide
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arrested
Amanda Brooks
Assistant News Editor
Former Opelika-Auburn News
city editor Joe Smedley was arrest­ed
and charged with the murder of
Joseph Christopher Mims last Sat­urday.
According to Capt. Tommy
Barnes, a spokesman for Opelika
Director of Public Safety Dan E.
Davis, police received a call at
about 9:30 p.m. Oct 11 regarding a
. body that had been found in a
] wooded area behind Smedley's res-
| idence at 3000 Waverly Parkway,
J Opelika.
"We believe the incident hap­pened
possibly on Tuesday night,
Oct. 8 at Smedley's apartment,"
Barnes said.
Subsequent investigation at the
apartment led to Smedley's arrest
' j during the early morning Oct. 12 at
\ a campsite in Chambers County, he
I said.
Mims, 30, was apparently shot in
the upper torso while at Smedley's
home, Barnes said.
Smedley allegedly then placed
the body in the woods, he said.
Mims' body was taken to the
I Montgomery Department of Foren­sic
Sciences for an autopsy, Barnes
said.
Bob Sitten, a reporter for the
Opelika-Auburn News , said Smed­ley
was fired from the newspaper
about nine months ago after work­ing
there for less than one year.
Sitten said Smedley had also
worked for the Lee County Bulletin
and the Valley Times.
Smedley had attended Auburn at
one time, Sitten said.
Barnes said he believed Mims
and Smedley were acquaintances,
but investigation continues to
determine their connection.
Capt. Jay Jones of the Lee Coun- i
ty Sheriff's Department said Smed­ley
remains in custody at the Lee
County Jail.
Smedley's bond is set at
$10,000, Jones said.
Barnes said he believes both
Smedley and Mims were unem­ployed.
f-
"These fish are fairly
temperature sensitive. At certain
times of year, the lake becomes
stratified according to
temperatures," Plumb said.
"If these fish get caught in an
unfavorable temperature layer, they
will not, or cannot, get out."
Plumb said becoming trapped in
an unfavorable temperature layer
places stress on the fish. The fish
then die from secondary bacterial
infections because of this stress, or
they die from the stress itself.
"We see it in bass, crappie and
gizzard shad just about every year,
particularly in the spring and late
summer/early fall when the water
temperatures are in the process of
changing," Plumb said.
"[The die-off] was a one-time
die-off of relatively few fish,"
Plumb said.
"The local residents got pretty
upset over it Any time people see a
die-off in fish like that, which are
prize game fish, they get very
concerned."
Plumb said the local residents'
main concern was that the fish
deaths were caused by a toxin in
the water; however, a toxin was not
indicated in this incident because a
toxin will usually affect most of the
species of fish in a given body of
water.
In terms of infected fish or dead
fish, there is no obvious threat to
human health.
If you ever suspect a problem in
fish, Plumb said the best thing to
do is to give the Auburn fisheries
department a call.
'The key is to get the fish to us
as soon as you can, whether it's
been caught on a line or picked up
out of the water," Plumb said.
"Often people will bring in a fish
that's been dead a day or so -
there's nothing we can do about
that."
Record
numbers
enroll
Kim Chandler
Assistant News Editor
The concourse may seem more
crowded as student enrollment
climbs to record levels.
Total enrollment this fall
reached an unprecedented
21,836 students, a 1.4 percent
increase over 1990, University
Registrar Tom Stall worth said.
This increase can be attributed
to the growing population of
graduate students, Stallworth
said. The graduate enrollment of
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remained about the same as last
year.
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tougher economic times such as
we are in now, that more people
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Editorial
Thursday, October 17,1991
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Silent, silent search
What's in a name?
Not much when Auburn gets to choosin' a new president.
But there is a great deal to substance, something we've heard little
about since the Presidential Search Committee first met months
ago.
Some criteria has been established in the advertisement solic­iting
applications for President James E. Martin's position, which he
will vacate by April 1992. But whether the next president will be
just like Martin, exactly the opposite or a combination of talents and
controversies thereof remains to be seen.
Meanwhile, we ponder the questions we hope the committee
and the Auburn public are contemplating:
Should the publish or perish rule apply to presidential candi-s?
Should the candidates have proven their administrative abili-
| as presidents of other universities, and if so, at what type of uni-jftrsity
should they have gained their experience?
P If not presidential experience, what administrative positions
Should qualify a candidate for Auburn's top vacancy?
• Should candidates be Auburn graduates or external candi­dates
who are familiar with the land-grant university structure?
• Does the search committee have a set direction for the Uni­versity
in terms of accentuated programs and commitment to
research, extension and instruction?
• Is the search committee and, subsequently, the Board of
frrustees, encouraging presidential candidates to fill vice presiden-
• a l vacancies with their own subordinates?
We are willing to accept the need for a closed search for the
•ext president of the University to protect those candidates whose
jobs might be endangered by a public search, and we trust that our
•presentation on the committee is just.
However, there is something inherently suspect about a com­mittee
and a board that refuses to foster open communications with
p public about the type of president they are seeking. A lack of
ch information makes it virtually impossible to maintain a checks
id balances system between the leadership of the University and
e masses that hold them accountable.
hird World proration
resident James E. Martin had a few fightin' words for the tax­payers
of Alabama when he spoke to the Montgomery Lions
b last week, and his message was a simple one: Fund education
rop the state's economic development to Third World status.
It's a critical time for a state that, in many of its cities, has
E"jsed lo recognize the need for additional local funding through
reased property taxes to free up state funds for the collegiate
/el and for their own prosperity. Some are feeling the crunch and
; responding with sales tax increases - like Auburn and Opelika -
t realizing the need for tax reform is a cumulative process, not the
ult of one year's proration. Or two. Or three.
Meanwhile, the state's so-called leadership, Gov. Guy Hunt,
; refused to call a special session to deal with cuts in the educa-
(i budget, saying schools have $500 million more than they had
; years ago. " i
Third World status? We're well on our way./
All my rowdy friends 'settling down'
It happened so
fast that we were all
taken by surprise.
Really we didn't
know how to react.
So we had to act
happy as a good
friend and former
president of my fra­ternity
suddenly
grew roots. In reali­ty
most of us were
confused about what
had happened, and the only thing
we were happy about was the it
wasn't us.
Maybe I should start at the begin­ning.
After spending several years in
the service, my friend - let's call
him Robert - was back in school
thanks to the Navy. When we
pledged together, you couldn't have
guessed that there was four years
difference in his age and mine; we
shared the same mentality.
Then things
changed quickly. The
summer after he was
president, Robert met
Angie. She was
much younger, had
recently ended an
engagement and had
enrolled at Auburn
only weeks before.
Within a month
she de-enrolled.
Within a month she
had a husband.
I won't comment on why they
got married so soon, but I will say
that the only reason it wasn't a
shotgun wedding was that her par­ents
refused to acknowledge either
one of them.
As we joked our way through the
arboretum ceremony, totally ruin­ing
one of their videotapes with bad
imitations of golf announcers, I
realized that I was witnessing a
monumental first. My friends were
beginning to "settle down."
What a scary thought.
I know that in the not-so-distant
past marriages occurred earlier in
people's lives, but I was always
told to wait until I was stable finan­cially
and out of school before I
took any vows. Actually, having
experienced my parent's bitter
divorce, I guess it was more
ingrained in my consciousness than
taught
I know that there is a stereotype
that everyone finds their mate in
college, but that isn't true. Many
people do, but many more keep
looking.
Looking around, I began to see
more of the marriage bug affecting
my friends and peers.
Of the neighborhood gang that I
went through elementary school
and junior high with, at least two
are married with children.
At the paper, we have at least one
assistant who is also married. And
that's not even counting the many
people I know who are pinned or
engaged or engaged to be engaged
or whatever else is the custom.
In April when the baby came, my
fraternity brothers flocked to the
hospital to see Robert's new daugh­ter.
I didn't go, because I was still
having trouble dealing with the
whole situation.
More to the point, I was having
trouble dealing with that aspect ci
life.
But now I understand what scares
me is the urgency of their marriage,
the rush they were in and the whirl­wind
they left behind, not marriage
itself.
Recendy another friend told me
that he and his girlfriend w-gf£. ..-•
going to go ahead and get engaged.
Their marriage, however, is still a
distant thing.
As I congratulated him, a made
me feel good to realize that this
time I could be sincere.
Three Ps make education hard to fund
In the world of
education, the three
Rs will get you into
Auburn. In the world
of education funding,
the three Ps - Prora­tion,
Property Taxes
and Politics - will
make that purpose
less than noble.
Undoubtably one
of the most devastat­ing
financial foes
Auburn has faced in
some time, proration is taking its
toll at universities and K-12 schools
statewide.
Still reeling from a 6.5 percent
cut due to proration in the 1990-91
budget, Auburn must
now deal with an
$8.8 million loss of
appropriated funds
thanks to another cut
levied Oct. 2.
Experts say the
answer to the fund­ing
crisis lies in
increased property
taxes which are
among the lowest in
the country
statewide.
Surprisingly, two of the more
affluent counties in the state, Madi­son
and Jefferson, defeated referen-dums
to raise property taxes, while
Eufaula recently raised its tax by 8
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EDITORIAL PAGE EDITOR
mills.
Of course, it takes education to
fund education, a theory that has
become increasingly clear even on
Auburn's campus.
Auburn's faculty committee on
tax reform comes on the heels of
efforts already in progress at the
University of Alabama at Birming­ham,
Tuscaloosa and Huntsville,
die University of North Alabama,
Livingston and Montevallo.
We could cry out, 'what took so
long?' But frankly, the general pub­lic
is just as far behind the times.
Does the average student know
what proration means definitively,
much less what it means to
Auburn? Is the average student
aware that the talk of the town is an
8-10 percent tuition hike by next
year alone?
But, perhaps most detrimental
these days, however, are politics.
Gov. Guy Hunt has refused to
call a special session to solve the
funding crisis, worsened by a 6 per­cent
cut just one day after the bud­get
took effect Oct. 1.
Hunt has further criticized school
officials statewide for the "over­play."
Meanwhile, speculation contin­ues
that Hunt is avoiding such a
session for fear that his latest ethics
shortage will prompt and impeach­ment
resolution from the floor.
We could only be so lucky.
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Ramsey charges only symptomatic
Say it isn't so,
Eric.
Well, if it is, then
Auburn's football
program as we know
it may become a
thing of the past, just
like SMU.
Shortly after
another Eric, Eric
Dickerson, won the
Heisman and moved
on to the NFL,
Southern Methodist
was charged with giving money
and benefits to its players.
The NCAA destroyed the Mus­tangs,
and the school was without a
football team for two years.
Once a perennial favorite, SMU,
after its two-year hiatus, could
barely give Cincinnati or Cumber­land
a run for its money.
The thing that
bothers me about this
whole Eric-Ramsey-and-
his-magic-tapes
deal is that every­body
seems to have
the attitude of 'Yeah,
this stuff goes on, it
goes on everywhere,
but why couldn't Eric
just keep his damn
mouth shut. Then
everything would be
OK.*
Everything would not be OK,
though.
It's always perturbed me, ever
since I was a young boy, when I
would hear about teams that would
pay their players under the table.
Whether it was coaches or alumni,
it was and still is wrong. P
The old proverb of 'Freddy's
mother gives him an allowance, so
why can't I get one,' may parallel
Division I college sports. With this
exception: It seems most colleges
don't have the common response,
'Well I'm not Freddy's mother.'
Something needs to be done
about the problem, and the apathet­ic
students who don't care as long
as their team wins don't help.
Donald Watkins, Ramsey's attor­ney,
told me that it didn't matter
what his client's motives were; if
die tapes are genuine and what Eric
says is true, then the bottom line is
that Auburn's program is corrupt,
and something must be done about
it.
People who blame Eric are spine­less
ignoramuses. Doesn't it even
upset anybody that amateur athlet­ics
have come to this? "
I'm sure there are those who
think that if Eric was getting paid,
why would he squeal on a program
that helped him get through college
comfortably?
Why look a gift horse in the
mouth, right?
Is it because he is desperate for
money and attention now that he
has been cut from the Kansas City
Chiefs? It could be; because if his
allegations are true - that die pam­pering
he received caused him not
to be prepared for the real world -
then maybe he is trying to save oth­ers
from being treated the same
way.
But like Ramsey's lawyer said, it
doesn't matter what the motives are,
at this point. What matters is the!
facts. i
And if the allegations turn out to
be facts, we coufd become the?
Auburn Mustangs.
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Thursday, October 17,1991 The Auburn Plainsman
Letters
Letters A-9
Students lose in money battle
OK, now, I'm not
a mathematical
genius; that is
evident from my
calculus class
massacre of 1987.
But I am having real
trouble figuring out
what the
administration has
done to the freshmen
and the rest of the
student body since
proration has slapped us in the face.
The Alabama Legislature
determines annually the amount of
money given to the University for
the fiscal year which runs from Oct
1 to Sept. 30. (Pay attention. Here's
where it starts to get confusing.)
The amount of money
budgeted for the 1990-91 school
year was $146.5 million. Jan. 2,
1991, the state handed down a 6.5
percent cut due to proration.
Now, with the amount of money
the school was left with winter,
spring and summer, there was
obviously not enough money to go
around to finish out the fiscal year.
President James E. Martin said
the Legislature estimates funding to
the University on the amount of
money it will receive for the
following year. The Legislature
told the University that its estimate
for the 1991-92 fiscal year was to
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STEPHEN LOHR
CREATIVE DIRECTOR
be the same as the
budgeted amount
for 1990-91: $146.5
million.
The administration
at Auburn then
based its 1991-92
budget on that
estimated amount
by the state.
Wrong move No. 1.
Instead of keeping the freshman
enrollment at the level it was for
fall 1990, the administration
increased freshman enrollment
Wrong move No. 2.
So during the summer,
University officials had forecasted
a record enrollment of 21,800
students, and they knew that we
were not going to receive any more
money than last year.
Wrong move No. 3.
I hate to say it, but, you're out!
Literally, you, the student body.
The amazing part is that the
University was gambling with the
quality of our education, though it
seems it wasn't completely
unnoticed. This summer Registrar
Tom Stallworth said Auburn is
playing an estimate game.
"One of my concerns (for fall) is
that when we get all of these kids,
some 3,100 freshmen, can we meet
the demands?" he said.
Maybe if the University had
received its expected $146.5
million, we would not be in too
much trouble. But according to
Martin, Oct. 2 - just one day after
the beginning of the fiscal year -
the state announced another 6
percent cut
Translation: $8.8 million was cut
from our budget before we even got
started.
So if Auburn was playing the
estimate game, we lost. Badly.
There is a shortage of classes this
quarter, and proration is to blame.
"A particular problem is that
there were fewer courses,
particularly at the freshmen level,"
Stallworth said.
Yes, it is a problem. What I am
having trouble figuring out is, why
the gamble? Why did we need the
highest proposed enrollment to date
when the country is suffering a
recession, and the money is
nowhere to be found?
The administration played a
game with our future, the gamble
that the money would be there for
our classes, our supplies and our
instructors.
The Legislature gave us a
smaller-fhan-expected education
budget, and our education is what
will suffer.
Hey guys, thanks a lot
Alcoholics' kids face rough times
Editor, The Plainsman:
Terror, guilt, confusion, pain -
these are the feelings. Don't talk,
don't trust, don't feel - these are
the rules. Perfectionism, rebellion,
introversion, hyperactivity - these
are the results. The cause:
alcoholism.
The stories of the lives of
children brought up by an alcoholic
parent, though certainly unique, are
similar in some respects. One
similarity is the roles that children
of alcoholics tend to take.
First is the "hero child" who is
the superachiever and tries to make
the family proud. Second is the
"scapegoat," the child who is
defiant and gets blamed for
everything. The "lost child" seems
to try to be invisible while the
"mascot" is the family clown who
provides comic relief by attracting
attention.
Another facet of life shared by
children of alcoholics is the
multitude of double messages that
exist in the family. These include
being told they are loved and then
being rejected, and being told by
the parent "you can count on me"
and then being disappointed.
They are told to always tell the
truth - as long as it's something the
parent wants to hear. They live a
life filled with a sense of
hopelessness but are told that
everything is fine. Finally there is
the message that alcoholism is to
blame, so the behavior of the
alcoholic is excusable.
So what happens when the child
grows up? Well, there are a number
of things that characterize an adult
child of an alcoholic, including, but
not limited to: giving into others
because of guilty feelings, being
extremely self-critical,
encountering difficulty having fun,
losing the ability to feel or express
emotions, having troubles with
intimate relationships, and being
super-responsible or super-irresponsible.
They also have a
much greater chance of becoming
alcoholics, being in intimate
relationships with alcoholics, or
both.
How do I know so much about
this situation? Well, I'm an adult
child of an alcoholic. I used to be
embarrassed about it - for me and
for my family. But now I've
received some help and learned
some information, and I'm feeling
better about myself.
However, I see a lot of students
at Auburn who are in the same boat
I used to be in: ashamed of being
the child of an alcoholic or not
wanting to admit it is a problem.
But a problem it is, and a
problem it will continue to be
unless positive steps are taken by
the adult child. We have wonderful
free resources on campus in the
Health Education Department and
Personal Assessment/Counseling
Services, both located in the Drake
Student Health Center. The people
in these offices are trained to help
you or refer you to the appropriate
resources.
Thinking about your childhood
and talking about it to someone
may be painful or difficult, but it
has been worth it for me, and you'll
never know for yourself until you
give it a try.
Jim Werth
09COP
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Glance back
10 years ago, 1981: Marcia Levi and Anne Jones posed nude for the October issue of "Playboy" in the
second issue of the Southeastern Conference pictorial. Jones said the modeling had its rewards, including an
offer to play a minor role in a movie playing the daughter of Dianne Cannon.
She said, "I told him (the agent) I've never done anything at all, no plays, no acting. But he said it didn't
matter."
15 years ago, 1976: An 18-year-old freshman was raped after a man entered her apartment and forced her
into a darkroom at knifepoint. The rape was the fifth one of the year, eliciting the following advice from
Officer Glenn Dahlen: "... make sure you know who it is before you open the door. Go to the window and look
out or ask who it is. They can't do anything if the door is shut."
20 years ago, 1971: Crowds of dominantly male students lined outside the War Eagle Theater to see "The
Late Show," a weekly x-rated presentation, including such titles as "Bittersweet Nights" and "Nine Ages of
Nakedness." Explaining the attraction of the presentation, Bill Dragoin, assistant professor of psychology,
stated "people like sexual arousement. Students naturally neck, court and pet because it's fun and pleasant—
the late show is no different."
However, city council member Paul Conner disagreed with Dragoin's defense saying "Sex is a beautiful
thing, but going to those shows is a bad way to learn."
Quote of the week
"George Bush called the trickle down theory 'voodoo economics' until he discovered he could be the
assistant witchdoctor," said U.S. Rep. Glen Browder regarding the nation's negative growth in employment
during the Reagan and Bush administrations.
Campus Parking
Build more parking
Editor, The Plainsman:
Have you ever arrived 30
minutes early for class and still
couldn't find a parking spot? If you
answered no to this question,
undoubtedly you are not required to
park in a "C" zone. It seems the
"C" zones are in Notasulga with a
20 minute sprint to almost
anywhere on campus.
Because of absence of C zone
parking, many agriculture students
have to purchase parking places off
campus. Some are as much as $90 a
quarter. We have a beautiful
parking deck in which no one has
access to except for the University
Elite.
We are fortunate to have our
campus parking enforcers aka.
Rent-a-cops. We have always been
taught that police were here to
serve and protect, not be jerks and
write unnecessary parking tickets.
The University students are
discriminated against for the fact
we are unable to drive on campus.
When we first acquired these
"automobiles", I saw them stop
someone on Wire Road, and I
thought they were being attacked
by aliens. A quote from Nathan
Jacobs 04PH, "Thank God this is
my last quarter."
We believe we could take some
of the money from our dearly
beloved ticket writers and build us
a nice parking deck in front of the
coliseum.
They furnish us parking on the
other side of campus, yet not near
enough.
In Auburn, our most valuable
resources are air, polluted water,
and parking. Two out of three are
in abundance. The Utopian
University is one where education
Auburn's
fraud
revealed
Editor, The Plainsman:
Doesn't the University's parking
system constitute fraud, since they
are selling parking tags for spaces
that do not exist?"
Sean Godier
03GPO
is an utmost and parking is
plentiful. What is wrong with our
picture? War Eagle!
Chris Gary
04AEC
Billy Yarbrough
03PH
Waggoner's quotes about Circle
only show how much he cares
Editor, The Plainsman:
SGA President Jon Waggoner
abstained on a vote concerning The
Auburn Circle at the last
Communications Board meeting.
The vote was to approve a company
that made lowest bid on a printing
contract. Waggoner said in last
week's Plainsman that he abstained
because the bid process we chose
was financially unsound, that we
could have gotten a better deal if
we had bid for three issues at once
instead of one at a time.
He said, "I couldn't vote to
support something that's not
costworthy for the students in times
of proration."
Concerned that I may have
wasted valuable student funds, I
called area printers and asked if it
would have made a difference.
Separate printers told me there
would be no difference in price per
issue if I had opened bid for all
three at once.
The Auburn Circle was funded
for only two issues this year.
Instead of whining about needing
more money, we took measures to
lower our expenses by providing
camera-ready copy (saving about
$2,000 per issue) and by selling
advertising space (saving $1,050)
to $1,800 per issue), thus allowing
three issues instead of two. The last
thing we would want to do is waste
money.
The purpose here is not to make
Mr. Waggoner look bad. He is
'merely looking out for the financial
situation of The Auburn Circle, a
student magazine in which he takes
pride. I know he wants to see it
prosper just as much as we do.
We're all there to do what's best
for Auburn and its publications.
Working together as an Auburn
team, we can survive this budget
crunch.
Chris Smith
Editor, The Auburn Circle
Why celebrate losing our rights?
Editor, The Plainsman:
Bicentennial1
(An indictment)
I saw a war the other day2
And now it will not go away,
This conviction that I have,
Which no baptism will lave,
That all our gods are futile fools;
That their designs govern our
schools;
Their candidates make us their
tools.
Through media men they propagate
That men are chattels of the State,
The while they hold that we are
"free"3
To work and live in this country.
Trammeled by codes without the
law,4
Our Constitution's held in awe,
But 'prisoned in an archive fast'5
Two hundred years we celebrate
The organ that upheld our state,6
But now are rotten timbers bare
Emerging reeking to the air.
Our noble Court seats nine black
robes
Who fragment right and move with
ease
To justice's antipodes.
The while they massacre the weak,7
They raise incompetents to wreak
Their havoc in the working place,
And affirmate in nature's spite
«
That lesser workers have the right
To take the place that merit earns,
And turn the competent to worms.
Did ever nation turn away
From reasoned thought and still
hold sway «
Among the nations of the earth,
Yet kill its offspring 'fore their
births?
It cannot ftp unless 'tis true
That one and one's no longer two.
What war, you say? Why one of
many'
That the UN. cannot cease.
For sovereign states no longer see
That only good will's pow'r brings
peace.
Footnotes:
1. Of the adoption of the Bill of
Rights, the first ten amendments to
our Constitution.
2. The Gulf War.
3. Lip service to true freedom.
4. The Natural Law.
5. The National Archives, which
hold the Constitution in a fire­proof,
air-conditioned room.
6. The Bill of Rights.
7. Abortion.
8. Against the laws of Nature.
9. In South Africa, in Yugoslavia,
Kurdistan -take your pick. t %
O. G. Burkart, M.D.
News A-10 I l ie AUUUIII I lUIIIJIMUM Thursday, October 17, 1991
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AN EVENING OF IONS AND
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Thursday, October 17, 1991 The Auburn Plainsman
Top 5 Miss Homecoming candidates
Candice Brown Allison Campbell Sara Heard
Leisa Lavender
*
Staff Writer
Auburn's Homecoming is a tradi­tion
which brings numerous activi­ties
for students, faculty, alumni
and all Auburn lovers alike. It is
also the time for naming the new
Miss Homecoming.
This year's Miss Homecoming
will represent the image and ideals
of Auburn when elected by the stu­dent
body Nov. 24.
The five final candidates are
Jamey Ballard, 03ID; Allison
Campbell, 03AM; Candice Brown,
03RTF; Paige Bush, 04OPG and
Sara Heard, 04PO.
What personal and social quali­ties
do you feel Miss Homecom­ing
should exhibit?
Brown: On a personal basis, I
think Miss Homecoming should
exemplify high moral standards. If
she's going to represent Auburn
University, she's got to believe in
herself and her school. Socially,
she must be one that everyone can
relate to, like a typical Auburn stu­dent
with orange and blue running
through her blood.
What does being this year's Miss
Homecoming mean to you?
Campbell: To me, being Miss
Homecoming means being the epit­ome
of Auburn spirit. We've had
football for 99 years, and the
Homecoming tradition has been
around that long. Being Miss
Homecoming means representing
this overall spirit of tradition and
Auburn University.
As Miss Homecoming, how will
you best represent Auburn?
Heard: The reason we were picked
as the Top 5 is because we repre­sent
Auburn spirit, and I would
want to exemplify that spirit in
every way.
Why do you want to be Miss
Homecoming?
Bush: To be able to stand on the
field as Miss Homecoming Queen
with students and alumni looking
to you as what students are like
today would be a tremendous
honor.
Do you feel that you will person­ally
benefit if elected Miss Home­coming
and if so, how?
Ballard: Being able to represent
Auburn and its great tradition and
being a part of the crowning of a
Miss Homecoming would be a
great personal honor for me.
What do you think the student
body expects from its Miss
Homecoming?
Heard: I think what they are look­ing
for in Miss Homecoming is
someone who is friendly and down
to earth. They would like to know
that they can come up and have a
regular conversation with her and
that she hasn't let it go to her head.
As Miss Homecoming, what kind
of influence do you want to have
on th» student body?
Paige Bush
Brown: I would want to have a
definite positive influence. I
wouldn't want students to say, 'Oh,
there's that Homecoming Queen;
she's a snob.' I want them to see
her as someone they really like and
someone they can talk to and relate
to.
As a Miss Homecoming candi­date,
what kind of message do
you want to relay to students
about yourself?
Campbell: I think that all five of
us want the student body to see that
we are traditional Auburn students,
and we want to do everything to
reflect the hospitality and friendli­ness
that the Auburn Plains are
famous for.
Ryan Gay/Suff
Jamey Ballard
Why did you choose to attend
Auburn University?
Ballard: I grew up "War Eagle."
My family went here, and I've
never known anything else and
have never considered going any­where
else. Auburn was the only
school I even considered applying
to.
If there is anything you would
change about Auburn University
or your attendance here, what
would it be?
Bush: As far as my experience at
Auburn University goes, every­thing
has been great, but with the
recent proration, I'm worried about
future students. I definitely wish I
could change that aspect of the
University.
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The Auburn Plainsman Thursday, October 17,1991
Local store sponsors dance, auto show for charity
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benefits United Way
Janel Newkirk
Staff Writer
Kroger grocery store is hosting a
"BOP" to raise money for the
United Way from 5-9 p.m. Friday,
Oct. 18.
The BOP (Beyond Our Potential)
is expected to bring in more than
last year's collection of $500
because of the addition of more
events and two months planning.
"It's remarkable to see the
difference this money will make.
Without it, the children wouldn't
get the education or training they
need," said Kroger employee and
BOP volunteer, Kristy Dawson.
Some of the events will include a
hula-hoop contest, a Coca-Cola
chug-a-lug chase, a limbo
competition, a moon pie-eating
race and a pie toss.
At the end of the day, everyone
will learn "The Kroger BOP," a
dance that will be taught by the
United Way volunteers. There will
be a 50-cent entrance fee and a
request to dress in '50s attire.
Local celebrities, such as Auburn
Athletic Director Pat Dye and
Truck and automobile show
to raise funds for drug awareness
Janel Newkirk
Mayor Jan Dempsey, and
representatives from two radio
stations and 39 United Way
agencies, as well as many local
residents, are expected to attend.
Shirleen Rew, chairperson of the
event, said she first got involved
with United Way, an organization
of volunteers that raises money for
human service agencies, three
years ago when her autistic son
joined the United Way program
called Project Aim.
Rew said she is happy to help
with the event not only because it
will benefit her son, but more
importantly because "all of the less
fortunate will be benefiting from
the money this event will raise."
Kroger assistant manager Britt
Rembert, one of the faces behind
the pie toss, said he won't mind
getting a little sticky because it is a
worthwhile cause.
Kroger employee and BOP
volunteer Angie Newman said,
Kroger has already raised more
than $10,000 in pledges for the
United Way.
Kroger employees have been
deducting money from each
paycheck over the past year to give
to the program of their choice.
Staff Writer
Kroger grocery store will host its
first Auto and Truck Show to raise
money for Project D.A.R.E. from 8
a.m. - 4 p.m. Oct 18.
Project D.A.R.E., a 3-year-old
Auburn Police Department
program, places an officer in city
schools, not only to teach the
students a one-hour lesson about
drugs, but also to befriend the
children by attending their school
functions.
"It's fun to be with the kids
both within the classroom and
outside of it, " said Auburn police
officer and Project D.A.R.E.
volunteer Grady Jones.
The car staging takes place from
8 — 11 a.m. The judging will occur
between 11 a.m. and 4 p.m. with an
awards presentation upon
conclusion of the judging. The
show will take place in the parking
lot in front of the store.
The Top 10 cars, the Top 10
trucks and the manager's favorite
will receive door prizes or trophies
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Entry to the contest, which can
take place either before or on the
day of the show, will cost $15.
"A lot of people have invested a
lot of money and time into their
cars, so they don't mind traveling a
little while so that they can show
them," Kroger employee Terry
Andrews said.
Andrews, whose lifetime hobby
has been cars, said he brought the
idea to Kroger assistant manager
Britt Rembert after watching many
local car shows.
"I've always loved cars and even
have been in charge of putting a
couple of car shows together. I just
thought that we could put one
together here at Kroger to help
someone out," Andrews said.
The two have been working on
the idea for about two months.
If the show goes well, it will
become an annual event, Rembert
said.
For more information, contact
Rembert or Andrews at the Kroger
Store on North Dean Road at 821-
1325.
SGA hosts
Awareness
Week
Kathryn Gresham ,
Staff Writer
With an increase in traffic
fatalities because of drunk driving,
the SGA is co-sponsoring Alcohol
Awareness Week.
"The theme of the week is'
ABSURD (a better student
understanding of responsible
drinking)," said Liz Humphrey,*'
SGA assistant secretary of public
relations.
"The week isn't to tell people not#
to drink, but to make people more
reasonable about drinking,"
Humphrey said. .,
The SGA is sponsoring the week
with Drake Student Health Center,
Housing Residence and Life, UPC,
Panhellenic and IFC.
Today is the last day of the
week, and the final events include
the following: a juice bar at Drake,
an alcoholism information booth on
the Haley Center concourse and
several prison inmates speaking at *
7 p.m. in 208 Foy Union. The
inmates will be speaking of their
battles with alcoholism. 9
The SGA decided at its weekly
meeting Monday to wear red
ribbons today to signify alcohol
awareness.
The last day of the blood drive is
today.
"The SGA wants to encourage *
everybody to give blood on this last
day of the drive," Humphrey said.
"The student body needs to •
remember how critical this drive
is."
The SGA further said there will .
be a self-defense class at Sasnctt
Hall Thursdays from 5:30-7 p.m.
In other SGA news: *
• Campaigning begins Sunday for
Miss Homecoming.
• The SGA thanked the 800 ^
volunteers for SGA committees
and the 400 volunteers for Eagle
Watch. *
• The Office for Students with
Disabilities has prepared a *
brochure detailing the rights
disabled students have in the
classroom.
• Nov. 21 will be Voter
Registration Day.
• At 10 p.m. Thursday, the Top 20-
30 candidates for Freshman Forum
will be announced at Cater Hall.
• The statewide Step Competition
will be Friday, at 7 p.m., in the
Student Activities Building.
• Saturday, the Student Activities
Building will be the site of the
Miss Alabama, Black and Gold
competition at 8 p.m. There is a #5
admission charge for each event
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Thursday, October 17,1991 The Auburn Plainsman News A-13
Book counsels families of inmates
Alumnus offers advice
for relatives coping
with prison sentences
Sandra Maddox
Staff Writer
Hot off the press and less than
three months old, Daniel J. Bayse's
new book is currently being dis­tributed.
The book's main purpose
is to change lives and give society
a positive attitude toward inmates
and family rehabilitation.
"It is designed to help the family
survive their own prison sentence
and to show them how to get over
their own embarrassment," Bayse
said.
Bayse said he wrote As Free as
an Eagle while he was working on
his master's degree in family
development at Auburn.
The book has three programs,
"How to keep your family alive
while serving a prison sentence,"
"How to re-enter family life in
society by completion of a prison
sentence" and "What are we going
to do with hi?."
Bayse said his research has
shown that the material in the book
is effective in increasing family
closeness, reducing disciplinary
problems in the prison and reduc­ing
the number of inmates that
return to prison.
For 10 years, Bayse was a mem­ber
of the Virginia State Police
force.
"I used to put people behind
bars, before I left the force and
went into the ministry," he said.
"Religion is very important to
prisoners. They need to be able to
experience God's forgiveness," he
said.
The book was written in the
same manner as the 12 Step Pro­grams
used by Alcoholics Anony­mous
and Narcotics Anonymous,
so that it could benefit all inmates.
Bayse said he volunteered to
begin the program because Alaba­ma
didn't have funds to support a
Oliver Lecmbruggcn/Suff
Bayse promotes his new book, As Free as an Eagle, which is the
first to study the relationships of inmates and their families.
rehabilitation program for inmates
and their families.
Research showed that the
strength of the family relationship
is the key to successful rehabilita­tion.
"It's amazing to see the turn
around that can come in families,"
he said.
Correctional institutions that are
using the book have foun<; ihat
inmates also responded beucr to
the other programs offered in the
institutions.
'The greatest effect comes when
all three programs are used," said
Paul Van White, chief psychologist
of the Bullock County Correctional
Facility.
Bayse said that regardless of the
length of the prison sentences, fam­ilies
usually stand by the inmates.
Though most inmates in Alaba­ma
prisons aren't legally married,
more than 50 percent have a com­mon
law relationship, in which
they have lived with a person for
more than six months.
The programs have been taught
to 1,000 inmates in Alabama pris­ons
over the last three years, with
about 300 family members partici­pating.
Bayse has worked with the Bul­lock
County Correctional Facility
in Union Springs and Draper Cor­rectional
Facility in Elmore Coun­ty.
One program was also taught at
the Lee County Jail last year.
Bayse said he often tries to spend
Thanksgiving with the irimates, but
he hasn't chosen a correctional
institution for this Thanksgiving.
'This is apparently the first com­prehensive
self-help book for
inmates and their families," he
said.
The book should be available in
the Auburn University Bookstore
in the next few weeks.
Bayse said inmates often ask him
for a copy of the book because they
don't have the money to purchase
one.
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Soviet scholars visit Auburn
Jay Evans
Staff Writer
The former Russian
Republic Minister of
Education addressed a group
of Auburn students and
professors Monday concerning
the state of higher education in
the U.S.S.R.
Ivan Obraztsov, now head of
the Institute of Applied
Mechanics of the Academy of
Sciences in the Soviet Union,
visits Auburn this week, along
with fellow academician Yuri
Yanovski. Yanovski is head of
the Rheology and
Biomechanics Department of
the Academy of Sciences.
In his lecture, translated by
Mikhail Pozin of the
University russian department,
Obraztsov stressed the
correlation between higher
learning and research.
He also called for less
emphasis on specialization and
a move to provide quality
education to those who want it
He said the current trend is to
force highly specialized
education onto large numbers
of students who may have no
interest in acquiring one.
Boris Yeltsin, leader of the
Russian Republic and friend of
Obraztsov, has put new laws
into action that aim to
'Those who know do. Those who don't teach,
and those who know nothing at all establish
methodology of education.'
-Ivan Obraztsov
democratize the education
process in the U.S.S.R. and
provide a better environment
for students and teachers alike.
The new laws provide higher
salaries for teachers, increase
the material base provided for
institutes, abolish Union
control and put the power to
control higher learning into the
hands of the republics, he said.
Obraztsov described the
condition of higher education
in the Soviet Union as a
bureaucratic nightmare.
After being forced to
become the Russian Minister
of Higher Education,
Obraztsov said he visited the
vice president of the Soviet
Ministry of Education who
told him, "Those who know,
do. Those who don't know,
teach, and those who know
nothing at all establish
methodology of education."
Obraztsov said one of the
problems with the education in
the Soviet Union is that there
are not enough qualified
teachers, and they don't know
how or what to teach.
In the past, there was a great
demand for massive numbers
of engineers and specialists for
the defense industry, but in
light of the thawing Cold War,
this is no longer needed, he
said.
"Unfortunately for us, the
present is a result of the past,"
tie said.
Obraztsov advocated a
return to fundamental teaching,
which was in place during
Czarist Russia.
Fundamental teaching gives
students the ability to think on
their own. He said he also feels
that practical knowledge
coupled with knowledge of
scientific methods is
important.
"Science develops intellect
and gives knowledge, which
allows a person to be creative.
Art, music and literature are
indispensible, for they give
intuition and instinct which
allow one to be creative," he
said.
How to Buy a Diamond
There are three approaches to buy­ing
a fine diamond, or an excep­tional
piece of diamond jewelry:
1. There is the old fashioned
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Diamonds come in all colors. .
.pale blue, dark blue, yellow, pink,
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and expensive.
The most prized diamonds to
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color. . .usually yellow. WHAT
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That's up to you. You may feel you
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it will cost more than a diamond
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.examples of each color to assist
you in understanding this impor­tant
point in selecting a diamond.
Once you have seen all grades you
will better understand color grad­ing.
. .and you will probably be
able to select the grade diamond
that you would prefer comparing
appearance and price.
WHAT SHAPE IS A DIAMOND?
Any shape. But there are six
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Cut, Pear and Heart Shape. The
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Brilliant
Marquise
Oval
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Emerald Cut
Pear Shape
Heart Shape
called a Round diamond.
How BIG IS A DIAMOND?
A diamond's size is measured by
its weight-in carats. There are 142
carats in an avoirdupois ounce.
Carats are divided into points -100
points to the carat. So a 52 -point
diamond is just over half a carat.
But:
a brilliant cut diamond of 1 carat
will appear to most people to be
bigger than an emerald cut dia­mond
of the same weight! Oval
and marquise cuts also tend to
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You might think that a 2-carat
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case. Because size itself is a rarity
factor. There are far, far fewer 2-
carat stones in existence than 1-
carat stones - and they cost a good
deal more than twice as much as 1 -
carat stones of similar quality in
other respects.
DID SOMEBODY SAY "FLAW­LESS?"
The clarity of a diamond
is important. Almost all diamonds
contain tiny inclusions - minute
imperfections included in them
when they were fonTicd by nature.
To call a diamond "flawless," a
diamond must have no imperfec­tions
when viewed by an expert
under 10-power magnification in
good light!
Instead, each has its own unique
personality - a tiny addition by
nature which makes one diamond
unlike any other in the world.
How WELL IS IT CUT?
Not all diamonds arc cut to the
perfection of those shown in the
pictures. Fine diamonds, however,
are. The cutting and faceting is for
the purpose of making the most of
the diamond's ability to reflect and
refract light - to dazzle the behold­er,
as fine diamonds have since
time immemorial.
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Not at all. What should a guar­antee
cover when one purchases a
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perfection, future trade in value,
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News A-14 The Auburn Plainsman Thursday, October 17,1991
Hubbert, Browder speak to Democratic Club in Auburn
Ashley Day
Assistant News Editor
Alabama Education Association
chief Paul Hubbert and U.S. Rep.
Glen Browder spoke about political
futures and governmental problems
Saturday at the Lee County Demo­cratic
Club Fall Banquet.
Hubbert stressed the necessity of
focusing on the Democratic party's
future instead of its past
"We (democrats) can't look back
'I didn't fly here tonight, and if you pass a
basket around for love offerings, I promise the
money would go to charity.'
- Paul Hubbert
and extol what we have done. We
must look toward the future," he
said.
Hubbert also discussed problems
facing Gov. Guy Hunt's adminis­tration,
such as questionable plane
use and proration.
"Right now we are worried about
keeping doors open, not just about
legislation," Hubbert said.
Browder, the keynote speaker,
spoke about recent congressional
problems including passing bud­gets.
'The argument is not about fiscal
responsibility, but how the money
will be spent
"George Bush called the trickle
down theory 'voodoo economies'
until he discovered he could be the
assistant witchdoctor," he said.
"I think the president has a prob­lem.
He has had tremendous
acclaim and success international­ly,
but he should learn how to get
back home more often," Browder
said. "We do have problems here."
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News A-15
Alabama banks rate
above national average
Jill C. Hornbeak
Staff Writer
Increasing competition between
the nation's banks and non-banking
financial service firms may be
weakening our banks, said James
R. Barth, Auburn's Lowder
Eminent Scholar in Finance.
These firms, owned by
companies such as General Motors,
Ford and AT&T, offer transaction,
credit card and saving services as
well as consumer, business and
real-estate loans. They are also
directly competing with our
nation's banks, Barth said.
In a recent analysis by Barth,
Alabama banks were rated above
the national average. One reason
for the rating is that Alabama banks
do not go into commercial real-estate,
foreign loans or loans
financing corporate takeovers, he
said.
However, many Alabama banks
are open to consolidation because
of low assets, Barth said. Only five
Alabama banks have more than $1
billion dollars in assets.
Barth said one problem with
being an Alabama taxpayer is that
they "are paying for problems of
depository institutions in other
states."
"Alabamians should be unhappy
with the S&L crisis and problems
in the banking industry," he said.
When asked how he felt about
the recent trend of stronger banks
taking over weaker ones David R.
Pruet, president of AmSouth Bank
in Opelika, said, "The way I feel
about competition is that it's a vital
part of the free enterprise system.
Competition makes us all strive to
do our job better."
Pruet said he sees it as an
advantage to the consumer,
customer and community if a bank
has been financially upset and
taken over by a stronger bank.
Gordon Barksdale, president of
the local branch of First Alabama
Bank, shared this view with Pruet.
"It helps the taxpayers because
the FDIC are looking for strong
banks to come in and take over
weaker banks," Barksdale said.
Barth said when it comes to the
competition between banks and
commercial firms, however, policy
makers need to consider if and to
what extent these firms should be
able to participate.
"Legislation is probably the only
way (to lessen the competition),"
he said.
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Auburn ROTC celebrates Navy birthday
216 years of tradition
recognized Tuesday
Sue Ann Clifford
Staff Writer
The Auburn Naval ROTC
gathered in Foy Union Ball­room
Tuesday for the 216th
Navy Birthday Celebration.
"The birthday celebration is
highlighted by the cutting of
the cake," Capt. Mike Glerum
said. Glerum serves as the
commanding officer of the
Auburn Naval ROTC and was
the speaker at the event.
"Just as a fine wine that has
gotten better with age, so has
the Navy," Glerum said.
The oldest and the youngest
members present were given
the first two pieces of cake.
James E. Foy, retired lieu­tenant
commander, received
the first piece of cake. Christy
Brannon, a freshman on the
Naval ROTC, received the sec­ond
piece.
Lt. Dave Snow said the
birthday is celebrated through­out
the Navy.
"No matter where you are,
the Navy does this," Snow
said. "Last year I was in Japan,
Rob Cheelc/Suff
Naval ROTC participants gather in Foy Union
Ballroom to celebrate the Navy's 216th
birthday Tuesday. The program honored 10
members and included cake cutting.
and we had this same thing.
This is one of the Navy's big
traditions."
During the ceremony, the
following 10 officers were
honored for Naval achieve­ment:
Sgt. Ronald S. Wilson, U.S.
Marine Corps; Richard K.
Burkhart; James R. Bryan;
Joseph T. Hansen; Jeffrey A.
Benson; William T. Cox Jr.;
Douglas J. Adams; James M.
Bilotta; Christopher A. Krieps;
and William D. Struble.
The Auburn Naval ROTC
program began in 1946 and
currently enrolls about 285 stu­dents.
"As far as enrollment, we're
in the Top 5 out of 65 units in
the United States," Snow said.
There are more than 80 stu­dents
on active duty. These
students are prior enlisted as
well as selected competitively
out of the program.
"It is the cream of the crop
out of enlisted community,"
Snow said.
"The program is extremely
successful and has been for
years," he said.
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with an Opelika native Oct. 12 to
form the first Salvation Army Ser­vice
Center in Lee County.
"We had 39 fraternity members
show up to help paint and do man­ual
labor," the Opelika native and
also manager of the center, Derek
Alley, said. "The IFC was very
instrumental in helping us."
The center is the first service
agency to be open Monday through
Friday from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. This is
the only service agency open that
much, Alley said.
"It is good for people who have
trouble getting into places at cer­tain
hours," he said.
The service center is a project
which Alley said he's always want­ed
to do.
"My goal is to make it where it
has enough volume to bring in a
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closet, clothing, medicine and
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we hope to be able to buy them bus
tickets to Montgomery."
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call.
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applications and man the desk," he
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could cost candidates votes
Kim Chandler
Assistant News Editor
SGA Elections Board approved
a proposal Monday that will
allow it to dock votes from
candidates for campaign
violations that occur after 5 p.m.
on the last day of official
campaigning until the polls close
the following afternoon.
"It's to prevent campaign
violations at the end of the week,"
Director of Elections Susannah
Jones said.
"This will help candidates
realize they must follow the rules
for the entire campaign process,"
Jones said.
'It's to prevent
c a m p a i g n
violations at the
end of the
week.'
- Susannah
Jones
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The measure passed 6-0, with
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said she supported the need to
dock votes but wanted to research
other possible ratios for detracting
them before settling on one.
"I wasn't against the vote, but I
just didn't understand the ratio,"
Jones said.
E-board will respond to
violations which occur before 5
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the campaigning time of those
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E-Board further reviewed and
approved campaign materials to
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including slogans, posters and
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Lee County support
group assists women
Kathryn Gresham
Staff Writer
Rape. It's the most unreported
crime in America, even though,
according to the FBI, one in four
women will be a victim of rape in
her lifetime.
In the spring of 1990, Rape
Counselors of Lee County started a
support group for victims of rape
and those who want to help some­one
they know who has been vio­lated.
The group is led by Sandra
Newkirk, chairman of Rape Coun­selors
of Lee County.
"We're here to help rape victims
regain control of their lives. I know
it isn't a cure-all, but I know it
helps," Newkirk said.
There is no cost to attend the
meetings, and the anonymity of the
group is protected. The sessions are
fairly unstructured in order to give
all participants the freedom to talk
about whatever they are feeling or
going through at the time.
Over the past few years, there
has been a heightened awareness of
crime on college campuses and a
greater concern for the safety of
students. The Auburn campus
seems to be a relatively safe place
in this regard, Bob Lowry of Uni­versity
Relations said.
Lowry said the figures from Uni­versity
Police show no reported
rape for at least the past two years.
This does not necessarily mean
that rape does not occur, for most
attacks go unreported, and those
that happen off-campus are not
reported to University Police.
Carl Wilcox of the Auburn City
Police Department said 29 rapes
have been reported to the city
police from 1990 to the present.
Twelve were reported by women
between the ages of 18 and 24.
"About 85 to 90 percent of the
support group members are college
students," Newkirk said.
'We're here to help rape victims regain control
of their lives. I know it isn't a cure-all, but I
know it helps.'
- Sandra Newkirk
There are many reasons why
rape goes unreported, Newkirk
said. Two of the most common are
that the victim knows her attacker
(as in the case of date rape) and is
afraid of more trouble, or she
blames herself for what has hap­pened
to her.
Whatever the reason, Newkirk
said she believes most rape victims
must tell someone and deal honest­ly
with what has happened in order
to lead healthy, productive lives.
Perhaps the best reason to get
help comes from one member of
the group who described her expe­rience
in the following report dis­tributed
by the group.
"I never thought it could happen
to me. That may be the old