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VOLUME 102, NUMBER 4, 36 pages
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Fraternities fight bad public image
Recent hazing
trend creates
headache for
University
By Dawn Kent
Assistant News Editor
In the wake of the negative publicity haz­ing
allegations have brought to Auburn in
the past few years, students and adminis­trators
involved in the University's frater­nity
system have learned the hard lesson
that a few sour grapes can spoil the whole
bunch.
"It only takes one bad incident to wipe
out a lot of good work that fraternities do,"
Interfraternity Council Adviser Jim Hardin
said.
"Unfortunately, there's an element that
thinks hazing is a part of fraternity life," he
said.
"The University has zero tolerance for
hazing," Hardin said. "And this applies to
all student groups."
Hardin referred to the Tiger Cub which
defines hazing as "any action taken or situ­ation
created intentionally, whether on or
off fraternity premises, to produce mental
or physical discomfort, embarrassment,
harassment or ridicule."
The Plainsman has reported several alle­gations
of this nature against fraternities in
recent years.
•October, 1992- a former Sigma Pi
pledge filed third degree assault charges
against five members of Sigma Pi fraterni­ty,
claiming he was beaten unconscious and
had dog feces wiped on him during frater­nity
initiation. An Opelika judge later dis­missed
the case against the brothers
because of lack of evidence, and the
University placed Sigma Pi on two quarters
of social probation.
•January, 1994- Phi Delta Theta fraterni­ty
was suspended after the death of a
pledge in an alcohol-related incident dur­ing
a Christmas party. Phi Delta Theta's
charter was revoked by its national organi­zation.
•February, 1995- Kappa Sigma fraternity
was suspended when the television news
show Dateline NBC showed University offi­cials
a videotape obtained secretly at a fra­ternity
Christmas party which showed
alleged hazing incidents. Scenes on the
tape included people pouring beer over a
naked man's head, five fraternity members
ing the fate of the Nu chapter of Kappa
Alpha fraternity. Until the investigation is
complete, however, administrators won't
comment on the nature of the hazing alle-
"At this point, investigators are still try-ing
to interview people *-ho were
involved," Capt. - Melvin Owen of the
University' Police Department said.
BRIAN FITZSIMMONS/Photo Staff
The hearing concerning Kappa Alpha Order's alleged hazing incident will be Oct. 26.
being encouraged to drihk and two mem­bers
who were told to wrestle in a hallway.
After receiving heavy sanctions, Kappa
Sigma's suspension was lifted last spring.
•October, 1995-Kappa Alpha fraternity
was suspended after University officials
and AUPD showed up at a pledge meeting
and witnessed "a lot of screaming and
yelling-type activity." Officials refuse to
comment further on the nature of the haz­ing
allegations until the investigation is
complete.
University Relations Director Pete
Pepinsky said these type of situations
cause a number of problems in his line of
work.
"Last spring, we dodged a major bullet
with Dateline," Pepinsky said. "Auburn
University, through the unwise decisions of
a few students, was almost held up to
national scrutiny.
"The rest of the country looks at what a
small handful of people have done unwise­ly,
and from that, they generalize that that's
the kind of place Auburn is," Pepinsky
said.
Pepinsky said his office questioned the
way the tape was obtained, hinting at
unethical journalism. Dateline has never
aired the tape.
Director of Student Life Grant Davis said
hazing allegations make his job difficult
See Hazing / A-3
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A hearing set for Oct 26 will bring
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"They are not to participate in any
University activity," he said.
Sheppard said the fraternity will go
before the University's Committee on
Fraternities and Sororities in a hearing
scheduled for next week. He expli
the committee is made up of IFC and
Panheiierdc officers and other members
>vho ;ire appointed each year.
"KA will present their ca<e to the cotr
Tom Moxley, province commander for
Auburn's KA' chapter, said, "My under­standing
is that the committee will only
make a recommendation (on the fraternity's
future) and the decision is up to Dr.
Bvirkhalter and then Dr. Muse."
Mcwley was referring to Auburn's Vice
Burkhalter and President William V. Muse.
"Only then will the determination of
penalties be in place," Moxley added.
Director of Student Life Grant Davis said
the University's investigation is ongoing.
"KA is alleged to have been involved in
some serious hazing incidents that we are
going to fully investigate," he said.
' Moxley said he is conducting his own
investigation for k'A's national office and
they are cooperating fully with the
University and will support whatever deci­sion
is made. -
"We are free to exert our own sanctions
over and above what the University decides
to do," Moxley said. : '^SBm.
Uniform core curriculum under examination
By Suzanne Zunic
State/Local Editor
CORE CURRICULUM: New
core could mean easier time for two-year
college transfer students.
Alabama students who are planning to
transfer to another school before completing
their post-secondary education will find it
easier to transfer college credits to schools
within the state in the future.
For the past 15 months, a state-wide com­mittee
has been meeting to develop a com­parable
curriculum for transfer students in
order to make changing schools less painful
as far as losing credits is concerned.
The committee includes a member and
alternate member from Auburn. Assistant
Provost Carol Daron said she is an alternate
member and Provost Paul Parks is a mem­ber.
Daron said the committee has two duties.
She said one is to develop "a general studies
curriculum to be taken at all two-year and
four-year institutions in the state," and the
other is to "develop a plan by which there
will be orderly transfer of courses from
institution to institution with a specific ref­erence
to the first two years."
Daron said, "So far the general studies
curriculum is very much like our core cur­riculum.
It has humanities courses, mathe­matics
and natural sciences and behavioral
and history courses."
Alabama has about 30 two-year higher
education institutions and between 14 and
16 four-year universities depending on
whether branch campuses are counted as
separate schools.
"In effect, our core curriculum as it stands
can be accommodated under this general
studies curriculum," she said.
Daron stressed that the only students who
will be affected by the change are transfer
students.
"And in fact, such students may have to
have been at one institution for quite a long
time before they are fully participating in
the core curriculum of the state university
that they transfer to," she said.
Daron said it's an attempt to bring the
state educational standards into some con­formity.
What some students want to see happen
in the future is for an associate of art or sci­ence
degree from another institution to
See Core / A-3
Forty-two students ticketed for sidewalk bicycling
By Carmen Sacerio
Staff Writer
Some people in Auburn may
think it is amusing to see police
officers riding bicycles, but last
week that did not amuse some 42
students.
These officers decided to bear
down and let everyone under­stand
that riding bicycles on the
sidewalks downtown is strictly
prohibited according to city
Ordinance No. 988. Many think
this rule has recently been passed,
but actually it has been in effect
since September 1979.
Last week there were more tick­ets
cited than in the past, but
according to Capt. Wilbur Brown,
"This has all been for good reason.
We are concerned for the safety of
all people, and we just ask bicy­clists
not to ride on the sidewalk
and use caution on the street."
There have also been some com­plaints
from merchants and citi­zens.
Another big concern has
been for the well being of the
elderly and children. A few pedes­trians
have been hit and injured by
them.
Many students like Chris
Robinson, 04AR, and Alan Jeffress,
03BSC, were dismayed when they
witnessed officers last Tuesday
waiting to prey on fellow bicy­clists.
Robinson said, "(The students)
make up the majority of the popu­lation
in Auburn. If they're going
to enforce it, they need to do some­thing
about the parking problem.
They should not frown upon this
and should encourage us to ride
bikes."
Jeffress agreed and added, "It is
unsafe for bicyclists to ride on the
street. Downtown is the busiest
part of town and bicyclists get hit
by cars more often anyway."
Even though students may not
agree with this particular ordi­nance,
it will continue to be
enforced by the city of Auburn.
Brown insisted that these bicycle
citations "are like any other tick­et,"
and those who are found
breaking the rules will be fined
and can either pay the fee or come
to court.
One officer is regularly on foot
patrol and warns bicyclists to stay
off the sidewalks, so bicyclists
beware. The main area of concern
to Auburn City Police is the down­town
area which consists of
Tichenor Avenue South to Thach
Avenue and West Magnolia
Avenue to Wright Street.
Brown urges students to obey
the rules just as if they were
motorists, and he replied that, "We
want to work with everyone."
MATT MCLEAN/Photo Staff
Bicycling on the sidewalk can result in a ticket costing $57.50.
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Hurricane Roxanne sinks barge, killing three people and leaving 23 missing
One American and two other people were killed when a pipe-laying barge sank in rough seas that had
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Hulond Humphries, former Randolph County High School principal, will take the stand today in the
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Hazing Continued from A-1
also.
"The situation it creates is that it
becomes very time consuming
with the investigation, follow-up
and hearing," he said.
Davis said the education pro­grams
that are conducted to pre­vent
hazing take up a lot of time
too.
"We do get contacts from both
parents of students and parents of
potential students regarding haz­ing,"
Davis said.
During Camp War Eagle this
summer, Davis said the IFC and
Student Affairs were aggressive in
informing students about the
University's hazing policies.
"That's what we're here for,"
Davis said. "We want to eradicate
hazing."
IFC President Lee Sheppard
said the IFC educates pledge train­ers
and presidents on the detri­mental
effects of hazing.
"We don't go out looking for it,"
Sheppard said. "But when we
have someone call reporting it, we
fully investigate."
Sheppard said hazing brings
down the entire fraternity system.
"Parents are reluctant to send
students through rush, and stu­dents
are reluctant to go through
rush," he said.
Hardin said the motivations
behind hazing are beyond him.
"I don't know why people want
to do it or tolerate it," he said. "It's
ridiculous.
"We all have organizations with
groups of people who think there
needs to be a right of passage one
should go through to become a
member," Hardin said.
"There can be a beneficial right
of passage like learning things
about the organization, but people
corrupt that and turn it into non-constructive
behavior that
involves humiliation and injury,"
he said.
Sheppard said he thinks tradi­tion
plays a big role in a person's
desire to haze.
"Hazing is something that's
been passed down for a long time,
but that doesn't make it right,"
Sheppard said.
"Older fraternity members or
alumni may tell stories about what
they did in the good old days, and
people think it would be fun to do
that again," he said.
Sheppard said another motiva­tion
might be that people think it
will bring brothers closer together.
"I don't personally think that,
but people who do come up with
dumb things to do to each other,"
he said.
Hardin said hazing is not a part
of the ritual of Greek letter organi­zations.
"It might be a type of tradition,
but it's not one of the founding
principles of the organization," he
said.
"It's not something one should
expect when they join a Greek
organization," Hardin said.
Hardin said part of the
University's hazing policy
includes having all sorority and
fraternity members sign pledges
that they won't participate in haz­ing.
The investigation of hazing alle­gations
is not easy, Hardin said.
"These charges are hard to
prove. Peer pressure makes it dif­ficult
for people to come forward,"
he said.
However, Hardin said that once
a charge is made the University is
thorough with its investigation
and works closely with the Greek
national organizations, all of
which have anti-hazing policies.
"If one of our fraternities has
been charged with hazing, we
notify the national organization
immediately," Hardin said.
"They usually conduct their
own investigation," he said.
Hardin said University officials
look at each offense and consider
the degree of hazing in each indi­vidual
case when deciding the
future of the organization.
"Hazing is not a part of Greek
life, and anybody who joins a fra­ternity
and finds themselves being
hazed should quit and report it,"
Hardin said.
He said, "If we find any frater­nity
hazing, we will take the
appropriate measures."
Core Continued from A-1
transfer and count fully. This
would enable the student to trans­fer
into the new school with junior
class standing while avoiding a
course by course evaluation, she
said.
The committee will review
courses offered by universities in
Alabama and determine which
ones are equivalent. After the
committee finishes its evaluations,
faculty committees will be formed
to determine which courses will
be transferred. . -
"I think in general the attempt
' was to make it possible for junior
colleges' material to readily trans­fer
without making it necessary
for any two-year institution to
offer, say, 59 different history
courses that would transfer to the
16 four-year colleges here," Daron
said.
She said she thinks the commit­tee
is currently under general
agreement to provide some sort of
academic advisement for every
student.
Complete credit transfer for
every student will still not be
probable, she said, if a student
changes his or her major after they
have already begun college..
! Daron said there Will be no
guarantee " t h ^ %&&&& 'which
applied to one major will be
applied to another."
There could be some disadvan­tages
to the change, Daron said, in
that some students may think they
have "vast freedom" when choos­ing
their classes. "There is not a
guarantee unless the major is sus­tained
from the beginning of the
freshman year," she said.
"There may be an advantage
over the current situation, which
lacks any degree of conformity as
far as I can tell," she said.
The committee currently plans
to be ready for the recommenda­tions.
.hy^Jhe^nd, of 1995. Daron
said the committee hopes to com-plete
and begin using the general
core by 1999.
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SHON NEWTON/ Photo Editor
Legal Services Corporation of Alabama employees in Opelika
from left to right are:Vivian Smith, Phyllis Wadkins, Johnnie
Finley, Mitzi Sears-Steuer and George Taylor; not pictured are
Donna Henderson, Scott Patrick and Frank Smith.
Federal cutbacks cramp legal aid
By Graham Hadley
Assistant News Editor
The Legal Services Corporation of
Alabama, which provides free legal
help for low-income citizens across
the state, faces massive financial cut­backs
or possible elimination if cer­tain
measures under debate in
Congress pass.
Two different budgets have been
submitted for approval, one by the
House and another by the Senate.
Melinda Waters, LSCA executive
director, said/The Senate reautho­rization
bill that is being processed
right now provides for cuts of about
one third of our funding."
"In the event that the Senate and
House pass the reauthorization bill
as House committee took it to the
floor, then we will be eliminated,"
Waters said.
The LSCA, which was established
in 1978, receives its funding through
the Legal Services Corporation in
Washington, D.C.
"Last year we were budgeted $5.6
million for service in 60 counties.
What we are anticipating this year
for our program, if it is not entirely
eliminated, is $3.1 million," she said.
As a result of predicted congres­sional
cutbacks, some Alabama resi­dents
will no longer have all of the
services previously provided by the
LSCA.
"We have had to close some of our
satellite offices and cut back in non-personnel
areas. We have had a fair
number of our staff, who have left,
and we cannot replace them," Waters
said.
If the LSCA cannot cover its loss­es,
then additional services and per­sonnel
will be budgeted out.
"If we cannot get the $1.5 million
taken care of in non personnel we
will lose people. This, of course, will
limit our ability to provide service,"
Waters said.
Congress has also imposed
restrictions on the type of cases the
LSCA can handle.
The LSCA will no longer accept
cases dealing with Social Security,
Social Security Supplementary
Income, consumer protection and
family housing. These cases will be
passed on to public attorneys who
will handle them for free.
"Both Social Security and SSI take
lots of time in court and lots of prepa­ration.
Attorneys usually will not
handle these cases pro bono because
of the time involved. We are looking
at a real loss of service," Waters said.
However, the LSCA is still han­dling
emergency cases.
"We are still dealing with cases
involving eviction, foreclosure, gar­nishment
of wages and abuse,"
Waters said.
One of the main problems facing
citizens who depend on the LSCA is
the time lag that will occur in service
if funding is entirely cut.
Because no plan of action exists at
the state level for providing free legal
care, people would be without ser­vice
for some time.
"There would be many months in
which there would be no free service
for the poor. The state does not put
any funding into free legal services
for the poor. There is no system in
place," Waters said.
Gov. Fob James has been out of
the country and was unavailable for
comment.
Sandra Nesbitt, assistant press
secretary to the governor's office,
said, "I have not heard anything
about this. I cannot comment at this
time. The governor may not be aware
of this. He certainly has not been
brought up to speed on it currently
because he has been out of the coun­try
for the past couple of weeks."
Gunman shoots Loachapoka woman, commits suicide
By Chris Parker
Assistant News Editor
An apparent suicide claimed
the life of Thomas Fitzpatrick, 20,
late Friday night, ending a two-county
car chase.
His death occurred after he
broke into the home of
Loachapoka resident Gussie
Dowdell and shot the elderly
woman.
Capt. Jay Jones of the Lee
County Sheriff's department
said they received a call about
10:30 p.m. reporting a shooting
at the Lee Road 188 home of
Dowdell.
When deputies arrived on the
scene they found Dowdell had
suffered a single gunshot wound
to the neck, Jones said.
"She told the deputies that a
person known to her as Thomas
Fitzpatrick had shot her," he
said.
At the time she was shot, Jones
said Dowdell had returned home
from a Loachapoka High School
football game.
He said when she and her
daughters, Victoria, 17; and Jody
18, entered the house, Fitzpatrick
emerged from a closet and shot
the elderly woman.
Victoria then fled out the back
door of the house. Fitzpatrick
fired shots at her but she was not
hit, Jones said.
It was at this point that,
according to Sheriff David
Warren of the Macon County
Sheriff's Department, Fitzpatrick
forced Jody into her mother's car.
Warren said Fitzpatrick fired
shots at the deputies, but they
did not return fire because of the
presence of Jody in the vehicle.
Jones said the vehicle, driven
by Jody then left the residence in
the direction of Macon County.
Jones said somewhere in the
vicinity of the Lee County and
Macon County line, the car was
met by police units. The vehicle
would not stop, so the units pur­sued.
Jones said the chase continued
until control of the vehicle was
lost at the intersection of
Alabama Highways 199 and 81
where the two meet to make a
"T" intersection at Moton Field.
Warren said it was then that
Fitzpatrick sustained the wound
ending his life.
After the car wrecked, the pas­senger
door fell open with
Fitzpatrick falling out, Jones
said.
Officers approached and found
he had a single gunshot wound
to the head, he said. He was pro­nounced
dead at the scene.
Macon County Coroner Hal
Bentley said the wound
appeared to be self -inflicted and
that a small caliber pistol, per­haps
a .22, was used.
Jody and her sister Victoria
sustained no injuries from the
incident, Jones said.
However, Gussie Dowdell suf­fered
a gunshot wound to the
neck which impacted in the
spine, Jones said.
She is in the neurological
intensive care unit at UAB
Hospital, in stable condition as of
Monday afternoon.
Jones added that Dowdell had
prior problems with Fitzpatrick,
including one arrest and convic­tion
on harassment charges.
The direct cause of the wreck
and apparent suicide is now
under investigation by the
Alabama Bureau of
Investigation, who were not
available for comment at this
time.
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Events teach cancer awareness
By Nora Holzman
Assistant News Editor
Breast cancer may not be some­thing
that strikes fear in the hearts of
college women, but the American
Cancer Society and the East Alabama
Medical Center are extending efforts
to educate the public about this dis­ease.
Since 1985, October has been
designated National Breast Cancer
Awareness Month by the American
Cancer Society.
"We recognize such a month to
focus on educating women about
early detection and to generate
awareness," Becky Brown, director
of public relations at EAMC said.
Frieda Posey, director of the
American Cancer Society for
Montgomery and the surrounding
area, considers breast cancer particu­larly
devastating because breasts are
identified as part of a woman's sexu­ality.
"It's different than removing an
ovary. Women have to deal with
(breast cancer) socially, so unfortu­nately
many women don't get them­selves
checked out because they fear
losing a breast," she said.
Nancy Patterson, a registered
nurse in the cancer unit of EAMC,
said the incidence of breast cancer in
Lee County is relatively high.
"We see about two to three women
a week, mainly women age 40 to 50,"
she said.
"Older women are more conscious
of the disease than younger women.
Younger women think if s not going
to happen to them, but it can hit at
any age," Patterson said.
More and more young women are
being diagnosed with breast cancer,
Posey said.
"You need to
know your risk
factors," she said.
"If your mother,
or your aunt or
your sister had it,
you are at an
increased risk for
breast cancer."
Posey said the
exact causes of
breast cancer are
unknown, so it's
impossible to pre­vent,
but early
detection leads to
a higher cure rate.
"If there were
three things I'd
like young
women to do, it
would be to ade­quately
assess
their risk of get­ting
breast cancer,
to maintain a
healthy lifestyle, eating a low-fat,
high-fiber diet and exercising regu­larly,
and to examine their breasts
monthly so that they can detect
changes," Posey said.
Patterson also recommends that
women do monthly self-exams,
know their family history and keep
their yearly appointment with their
gynecologist.
"A lot of lumps are caught early,
and that gives the best results for a
cure," said Patterson
Posey said, "All women, begin­ning
at age 17 or 18, should examine
their breasts each month."
"It's a simple procedure you can
do to keep healthy, and its much eas-
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The American Cancer Society
sponsors a program called Buddy
Check, advertised on WSFA TV
Channel 12, to remind women to do
their monthly exam.
The local Cancer Society chapter is
also making available two films on
how to do the exam and has con­vinced
many area hospitals to lower
the cost of a mammogram for the
month of October.
EAMC has been mailing informa­tional
packets to area beauty salons
to educate women about breast can­cer
and is sponsoring public service
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Citizens have power to arrest
By Meredith Bonner
Staff Writer
You are under arrest. You
have the right to remain silent.
Anything you say can and will
be used against you in a court of
law.
It wouldn't be uncommon to
hear these words said during an
arrest by a person of the law. But
to hear the average citizen say
these words would seem
strange, even though it is not
unheard of. This is called a citi­zen's
arrest.
"(A citizen's arrest) is when a
person who is not a sworn legal
official makes an arrest," said
Capt. Jay Jones of the Lee
County Sheriff's Department.
While this may sound easy
and even fun, there are certain
situations in which a person can
do this, and certain things that
need to be done.
According to the 1975 amend­ed
Alabama State Code, title 15-
10-7, a citizen can make an
arrest any day and at any time.
The crime may or may not have
been committed in his or her
presence.
The code also states that the
citizen must tell the accused
person his or her intent and
must take the accused directly
to a judge, magistrate or other
person of the law.
University Police Chief Bill
Nevin said the types of arrests
citizens usually make are for
traffic violations.
"If the citizen can certainly
identify the person that made
the offense, he or she will come
to us and tell us what happened.
We will listen, and if the accused
person is identified, we'll take a
warrant.
"We will take the person who
made the offense to city court
and to an officer/'Nevin said.
Jones said he has dealt with a
citizen's arrest once.
"It was a robbery in the Smith
Station community. An elderly
man was robbed at his resi­dence.
One of the suspects was
apprehended by neighbors who
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of a truck,'' he said,
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dried, situations do vary. It may
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"If citizens make arrests they
could open themselves up to lia­bility
suits. The average person
may not have the knowledge to
deal with this," Nevin said.
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Repair crews
move trees,
restore power
By Jonathan W. Lartigue
Staff Writer
In the wake of the greatest hurri­cane
to strike Alabama in several
decades, Auburn's cleanup efforts
are drawing to a close.
The powerful winds of Hurricane
Opal caused an estimated $5 million
in damages, according to Doug
Watson, Auburn city manager.
Having knocked down more than
7,500 trees and damaged 477 houses,
Opal was "obviously the biggest
storm to hit Alabama in the last few
decades," Watson said.
"(Opal) posed bigger challenges
than anything we've had before,"
Watson said. "We're very proud of
(the city crews') hard work and the
extra effort our employees made.
This was a total city effort... all of
our departments pitched in."
Opal caused minimal damage to
Auburn's water and sewer lines. The
major problems were because of
trees blocking streets and non-func­tional
traffic signals.
To help expedite the cleanup
process, Auburn engaged several
contractors to remove trees from city
streets, Watson said. For the final
phase of the cleanup, local contrac­tors
will make bids for the cleanup
of individual city sectors.
According to Watson, cleanup
should be completed in the next few
weeks. "We've moved a lot of stuff.
We're now in the second phase.
These contracts will allow us to get
(remaining debris) up in a timely
manner. No later than Dec. 1 all evi­dence
of the storm will be gone."
Auburn city planners have emer­gency
plans to deal with disasters
such as Opal. "Opal tested our plans
and our people," Watson said. "Both
came through with flying colors."
Watson explained that Auburn's
emergency response plans are con­stantly
being re-evaluated. "(The
cleanup) will give us a chance to
review what we've done and make
Matt McLean/Photo Staff
Many trees remain at the inert Landfill in Auburn following cleanup. Residents may drop storm debris here.
adjustments," he said.
Of primary concern to Auburn
residents after the storm was the
restoration of electrical power. The
estimated cost of Opal's damage to
Alabama Power's systems is "astro­nomical,"
Keith C. Karst, manager of
Alabama Power's Auburn office,
said.
Opal's high winds and falling
trees caused 475,000 power outages
throughout Alabama. "(Opal)
caused more destruction to our sys­tem
than any other storm in history,"
Karst said. "Every light in Auburn
was out at one time."
Restoration efforts necessitated
the bringing in of nearly 2,000 out-of-
state workers from as far away as
Texas and Ohio. The repair of more
than 150 structures and 270 spans of
wire required more than 300 extra
workers in the Auburn area.
The Auburn office of Alabama
Power employs only 11 crewmen
and five linemen. "If we had not
been able to bring in outside
resources," Karst said, "It would
have been months before power was
restored (to everyone)."
Less than a week after Opal deci­mated
the city, Alabama Power had
restored power to nearly all of its
customers in the Auburn area. "The
employees in this area did a phe­nomenal
job responding to the situa­tion,"
Karst said. "Ninety-nine point
nine percent of our customers are
satisfied."
Lee County has been declared a
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A BellSouth crew replaces a telephone pole after the hurricane.
federal disaster area, Watson said.
This will enable Auburn to receive
federal and state funds to help pay
for cleanup efforts.
According to Watson, 75 percent
of the necessary funds will be feder­ally
provided. Alabama will cover 10
percent of the costs and Auburn will
be responsible for the remaining 15
percent.
Despite the enormous amount of
damage caused by Opal, Watson
doesn't expect the cost of the
cleanup to be passed on to the tax­payers.
"I don't think it will be an
undue burden. If we have to make
adjustments in the budget, we can,"
he said.
Now that Lee County has been
declared a disaster area, Auburn
isn't the only entity that will benefit
from federal aid. Residents now
have to opportunity the file claims
with the Federal Emergency
Management Agency to receive fed­eral
funds to help pay for uninsured
losses. FEMA can be contacted, toll
free, at 1-800-462-9029.
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State senator proposes caning as crime deterrent
By Elizabeth Elliott
Staff Writer
Picture this, a drug dealer is selling
to children in the schoolyard. He is
arrested, but the jails are overcrowd­ed
and he is let go.
Now imagine that same drug deal­er
in the schoolyard doing the same
thing. This time he is caught,
stripped to the waist and taken to the
public square. School children wit­ness
as he receives three licks with a
cane.
This is the scenario Republican
Sen. Charles Davidson used to
describe a situation in which caning
could possibly be implemented. If his
bill meets .with the approval of the
legislature once it is drafted and
brought before them it could happen.
Davidson, a Jasper resident,
explained his goal is "to get the
nation back to a point where people
are not afraid to travel and can leave
their doors open without the fear of a
drive-by shooting.
"The idea is not really to institute
caning," he said. "But the idea is to
get the attention of the state and
nation to come up with an idea to
stop crime."
Citing the unsafe nature of inner
city parks and housing projects, and
the crime and drugs on the street,
Davidson said, "I feel if we were to
put before the people the caning idea,
they would agree."
However, associate professor of
sociology Thomas Petee, who teach­es
several criminology courses,
called Davidson's proposal "a ridicu­lous
assertion."
He noted that caning became pop­ular
a few years ago with the
Singapore incident involving an
American youth. Michael Faye
received two lashes for a vandalism
offense.
Petee said the United States is "so
compositionally different from
Singapore's homogenous society,
that kind of corporal punishment
would not be effective."
Petee said there would probably be
a split opinion among Alabama resi­dents
because it is "a kind of idea
that doesn't have merit, but others
might buy into it."
In response to these types of criti­cisms,
Davidson points out that,
"What we have been doing has not
worked. We need to try something
else."
Davidson said that caning, a lash­ing
with a cane built for such pur­poses,
could be used "in lieu of
prison on a first offense." But the per­son
could have their choice of prison
or caning. He said, "If we have to
import a Chinaman to do the caning,
so be it, or hire a martial arts expert,
so be it."
Ron Jones, Alabama prison com­missioner,
said the idea is "targeted
more for juveniles." He said he does
not feel that it would "enhance any­thing
on the adult side." He also said
it may have some affect on the "rise
in violence among young juveniles."
James Dupree, Jr., director of Youth
Services, said, "This type of legisla­tive
initiative is a direct reflection of
public frustration. It is something to
be debated about."
As to whether caning would be
effective, Dupree said he was unable
to comment because he was not com­pletely
familiar with the proposed
legislation.
Penelope Hanke, associate profes­sor
of sociology who also teaches a
criminology course, asks, "Did it stop
crime in colonial times?"
Hanke said it may pass, "but will it
be effective? I don't think so."
Davidson said, "The idea is to stop
crime. We have to get the nation's
attention. We are not going to put up
with it."
SEN. CHARLES
DAVIDSON
Governor visits foreign countries, encourages future growth
GOV. FOB JAMES
By Lucas Bialecki
Staff Writer
Gov. Fob James' weekly radio
call-in show, usually broadcast
from WJHC in Montgomery on
Mondays at 4 p.m. had a little
change of scenery last week. The
governor broadcast his show live
from Tokyo, Japan.
Why was the governor of
Alabama in the Far East?
According to Robert Sutton,
manager of economic research
and communication for the
Alabama Development Office,
the governor and his team were
there to "create manufacturing
jobs for the people of Alabama."
James attended the Southeast
U.S.-Japan Conference that's held
every two years in Japan. At the
conference U.S. officials met with
seven Japanese states and talked
to some major "influential
Japanese business people."
The governor's team focused
on companies such as Sony, Gold
Star and Nippon Petrol
Chemicals Company Ltd. In
order to "lay groundwork for
future operations," the gover­nor's
main goal was to "thank
these companies for their contri­butions
in the past and to encour­age
future growth," Sutton said.
In order to keep the people of
Alabama informed about his trip
to Japan, James proceeded with
his weekly call-in radio show. He
talked about his goals for the trip,
but most callers were just
impressed they were talking to
the governor across the sea.
The governor was joined on the
show by Senator Tommy Roberts
and Ira Siberman, ADO director.
They also answered questions
from callers. Unfortunately most
of the information from the con­ference
is kept confidential by
request of the companies for
competitive reasons. The gover­nor
still seemed enthusiastic
about the results. When asked
about some of the future
prospects Sutton said, "Don't
expect any major announcements
as of yet. These things take time."
The governor left for Japan
Saturday, Sept. 30 and returned
on Thursday, Oct. 5. James also
stopped in Korea for one day to
seek new industry there as well.
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Opinion
QIll e^iuburn Plamsnrair
"An Auburn Tradition Since 1893"
J. Elizabeth Smith
Editor
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Managing Editor
Ashley Wright
Business Manager
Jerrod Windham
Production Director
Laura Robertson
Copy Editor
Chris Wilkerson
Campus Editor
Suzanne Zunic
State/Local Editor
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Scene Editor
Alex White
Sports Editor
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Photo Editor
First Assistants- Dawn Kent, Chris Parker News; Dennis Dube Sports; Marcus
Yoars Scene; Cady Duncan, Kelly Dyer, Elizabeth Dangar Copy; Scott Butler Photo
Friends and family?
Kappa Alpha Order's alleged hazing brings
back memories of past fraternity suspensions
Fraternities, while not for everyone, are
for some a way to meet new people.
To belong to a 'group' — to have a sort
of brotherhood.
However, in light of last week's hazing
charges brought against the brothers of
Kappa Alpha Order, maybe the extent of this
brotherhood should be rethought.
KA is not the first to be brought up on
such charges, and with the track record of
other fraternities on campus they certainly
won't be the last.
The question The Plainsman has is why?
Why do these groups continue to do some­thing
clearly illegal, as well as morally ques­tionable?
It seems there have been enough reported
cases of hazing here on the Plains for frater­nities
to realize that eventually they will be
caught, and when they are they must face the
consequences.
Consequences which sometimes include
being suspended from campus and losing
their national charter.
Maybe the reason the hazing continues is
because the punishment for the act is not
harsh enough. Perhaps the University
should go back to the old saying, "Let the
punishment fit the crime" when deciding
what will happen to the offenders.
Maybe 'brothers' accused of hazing should
suffer the punishment of Hester Pryne. Not
necessarily wear a scarlet A on their chests,
but rather fall prey to the very things they
have done to their own 'brothers.'
Quite possibly then they would realize if
they play with fire, eventually they're going
to get burned.
A refuge from storms
Benefit for Safehouse sheds light on battered
women problem, prompts Plainsman reaction
In the United States, a woman is assault­ed
every 15 seconds, a number The
Plainsman staff feels is astonishing.
Last week, Behind the Glass and the
Unitarian Universalist Fellowship sponsored
a benefit for Safehouse, an organization dedi­cated
to providing a refuge for battered
women and children and for this we applaud
them.
But, The Plainsman can't ignore the reason
this organization needs funding in the first
place.
There are Auburn women out there, in the
same classes with all of us, who face daily
battles many of us would never understand.
They face being beaten by a boyfriend or a
spouse because they are too scared to leave,
or don't think telling someone will do any
good.
Women in abusive relationships: don't lis­ten
to the message that the O.J. Simpson trial
has sent. Take control of your life.
There are people who will listen, and there
are people who can help.
If you are in an abusive relationship, then
get out. Even if you feel like you have
nowhere to go, organizations like Safehouse
can help.
Life is too precious to waste it on someone
who obviously isn't loving and caring toward
you.
Safehouse's telephone number is 887-9330
and collect calls are taken 24 hours a day.
Columnist calls for consciousness
Outside the occasional thought
of stealing their parking spaces, I
must confess, in the past, I have
seldom given thought to the plight
of the handicapped.
However, fate changed all that
last week when, after a flag foot­ball
game, I found myself the
proud owner of a brand new knee
injury and matching crutches.
Once temporarily transferred
into the world of the physically
challenged, I was able to see things
from a different point of view.
Most things usually taken for
granted became huge nuisances.
Moving around my apartment,
driving and getting to classes
became all but impossible.
One day while sitting helplessly
watching Rikki Lake as the remote
control sat miles away on the other
side of the room, it occurred to me
that, though my knee would be
good as new within a few weeks,
there are those for whom my
inconveniences are a way of life.
Not to imply that those with
physical handicaps are helpless
and weak. To the contrary, I have
found that the strongest desire to
experience what life has to offer
can reside in a body that has limit­ed
potential.
However, if we as human beings
were able to experience the plight
of others, it stands to reason that
human relations on this planet
would improve by leaps and
ALEX
WHITE
bounds.
For example, a good friend of
mine wrote a letter to the editor
about an unpleasant experience
she had recently.
For those who missed the letter,
apparently a young man and his
friend decided to yell "nigger" at
her as she was minding her own
business. (Must have been a slow
night for this young man.)
Personally I question the moral
fiber of anyone who would insult
a woman in this manner, but the
problem was not in the insult
itself, but the jokingly casual man­ner
in which it was delivered.
It would be interesting to see
how such a person would feel if
someone were to verbally assault
his mother or sister in such a man­ner.
While the same insult probably
wouldn't apply, the hurt would,
and he should be embarrassed to
have treated another of God's cre­ations
with such disrespect.
Whether it's between black and
white, liberal and conservative,
male and female or even Tiger and
Gator, we need to learn to respect
those around us and not pre-judge
others because of the labels they
carry with them.
This column is not an attack, but
rather an appeal to all Auburn stu­dents.
Imagine for a minute if it were
you who had to forgo an educa­tion
and work to support a family
instead of a poor person in rural
America.
Or perhaps you could be the stu­dent
who can't even enjoy a sim­ple
football game because of the
racial insults (and whiskey bottles)
being tossed at the players below
you.
We should always think about
how it is in the other guy's shoes.
How can anyone expect someone
to earn their respect when they
can't find it within themselves to
get to know that person before
judging them?
It has been said that Auburn stu­dents
represent some of the best
this country has to offer. We
should all work a little harder to
make that statement a truthful one.
Alex White is Sports Editor for The
Auburn Plainsman.
Caning won't deter criminals
Alabama Senator Charles
Davidson said he is drafting a bill
proposing the public caning of
criminals.
I laughed when I heard this. At
the time it seemed ridiculous. I
thought it was a joke.
But then I heard seemingly sane
people say it would be a good
idea, that it might really work. I
heard my friends suggest it would
deter criminals and reduce prison
overcrowding.
Yet Davidson said he doesn't
actually want people to get caned
and that he's only trying to draw
attention to crime.
So, if I understand Davidson
correctly, this is his attempt at
irony. He's just trying to make a
point.
But, we have a potentially dan­gerous
situation here. This King
Solomon approach is backfiring.
I'm afraid some of Davidson's con­stituents
might misconstrue his
efforts. Even state prison officials
seem to be taking this legislation
seriously.
After we've put criminals on
chain gangs, caning might seem to
be another step in the same direc­tion.
I can see the headlines in
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New Jersey now. "Alabama wants
to cane her criminals."
It's irresponsible of an official in
Davidson's position to write such
legislation when it might be taken
at face value.
What happens when we do take
this at face value? We have a state
senator writing caning legislation.
We have a state senator who said,
"If we have to import a Chinaman
to do the caning, so be it, or hire a
martial arts expert, so be it."
So, if the State Legislature did
decide to cane Alabama criminals,
would we draw and quarter them
next? And if this didn't work
would we have public hangings
and burn people at the stake?
Not only is the concept of pub­licly
beating criminals barbaric,
but it wouldn't be an effective
deterrent anyway.
Actually, it might deter minor
crimes. The fear of caning may
keep a teen-ager or a wayward
housewife from shoplifting. It
might influence college students to
be more careful not to write bad
checks. Or it might keep people
from not paying parking tickets.
But then again it might not. If
;lgiven;& choice between being,. isizzi
spanked in front of a crowd in the
Coliseum for not paying parking
tickets and walking a mile to class
everyday, I might just choose the
spanking.
While I followed the Michael
Faye story enough to realize can­ing
is far more serious than the
aforementioned scenario and can
cause serious pain, leaving behind
permanent scars, I still don't think
it would be an effective deterrent.
Were I a thief I'd much rather
get a few lashes then go home to
watch TV and drink beer while I
recovered, instead of spending
time behind bars.
Laura Robertson is Copy Editor for
The Auburn Plainsman.
Smoking is unalienable right
CONFLICTING OPINION
Imagine yourself on a lovely,
lovely cloud. You are alone, and
must be concerned with only
your wants, your needs.
If only life were like this, an
isolated island of separateness,
we could all conduct ourselves
however we wanted and not be
the least concerned with others.
But because life is not like this
beautiful, flawless imagery, we
must be aware of others and their
rights.
America guarantees certain
freedoms to all of her people. The
politicians on Capitol Hill may
not always create laws the way
we would have them, but they
become rules we must follow
nonetheless.
Smoking a cigarette is well
within the rights of any individ­ual
in the United States. If I so
choose, I can chain smoke for
days in my home. I can exercise
the rights given me by the gov­ernment,
just as another could
exercise his by electing not to
smoke.
We all encounter people every­day
who do things we would
rather not do ourselves. We meet
folks who just don't seem to do
things the way we like to do
them ourselves or react the way
we would like them to.
I think the important factor is
how we treat these people we
SUZANNE
ZUNIC
have differences with. We treat
them with tolerance, because
what is correct for us is not neces­sarily
correct for them. Difference
is what makes America what it is
today — independent.
How can anyone tell me that I
am beyond my bounds when I
choose to have a cigarette? Do
they think I am oblivious to all of
the disparaging health reports?
I am not. I am well aware of
the harmful effects smoking caus­es
in my body. My point is that it
is my body. It is a great imposi­tion
for anyone to assume that
they can make this decision for
me.
Don't people have better things
to worry about like crime and
welfare? I have always thought it
best to deal with large problems
first and small problems (if that's
what you want to call it) last.
When America has difficulty
with unemployment and the
national deficit, I think it best to
tackle those monsters first.
Smoking is a trickling stream
compared to those raging rapids.
Concentrate on the issues which
really make a dent.
Remember that my choice, to
strike the flint and joyously listen
as the crackle of my cigarette
begins, is precisely that — a
choice. It may not be the choice
you would have me make, but I
have chosen to make it though I
am well aware of your opinion.
It is my right to be an individ­ual.
I shiver thinking about the
group mentality. It's amazing
how disapproving people can
become of complete strangers
when they find another like-minded
individual. I do not think
it is okay to judge an action sim­ply
because two people think that
it is.
Do you not have any habits
which annoy others? Any repeti­tive
behavior which might cause
a casual observer to turn his head
in scorn? If you do not, good for
you; if you do, remember what it
feels like and act in such a way
that no one else must feel the way
you do.
Suzanne Zunic is State/Local
Editor for The Auburn Plainsman.
But it's a filthy habit
Every so often, we would battle the
whirling winds and relentless rain to
smoke cigarettes and mock the
mighty storm.
— Ashley Wright,10-12-95
So I'm sitting in class last week
when a friend comes up to me
and says, "Ashley, I didn't know
you smoked."
"I don't," I replied. "Where did
you get that."
"From your column in The
Plainsman," she said. Sure
enough, there it was.
After explaining to her that it
wasn't me doing the smoking, but
my friends, I began to wonder if
many others got the same impres­sion.
I began to develop a com­plex
over the issue (which is not
hard for me to do).
Let me set the record straight. I
don't smoke; it's a filthy habit.
Don't get me wrong, a lot of
my friends smoke. They are not
inherently bad people (maybe a
little misguided, but that's for
another column). And in most
cases, cigarette smoke doesn't
really bother me. However, there
are those circumstances when my
tolerance is pushed to the limit.
Like when I'm eating. I realize
ASHLEY
WRIGHT
there are those among us who
feel it necessary to light up after
dinner (or before, or during).
That's fine, but I'd appreciate
keeping the smoking section far
enough away from me so as not
to disturb my meal. Call me silly,
but I don't like the taste of nico­tine
with my salad.
Another thing is common cour­tesy.
I don't think a simple, "Do
you mind?" before lighting up is
too much to ask. I wouldn't
dump my garbage in your yard
without asking, so why should
you pollute my personal space
without the same courtesy?
And in those situations where
smoking is both accepted and
expected, all I ask is for a consci­entious
attempt to keep the
smoke out of my face.
You see, I don't ask for much.
There are inevitably people out
there who disagree with me.
"What about smokers' rights?"
they may ask.
What about them? Here are a
few examples of smokers' rights
as I see it:
Smokers have the right to free
speech and religion. Smokers
have the right to a fair trial and
the right to vote. But nowhere in
the Constitution or its amend­ments
is it written that smokers
have the right to smoke.
In fact, I could argue that smok­ing
infringes on my rights (after
all, one person's rights end where
another's begin). What about my
right to life, liberty and the pur­suit
of happiness without the
threat of lung cancer caused by
second-hand smoke? (Ok, so
that's not exactly how it's written,
but it's implied).
Asking someone to step outside
to smoke is not infringing on any­one's
"rights." It's just ensuring
that everyone's rights are protect­ed.
Those that smoke can smoke.
Those that don't shouldn't have
to deal with it.
Ashley Wright is Business Manager
for The Auburn Plainsman.
Thursday, October 19,1995 QlhegubumBlamsnraiT A-9
Litters to the Editor
Disclaimers small price to pay for freedom of speech
Editor, The Plainsman:
I've been reading with interest
the Plainsman articles about pro­posed
University Internet access
policy. As the Internet grows in
popularity, it's inevitable that it
gets the attention of lawyers,
politicians and administrators.
Given that, new policies are prac­tically
guaranteed.
While some of the proposed
policies may sound scary, that
isn't necessarily the case. For
example, many people consider
their e-mail to be private, when
the reality is that e-mail is more
like a postcard than a letter;
almost anyone along the path it
gets delivered could read it.
Further, in the course of normal
system administration activities,
things that some users consider
private may become known. This
is unavoidable. Naturally, any
such information should be con­sidered
confidential and any
University employee who misus­es
such information or gets
caught snooping where they
don't belong should be dismissed.
However, if users have an expec­tation
of privacy when they really
shouldn't, the University and its
employees may be subjecting
themselves to invasion of privacy
lawsuits.
Properly used, strong encryp­tion
can aid in keeping users' pri­vate
information private.
However, U.S. federal regulations
effectively prohibit the export of
strong encryption. This weakens
U.S. software companies' compet­itiveness
in international markets
and is a direct cause of many of
the security weaknesses of the
Internet. Even worse, the current
administration seems intent on
banning strong encryption within
the United States.. .unless you
give the government the ability to
read the encrypted messages.
This attempted outlawing of pri­vate
electronic conversations is
truly scary.
Privacy isn't the only issue,
Glomerata lacks respect
Editor, The Plainsman:
The purpose of this letter is to
verbalize the lack of communica­tion
skills of some University
employees. Recently I went to Foy
Union to have my Glomerata pic­ture
taken.
I arrived at Foy Union at 4 p.m.,
which was the time of my sched­uled
appointment. I ran upstairs
to the room next to the UPC office
where the Glom pictures have
been taken for years, only to dis­cover
that the location has been
changed. I ran back downstairs,
asked for Glom info from the
desk, and with tiger-like speed
arrived at Foy room 204 at 4:02
p.m. where the pictures were
being taken.
This is significant because upon
arrival I was greeted by two very
rude representatives of the
Glomerata. They will remain
nameless, because Karen Hall,
assistant director of Foy
Union/media, their boss, felt that
this letter might jeopardize their
future employment.
Anyway, I said "Hello, I'm
George, and I have the 4 o'clock
appointment."Note that at this
point there was no one else in the
line in front or behind me.
They both replied to my greet­ing
with, "You are late, and you
will have to reschedule!"
I said, "Late?, It's now three
after four." One lady replied,
"Well, I have five minutes after.
You are late and will have to
reschedule!" They both persisted
in their most rude tone with this
absurdity, until finally I got mad.
We argued for another two min­utes
until I just went straight to
one of the two photographers
who were just standing there. In
an effort to resolve the situation,
one of the photographers reluc­tantly
agreed to take my picture.
However, one of the reception­ists
continued to harass me by
however. On June 14 of this year,
Senator Exon's Communications
Decency Act was voted on and
passed in the Senate. Eighty-four
duly elected Senators voted to
make it a crime to say anything
over a computer network that
was unfit for a minor to hear.
Senators Dole and Grassley didn't
think this went far enough and
proposed that, in addition to the
authors, the operators of comput­er
networks should be held crimi­nally
responsible for such speech.
Fortunately, cooler heads pre­vailed
in the House, but the mat­ter
must still be reconciled in
committee. If something like this
becomes law, content-based cen­sorship
will become a reality.
While disclaimers may seem like
a silly eyesore, if the University's
lawyers feel they help place
responsibility on the author,
where it belongs, I believe they're
a small price to pay for free
speech.
The ideal solution is one where
the University and its employees
are protected from liability while
at the same time, users enjoy (at a
minimum) the same on-line rights
as they do in real life.
Not having seen the actual pro­posed
policy, I can't say whether
or not it meets this goal, but I
believe that such a goal is attai
able. A new Internet user's group
is forming that will address these
and other on-line civil liberties
issues (among other things). For
more information, please send me
e-mail at
"fstuart@vetmed.auburn.edu."
Finally, I'd like to point out
that, although I work for the
University as a systems adminis­trator
and am involved in the cre­ation
of the new Internet user's
group, in this letter, I am speak­ing
for myself.
Frank Stuart
insinuating that I didn't even
have an appointment. I suppose
that every student before me pre­sented
that green slip of paper the
Glom staff gives out to remind
you of your appointment time.
Nevertheless, my picture was
taken. My advice to other stu­dents
is to arrive early. Also, stu­dents
should be prepared to
defend their rights as humans to
be treated with respect and digni­ty,
for we are not all on Glom
time. I spoke with Hall in an effort
to discuss and resolve this griev­ance.
She listened, apologized and
assured me she would speak to
these people about their rudeness.
I felt the need to speak out and
warn students that in an effort to
reduce waiting in lines, two Glom
staff members have become rude
and insensitive to people.
George O. Sneed Jr.
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OIST. BY ONION FUTURES
Educational finance control must remain in Alabama
Editor, The Plainsman
How much did the Folsom
Administration accept in November 1994
, from the latest U.S. Department of
Education project? Alabama's unspent
check for $1.4 million amounts to about
$1.80 for each of the state's 750,000 public
school children. The proposed second
year appropriation is $6.6 million, or
about $8.80 per child. Those estimates
! include the cost of additional bureaucra­cies.
The state's cost to comply with the
federal mandates is yet unknown.
In the long haul, will Alabama's partici­pation
in this latest Washington boondog­gle
truly benefit the state? The Alabama
Legislature does not seem to think so. On
July 27, 1995, state lawmakers over­whelmingly
adopted a resolution asking
Alabama's Congressional delegation to
"repeal Goals 2000 in order to reverse the
power it gives to the federal government."
The Legislature's resolution also points
out that this federalization which Goals
2000 describes 101 times as "voluntary" is,
in effect, INVOLUNTARY because it
requires states receiving federal funds,
including Chapter 1 funds, to submit to
"national content standards, national stu­dent
performance standards, federally
approved state assessments to cover all
students regardless of where they are edu­cated,
and government oversight of fami­lies."
This resolution was the legislature's log­ical
next step. They had just passed a far
reaching, progressive education reform
package and needed to tell Washington
they don't want some Washington
bureaucrats changing their plan. States
rejecting Goals 2000 money include
Virginia, Montana and New Hampshire.
Are there strings attached to Goals 2000
money? The actual Goals 2000: Educate
America Act includes 195 uses of "shall,"
63 of "will," 33 of "require" and 13 of
"must." On pages 174-177 of the Act, it
states that only six states can receive
waivers, that the U.S. Secretary of
Education must approve their plan, that
the plan will be approved if it meets the
purposes of the Act and that the waivers
are for the purpose of lifting requirements
that impede implementation of an
approved plan. Those sound like strings
tome.
The Alabama Department of Education
Goals 2000 application "pledges its sup­port
of systemic education reform," enters
a contract to "establish partnership with
the U.S. Department of Education" and
promises to "comply with all Federal
laws, executive orders and regulations."
This agreement extends far beyond typi­cal
federal law compliance by including
executive orders and regulations, present
and future. The state department also
agreed to comply with "all program
requirements of Goals 2000."
The Goals 2000: Educate America Act
serves as the center point for a package of
interrelated bills enacted by the 103rd
Congress, in accord with Clinton's educa­tion
reform effort.
After the Goals 2000 Act laid out the
guts of federal intrusion, the Elementary
and Secondary Education Act (ESEA of
1964), renamed the Improving America's
Schools Act, was reauthorized, and it
strengthened Goals 2000 and eliminated
the idea that it was voluntary. Included in
the package was another piece of legisla­tion,
the School-to-Work Opportunities
Act, which uses the U.S Department of
Labor to restructure education.
After recently sitting in a meeting with
Under Secretary of Education Michael
Cohen where he discussed Goals 2000, I
became more convinced than ever mat
Gov. Fob James made the right decision in
returning the $1.4 million to the federal
coffers.
Goals 2000 is simply a continuation of
the federal government's power grab for
education, including an aggressive effort
at top-down control cloaked in the guise
of bottom-up reform.
He who controls the purse strings really
controls everything. We must keep mat
control in Alabama where it belongs.
Stephanie Bell
State School Board Member
Beard applauded for
backing night classes
Editor, The Plainsman:
I would like to thank Dean
Gary Beard for his efforts on
behalf of the Auburn non-tradi-
* tional students. I am one of those
non-traditional students he is
backing. I think it would be a
\ tremendous help to those of us
who are continuing our educa­tion
and /or starting over once
again if we had night classes to
attend.
It is extremely difficult for any­one
to raise a family and work
• and attend classes here at
Auburn. Most of my college edu­cation
has been taken during
night classes at other institutions,
and it is almost impossible for
myself to afford the luxury of a
bachelor's degree of which I
t
need in order to care for my two
children.
Night classes would be a bless­ing
to all of us who have good
jobs during the day time but
would love to improve or change
our careers by improving our
education. I truly believe that
there are a lot more potential stu­dents
out there than Auburn real­izes
or perhaps cares to acknowl­edge.
Once again, I applaud Dean
Beard in his efforts, and I hope
that in the future Auburn will
care enough about the communi­ty
to help those of us who make
it a community.
Patricia T. Arnold
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It's time to
help unite
humanity
Editor, The Plainsman:
Louis Farrakan is right on! It
was a beautiful thing to see an
intelligent man, not pointing fin­gers,
but ready to help the
world. I am Christian, politically
apathetic and lily white.
However, I saw a people who
desire to come together under
God for the betterment of our
world.
The point is to get yourself
straight before you can move on
and get straight with others, all
others. We all, white and black,
have to humble ourselves and let
our Lord help us, and He will
because He loves us. The time
has come to let those who want
to help do so, no matter what
color we may be.
Jason Higginbotham
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A-10 CEtiegubumBlainsinan Thursday, October 19,1995
City Council approves pub license for XS Lounge
By Tanya Holt
Scene Editor
The third time proved to be
charming for MYX Enterprises Inc.
at the Auburn City Council meeting
held Tuesday night.
After two failed attempts at
acquiring an alcoholic beverage
license, MYX, the company that
owns the new Auburn Eatery and XS
Lounge, was awarded the right to
sell beer and table wine by the
Council. Restaurant and club owner
Graham Hadley said the wait on the
license, while tedious, was worth it.
"It was worth every minute of the
wait. It was a difficult time, but I'm
happy that things have worked out
the way they did," he said.
The club is housed in the building
that was home to the now defunct
Ultrabox. The proprietors of the
Ultrabox lost their liquor license
because of bookkeeping discrepan­cies,
Hadley said.
However, Hadley said he feels this
will not be a problem for XS because
of the type of license his club
received.
"(The beer and table wine license)
is a much easier system to deal with
as far as records, the type of crowd it
draws and financial considerations
when purchasing alcohol," Hadley
said.
The Council previously denied the
license for various reasons, but
Hadley said he feels the city's con­cerns
were not without merit.
"The Council had many valid con­cerns
given the prior history of the
building, but I think we answered all
of them adequately, and I hope if
they have any more questions that
they feel free to contact me," he said.
Hadley said the club will open in a
week to a week and a half, but the
restaurant in the building is already
open, and the grand opening will be
held on Halloween.
In other business the Council:
•Announced board vacancies on
the Building Board of Adjustments,
four year term; Tree Commission,
three year term; Special Car Facilities
Financing Authority, six year term
and the Parks and Recreation
Advisory Board, four year term.
•Approved an ordinance for a
general obligation $2 million warrant
to be used for street resurfacing and
construction. Unanimous consent
was necessary.
•Denied Tom Hayley's request to
rezone property located on the
southeast corner of Dean Road and
Annalue Drive from Development
District Housing to Comprehensive
Development District. Unanimous
consent was required.
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The Plainsman presents our first special section of the year, Religion.
While Christianity is certainly the largest faith in the region, many
students and staff members from around the world bring their respec­tive
faiths to the Plains to practice and live. More than a third of the
applications to Auburn's graduate school come from India alone.
The Plainsman regrets not being able to feature all of the area's
practicing religions, but we have attempted to highlight a vari­ety
of faiths.
We hope you read with interest about some religions
you might not have completely understood or may
never have been introduced to.
This graphic illustrates the acreage devot­ed
to religious buildings downtown and
in it's outlying areas.
Thursday, October 19,1995
Inside:
B ~ 2 Religion holds key to under­standing
today's world
— by Greg Walker
'Warehouse' of religious ideas simplified
through talk, study
—by Lee Vartanian
B ~ 3 'Nature religion' teaches love,
trust
— by J. Elizabeth Smith
B " 4 Gideons give gift of life
— by Chris Wilkerson
Soul roots grow in wilderness
—by Marcus Yoars
D"5 A lighthouse in Auburn
—by Carmen Sacerio
Columnist strengthens faith while
studying other religions
—by Stephanie Morris
Synagogue provides support
—by Jason White
B"6 On the concourse
Local Muslims find support, fellowship,
even in small numbers
—by Jennifer Williams
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B-2 OlhegluburnBlainsinan Thursday, October 19,1995
Religion holds key to understanding today's world
By Greg Walker
Managing Editor
Many students may not think of
graduating from Auburn with a
religion degree. Others might not
know there is a religion depart­ment
on campus.
But Richard Penaskovic, reli­gion
department director, said his
department is doing better than
ever.
"We have more students this
year than we've ever had,"
Penaskovic said.
The religion department is now
under the supervision of the histo­ry
department because of admin­istrative
costs and lack of person­nel,
but the change hasn't had any
negative effect on the department,
he said.
"Really nothing has changed,
even though we have moved,"
Penaskovic said. The religion
department was housed in Haley
Center, but now is part of the his­tory
department in Thach Hall.
He said there are 15 students
majoring in
religion, 35 ^ ^ H M H I
students pur­suing
a minor
in the field and
more than 100
s t u d e n t s
enrolled in reli­gion
classes
this quarter.
Penaskovic
said a religion
degree from
Auburn is _ _ _ _ _
v a l u a b l e
because a lot of the issues affect­ing
people today relate to religion.
"It is important to understand
religion. Look at the war in
Northern Ireland between the
Protestants and Catholics. Look at
Bosnia and the Middle East. Even
at home religion plays a part in
the abortion issue," Penaskovic
said.
"A knowledge of religion helps
— — M m u m I M m m you understand
J\. knowledge
of religion helps you
understand your world.
RICHARD PENASKOVIC
Director of Religion
your world.'
Penaskovic
added that
being a
Christian or
belonging to
any other
denomination
is not a require­ment
to take
religion classes
• « , • • • • • • • • « at Auburn.
"You can
jump into the classes cold. We
don't concentrate on denomina­tions,"
he said.
Charles Britt, professor in reli­gion
and pastor emeritus at
Auburn First United Methodist
Church, said he believes the reli­gion
department plays a dual role
on campus.
"I think it meets a legitimate
need for the number of people on
campus who are in the thinking
stages of choosing religion as a
career," Britt said.
"Along with those majoring in
religion, the department provides
classes for those who are taking it
out of interest," he said.
Religion classes at Auburn vary
from a study of the Old Testament
to Judaism and even Eastern reli­gions.
For a religion degree, a student
must take Introduction to
Religion, World Religions and 37
additional hours in the field.
Twenty-five of the hours must be
at the 300 level or above.
Penaskovic said students usual­ly
do not begin in a religion major,
but after taking one or two cours­es,
they will decide to change their
major.
" Most people will take a reli­gion
class as an elective, then
decide to major in the subject,"
Penaskovic said.
"The religion department at
Auburn provides a good spring­board
for people who are consid­ering
religion as a professional
career," Britt said.
'Warehouse' of religious ideas simplified through talk, study
Before I set foot on this campus
two years ago, I had no idea what
I would be doing, what I would
be thinking, or even who I would
be. I had no answers, just ques­tions.
I envisioned that my classes
and studies would help focus my
thoughts. Instead, my classes and
the fact that I was "on my own"
multiplied my thoughts tremen­dously.
I was stuck with a chaotic ware­house
of thoughts and nowhere to
put them. So they remained in my
head and multiplied every day.
These thoughts remained unre­solved
until a friend from high
school, Willie McCants, came back
from a year of working for his
religion in Israel.
Before he left for Israel we each
talked about our future. He told
LEE
VARTANIAN
me that he wanted to concentrate
on his religion and to work with
his faith. I didn't know much
about his religion other than it
was different, and it had a weird
name, Baha'i.
I told him I wanted to use my
four years of college to get my
"wild streak" out and eventually
settle down. I figured then I
might want to go to seminary.
I had always liked the church
and the people in it. The church
was a big part of me and has had
a tremendous affect on my life.
I hadn't seen or talked with him
in more than a year, and when he
came back to town we hung out
at our common "shrine," Huddle
House.
Both of us had changed a lot
since our last meeting. I had lost
my faith in a lot of things and did
not consider myself a Christian. I
did, however, still believe in
Christ. Willie, I noticed, was a
much more focused person.
We started discussing his reli­gion,
and the more I heard about
it the more I agreed with what he
believed.
He told me about the history of
his faith, that a Persian nobleman
named Baha'u'llah (Arabic for
"the Glory of God") was the
Founder of the Baha'i Faith and
that Baha'is believe that he was
the latest in a line of messengers
from God that includes Abraham,
Krishna, Moses, Buddha,
Zoroaster, Christ and
Mohammad.
This was quite foreign to me.
Although I had sung about Father
Abraham (and his many sons) as
a child, read about Moses in
Sunday school, and, of course,
heard about Jesus all of my life, it
was the other names that I wasn't
sure about.
Willie simplified it for me. He
told me these Holy Souls were the
founders of the major religions of
the world, and all of these reli­gions
are from God.
Baha'u'llah, he said, came to
unite the world. He told me some
of the principles Baha'u'llah
emphasized, such as: the oneness
of humanity, the equality of
women and men, the elimination
of prejudice, the harmony of sci­ence
and religion and indepen­dent
investigation of the truth (a
person interested in the faith must
research it and decide for himself
whether it is true or not).
I told him that I believed in
these principles but that some of
them were not new. "True," he
reminded me, "they are not new
at the present time, but in 1863,
when Baha'u'llah revealed his
mission, they were not recog­nized."
On April 15 of this year, nine
months after my "coffee talk"
with Willie, I became a Baha'i.
This decision came after nine
months of my own "independent
investigation," which included
reading the writings of
Baha'u'llah, throwing them into
my warehouse of thoughts and
testing their validity over and
over.
In the end, I have found that
my warehouse has become much
more organized. I have, in turn,
become a more focused individ­ual
and am spiritually growing
everyday and have more faith in
the future of humankind.
I sincerely hope each of you
have your own warehouses and
have a way of organizing and
integrating your thoughts into a
positive and dynamic belief sys­tem
that will continue to flourish
and sustain you in the years to
come.
Lee Vartanian is a guest columnist
for the Auburn Plainsman.
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Thursday, October 19,1995 (Eheffiuburn Plainsman JL2.
'Nature religion' teaches love, trust
Wiccan faith focuses on earth as
environment for praise, worship
By J. Elizabeth Smith
Editor
Most people think of church as
a building with pews and a pulpit
where they go to get their weekly
dosage of spiritual enlighten­ment,
but those who ascribe to the
Wiccan faith view their church as
being all around them, all the
time.
"It's basically a pagan, that is
non-Christian, nature religion,"
Stormcrow, an Auburn student
who will be known only by his
Wiccan name, said.
"The central premise is divini­ty
is both imminent, which is
inside creation, and transcen­dent,
which is outside cre­ation,"
he said.
The religion is a culmination
of several different pre-
Christian religions from Celtic
England and other parts of
Western Europe. Modern day
Wicca was formed by
Englishman Gerald Gardner just
after the repeal of the English
laws against witchcraft.
"We have the God and the
Goddess. There are two halves of
one force, but we talk about them
in terms of two beings because it's
easier for us, as human beings, to
picture them that way,"
Stormcrow said.
Although opinions about the
specific functions of the religion
in individuals' lives differ from
one Wiccan to the next, there are
three main principles most
Wiccans go by, Michelle Carver,
01ANT, said.
"Our main tenet is, 'An' it harm
none, do as you will.' Most of us
believe in karma and the three­fold
law, which states that if you
do something, be it good or bad,
then you get good or bad back
three times over."
Carver added that although it is
impossible in daily living to not
harm anything, the religion's cen­tral
tenet raises awareness of the
outside world.
"It's basically learning to be
conscious of what you're doing
and the effects it has on
people around
you. It's
kind of
t h
When some members, like
Stormcrow, join covens, they take
on a Wiccan names to separate
themselves from the normal,
everyday world they came from
before joining the coven.
Wiccans celebrate 8 major holi­days,
called Sabbats, with
Samhain, which occurs on
October 31, being one of the most
important. Some Wiccan covens
also celebrate esbats, which mark
the full, new and crescent moons.
"It's a time
when we
b e l i e ve
t h
ten
com­m
a n d
ments all
wrapped up into
one," she said
The third tenet is the belief of
'perfect love and perfect trust'
among members of the same
coven, the name for a group of
Wiccans who study and worship
together, she said.
"Being in a coven is, in the spir­itual
sense, an intimate thing
because you are telling everyone
in the rest of the group that you
trust them implicitly, that you
would trust them with your life,"
Gerry Davidson, 02ANT, said.
v e i l
between
worlds is
thinnest and our
ancestors are closest to us.
"So it's a time to look back and
remember those who have been
close to us, remember the good
times, and it's also a time to look
forward to the new year," Carver
said.
The predominant symbol for
Wicca is the upright pentagram.
On the pentagram, each of the
points represents one of the five
elements: earth, air, fire, water
and spirit, with spirit being the
uppermost point presiding over
the rest of the material elements.
"The pentacle can also repre­sent
the body: the head, hands
and feet," Davidson said.
Rituals play a large role in most
Wiccans' lives.
To perform an organized ritual,
most Wiccans begin by "casting a
circle," Stormcrow said.
To do this, one would put can­dles
at each of the quarter points
of the circle which are color coor­dinated
to represent each of the
four material elements and the
direction in which the candle is
pointing.
One would then light each of
the candles, saying an invocation
to each of the "elemental watch-towers,"
or spirits or beings that
represent the elements, he said.
Then, the group would invoke
the God and Goddess, by ask­ing
them to be present at the
ritual and to bless the worship
of them.
After the invocation to
the God and Goddess, one
would begin to raise energy
for the specific reason that rit­ual
is addressing, Stormcrow
said.
Once energy, or the cone
of power, is sufficiently raised,
the group would let the energy go
from them to be sent off for the
intended purpose of the ritual.
Finally, the group would share
wine and cakes and open the cir­cle,
he said.
Most Wiccans believe that there
is not one religion that is innately
right, but all religions are going
down the path to the same place.
Twylite, Stormcrow's fiancee
who will be married to him in a
Wiccan ceremony soon after
Samhain, gives an explanation.
"The Hindus, the Buddhists,
the Southern Baptists, the
Catholics, the Wiccans — it's just
a different path to the same place.
Instead of going down Glenn
Avenue, they're going down
Thach. But they're still going to
get to Haley Center," she said.
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Gideons give gift of life
By Chris Wilkerson
Campus Editor
"Sister, how Tjout a copy of God's
holy word?"
Jim Bias, a Gideon from Coffee
County Alabama came to Auburn
this fall for his second year to hand
jut free copies of the New Testament
o students.
"No thank you," the woman said,
her pace unaltered. "I already have
me."
The Gideons take to the Plains
very fall to "win souls for Jesus
Ihrist," Bias said.
"Keep readin' it ma'am, God bless
pou."
"A lot of people think that's the
purpose of the Gideon organization
— to pass out Bibles," Bias said. "But
ve're really here to win souls for
Ihrist."
George Holcutt, Coffee County's
ocal camp president, said the
jideons are an international organi­sation
incorporating "almost any
jvangelistic Christian organization."
Holcutt is a retired engineer and
las been a Gideon for 21 years.
The objective for the day was to
listribute 8,000 Bibles. Tom Cooper,
ssociate professor of building sci-nce,
has been helping with distribu-ion
for 11 years. No one was sure
IOW long the Gideons had been dis-ibuting,
but Cooper said the tradi-
DAVE HASBROUCK/ Photo Editor
Gideons make their annual visit to the Plains, here on the concourse.
tion has held since at least 1970.
"We have one goal and it is not
passing out scripture — it is bringing
men and women and boys and girls
to Jesus," Cooper said.
As frustrating as it would seem to
have students thumb their nose at a
free New Testament, the Gideons
seem unfazed. "Whether someone
takes one or not — that's their situa­tion,"
he said. "We just put them in
the traffic lanes of life and make the
scriptures available."
Wayne Cobb of Meridian, Miss.,
said the beauty of simply passing out
scripture is, "You don't have to
defend it or anything, just hand it
out. We don't fuss or argue," he said.
The Gideons not only supply scrip­ture
for many major colleges and uni­versities,
but also place Bibles in hotel
rooms, make them available in pris­ons,
hospitals, nursing homes and
public schools, Holcutt said.
Cooper said many Bibles placed in
the hotels are stolen and, "That's fine,
too."
Cobb likes to tell a tale of how the
scriptures they pass out can have
profound effect despite the attitude
of the recipient. He said if a prisoner
takes a Bible simply to use the paper
to roll cigarettes, that prisoner may
pull the page containing John 3:16,
which says, "For God so loved the
world that he gave his only begotten-son,
that whoever believes in him
shall not perish but shall have eternal
life," and read it.
"There you have it, he's found
Christ," Cobb said.
Many of the Gideons who distrib­ute
in Auburn have traveled around
the world, from Venezuela to Russia.
They noted that Russians were
amazingly receptive to the idea of a
free Bible, or any free book for that
matter.
Cobb said the Bibles they pass out
are, "often the only book they have."
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I have been bombarded lately
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wilderness that consumes the spiri­tual
and emotional person is every­where.
Some of the greatest pieces of art
have come from grueling times of
serious depression and soul-wrench­ing
confusion. Picasso's Guernica is
a classic expression of raw dissen­sion
within an individual over a
social context.
Many of the most powerful songs
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pain and anguish. The great James
Taylor's "Fire and Rain," although
often misinterpreted, was written in
solitary grief over the loss of a
friend.
It seems creativity thrives on the
dry spells of the soul.
But it isn't just creativity that is
revitalized by the wilderness. The
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unexplainable holy water.
I came out of the wilderness not
too long ago. And for anyone that
can relate, life changes drastically.
My enduring spell lasted over two
years, which is meager compared to
some of the most famous spiritual
desert-survivors. And although
words can obviously not capture the
pain, confusion, frustration and tur­moil
of those times, they can create
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outstretched hand of your father
while you dangle over the edge of a
cliff, only to see in slow motion your
hand slide right out of his grip as
you plummet downward.
Imagine being draped over a
splintered wooden board floating in
deep sea water, unable to even lift
your head and capture the last
moments of seeing a barren island.
Imagine doing absolutely nothing
wrong your entire life, having
unconditional love for every single
person you meet, only to find those
same people condemn you to death
out of pure hatred for you.
Imagine dying on a cross.
I cannot touch the raw emotion
that was felt by Jesus during his life­time.
But during my two years of
despair, I had glimpses of what he
must have thought.
He was human, just like us. And
so I imagine he struggled with the
same disgust at the hypocrisy of peo­ple
claiming to be representations of
God. I imagine he cried over the lost
and completely misguided zeal of
his disciples, who rarely seemed to
understand him. I imagine he won­dered
again and again why people
played God and judged each other
without loving first.
And to conquer all of this, he died
for us. For no reason but his perfect
grace and love for the undeserved,
he died. It's the reality of Jesus —
his life and his death — that I hung
onto in the wilderness.
I think the ingenious expression of
David Wilcox painted a perfect pic­ture
in his song "All the Roots Grow
Deeper When If s Dry." Somehow, in
the strangest of ways, the wilderness
strengthens. Of course it would be
stupid to expect someone crawling
through a spiritual desert to be com­pletely
happy about their anguish.
But that isn't really the point. The
wonder of it all is how alive you
become through the suffering.
Somehow, there is a blend of com­plete
peace with understanding, and
best of all, it is all covered by love.
I can say now I am alive to true
emotion, just as the people of Israel
couldn't really celebrate until after
40 years of wandering to find their
promised land. And just like the
writer of powerful hymn, I can say
"it is well with my soul."
Marcus Yoars is Assistant Scene
Editor for The Auburn Plainsman.
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A lighthouse in Auburn
BRIAN FITZSIMMONS/Photo Staff Lakeview Baptist Church offers shelter in the storm
By Carmen Sacerio
Staff Writer
Out of three other Southern
Baptist churches in Auburn,
Lakeview Baptist Church is the
largest by far. If anyone has dri­ven
by it, one cannot help but be
amazed by its grand stature.
It can be rec­ognized
by the
large stained
glass windows
facing the corner
of Glenn Avenue
and University
D r i v e .
Unfortunately,
there are no
signs outside the
church identify­ing
it, but
according to
Pastor Al • • ^ • _ ^ __
Jackson, they
are in the process of being made
and one will be placed at each
entrance.
The new church building was
erected in 1994, but the previous
Lakeview Baptist Church, which
was established in 1959, still
remains on Thach Avenue, where
some offices are located until the
new church building offices are
complete.
The church itself has the capaci­ty
to seat 2,000 people, but only
once has it been completely full.
Yet, in last Sunday's church service
1,456 people attended, which is
remarkable.
So far, there are 1,500 resident
members of Lakeview about 40
percent of those are college stu­dents.
There are a lot of different activ­ities
students can get involved
1 hese youth need college kids to look up
to. Finding Jesus is the answer, and through us and
the church, we can build up the Kingdom of Christ.
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Lakeview college student
with at Lakeview. Along with the
church services (where, on aver­age,
600 students attend) there is a
Sunday school for college stu­dents,
choir, Wednesday night
Bible study and several mission
trips each year.
Associate Pastor Cliff Knight,
who works closely with college
students, is currently planning a
college ski trip to Colorado for
spring break and is looking for­ward
to the mission trip plans for
1996, which include traveling to
Bolivia, Belize and the Caribbean.
In the past, Lakeview has trav­eled
on mission trips to Bolivia,
England, Latvia, Jamaica, Kenya
and Florida.
College students are involved in
all these activities, yet many have
incorporated leadership into their
lives at Lakeview.
One Auburn
student, Julie
Kidd, 04CEE,
is an active
member of the
Lakeview com­munity.
She
learned that
being away
from home has J
not meant"
being without a
family.
Kidd said, "I
^ ^ ^ ^ " • ^ ^ " ^ feel like I'm
part of a family
at Lakeview. I have always been
raised as a Christian, but at
Lakeview I realized about having
a relationship with the Lord,and I
applied that relationship to God.
Lakeview means a lot to me, and
my life has been changed."
Joey Schmidt, 04CSM, is also
active at Lakeview, but mostly
with the youth program.
Schmidt's loyalty is quite special
as well. He is a leader in the
Discipleship Ministries, where he
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The choir at Lakeview Baptist Church looks out at some of its 1,500-member congregation during services.
spends time with the youth by
talking and hanging out. Schmidt
said, "These youth need college
kids to look up to. Finding Jesus is
the answer and through us and the
church we can build up the King­dom
of Christ."
Lakeview is also involved with
other Baptist churches and their
college students. They frequently
congregate at the Baptist Student
Center which is located on College
Street in downtown Auburn.
Knight added, "We are a diverse
church, and we cooperate with a
lot of other denominations as
well."
One can ask, "What makes
Lakeview any different than the
other Baptist churches in
Auburn?" Jackson said,
"Lakeview is a very special
church. The hand of God was set
on our fellowship, and this has
amazed all of us.
Jackson said, "We did not set out
to be big, but God sent them our
way and we are trying to point
them to Jesus. There is also a lot of
spirit here. Somehow people will
gravitate to follow his word and
by grace and the power of Lord
Jesus, lives are transforming."
Columnist strengthens faith
while studying other religions
Synagogue provides support
By Jason White
I consider myself a religious
person.
I always attended church grow­ing
up, and I have always had a
growing faith and belief in God
and Jesus.
As a child, my ignorance and
the seemingly simplicity of reli­gion
made it all the more easy to
accept.
As I grew up I realized there
are several other religions out
there. Some I could grasp an
understanding of. Some left me
scratching my contradiction-filled
head.
But one thing remained, my
faith in what I always knew.
I am now taking a class to
understand Judaism. My profes­sor
asked the other day if some­one
could fully understand a reli­gion
if he or she was not of that
religion.
The consensus of the class was
no.
I agree.
I think I can learn the funda­mentals
of Judaism and know all
the rituals and reasons behind the
rituals, but unless I become a part
of the rituals the religion is
impossible to fully comprehend.
I cannot gain a complete under­standing
of Judaism or any other
STEPHANIE
MORRIS
religion besides my own because
I lack the proper objectivity.
As a journalist I am taught to
remain objective always. Wipe
away all prejudgments and start
each story with a clean, unbiased
slate. As a Christian, I am taught
to never be judgmental; God is
the ultimate critic. As a person, I
have learned this is hard to do.
I have learned that my reli­gious
beliefs form a barrier that
inhibits me from fully under­standing
other religions no mat­ter
how objective my intentions
may be.
But, I do believe it is important
to at least study other religions to
the fullest possible understand­ing.
It is so easy to say, "This is
right, and that is wrong," when
you don't even know exactly
what that entails.
College has been a time of reli­gious
exploration for me. I have
visited several churches of differ­ent
denominations and enjoyed
the variation.
I have enjoyed learning about
the Jewish religion and hope to
learn about others.
I think it is important to not
only acknowledge other faiths
but to somewhat understand
them.
It also has been a sort of faith
tester for me.
Learning about other faiths and
other Christian beliefs has helped
me to grow spiritually and
strengthened me as a Christian.
It is easy to write off other reli­gious
beliefs, but that is being
arrogant and weak. It is impor­tant
to study and gain knowledge
of other religious beliefs.
I have learned that I shouldn't
be afraid to learn about other reli­gions
because if I am strong in
my faith, it won't change. What
will happen is I will better under­stand
the people around me.
Stephanie Morris is a staff writer
for the Auburn Plainsman
Staff Writer
Most prospective students, and
many who have long called
Auburn home, do not know of the
local Jewish synagogue, Beth
Shalom.
"I was shocked to learn that
there were more than 50 families
and more than two students (who
attended)," Leah Seitel, 04TH,
said.
To help students feel more at
home, Beth Shalom supports the
Auburn Jewish Students
Organization (JSO), which has "a
group of approximately 40 stu­dents,"
JSO President Max
Zaslavsky 02PM, said.
Margie Teeter, adviser to the
JSO, said the groups objectives
are, "to share studies and com­mon
interests so that students feel
more comfortable and at home,
enriching the community and
becoming more visible.
"Many students are surprised
to learn that there is a synagogue
in Auburn," Teeter said. And
many do not look for a students'
organization, "Therefore we are
always trying to find more stu­dents."
To achieve these goals the JSO
holds a "Collaborative Coffee"
each year, so that students, faculty
and community leaders can inter­act
in a purely social setting.
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JSO members will hold their annual "Collective Coffee" this Sunday.
of your professors," Zaslavsky
said. "You never know when you
might need a little extra help in a
class and getting to know the pro­fessor
socially can't hurt."
Teeter said, "We will meet at the
Coffee Banque, this Sunday from
11 o'clock in the morning until
about 1 o'clock in the afternoon.
"We had nearly 80 people come
out last year to help students
make contacts in the community
and their individual areas of
study," Zaslavsky said.
"This is a wonderful opportuni­ty
to meet friends over coffee