1996-02-08 The Auburn Plainsman

              WEEKEND WEATHER I I THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 8, 1996 VOLUME 102, NUMBER 14, 36 pages
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Local Crime Report
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On the Concourse
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'An Auburn Tradition Since 1893'
SGA begins budget hearings
SHAKY GROUND: Circle almost
deleted from list of student activity pro­jects
to receive a part of the $1.02 mil­lion
fund.
By Tara Andersson
Assistant News Editor
This week, the Student Government
Association approved 14 projects to appear at
the Budget and Finance Committee hearings
this month and vie for a slice of the million-dol­lar-
plus, student-activity-fee pie.
The basic way to do this is to ask "Would this
project be in the best interest of Auburn as a
whole?" Andy Edwards, 04CE, director of the
SGA's Budget and Finance Committee, said.
A motion was made and seconded to delete
The Circle from the list of projects that receive
student activity fees.
Some senators raised questions about the
magazine's devotion to Auburn students, citing
past controversy about publishing a large num­ber
of submissions from its own staff.
"The two issues put out so far do not feature
any of the staff's work," Circle Editor Carol
Hartsell, 03AT/EH, said.
She said this concern was one of the current
staff's priorities because of the attention it
received in the past. She added that most of the
senators might not have had a chance to see the
new issue yet because distribution has not been
completed.
Because The Circle contains roughly equal
amounts of material from faculty and students,
a couple of senators discussed whether it
should be supported by student activity fees.
Although The Circle's policy has always been
to print faculty submissions, "Primarily, we try
to put the students first," Hartsell said.
Some of the senators also defended the pro­ject's
benefit to the students.
Amy Ballew, 04RTF, a senator-at-large, said,
"I think it would be a big mistake to delete The
Circle."
After the discussion, Shannon Scarbrough,
f#MK, §£A vice pre>jd,^C *PM $ e ^nsWJN
to vote by secret ballot on the motion to delete
The Circle from the Budget and Finance process,
but the motion failed.
Scarbrough said he has not personally seen a
project deleted while working with the SGA.
Although line-item cuts were not yet up for a
vote and most of the projects were forwarded to
the hearings without a discussion, Monday
some senators did ask presenters to explain
some figures in the budgets.
Before Tuesday night's presentations,
Scarbrough reminded the senators to avoid any
"personal bickerings" and "not to pick apart
budgets, but analyze the health of projects."
Scarbrough said sometimes "a couple of sen­ators
from a certain mold of student think a pro­ject
represents a different mold, and may see no
purpose in the project."
"Sometimes a project feels the need to retali­ate,
which leads to a general discussion,"
Scarbrough said.
A couple of the discussions Monday night
had the potential to get out of hand, but "we
were lucky that didn't happen," he said.
However, Scarbrough said a certain amount
of questioning "shows the senators are con­cerned
about where student money goes."
Edwards said the recent increase in student
enrollment means more money is collected
through student activity fees and available to be
allocated to the projects,
He said projects know this and many of them
have made bigger requests this year.
The 14 projects included requests for next
year's budgets totaling $1.05 million, but the
amount available for the budgets is $1.02 mil­lion,
Edwards said.
If the typical reserve fund of $20,000 is set
aside for unexpected events, this leaves about
$52,000 to cut from the requested budgets,
Edwards said.
The actual hearings when cuts will be made
began Wednesday night and can last up to two
weeks, he said.
The hearings will include the following pro­jects:
Aquatics Center, Black Student Union, The
Circle, The Glomerata, Graduate Student
Organization, International Student
Organization, Performing Arts, Recreational
Services, SGA, Veterinary School's SGA, Tiger
^T#, ynivejsity Program Council, WEGL and.
Impact, which was approved for the first time
to receive funds as a student activities project.
DANIEL TRIVINO/Assistant Photo Editor
dwel Hartsell, 03 AT/EH and editor of The Auburn Circle, makes her case for the
rnlgiZifll during pfojefct pr?§lf1tatjpris for 8QA Budget and Finance. Shannon
Scarbrough (left), 04MK and SGA vice president, pjesided over the meeting.
Deadline set for spring student elections
By Tara Andersson
Assistant News Editor
Friday is the last day to throw
your hat into the ring for student
spring elections.
Spring quarter elections include
voting for the Student
Government Association's execu­tive
officers, senators and officers
of academic schools, as well as
Miss Auburn.
"You don't have to be into poli­tics.
You just have to want to make
a difference," Leah Thomas, 04PO,
director of elections, said.
Not knowing what each posi­tion
does is one of the factors that
keeps people from getting
involved, Thomas said. She said
she encourages everyone interest­ed
in learning more about SGA to
attend Senate meetings which are
held on Mondays at 7 p.m. in Foy
Union.
"Know what you are running
for," SGA advisor George Blanks
said.
Blanks said students who will
be running should start attending
meetings now to learn about the
positions.
Potential candidates should
think about why they are running,
find out what they are getting
themselves into and decide what
they want to do with the position
before they get into office, he said.
"The last thing we need are
resume-builders," he said.
SGA Vice President Shannon
Scarbrough, 04MK, said candi­dates
should run for the right rea­sons,
focus on making themselves
more accessible to students and
should be sincere in their inten­tions.
In an effort to increase voter
turnout, the SGA's Election
Committee proposed an extra day
of voting for spring elections,
Thomas said.
The low voter turnout is "just a
very poor display of how many
students are interested,"
Scarbrough said.
Only 16 to 17 percent of stu­dents
voted last year, Thomas,
said. By holding elections
Wednesday and Thursday, April
3-4, SGA hopes to target students
who don't have classes on one of
those days, she said.
In addition to being longer,
spring elections are going to be
held a little earlier than usual. The
Code of Laws states they must be
held before the third week in
April, but Thomas said, "We did­n't
want campaigning to fall in the
middle of Easter."
After a lengthy debate, the
majority of^ the committee voted
for the first week of April, which
would give the new officers more
time to work in the office and
adjust to their positions, she said.
The SGA Senate voted Monday
night to adopt the new schedule.
Blanks said he doesn't antici­pate
any problems with cam­paigns
starting the first week of
classes spring quarter because that
is still two months away. "If you
give people; enough advance
notice, they can prepare accord­ingly,"
he said.
Although campaigns for senators
See Elections / A-3
Alpha donates $5 million
to College of Agriculture
By Chris Wilkerson
Campus Editor
Just when the University's bud­get
woes looked darkest, the
Alabama Farmers Association and
Alfa Insurance Companies
became a s-'ver lining by pledging
a $5 million gift to the College of
Agriculture.
The gift is in celebration of the
association's 75th anniversary,
and the 50th anniversary of Alfa,
which was created by the AFA.
The donation has been pledged
over a period of up to five years,
James Marion, dean of the College
of Agriculture, said.
The money has been given for
the construction of an Agricultural
Services Center which will house
three existing laboratories, he
said. Moving these laboratories
will make the space they are cur­rently
occupying available for
future use for other teaching and
research programs.
"We want to centralize those lab
services and free up the facilities
they are using," Marion said.
Marion specifically cited
Funchess Hall's overcrowding as
a strain the new facility will ease.
The AFA has a long history with
the University, Goodwin L.
Myrick, president of AFA and
Alfa, said.
"Our association with Auburn
University goes back literally to
the day we were formed on that
campus on Jan. 31,1921.
"As a land-grant University,
Auburn has continued its close
ties to agriculture, meeting the
needs of the Alabama farmers
which our organization repre­sents,"
Myrick said.
"We consider the financial con­tribution
made for construction of
the agriculture services center to
be not only to Auburn University,
but also to all the farmers who
will be served by the this facility,"
he said.
J. Paul Till, director of public
relations for AFA and Alfa, said
the donation was, "something that
had been proposed for at least a
See Donate / A-3
Panel discussion charts course
for ride on 'Road to Harmony'
By Philip H. Lord
Staff Writer
In an attempt to better understand and bridge the
gap between the races during Black History month,
the Auburn Unitarian Universalist Fellowship held a
program last Sunday titled "The Road to Harmony."
The program was held in the AUUF sanctuary,
located at 500 Thach Ave. in
Auburn. The small, old, wooden ^ H ^ H ^ M
church was cold and dark because
a winter storm had caused a
power outage in the area. But this
did not discourage the community
from attending this event.
"The Road to Harmony" fea­tured
a panel consisting of five
local residents (two white and
three blacks) who discussed their
experiences with racial issues in
the Auburn-Opelika community.
The panel participants were: kemmmt/mmmimmm
Carolyn Hunter, a Tuskegee
Veteran Administration Hospital social worker;
Carlton Clifton, an Opelika businessman; Fred Hoerr,
a member of the Auburn City Board of Education;
Kris Spears, 04LT, and a member of Alpha Phi Alpha
fraternity; and Constance Hendricks, assistant pro­fessor
of nursing at Auburn.
The mood of the discussion was set at the begin­ning
with a quote from Martin Luther King Jr.:
"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, com­mitted
citizens can change the world; indeed it's the
only thing that ever has."
The panel first talked about themselves and then
answered questions.
Hunter described her rare, liberal upbringing in a
conservative, segregated Alabama. She recalled hor­rific
events in Selma, Ala., like 'Bloody Sunday' She
told the congregation how she had had little oppor­tunity
to work or befriend any blacks in her youth,
but today she works with black
doctors, dieticians and counselors.
"We have a long way to go, but I
think we have come a long way,"
she said.
Clifton discussed the
obstacles he faced starting a busi­ness
in Lee County. He was
denied a $50,000 loan by a local
bank. Before moving south, he
had qualified for a $150,000 loan.
Meanwhile, white people in the
community with similar means
' were getting loans. With hard
work and persistence, he started his own business,
the Whispering Oaks Restaurant.
"At first the community protested my business,
but eventually they realized I was running a good
business and now 90 percent of my customers are
white," Clifton said. "It's all perception. But discrim­ination
happens on both sides," he said.
See Harmony / A-3
We have a long
way to go, but I think
we have come a long
way.
•
CAROLYN HUNTER
VA social worker
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ANNOUNCEMENTS
Seminars presented by Career
and Student Development
Services
Interview Preparation: Feb. 13,
5 p.m.-6 p.m., 203 Foy Union.
Time Management: Feb. 12, 5
p.m.-6 p.m., 359 Foy Union.
Know Yourself Better:
Improve Your Study Skills:
Feb. 14, 3 p.m.-4 p.m., 359 Foy
Union.
Career/Life Planning: Feb. 15,
5 p.m.-6 p.m., 202 Foy Union.
The Internship or Summer Job
Experience: What's In It For
Me? Feb. 13, 3 p.m.-4 p.m., 202
Foy Union.
Orientation Sessions -
Attendance at one of the fol­lowing
sessions is required to
participate in on-campus inter­views
and the resume referral
service: Feb. 8, noon, 213 Foy;
Feb. 12, 10 a.m., 203 Foy; Feb.
20, 3 p.m., 203 Foy; Feb. 26, 4
p.m., 202 Foy.
Psycho-Educatio ii al
Workshops
Presented by Personal
Assessment/ Counseling
Services
Self-Esteem: How To Be Your
Own Valentine: Feb. 8, 3 p.m.-
4 p.m., Drake Health Center
115. For info, call 844-5123.
The Society for Creative
Anachronism researches and
recreates the combat and cul­ture,
tournaments and feasts of
the Middle Ages. For info, call
Andrea at 844-5683.
Jay Vee Swim Club meets
M,W,F 3:30 p.m.-5 p.m. and Sat.
mornings for team practices
and improving swimming
skills.
There will be a quarterly fee.
Those interested may compete
if desired. All practices at
Martin Aquatics Center.
Selma-Dallas County Annual
Events: Selma Art Guild Juried
Art Show: Feb. 18-March 1. .
For more info, call the Chamber
of Commerce (334) 875-7241 or
(800) 628-4291 in Alabama.
Scholarship applications
available to any Phi Eta Sigma
member. Pick up application
forms in Foy Union, 228. (844-
1300) Deadline Feb. 20.
Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual
Support Group Wednesdays at
3 p.m.-4:30 p.m. Personal
Assessment/ Counseling
Services(PACS). For info, call
844-5123.
Mortar Board, a senior hon­orary
recognizing service, lead­ership
and scholarship is now
accepting applications for
membership. Applications are
available at Foy Union.
Applications are due Feb. 9.
AU Tiger Pause Dance Team
Tryouts Feb. 28, Tryout Clinic,
9 p.m.-10 p.m.; Mar. 6, Tryout
Clinic, 9 p.m.-lO p.m. All held
in Memorial Coliseum.
Tryout Application and
Application Fee due Feb. 28.
Also bring cassette tape with
name and phone number clear­ly
marked.
Anyone interested in joining
The Plainsman staff should
come by B-100 Foy Union.
Meetings are 7 p.m. on
Wednesdays.
Free Conversational English
Classes on Wednesdays, 6:30
p.m.-8:30 p.m., Lakeview
Baptist Church room N206.
Childcare provided. Call.Betty i
Martin at 821-5066.
Auburn Knights Orchestra
will be having a Valentine's
Dance at the Auburn
University Hotel and
Conference Center on Feb. 9, 7
p.m.-lO p.m.
Anyone is invited. For more
info, contact Rick Munden at
844-4930.
Beta Alpha Psi, the National
Accounting Honor Society, will
be offering free income tax
assistance to the people of the
Congratulations to the
1995-96 Diamond Dolls
Leslie Crim President
Carolyn Dorrough Vice-President
Stacie Merrill Recording Secretary
Meredith Tubbs Corresponding Secretary
Robin Boteler Public Relations
Molly Wilson Treasurer
Mandy Gober Big Brother Chairman
Katie Aldred Heather Martin
Jamie Arnold Melissa McDaniel
Leslie Bailey Ivy McKinnon
Karen Beleckis Natalie McLean
Ricketta Bland Mary McMahan
Carolyn Bunte Rushton Mellen
Kelly Carden Manda Monzella
Cindy Captain Kelli Newell
Katie Chance Drew Parrent
Jenni Clapp Elliot Patterson
Lynn Gamston April Peek
Krista Glasscock Anne Phillips
Juli Goldstein Keri Richardson
Farrah Guin Roxanne Saucer
Emily Hampton Alexis Schnobrich
Kristen Hazelwood Joy Smith
Ashley Holt Colleen Swales
Marsha Kent Katie Tucker
Laura Leathers Wendy Waldrop
Heather Ledbetter Kristen Wells
Angela Lee Shana Williams
Katie Lyle Wendy Wilson
Jami Maier Tracey Wolf
Laura Mann Amanda Wootten
Amy Martin Mary Wood
Come join the Diamond Dolls as they help the
Baseball Team "pitch-off' their season against
Virginia Commonwealth in the new Plainsman
Park on February 9 at 3:00! The Tigers will also
play Virginia Commonwealth on February 10 at
1:30 and on February 11 at 1:00.
community at the Auburn Wal-
Mart on College St. The dates
for this service are Feb. 3, 10,
17, 24, and March 2 from 9 a.m.-
3 p.m. Individuals seeking
assistance will need to bring all
the necessary forms and infor­mation.
For more info, contact
Beta Alpha Psi at 844-6224.
If you Or your family are hav­ing
marital, child, family, drug,
alcohol, or other related prob­lems,
Auburn University's
Marriage and Family Therapy
Center can help. For info, call
844-4478.
Medical, Dental, and
Optometry Applicants for the
entering class of Fall 1997 must
• attend the first PPAC
(Premedical Professions
Advisory Committee) work­shop
- March 5, 7 p.m., room
151 of the new chemistry build­ing.
For more info, enquire at
the Extension Cottage.
War Eagle Girls and
Plainsmen Interviews Feb. 19-
22. Applications available Feb.
12 in Foy Union. Orientation
Feb. 15, 4 p.m., Langdon Hall.
Travel with us on the
"Highway To Health" at the
Auburn University Health Fair.
The fair will be held Feb. 14, 9
a.m.-4 p.m., Foy Union
Ballroom. For info, call 844-
6101.
Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority,
Inc. salutes Black History
Month; •', :.:,-..• -,\., • i UJ ' FV
Please join us on the concourse
Feb. 8-9 to celebrate the
achievements of African-
American women.
Special Lecture for
U n d e r g r a d u a t e s :
"Biotechnology and
Consumers," Feb. 16,1:10 p.m.,
110 Business Building; "Future
of Land Grant Educational
Systems," Feb. 15, 6 p.m., 203
animal science building, Dr. T.
Etherton, Penn State
University. Contact: dmulu-ane@
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MEETINGS
The Auburn Tennis Society
meets at 5:30 p.m. each
Monday at the University
Courts. Short meeting and play
afterwards. For info, call 821-
6825.
Campus Crusade for Christ
meets every Thursday at 8 p.m.
in Business Building Room 125.
For more info, call 887-2858.
Ultimate Frisbee Club meets 3
days/week. Need cleats. Have
men, -women and coed prac­tices.
Call Dean 821-3470 for
times and locations.
War Eagle Flying Team meets
every Tuesday, 6 p.m., Flight
Sim Lab (Wilmore 155). Open
to anyone interested in aviation
and no flight experience
required. For info, call 844-
6816.
Auburn Campus Civitans
meets every Tuesday, 7 p.m.
The meetings will be in Haley
Center 2228.
People interested in joining are
invited to attend.
The Auburn Gay and Lesbian
Association will meet every
Wednesday at 7:30 p.m..
For more information regard­ing
room 'and topic call 887-
7638.
Lee County Touch Meeting
Feb. 15, 6 p.m., EAMC Cancer
Center. Guest Speaker: Rev.
Raymond Logino of Bethesda
Baptist Church'.
The College Republicans
invite everyone to attend a
Congressional Forum on Feb.
13, Auburn University Hotel
and Conference Center
Auditorium, at 7 p.m.
AED Pre-Health Club will
meet Feb. 13, 7 p.m., new chem­istry
building 151. Dr. David
Magan will speak about inter­nal
medicine. Everyone wel­come.
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Pre-Law Society
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World
Quake shakes Chinese region, 250 confirmed dead; number expected to rise
At least 250 are dead in south-west China after an earthquake struck, which had a magnitude of 7.0 on
the Richter scale. More than 300 aftershocks hit the area since the main quake Saturday. More were expect­ed.
One aftershock measured 6.0 and hit the mountain region of Lijiang.
Blankets, tents and medicine were airlifted to the hundreds of thousands of people who were left home­less
by the quake. Officials said entire villages were destroyed, and people whose homes were unharmed
were afraid to enter them. "It doesn't matter whether people still have homes or they don't: Everyone is
too scared to go inside. Everyone is living in the streets," one rescue official said.
A Lijiang official said, "One of the biggest problems is that we don't have enough tents for the homeless,
and it is very cold outside."
Officials said Lijiang was gripped by rare low temperatures overnight, setting a record at 10 degrees
above zero.
The provincial government allocated $1.2 million in its aid. Relief efforts from Hong Kong and Taiwan
were started by The Red Cross of China through an appeal on Sunday, but according to another official,
much more is needed.
— Compiled from New York Times reports
National
Week's cold temperatures cause 59 deaths, record lows reported nationwide
Fifty-nine deaths have occurred due to the snow, ice and record low temperatures which have hov­ered
over the United States for the last week. Most of the were blamed on icy roads, but some involved
over-exposure.
Record low temperatures were recorded Sunday across the country, from -14 degrees in Pueblo,
Colo, to 6 degrees in Georgetown, Del. Ely, Minn, reported the lowest temperature at 46 below zero.
Abilene, Texas experienced temperatures at 6 degrees. Louisiana reported a record low of 15.
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over." The low Sunday there was -11 degrees.
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pumping gas at a Newark, N.J. gas station.
Winter Festival organizers in St. Paul, Minn, had to make some special arrangements for the cold.
They dropped all the high school bands from Saturday's parade to avoid anyone's lips freezing to a
brass instrument.
However, dog-sled racers in Jackson, Wyo. welcomed the cold weather. "About minus 20 is perfect,"
Billy Snodgrass said. "These dogs have these fur coats on and they can't take them off — and they're
running a marathon."
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Elections Continued from A-1
and school officers are usually
inexpensive, major candidates'
campaigns can be costly, Thomas
said. Major candidates have a
budget limit of $800, but this does
not include T-shirts, which can
make the total expense closer to
$1,000.
However, she said, "There are
ways to cut corners."
"You don't have to spend a lot
of money to run a good cam­paign,"
Scarbrough said.
For SGA President Winston
Tucker, the hardest thing about
campaigning was not financial
pressures, but mental ones.
"(It was) stressful to worry
Donate
year.
Till said AFA and Alfa's "origi­nal
purpose is to serve the
Alabama farmers."
He said that while the direct
beneficiaries are the Auburn stu­dents
and the Alabama farmers,
the indirect beneficiaries are the
Alabama consumers.
The news of the donation may
come as somewhat of a surprise to
those who remember a June 1993
incident when Auburn history
professor Wayne Flynt spoke out
about winning (because) it's
something you want so badly,"
Tucker said.
Running for office is time con­suming,
he said, but his campaign
manager helped ease the burden.
Another obstacle for all candi­dates
except those vying for the
title of Miss Auburn, is the
requirement that they score higher
than 90 percent on tests covering
the Code of Laws. All campaign
managers must fulfill this require­ment
as well.
"We want everyone to take
them seriously because these are
the rules that they have to govern
by. They really need to be aware of
Continued from A-1
them," Thomas said.
"Elections are sometimes
looked at as a popularity contest,
but if you vote like that, you could
be making a big mistake because a
lot of the people you vote for
decide how to allocate the student
activity fees, which is the stu­dents'
money," Senator Andy
Edwards, 04CE, said.
"The problem is that most stu­dents
don't care," Blanks said.
Students should ask candidates
about the issues and goals for the
office, Blanks said.
"Make them tell you what they
stand for. If they can't tell you,
don't vote for them," he said.
against policies of some Alfa
group members.
Flynt said Alfa was "not a good
citizen of the state," because of its
education policies.
This was in reference to Alfa's
opposition to property tax increas­es
to improve the schools, he said.
Alfa* theh threatened to more
closely examine it's financial sup­port
of Auburn after Flynt's com­ment.
"This is a fight I never did
want," Flynt said. "I am delighted
they have thought through this a
second time."
Till said AFA and Alfa have,
"kind of let bygones be bygones."
Marion said the Agricultural
Services Center will be the home
of labs which will analyze, "soils,
water, feeds, ingredients for feeds,
by-product samples, plant diag­nostic
samples, plant tissue analy­sis,
and a number of other analysis
including plant toxins."
Harmony Continued from A-1
Hoerr discussed his and the
Board of Education's commitment
to the community and racial har­mony.
"Our mission is to educate
all students to the fullest level of
their potential, inspire all students
to value learning and empower
all students to live productive and
satisfying lives," he said.
"Education is the key to living
together — understanding each
others' differences and celebrating
our differences," Hoerr said. "It's
OK to talk the talk, but you have
to walk the walk.
"There is a commitment to hire
l l ,'Arrtl<fanl oXm^^a^J'n/eJ fsaid.
"Three of % fie seven' principals in
Auburn are black." : ,
Spears talked about his experi­ence
at the University and the
transitions he had to make. "I
attended a predominately black
high school, and I was pro black
everything," he said. "I had to
make a major transition coming to
Auburn. I was valedictorian back
home, but here I was just another
number. In most classes there
might be four or five black stu­dents
out of 100 or so," he said. "I
was intimidated and scared to
raise my hand or participate in
class.
"I have experienced some prob­lems
here at Auburn," Spears said.
"I get stopped on campus at night
by cops because I am black and
they want to see ID. Also I have
had a few professors that have
looked down upon me because of
my skin color," he said.
"I have many white friends here
at Auburn and even a white fra­ternity
brother," Spears said. "We
shared a lot about our fears and
beliefs, and it helped me.
"There is good and bad every­where
and in everything you do,"
Spears said. "My strong religious
background helped me open up;
'and understand racial differ-
Hendricks recalled growing up
in Selma, Ala., and the obstacles
she has faced. "I was one of the
first African Americans to attend
the University of Alabama at
Birmingham," she said. "We did­n't
live in dorms with whites and
there were no black greek organi­zations,
but one of the sororities
gave me a bid. I became a sister of
Alpha Sigma Tau and made some
great friends. Later I became a lit­tle
sister at Phi Kappa Alpha, and
they took care of me at parties.
"I thought I had seen every­thing
a black person could possi­bly
encounter in Alabama, until I
went up north to Boston College,"
she said. "Yankees never make
eye contact and don't say hello on
campus — the total opposite of
being down in the South. I had
one professor talk to us about the
limitations of the Southern blacks.
"The cornerstone for me is that I
know who I am and whose I am,"
Hendricks said.
The discussion brought up the
idea that black children are being
programmed. A few concerned
parents said black children are
steered "-away ' from' science and ;
math-l^sed^majqri^becausg, they i
are tooiiard-for-black-students.-
. *There is ho one answer or solu­tion,
but the students that hunger
for education will find a way,"
Hendricks said.
"We need to reach out to the
kids and let them know that edu­cation
is important," Clifton said.
"We need to make them seek edu­cation
no matter what."
Rodriguez ended the program
by again quoting Martin Luther
King Jr., "Injustice anywhere is a
threat to justice everywhere."
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2/5 5:35 p.m., Lindsay K.
Parker of 546 W Magnolia Ave.,
apartment 3. Auburn, filed a
criminal mischief report when
an unknown amount of damage
was done to a white 19c/3 Honda
Accord The vandalism
occurred while the vehicle was
in the (Miking lot of Campus
Courtyard Apartments, 546 VV.
Magnolia Ave., Auburn.
2/6 11:48 a.m., Kimberly
Crosby of 1344 Kent Drive,
Auburn, reported the theft of a
white Sweetheart dress valued
at $275, and a halo-style veil val­ued
at $84. The items were
stolen from Cottage Bridals,
1735 E. University Drive,
2/6 3:45 p.m., Robert B. Jones
of 365 Genelda Ave., apartment
11, Auburn, reported the theft of
a pair of GTO headlight covers
valued at $100. The covers were
stolen from a blue 1984
Chevrolet Camaro.
lib 3:50 p.m., John Szarek
Thompson of 174 N. Cay Street,
apartment 7, Auburn, reporter
a burglary and the theft of a
black 22-inch Specialized
Rockhopper bicycle valued at
$450 and a Citibank Visa credit
card, account number 4128-
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arrested Shannon Rooks, 20, of
Auburn and charged him with
•:hild abuse.
Police responded to Rooks's
residence after receiving a com­plaint,
a police spokesperson
According to the report, a 5-
month-old child was taken from
the residence and transported by
ambulance to East Alabama
Medical Center for treatment.
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abuse ii. considered a felony.
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Opelika teen receives life sentence
By Graham Hadley
Assistant News Editor
Last Thursday, Circuit Judge
Robert Harper sentenced 15-year-old
Antonio Russell to life in
prison without parole for the
murder of Betty Sue Huckeba.
Russell was indicted by a Lee
County grand jury on four counts
of capital murder for the April 4,
1995 slayings of Betty Sue
Huckeba, 52, of Opelika; Inez
Hudson Chavis, 74, and Dorothy
M. Beanfield, 71, of Auburn.
The women were shot in the
head with a .38-caliber pistol dur­ing
the robbery of Huckeba's
Indoor Flea Market in downtown
Opelika.
After a 12-hour search, Russell
was arrested by Opelika police
and charged with the murders.
After the arrest, Russell con­fessed
to the murders.
DAVE HASBROUCK/Photo Staff
Antonio Russell was sentenced to life without parole last Thursday.
Because of the seriousness of the charges of
crimes, Russell was tried as an
adult.
Russell pleaded not guilty to all
charges, including
attempted robbery.
A jury found him guilty of capi­tal
murder in November. The trial
lasted only two days.
Because Alabama law prohibits
the use of the death penalty for
offenders younger than 16, Russell
received the maximum penalty
allowed.
After the brief sentencing,
Harper informed Russell that he
could appeal the court's decision.
Russell's attorney, James Thrash,
asked that the court allow Russell
to stay in the Lee County jail while
the case is being appealed, but the
judge denied the request.
Russell will be temporarily
remanded to the Kilby
Penitentiary near Montgomery
until he is sent to a maximum-security
facility.
If the appeal is rejected, Russell
will spend the rest of his life in
prison.
In the event that the appeal is
successful, Russell still faces the
two other capital murder charges.
Citizens urge city to implement turn signal
By Chris Parker
Assistant News Editor
As students pour out of class and
endure the long trek to their vehi­cles,
often the only thought on their
mind is home. But for most, the trip
home is hindered because of the
traffic-filled intersection at College
Street and Magnolia Avenue.
Recently a resolution was passed
by the University Student Senate
asking for a left turn signal at the
intersection to try and control the
traffic problem, Shannon
Scarborough, Student Government
Association vice president, said.
Scarborough said, "T guess the
major problem lies in that people
choose to go through downtown to
get to where they're going, and all
the traffic hits at that intersection.
"Cars get backed up, and there's
no left turn signals. There's no way
around unless you take an alternate
route," Scarborough said.
According to a traffic study done
by the city of Auburn, the intersec­tion's
official major problems are
heavy vehicular traffic, high pedes­trian
counts and close proximity to
on-street angle parking.
The study cited traffic move­ments
at this intersection are higher
during peak hours than any other
intersection studied.
Scarborough said the study
offered three solutions — take out
the parking, make one-way streets
or have people take a different
route.
Auburn City Engineer Rex
Griffin said a number of issues will
have to be addressed before the city
can come to a solution. He said cur­rently
they are working on some
projects, but there are not enough
people to get them done.
Until there is a solution, Griffin
suggests that people "avoid mak­ing
left turns at that intersection."
According to the study, any solu­tion
would include the removal of
most of the angle parking along the
two streets.
Ron Roberts, floor manager at
Denaro's restaurant, said, "(The
traffic) hinders parking for the
restaurant. There is not enough
parking for people. I've been here
four years and it hasn't gotten any
better."
Mindy Burgess, 03NS, said/'They
need a left turn arrow that's down­town.
There are a lot of pedestrians
— especially on sports-event week­ends."
Alex Hicks, 03AC, agreed, say­ing,
"There's a lot of cars up there
and not a turn signal. Since there
are turn lanes, they need turn
lights."
Hicks said currently people have
to turn left after the light has turned
red, especially if they are caught in
the middle of the road.
He said, "That can cause wrecks,
and if we had a turn signal that
would not happen."
Roberts said, "We sit in the
restaurant and watch people
almost have accidents turning left,"
adding that he doesn't understand
why something can't be done.
Scarborough said the best solu­tion
for now is for people to avoid
the intersection.
"We can tell people to go a differ­ent
way, but most won't. Only the
people who are sick of (the traffic)
will," Scarborough said.
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Congress passes first restrictions on Net
By Christopher Brandon
Assistant News Editor
EDITOR'S NOTE: This is
the second story in a four-part
series on the Internet.
Unique among all other types of
information exchange, the Internet
has enjoyed virtually no restric­tions.
Anyone with a computer and
a modem can access the Internet
and put anything they want on it.
However, last Thursday,
Congress passed the first federal
bill to regulate the Internet.
The Telecommunications Act,
which was passed by Congress,
with an overwhelming majority,
outlaws the transmission of sexual­ly
explicit and other indecent mate­rial
over computer networks that
could be viewed by minors.
Violators would be fined up to
$100,000 and could face prison sen­tences.
The House of Representatives
approved the bill first, by a vote of
414-16. Within two hours, the
Senate approved the bill as well by
a vote of 91-5.
President Clinton, who strongly
supports the bill, said he will sign
it.
Citing First Amendment rights,
the American Civil Liberties Union
and computer user groups have
vowed to immediately challenge
the new law in court.
"We're ready to file a lawsuit the
day President Clinton signs the
bill," Ann Beeson of the ACLU said
in USA Today's Feb. 5 article,
"Indecency ban faces court fight."
Experts and computer users are
unsure exactly what the provisions
of the bill prohibit. Will private e-mail
conversations be affected?
What exactly is indecency? How
would the government find out if a
user electronically sent a minor sex­ually
explicit materially? Who
would be held liable for transmit­ting
"indecent" materials, the user
or the on-line provider?
This last question is on the minds
oi j^Jn^ecgitj^.''officials'' iin *frwf
Division., of University Computing
(DUC).
"We don't presently have a poli­cy
that I would term a 'censorship'
policy," Richard Burnett, DUC
director of technical support, said.
"However, since this bill has passed
and will soon become law, we will
be seeking legal advice about what
kinds of policies we should have
and what they should say."
Burnett discussed how the bill
might affect the services DUC pro­vides
to the Auburn students and
faculty.
"Currently, Auburn University
operates a very open set of comput­ers
and networks," he said. "We
could be forced to make changes,
although I can't even speculate on
what that might mean," he said.
"Technology resources at Auburn
University are very limited. We
could be forced into expending
many of these already scarce
resources on an attempt to comply
with this law," Burnett said.
One possible policy DUC may
have to implement is monitoring
the Auburn computer system for
pornography.
"At this time, I do not know how
this can be accomplished," Burnett
said. "I am sure there are ways to
monitor certain system and net-
„ w_prk traffic at the expense of many
resources. But .What, wqiild' we .
monitor for? My definition of
pornography is probably quite dif­ferent
than yours or the next guy
we talk to," he said.
The origin of the Net
There are now nine million
users of the Internet, but most
of them have little idea where
it came from.
The Internet's first ancestor
was called ARPANET, a 1969
Department of Defense project
to link military research con­tractors,
including a large
number of universities doing
military-funded research.
Although the ARPANET
started out small, it became
quite successful, and every
university in the country
wanted to connect to it.
Success caused the ARPANET
to become difficult to manage.
The National Science
Foundation linen decided to
set u p five supercomputers on
the ARPANET so researchers
across the country could
quickly and effectively trans­mit
data. However, the plan tu
use the ARPANET did not
work out, and the NSF estab­lished
its own network called
the NSFNET. NSF permitted
traffic related only to-research
and education on its network.
The NSF eventually started
allowing individuals, busi­nesses
and all sorts of organi­zations
to connect their net­works
to the N'S I By
1994, several large, commer­cial
networks had taken over
most of the traffic on the Net.
The ARPANET was shut down
about 1990, and the NSFNET's
traffic is now run by commer­cial
networks.
Auburn connected to the
Internet seven or eight years
ago via the Alabama
Supercomputer Network. It:
was originally used by stu­dents
in computer science:;
classes at Auburn, but three
years ago the Division of:
University Computing began
allowing all students and fac­ulty
to open accounts to access
the Net. DUC is preparing a
plan to automatical
an account for each s
who enrolls at Auburn.
— Compiled from DUC's
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By Adam demons
Staff Writer
In February 1995, President Bill
Clinton announced his nominee
for the Surgeon General of the
United States, Dr. Henry W. Foster
Jr. However,the nomination failed.
Hoping to have better luck this
time, on Jan. 29,1996, the president
appointed Foster to serve as his
special adviser and chairman of a
national campaign to reduce the
number of teen pregnancies in
America.
Last Thursday, Foster spoke to
an audience of students, parents,
teachers and community leaders at
Booker T. Washington High School
in Tuskegee. He was there to
address the issue of teen pregnan­cy
and to kick off Black History
Month.
In his speech, Foster challenged
the students by informing them
that, "This democracy is a tremen­dous
place to live in, if you have an
education." He encouraged them
to focus on "increasing access and
increasing self esteem."
He promised to work hard on
bringing down the teen pregnancy
rate. He noted that "for girls 19 and
under in America the pregnancy
rate is 106 per 1,000; in Great
Britain it's 54 per 1,000;
and in Japan
and the
Netherlands
it's 10 per
1,000." The teen
pregnancy rate
is so high
because "they
(teenagers) are
doing some­thing,"
sexual
and should not
be, he said.
He said
America is the only industrial­ized
society not to teach sexual
education.
Foster's comments did draw
some criticism from conservatives.
Walter Clark, a Birmingham doctor
who is seeking the Republican
nomination for the U.S. Senate, said
x his democracy
is a tremendous place
to live in, if you have
an education.
•
Dr. Henry W. Foster Jr.
Former Surgeon General Nominee
he questioned Foster's credibility,
noting that Foster "tried to make
the (teen pregnancy) campaign an
issue when he was being nominat­ed
for the surgeon general." He
said that he would have opposed
Foster's nomination because of
Foster's abortion record.
Clark said, "Dr. Foster's motives
^ — • — • — - a r e good, I'm
sure, it is just his
past record that
makes me ques­tion
his ability to
be the leader of
the band." Since
Foster's national
campaign will be
a part of
Clinton's welfare
reform package,
Clark said it may
turn into "just another federal
bureaucracy." •
Foster worked at Tuskegee
University as chief obstetrician and
gynecologist at the John A. Andrew
Memorial Hospital. In 1995, he was
nominated to replace Jocelyn
Elders as the surgeon general, but
lost the nomination when the U.S.
Senate Labor and Human
Resources Committee voted not to J
send his nomination to the Senate
floor. |
He was nominated with the 3
hope that as surgeon general he
could further his "I Have a Future" „
program for pregnant teenagers. At __
the beginning of the nomination ?.
process, Foster reported that he had
performed "only one abortion."
Later he admitted to perform­ing
39, but anti-abortion groups
stated that the number was much ,
higher and that Foster had partici- *
pated in clinical trials on a drug
that sterilized severely retarded
women.
At the end of his speech last
Thursday, Foster was presented
with several plaques of recognition.
One presenter said Foster "will
always be the surgeon general of
Tuskegee and Macon County."
Foster will be in Columbus, Ga.,
on Feb. 14 at the Columbus
Convention & Trade Center to
speak to the Downtown Rotary
Club.
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By Catherine D. Perry
Staff Writer ~~
At .mother brief meeting on
Tuesday, the Auburn City Council
passed a resolution to accept a dona­tion
from the Auburn Chamber of
Commerce, and an Auburn resident
disputed a sewage fee.
The Council passed a resolution to
accept a donation of funds totaling
$2,021 from the Auburn Chamber of
Commerce. The funds will be used to
replace old playground equipment at
Felton Little Park on Dean Road.
"This is the second year the
Chamber diplomats have raised
money for new playground equip­ment
for Felton Little Park," Sherry
Faust, Chamber member, said.
"People do not realize how much ,i
new slide actually costs," Faust said.
"They cost in the neighborhood of
$2,000 minimum. The businesses
Auburn are wonderful to donate t,
money," she said.
Faust said the new equipmentjpjj'
be in the park sometime this
or early summer for the childJflS"to
use.
At the Committee of thg|p|$ole,
Mrs. Morris of 2011 H
Lane complained that she'sKoullfno't
have to pay a monthly minimum ser­vice
fee for the sewage lines that run
near her house.
"I am not connected to the system
so I should not have to pay the fee,"
she said. Morris said she had tried to
connect to the sewage lines in 1987
when her house was being built.
She said she paid $200 to have the
city extend the lines across the creek
r her house, but because of pri-property
located between
's property and the creek, the
as unable to do so.
is said she then spent $2,000
a septic tank built on her
In 1995 the city extended
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p newly-built homes.
me city could have con­nected
the lines for her in 1987 if they
could connect them in 1995 for the
two new houses.
She said she approached the city
again to get the lines extended across
the creek to her house and paid $350
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Federal judge declares law unconstitutional
Gay, bisexual organizations now
able to receive university funds
By Tim Devine
Staff Writer
A federal judge has declared an
Alabama state law banning gay
and bisexual organizations on col­lege
campuses to be unconstitu­tional.
Judge Myron H. Thompson of
the federal district court in
Montgomery, Ala., made his rul­ing
on the case involving a group
from the University of South
Alabama in Mobile called Gay
Lesbian Bisexual Alliance.
Thompson believed that the law
clearly violated a person's First
Amendment rights to freedom of
' 'speech.
The GLBA, supported by the
American Civil Liberties Union,
brought the case to court after it
was denied financial support from
its university's administration.
The law in question states that
colleges and universities are pro­hibited
from "spending public
funds or public facilities, directly
or indirectly, to sanction, recognize
or support the activities or exis­tence
of any organization or group
that fosters or promotes a lifestyle
or actions prohibited in the
sodomy and sexual misconduct
laws."
The law goes on to prohibit any
group or individual from giving
out materials that would provide
information about the lifestyle of
homosexuals.
Thompson's decision was large­ly
based on an earlier. Supreme
Court decision that required the
University of Virginia to fund a
Christian newspaper, because they
believe the university was deny­ing
them the right to free speech.
This law actually originated
from a incident that occurred in
Auburn in 1991. Some Auburn
students and faculty may remem­ber
the controversy that arose
when the Auburn Gay and
Lesbian Association originally
tried to obtain a charter from the
University.
The AGLA was granted a proba­tionary
charter, but a year later,
after a long discussion on the issue
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with 440 signatures wanting to
deny the group any kind of sup­port,
the Student Government
Association voted 23-7 against
granting the AGLA a permanent
charter.
Jon Waggoner, president of the
SGA at that time, said he thought
the senate was expressing the stu­dent's
belief that an organization
of homosexuals, while it has every
right to meet according to the U.S.
law, is not in accordance with the
beliefs of the "Auburn family."
After being denied a charter, the
AGLA, with the support of the
ACLU, threatened fi< file suit
against the University.
Olivia Turner of the ACLU said
the SGA's decision was a "blatant
violation of these students' right to
freely associate and their right to
equal treatment under the law."
After this, the University admin­istration
decided to overrule the
SGA and granted the AGLA a
charter. This gave them the right
to designate a place to meet, free
advertising with the school news­paper
and the opportunity to
apply for funds. The group has
not received any funds.
After this incident, the law pro­hibiting
these groups was written
into the Alabama state code.
Barry Schreier, the faculty advis­er
to the AGLA, said the only rea­son
he could think of for a law
like this to be made is out of "big­otry
and homophobia."
Thompson made his decision at
the same time that Attorney
General Jeff Sessions was trying to
close down a conference of all the
homosexual groups in the
Southeast that was to be held at
the University of Alabama on Feb.
16 and 17.
Claire Austin, a spokeswoman
for Sessions, said they were try­ing
to stop the conference because
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state law.
Keith Ayers, spokesman for the
University of Alabama, said,
"The university has chosen not to
inhibit the conference because of
their First Amendment rights to
freedom of speech."
Sessions plans to appeal
Thompson's decision and still
hopes to shut down the confer­ence,
Austin said.
In an official statement,Sessions
said he will ask Thompson for a
stay of his order so the University
of Alabama Board of Trustees can
enforce the law and cancel the uni­versity-
sponsored conference.
Thompson's order could have a
broader impact than was intend­ed,
Sessions said. "We hope to
resolve this matter as soon as pos­sible
because we think the State
will incur irreparable harm if the
conference takes place."
Sessions also said the facts in the
GLBA case could have led
Thompson to a decision without
having to declare the law uncon­stitutional.
"I don't think this (decision) will
bring any real change," said
Schreier. "It may change people's
attitudes (about homosexuals)."
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Olfie^uburn Plainsman
"An Auburn Tradition Since 1893"
J. Elizabeth Smith
Editor
Greg Walker
Managing Editor
Ashley Wright
Business Manager
Jerrod Windham
Production Director
Cady Duncan
Copy Editor
Chris Wilkerson
Campus Editor
Stephanie Morris
State/Local Editor
Tanya Holt
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Sports Editor
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Photo Editor
Assistants Kelly Dyer, Nora Holzman, Patti Long, Matthew Willett Copy; Tara Andersson,
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You've come a long way
Circle staff creates worthwhile product, faces
adversity during Budget and Finance hearings
T
m he Auburn Circle's winter edition is
M out, and The Plainsman would like
to congratulate the staff on a job
well done.
The magazine has had hard times in the
past, but the last few quarters are examples
of how things can be turned around with a
little creativity and a lot of hard work.
Past years have been plagued with over­spending
and the mismanagement of funds.
The content ranged from poor to so-so and
has not truly had direction until last year.
This year's staff picked up the pieces and
has done extremely well.
Even with less money than its predeces­sors,
this year's staff has done more.
The quality of submissions has been excel­lent,
and the experimentation with new and
innovative ideas has shown real initiative.
The only problem The Plainsman has seen
thus far is that the magazine is a rarity.
It seems with such a quality product there
would be more emphasis on the distribution
so all Auburn students could enjoy the publi­cation
of their peers' work.
The Circle had a hard time at Budget and
Finance Monday night, and distribution was
one of the SGA committee's complaints.
But those who hold the purse strings
should keep in mind that cutting funds will
not make it easier for students to get their
hands on a copy.
The Circle has come a long way, and The
Plainsman would like to see it progress.
Free your mind. . .
Black History Month offers opportunity for •> ti
understanding, Plainsman encourages majority
C
% j ollege is a time of exploration.
^ ^ " ^ One purpose of a university is
to foster the trade of ideas and communica­tion
between groups.
The Plainsman thinks Black History Month
is an opportune time for this communication
to begin.
This month offers students in the majority
and the minority many opportunities to learn
about black history and the many contribu­tions
of black people to humanity as a whole.
Exhibits in the library and the Foy Union
gallery as well as lectures and performing
arts all give the Auburn community a way to
understand on an intellectual level the impli­cations
of black history on our lives.
February also offers students of different
races a chance to relate to one another in a
way that is open and non-threatening. Take
this month as an opportunity to ask ques­tions.
Be curious.
Start to try to understand.
It's impossible to improve relations if we
don't, first, make a serious effort to improve
understanding.
With Auburn being a predominantly white
campus, voices from the minority are never
heard as loudly as they should be. Maybe it's
because a lot of times the majority doesn't lis­ten.
Well prick up your ears,majority, it's about
time you started.
The expression of this newspaper's opinion is restricted to this page. The unsigned editorials above reflect
the views of The Auburn Plainsman's editorial board which is comprised of the executive staff, section edi­tors
and first assistants. Other opinion, often contrasting is offered in adjoining columns.
Letters equal losing lots of loot
When I was new to college last
year, I didn't get much mail for
the first few days. I would go to
the post office every day just to
check and see if any had magi­cally
appeared. Well, time and
time again I was met with dis­gust
when I went and found
nothing. Just an empty hole.
All of my rotten luck changed
when I went one day to the post
office, opened the box and there
was a letter! Well, it wasn't exact­ly
a letter. It was more like a car­bonized
computer printout from
Auburn University. Auburn was
just writing me to see how
everything was going, to wish
me the best in my classes and to
remind me of a $700 tuition debt
I happened to owe.
So, I paid the debt the next day
and then swung by the post
office in the evening. I opened
the box and, to my astonishment,
my eyes met another letter. Upon
further inspection, I saw it was
from the phone company. Now, I
thought it was nice that the
phone company took the time to
check up on me, so I read their
letter earnestly. In the course of
going through it, the phone com­pany,
as the University had
done, reminded me of my debt
WADE
MCCOLLUM
to them. So, the next day I sent
them a check to cover my
expense.
I don't have to tell you what I
found in the box at the post
office that evening, do I? That's
right, another letter. Well, it was
more like a post card really. But
nevertheless, it was from the
water company.
Now, I began to notice a pat­tern.
From the instances I went
through, I hypothesized that the
payment of one bill produced
another. Therefore, I decided not
to pay the water bill, thinking
that would stop all bills from
coming in.
And you know what? My
hypothesis worked! The next day
when I went to the post office,
there was not one letter of any
kind there for me. I continued to
build confidence in the hypothe­sis,
and so in a few days I made
it a theory.
By the end of the next week I
was about to make the theory a
law, when I opened the box and
there was a red post card
addressed to me. You see, in
Loachapoka, the water company
sends you a red bill if you let
your account go unsettled past
the first due date.
Taking the color, red, as a sub­liminal
message hinting at blood­shed,
I frantically wrote out a
check to the waterworks compa­ny,
and mailed it in.
And wouldn't you know it, the
very next day there was a cable
bill waiting in the post office box
for me. Because of this, I have
currently advanced my theory of
the letters of utility companies to
the status of law.
You know, I really like to hear
from my friends at the utility
companies, but I wish they
would let me know how they are
doing more often. It seems the
only time I hear from them is
when they need money.
Wade McCollum is a Staff Writer
for The Auburn Plainsman.
Heed what the good book says
The other day I was standing
outside The Plainsman office with
another staff member and I saw
something flapping in the breeze
under my windshield wiper.
The first thought that came to
mind was that I had gotten a park­ing
ticket (I was parked close to a
spot, but for some reason AUPD
doesn't see that as legit), so I went
over to check it out.
I got to my car and, low and
behold, there was a strange look­ing
pamphlet there. The cover of it
was patterned after that of the
National Enquirer and the headline
read, "MOTHER HIRES KILLER
TO HACK CHILD TO PIECES!"
I was. like, whoa ... weird.
So I picked it up and began
reading. It quickly became appar­ent
to me the nature of the pam­phlet
and what its contents would
hold in store.
I was right, but at that point I
didn't have a clue how right I was.
I kept reading.
I turned the page and there sat a
black and white photograph of a 7-
month-old aborted fetus.
I was shocked, not so much by
the image, but more by the fact
that a religious organization,
which will remain unnamed here,
attached its name to such a devil­ishly
hateful piece of "literature."
I guess the person who left the
J. ELIZABETH
SMITH
pamphlet thought I deserved it
because I have a bumper sticker on
my car that says, "If you can't trust
me with a choice, how can you
trust me with a child?"
But I have news for that person.
No one deserves to be harassed for
stating their opinion in a non-threatening,
non-grotesque way.
I thought long and hard about
the implications of what the "reli­gious"
person had done, and how
an act like this relates to their view
of spirituality and living.
It disappoints me that a person
can leave a pamphlet and feel like
thev have done something to
advance their cause, when just
leaving a pamphlet does exactly
the opposite.
That one action caused me to
lose every bit of respect I had for
the organization in the first place.
I am not a religious person, but I
strongly believe that all people
have the right to their own beliefs,
and I normally respect those reli­gious
organizations which provide
a base of support to people who
belong to them.
But just as much as I am a
believer in religious freedom, I am
a believer in communication
between people about issues.
The pamphlet the person left for
me was not an effort at communi­cation
at all. Instead, it was an
effort to ease that person's mind
about the fact that there was actu­ally
someone in the world who
had beliefs different from his or
her own.
Well, after reading the pamphlet,
my mind did not change about a
woman's right to an abortion. I
still think the decision should be
left up to the individual.
But my mind did change about
something else.
It changed from thinking the
people in the organization respon­sible
for the pamphlet were only
different from me in their religious
beliefs, to knowing that the people
in that organization do not prac­tice
what they preach.
What was it the good book said?
Oh yeah, "love thy neighbor as
thyself" and "judge not lest ye be
judged."
/. Elizabeth Smith is Editor of The
Auburn Plainsman.
Paper thin walls foster realization
I've never seen the couple that
moved into the apartment next
door. At first I didn't notice any
problems, but by the end of the
first week it was obvious some­thing
was wrong. Since then it has
become my nightmare.
v.JThe.maJasgijl to argue^Qd {hair
voices rise and temper&flare. I call
hear every syllable, every obsceni­ty,
through the thin walls.
It has gotten increasingly vio­lent.
Glass objects are thrown and
shattered. I can hear one or the
other being shoved up against the
wall. The guy recently locked his
girlfriend out of the apartment in
the freezing rain. He laughed
while all her groceries in the soak­ing
paper sacks scattered across
the parking lot. Her cries only
fueled his laughter.
The fights have gotten more fre­quent
— several times a day now,
starting as early as 6 a.m.
What's most disturbing to me is
how I've reacted to these fights.
Jokingly, I refer to my neighbors as
"domestic violence next door." I've
gotten in the habit of turning off
my television to better hear each
day's version. And I no longer
wonder //"they will fight — it's
CADY
DUNCAN
only a question of what time.
I've contemplated calling the
police, especially when their argu­ments
last for hours. I even
thought about complaining to my
landlord about the noise.
But I have done nothing but lis­ten.
I guess I've just never come so
close to daily physical and mental
abuse. Perhaps I am naive. The
words they say to each other must
hurt as much as the slaps they
each receive. I know just hearing
their angry tone of voice makes me
uncomfortable.
I guess I just didn't grow up in a
household where violence was
used as discipline. My parents
argued, but my mother was never
beaten. My siblings and I were
rarely spanked.
But when do I interfere? Is it my
responsibility, my duty to become
involved? How severe must the
violence be before I call authori­ties?
1 waJcr4jt,euvnJghtJj' RevysJThe^
faces of family and friends of
someone killed because of domes­tic
violence haunt me now.
Family violence seems to be
more prevalent in the news as
well. Nearly every day lead stories
in the media are about shootings,
stabbings and stranglings.
I guess the difference is that vio­lence
isn't random anymore. It's
date rapes, jealous girlfriends with
guns and wife beaters that fill up
the front page of so many newspa­pers.
I had become numb to the daily
barrage of murder stories, and the
couple next door jolted me. It
scares me to think I've read or
heard thousands of stories about
violence. I guess the worst part is
that I barely see them, and it takes
"domestic violence next door" to
make me face the reality of it.
Cady Duncan is Cop}/ Editor for
The Auburn Plainsman.
O'Donnell in '96 because
"They gave you a ticket for what?"
I asked my friend. "DRIVING ON
CAMPUS?"
This time they've gone too far. Not
that strip searching people for stolen
McMonopoly game pieces was bad
enough. "Hey Billybob, get me the
rubber gloves, I think I see Park
Place."
The time has come for us, the stu­dents,
to rise up against our oppres­sors
and fight the power. I would
love to change the way things are
around here but what can I, alone,
do? Well, SGA elections are coming
up soon, and I think I just might run
for something.
I wouldn't run for president
because that would require me to
make T-shirts to give out and my
name doesn't have any cool advertis­ing-
emblem look to it, like that girl
that had the same name as toilet
paper or that guy who made shirts
with a cigarette pack that had his
name on it.
The only thing my name comes
close to is O'Doules beer, and it's a
non-alcoholic beer. So what's the
point?
So I won't run for president. Vice
president, secretary and treasurer
don't really interest me all that much,
so what's left? How about senator-at-
ANDY
O'DONNELL
large? I like the sound of that one. It
sounds like some gangbta rapper or
something.
"And here's senator-at-large and
Snoop with their latest hit: "You betta
have my money."
OK, so what qualifies me to run for
an office? No I don't have a 4.2 GPA,
but let me tell you something. I lived
near Washington, D.C.,for about 18
years and have visited all the major
monuments. I believe that alone
should make me the clear choice.
Appealing to voters is not as sim­ple
as it seems. Catchy slogans must
be tailored to various majors and
schools to gain a wide range of vot­ers.
Let's look at some examples from
the headquarters of the O'Donnell '96
campaign that didn't quite make the
cut.
Psychology : "O'Donnell in '96 —
because everyone else is out to get
you.
Philosophy: "Vote for ODonnell in
'96. No one else exists and the uni­verse
is just a piece of lint in the giant
dryer of someone else's dream."
Business: "O'Donnell in '96,
because he used to major in engineer­ing,
too."
Engineering: "O'Donnell '96 —
because he won't tell anyone you
have all the equations for every engi­neering
class you will ever have to
take loaded into your HP calculator."
College of Agriculture: "Vote
O'Donnell in '96 — The other white
meat."
In all seriousness, Auburn needs a
lot more help than just in the SGA. If
things like being able to rollerblade
and drive on campus, or having the
right to carry a concealed frisbee are
important things to you, then let the
University know that you're tired of
being treated like children.
Check out the O'Donnell '96 HQ
on the World Wide Web at:
http://www.all.computers.at
Auburn.are.powered.by.hampsters.if
.one.should.fall.off.his.wheel.please.
call.the.duc.hotline.
Andy O'Donnell is a Staff Writer
for The Auburn Plainsman.
Thursday, February 8,1996 (HhegWjiimBIainsinan A-9
to the Editor
AUPD safety plan is actually student harassment
Editor, Tlte Plainsman:
I could be wrong, but I always
assumed that a university was an
institution of higher thinking ... or
at least thinking. But judging
from the majority of the student
body here at Auburn, thinking is
blase'. Because if students
thought about what the AUPD is
subjecting them to, they would be
furious!
My case in point: the recent
ticketing of students with C-zone
parking permits, for "illegal on-campus
driving." This is
absolutely ludicrous. Let me start
by quoting University Police
Chief Bill Nevin who stated, "We
are not harassing the students, so
to speak. The intent behind the
whole thing is safety" (The
Auburn Plainsman , Feb. 1,1996).
Let's look at this quote one piece
at a time.
"The intent behind the whole
thing is safety." If I recall correct­ly,
during football season, there
were cars parked all over the
grass and sidewalks; not to men­tion
all the drunken, tailgating
fools (non-students), stumbling
and/or driving around campus
DAYS before any game. I could
hardly get to class. If this didn't
pose a safety problem, I don't
know what did! But I don't
remember "AUPD's finest" giving
all those people tickets.
Or how about, "We are not
harassing students, SO TO
SPEAK." Ladies and gentlemen,
boys and girls, that tiny little
phrase "SO TO SPEAK" actually
means, HELL YES, WE'RE
HARASSING THE STUDENTS,
AND WE KNOW IT! (1 believe
Chief Bill's conscience snuck out
a little when those words slipped
out.)
The AUPD has a policy of
harassing students. For example,
on my first day here in Auburn, I
picked up a campus map pub­lished
by the police. On the last
page there were a series of pic­tures
of policemen and women
performing various functions. In
the bottom left corner was a pic­ture
of a very large and ominous
looking policeman with the subti­tle
beneath it stating, "Suspicious
persons and known offenders are
constantly and routinely sought
by the A.U. Police Officers. This
function deters activities of such
individuals." Hello ... did anyone
read this besides myself, and
NOT get (angry). I don't care if
you are a "suspicious person
and/or a known offender." If
you're not in jail, you're FREE.
And the police have no right to
constantly and routinely seek
anyone out. This is called
HARASSMENT! (I can't believe
this subtitle got by the editors of
the publication.)
Fellow students, at the age of
18 you are an adult. You possess
the rights of any other adult in
this nation! (No matter what the
bureaucratic fat-cats try to tell
you.) What the AUPD is doing to
us is WRONG! Their excuse for
ticketing people for the "viola­tions"
of illegal on-campus dri­ving,
rollerblading, skateboard­ing,
etc. is "for safety sake". This
is a LIE! I know it. You know it.
And they know it! This "safety"
excuse is simply a smoke-screen
to collect more revenue. Don't let
anyone tell you differently.
Now it may be an Auburn "tra­dition"
to be as meek and mild as
a lamb. But do you know what
happens to lambs? They become
LAMB CHOPS! Personally, I
think Auburn students are
stronger than that. "But what can
I do?," you may be asking your­self.
The answer, FIGHT BACK!
This world was made great by
fighters and troublemakers.
Here's my short list, you may
have heard of them George
Washington, Dr. Martin Luther
King Jr., Jesus Christ (the phar-isees
and sadducees weren't par­ticularly
fond of him). These
examples may seem extreme to
you, but they are nonetheless
appropriate.
"But how?" Here's how. If you
get pulled over, get the name and
badge number of the offending
officer. Contest it in court. I
believe the constitutionality of
these tickets are suspect, at best.
Get a lawyer if you have to. If
you lose your case, appeal. You
will eventually prevail. Better yet,
get organized and picket! I've
been in a few demonstrations
myself and they work. This is a
college campus after all, APATHY
CANNOT BE TOLERATED!
My friends and fellow students,
this is YOUR campus; not the
administrator's, not the police
chief's, and not the alumni.
Without you, these people would
not even have jobs. Take what is
rightfully yours, FIGHT THE
POWER!
John M. Martin
06FFA
Columnist lacks respect
Editor, The Plainsman:
I found the article by
Christopher Brandon in the Feb.
1,1996, issue quite amusing. Mr.
Brandon claimed one could
"believe" in creation and that
evolution was fact. However,
what he claims to be fact is really
some conclusion which scientists
have come up with to explain our
beginning (much like what he
claims religion to be). This theory
recently came upon hard times
when the Galileo Probe did not
find organic life where it should
have been. Oops! Maybe we need
to "rethink" that theory again. In
reality it takes more faith to
believe in all the aspects of evolu­tion
than in creation. On the
other hand, the Bible is not
Mother Goose vol U. The Bible is
made up of real people writing
about their real experiences in a
real place. Although it was writ­ten
by people, it was inspired by
God and is His Word.
The ancient Dead Sea Scrolls,
found several years ago, prove
our current translation of the
Bible to be more than 99 percent
accurate in its translation.
Furthermore, no one has been
able to prove anything in the
Bible to be false.
On the contrary, archeologists
continue to make new discoveries
which prove the Bible to be true.
It is so accurate that many arche­ologists
have referred to it when
looking for the locatio of certain
places. The book, which Mr.
Brandon gives little respect to, is
gaining the reputation as a viable
historical document. We all hear
talk about proof of this or proof
of that. Would you be more likely
to believe in something which
changes every few years or some­thing
which has been proven to
be true and unchanging over a
couple of thousand of years?
I challenge anyone to do
research on both and let the
results speak for themselves.
Michael S. Padgett
04HES
Housel, Leischuck pay raises are slap in faculty's faces
Editor, The Plainsman:
I was disappointed by John V.
Denson's letter to the editor in The
Plainsman on Feb. 1. A member of the
Board of Trustees, Denson sought to
quell criticism of the recent $10,000 rais­es
given to the Assistant to the President
Dr. Gerald Leischuck and Athletic
Director David Housel. It is
not so much that folks oppose the
amounts of the raises or whether their
recipients were deserving.
What bothers many is that raises were
given to such a select group when many
others deserve wage increases as well,
and they came after the University
announced a no-raise policy.
Mr. Denson credits Dr. Leischuck's
raise on his holding of multiple job des­ignations,
for doing more than he is
compensated for. Is that not the case for
the majority of faculty and staff? Are
they not doing more than that for which
they are compensated, too?
Mr. Denson says that "it is hard to find
fault" with Mr. Housel's raise, and justi­fies
this claim by holding that the athlet­ic
department is self-supporting and
gives money to the operation of the
University as evidenced in its recent
$250,000 contribution to Campaign
Auburn. Just what is Mr. Denson imply­ing?
Denson also writes that the athletic
department is self-supporting (this does
not include salaries). Since the athletic
department is so lucrative, why not
allow Mr. Housel's raise to come from
seemingly abundant athletic funds?
While we are at it, why not have all ath­letic
department salaries come from ath­letic
department funds?
Mr. Denson's arguments are specious
at best, and miss the point of outrage
over these select raises. The attitudes of
the president and members of the board
send a clear message to the faculty and
students of Auburn University that the
administration and athletic department
reign supreme and will receive special
consideration. These raises are a slap in
the face of an underpaid, overworked,
and seemingly under-appreciated faculty
who are told to do more with less, and
they are not able to hire needed addi­tional
faculty. But at the same time,
administrators who are doing more are
receiving more pay.
This issue, and its divisive conse­quences,
has done nothing but diminish
Auburn's reputation and the trust of the
faculty and student body in the Board of
Trustees and the president of the
University. It also shows a skeptical pub­lic
and state legislature that if a cash-strapped
university can afford outra­geous
raises such as these, then they
really must not need budget increases.
And that will hurt us all.
Gordon E. Harvey
09HY
People have right to be proud
Editor, The Plainsman
This is in response to the arti­cle
"Racist morons, get under
your rocks." Elliott McLaughlin
stated that he was upset that so
many whites at Auburn are upset
about Black History Month.
First of all, I want to say that I
feel everyone has the right to be
proud of their heritage.
I, unlike The Plainsman and Dr.
Muse, include white Southerners
in that statement. We have an
entire month dedicated to 6 per­cent
of the campus and yet the
administration and faculty, who,
by the way are mostly
Northerners, openly criticize any
pro-South event like Old South
Week or an official recognition of
Robert E. Lee's birthday (mainly
because these events would
appeal to whites).
How can whites not get upset?
We make up 91 percent of. this
campus, and not even one day is
put aside for Southern heritage.
Is this why our ancestors gave
their lives? I think not.
Patrick Wilson
02PO
My parents weren't amoebas
Editor, Tlte Plainsman:
I am writing in response to Mr.
Brandon's editorial on evolution.
There are some inconsistencies
and mistakes in his editorial
which I would like to address.
First of all, Mr. Brandon, I think
that you need to decide if evolu­tion
is a theory or a scientific
principle, because it cannot be
both. Scientific principles are
proven beyond doubt. Evolution
is not. The very same archaeolog­ical
evidence which you use to
justify your faith in the theory of
evolution can be used to justify
my faith in God, and my faith in
Biblical accuracy.
I would like to comment upon
your inaccurate statement about
the Book of Genesis. This book
does indeed state how God creat­ed
the world. It states that God
spoke the world into existence. In
other words, God is so powerful
that his very breath formed the
earth, light, water and all living
beings. Personally, it is a smaller
step of faith for me to believe that
my God in his intelligence creat­ed
our logical, ordered universe
than to assume that an amoeba in
some primordial stew is my pre­decessor.
The statement that "those sto­ries
[in the Bible] were never
meant to be taken literally" is
completely ignorant. Those "sto­ries"
in the Bible are actually his­torical
accounts of events which
are substantiated. My favorite
"story" is that "story" in the New
Testament about the life of Jesus
Christ. If you do not trust the
Bible, you can also read about
Jesus in other Jewish and Roman
manuscripts. You may also read
about the Apostle Paul, King
David, Moses, Abraham and
other men and women whose
"stories" are certainly "meant to
be taken literally."
I would like to close with a
word of scripture. 1 Corinthians
1:25 states that "the foolishness of
God is wiser than man's wis­dom."
(NIV) I am not writing
because I "feel threatened by evo­lution."
On the contrary, I have
enough faith in the God that I
worship to believe that He
answers both why and how
humans came to be.
Wendy M. Yowell
05CCA
AUBURN UNIVERSITY
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Native American
Poetry
JOYHARJO
develops stories for
Disney
February 20
4:00 PM
AU Hotel &
Conference Center
Everyone is welcome!
The Brady Bunch
BARRY WILLIAMS
speaks about "Growing Up Brady"
February 15
7:00 PM
Foy Union Ballroom
Bring your AU LP.
1996 MISS AUBURN UNIVERSITY PAGEANT
TONIGHT 7:00 PM
Friday 8:00 PM
Student Activities Center
UPC Volunteerism
is having a
Canned Food Drive
Please bring a canned good to
the UPC Free Movie: Get Shorty
Enjoy two nights of pageantry
and find out who will be
Miss Auburn University 1996
FREEH
Joy Howell
Miss Auburn University 1995
Hot Chocolate
will be served
before the
movies, so
come early.
UPC Major Entertainment presents
Tiger Stomp '96
The 3rd Annual Auburn University Step Show
featuring groups from Auburn and the Southeast.
Application deadline: February 19.
Application Fee; $35 A total of $3,000 In cash
prizes and trophies. Calf 844-5292 for details.
UPC Fine Arts &
Foy Union
present
AU Singers
Dessert Cabaret
February 16 & 17 8:00 PM
Foy Ballroom
Tickets $10.00
Eagle Eye Magazine
is now on
TCI
Channel 5
at 4:00
EAGLE EYE
MAGAZINE
Monday, Wednesday, Friday,
and Saturday
AEROBICS
Monday - Thursday
from 4-5 PM
High-Low Aerobics
Monday &
Wednesday
Step Aerobics Student Activities
Tuesday & Center
Thursday bring your AU I.D.
February is Black History Month
BSU Presents: Sankofa (©
February 13 7:00 PM \ pr A ^ ( § ) |~ )F(
Langdon Hall & W \ Q^
Poetry Night
February 19 7:00 PM
Foy Exhibit Lounge
*
AUBURN UPC UPC FREE MOVIES!
Blockbuster Movie
February 8-11
Get Shorty
February 15-18
Braveheart
Blockbuster showings:
Thursdaa, Saturday, & Sunday
Nights @ 7:00 PM & 9:30 PM
Friday Nights @ 9:30 PM
UPC ENCORES
February 9: Pretty in Pink
February 16: Stand By Me
February 23: Casablanca
Encores shown Friday nights @ 7:00 PM
ALL SHOWINGS AT LANGDON HALL
AUBURN UPC
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On the Concourse B-5
Drake B-6
Classified B-7
Crime B-8 Campus
[Thursday, February 8,1996 tmamm
Comm Board approves '96-'97 editors
By Jeffrey Willis
Staff Writer
Help wanted: two responsible
students who can manage a staff,
oversee publication staff, organize
every aspect of that publication,
and who are willing to work,
work and work — overtime is
required.
This year two students respond­ed
to the opening positions of edi­tor
for the Glomerata and The
• Auburn Plainsman.
Betsy Sheffield, 03CEE, has been
approved by the Board of Student
Communications to seek the posi­tion
of editor for the Glomerata.
The position for The Auburn
Plainsman is being sought after by
Greg Walker, 02JM.
The two applicants met with the
board on Feb. 1 to be approved to
run for the positions, Karen Hall,
secretary of the board and assis­tant
director of Foy Union media,
said.
Each of the candidates said they
view the positions as a great
honor and a way of continuing
and recording Auburn's tradition.
"As a student of this University,
I think it is important that I do my
part in giving back what has been
given to me.
"Auburn University is rich with
traditions and history, and I
would be honored to serve as edi­tor
of the next Glomerata —
Auburn's history book," Sheffield
said.
Both Sheffield and Walker will
bring a great amount of experi­ence
to their positions and said
they believe that this is one of the
greatest assets they can offer.
"I have experience both on staff
of the Glomerata and with other
organizations that will help me
and my staff to publish a quality
book," Sheffield said.
She comes to the position with
two years of experience at the
Glom, including being the athletic
section editor and now the cam­pus
life section editor.
During Walker's three years at
The Auburn Plainsman, he has been
a staff writer, an assistant news
editor, the campus editor and is
currently the managing editor of
the paper. Because of this experi­ence,
Walker said, "I've seen the
good things and the bad things
about The Plainsman. I know what
to do, and I know what not to do."
To be approved to run by the
board, the candidates must have a
2.25 cumulative grade point aver­age,
one year of experience on the
staff, fill out an application includ­ing
three letters of recommenda­tion,
and write an essay outlining
See Editors / B-3 SHEFFIELD WALKER
Aloha! Bartlett siblings bring
home UPC talent crown
By Jenny Deville
DANIEL TRIVINO/Assistant Photo Editor
Christina Van Eeden, 01 PIE, performed a barefoot Polynesian dance at the UPC talent show Tuesday
night. Her performance received one of the largest crowd reactions of the evening.
Staff Writer
The fourth annual talent show,
sponsored by the University
Program Council and Foy Union,
was held Tuesday night in the Foy
Union ballroom.
From elegant vocals to a psy­chedelic
light show, the program
illustrated the variety and talent
existing on Auburn's campus.
Heather Bartlett, 04CD, and
Blake Bartlett, 01CLA, won first
place and $500 by clogging to "I
Will Survive." They have been
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dance techniques made the dance
unique.
Blake Bartlett has her own stu­dio
in Atlanta where she. drives
every Monday to teach five clog­ging
classes.
She has two competing teams.
One team won the title Overall
Pee Wee Grand Champion in
Opryland and the Overall
Elementary Team.
Blake was the Grand Champion
Female for two years at Opryland.
Heather Bartlett was in the
Miss Samford Pageant and won
the talent competition. "In 1994 I
was in Miss Fall Rush. I won the
talent part and got second runner-up,"
she said.
Monica Arrington, 02MU, won
second place in the talent show
and $300 singing, "You Gotta Be."
The crowd became involved by
snapping and clapping.
Arrington said she has been
singing since she could talk.
"The crowd was exciting. Since
DANIEL TRIVINO/Assistant Photo Editor
Heather Bartlett, 04CD, and her sister Blake, 01CLA, won the
1996 UPC talent show with a clogging routine to the song, "I Will
Survive." The prize for first place was $500.
they were showing affection, I
was going to give it back," she
said.
Jeff Grant, 03CNM, won third
place and $150 by playing
"Anatasia" on the vibraphone.
The audience looked question-ingly
at the instrument, but Grant
was definitely able to demon­strate.
Grant said, "I loved it. I was
here two years ago, and I think
(the crowd) is so much bigger
now."
The show began with Kimberly
King, 01CLA, singing a jazz num­ber,
"Summer Time."
The second act was a vocal
duet, "Another Time, Another
Place" by Ty Richardson, 04PG,
and Macy Krupicka, 04CEE.
Someone suggested they perform
together last year, and they did.
They are now dating and still
singing together.
In the third act, Angela Massey,
01PB, performed a fast tap dance
to "My Fair Lady."
The crowd was touched when
Kent Parrish, 04PG, dedicated the
song, "Friends" to his friends at
Auburn for all his good memories.
The act that kept everyone
focused was a Polynesian dance,
"Hula Town" by Christina Van
Eeden, 01 PIE. She performed the
dance barefoot and shook so
much you felt like you were in
Hawaii.
Jerry Jeffries, 04COM, and Lani
Wells, 02CEC, sang the duet,
See Talent / B-3
Comet discoverer speaks to Auburn astronomy buffs
By Anthony Merulla
DANIEL TRIVINO/Asst. Photo Editor
David Levy speakes at Auburn about the comet Shoemaker-Levy 9.
Staff Writer
Is earth's life in the solar system at the whim
of comets?
This was one of the questions David Levy,
nationally-known amateur astronomer, raised
Tuesday in his speech, "Jupiter and Shoemaker
9: The Great Collision."
The speech was part of Auburn's Franklin
Lectures in the Sciences and Humanities.
About 150 combined astronomy buffs, stu­dents
and faculty attended the speech in Broun
Hall.
Levy received notoriety when he and fellow
astronomer Gene Shoemaker discovered the
now-famous comet which struck Jupiter in the
summer of 1994.
"People have a natural curiosity with
unknowns, like space, which was placed with­in
them from the earliest days," Michael
Bozake, Auburn associate physics professor,
said.
The comet's impact with Jupiter was fea­tured
on the covers of Time and U.S. News and
World Reports.
"The comet was over four billion years old.
We weren't here when it was born, but we saw
it die," Levy said.
Levy, 47, began looking for comets in 1965.
His interest in outer space stems from his
childhood and a book his father made him
1
read — Hamlet. I
"There are more things in heaven and earth,
Horatio, than are dreamt of in your
philosophy,"
Shakespeare wrote.
This was the quote
that helped inspire
Levy to become, what
he calls, "a nightwatch-man
of the sky."
For the first five years
he didn't find anything.
"It's not the discovery, but
the search that's the most
important," Levy said.
But later Levy did begin
discovering comets, culmi­nating
in his 1994 discovery
at a California observatory.
Comets mean different
things to different people, Levy
said.
Singer and song writer Mary
Chapin Carpenter describes comets as,
"a bit of heaven shot across the sky," in her
song, "Haley came to Jackson," Levy said.
Levy describes comets as "huge balls of
frozen snow."
He said that when a comet nears the sun, it
heats and develops a luminescent cloud and an
elongated vapor trail.
A typical comet is about 10 to 15 miles
\
across, he said.
He said all the comets that have been seen
prior to Shoemaker-Levy 9 have orbited the
sun.
Shoemaker-Levy 9, however, was orbiting
Jupiter and, "it was making its final orbit,"
Levy said.
Pictures from NASA's Hubble telescope
showed that the comet had been spilt into 21
pieces by the tremendous pulling force of
Jupiter's gravity.
Jupiter's gravity acts more than 200 times
stronger than the moon's gravity acts on the
earth's water, Levy said.
"Never before had nature given us such
a glaring example of tidal force," he
said.
Levy said the pictures of
Jupiter's surface show thou­sands
of surface impact
areas where comets have
hit over millions of years.
"Who would have
thought we would be able
to see one in our lifetime,"
he said.
He said the first of the 21 pieces hit Jupiter
on July 16,1994.
When Levy showed
the audience actual
See Comet / B-3
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Valentine Melodies.
Serenaders play Cupid for students
By Dawn Kent
CONTRIBUTED PHOTO
Performing a variety of big band music, the Auburn Knights prepare for the Valentine's Day dance.
AU Knights hold dance for holiday
By Chad Barwick
Staff Writer
Valentines will swing in style
with a little help from the Auburn
Knights Orchestra.
The orchestra is holding a dance
Feb.14 in the main ballroom of the
Auburn Hotel and Conference
Center at 7 p.m.
Rick Munden, 04EE, business
manager and trumpet player for
the ensemble, said, "This will be
the first time we have performed a
public dance in more than one
and a half years."
Virginia Munden, Rick's grand­mother,
has seen the orchestra
play twice and said, "I think they
are great.
"I really enjoy what they play
and am hoping to hear them at the
Valentine's dance."
Munden describes the music
that will be played at the
Valentine's dance as "big band
music ranging from Count Basie
to Glenn Miller" and will include
the medley "My Funny
Valentine."
Joy Thomas, a trumpet player
for the orchestra became interest­ed
in the Knights at an early age.
"My brother was a member of
the Auburn Knights and I used to
go hear him play all the time, and
since there aren't many female
trumpet players, I thought, 'that is
going to be me,'" she said.
Thomas is involved with the
Valentine's dance in more than
just playing swinging tunes, she is
also in charge of putting up the
decorations.
"There are Y7 of us and we all
help out in preparing for the
dance," she said.
Munden said, "It's the best
entertainment you can get for the
money."
The dance is open to the public
and admission will be $5 per per­son.
The Knights started in 1930, and
have continued to play over the
years. Now it is an orchestra com­prised
of trumpet, saxophone and
trombone players, guitar players,
a drummer and a jazz piano play­er.
Assistant News Editor
Two campus groups associated
with the music department will be
helping students send their loved
ones a special present this
Valentine's Day.
The Auburn Women of Music
and Phi Mu Alpha, a professional
music fraternity, will be delivering
singing valentines across campus
this Wednesday.
Jeff Grant, 03CNM, publicity
director for singing valentines for
Phi Mu Alpha, said this is a
fundraiser they've been doing for
several years.
"Part of our job is to promote
music on campus," Grant said of
the fraternity.
Grant said students can call and
order a valentine to be sent any­time
on Wednesday. The package
costs $15 and includes one song
and a rose. A quartet of men from
Phi Mu Alpha dressed in tuxedos
will deliver the serenade.
The fraternity uses the money
gained from the fundraiser to help
the music department, Grant said.
"We provide Cokes for the band
on football Saturdays. We are also
going to put the money towards a
marquee that announces concerts
and recitals. It will become a per­manent
fixture on the breezeway
through Goodwin Hall," he said.
Carla Okouchi, 04CNM, presi­dent
of Auburn Women of Music,
said their fundraiser is the same as
Phi Mu Alpha's except women
deliver the serenade.
"If a girl wants her boyfriend
serenaded, we do it," she said.
Okouchi said her club's package
costs the same and includes one
song and a rose like Phi Mu
Alpha's. "The girls are dressed in
concert dress," she said.
Liz Monk, 02CNM, member of
Auburn Women of Music, said the
club put on this fundraiser last
year, and it was very effective.
"We went all over Auburn to
places like Gold's Gym, Denaro's,
the Air Force Building and frater­nity
houses," she said.
Monk said the club was plan­ning
on using the money it raised
to put mirrors in the music build-
BRADHANNA/Art Editor
ing.
Okouchi said Auburn Women
of Music is comprised of about 25
women who are music majors of
involved in University music
groups.
"We're trying to become a pro­fessional
music sorority, the oppo­site
of Phi Mu Alpha," she said.
Okouchi said they are publiciz­ing
the singing valentines by
putting flyers up around campus.
She said a lot of people have heard
about it through word of mouth.
To order a singing valentine for
your sweetie, call Michelle at 821-
6028 for Auburn Women of Music
or Brian Benton at 887-5852 for Phi
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Forestry school sets up scholarship in faculty member's name
The University's School of Forestry is recognizing longtime faculty member Earl DeBrunner by estab­lishing
a scholarship fund in his name. DeBrunner died on Dec. 11 after a three-month battle with cancer.
DeBrunner was a 34-year veteran of the School of Forestry and served as coordinator of student services
for the last 10 years. He retired on Nov. 1 when he became too ill to continue working.
"He was our primary contact with students, and he always made sure that our undergraduate program
ran smoothly," Emmett Thompson, dean of forestry, said. "He was our primary contact with the various
student offices on campus, potential students and employers. We will greatly miss his expertise in all these
areas," Thompson said.
DeBrunner held degrees from the University of Cincinatti and Yale University. He earned his doctorate
from Duke University and spent most of his career at Auburn.
Gifts to the Earl DeBrunner Scholarship Fund in the School of Forestry may be made to the dean's office
in M.W. Smith Hall or the Auburn University Foundation through the Alumni Center.
— Compiled from University Relations press releases
UAB professor visits Auburn as part of Joy Goodwin Lecture Series
Suzanne Oparil, professor of medicine and director of the University of Alabama at Birmingham's
Vascular Biology and Hypertension program, will speak at Auburn next week as part of the Joy Goodwin
Lecture Series.
Oparil, who was president of the American Heart Association for 1994-95, will speak on "The Cardiac
Renin Angiotensin System in Hypertrophy and the Transition to Failure" at 4 p.m. on Monday, Feb. 12, in
Overton Auditorium at the College of Veterinary Medicine. She will also speak on "Cardiovascular Risk
Factors in Women" on Tuesday, Feb. 13, at 8:15 a.m. at the Auburn University Hotel and Conference
Center. The lectures are open to the public.
Other Campuses
ECU resident adviser charged with drug, weapon possession
A resident adviser at East Carolina University in Greenville, N.C., has been arrested for possession of
drugs and weapons.
Alan Mark Newton was charged with felonious possession of weapons on campus, aggravated posses­sion
of marijuana and possession of drug paraphernalia after ECU police officers searched his room.
According to an ECU police report, they found a 12-gauge Remington shotgun, 7 mm bolt action mag rifle,
ammunition for the rifle and the shotgun, a hunting knife, a sheath in a bag under his bed, 24.25 grams of
marijuana on his desk, rolling papers and two burnt joints in a film canister on the top of his desk.
The police report said officers responded to a call at Fleming Hall when a resident smelled marijuana
coming from Newton's room. The police officers also smelled marijuana coming from Newton's room
when they arrived. Officers conducted a search of the room after Newton gave his consent. During the
incident, Newton was cooperative with the officers and informed them where they could find the mari­juana
in his room.
ECU Housing Services could not comment on the incident because it is a civil matter, and it prohibits per­sons
involved from talking about it until the case has gone to trial and is settled.
Jason Dees, a sophomore middle-grade education major who was a resident under Newton's supervi­sion,
said he feels that Newton disappointed the rest of the students.
"Alan let us down. He was supposed to be a positive role model," Dees said.
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Editors Continued from B-1
their plans and ways of improving
the publication.
In addition to these require­ments,
the editor of The Auburn
Plainsman must have taken or be
enrolled in reporting and editing
classes.
Once these qualifications had
been met, the board interviewed
the applicants and gave approval
for them to run for the position,
Hall said.
Now that the board has
approved the candidates,
Sheffield and Walker must file a
declaration of intent with the SGA
to run. SGA administers a test to
everyone who is running for the
elections, Hall said.
The candidates will appear on
the ballots in the April elections,
and they will then be able to claim
their position.
However, the two applicants
know that the position of editor is
not just a title, but also a large
amount of work.
The editor has to oversee each
area of the publication- from the
words to the photographs. The
editor is also in charge of the staff
and must ensure that they meet
their deadlines.
"I've learned from our mistakes
and I can improve on those, and
try to make things better overall,"
Walker said.
"I'm going to work to try to
make sure that people that we talk
to and the people who read our
paper are going to know who we
are. People will be able to put a
face with a name next year."
And it is next year that they
must prove themselves as they
take over the reins of the Glomerata
and The Auburn Plainsman.
Talent Continued from B-1
"Somewhere, somehow." They
began the song looking away from
each other, but by the end of the
song they were staring into each
others' eyes. Both their move­ments
and words made a touch­ing
scene.
Allison Pierce, 01FCD, and
Catherine Pierce, 01THLA, per­formed
a vocal duet, "Hide
Away."
The audience likened itself to a
football-game crowd when it rose,
clapped and screamed during
David Hamm's, 03PB, perfor­mance.
He sang the country song,
"Wink" while country dancing.
Holly Elrod, 02APT, performed
a pointe ballet dance to "With One
Look."
Her beauty and grace captured
the audience's attention.
The show ended with a unique
act called the "Performing Arts
Light Show." While two men were
singing "Let Love Rule" by Lenny
Kravitz and playing guitars,
another played with two glow-in-the-
dark sticks. The performance
was psychedelic, and the crowd
loved it.
Ironically, more people showed
up at the end of the show to see
the special musical entertainment,
Crack Babies.
The crowd went crazy as Crack
Babies played, "She'll Be Coming
'Round the Mountain."
The lead singer played the har­monica
and had Christmas lights
wrapped around his body. He and
another member wore leggings
with underwear over them. One
guy wore a grass skirt, and anoth­er
wore a bathrobe.
Comet Continued from B-1
footage of the comet hitting
Jupiter there was a collective mur­mur
from the crowd.
From a telescope's view the
comet looked like a ball of light
that began to grow on the surface
of the planet when it hit, he said.
Levy pointed to a small area of
the light and said, "That's the size
of the earth."
-There was another murmur
from the audience.
"If one Hiroshima-type bomb
exploded every second for nine
and a half years, it would equal
the total energy when Shoemaker-
Levy 9 hit Jupiter," Levy said.
The U. S. Congress took note of
the collision, because it "was right
in the Earth's neighborhood,"
Levy said.
In July of 1994 Congress voted
to instruct NASA to begin a search
for potentially earth-threatening
comets.
Levy said the last comet to hit
the earth did so 65 million years
ago, causing the extinction of the
dinosaurs.
A vast crater beneath Mexico's
Yucatan Peninsula appears to be
the site of the impact.
Levy said a comet the size of
Shoemaker-Levy 9 hits the earth
once every 100 billion years.
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The Auburn aerobics program,
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Program Council, is a big hit on
campus. More than 100 women,
including students and spouses of
students, attend the Tuesday and
Thursday aerobics classes in the
Student Activities Center.
Colleen Edmonds, 04CE, runs
the program and teaches the
Tuesday and Thursday step aero­bics
class. A combination of her
outgoing personality, different
routines and upbeat music keeps
the class motivated.
"If I see or learn something new,
I try it at home first, and I try a lot
of things during rehearsal. I think
the biggest thing about aerobics is
emotion, letting people know to
do their best," Edmonds said.
Funding is a problem for the
program. Because there are only
about 100 benches, many people
have stopped attending. If you do
not arrive 10 minutes before the
class, you probably will not
receive a bench.
"We need more equipment, and
it doesn't take a lot of money to
make a difference. All we need is
about 15 more benches and about
$150 worth of hand weights,"
Edmonds said.
AMANDA CHANCEY/Photo Staff
Air Force R0TC Instructor Ineal Knowlton, center, participates in the step aerobics class in the Student Act.
While most universities have at
least two aerobic classes a day,
Auburn has only one. "I'm work­ing
on getting two classes a day, at
4 p.m. and 6 p.m.," Edmonds said.
Amanda Koch, 04MRB, said, "I
think there needs to be more vari­ety
and more classes available,
and there's not enough benches."
Edmonds said there are a few
women who have lost a lot of
weight. One student who regular­ly
attends class has lost 25 pounds
since she began.
Tara Grant, assistant director of
UPC, and others are trying to get
the budget approved by the SGA
Senate. "I went one day, and half
the girls didn't have benches,"
Grant said.
"We're working on getting more
benches and doubling the pro­gram.
We're also working on get­ting
a headphone set for the girls
(instructors). If the money comes
available, we'll try to build it up."
Shannon Stover teaches high-low
impact aerobics on Monday at
4 p.m., and Alison Witerow teach­es
the class on Wednesday at 4
p.m.
Stover, who said she feels that
funding is a problem, said, "I love
to teach, but as far as the gym and
facilities, I think it could be bet­ter."
Stover said she is working with
Jennifer Jarvis, director of recre­ational
services, to get classes at 8
a.m. for spring quarter.
Aerobics is from 4 p.m. to 5
p.m., Monday through Thursday.'
Body-shaping follows from 5-5:30.
High-low impact aerobics is on
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