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Provost nears decision on committee
National search for vice
president for student
affairs to begin after
Walker selects committee
By BILL BARROW
Editor
Provost William Walker should appoint the search
committee for a new vice president for student affairs
before the end of this quarter.
Bettye Burkhalter announced her plans to retire in a
Nov. 3 memorandum to employees within the division
of student affairs.
She asked the provost to form
the search committee by the end
of this quarter.
Walker was out of town and
unavailable for comment, but
SGA President Andrew Nix and
Burkhalter said they expect
Walker to make the appointments
before the holidays.
President William V. Muse said
search committees of this nature usually contain 10-12
members. An undetermined number of students will be
asked to serve on the committee.
Nix said he will nominate four to five students to
serve on the committee, but would not reveal his
sources until after he submits the names to Walker. "I
should give the names to Dr. Walker by Friday. I expect
WALKER
Dr. Walker to appoint three to four
students," he said.
After a meeting with Walker
Tuesday, Nix said he expects about
20 people to be on the committee.
"But nothing is definite," he said.
University policy dictates
that one trustee serve on the com­mittee,
as well. Jimmy Samford,
president pro tern of the Board of
Trustees, has yet to appoint a trustee to the committee.
The search process will be national, as federal and
University policy require the position to be advertised
in the Chronicle of Higher Education.
Burkhalter said she and a team of Student Affairs
officials are crafting a specific job description for the
national announcement. "It needs to be a national
BURKHALTER
search, and the job needs to be clearly defined,"
Burkhalter said.
The committee is expected to begin work early win­ter
quarter after applicants have the opportunity to send
in formal applications. • _
The committee will be charged with narrowing the
field of applicants to an undetermined number of fin4-
ists, each of whom will then come to campus to inter--
view formally for the position.
Muse will make the final recommendation to the
Board of Trustees.
Burkhalter said her involvement in the process will be
minimal. "I shouldn t be involved with the committee's
work," she said. "Now, after the committee makes its
final recommendation to the provost and the president,
I think I should be a part of the team that makes the fiijal;
recommendation to the Board of Trustees."
Siegelman
signs tax plan
for business
By SCOTT PARROTT
Assistant News Editor
With the stroke of a pen, Gov. Don Siegelman
approved four bills designed to save the state from a
$120 million financial crisis and brought a special
legislative session called for the express purpose of
addressing that crisis to a close.
On Monday Siegelman signed three of the four
Dills comprising the tax-replacement package, which
awinakers hope will save the state from what the
governor has called a catastrophe.
"Without this replacement revenue, this state would
have been forced to go without Meals on Wheels for
seniors, forced to move people from the work force
back on welfare, forced to cut children's insurance,
and forced to put felons back on
SPECIAL our streets and into our commu­nities,"
Siegelman said.
The bills were given final
approval by the Senate last
Monday, after minor changes.
The bills were then sent to
the House of Representatives
S E S S I O N last Tuesday, where in a 68-21
vote, state representatives gave
final approval to the tax package that will replace
Alabama's unconstitutional franchise tax.
The franchise tax, which is basically a tax on doing
business in the state, was declared unconstitutional by
the U.S. Supreme Court in March because it charged
out-of-state corporations more than in-state ones. In
1998, 17,000 out-of-state businesses operating in
Alabama paid $110 million in franchise taxes, while
58,000 in-state businesses paid $9 million.
The fourth bill in the package did not require the
governor's signature. Instead, it will be addressed in
a special referendum March 21 in which voters will
decide whether to allow a 1.5 percent increase in the
state's corporate income tax.
Proposals were made during the first Senate
debates to hold the income tax hike referendum with
next year's June 6 primary election, which would
save the state $3.5 million, the cost of the special
election.
The proposals were rejected, much to the relief of
business leaders, who said it would be easier to pass
the income tax hike in a one-issue election.
Sen. Ted Little, D-Auburn, said it was unreasonable
for taxpayers to have to bear the cost of the election,
but that the business community took on heat and
raised the franchise tax to carry the burden of the
election costs.
'To me, 75 days does not make that much of a dif-
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HOLIDAY HUNTING Accidental
shooting
claims life I
after game
By ADAM JONES
News Staff
As police were directing traffic after
the Auburn-Alabama football game on
Nov. 20, Andria Danford was shot in the
head near the corner of East Glenn
Avenue and North College Street.
She' was taken to East Alabama
Medical Center where she was pro­nounced
dead.
Auburn City Police came to the scene
around 11:25 p.m. They found Danford,
20, of Smith Station inside her vehicle.
She had been shot one time.
According to police reports, Jason L.
Roberts of Kingston Springs, Tenn., was
identified as the shooter and apprehended
by police that night.
Roberts, 21, was formally charged with
manslaughter, according to police
reports. "
Roberts, Danford and one other person
were traveling in the same vehicle when
the shooting occurred. According \to
police, Roberts was carrying a .357
revolver under his shirt.
Roberts, who was seated in the back,
decided to move the pistol to another
place as the car approached College
Street. As he was doing this, the pistol
fired, shooting Danford in the back of the
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Cory Wilson, a graduate student in business administration, gets a head start on
Christmas shopping in Auburn's Colonial Mall. For information on shopping and
I local holiday festivities, see stories on B2 and C1.
Architects hold second student forum
By MANDY HUDSON
News Staff
X marks the spot for a centrally locat­ed
new student union.
Of three sites discussed, student input
at an open forum Thursday, Nov. 18,
echoed the Student Planning
Committee's recommendation in favor of
Site No. 2, on the southeastern side of
Jordan-Hare Stadium.
In this second' forum with' WTW
Architects of Pittsburghj Pa., and
University Architect Tom Tillman, stu­dents
voiced their opinions oh the com­position
and location of a new building.
"The students are interested in a cen­tral
site. We guard the central sites on
campus very care­fully.
Just because
there's a parking lot
or piece of property
with no building
doesn't mean that
site is available,"
Tillman said.
Brian McNeeley,
a senior in account­ing
on the SPC, said he favors the loca­tion
because,"It encompasses both ath-
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letics, academics, arts and recreation all
in one place. It preserves green space
without moving the eagle.
"It preserves what the students wanted,
but at the same time compensates with
parking a block away."
The SPC narrowed its recommenda­tion
down to the area between Alison
Hall and the Math Annex. Parking was
the primary disadvantage to the student-preferred
site.
Site 1 is the current union site, by
either entirely removing or renovating
Foy Union.
Site 3 is the edge of campus at the
intersection of old Wire Road and Thach
Avenue.
While not a central campus location,
Site 3 is adjacent to C-zone parking and
draw together fraternity housing, off-campus
housing and the Caroline
Draughon Village, with the campus td-t(s
east. H
"The problem with No.l is that yb'u
can tear (Foy) down, but you're goinglb
be without a union for two years," arcfu-tect
Doug Shuck said.
Debbie Conner, director of Foy
Student Union, said the building cojrj-
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National State Local
Protest disrupts WTO talks
Opening ceremonies in Seattle
for the largest trade event ever
staged in the United States were
cancelled Tuesday, after demon­strators
prompted officials to
impose a curfew and call upon un­armed
National Guard troops.
Mayor Paul Schell declared a
civil emergency and imposed a
curfew from 7 p.m. to 7:30 a.m. on
Wednesday for the arrival of
President Clinton, who is sched­uled
to speak before the World
Trade Organization at that time.
The curfew and call for more
than 200 National Guard personnel
came shortly after roving bands of
protesters blocked major thorough­fares
and random acts of violence,
including breaking windows in
downtown buildings.
WTO director General Mike
Moore vowed that the assembled
nations would succeed in launch­ing
a new round of multinational
trade negotiations to lower tariffs
and other barriers on agricultural
products, manufactured goods and
services such as banking and insur­ance.
After a three-hour delay in the
morning opening, WTO officials
gave up and said they would break
for lunch. They re-assembled in
the convention center that after­noon.
Court upholds ruling on
multi-language driver exam
A federal appeals court ruled
Tuesday that Alabama must offer
driver license exams in different
languages.
The U.S. Eleventh Circuit Court
of Appeals affirmed the 1998 'rul­ing
by U.S. District Judge Ira
DeMent, who found that the state's
practice of English-only exams
was discriminatory.
The state was ordered to offer
exams in Spanish, French,
German, Japanese, Korean,
Mandarin Chinese and
Vietnamese.
By the year 2000, there will be
an estimated 24,069 adults in
Alabama who are not proficient in
English, according to projections
by the Auburn University
Montgomery Center for
Demographic and Cultural
Research.
The state has previously given
driver exams in 14 other languages
than English, including Spanish,
Korean, Farsi, Arabic and Thai.
But in 1990, Alabama voters
overwhelmingly approved a con­stitutional
amendment making
English the state's official lan­guage.
That's when the
Department of Public Safety chose
to start giving tests only in English.
Grant to help University set
up community databases
A federal grant will enable
Auburn University to set up a pair
of databases which community
service/non-profit organizations
statewide can access when orga­nizing
service projects and initia­tives.
The $141,789 grant will allow
the University and the
Appalachian Regional
Commission, a multi-state com­munity
service organization, to set
up two databases, known as a
"leadership clearinghouse," on
campus during the next 12
months.
The databases, which will be
accessible through the Internet,
are to include lists of volunteer
leadership programs and program
models which can be used by a
community service group plan­ning
a project in a particular area.
The Appalachian Regional
Commission was founded in 1965
as a supplemental grant program
designed to raise the standard of
living, improve the quality of life
and stimulate economic develop­ment
in the Appalachian
Mountains region, which spans
such states as Alabama, Georgia,
.Tennessee, North Carolina and
Virginia.
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11/30/99 7 a.m.; 820 Heard Ave. — White
wooden reindeer decoration, valued at $40,
reported stolen.
11/30/99 6:30 a.m.; 851 Lee Road 10 Lot 2 —
RCA VCR, valued at $100, and a jewelry box
with assorted jewelry, valued at $200, reported
stolen. A wooden desk reported damaged, valued
at $75.
11/30/99 9 a.m.; Eagle Chevron, S. College
St — Unleaded gasoline reported stolen, valued
at $20.65.
11/30/99 4:10 p.m.; Hwy 147, Farmville —
1999 Toyota Land Cruiser front bumper and grill
reported damaged, valued at $1,000.
11/30/99 7 p.m.; Exxon, 2370 U.S. Hwy 295
— Gasoline, valued at $13, reported stolen.
11/30/99 8:30 p.m.; Chevron, 1599 S. College
St — Gasoline, valued at $7, reported stolen.
11/30/99 5:30 p.m.; Hilltop Pine Apts, 1355
Commerce Drive— Rear of Mazda Miata spray
painted blue, damage valued at $500.
11/28/99 3:30 p.m.; Magnolia Woods Apts,
427 E. Magnolia Ave. — Door frame reported
damaged, valued at $100.
11/27/99 9:45 a.m.; 1449 Richland Road —
Compass Bank checkbook, Alabama driver's
license, .valued at $20, and VISA check card
reported stolen.
11/27/99 12:30 a.m.; 1449 Richland Road-
Checkbook, JCPenny card, driver's license,
Mastercard and $200 reported stolen.
11/27/99 2 p.m.; Susanna Village, Lee Road
672 — Toyota Corolla driver's window reported
damaged, valued at $300. Brown Dooney and
Burke wallet, valued at $70, and Alabama driver's
license, valued at $20, reported stolen.
11/27/99 7 p.m.; Colonial Mall parking lot —
Left side and rear mirrors damaged, valued at
$500.
11/26/99 11 p.m.; Webster's Crossing Mobile
Home Park, 425 Webster Road 146 —
Oldsmobile Cutlass front driver's side fender
reported damaged, valued at $500.
11/26/99 11 a.m.; Ruby Tuesday, Opelika
Road — Nokia cellular phone, valued at $110,
reported stolen.
11/26/99 11:59 p.m.; Wrights Mill Road —
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The East Alabama Food Bank would like to
congratulate and thank the following student
organizations and university departments for
participating in the sixth annual "Auburn-
Alabama Food Fight" of 1999.While the trophy
returns to Tuscaloosa after two years in Auburn,
those in need locally continue to benefit from
your support.
Auburn University 24,119 lbs.
University of Alabama 31,639 lbs.
Thanks again to everyone who helped make
the Food Fight a success for Auburn University
and the East Alabama Food Bank. Due to your
efforts, many families in East Central Alabama
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By ADAM JONES
News Staff
The groundbreaking ceremony for
the new Veterans Memorial was held
Nov. 23.
The memorial will be located on
the corner of Glenn Avenue and
North Ross Street and is projected to
be dedicated on Memorial Day 2000.
The site was chosen on May 18,
1999, by the Auburn City Council.
The resolution which authorized the
memorial said, "Auburn wishes to
have a permanent reminder of the
individuals who paid the ultimate
price for our freedom." The plans
were announced last Memorial Day
at a breakfast held by Mayor Bill
Ham.
"We are very excited about honor­ing
veterans in Auburn. We feel it
will be very meaningful to veterans,
their families and the community,"
said Doug Watson, Auburn city man­ager.
Jay Crowder, the chairman of the
Veterans Memorial Committee, said
many towns around Auburn and the
state have memorials to honor veter­ans.
The monument will be a 20 to 25
foot obelisk surrounded by brick sit­ting
areas and a flagpole.1 October
Glory Red Maple trees, Foster
Hollies and seasonal annuals will sur­round
the area. Watson said it will be
a park-type setting.
Since the town doesn't have a city
square, the corner of Glenn Avenue
and Ross Street gives the monument
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The Veterans Memorial will be located on the corner
of Glenn Avenue and North Ross Street.
high visibility.
"This monument will be a special
reminder to Auburn residents and vis­itors
of the people who have served
our country so well in the past," said
Jay Crowder, who served in World
War II, the Korean War and the
Vietnam War. He retired in 1973 as a
Navy Captain.
"We want to honor those who
fought for freedom," said James Foy,
also a member of the Veterans
Memorial Committee. Foy served 10
years in the Navy as a fighter pilot
serving four of those years in combat
during World War II. Foy said
America can never give enough
praise to those who died fighting for
our country.
Watson said the project will cost an
estimated $150,000. The committee
will raise money by donations and
fund raising. Bricks engraved with
veterans names' and service years
will be sold for $100 a brick.
Crowder said city officials feel the
committee can raise the funds needed
by May 2000 because other volunteer
projects such as Hickory Dickory
Park and Hospice House were suc­cessful.
"People are real generous in
Auburn about these sort of things,"
Crowder said.
An inscription on the monument
will read, "Honoring those who
served," Watson said.
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Rise in smoking attributed to young smokers
By FRANCES BOWDOIN
News Staff
The smoking rate in Alabama
increased 4.6 percent in three years,
from 18.3 in 1995 to 24.6 percent
in 1998, according to the Alabama
Department of Public Health.
State health officials attribute
this increase to a growing genera­tion
of young smokers.
Although Alabama's smoking
rate increased, the national average
dropped to 22.9 percent.
Dr. Jim McVay of the state
Health Department said the
increase due to high numbers of
adolescent smokers who are now
reaching the adult population. He
said the rate is highest among
young adults, 18 to 25 years old.
David Hodge, a student coun­selor
at the University, said the
increase "really doesn't surprise
me."
"Nicotine is the most addictive
substance we have," Hodge said.
"We use all the substances on an
experimental basis," he said. "After
that, we see that it is socially
acceptable."
According to the American
Cancer Society, nicotine is more
habit-forming than alcohol and
many drugs including, LSD, mari­juana
and methamphetamine.
Hodge said smoking is so addic-
CREC BROWN/Photo Staff
Wesley Smith, senior in criminal justice, smokes between
classes. The smoking rate is highest among students.
tive because it only takes six to
eight se.conds for nicotine to reach
the brain, and it gets out of the
body's system in minutes.
He said the main reason people
even begin smoking is to be accept­ed
by friends.
"Peer influence is a very big
component," Hodge said. "We start
associating having fun with smok­ing
and drinking."
"We want what is normal rather
than healthy," he added.
The four phases of any substance
use are use, abuse, dependency and
addiction, and Hodge says the
addiction stage of the process is the
hardest to turn from.
The first stage is the social realm
of the process that includes smok­ing
with friends. The next two
stages deal with the physiological
realm of smoking, like craving a
cigarette after a big meal or having
a headache when not smoking.
Addiction is the fourth phase and
this is the biological realm. To be
considered as addicted, smokers
must be out of control, have a com­pulsion
to smoke and smoke
despite the consequences.
"Addiction is the chain smoker,
or people diagnosed with cancer
who continue to smoke," Hodge
said.
He said that a person who has
crossed the line from dependency
to addiction needs to turn to absti­nence.
"I believe addiction is genetic,"
Hodge said. But he said he feels
that "given the appropriate conse­quences,
they can quit."
According to the American
Cancer Society, 6,000 children
nationally try cigarettes and half
become addicted, and 90 percent of
adult smokers started before age
19.
The Bacchus and Gamma Peer
Education Network reported that a
person who smokes one pack of
cigarettes per day will spend
approximately $1,000 a year on
their habit.
Do you want to quit smoking
today? Many University services
are aimed at helping students stop
unwanted habits. Contact the
Student Counseling Services at
844-5123.
Local bars see little result from Sunday liquor sales
By COLE WHITAKER
Staff Writer
Despite the hoopla of Sunday liquor sale legal­ization,
bar owners say they are not seeing the
benefits.
Of the few bars in Auburn that decided to open
their doors on Sundays since the referendum
passed, none have seen a boost in sales. In fact,
Josh Bruce, general manager of Fink's Grill, said
they are losing money on Sundays just to have
their doors open.
"We're not making enough on Sundays to pay
our labor costs right now," Bruce said.
Citizens of Lee County voted on Oct. 12 to
legalize the sale of liquor and beer on Sundays,
allowing the bars in Auburn one more day of the
week to be open. While many students saw this as
a blessing at the time, they have failed to take
advantage of the opportunity.
"Except for the Sunday night that the Braves
were playing in the World Series, we've been
dead. Sunday Night Football just doesn't do it,"
Bruce said.
"We're shooting more for the restaurant crowd
on Sundays, which I think is good. The sign out
front says Fink's grill, not Fink's Bar.
"There's definitely a market out there for a bar
or restaurant to be open on Sundays," Bruce said.
"We're just still trying to figure out how to get the
patrons in here. -We tried half-price pool on
Sunday evenings, but the the turnout was really
poor.
"We may try to use a different music scene on
Sundays — like jazz or blues or have a local musi­cians
night. We're planning on doing a lunch buf­fet
with cold sandwiches and hot spaghetti winter
quarter. We'll try anything at this point to keep
from having to close the doors. Voters said they
LAURA DOUGLAS/Ass/sranf Photo Editor
The legalization of Sunday liquor sales has not increased business for many
local restaurants and bars. Fink's Grill isn't breaking even on Sundays.
wanted it, we want to be able to provide it," Bruce
said.
Restaurants that were normally open on
Sundays aren't experiencing a drastic improve­ment
because of beer sales.
Dave Stone, manager of Bandito Burrito
Company, says they sell very little beer on
Sundays.
"We've always been open as a restaurant on
Sundays, so the same people are coming in that
always come in. I think that it just doesn't occur to
them that can order a beer."
Stone said the Sunday liquor sales have not hurt
the Mexican restaurant in any way, it just hasn't
helped business either.
The War Eagle Supper Club has also always
been open on Sundays. However, this bar and
music hall has always operated under a different
law. By selling memberships to the club, it was
able to fall into the legal category of private clubs
that allow the sale of alcohol on Sunday.
The new law gives Auburn residents more
options for Sunday nights. While current condi­tions
look bleak for bar owners, there is hope in
the future for all of them. All seem to believe the
students will come around. It just may take time
before it becomes natural to them. Until then, the
bars will do everything they can to keep the
Sunday patrons happy, even if they lose money in
the process.
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By NAPO MONASTERIO
Staff Writer
Auburn will glow tonight as if it
were Christmas Eve.
The city of Auburn is holding its
first Light the Night Leukemia
Walk, starting at 6:15 p.m. at the
Duck Samford Park. Registration
will begin at 5 p.m.
The Leukemia Walk, sponsored
by the Leukemia Society of
America, St. Vincent's Hospital
and The Tiger 95.9, is holding this
unique event as a fundraiser, as
well as a commemoration of the
50th anniversary of the Leukemia
Society of America.
Staci Brown, campaign director,
said they are expecting to raise
approximately $7,000 with this
event. The money raised will be
used to support the 46 leukemia
patients in Lee County, as well as
the Society's mission to cure
leukemia, lymphoma, Hodgkin's
disease and melanoma.
Money will also be used for
improving the quality of life for
patients and their families, Brown
said.
Light the Night Leukemia Walk
hopes to have at least 100 partici­pants
walking around Auburn.
Cancer survivors will carry illumi­nated
white balloons, while other
participants will carry red balloons,
Brown said.
"We have done a lot of advertise­ment,"
Brown said. "We sent a lot
of brochures to different organiza­tions
— UPC, as well as the
Opelika-Auburn News."
Registration is free and open to
anyone who wants to carry the
light of hope, and those who don't
want to walk around with these
unique inflatable lamps will also be
able to carry dedication banners.
Though this is the first time that
the Society is sponsoring this
event, Brown said they are plan­ning
to hold the Leukemia Walk
annually.
"We'll do it every year," Brown
said. "It's a really easy event
expense wise. Twenty-five dollars
is very easy to raise, and it's not
intimidating at all."
Mobile, Montgomery, Florence,
Fort Payne, Birmingham and
Huntsville will also have similar
Leukemia Walks tonight. In addi­tion,
four more events will be held
in the spring. Brown said they hope
to raise $100,000 by June.
Those attending the event
tonight will be rewarded with pizza
and refreshments. Those who are
able to raise $50 or more will also
be given a T-shirt, and those who
are able to collect $75 or more will
be awarded with a sweatshirt.
"I think people have a big con­cern
for these kinds of issues,"
Brown said. "There are 20 different
kinds of leukemia, and people are
concerned and ready to support
events like these for a good cause.
There are 1,799 leukemia patients
statewide.
Eating disorders endanger many young lives
By LESLIE GAITHER
Assistant News Editor
As she steps on the scales, she reads 88. At the
age of 22 being 5'6", her average weight is 125
to 130 pounds. She knows something is wrong
when she weighs 37 pounds less than what she
is supposed to.
"In high school, I was a size 8 and weighed
about 128," a senior in elementary education
said. "I started trying to lose weight my fresh­man
year in college."
She got engaged to her high school sweetheart
her freshman year. The wedding was planned for
January of 1998. "I started by wanting to lose
weight for the wedding, but then before I knew
it, it turned into a problem," she said. "I have
had an eating disorder for three years."
Every year millions of people in the United
States are affected by serious and sometimes
life-threatening eating disorders. The vast
majority, more than 90 percent, of those afflict­ed
with eating disorders are adolescent and
young women.
Approximately 1 percent of adolescent girls
develop anorexia nervosa, a dangerous condi­tion
in which people starve themselves in order
to become skinny.
"I started out by being anorexic," she said. "I
just stopped eating meals. After a while, it
became so easy. My disorder later turned into
bulimia."
Two to 3 percent of young women develop
bulimia nervosa, a destructive pattern of exces­sive
overeating followed by vomiting. This
behavior controls weight.
One reason women in this age group are par­ticularly
vulnerable to eating disorders is their
tendency to go on strict diets to achieve an ideal
figure. Researchers have found that such strin­gent
dieting can play a key role in triggering eat­ing
disorders.
These eating disorders do occur in men and
older women, but less frequently.
People who intentionally starve themselves
suffer from an eating disorder called anorexia
nervosa. The disorder, which usually begins in
young people around the time of puberty,
involves extreme weight loss, at least 15 percent
below the individual's normal body weight.
Many people with the disorder look emaciat­ed,
but are convinced they are overweight.
Sometimes they must be hospitalized to prevent
starvation.
People with bulimia nervosa consume large
amounts of food and then rid their bodies of the
excess calories by vomiting, abusing laxatives
or diuretics, taking enemas or exercising obses-
It has been a
ong, hard haul,
but i will survi
sively.
Some use a combination of all these forms of
purging. Because many individuals with bulim­ia
binge and purge in secret and maintain normal
or above normal body weight, they can often
successfully hide their problem from others for
years.
There are three main areas that in combina­tion,
likely cause most people's eating disorders.
These areas include personality factors, genetics
and the environment and biochemistry.
Most people with eating disorders share cer­tain
personality traits: low self-esteem, feelings
of helplessness and a fear of becoming fat. With
anorexia, bulimia and binge eating disorders,
eating behaviors seem to develop as a way of
handling stress and anxieties.
People trying to handle anxieties can be
affected in many different ways. Anorexia is just
one way, which leads these
people to think their figures
are too good to be true.
They rarely disobey, keep
their feelings to themselves
and tend to be perfection­ists;
they are good students
and excellent athletes.
Some researchers believe
that people with anorexia
restrict food, particularly
carbohydrates, to gain a sense of control in some
area of their lives. Having followed the wishes
of others for the most part, they have not learned
how to cope with the problems typical of ado­lescence,
growing up and becoming indepen­dent.
Controlling their weight appears to offer two
advantages: they can take control of their bodies
and gain approval from others. However, it
eventually becomes clear to others that they are
out-of-control and dangerously thin.
People who develop bulimia and binge eating
disorders typically consume huge amounts of
food, often junk food, to reduce stress and
relieve anxiety. Usually with binge eating comes
guilt and depression. Purging can bring relief,
but it is only temporary. .
Individuals with bulimia are also impulsive
and more likely to engage in risky behavior such
as abuse of alcohol and drugs.
Eating disorders appear to run in families,
with female relatives most often affected. This
finding suggests that genetic factors may predis­pose
some people to eating disorders. However,
other influences, both behavioral and environ­mental,
may also play a role.
One recent study found that mothers who are
overly concerned about their daughters' weight
and physical attractiveness might put the girls at
increased risk of developing an eating disorder.
In addition, girls with eating disorders often
have fathers, brothers or boyfriends who are
overly critical of their weight.
Biochemistry continues to be investigated as a
potential cause as well, with the focus on brain
neurotransmitters. Medications can often help to
counteract the effects of neurotransmitters,
which may be excessive or lacking within the
brain.
The consequences of eating disorders can be
severe. One in 10 cases of anorexia nervosa
leads to death from starvation, cardiac arrest,
other medical complications or suicide.
Fortunately, increasing awareness of the dan­gers
of eating disorders, sparked by medical
studies and extensive media coverage of the ill—
_ — - ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ness, has led many people to
seek help. Some people, how­ever,
with these disorders
refuse to admit that they have
a problem and do not get
treatment.
Family members and
friends can help recognize the
problem and encourage the
person to seek treatment.
~ ~ "I remember the day of my
wedding my bridesmaids, the ones from high
school, made such a big deal about the weight I
had loss," she said. "In the beginning, it was
somewhat encouraging to be told how good I
looked.
"It wasn't until later I discovered how bad a
problem I had by then, it was almost too late,"
she said.
She says now she was lucky in the respect that
she had a great family and supportive friends to
back her up every step of the way. Her parents
sent her to a ranch in Wichenburg, AZ., a place
for people with eating disorders.
The ranch counsels people with these prob­lems.
They are given certain amounts of food, in
which they have to eat every bit, and some are
given horses they have to feed, clean and take
care of. Some of these people come home cured;
some don't come home at all.
"It was being at the ranch that made me real­ize
what caused my eating disorder in the first
place," she said. "It is not something I want to
publicize."
She continues to work on this problem, and
continues to need help from her family and
friends. "It has been a long hard haul, but I will
survive," she said.
— Anonymous
Eating disorder survivor
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Low-carb diet causes unknown risks
Nutrition experts
disagree on new diet's
safety and effectiveness
as a long-term
weight loss plan
By LESLIE GAITHER
Assistant News Editor
Dr. Robert C. Atkins has another best seller
on the market. It is "Dr. Atkins" New Diet
Revolution."
Atkins' book is a guide to the low to no car­bohydrate
diet. He presents a fairly simple,
ketogenic low-carb plan.
Low carbohydrate diets are based on the the­ory
that many people cannot consume large
amounts of carbohydrate foods without having
their bodies create and store large amounts of
body fat.
"You lose water weight in the first week, not
fat," Dr. Robert Keith, professor of nutrition
and food sciences, said. "The second week you
begin to slow down."
Atkins' Ongoing Weight Loss (OWL) section
of the book is meant to be the main weight loss
portion, and should be read carefully to fully
understand the his plan, he explains in the
book.
According to Atkins' book, OWL involves
finding your own tolerance for carbohydrate
intake. Portions and calories are largely unreg­ulated.
'This diet encourages you to eat a lot of fat,"
Keith said. "You eat meat, eggs and cheese.
This tends to raise your blood cholesterol,
which is not good, and eventually you become
You cannot stay on
this diet for a long
period of time. The
diet becomes
monotonous and
makes you feel bad
later.
—Robert Keith
Professor, nutrition sciences
fatter."
This diet is a virtual opposite of the food
pyramid prescribed by most nutrition authori­ties.
Prohibited foods are all starches and sug­ars,
including grains, cereals, potatoes and
foods made with these ingredients.
"You cannot stay on
this diet for a long period n
of time," Keith said.
"The diet becomes
monotonous and makes
you feel bad later."
Unlike other diets,
most low carbohydrate
diets do not stress calorie
restriction. You eat
allowed foods until you
are satisfied, and should
never be hungry.
The only other impor-tant
requirement is to
drink a large amount of water.
"You lose weight fast because it is water
weight," Keith said. "If you don't eat as many
calories, you lose weight. The problem is peo­ple
get tired of eating the same foods, some quit
eating."
There are significant differences between low
fat and low carb diets.
When you starve your body of calories, pro­tein
and fat, it burns large amounts of both fat
and muscle to provide fuel. You lose weight,
but the loss of muscle tissue also shows physi­cally,
and reduces your basic metabolism rate.
On a proper low carb diet, your body burns
mostly fat and preserves your lean muscle tis­sue.
If you do any exercise, you will even add
lean muscle while still losing fat. This increas­es
your metabolism.
It is recommended by health professionals to
check your measurements as well as your
weight, since you may at time
s be getting leaner, while not getting any
lighter.
Another difference is the lack of hunger and
the absence of cravings. Some health advisers
think carbohydrates are like
"m—mmmmm~mmm~m addictive drugs, the more
one eats, the more one
craves.
According to Atkins, on a
low carbohydrate diet, once
one is past the initial few
days, those cravings signifi­cantly
diminish.
"People can loose weight
fairly easy, but the problem
is keeping the weight off,
Keith said. "The only way is
to exercise. Weight is con­trolled
by exercising."
There are different degrees to Atkins' diet.
Food allowed on one diet may not be allowed
on other diets. Understand possible conse­quences
of changes in diets.
One should seek the advise of a doctor before
starting or continuing a diet. There may be a
potential conflict with serious medical prob­lems
or prescription drugs by the requirements
of this diet.
"In the '70s, Atkins' had a best seller diet
book," Keith said. "The 20 and 30-year-olds
don't remember it. It should make you wander
why it isn't still around. We don't agree with
this diet."
According to Keith, as long as calories are
controlled, one can make up any sort of diet and
with vigorous exercise keep calories down and
weight off.
Special legislative session comes to a close
By SCOTT PARROTT
Assistant News Editor
While the ink was drying on a
$150 million tax package signed
into law by Gov. Don Siegelman
on Monday, state lawmakers were
giving final approval to several
bills and bringing the special leg­islative
session to a close.
The House and Senate addressed
a wide variety
of issues dur­ing
the three-week
long
special ses­sion,
from
school board
s e l e c t i o n
methods to
changes in
the current application of truancy
laws.
The main emphasis of the ses­sion
for lawmakers has been the
cooperation exhibited amongst
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partisan lines.
"The Legislature did a great deal
of work in a reasonable amount of
time," said Sen. Ted Little, D-Auburn.
"There was unity within
the House and Senate, as well as
partisan unity."
Sen. Lowell Barron, D-Fyffe,
said lawmakers worked together to
produce great things for the state.
"People came together with a
real sense of purpose for moving
the state forward," Barron said.
"This is the most I've seen the
state move forward in the 18 years
that I've been in Montgomery."
Among those bills passed by
lawmakers Monday:
• A bHl establishing a referendum
on switching to an elected school
board in Birmingham rather than
one appointed by the Birmingham
City Council.
The House of Representatives
voted Monday 67-0 to pass a con-
This is the most I've seen the
state move forward in the 18
years that I've been in
Montgomery. ?|
— Sen. Lowell Barron
D - Fyffe
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which will be held dur­ing
the presidential primaries next
year.
The vote will only apply to vot­ers
in Birmingham. A similar bill
was approved by Alabama voters
on the lottery referendum, for
cities smaller than 125,000.
Siegelman does not have to sign
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• Making Alabama's truancy laws
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enrolled in public school, not just
those between the ages of 7 and 16.
All children enrolled in public
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majority opinion of the Editorial Board of The Auburn Plainsman. Staff columns, guest columns, and letters to the
editor represent the opinions of their individual author(s). Opinions on these pages do not necessarily reflect the
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EDITORIALS
New century, new choices
Year 2000 a time to reflect on AUfs
past, resolve problems to benefit ALPs
That ever-expanding book of Auburn history is
about to begin a new volume, as the University
stands 29 days away from its third century.
Auburn has evolved from a small Methodist
school chartered in 1856 into a respected compre­hensive
institution. We have gone through four
names — East Alabama Male College,
Agricultural & Mechanical College of Alabama,
Alabama Polytechnic Institute and Auburn
University — and 16 presidents, names like Boyd,
Broun, Thach, Tichenor, Duncan, Draughon,
Philpott, Martin and Muse.
We are regionally acclaimed for offering a qual­ity
education at an affordable price, along with the
composite experience of a small college town, a
friendly campus, Southern values and a successful,
spirited athletics program.
Yet, we are not without our black eyes. For
years, Auburn has struggled from poor state fund­ing
from a Legislature that does not appreciate
higher education. Within the University, trustees
have long fought administrators and faculty, creat­ing
a false paradox between the land-grant
mission and the arts. Lost in
the dissension is this fundamental
truth: the two can peacefully coexist
and compliment each other
In the 1950s and '60s, the Board of
Trustees bitterly fought integration,
until the federal government forced
the enrollment of Harold Franklin as
Auburn's first black student. In the
1970s, the administration conceded
women's rights on campus, gradually
repealing strict curfews and dress
codes. The 80s began with the con­troversial
reign of the Hanly Funderburk adminis­tration.
It was followed with the greatest develop­ment
ever of Auburn's physical plant. It was a peri­od
of progress, but is a financial burden still today.
Along the way, academic freedom struggles
raged, as President James Martin did not grant
tenure to theologian Charles Curran in 1991
because he was too controversial. Free-thought
suppression continued last year when the Board of
Student Communication censured this paper's edi­tor.
So, as a new era dawns, we assert that Auburn
can move forward, must move forward, if the
University community takes this advice to heart:
Students: Make Auburn a lifetime commitment.
The alumni that are so vitally important to the insti­tution
once sat in our shoes. Respect this institu­tion
as more than a four-year social and school
club. Don't float through your student life as an
innocent bystander. Don't just let your school affect
you, affect your school. Watch this university
intently. Learn how it works. You will be a more
valuable student and alumnus armed with a true
knowledge of what makes Auburn tick.
Faculty: You are one of Auburn's greatest
IN SUMMARY
Issue: AU's past,
present and future
Recommendation:
Build on strengths of
a century of growth
by learning from
many mistakes.
Bridge the gap
between a good and
a great institution.
assets, but your frustration over deplorable fund­ing,
poor salaries, out-of-touch administrators and
narrow-minded trustees has sometimes clouded
your judgment. Continue to fight these injustices
that cripple the academic fabric of Auburn, but
always remember the academic discipline you love
and the 21,000 students you want to learn it.
Administration: You must balance responsible
management with a productive academic environ­ment.
Don't let that balance falter. The bottom line
is not money. The bottom line is not job security.
The bottom line is research, instruction and exten­sion.
You facilitate that three-pronged mission.
Trustees: You have not cornered the market on
what's best for Auburn. There are other voices in
the Auburn family: 140,000 living alumni, 21,000
students, 1,000 faculty members. There is strength
in those numbers. Heed their voice. It should be
more important than yours. Auburn suffers when
it is not.
Alumni: Pay attention. Look beyond the field of
Jordan-Hare Stadium. That's not where Auburn's
greatest successes are. Nor is it the
site of Auburn's greatest failures.
Those both lie elsewhere — in class­rooms,
research fields, board rooms,
etc. Auburn is more important than
GAF contributions and alumni club
meetings. Make your voice heard by
trustees in Auburn and legislators in
Montgomery. Give your money and
your time to Aubum academia — not
just Auburn athletics. Therein lies the
key to Auburn's educational potential.
Athletics department: Keep
up your positive work — being the
second-most profitable athletics department in the
country, winning national championships, boasting
a higher graduation rate than the general student
population.
But eliminate the embarrassment you have all-too-
often caused — multiple stints of NCAA pro­bation,
pressuring highly successful coaches into
resignation, buying out contracted football games,
repealing 1,000 complimentary basketball tickets
for school children, repeatedly paying former
coaches ridiculous amounts for phantom services.
Athletics is an important part of the Aubum
environment, but the University suffers when the
department becomes an institution of its own.
Athletics should be nothing more than an extracur­ricular
addition to the student experience. It is not
Auburn's sole identity.
In 1900, Aubum entered a century of mixed
blessings. One hundred years later the burden of
narrow minds, egoism and dissension keeps a good
institution from being a great institution. As we
stand to swallow that bitter-sweet pill of Aubum
history, as we begin to write another chapter, let us
strike down these ailments, declaring the 21st cen­tury
Auburn's greatest yet
No victory, but no riot
Nov. 20 was an evening of despair for Auburn
people, as the Alabama Crimson Tide conquered
the overmatched Tigers for the first time in
Jordan-Hare Stadium. Yet the riots, the fights,
the melee that many feared never materialized.
! ; With the exception of a few scattered punches,
disorderly conduct arrests, and an obnoxious vic­tory
cheer, fans of both schools displayed class.
Law enforcement officials were prepared for a
possible field storming from the victorious Tide
faithful. Officers from units around the state
lined up shoulder-to-shoulder to prevent such
disorder. Thanks to their efforts, and Alabama
fans' restraint, there was no field fiesta, except
fcjr Tide players, who earned the right to gloat
At Toomer's Comer, Aubum fans and students
protected the trees, as did more than 60 police
officials.
For the safety of the fans and the trees, we are
thankful. Everyone involved deserves congratu­lations.
Jimmy Ferguson, vice president for adminis­trative
services, University police chief Bill
Nevin, City of Aubum police chief Ed Downing,
all officers of the law on duty, and fans wearing
both crimson and white and orange and blue all
had a hand in preserving the dignity of the great­est
rivalry in all of college football.
Good for Auburn. Good for Alabama. Good
for the game.
ainsman
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JASON KEYMrt Editor
Legacy of a true fan proves Auburn
diploma is worth years of happiness
Close your eyes and try to imagine
this university in the 1930s when it
wasn't much bigger than the upper
quad ... When Toomer's Drugs still
sold medicine and Toomer's Corner
had no trees. When the Georgia game
was played in Columbus and pep ral-leys
were held in Langdon hall.
Barney Banks was just a poor boy
from Montgomery when he enrolled at
Alabama Polytechnic Institute in 1935.
He played trumpet in the University
band, studied diligently and waited
tables to work his way through college.
When he graduated in 1939, he
departed for Birmingham with only
$ 1,000 in savings and a new degree in
mechanical engineering. With those
simple beginnings, he founded one of
the most successful contracting firms in
Alabama.
Through the years, Barney kept his
connections to Auburn and in 1989 he
became a 50-year alumni — a "Golden
Eagle."
But Barney's most important legacy
and impact continues today, through
the excitement and love he passed on
to me, his grandson. I like to think
that's what he is most proud of.
"You can't
get a much better
education any­where,"
he used
to say to me. I
used to think he
was referring to
the books, teach­ers,
classes and
B E N labs, but my
B U C K N E R Auburneduca-
^ _ ^ — ^ _ tion taught me a
lot more than
that.
Like Granddaddy Banks in 1939,1
am preparing to enter the work force.
I'm nervous, but I'm not afraid.
Barring any last-minute failures, I will
have a degree from Aubum University.
That and little more was all he needed
to become a success.
I also have experiences. Following in
his footsteps, I played in the marching
band — one of the most rewarding
things I've ever done. I also had a
chance to work at one of the best stu­dent
newspapers in the country. The
hands-on experience I received here is
more valuable than anything I could
have learned from a book.
But most of all, as cliche as it
sounds, I truly feel like I am part of a
family.
Although my closest relationships
are with the people I lived with,
worked with, studied with and marched
with, I also have a connection to the
thousands of people who love Aubum
and what it stands for.
My grandfather passed away a few
weeks ago. We had been getting much
closer over the last year, my only
regret is he didn't get to see me gradu­ate.
Aubum meant the world to him,
and I think he knows how much it
means to me.
He had an amazing life, full of
friendship and joy, and he always cred­ited
Aubum for helping him reach that
happiness. He was committed to heav­en
in his orange and blue tie.
I just hope I can do half as well with
my degree as he did with his.
Goodbye Grandaddy Banks.
Goodbye all my friends, and goodbye
Aubum. You'll always be a part of me.
Ben Buckner is copy editor of
The Auburn Plainsman. You can
reach him at 844-9108 and
buckner@theplainsman.com.
Y2K: The end of the world as we
know it or just a damn good party?
The night before
The alarm is set. I'm getting woozy
thinking about it. This time of year has
a way of deteriorating my immune sys­tem.
Waking up is hard to do when you
got the flu.
My body drifts into r.e.m.
The world's alarm is set, too.
Maybe we'll all soon be scavenging
for water and food, planting booby
traps near our cupboard to keep those
pesky neighbors away and learning
how to use wood burning stoves again.
Won't that be a rude awakening?
Or, we'll laugh and pat ourselves on
the back. We'll thank our lucky stars for
not letting the world explode, not let­ting
a computer date glitch ruin this
wonderful virtual world we've created.
(I say "we've," not" they've," cause
who are "they" but us?)
Wasn't the snooze button a grand
invention? A simple way to postpone
the inevitable.
Now this isn't going to be inspira­tional,
or preachy. If there is something
wrong, everyone knows why.
But last night I had the strangest
dreams:
Dream 1:
12:01 a.m., Jan. 1,2000
The world as we know it came to an
end one minute ago. Every other nation
on earth is screwed because they didn't
take Y2K seriously. Every nation
except those pre-modern agrarian coun­tries
tied to us in economy, they're
taken care of.
The United States has succeeded in
conquering the known world.
After Apple geeks and military freaks
contrived the Y2K virus, they withheld
the information just long enough to
make prep time nearly impossible.
Sometimes I get the impression that
JOHN
BOYD
computer geniuses
'are chip junkies.
No wonder we call
them users.
Yet, through
the smoked flesh
and charred
remains of modem
society, a small
group of people
may pose resis­tance
to the U.S.
j control.
It appears
there are still indigenous people living
in the world, sources say some were
spotted in the 48 contiguous slates.
These people, most noticeable
because of their lack of technological
dependence and freedom from money
as a source of identity, are an enemy of
the state. It is said they may be able to
live off the land, providing for them­selves
and community without fashion­ing
weapons of mass destruction and
pollution. These people care not of
property ownership. In some extreme
cases they believe everyone equal and
all property communal.
Anyone with information on these
ruffians and all-around non-bathers
should contact the Federal Government
Exterminating Service. An elite squad
of Masons will be right over to clean
house.
Dream 2:
12:23 a.m., year 2000
Little Susie is staying up all night
watching USA "Up All Century" and
eating popcorn with her teddy bear.
Her TV didn't even blink when the ball
dropped.
On the other side of the street, the
millinnealists are disturbed. They've
sold everything, bought new suits to
look good for their guest, eaten all their
food and written off the human race.
The impending doom of facing laugh­ing
co-workers at the water cooler will
be horrible.
A former commando is silent and
still, crouched in a rhododendron patch
on the edge of a Blue Ridge bluff, lis­tening
to his barely-audible H.A.M.
radio. He wears an undersized Union
suit and has to adjust his grenade vest
every so often.
"No attack yet, but I'll wait the bas­tards
out." He fingers his revolver and
giggles.
An angry religious fanatic makes a
run on the Dome of the Rock. She
thinks it's for the best to end it all now.
She figures God needs her help. She's
got verses as tattoos, strangeness for
brains, dynamite for a belt and bullet
holes courtesy of U.N. police for venti­lation.
My dog Bear, who didn't care much
for millennial hoopla, slept through the
whole thing and, upon waking, ven­tured
out into the yard and soiled the
weekly paper.
Waking
It's all a dream. Wow, I must be get­ting
a fever. But I'm sure science has
invented something I can take to get rid
of it.
"The world is a little bit under the
weather, and I'm not feeling too good
myself."
But is there a pill to cure all the ills of
the world?
Rest assured, it's not going to be
taken in your hard drive.
John Boyd is news editor of
The Auburn Plainsman. You can
reach him at 844-9109 and
boyd@theplainsman.com
T
Thursday, Dec. 2, 1999 THE AUBURN PLAINSMAN A9
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or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances.
Greatest void in Auburn family: Communication
It's lonely at the top — that's what important people
say, at least
But are leaders lonely because the "little people"
won't associate with them or because they won't reach
out to the "little people?"
At Auburn, it's a dual problem. From the Board of
Trustees to the SGA, the powers that be don't maximize
communication with their constituents — faculty, staff,
students and alumni, groups that all-too-often return the
favor with silence and apathy.
The knee-jerk reaction to my analysis is to be defen­sive.
Trustees will say all their meetings are open to the
public (except those executive sessions Auburn blindly
accepts as legal and appropriate) and that their contact
information is readily available on the Web and in the
Tiger Cub and University phone book.
Administrators point to open-door office policies,
even though secretaries are often well-versed in finding
ways to shut "open doors."
Some SGA leaders call attention to open meetings law
as well. "We work office hours," they say. The office —
where many Auburn students never go — is always
open, they reply.
All are correct. Yet they each fall short in accepting
responsibility.
However, the masses these leaders serve, most notably
the students, cannot pass the buck either. Those who
BILL
BARROW
' want service must step up to the
counter and ring.the bell. Auburn
students can't seem to get the hang
of that.
Maybe it's a mistrust of
authority. Maybeit's a disgust with
the Auburn braintrust. Whatever the
reason, silence is all one can hear.
The first step is for all parties
involved to admit the problem.
Pretty simple stuff. (If it's offensive,
that probably means you needed to
•—""•"•"v"*""""""""™ do it a long time ago.)
Repeat after me, regardless of your position: I do not
do as good a job as I can at Auburn of communicating
with those around, above, and below me. I promise to do
better, for mine and the University's benefit.
Now, let's get specific. Here's a few detailed sugges­tions
for various segments of the University. Do not just
read the one that applies to you. That's symptomatic of
the very problem that led to this column in the first place.
Trustees: Talk to the people you affect. Don't just lis­ten
to the experts who present information and statistics.
Don't just read letters from the most opinionated folks
who actually care enough to write. Don't just ask the
SGA President and the University Senate chair to speak
for 21,000 students and 1,000 faculty members.
If you want to know if a program is worth the money,
go to the program. Is the core curriculum a valuable tool?
Is it productive? Sit in on a few classes to find out.
Reach out to the little people. Many of you readily
admit how much you enjoy talking to students. Do it
more often. Come to campus and observe. Live our life
for a while. Pull up a chair on the Concourse and talk to
every student you see, from the wrinkled khakis of Old
Row to the hackey sackers and long hair of Woodstock
'99. Get the big picture —»it's a view you can only get
first hand.
President Muse and Dr. Bettye Burkhalter, vice
president for student affairs: Your charge is the same
as the trustees. Dr. Muse, you regularly eat in War Eagle
Cafeteria. Keep it up. Invite students to sit with you. Ask
them what their life is like.
Dr. Burkhalter, you have open hours for students every
Tuesday morning. Good, but you can do more. Take your
student hours to the students. Don't just expect them to
come to you.
Harry Philpott, president of the University from 1965-
80, often visited informally with students in Samford
Park. He would just sit on a park bench and listen. Give
and take. Communication.
SGA Officials: Reach out, not in the interest of public
relations, but in the interest of your fellow students.
Senators, don't just show up on Monday nights and take
care of old business. Canvass your fellow students daily.
Then you'll come up with new business.
Executive officers, every once in a while, walk around
campaign style — minus the pretentious escorts.
Introduce yourself to students you don't know and ask
what you can do for them. Don't ask their opinion of the
SGA. That doesn't matter. Ask them what you can do for
them, then do it. Their opinion of the SGA will take care
of itself.
Faculty and Students: Quit sitting around griping
about the big shots. If you don't like the shots they're
calling, tell them. Go to trustee meetings, where it is rare
to see students or faculty other than those in prominent
leadership positions in attendance.
The same is true for SGA Senate meetings. The repre­sentative
body of the student meets each Monday at 7
p.m. in Foy Student Union. There is a gallery for the pub­lic.
It usually seats no more than than a few SGA officials*
not affiliated with Senate and a few folks from this news­paper.
Deplorable. You deserve better. Auburn deserves
better.
If everyone admits their lack of productive communifr
cation, then fixes it, Auburn will be better. ^£*#
Bill Barrow is editor of The Auburn Plainsman.
You can reach him at 844-9021 and
barrow@theplainsman.com.
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Auburn's board
resembles
primitive beast
Editor, The Auburn Plainsman:
Another first for Auburn: We are the first
university in the world to have a giant
squid for a board of trustees — 10 greedy
tentacles all controlled by one head with a
big mouth and big eyes, propelling itself
backward by its own spurts and squirts.
The tentacles are all identacles: Arms of a
nysterious and elusive creature classified
as a lower animal which has not evolved
for several million years, has clung tena-
:iously to its primitive neurological sys-em,
and has avoided extinction only by
urking in the darkened cavernous depths
af the sea. Once believed to be a fearsome,
nan-eating monster, the squid is now
nown to be a passive feeder subsisting
irgely on weak, impotent and diseased
reatures that sink slowly to the ocean
loor.
Nicholas D. Davis
rofessor emeritus, architecture
Auburn should
do business
with alumni
editor, The Auburn Plainsman:
I recently read your front page article
oncerning Colonial Bank's issuing
eplacement VISA cards. I am puzzled that
ome thought the letter enclosing the cards
vas misleading. I had read that an out-of-tate
bank would be issuing the Spirit cards
d felt the letter from Colonial was clear,
bank with Colonial and do not wish to
witch to a different bank, especially one
o far from me.
Personally, I am disappointed that either
olonial was not able to keep the business
r that Regions (headed by an Auburn
nan) did not get it. I have received good
eatment from Colonial and have, in the
iast, received good service from Regions.
'is you know, Regions has the contract to
rovide the "affinity" VISA cards for the
Jniversity of Alabama. I feel that it is our
Jniversity's responsibility to support our
state businesses.
incerely,
ames T. Baxter III
\uburnfan
yffers spirit,
ven after loss
:ditor, The Auburn Plainsman:
he Spirit of the Plains
he wind blows over the Plains like it does
through an eagle's wings,
he sun shines bright on the Plains like the
color orange on a tiger's mane,
he rain falls hard along the Plains of the
beautiful countryside.
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And the fire still burns inside every Plains
man's eyes.
Because when the Auburn Tigers take the
field of battle tonight.
Every War Eagle fan becomes one and one
alike.
We stand proud and form a sea of orange
and blue.
We shake our pom-poms for you, and we
all know you are saying," I play this game
for you."
For the freshman in section 25.
For the 60-year-old man sitting way up
high.
For the little boy who wears his dad's
Auburn jersey to bed at night and
For all the high school heroes who know
they could do just as good if they were
given a try.
For all of you we will fight.
We will claw and bite and try our hardest
to win this game for you tonight.
Yet if we can't prevail, if we can't come
away with a win, we can still rest.
Because we know there will come yet
another day where the Auburn Tigers
will take the field again.
And every War Eagle fan will become one
and one alike.
Nathan M. Handy
Auburn
Bama stole the
victory, but
didn't steal the
tradition
Editor, The Auburn Plainsman:
The weekend got off to a glorious begin­ning
Friday night with a trip to the Supper
Club with brothers and friends (only person
missing was my wife!), and continued on
Saturday with a great tailgate, some roasted
pig, and all the trimmings from my neigh­bors
tailgate and a jubilant tiger walk.
After getting in the stadium free (cannot
divulge my resources!), we commenced tr> .
watching Auburn play the game of the
year. They ran, they passed, they hit
and they jawed. For 2.5 quarters they
looked great, including a goal line
stand for 4 downs that gave me chills.
Then the unraveling began. The defen­sive
line was getting tired of hitting big
Shaun and the offense could not sustain a
drive. Then it was over. Done. Alabama
won. I wanted to go to the tree to protect
her, but my fellow game attendees were too
down to participate. So I didn't go; I was­n't
going to lead myself to battle and not
bring my platoon.
Devastated, I went home that night just
knowing that the big tree downtown was in
for trouble. Sitting by the fire in my house
eating chili at 12:30 at night, I couldn't
help but notice the sirens I could hear
around town. There were more than usual.
Sunday morning on my way out of town,
I was reminded why I continue to support
my Tigers through such tough times as
these — a couple videotaping a toddler on
the grass in front of Samford Hall, an
elderly couple coming out of the ice cream
shop licking cones, kids playing football by
the library. This is why I love Auburn.
Tradition. Values. A belief that some things
are right and some things are wrong. Some
say we are conservative. I love it.
Driving by the tree, there was a lot of TP
on it. I was disgusted. They got the tree.
They beat us and they got the tree.
Something didn't look right about the TP,
but nonetheless, it was there, so they got
the tree. It was a long drive back to
Atlanta. Not until a late-night phone call to
my brother did it dawn on me that that TP
was a week old. There was no fresh TP on
the ground. The TP in the tree hung barely
off the branches, and anybody with rollin'
experience can tell you that freshly rolled
trees droop the TP to the ground. Why I
didn't figure that out earlier is a brain fart
to me.
Hooray! Hooray! They didn't get the
tree. We won that battle. Auburn will beat
Alabama again, we will win the SEC again
and we will win the National
Championship again. When those days
happen, the tree will be rolled by people
who love it and respect it, not by drunken
rednecks who carry red TP.
JASON KEYMrt Editor
Hooray! Hooray! They didn't get the tree.
Robert Scott McDaniel
Conyers, Ga.
Students should
take care of
campus, corner
Editor, The Auburn Plainsman:
This fall, I have made several trips to
Auburn. Recently, when I drove in to
town Sunday morning, I took a really
good look at Toomer's Corner and down
West Magnolia Street. There was toilet
tissue and trash everywhere. The place
was absolutely trashed.
I know this was not done by jubilant
Alabama fans. No, this mess was made
by Auburn students. I was ashamed.
Toomer's Corner is supposed to be the
most famous and revered spot in town,
yet you treat it like a dump. It is one
thing to celebrate a victory there, but
quite another to trash the place. Whatever
happened to the "Loveliest Village?"
What you are doing there is akin to the
old saying about a "bird that fowls its
own nest." A rather poor creature.
I would like to call on the administra­tion,
the SGA, the City Council, interest­ed
student organizations and just plain
students and alumni to start a campaign
to clean up Toomer's Corner and keep it
clean. Celebrate — yes, but keep it clean.
Make me proud of you again.
L. B. Groover III
Class of '73
Ticket office
assumes
students guilty
Editor, The Auburn Plainsman:
I am a junior that lives at Noble Hall
and as such I have parking permits for
the lot behind Noble. One day after
class I noticed a ticket on my windshield .
for parking in a restricted area. My stick­er
is permanently affixed to the rear
bumper of my card, some 24 inches from
my car tag.
That day, as soon as I noticed the tick- '•;
et, I went to the ticket office to contest it. :
It had me fill out this page long form and
. said to appear in front of the
ticket board. Today I received my Bursar,
bill in the mail. It had the parking
fine on it. I called the Bursar's office to i
ask why a ticket that I have contested
was on my bill and it said if I did not pay-it
on time I was subject to interest.
It also said that if the board clears the
ticket I'd get a refund. 1 want to know
why when I get a speeding ticket, or for
that matter a parking ticket in any where. -
but Auburn, I don't have to pay it before ,
I contest it, yet Auburn charges me as if
I'm guilty and then gives me the
money back if I'm innocent.
I called the ticket office to ask who . '
made that decision and it said to call the
Bursar who said it was just University
policy and it did not know who started it.
I'm sure the University takes this .,-_
money into its bank account and draws »
interest on it, yet if I'm found innocent I
receive no interest back. This way the »"
University makes money off of me even -'
if I'm not guilty.
Is it just me or does anyone else find
this policy against the idea of innocent
until proven guilty?
Also the ticket office told me it could .
only clear my first three tickets regard- i
less of weather or not I'm guilty. It
seems to me that the parking office is
being used to rob Auburn students of
money that goes into the GAF, while we
have no parking. „•
Anthony Coleman
Junior, management information
systems -'
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£WTW has never had
• • more than 25
students at a forum
once. We've hSM
that twice.
— David Stejskal
Chairman, Student Planning Committee
mittee will meet one more time before the
architects return on Jan. 11 to address stu­dent
recommendations.
Shuck and architect Glen Schultz dis­cussed
A, B and C building models for the
new union, A having the largest base at
275,000 square feet and C the smallest at
219,000 square feet.
Foy Student Union covers about
133,000 square feet.
At about $150-170 per square foot, the
architects project the
C model to be the
most feasible, unless
other vendors, such
as the U.S.. Postal
Service, were incor­porated
in the union.
"We will come
back with a prelimi­nary
program to sub­mit
to the Building
Committee for them to fine-tune," Shuck
said. "We've achieved the goals we really
wanted to achieve."
About 30 students attended the open
forum.
"WTW has never had more than 25 stu­dents
at a forum once. We've had that
twice," said David Stejskal, chairman of
the Student Planning Committee.
"I think the students obviously had good
input. What the students recommended
was what the survey said — it was no
shock," Stejskal said.
President Muse has asked for the
Building Committee's report on composi­tion
and siteS by March 1, 2000.
STEJSKAL
Survey: Students want
variety in new union
By MANDY HUDSON
News Staff
Along with a site recommendation, the Student
Planning Committee submitted its request to the
Building Committee on what facilities to place in
a new union.
The committee based its recommendation on
results of a survey polling 2,112 Auburn students.
"For the past six months the SPC has been
preparing findings to voice the student opinion,"
said David Stejskal, chairman of the Student
Planning Committee.
The committee proposed a cafeteria food-court
style eating area with eight
to 10 different types of food
in the new union.
Students were allowed to
select up to eight food
options on the survey.
Sandwiches led the sur­vey
results with 1,484
votes. Restaurant prefer­ences
included McAlister's
and Subway. Next was
Chicken, with an undisputed Chick-fil-a majori­ty-
Ice Cream garnered 1,292 votes, and Burgers
followed with students ranking Wendy's,
McDonald's, Milo's and Burger King, respec­tively.
Doughnuts and Pizza were the next highly
favored.
The committee addressed the need for a 24-
hour coffee shop and found students preferred a
Tiger Stop concession window over vending
machines. It suggested vending machines be
placed in areas where other food services are not
convenient.
The SPC said the biggest problem with the cur­rent
union was the lack of recreational services.
It proposed a multi-functional movie theater,
SCHUCK
desired by 67 percent on the student survey, with
a minimum capacity of 600.
A TV and game room, including pool tables,
were also recommended.
A bowling alley was the only item which found
the SPC undecided. The survey indicated 42 per­cent
student support, yet the committee said any
space used for bowling lanes would have to be
carefully considered because of its incapability to
be multi-functional.
WTW architect Doug Shuck said bowling
alleys had tested fairly well in other unions, but
involved a reasonable price tag. He estimated 16
lanes would cover 20,000 square feet of union
space.
The SPC recommended the survey's top four
university services, the Student ID/Tiger Club
Office, Athletic Ticket Office, Study Partners and
Bursar's Office branch to be included in the
union.
It also recommended the student's top four
non-university services, which were a 1-Hour-
Photo Shop, Copy Center, U.S. Post Office and
University Bookstore, as well as a Ticketlink
Office, to the Building Committee.
Even with 65 percent support from the survey,
the SPC did not favor individual mailboxes in the
new union because of the space 20,000 boxes
would require.
The WTW architects suggested 10,000 or less
boxes to be available to students on a retail basis.
The SPC said they favored ATM machines
instead of a local bank, because of the complica­tions
involved in finding a single bank to serve
all the students' needs.
The committee also motioned for a larger com­puter
lab and preservation of the Foy Union
Information Desk.
The Building Committee will review the stu­dent
input before devising a preliminary program
in January.
SHOOTING Continued from Page One
head.
Roberts must go before
the grand jury in early
January before the case goes
to trial.
"It is up to the grand jury
to decide what the indict­ment
will be," said Nick
Abbett, the Lee County dis­trict
attorney.
Abbett said the grand jury has
three indictments options. It can
indict Roberts with manslaughter,
which is a class-B felon}
and carries two to 2(
years in prison.
Roberts can b<
charged with a crimina
negligent homicide wliicl
is a Misdemeanor and cat
has a maximum sentenc*
of 1 year. The grand jurj
could also return a no bill
which means there would be nc
criminal charges brought agains
Roberts.
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ference," Little said.
Sen. Lowell Barron, D-Fyffe, said
he voted for the June election to save
the state the $2 to $3 million it would
cost.
"That was my preference, that's the
way I voted, and that's the way I
feel," Barron
said.
If approved
by voters, the
top corporate
income tax rate
will rise from 5
percent to 6.5
percent to raise
$78 million a
year beginning in 2001. The income
tax hike would replace a shares tax
contained within the current short-term
tax fix.
Business leaders support the
income tax boost over the shares tax,
because the former is tax deductible
and the latter is not, Little said.
The new plan that will replace the
current unconstitutional franchise tax
includes:
• A corporate shares tax based on a
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company's net worth minus invento­ry
and property owned in Alabama
which would raise $55 million to $65
million a year, and make out-of-state
banks and other financial institutions
,such as utilities and insurance com­panies
exempt from the tax, as well
as limited liability companies and
partnerships. The maximum tax
would be $500,000 a year.
• A business privilege tax based on a
company's net worth that would raise
about $47 million to $57 million a
year. Most businesses are expected to
pay the minimum $100 a year. The
maximum for most companies is
.expected to be about $15,000, but the
maximum for financial institutions
utilities and insurance companies is
expected to be about $3 million.
• A revised excise tax that includes
in-state and out-of-state financial
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institutions pay the tax. A hike in the
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INSIDE CAMPUS
• Follow the historic timeline
through section B.
• Bill Buskist shares his love
for America's pasttime/B4
• A quarter's worth of good
eats evaluated/B5
Thursday, Dec. 2, 1999
Section B
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www.theplainsman.eom
»\ Campus Desk 844-9118
Jennifer Morris, editor
8 pages
Protesters gather to oppose Dixie Day
Nearly 30 students voiced their disapproval
of the first-ever event, which was sponsored
•by members of the League of the South
By JENNIFER MORRIS
Campus Editor
The first Dixie Day at the University on
Nov. 18 began drawing a close to fall quar­ter
with record minority enrollment. It also
drew more than two dozen student protest­ers
and droves of onlookers to the
Concourse.
The debate: Dixie Day, as sponsored by
the University chapter of the League of the
South, encourages students to wear
Confederate flags for the day.
But other students have found the day
both inappropriate and offensive and
formed a two-hour peaceful protest on the
Concourse. The protests drew both black
and white participants.
. The only event of Dixie Day, according to
League of the South President Anna
Kirkland Franks, a senior in textile engi­neering,
was wearing Confederate flag T-shirts.
The league did not hold a meeting,
confront protesters or tally the number of
participants.
JENNIFER MORRIS/Campus Editor
This young man walked the
Concourse in his Confederate
flag during the protest. Only one
other supporter was spotted
wearing the controversial flag.
And League members did not expect
such a reaction.
However, during the warm Thursday
afternoon, demonstrators snacked on crack­ers
and fruit while some handed out flyers
and others engaged in debate with onlook­ers
and passers-by. The chatter and occa­sional
mild uproar never turned violent.
The Department of Public Safety had at
least six policemen posted. Two of those
policemen sat in patrol cars at the end of the
Concourse.
Oftentimes the debate turned from policy
to history. Many quick lessons were at least
attempted. "If you knew your history at all
..." was quickly a norm in conversation.
Although the league of the South's mem­bers
never formally acknowledged the
protest or the protesters, two young white
men donned Confederate flags on their
backs, initially walking back and forth past
the group and finally retiring to the back­ground.
The two, who refused to give their
names, said they were threatened several
times, but no incidents occurred.
"Some of them tried to start a fight with
us," said one, a tall young man, behind dark
sunglasses.
The organizer said peaceful protest was
the theme. Lani Merritt, a junior in sociol­ogy
from Birmingham, planned Thursday's
gathering. She hung flyers and got the
word out when she caught wind of Dixie
Day, which was advertised by the local
league in The Auburn Plainsman and
through flyers.
"We didn't want a confrontation. We're
out here to be a statement of a view of
opposition," she said.
In addition, protesters weren't organized,
but an "eclectic group of students" drawn to
the Concourse on their own.
"I feel like (Dixie Day) is a symbol of
hate and oppression," she said, calling the
event disrespectful.
"There's a reason why the KKK adopted
the flag ... it represented hate and put fear in
people," Merritt said. The
Confederate flag, she
explained, stands for the old
South, and this is the new
South, although racism still
exists, she added.
Some students who joined in
the peaceful demonstration
likened the historical symbol
of the South to the Nazi
swastika. "Would you wear
the Nazi symbol to a Jewish
synagogue?" one black protester asked a
white student, who defended the flag as his
"heritage" for nearly half an hour.
Though rumor has it some students
planned to burn the Confederate flag as part
of the demonstration, Merritt said that was
not on her agenda. The only flag she
brought was a crayon-colored poster with
the words "Not My Heritage" superim­posed
over its stars and bars.
JENNIFER MORRIS/Campus Editor
Lani Merritt, who holds the painted sign in the center, organized the peaceful Dixie Day protest by
posting flyers around campus. Merritt, a junior in sociology, said the day is disrespectful.
Merritt also handed out flyers explaining
her cause during the demonstration.
She said she hopes, as do many minority
students who participated in the protest, that
Dixie Day will not become an annual event.
Indeed, this year's day was a first. The
University's chapter of the league was
approved for a permanent charter by the
SGA last May,
said Franks. She
has been acting
as president of
the group since
the beginning of
fall quarter;'
The Auburn
chapter of the
league is part of
_ the national
organization as
well as the state-level organization. The
Alabama league deems itself a place "where
the spirit of Southern nationalism lives on,"
according to its Web site, www.dixienet.org.
Since the state league's formation in
September 1995, it claims, it has "sought
nothing less than to promote the social, eco­nomic,
cultural and political independence
of the Southern people by all honorable
means."
If I had known
would draw such
a big response
I think I would'v
on the brake
— Anna Kirkland Franks
President, League of the South
On the national level, the league has a
dream, as well — "a free and prosperous
Southern Republic." Indeed, one of its
pledges is to protect the symbols and her­itage
of the traditional South."
The University chapter hosts mostly edu­cational
activities, and Franks said a few
minority students have attended league-sponsored
lectures.
She also said about 14 students have
attended at least one of the league's two
meetings this quarter.
Franks admitted the Confederate battle
flag often stirs racial sentiments. However,
the purpose of the league, Franks said, is to
stir intellectual debate over Southern histo­ry.
The group accepts a theory of Civil War
history contrary to what it calls the Battle
Hymn of the Republic theory, which says
the South was generally wrong and evil and
paints Abraham Lincoln as a knight in shin­ing
armor.
"If you believe that, you have to hate the
South and you should," she explained. "We
don't accept that theory as a whole. We
have an entirely different theory about the
south and its history.
"We're not trying to be argumentative,"
she said. Instead, the league seeks to pro­mote
its alternative historical views.
"We just want people to be aware of it
and check into it if they really consider
themselves intellectuals," she said.
John Sophocleus, an instructor in, eco­nomics
and adviser to the league, said,
"We're interested in Southern history and
culture," he said.
"At an educational institution, it's proba­bly
a good idea to address some of these
things. My hat's off to the students."
Sophocleus agrees that Dixie Day was
not meant to promote racial tensions, just as
the Confederate flag should not stir such
emotions.
"Was it designed to be offensive?
Certainly not," he said. "Are people
offended by their own ignorance? Yes,
every day."
Franks said she had no idea Dixie Day,
which involved no more than a handful of
students wearing Confederate flag T-shirts
on the same day, would stir such dissen­sion.
"If I had known we would draw such a
big response," she said, "I think I would've
put on the brakes — not because I am
ashamed of the Confederate flag, but
because it was against our primary goal of
encouraging Southemists at Auburn."
More than a Century of University history
I860: The first
class graduates. 1861-66: The col­lege
closes during
the Civil War.
1864: The college is closed,
but Old Main and other
facilities open for care of
Confederate wounded.
1870: Howard
M. Hamill is the
first student to
be awarded an
M.A. degree.
1872: The college becomes the
Agricultural and Mechanical
College of Alabama.
j-mwmmi^m
1883: Old Main
serves as the cen­ter
of learning
just four years
before it burned.
Nov. 7,1896: The
first intercollegiate
football game was
played at Auburn and
the Tigers whipped
Georgia Tech 40-0.
Feb. 20,1892: Auburn claims
a muddy 10-0 victory over the
University of Georgia in the
Deep South's first major inter­collegiate
football game in
Atlanta's Piedmont Park.
1856
began cl
the Rev.
Jeremial
39, as th
younges
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1859:
East
Alabama
Male
College
asses, with
William
i Sasnett,
e first and
t president.
•: • •• •• - • • • • •.
1913: The
API football
team won
every game it
played.
1899: The college
becomes Alabama
Polytechnic
Institute.
1915: A
hoboing
excur­sion
ended in
tragedy
when a
student
suffocated in a baggage car while
riding to a game in Birmingham.
Many students preferred to hop a
freight on football trips.
1880 1900
1878: Auburn's first fraternity,
Sigma Alpha Epsilon, came to
life secretly at night in a corn­field
to the disapproving eyes of
faculty members.
1883: Langdon Hall is moved to campus
from its original site at the intersection of
Gay Street and Magnolia Avenue. It was
built before the Civil War as a chapel of
Auburn Masonic Female College.
1892: Coeds are admit­ted
to the college.
1860-61: William Janes Samford
attends EAMC, setting a family pattern
of attending what is now the University.
Samford eventually served Alabama in
both houses of the legislature and as governor.
1888-90: The main build­ing,
later named Samford
Hall, is under construc­tion.
It housed offices
and classrooms from
1890 to about 1969.
1895-1899: John W.
Heisman, the man
for whom the
Heisman Memorial
Trophy was named,
coached Auburn football
to 12 wins, four losses
and two ties.
1906: Auburn's
first official varsity
basketball team
claims a winning
season 3-1-1.
i\s we looi^ to the ne\t century,
'UieTfainsman reviews events in the
history and the making oj i\uburn
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B2 THE AUBURN PLAINSMAN Thursday, Dec. 2, 1999
New stores lure some into early holiday shopping
Student shopping at
Colonial Mall is up 5
to 10 percent thanks to
several new retailers
By PAMELA WISE
Staff Writer
It is officially that time of year again. The
Christmas spirit is alive and living in
Auburn.
Not only does this mean tons of colored
lights, cheerfully decorated Christmas trees,
frost-bitten faces and the Christmas tunes
that continue to play in everybody's head.
But the Colonial Mall seems to be the boom­ing
place to be this time of year.
With the rush beginning after
Thanksgiving and not slacking down until
January 1, shopping early is a good idea,
explains Terri Knight, marketing director of
the Colonial Mall.
Extended hours is a must at Christmastime.
Knight said the mall will open one hour early
on Saturdays and two hours longer on
Sundays. And the week before Christmas, it
will have even more extended hours.
"Right now the busy times vary, but most­ly
weekends, and evenings are when the mall
has the most shoppers," Knight said.
Sears is usually the store with the most
Christmas shoppers, Dillards and American
Eagle Outftters not far behind said Knight.
The number of students shopping is expect­ed
to increase 5-10 percent because of new
stores this fall. Knight said.
Jason Garner, a senior in horticulture said,
"I always wait until the last minute to do my
Christmas shopping."
JULIE MORRIS/Photo Staff
Amber McKee, an exercise science major, ponders the possibilities at
Bath and Body Works during the holiday shopping season.
For others, Tiger Club card
is better than real plastic
Garner has spent most of his time in the
past buying gifts from American Eagle, but
said he might check out some of the newer
stores now.
Among these new stores sure to be a main
attraction for Auburn students is Spencer's
just opening Nov. 12.
"Spencer's has a real good selection to
choose from for gift giving, said Andre
Holloway, store manager."
Spencer's black lights are sure to be the
No. 1 item in the store, Holloway said. With
lava lamps being on a lot of Christmas lists,
as well.
Holloway thinks more students will shop
there when they realize Spencer's is open.
His advice is to shop sometime before 2 p.m.,
before the big crowd sets in.
Another hot spot for Christmas presents is
Bath and Body, which has been open for
about two years.
Not being new to Christmastime in
Auburn, they are ready for this year's holiday
shoppers.
With new scents, such as Sugar Plum,
Winter Berry and Hazelnut, it is impossible
not to be in the holiday spirit said Renaei
McWilliams, assistant store manager.
Along with other store managers,
McWilliams' advice is to "shop early."
And while getting presents for all the rel­atives,
shoppers can stop by and tell Santa a
few things on their list.
By PAMELA WISE
Staff Writer
Colonial Mall is not the only place stu­dents
are doing their Christmas shop­ping.
Many students find it easy and conve­nient
to do their shopping at the Campus
Mall.
But like everywhere else, it is a good
idea to get shopping done early. The
campus mall will be closing after Dec.
11, said Beth. Carlson, Campus Mall
manager.
The great thing
about shopping on
campus is students can
use their Tiger Club
Card to purchase gifts.
Students have sever­al
different places to
choose from to do their
holiday purchasing,
including the book-store,
Clinique makeup counter and
Tiger Gifts.
The most sought after Christmas gifts
will probably be from Clinique and sil­ver
jewelry from Tiger Gifts, Carlson
said.
Megan Pope, a sophomore in sec­ondary
education, said, "It was a very
Auburn Christmas at my house last
year."
Pope did her holiday shopping at the
bookstore last year and is doing the same
this year.
Items on Pope's shopping list included
a golf club cover, windchimes and a
couple of Auburn T-shirts.
Pope used her Tiger Club Card to buy
her gifts ana the best part is "my parents
are actually buying their own Christmas
presents, since they keep money in the
account."
She is not alone in catching on to this
holiday money-saving idea.
Shane Henry, a freshman in forestry,
said, "I bought everyone in my family
something here."
"I bought my £ My parents are
i S actually buying
their own
Christmas presents.
— Megan Pope
Sophomore, secondary education
dad a Beat Bama
bumper sticker,
my sisters some
Auburn boxer
shorts and my
g r a n d m o t h e r
some tiger paw
earrings," Henry
said.
Henry said he just charges the gifts,
and the bill goes to his mother.'
If a student doesn't want the bill paid
by their parents, there is always the
option of saving up money themselves
and purchasing gifts the old fashioned
way.
After choosing the method that works
best, students can do their shopping
Monday-Thursday, 8 a.m.-10 p.ni.,
Saturday, 11 a.m.-5 p.m., and Sunday, 11
a.m.-10 p.m.
1900: Toomer's drugs
moved to its current
location after about
four years of business
several doors north.
1907: Shel Toomer poses with
longtime employee Rufus Lee
Jenkins, who retired in 1940.
1915: The
first women's
basketball
team played.
Feb. 22, 1916: About 1,600 peo­ple
attended the dedication of the
new Alumni Gymnasium, where
varsity basketball games were
held until 1948.
1922: The first sorority
on campus, Kappa Delta,
was chartered.
1923-24: Three big dance
weekends drew flocks of
out-of-town girls to campus
as there weren't nearly
enough coeds to go around.
1910 1920
1900: Derby hats
are all the rage in
downtown Auburn.
1910s: Since church attendance was compulsory, many API
cadets became skilled escape artists. Some pretended to be
Roman Catholics, some broke rank to hide in alleys or buildings,
and a few jumped out of church windows during opening prayers.
April 6,1917: The U.S. enters the war
and most seniors leave for strategic
industry and officer training camps;
many returned for graduation in June.
1924: Senior William T
"Bill" Wood, a four-year |
band member, wrote the
API Alma Mater.
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Ramsey, Bliss
Robbins, Rachel
Slocum, Kelsey
Taylor, Nichole
Thomas, Erica
Ward, Jennifer
Weisenfels, Melissa
Hornbuckle, Katie Whitlow, Melody
Jackson, Hayden Whorton, Brittney
Jones, Lauren Widick, Shana
Kalifeh, Elizabeth Williams, Kristin
Kosman, Kira Wood, Lindsey
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S M T - W B ' r s
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ANNOUNCEMENTS
Career Development Services
and Student Success Center ori­entation
sessions will be held in
the RBD Library Auditorium first
floor (parking deck entrance) on
Wednesday, Dec. 1, at 11 a.m.
Drug Problem? Narcotics
Anonymous meets Mondays at 8
p.m. in the basement of White
Street Baptist Church on the cor­ner
of Drake Avenue and White
Street. For more information, call
1-800-467-7314 or 826-0832.
The Marriage and Family
Therapy Center at Glanton
House provides services for stu­dents,
couples, families and indi­viduals.
Reasonably priced. For
day or evening appointment, call
844-4478.
The Auburn University
Outreach Program Office is offer­ing
a number of one-day work­shops
this fall. Topics range from
blacksmithing to Beanie Babies.
For more information, call 844-
5101 or check our Web site at
www.auburn.edu/community-courses.
Advocates for Disability
Awareness in cooperation with
Program for Students with
Disabilities is sponsoring a men-torship
program. For more infor-
. mation, see the display at the
PSD office in Haley-Center room
1244.
Does Food Control Your Life?
Assessment and referral services
for individual counseling.
Assessment and brief screening
for on-campus Body Image and
Food Issues support group is
available. For more information,
call 844-5123.
Need Easy Cash? Well how
about some good '80s music
instead? Tune into the 80's
Rewind weekdays from 12-1 p.m.
on 91.1 FM WEGL.
Auburn Christian Fellowship-free
dinner every Thursday at 6
p.m.; Bible studies every Tuesday
at 6:45 p.m.; Vespers every
Sunday at 7 p.m. Located at 315
S. Gay St. Call 821-3963 or
www.auburn.edu/acf for more
information.
Chi Alpha is an interdenomina­tional
Christian Fellowship that
meets Thursdays at 7 p.m. in
125A Lowder Business Building.
Everyone welcome. For more
information, see
www.auburn.edu/XA or call
887-9947.
The Auburn Society of Friends-or
Quakers, as we are also
known-invites you to worship
Sundays at 132 N. Gay St. (the
Auburn Bank Center) in Suite
205. Worship at 9 a.m. followed
by coffee at 10 a.m. For informa­tion,
call Julie at 826-6645 or Tom
at 887-9688.
Catholic Student Organization-
Dessert Cabaret, fund-raiser for
Best Buddies of Auburn
University- Dec. 2 in Social Hall
7-10 p.m. Jan 14-16, Pan y Vino, a
Christ-centered retreat at Camp
Alamisco. For more information,
call 887-5380.
Auburn Chamber of Commerce
announces the Annual Christmas
Parade Saturday Dec. 4, at 5 p.m.
downtown Auburn. Mayor Ham
will be lighting the tree after the
parade at Auburn University
Hotel. For more information, call
887-7011.
The Nutcracker Ballet sponsored
by the Auburn Arts Association,
on Sunday, Dec. 19, at 2 p.m. and
7 p.m. Reserve and general
admission tickets can be
purchased from Auburn Arts
Association. Call 887-2832
Anyone interested in competing
in the 2000 Miss Auburn
University pageant, there will be
a mandatory meeting Dec. 2 at 5
p.m. in Foy Student Union 202.
Please have all materials com­pleted
by this date. Any ques­tions,
call 844-4240.
Ballroom Dance, Saturday, Dec.
4, 6:45-10 p.m, AU Coliseum,
room 2093 (Dance Studio).
"Swing" lesson at 6:45 by Wayne
Foote. Swing contest. Casual
Dress. Free admission. For infor­mation,
call 887-5774 or 844-1465.
St. Mary's Bazaar and Bake Sale
Fund Raiser. Dec 4, 6 a.m.-noon.
Parish Hall (Behind Church).
10th Street and 4th Avenue
Opelika. Door prizes, baked
goodies, crafts, and Christmas
gifts will be available.
MEETINGS
The Auburn
Gay/Lesbian/Bisexual Caucus.
We will meet at 5 p.m. in Haley
Center 2011 on Dec. 3. Contact
Becky Liddle for information at
liddlbj@auburn.edu or call
844-5160.
Alcoholics Anonymous meets
every day in the Auburn-
Opelika area. For meeting times,
places and more information,
call 745-8405.
The National Agri-Marketing
Association will meet the first
and third Thursday of each
month in Hood Auditorium,
Commer Hall at 5 p.m.
Everyone is invited to attend.
Advocates for Disability
Awareness has bi-weekly meet­ings
on the 2nd and 4th
Wednesdays of the month at 4:30
p.m. in Haley Center room 1227.
Auburn Wrestling practices
7:30-9 p.m. Monday-Thursday.
Everyone welcome. Come out to
compete with other SEC teams
or to get in shape. Practice is at
Auburn High. Call Seth Ellis
844-8805.
The Auburn Gay and Lesbian
Association meets Monday
nights at 8 p.m. in Haley Center
room 2222. All are welcome. For
information, please e-mail
audisney@theglobe.com.
New Year's
Resolution
No. 1:
Join the Campus staff of
The Auburn Plainsman
and ring in the new year write!
How do you plan to
ring in the New Year?
F5
"Toomers 2000. It would be
nice to go to New York,
though, and party like
it's going outta style!"
Jennifer Hamilton
freshman, pre-medicine
"I'll go out with my friends,
to New Orleans and bring
in the new millennium."
Matt Hanchett
Sophomore, pre-medicine ,
"I'll be in Miami at Coconut
Grove with my brothers.
It's my birthday, and
I'm gonna have fun!"
Mike Jones
Sophomore, engineering
"I'm not allowed to go
downtown, so I'm getting
together with my friends."
Emily Gullatte
Freshman, psychology
"I'll be in Juneau (Alaska) at
a millennium dance with my
date. We'll go out and
celebrate in the snow."
Summer Northcut
Freshman, science and math
Interviews and photos by
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THE AUBURN PLAINSMAN
Thursday, Dec. 2, 1999
Professor finds his second
true calling in the classroom
By JENNIFER McCULLARS
Campus Staff
It was 27 degrees in the sixth
inning of a night game in Utah. He
pitched a no-hitter, so far, but some­thing
was wrong. He just didn't feel
right. He went to his coach and told
him to take him out, but the coach
needed him to finish the game. In
the top of the ninth inning, he gave
up one hit. As he left the field, his
body began to recover, but his arm
never did.
That night changed Bill Buskist's
life.
His love for baseball began the
first time he held that small white
ball when he was 5, and his dream of
making it to the big leagues ended
after playing one year at Brigham
Young University.
"My dad put a baseball in my
hand, and I knew at that very minute
that what I wanted to spend the rest
of my life doing was throwing it,"
Buskist said.
But his life turned out differently
than he imagined. At age 45, Buskist,
a tall, thin man with glasses and dark
hair and a thick dark mustache is a
professor of psychology at the
University.
As you enter his office, his Jove for
baseball is apparent. An old newspa­per
article of Mickey Mantle's death
hangs on the off-white wall as you
walk through the swinging door.
Buskist sits behind his desk in his
dark blue shirt and blue jeans.
Nowadays. life is routine, but
never horins. for Buskist. He wakes
up every morning at 5. He walks
downstairs and pours a Slim-Fast,
checks his e-mail and begins his first
of two workouts of the day by run­ning
or biking.
On Monday, Wednesday and
Friday, he can be found swimming
around noon and Sunday at 4:30
p.m.
He spends the evenings at home
with his wife Connie and four boys,
two of them twins, doing some car­pentry
or cleaning projects. His
eldest child, Tara, doesn't live at
home, but he talks to her three or
four times a week.
During the day, he can be found
teaching students.
For Buskist, teaching is more than
a job. He speaks of it with passion.
There is excitement in his voice and
a sparkle in his eyes you can see
through his glasses. He is a teacher
because it means more to him than a
paycheck. He teaches because he
loves it.
"I see myself as someone who
strives to share my love of the topic
of psychology with an audience I
respect, so that they can see its
affects to everyday life," he said.
"I don't want to teach these kids to
be psychologists. I want to get these
students to see the value of that in
their lives, so they can realize a little
bit more about behavior and how
they think and how these patterns
influence their behavior and possibly
effect the lives of other people."
In 1982. Buskist came to Auburn
after graduating with his doctorate in
psychology from Brigham Young
University.
"I took a class and found it inter­esting,"
he said of psychology. "I
took another class and found it more
interesting and the next thing I know,
I'm dropping my political science
major and changing to psychology
my senior year.
Today, Buskist teaches U103, the
individual and society, part of the
core curriculum. He also teaches at
the graduate level.
Virginia O'Leary, chairperson of
the psychology department, has
known Buskist for six years. "I keep
using the word commitment because
that's how I see him. He has a deep
caring about what he's committed to
do," she said. And his commitment
and caring pay off because students