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LOTTERY SPECIALS
In-depth look at the
ramifications of
the Oct. 12 lottery
referendum/AS-A9
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Auburn University, Ala. WiHAD
Chick-fil-A founder visits Auburn
By JOHN BOYD
News Editor
C. Truett Cathy said he believes hard
work is the primary ingredient in his popu­lar
sandwiches. Hard work with a batter of
determination and an unwillingness to
believe he could fail.
Cathy appeared at a "first-bite ceremony"
along with President William V. Muse and
countless Sodexho Marriott and Chick-fil-a
employees.
The founder of Chick-fil-A tossed cow
dolls to giggling children lined in front of
the podium, reminding them the
Chick-fil-A cow teaches them how not to
spell.
Bill Crane, Sodexho Marriot operations
vice president, expressed excitement over
the new location's success.
"Sales in the first two weeks have been
more than we projected. I've been told
there's been more business in Terrell than
there has been in 15 years," Crane said.
In 1946, Cathy and his brother decided to
go into the restaurant business. A few years
out of high school and fresh out of the
Army, Cathy applied the training and deter­mination
they learned in the service to their
small poultry shop in Hapeville, Ga.
With little business experience, most of
which came from his childhood candy
sales, and $4,000 cash, Cathy and his
younger brother began the Dwarf Grill.
The tiny chicken grill laid the foundation
for what has become one of the most suc­cessful
food chains in America.
"As of today, we're the only restaurant
chain in America that is still operating on
the same location we started off on," Cathy,
founder and owner of Chick-fil-A, said.
Not only has the chicken chain main­tained
its Atlanta home, but also expanded
into 870 restaurants in 36 states and South
Africa.
The lump sum Cathy had to borrow and
save just to get his dream going paid off
exponentially. In 1998, Chik-fil-A boasted
CATHERINE KINCADE/P/ioto Editor
Chick-fil-A founder C. Truett Cathy gives Aubie and the Chick-fil-A cow a thumbs-up in Foy Student
Union Tuesday. Cathy was in Auburn for 'first-bite ceremony' with President William V. Muse.
$798.5 million in sales and is expected to
exceed $1 billion in 2000.
Cathy said he loves children and joke-telling
and believes firmly that the only lim­its
one has in life are self imposed. He's
fond of telling students who work in his
stores that if they can conceive it, they can
achieve it. •I'" /'• >"••-[' : - 4 '
"It's easier to succeed than fail becauseas
soon as you start making good decisions,
you can begin to achieve those goals you've
set for yourself," Cathy said.
"I believe God created all of us to win."
Chick-fil-A has established a work-study
scholarship program for its employees.
After completing two years of working at
least 20. hours a week while maintaining
good grades in school, students are eligible
for a $ 1,000-per-yeaV scholarship to the col­lege
of their choice^
/ This year 147 Auburn students received
the scholarship, as well as another 6,053
nationwide.
Muse said the University has wanted
Chick-fil-A to come to campus since he met
Cathy at the Chick-fil-A Peach Bowl two
years ago.
"They do very well catering to college
students. We hope to provide all the dine-in
options so the students won't have to go off
campus to get it," Muse said, finishing off
his complimentary sandwich. It took some
work, but thyy finally came, Muse said.
The work to create a bond between
Chick-fil-A and the University echoes the
drive of the founder himself.
"I still find the day I get the most done
and work the hardest is the most enjoyable
day of my life."
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SGA Senate
discusses
lottery, takes
no stance
By RYAN LEE
Assistant Campus Editor
In a relatively short session Monday,
SGA Senate met and further discussed the
approaching lottery vote and how to bet­ter
communicate with the presidents of
various schools, as well as the students
they serve.
Sen. Brian Vines and his colleagues
worried Auburn students would be going
to the voting booths Oct. 12, without ade­quate
information.
"When I was registering students to
vote last month a
STUDENT
GOVERNMENT
lot of them were
saying 'Free
tuition; sign me
up,'" said Vines, a
junior in civil
engineering.
"In reality,
Auburn and other
big universities
are not going to receive a ton of money
because of the way the system is set up. I
don't think many students are fully aware,
of all the facts surrounding the lottery," he
said.
Members of the Student Interest
Committee suggested to Senators that the
lottery proposal had many holes and
lacked a definite structure.
Committee members, citing state Sen.
Mike Hubbard as their source of informa­tion,
said students could receive HOPE
scholarships to junior colleges just by
graduating from high school, with no
Turn to SGA, A12
Faculty adjusts
free elective
requirement
By KATIE MCCORMACK
Assistant Copy Editor
The University Senate unanimously passed a
motion to eliminate the mandatory three-hour free
elective requirement from the current academic cur­riculum.
Now individual departments can require these
electives, but they will not be required by the
University as a whole.
"The original reason for having the idea of free
electives may have come around
before we had a core curriculum
that comprised 41 hours of the
degree," said Linda Blaze,
chairwoman of the University
Curriculum Committee.
Blaze addressed the
University Senate during its
meeting Tuesday.
"The definition of majors
is something the University cur­riculum
committee, as a University Senate commit­tee,
does," Blaze said.
The change will become effective in the 2000-
2001 University bulletin.
Provost William Walker, on behalf of President
William V. Muse, announced Auburn has extended a
Turn to FACULTY, A12
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BILL BARROW/Editor
John Pritchett, dean of the Graduate School, gives University
Senate a report from a special committee formed to examine how
the University will classify departments, schools and colleges.
AU, state officials
prepare for vote
Association of
professors to sponsor
lottery forum today
in Tichenor Hall
By SCOTT PARROTT
Assistant News Editor
With the Oct. 12 referendum only a
few days away, education lottery pro­ponents
and opponents are using the
few remaining campaign days to drum
up support for their cause.
Gov. Don Siegelman's schedule this
week included campaign stops at the
University of North Alabama in
Florence and the University of
Alabama in Tuscaloosa.
Siegelman also visited Northside
Elementary School in Opelika Tuesday
to discuss the technology portion of
the lottery proposal with both the stu­dents
in elementary school as well as
concerned citizens.
Lottery opponents have also escalat­ed
their campaign, now attacking the
governor's office about a traffic-ticket
scandal in which members of the gov­ernor's
staff were placed on leave
pending an investigation.
MO«E I O! COVKU;
• In-depth look at possible effects
on enrollment, tuition and grade
inflation if the lottery passes/A8-A9
• Guest column from Gordon
Stone, the head of the Alabama
Higher Education Partnership/A9
• Sample BalloMO
• The Plainsman editorializes on
the lottery//* 70
• Readers submit letter to the
editor expressing pros and cons
about Tuesday's ballot/A 11
"How can we trust these same peo­ple
to run a state-sponsored gambling
agency that is exempt from the Open
Records law?" said Jim Cooper, chair­man
of Citizens Against Legalized
Lottery.
"What kind of secrets will this lot­tery
company gang keep from the pub­lic?"
Cooper said. -„-
University faculty are also begin­ning
to voice their concerns.
The American Association of;
University Presidents will be holding
an open forum today to discuss the
proposed education lottery at 4 p.m. in
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"I'm sick of those credit card solic­itors
because they're so pushy.
They make you fill out all this stuff
just for a T-shirt, and it just leads to
more debt."
—Keenan Popwell, sophomore
philosophy
"I think the prices at Chick-Fil-A
are outrageous. You spend $5.28
for a chicken sandwich without
any mayonnaise on it. I an walk
around the corner and get a combo
at McDonald's for two or three
dollars."
— Kenneth Reid, freshman busi­ness
management
"I think there needs to be more bas­ketball
tickets for the general stu­dent
population."
— Robin Rollins, sophomore, com­puter
engineering
"I think it would be great and very
beneficial to the football team and
fans to send the band to away
games. There's nothing like the
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—Catherine Crosby, sophomore
history political science
State avoids
insurance tax
Legislative leaders trying to
find out how to replace the
$100 million franchise tax were
relieved to hear the U.S.
Supreme Court rejected a law­suit
challenging another rev­enue
source, the insurance pre­mium
tax.
The tax is the largest revenue
source supporting the general
fund for non-education agen­cies
and produces $150 million
a year. Monday, the Supreme
Court declined to hear an
appeal of a decision upholding
the tax.
The decision came seven
months after the U.S. Supreme
Court struck down another
Alabama tax, leaving a $100
million hole in the General
Fund that is yet to be filled.
The state legislature passed a
new insurance premium tax in
1993 after the U.S. Supreme
Court declared the old law
unconstitutional.
Shoney's closes more
than 70 locations
Things look different at
Shoney's restaurant on the corner
of E. University Drive and Opelika
Road.
The restaurant, which sits near
one of Auburn's busiest intersec­tions,
was closed earlier this week
as part of a massive restructuring
of the company.
The decision means the loss of
44 full or part-time jobs at the
Auburn location. The restaurant is
one of 72 Shoney's closing in 14
states by Oct. 31.
Those stores are located primar­ily
in the Southeast, but some are
in Indiana and Maryland.
Shoney's closed or sold 104 of
its eateries last year. It shut down
53 restaurants and sold 10 earlier
this year.
Raymond D. Schoenbaum.
Shoney's board chairman, said
many of the closed restaurants had
leases that were about to expire.
No franchised restaurants are clos­ing.
UA faces questions of
ticket-fixing scandal
The University of Alabama
football program faced more
questions Monday in a ticket-fixing
scandal that has already
sidelined one Crimson Tide
player.
A letter attached to a traffic
ticket from ousted Public Safety
Director Mike Sullivan's office
indicated the manager of UA's
athletic ticket office sought
Sullivan's help on a citation
issued to her nephew this year.
Records also show a pattern of
dismissed traffic tickets among
other athletic department offi­cials.
Sullivan, a Crimson Tide
security escort, resigned Friday
after Gov. Don Siegclman
learned of a ticket-fixing system
ccnterina in Sullivan's office.
Compiled from staff reports
10/03/99 10 p.m., 1776 Lee Road — A 1999
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$300. Truck damaged and paint damage, valued
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10/02/99 5 p.m., 687 S. College St. —
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One Premier CD player stolen, four ICB's five
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By JIM WALKER
Staff Writer
The Hospice of East Alabama Medical
Center is raising money for the construction
of a new Hospice House.
The home will be located in the Auburn
Medical Park on University Drive near the
Colonial Mall.
"The Hospice House focuses on palliative
treatment of the patients at the end of life's
journey," said Judy Jackson, foundation
director.
The new Hospice
House will be unique to
Alabama. It will incor­porate
10 private rooms,
therapy equipment such
as a whirlpool bath and a
massage table, a walking
trail for families and a
garden for wheelchair-bound
patients.
"The rooms are geared to be very home­like
for the patient. The furnishings will be
home-like, with specific family areas, so
patients and their loved ones will be able to
carry on some sort of normalcy in their
lives," Hospice Director Nancy Pcnaskovic
said.
The community is being asked to raise
$500,000 to match the amount the hospital is
donating.
"All of the money over thai amount will go
into an endowment fund for future Hospice
projects." Jackson said.
More than $200,000 has come from direct
employee payroll deductions from the hospi­tal
staff. Local community organizations and
churches have also been helpful. The local
banks and Uniroyal have contributed large
sums as well.
"There is a special place in my heart
because my mother was a Hospice patient
and my aunt was a patient, and I work with
Hospice patients," Rebecca Little, a private
donor and registered nurse, said.
Volunteers are a critical element to the
Hospice program. They conduct all forms of
services from direct
patient involvement to
office support services.
Volunteers who
help with patient care
often run errands, read to
the patients, visit or share
the normal events of life
the patients miss out on.
Volunteers make
up more than 95,000 of
the 115,000 Hospice workers.
They also keep the cost of operation down.
All Hospice patients are accepted based on
need; financial support is not a consideration.
There is a required 16-hour training period
for all volunteers in the Hospice program "so
they can deal with their own issues of loss
and grieving, and they can be more comfort­able
with our established ways of working
with the terminally ill," Penaskovic said.
The training sessions will be held at the
Hospice of EAMC from Oct. 18-21, from
5:30 to 9:30 p.m. Those interested should
'contact Lee Wilkins.at (334) 826-1899.
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patients at the end
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Hospice mission to
improve quality of
life for terminally ill
By JIM WALKER
Staff Writer
The Hospice of the East Alabama Medical Centdf is
an organization that deals with terminally ill patients
of all ages and walks of life.
The Hospice of EAMC started as a volunteer
Hospice (Hospice of Lee county) in 1986. Since then
it has grown to become the Hospice of the EAM.C
because it serves patients in eight counties. Currently,
the Hospice of EAMC is in the fundraising and planr
ning phases of a new Hospice House with a 10-bed
residence and family area.
The goal of Hospice is the treatment of the patient's
symptoms and the grief of family members.
Nancy Penaskovic is the director of The Hospice of
EAMC. Her husband is a professor at the University
and her two sons and one daughter also attend
Auburn.
'You need to treat the symptoms and support the
family you need to be attentive to the quiet needs.<©f
the patient," Penaskovic said.
Care is given based on the needs of the patient; not
on financial support.
From her experiences with Hospice, Penaskovic n&s'
found when people work with the terminally ill they
learn to appreciate what is really important. They
come to appreciate the beauty of life by coming m
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"Our emphasis is not on dying or the dying process
but on how well you can live until you diey''
Penaskovic said.
Students support Toys
for Tots by teeing off
W A R E
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By RENEE RELLER
Staff Writer
The Semper Fidclis Honor
Society of Auburn and the Marine
Corps Reserve hosted the first Toys
for Tots Golf Tournament at Indian
Pines Golf Course last Saturday.
Five teams, totaling 21 people, par­ticipated
in the tournament.
Sgt. Robert Barber, coordinator of
the golf tournament, said, "The pur­pose
of this tournament is to have
fun playing golf while at the same
time raising money and toys for the
children and to gain recognition for
the program."
Cash prizes totaling $350 were
awarded for first, second and third
places. Area businesses and restau­rants
donated $700 in gift certifi­cates,
with every team receiving a
portion.
Eric Williams, a representative of
Semper Fidelis and a junior in phys­ical
education, said, "We put boxes
out every year throughout Auburn.
Auburn has done really well over
the past couple of years. We've had
the highest amount of toys given in
the area."
The Semper Fidclis Honor
Society worked in conjunction with
the Marine Corps Reserve to coordi­nate
the golf tournament.
Teresa Lake, a senior in animal
and dairy science and a member of
Semper Fidelis, said, "Semper
Fidelis Honor Society is a profes­sional
organization of Marines and
Marine ROTC students, but we do
have some Navy personnel as well.
"It promotes professional devel­opment
and leadership skills neces­sary
to be a more mature commis­sioned
officer in the Marine Corps,"
Lake said.
The toys collected from the tour­nament
will be brought to the
Marine Corps Reserve Station in
Montgomery, and will be distributed
around Dec.l.
Capt. Herb Maraman. an Air
Force ROTC instructor said, "I'm
here because this is a good cause.
It's a win-win situation. We get to
have fun playing golf, and the chil-
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Students and the Marine Corps Reserve enjoy a game
of golf while raising money and toys for charity
drcn get the toys."
The winning team, with a score of
11 under par, included Maraman,
Josh Shelton, Gary Harrelson, both
of Opelika and Steve DeBusk of
Little Rock, Ark.
According to the Marine Corps
Reserve, about 5,000 toys were dis­tributed
to needy children in the Los
Angeles area in 1947, the first year
of the Marine Corps Toys for Tots.
The program has grown to include
more than 200 Marine Corps sites
throughout the United States.
In the 52 years the program has
existed, more than 243 million'toys
have been collected and distributed
to nearly 121 million needy
American children.
Donation bins will be available
beginning in October, and • will
remain until Dec. 22. Donation
areas include Wal-Mart, Kroger and.
Food World.
For more information on the Toj<s
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Business is sweet, so is the lemonade ...
The doors of Toomer's open for business
By SALLY TIDWELL
Staff Writer
The citizens of Auburn may rest
easy now as Toomer's Drugs opens
today for its first full day of busi­ness.
The grand opening is scheduled
for Oct. 13 at 10 a.m.
"Just the thought of not being
able to enjoy some lemonade after
an awesome game was almost
unbearable. I'm so glad Toomer's
isreopening," said Matt Blanks, an
Auburr native who shares his love
of Toomer's Drugs with students
and residents alike.
A shift in ownership saved
Aubuin's century-old landmark.
Don and Betty Haisten of
T'russville leased the store with
plans to renovate and "remember."
Among the additions. Haisten
has adorned the walls with
'photographs of Auburn
from the last 100
years.
"We've been work-inswith
the Auburn
Archives and Photo
Lab to build basi­cally
a 100-year pic­torial
of Auburn."
Haisten said.
<•• Among the pho­tographs
are pictures of
Shell Toomer, the origi­nal
owner of Toomer's
Drags, Toomer's Corner at the turn
«fifhe century, the Auburn Knights
Orchestra, Ralph "Shug" Jordan,
-the original Sani-Freeze, and the
Kopper Kettle.
«5»'-3 want to develop a documen­tary
just about Toomer's. We'd like
te.show it in the store and have
sies for sale. We'd also like to do
a documentary about Auburn,"
Haisten said. " People who went to
college here throughout the years
will hopefully say 'Wow! I remem­ber
that!'"
The Haistens have developed a
new menu for the store, featuring
sandwiches, hot dogs, soups, ice
cream, flavored colas and, of
course, lemonade.
A variation of ice cream floats
are also available, such as the
"Black Cow," which is Coke and
ice cream, the "Brown Cow,"with
root beer and ice cream, the
"Purple Cow," which is grape soda
and ice cream, and the "White
Cow," which is Sprite and ice
cream.
"I love Purple Cows! They're so
good," said Holly Dunlap, 1998
graduate.
"It's not grease. This is
truly an old-fash-ioned
soda foun-
TOOMERS tain." Haisten
DRUGS" said.
Two soups will
be featured on
the menu each
day, and Haisten
said he hopes stu­dents
will stop in
for a sandwich
and soup between
classes.
"These items are
more than in the price range
for students." he said, "and you
wont be held up for an hour."
Toomer's also has a growing
"selection of greeting cards and
memorabilia. Haisten has designed
Toomer's T-shirts and hats that
compliment the Auburn merchan­dise
available.
As an added convenience.
AUBURN, AL • est. 1896
REBECCA BUCHANAN/Pfofo Staff
Don Haisten, who opens Toomer's today, reviews
the secret recipe for making Toomer's legendary
fresh, hand-squeezed lemonade.
Six months ago, Don Haisten
said he had no idea he would be the
next owner of Toomer's Drugs.
"I'm a big fan of Auburn athlet­ics,
baseball and basketball in par­ticular,
and when I purchased one
of the Gameday Center condos I
saw in the Opelika-Auburn News
that Toomer's had gone out of busi­ness.
So I contacted the previous
owner and decided it was some­thing
I could do," he said.
"People can contribute to the
University in different ways and
this is a way I felt I knew how to do
it. I wanted to preserve the tradi­tion.
If somebody didn't step in.
(the tradition) could be lost,"
Haisten said.
"Hopefully, a long line of people
can come in here to just enjoy see­ing
what Toomer's is, really seeing
where the community has been,
and enjoying the lemonade, cherry
cokes, hot doas, and ice cream."
Toomer's will sell over-the-counter
drugs.
"When I was in school here in
1972 there were four drugstores in
downtown Auburn. Now there are
none. We've got everything from
toothbrushes to cough and cold
remedies," Haisten said.
"We've done a lot of work in
here ... (It's) pretty dramatic what
we've actually done to the place.
When it was just standing here
empty, it looked like it needed a lot
of help, and that's when we got
involved."
Since their involvement this
summer, the Haistens have put in
new lights and ceiling fans,
repainted the ceiling, refinished the
floors, and brought in new equip­ment.
"I want people to come in here
and say 'Wow, this is clean and
bright. It looks good and tastes
«ood.'" Haisten said.
Quarry quarrel erupts at City Council meeting
By LESLIE GAITHER
Assistant News Editor
m-A heated debate between Martin Marietta
^Aggregates, a limestone quarry, and residents of
'-•Lee County Road 159 concluded the Auburn City
Council meeting Tuesday night.
---Residents petitioning the closing of the road
,aid. "The plant is harming the houses and the
.oads. Three businesses disrupt the road and the
Chewacla Creek has been ruined due to the harm­ful
nature of the quarry."
, Martin-Marietta representatives defended the
company, saying the Lee County Commission
wants the road closed because of the harmful
nature of the bridge. "In 1940, the Lee County
Commission petitioned to close the road, again in
iVie 1980s and now in the 1990s," representatives
said.
'." M.'.yor Bill Ham said the committee will look
into the issue and study the documents given to
the council by both sides. The complaints will be
discussed further at the Oct. 19 meeting.
... When voters in Ward Four go to vote Tuesday,
they will be voting in a different place.
^.. Also during the meeting, the council chose
Ogletree Elementary as the new location for vot­ers
in Ward Four.
• SGA Representative William Gwin announced
the Fall 5K on Oct. 14. "All
proceeds will go to Project
Uplift," Gwin said.
• The council approved a
$95,964 construction project
for sidewalks on Opelika
Road and a $14,900 removal
of hazardous material from
the Auburn City Hall.
• The Parks and
Recreation Department and
Public Works Department gained approval to
purchase two used, 1992 or newer, pickup trucks
costing $9,500 or less.
• There are two vacancies for the Building Board
of Adjustments. The vacancies are for architect,
place 2, and engineer whose four-year terms
expire Nov. 2, 1999.
There are three vacancies on the Tree
Commission. Several three-year terms expire
Nov. 7, 1999.
One vacancy is available on the Educational
HAM
Building Authority. The initial four-year erm
expires Nov. 8. This is a six-year term.
There is one vacancy for Special Care
Facilities Financing Authority, expiring Nov. 9.
This position is a six-year term.
The appointments for these positions will be
announced at the Nov. 2 meeting.
• General obligation school warrants were autho­rized
for Auburn City Schools costing $857,750.
• The placement of stop signs on Pinedale Drive
has been requested and approved. The placement
of speed limit signs at Twin Forks Avenue has
been approved.
• Recess and canopy lights will be placed at
Wilson Oil Company on Bent Creek Road, and
the conditional use of the road was appro\ .J.
• The Alabama Department of Transportation
requested $201,000 to resurface Wrights Mill
Road. This project will include construction of
bike paths.
• There is one vacancy on the Lee County Youth
Development Center, Inc. Committee, with an
unexpired term ending Sept. 30, 2000. Barbara
Pitts has been nominated for the position.
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Governor plans mobile home meetings
By ADAM JONES
Staff Writer
One topic that has been discussed in
the Legislature this year is the manufac­tured
home industry.
Earlier this year, Gov, Don Siegelman
signed a law that will help reduce the
industry's influence over the Alabama
Manufactured Housing Commission, the
agency that oversees the industry.
According to Associated Press reports,
Siegelman wants to ,
hold town meetings
across the state to get
mobile home owners'
ideas for legislation
and regulation.
Carie Kurlander, a
spokesman for the
Governors office,
said the schedule has •
not yet been set. She also said "the gov­ernor
will definitely want to hear from
all Lee County residents."
"We're going to take whatever is nec­essary
to see that the people who buy
and live in these homes get what they
bargained for," Siegelman told The
Birmingham News.
The new legislation will reform the
Alabama Manufactured Housing
Commission. The industry now will
only, choose one-third of the commis­sions
nine-member board, and it will
have an input on who will manage the
agency. It will also allow the governor
to appoint an administrator who will
have control over the agency.
A series of articles in The Birmingham
News in August pointed out some of the
problems in how the state handles the
mobile home industry. One of the prob­lems
was that there are only 10 full-time
inspectors to check the setup of around
4,000 mobile home setups each year.
This leaves about 60 percent
unchecked for proper anchoring of
homes, which means the state cannot
fully enforce its law requiring safe setup.
It also means the state cannot ensure the
quality and safety of Alabama's 333,000
^ ^ ^ ^ _ ^ ^ ^ ^ _ mobile homes.
This leaves
mobile home park
owners to watch the
setup of its mobile
homes. Buck Starr,
a manager at
Gentilly Park, said
its employees per­sonally
supervise the
setup of its mobile homes. He said the
AMHC cannot do a good job because
they are so understaffed.
About one-sixth of Alabama's popula­tion,
around 750,000 people, live in
mobile homes. In Lee County, an esti­mated
25 to 29 percent of all housing
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Jim Grimm told The Birmingham
News that no other college in the country
has taken to mobile homes the way
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of the Association of College and
University Housing Officers-
International.
Siegelman said he wants the AMHC to
schedule these meetings before the next
legislative session in February.
About 750,000 Alabama residents, almost
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County resident!]
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SAMPLE BALLOT =• 0cT 12 BALLOT
CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT ELECTION mi %^ W f • M Mm mm9 r"\Um§mm\J 1
y Alabama's proposed
STATE OF ALABAMA
OCTOBER 12,1999
INSTRUCTIONS TO VOTERS: TO VOTE, COMPLETE THE ARROW
« • m POINTING TO YOUR CHOICE, LIKE THIS: '4m -m
"Shall the following Amendments be adopted to the Constitution of Alabama?"
PROPOSED AMENDMENTS WHICH APPLY TO THE STATE AT LARGE
PROPOSED STATEWIDE AMENDMENT NUMBER ONE (1)
Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of Alabama of 1901, to establish an
Alabama Education Lottery, to fund the Alabama HOPE Scholarship Program for col­leges
and universities, and junior, technical, or community colleges, to fund voluntary
pre-kindergarten programs, to fund technology in the public schools; to create an
Alabama Education Lottery Corporation to regulate and administer the lottery; to pro­hibit
the operation of casinos; to limit the expenditure of the proceeds to specified
education and school purposes; to require the proceeds to be used to increase fund­ing
for education and not to take the place of existing education revenues; and to
allow the Legislature to implement the Alabama Education Lottery through appropri­ate
general law. (Proposed by Act No. 99-08)
statewide constitutional
amendments
Statewide Amendment No. 1 YES
Statewide Amendment No. 1 NO
NUMBER ONE
The amendment attracting the most attention on the Oct. 12 ballot,
if passed, will create a lottery in Alabama. The Legislature already
accepted the enabling acts that create a half public, half private lot­tery
corporation, provide funds for the H.O.P.E. Scholarship Program
and fund technology advancements in elementary schools. The
Lottery Corporation would be a nine-member board appointed by
Gov. Don Siegelman and confirmed by the State Senate. The corpo­ration
would be responsible for running the lottery.
PROPOSED STATEWIDE AMENDMENT NUMBER TWO (2)
Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of Alabama of 1901, to phase out the
supernumerary system for public officials and to provide for the participation of pub­lic
officials in the Employees' Retirement System of Alabama. (Proposed by Act No.
99-194)
Statewide Amendment No. 2 YES
Statewide Amendment No. 2 NO
PROPOSED STATEWIDE AMENDMENT NUMBER THREE (3)
Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of Alabama of 1901, providing, subject
to voter approval at a referendum election, that the Legislature may by local law pro­vide
for an elected crty board of education in any municipality with a city board of edu­cation;
and validating certain laws and referendum elections conducted before ratifi­cation
of this amendment for purposes of this amendment. (Proposed by Act No.
99-408)
NUMBER TWO
This amendment would alter the state retirement system to includ
elected officials. The amendment, sponsored by Sen. Edward B.
McLain, D-Jefferson, would disable the current supernumerary system
that provides retirement benefits to elected officials, and allow elected
official to participate in the State Employees Retirement System. Under
the supernumerary retirement program, former elected official can draw
up to 75 percent of their former salary directly from the state's general
fund and county budgets. Former officials are often called upon to per­form
certain duties after their term expires, such as lead commissions,
fulfill shortages and basically be available when needed. Alabama is one
of the few states that still has a supernumerary system.
Statewide Amendment No. 3 YES
Statewide Amendment No. 3 NO
END OF BALLOT
NUMBER THREE
This amendment is being pushed by the Alabama Education
Association. It will make it easier for a city school board to change
from being elected to being appointed.
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A8 THE AUBURN PLAINSMAN Thursday, Oct. 7, 1999
The Alabama Lottery
The October 12 vote may change the face of Alabama's education forever.
Will the introduction of a lottery save Alabama schools or provide a temporary
solution to a much deeper problem?
Lottery could increase enrollment
By LESLIE GAITHER
Assistant News Editor
,. • Alabama Education Lottery is designed to
lie1, students who cannot afford higher educa­tion.
Sieielman's plan would provide tuition and an
allowance to attend a state university if a student
graduates with a "B" average in the core curricu­lum
in high school. In order to keep the scholar­ship.
*':e student would have to maintain a "B"
averag: in college.
Trns means more students will be able to
attend state funded colleges. But opponents say
it also means over populating the University?
"Auburn University has set enrollment goals,"
Dr. John Fletcher, interim assistant vice presi­dent
of enrollment management, said. "The goal
is to grow only one percent a year."
The University enrolled approximately 17,000
students in the fall of 1993. According to
Fletcher, Auburn has almost 22,000 students
enrolled this fall.
"With the goals Auburn has set, we wouldn't
grow very fast,"
Fletcher said.
The University
of Georgia
enrolled approxi­mately
20,000 in
the fall of 1993
and approximate­ly
24,000 this fall.
The Georgia ' ~
HOPE scholarship awarded 1,729 students
scholarships for the 1993-94 academic school
year and 13,154 during the 1999-00 academic
school year. In-state students account for 81 per­cent
of the enrolled figure for 1999-00 HOPE
scholarship students.
If the majority of Alabama wants to invite the
lottery into this state on Tuesday, there will be an
increase of in-state applications.
"Auburn University is in a unique position,"
Fletcher said. "We have a number of applica­tions
from good students."
These applications will come from students
with higher grade point averages and higher
ACT or SAT scores.
We are not just an
^in-state school ^
- . • • •
— John Fletcher
Interim assistant vice president
of enrollment management
"In such a>
place as Auburn,
we get a diversity
of students,"
Fletcher said.
"Auburn is not just
an in-state school
According
to Fletcher, the lot-
_ tery •^vould not pre­vent
out-of-state students from attending
Auburn.
"I hope it would not affect Auburn," Fletcher
said. "We are not just an in-state school."
The University wants to remain attractive to
students from other states. This fall, 32 percent
of the students at the University are from other
states.
"This adds to the character of Auburn
University," Fletcher said. "We get a lot of out­standing
students from other states."
If the education lottery passes, the plan is to
start with the freshman class beginning college
in the fall of 2000.
HOPE increases admission competition
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News Staff
During the first year of Georgia's HOPE
scholarship program in 1993, 67 percent of
freshmen at the University of Georgia, who
reached the 30-hour mark, lost their scholar­ship.
Three years later the number reversed and 67
percent of the freshmen retained their scholar­ships,
said Susan Little, assistant director of
financial aid at UGA.
From 1995-97, the HOPE scholarship has
awarded 20,079 UGA students with these non
need-based grants amounting to more than $28
million.
"It is a terrific program that is now benefit-
[;r«g >.»^i' fS.OiJl/ J G A students." Little said.
David Gr"vcs. assistant, director of admis­sions
for UGA, said, "The HOPE scholarship
has not affected the population of people at
UGA because we have a set limit, but it has
effected the level of competition.
"Last year, 14,000 people applied and there
are approximately 4,000 spaces. It is definitely
more competitive," Graves said.
The HOPE scholarship has raised the quality
of the student body, Graves said. "The average
GPA has increased, as well as the SAT and
ACT scores of the incoming freshmen."
Graves said the scholarship program is mak­ing
students think more than ever before about
the classes they take.
"To many students, it is now not a matter of
if their parents will be upset if they make a 'D'
in a class, but whether they will be able to keep
their scholarship."
If the lottery passes in Alabama, the state's
HOPE scholarship program will carry many of
the similarities of Georgia's HOPE scholarship
program.
"There are positives and there are negatives.
I think that if the lottery should pass, it wo jld
open higher education, not necessarily for
Auburn, but all of higher education to more
individuals that might not have had that oppor­tunity
in the past," said Mark Armstrong, direc­tor
of the freshman year experience.
"My hope would'be that it js not so much a
pressure that would be added to them as it
would be a motivation to achieve and suc­ceed,"
Armstrong said. "I think there will be
some that will experience a little bit of pres­sure,
but I would like to think for most of them
it will be a motivatic >> want to do ucll."
Currently, 95 percent of in-state UGA fresh­men
are on the HOPE scholarship.
9
Is there a casino connection?
Opponents fear possible gambling problems .
Approximately 59
percent of under­graduate
students
at the University of
Georgia are receiv­ing
HOPE
Scholarships at
this time.
By HEATHER SCHWAB
Staff Writer
We've all done it. Not many
people can say they have never
participated in a friendly pool over
a football game, bought a lottery
ticket at the gas station or even bet
a sibling over who is going to win
the next Nintendo game.
But for some people, compul­sive
gambling is a serious prob­lem,
and with the Oct. 12 vote on
the lottery drawing near, it
becomes necessary to consider if
this problem will increase, if the
amendment passes.
The lottery is the most popular
?rrr. of gambling, with an estimat-d
54 Dercent of adults buying lot­tery
ti :kets.
U^':ke the Georgia lottery plan,
on which the Alabama lottery is to
be n.odeled, there is no revenue set
aside to assist compulsive gam­blers-
Georgia earmarks hundreds
of muusands to assist problem
gamblers in ways such as hotlines.
Many believe that when dealing
with the lottery, addiction is not a
major issue. "The lottery in itself
does not have as much addiction
potential as some forms of gam­bling"
said Rudy Vuchinich, a psy­chology
professor at Auburn
University, who has studied addic­tions.
However, he added that
"there is every reason to expect an
increase in gambling addictions as
a result."
"I think it's naive to think there
will be no increase in problem
gambling." said John Hill, who
works for the Alabama Family
Alliance (a non-profit, non-parti­san
research and education organi­zation).
Hill has researched the
issue of gambling in Alabama for
four and a half years. While he
agrees there are already problem
gamblers in the state, he is con­cerned
that the number will
increase.
"The key to any addiction,
whether alcohol, drugs or gam­bling,
is availability. If you make
any of these more available, there
is going to be an increase in addic­tions."
Vuchinich said.
State Representative Mike
Hubbard said the inevitable
increase in gambling is not some­thing
to take lightly. "This (addic­tion
potential) is especially true
with adolescents, which is very
disturbing," Hubbard said.
According to Hill, one out of
every five teens that have gam­bling
problems attempt suicide,
less than average teens.
Availability is a great concern
when it comes to the lottery. "It
will be everywhere. Tickets will
be sold wherever there is a Kwikie
Mart. When it is that accessible,
people that have never played,
The key to any addic­tion,
whether alcohol,
drugs or gambling, is
availability. If you
make any of these
more available, there
is going to be an
increase in ^dic­tions./
7
— Dr. Rudy Vuchinich
professor of psychology
will," Hill said.
And while most of those people
may never have a problem, people
do get hooked on the lottery, par­ticularly
younger people. Hill says
that it is 200,000 times more like­ly
that a young person will become
hooked on the lottery than a person
winning on any one ticket.
According to Hill, many voters
say that they would vote yes for
the lottery, but would not agree to
casinos.
But the lottery could in many
ways open the door to larger forms
of gambling. For example, it gives
the state of Alabama one less leg to
stand on if the American Indians
living in the state were to petition
to have casinos on their reserva­tions.
While federal law allows casi-
. nos on reservations if the state-allows
Class 3 gambling — which
includes lottery — they must still
come to an agreement with the
state on it. If the issue went to
court, the state would have a hard
time arguing to keep the American
Indians from having casinos if the
state is allowed to have lottery.
This could "be the beginning of
a very dangerous cascade of forms
of gambling," Hill said. Hi said
one thing many people are forget­ting
is that for every person tiia! is
a problem gambler, eight other
people are effected by their pr< b
lem. This means that almost one
out of every five people will be
effected by someone with a j'lun-bling
problem.
Some believe even if the state
did include a way to direct revenue
from the sales of the tickets to the
assistance of compulsive gam­blers,
this is still a big enough
issue to merit prohibiting the lot­tery.
"It's like breaking windows so
you can hire someone to fix
them...if it's going to be a prob­lem,
why start?" Hill said.
"There are a lot of unanswered
questions that should be answered
before people even think about
voting for this," Hubbard said.
Siegelman could not be reached
for comment.
1997
1996
1995
1994
1993
1992
1991
1990
Percentage of total applications accepted
Freshman Admissions for Summer and Fall Quarters
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88.7
88.8
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1996
1995
1994
1993
1992
1991
1990
Freshman Admissions for Fall Quarters
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Gas stations chief sellers of tickets
By SARAH PURNELL
Assistant Copy Editor
igareltes and alcohol might not
he only reasons students will
n. ;e purchases at convenience
st. es after Oct 12. If the vote to
lili the state's constitutional ban
.•>n a lottery passes, students will
ul-p be able to purchase lottery
tii kets.
Gasoline stations and conve­nience
stores are predicted to be
the chief sellers of lottery tickets.
"Our industry is going to be the
industry most immediately affect­ed,"
said Bart Fletcher, executive
vice president of the Alabama
Oilmen's Association and
Association of Convenience
Stores. "We are going to experi­ence
the biggest amount of day-to­day
change in the way we do busi­ness."
This could be a bittersweet deci­sion
for most store owners. Not
only will they have to apply to
become lottery retailers, they will
also have to pass a background
check.
New phone lines, lottery termi­nals,
increased counter space and
more workers will be some of the
forced additions to their stores.
On the flip side, retailers could
possibly make at least a 5 percent
commission on all lottery sales.
This in a cut (hat could total $22.5
million, based
on Gov. Don
S i e g e l m a n ' s
revenue expec­tations.
S t e v e
Wilson, man­ager
of Eagle
C h e v r o n ,
located at 1599
S. College St.
said, "Our Georgia stores sell lot­tery
tickets, and their sales are so
low that the profits are not worth
the hassle of selling the tickets."
Wilson plans on carrying lottery
tickets in his store if the vote pass­es.
He predicts sales will be "pret­ty
good for six to seven months,
then drop off. To stay in competi­tion
with other stores, we will
carry lottery tickets, but that is
basically the only reason."
Wanda West, of Mom's Party
Shop, 700 W. Magnolia Ave.,
expects "sales will really go at
first, but eventually slow down a
bit."
West is, however, expecting that
if passed, the lottery could bring
more Auburn residents to her
store.
"The majority of my customers
are students, but I expect that more
residents, who normally don't
come over to this side of town,
would stop by to purchase tickets"
ifOur industry is
going to be the most
immediately
affected^ #
— Bart Fletcher
executive vice president of the
Alabama Oilman's Association
West said.
S o m e
believe if
Alabama vot­ers
approve the
lottery, retail­ers
may see
things differ-e
n t 1 y .
Eventually, the
state might
have to decide how many retail
lottery outlets are needed and see
there is not a need for a lottery ter­minal
at each of Alabama's 5,0'"
convenience stores.
Others are looking at the posi­tive
aspects the vote could bring to
Alabama.
"The governor believes this •*.»ill
improve the educational oppoitu
nities and life for the citizens r>»
the state of Alabama," Fletcher
said. "Williamson Oil Co. (which
operates about 100 stores) is inter­ested
in doing all that it can to bet­ter
the educational opportunities
of the citizens and children of this
state."
Most convenience store and gas
station business look forward to
the Oct. 12 vote, hoping it will be
for lottery sales.
Until the vote, those looking to
get lucky with the lottery will have
to keep heading to Georgia and
Florida.
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6,842
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the end of either
fall or spring
semester.
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The Alabama Education Lottery - Why is the Georgia Model good for Alabama?
With all of the stories being reported about the
Alabama Education Lottery, you may find yourself
wondering "what to do?" The Higher Education
Partnership would like for you to look at the lottery
issues very simply and base your opinions on what
we know are the facts.
1. Alabama is a state with very low taxes and a
population not showing a willingness to vote for
tax increases. In spite of these facts, the opponents
of the lottery are calling for new taxes and less
spending. They are simply ignoring the reality that
Alabamians are currently opposed to new taxes.
(Source: Mobile Register- August 25,1999)
2. Georgia's education lottery is the plan that
Governor Don Siegelman is promising to bring to
Alabama. The Georgia plan was initiated in 1992
and since it began the following have occurred:
(Source: Birmingham News- August 27, 1999)
• In 1998, Georgia's level of participation in the
lottery funded, pre-kindergarten programs was cal­culated
as 186,600 young people assisted. In con­trast,
Alabama is one of only 11 states not funding
Pre-K programs. (Source: Atlanta Journal-
Constitution - January 13, 1998.)
• Georgia's level of work force training has bene­fitted
greatly from the growth in enrollment of stu­dents
in technical colleges. The increase has been
from 106,604 in 1992-93 to 127,544 in 1997-98.
(Source: Georgia Board of Regents, 1999)
• In Georgia in 1998, the state invested 12 per­cent
more on technology than Alabama invested.
Alabama is currently 50th in a state-by-state com­parison
of dollars spent on educational technology.
(Source: Birmingham News-May 29, 1999)
• Currently, Alabama only has 9 percent of its
college students receiving slate financial aid. In
Georgia, the level of state financial aid is 85 per­cent.
(Source: Birmingham Post Herald-August 18,
1999)
• Over 380,000 Georgia students have taken
advantage of HOPE Scholarships since the lottery
began in 1992. In Alabama, where only 16 percent
of the citizens have bachelor's degrees, the state
needs to encourage university education. (Source:
Georgia Student Finance Commission-August 1999
and Chronicle of Higher Education-August 1999)
• In Georgia, the number of African-American
students benefitting from a college education is
increasing. The number of African-American stu­dents
enrolled in public colleges and universities
have grown by 20.4 percent since the initiation of
the Georgia HOPE Scholarship. (Source: Georgia
Board of Regents, 1999)
• The percentage of Georgia students leaving the
state to attend universities in other states has
declined. In 1996, the national rate of high school
seniors leaving their resident state was 29 percent.
In Georgia in the same year, the number had
declined to 24 percent. The direct result is a more
qualified work force that attracts better jobs and
leads to a higher quality of life. (Source: Georgia
Student Finance Commission-December 1999)
• Between 1994 and 1997, the overall perfor­mance
of Georgia's high school seniors has
increased. Georgia has improved its SAT scores by
an average of 35 points for college-bound students
that qualified for HOPE scholarships. (Source:
Atlanta Journal-Constitution-June 26, 1998)
• In the years since Georgia started the HOPE
scholarship program, researchers have discovered
that the proportion of college-bound students taking
four years of math, calculus and physics in high
school has increased. Also, the percentage of high
school students achieving a 3.0 or higher grade
point average in core academic courses has
increased. (Source: Andrew Young School of Policy
Studies at Georgia Stale University-September
1999)
3. Alabama's educational leaders, from State
Superintendent of Education Dr. Ed Richardson
to the presidents of Alabama's public universi­ties,
have expressed their support for the lottery.
These leaders, who are the state's most knowledge­able
and trained education experts, have slated that
passing the lottery is a step that Alabama needs to
take. (Source: Birmingham News-September 9,
1999 and Associated Press-August 27, 1999)
4. Over the last six years, Alabamians have
spent approximately $446 million on lottery tick­ets
in Georgia. Since 1998, Alabamians have pur-chased
over $600 million of Florida lottery tickets.
If Alabama does not adopt the lottery on Oct. 12.
our state's citizens will still be spending their dol­lars
on lottery tickets. The difference is the revenue
generated by the ticket purchases will be used in
other states to send students to college tuition-free,
put computers in classrooms and send children to
pre-kindergarten programs. Why do we want to
invest billions of Alabama dollars helping our
neighboring state's educational systems? (Source:
Georgia Lottery Corporation- August 16, 1999 and
Mobile Register- September 3, 1999)
The people of Alabama are gifted. We have strong
character, good work ethics and leadership potential
in our citizens. The Alabama Education Lottery will
not destroy these traits. The programs it funds will
enhance the abilities of every person to maximize
these blessings. The lottery programs will do more
than open the door of opportunity to many young
people who have previously not had a clear path to
success. The programs will give Alabama citizens a
map to successful careers: Pre-K, technology in
school, college tuition and eventually jobs. These
are the reasons a Georgia-style lottery is good for
Alabama.
Gordon Stone is executive director of the higher
education parternship and a guest columnist for
The Auburn Plainsman. You can
reach him at 334-832-9911.
Thursday, Oct. 7, 1999
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EDITORIALS
Siegelman's 'solution'
not good enough
Alabama voters should reject lottery
Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And he one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth;
Then took the other, as just as fair,
And having perhaps the better claim,
Because it was grassy and wanted wear;
Though as for that, the passing there
Had worn them really about the same,
And both that morning eqiudly lay
In leaves no step had trodden black.
Oh, I kept the first for another day!
Yet knowing how way leads on to way,
I doubted if I should ever come back.
I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I —
/ took the one less traveled by.
And that has made all the difference.
— "The Road not Taken" by Robert Frost
HE road of Alabama history diverges
Tuesday.
Those who travel that road cannot diverge with
1 it, however. We must be one traveler; and travel
we will — to a destination unknown.
As Alabama walks this presently unmapped
path, its voters must look down both roads before
them, peering down each path till it bends in the
undergrowth.
One path is the yellow brick road paved by Gov.
3on Siegelman, with blueprints from our neigh-oors
in Georgia. Within view down Siegelman's
wth are tliree gems:
HOPE scholarships — The gov­ernor
promises to send every Alabama
ugh school student with a 3.0 GPAon
a free ride to any of Alabama's four-year
public institutions.
Technology for K-12 classrooms
The Alabama Education Lottery
will fund computers for every K-12
classroom from the Tennessee River
to the Mobile River Delta.
Pre-kindergarten program —
This program will give three- and
'our-year-olds a jump-start on learn­ing.
The other path is the status quo. Down this well-beaten
road there lay dilapidating schools in the
Black Belt, underpaid teachers on Sand Mountain,
and sprawling schools surrounded by barbed-wire
fences in the inner-cities. There are racially unbal­anced
high schools in small towns crippled by vol­untary
segregation and white-flight private
schools, 30-plus two-year institutions duplicating
services, a flagship land-grant institution cutting
urograms, and an ever-widening financial and edu-ational
gap between cities like Mountain Brook
and Linden.
These stark differences makes the choice clear,
right? The golden shine of the lottery-paved high­way
to educational bliss calls out with a "better
laim." It wants wear. But what is around the
bend? Nobody knows, and the lottery proponents
don't want voters to wonder.
They themselves wonder: Does the golden high­way
continue into the unseen or will the nature
walk be interrupted by any of the following weeds?
An unaccountable Alabama Education
Lottery Corporation — As structured, the AEL
IN SUMMARY
Issue: Alabama
education lottery
Problem: The
negatives outweigh
the positives
Solution: Vote 'NO'
Oct. 12, then look
for a better plan
to improve education
private corporation. Under that setup, the corpora­tion
will be exempt from Alabama Open Records
laws, meaning citizens won't necessarily know
where the money actually goes.
Additionally, the corporation is not bound by the
state's open-bidding regulations, opening the door
for political back-scratching in any of its business
dealings. The politics will continue when the cor­poration
doles out campaign contributions, some­thing
it can do as a corporation.
• Increase in quantity of education, but
decrease in quality— What's the use of giving
students a free education when the education isn't
worth paying for? Siegelman is ready to overload
institutions of higher learning with eager students,
but he has produced no method by which schools
can obtain and keep adequate facilities to house
them and the faculty to teach them.
• The program's utter failure to produce
enough revenue— Siegelman claims, "There is
no plan B if the lottery vote fails." A better point
is that there is no plan B if the lottery flops once
enacted. What will Alabama do if our population
of four million cannot produce the shining results
found in Georgia? Once the lottery passes, no
other solution to Alabama's education woes will
enter the debate. The Legislature will forever lay
to rest the possibility of real tax reform to raise
education dollars responsibly. Failing lotteries do
not go away, nor do the problems they create.
• A gambling-addicted public and an exploited
lower class— The governor has no plan in place
to alleviate the inevitable social ills brought by
gambling addiction. Rather, voters will see state-sponsored,
lottery-funded advertising preying on
the poor and weak in spirit: Play the lottery, get
rich quick, i.e. give us your money, and your life
will get better."
The role of the government is not citizen
babysitter, but no state should know­ingly
sponsor a policy so unneces­sarily
burdensome to the poor,
though Alabama already does — it's
called the tax code.
Aside from the moral objections
raised by many Alabama voters,
these potential negatives provide
more than enough impetus for
Alabama voters to say no to this sup­posedly
golden road laid before us
by Siegelman.
Additionally, saying no to this
tempting plan does not doom Alabama education
to wallow in its current state of destitution. For just
as Siegelman's plush road travels around abend, so
does the road of the status quo. Just as Lottery
Lane can change direction for the worse, Status
Quo Street can change direction for tiie better.
Those who cast votes Tuesday can control what
is around the bend of the road that seems less
attractive upon first glance. Whereas the conse­quences
of a lottery are in some ways out of the
people's hands, alternative solutions to our educa­tional
problems are not.
After rejecting the lottery bid, Alabamians can
attack the real problem with Alabama education:
our priorities. As a state, let us demand that edu­cation
be a funding priority, and let us fire legisla­tors
who do not agree.
Let a "No" vote Tuesday send a message to the
Governor's Mansion and Capitol Hill: We will fix
our problems, but we can't fix a problem with a
problem. We demand they be fixed responsibly
and without the creation of a potentially unman­ageable
monster.
Take that road, Alabama. It's the one less trav-rorporation
will function as a semi-public/semi- eled, but it will make all the difference.
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Parking woes: the University will not
fix problem that makes ton of money
"Why are you late?" professor
Random asks as 1 run into class out of
breath and frustrated.
I reply in a sarcastic tone, "Well, it all
started at 9:30 a.m. when I arrived on
campus to beat everyone else in search
of a parking space."
Problem: everyone else had caught
on to my scheme. To make class on
time, one must begin the fight for park­ing
spaces an hour or two before their
class starts.
Parking at Auburn has become an
increasing problem. I have been here
for two years and have never seen it
this bad.
Students have no choice but to hop
curbs, skip class and get rude, all for a
slab of concrete. A parking space has
become a true commodity on this cam­pus
— a commodity that can't be coun­tered
by insufficient funding or the
Tiger Transit.
• Availability: Parking on campus is
not efficient for people who spend their
days in places like the Aerospace
Engineering building or Comer Hall.
Officials argue there is a C-Zone
parking lot on the Hill. But that lot is
full the night before, because of dorm
folks.
I know — I lived in the dorm my
freshman year. Even people out tliere
were hopping curbs and parking illegal-iy.
Here's the numbers. There are 6,200
C-zone parking spaces on Auburn's
campus. On average, there are 14,000
C-zone hangtags sold.
Do the math. Only 44 percent of the
14,000 students are lucky enough to get
a cherished parking space, considering
we're all on campus at the same time.
. One problem stems from increased
enrollment. An increase in bodies obvi­ously
means an increase in vehicles.
Granted, not every student goes to
KRISTIN
LENZ
1 class every day
and some ride the
transit. But the
majority of stu­dents
are thrown
into a concrete
ring and forced to
fight it out with
their fellow
Plainsmen.
• Maintenance:
Many parking lots,
" " " - ^ ^ — " ^ ~ - ~ pa s t (jue for repair,
have potholes made by meteor showers.
Some C-Zone spaces are the equivalent
of an Alabama back road — gravel.
Every time a student leaves the small
parking lot by the Business Building,
there might as well be a mechanic to fix
your shocks, struts and alignment.
Need I mention the "dustbowl"
behind the stadium parking lot? Lack
of organization causes people to get
blocked in and have their doors dinged.
Rainy days in the "dustbowl" prove to
be a parking challenge for sedans.
The traffic builds inside each square
of parking spaces, as there are only two
or three exits of escape. Students try to
get out of the square of death to allow
the unfortunate in. That can be as
much of a headache as fighting for a
spot.
The parking monitors on campus
have become pawns, working to make
the University more money.
Where are these people on game days
when thousands of crazed fans are
parked in every nook and cranny on
this campus? If Ole Miss fans can park
on the mulch, then I, a tuition-paying
student can too. 1 shouldn't be penal­ized
for the lack of parking.
Nothing can be done unless there is
money to do it, unfortunately. Want to
know where all the money goes from
the lovely white slips of paper you find
under your windshield wiper?
• Funds: The Auburn University
Department of Public Safety makes, on
average, $ 1.5 million annually on park­ing
tickets alone.
You would think the money made by
the Auburn University Department of
Public Safety and parking service on
these tickets would be routed to parking
improvements.
Wrong. Guess where it goes. Where
everything else goes — the University's
general fund.
Jim Williams, director of parking,
said they have proposed a resolution to
President Muse and the Board of
Trustees to allow this money to go into
a parking improvement fund.
The administration should listen to
the angry voices coming from the park­ing
lots around campus.
• Change: There has been a baby
step in the right direction, but birth isn't
going to take place until 2002.
The Max Morris improvement will
add 300-350 new parking spaces to
Auburn's campus. It will also fund
improvements to the parking lots
between Magnolia Avenue and
Roosevelt Drive.
For the time being, officials need to
be more lenient on illegal parking.
They are aware of the problem, and it is
obvious nothing is going to change any­time
soon.
I, along with many other students, am
forced to hop that curb and race to
class. The green flag's waving and the
race has begun. The officers will make
a stop or two, but that won't stop a
crazed student from trying to get to
class on time.
Kristin Lenz is assistant features editor
of The Auburn Plainsman. You can
reach her at S44-9II2 and
lenzkri@mail.auburn.edu.
Worries about AU prevent student
from getting 'good night's sleep'
Whether it's family problems or
troubles with Tiger Transit, all of us
have things that we can't get out of
our head. Finding someone to listen
to us talk about them can be a prob­lem
too.
Some of us have the luxury of
working for a publication that allows
us to share our troubles with others so
our minds can be free.
Instead of trying to tackle the big
issues facing mankind, I'll start with
some smaller things that have kept me
from a good night's sleep lately.
• Maybe I was spoiled by having
such an amazing high school band.
Let me make it perfectly clear that the
members of Auburn's band are highly
talented musicians and are capable of
playing great music.
Why, then, do the people in charge
of the band insist on having them play
the same two-and-a-half songs over
and over and over (we get the point)
again? I'm all for tradition, but this is
ridiculous.
Why not let the band get a little
funky, instead of playing the fight
song 30 rimes per quarter. Please
hurry before the AU Band and paint
drying are interchangeable concepts.
Oh yeah, and I
just remembered
— my high school
didn't have a
band.
• The price of
football season
tickets nearly
doubled this year.
So did tlie basket­ball
tickets.
Printing costs
"~~"~~~^—~~m" went from 5 cents
to 6 cents, and it costs me more now
than ever to buy a Coca-Cola on the
Plains.
Oddly enough, my tuition increased
this year as well/despite the
University's decision to cut some of
the courses needed for my major. If
you cut my programs, why not cut my
costs?
We always hear about how enroll­ment
is up, which, in theory, would
bring Auburn more money. Why, then,
are students steadily seeing prices go
out of control?
• If my tuition has been increased to
help build a new Foy, why in the hell
are they putting all these new eateries
and copy rooms in the current one?
? 1
It's a rather inefficient move by a
group of inefficient decision- makers.
• If I am going to be a writer when I
grow up, why do I need to know the
atomic number of Praseodymium?
• The lottery is a scheme that bene­fits
no one but greedy businessmen
and politicians. Vote NO!
• Who needs a lottery? If I had a
dollar for every minute Damon
Duval's fake punt stayed in the air, I
coidd be happily retired by now. But
I'll give Tuberville an 'A' for effort.
• I love Auburn. Always have,
always will.
One reason I adore it so much is
because when times are tough (or
even when they're not so tough) you
can pray. In class, the office, at meet­ings
and just about every other venue,
it is okay — even welcomed — for
you to pray. We all need prayer. So,
here's one out to you guys (especially
you Grandpa).
I have just deeply exhaled. Maybe
that means I can get some sleep now.
Ryan Lee is assistant campus editor of
The Auburn Plainsman. You can
reach him at H44-9I1H and
leerYan@mail.uuhurn.edu.
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Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging freedom of speech,
or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances.
Lottery hoopla exploits much that is wrong in Alabama
The Alabama Education Lottery has dominated the
leadlines, airwaves, political rhetoric and workrooms
icross the state for months. In the process, most every-hing
that ails Alabama has reared its ugly head.
From the misinformation that so characterizes the
:ommunication between our government and its peo-
!e to the attempt by the wealthy and powerful to dom-nate
the poor, this debate has been an exercise in the
irand Alabama tradition of governmental futility.
Let's take a look at the most obvious problems:
I Underhanded politics at high levels. It began as
oon as Gov. Don Siegelman was elected. As outgoing
ieutenant governor, Siegelman presided over the qua-lrennial
organizational session of the Alabama Senate.
)uring this session the Senate sets its rules and struc-ure
for the next four years.
Siegelman took the opportunity to shift the power
ireviously vested in him as lieutenant governor to the
Jenate majority leader, Lowell Barron, a democratic
enator from Fyffe and an Auburn trustee. Such a
tiove allowed Siegelman to control two branches of
;overnment. the executive and legislative, rather than
ust one.
So, when it came time to push the lottery enabling
cts through the State House, the governor didn't have
o push hard.
The governor said this setup is the most productive
BILL
BARROW
the
and efficient way to run Alabama
government. But it evidently took
him getting elected governor to
figure it out.
The saga continued shortly
after the inauguration when Lt.
Gov. Steve Windom retaliated
against Siegelman by gaveling
through new Senate rules. The
ensuing deadlock lead to weeks
of closed-door meetings until the
two sides reached a compromise
that divided the Senate powers
between lieutenant governor and the majority
leader.
Cynical observers say such shenanigans are typical
Alabama politics. It looked more like a territorial fight
in a kindergarten sand box.
• Miscommunication, misinformation and a lack
of communication between the government and the
people. There is a definite difference between the two,
but either way, examples of both abound.
Miscommunication is an unintentional misunder­standing
between two parties. Misinformation is incor­rect
information, an out right misrepresentation of the
facts. It can be deceptive or accidental. A lack of com­munication
is just that. It also can be intentionally
deceptive. Where Siegelman's antics fall is subjective.
But, he has said on numerous occasions, "My three-part
program is modeled after Georgia's." Translation:
the lottery will fund college scholarships, school com­puters
and a pre-kindergarten program.
What he doesn't tell you is how the Alabama
Education Lottery Corporation will be held account­able
to the people of Alabama. As a semi-private,
semi-public, wholly ambiguous and unexplained insti­tution,
it will not be. Period. The presentation of the
corporation is a textbook case of a lack of communi­cation.
Because it is not bound by the Alabama Open
Records laws, its operations will be as well.
Typical Alabama politics? If you call keeping the
people are in the dark typical, then yes.
• Suppression of the lower-class by the ruling elite.
Sometimes, it is hard to think of Alabama as being
divided into class distinctions. Many outsiders see the
entire state as being poor. Most insiders just see them­selves
as representatives of the rest of the state.
Therein lies the problem, as parents and children from
various country club lanes around the state see the lot­tery
as their free ticket. They don't stop to see who's
paying for it. Many of the lower- and middle-class
blue-collar workers who will be paying the bill don't
think of the big picture either. They see: get rich quick.
Both sides are caught in a massive case of "me-cen-tered"
tunnel vision.
The mood is indicative of the mentality that has led
to climbing sales taxes, arguably the most regressive
tax ever levied, while property taxes and income taxes
say put, freeing big money in the pockets of the fat cat' —^
land owners and white collar professionals around the
state. ' r)
Alabama Farm Bureau, the Business Council of \
Alabama, the Alabama Education Association and the ,.
Alabama Trial Lawyers Association, among others,-'
have dominated Montgomery tugs-of-war for years.
The little man hasn't had a chance — doesn't have a
chance in the lottery debate either. -.
Where does Alabama go from here? To the polls.
Where to from there? Who knows. If the state had true
leadership — in the Governor's Mansion, the State
House and in society — the answer would be simple:-i-'?!
forward. But that leadership doesn't make itself appar­ent.
So the best answer, though not definitive, is any­where
but where we've been.
Bill Barrow is editor of The Auburn Plainsman.
You can reach him at 844-9021 and
barrowj @mail.auburn.edu.
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
<ottery pushers
forgotten 'In
rod we Trust9
editor, The Auburn Plainsman;
In God We Trust? Really? We've forgot-n
these words that have blessed us, sus-ined
us and made us great as a nation.
on Siegelman has forgotten them. Many of
ur legislators have forgotten them. Many
f our business leaders have forgotten them.
1any of our religious leaders, through their
lence, have forgotten them. And, "we the
eople" race to the sound of coins striking
letal, or in the case of the proposed "edu-ation"
lottery, the sound of paper striking
aper, because we have forgotten them too..
Ve race to exchange ideals of faith, hard
rork and a spirit of giving for new, sinister
eals of misplaced trust, greed and a spirit
f getting.
We buy ill-conceived arguments in our
st to abandon time-honored ways and
nbrace evil: "...but all that money is going
Georgia." So, if Georgia legalizes prosti-tion,
establishing itself as an "education"
mp to complement its status as "educa-
DII" bookie, should Alabama follow suit?
fter all, we wouldn't want "all that
tioney" to go to Georgia, would we?
As our society implodes around us —
lildren killing children, day-traders (gam-ilers)
coming unglued and killing their fam-ies,
people of faith massacred even as they
vorship, good men and women trading
rtue for vice — we ask, "why?" Might we
nd the answer in the new ideals that corn­el
us?
In God We Trust? No we don't.
eff S. Barganier
Yetumpka
Opponents of
ottery ignore
elevant facts
Editor, The Auburn Plainsman;
Lottery opponents continue to tell us that
vhile Georgia's lottery might work great for
iroviding scholarships to their students,
ilabama is better off twiddling its thumbs.
hurts the poor, they say. More poor people
DediCaUg & s effected of a- pCoqCabn
asl^p^tami" as our educahohat
-fui^rffs Should mat depend ov+Jno
u)Mws oi2 tickd-bu^cyvq customers.
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buy lottery tickets than anyone else, they
say.
Never mind that the Atlanta-Journal
Constitution, prior to deciding to endorse
Georgia's lottery system, commissioned a
study that refuted such nonsense. Never
mind that poor people buy pretty much the
same proportion of lottery tickets as affluent
people. These issues aren't important to
those who oppose the lottery for political
reasons.
And just in case they can't scare you with
their "you're hurting the poor" rhetoric,
there's always Plan B: lie, lie, lie.
"Lottery = Casino Gambling" say bill­boards
and bumper stickers. Is there any
evidence to support this claim?
The Oct. 12 lottery vote, if successful,
will legalize an education lottery — not
casino gambling in any form. In fact, the
amendment, if passed, won't even legalize
raffles in our state. If someone down the
road wants to legalize casinos, he or she
must get our approval with another referen­dum
— and if we don't like the proposal,
we can simply vote it down.
Sadly, the latest Birmingham News poll
shows that our lead is dwindling. Are lottery
opponents right? Are we really this stupid?
Can a group simply campaign —and lie —
over the course of a few weeks and actually
make us vote against a proposal we know in
our hearts will help the children of
Alabama?
Vote and we'll find out.
Adam Butler
Birmingham
People will lose
if Alabama
gambles Tuesday
Editor, The Auburn Plainsman;
The issue is gambling, gaming, lottery, or
whatever is politically correct today, but be
prepared if public opinion fluctuates, the ter­minology
will change; the only constant
factor that the Siegelman plan advocates is
someone will win a million-dollar lottery in
Alabama.
A person has a better chance of being
struck by a meteorite from space than win­ning
the lottery; as a matter of fact, I do not
IASON KEYMrt Editor
know anyone that has been hit by a mete­orite.
In addition, if any of my relatives,
friends, or neighbors have won the lottery
they forgot to tell me. This brings a good
point to investigate. If one watches much
television, it is known that anyone who has
ever won a lottery has plenty of friends, but
where were they when that person was a
member of normal society? I have witnessed
a lot of different people in my 30 years on
Earth, but to the best of my knowledge, I
have never met anyone wealthy (having a
million dollars or more) that appeared
happy.
Consequently, the root of all evil is
money, and whether one believes his or her
religious Bible or not, the people of
Alabama must look at the lottery issue with
a simple mind. Most people live life simple;
one wakes in the morning, and one sleeps at
night, but the decisions that are made from
daylight until dark is what one must live
with for the rest of one's life.
On the morning of Oct. 13, the day of the
Siegelman Lottery Referendum, if I still
reside on Earth, I will know in my heart
when I voted no on gambling in Alabama; 1
advocated my conviction; can everyone in
Alabama including Gov. Siegelman say the
same? In addition, Alabama is one of the
most beautiful states in the United States of
America; the southern hospitality bubbles
like the blistering hot peach pie mother
cooks on a cold winter night.
The people of Alabama must maintain
this beautiful southern state by avoiding
gambling. Consequently, the people of
Alabama have been deceived in population
comparison; as a matter of fact, Alabama
has a closer population to Mississippi than
Georgia; Mississippi could not afford a lot­tery
so they turned to casino gambling to
boost their state income.
Even if Alabama made a dollar on the
Siegelman Education Lottery, would the
dollar be worth any city in Alabama (espe­cially
located near a waterway) becoming
Tunica, Miss.? I have been to Tunica, Miss.,
and the path to the casino area appears to be
a desert. I remember the grass did not grow
on the side of the road in route to the casino
area. Trees were dead, and the houses within
10 miles of the casinos' were abandoned,
but the casino alley by the river had a beau­tiful
appearance.
Adversely, more money will not help a
state prosper that has trouble wisely spend­ing
the current revenue it receives.
Stacy L. George
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agreement of the editor. Letters that are
not published in the print edition are
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found at www.theplainsman.com.
University president welcomes students back to Auburn
We approach this academic year and the new
nillennium with great hope and high expecta-ions
for the future of Auburn University.
In the last few years, through the efforts of
nany individuals on campus and in the larger
\uburn community, we have been able to turn
hallenges into opportunities to make Auburn
Jniversity a better place in which to learn, work,
nd serve the people of Alabama. As a result of a
omprehensive planning initiative, we have been
ible to carefully fine-tune our mission, reevaluate
)ur priorities, and forge a plan that will allow us
address several important issues as we move
nto the twenty-first century.
Our highest priority over the next five years is
bring our faculty, administrative/professional ""~~
nd staff compensation to a more competitive level.
3f utmost importance is our ability to attract and
etain the caliber of faculty and support personnel
at we need to continue offering programs of excel-nt
quality. With the support of Gov. Don Siegelman
nd our state Legislature, the University received an
ncrease in state appropriations this year of 6 percent,
his increase, coupled with tuition revenues and
WILLIAM
MUSE
A weekly forum for
persons not on the
staff of the Plainsman
to express their views,
on issues that affect
Auburn University.
h
internally reallocated funds, made it possible for us
to provide an average salary increase of 5 percent for
our employees effective Oct. 1.
A second high priority is to bring our annual
expenditures on deferred maintenance up to a level
consistent with our investment in physical facilities
— a total of about $10 million per year. The ongoing
process of upgrading and maintaining our physical
facilities is critical to ensuring that we not only
project a positive image for the University, but
also provide adequate and appropriate building
space in which to conduct the instruction,
research and outreach functions of the
University.
Through careful planning and reallocation of
resources, we were also able to provide a 3 per­cent
increase in operations and maintenance
budgets this year. We have operated with virtu­ally
no increases in our non-salary accounts for
many years, while inflation has eaten away at
our purchasing power. Additional funds have
also been allocated to enhance academic pro­grams
selected as "Peaks of Excellence," those
•programs which have already achieved some
measure of national visibility, but have the potential
for even greater significance on the national scene
and in the state's future economic development. In
addition to these programmatic priorities, four other
areas that are central to Auburn's academic quality
were identified for enhanced funding this year. These
priorities include the core curriculum, instructional
technology, the library, and cultural diversity.
f *'
While these priorities and programs have been .
identified for special attention at this juncture, I want
to emphasize that all of the programs that we offer ( ,
are important to us. The collective efforts of our fac­ulty
and staff to effectively and efficiently deliver the
diverse programs that contribute to our overall mis- jJ .y
sion have repeatedly resulted in the University's g
recognition on a national level. U.S. News and World... ,,
Report magazine ranked Aubum University among .
the nation's 50 top public universities in 1998-99 in
providing a superior education. Auburn was chosen
as one of the nation's top 100 college buys by The
Student Guide to America's 100 Best College Buys 1999,
in which our faculty and core curriculum are praised.
We can all take pride in these and other accom­plishments
that give us reason to face the future with •
optimism. I extend my appreciation to all the stu­dents,
faculty, staff and administrators that make ' !
Auburn the great university that it is.
William Muse is president of Auburn University.
You can reach him at H44-4750 and
musewil@mail.auburn.edu.
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minimum GPA under the proposed lottery
bill.
Despite the University's steady enrollment
increase, no funds are directly set aside to
increase Auburn's faculty or improve campus
buildings, they said.
SGA Vice President Roby Robinson said
he continues to doubt the effectiveness of the
lottery because of "two undeniable facts."
"Having an influx in the (junior college)
system cannot be a good thing for Auburn,"
said Robinson, a senior in chemical engineering.
"And secondly, Alabama's proposed lottery is
not identical to Georgia's current system and so it
is unknown whether it will produce the same ben­efits
as Georgia's lottery has," he said.
Vines distributed literature to each senator
comparing the Alabama proposal to the Georgia
lottery so they would be better informed of the
effects of the vote.
After discussion on the lottery vote, senators
were visited by several school presidents in hope
1 Having an influx in
I the (junior college)
system cannot be a
• m fpi i ll
good thing fof s
Auburn.
— Roby Robinson
SGA vice president
of forming a unified effort to address students
needs.
SGA Cabinet member Sam Chambliss sug­gested
senators and presidents should work coop­eratively,
saying he hoped better lines of commu­nication
would be opened between senators and
officials from each school.
Robinson then showed senators a rough draft
of a resolution designed to improve the parking
situation surrounding the Aerospace Engineering
Building by implementing a parking pass system,
instead of the current parking meters.
The draft will be discussed and worked
on by the Student Interest Committee during
the week and could be ready for a vote by
next week's Senate meeting.
SGA President Andrew Nix formally
introduced his plans for a program that would,
have SGA members canvass the campus,
asking students for their perception of SGA
and what they would like to see from their
elected officials.
The yet-to-be-named project is scheduled to
start next Thursday with SGA Cabinet members
focusing on areas such as Terrell Hall, Foy
Student Union, the Concourse and Haley Center
during high-traffic hours.
SGA senators and Cabinet members will meet
with President and Mrs. William Muse Monday
evening at the President's Mansion to discuss |
various issues.
Following the reception at the President's]
Mansion, Senate will meet at 8 p.m. in Foy.
w 4 J \ \ , m l / > / Y Continued from Page One
bid to IBM to conduct a 15-week session on infor­mation
technology at the University and in the com­munity.
"We asked for proposals from a number of out­side
vendors to help us evaluate our information
technology activities here on campus — not just
computing, but the whole spectrum of what consti­tutes
information technology," Walker said.
IBM will send representatives from its college or
educational division and not its hardware division,
he said.
"IBM will come and work with the community to
essentially develop a vision for what information
technology on this campus should be."
In other news, the Senate unanimously approved
the slate of new members to the Senate committees.
Ennis Wilson, chairman of the committee for
intercollegiate athletics, presented an overview of
the duties and mission of his committee.
Wilson said the graduation ratio of student ath­letes
from Auburn is the highest it has ever been.
"We are second only to Vanderbilt in our confer­ence,"
Wilson said.
The University Senate will meet at* an Nov. 9
Graduate School Dean John Pritchett reported to
the Senate on general guidelines for the classifica­tion
of various academic units as either schools, col­leges
or departments.
Fletcher served on a committee appointed by
ASHtEY DULANEY/Pbofo Staff
Provost William Walker tells the
University Senate Tuesday of his
plans to involve IBM in the long-range
technological development of Auburn.
Muse in July 1996 to establish permanent guidelines
to be used when making such distinctions.
Fletcher told the Senate, "These designations
would enhance the unit's ability to serve all three
areas of Auburn's mission. We need to show the
board (of trustees) that units with similar missions at
peer institutions are commonly designated as such."
Corr jtion: The lead front-page story of the Sept. 30 edition of The Auburn Plainsman
incorrectly identified the University's budget as $478 billion. It should have read $478 million.
VOTE
Continued from Page One
Tichenor Hall, room 206.
Conner Bailey, president of the Auburn
chapter of AAUP, said the meeting will be
held not as a debate, but to gather facts |
about the lottery.
Bailey said students and faculty are |
encouraged to attend.
A panel of four lottery experts will lead j
the discussion. Among these are:
• Steve Caudill, professor of economics.
Caudill will present studies concerning the |
effects of lotteries in other states.
• Fred Waddell, professor of human devel-1
opment and family studies. Waddell will I
present facts about family financial man-]
agement. -
• Rep. Mike Hubbard, R-Auburn.
Hubbard is a staunch opponent of the lot­tery
and will present his views on the|
issue.
• John Fletcher, interim vice president fori
enrollment management. Fletcher serves I
on a lottery committee formed byl
President William V. Muse to investigate]
the effects a lottery may have on Auburn.
• Jim Vickery, member of the Alabamal
Education Lottery Foundation and al
lawyer for the state, will complete the]
panel.
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Parking plagues Plains
Is the car crunch
worse this year
than ever before?
By KATIE MCCORMACK
Assistant Copy Editor
Ask any Auburn student what they think
about parking on campus and you probably
won't be met with a pleasant response.
"Parking here is awful. You have to be
really aggressive to find a spot. I try to get
here early to find a spot, but I've still been
late to class," Cassie Wade, a junior in pre-medicine,
said.
Kaiiton Gholston, a senior in public rela­tions
and communication, agreed. "I've
had to park on the curb because I just could­n't
find a place to park. I think they focus
more on giving tickets than solving the
problem," Gholston said.
Parking on campus, especially during fall
quarter, can be a headache for students.
"It's always difficult at the beginning
because it is a matter of educating people
who have not tried to park on campus
before," Jim Williams, parking manager,
said.
Williams and his staff of six work to
enforce parking by issuing tickets to people
who are either parked illegally or are parked
in the wrong zone.
"I simply tell my staff if you find a car
parked illegally, write a ticket," Williams
said.
So what's the secret to parking without
the risk of a ticket?
Williams said there are about 6,200 C-zone
parking spaces available and slightly
more than 14,000 C-zone parking hangtags
have been sold so far
this fall. However, he
said he still finds
empty C-zone spaces,
even on the busiest
class days.
"Mondays and
Wednesdays from 10
a.m. to 2 p.m. are the
busiest days on campus
according to the class
schedules and still 350
to 400 C-zone spaces
go empty," Williams
said.
Williams recom­mends
students park in outlying parking
lots, such as the lots near the intermural
fields, and ride the transit into campus.
"These areas are serviced by the transit
'• • ^ . m . ' i F . '.•••."V
CATHERINE KINCAID/fVioto Editor
Fighting for a parking place can be a tough job, especially on Mondays and Wednesdays, which are the
busiest class days for the University. There are 7,000 more C-zone hangtags than C-zone parking
spaces on campus this fall. Officials urge students to make use of the Tiger Transit system.
ADD IT UP
C-zone spaces sold: 14,000+
C-zone parking spaces: 6,200
Yearly revenue from parking
tickets: $1.6 million
every 10 to 15 minutes," Williams said.
Williams said plans are under way to
build a new C-zone lot near the Max Morris
Drill Field.
"The Max Morris
improvement lot will be
similar to the parking lot
at the Athletic Complex
with natural pedestrian
walkways and landscap­ing,"
Williams said.
This lot will also be
equipped with covered
transit stops to encourage
students to park and ride
the transit into campus.
According to Williams,
the most ticketed spots on
campus include the North
Scholarship Drive, across
the street from Jordan-Hare Stadium and
the Nichols Center parking lot.
Williams said an excessive amount of
tickets are issued to cars parked in these lots
because people park where there are no
legal parking spaces and they block the
entrances to the lots.
"This not only blocks traffic, but it is also
dangerous," Williams said.
He recommends students read the pam­phlet
they receive when they buy their
hangtag.
It provides a campus map of all the C-zone
parking lots available.
"Be aware of where you can park,"
Williams said.
Parking tickets range in price from $4 to
$25, with the price increasing each time you
receive a ticket.
The two exceptions include parking with­out
a hangtag or parking illegally in the cen­tral
part of campus. A $25 fine is assessed
in these instances, regardless of whether it
is your first offense.
Doug Vollberg, a junior in business man­agement,
once thought it would be easier to
park without a hangtag.
"I didn't buy a hangtag and parked in A-zone.
Now I have over $400 worth of park­ing
tickets on my Bursar bill," Vollberg
said.
All the revenue received from parking
tickets and hangtag sales is directed into the
University's General Fund.
Combined revenues from tickets and
hangtag sales for the 1998-99 academic
year totaled more than $1.6 million,
Williams said.
Tiger Transit is helping to curb parking
problems around campus. "The transit sys­tem
has reduced ticketing by 18 to 22 per-
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New Foy
creeps
closer to
reality
By SYDNEY BLACKWELL
Staff Writer
It is 1 p.m. and you are faced
with yet another hour-long break
before your next class. It's too
short to walk back to your dorm
or drive to your apartment, so
what do you do?
A new student union filled
with an array of vendors and
rooms to satiate your everyday
demands is not only the answer
to your unfilled gaps between
classes, but also the answer to all
your college necessities and on-the-
side entertainment.
Last spring, Auburn students
voted over­whelmingly
in favor of
erecting a
new Foy
S t u d e n t
Union. In
June, the
Board of
T r u s t e e s
approved a
$5 addition to tuition fees in order
to fund the new construction.
Tuition will be raised in $5
increments each of the next five
years, with the money contribut­ing
solely to the new student
union.
Next, President William V.
Muse appointed a building com­mittee
to oversee the project, with
Debbie Conner selected as chair
of the committee. Conner, direc­tor
of Foy Student Union, then
appointed an additional commit­tee
composed completely of stu­dents.
David Stejskal, a senior in civil
engineering, was chosen to lead
the group, which plays a very
important role in the planning of
the new facility.
Stejskal and nine other students
serving on the committee have
been working since the summer,
gathering information on exactly
Please turn to FOY, B2
STEJSKAL
Additional ATMs may bring
more cash to campus
JESSICA GARDNER/P/ioto Staff
Haley Center is the site of one of only three ATMs on campus, but
more may soon be added thanks to a Board of Trustees resolution.
By BRANDON EVANS
Staff Writer
Auburn's administration may help
bring more ATMs to campus, thanks to a
resolution adopted by the Board of
Trustees at its Sept. 22 meeting.
The resolution will allow administra­tors
to accept proposals for providing
cash-dispensing machines at high-traffic
sites on campus.
The move changes the existing policy
for adding ATMs to the University.
Previously, every time an ATM was con­sidered
for placement on campus, the
administration had to hear the proposed
plan and then accept or reject the idea.
But now, the leaders have been given
a free range for installing the automatic
tellers.
Currently, the school has three ATMs
on campus. One is in Foy Union and
has its service provided by AmSouth;
another is located in Haley Center with
bank service provided by Colonial
Bank; and the third is inside the Auburn
University Hotel and Conference
Center.
Administration has placed the bank
service up for bids among local banks of
Auburn. Banks that can give the best bid
for providing ATM service will be cho­sen.
Charles Ruth, director of treasury ser­vices
at the University, was one of the
people involved
in setting up the
proposal for pro-
We still need
to determine
the exact location
of high-traffic sires!
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— Charles Ruth
Director of treasury services
Iiferating ATM*s
around campus.
"We still need
to determine the
exact location of
high-traffic sites.
We will be work­ing
with campus housing and other fac­ulty
and staff to find the best sites," Ruth
said.
Areas that will most likely gain an
ATM are Terrell Cafeteria, Campus
Mall, Beard-Eaves Memorial Coliseum
and another ATM in Haley Center.
Ruth said the ATMs will probably not
be installed until the beginning of the
new year.
Students have mixed reactions to the
idea of new ATMs.
Desmund May, a junior in marine
biology, considers more machines frivo­lous.
"There are already enough ATMs on
campus that can easily be reached by
way of a short walk," he
said.
May, however has a
Tiger Club Card that
basically eliminates the
need for cash on cam­pus.
T.J. Robinson, a
junior in wildlife sci­ence,
does not own a
Tiger Club Card and has to stick to the
tradition of using cash to pay for goods.
When asked if he thought more ATMs
were a good idea, Robinson said, "Yeah,
definitely.
"If you need supplies or food from the
cafeteria it would be good to have easy
access to an ATM."
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cent. In 1997, we wrote around
94,000 tickets. Now we write
around 80,000," Williams said,
Williams also said there is no set
quota for the number of tickets his
staff write each year.
Williams said he hopes Tiger
Transit, along with the new pro­posed
parking lot, will help to alle­viate
some of the parking problems.
However, he and his crew will
still be around to ticket those that
insist on parking illegally.
"None of us would be here with­out
the students.
"We want to help them out and
work with them but it is something
we must do for everybody's safety.
"We've got to enforce it,"
Williams said.
FOY CONTINUED FROM Bl
what students want in the soon-to-
be-constructed building.
The student committee collect­ed
1,300 surveys through hous­ing
residencies at the beginning
of fall. Starting Oct. 19 survey
tables will be set up on campus to
attain a more homogeneous opin­ion
of i recisely what students
desire.
Stejskal said, "The more quan­titative
a unified opinion is, the
more impact it will display. To
have 5,000 students in favor of
one aspect is much more power­ful
than say, 500."
The ideas will be presented by
the student committee to the
building committee at the begin­ning
of winter quarter. Some of
the proposed ideas to occupy the
new union include a post office, a
travel agency specializing in stu­dent
and group trips, a hair salon
and a c fee lounge.
A larger ballroom and more
meeting rooms are also being
considered. These are only a few
of the many proposed plans,
which also include various din­ing
establishments.
Foy has been the center of stu­dent
service since the 1950s. It
was updated in the 1970s and is
now prepared for a more high-scale
adaptation, not just renova­tion.
Conner said, "The students are
paying for this building, so we
want it to suit them. It should be
a building where students stay,
not just pass through.
"It should make things easier
and more accessible for the stu­dent,"
she said.
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• Look for more coverage of
plans for the new student
union in upcoming editions of
The Auburn Plainsman.
• The University will host its
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Nov. 6. Three journalists, Robert
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Ryland. will be inducted
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heightens
By KATIE MCCORMACK
Assistant Copy Editor
Fall quarter always brings a
new 'ash of hangtag thefts among
students and faculty.
Det. Tara McCallum of the
Auburn University Department of
Public Safety advises students not
to leave their windows down or
their cars unlocked to prevent
theft.
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are stolen out
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which have
been left
unlocked or in
which the
owner has left a ———r m m r~
window down.
"If a person can't lock their
doors for some reason or has a
window that won't stay up, they
can request a convertible permit,
which is a sticker for your wind­shield,"
McCallum said.
Last year, McCallum said the
police department prosecuted
"quite a few cases of hangtag
theft," with the penalties ranging
from third degree theft, a Class A
misdemeanor to breaking and
entering of a motor vehicle, which
is a Class C felony.
"Even if a car's window is
down or the door is unlocked, it is
still considered breaking and
entering," McCallum said.
McCallum also advises stiir
dents to be wary of buying illegal
hangtags.
"This is still a crime because
the person is in possession of
stolen property," McCallum sm '.
The police department keeR.v ?
list of all tags reported stolen and
runs license plates of suspcious
vehicles to verify that they are
parking with a stolen tag. Parking
monitors also look for stolen tags.
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ANNOUNCEMENTS
SGA Fall 5K will be held
Thursday, Oct. 14, at 5:45 p.m.
and will begin on Biggio Drive.
Sign up in the SGA office or on
the Concourse next week or get
an application at
www.auburn.edu/sga. The
entry fee is $10 prior to race day
and $12 on race day, when reg­istration
will begin at 1 p.m. in
the Greg Pratt Room of the
Student Activities Center. All
proceeds go to Project Uplift
Career Development Services
and Student Success Center ori­entation
sessions will be held in
the !RBD Library Auditorium
first floor (parking deck
entrance) Thursday, Oct. 7, at 11
a.m., Monday, Oct. 11, at 10 a.m.
and 3 p.m. and Wednesday, Oct.
13, at noon. There are other ses­sions
Friday, Oct. 8, at 10 a.m.
in room 112 and Monday, Oct.
11, at 1 p.m. in room 034 of the
Lowder Business Building.
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.
Co-op Registration meetings
will be held on the following
dates in the Lowder Business
Building: Oct. 7 at 6 p.m. in
room 129, Oct. 8 at 2 p.m. in
room 110, Oct. 11 at 5 p.m. in
room 129, Oct. 12 at 6 p.m. in
room 129 and Oct. 13 at 3 p.m.
in room 110.
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.
The Auburn University Speech
and Hearing Clinic is having a
Free Speech and Hearing
Screening, Wednesday, Oct. 20,
from 1:30-4 p.m. in room 1199
Haley Center. No appointment
is necessary. Children must be
accompanied by a parent or
legal guardian.
If you would like to become a
Project Uplift Volunteer, attend
an upcoming training session
Monday, Oct. 11, 5:30-9:30 p.m.,
in room 2228 Haley Center. Call
844-4430 for more information.
The public is invited to attend
the "Rock 'N' Soil" program to
be held at the Forest Ecology
Preserve Saturday, Oct. 9 from 9-
10 a.m. (before the game) and
Sunday, Oct. 10 at 2 p.m. For
more information, leave