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Auburn University, Ala. 30849 Vol. 107 No. 10, 30 pag<
VP of Student
Affairs Search
Timeline
Nov, 3,1999
Bettye Burkhalter,
associate provost
and vice president
for student affairs,
announced her
retirement in a
memo to Student
Affairs employees.
Jan. 11, 2000
Search committee
for finding a
replacement for
Burkhalter was cho­sen
and charged
with constructing a
position descrip­tion,
reviewing can­didates'
packets and
selecting finalists
and inviting final­ists
to campus for
interviews.
March 2000
Burkhalter leaves
position. John
Fletcher takes over
as interim vice
president of
student affairs.
June 29, 2000
25-member search
committee releases
a list of five candi­dates
to visit cam­pus
and be inter­viewed
by various
groups. The top
candidates are:
Charlotte Davis,
William Harmon,
Wes Williams,
Homer Wesley and
Charles Schroeder.
Sept, 14,2000
Provost William
Walker submits his
recommendation
for vice president to
President William
Muse who approves
of the choice. Muse
says he has to con­sult
the board on
his final decision.
Sept. 21, 2000
Muse postpones his
announcement
until the Sept. 29
board meeting
because "they want
to have some input
on the person who
is appointed at the
level of vice presi­dent."
Sept. 29, 2000
Muse does not
make his
announcement at
the trustees' meet­ing
because Jimmy
Samford, president
pro tern of the
board, is absent
from the meeting.
Vice president to begin Jan. 1
After weeks of delay,
President Muse
names a student
affairs advocate
By Amanda House
Campus Editor
President William V. Muse said last
Wednesday that the University has
extended an offer to Wes Williams to be
Auburn's next vice president for Student
Affairs. Williams accepted the offer
Monday.
Muse said Williams, assistant vice
president for student affairs/enrollment
management and services at West
Virginia University at Morgantown, was
the University's No. 1 candidate.
Williams told The Auburn Plainsman
Wednesday that he "joyfully accepted"
the University's offer, calling it a "great
opportunity.
"Auburn is a great institutior. I'm
looking forward to being a part of it,"
Williams said.
Muse, along with Provost William
Walker, chose Williams for the position
last month but were waiting to receive
feedback from the Board of Trustees
before offering him the position.
Trustee Jimmy Samford, president pro
tem of the board, spoke with Muse last
Wednesday and said the board approved
Williams. ,
Samford said several trustees inter­viewed
Williams Oct. 19. He did not say
which trustees spoke with the candi­date.
"Their reaction to him was very favor­able,"
Muse said. "We extended him an
offer starting Jan. 1."
John Heilman, dean of the College of
Liberal Arts and chair of the search com-
See VICE PRESIDENT, A10 WES WILLIAMS
Oct. 25, 2000
Muse announces his
decision to appoint
Wes Williams, assis­tant
vice president
for student affairs/
enrollment manage­ment
and services
from West Virginia
University in
Morgantown, W Va.,
to serve as associate
provost and vice
president of student
affairs.
_____________
Laura Douglas/P/iofo Editor
the Auburn Athletic department has improved its way of travel with a 1999 Cessna Citation V Ultra,
a $6 million jet. The jet will be used primarily for recruiting purposes.
Flying with eagles in style
ByAlexRainey
Sports Editor
Auburn is the proud owner of a
slightly used jet.
A 1999 Cessna Citation V Ultra has
been obtained by the Auburn
Athletic Department. The jet will
cost Auburn an estimated $6 million,
all of which will come from athletic
funds. This is the first jet in Auburn's
fleet of planes.
According to Auburn officials, the
move was necessary to keep Auburn
competitive in both football and bas­ketball
recruiting.
The primary use of the jet will be
carrying coaches to and from recruit­ing
destinations.
Under NCAA rules, the jet could
be used to transport prospects mak­ing
official visits to Auburn.
According to Mark Richard,
Auburn's associate athletics director
of compliance, the jet could pick up
a prospect, but only if that prospect
was on an official visit to Auburn.
Under NCAA regulations, schools
are allowed to provide transportation
of any manner for a prospect to and
from the University.
Distinguished history professor
Wayne Flynt, a supporter of Auburn
athletics, said he supported the
upgrading facilities, but Flynt ques­tioned
the priority of University
donors.
"Just as we should have state-of-the-
art facilities for our' athletes,
shouldn't we have state-of-the-art
labs and classrooms for our 20,000-
plus students?" Flynt asked.
Auburn Athletics Director David
Houscl was out of town and unavail­able
for comment.
Summer
graduation
in question
By Amanda House
Campus Editor
On the quarter system, about a little more
than 1,000 on average Auburn students grad­uated
summer. term, many walking at the
graduation ceremony in Beard-Eaves
Memorial Coliseum.
Beginning this August, Auburn may no
longer have a summer graduation ceremony.
John Fletcher, interim vice president for
Enrollment Management, said the University
calendar for this summer does not have a
graduation ceremony listed, but the
University will consider adding one if enough
students will graduate. The graduation com­mittee's
goal number for summer graduates is
500.
"We've had enough concern raised (by par^
ents and students) that we may have one,"
Fletcher said. "We're going to wait and see
what the numbers look like."
Fletcher said people have called the
University with two main concerns.
The first comes from students who say they
have been caught in the semester switch:
These students would have graduated after
fall, winter and spring quarters, but now
must go through fall, spring and summer
semesters. Fletcher said these students only
want a graduation ceremony this summer
and are not concerned about having one
every summer term.
The second concern comes from parents
who have asked for a summer graduation cer.-
emony every summer.
•
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Crime statistics down, available on Internet C«'ME ACROSS ™I^EL
By Camie Young
Assistant News Editor
Crime statistics from Auburn
University as well as all other col­leges
and universities in the United
State are now available on the
Internet.
A 1998 amendment to a law passed
in 1990 requires all campus security
issues to be posted on the federal
Department of Education's Web site.
Although Auburn University has
been reporting crime statistics
through the Alabama Bureau of
Investigation for more than 20 years,
according to Bill Ncvin, director of
the department of public safety at the
University, the new legislation is pos­itive
both for students and law
enforcement.
"It's positive for all law enforce­ment
and for all students," Ncvin
said. "The students and parents can
use that information to decide to go
to that university or not."
Colleges and universities' campus
statistics have been Hooding the
department's Web site, temporarily
crashing the system Oct. 13 and forc­ing
the Department of EducStion to
push back the deadline for submis­sions.
The deadline was Tuesday, Oct.
24.
Government officials have set fines
at $25,000 for each unreported
crime.
The push for open crime statistics
began in 1986, after the death of
Lehigh University student Jeanne
Clcry. The 19-year-old was raped,
beaten and killed in her dorm room
in Bethlehem, Pa.
Clcry's parents learned after her
death that 38 violent crimes had
occurred at the university's campus
in three years before their daughter's
death.
The Clerys worked to pass federal
legislation for all campus crime sta­tistics
to be open to the public. This
legislation passed in 1990.
A 1998 addition to the legislation
has made the statistics more accessi­ble
to both students and parents.
"The positive part is that people
can go to one point and gather all
this information," said Myra Kodncr
of Security on Campus, an organiza-
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A&M won't hold bonfire
Keep the Fire Burning, a student
organization at Texas A&M
University, announced Monday
that it would not build an off-cam­pus
bonfire at the university in
2000.
The organization would have
started a bonfire Nov. 22, but it
could not get insurance, according
to The Battalion, Texas A&M's stu­dent
newspaper.
A&M president Ray Bowen
imposed a two-year moratorium
on on-campus bonfires in May
after a special commission report
on the November 1999 A&M bon­fire
collapse that killed 12 stu-/
dends and injured 27.
U.S. launches with Russians
Bill Shepherd, an American
a s t r o n a u t , launched into space
with two Russian cosmonauts,
Yuri Gidzenko and Sergei Krikalev,
Tuesday. The mission: To become
the first residents of the interna­tional
space station. They
launched from the same space pad
in Kazakstan off of which Sputnik
I launched 43 years ago, innagu-rating
the Space Age.
Entertainer Steve Allen dies
Steve Allen died Tuesday in his
Encino, Calif, home. The 78-year-old
entertainer apparently suffered
a heart attack.
Allen was the first host of "The
Tonight Show" and led a career as
a Broadway entertainer, movie star
and author of more than 50 books,
The Associated Press reported.
He got his start in radio after
dropping out of j o u r n a l i sm school.
Allen is survived by Jane, his
wife of 46 years, his children, 11
g r a n d c h i d l r e n and three great­grandchildren.
State
Police arrest student
Tuscaloosa police arrested a 24-
year-old University of Alabama
student, Joshua Mark Pillash, after
a nine-hour standoff in a neighbor­hood.
near the university's campus.
Pillash allegedly shot Tuscaloosa
police officer Douglas Grant.
Grant was not injured severely.
Pillash was walled up in his
apartment, and police had to flush
h im out with tear gas. He emerged
from his apartment armed with a
shotgun and refused to surrender,
The Crimson White, the universi­ty's
student newspaper, reported.
Police shot Pillash with bean-bag
ammunition and took him to
the hospital under arrest, where
doctors discovered he had been
wounded in the side.
The Associated Press reported
that Pillash had spent time in a
state mental hospital.
Delchamps closes
A 79-year-old Alabama tradition
will soon end when the remaining
22 Delchamps grocery stores close
in Mobile.
The Delchamps family opened
its first store in 1921, but fell on
hard times in the 1990s. In 1997,
the chain was bought out by
Mississippi-based supermarket
Jitney Jungly. Now, the few stores
under the Delchamps name will be
sold to Winn-Dixie or Bruno's.
Foresters issue alert
The Alabama Forestry commis­sion
announced Thursday that 31
of the state's 67 counties are now
under a fire alert.
Continued drought conditions
mean the state averages about 30
new wildfires daily, said comis-sioner
Timothy Boice.
Local
AHS coach to resign
Auburn High School football
coach Bill McCall will coach his
last game at AHS Friday. He plans
to stay at the school to teach phys­ical
education.
AHS has lost five of its last seven
games, and McCall said he does
not expect to coach again.
Memorial nears completion
Construction of the Auburn vet­erans
memorial on the corner of
Ross Street and Glenn Avenue is
near completion. The monument
will be dedicated on Veterans Day,
Nov. 11, at 8 a.m.
The veterans memorial commit­tee
will still continue to accept
donations for the memorial. To
c o n t r i b u t e , contact Mariele
Fischer at City Hall at 821-1900.
Sex crime suspect caught
James Frank Vines, Lannet resi­dent
accused of sexual assault and
false imprisonment, was arrested
in Chicago.
As of Tuesday, Vines was being
held in Chicago while Troupe
County authorities arranged an
extradition.
Authorities say Vines was trying
to start a church organization.
NAACP helps county
prisoners register to vote
The National Association for the
Advancement of Colored People
has started a drive to register pris­oners
in Alabama's county jails to
vote.
Anyone in prison awaiting trial
has the right to vote, but convicted
criminals forfeit that right.
This year, the NAACP has regis­tered
more than 11,000 prisoners
throughout the South.
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"Had a drink the other day -
opinions were like kittens; I was
giving them away."
— Daniel Hukill
Junior, graphic design
"1 like to see everybody's
enthusiasm about the election.
— J e s s i e Zenor
Freshman, business
"I have a complaint against
the City of Auburn. They fined
me S175 for leaving my trash
cart out, yet they wouldn't take
care of the decaying cat in front
of my house."
— Kelli Vickers
Junior, RTVF
'"An idea is not responsible
for. the people who believe in
it."
— Emily Knight (from
George Bernard Shaw)
Junior, sociology
"The sunsets on the Plains
bleed orange and blue: we
should try to preserve the
architectural history of our
beautilul campus.
— Wendy White
Graduate student, biological
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10/30/00 11 p.m., West Glenn Avenue —
Damage to the front driver's side headlight
and hood of an automobile, estimated at
S800.
10/30/00 9:15 p.m., Lee County Road —
Auto wheel rim, valued at $250, stolen.
10/30/00 4:15 p.m., Rick Drive — One
child's bicycle, one package of Camel Lights
cigarrettes and one keychain watch stolen.
10/30-/00 3:45 p.m., Gardener Drive —
One pumpkin, valued at S2.70, stolen.
10/30/00 3:05 p.m, Terrace Acres Drive
— One pumkin valued at S4, one windsock
valued at $10 and one white streamer valued
at $5 reported stolen.
10/30/00 3 p.m., Tiger Wash — One
Nokia cellular phone, valued at S82, stolen.
10/30/00 3 p.m., Genelde Avenue —-
unauthorized use of white, 1987 Chevrolet
Camaro.
10/30/00 2 p.m., Sigma Alpha Epsilon
house — Theft of two framed prints valued
at $500, one sweetheart portrait valued at
S250, two antique display boxes valued at
$50 each, two antique display vases valued at
$50 each, seven composites of fraternity
members valued at $4,000, two watercolor
portraits valued at $250 each and one rack of
pool balls valued at $25.
10/30/00 1 p.m, Burton House
Apartments — One car CD player, valued at
$400, two 10-inch speakers valued at $240,
one woofer box valued at $1,000, one ampli­fier
valued at $430, one battery capacitor and
one ATM card stolen from a 1992 Honda
Accord.
10/30/00 1 p.m, Stonegate Drive —Theft
of one backpack valued at $100, one calcula­tor
valued at $200 and three school books
valued at $300.
10/30/00 9 a.m., Auburn Drive — Theft
of two artificial pumpkins, valued at $20,
and one pumpkin valued at $10.
10/30/00 8 a.m., East Magnolia Avenue
— Four pumpkins, valued at $9.98, reported
stolen.
10/30/00 7:45 a.m., Grove Park — One
pumpkin, valued at $5, reported stolen.
10/30/00 7:30 a.m., Grove Park — Four
pumpkins, valued at $12, reported stolen.
10/30/00 7:30 a.m., Grove Park — Two
pumpkins valued at $10, one scarecrow
dressed in a plaid flannel shirt, valued at $29,
one pair of blue ladies pants, valued at $30,
one mop, valued at $5, and one cowboy hat,
valued at $5, reported stolen.
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THE ENVIRONMENT
Pollution fatalities,
illnesses rank high
in Alabama
The study
By Andrew Reese
Assistant News Editor
According to a recently
released report, air pollution
from state coal-fueled power
plants annually kills more than
' 1,000 Alabamians.
The report found that toxins
from Alabama's 12 plants react
with the state's climate and loca­tion
with unhealthy results
unique to the state: unusually
high levels of ozone, smog, water
contamination and disease.
Called "Death, Disease &
Dirty Power," the report was
commissioned by three environ­mental
groups. It points at the
state's two biggest power compa­nies,
Alabama Power and the
publicly held Tennessee Valley
Authority (TVA), and alleges
that the plants they operate are
responsible for a myriad of ill­nesses
ranging from increased
likelihood of asthma attacks to
sudden infant death syndrome.
According to the report,
Alabama ranks third among
states on a list of per-capita
deaths related to pollution,
behind Kentucky and West
Virginia.
In Gadsden, according to the
report, 59 out of 100,000 people
will die from a pollution-related
illness, giving the area the high­est
rate of pollution-related mor­tality
in the nation.
However, both power
providers suggest the study's
findings paint an overly bleak
picture of health problems coal-burning
plants cause.
In a statement released last
week, TVA cast doubts on the
study, saying it was far from
comprehensive, pointing at what
it called errors in methodology.
"Dust, Death & Dirty Power" points to coal-burning plants as the
chief contributors to air pollution-related death in Alabama. Below,
is a list of air-polution mortality rates in Alabama metropolitan
areas, compiled by deaths per year and per 100,000 people.
(Source: Abt Associates)
City
Gadsder
Anniston
HMH
Florence
Birmingham
Decatur
Montgomery
Tuscaloc
Auburn-sa
Opelika
Hurrtsvilie
Dothan
Mobile
TOTAL
Deaths per year Deaths per 100,000
41 • ^ H f f l H H H i p : ,'59
43 49
43 '. 48.2
257 46
34 ' <: -* 40.5
73 40.1
15 34.8
.62 '" --.Z- 33.7
26 31
92. . " 30.5-
1,110 42.8
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The Auburn Plainsman's
attempts to reach Shipp and oth­ers
with TVA were unsuccessful
as of press time, and no one at
Alabama Power was available for
comment.
However, Shipp told the
Associated Press last week that
TVA believed "Death, Disease &
Dirty Power" was "clearly not a
comprehensive study."
Panel hears environmental concerns
By Camie Young
Assistant News Editor
Environmental concerns of Alabamians are
finally being heard through a special service
created last August by an executive order.
The Alabama Commission on
Environmental Initiatives, made up of envi­ronmental
experts and citizens from
throughout the state, is now in the next stage
of tasks.
It is prioritizing concerns voiced by citi­zens
in 12 town meetings throughout the
state over the past several months.
"We are on schedule and prepared to have
something in the governor's hands by Jan.
15," said Commission Chairperson Pete
Conroy of Jacksonville State University.
The first town meeting, held in Auburn on
Sept. 18, brought 30 people to the micro­phone,
expressing concerns on varied-issues.
Most of the comments focused on debates in
Opelika and Auburn from the rock quarries.
"Most of the concerns have been local,"
Conroy said. "The quarries were the local
issue. The statewide issue would be the per­mitting
process."
Conner Bailey alumni professor of agricul­ture
economics and rural society, is a mem­ber
of the commission.
Bailey was out of the country and unable
to attend the Auburn town meeting, but he
said the quarry problems have surfaced in
part because of flaws in the system of the
Alabama Department of Environmental
Management, which faced lots of criticism
from citizens throughout the state.
"Unless there is a good technical reason
that the permit should not be issued, it has to
be issued," Bailey said. "The perception from
ADEM is if we don't give a permit, we will be
sued. That is not how you approach environ­mental
management or protection."
ADEM has faced so much criticism that
one of the four committees of the commis­sion
is devoted to reviewing the institution.
Bailey is a member of that committee.
"There have been concerns about ADEM
all over the state," Conroy said. "We ar^
looking at its structure and policies very
carefully."
Bailey attributed most of ADEM's problems
to financial concerns. "It has woefully inade­quate
funding," he said.
Created in 1980, around 90 percent of the
agency's funding comes from the federal gov­ernment,
with only 54 million coming from
the state.
"That is simply not enough to get the job
done," Bailey said.
He expects his committee to suggest more
funding in its final report to the governor.
"My guess is that is the one thing everyone
is going to agree on," Bailey said.
Other concerns before the commission
include air, water, land, natural resources and
health and environmental education.
Before the commission's report goes to the
governor Jan. 15, Conroy said citizens will
have another chance to put in their ideas. He
said the first draft of the report will be avail­able
around the first week in December.
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• See the commission's Web site at
www.jsu.edu/depart/epic
Nissan opts for Mississippi plant site
By Britt Waller
News Staff
Opelika officials were fold last
week that Nissan's $1 billion auto­mobile
plant, and the 4,000 jobs it
would create, would not be coming
to town. Instead, the Nissan plant
will be going to Canton, Miss., near
Jackson in Madison County.
Nissan Motor Co. has made no
formal announcement concerning
its choice or what it plans to manu­facture
at the new plant, but is
expected to comment later this
month.
The cost of the new Nissan plant
would have surpassed the $440 mil­lion
Honda plant in Lincoln and the
S600 million Mercedes-Benz plant
in Vance.
"We worked hard on the project,"
said Opelika mayor Barbara Patton.
"We're very proud of what we pre­sented.
The company made a choice
based on the information they had.
We were disappointed, but you just
have to pick back up and go on."
Patton said she did not see any
negative effects on Opelika from
Nissan's decision to go with the
Canton site.
"Being second choice is very pos­itive
for Opelika. Just getting the
publicity out there is good for the
city," Patton said.
The 1,900-acre Northeastern
Opelika Industrial Park where the
plant would have been built is
already supported by water, sewer,
gas and fiber optic lines and was
mostly ready for the plant to move
in. The property remains an attrac­tive
site for potential industrial
development.
"We were concentrating on that
particular project," Patton said,
"and we'll continue to develop that
area."
Patton cited the construction of a
new interchange two miles north of
exit 64 on Interstate 85 that will
begin in two months as evidence of
Opelika's dedication to attracting
new industry.
Chad Newell, Opelika's economic
development director, said the new
interchange will be a "phenomenal
asset" for Opelika.
"The Wal-Mart distribution cen­ter
has exceeded our expectations
and is already at 700 employees,"
Newell said.
Wal-Mart, which owns 116 acres
at the park, "enabled numerous
infrastructure improvements that
will enhance the industrial park and
assist us in recruiting new business­es
to the area," Newell said.
Mississippi officials could not be
reached for comment, but factors
affecting Nissan's choice could
have included the state's lower
wages and relatively high unem­ployment
rates.
Another condition affecting
Nissan's pick could be a provision
Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott,
R-Miss., added to a tax-cut bill that
would designate Madison County
a "renewal community," giving the
county a 10-year deduction for
construction and a 15 percent pay­roll
tax credit, among other incen­tives.
Although Nissan was not men­tioned
in the bill, Alabama officials
have said the provision was added
so that the automaker could get
federal tax breaks on top of the
state benefits.
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OUR VIEW
VOTE YES
Amendment 5 not perfect, but
any trustee reform is positive
Maybe not today, maybe not next year, but one
day Auburn will be a better place.
Whereas currently, Auburn is a university
ruled by one man — trustee Bobby Lowder —
and his lackeys, one day this campus will be free.
The first step toward the liberation of Aubum
people comes Tuesday when Alabama voters
decide whether to approve Amendment 5, a con­stitutional
amendment that will change the
selection process of the Auburn Board of
Trustees.
For the love of Aubum and her future, we
support Amendment 5 and encourage all of
Auburn to do the same.
Presently, the appointment of trustees is sole­ly
left to the governor of Alabama and whoever
donates the most money to his campaign.
If Amendment 5 passes, the selection process
would be changed to include input from the
Board of Trustees, Alumni Association and the
governor.
But more importantly, Amendment 5 reduces
the length of terms trustees serve from 12 to 7
years, and limits terms to two, instead of the
unlimited number of terms one can serve as a
trustee now.
Also, out- of- state alumni will be eligible to
serve as trustees if Alabama voters say yes to
Amendment 5 next week. The inclusion of out-of-
state alumni allows for fresh perspectives
and comparable power to truly diversify and
level the board.
It's a bit ironic that currently, out- of- state
alumni aren't eligible to serve on the Board of
Trustees for their alma mater, but Lowder's
lawyer Jack Miller, who is not an Auburn alum,
can hold a position on the board.
It is the very presence of men like Miller and
Lowder on the board that reminds the Aubum
family we deserve better.
For too long, Aubum has been ruled by polit­ical
nonsense and the almighty green paper, and
it is time for us to say, enough.
In the immediate future, Amendment 5 will
not make a noticeable change for Aubum. As
long as trustees Lowder, Sen. Lowell Barron,
Jimmy Samford, Jimmy Rane, Paul Spina and
Gov. Don Siegelman.occupy seats on the board,
Auburn will be synonymous with corruption
and micromanagement.
But with the term limits established by
Amendment 5, Aubum can be at peace knowing
one day it will not be an empire, ruled over great
lengths of time by an out- of- control board.
The proposed reform certainly isn't perfect,
but as we have said before, one clay when gover­nor's
like Siegelman are not for sale, and trustees
aren't buying them, Aubum will be a better place
because of Amendment 5.
One for the good guys
Last week, Auburn University learned a lesson
from the people she once educated when the
Alumni Association showed her the importance
of fighting.
With Board of Trustee reform being voted on
next week, trustee Bobby Lowder was deter­mined
to gain control over the association's
board of directors to solidify his influence in the
selection of future trustees.
When they were threatened with a Bolshevik­like
takeover two weeks ago, it would have been
easy for the Alumni Association to concede
defeat.
They could have been intimidated by the pow­erful
trustee and his people and given Lowder
what he wanted: Absolute control over Auburn
University.
Like it is so popular to do on this campus, the
Alumni Association could have thrown their col­lective
arms in the air, shook their head and said,
"This is what the trustees want, so this is what
the trustees are going to have. What can we do
about it?"
But they didn't. Led by President Bill Porter,
the Alumni Association valiantly fought for what
they believed was right for the University they
love so much.
They knew what Lowder was trying to do, and
refused to let him gain control over their board
of directors.
After a week of intense controversy, the
Alumni Association and the "other side" —
Lowder — reached a compromise allowing the
association's original slate of candidates be sup­ported.
Along with the original slate, one of the
members of the second slate will fill an expired
seat on the board of directors.
We think the very idea of the Alumni
Association having to compromise with outside
influences about its board of directors is just
another sad reflection of the state of things at
Aubum.
However, it appears the Alumni Association is
on the winning end of this compromise and it
has made an impressive statement with its fight.
Lowder expected to seize control over a group
as he has every other facet of this university
without trouble. But once he saw the massive
movement determined to defeat him, he backed
off and accepted defeat.
We applaud the Alumni Association for pro­viding
an example to Aubum people on why we
should not accept defeat easily, despite adverse
circumstances: If we stand up and fight for what
we believe in and what Aubum stands for, we
might mess around and win.
Dishonorable effort
In theory, the Honors College has some pretty
smart people enrolled in its program. One would
think most student organizations, particularly
SGA, would want to benefit by including honors
students.
However, efforts to attain a seat in SGA Senate
for an Honors College representative have been
met withhesitance from SGA leaders.
Whereas originally, SGA agreed the Honors
College needed direct representation in the stu­dent
Senate, in the last few weeks, SGA has
dragged its feet and has yet to apportion a sena­tor
for the Honors College.
Apportioning senators for the Honors College
would not give members of that college double
representation, as critics have suggested.
Honors students would not be able to vote
twice, as they would have to choose which col­lege,
be it the college of their major or the
Honors College, they would be registered to vote
in for spring elections.
Though SGA senators for other colleges may
be members of the Honors College, their first
loyalty is to the students that elected them. For
example, a senator from the College of Human
Sciences may be a member of the Honors
College, but the interest of every student in
r
Human Sciences is what that senator will argue
for because those are the students that senator
was elected to represent.
The need for such representation for the
Honors College was evident last year during the
academic forgiveness policy debates.
Whereas the proposed academic forgiveness
policy had said students could have "Ds" and
"Fs" forgiven from their GPA, it did not suffi­ciently
address the interests of students with
higher academic standards.
Had there been an honors senator last year,
she could have argued to include "Bs" and "Cs"
to the list of grades being forgiven due to the
higher standards of the college.
With its own scholarships, curriculum and
professors, the Honors College is certainly enti­tled
to direct representation in the student
Senate.
The effort displayed by SGA to apportion
Senate seats to the Honors College has been
unfaithful, inconsistent and unacceptable.
SGA should stop stalling and grant representa­tion
to this independent college, as its constitu­tion
requires. Because you don't have to be an
honor student to understand it's the right thing
to do.
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KEY ISSUES
Jason KeyMrr Editor
Democracy: Buy your seat, take the ride
My friend snorted cocaine. A few
years later he went on a killing spree,
wielding a chair, and many people
were left dead.
He was the first I placed on a list of
people to accompany me in my
November travels.
He said things that made little sense
and many times called me by the
wrong name. He enjoyed cursing.
I placed my friend on the list of trav­el
partners for one reason — he had
money, lots of it, and in effect bought
me out. He paid to be on my list.
First, I packed my bags for the trip. I
felt as though I had enough clothes to
last weeks and weeks, at least 48
months.
The van we drove was battered, its
blue paint peeling from its doors and
its white bumper smashed in like an
egg thrown to the concrete.
We had not driven this van far when
we met the hitchhikers. They walked
in the rain with their heads bowed.
As I pulled along side the two men,
my friend cursed from the back scat.
He then whimpered the words,
"Father, 1 made it father."
I lowered my window.
"To where do you go?" 1 asked.
"We go nowhere," the taller one
said. "We walk." *
The shorter one interrupted.
"Do not listen to him," he said. "He
is owned by the World Bank and if he
wishes to walk, so be it. I wish to ride
in your van."
I asked them why 1 should allow
them inside. The tall one held out a
fistful of dollars.
We drove for hours before my friend
SCOTT
PARROTT
woke up.
"Who is this?"
he asked.
"Travelers," 1
said.
"Do you have a
radio?" the tall
one said.
"We do not."
"Shall I sing?"
"If you wish."
The tall
hitchhiker began
to sing. He sang quick and his voiced
resembled a castrated donkey.
"Baby, you ain't seen nothing yet," he
cried.
"What have you seen?" my friend
asked.
"Much. I have seen all."
"You lie, you major league
#*$&@($."
It again became quiet.
We did not stop the first night. The
hitchhikers argued with my friend
about where we should go. We drove a
long amount of time and went a short
amount of distance.
My friend wanted to go to Texas.
The tall hitchhiker said more than
seven million people went to Texas
daily. I felt his numbers were wrong,
but he said it was a fact. A proven fact.
The short hitchhiker said we were
all owned by Wal- Mart and laughed.
"Fools," he said.
We decided to drive only in the
night. We slept in the van during the
first day and drove far the second
night. Both my friend and the tall
hitchhiker agreed on where we should
go-
He's a good man my friend said. You
are too, the tall black haired hitchhiker
said.
The smaller hitchhiker said nothing.
We had left him at a reststop after he
set off the van's airbag on purpose.
We drove into the night. There was
little light coming from the van. We sat
quietly.
"Can I drive now?" my friend asked.
I said no.
"Can I drive?" the tall hitchhiker
asked. I said no.
Both pulled money from their pock­ets.
I released the wheel.
They forced me to pull over near a
farm house. It was white and the fields
were wet and there were many crops.
"Vancouver is a good place for anar­chists,"
my friend said.
"It should be nice," the tall one said.
"I created Vancouver. Is he an anar­chist?"
"1 am not an anarchist."
"Then we drive."
I do not believe the fanner saw us as
we sped out. My friend and the tall
hitchhiker fought for the wheel again
and I do not know if they saw the
farmer nor if the fanner saw them.
The farmer did not bounce.
He accompanied us to our deaths
and the airbag did not go off and there
was much red blood on the white
bumper of our blue van that exploded
into flames.
Scoff Parrott is managing editor of
The Auburn Plainsman. You can
reach him at 844- 9108 and
parrott@theplainsman.com
Uncle Sam forces states to bow
A law was passed for 31 states last
week by President Clinton. Perhaps
you didn't hear about it.
It might have gotten lost amid all.
the political hoopla of the past few
weeks. Let's face it, there are quite a
few big news stories hogging the
front page. But tucked between the
elections and violence in the Middle
East was a quaint little story about
drunk driving laws.
It was a story of Mothers Against
Drunk Driving leading efforts to keep
drunk motorists off the road. Clinton
agrees with M.A.D.D., as do most of
Americans. Honestly, who wants peo­ple
without the good sense to vomit
in a toilet behind the wheel.
In efforts to curb drunk driving,
Clinton proposed lowering the legal
blood alcohol limit to .08. Not only
did Clinton suggest this to be a good
idea for the 31 states that have
insanely high legal limits of 0.1, he
threatened to withhold federal high­way
money to those states that do
not change the law to agree with
Clinton's.
Calling some legally drunk as a
skunk at .08 instead of 0.1 might be a
good idea. Then again it might not.
In truth, the argument whether some­one
is drunk at .08 or .09 is irrele­vant
because the law is futile. It does
not keep drunks off the roads, which
is the ultimate goal of M.A.D.D. if the
first place. Anyone can drink to their
bellies are full of wine and get on the
road. The lav/ has done nothing to
stop that.
Our nation's finest will still not be
able to tell the difference between the
.08 drunk and .18 drunk until they've
ADAM
JONES
pulled them over
and adminis­tered
the breath
test. A police­man
could be
reading .08 man
his rights while
.18 man is mak­ing
a bccline for
the nearest 2-
ycar- old on the
~ " road.
But who will disagree with
M.A.D.D.? Who will be the first
bloodless, soulless person to tell
M.A.D.D. they want drunk people on
the road?
What happens when innocent peo­ple
are still killed under the new .08
laws? Is .07 next? It could go on and
on because the laws do not keep
drunk drivers from behind the wheel.
In the future, patrons will only be
allowed to lick the bottom of a beer
mug. After that, someone has to take
their keys.
However, lowering the legal blood-alcohol
limit is not why this story
should be examined. The story is the
blatant misuse of power by the feder­al
government.
Where in the Constitution docs it
give the power to the executive
branch to use bully- tactics to make
stales bend to the will of the federal
government?
Where in the Constitution docs it
say the federal government can with­hold
my money from my state? The
people gave the federal government
the money iu the first place, and now
Clinton wants to use it as a threat to
keep states on the straight and nar-
* * -
row. Clinton is going to use my
money without my vote or my con­gressional
representatives vote.
I would say this is just another
example of a ruthless liberal who wil
stop at nothing to expand the power
of the federal government. I would
say that, except Reagan, the
Republican savior, did the same thinj
when he was the chief executive.
Reagan threatened to withhold the
same funds from states which did no
raise the legal age for buying alcohol
from 18 to 21. He did, in fact, with­hold
funds from Louisiana. That stati
held out until they could no longer
take it. What was Louisiana thinking
Surely it didn't have some archaic-notion
of a state having the right to
govern itself.
Misuse of power by the federal gov
eminent has become so common­place
in America that most
Americans flip past the story in the
newspaper to read about something
more interesting like golf.
Why don't we skip the formalities
and let the average of all the election
polls determine the president. That
way the president won't have to pre­tend
to answer to the people like he
docs now.
He can go about scaring the states
into compliance without the consent
of Congress or the people until one
day, the government decides to abol­ish
states. Why have states that can't
govern themselves?
Adam Jones is news editor of The
Auburn Plainsman. You can reach
him at 844-9109 and
jones@theplainsman.com
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Thursday. Nov. 2, 2000 THE AUBURN PLAINSMAN A5
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.
As decision day 2000 approaches, it's best to be informed
The big day is coming. It's just a few days until next
i Wednesday when we elect our next president.
Who to choose? We could go with the democracy
party's nominee, Al Gore, or the republic party's choice,
George W. Bush.
Personally, I'm voting for Gore because I'm tired of
the Republicans occupying the circle office or whatev­er
they like to call that place. It's been a rough eight
years and we need a change.
Initially, I was thinking about voting for Bush
because he did a good job last time he was in the square
office and because the people of Tennessee seemed to
like him when he was governor. However, he needs a
switch taken to his backside for the profane way he
talks about reporters.
A politician cursing because of a reporter, imagine
that.
It's not about the candidate's language, past perfor­mances,
character or political affiliation. When I go to
the polls Nov. 6 to cast my vote, it's going to be about
the issues.
Issues like state's rights, which my candidate Gore so
adamantly supports. Issues like
gun availability, which Bush
wants to restrict — a direct viola­tion
of our third amendment that
we hold so dearly.
Education is another impor­tant
issue. Both candidates agree
our public schools need to be
held accountable to our private
institutions. Otherwise, fuzzy
math will continue to be accept­ed
on all mandatory standard­ized
tests. ——- —~——
Speaking of standardized tests, another reason I will
be voting for Gore is because his last name is shorter. It
will be easier for my kids to memorize his name when
taking these voluntary mandatory tests.
More than anything, education should be our prima­ry
concern as citizens. We need to be educated on all of
the campaign issues so we make an informed decision
on election day.
OK, enough. 1 can't keep pretending; I don't know
RACHEL
DAVIS
what I'm talking about. I don't know the difference
between left and right when it comes to Campaign
2000.
People come to me and expect me to make some pro­found
proclamation about either candidate because I'm
supposed to be a well- informed college student. But to
tell you the truth, I was reading my book for a Southern
Literature class instead of watching the debates last
month.
Just like parents were cooking dinner for their fami­lies,
senior citizens were in bed and the working class
was on their way to their second job when the debates
were broadcast.
Our electoral setup is so congested with political jar­gon
and theories that the average voter has no idea
what cither candidate stands for.
Most people attach themselves to one issue and vote
for the party that best represents that issue and their
interest. The average working mom from Des Moines
doesn't know about campaign finance reform and prob­ably
doesn't care. She knows what her local schools
need, so she votes for the candidate who will be an
advocate for her needs.
A lot of middle class men care about tax breaks
therefore their loyalty will be with whichever candidate
will cut them the biggest deal, not who has the best for­eign
policy.
Then there are the majority of voters who will side
with Gore because he has good hair or support Bush
because of his good ol' Southern charm and charisma.
The parties and candidates can spout off statistics
and theories all they want. But until politicians talk the
peoples' language, voters will continue to vote using
shallow reasoning, while pretending to be informed.
)av&>'
Rachel Davis is editor in chief of The Auburn
Plainsman. You can reach her at 844- 9021 and
davis@theplainsman.com
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Paper doesn't give
equal party coverage
Editor, The Auburn Plainsman:
Do voters deserve to have full information before
they make their choice in the voting booth next
Tuesday? The Auburn Plainsman doesn't seem to
think so.
When The Plainsman covers other kinds of races
, for student government or Homecoming
Queen, for example — they cover all the candidates,
not just the top two contenders. Likewise, in the
past. The Plainsman has tried to represent all sides
'fairly rather than simply cheering for the dominant
faction. But apparently the rules are different this
time.
i George Bush and Al Gore are not the only candi­dates
for President on the ballot. But although The
Plainsman has offered space to representatives of the
Republican and Democratic parties for guest cditori-
'als supporting their candidates, third- parly sup­porters
have been denied equal time.
As faculty adviser to the Auburn Libertarians, 1
•asked to write a guest editorial making the case for
Harry Browne, the Libertarian party candidate, since
ic faculty adviser to the College Republicans
recently had a guest editorial making the case for
George Bush.
After I was initially told yes, my editorial was
eventually turned down because the Libertarian
Party is not one of the "main" parties.
Instead, The Plainsman published a vague write-up
of the LibcrtariaiVparty that made it appear
(indistinguishable from the Republicans. For exam­ple,
the party was described as seeking merely to
"reduce" the federal income lax (ralher than elimi­nate
it), and there was no reference to the
'Libertarian party's stand against all victimless crime
laws, including drug laws.
Is it really any of the government's business what
you choose to inhale or inject into your body? Is
your body government property? Moreover, the gov­ernment's
war on drugs doesn't just interfere with
the freedom of drug users; it threatens everyone else
too. The drug war is the government's principal
excuse for increasing the invasion of civil liberties.
When government anti- drug programs fail, gov­ernments
respond by demanding increased powers,
by weakening constitutional safeguards against
search and seizure, and — of course — by raising
taxes.
Prohibition didn't work with alcohol in the 1920s,
and it isn't working with.drugs now; it only breeds
organized crime and police corruption, as it did
then.
Democrats want to control your economic life.
through increased taxes and regulations.
Republicans want to control your personal life by
dictating what you can read, what you can inhale and
whom you can sleep with. Both parties seem to think
that politicians and bureaucrats can make better
choices than you can about the proper use of your
mind, your body and your money.
Harry Browne is the only candidate for President
who doesn't claim the right to control your life. If you
want to be fully informed about your choices on Nov.
7, check out the full details on Libertarian positions at
www.harrybrowne.org and www.LPorg. And please
vote your conscience next Tuesday.
Roderick T Long
Disapproving of sin is
'right thing to do'
Editor, The Auburn Plainsman:
I am writing this letter in regard to editorial page
editor Ryan Lee's editorial that was entitled
"Christianity is not a license to hate." In his column,
he attacked Alabama Attorney General Bill Pryor's
integrity, but much worse, he attacked the Christian
faith in trying to validate homosexuality. Lee seems
to think that anyone who believes that homosexuali­ty
is a sin must have hatred built up in him or her.
In Lee's editorial, he refers to himself as "a staunch
Creationist and firm believer that the Holy Bible is
the UNTAINTED, contradiction- free and inspired
word of our Lord." I could not agree with him more,
but unlike myself and everyone else who takes the
Holy Bible in its literal text, he dismisses Genesis 19,
Leviticus 18:22 and 20:13, 1 Corinthians 6:9, and
Romans 1 as being the TAINTED and illegitimate
word of our Lord only because he disagrees with
what God has to say about homosexuality. Then, Lee
goes on to say that anyone who disagrees with him
by quoting "the untainted, contradiction- free and
inspired word of our Lord" has "no idea what their
contexts or their meanings are" and then once again
accuses them of hate.
Yes, unfortunately there arc people in our great
state and great nation who hate the sinner as well as
the sin. Lee is correct when he says there arc people
who hate homosexuals because of their sexual pref­erence.
He is wrong when he accuses those who dis­agree
with him, such as myself, as being haters, and
he is wrong when he tries to validate this immoral
act as being acceptable in God's eyes.
- Lee is correct when he says that God loves every­one.
In fact, Jesus commands his disciples in John
13:34 "... that you love one another, even as 1 have
loved you, that you also love one another."
Our Lord expects the same from every human
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being on this earth, but he also gives us another
commandment repeatedly throughout the Bible:
Wc arc to obey his commandments. Proverbs 7:1-
2 says, "My son, keep my words and treasure my
commandments and live. Keep my commandments
and live, and my teaching as the apple of your
eye."
God docs not tell us to obey his commandments
except for Genesis 19, Leviticus 18:22 and 20:13, I
Corinthians 6:9 and Romans 1.
Lee says in his column, "You cannot hate the sin
when you don't even know what (if any) sin is
being committed." As a Christian who claims to be
a "firm believer that the Holy Bible is the untainted
word of our Lord," Lee should know that homo­sexuality
is wrong and immoral in God's eyes.
God gives us proof in Leviticus 20:13 (among
other versus in the Bible) that this is the case.
Leviticus 20:13 says, "If there is a man who lies
with a male as those who lie with a woman, both
of them have committed a detestable act ..." God
also refers to homosexuality as an abomination in
Leviticus 18:22. If an act such as homosexuality (or
any other sin for that matter) has been committed,
then God's commandments have been broken.
Ryan Lee, God is very clear to what the Bible's
"contexts or their meanings are" in stating that
homosexuality is wrong.
Lee says, "They ignore these positives" (of homo­sexuality).
What positives arc there? According to
these verses in the Bible, there are not any positives
of homosexuality.
Christianity is not a license to hate, but neither is
Jason Key/Art Editor
it a license for two people of the same sex to have roman­tic
feelings or sexual relations with one another.
Homosexuality is wrong, and Alabama Attorney General
Bill Pryor is right in refusing to recognize same- sex
unions. It's just the right thing to do.
Adam Ellis
Senior, Political Science
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Current SGA leaders have faltered, but can't be blamed for new union
Why docs Auburn need a student union? What is
he purpose of such a place? These were the questions
took up when I began the pursuit of a new student
mion as a plank in an SGA campaign in the spring of
997.
I worked on the project from that spring through a
ailed SGA election one year and a successful referen-lum
vote the following year until my graduation in the
pring of 1999. The answers I found were to give stu-lents
a place to congregate both between classes in the
lay and for activities at night; to give students a nice
lace to eat lunch together; to give organizations a
omc to bring students together and to create a com-nunity
center especially lor freshmen and others who
hoosc to or have to live on campus.
The new union'as currently planned will offer a vari-ty
of restaurants, a lot of meeting space, good parking,
nd some nice offices for student leaders from the
GA, UPC, The Plainsman, and a few other groups. But
will not be a community center for students, it will
lot be convenient for between- class activities, and
nost students won't find time to cat lunch there rcgu-arly.
Student leaders arc not to blame for this. Blame me
nd a few other students who wrote the referendum a
ear and a half ago for guaranteeing a central location
hen wc knew there was a chance it wouldn't happen.
Blame your trustees for choosing to waste (or at least
educe the value oQ over $150 million (and perhaps
inch more) of your money because they arc afraid to
lake the prominent alumni with scholarship spaces
/alk 100 more yards seven times a year.
Blame the circumstance of a congested campus and
the misstatement of a planner who claims Jordan-
Hare needs breathing space when he should have said
"wants" instead of "needs."
While your current class of student leaders is not
responsible for the decision of where to locate the new
student union, they do deserve blame for their poor
handling of the situation.
Now, they aren't selfish short- sighted people as
some writings in this paper might indicate. They are
mostly intelligent and concerned students with a great
love for Auburn University. Their mistake comes in
speaking despite their naivete and/or ignorance.
It's easy for them to make a decision despite students
disliking it because too few of you vote or make your
voices heard. They can believe that most of you don't
care anyway, and that the Plainsman manufactured this
entire controversy.
They seem awestruck by the trustees and trust them,
proud of the "compromise" of getting the union a tran­sit
route and a new gale at Donahue Drive. The uni­versity
had discussed transit routes for a union at that
location back in 1998 and the cost of a gate is insignif­icant
compared to the cost of a union. That's no com­promise!
Instead, it is closer to trading a mansion for a
chicken shack. How can anyone lake pride in such a
deal?
There is no point in fighting with trustees — stu­dents
will lose that battle the way Auburn's politics run
today. But a more strategic option could have been
worked out.
Put off the construction for five more years and bar-
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concerned with the institution to
express their views on issues that
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gain for the Parker Hall site when that complex comes
down. Several architecture students much more
knowledgeable of campus planning than student lead­ers
and the trustees have shown the feasibility of such
an idea, I believe.
It will be decades before Auburn experiences the
kind of growth that could make the chosen corner of
campus for the union the center of campus. It's better
to wait five more years for a good option than to be
impatient and make a mistake that will have 50 years
of repercussions.
I worked as hard as almost any student on this pro­ject
and as much as anyone I want to see it happen. But
I'd much rather wait to see it done right than to happi­ly
sign on to a false compromise with the Board of
Trustees and perpetuate the ridiculous lie that the cho­sen
location is what students want and it will be good
for them.
Many students hate and ridicule the SGA because it
acts in a trustee capacity rather than a representative
capacity. StJudtr. nls and people in general don't el
leaders to lead by doing what they think is best for stu­dents
- they elect leaders to convey and act on the
opinions of students. Almost every year the students
who are elected lose sight of this all- important princi­ple
and leave students at the end of their terms won­dering
what could have been.
But this year's group of leaders can still do the right
thing for their constituents. Put a question on the bal­lot
asking students their desire for the fate of the union
with three possibilities: 1) follow through with the
Board's decision; 2) overturn the referendum of 1999
ending the project; or 3) request the Board to delay the
construction of a new building until a viable site opens
up that will allow the student union to achieve the pur­pose
embodied in its name.
I apologize to Auburn students for the referendum's
guarantee that could not be delivered. But the Board
owes you an apology lor abusing your money and stu­dent
leaders owe you an apology for abusing your
trust. Tell your trustees and student leaders what
you'want. Educate yourself on the issue and go to the
meetings until you are heard, if this issue matters to
you. A $150 million dollar mistake may be made soon,
but it is not loo late to be heard. Hopefully, this issue
will be resolved in a matter that will make Auburn bet­ter.
But if that is to be, Auburn students must do their
part.
War Eagle.
Asitn Masood, class of 99, was the past chair of Foy
Student Union Outlook Committee.
You can reach him at asimgmasood@aol.com
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SOCIAL SECURITY: "Social
Security is a terribly regres­sive
tax and unconstitution­al.
If it must remain as a
"sacred cow," the cap (that
benefits those with high
incomes) should be
removed so that it conforms with the principle of uniformi­ty-"
EDUCATION: "I am not familiar with any provision.in the
U.S. Constitution that provides for federal funding of edu­cation.
As a professional educator, I would like to say oth­erwise,
but my oath to the Constitution supersedes my per­sonal
desire to see more funding to education."
GUN CONTROL: "The Second Amendment to the
Constitution is clear, and I fully intend to uphold it when I
take the oath to 'uphold, protect and defend the U.S.
Constitution.' Gun legislation, crime and safety are state
issues, not federal issues. Federal legislation on these issues
goes beyond the scope of the federal government's role as
enumerated in the Constitution."
Bofc RILEY, REPUBLICAN
Bob Riley was elected to the U.S. House of
Representatives for the Third District of Alabama on
Nov. 5, 1996, at age 52. He he has been a business­man
for over 30 years, and this was his first race for state
or nation. Congressman Riley has served on the Armed
Services Committee and the Banking and Financial Services
Committee.
SOCIAL SECURITY: Riley
worked to establish a Social
Security Trust Fund, which
earmarks social security
money only for retirement
benefits. "For too long, big-spending
liberals have spent
your money on unneeded
federal programs. We have
finally pulled their hands
from the cookie jar and that
is something the bureaucrats
in Washington didn't want
to do. Now that we've
stopped the Social Security
raid, we can turn our attention to ensuring the future sol­vency
of the program."
EDUCATION: "Education decisions should be made by the
people who know what's best for America's children, some­one
who knows your child's name, not Washington bureau­crats
who sit thousands of miles away." Riley supports tax
breaks for tuition.
GUN CONTROL: "Eliminating guns will not alleviate the
crime epidemic facing our nation. The cause of the out­break
is the criminal. We can better deter criminals by
implementing strict penalties for those who commit a
crime."
Former AU Presidents
Urge YES Vote On
Trustee Amendment
On Nov. 7 the people of Alabama will have an opportunity
to make substantial changes in the Auburn University
Board of Trustees. Amendment Number 5 will allow the
most sweeping changes in the Board since it was
established in 1872.
The changes will alter the method of selecting Trustees, set
term and age limits for Trustees and allow expansion of the
Board to permit service by out-of-state alumni.
We believe that the proposed changes will improve the
operation of the Board of Trustees by giving it a broader
base and making it more representative. We also think that
over time the selection process for Board members will be
less political. Currently, the Governor is the sole
appointing authority. Under the proposed amendment,
the appointing committee will be composed of the
Governor, two Trustees and two members of the Auburn
Alumni Association Board of Directors.
The University is a vital asset to the state and a revitalized
and broader-based Board could give it the leadership it
needs for the years ahead. As former presidents of the
University, we believe that the changes would be good for
Auburn.
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Thursday, Nov. 2, 2000 THE AUBURN PLAINSMAN A^
AMENDMENT ONE: TWO SIDES OF THE ISSUE
Keep the foxes out of the hen house:
Vote no on Amendment One
Last year, lottery proponents wrapped gam­bling
in a slick package — scholarships for our
children. But when the people of Alabama
peeled away the wrapping, they found a bad
thing — gambling — that would take more
from the people than it would ever give back.
The only winners would have been the good-old-
boys waiting in the wings to get rich off the
lottery.
This year, the wrapping is roads and bridges,
docks improvements, research facilities and eco­nomic
development. Like scholarships, they are
worthy projects — needed projects. I support
them and we can do them, but we shouldn't do
them with Amendment One in its current form.
What we find under the fancy wrapping is a
bill that is fatally flawed, so much so that it
allows the politicians to get their hands on $2
billion of your money which is currently locked
safely away in the people's savings account.
When oil and gas were discovered off our
coast some 20 years ago, the people of Alabama
did a smart thing — they locked the foxes out
of the hen house by putting the money out of
reach of the politicians. By constitutionally pro­tecting
the principle and agreeing to spend only
the earnings, the people intended this money to
be an inheritance for future generations. That
inheritance is guaranteed — unless Amendment
One passes.
Amendment One would turn the people's sav­ings
account into the politicians' checking
account. Thirty-five percent of new royalties —
STEVE
WINDOM
all of which are currently
deposited to build up the
trust — would be skimmed
and spent at the will of the
politicians. And your chil­dren
will be saddled with
over $600 million in new
debt to finance a political
spending spree.
Amendment One is a
pig-in-a-poke. Nowhere in
the bill can you find how
much your county would
be getting. Promises have been made, but that's
all they are — promises. You give the politicians
your $2 billion, and they will decide later where
to spend it.
As you would expect, competitive bidding is
not required on the bonds. The bond business
could still be reserved for political cronies.
And the worst thing about Amendment One
is that it is the Trust-Buster Amendment.
Through tricky language and loopholes, the
principle — not just the interest — could be
squandered. The amendment defines the recov­ery
of prior-year losses as gains, and 75 percent
of the so-called gains could be spent, thereby
reducing trust principle.
Recently, I asked Gov. Don Siegelman to sup­port
— if Amendment One passes — a follow-up
constitutional amendment called the "Keep
the Trust Amendment," which would restore an
ironclad guarantee that not one penny of the
trust principal could he spent. Sadly, Gov.
Sigelman declined to endorse this guarantee to
"Keep the Trust."
Since that time, some of the media have mis-reported
my position, saying that my opposis-tion
has softened on Amendment One. Nothing
could be further from the truth. The governor's
refusal to restore a guarantess against spending
the trust principal has only strengthened my
opposition to Amendment One.
My proposal is that we reject Amendment
One Nov. 7 and send it back to the Legislature.
We can fix it in February and put it on a special
election ballot in May, making sure no politician
can squander your savings account. We can also
look at alternative ways to fund the projects —
like giving you the choice of paying cash for the
needed projects thereby avoiding all bond fees
and interest. That would save literally hundreds
of millions of dollars.
Of course, the good old boys won't like that
one since they won't be able to get rich off of
the bonds. This "fix" would take a total of five
months. This delay is insignificant considering
most of the projects are five to seven-year pro­jects,
particularly since we would be protecting
the greatest long-range plan we have ever
adopted.
Today, the foxes are locked out of the hen
house. On Election Day, don't let them in.
Vote no on Amendment One.
Steve Windom is the lieutenant governor of
Alabama. You can reach him at334-242-7900
Staunch rivals agree on Amendment One
On the gridiron, the fierce rival­ry
between Auburn and Alabama
is legendary. But when it comes to
sound, progressive public policy to
benefit the citizens of our great
state, we need to stand together on
common ground.
Although we will take opposing
sides next month for the Iron
Bowl, on Nov. 7 we will be togeth­er
in voting "yes" for Amendment
One. We support this important
constitutional amendment because
it rises above partisan politics.
Amendment One is about
progress.
Our teammates in this initiative
are Democrat and Republican,
urban and rural, rich and poor.
Amendment One has earned
strong bipartisan support among
Alabama legislators and carries the
powerful endorsement of more
than 40 business organizaions and
chambers of commerce. David
Bronner, chief executive officer of
the Retirement Systems of
Alabama, says Amendment One is
a sound, strategic and progressive
investment policy. Attorney
General Bill Pryor calls it "a safe
investment for Alabama."
Why does Amendment One
attract such broad support?
Because it is good for all of
Alabama. First, it provides a fund­ing
source for vital improvements
that are essential if our state is to
grow and prosper in this complex
and competitive global economy.
Second, Amendment One will
make it possible for the Alabama
Trust Funds to become stronger
through a more progressive invest-
WlLLIAM V.
MUSE
ment strategy.
And, under
Amendment
One, the
Alabama Trust
Funds will be
preserved and
enhanced for
generations
to come.
Consider
these diverse
1 ~~ "" and far-reaching
improvement projects
that will become reality with the
passage of Amendment One.
If you work in law enforcenment
or have been the victim of crime,
you should vote "yes" on
Amendment One. Today the back­log
for DNA testing (which is criti­cal
for the prosecution of murder
and rape cases) is 21 months. The
delay is so long that Alabama's
foresics science laboratories are in
jepardy of losing their accredita­tion.
If that happens, such evi­dence
won't be admissable in -
Alabama courts. If Amendment
One is approved, the forensic labo­ratories
will receive urgent
upgrades. Otherwise, there are no
dollars to pay for these improve­ments.
If you are a teacher or a parent
whose child rides a school bus,
you should vote "yes".on
Amendment One. Every day buses
must detour more than 17,000
miles to transport Alabama stu­dents
to and from school because
county bridges are structurally
unsound and highly dangerous.
These extra miles cost the state
nearly S40,000 a day — money
that could go to improve educa­tion.
If Amendment One passes,
the state can issue $50 million in
bonds to provide the local match
for an additional S200 million in
federal funds to fix these bridges.
Without it? The general fund sim­ply
cannot afford these improve­ments.
t
If you are a farmer or depend on
the agriculture and forestry indus­tries,
you should vote "yes" Nov. 7
on Amendment One. If the initia­tive
is approved, $52 million in
bonds will be used to build and
improve animal diagnostic labora­tories
and research facilities at
Aburn, Tuskegee and Alabama
A&M. Without Amendment One,
there are no dollars in the general
fund to pay for these improve­ments.
And whether you cheer for the
Tide or the Tigers, Amendment *
One will provide essential funding
mechanisms for other urgently
needed economic development
projects, including major new ini­tiatives
at Alabam's public research
universities. From our perspective,
that is an unbeatable opportunity.
If Amendment One is approved,
all of these necessary improve­ments
will be accomplished with­out
any additional taxes. The
existing principal of the Alabama
Trust Fund will not be touched.
Only 28 percent of future oil and
gas royalties that would otherwise
flow to the funds would be used
for these improvements. Instead of
leveraging future royalties to buy
bonds, they will pay for tangible
assets like bridges, port facilities
and research facilities that improve
lives and generate additional eco-nomice
activity for Alabama.
The remaining 72 percent of the
royalties will continue to flow into
the Trust Funds. Under the more
productive investment strategy
proposed in Amendment One, the
funds will grow faster than under
the current investment plan.
Experts like Dr. Bronner say added
growth from the new strategy will
more than offset the portion trans­ferred
to pay for the development
activities that will move our state
forward.
If Amendemnt One is affirmed
by Alabama voters on Nov. 7, the
positive effects will sweep the
entire state. From safer roads and
bridges to modern ports, competi­tive
agricultural technologies and
economic development incentives,
it is no wonder Amendment One
is attracting strong support from
even long-standing rivals.
Alabama is on a roll. We have
great days ahead. But, to fully
achieve our potential, we must
take advantage of our opportuni­ties
and invest in our future. With
that in mind, we ask you to go to
the polls on Nov. 7 and, with the
same enthusiasm with which you
support your team, please support
Amendment One.
William V. Muse is president of
Auburn University. You can reach
him at 844-9108. Thomas
Meredith is chancellor of the
University of Alabama System.
You can reach him at 205-348-
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Ashley Smith, 8, gets a treat from Virginia How, a sophomore in
biomedical sciences while trick-or-treating through the Hill
dorms Tuesday night.
Left, Duncan Henderson,
4, dressed as Anakin
Skywalker from "The
Phantom Menace" this
year.
Right, Tami Dean, a senior
in dairy sciences and
dressed as a tube of Crest
toothpaste, holds out
treats for trick-or-treaters
at Sasnett Hall, where she
works as a desk assistant.
Photos by Camie Young/Assistant News Editor
William Spratlin takes 3-year-old Dalton Manning
through the Hill to get his Halloween treats.
Ghosts, witches, princesses, cheerleaders
and even a Jedi Knight invaded campus
Tuesday night for the annual trick-or-treat
through the Hill and Quad dormitories.
Mostly children of students, professors and resi­dents,
the costume-clad youngsters received "treats"
from front desk assistants, most of whom got into
the Halloween spirit and adorned their own masks.
At least one "trick" occurred during the festivi­ties.
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Thursday, Nov. 2, 2000 THE AUBURN PLAINSMAN A9
Court rules: House to be moved
By Josh Kelley
News Staff
Last Thursday, Lee County Circuit Judge Bob
Harper declined a request by the North Opelika
Historic Neighborhood Association and the
Alabama Preservation Alliance to issue a tempo­rary
restraining order that would stop Trinity
United Methodist Church from moving or
destroying the Frederick House.
: The 1899 antebellum house lies within the
newly proposed historic district of Opelika. The
City Council will vote Nov. 7 on an ordinance
that, if passed, will make the historic district
official.
Trinity United Methodist Church officials
have expressed concern over the possibility that
this ordinance would restrict them from moving
the house to another location.
They want to use this property for expansion
to accommodate their growing membership.
Many members of the community have
expressed concern over the church's decision to
move the Frederick House.
They are opposed to the church's plan to move
the house 2.5 miles from its current location on
214 N. Eighth St. to 528 Andrews Road on Lake
Condy.
The church has..£eached an agreement with
Deles, Stephen, Majy Beth and Michael Price to
purchase and movethe house to the site on Lake
Condy. Once moved, the house will be used for
family reunions, wedding receptions and other
community events,;..";
FILE
The Frederick House, built in 1899,
may soon be moved from its present
location on Eighth Street in Opelika.
However, many members of the community
and the North Opelika Historic Neighborhood
Association feel the Frederick House should
remain where it is as part of the historic district.
"We're still pushing hard for the historic dis­trict
without any exclusions, and that includes
any properties that the church might buy and
decide to tear down," one member of the
NOHNA said in reaction to Harper's ruling.
Opelika City Councilman Jerry Teel, who rep­resents
the church's district, is seeking to help
keep the community unified despite the conflict.
"We've got to find a common ground as a
community, keeping the historic district and
keeping the community together," Teel said.
"These are all friends. In our own way we have
the same goal to help the city."
According to Harper and Teel, the church has
the legal right to move the house because it has
been private property since it was donated to the
church to support its growth.
"The church has the responsibility to listen to
the community," Teel said.
In Teel's opinion, the church made a reason­able
deal between the demands of the commu­nity
and the desires of the church.
The community wanted the church to stay,
and the members of the church wanted it to be
moved.
According to Teel, church leaders respected
both sides.
"They could have torn the house down or sold
it in parts and parcels. Instead they gave it away
for someone to move it and keep it in the area,"
Teel said.
The house will be moved by Don Kennedy
and Sons House Moving Company from
Huntsville. They have moved many large build­ings
including a lighthouse and a three-story
brickedframe, 608-ton, fraternity house in
Tuscaloosa.
Teel also said the architecture of the new
building that would replace the Frederick House
would be a blend between the architecture of the
historic residential area on one side of the prop­erty
and that of the church on the other side.
"The real sticking point came with the emo­tion,"
Teel said. "My job as councilman is to
make sure the citizens are protected by the law
and help heal this emotional wound of moving
the house according to the law."
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Government peeps into schools with cameras
By Adam Jones
Assistant News Editor
Several schools in Lee County
will be able to monitor students bet­ter
thanks to state-funded grants
passed out by the governor.
Gov. Don Siegelman is handing
out SI.3 million to 135 Alabama
schools for the purpose of buying
videocamera surveillance equip­ment.
"Parents are concerned about the
rising tide of school violence,"
Siegelman said in a press release.
Before schools could apply for the
Private Eyes Education Program
(PEEP), they had to devise surveil­lance
plans if they received the
money. Schools also had to come up
with 20 percent matching funds.
Priority was given to schools that
demonstrated the most need by pro­viding
incident reports.
The 20 percent-matching funds
could be raised in-two ways. The
school system could use money
within its own budget, or schools
could use the money from the
Children First Grant, also a state
program, toward the 20 percent.
The Children First program gives
schools funds to be used for any
safety concern, such as alarms or
school uniforms.
Several area schools received
funds, including Beulah,
Loachapoka, Smith's Station,
Auburn high schools, Drake
Middle School and Samford Middle
School.
All three Lee County schools —
Beulah, Loachapoka and Smith's
Station high
schools — received
$10,000, the maxi­mum
amount of
funds a school
could receive.
Auburn High
received S9,949
while Drake
Middle got $9,996.
Samford Middle received $9,994
from the state.
According to the governors
office, 15,816 school violence inci­dents
were reported in Alabama
schools during the 1998-99 school
year. A violent incident can range
from a fist fight to a shooting.
Larry DiChiara, the safety coordi­nator
of the Lee County school sys­tem,
says the system does not have
serious discipline problems.
"It's not that we need them
"It's incredible how the
behavior gets better
when a camera is
staring at them."
Larry DiChiara
Safety Coordinator,
Lee County School System
because we have a problem,"
DiChiara said. "We use them as a
deterrent for behavior.
"It's incredible how the behavior
gets better when a camera is staring
at them," DiChiara said.
DiChiara said the system applied
to six schools, but only, three were
accepted. "We're happy with the
three we got," DiChiara said.
DiChiara said the
booming growth of
the county has
forced the system to
add on new build­ings
to campuses
that need surveil­lance.
"We feel like parts
of our campuses
have easy access for outsiders,"
DiChiara said.
"We just think the surveillance
cameras in some areas in a campus
will improve safety," DiChiara said.
Lynda Rainer, public relations
and grant administrator for Auburn
City Schools, said the cameras will
be used mainly for the outside areas
of a campus.
"A lot of things start outside and
then (students) bring it inside the
school," said Rainer.
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don't have any serious problems,"
Rainer said. "You want to do every­thing
you can to keep the students
safe.
"It maybe helps the student be on
his Ps and Qs if he knows he's being
monitored," she said.
DiChiara said Lee County has
already seen how well cameras can
keep behavior in check when the
county installed them on school
buses.
"We've seen a major decrease in
incidents since installing the cam­eras,"
DiChiara said.
DiChiara said Lee County used
the Children First grant to build the
20 percent matching funds required
to receive the PEEP money.
Lee County will use the remain­ing
money from the Children First
grant to buy alarms for the schools,
according to DiChiara.
"We feel like we have a great need
to get our schools alarmed,"
DiChiara said.
DiChiara said some alarms are in
place in areas such as a computer
lab or places money is stored within
the schools.
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campus alarmed," DiChiara said.
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A10 THE AUBURN PLAINSMAN Thursday, Nov. 2, 2000
Alumni, trustees decide on compromise for slate
By Scott Parrott
Managing Editor
Parties involved in an Auburn
Alumni Association proxy battle
have resolved disagreements and
chosen to support the original
candidate slate in upcoming elec­tions.
After lawyers for the two groups
met last week, a compromise was
met in which the current board
devoted full support to the origi­nal
slate recommended by the
association's nominating commit­tee.
Officers and directors unani­mously
agreed to support the
slate, which includes Golda
McDaniel as president, Bob Kloeti
as vice president; and Jan Davis.
Nick Davis, Ed Dyas, Andy
Hornsby and Ben McDaniel as
nominees for Board of Directors.
"I have been concerned that the
entire proxy issue would have an
adverse impact on Auburn
University and, therefore, I am
pleased that we have been able to
resolve differences of opinion in a
mutually agreeable manner," said
Bill Porter, president of the
Alumni Association.
If the slate is elected as nomi­nated,
members of the board con­tinuing
next year have agreed to
accept McDaniel's nomination of
former Auburn football star Tom
Bryan to fill the unexpired term of
Kloeti when he is elected vice-president.
"1 am extremely pleased that a
constructive agreement has been
reached and I look forward to
working with alumni as well as all
other segments of the University
to move Auburn forward,"
McDaniel said.
The existing board has pledged
its support for the slate and will
commit not only their vote but
also any proxies it holds to this
slate of candidates.
Disagreements began two
weeks ago, just before alumni
were to vote for the association's
new board officers and directors.
Normally, alumni approve can­didates
from a single slate at a
sparsely attended meeting on
Homecoming Day.
This year, however, McDaniel
and members of the Board of
Trustees presented a separate slate
of candidates.
Some alumni officials felt
betrayed by McDaniel, claiming
the selection of the new slate was
done behind their backs and
spearheaded by trustee Bobby
Lowder.
They claimed Lowder intended
to overthrow the association's
board of directors — which has
been a leading critic of the trustee
— by placing McDaniel in the
presidential position and then
giving her enough proxy votes to
approve the new slate.
The alumni association divided
into two factions, and each group
began collecting proxy votes to
approve their candidates.
The battle for proxies contin­ued
until the Friday of
Homecoming week, when at
about 2 p.m., the Alumni Center's
fax machine began receiving a fax
consisting of the phrase "War
Eagle" printed over and over
again.
The fax continued through the
association's meeting Saturday
morning, busying the lines so
proxies could not be retrieved.
At the opening of the 9 a.m.
meeting, former president
Richard Mitchell presented alum­ni
with more than 500 pages of
the "War Eagle" fax, requesting a
"1 have been concerned that the entire proxy issue would
have an advene impact on Auburn University and,
therefore, I am pleased that we have been able to resolved
differences of opinion in a mutually agreeable manner,."
Bill Porter
President of the Alumni Association
postponement of the elections.
All but two alumni agreed to
the postponement.
McDaniel and Birmingham
attorney James Pratt • took their
opponents in the association to
Lee County Court and asked
Judge Jacob Walker to order the
continuation of the meeting.
Walker denied their request.
With the compromise, the com­plaint
will be dismissed.
The association petitioned
Walker to allow the annual meet­ing
to be held as soon as possible
but no earlier than the Saturday of
the Auburn vs. Georgia game.
Formal elections will be held at
that time.
The Association will notify
members about the details of the
meeting at least 10 days prior and
will notify members of the agree­ment
that has been reached by the
Board.
"1 sincerely urge everyone
involved to put this behind us and
to allow our discussion of what is
best for the Auburn alumni to
focus on one common objective,
which is serving Auburn
University," Porter said.
VICE PRESIDENT Continued from Page One
mittee that chose Williams as one
of five candidates, said he is
pleased about the University's
decision.
"I'm very pleased to see this
process has led to this outcome,"
Heilman said. "I believe he'll do a
fine job."
Williams has been the assistant
vice president for student
affairs/enrollment management
services at West Virginia
University.
His accomplishments include
increasing freshman enrollment
by 15 percent, implementing new
strategies for a new student orien­tation
and creating a separate uni­versity-
wide scholarship office.
The University established a
search committee last February to
find a new vice president after
Bettye Burkhalter left in April.
Burkhalter announced her resig­nation
last November.
John Fletcher, interim vice
president for Student Affairs, has
met with Williams a few times
and said he his excited about him
coming to Auburn.
"I think he brings a wealth of
experience and knowledge about
student affairs," Fletcher said. "I
consider him someone who can
lead us into the future.
"I hope he'll accept (the posi­tion)
and we can get him on
board."
Fletcher is also interim vice
president for enrollment manage­ment
and will remain in that posi­tion
until the University has
appointed a permanent vice pres­ident
for enrollment manage­ment.
CRIME Continued from Page One
GRADUATION Continued from Page One
you.
tion founded by the Clery family. "The downside is
it doesn't show the total picture."
Kodner said campuses across the country have
downplayed crimes for the report — they don't
include suspicious deaths and suicides, and often­times
domestic crimes and rapes
go unreported.
"You are only seeing the statis­tics.
You aren't seeing the data,"
she said. "But it is a better system
than it was."
Another concern of the statis­tics
is "reasonably contiguous"
area, or adjacent area to the cam­pus.
The area is not defined effec-tively
in the legislation, causing the facts to be mis­leading
at times. For example, Georgia Institute of
Technology in downtown Atlanta reports only four
crimes in the contiguous area, while the State
University of West Georgia in Carrolton, Ga., report­ed
239 offenses.
Nevin said Auburn is "pretty much on the low end
of the scale with schools in the Southeast."
Auburn reports no murder or non-negligent
manslaughter in 1997, 1998 and 1999. There were
two forcible sex offenses in 1999 and one in 1998.
Seventeen burglaries were reported for 1999, 19 for
1998 and 13 for 1999.
"People didn't stop going to
shopping malls; they just
got more cautious. What
you don't know can hurt
On campus arrests for liquor-law, drug abuse and
weapons possession violations have declined over
the past three years. While 80 arrests were reported
for liquor-law violations in 1997 and 60 were report­ed
for 1998, only 20 were reported in 1999. In 1997,
35 arrests were reported for
drug abuse violations, with 33
reported for 1998 and eight
reported for 1999. On
weapons possession charges,
eight people were arrested on
campus in 1997, two in 1998
and one in 1999.
No hate crimes were
reported on campus or in the
surrounding area for the three
years.
The campus crime statistics will not only help par­ents
and students choose a college, Kodner said, but
they will also help current students become more
aware of their surroundings.
"It's giving people tools to know when they are in
a certain area, maybe they will have to watch for cer­tain
behaviors," Kodner said.
She likened the situation to crime outbreaks at
malls around Christmas. The shoppers were told
about the high crime areas. "People didn't stop going
to shopping malls; they just got more cautious," she
said. "What you don't know can hurt you."
Myra Kodner
Security on Campus representative
Sidney James, chair of the
Graduation Committee and pro­fessor
of electrical engineering,
said it is important for students to
register for UN1V 4990, the non-credit
graduation course designed
to give the University a roster of
graduating seniors.
"We're still trying to gather suf-iicient
information to determine
the number of graduates we will
have at the end of summer term,"
James said.
"Right now we don't have an
accurate predictor (for the number
of graduating students.) It's impor­tant
to register for the graduation
course so we can get an accurate
number," James said.
Fletcher said students who com­plete
the required courses for a
degree this summer will graduate,
but they may not have a ceremony.
He said the University will, how­ever,
give the graduates their
diplomas, post their degrees and
let them walk in the December
graduation ceremony.
Fletcher said it may be possible
for students to walk in the cere­mony
the spring before they grad­uate.
They would not receive a
diploma until their courses are
completed:
"I think it's something (the
Graduation Committee) could dis­cuss,"
Fletcher said.
James agreed that it may be an
option to let seniors who will
graduate summer term walk in the
May graduation ceremony.
Adam Clayton, SGA director of
semester conversions, and Shaun
DeCoudres, SGA director of spe­cial
projects, are working with the
committees to determine if the
University should provide a sum­mer
graduation ceremony.
"I would encourage students
who feel they are being adversely
affected by the semester transition
to come talk to me," Clayton said.
Lawrence Molt, chair of the
University Calendar Committee
and professor of communication
disorders, said the original 2000-
01 calendar had a summer gradua­tion
ceremony listed for Monday,
Aug. 4, 2001. He said it was
approved by the Academic
Committee, the Calendar
Committee and unanimously by
the University Senate in February
1998, but the University bulletin
does not have a summer ceremony
listed.
"It can be approved by the com­mittees
and by Senate, and then
the higher ups can say, 'that just
doesn't work,' " Molt said.
Beginning this spring, the
University is requiring gradu­ating
seniors to register for a
new course — UNIV 4990
The course is not for grade or
university credit.
Students in different col
leges must register for differ­ent
UNIV 4990 courses.
To register for UNIV 4990:
• go to OASIS on the
Auburn University Web
page
• click "OASIS Student
Services"
• login
• click "Registration &
Schedule"
• click "Course Sections"
and select the term
• select "University
Courses"
• select "UNIV-4990"
• select the appropriate
UNIV 4990 course for your
college
Only undergraduates who are
graduating next semester
must register.
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Section
C iisman
University to develop master plan
B.y Lauren Glenn
Assistant < ttinpus IZditoi
In light ol recent concern tli.u Auburn
University has been building on campus with­out
a master plan the university has been tak­ing
steps to working toward a master plan.
During Monday nights SGA Senate meeting.
Tracy Green, SGA chief of staff, said President
William V. Muse has asked the Board ol
Trustees to approve and submit a master plan.
A forum will be held Nov. 12 for students
interested in taking part in the issue ol decid­ing
the direction the master plan needs to
take.
The need for a master plan was first brought
to the students' attention when a group of
architecture students, known as Students
Against Decentralization, began protesting the
decentralized site of the new student union,
and the need for incorporating a master plan
before siting a significant student building.
"We've been aware of the need for a master
plan for two or three years," said Sen. Lowell
Barron, a member of the Board of Trustees.
"The work involved in it is likely to take a year
to 12 months."
Barron said the creation of a master plan will
have no effect on the building of the student
union.
"There is no correlation between a master
plan and the union building," Barron said. "A
master plan cannot create space.
"What people lose sight of when they say
they want a union in the center of campus, is
that this is a huge building." Barron said,
"There is not a space that will accommodate a
building of this magnitude. The debate about
this is over. It won't fit."
Despite Barron's assertions that the debate
over the new student union site is over, there
are students who would like to sec the build­ing
sited in a different location and that it is
still possible for the union to fit in a central-
See MASTER PLAN, B2
Mac Mirabile/£fe/g/i Editor
A Project Uplift child bobs for an apple at the annual University Program Halloween carnival on the Foy Patio last
Thursday evening. Several campus organizations joined UPC to help make the carnival a success and fun for the
children of Project Uplift. For the complete story, turn to B5.
Auburn challenges state's D in education
By lake Knight
Stall Writer
The University's Center lor Governmental
Services recently completed a study to show
Alabama's governmental progress after a poor
rating given by Governing Magazine.
The November 1999 issue of Governing
Magazine gave Alabama a D grade and called it
the worst managed state in the nation.
However, a [ollow-u,p s-tudv by the CGS
reported that .Alabama is taking steps to bring
up this bad grade said jim Seroka, director of
the CGS.
Governing Magazine and Syracuse
University's Maxwell School of Citizenship
and Public .Affairs did their study by funding
from a grant from Pew Charitable Trusts.
In the October 2000 issue ol Governing
Magazine, it reported that Alabama was
improving and that Gov. Don Siegelman was
doing an excellent job, Seroka said.
"The intent (of this study) was to sec what
we are doing about this agency by agency,"
said Seroka. and not to contradict the study
done by Governing Magazine.
The CGS study consisted of sending a five
page questionnaire to 25 different agencies in
five states — Alabama, Florida, Georgia,
Mississippi and Tennessee. These question­naires
were sent to heads of departments and
mid-level managers to evaluate duties such as
customer service, communication and coordi­nation,
said Cindy Bowling director of Masters
of Public Administration and assistant politi­cal
science professor.
"In November and December of 1999 (the
questionnaires) were sent out to get a picture
of Alabama and the other states," Bowling
said. The questionnaires focused on informa­tion
system/networks, strategic planning and
reinventing government.
Governing Magazine's study focused on
financial management, capital management,
human resources, managing-for-rcsults efforts
and information technology.
Strategic planning was found in extensive
use ill more than half of Alabama agencies.
The study reported that Alabama has more
See EDUCATION, B2
Campus Desk 844-9118
•^ Amanda House, editor
campus@theplainsman.com.
Napo MondsteriolAssistant Copy Editor
Tracy Green, SGA chief-of-staff, told SGA at Monday's
meeting the Board of Trustees has accepted President
William V. Muse's request to develop a master plan.
Honors College wants
SGA representation
By Lauren Glenn
Assistant Campus Editor
enee to the Honors College, and
honors students have been with-
' out representation.
This week in SGA Senate, sella- Two of the issues Francisco
tors discussed Senate apportion- mentioned are the academic fer­ment,
including a recent request giveness policy and. the siting of
by the Honors College to be the new union.
apportioned a scat.
The Honors College is the only
academic college that has not been
apportioned a scat, even though it
was officially named a college in
1998*.
Pelham Norville. president of
the Honors College, said one ol
the original intents when the hon­ors
program was named a college.
was for senate representation.
'•Constitutionally, we should
have this." Norville said. "We can't
have a constitution and go by it
only when it's convenient."
Jay McFarland, chair SGA's
Code of Laws com-mittee,
said one dif­ficult}-
in apportion­ing
a senator to the
Honors College is
the issue of double
representation.
"Everyone in the
Honors College is
already represented
in another school or
college," McFarland said.
McFarland said another prob­lem
with electing senators to the
Honors College is that the Honors
College does not house students
personal files, which is where.
Jim Francisco, a junior in inter­national
business and secretary of
"Academic lorgvveness only
applies to D's and F's," Francisco
said. "Honors students don't make
a lot o\' D's and Is. but they may
be two or three B's away from a
4.0."
"The current policv favors stu­dents
who don't do as well acade­mically,"
Francisco said.
"Constitutionally, it's noi our
place to prove that we deserve rep­resentation."
Francisco said. We
have our own college, our own
faculty, our own housing and
classes."
Senate was also concerned with
the apportion­ment
ol graduate
school senators,
I his week, an
amendment was
President "I the Honors Colleuc
"Constitutionally, we
should have this. We
can't have a constitution
and go by it only when proposed to a M i
it's convenient." concerning the
apportionment
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graduate school.
~ If passed, this
amendment would remove a seal
from the College ol Architecture.
Design and Construction, leaving
only one senator. That seat w oukl
be apportioned to the Graduate
School, which currently holds
three scats.
Senators expressed concern, that
the Honors College, said there giving this seat to the graduate
have been instances when issues school would deprive the College
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Man charged with selling
greyhounds to Auburn
By Whitney Ellis
Campus Stall
A recent CNN news report listed
Auburn as one ol the leading purchasers
of greyhounds for animal research.
The story surfaced alter a greyhound
adoption agency in Cedar Rapids, Iowa,
run by Daniel Slionka, turned out not to
be as great as he claimed.
The CNN report said Wisconsin state
officials found Slionka was a licensed
animal dealer, selling greyhounds to
research laboratories. Shonka sold more
than 1,0 57 dogs to laboratories, many of
which he promised to place lor adop­tion.
The National Greyhound Adoption
Program came out with the staggering
facts on a CNN television show, slating
that Auburn has received 250 grey­hounds
over the past year.
Shonka also ran a kennel at a
Wisconsin racetrack, and this is where
he received most of his dogs.
He made more than SI00.000 selling
greyhounds to laboratory researchers,
promising the families that adopted
them that they Would go to good
homes. 1 le is now being investigated by
the stale of Wisconsin.
THc Auburn Plainsman has been
unable to schedule an appointment to
speak with the College ol Veterinary
Medicine. Read next week's Plainsman
to learn more about this issue.
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CNN recently reported an Iowa man has been
charged with illegally selling greyhounds to
research institutions, including Auburn.
Organization loses 40
voter registration forms
By Lauren Glenn
Assistant Campus Editor
If you registered to vote a table
on the Concourse and have not
•received your voter registration
card, you may be one of 40 stu­dents
whose registration did not
reach the Fee County voter regis­tration
office before Friday's regis­tration
deadline.
Sylvia Goldman, who works In
the voter registration department,
contacted The Auburn Plainsman
Tuesday, and said two students
walked in Tuesday' with 40 voter
registration forms from a drive held
on the Concourse.
Goldman did not know the
name o[ the organization who
turned in the late forms, but said
the office did not accept these
forms, making the 40 students
uneligible to vote in this year's
presidential election
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B2 THE AUBURN PLAINSMAN Thursday, Nov. 2, 2000
MASTER PLAN Continued from Bl
ized location.
"The building hasn't even been designed
yet, so how can you say it won't fit?" said
Thomas Doyle, a masters student in land­scape
architecture, and member of Students
Against Decentralization.
"They've found a good site for a build­ing,"
said David Austen, a masters student
in landscape architecture, "but not this
building.
"A lot of people expect (SAD)to suggest
one site for the union," Austen said. "We
want to find the most successful place for
the union to be."
Richard Roark, a member of SAD, said,
"If you look at the site description in the
new union program, it explicitly says the
u lion should be in a centralized location,
a; the crossroads of campus.
"The importance of a master plan is that
it will provide clarity about the future of
this campus," Roark said. "A master plan
will bring the goals of this campus into
clarity and how to realize these goals."
SAD members also think that the pro­posed
union building is excessive, with fea­tures
that are unnecessary.
One of these features is the post office
that is listed in the new union program.
"If you live in the Hill dorms, you'll have
to walk all that way to get your mail, when
you could just walk to Burton Hall,"
Austen said.
The new union siting was the catalyst
that originally began the demand for a mas­ter
plan, but SAD members say there are
other issues at stake, making a master plan
even more vital to the development of the
University's campus.
"We are facing other issues besides the
union," Austen said. "There are other
schools that need new buildings."
Norvelle said with different colleges and
departments needing new facilities, compe­tition
may arise among various stakehold­ers.
, "Schools are put in adversarial posi-
BARRON
tions," Norvelle said.
"Instead of being a.
coordinated whole,
schools and colleges
wind up in each other's
territories."
John Cline, another
masters of landscape
architecture student
and member of SAD,
said that the master plan can also deal with
the parking issues that the University faces.
As a step towards developing a master
plan, International Design and
Entertainment Associates, also known as
Idea Inc., has been consulted to help deter­mine
which direction the University and it's
stakeholders should go.
Idea Inc., has worked on projects such as
Graceland and Epcot Center, at Walt
Disney World.
Hugh Darley, president of Idea Inc., said
that although they have not been commis­sioned
to design the master plan, they will
be consulted and will be consulting with
students, faculty and trustees to find out
what direction the campus should take.
"We are there to help get everyone on the
same page," Darley said. "We want to iden­tify
the direction that the stakeholders
want the union to go in.
"We want to come up with one story
about the direction that the campus would
like to move in."
"We would like to write a story that is
very special to Auburn University," Darley
said.
"Right now it's very preliminary to say
what is going to happen."
Barron said that there will be forums and
meetings open to students and concerned
stakeholders.
"This decision will not be made in a vac­uum,"
Barron sa'id. "We're hiring world
class folks.
"I think everyone will be extremely
pleased at the end of the day," Barron said.
EDUCATION Continued from Bl
direct involvement with strategic planning
than any of the states involved in the study.
All of these categories were included in
the CGS study with the intent of seeing
what Alabama is doing to bring up the stan­dards,
Bowling said.
Some of the 25 departments included in
the study were conservation, environmental
protection and agriculture. "We mainly
focused on the state administrators in this
study," said Carol Jenkins, assistant profes­sor
of political science.
SENATE Continued from Bl
Will Russell, an
SGA senator for
the College of
Architecture,
Design and
Construction,
spoke against
taking a seat
from his college
to give to the
Graduate School
at Monday
night's SGA
Senate meeting.
Currently,
architecture has
two seats and
the Graduate
School has three.
Napo MonasterioMsswtant Copy Editor
of Architecture, Design and
Construction of representation.
"Being a representative for the
school of architecture, I feel that the
second seal is vital to our college," said
Will Russell, a senator for the College
of Architecture, Design and
Construction. "We are already so far
from the rest of the campus, and we are
already so isolated.
"This would- be a great disservice to
the College of Architecture," Russell
said.
Senators felt because there are vari­ous
majors within the College or
Architecture, Design and
Construction, there is a need for more
than one senator.
"There is a reason why architecture
has two senators," said Brandon
Riddick-Seals, a senator at large. "You
have differing departments, including
building science. There is multiplicity."
Senators were also concerned with
the Graduate School's past difficulty in
filling seats in Senate.
"There have been problems with
Graduate School senators keeping
their seats," McFarland said.
"Constitutionally, the Graduate School
should have a fourth senator, but there
is justification to giving architecture
the extra seat, if senate thinks it's
appropriate."
"This is a theft of a seat," said Alan
Rice, a senator for the Graduate
School. "The constitution is very clear.
You're stealing a seat from the graduate
school.
"This is our seat and we want it,"
Rice said.
"This is also a theft to the College of
Architecture," Russell said. "You
would be stealing 50 percent of our
representation."
When debate was ended, senators
voted against the amendment and
passed the bill as originally written.
McFarland said that apportionment
issues, including the Honors College
and Graduate School, must now go
through the Jurisprudence Committee,
whose members are appointed by the
SGA president.
Rice said the Graduate School will
appeal senate's decision to the
jurisprudence committee.
In other business, senators are cur­rently
working on the academic honor
Code, expanding campus cable and the
construction of more bicycle lanes.
"Construction of bike lanes on
Thach Avenue will begin next sum­mer,"
Riddick-Seals said.
Senators also passed bills allocating
money from the reserve fund to the
Aubie committee to purchase a new
camera, and money from the organiza­tions
fund to Phi Sigma Pi, a national
service fraternity and the Auburn
University Crew Club.
Probationary charters were granted
to the National Association for Music
Education and the Student Society of
Health Systems Pharmacy.
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ANNOUNCEMENTS
The Black Student Union is hav­ing
an election-night mixer Nov. 7
in 213 Foy Student Union at 7
p.m. We will have refreshments
and guest speakers, and we want
everyone to come out and watch
election results.
Celebrate National French
Week! Free French Films at 6 p.m.
in 2370 Haley Center: Oct. 6
"Pedale douce," Oct. 7 "Les
Visiteurs," Oct. 8 "Taxi" and Oct.
9 "Cyrano."
' French In International Affairs:
Monsieur Cyril Lesveque of
Schlumberger Enterprises will
; address French language and cul­ture
in international trade in
Haley Center's Eagle's Nest at
3:30 p.m. Monday, Nov. 13. A
• reception will follow.
The RAS program will host Non-traditional
Student Week Nov. 6-
10. There will be free pizza,
drinks and prizes on the
Concourse and a yard sale at the
'Armory Nov. 4.
Pianist Needed: The Auburn
(Knights Jazz Orchestra will hold
auditions for a piano player
Sunday, Nov. 5, at 6 p.m. at
Goodwin Hall.
College Life Series: Every
Wednesday at 4:00 p.m. Next
week: "Interviewing for Campus
Activities" in 202 Foy Student
Union.
tephanie Billingsley, of the
State of Alabama Attorney
General's Office, will speak on
Hate Crimes (races, gender, reli­gion,
sexual orientation), Date
tepe, Sexual Assault, Domestic
/iolence" Nov. 2 at noon in Foy
Student Union Ballroom.
"Grandma Moses" Art Sale wil
be Friday, Nov. 10, from 4-8 p.m.
and Saturday, Nov. 11, from 10
a,m.-4 p.m. at Auburn University
Hotel & Dixon Conference
Center.
The Seven Hopes of Highly
Effective Student Leaders is a
new leadership development pro­gram
through Foy Student Union.
The second hope will be dis­cussed
Thursday, Nov. 9, at 4 p.m.
in 203 Foy Student Union. We will
discuss how to be organized.
Beat Bama! Beat Hunger! East
Alabama Food Bank and SGA are
having a canned food drive.
Donation boxes are located in Foy
Student Union and East Alabama
Food Bank, and barrels are locat­ed
at local grocery stores.
Listen to "The Bread of Life"
with Kristy and Gerald on WEGL
91.1 FM Sunday from 7-10 a.m.
The show features gospel music.
House of Miracles, 1750 Opelika
Road (across from AC Fitness),
hosts Sunday service at 11 a.m.
and Monday and Friday Bible
study at 7 p.m.
The Marriage and
Therapy Center at
House provides therapy
dents, non-students,
families or individuals
fees. For day or evening
ment call 844-4478. .
Family
Glanton
for stu-couples,
Sliding
appoint-politics,
soap boxes and more are
discussed.
Miss Mom's cooking? Then come
to free dinner Thursday at 6 p.m.
at Auburn Christian Fellowship;
315 S. Gay St. For more informa­tion,
call 821-3963.
MEETINGS
Amnesty International will meet
Monday, Nov. 6, at 6 p.m. in 3202
Haley Center.
Society of Women Engineers will
meet this Monday at 6:30 p.m. in
239 Broun Hall. The meeting is
open to any women interested in
engineering.
In the Company of my Sistas
welcomes all of Auburn's women
of color to our meeting
Wednesday, Nov. 8, at 3 p.m. in
3227 Haley Center.
The Auburn Wesley Foundation
meets Tuesday at 7:30 p.m. for
Bible study, Thursday at 6 p.m.
for fellowship dinner and Sunday
at 8 p.m. for worship. Bring a
friend. Call 887-3101.
Alcoholics Anonymous meets
every day in the Auburn/
Opelika area. For meeting times,
places and more information, call
745-8405.
SAfE Harbor Women's Center
offers free confidential services
for sexual assault (date/
stranger rape, dating violence,
-sexual abuse) and -eating prob—
week.
Auburn University Society of
Anime and Magna meets
Tuesday at 7 p.m. at Wonders of
the East (nextr^o^Zheeburger
Cheeburger). Stop in and see
what is showing.
The Auburn Gay and Lesbian
Association meets Monday at 8
p.m. in 2208 Haley Center. For
more information, visit
www.auburn.edu/~aglassn or
email auburnstorm@gay.com
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