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Thursday, April 10,2003 'TO FOSTER THE AUBURN SPIRIT* Vol. 109, No. 26, 32 Pages
STUDENT ISSUES Book Return
Process of buying,
selling textbooks
more complicated
than it appears
By ANNA CLAIRE STAMPS
Assistant Campus Editor
For many students, the end of a semester is
another opportunity to face disappointment
when selling back textbooks.
"I tried selling them back," said Charlie Davis,
a freshman majoring in education. "I thought I'd
get a nice chunk for them because they were in
good shape, but 1 guess I thought wrong."
"You try to sell them back and (the book­stores)
aren't using them any more," said Andrew
Estes, a junior majoring in business.
"Sometimes it's not worth giving them back
because they cost so much to begin with and you
don't get hardly anything for them," said Yun Mi
Yi, a freshman majoring in criminology.
But book selling isn't an evil scheme designed
to cheat students,, and frustration isn't limited
to students.
"I've had people in here yelling and throwing
things at me before," said Shelley Black, a head
cashier at Anders Bookstore.
"It's a war between the publishers, the book
distributors and the used-book sellers, and it
costs the students more," said Trey Johnston,
CEO of J&M Bookstore.
According to the National Association of Col­lege
Stores, students spent an average of S670 in
college bookstores during the 2000-01 school
year. On average, students spent $693 on books.
> Turn to BOOKS, A3
CALCULUS, EARLY TRANSCENDENTAL
WHERETHE
TEXTBOOK
DOLLAR GOES*
32.3
cents go to
publishers paper,
printing and
editorial costs
11.6
cents go to the
author
10
cents go to the
publisher's general
and administrative
costs
15.4
cents go to
publisher's
marketing costs
7.1
cents go to
publisher's
income
1.2
cents go to
freight expenses
11.3
cents go to
college-store
personnel
6.6
cents go to
college-store
operations
4.5
Contributed
* These statistics reflect the most current 2001-2002 financial data gathered by the National Association
of College Stores and financial data provided by the Association of American Publishers. The numbers are
an average and do not represent a particular publisher or store.
cents go to
college-store
income before
taxes
COMPARING PRICES
PSYCHOLOGY BIOLOGY THE NORTON ANTHOLOGY OF
WORLD MASTERPIECES
James Stewart
Brooks/Cole
Publishing Co.
>• AU Bookstore:
• New: $127.20
• Used: $95.40
> J&M:
• New: $127.20
• Used: $95.40
> Anders:
• New: $127.20
• Used: $95.40
> Amazon.com:
• New: $127.20
• Used: $95.40
>• Half.com:
• New: $ 127.20
• Used: $95.40
Lewis
Prentice Hall
>• AU Bookstore:
•New: $81.25
• Used: $60.95
>J&M:
• New: $89
•Used: $61.50
>• Anders:
• New: $89.10
• Used: $60.95
• Amazon.com:
• List price: $95
• New from $50
• Used from 49.95
>• Half.com:
• Not in stock
Soloman et al
Brooks/Cole
Publishing Co.
>• AU Bookstore:
• New: $86.65
•Used: $64.25
>J&M:
• New: $85.50
• Used: $64.10
>• Anders:
• New: $85.65
• Used: $64.25
>• Amazon.com:
• New from $69.95
>• Half.com:
• New from $9.32
Seventh Edition
W.W. Norton &
Company
>• AU Bookstore:
•New: $51.60
• Used: $38.70
>J&M:
• New: $50
• Used: $37.50
>• Anders:
• Used: $40.35
>• Amazon.com:
• List price: $61.10
• New from $45
• Used from $30
>• Half.com:
• New from $39.95
•Used from $29.71
BOARD OFTRUSTEES
Transit, housing costs increase
Trustees also award Ceddrick Mack posthumous degree
By JAMES DIFFEE
Assistant Campus Editor
Tiger Transit and University
Housing fees are going to rise.
At its meeting Friday the
Auburn University Board of
Trustees approved resolutions
to authorize an increase in
transit fees from $22 per stu­dent
per semester and $15 per
student per summer semester
to $45 per student per semes­ter
and $25 per student per
summer semester.
INSIDE:
> Our view/A6
Don Large, Executive Vice
President and Chief Financial
Officer, said there is more
demand on the system now
that it has been approved,
which necessarily raises costs.
"The good news is we're
meeting more and more
demand, the bad news is the
costs are going up," Large said.
Prices were originally based
on estimates that Tiger Transit
would be comprised of 17
buses operating at less than
26,000 hours annually. The
service requirements for fall
2003 are 23 buses operating at
close to 63,000 hours.
There was not much discus­sion
on the motion, but SGA
President Jonathan McConnell
was asked to speak.
"The system is operating on
a deficit," McConnell said. "It is
>• Turn to INCREASE, A8
Legacy program modified, given more time
By JAMES DIFFEE
Assistant Campus Editor
The Auburn Legacy Program is in trouble. If
the Auburn University Board of Trustees do not
reauthorize the program, it will end in one year.
The Legacy Program, approved by the
trustees and established by the administration
in 1997, offers out-of-state students with an
alumnus parent or guardian a tuition break.
Instead of paying three times the in-state
tuition, Legacy students pay only twice the
amount.
Previously, the program gave students a
$1,900 break per semester, which equaled $2.5
million a year.
Legacy students were only required to have a
parent or guardian who graduated from
Auburn and who is a lifetime member of the
Auburn Alumni Association.
The modified program, passed by the board,
requires students to meet the same require­ments
with the addition of a cumulative 3.0
high-school GPA.
The new Legacy Program limits benefits to a
student's first two years, and to continue to
receive tuition breaks their sophomore year,
freshmen must achieve a 3.0.
The board first reviewed the Legacy Program
in February, when the administration request­ed
the program be discontinued.
Several trustees, including Paul Spina,
> Turn to LEGACY, A3
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University of Florida
When terrorists hijacked an
Indian Airlines jet on a flight
from Nepal on Dec. 24, 1999,
native Indian Navin Manjooran
said he felt a need for his coun­try
to combat terrorism.
However, the country could­n't
afford to fight terrorism and
was unable to provide even
basic amenities like food, shel­ter
and education to all Indians,
he said.
Presented with an ultima­tum,
they let three terrorists off
the plane to ensure the lives of
more than 150 hostages, he
said.
As one of 2,711 international
students at the University of
Florida, the computer science
and engineering graduate stu­dent
said he supports the cur­rent
war with Iraq. He said
force might be needed to com­bat
terrorism at the root level
even though Indian philosophy
seeks "ahimsa," a peace without
force.
In a time of international tur­bulence,
UF has not seen a
decrease in international stu­dent
enrollment, said UF Inter­national
Center Executive
Associate Director Lynn Fra-zier.
She said the international
student enrollment has risen
since last year. UF's internation­al
student enrollment ranks
10th among national universi­ties,
according to the Institute
of International Education's
Open Doors report.
Frazier said she won't know
about next year's international
student enrollment until July.
Recent federal regulations
have mandated that universi­ties
report when an interna­tional
student is under
full-time enrollment, Frazier
said.
U n i v e r s i t y of Mississippi
— In the midst of cries for and
against the war with Iraq, there
are some voices raised to sup­port
the troops.
At the University of Missis­sippi,
two students, Barry
Broussard and Tabatha Gard­ner,
grew frustrated with nega­tive
media coverage of the war
and the protests and organized
a candlelight vigil in front of
Fulton Chapel at 6:30 p.m.
Wednesday.
Twenty-two people came to
their vigil last Wednesday at
the same location, holding can­dles,
praying and standing in
solidarity in support for U.S.
troops. Wal-Mart donated
about 60 candles to partici­pants.
Even though it lasted 10 min­utes,
Gardner, an English senior
from Terry, said many people at
the vigil said they appreciated
it.
Attending the vigil was
important to University Police
Department Lt. Tony Hernan­dez,
whose sons and co-work­ers
were called up to serve.
A University Campus Min­istry
vigil will meet from 9 p.m.
to 10:30 p.m. Sunday at Paris-
Yates Chapel. The Dean of Stu­dents
office is also organizing
the event.
The vigil will include a can­dle-
lighting ceremony, reflec­tion
period and music.
U n i v e r s i t y of Alabama —
Numerous local public figures
and personalities, as well as a
bevy of Alabama athletes both
past and present, have supplied
their time and energy in creat­ing
a video intended to raise
the morale of University of
Alabama-affiliated American
troops stationed in Iraq.
The show's crew has spent
the past weeks compiling
footage of various Alabama
luminaries who have agreed to
extend their support for the
troops that have had to aban­don
their daily responsibilities
to attend to the Iraqi conflict
overseas.
The video is the collective
brainchild of graduate student
Lori Cason, producer and direc­tor
of the student-run televi­sion
talk show "Speakeasy;"
Carol Wright, assistant director
for the MBA program; and
Shannon Camper, current Miss
University of Alabama who also
serves as the regular host of
"Speakeasy."
Wright, whose son is a
Marine stationed in Iraq, said
the idea for the tape arose dur­ing
a conversation she had with
Camper.
So far, Cason, Camper,
Wright and the crew of
"Speakeasy" have shot seg­ments
featuring the encourage­ment
of such Alabama athletic
personalities as football coach
Mike Price, basketball coach
Mark Gottfried, former tailback
Shaun Alexander, former defen­sive
back George Teague, quar­terback
Brodie Croyle and
outgoing senior players Erwin
Dudley and Kenny Walker.
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video are segments featuring
Alabama Gov. Bob Riley,
Tuscaloosa Mayor Al DuPont,
Northport Mayor Harvey
Fretwell and several other
unconfirmed former and cur­rent
Alabama athletes.
Cason's "Speakeasy" crew
recently placed first in the
National Broadcasting Society's
public affairs/interview pro­gramming
category at a sum­mit
held in St. Louis.
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BOOKS
• From Page I
AUBURN STORES
The Auburn University Book­store,
Anders Bookstore and
J&M Bookstore each have
methods of deciding how much
to charge for textbooks.
"After cover costs, it's just a
few cents on the dollar that the
bookstore makes," said Katie
Lee, director of the University
Bookstore.
According to the National
Association of College Stores,
the average profit of college
stores from textbook sales is
22.4 cents for every dollar.
"Textbook sales is not a prof­itable
business." Lee said. "It
isn't where we make our
money."
Johnston said selling text­books
does not bring in much
money when compared with
the amount of lime and effort it
requires.
The University Bookstore
generally charges the list price
given by the publishers, Lee
said. This price gives the book­store
a 20 to 25 percent profit.
Anders also uses the publish­er's
list price, said manager Ben
Floyd. Johnston said J&M gen­erally
receives 20 to 25 percent
profit on each book, too.
Each bookstore has similar
methods for setting buy back
prices.
"If a book is on the (Universi­ty)
book list, 1 will buy the book
for half the price." Johnston said
ofJ&M's policy.
Anders also buys back books
for up to 50 percent, with the
price varying depending on the
edition, the condition and how
many are in stock. Black said.
Lee said the University Book­store
will give back up to 55
percent of the book's value.
"They'll get a little more if
the book was initially brand
new, and a little less if used,"
Lee said.
Anders, J&M and the Univer­sity
Bookstore will give back
about 50 percent of the book's
original value until their quotas
for the book are filled.
After that, if the book is
wanted by a wholesaler, the
bookstores will be willing to pay
a different amount, which is
usually smaller. Wholesalers
are companies that buy and dis­tribute
used books.
"If the book is not being used
and has wholesale value, I'll pay
one-fourth that value," Johnston
said of J&M's policy.
"Each wholesaler has a price
guide, and we price (the books)
from that," Lee said of the Uni­versity
Bookstore's policy.
Floyd said Anders uses the
price guides, too.
"We give back the most
money we can give," he said.
At all three stores, if the book
is not being reused by the Uni­versity
and the wholesalers
don't want it, the stores will not
buy it back.
There are several reasons why
books are not reused from one
year to the next, but most of the
bookstore owners say it is
because the professors request
new books or require students
to purchase books that can only
be used once.
"If professors demand new
books, there's not much we can
do," Lee said.
"Some books are written by
(Auburn) professors that don't
allow them to be resold," Black
said.
Other books, particularly
computer books, come with
codes that become invalid after
initial use, Floyd said. Those
books are non-returnable.
The University Bookstore,
Anders and J&M all have specif­ic
return policies, and store
managers said students should
read the policies before buying.
At the University Bookstore,
books can be returned for a full
refund within the first 10 class
days with a receipt, or by the
end of the drop/add period
with a receipt, a drop slip and a
copy of the student's schedule.
At Anders, a full refund is
given within seven class days
for books returned with a
receipt and in the original con­dition.
Books can be returned
within 14 class days if a receipt
and drop slip are provided.
J&M Bookstore will give a full
refund for books returned with­in
the first seven class days with
a receipt, and within the first 10
class days when accompanied
by a receipt and a drop slip.
The University Bookstore,
Anders and J & M also offer
online book reservation before
classes begin each semester.
OTHER UNIVERSITIES
School bookstores at the Uni­versity
of Georgia and the Uni­versity
of Tennessee have
policies similar to Auburn's.
The University of Georgia
Bookstore makes about 20 per­cent
profit on their textbooks,
slightly less than stores in
Auburn.
The University of Tennessee
Book and Supply Store makes
between 20 and 25 percent
profit, similar to Auburn stores.
The Georgia store has buy-back
prices comparable with
those in Auburn.
"If we're using it again next
year, we'll buy it back for half of
the list price," said Sandra
White, textbook office manager.
Tennessee has a different pol­icy.
"We buy back (a book) at 50
percent of the new retail price
of any book that's being used
for the next semester," said
Aleta Esau, textbook manager.
"Whether the book is new or
used, you still get 50 percent
back."
Both stores also buy back
books at wholesale value.
Georgia and Tennessee both
offer an online book reservation
service.
"They can order online and
they can pick them up in the
store or we'll ship it to them,"
White said.
"We get the students' sched­ules
and find the books for
them," Esau said. "All they have
to do is pick them up."
ONLINE ALTERNATIVES
Many students frustrated
with rising book prices are
turning to internet sites like
Amazon.com, Half.com and
TextbookX.com to buy cheaper
books and to sell books the
stores won't buy back.
"I went to the bookstore sev­eral
times... and it wasn't there,"
said Chris Wilkinson, a senior
in electrical and computer
engineering. "They said they'd
order it, but when I went back
three weeks later they said
they'd apparently sold it to
someone else."
Wilkinson went to
Amazon.com and bought the
book used from an independent
seller.
"It was like $10 to $15 cheap­er,
and I got it in four or five
days," Wilkinson said.
Josh Brown, a junior in com­puter
engineering, also bought
books online.
"I just found the ISBN num­bers
and used them to find the
books on Amazon.com," he
said. "I saved a minimum of 50
percent from what I would have
spent at the bookstore."
Both Wilkinson and Brown
said when shopping online, stu­dents
should pay attention to
details like book editions, book
condition, shipping prices and
shipping times.
"Most times the shipping is
usually just a few dollars,"
Brown said. "Amazon works
with the seller to set shipping
times and prices."
Brown and Wilkinson each
said they'd recommend shop­ping
online.
"I just couldn't believe 1 didn't
do it earlier," Brown said.
LEGACY
> From Page I
objected, and the board recom­mended
that Walker review the
program and suggest revisions
rather than abolishment.
"Nobody can tell me we'll get
the $2.5 million. There's a lot of
people who are disturbed over
this," Spina said in February.
"Let's not tear the bridge (to
our alumni) down."
Spina continued to vocalize
support for the program during
the Budget and Finance Com­mittee
meeting Friday, and
again said the trustees and the
University needed to show the
alumni they were working for
them.
Spina also said there was no
reason to assume Legacy stu­dents
would pay the extra
tuition, although he did
approve of the program adjust­ment.
"A two-lane bridge is better
than none," he said.
Trustee Bobby Lowder, who
supported cutting the program
in February, said he saw only
three choices.
"We either keep it, get rid of
it or change it," Lowder said.
Lowder also said the board
was 'going to have to get rid of
it sometime."
Trustee John Miller likened
the program to "the English
monarch."
"People shouldn't get special
treatment because of who their
parents are," he said.
Trustee James Rane said the
board was unjustly criticized
for cutting programs, when the
fault lies with mismanagement
within the state.
Rane said the only legacy the
board was leaving behind was
"what we're cutting out."
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IN BRIEF
AUBURN DAY CARE:
Auburn Early Educa­tion
Center's daycare
may close unless the
school board allows for
a fee increase.
Superintendent Terry
Jenkins was expected
to recommend the
increase in the school
board meeting on April
8.
The school system
has considered closing
the daycare in the past,
but parents who use
the daycare were per­sistent
to keep it open.
CEMETERY MOVING:
The Lucas Hill Ceme­tery
in Montgomery
will be moving.
The cemetery, which
has remains dating
back to at least L816,
has become overgrown
and rundown.
A Montgomery devel­opment
and timber
company will move the
cemetery from the
Waugh community to
its new home in Alaba­ma
Heritage Cemetery
near Mount Meigs.
AOL CATCHES FIRE:
Four floors of the new
AOL Time Warner
Headquarters in New
York caught fire on
April 8.
The building was still
under construction
when it caught on fire,
but fire officials say the
incident wasn't suspi­cious.
The fire started in an
equipment shed damag­ing
floors four through
seven.
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"Never look down
on anybody unless
you helping him
up.'
— Jesse Jackson
Baptist reverend, civil nghti activist
and recipient of the Presidential
Medal of Freedom
—compiled from
staff reports
Wreck prompts railroad project
By CRYSTAL JARVIS
Assistant State & Local Editor
The fatal accident that occurred on
Donahue Drive motivated city officials
to develop a railroad project that is
now on the "fast track" for Donahue
Drive, said Rep. Mike Hubbard (R-Auburn).
The City of Auburn contacted Hub­bard
for help to get a crossing arm con­structed.
"We are very appreciative of the good
work by Rep. Hubbard and Gov. Bob
Riley to get this commitment," said
Auburn Mayor Bill Ham. "We asked
him to convey a message to the state
on last Tuesday and we received an
answer by Wednesday evening, so we
are very pleased with the results."
Dr. Allen Heath, professor in the Col­lege
of Veterinary Medicine, died in a
train accident last Sunday at that
intersection.
He was coming from the west on
Alabama Highway 14 and was making
a right turn onto Donahue Drive when
his Ford F-150 collided with a train.
According to the Federal Railroad
Administrations, nine prior collisions
have taken place at the Donahue cross­ing,
and there is some sort of sight
problem because of the triangular view.
The city officials would like to pre­vent
further tragedies, and Riley has
instructed the Department of Trans­portation
to "give highest priority to
the installation of the safety equip­ment
at the Donahue crossing."
"The project will consist of putting
up signals, bells and the gate," said Wes
Elrod, assistant for the multi-media
bureau at ALDOT.
Alabama receives $3 million a year in
federal funds to install crossing arms.
Each crossing costs $100,000, so only
30 can be constructed a year.
The project has been on ALDOT's
project list for a while, and it has per­formed
diagnostic reviews within the
last year, but in response to the acci­dent,
the crossing arms will be con­structed
within the next 10-12 months.
Auburn officials, knowing the state
has been in a financial crisis, offered to
share the cost of installing the crossing
safety devices, but Riley instructed the
state to pay for the entire cost.
"Gov. Riley readily agreed that this
crossing should be a priority and
pledged his support," Hubbard said.
Donahue and Ross drives are the two
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riNGTHE TROOPS
Community project shows troops "we care"
By STACY ROLLINS
Staff Writer
Army wife Jennifer Manchester never
thought Operation We Care would
become a project for Columbus and sur­rounding
areas.
Manchester started We Care with her
mother. Bonnie Pixley. to support the
soldiers of B. Co. 317th Engineer Battal­ion
out of Fort Benning, Ga.
We Care has already shipped 1,000
pounds of letters and support packages
to troops since the project began in mid-
January.
"The heart of the project is that every­one
can come together as one American
community to show the troops that we
care." Manchester said.
On Monday, March 31, at a support
rally in Columbus, Ga, We Care
announced that it has teamed up with
Knology, WRBL News 3, Clear Channel
Broadcasting and Piggly Wiggly stores to
launch a drive during the month of April.
"We want to offer an avenue for indi­viduals
and businesses to give our sol­diers
support, encouragement and a
boost in their morale," Manchester said.
"If we can offer some of the comforts
of home and show them that people care
and support them, then we've done well."
All five Clear Channel Broadcasting
FM stations, as well as representatives
from Knology and Piggly Wiggly, were at
the event. WRBL News 3 was on-hand to
do live cut-ins during their evening
newscast.
The occasion also featured Columbus
Mayor Bob Poydasheff as a special guest
speaker.
Stacy Rollins — Photo Staff
Many Columbus, Ga., residents attended the ribbon cutting ceremony of Operation We Care Monday, March 31. The
project is for families, friends and supporters of the troops to ship letters and support packages to Iraq. Knology,
WRBL News 3, Clear Channel Broadcasting and Piggly Wiggly teamed up with We Care to launch the event.
"The event served as a time for people
to express their appreciation and sup­port
for our troops as well as to kick off a
month-long drive with a goal of gather­ing
items and letters to fill 5,000 support
packages," said Royce Ard, general man­ager
of Knology.
"We became a part of We Care because
we want to support our troops and their
families," said Fred Copeland, Vietnam
veteran and co-owner of Piggly Wiggly
stores. "Our heroes are not only overseas,
their families at home are heroes as well."
During the month of April, the We
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ALABAMA TAXES
Troops may receive tax exemption
By GABE CARPENTER
Staff Writer
The signs of support are
abundant. American flags
stand in driveways and on
front porches. Yellow ribbons
hang in supermarket windows.
Regardless of political ideol­ogy,
most Alabamians seem to
have rallied behind the Ameri­cans
fighting overseas. State
legislators are also showing
support for the troops in Iraq.
"The soldiers are not just
names on a list," Sen. Gerald
Dial of Lineville said in a
recent press release.
"They are someone's
sons/daughters, someone's
husband/wife, someone's
father/mother, someone's
brother/sister, someone's
neighbor, friend, classmate,
and they are all our fellow
countrymen, Americans," he
said.
Dial then announced that he
will introduce a bill exempting
Alabamians activated for war
from state income tax. The
proposed legislation has so far
received more support than
objection.
"It's a good piece of legisla­tion,"
said Sen. Ted Little of
Auburn, who is cosponsoring
the bill. "Now what we have to
do is determine the cost, but
the intent is good."
Military personnel would be
responsible for tax on income
from their civilian jobs, but
would be exempt from taxes
on military pay from the time
of deployment on.
"I think this is going to have
a great deal of support
throughout the legislature,
and, consequently, I expect it
to be moving on very quickly
now.
Currently there are federal
laws that secure the jobs of
men and women called to
duty, but there are none con­cerning
their income.
Many people in the Army
Reserve receive twice as much
money in their private lives as
they do during military serv­ice.
"That's a pretty tough thing
to ask a guy to do," said Dial, a
guardsman for 36 years. "We
need some incentive so it's not
a financial burden for people
to serve and defend their
country in the military."
There are about 6,000
Alabamians participating in
the War to Liberate Iraq. They
would be the first to benefit
from Dial's idea.
Soldiers from Georgia might
be next. Legislators there are
considering a similar bill, Dial
said.
If soldiers stay in Iraq for an
extended period of time, the
bill could come before the leg­islature
again.
"We need to take it on- year
at a time and see how it
works," Dial said.
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The East Alabama Services for the Elderly Opelika Adult Daycare Center moved to the Southside Church of Christ on March 31.
Adult daycare center relocates to Southside Church
By JESSICA ELMORE
Staff Writer
People at Emmanuel Episco­pal
Church were sad to see the
East Alabama Services for the
Elderly Opelika Adult Daycare
Center move o u t But they had
to for now.
The week of March 17-21, the
church informed EASE Director
Cherie Hall the center had to
move out by March 28.
"Two members of the church
helped us move out," Hall said.
"They hated to see us go."
Emmanuel asked the center
to relocate because the building
needed three major repairs:
plumbing, wiring and a new
roof.
"They told us if we could pay
rent we could stay," Hall said.
EASE was not responsible for
rent, but did pay the utilities bill.
As of Friday, March 28, EASE
would soon be homeless. But
the phone rang, and it was the
pastor of Southside Church of
Christ offering the center a new
home — the church's basement.
"One of his perishes called his
attention to it." Hall said. "He
read the article in the Opelika-
Auburn News and made the
call."
EASF. has been enjoying its
new home since March 31. The
basement has a large dining and
activity area, a large kitchen,
seven rooms for separate activi­ties
or office space, six toilets
and two laboratories which
more than meet the state's
requirements.
The state requires at least a
three-base sink with a separate
hand-washing sink, two toilets.
two lavatories, a separate office
and preferably separate rooms.
Hall said the old building had
three large activity rooms, a
kitchen and an office.
"Southside has asked for rent,"
Hall said.
But a final decision has not
been made by both parties.
Since EASF will not be responsi­ble
for utilit ies at Southside, I lall
has offered to pay the church
the same amount she was pay­ing
for utilities at Emmanuel so
she "at least breaks even."
Emmanuel said if they fix the
building and EASE wants to pay
rent, they can return.
EASE Opelika Adult Day Care
Center is officially opened 8 a.m.
to 3 p.m. Monday through Fri­day,
but begins one of its two
bus routes at 6 a.m.
The adults are picked up from
their homes, and some are even
escorted from their door. By 8:30
a.m., all the adults are at the
center and ready for breakfast,
which precedes a daily lesson
plan that usually consists of a
current-events discussion and is
followed by exercise.
"Some just like to sit outside
and talk," Hall said.
After lunch, they participate
in an organized activity such as
a guest speaker. Hall said some­times
they have homework to
bring in a child photograph or
meaningful item to share with
the others, or they simply have a
treasure hunt. The afternoon
consists of snacks and free time
before the bus begins taking
them home about 2:30 p.m.
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Care Command Center, located
at 3201 Macon Road, Cross
Country Plaza, Columbus, Ga.,
will be open Monday through
Saturday from 9 a.m. to 8 p.m.
to receive donations and
answer questions.
In addition, Piggly Wiggly
stores will host drop boxes in
their stores during the entire
month.
"If we can show them we care
by sending support packages,
then our involvement in Opera­tion
We Care will be well worth­while,"
Copeland said.
Anyone wishing to volunteer
or receive more information on
We Care, can call the command
center at 706-507-4USA (4872),
or email the We Care Web site
at www.operationwecare.org.
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major railroad crossing areas
without proper safety mecha­nisms
to protect drivers from
accidents.
"We will have one more
crossing arm to be built, and
we're working on that plan,"
Ham said.
The city has been attentive
in crossing safety over the
past decade resulting in the
crossing-arms installment at
Dean Road, East University
Drive, Country Club Drive,
Byrd Street and Webster Road.
"With the railroad running
right in the middle of Auburn,
we know that there is a seri­ous
safety risk every day,"
Ham said. "This action will
help make Auburn a safer
place and maybe avoid anoth­er
tragedy."
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COMMENTARY
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Trusters modify Legacy Program, but
dorit address the real issue
DANIEL MOORE
At the Board of Trustees meeting
iast Friday, trustee Jimmy Rane said
the board has unjustly gotten a bad
reputation for cutting programs in
tough financial times
True. But this time, it almost
ivoided it.
When President William Walker
suggested eliminating the Legacy
Program in February, the board sug­gested
tabling it.
The program, which allows chil­dren
of out-of-state alumni to attend
Auburn for only twice the in-state
tuition rate, was created in 1997 to
increase the ratio of out-of-state stu­dents.
Out-of-state students ineligible for
the l.egacv Program pay three times
the in-state rate.
The Legacy Program changed that
for students whose parents are life­time
members of the Auburn Alumni
Association.
With the program came SI.3 mil­lion
in annual donations from par­ents
of Legacy students.
Trustee Paul Spina fought for the
program, saying it gave Auburn
alumni a financial break they
deserve.
The board seeminglv compro­mised
with, the Alumni Association
Friday, revising, but not eliminating,
the Legacy Program.
But by revising it and reducing its
lifespan from four years to two vears
per Legacy student, the board is
straddling the fence.
If the program is not reaffirmed by
the board by April 2004, it's gone.
With trustee Bobby Lowder and
several board members against it.
this year's Legacy Program will just
be a stay of execution.
While cutting programs to fight
proration can't be a bad thing, the
board should have used a different
weapon.
The revised plan for the Legacy
Program, passed at Friday's meeting,
will reward Legacy students based
on merit. They must have a cumula­tive
3.0 high-school GPA to be eligi­ble
as freshmen and maintain a 3.0
to keep it their sophomore year. After
that. Legacy students will pay out-of-state
tuition.
The program currently gives stu­dents
a SI,900 break per semester,
which equals savings of S2.5 million
a year for all recipients of the pro­gram.
This is money some trustees feel
could be used elsewhere, now that
out-of-state enrollment is stable and
state education funding is still weak.
But by approving minor cuts to the
program, fewer dollars will be saved,
and alumni donations may decrease.
Changes to the program should
never have been made, but slowly
eliminating it will not save enough
money to account for funds that may
not be donated as a result.
Legacy students are losing out,
and the University isn't winning
either.
Rock and a hard place
The Board of Trustees approved
plans for aggressive building projects
at its Friday meeting, despite lack of
state funding.
An outdated constitution, a faulty
tax system and a sluggish economy
doesn't leave much funding for higher
education or Auburn — both still
threatened by proration.
In exchange for campus improve­ments,
students are picking up the
bill.
Tiger Transit and University Hous­ing
fees will increase next year. A
tuition increase may also be on the
board's summer meeting agenda.
Students, now paying 12 percent
more in tuition fees than last year,
may see another such increase.
An upgraded transit system equals
increased student fees, said Don
Large. Auburn's executive vice presi­dent
and chief financial officer.
Trustees voted to increase student
transit fees from 522 to $45 per
semester during the year, and from
S15 to S25 during the summer.
But, in a state that doesn't care
about finding a solution to education
funding, Auburn should be careful not
to overspend on campus improve­ments.
Administrators are pushing for a
two-phase renovation of Telfair Peet
Theatre. The phase one pre-design
estimate is about $2 million.
The Auburn University Hotel &
Dixon Conference Center will serve as
a laboratory for restaurant manage­ment
students this fall. The hotel is
also scheduled for a face-lift.
A new building science facility,
poultry science building. University
museum and medical clinic are also
on the table. Parker Hall will soon be
renovated.
This doesn't look like the tab of a
University fighting for funding in a
state with one of the nation's oldest,
faultiest constitutions.
However, Auburn needs improve­ments
and renovations. Planning for
campus improvements is wise,
because if the University waits for sta­ble
state funding, the walls of its
buildings may crumble.
Profiting from state colleges and
universities is obviously important to
the state — then Gov.-elect Bob Riley
met with state college and university
presidents Dec. 3, requesting outlines
of what their research programs do
for it and promising funding in
exchange.
Where is it?
With facility improvements on its
agenda, and a teetering budget, the
University may again raise tuition. It
is already raising fees.
The state needs to get its plan for
education funding together. Until
then, tuition rates will climb while
students take up the slack for a faulty
tax system.
OUR POIJCY
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Auburn University student body, faculty, administration or Hoard of Trustees.
STAFF OPINIONS
2003: Conquest of Paradise
In 1992. the quincentennial
anniversary of Columbus' voyage,
director Ridley Scott's "1492: Con­quest
of Paradise" hit the big
screens. The film shows the "disas­trous
effects" the Europeans had on
the original inhabitants, and Colum­bus'
subsequent efforts to civilize the
New World.
The movie is basically Howard
Zinn-inspired, politically correct
nonsense, but one scene still is cap­tivating
and overwhelmingly power­ful.
It is of Columbus walking to
shore, with the water splashing
about his legs and then falling onto
the ground triumphantly, after
reaching land.
Flash-forward to today, and early
21st-century America is truly a para­dise.
Yet, like the Native Americans'
nirvana, the paradise we have now
could turn into a fleeting memory,
and ultimately be extirpated.
For as the Native Americans' para­dise
wasn't conquered in a day, nei­ther
will the United States'. It will be
a gradual, methodical transforma­tion,
but with the same end result.
The first transformation we are
seeing is the gradual erosion of the
English language. Now, according to
U.S. census data, some 30 million
people in this nation speak English
either poorly, or not at all.
President Theodore Roosevelt
echoed these sentiments: "The ulti­mate
way to bring this nation to
ruin, or preventing all possibility of
it continuing to be a nation at all,
would be to permit it to become a
tangle of squabbling nationalities.
We have but one flag; we must also
learn one language, and that lan­guage
is English."
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pie languages are visible, on ATM
machines, voting ballots, inner-city
billboard signs, even McDonald's
game pieces, languages other than
English are employed. Government
documents can only be next.
Will the insanity ever end?
Professor Arthur Schlesinger Jr., a
harsh critic of multiculturalism,
pointed out a fact many people no
longer want to accept and that Rus­sell
Kirk echoed in his book "Ameri­ca's
British Culture." Our language,
political purposes and institutions
are derived from Britain. As
Schlesinger said, "To pretend other­wise
is to falsify history. To teach
otherwise is to mislead our stu­dents."
High-school Spanish classes are
basically indoctrination labs, where
students are told how they need to
learn Spanish to be able to commu­nicate
with immigrants from Latin-
American countries, for they
account for 90 percent of the new
arrivals. Past immigrants learned
English to assimilate to the Anglo-driven
culture, but we as a nation
have capitulated to the demons of
political correctness and no longer
tolerate such a sane policy.
Speak your native language,
politicians say, and we will assimi­late
to you. Whether it is Spanish,
Bantu, Swahili, Japanese, French,
Chinese or even Twe, all is well.
Thus, the Republican guard in
Washington is crumbling faster than
the Republican Guard in Baghdad,
as they continue to pander to immi­grants
while selling out the Ameri­cans
who voted them into power.
The only way to begin to right the
sinking ship that is the American
republic is to adopt English as the
official language of the nation.
Twenty-six states have adopted
such an idea into law, and many oth­ers
have legislation in progress that
will do the same. In some states,
police officers and firefighters have
to take bilingual courses, so they can
communicate with those they serve.
This egregious offense to the memo­ry
of the founding fathers must end.
If not, in 500 years, a movie might
be made along the lines "1492."
Instead of a European male playing
the antagonist, it will be a Cuban,
Haitian or Chinese playing the role
of the protagonist. But instead of
heroically walking to shore like
Columbus, the movie will depict the
U.S. Coast Guard picking up a rick­ety
boat lost at sea.
Then, it will show how America
allowed the rescued migrants to
keep their languages, Balkanizing
the nation (as in Miami) fulfilling
Roosevelt's warning.
Americans of all races must unite
and demand English as the official
language, for if not, what John Mil­ton
titled his magnum opus, will be
apparent to our children: Paradise
Lost.
Michaelf. Thompson is assistant sports
editor for The Auburn Plainsman. You
can reach him at 844-9112.
I watched Saddam's statue go down
Yesterday, demonstrating the fall
of Saddam Hussein's nearly 25-year
reign of terror, Iraqi citizens rioted
in the center of Baghdad.
They threw their shoes, an insult
in the Arab community, at a statue
of Saddam Hussein in Firdos Square.
They chipped away at its massive
concrete base with sledge hammers.
In the end, they asked American
soldiers to help them topple the
statue and danced joyfully in the
streets once it was down.
And it was live on every feed. I
don't see how the ideologically anti­war
networks and protesters will
spin this one, but I'm sure they will.
As Americans and Iraqis celebrat­ed
together, both the Stars and
Stripes and the Iraqi flag flew.
After Monday's bombing, it
remains unclear whether Saddam
Hussein is still alive. But the real vic­tory
yesterday came from seeing
Iraqi citizens welcoming coalition
forces into their capital city.
Women asked American soldiers
to kiss their babies and men shout­ed
our president's name.
I've made no secret of my patriot­ism
and desire for a coalition victo­ry,
and it's clear to me our efforts
were justified and worthwhile.
This war is not directed against
the people of Iraq. It's directed
against the government that, until
yesterday, kept them living in fear.
Just as we saw with the demise of
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the Soviet Union, now we see the lib­erated
Iraqi citizens demonstrating
their true feelings about the regime
that kept them perpetually down —
they spat on Hussein's fallen statue
and hurled insults at it.
Al Jazeera and the Iraqi Informa­tion
Minister, Muhammad Sa'id al-
Sahhaf, can no longer lie about how
there are no Americans in Baghdad
and how American planes have been
relentlessly and intentionally bomb­ing
civilian targets.
Hussein can no longer run like a
coward from palace to palace, hid­ing
from America like a whipped
dog. He no longer controls Iraq, and
his days are numbered.
It's of the utmost importance now
to remember the purpose of this war
is to liberate, not to conquer.
With that said, the war is far from
over. No one doubts there is fierce
fighting ahead, and there is no ques­tion
there will be many in the Iraqi
military who will prefer to go down
with Hussein's regime rather than
help rebuild a better Iraq.
There will be also those who will
forever question and denounce the
United States <br invading Iraq.
There will be those who blame the
coalition for desecrating Iraq's land.
But for now, Iraqi citizens, not Al
Jazeera or Iraqi state TV, are telling
the world the truth about Hussein.
Such as how he operated prisons
like the "White Lion" in Basra,
which was reportedly used to tor­ture
prisoners with beatings, electric
shocks and chemical baths.
When Iraq is completely free of
Hussein's grasp, I'm confident the
Iraqis themselves will show coalition
forces where the chemical and bio­logical
weapons are.
Juxtaposing the emotional cries of
American imperialism and the
ridiculous, unfounded "no blood for
oil" sound bites against the real-life
atrocities Hussein committed shows
how necessary and just this war is.
It shows that we were right, and
that those who apologized for and
defended Hussein were wrong.
The people of Iraq may now deter­mine
their own destiny.
But it's not over yet.
Because although our troops are
in Baghdad, Iraq is not yet free.
Justin Smith is managing editor of The
Auburn Plainsman. You can reach
him at 844-9108.
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COMMENTARY
Riley should learn from Siegelman's mistakes
Did Gov. Bob Riley learn nothing
from former Gov. Don Siegelman's
defeat at the polls last fall?
A sound argument could be made
that Siegelman lost the election
because of Auburn. With such a close
election, it's possible.
Siegelman was never Auburn's
friend till the end, and it was too late
to save face.
He made many Auburn supporters
angry when he botched trustee
appointments, doing the bidding of
trustee Bobby Lowder, who donated
to his campaign, and Sen. Lowell Bar­ron,
the most powerful legislator.
Siegelman paid for his mistakes.
A few weeks ago, Auburn was
stepped on by a Senate committee
when it chose to reject two nomina­tions
for the Board of Trustees.
While Riley claims he knew noth­ing
of Confirmation Committee chair
Sen. E.B. McClain's sudden rejection
of the two nominations, many
Auburn faithful are tired of waiting.
Riley is the only one who can make
things better, and, so far, he has done
nothing.
The trustee nominating committee
can only meet if Riley calls it, and
with the end of the legislative session
looming, time is ticking.
Riley promised Auburn Trustee
Improvement PAC leaders he would
convene the committee within 30
days of March 5. The 30 days are up.
Alumni Association Vice President
and nominating committee member
Andy Hornsby said he believes Riley
ADAM
JONES
jones@theplainsman.com
will convene the committee, but said
he needs to act now.
"If you wait too far into the session,
you're not going to do any good," he
said.
There is talk in Montgomery of a
special session that will deal only
with the budget.
If Riley calls this special session,
the regular session will last longer.
Still, the next board meeting is in
June, and there is no reason why the
three trustees, whose terms expired
in January, should be sitting on the
board then.
The new appointments should be
in place.
Riley's task is simple — convene
the committee, renominate Elmer
Harris and Neil Christopher and
nominate Jerry Smith. Then, send the
names to the Senate for confirma­tion.
If McClain wanted to make a state­ment
about public meetings and the
need for diversity of race on state
boards, he made it. His reasoning
was, of course, flawed, but it was the
reasons he gave.
Smith, a black Auburn graduate,
coupled with the two previous nomi­nations,
should be approved by the
committee because they meet the
requirement McClain wants.
Riley is a busy man trying to
reform Alabama for the better, so he
should be given the benefit of the
doubt. But Auburn is getting impa­tient.
The longer he waits, the more
questions will surface about whether
Barron is behind the delay.
Riley should act now because
Auburn voters have a good memory.
Adam janes is editor of The. Auburn
Plainsman. You can reach him at
844-9021.
YOUR VIEW
Slate government micromanages
Editor, The Auburn Plainsman:
Imagine living in a place where the
citizens of a city have little to no say
over what goes on in their town. In
order to get something done, they
must have an order issued by the state
government.
The state must micromanage all of
its territory. In such a state, 40 percent
of the government's time is spent mak­ing
laws that affect only one or two
cities or counties.
Unfortunately, this place is Alabama
in 2003. Seventy percent of the amend­ments
to our constitution relate to a
single city or county. In this state we
do not have home rule.
It should be the obligation of the
local government to govern locally,
and of the state government to govern
statewide. Our current situation is the
equivalent to our representatives in
Washington D.C. deciding on what
laws should be passed in Nebraska.
That is not the only problem with
the Alabama Constitution. Secondly,
there is a major problem with the tax
infrastructure in this state. If you have
lived in Alabama for a month or more,
you know about the proration of funds
for schools. This comes from one key
problem, the tax structure. Alabama
depends on the majority of its revenue
from sales tax, with a tiny portion
coming in from property taxes. This
has several flaws. First, sales fluctuate
dramatically. If we were to enter a
depression, people would buy less and
the state would lose money. That is
what happened a few years ago.
It puts us in a downward economic
spiral from which it is almost impossi­ble
to ascend. On the other hand,
property taxes remain fairly constant
in times of recession, depression and
economic boom. Property taxes are far
more stable than sales taxes. Basically
the Alabama Constitution must be
changed.
It revokes home-rule from cities and
counties, leaving the citizens with lit­tle
power.
It also discriminates against the
poor by placing the tax burden on
those without money. It is time for a
change to come to the way our state is
run.
Brandon Costerison
freshman, psychology
America should move aside
Editor, The Auburn Plainsman:
Times of enriched media in an ever
seemingly decayed social structure
bring more than fears of homeland
safety. With an increase of political
pacifism among my fellow students, in
Auburn, I anxiously await a day of
awakening. Recalling past weeks of
glorified anticipation of the war with
Iraq, my colleagues sit with open eyes
of infancy, glued to the well monopo­lized
television reports. Waiting and
watching; moments wasted in the
count down to Iraq. What might hap­pen
when that time reaches the eight
o'clock deadline? They utter words
which seem to have always been inside
them, while green night vision
enhanced images of Baghdad awaiting
its fate, stream in live from the Middle
East.
Separating myself from these over-dramatized
events of American enter­tainment,
with their real-time feed in
prime-time television, brought me to
recalling a critical narrative of social
prophecy. I fear the weight of images
broadcast, into every home on every
TV on every network, ever desensi­tized
the world especially the Ameri­can
masses to the ideas of war. We are
precise in taking out our objectives,
without error and you, the public, have
the unique opportunity to watch it all
unfold in real time as we thwart the
greatest threat to American ... free­dom?
I strongly urge if one should feel
restless, any of the American condi­tioned,
to fully pursue an expression of
their thoughts, to explore, without
bias, the workings of our world. Civi­lized,
where everyone is happy, con­tent
or, shall I say, passive.
"He is our president," a fellow stu­dent
says with conviction. "We should
always support him."
Said as though these words had
been fed to them and then laid dor­mant
waiting to be repeated to any
waver in soul. I am proud to live in a
place where any sort of question of
political ideology is seen as an attack
on one's very livelihood, and usually
responded by a query of credibility
and lack of continuing conversation.
With the final objective of Opera­tion
Iraqi Freedom drawing ever clos­er,
the daunting question of
establishing a new Iraqi government is
in 'he air. A minimal American mili­tary
presence should be the first con­cern,
to allow an unhindered freedom
flourish, where people have the chance
to govern themselves. The United
States, carrying the brunt of military
involvement shall be victorious by
stepping aside in the development of a
new government, subduing further
American resentment.
A move unseen, to the sideline the
United States involvement and allow­ing
the United Nations a center role, in
the to be developing country, the
world scare of American imperialism
would fade. Proving our ideals as pure
and true as at the creation of our
country. We will have freed a nation of
our concerns for our fellow man. We
really are looking out for the well-being
of human kind.
Jack Norris
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nation. I have read some
of the feedback on The Plainsman's
message boards, and to my great dis­may
Mr. Thompson has been lambast­ed
as a "racist" and "xenophobe."
While this type of juvenile behavior
is common amongst the liberal "intel­ligentsia"
(however deplorable it is), it
is nothing more than slanderous parl­ance
designed to discredit Mr. Thomp­son.
Contrary to what many people
believe, Mr. Thompson is the one with
an open mind, not the naysayers.
Indeed some of the ideas opined by
Mr. Thompson are hard to swallow,
but that does not mean they're not
true. I have seen first hand the reper­cussions
of our lax immigration poli­cies;
I have seen the erosion of Pax
Americana. In closing, don't be so
quick to mentally censor Mr. Thomp­son.
Realize that Auburn has not been
affected by the plague — yet.
Chadwick Barr
University of Georgia
University more than football
junior, political science Editor, The Auburn Plainsman:
Thompson on the money
Editor, The Auburn Plainsman:
Within the past few weeks, Mr.
Thompson has managed to sagely
describe the problems confronting our
As an infrequent reader of The
Plainsman, as 1 no longer belong to
the alumni association as a protest
(after many years of support), I am
sure there is much positive news at
Auburn of things accomplished by-students
and faculty (the really impor-
DANIEL MOORE — ART EDITOR
tant people) of an academic nature of
which I am unaware.
As a resident of a nearby state, I am
aware that men's swimming team has
won another well-deserved national
championship recently, and the men's
basketball team advanced to the
Sweet 16 before losing by one point to
Syracuse. Congratulations to both.
The reason I am writing, however,
involves some things of which Auburn
people who live in Alabama may not
be aware. My son attends a large land
grant university in the state where we
now live.
The Board of Trustees was quoted in
all of the state's m?jor newspapers as
saying he wanted the search commit­tee
to be large and well-represented by
students, faculty, alumni and friends
of the university, so as not to conduct
the "kind of search done at Auburn
University." Yes, he really said it and
was widely quoted. Many said they
agreed. The search committee had 50
people.
Auburn's beautiful Alma Mater,
which will always send chills up and
down my spine, contains the senti­ment
that all its graduates will "work
for thy just fame." Outside of athletics,
however, Auburn is fast gaining noto­riety
of the most undesirable type
every day that a small but powerful
and privileged minority continues to
rule Auburn. Evil triumphs when good
men do nothing. These men have only
one motto; "Money talks." If you truly
love Auburn, do something, say some­thing,
even if it hurts and is unpopular
with some (or many) of your friends. If
all you want is to win football games,
then maybe you think everything is
just great right now (until the next los­ing
season, of course).
I lived in Alabama most of my life
until recently, and I am firmly con­vinced
of one thing: only a better
Auburn can produce a better state of
Alabama. No one has been sober at
that other Alabama school for years
now, and no number of new car facto­ries
is going to get the job done alone.
R.A. Ryan
Class of 1972
Where are Auburn's priorities?
Editor, The Auburn Plainsman:
The Auburn student population is
now at an all-time high.
The Auburn student tuition is now
at an all-time high.
The Auburn quality of education is
now at an all-time low.
The Auburn student population is
now classified as "customers."
The "customer is always right," the
saying goes in the business world.
If so, then why are you paying more
and more money for less and less edu­cation?
Every year, the degree you seek is
worth less and less.
Students in all other states are get­ting
better instruction.
How will you compete with them?
Your Board of Trustees and your
president have absolutely no vision of
higher education beyond a sort of vo-tech
mediocrity. They are terrified by
anything better. They want to keep
you totally glued to harmless, worth­less
sideshows like football, basketball,
baseball, etc.
Have you ever heard (President
William) Walker say anything about
making excellence of instruction a
"core value?" Smaller classes? Fewer
incompetent teachers? More personal
attention? Can you actually believe
anything at all from the mouths of
Walker and the board?
The old joke about teaching math in
the stadium is funny because that is
exactly what your board would love to
do. A student-teacher ratio of 25,000:1.
Do the math.
You will never get a good president
while the board is in power. First, he
would not dare to come here. Second,
if he did, they would fire him in a
week.
The longer this tragedy drags on, the
more mediocrity trickles through our
whole system like dirty oil through an
old tractor.
What are you customers going to do
about this? It's your money. It's your
life.
You roar like lions at football games.
What happens to your spirit when
your own future is at stake?
Nick Davis
Alumni professor emeritus
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The Littleton-Franklin Lectures
in
Science and Humanities
Sylvia Earle
"Sea Change: A Message of the Oceans"
4:00 PM Tuesday, April 15,2003
Auburn University Hotel and
Conference Center Auditorium
We have all enjoyed national parks like Yellowstone, Glacier, the
Grand Canyon, and Zion that are set aside as sanctuaries to preserve
the plants and animals that comprise a diversity of natural
ecosystems. But how many of us realize that ecosystems just as
beautiful and wonderfully complex as these also exist, out of sight of
most people, far below the surface of Earth's seas and oceans? Sylvia
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research, exploration, and preservation. She presently directs a
federal and National Geographic Society sponsored project to explore
and photodocument the geology and sea creatures inhabiting the 12
U.S. marine sanctuaries, our underwater national parks. Sylvia Earle
has led more than 50 deep sea exploration expeditions and logged
over 6000 hours underwater. Time magazine named her its first "hero
for the planet" in 1998, and she played a key role in President
Clinton's 1999 decision to double the budget of the U.S. National
Marine Sanctuaries. Earle is the author of more than 125 scientific
publications and several books including Sea Change (1995) and Wild
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INCREASE
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getting better, more people are riding and it
needs to run on budget."
Large also addressed the board about a hous­ing
fee increase, and said the facilities were an
auxiliary enterprise and should be self-support­ing.
Again, there was not much discussion, and
again McConnell was asked his opinion.
He disagreed with the inclusion of fees for
phone lines since many students use cell
phones, thus the fee did not need to include a
landline.
"1 didn't agree with it, but at least the students
are getting something tangible," McConnell said
after the meeting.
The board also approved several resolutions
to improve University facilities.
Christine Curtis, director of facilities, present­ed
a resolution to the Property and Facilities
Committee for renovations to the Auburn Uni­versity
Hotel & Dixon Conference Center.
The 16-year-old building, which is already
undergoing exterior maintenance, has recently
changed management, and will now be a part of
University curriculum.
The board approved Woodham & Sharpe
Architects and the estimated $3.5 million,
though several trustees expressed displeasure
about the process.
Trustee Lowell Barron spoke at length on the
need to have projects approved formally, a
process that requires several trustee meetings.
Curtis said the renovations needed to be
approved immediately so the hotel would be
ready for its chief revenue season in the fall.
Barron said the administration needed to stop
trying to get projects through "the back door."
Trustee Earlon McWhorter agreed with Bar­ron,
but he supported the resolution.
"This is not the way we like to do business,"
McWhorter said. "But to get the revenue we
need, we need to think outside the box."
The board also approved renovation and
upgrade plans for the Telfair Peet Theatre.
The theater, built in 1972, needs substantial
upgrades and renovations to modernize it, Cur­tis
said.
The administration proposed two phases for
the project.
The first will begin immediately, with renova­tions
to the public and assembly spaces, includ­ing
a new fire sprinkler system. The second
phase will probably start in 2004 and include the
replacement of heating and cooling systems.
The pre-design budget for the first phase of
the renovation is about $2.15 million. Both phas­es
will be funded by instructional fees from the
College of Liberal Arts, deferred maintenance
funds and gifts.
The trustees approved Woodham & Sharpe
Architects P.A. as the architectural firm and
Newcomb & Boyd as the engineering firm.
The trustees also approved the parking lot
adjacent to Goodwin Hall as the site for the new
building science facility, naming the Beef Teach­ing
Laboratory for Stanley P. Wilson and naming
the poultry science building "Poultry Science."
Finally, the board approved awarding the late
Ceddrick Mack a posthumous Bachelor of Arts
in Communications.
Mack, who died Jan, 23, 2003, was close to
completing his degree in communications.
"He was the ultimate Auburn man, in my
opinion," Walker said. "He is one of the finest
young people I have ever had the privilege to
meet."
LEGACY
>• From Page 3
was implemented in March
1997 as one of several tuition
reduction programs requested
by the administration.
The Legacy Program and the
Nine County Discount Pro­gram,
which allowed students
in the nine counties of Georgia
that came within 50 miles of
Auburn to attend at resident
rates, were proposed by the
administration to stabilize
enrollment.
The administration feared
that new Alabama legislation,
which forced out-of-state stu­dents
to pay out-of-state fees,
would undermine the mix of in­state
and out-of-state students.
The administration has since
decided that the program is
unnecessary.
"From a budget-and-finance
perspective, it was felt that it
wasn't best to discount
(Auburn's) product when there
was such a demand for the
product," said Wes Williams,
vice president of Student
Affairs.
At the last board meeting
Auburn Alumni President
Owen Brown said he was
strongly against any effort to
cut the program, but he would
support a merit-based meas­ure.
"Pay for performance," Brown
said.
Walker declined from advis­ing
the board, saying his daugh­ter
had triplets and he
understood the desire for a
tuition break.
The board will review the
new program in a year.
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MUSLIM STUDENT ASSOCIATION
Improving image through art
By JOHNNY JACKSON
Staff Writer
Through chalk-ink mix and paintings on
canvas, desserts, scarves and other fine
arts, Muslims hope to give students an
accurate depiction of Islam faith.
Auburn's first Islam Awareness Week
began April 7. The Auburn Muslim Student
Association and University Program Coun­cil
co-sponsored the week-long event by
linking their "Splash Into Spring," "World's
Fair" and "Tiger Nights" events.
Zaid Shakir will speak in 239 Broun Hall
today at 3 p.m. on "Islam and the African-
American Experience" and later on "Islam:
A Religion of Peace." Tomorrow, UPC will
help MSA organize a diversity display in
Foy Student Union.
"As far as diversity goes, it's important to
bring something culturally different to the
Auburn University campus," said Colin
Stark, UPC special projects director.
He said he wanted to have a Muslim
event that was fine-arts-oriented so the
Islamic portrayal would differ from what
people see and hear in the news.
Monday. UPC's "Splash Into Spring" fea­tured
Islamic calligraphy with citist Uzma
Mirza in the Haley Center lobby. Tuesday,
the MSA sponsored Mirza's "The Pen And
The Inkpot: A Muslim Woman's Spiritual
Art through a Science of Knowing the
Heart."
Wednesday on the Concourse, the MSA
represented Islam in the "World's Fair," co-sponsored
by UPC.
"This is a great thing for Auburn to bring
the Islamic culture and religion, especially
in this time of war," said Tiffany Verrett,
coordinator of multicultural affairs.
She said the best way to continue Islam
awareness is by having faculty members
actively involved in providing their stu­dents
resources that help them learn more
about what they can't learn from television
news blurbs.
MSA President Mariyam Jamila sold
scarves and gave sample desserts Monday.
"There are so many misconceptions
about Islam," Jamila said. "We want to give
people a look at Islam. We don't have a
right to complain about misinformation if
we don't try to inform,"
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Photos by Lindsay Evans — Campus Editor
Islamic calligraphy artist Uzma Mirza's art was featured in the Haley Center lobby Monday. Tuesday, the Muslim Student Association sponsored Mirza's "The Pen and The Inkpot: A Muslim
Woman's Spiritual Art through a Science of Knowing the Heart."
CAMPUS CONSTRUCTION
Eagle's Cage sinks into mantle
By MATT TBIPP
Staff Writer
Soon, the phrase "Meet me at the
Eagle's Cage" will be as obsolete as
the Barn or the Flush, two Auburn
landmarks that exist now only in
history books.
The Delta chapter of Alpha Phi
Omega, a national service fraternity
and former caretaker of Tiger, the
golden eagle that came to represent
Auburn University, disassembled
the Amos Elwyn Hamer Jr. Aviary
during spring break, removing the
four concrete support poles and
cage wire.
A plan to sell portions of the cage
wire is "in the works" with the Uni­versity,
with the proceeds going
toward building War Eagle Gardens,
said Robbie Wahl, Alpha Phi
Omega's vice president for the Book
Exchange.
"Nothing's official yet," he said.
"But we do know that each piece of
the wire will come with a photo­graph
of Tiger as well as a commem­orative
coin."
Wahl said the University asked
the fraternity to remove the protec­tive
cage wire and support poles
after the SGA approved a proposal
Matt Collins — Photo Staff
Chris Taylor, a junior in biomedical sciences; Bill Souder, a freshman in
software engineering; and Robbie Wahl, a sophomore in architecture,
pose in what remains of the Eagle's Cage.
in April 2002 to move the Book
Exchange from its current location
on the third floor of Foy Student
Union to the aviary.
The fraternity said the non-profit
book exchange, which it has operat­ed
for 52 years, has outgrown its
location and is losing money
because of the out-of-the-way spot.
"The current location isn't viable
anymore," Wahl said. "We don't have
enough public traffic coming by to
keep it. afloat."
Alpha Phi Omega said the aviary
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OBITUARY
Unknown cause for
grad student's death
By MATT COLLINS
Staff Writer
Auburn lost another family
member last week with the death
of Blair Dejan, a doctoral student
in the poultry science depart­ment.
Dejan died about 4 a.m. Sun­day,
March 30, at the age of 39.
Originally from New Orleans,
Dejan received his master's
degree in poultry science from
Tuskegee University before com­ing
to Auburn to work on his
Ph.D.
Dejan had been sick for about a
month, though no one around
him knew how serious his condi­tion
was.
Many students and friends
were shocked by the news of his
death when they returned to
Auburn from spring break.
"It kind of took all of us by sur­prise,"
said Bridget Dean, a fellow
poultry science student.
A friend found Dejan uncon­scious
at his home Thursday dur­ing
spring break and took him to
Contributed
Blair Dejan, a doctoral student
in poultry science, died March
30 after a brief illness.
the hospital.
There, he remained comatose
until his passing Sunday morn­ing.
In accordance with his reli­gious
beliefs, no autopsy was per­formed
upon Dejan's death. His
funeral was held early the next
day.
Dejan was a private person
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Alpha Xi Delta will host t he
second annual Alpha Xi Delta
Taste-Off April 12.
Coach Tommy Tuberville
and Auburn's offensive and
defensive coordinators will
compete against one another
in a barbecue cook-off.
The ribs they cook and
Auburn paraphernalia signed
by the coaches will be auc­tioned.
Those who attend will have
a free barbecue lunch and a
chance to meet and take pic­tures
with the coaches.
Proceeds from the event,
which were S]2.000 last year,
will go to Parlnetship for Chil­dren.
The coaches will arrive at
the Eagle's Cage about 5 a.m.
and begin cooking. The com­petition
is open to the public
at 11 a.m. and will last until 2
p.m.
"There will be inflatable
games for the kids, face paint­ing
and Aubie will also be
there," said Jessica Eastman,
publicity coordinator.
Pat Dye and professional
chef San Marino will be on the
rib-judging panel.
Suzanne Tuberville. Marilyn
Porter, Alica Kirkpatrick-Bre-mer
and Carolyn Ellis are co-founders
of the Partnership
for Children charity.
"We developed it about
three years ago after a discus­sion
about Alabama Arise,"
Ellis said.
Alabama Arise is a coalition
of religious and civic groups
working to improve poverty
issues by promoting state poli­cies
that affect the lives of
low-income people and fami­lies.
The four women's focus is
on the care of children living
in low-income families.
"We decided to join in the
effort because there is not
enough state and federal
funds to help with childcare,"
Ellis said.
She said paying for child-care
can be as expensive as
paying tuition at a university.
Ellis said she and Tuberville
made an appeal to all of the
sororities on campus to help
raise money for the cause, and
the Alpha Xi Delta sorority
came through.
Alpha Xi Delta's philanthro­py
focuses me.inly on children.
"We had a need for some
help, and they had a need to
help," Ellis said.
Ellis said the Alpha Xi Delta
girls have been a wonderful
gift to the charity.
"These girls are creative,
determined and organized,"
Ellis said. "They make things
happen."
Megan McCutcheon, chair­man
of philanthropy for Alpha
Xi Delta said the event is fun
for everyone.
"The coaches taste-off is an
exciting event because of the
fun, competitive atmosphere
between the judges,"
McCutcheon said.
"The event has something
for everyone."
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By JAMES DIFFEE
Assistant Campus Editor
Monday night at its weekly meeting, the SGA
Senate approved four new presidents, two new
vice presidents and three new senators.
SGA President Jonathan McConnell was pres­ent
for the third consecutive meeting to present
to the Senate nine bills appointing various mem­bers
of the SGA Senate and different college
councils.
McConnell explained that college councils
made nominations, had them approved by their
deans and then sent them to him for appoint­ment.
"Some of these I know, some 1 don't, but 1 trust
the judgment of our college deans and councils,"
McConnell said.
Timothy Cain was appointed the 2003-2004
president of the College of Architecture, Design
and Construction; Elizabeth Kramer was
approved president of the College of
Education; Melissa Brooks became
the president of the Graduate School
Council: and Anne Shower was recog-nized
as the president of the College
of Veterinary Medicine.
Kevin Chermak was appointed the
vice president of the College of Veteri­nary
Medicine Student Council and
Sanchit Khatavkar was appointed the
vice president of the Graduate School
Council.
Among the new senators, Nikki
Lynch was appointed to a seat for the
College of Architecture, Design and Construc­tion,
and Matt Grilliot and Charlita Woodruff
were appointed graduate-school senators.
The committee heads also offered their first
reports. Sen. Bradford Boney, at-large, said his
was "holding the (Student Interests) committee
accountable" for several projects, including cam-
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next Monday, April 14 at 7
p.m. in Foy 213. It will vote
on the appointment of the
SGA executive secretary.
pus parking, changing the Auburn University
dispatch number to #AU and addressing other
student interests.
Rebecca Stutts, College of Education, chairper­son
of the Academic Affairs Committee, said she
was getting in touch with other academic com­mittees
from the University of Alabama,
Louisiana State University and the University of
Georgia.
The Senate meeting began with a visit from
Nick Prihoda, a representative from the Delta
Tau Delta fraternity.
Prihoda said the fraternity was returning to
Auburn in the fall, and looking for
men who were interested in "the
social aspects of fraternity life" as
well as "academic pursuits."
No motion was made for the
approval of the executive secretary
cabinet position, but McConnell said
Sally Helms would be appointed and
proposed next Monday.
SGA Vice President Will Gaither
spent several minutes reviewing
SGA vice President p i a n s for t n e 2003 SGA retreat, which
is April 12.
Senators and the SGA Cabinet
members will travel to Children's Harbor on Lake
Martin to learn more about the operation of
SGA.
"It is a time we can put everyone together and
start off on the right foot," Gaither said. "It will
help us work together for the best of the SGA."
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when we can
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space is also going to be the
home of the new "War Eagle
Memorial Gardens," which
the fraternity said it hopes
will continue to be a place of
relaxing and enjoyment for
Auburn students and alumni.
War Eagle Memorial Gar­dens
will feature displays
dedicated to past War Eagles,
their history and their mean­ing
to Auburn.
Tiger, who will turn 25 this
year, currently resides at the
Southeastern Raptor Reha­bilitation
Center, operated by
the College of Veterinary
Medicine. Matt Collins — Photo Staff
The Eagle's Cage was disassembled during spring break.
Lindsay Evans — Campus Editor
l/ma Mirza, painter of this calligraphy piece, said the
Islamic art she creates represents her spirituality.
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The goal of Islam Awareness
Week is to inform people
about what Islam is, she said,
directing to artist and archi-itect
Mirza.
Mirza lives in Essex, Conn.,
and is persistent in her com­munity
service and education
in many cultures. Having
acquired her degree from Car-leton
University, she works as
an architect, but finds time to
express herself in art. She
donates what she earns from
her art to charity.
In the Haley Center lobby
Monday, Mirza featured chalk-ink-
mix watercolor paintings
on canvas.
These paintings, she said,
are a part of a process of spiri­tual
reflection, a part of Islam.
"Islam is a verb," she said.
"My art is not sitting; it is
action."
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She said Islam is a religion of
peace, but of good actions to
those ends.
"An outer and inner balance
and understanding positions
in the universe, like ying and
yang, is about peace." she said.
"The essence, the root of
Islam, comes from the word
peace," Mirza said. "And my art
is about my inner struggle and
reflecting on that peace."
The art she creates repre­sents
an ornament of spiritual­ity
in her in rememberance of
her creator, she said.
She said her art is about
being tested and finding peace
within and using that "inner
peace" to communicate and
disperse to others in "outer
peace."
"This," she said. " is a part of
Islam."
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Sigma Alpha Epsilon celebrates 125
by Asim Ali
The Alabama Alpha Mu chapter of Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity
at Auburn University is celebrating its 1 25th anniversary this
year.
The chapter was founded behind Old Main on June 1 5,
1 878, when Auburn University was still called the Alabama
Polytechnic Institute. SAE will be receiving the Alabama Historical
Landmark status this summer for being a mainstay in Auburn
for 125 years.
Over the past 125 years, the Alpha Mu chapter has taken
part in many events to build Auburn and the community through
charity. This year, SAE hosted a blood drive which had more than
40 donors and also has worked with Project Uplift to host events
that benefit the organization. Most recently SAE sponsored a
Project Uplift Bowling Party that had more than 120 participants.
The chapter also recently held a successful fundraising drive for
United Way.
SAE brothers are visible throughout campus organizations
including IFC cabinet directors, Campus Crusade, Project Uplift,
Habitat for Humanity. Brothers are also involved in Order of
Omega Honor Society. Greek Scholar of the Year, Jay Savage,
and Greek President of the Year, Tom Yielding, are both SAE
brothers.
P H I L A N T H R O P Y W E E K E ND
Second Annual Coaches' Taste Off
Saturday, April 12, the Zeta Xi Chapter of Alpha Xi Delta
Sorority will be sponsoring the Second Annual Coaches'
Taste Off. The event features a barbecue competition
AF®-~£flk. between head football coach Tommy Tuberville and his
£ B offensive and defensive coordinators. The barbecue
Mtt S*|j made by each coach will also be auctioned off along
xJF • with lots of other merchandise that is signed by the
Auburn coaches. Tickets are available at the event for $7. The
Taste Off will be held at the Eagle's Cage on campus at 11 a.m.
Last year's event was well received and raised over $12,000 for
Partnership for Children.
38th Annual Alpha Psi Round-Up
Alpha Psi Fraternity will be sponsoring its 38th Annual
Roundup on Saturday, April 12. The event takes place at Conway
Arena on Wire Road. Gates open at 7 a.m. and the first event will
begin at 10 a.m. Events this year for guys are saddle bronco riding,
wild calf roping, bull riding, steer wrestling and tug of war. The
g i r l s ' event is a greased pig chase. All events have contestants
this year. Tickets are $7 and are available at the gate.
Play Ball for Kids 2003
Alpha Xi Delta Sorority will also be sponsoring a Softball
tournament this weekend. The Play Ball for
Kids softball tournament will take place Sun­day,
April 13, at the Auburn University intra­mural
fields. Games begin at 1 p.m.
Teams of 10 players will compete in
the tournament and have paid entry fees of $50.
Money raised goes to benefit Partnership for Children, Alpha Xi
Delta's official philanthropy.
For more information, visit Alpha Xi Delta on the web at
http://www.auburn.edu/axid
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Journalism professor brings passion to classroom
Jack Smith, journalism professor, stands at a
Paul C. Burnett, who is pictured over Smith
Auburn.
By ANNA PITTS
Staff Writer
Legacy — a six-letter word Webster's
defines as anything handed down from an
ancestor.
Jack Smith, adjunct professor of journal­ism,
may not consider himself a legacy, but to
those he has taught, worked with and who
have worked under him, he is a living for-bearer
of the journalism trade.
The 69-year-old with a small frame, white
hair and black-rimmed glasses was asked to
Mall Collins — Photo Stall'
tectum built by former journalism professor
s shoulder and taught Smith while he was at
teach a basic journalism course nine years
ago.
While in the middle of working on his golf
game, visiting his two granddaughters and
doing the finer things retirement from the
Alabama Cooperative Extension Service
offered him, he accepted.
He taught a basic course in journalism for
one semester. At. the end of that semester he
was asked to teach again and is now marking
his ninth year.
Journalism is his first trade, but teaching
has become something he enjoys, also.
"Besides a hole-in-one, to see a student
struggling, then see the light come on, makes
me feel really good deep down inside," Smith
said. "And that's something I'd never experi­enced
before."
Smith said his philosophy on teaching is to
use his instincts and common sense, to
respect his students as people and to make
classes informal without detracting from the
purpose of them.
"Learning doesn't have to be painful, if stu­dents
don't believe in you, you lose them,"
Smith said.
He fills his class time with points on how to
write a lede and stories of his journalism
experience.
Using this method, he lets his students see
the glamour and excitement of big stories,
such as his first assignment on the young
Montgomery pastor named Martin Luther
King Jr. Another time he interviewed Harry
Truman on his morning walk through Smith's
hometown.
He tells his students about covering PTA
meetings and Rotary Club speakers and how
to most people, that is not an important
story, but to the people involved it is just as
important as a front page story.
Smith tells about the less glamourous side
of journalism, like the time he watched a
man executed in a Montgomery electric
chair.
Smith said he went back to his hotel room
and wrote the story, never looking back at his
notes. Later, the mother of the executed man
called Smith and told him how much his arti­cle
hurt her family.
"Journalism is not all pretty," Smith said.
"There is sadness and suffering to be report­ed,
too."
Smith's stories help his students under­stand
journalism is not just about writing,
but also about the people and subjects the
articles are about.
Besides being taught by a legacy, Smith
allows his students to interview one.
This legacy was a prisoner of war in World
War II, an Auburn alumnus and a walking
piece of history. He is Dr. Walter Sowell.
Students research and prepare questions
before Sowell arrives.
Smith also reminds them of the satisfac­tion
of seeing their work in print.
"The feeling ... it's hard to explain ... of
hearing those presses roll, grabbing a copy of
the paper to make sure you got a byline, and
knowing that your story — molded and pol­ished
by your own brain — was about to be
read by thousands of people, and that the
sweat and agony was worth it all and more,"
Smith said.
Journalism wedged its way into Smith's
heart at a young age. Smith recalls the day-old
Birmingham Post-Herald being brought
to his home in rural Mount Hope in the
northwest corner of the state.
The mail carrier delivered the paper in his
black '39 Ford, and Smith said he began won­dering
how the stories and pictures were put
together.
Then his English teacher, Christine Almon
at Lawrence County High School in Moulton,
would accept only his best work.
Realizing math and physics were not for
him, he entered Alabama Polytechnic Insti­tute
in Auburn and changed his major from
civil engineering to business administration
and finally to journalism.
After graduating from Auburn with his
bachelor's degree in journalism, he received
his master's from the University of Alabama.
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and did not talk much about his
personal life, said fellow students
and his adviser. Patricia Curtis.
"We only talked about course-work
and research." Curtis said. "He
really didn't talk about his personal
life."
"He was really, really easy going,"
Dean said. "He wasn't the most
talkative person you ever met. but
he was always pleasant to be
around. His family was really
important to him.''
Dejan held a Presidential Gradu­ate
Opportunity Fellowship out of aspect of food and improving food
the Office of Multicultural Affairs quality, especially in the poultry
and was working on a research industry," Dean said.
grant from the USDA's Agricultural
Research Service.
His researchproject was for the
National Alliance for Food Safety.
"He was into the microbiological
Though details are not yet avail­able,
the Office of Multicultural
Affairs is setting up a tribute to
Dejan, and the poultry science
department, is also planning to do
something in his memory in or
around the new poultry science
building.
Dejan is survived by his parents
and his 13-year-old son.
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The Auburn Marriage and
Family Therapy Center pro­vides
therapy and premarital
counseling for students and
non-students, couples, families
or individuals. Sliding fees. For
appointments, call 844-4478.
If you or someone you know
has been a victim of sexual
assault, contact SAfE Harbor for
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Eating Disorders Anonymous
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Habitat for Humanity and
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building a new home for the
Lilly family beginning March 15
on Clarke Avenue in Auburn.
Volunteers needed. Call 821-
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Faculty-student brownbag
lunch hosted by Office of Diver­sity
and Multicultural Affairs.
Stepping out of the bars for a
new experience, 11 a.m. to
noon, April 16. Contact Tiffany
Verrett at 844-3492.
Sigma Kappa is hosting a
Memory Walk April 12. All pro­ceeds
will go to benefit the
Alzheimer's Association. Con­tact
and registration informa­tion
is available at
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calling 502-6099.
AUPSC is hosting National
Screening Day on April 10 from
10 a.m. to 3 p.m. in 1122 Haley
Center. Come for a free alcohol
abuse/dependence screening,
get extra credit and free stuff.
2003 Benson Lecture is Thurs­day,
April 24, at 3:15 p.m. in
3195 Haley Center. The lecture
is free and open to the public. A
reception for Professor Lhamon
will follow.
The film "Ethnic Notions"
will be shown from 1 p.m. to 3
p.m. in 3309 Haley Center. The
film traces evolution of black
caricatures in cartoons, songs,
films and prejudice they fos­tered.
Cynthia Tucker, Auburn
alumna and editorial editor of
the Atlanta Journal-Constitu­tion,
will speak as part of the
Davis Lecture Series. April 16,5
p.m. at the Auburn University
Hotel & Dixon Conference Cen­ter.
5K and 1 mile Fun Run on Fri­day,
April 11, at Cary Woods
School in Auburn. 5K starts at
5:45 p.m. and 1 mile at 5:30 p.m.
For information, call Tom Den-ney
at 502-9603.
April 11, from 5 p.m. to 8:30
p.m., Cary Woods School's
Annual Bash 'n' Dash. 715
Sanders St. in Auburn. More
than 20 carnival-style booths, a
silent auction, music by "Muse,"
food, fun and prizes!
Auburn Students for Consti­tutional
Reform Spring Lecture
Series April 16 at 7:30 p.m. in
the Ralph Brown Draughon
library auditorium. Gerald
Johnson's topic is "Education
reform and the 1901 Constitu­tion."
For more information, go
to www.estmja@auburn.edu
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Chi Alpha Christian Fellow­ship
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life-changing ministry. Chi
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fellowship that meets Thurs­days,
7 p.m. at 129 S. College St.
in the loft above Quizno's. Call
887-9947. www.auburn.edu/xa.
Alabama Democratic Confer­ence
and young Democrats of
America will meet April 22 in
Opelika Public Library's confer­ence
room at 6 p.m. All are
invited to attend. Call Shalveri
Stinson at 334-663-1122.
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Poultry science professor devises war plan
By KARA KOSCELSKI
Staff Writer
While most of the world sits before the
television and flips through channels
deciding whether tonight is a war coverage
night, Shelly McKee is in a lab at Auburn
finding the solution that could save mil­lions
if the war goes biological.
McKee, assistant professor of poultry
science, teaches two principles of food
safety courses. She is a poultry scientist
and food-safety expert.
"There's been a paradigm shift in what
people used to call food security," McKee
told a Montgomery Advertiser reporter.
"Before, it has meant that people have
enough food to eat. Today there's been a
much greater emphasis on safety and the
security of the food industry."
McKee has come up with FoodSecure, a
training program designed to aid small
and mid-sized food processing companies
that need help protecting their employees
and products from contamination that
may be a result of bioterrorism.
FoodSecure takes into account the phys­ical
and personnel aspects of a processing
plant and analyzing security measures.
"We train them on how to secure areas
of their facility a little better ... restricting
access areas such as air conditioning sys­tems,
water supply and automated sys­tems,"
McKee said. "Also, how do you know
who is in the facility? People that have
access to a lot of areas of the plant, you
want to probably do background checks
on them."
When put into effect nationwide, McKee
said, the FoodSecure program will play a
huge role in protecting the United States
and its citizens against bioterrorist
attacks.
FoodSecure three-day workshops, in
Alabama and regionally, will begin this
summer. McKee is working with the U.S.
Department of Agriculture and the
Department of Justice to start similar pro­grams
across the nation within a year.
McKee said the program will walk com­panies
through the process step by step.
They will use the quantitative vulnerability
assessment to help processors identify
areas where they are most vulnerable.
They will then prioritize the risks and
come up with strategies to eliminate them,
she said.
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Bartender Positions. Great pus reps for '2003-4. 1-800-
pay. Flexible hours. Perfect col- 648-4849 www.ststravel com
lege job. Call 800-806-0085
ext 1401. Nanny/ Babysitter Position -
In home care for one infant
Nix Dance Studios - Assistant Monday thru Friday. Preferably
teachers with dance experience graduate student in Child
needed. Please call 887-7250 Development. Starting Septem-ber
2003. Call 887-0839.
Lifeguards Wanted For 2003
Summer in North Myrtle Help Wanted - Full time (sum-
Beach. No experience neces- mer) and part time (fall) Mon-sary!
Apply day - Friday, 8:00 - 5:00 - Light
www.nsbslifeguards.com maintenance and grounds keep-er
- Please apply in person at
Bartender Trainees needed. 729 East Glenn. - No phone
Excellent salary potential. For calls please.
more information call
1-800-293-3985 ext. 111. Snapper O'Malley's is taking
applications for experienced
HELP WANTED: Student in FOH and BOH personell. Must
education, child development or have reliable transportation and
similar field to care for 2 chil- good references. Apply between
dren (ages 13 and 10) each 2-4 p.m., Mon.-Fri.
afternoon. Position to begin
August 2003 until May 2004.
Job would require that children
be picked up from school in
Auburn each day at 2:45 and
returned home to Opelika to
assist with homework. Parents
will arrive from work between
4:30 and 5:30. Good driving
record and references required.
Send resume to: Marca Offices,
221 B South 9th Street, Opelika
or fax to: (334)749-9955. For
more information you may call
(334)745-0333
CW Smith Decorating Compa­ny
Commercial Specialists,
Painting/ Wallcovering Con­struction,
Renovations.
Equipped for emergency and
fast track projects. 1-800-452-
4337, fax 334-262-4352.
Term Paper Editing! Editing
performed by Professors and
Graduate Students. Visit us at
www.papercheck com or call us
toll free at (866)693-EDIT
Real Estate
SUMMER INTERNSHIPS -
Excellent Advertising, Sales,
and Marketing opportunity.
Earn SSSSSS and gain valuable
business experience working
for the Auburn University Offi­cial
Campus Telephone Directo­ry.
GREAT RESUME
BOOSTER! Call Paul at
AroundCampus, Inc.
1-800-466-2221 ext. 288.
www.aroundcampus.com
INTERESTED IN PHOTOG­RAPHY?
Photographers want­ed
part-time to cover special
events Must have 35mm SLR
camera and reliable car. Train­ing
provided Email pho-todept@
vi I lagephotographers c
om or call 821 -9196 weekdays.
Telemarketing sales positions
available 2:15-5:15 pm, 5:30
- 8:30 p.m. Monday - Friday.
Earn $7-510/ hr Also hiring for
summer positions Call
334-826-6898, Circulation
Solutions, Inc
Tiger
Trailer Park
MOBILE HOMES
FOR RENT
2&3
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MOST WITH CENTRAL
HEAT AND AIR, WASHER
AND DRYER, DECKS.
PETS ARE WELCOME.
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Mary Kay Products, facials
and skincare classes. Call Tami
Blackwell at 704-0605 or go to
www.marykay.com/tami-blackwell
Business
Services
University Barber Shop. Best
prices on hair cuts and tanning
bed $20.00 a month. 887-9240.
Need a new roof, deck, addi­tions,
remodeling and new
houses call (706)577-3852 o
(706)683-3296.
"All real estate advertised
herein is subject to the Federal
Fair Housing Act, which makes
it illegal to advertise any
preference, limitation, or
discrimination based on race,
color, religion, sex, handicap,
familial status, or national
origin, or intention to make any
such preference, limitation, or
discrimination." "We will not
knowingly accept any
advertising for real estate which
is in violation of the law. All
persons are hereby informed
that all dwellings advertised are
available on an equal
opportunity basis."
For Sale
(Real Estate)
Lake Martin lot in subdivi­sion.
Lake access/ view.
$12,500. 821-4267.
INVESTORS: Three 3 BR/ 3
BA duplexes, will sell together
or separately. Excellent income
and rental history, meticulously
maintained and nicely upgrad­ed.
Located in established
neighborhood close to campus
and transit. Leased at $900/side.
Priced from $180,000.
821-1094; 444-0033.
Walk to campus: Glenn Oaks
Condominiums. 2 bedrooms, 2
baths, furnished, including
washer/ dryer. $91,000.
(205)969-5530. Available
8/5/03.
1 and 2 Bedroom Duplexes •
very close to campus - unfur­nished
- quiet location - big
yard - central H/A
washer/dryer furnished - ideal
for serious students, grad stu­dents,
or staff- no pets - 12 mo.
lease - available fall - Rents
start at $370/mo. 826-6830.
Are you tired of crowded
apartment living? You and your
pet are welcome at Whatley
Farms. 2 Bedroom/ 2 bath units
from $550/mo. 4 BR units,
$800 mo. 2 Bedroom/ I Bath
$450 mo. Large wooded lots 6
miles from campus with 4 lakes
for your enjoyment. Call Ernest
Whatley, 703-7771, Charles
Whatley 559-5554, office
745-5292. Also some houses
available in Auburn.
2 BR/ 1 BA apt. available fall.
Quiet neighborhood, C/H/A,
washer/dryer, DW, garbage
pick-up and basic cable provid­ed.
NO PETS. $420.00/ month.
Call Watson Properties
887-9865.
Need subleaser for summer
2003. Flexible rent and utilities.
Eagle Point Apts. Call
466-1968.
1 BR apt. available fall Close
to campus, hardwood/ tile floor­ing,
some built-in furnishings,
quiet neighborhood, plenty of
parking, garbage pick-up pro­vided.
Cats allowed with
deposit. $315.00/month. Call
Watson Properties 887-9865.
Summer subleasers needed, 3
BR/ 3 BA duplex in Bellwood.
All appliances furnished. Call
Courtney @ 502-5225.
3 Bedroom, 1 Bath House.
Carport & porch. Central air.
$750/monthly. Avail. August.
Wire Road. 887-7432.
2 bedroom/ 1 bath furnished
apartment with washer/ dryer
available. Beverly Apts. 243 E.
Drake Ave. 2 people required.
Call 887-3544.
Subleaser needed close to
campus. 2 Bedroom, 1 Bath
house. 2 stories with screen
porch, dryer included. Call
826-2827.
Female roommates needed,
new Edge Condo, 4 Bedroom, 4
Bath, 2nd floor unit. Available
August 2003. $350/bedroom/
month + electric.
2 BR/ 1 BA, C/H/A, washer, (813)681-2940.
dryer included, private deck,
tiger transit. Near post office Brand new condos available
530-556 N. Ross. $395/mo. for Fall '03!! 3 Bdrm / 3 Bath.
826-7720, Northcutt Realty. Located on Tiger Transit Route
less than 2 miles from campus.
4 Bedroom, 2 bath brick house Sign up now! Call David at
- hardwood floors, ceramic tile (334)524-0828.
kitchen & patio. Dishwasher, -
washer, dryer - total electric - Available August, 2 bedroom
central h/a - fenced backyard - unfurnished duplexes with
patio- very private - Call Blake kitchen built-ins, w/d connec-
Real Estate - 887-1822. $1200 tions. No pets. $450/month.
per month. 12 month lease. 887-3544.
Available Aug. 15, 2003.
4 Bedroom, 2 1/2 Bath Town-
3 Bedroom house, 2 baths, cen- house for rent $260/person. Call
tral h/a - dishwasher, new wash- Brandon 334-444-5127.
er/dryer, hardwood floors
fenced back yard - $900 month Female subleaser needed sum-
- 12 month lease - Call Blake mer. Master bedroom, walk-in
Real Estate - 887-1822, Avail, closet and private BA. $250
Aug. 15, 2003. mos. plus utilities. 502-4680.
Duplexes - Close to campus - For rent Fall Semester Har-unfurnished
with W/D - Avail- mon Estates duplex. Next to
able fall or summer - no pets - Auburn Super Wal-Mart. 3 Br/
332-9558. 2 Ba, w/d, dw, $815/month.
821-8697. If no answer, please
House for rent, avail. Aug. 15, leave message.
2003. 2 BR/ 1 Bath house in
Auburn City limits with private
setting and large yard. Central
heat/air, dishwasher, W/D
hookups. $600 month. Blake
Real Estate, 887-1822.
Summer female subleaser
needed. 3 BR/ 3 BA duplex in
Bellwood, $275/month. Call
Leigh at 334-466-8484.
2 BR/ 1 Bath duplex, close to
campus. Central heat/ air, wash­er/
dryer. $450 month. Call
Blake Real Estate, 887-1822
BL9 For Rent
Quiet study atmosphere, 3
bedroom, 2 bath home & 2 BR
duplex on 5 acre lake in
Loachapoka w/fishing privi­leges
887-9573.
Available beginning Fall
Semester. 2 Bedroom furnished
apt. Close to campus. Central
H/A, W/D, 2 people max per
apartment. $235/mo. each. Full
beds. 887-3544.
2 BR/ 1 BA apt. available fall
Close to campus, C/H/A, plenty
of parking, quiet neighborhood, 2 BR/ 1 Bath duplex, central
garbage pick-up provided. NO heat/ air, washer/ dryer, dish-
PETS $390.00/month. Call washer. $500 month. Hardwood
Watson Properties, 887-9865 floor. Close to campus. Call
Blake Real Estate, 887-1822.
BECK PROPERTIES:
Harmon Subdivision - 4 duplex Female subleasers needed for
units currently available. 3 summer. 3 BR/ 3 BA, W/D.
bdrm/ 2 ba w/ w&d incld. Only $265.00. 334-501-8402,
$825/mo. Green Tree Terrace - 615-512-2661, very nice!
4 nice 3 bdrm/ 3 ba, w/ walk-in
closets, w&d, A-COM security 1 Bedroom cottage, 1 block
sys. $900/mo. Call Chris to from campus on W. Glenn,
show you these great properties. $225/monthly. Water & garbage
Home 821-9123, cell 744-0416, included. Avail, now. 887-7432.
e-mail
BeckpropertiesAU@aol.com Starting Fall Semester 1 & 2
Bedroom furn. duplex apts. 2
Now leasing for fall... Houses, miles from Toomer's Corner
duplexes, and apartments. Call $260-$380 per mo. No pets.
Prestige Properties at 887-5274. 887-3544.
We have something for every
one! Female roommate wanted:
Beautiful new house. Grad stu­dent
preferred. $300/mo. + 1/2
utilities. Available now or Fall.
334-821-1987,663-6885.
Fall '03, New Edge West
Condo, West Magnolia Ave., 2
female roommates needed, 4
BR/ 4 BA, walk in closets, fit­ness
center, pool, tanning deck,
vaulted ceilings, walk to cam­pus,
$375/month, call 334-466-
8484 or 850-897-2864.
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this month to...
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Beverly
Apartments
Available Starting
Fall Semester
2 Bedroom furnished apt.
with W/D connections and
central air and heating.
2 person max per apartment
$235
per person
per month
887-3544
Female roommate needed. 2
bed/ bath townhouse for next
year. Call 334-524-0768.
SIGN NOW
SAVE LATER
Save 1/2 month rent
when you sign
a Fall Lease
prior to Spring Break!
Great Rates on Eft., 1,
2, and 3 BR
Convenient to Campus
and Tiger Transit
Water/Garbage/On Site
Laundry/Some recently
renovated with W/D,
Pool/Volleyball/Basketball
Visit our Leasing Office at
l.t'imins Square Apts.
560 N. Perry St., Auburn
Open 9-5 or rail
821-9192
NOW
LEASING!
New
3 Bedroom
3 Bath
All Appliances
Brick Cottages
At Harmon Estates
R&R Rentals
Call Now!
(334)-319-0308
or
(334)-319-0307
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Saturday
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ATTENTION STUDENTS!
These won't last long. Rent
early! MARC A PROPERTIES
has the following rentals avail­able
for June and August 2003.
Call 745-0333, M-F, 8-5.
Deposits and one-year leases
required: 1.) Duplex unit avail­able
August. Hardwood floors,
2 bedrooms, den, kitchen, 1
bath, large yard. Centrally
located between Auburn Uni­versity
and Southern Union.
$400/month. 2.) Charming 2-
story house centrally located in
Opelika. Great for several stu­dents
to share at
$600.00/month. 4 bedrooms, 2
baths, big living room and din­ing
room, hardwood floors, tall
ceilings, porch, W/D hook-up.
June. 3.) Cute house in Pep-perell
Village centrally located.
2 bedrooms, 1 bath, central A/H
and W/D hook-up. Nice yard.
$450.00/month. August 4.)
Country Bungalow, suitable for
single individual or couple.
Quiet. One large bedroom, 2
baths, Jacuzzi tub, DW, refrig ,
W/D hook-up, walk in closet,
deck. 2 miles off 1-85, room for
a garden. $400/month. August.
5.) Charming older home. 2
bedroom, 1 bath, high ceilings,
porch, fenced in back yard,
W/D hook-up. $425/month.
August. 6.) Small home for sin­gle.
1 bedroom, 1 bath, den &
kitchenette. Central A/H W/D
hook-up, deck nice back yard.
$395/month. August.
FOR RENT HOUSE in Har­mon
Estates. 3 Bedroom, 3 full
bath, all appliances furnished
including washer and dryer.
404-375-0503.
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Live at the best new complex
in Auburn - "The Edge". 4 Br/ 4
Bath units available August
2003. $350.00 each + power.
Call 334-749-3721.
TOWNHOUSE ON THREE
ACRES. Available August
2003. Near vet school. Three
bed/ two full bath. Upscale two
story, hardwood, tile, screen
porch. Quiet. Air, W/D, all
appliances. Five-run dog ken­nel.
Pets welcome, but no party
animals. $930/month. Call
887-1002.
3 ROOMMATES NEEDED,
non-smoking, male, new condo
NEXT to campus, many extras,
S350 mo. plus utilities. Call
(770)973-9335.
Summer Subleasers Needed!
Two upstairs rooms in Scarbor­ough
Sq. 3 BR/ 3 bath, fur­nished,
$280 & $310/month.
Call Chris at 663-2933.
Summer subleaser needed.
Great two story condo. W/D.
D/W. Non-smoking females
only. Call 334-466-9986,
$350/month. Rent negotiable.
Summer subleaser needed.
Big one bedroom apartment.
Unfurnished with appliances,
cable, water. $400/month.
524-3956.
• AVAILABLE AUGUST 2003 •
3 BEDROOM • 2 BATH
Deck, All Appliances,
Swimming Pool
Unfurnished $280 Each/3
Furnished $310 Each/3
On Tiger Transit Bus Route
LIBERTY PROPERTIES
821-1600
Two subleasers needed Sum­mer
2003. 2 BD/1 Bath duplex.
AC, W/D, Walk to campus. No
pets. Call 887-9815.
Harmon Estate Duplexes - no
steps, no noise above or below
you. Front door parking. 3 BR/
2 BA, all appliances inc. W &
D, patio, very clean. $800 mo.
Avail. Fall. 705-0554.
The Edge at Auburn - S. Col­lege
St. -1 yr. old. 4 bed, 4 bath
condo unit overlooking pool,
volleyball, exercise rm. Needs 2
additional female roommates
beginning Fall 2003 term.
$350.00 monthly plus utilities.
Call Stephanie 678-687-6430 or
334-502-6020.
3 Bd/ 2 Ba duplex @ 215 Mar­tin
Ave. Avail, for fall. Great
loc. close to campus w/privacy
fenced back yard. 1 yr. lease
start Aug. 15th. $750.00 deposit
w/ $750.00 mo. rent. Hurry this
unit won't last! 728-0400 or
745-0038.
2 Bedroom, 1 Bath duplex,
huge landscaped yard. Rent
only $580 a month. Call
502-2287.
2 BR/ 1 BA Duplex near cam­pus
and 2 BR/ 1 BA house
avail. August. C/H/A, fenced
yard, W/D. 821-0908.
For Rent Houses - 3 bed/ 1
bath, 4 bed/2 1/2 bath, 5 bed/
2 1/2 bath duplex, one bed/ one
bath. Call 821-9597 or leave
message.
3 BR Duplex for fall rent; 1948
Bluff Court (Near 1-85); all
amenities, $775; 821-2932.
Need to sublease
for the summer?
Use The Plainsman
to advertise!
Student Worker
Needed
Beginning Fall
Semester
Duties Include:
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Customers
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GREAT UNITS!
at GREAT PRICES!
AVAILABLE
for
FALL 2003
Efflritnrits/One Btdrooms
Magnolia Anns
Glenwood
Two Bedrooms
Deerwood
Gazebo
Habitat
Woolfolk Terrace
Two Bedroom Congo;
Court Square
Deerfield I
Deerfield II
3 Bedroom Houses/Duplexes
Bellwood
Center Place
Gazebo
Four Bedrooms
Eagle Point
Thach Place
Auburn Realty, LLC
233 W. Glenn Avenue
Auburn, AL 36830
Virtual tours available at web
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COTTAGES AT
ROSS PARK
• AVAILABLE AUGUST 2003 •
3 BEDROOM • 3 BATH
Unique Rental Community,
All Appl., Security System,
Network Wired, Courtyard
Unfurnished $350 Each/3
On Tiger Transit Bus Route
LIBERTY PROPERTIES
821-1600
NORTHPOINTE
C a l l 3 3 4 . 8 4 4 . 4 1 3 C ) O K K M A l l
BAKERKA@AUBURN.EDU
For Rent
(mobile homes)
Mahone Creek Mobile Home
Park - Mobile home lots for
rent. Just 8 miles from Auburn
University campus. Just $90.00
per month! Call 826-7286.
Roommate wanted male or
female 2003. Mobile home
summer and/or fall. Rent $240.
Call Brittany at 826-7320 or
256-566-2205.
3 bdrm/ 2 ba doublewide,
excellent cond. W/D. On 2
acres w/ creek access. 10 mi.
from campus. $550/mo.
821-1857 or leave message.
• AVAILABLE AUGUST 2003 •
4 BEDROOM • 4 BATH
Hot Tub, All Appliances,
Swimming Pool
Furnished $300 Each/4
Furnished $250 Each/5
On Tiger Transit Bus Route
LIBERTY PROPERTIES
821-1600
S For Sale
(mobile homes)
Large 16x80, 2 master bed­rooms,
2 master baths (garden
tubs, showers, double lavatories
in each), vinyl siding, shingle
roof, front deck, large end lot,
paved/ lighted streets, W/D,
DW, no pet odor, excellent con­dition,
well-cared for! Call
Brook @ 334-466-0237/ or
334-324-6997.
TRYING TO FIND NEXT
YEAR'S HOUSING? We've
got Mobile Homes for sale, set
up in some of Auburn's most
desirable parks. Take a look at
www.badger-homes.com for
more details. 821-3023.
3 BR/ 2 BA, 16x80, 1998
mobile home for sale on Web­ster
Rd , garden tub, custom
14x14 covered deck, W/D,
some furniture. $20k o.b.o.
Must sell by 5/31. Call
404-895-0269.
BARRON'S
mobile home park
2045 LEE RD. 137
(WIRE ROAD)
ACROSS I H k S I K h l - I
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CALL 334-821-1335
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DUPLEX
FOR RENT
STUDENT • FAMILY
RENTAL
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S •or Sale
2000 Southern Home; 3 BR/ 2
BA w/garden tub, cent, h/a,
w/d, some furniture; on lake in
Webster's Crossing $22,000 or
$1,300 & take up payments;
949-215-3889 or 714-642-2266.
Webster's Crossing Estates
Homes For Sale From $22,000.
Financing available. Please call
(334)821-0171.
UNITS
AVAILABLE
NOW, SPRING
& FALL
•TIGER
TRANSIT
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COTTAGES AT
ROSS PARK
• AVAILABLE AUGUST & MAY •
3 BEDROOM • 3 BATH
Unique Rental Community,
All Appl., Security System,
Network Wired, Private Patio
Unfurnished $350 Each/3
On Tiger Transit Bus Route
LIBERTY PROPERTIES
821-1600
1998 Nissan Pathfinder. 85k
$14,0000 o.b.o. Very clean.
(334)727-7243, 740-0407.
Air Hockey Table for sale.
6'x4'. Plays six people. Call for
details. 501-2340.
AKC Chocolate Lab puppies.
Championship line. Shots/
wormed. $300. 826-0390.
Lost your pet? Found an ani­mal?
Check with us at The Lee
County Humane Society.
check out
www.theplainsman
for the latest news
and events!
STOP
LOOKING!
We want you to live with us!
AUBURN
REALTY
233 W. Glenn Ave.
Auburn, AL 36830
(334)887-8777
LIMITED NUMBER
0F1,2,3,&4
Bedroom Apartments,
Condos & Duplexes
Remain for Fall
FURNISHED/UNFURNISHED
Existing/New Construction
Adjacent & Away from Campus
NOW ACCEPTING
LEASES FOR FALL 2003
Some units available
NOW
at special lower rates
Don't miss the opportunity!
Contact us before they
Are all filled!
www. auburnrealty. net
Houses for
Rent
1 Bedroom
3, 4 &5
Bedrooms
1 Block
from Campus
behind
Domino's
HURRY
WHILE
THEY LAST!
Call between
7am & 5pm
317 Genelda Ave
or
320 West Magnolia
Auburn, AL 36832
RESIDENCES
OF • CENTRAL • PARK
AUBURN'S FINEST
RENTAL COMMUNITY
2 & 3 Bedroom Apartment Homes
FEATURES/AMENITIES
•Walk-in Closets
•Many Garden Tubs (select units)
•Nine Foot Ceilings
•Outside Storage Rooms
•ISDN Telephone Lines
•Alarm Systems
•Carports Available (select units)
•Spacious Roorplans
•Washer/Dryer Connections
•Profe