Editor: Roy Summerford. Contributing editors: Bob Lowry, Janet McCoy and David Granger.

The AU Report is the faculty/staff newsletter of Auburn University and is published by the Office of University Relations at Auburn University. Direct correspondence to AU Report, 23 Samford Hall, Auburn University, Ala. 36849-5109. Telephone 334/844-9999.Electronic mail:summero@mail.auburn.edu

AU, UA leaders unite in effort to gain ear of Legislature

AU and University of Alabama representatives joined forces Jan. 6 in a push to gain a significant increase in funding for research universities in the 1998 legislative session.

Making their appeal through statewide print and broadcast reporters just ahead of this week's start of the legislative session, the speakers urged Gov. Fob James and the Alabama Legislature to grant the first increase in funding for higher education in f our years. They asked the governor and legislators to recognize the loss of competitiveness imposed on the research universities by three years of budget cuts and level funding.

In their appeal, AU Distinguished University Professor Wayne Flynt, President William Muse, Board of Trustees President Pro Tempore Emory Cunningham joined UA System Chancellor Thomas Meredith, UA Student Government Association President Harlan Foster an d Congressman Jack Edwards, president pro tempore of the UA System Board of Trustees.

Also joining in the Montgomery news conference were chief executive officers Elmer Harris of Alabama Power Co. and Wallace Malone of SouthTrust Corp.
The speakers were joined on the platform by faculty leaders including AU University Faculty Chair Gary Swanson, AU Student Government Association President Jonathan Crawford and other faculty and student leaders from the AU and UA systems.

While Harris and Malone stressed the theme "Alabama's Research Universities are Good for Business," both warned of the consequences for the state of funding cuts for research institutions. The AU and UA representatives, meanwhile, stressed the effects o f continuing budget cuts on their institutions in the face of double digit funding increases for research universities in neighboring states.

The administrators stressed that the brain drain of talented faculty must be addressed in the next state education budget. Muse noted that the funding shortfalls have left the research institutions unable to offer competitive salaries in many cases when trying to replace departed faculty. A priority for the coming year, he said, is to get a budget increase large enough to stem the brain drain.

Flynt cited as examples the loss of a Rhodes Scholar and a nationally recognized expert on Latin America from the History Department to less prestigious institutions for much higher salaries and other institutional support.
Heads would roll if UA or AU allowed their football teams to fall out of the top 25,
Flynt added. (The University of Alabama recently fired four assistant coaches when UA's football team finished its season outside the elite ranking.) "Do we care more about our football teams than we do our children?" he asked.

Although a major factor, the prospect of higher incomes is not the sole reason faculty are demoralized and considering other job offers, Flynt said. Of even greater significance, he explained, is the message conveyed by the funding cuts and attacks on hi gher education by the state's political leaders.

Flynt challenged the critics of higher education to walk in the shoes of a typical professor for a day. Such a day, he said, would involve preparing lectures, teaching classes, grading exams, conducting extensive reading to keep up with their fields and worrying about how to pay bills and support their families.

While faculty are demoralized by political attacks on higher education, the attacks are hurting the students even more as class sizes grow and resources shrink, Flynt noted. "My students are not political theory," he said. "They are flesh-and-blood peop le who are casualties of whatever war we Alabamians seem to be engaged in with the state's universities."

Foster, the UA SGA president, noted that the University of Alabama has lost more than 60 tenured professors to retirement and other institutions since the budget cuts began. Noting that he chose Alabama in part because of he perceived a tradition of exce llence there, Foster said, "I now fear that the tradition of excellence may be threatened."

SouthTrust's Malone, a UA graduate, said the research universities are losing faculty in critical positions at an alarming rate to institutions in states with which Alabama competes economically.

"If SouthTrust were losing our key employees at the same rate, I would probably be out of a job," said the SouthTrust CEO. "There is no way to compete without top flight people who are paid at competitive salaries."

Citing UA figures showing faculty salaries 18 percent below the national average, Malone said, "I don't know of any business that can compete when its employees are paid 18 percent below the market. Unless the state is willing to properly fund higher educ ation, we can only view our universities as an endangered species."

Each year without a funding increase amounts to another 3 percent drop in funding as a result of inflation, Malone added.

Harris, the Alabama Power CEO, said the attacks on higher education are hurting industrial recruiting for the state. The most persistent question the AU graduate said he faces on industrial recruiting trips concerns the status of education in the state.< P> Today's industries look especially to research universities when making location decisions, Harris said. "There is no substitute for good research in our state if we are going to grow and develop economically. The state must continue to build our resear ch capability. Companies look to locate close to research capabilities."

AU President Muse said the past three years have been devastating to Auburn. Another year without significant relief would only compound the damage, he said.
"It is time for a change in Alabama -- a change in attitude and support."

With accounting changes in the state's teacher and employee retirement funds freeing $200 million in funds for other uses this year, Muse and Meredith asked the governor and legislators not to raid the universities' budgets to remove their share of the fu nds. Muse said the change would free about $12 million that Auburn would otherwise pay into the teachers' retirement fund.

Muse and Meredith said those funds should remain with the institution for salaries and programs to benefit the faculty and staff who contribute to the retirement fund.
The AU president and the UA chancellor also called upon the state to provide an 8 percent increase in funding in 1988-89 to enable the universities to improve salary and program competitiveness.

The university administrators also urged restoration of the traditional split in education funds to provide one-third to higher education and two-thirds to kindergarten-12. The formula has been abandoned during the James administration, and higher educat ion now receives approximately 27 percent of the education budget.

Muse and Meredith said they strongly support increased funding for K-12 but added that the state gains nothing by cannibalizing higher education to get more funds for elementary and secondary education. Additionally, while agreeing that the state may hav e too many institutions of higher education, they said the blanket cuts and level funding of the past three years hurts all without dealing with the problem.

"There are too many institutions," said Muse, "but there is not an easy solution to the problem." The AU president said he would support a form of performance based budgeting for higher education in Alabama.

Alabama Power CEO Elmer Harris urged reporters and political leaders to pay attention to the larger issue of quality of education rather than getting caught up in details that so often divide supporters of education in the state. "I would love to say that we are in the top quartile," he said. "Until we can say that, we ought not to worry about the details. We ought to be striving toward the top quartile in all that we do."

Muse and faculty, staff leaders see latest bid as part of larger effort

A joint news conference by Auburn and University of Alabama representatives on Jan. 6 was described by AU President William Muse as part of a united front by the research universities on the eve of the 1998 session of the Alabama Legislature.

With the Legislature set to convene on Jan. 13, Muse and leaders of faculty, professional and staff representative bodies at Auburn said the joint effort by the universities is a welcome step but must be considered in a broader context.

"The news conference was one of several means by which we are trying to impress upon the people of Alabama, the news media, the Legislature and the governor how important it is for the state to adequately support its research universities," said Muse.

"With Auburn University and the University of Alabama working together to get the message out, we stand a much better chance of regaining momentum for the research universities in this state," Muse explained. "The governor and the Legislature seem to be much more receptive to our appeals than at any other time over the past three years, but it will still take the concerted efforts of our constituents for the state to restore competitive funding for these universities."

Waymon Abner, chair of the Staff Council, said combined efforts may be the best approach for higher education. "Through the adversity that higher education has had to deal with over the past few years, it is a very good idea to overlook our differences and work together to show that we need the funding if we are to continue to compete and perform at the levels that are expected of us."

University Faculty Chair Gary Swanson had mixed reactions to the joint effort. "I think the things presented were quite good, but I have no idea what the impact will be," Swanson said.

"At the moment, I am terribly pessimistic about the governor and Legislature. I don't think they pay attention to anything, and I have no evidence that the people of the state have quite grasped the fact that the state has abandoned higher education," Sw anson added.

Robert Gottesman, Administrative and Professional Assembly chair, said further effort is needed. "It should be common knowledge by now that Auburn University is underfunded in relation to its peers. Most people on campus know that, but many people around the state still do not realize it," Gottesman said.

"Auburn is at the bottom of doctoral institutions in the Southeast in terms of fulltime-equivalent-student appropriations," Gottesman continued. "Perhaps these efforts will help to get the word out around the state that we are underfunded."

Campus Views: Faculty are tired of being bashed, trashed by Alabama politicians

By Wayne Flynt

(Editor's Note: The following remarks were presented at a Jan. 6 news conference on behalf of Auburn University and University of Alabama.)

Sometimes we in Alabama speak as though the faculty and staff at our universities come from another planet. They do not. They are rather ordinary Alabamians. Of the 2,300 faculty and staff at Auburn University, for instance, 30 percent graduated from coll eges and universities in this state. I imagine the figures would be similar in the University of Alabama system. Not only do we live here, but many of us send our children to college here. We care deeply about this state. We care deeply about its future. We care deeply about its children and its young people.

Many faculty members are demoralized. They feel underpaid, and by regional standards they are correct. Worse than that, they feel underappreciated. They are tired of being bashed and trashed. Don't tell us we are not working hard enough or efficiently eno ugh. If you are in doubt about how hard we work, I invite you to spend a week in Auburn with me. Or, if you are closer to the University of Alabama in Huntsville, or the University of South Alabama, or to the University of
Alabama's campuses in Birmingham or Tuscaloosa, I am sure faculty there would be pleased to have you change places with them for a week. Write their lectures.
Teach their classes. Grade their exams. Keep up with all the reading they have to do to stay abreast of their fields. Pay their bills. Balance their budgets.

Last year two of my colleagues in history at Auburn left for much better jobs at lesser-known schools. That exodus will continue and it will grow.

We would not allow Auburn's or Alabama's football teams to drop out of the top 25 without demanding that the financial resources be found to solve the problem. Do we care more about our football teams than we do our children?

But I am not here primarily to talk about the low wages and declining morale of the state's college faculties. If I had polled all my colleagues, I can tell you what the majority would say through me to you.

You are slowly but surely dismantling fine universities.

For the past three years, courses and programs have been eliminated. Students have not been able to graduate on time. Classes have gotten larger. Tomorrow morning at 11:00 I will walk into a freshman world history course with 210 students enrolled and a w aiting list of ten. Some on my waiting list are seniors who will not graduate unless some student drops the course. But there are no more seats in the classroom.

My students are not political theory. They are flesh-and-blood people who are the casualties of whatever war we Alabamians seem to be engaged in with the state's universities. I wish you could all be there tomorrow to explain to them why the class is so l arge. Why the tests will be short answer ones instead of essays. Why the waiting list is so long. Why some of them who desire to take the course will not be able to do so.

From those of use who have to implement the policies that result from Alabama's financial decisions and to explain these policies to students -- we beg you: Stop this cannibalism of higher education before it is too late. It takes generations to build fin e universities. But they can be destroyed in four years.

(Wayne Flynt is a Distinguished University Professor in AU's Department of History.)

Interviews set in search for Liberal Arts dean

Interviews have been scheduled for five candidates vying for the position of dean of AU's College of Liberal Arts.

The candidates will be interviewed in late January and February, according to Tim Boosinger, dean of AU's College of Veterinary Medicine, who heads a 14-member search committee of faculty, staff and students.

Candidates are: Marcia Lynn Whicker, chair of the Graduate Department of Public Administration at Rutgers University-Newark; John Heilman, interim co-dean of AU's College of Liberal Arts; Dennis Rygiel, professor and head of AU's Department of English; D enis Calandra, chair of the University of South Florida's Theatre Department; and James Hougland, professor and chair of the Department of Sociology at the University of Kentucky.

Each candidate will be on campus for two days, completing a schedule of meetings and interviews. During their visits, the candidates will meet with a various groups of faculty, administrators, staff and students.

Candidates will also present a public lecture on "The Role of Liberal Arts in Higher Education in the 21st Century."

The search committee was established last May following the death in March of Gordon Bond, who served for five years as dean.

Search committee members are: Leah Atkins, retired faculty member; Mary Helen Brown, Communication; Cal Clark, Political Science; Jim Fitch, Communication Disorders; Evelyn Foster, Liberal Arts dean's office; Gerard Elfstrom, Philosophy; Jim Hansen, Histo ry; Gregory Kowalski, Sociology; Patricia McAdams, Theatre; Phil Shevlin, Chemistry; Tom Smith, Music; and Lauryn Rucki, president of the college's student organization.

The interview schedule, and information about each candidate, follows:

* Marcia Lynn Whicker will be interviewed Jan. 22-23, with a public lecture at 1 p.m. Jan. 22 in 213 Foy Union. Since 1994, she has served as chair of the Graduate Department of Public Administration at Rutgers University in Newark, with an enrollmen t of 40 doctoral students and an MPA program of about 120 students.

She earned the bachelor's degree from the University of North Carolina, the MPA in Public Administration from the University of Tennessee, two master's degrees in political science and economics from the University of Kentucky and the Ph.D. in political s cience from the University of Kentucky. In addition, she earned an associate in electronic engineering technology degree from Midland Technical College in Columbia, S.C.

She has also taught at Virginia Commonwealth University, the University of South Carolina, Temple University, Wayne State University, and the University of Kentucky. She also served as an adjunct professor in the Military Base Master's Program in Administ ration at Central Michigan University and Webster University.

* John Heilman will be interviewed Feb. 2-3, with a public lecture Feb. 2 at 1 p.m. in 206 Tichenor Hall. For the past 24 years, Heilman has held a variety of faculty and administrative roles at AU. During the first 19 years at AU, he was a fulltime f aculty member in the Department of Political Science. In 1992, he was named associate dean for Research and Development in the college. Since April, he has served as interim co-dean, responsible for all aspects of administration in the College of Liberal Arts.

Heilman earned the bachelor's degree from Lafayette College and the master's and doctoral degrees in political science from New York University.

As an AU faculty member, Heilman served three years a main campus coordinator of the Ph.D. program in public administration and developed and directed numerous extramural funded projects. During that time, he initiated and helped develop an exchange progr am in public administration with Twente University in the Netherlands.

* Dennis Rygiel, will be interviewed Feb. 5-6, with a public lecture Feb. 5 at 1 p.m. in 113A Lowder Business Building. He has taught at AU for 25 years, has risen through the ranks from assistant professor to full professor and, since 1990, departmen t head.
Rygiel has taught freshman through graduate-level English courses.
From 1978 to 1990, Rygiel helped run the freshman English program at AU, working with more than 70 faculty and 3,000 students a quarter. The work included curriculum development, faculty development and evaluation, communication with students and interrel ationships with other units on campus.

He has served on a number of university committees and was chair of the General Faculty and University Senate.

Rygiel earned the bachelor and master degrees from Loyola University and the doctoral degree from Cornell University.

In addition to teaching at AU, Rygiel was a visiting faculty member at Cornell University and taught at Wells College.

* Denis Calandra, will be interviewed Feb. 9-10, with a public lecture Feb. 9 at 1 p.m. in 206 Tichenor Hall. As chair of the University of South Florida's Theatre Department, Calandra has developed a student and faculty exchange program with Middlese x University in London, worked with advancement officers to complete a $1.6 million endowment for the department and led faculty through several academic review processes.

Calandra joined the University of South Florida in 1978 and was promoted to full professor in 1984. He was named department chair in 1992. In addition to teaching at USF, Calandra has taught at Middlesex University and the University of Regensburg in Germ any.

He earned the bachelor's degree from St. Francis College in New York and the doctoral degree in English and dramatic literature from the University of Nebraska.

* James G. Hougland, will be interviewed Feb. 12-13, with a public lecture Feb. 12 at 1 p.m. in 213 Foy Union.

Hougland has fulfilled various administrative responsibilities at the University of Kentucky and has risen through the academic ranks from instructor to being named full professor in 1987. He joined UK in 1974.

He has been chair of the Department of Sociology for seven years. The position includes faculty with primary appointments in four colleges and two sectors of the university.

Hougland has also taught at Indiana University and Fort Knox Community College. His other administrative duties at UK include serving as director of the Survey Research Center for five years and director of Graduate Studies in Sociology.
He earned the bachelor's degree from Vanderbilt University and the master and doctoral degrees from Indiana University.

Information on scholarships for employees' children to be provided in February

The AU Scholarship Office will conduct two one-hour seminars Feb. 24 on the new AU employee dependent scholarship program.

Both the 10 a.m. and 1 p.m. sessions will be at the AU Conference Center.
Susan Allen, coordinator of the scholarship office, will conduct the seminars. She said the seminar will cover eligibility, the application process and award criteria.
Applications for the 1998-99 academic year will be made available.

"The scholarship program will be competitive in the sense that awards will be made to those qualifying applicants with the greatest need first," Allen said. "If funds remain available after those deemed in need have been awarded scholarships, then other applicants will be funded based on the seniority of the AU employee."

The degree of need would be based on the student's financial aid application and determined by the AU Office of Enrollment Management.

All scholarship applicants must meet minimum Auburn University entrance requirements to be considered, Allen said.

The AU Board of Trustees approved the scholarship program at its November meeting and created a quasi-endowment for the scholarships with a $250,000 gift from the AU Athletic Department. Annual interest from the investment of the initial gift would be use d to fund the scholarships.

Based on the amount of the initial gift and the current rate of six percent funds availability, 15 of the $1,000 scholarships would be available the first year. That number could grow with additional gifts to the fund and/or reinvestment of a portion of t he earnings.

For a student to be eligible, either parent must be a full-time, regular, continuing employee of AU and must have been employed by the university for at least 12 months preceding the application deadline.

Civil rights promoter to lead King birthday celebration

Randall K. Robinson, an attorney, activist, lobbyist, and prominent promoter of U.S. support for an end to apartheid in South Africa, will be the keynote speaker for Auburn University's celebration of Martin Luther King Jr.'s birthday.

"Celebrating the Dream: Linking a Better Tomorrow for Our Children" is set for Jan. 15 at 6 p.m. in Foy Union Ballroom 258. The event is sponsored by the Center for the Arts and Humanities and AU's Office of Minority Advancement for Undergraduate Student Services.

"We hope that this program will convey to everyone that Auburn is committed to the value of diversity," said Daryl Hale, AU's assistant director for minority advancement. "If a young black person were to ask Dr. King why he or she should come to Auburn r ather than an all-black school, I believe that he would tell them to follow their dream, that the real world is neither all black nor all white and that Auburn offers the opportunity to experience that."

Robinson is the president and founder of TransAfrica, a lobby group formed in 1977 to promote more progressive U.S. foreign policy positions toward African and Caribbean nations, and the author of "Defending the Spirit: A Black Life in America." Under his direction, TransAfrica was one of the primary players in the campaign that led to Congress' 1986 passage of the Anti-Apartheid Act, which called for the end of the race-separation practice by the South African government.

In 1991, TransAfrica shifted its attention to Haiti, and Robinson led the group's call for the return of Haitian president Juan-Bertrand Aristide and an end to the forced repatriation of Haitian refugees fleeing military rule in that country. Aristide wa s reinstated after U.S. troops invaded the country in 1994.

Robinson will be available in Foy Union room 213 after the program to autograph copies of his book.

Hale said the program will also feature several musical selections by various church and school choirs from the Auburn area and the recognition of local citizens and government leaders who have made significant contributions to the advancement of minoriti es.

New on-line system described as welcome additon to libraries

A new software system is up and running in Auburn University's libraries, allowing users to access its online catalog files directly from the World Wide Web.

The new system -- dubbed AUBIECat -- was officially dedicated Jan. 6.
"Great universities always have great libraries and that is certainly true at Auburn University," said Provost Paul Parks. "The library is the very heart of a university and this new system will ensure that everyone will have continued access to the libr ary.

"The implementation of this system is another indication of the fine faculty and
staff we have in our Auburn University libraries," Parks added.

"If there is anything definite about the late 1990s it is that change is constant," said
Jane Burke, president and chief executive officer of Endeavor Information Systems, which owns the software system AU purchased.

The switch to AUBIECat has gone well, said Sheri Downer, head of the libraries' Systems Department.

"It's been a very smooth transition, especially when you consider we moved three and-a-half million records, including bibliographic, patrons, charges and other information," she said.

This new system replaces LUIS, which has been a successful system, said Downer, adding, "Few systems live as long as LUIS has and survive that well. But it's time to move to new technology for accessing the libraries' collections."

In the past, students, faculty and staff wanting to see what was available at the university's three libraries would have to go to a library or connect to the university's main frame computer. Now the information is available on the World Wide Web.

All reference librarians have been trained on the new system and will be able to assist library patrons.

The main difference between the AUBIECat system and LUIS is convenience,
Downer says. "It's very user friendly. All you have to do is point and click. You don't have to know as many commands to use AUBIECat."

AUBIECat can be accessed through the library's WWW homepage at http://www.lib.auburn.edu .

Citation Corp. gift aids AU College of Engineering

Citation Corporation of Birmingham will establish a $500,000 scholarship endowment at Auburn for engineering students.

Calling Citation's gift an investment in the College of Engineering and the future of engineering for Alabama, AU President WilliamMuse said, "A scholarship endowment of this magnitude will allow the college to continue to attract and graduate the state's top engineering students."

The scholarships will be awarded to engineering students whose programs of study benefit the foundry industry.

"As the foundry industry evolves, we depend more and more on the innovation and expertise of well-trained engineers," said T. Morris Hackney, president and chief executive officer of Citation Corp. "Through its commitment to engineering education, the Ci tation Corporation endeavors to create opportunities for the next generation of men and women who will promote this industry."

Under the 22-year direction of Hackney, Citation has grown from a modest Birmingham foundry to a $650 million corporation employing more than 6,000 people throughout 18 units in nine states. Customers include Ford, Caterpillar, Dana Corporation, Chrysler, General Motors, John Deere and many other companies.

A Birmingham native, Hackney is a 1953 graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy. His activities in the arena of higher education include service on the trustee boards for Birmingham-Southern College and Marion Military Institute.

Theatre to present play on Shakespeare and Stephen King by faculty member

The Department of Theatre will present a two-act comedy Jan. 29-31 written and directed by theatre faculty member John Fleming.

A nine-member student cast will perform the satire, "Transposing Shakespeare." Performances will be at 8 p.m. each night in Theatre Upstairs in Telfair Peet. Tickets are $3.

"The basic premise of the play is that Stephen King and Shakespeare have been reversed in time," said Fleming, He wrote the play in 1992 while working on his doctoral degree at the University of Texas at Austin.

"This is a revised version of my original play," Fleming said. "The idea had been brewing for a while and it just developed over time. Playwriting is one of my interests."

Retired textile executive teaching this quarter at AU

Gerald Andrews, retired chief executive officer of Johnston Industries and former executive with West Point Stevens, is at AU teaching a three-hour special problems course this quarter.

The course, "Teaching Creativity for the Work Environment," was
crosslisted for students in the departments of Consumer Affairs and Textile Engineering. Both departments receive funding from and conduct research for the National Textile Center.

"He taught this course in industry and we are very excited that he is teaching this course for us," said Carol Warfield, head of the Department of Consumer Affairs.

Andrews, a 1959 Auburn graduate, serves on the Oversight Committee of the National Textile Center. He is a member of the College of Engineering's Hall of Fame.

In 1995, Andrews was named Leader of the Year by Textile World.
Andrews has varied experience in the textile industry. From his early days as an AU student when he worked at the mills of WestPoint Pepperell (now WestPoint Stevens) in Opelika, his career has included management in manufacturing, marketing, industrial e ngineering, finance and even in retail.

As president of Johnston Industries, he oversaw the company's four operating groups -- Opp & Micolas, Southern Phenix, Tech Textiles and Wellington Sears. Under his leadership, these diverse divisions blended into what industry observers described as one of the fastest growing, most innovative companies in the United States.

Birmingham center gains accreditation

The Birmingham Early Learning Center, operated by Auburn's Department of Human Development and Family Studies, has been accredited by the National Association for the Education of Young Children.

The accreditation has been achieved by only 5 percent of early childhood development programs nationwide, according to Janice Grover, center director.
NAEYC accreditation is a rigorous, voluntary process under which early childhood programs demonstrate that they consistently meet the highest national standards of excellence. Child care centers, preschools, kindergartens and before- and after-school prog rams are eligible.

Programs seeking accreditation undergo an intensive self-study, collecting information from parents, teachers, administrators and classroom observations.
They receive an on-site visit, conducted by early childhood professionals trained by NAEYC, to validate their self-study results. The information is independently reviewed by a team of national experts who grant or defer accreditation.
Accreditation is for a three-year period.

"The Birmingham Early Learning Center is proud to receive the distinction o being nationally recognized as a quality child care program," said Robbie Roberts, director of teacher training and outreach at the center. "NAEYC accredited programs represent a commitment to excellence for young children and families."

During the accreditation process, all aspects of the center are evaluated, including health and safety, staffing, staff qualifications, administration and physical environment.

Established in 1995, the center is a national model child care facility located in Birmingham's historic Civil Rights District.

Established through a government-industry-education partnership, the center originated from the Birmingham Urban Revitalization Partnership Inc. -- an effort by business and government officials to restore historic downtown Birmingham. It was developed a nd financed by 12 Alabama corporations.

AU's Department of Human Development and Family Studies, which operates the center and whose director and assistant director are faculty members, is housed in AU's School of Human Sciences.

Is your e-mail address listed wrong in campus directory?

If your electronic mail address is incorrectly listed or not listed in the campus telephone directory, notify the Division of University Computing, not Personnel Services or University Relations, to get the number corrected.

E-mail addresses of AU employees are published in the AU telephone directory, on the University Directory on the World Wide Web, and through the Administrative Information Management System (AIMS). The standard format for Auburn University e-mail address es is userid@mail.auburn.edu. All of your e-mail messages, whether addressed to your @mail address or to some other address, can be delivered to any actual destination you choose.

This is because the Auburn University mail forwarder acts as a sort of electronic post office, using your @mail address as a pointer to the actual destination. Publishing your e-mail address as an @mail address allows you to maintain complete control over your e-mail delivery, even when the actual destination changes for whatever reason. For example, if you choose a new e-mail package, ISP, local area network configuration or even AU job position, you won't have to notify colleagues or reprint business cards.

There is an e-mail address field on the Personnel Office's PDF (Personal Data Form) that employees are asked to review once a year. The e-mail address that you fill in on the PDF form no longer has any effect on your published e-mail address.
If your e-mail address has changed, if it has been published incorrectly, or if it has been previously published using an actual destination instead of the @mail format, there are three ways that you can correct the situation.

1) Come to the DUC offices in 26 L Building and fill out an "Employee Account Update Form."

2) Contact your Computing Coordinator and have him/her fill out an "Employee Account Update Form" and submit it for you.

3) Fill in the form below, sign it, and submit it to the DUC Accounts Administrator at 26 L Building.

The electronic address that you indicate on the form is the location where your e mail will be received. The published address will use the format userid@mail.auburn.edu.

The changes will take effect immediately on the University Directory on the Web and in AIMS, and the updated address will be used for next year's printing of the telephone directory.

Recycling urged for phone directories

Recycle all of your old phone books (both AU and BellSouth) at Auburn
University during the annual BellSouth (the Real Yellow Pages) recycling
campaign. This collection program will help the schools of Auburn,
Opelika, and Lee County by earning cash and prizes. Collection containers
will be available in the following locations. For information, call Ann
Cromwell, AU Solid Waste and Recycling Coordinator, at 844-9430
(cromwal@mail.auburn.edu).

Sites are:
* Old CDV - inside mailroom
* CDV Extension - inside mailroom
* Hill - inside mailroom
* Chemistry - outside, southeast
* Rouse Life Sciences - outside, southwest, at dock
* Funchess - outside, northwest
* Parker - outside, northeast
* Haley Concourse - outside, south end
* Quad - inside mailroom
* Spidle - outside, northwest
* Foy Union - outside, southwest (access by parking lot)
* Aerospace Engineering - outside, west
* Dunstan - outside, south
* Lowder Business - outside, south
* Facilities, Building 2 - inside Training Room
* Vet School - outside, Greene Hall dock
* AU Bookstore Basement Storage Area, Haley Center - access through the
dock on Duncan Drive
* Ingram - outside, southeast

Achievements

Connie J. Salts, professor in the Department of Human Development and Family Studies and director of the Marriage and Family Therapy Program, has been appointed by Gov. Fob James to serve on the newly formed Alabama Board of Examiners in Marriage a nd Family Therapy. In addition, she was elected by
the members of the board to serve as the first chair. Salts and her colleague, Thomas
A. Smith, Jr., associate professor in the Department of Human Development and Family Studies, have worked actively since 1992 through the Alabama Association for Marriage and Family Therapy toward the passage of the Marriage and Family Therapy Licensu re Act.

Shirley L. Barnes, a career counselor in AU's Career Development Services, was recently awarded the Distinguished Professional Service Award by the Alabama Counseling Association at its 31st annual conference held recently in Birmingham. Barnes has served in many capacities in the association and was recognized for services rendered to the association, at AU and in the community. More than 1,400 elementary, secondary and postsecondary counselors and administrators thrughout the state attended the c onference.

Marian Carcache, an instructor in the Department of English, recently had one of her works, The Other, included in Shenandoah, The Washington and Lee University Review.

Prithvi Kandhal, associate director of the National Center for Asphalt
Technology and member of the graduate faculty of Civil Engineering, has
been elected chairman of American Society for Testing and Material (ASTM)
Committee on Road and Paving Materials. This committee consists of 25
subcommittees which develop standard tests and specifications for highway
and bridge construction. These standards are used throughout the world.
Kandhal will serve as chairman for two years starting in January 1998.

Jalie A. Tucker, Alumni Professor in the Department of Psychology and
College of Liberal Arts, will begin serving a three-year term in 1998 as a
member of the Council of Representatives of the American Psychological
Association (APA). The Council of Representatives is the governing body
of the APA, which has over 150,000 members and affiliates and is the
largest organization of psychologists in the world. The Council is made
up of the APA Board of Directors and approximately 110 representatives
elected from among APA's 52 divisions and from state and provincial
psychological associations. Dr. Tucker will represent Division 50 on
Addictions, which was formed in 1993 to promote research, education, and
interventions on a broad range of addictive behaviors including substance
abuse, gambling, and related impulse control disorders.

Chris Newland of the Department of Psychology, who conducts research on the neurobehavioral toxicity of heavy metals, was an invited participant in the recent International Neurotoxicology Conference, at the University of Arkansas for Medical Scien ces. Conferees reviewed the potential health effects from excessive occupational or environmental exposure to manganese, and they identified research gaps that should be filled.

Jack Feminella, associate professor in Zoology and Wildlife Science, recently was appointed to a three-year term as associate editor for the Journal of the North American Benthological Society, a journal whose main purpose is to promote furt her understanding of benthic communities and their role in aquatic ecosystems. Benthos' are the organisms (usually invertebrates) that live on, in, or near the bottom of water bodies (i.e., stream, lake, pond, wetland, or ocean). Feminella also serves on the American Benthological Society's Executive Committee.

Robert Ekelund, the Lowder Eminent Scholar in Economics, and Robert Hebert, Russell Foundation Professor of Entrepreneurial Studies in the Department of Economics, have completed a new book entitled, Jules Dupuit, the Engineers, and < I>the Origins of Microeconomics, in which they argue that economic theory was discovered by the French rather than the English and was a product of engineers rather than economists. The book will be published by the University of Chicago Press.

David Kaserman, Torchmark Professor in the Department of Economics, has been named to the editorial board of the Southern Economic Journal.

Campus Roundup

Public lecture "The Sirens' Song" set for Jan. 22
James Anderson Winn, professor of English at the University of Michigan, will deliver a public lecture, "The Sirens' Song," st 4 p.m., Thursday, Jan. 22, in Foy 208. Winn, a specialist in 18th century British literature and the relationship between liter ature and the fine arts, is the author of works on John Dryden and the literature and fine arts of Dryden's era. Winn describes "The Sirens' Song" as an account of the West's "bad conscience about music," touching on Homer, Platon, Augustine, Spenser, Mi lton, Dryden, Kant and Auden. The lecture is sponsored by the Department of English, Department of Music, College of Liberal Arts, the Great Books Program and the Pepperell-Philpott Fund.

Rose to read from his latest works
Retired Auburn University English professor Charles Rose will give a reading from his recently published short fiction Thursday, Jan. 29, at Pebble Hill, home of AU's Center for the Arts and Humanities. Rose, who taught English literature at AU until his retirement in 1994, will speak at 4 p.m. His works have appeared in Crazy Horse, Shenandoah and the Georgetown Review.

Financial Policies and Procedures now on Web
AU's revised Financial Policies and Procedurs are now located on the World Wide Web. The sections can be accessed at http://www.auburn.edu/administration/iss/business_office/policy_manual /index.html .

Check Web for recycling trailer schedule
The recycling trailer schedule is now on the World Wide Web at http://www.auburn.edu/administration/iss/admin_services/facilities/trailer.html

University Computing posts price list, websites
University Computing has posted a new software price list for departments at www.auburn.edu/desktop/software/sales/price.html . Among the offerings is Microsoft Office. PINE and Netscape Training Videos are available for checkout. Call 844-4512 for deta ils. For information about what's new in technology, check frequently at: http://www.auburn.edu/duc/update.html . Another important resource for information about technology at Auburn is: http://www.auburn.edu/hotline .

Marriage & Family Therapy Center offers help
If you or your family are having marital, child, family, drug, alcohol or related problems, AU's Marriage and Family Therapy Center can help. Call 844-4478.

Forms required for employees to take classes
Employees planning to enroll in AU courses for credit must submit an approved UPO 200 (Request to Enroll in University Course Work) each quarter of attendance. The completed and approved UPO 200 should be sent to University Personnel Services. Forms may b e acquired from departments or Personnel Services.

Unsung Hero: Samantha Johnson

This week's Unsung Hero is Samantha Johnson, supervisor of the Student Financial Aid Records Office in Martin Hall. She has been employed at AU for the last 18 years, all of which time has been in the Financial Aid Office.

She was asked:

I get the greatest satisfaction from my job when... "all of my records are processed. And when all of the more than 15,000 files are completed, I know I have done an excellent job."

In my job, quality is measured by... "my ability to process thousands of records in a timely manner."

If I could change one thing about Auburn, it would be... "for everyone to be treated equally. Also for long-term employees (with 10 years or more of service) that do not have a bachelor's degree to be permitted to be promoted to upper grade levels."
I've always wondered why... "more money isn't allocated to higher education. I've learned that education is essential in today's society."

When people come to campus, I want them to... "know Auburn is my home and that I love Auburn. I want them to be able to learn about and tour this beautiful campus -- and be happy! I still have people come to me recalling when I was a drum majorette at Drake High School marching to Toomer's Corner years ago. It is still just as much fun at Toomer's Corner today."

In my spare time, I like to... "shop, exercise, travel and have fun with my husband, Andy, and the rest of my family."