Jacksonville State University JSU Digital Commons Chanticleer Historical Newspapers 1973-10-29 Chanticleer | Vol 5, Issue 9 Jacksonville State University Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.jsu.edu/lib_ac_chanty Recommended Citation Jacksonville State University, "Chanticleer | Vol 5, Issue 9" (1973). Chanticleer. 564. https://digitalcommons.jsu.edu/lib_ac_chanty/564 This Book is brought to you for free and open access by the Historical Newspapers at JSU Digital Commons. It has been accepted for inclusion in Chanticleer by an authorized administrator of JSU Digital Commons. For more information, please contact [email protected]. Homecoming Issue This week we have the sad duty to read to you from the Official School Rules on "Attendance at Classes" ..."A student is held responsible for attendance at all classes for which he registers. A STUDENT IS PERMITTED ONE ABSENCE WITHOUT PENALTY FOR EACH SEMESTER 8 HOUR OF CREDIT PER CLASS (capitilization mineSJA)...." JSUBulletin (Catalogue) 1973-74 p. 37, Believe it or not ! as Robert Ripley would say. Since this is our Homecoming Issue, we have on pages 6 and 7 CHANTIOSER Offcenterfold. The Homecoming Schedule is on page 7, and the Homecoming Sports Page is page 5. At the insistance of a close friend of mine, we present Mrs. Richardson's Diary on page 4, along with other smears. FRITZ HUGHES, WHOSE NAME WAS LEFT OFF HIS ARTICLE BY MISTAKE LAST TIME, IS ON PAGE 3, along with mysteriously capitalized Veronica Pike and her article on the free university. On page 2 are Joy (not a person) and the library dedication and Dr. Rose. Also is A1 Whitaker's article on the now radio station. The Calendar is on page 8...BE SURE TO READ IT. I've run out of things to say, but it doesn't make any differace because our deadline is not strictly enfor I VOL. V NO. 9 J~CKSONVlLLESTATE UNIVERSITY UFO Sighted On campus By CHERYL BENHAM wreckage and interred in the Aurora Anyone wandering about the campus on cemetery. the evening of Wednesday, October 17, Early reports from Aurora indicated about 11: 45, could have looked up and seen legal steps had been taken by an what has been classified as a "flying Oklahoma U. F. 0.group to exhume the saucer," which was reported to have body of the alleged U. F. 0. occupant, passed over the campus headed toward despite resistance from local residents. Anniston at a fantastic speed. According to However, no actual legal action was taken reports, the object was glowing brightly for exhumation. and was shaped somewhat like a large The Dallas Morning News reported that cylinder. This of course is nothing new. early risers in Aurora "were astonished at Many U. F. O.'s have been sited in the past the sudden appearance of the airship." few weeks. However, no one seems to have The paper said the object was spotted a reasonable explamtion for them. about 6 am. coming from the south at a Part of the problem in assessing a U. F. very low altitude. It passed over the town 0. report is trying to decide how reliable square and moved north towards a small the witnesses's memory is. hill owned by a judge named J. S. Proctor. U. F. 0. encounters are so sudden that As it traveled over Proctor's yard, it for a second, it simply doesn't register to struck a wooden tower atop his well and the witness just what is taking place. It exploded. Persons who arrived at the happens without warning, so that the scene found a badly disfigured body person is not prepared to accept it. reported to be about 4 feet tall, to the Such was the case three months ago. A Aurora cemetery a few hours later and Four Deans rock band was driving home after a buried on April l8, Named concert in the Southern part of Alabama, From left, Dr. Ernest Stone Malcolm Street, Jr., with concurrance of when the driver noticed a round ball of fire "Man" Seen Suspended In Light congratulates Dr. Greene Taylor, Dr. Alta Dr. Theron Montgomery, vice-president shooting across the sky which seemed to U. F. 0. RESEARCH NEWSLETTER Millican, Dr. B. J. Fuller, and Dr. for academic affairs. just disappear behind the trees. A few stated that a U. F. 0. was seen about 32 seconds later the sky was illuminated by a miles from Kimba, South Australia at the around 9:50 p.m. February 11, by Brian Four new academic deans have been torate degree from Auburn University, bright blast as "object" exploded. The driver told police that it all happened Junt & Sharyn Finckler. It was an orange announced at JSU. first joined the university in 1946. After so fast that all he could remember was a light about 10 feet high and five feet across Dr. Ernest Stone, university president, holding other positions, she returned in the announced the following appointments, bright blast as the "object" exploded. The approximately 30 yards from road. 1966. Hunt said a "man" that looked like "a with the concurrance of Dr. Theron Dr. Fuller, who received his doctorate driver told police that it all happened so Montgomery, vice-president for academic fast that all he could remember was a modern& y astronaut" was suspended 23 degree from the University of Mississippi, the feet above the ground in the middle of the affairs. joined Jax State in 1965. bright flash of light, 'and then ex- Dr. Green Y. Taylor is dean of the school plosion. Later, when police investigated light. "The figure was dressed in what Dr. Street, who holds his doctorate from the appeared to be a white space suit," ac- of education; Dr. Alta Millican is dean of Duke University, joined the university in area, they reported a large hole in the ground in the exact spot where the "ob cording to the February 15, 1973 edition of the school of library science and in- 1968. The ject" supposedly crashed. They reported the South Australia Cleve Tribune. Later a structional media; Dr. B. J. Fuller is dean university has seven schools, and truck driver reported seeing a similar U. of the school of business; and Dr. Malcolm that all plant life within 25 feet had been the appointment of these four deans now F. 0. on the same road at the same time. Street Jr., is dean of the school of law completes the academic cycle. The three killed. "U. F. 0. Investigator" received a One cold winter evening as dark clouds enforcement. other deans are: Dr. Reuben Boozer, dean Dr. Taylor, who has been on the faculty report of an alleged crash of a strange shrouded the countryside of Delta, of the college of arts and sciences; Dr. Alabama, suddenly from out of nowhere here since 1956, received his doctora.te Mary Margaret Williams, dean of nursing aerial device near Aurora, Texas., in April 1897, includmg the reported burial of a came a bright yellow glow of light. A local degree from the University of Alabama. school; and Dr. James Reaves, dean of "mall man" whose dismembered body Dr. Millican, who received her doc- (See UFO, Page 4) graduate school. was supposedly recovered from the 2 Monday, October 29, 1973, CHANTICLEER Joy Comes To JSU JOY, a multimedia religious musical, characters were Pam (Deborah Kean) was presented a fortnight ago in the and Bernie (Rick Stockdale). Student Commons Auditorium by the University Christian Ministry and Baptist The choir was directed by Keith B. Student Union choirs. Moore. Included among those par- The musical was about a Southern choir ticipating in the presentation were Tom on the way to New York, and was filled Robertson, Slonda Osborn, Don Gober, Joe with interpersonal conflicts. The main Morris, and Jane Rice. Campus Radio Station Quite A Bit Closer By AL WHITAKER by the FCC for their 3rd class Yes, the campus radio station is quite a radiotelephone operators permit with bit closer now. More and more people are broadcast endorsement. The test is not volunteering to do things that really help hard at all, and only a snall amount of out. More and more interest is being study is required. Several of us already shown. And, more and more progress 6 have our licenses, and will be more than Library Dedicated being made. happy to go over the study guide with you. What's the hold-up? MONEY, among We want to get as many people licensed as . To Dr. Houston Cole other things. Before the license, or con- we possibly can so there will always be an struction permit can be applied for, the adequate number of DJ's, newsmen, and money for construction costs and the first the like. Dedication Held OC~.15 yearofoperationmustberaised.Toraise We are still collecting as much material Dedication ceremonies for JSU's sought after speaker throughout the state the necessary funds, the Radio Station and information on different types and brands of equipment as we can, so when Houston Cole Library were held at 2 p.m. and has participated in many civic Committee is soliciting donations from the time comes we will know exactly what October 15 in the lobby of the $5 million projects during his long tenure in various private parties, holding numerous education. fundcaising events, and is kicking off a to get. Therefore, anexact figure on what building. everything will cost is not available yet. The tallest academic building in Dr. Cole graduated from Jacksonville contest for any group, fraternity or But equipment purchase is not the only Alabama, the library has 12 stories and has Normal School and was president when the sorority, club, or association that wishes to institution achieved university status in enter.