Your View: Retired Professor Takes on Jocks, Issues Challenge

Editor, The Auburn Plainsman

The trustee diversity debate is completely off the mark.

There should be a lot more people with interest in developing minds, not just winning football teams, regardless of race, gender, eye color or blood type. We get a new jock every day.

In the past 20 years Auburn has lost all respect as anything other than a jock factory. As Dr. Philpott warned, "The coaches want to run the whole school."

Well, they are doing it and have done it ever since Drs. Philpott and Littleton were pushed out by a barbaric jock invasion.

Democracy and free speech are not present on this campus.

If you doubt this, just try criticizing the Board of Trustees. You may find yourself shut up in a room as I did with a big campus cop with a big 45 on his hip, lecturing me on all the penalties for "harassment." So what?

You students are being groomed not as proud members of a democracy, but as mice cowering in corners while the wrong people shape your heads into footballs.

We once had a Plainsman to keep everybody honest, but it disappeared in the 1980s.

Check the library and understand a lot more about Auburn than you are being told.

Remember "the spirit that is not afraid."

Nicholas Davis

retired professor in architecture