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“Do you notice that I look like the hack of a chair in my ID
picture? I was tying my shoe laces.
Cool hand y objectivity
needed to teach course
By LeROY POPE
.' United Press International
NEW YORK -— The teaching of free enter-
'prise ideas on university campuses can he
delicate and controversial but three veter
ans at Adelphi University in Garden City,
N.Y., think they have found the right for
mula.
The problem is just how far you can go
with advocacy propagating without arous
ing the concern and even the opposition of
the academic faculty and students.
This happened last May at the Universi
ty of Southern California when the Institute
for Private Enterprise, funded by indust
rialist Justin Dart, a former chairman of
USC s trustees, was asked by the Universi
ty’s new president, Dr. James Zumberge,
to move from the campus.
Zumberge told UPI he did this because
he felt Dart wanted the university to take an
aggressive advocacy stance that was not
academically proper. He said there had
been mild protests by students and faculty
against the institute. The prestigious eco
nomist, Dr. Arthur Laffer, author of the
Laffer curve theory, is connected with the
Institute. He remains on the USC faculty.
Dean James Bender says no such opposi
tion has developed to the establishment of
the Friends of Enterprise Education at
Adelphi back in 1978 and to its continuing
campaign to acquire a building and create a
center for the study of free enterprise ideas.
Bender, who is 77, is helped by two other
enthusiasts, whom he calls “kids,’ 83-year-
old William G. Bell, a retired vice presi
dent of Celanese Corp., and 72-year-Peter
Schmitt, a retired president of Westing-
house International. Bell has conducted 51
Sunday seminars, which have netted
$51,000 for the program and Schmitt has
run a series of award dinners that have
raised $175,000.
The seminars deal with a huge variety of
subjects. The first set for the current acade
mic year on Oct. 25 will deal, for example,
with the economics of breeding and mar
keting thoroughbred race horses and will
be conducted by Dr. James Hill, the veter
inarian who made racetrack history by
buying Seattle Slew as a one-year-old colt.
Bender told UPI the way to teach free
enterprise on the campus is to play a cool
hand, to emphasize objective study instead
of aggressive advocacy and always to stress
the overriding principle that free enter
prise is the one social and political system
that guarantees human rights.
He said the movement of business peo
ple to establish professorships and campus
centers to foster free enterprise ideas now is
about 20 years old. It has been most suc
cessful in the south and west but he expects
it to make more headway in the east be
cause of the impetus to free enterprise phi
losophy supplied by the Reagan administra
tion.
The Friends of Enterprise Education at
Adelphi have created a $500,000 professor
ship of money and banking presently held
by Dr. Sidney Robbins. They are trying to
raise at least $50,000 for the proposed
center.
The center’s purposes will be to provide a
consulting service for industry on enter
prise education for employees, to operate a
press to publish educational materials, to
establish a library, to conduct an expanded
program of seminars on economics, bank
ing, personal careers and other matters, to
do research on ways of getting the federal
and state governments more favorably re
sponsive to free enterprise ideas and ulti
mately to establish a speakers’ bureau and a
small business institute to help people go
into business.
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Trailblazing the gullibility
By DICK WEST
United Press International
WASHINGTON — Although some hikers
I know report the Appalachian Trail
seemed less crowded than usual this sum
mer, statistics kept by the National Park
Service won’t support a conclusion that the
backpacking population is declining.
The explanation may be that backpack
ers merely have become less conspicious. If
so, I think I know the reason. It has to do
with a loss of mystique.
It used to be that people who had never
done any mountain hiking were awed by
tales of tramping over such eminences as
New Hampshire’s Presidential Range, Gol-
orado’s Pawnee Pass and Virginia’s Old
Rag.
Indeed, their level of credulity was such
that the temptation to romanticize a bit was
at times nearly irresistible.
And then nine handicapped people had
to go and spoil it all by making it to the top
of Mount Ranier.
That achievement, while undoubtedly an
inspiration to the incapacitated, has made it
a hundredfold more difficult for hikers who
are sound of limb to elicit gasps of astonish
ment.
I myself have noticed a big difference
when narrating, with strategic embellish
ments, my own adventures in the high
country.
This summer, for example, I challenged
some peaks that had only been conquered
by 9,376 Girl Scouts and little old ladies in
tennis shoes. Heretofore, my neighbor
Phizbeam would have been an appreciative
audience for a travelogue. But when I re
cently undertook to give him a vicarious
thrill, he was uncharacteristically quizzical.
pressed gamely on.
“Would you believe we found snow|
at the higher elevations even in i
mer?” i said.
"Hminium, hinmmmed Pli
“Was there any danger of the esci
icing over
M-?”
“Our destination was the 14,495-foot
summit of Mount Whitney, highest point in
the United States outside of Alaska, " I told
Phizbeam. “We set up base camp at a motel
and approached the peak from the difficult
and treacherous Whitney Portal Railhead.
“I didn’t know motel elevators could go
that high,” Phizbeam commented.
One thing you learn on the trail is never
backtrack or become disheartened. So I
could see 1 was in deep troul
mails. by that time, Phizbeam wo
been hanging on my every word. I
determined to tough it out.
"It was virgin territory for ever)*
the parts and we svere thankful tlial|
s ions svilderness experience hi
hosv to follow trail blazes anap
oursels es on topographical maps,”!
"Well,” said Phizbeam, “ifyoul
ten lost I’m sure the floorsval
given you directions..
There svere many exciting exploi
could have related, hut 1 could seetl
s s. nature stories would be wasted011®^’*
beam. And more s the pity.
Until the lame and (he halt started)||
quering Mount Ranier, he wouldM
anything.
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Inconvenience is price of safety
Editor:
Normally, I do not take to replying to
commentary I read in newspapers, whether
it is in The Battalion or any other newspap
er. However, I am becoming increasingly
compelled to remark on the trend of many
Reader’s Forum letters published in the
paper. In particular, the letter of Mr. Rimes
(Monday, Sept. 21) is a case in point. It
seems more and more students like Mr.
Rimes are not completely understanding of
the total impact of the situation that they
have made comments about. Mr. Rimes
remarked that he and serveral of his peers
do not feel parked bikes, motorized or
otherwise, pose any danger, or in his words
“no drastic problem.” He must not notice
the bikes around the library or other major
traffic buildings, such as the Memorial Stu
dent Center. Either that or he is one of the
individuals that park their vehicle in ran
dom fashion at the door-fronts of these
buildings. If there were a genuine
emergency where there was a need for a
quick and safe exit from these buildings, the
escaping individuals would be in grave dan
ger. Notice also, Mr. Rimes, the number of
unused parking racks for bicycles around
these same buildings where the above con
ditions exist. Many are relatively empty. It
seems that most people’s desire to do things
that are most convenient to them is more
important than what is safe for others as
well as themselves.
Let’s tackle some basic safety and health
problems on campus first, or at least con
currently, while we strive to solve our phi
losophical and social problems, whatever
they may be. When it comes to recognition
of basic safety problems, the Student Sen
ate should not need the blessings of the
populous to act. Sometimes people do not
know what is best for them, you have to just
do it, without any thanks or appreciation.
I have said enough on that, I hope.
Faith in people restore
Editor:
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Larry A. Bowles ’70
1300 Milner, CS
Editor’s note: Bowles is a staff member at
Texas A&M University.
Most of the editorials of late haved
with vandalism and such. I
change that.
Last Friday, (Sept. 18) I did a projett
my special education class, w
stay in a wheel chair for a whole day.i
less to say, it was a hardship. Althouel
the day was over I had sore arms, ba(
shoulders, it was well worth it. I have
experienced such helpfulness and fe
ness before. I had expected stares J
jection, but instead received all thek
could possibly have wanted. I’d I
thank all the students who helped®)
campus. I’d especially like to tlianl
com” and friend, who saw me strugglii
the way home, got out of the car
pushed me home approximately"
blocks. Thank you Ags for restoring!!!
in people.
Jenny Lynn Thar® 1
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Warped