The Continuing Crisis
The Continuing Crisis Letter from a Whig:
...should be sent to The Alternative, c-o The Establishment, R.R...
...A college should allow and even encourage controversy and research on current social and political issues, but if it allows its resources to be used as an instrument to further the political ends of any group, then the college, by committing itself to definite political beliefs, negates a vital condition for free intellectual inquiry, which is the ideologically neutral environment so necessary for open and fruitful discussions on controversial issues...
...And in Vietnam, President Thieu grumbled about a slight he had received from Secretary of State Rogers...
...Nader, then a little restudying is in order...
...9 From Moscow comes word that the Soviet establishment is having its troubles -- this time with ideologically slovenly artists and drunken ice skaters in Gorky Park...
...9 Crime continues to be a problem...
...9 On February 21 President Nixon departed Washington for a one-week stay in Red China where he pursued peace...
...Local elephants have been going berserk after eating overripe fermenting lruit...
...CONTINUING CRISIS (continued from page 2) Longshoremen,s strike indicated that the pay board was doing about as well as expected...
...William Ruckelshaus of the Environmental Protection Agency was criticized in the Senate for "not doing enough" or for doing it with the wrong sort-of people...
...If you were to rely on the title you would think that Mishan is probably a devotee of Ralph Nader, that paranoid crusader who spends much of his time telling Congressional committees where it's at...
...10 George Charles RocheIII: In the Public Interest...
...5 Tom Milstein: What ls Socialism and Will It Work...
...But, if such professional incompetents exist, as indeed they do, then all the more reason for not allowing non-professional incompetents to share professional power...
...The settlement of the West Coast (continued on page 11) 2 The Alternative April 1972 tarianism, have given way to more fundamental criticisms that the materialism, upon which the experiments and adventures of the New Deal and New Frontier were founded, was bankrupt and incomplete...
...The Tulsa Zoo is reportedly interested in Mr...
...15 Jerry Gerde: A Note from the Provinces...
...In conclusion, I give one argument against student power, which I call "The Argument from Professional Relevancy...
...Sixteen thousand Frenchmen perished from road accidents in 1971...
...So intense has his enthusiasm for a more beautiful landscape become that the Wisconsin Solon has also announced that he is undergoing a painful hair transplant...
...And the Berrigan brothers, an American peace group, has been nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize...
...Some critics make the mistake of suggesting that polar opposites are television or a book...
...Therefore, since undergraduates lack professional status, they should not share the professional prerogatives of the faculty...
...Carl Percheid, the world's oldest motorcycle policeman, retired at the age of seventy, having exhausted eleven motorcycles in his forty-seven,year career...
...a weakness, which if not corrected, will destroy the educational efficacy of American colleges...
...It was not until the Chicago fire marshall arrived that the show ended, but by then Miss Craft had brazenly scandalized the pick of Chicago's virtue patrol...
...To support the contention he pofnts out that the world's greatest cities are subject to "'the choking din and the endless movement of motorizea traffic...
...This remarkable essayist contends that we are "'living on the brink of annihilation...
...Whatever the problem, industrialism did it -- "'It 'is my conviction that the continued pursuit of economic growth by the 'advanced' nations is itself almost wholly responsible for the crisis...
...At George Washington University two coeds were raped within one-half hour and two Oregon State University girls were similarly treated, while a third was stabbed to death in her dormitory...
...It was later discovered that for months he has been pilfering women's underwear from Brooklyn laundromats, dying it green and sending it to Mr...
...As a man of letters he laments the increasing sloppiness in language, and as an educator he argues that our loss of true education is disastrous...
...Nixon is receiving some competition from Congressman John Ashbrook and another fellow...
...Lawrence Wise's albino snake...
...CoPyriqht.The Alternalive Magazine 1972 r The Continuing Crisis _9 In Egypt youthful idealists are demanding immediate war with Israel, while in New Jersey, state education commissioner, Carl L. Morburger, is ordering the Newark school board to "desist" from flying the Black Nationalist flag in Newark schools...
...I figure he is more correct than not...
...continued on page 23) The Alternative April 1972 11 CONTINUING CRISIS (continued from page 11) His first challenge comes in New Hampshire where Mr...
...Subscriptions cost $4.00, and all correspondence (manuscripts, subscriptions, threatening letters, federal grants, etc...
...Plus they're all fascists anyway...
...What it all amounted to, he contended, was that Samuelson's economics required the worship of the Gross National Product, with the best of all possible worlds being the experience of seeing it grow and grow and grow...
...Capital punishment was described as unconstitutional by the California Supreme Court, and in Lagos, Nigeria the Army executed six shoplifters...
...Richard Weaver, writing in Ideas Have Consequences, suggested that the doctrines of economic growth and Progress, so dominant in our intellectual and political affairs, were the cause "of much that had gone wrong...
...The masS, electronic media has done its part in corrupting the language but in the process it has brought distant historical events into the living room...
...There is much in the Mishan essay which is wise and, in my opinion, quite correct...
...Nader is a technocrat who sees himself in the role of bringing perfection to the existing industrial mechanism...
...This is not how Mishan sees it at all...
...The argument is: ~ Decisions concerning requirements for professional qualifications, training in or for a profession, and professional judgments on colleagues should only be made by those in the profession...
...In a word, Mishan hates factories...
...The outdoor record was established by a four-year-old orangutan in Central Borneo during the famous rainy season of 1956...
...When the Richard Weavers and Russell Kirks entertained the critique, there was hardly a ripple -- because it is known in intellectual circles that from the Right one is destined to get the "'anti-intellectualism" of which Hofstadter duly warned...
...Yet, though freedom to do one's own thing does seem to be flourishing in some areas of America, the Bill of Rights was shown to be a hollow thing indeed when Ralph Ginzburg - - one of the few men in recent American history to actually be convicted of obscenity - - began a three-year sentence in Lewisburg, Pennsylvania Federal Penitentiary...
...He notes, that the automobile has caused cities thousands of miles apart to appear strikingly similar, and hence boring...
...Pete Hamill, the New York Post columnist...
...The principle upon which the premise of my argument is based is that professional matters should be decided by professionals, the presupposition being that the professional is an expert and, hence, there is a greater probability that his decision on professional matters will be sounder than a layman's...
...The demand for student power is essentially irrational, as it is the demand for ignorance to preside over knowledge...
...Bilboro C. Fauce of Brooklyn was nabbed in a larcenous act...
...12 R. Frederick Docksai: You Won't Have Civilization to Kick Around Anymore...
...9 According to the New China News Service that big dinosaur fossile found in east China in 1964 has definitely been identified as a species of the duck-billed dinosaur that lived 100,000 years ago...
...Doug Cooper John R. Coyne, Jr...
...To return to Richard Weaver, he wrote the Mishan article more than two decades ago -- but did it from the view that it is man's inclination toward false notions and incorrect ideas which has led us to the monumental crisis in Western life~ a crisis which Mishan perceives, even if with misplaced emphasis...
...While the two might be temporary allies, they really have nothing in common...
...I have had time since to reflect on this statement and to revise my judgment to the effect that the automobile is the greatest disaster to have befallen mankind...
...Mishan's problem is one of cause...
...I am not convinced that one is so much better off spending his Saturday evening down at the poolhall, rather than with the tube and "Saturday Night at the Movies...
...The fiery Irish Stateswoman, Bernadette Devlin, punched Home Secretary Reginald Maudling during a debate in Parliament...
...But if Mishan sees himself with Mr...
...Mishan's critique is close to total and his rhetoric as severe as it could be without drifting into screams and diatribes...
...George Nathan Associates: David Brudnoy Jameson G. Campaigne, Jr...
...Maddox is beautiful, and Szlvardo Silva E. Souza has designed a thirty-nine story vertical, laigh-rise cemetery for downtown Rio De Janeiro -- the first of its kind...
...2 Letter from a Whig: George F: Will...
...He challenged .the dual doctrines as representing blind faith in Time and a superficial utopianism based on the power and destiny of economic development...
...15 The Bootblack Stand" Letters from Hamill and Geyelin...
...I simply demur from accepting his bombshells regarding the cause of man's woes...
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...Edgar Snow died, as did the poet, Marianne Moore, and Joe Hernandez, known to millions as "the Voice of Santa Anita...
...17 David Brudnoy on The American Theatre, 1969-1970...
...Editor-in-Chief: R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr...
...He concludes that the Doomsday prophets are right, probably understating the case, and further, "the forebodings of the past may after all soon be vindicated...
...Back in the States, Assistant President H.R...
...o Attorney General Mitchell resigned to direct Mr...
...20 Published remarkably without regard to race, Color, creed, or (most redundantly of all) national origin - - the question of sex is still in committee...
...Second, those who read -- always a few in number -probably continue to do so, and not always Time or Life...
...First, one can appreciate both...
...outrageous" would be more like it...
...At Peking Airport a dapper Chou En-lai led a welcoming committee which - - much to the surprise of American news commentators -- was composed of few women and fewer blacks...
...It was the third reported rampage in the last two weeks, and many more cases are suspected to go unreported...
...6 Dan Joy: Palmists and Scholarship...
...Unfortunately, as a theorist, he seems compelled to make outlandish conclusions from sound analysis...
...22 ARTICLES John Moscow: John Lindsay -- Prettiness in Politics...
...I do not contend that the Detroit worker on the line really has an interesting worklife, but then again, whoever supposed that the poor chap who earned his way pulling a barge down the Erie Can'al relished his labor either...
...And twelve pigtailed macque monkeys were lost by the Penn Central railroad somewhere between New York and Washington, D.C...
...Now sporting a toupe Georgia's Lt...
...Relevancy" to these students means action, not insight...
...As he carefully works toward a sober point he abruptly changes direction and with apparent pleasure blows you off your chair with such statements as: "'I once wrote that the invention of the automobile was one of the greatest disasters to have befallen mankind...
...The drift of our intellectual world under the dominance of secular liberalism has been more crucial to our contemporary unease than the machine, per se...
...The extent of the success of the student-power movement is a measure of the weakness of academic professionalism...
...In the Summer, 1971 issue of The Public Interest, a journal identified with those who long have been on the Left, a most interesting essay written by E. J. Mishan appeared...
...eThe ecology crusade continues...
...Nixon's re-election bid...
...John D. King, M.D.: In Defense of the Sawbone...
...Randolph Wells informed police that three men forcibly entered his Oildale, California home, bound him, throttled him and attempted to make him eat a live, two-fo0t snake...
...Publisher: Baron Von Kannon and the Saturday Evening Club Managing Editor: Joseph A. Morris Circulation Manager: Ronald E. Burr Senior Editors: Terry Krieger William Kristol [ ] Rev...
...Without go'rag so far as to contend that the source of all our problems is the intellectual attitudes which go to make up secular liberalism, it might be suggested to Mishan that he take into account those attitudes...
...21 Current Wisdom: by Assorted Jackasses...
...To him, an imperfect car is to be reo called and the failure blamed on some greedy businessman who did it all intentionally while pursuing profit...
...I would think him correct in his support for the conclusion, but one must be more than a little skeptical of the conclusion itself...
...and Mrs...
...He is correct...
...And in San Francisco, Sgt...
...21 REBUTTALS TO THE ALTERNATIVE i Dr...
...But now the Weavers and Kirks have been joined by a strong voice from what has traditionally been the domain of liberalism, the serious and literate establishment intellectual...
...Edward A. Hacker: Professionalism vs...
...Men of the Right have been making this point for years...
...11, Box 360, Bloomington, Indiana 47401, Continental U ,S.A...
...13 REVIEWS ,,, i i Douglas W. Cooper on Communist China, 1949-1968...
...9 On February 4, the sixth round of the strategic arms limitation talks (SALT) concluded...
...He adds majestically "'I am not one of those who believe that the Luddites were wholly wrong...
...Indiana University's David Hoffman finally did break the world record for the longest recorded indoor shower...
...Such things are not unimportant, even if not primary...
...Interesting" is not really the word to describe the essay, the title of which is "On Making the Future Safe for Mankind...
...3 Dr...
...Jefferson Davis C: H. Simonds [ ] Roger D. Tyrrell Contributors: John Avey [ ] Paul Bernstein Frank W. Blatchford III [ ] Barry Burr David Friedman [ ] Jerry Gerde [ ] Lynn German Sandy Houlle [ ] Wayne Johnson [ ] John Kelley John Moscow [ ] Gary North [ ] Mark Souder John Sundt [ ] David Tudor Sir Arthur Wellesley [ ] Timothy Wheeler Alien Contributors: Eric Brodin [ ] Judy Tyrrell Art: Eric Lohnaas ~ Sandy Weeder The Alternative was founded in 1924 by George Nathan and Truman Newberry over a cheap domestic beer in McSorley's Old Ale House, Originally Published on restroom walls, only since 1967 has it come under purview of the Saturday Evening Club which publishes it from October through June...
...It's just that every time he locates a problem he also finds a machine which ought to be smashed...
...e The drive to keep America beautiful received a digitalis when comedienne Phyllis Diller got a $4,000 nose job, and Senator Proxmire had his face lifted...
...Air pollution threatens the ski necked turn of Long Island, and in the British Parliament Labor Party MP William Hamilton has warned that the Royal family seems "to breed like rabbits...
...To him, the actual problem is the industrial mechanism i~self...
...Relevant courses, to these students, are workshops for implementing techniques of social and political reform, and that which is not immediately useful in furthering their goals, such as the traditional college curriculum, is condemned as irrelevant...
...Student Power....4 Peter P. Witonski: A Memo to the Ripon Society...
...Toyota recalled several thousand defective autos and it was in Dingle Dghem India that Mr...
...In his enthusiasm to condemn that which is a product of technology he gladly puts intellectual blinders on to prevent his seeing that the automobile, albeit in altered form, meant a revolution in delivery of such non-plentiful items as fresh fruit in the cities and seafood in the boondocks...
...On February 10 Mr...
...CONTENTS DEPARTMENTS i i The Continuing Crisis...
...19 Correspondence: Letters from Kaplan and McGuinness...
...18 Kevin S.* Olson on A Clockwork Orange...
...Haldeman, attracted similar reactions from Democrats for what they construed as an objurgative remark about them...
...e A professorship in peace studies is to be established at Colgate University...
...Abandoning all restraint, Miss Nude America, Valerie Craft, cavorted wantonly on a Chicago stage before an agape but legally impotent audience of Chicago police...
...John P. East on The Basic Symbols of the American Political Tradition...
...It would be a mistake to convey the impression that Mishan's critical effort is not worthwhile...
...Wayne TELEVISION WTTV-Bloomingtan, Indianapolis WPTA-Roanoke The Alternative April 1972 23...
...In such a scheme of things the Bureau of Labor Statistics becomes the barometer indicating society's health...
...HACKER (continued from page 4) standing...
...Angela Davis was released on bail and the House passed and sent to the Senate a bill repealing some dated laws proscribing traffic in Chinese coolies...
...I am in no way advocating infallibility, as it is all too obvious that a goodly number of 'professionals,' both in and out of academia, are incompetents...
...Bhutto Ferdri Bish were trampled to death by a herd of drunken elephants...
...He resisted, and twenty dollars were stolen from his billfold...
...My answer to this argument is that if "relevancy" means that which aids in implementing a specific cause or ideology, then the college curricula should be irrelevant...
...No, not _9 'interesting...
Vol. 5 • April 1972 • No. 7
