Bootblack Stand
The Bootblack Stand Dr. George Washington Plunkitt, our prize.winning political analyst, has just completed a penetrating study of the last Congolese election. Published in August, it focuses...
...Plnnkitt has agreed to advise American statesmen in this time of troubles...
...In short the university served the society as a certifying agency...
...In sum he has snatched the vast sympathies of all right-thinking Americans...
...Tyrrell's legal advisor .in Florida...
...GWP Dear Dr...
...What presidency are you talking about...
...The trend has progressed such that I can assert without significant fear of contradiction that any high school graduate, no matter how limited his background or abilities, can find some accredited college which for four years will take his money...
...Cordially, Richard...
...And you can get him for a price...
...George Charles Roche HI is serving his first year as President of Hillsdale College and John P. East is a professor o f political science at East Carolina University...
...In something of a modified Gresham's Law, mass higher education will tend to devalue all higher education...
...Most liberal arts, education or business graduates don't slice you up on an operating table, issue writs of certiorari or construct thermonuclear devices...
...Published in August, it focuses on the unique position of minority groups in the Congolese electoral process...
...Peter P. Witonski and Douglas W. "Cooper are also jrom Harvard - - Witonski teaches in the Government Department and Cooper is a graduate student in physics.Dan Joy is an aide to Congressman Derwinski (R-Ill...
...John D. King practices medicine in Rockford, Illinois...
...In the past business has demanded college trained men and women, not bec~e of ~-~ special expertise they possessed, but rather because the baccalaureate degree supposedly identified a relatively intelligent and persistent individual...
...His last literary achievement got him indictments from federal and local grand juries on charges ranging from mail fraud to perjury and forgery...
...Now what I really need, it seems to me, is one of those moving election year biographies that instill devotion amongst my supporters, befuddlement amongst my opponents and, amongst the voters, an itch to pull my lever --in other words, I need a potboiler...
...John Moscow, who wrote the cover gtory on the world's prettiest mayor, is a graduate of the University oJ Chicago...
...It is titled Escape...
...GWP Craft of Sewing," "Candle Making," "Guitar Country Blues," "Afro Dances" and "Verbal and Non-Verbal Conversation" while at Ohio University freshman English classes (traditionally identified across the country as flunk~)ut courses) eighty per cent of the students are given A's or B's...
...Edward A..Haeker is an associate professor in the Department of Philosophy and Religion at Northeastern University...
...it can be purchased in all bookstores...
...Due t o . . . lack oJ space we were unable to include biographical material on last month's contributors...
...Ab, but that's another story...
...This growing egalitarianism in undergraduate education is no immediate threat to the nation's well-being...
...Nevertheless if you are looking for something to do in the immediate future may I suggest that you run for the presidency of the United States...
...Now, through this column, the distinguished Dr...
...Plunkitt: Now that I have pulled out of the race for the presidency what should I do...
...Uneasily, Vance Hartke, Senator Dear Senator Vance: I must be slipping up...
...This second loss e~ists because the percentage of white collar jobs in business and industry which directly require specific college training is rather small...
...Plunkitt: I am the President of the United States of America and as such it is my responsibility to all Americans, male and female, to get myself re-elected in 1972...
...jets...
...President: You have come to the right man...
...Consequently the decline in prestige and demand for the college graduate is upon us...
...The universities haven't yet experienced their most crushing blow - - the combination of overproduction of college instructors and the decline in enrollments due to falling birth rates after 1961...
...Address all corresPondence to The Bootblack Stand, The Establishment, R.R...
...These matters can be quickly dispatched by the obvious generalization that their hope of fulfillment will decline in direct proportion to the increase in college enrollment...
...It will be a magnificent coup for you to have this man write your biography just as he is about to become the darling of The New York Review of Books...
...A New Demand Response System...
...noy, a frequent contributor to 1"he Alternative, is professor in the Boston area and Jerry Gerde/s Mr...
...It might not be ethical for me to pay you for your advice, but I would not be surprised that, were you to tender me a suggestion, you might receive, say, a year's supply of Sheraton Hotel bath towels - - the real fluffy kind...
...I was not aware that you were running for anything this year...
...Of course I would not suggest that you run seriously, but you could sort of serve as the Democrats' equivalent to the Republicans' Pat Paulson...
...The growing public awareness of these realities, combined with public annoyance at collegiate mischief has now resulted in a more critical public attitude toward .the university...
...Today the university "certifies" a number far larger than that number which reason and evidence tells us can be "relatively intelligent and persistent...
...He is currently studying law at Harvard...
...M. Nixon, President Dear Mr...
...I have a fellow in mind who not only is enormously capable of turning a short story into a novel, but he also is under criminal indictment in New York and hence about to become an authentic American patriot in the eyes of the nattering nabobs - - as they say...
...I know that you ar e, shall we say, in deep with the literati of the political world, and I was hoping that you could provide some suggestions regarding an author for such a biography...
...John Kelley teaches history at Ohio University at Portsmouth...
...George Nathan The Alternative May 1972 21...
...Unless the graduate and professional schools are overwhelmed by the marching hordes the system maintenance function will continue...
...11, Box 360, Bloomington, Indiana 47401, Continental U.S.A...
...Granted that the universities can't deliver to mass man, on their "spiritual and intellectual enlightenment" promise, what about the other two pt;0n~[sed salvations...
...That bete noir will arrive around 1978...
...This will bring a reduction in the status of those possessing a college degree and not coincidentally will reduce the monetary advantage of I~ssessing a diploma...
...What race...
...Dear Mr...
...Correspondingly there is xnore than a little gnashing of teeth within the university's not so ivied halls...
...David Brud...
...Kevka S. Oison is a student at the University of California at San Diego...
...upward mobility and increased income...
...As for my pay, just get me the same accommodations Senator Hartke has on those I.T.T...
Vol. 5 • May 1972 • No. 8
