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S P E C T A T O R ' S J O U R N A L STUDENT JOURNALISM CONFERENCE F i f t e e n years ago a college student with conservative inclinations had few spokesmen: the Intercollegiate Studies...
...smitten by the public interest...
...The masses...
...The day was capped by a cocktail hour at which students met with a number of additional luminaries from the world of journalism, including William Rusher, Joseph Sobran, Ernest van den Haag, Roger Starr, Michael Joyce, Irving Kristol, Gertrude Himmelfarb, Seth Lipsky, Arch Puddington, and many of The American Spectator's younger New Yorkbased contributors...
...The Fourth Estate also came in for some abuse...
...Dartmouth...
...Charles Reichs, and they actually paid such morons...
...Conviviality surrounds Ernest van den Haag, glass in hand...
...They also bred Dr...
...From left to right: Andy Stark, Wladyslaw Pleszczynski, Roger Brooks (Princeton) and Joe Frazer (University of Louisville...
...In tribute to this new breed of campus troublemaker, on January 16 the Institute for Educational Affairs and The American Spectator cosponsored a day-long conference in New York City attended by over 40 student journalists representing some fifteen campus newspapers...
...Daniel Kelley, Holy Cross College...
...and William Kristol, assistant professor of political science at the University of Pennsylvania...
...William Cattan...
...Touching on the more puckish side of the conservative youth movement, Tyrrell warned the students "not to forget to have a little fun at some fraud's expense...
...both former American Spectator staff members...
...From left to right: Phil Marcus, Roger Kaplan, Erich Eichman, Eric Goldstein of Penthouse consults Ronald Burr and Les Lenkowsky on the problems Tom Bethell, Adam Meyerson, Bill Kristol, Les Lenkowsky...
...S P E C T A T O R ' S J O U R N A L STUDENT JOURNALISM CONFERENCE F i f t e e n years ago a college student with conservative inclinations had few spokesmen: the Intercollegiate Studies Institute, College RePublicans, and a handful of other organizations...
...Susan France...
...John Keating, Brown...
...John McGovern, Harvard...
...Those of you who are refugees from your various departments of journalism are especially fortunate to be here," he said, "because we are teaching you here in one day what it takes them four years to do, and they do it badly...
...Managing editor Wladyslaw Pleszczynski outlined editorial objectives and responsibilities, Cambridge editor Andy Stark discussed the journalistic "think" piece, and assistant managing editor William McGurn offered some hints about line editing and proofreading...
...New York writers Roger Kaplan and Les Lenkowsky...
...Publisher Ronald Burr talked about financing these ventures, assistant publisher Susan France discussed advertising, and New York editor Whit Stillman spoke on public relations and distribution...
...The luncheon program was highlighted by an address delivered by editor-in-chief R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr., who reminisced about the early years of.The American Spectator after its founding at Indiana University in 1967 when student agitation was coming to a boil...
...confronting all intellectual reviews...
...Tyrrell with the angry young men...
...Finally, production manager Jan Sharkey made suggestions about layout and design, and New York artist Elliott Banfield illuminated the role of art in a magazine...
...Michael Froomkin, Yale...
...William Rusher and R. Emmett Tyrrell schmooze...
...Jan Sharkey--study of a production manager at ease...
...Left to right: Jan Van Eck, Williams College...
...Timothy Learys and Dr...
...If the phenomenal l~rowth of conservative college publications is any clue, campus activists are turning increasingly conservative and finding new ways to publicize their efforts...
...Two years ago most of these papers did not even exist...
...Times have changed...
...These students are the editors, writers, and managers of such publications as the University of Chicago's Counterpoint, Harvard's Salient, the Yale Political Monthly, the Claremont Review, Holy Cross College's Hogan Foreign Review, and, of course, the Dartmouth Revtew...
...The speakers included Adam Meyerson, editorial writer for the Wall Street Journal, and Erich Eichman, associate editor at Harper's Bethell's junta...
...Tom Bethell of the American Enterprise Institute and Washington editor of The American Spectator...
...Student response to the conference has been gratifying: "It was very well organized, informative, and terribly thought-provoking.., a great success," "an extremely enlightening and enjoyable experience," "an enjoyable learning experience," "a fine conference," "a smashing success," "hope you will make it an annual event and more booze next t i m e " - we hope so, too...
...As an observant college president noted, the most violent students were those in the liberal arts departments--and they were grabbing all the media attention...
...Michael Karnvas, Cleveland Marshall...
...At the morning session students listened to presentations by the staff of The American Spectator on the problems of running a paper...
...The afternoon session featured writers, editors, and officers from major publications and institutions who covered career opportunities in journalism and journalistic writing, and fielded questions from the audience...
...Steve Tesich, the Oscar-winning screenwriter, also stopped by once his agent had scrounged up a tie for him...
...Dessert...
...Chris Flannery, Public Research Syndicated...
...Instead of gentlemen and gentle ladies, the universities were breeding Mark Rudds and Bernardine Dohrns...
...40 THE AMERICAN SPECTATOR APRIL 1982 Irving Kristol...
...THE AMERICAN SPECTATOR APRIL 1982 Photos by Jan I.ukas 4i...
...The entire program was guided fluently by moderator Phil Marcus, executive director of the Institute for Educational Affairs...
Vol. 15 • April 1982 • No. 4
