The Campus/Young Turk Tunes
Fossedal, Gregory A.
petition for spoils, where efforts at income redistribution lose any possible moral justification. Second, ideologies abhor a vacuum, and rival world views have impressed their mark on the...
...Indeed, the Berkeley Barb, famed taunter of then-governor Ronald Reagan and citadel of anti-Vietnam sentiment, has folded...
...Like their predecessors in the Vietnam era, they trust people more than they do the "establishment...
...Dartmouth also plans to bring back ROTC, a step Princeton took several years ago...
...The most frequent positive response came from World War veterans and high-school students...
...Columbia University retains a mandatory but popular freshman course in the great works...
...Perhaps it is worth remembering, though, that Reagan's second four years as governor were in~reasiugly dominated by such youngsters as Jeff Belt and Martin Anderson, then in their twenties...
...Of course, Dartmouth's history of witch trials has been well publicized...
...Even the majority of American bishops, one suspects, spend tittle time these days re-reading Papal encyclicals...
...The campaign might usefully focus on the implicit racism and anti-child bias lurking behind the "reproductive freedom" and "national population program" labels...
...What, then, are the prospects for Democratic exploitation of t h e " family" theme...
...Such a campaign, broadly, might include: a pledge not to raise taxes and indeed a promise to cut them further along the lines of the Kemp-Kasten flat tax...
...Don't bet the house, but do cross your fingers...
...Another notes the strange convergence between what is said at nuclear freeze rallies and in Tass press releases...
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...One features a picture of the orotund Tip O'Neill, circumscribed by a dotted line with a suggestion to "cut the fat out of government...
...THE CAMPUS YOUNG TURK TUNES by Gregory A. Fossedal Perhaps the most surprising--and least understood--news coming out of Harvard and Dartmouth, Berkeley and Kent State this fall is that students will most likely vote for Ronald Reagan...
...It calls for voters to "support the nuclear freeze--the Soviet Union needs you...
...All this activity has attracted thousands of young volunteers to Reagan's campaign...
...candidates Jesse Jackson and Gary Hart, and now, Geraldine Ferraro, all alleged focal points for youthful enthusiasm and new ideas...
...Reagan whipping the Democrats with majorities of 60 percent and more...
...Like big business and the military, they are all to be feared as centers of power that threaten individual freedom and tend to remove themselves from public accountability...
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...In this sense, the activists cannot be strictly evaluated on the left-wing, right-wing spectrum...
...Yet more is needed to frustrate Democratic designs...
...Similarly, ABC's "20-20" recently showed a series of television news clips to Americans of various ages and occupations and races, asking them if assorted stories--on the Korean Airlines massacre, invasions of Afghanistan and Grenada, Vietnam, and so on-made them feel patriotic...
...Engleberg was innocently unaware that there exist similar activists working for Terry Dolan, Howard Phillips, Irving Kristol, or Midge Decter...
...Certainly pressure on Reagan is strong from those within the GOP who are afraid of any daring campaign initiatives, and who continue to regard the new activism of campus conservatives as a liability...
...Datum: According to two recent surveys, the best read papers a t Dartmouth College and the University of California, San Diego are not any of several left-of-center sheets published with administration subsidies, but the independent and infamous Dartmouth Review and California Review...
...The Republicans have been more honest in linking their electoral program to their nostalgia...
...If so, young people will lose interest in his presidency...
...To the classical liberal, procedures and manners are not a mere technicality, but are in fact, as T.S...
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...These students have been successful not by presenting formal manifestos or lists of demands, but in pursuing a loose collection of principles and goals...
...Several Dartmouth officials, including President David McLaughlin, have accused Polenz publicly of violating the state's wiretapping statute...
...As Richard Viguerie, a leading propounder of this populist model, explains, today's youth are not sudden converts of Exxon and General Motors...
...Others have waged a successful battle over the use of college funds to subsidize the growing and bloated bureaucracies, channeled with a certain bias for left-wing causes...
...Indeed, in its emphasis on tax equity for families and the "life" issues, its flat rejection of "comparable worth," and its nod toward an anti-Malthusian population policy, the 1984 Republican version is probably the most explicitly "profamily" platform in American pofitical history...
...Public Interest Research Groups, or "PIRGs," an offshoot of Ralph Nader's efforts in Washington, have been successfully de-funded at a number of schools, and are under broad attack elsewhere, as Laura Ingraham reported in these _pages last October...
...Straight election coverage manifests a more active bias...
...As the elephants herded into Dallas, some Rept~blicans and network correspondents did begin to take note of the new shift in youth opinion...
...Meanwhile, college attorneys and Mr...
...Not surprisingly, then, many of these young turks are pessimistic that a Reagan second term will include them and their concerns...
...That this longstanding shift in student opinion passed unnoticed until the recent GOP convention can be attributed in large part to a continuing superstition that youthful activism can exist only on the left...
...Students have come to recognize that big government, big labor, and Common Cause are not enemies of the "establishment," they are the "establishment...
...Again, there was a kind of sweet innocence as an ABC reporter concluded that "the young peop l e . . , thought of Vietnam as a place where America fought communism...
...That battle will pick up again this fall...
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...In opposing a dominant culture on the campus, they are acting more precisely as populists opposing elitism...
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...Gregory A. Fossedal is an editorial writer for the Wall Street Journal and co-author o f A Defense that Defends...
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...Datum: A 1984Los Angeles'Times poll finds that the greatest support for Ronald Reagan is among voters aged 18 to 39, particularly on the younger side...
...Five of the last six editors of the Dartmouth Review were involved in criminal or civil cases by university officials, with several still pending...
...But the school's low tactics now appear to be reaching a new high...
...These are all in the GOP platform, but will the GOP run on them...
...a blueprint for a return to the gold standard...
...He was a founder o f the Dartmouth Review, where he appointed the first woman, black, Native American, and (Bombay) Indian to the staff...
...Eliot wrote, the incarnation of the whole culture: Or as Yeats put it, "How can we know the dancer from the dance...
...The GOP's Libby Dole pointed to the youth movement as a kind of defense against the Gender Gap, proof positive that Democrats may have blacks, women, hunchbacks, and Hispanics, but Republicans have their favored groups, too...
...Yet news coverage throughout the year has focused on the nuclear freeze movement (remember the freeze...
...The New York Times's Stephen Engleberg recently wrote a feature piece on "Young Activists and Capital's Allure...
...Mondale may just get away with his verbal and symbolic legerdemain...
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...Its radical replacement is the Berkeley Review, which supports Reagan and tosses its barbs at "the establishment" from the opposite direction...
...Participation in sports, both for men and women, is up dramatically, according to the National Collegiate Athletic Association...
...Harvard has been through one modest curricular reform and may go through another...
...To expose and challenge this unstated, suppressive culture and replace it with one rooted in Western tradition is not only defensible, it is vital...
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...Often, student-organized protest played a major role...
...As a result, many have missed the real developments and are ignorant of the substantial changes effected by these activists on the nation's campuses...
...Anything may happen in the coming weeks, but as the strange controversy continues to unfold, it appears that it is the university itself that is on trial...
...Datum: Recent straw elections at several Ivy League, Big Ten, and Pac-8 schools show Mr...
...They may even be forced back into the Democratic party...
...Princeton's Prospect magazine charts the school's choice of speakers every year to determine signs of ideological bias...
...A large pool of similar talent now exists for the tapping...
...One sit-in to defend the Amherst houses last spring involved a revealing feature: Students worked in shifts so as not to miss any classes...
...a sweeping program to convert IMF and World Bank austerity schemes into a plan for world economic growth...
...Similarly, a 1981 New York Times poll showed the greatest support for Reaganomics coming from people a g e . . . 25 or younger...
...The unstated rule of liberal culture is that such claims, or institutions like the GSA advancing them, are beyond scrutiny...
...The flow of young people into conservative activism today," estimates Morton Blackwell, president of the Leadership Institute, "is at least twice what it was four years ago...
...McLaughlin have already publicized contradictory statements about when the college learned of the grand jury investigation...
...The CR's have even published a series of posters that have some members of the Washington community afraid to go outdoors...
...Second, ideologies abhor a vacuum, and rival world views have impressed their mark on the Democratic party...
...Actually, what Miss Polenz did was to tape a public meeting, open to all students, that had been advertised in the student daily...
...In the case of Miss Polenz, students are fighting not against gays, but against a whole culture of "tolerance" (read: support) for the "rights" (read: asserted privileges) of members of the community (read: alleged victims) to live in a diverse (note: diverse racially or sexually, not necessarily intellectually) environment and select their own sexual preference (perversion) free of having morality imposed on them (mentioned to them...
...One answer is that there really is much more at stake here...
...A sophomore, Teresa Polenz, faces possible expulsion for an expose on the activities of the school's (subsidized) Gay Student Association...
...And, a traditional curriculum emphasizing Western culture and values, basic math and science skills, and control of the language, as against courses on "alternative lifestyle networks" and "A Leninist view of AfroAmerican sculpture...
...The college's pressure on New Hampshire officials has produced a grand jury investigation, yet Dartmouth officials now deny any efforts to press the case...
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...In the battle of nostalgias, the Democrats have a potent hand: rhetorical and symbolic allusions to the pre-1965 past masking a radically different but adroitly concealed present agenda...
...Why so much effort to defund a few homosexuals...
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...Admittedly, such tasks could be nasty, and they may best be left to others than the Great Communicator...
...E l d e r s often find it hard to understand such fights...
...Reaganites and Mondalers ought to be aware of these changes...
...The California Review, denied the subsidies given several student papers, indeed not even allowed an office or cubbyhole, has successfully lobbied the student council to reconsider...
...The news of Reaga~te youths was presented, in other words, as a sort of freak show--and not as a deep-seated political and social shift...
...Mac Carey, Jack Kemp's 25-year-old press secretary, sees the alternatives for Reagan as clear: "He can cement the GOP as the party of ideas in a second term, or we can have four years of tax hikes, IMF bailouts, and appropriations vetoes...
...blacks and minorities and women will look to government for hope, instead of to enterprise zones and tax cuts...
...Or it might show how the Democratic party has sharply deviated from the social policy heritage of Roosevelt, Truman, Stevenson, and Johnson...
...The slant is always heavily leftward, but has moderated under Prospect's watchful eye in recent years...
...All this suggests a faith in free people and their traditional institutions of family and private enterprise--i.e., populism, rightly...
...Abramoff has led the push for inclusion of the Star Wars idea and the flat tax and gold standard in the Reagan campaign...
...ABC saw a good photo opportunity to haul a few straflge Reagan delegates, age 18 to 21, before the camera...
...Why say things that can be portrayed as disrespectful...
...Dartmouth College, under prodding from English Professor Jeffrey Hart, is expanding its great works program and may serve as a model for other schools--if the administration acts this fall on a proposed grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities...
...If the GOP emerges from Dallas prepared to tap this feeling amongst our youth by running a bold campaign of ideas, a historic sea change in American politics could occur...
...Throughout the last several years, for example, the College Republicans, under the leadership of Jack Abramoff, have been engaged in a kind of guerrilla war for an aggressive fall campaign...
...The Reagan campaign needs to expose the hollowness of its rival's "family" rhetoric and reveal the true ideologies now dominating the Democratic party...
...Though they prefer the outrageous newspapers of the 1980s to the blown-up buildings of the 1960s, they find the tone of the new activists "strident," their tactics too unorthodox...
...Reagan might simply concentrate on negative attacks on the "Carter-Mondale years," in effect looking backward to 1980--or even 1972 or 1956, when the GOP won the White House but surrendered congressional seats, ideas, and enthusiasm to the Left...
...actual construction of Star Wars defenses in space...
...And four times what it was eight to ten years ago...
...Without such efforts, though, Mr...
...Last year the Chronicle of Higher Education reported on a huge surge in small business start-ups by college students...
...I n recent years, this agenda has made remarkable progress...
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...But their understanding of the term "establishment" has greatly broadened...
...Yet when Abramoff requested money for a $300,000 youth campaign, he was flatly turned down...
...As of June, this group planned to vote for Reagan by a margin of 58 to 37 over Walter Mondale...
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...Feminists, meanwhile, have sharply devalued "motherhood" to at least a secondary role, and their fingerprints are found all over the 1984 Democratic platform...
...Efforts to eliminate fraternities in recent years have failed at the University of Washington, Amherst, and dozens of other schools...
...Neo-Malthusians, taking political form in .the population-control and environmentalist movements, truly fear the reproductive potential of the American people and have forced a strong anti-natalist bias on the party...
...Working to the Dempcrats' advantage are the current slippery nature of the ",family" label and the apparent ignorance or indifference of many American Catholics about their own socio-political tradition...
...Perhaps the bitterest fight will take place at my alma mater, Dartmouth College...
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...Human Events outlined that basic agenda a few years ago: A renewed emphasis on achievement in the classroom, on sports and productive activities, as against the '60s ethos of equality, self-expression, and g u i l t . . . A balanced offering of courses and teachers: 28 THE AMERICAN SPECTATOR OCTOBER 1984 classes on economics taught by supplysiders as well as Marxists...
Vol. 17 • October 1984 • No. 10
