I.U. AS OTHERS SEE IT
Wellesley, Sir Arthur
T H E Published remarkably without regard to race, color, creed, or (most redundantly of all) national origin. Editor in Chief, R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr. Publishers, The Saturday Evening Club...
...The average student's quarters are paradise compared to what many taxpayers have to live in, and they are more than slightly weary of hearing about student rights when no corresponding responsibilities are in evidence...
...It was apparent to cabbie and carpenter alike that last spring's classroom boycott and demonstration were no more than an excuse for an extra vacation...
...The pupil is not only ignorant, he is also arrogant about his ignorance...
...If the student agitators, along with the hangerson who live on the fringe of the campus, think the average taxpayer has forgotten last year's uproar, they are in for a bruising shock, physically and mentally...
...The average Hoosier is totally opposed to another Berkeley developing in Indiana...
...Maybe the average student is bamboozled into believing elimination of funds for the new gymnasium would make a tuition cut possible, but the adult isn't...
...The adult Hoosier, whether a bank president or bartender, finds the college student rather repulsive...
...The taxpayer was young once himself and knows that a young male wants to get a girl in his room for one reason only...
...He suspected they were staying away until bar money from home ran out...
...The average graduate from I. U. gives the impression that he knows even less than when he got out of high school...
...T H E Published remarkably without regard to race, color, creed, or (most redundantly of all) national origin...
...In fact, he is indignant when someone corrects his stupidity, as though real life were irrelevant, anyway...
...The salesman couldn't understand the point of not going to class if the students were really worried about the future of learning...
...The most pitiful part is that the young hypocrites actually think they are putting something over on old...
...Youth-haters were gleefully hoping that the students would get their way — with a vengeance...
...Subscriptions cost $10.00, and all correspondence (manuscripts, subscriptions, threatening letters, federal grants, etc...
...His philosophy, such as it appears to be, is mindless action, often for its own sake...
...Their vision is so crabbed they don't realize he could teach them a thing or two about romping in the grass and buying whiskey which probably crippled more people than all of today's illegal drugs and narcotics...
...Not only is he generally ignorant about the realities of life, having sequestered himself in an idyllic, hothouse environment for a number of years, he also has failed to leam much from his professors w h o seem to the public little concerned with anything other than getting their charges involved in one '^meaningful" (translation: silly) affair after another...
...While the open-visitation policy produced the loudest uproar, the march on the statehouse probably created the greatest residue of ill will...
...Jimmy Hoffa's finest aren't about to allow some fondling to destroy their society in order to create — what, a n e w order in which the energetic will be forced to subsidize in still larger numbers a group of pseudo-intellectual bums who are both improductive and unoriginal...
...302 The shop foreman gets red in the ears when he drives around I. U. in his 1957 Ford and gapes at all the new Z-28s and M a c h Is and new foreign sports cars which the leftist leaders tool aroimd in while demanding, not asking, for more tax handouts for the college student...
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...Publishers, The Saturday Evening Club Managing Editor, Baron von Kannon Business Manager, Gregg F. Shull Senior Editors, George Washington PLtrNKiTT Rev...
...Any politician or school official who misreads the signs of Hoosier distemper is a poor diagnostician, indeed...
...The honest student who ignores taxpayer hostility and indulges in the more senseless furors such as swept the campus last year risks the destruction of quality education at Indiana University...
...If the student, isolated in his vine-covered university didn't know that legislators last December warned tuitions would probably have to go up, the man-on-the-street did...
...should be sent to The Alternative, R. R. 11, Box 360, Bloomington, Indiana 47401...
...he knows that the funds can be used only for the gym, and so do the leftists who raised the issue last spring...
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...If he doesn't know Hitler was instrumental in starting World W a r II (and not World W a r I as a coed informed one of m y colleagues), that doesn't bother him...
...The Hoosier adult is fed up with the babbling of revolutionary cliches by Bathless Gorgons who've never earned a buck, at least not honestly, and who've never heard the first hostile shot...
...Continental U. S. A. T O B A R E T H E W I T N E S S A N D T H E T R U T H I. U. AS OTHERS SEE IT by Sir Arthur Wellesley 302 A N E W FASCISM...
...His brain appears to have atrophied...
...Even if the governor were not disgusted with student behavior, and he surely is, he would be forced to take action by the irate taxpayer...
...Call 876-1211 or write our plush editorial' offices...
...THE ALTERNATIVE NEEDS WRITERS, PROOFREADERS AND FASCIST PIGS...
...H e knows better when the student body president tells him that the open-visitation policy will create better study habits (of what...
...Originally published on restroom walls, only since 1967 has it come mider purview of the Saturday Evening Club which publishes it from September through June...
...When their protests were no longer meaningful, to use their own word, they swung into action, pushing their students into stopping their education in order to stress their "concern for education...
...FUTURE FOR YOU IN EMETIC JOURNALISM...
...H e risks his career and the future of Indiana University should he disregard the public's mood...
...Face it, most Indiana adults are unconcerned most of the time with what goes on at Indiana University...
...George Nathan D John Kelley Associates, Jameson G. Campaigne, Jr...
...The march on the statehouse generated the most public animosity since it was the most visible display of student and faculty indifference to the learning process and demonstrated only too clearly the naivete of the marchers, most of w h o m apparently thought that their disruption of Indianapolis would produce a desirable effect, namely an emergency session to "restructure" the tax system in order to funnel still more into Bloomington...
...The business executive is tired of nonsense perpetrated by campus "leaders...
...The radical faculty members, who are so intent on encouraging and doing what's relevant slept through the legislative session...
...The average truck driver is just waiting for the radicals to get up the nerve or stupidity to come out of their tax-financed sanctuary and take on the "establishment...
...Thpre was no attempt by campus agitators at lobbying for higher taxes during the 1969 General Assembly to provide for the rising expense of education...
...Try some radiator rye sometime and see whether you don't get wierder visions than from a cube of LSD...
...by H. R. Trevor-Roper 304 THE SPRING OF OUR DISCONTENT: ITS ETIOLOGY by R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr 304 REFLECTIONS ON A TRIP by John Kelley 306 THE GREAT BRIDGE AT CHAPPAQUIDDICK by George Nathan 308 CONSERVATISM AND THE CAMPUS by Bill Kristol 309 THE SPRING FARCE by Egor Q. Dobius 310 LETTERS TO THE EDITOR 310 BRAYINGS FROM THE LEFT by Assorted Jackasses 311 I. U . A s O t h e r s S e e It BY Sir Arthur Wellesley What does the Hoosier public think about college students...
...The taxpayer who fought in Korea or World W a r II doesn't cotton to the idea of some students' efforts to tear the system apart...
...The state government will see to it that reasonable campus order is maintained...
...The march could only have been counterproductive...
...What is particularly galling to the Hoosier working man is to hear the campus "leaders" stand up in front of grown m e n in the legislature and solemnly tell the biggest goddam lie they've ever heard — and that on top of all the ranting and raving by these same youngsters about the hypocrisy of the older generation...
...State legislators were already on record warning that if a special session were called, they were in the mood to slash, not raise the budget for higher education...
...Since the aimouncement wasn't made in the bars of Bloomington, few students or their faculty "sponsors" apparently realized the probable increase...
...C. H. Simmonds D John Marcuse Sundt Contributors, William Kristol D Jerry Gerde Judy Mathews D Ron Burr Kevin Berry ' D Comrade Braden Nan Britton D Louisa Porter Tom Hamill D Spiro T. Achoo Alien Contributors, A l a n Somers, M . D . Special Effects, D. Peyton McQuillen Roaming Correspondent, Jefferson Davis Art Director, Sharon Bigane The Alternative was founded in 1924 by George Nathan and Truman Newberry over a cheap domestic beer in McSorley's Old Ale _ House...
...The average taxpayer is contemptuous toward campus issues...
...Those who do think about it are not particularly happy with the way their tax monies are being spent...
...Not much and that not very good...
Vol. 3 • September 1969 • No. 2
