The Continuing Crisis
DEPARTMENTS i i The Continuing Crisis ......................................................... 2 Editorial: R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr ......................................... 3 Letter From a Whig:...
...Nixon's plan was a generous and thoughtful initiative...
...Philip Berrigan went on trial in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania where Berrigan told reporters his purpose was to attract attention...
...Nixon "Bonehead of the Year...
...Editor-in4~hief: R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr...
...John McDonald nominated Barbara Jo Brimmer and Valerie Shoen to the Naval Academy...
...Agnew derives not from his manners or from his criticism...
...should be Sent to The Alternative, c-o The Establishment, R.R...
...They were right...
...politics Cannot be taken out of such a university...
...Did they actually think that with the restiveness of the conservatives Mr...
...B Ralpt~ Harris and Arthur Seldon: A New Verdict For Welfare...
...It is not as though they have not bamboozled themselves before...
...George Nathan Associates: David Brudnoy Jameson G. Campaigne, Jr...
...On 13 January Mr...
...At the Pardeeville, Wisconsin annual watermelon eating championships a Chicago teacher spit a watermelon seed 37 feet, four inches to win the seed spitting event...
...On the following day he announced that shouM the enemy agree to a cease fire throughout Indo-China, a prisoner exchange and internationally supervised elections open to all parties in South Vietnam, the United States would withdraw totally from South Vietnam within six months...
...On 24 January an assortment of six religious and intellectual leaders led by the Very Rev...
...And at the annual meeting of the American Historical Association Professor James Parsons, Ph.D...
...20 Braviag~ t~.~ ~ Barnyard: by Assorted Jackasses...
...Prospects dimmed for the endangered blackfooted ferret of White Rock, South Dakota...
...Indeed, it was the degradation of the academic dogma...
...The Senators filled 21,962 pages of ~he Congressional Record while the House managed only (continued on page 21) 2 The A l t e r n a t i v e ; March, 1972 _9 History was made by the women's liberationists when Milwaukee's bureau of sanitation abandoned its prohibition against employing women to shovel snow...
...And though Shiek Mujibur Rahman was released from West Pakistan, the Radford, Virginia city council voted to kill an estimated 150,000 starlings - - so taking one event with another there was adequate reason for gloom amongst ecology buffs...
...19 SYMPOSIUM " _ ! i . _9 i Michae~ Clar~an: A Soft-hearted Defense of Capitalism...
...later in the month Mr...
...Knowledge is power, whether you like it or not...
...We cannot return to knowledge for its own sake, that old Greek ideal, unless we also return to the idea that knowledge must be built upon fundamental presuppositions, that these are ultimately religious in nature, that all men do not agree on these, and therefore, that serious education and serious scholarship will always offend someone or some group...
...To coerce them into financing any "uni"versity is to invite disaster...
...In the Everglades rescuers toiIed furiously to free a rare two legged musk snake trapped in a highway construction mishap...
...What other philosophical bloc will support him...
...It also seems to be the dimly perceived view of most Americans...
...It later expired while being rushed to the Mayo Clinic...
...McGraw-Hill dropped plans to publish its autobiography...
...Jack Anderson has become an extraordinary celebrity indicating that 1972 will be the year of "gas bag chic...
...Agnew's speeches transcend mere legislation and suggest a wildly different view of man than that held by a majority of the press corps...
...Publisher: Baron Von Kannon and the Saturday Evening Club Managing Editor: R. James Maroe Circulation Manager: Ronald E. Burr Senior Editors: Terry Krieger William Kristol [ ] Rev...
...R. Emmett TyrreU, Jr...
...Two giant redwoods near Mill Valley, California assumed horizontal positions...
...Bonny Bong, a monkey residing in Santa Barbara, California received a one week jail sentence for scratching...
...9 On 2 January Mr...
...Professor Parsons describes himself as an expert in Chinese bear paw consumption...
...Howard Hughes stated that McGraw-Hill's autobiography was unauthorized and inauthentic, the White House began searching for security leaks...
...9 But for the livable world ~owd it was another catastrophic month...
...9 On 19 January David Hoffman of Bloomington, Indiana set out to break the world record for showering held by Peter Sehell of Germany, and on 24 January President Nixon unveiled his third straight deficit budget dubbed by his colleagues as a full-employment budget...
...ACADEMIC DOGMA (continued from page 18) Turks, old Turks and George Wallace have made it plain ~hat the really fundamental academic dogma -- intellectual neutrality -- is a myth...
...the dogma is still degraded...
...13 E. C. Pasour: Is the System Bad...
...Nixon would discard one of the few men in public life who has distinguished himself even with his enemies as a man of candor ? I suspect that the President realizes that the media's antipathy toward Mr...
...The tax-supported university is as a political issue...
...l l , Box 360, Bloomington, Indiana 47401, Continental U~.A...
...Accompanied by his heavily armed wife, Stanford professor H. Bruce Franklin held a press conference to calmly discuss the university's surprising attempt to fire him...
...Nixon announced an increased troop withdrawal, promising to bring American troop strength down to 69,000 by 1 May...
...A curious organization of Dallas businessmen acclaimed Mr...
...When the final ballots are in, we shall see if "them pointy-heads" command a majority, thus revising the academic dogma, if not in the minds of the relativists on the faculties...
...Dorothy Irwin of Sylmar, California when it sent out a picture of her sitting dazedly before the pile of toothpicks that had been her house before it was shredded by a bulldozer sent to the wrong address...
...This, above all else, is the built-in dilemma of modern education...
...Though outgunned by over four to one it was revealed that the Senate had outtalked the House by almost two to one...
...Agnew seems to have more encouraging prospects...
...Howard Hughes announced his intention to sit for a photograph sometime in February...
...EDITORIAL (continued from page 3) 1968 following was never reliable, and now like the locust it has moved on to the more bountiful corn of Pious George from the Prairies...
...But Mr...
...Gary North The A l t e r n a t i v e ; March, 1972 21...
...12 Correspondence: Letters' from Wood, Docksai, Groff and Hornsa...
...Despite government promises to save the whooping cranes there remain only 59, two more than last year...
...Two days earlier Congress had reconvened to consider the results of their previous session...
...18 i i t r I Published remarkably without regard to race, Color, Creed, or (most re~lundantly of all) national origin ~ the question of sex is still in (ommittee...
...9 WiLliam Styring on Down With the Poor...
...But the Associated Press got a chuckle on Mrs...
...Lmdsey: In Defense of the Free Market...
...9 Bella Abzug had a throat operation, and "Miss Nude America," Valerie Craft, was charged with indecent exposure in Evansville, Indiana...
...then at least in the minds of the ~axpayers...
...The crisis sickens...
...A century later the result of that impossible dogma manifested itself: the German university of 1937...
...9 In education the University of New Mexico made headlines by expanding its Navajo language program - - it now includes 66 students...
...Nixon knows this, and I expect his Vice President will remain on the national scene -- at least until November of 1972...
...Did they think that the only Republican with a grip on the affections of the blue collar workers would he expendable in an election year...
...9 The First Amendment was put to novel use when President Richard J. Wilson of Northern Illinois University lifted that school's ban on playing the American national anthem at basketball games, and the State of the Union Speech was delivered by Mr...
...The private universities and the private colleges may be in financial difficulty, but the politicians are willing to leave them alone...
...While on a diplomatic mission President Pompidou was accorded a colorful reception which included a fresh tomato...
...Jack Anderson published unauthorized government documents and took to touring the talk show circuit...
...Three businessmen in San Rafael, California have declared that it is now possible to be buried at sea for $250 -- though conservationists are up in arms...
...Agnew's view of man revives the view shared by our Founding Fathers...
...13 Brent NeLson on Selected Fssays...
...Copyright The Alternative Magazine 1972 _9 Politics became uncommonly popular in January...
...In such political struggles, Hayek has warned in chapter ten of The Road to Serdom, the worst seem to get on top...
...Ideas and Politics...
...Howard Hughes grabbed more headlines by holding a telephone press conference with 7 reporters...
...Jefferson Davis C. H. Simonds [ ] Roger D. Tyrrell Contributors: John Avey [ ] Paul Bernstein Frank W. Blatchford III [ ] Barry Burr David Friedman [ ] Je~'ry 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 Lohuaas ~ 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 res'n'oom walls, only since 1967 has it come under purview of the Saturday Evening Club which publishes it from October through June...
...When myths are called myths, they are about to be disposed of...
...McGrawHill announced plans to publish the autobiography of Mr: Howard Hughes and the White House evinced concern when Mr...
...Who gets the loll which has shaped the minds of men in the last century...
...And humanitarians became edgy when word came from Kinshaasa, Zaire that President Mobuto has agreed to "liberate" the pygmies from their "wild state...
...Nixon grabbed the headlines by holding an intimate press conference with CBS' Mr...
...And Mr...
...This is why, in the final analysis, Nisbet's appeal is to a dead dogma...
...If education is to be financed "democratically," i.e., through coercive taxation, and if the nation is really pluralist, how can the educational system reflect that laluralism without becoming multiply schizophrenic, then relativistic, then nihilistic, and finally a farce built upon a discarded myth...
...3 Letter From a Whig: George F. Will...
...Dan Rather...
...Did they think that, in an election that is appearing to shape up as a test of truth in government, Mr...
...Personally, I'm not betting on the pointy-heads...
...called upon "responsible and tough-minded scholars" to use psychedelic drugs to a i d in their researches...
...The next day the Democrats nationally televised a memorable rebuttal...
...the university is like a church...
...If you make everyone pay for it, the struggle for power will become increasingly intense as the tax base expands...
...5 David I...
...The only two in captivity are males and anyone knowing the whereabouts of a female should contact Senator George McGovern...
...22 The Bootblack Stand: Letters from John Lindsay and J. Edgar Hoover...
...Nixon would cut his last thread with such a large ideological bloc...
...The following day everyone, from James Reston to Senator Fulbright, agreed that Mr...
...Their astonishment when the obvious intrudes into their smartly conceived dream world is never unexpected...
...And back in the States Senator Edmund Muskie announced his intention to be the thirty-seventh successor to George Washington, as did Senator Hubert Humphrey, Governor George Wallace, a Mayor Lindsay, Congressman John Ashbrook, Congresswoman Shirley Chisholm, President Nixon and Irving Klotz, the New York City delicatessen tycoon...
...And tomatoes were only one variety of the many air-born delicacies greeting Hubert Humphrey while he addressed scholars at the American Association for the Advancement...
...of Science...
...The media took it as a great surprise recently that President Nixon endorsed his place on the "winning team...
...Nixon on 20 "January...
...What really arouses the media is that Mr...
...Subscriptions cost $4.00, and all correspondence (manuscripts, sUbscriptions, threafening letters, federal grants, etc...
...That, as this decade progresses, may become a singular blessing...
...The state-financed Prussian universities in which the modern doctrine of academic freedom was born required such a neutrality dogma...
...Roxey Bolton again demanded that the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration refer to hurricanes as "him-icanes," to be named after men rather than women, as is the present custom...
...And the revolution came two steps closer to consummation when in a flush of traditional American idealism, Senator Jacob Javits and Rep...
...Education cannot be neutral...
...The National Organization of Women's Mrs...
...Doug Cooper John R. Coyne, Jr...
...So now the question is more fundamental: power: Who gets control of the only established church in America, the public school system...
...l0 George F. Will on Man...
...Seeing men.as flawed creatures, Mr...
...While Mr...
...Prime Minister Heath received a great deal of ink while in Brussels for the signing of the Common Market Treaty...
...But no one, from Senator MeGovern to Congressman McCloskey, thought it would be accepted by the enemy...
...4 The Nation's Pulse: Marshall Jay...
...Make those who want it pay for it...
...14 REVIEWS Gary North on The Degredation oy the Academic Dogma...
Vol. 5 • March 1972 • No. 6
