The Effect of Liberalism on the Campus; J. Howard

There are many agencies work ing in behalf of this transfer of responsibility to the central gov ernment, but probably the most in fluential is the academic communDr. Howard is President of Rockford (Illinois) College. This article is reprinted by permis li86lrom New York State Taxpayer, January, ity as it conditions the thinking of the younger generations and as its prevailing attitudes are ex tended through speeches,· articles, and consulting services. It seems to me that those who are concerned with the erosion of individual initiative and the grow ing limitations on private enter prise need to turn their attentions to the colleges and uni versi ties as a prime generating force of collec tivism. These attentions need to follow several paths. First, there should be a careful analysis of the ac curacy of the present assertions. Second, to the extent that institu tions of highe'r learning are heavily weighted or wholly domin ated by a philosophy of public as opposed to private responsibility, a concerted effort should be made 627 628 THE FREEMAN October to persuade such institutions to appoint to the faculty and in other ways bring into the educational process, people who have faith in the powers and the consequences of private initiative. Third, those few colleges and universitie·s where the voices of individual re sponsibility are forthright and public should be provided with the financial resources to become at least as powerful as their sister institutions which are militant fac tors for collectivism.

How Private Enterprise Encourages Collectivism It is a great irony that individ uals and corporations whose in comes are earned through the pri vate enterprise system continue to support colleges and universities which are in fact, if not in intent, undermining that economic sys tem. On many campuses, the atti tude prevails that profit is a dirty word. The irony is compounded be cause it has taken generations to bring educational donors to a recognition that the effectiveness of the educational process depends upon the freedom of the academic staff to conduct their work free of pressures from the donors. The in troduction of massive Federal funds on the campus has radically changed this circumstance. The Federal government exerts an enormous influence on the educa tional process. In many ways, the government serves its own ends and adds to the pro-government, anti-private-initiative bias on cam pus.

The Federal involvement in edu cation has reached such propor tions that it is unlikely that a ma jor university can, without sacri fice, select a president who does not have extensive personal con tacts with Washington officials and who does not maintain their friendly confidence. In the present situation, the few institutions that do stand on the principles of individual responsi bili ty are allies of the most critical importance to those who would preserve private initiative. ~ The Dispensation ofTeaching MAX s. MARSHALL IT IS TIME to review all usage of drugs, not just a few which are popularly discussed or those used by physicians. Notables continue to advocate the use of drugs, a bias to which many undrugged persons object. Along with in creasing numbers of products which affect the mind, a schism is developing. Eve was invented a long time ago. If you doubt that she affects the mind, you may be in for an argument from a lot of adver tisers and makers of movies. Al cohol goes a long way back in his tory, too. It is one of the few Dr. Marshall is former Chairman of the De partment of Microbiology of the University of California Medical Center, San Francisco, with 38 years asa teacher.