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The Harvard Salient
October 1989
page 9.
Collegiate Times
DRUGS AND THE COLLEGE STUDENT
by George Bush
proposed are an all-out assault against
often drugs go hand in hand with
tangible: self-discipline, courage,
the evil of drug use and drug trafficking.
injustice, suffering and even death. But
character, support from one's family,
ummer is over and classes are
We are aggressively attacking the
where is the sound of protest? Innocent
faith in God and in one's self.
S
back in session. As we begin
problem from every angle, and
bystanders are killed at random on city
Fundamentally, the drug problem in
the school year, our thoughts
proposing a 1990 drug-budget totaling
streets. Babies are born addicted to crack
America is not one of supply, but of
again turn to the future-a future
over eight billion dollars-the largest
and heroin. Young children are forced
demand. We are taking strong new
gravely threatened by drugs.
single increase in history.
into the drug trade by addicts. What
action to stop the flow of drugs into
Americans agree that the biggest
Recently, I met with Mrs. Everett
greater human rights violations exist?
this country and to stop the dealers
threat we are facing as a nation is drugs,
Hatcher, the widow of a veteran DEA
What greater injustices? Yet,'
themselves; but as long as Americans
in particular cocaine and crack.
agent who was killed by drug-using
recreational drug users still on some
are willing to buy illegal drugs,
Who is responsible? Everyone who
cowards. A woman of considerable
college campuses are ambivalent to the
somebody, somewhere in the world will
uses drugs. Everyone who sells drugs.
dignity, she put responsibility for her
death and destruction they are financing.
sell them.
Everyone who looks the other way.
husband's death squarely on "casual"
Some people used to call drugs just
users of cocaine. She's right-and there
a benign form of recreation. they're not.
is now blood on their hands. Similarly,
Drugs are a real and extremely serious
President Barco of Colombia recently
Recreational drug
threat to out schools, our homes, our
made an appeal to Americans to stop
friends and our families. It doesn't
buying the cocaine causing the slaughter
users finance death
matter where you live or what school
of innocent civilians in the drug wars
you attend. No one is free from the
there.
and destruction.
threat of drugs. Inner cities, small
Every student in America at some
towns, and college campuses all are
point-at a party, in a locker room, in a
under siege-because America is under
dorm room-every student must choose
siege.
to accept or reject drugs. But there is
We must appeal to the social con-
rug use doesn't usually begin
On September 5, I announced the
another choice that college students, as
science of every college student on every
responsible adults, must make-whether
college campus in America. The way to
D
the way most people would
first comprehensive national strategy to
think, with young people get-
end the siege-to fight drugs with
to get involved in a personal way to end
protest the misery and oppression
ting their first drugs from an addict or a
tougher laws and enforcement, and with
drug use, or to look the other way.
brought about by drugs is to commit
dealer. Instead, they get them free from
improved treatment, education and
College campuses have long been
yourself to staying away from drugs—
"friends" who think casual drug use
prevention. The programs we've
centers of conscience and idealism in
and working to keep them away from
hurts no one. Peer pressure is what
this country, places where students have
your friends.
spreads drug use and peer pressure can
George Bush is President of the United
raised their voices to protest oppression,
America is fighting a war against
help stop it.
States. This column was written
injustice and human suffering around the
drugs. Yet the most important weapons
You can stop it-if you get
exclusively for Collegiate Times.
world. Yet, no one would deny that
in the war on drugs are the least
involved.
Institute For Educational Affairs
November 17, 1989
Mr. Douglas Wead
Special Assistant to the President
for Public Liaison
The White House
Washington, D. C. 20500
Dear Mr. Wead:
I thought you might be interested in having the enclosed set
of clips of President Bush's column on drugs, which we
distributed as our "Collegiate Times" feature in September. As
you will see, a wide range of schools used it, including both
Harvard and Yale. Moreover, since we do not employ a clippings
service or make any other systematic effort to determine usage, I
am reasonably confident that the enclosed are merely a sample of
where the column appeared.
We are very pleased with the attention the President's piece
has received and hope you are as well. We also greatly
appreciate your assistance in arranging for this column.
Needless to say, if the President is interested in speaking
directly to college and university students on another topic, we
would be glad to help out again.
Sincerely,
Leslie Lenkowsky
President
CC: Mary Kate Grant
encl.
1112 16th St., N.W., Suite #520 Washington, D.C. 20036 202-833-1801
THE RAM PAGE
October 12, 1989
Angelo State University
San Angelo, Texas
President Bush's View
Drugs and the college student
By GEORGE BUSH
College campuses have long been
President of the United States
This column was written by
centers of conscience and idealism
President George Bush ex-
in this country, places where stu-
Summer is over and classes are
clusively for Collegiate
dents have raised their voices to
back in session. As we begin the
Times, a syndiated column
protest oppression, injustice and
school year, our thoughts again turn
service.
human suffering around the world.
to the future - a future gravely
Yet, no one would deny that often
threatened by drugs.
drugs go hand in hand with injus-
Americans agree that the biggest
character, support from one family,
tice, suffering and even death. But
threat we are facing as a nation is
faith in God and in one self.
where is the sound of protest? Inno-
drugs, in particular cocaine and
Fundamentally, the drug problem
cent bystanders are killed at random
crack
in America is not one of supply, but of
on city streets. Babies are born
Some people used to call drugs
demand. We are taking strong new
addicted to crack and heroin. Young
just a benign form of recreation.
action to stop the flow of drugs into
children are forced into the drug
They're not Drugs are a real and
this country and to stop the dealers
trade by addicts. What greater human
extremely serious threat to our
themselves; but as long as Americans
rights violations exist? What greater
schools, our homes, our friends and
are willing to buy illegal drugs, some-
injustices? Yet, recreational drug
our families. Itdoesn tmatter where
body, somewhere in the world will
users still on some college cam-
you live or what school you attend.
sell them.
puses are ambivalent to the death
No one is free from the threat of
Recently, Imet with Mrs. Everett
and destruction they are financing
drugs. Inner cities, small towns, and
Hatcher, the widow of a veteran DEA
We must appeal to the social con-
college campuses all are under siege
agent who was killed by drug-using
science of every college student on
- because America is under siege.
cowards. A woman of considerable
every college campus in America.
On September 5, I announced the
dignity, she put responsibility for her
The way to protest the misery and
first comprehensive national strat-
husband's death squarely on "casual".
oppression brought about by drugs
egy to end the siege-to fight drugs
users of cocaine. She's right and
is to commit yourself to staying away
with tougher laws and enforcement,
there is now blood on their hands
from drugs and working to keep
and with improved treatment, edu-
Similarly, President Barco of Colom
them away from your friends.
cation, and prevention. The pro-
recently made an appeal to Ameri
Drug use doesn't usually begin
grams we ve proposed are an all-out
cans to stop buying the cocaine caus
the way most people would think,
assault against the evil of drug use
ing the slaughter of innocent civilians
with young people getting their first
and drug trafficking. We are aggres-
in the drug wars there.
drugs from an addict or a dealer.
sively attacking the problem from
Every student in America at some
Instead, they get them from "friends"
every angle, and proposing a 1990
point at a party, in a locker room, in
who think casual drug use hurts no
drug-budget totaling over eight bil-
a dorm room - every student must
one. Peer pressure is what spreads
lion
dollars
the largest single
choose to accept or reject drugs. But
drug use and peer pressure can help
increase in history
there is another choice that college
to stop it.
America is fighting a war against
students, as responsible adults, must
You can help stop it - if you get
drugs. Yet the most important weap-
make- whether to get involved in a
involved.
ons in the war on drugs are the least
personal way to end drug use, or to
tangible: self-discipline, courage,
look the other way.
Distributed by the Collegiate Network
THE LINEWS
Linfield College
McMinnville, Oregon
October, 1989
Drugs cause worst human rights violations
Summer is over and classes are back in session. As we
She's right - and there is now blood on their hands.
begin the school year, our thoughts again turn to the future
Similarly, President Barco of Columbia recently made an
- a future gravely threatened by drugs.
appeal to Americans to stop buying the cocaine causing the
Americans agree that the biggest threat we are facing as
slaughter of innocent civilians in the drug wars there.
a nation is drugs, in particular cocaine and crack.
Every student in America at some point - at a party, in
Who is responsible? Every-
a locker room, in a dorm room -
one who uses drugs. Everyone
who sells drugs. Everyone who
By President George Bush
every student must choose to
accept or reject drugs. But there
looks the other way.
For the Collegiate Network
is another choice that college
Some people used to call
students, as responsible adults,
drugs just a benign form or rec-
must make - whether to get
reation. They' not. Drugs are a real and extremely serious
involved in a personal way to end drug use, or to look the
threat to our schools, our homes, our friends and our
other way.
families. It doesn't matter where you live or what school
College campuses have long been centers of conscience
you attend. No one is free from the threat of drugs. Inner
and idealism in this country, places where students have
cities, small towns and college campuses all are under siege
raised their voices to protest oppression, injustice and human
- because America is under siege.
suffering around the world. Yet, no one would deny that
On Sept. 5, I announced the first comprehensive national
often drugs go hand in hand with injustice, suffering and
strategy to end the siege - to fight drugs with tougher laws
even death. But where is the sound of protest? Innocent
and enforcement, and with improved treatment, education
bystanders are killed at random on city streets. Babies are
and prevention. The programs we've proposed are an all-
born addicted to crack and heroin. Young children are
out assault against the evil of drug use and drug trafficking.
forced into the drug trade by addicts. What greater human
We are aggressively attacking the problem from every angle
rights violations exist? What greater injustices? Yet,
and proposing a 1990 drug-budget totaling over $8 billion
recreational drug users still on some college campuses are
- the largest single increase in history.
ambivalent to the death and destruction they are financing.
America is fighting a war against drugs. Yet the most
We must appeal to the social conscience of every college
important weapons in the war on drugs are the least tangible:
student on every college campus in America. The way to
self-discipline, courage, character, support from one's sfamily,
protest the misery and oppression brought about by drugs is
faith in God and in one's self.
to commit yourself to staying away from drugs - and
Fundamentally, the drug problem in America is not one
working to keep them away from your friends.
of supply, but of demand. We are taking strong new action
Drug use doesn't usually begin the way most people
to stop the flow of drugs into this country and to stop the
would think, with young people getting their first drugs
dealers themselves; but as long as Americans are willing to
from an addict or a dealer. Instead, they get them free from
buy illegal drugs, somebody, somewhere in the world will
"friends" who think casual drug use hurts no one. Peer
sell them.
pressure is what spreads drug use and peer pressure can help
Recently, I met with Mrs. Everett Hatcher, the widow of
stop it.
a veteran DEA agent who was killed by drug-using cowards.
You can help stop it - if you get involved.
A woman of considerable dignity, she put responsibility for
her husband's death squarely on "casual" users of cocaine.
Distributed by the Collegiate Network.
BAKERSFIELD COLLEGE, Bakersfield, CA
Page 8
RENEGADE RIP
October 23, 1989
PINION
College students' future
threatened by drug use
By President Bush
drugs. Yct the most important weap-
this country, places where students
Summer is over and classes are
ons in the war on drugs are the least
have raised their voices to protest
back in session. As we begin the school
tangible: self-discipline, courage, char-
oppression, injustice and human suf-
year, our thoughts again tum to the
acter, support from one's family, faith
fering around the world. Yct, no one
futurc-a future gravely threatened
in God and in onc's sclf.
would deny that often drugs go hand
by drugs.
Fundamentally, the drug problem
in hand with injustice, suffering and
Americans agree that the biggest
in America is not one of supply, but of
even death. But where is the sound of
threat we are facing as a nation is
demand. Wc arc taking strong new
protest?
drugs, in particular cocaine and crack.
action to stop the flow of drugs into
Innocent bystanders are killed at
Who is responsible? Everyone who
this country and to stop the dealers
random on city streets. Babics are
uscs drugs. Everyone who sells drugs.
themselves; but as long as Americans
born addicted to crack and heroin.
Everyone who looks the other way.
are willing to buy illegal drugs, some-
Young children are forced into the
Some people used to call drugs just
body, somewhere in the world will
drug trade by addicts. What greater
a benign form of recreation. They're
sell them.
human rights violations exist? What
not. Drugs are a real and extremely
Recently, I met with Mrs. Everett
greater injustices? Yct, recreational
scrious threat to our schools, our
Hatcher, the widow of a veteran DEA
drug uscrs still on some college
homes, our friends and our families.
agent who was killed by drug-using
campuses are ambivalent to the death
It docsn't matter where you live or
cowards. A woman of considerable
and destruction they are financing
what school you attend. No one is free
dignity, she put responsibility for her
Wc must appeal to the social con-
from the threat of drugs. Inner citics,
husband's death squarely on "casual"
science of every college student on
small towns, and college campuses all
uscrs of cocaine. Shc's right-and there
every college campus in America.
are under siege-because America is
is now blood on their hands.
The way to protest the miscry and op-
under sicge.
Similarly, President Barco of Co-
pression brought about by drugs is to
On September 5, I announced the
lombia recently made an appeal to
commit yourself to staying away from
first comprehensive national strategy
Americans to stop buying the cocàine
drugs-and working to keep them
to end the sicge-to fight drugs with
causing the slaughter of innocent ci-
away from your friends.
tougher laws and enforcement, and
vilians in the drug wars there.
Drug usc doesn't usually begin the
with improved treatment, education
Every student in America at some
way most people would think, with
and prevention.
point-at a party, in a locker room, in
young people getting their first drugs
The programs ve've-proposed are
a dorm room-cvery student must
from an addict or a dealer. Instead,
an all-out assault against the cvil of
choose to accept or reject drugs. But
they get them free from "friends"
drug use and drug trafficking. Wc are
there is another choice that college
who think casual drug use hurts no
aggressively attacking the problem
students, as responsible adults, must
onc. Peer pressure is what spreads
from every angle, and proposing a
make-whether to get involved in.a
drug usc and peer pressure can help
1990 drug budget totaling more than
personal way to end drug usc, or to
stop it.
$8 billion. - the largest single in-
look the other way.
You can help stop it-if you get
crease in history.
College campuses have long been
involved.
America is fighting a war against
centers of conscience and idealism in
Collegiate Times September 1989
HOPKINS
Volume 2, Issue
#1
A Monthly Political Journal Published By Students of the Johns Hopkins University
Sept.-Oct., 1989
Drugs and the College
Drugs and College
Continued from page 8
Student
users still on some college cam-
puses are ambivalent to the death
and destruction they are financ-
ing.
Recently, I met with Mrs.
We must appeal to the
President George Bush argues that the demand side of the
Everett Hatcher, the widow of a
social conscience of every college
drug battle is where the fighting must be done.
veteran DEA agent who was killed
student on every college campus
by drug-using cowards. A woman
in America: The way to protest the
of considerable dignity., she put
misery and oppression brought
responsibility for her husband's
about by drugs is to commit your-
death squarely on "casual" users
self to staying away from drugs -
Summer is over and classes
to fight drugs with tougher laws
of cocaine. She's right - and there
and working to keep them away
are back in session. As we begin
and enforcement, and with im-
is now blood on their hands. Simi-
from friends.
the school year, our thoughts again
proved treatment, education and
larly, President Barco of Colum-
Drug-use doesn't usually
turn to the future - a future gravely
prevention. The programs we've
bia recently made an appeal to
begin the way most people would
threatened by drugs.
proposed are an all-out assault
Americans to stop buying cocaine,
think, with young people getting
Americans agree that the
against the evil of drug-use and
which causes the slaughter of in-
their first drugs from an addict or
biggest threat we are facing as a
drug-trafficking. We are aggres-
nocent civilians in the drug wars
a dealer. Instead, they get them
nation is drugs, in particular co-
sively attacking the problem from
there.
free from "friends" who think
caine and crack.
every angle, and are proposing a
College campuses have
casual drug-use hurts no one. Peer
Who is responsible? Ev-
1990 drug budget totaling over
long been the centers of conscience
pressure is what spreads drug-use.
eryone who uses drugs. Everyone
eight billion dollars - the largest
and idealism in this country, places
And peer pressure can help stop it.
who sells drugs. Everyone who
single increase in history.
where students have raised their
You can help stop it - if
looks that other way.
America is fighting a war
voices to protest oppression, in-
you get involved.
Some people used to call
against drugs. Yet the most im-
justice and human suffering around
drugs a benign form of recreation.
portant weapons in the war on
the world. Yet, no one would deny
They're not. Drugs are a real and
drugs are the least tangible: self-
that often drugs go hand in hand
Mr. Bush is the forty-first presi-
extremely serious threat to our
discipline, courage, character,
with injustice, suffering and even
dent of the United States, and is a
schools, our homes, our friends
support from one's family, faith in
death. But where is the sound of
graduate of Yale University. This
and our families. It doesn't matter
God and in one's self.
protest? Innocent bystanders are
column was written exclusively for
where you live or what school you
Fundamentally, the drug
killed at random on city streets.
the Collegiate Times. The Hopkins
attend. No one is free from the
problem in America is not one of
Babies are born addicted to crack
Spectator is a member of the Col-
threat of drugs. Inner cities, small
supply, but of demand. We are
and cocaine, Young children are
legiate Network.
towns, and college campuses - all
taking new action to stop the flow
forced into the drug trade by ad-
are under siege. Because America
of drugs into this country and to
dicts. What greater human-rights
is under siege.
stop the dealers themselves; but as
violations exist? What greater in-
On September 5, I an-
long as Americans are willing to
justices? Yet, recreational drug-
nounced the first comprehensive
buy illegal drugs, somebody, some-
national strategy to end the siege -
where in the world, will sell them.
Continued on next page
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October 1989
Drugs and the College Student
by President George Bush
Summer is over and classes are back
threat of drugs. Inner cities, small towns,
willing to buy illegal drugs, somebody,
dom on city streets. Babies are born
in session. As we begin the school year,
and college campusesa are under siege
somewhere in the world will sell them.
addicted to crack and/heroin. Young
our thoughts again turn to the future
because America is under siege.
Recently, I met with Mrs. Everett
children are forced into the drug trade
a future gravely threatened by drugs.
On September 5, I announced the
Hatcher, the widow of a veteran DEA
by addicts. What greater human rights
Americans agree that the biggest
first comprehensive national strategy
agent who was killed by drug-using
violations exist? What greater injus-
threat we are facing as a nation is drugs,
to end the siege to fight drugs with
cowards. A woman of considerable
tices? Yet, recreational drug users still
in particular cocaine and crack.
tougher laws and enforcement, and with
dignity, she put responsibility for her
on some campuses are ambivalent to
improved treat-
husband's death squarely on "casual"
the death and destruction they are fi-
ment, education
users of cocaine. She's right - and
nancing.
and prevention.
there is now blood on their hands. Simi-
We must appeal to the social con-
The programs
larly, President Barco of Colombia re-
science of every college student on every
we've proposed
cently made an appeal to Americans to
college campus in America. The way to
are an all-out as-
stop buying the
sault against the
cocaine causing
evilo of drug useand
the slaughter of
the most important weapons
drug trafficking.
nocent civilians in
We are aggres-
the drug wars
in the war on drugs are the
sively attacking the
there.
least tangible: self-discipline,
problem from cv-
Every student
cry angle, and pro-
in America at
courage, character, support
posing a 1990 drug
some point at a
budget totaling
party, in a locker
from one's family, faith in
over eight billion
room, in a dorm
dollars the larg-
room every
God, and in one's self.
est single increase
student must
in history.
choose to accept or reject drugs. But
protest the misery and oppression
America is
there is another choice that college stu-
brought about by drugs is to commit
fighting a war
dents, as responsible adults, must make
yourself to staying away from drugs
against drugs. Yet
whether to get involved in a personal
and working to keep them away from
the most important
way to end drug use, or to look the other
your friends.
weapons in the war
way.
Drug use doesn't usually begin the
Who is responsible? Everyone who
on drugs are the least tangible:
College campuses have long been
way most people would think, with
uses drugs. Everyone who sells drugs.
self-discipline, courage, character,
centers of conscience and idealism in
young people getting their first drugs
Everyone who looks the other way.
support from one's family, faith in God
this country, places where students have
froman addict or a dealer. Instead, they
Some people used to call drugs just
and in one's self.
raised their voices in protest oppres-
get them free from "friends" who think
a benign form of recreation. They're
Fundamentally, the drug problem
sion, injustice and human suffering
casual drug use hurts no one. Peer
not. Drugs are a real and extremely
in America is not one of supply, but of
around the world. Yet, no one would
pressure is what spreads drug use and
serious threat to our schools, our homes,
demand. We are taking strong new
deny that often drugs go hand in hand
peer pressure can help stop it.
our friends and our families. It doesn't
action to stop the flow of drugs this
with injustice, suffering and even death.
You can help stop it - if you get
matter where you live or what school
country and to stop the dealers them-
But where is the sound of protest?
involved.
you attend. No one is free from the
selves; but as long as Americans are
Innocent bystanders are killed at ran-
Distributed by the Collegiate Network
THE DAILY BEACON
Wednesday, October 4, 1989
University of Tennessee
Knoxville, Tennessee
Presidential plea
Summer President is over and classes petitions collegiates to fight in drug war
are
back in session. As we begin the
proposed are an all-out assualt
Hatcher, the widow of a veteran DEA
against the evil of drug use and drug
this country, places where students
agent who was killed by drug-using
commit yourself to staying away
school year, our thoughts again turn
to the future a future gravely
trafficking. We are aggressively at-
have raised their voices to protest op-
from
cowards. A. woman of considerable
drugs and working to keep
tacking the problem from every
pression, injustice and human suffer-
dignity, she put responsibility for her
them away from your friends.
threatened by drugs.
angle, and proposing a 1990 drug-
ing around the world. Yet, no one
husband's death squarely on
Drug use doesn't usually begin the
Americans agree that the biggest
would deny that often drugs go hand
threat we are facing as a nation is
budget totaling over $8 billion - the
"casual" users of cocaine. She's right
way most people would think, with
drugs, in particular cocaine and
largest single increase in history.
in hand with injustice, suffering and
- and there is now blood on their
young people getting their first drugs
even death. But where is the sound of
crack.
America is fighting a war against
hands. Similarly, President Barco of
from an addict or a dealer. Instead,
protest? Innocent bystanders are kill-
drugs. Yet the most important
GEORGE
Colombia recently made an appeal to
they get them free from "friends'
Who is responsible? Everyone who
ed at random on city streets. Babies
uses drugs. Everyone who sells
weapons in the war are the least
Americans to stop buying the cocaine
who think casual drug use hurts no
BUSH
tangible; self-discipline, courage,
are born addicted to crack and
causing the slaughter of innocent
one. Peer pressure is what spreads
drugs. Everyone who looks the other
heroin. Young children are forced in-
character, support from family, faith
civilians in the drug wars there.
drug use and peer pressure can help
way.
in God and one's self.
to the drug trade by addicts. What
stop it.
Some people used to call drugs just
Every student in America at some
Fundamentally, the drug problem
greater human rights violations ex
point - at a party, in a locker room,
You can help stop it - if you get
a benign form of recreation. They're
not. Drugs are a real and extremely
in America is not one of supply, but of
ist? What greater injustices? Yet,
involved.
in a dorm room every student must
demand. We are taking strong new
recreational drug users still, on some
serious threat to our schools, our
America is under siege.
choose to accept or reject drugs. But
college campuses, are ambivalent of
homes, our friends and our families.
action to stop the flow of drugs into
On Sept. 5, I announced the first
there is another choice that college
It doesn't matter where you live or
this country and to stop the dealers
the death and destruction they are
comprehensive national strategy to
students, as responsible adults, must
themselves; but if Americans are
financing.
end the siege - to fight drugs with
make - whether to get involved in a
George Bush is President of the
what schools you attend. No one is
willing to buy illegal drugs
We must appeal to the socal cons-
personal way to end drug use, or to
United States and a guest columnist
free from the threat of drugs. Inner
tougher laws and enforcement and
cities, small towns and college cam-
somebody, somewhere in the world
cience of every college student on
look the other way.
for The Daily Beacon. This column
with improved treatment, education
will sell them.
every. college campus in America
puses are all under siege - because
College campuses have long been
was written exclusively for the Col-
and prevention. The programs we've
Recently, I met with Mrs. Everett
The way to protest the misery and op-
centers of conscience and idealism in
legiate Times and distributed by the
pression brought about by drugs is to
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September 29, 1989
Pacific Lutheran University Tacoma, Washington
COLLEGE PRESS SERVICE
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ROCKY MIN.
NOWS-NEWS
WAR
ON
CLiNK
Bush calls upon students
to join fight against drugs
Editor's note: Part of The Moor-
of the drug use and drug traffick-
end drug use, or to look the other
ing Mast's mission is to offer other>
ing. We are aggressively attacking
way.
viewpoints on issues. We do this
the problem from every angle, and
College campuses have long been
through our letters forum and col-
proposing a 1990 drug-budget total-
centers of conscience and idealism
umns much like the following.
ing over eight billion dollars - the
in this country, places where
President George Bush wrote this
largest single increase in history.
students have raised their voices to
piece specifically for college
America is fighting a war against
protest oppression, injustice-and
students.
drugs Yet the most important
human suffering around the world
weapons in the war on drugs are the
Yet, no one would deny that often
least tangible: self-discipline,
drugs go hand in hand with in-
by George Bush
courage, character, support from
justice, suffering and even death.
one's family, faith in God and in
But where is the sound of protest?
one's self.
Innocent bystanders are killed at
Summer is over and classes are
Fundamentally, the drug problem
random on city streets. Babies are
back in session. As we begin the
in America is not one of supply, but
born addicted to crack and heroin.
school year, our thoughts again turn
of demand. We are taking strong
Young children are forced into the
to the future - a future gravely
new action to stop the flow of drugs
drug trade by addicts.
threatened by drugs.
into this country and to stop the
What greater human rights viola-
Americans agree that the biggest
dealers themselves; but as long as
tions exist?
threat we are facing as a nation is
Americans are willing to buy illegal
What greater injustices?
drugs, in particular cocaine and
drugs, somebody, somewhere in the
Yet, recreational drug users still
crack.
world will sell them.
on some college campuses are am-
Who is responsible? Everyone
Recently, I met with Mrs. Everett
bivalent to the death and destruc-
who uses drugs. Everyone who
Hatcher, the widow of a veteran
tion they are financing.
sells drugs. Everyone who looks the
DEA agent who was killed by drug-
We must appeal to the social con-
other way.
using cowards. A woman of con-
science of every college student on
Some people used to call drugs
siderable dignity, she put respon-
every college campus in America.
just a benign form of recreation.
sibility for her husband's death
The way to protest the misery and
They're not. Drugs are a real and
squarely on "casual" users of co-
oppression brought about by drugs
extremely serious threat to our
caine. She's right - and there is
is to commit yourself to staying
schools, our homes, our friends and
now blood on their hands.
away from drugs - and working to
our families.
Similarly; President Barco of
keep them away from your friends.
It doesn't matter where you live
Colombia recently made an appeal
Drug use doesn't usually begin
or what school you attend. No one
to Americans to stop buying the co-
the way most people would think,
is free from the threat of drugs. In-
caine causing the slaughter of inno-
with young people getting their first
ner cities, small towns, and college
cent civilians in the drug wars
drugs from an addict or a dealer. In-
campuses all are under siege--
there.
stead, they get them free from
because America is under siege.
Every student in America at
"friends" who think casual drug
On September 5, I announced the
some point - at a party, in a locker
use hurts no one.
first comprehensive, national
room, in a dorm room every
Peer pressure is what spreads
strategy to end the siege - to fight
student must choose to accept or re-
drug use and peer pressure can help
drugs with tougher laws and en-
ject drugs.
stop it.
forcement, and with improved treat-
But there is another choice that
You can help stop it - if you get
ment, education and prevention.
college students, as responsible
involved.
The programs we've proposed
adults, must make - whether to
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are an all-out assault against the evil
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VOLUME VII, NUMBER 1
OCTOBER 1989
NATIONAL DRUG
STRATEGY
President Bush delivers a message
to Wesleyan students
on the hazards of drug use
Summer is over and classes are back in
mand. We are taking strong new action to
session. As we begin the school year, our
stop the flow of drugs into this country and
thoughts again turn to the future future
to stop the dealers themselves; but as long
gravely threatened by drugs.
as Americans are willing to buy illegal
Americans agree that the biggest threat
drugs, somebody. somewhere in the world
we are facing as a nation is drugs. in par-
will sell them.
ticular cocaine and crack.
Recently, I met with Mrs. Everett
Who is responsible? Everyone who
Hatcher, the widow of a veteran DE agent
uses drugs. Everyone who sells drugs.
who was killed by drug-using cowards. A
Everyone who looks the other way.
woman of considerable dignity, she put
Some people used to call drugs just a
responsibility for her husband's death
benign form of recreation. They're not.
squarely on "casual" users of cocaine. She's
Drugs are a real and extremely serious
right - and there is now blood on their
threat to our schools, our homes. our friends
hands. Similarly, President Barco of (i)
and our families. It doesn't matter where
lombia recently made an appeal to Amen.
you live or what school you attend. No one
cans to stop buying the cocaine causing the
is free from the threat of drugs.
slaughter of innocent civilians in
Inner citics, small towns.
the drug wars there.
and college campuses all
are under siege - bc-
RESIDENT
OF
THE
Every student in America
at some point - at a
cause America is
under siege.
UNITED
party, in a locker-room,
in a dorm room -
On September 5.
every student must
I announced the first
comprehensive na-
THE
choose to accept or
reject drugs. But there
tional strategy to end
OF
the siege - to fight
drugs with tougher laws
STATES
is another choice that
college students, as rc-
sponsible adults, must
and enforcement, and with
make whether to get in-
improved treatment, educa-
volved in a personal way to
tion and prevention. The pro-
end drug usc, or to look the other
grams we've proposed are an all-out as-
way.
sault against the evil of drug use and drug
College campuses have long been
trafficking. We are aggressively attacking
centers of conscience and idealism in this
the problem from every angle, and propos-
country, place where students have raised
ing a-1990 drug-budget totaling over cight
their voices to protest oppression, injustice
billion dollars the largest single increase
and human suffering around the world.
in history.
Yet, no one would deny that often drugs go
America is fighting a war against drugs.
hand in hand with injustice, suffering and
Yet the most important weapons in the war
even death. But where is the sound of
on drugs are the least tangible: self-disci-
protest? Innocent bystanders are killed at
pline, courage. character, support from
random on city streets. Babics are born ad-
onc's family, faith in God and in one's sclf.
dicted to crack and heroin. Young children
Fundamentally, the drug problem in
are forced into the drug trade addicts. What
America is not one of supply. but of dc-
greater human rights violations exist? What
greater injustices? Yet, recreational drug
Drug use doesn't usually begin the
users still on some college campuses are
way most people would think. with young
ambivalent to the death and destruction
people getting their first drugs from an
they are financing.
addict or a dealer. Instead, they get them
We must appeal to the social con-
free from "friends" who think casual drug
science of every college student on every
use hurts no one. Peer pressure is what
college campus in America. The way to
spreads drug use and peer pressure can help
protest the miscry and oppression brought
stop it.
about by drugs is to commit yourself to
You can help stop it - if you get
staying away from drugs-and working: 10
involved.
keep them away from your friends.
THE
George
WILLIAMS OBSERVER
Volume II, Number 1
September 1989
From the Oval Office.
Drugs and the American College Student
by President George Bush
ummer is over and classes are
ROTX
1989 THE PATTSBURGH PRESS/UNITED FEAURE SYNDCATE
S
back in session. As we begin the
school year, our thoughts again turn to
the future--a future gravely threatened
CHARGE!
by drugs.
Americans agree that the biggest
threat we are facing as a nation is drugs,
in particular cocaine and crack.
Who is responsible? Everyone who
uses drugs. Everyone who sells drugs.
WAR ON
Everyone who looks the other way.
Some people used to call drugs just a
DRUGS
benign form of recreation. They' re not.
Drugs are a real and extremely scrious
threat to our schools, our homes, our
friends and our families. It doesn't mat-
ter where you live or what school you
STATES
attend. No one is free from the threat of
drugs. Inner cities, small towns, and col-
lege campuses all are under siege--bc-
cause America is under siege.
On September 5. I announced the first
comprehensive national strategy to end
the siege-to fight drugs with tougher
laws and enforcement. and with im-
proved treatment, education and preven-
will sell them.
blood on their hands. Similarly, Presi-
standers are killed at random on city
tion. The programs we vc proposed are
dent Barco of Colombia recently made
streets. Babies are bom addicted to
Recently. ! met with Mrs: Everett
an appeal to Americans to stop buying
crack and heroin. Young children are
an all-out assault against the evil of drug
Hatcher, the widow of a veteran DEA
the cocaine causing the slaughter of in-
forced into the drug trade by addicts.
use and drug trafficking. We are aggres-
agent who was killed by drug-using
nocent civilians in the drug wars there.
What greater human rights violations
sively attacking the problem from every
cowards. A woman of considerable dig-
exist? What greater injustices? Yet, rec-
angle, and proposing a 1990 drug-
nity, she put responsibility for her hus-
Every student in America at some
reational drug users still on some col-
budget totaling over eight billion dol-
band's death squarely on "casual" users
point--at a party, in a locker room, in a
lege campuses are ambivalent to the
lars-the largest single increase in his-
of cocaine. She's right--and there is now
dorm room--every student must choose
death and destruction they are financing.
tory.
to accept or reject drugs.
But there is another
We must appeal to the social con-
OFFICE 16 RESEURSON RISS
ROED
UNITED FEATURE SYNDMATE
choice that college stu-
science of every college student on ev-
I WANT ALL You KINGPINS,
dents, as responsible
ery college campus in America. The
adults, must make--
way to protest the misery and oppres-
DeALeRS AND USeRS OUT
whether to get involved
sion brought about by drugs is to com-
THeRe TO KNOW... You'Re
in a personal way to end
mit yourself to staying away. from
IN Deep DOO-DOO!
drug use, or to look the
drugs--and working to keep them away
other way.
from your friends.
College campuses
Drug use doesn't usually begin the
have long been centers
way most people would thing. with
of conscience and ideal-
young people getting there first drugs
ism in this country,
from an addict or a dealer. Instead, they
places where students
get them free from "friends" who think
have raised their voices
casual drug use hurts no one. Peer pres-
to protest oppression, in-
sure is what spreads drug use and peep
justice and human suf-
pressure can help stop it.
fering around the world.
You can help stop it--if you get in-
Yet, no one would deny
volved.
that often drugs go hand
in hand with injustice,
suffering and even death.
This column was written exclusively for
But where is the sound
members of The Collegiate Network.
of protest? Innocent by-
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THE WILLIAMS OBSERVER SEPTEMBER 1989
The CAROLINA
CRITIC
LETTER FROM THE PRESIDENT
OF THE UNITED STATES
Drugs and the College Student
By George Bush
ummer is over and classes
S
President Barco of Colombia
are back in session. As
recently made an appeal to
we begin the school year,
Americans to stop buying the
our thoughts again turn
cocaine causing the slaughter of
to the future a future gravely threat-
innocent civilians in the drug wars
ened by drugs.
there.
Americans agree that the biggest
Every student in America at
threat we are facing as a nation is
some point - at a party, in a
drugs, in particular cocaine and crack.
locker room, in a dorm room
Who is responsible? Everyone
every student must choose to
who uses drugs. Everyone who sells
accept or reject drugs. But there
drugs. Everyone is looking the other
is another choice that college stu-
way.
dents, as responsible adults, must
Some people used to call drugs
make - whether to get involved
just a benign form of recreation.
in a personal way to end drug use,
They're not. Drugs are a real and
or to look the other way.
extremely serious threat to our
College campuses have long
schools, our homes, our friends and
been centers of conscience and
our families. It doesn't matter where
idealism in this country, places
you live or what school you attend.
where students have raised their
No one is free from the threat of
voices to protest oppression, in-
drugs. Inner cities, small towns, and
justice and human suffering
college campuses all are under siege - because America is
around the world. Yet, no one would deny that often drugs go
under siege.
hand in hand with injustice, ffering and even death. But where
On September 5, I announced the first comprehensive na-
is the sound of protest? Innocent bystanders are killed at random
tional strategy to end the siege to fight drugs with tougher
on city streets. Babies are born addicted to crack and heroin.
laws and en forcement, and with improved treatment, education
Young children are forced into the drug trade by addicts. What
and prevention. The programs we've proposed are an all-out
greater human rights violations exist? What greater injustices?
assault against the evil of drug use and drug trafficking. We are
Yet, recreational drug users still on some college campuses are
aggressively attacking the problem from every angle, and
ambivalent to the death and destruction they are financing.
proposing a 1990 drug-budget totaling over eight billion dollars
We must appeal to the social conscience of every college
- the largest single increase in history.
student on every college campus in America. The way to protest
America is fighting a war against drugs. Yet the most
the misery and oppression brought about by drugs is to commit
important weapons in the war on drugs are the least tangible:
yourself to staying away from drugs - and working to keep
self-discipline, courage, character, support from one's family,
them away from your friends.
faith in God and in one's self.
Drug use doesn't usually begin the way most people would
Fundamentally, the drug problem in America is not one of
think, with young people getting their first drugs from an addict
supply, but of demand. We are taking strong new action to stop
or dealer. Instead, they get them free from "friends" who think
the flow of drugs into this country and to stop the dealers
casual use hurts no one. Peer pressure is what spreads drug use
themselves; but as long as Americans are willing to buy illegal
and peer pressure can help stop it.
drugs, somebody, somewhere in the world will sell them.
You can help stop it - if you get involved.
a
Recently, I met with Mrs. Everett Hatcher, the widow of a
veteran DEA agent who was killed by drug-using cowards. A
George Bush is President of the United States (which is the
woman of considerable dignity, she put responsibility for her
country in which you live). This column is written exclusively
husband's death squarely on "casual" users of cocaine. She's
for Collegiate Times, and is distributed by the Collegiate
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Summer is over and classes are back in
war on drugs are the least tangible: self-disci-
fering, and even death. But where is the
session. As we begin the school year, our
pline, courage, character, support. from one's
sound of protest? Innocent bystanders are
thoughts again turn to the future - a fu-
family, faith in God and in one's self.
killed at random on city streets. Babies are
ture gravely threatened by drugs.
Fundamentally, the drug problem in Amer-
born addicted to crack and heroin. Young
Americans agree that the biggest threat
ica is not one of supply, but of demand. We are
children are forced into the drug trade by
we are facing as a nation is drugs, in par-
taking strong new action to stop the flow of
aaddicts. What greater human rights viola-
ticular cocaine and crack.
drugs into this country and to stop the dealers
tions exists? What greater injustices? Yet,
Who is responsible? Everyone who
themselves; but as long as Americans are will-
recreational drug users still on some col-
uses drugs. Everyone who sells drugs. Ev-
ing to buy illegal drugs, somebody, somewhere
lege campuses are ambivalent to the death
eryone who looks the other way.
in the world, will sell them.
and destruction they are financing.
Some people used to call drugs just a
Recently, I met with Mrs. Everett Hatcher,
We must appeal to the social conscience
benign form of recreation. They're not.
the widow of a veteran DEA agent who was
of every college student on every college
Drugs are a real and extremely serious
killed by drug-using cowards. A woman of
campus in America. The way to protect the
threat to our schools, our homes, our
considerable dignity, she put the responsibility
misery and oppression brought about by
friends and families. It doesn't matter
for her husband's death squarely on the "cas-
drugs is to commit yourself to staying
where you live or what school you attend.
ual" users of cocaine. She's right - and there
away from drugs and working to keep
No one is free from the threat of drugs.
is now blood on their hands. Similarly, Presi-
them away from your friends,
Inner cities, small towns, and college cam-
dent Barco of Colombia recently made an ap-
Drug use doesn't usually begin the way
puses all are under siege because Amer-
peal to Americans to stop buying cocaine caus-
people would think, with young people get-
ica is under siege.
ing the slaughter of innocent civilians in the
ting their first drugs from an addict or a
On September 5, I announced the first
drug wars there.
dealer. Instead, they get them free from
comprehensive national strategy to end the
Every-student in America at some point
"friends" who think casual drug use hurts
siege - to fight drugs with tougher laws
at a party, in a locker room, in a dorm room -
no one. Peer pressure is what spreads drug
and enforcement, and with improved treat-
every student must choose to accept or reject
use and peer pressure can help stop it.
ment, education, and prevention. The pro-
drugs. But there is another choice that college
You can help stop it - if you get in-
grams we've proposed are an all-out as-
students, as responsible adults, must make -
volved.
sault against the evil of drug use and drug
whether to get involved in a personal way to
trafficking. We are aggressively attacking
end drug use, or to look the other way.
George H. W. Bush is the forty-first
the probelm from every angle, and propos-
College campuses have long been centers of
president of the United States and a con-
ing a 1990 drug-budget totaling over eight
conscience and idealism in this country, places
tributer to the Cornell Review.
billion dollars - the largest increase in
where students have raised their voices to pro-
history.
test oppression, injustice, and human suffering
America is fighting a war against drugs.
around the world. Yet, no one would deny that
Yet the most important weapons ion the
often drugs go hand in hand with injustice, suf-
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dignity. she put responsibility for her
husband's death squarely on "casual"
Summer Is over and classes are
users of cocaine. She's right - and
back In session. As we begin the school
there Is now blood on their hands.
year, our thoughts again turn to the
Similarly, President Barco of Colombia
future-a future gravely threatened by
recently made an appeal to Americans
drugs.
to stop buying the cocaine causing the
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threat we are facing as a nation is
drug wars there.
drugs. in particular cocaine and crack.
Every student in America at some
Who is responsible? Everyone who
point a party. In a locker room. In
uses drugs. Everyone who sells drugs.
a dorm room - every student must
Everyone who looks the other way.
choose to accept or reject drugs. But
Some people used to call drugs just
there is another choice that college
a benign form of recreation. They're
students, as responsible adults, must
not Drugs are a real and extremely
make - whether to get involved In a
serious threat to our schools. our
personal way to end drug use. or to
homes, our friends at our families. It
look the other way.
doesn't matter where you live or what
College campuses have long been
school you attend. No one is free from
centers of conscience and Idealism in
the threat of drugs. Liner cities. small
this country. places where students
towns, and college ampuses all are
have ralsed their voices to protest
understege-becaus America Is under
oppression. Injustice and human suf-
slege.
fering around the world. Yet. no one
On September 5. i announced the
would deny that often drugs go hand In
first comprehensive national strategy
hand with injustice. suffering and even
to end the siege - to nght drugs with
death. But where is the sound of pro-
tougher laws and enforcement. and
test? Innocent bystanders are killed at
with Improved treatment, education
random on city streets. Bables are
and prevention. The programs we've
born addicted to crack and heroin.
proposed are an all-out assault against
Young children are forced into the
the evil of drug use and drug traMck-
drug trade by addicts. What greater
Ing. We are aggressively attacking the
human rights violations exist? What
problem from every angle. and propos-
greater Injustices? Yet. recreational
ing a 1990 drug-budget totaling over
drug users still on some college cam-
eight billion dollars the largest single
puses are ambivalent to the death and
Increase In history.
destruction they are financing.
America is fighting a war against
We must appeal to the social con-
drugs. Yet the most Important weap-
science of every college student on
ons In the war on drugs are the least
every college campus In America. The
tangible: self-discipline. courage. char-
way to protest the misery and oppres-
acter, support from one's family. faith
sion brought about by drugs is to
in God and in one's self.
cominit yourself to staying away from
Fundamentally. the drug problem
drugs - and working to keep them
in America is not one of supply. but of
away from your friends.
demand. We are taking strong new
Drug use doesn't usually begin the
action to stop the flow of drugs into
way most people would think with
this country and to stop the dealers
young people getting their first drugs
themselves: but as long as Americans
from "friends" who think casual drug
are willing to buy illegal drugs, some-
use hurts no one. Peer pressure is
body, somewhere in the world will sell
what spreads drug use and peer pres-
them.
sure can help stop IL
Recently. I met with Mrs. Everett
You can help stop It - if you gel
Hatcher, the widow of a veteran DEA
Involved.
agent who was killed by drug-using
This column was written exclusively
cowards. A woman of considerable
for Collegiate Times.
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REVIEW
of Berkeley
Volume 2, Issue 2
September 1989
Berkeley, California
Drugs and the College Student
By George Bush
Summer is over and classes are back in session. As we
hands. Similarly, President Barco of Colombia recently
begin the school year, our thoughts again turn to the future
made an appeal to Americans to stop buying the cocaine
- a future gravely threatened by drugs.
causing the slaughter of innocent civilians in the drug
Americans agree that the biggest threat we are facing as
wars there.
a nation is drugs, in particular cocaine and crack.
Every student in America at some point - at à party,
Who is responsible? Everyone who uses drugs. Every-
in a locker room, in a dorm room - every student must
one who sells drugs. Everyone who looks the other way.
choose to accept or reject drugs. But there is another
Some people used to call drugs just a benign form of
choice that college students, as responsible adults, must
recreation. They're not. Drugs are a real and extremely
make - whether to get involved in a personal way to end
serious threat to our schools, our homes, our friends and our
drug use, or to look the other way.
families. It doesn't matter where you live or what school
College campuses have long been centers of con-
you attend. No one is free from the threat of drugs. Inner
science and idealism in this country, places where stu-
cities, small towns, and college campuses all are under siege
dents have raised their voices to protest oppression, injus-
- because America is under siege.
tice and human suffering around the world. Yet, no one
On September 5, I announced the first comprehensive
would deny that often drugs go hand in hand with injus-
national strategy to end the siege - to fight drugs with
tice, suffering and even death. But where is the sound of
tougher laws and enforcement, and with improved treat-
protest? Innocent bystanders are killed at random on city
ment, education and prevention. The programs we've pro-
streets. Babies are born addicted to crack and heroin.
posed are an all-out assault against the evil of drug use and
Young children are forced into the drug trade by addicts.
drug trafficking. We are aggressively attacking the problem
What greater human rights violations exist? What greater
from every angle, and proposing a 1990 drug-budget total-
injustices? Yet, recreational drug users still on some
ing over eightbillion dollars - the largest single increase in
college campuses are ambivalent to the death and destruc-
history.
tion they are financing.
America is fighting a war against drugs. Yet the most
We must appeal to the social conscience of every
important weapons in the war on drugs are the least tangible:
college student on every college campus in America. The
self-discipline, courage, character, support from one's
way to protest the misery and oppression brought about by
family, faith in God and in one's self.
drugs is to commit yourself to staying away from drugs--
Fundamentally, the drug problem in America is not one
and working to keep them away from your friends.
of supply, but of demand. We are taking strong new action
Drug use doesn't usually begin the way most people
to stop the flow of drugs into this country and to stop the
would think, with young people getting their first drugs
dealers themselves; but as long as Americans are willing to
from an addict or a dealer. Instead, they get them free from
buy illegal drugs, somebody, somewhere in the world will
"friends" who think causal drug use hurts no one. Peer
sell them.
pressure is what spreads drug use and peer pressure can
Recently, I met with Mrs. Everett Hatcher, the widow
help stop it.
of a veteran DEA agent who was killed by drug-using
You can help stop it - if you get involved.
as
cowards. A woman of considerable dignity, she put respon-
sibility for her husband's death squarely on "casual" users
George Bush is President of the United States. This
of cocaine. She's right - and there is now blood on their
column was written exclusively for the Collegiate Times:
UNIVERSITY CHRONICLE
Friday, October 13, 1989
St. Cloud State University
Drugs and the college student
An essay by President George Bush
Summer is over and
around the world. Yet, no
classes are back in ses
one would deny that often
sion. As we begin the
undamentally, the drug
drugs go hand in hand
school year, our thoughts
problem in America is not
with injustice, suffering
again turn to the future -
one of supply, but of
and even death
a future gravely threat-
demand. We are taking
ened by drugs.
strong new action to stop the
But where is the sound
of protest? Innocent
Americans agree that
flow of drugs into this coun-
bystanders are killed at
the biggest threat we are
try and to stop the dealers
random on city streets.
facing as a nation is drugs,
themselves; but as long as
Babies are born addicted
in particular cocaine and
Americans are willing to buy
to crack and heroin.
crack. Who is responsi-
illegal drugs, somebody,
Young children are forced
ble? Everyone who uses
somewhere in the world will
into the drug trade by
drugs. Everyone who sells
addicts. What greater
drugs. Everyone who
sell them."
human rights violations
looks the other way.
exist? What greater injus-
President George Bush
tices?
Some people used to
call drugs just a benign
Yet, recreational drug
form of recreation.
users still on some college
They' re not Drugs are a real
self-discipline, courage; charac-
campuses are ambivalent to the
and extremely serious threat to
ter, support from one's family,
death and destruction they are
our schools, our homes, our
faith in God and in one's self.
financing.
friends and our families.
Furidamentally, the drug
We must appeal to the social
It doesn't matter where you
problem in America is not one
conscience of every college stu-
live or what school you attend.
of supply, but of demand. We
dent on every college campus in
No one is free from the treat of
are taking strong new action to
America. They way to protest
drugs. Inner cities, small towns,
stop the flow of drugs into this
the misery and oppression
and college campuses all are
country and to stop the dealers
brought about by drugs is to
under siege because America
themselves; but as long as
commit yourself to staying
is under siege.
Americans are willing to buy
away from drugs and work-
illegal drugs, somebody, some-
ing to keep them away from
On September 5, I announced
where in the world will sell
your friends. pressure is
the first comprehensive national
them
what spreads drug use and pecr
strategy to end the siege - to
pressure can help stop it.
fight drugs with tougher laws
Every student in America at
and enforcement, and with
some point - at a party, in a
You can stop it - if you get
improved treatment, education
locker room, in a dorm room
involved.
and prevention
every student must choose to
accept or reject drugs.
George Bush is President
The programs we've pro-
of the United States. This
posed are an all-out assault
But there is another choice
column was written exclu-
against the evil of drug use and
that college students, as respon-
sively for and distributed by
drug trafficking. We are aggres-
sible adults, must make
Collegiate Times
sively attacking the problem
whether to get involved in a
from every angle, and propos-
personal way to end drug use,
ing a 1990 drug budget totaling
or to look the other way.
over $8 billion - the largest
Editor's note: Reader con-
single increase in history.
College campuses have long
tributions of essays are
been centers of conscience and
always welcome.
America is fighting a war
idealism in this country, places
For more information,
against drugs Yet the most
where students have raised their
contact Monica Wallgren or
important weapons in the war
voices to protest oppression,
Michael Burr at 255-4086.
on drugs are the least tangible:
injustice and human suffering
THE PINE LOG
Friday, October 6, 1989
Steven F. Austin State University
Nacogdoches, Texas
Bush discusses U.S. drug epidemic
Summer is over and classes are back in
session. As we begin the school year, our
country. places where students have raised
thoughts again turn to the future-a future
George Bush
their voices to protest oppression, injustice
gravely threatened by drugs.
and human suffering around the world. No
Americans agree the biggest threat we
one would deny that often drugs go hand
one's family and faith in God and in one's
are facing as a nation is drugs, in particu-
self.
in hand with injustice, suffering and even
lar cocaine and crack.
death. But where is the sound of protest?
Fundamentally. the drug problem in
Who is responsible? Everyone who uses
Innocent bystanders are killed at random
America is not one of supply. but of
drugs. Everyone who sells drugs. Everyone
on city streets. Babies are born addicted to
demand. We are taking strong new action
who looks the other way.
crack and heroin. Young children are forced
to stop the flow of drugs into this country
Some people used to call drugs just a
into the drug trade by addicts. What greater
and to stop the dealers themselves, but as
benign form of recreation. They' not.
human rights violations exist? What
long as Americans are willing to buy ille-
Drugs are a real and extremely serious
gal drugs, somebody, somewhere in the
greater injustices? Yet, recreational drug
threat to our schools, our homes, our
world will sell them.
users still on some college campuses are
friends and our families. It doesn't matter
ambivalent to the death and destruction
Recently. I met with Mrs. Everett
where you live or what school you attend.
they are financing.
Hatcher, the widow of a veteran DEA agent
No one is free from the threat of drugs.
We must appeal to the social conscience
who was killed by drug-using cowards. A
Inner, cities, small- towns and college
of every college student on every college
woman of considerable dignity, she put
campuses all are under slege-because
campus in America. The way to protest the
responsibility for her husband's death
America is under stege.
misery and oppression brought about by
squarely on "casual" users of cocaine.
On Sept. 5, I announced the first com
She's right, and there is now blood their
drugs is to commit yourself to staying away
prehensive national strategy. to end the
hands. Similarly, President Barco of Co-
from drugs and working to keep them away
siege-to fight drugs with tougher laws and
from your friends.
lombia recently made an appeal to Ameri
enforcement. and with improved treat-
education and prevention. The
cans to stop buying the cocaine causing
the slaughter-of Innocent divilians in the
Drug use doesn' usually begin the way
programs we've proposed are an all-out
drug wars there.
most people would think, with young
assault against the evil of drug use and
Every student in America at some
people getting their first drugs from an
drug trafficking. We are aggressively at-
point-at a party. in a locker room, in a
addict or a dealer. Instead, they get them
tacking the problem from every angle, and
dorm room-every student must choose to
free from "friends" who think casual drug
proposing a 1990 drug budget totaling over
use hurts no one. Peer pressure is what
accept or reject drugs. But there is another
$8 billion-the largest single increase in
choice that college students, as respon-
spreads drug use and peer pressure can
history.
help stop it.
America is fighting a war against drugs.
sible adults, must make-whether to get
You can help stop it if you get involved.
Yet, the most important weapons in the war
involved in a personal way to end drug use,
or to look the other way.
on drugs are the least tangible: self-disci-
pline, courage, character, support from
College campuses have long been cen-
This column, by President George Bush,
ters of conscience and idealism in this
was distributed by the Collegiate Network
THE VANGUARD
October 17, 1989
University of South Alabama
Mobile, Alabama
Peer pressure can stop drugs
Editor's note: This column, written by President George Bush, was
agent who was killed by drug-using cowards. A woman of considerable
submitted by Collegiate Times.
dignity, she put responsibility for her husband's death squarely on "casual"
Summer is over and classes are back in session. As we begin the school
users of cocaine. She's right, and there is now blood on their hands.
year, our thoughts again turn to the future -- a future gravely threatened by
Similarly, President Barco of Colombia recently made an appeal to Ameri-
drugs.
cans to stop buying the cocaine causing the slaughter of innocent civilians
Americans agree that the biggest threat we are facing as a nation is drugs,
in the drug wars there.
in particular cocaine and crack.
Every student in America at some point, at a party, in a locker room, in
Who is responsible? Everyone who uses drugs. Everyone who sells drugs.
a dorm room, every student must choose to accept or reject drugs. But there
Everyone who looks the other way.
is another choice that college students, as responsible adults, must make,
Some people used to call drugs just a benign form of recreation. They're
whether to get involved in a personal way to end drug use, or to look the other
not. Drugs are a real and extremely serious threat to our schools, our homes,
way.
our friends and our families. It doesn't matter where you live or what school
College campuses have long been centers of conscience and idealism- in
you attend. No one is free from the threat of drugs. Inner cities, small towns
this country, places where students have raised their voices to protest
and college campuses all are under siege because America is under siege.
oppression, injustice and human suffering around the world. Yet, no one
On Sept. 5, I announced the first comprehensive national strategy to end
would deny that often drugs go hand in hand with injustice, suffering and
the siege, to fight drugs with tougher laws and enforcement, and with
even death. But where is the sound of protest? Innocent bystanders are killed
improved treatment, education and prevention. The programs we've pro-
at random on city streets. Babies are born addicted to crack and heroin.
posed are an all-out assault against the evil of drug use and drug trafficking.
Young children are forced into the drug trade by addicts. What greater
We are aggressively attacking the problem from every angle, and proposing
human rights violations exist? What greater injustices? Yet, recreational
a -1990 drug-budget totaling over eight billion dollars, the largest single
drug users still on some college campuses are ambivalent to the death and
increase in history.
destruction they are financing.
America is fighting a war against drugs. Yet the most important weapons
We must appeal to the social conscience of every college student on every
in the war on drugs are the least tangible: self-discipline, courage, character,
college campus in America. The way to protest the misery and oppression
support from one's family, faith in God and in one's self.
brought about by drugs is to commit yourself to staying away from drugs
Fundamentally, the drug problem in America is not one of supply, but of
and working to keep them away from your friends.
demand. We are taking strong new action to stop the flow of drugs into this
Drug use doesn't usually begin the way most people would think, with
country and to stop the dealers themselves; but as long as Americans are
young people getting their first drugs from an addict or a dealer. Instead,
willing to buy illegal drugs, somebody, somewhere in the world will sell
they get them free from "friends" who think casual drug use hurts no one.
them.
Peer pressure is what spreads drug use and peer pressure can help stop it:
Recently, I met with Mrs. Everett Hatcher, the widow of a veteran DEA
You
can
help
stop
it
if you get involved.
THE PHAROS
October 13, 1989
West Virginia Wesleyan College
Buckhannon, West Virginia
Collegiate Times
Drugs and the College Student
by George Bush
On September 5, I announced the
this country and to stop the dealers
students, as responsible adults, must
We must appeal to the social con-
Summer is over and classes are
first comprehensive national strategy
themselves; but as long as Americans
make - whether to get involved in a
science of every college student on
back in session. As we begin the school
to end the siege - to fight drugs with
are willing to buy illegal drugs, some-
personal way to end drug use, or to
every college campus in America. The
year, our thoughts again turn to the
tougher laws and enforcement, and
body, somewhere in the world will
look the other way.
way to protest the misery and oppres-
future - a future gravely threatened
with improved treatment, education
sell them.
College campuses have long been
sion brought about by drugs is to
by drugs.
and prevention. The programs we' ve
Recently, I met with Mrs. Everett
centers of conscience and idealism in
commit yourself to staying away from
Americans agree that the biggest
proposed are an all-out assault against
Hatcher, the widow of a veteran DEA
this country, places where students
drugs - and working to keep them
threat we are facing as a nation is
the evil of drug use and drug traffick-
agent who was killed by drug-using
have raised their voice to protest
away from your friends.
drugs, in particular cocaine and crack.
ing. We are aggressively attacking
cowards. A woman of considerable
oppression, injustice and human suf-
Drug use doesn't usually begin the
Who is responsible? Everyone who
the problem from every angle, and
dignity, she put responsibility for her
fering around the world. Yet, no one
way most people would think, with
uses drugs. yone who sells drugs.
proposing a 1990 drug-budget total-
husband's death squarely on "casual"
would deny that often drugs go hand
young people getting their first drugs
Everyone who looks the other way.
ing over eight billion dollars, the larg-
users of cocaine. She's right - and
in hand with injustice, suffering and
from an addict or a dealer. Instead,
Some people used to call drugs just
est single increase in, history.
there is now blood on their hands.
even death. But where is the sound of
they get them free from "friends" who
a benign form of recreation. They'r
America is fighting a war against
Similarly, President Barco of Colom-
protest? Innocent bystanders are killed
think casual drug use hurts no one.
not. Drugs are a real and extremely
drugs. Yet the most important weap-
bia recently made an appeal to Ameri-
at random on city streets. Babies are
Peer pressure is what spreads drug use
serious threat to our schools, our
ons in the war on drugs are the least
cans to stop buying the cocaine caus-
born addicted to crack and heroin.
and peer pressure can help stop it.
homes, our friends and our families. It
tangible: self-discipline, courage,
ing the slaughter of innocent civilians
Young children are forced into the
You can help stop it - if you get
doesn't matter where you live or what
character, support from one's family,
in the drug wars there.
drug trade by addicts. What greater
involved.
school you attend. No one is free from
faith in God and in oneself.
Every student in America at some
human rights violations exist? What
George Bush is President of the
the threat of drugs. Inner cities, small
Fundamentally, the drug problem
point - at a party, in a locker room, in
greater injustices? Yet, recreational
United States. This column was writ-
towns, and college campuses all are
in America is not one of supply, but of
a dorm room - every student must
drug users still on some college cam-
ten exclusively for Collegiate Times
under siege - because America is
demand. We are taking strong new
choose to accept or reject drugs. But
puses are ambivalent to the death and
and distributed by the Collegiate
under siege.
action to stop the flow of drugs into
there is another choice that college
destruction they are financing.
Network.
THE SNAPPER
October 11, 1989
-Millersville University
From the Oval Office
Get involved in the war against drugs
BY GEORGE BUSH
by drug-using cowards. A woman of consid-
President of the United States
Summer is over and classes are back in
erable dignity, she put responsibility for her
session. As we begin the school year, our
husband's death squarely on "casual" users of
thoughts again turn to the future -- a future
cocaine. She's right -- and there is now blood
gravely threatened by drugs.
on their hands. Similarly, President Barco of
Americans agree that the biggest threat we are
Colombia recently made an appeal to Americans
facing as a nation is drugs -- in particular,
to stop buying the cocaine causing the slaughter
cocaine and crack.
of innocent civilians in the drug wars there.
Who is responsible? Everyone who uses
Every student in America at some point at a
drugs. Everyone who sells drugs. Everyone
party, in a locker room, in a dorm room -- every
who looks the other way.
student must choose to accept or reject drugs.
Some people used to call drugs just a benign
But there is another choice that college students,
form of recreation. They're not. Drugs are a real
as responsible adults, must make -- whether to
and extremely serious threat to our schools, our
get involved in a personal way to end drug use,
homes, our friends and our families. It doesn't
or to look the other way.
matter where you live or what school you
College campúses have long been centers of
attend. No one is free from the threat of drugs.
conscience and idealism in this country, places
Inner cities, small towns, and college campuses
where students hve raised their voices to protest
all are under siege - because America is under
oppression, injustice and human suffering
siege.
around the world. Yet, no one would deny that
On Sept. 5, I announced the first
often drugs go hand in hand with injustice,
comprehensive national strategy to end the siege
suffering and even death. But where is the
-- to fight drugs with tougher laws and
sound of protest? Innocent bystanders are killed
enforcement, and with improved treatment,
at random on city streets. Babies are born
education and prevention. The programs we've
addicted to crack and heroin. Young children are
proposed are an all-out assault against the evil of
forced onto the drug trade by addicts. What
drug use and drug trafficking. We are
greater human rights violations exist? What
aggressively attacking the problem from every
greater injustices? Yet, recreational drug users
angle, and proposing a 1990 drug-budget
still on some college campuses are ambivalent to
totaling over eight billion dollars -- the largest
the death and destruction they are financing.
single increase in history.
We must appeal to the social conscience of
every college student on every college campus in
America is fighting a war against drugs. Yet
America. The way to protest the misery and
the most important weapons in the war on drugs
opression brought about by drugs is to commit
are the least tangible: self-discipline, courage,
yourself to staying away from drugs -- and
character, support from one's family, faith in
God and in one's self.
working to keep them away from your friends.
Drug use doesn't usually begin the way most
Fundamentally, the drug problem in America
is not one of supply, but of demand. We are
people would think, with young people getting
their first drugs from an addict or a dealer.
taking strong new action to stop the flow of
Instead, they get them free from "friends" who
drugs into this country and to stop the dealers
think casual drug use hurts no one. Peer
themselves; but as long as Americans are willing
to buy illegal drugs, somebody, somewhere int
pressure is what spreads drug use and peer
hte world will sell them.
pressure can help stop it.
Recently, I met with Mrs. Everett Hatcher, the
You can help stop it -- if you get involved.
widow of a veteran DEA agent who was killed
Network. This article was distributed by the Collegiate
THE OBSERVER
Thursday, October 5, 1989
St. Mary's College
Notre Dame, IN
Bush: Drugs are threat, not a form of recreation
point - at a party, in a locker room, in
By George Bush
a dorm room - every student must
choose to accept or reject drugs. But
there is another choice that college stu-
Summer is over, and classes are back
dents, as responsible adults, must make
in session. As we begin the school year,
- whether to get involved in a personal
our thoughts again turn to the future -
way to end drug use or to look the
a future gravely threatened by drugs.
other way.
Americans agree that the biggest
College campuses have long been cen-
threat we are facing as a nation is
ters of conscience and idealism in this
drugs, in particular cocaine and crack.
country, places where students have
Who is responsible? Everyone who
raised their voices to protest oppres-
uses drugs. Everyone who sells drugs.
sion, injustice and human suffering
Everyone who looks the other way.
around the world Yet, no one would
Some people used to call drugs just a
deny that often drugs go hand in hand
benign form of recreation. They're not.
with injustice, suffering and even death.
Drugs are/a real and extremely serious
But where is the sound of protest? In-
threat to our schools, our homes, our
nocent bystanders are killed at random
friends and our families. It doesn't
on city streets. Babies are born ad-
matter where you live or what school
dicted to crack and heroin. Young chil-
you attend. No one is free from the
dren are forced into the drug trade by
threat of drugs. Inner cities; small
addicts. What greater human rights vi-
towns and college campuses all are un-
olations exist? What greater injustices?
der siege - because America is under
Yet, recreational drug users still on
siege.
some college campuses are ambivalent
On September 5, I announced the first
to the death and destruction they are
comprehensive national strategy to end
financing.
the siege - to fight drugs with tougher
We must appeal to the social con-
laws and enforcement, and with im-
science of every college student on every
proved treatment, education and pre-
college campus in America. The way to
vention. The programs we've proposed
protest the misery and oppression
are an all-out assault against the evil of
drug use and drug trafficking. We are
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brought about by drugs is to commit
yourself to staying away from drugs -
aggressively attacking the problem
from every angle and proposing a 1990
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way most people would think, with
young people getting their first drugs
America is fighting a war against
from an addict or a dealer. Instead,
drugs. Yet the most important weapons
try and to stop the dealers themselves;
band's death squarely on "casual" users
they get them free from "friends" who
in the war on drugs are the least tangi-
but as long as Americans are willing to
of cocaine. She's right - and there is
think casual drug use hurts no one.
ble: self-discipline, courage, character,
buy illegal drugs, somebody, somewhere
now blood on their hands. Similarly
Peer pressure is what spreads drug use
support from one's family, faith in God
in the world will sell them.
President Barco of Colombia recently
and peer pressure can help stop it.
and in one's self.
Recently, I met with Mrs. Everett
made an appeal to Americans to stop
You can help stop it - if you get in-
Fundamentally, the drug problem in
Hatcher, the widow of a veteran DEA
buying the cocaine causing the slaugh-
volved.
America is not one of supply but of de-
agent who was killed by drug-using
ter of innocent civilians in the drug
This column, written by the President,
mand. We are taking strong new action
cowards. A woman of considerable dig-
wars there.
was distributed by the Collegiate Net-
to stop the flow of drugs into this coun-
nity, she put responsibility for her hus-
Every student in America at some
work.
THE BLUE BANNER
October, 12, 1989
University of North Carolina at Ashville
Almessage from
President George Bush
Summer is over and demand. We are taking the other way.
classes are back in session.
strong new action to stop
College campuses have
As we begin the school
the flow of drugs into this
long been the centers of
year our thoughts again
country and to stop the
conscience and idealism in
turn to the future a future
dealers themselves; but as
this country, places where
gravely threatened by drugs.
long as Americans are
students have raised their
Americans agree that the
willing to buy illegal drugs,
voices to protest oppression,
biggest threat we are facing
somebody, somewhere in
injustice and human
as a nation is drugs, in
the world will sell them.
suffering around the world.
particular cocaine and
Recently, I met with Mrs.
yet, no one would deny that
crack
Everett Hatcher, the widow
often drugs go hand in hand
Who is responsible?
of a veteran DEA agent
with injustice, suffering and
Everyone who uses drugs.
who was killed by drug-
even death. But where is
Everyone who sells drugs.
using cowards. A woman of
the sound of protest?
Everyone who looks the
considerable dignity, she put
Innocent bystanders are
other way
responsibility for her killed at random on city
On Sept 5, I announced
husband's death squarely on streets. Babies are born
the first comprehensive
"casual" users of cocaine addicted to crack and
national strategy to end the
She's right -- and there is heroin. Young children are
siege to fight drugs with
now blood on their hands. forced into the drug trade
tougher laws and
Similarly, President Barco by addicts. What greater
enforcement. and with of Colombia recently made human rights violations
improved treatment, an appeal to Americans to exist? What greater
education and prevention stop buying the cocaine injustices?
The programs we've
causing the slaughter, of
We must appeal to the
proposed are an all-out
innocent civilians in the
social conscience of every
assault against the evil of
drug wars there.
college student on every
drug. use and drug
Every student in America
college campus in America
trafficking. We are
at some point -- at a party,
The way to protest the
aggressively attacking the
in a locker room, in a dorm
misery and oppression
problem from every angle,
room -- every student must
brought about by drugs is to
and proposing a 1990 drug-
choose to accept or reject
commit yourself to staying
budget totaling over eight
drugs. but there is another
away from drugs -- and
billion dollars -- the largest
choice that college students,
single increase in history.
working to keep them away
as responsible adults, must
from your friends.
Fundamentally, the drug
make -- whether to get
You can help stop it -- if
problem in America is not
involved in a personal way
you get involved.
one of supply, but of to end drug use, or to look
From the Collegiate Network
THE POST
Monday, October 2, 1989
Ohio University
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Bush appeals to students' conscience to help win war against drugs
by GEORGE BUSH
the most important weapons in the war on
to protest oppression, injustice and human suf-
drugs are the least tangible: self-discipline,
fering around the world. Yet, no one would
Summer is over and classes are back in
courage, character, support from one's family,
deny that often drugs go hand in hand with
session. As we begin the school year, our
faith in God and in one's self.
injustice, suffering and even death. But where
thoughts again turn to the future - a future
Fundamentally, the drug problem in Amer-
is the sound of protest? Innocent bystanders
gravely threatened by drugs.
ica is not one of supply, but of demand. We are
are killed at random on city streets. Babies are
Americans agree that the biggest threat we
taking strong new action to stop the flow of
born addicted to crack and heroin. Young chil-
are facing as a nation is drugs, in particular
drugs into this country and to stop the dealers
dren are forced into the drug trade by addicts.
cocaine and crack.
themselves; but as long as Americans are will-
What greater human rights violations exist?
Who is responsible? Everyone who uses
ing to buy illegal drugs, somebody, somewhere
What greater injustices? Yet, recreational drug
drugs. Everyone who sells drugs. Everyone
in the world will sell them.
users still on some college campuses are am-
who looks the other way.
Recently, I met with Mrs. Everett Hatcher,
bivalent to the death and destruction they are
Some people used to call drugs a benign
the widow of a veteran DEA agent who was
financing.
form of recreation. They not. Drugs are a
killed by drug-using cowards. A woman of
We must appeal to the social conscience of
real and extremely serious threat to our schools,
considerable dignity, she put responsibility for
every college student on every college campus
our homes, our friends and our families. It
her husband's death squarely on "casual" us-
in America. The way to protest the misery and
doesn't matter where you live or what school
ers of cocaine. She's right - and there is now
oppression brought about by drugs is to com-
you attend. No one is free from the threat of
blood on their hands. Similarly, President
mit yourself to staying away from drugs-and
drugs. Inner cities, small towns, and college
Barco of Colombia recently made an appeal to
working to keep them away from your friends.
campuses all are under siege - because
Americans to stop buying the cocaine causing
Drug use. doesn't usually begin the way.
America is under siege.
the slaughter of innocent civilians in the drug
most people would think, with young people
On Sept. 5, I announced the first compre-
wars there.
getting their first drugs from an addict or a
hensive national strategy to end the siege to
Every student in America at some point -
dealer. Instead, they get them free from "friends"
fight drugs with tougher laws and enforce-
at a party, in a locker room, in a dorm room -
who think casual drug use hurts no one. Peer
ment, and with improved treatment, education
every student must choose to accept or reject
pressure is what spreads drug use and peer
and prevention. The programs we've proposed
drugs. But there is another choice that college
pressure can help stop it.
are an all-out assault against the evil of drug use
students, as responsible adults, must make -
You can help stop it - get involved.
and drug trafficking. We are aggressively at-
whether to get involved in a personal way to
tacking the problem from every angle, and
end drug use, or to look the other way.
resident Bush writes a monthly column
proposing a 1990 drug-budget totaling over $8
College campuses have long been centers
which is distributed by The Collegiate Network
billion - the largest single increase in history:
of conscience and idealism in this country,
news service)
America is fighting a war against drugs. Yet
places where students have raised their voices
THE WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON
November 27, 1989
MEMORANDUM FOR THE PRESIDENT
THROUGH:
CHRISS WINSTON
FROM:
MARY KATE GRANT mkg
SUBJECT:
YOUR RECENT COLUMN IN YALE'S ELI MAGAZINE
Attached is a copy of the column that was sent out to all
college newspapers across the country, at the time of your
televised address on the National Drug Control Strategy. We have
received copies of the column as it ran in many papers, from the
Harvard Salient to the Angelo State University Ram Page. It
enjoyed wide circulation in a good cross-section of college
papers.
However, I thought you'd be interested in seeing the column
as it ran in Yale's Eli Magazine -- especially the ad in the
bottom right corner. I hope you enjoy it.
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hands. Similarly, President Barco
trade by addicts. What greater human
of Colombia recently made an ap-
rights violations exist? What greater
peal to Americans to stop buying the
injustices? Yet, recreational drug
Drugs and the College Student
cocaine causing the slaughter of
users on some college campuses are
innocent civilians in the drug wars
still ambivalent to the death and de-
there.
struction they are financing.
enforcement, and with improved
Every student in America at some
George Bush '48
treatment, education and prevention.
point - at a party, in a locker room,
'Commit Yourself'
"Innocent
The programs we've proposed are
in a dorm room - every student
We must appeal to the social con-
Summer is over and classes are
an all-out assault against the evil of
must choose to accept orreject drugs.
bystanders
science of every college student on
back in session. As we begin the
drug use and drug trafficking. We
But there is another choice that col-
college
every college campus in America.
are killed at
school year, our thoughts again turn
are aggressively attacking the prob-
lege students, as responsible adults,
The way to protest the misery and
to the future - a future gravely
lem from every angle, and propos-
random on
campuses are
must make - whether to get in-
oppression brought about by drugs
threatened by drugs.
ing a 1990 drug-budget totaling over
under siege
volved in a personal way to end drug
is to keep them away from your
city streets.
Americans agree that the biggest
eight billion dollars-the largest
use, or to look the other way.
friends.
because
threat we are facing as a nation is
single increase in history.
College campuses have long been
Drug use doesn't usually begin the
America is
drugs, in particular cocaine and
America is fighting a war against
centers of conscience and idealism
way most people would think, with
crack.
drugs. Yet the most important weap-
in this country, places where stu-
under siege.
Who is responsible? Everyone
ons in the war on drugs are the least
young people getting their first drugs
'Peer
dents have raised their voices to
from an addict or a dealer. Instead,
who uses drugs. Everyone who sells
tangible: self-discipline, courage,
protest oppression, injustice and
they get them free from "friends"
pressure is
drugs. Everyone who looks the other
character, support from one's fam-
human suffering around the world.
who think casual drug use hurts no
ily, faith in God and in one's self.
what spreads
way.
Yet, no one would deny that often
one. Peer pressure is what spreads
Some people used to call drugs
Fundamentally, the drug problem
drugs go hand in hand with injustice,
drug use and peer pressure can help
drug use
just a benign form of recreation.
in America is not one of supply, but
suffering and even death. But where
stop it.
and peer
They're not. Drugs are a real and
of demand. We are taking strong
is the sound of protest? Innocent
You can help stop it-if you get
extremely serious threat to our
new action to stop the flow of drugs
bystanders are killed at random on
pressure can
involved.
schools, our homes, our friends and
into this country and to stop the
city streets. Babies are bom ad-
help stop it.
'
our families. It doesn't matter where
every
dealers themselves; but as long as
dicted to crack and heroin. Young
(George Bush is the President of the United States.
you live or what school you attend.
Americans are willing to buy illegal
This column was written exclusively for Collegiate
student must
children are forced into the drug
Times and was distributed by the Collegiste
No one is free from the threat of
drugs, somebody, somewhere in the
Network)
choose to
drugs. Inner cities, small towns, and
world will sell them.
accept or
college campuses all are under siege
Recently, I met with Mrs. Everett
because America is under siege.
Hatcher, the widow of a veteran DEA
Write For Eli
reject drugs.
Larger Drug Budget
agent who was killed by drug-using
cowards. A woman of considerable
On September 5 of-this year, I
dignity, she put responsibility for
announced the first comprehensive
her husband's death squarely on the
George Bush Does!
national strategy to end the siege-
"casual" users of cocaine. She's
to fight drugs with tougher laws and
right - there is now blood on their
OFFICE OF THE PRESIDENT-ELECT
WASHINGTON, D.C. 20270
COPY
RECEIVEDJAN 17 1989
11 January 89
Mr. Les Lenkowsky
President
Institute for Educational Affairs
1112 16th Street, N.W., Suite 520
Washington, D.C. 20036
Dear Les:
Thanks for your letter of 4 January. Sounds good to me.
I've called the op-ed possibility to the attention of those
who'll ultimately have to say yea or nay, and I'll let you know
one way or the other, ASAP.
Best,
Paine
David Tell
Speechwriter
885 papers
mk-
every daily college
tell them paper yes m countary
for backto school in
Drugs!
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Institute For Educational Affairs
January 4, 1989
Mr. David Tell
Speechwriting Office
Office of the Vice President
The White House
Washington, D.C, 20500
Dear David:
It was good to see you at Liz Kristol's recently. I'm sorry we
didn't have more of a chance to chat, because I wanted to discuss with
you a new ISA project which I hope will be of interest to you and
President-elect Bush.
As you know, IBA sponsors the "Collegiate Network,' a group of
almost 45 independent, conservative college newspapers on campuses
across the country. Last year, in an effort to reach far beyond our
own campuses, EA-launched "Collegiate Times, a monthly op--ed column
on syndicated issues of higher education. To our knowledge, it is the only
exclusively to the subject.
We wish to invite President-elect Bush to contribute a short
(600-700 word) essay to the "Collegiate Times" series. The topic may
be one of his own choosing, but it should deal with a current issue or
undergraduates. controversy in higher education, and it should be addressed to college
During the recent campaign, George Bush stated that he wanted to
be the Education President. Now that he is about to take office, what
are the major issues on the Bush educational agenda?
As you undoubtedly know, there will always be those in the
higher-ed lobby who will attack any proposals coming from a Republican
Administration. But if George Bush could bypass the critics and speak
directly to college students, through the pages of their own campus
newspapers, what would he want to tell them?
Each month, IEA commissions an essay from some noted educator or
public official and distributes it as a column to almost 900 daily
college newspapers across the country. (It is also sent, on a delayed
basis, to about 150 professional newspapers.) We ask for a flat fee
of $10 per usage by college papers to partially defray our production
and mail costs, but rely on their voluntary compliance. (Although the
column is somewhat of a "loss leader,' it does further our primary
goal of public education.)
1112 16th St., N.W., Suite #520 Washington, D.C. 20036 202-833-1801
Virtually all of IEA's own campus papers, with a combined print
run approaching 400,000, use the column. Since we do not employ a
checking service, we do not have hard data on the number of other
campus papers using "Collegiate Times," but on the basis of last
year's voluntary payments, we estimate an average readership of 1.5 to
2 million students. A column by the new president would attract even
more readers, particularly at the best colleges and universities in
the country. (Our own Network includes the entire Lvy League,
Berkeley, Stanford, Michigan, Chicago, and many other highly selective
colleges and universities.)
During the first year we distributed essavs by former President
Richard Nixon, former Secretary of Education William Bennett and
presidential policy advisor Gary Bauer, among others. This year,
we've sent out columns by Bennett, Chairman Clarence Thomas of the
S.E.O.C. and Boston University President John Silber.
We would be delighted to add President-elect Bush to this
distinguished list. The ideal time for a column, in our view, would
be early in the Bush Administration when the public's views of the new
president are being formed.
I hope you share my enthusiasm for this project. I would be
happy to discuss any of the particulars with you and your colleagues.
Please let me know what you think.
With best wishes,
Leslie Lenkowsky
President
SAMPLE COLUMNS
Collegiate Times premiere
My soul longs for Plato, Buddy Holly
By William J. Bennett
When I arrived at college as a fresh-
Mind. Although I must say that I dis-
questions about your college or uni-
man some time ago, I had definite
sent from his views on rock n' roll,
versity. And ask those same hard
ideas about how to use my four years
this is a brilliant and challenging
questions of your professors, faculty,
of higher education. I was resolved
book. It contains a devastating cri-
and administrators.
to play a little football, and I wanted
tique of, and a moving lament for,
to major in English in order to
contemporary American higher educa-
If you're not satisfied with the
become sophisticated, land a good job
tion. And for most of the summer, it
answers you get -- if you're not satis-
and make big money.
has been at the top of the New York
fied with the education your school
Times best-seller list.
But because of my college course
is providing -- resolve to get a good
requirements, I found myself in an
Our universities, Professor Bloom
education anyway. Fortunately, at
introductory philosophy class, con-
least a few good allies can be found
asserts, are too often hostile to seri-
fronted by Plato's Republic and a
on almost every campus: good teach-
ous thought; no longer are they
remarkable professor who knew how
ers, serious friends and good books.
to make the text come alive. Before
In selecting courses, don't be afraid
we knew it, my classmates and I were
intellectually to bite off more than
ensnared by the power of a 2,000
you can chew. Seek out the best
teachers, those who can stretch the
year old dialogue.
Students can
limits of your knowledge and bring
In our posture of youthful cynicism
demand that colleges
life to the subject at hand. Take ad-
and arrogance, we at first resisted
vantage of those teachers in class
believing that the question of justice
live up to the
after class.
should really occupy our time. But
something important happened to us
promises in their
In the end, regeneration of our
that semester as we fought our way
universities will come from within.
through the Republic, arguing about
glossy catalogues
Only those within the academy can
notions of right and wrong. Along the
rescue the academy. Students can play
way, our insides were shaken up a
a part. Students can demand that col-
bit. Without quite knowing it, we had
leges live up to the promises in their
committed ourselves to the serious
glossy catalogues. This will benefit
enterprise of raising and wrestling
you, and it will be a service to those
with great questions. And once
places where the transmission, crit-
who follow in your path.
caught up in that enterprise, there
icism and renewal of intellectual tra-
was no turning back. We had met up
ditions are assured. "The University
So read Bloom, think hard -- but
with a great text and a great teacher;
now offers no distinctive visage to the
also have fun this year. And in this
they had taken us, and we were
young person," Bloom asserts, nor a
one respect, feel free to act contrary
theirs.
set of competing visions of what an
to Bloom's advice: feel free to listen
educated human being is.
to a few, or more than a few, rock n'
Every student is entitled to that
roll classics along the way. This
kind of experience at college. Good
If Professor Bloom is correct -- and
summer, as Allan Bloom's book was
courses should shake you up a little,
there is every reason to believe that
number one on the best-seller lists,
expel stale opinions, quicken your
he is -- then something has gone
the Los Lobos film soundtrack to La
senses, and animate a conscious ex-
terribly wrong on many American
Bamba was topping the Billboard
amination of life's enduring ques-
campuses. Students are not getting
charts. Take it from a former rock
tions. Unfortunately, a growing body
the education -- experiences, the chal-
band guitarist, from a soul that will
of evidence indicates that this is
lenges, the true opening up to man's
not cease longing to hear Ritchie
simply not taking place at enough of
achievement and life's possibilities
Valens and Buddy Holly just one more
our colleges. That fact is becoming
they deserve.
time, that rock n' roll and a good
increasingly obvious.
education are not incompatible.
As a student, you can do something
Proof of this is the extraordinary
about this. The first thing you can
William J. Bennett is U.S. Secretary
reception given to University of
do is get a copy of Allan Bloom's
of Education. He is a regular con-
Chicago Professor Allan Bloom's new
book, and read it. Think about what
tributer to the Collegiate Network's
book, The Closing of the American
he has to say. Ask yourself some hard
Collegiate Times.
6 / NEWSLINK October 1987
Collegiate Times
AIDS and the college student
'Safe sex' campaigns are not giving
students the full story about the disease
By Gary Bauer
On hundreds of college and uni-
dencies, particularly when the issue
ior as socially undesirable, unnatural
versity campuses this year, students
is life or death?
or deviant. As a result, students are
have returned not only to be greeted
Second, many of today's educa-
denied the best medical advice avail-
by the usual panoply of activities and
tional efforts are what could be called
able -- which is to avoid dangerous
issues, but also by a new crusade
"sexually egalitarian." That is, they
sexual activities associated primarily,
--safe sex. Reacting to the growing
refuse to distinguish or even appear
but not exclusively, with the gay com-
national preoccupation with the AIDS
to prefer one type of sexual practice
munity.
epidemic, student groups and school
over another. Yet medical research
administrations are attempting to
Writing in National Review maga-
shows that sodomy is probably the
educate students about how to avoid
zine, Jeffrey Hart recently alluded to
most efficient method to transfer the
contracting this fatal disease.
what in literature is called the "pres-
AIDS virus as well as other diseases
ence of the absence." Just as the dog
Not surprisingly, given the "open"
-- for obvious reasons. Why is this
that didn't bark helped Sherlock
atmosphere on most campuses, the
information censored on so many
Holmes once solve a case, what is
safe sex crusade has not been con-
campuses? Does it illustrate the grow-
absent in the safe-sex campaign may
strained by many taboos. On some
be telling us an important bit of in-
campuses, safe sex packages have
formation about the cultural atmo-
been distributed containing not only
Medical research
sphere on many campuses.
the more common contraceptive im-
shows that sodomy
What is absent is an acknowledg-
plements, but also a variety of devices
ment of the traditional moral values
for the aficionados of more exotic
is the most efficient
of our society. Even before AIDS,
activities. Despite this, "safe sex"
heterosexuality was preferable; stable
campaigns are not giving students the
method to transmit
families were good; abstinence had a
full story about AIDS. Indeed, many
students are arguably being denied
AIDS. Why is this
medical as well as a moral basis; fidel-
ity in marriage was a good thing. The
the information that is most likely to
assist them in avoiding the AIDS virus.
information
absence of these truisms from many
campus anti-AIDS efforts not only
A look at those taboo subjects
censored on many
cheats students of information they
might be in order. First, few campus
need, but it helps us understand the
efforts seem to be aimed at promoting
campuses?
hidden agenda of those who all too
the most obvious and effective mea-
often control the cultural milieu on
sure to slow down the AIDS epidemic
campus.
abstinence. Yet, as Surgeon General
ing power of gay rights activists who
Students themselves will have to
C. Everett Koop has indicated time
not only want to be tolerated, but
ponder the paradox of getting advice
and time again, abstinence is the only
want the culture at large to affirm and
that denies the wisdom of the ages
foolproof way to avoid this disease.
support the legitimacy of the gay life-
while a microscopic virus daily
Are we to assume that highly edu-
style?
reminds us with its growing list of
cated young Americans are so en-
In fact, on many campuses students
victims why that wisdom was right.
slaved by their passions that they are
are surprised to find that no one is
unable to limit their number of part-
willing to assert and defend the moral
Gary Bauer is Assistant to the Pres-
ners or sexual activities -- even if
and religious norms they learned
failing to do so risks death? Actually,
ident for Policy Development. Col-
from their families and churches.
much research shows that many stu-
legiate Times is a monthly syndicated
Even though homosexual behavior, if
dents do abstain or establish a mutu-
column focusing on the college and
embraced by a sizable proportion of
ally faithful relationship with marriage
university world. It is published by
the population, would result in a
as the long-term goal. Why the hes-
the Collegiate Network and is dis-
dying civilization in a generation or
itancy to build on these healthy ten-
tributed to over 1,000 college and
so, it is taboo to describe this behav-
professional newspapers.
10 / NEWSLINK November 1987
Collegiate Times
In praise of Walker Percy
His novels make great ideas and profound truths
effortlessly leap to life, our columnist says
By William J. Bennett
Who is the best living American novel-
least one fellow went right out and
fulfill the classic benchmark: they in-
ist? I nominate a Southern gentleman,
bought it, in hardback no less. Percy,
struct and entertain. His novels are
metaphysician incognito and extraor-
however, didn't need my help. His
witty, deep and hilarious.
dinary yarn-spinner, Walker Percy.
first novel, The Moviegoer (1961) won
The hero in my favorite, Love in the
Who Cares? Well, everyone who wants
the National Book Award. Five suc-
Ruins and also in The Thanatos
a good read. But college students will,
cessful novels have followed The
Syndrome, is physician Tom More, a
I suspect, be especially captivated by
Last Gentleman (1966), Love in the
sometime heavy drinker and once an
this author whose novels make great
Ruins (1971), Lancelot (1977), The
ideas and profound truths so effort-
outpatient at the mental hospital
Second Coming (1980), in addition
where he worked, who drifts from
lessly leap to life.
to The Thanatos Syndrome (1987).
love affairs to intense self-scrutiny. In
In Percy novels, virtues take human
names and vices are writ large in small
Percy, whom I met one evening in
Thanatos he foils a plot by social
Washington, is a courteous and soft-
engineers who surreptitiously lace
acts. Or as Percy said in one interview,
he has tried "to incarnate ideas in
spoken man, with head unbloated by
the local water supply with drugs in-
literary fame. At age 71 he lives simply
tended to alleviate antisocial be-
fiction." His readers become gripped
by the affairs of places like Feliciana,
and in comparative calm near
havoir. Its characters include a gang
a Louisiana parish that "harbors all
Covington, Louisiana, amid family and
of pedophiles and an elderly priest,
who is either terribly daffy or terribly
manner of fractious folk, including
sane (and maybe both) and who
Texans and recent refugees from un-
The best novels, like
refuses to descend from a forest
likely places like Korea and Michigan,
observation tower. There is a lot of
all of whom have learned to get along
those of Walker
ground to worry about the cosmos in
tolerably well, better than most in
fact, who watch L.S.U football and
this book but also hope, courtesy of
Percy, give flesh to
the old human verities. With Flannery
reruns of M*A*S*H, drink Dixie beer,
O'Conner, another Southern author,
and eat every sort of food imaginable,
the philosophic
Percy writes of human folly and
which is generally cooked in some-
thing called a roux."
questions that lie at
despair without succumbing to either.
His example is particularly instructive
In our colleges, where all manner
the heart of a liberal
for our age.
of folk also have learned to get along
education
A substantial volume of mail flows
tolerably well, students too often
across my desk, often from individuals
can't find time to read novels, at least
those novels for which no exam or
famous, talented and important. No
mail, however, has more suprised and
essay assigment is threatened. That
friends. A physician by training, Percy
pleased me than a brief handwritten
is a shame, because novels -- good
excels especially in chronicling the
note of encouragement from Walker
ones in particular -- even if read only
pulls and tensions of 20th century
Percy, which I have kept in a frame
in the half-hour before sleep, allow
you to escape the press of daily
life. He is skeptical of technological
near my desk. Walker Percy has writ-
obligations, of academic social sci-
solutions to human problems; he
ten in his six novels a lasting message
ence, and of course to live life beyond
wonders why in an age of plenty, so
of encouragment for a much wider
many are unhappy. Percy's characters
audience. My advice, then, is this:
the limits of your own experience.
And it is a truism worth repeating
manage consistently to illuminate the
treat yourself, read Walker Percy.
that reading good books improves
transcendent and the spiritual with-
out being preachy or moralistic. The
William J. Bennett is the U.S. Secre-
one's own writing. The best novels,
like those of Walker Percy, also give
transcendent is simply part of the
tary for Education. Collegiate Times
is a monthly syndicated column
flesh to the philosophic questions
soul of the many characters he brings
that lie at the heart of a liberal educa-
focusing on the college and university
into vivid life. Percy's books show
world. It is published by the Col-
tion. I gave a modest boost to sales
that to be serious in life, you don't
legiate Network and is distributed to
of his latest, The Thanatos Syndrome,
have to be solemn; being morally seri-
by reading from it at a staff lunch: at
over 1,000 college and professional
ous, you can still have fun. His books
newspapers.
6 /NEWSLINK December 1987
Collegiate Times
Peace Studies in Our Time
by Edwin J. Delattre
dom, or that the Soviets can be
Abraham Lincoln have settled for
The Washington Summit of Pres-
trusted in international affairs?
peace after Fort Sumter? Should
ident Reagan and General Secretary
Equally important, will the profes-
Gorbachev has brought new publicity
Martin Luther King have stayed away
sors who teach such courses have
from Birmingham for the sake of
to the issue of arms control, and with
the courage to raise fundamental
peace? And, by contrast, should
it, to a new college course scheduled
issues about peace among human
to begin in February, 1988. A joint
Chamberlain have paid the price he
beings and nations? While nuclear
effort by Tufts University and Moscow
(and eventually, all of Europe) paid
weapons are new, warfare is unfortu-
State University, the course emerges
to Adolf Hitler for peace at Munich?
nately not new. Throughout history,
from a resolution of several college
It is always possible to achieve
some of humankind's most profound
presidents in the United States, the
peace if we are willing to forsake
thinkers and statesmen have grappled
Soviet Union, Japan, and China, en-
everything else: liberty, justice,
with the issues of war and peace.
dorsing a "world-wide curriculum for
human rights, common decency
For example, St. Augustine argued
peace." Last December, The New York
toward others, and self-respect. But
fifteen hundred years ago that there
Times reported that these presidents
such peace is not honorable, and may
will always be wars because everyone
viewed informed public opinion "that
not even be tolerable. In 1942, for
is alike in desiring peace. The catch
sees arms control as an element of
example, Antoine de St. Exupery fore-
is that everyone desires bis own idea
saw what the Nazis had in store for
national security" as "the best chance
of peace. Since these ideas differ and
to stop the arms race." Tufts Uni-
France: "Already as I move in the
versity president Jean Mayer said at
direction of Arras, peace is every-
that time, "If people knew enough of
where beginning to take shape This
what was going on, this would help
is a nameless peace that stands for
to cut down the arms race."
Courses that ignore
the end of everything. It spreads
Now, a year later, President Mayer
basic questions
apace like a gray leprosy."
says the goal is "to organize uni-
A true "peace" curriculum would
versities around the world to commit
about history, polit-
teach free men and women to defend
themselves to a common 'peace' cur-
themselves against the dominion of
riculum, the model for which would
ical theory, and the
such tyranny. It would take proper
be worked out in a joint American-
notice of the fact that peace among
buman condition
Soviet, satellite-linked course on arms
two nations, one dedicated to liberty,
control In other words, to educate
cannot advance the
the other, totalitarian, is always a diffi-
the young to achieve peace." Class-
cult thing. It would acknowledge, and
room discussion will be moderated
interests of students
even honor, people who have
by an historian at Tufts and a phys-
courageously refused to settle for
icist in Moscow, "Evgeny Vilikhov, a
peace at any price. As Supreme Court
member of the Central Committee of
Justice Joseph Story said in 1840, the
the Communist Party."
conflict, there is no end to wars. In
inheritance of American youth has
It appears, then, that the "peace"
our own century, Winston Churchill
been bought by the "toils, and suffer-
said, "War is horrible, but slavery is
ings, and blood of their ancestors"
curriculum is actually an "arms con-
trol" curriculum. (One wonders why
worse." History, the greatest teacher,
and can "perish in an hour by the
college presidents do not call such
provides countless examples of men
folly. or negligence of its keepers,
courses by their right name.) Without
forced to make hard decisions about
THE PEOPLE."
a doubt, the arms control debate is
war and peace.
Students taking such a course
important for students of interna-
Should Moses have said to
would also need to consider the role
tional relations; good courses on the
Pharoah, "Let us have peace!" instead
of public opinion itself in matters of
subject certainly belong in the curric-
of "Let my people go?" Should
war, peace, and foreign policy. One
ulum. The question is, are courses
Eleazar, the Maccabean sage, have
of our most astute political com-
like the Tufts/Moscow State example
taught the young to betray their reli-
mentators, Walter Lippman, wrote in
more likely to be exercises in political
gious faith for the sake of peace?
1955:
ideology or serious academic explora-
Should David have asked Goliath for
"There is no mystery about why
tions of this complicated subject? Will
peace?
there is such a tendency for popular
the participation of a Soviet "pro-
Should Socrates have sought peace
opinion to be wrong in judging war
fessor" give the impression that the
at his trial, and should Jesus have
and peace. Strategic and diplomatic
Soviet Union respects academic free-
capitulated before Calvary? Should
questions call for a kind of knowlege
continued on page 8
6 / NEWSLINK January 1988
Collegiate Times
Women's Studies: the new academic ghetto?
New discipline promotes separatism over equality
By Carol Iannone
about herself and the world, she should
In a different context, the young Saul
expect from her professors an introduc-
Bellow was also called an outsider by
If anyone had proposed, some three
tion to the great books and ideas of the
those who felt his sense of the English
decades ago, that women speak a special
Western tradition. Instead, Women's
language was not pure enough for liter-
female language, or create art in special
Studies teaches her that the Western
ary expression. (His early languages in-
female forms, he would probably have
tradition is not her tradition, that she is
cluded Canadian French, Yiddish, He-
been greeted by educated people with
an outsider and a victim trapped in an
brew and English). Bellow responded by
anything from indignation to derision. If
"inauthentic life." Exhorted to take con-
saying to hell with that. The reason
someone had argued that there was a
distinct female tradition in fields such as
history, logic, philosophy, theology and
What is most damaging is that the more
the sciences, he simply would not have
been taken seriously by the academic
Women's Studies programs thrive, the
community.
Yet these are precisely the premises of
more they give the message to the culture
the Women's Studies programs that have
proliferated at nearly every college in the
at large that women cannot compete in
country. Surely this is one of the most
saddening developments of the counter-
the real life of the mind, but instead re-
cultural upheavals of the 1960s and 70s.
quire the protection of separate courses.
How ironic, that during the very years
American women were encouraged to
establish identities beyond gender re-
strictions, entire fields of knowledge
trol of her experience by avoiding he-
being that language is the spiritual man-
were deliberately splintered off and gen-
gemonic "male" discourse, she is told to
sion in which you live and nobody has the
derized.
avoid "defining" and "naming." (As if
right to evict you from it. Your possession
Before the feminist era, gender was a
you could take control of anything with-
of is guaranteed by your devotion to it."
term that governed certain (albeit, cru-
out defining or naming.) Women's Stud-
Similarly, the Western tradition does
cial) aspects of life; in the feminist era,
ies traps its students -- whether they
indeed belong to women, to the extent
gender governs everything. Unlike genu-
know at the time or not in aghettoized
that they exercise the courage and integ-
ine academic disciplines, Women's Stud-
world of speculation, pseudo-thought,
rity necessary to claim it.
ies has neither a distinctive methodology
and half-truths.
What is most damaging is that the
nor subject matter. What it does have is
These educational "reforms" had not
more Women's Studies programs thrive,
the assertion that sex and gender are
yet taken hold at Fordham University,
the more they give the message to the
such important factors, in so many areas,
where I took my B.A. some years ago. For
culture at large that women cannot
that they deserve to be studied as such.
this, I am unspeakably grateful. I still
compete in the real life of the mind, but
Women's Studies is "interdisciplinary"
recall the excitement I felt, entering col-
instead require the protection of sepa-
it crosses the departmental lines of his-
lege as a young woman from a working-
rate courses. A friend of mine, whose wife
tory, literature, political science and
class background, discovering the treas-
and mother are both women of accom-
sociology. But it challenges the tradi-
ures of the Western tradition and realiz-
plishment, told me that the first inkling he
tional teachings of those disciplines, and
ing that they were mine. I entered a
had that women might actually not be
even the way they search for knowledge.
special place in whichrace, sex, national-
capable of genuine academic achieve-
Surely no one believes that feminist sci-
ity, and background diminished in im-
ment came from his perception of what
ence will produce feminine submarines;
portance next to the qualities of mind
was going on in Women's Studies. We
some of us, apparently, believe that there
needed to pursue the truth. If anyone
women should do everything we can to
is feminine language and feminine moral-
had presumed to "liberate" me by chan-
resist this latest, intellectual ghetto.
ity. These assertions are unproven, and
nelling me into the study of "Italian-
Carol Iannone teaches English at
perhaps unprovable, and so, at its core,
American life," or "blue-collar life," or
Iona College in New York. Collegiate
Women's Studies is an ideology.
"female-life," he or she would have been
Times is a monthly column on issues of
The typical Women's Studies student
depriving me of one of the greatest op-
bigher education. Distributed by the
is a young woman. If she is at all curious
portunities of my existence.
Collegiate Network.
6 / NEWSLINK February 1988
Collegiate Times
What the Salman Rushdie Affair Teaches:
Study the West
By Michael Novak
Does the Ayatollah understand why
ing both. The long, gray war against com-
there is a right to free expression and free
munism has had a similar purpose.
Michael Novak, a nationally syndicated
inquiry? Does he know how such rights
Already many Moslems have ex-
columnist, holds the George Frederick
came to recognition and were institution-
pressed shame at the Ayatollah's murder-
Jewett chair at the American Enterprise
ally secured? To understand, one has to
ous threats. Powerful reasons exist for
Institute. He is also a member of IEA's
read the Western books (from Milton,
respecting free inquiry and free expres-
Board of Directors.
Locke, Mill, and Madison to Vatican II)
sion, and most of the world is coming to
Salman Rushdie, that hypocritical
that argued for, defined, and explained
realize them. Glasnost itself bows to
anti-Westerner and trendy leftist, has
those rights, and know the histories of the
them.
taught us a number of important lessons.
long and arduous struggles that have se-
Here in America, our founders con-
The controversy over his book The Sa-
cured them in so few places on earth.
ceived of an experiment in "ordered lib-
tanic Verses has also illustrated, with great
This presents a problem. Since many
erty," a liberty confirmed in law and self-
clarity, what is at stake in the debate over
of our universities are not even imposing
control, and guided by temperance, jus-
Western Civilization courses at many
these Western classics on their own stu-
tice, courage, and wisdom. The fantasy
leading universities.
dents, it may seem odd to want to impose
that a republic could survive without such
Now we know that our literary estab-
them on grown men and women not of the
virtues, James Madison said, is "chimeri-
lishment believes in absolutes. At least in
West.
cal."
one absolute. Socialist journalist Christo-
But Salman Rushdie may have
The reason we believe in free inquiry
pher Hitchens intones the Western creed:
changed this. After building a high repu-
and free expression is that the mind by its
"the absolute right of free expression and
tation in London by excoriating the West
nature seeks the truth; it can be trusted,
free inquiry."
in book after book, Mr. Rushdie has
even though it often errs, is distracted, or
If not absolute, self-evident this truth
shown us why the universities should
is pulled aside by passion and bigotry.
may be to us and to our literary establish-
require all students to study more care-
Given more stimulation, it is more likely
ment. It appears not to be self-evident to
fully the classic books of the West. And
to sail straight as an arrow.
the Ayatollah Khomeini. Or to millions of
also, for contrast, the literature of Islamic,
The reason for free expression and free
Moslems.
African, Asian, and other cultures.
inquiry is so that reflection and choice
Most places on earth, in fact, do not
It is not enough to learn about the
may be practiced in as wide a field as
believe in the absolute right of free ex-
precious values that some Westerners
possible, and so that truth may be singled
pression and free inquiry. In historical
forget when speaking ill of the West. It is
out amidst error. But truth, reflection,
perspective, the idea is a relatively new
necessary to learn why other cultures do
and choice are to be served in a spirit of re-
one. The Ayatollah is quite right: It is a
not share these values.
spect.
Western idea.
Salman Rushdie has taught us that, on
And that is the final lesson that Sal-
And so, maybe the world does need the
some crucial matters, all cultures are not
man Rushdie teaches us. Yes, he had a
West, after all. Certainly Mr. Rushdie
equal. On some matters and in certain
right to free expression and free inquiry-
does and so do other writers and thinkers.
dimensions, some cultures are better than
at least, among us he had that right. But
Which makes it so odd that so many
others. Those that protect free inquiry
for causing pain and embarrassment to
writers and professors have for years pre-
and free expression are better, on that
millions of his fellow Moslems, for the
ferred Third Worldism to the West. One
point, than others.
outrage of mocking (even in a literary
writer called the white race "the cancer of
It is all well and good to talk about
dream) the founder of their religion, he
the human race." Others say the West
"one world," "interdependence," and
does not win our respect.
should not "impose" its values on the
"cross-cultural interchange." But if all
He is free to write what he believes.
Third World.
this noble talk is to be conducted uncriti-
But we are also free to withhold from him
But now, thanks to Mr. Rushdie,
cally, without attention to particular val-
our respect. Free expression invites freely
Western writers do want to impose their
ues (and to the classic arguments that
given disappointment. Protect him, yes;
values on the Third World. Western cul-
vindicate them), it is only baby talk.
respect what he wrote, no.
ture is a tiny minority in a sea of cultures
Some differences are worth dying for.
Not all of us in the West are secular.
with shockingly different values. If we
Free inquiry is one. Free expression is
Indeed, in America, most of us are
insist our values are superior, we must
another. World War II was fought to pre-
religious-and respectful of other relig-
offer good reasons.
vent a thousand-year Reich from banish-
ions besides our own.
6 7 NEWSLINK March 1989
Collegiate Times
The New History And The Old
By Gertrude Himmelfarb
An American historian recently ob-
mainstreamed into a single, coherent,
served that despite their sophistication
integrated history? In the democratic
Gertrude Himmelfarb is Professor Emeri-
about the nature of "conflict," many his-
ethos of the new history, no subject or
torians of the 19th Century have ne-
theme wants to take second place to any
tus of History at the City University of New
York. Her column is excerpted from a paper
glected the Civil War as a "mere event."
other. But there is, after all, only one first
presented at the annual meeting of the
And a leading French historian has re-
place, and some historical events and fig-
American Historical Association.
marked upon the virtual absence of the
ures have to be judged more important
major event of French history from the
than others.
History isn't what it used to be.
pages of their leading academic journals;
If this fragmentation of history were
The "old history" in which I was
only now that the bicentennial of the
not enough, we now have to worry about
trained sought to connect a narrative
French Revolution is upon them have
the "deconstruction" of history. Just as
sequence of events over a significant span
French historians returned to that sub-
deconstructionism in literary criticism
denies to the author of a text any authority
of time. It focused primarily on great
ject.
events and historical figures, on regimes
Nor do all social historians agree on
over its interpretation or meaning, so
and administrations, politics and diplo-
what should be the central focus of their
some historians deprive the past of its
macy, constitutions and laws, revolutions
work. Those devoted to the study of the
meaning and reality. Using words like
working class are challenged by feminist
"invent," "imagine," "construct," and
and wars.
In many universities, this has now been
historians who contend that gender
"decode" to describe their work, they
replaced by a "new history" which bor-
should take precedence over class. One
teach their younger colleagues not to
become mere "fact fetishists."
rows techniques from other social-sci-
ence disciplines to study groups and sub-
What is being deconstructed, how-
jects supposedly neglected by the "old
Varieties of "new
ever, is not only history as traditional his-
torians have understood it but the past as
history." Insofar as such efforts help us to
understand the past as it really was, they
history" have
contemporaries knew it. It is one thing to
are to be welcomed. Yet the varieties of
write women's history, another to write
new history have proliferated so quickly
proliferated so
feminist history. The assumption that
that the very term "new history" has be-
race, gender, and class are, and have al-
come problematic, and history itself, our
quickly that our
ways been, the basic determinants of his-
sense of the past, has become fragmentary
sense of the past bas
tory deconstructs the past not only as
historians have known it, but, in many
and elusive.
become fragmentary
cases, as contemporaries knew it.
Take, for example, social history, an
approach which argues that the true real-
Working historians have traditionally
ity can best be found in the small, intimate
and elusive.
assumed some correspondence between
details of "everyday life." I once heard a
interpretation and fact, between language
historian describe his "in-depth analysis"
and reality. Painfully aware of a past that
of the life of a New England town in the
school of neo-Marxists is rewriting his-
always eludes them, they have also been
late-eighteenth century. With colleagues
tory in light of a more "humanistic" Marx
cognizant of the need to close the gap as
doing comparable studies of other towns,
while others reaffirm a rigorously deter-
much as possible.
he hoped to produce a "total history" of
ministic and materialistic Marx. A Latin-
The new history stands outside re-
that place and time. I asked him what
American historian complains about the
ceived opinion and is prepared to pro-
bearing that would have on the founding
insufficient attention paid to the role of
nounce it simply false. The old history
of the United States. He replied that from
the state in establishing the economicand
stands within received opinion, trying to
his sources he could not "get to" that
social hegemony of the ruling class.
understand it as contemporaries did, to
One result of the enormous expansion
find out why they believed what they did,
event, but that it was not as important as
I took it to be. What was important was
of social history has been that the subjects
why those beliefs seemed to them "cred-
the ordinary life of ordinary people. To
of that history-blacks, women, Chica-
ible," a "faithful interpretation of their
which I could only reply that all people,
nos, Indians, immigrants, families now
experiences." The new history may have
demand not just to be included, but to be
much to teach the old, but this is one
and perhaps most of all ordinary people,
were surely profoundly affected by that
"mainstreamed," into American history.
important lesson the old may teach the
momentous event.
But how can all these unique groups be
new.
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The
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Photocopy-Preservation
THE CRITIC DEBATE
Should the U.S. Establish
A National Service Corps?
Nay - Rick Henderson
Yea - Bob Lukefahr
IN THE NOVEM-
MANY CAROLI-
ber, 1988 issue of the
na students seem to be-
CRITIC (p. 22), Bob
lieve that they have the
Lukefahr wrote an excel-
"right" to a college edu-
lent column advocating
cation. They are wrong.
new, mostly private-sec-
As I have frequently ar-
tor initiatives designed to
gued in these pages,
replace government stu-
America owes its youth
dent loans and grants. He
an opportunity to earn a
unfortunately also called
degree not a free ride.
for a national job corps
Recently, the Democratic
that would allow under-
Leadership Conference
privileged students to ex-
(DLC) recommended re-
change labor on govern-
placing grants and feder-
ment projects for college
ally guaranteed student
funding.
loans with something
The Democratic
called a National Civilian
Leadership Council, a
Corps (NCC). While I
group of moderates and
have serious reservations
conservatives in Con-
about the DLC's plan, I
gress, recently proposed
do think it is a step in the
such a program. Their
right direction.
new National Civilian
First something about
Corps (NCC) would re-
the specifics of the plan:
place government loans
young people who
and grants with a national
choose to enter the NCC
service program. Those
will be required to spend
who apply for a grant or loan would work one year in civilian service
one year working for their state or local government in exchange for
for a $10,000 voucher, or serve two years in the military for a $24,000
a $10,000 voucher which can be used either for a college education or
voucher. These vouchers could be used for college or as a down
as a down payment on a house. Those who choose military service
payment on a home.
instead will receive a $24,000 voucher after two years of service. The
While Lukefahr correctly points out that qualified students need a
intent of the DLC's plan is to eliminate most (if not all) guaranteed
way to earn money for college, and that there is no such thing as a right
student loans and federal grants.
to a free college education, establishing the NCC would be a mistake.
Now this program has some obvious flaws. There is a danger that
First, the program allows state and local governments to determine
the federal government will use it as an excuse to fund unnecessary
how participating youth would be employed. There is no guarantee that
projects. It will probably encourage the federal bureaucracy to meddle
NCC enlistees would do any more useful work than that done by the
even more in the affairs of state and local governments. Many view it
New Deal's Civilian Conservation Corps, in which workers dug
as only the first step in creating a mandatory civilian service corp
ditches and then filled them up again. Makework programs such as this
complete with uniforms and conscription.
don't teach job skills, they don't provide valued goods or services, and
Additionally, it will be expensive. The year-long commitment will
they are a huge waste of taxpayers' money.
discourage many would-be students. Its ranks will likely be filled by
Next, this program would be ludicrously expensive. Dr.
the poor, and it will do nothing to help the infamous teenage mother
Friedman's Law (that's David Friedman, not his dad, Milton) states:
who can hardly leave her child for a year. In short, the NCC is not
any government activity costs at least four times more than if the same
perfect, and it is certainly no panacea. Nevertheless, the program has
work were done by the private sector. John Pucciano, president of the
considerable merit.
Association of Independent Colleges and Schools, reports that the
Many of today's high school students don't believe they will ever
NCC will cost taxpayers about $5 billion a year and will assist about
have the opportunity to attend college. Even a subsidized education at
800,000 students. Current federal loans and grants serve over 4 million
a state supported university seems prohibitively expensive to those on
students and cost $8 billion. So for the NCC to help 4 million students
the lowest rungs of the economic ladder.
it would cost at least $20 billion!
Tragically, this perception that higher education is inaccessible,
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most Americans do believe that there are legitimate services provided
by government. The challenge is to insure that the NCC is only used
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to provide these legitimate services.
stifles the desire for academic excellence, and deprives the nation of
Another objection to the creation of an NCC is its projected cost.
one of its most valuable resources innovative young minds. One of
Figures range from $5 billion to a staggering $20 billion annually. If
the most compelling arguments for the NCC is that it will do much to
the DLC's plan were implemented in its current form, it is likely that
change this perception.
the price tag would be close to these estimates. Two things can be done,
By providing a means of financing which is available to everyone,
however, to reduce the cost.
the NCC will debunk forever the myth that only those with money have
First, the voucher should only be redeemable for education ex-
access to college. The effect that such a program can have on expec-
penses. Funding higher education is an investment which will help
tations, and the import of such a change, should not be underestimated.
insure that America remains competitive. The government should not,
Another important feature of the NCC is its emphasis on self-
however, be in the business subsidizing the purchase of a house. If,
reliance. While many students will continue to rely on the government
after completing the program, a person decides he doesn't want to go
for educational assistance, at least under the DLC's plan they will be
to college, he should be allowed to transfer the voucher to another
expected to give something in return. Again, the pedagogical effect of
person who does.
this should not be underestimated. Congress is sending a message to
Second, the plan should be only a part of a comprehensive
the less fortunate that is loud and clear: we will help you only after you
education financing reform program. At the same time Congress
are willing to help yourself.
should also institute tax-free Individual Education Accounts, make
Not surprisingly, this program has a host of detractors. Many on the
college student's income tax-exempt, and develop long-term tax
political left regard any work-for-tuition program as unfair. They
incentives that encourage businesses to finance their employee's
argue that it will force poor people to work their way through college
education. But for those students that can't take advantage of these
while the rich enjoy the advantages of a privileged background. So
other programs, the NCC will provide a welcome alternative.
what. There is no shame in being poor, and there is certainly no shame
Finally, to those who warn that creation of the NCC will actually
in earning tuition money. Giving a bunch of underprivileged young
discourage some students I say, good. If the hard work makes a few of
people an opportunity for a better life is not unfair, it is noble. This
our young people think twice about attending college then we've
entire argument sounds like nothing more than old fashioned envy to
accomplished something grand. hope that the program does weed out
me.
the slothful while encouraging the diligent. If so it will be money well
A more substantive argument against the NCC is that it will move
spent. The last thing America needs is more lazy professionals who
more money into the hands of government bureaucrats who will busy
believe the government owes them a living.
themselves inventing jobs. While this is an unfortunate possibility, it
is not inevitable. Corp members can be put to work at jobs which need
Bob, will you please, please, please stop telling stories about your days
to be done anyway. Contrary to views of some CRITIC staff members,
in the Air Force or was that the Navy?
Nay - Rick Henderson
America's teenagers that Uncle Sam' needs were more important than
their own.
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So how do we help the unwealthy provide for college? Bob had
Also, one element of the NCC is available right now: college
some good ideas. Let students' earning be tax-free; allow tax-free
money for military enlistees. You have probably seen the commercial
savings accounts for college expenses; and establish incentives for
for the New G.I. Bill, in which teenagers sit in a diner and listen to Jack
businesses to pay for their employees' college educations.
tell them how they can earn college money by serving in the Armed
If these are such hot ideas, then why aren' they in place now? Partly
Forces. This is a perk available to enlistees now: why do we need
because the institutional incentives to encourage such savings don't
another bureaucracy to supervise a redundant program?
exist.
Finally, the NCC would be an easy way to introduce one of Gary
I also think that the very existence of government grants and loans
Hart's "New Ideas:" mandatory national service. Knowing Bob
to students discourages the private sector from developing alterna-
Lukefahr, he probably opposes mandatory service, but Hart, Sen. Sam
tives. As long as American businesses believe that Uncle Moneybags
Nunn of Georgia (a key sponsor of the NCC), and our friends at the
in Washington will take care of lower-income students (even at
Daily Tar Heel think it's wonderful to force every teenager to volun-
exorbitant expense), then businesses will feel little compunction to
teer (interesting choice of terms) to serve their country.
help them.
For whatever reason they give, from the "need" for patriotism, to
Every qualified student should have the opportunity to earn money
the "injustice" of only requiring the disadvantaged to join the NCC, to
for college. But let's not saddle the taxpayers (many of whom are
the wish to instill a "sense of national duty, just as they do in Europe,"
students or parents of students) with a wasteful, ineffective new
mandatory national slavery is the greatest thing since sliced bread for
bureaucracy. Let's also not desecrate the legacy of Thomas Jefferson
this crowd. Frankly, folks, mandatory service stinks.
and Patrick Henry by making America's teenagers Uncle Sam's
You don't inspire patriotism and duty by pointing a gun at
indentured servants.
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someone's head and sending him to a youth labor camp. And, to
paraphrase columnist Richard Reeves, the original idea was that
America was different from Europe. Mandatory service would not
Rick Henderson is a graduate of UNC who only favors one type of
produce anything of use to the marketplace; it would only tell
draft-the kind that doesn't come in cans.
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Growing up with Reagan
THE END OF AN ERA
by Ronald J. Granieri
ing the red wave, representing Republi-
two months into his term. We watched
ties we must face, from paying our own
can Ronald Reagan, sweep across a map
him rise to power, enjoy his success,
rent to cooking our own meals, lic the
ommencement is a bittersweet
of the United States while John Chancel-
C
stumble and almost fall, and then ride off
even more daunting responsibilities of an
time for graduating seniors, a
lor droned on about the landslide, and
into the sunset. He was the one constant
adult, defining our own ideas for a better
chance to take one last look at
wondering what would happen next.
factor in our lives as we grew up and went
world and deciding what we can do as
the "best years of their lives" before
Well, as all of us now recognize, the
to college. There he was on TV or in the
individuals to make that vision a reality.
plunging headlong into the real world.
coming of Ronald Reagan did not bring
paper, giving a speech, shaking a hand,
As adults, we will have to define our
(How these four years, filled with post-
an end to the world as we know it, at least
smiling for the camera. Whether we be-
priorities and act on them. There will no
adolescent sexual angst, the numbing
not in the ways suggested by the more
lieved that he was the last best hope for
longer be the special atmosphere of col-
familiarity of keg parties in dark rooms
emotional commentators of 1980. Nor
America or a dangerous ideologue out of
lege to support us and provide a buffer
with incredibly loud music in the back-
did it bring a conservative millennium as
touch with reality, we could not escape his
against the forces of the outside world.
ground, and the sweaty-palmed search for
imagined by optimists on the right. But
image. The first President in over two
Will we remain true to the ideas that we
a job and a secure future, could be the
the election of Ronald Reagan has had a
decades to serve two complete terms in
value today, or will we "sell out" in the
"best" of anyone's life is utterly beyond
powerful effect on the development of
office, he placed his stamp upon the
me; but, as I said once to a friend at one of
name of comfort or convenience? It is up
both the nation and our generation. For
American consciousness as had no Presi-
to each one of us to decide.
dent since Franklin Roosevelt.
The election of Reagan had
Such a decision will have to come in
Reagan's passing from the political
a much more complicated atmosphere
scene has been a watershed event for our
than the one in which we grew up. For the
a powerful effect on the
generation. The removal of this constant
power of Ronald Reagan to act as a mag-
center of our political consciousness has
net for political energies was truly a
forced each of us to reexamine our politi-
double-edged sword. While he provided
development of the nation
cal beliefs. No longer can our positions be
an easy point of reference and a stone on
simply defined in terms of where we stand
which to sharpen our own positions, his
with the President. George Bush is neither
dominance of the political scene has made
and our generation.
the sort of man nor the sort of leader who
many of us lazy. Both conservatives and
could fill such a role. Where Ronald
liberals became dependent on Reagan to
Reagan appeared as a larger than life
point the way while they merely reacted.
the aforementioned keg parties, it sure
the Class of 1989, who watched that
figure dominating the political process,
His retirement has led to a sort of national
beat working.) More importantly, com-
spreading Republican tide in 1980,
George Bush appears as, at best, a quiet
befuddlement, as both the political estab-
mencement is a time for graduating sen-
Ronald Reagan is the only President we
and capable compromiser or, at worst, a
lishment and the public at large have tried,
iors to bid good-bye to childhood and
have really known. We reached personal
cipher without the ideological ballast that
SO far without success, to chart an inde-
embrace the rewards and challenges of
and political adulthood in his shadow
society
adulthood. At such a turning point in our
some of us, Reagan's influence and the
this is a particularly difficult time. With-
The hesitant steps of the Bush Admini-
lives, it is fitting to reflect on the forces
political movement he sponsored were
out the idealistic, ideological figure of
stration to form policy and the emphasis
that shaped our views as we grew to
forces that moved us to the right; others
maturity, and to assess how those forces
have been moved just as firmly to the left.
have prepared us for our roles as inde-
But all of us have been forced to define
pendent adults in society.
ourselves with regard to the smiling, pa-
We all remember watching
For most of the members of the Class
ternal figure who occupied the White
of 1989, our political development began
House and dominated the American po-
him win the Presidency
in November, 1980, when Ronald Reagan
litical landscape from 1981 to 1989.
defeated Jimmy Carter to become Presi-
Much has been written in both na-
dent of a tired, humbled, stagnated United
tional and campus journals, including the
with either hope or fear.
States of America. On that fateful day,
one you now hold, about the meaning of
many liberal commentators, (including
the Reagan phenomenon and effects on
my own beloved father, who never, bless
American political culture. Among the
Ronald Reagan to lead the way, much of
on both sides of the Congressional aisle
his heart, let rational calculation get in the
major questions that have been discussed
what has passed for conservatism among
on compromise are the clearest indicators
way of his more colorful partisan out-
is the one asked by President Bok in a
our generation could easily drift into the
of this national confusion.
bursts) hinted that the election of so con-
recent commencement address, whether
sort of selfish apathy that President Bok
servative a man as Ronald Reagan would
the present trend of "conservatism" in
has warned against. One need only lookat
n this moment of confusion, while
bring dire consequences for the United
America is the product of a genuine re-
the official Class of 1989 shirt logo,
flective desire to rein in government for
which reads "Going for the Gold" on the
I
the United States hovers at the edge
States. They predicted horrors ranging.
from the reversal of several decades of
of a new decade and a new century,
the public good, or simply an expression
front, and displays a replica of an Ameri-
our generation must step forward to chart
social programs to the thermonuclear
of selfishness and apathy. This question is
can Express Gold Card on the back. Is that
a clear course for the nation. We owe a
devastation of the planet. On the other
particularly important for our generation
all that we have learned from our political
great debt to Ronald Reagan for helping
side were the many conservative colum-
of students, who have been broadly
apprenticeship under Reagan, that, to
us to formulate our early political ideas,
nists and politicians who had been exiled
painted by the press as "conservative." It
quote another hero. of the acquisitive
but we must also recognize that our politi-
from center stage in American politics
thus seems opportune to take a few
Eighties, Gordon Gekko, "greed is
cal apprenticeship is a. an end. Our na-
since the fall of Richard Nixon. They
moments to reflect on the legacy of the
good"? I hope not.
tional father figure has gone, but we
were no more restrained in their rhetoric
Reagan years for young Americans, and
Thus the Class of 1989 stands at the
should not allow his absence to drive us
than their opponents, as they expatiated
to think about how that legacy will affect
end of childhood and, to borrow a cliche
into apathy or confusion. This advice is
on the coming conservative millennium,
us in the future.
from commencements past, at the thresh-
for all who want to create a better world,
which would result in everything from a
As I said at the beginning, Ronald
old of adulthood. Before us stretch both
but especially for those who would call
major in the income tax to the repeal of
Reagan is for many of us the only Presi-
the uncertain decade of the Nineties and
themselves conservatives. We must work
the Panama Canal treaties. One of my first
dent we have really known until this past
the daunting prospect of trying to make
twice as hard to realize a vision of a better
memories as an eighth-grader was watch-
January. We can all remember watching
sense out of an increasingly complex and
society, or we will prove ourselves guilty
him win the Presidency with either hope
rapidly changing world. We are now on
of the very sins of apathy and sclfishness
Ronald J. Granieri '89 is a former Editor
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COLUMN ON NATIONAL DRUG STRATEGY
BY PRESIDENT GEORGE BUSH
Summer is over and classes are back in session. As we begin
the school year, our thoughts again turn to the future -- a
future gravely threatened by drugs.
Americans agree that the biggest threat we are facing as a
nation is drugs, in particular cocaine and crack.
Who is responsible? Everyone who uses drugs. Everyone who
sells drugs. Everyone who looks the other way.
Some people used to call drugs just a benign form of
recreation. They're not. Drugs are a real and extremely serious
threat to our schools, our homes, our friends and our families.
It doesn't matter where you live or what school you attend. No
one is free from the threat of drugs. Inner cities, small towns,
and college campuses all are under siege -- because America is
under siege.
On September 5, I announced the first comprehensive national
strategy to end the siege -- to fight drugs with tougher laws and
enforcement, and with improved treatment, education and
prevention. The programs we've proposed are an all-out assault
against the evil of drug use and drug trafficking. We are
aggressively attacking the problem from every angle, and
proposing a 1990 drug-budget totaling over eight billion dollars
-- the largest single increase in history.
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America is fighting a war against drugs. Yet the most
important weapons in the war on drugs are the least tangible:
self-discipline, courage, character, support from one's family,
faith in God and in one's self.
Fundamentally, the drug problem in America is not one of
supply, but of demand. We are taking strong new action to stop
the flow of drugs into this country and to stop the dealers
themselves; but as long as Americans are willing to buy illegal
drugs, somebody, somewhere in the world will sell them.
Recently, I met with Mrs. Everett Hatcher, the widow of a
veteran DEA agent who was killed by drug-using cowards. A woman
of considerable dignity, she put responsibility for her husband's
death squarely on "casual" users of cocaine. She's right -- and
there is now blood on their hands. Similarly, President Barco of
Colombia recently made an appeal to Americans to stop buying the
cocaine causing the slaughter of innocent civilians in the drug
wars there.
Every student in America at some point -- at a party, in a
locker room, in a dorm room -- every student must choose to
accept or reject drugs. But there is another choice that college
students, as responsible adults, must make -- whether to get
involved in a personal way to end drug use, or to look the other
way.
College campuses have long been centers of conscience and
idealism in this country, places where students have raised their
voices to protest oppression, injustice and human suffering
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around the world. Yet, no one would deny that often drugs go
hand in hand with injustice, suffering and even death. But where
is the sound of protest? Innocent bystanders are killed at
random on city streets. Babies are born addicted to crack and
heroin. Young children are forced into the drug trade by
addicts. What greater human rights violations exist? What
greater injustices? Yet, recreational drug users still on some
college campuses are ambivalent to the death and destruction they
are financing.
We must appeal to the social conscience of every college
student on every college campus in America. The way to protest
the misery and oppression brought about by drugs is to commit
yourself to staying away from drugs -- and working to keep them
away from your friends.
Drug use doesn't usually begin the way most people would
think, with young people getting their first drugs from an addict
or a dealer. Instead, they get them free from "friends" who
think casual drug use hurts no one. Peer pressure is what
spreads drug use and peer pressure can help stop it.
You can help stop it -- if you get involved.
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Institute For Educational Affairs
August 15, 1989
Mary Kate Grant
Speechwriter
Office of Media Relations
The White House
OEOB Room 117
Washington, DC 20500
Dear Mary Kate:
Just a quick note to let you know that 12 of our student editors
and I met with the President last week in the White House to discuss
education and drug policy issues. The meeting was set up by Doug Wead
in Public Liason.
The President has great rapport with college students. If
anything, the meeting made us even more eager to have a column by
George Bush for distribution to our syndicate of 900 college
newspapers. I appreciate your efforts, and hope you keep me posted on
developments on your end.
Yours truly,
Vom
Thomas Wm Skladony
Vice President
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September 29, 1989
Mary Kate Grant
Speechwriters Office
Exec. Office of the President
Old Exec. Office Bldg. / Rm. 117
Washington, DC 20500
Dear Mary Kate:
As a new school year begins, I am writing to introduce you to
a network of college and university publications that can give you
a unique perspective on events on campus.
The Collegiate Network is a group of 49 independent, student-
run newspapers and magazines, located at many of the nation's most
prestigious schools. One is a daily, several are weeklies, and
the rest generally come out monthly, carrying news, features, and
opinions on all aspects of campus life. For the past nine years,
my organization has been providing grants, as well as editorial
and management advice, to them (although we do not exercise any
editorial control). The enclosed annual report describes what we
do in more detail.
The Collegiate Network is normally thought of as a group of
"conservative" publications. Our most famous member is The
Dartmouth Review. However, if you take the time to read the
enclosed article from Rolling Stone's back-to-school issue, I
think you will see that there is a good deal more to the papers
and magazines than an ideological posture. The Collegiate Network
is now attracting some of the most intellectually honest and
committed undergraduates in the country. Precisely because they
usually approach issues from a different angle, their writing is
among the most insightful and provocative appearing on campus
today.
In the event you might have some use for it, I would be
delighted to make their work available to you on a regular basis.
To that end, I have enclosed a list of the Network publications to
help you get in touch with our members if you are interested in
their views. In addition, I will periodically send you a packet
of the best articles these papers print. I would also be happy to
arrange a subscription to any of them that you might like to
receive directly.
1112 16th St., N.W., Suite #520 Washington, D.C. 20036 202-833-1801
Mary Kate Grant
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If my organization can be of any other help to you, please
feel free to call me or our program officer, Alex Dahl.
Sincerely,
M
Leslie Lenkowsky
President
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INSTITUTE FOR EDUCATIONAL AFFAIRS
Annual
Report 1988
A DECADE OF
ACCOMPLISHMENTS
Annual Report
of the
Institute for Educational Affairs
1988
1112 16th Street, N.W.
Suite 520
Washington, D.C. 20036
(202) 833-1801
William E. Simon
310 South Street, CN 1913
Morristown, New Jersey 07960-1913
(201) 898-0290
October 20, 1988
Mr. Leslie Lenkowsky
President
Institute for Educational Affairs
1112 16th Street, N.W.
Washington, D.C. 20036
Dear Les:
I am very sorry not to be with you at IEA's tenth anniversary
luncheon. As one of IEA's co-founders, it is certainly
disappointing not to be able to join the celebration.
It is hard to believe that IEA was founded a decade ago. In one
sense it seems like yesterday, but in another it seems like a
whole other era, SO much has changed on the American political
scene during that time. IEA shares the credit. In 1978, we
conservatives were treated like neanderthals, and the prospect of
a two-term Ronald Reagan presidency seemed mighty distant. But
the training and support you have given for student journalism,
the scholarly work you have funded, the guidance you have provided
to corporate and private foundations, all have contributed
significantly to the conservative renaissance we have witnessed in
the last ten years.
I know everyone there tonight shares my pride in IEA's
achievements, and looks forward to the next decade of
accomplishment. Congratulations, and let's keep up the battle.
With warm regards to all of you,
Sincerely,
Bour
THE WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON
October 19, 1988
Greetings and congratulations to the members and
friends of the Institute for Educational Affairs as you
celebrate a decade of "creating a national dialogue"
about the guiding principles of American civilization.
You've been doing something remarkable -- making
acceptable again the idea that the way to perpetuate
our civilization is to identify and defend the tradi-
tions and values that have defined, strengthened,
and inspired our culture and our Nation through more
than two centuries. Through your network of student
newspapers, your grants to scholars and journalists,
and your efforts to bring new ideas to the nonprofit
community, you are building on a base of intellectual
inquiry and excellence that has been one of America's
greatest assets. You've succeeded because yours is
the essential premise that ideas count. Generations
yet unborn will be grateful for your sense of our
past, your foresight, and your courage.
Again, congratulations. May your next ten years,
and more, be as effective in the service of freedom as
your first ten have been. God bless you.
Ronald Reager
4 A DECADE OF ACCOMPLISHMENTS
BOARD OF DIRECTORS
Charles Wohlstetter, Chairman
William L. Grala, Jr.
Irving Kristol, Vice Chairman
L. Oakley Johnson
Phillip Areeda
Michael S. Joyce
William J. Bennett
Harold J. Kaplan
Ronald Berman
Lawrence Kudlow
Robert H. Bork
William Lilley III
Walter Berns
Elizabeth B. Lurie
John H. Bunzel
Jeremiah Milbank
Peter B. Clark
Michael Novak
Midge Decter
Roger D. Semerad
Christopher C. DeMuth
R. Randolph Richardson
Henry O. Dormann
Susan S. Stautberg
Edwin J. Feulner, Jr.
Murray Weidenbaum
Robert W. Galvin
James Q. Wilson
EMERITI
William E. Simon, Honorary Chairman
Harry B. Cunningham
Tom Pauken
Robert F. Dee
Diane Ravitch
James H. Higgins
Justice Antonin Scalia
Robert H. Krieble
Honorable Frank Shakespeare
Lewis E. Lehrman
Honorable Laurence H. Silberman
David Packard
W. Allen Wallis
OFFICERS
Leslie Lenkowsky, President
Thomas Wm. Skladony, Vice President
James Piereson, Secretary
R. Randolph Richardson, Treasurer
Walter Berns, Assistant Secretary-Treasurer
1988 IEA ANNUAL REPORT 5
STATEMENT OF PURPOSE
The Institute for Educational Affairs was founded in 1978
to help defend America's 200-year-old experiment in self-govern-
ment and economic freedom from a self-conscious cultural estab-
lishment eager to condemn the principles, aspirations and loy-
alties of most Americans. The Institute for Educational Affairs was
born as a novel and in the best sense of the word idealistic effort
to deal with that unique situation. Part of the Institute's own
uniqueness involves its very constitution; we brought together
business leaders and scholars, two parts of our society between
which in the past there had been too little interaction. We did SO
because one of our explicit goals was to demonstrate that there
exists a natural harmony between enlightened philanthropy and
enlightening scholarship. We hope that IEA, by facilitating the
former, will encourage the latter.
Indeed, facilitating more enlightened philanthropy is the
central goal of the Institute for Educational Affairs. In many ways,
IEA is a foundation for foundations. Over its lifetime, IEA has
utilized a number of means to enhance discussion and creativity
among private and corporate givers. We encourage others to think
of IEA as a "clearinghouse" and information network. IEA's staff,
its myriad friends and consultants in the academic world, and its
distinguished Board of Directors are all available to assist the
inquiring corporate or private donor. Finally, we hope that the
programs and projects IEA funds directly will be of a quality
sufficient to encourage partnership or emulation.
The Institute for Educational Affairs exists to assist those
thinkers and institutions including, especially, other foundations
whose work furthers the ideas about freedom and justice that are
fundamental to our way of life. As we wrote in our first annual
report, "The Institute has in mind nothing less than creating a
national dialogue about what our guiding principles might be. Out
of such a dialogue, we hope, there will begin to emerge a culture
that fulfills its traditional role as a sustainer and guardian of our
civilization." While America, and Americans' perception of Amer-
ica, have changed greatly in the ten years since the Institute was
founded, we find ourselves with much still to do to fulfill this
objective.
6 A DECADE OF ACCOMPLISHMENTS
Whether the Institute's Board members or staff are
working with a corporate CEO or contributions specialist to
identify new areas for corporate giving, or providing a vital first
grant to an up-and-coming scholar, or helping to open new
forums on American campuses, we believe that ideas matter
and over time matter dramatically. Because we believe this, we
are optimistic about the future. Quality scholarship, by its
nature, is our ally. Open forums are our natural habitat.
We are delighted to have welcomed six new members to
our Board in the past year: William J. Bennett, former Secretary
of Education; Robert H. Bork, John M. Olin Fellow of the
American Enterprise Institute; Henry O. Dormann, Editor-in-
Chief, Leaders Magazine; L. Oakley Johnson, Vice President,
Corporate Affairs, American International Group; Lawrence
Kudlow, Chief Economist, Bear, Stearns, Inc.; and Roger D.
Semerad, Senior Vice President, Policy Development, American
Express Company. With their help and that of the rest of our
Board, along with the effort of our staff and the many organi-
zations that provide support for our programs, we believe that
the Institute will come closer to fulfilling its promise than ever
before.
CHARLES WOHLSTETTER
IRVING KRISTOL
STAFF
Leslie Lenkowsky, President
Thomas Wm. Skladony, Vice President
Hilda M. Maness, Assistant to the President
Peter Frumkin, Program Officer
Jonathan Bacal, Program Officer
Tess Samuel, Office Manager
Kim C. Bowling, Secretary
1988 IEA ANNUAL REPORT 7
PRESIDENT'S REPORT
In 1988, the Institute for Educational Affairs celebrated its tenth anniversary.
Many nonprofit organizations are not fortunate enough to reach that milestone. But we
did make it, with a record of achievement to be proud of and a program that is still run-
ning smoothly and growing. Moreover, though we have undertaken projects we did not
originally anticipate, the Institute's major concerns have remained remarkably faithful
to those its founders had in mind a decade ago, as our activities in 1988 make evident.
In 1978, one of our two principal missions was to assist foundations, corpora-
tions, and individual donors in directing their grants toward projects which sustained
the values and institutions that made the tradition of American philanthropy possible.
In 1988, that aim was embodied in a new organization, the Philanthropic Roundtable,
which has now attracted nearly 150 members, published a bimonthly newsletter, held
three major conferences, and performed a variety of other services for its members. In its
first full year of operation, the Philanthropic Roundtable won the interest and respect of
the nonprofit world, as well as gave increased visibility to new and more effective ap-
proaches to grantmaking.
Our second main objective in 1978 was to provide financial support to carefully
selected scholars and journalists. In 1988, though not as large a portion of our activities
as previously, we continued to make grants for worthwhile projects. Most notable were
the SmithKline Beckman Bicentennial Awards in Legal Education, which assisted six
law schools in adding courses on the history and philosophy of the Constitution to their
curricula. The establishment of a new fund for small grants enabled several journalists
to undertake important assignments requiring extensive travel or other extraordinary
expenses. IEA also continued to serve as a "home" for a number of independent scholars
and journalists whose work was being underwritten by various foundations.
Although it was not anticipated a decade ago, the Student Journalism Program
has turned out not only to fit well with IEA's primary goals, but also to be a uniquely
significant activity in its own right. With the addition of five new publications at the end
of 1988, membership in the Collegiate Network reached a new high of over 40 newspa-
pers and magazines. The increasing proficiency of our advisory services also helped
many of the publications improve their editorial quality and organizational strength.
Whether at Stanford or Dartmouth, Northwestern University or the University of North
Carolina, wherever debates over the future of higher education were raging, IEA-as-
sisted journals seemed to be in the middle of them and having an effect. In this way, they
too contributed to the enhancement of scholarship that is the Institute's ultimate objec-
tive.
The Student Journalism Program contributes as well by serving as a vehicle for
identifying talented undergraduates, who might be interested in scholarly or journalis-
tic careers. In 1988, IEA's Editorial Internship Program placed recent graduates in en-
try-level positions at The Public Interest, National Review, Orbis, The National Interest,
Chronicles of Culture, and, of special note, The New Republic. Two other students worked
part-time at Academic Questions, the journal of the National Association of Scholars,
while attending Princeton. The Institute also launched a new summer internship pro-
gram, aimed at giving some of our younger writers experience in Washington before they
return to school for their senior years. During the summer of 1988, students were placed
in the White House and the Department of Education, as well as with The Washington
8 A DECADE OF ACCOMPLISHMENTS
Times, Policy Review, and a television production company, the Blackwell Corporation.
In time, they and the full-year interns may join the growing list of IEA "alumni" now
making their mark in newspapers, magazines, and government, as well as pursuing
academic and professional careers.
More than 50 foundations, corporations, and individual donors supported IEA's
programs last year, a record number. Most who had given in 1987 contributed in 1988;
in addition, 10 new supporters were acquired. The few past donors who declined to re-
new their grants gave a change in their own funding priorities as the reason, rather than
dissatisfaction with IEA's work. Clearly by anyone's standards, at the end of its first
decade, IEA has attained a reasonably stable financial base.
Not least important, it has also put together an active board and a highly compe-
tent staff. Two of the President Reagan's most admired appointees, William J. Bennett
and Robert H. Bork, re-enlisted as IEA directors after completing their government serv-
ice. Top executives from American Express, the American International Group, and
Bear, Stearns, as well as the editor of Leaders magazine, have also joined the board. At
the beginning of 1988, Hilda M. Maness arrived as Assistant to the President and has
proceeded to put the Institute's administrative and financial affairs in superb order. The
annual summer rotation of program officers, which brought Jon Bacal and Peter
Frumkin to the IEA staff, was accomplished with hardly any disruption in our activities.
All these are signs of a mature organization, which is what IEA has become. Its
programs, its finances, and its operations are in good shape. Its reputation is high. Its
place in the crowded world of nonprofit educational groups is well-defined.
These are not reasons for complacency, since we still have much to do. For all
that we (and others) have managed to accomplish in the past 10 years, both philan-
thropy and higher education remain largely inhospitable to the ideas which IEA champi-
ons. Indeed, precisely because of some of the successes of the past decade, such as the
critiques of Allan Bloom and William Bennett and the efforts of the Reagan administra-
tion to reduce the dependency of nonprofits on public spending, leaders in both philan-
thropy and higher education have become more furious defenders of their position, and
often more skillful ones as well.
Moreover, IEA's own accomplishments have placed strains on its staff and finan-
cial resources. The funds contributed to the Institute in 1988 were just about enough to
cover its expenses. (Indeed, some aspects of IEA's program, notably its editorial intern-
ships, grants to journalists, and incentive awards for Collegiate Network publications,
had to be curtailed for lack of money.) And providing services to a network of more than
40 student publications is far more time-consuming than working with 30 or less. Like-
wise, the success of the Philanthropic Roundtable has opened up additional opportuni-
ties, not least of all in assisting the new grantmakers that have been attracted to it.
Nonetheless, it is better to have too much to do than too little. Furthermore, in
the fields in which IEA works, it is impossible to rest on one's laurels or take too much
pride in what one has done. Reality quickly restores humility and spurs one on to try
harder. That is what we intend to do in our second decade and we look forward to another
10 years of accomplishments in areas that still badly need what we can bring to them.
LESLIE LENKOWSKY
1988 IEA ANNUAL REPORT 9
STUDENT JOURNALISM PROGRAM
Since 1980, the Institute has been assisting students at scores of American
colleges and universities in their efforts to found and publish campus newspapers and
magazines. In just a few years, IEA-funded journals have expanded the range of
viewpoints at many of the nation's top schools, including every Ivy League campus and
many of the major state universities. They have also helped develop thoughtful and fair-
minded journalists, many of whom now work at newspapers, magazines, research
institutes, and other organizations throughout the country.
Collectively, these publications are known as the Collegiate Network and they
receive nearly $100,000 annually in direct financial assistance from IEA. In addition,
since 1986, the Institute has been operating a program of editorial and publishing
advisory services to help the papers improve in quality and organizational stability. In
1988, this program included:
A series of regional conferences during the spring which were attended by
120 students from 34 campus publications. The workshops brought
these students together with professional writers and editors, including
many who worked on IEA-sponsored papers while in college, for a
weekend of "nuts and bolts" instruction on the business of publishing
student newspapers. Speakers included Wall Street Journal editor Robert
Bartley, Detroit News editorial page editor Thomas Bray, IEA Vice Chair-
man Irving Kristol, and Harvard professor Nathan Glazer.
A schedule of site visits which allow IEA staff to see each paper on its own
campus, meet its staff, evaluate its effectiveness, and troubleshoot its par-
ticular problems. Last year more than 30 colleges and universities were
visited.
A monthly newsletter, Newslink, which provides student journalists with
important news about the program, story ideas, and publishing tips.
Newslink now contains almost all original copy, much of it written by the
current student editors themselves, and includes one how-to article on
editorial matters and one on business topics in each issue. A "Worth
Reading" column enables accomplished writers, such as Robert Novak,
William F. Buckley, Jr., and Arnold Beichman, to tell today's undergradu-
ates about the works that most inspired them.
A toll-free "hotline" to make it easier for student journalists to call IEA for
help with day-to-day problems. During the school year, the "hotline" was
used nearly 200 times per month.
A nationally syndicated monthly column on issues in higher education,
called "Collegiate Times." In addition to the Collegiate Network papers,
this column is sent to 865 other college publications as well as 125 of the
largest professional daily papers in an effort to reach a major student
audience on campuses outside those served by the Network. Columnists
10 A DECADE OF ACCOMPLISHMENTS
featured in 1988 included William Bennett, Richard Nixon, Boston Uni-
versity president John Silber, and Equal Employment Opportunity. Com-
mission chairman Clarence Thomas.
A national advertising consortium which sells the Collegiate Network
papers as a single media package. Coors, Contel, and the Hoover
Institution Press were just some of the advertisers who have placed ads
in every Network publication through the consortium. In 1988, the
consortium provided nearly $40,000 in direct revenue to the student
papers.
An exchange program which enables each paper to receive copies of all of
the others in the Collegiate Network.
Of course, in the "battle of ideas" Collegiate Network journals are engaged in,
what counts most are the ideas themselves. IEA tries to contribute to the intellectual
growth of the students working on the papers it supports through several programs,
including:
An annual national student editors seminar, which brings the best editors
together with leading scholars for a weekend of serious discussion about
fundamental ideas in American political thought. The third one, held in
October 1988, examined the First Amendment and freedom of speech. The
faculty consisted of National Endowment for the Humanities chairman
Lynne Cheney, National Review editor John O'Sullivan, columnist Nat
Hentoff, Wall Street Journal editorialist Gordon Crovitz, and IEA Vice
Chairman Irving Kristol.
An information service that provides each publication with important
books, magazines, newsletters, and studies on both timeless and contem-
porary issues. In 1988, Collegiate Network journals received books
authored by George Will, Whittaker Chambers, and William F. Buckley,
Jr., among others, as well as the output of some 40 think tanks and
educational organizations.
Through its editorial services, management counseling, and grant support, the
Institute's message was that Collegiate Network papers must be well-written, well-
edited, and of interest to the communities they serve in order to receive assistance. The
student papers always will and should vary widely, as befits the differences among the
campuses where they are located. Moreover, the Institute continues to leave editorial
and other decisions in the hands of the student publishers, as befits its desire to foster
responsible student discussion of issues and ideas. Nevertheless, through what we have
done since 1986, we have informed current and would-be student journalists that
membership in the Collegiate Network is something to be earned and desired. As a
result, the overall quality of the student journals has improved dramatically. The writing
in the Collegiate Network publications continues to be some of the best to be found
anywhere on college campuses.
While IEA continued to concentrate its efforts on improving the existing
publications, it remained attentive to bringing promising new papers into the Collegiate
1988 IEA ANNUAL REPORT 11
Network. Eight new papers were added in 1988, including one at the University of
Chicago, and nearly a dozen more are poised for admission in 1989. For the third year
in a row, the Collegiate Network has gained more new publications than it lost to
attrition. The 41 publications of the Collegiate Network now have a combined circula-
tion of nearly 350,000 copies per issue.
That they were being read and having an impact was evident from the increasing
amount of press coverage they received in 1988. The Stanford Review, for example,
played a prominent role in the debate over Stanford University's Western Culture
requirement, hosting a headline-making speech by William J. Bennett and doing follow-
up stories that were the basis of editorials and news reports in The Wall Street Journal
and elsewhere. At Harvard, only the Collegiate Network publication, the Salient, stood
up for the academic freedom of a liberal historian, who was accused of "racial
insensitivity" in his lectures. Student papers at Dartmouth, Vassar, and elsewhere also
learned about the limits of collegiate tolerance (and wound up in the news) when campus
administrators cut off their funds or suspended the students who worked on them for
supposed misconduct. Yet, like all good journalists, they persisted out of the conviction,
which IEA shares, that even at today's colleges and universities, serious discussion and
debate are not only desirable but essential.
THE COLLEGIATE NETWORK
Amherst Spectator
Michigan Review
Badger Herald (UW-Madison)
Minnesota Spectator
Binghamton Times (SUNY-Binghamton)
Minuteman (UM-Amherst)
Boston College Observer
Northwestern Review
Brandeisian (Brandeis)
Oregon Commentator
Brown Spectator
Perspective (Radford)
California Review (UC-Berkeley)
Primary Source (Tufts)
California Review (UC-San Diego)
Princeton Tory
Campus Review (U. of Iowa)
Red and Blue (U. of Penn.)
Carleton Observer
Redwood Review (UC-Santa Cruz)
Carolina Critic (UNC-Chapel Hill)
Rutgers Contrarian
Chicago Crucible (U. of Chicago)
Spartan Review (San Jose State)
Cornell Review
Stanford Review
Dartmouth Review
Texas Review
Federalist Paper (Columbia)
UWM Times (UW-Milwaukee)
Florida Leader (U. of Florida)
Vassar Spectator
Florida Review (U. of Florida)
Virginia Advocate
Free Thinker (Occidental)
Washington Spectator
Georgetown's Blue & Gray
Wellesley Review
Harvard Salient
Wesleyan Review
Illini Review
12 A DECADE OF ACCOMPLISHMENTS
EDITORIAL INTERNSHIP PROGRAM
For graduates of the Collegiate Network with a serious interest in journalism and
public policy, as well as other outstanding recent college graduates, IEA provides one-
year internships at a number of national publications and research institutes. IEA
internships are designed to provide a solid year of hands-on training, under the
guidance of preeminent editors, that could lead to career positions in public affairs
journalism.
With the Institute's help, aspiring young journalists have been apprenticed at
The American Spectator, National Review, Policy Review, Reason, The National Interest,
and many other publications. IEA alumni have recently held, positions on the staffs of
The New Republic, The New York Daily News, The Wall Street Journal, National Review,
Policy Review, Harper's magazine, The Washington Times, Insight magazine, and U.S.
News and World Report. Others served in top-level public affairs and speechwriting jobs.
in the Reagan administration.
In 1988, IEA expanded its summer internship program for undergraduates, now
called "The Collegiate Network in Washington." In addition to direct sponsorship of
summer positions, IEA made numerous referrals and recommendations. IEA also held
evening seminars with distinguished writers and think-tank scholars on topics of
interest to student journalists. All told, over two-dozen editors from the Collegiate
Network spent the summer working in a variety of research and writing positions, in
government, research institutes, and the media.
IEA maintains a computerized information bank about its alumni not only to
track and assist their career growth, but also to encourage and facilitate contact
between them and today's campus journalists. Over time, a significant number of IEA
alumni are expected to make important contributions in their chosen fields and bring
greater balance and objectivity to American journalism.
INTERNS
Mark Cunningham
National Review
Mark Powell
Orbis
Matthew Kaufman
Chronicles
Irfan Kawaja
Academic Questions
SUMMER INTERNS
Marc Thiessen
White House Office of Public Affairs
Peter Thiel
U.S. Department of Education
Kiki Bhatia
Policy Review
Richard Lowry
The National Interest
Lynne Munson
The Blackwell Corporation
Louisa Oliver
The Washington Times
1988 IEA ANNUAL REPORT 13
PHILANTHROPIC ROUNDTABLE
When the Institute for Educational Affairs launched the Philanthropic
Roundtable two years ago, its goal was to promote within philanthropy the values and
principles which have made America prosperous and free. To this end, IEA sought to
create a network where innovative ideas could be translated into effective projects for
foundations, corporations, and individual donors. This past year, the Roundtable took
several significant steps towards fulfilling these goals.
The Roundtable began with a charter membership of 60 grantmakers. By the
end of 1988, membership exceeded 130, including a number of the nation's largest and
most influential foundations.
The remarkable growth of the Roundtable can be attributed to the popularity of
its principal activities:
In 1988, the Roundtable hosted two national conferences. The first, "Im-
proving Higher Education," was held in Chicago in January and featured
a talk by Allan Bloom, author of the bestseller The Closing of the American
Mind. Throughout the day, panelists such as Robert Payton, Herbert
London, and Chester E. Finn, Jr., debated what was wrong with higher
education and what grantmakers could do to change the situation.
The Roundtable's second conference looked at ways philanthropy could
speed the spread of democracy overseas. Held in Washington in June,
"Promoting Democracy Abroad," turned out to be a lively and controver-
sial exchange of ideas and opinions. On the program were Elliott Abrams,
Vladimir Bukovsky, Alan Keyes, and Joshua Muravchik. Both forums
were attended by close to 100 people and received considerable coverage
within the philanthropic press.
Philanthropy, the Roundtable's bimonthly newsletter, emerged as one of
the premier publications on philanthropy, and now enjoys a wide reader-
ship which includes leaders in government, public affairs, and the non-
profit world. In its second year, Philanthropy continued to offer its readers
refreshingly new perspectives from leading experts in fields such as
education, international affairs, and philanthropy itself. Featured au-
thors included Charles Murray, George Weigel, Lawrence Mead, and Gary
Bauer, among others.
The first Occasional Paper of the Philanthropic Roundtable was published
in 1988, "Why Higher Education Is Failing and What Donors Can Do
about It," by Edwin Delattre of the American Enterprise Institute. Within
months, the paper sold out its first press run.
14 A DECADE OF ACCOMPLISHMENTS
The Roundtable continued to increase its visibility during its second year. IEA's
president participated in a number of conferences on grantmaking and delivered
speeches to foundation directors at meetings across the country. He also authored
editorials on issues in philanthropy for The Wall StreetJournal and The Non-Profit Times
and was quoted frequently in the new Chronicle of Philanthropy. Under a grant from the
Kellogg Foundation, he taught a course on philanthropy and public policy at Geor-
getown University.
In addition, members made increasing use of a number of the special services
provided by the Roundtable, including:
A revised and expanded clearinghouse of information on topics, organiza-
tions, and people of interest to the philanthropic community.
A personnel service to help identify highly qualified candidates for
foundation or corporate philanthropic work.
A project development service to assist members in creating new programs
for funding by themselves or in cooperation with others.
By the end of 1988, the Roundtable had succeeded in providing to its members
a wide variety of useful services, and in raising a new and independent voice within a
sector which had grown tired and predictable. As a result, the Roundtable attracted an
ever broader audience during its second year, including both well-established and
emerging foundations.
Truly fresh viewpoints, building upon the strengths of the private sector and on
traditional American values, still encounter entrenched opposition within philan-
thropy. The Roundtable's mission is to redress this situation by showing how such
viewpoints, if understood and applied, can lead to more effective grantmaking across all
areas of activity. In the coming year, the Roundtable intends to continue its work as a
catalyst for innovative thinking within philanthropy and as a forum where such ideas
can be translated into philanthropic practice.
Membership in the Philanthropic Roundtable is open to all grantmakers. No fee
for joining is currently being charged. The Roundtable's activities are guided by a
steering committee, chaired by Michael S. Joyce, an IEA trustee and president of the
Lynde and Harry W. Bradley Foundation in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
1988 IEA ANNUAL REPORT 15
GRANTS TO SCHOLARS AND JOURNALISTS
In addition to its own projects, IEA continues to make occasional grants to
scholars and journalists writing on a variety of domestic and international topics. IEA
also provides advice to grant-seekers preparing proposals for other foundations,
particularly to younger scholars and writers trying to launch their careers. It also works
closely with individual, corporate, and private foundation donors seeking assistance in
developing projects.
IEA maintains extensive contacts in the academic, journalistic, and philan-
thropic communities, which it uses to promote sound scholarship and writing on some
of the most important public issues of the day. With its own resources or special
donations, the Institute has helped numerous authors find the financial means to
undertake and complete their projects.
A number of books made possible by IEA support appeared in print
during 1988, including:
Robert D. Kaplan, Surrender or Starve: The Wars Behind the Famine
Dawa Norbu, Red Star Over Tibet
Aaron Wildavsky, Searching for Safety
Paul Weaver, The Suicidal Corporation
Irving Welfeld, Where We Live: A Social History of American Housing
In 1988, the Institute launched a new Small Grants Program for scholars and
journalists completing magazine articles on current topics of interest. IEA small grants
are intended to help authors meet modest research or travel expenses in cases where
major funding is not needed. The first publication to result from an IEA small grant was
Robert Leiken's article on Mexico in the Winter 1988/89 issue of The National Interest.
To commemorate the bicentennial of the U. S. Constitution, and with the
support of the SmithKline Beckman Corporation, the Institute conducted a national
awards competition for law schools to develop new courses on the history and
philosophy of the Constitution. Six SmithKline Beckman Bicentennial Awards in Legal
Education were made in 1988 for courses on the writings and ideas of the American
Founders. Two courses were offered in the fall of 1988; the remaining four will be offered
in 1989. The courses are intended to become part of the regular curriculum at these law
schools, and to inspire similar courses at others.
16 A DECADE OF ACCOMPLISHMENTS
GRANTS 1988
Alumni for a Better
Conference and report on improving
$10,000
Dartmouth
liberal arts education
P.T. Bauer
Research and writing on economic
$10,000
development
Dinesh D'Souza
Study of American Elites
$30,000
Encounter Magazine
Publishing support
$38,000
Margaret Gallagher
Study of feminist theory
$ 5,500
Robert Goldwin
Support for a series of books on the
$ 3,130
Constitution
Richard Harrison
Study of Soviet military theory
$14,200
Rael Jean Isaac
Research on mental illness and
$42,500
and Virginia Armat
homelessness
Robert D. Kaplan
Research on the war in Afghanistan
$36,780
Roger Kimball
Study of humanities education in America
$ 4,000
Robert Leiken
Research on Mexican elections
$ 1,600
Joshua Muravchik
Study of U.S. efforts to promote
$25,000
democracy abroad
Peter Skerry
Research on Immigration
$ 1,500
Aaron Wildavsky
Study of Marxist economic theory
$38,000
SMITHKLINE BECKMAN
BICENTENNIAL AWARDS IN LEGAL EDUCATION
Professors Thomas E. Baker
$22,650
and James E. Viator
Texas Tech University School of Law
Dr. David B. Broyles
$18,347
Wake Forest University School of Law
Professor Gerhard Casper
$20,100
University of Chicago School of Law
Professor Richard B. Collins
$20,000
University of Colorado School of Law
Professor James L. Huffman
$22,240
Lewis and Clark Law School
Dr. G. Alan Tarr
$22,531
Rutgers University School of Law
1988 IEA ANNUAL REPORT 17
SOURCES OF SUPPORT
In 1988, IEA was honored to be considered worthy of support
by many of America's foremost corporations and foundations,
as well as individual donors.
The Achelis Foundation
Mobil Oil Corporation
Boise Cascade Corporation
National Starch & Chemical Corporation
W.H. Brady Foundation
Joseph B. Obering
Lynde and Harry W. Bradley Foundation
Chris Olander
Chase Manhattan Bank
John M. Olin Foundation
Peter B. Clark
Olin Corporation Charitable Trust
Sylvan C. Coleman Foundation
Pearlman, Vogel & Violet
Contel Inc.
Lovett and Ruth Peters
Adolph Coors Foundation
Pfizer Inc.
Shelby Cullom Davis Foundation
Probe Foundation
Dow Chemical Corporation
Procter & Gamble Fund
Earhart Foundation
Jeanette S. Quilhot
Ford Motor Company
G. Bickley Remmey, Sr.
Gates Foundation
Smith Richardson Foundation
The Gilder Foundation
Roe Foundation
Stanley Goldstein
Billy Rose Foundation
The Hoover Institution
Sarah Scaife Foundation
J.M. Foundation
Shell Oil Company Foundation
F.M. Kirby Foundation
SmithKline Beckman Corporation
Robert M. Krieble
Starr Foundation
Vernon K. Krieble Foundation
Walter P. and Elizabeth M. Stern Foundation
Leslie Lenkowsky
William K. Tell, Jr.
Liberty Fund
Touche Ross and Company
William Lilley III
Leonard and Jane Trosten
Winslow Maxwell
Mrs. Somers Von Behren
Neil A. McConnell Foundation, Inc.
Sam H. and Helen R. Walton Foundation
Milliken and Company
Warner-Lambert Foundation
18 A DECADE OF ACCOMPLISHMENTS
FINANCES
The Institute's expenditures in 1988 for its ongoing projects totalled approxi-
mately $750,000. Nearly another $290,000 was spent on special projects financed by
restricted grants. Revenues, including restricted grants and advertising sales, totalled
approximately $1,035,000. In 1989 IEA plans to increase its spending on ongoing
projects to slightly more than $900,000, largely to provide for additional editorial
internships, continued growth of the Philanthropic Roundtable and the Collegiate
Network, and payment of the SmithKline Beckman Bicentennial Awards in Legal
Education.
Where the Money Goes
Student Journalism
29%
Editorial Internships
15%
Philanthropic Roundtable
16%
Grants to Scholars and Journalists*
21%
Administrative Costs
19%
*Excludes special projects
Operating without endowment, the Institute each year solicits the funds
necessary for its programs. IEA has been classified as a not-for-profit organization
under Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1954 and is certified as a
publicly supported organization described in Sections 509(a)(1) and 170(b)(1)(A)(vi).
Donations to IEA are fully tax-deductible.
REPORT OF THE CERTIFIED PUBLIC ACCOUNTANTS
To the Board of Directors of
the Institute for Educational Affairs
We have audited the accompanying balance sheets of the Institute for
Educational Affairs (a not-for-profit organization) as of December 31, 1988 and
1987, and the related statements of revenue, expenses, budget, and changes in
fund balance, and cash flows for the years then ended. These financial statements
are the responsibility of the Company's management. Our responsibility is to
express an opinion on these financial statements based on our audits.
We conducted our audits in accordance with generally accepted auditing
standards. Those standards require that we plan and perform the audit to obtain
reasonable assurance about whether the financial statements are free of material
1988 IEA ANNUAL REPORT 19
misstatement. An audit includes examining, on a test basis, evidence support-
ing the amounts and disclosures in the financial statements. An audit also in-
cludes assessing the accounting principles used and significant estimates made
by management, as well as evaluating the overall financial statement presenta-
tion. We believe that our audits provide a reasonable basis for our opinion.
In our opinion, the financial statements referred to above present fairly,
in all material aspects, the financial position of the Institute for Educational
Affairs as of December 31, 1988 and 1987, and the results of its operation and
its cash flows for the years then ended, in conformity with generally accepted
accounting principles.
/s/ Riibner & Associates, Chtd.
February 25, 1989
Kensington, Maryland
Statements of Revenue, Expenses, Budget, and
Changes in Fund Balance for the Years Ended
December 31, 1988 and 1987
Budget
1988
1987
Revenues
Contributions
$993,282
$964,377
$935,181
Ad Consortium
0
34,160
10,132
Total Revenues
993,282
998,537
945,313
Direct Expenses
Collegiate Network
282,715
241,518
256,353
Editorial Internship
122,995
54,577
78,395
This World
o
0
25,694
Philanthropic Roundtable
139,570
96,682
53,637
Grants and Special Projects
251,580
440,569
197,156
Total Direct Expenses
796,860
833,346
611,235
Excess of Revenue Over Expenses Before
Other Income & Administrative Expenses
196,422
165,191
334,078
Add: Other Income-Interest
o
35,031
22,236
Less: Administrative Expenses
(196,422)
(203,320)
(224,584)
Excess of Expenses Over Revenue
$
0
$ (3,098)
$131,730
Fund Balance, Beginning of Year
435,417
303,687
FUND BALANCE, END OF YEAR
$432,319
$435,417
20 A DECADE OF ACCOMPLISHMENTS
Balance Sheets
December 31, 1988 and 1987
ASSETS
1988
1987
Current Assets
Cash in Bank-Unrestricted
$108,868
$ 57,546
Cash in Bank-Restricted
106,445
64,955
Investments
406,000
303,000
Contributions Receivable
0
150,000
Note Receivable
660
4,810
Prepaid Expenses
9,404
806
Other Receivables
5,142
4,314
Total Current Assets
$636,519
$585,431
Property and Equipment
Furniture, Equipment and Software
39,088
36,223
Less: Accumulated Depreciation and Amortization
23,551
13,612
Net Property and Equipment
15,537
22,611
Other Assets
Deposits
2,643
2,796
Trademarks
5,478
0
Total Other Assets
8,121
2,796
TOTAL ASSETS
$660,177
$610,838
LIABILITIES AND FUND BALANCE
Current Liabilities
Accrued Expenses
$ 11,926
$ 23,731
Grants Payable
87,704
78,780
Special Grants Payable
97,008
56,000
Employment Taxes Accrued and Withheld
1,270
7,955
Deferred Income
20,513
0
Total Current Liabilities
218,421
166,466
Other Liabilities
Sublet Lease Deposit Payable
9,437
8,955
Total Liabilities
227,858
175,421
Fund Balance
Unrestricted Fund
432,319
435,417
TOTAL LIABILITIES AND FUND BALANCE
$660,177
$610,838
A copy of the Institute's complete financial statement is available upon request.