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DECEMBER1993 Upcomlng Events Newly Released: :The of Ayn Appearance by Leonard Pelkoff: Dr. Peikoff will Rand,bylronard Peikoff,is now availablein papetrack. address"A National Tbwn Meeting on Health Care," Saturday,December 11, l0 am to I pm at the Red Lion To Our Contributors.' We would like to thank those Hotel, Orurge 6untyAirport, SouthemCalifomia. The 15- donorswho havecontributed to the Institutethrough either minutetalk,'oThe Clinton Plan: Ignoringthe hoblem," will United Way or The Combined Federal Campaign. be followed by questionsfielded by Dr. Irport. However,neitheq of theseorganizations re_le4ses the names ofdonors.Ifyou, or someoneyou know, has sent a donation The Obtectlvlst Graduate Center: As describedin the throughthese organizations, please contact us so we can put November19 announcementlefier to donors,the OGC will you on our mailing list and thank you ourselves. open on January24, 1994.Although studentsfor the first termhave been selected, we areseeking graduate students Oblectlvlsm ln the Medla who are potentially interestedin the progftm for future semesters.Students in philosophyand cognate fields should Polltlcally Correcting.' Five quotes from direct their inquiries-along with a brief statementof were includedin the Fall Issue,1993, of PolicyReview (a cunentstanrs and goals-+o Michael Berliner at ARI. joumal of the HeritageFoundation). The quotes,selected with the help of ARI, were published in an attempt to 1994 Oblectlvlst Conference.' lronard Peikoff will "conect" political bias in the latest edition of Bartlett's be principal lecturer at "Ideas for the RationalMind," the Fatniliar Quotations.Miss Randwas the tenthmost-quoted two-weekSecond Renaissance Conference, July 16 to 31, of the 65 writen mentioned. 1994,at the MeadowlandsHilton in Secaucus,New Jersey. For a brochure,write to SandraSchwartz, SR Conferences, What Makes Greenspan Tlck? Ayn Rand is the 130Federal Road, Suite 56, DanburyCT 06811. answer, concludesan article about Alan Greenspanin Investor'sBwiness Daily, October18, 1993.The two-page Reglonal Conferences; The secondPacific Northwest articlesums up Miss Rand'sphilosophy as "espous[ing] ObjectivistConference will be held in Union, WA, March reasonover mysticism,rational self-interest over altruism, 24 through Tl; 1994:=EdwinLoike; Andrew Bemstein, andlaissez-faire over collectivism. " and Gary Hull will each conduct two-day courses. ContactPamela L. Benson,(206) 876-5868. Widely Quoted: The DenverPost, People Magazine, and The Wall Street Jourral were just a few of the General News publicationsthat picked up Michael Milken's comment from a Timesintewiew, "I hadnot readit[Atlas Announement: Dueo ineconcilable(non-philosoph- ShruggedJ,since the '60s. In retrospect,I'd have been ical) disagreementswith ARI's Directors,Edith Packer betteroff had I rereadit in the early '80s." and GeorgeReisman have been askedto step down from the Institute'sBoard of Advisors. Oblectivlsm ln Academia

For the New Year: The cover art of the 1994 Frank Understandlng "The Fountalnhead": Dr. Andrew Lloyd Wright calendarfeatures the househe designedfor Bemsteinwas invited by lona College,New Rochelle,New Ayn Rand and Frank O'Connor--a penpectivedrawing in York, to presenthis talk, " in Ayn Rand's colorpencil. This weekly€ngagementcalendar by the Frank ' to ttre collegehonon students."Their Uoyd Wright Foundationcontains floor-plans and perspec- questionswere philosophical,"said Dr. Bemstein.'The tivesof the many"Dream Houses" that Wright designedbut quality of studentswas very high." neverbuill Oblectlvlsm ln Academla lnWnatlonal CampusClubs

Environmentallsm and Business: The Faculty of The lwtitute receivesrequests world-wide for traterials to Management,University of Calgary (Alberta, Canada) start and supportcampw chtbs. publisheda tnmscript of speechesdelivered at tlrcir Guest LectureSeries which contained"Corporate Environmentalisn ooPoland A recent lener from a studentin Warsaw and Other SuicidalTendencies," by RichardSalsman. He echoedthe frustration of studentsaround the world. She identified environmentalismas anti-humanlife and upheld wrote,'"The political and psychologicalstate of the country laissez-fairecapitalism. The other five speeches,from caneasily be summedup: the populationwillin$y electeda businessmen,centered around ways to appease the communistgovemment last month.My fellow studentsare environmentalists. perhapsthe partiesmost gravely affectedby the fall of the Iron Curtain, for all they have been taught as children is Promotlng the "Fountalnhead" . and "Anthem" sudderilydeemed wrong. They no longer know whom to Confesfs.' For the fourth year,ARI hosteda boothat the believenor whercto tum...Ido not claimthat an Objectivist National Council of Teachers of English convention. Club will instanfly be successful-it won't. It must fint Andrew Bemstein,who wrote "The Tbacher'sGuide to The combatdecades of communismseasoned with a gooddose Founninhead," answsred qugstions and tranded oul .- of ecclesiasiiclnflueirc€I literaturc. This year, Richad Ralston, the Institute's academicprojecs specialist,disuibuted a survey regarding ooSweden For the third consecutiveyear, three students presence teachers'knowledge of Ayn Rand'sworks andthe hostedan Objectivistbooth at the book fair in Gothenburg. of Romanticliterature in their cunicula. They distributed information packets combining their brochurcin Swedishwith literaturesent by ARI, and they CampusClubs sold 20 books.The fair was attendedby over 70,000people andthe studentssaid it was well worth their efforts. ARl-assistedCampus Talks: For furtherinformation on the (310) followingspeeches, call GingerClark at ARI 306-9232. OoDenmark Studentsin a once-a-weekstudy group are discussingIntroduction to Objectivist Epistemologyone Date Speakcr School Topb l-12 .....Bernstein ...... U-B.C...... Phit Basisfiightto Abortion pageper session.Tlvo membersare working on a seriesof l-13 .....Bernstein...... U-Wash...... Phit Basis,tRight toAbortion translationsof Ayn Rand'sarticles. l -18 .....Salsman ...... U-Chicago ...... Capitalism and the Environment 1-19...... Benrstein...... UC Davis...... ,.MindAs Hero nAtlasSlvugged 1-19 .....Binswanger U-Oregon...... Btidging the "Is"J'Ought" Gap O0Holland RichardSanford's speech here last yearwas 1-20...... Benrstcin...... Starford ...... thil. Basis/Rightto Aboniqt sucha successthat snrdentsin tle ClubDelft arc l-27 .....Ridpath...... U-W.Ont...... TheMorality of Capitalism Objectivisten 3-22 ..,..Ridpath ...... U-ilinois ...... &hcation - De.stuctidtEpeSpeech now lookingforward to invitingmore qpeaken fiom the U.S.

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