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The enyon mm Colleg 12UTL Established 1856 CVI, Number 5 Volume Wednesday, October 11, 1978 Kenyon College, Gambier, Ohio 43022 Buckley strikes in Rosse with (ho-hum- ?) economics By LAUREN WEINER had been announced as, "The of fiscal ignorance which afflict the Feature Editor Problems of Freedom," and that public, I, being in full possession of much I understood. However, my my rightful affliction, had no use for Kenyon's "ever-hopef- ul limited background in economics left them. Republican minority," and a me unprepared to absorb the very At one point Buckley paused to majority of the majority, for that convoluted and statistical assessment consider the eloquence of statistics. Rosse matter, packed themselves into of government redistribution of He asked rhetorically, "Don't we ho-hum- Hall October 2 for a lecture by wealth that was presented. The only feel somehow a sense of ?" William F. Buckley Jr., renowned major idea I was fully able to grasp Yet whenever he revealed a deeper conservative author and interviewer, was the idea of "arbitrage." meaning, he seemed to do so as a fie hazard notwithstanding, the Arbitrage, "an engine conservatives perfunctory reflex. Only once or well-lubricate- d," staze, exit areas and window sills wish to see involves twice did Buckley tie his argument to sated the overflow of Kenyon the exchange of commodities bet- a political notion. While launching students and members of the ween states according to the laws of into a short diatribe against Red Gambier and Mt. Vernon comm- supply and demand. Buckley argued China, he mentioned that, "the ethos unities. Buckley spoke at Kenyon that while the engine works with real attached to utilitarianism is sub- once before, and last week's audience commodities, it does not work with versive" because taking from the rich waited the appearance of one of the money, a synthetic commodity. He and giving to the poor has resulted in most respected intellects in the brought out figures and more figures a curtailment of personal freedom United States with the same excited to support that claim. there. There was a final warning: anticipation as the first time. theory of fiscal "All is in peril if we lose sight of the I; Thus the Upon taking the podium, he did redistributionism, or utilitarianism as central intuition, 'man was born to cut an impressive figure there was he sometimes called it, was shown to be free.' " that sudden, blazing tautness of the be impractical. I was able to pick out There was no lack of effort in face, and the famous awe-inspiri- ng two convincing reasons among the Buckley's jabs at the opposition. As vocabulary. Cameras clicked every numbers: 1 ) all the states of the union a noted personality, his characteristic fiscal is accepted with a certain time he made a gesture, and all his have developed into "discrete bluntness - anecdotes were laughed at, even the units" and 2) the movement of amused awe. He called George v more puzzling ones (I refuse to dollars across great distances, McGovern's program to give below believe that everyone but me knows seeming "virtuous deployment," average income earners $1,000 each water-mar- what a Carthusian Chauvinist is), leads itself to bureaucratic mess. "the symbolic high k of because there was the privilege of Other than that, lengthy talk of progressive ignorance." In the helped cs bearing bonafide witticisms about earned incomes, capital gains, and program, the poor would be themselves U.N. ambassadors and John Kenn- tax rates went completely by the by those made to "fancy in philan- eth Calbraith without having to wayside. So did most of the six equipped for a career Buckley charac- watch "The Dick Cavett Show" or propositions Buckley employed to thropy." Later, Mao as having "by "Firing Line" like everyone else. organize the lecture. Since they terized Chairman Then there was the lecture. Its title largely delineated the different kinds Continued on page six William F. Buckley A Exeter: alternative to Gambier By DRU JOHNSTON Kenyon faculty member to go along Staff Writer to "insure that the quality of study is comparable to that at Kenyon." f7 Getting an undergraduate degree English professor Galbraith Crump I Kenyon College doesn't went on the program last year, and i: from a necessarily mean spending four years Professor Lentz is joining this year's 3 i in Gambier, Ohio. The Kenyon group. I Off-Camp- twenty office of us Studies offers A maximum of about I variety exciting' people are chosen for the program ' students a of t . educational alternatives. One par- each year; this year's class numbers ticularly popular option is the fourteen. Dwyer cited "strong in- faculty Kenyon-Exete- r program, run in terest, strong motivation, two conjunction with the University of recommendations, and a minimum as some Exeter in southwest England. grade point average of 2.5" The program is designed primarily of the program's major criteria for can be very participation. "It is helpful," she for English majors, but t rewarding to anyone who feels that said, "for candidates to have taken Farr laundromat 11-1- 2 have the study in England will in some way English or to done complement his or her particular equivalent work on their own." foreign study can A course of academic interest. Dwyer feels that white Off-Camp- browner us be a very rewarding experience: Sharon Dwyer, director of Studies, outlined the basic "While foreign study is not ap- all students, when with new RUST! itinerary of the program: A student propriate for Sharon Dwyer seriously, it can provide and spends one academic year at Exeter undertaken By Baer said. "A lot of sediment vast growth, Terri Jiganti, Elizabeth Mueller, and LINDSAY C.BROOKS attending classes taught by the Exeter the opportunity for particles have settled out of the water personal. The Lauren Reeve. All'three are English that white shirt come out faculty; this classroom work is then both intellectual and dirtier last 70 years. With the majors and alumni of the 1977-7- 8 than it went in the last time the over the with special tutorials student who studies successfully at going on, at times supplemented Sundry got done? Don't worry, it construction accompanying Kenyon Exeter (Or any other European program. lines are shut off. with an Jiganti found that the program Probably had nothing to do with the sections of the and members of university) must be ready to assume a it agitates English professor excellent op- K detergent Village When they're turned on good deal of responsibility for his or "gave all of us an from the the Exeter staff. Market. he said. portunity to improve our writing. the particles," of English literature her own intellectual stimulation and Ralston, superintendent The study Because of the small tutorials, we That Richard two-thir- ds big dark stain on the collar consumes approximately development. a"d Grounds, agreed were forced to get a more thorough the new shade of gray are most of Buildings and The student is "In meeting the challenges that were turned off of the student's time. understanding of the works we were probably related new water that after the sections any of arise during the course of a year to the new flow of free to choose a course from She explained that she P'Pes and started up again, the allocating time for study, studying." which are being put in all over the Exeter departments (except from program campus. the rust loose." a ten page chose to go on the Exeter water "works sciences) to complete his deciding which books on are only two more natural dealing with because, "I had always wanted to go '.'ne of the problems is that Baer said there syllabus to read, and to make one at schedule. coming to terms abroad .my junior year, and Exeter almost all the lines in town are ext- major connections faculty member who ac- being a foreigner, to Chase and Brooklyn The perceptions of seemed perfect for me." remely old," said Gambier Mayor the corner of students is chosen by with other people's bank is, and the companies the the With four weeks vacation at ard Baer. Gambier recently Streets where the English department. America and one's own area. the Kenyon inner Christmas and a five week spring "ought the other in the New Apartments is spent teaching student often discovers water system from the should be Most of their time break, Jiganti found plenty of time """ege Ralston said the water serving as an ad- resources which were previously and is in the process of end of classes at Exeter, to travel. She was able to visit ''Placing "comparatively safe" by the special unknown." pipes and the water tower. rusty visor, and conducting the Holland, Germany, Italy, Ireland, There this week or at least "over the Dwyer Three people who found the Exeter are several leaks, some of suggested tutorials for Kenyon students.