Colby Alumnus Vol. 74, No. 2: March 1985

Colby College Digital Commons @ Colby Colby Alumnus Colby College Archives 1985 Colby Alumnus Vol. 74, No. 2: March 1985 Colby College Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.colby.edu/alumnus Part of the Higher Education Commons Recommended Citation Colby College, "Colby Alumnus Vol. 74, No. 2: March 1985" (1985). Colby Alumnus. 127. https://digitalcommons.colby.edu/alumnus/127 This Other is brought to you for free and open access by the Colby College Archives at Digital Commons @ Colby. It has been accepted for inclusion in Colby Alumnus by an authorized administrator of Digital Commons @ Colby. TH AH.C l I ID8� LUM NUS $$$ $$ $$ LUMNUS.__ _ II The Price of Survival: Regulatory Reform in Air Pollution Control Features Economics Professor Thomas H. Tietenberg takes 1 a close look at how federal regulations, in one case, became more flexible and effective. 17 What's in It for Them? Colby 2000 Campaign volunteers have taken on a big job, and their reasons for having done so create an interesting study in values. 21 The First of Many Books Colby's freshman book program gives incoming students fodder for conversation over their first campus breakfasts and a smorgasbord of co curricular events to attend throughout the year. 23 No Matter What Shape Athletic trainer and physical therapist Carl Nelson is gladly committed to the health of the Colby community. I Eustis Mailroom 2 Nevvs from tl1e Hill Departinents 26 Colby in Motion 28 Class Corresponcl nee 42 Milestones Alumni Club News (inside back cover) Volume 74, Number 2, March 1985 Editor: Lane Fisher; Editorial Assistant: Reglna Gilmartin Knox; Design and Production: Bonnie Bishop; Production Assistant: Martha Freese Shattuck; Editorial Interns: John Beaudoin '87 and Thomas A. Hagerty '88; Photography: Lynn Mosher Bushnell, Scott Davis, and Susan Ryan, unless otherwise credited; Printing: The Knowlton and McLeary Company, Farmington, Maine. The Colby Alumnus is published quarterly for the alumni, friends, parents of students, seniors, faculty, and staff of Colby College. Address correspondence to: Editor, The Colby Alumnus, Colby College, Waterville, Maine 04901-4799. On the Cover: Regulatory reform has encouraged industry to invest in emissions controls rather than to fight air quality regulations in the courts. (See page I I.) EUSTIS MAILROOM A Rich Offer sponses published in the December that there are few better places for issue, I would like to add my two the exchange of diverse ideas than Thanks so much for making cents worth. a liberal arts college. To allow the available Ernest C. Marriner's The Mr. Robinson and Ms. Shane censorship of one expression of History of Colby College (as help display a dangerous ignorance of opinion would undoubtedly lead to fully made known in the December the need for a free exchange of attempts to stifle the expression of 1984 Alumnus). Its 659 pages and ideas on the college campus. To other controversial opinions, re five-pound weight are crammed their objections I respond: If not gardless of where those opinions with intriguing historical interest, at a college, then where? were placed on the political spec truly presented with warmth, Mr. Robinson warns that he will trum. humor, and sound writing. As a no longer provide financial assis Colby prides itself on encourag school historian, I am profes tance if the Colby policy is to per ing diversity in its faculty, students, sionally impressed with the book, mit "left-wing radicalism" on and course offerings. It would vio as it touches on so much that campus. Translated: he would hold late the liberal arts tradition as needs to be preserved in College Colby a fiscal hostage to the politi well as basic freedoms should any life. cal views of its contributors. Colby one or any group be allowed to As a bonus, the History perpetu does not need that kind of money. limit the free flow of ideas, theo ates, for some of us who knew Ms. Shane says "arguments ries, expressions, or policies on our Ernest Marriner '13, something of about free speech do not impress" campus. In short , Colby College his vast contributions to Colby . He her. Would a curriculum of clois must preserve and nurture the was the first College official I met tered propaganda impress her? principles of freedom of expression upon applying in 1944. He was Should we eliminate the First on our campus and must continue then, and remained ever after, a Amendment at Colby for fear that to make appropriate provisions to considerate and interested man, students will see the world beyond attract speakers espousing the full showing concern for my progress Mayflower Hill? range of ideological concerns. To for years afterward. Along with Angela Davis, let's do less would show a distressing May I encourage alumni and have Lyndon LaRouche, Richard lack of confidence in the ability of alumnae of all classes who may Viguerie, and others on the right. our students and faculty to sepa not have read the History to scoop If anything, Colby needs to stimu rate good ideas from bad and in up the copies and settle in for late students, not cloister them. their ability to learn about the er some keenly interesting reading. positions of others without neces Jonathan R. Maslow '77 sarily being coerced into adopting Gilbert Y. Taverner '48 San Francisco, Calif. them. Newport, R. I. Please count me among those who support the concept of bring ing new and/ or controversial ideas First Amendment e* to the campus even though those Imperatives ideas, or the manner in which they are expressed, may be unacceptable It pained me to read the letters ob Some letters published in the Sep to some or even the majority of jecting to the appearance of Ange tember Alumnus argue that our those on campus. la Davis that were printed in the College ought not to be welcoming September issue of The Colby speakers of certain ideological per George M. Shur '64 Alumnus. Having read the re- suasion to campus. It occurs to me DeKalb, Ill. 1 THE COLBY ALUMNUS I In Perspective to reach from the insular rooms of our house. It took effort to move Recent letters in the Alumnus have into a wider world. I learned a lot provoked me as have no other from those people and from the communication from the College very act of breaking out. I still bit or its agents . Two anti-Angela terly remember rushing and being Davis, anti-free speech letters ushered in a front door and then displayed attitudes not expected out the back of a fraternity that I from people educated at an institu later discovered had no Jews. I re tion that prides itself in attempting member bottles being thrown from to imbue tolerance and encourage the upper windows of a neighbor the search for knowledge. The let ing fraternity house through our ters reeked of authoritarianism. windows as the shards of plain, The promise of withdrawal of con stupid, narrow-mindedness fell tributions was mean spirited. around us. We each had located a Similarly, another letter pub safe haven and isolated ourselves lished in September, one of a long to our own, and the community's, string concerning the board's ter detriment. mination of fraternities, shows a I appreciated the literate and lack of perspective and a failure to comprehensive trustees' report. I understand that the useful pur respect President Cotter's guts and poses of fraternities are out leadership. And, lastly, Peter Den weighed by their negative impacts. sen '66, my friend and class agent, I was an active member of Delta will be happy to know that my Upsilon in the 1960s. Late in my wife and I are finally going to College career, I came to realize make a small contribution to Col that, although I had made valuable by College and its brave new direc and close friends among my broth tion. ers, there were many students members of other fraternities and Richard H. Zimmermann '66 non-members-who were difficult Solon, Iowa New Dean to Head Admissions Parker J. Beverage, associate dean of admissions at Stanford Univer sity, has been named Colby's new dean of admissions and financial aid, to succeed Robert McArthur in that role. McArthur, a professor of philosophy, will return to teach ing at Colby after serving next year Letters Policy as dean of faculty while Douglas The editor invites concise letters for publication on topics that pertain to Archibald is on sabbatical. the content of The Colby Alumnus or the College at large. An ideal Beverage grew up in Augusta, length is 150 words. The editor reserves the right to edit letters so that Maine, and graduated from Cony they conform with Alumnus style and to publish excerpts as spatial con High School before going on to straints demand. No unsigned letter will be printed, although signatures major in government at Dart may be withheld from publication on request. mouth, which granted him his Occasionally, letters sent to other Colby offices are forwarded to the bachelor's degree in 1968. After editor and adapted for publication in part or in whole, but only after the serving for several years as a com author's explicit permission is given. If a copy of such a letter is sent by mander and surface line officer in its writer directly to the editor of the Alumnus, the author's consent for the U.S. Naval Reserve, he re the letter's publication is assumed . turned to his alma mater in 1973 Letters should be addressed to: Editor, The Colby Alumnus, Colby as assistant to the director of ad College, Waterville, Maine 0490 1.

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