reporter volume xxvi number three spring 1970 PHI BETA KAPPA APPOINTS TEN by Kathy Ryffel, Asst., VISITING SCHOLARS FOR 1970-71 Visiting Scholar Program When ecologist Garrett Hardin meets with students and 86 schools to introduce students and faculties to a wide va faculty this coming fall, his arrival will not only inaugurate riety of subjects, ranging from the jazz of Charlie Parker to the 1970-71 apBK Visiting Scholar Program, it will also mark the ancestors of modern cultivated corn, from the importance the 1000th visit sponsored by the fourteen-year old program. of Eastern Europe to the annihilation of history. Scholars Since 1956, 95 Scholars have crisscrossed the country in and chapters continue to confirm the significance of a pro order to spend two or three days with undergraduates at gram whose aim is to enable undergraduates to meet with universities and colleges that shelter <J>BK chapters. established scholars in diverse disciplines. A remark by one of expresses view of most: greatest It was in October of that year that Mr. Daryll Forde flew the Scholars the "My pleasure as a Phi Kappa talk to Milwaukee-Downer College (now joined with Lawrence Beta Visiting Scholar has been to to know them listen University) to make the first visit given under the auspices ing young people, getting personally, to their ideas and and of Phi Beta Kappa. A British subject, Mr. Forde was then a ing plans, giving them unhurried sought." visiting professor at the University of California at Berkeley advice or information when it is The following com as well as professor of anthropology at the University of Lon ment from one chapter correspondent points out the benefit don, a position he still holds today. Concentrating on his of the program to the entire academic community: "The particular interest the impact of modern commerce and students were greatly impressed by his knowledge and dy industrial development upon the cultures of societies outside namic presentation in the classroom, as were other students, the great civilizations this first Scholar lectured to Visiting faculty of Bucknell, and neighboring educational institutions, students, and townspeople and led informal discus meetings." faculty, besides townspeople at the public sions both within and without the classroom. Comments sent The 1970-71 Visiting Scholars will offer topics from in by the chapter after the visit gave thanks to <f>BK for the ranging American intellectual to population the pro selection of Mr. Forde as a Visiting Scholar and spoke en history control, tection of the thusiastically of his stay there. Mr. Forde himself observed: environment, city planning, and the Athenian aristocracy. Of . these 10 5 represent "For my part, I enjoyed the visits . and I am looking for Scholars, the humanities, . social ward to next week's. The general response to the 26 3, the sciences, and 2, the natural sciences; their fields visits made by the initial team of 5 Phi Beta Kappa Visiting include economics, English, philosophy, American history, was and and what began as Scholars both lively favorable, social psychology, classics, psychiatry, political science, and an experiment soon became established as a program. ecology. The Visiting Scholars appointed for the coming This past academic year 11 outstanding scholars travelled to academic year are: Garrett Hardin Henry J. Abraham Henry Dreyfuss John William Ward www.pbk.org Henry J. Abraham chairman and chief executive officer of Professor of political science at the Uni the Teachers Insurance and Annuity As versity of Pennsylvania since 1962, Mr. sociation of America and the College Abraham was recipient of its first award Retirement Equities Fund since 1963 and for "Excellence in Undergraduate Teach was on the faculty of Indiana University ing." He has been a visiting lecturer at early in his career. In 1961 the Elizur universities in Sweden, Denmark, Hol Wright award for "outstanding and orig literature" land, and Germany, and a fellow of the inal contributions to insurance American Philosophical Society (1960- was awarded to him for his book A New 61) and the American Council of Learned Approach to Retirement Income, the eco Societies (1968-69). Among his books nomic study of common stock perform are Freedom and the Court: Civil Rights ance that preceded the establishment of and Liberties in the United States, The CREF and the variable annuity. He was Judicial Process: An Introductory Analy a member of the advisory councils of the sis of the Courts of the United States, National Bureau of Economic Research England, and France and The Judiciary: Pension Study and the Committee on Paul L. MacKendrick The Supreme Court in the Governmental International Activities of the U.S. Office Process. of Education. Henry Dreyfuss Garrett Hardin A pioneer in the profession of industrial Now professor of human ecology at the Mr. Dreyfuss serves design, presently University of California, Santa Barbara, as corporate adviser to a num full-time Mr. Hardin's research began in micro ber of major American corporations. Mr. biology, moved toward an emphasis in Dreyfuss is also an adjunct professor at the area of genetics and evolution, and and associate of the Cali UCLA faculty has now shifted to the problems of popu Institute of has fornia Technology; he lation and the protection of the environ written and The Designing for People ment. His writings include Biology: Its Measure Man. A founder and former of Principles and Implications; Population, president of the American for Society Evolution and Birth Control; Nature and Industrial he is a trailblazer Designers, Man's Fate; 39 Steps to Biology and in to American applying manufacturing Science, Conflict and Society. Mr. Har that the maxim form follows function. din was engaged in research at the Car negie Institution of Washington before William C. Greenough Dana L. Farnsworth, M.D. at California. Dr. Farnsworth is a leader in the appli teaching cation of to the problems of psychiatry Stephen L. Klineberg mental health in the college community. Assistant professor of social psychology Since 1954 he has been Henry K. Oliver at Princeton, Mr. Klineberg has also Professor of Hygiene and director of the served on the Harvard faculty. Professor University Health Services at Harvard is in Tunisia com University. Author of Mental Health in Klineberg presently pleting a book on time perspectives and College and University and Psychiatry, research on attitudes and self- Education, and the Young Adult, and co doing conceptions adolescents and their author of Textbook of Psychiatry and among Living, he has spent most of his profes parents under the impact of moderniza sional life caring for college students, tion. He was recipient of a Bicentennial first at Williams College, then at MIT, Preceptorship from Princeton University and now at Harvard. (1966-69) and is an assistant editor of Sociological Inquiry. William C. Greenough An economist, Mr. Greenough has been (continued on back cover) Stephen L. Klineberg Herman E. Spivey Dana L. Farnsworth Philip Rhinelander www.pbk.org BIG BOTHER IS WATCHING YOU by Nicholas Johnson who Intellectuals don't have to watch television but they'd announced around the country so that those viewers better not ignore it. intentionally tuned in discovered the program was already week- I received within the short period of one Many are professionally engaged in, and most (if not all) over, over 1,000 letters. What happened? The answer, I think, are personally committed to, improving the quality of modern is not that I reached more people during that short half-hour life by contributing to its arts and sciences, educating its on CBS than in TV GUIDE article unquestionably, young, caring for its physical and mental well-being, shaping my I did not. Nor did I present position more cogently: its economic, social, or political conditions. These efforts my almost always produces a more telling argument than are, in almost every instance, swamped by the tidal wave of writing extemporaneous remarks. The answer is that I reached them television's brackish water. Worse, yet, we're scarcely aware more powerful way: through the special immediate and that it's happening. in a "experience" total that is television. Consider only a few of Most of us are at least generally aware of the social revolu its unique effects: (1) 30,000 coal miners pushed the West tion wrought by the automobile and the telephone. Few of Virginia legislature into passing one of the first workmen's us are fully aware of the fact that television has produced compensation programs for miners suffering from black lung its own. Sociologists report that it has altered the very struc disease two weeks after a national broadcast on a subject ture of most family lives: it has changed their eating and ignored by their union and refused by their local television sleeping habits, it consumes more of their time than any other stations; (2) the New York Times has reported that NBC's activity after sleep and work, and it is used as an electronic broadcast on chemical and biological warfare led to Con babysitter. But, unlike the automobile, the television set di gressional hearings and otherwise unrevealed Pentagon dis rectly affects the attitudes and opinions of its users. And it's closures; (3) as Congressman Gonzalez of Texas commented, not only reaching more people than all other forms of com many Americans only awoke to the fact that there is poverty munication combined, it's also reaching them with an impact in this country after seeing examples of critical malnutrition previously offered only by direct experience. on CBS's documentary, "Hunger in America"; (4) the award More than 95% of the 60 million homes in the United States Fate" of Laugh-In's "Flying Fickle Finger of to an Ohio have television sets.