College Outreach Delivers Dean’s List Performance In December of last year the national tant areas as newsletter production, Libertarian Party budgeted an aggressive speaker programs, literature tables, and outreach program for the campuses of the fundraising. These informational essays nation. are written by a number of activists who Monies were budgeted for providing draw upon their own success stories. Stu¬ literature, the purchase of “Operation Po¬ dent activists can obtain copies of these litically Homeless” booths, aid for college kits by contacting the national office. newspaper ads, and for organizational Another aspect of the new college out¬ tours. reach program is the organization oftours Under the direction of Don Emsberger, of regions by students who have been in¬ the college outreach program has made volved as activists and leaders on the contact with students on over 220 cam¬ campus. puses. The very first tour saw Jim Lark, chair At this writing, more than 60 campuses of the University of Virginia Students for have organized literature tables and some Individual Liberty, visit college groups in 120 campuses have seen libertarian stu¬ the South. Lark traveled to Florida, Ala¬ dent groups organize. Many ofthese groups bama, South Carolina, and North Caro¬ are involved with more than political ac¬ lina in late February to visit with student tivity. They provide educational programs activists on campus. He discussed the kinds and work on literature distribution proj¬ of programs he has developed at UVA and ects as well. tried to answer the many questions one Ernsberger has been receiving the expects ofgroups starting to organize. The names ofstudent contacts from a variety of tour was such a success that others will be sources, including the telephone fundrais¬ planned. Local Libertarians were pleased ing system, individual replies to the LP by the investment the national LP is NEWS questionnaire, and through the making for the campus program. “800 number” at the national office. Ernsberger, college outreach coordina¬ Many state LP groups have made an tor, also has in his budget monies for the effort to find libertarian student organiz¬ assistance of local college groups that are ers and have forwarded the names to placing ads in college newspapers. These Photo by John Terhune, Bloomington (IN) Herald-Times Ernsberger. ads, which were developed by the national One of the key tools in the college out¬ Libertarian Party, are being used both to In a photograph that seems wonderfully to picture the get-up-and-go reach project is a college “Care Package.” recruit members and to make the student These body aware of projects organized by affili¬ audacity of a libertarian defending a right of individual freedom, Indiana Libertarian prepackaged boxes contain hundreds of pieces of literature such as LP issue ate clubs. Party activist Fred Badalli took to the floor to oppose a Monroe County regulation papers, the Liberty Today flyer, and LP Another use of the budget has been to that would prohibit smoking altogether in restaurants, taxis, common areas in membership brochures. This care package purchase some 25 ofthe “Politically Home¬ shopping centers, and other “public" places. also contains the new College Organiza¬ less” booths from the Advocates for Self- It wasn’t the smoke that energized Badalli, it was the restriction. “I hate tion Manual, sample by-laws, and Government in Fresno, California. These constitution sheets. smoking,” he told the crowded meeting. “I don’t patronize restaurants that don’t booths, which use the Nolan Chart, a se¬ The college outreach project plans to ries of questions, and attractive posters voluntarily have no-smoking sections. But to make a sweeping ban against mail a special Outreach Update to all and banners, have been shipped to the smoking in what are essentially private pieces of property reminds me of most active Ayn groups every two months . The first mail¬ college clubs to use with spring Rand’s warning that Ihere are no such things as group rights. The smallest ing contained anecdotes from successful semester outreach table work. minority is the individual. If we violate individual rights we violate all rights.”' college groups and reprints of articles All over the nation, college campus Libertarian Badalli is shown brandishing a copy of the U.S. Constitution with the words dealing with the “war on drugs” issue and Party groups are organizing the U.S. Panama invasion. Each future and spreading the word of liberty. “Void Where Prohibited” stenciled across it. His T-shirt bears the inscription: “I mailing will contain anecdotal updates Ifyou are a student in college and want THINK; therefore I can’t be a socialist.” and news articles. to help organize a campus group, contact The College Organization Manual con¬ Don Ernsberger, 865 Meadowood Lane, tains detailed information on such impor¬ Warminster, PA 18974. Hess to Leave NEWS Karl Hess, co-editor of the Libertar¬ sible for the steadily improving appear¬ Now, Who Says Anarchists ian Party NEWS for the past four years, ance of the NEWS, enjoys my full sup¬ will leave that post as of the July 1990 port, and I will always consider myself issue. close to his editorship of the NEWS as a Don’t Have a Sense of Humor Full editorship of the paper will be neighbor, colleague, and friend. He will Dave Barry, nationally syndicated and operate up close, you taken over by Hess’ closest associate and make a fine editor just as he has been an very popular humor columnist, seems very begin to realize that no co-editor, Randy Langhenry. exemplary co-editor,” Hess said, adding serious when it comes to the government. one connected with za m The reason for the move, according to that “My fond, formal farewell to the In the featured interview of the May them is any better than Hess, is that “There are several book paper and to the hundreds of wonderful issue ofPlayboy magazine (P.O. Box 2007, you are, so you begin to friends I have made while editing it will projects that I feel I must finish while my Harlan, LA 51593-0222), Barry has this to wonder why they’re in badly battered health permits. With the be the subjectofmy Viewpoint column in say: charge of your life . .. movement of the NEWS to a monthly the July issue.” “If anything, I’m an anarchist. Not in “I don’t acknowledge 0 schedule there simplyhasn’t been enough The change was approved by LP Na¬ the sense of running around, throwing that the government time to work on books at all.” The proj¬ tional Chair Dave Walter who, Hess said, bombs at politicians, which is sort of what has a valid moral function in people’s lives. ects include more books for young has been “a constant and helpful sup¬ people, ... everybody’s perception of anarchy is. And I don’t vote Not voting is a way of following his pioneering Capitalism for porter ofthe NEWS, particularly in work¬ “I just have a very strong antigovem- saying something, and eventually, maybe Kids, and an ing to make possible the current monthly autobiography. ment bias. A lot of it comes from journal¬ people will recognize it as that kind of “Randy Langhenry, who is respon¬ publication schedule.” ism. Once you see government bodies statement.” 2 May 1990 Libertarian Party NEWS Libertarians Have a Ticket for Loeffler Theodore B. Loeffler, founder of World Research Incorporated (WRI), The Yankee Doodle the pioneer free market film produc¬ Bandwagon tion and distribution group, has died after 11 years of fighting the effects of Parkinson’s disease. He was 64. By Karl Hess Viewpoint The classic liberal and libertarian free market films inspired by Loeffler Once utes. and upon a time it took a roving French - produced by WRI include “The In¬ man, Alexis de Tocqueville, to tell Ameri¬ And wealth? Germany and Japan each credible Bread Machine,” “Libra,” and cans what wonders they had accomplished have GNPs equal only to 75 percent of ' “The Hayek Equation”—all familiar in the then “new world.” He also, of course, America’s. | and enthusiastically received fare at libertarian warned of perils to come. The average American today is twice as I meetings. Now some English journalists, writing wealthy as during the supposed golden f For a catalog of the films and vide¬ in that always interesting magazine, The days of the 1950s from which the gloom- | otapes which will endure as a memo¬ rial to Economist, have come along to remind sayers claim we have precipitously slipped. Ted Loeffler, write to WRI, P.O. seemingly despondent Americans of just As one commentator (the columnist Box 9359, San Diego, CA 92109-0100. how powerful and productive this wonder Charles Krauthammer) put it: “To feel tightly guarded for national security. More of America truly is. Even with some of de poor just because [some foreign countries and more people recognize that true secu¬ who Tocqueville’s warnings having come tragi¬ were] utterly destitute back then are rity, peace, and prosperity arise from free Campaign Workshops cally to pass (racial tension, corrupt offi¬ now also enjoying prosperity—a lesser trade and not from armed might. Available Once More • cials, the public treasury as an open till), prosperity mind you—is a malaise born of English is humanity’s new universal The Economist seems to think a lot more of nothing but envy.” language. Alicia Clark, chair of the Council of • America than do a lot of Americans. Alas. During the 1980s the mighty German More people want to immigrate to State Chairs, has announced that Bob Some of the points distilled from The production machine experienced an an¬ America than to anyplace else on the planet.