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You've got to learn to trust us. We know how it is. You expect your bag to get off the plane 30 minutes after you do. You've been brought up by the wrong airlines. We built American with the professional traveller in mind. And heavy fliers don't laugh off any 30-minute waits. So, we "choreographed" every baggage team American has. We plotted just where the truck should be when the plane stops. And mapped out every move for every man. And drilled each team into a crack unit that got every bag off the plane—and back to its owner —in 7 minutes. When you're after the man who buys 50 tickets a year, you sit up nights thinking about little things like this. And yet you don't have to be a heavy flier yourself to get the same treatment. The moment a Travel Agent books you on American, you'll look like a professional traveller to us. American Airlines The airline built for professional travellers. (You'll love it.)
Qornell zAlumni Howard A. Stevenson '19 Editor Emeritus May, 1967 VOLUME 69, NUMBER 10 An independent magazine owned and published by the Cornell Alumni Association under the direction of its Publications Committee: Thomas B. Haire '34, chairman; Birge W. Kinne '16, Clifford S. Bailey '18, Howard A. Stevenson '19, and John E. Slater, Jr. '43. Officers of the Cornell Alumni Association: Charles J. Blanford '35, Scarsdale, N.Y., president; Hunt Bradley '26, Ithaca, N.Y. secretary-treasurer. John Marcham '50, editor; Charles S. Williams '44, managing editor; Mrs. Tommie Bryant, and Mrs. Elise Hancock, assistant editors. Editorial and business offices at Alumni House, 626 Thurston Avenue, Ithaca, New York 14850. Issued monthly except August. Subscriptions, $6 a year in U.S. and possessions; foreign, $6.75. Subscriptions are renewed annually unless cancelled. Second-class postage paid at Ithaca, N. Y., and at additonal mailing offices. Printed by Hildreth Press, Inc., Bristol, Connecticut. Sixty cents a copy. All publication rights reserved. Member, American Alumni Council and Ivy League Alumni Magazines, 22 Washington Square, North, New York, New York 10011; GRamercy 5-2039. Form 3579 should be sent to Cornell Alumni News, 626 Thurston Ave., Ithaca, N.Y. 14850. Cover Professor Antonie W. Blackler, zoology, and technician Carol J. Altemus '65 work with a tankful of leopard frogs in a study to determine the origin and role of sex cells in animals. At right, he prepares to separate eggs before altering. May 1967 Criticism From The Right • For some eight years now, an energetic alumnus of Cornell has been making a persistent effort to influence alumni and the university. The alumnus is J. Daniel Tuller '09 of Red Bank, New Jersey, and Delray Beach, Florida. A writer in his employ explains: Tuller . . . has long been concerned that only the liberal point of view was being taught at most of the colleges and universities in the United States. He formed the Tuller Foundation in 1959 to devote full time to arousing concern about this situation and has since been attempting to find a method of convincing the colleges that they have an obligation to see that students are exposed to all major points of view. His conviction was that ... as college faculties in the humane studies were largely instructing or encouraging students in the point of view of ever larger government control and regulation of the economy and society, they had a responsibility to see that the students had equal exposure to the other side of these questions, the free market-limited government point of view. For eight years, working through the Tuller Foundation, Tuller explored the scope and extent of this Liberal imbalance with many Cornell alumni . . . Eventually a sizeable group of Cornell alumni with whom he had been carrying on long and detailed correspondence agreed that if they were successfully to take their concern before the Cornell community, it would be necessary to create an organization and publicly express this concern. This was accomplished by the formation of the Cornell Alumni Committee for Balanced Education in 1965. Originally the committee consisted of those alumni who had been meeting and Sol Goldberg '46, Cornell University corresponding with Tuller through the Foundation. Shortly, however, they began to approach other alumni who had expressed concern over the situation. It was felt that selection of members should be from among those alumni who had a record of long involvement and dedication to Cornell; and so the vast majority of the members of CACBE have been members of the Cornell University Council, and a sizeable number are past or present trustees. Presently the active membership numbers about 70. In addition to the seventy alumni members reported by the committee it has nineteen non-Cornellian "unofficial members" with whom it keeps in touch, including three college presidents, two "heads of other institutions of higher learning," and three officers of the Winds of Freedom Foundation, an organization of Stanford University alumni somewhat similar to CACBE. The prime activity of Tuller since 1959 has been the mailing to selected alumni of a series of more than 500 letters and reprints of other material, at first on his own letterhead and since 1965 on the CACBE letterhead. He carries the title of executive vice president; the committee has no other officer. Tuller keeps an Executive Committee of five alumni in close touch with new ideas for activity. Since its formation in mid-1965, CACBE has run a series of small ads in the Cornell Daily Sun, setting forth its criticism of the faculty at Cornell and other institutions, and calling for an alternative of some sort. In February 1966 the committee launched a contest with prizes of $500, $300, and $100 "for the best student essays stating the 'case against the current practice and tendency in American colleges and universities of failing to provide for the benefit of their students, courses, faculties and facilities for instruction and exposition in the economic and governmental philosophy of free markets and limited government'." Essays were received, prizes awarded, and entries serialized in the committee's ads in the Sun. Reporting on the results, CACBE said, "The committee feels that the results of the contest were significant in that they demonstrated publicly that at least some of the present undergraduates and graduate students were aware of the existence of the imbalance in their instruction and were concerned about it. The committee felt that it was necessary to demonstrate this in order to answer criticism that it was only conservative alumni who were unhappy with the situation." In several other ways, Tuller has sought to advance his ideas. For a num-
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