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z<strong>Alumni</strong><br />
Howard A. Stevenson '19 Editor Emeritus<br />
May, 1967<br />
VOLUME 69, NUMBER 10<br />
An independent magazine owned and<br />
published by the <strong>Cornell</strong> <strong>Alumni</strong> Association<br />
under the direction of its Publications<br />
Committee: Thomas B. Haire '34,<br />
chairman; Birge W. Kinne '16, Clifford<br />
S. Bailey '18, Howard A. Stevenson '19,<br />
and John E. Slater, Jr. '43. Officers of<br />
the <strong>Cornell</strong> <strong>Alumni</strong> Association: Charles<br />
J. Blanford '35, Scarsdale, N.Y., president;<br />
Hunt Bradley '26, Ithaca, N.Y.<br />
secretary-treasurer.<br />
John Marcham '50, editor; Charles S.<br />
Williams '44, managing editor; Mrs.<br />
Tommie Bryant, and Mrs. Elise Hancock,<br />
assistant editors.<br />
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Cover<br />
Professor Antonie W. Blackler, zoology,<br />
and technician Carol J. Altemus '65 work<br />
with a tankful of leopard frogs in a<br />
study to determine the origin and role<br />
of sex cells in animals. At right, he prepares<br />
to separate eggs before altering.<br />
May 1967<br />
Criticism<br />
From<br />
The Right<br />
• For some eight years now, an energetic<br />
alumnus of <strong>Cornell</strong> has been making<br />
a persistent effort to influence alumni<br />
and the university. The alumnus is<br />
J. Daniel Tuller '09 of Red Bank, New<br />
Jersey, and Delray Beach, Florida.<br />
A writer in his employ explains:<br />
Tuller . . . has long been concerned that<br />
only the liberal point of view was being<br />
taught at most of the colleges and universities<br />
in the United States. He formed the<br />
Tuller Foundation in 1959 to devote full<br />
time to arousing concern about this situation<br />
and has since been attempting to<br />
find a method of convincing the colleges<br />
that they have an obligation to see that<br />
students are exposed to all major points of<br />
view. His conviction was that ... as college<br />
faculties in the humane studies were largely<br />
instructing or encouraging students in the<br />
point of view of ever larger government<br />
control and regulation of the economy and<br />
society, they had a responsibility to see<br />
that the students had equal exposure to<br />
the other side of these questions, the free<br />
market-limited government point of view.<br />
For eight years, working through the<br />
Tuller Foundation, Tuller explored the<br />
scope and extent of this Liberal imbalance<br />
with many <strong>Cornell</strong> alumni . . .<br />
Eventually a sizeable group of <strong>Cornell</strong><br />
alumni with whom he had been carrying<br />
on long and detailed correspondence agreed<br />
that if they were successfully to take their<br />
concern before the <strong>Cornell</strong> community, it<br />
would be necessary to create an organization<br />
and publicly express this concern. This<br />
was accomplished by the formation of the<br />
<strong>Cornell</strong> <strong>Alumni</strong> Committee for Balanced<br />
Education in 1965.<br />
Originally the committee consisted of<br />
those alumni who had been meeting and<br />
Sol Goldberg '46, <strong>Cornell</strong> <strong>University</strong><br />
corresponding with Tuller through the<br />
Foundation. Shortly, however, they began to<br />
approach other alumni who had expressed<br />
concern over the situation. It was felt that<br />
selection of members should be from<br />
among those alumni who had a record of<br />
long involvement and dedication to <strong>Cornell</strong>;<br />
and so the vast majority of the members<br />
of CACBE have been members of the<br />
<strong>Cornell</strong> <strong>University</strong> Council, and a sizeable<br />
number are past or present trustees. Presently<br />
the active membership numbers<br />
about 70.<br />
In addition to the seventy alumni<br />
members reported by the committee it<br />
has nineteen non-<strong>Cornell</strong>ian "unofficial<br />
members" with whom it keeps in touch,<br />
including three college presidents, two<br />
"heads of other institutions of higher<br />
learning," and three officers of the Winds<br />
of Freedom Foundation, an organization<br />
of Stanford <strong>University</strong> alumni somewhat<br />
similar to CACBE.<br />
The prime activity of Tuller since<br />
1959 has been the mailing to selected<br />
alumni of a series of more than 500<br />
letters and reprints of other material, at<br />
first on his own letterhead and since<br />
1965 on the CACBE letterhead. He carries<br />
the title of executive vice president;<br />
the committee has no other officer. Tuller<br />
keeps an Executive Committee of five<br />
alumni in close touch with new ideas<br />
for activity.<br />
Since its formation in mid-1965,<br />
CACBE has run a series of small ads in<br />
the <strong>Cornell</strong> Daily Sun, setting forth its<br />
criticism of the faculty at <strong>Cornell</strong> and<br />
other institutions, and calling for an alternative<br />
of some sort. In February 1966<br />
the committee launched a contest with<br />
prizes of $500, $300, and $100 "for the<br />
best student essays stating the 'case<br />
against the current practice and tendency<br />
in American colleges and universities of<br />
failing to provide for the benefit of their<br />
students, courses, faculties and facilities<br />
for instruction and exposition in the economic<br />
and governmental philosophy of<br />
free markets and limited government'."<br />
Essays were received, prizes awarded,<br />
and entries serialized in the committee's<br />
ads in the Sun. Reporting on the results,<br />
CACBE said, "The committee feels that<br />
the results of the contest were significant<br />
in that they demonstrated publicly that<br />
at least some of the present undergraduates<br />
and graduate students were aware<br />
of the existence of the imbalance in their<br />
instruction and were concerned about it.<br />
The committee felt that it was necessary<br />
to demonstrate this in order to answer<br />
criticism that it was only conservative<br />
alumni who were unhappy with the situation."<br />
In several other ways, Tuller has<br />
sought to advance his ideas. For a num-