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More oxford books @ www.OxfordeBook.comFore more urdu books visit www.4Urdu.comRADICALS FOR CAPITALISM 201assigned coursework. No one who quailed at a novel in the thousandpagerange would get very far into the Objectivist world.Once engaged with Rand, students often attempted to bring her intothe classroom, with uniformly disastrous results. A Brown University studentdescribed how his grades plummeted after he began relying heavilyon Rand for his schoolwork. First came the term paper on FranklinRoosevelt, analyzing him as a “social metaphysician” under the authorityof Nathaniel Branden. Then followed his turn toward Romanticism afterreading Rand’s essay “The Goal of My Writing.” The student recounted:“It just hadn’t occurred to me, until then, that I had been writing ratherrealistic, naturalistic stuff. Ayn Rand made that sound like part of theinternational Communist conspiracy. Treason to Tarzan. I was justbowled over.” Formerly the star of his creative writing class, the studentnow began to churn out derivative, Rand-style Romantic stories on thelevel of “C grade movies.” His instructor despaired at seeing his prizepupil’s creativity and talent disappear overnight, but the student remembered:“It never occurred to me that what was happening to me was anythingbut Howard Roark banished by the Dean.” 30 Feeling marginalizedor discriminated against was no burden to Objectivists; indeed it indicatedthat they were acting as honorable, independent individualists.Students pressed onward in their quest to share Rand’s ideas, oftenbecoming the bane of their college instructors in the process. One studentat Montclair State in New Jersey described his battle with a politicalscience professor: “One day after class I recommended your booksand repeated the Oath of Self Allegiance. He winced.” 31 Rand bedeviledcollege professors of all stripes. Some took preemptive action: TheObjectivist Newsletter reported on a philosophy professor who automaticallyfailed any student who wrote a paper on Objectivism. Arriving atWellesley College, Nora Ephron was whisked to an orientation seminarwhere the evils of Rand’s philosophy were stressed. “How pleased I wasto read your excellent book review!” a professor of French at ColumbiaUniversity told Sidney Hook, recounting a recent run-in with a studentwho had “exuberant enthusiasm about Ayn Rand’s ‘philosophy.’ ”Exhausted and exasperated by the effort “to make this student realizethat logical analysis ought to be applied when judging Ayn Rand’s statementsproperly,” the professor was grateful to Hook for offering a definitiverebuttal of her ideas in the nation’s most respected newspaper. 32