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O From Page 7 symposium The demise of Big Government, long a bugaboo in conservative philosophy, is not likely to be mourned by Buckley and his ilk. The Macrae prescription, moreover, is interesting. "America's huge advantage." Macrae explained, is the fact that "multi-government has saved America from tyranny." Multi-government is Macrae's catchword for this country's system of checks and balances. The disadvantage to multi-government, Macrae u i ?. :a At a : re: a j : i r a: auutm. is inai ii is me inosi memcieru sysiem ueviseu ior bpenuing money." He advocates "reprivatising" or throwing open to private enterprise much which is now in the public sector. Buckley's retort to all this was gentle and facetious. Regular viewers of his Firing Line broadcasts were probably disappointed as he failed to reveal his full repertoire of familiar facial grimaces. There was no eyepopping and only three winces. The elocution was letter-perfect, but the columnist unleashed only one Latin phrase and virtually no "i.e.'s." "Seriously, folks." Buckley lamented the passing from the fashionable rhetoric "Better dead than red" and "Give me liberty or give me death." And he attempted to buttress Macrae's argument against the inefficiencv of government bv comparing the over-Daid garbage collectors of New York City with their counterparts in San Francisco, where presumably, private industry has takeLi up the slack. Curiously, his mention of San Francisco overlooked that city's street sweepers, who-public sector productivity notwithstanding-have just successfully upped their salaries from $17,500 to $19,000. A hastily-arranged question and answer session was supposed to fill in any hiatus left by the absent Bell. This, however, proved laughable as none of Judge Russell's well-heeled guests, perched in one-quarter of the best seats in the overcrowded auditorium, uttered a word. Soon a few written questions began timidly dribbling down to the dais where Dr. George Curry read the scrawlings. The best questions in the carefully orchestrated discussion seemed to be those that did not smack of controversy. It was clear the participants wptp mprplv Pninc thrnnph thp mntinns Buckley, who's always at his best once the formalities are dispensed with, deftly handled all subsequent questions regardlessly how innocuous. Unfortunately, the genial Macrae, lacking Buckley's "show biz" flamboyance, came across rather ineffectually, if not sometimes incoherently. His short, rambling responses were incomplete; his accent rendering even those barely comprehensible. Much of the brilliance of the renown economics editor was further dissipated by his distracting penchant for punctuating his statements by rotating his hand as if drawing large cursive doodles on an imaginary piece of paper. T'U.r. rkn... ...nr~ U.. ? U ?? ? ?U /O IIII I ? 1 I L I II it i iic siiuw wds uy idi ucnei iiidii uiuigcm t? imcuiu, uui overall, uie program was an ignominious flop. The tiny auditorium was woefully inadequate, ticket distribution too restrictive, the format better suited to a garden club lecture and the time allotted prevented the participants from saying anything substantive. If this was indicative, as Donald Russell put it, of "one of the best w ays to celebrate the Bicentennial'.'then America's revolutionary verve has been lost forever. Both speakers proved the efficacy of the general rule of thumb that good writers do not good speakers make. i ne omnipresent BucKiey only warms to ms subject wnen engaged in heated debate. Macrae, as his press release states, "writes a lengthy survey on some subject that he previously knew practically nothing about." His ignorance thereby established, Macrae had only to manifest it Friday night. He succeeded. j PaJ IB I I BV a. fiP''" / ? r_v*/r/v/i /? Tt i a aw By Joye Watson ] I The USC Faculty Senate \ defeated the motion calling for the grading system to be changed to i include the grades of "C + " and < "B-f" at their Wednesday meeting i in the business administration i auditorium. i The motion was defeated after arguments that the new system i would stimulate grade inflation i and have "C+M the average grade i instead of "C". Dr. Rufus Fellers < defended his motion on the grounds it would "rescue and restore the i integrity of the 'A'. It seems to mp " hp sniH "that thp avprapp i ought to be above the minimum ] acceptable grade anyway." ; Dr. Keith Davis told the senate that a faculty workload study was being considered to present to i members of the state legislature, i "This is an important study to do at < this time," he said. "Political fimiroc in tlio ct oto Ha nr\f nn_ derstand faculty work loads." Davis called the study a "tool to educate a group that can determine our fate." In other action, Dr. William H. Wesson, vice president for Instruction, reminded the faculty of the deadline to apply for the Fulbright Hayes Fellowship in New Zealand. The Faculty Senate passed a resolution from the Steering Committee recommending that whenever interpretation of academic regulations and senate and faculty action becomes necessary, such interpretation should be done by the Faculty Advisory Committee, the senate chairman and the vice president for Instruction. A motion concerning the /4 /\r? /-?*?! f I 1 rt f Urk LT r\ rti 11 f < t K f r* r\ i i n 1 uc^li i^nun in iiic i atun^ ivictuucti of voting faculty in the selection of department chairmen was defeated by the senate. The motion requested the deletion of paragraph 18 of the manual which contains the description. ma ^9 k-t'k s THE Li 6826 GAMEC S VISORS ange deft (?pfprpnpp wnnlH thpn hp maHp to the description of voting faculty on page 16 of the manual. A report of the Athletic Advisory Committee was submitted to the senate concerning restructuring the committee. This recommendation was defeated. Student Government (SG) President Dave Wilsford addressed the senate and urged defeat of the motion saying the proposed restructuring contained "unfair representation" of student interest. The restructuring would have reduced the number of students on the Athletic Advisory Committee frnm fViron fn nno \A7ilcfnrrl roaH a LA Will illl VV IV VIIV . If IIOIV1 U i V/UVB u letter to the senate advocating SG's position on the matter. The Faculty Welfare Committee submitted a report concerning the retirement program for faculty members requesting endorsement of their plan. ! RENT YOUR ; THIS J North Fac * Hamn 7 S y r- r - ? J Kelty Pac ; STOP BY THE Sh I jpjkmcKEi J |l 1 quality g 21 k_A Kg?V ^9^^^^RggSp*' '.,<?/ Two Notch Ro 788-8137 OCK CHECKBC CALCULA GUITAR ! \ lated After lengthy debate, the motion carried. 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