University of Southern Mississippi - Southerner Yearbook (Hattiesburg, MS)

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October 27, 1981 William Rusher Reagan and the Economyl' William Rusher has been described as one of America's finest public speakers and deadliest debatersf' He is perhaps most familiar nation- ally as one of the two regular Advocates,' on the Emmy award winning PBS television program of the name. He is also seen fre- quently on Face Off, the mini debates on ABC Television's Good Morning America program. Rusher also writes a nationally syndicat- ed newspaper column, the Conservative Advocate, that appears three times weekly in papers from coast to coast, and for two decades he has served as publisher of William F. Buckley's NATIONAL RE- VIEW, Americals leading journal of conservative opinion. M wqnw November 3, 1981 Frank Cappiello Reagan and the Economy Frank Cappiello is probably best known as a penelist on WALL STREET WEEK, the popular PBS television series on finance. He is also a contributing columnist to the CHICAGO TRIBUNE and the BALTIMORE SUN. Frank Cappiello lectures at Johns Hopkins Uni- versity and is vice president of Monumental Corporation, an insur- ance holding company, and president of one of it affiliates, Monumen- tal Capital Management, Inc. He is, in addition, one of the three members of the Advisory Investment Committee of the 51.7 billion Maryland State Retirement Systems Fund. X' 22 EventsfHonors Fourm

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October 30, 1981 G. Gordon Liddy The Watergate Affairf' Convicted Watergate conspiritor G. Gordon Liddy told a packed audience at Bennett Auditorium that Americans have been living a life of illusions and that decisions based on those illusions are hurting them. The world operates under social Darwinism- The big fish have always eaten the little fish, Liddy said, and tithe realities are there which the illusions can never mask. Calling his address a continuation of the debate on the question on why so much is going wrong with the country, Liddy said the vast majority of Americans differ from the people of Europe, Africa, and Asia in that they live lives of illusion. Either we are unable to apprehend reality, or if we can, we tend to turn away from, shun, the harsher aspects of it. The idea being l suppose, if you don't look at it, pretend it isn't there, somehow or other it will go away. Americans have confused the world as it really is with the world the way they wish or pray it were, Liddy said. They have tried to create a risk-free society -through the regulation of foodstuffs, for exam- ple-which is impossible. And students are given a Holiday lnn version of history which is sanitized for your protection, he said. A vital result of American's lives of illusion is the decline in the nation's intelligence activities, Liddy said, asserting that the decline is the result of illusions about the natures of man, the world, spying and the free press and that is has weakened the nation, in one instance by leading to this country's shutoff by other nations from participation in cooperative espionage. The world happens to be a very bad neighborhood at about two thirty in the morning, Liddy said. And the United States is increas- ingly perceived as a little old lady with a fat pocketbookn in the neighborhood rather than as an offensive tackle for the Green Bay Packers carrying a baseball bat.' '...' 'and a Thompson subma' chine gun. If no covert intelligence branch of government exists, Liddy said, the nation has only two alternatives: to do nothing or to go to war. Intelligence provides a third option. The Central Intelligence Agency has been gutted he said. and despite the Reagan administration's expressed interest in revitalizing it, change cannot come immediately. Living illusions and making decisions on them can be remedied if we call things what they are, Liddy suggested, such an approach gives precision in thought and a foundation for proceeding further. Of Watergate, Liddy said that the break-ins into the Democratic National Committee headquarters at the Watergate complex-uns like that investigation of Daniel Ellsberg and the burglary of his psychiatrist's office, which constituted a legitimate national security operation within the power of the president to authorize -had noth- ing to do with national security, but were purely political intelligence gathering operation, the same kind of thing that goes on every four years. . . when the presidency of the United States is contested for in this country. Events Honors Forum 21

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ff November 10, 1981 Max Cleland The Quest For Excellence Max Cleland was Administrator of the Veterans Administration from 1977 to 1981. Nine years before being appointed to head the Veter- ans Administration he was in Vietnam where an exploding grenade cost him both legs and an arm. After 18 months of rehabilitation. he entered politics in Georgia and became the youngest member of the Georgia State Senate where he served two terms from 1970 to 1974. In 1975 he joined the U.S. Senate Veterans Affairs Committee staff to work on health care issues. He is the author of the recently pub- lished autobiography, STRONG AT THE BROKEN PLACES. November 17, 1981 Sarah Weddington Can Reagan Make Women Disappear? Sarah Weddington received her Juris Doctorate at age 21. At 26. she argued and won a landmark case before the U.S. Supreme Court. She was elected to the Texas State Legislature and served three terms during which she was rated on of the state's 10 best legislators. In 1977 she became General Counsel to the US. Department of Agriculture, and in 1978 she became a Special Assistant to President Jimmy Carter. In 1979, she was promoted to the senior White House staff as Assistant to the President. She was responsible for political liaison and women's issues. Events Honors Forum 23