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...second, much smaller, national student organization goes by the name Intercollegiate Society of Individualists (ISI). Other than that ISI is ideologically grounded in the "objectivist" philosophy (reason, self-interest, individualism, capitalism) of novelist Ayn Rand (The Fountainhead, Atlas Shrugged), little is known about this group...
...empirical studies of student conservatives are summarized by Block, Haan, and Smith: parents of conservative students are disproportionately Republican and Protestant, and they tend to be authoritarian and achievement-oriented in their child-rearing practices; the students, themselves, tend to view their own value patterns along the lines of Ayn Rand's. Heavily concentrated in business curricula, student rightists appear to be active not only at the large, prestigious and visible institutions, but also at many smaller colleges -- especially church-related ones, southern universities, and technical and other career-oriented institutions...
Later he fell in love with a misanthropic girl who had gone to Bennington on an Ayn Rand wrestling scholarship and had majored in guerrilla warfare. At school she had written a term paper for Religion 1, proving that there was room at the inn-only it was restricted. She was expelled from school and went into antimissionary work, following Billy Graham by two days and bringing people back from...
...Your Essay was much needed, but to attempt a discussion of contemporary philosophy without mentioning Ayn Rand and objectivism is like discussing instant photography without mentioning Land and Polaroid...
...could expose his junior brood to Baldwin, to Norman Mailer, to Paul Goodman and Ayn Rand--not because the Institute should attempt to convert its residents into radicals and reactionaries, but because a good politician understands his community, not only the majority that elects him, but also the minorities on the fringes, where political creativity often has its roots...