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When he first proposed a tuition charge for students at the University of California, Governor Ronald Reagan quipped last week, "I could not have branded myself as any more anti-intellectual than if I had said, 'Me Tarzan. You Jane.' " At Kansas State University, where he was this year's Alfred M. Landon lecturer, Reagan (B.A. Eureka College, 1932) went on to spell out-in greater detail than ever before-his views on the purposes and problems of higher education...
From their huts and hovels the freshmen converged outside and began their chant, "We want Tarzan; we want Tarzan...." Then, the unmistakable...
...fans, Tarzan is alive and well and resides somewhere in the freshman dorms. About twice a week he performs his cry, while a recording of jungle noises blares from Mower. Hall. Only a few disgruntled wonks, the University police, and some proctors fail to appreciate the ritual. They have been searching frantically, so far in vain, for a clue to the identify of Tarzan. All they know is that he is a freshman with a remarkable voice and a talent for imitation...
...balcony. Reagan, who may have been raiding Bob Hope's gag file, started off with a string of japes: "We have some hippies in California. For those of you who don't know what a hippie is, he's a fellow who has hair like Tarzan, who walks like Jane, and who smells like Cheetah...
...brain." He describes the church's code of can on law, which is now being drastically revised, as "archaic" and "reeking of drawbridges and moats." Dismissing the intellectual achievements of Jesuits John Courtney Murray and Karl Rahner, Kavanaugh insists that "Catholic theology died somewhere between Thomas and Tarzan." He scarcely mentions the reforming legislation of the Second Vatican Council, except in pointed skepticism. "Are we persons now that the bishops have voted to share the medieval powers of our Pope?" he asks. "Nothing has really changed. We will continue to preserve the system that has paralyzed...