Last week the Student Congress agreed to foot part of the tab to help College Republicans get Oliver North to Waco, where no doubt he'll give his recipes for illegal wars wrapped in festive patriotic bunting. Sloan mentioned Desmond Tutu, Ralph Nader and Bill Moyers as liberal-progressive voices. Then he turned the question around. Now I've given it some thought. Baylor really does need speakers who challenge mass orthodoxy.
Any university does.
So, per invitation, here are some speakers, and appropriate audiences. To those who believe that the GNP is God, he says, get real. Freedom is not free for people frozen by fear or in pockets of poverty without the transportation, services, health care or general security that others enjoy in cul de sacs of comfort. To the School of Engineering, alternative energy visionary Amory Lovins, whose latest notion is the Hypercar, a hydrogen-powered vehicle that would leave OPEC destitute. McFarlane took his medicine for his role in the Iran-Contra scandal and acknowledged having violated the nation's trust.