The second thing was seeing hungry children in spite of Soviet propaganda about good agricultural production, she said. Also appearing on campus last semester were Dr. Mortimer J. Adler, eminent author and scholar; Dr. Jean Harris, vice president for state marketing programs for Control Data Corporation; and William C. (faker, the executive director of the Chesapeake Bay Foundation. Dr. Adler, the director of the Institute for Philosophical Research and an associate editor of Great Books of the Western
Russian emigre Ludmilla Alexeyva as the first speaker of the 1983-84 Russian Forum. "I understand that American society has its problems," s.:,id Alexeyva, "but it cannot be compared to the Soviet Union. "When I began to understand Soviet realities, I understood that it is not the society of social justice," she said. "It's a very inhuman state." Two things led her to understand Soviet reality, Alexeyva said. The first was official policies of anti-Semitism at Moscow St.:,tc University, where she was a student. "Brilliant professors were expelled. It was terrible to see," Alexeyva said.
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strategies at the annual Scholarship Convocation on Nov. 15. The ceremony, sponsored by the University and the Epsilon of Virginia chapter of Phi Beta Kappa, ,vas held in the Cannon Memorial Chapel with Dr. Heilman presiding. Dr. Harris is a member of the Board of Trustees and a former Secretary for I Iuman Resources '.or the Commonwealth of VirginBaker, appearing as the Biology Department's 1983 Dickinson Memorial Lecturer, told a UR audience consisting largely of biolo~ gy students and faculty that the 10,000-year-old Chesapeake Bay was dying from 50 to 60 years of dumping of sewage, chemicals and other pollutants. Restoring the 13ay to its former condition would take another 50 to 60 years, he said, but the results would be worth the effort. "There's nothing like the Bay. It's the crown jewel of estuaries," Baker said. He suggested cleanup efforts be coordinoted by the states most affecting the Bay: Virgi_nia, Maryland and PennsylvaThe Dickinson Lecture Fund was established by Mr. and Mrs. Enders Dickinson Ill. Their son John, a member of the class of 1977 who enjoyed Virginia beaches and the Chesapeake Bay, died in the fall of his senior year. RF, FH, Al/
World addressed a group of college presidents from all over the state and citv officials at a luncheon held in ihe President's Dining Room in the Commons. The luncheon was arranged by Mrs. Mary Tyler Check, the daughter of Pulitzer Prize-winner Douglas Southall Freeman, who graduated from UR in 1904. Mrs. Cheek ,vanted Adler to have a dialogue with Virginia educators and leaders. UR President Dr. E. Bruce Heilman introduced Dr. Adler as a "distinguished scholar, teacher, educator and champion of intellectual inquiry." Dr. Adler is the author or editor of over 25 books, including The Manifesto, Great Ideas from Great Books, Aristotle for Everybody and TIie Angels and Us. Dr. Harris spoke on success
PULITZER PRIZE WINNERS READ AT FESTIVAL John Updike, Annie Dillard and Larry McMurtry were the guest artists for the University's Tucker-Boatwright Festival on Nov. 3 and 4. Dillard, who won a Pulitzer Prize for Pilgrim al Tinker Creek and has also published Holy the Firm and Teaching a Stone to Talk, has been described as one of the finest essayists and observers of nature of our time. She led off the series the afternoon of Nov. 3 with a reading of "Account of a