1997
February
February, 1997
'Corporate America' defended
To the editor:
I see in the September issue that there won't be a McDonald's in the Hub. That's fine, but the reasons that the "campus community objected to the proposal" disturb me.
Potential damage to the library collection could be handled with imagination -- after all, there was coal and oil smoke over that direction for years. A desire for healthier food choices? Like putting the arches in the Hub would somehow handcuff those who like something else and prevent their eating it? But the last reason is the killer: "the presence of 'corporate America' in the campus core."
Please hold the bucket for me while I have what the Aussies call a Technicolor yawn. I know that the leftist universities in the East go for this sort of hate speech, but I really can't stand to see it coming to Ames. Someone please tell these insightful folks, students and faculty alike, that "corporate America" is American people banding together to produce the things that we all need and use -- their books, your newsprint, the trucks that bring the bean sprouts and tofu, the faculty's desks, the computers. And please remind them, while we are at it, that "corporate America" is where most of them probably are going to want jobs. They'll be grateful enough for it then.
-- George L. Hamlin ('61)
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