{ Campus Clips Outlook Mixed by Ray Wight The U.S. should seek world Weber State College’s Kenneth A. (Kay) Randall, who went from a position as student body president at Weber State College to a brilliant career in banking and international economic research and analysis, has received Weber State’s Distinguished f } Alumni Award for 1980, and in.a visit with faculty and students, given them an insight into some of problems facing the free enterprise system. Mr. Randall officially received the honor during a visit to the WSC campus in mid-March, even though it had been awarded him _ during the previous fall. He had been unable to come to Ogden at Homecoming time because of binding business commitments. Mr. Randall, an Ogden native, was appointed to the board of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation during the Johnson presidency, the only Republican so honored, and later became chairman of the board when Nixon was president. After graduating from Weber State, then a junior college, he went var.) Awa aap ~— —_ ' 1 d on to receive a degree in business fom Brigham Young University. ; 4 a Sw He went into banking with what is now the Central State Bank in Provo. Currently he is president of the internationally known Conference Board of New York City, an economic analysis group set up by the larger manufacturing industries of the country. It now works for 3,200 large firms across the whole non-Communist world, Mr. Randall said, doing research in the areas of economic analysis and forecasting, _ management research, corporate government, public affairs, and emerging economic and political trends. Speaking to faculty and students } inacampus seminar before he left, Mr. Randall expressed mixed optimism and pessimism about the outlook of the capitalistic system as he sees it. The pessimism comes from the | magnitude of the problems faced, such as the energy crisis, the challenges of Communism and developing nations, and the | complexities and stresses of developing international trade. A workable answer must be found to the energy crisis within the next two decades or free enterprise may have difficulty remaining as a viable economic forensics team won “‘school honors”’ in the senior division of system, WSC he said. Clashes over such vital energy sources as petroleum could develop and redirect the whole course of human events. For their own best interests, this country and its allies need to be able to phase out oil and natural gas use in the next decade for anything but mobile units, he said. Our European allies have been upset by the apparent loss of U.S. leadership. Both Vietnam and Watergate were things they found hard to understand, he said. The Reagan hostages in Iran can be avoided, Richard Morefield, one of the top ranking American hostages, told _aWSC convocation audience. Mr. Morefield, who was U.S. - consul general in Iran at the time the hostages were seized, said the fear of terrorism is common among those who serve abroad, and multi-national corporations have paid a heavy price to terrorist activity in the forensics tournament held in San Jose Calif., under the sponsorship of San Jose State University, Randolph J. Scott, forensics, coach, reported. Forty-eight schools from nine states took part in the brought a resurgence of optimism, and hopes for a major change in direction. The Pacific Basin is going to be a major area of economic and political change in the years immediately ahead Mr. Randall believes. Japan and Australia have already assumed leadership roles there, and Japan definitely on a world scale. The Chinese and what they do another, not work mostly from selfish economic motives, said Mr. Young, who is also an ordained minster. Too often the U.S. has found earned enough awards for itself in an adversary position “school honors,’’ but was with other nations when it needn’t have been, and we must not continue to take the side of ineligible because schools may not win team honors in both divisions. the aggressors, he said. as The country cannot solve its basic economic problems until the Palestinian problem is solved, he declared. The Palestinians, he said, exert will be the big factor in the Pacific area, he believes, but they have an Helicopters today can do things not thought of even five years ago, James B. Burr, president of Rocky Mountain Helicopters, world. resources, both in manpower and natural resources, they must not be Mr. Burr wanting to themselves education, downplayed, he said. Like the Chinese, they have a large population, the will to work, and the brainpower potential. Demands for power sources mean that the U.S. must take calculated risks with such sources as nuclear energy, he believes. Europeans thought Alexander Haig, whom they knew and respected, would have made the strongest U.S. president, Mr. Randall said. past decade. Host governments must supply the basic protection for diplomats and others working in their country, and if they fail there is at present little other really effective help. Probably the U.S. can lessen some of the dangers in the future by “‘reducing the target”’ through streamlining of its staffs, and strengthening buildings, but he emphasized again that the host government and the protection it offers is the critical things: tremendous Provo, told an Executive Lecture Series audience at WSC. Mr. Burr started 20 years ago with no financial assets and no ability at flying helicopters and today heads the fourth largest helicopter service in the U.S. and probably the sixth largest in the immense job of building and modernization before they can become a really top power militarily and economically. The Soviets have major internal and external problems they must solve, but because of their immense make decisions all by itself, Andrew Young, former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, said in a WSC convocation. We must learn to deal with people as brothers and learn to protect the interests of one tournament. Four ‘“‘school honors’’ awards are made in the senior and junior division of the tournament. The junior division team also to assert strong leadership have | Former hostage . . . on terrorism Nations of the world must work for an international consensus on how to handle terrorism so that incidents such as the holding of the American leadership in the role of a senior partner who listens to and works with others and does not try to the Western Speech Association election and moves an) One of the newer services is provided by the 15 helicopters his company has at hospitals influence throughout the Middle East, enough to substantially control the price of oil. Best route for the U.S. to go in working for world leadership is through its technology and ability to raise the economic standards of the world’s underprivileged countries. The production methods and achievements of the U.S. have been and still are the standard of the world, he said. across the country, he said. The machines provide service on a “a 5-minute notice and are ready 24 hours a day. urged students go into business for to get a good basic decide what they want to do, and then give it their full-time attention without worrying about fringe benefits and working hours. Being in business for oneself not only provides an income in large or small amounts, but it provides a variety of fascinating experiences, some of them traumatic, he said. Timing is one of the more important things in launching a Dr. O’Leary said the sun could solve the world’s energy problem by the end of the century if solar collectors are set up in space Swinton, president of Sweetwater Diversified, Inc., said in an Executive Lecture Series talk. He said launching his sale of recreational properties Bear Lake area in 1969 just at the time when country was showing in the came the a special interest in more and better recreation facilities. Picking the right time requires foresight, and perhaps without hindrance from an atmosphere, then beam it to receiving stations on the earth by microwaves. Asteriods appear to represent business venture, Brian C. measure of luck. convocation. where they can receive energy us business acumen Workable answers to the world’s overpopulation and energy problems lie as close as the asteriod belt in our universe, Dr. Bryan O’Leary, scientist, author, former astronaut and college professor, told a WSC a workable sites for such collectors, and could furnish much of the material needed for the stations, he said. Minerals could also be obtained from the asteroids and sent back to earth in giant space shuttles. “a Zs} Page 5