ii me tttxsfct Kmm emanate -- outdoors "I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not bejudged by the color of their dkin but by content of their character. I have a dream today!" The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. from page nine can take a level path across the foothills into Pioneer Park or head up and traverse across the ridge. Between two ridges is a stone cottage without a roof, remnants of the pioneers, and if you climb higher you find the giant's furniture, huge dOOOO 00 chairs made of stone. To the north of Red Butte Canyon is Dry Creek, a hike that U. student Emma Wharton recommends. This is one of the best local hikes, she said. The trail starts above the Fort Douglas Country Club's parking lot, and runs north. "This is a nice quiet hike. There aren't a lot of people who hike there," she added. ORfld) WEDNESDAY 11AM-1P- M Institute Lounge Tostados Lunch See video on temples: FREE Objectivists from page nine "HOUSE OF THE LORD" walk during the summer y ski months or in the winter. Although far from the U., Farmington Canyon which rises behind Farmington, provides multiple opportunities for hikes and a scenic drive. A road winds up the steep canyon sides, and at the top you are presented with a panorama of the Salt Lake Valley. The drive itself is worth the trip. cross-countr- without having to be decked out for an off-tratravel or worry about destruction of the il ecosystem. One can park bikes at the picnic area at the top of the road, and continue along the trail by foot. The grass that grows over this part of the trail bears testament to the low volumes of people who walk here, promising a secluded, private hike. Adventurous students can wander a bit further from the Whatever your tastes in hikes may be, the plethora of canyons around the U. can satisfy almost any desire. Take advantage of the natural . radically individualistic ideas go against the grain of contemporary intellectual culture which places a and high value on self-sacrifi- Patrick said. It is very accessible and easy to understand in a way that most philosophies are not. Another thing that distinguishes Objectivism from other philosophies is that it rarely gets mentioned in college curriculums. Lowe speculated that one of the reasons for this is that Objectivism's about bringing their dogs to campus can take them to run. This is a convenient place to City Creek Canyon starts behind the state capitol. A road leads up the canyon, allowing bicyclists to ride among the trees and streams campus and find Millcreek Canyon to the south. Millcreek is a popular canyon off of Interstate 215, where people who are worried II, 183 ce altruism. Objectivists believe in the primacy of the individual, and the right of citizens to pursue goals, free from the hindrance of government controls and regulation. They are strong proponents of laissez-fair- e capitalism, and are emphatically against any attempt on resources around the U. before winter comes and there is no longer the opportunity. the part of the government to force individuals to sacrifice their desires in the interest of greater societal good. Objectivist's beliefs are very con sistent with the ideas America was originally founded on, according to Lowe. "Objectivism is very much part of the American Dream." "While Objectivism still is very much part of the American Dream, Americans are now expecting to get a lot of things for free. In particular, free medicine. We are getting more and more like European countries," Lowe said. Patrick felt that intellectuals are at the source of the problem. "What we say is that the country started off with these great ideas. It started building itself, giving birth to the industrial revolution. But then, the intellectuals started taking on the ideas from Europe, and they started teaching these ideas in colleges, and they started infiltrating the culture." "AnH nnw Pntrirlf rnntinnoH ' M I . ' j "it's a question whether we can hold on to some the those old values or ' not." Part of, the Campus Objectivist's goals, therefore, is to try to reverse some of these trends by changing , , what is taught in universities. "Through the lecture course which we have, we would like to make available some of these Objectivist a ideas. 11 one student that majors m philosophy and is an Objectivist, and studies these ideas, and really masters them, and then becomes a professor, that would be one dent," Patrick said. m f OteaBfl m v . :. ; my belief, he continued, "that ideas are the things that drive human historv. And ideas are the things that guide any individual human beine to do what he will do. And what happens is that whoever has the most consistent and com"It-i- s plete approach to ideas, philosophiwill determine the cally, these" ideas ' culture. . "I sort of think"; Patrick continued, "that the source of ideas is the university. So, if we can get more of these ideas into the universities we """ : could maybe begin to turn away from our move towards socialization, health care and those' sorts of : . ..; ;.; things."; ' ::' Lowe credited Objectivism for giving a definite direction and purpose -- 1- H - ;s . J m&M .to his life. "It very much encourages d behavior," he said. Prior to coming in contact with Objectivism Lowe said that he was "just sort of sailing through, going from subject to subject, job to job, god-directe- without any direction." Patrick agreed. Prior to studying the ideas of Ayn Rand his thinking " was he said. Then, he happened upon Ayn Rand's book, "The Virtue of Selfishness." It "fog-like- , changed his life. "When I read it, I had enough of the old values to say 'I like this, and I want to find out more about these ideas." "What it has done for me is that it has helped me to develop my thinking so that it is much clearer now than it was in the past" '