Wall Street Journal Editor Robert Bartlev To Speak at RIT April 3

Robert Bartley, editor and vice president of The Wall Street Journal, will speak at Rochester Institute of Technology on April 3 as the College of Business' 1997 Gasser Lecturer.

Bartley will speak on "Observations on the State of Our Union" at 2 p.m. in the Chester F. Carlson Center for Imaging Science Auditorium. Bartley will look at the condition of American civilization today. "Somehow the state of the union seems better than we deserve," Bartley says as he reviews "signs of disarray": starting at the top at the White House, drugs ruling slums, "Roman circus quality of entertainment," Social Security and Medicare, and middle class worries over job security.

In addition to the challenges of this era, Bartley will also look at the positives, including this period of peace and prosperity, rapid technological advances, his belief that the United States is ahead of the curve in many regards: U.S. multinationals, free labor markets, creativity and taxes.

Bartley's primary responsibility as editor and vice president of The Wall Street Journal is the editorial page. He assumed direction of the editorial page in 1972 and since then has personally written a substantial share of the paper's editorials, while also being deeply involved in staff development and creation of new editorial page features.

In 198O, Bartley won a Pulitzer Prize for editorial writing, the Journal's eighth Pulitzer. The year before, he received the Gerald Loeb Award for his editorials on international monetary problems, and in 1977 he received a Citation for Excellence from the Overseas Press Club of America for dispatches filed from China and Tibet after the death of Chairman Mao Tse Tung. In 1974, he was included among 200 "rising American leaders" selected by Time magazine.

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