Ole Miss had been the setting for many Firing Line debates, and so it seemed a

fitting venue for this final chance for student panelists to question WFB. The discussion

mostly revolves around the funding of student groups through compulsory student-

activity fees, but along the way it turns to the use of tax money in general, public goods

versus private goods, and the idea of community. Mr. Downs: "And I think it is

unconstitutional that ... students like us be forced to pay student-activity fees." WFB:

"I pay fees every day to that terrible man in the White House, who, you know, sort of

spills my little pennies around and other people's. Why should that be a collective

enterprise in a sense that this ought not to be?" Ms. Powers: "Indirectly you had a say in

electing Bill Clinton, and--" WFB: "Well, but you have a vote in whether to come to

Ole Miss or not, right?" AP: "Right, and I am agreeing with you in that respect because

... especially at Ole Miss our student-activity fees are funneled through the associated

student body ... So long as you have that representative democracy, I don't think that

you can argue against the activity fees."