How to Ruin Your Life –
Ben Stein Comes to Campus

Anyone who saw Ferris Bueller’s Day Off will remember the stone-faced econ professor played by Ben Stein. But did you know he was a speech writer and lawyer for Richard Nixon?

The Hinckley Institute of Politics and ASUU will bring Ben Stein to Kingsbury Hall on Dec. 5 at 7:30 p.m. You can pick up free tickets at Kingsbury Hall or the ASUU office in the Olpin Union.

Ben Stein graduated from Columbia University in 1966 with honors in economics. He graduated from Yale Law School in 1970 as valedictorian and helped found the Journal of Law and Social Policy there. He has worked as a poverty lawyer in New Haven and Washington, D.C., a trial lawyer in the field of trade regulation at the Federal Trade Commission in Washington, D.C., and as a university professor at several universities. He taught about the political and social content of mass culture, political and civil rights, and law.

In 1973 and 1974, he was a speech writer and lawyer for Richard Nixon and then for Gerald Ford. He has written and published sixteen books, seven novels, largely about life in Los Angeles, and nine nonfiction books about finance, ethical and social issues in finance, and the political and social content of mass culture.

Stein is also a well known actor in movies, TV, and commercials. His part of the stone-faced econ teacher in Ferris Bueller’s Day Off was recently ranked as one of the fifty most famous scenes in American film.

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