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t I l;: ill *) :t! >1 1 ■I . i J'. i.i lii; >, ■)■ I': 4i t } i , t Page 2 St. Mary’s College 900 Hillsborough Street Raleigh, North Carolina 27603-1689 The Belles Staff Editor; Alison Nanninga College Co-Editors: High School Co-Editors: Alison Nanninga Elizabeth Denning Kyle Underwood Valerie Vincent Assistant Editor; Writers; Kim Goines Lisa Gorman Jennifer Hall Cary Hodges Elizabeth Holscher Sissy Overbeck Jenny Schmidt Katherine Scholl Lisa Svendsgaard Maria Watson Advisor; Beth Proctor Student Spotlight on: Naomi Urano The Belles October 1990 Everyday is Earth Day... Will we act in time? By Sissy Overbeck Naomi Urano is a foreign ex change student from Shizouka, Japan. She is 20 years old and has three sisters and one brother. All of her family resides in Japan. Naomi enjoys playing basketball, listening to music and learning to speak English. Her first big tour of America came this summer. She enjoyed the attractions of Washington, D.C., Busch Gardens, and Williamsburg, VA. Also this sum mer Naomi spent six weeks at Mary Baldwin College in Virginia. She took a college lecture English course as well as political science, American history, and sociology. When asked how she felt about Saint Mary’s, she acted very pleased. She likes going to a small school for women. After Saint Mary’s, she would like to go to a four-year university and study business. Along with her courses she is taking at Saint Mary’s, she is also taking a course at N.C. State where she has met other students who are from Spain, Turkey, Korea and China, all of whom are very excited about learning the English language. Smell A Little...Dally The air you breathe is a mixture of about 78 percent nitrogen and 21 per cent oxygen. The other 1 percent con tains argon, carbon dioxide, neon, helium, ozone, zenon, hydrogen, methane, krypton, and water vapor. Anything added is called pollution. Subtract the addition and you can have clean air. Earth Day 1970 was largely an American event. We were wor ried about our air and water pollution. We wondered whether the bald eagle, the peregrine falcon and the osprey would sur vive DDT poisoning. We blanch ed as Lake Erie died and the Cuyahoga River caught fire in Cleveland. Since then, things have chang ed. Air and water quality have im proved in some areas. Some species seemingly destined for extinction have made com ebacks. The environmental movement is now worldwide. And, yet, the planet is far more degraded. In 1970, the effect of chlorofluorocarbons on the ozone layer that shields us from harmful ultraviolet radiation had not yet been discovered. Today, ozone depletion is carefully monitored. Twenty years ago, it was known that acid rain could render lakes lifeless, but it was not until 1983 that a team of Ger- man foresters reported widespread evidence of tree damage. In 1970, the greenhouse effect was discussed only in scientific circles. Now, a hotter future is the subject of cover stories in the news weeklies. Most climatologists believe that sum mers during the 1990s will be even hotter than those of the ’80s. In sum, the health of the earth has deteriorated to the point that its capacity to support an ever growing human population is in question. In two decades’ time, our numbers increased by 1.6 billion, while the world’s farmers lost 4^ billion tons of topsoil — roughly equivalent to the amount covering U.S. cropland. Since 1970, the earth’s forests have shrunk by 500 million acres, an area nearly as large as the United State east of the Mississippi River. Meanwhile, deserts expanded by 300 million acres. Thousands of the planet and animal species with which we shared the planet in 1970 no longer exist. If we cannot move quickly to reverse the environmental degradation of the planet, then economic decline will eventally result. At some point, the two will begin to feed on each other, as they already do in much of Africa. It’s time to adopt the tough energy, population and other policies needed to save the planet. SMC Professor Honored Dr. Janice Swab Receives Fuibright Last year. Dr. Swab applied for a Fuibright scholarship and was accepted. The Fuibright program is administered by the Council for the International Exchange or Scholars. Fuibright Scholars teach and/or carry out research in many countries around the world. The aim of this program is to foster international understan ding by having citizens from other countries work in the U.S. Obviously this is a very com petitive program, since only 37 biologists were chosen during the last academic year. Dr. Swab and her husband, Ed, will be teaching at the University of Juba in Khartoom, Sudan. Sudan is nearly one-third the size of the U.S., the largest country in Africa, with a population of 22 million. Dr. Swab will teach botany and science methods to prospective teachers, as well as helping to plan an Environmental Science curriculum. Dr. Swab has no idea what kind of teaching methods they are used to, although at least the courses are taught in English. Dr. Swab and her husband intend to stay for the full academic year and will travel to other African coun tries when school is over. Despite having to live in a Third World country, waiting in long lines for food and other necessities, not to mention a language barrier, she is so ex- cit^ to have the opportunity to teach in Africa. Dr. Swab is such an accomplished person and teacher, the students are bound to learn a great deal. —Alison Nanninga • I always know when I’m talkiin^ to people of superior intelligence. They think exactly as I do! • Success is a do-it-myself project. So is failure. Don't Mess with Mother Nature U N N H oUd !l! SjiR ^ SB' N U U M N M N 1 sMg e.Ia w w ■ T A R S L O 0 D E S R A C E E L A W 1 N T A R 0 ■ V 1 1 S S Y s H E u N M U VINTAGE CLOTHING SALE at the Junior League of Raleigh’s BARGAIN BOX October 22nd, 10:00-3:00 2104 V2 Smallwood Drive (across from Thalhimer’s in Cameron Village) “A Christmas Carol” Ticket Sales Begin Oct. 8th Tickets for Theatre In The Park’s annual production of Ira David Wood’s adaptation of “A Christmas Carol” will go on sale: OCTOBER 8: season members ONLY. Tickets must be purchased at TIP. Box office hours are 10 am-6 pm, Mon.-Fri. NO PHONE ORDERS! OCTOBER 22: For general public. Tickets must be purchased through TELETRON by calling 1-800-543-3041, or by purchasing them in person at your nearest TICKETRON outlet—cash only. (Visa/MC accepted. Service charges.) PERFORMANCES: Dec. 4-ll. 1990: 7:30 pm Dec. 8,9, 1990: 2:30 pm Dec. 6, 10, 11 SOLD OUT. PRICES: $20, $18, $15 Visa/MC accepted. •All performances in Raleigh’s Memorial Auditorium. 2
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