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Earth Day Program
11:30 a.m. Union Parquet Room
Greetings; Bob Welch, Student Coordinator, UNCC Environmental
Teach-In
Introduction: Chancellor D. W. Colvard
Lecture: Honorable Carl L. Klein, Assistant Secretary of the Interior
for
Water Quality and Research
"Everyone Has A Role In Cleaning Up The Environment"
2:00 to 5:00 p.m. Workshop Sessions
2:00 p.m.
THE HUMAN ENVIRONMENT
120 C Building
Moderator: Dr. Warner Hall, Minister, Covenant Presbyterian Church
Panel Members: Dr. Vincent Dwyer, Professor, Education
Dr. Stephen Bondy, Assistant Professor, Psychology
Anne Marsh, Junior, Sociology Major
Steve Breriner, Senior, Biology Major
2:00 p.m.
THE VISUAL ENVIRONMENT
122 C Building
Moderator: Milton Short, Councilman, City of Charlotte
Panel Members:
Dr. William Mathis, Chairman, Division of Humanities
Mr. Silas M. Vaughn, Director of Administration
Joseph McCorkle, Senior, Geography major
Allan Guggenheim, Sophomore, English major
3:30 p.m.
THE PHYSICAL ENVIRONMENT
120 C Building
AN LNVIHONMENrAL SUPPLEMENT TO THE CAROLINA JOURNAL
Fred Bryant, Charlotte-Mecklenburg Planning
Moderator:
Commission
Panel Members:
Dr. Edward F. Menhinick, Assistant Professor, Biology
Dr. James W. Clay, Assistant Professor, Geography
Steve Reel, Senior, Chemistry major
Kurt Taube, Junior, Geography major
3:30 p.m.
THE TECHNOLOGICAL ENVIRONMENT
122 C Building
Moderator: Donald Rogers, Health and Hospital Consultant United
Community Services
Panel Members:
Dr. James R. Kuppers, Professor, Chemistry
Dr. Jack Evett, Assistant Professor, Engineering
Neil Carriaker, Senior, Chemistry
Larry Millichamp, Senior, Biology
7:30 p.m. Union Parquet Room
Lecture: Crutcher Ross, Chief Designer, Sugar Creek Renewal Project
Presentation on the Sugar Creek Renewal Project
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Carl L. Klein, As^istalll Seerciary oi
tlie Interior, will highlight a variety of
Earth Day activities here.
Klein, whose primary coneern in the
Nixon Administration is water quality
and research, will have as his topic.
••tveryone Has a Role in Cleaning up the
Environment.
The major address by Klein will lake
place at 11 :.10 a.m.. today in the Parquet
Room.
“Teach-In To Save
The Earth ”
By Sen. Gaylord Nelson (D., Wis.)
From one end of the country to the
other, a new movement has been
gathering momentum among our young
people. Where once they occupied deans'
offices— and headlines— to protest black
poverty, or our involvement in Vietnam,
or any of a hundred other causes, today
they have added a major new
concern—the environment. How, they
want to know, can we clean up our dirty
air and water, how beautify our ravaged
landscape, how control our burgeoning
population?
This concern will reach a peak on April
22, when hundreds of thousands of
Americans, participating in a massive
'Teach-In on the Environment," will
protest the destruction of our planet. But
the movement has already produced a
series of small miracles in college
communities around the nation. At the
University of Illinois, "Students for
Environmental Control" took 30 tons of
refuse from a creek near the Champaign
campus. A group of law students in the
nation's capital brought legal action
recently to force the transit authority to
reduce pollution from its buses. At the
University of Texas' Austin campus,
students filed a formal complaint against
the university to prevent trees being cut
down to make way for a new building.
Some of the trees were saved. Last
December, students and faculty at the
Binghamton campus of the State
University of New York protested the
bulldozing of a unique 50-acre marsh on
the edge of campus; not only was
construction halted, but 30 more acres
have since been set aside as a nature
preserve.
Whether they are burning bill-boards,
burying an internal-combustion engine or
giving out "dishonor awards)
("Smokestack of the Month"), students
everywhere have shown a flair for
spotlighting the issue. At the University
of Washington, conservation militants put
out a bucket of oil and invited onlookers
to dip tbeir hands in it so they'd know
how it felt to be a bird caught in an
offshore oil slick. A 19-year old coed put
dye and peanut hulls into the toilets of
Miami's shoreline hotels to see if raw
sewage was going into Biscayne Bay; it
was. On April 22, a group at the
University of Minnesota plan to march to
the Minneapolis Mall, where they will set
up tents and hand out free oxygen.
Aware of this intense interest among
students, I first proposed the national
environmental teach-ins in an address at
Seattle, last fall. Co-chairman of the
teach-in effort. Rep. Paul McClosky, of
California and I both expected the
response to be good. It has been
tremendous. A thousand colleges and
universities are expected to participate,
along with hundreds of high schools; civic
groups, garden clubs, the League of
Women Votes and conservation
organizations have also offered a helping
hand to make the day a success.
Soon after that speech, plans for what
students quickly came to call "Earth
Day" were pouring into Teach-In
Headquarters in Washington, D.C., nerve
center for this massive effort. Some
campuses even jumped the gun. Prior to
last fall, Michigan had been planning an
ambitious week of speeches, seminars and
demonstrations a for early Marcn.
Dickinson College canceled all classes on
February 11 so students could hear
conservation speakers. San Jose State ran
a week-long "Survival Fair" during early
February.
Biologist Barry Commoner set the tone
for the Teach-In when he gave an address
at Northwestern University late in
January. "We are in a period of grace," he
said. "We have the time—perhaps a
generation—in which to save the
environment from the final effects of the
violence we have already done to it."
The younger generation means to get
going NOW! Berkeley students plan to
march from San Francisco to Los Angeles
during April, inspecting pollution along
the way and shouting the environmental
mespge. Seattle's "Committee on
Environmental Awareness" has mobilized
college and high-school groups and civic
organizations in a mammoth "Scavenger
Hunt for Visual Pollution." Stanford
University is organizing a house-to-house
canvass in Palo Alto, giving students a
chance to knock on doors and talk up
conservation.
Teach-In Headquarters has made it
clear that students are to do their own
thing, suggesting only that they might
start with the problems on campus and in
the neighboring community. Thus
students at upstate New York's Skidmore
College hope to show movies of sewage
being dumped in nearby Lake Saratoga. A
University of Arizona group will make a
detailed study of air pollution caused by
local copper smelters, and then follow up
with a debate between GASP (Group
Against Smelter Pollution) and industry
spokesmen.
So far, the "Environmental revolution"
has been peaceful. And there is every
indication that Teach-In will be a calm,
sober appraisal of the problems that
confront us. But the growing concern of
our young people outlines the need for
some radical changes in our national
habits. Are we prepared, for example, to
make economic modicatiofis in our
system to reverse the disastrous trend?
Are we prepared to say to manufacturers,
"You must take that thing off the market
or prove that the waste it generates
doesn't pollute the atmosphere"? Are we
prepared to dispose of disposable bottles?
Are we prepared to levy some kind of tax
to assure that junk cars are collected and
recycled? Are we prepared to say to the
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A Note
From
Welch
by the time most people have read this
April 22, Earth Day, 1970, will be a thing
of the past.
It would seem appropriate, then, to
look back" and assess exactly what all
the effort and all the talk really gained
for UNCC, and more, for the source of its
life blood, the city of Charlotte. For
starters, I think a great deal of the effect
lay in simply getting some attention from
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