1970_04 The Daily Collegian April 1970

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6    THE DAILY COLLEGIAN    Thursday. April 16. 1
ERLICH:  NIXON MUST ACT NOW
STANFORD-Dr. PaulErhUch, has yet to come up will) a place
to put them. *Most of the land
suitable to Uve on,* ErhUchsaid,
•already has people on It.*
The 37-year-old Stanford University biologist proposed that
Nixon start a propaganda campaign to convince the pubUc that
Its survival Is at stake.
Ehrllch, who said the 'absolute
Erhllch told an Interviewer
this week that although Nixon has
talked "a lot of nonsense about
redistributing the populaUon," he
payments of $500
to every woman who does not have
a child until she ls 30 and tax
•disincentives" that cut off exemptions at two children.
He said science has intervened
to reduce the death rate and "must
Intervene   to   reduce   the  birth
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Stop using detergents!
Students at Northwestern University ln Evanston, 111., are
promoting a national boycott of
laundry detergents containing
high amounts of phosphorous
compounds.
Water officials say these phosphates are the chief cause of
water pollution. A recently com -
pleted study by the InternaUonal
Joint Commission — the offlclal
water regulating agency between
Canada and the United States —
revealed conclusively that phosphates speed up the growth of
algae, which ln turn rob the water of the oxygen fish and plants
ve.   It a
feet.
The prime purpose of the boycott movement wlU be to force
detergent .manufacturers to find
ways of eliminating excessive
phosphates from laundry and
dishwashing detergents.
While you are boycotting high-
phosphate detergents, switch
back to old methods of laundering. Use soap flakes or powders ln comblnaUon with water-
softening    washing   soda.   En-
blnaUon produces a good wash.
Both can be found, with a Uttle
searching,  on  most  supermar-
i the appearance <
pleasant tastes and odors in con-
According to George Antos,
chairman of Northwestern's Students for a Better Environment
Water Pollution Oommlttee, 75
per cent of these polluting phosphates *have their sources ln
synthetic detergents from do-
mesUc sewage.* Usual sewage
treatment  plants have Uttle ef-
ket sl
If you must use a modern
detergent, however, Northwestern students have provided a
breakdown of phosphate content
for most popular brands. The
worse offenders, ln order, are
Anion, Biz, Blo-Ad, Salvo, Oxy-
dol, Tide and Bold. Those with
the lowest phosphate content Include, ln order, Trend, Diaper
Pure, Wlsk, Cold Water All,
and Cold Power.
Men's mistakes
(ConUnued from page 3)
fuels are extracted and put back
Into the, atmosphere from the
chimney stacks and the exhaust
pipes of modern engineering.
About six billion tons of carbon
are mixed with the atmosphere
annually. During the past century,
more than 400 billion tons of
carbon have been arUclflaUy Introduced Into the atmosphere.
This ls something more than
a public health problem. The
carbon cycle, a self-adjusting
mechanism Indispensable for
plants and a source of Ufe, ls
being dangerously effected. Carbon dioxide ls used by the plants
m ls
the seas. The excess ls now taxing the absorption rate, and it can
seriously disturb the heat balance
of the earth because of what ls
known as "the greenhouse effect."  A greenhouse lets ln the
Carbon dioxide does Ukewlse.
It keeps heat at the surfaceofthe
earth and In excess will change
the climate. It has been estimated
that, at the present rate of Increase, the mean annual temperature all over the world wiU increase by 3.6 degrees centigrade in the next 40 to 50 years.
The north-polar Ice cap is thinning and shrinking. The seas are
changing their temperature, with
the result that marine plant life
ls Increasing and giving off even
more carbon dioxide. On land,
the snowline Is retreating and
glaciers are melting.
One more instance of the far-
flung consequences of Man's localized mistakes: no Insecticides
or pesticides have ever been
allowed Into the continent of Antarctica. Yet they have been found
ln   the fauna along the northern
Pollution Is a crime compounded of Ignorance and avarice. The
great achievements of homo sap-
lens become the disaster-ridden
blunders of unthinking Man—poisoned rivers and dead lakes, polluted with the effluents of Industries which gtv> something called
■prosperity* at the expense of
posterity. Water ls Just as Indispensable as food. To die of
hunger takes more than 15 days.
To die of thirst takes only three.
Yet we are squandering, polluting
and destroying water.
Always and everywhere we
come back to the problem of
population — more people to
make more mistakes, more people to be tbe vlcUms of the mistakes of others, more people to
suffer hell upon earth. It ls ap-
paUlng to hear people complacently talking about the populaUon
explosion as though It belongs
to the future, or world hunger as
though It were threatening, when
hundreds of mlUlons can testify
that It ls already here — swear
it with panting breath.
Within the Ufetlrae of a child
born today, on present trends of
population Increase, 15 billion -
people must be fed and housed —
nearly five times as many as now.
The whole human species wiU
Uvlng ln clUes of a million
It for II
biggest  city  wlU h
billion Inhabitants.
Our danger ls that we are
likely to view these trends and
plan for them. But If they are
socially undesirable our duty ls
to plan away from them, to treat
the symptoms before they become
malignant. We have to do this on
the local, the naUonal and the InternaUonal scale, through Intergovernmental action, because
there are no frontiers ln present-
day pollution and destruction of
the biosphere. Mankind shares a
INTERNATIONAL  PROGRAMS COMMITTEE
ARAB  AMERICAN ORGANIZATION
GEORGE DE CARVALHO
PULITZER AWARD  WINNER
who will speak on
"THE MIDDLE EAST CRISIS"
TODAY AT 4 P.M.   COLLEGE UNION LOUNGE
ALL  INVITED- FREE
C.<***Wl*$  0HW*?aa*HhnJto
Last night's International Dinner-
all that was promised and more
1970    THE DAILY COLLEGIAN    7
World Show ends
1-Week Saturday
(Left) To end a perfect meal
wilh food from Ethiopia, Algeria,
Denmark and Soviet Socialist Re-
Thc World Show
April 18, wlU end the activities
of the InternaUonal Week.
The day long event will Include anopen-alr display ofhand-
crafts ln the Free Speech Area.
The spectators can feast on International snack Items from
throughout the world.
In the evening the Vietnamese
students wlU perform a typical
marriage ceremony from their
home  land and the art of Chl-
Photos by Bruce Merlghi
(Below right) Silvia Furrer
(Switzerland) supervised the pre.
paration of the food for the eve-
ning of international entertain
ment. The audience showed theii
appreciation by givingSilviaabic
applaud at the end of last night':
Barbro Semmlngsen, (Norway), took part in after
dinner entertaining by performing folk songs from
Norway and the United States.
From left to right, Hermela Kebebe (Ethiopia), Eadlth Kuruneru (Hong Kong), Dr^Somaylna Nwoko (Nigeria) and Maria Teresa Garcia (Mexico) took parts In an International fashion show.
eating   will be" fa
I from China. Complimentary chopsticks wiU be
available.
PhiUlplne folk dances, songs
from Africa and a Japanese Karate demonstration will be featured as weU. The week of
tbe International festivities will
end with a reception in honor of
the InternaUonal Week performers. The evening activities wlU
start at 7:30 p.m. ln the CoUege
Union Lounge.
Two lectures are set
on Mid East today
Two lectures about the Middle
East are slated for today as parts
of the Middle East Day activities
during the International Week.
Pulitzer prize winning Journalist George DeCarvalho will give
a lecture about the Middle East
DeCarvalho's career has taken
him to Korea, Vietnam, Algeria,
Kashmir, Blafra and Latin America. He has covered the lmpor-
these areas of the world.
He also has been eye-witness
of the crisis ln the Middle East
In 1954 and 1967. The lecture wlU
start at 4 p.m. ln the CoUege
Union Lounge.
Arte Bober, spokesman for the
IsraeU Socialist Organization,
wlU speak under the UUe, "A
View ofthe Middle East,* ln Room
312-314 In the CoUege Union at
7:30 p.m.
African Day schedule
FRIDAY, APRIL 17
ALL DAY-Variety of Africa
—Display of Afric
College Union.
1:00 to 4:30 p.m.-College Unlon-Room*312-314
"Journey Through Africa as seen by Fresno State
College Professors*
1:00— James Brouwer, Congo, Zambia, Rhodesia
1:30-Roland Niswonger, kerrya; 2:00—Somayina
Nwoko, Nigeria; 3:30—RobertCarr, Ethiopia; 4:00—
Robert GUm, Sudan
SATURDAY, APRIL 18, WORLD SHOW
1:00 to 5:00 p.m.-Open-alr displays and food snack Items from
throughout the world-Free Speech Area
7:30 p.m.-World Show
International variety and talent show:
Vietnamese marriage parry and fashion show;
Philippine folk dances; Japar*s«,karaiedemonstration; Lesson in the art of Chinese eating with
complimentary chopsticks; African popular dance
and wedding songs - plus others.
Reception following in honor of International Week performers.
Lee champions in 1-House
table tennis tournament
. In the International Table Tennis Tournament during International Week, the students from
Hong Kong were able to establish without doubt their leading
position ln this kind of sport.
With the four group winners
Albert Lee, Charles Chow, Kal
Wong and Joe Ho only students
from Hong Kong were represented ln the finals of the Singles
Event.
After having lost against
Charles Chow ln the pre-dnal,   -events.
Albert Lee played him again a*
winner of the loser group.
In two exclUng games, where
both players showed their foil
ahiuty and were cheered on by
the great number of enthusiastic
spectators, Albert Lee won two
very tight games and so won Um
International championship.
Also the Doubles Event clearly
by tl
irom Hong Ttoog. Again Albert
Lee, this time with Ms partner
Samuel Wong, triumphed over Kal
Wong and Brlgham Yeung, Una