1971_03 The Daily Collegian March 1971

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FRESNO: THE ALL-AMERICAN CITY
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Ecology contest
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1. Each person In the United States produces 5.3 pounds of garbage per day. There are 365 days In a year. Th'ere are at least
206,432,263 garbage-producing people Uvlng In the United States.
How many pounds of garbage are produced in the U.S. In one year?
2. Name the country whose industry spends over $18 bllUon per
vear.on adverUslng and less than $1 billion per year on pollution
control? (Hint: Un_ t^ed   SJ _t_e s   of _A rl ca)
3. Name the country whose Industry throws 300-500 new chemicals
into the atmosphere every year with almost no evaluation of the consequence? (Hint: U M d  _l_if s  of _m e_ l    a)
4. Name the country who spends almost $80 billion per'year on
■NaUonal Security" and only $40 million per year on programs to
monitor and control pollution? (You get no hint this Ume.)
THE BIG PRIZE IS:
One case of OLYMPIA BEER, compliments of the Olympia Brewing Co. and their campus representative - Phil Sherwood. Their
contrlbuUon Is Just another way In which OLYMPIA BREWING CO.
is trying to make the public aware of the ecology situation.
THE RULES ARE:
Answers must be written and sealed In an envelope. The envelope
and paper must have already been used. Send the envelope to the
Dally Collegian. Entries must be In by March 10, 1971 and your
name, address and phone number must be on them. A drawing will
lie held and winner wtll be notified. If you win and you're not at
least 21 years old make sure the person who picks up the OLYMPIA
BEER ts.
FSC females want campus
contraception service
Ing FSC. The females were asked
College feel there 1
a college-based clinic which
would offer contraceptives and
pre-marital examinations. This
was one of the findings of a survey conducted by the Zero Population Growth club last month.
The survey consisted of per-
mately 210 FSC female students
based at three principal areas:
The dorms, sorority houses, and
buildings surround-
(1) Do you beUeve that the
campus community bas need of a
clinic that would provide service
In the areas of pre-marital exams and birth control prescription?
(2) Would you favor an Increase of campus health fee by
$1.00 per semester to make such
services available to the campus
community?
(3) Can you foresee that you
might make use of such services
during your stay In the campus
'If you want to save your environment .
What you can do about stopping
pollution In your home, garden,
community and government Is revealed In a recently printed pamphlet entitled *If You Want To
Save Your Environment.* The
pamphlet gives Insight to many of
our pollution problems and offers
suggestions to help correct many
problems of overpopulation and
cites many facts i
if FOREWARNED...
Every seven seconds
You and I are sharing this
world with 3.5 billion people. Two
hundred and five million people
are living In the United States.
Twenty million of them are
crowded into California. Every
year the U.S. produces 3.5 million new people (one every seven
seconds) and, with only 2 million
people dying each year, the net
result Is a population expansion
in the U.S. of 1.5 million humans
every 365 days.
Each  year  these   1.5  million
and do battle with each other for
an already scarce supply olfood,
water, air and space. The battle
is costly with the casualties being
ourselves, our land and our
world. And the lasting effects of
the battle take strange forms:
people living stacked on top of
one another: anestlmated20million people In the U.S. alone llv-
EXTENT AND AT WHAT EXPENSE? As In the case of the
U.S.. where there are not enough
Jobs for the masses and, as previously stated, hunger Is the
staple diet of some 20 million
people, certainly population ex-
r.in.M
a is
I luxury
sources. America ha
Its limits and lt has been show
that, because of the burdens c
overpopulation, those limits hav
The  problems   and  eflects o
The pamphlet, which sells for
50 cents. Is available by calling
Environmental InformaUon —
Fresno at 487-1275.
overpopulation In our society are
evident. They are evident In the
stomachs of our children and In
the depleted resources of our
lands. They  are  evident In the
over our cities, and they are
evident In the glganUc garbage
heaps which store the discards
created by a society of too many
people. Again, the list goes on.
It Is also evident that overpopulation must be stopped - by any
need for such a service; 81 per
cent of the females would be wining to have their health feea increased to aid In funding such a
service, and, BO per cent of tbe
females stated that they would
probably use tbe service themselves.
According to David Klein, an
FSC student and coordinator of
the survey, the purpose of the
survey was to lay ground work
and gain InformaUon concerning
this service In the hopes of being
able to persuade the Administration to start such a service. He
states that he would Uke to see,
In the near future, either a college-based clime Independent of
the FSC Health Center or have
the Health Center expand and of--
Any student who would like
more InformaUon concerning Uve
proposed contraception service
or would Uke to help bring about
such a service at FSC should
contact David Klein by calling
266-9702 or wrlUng him at 1361
AdoUne Ave,, Fresno.
way or means possible. We must
confine population growth to tbe
level where the Inhabitants of our
soclety and Mother Earth can
cope with the growth and not
suffer from lt. Mother Earth haa <
suffered  too long. She needs a
gain some of tl
p 111 afford.
Already we have depleted many
precious natural resources to a
critical low, trying to meet the
demands of an overpopulated society. We have chewed up over
one-third of one world's original
forests and we have destroyed
more than'280 million acres of
good food-producing land. We
guzzled nature's petrole
Sterilization curbs population growth
Overpopulation Is threatening
the human race with overcrowding, starvation and eventual extinction. Nearly everyone agrees
that overpopulation Is a problem
^world's
people   being
have literally caused a lake to
cease Uvtng. The Ust goes on.
Population Is a necessity but
overpopulation Is a deadly, serious, expanding problem. Granted, every society is entitled to
population growth and expansion,
but  the  question  Is  TO  WHAT
to last only another 70years,and
we have already exhausted our
supplies of tin, tungsten and helium. We have so misused and
abused Ihe ocean and Its inhabitants that distinguished marine
scientists predict the destruction
of all significant productive sea
life in 25 to 50 years. All this we
have done trying to satisfy the
needs of a society which has long
been overpopulated.
How  c
;  that »
can accommodate more people?
How can we entertain the idea of
population expansion? Even now
Mother Earth cannot stand the
strain placed upon her by the billions of leech-like people who are
Voluntary contraceptive sterilization Is a surgical conception
control and It Is the most reliable
means of birth control known to
For a woman the procedure,
called salpingectomy, usually
means that a small Incision Is
made In the abdomen and the fallopian tubes are cut or tied off.
This prevents the meeting of the
sperm and the ovum without which
no conception can occur. The cutting and tying off of the tubes
may also be done by the vaginal
approach. The operation, using
either approach, Is always performed In a hospital.
procedure,
called vasectomy, Involves the
closing of a small tube on each
side of the scrotum. A 1/2 to
3/4 Incision Is made on each side
ol the scrotum so that the tubes,
the vas deferens, may be Ufted
out, but and tied off, thus blocking the passage of sperm.Usually, a vasectomy Is classified as
a minor operation and Is per-
formed In Ihe doctor's office un-
e after becoming
vasectomy does
man's ability to
on or ejaculation
and there Is no change In the
production of the male sex hormone. A salpingectomy for a
woman does not alter her feminine characteristics and there is
also no change In the production
of her female sex hormones. Her
sexual responsiveness Is not
physically affected by sterilization,  but frequently, because of
the removal of the fear of pregnancy, there wlU be an Increase
In her sexual response.
Currently, voluntary sterilization Is legal In all 50 states without restriction as to the reasons
why lt  Is performed, except In
Umlted to reasons of 'medical
necessity.* This restrlcUon has
recently been repealed and win
go Into effect October 1971. And,
It Is In only three states that
both mates must consent if either of them wants to be sterilized.
The Fresno chapter of The Environmental InformaUon Organization has published a leaflet on
voluntary sterilization. The leaflet answers all of the commonly
asked questions concerning sterilization and also clears up many
of the misconceptions of tbe effects ot the operation. The leaflet is free of charge and may be
obtained by calling The Environmental InformaUon — F resno organization at 487-1275.
POLLUTION SOLUTIONS
see       Contributed by John Lewis
Last week the Collegian carried an article caUed 'Things
You Can Do to Curb Certain
Kinds of Pollution.* It mentioned
the use of low-lead gas, biodegradable detergents and white
tissue products. I would like to
add to those suggestions some of
Try to use paper ecologically.
Passing the Collegian around was
_ a good idea. Every year Amerl-
' cans junk 20 million tons of paper. I don't know how many trees
- 20 million tons of paper is, but
I know we depend on them for
beauty and oxygen. Avoid using
paper plates and cups. Use the
re-usable plastic cups In the
cafeteria, save the newspapers
you buy and bundle them for recycling at the Independent Paper
Stock Company here In Fresno.
Refuse paper bags at stores.
Turn them down and tell the
storeowiwrs why. Avoid the use
of plastic wrap or aluminum foil
In your kitchen. Refrigerator
containers or wax paper are
better. Every time you see excess packaging, In grocery or
department stores, turn lt down.
What you buy determines what
the manufacturers can and will
sell.
Another finite natural r
age toUet flushing uses up three
gallons of water. Water can be
conserved by putting one or two
bricks In the toilet or by adjusting the water level*If*posslble
save the dirty dishes of the day
and wash them all at once. The
average slnk-fulL of dishwater
takes three gallons, not to mention rinse water. Three washings
a day makes nine gallons. If we
conserve water now, maybe our
children's water wlU not have to
be rationed.
Electricity Is another resource
we can conserve. Power plants
need fuer? and we are now running short of our natural fuel supplies. Nuclear power plants offer
only the possibility of thermal and
radiation pollution. Cut down on
the use of frivolous electric appliances. Are electric toothbrushes, trypans and carving
knives necessary?? Turn off
lights
—  of power you
us need transportation, but we
contuse need and want. Advertisers convince us we want an
XK-420 thst goes 200 mites so
hour and wlU win any girl's heart.
Hopefully the transportation that
wlU win their hearts In tbe future
wlU be the bicycle-built-for-two.
If you need to drive to school,
arrange to take a friend. Most bf
Fresno's smog Is auto-caused,
I middle-class Americans.
In tbe past, consumption was
status. The more one could buy
bad. For our survival, we vrtll
have to turn that ethic around.
|The respected will be tbe eon-
consume In our cars. To use
less gss, buy cars with small
engines. Small engines both eon-
. sume and pollute less. Most of
drive back and forth to school.
I am sure everyone can add to
this Ust.
Some scientists say we may
only have one generation toclean
things up, and If we don't, we
are finished. If that occurs we
wilt have no one to blame but
ourselves. In pontics ire have
the world's worst polluters a
(Editor's note: Persons bav
log materials or articles per
talnlng to any aspect ot an
vironmental pollution, anc
organizations Interested 1
poUuUon which wlU be con
ducUng projects concerning
this problem, are urged to no-:
Ufy this column. Your articles j
or  activities wlU be pubU