Prof attends UN environment conference
By PETER WONG Edit* r
Carl Christol, professor of political science and international law, said that the implications of the United Nations Conference on Human Environment, heldthis month in Stockholm, Sweden, have not yet been fully realized.
“With the enormous coverage being given to the conference by the media and with more than 650 representatives of non-governmental organizations now being registered, it may be expected that the true dimensions of this conference will continue to be discussed after the participants have returned to their homes,” Christol concluded in one of a seried of reports he has sent from Stockholm.
Christol, a member of the U.S. State Department's Advisory Panel on International Law, is representing the American Bar Association’s section on international and comparative law, and the International Bar Association, which regularly sends observers to international legal conferences.
The 114 nations in Stockholm agreed on three major actions in the environmental conference.
The conference passed without dissent a 200-point program to monitor and improve the earth’s living conditions. A global monitoring network to be known as Earthwatch will incorporate many existing programs to keep track of air and water pollution and release of harmful materials into the environment.
It also voted to recommend to the United Nations General Assembly the establishment of a permanent UN agency with responsibility for the environmental crisis. Such an agency would include a multinational governing council and a secretariat.
Christol, like many other observers of the conference, believes that Maurice Strong of Canada, secretary-general of the conference’s preparatory staff for the past two years, will be named as the first secretary-general of the United Nations environmental agency.
“It is becoming increasingly evident that action will have to begin at home, and local and national governments are being urged to accept responsibilities for the improvement of their environmental situations,” Christol wrote in one of his reports.
“There is also a pronounced feeling that the UN system can be of significant assistance to governments willing to take constructive action ... (A new environmental agency) would have very broad advisory and assistance powers, and would also be charged with monitoring of situations causing harm to the environment. Such harms would be broadly defined to include such things as poverty, misuse of resources, inadequate planning to cope with environmental needs, as wrell as such immediate matters as the presence of pollutants.”
Financing the new agency has been extensively debated. Christol noted that Russell Train, chairman ofthe U.S. Council on Environmental Quality and chairman of the U.S. delegation in Stockholm, has pledged for the nation $40 million toward a $100-million fund for the environment.
This fund would be spent over a five-year period and would be built up through voluntary contributions.
“Some countries have urged that the entire UN environmental program be paid out of this fund, but this argument has received little support,” Christol reported.
Instead, many other nations have proposed that the agency be paid for through the regular UN budget, and that the fund should be used in critical situations as they arise, he said.
The third major action taken by the conference has been to approve a declaration of accepted environmental principles.
“At this point it seems that one of the most important contributions ofthe conference will be to build some hope for more human dignity and for a higher quality of human life,” Christol wrote.
“One ofthe speakers offered a comment which reminded me of the line in Shaw’s Major Barbara in which the munitions maker observed that poverty was the only real crime. Here that has been turned around to read that poverty is the worst of all possible forms of pollution.
“The people here are fully cognizant of what the stakes are in the effort to secure a world in which a suitable amount of distributive justice can be made a function of law and legal systems.”
Christol will also participate in the third Pacem in Maribus Conference in Malta on the law of the sea during June and July.
University of Southern California
SUMMER
TROJAN
VOL. LXV NO. 4
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA
FRIDAY, JUNE 23, 1972
Temple University president to talk Tuesday on race, colleges
Marvin Wachman. newly appointed president of Temple University in Philadelphia, will discuss “Urban Universities Face Up to Race” at 1:15 p.m. Tuesday in Hancock Auditorium.
His appearance is sponsored by the Summer Session administration. The public is invited; there is no fee.
Wachman, one of the nation’s few black university presidents, has had a distinguished career in higher education.
He earned his bachelor of science degree from Northwestern University in Chicago in 1939, and his master of arts degree from Northwestern in 1940. He was awarded a doctorate in history from the University of Illinois in 1942.
He served in the U.S. Army from 1942 to 1946. on assignment in Western Europe from 1944to 1946. From there he went to Colgate University in New York, where he taught until 1961.
During this period Wachman was a visiting professor at San Diego State University (summer. 1948)
and the University of Minnesota (summer, 1950).
Wachman also directed two oversease programs, one for the University of Maryland in 1952-53. and an independent program in Salzburg. Austria, from 1958 to 1960.
In 1961 he left Colgate University to become president of Lincoln University in Nebraska, from which he resigned in 1969to become vice-president for academic affairs at Temple University.
He was elevated to the university presidency only a short time ago and has not formally taken office.
Wachman was awarded an honorary doctorate oflaws from the University of Pennsylvania in 1964.
Mary Ludwig, assistant dean for Summer Session administration, termed Wachman “a dynamic speaker.”
Wachman has been president of a number of professional organizations in higher education, including the Colgate University chapter of the American Association of University Professors.
He is listed in Who's Who in American Education.
Engineering program has 18 high schooi students
Eighteen high school students are spending 10 weeks this summer at the School of Engineering, learning the tools and techniques of laboratory research.
They are participants i" the Student Science Training Program in Engineering Sciences Research, conducted under sponsorship of the National Science Foundation. The program will be in session through Aug. 25.
The first week provides for intensified training in research-related computer programming. Then each student is assigned as a junior research associate, working under supervision in laboratory research in one of the departments of the School of Engineering.
‘Unfair’ labor charges dismissed by NLRB
Summer tours available
The University Recreation Association will again offer tours this summer for students, faculty and staff, and their families.
Reservations for off-campus tours are to be made with J. Tillman Hall, chairman of the Physical Education Department, in Physical Education Building 107, from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Monday through Thursday. Fees for tours must be paid when reservations are made.
The first scheduled tour will be made of the Huntington Library and Art Gallery, from 12:30 to 4:30 p.m. today.
The nexttour will be of Knott's Berry Farm and Ghost Town, from 3 to 9 p.m. June 30. The cost is $4 for transportation and a gate pass.
Other tours will include Disneyland, 3 to 9 p.m. July 7, $7 for transportation, gate pass, and 10 activity tickets; Marineland and Los Angeles-Long Beach harbor cruise, 2 to 8 p.m. July 8. $7 for transportation and admission; Los Angeles and Hollywood, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. July 14. $4 for transportation; Catalina Island boat tour. 7 a.m. to 6 p.m. July 15. $9
for bus and boat fares; Old Mexico. 6 a.m. to 10 p.m. July 23, $9 for transportation.
The trip to Old Mexico will include stops at Mission San Juan Capistrano. Romona’s Marriage Place, San Diego Zoo, and Tijuana.
The University Recreation Association also has information concerning discount tickets to such places as the Greek
Theater and the Hollywood Bow l for concerts.
The association will also offer tournaments in tennis, badminton and golf, in addition to its recreational facilities—two gymnasiums, a swimming pool, dance studio, handball courts, tennis courts, apparatus room, volleyball courts and auditoriums.
The National Labor Relations Board has cleared the university of charges of unfair practices in regard to the unionization of campus electricians.
The decision was released by Elton Phillips, vice-president for business affairs.
The dispute had centered around an alleged university violation of the Taft-Hartley Act in restraining employees’ attempts to organize a union. The International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, AFL-CIO. filed charges after Jamie Maytorena and Fred Meyer, former campus electricians, complained that the university interfered with their rights to organize the 14-member staff.
They charged that Don Cross,
electrical shop foreman, while acting for the university, questioned an employee about union sentiment and prounion activities of other employees.
It was also charged the Cross promised benefits to employees in exchange for information, and that Cross asked an employee to sign a petition and withdraw his support for the union.
At a six-hour session March 21 inthe Federal Building, the trial examiner for the National Labor Relations Board. George H. O'Brien, listened to each side tell differing stories and deny opposing accusations.
O'Brien had asked attorneys for both sides to settle the dispute without a formal hearing.
Geologist to join Russian ship in Pacific
A university geologist is one of the first three American scientists to be invited on an oceanographic expedition aboard a Soviet research vessel.
He is James L. Bischoff. associate professor of geological sciences, who will participate in studies aboard the ship. Dmitry Mendeleev, during August in the South Pacific.
The ship is now at Long Beach harbor, during which Bischoff will take his Russian colleagues here, receive an orientation to the vessel, and install his scientific gear aboard.
Bischoff was invited by the expedition chief, A.P. Lisitzin. of the P.P. Shirshov Institute of Oceanology, USSR Academy of Sciences. Other U.S. participants will be Derek Spencer, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, and Victor Vacquier, Scripps Institution of Oceanography.
In his letter to Bischoff, Lisitzin spelled out the invitation’s rationale: “I would like very much to have, besides the Soviet specialists, the most competent foreign specialists to participate in the cruise, to conduct studies with the aid of their own equipment, instru-
ments and materials. Being aware of your rich experience and high qualification, I would like to invite you to take part in this cruise as a whole or in any of its parts which may seem to be most interesting
to you...”
Accordingly, Bischoff will conduct research into undersea heavy metal deposits, one of his principal professional interests as a geochemist. Specifically, he and a graduate student assistant, Kevin Knauss, will study deposits associated with the East Pacific Rise in bottom sediments south of the Galapagos Islands.
Course of the ship will follow the East Pacific Rise, a chain of undersea mountains of great interest to marine geologists. This rise, which runs in a northeasterly direction across the South Pacific, terminates in the Gulf of California, where it is associated with faults, such as the earthquake-prone San Andreas Fault.
Bischoff and Knauss will go aboard the ship in Callao, Peru, and will debark at Easter Island in the southeastern Pacific, concluding their part of the expedition.