Teach-In originator to speak
VOL. LXI, NO. 111	LOS ANGELES. CALIFORNIA THURSDAY, APRIL 23, 1970
Unruh hits political pollution
By BARBARA PHILLIPS
Local, state and federal governmental institutions are the greatest polluters of all, said Jesse Unruh, Democratic gubernatorial candidate yesterday afternoon.
Speaking before a crowd of 700 people in Town and Gown foyer as part of the Environmental Teach-In activities, Unruh discussed pollution caused by governmental practices.
During the question and answer period following his speech, a student, Larry Kules-za, tried to take the floor and advocate Jerry Rubin-type revolution but was finally silenced by comments from the crowd and Unruh.
Unruh began his speech stating that all politicians were against pollution, but that few were doing anything about it.
“The governor spent one-third of his State of the State message on environmental quality but devoted only one-thousandth of his new money budget on the problem of pollution,” said Unruh.
“Santa Barbara oil drilling is still going on today. That happened not because the oil companies were out to pollute our oceans and beaches.
“It happened because of the pollution induced by and encouraged by federal and state governmental practices and procedures. The government itself is the greatest polluter."
Unruh then discussed a present project of the state and federal governments to take out 10.5 million-acre feet of the Sacramento River and divert it around the delta to get water to Southern California.
“No one knows at what price this will be to the delta or at what cost to the San Fran-ciico Bay,” Unruh said.
“We are about to embark on a project which will cost $200 million, while we can’t fund our Los Angeles schools properly.”
Unruh then attacked governmental research in the field of pesticides.
“We have a very funny attitude about pesticides,” he said. “W hen pesticide poisoning reaches certain levels in our fish and wild animals, the
State Department of Fish and Game can go in and inspect the records and take corrective action.
‘B'ut when pesticide poisoning reaches dangerous levels in our fellow human beings, not
even the Department of Justice has the right to ask for those pesticide formulas because that’s a violation of patent rights.
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Head trustee explains why no students invited
By ROGER SMITH City editor
No student representative was invited to the Board of Trustees meeting in Palm Springs this weekend because no important action is planned for the meeting, Justin Dart, chairman of the board, said yesterday.
“The meeting is primarily a review meeting. No action is planned, and nothing definite will be done as far as policy is concerned,” Dart said in an interview.
Dart made the statement after learning that Fred Minnes, ASSC president, and Mark Savit, ASSC vice-president for academic affairs, were unhappy that no official student representative had been invited to the meeting.
“We will invite student representatives to a meeting where we think it would be appropriate to have them sit in,” Dart said.
Minnes and Savit were also miffed that Gary Cohen, a senior in history, will be attending the meeting as a resource adviser to Dr. John Hubbard, vice-president and provost while no student spokesman had been invited.
Dart said Cohen had been invited by Hubbard and that Cohen had attended several meetings of committees of the board.
“We think he is a bright and capable young man,” he said. “It should be valuable to have him at the meeting.”
Dart affirmed that he had received a resolution from the ASSC Council calling for the three executive officers of the ASSC (the president and two vice-presidents) to attend meetings of the board on a permanent basis. He did not comment on the resolution yesterday but said:
“From time to time we will invite students to sit in on meetings of the board, and I will applaud that action.”
Dart made it clear that he was highly pleased with what he termed “the growing relationship between students and the board.”
“Students are now on the Academic Affairs Committee of the board, which is where the action is, and on the Student and Alumni Affairs Committee,” he said. “Things are going along very nicely and very constructively.
“I’m very enthusiastic about the dialogue and discussion that is taking place. We on the board look forward to a progressively closer relationship with students.”
Dart said student membership on the board is a bridge to be crossed at a later date.
“We are in a satisfactory process right now,” he said “We are progressively developing a better relationship. Who knows what the future may bring?”
By TERRY DONAHUE
Sen. Gaylord Nelson (D-Wis.), the man responsible for the Environmental Teach-In, will speak today in Town and Gown Foyer at 10 a.m.
Nelson, who has long been active in environmental studies, sent the first letter to colleges and universities across the nation last December suggesting the teach-in.
“I am convinced that the same concern the youth of this nation took in changing this nation’s priorities on the war in Vietnam and on civil rights can be shown for the problems of the environment,” he said.
“Successful teaoh-ins on all campuses on the same day will have a dramatic impact on the environmental conscience of the nation. They will be immensely effective as an educational effort in arousing public opinion concerning necessary steps to protect our environment and establish quality on a par with quantity as a goal of American life.”
Nelson has argued that the youth of this nation offer the hope of taking leadership away from the present “indifferent, venal men who are concerned with progress and profit for the sake of progress and profit alone and who consider the
CEREMONIAL MARCH TO TOMMY TROJAN
Solemn parade started Earth Day activities yesterday.
Photo by Steve Bolinger
Time capsule dedication, march accent Earth Day
By MARY ANN GALANTE
Dedication of a time capsule and a solemn march down University Avenue highlighted Earth Day ceremonies yesterday.
The opening program in front of a gas-masked Tommy Trojan included addresses by Dr. Bernard Abbott, chairman of the Biological Sciences Department, Rev. Cecil Hoffman, campus minister, and Stanley Greenfield, of the Rand Corp., Santa Monica.
A procession, beginning at the Religious Center, was lead by marchers bearing candles and an old international combustion engine on a bier. Painted blue and green, the engine bore a sign reading “forgive me!” and a funeral wreath. It was carried by four volunteers wearing gas masks.
A small boy, also carrying a funeral wreath, walked in front of the pallbearers.
“The car engine represents both man’s technological advances and his ignorance in how things work together,” said Larry Cahn, president of PROBE.
Following the engine were clergy, speakers, and students, singing, “Give earth a chance.” The singing was drowned out by the frequent roar of passing motorcycles.
A large group of fourth-grade children followed the procession, carrying red carnations and wearing hygenic masks reading “PROBE.”
The group moved slowly up University Avenue and stopped in front of Tommy Trojan for the opening addresses.
“The action initiated today should continue long after the political maneuvering is over,” said Dr. Abbott.
Abbott said there was not enough factual information about the dangers of pollution.
“We need cooperation to find what the real facts of the dangers are,” he said.
A litany of praise, dating from the 2nd Century, B.C., was led by Ralph Jeff of the Campus Religious Center.
“The time has come to lay the internal combustion engine to rest in hope of a new life where we give up corrupting the earth,” said Jeff.
A 4th Century Canticle of the Sun was also read.
“Ecology stands for the sum total of what’s wrong with the American way of death,” said Rev. Cecil Hoffman. He said corporal giants are living off death in their desire for monetary profit.
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environment the problem of the birdwatchers and butterfly chasers.”
Nelson, 54, graduate from San Jose State College in 1939. He graduated from University of Wisconsin Law School in 1942.
He was a state senator from 1948 to 1956. In 1956 he was elected governor of Wisconsin.
In 1962 he was elected to the U.S. Senate from Wisconsin. He has held this position since then.
He is a member of the House Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs, Labor and Public Relations Committee, Select Committee on Small Business and the National Visitor’s Facilities Advisory Commission.
Another political figure joining Nelson today is Jim Flournoy, candidate for California secretary of state.
Flournoy was on the U.S. Civil Rights Commission under President Dwight Eisenhower. In 1968 he led the National Negro Republican Assembly.
He is the president of the Southwest Chamber of Commerce. He is also a past vice-president of the Western Region of the NAACP.
He has been called the spokesman for the black silent majority.
SEN. GAYLORD NELSON