James Madison University - Bluestone Schoolmaam Yearbook (Harrisonburg, VA)

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• • Tar.- 1 ' j£i«P ■ ■ ' 3bSb8 $tje iNeiir Jlark Sime0 SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 30, 1969 Environment May Eclipse Vietnam as College Issue By GLADWIN HILL Special to The N ' ew York Times LOS ANGELES, Nov. 29 — ' We want to stop the war, end pollution — and beat Stanford! celled a Berkeley pep leader at ast weekend ' s big football [•ally. The mention of pollution rought a roar of approval rom a University of California rowd of 5,000 that almost rowned out the reference to he big game. Rising concern about the en- vironmental crisis is sweeping he nation ' s campuses with an ntensity that may be on its srey to eclipsing student dis- :ontent over the war in Viet- am. This is indicated b ' lews with a ai| on he Dervasive, here-and-now, long- lerm problem that students of all political shadings can sink [heir teeth and energies into, nd they are doilgAi A nationa l day VwD rta ' )f environrneVftal problejfls, inalogous to the mass demon- trations on Vietnam, is being Dlanned for next spring, with Congressional backing. From Maine to Hawaii, stu- ients are seizing on the en- ironmental ills from water Dollution to the global popula- tion problem, campaigning against them, and pitching in o do something about them. A ground swell of concern (s starting, on everything from population and food supply to the preservation of natural Daniel Dmitrxk for The New York Times engine in campuses. University of Minnesota students conduct a mock funeral for the gasoline a protest against air pollution. Concern for environmental crisis is sweeping areas, commented Dr. Edward Clebsch, assistant professor of botany at the University of Tennessee. I ' ve been floored by the intensity of their actions and feelings, said Dr. Vincent Arp, a Bureau of Standards physicist close to the University of Colo- rado at Boulder. The student group is going like a bomb. Association For Voluntary Sterilization, Inc. 14 West 40th Street New York, N. Y. 10018

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