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Environment Teach-In
Planned For April 22

By Dick Hickman
Cavalier Daily Staff Writer

As the date of the national Environmental
Teach-In, April 22 Earth Day
approaches, the Virginia Improved Environment
Week (VIEW) steering committee
is finalizing its plans for the week-long
program here at the University.

Alan H. Strahler of the Department of
Environmental Sciences, who is serving as
general coordinator for VIEW, recently
announced that Virginia's Senator William
Spong will open the week's activities on
Sunday evening, April 19. Senator Spong, a
member of the Senate's Commerce and Public
Works Committees, is also a member of three
subcommittees dealing with the environment.

Mr. Strahler also announced that Dr.
Gordon J.F. MacDonald, a member of President
Nixon's Council on Environmental Quality, will
speak on the newly-formed advisory council, on
Friday, April 24 in Old Cabell Hall auditorium.

Mr. MacDonald, now on leave from the
University of California at Santa Barbara, was
appointed Vice-Chancellor for Research and
Graduate Affairs in 1968. Since receiving his
A.B., A.M. and Ph.D. degrees from Harvard, he
has published numerous books and articles, and
has received many scientific awards.

From 1965 to 1969, Mr. MacDonald served
as a member of the President's Science
Advisory Committee, and has been an active
consultant to NASA with the Lunar and
Planetary Missions Board. Formerly Director of
the Atmospheric Research Laboratories at
UCLA, Mr. MacDonald specializes in the study
of the earth's interior, the upper atmosphere,
weather modifications, and the origin of the
moon and planets.

Mr. MacDonald and Senator Spong will be
the featured speakers during the week-long
environmental teach-in, along with Lee Bean of
the Population Council in New York, and Lee
Talbot, Deputy Director of the Office of
Ecology at the Smithsonian Institute.

Along with President Shannon, Senator
Spong will open the Virginia Improved
Environment Week, at 8 o'clock Sunday
evening in the Albemarle High School Auditorium
on Hydraulic Road. Each afternoon during
the week will be devoted to guest speakers,
discussions, and panels, with other activities
such as dormitory teach-ins planned for the
evenings. The topics for each day are: Ecology
and Man, Population, Pollution, Land Use and
Resources, and the Outlook for the Future.

According to the VIEW Steering Committee,
there will be a community-wide outing planned
on Sunday afternoon, April 19, with bus
transportation provided to the Blue Ridge
Mountains. The following Saturday, April 25,
the Alderman Road Council is planning an
outdoor folk-rock festival to end the week's
activities

(See Box on P.4)