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Environmental Meeting
Begins At Sweet Briar

By Alan Featherstone
Cavalier Daily Staff Writer

A three day Environmental Symposium
begins today at Sweet Briar College.
The symposium will center around all
aspects of the environmental problem
with considerable emphasis on the role of
the private citizen and the government in
the ecology movement.

The theme of the symposium is "Can
the City Survive Without the Country?"
It begins tonight at 8 with Charles E.
Little, President of the Open Spaces
Institute in New York, talking on "Open
Spaces — Keeping a Balance of Town and
Country."

Also speaking tonight will be David
Dominick, Commissioner of the Federal Water
Pollution Control Agency of the Department of
the Interior, who will speak on "Clean Water."

The symposium continues Friday morning
at 9 with Jean Dorst of the National Museum of
Natural History in Paris who will speak on
"Vanishing Wildlife: A World Problem."

David M. Gates, Director of the Missouri
Botanical Garden, will follow Mr. Dorst and
will speak on "Man's Contradiction of Ecological
Laws." Mr. Gates is a biophysical ecologist.

The symposium will resume in the afternoon
at 2:30. Bruce Dowling, the Executive Director
of "America the Beautiful" Fund, will speak on
"Our Plundered Planet — Can We Save What Is
Left?"

Following Mr. Dowling will be Walter
Kiechel, Deputy Assistant Attorney General of
the United States. He will address himself to
the topic "What Legislation Can Best Serve the
Cause of Conservation."

Friday evening at 8 Stewart Udall, former
Secretary of the Interior and presently
Executive Director of Overview Corporation in
Washington, D.C., will speak on "Conservation
and the American People."

A film will follow Mr. Udall's talk which is
entitled "Forever Yours." The film was
photographed and written by Leonard Hall.

Saturday morning at 9 the symposium draws
to a close with Robert W. Patterson a
Landscape Architect and founder of the
Natural Resource Council of Maine, who will
speak on "What is the Way Ahead for Quality
of Life — Not Just Survival?"

Also Saturday morning at 11 there will be a
field trip led by Ernest Edwards, Professor of
Biology at Sweet Briar College and a graduate
of U.Va.

Members of the University community are
invited to attend any and all of the activities of
the symposium.