The Cavalier daily :: Thursday, March 11, 1971 :: University of Virginia Library

Authoritative discussion of
overpopulation and an address by former
Senator Joseph D. Tydings will be the
principal features of a symposium. The
World Population Crisis: Policy
Implications and the Role of Law,
co-sponsored tomorrow and Saturday by
the John Bassett Moore Society and the
American Society of International Law.

Three panels of leading population
specialists and authorities on
international law will convene to discuss
the current situation and areas in which more
action is needed. Included will be policy goals,
the respective roles of private, governmental,
and international institutions, and the effects of
legislation on population growth.

Three Task Forces

Saturday the panel participants will be
joined by Law School faculty and students,
visiting foreign students, and members of Zero
Population Growth as three task forces form
specific proposals for changes in United States
foreign policy, allocation of efforts among
various agencies and the legal status of family
planning.

The symposium will conclude Saturday
night as Mr. Tydings speaks on "The Political
Strategy for Population in the 1970's" at 8:30
p.m. in the Chemistry Building Auditorium. Mr.
Tydings while in the Senate was a member of
President Richard Nixon's Commission on
Population Growth and the American Future,
and advocated creation of a population and
family planning agency in the Department of
Health, Education and Welfare. He is the author
of Born To Starve (New York, 1970).

All meetings, including the speech by Mr.
Tydings, are open to the public. Students and
faculty of the Law School are encouraged to
attend. Geoffery H. Keppel, co-chairman of the
symposium, emphasized the urgency and
international scope of the problem and the
potential for significant contributions by
members of the legal profession especially those
with a background in international law.

The number and diversity of viewpoints
represented by participants is expected to
produce lively and significant discussion of the
problems involved, said co-chairman Patricia L.
Otto.

Overpopulation Problems

The first panel meets at 1:30 p.m. tomorrow
in East Hall to discuss problems caused by
overpopulation and to examine possible policy
goals. Speakers include Reimert T. Ravenholt,
Director of the Office of Population of the
Agency for International Development;
Professor Joseph J. Spengler, Chairman of the
Department of Economics of Duke University;
and Moye W. Freymann, Director of the
Carolina Population Center at the University of
North Carolina.

The second panel discussion, beginning at
3:30 p.m. in East Hall, involves an examination
of the institutional approach to the population
problem at all levels. This panel will determine
what agencies are involved, examine their
resources, goals, successes, and difficulties, and
discuss the need for additional resources.

Participating will be Philander P. Claxton
Jr., Special Assistant to the Secretary of State
for Population Matters; Phyllis Piotrow of the
Population Crisis Committee; Professor Terry
McCoy of Ohio State University; John Keppel
of the U.N. Fund for Population Action;
Johnson C. Montgomery, Counsel to Zero
Population Growth; Harriet F. Pilpel, Counsel to
Planned Parenthood - World Population; and
Professor Mary Ellen Caldwell of the Ohio State
University School of Law.

Effects Of Laws

Tomorrow night at 8 p.m. a third panel
meets in East Hall to focus on the effects of
various laws on population growth and to
determine whether new laws are needed in
either lesser-developed or advanced countries.
Speakers include Luke T. Lee, Director of the
Law and Population Program of the Fletcher
School of Law and Diplomacy; Hugo
Hoogenboom, Regional Director for East and
South Asia of the Population Council; Thomas
C. Lyons Jr. of the Agency for International
Development; Professor Cyril C. Means Jr. of
the New York Law School; and Professor Ved
P. Nandor of the University of Denver School
of Law.

The three task forces meed Saturday at 9:30
a.m. to seek specific proposals to deal with the
problems defined by the panels. Each task force
will give primary attention to one of three
areas. Needed changes in U.S. foreign policy
will be discussed in East Hall, with Professor
Mary Ellen Caldwell moderating.

More than 30 law students from developing
countries presently studying in the United
States are attending the symposium and will
participate in the task force sessions.

Delayed television coverage of the
symposium, including Mr. Tydings' speech, will
be provided by WCVE-TV (Channel 23),
Richmond, at times to be announced later.

Papers presented by panel participants will
be published next year by the Virginia Journal
of International Law. Proceedings of the
symposium will be available by early summer.