Ecologist says California
leads population crisis
By CLAY EALS
Of the Emerald
It is urgent and necessary that
the State of California demon
strate it can achieve something
close to no population growth in
order for the rest of the world to
follow suit, according to George
Treichel, ecology professor at
San Francisco State College.
Treichel spoke to an audience
of about 500 at an ecology panel
discussion Wednesday night in
the EMU ballroom.
Admitting the severe problem
of population and environment in
California, Treichel said, “We in
California are the looters and pol
luters of the world ... we are
the principal destroyers of the
inhabitable earth.”
He claimed the text of his
speech came from the idea ex
pressed or a San Francisco bill
board he had seen recently,
which stated “As traffic gets
worse, outdoor advertising gets
better.”
Treichel and University profes
sors Peter Frank and Walter
Martin centered speeches around
the subject of “Population: The
Basic Problem,” at the first of a
scheduled series of seven public
meetings concerning the prob
lems of population and environ
mental crises.
Sponsored by the University
Graduate School Council and the
Speakers and Debates Bureau of
the ASUO, the meeting was mod
erated by Larry Pike, University
graduate student in ecology.
Treichel, the keynote speaker,
University found...
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cruiting on campus, calling for
those present to work to “smash
ROTC, smash recruiting . . .and
ultimately smash the system that
this University serves.”
• Documented stocks and
bonds held by the University’s
Development Fund and the State
Board of Higher Education in
“corporations that are involved
in imperialism.”
• Listed members of the
Board and their positions in the
community, positions generally
relating to large businesses.
• Attacked specific programs
on campus and the method by
which corporations and the gov
ernment choose to fund these
programs, which was referred to
as “buying off this University.”
• Criticized the vast bulk of
University classes as “failing to
shed light on the problems of
our era,” as “ ‘lecturing on navi
gation while the ship is going
down,” and as “just another fac
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agency.”
The prosecution then summed
up its case on how the University
is in “complicity” with the “sys
tem of U.S. corporate imperial
ism,” and the court asked to hear
from the “defense,” presumably
each University administrator
who had last week been sent a
“summons” to attend the trial,
or others in the audience.
There being none in the room
prepared to present a defense of
the University, the entire trial
and audience moved to the ste 's
of Johnson Hall, where President
Clark finally agreed to aJdr.ss
them.
Before the move to Johnson
Hall, one of the trial’s organizers
claimed that Clark “wanted to
make this trial a ‘kangaroo court’
by refusing to participate.”
Amidst heckling, Clark told a
growing crowd of several hun
dred: “I didn’t come to the trial
because the trial was theatre.”
“I do not believe that a univer
sity should be neutral,” Clark
said, bringing cheers from the
crowd. “But,” he added, “I do
not believe that a university
should be politicized by any
parties.”
Replying to attacks from the
audience on the University and
American society, Clark said:
“Any society anywhere will de
velop problems that must be re
solved.”
But, he added that he had not
heard any proposals from those
involved in the trial “that you
can engage in,” and that the Uni
versity already has “procedures”
for airing grievances and working
to change University processes.
Clark left for a scheduled meet
ing of the faculty, and trial judg
es called for a “verdict” from
those in attendance. Though the
decision was “guilty,” a large
number of those viewing the pro
ceedings, most of whom had
not been at the trial but had
come from classes to hear Clark’s
presentation to the trial, voted
“not guilty.”
Trial leaders then arranged for
a meeting to determine what the
University’s “sentence” would be,
and one declared, “we are going
to try to close this University for
its complicity in war, racism and
imperialism.”
At that point, most of the group
dispersed. Nearly 100, however,
regrouped and marched to the fac
ulty meeting in 150 Science "to
inform the faculty that the Uni
versity will be closed tomorrow.”
They were denied the oppor
tunity to immediately address the
meeting, and the faculty consider
ed and passed a motion to ad
journ because of the “atmos
phere” in the room.
The students then moved to
Johnson Hall where they held a
short “sit-m” in the main hall
and discussed plans for following
up the tria; with definite actions.
The group met at 8 p.m. and
made plans for a picket of all
buildings in which classes are
held today in an effort to discour
age class .attendance.
pointed out that 1969 was the
breakthrough year of taking the
subject of population and en
vironment from the classroom to
the mass media.
California is the state a person
thinks of when the population ex
plosion is brought up in conver
sation, he stated. Treichel said
California’s population has
doubled every 20-22 years and
most planning of any sort in the
state is based upon that figure.
The only people who gain with
an increase in population, accord
ing to Treichel, are those who
have a product or service to sell.
Frank, professor of biology, in
his discourse on world problems,
spoke of a “malfusion trap” and
raised the ‘‘most frightening of
all world questions,” that being
“What has posterity done for
me?”
He described the “malfusion
trap” as the result of an increase
in both the birth and death rates
in the
Martin, professor of sociology,
focused on the situation in the
United States by citing many pro
jected population figures. He
stated the United States would
reach a population of 400 million
by the year 2035.
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