An Independent Student Newspaper
Vol. 73, No. 25
Wednesday, October 13, 1971
Cook heads eco center
A Center for Environmental
Studies has been approved by
University President Robert
Clark, who named Stanton Cook,
associate professor of biology,
director.
The Center, which will get
under way immediately, will be
an interdisciplinarian unit within
the Graduate School.
Its main functions this year,
according to Cook, will be to
conduct the interdisciplinary
course “Man and His En
vironment,” in which some 70
students are enrolled this term;
to coordinate the development of
the curriculum concerning the
environment; and to serve as an
environmental informational
service.
“We do not expect the Center to
initiate new courses on its own,
nor offer a degree program,”
Clark noted.
He explained that courses are
offered throughout the University
about the environment already,
but have never been coordinated.
Basically, the Center will be
using already existing resources
for all of its environmental ef
forts. The staff, at the beginning,
will consist only of a secretary, a
work-study student, and Cook,
who will also teach biology.
“The Environmental Studies
Center,” Cook said, “will get
people together to work on
mutual problems to mutual
advantage. If we can’t get this
kind of collaboration—not only in
the University—there just won’t
be any environmental problems
solved.”
“The whole University has to
cope with the incredible diversity
of questions being asked about
the environment,” explained the
director.
Cook believes the University
can perform a public service by
trying to answer questions about
the environment.
“People want to know, for
instance, how to dispose of
pesticides or whether a given
detergent is harmful to the en
vironment,” he points out.
Stanton Cook
“Teachers in grade and secon
dary schools need ideas for
curricula on the environment.
The Center will try to develop a
collection of material on such
topics, as well as information
about where to turn for the an
swers.”
Individual citizens and civic
groups can use the Center, Cook
said as a depository for en
vironmental material as well as a
resource center.
The Center also will be spon
soring symposia, such as one
tentatively planned for the near
future on solid waste
management in the upper
Willamette Valley.
Other goals include offering
information to persons con
sidering careers in en
vironmentally-related fields;
contributing toward curricula
involving environmental plan
ning and management; serving
as a focus for extra-curricular
and community educational
efforts dealing with en
vironmental questions; and
promoting cooperative efforts of
University scientists and
scholars engaged in research
upon environmental matters.
The Environmental Studies
Center is the outgrowth of a study
by an interdisciplinary faculty
student committee appointed a
year ago by President Clark to
examine the University’s con
tributions to environmental
matters. Richard Noyes,
professor of chemistry, headed
the committee.
The committee developed out
of earlier discussion among
faculty members from several
departments about the need to
coordinate the University’s
classroom and other efforts
concerning the environment.
Robert Harris (Architecture);
Dr. George Steisinger (Biology),
and Dr. Norman Sundberg
(CSPA) spearheaded the early
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Prize winning journalist to speak
on unification of the Americas
Harrispn Salisbury, assistant
managing editor of The New
York Times and a Pulitzer Prize
winner, will speak at 3 p.m. today
in the EMU ballroom. This lec
ture is sponsored by the ASUO
Cultural Forum and is part of the
Listening to America Dialogue.
The topic of Mr. Salisbury’s
speech will be “The Many
Americas Shall Be One,” which is
also the title of his newest book.
The public is invited to attend the
lecture. No admission will be
charged.
In March 1971, the Overseas
Press Club award for the best
foreign news coverage was given
to the New York Times’ “Op. Ed.
Page” (opposite the editorial
page), referred to by many as the
first real innovation in American
newspapers in twenty years. This
is under Mr. Salisbury’s
supervision.
Awards are not new to this
journalist. In addition to the
Pulitzer Prize, he has been
awarded the George Polk Award
and the Sigma Delta Chi Award.
His books include “The 900 Days:
The Siege of Leningrad,”
“Behind the Lines - Hanoi,”
“Orbit of China,” “Moscow
Journal,” “Russia,” “American
in Russia,” “To Moscow and
Beyond,” and “A New Russia.”
Mr. Salisbury also wrote a novel.
“The Northern Palmyra Affair,”
and edited and wrote the in
troduction and Commentary to
“Marshall Zhukov’s Greatest
Battles ” For a period in the mid
fifties he covered local New York
news for the Times and his series
on juvenile delinquency resulted
Harrison Salisbury
in publication of a book entitled
‘The Shook-Up Generation.”
In 1949 Salisbury joined the
New York Times and shortly
after returned to Russia as
correspondent, a post he held for
five years When he returned to
the United States in 1954 and did a
series of articles, the Russians
objected to his articles and
barred his return. They lifted this
ban temporarily in 1959 when
Mr. Salisbury was permitted to
return with the then-Vice
President Nixon on his visit to
Russia—followed by Khrush
chev’s trip to the United States.
In 1967 Salisbury made a
journey to North Vietnam with
the approval of the U.S.
Department of State, and his
report of that visit for the New
York Times made front-page
headlines. In that same year he
visited Laos, Burma and the
Himalayan Indian border to
Mongolia and Siberia.
He returned to that area in 1969
making a 25,000 mile journey to
the heart of the troubled zone on
the Asian continent—the Sino
Soviet Frontier. For the
fourth time he visited Mongolia,
the remote buffer state between
the Communist giants. He has
assessed the critical tensions
between Russia and China along
their frontier and in the listening
posts of Tokyo, Hong Kong,
Seoul, Moscow, London and
Paris. His dispatches from the
area pinpointed the mounting
dangers of a new war on the
Asian continent and have
established him as one of the
outstanding authorities on this
part of the world.
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Photo by Mary Welch
O wild West Wind, thou breath of Autumn’s being, thou, from
whose unseen presence the leaves dead are driven.
Percy Byshee Shelley
Today . . .
War protesters to march tonight
A march to protest the war, sponsmed by the Eugene Student
Mobilization Committee to End the War in Vietnam, will start
tonight at 6:30 p.m. at the EMU terrace and the I>ane County
Fairgrounds. From the two locations the marchers will walk to the
mall, where various individuals and groups will speak.
According to David Hough, spokesman for the committee, the
march will start from the different locations to facilitate both
student and community participation.
Clark to speak at faculty meeting
University President Robert Clark’s State of the University
speech will be the main order of business at today’s faculty
meeting
The meeting will be held at 3:30 p.m. in 150 Science.
Also on the agenda are a report of the Graduate council, memorials
for two deceased faculty members, Paul Risley and Harold
Crosland, and five notices of motion.
A notice of motion by associate liberal arts dean Barry Siegel
would enable the University to award a two-year associate of arts
degree; another by Douglas Straton, head of the religious studies
department, proposes that faculty be paid in 12 month instead of 9
month installments.
Game to draw unprecedented numbers
Student tickets for seats for the Washington football game will
go off sale today at 5 p m. Standing room tickets for the game will
go on sale this morning. Both can be purchased at the A.D. ticket
office.
The Athletic Department is urging students to remember to
bring their plastic i.u. cards to the football game Saturday, which
is expected to draw the larger- crowd in state sporting history.
The A.D will check the I.D. cards so that only students who have
purchased seating tickets will be allowed to sit in the student
section. If expectations come true, th**re will be 42,000 people
seated and another 4000 standing for the game, according to A.D
Public Relations director Bill Landers.
Autzen Stadium gates will open to students at 11:30 a.m.
Students should enter through gate E, which faces the Autzen
footbridge on the south side of the stadium