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Show L d! : BRUCE BAIRD DELBERT WIENS ...takes position of business ...biology professor Great Issues forum to begin with ecology The Department of Philosophy and the Division of Continuing Education announce the 18th Annual Great Issues Series Forum ' which deals with the topic "Great Issues Concerning Man's "The Ecological Crisis and Conflicting Con-flicting Values" will be the subject of the first lecture to be held Wednesday, at 8 pjn. in Spencer Hall Auditorium. The event is the first of six lectures. The program consists of a number of scholars who will discuss some of the serious and complex moral, social and political issues of the 20th Century. Cen-tury. This interdisciplinary program pro-gram includes specialists from eight different academic areas who will direct their special corn- historical events relating to ecology from a biological point of view, beginning with the Judeo-Christian Judeo-Christian culture which established estab-lished man as separate from the natural world and held that the world was created exclusively for his benefit and use. "The Reformation probably removed re-moved the last ethical restraints of western man toward a totally exploitative ex-ploitative philosophy of nature," said Dr. Wiens. "The final and critical event was the Industrial Revolution." The biologist will outline four traditional values which he believes be-lieves form the matrix of the present ecological crisis. One of these, Dr. Wiens con- petence to man's survival. Dr. Bruce Baird Discussing the relationship of ecology to economic, historical and cultural values will be Dr. Bruce F. Baird, associate dean of the College of Business and Dr. Delbert Wiens, associate professor of biology. Dr. Baird will review the part technology and industry have played in the ecology problem. the associate piuiosm management compares the industrial in-dustrial corporation with an. elephant. "Both are large, unattractive, un-attractive, unwieldy and powerful, but they perform work that would not and could not be achieved in any other way," he asserts. Dr. Baird claims that many of the causes promoted by ecologists are "simply false, outrageous and unbelievable exaggerations which will greed over-reactions and hinder hin-der progress in solving admittedly serious ecological problems." The elimination of the industrial indus-trial corporation will not solve these problems, maintains Dr. Baird. "We must not destroy the capitalist economic system and its fundamental unit of production, the business corporation, in order to eliminate an ecological problem," pro-blem," the business professor said. Historical Events Dr. Wiens will trace the |