| Show 1 0 STUDENT LIFE Utah State U Monday September 25 1967 JACK PETERSEN Center of Ecology it Life tudei A 7 © IB Has Opportunity IL D USU through its new center of Ecol will have the opportunity to bid for a si of American projects in the Internatio Biological Program The U S role in a worldwide biolog research effort aimed at preserving earth’s habitability was revealed Wednes in the first detailed announcement by National Academy of Sciences The internationally coordinated ventu in which 50 nations including the So Union are participating - is called the ternational Biological Program It will bring together a giant task fo of scientists "moving to make man’s vironinent more productive and livabl the National Academy of Sciences said LYNN PACKER Reasons For Being1 in School A Note on Parking Courtesy i Students are in college for many reasons and combinations of reasons I will list a few which may in part have determined - In our society many begin their education in grade school Then comthen high school By es junior high time one has graduated from high school he has spent about two thirds of his life as a student Momentum firom parents social Pressure friends etc Parents want chilldren in college as a matter of prestige and self assurance The college system is becoming more are ablle to attend well developed is "in” life You may be 'Today college c onsidered "out of it” if you don’t go 3 Economic necessity Many of today’s jobs gh paying require people with col-lehq e training Although a person with a coil ege degree isn't necessari ly better or mor e educated than one without his chanc-- e s fo r getting a higher paying job are bettg er 1 ’ your being here 1 for them can be a stepping stone to career Draft Evasion Neod more be said? 7 To Learn Some people like to learn 8 - mai nly for learning’s ssike They like to under! itand things and like to be able to do things with their minds could probably add more reasons You to the i list Remember some or all of these reasons could be combined bn different deA gree B ut usually one or tsoo prevail is reasons discuss another IT time topic why peo Die of college age are not in school lege a pre - cf Independence Starting at about 15 and ot'der many persons begim wanting to world and "try their wings’’ go o ut in the fulfills this need other posoften College include military mission peace sibilities from and away triage employment n'a corps home 5 Wher e the boys - and girls - are ‘ people of both sexes are in Many singli - w ’oulcl you believe the dating college -- -- game? 6 Social Ac tivity Parties clubs dances etc can be fou nd on campus - and so will the people that like them Too many athel-ete- s i are drawn college life because they like the nature t f colligiate athletics Col- - The five major American projects dude: 1 o o - is - which includes parking Driving one exam )le of where a person’s bad manners affect the "other guy” Lacl: of cour- it’s tesy is mo re than just not thinking -- -- usually not caring Last year I was in a car pool We’d arrived on car npus about the time many other Several times cars pu lied up cars arrived next to us w dth passengers that wo uld swing the doors I open like they were tr ying to exit a burnir ig theater leaving trnr car minus a strip of paint This was wh ile we were in our c r ! If someone has the nerve to do it while s we were in the car i t’s no after one quarter out cars wonder that were heavily sc arred from thoughtless i neigh bors So just a fe' w pointers: 1 Park in the area you’re su sposed to 2 Open d oors 1 carefully 3 Par k evenly between the ines the near ners tack 4 Small car ow park of the stall so cs irs won’t make a mad i lash for the space yoi a’re in - only to find y our VW nestled in t he bottom of the space Campus Forum Editor’s Note: In each issue of Student Life this space below the cartoon will be for letters to the editor The letters should be signed typewritten and no longer than 250 words in length We reserve the right to condense the letters and make grammatical changes In this issue some of the studentbody officers were asked to give us a summary of what they plan on doing this school year ’ Vice President Has New Resources TOM WOOD Christian' Science Studemts Hear Lecture on Intellect "Man’s intellectual thru st and religious insight must grow togethe t They cannot really be separated” This was the message tha t 6000 Christian Science college students heard from a dileading British historian an American a theatrical dir ector and They plomat were among the speakers at t 'he Biennial College Meeting held at The M other Church The First Church of Christ I Scientist in Boston Students from nearly 4C ' countries around the world attended "It’s a mistake to segregate the intellect as something distinct from spit Ttually” said Sir James R M Butler a forme 't member of the British Parliament and ch ief hisVar II torian for Great Britian’s World archives But the real obstacle he suggested may often be a limited concept of what inte dlect is It is more than a process of brain and more thanreproduction at nerves second hand of the thoughts of others From a deeper standpoint man’s abil tty an expression e if to think and know is divine intelligence available to all as the! r i inherent birthright” said Sir James Ht ? view that clescribed this as an “open-ended- " el iminates pride of intellect and helps to br ing out freshness and originality of thou- ghi t in our neighbors as well as ourselves” C ieorge Hamlin associate director of Har-varUniversity’s Loeb Drama Center spoke of th e spiritual and intellectual ferment takin the theater It is "in the midst ing p lace of a re evolution” said that requires audiences' mor e than ever’’ to look perceptively to be mentally activ Although admitti theater is either nih Hamlin urged the look for the deeper i sent Good drama he re exciting way of com "Drama essentiali: e” ng that much in today’s ilistic of frivolous Mr assembled students to values that are also pre- USUSi Readers The series will be much improved this year with the opening of the University’s new Fine Arts Center The auditorium of the Center will provide a superior for setting concerts and plays During the course of this year some of the finest atractions in the world will appear on campus Among them will be Gold and Fitzdal''! widely acclaimed as the finest dual pianists in the world the Utah Ballet presenting the Nutcracker Suite internationally famous Marcel Marceau and many others In addition for the first time at Utah State popular entertainment will come to students either at no cost or for under a dollar a ticket First on the schedule is the Mitchell Trio appearing Thursday There will be no charge to September 28 students Other popular concerts are in the process of being booked and will be announced as soon as negotiations are finalized Craig Petersen Executive Vice President marked is a swift and unicating ideas es: is simplifies and characters and sprawlcomplicated arranges ing events into a mea iningful concise design Through plays men have looked beimmediate yond expe xience have seen the foibles and triumphs the grossness and nobility the comic absi irdity and the cosmic profundity in human experience” Slome 900 colleges and universities of maiay nations were re presented among the attending students biological-environment- pastures The cost of the American projects funding primarily from federal agenci“ has been estimated at between $105 mill! and $135 million The international effort which the t’ ted Nations and other international org zations are slated to aid in the funding designed to marshall the research skills the world’s biologists in correlated attea to: Help solve the world’s food and popu tion problems including helping the veloping countries "in their fight agal! starvation and disease" Foster more efficient use of the wod beneficial plant and animal resources Increase science’s understanding of effect of the environment on man and man’s own environment (including the verse effects resulting from advancing tec £j nol°gy-- ) The USU center of Ecology offers t depth interdisciplinary resources of the Departments of Botar' ' Forest Science Range Science Soils Meter Metercorology Wildlife Resour and Geology Mb ' TPilS IS o rfMLT SOPHISTICATED Copyrlfht United Fei tture Syndicate MHBNm o MY FIRST EXPERIENCE WITH THE CMLE6E LIFE A1AT0RR al t Dear Editor: The coming year provides the Executive Vice President with resources and facilities which he has not before had A prime part of the job of the Executive Vice President is working with the Fine Arts Committee on the Concert and Forum Series By 1 Research in aerobiology a study the undesirable biological organisms ini atmosphere These range from the pot grains to the insects that cause extern damage to crops 2 Research on large ecosystems (: extensive geographic systems such as dn age basins landscapes and forests) wh there is continuous interaction between ing organisms and their surrounding vironinent Although specific sites for the resei have not yet been selected an acadei spokesman said they would include a foi in the eastern United States a western c! ifferous forest a western grasslands :i cultivated ecosystem in some area or aii between Canada and Mexico a desert at a tropical forest and some polar area j T 3 A study of Eskimo populations invest! calls for a joint U and tion of Eskimos at Wainwright Canadian Arctic Eskimo community j 4 Research on Terrestrial Life in Ha This study is aimed at getting better j j derstanding of teractions from an evolutionary standpol The native flora and fauna of Hawaii deemed critical because these islands — ft I a biological viewpoint — have been graphically separated from other world j fluences for millions of years As a resil the committee said the islands have dt'l oped evolutionary distinct strains of phi and animals that are now disappearing j 5 Research in phenology the scienct j relations between climate and the beha'l I of plants and animals The idea is to try to extend sciencf ever! powers of predicting biological powers man already uses to forecast insef outbreaks and to manage his ranges ! CHAOTIC mmm tme PORTLAND Ore AP - People pay cost of scrapping their cars before they b them a committee says A waste disposal committee of the A elation of Oregon Counties has approV( a resolution to that effect I |
