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Tuesday, April 19. 1994
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Founder of Earth Day still on mission
He speaks his message at colleges, conferences
By Connie Cass
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — Gaylord Nelson hasn't ripped apart a telephone book in years. He did his final one-arm push-up on his 72nd birthday. But still, he gamely shoulders the weight of the world, an aging Atlas in reading glasses.
It's his calling, to save the planet.
More than two decades after he invented Earth Day, more than a dozen years after he was nudged off his environmental soapbox in the Senate. Nelson is still at it.
"Over the years, it became a greater and greater preoccupation," he said. "The more I learned, the more I realized what it was — the most important challenge that faces mankind."
As counselor to the non-profit Wilderness Society, he still helps promote each April 22 as Earth Day. He's planning a big blowout to mark the event's 25th anniversary next year.
But Nelson, 77, is increasingly looking farther into the future. And he doesn't like what he sees:
a world with too many people and too little food. water, clean air and living room. An overpopulation horror story.
"I don't think most people understand where we're headed." Nelson said.
It's his mission to tell them.
In speech after speech at colleges and conferences. Nelson decries mankind's "war against the planet." The world's population has doubled since the 1950s, he notes. And it's growing even faster, eating up the earth's resources.
"If you don't do anything about it, nature will," he tells listeners: "That will be a lot hotter."
The fire-and-brimstone warnings are tempered by Nelson's easygoing style; he shifts his solid frame slowly, more like a cowboy than a doomsday prophet.
In the Senate, Nelson had a reputation for folksy anecdotes and cocktail party stunts, like ripping up a Milwaukee phone book (there's a trick to it) or doing one-arm push-ups (a feat of balance plus strength).
"Behind his humor and behind the sort of rough-cut, down-to-earth manner, there was always a person of sober conviction." said former Sen. George McGovern, who asked Nelson to be his running mate on the Democratic presidential
By the time Nelson launched Earth Day in 1970, the number of people in the world had doubled in his lifetime, to 3.7 billion. So had the U.S. population, to 205 million.
ticket in 1972. Nelson wasn't interested.
Nelson — one of the first three senators to oppose the U.S. military buildup in Vietnam — took his inspiration for Earth Day from the anti-war teach-ins on college campuses.
"It suddenly occurred to me, why not have a nationwide teach-in on the environment." Nelson said. He announced his idea at a speech in Seattle in September 1969, and it "took off like gang-busters."
On that first Earth Day, New York's Fifth Avenue was closed, and tens of thousands of people filled the street. Congress was adjourned so members could speak at events across the nation. At least 2,000 colleges marked the day. An estimated 10 million public schoolchildren took part.
"It was something people were ready for, and it kind of happened spontaneously," said Susan Flader. professor of environmental history at the University of Missouri-Columbia. "It welled up from below, and the politicians realized this was a movement that couldn't be ignored."
Roseanne and Tom Arnold call it quits after four years
The Associated Press
LOS ANGELES — Roseanne Arnold filed for divorce yesterday from her husband. Tom, the man with whom she has shared fame, fortune, a television show and a knack for headline-grabbing shenanigans for four years.
The filing came three days after an argument erupted between the Arnolls on the set of ABC's "Roseanne," reportedly over a woman who had taken part with the couple in a mock three-way marriage.
Roseanne Arnold, 41, fired Arnold from his job as her show's executive producer, cut up his credit cards and dashed off to Europe for a three-month trip without him, a source close to the couple said.
The source said Rosanne Arnold also fired Kim Silva, an assistant who had joined in the mock marriage in what the Arnolds had said was a publicity stunt.
Irreconcilable differences were
cited in divorce papers filed for Rosanne Arnold in Los Angeles Superior Court. The petition says the couple, married Jan. 20, 1990, officially separated Friday. Rosanne Arnold asks that she not be required to pay alimony.
Rosanne Arnold, formerly Roseanne Barr, plans to pick a new last name — a French one, said the source, who spoke on condition of anonymity.
PMK, the public relations firm representing both Arnolds, said there was no comment from either one.
Arnold, 35, is busy filming the final four episodes of the season for his own television series, "Tom," on CBS. Rosanne Arnold is that show's executive producer, but her involvement is reportedly minimal.
A representative for Carsey-Werner Co., which produces "Roseanne," said the company was going forward with production plans for next season.
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