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Ehrlich
However, his topic last night was not population growth, but extinction.
"The rate of extinction has accelerated immensely," he said.
ONE SPECIES used to become extinct every 1,000 years, beheaded.
Now, he said, one species becomes extinct every year, and mankind may be next.
"Some people say, 'So what? The dinosaurs are extinct and nobody misses them.' "Ehrlich said. "That statement I can personally disprove, because I, personally, miss the dinosaurs."
The dinosaurs, however, existed a long time ago and there are more immediate concerns now.
One of those concerns, Ehrlich said, is land preservation. He said not another square inch of wetland is available.
Just then, a baby in the audience started to cry.
THE AUDIENCE laughed and applauded.
THE AUDIENCE laughed and applauded.
"If you need more room for Americans to live.
you can redevelop Spanish Harlem and build straight up. "Ehrlich said."
If the United States were able to preserve its land and the life that is contained upon it, Ehrlich said, the rest of the world would follow that example.
"The way to do that is through political action and the way to get through to the politicians is to go to the polls."
But people should stop blindly following the dictates of politicians in Washington simply because they don't know how to do it.
He said that three convincing arguments could be made for conservation, no matter what public opinion.
FIRST, HE SAID, people have a moral responsibility to preserve nature simply because it is beautiful.
“There are tiny little flies and bees that look like solid gold,” he said. “Anybody who doesn't think that everything in nature is beautiful isn't familiar with it.”
Also, people should be concerned with preserving the environment for economic reasons.
"How do you estimate the value of the world's food supply?" Ehrlich said.
Medicine, industrial materials, food, clothing, building materials and many other things that are used in medicine.
Science, he said, cannot duplicate nature. When the Soviets found that they had pushed the fish that produces caviar to the edge of exotic reefs, it decided to try to re-create caviar in the laboratory.
"Super Russian science has managed to create an artificial caviar that is absolutely indistinguishable from the real thing—except for its taste," Ehrlich said.
A FINAL REASON that people should try to
be as helpful as they can, he said,
is that it is too complex for most children.
"You never know what will happen if a certain species goes extinct," he said.
"We are basically draining away the diversity of life on this continent. Any fool will tell you that you shouldn't keep pulling rivets out of the wings and let them come in." A told you that you can't keep deleting species."
Hats
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He added that it also made a good sun visor during afternoons in the stands.
Besides selling them at games, Hall promotes the hats with "Horrible Thursday" at Bottoms Up. a downtown tavern. The special features 25-cent draws of beer, and Hall said he sold 235 hats at the first Horrible Thursday.
He also markets the hats from the Kansas Union Bookstore and the Jayhawk Bookstore.
Lisa Switzer, merchandise coordinator for the Kansas Union Bookstore, said, "if you want to buy books which I don't buy. But certain people want this hat, and they 've asked for it by name."
AN ORDER OF 100, put on the shelf the day before homecoming, Oct. 13, is almost gone, she said.
"They're really cheap hats, but they're kind of cute," she said.
Designed by another friend, the hats were made by a Pennsylvania Company, Hall said. The 4,000 hats arrived in the middle of last season and would not to market them during basketball season.
'I thought I'd better wait for a sure thing, after summer was over with and the fall came around,' she said.
The bats are selling well among parents and alumni as well as students, he said.
"We kind of have a rivalry going between the alumni side and the other side," he said.
As the Jayhawks made their final touchdown in the last 25 seconds of the Kentucky game, Hall said, one man whipped out $40, a night a stack of hats and fumed them into the air.
BUSCH. The official beer of The Charlie Daniels Band.
Tau Sigma
Annual Dance Symposium Oct. 24, 8:30-5:30 Room 242 Robinson
See you there!
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Thursday, Oct. 22 Wifemistress
(1978)
Marcello Mastrotta and Luke Antonelli (the innocent star in this story about a woman who, when he has husbands gone, tries to cover and live out his other roles. A sensual, intelligent film, directed by Marcos Clemente (101 min). Color, italicizzati.
Friday, Oct. 23
The Chant of Jimmie
Blacksmith
(1978)
Jimmie Blacksmith was a half-caste aboriginal girl, on the eve of Australia's swearing of an oath, fences against the years of indignities of Australia's white immigrant society. Based on a true story, this is an incisive look at how one woman conscious society that led Jimmie, like Nat Tumor in this country, to his bloody death. Tommy Lewis, "The one great Australian friend I have seen,"—Paulette Kael. Paul: "We all want All Abord." (10841 mila color, 730.)
otherwise otherwise noted, all films will be shown at Woodstuff Auditorium in the Kansas Union. Midnight Movies are available at the SUA Office, and movies are available at the SUA Office, Kansas Union, 4th Level, Kansas Union, Information allowed.