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Thursday, December 6, 1990/ University Daily Kansan
KU environmental law group plans push for global accords
Bv Mike Brassfield
Kansan staff writer
The KU Environmental Law Society is planning to contact the environmental law societies of every other law school in the United States to gain support for an international environmental initiative.
Randall Patterson, president of the 50-member society, said society members soon would send out about 100 copies of the American Bar Association's International Law for the Environment International Law of the Environment, also known as ABIGAILE.
ABIGALE is a series of accords concerning the future of international environmental law. The accords are sponsored by the Ameri- cation Law Department and drafted by C.J. Polier, a Kansas City, Mo., attorney.
Poirier said the accords included laws dealing with deforestation, conservation of climate and protection of
the ozone laver.
Poirier said he hoped to present the accords to the United Nations at the international conference in 1992 in Brussels, the first such conference in 20 years.
Patterson said that one of AB1 GAILE's most interesting and far-reaching accords dealt with the concept of intergenerational rights.
"The basic idea of the accord is to prevent people that are living now from destroying the environment they should be saving for future generations," he said. "The idea that rights is an interesting one, the concept hasn't been experimented with very much."
Patterson said that for the accord to have any effect, a treaty would have to be drafted that had the support of the majority of nations.
"That's why we want to put it before the United Nations," he said.
"If we don't take steps to preserve the environment right now, people in the future aren't going to have an environment to live in."
Patterson said the society would work during the spring semester to gain support for the accords from other law schools.
"I think we can have an impact on the alumni, professors and students in other schools," he said. "I know we can be influential with other students, and that's important. Those students are going to be lawyers very soon."
Patterson said most other U.S. law schools had environmental law societies.
"With the increased interest in environmental law, the numbers of groups across the country are growing so fast it is unbelievable." he said.
Patterson said the society hoped to introduce a paper recycling program at the law school.
HALO goals include speakers boycotting grapes on campus
By Holly M. Neuman Kansas staff writer
If Hispanic American Leadership Organization officers accomplish one of their goals next semester, students living in KU residence halls will not be eating grapes in hall cafeterias for a month.
Suzanne Racine, HALO vice president, said the organization would like to promote a grape boycott at the University of Kansas to publicize work conditions for migrant farm workers employed in U.S. grape fields.
Chavez said that until those changes had been made, the boycott would continue. The boycott continues today.
Loue Lopez, HALO president, said the group would like to promote participation in the boycott during Hispanic Heritage Month, which the group will celebrate from mid-September to mid-October.
"I think that people at KU would show compassion and boycott the grapes, at least for a month," Racine said. "Anything that would decrease demand for the grapes would definitely help."
Racine lives in Oliver Hall and used to work in the cafeteria, where she began a grape bovcott of her own.
A national grap boycepht began in the 1970s when Cesar Chavez, an organizer of the United Farm Workers of America, urged farm owners to create safer conditions for workers and to abolish harmful pesticides.
She said, "We want to educate. I think that students will show that they can be sensitive to the needs of others."
"I would have to serve grapes, but I would tell people who went by not to eat them," she said. "It really helped."
Racine said the organization also would like to bring prominent Hispanic speakers to campus. She would meet with students and their she heard speak in October at the
eighth annual United States Hispanic Leadership Conference in Chicago
Lopez said he was pleased with the goals the officers set.
"It's going to be a busy year if we're going to get these done, but we can do it," he said.
In addition to organizing the grape boycott and bringing speakers to campus, the group would like to participate in community service activities such as the Special Olympics and voter registration drives.
Lopez said the group would continue traditional HALO activities such as bringing high school students to campus for recruitment and working with Hispanic elementary and middle school children.
The group also wants to work with the Office of Financial Aid to publish a scholarship book for KU students, Lopez said.
"It's going to be a busy year," he said. "But it will be a good year, too."
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