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EARTH DAY WEDNESDAY... ... HIGHLIGHTS OBSERVANCE Students Take A New Look At E-arth (Continued)· concert featuring t ( 7

, et '(; nion that the J.larxi t focrn or communi would so stimulate So~ iPt life that it \\Ould create a fabul1i11S indus- trial growth. That 1s perhap \\hat Khru hche,· had in mind when he said they would 'bury" us. Instead, eve!") 6-\enr plan ha met "th economic lethar- gy and has fallen far short of th goals n w 6-year plan mu t he pre nt d to the Comm c t Party 24th Congres t 1s !all

door assembly at 9.10 a.m. as the culn11n:it vn of the sixth graders' recent ~tudy oi ecolo- i;y and pollution. The San D1,.go focus on Earth Day is part or the . ·a- tirnal Teach-In on the Crbis of the Environment that was instigated br Sen. Uaylord Nelson, n-Wis-., and Rep. Paul. A conference on environ- mental law will be held from 2 to 6 p.m. Wednesday rn More Hall of the Yr'nversjty of S~n D1ee,o Schoo of Law. T e. toe Will be on the laws whi h most directly affect the environment through control of pollution and through lar;id planning. Speakers will include Clark Gaulding, San Diego Air Pol- lution Control District; Leon- ard Burtman, San Diego Wa- ter Quality Control IJ1strict, ecologists, planners, engineers and ttorncys. ·, ot,ce of the conference were sent this way: "Human being, plankton, bald eagles, ospreys, brown pelicans, oily ducks, plants, tree, oxygen, open space, existence et al, Pelltioners, vs. private prop- erty, automoblle manufac- turers, pesticides, petroleum companies, internal com- bustion engines, subdivisions, p1 ofit, luxury, smog, slums, death." NI. McClo~kev, R-Calif. CONFEHENCE DUE

middle and upper schools will be replaced by special assem- blies, seminars and activilie• Speakers will be drawn from the medical profession and the scientific and academic worlds. Students in the middle school have been collecting trash specimens from their home trashcans for a scien- tific study of non-destructible, but reclaimable, trash. They will display their trash on campus Wednesday. Lower school children will conduct a campus cleanup. Other grades plan field trips and nature walks. A check station will be set up Wednesa day in the school parking lot to check students' anrl par- ents' cars for faulty emis- sions. EVES'l'SPLA ED At Morse High, a student- faculty committee is asking students, faculty and adminis- trators not to u. e any pollu- tant-contr1buting device to get to school on Earth Day. Trash is being allowed to accumu- late at the school for several days to point up the waste dis- posal problem. About 100 Coronado High School students are participat- ing in planning the school's Earth Day activities. There will be lectures and panel dis- cussions. Helix High's Earth Week observance will include a Wednesday evening choir

seiections that relate lo Pcology. There also will be films, guest speak- ers and classr\lom participa- tion in environmenta1 pro- grams. A,mbands and bun: er stickers will be sold on campus. Kearny High is asKing all students to leave their tars at home Wednesday. There will be Earth Day i,rograms with outside speakers. The San Diego Associated Student Councils, with repre• sentation from all city schools, has passed a resolution asking each high school to establish an environmental awarene s organization to mform th stu- dents and the community, of environment.al problems, their causes, effects and cures. FULL DAY OF \~VENTS At San Diego Mesa College there will be a full day of envi- ronmental awarene s actin- ties Wednesday. Topics includ- ed for discussion will be ''Faith, Culture and Environ- ment," ''Urban Design," "Biological and Chemical Warfare·• and "Abortion." At Gage Elementary School, Wednesday has been design- ated "E-Day." Room B-11 has prepared for aistribution a "Save the Earth Day Booklet" that includes a letter to the President, original poems and editorials. A sixth grade class will conduct an all-school out-

ducted a weekend trash drive in Clairemont as their Earth Week effort. Dr. Benjamin Spock will speak on "Dissent and Social Change" at 11 a.m. and at 8 p.m. Wednesday at Grossmont College. Earth Day observance at the college will begin at 8 a.m. with a panel discussion·on pol- lution. Following this will be lectures on ecology, the future of California's forests, the population problem, noise pol- lution, rapid transit, agricul- ture and religion and ethics as they relate to the environmen- tal crisis. COLLEGE PROGRAM At Soutpwestern College in Chula Vista, Earth Day activi- ties will focus on ''Environ- mental Issues and the South Bay Area." The program will begin at 9 a .m. in the Student U-nion. A film, "What Are We Doing lo the World?" will be shown continuously from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. in Mayan Hall. A forum focusing on the South Bay will be held at 7 p.m. in Room 801 oflthe Recit- al Hall. La Jolla Country Day School students also will join in Wednesday's observance of Earth Day with a day-long program of class and commu- nity projects devoted to envi- ronmental problems. Regular classes in the

and John Trudell, an Ameri- can Indian who has been in- volved in the Alcatraz Island movement. City Councilmen Mike Schaefer, Leon Williams and Helen Cobb will participate in a panel discussion on San Diego·s environment at 2 p.m. on the library lawn. Land- scape architect Roy Seifert will discuss land use at 2: 30 p.m. in Scripps Par Wednes- day afternoon activities will include a forum discussion on the crisis of the oceans, an eco-calastrophe demonstration and a workshop on personal ecotactics. JOIN IN PROGRAM SDSC students and faculty are joining with those from UCSD in presenting the 7 p.m. program in Peterson Gym. This is the program formerly cheduled for the Community Concourse. High schools planning envi- ronmental programs during the week include La Jolla and Patrick Henry. At the latter, four groups of students - from Allied Gardens, Del Cer- ro, San Carlos and Lake Mur- ray - will walk to school Wednesday ca_rrying ecology placards. "Environmental awareness" tables will be set up in the school quad Tues- day. Seventh grade students at Hale Junior High School con-

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Assembly bill poses auxiliary school aid Montgomer · Junior High ons director of secondary American Ed cation is the only school in San Di- schools lor this one-third of A statew1 e pres eonfe~- ego outside outheast area San Diego ence called by CAA \E lhi• that will be eligible for des- PREVIOUS TO TH I. \I eek was coordinat d in ·an ignahon as an · urban com ye r, Title I and Title IU Diego by George ~ICH.'IJ . mumtv school"' if .\. semblv funds IH're a\ailable for the Black rcl11,ators. ailmmi"1 a Bill 781 becomes law, and supplementar) programs that tors anight to name their own board of "Urban Communil~ Schools lineup of . upport for 1h trustees in lieu of the San Act of 1970'' is intended lo bill Diego 'nified School District upgrade the quality or edu- . . board of educalwu. ation in economically disad- THE PROPOSAL \\ Ol LD Montgomer) 1· considered , ant aged urban areas. ac- ' pro\'Jd~ parent.i; of pupils in a disadvantaged school v. ith cording to the local Actio,1 economical!) d advantag;ed supplementary district fund~ . Council of CAAAE, the Cali- urban areas \ 1th allernati, e according to William J. Lv- , orma Association for Afro- forms JOf education lor thrn ·

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D sinking to Monopoly SAN DJF,GO (UPl > - Th world's first underwater Mono- poly champion. hips gel underway here tonight when teams from four local colleges don their wet uils to simultaneous- ly test th ir diving skills and gamesmanship. The a lion will take place in a 165,000-gallon tank provided for th compct1t1on by ca World, an aquatic park. The players will roll weighted dice some 10 feet underw ter, using a tandard monopoly board-with weights added-and plasticized money . The players from San Diego State College, United States International Univ rsity, the University of California at San Diego, and the Univers1t of San Die o will rotate every 30 minute during the four-hour game. While the game i. in progress, eymore the Seal, a Sea World attraction, will swim through the tank pulling ban- ner announcing some of the key moves in the game such as "Boardwalk just purchased," "Go to Jail," and "Collect $200 for Passing Go " Team winner will be presented with $500-in real money -which will be used for a student scholarship or a campus project. ~,i.-a /4~~a:h

children , a greatrr degree o responsibility for gO\ernan of such schools encour, development of pcrin,ent, programs. method and tee niques through coopera 1, and collaboration among ur- ban community school dis 'tes! validity of commum!I' school l'oncepl unde r contrnllcd ex- perimental cond1I :on v. 1th assurances of ca rut e,alu- ation. giye teachers he oppor-, tunilY to teach bv innovation and creative methods, and de- 1 ennine if competition among educators will result in a higher qualit) of education for all pupils." The last clause was deE.'mcd by SDUSD board member George Smith the most im- portant: to "fix accountabili- ty for educational expendi- tures." Ile sairl that the bill does not separate predominantly 1 black or brown schools by race, but that the black and brown schools are '"crying .__. for more accountability. ' The proposed plan has already been initiated in New York and Detroit. he said. with ex- cellent results. l'nder the plan. a school advisory committee appoint ed by the board of trustees shall be composed of three parents, two instructors and two students elected l v their rrspective groups. · ' STllDENTS J. . T H E black ~tudent councils or union on local campu.,es ha1·e endorsed the bill. which is still in committee at the legislatu re. tricls.'' Further. it claims to

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Schools that qualif) would still maintam the do!lar-stu• dent ratio they have now un- der SDUSD, said uso·s Wil- lie Moore. who direl'ts 1he Educational Opportunities Program fnr uniYPrsit · 9f San Diego. '

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