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...undergraduate celebration will take place over six days, with "something for everyone" as the chairmen of the event say. The houses will host special symposia and dinners throughout the week where distinguished alumni address and talk with the undergraduates. On Friday, there will be a University-wide symposium on the current state of liberal arts and higher education...
Officials on the committee for the undergraduate 350th celebration says that Secretary of Education William G. Bennet and President Derek C. Bok are two of the speakers being invited to talk at the symposium...
While Gillis and Coletta say that the celebration includes both serious and social events, their time will mostly be spent on planning the College-wide events such as the symposia, dinner and ball. Coletta will spend three days a week this summer finalizing plans for the University-wide symposium and the social offerings...
...that despoiled Laysan's beaches had been washed ashore by the waters of the Pacific, which like other oceans is becoming increasingly fouled by plastic flotsam. But while the floating and beached plastic is unquestionably an eyesore, the problem goes far beyond aesthetics. At the Sixth International Ocean Disposal Symposium in Pacific Grove, Calif., last month, scientists reported that plastic trash is causing injury and death to countless marine animals that feast on it or become ensnared in it. Says Ecologist David Laist, of the Marine Mammal Commission: "Plastics may be as ! great a source of mortality among marine mammals...
However, the symposium's moderator, Cathleen Kelley, said the non-profit banking system will not solve the crisis. "If nothing is done [to allieviate the farming situation], it will destroy whole communities in North Dakota," she said...