SPECIAL FORUM oa,feendap4 April 9 momp. hers of the least= OMMON O ramalky will be available dews- VtimArs in the Sikpmededs 2-6 to dieemas with all'interieted ftemalmereste students the mo lxitements, job opportunities, professional future, etc. Per the majority of the undergradu ate majersi faculty will re present almost all of the Col leges of iniversity Park and msmy of the individual depart lents. This will be an excel lent opportunity to learn shoat and compare the-air forint fields prior to the ties yea will be required to intimate your choice of ma i ler degartmemt. Also available will be descriptive literature !tea many of the departments in addition to the cassettes, prepared at Vniversiky Park, width eentain information on the different colleges and majors. If yea have not yet thudded as a major, this programs is for I'o,l Ssrorfty activities Nancy Reiser, president of the Theta Sigma Pi has am nowneed the Sorority's events for the Spring Tern. The giils have assisted at the Walk-a-Thon and served at the Ireberanla Spaghetti Dinner. They will Serve as hostesses for the Nighaores Dramatic Reading Festival on April 5 and the Tri-Oonnty Reading Festival en April 26. La Faster party will be planned for the Children at St. Joseph's *ca pital. On Nay 9; Theta Sig ma Pi will sponsor a danoe'af ter the Awards Basupet in the Pennsylvania Roan at Stan 04- nettils. A Mother- ter tea will be held Nay 12: Any girl interested ill joining the Sorority nay attend the meet ings held SonAgy evenings at 6:00 in the SUB. Eigkaor4l4 Callagian, April 9. 1974- Page Seven THE HOUSTON PO'gT ittTNIVAT, 0 -- CT - 013 - ER 28, 1973 Whale of Mr?T '7 l ' 7l7 ' 7l ' 7 l r ". l 1 Pod Ihrviroment Writer Connoisseurs of bumper stickers may soon see a new one riding the roads: "Stop the 1 Whale Killers. Boycott Japanese Goods." How's that again? Well, it seems Japan recently announced that it would ignore the catch quotas set on several endangered species of Whales by the 14-nation International Whaling Commission last June in London. 'The Japanese said they would set their own quotas on Antarctic fin, minke and sperm whales in line with Japanese "interests." So an alliance of conservation and humane organizations has declared a trade war on, Ja pan. The declaration was accompanied by some of the harshest words hurled at the Land of the Rising Sun Once ° Pearl Harbor days. Accusing the Japanese government of "bow ' ing to the blind greed of the major Japanese whaling companies," the U.S. conservation groups continued: "Japan has pursued a policy of unrestrained rapacity, not only toward whales but toward dolphins, porpoises, endangered sea turtles and other marine creatures. .in con temptuous diseegard for international opin ion." The "don't buy Japanese" groups include Friends of the Earth, Animal Welfare I*. dilute, Fund for Animals, Defenders of Wild life, Environmental Policy Center, Animal Protection Institute,•Let Live, Inc., and the Society for Mitred Protective Legislation. They are urging their members and other concerned citizens not to buy Japanese radios, TVs, auto, motorcycles, camer as and so on—and to write to dealers explaining why they are not buying Japanese goods. Conservation aside, the all-out Japanese pursuit of whales does seem pretty stupid l; FEATURING Uniforms COMM Sweatshirts A STONES THROW AWAY Jacketsitot. PRO-EMS FAL JOE & G GOODS few - if 1 COMM TERRI'S EQUIPMENT AND APPAREL STORE HOURS: 10 to 10_ KORAI= SAT. Carousel BOOK I n . CARDS GIFTS (formerly cosgroves) DOWNTOWN HAZLETON IMPRINTING & MONOGRAMING ON CARDS, NAPKINS, COASTERS, LETTERHEADS a quota from the standpoint of economics and com mon sense. It's like killing the goose that lays the gold.. en eggs. Or like a rancher pole-axing his prize breeding bull for a midnight snack, and the heck with tomorrow. The Japanese, in rejecting the qtiotas, argue that the careful scientific studies of the intern ational commission are all wet 7 that they can kill more fins, minkes and sperms without wiping them out completely. But the Japanese in years past were saying the same thing about the mighty blue. and humpback whales. And they are now , Virtually extinct. The blue whale is the largest creature that has ever lived on earth. The humpback is best known for its mysterious "song" that has in spired symphonies and been made into a record album. There is now a total, worldwide ban on the killing of blues and humpbacb, as well as gray, bowhead and right whales. At the commission's June meeting in London, the U.S. delegation for the second year in a row pressed for a 10-year moratorium on all commercial whaling. But it failed by an 8-5 vote, short of the re quired three-fourths majority. The Soviet Union is refusing to observe the new quotas along with Japan. But, of course, there are few Soviet goods in this country to boycott. The Japanese claim they need the whale meat to feed their people. However, the con servation groups say whale meat provides:lese, than 1 per cent of the total Japanese Retell' intake—and the quota whales only a fraCtiOn of that. They also point out that in early 1971, before they were stopped by new endangered species and marine mammal laws, the Japanese ex ported 12 million pounds of whale meat to the U.S. for pet food. Are we really that desperate? With substi tutes aplenty, do we really have to slaughter these great leviathans of the deep for pet food and lipstick oil?
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