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THE BATTALION
MONDAY, DECEMBER 11, 1978
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MONDAY, DECEMBER 11, 19/8
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INVITES THE AGGIES TO
Clvde H. Wells, chairman of the
' a&M University System’s
i iard of regents said in com-
Lement exercises Friday and
Eurday it is the duty of Aggies to
Jlp keep Texas A&M from losing
lPermanent University Fund.
iCalling the fund what made the
[livers ity great instead of
Ldiocre, Wells said, “As Aggie
duates, you have an obligation to
Let the Permanent University
’liid , 1 1 ^
What we Aggies have today, let
no one put asunder.”
The Permanent University Fund
is divided between the University of
Texas System, which gets two-
thirds, and the Texas A&M Univer
sity System, which takes the re
mainder. It was established by the
Texas Constitution.
The University Available Fund,
the part of the Permanent Univer
sity Fund which is distributed,
amounts to more than $50 million a
year.
Well’s remarks followed State
Hep. Senfronia Thompson s (D-
Houston) prefiling of three mea
sures in the Texas House of Repre
sentatives which are designed to
make Prairie View A&M University
independent of the Texas A&M Sys
tem.
One of the measures, a proposed
constitutional amendment, would
give half of Texas A&M’s portion of
the Available Fund to Prairie View.
Prairie View now receives a share of
the fund through Texas A&M.
Texas A&M awarded a record
1,744 diplomas at the ceremonies.
Dr. Herbert Reynolds, executive
vice president of Baylor University,
also addressed the graduates.
[rend indicates population
double by 21st century
United Press International
STANFORD, Calif. — Popula-
„ trends are moving toward a
ubling of the world’s population
the early part of the next century
less a dramatic effort is made to
luce birth rates, says Stanford
livers ity biologist. Dr. Paul R.
irlich.
Ehrlich, author of the “The Popu-
ion Bomb,” said there is grave
iubt being expressed about
lether the ecological systems of
ir th — including its agricultural
ptem — can support such a popu-
ion increase.
‘Much will depend on how lucky
' are with the weather and on
lether biological research can be
Tied out and economic and social
justments can be made that will
Irmit a doubling of agricultural
Lductivity,” Ehrlich said in a
jtement Thursday for the 10th an-
ersary of Zero Population
|o\vth.
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Ehrlich said even if food produc
tivity' doubled, a dramatic change in
the patterns of distribution would
be needed or there would simply be
twice as many people — nearly 2
billion — living on the verge of star
vation in the 21st century.
Ehrlich said agricultural activites,
however, often constitute a massive
assault on the integrity of the life-
support systems of the planet.
“If we are not careful, attempts to
feed today’s burgeoning population
may so undermine the ecological
foundations of human existence that
a hundred years from now, the
planet will not even be able to sup
port 1 billion people.”
Declining birth rates in some
countries are “cheering signs,”
Ehrlich said, and indicate a reversal
of population growth could occur if
"a genuine worldwide effort were
made to do so by every human
means available.
To fail to do so in all likelihood
will condemn humanity to a series of
catastrophes of unimaginable pro
portions. If birth rates do not come
down rapidly enough, then death
rates will inevitably rise; perhaps to
levels that will spell the end of
civilization.
“The need for dramatic efforts to
lower birth rates everywhere is now
more urgent than ever. ”
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