SURVIVAL FAIRE
NEWS RELEASE
21 January 1970 Humanities 160, Contemporary Issues
San Jose State College
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE San Jose, California 95114
A Humanities 160, Contemporary Issues, class at San Jose State College is
presenting a Survival Faire at San Jose State College the week of February 16-20,
1970. Survival Faire is dedicated to the survival of mankind and to the ecological
problems which manfs survl il entails.
The purpose of the Faire is to present to the college community and to the
larger society the problems of environmental survival, to create a general aware-ness
of ecology, and then to stimulate the participants and visitors to act through
their particular communities to solve these many ecological problems.
Survival Faire is a week of activities, events and exhibits intended to
stimulate active participation in all aspects of ecology. The program w i l l include
speakers, panels, workshops, films, exhibits, plays, a funeral procession and a
nine hour Wake to celebrate the burial of a 1970 automobile and an ecology film
festival, a photographic essay contest, a graphics contest, a poetry contest and
a contest for the most creative re-use of garbage/waste. The Faire Program is
enclosed.
According to Dr. Hobert Burns, President of San Jose State College, MSurvival
Faire Is one of the most important educational experiences I have witnessed in
fourteen years as a college professor and administrator. Let me commend the
students, faculty and administrators who have organized Survival Faire and con-fronted
the most urgent problem facing mankind--survival. This class has created
a program which is designed to analyze our survival problems and to evolve the
modes of social, political and economic action required for their solution.11
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