SURVIVAL FAIRE
NEWS RELEASE
29 January 1970
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Humanities 160, Contemporary Issues
San Jose State College
San Jose State College
San Jose, California 95114
TELEPHONE: 408/ 287-9928
G-*.e of the important features of Survival Faire will be a
High Scr.ool Exibit Roc^n produced and run by area high school
Etudents in cooperation with the Humanities 160 High School
Cotimitt^e. The High School Exibit Room will feature curriculum
materials en ecology prepared by high school students and teachers
as well as art projects and graphic exibits on ecology.
Tha High School Exibit Room will be available for teachers and
students to hold workshops to discuss curriculum projects and
ecology programs and to exchange information on programs in
their respective schools. Students from billow Glen High School
will run a workshop each evening directed to the questionf
"What Can High School Students Do To Solve the Environmental
Crisis?" The students expect that out of the workshops will come
a "Survival Newspaper" which would keep Bay Area high schools
informed of each other's ecology programs and coordinate
ecology activities.
Students from lit. View High School will have a "Survival Post
Office" at the Faire where people can deposit letters to legislators
anr1 jovernment officials regarding environmental problems.
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One wall of the Exibit Roc .ill be covered by an ecological
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mural dc^e by students at W: xow Glen High Shhool. Fremont
High School students will have a representative exibit from their
outdoor ecology lab. Los Altos High School students will be
available to discuss their inter-disciplinary ecology curriculum
which they developed this semester.
Students from the Urban School in San Francisco will present
a short play entitled "Noah's Ark—Or Man, A Fracturing Menace"«
The play is written and produced by the high school students
at the Urban School.
Students frora Campolinda High School will be on hand to discuss
their recent "No Car Day" and video tapes cf the event will be shown
in the High School Exibit Room. Video tapes of the Cubberley High
School "Environmental Week" also will be shown and students from
Cubberley will discuss the program in workshops.
Approximately seventy-five high schools are planning student
field to Survival Faire according to Dr. Herschel Ross,
Chairman of the Humanities 160 High School Committee. "We
expect students from the San Jose Area and from high schools in
Sacramento/ Atascadero, Burling ^-ne San Francisco, Dublin, Milpitas,
Livermcre, San Bruno, Fremont and many many other schools have
written regarding plans for attending Survival Faire." Housing
is available for visitors from high schools out of the San Jose
area.
Dr. Ross has stated that "We hope to have large numbers of high
school students attend the Faire because we believe that the
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of mankind lies with the young people of the world."
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