Tag: environment

Flashback to the late 1970s, when one had to wait at least an hour to fill his or her car up with gas.

A group of eager students circle the Rock in front of Founders Hall and carelessly fling paint in an attempt to send a message. But the message they are sending is probably not the one they were hoping to send. Rather than boosting their organization or event, they are polluting the school and the minds of students into thinking that tradition is more important than the plant life surrounding the Rock.

Monday is Earth Day and all across the nation people are celebrating our planet. With this comes renewed desires to conserve water and energy; to reduce, reuse and recycle.

Dr. Dan Merritt, professor of zoology, has been taking groups of students to a pond located at the Mary Vagle Nature Center in Fontana since September 1995 to clean it up and ensure its biological balance.

Eating out has always been one of my little pleasures in life. Many of my memories of childhood are associated with meal times and food. When I was in grade school, my father used to take me and my brother to Carl’s Jr. every Thursday before choir practice. I would order a Western Bacon cheeseburger, fries and a Coke. At that time it was a meal I viewed as a luxurious pleasure.

La Verne’s community, like most others, devotes one day per year to the problems of the Earth —Earth Day. Of course, the creators of Earth Day would have undoubtedly liked to see more people think of the Earth everyday. It is important that the tradition nor be mocked in its observance.