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NINE David I S back; he f ecology by Cindv O'Neal liked it by Linda Powell After one year's leave of absence, Dr. Willjam 'Where are we supposed to take this stuff?' David of the Political Science Department is back t follow the noise. Tri Bela, the honorary science at WMC. nizalion is once again making sound congruent In September of last year Dr. Davis, ac- the recycling business. companied by his wife, left for India under a espite the cold rain and wind, response to the Fulbright-Hayes visiting professorship. For eight months he taught M.A. candidates in comparative collection from 10-3on October 30 was quite rable. At least two truck loads of material were government at Andrah University in back to the collection depot at Lewis Hall Visakhapatnan. When not teaching, Dr. David took ing lot. parI in seminars and completed field work on his iBeta conceived the recycling idea last year as research project about candidate selection for the ething they could do for the community of Andrah Pradesh (the state legislative assembly.) tminster as a whole - not just the campus itself. In his work, Dr. David had contact with all walks y decided to emphasis ecology by sponsoring of Indian life. He found that the Indians were quite friendly but they did not un- to" him personally, lar collections to save the town as much space ssible in the landfill. Local newspaper and derstand and therefore disliked American policies. o broadcasting got the word out and according Dr. David feels that the students he taught at An- Dr. Jean Kerschner, biology professor drah University were not as good as those at WMC. sponse from the community is marvelous!" Tins he attributes to the bad educational system. ass, tin, and paper is accepted for recycling. The entire evaluation of a student's success or he materials are collected on campus and them failure .depends on his final exams. These exams t be transported to recycling centers in are given' and graded by an outside examiner and the teacher has no say. As a result, may students imore. Dr. Kerschner explained that trans- are not interested in class activity and want their tion has posed the only problem. Last year, Preston Yingling was able to schedule a college lect ures packaged and ready to memorize. The k and driver to take the collections to students are pleasant, but few see much purpose in irnore. Not wishing to tie up the school' what they are doing. They make the best of what pment this year, however, Tri Beta was they have, but often they don't have much to work sed to accept the assistance of the Maryland with. There is a lack of money for books and sup. ees. Conveniently the Jaycees have received a plies. Also, many students at Andrah University- ral grant for environmental efforts--precisely are caught in the middle-they speak Teleguh, a. native language, but can not speak it.This makes t Tri Beta is engaging in. Besides a truck, the is checking the possibility the Jaycees could h a bottle grinding machine. As bottles take up of air space, many more could be collected for cling if they were crushed on campus. udents, too, are contributing to the efforts by sing of soft drink cans in special ecology boxes e dorms. All recyclable materials should be n, with papers bundled and cans delabeled and ened. i Beta doesn't just collect scraps. Another ogical concern among their many interests lves the use of plastic. Previously, plastic utensils were served at breakfast on campus use no one was willing to get up that early to h dishes. Through the assisting efforts of Tri is good, but must continue in order to keep the , several persons were located and scheduled reeve! inq project going. ork in the morning so that plastic has for the t part been eliminated from the Western finually by those who recognize its essentialness. yland diet. Recycling collections will be held every month espite the popular ebb and tide of today's throughout the school year in Lewis Hall parking ogy movement, the work still goes on con- lot. The next collection is scheduled for October 28. learning awkward. The situation is slowly im- proving, however. Indians love education and everyone who can goes to school. There is a conscious legal policy to Turn the peg•• at Illy lit. help the backward Indians·-Uie so-called Un- Donlt put ~. down, touchables. Universities save a certain number of Wll1lte your book positions for them. However this love of education Until ••• ry page he. b•• n is also harmful. The colleges are turning out too turn.d. many liberal arts graduates and there is not much By th1.; to do wit~ a liberal arts degree except go to law school. Right now India is flooded with unemployed your lay~lty, lawyers who help form the base for political dissent r.ap.ct, snd and unrest. undy1nglon- Indian has a free, modified one-party system. I bop•• There are many political parties, but Mrs. Gandhi's and pray Congress Party has always won national elections l:la. b•• n .arn.d. ~nd m.any I~al ones. There are no primary elec- uons III India. Each party cboses its candidates . int~rnally. The elections are free and as many " Indians vote in those as Americans do in our ........ general elections. There are large numbers of illiterate people, yet most of them also vote. The campaigns are run on a person-to-parson basis. Each candidate goes to every village he can to let people see him and the symbol that stands for him. When the people go to vote, they see a picture of the candidates with their symbol and they make their choice. This makes elections a time of community involvement. India is slowly becoming more ac, tivist. Students and women are beginning to ask for their rights. Dr. David is coritemplating taking WMCstudents to India with him during Jan. Term next year.