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For Immediate Release						April 16, 1997

Lawrence University Debate Looks at Validity of Environmental Movement


	APPLETON, WIS. Ñ Have environmentalists gone too far?  Should the
environmental movement be embraced or challenged?  Those questions will be at
the core of a Lawrence University debate on whether the environmentalism's
world view is valid.       

	In conjunction with the 27th anniversary of the founding of Earth Day,
Lawrence students Erik Carlson and Benjamin Bayer will engage in a one-hour
debate moderated by Nancy Wall, assistant professor of biology, Monday, April
21 at 7 p.m. in Younchild Hall, Room 161.  A question-and-answer period will
follow the two arguments.  The event is free and open to the public.

	Carlson, a sophomore philosophy and biology major, will argue on behalf
of the environmentalists, while Bayer, a philosophy and physics major, will
take the anti-environmentalist stance.

	Earth Day was established on April 22, 1970 as a grassroots effort to
stimulate nationwide concern for the environment.