Environmental Change

The Dartmouth Outing Club's Environmental Studies Division, which has been working with the Town of Hanover and the Hanover Conservation Council on local projects, has broadened its program this winter with a newspaper recycling effort that has been successful enough to keep going into the spring.

Collections so far have harvested more than 12 tons of newspapers for recycling. The student directors found the portico of Webster Hall too small for the deluge of old papers, so the collection base was shifted to a larger and more protected area under the concrete stands of Memorial Field. An additional collection site was also established in Norwich. Consideration is now being given to recycling programs for glass and metal.

William H. Schlesinger Jr. '72, chairman of the D.O.C. Environmental Studies Division, was honored recently by being named one of two student members on the standing committee on environment and public policy of the Geological Society of America. Last summer, at Tilton School, he took part in a Department of the Interior water pollution project and also was a terrestrial ecologist in the NAIS teacher training program.