Activists

With student activism declining, it now seems to be alumni and their families and friends who are issuing manifestoes.

"Concerned by frightening implications in the areas of energy, population, and resources," almost 80 per cent of the participants in the 1974 Alumni College signed a petition urging President Ford's moral and financial commitment to three proposals: 1) for the reallocation of government energy expenditures toward development of energy sources less dangerous to the environment than nuclear power and the delay of construction of nuclear power plants until safeguards are guaranteed; 2) for the exercise of moral leadership, on a world-wide basis, toward control of population growth; and 3) for long-range environmental planning "to insure that we bequeath to our descendants an environment no more dangerous to life than that we inherited...

The petition, hand-delivered to the White House, included also the participants' pledge to act in their private lives and through the political process in support of the three proposals.