
                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: WEDNESDAY, October 11, 1995                   TAG: 9510110047
SECTION: CURRENT                    PAGE: NRV2   EDITION: NEW RIVER VALLEY 
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DATELINE: BLACKSBURG                                 LENGTH: Short

ETHICS LECTURE

Virginia Tech's College of Forestry and Wildlife Resources will be host to visiting scholar Max Oelschlaeger. He will speak on "Environmental Ethics for a Sustainable Future: Daydream, Nightmare, or Realistic Solution?" today at 4 p.m. in the Donaldson Brown Hotel and Conference Center Auditorium on campus.

A professor of philosophy and religion at the University of North Texas, Oelschlaeger is the author of "The Idea of Wilderness: From Prehistory to the Age of Ecology." It was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award.

Oelschlaeger will also speak on "The National Wilderness Preservation System - Help or Hindrance in Meeting Henry David Thoreau's Dictum: 'In Wildness is the Preservation of the World,'" today at 10 a.m., and "From Modern to Postmodern Natural Resources Management: Science, Ethics, and Evolving Paradigms," on Thursday at 3 p.m. Both lectures are in 315 Cheatham Hall. Call 231-7418.

by CNB