April 19, 2005

by Larry Pena

Riverside—La Sierra University will host a special speaker at University Worship on April 21, in honor of Earth Day, April 22. Jim Catanzaro, Ph.D., president of Chattanooga State Technical Community College in Tennessee, will give a video address on “Christianity and the Environment,” and La Sierra University biology student Lorena Salto will give an address on environmental responsibility.

Catanzaro was the chair of the nationally acclaimed ReVision 2000, the program that played a major role in rejuvenating the environment of southeastern Tennessee. Salto was a member of the first session of a new biology class, Environmental Science.

At the assembly, the university will present awards for the campus wide Environmental Awareness Campaign, a program that recognizes those departments that are most proactive in helping the environment. Each academic department is judged in the areas of energy efficiency, water conservation, recycling, and general environmental awareness. The top three departments will each receive plaques, which will be displayed both in the departments themselves and in the new Thaine B. Price Science Complex.

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