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A warning against the increased presence of Communist influence on college campuses in the United States during the 1960s.

This article ran on the front page of The Campus on Thursday, May 27, 1965. It announced the new interdisciplinary Environmental Studies major, and laid out the three possible focuses of study in it: Earth Science, Ecology, and Human Ecology.

Congress passed the Endangered Species Act in December of 1973. At first the list mainly only included charismatic megafauna, such the blue whale, tiger, and gray wolf, but in 1975 forty species of butterflies became the first insects to be…

Summary of the Environmental Studies Program budget history since 1965 until 1988.

A political cartoon depicting a BP executive asking an oil-soaked bird on the beach, "'Have you seen our new "apology" ads?"'

A poster created to commemorate the United Farm Workers' long-standing "Wrath of Grapes" boycott. Formally initiated in 1986, the campaign strove to publicize the plight of migrant grape laborers who, along with their children, were victims of…

This is the cover of the special edition of "The Ecologist" in which "A Blueprint for Survival" was published. The book argued that society needed to drastically change in order to preserve the Earth.

A bison crosses a road to escape the smoke and flames of the infamous "Summer of Fire" in Yellowstone National Park, when 51 different fires ravaged the grasslands, understory, and forest canopy. Yet there were wildlife casualties as well: an…

Description of the recently completed Bicentennial Hall and its environmentally friendly features.