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Population specialist Werner Fornos to speak at St. Olaf

By Kristina Boyer '05
April 18, 2005

Werner Fornos, president of The Population Institute and expert on global population issues, will speak at St. Olaf on Monday, April 18, at 4 p.m. in Holland Hall 501. Fornos' lecture, entitled "Gaining People, Loosing Ground", will address issues about population as related to issues of global security and terrorism, environmental degradation, global climate change, hunger, poverty, and illiteracy.

This event is sponsored by the student-run St. Olaf Sustainable World Alliance (STOSWA), whose mission is to bring together different St. Olaf student organizations concerned with sustainable development issues, and educate their members and the college campus about the interconnectedness and importance of sustainable development throughout the world.

For more information regarding STOWSA or Fornos' lecture, which is free and open to the public, please contact Chloe Stull-Lane, at stulllan@stolaf.edu.

Contact Carole Engblom at 507-646-3271 or leigh@stolaf.edu.