Ecology Coalition Plans for Spring

About 150 people attended an environmental action planning meeting sponsored by the Harvard University Ecology Coalition yesterday afternoon at Hunt Hall.

"We used yesterday's meeting primarily to organize committees to work on the environmental teach-in April 22 and to plan other ecology projects," said Rick Mayer, a third-year student at the Graduate School of Design and president of the coalition. "We tried to stress at the meeting that ecology should not pre-empt other issues, that ecology is related to other issues like poverty and housing," he added.

At the meeting, Tony Rossmann, a second-year law student, read a statement on the University parking plans that the coalition presented to the University later in the afternoon.

The statement asked for a restriction on the number of University parking permits and a system of parking fees based on the individual's ability to pay. It also demanded that additional parking facilities be built at the Business School ratherthan on the Broadway site currently proposed by the University.

"The parking project will be our first major project of the spring. By this project, we hope to show that ecology means more than flowers and trees-that we mean to do something about urban problems," Rossmann said.