September 28, 1979

“We are destroying ourselves with our own destructiveness,” Professor of Physics Morton Tavel said, lecturing on “Food and Energy: Their Interrelationship” as part of the interdepartmental course, “World Hunger and Moral Obligation,” to which faculty from biology, anthropology, economics, history, and political science also contributed. The interdepartmental course, according to Chaplain George Williamson, “is not a typical classroom situation and it gets people thinking, it generates discussion.”

“Tavel’s lecture,” wrote Louis Kowitch ’81 in The Miscellany News, “did just that. He dramatized the world food situation by applying the concept of entropy to the unsolvable condition of the earth’s rapidly vanishing natural resources.”