Science gathering

By Judie Falloon

A conference of science students is to be held at Victoria over the May holdays.

A spokesman said that all talks will have scientific subject matter, some of them specifically so, but they are designed to appeal.

The best-known of the speakers will be Professor Geering, who will give a talk entitled The Role of Theology in a Scientific Ago'.

Other activties will include a glassblowing demonstration and a debate between two VUW profesors and the Debating Society on the motion That the earth is flat", the two professors supporting the motion.

On the social, side there will be a wine and cheese evening, for which a number of tickets will be available to non delegates (price 50c single) and a dinner on the final night, Friday 10th.

Enrolments have come in from as far as South Australia; the total number expected is in the region of 100.

Enrolments will probably be accepted up until Friday 3rd.