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...calling on the HMS to resolve "eros-driven passions," he makes light of the issues the HMS hopes to address. Although founded by the Dean of Students' office, it is not an arm of the University. Comprised of students, faculty and administrators, it hopes to mediate conflicts revolving predominantly around race and ethnicity, which do--believe it or not--exist on this campus. Perhaps our campus appears to be, as Markel points out, "relatively at peace with itself" precisely because people have not perceived an adequate forum in which their complaints could be heard and true dialogue could be started...
Having testified at the Rodney King criminal trials that fellow officers bashed King in the head with their clubs, Theodore Briseno did an about-face at King's $9 million civil trial, stating this time that the blows actually hit King's arm. Why the flip-flop? Briseno said watching an enhanced version of the 1991 videotape changed his mind...
...should be a strong arm for the president," he said. "Our main idea is to support the leader and do anything we can to uphold the honor of the University...
Moreover, the relatively few afarensis arm and leg bones that had been found seemed to show structural differences for different means of locomotion. The smaller females were evidently better at swinging through trees than the males, while the males appeared to be better at walking. It was hard to imagine that members of a single species could be built so differently...
Those proportions, and comparisons between the grandson and other, more fragmentary skulls both large and small, convince Kimbel and his colleagues that afarensis was indeed a single species, as they had believed all along. The arm bones, too, appear to bolster this idea. According to Leslie Aiello, an anthropologist at University College London, they have exactly the robust, curving form you would expect from a tree climber. The two sexes didn't have different kinds of skills, she says, but were both "a mosaic, bipedal from the waist down and arboreal from the waist...