Word: deacon
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...starting time of Science B-29, popularly nicknamed "Sex," was changed as of Monday because approximately 500 students, about 150 more than expected, crammed into Science Center B for an introductory lecture, according to Lecturer on Anthropology Terrence W. Deacon who teaches the course with Professor of Anthropology Irven DeVore...
...room large enough was available with the requisite audiovisual equipment to accomodate the herd of students at 11 a.m., the scheduled starting time, and thus DeVore and Deacon decided to reschedule the course rather than hold a lottery...
During the protest, police arrested about 160 people, including two Roman Catholic priests and a deacon. The clerics spent a night in jail before being released in response to pleas from Santiago Archbishop Juan Francisco Fresno Larraín. A British subject who worked as the United Press International correspondent in Santiago, Anthony Boadle, was summarily deported for filing a report that three deaths had occurred during rioting (in fact, none had). Pinochet, who has refused widespread demands that he relinquish power to a democratically elected government, spent the protest days away from the capital, touring the desert country...
...Deacon points out that almost 50 percent of next year's senior class in his department will have done some kind of lab work under the auspices of a faculty member. A higher percentage is expected the year after, he says, in part because officials feel the lab work is becoming more important for the field...
...Deacon indicates, undergraduates are becoming an increasingly important part of many faculty research teams. Although the undergrads have limited time and expertise, Donald J. Ciappenelli, director of the chemical laboratories, says they make up for those deficiencies in other ways...