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DIED. Chester Gorman, 43, archaeologist and teacher of anthropology whose excavations in northern Thailand unearthed evidence of the world's earliest agricultural and Bronze Age society, predating similar developments in the Tigris-Euphrates Valley by several centuries and casting doubt on the theory that the Middle East was a "cradle of civilization"; of cancer; in Sacramento...
DIED. Carleton Coon, 76, wide-ranging anthropologist who traced the development of humanity from its earliest stages to the first agricultural communities and whose many books include The Story of Man (1954) and The Seven Caves (1957); of cancer; in Gloucester, Mass...
Many attribute the meteoric rise of the gay rights movement on campus to the determination of its earliest leader, Benjamin H. Schatz '81, a class marshal, former president of GSA and founder of GOOD, who graduates today. Administrators who have watched the movement's rapid growth with discomfort say privately that "it will all blow over when Schatz graduates." But Schatz's leadership is only one of a set of circumstances that have coalesced in the last few years to make gay rights activism possible. "A lot of things came together at once," Michael G. Colantuono '83, a member...
...that very first step where we can't get people to listen to us unless they acknowledge our existence," Gladsjo says. "For that reason, GLAD is oriented toward awareness, rather than toward winning political concessions." Colantuono also sees the parallels between the gay rights struggle and the earliest moments in the awakening of Afro-American conciousness in this country. "It took Blacks a long time to realize that racism is not justified; that they were not biologically inferior, and gays are just reaching that point," he says...
...they were just concerned." By the time the school year began, it had become evident that academic issues were pressing enough to bring what might normally be considered a financial matter to the Faculty. Bok stresses that "the Ptashne case was presented to the Faculty at the earliest possible date. I would say that when I first received the description of this it occured to me that this was the kind of investment decision which really had implications for the Faculty and for academic values...