Word: garcias
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...morning of Jan. 14, Stanley Williams, a U.S. volcanologist from Arizona State University, led a team of nine other scientists to the 13,680- ft. summit. Williams stayed on the rim and watched as two colleagues clambered down ropes toward the volcano's inner cone -- Nestor Garcia, a Colombian, to set up a temperature probe; Igor Menyailov, a Russian, to sample gases coming out of vents. Williams and Menyailov, who had taught himself English by listening to Elvis Presley records, had been friends since they first met in 1982 on a volcano watch in Nicaragua. "Igor was excited because...
...volcano seemed to take a big breath, first sucking in air, then exploding," said a Colombian tourist who survived unhurt. Garcia and Menyailov died in an instant in the 600 degreesC blast of toxic gases. On the western rim of the cone, British geologist Geoffrey Brown and two Colombian colleagues were also incinerated as gas and heat spurted upward...
...Right now we send [mailings] to all Chicanos on campus," says Garcia, "but we hope to expand to all Latinos...
...What [Harvard administrators] need to do is to be more inviting for Latino faculty," says Garcia. "They've got to honestly want it to happen as well...I think they don't understand the importance...
...Garcia says that another initiative he hopes to see become a reality is a multicultural center with space and resources for all minority student groups, including Latinos...