Word: historyes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Jonathan Dresner is a first-year graduate student studying Japanese history in the History Department.
"The university should not be just about facts; the emphasis should be on analysis," said Professor of History and of Women's Studies Olwen Hufton. "It's not a function of a university to make up the deficiencies of the [secondary] school."
Lepine, an unemployed man with a history of academic setbacks, apparently ushered male students from the room, yelled "You're all a bunch of feminists" and began shooting at remaining prisoners, the Associated Press reported. Besides the 14 dead, Lepine wounded nine women and four men before killing himself.
"Over the years, I have known him as a very generous colleague, well thought-of, a major contributor to African-American history, a distinguished historian, a grand intellect, an international treasure. The loss is immeasurable."
--Florence Ladd, director of Radcliffe's Bunting Institute and a friend of Dubois Professor of History and Afro-American Studies Nathan I. Huggins, who died of cancer this Tuesday morning.