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Then there's the year-old Klingon Language Institute (P.O. Box 634, Flourtown, Pennsylvania 19031), which has about 200 members and publishes the quarterly journal HolQeD (translation: Linguistics). "It started out as sort of a joke," says founder Lawrence Schoen, who sometimes uses Klingon in the linguistics courses he teaches at Chestnut Hill College in Philadelphia. But now HolQeD includes scholarly articles as well as Klingon word games and other light features. Thanks to some press reports mentioning the organization, the institute has recently been flooded with nearly a thousand inquiries from Klingon fanciers on five continents. (Send stamped, self...
Military service by homosexuals is nothing new either, although the untold thousands who have served have had to remain deeply closeted -- or rely on the sympathy and discretion of superior officers who sometimes risked their own careers in protecting gays beneath them. Chuck Schoen of Clear Lake, California, head of a local gay-veterans chapter, last week sent a letter to President-elect Clinton commending him on the plan to drop the ban. Promised Schoen: "You will not hear the explosion of a Mardi Gras celebration but a sigh of relief from thousands of men and women." Schoen mentioned...
...Schoen, the time for reinstatement has passed, but for other gay veterans the question is more urgent. Petty Officer Keith Meinhold, 30, who resumed a 12-year Navy career when a federal court ordered him reinstated despite his homosexuality -- which he says he discovered only after years in uniform -- asserted that he was being subjected to unusual daily uniform and haircut inspections and other close scrutiny. Former Staff Sergeant Thomas Paniccia filed suit in U.S. District Court in Arizona last week to salvage his 11-year career, which ended in October after he, like Meinhold, acknowledged his homosexuality on national...
...Stoll '94 EDITORIAL EDITOR: John A. Cloud '93 FEATURE EDITOR: Lan N. Nguyen '93 PHOTO EDITORS: Coky T. Nguyen '95 Michael D. Rosenbaum '94 CLASS DAY EDITOR: Mark N. Templeton '93 DESIGN EDITORS: James Cham '95 Nancy E. Green '95 Dante E.A. Ramos '93 BUSINESS EDITOR: Michael A. Schoen '93 STUFF CHAIRS: Alessandra M. Galloni '95 Eli e G. Kaunfer...
...John A. Cloud '93 Molly B. Confer '94 Wendy A. Gribb '95 Mary Louise Kelly '93 Lan N. Nguyen '93 Ivan Oransky '94 Maggie S. Tucker '93 FEATURE EDITOR JOANNA M. WEISS '94 EDITORIAL EDITOR John A. Cloud '95 PHOTO EDITOR Michael D. Rosenbaum '93 BUSINESS EDITOR Michaeld A. Schoen '93 DESIGN EDITORS, SECTION B James Cham '95 Nancy E. Greene '95 Dante E.A. Ramos...