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musioal director Werner Sun...
Anderson won the award for his work in detecting the molecules responsible for depleting ozone in the upper atmosphere. Ozone, a derivative of oxygen, absorbs harmful ultraviolet rays from the sun which can cause skin cancer...
According to Jeffries, the class will focus on African contributions to world civilization that have been ignored by Eurocentric scholars. He begins by scribbling a chalkboard chart featuring "the sun people" (i.e., people of color) at one corner of a triangle and "the ice people" (i.e., not people of color) at another. Next to the latter he jots down a few salient attributes: "individualist," "competitive," "exploitative." Jeffries explains that his chart "gives us a paradigm for looking at the world. We're not talking about superiority and inferiority, but we're talking about the important factor of melanin." Blacks have...
Finding taboos in Brazil is not easy. How many can be left in a country where homeless children are hunted by death squads? White skins still lord it over black skins, but, unlike North Americans, Brazilians have a working concept of interracial society. "All colors merge into one joyous, sun- stunned flesh-color, coating the sand with a second living skin," writes Updike of Copacabana, the beach where Tristao meets Isabel. In a gesture of courtly love, he presents her with a ring stripped from the finger of a matronly tourist. The initials on the crest are DAR (Daughters...
Students had some theories as to why the course was so popular. Carol Yeh '96, said, "Its a good core class with cool cultural stuff." Her roommate Yee-San Sun '96 said she was taking the course for "Asian bonding...