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...Harvard, an ad hoc faculty committee onethnic studies headed by Thomson Professor ofGovernment Jorge I. Dominguez has been created byDean of the Faculty Jeremy R. Knowles toinvestigate the issue. The Faculty Council,however, has voted down a proposal to make it intoa permanent standing committee three times...
...council also discussed a draft copy of the report of the Committee on Ethnic Studies, a faculty committee which is chaired by Thomson Professor of Government Jorge I. Dominguez, Fox said...
Faculty advisers to the magazine will be Professor of Sociology Mary C. Waters and Thomson Professor of Government Martin L. Kilson...
...until Thomson and his colleagues hopped aboard a plane this month for a closer view of the monster that they were truly shocked. The appearance of the iceberg was just one of several dramatic changes they could see along the Antarctic Peninsula. A part of the Larsen Ice Shelf--to which the iceberg had been attached--was broken up into rubble. And a huge tongue of ice that had connected the mainland with James Ross Island, just offshore, was gone. "For the first time in recorded history," says Thomson, "you could circumnavigate Ross Island. I was absolutely staggered by what...
...current superberg probably won't get that far, and it might not even leave Antarctica. On the other hand, it may not be the only new peril in southern waters. Says Thomson: "The ice adjacent to where the iceberg broke away has big north-south cracks--we could see these when we flew over." So another country-size slab of ice could be heading out to sea at just about any time...