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Members of the OEB committal hope to increase the importance of their fields in the department. John G. Torrey, professor of Botany and a member of the OEB group, said that Faculty appointments for the past ten years have been heavily concentrated in the fields of developmental and molecular biology, leaving the OEB area underrepresented...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Biology Department May Split Into Separate Academic Areas | 1/8/1970 | See Source »

...Torrey said that this difficulty in reaching agreement within the department resulted in few Faculty appointments at the senior level within the past four years...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Biology Department May Split Into Separate Academic Areas | 1/8/1970 | See Source »

...Biology concentrators last Spring protested the small number of courses, especially in the organismic, ecological, and environmental areas. Torrey said that the situation was aggravated by the lack of Faculty appointments and by the lack of concern for those areas...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Biology Department May Split Into Separate Academic Areas | 1/8/1970 | See Source »

...Difference of opinion in the Biology Department antedates the protest last Spring. In 1967 a group split off from the Biology Department to form the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology. "This is a continuation of that Faculty unrest." Torrey said...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Biology Department May Split Into Separate Academic Areas | 1/8/1970 | See Source »

...creatures and sea birds. But more pernicious is the long term effect of chronic pollution from tankers flushing their storage compartments at sea. That, along with other everyday mishaps, adds up to 284 million gallons of spilled oil every year-about ten times the amount that oozed from the Torrey Canyon, and enough to coat a beach 20 ft. wide with a half-inch layer of oil for 8,633 miles. Scientists are increasingly worried that this oil could be poisonous to ocean plankton, a key source of photosynthesis that produces most of the earth's oxygen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Environment: The Black Tide | 12/26/1969 | See Source »

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