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...vote marks an advance in the student and faculty effort to improve faculty diversity, according to several of the approximately 65 students participating in a silent vigil outside the faculty meeting in Pound Hall yesterday...
Second year student Darryl D. Chiang, co-chair of the Asian-American Law Students Association, said the silent vigil was "really meant to hammer home to the Faculty Appointments Committee our concerns...[so] they know their actions are being watched...
Yesterday's vigil was prompted by a tip from Clark, some students said...
...rumor is that [Clark] asked a member of CCR to organize the vigil and that the dean told her they are voting on a woman today," said third year student Elizabeth G. Moreno...
...intruders they watch for are Earth-crossing asteroids, giant rocks that have strayed from their neighborhood between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter and periodically pass close to Earth -- and sometimes smash into it. The vigil has paid off. Over the years, the couple have discovered more than 300 asteroids, some of which they have named after their children, grandchildren and in-laws. About 10% of their discoveries are ECAs, but none is currently in an orbit that puts it on a collision course with the earth. Still, the Shoemakers keep looking: lurking somewhere out there may be a hulk...