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...Heidi Zamecnik's "Be Happy, Not Gay" T shirt sent a clear and disenfranchising message to homosexual youth that they are not O.K. This is not the kind of dialogue that should take place in an academic environment. I'd bet that Heidi's intolerance comes from parental influence. If her parents feel so strongly about the issue, perhaps they should enroll their daughter in a parochial school, where church doctrine would dictate academic policy...
...typical ADF case involves a student prevented from singing a religious song, distributing antiabortion pamphlets or, most recently, wearing an anti-gay T shirt at school. In a case decided last month, the organization's lawyers represented Heidi Zamecnik, 17, a senior at Neuqua Valley High School in Naperville, Ill., a suburb southwest of Chicago. Zamecnik wanted to wear a T shirt that said BE HAPPY, NOT GAY on the day after students observed a Day of Silence in support of gay rights. The school said she could wear a shirt opposing homosexuality, but one with a less derogatory message...
...after wrestling with the question, Francis Crick postulated (and Harvard Biochemists Paul Zamecnik and Mahlon Hoagland confirmed) a second form of RNA, which was later found to carry specific amino acids floating in the cytoplasm to the ribosomes; this substance became known as transfer RNA. Then in the early 1960s, biologists discovered a third kind of RNA?shortly after its existence had been theorized by Jacques Monod and François Jacob of France's Pasteur Institute. Called messenger RNA, it provided the missing piece in the molecular puzzle. It was formed on an uncoiled strip of DNA in the nucleus...
Fats in cells will be the subject of research by Robert P. Geyer, associate professor of Nutrition, with a grant of $14,498, while Robert S. Chang, assistant professor of Microbiology, will continue genetic research with an award of $6,172. Paul C. Zamecnik, Collis P. Huntington Professor of Oncologic Medicine, received $4,715 for cancer research...
...Zamecnik will also serve as Chairman of the Executive Committee of the Departments of Medicine...