Stories from March 1996
Contributor to 'Our Bodies, Ourselves' to lecture
Tuesday, March 12, 1996 10:03 am
Nancy P. Hawley, a prominent member of the group that published the pioneering women's health book Our Bodies, Ourselves, will conduct a workshop and deliver a lecture at Bates College Friday, March 15. Hawley will conduct a session on new health and medical breakthroughs for women at 4 p.m. in Skelton Lounge. Her lecture, at 7 p.m. in Chase Hall Lounge, will cover the history of the women's movement and of the Boston Women's Health Book Collective, its publications and its plans.
MLK Scholar to present annual Zerby lecture
Tuesday, March 12, 1996 10:01 am
The legacy of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. will be discussed…
Timothy Lee named Ruggles Scholar
Tuesday, March 12, 1996 9:59 am
Timothy R. Lee of Salt Lake City, Utah, has been named Bates' second Ruggles Scholar, a fellowship awarded to a junior for academic excellence in the liberal arts and sciences.
Grammy-winning Ziggy Marley to perform
Tuesday, March 12, 1996 9:56 am
Two-time Grammy award-winning Ziggy Marley and the Melody Makers will give a concert at Bates College at 8 p.m., March 16, in the Clifton Daggett Gray Athletic Building. Tickets are $20.
Famed Anthropologist to Lecture at Bates
Monday, March 11, 1996 10:24 am
In his talk March 24, Chagnon will address the controversy over who -- anthropologists, missionaries or government agencies, among others -- has the right to represent the Yanomamo's interests to the outside world. The problem has intensified, Chagnon says, because the Yanomamo are now among the best- known ancient cultures in the world. The invasion of Yanomamo territory by Brazilian miners in 1987 focused attention on the issue. Chagnon himself has been assailed by all sides because of his refusal to endorse any of them.
Vietnam Topic of Teachers' Workshop
Monday, March 11, 1996 10:18 am
The faculty for the all-day session includes Christopher Beam, director of the Edmund S. Muskie Archives at Bates; Robert Whelan, a lecturer in English at the University of Maine; Robert Weisbrot, a professor of history at Colby College; and Jon Oplinger, an associate professor of sociology and anthropology at the University of Maine at Farmington. The workshop will include discussion of Graham Greene's novel "The Quiet American," which examines the early days of American involvement in Southeast Asia.
FBI's Alleged Crimes are Conference Topic
Thursday, March 7, 1996 10:11 am
Speaking at 1 p.m. March 23 will be Ed Tatro, who will present a four-hour lecture in which he will link the FBI to the assassinations of Robert Kennedy and Martin Luther King Jr. Tatro was a consultant to director Oliver Stone during the filming of the motion picture "JFK."
Human Rights is Lecture Topic
Wednesday, March 6, 1996 10:06 am
Jack Donnelly, a professor in the Graduate School of International Studies at the University of Denver, will discuss "The United Nations and Human Rights: Past Achievements and Future Prospects." The talk, in the Benjamin Mays Center, is open to the public at no charge.
Brower to Present Muskie Lecture
Wednesday, March 6, 1996 10:01 am
Known to many as the godfather of the environmental movement, Brower served from 1952 to 1969 as the first executive director of the Sierra Club. During that time the organization grew from 2,000 to 77,000 members and became one of the nation's most influential voices for environmental protection. In 1969 he founded Friends of the Earth, which now operates in 53 countries.