HOMECOMING HIGHLIGHTS U-Bee greets Caroline Koller and Grandma Betty in Alumni tent.

Five scholars find five ways to say the body does matter The question posed as the theme of the UB sesquicentennial academic symposium held on Oct. 4 refers to the fact that western culture for hundreds of years has devalued the physical body while celebrating the products of the mind. No shortcuts to ethnic harmony, Gates tells Distinguished Speakers audience Ethnic identity, multiculturalism and affirmative action all were on the slate, and Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas took it on the chin, as Henry Louis Gates Jr. opened the 1996-97 Distinguished Speakers Series.

Circulation for October 10, 1996, Vol. 28, No. 7

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