Acknowledgments ................................................. 9
Introduction ................................................... 11
Part I: Weaving the Fabric
1 Motivations ................................................. 21
2 Education Big Time - Texas .................................. 43
3 Michigan .................................................... 59
4 Harvard ..................................................... 65
Part II: The Ivory Is Cracked (but Not Broken); the Tower Is
Leaning (but Not Fallen)
5 Kent State University ....................................... 79
6 Service, Administration, and Teaching ....................... 89
7 Biological Field Studies in Mexico and Biological Field
Studies in the American West ................................ 99
8 Research, Fossils, and Religion: "A 100 Million Year Love
Affair with American Plants" ............................... 125
9 Teleconnections, Social Trends, and the Cultural Context
of Teaching and Research ................................... 149
10 The Shootings - An American Tragedy ........................ 167
11 Collective Bargaining ...................................... 179
12 Discrimination ............................................. 193
Epilogue ...................................................... 205
Appendix ...................................................... 209
Participants of the Biological Field Studies Summer
Sessions in Mexico and the American West, Kent State
University, 1974-1985
Endnotes ..................................................... 219
References ................................................... 223
Index ........................................................ 235
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