Over the last year, five departments  added a total of six new minors, bringing the total number of minors offered by the College of Arts and Sciences to 42. The new minors, in classics, classical civilization, mathematics, history, physics and anthropology will provide more opportunities for students to expand their education, Peter Lepage, dean of the College of Arts and Sciences said.

Prof. Ralph Bolton M.A. ’68 Ph.D. ’72, anthropology, Pomona College, was awarded the highest honor in anthropology last week. Bolton has spent his career researching HIV/AIDS and studying Peruvian culture.

Claude Lévi-Strauss, often referred to as “the father of modern anthropology,” was renowned in life for his unifying theories and sociological bridging between tribal and “civilized” cultures. The French anthropologist, who died on Oct. 30 at the age of 100, was honored in a panel discussion of his life’s work yesterday in the Kroch Library Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections.

To the Editor:

Re: “Professors: Concept of ‘Race’ Biologically Moot,” Science, Feb. 18

In yesterday’s Sun, Erin Sulzman describes a panel of biologists and other scientist discussing race and the fact that race is no longer a viable scientific category, despite the fact that it remains a social category. The piece is informative, but one statement leaps out to me, a graduate student in anthropology, as inaccurate: “While race is standard fare in anthropology classes, it has become an uncommon word in science.”