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...Dancing Deviant. Denied funding by the Office for the Arts, yet determined to express his talents during Arts First weekend, Marc R. Talusan '97 did his originally-conceived dance-monologue piece in the Kronauer Space. Well-received, the show pushed boundaries without becoming gimmicky or losing its flair and provided a welcome wakeup call to the lazy days of conventional spring theater...
...petition was first organized by a group of 10 undergraduates led by Marc R. Talusan '97 in the days following the department's general exam, which the students found "biased and obsolete," he said...
...until the end of January that Flinn finally learned how much Marc had told the investigators. She learned a lot more about him too. It turned out that four months after he married Gayla, he was charged with beating her, in a case that never went to trial. He had lied about where and when he was born, his life, his career, nearly everything...
Flinn threw Marc out of the house and found herself a lawyer. Lieut. General Phillip J. Ford, commander of the Eighth Air Force at Barksdale Air Force Base in Louisiana, approved a recommendation that she be court-martialed. Ford could have slapped her with a "nonjudicial," or administrative, punishment, such as a reprimand or reduction in rank, which is what senior Air Force officials in the Pentagon now wish he had done. Instead, on Feb. 25, Flinn was ordered to stand trial...
Once the case became public, it was the Air Force and its rules that went on trial first. Even though Flinn had been given several chances to extricate herself from the whole business if only she would stop seeing Marc, the case soon became one of sex discrimination in the service. Connecticut Republican Representative Nancy Johnson complained in a May 19 letter to Widnall, "It is disgraceful that Lieut. Flinn's career as a [bomber] pilot will be over simply because overzealous prosecutors targeted her case over numerous others with more egregious circumstances." New York Democratic Representative Carolyn Maloney wondered...