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October 7, 2002

In Memoriam

Norman O. Brown

Norman O. Brown
Photo: Thomas Brown

Norman O. Brown, professor emeritus of humanities and author of Life Against Death and Love's Body, died October 2 at his residence in Santa Cruz. He was 89.

Brown's influential scholarship and teaching encompassed the classics, theology, history, psychology, sociology, and literature, among other disciplines. "He was a liberating, visionary scholar, the successor in the 20th century to Blake and to Nietzsche," said Jerome Neu, professor of philosophy at UCSC and a longtime colleague of Brown.

Brown taught a variety of courses, mostly through the History of Consciousness Department, until his retirement in 1981. His last two books were Closing Time (1973), and Apocalypse and/or Metamorphosis (1991), a collection of essays he had written over the course of 30 years.

A celebration of the life of Norman O. Brown will take place on Saturday, October 19, at 3 p.m. in a location to be determined; when a location is determined, it will be posted on this web page.

(Full text of press release)

Francisco Parcet

Francisco Parcet, a Crown College junior who was majoring in mathematics, died while swimming in the East Field pool September 28; he was 26.

An international student from Chile, Francisco Parcet had transferred to UCSC last year from Santa Monica Community College. He enjoyed scuba diving and had served as the teaching assistant for a scuba class.

As of Monday (October 7) the cause of his death had not yet been reported by the Santa Cruz County Coroner's Office.

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