August 6, 1999

Wyoming Professor Writes 'Memoir' of Gay Student's Murder; Columbia U. Press Cuts Price on 'Son of Sam' Book; Next Editor of 'Art Bulletin' Plans to Feature More Curators

"Wyoming: The Way America Once Was."

That bumper-sticker boast has chilled Beth Loffreda since the beating death last October of Matthew Shepard, a gay student at the University of Wyoming. But she thinks news coverage of the murder has caricatured the state. "I love it here," says Ms. Loffreda, who moved to Laramie last August to take a position as an assistant professor of English. "It's a more diverse and

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