Sunday, April 19


Veteran draws on personal experience in teaching, gay rights research

As he paced in front of a class of about two dozen students, William “Ajax” Peris appeared assured and calm. He displayed the same confident demeanor that helped him succeed at testing heat-seeking missiles and monitoring no-fly zones in Iraq throughout the 1990s, after the first Gulf War. Read more...

Photo: William Peris, 44, is a U.S. Air Force veteran and a teaching assistant at UCLA.