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  "What then is truth? A movable host of metaphors, metonymies, and; anthropomorphisms: in short, a sum of human relations which have been poetically and rhetorically intensified, transferred, and embellished, and which, after long usage, seem to a people to be fixed, canonical, and binding." — Friedrich Nietzsche, On truth and Lies in a Nonmoral Sense

  "I know that most men, including those at ease with problems of the greatest complexity, can seldom accept even the simplest and most obvious truth if it be such as would oblige them to admit the falsity of conclusions which they have delighted in explaining to colleagues, which they have proudly taught to others, and which they have woven, thread by thread, into the fabric of their lives." — Leo Tolstoy

Graduate student commits suicide

Dec. 4, 1997

By Lori Lenarduzzi

Staff Writer for The Baylor Lariat

Oatman 'Mike' Green, a 47-year-old Georgetown philosophy graduate student, died from an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head on Nov. 22, according to Sgt. Pete Hughey, an investigator for the Williamson County Sheriff's Office.

Green left behind a wife and two children, ages 17 and 14. Funeral services were Nov. 25 at Gabriel Funeral Home in Georgetown. A burial with full military honors followed at a cemetery a few miles from there.

Green had a bachelor's degree from Dallas Baptist University and two master's degrees from Southwestern University. He was an active-duty army chaplain who was completing a master's degree in ethics, according to Lydell Stike, an Austin graduate student. Stike was also sent on orders by the army to participate in the same program. He was a friend of Green's and spoke at his funeral.

'Mike's death was very unexpected and just a tragic death,' Stike said. 'It's hard to understand.'

Stike said Green's family was doing as well as could be expected. He said they were appreciative of the kindness from students and friends.

Dr. Robert Baird, chairman of the philosophy department, said the department is grieved over Green's death.

'We thoroughly enjoyed having Mike in class,' Baird said. 'He was much appreciated.'

Chris Blakley, a Garland graduate student said that Green will be missed in the department.

'Mike was a nice guy with a lot of great stories,' Blakley said. 'His death really makes you think about how precious life is.'

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