Yale Bulletin and Calendar

January 21, 2000

Volume 28, Number 17

New York City police commissioner to give talk in SOM series

Howard Safir, police commissioner of the City of New York, will discuss "The Challenges of Managing the World's Largest Police Force" on Friday, Jan. 21, as part of the Yale School of Management's Leader's Forum series.

Safir's talk, which is free and open to the public, will begin at 10 a.m. in Rm. 114 of Sheffield-Sterling-Strathcona Hall, corner of Grove and Prospect streets.

Safir was appointed as police commissioner in 1996 by New York City Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani. New York City has since achieved a 32% reduction in major crime and a 47% reduction in homicides, making it the lowest homicide rate in three decades. Safir also implemented a comprehensive strategy to arrest fugitives, established major anti-drug efforts throughout the city and introduced closed circuit television to ensure the safety of citizens in housing developments, parks and on subways. In addition, he has worked to expand the use of DNA in police investigations.

Safir began his law enforcement career in 1965 as a special agent to the New York office of the Federal Bureau of Narcotics, a forerunner of the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA). He served in a variety of leadership positions in the DEA before he joined the U.S. Marshals Service, where he held several senior posts before retiring in 1990. In 1994, Mayor Giuliani appointed Safir as New York City's 29th Fire Commissioner.

During his career, Safir has directed numerous international and domestic investigations, including the apprehension of escaped Soviet spy Christopher Boyce and the discovery of the remains of Nazi war criminal Dr. Joseph Mengele. His honors include the Presidential Meritorious Executive Award, which he received twice.

Medical education will be focus of inaugural lecture

Dr. Howard Koh, the Massachusetts State Commissioner of Health, will present the inaugural Morris Dillard Honorary Lecture at 3 p.m. on Friday, Jan. 21, in Rm. 216 of the Jane Ellen Hope Building, 315 Cedar St.

His lecture, titled "Mentorship, Medical Education and Multiple Public Health Opportunities in the New Millennium," is free and open to the public. It honors physician Dr. G. Morris Dillard, who treated patients in the Yale-New Haven community for over 30 years and played a pivotal role in the success of the Wednesday Evening Clinic, a longitudinal adult medicine clinic for Yale medical students founded more than 25 years ago.

Koh, a 1973 graduate of Yale College who earned his medical degree from the University in 1977, is an alumnus of the Wednesday Evening Clinic. He received his Master of Public Health degree from Boston University, trained at Boston City Hospital and Massachusetts General Hospital, and is board certified in medical oncology, dermatology, hematology and internal medicine. He has been director of cancer prevention and control at Boston University Medical Center and professor of dermatology, medicine and public health at the Boston University Schools of Medicine and Public Health, and has held a variety of other academic, medical and professional appointments. Koh also has served as a member of the editorial board of The Journal of Clinical Oncology.

HUSTLER magazine founder to speak at campus events

Publisher Larry Flynt, founder of HUSTLER magazine, will be featured in two events on campus on Monday, Jan. 24.

At 4:30 p.m., he will be the guest of a tea in the Calhoun College master's house. The event is open only to students, with preference given to students in Calhoun College. A lottery sign-up will be available for non-Calhoun students. For further information, call (203) 432-0740.

That evening at 8 p.m., Flynt will engage in a debate sponsored by the Yale Political Union in Rm. 102 of Linsly-Chittenden Hall, 63 High St. The event is free for members of the Yale Political Union. Nonmembers are welcome after paying a $5 admission fee; annual memberships to the Yale Political Union will be available for $15.

Flynt, a native of Kentucky, began his career as the owner of a string of nightclubs in Ohio called the Hustler Clubs. In 1974, he started HUSTLER, which quickly became one of the largest-selling magazines of its type on the market. Flynt has since bought or started numerous other publications, including the men's magazine CHIC. He distributes these and a range of other publications through Flynt Distributing Company, the Los Angeles-based company he heads.

Flynt has spent much of his publishing career fighting libel and obscenity suits in the courts, where he has championed free speech. He was sued for libel by the Reverend Jerry Falwell after HUSTLER ran a parody of Falwell; the case was ultimately decided by the Supreme Court, which ruled that even "outrageous" statements about public figures must be protected under the Constitution. While a defendant in another trial, Flynt was shot in an assassination attempt that left him partially paralyzed. He was the subject of the 1996 film biography "The People vs. Larry Flynt," directed by Milos Forman and coproduced by Oliver Stone.

International trade lawyer to talk at master's tea

C. Christopher Parlin '71, counsel in the international trade practice group at the Washington, D.C. office of Winthrop, Stimson, Putnam & Roberts, will be the guest at a tea at 4:30 p.m. on Tuesday, Jan. 25, in the Calhoun College master's house, 434 College St.

The event is free and open to the public.

Parlin represents clients in disputes involving World Trade Organization (WTO) trade agreements and the NAFTA and U.S. trade remedy proceedings under Section 301 and the antidumping law. He also advises clients on international trade policy issues.

Parlin was a senior official in the Office of the United States Trade Representative 1986-1995. He was actively involved in the Uruguay Round WTO/GATT negotiations, including that of the Dispute Settlement Understanding. Additionally, as legal adviser to the U.S. trade representative in Geneva from 1987 to 1993, he represented the United States in all GATT disputes in which the country was involved.

Parlin is an adjunct professor at the Georgetown University Law Center, where he teaches courses on the WTO agreements and WTO dispute settlement.

Forestry School talk to feature conservation biologist

Connie Millar, a research geneticist and conservation biologist with the U.S. Forest Service, will present the third lecture in the semester-long series "Restoration Agenda: Blueprint 2000" on Wednesday, Jan. 26.

Her talk, titled "Longterm Change: Misdiagnosis in the Sierra Nevada," will take place 11:30 a.m.-12:50 p.m. in Bowers Aud. of Sage Hall, 205 Prospect St. A brown bag lunch seminar will follow 1-2 p.m. For information, contact Aimlee Laderman at (203) 432-3335.

Millar works for the Pacific Southwest Research Station of the U.S. Forest Service in Berkeley, California. Her research focuses on population, evolutionary and conservation genetics of western North American conifers. She currently focuses on paleoecology and applications to ecosystem management and restoration. Her studies seek to determine responses of high elevation and treeline species to natural historical climate cycles at decadal and century scales.

Millar was co-team leader of the Sierra Nevada Ecosystem Project, a large bioregional assessment project in California, and now serves as senior scientist with the ongoing Sierra Nevada Framework for Conservation and Collaboration, a bioregional project designing policy for 11 national forests in the Sierra Nevada. She is the recipient of two prestigious awards, the Scientific Achievement Award from the International Union of Forest Research Organizations in 1995 and designation as a Pew Scholar in Conservation and the Environment by the Pew Foundation in 1992.

Legal representation for children is topic of Bush Center lecture

Juliet McKenna, program director at Lawyers for Children America (LFCA), will discuss "Representing Children in Child Abuse and Neglect Cases: A Multidisciplinary Approach" on Friday, Jan. 28, as part of the Bush Center and Child Development lecture series.

Her talk will begin at noon in Rm. 211 of the Hall of Graduate Studies, 320 York St. The event is free and open to the public.

McKenna, a 1995 graduate of the Yale Law School, is currently an Arthur Liman Public Interest Fellow. At LFCA, she trains and supervises volunteer attorneys appointed as guardians ad litem in child abuse and neglect cases. LFCA is a non-profit organization that solicits institutional commitment from major law firms and corporate legal departments to devote significant pro bono time to the issue of youth and violence. The organization was established about five years ago as a pilot in Hartford, Connecticut.

While at the Law School, McKenna was director of the Jerome Frank Legal Services Organization and provided a range of legal services to clients in child custody hearings, estate planning for HIV-positive clients, appeal of denial of federal welfare benefits and landlord-tenant disputes.

For further information, call (203) 432-9935.

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