Yale Bulletin and Calendar

January 28, 2000

Volume 28, Number 18

. . . In the News . . .

"[W]hether you thought that prisoners were being mistreated or they were dangerously out of control -- either way, you felt that something was wrong with the basic institutions in our country after Attica."

-- Political scientist Rogers M. Smith, "$8 Million Offered To End Attica Inmates' Suit," The New York Times, Jan. 5, 2000

"In the future now taking shape, applications are secondary, operating systems are invisible, the Net has transformed itself into the Swarm, and computation's main preoccupation has changed yet again. It used to be words and numbers. Today it is pictures. Tomorrow, crystallized time."

-- Computer scientist David Gelernter, in his article "Now That the PC Is Dead," The Wall Street Journal, Jan. 1, 2000.

"There's little data that reasonable exercise or even more extreme weights will cause permanent damage, but psychologically and physically, children should go for higher reps [rather than heavier weights]."

-- Sports medicine expert Dr. Peter Jokl, "Kids Need Exercise, But What Kind?" The New York Times, Jan. 4, 2000.

"From as early as the 1870s, anarchists were demonized as bomb-throwing fanatics and assassins who should expect no mercy; this, of course, had the unfortunate effect of ensuring that most anyone who hit out randomly against The Man, whether by trashing their high school or unabombing, would also claim to be an 'anarchist.'"

-- Anthropologist David Graeber, "Anarchy in the USA," In These Times, Jan. 10, 2000.

"Connecticut falls in the 'Northeast corridor' of states with higher rates of breast cancer."

-- School of Medicine assistant professor Beth A. Jones, "State Is No. 2 in Number of Breast Cancer Cases," New Haven Register, Jan. 12, 2000.

"It's wonderful to see gubernatorial leadership in issues as important as young children."

-- Bush Center senior research scientist Sharon L. Kagan, on Kentucky governor Paul Patton's support of a plan to spend tobacco settlement funds on early childhood intervention programs, "Patton: $56 Million for Kids: Tobacco Settlement Would Fund It," The Courier-Journal, Jan. 12, 2000.

"If [police] got every weapon in the house, would they keep [the gun owner] from finding a weapon or borrowing a weapon somewhere else? Seems to me the chances of actually preventing somebody from doing one of those acts of violence is just about nil."

-- Law School professor Steven Duke, "New Law in Connecticut Allows Police To Seize Guns from People They Believe To Be Dangerous, Even When No Crime Has Been Committed," National Public Radio, Jan. 18, 2000.

"In the 20th century the prevailing philosophy about architecture among the intellectual establishment has been that there has to be some kind of suffering dimension. Architecture is a reprimand for life, a reprimand against the excesses of life."

-- School of Architecture Dean Robert Stern, "Morris Lapidus, Controversial Architect, Comes Out of Retirement at Age 97," National Public Radio, Jan. 17, 2000.

"There is no difference to me between Joe Camel and Ronald McDonald."

-- Yale Center for Eating and Weight Disorders director Kelly Brownell, "They'll Tax Your Cheeseburger and Lecture You To Boot," St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Jan. 10, 2000.

"Most of our students become federal judges. We [at the Yale Law School] have more presidents and senators than public defenders."

-- Law School professor Stephen Wizner, "On Road Less Traveled, Judge Meets Elián," The Hartford Courant, Jan. 12, 2000.

"Only 2% of about 6 billion people in the world are using the Internet. There is a large number of people in the world who live without electricity. An alarming gap is opening up between societies with and without access to the Internet."

-- Historian Paul Kennedy, "Globalization's Sway in Evolution of States Put in Focus," The Daily Yomiuri, Jan. 10, 2000.

"There's enormous momentum in the real-estate market."

-- Economist Robert Shiller, "Home Is the Cornerstone of Most People's Wealth," Chicago Sun-Times, Jan. 7, 2000.

"One problem is that symptoms [of ovarian cancer] are very subtle and often mistaken for gastrointestinal problems or a dietary indiscretion. . . . If a patient goes to her internist with these kinds of symptoms, ovarian cancer might not even come to mind."

-- School of Medicine professor Dr. Peter E. Schwartz, "Surviving Ovarian Cancer," New Haven Register, Jan. 10, 2000.

"To conjure up a future Chinese superpower, we have to imagine scientific advances that will eliminate some of China's glaring weaknesses."

-- Historian Jonathan Spence, "Planet of The Yellow Emperor," Newsweek, Jan. 1, 2000.

"The public health challenge lies in promoting an active lifestyle early in life, which can be maintained throughout adulthood, to prevent substantial weight gain and obesity with age."

-- School of Medicine assistant professor Loretta DiPietro, "Exercise Looks to Be the Best Way to Halt Middle-Age Spread," Los Angeles Times, Jan. 10, 2000.

"Women's historians ... have toiled these last 15 years to expose the sheer irrelevance of white, middle-class feminism to the experiences of women of color."

-- Historian Stephen Lassonde, in his review of Linda Gordon's "The Great Arizona Orphan Abduction," The New York Times, Jan. 9, 2000.

"Hominids were incredibly diverse around 2 million years ago. Humans were diverse like pigs or elephants."

-- Anthropologist Andrew Hill, "Distant Relatives," New Haven Register, Jan. 13, 2000.

"The town [of Cheshire, Connecticut] perceives itself as a clean and green suburb. But we've got at least two problems: the very high number of toxic waste sites, and the TCE in the drinking water."

-- School of Forestry and Environmental Studies professor Dan Esty, "Toxictown, Connecticut," New Haven Advocate, Jan. 13-19, 2000.

"You have these groups funded by wealthy individuals that are a constant critic of drug policy, and these groups use very sophisticated marketing techniques."

-- School of Medicine professor Dr. David Musto, "Small But Forceful Coalition Works To Counter U.S. War on Drugs," The New York Times, Jan. 2, 2000.

"Abstract ideals like freedom and opportunity are far removed from what really counts in helping Elián get better. This can be surprisingly difficult for good adults to keep straight."

-- Child psychiatrist Preston Wiles, about the controversy over whether to return refugee orphan Elián Gonzalez to his father in Cuba, in an article coauthored with Penn Rhodeen, "Elián, Bereaved," The New York Times, Jan. 17, 2000.

T H I SW E E K ' SS T O R I E S

Yale will invest over $500 million in science and engineering

Gift from alumnus John Malone to fund engineering building

Yale luminaries combine talents to teach students the benefits of 'strategic thinking'

Commissioner Howard Safir describes NYPD 'success story'

Senator to discuss Irish peace talks

Garten reflects on first term as dean of Yale SOM

Ex-curator donates T.S. Eliot archive to Beinecke

Professor Chang enjoys writing about Yale for a Chinese audience

University fellowships will support junior faculty's research projects

Survey reveals fewer 'near-Earth asteroids' than once believed

Yale Rep will stage work by 'a rock and roll poet'

Theologians to discuss milestone church accord

Yale just one stop in Divinity student's quest for universal truths

Yale libraries launch new website devoted to public health issues in New Haven area

Scientists identify direct link between DQ8 gene, diabetes

Study: Chronically ill give low ratings to managed care

Yale team develops non-invasive test for fetal anemia

Molière play balances 'moments of deep pain' with laughter

Drama students share theatrical know-how with class at ECA magnet school

Movie screenings benefit child clinics

Sexual orientation and Christianity is focus of the 'Opening Doors' series in February

Grey named to federal council on nursing research

Dr. Dennis Spencer honored for his work on epilepsy

Yale Scoreboard

YSN outreach worker receives AIDS leadership award

PathMaster database aiding in cancer cell diagnosis

English Language Institute Courses for Spring Term

Campus Notes

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