Yale Bulletin and Calendar

April 14, 2000

Volume 28, Number 28

In the News

"There are two problems I really don't understand: What is the fundamental theory of a universe, and the other is why a curveball curves. In my lifetime, I can see my way to understanding the first, but not the second."

-- Physicist Robert K. Adair, "Rivera Tops in Broken Bats and Broken Hearts," The New York Times, April 2, 2000.

"The investor's mantra today is that if you stay in, you can't lose. But you can lose. Even the professional investors know that stock prices today are still insane."

-- Economist Robert Shiller, "Analysts: Bet on Unpredictability," The Hartford Courant, April 5, 2000.

"Change without choice is the way I would diagnose the 1990s. Many, although not all, of those changes were ones that have adversely affected patients, doctors, nurses [and others involved in health care]."

-- School of Management professor Theodore Marmor, "Advocates of Universal Health Care Rally for Alternatives to Manage Care," The Associated Press, April 3, 2000.

"[In people sensitive to commonly used chemicals] the brain receives signals that are irritating. That signal is amplified in the patient's brain. It's certainly real to them."

-- Director of the Yale Occupational and Environmental Medicine Program Dr. Mark Cullen, "Banned From Classroom: Scented Products," The New York Times, April 2, 2000.

"What we're really trying to do is get all the freshmen who will be sophomores comfortable on both sides of the ball. For me, that's really the goal of spring practice."

-- Head football coach Jack Siedlecki, "Taking Care of Business," New Haven Register, April 1, 2000.

"Numerous studies confirm that people with unmedicated psychotic illnesses are three to six times more likely than the general population to be convicted of violent crime."

-- Psychiatrist Sally L. Satel, from her op-ed essay "Prime-Time Psychosis," The New York Times, April 3, 2000.

"There is a growing sense in this country that the tobacco industry has lied to and manipulated the public for years. In the coming years, millions of young people, knowing of the industry's crass deception, will make the decision not to start smoking."

-- Dean of Yale medical school Dr. David A. Kessler, "Time to Act on Cigarettes," Washington Post, April 3, 2000.

"Americans can't read [poems] as if they understood what they are saying. They don't know where to put the stresses."

-- Sterling Professor of English John Hollander, about the trend of having elementary and secondary school students memorize poetry, "Teachers Rediscover the Value in Having Students Memorize Poetry," New Haven Register, April 3, 2000.

"If a police officer just comes up to talk to someone and the police officer now is worried that person might pull a gun, what's a police officer to do? Maybe the answer is basically go to Dunkin Donuts."

-- Law School professor Akhil Reed Amar, "'Stop and Frisk' Limitation Riles Police," APBnews.com, March 28, 2000.

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

Donald Margulies wins Pulitzer Prize for Drama

Broadway redesign project wins architecture award

Four students win contests for aspiring entrepreneurs

Study tracks second illness caused by ticks

Telemundo chief executive will visit as Gordon Grand Fellow

El Greco will be the focus of Yale painter's Rand Lecture

Rep offering explores culture through music, dance, stories

Student competition will unite an ancient mythical character and robots

Puente enjoys spotlight during visit as Chubb Fellow

Award-winning novelist discusses the art of writing and reading

Leonard S. Doob, a specialist on ways of resolving conflict, dies

'Visionary' student wins award for his work with homeless people

Neurologist Fuki Hisama is honored for her research on aging syndrome

Library acquires papers of noted Caribbean novelist

Lectures will explore emerging trend of 'personalized' medicine in drug industry

Salmonella injections may improve treatment of cancer, study finds

Artists will talk about their cutting-edge works

DMCA event to feature 'sonic world'

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