Yale Bulletin and Calendar

September 6-13, 1999

Volume 28, Number 3

. . . In the News . . .

Scientific research at our universities and national labs is now a foundation of the economy and thereby vital to the success of social legislation. But rather than reinforcing that foundation, Congress is eroding it. That action couldn't come at a worse time.

-- Engineering Dean D. Allan Bromley, in his article "No Science, No Surplus," The Washington Post, Aug. 26, 1999.

"Studying star quakes is much like what geologists do when they are studying movements within the earth."

-- Astronomy professor Pierre Demarque, "UC-Berkeley Scientist Observes 'Star Quakes,'" Daily Californian, Aug. 17, 1999.

"The most important thing for a designer is to serve the play. It's not about the conception of the costumes; it's about the conception of the whole production and how the characters fit into the play."

-- School of Drama faculty member Jess Goldstein, "Costume Design: Jess Goldstein," Entertainment Design, August/September 1999.

"My entire career has been protecting tenants. I wear that on my sleeve."

-- Law School professor and legal aid lawyer Robert Solomon, on his appointment as interim director of the New Haven Housing Authority, "Solomon Does 'Bananas,'" The New Haven Advocate, Aug. 19, 1999.

"I've treated [schizophrenia] for 20 years on a wing and a prayer. The science has finally come to the disorder."

-- Yale psychiatrist Thomas H. McGlashan, "To Avoid His Brother's Illness, a Young Man Tries a Risky Experiment," The Wall Street Journal, Aug. 25, 1999.

"The feminist complaint all along has been that women get treated as objects, that they internalize this and that it damages their self-esteem. And more and more, guys are falling into that same thing. They're getting judged not by who they are, but how they look."

-- Yale psychologist Kelly Brownell, "The Troubled Life of Boys: The Bully in the Mirror," The New York Times Magazine,
Aug. 22, 1999.

"I don't think it's much ado about nothing. It may seem like much ado about nothing, but that's the problem. "

-- Medical School Dean Dr. David Kessler, about a U.S. Postal Service advertisement featuring a glamorous woman who is smoking, "Post Service Ad Burns Up Nonsmokers," The Wall Street Journal, Aug. 25, 1999.

"The most regrettable feature of the discussion of the prescription-drug benefit is the provincialism of the American discussion of it. You would think nobody in the world had ever had a prescription-drug benefit, for the country as a whole and/or including seniors."

--Yale School of Management professor Theodore Marmor, "Yale's Theodore Marmor for Medicare, Prescription Drugs," Investor's Business Daily, Aug. 17, 1999.

"People don't understand it takes 10 years to create a tumor."

-- Yale Cancer Center deputy director Dr. Jose Costa, "Technology Improving Early Cancer Detection," The Hartford Courant, Aug. 22, 1999.

"There's clearly more to recovery than having an operation go well."

-- Yale Sports Medicine Center orthopedics specialist Dr. Marc Silver, "Study: Women Troubled More by Knee Injuries," The Hartford Courant, Aug. 27, 1999 and elsewhere.

"It's not the size of the building that counts; it's whether the conditions for architectural excellence prevail."

-- School of Architecture Dean Robert A.M. Stern, "Yale Architect To Design Shaker Fire Station," The Plain Dealer, Aug. 21, 1999.

"It will encourage people to take risks, because the risks will no longer be concentrated exclusively on them."

-- Yale economist Robert J. Shiller, on the new financial "hedges" in the marketplace, "In the New Financial Cosmos, It Will Be Safer To Take a Dare," Business Week,
Aug. 30, 1999.

"[The authors of the U.S. Constitution] weren't thinking of establishing a right for the National Guard or for the Michigan militia. They were thinking about Lexington and Concord, where they stood with their families and friends to resist an imperial army."

-- Law School professor Akhil Reed Amar, "Texas Case Could Shape the Future of Gun Control," USA Today, Aug. 27, 1999.

"Financial organizations in general are aggressive in recruiting, but the message to them is, they are going to face stiffer competition."

-- Yale School of Management career development director Mark Case, about opportunities in the Internet industry, "Silicon Dreams," Newsday, Aug. 22, 1999.

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

Employees invited to attend home football games for free

Broadway-bound stores include café and national chain

The Spirit of Adventure by President Richard C. Levin

Hazards of Success by Yale College Dean Richard H. Brodhead

Study reveals target of attacks by diabetes-causing cells

New medical students given their 'cloaks of compassion'

Nursing students will take bike trek to raise money for AIDS care

In the News . . .

Architecture School invites 'leading talents' to teach

Chester Kerr, editor emeritus of the Yale University Press, dies

Guide reveals widespead interest in bioethics on campus

Yale employees invited to 'Do Downtown!'

'Titanic' discoverer to discuss undersea explorations

Reaccreditation team to visit this fall

Open house marks completion of student-built home

Campus Notes