Yale Bulletin and Calendar

May 19, 2000

Volume 28, Number 32

In the News

"Instead of looking at a lesion or a broken bone, perhaps they will notice the patient's hygiene or mood or body language, or whether there are cards on the wall of a hospital room, or visitors."

-- Curator of education at the British Art Center Linda Friedlaender, about a course for medical students she co-teaches with Dr. Irwin M. Braverman to help the students look at the "whole picture" when treating patients, "Program Teaches Future Doctors To View Whole Patient," The News and Observer (Raleigh, NC), April 27, 2000.

"There's a sense around town that New Haven shuts down too early. Broadway is a district that should be open late. It's a successful urban entertainment center and we're just trying to make it more successful by adding tenants to the mix."

-- Director of operations for University properties Joe Fahey, "Ivy Noodle Restaurant Finds Its Bowl Runneth Over," New Haven Register, May 10, 2000.

"Older people are also more affected by weather than we imagined. Sometimes they can't do their regular activities because it's too cold or too icy or too hot."

-- Associate professor of internal medicine (geriatrics) Dr. Thomas M. Gill, "When Seniors Speak, Yale Listens," New Haven Register, May 8, 2000.

"When you're with someone with autism, oftentimes you feel like you're no more important than the chair you're sitting on or other aspects of the environment."

-- Assistant professor at the Child Study Center Robert Schultz, "New Study Sheds Light on a Striking Behavior of Autistic Children, Their Lack of Interest in the Human Face," National Public Radio, May 5, 2000.

"Deadbeat dads get an absurdly large share of media coverage in terms of absent paternity. For every one of those guys that shows up on a post office wall there are thousands of men doing the best they can. . . . The way to get children out of poverty is not by making fathers pay."

-- Clinical professor of psychiatry Dr. Kyle D. Pruett, "Good Fathering Is a Sensory Job," The New York Times, May 7, 2000.

"It's a strong statement to come out and say drugs we are using are killing people [over 75 years old]. I don't know if that's true, but I don't think they are helping these people."

-- Postdoctoral fellow of internal medicine (cardiology) Dr. Alan K. Berger, about a Massachusetts study showing that the use of clot-busting drugs by the elderly raises the risk of death, "Clot Busters May Pose High Risks for Elderly," The Wall Street Journal, May 8, 2000.

"It's like never getting out of spring training. Though some soldiers and officers value real-life deployments, even in a police mission, other soldiers feel like they've been cut from the majors to play triple-A ball. Lagging reenlistment rates suggest that the problem of a high-paced 'operations tempo' and interrupted military career paths is worth attention."

-- Professor of law Ruth G. Wedgwood, about using soldiers for peacekeeping missions such as in Kosovo, "'Churning' Makes a Mess of the Military; Defense: 'Liberal Hawks' Say Preserving Human Rights Is Expensive," Los Angeles Times, May 8, 2000.

"Everyone wants a quick fix, but what is really needed is an adequate and effective network of services for young people."

-- Professor of child psychology Dr. Robert King, "Teen Suicide," New Haven Register, May 7, 2000.

"Something that I've been very gratified by is how well it does translate as a universal story of parents and children and struggle, and all of those themes, I think, are very much alive."

-- Lecturer in English Donald Margulies, on his adaptation of Sholem Asch's play "God of Vengeance," now at Seattle's Act Theatre, "Donald Margulies Revives a Once-Banned Play Called 'God of Vengeance,'" National Public Radio, May 2, 2000.

"A second and deeper problem is the court's clouded understanding of what constitutes competition. The court concluded that Microsoft acted anti-competitively by promoting Explorer at the expense of Navigator. But it is the essence of competition for a producer to promote its product vigorously. And when there are only two viable competitors in the market, the success of one will necessarily be at the expense of the other."

-- John M. Olin Professor of Law & Economics George L. Priest, in his article about the court ruling that Microsoft violated anitrust laws, "Don't Count on a Breakup: Action To Break Up Microsoft Likely Wouldn't Survive an Appeal, Says George L. Priest, Because the Punishment Doesn't Fit the 'Crime,'" National Post, April 28, 2000.

"My reaction and that of many other people is that it is all well and good to create something in Uganda that simulates London or New York (by giving various treatments to all the groups in a trial), but what you get out of that is data that is no good anywhere other than London or New York."

-- School of Medicine faculty member Dr. Robert Levine, "Row Over Drug Tests on Poor That Leave Some to Die," The Guardian (London), May 4, 2000.

"Probably as much money has been spent on building the system of community based treatment care for the whole range of disabilities as has been spent on the building of the interstate highway system. We're talking billions."

-- Leonard Bacon Research Scholar at the Divinity School Peter Dobkin Hall, "Safe at Home? Investigation of Group Homes for Mentally Disabled Reveal Abuse and Unexplained Deaths," "Dateline NBC," April 23, 2000.

"It was kind of devious. In many cases, the person who received the [infected] message got it from someone they know."

-- ITS information security officer H. Morrow Long, about the recent international e-mail virus with the subject line "ILOVEYOU," "When Love Hurts," The Hartford Courant, May 5, 2000.

"We see the Pentagon manipulating the way in which we view the war. It's so tidy, neat and clean. It's going to prevent America from seeing how ugly war really is."

-- Assistant professor of history Jonathan Holloway, about the recent air campaigns in Kosovo and the Persian Gulf, "Ghosts of Vietnam Haunt U.S. Policies; Specter of War Mires Bill To Give Colombia Aid," New Haven Register, April 30, 2000.

"We found very high rates of cancer of all kinds. We found things like multiple sclerosis. We found tuberculosis. We found that these women did have more miscarriages than other women in the study, and more still-born children."

-- Associate research scientist at the School of Nursing Linda A. Schwartz, about her study of health problems of women who served in Vietnam and were exposed to the toxic defoliant Agent Orange, "Vietnam Vets Face Nasty Health Surprises Beyond Middle Age," Agence France Presse, April 28, 2000.

"[W]e don't want to discourage people from bringing claims simply because they fear that if they'd lose, they'd be taxed with not only their costs but the other side's costs."

-- Simeon E. Baldwin Professor of Law Peter H. Schuck, about a crackdown on frivolous lawsuits, "Judges Cracking Down on Vexatious Litigation in Divorce Cases," National Public Radio, April 29, 2000.

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

$5 million to fund student exchanges

Shiller predicts 'uneven course down' for the stock market

Janeway, Srinivasan are named as new members of the NAS

Seven from Yale are among the new fellows of the AAAS

Summertime at Yale

Chemistry lecturer honored with national award

Yale program for children lauded at dedication

Commencement Information

Show celebrates adventurous 'Art of Bloomsbury'

'Dance of the Dragon' traces use of mythical motifs in Chinese art

Study shows arthritis drug aids premature babies' brains

Roundtable discussion inaugurates Corporate Law Center

Newly unveiled portrait features first Yale graduate from China

Leffell's 'Total Skin' offers insights into our outer layer

Nurse practitioners group cites Grey and Safriet for their work

YSN and Connecticut Public Radio creating show on care of ill, elderly

'What is a Pathologist?': Young students have winning answers

Historian wins award for his creative use of technology

Multimedia projects receive special grants from the DMCA

Marrakech honors two at Yale for their volunteer contributions

Panelists decry nuclear proliferation in India, Pakistan

Students find 'creative outlet' in Battin' & Chattin'

Search committee formed for School of Drama Dean

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