Yale Bulletin and Calendar

February 23, 2001

Volume 29, Number 20

"Anytime a black man or woman achieves prominence, whether it's in business, politics, the law, whatever the endeavor, it's a blow against the stereotype."

-- University Chaplain The Reverend Frederick J. Streets, "Civil Rights Movement Marches On," New Haven Register, Feb. 4, 2001.

"If you had asked me 15 years ago, Could we detect these [star] streams? I would probably have said not."

-- Professor of astronomy Robert J. Zinn, "Dark Secrets of the Milky Way: Our Home Galaxy Has Skeletons Buried in its Backyard," The Chronicle of Higher Education, Feb. 16, 2001.

"Most of this [the Congressional hearings on election night coverage] is jawboning about what happened and embarrassing the media on how they blew it."

-- Knight Professor of Constitutional Law & the First Amendment Jack Balkin, "News Execs to Testify About Election Night: Role of Congressional Hearings Debated," The Times-Picayune (New Orleans), Feb. 14, 2001.

"There may be a good reason for the [Marc] Rich pardon. Let's find out. Presidents should be willing to make their case in the court of history."

-- Southmayd Professor of Law Akhil Reed Amar, "Flap Over Pardons: Deja Vu for Congress and Clinton," The Christian Science Monitor, Feb. 15, 2001.

"Moms have more realistic expectations of children's abilities and developmental milestones. Dads are more misinformed about the intellectual and emotional benefits of pretend play."

-- Clinical professor of psychiatry Dr. Kyle Pruett in his article "For Love of Children, Fathers Must Be Involved," New Haven Register, Feb. 14, 2001.

"Hate crime is an enduring feature of social life in the United States."

-- Director of the Institute for Social and Policy Studies Donald Green, "Hate-Motivated Murders Reach 5-Year High," USA Today, Feb. 14, 2001.

"Teaching kids how to pay attention by spending time trying to focus on a task, and getting feedback encouraging them to perform better, that's basic psychology. But is wearing this expensive helmet any better than sitting with a book in front of a task that you are encouraged to attend to? The burden of proof would be on them to prove that it is better."

-- Assistant professor of neurology Steven Novella, "Gadget Tries to Lengthen Young Attention Spans," The New York Times, Feb. 8, 2001.

"In northern Guilford [Connecticut], there's an old fault that was active about 100 million years ago. It still has tremors and now I would guess that this tremor would eventually be found to be right on top of that one."

-- Professor of geology & geophysics Jeffrey Park about the Feb. 3 earthquake there, "Mild Earthquakes Fairly Common in New England, Experts Say," The Associated Press, Feb. 4, 2001.

"[NASA scientists] had all these crazy gravitational perturbations to deal with. It's the nature of these near-Earth asteroids to be unpredictable."

-- Research scientist in the Department of Physics David Rabinowitz about the landing of a satellite on an asteroid, "Craft Expires in Asteroid's Embrace," The Boston Globe, Feb. 13, 2001.

"There is an age-old history of the role of the nurse and the role of the physician. The fact is, breaking bad news [that a patient is dying] is probably something, generally, people have thought of as the physician's role."

-- Assistant professor of epidemiology and public health Dr. Elizabeth Bradley, "Sounds of Silence on Hospice Options," The New York Times, Feb. 13, 2001.

"Our city with its rivers and inner and outer harbors has one of the greatest potential waterfronts on the East Coast."

-- Dean of the School of Forestry and Environmental Studies Gustave Speth in a letter to the editor, co-written with Anne Tyler Calabresi, "Powering Up Would Waste Waterfront," New Haven Register, Feb. 9, 2001.

"None of us expected [the similarities] we are seeing. We were all in a way taught to grow up as creationists, that all animals were different and unique. But we are now finding all these marvelous connections between living forms."

-- Sterling Professor of Biology Frank Ruddle, "The Book of Life," The Hartford Courant, Feb. 12, 2001.

"Civility allows criticism of others and sometimes even requires it."

-- William Nelson Cromwell Professor of Law Stephen L. Carter, "Can We Reunite With Civility? Signs Give Hope of Reviving Community," The Detroit News, Feb. 11, 2001.

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

New Berkeley College master named

Bollingen Prize in Poetry honors 'anguish and humor' of Louise Glück's 'Vita Nova'

Yale Glee Club salutes music's power to mold lifelong friendships

Architect Cesar Pelli to design Yale's new engineering building

Comedian Carlin shares tales from his 'very lucky' life

Yale College term bill is set at $34,030

Bentley Layton appointed to Goff chair in religious studies

Race is not a factor in the delivery of mental health services . . .

Graduate students give voice to their poetry in colloquium

Valesio group is 'an ongoing poem'

Candid close-ups are Yale police officer's hobby

Pioneering nurses will be honored at center's annual convocation

Grant to support field research by F&ES students

YUHS names new medical director

Pianist (and trained chemist) makes his faculty debut

Shakespeare-inspired music will be featured in concert by Yale Jazz Ensemble

Campus Notes