Yale Bulletin and Calendar

October 6, 2000

Volume 29, Number 5

In the News

"When a person meets the computer, one of them is going to have to give, and it's not very often the computer."

-- Associate professor of psychiatry Dr. Seth Powsner, "Reluctance of Some Physicians to Use Computers to Keep Track of Their Patients," National Public Radio, Sept. 23, 2000.

"We aren't concerned about what other people are doing. We've done things differently from the institutional orthodoxy."

-- Chief investment officer David Swensen, "Yale Investment Guru Goes His Own Way," New Haven Register, Sept. 28, 2000.

"I think it's extremely important to have two sides and two opinions."

-- John M. Olin Professor of Law & Economics George Priest, "Supreme Court Refuses to Hear Microsoft Case; Final Action Likely Delayed until 2003," The Washington Times, Sept. 27, 2000.

"Humans are not good at being methodical."

-- Director of the Center for Medical Informatics Dr. Perry Miller, "Pathway to Knowledge; New Internet-Based System Will Help Doctors Find Information and Diagnose Ills," New Haven Register, Sept. 28, 2000.

"What we are interested in is that the [Palestinian] refugees are allowed to go home. The [Middle East peace] agreements don't mean anything if they don't address that."

-- Associate professor of genetics and refugee advocate group Al-Awda organizer Mazin Qumsiyeh, "Palestinian Refugee Rights Championed," The Washington Post, Sept. 17, 2000.

"[Adolf Hitler's] opponents within the higher ranks of the Wehrmacht had thought that the forcible reoccupation of the Rhineland in 1936 was crazy. They trembled at Hitler's extremism during the Munich crisis in 1938, and they were nervous at being brought into a war with Poland, France and Britain in1939. But in each of those crises, Hitler had been proven right and their own pessimism was discredited."

-- J. Richardson Dilworth Professor of History Paul Kennedy in his review of 'Strange Victory; Hitler's Conquest of France,' "Piercing the Fog of War," Los Angeles Times, Sept. 25, 2000.

"[T]he bottom line is we didn't put the ball in the end zone enough today."

-- Head football coach Jack Siedlecki, "Yale Victory March Takes a Detour," New Haven Register, Sept. 24, 2000.

"[The Yale-Griffin Prevention Research Center] is functioning just as we hoped it would, fostering partnership between academics and community agencies. In the process excellent research is done that advances the science we all rely on, while at the same time, there is a focus on practical benefits to community residents."

-- Dean of the School of Epidemiology & Public Health Dr. Michael Merson, "Yale-Griffin Center Gets $1.2M from CDC," New Haven Register, Sept. 25, 2000.

"[The Grove Street Cemetery] tells not only a history of New Haven but of the nation itself."

-- Sterling Professor Emeritus of History Howard R. Lamar, "Cemetery Declared Historic Landmark," New Haven Register, Sept. 24, 2000.

"You can see a book whole from the outside. You know in advance how a book is laid out and how to 'operate' one. As you work through it, you always know where you stand -- how far you have gone and how much is left. These properties don't hold for file systems or Web sites. You can't see or judge one from the outside, anticipate the layout, tell where you stand as you work your way through."

-- Professor of computer science David Gelernter, "Even in Digital Age, There's Value in Analog," USA Today, Sept. 20, 2000.

"Hate has not taken him over, which so often happens when people are victimized. They become bitter. They victimize others. This guy's got a big, big heart. His humanity is intact."

-- Director of the Art Gallery Jock Reynolds, about African-American artist Winfred Rembert, whose works about growing up in the South are on display at the gallery, "A Life on Leather; Colorful, Evocative Folk Art of Winfred Rembert on Display at Yale," The Hartford Courant, Sept. 17, 2000.

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

Yale, Oxford, Princeton and Stanford launch 'distance learning' venture

Endowment grows 41%, to $10.1 billion

Yale doctor applauds end to gender testing at Olympics

Three join team in Provost's Office

Yale-Griffin Center gets $1.2 million from CDC

Letter from the Provost: Support for Teaching with Technology at Yale

Peace accord is topic of talk by George Mitchell

Author Tom Wolfe to recount his days at Yale

New Yorker columnist to visit as a Poynter Fellow

Buying cars on Internet saves money, study shows

F&ES to host centennial celebration weekend

Hershey Foods CEO to give talks as a Gordon Grand Fellow

Works of School of London artists showcased in exhibit

Divinity School inviting all women graduates to convocation

Berkeley Divinity School to laud four theologians at its annual gathering

Artists welcome studio visitors in expanded annual event

Peabody to mark Columbus Day with programs on the Caribbean

Howard Hughes Medical Institute funds biomedical sciences at Yale for 14th year

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