Yale Bulletin and Calendar

February 22, 2002

Volume 30, Number 19

Breaking my routine forced me to look at my work objectively, outside of an academic environment. I took to camping out within my own soul -- my own Walden Pond."

-- Adjunct professor at the School of Music Martin Bresnick about his hiatus as winner of the Charles Ives Living Award, "Music From the Soul," New Haven Register, Feb. 3, 2002.

"[W]e don't want to dismantle social insurance, which is one of the great advances of civilization. We really can't dismantle it, because if disaster comes, we would help out our elderly people anyway."

-- Stanley B. Resor Professor of Economics Robert J. Shiller, "The Unlearned Lessons of the Exuberant '90s," The International Herald Tribune, Jan. 30, 2002.

"[Former Enron C.E.O. Jeffrey Skilling] could easily climb up on a chair and tell a story that will cause the Congress to curl their eyebrows and repowder their wigs."

-- Adjunct professor at the Yale School of Management Jeffrey Sonnenfeld, "Darth Vader. Machiavelli. Skilling Set Intense Pace," The New York Times, Feb. 7, 2002.

"Scientists haven't yet discovered all the different types of essential fatty acids and going on the health and beauty benefits of salmon that I have witnessed, I feel sure that it contains many more."

-- Assistant clinical professor of dermatology Dr. Nicholas V. Perricone, "Fish of the Day," Sunday Times (London), Feb. 10, 2002.

"While a nihilistic attitude toward rehabilitation is unwarranted and short-sighted, it is equally inappropriate to raise false hopes in patients and families and expend countless hours or a child's time and effort by passionately and aggressively pursuing narrowly-focused, unrealistic and unattainable goals."

-- Professor of orthopedics Dr. Thomas Renshaw in reviewing the care provided by a hospital in New Mexico, "Examiner Finds Carrie Tingley Hospital Healthy," Albuquerque Journal, Feb. 12, 2002.

"There is a deep interest in all of this to find out what works and how educators should learn and teach when you don't have the communication richness of the classroom. Online you have to be much clearer with pedagogical goals. You have to anticipate problems."

-- Director of Information Technology Services Philip Long, "University Alliance Quietly Experiments With E-Learning," The International Herald Tribune, Feb. 12, 2002.

"That's a great recipe for failure -- to start thinking about the end result as opposed to what's right in front of you, one at a time."

-- Head coach of men's basketball James Jones about the Yale basketball team's chances of playing in the NCAA tournament, "Surprising Yale is Top Dog in Ivy," AP Online, Feb. 15, 2002.

"[T]the court would require a very specific proffer of proof from [accused war criminal Slobodan] Milosevic as to what the testimony of Tony Blair or Bill Clinton possibly could do for him, because you can't just do a fishing expedition and roam around the globe looking for people who might once have shook your hand."

-- Professor of law Ruth Wedgwood about the former Serbian president's request to call on the testimony of diplomats in his trial before the tribunal at The Hague, "Professor Ruth Wedgwood Talks About the Tribunal Process for Slobodan Milosevic," "All Things Considered," National Public Radio, Feb. 12, 2002.

"Having someone from a close peer institution with whom we obviously compete for students and faculty is unusual for us, but of course it has great advantages. Who better would have an experience that is uniquely valuable, having run a very comparable institution?"

-- President Richard C. Levin about having former Stanford University President Gerhard Casper on the Yale Corporation, "More Presidents Recruit Ex-Presidents for Their Institutions' Boards," The Chronicle of Higher Education, Feb. 8, 2002.

"[I]nvestors should realize that their money has a different time horizon than they personally have. Their life horizon may be a few years, but the money has a horizon of 50 years."

-- Member of the Corporation Charles Ellis, "Your Personal Investment Policy," Money, March 2002.

"Obesity is the last acceptable form of prejudice. Discrimination exists everywhere."

-- Director of the Center for Eating & Weight Disorders Dr. Kelly Brownell, "Experts Say People Are Prejudiced Against the Obese," New Haven Register.com, Feb. 14, 2002.

"There is a strong feeling that Cambodians should get on with building up their country again, but they feel, I think, in many cases that judicial accountability is important, and so is an international acknowledgment that [the atrocities of the Pol Pot regime] did happen, that these crimes of genocide and other crimes against humanity did happen in Cambodia, and that the world should acknowledge that formally."

-- A. Whitney Griswold Professor of History Ben Kiernan, "United Nations to Discontinue Attempts to Establish a War Crimes Tribunal With Cambodia," "Weekend All Things Considered," National Public Radio, Feb. 10, 2002.

"The Sunday comics are actually quite conservative as a rule. They do not change much over years, even decades. Calvin never graduated first grade, nor did his overqualified classmate Susie Derkins; and Charlie Brown always fell for Lucy's football prank. The strips are meant to be reassuring, not daring; safe, not provocative; droll, not biting; Bob Saget, not Chris Rock."

-- Yale Law School student Alexander Nguyen in his article "Lame Duck," The American Prospect, Feb. 11, 2002.

"The good news is, you can still get the diversification benefit [by investing in foreign stock markets]. The bad news is, you have to risk your money in these fringe markets."

-- Edwin J. Beinecke Professor of Finance & Management Studies William N. Goetzmann, "Don't Be Shy: Emerging Markets Are OK," The Wall Street Journal, Feb. 12, 2002.

"[O]ver time, the stereotypes on which we base profiling ought to become more refined and more targeted So now, for example, it turns out that some suicide bombers may be women. So now we'll have to broaden the criteria."

-- Professor of law Peter Schuck, "Use of Profiling to Discover Would-Be Terrorists," "Morning Edition," National Public Radio, Feb. 12, 2002.

"That's why we have the statute of limitations. It's very difficult to get at the truth from either side; it's hard to convict the guilty and hard to acquit the innocent."

-- Professor of law Steven Duke, "Dead Men To Speak For Serra," New Haven Register, Feb.10, 2002.

"We're having a dry warm winter, Europe is having a cold, snowy winter. Once there is an event people look for a cause."

-- Professor of astronomy Sabatino Sofia about theories that sunspots affect weather, "A Bad Drought is Going to Get Worse, Experts Fear," New Haven Register, Feb. 10, 2002.

"Even influenza can potentially be a bioterrorism agent."

-- Professor of laboratory medicine and internal medicine Dr. Steven Edberg, "DeLauro Learns About Bioterrorism Fight," Connecticut Post, Feb. 5, 2002.

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Cellist will tour nation as winner of Sphinx Prize

University awards sailing varsity status

Town-gown project aims to bring health information to underserved

Nurse warns against repeating Tuskegee abuses

Unique program will assess democracy at work

Doing good is good for you, Yale chaplain tells students

Speakers to explore interrelationship of 'Law and Truth'

Exhibition explores ever-expanding art of collage

Fourth annual Klezmerpalooza festival returns home to Yale

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