Yale Bulletin and Calendar

March 15, 2002

Volume 30, Number 22

Two-Week Issue

"We've just had 10,000 years of interglacial [climate] and we've got another 10,000 years to enjoy. I've studied these impacts as carefully as I can, and I can tell you there's nothing as scary as sliding back into glaciers, and it's almost inevitable."

-- Edwin Weyerhaeuser Davis Professor of Forest Policy Robert Mendelsohn on the earth's climate cycles, "You Call This Winter? A Global Warming Update," ctnow.com, March 3, 2002.

"My guess is that for most people, they've kind of returned to their everyday lives [after the Sept. 11 attacks] with somewhat of a higher level of vigilance."

-- Assistant professor of psychiatry and epidemiology & public health Dr. Benjamin Druss, "Stress Factors; Watching for Signs After September 11," The Hartford Courant, Feb. 24, 2002.

"One of the reasons you are a good coach is that you make people believe in what you are doing. You need to have confidence in yourself to get people to follow you. People who aren't confident don't last too long in this business."

-- Assistant coach of men's basketball Ted Hotaling about head coach James Jones, "From Confidence Comes a Contender; James Jones Delivers on Goal He Set for Yale," New Haven Register, March 1, 2002.

"The general assertion is that because money was made [by Enron's auditors] and something then went wrong, there must be a problem. But nothing in the data demonstrates that audit quality is compromised by consulting relationships."

-- Professor at the Yale School of Management Rick Antle, "Big Five Uncomfortable in the Spotlight: Accountancy Regulators And Investors Are Unsure Whether The Profession Has Complete Independence," Financial Times (London), March 5, 2002.

"Lots of people are out there trying to seize on Enron to get their hobby horses."

-- Sterling Professor of Law and Legal History John Langbein about a proposed bill to require employee representation on pension boards, "Idea of Workers on Pension Boards Gaining Steam," Knight Ridder Washington Bureau, March 7, 2002.

"Pop culture triggers conversations. It doesn't just sit there. Talking about what is and isn't messed up in families -- these conversations are good."

-- Associate professor of sociology Joshua Gamson, "Fractured Family Tales," New Haven Register, March 3, 2002.

"It may be that school works for those whose families are able to supplement what school does."

-- Professor Emeritus of Psychology Edmund Gordon about the role of parents in closing the educational gap between haves and have-nots, "Learning Gaps Persist in State; Mastery Tests Scores Edge Up, But Blacks, Hispanics, Poor Lag Behind," Hartford Courant, March 6, 2002.

"[T]he tremendous economic development that would be unleashed by the two most highly educated people in the Middle East -- Israelis and Palestinians -- living and working in tandem would undoubtedly result in dramatic and positive ripples across the globe."

-- Associate professor of genetics Mazin Qumsiyeh in his article "Who Benefits From Strife In The Middle East?" The Hartford Courant, March 6, 2002.

"The proper goal should be to restore competition to the level that would have been achieved today in the absence of Microsoft's unlawful conduct."

-- Sterling Professor of Economics William Nordhaus, Robert Litan of the Brookings Institution and Roger Noll of Stanford University in their argument that the settlement in the Microsoft antitrust case is too low, "On The Right Track?" The Economist, March 2, 2002.

"It's cold art. A lot of the work in the '70s was meant to evoke a strong response, but these are very distant, in a sense. And you can say that their detachment is even more frightening. Over and over again in the catalog it says that Nazism is the ultimate signifier of evil, but if we say that, we also have to acknowledge that there's a space between the signifier and reality -- and I think that's increasingly true as time passes. Maybe that's what scares us: The signifier of fascism is becoming so mobile that it's getting connected to logos and Legos."

-- Assistant professor of English Laura Frost about the "Mirroring Evil" exhibit at the Jewish Museum in New York City, "Managing the Unmanageable," villagevoice.com, March 6, 2002.

"Baby boomers are emerging from the years of their lives when they have kids. They may not have the same demand for houses in good school districts."

-- Stanley B. Resor Professor of Economics Robert J. Shiller, "'The Homes Keep Selling'; Even Realtors Are Surprised By The Market's Strength. But Will It Last?" Business Week, March 11, 2002.

"But the overall impression that America has given of late is that we simply don't care what the rest of the world thinks. When we require assistance -- in rounding up terrorists, freezing financial assets and making air bases available for U.S. troops -- we will play with the team; when we don't like international schemes, we'll walk away."

-- J. Richardson Dilworth Professor of History Paul Kennedy in his article "Has the U.S. Lost Its Way? Does Everybody Hate America? Maybe the World Just Wants Visionary Leadership From Such a Powerful Nation, Argues Distinguished Yale University Historian Paul Kennedy," The Observer, March 3, 2002.

"We [in the United States] do a great job in providing drinking water to our public. No one in the world is better. But with regard to addressing greenhouse gas emissions and the efficiency of our economy from an environmental point of view, we trail. We're not very good at all."

-- Director of the Center for Environmental Law & Policy Daniel Esty, "Back of the Book; Interview With Dan Esty," "The O'Reilly Factor," Fox News Network, Feb. 26, 2002.

"Anyone who has ever watched a Little League baseball game knows that an inning can include many, many pitches. I think it is pretty clear that we need to impose a pitch limit, which should probably be in the range of 75 to 100 pitches -- 75 being the optimal number and 100 being the max. . . . We are seeing the type of injury to the shoulder and elbow that had previously only been seen in college or professional pitchers."

-- Chief of athletic medicine at University Health Services Dr. Barry Goldberg, "Little Leaguers Risk Big League Injuries," United Press International, March 5, 2002.

"This is the cathedral of college basketball on the East Coast."

-- Director of athletics Tom Beckett about Yale's Payne Whitney Gym, "Yale Shows No Fear As Dance Nears," New Haven Register, March 8, 2002.

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

Soros Fellowships for New Americans

American Academy of Arts and Letters Awards

Poll reveals how 'deliberative' discussion can shift public opinion

Men's basketball team concludes record-setting season

Nobel Prize-winning economist James Tobin dies at 84

In Focus: Molecular, Cellular & Developmental Biology

Silviculturalist Oliver named to Pinchot chair

Berkeley and Yale Divinity Schools renew their affiliation

Erikson and Timmons awarded DeVane Medals

Alumnus describes how engineers 'cook up' new products

Haller and Henrich reappointed as college masters

Levin visits with alumni across the nation and beyond

Exhibit documents volunteers' role in Spanish Civil War

Event explores role of faith, gender in fighting AIDS in Africa

Team develops rules for identifying unseen problems in elderly

Researcher's index assesses mortality risk for elderly patients

Drama School actors gang up for 'Serious Money'

Students' new adaptation of 'The Trial' takes to the stage

Work of architect on view in 'Zaha Hadid Laboratory'

Conference will examine the changing notions of beauty

Panel looks at ethical issues nurses face

Yale Books in Brief

Campus Notes