Yale Bulletin and Calendar

October 5, 2001

Volume 30, Number 5

"Some students deceive themselves. They are talking themselves into thinking that plagiarism is 'research.'

-- Henry R. Luce Professor of Social Thought & Ethics Philosophy Shelly Kagan, "Copycat; The Internet is Irresistible to Plagiarists," New Haven Register, Aug. 30, 2001.

"We are entering the endgame in our relationship with the natural world. Whatever slack nature previously cut us is gone."

-- Dean of the School of Forestry & Environmental Studies James Gustave Speth, "An Ecological Betrayal," bostonglobe.com, Sept. 4, 2001.

"The boundary breaking is something that has to happen right now . . . when a common enemy approaches. We can become more powerful than we've ever been, but not with the naivete and arrogance that once went with it."

-- University Chaplain The Reverend Frederick J. Streets, "Attack on America; The Mood at Home: Anger, Fear, Patriotism," New Haven Register, Sept. 16, 2001.

"People feel undeserving to live. This may be one of the shapes of the pain that survivors will have."

-- Professor of psychiatry and epidemiology & public health Dr. Robert Rosenheck, "Survivor Guilt; Experts Say We Must Try to Make Meaning Out of Senseless Violence," New Haven Register, Sept. 20. 2001.

"A writer's life is lived not in bed or on the road but at the desk."

-- Editor of the The Yale Review J.D. McClatchy in his review of two new biographies of Edna St. Vincent Millay, "Like a Moth to the Flame," The New York Times, Sept. 16, 2001.

"[Telesurgery] does raise the specter of what I call the Sears catalog version of surgery, in which you have a warehouse full of surgeons waiting by consoles to do operations. I don't envision that will happen, but it is conceivable you could have the world's finest surgeons assembled in one place and make them available to anyone in the world."

-- Professor of surgery Dr. Richard M. Satava, "Surgery Spans Atlantic Ocean; Doctors Work Via Robotic Device," The Hartford Courant, Sept. 20, 2001.

"The hard part is in the engineering of actually constructing a [nuclear] weapon. The physical material, you may be able to buy. But to put it together into a working bomb with precise engineering machinery to get a controlled fission, you need the resources of a nation-state."

-- Professor at the Yale School of Management Paul Bracken, "Nuclear Attack Conceivable From Terrorist Organizations; U.S. Officials Work to Fortify Oversight," The Times-Picayune (New Orleans), Sept. 19, 2001.

"When a classic war ends, Congress always embarks on a housecleaning effort to rid the statute books of wartime legislation that no longer makes sense in the new era of peace. But the war against terrorism will never come to such a definitive resolution. While risks can and should be reduced, our countermeasures will never prevent the occasional bomb from going off. There will never be the equivalent of a V-J Day when we all celebrated the definitive victory over Japan and moved on to reconsider the emergency measures taken against Japanese Americans during the war."

-- Sterling Professor of Law & Political Science Bruce Ackerman in his article "Sunset Can Put a Halt to Twilight of Liberty," latimes.com, Sept. 20, 2001.

"In the '70s and early '80s we were totally vulnerable. We had no security procedures, and nationally we had no counterterrorism program with foreign governments. We fought back and we suppressed it greatly. We have to be prepared in case there is a second or third act to this."

-- Visiting lecturer in international affairs Charles Hill, "Terrorists; West Must Understand in Order to Defend," The Dallas Morning News, Sept. 17, 2001.

"[People seem to be divided] between those who want some sense of premature closure and to be able to move on and those who say, 'Wait a minute, life will never be the same.' I can't say that either one is wrong. It just reflects that people respond and cope differently."

-- Associate professor of psychiatry Dr. Holly Gwen Prigerson, "Those Most Affected by Attacks Shouldn't Rush to Closure," Scripps Howard News Service, Sept. 18, 2001.

"We should not lose confidence in this great building type. The sky has always been the limit for us."

-- Dean of the School of Architecture Robert A.M. Stern, "Reaching the Sky, And Finding a Limit: Tall Buildings Face New Doubt As Symbols of Vulnerability," The New York Times, Sept. 19, 2001.

"The greater the threat, the greater the leeway the courts will give government [to curb civil liberties]."

-- Professor of law Peter H. Schuck, "Government Has Power to Curb Some Freedoms," The New York Times, Sept. 19, 2001.

"The enemy is decentralized, it's kind of cell-based, it grows like a fungus, it's not very easy to detect. Think of the Brits in Northern Ireland trying to deal with IRA groups, which keep splintering and splintering and splintering."

-- J. Richardson Dilworth Professor of History Paul Kennedy, "America's Fight Against Terrorism Looks To Be Long -- and Costly," Investor's Business Daily, Sept. 14, 2001.

"Wars have major and lasting effects on party alignments and politics. You look at resonances lasting down the years. They rank with depression, as causes of party realignments. But if you look at crises that are short -- the Gulf War or the Cuban missile crisis -- I don't think they had any lasting effect."

-- Sterling Professor of Political Science David Mayhew, "Conflict Could Reshape U.S. Politics; Crisis Can Make or Break Bush," The Times-Picayune (New Orleans), Sept. 23, 2001.

"When terrorism flares, it subverts economic freedoms and laws. It creates nervousness and uncertainty, impairing the smooth functioning of markets. It disrupts transportation and communications, the arteries of commerce."

-- Dean of Yale School of Management Jeffrey Garten, "China's New Membership in the World Trade Organization," Marketplace, Sept. 21, 2001.

"Oddly enough, what most inflames anti-American passions among fundamentalist Muslims may be the American government's lack of religious zeal. By separating church and state, the West -- and America in particular -- has effectively privatized belief, making religion a matter of individual faith. This is an affront to the certainty of fundamentalist Muslims, who are confident that they possess the infallible truth."

-- Professor of history and religion Lamin Sanneh in his op-ed article "Faith and the Secular State," The New York Times, Sept. 23, 2001.

"What parents are really crazy about is the length of the school day. It's been a desperate struggle for parents to find child care. I think eventually . . . all schools will have full-day. Unfortunately, what we're finding is that when times get tough, they cut full-day kindergarten to half-day."

-- Sterling Professor of Psychology Edward F. Zigler, "Success Is No Secret: More Time Means Better Learning, Studies Find," The Indianapolis Star, Aug. 27, 2001.

"The only hope is to change the food landscape of America. I would regulate food advertising aimed at children to provide equal time for pro-nutrition and physical activity messages, change school lunch programs, prohibit fast foods and soft drinks in schools, and change the price of food to make healthy food less expensive."

-- Director of the Center for Eating & Weight Disorders Kelly Brownell, "Americans Courting Diabetes Disaster," The Hartford Courant, Sept. 9, 2001.

"In some circumstances, legal actions are evaluated or pursued not with expectations of success in court, but recognizing that a real victory would be in the court of public opinion."

-- Clinical Professor of Environmental Law & Policy Daniel Esty, "Global Warming May Bring New Variety of Class Action," The New York Times, Sept. 6, 2001.

"Many Japanese think that all Americans are absolutely individualistic, rational actors, autonomous agents who do purely what they wish in the world and don't feel bound by particular ideas about custom or morality or group interests and so forth. And of course, those of us who have grown up in this country know that we may talk the talk of that in a particular context, but, of course, that's not always the way we live."

-- Visiting professor at the Law School Annelise Riles, "Laid-Off Workers in Illinois Sue Mitsubishi for Back Pay and Unspecified Damages," Marketplace, Aug. 29, 2001.

"It's heartbreaking. You walk in parts of the forest that used to be these beautiful cathedrals. Now you want to cry."

-- Associate professor at the School of Forestry & Environmental Studies Lisa Curran on the effect of logging in the rainforest, "Why Borneo's Sun Bears Now Attack," The Christian Science Monitor, Aug. 27, 2001.

"In most other strategies for accountability, they look at test scores and then they take punitive actions against teachers and administrators when the scores are deemed too low. We're going to make [parents] aware of what is necessary and try and be helpful. We will set the expectation that they will participate [in their children's education]."

-- Maurice Falk Professor of Child Psychiatry Dr. James P. Comer, "In New Haven, a Plan to Make Education Everybody's Business," The New York Times, Sept. 2, 2001.

"Affirmative action has a lot of justifications -- redressing discrimination, offsetting disadvantage -- but when you slap a race label on a student's ability to cross the threshold of a liberal arts education, you turn true diversity of experiences and viewpoints into a cartoon and a campus into camps of color, where suspicions of deficiency get passed off as a cultural difference."

-- Lecturer in political science James A. Sleeper, "Court's Ruling That University of Georgia's Admissions System is Unconstitutional," National Public Radio, Aug. 31, 2001.

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

Alumnus James Bundy to be next Drama Dean

Endowment increases to $10.7 billion

Beinecke display explores how Yale's library has evolved over the centuries

School of Art show pays testament to Yale alumni's influence . . .

New book will explore ways to combat terrorism

Renowned architect Tadao Ando is year's first Chubb Fellow

Study reveals cells' critical role in fighting cancer

Looking at art proves to help students become better doctors

Archive documents work of lover of nature and good literature

Exhibit features Chinese artist's prison paintings, notes

Former Yale president to discuss public education

Faculty to be featured speakers at campus events

Divinity Dean, faculty serving as presidents of scholarly groups

Link between abolitionism and feminism will be explored in conference

Yale composers are honored with ASCAPLU$ awards

Setting the stage for Yale's gala celebration

Campus Notes