Yale Bulletin and Calendar

October 26, 2001

Volume 30, Number 8

"The country will now put money into cleaning out terrorists, money that it couldn't find for schools for black children, or for jobs and opportunities. You still hear those comments in the barber shops and on black talk shows."

-- Maurice Falk Professor of Child Psychiatry James P. Comer, "America's Ordeal; Race Inequities Temper Rising Patriotism; They Love Nation But See Injustice Too," Newsday (New York), Oct. 17, 2001.

"[A minister's] first role is to bring comfort. It's as if what we do all the time for private individuals we now have to do for the national family. Most important is to listen to the grief and provide examples from Scripture that relate to the situation."

-- J. Edward & Ruth Cox Lantz Professor of Christian Communication David Bartlett, "Lingering Questions; Religious Leaders Combat Terror With Hope; What Can a Pastor Say to Comfort a Congregation Scarred by the Sept. 11 Attacks?" Corpus Christi Caller-Times, Oct. 2, 2001.

"In these difficult days, more-or-less traditional mysteries can have a calming influence, based, as their premises and solutions appear to be, on logic. That the logic doesn't hold up ought not to disqualify the sedative effect of these books, just as the logic of some national leaders and political commentators may be a bit wobbly and yet, at least to many, reassuring."

-- Randolph W. Townsend Jr. Professor of History Robin W. Winks in his column "Post-Mortem; A Time for the Traditional," Boston Globe, Sept. 30, 2001.

"It's widely held that Americans do not really know, or believe, that they are living in a class system; the ideology of the American dream and the general individualism of the place ostensibly cover over the realities of class. . . . Americans see class all around them -- they just don't always call it that."

-- Associate professor of sociology Joshua Gamson in his article "Class Trip," The American Prospect, Sept. 24, 2001.

"New Yorkers then [in the late 1700s] were a pragmatically tolerant people who lived in an unusually heterogeneous community."

-- William Robertson Coe Professor of American Studies & History Jon Butler, "A Master Craftsman for America," The New York Times, Sept. 30, 3001.

"It is important to build. The skyscraper is one of the great American creations and is probably the greatest American contribution to architecture as a whole."

-- Dean of the School of Architecture Robert A.M. Stern, "From the Rubble, Ideas for Rebirth," The New York Times, Sept. 30, 2001.

"The game [of baseball] in Cuba especially is strongly rooted in fundamentals, in doing things the right way."

-- Sterling Professor of Hispanic & Comparative Literature Roberto Gonzalez Echevarria, "Thrown a Curve; Former Cuban Coach Needs Job, But Gets Cold Shoulder," Daily News (New York), Oct. 7, 2001.

"Are you going to pretend you're not afraid? 'The only thing we have to fear is fear itself' isn't true anymore. You don't know what's going to happen. That's the most anxiety producing feeling of all."

-- Associate professor of psychiatry and epidemiology & public health Dr. Holly G. Prigerson, "Sept. 11 Attacks Left Mark on Mental Well-Being," New Haven Register, Oct. 11, 2001.

"Well, the answer [to protecting yourself from bioterrorists] obviously is not in stocking up on various antibiotics. I should point out that there's no assurance that you're going to be exposed to the agent you predict you'll be exposed to. There are plague organisms that could be used. You could design anthrax that was potentially resistant to antibiotics."

-- Professor of internal medicine Dr. Frank Bia, "Dr. Frank Bia Discusses the Effectiveness of Using the Antibiotic Cipro Against a Possible Anthrax Epidemic," "Today Show," NBC, Oct. 1, 2001.

"Two years ago, a TV station stunned me. One of their researchers called, looking for videotape of the 1872 Yale-Harvard game."

-- Archives assistant in the Department of Athletics Geoff Zonder, "Yale Archivist Gathers History, Piece by Piece," New Haven Register, Oct. 7, 2001.

"There is a difference between offering pastoral care at ground zero and what you say to someone two years from now."

-- Horace Tracy Pitkin Professor of Historical Theology Marilyn McCord Adams, "Beliefs: A Philosopher-Priest's New Look at the Old Question: God in a World of So Much Evil," The New York Times, Oct. 13, 2001.

"Theoretically, Cipro should work in an anthrax attack, but it's never been tested, so no one really knows the optimal dose or therapy, or even, for sure, that it works at all."

-- Clinical director of infectious diseases Dr. Vincent Quagliarello, "New Yorkers Rush to Buy Antibiotic to Treat Anthrax," Agence France Presse, Sept. 28, 2001.

"People who are the victims of bias and discrimination experience negative effects on their general health, well-being and self-esteem."

-- Director of the Center for Eating & Weight Disorders Dr. Kelly Brownell, "TV's Thick and Thin," The Ottawa Sun, Oct. 9, 2001.

"The difficulties recently experienced by the editors of the Norton Anthology of Theory and Criticism offer a similar lesson -- selecting and compressing material for teaching within the traditional bounds of print is increasingly difficult and scholars and editors are increasingly restive."

-- Associate University librarian Ann Oker-son in her article "Wanted: A Model of E-Reserves," Library Journal, Sept. 1, 2001.

"In government, you are constantly waking up to find out about some horror, unfortunately it's usually a horror in a place you know nothing about. And you have to be semiliterate on the issues by lunch. . . . People in government will do a better job if they have more knowledge."

-- Director of the Center for the Study of Globalization Strobe Talbott, "Events Steer Yale Center," The Hartford Courant, Oct. 16, 2001.

"If we are to understand and anticipate the terrorist world, we need to make serious investments in 'human' intelligence -- agents in place, stronger links with foreign intelligence services, many more agents trained in foreign languages."

-- J. Richardson Dilworth Professor of History Paul Kennedy in his essay "No End of a Lesson," Time, Oct. 1, 2001.

"What ['Hook Mountain' artist Sanford Gifford] was trying to do was evoke the colors of autumn as a way of healing after the Civil War. This is a landscape that does not know North or South. We can all share this scene of beauty."

-- Professor of American Studies and English Bryan J. Wolf, "Nature's Canvas," The Hartford Courant, Oct. 15, 2001.

"The problem is that many of these countries [allying with the U.S.] have committed human rights abuses in the name of fighting terrorism. They may see this as an opportunity to co-opt us into that agenda."

-- Gerard C. & Bernice Latrobe Smith Professor of International Law Harold Hongju Koh, "In Combating Terrorism, Allies Not Always the Most Savory," The Associated Press, Oct. 5, 2001.

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

Study shows diet is linked to growing form of cancer

'Architecture or Revolution' recalls years of turbulence, innovation

Locke recalls Yale years, defends affirmative action in Chubb Lecture

Alumni to ponder intersection of law and technology

Legal scholar John Langbein is named Sterling Professor

Historian Cynthia Russett is appointed Larned Professor

Conference honors economist William Brainard

Environmental Science Center opening Oct. 26

Event to celebrate 'Cultures of Native America'

Drama school stages Chekhov's 'compassionate meditation'

Yale Opera students to perform scenes from famous operas

'Practical Logic' series opens with talk on challenge of intersexuality

Talks about Sept. 11 aftermath to focus on questions of gender

Symposium to explore 'material culture' of Colonial New York

Project teaches Head Start parents about computers, cancer

Conservation of biodiversity in China is subject of talk

Stephen Bright to speak at tea

Getting the low-down on downtown

Honoring an 'unsung hero'

Campus Notes