Yale Bulletin and Calendar

November 2, 2001

Volume 30, Number 9

"[Alexander Hamilton is] considered this nasty sort of politician because that's the way Thomas Jefferson saw him and we listen to Jefferson. The problem with Hamilton was that he was blunt, frank and arrogant. He was not very good at intrigue. Jefferson was."

-- Assistant professor of history Joanne Freeman, "Another Shot at Posterity for Alexander Hamilton," The Associated Press, Oct. 22, 2001.

"I think [Osama bin Laden] speaks to his audience quite well. That all has very profound resonance. That does not mean the majority of people in the Arab and Muslim world would approve of his actions."

-- Chair of the Council on Middle East Studies Abbas Amanat, "Yale Prof Calls bin Laden's Words Effective, But Not Brilliant," New Haven Register, Oct. 18, 2001.

"If we had a serious infectious disease that increased 10 percent a year every year, there would be headlines in the newspapers. I would call this an epidemic that is still in a rapid period of growth."

-- Professor of child psychiatry and pediatrics Dr. Joseph Woolston about the fact that there has been a 10% increase annually over the last 10 years in children needing mental health care, "Mental Health Program Shows Success," The Hartford Courant, Oct. 1, 2001.

"A foreign policy motive is not high on prosecutors' lists."

-- Professor at the Yale School of Management Paul Bracken on why there are so few indictments of suspected terrorists, "Eyes Turn to Iraq in Attack on U.S.; Some Policy-Makers, Analysts See Hussein as Potential Suspect," The Baltimore Sun, Sept. 27, 2001.

"Strange as it was to be out touch with my husband and daughter during this shocking time, I was glad they did not meet up with any other group on the river who could have informed them of the news of the world. There would be time enough -- the rest of our lives -- to know. It was a comfort not hearing from them, imagining them in that landscape as they progressed through their week, knowing that they remained innocent."

-- Lecturer in English Katharine Weber about her family's Outward Bound rafting trip during the Sept. 11 attacks, in her article "Far Voyagers Thankfully Unaware of the Upheaval," New Haven Register, Oct. 21, 2001.

"In the past, other women who had had pregnancies helped the women who were inexperienced. That's what this is: it normalizes pregnancy because the women realize they're not alone, that other people feel the same way."

-- Associate professor of obstetrics & gynecology Dr. Urania Magriples about a new prenatal program at the Yale Women's Clinic that combines medical check-ups with group sessions, "Great Expectations; In 'Centering Pregnancy,' Prenatal Care Includes Sharing With Other Women," New Haven Register, Oct. 14, 2001.

"That women are influenced by pictures of thin young models is unquestionable and our view of how we feel we should look is shaped by them -- most women feel they never measure up."

-- Director of the Center for Eating and Weight Disorders Dr. Kelly Brownell, "The Enemy in the Mirror," The Guardian (London), Oct. 13, 2001.

"Golf courses are among the top ten locations in occurrence of sudden cardiac arrest. That is why the American Heart Association advocates the placement of automated external defibrillators, known as AEDs, on all golf courses and the training of golf course personnel in their use."

-- Professor of internal medicine Dr. Jeffrey R. Bender in his letter to the editor "Defibrillators Belong On All Golf Courses," New Haven Register, Oct. 14, 2001.

"Before the attacks, few architects and critics had much good to say about the World Trade Center. It was too tall, too uninspired. But then, in an instant, those feelings changed. They now represent something sublime, even in their absence."

-- Sterling Professor Emeritus of the History of Art Vincent Scully, "Rising From the Ruins -- Nation's Largest Preservation Group Meets in Providence," The Providence Journal-Bulletin (Providence, RI), Oct. 18, 2001.

"Washington's campaign against terrorism is, of course, the ultimate nationalist endeavor. We are riveted on protecting the homeland. But a large number of Fortune 500 companies derive over 50 percent of their revenues from abroad. They have internationalized their production, their supply systems, their work forces and their sources of finance. They have an enormous stake in an increasingly open world economy."

-- Dean of the Yale School of Management Jeffrey E. Garten, "Tension Between U.S. Foreign Policy Objectives and Interests of Multinational Businesses," Marketplace, National Public Radio, Oct. 16, 2001.

"[As far back as World War I] food became a weapon for the U.S. We would give it to people that were on our side and withhold it from our enemies."

-- Professor Emeritus of History Gaddis Smith, "Plain Meals on Plane Wheels," U.S. News & World Report, Oct. 12, 2001.

"Children pick up cues from adults when an issue is difficult to talk about. Children are able to better deal with a situation when they understand it. We need to reassure them that they should feel safe in school, home and their communities."

-- Associate professor of pediatrics Dr. David Schonfeld, "Pediatricians Address Child Psychology After Terror Attacks," The Associated Press, Oct. 22, 2001.

"We are all in for a complicated learning experience in the coming years. China has said it will be part of that learning experience. I think that is a very interesting new development."

-- Sterling Professor of History Jonathan Spence, "Pacific Rim Leaders Seize New Excuse for Cooperation," The Christian Science Monitor, Oct. 22, 2001.

"For the first time in our history, or at least since the War of 1812, we are threatened by enemies at home. We are trying to get our bearings. We know we are afraid for our safety, but on the other hand we know that our principal goal is to live our lives as best as we can. There's a contradiction there, but people live with contradictions every day."

-- Professor of psychiatry and epidemiology & public health Dr. Robert Rosenheck, "As the Threats Mount, So Does the Fear," The New York Times, Oct. 21, 2001.

"It's intellectual inquiry that crosses generational lines. Professors are listening to the students. There is none of the presumption of knavery or foolishness that I remember so well from Vietnam."

-- Director of the Center for the Study of Globalization Strobe Talbott, "The Return of Teach-Ins," The New York Times, Oct. 21, 2001.

"[A]s Secretary of Health and Human Services, [Tommy Thompson] needs to level with the American public. And in some ways, the politicians need to step back a little. And they need to let the physicians and scientists step out and in front, those scientists and physicians who work in the government, because they're the ones who have the facts. They're the ones who have the credibility."

-- Dean of the School of Medicine Dr. David Kessler, "America Strikes Back: Interview with Madeleine Albright," "Greenfield at Large," CNN, Oct. 23, 2001.

"On the day of graduation, the honors you get are important. But over the course of a career, the work you do becomes far more important than a college transcript. There are very few occasions when those honors can be displayed. They're usually far more impressive to the people who have them than to anyone else."

-- Dean of Yale College Richard H. Brodhead, "Yale's Honors Designation Tougher Than Harvard's," New Haven Register, Oct. 25, 2001.

"I would expect that, with the generalized anxiety that people are experiencing, that sexual function as well as sleeping and eating functions would be affected. This is a very unstable period and nobody knows what's going to happen next."

-- Professor of psychiatry Dr. Philip Sarrel, "No Drive: In Anxious Times, Some Showing Loss of Libido," The Hartford Courant, Oct. 26, 2001.

"In a perfect world, we would protect both our private parts and our private life from forced exposure. But we should not confuse the two. If a security guard sees our genitals on a screen [using radiation imaging], at least we still have them. But if government can see or listen in on our private lives indiscriminately, without probable cause, we will no longer have private lives at all. . . . The more invasive the technology, the better. Radiation imaging technology is infinitely preferable to a body-cavity search conducted by human hands. Yes, both techniques reveal the same information; that is why some privacy scholars mistakenly equate the two. But a body-cavity search is far more degrading and dehumanizing."

-- Robert R. Slaughter Professor of Law Jed Rubenfeld, "Privacy Exposed; The More Invasive the Technology, the Better," washingtonpost.com, Oct. 26, 2001.

"This crocodile didn't live in fear of anything. Nothing messed with it. [Researchers] still don't know what killed it off -- only that it died out 40 million years before the dinosaurs. So whatever killed it didn't get the dinosaurs -- at least not at that time."

-- Postdoctoral fellow in ecology & evolutionary biology Hans Larsson, "Giant Croc Fossil Found in Africa; Yale Researcher on Discovery Team," Connecticut Post, Oct. 26, 2001.

"The whole field of molecular electronics is characterized by looking at things that are much smaller -- a scale where regular fabrication approaches aren't precise enough."

-- Harold Hodgkinson Professor of Engineering & Applied Science Mark Reed, "Scientists Create a Molecular-Scale Transistor; Lucent Technologies Device is Called Breakthrough in Electronics Miniaturization," washingtonpost.com, Oct. 18, 2001.

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

Yale formally dedicates Environmental Science Center

Team discovers fossil of 40-foot crocodile

Scientists develop otential vaccine for West Nile virus

Journalist considers gap between 'red' and 'blue' America

Michael Dove is appointed Musser Professor of Social Ecology

Thomas Graedel named Musser Professor of Industrial Ecology

Yale Art Gallery receives gift of major work by Courbet

U.S. Senator James Jeffords to give talk

Noted journalist James Fallows to present annual Fryer Lecture

Estrogen therapy ineffective in preventing stroke, study finds

Noted statistician Francis J. Anscombe dies

Influential physician Dr. Alvan Feinstein dies

Symposium to explore Palestinian and Israeli cinemas

Yale affiliates invited to serve as Thanksgiving hosts

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