Yale Bulletin and Calendar

February 13, 2004|Volume 32, Number 18

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"If you feel 'squeaky clean' it probably means you stripped away all of the oils. That's not good for dry skin."

-- Dr. Richard Antaya, assistant professor of dermatology and pediatrics, "Dry Skin a Winter Woe, But Can Be Eased," New Haven Register, Feb. 2, 2004.

"Visualizing a breast for a second is not necessarily harmful. For a child to see breast-feeding is not traumatic. If they panned the audience and showed Janet Jackson breast-feeding, there'd be no problem. Revealing private parts on a public stage is another matter."

-- Dr. David J. Schonfeld, associate professor of pediatrics, about children's reaction to the Super Bowl halftime show this year, "FCC Investigating Halftime Show; CBS, MTV Apologize," New Haven Register, Feb. 3, 2004.

"Of all the times [of the year] to have road rage, this is the worst. People drive too fast. It's totally self-defeating and self-destructive."

-- Dr. Paul Desan, assistant professor of psychiatry, "Feeling Blue? Blame It on the Winter," New Haven Register, Jan. 28, 2004.

"[An impeachment inquiry is] a morality play. It's about misbehavior, not criminal behavior."

-- Akhil Amar, the Southmayd Professor of Law, "Another Impeachment, More Daunting," The New York Times, Jan. 27, 2004.

"Many of the purported environmental causes [of autism] have been proposed on the basis of a single case, or a handful of cases, and the observations have not held up in larger samples."

-- Dr. Fred R. Volkmar, the Harris Professor of Child Psychiatry, "More and More Autism Cases, Yet Causes Are Much Debated," The New York Times, Jan. 26, 2004.

"[Author Marcel] Proust has moved from avant-garde to mainstream, perhaps because he pioneered in the exploration of questions that have come to preoccupy our culture -- childhood affect, social deception, sexual obsession, sadomasochism, possessive jealousy, the wiles of memory and the ways in which these all lead to a passionate quest to know. It's not at present Proust the aesthete that engages us so much as Proust the anguished exponent of the drives and frustrations of love."

-- Peter Brooks, Sterling Professor of Comparative Literature and French, in his review of a new translation of "In Search of Lost Time," "The Shape of Time," The New York Times, Jan. 25, 2004.

"In a certain way it was a very good thing I lost Cuba. I'm not exactly thankful, but if I'm honest with myself I have to say it. If I had remained there in the circumstances to which I was born, I wouldn't have understood what I do now of poverty or discrimination. Exile may have made me a more religious person. I'm not sure. It's terribly complicated."

-- Carlos Eire, the T. Lawrason Riggs Professor of Religious Studies & History, about his National Book Award-winning autobiography, "Boy's View of Life in Cuba Reads Like Huck Finn in Havana," The Miami Herald, Jan. 25, 2004.

"The thing I learned in my time at Yale was that shades of grey predominated. You need to think about an issue in its full glory and richness before you jump to a conclusion so I came an intelligent person and left an educated person."

-- Indra Nooyi, University trustee and graduate of the School of Management, "From Poor Indian Student to Powerful U.S. Businesswoman," Financial Times, Jan. 26, 2004.

"The pandering of some politicians to religious sentiments that emphasize personal piety is a subterfuge for their not articulating a vision of a more just society. These politicians seem to reflect an impression of many Christians and non-Christians, namely, that religion and spirituality are self-centered, private and focused upon acquiring political power."

-- The Reverend Frederick J. Streets, University chaplain, in his letter to the editor "God, Country and the Politicians," The New York Times, Jan. 9, 2004.

"According to the Agriculture Department, if you eat 2,200 calories a day, you should limit added sugars to 12 teaspoons. The typical American consumes 20. ... By itself, that 20-ounce Coke or Pepsi in a school vending machine provides 15 teaspoons of sugars."

-- Kelly Brownell, director of the Center for Eating and Weight Disorders, and Marion Nestle in their article "The Sweet and Lowdown on Sugar," The New York Times, Jan. 23, 2004.

"I have always been amazed at the ability of the Christian right to bully educators into diluting the teaching of evolution and promoting so-called creation science in public school classrooms. ... Maybe soon a small group of reactionaries will persuade a school board to teach students that apples do not fall to earth because of gravity, but because of some mystical phenomenon that can neither be studied nor understood."

-- Albert Price, postdoctoral associate in the Department of Cell Biology, on Georgia's move to eliminate evolution from all school curricula in his letter to the editor "Denying Evolution Is Denying Biology," The New York Times, Feb. 2, 2004.

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

Levin named to review panel on intelligence operations

Scientist gets $6 million for study of Parkinson's disease

U.S. poet laureate appointed as Rosenkranz Writer-in-Residence

Yale Rep stages a 'King Lear' for the ages

Yale Rep's 'King Lear': A classic tale in an ancient setting

YHHAP: They don't just work for the homeless, but with them

Yale Art Gallery acquires floor mosaic from ancient city

Graduate School again increases stipends for doctoral students

President re-establishes Minority Advisory Council

Exhibition features 'Big and Green' architectural designs

Law practitioners to explore 'rebellious' strategies for change

Yale's NCAA self-study is available to community online

Scientists discover low level of enzyme in people with epilepsy

Event explores challenges of children in foster care . . .

Japanese puppetry to open Yale Rep's Special Event series

Panetti piece celebrating work with quartet to make East Coast premiere

Yale scholars Snyder and Gay honored . . .

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