Yale Bulletin and Calendar

April 23, 2004|Volume 32, Number 27

In the News
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"Not too many people know this, but Cuba at that time had the largest middle class in Latin America. Cuba had more TV sets than Italy in 1958.

-- Carlos Eire, the T. Lawrason Riggs Professor of Religious Studies, "A Mystical Connection to Boyhood," The Hartford Courant, April 11, 2004.

"In substitution theory, the problem between humanity and God is one of debt. In Abelardian theory, the problem is one of ignorance. We don't have enough information."

-- Serene Jones, the Titus Street Professor of Theology, on the difference between the theory that Christ died as payment for humanity's sins and the theory that Jesus' death was a way of bringing humanity closer to God, "Why Did Jesus Die?" Time, April 12, 2004.

"[Traditional airlines are] icebergs drifting south. It's inevitable what's going to happen to them -- we all know what happens to icebergs moving south."

-- Michael E. Levine, adjunct professor of law, "'Legacy' Airlines Facing Doom? Grim Conditions Will Cause Top Carriers To Fail, Experts Predict," The Dallas Morning News, April 7, 2004.

"Most Americans think that [slave] ships would come from the United States or from Europe to Africa and the sailors would just get off and run out and grab a shipload of people and stuff them in the ship and bring them back, and I think that is a very condescending view of Africans. That view suggests that Africans were so disorganized that they could let that happen year after year after year after year. I think we need to see African societies as well-organized societies that participated in the slave trade because the ruling classes often felt they had something to gain from it."

-- Robert Harms, professor of history and chair of the Department of African Studies, "Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade," "Morning Edition," National Public Radio, April 12, 2004.

"It always seems like on the first nice, warm weekend in spring we see a number of motorcycle riders [in the emergency room]. ... Spring is similar to the first time it snows. It's like everyone has forgotten how to drive on snow."

-- Dr. Linda C. Degutis, associate professor of surgery and of epidemiology and public health, "With Spring Here, Injuries Can't Be Far Away," New Haven Register, April 12, 2004.

"Unbranded wholesale markets are truly competitive. They are the only market where gasoline is gasoline, and retailers are free to purchase from the lowest-price supplier."

-- Justine Hastings, assistant professor of economics, on the exception to the generally uncompetitive petroleum market, "Analysis: Oil Competition Said Lacking," United Press International, April 7, 2004.

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

Study shows how brain unconsciously processes images

Freshman cartoonist illustrates Washington Post column

Al Gore decries 'collision' between civilization and the environment

Carlos Fuentes calls for changes to close gap . . .

Panel: Respect is key to proper treatment of those with disabilities

Making Web pages accessible to all

Horwich honored for work on protein folding

'There's right on both sides' of civil liberties debate, journalist says

Play by Drama School graduate to close Yale Rep season

Americans, Europeans to debate right to intervene in Iraq

Study: Early instruction can change the brains of reading-disabled youths

U.S. poet laureate to give reading of her new work

Columnist to discuss why press failed on 9/11 and Iraq

New research on human conflict is focus of international conference

A Day of Community, a Day of Culture

Engineer Csaba Horváth, a pioneer in chromatography, dies

Mary Louise Brewster, widow of former Yale president, dies

Service, symposium to honor scientist Robert Macnab

Conference to explore work in the field of American Indian studies

Symposium will re-examine seminal essay by . . . Robert Cover

ITS support specialist to perform in 'Hamlet'