Yale Bulletin and Calendar

May 7, 2004|Volume 32, Number 29|Two-Week Issue

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"One of the great virtues of Shakespeare is that he is perhaps the most generous playwright who ever wrote. So there is something in every Shakespeare play for people of all ages to hang onto."

-- James Bundy, dean of the School of Drama and artistic director of the Yale Repertory Theatre, "An NEA Plan To Bring Shakespeare to High School Students," Associated Press, April 23, 2004.

"Technology was a huge theme at the '39 [World's Fair]. There was a bigger underlying theme than technology. It was really a statement of absurdly defiant optimism in the face of a world that was really falling apart. And I think it probably inspired more people to a particular philosophy of life than it did to any career choice."

-- David Gelernter, professor of computer science, "World's Fairs," "Talk of the Nation," National Public Radio, April 16, 2004.

"For both doctor and patient, there exists in that relationship the possibility of profound satisfaction. The patient feels content, knowing that his physical health has an active, knowledgeable champion. The doctor is rewarded with a similar gratification watching a lifetime of education and experience redeemed in practice. The mutual satisfaction of good doctoring is difficult to discuss in an era so focused on quantifiable results. Yet patients look for it. And med students anticipate it as they enter their training."

-- Dr. Lisa Sanders, clinical instructor in internal medicine, in her article "The End of Primary Care," The New York Times, April 18, 2004.

"Children's play is under attack. ... Play is being replaced by lessons targeting cognitive development and the content of standardized testing, especially in the area of literacy. ... Cognitive skills are very important, but they are so closely intertwined with physical, social and emotional development that it is narrow-minded, if not pointless, to dwell on the intellect and exclude its partners."

-- Edward Zigler, Sterling Professor Emeritus of Psychology and director of the Bush Center in Child Development and Social Policy, and Sandra Bishop-Josef, assistant director of the Bush Center, in their article "A Well-Rounded Child Needs Playtime and Book Time," New Haven Register, April 18, 2004.

"Criminal law today is starting to discuss war crimes and crimes against humanity, and con law [constitutional law] is becoming comparative constitutional law. Even contract law classes are discussing the U.N. convention for controlling international sale of goods. ... Our professors are pulling their own course materials from the Web. Traditional casebooks are becoming passe."

-- Harold Koh, the Gerard C. and Bernice Latrobe Smith Professor of International Law, "Law Schools Go International," U.S. News & World Report, April 12, 2004.

"Most people don't have any clue about how complicated [Attention Deficit Disorder] is. Everyone with this disorder has a few domains where they function perfectly well. So it looks like a problem of will power, but in fact it is not will power; it is fundamentally a chemical problem."

-- Dr. Thomas Brown, assistant clinical professor of psychiatry, "Driven to Distraction," U.S. News & World Report, April 26, 2004.

"Some people still don't want to accept it, but there's just no doubt: birds are dinosaurs. Get over it."

-- Jacques Gauthier, professor of geology and geophysics and professor of ecology/ evolutionary biology, "What's Wrong With This Picture?" New Haven Advocate, April 22, 2004.

"The relationship between war and economic prospects has never been straightforward. ... In a highly networked global economy, the interconnections have multiplied beyond anyone's full comprehension. In addition to other problems, the economic damage of what started out as an effort to liberate one small nation could well reverberate for years to come."

-- Jeffrey E. Garten, dean of the School of Management, on the economic consequences of the war in Iraq, in his article "The Elusive Costs of War," Newsweek, April 19, 2004.

"[Mona Lisa] doesn't really smile as people think: they talk about her smile as being enigmatic or mysterious, but I think she smiles for different reasons. Her husband's surname means happy or glad, and Italians like word-play, so I think that's the reason."

-- Angus Trumble, curator of paintings and sculpture at the Yale Center for British Art, "The World According To ... Angus Trumble," The Independent (London), April 12, 2004.

"To truly solve its prison overcrowding problem, Connecticut must address the underlying causes: the war on drugs, longer sentences, the elimination of good behavior time, retention of immigrant detainees and juvenile justice mismanagement."

-- Michelle Garcia and Charisa Smith, students at the Law School, in their article "Exporting Prisoners Won't Fix Much," The Hartford Courant, April 20, 2004.

"The law could require telephone customers to pay for any calls they receive from stolen cell phones. Or at least require the recipient to pay, if he or she is not willing to identify the thief or make a plausible case that the calls were from a stranger. This might sound unfair. But it's really just treating the receipt of stolen services the way the law currently treats receipt of stolen goods. If you buy a TV at a garage sale for $100 and later on find out that the TV was stolen, you have to give the TV back to its rightful owner. That's true even if you didn't know the TV was stolen when you bought it."

-- Ian Ayres, the William K. Townsend Professor of Law, and Barry Nalebuff, the Milton Steinbach Professor of Management, in their article "Dialing for Thieves," Forbes, April 19, 2004.

"I dare say that even among entomologists, some of whom study mosquitoes by strapping cagefuls of them to their own forearms, forensic entomologists are a breed apart. They examine the larvae that live in human remains in order to pinpoint a time of death, as well as doing other clever detective work like figuring out where cars have driven by examining insects caught in the grille."

-- Jenny Blair, student at the School of Medicine, in her article "Excitement in Entomology," The Hartford Courant, April 18, 2004.

"Patents have the potential to affect innovation in more economic sectors than any other form of intellectual property protection, so it's important to periodically examine the system to see whether adjustments should be made."

-- Richard C. Levin, University President, "Crisis Is Pending as Patents Pile Up," Chicago Daily Tribune, April 24, 2004.

"Sadly, a lot of CEOs today who are honest, hardworking and great models are not pointing the finger of shame [at corporate wrongdoers]. We need to draw the line in the sand between what's right and what's wrong."

-- Jeffrey Sonnenfeld, associate dean of the School of Management, "Professor Stresses Need for Corporate Integrity," The Virginian-Pilot (Norfolk, VA), April 21, 2004.

"In my two decades of practice, I've never seen vitamin D deficiency caused by lack of sun exposure due to sunscreen use, yet the evidence that UV rays from the sun cause skin cancer is overwhelming."

-- Dr. David J. Leffell, professor of dermatology and surgery, about claims that mid-day sun is a safe and effective way to get vitamin D, "Sun Safety Alliance Discourages Sun Exposure for Vitamin D Deficiency," Health & Medicine Week, April 19, 2004.

"I think people in middle age have to realize that they too have a responsibility to their bodies. You know, we've long since discovered that the most common reason that older people can't live alone anymore is not any named disease but simply weakness, just fragility, muscular weakness. And, of course, muscles do respond to exercise regardless of how old we are. We can improve the strength of our muscles. In doing so, we improve the solidity and strength of our bones. And from that point of view, many of the, well, physical debilitations that we worry so much [about] will not be present for many of us."

-- Dr. Sherwin Nuland, clinical professor of surgery, "Joseph Laughlin and Sherwin Nuland Discuss Improvements in Technology and How They Will Affect Aging Baby Boomers," "Talk of the Nation," National Public Radio, April 19, 2004.

"If climate change is not addressed now, our grandchildren stand to inherit a very chronically poor environment."

-- Oswald Schmitz, professor at the School of Forestry & Environmental Studies, "Bill Setting Climate Goals Wins Support," New Haven Register, April 21, 2004.

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With a hoisting of tentacles, giant squid returns to Peabody

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Threatened nation-state is topic of two-day YCIAS conference

Event showcasing medical students' original research . . .

New center offers treatment for primary immunodeficiencies

The letters of literary figures are featured in Beinecke exhibit

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Study: For-profit hospices offer fewer services than non-profits

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Scientists learn more about bond of water molecules, protons

New fund will support YSN faculty's initiatives to improve health care

Juniors are recognized for scholarship and character

'Modernist Voices' will explore themes in American and British literature

Dr. Terri Fried lauded for her work in geriatric patient care and research

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