Yale Bulletin and Calendar

April 22, 2005|Volume 33, Number 27|Two-Week Issue

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"It is best for a country to employ its workers in the highest productivity endeavors."

-- Peter Schott, associate professor of economics at the School of Management, dismissing the belief that manufacturing jobs are better for an economy than those in services, "A String of Owners Adopted a Variety of Economic Models To Try To Run Britain's Last Volume Carmaker but Never Secured Its Long-term Viability," Financial Times of London, April 13, 2005.

"Those episodes [of dramatic climate change] proved to be the single most important stimulus for the major transformations in human history. ... The historical lesson ... is that those societies had no knowledge of what was happening to them and certainly no historic knowledge of what could happen to them, where we have both."

-- Harvey Weiss, professor of Near Eastern languages and civilizations and of anthropology, on the effect that extreme changes in weather patterns had on the development of civilizations, "Clues to Climate's Future May Lay in Past," CNN.com, April 8, 2005.

"The hot new idea in liberal law journals is called popular constitutionalism. It argues that legislatures and voters should have more control over government, and the judiciary should take a more subsidiary position."

-- Paul Gewirtz, the Potter Stewart Professor of Constitutional Law, "A New Idea for Democrats: Democracy," Time Magazine, April 11, 2005.

"I myself am skeptical, too. I don't believe acupuncture is good for everything, but it is good for some things. I want to prove whether it's hocus-pocus or something real."

-- Dr. Shu-Ming Wang, associate professor of anesthesiology at the School of Medicine, about her study of acupuncture and back pain in pregnant women, "Yale Researcher Studies Acupuncture During Pregnancy," The New Haven Register, April 11, 2005.

"For the sake of regional stability, Beijing should forgo any ambitions to use Gwadar [a port on the Arabian Sea] for its naval vessels. Yet China has valid reasons to help develop a commercial port that other powers must accept. Its return to the Indian Ocean is the logical outcome of its blazing economic growth, which the West has encouraged, applauded and profited from."

-- Nayan Chanda, editor of YaleGlobal Online, about interntional concern over Pakistan's agreement to let China use a port there, in his article "Crouching Tiger, Swimming Dragon," The New York Times, April 11, 2005.

"Psychosis is very hard for someone who doesn't experience it to understand. This is the closest we've ever come to give people the sense of the burden."

-- Madelon Baranoski, assistant clinical professor of psychiatry, about a helmet that reproduces what it's like for people with schizophrenia to hear "voices" in their heads, "Training Puts Cops Inside the Head of a Mentally Ill Person," New Haven Register, April 10, 2005.

"[T]he reason it is so hard to fight the state is not because the state employees are evil, or out to get their opponents, or even competitive about proving their point. The reason that it is so hard to fight the state is that the bureaucracy takes what looks like the easiest road and, in most cases, the easiest, best paved road is to agree with a decision already made. Bureaucracy is, if nothing else, banal."

-- Robert Solomon, clinical professor and director of clinical studies at the Law School, in his column "Easy Road May Not Be the Best Path," Connecticut Law Tribune, April 11, 2005.

"People hack out the parts of ['The Merchant of Venice'] they consider offensive. They think: 'Shakespeare must not have meant that.' Well, he did. ... Let's not try to fix the play. Let's do what it is. ... We find ourselves wrestling with issues in the play as we are wrestling with ourselves in the culture today. In a world where we are looking for absolutism, it is important to point out that things are never that simple."

-- David Chambers, professor (adjunct) of directing at the School of Drama, about his upcoming production of the play in Milwaukee, "Quality of Chambers' 'Merchant' Is Not Strained," Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, April 10, 2005.

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

Yale increases its voluntary payment to city

Levin appoints new V.P. for Development: Inge Reichenbach

Event honors former Yale chaplain's ministry, activism

Thomas C. Duffy chosen to serve as interim dean of the School of Music

Link between stress, insomnia and obesity shown

Event explores unique singing tradition shared by disparate groups

Conference explores historic impact of global quest for oil

Unbiased reporting is not always noble, CNN journalist says

Veteran coach with over 400 wins to head women's basketball

Symposium honors chemist's '30 years in the trenches'

The drama school stages 'The Real Thing' . . .

Yale honors 116 staff members at Long-Service Recognition Dinner

Juniors honored for their scholarship, contributions

IN MEMORIAM

Biologist Dr. Alvin Novick, noted advocate for people with AIDS

Lloyd Reynolds, shaped fields of labor relations and economics