Yale Bulletin and Calendar

September 30, 2005|Volume 34, Number 5

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"The population certainly needs more whole grains, but the optimum delivery vehicle is not cookies."

-- Kelly Brownell, director of the Rudd Center for Food Policy and Obesity and professor of psychology, "Kraft Introduces 2 Somewhat Healthier Cookies Made of Whole Grains," The New York Times, Sept. 16, 2005.

"Basically the tasks [of the chief justice of the Supreme Court] have expanded. The question is if we want to do what is politically wise and just. It is the appropriate time to question whether all the many facets of the role of chief justice should be located in the office of the chief justice. "

-- Judith Resnik, the Arthur Liman Professor of Law, "Politics and Policy; Explaining the Role of Chief Justice," The Wall Street Journal, Sept. 11, 2005.

"Oral history is never the last word on a subject. People's memories are fallible, and you often find that what they remember when matched against contemporary documents is wrong."

-- Daniel J. Kevles, the Stanley Woodward Professor of History and adjunct professor of law, "Caltech Mines a Rich Trove of Voices From the Past; An Oral History Project Offers Insights Into the Lives of Top U.S. Scientists With Ties to the Campus," Los Angeles Times, Sept. 19, 2005.

"[F]ew Indian schools can offer the same breadth of B-school education that the top U.S. programs offer."

-- Shyam Sunder, the James L. Frank Professor of Private Enterprise and Management, "Indians Rush to America for MBA," The Press Trust of India Limited, Sept. 15, 2005.

"So just imagine what would happen if universities started to provide textbooks to their students as part of the tuition package. Of course tuition would have to rise, but for the first time universities would start caring about whether their professors were too extravagant in the selection of class materials."

-- Ian Ayres, the William K. Townsend Professor of Law, in his article "Just What the Professor Ordered," The New York Times, Sept. 16, 2005.

"There will be a spike in kidney disease in the next 15 to 20 years from now if nothing is done."

-- Dr. Rex L. Mahnensmith, professor of internal medicine and lecturer in physiology, noting the need to control such risk factors as obesity, high blood pressure and diabetes, "Treatment of Kidney Disease is Critical," New Haven Register, Sept. 18, 2005.

"This has been a heady but uneasy quarter-century, a bit like the 1890s or the 1920s in some ways, and it is extraordinarily difficult for even the smartest commentator to guess which way the tides are flowing."

-- Paul Kennedy, the J. Richardson Dilworth Professor of History, in his review of James T. Patterson's "Restless Giant," "A Masterful Historian Sums Up the Uneasy Era from Nixon's Resignation to the Florida Recount," The Washington Post, Sept. 19, 2005.

"Just being kind to someone doesn't mean they're going to behave. Show empathy. Express the expectation that they are going to get through this. But don't tolerate misbehavior because they've had a hard time."

-- Dr. James P. Comer, on how teachers should treat students who are Hurricane Katrina survivors, "Needs of Displaced Students Emerge as Issue for Districts," Education Week, Sept. 18, 2005.

"When the Philadelphia framers floated their proposal [for the text of the U.S. Constitution], they knew the difficulty of the task that lay ahead. Never in history had so many people been allowed to vote on the basic ground rules of government. Even the most democratic of ancient Greek constitutions had been handed down from on high by individuals --

Athens's Solon and Sparta's Lycurgus -- rather than voted on by the citizenry."

-- Akhil Reed Amar, the Southmayd Professor of Law, noting that the document drawn up by the framers had to be ratified by 9 out of 13 state conventions to go into effect (all 13 eventually did) in his article "Conventional Wisdom," The New York Times, Sept. 18, 2005.

''At the height of the women's movement and shortly thereafter, women were much more firm in their expectation that they could somehow combine full-time work with child rearing. The women today are, in effect, turning realistic.''

-- Cynthia Russett, the Larned Professor of History, on students who say they will suspend or end their careers when they have children, "Many Women at Elite Colleges Set Career Path to Motherhood," The New York Times, Sept. 20, 2005.

"In practice the Doha negotiations [of the World Trade Organization] have been a tale of failure to reach agreement on most issues on the agenda. It seems that countries came to these talks with the aim of creating loopholes to avoid obligations rather than undertaking serious trade liberalization."

-- Ernesto Zedillo, director of the Center for the Study of Globalization and professor in the field of international economics and international relations, in his article "Ernesto Zedillo Discusses the Doha Round of Trade Negotiations," Forbes, Sept. 19, 2005.

"If you consistently bought every [mutual] fund that did well in the last six months and held it for six months, that would be smart. But what everyone is doing, on average, is not that. They are overweighting the funds that have done well for years and holding on to them for several years."

-- Owen Lamont, professor of finance at the School of Management, "Dumb Money; The Good News: It Is Possible for Investors to Hone in on Winning Mutual Funds. The Bad: They Usually Go with the Losers Instead," Forbes, Sept. 19, 2005.

"Legal reform in China is crucial to many aspects of China's development -- advancing a market economy, protecting human rights, fighting corruption, encouraging foreign investment, and fully integrating China into the world community. People outside of China, as well as inside of China, have a stake in these things. So it would be valuable for President Bush to emphasize the importance of the rule of law when he meets President Hu."

-- Paul Gewirtz, the Potter Stewart Professor of Constitutional Law and director of the China Law Center at the Law School, "What Should George W. Bush and Hu Jintao Focus on in the All-Important U.S.-China Relationship? TIME Asks the Experts," Time (Asia), Sept. 13, 2005.

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

Alumnus Ruebhausen bequeaths over $30 million to Law School

Treatment boosts survival from uterine cancer

Yale Workplace Survey spurring new initiatives

Results of Yale Workplace Survey

Scientists learn how an ancient zebra lost its stripes

NBA star shares his vision for health care in Africa

India's finance minister discusses links in the global economy

House designed and built by architecture students . . .

Team identifies neurotransmitter that halts cell overproduction in the brain

Saturday series for children shows them that 'science is for everyone'

Conference, exhibit celebrate bicentennial of Tocqueville's birth

Special Collections Fair will feature rare look at unique items

Neurobiologist wins Javits Award

Serge Lang, mathematician and defender of academic standards

NBC president to discuss the network's new season

Flying dinosaur

Conference to focus on new educational technologies

Year-long seminar series will explore the changing face of antisemitism

Panel on future of democracy to launch Jamestown Project

'We the People ...'

School of Drama/Yale Rep appoints two new development officers