Yale Bulletin and Calendar

March 30, 2007|Volume 35, Number 23

In the News
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"Our election system is in bad shape. ... The reason you don't see the problems all the time in every place is because elections generally aren't that close. But when they are close, it puts the kinds of pressures on the system that make the problems visible."

-- Heather Gerken, professor at the Law School, "'Scorecard' To Aid Election Reform: Yale Law Professor Works with Obama on Bill To Foster Easy, Clean Voting," New Haven Register, March 9, 2007.

"By making companies pay for every increment of pollution, society puts a premium on vigorous environmental effort and forces executives to make pollution control and natural resource management a core part of their strategy. ... The masters of the universe have not given in to greenmail in a fit of political correctness. To the contrary, they are super-sophisticated business people who have learned that success in the marketplace now depends on getting corporate environmental strategy right."

-- Daniel C. Esty, the Hillhouse Professor of Environmental Law and Policy, in his article, "When Being Green Puts You in the Black," Washington Post, March 4, 2007.

"I think the big story in health insurance is it's big business, as you see in the options given to key executives. Thirty years ago nobody expected to get rich that way in the insurance business. ... These companies generate a lot of cash flow, and that translates into stock price, which translates into executive compensation. Doctors and hospitals get furious when they see executives earning $3 million or $4 million, but that's what happens when formerly non-profits like Blue Cross turn into WellPoint, and executives make bundles."

-- Theodore R. Marmor, professor of public policy and management, and adjunct professor at the Law School, "No Health 'Crisis' for State's HMOs," Business New Haven, March 5, 2007.

"The main thing is be yourself in your application. Authenticity is key. A lot of times we will get applicants and it's clear that they're telling us what they think we want to hear. We don't want them to try and get in the heads of the admissions committee and tell us what they think we're looking for. We want to hear what the applicant wants to tell us."

-- Bruce DelMonico, director of admissions at the School of Management, "Yale School of Management: Business School Admissions Interview," BusinessSchoolAdmission.com, March 2007.

"Early 19th-century English society was generally seen as less policed than that of the continent, but there was no shortage of efforts to bring about a more orderly society. ... Local magistrates administered the Vagrancy Act of 1824 with puritanical zeal subject to only modest judicial appeal. The age witnessed both reform and experimentation in prisons with convicts working themselves to exhaustion on the recently invented treadmill. [Victorian utilitarian Jeremy] Bentham had gone so far as to envision automated whipping machines throughout the nation. "

-- Frank Turner, the John Hay Whitney Professor of History and director of the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, in his article, "The Victorian Reformation," New York Sun, March 7, 2007.

"I think television can give us tremendous information, depending on how you select it. You'd be foolish to get rid of it."

-- Dorothy Singer, senior research scientist in psychology and co-director of the Television and Consultation Center, adding that she recommends taking televisions out of children's bedrooms and keeping the set in a common room, "Channel Zero; Television? Not on Their Watch," Washington Post, March 15, 2007.

"The Puritans were against extravagance and display to an extent, but they also believed that those who were virtuous would be rewarded, both in a heavenly sense, but also on Earth in a material way -- they weren't quite as anti-wealth as we often make them out to be today. Also, while they might not have been overtly affectionate in ways that would be obvious today, they weren't machines. Things like child mortality and short life spans meant that it was to children's advantage for them to grow up quickly and to the parents' advantage to treat them like small adults."

-- Erin Eisenbarth, the Marcia Brady Tucker Curatorial Intern at the Art Gallery, "Decorative Expressions of Love in Various Media at Yale Art Gallery," Hartford Courant, March 10, 2007.

"More hair equals more femininity, but also less intelligence [in people's perception]. High-maintenance hair makes colleagues suspicious about a woman's competence."

-- Marianne LaFrance, professor of psychology, "Work: Note to Self," The Guardian (London), March 10, 2007.

"I won't say [Shakespeare] 'invented' us, because journalists perpetually misunderstand me on that. I'll put it more simply: he contains us. Our ways of thinking and feeling -- about ourselves, those we love, those we hate, those we realize are hopelessly 'other' to us -- are more shaped by Shakespeare than they are by the experience of our own lives."

-- Harold Bloom, Sterling Professor of Humanities, "A Life in Books: Harold Bloom," Newsweek, March 12, 2007.

"Everyone should have the chance to see Saturn and the moon through a telescope."

-- Michael Faison, lecturer in astronomy, about the monthly star-gazing sessions at Yale's Leitner Family Observatory, which is open to the public, "Celestial Evenings," New Haven Register, March 8, 2007.

"Sometimes, in fact, [a study of the fattening effects of soda showed that] people who regularly drank soft drinks ate even more. The number of additional calories they took in was more than the calories in their soft drinks. It is almost as if sodas led to greater calorie intake because people get calibrated to a certain level of sweetness. ... If you are going to pick one change to make in your diet, and you drink sugared soft drinks, that would be a great place to start."

-- Marlene B. Schwartz, research scientist in psychology, "Soft Drinks Up Calorie Counts; Analysis of 88 Soda Studies Links Soft Drinks to Obesity, Disease," WebMD, March 8, 2007.

"If the U.S. government were to do an active resettlement regime for Iraqi refugees, it would be conceding that its own rhetoric about the situation in Iraq becoming safe and stable anytime soon is a fantasy."

-- Harold Hongju Koh, dean of the Law School and the Gerard C. and Bernice Latrobe Smith Professor of International Law, "The Departed," Time, March 12, 2007.

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

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Website offers info on Yale's environmental, sustainability efforts

Centennial celebration to honor Paul Mellon

In her novel, student tells human story of Biafran War

Elizabeth Alexander wins inaugural Jackson Poetry Prize

New associate provost named: Cynthia Smith

Photographic archive offers multi-faceted portrait of America

'Lulu' at Yale Rep is tale of obsession, sexuality and violence

Study finds brain's 'default mode' is abnormal in schizophrenic patients

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Study shows financial barriers contribute to less follow-up care . . .

Exhibit reveals corruption behind the 'glitter' of East India Company

Inaugural symposium to explore transnational history of sexuality

Events to help prepare citizens for a public health emergency

The game of kings (and queens and bishops)

Campus Notes