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“Everybody wants to talk about religion and politics, but there are very few
people who want to talk about politics theologically.
”
— Serene Jones, the Titus Street Professor of Theology, “Church Delegates Urged To Put Their Faith To Work,” Star-Telegram, July 24, 2007.
§
“I would say that we have plenty of lawyers, but too few really good ones. ...
Powerful clients usually don
’t have trouble finding lawyers who will tell them what they want to hear. The
problem is finding (and training) good lawyers who will read the law fairly and
tell them what the law says, even if that means saying
‘No’
—Harold H. Koh, the Gerard C. and Bernice Latrobe Smith Professor of International Law and
dean of the Law School,
“10 Questions: About Terror and Civil Liberties,” “Couric & Co,” CBS News, June 22, 2007.
§
“One of the major civil rights struggles of our time is immigration rights.”
— Michael Wishnie, clinical professor of law, “Tough Lessons; In Defending Illegal Immigrants, Yale Law Students in the Center
of Controversy,
” Connecticut Law Tribune, June 25, 2007.
§
“Conservatives have long made the argument that gay marriages will negatively
affect straight marriages. ... The law of trademark, particularly the doctrine
of tarnishment, is particularly illuminating here. A trademark is a mark a
person or business uses to brand its products or services. A
‘tarnishment’ claim arises when a competitor uses that mark in a way that diminishes its
cachet
… . The fear of tarnishment is why some believe gay marriage will negatively
affect straight marriage. But it is also the reason they should not be allowed
to prevail. If marriage is changed to include all couples who subscribe to its
values, the institution will not be tarnished, but burnished.
”
— Kenji Yoshino, the Guido Calabresi Professor of Law, in his article, “Marriage, Trademarked; How To Understand — and Answer — the Claim that Same-Sex Marriage Demeans the Institution,” Slate.com, July 2, 2007.
§
“It’s difficult for people to accept but most of a person’s everyday life is determined not by their conscious intentions and deliberate
choices, but by mental processes put into motion by the environment.
”
— John Bargh, professor of psychology, “Why We Are All Creatures of Habit,” New Scientist (UK), July 4, 2007.
§
“If your students are 25% minority and 50% female, don’t you think they demand professors who look like them?”
— Meg Urry, the Israel Munson Professor of Physics and Astronomy, director of the Center
for Astronomy and Astrophysics, and chair of the Department of Physics,
“Beyond the Glass Ceiling,” Nature.com, July 4, 2007.
§
“There’s a misunderstanding of what [dyslexia] is. Some people inappropriately question
whether it
’s real. They don’t know what to look for.”
— Dr. Sally Shaywitz, professor of pediatrics and the Audrey Ratner Professor of Learning
Development,
“Puzzling Out Dyslexia,” Contra Costa Times (WI), July 24, 2007.
§
“[T]he research is consistently showing either no sex differences in the amount
that men and women talk, or if there is a difference, then it depends on the
context. For example, in a professional context, men actually outspeak women by
a long shot. ... The data shows that women do tend to talk about relationships
more.
… Just get guys talking about sports or finance or lawnmowers — then you’ve got another category of chatterboxes.”
— Marianne LaFrance, professor of psychology, women’s and gender studies, “Science Quiets Myth of ‘Chatterbox’ Females,” Washington Post, July 5, 2007.
§
“I really do think — whether you’re talking about criminal defendants or plaintiffs in Section 1983 civil rights
actions
— there’s a whole class of litigants out there where there’s not necessarily the ability to funnel Supreme Court expertise to them,
certainly not in the way there is for governments and businesses.
”
— Andrew J. Pincus, visiting lecturer at the Law School, about the Law School clinic, which he
co-directs with Charles Rothfeld, that has represented clients before the
Supreme Court,
“Law School Clinics Play A Role,” National Law Journal, August 1, 2007.
§
“It’s not so much how much fat one has, it’s really how fat is distributed.”
— Dr. Gerald Shulman, professor of internal medicine and cellular and molecular physiology, noting
that fat that accumulates on the belly and around abdominal organs is more
harmful than that found elsewhere on the body,
“Beer Gut Check: Study Sizes Up Belly Fat,” U.S. News & World Report, July 24, 2007.
§
“[Former slave, abolitionist and statesman Frederick] Douglass has become iconic
in American classrooms and textbooks to a certain degree. ... But it
’s equally true that most Americans know very little about him. They may have
seen a quotation on a placemat now. They have seen him as a kind of classroom
cardboard cutout. But I think that has something to do with our continuing need
in American society to believe that we have overcome slavery and racism and its
aftermath. We want to believe we solved this problem. But, of course, a closer
look at a Douglass, a closer look at his own writing and his own speech just
shows us that to the day he died, he never believed we had overcome this at
all.
”
— David Blight, director of the Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance and
Abolition, and the Class of 1954 Professor of History,
“Frederick Douglass’ Take on Independence Day,” “News & Views,” National Public Radio, July 4, 2007. §
“Plea bargaining works by threat, and it goes like this: ‘Oh, you want to exercise your constitutional right to a jury trial? Please be
our guest. But understand that if you exercise that right we will punish you
much more severely.
’ In effect, that means we are punishing you twice. Once for what you did and
once for having the temerity to exercise your right to face a jury.
”
— John Langbein, Sterling Professor of Law and Legal History, “The Morality of Copping a Plea,” Maclean’s (Canada), July 9, 2007.
§
“[E]very student deserves a quality involvement in music. You can’t just teach them math and letters. You have to teach them about beauty in the
world. You have to teach them about emotion in the world.
”
— Michael Yaffe, associate dean for administrative affairs at the School of Music, on the Yale
College Class of 1957
’s gift to fund music education in New Haven schools, “A Gift of Music,” New Haven Register, July 22, 2007.
§ “Whatever else they do, governments should pledge substantial compensation to all
terrorist suspects who are detained and then found innocent of any criminal
involvement. ... Receiving a substantial payment will not compensate detainees
for the daily outrage they experience on bitterly reflecting that they are
innocent. Nor will it salve the agony of loved ones who anxiously fear that
their relatives have been trapped in a Kafkaesque maze. But payment will help
innocent people patch together their lives when they emerge from prison, and it
will demonstrate to the minority community that the government does indeed
recognize the sacrifices that are made in the ongoing campaign against
terrorism.
”
— Bruce Ackerman, Sterling Professor of Law and Political Science, in his article, “What We Owe ‘Suspected Terrorists, §
“There are four categories of people who were the main players in globalization:
The traders
— who were motivated by profit. The preachers— who were motivated to spread the word of God, the warriors — who were motivated by their desire to control and create empires, and the
adventurers
— who were curious to find out what was on the other side of the hill, river,
mountain, etc.
… Today instead of the preachers we have human rights organizations. Instead of
the adventurers we have tourists who carry goods and ideas to various places.
Instead of the warriors we have the U.S. Army which has bases all over the
world, and instead of traders on camel back, today we have 63,000
multinationals who use containers and electronic transfers to do business.
”
— Nayan Chanda, editor of YaleGlobal Online and director of publications at the Center for the
Study of Globalization,
“All Roads Lead to One,” Deccan Herald (India), Sunday, July 29, 2007.
§
“I always thought that New England college campuses in winter are inherently
scary places. It gets dark early. There are all those gothic towers. There are
shadows everywhere. There is snow, people are slipping and sliding and
stumbling as they hustle and bustle along wrapped in their scarves, not
watching the world around them. There could be all sorts of mysterious things
happening in those gothic towers, in those shadows.
”
— Stephen L. Carter, the William Nelson Cromwell Professor of Law, on the setting of his new
mystery thriller
“New England White,” “Mysteries, Race Intertwine in ‘New England White,
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W E E K ' SS T O R I E S
University is welcoming its most diverse freshman class in history
Yale will bring educational treasures to iTunesU
Appointments Announced
Yale College deans for student and Native American affairs
Deputy provosts for science, faculty development
Coordinator of community programs in science
Yale Arab Alumni Association launched this summer
Yalies get taste of Hollywood as ‘Indiana Jones’ extras
SCHOOL OF MANAGEMENT NEWS
Five new faculty members begin teaching this fall
Students win championship round of new game show
New clinic offers free aid to local businesses, non-profits
Jeffrey Sonnenfeld cited as a business school ‘All Star’
DeVane Lectures to explore impact of performing arts
Scientists discover that evolution is driven by gene regulation
Exhibit explores fusion of fact and fiction in pirate portrayals
Also on view at the Beinecke Library
Exhibit features landscapes by photographer Jem Southam
Volunteers will again help during ‘Days of Caring’
Show celebrates East Asia collection’s 100th anniversary
Appointments at Center for Bioethics include a new director, David Smith
New residential college deans named
Events explore topics of reconciliation and ‘laws common to all mankind’
Yale Art Museums’ Open House to feature music, tours and more
Yale Library unveils blog and search tool
OISS seeking hosts for its Community Friends program
IN MEMORIAM
Letty Russell: Feminist theologian, leader in ecumenical movement
Brevard S. Childs: Influential Old Testament scholar, beloved teacher
Memorial service to be held for astronomy researcher Dorrit Hoffleit
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