Attorney to discuss 'testing the ethical limits'
Lawrence J. Fox, a partner in the Philadelphia law firm Drinker Biddle & Reath, will discuss the topic "Testing the Ethical Limits: Should We Resurrect the Appearance of the Impropriety?" as the Law School's 1996 Anderson Fellow. His talk, which is free and open to the public, will be held at 4:30 p.m. on Tuesday, Oct. 8, in the faculty lounge of the Law School, 127 Wall St.
Mr. Fox specializes in corporate and securities litigation. He is currently chair of the American Bar Association's Standing Committee on Ethics and Professional Responsibility and is a member of the Philadelphia Bar Association's Professional Responsibility Committee. A frequent lecturer and conference speaker, he has addressed such topics as legal ethics, controls on lawyers advertising, ethical issues for corporate counsel and professional responsibility. He is author of the 1995 book "Legal Tender" and is a former law instructor at the University of Pennsylvania Law School, where he taught a course on the legal profession and professional responsibility. He won the Community Legal Services "Champion" award this year.
Native American keeper of sacred pipe to speak
Arvol Looking Horse, the 19th generation keeper of the "Sacred White Buffalo Clay Pipe" of the Lakota, Nakota and Dakota Nation, will speak on the topic "Mending the Sacred Hoop: Promoting Healing and a Return to the Spiritual Life" on Tuesday, Oct. 8, at 7:30 p.m. at the Joseph Slifka Center for Jewish Life, 80 Wall St. He will also talk at a tea on Wednesday, Oct. 9, at 4 p.m. in the Jonathan Edwards College (JE) master's house, 70 High St. Both events are free and open to the public.
Looking Horse has described the significance of the sacred hoop by saying: "Our prophet Black Elk said the Nations' Sacred Hoop was broken at the massacre of Wounded Knee in 1890. To begin mending the Hoop we have led a spiritual ride to wipe the Tears of the Seventh Generation from 1986 to 1990. The Nations' Hoop has begun to heal and mend. The prophecy tells us the White Buffalo Calf will return.
"In August of 1994, a White Buffalo Female Calf was born," he adds. "This tells us it is time to take our rightful place in leading the people towards Peace and Balance once again. We will be strong and the people will heal. Our healing is global."
Looking Horse's visit is sponsored by Common Quest, the Native American Students Association at Yale College, Yale Hillel and the JE master's office. For more information, call Mark Ryan, JE dean, at 432-0377.
Noted atmospheric physicist to present talk, demonstrations
E. Philip Krider, a noted atmospheric physicist and consultant to NASA, will present a lecture demonstration titled "Ingenious Experiments and Useful Discoveries: Benjamin Franklin Invents the Lightning Rod" on Thursday, Oct. 10, at 4 p.m. in the lecture hall of the Sterling Memorial Library, 120 High St. The event, which is free and open to the public, promises to be an "electrifying experience," says Barbara Oberg, editor of The Papers of Benjamin Franklin at the University's library. A reception will follow.
Mr. Krider is a professor in the department of atmospheric physics and the Institute of Atmospheric Physics at the University of Arizona in Tucson. From 1969 to 1971 he held an appointment in space physics at the NASA Manned Spacecraft Center in Houston and has served on the National Academy of Sciences Panel that reviewed meteorological support for NASA space operations and the USAF Lightning Review Committee.
The author of numerous publications and holder of eight patents, Mr. Krider has received an award for Outstanding Contributions to the Advance of Applied Meteorology from the American Meteorology Society, of which he is a fellow. He is also a member of the American Geophysical Union, the American Association of Physics Teachers, the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers and the History of Science Society.
His talk is sponsored by The Friends of the Franklin Papers, an association that provides financial support for the papers' publication. For more information, call Kate Ohno at 432-1814.
Head Start and welfare reform are topics of talk
Douglas Besharov, a lawyer and resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research in Washington, D.C., will speak at noon on Friday, Oct. 11, in Rm. 410 of Sheffield-Sterling-Strathcona Hall, corner of Grove and Prospect streets. His topic is "Whither Head Start? Early Childhood Programs under Welfare Reform." The event, which is free and open to the public, is sponsored by the Bush Center in Child Development and Social Policy.
Mr. Besharov began his career as an assistant corporation counsel of the City of New York, where he supervised a staff of 37 lawyers assigned to juvenile delinquency, ungovernability, child protective, non-support and spouse abuse cases in the New York Family Court. He later served as the first director of the U.S. National Center on Child Abuse and Neglect. From 1991 to 1992, he was administrator of the AEI White House Working Seminar on Integrated Services for Children and Families, a project designed to improve the delivery of services to disadvantaged children and their families. He is the author of "Recognizing Child Abuse: A Guide for the Concerned" and "When Drug Addicts Have Children: Reorienting Child Welfare's Response," among other books.
Currently a visiting professor at the University of Maryland School of Public Affairs, his most recent research interests include the relationship between family breakdown and poverty, child care and Head Start, child support enforcement, child abuse and neglect and welfare reform, as well as legal services to the poor, professional and product liability, tort reform and the legal implications of rationing access to advanced medical techniques.
Eli Whitney Museum director to discuss children's learning toys
William F. Brown, director of the Eli Whitney Museum in Hamden, Connecticut, will discuss "A.C. Gilbert and the Learning Environment of Children" as the next speaker in the Program for Humanities in Medicine's lecture series. His talk will take place at 5 p.m. on Thursday, Oct. 10, in the Beaumont Room of the Sterling Hall of Medicine, 333 Cedar St. It is free and open to the public.
A.C. Gilbert is a 1909 graduate of the School of Medicine, where he learned about anatomy and physiology because he was extremely interested in athletics. But Gilbert instead became an inventor and manufacturer of learning toys, including electric trains, magic kits and dozens of scientific toys. His Erector and chemistry sets, radio kits, microscopes and other New Haven-made products encouraged learning through play. He also helped found the Toy Manufacturers of America.
The Eli Whitney Museum, located at 915 Whitney Ave., has a Gilbert Project to document and preserve the Gilbert legacy. The project includes oral histories, exhibitions, a permanent collection and a library of paper ephemera.
'Father of global education' to talk about peace
Robert Muller, who is a current candidate to succeed United Nations Secretary General Boutros Boutros Ghali and who is known around the world as the "father of global education," will deliver the Albert Schweitzer Lecture on Friday, Oct. 11, at 3 p.m. in the auditorium of the Whitney Humanities Center, 53 Wall St. His talk, titled "On Peace," is free and open to the public.
At 4:15 p.m., Mr. Muller will be the guest at a tea in the Calhoun College master's house, 434 College St. The public is invited to attend.
Mr. Muller was a member of the French Resistance during World War II. After the war, he earned a law degree from the University of Strasbourg. In 1948 he won an essay contest on how to govern the world; the prize was an internship at the newly created United Nations. Over the next 40 years of his life, Mr. Muller devoted his energies working toward world peace at the U.N., where he rose through the ranks to attain the position of assistant secretary general. He was one of the main architects of the U.N. institutional system in economic and social fields, earning the nicknames of "Philosopher" and "Prophet of Hope" of the United Nations.
For the "World Core Curriculum" he created and the 25 Robert Muller schools around the world (with nine more being established this year), Mr. Muller has also been called the "father of global education." He is currently chancellor emeritus of the University for Peace created by the U.N. in demilitarized Costa Rica. He is the author of 14 books published in various languages, including his "Testament to the U.N."
World's longest dinosaur is topic of talk by author
Lynette Gillette, author of "The Search for Seismosaurus: The World's Longest Dinosaur," will speak on the new technologies used by scientists and volunteers in the seven-year search to uncover the huge sauropod dinosaur in a talk on Monday, Oct. 14, at 1:30 p.m. at the Peabody Museum of Natural History, 170 Whitney Ave. The talk is free with museum admission.
Ms. Gillette is curator of the Ruth Hall Museum of Paleontology at Ghost Ranch in Abiquia, New Mexico. In her talk, she will also touch upon her research on Coelophysis, one of the smallest and earliest dinosaurs ever discovered, which has been her focus at Ghost Ranch for the past 11 years. While she is at the Peabody Museum, Ms. Gillette will be studying material from Ghost Ranch containing Coelophysis fossils in the museum's collections.
Following her talk, Ms. Gillette will sign copies of "The Search for Seismosaurus," and the book will be available in the Peabody Museum shop.
CEO of Federal Reserve Bank to lecture at SOM
William J. McDonough, president and chief executive officer of Federal Reserve Bank of New York, will take part in an International Business Roundtable talk on the topic "The New York Federal Reserve in the World Economy: The Challenges of Managing a Private Institution that Makes Public Policy" on Tuesday, Oct. 15. His talk will begin at 11:45 a.m. in the General Motors Room of Horchow Hall, 55 Hillhouse Ave. It is free and open to the public.
Mr. McDonough was appointed president and chief executive officer of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York in 1993. In that capacity, he serves as the vice chair and permanent member of the Federal Open Market Committee, the group responsible for formulating the nation's monetary policy. Prior to his current post, he was executive vice president and head of the Federal Reserve Bank's markets group, which includes domestic open market and foreign exchange operations and U.S. government securities market surveillance. He previously had a 22-year career with First Chicago Corp. and its bank, First National Bank of Chicago, and was an adviser to the World Bank and International Finance Corporation, special adviser to the president of the Inter-American Development Bank and chair of the Illinois Commission on the Future of Public Service.