Announcing Exciting New Features for Yale1969.org

Announcing Exciting New Features for Yale1969.org

ByWayne Willis

Now that COVID constrains travel and large social events, your Class Council and Class leaders today announce some exciting new features supporting onlne sharing among classmates:
* New Home Page.  Check it out!
* Newsletter.  More frequent and simplified. 
* Class Colloquia.  These have been very popular; three more are coming in the Fall.

This is the first step in evolving this Yale1969.org website from a “magazine” format (mostly articles), to more of a “community center” where sub-groups of our Class can connect and extend/maintain […]

Have We Been Missing Some Troublesome Long-term Trends at Yale?
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Have We Been Missing Some Troublesome Long-term Trends at Yale?

ByThomas Hood

I fear I have been blinded for a period of years by my institutional affection and great memories from noticing what appear to be some disturbing long-term trends at Yale. The much-publicized recent campus culture issue involving hate speech vs. freedom of speech and similar matters of a quasi-political nature are only marginally related, if…

The Internet and the Reform of American Politics in 2021

The Internet and the Reform of American Politics in 2021

ByReed Hundt

Editor’s Note: This is adapted from a memo Reed sent to the Biden Campaign.
A President Biden will face problems larger in scale and scope than any previously presented to the United States. The conjoined COVID-19 crises (aka the “pandemiconomy”) now seem monumentally daunting. Yet they may succumb to easier solutions than the long list of secular challenges that threaten the Republic:
* economic inequality,
* immigration,
* infrastructure,
* national security, […]

Yale Loses A Prominent African Historian and Compassionate “Gentle Giant”

Yale Loses A Prominent African Historian and Compassionate “Gentle Giant”

ByTimothy Weiskel

I wanted to share a short “In Memorium” note for one of the professors who taught us while we were at Yale. His name is Prosser Gifford.  He went to Hotchkiss School and then Yale and then to Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar.  Then, after a stint at Harvard Law School, he returned to finish…

The Future of Communications: Reed Hundt on Current Issues and Tough Choices

The Future of Communications: Reed Hundt on Current Issues and Tough Choices

ByDaniel Seiver

The 3rd Class Colloquium in our series was a huge success as Reed Hundt took us on a Greyline Tour of the issues being debated right now in Congress and how revolutions in communications and computing amplify both the possibilities and the threats coming soon. Here is the recording of Reed’s presentation and the Q&A. …

Yale University offers free course on African American history ‘from emancipation to the present’

Yale University offers free course on African American history ‘from emancipation to the present’

ByAdmin

from fox5dc.com Yale University offers free course on African American history ‘from emancipation to the present’ Jun. 10th, 2020 NEW HAVEN, Conn. – As protests against police brutality and systemic racism have swept across the country following the death of George Floyd, many have been encouraged to educate themselves on the history of the black experience in the U.S….

Echo in the Canyon     

Echo in the Canyon     

ByJohn O'Leary

Echo in the Canyon is an 82-minute rock doc that traces the music of this period—1965 to 1967—through the songs of The Byrds, Buffalo Springfield, Beach Boys, and Mamas and Papas.  These pop pioneers lived, hung out, and swapped songs (and occasionally lovers) in the Hollywood Hills in a woodsy region known as Laurel Canyon.  It quickly became an innovation nexus that changed music forever.
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I was hooked from the start, beginning with the opening chords of “Turn! Turn! Turn!” through “The Bells of Rhymney” and “Wild Mountain Thyme.” These Byrds’ classics played well against the sweeping aerial visuals of Laurel Canyon. Highlights […]

Ivy League Places All Sports on Hold Until January

Ivy League Places All Sports on Hold Until January

ByAdmin

from nytimes.com Ivy League Places All Sports on Hold Until January By Billy Witz, Jul. 8th, 2020 The league’s decision could be influential for other university presidents as they consider how to handle the coronavirus pandemic. It is the first Division I conference to suspend football for the fall. The Ivy League presidents placed all sports…

Canceling Yale

Canceling Yale

ByAdmin

FROM amgreatness.com Canceling Yale By Roger Kimball • June 22, 2020 I see that #CancelYale is trending on Twitter and elsewhere in social media. It’s a development I’d like to encourage—not, to be frank, because I think that canceling things is a good idea. Quite the opposite. But if the Left is going to pursue its dream of destroying every…

ClassColloquium 3: Reed Hundt on the Future of Communication: Data, Privacy, and State Control

ClassColloquium 3: Reed Hundt on the Future of Communication: Data, Privacy, and State Control

ByDaniel Seiver

In 1996, as midwife to the last major overhaul of the US telecommunications policy, Reed was exquisitely prepared to address the knotty problems arising from — and possible policy responses to — the issues attendant to social media, e-commerce, and online privacy, and the dangers of media concentration, Russian trolls, Chinese hackers, “deep fake” videos, and other ills of our internet-based future.

Register now to attend: July 22nd, 1:00 PM EDT.

Save The Dates: Medved and Markovits Class Colloquia

Save The Dates: Medved and Markovits Class Colloquia

ByArthur Segal

I’m happy to report that we have two more confirmed speakers for this Autumn — our very own Michael Medved who will give his unique view of the Trump presidency and the upcoming election, and our first faculty participant, Professor Daniel Markovits, who has a very provocative book out on how “Meritocracy” has undercut key elements of American society. Click thru to REGISTER for each of the talks.