In this addition to the Yale 1969 Archives, I have scanned, processed and now re-published a Supplement to the Yale Daily News, which was originally published on May 14, 1969. I suspect that, owing to its being published so close to our graduation date, many people in our class may have never seen it before. Believe me, it’s worth reading!
from USA Today Nathan Chen balances Yale studies with third U.S. figure skating championship By Christine Brennan | Jan. 27th, 2019 DETROIT — This was going to be a year of transition for reigning world champion and Olympic team bronze medalist Nathan Chen. At 19, he was heading across the country to college. Southern California…
https://yaledailynews.com/blog/2019/01/24/texas-endowment-surpasses-yales/ Texas endowment surpasses Yale’s By Lorenzo Arvanitis – Jan. 24th, 2019 Yale no longer has the second largest endowment among institutions of higher education. The University of Texas/Texas A&M Investment Management Company announced last month that the joint endowment it manages for two schools — University of Texas and Texas A&M University — surged to $30.9 billion,…
As we take arms against a sea of troubles, and by opposing end them, we also have to laugh occasionally at our current political scene. I’ve done this by publishing two satirical novels about contemporary politics, PRYME KNUMBER, and a sequel, BERNIE WEBER AND THE RIEMANN HYPOTHESIS. They are set in Washington, Milwaukee, and Yale. Some of our classmates appear as characters.
In both novels, Bernie Weber, a young, Milwaukee-based math genius of humble background, is chased by villains trying to force him to reveal his solutions to two unsolved problems in Mathematics, which could be used fo …
from Yale News Yale, other schools file amicus brief on ‘unlawful presence’ visa change January 17, 2019 Yale University has joined with more than 60 other institutions of higher education in filing an amicus (friend of the court) brief in a case before the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of North Carolina about…
https://yaledailynews.com/blog/2019/01/17/students-can-now-register-as-non-binary-with-sis/ Students can now register as non-binary with SIS by Jever Mariwala, January 17, 2019, Staff Reporter, Yale Daily News Students can now change their registered gender in the University Student Information System, University Registrar Emily Shandley announced in an email to the Yale community Wednesday. The policy change arrived two months after the Trans Rights…
The Reunion Committee made some recent announcements about the upcoming reunion. They fleshed out more of the details, asked us to preregister online and published the sequence of events leading up to the reunion itself on May 30-June 2. Click through to preregister and learn more.
Like many others, Dr. Jim Porter (SM ‘69, Ph.D. ’73) assumed that “Scientists don’t win Emmys.” But this year he falsified that hypothesis when his film, Chasing Coral won an Emmy for Outstanding Nature Documentary. Previously, it had been recognized with an Audience Choice Award at the 2017 Sundance Film Festival and had been conferred a 2017 Peabody…
We’ve created a simple 3-question survey, asking you to choose your favorite musical artist, favorite album, and favorite song from the 1960s.
So please take a moment to respond. (You don’t even need to be logged into Yale1969.org to use this link!) Taking the survey is guaranteed to give you a dopamine rush of nostalgia.
In a recent e-mail blast to alumni of Jonathan Edwards College, Mark Saltzman, Head of the College, and Mark Ryan, Chair of the JE Trust, announced the forthcoming publication of a new “introductory history” of the College. Alumni of JE are invited to contribute reminiscences for the publication, and, if they wish, to donate. See https://jespiders.org/. Reminiscences, which can be submitted through the website, will be accepted until February 1.
When Random House first published Charles Reich’s The Greening of America in 1970, they thought so little of the radical manuscript that just 5,000 copies were printed. The New Yorker followed the book’s publication with the longest excerpt in the magazine’s history, prodding the publisher to issue a dozen reprints—eventually selling some 2 million copies. The debate about American political culture that the book unleashed has been compared to the impacts of Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring and the Kinsey Report.
At the Harvard Class of 1937’s 50th reunion, E.J. Kahn, Jr., and Frank Goodhue met for the first time. They became the best of friends for the rest of their lives. David Howorth sees no reason why friendships like that can’t be formed at our 50th.
I think many of us would agree that the 60s was the all-time best decade for popular music. In fact, during our three years and nine months at Yale a lot of history’s best rock and pop was blasting out of our hi-fi’s into the college courtyards seven days a week. So it’s time to ask that all-important question, “What is YOUR favorite music of the ‘60s?” We have a quick, 3-minute survey for you to take.
Yale researchers have identified a drinkable cocktail of designer molecules that interferes with a crucial first step of Alzheimer’s and even restores memories in mice, they report Jan. 2 in the journal Cell Reports.
The binding of amyloid beta peptides to prion proteins triggers a cascade of devasting events in the progression of Alzheimer’s — accumulation of plaques, a destructive immune system response, and damage to synapses.
Ken Brown writes: “Over the weekend of October 20th, 6 members of our class with 3 spouses attended a weekend in Charleston, SC. Last November, Ben Slotznick and Ian Glenday from the class of 1970 approached me with the idea of a joint class of 1969, 1970, and 1971 off- site mini-reunion. The thought was…
Editor’s Note: The author is a member of our Class and a lecturer in political science at Yale College.
In case you are interested, here’s a glimpse at what Yale undergrads are thinking about our political prospects today.
