Frank Shorter ’69 says he learned early in his time as an undergraduate student at Yale University that there was no point playing it safe in an environment where every student on campus was at least as accomplished as the next one.
Recalling the number of valedictorians in his class, he …
from Yale News Yale’s Alfred Guy discusses the potential dangers and opportunities of the AI technology and how educators can utilize it to improve student writing. By Zoe Keller March 3, 2023 Since its public launch in November, the platform ChatGPT has generated a tsunami of news analyses and online discussions about how it and similar artificial intelligence (AI) technologies might upend the world as we know it. Given the app’s ability to quickly produce…
David Click died on May 18, 2021. An edited report from nolo.com: “After Yale he received a J.D. from Yale Law in 1973, and a Master’s in Economics from Yale in 1974. David taught at the law schools of Western New England, Indiana University, and the University of Maryland, including property, trusts and estates, law and economics, constitutional law, jurisprudence, legal research and writing, and appellate advocacy. He returned home to Florida in 1984 with…
from NYTimes The magazine, which has been rating top schools for decades, said in a letter to deans that it is altering its methods to address their concerns. By Ruth Graham Jan. 2, 2023 Under pressure amid a boycott by top law schools, U.S. News & World Report told law school deans on Monday that it will make several changes in the next edition of its influential ratings. In a letter to American law school deans…
Your scribe has been stunned by the arrival of three obituaries of classmates who died within a nine-day period in September 2022. I have collected below their memorials gleaned from newspaper reports, which I have edited to meet my stringent space requirements. Much more, including pictures and more remembrances of classmates who knew them, can be found on our class website. Excerpts from the New Haven Register: “William Wickwire, of North Haven, passed away peacefully…
Another classmate becomes a published author, this time at the ripe old age of 75! Check out Daniel Duke’s Man Camp, available directly from Amazon or other sources.
“Society today is obsessed with identity–gender, race, religion, political persuasion, and so on. So what does it mean, in this charged atmosphere, to be a man?”
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Viva Sicilia, a series of 30 new paintings from Sicily by Cleveland Morris, will be on display in Cleveland’s studio gallery in Staunton, VA, starting on December 2.
This is the first in a series I’m calling “Second Acts” — reports on a classmates’ journeys from a highly accomplished first act to try something a bit, um, different and challenging.
On Nov. 30th, Dr. Robert Riehle walked classmates through the maze of choices we face during this “open enrollment” time of year. Should you choose traditional Medicare or Medicare Advantage? Here is the recording of his talk, the survey results, and his slides.
November saw the release of Richard Seltzer’s newest book, Grandad Jokes: 3000 Jokes on Trump and Other Nonsense.
Available online for only $3 as a PDF book, you can download your copy right now!
It has a few that probably qualify as simple “dad jokes” (aka, groaners): What did Zorro and the Lone Ranger have […]
Summary from Wired Magazine: Charles Apel’s resume: drops out of Yale in 1967 to become a hippie and get high with Jim Morrison. Lives in the jungles of Colombia to avoid the Vietnam War draft. Eventually pardoned by Jimmy Carter. Fathers seven children. Returns to school and earns a BA in 1999 and a chemistry PhD in 2003. Now works in the Astrochemistry Lab in the Space Science Division at NASA researching the origins of cellular life. Associate editor of Biosystems.
Yale’s president said a Washington Post story about suicidal students being forced to withdraw ‘misrepresents our efforts,’ but promised improved mental health services and other possible changes By William Wan November 17, 2022 Yale University President Peter Salovey wrote a letter to school alumni Wednesday defending the university’s mental health services and the way it treats suicidal students, while also detailing plans for more resources and possible changes to policy. His letter followed a Washington Post story in…
from NYTimes Staughton Lynd, Historian and Activist Turned Labor Lawyer, Dies at 92 After being blacklisted from academia for his antiwar activity, he became an organizer among steel workers in the industrial Midwest. By Clay Risen Nov. 18, 2022 Staughton Lynd, a historian and lawyer who over a long and varied career organized schools for Black children in Mississippi, led antiwar protests in Washington and fought for labor rights in the industrial Midwest, died on…
Citing flaws in the way the ratings are determined, the schools said they will stop participating, breaking away from the rankings industry. By Anemona Hartocollis Nov. 16, 2022 In perhaps the biggest challenge yet to the school rankings industry, both Yale and Harvard announced Wednesday that they were withdrawing from the influential U.S. News & World Report rankings of the nation’s best law schools. Colleges and universities have been critical of the U.S. News ranking system…
Driving the news: “America does better when its leaders are rooted in today and tomorrow, not today and yesterday,” Schwarzman says.
“It is time for the Republican Party to turn to a new generation of leaders and I intend to support one of them in the presidential primaries.”
FromWaPO ‘What if Yale finds out?’ Suicidal students are pressured to withdraw from Yale, then have to apply to get back into the university By William Wan November 11, 2022 at 7:00 a.m. EST Students experiencing suicidal thoughts and other mental health issues say Yale University has pressed them to withdraw from the school. (Stan Godlewski for The Washington Post; iStock/Washington Post illustration) For months, she struggled silently with a sense of worthlessness. She had panic…
from https://news.yale.edu/2022/11/08/war-context-yales-ukraine-course-reaches-global-audience By Susan Gonzalez November 8, 2022 Timothy Snyder (Photo by Dan Renzetti) In the days leading up to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in February, few people expected an act of such aggression, Yale historian Timothy Snyder told a classroom of students earlier this semester. Looking back now, he said, the fact that the invasion did happen offers an important reminder: seen from the present, history is hard to predict. In fact, Snyder told…
