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Class Notes
Class Notes – Nov/Dec 2020
ByDaniel Seiver November 1, 2020April 22, 2023
Your scribe has been notified of four more deaths of classmates: Jerry Schnitt, Gregory Kampalas, Morrison Bonpasse and Gene Buzzard.
Steve Bemis forwarded this New Haven Register obituary: “Jerome M. Schnitt, MD (“Jerry”), 73, of Guilford, CT passed away peacefully on Tuesday morning, June 9, 2020 after a decade-long battle with cancer….An academic by nature, Jerry graduated from Yale University (Trumbull College) in 1969 before attending Medical School at West Virginia University. He subsequently completed his psychiatric residency […]
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News
Report and Recording from Class Colloquium 6: Akhil Amar on The Presidency, Vice-Presidency and The Constitution
ByRussell Osgood October 28, 2020April 22, 2023
Here is the recording of Class Colloquium 6, Akhil Amar on the constitution.
We opened this event up to Yale classes 67 – 73 and had almost 500 registrants! Given the impending election, the crowd was restive, but Professor Amar, a gifted teacher, gave us a great context with which to view current events.
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Around The Web
Yale’s David Swensen Puts Money Managers on Notice About Diversity
ByAdmin October 26, 2020April 22, 2023
wsj.com Yale’s David Swensen Puts Money Managers on Notice About Diversity By Juliet Chung Close Juliet Chung Biography Juliet.Chung@wsj.com and Dawn Lim The national discussion over race has resulted in an accelerated push for diversity on boards and in companies across the U.S. It has also prompted some investors to look at investment management, one of the least diverse fields on Wall Street. A 2019 study commissioned by the Knight Foundation found women- and minority-owned firms…
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In Memoriam
Quentin Anthony Lawson, October 7, 2020
ByJim Schweitzer October 23, 2020April 22, 2023
Quent had a truly generous spirit to go along with a consistently sweet disposition. He was a marvelous storyteller and had a wonderful, dry sense of humor. As Robb High once said, Quent “could make a stone laugh.” Those of us clueless social science majors who stumbled through astronomy junior year recall Quent’s […]
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Op-Ed
Suing Google Won’t Help Consumers
ByGeorge Priest October 22, 2020April 22, 2023
Editor’s Note: This is an op-ed published by classmate George Priest, a professor at Yale Law School.
The U.S. Justice Department and 11 states filed an antitrust claim against Google Tuesday alleging illegal monopolization. The lawsuit follows the release earlier this month of a voluminous report by the House Judiciary Committee arguing that the four major U.S. internet platforms—Google, Amazon, Apple and Facebook —are monopolies and ought to be broken […]
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News
My 1970 book is re-released as Aaron Sorkin movie premieres
ByGeorge McNamee October 16, 2020April 22, 2023
Today, Friday, October 16th, The Trial of the Chicago 7 premieres on Netflix. Written and directed by Aaron Sorkin, it is a powerful movie that captures the emotion and excitement of being alive in 1969. That was our time.
Fifty years ago, two of my movement friends and I produced the Tales of Hoffman which became the definitive edition of the transcript of the trial. […] This year, Simon and Schuster re-released it, renaming it The Trial of the Chicago 7. Aaron Sorkin has written an introduction to the new edition.
Sorkin also created a screenplay from the book; Steven Spielberg’s Dreamworks and Netflix developed it into a film; and it was released today, quickly appearing on Netflix’ “trending …
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In Memoriam
Thomas Walsh, September 22, 2020
ByThomas Hine October 15, 2020April 22, 2023
“I arrived at Yale as a shy, socially awkward 17-year-old, from a Southern family of very modest means,” he wrote in the first sentence of his essay for the 50th reunion book. This is an old-fashioned way of opening a story of adventure and discovery, as Tom, an English major, knew.
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In Memoriam
Gene C. Buzzard – July 21, 2020
ByDaniel Seiver October 13, 2020April 22, 2023
From the Tulsa World Gene Carson Buzzard, aged 73, passed away on July 21, 2020, surrounded by his loving family at their home in Tulsa. He will be remembered by his family and many friends for his intellect, humor, curiosity, generosity, loyalty, general gusto, and for living his life with joy. His enthusiastic dance style placed him in high demand as a wedding guest, and his unconventional approach to mechanical matters often yielded surprising results….
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Announcements
Class Colloquium 6: Akhil Amar: The Presidency, the Vice-Presidency, and the Constitution
ByArthur Segal October 2, 2020April 22, 2023
On October 28th at 1:30 pm Eastern, Yale Law Professor Akhil Amar will present trenchant observations about the Executive Branch and his recent research into the Vice Presidency and the Constitution. With a possible electoral crisis in November, having his views and live Q&A may be especially salient.
Join us on the 28th and see why Professor Amar won the DeVane Medal for teaching as well as the Sterling chair for scholarship. Register in advance now.
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Potpourri
Where Is The First Place You’ll Travel?
ByAdmin October 2, 2020August 31, 2023
Where is the first place you’ll travel once air travel is totally unrestricted? Why?
Go down to the “Comments” area at the bottom of this post and list the destination and why you chose it. And check out where your friends are heading post-pandemic!
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News
How’s that privilege doing? Here’s a report from Class Colloquium 5: Markovits, The Meritocracy Trap
ByJohn O'Leary October 1, 2020April 22, 2023
Editor’s Note: This is a summary and video of Professor Markovits’ presentation and Q&A .
The first Colloquium featuring a speaker from the Yale faculty didn’t shy away from challenging some basic assumptions about our “elite education.”
Yale Law professor Daniel Markovits brought his new book, his grasp of econometrics, and his A-game to our September 30th Class Colloquium.
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Around The Web
How Yale, the country’s best college golf course, is back from the dead
ByAdmin September 30, 2020April 22, 2023
from GolfWorld How Yale, the country’s best college golf course, is back from the dead By Joel Beall September 30, 2020 He walked off the course as if witnessing a resurrection. There was a glance back at the green and down the fairway, as to confirm what happened had happened. “It’s miraculous, really,” Robert Massimilian says. “I came out to see if it was still alive. After everything that’s been said, I didn’t know what…
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Op-Ed
Stopping Trump’s Coup
ByJim Sleeper September 30, 2020April 22, 2023
Editor’s Note: from dissentmagazine.org
Stopping Trump’s Coup By Jim Sleeper ▪
Tuesday night’s presidential debate can best be characterized by two of Donald Trump’s favorite words: it was a “disgrace” and a “disaster.” Our challenge now is to think not just morally or theoretically but also politically, in the way that Trump himself […]
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Around The Web
How Life Became an Endless, Terrible Competition
ByAdmin September 27, 2020April 22, 2023
from the atlantic.com How Life Became an Endless, Terrible Competition By Daniel Markovits Aug. 19th, 2019 . Meritocracy prizes achievement above all else, making everyone—even the rich—miserable. Maybe there’s a way out. Updated at 4:38 p.m. ET on September 4, 2019. In the summer of 1987, I graduated from a public high school in Austin, Texas, and headed northeast to attend Yale. I then spent nearly 15 years studying at various universities—the London School of Economics, the…
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Potpourri
Connecting Across the Racial Divide: Two Men at Yale
ByWayne Willis September 23, 2020April 22, 2023
In September ’65, two freshmen arrived at Bingham Hall, assigned to the same entryway. Both had come from highly segregated high schools. One was black, and he confessed such shock at the sea of white faces that “I couldn’t tell you all apart! So, I just said ‘hi, there’ and hoped I didn’t need your name.” The other was white, from a privileged suburb of racially divided St. Louis. He liked his new classmate, but…
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Op-Ed
Democratic House chairs: Here’s how we can protect democracy from a lawless president
ByJohn Yarmuth September 23, 2020April 22, 2023
Editor’s Note: This is an op-ed John co-authored with other Members of Congress.
In the years following the Watergate scandal, Congress enacted a series of landmark reforms to protect our democracy and restore Americans’ faith in government. […] Though some presidents have bridled at those laws or stretched them, they have fundamentally abided by their limits for 50 years. Until Donald Trump.
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