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…
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 […]
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…
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…
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.
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. He was surrounded by his family until his last moments.
Born in Huntington, West Virginia on Groundhog’s Day,[…]
“The main thing I learned at Yale,” I heard more than one classmate say at the reunion, “is how to learn.” Other key features mentioned were the breadth of delicious subjects we had no clue about and a commitment to lifelong learning. “Commencement is not the end,” Kingman said at our graduation. “It’s the beginning, the beginning of a lifelong process of extending your knowledge and awareness well beyond what you know today … and…
From the Lincoln County News, June 11, 2019 Morrison McKelvy Bonpasse: November 22, 1947 – June 7, 2019 Morrison McKelvy Bonpasse died in the Special Care Unit at Maine Medical Center on Friday, June 7, 2019. He was born the third child and first son of Frances and Morrison Bump on Nov. 22, 1947, the day of the Harvard-Yale football game. Morrison had an idyllic childhood growing up in Duxbury, Mass., with his many Kelley…
From the North Andover, MA Eagle-Tribune: Haverhill – Gregory P. Karampalas, 73, of Haverhill, passed away Tuesday, May 26, at Carney Hospital in Dorchester. He was born in Haverhill on March 20, 1947, the son of the late Peter and Chrystine (Costarides) Karampalas. Gregory attended the Haverhill Public School System and was a graduate of Haverhill High School with the class of 1965. He went on to Yale University, where was given a special award…
Professor Markovits’ provocative bestseller, The Meritocracy Trap, compellingly argues that the Meritocracy system, which began with our generation and governs the period of our own Yale Admissions, has become a system with unintended negative societal consequences.
This Class Colloquium will be our first with a speaker from the Yale Faculty. He will challenge bedrock meritocratic assumptions, and he promises to include some “two-way dialogue.”
Register in advance for the event; details will be emailed to you.
Turmoil on campuses, Yale included, is not just a student phenomenon. Yale Alumni are challenging the nomination process for the “Alumni Fellow” seat on the governing board of trustees (aka “the Yale Corporation”).
There are two ways to get on the ballot; Nominating Committee or Petition. The next three weeks are critical – will these two Petition drives work? What’s at stake is nothing less than the transparency of the nominating process itself. Learn more; maybe sign a petition?
Mike Medved does a three hour talk-radio show EVERY DAY, and recently he’s been broadcasting from his home in Washington State. After he was done for the day and took a half hour break, he joined over 100 interested classmates for the fourth in our series of Class Colloquia, this one being “A View from the Right, a conservative looks at the current state of politics.”
Here is a recording of Michael’s presentation and some Q&A.
Our class now has its own Class Colloquia on ZOOM! All classmates are welcome to attend the presentation, Q&A, and breakout sessions afterward. Our first presenter was Ken Davis, who gave us a full update on Covid-19 from Mt. Sinai Hospital. Our second presenter was John Yarmuth, (D-KY), who gave us his views on politics in Washington and the upcoming elections. Next up was Reed Hundt, former FCC chairman, who will talk about the “Future…
from: Erie Times News The Rev. John Randolph Elliott (“Randy”) was an extraordinary, ordinary man. Randy will be long remembered as a man of prayer with deep faith, warm spirit, unwavering integrity, rigorous self-discipline, large intellect, and contagious laughter most often heard with a big family that he loved and gave him great joy—a family eternally grateful for his presence in their lives. Indeed, he lived with eternity in his heart, and entered his heavenly…
There have been 12 really influencial books in my life: The Magus by John Fowles. I relate to it because Nicholas Urfe, the protagonist, became an English teacher abroad when he couldn’t think of anything else to do – just like me. It’s essentially a lesson in learning to love and this is one of the most important lessons one can learn. Voices of the Old Sea by Normal Lewis. Three successive summers on the…
David Harrison Idol II died Saturday, August 22, 2020 at his home on Hillcrest Dr. in High Point. He was 74 years old. David was born May 20, 1946 in High Point to Percy Cornelius Idol and Lillian Small Idol. He was educated at Woodberry Forest School, King’s College, Taunton, and Yale University, and he received his B.A. and J.D. degrees from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He began his law career…
