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Class Colloquium 4: Michael Medved, A View From the Right; September 2nd, 7:30pm (EDT)
ByMike Baum August 3, 2020April 22, 2023
Michael Medved now contributes to the American cultural and political conversation as a radio show host, author, political commentator, and film critic. His talk show, The Michael Medved Show, is syndicated to over 200 stations from his home in Seattle. Michael will speak to us privately about the current political situation, the Trump Presidency, and the upcoming election from an independent Conservative point of view.
Please register now for the event.
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Deeper breathing can help reduce stress among college-goers, Yale researchers say
ByAdmin August 1, 2020April 22, 2023
While institutions are being forced to put in place mental health awareness protocols, advisories, counselling centres and have full-time psychiatrists on campus, among other measures, a new study from researchers at Yale University has backed the multiple benefits of breath work in increasing mental well-being among students, in a short period of time.
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Books
New Book: Beyond The 4^th Door
ByAdmin August 1, 2020April 22, 2023
Richard Seltzer is accelerating his output of novels, having published Parallel Lives only 6 months ago. (See our review of it — Richard Seltzer’s New Novel: Parallel Lives.). Rumor has it that he has two more novels accepted for publication and another under contract. Can you say “prolific?”
Beyond The 4th Door is now available on Amazon, which describes the novel thusly:
Without knowing why or how, two college students wake up 50 years older than they were when they went to sleep and with no memo […]
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Announcements
Announcing Exciting New Features for Yale1969.org
ByWayne Willis July 29, 2020April 22, 2023
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 […]
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Announcements | Op-Ed
Have We Been Missing Some Troublesome Long-term Trends at Yale?
ByThomas Hood July 25, 2020April 22, 2023
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 at all, to these concerns. Pasted below (shaded area) is a piece put together last year by Yale Alumni For…
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Op-Ed
The Internet and the Reform of American Politics in 2021
ByReed Hundt July 24, 2020April 22, 2023
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, […]
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Memories
Yale Loses A Prominent African Historian and Compassionate “Gentle Giant”
ByTimothy Weiskel July 23, 2020April 22, 2023
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 a PHD in history at Yale and start teaching African History as an Assistant Professor. The reason why he was…
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News
The Future of Communications: Reed Hundt on Current Issues and Tough Choices
ByDaniel Seiver July 22, 2020April 22, 2023
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. It’s well worth listening to. After revealing “the seven tech stocks I own” — partly for fun and partly as…
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How One Student Chose a College During a Pandemic
ByAdmin July 17, 2020April 22, 2023
How One Student Chose a College During a Pandemic Craig McFarland was accepted by all eight Ivy League schools. At first he committed to Yale, but the ongoing disruptions caused by the coronavirus caused him to change his plans. By Johnny Diaz July 17, 2020, When he was applying to colleges last year, Craig McFarland of Jacksonville, Fla., aimed high and wide. He received 17 acceptance letters in all, including one from each of the…
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Yale University offers free course on African American history ‘from emancipation to the present’
ByAdmin July 10, 2020April 22, 2023
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. as a way to help contextualize recent events. Yale University offers a free course, called “African American History: From Emancipation…
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Music
Echo in the Canyon
ByJohn O'Leary July 9, 2020April 22, 2023
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 […]
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Ivy League Places All Sports on Hold Until January
ByAdmin July 9, 2020April 22, 2023
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 on hold Wednesday until at least January, making it the first Division I conference that will not play football as…
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Canceling Yale
ByAdmin July 8, 2020April 22, 2023
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 reminder of our past it doesn’t like, and if woke institutions like Yale, bloated with too much money and far…
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News
ClassColloquium 3: Reed Hundt on the Future of Communication: Data, Privacy, and State Control
ByDaniel Seiver July 7, 2020April 22, 2023
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.
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Potpourri
Save The Dates: Medved and Markovits Class Colloquia
ByArthur Segal July 6, 2020April 22, 2023
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.
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Class Notes
Class Notes – Jul/Aug 2020
ByDaniel Seiver July 1, 2020April 22, 2023
Three more times the bell has tolled: Dick MacKay, Jim Steffenburg, and Terry Miller are gone. Howard Newman reported Dick’s death on March 26: “Dr. Richard MacKay died today after a life of service to others and a cruelly unfair illness.” Howard and others are working on a full memorial of Dick’s life which will appear in my next column and, much sooner, on the class website. Jim Steffenburg died peacefully on February 27 at…
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