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Faces
May
2001
Political
scientist Robert
Putnam, whose book Bowling
Alone decries the lack of civic activity in contemporary
American culture, brought his argument to Yale on March 8 in
a panel discussion sponsored by Dwight Hall, the Yale Club of
New Haven, and the Tercentennial Office. Putnam, a professor
at Harvard, blamed television and the dual-career family for
the decline of community groups and activities, but said that
the Internet may offer some hope: "Internet usage comes at the expense of television-watching. It could be a stealth weapon
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To
launch National
Eating Disorders Week on campus, plus-size supermodel Emme spoke at a Calhoun College master's tea on March 1 about
her struggle with her body image. A former varsity rower at
Syracuse, Emme said that she had to go through counseling to
accept her body as it was. When she was approached about modeling,
she was a size 12, but the agency wanted a size 14. "I said
'You want me to gain weight?'" she recalled. "I made
a size 14 quite quickly." |
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Morse
College will get a pair of psychologists in the master's house
this fall. Professor of psychology and linguistics Frank
Keil will be the college's new master, succeeding
Stanton Wheeler. Keil has been at Yale since 1998. His wife,
Kristi Lockhart, an associate research scientist and lecturer
in psychology, will be the college's associate master. They
have three sons; the oldest, Derek, is a sophomore in Jonathan
Edwards. |
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Arts
impresario Patrick
McCaughey will leave the directorship of the Center
for British Art when his term is up in June. McCaughey,
who came to the BAC in 1996 from the Wadsworth
Atheneum, boosted attendance at the Center during his tenure
and brought more 20th-century British art to its halls. He also
presided over a renovation of the building and a reinstallation
of its collections. McCaughey will stay at Yale as a senior
research fellow next year; deputy director Constance Clement
will serve as acting director. |
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Law
professor Drew
Days '66LLB has had his share of high appointments
(U.S. solicitor general, assistant attorney general), but
none quite so unusual as this: In March, Days was selected
by the Committee of the Proprietors of the Common and Undivided
Lands to join its ranks, making him one of the five people
who control the New Haven Green. Days is the first African
American to be appointed to the self-perpetuating board. |
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Sterling Professor Emeritus
of English Maynard
Mack '32, '36PhD, a world-renowned expert on Pope
and Shakespeare, died at home in New Haven on March 17 at
the age of 90. Mack spent his entire career at Yale, serving
as chair of the English department in the 1960s and earning
the Sterling Professorship in 1965. He is best known for editing the Twickenham Edition
of Alexander Pope's poems. He is survived by his wife Florence
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Close-Up:
Divinity's New Dean
Rebecca
Chopp, who
was named the 13th dean of the Divinity
School in March, may be coming to Yale from the position of
provost and vice president of Emory University, but she began her
career on the front lines of Christianity, as a United Methodist
minister in Kansas. Serving as a pastor in small rural churches
in the early 1970s, Chopp says she learned lessons that affected
her later work as a theological scholar.
Chopp
says she "discovered theology as a subject and was utterly captivated"
while a student at Kansas Wesleyan University. She became an ordained
minister while still an undergraduate, and continued to serve churches
while in seminary at St. Paul School of Theology in graduate school
at the University of Chicago.
Upon
finishing her PhD in 1983, Chopp took a teaching job at Chicago.
Two years later, she moved to the Candler School of Theology at
Emory, where she was named provost three years ago. Besides her
work as an administrator, Chopp has written widely about rethinking
Christian faith and practice based on lessons of feminism and other
liberation movements.
At Yale,
where she will be the first woman to lead the Divinity School, Chopp
says she wants to lead the School in exploring such 21st-century
questions as "how to understand Christianity as a world religion
and how to shape Christian witness in a pluralistic culture and
world." She also will oversee a long period of renovations as the
school remakes the Sterling Divinity Quadrangle, and will have to
address the financial issues that come with leading a School without
major research grants or wealthy alumni. Her experience in the provost's
chair will surely help. As she reminded the audience at the announcement
of her hiring, "I also understand a wee bit about budgets and administration." 
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