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Faces
Summer
2001
David
Boies '66LLB, an attorney
known for his role in high-profile cases involving Microsoft,
Napster,
and the 2000 presidential election, came to campus on April
16 at the invitation of the Yale
Law and Technology Society. Pointing out the difficulties
the legal system is having with technological change, Boies
said that there were issues in the Napster case "that the court
could not understand in the limited amount of time they had.
Peer-to-peer technology was unlike anything they had seen before." |
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Richard
Schottenfeld '71,
'76MD, is returning to Davenport
College this summer, but he'll have more spacious quarters
than in his student days: Schottenfeld was named master of Davenport
this spring, succeeding Gerald Thomas. Schottenfeld, a professor
of psychiatry and substance-abuse specialist at the School of
Medicine, has been on the faculty since 1978. His
wife, Tanina Rostain '83MA,'87JD, is a law professor at the
New York Law School; she will serve as the college's associate
master. They have two children. |
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The
nine million volumes in the Yale
library system surely won't intimidate new University librarian Alice Prochaska;
she has spent nearly a decade as director of special collections
at the much larger British
Library in London. Prochaska, who holds a PhD in modern
history from Oxford, was secretary and librarian at the University
of London's Institute of Historical Research from 1984 to
1992. At Yale, she succeeds Scott Bennett, who is retiring after
seven years in the post. |
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"I
was once a staunch supporter of the death penalty," said Illinois
governor George
Ryan in a Law School address on April 16. "But the
more I learn about it, the more troubled I become." Ryan, a
conservative Republican, declared a moratorium on executions
in Illinois last year after a 13th death-row inmate was exonerated
by new evidence. He has appointed a commission to study Illinois's
justice system for capital crimes, but he expressed skepticism
that the death
penalty can be administered fairly. "I'm not sure the system
can be fixed," he said. |
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"I
am living proof that people can recover and do recover," said
author William
Styron at a Branford College master's tea on April 10, referring
to his bout with depression.
Styron, whose works of fiction include Sophie's Choice and The Confessions of Nat Turner, wrote about his
affliction in Darkness
Visible, a 1990 memoir. He believes "that there is
a correlation between creativity and depression, especially
manic-depression." |
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At a Silliman College master's tea on April 20, Survivor champion Richard
Hatch was asked who would have won if the game
had truly been about survival skills rather than interpersonal
relationships. "It would have been me, because I was fat and
because I could catch fish." Hatch, a management consultant,
criticized the cast of this year's edition as "too pretty
and marketable. On the first one, we were goofy, fat, and
weird, and that was better." |
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Close-Up:
Worldly Spokesperson
On her
third day as Yale's new director of public
affairs, Helaine
Klasky entered a meeting carrying a video tape. "It's The West
Wing, " said Klasky, referring to the White
House-based television drama. "Someone taped it for me. Got
to have my fix." The show hits close to home for Klasky, who, like
her two predecessors in the job, comes to Yale from Washington,
D.C., where she has spent her career working in government. Most
recently, she was deputy assistant secretary for public affairs
in the Clinton treasury department.
A native
of California who got an undergraduate degree in political science
from the University of California at Berkeley, Klasky hazards a
guess as to why the University is keen on Washington insiders for
the public affairs job -- even after both Lawrence Haas and B.J.
Cooper returned to the capital less than two years after coming
to Yale. "I think they're looking for people who are used to working
hard and working in a fast-paced but eclectic environment," she
says.
For a
University that is intent on becoming a global institution, Klasky's experience in international affairs was also a selling point. She
holds a master's degree in international relations from American
University, and she has worked in the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative
and at the State Department.
Accordingly,
Klasky stresses international issues when she talks about her goals
in her job. "We want to show the world why their best and brightest
should come to Yale," she says, "and we want to reach out here to
American students to show that Yale is a great global institution."
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