Tea and Sex at Yale
Tea and Sex at Yale As an alumna of Yale, I must disagree with Charles Krauthammer and the Yale Five's characterization of Yale as a campus ridden with sex and party-crazed undergraduates ("God and...
...Tea and Sex at Yale As an alumna of Yale, I must disagree with Charles Krauthammer and the Yale Five's characterization of Yale as a campus ridden with sex and party-crazed undergraduates ("God and Sex at Yale," Sept...
...Gene DeSantis Lancaster, pa No Friends of Israel You were too kind to Jim Baker and Zbigniew Brzezinski ("Notorious Z-B-I-G," Scrapbook, Sept...
...It's a mistake to look at run-of-the-mill journalism and miss its greatest moments...
...It is easy to stand on the sidelines and jeer those in the arena...
...Community volunteers from a broad demographic range find out who needs help, and then they raise money from the community to provide that help...
...The press does not need "high-mindedness"— another name for the pseudo-cosmopolitanism of today's leading jour-nalists—for that empty notion provides no defense against whatever debaucheries the press descends to...
...Gitell acknowledges that United Way should listen to the donors who fund the resource, but takes us to task for doing just that...
...At best, Eisenhower should get a low-average rank...
...A lot of the weeds of the '60s took root under his caretaker presidency, and he took no steps to stop them from eventually strangling America...
...Most agencies are funded by several sources, and non-United Way money can be used to serve any purpose—including programs for specific religious groups...
...Donors appreciate knowing that the money they give stays in their community and that, as local priorities and needs change, their United Way will do its best to match those priorities and meet those needs, just as it has been doing for the past 110 years...
...Without this constant interaction among students, and without the residential-college system, Yale would be nothing more than a commuter school...
...Please...
...Although Gitell seems to lump priorities and diversity together, the fact is that United Way must align its priorities in response to changing times...
...In 15 years or so, a third of the work force will be minorities...
...Agencies funded by United Way are expected to serve all people without regard to race, religion, or any other similar factor...
...Barstow, CA...
...The trouble with the Commission on Freedom of the Press is not that it demanded too much from the press but that it demanded too little...
...Donor choice gives to small but vital charities a voice that might previously have been drowned out by larger, better represented charities...
...The fundamental reason for United Way's existence is as practical and necessary today as it was when its forerunners established a community-wide force for social services in Denver in 1887...
...Elizabeth Quaintance Downers Grove, IL Epstein's essay on bumper stickers made me recall the wittiest one I ever saw: a blue Plymouth Horizon with a license plate reading BEYOND...
...Furthermore, some colleges accommodate students such as the Yale Five by providing single-sex floors...
...Of course, he is right in saying that there is a lot in journalism that is not worth admiring...
...Conservatives think Eisenhower is "near great...
...The college system provides a great lesson in tolerance and allows students to interact with their fellow Yalies daily...
...It is true that in more recent times journalism has become a tool of ideological liberalism...
...but the virtues of the press should not be dismissed so cavalierly...
...It was Kierkegaard, remember, who asserted that a philosophy based solely on logic or rational thought would be insufficient—there would always be a gap in our power of reason that could be bridged only by a "leap of faith...
...It's a vapid professorial parlor game that says more about the rankers than the ranked...
...The 12 residential colleges sponsor lectures by, and teas with, authors, politicians, and other influential figures...
...As chief counsel for the minority, I have dealt with Madigan for the past eight months...
...He was clearly trying to give the impression that some change in its status as capital came about as a result of the 1967 war, so as to put Israeli and Palestinian claims on an equal footing...
...Each United Way—which is an independent, autonomous organization, not a United Way of America chapter—responds to changes in diversity and reflects the reality that a third of America's school-age youth are non-white...
...He demolished Horace Greeley's arguments for common ownership and supported Abraham Lincoln's conciliatory policies toward the defeated South...
...Thomas Jefferson and James Madison assisted in getting the National Gazette into circulation to counteract the Federalist organ encouraged by Hamilton...
...What the press needs is more people like Henry J. Raymond, founder of the New York Times...
...Don't these august scholars remember the prisoners of war, 900 in number, whom he left in Korea...
...Krauthammer and the Yale Five raise valid concerns, but they underestimate the value of the residential-college experience at Yale...
...Richard H. Reeb Jr...
...They savage Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Israel at every turn, without any attempt at balance...
...John E. Heaney Bethesda, MD United We Care Seth Gitell's "Your United Way Dollars at Work" (Sept...
...Surely he knew that Jerusalem was made Israel's capital when the state was established in 1948...
...Any institution that ignores this reality is not serving its community well or assuring its own relevance...
...Go back to your faculty cloisters and stay cloistered...
...They provide fellowships and scholarships to students and hold tree-trimming parties, study breaks, and "Olympic Games...
...And it fulfills community wishes by allowing financial backers to support the charities of their choice...
...It is all too common these days...
...Morton Lurie Raleigh, NC It is not surprising that Lehrer maneuvered such a discussion...
...In the process, some facts and realities are overlooked or misunderstood...
...Alan I. Baron Washington, DC Not All Like Ike As some silly magazines rank colleges and show-biz executives, so some silly intellectuals rank presidents ("Historians and the Reagan Legacy," Sept...
...I can speak first-hand because I was the president of that United Way at the time...
...It is the cornerstone of undergraduate life...
...Ike leaped at detente before the Soviets shot down Gary Powers in an act that tarred him as incompetent...
...Project Blueprint is intended to address the need for greater minority involvement in the form of volunteers and board members for each local United Way...
...Sidney Brounstein Redlands, CA Press Virtues and Vices With friends like Stephen Bates, American journalism doesn't need any enemies ("Freedom of Preach," Sept...
...Indeed, he helped them grow by appointing Chief Justice Earl Warren...
...Thompson's chief counsel, Michael Madigan...
...Finally, serving the so-called cause of republican government is to serve truth, for that cause is based on the "self-evident" truth that all men are created equal in their rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness...
...Houston's program dates not from 1995 as your article states, but from a three-year W. K. Kellogg Foundation grant first issued in 1987 to implement pilot programs in 22 cities...
...In fact, during my four years at Yale, I found the majority of Yalies to be mature, intelligent, and socially conscious young adults whose activities ranged from mentoring New Haven youth to serving on the New Haven Board of Aldermen...
...When it comes to "youthful indiscretions," Yale students are no different from undergraduates across the country...
...But there is still plenty of room for the statesmanship (or at least the patriotism) that the nation saw the press exhibit in World War II...
...Betty Stanley Beene President and CEO United Way of America A Wet Kiss from the Dems Iread with dismay your article "Has Fred Thompson Blown It...
...The show's virulent attacks on Israel and its policies—albeit in polite language— started many years ago...
...This bias was best illustrated about a year ago, when Lehrer, in another diatribe against Israel, said that Jerusalem "has been the declared capital of Israel since 1967...
...I can assure you he is a worthy opponent who has fought hard for the majority throughout...
...The demeaning of his efforts is both unworthy and unwarranted...
...The residential-college system may have some faults, but Yale is attempting to correct them through greater flexibility in meal plans and the renovation of dorms...
...In 1992, the Ford Foundation awarded Project Blueprint another grant to expand to 27 new communities—hardly a "new philosophy," as Gitell has it...
...Or the way he turned his back on Europe...
...6), particularly insofar as it attacked Sen...
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...It was to increase the organized capacity of people to care for one another...
...Despite their knowledge of the human and technical limitations of the press of their day, the Founding Fathers valued the press highly...
...The debate over the ratification of the Constitution took place in the newspapers as well as in deliberative assem-blies—the most famous example of which is The Federalist...
...Producing a discussion on Israel with only two enemies of that embattled state as commentators is typical of what passes for fairness on the NewsHour with Jim Lehrer...
...This is based on priorities, and priorities do change...
...This is done by an effective and simple system that's been proven over time...
...Like the Founders, Raymond saw no inconsistency in dedication to factual accuracy and devotion to the highest principles of republican statesmanship...
...Before we write off the press as hopelessly cranky or sensational, let's lift our sights higher...
...22) examined a national and local social resource that, by its very nature, requires evolution and change...
...Heather Elayne Davis New York, NY Dread on Wheels Please suggest to Joseph Epstein that the message "LP FAITH" he read on a license plate is more likely to be a reference to Kierkegaard than to long-playing recordings ('Out for a Read," Sept...
...Without its devotion to the cause of American independence, the public would not have responded to the call to arms...
...Madigan, at great personal sacrifice, has devoted the past year to public service...
...Moreover, such "indiscretions" do not constitute the whole of the Yale experience...
...Project Blueprint and donor choice, both of which actually originated in the 1980s, typify ongoing adaptations that each United Way knows are necessary to meet the changes in its community...
...As for religion-affiliated agencies being taken to task by United Way "chapters": It's important to note that United Way has been a non-sectarian organization since its inception...
Vol. 3 • October 1997 • No. 5
