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Between the VInes

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Headway in the TA dispuJe ... Yale loses face on Wall Strut ... New York~ Yale Club leaoes the dark ages . . . scandal aJ WYBC.

Lost in Thought A student uses his Yale training to sU1ck cedar shingles up against the classics of EurofJ«Jn literaJurt. He barely survives. By john Gill.

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Guess Who's Coming to Dinner?

Yale food: You 'tit eaten it, praised it, condemned it. But have you ever thought about it?

Chicken basquaist, the lo.l.est product of Yale~ intricate food chain, offers us all a fresh start. By James Bennet.

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Scaling Walls A Jish• grows in Bridgeport, the result of rrumth.s of effort by Yale archit«ture students.

PuUing their brains and their hands to work, they are creating a place for music in a troubkd ciJy. By john Stella.

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Labor of Love Nurse-midwives tam low salanes and surprisingly little rtsfJ«t for deliven'ng babies, a job which involves nurtun'ng mother as well as child. Many of them can~ imagine doing anything else. By Jennifer Sachs.

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Medical Mystery Tour In-vitro fertilizaLum spawns fast cars, dirty doctors and thrilling intrigue in the expert hands of Yale Mtdical School's Mary l..Ake Polan. By Cindy Cameros.

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An Informed Assemblage Natalu Zernon Davis, the 1987 Henry Luce viniing scholar, reports thaJ when professors mut, the truth is unctrlam, the debate li~ly, and the results always valuable.

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About This Issue A New J ournal J ournal Friday, August 28: It's the first evening of production weekend for the magazine, and the executive boardjust fi nished brainstorming cover ideas over a bad mushroom p izza. Having chosen the architecture piece for the cover, we debated different suggestions, considering and then abandoning a collage of photos. We d ecided to combine drawings of the bandshell with one large picture and then tu r ned to the color. "I was thinking of a blue background, with the lin es of the drawing screened in a lighter shade." "H ow about a dark blue, w ith the lines in white to suggest blu epr ints?" We'll reconvene tomorrow morning to ch oo$e a photo and a shade of blue. Now, one writer is trying to come u p with a headline for the Midwives piece: "I want nurturing, I want hugs." Another is scratching out a correction he just made in the copy.

"I'm illiterate," he explained.

T h is is th e final stage of the m agazine's production, a process which began fou r months ago, was carried for the summer to New York, W ashington, and California, and returned to New H aven in the middle of August. It culminates in a week, when we d istrib u te 11,000 copies throughout the campus. Then it all starts over again .

We're The New Journal, an undergraduate magazine covering Yale and New H aven. We publish six times during the school year, each issue presenting the same format: feature stories, including news stories and profiles; Between the Vines, a section devoted to thoughtful opinion pieces; th e Afterthought, an essay ~ritten by an expert in a field of mterest to th e Yale community; book reviews; letters; and the Newsjournal,

in which we offer short news items a n d u pdate past features. The New Journal is completely advertiser-supported and student-r un, with a Board of Directors d rawn from New Haven and Yale.

In the past five years, four of our features have won Yale nonfiction writing prizes. The New Republic r an a condensed version of a New Journal cover story on Accuracy in Academia.

CBS turned a cover story on a New H aven prostitute with A IDS into a segment for 60 Minutes; the same story won a Rolling Stone College Jour nalism award for investigative reporting. And for three years in a row, The New Journal has won top honors from the Columbia University P ress Association.

We welcome your responses to our stories. Please write and let us know what you liked, what you d idn't like, and what you'd like to add. And we'd Jove to have your help. The New Journal is looking for writers , photographers, designers and salespeople. We have planned an organizational meeting for Wednesday, September 9, in the Silliman common room, and we hope to see you there.

Enjoy the issue, and look for us m October.

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Solid Progress While undergraduates fled New H aven for the summer, both TA Solidarity and the Graduate School administration separately made progress in their efforts to improve life for teaching assistants at Yale. T he Graduate School deans came up with the job · descriptions that the TAs demanded last spring (TNJ 4/17/87).

Fifteen core members ofTA Solidarity planned to raise the group's profile this fall and dug up a law that may force Yale to modify its wage structure. · · TA Solidarity, a small but growing association of graduate students, formed last spring to address perceived problems with the TA system. This fall, the group plans a lobbying effort among students and faculty and a letter-writing campaign directed at Ben no Sch midt to pressure the U niversity into responding to their complaints.

The University has already addressed one flaw in the TA system- the lack of detailed job descriptions and grading and teaching standards . According to Robert Bunselmeyer, associate dean of the Graduate School, a committee of Graduate School deans wrote a new handbook for TAs which provides this information. Both administrators and TAs anticipate that the handbook, just recently published, will help to ensure greater understanding of responsibilities and uniformity in grading. The handbook also speaks to first-timers, giving them information about teaching at Yale.

Although they acknowledge the University's efforts, T As still feel bitter about their financial woes. Their maximum earnings as teachers for the University, they claim, do not meet Yale's stated estimate for cost of living expenses in New Haven. "The real problem we have is just breaking 6 The New JournaVSeptember 4, 1987

through to the Administration, because whenever money is in question, their tendency is to say no," said Karen Sawislak, a third-year student in history . As a member of TA Solidarity, she will seek support among her fellow graduate students as soon as they show up for registration this fall, urging them to write to Benno Schmidt about their finances.

A number say that in addition to inadequate salaries, they encounter problems with late paychecks, especially when the rent is due. Eben Werber had been working at the Yale Law School library for over a month without receiving his first monthly check. His frustration led him to call the Connecticut Labor Board, whose head in the wages division stopped him mid-story: Yale was breaking the law, the man said,. just by paying Werber on a monthly instead of a weekly schedule. I ntrigued, Werber researched statute no. 31-71 and learned that Connecticut law requires all employers in the state to pay their employees every week. Employers can obtain a waiver from the law, but Yale had none on record with the Board.

Yale currently pays its professional staff, from TAs to Benno Schmidt, monthly.

Werber said that after notifying Ken Miller, Yale's assistant general counsel, about the law, he received a hand-dell :red paycheck from Yale the next day. Since that day last July, he and other TAs have been pushing the University to start paying them more frequently, threatening to file a civil claim form if Yale doesn't comply.

"We're just at the point of deciding what the law says and how we have to respond to it," Miller said. He added that he knew of no university in Connecticut that pays its professional employees every week.

While waiting for the University to make its decision, members of TA Solidarity are planning fo r the fall.

They have a general meeting scheduled for the first week of classes, and a

fundraising dance soon after that.

They also plan to start selling buttons and T -shirts- both the color of money.

They've discussed withholding grades at the end of the semester, but the threat remains muted. "I t's not going to be the first thing we're going to do," said Sawislak. "We don't want to do anything confrontational without explaining our situation to the administration and g iving them every chance to understand."

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'Lipsticks' and Lords: Yale's New Look ~==

Yale's Makeover Nat Hentoff called it the most courageous piece of journalism on higher education that he'd ever seen, but at Yale, outrage might be a better word to associate with J ulie Iovine's article in The Wall Street .Journal of August 4. Entitled "'Lip sticks' and Lords: Yale's New Look," Iovine's article makes Yale and its inhabitants seem well, just a little b it eccentric. From drag parades to foodthrowing bacchanals at the Rockingham Club, Iovine chronicled some of Yale's more colorful events-and managed to offend students, administrators and _especially alumni doing it.

Iovine, a Yale alumna who is married to literat!Jre professor Peter D emetz, said that she o riginally wrote

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the piece for Vogue, intending it to be a fairly lighthearted look at new trends on campus. But h er subjects have apparently taken her seriously, deluging the journal with letters contesting what they say are inaccuracies in Iovine's reporting. Early in the piece, Iovine wrote that one of her subjects "received a notice before registering freshman year that said one in · four Yale students was gay." Dean of Student Affairs Betty Trachtenberg, who supervises freshman mailings, contends that no such pamphlet was distributed. "We don't even keep statistics like that," she said. And Sara Cohen, the student who allegedly made the remark, charged that Iovine "grossly misrepresented" her.

Fritz Reichenbach, president of the Rockingham Club, also disputed Io vine's portrayal <;>f his organization. In a letter published in the Journal of August 21, Reichenbach attacked Iovine's "lack of ti~ativity and sense of adventure." He called her "condescending" attitude toward his club "odd, since she reveled in the same excess as we" during a visit. Iovine laughed at this comment. "I didn't throw any food, give me a break. I had a good time- I drank a lot of champagne-but I didn't throw food."

Many Yale alumni, however, are not amused. Trachtenberg reported that "the wires are really burning" with calls from angry graduates, and college deans are preparing for questions from worried parents. At least one dean has made "Lipsticks' and Lords" required reading for her freshman counselors, so that they can correct mistaken impressions left by the article. One that Iovine will concede: a person who studies too much is called a dweeb , not a "tweeb." "That one was mv editor's fault," she said. " H e said it w~s tweeb. and he sounded so sure of himself. so I ga"e in."

10\·ine rf>mains puzzled at the storm her article has created. " I just went in to find out what was the campus scene. and what people told me was on their

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minds, was what I wrote about. I was going to do political stuff, but it's so obviously in abeyance right now that there didn't seem to be a point to going into it." Did she, as some critics have charged, write the piece in anger? "No, of course not! I love Yale!"

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Everybody In In the Yale Alumni Weekly of October 29, 1915, an article about the new Yale Club of Manhattan touted its "complete Turkish bath establishment," where a Yale man could enjoy a sauna and an alcohol rub or oil massage.

Ever since 1915, men have strolled from the locker room to the steam room and then into the pool- all in th~ nude. First admitted in 1974, women members have had to forego the joys of the Turkish bath. But by the end of September, costly renovations will give women access to the pool. They will have their own sauna and masseuse, too.

"I don't know why the women in the Yale Club have gotten all upset," said Thorn Pak (ES '86), a trader for Kidder Peabody . "The pool is really tiny. It's like a small tub." Pak never uses the pool himself but says he sees "naked, fat old men there all the time.

It should be very interesting to see what happens when it goes co-ed."

If women are not welcomed into the pool with open arms, at least they can count on continuing to use the rest of the Club. They can even have their hair cut at the barbershop on the seventh floor. At five dollars, it gives the cheapest haircuts in town- what one member called "a regular conservative old cut." "Yeah, I cut women's hair," the barber said. "I give 'ern all a crew cut."

Other innovations abound. This year undergraduates got the chan ce to use the Yale Club during the summer for a mere 50 dollars, though they had to pay 50 more to use the athletic facilities. Forty-three Yalies joined, and on Thursday nights brought guests to the 22nd floor for cocktail hour. Hundreds of summer interns swarmed over the complimentary hors d'oeuvres, took in the view of midtown Manhattan from the rooftop terrace, and charged drinks to their hosts' accounts. "It's like a SAC party with wanna-be grownups," said Kevin Kiernan (SM '88), a summer employee at First Boston Investment Bank.

Those who wanna be must dress accordingly. The Yale Club still strictly enforces its dress code, which even the employees must observe. In the white marble lobby the doormen wear livery suitable for decorated army generals and the desk clerks all sport navy blue suits, white shirts, and blue ties. "They make us wear blue," Joe Genty said with a grimace. ' He manages the lobby's gift shop which sells, among other things, cigars, cigarettes, Turns, Dentyne , Old The New Journal/September 4, 1987 7

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But the dress code seems unlikely to go the way of the a quatic n udes. A recen t gradua te wh o used to wear tiedyed t·sh irts a nd a rmy su rplus pants a t Yale sh owed up at the Club one Thursd ay evening this summer in a g r ay pinstripe suit, a white shirt, and a red tie, and confessed that he was wo rking for a law fi rm in the city.

"But," h e said, turnin g a round so his friends could see a tiny ·wisp of a pon y ta il at the b ack of h is h ead, "I haven't sold ou t , no t ye t ."

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T h e poster s now appearing all over cam pus tell the story of an organization in flu x- they list over a dozen positions available at WYBC , Yale's beleaguered radio station . YBC has faced more than its share of troubles in recent years. Just two years after the station sh ut down due to financial and organ izational p r oblems and reopened promising sweeping structural changes, YBC members have learned that two members of their executive board have resigned, charged with using cor porate credit cards for personal purchases.

According to Susan Takemoto (PC '88), the treasurer of YBC , one of the stud ents approached her last year and asked her to supply employment verificatio n for what she believed at the time was a personal credit card.

H owever, when A merican Exp ress issued two car ds in early 1987 , they bore the n ames of the stu dents and of YBC r a dio station. T he stu dents then made a lmost $3000 worth of purchases o n

th e American Express cards, at locations includ ing J. P ress, Quality Wines , Macy's Junior Dresses and L eather Goods departments, Brux· elles, Body and Sole , and local fl orist shops. YBC General Manager Colin Clarke said th at "not one of these purchases could conceivably have been for the station."

One of the students in volved in the use of the credit cards conceded that some of his p urchases were not for the station. He said, however, that h is $900 b ill included over $200 in albums for Y BC's collection, and numerous restauran t tabs for meetings with advertising clie nts. The student claimed that he tr ied to pay th e bill with a personal check sent via D ean Lloyd Suttle along with an explanation that Y BC should not be held responsible for the amount owed, but as of August 21 American Express h ad not received th is payment.

The other student, who declined to be interviewed, allegedly ran up a bill of about $2000 on h is credit card.

According to YBC, he paid $1200 toward his account, using two station checks of $600 each. T akemoto said that she had presigned the first check fo r emergency expenses before she left for spring b reak last year. The second, she said, was presen ted to her as the bill for a car rental. R esponsib ility for paying the balance of the accounts now falls to the two students; YBC does not plan to take any legal action unless Amer ican Express sues the station for repayment.

Despite this recent embarrassment, Y BC members hope that 1987 will be a bann er year for them. They predict profits of $50,000, twice what they netted in 1986, and have bought a few· pieces of new equipment: a broadcast console, a more powerful transmitter, a new computer, and an antenna that will allow the station to broadcast at 3500 watts.

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Lost in Thought FREE LITERATURE

approximating a student center, Some homeowners place clear plastic Information on the use and application of however, is Machine City, a sterile over their furniture in the belief that CERTtGRADE Shingles Is to be found in colourful and descriptive literature available from: this makes the upholstery's beauty underground conglomeration of fluorescent lights and white formica more e nduring. They step back, adRED CEDAR SHINGLE 6 HANDSPLIT SHAKE BUREAU scrunched between two huge libraries. miring their handiwork, delighted that 515. 1111h Avo.• N.E. 1500. 1055 W. Hattlngo Sl. they have added something functional This location is strikingly appropriate, Bellevue, WA M004 Vancouver, B.C. VeE 2H1 and attractive. In a similar fashion, because no matter where on campus a CAUTION; Tho lifo of a roof depends upon proper application. Follow these rules: Yale students, assuming that the adYale student may emerge, he usually NAIL$ - Only two hot-dlpped zinc-coated nails should be driven into any shingle regardless of Its width. Nails dition of their observations helps all appears to be "between libraries"- as if should be located about one-half inch (1 3 mm) from each edge of shingle and abOut one inch (25 mm) above ideas make a lasting impression, tend he would really feel more comfortable the butt line of the over-lapping $hingle. scrutinizing a document in the stacks to place a transparent layer of intellec~:~~~:~d-;t~:p~~~a"11!-~':;. r-t:==-:----, than carrying on an unstructured tual a rtificiality over anything they recommended weather expcr . sures for No. 1 grade shingles think about. There lies a certain conversation. are: 16 Inch (400 mm) shingles - s• (125 mm). 18 Inch (450 danger in thinking too much and exMany Yale students share the mm)- 51':- (140 mm): 24 Inch (600 mm)- 71':" (190 mm). periencing too little. nagging need to dig too far, to pull an SPACING Shingles Should ~::!k=;;=li be spaced 14 • (6 mm) apart. idea apart ruthlessly until · it lies Plastic over fabric is just fine, if you ~e~:!·., ;,~~~~ ,~'- <~j-;:~'t..Ji=r;=;;~=;r==ll.... sprawled out on the dissecting tray are content to have your living room joints in alternate courses ~~==~=:lJ should not be in direct align· 1: sofa serve merely as a conversation bearing no resemblance to what it ment. (See diagram.) piece. If, however, you have any instarted out as. Once you have spent a r ' • years at Yale, the tendency to overterest in actually experiencing your possessor of an overly-trained mind 1ew sofa- if you actually sit down on may have trouble adapting. One Yale analyze everything follows you relentit- and you happen to be wearing student I know. continually ensures lessly, no matter how far from New shorts, your thighs soon get all sweaty himself of romantic failure by insisting Haven you wander: you can run, but and stick to the plastic and make moist, on discussing with any would-be love you cannot hide. Last summer, as I offensive squishing noises whenever interest the repercussions of a potential worked on a construction site, this you shift your weight . The thin syn- · first kiss, as per.t ains to (a)Where this unshakeable tendency tracked rne thetic substance you have placed bet- kiss will lead; (b)How appropriate this down.

I had decided to get involved in ween yourself and your sofa, kiss may be considered, given the time something which was meant to in- elapsed; and (c) What degree of respect construction in order to exercise my crease your appreciation of an object , each kisser will command vis-a-vis the body and give my brain a partial rest has in fact distanced you from that ob- other kisser with the successful from the strains of academia. I did not ject. Yale trains your mind to do that co nsummation of said kiss. abandon my academic interest in liI suspect that every Yale student terary analysis entirely- I read nearly to the world.

The primary skill emphasized in the knows a number of people like this. every night when I wasn't too tired Yale education - close analysis of an Such a person thinks too well and from work- but my greatest pleasure object or idea- simply cannot be ap- thereby finds a problem for every solu- derived unquestionably from the novel plied successfully to all aspects of life tion. T he preponderance of this mind- experience of working with my hands. outside of an academic setting. In set on the Yale campus helps to explain During my first weeks on the job, I situations which require just the op- why student publications tirelessly run learned how to shingle the walls and posite sort of skill, the ability to react articles dealing with the age-old theme: roof of a beach house. At first I found flexibly or spontaneously, the "Why there is no sex at Yale." myself concentr ating too intensely on The Yale social fabric is an awkward the task, with the result that I often thing with big, floppy lapels and small drove nails in crooked or split shingles buttons which constrict one's breathing in half. After a while, however, I when fastened. For many of us, it learned to let my mind relax. I did my seems to find its way out of dead thinking at home. At work I let my storage only twice a year- for the body take over, and before long I could Christmas and Spring balls-and not align shingles effortlessly and get a even alterations by Rosey's cleaners smooth rhythm going, sinking one nail can get the old thing to fit. Students after another without giving it a must look elsewhere for Yale's strong thought. suit. With an assortment of 55 difThe only ground rule I established ferent libraries in all sizes, shapes and for myself was that I must always leave colors, the Yale undergraduate can my book at home when I went to work always be stressed to kill. in the morning. Physical exertion and The only campus locale mental exertion · were equally im-

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With an assortment of 55 different libraries, the Yale undergraduate can always be stressed to kill. portant to me; each had its separate place in my day, and neither encroached upon the other. Then one sweaty August afternoon, something happened which threatened to disturb the serene order of my summer. As my fellow laborer and I unloaded a pack of cedar roofing shingles, a tiny blue-andwhite leaflet appeared from within the pile, fluttered momentarily in the breeze, then settled gently on the laces of my left work boot.

"FREE LITERATURE," the leaflet announced. I was intrigued. I knelt slowly to pick up the slip of paper, which informed me that "information on the use and application of certigrade shingles is to be found in colorful and descriptive literature available from: Red Cedar Shingle and Handsplit Shake Bureau."

As a literature major, I could not with good conscience pass up the opportunity to examine a new form of literature . But here was a curiosity I should never have indulged. I should have known not to try to weave together the two halves of my day. I should have remained satisfied to lead a double life-a construction worker by day, a Deconstruction worker by night.

That very evening, however, I sent off for my free literature, and when it ~nally arrived at my door, I was quite tmpressed with its quality. The shingle entitled Timeless Beauty: Red

Cedar Shingles and Handsplit Shakes, seemed unusually well written for a piece of advertising. In fact, one especiaJly poetic portion of the catalog stuck in my head.

Red cedar. An enduring wood.

Richly textured. Strong.

Natural. A wood to touch. And be touched by.

These lines reminded me of a famous stanza written by the nineteenth century poet George Pope Morris: Woodman, spare that tree!

Touch not a single bough!

In youth it sheltered me, And I'll protect it now.

The catalog's repetition of the key word "touch," as well as the recurring man/wood motif, seemed almost an intentional allusion to the Morris poem, but of course this was only a shingle catalog I had before me, so I shrugged off this notion of intertextual reference and went to bed.

At work the next day, the catalog repeatedly entered my thoughts. Even while I nailed rows of shingles, recollections of the surprisingly fine writing of Timeless Beauty distracted me from my task. Just before quitting time, a painful splinter of red cedar penetrated my right index finger underneath the nail.

Returning home, I postponed removal of the splinter and headed straight for my copy of Timeless Beauty.

As I flipped through its pages, I ran across a provocative passage which appeared to parallel the climactic scene of James Joyce's Ulysses: It makes sense to have family friends next door. Another good friend to have around: red cedar fancy-butt shingles. "They put a happy yet superbly functional face on any hideaway.

Few will deny that Joyce's Molly Bloom has a "fancy butt," and in the final section of Ulysses, Molly takes exception to the way her husband Leopold frequently puts his "happy yet superbly functional face" upon this fancy butt of hers: "living with him so cold never embracing me except sometimes when hes asleep the wrong ~nd of me . . . any man thatd kiss c. womans bottom Id throw my hat at him."

The subtle stylization of Timeless Brouty's prose so craftily duplicated Joyce that my esteem of the catalog grew enormously. Perhaps, I thought, the earlier aJlusion to the Morris poem had not been my imagination. My interest in Timeless Beauty intensified, but I still remained somewhat skeptical about its literary value.

By the following morning, however, my skepticism was rapidly diminishing. All during work I simply could not get my mind ofT Timeless Beauty and its very special way with words. When I examined my work at the end of the The New Journal/September 4, 1987 II

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That night, I read a stanza of lovely shingle poetry which convinced me that Timeless Beauty, in its pivotal scene, assures us of its quality, advising prospective critics that it would be pure folly to deny the Red Cedar Shingle and Handsplit Shake Bureau's claim as a literary power in its own right: "Unscheduled inspections, conducted by expert shingle and shake 'patrolmen,' virtually guarantee that these products will be the highest grade attainable."

"I am my own critic,"Time/ess Beauty seemed to say, "so don't waste your breath."

So maybe I lw.ve been too critical, I thought. I went back to the catalog and perused the text for deeper meaning, stopping short at the theatrical words: "Carefree vacations require carefree vacation homes. Enter red cedar."

Here I immediately recognized the drama and poetic resonance of Shakespeare's immortal line from Act I, Scene ii of The Tempest: "Enter Ferdinand." Although Timeless Beauty does not hesitate to borrow some of the dramatic energy of Shakespeare, I concluded, the dynamic shingle novella demonstrates that the addition of red cedar shingles makes it more durable than anything Shakespeare ever wrote. Shakespeare could not survive The Tempest; it was his last play and he never wrote anything again.

Timtless Beauty, however, has the literary strength to endure a tempest, and any other storm for that matter, because "even in harsh coastal environments, red cedar and handsplit shakes retain their beauty . . . and they'll withstand hurridme-force winds."

I was well pleased with my critical analysis. If I could discover an emerging literary force behind those thinly split, oddly shaped scraps of wood, I thought, then I would understand red cedar shingles better each time I picked one up and nailed it onto a house. My superior education could not fail to make me the most

proficient nailer of shingles the construction company had ever seen.

First thing the next morning I smashed my thumb with a hammer.

The tender skin beneath my thumbnail turned purple, then black.

That afternoon, returning late from lunch, I brought Timeless Beauty with me to work. Throughout the remainder of the afternoon I took countless illegal breaks, so that while all the other fellows were building with shingles, I was reading about them.

Shortly after three o'clock I flattened my hand with a hammer again. This time the wound bled profusely, and my red-faced foreman sent me home with an angry warning that I had better shape up. I spent the. rest of the day and most of the evening reading Timeless Beauty. With midnight approaching, I recalled a key passage from War and Peace relevant to red cedar shingles, and sprinted eagerly to the bookshelf to remove my copy of the classic. My eyes soon welled · with tears, as I made what I considered my most startling literary discovery :-.yet: Tolstoy, in his spectacular and very, very long novel War and Peace, (I said to myself) betrays a certain selfconsciousness about the weakness of his book's structure in the absence of red cedar shingles. In Book III, Tolstoy describes the destruction by fire of a Russian barn, an unmistakable symbol for the Russian novel itself, as he anticipates the inevitable figurative collapse his work will undergo when compared with shingle narratives of the future: "The walls were all in flames and the back had fallen in . . . The crowd was obviously waiting to see the roof fall in."

If Tolstoy had employed red cedar shingles as a literary device, I reasoned, the barn would most certainly be more durable, and the edifice of his novel- and indeed of all Slavic literature- would today stand taller and without doubt more pleasing to the eye.

Flushed with my achievement, I continued my complex literary discussion. But as I mopped my moistened brow, a salty sweat stung

the cuts on my fingers, stopping me abruptly mid-exegesis. Staring at Timeless Beauty through the parted digits of my battered, bleeding hands, I reflected on my life since the fateful arrival of the "Free Literature."

What had I done? I · asked myself.

My hands were mere bloody stumps.

My work had suffered atrociously. I had come to the conclusion that Timeless Beauty, a shingle catalog, embodies the entire Western and Slavic literary traditions, cnttques them, and then goes further extending beyond them tran-

scending them. But how much more did I now know about shingles?

And as I pondered all that had happened to me during the previous week, I grew increasingly hot and uncomfortable. The sweat had become unbearable. Shifting my weight in my chair, I sensed uneasily that despite my best intentions, my thighs had begun to stick to a certain layer of clear plastic and I still had only a vague notion of what the fabric really felt like.

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Guess Who's Coming to Dinner?

James Bennet I t's 6:15 on Tuesday, September 15, you're waiting in line, and you're h u ngry. Slowly you shuffle forward.

You take a tray and napkin. You take a knife, fork and spoon. You take a few m ore steps. And you come face to face with your first major decision since lunch: the cards above the steaming trays advertise Pasta Primavera, Shrimp Chow Mein, and Chicken Basqua ise. Chicken what? You're not sure you can pronounce it, and you know you've never seen it before. It looks red, stewing amid tomatoes, onions, and green peppers. Kind of interesting. The student worker, plate in one hand and ladle in the other, catches your eye. You look at the sh rimp. You look at the pasta. You ask for the chicken.

At least one student will not agonize over the choice. Sasha Grutman (BK '89) learned the recipe for a dish called "poulet basquaise" while attending C o rdon Bleu culinary school in Paris the summer before last. When the Berkeley d ining hall representative a pproached him for recipes, he Chick en basquaise in th e r ou gh.

suggested poulet basquaise. And forgot all about it. "T h is is the first I've heard of it," he said. "I'm really kind of shocked- I didn't think anyone would take it seriously." On Sept. 15, the Yale dining h alls will offer chicken basquaise to 5000 people.

Food is b ig business at Yale. I t is a business in which Alan Kenney, d irector of Yale's dining halls, can talk about buying "10, 15, maybe 20,000 _ pou nds of an item" one moment and the next be on the telephone describing the specific knife someone needs: "I think that's the D exter number 17.

That's the knife you want. We buy them in H artford." It is a business based on volume. "On a good day we serve about 20,000 meals. That's 4,000,000 per year," said Kenney OE '67). The dining halls operate on a n $18 million budget, $6 million of which goes for food. At Yale, about 820 people make the meals. T hey make them out of the 13,000 30-po u nd cases of frozen vegetables and fries that are ordered each year, out o f the $65,000 worth of hard rolls and French

Last April, they used 7, 155 pounds of diced onions and 10, 100 pounds of cut ~ettuce.

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notwithstanding, food service may be the most complex process at Yale.

For chicken basquaise, that process began nearly a year ago. Tom DeDinas, Yale's executive chef, prepared 24 portions of the dish for the "test kitchen," the standard trial for any potential addition to the menu. A group of Yale dining hall administrators and managers sampled and Tom DeDinu, Yale's executive chef, approved the dish for aroma, taste and favora "ground nut stew." texture. Having passed this scrutiny, chicken basquaise joined the 2600 bread. Last April, they used 7,155 other recipes in Yale's file. Because pounds of diced onions and 10,100 cooks are expected to follow all recipes pounds of cut lettuce. In one week in exactly, every plate of Yale's chicken October, they spent $60,000 on meat. basquaise should taste as good as the "It's a rather large operation," Kenney first. explained.

Having left a message with GrutBulk volumes can tell only part of man's roommate, DeDinas was the story, however. No less astounding disappointed when the recipe's than the quantity of each item is the conveyor failed to show up for the test ¡ variety of food s that the dining halls kitchen. DeDinas encourages student serve at each meal. At all lunches and involvement in the food service. A dinners, the standard services other large man with thinning blonde hair than the salad bar include about 30 a nd a meat thermometer tucked in his different foods, drinks and condi- breast pocket, he reported that alments- two types of milk and juice, though he has always welcomed recipe five ground spices, granola, pudding, ideas from undergraduates, they have J ell-0, ice cream, flavored and rarely suggested dishes. "I'd like to see unflavored yogurt. The salad bar alone more input from the students," he said. offers about 20 selections, ranging A few new items find their way on to from cottage cheese to four kinds of the menu each year, usually the result salad dressings, one of which must be of DeDinas' experiments or a dining diet . hall manager's vague report of a meal And those are just the standard enjoyed elsewhere. services. The dining halls also provide DeDinas said that planning special at least three entrees at dinner, one of menus often exposes him to new reciwhich is vegetarian and all of which pes. Last year's African Night, for contain between three and ten ingre- example, yielded one of his favorites: dients. At least one starch, one hot "ground nut stew," which includes vegetable and one featured dessert, peanut butter in the gravy. Though he usually baked, accompany the entrees. admitted that "a lot of people were To us, it may be just dinner, the three turned off by the name," he said that it or four items on our plates, the excuse was a popular dish and will reappear for a break and the brunt of bad jokes. on the menu this year. Student To the dining hall workers, it repre- response, he explained, determines sents the culmination of a furious which recipes survive. "If we get a lot process that began at least months of complaints to the dining hall before: someone invented and tested managers saying 'We don't like that the recipes, organized the menu, stuff,' we'll pull that recipe from the ordered the food, unloaded the trucks file." He shrugged. "We won't serve at three in the morning, mixed the something they don't like." Students' ingredients, cooked them, and served reactions ended the brief career of it all up- hot and on time. Particle .. pizza quiche" last year. acceleration and genetic engineering The warm reception chicken

basquaise received at the test kitchen has made DeDinas ho peful about its future. "It's a very attractive dish, with the peppers and the tomatoes." Karen D ougherty, who attended the test kitchen, shares DeDinas' e nthusiasm. As Yale's executive dietician, Dougherty heads the committee of food servic~ administrators and dining hall managers that plans Yale's menu. The committee maintains a straightforward philosophy: "We aim for pleasing most of the people most of the time, and we acknowledge that there will be times when it doesn't turn you on. Someday you'll want that beef chop suey, but right now it's not what those taste buds had in mind."

Like DeDinas, Karen Doug herty is a true believer in Yale's food. Along with all other management-level

"Someday you'll want that beef chop suey, but right now it's not what those taste buds had in mind." dining hall employees, Dougherty eats regularly in Yale's facilities. She spoke energetically about prized recipes, her voice easily heard over the roar of her air conditioner. The dining hall's popular pumpkin bread came from her own recipe, and Yale's green bean and ground beef casserole ranks as one of her favorite dishes. "I don't know, there's just something about it that I like a lot. So if I eat GBGB casserole, which I like a lot, and it doesn't taste right, I'll go in there and say, 'What the heck did you guys do today?'"

Dougherty explained that satisfying nutritional standards did not present a problem for chicken basquaise. Yale's dining halls offer elements of the four basic food groups at every meaL "We always have bread out, we always have milk out, we always have vegetables

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and fruit out," Dougherty said. "It's a p iece of cake." Scanning the menu for the evening of September 15, she said that students should eat their chicken b asquaise with rice rather than noodles; broccoli normandy rather than apple beignets, which are tasty but high in calories; and a green salad. For dessert, they could eat either the canned pear halves or the fudge cookie. She suggested that students s h ould drink milk with the meal-"skim, not whole." Tom DeDinas recommended a chablis.

Finding a spot on the menu for a new item is more difficult than meeting nutritional requirements. Dougherty explained that the menu committee follows certain basic rules: "We pair something popular with something unpopular . . . . You'd never put Brussel sprouts and beets on at the same time." She waved her hands.

"You'd get a suggestion box stuffed with hate mail." Certain foods, like fish, can be served up to four til1(les a week without generating complaints.

C h icken, however, cannot appear more than three times. She said that chicken basquaise should not be served beside another dish containing tomatoes. "You want it to stand out on the steam table. You do a lot of eating with you.r eyes, and you want to see a variety of colors so it doesn't all look the same."

Chicken basquaise will be going up against pasta primavera and shrimp chow mein- stiff competition. Dougherty and DeDinas both believe it will fare well, but after placing it on the menu they can no longer control its fate. At this point , the dining hall managers take over.

Dining hall managers are on the front line of food service at Yale. They are ultimately responsible for the quality of the product and service at all 27 of Yale's dining facilities. They make sure that the food is hot, that the ingredients and condiments are stocked, that the workers are clean and happy. They plan special events. If there's a party, they stay until it ends.

If there's an equipment failure, they

cope. As manager of Commons, Ed Stiles-Morse, stood beside a stack of Ley oversees the feeding of between trays containing breaded veal patties, 1500 and 1600 people twice a day and each neatly topped with a dab o f coordinates the two or three special tomato sauce and a spr inklin g o f meals that Commons might be host- grated parmesan cheese. The di nne r ing. In addition, major functions like rush would come in an hour or so. "I've the Walter Camp dinner take place in got PROP on that side," he said , Commons, and the bake shop in its gesturing toward the Morse d ining basement turns out baked goods for all hall, "and football on that side." H e the dining halls. Employees are at pointed toward Stiles. "Those boys eat work there from three in the morning everything." He said that a manager's until ten at night. "It's big, it's hours aren't bad- usually from 8:30 in extremely big, what we do here," Ley the morning until seven at night- but said. Barring equipment malfunctions, that the nature of the work is stressful. however, he said that the situation "When it's lunchtime, that has to be stays under control: "On an average ready. When it's dinnertime, that has day to the average individual, it may to be ready. In that sense, there's a appear to be chaos, but to us it's certain amount of pressure. When organized chaos . . . . To those of us you're in this business, it's part of your who know the assignments, it makes life." But the job has rewards as well. sense."

Homa said that he enjoys his contact Though they operate on a smaller with students. "We all take our scale, college dining hall managers also everyday meals- breakfast, lunch and must confront chaos daily. If you catch dinner-as routine. But Freshman sight of a manager at meal time, he's Dinner's coming up, and we're all probably in motion; if you try to talk to working our tails off to do a good job. him, he probably stays that way. One When someone comes up and says, afternoon, Ed Homa, area manager of 'You did a good job,' that's a great

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feeling. That's what we're shooting for." · Eric Uscinski moved through the ranks from dishwasher to assistant director of Yale's dining halls. Now working out of the central offices at 294 Elm Street, he said that he misses the "instant gratification" that comes from feeding hungry students. As manager of Branford-Saybrook, he organized a special breakfast last year for April Fool's Day that included linen tablecloths and student waiters. The menu featured fresh strawberry and blueberry crepes. "We always get requests for those New York bagels, so I went down there and got them for 'em." But Uscinski doesn't miss the pressure of managing two dining halls.

The kitchen equipment, some of it 15 years old, frequently broke down. Last year, the dishwashing machine in Branford was down for three days in a row. One hundred and five stairs

separate the Branford and Saybrook kitchens, and he climbed up and down them about 40 times each day.

Beyond ensuring that everything in the kitchen and dining areas is running smoothly at each meal, the managers must plan ahead. For each of the 20 or so special items that might appear on Yale's menu in a given day, the managers turn the recipes into numbers and the numbers into food.

In Commons, which serves so many people that four men share the manager's responsibilities, Michael Stringer (DC '77) orders the food and makes sure that it arrives on time.

A corridor stretches the length of Commons' basement. The rooms that open from it hold food-lots of food. In one, a pile of 50-pound bags of sugar sits beside a stack of 50-pound sacks of .

"Danish Deluxe Mix." Another room stocks grocery items: 55-pound tubs of Fig Square Filling, one-gallon bottles

"Involved with cube steaks" at Yale's Long Wharf Commissary.

of Gourmet French Dressing, a stack of ten cases of Heinz Tomato Ketchup- each case containing six cans at seven pounds apiece. Hoses labeled "Lemon," "Red" and "Coke" snake from boxes of syrup up through the ceiling to the soda machines in the serving line above. Ken Jones, Commons' head general services assistant, surveyed the room and shook his head.

"We water it and it grows overnight."

In the past three days, he had helped cart in 24,000 pounds of supplies.

In rooms where you can see your breath, bags of diced carrots, tubs of lettuce and boxes of frozen fish await their fate. Three mixers stand in the bakery, each as , tall as a man and operated with a manual clutch. Down at the corridor's end, you can glimpse the kitchen's gleaming b~nk o~ ovens.

Midway between the beginning of the corridor and the kitchen sits Stringer's office.

Michael Stringer always knew he wanted to work in food service. At Yale, he studied administr·ative sciences and worked in the dining halls. As his graduation approached,

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he was offered a job as an assistant manager of Commons. "I had two weeks off and boom!- I started here."

He worked as an assistant manager and manager of other dining facilities around Yale but returned to Commons last fall. "It's obviously a very big place," he said. As production manager, Stringer is responsible for the ordering and shipping of all food. He knows a lot of numbers: If it's hamburgers for lunch, he orders 300 pounds of meat. "That's 12 to 1500 burgers at three ounces each, and 75 in a case at 15 pounds total." Ordering food requires more than knowing numbers, however. Stringer see~s to employ a combination of· scientific management, pop psychology and hope.

Lead time for ordering food varies

New Haven's First and Foremost C hef Joacph Vero neai in hiâ&#x20AC;˘ kitchen: "I t'll be a nice addition to our recipe file in the chicken line."

b y item . Str inger places orders for produce as he needs it, for meat twoand-a-half weeks in advance. H e checks his records to see how a dish fared the last time arou nd. He allows for the time of year: "You know, people traditiona lly star t eating heavier in the fall.

The freshmen come through and g rab o n e of everything. After two or three weeks, they reaJize that their eyes are a lot b igger than their stomachs." He ta kes into account the trends toward fish , poultry and pasta. And he gu esses.

S tr inger soundeJ cautious about ch icken basquaise. He tasted it toward the end of August during a week of m a n agers' orientation and found it good but not remarkable, very similar to chicken cacciatore, another of the 39 ch icken dishes in Yale's repertoire. He thinks that it may bafne students . "You kno w , chicken basquaise- what the heck is that? I know Basque-southern Fra n ce, northern Spain- but that still d oesn't mean anything to me. So I n o tice the tomatoes, other things like that." Despite h is doubts. Str inger is

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gambling that those "other things" will make the chicken dish Commons' top seller on September 15. "I think it's going to be the best out of the three.

It's an attractive-looking dish. And it was tasty."

Stringer ran down the menu for that evening. With 1600 portions to allocate, he estimated that 800 students would choose chicken, 500 would choose pasta, and 300 would opt for shrimp. "You want poundages?" He dropped a tiny calculator onto the desk in front of him and began punching the buttons. "You're probably talking about 475 pounds of chicken." We're also talking about 250 pounds of potatoes, 7 5 pounds of rice, 150 pounds of broccoli, 75 pounds of apples, 100 pounds of lettuce, and 150 dozen fudge cookies.

"We're involved now with cube steaks.

We've got 4000 of them."

"OK, poundages." In his cramped office in the Stiles-Morse kitchen, Ed H oma reached for his own recipe box and calculator. Having tasted chicken basquaise during orientation, he seemed to have great faith in it. "I love chicken," he explained. On September 15, he expects 525 eaters, which means he needs to have 7 52 portions prepared: 352 of the chicken and 200 each of pasta and shrimp. He already has many of the ingredients on hand as part of his standard inventory. "We're pretty well stocked right now," he said, opening the door to a storage room full of neatly piled packages. "It's all alphabetized." In the back stood nine six-gallon cans of peeled tomatoes, which will soon be crushed by hand and turned into chicken sauce. But a few ingredients for chicken basquaise

were not in evidence. In Homa's office, clipboards with labels like "Processed Vegetables" and "Meat Orders" cover one wall. These clipboards bear the forms that Homa- and all the other dining hall managers- will send to Don Mitchell.

D on Mitchell bought 75,000 loaves of bread last year. He bought 14,000 dozen hamburger rolls. He spent $80,000 on orange and apple juice. He is Yale's buyer. From his office on the second floor of the Yale Commissary on Long Wharf, Mitch ell solicits bids each year from the vendors of items that appear on the menu. If he approves of the quality of their product, he contracts with ' the lowest bidder.

Once orders arrive from the managers, he compiles them and sends them along to the vendors, who deliver either direct to the dining halls or to the Commissary. Eric Uscinski recalled that a vendor once sent 1000 pounds of asparagus, all the wrong size. "Don had them come and take it away and bring us back the right kind."

All meat comes through the Commissary, which boasts its own butcher shop. "We're involved now with cube steaks," Mitchell reported. "We've got 4000 of them. They've got to be cut by hand and then tenderized in a machine- twice."

Downstairs, visitors must don white coats before entering the "cutting room." According to Mary Ann Bernick, Mitchell's assistant, the cutting room's temperature remains between 40 and 50 degrees throughout the day. Large, shiny hooks dangle near the entrance, and a steel track runs around the ceiling. "We hang leg of lamb from that," she explained.

The room was silent and almost empty.

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In his kitchen in Commons, Joseph Veronesi, chef, sat reading "Food Management" magazine. He wore a stained white coat and a white paper hat about a foot tall. Veronesi has cooked at Yale for 26 years since starting as second cook at the Law School. "The idea of the food here at Yale- it's more unique than anywhere else. Yale is number one. You think of college food and you usually think of frozen food." Indeed, according to Al Kenney, Yale has sold its recipe file four times: to Princeton, Columbia, Notre Dame and Duke, each time for $20,000. Veronesi has tasted all the recipes: "Anything I wouldn't eat I

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Veronesi is the penultimate link in Yale's food. chain, the last stop before the serving line. Don Mitchell trucks the ingredients in and Veronesi - along with a first cook, two second cooks. two third cooks. and assorted helpers- turns them into 3200 meals a dav. "How do ''e do it? \Ve have our b~sic menu." H e tapped one of the three ten-inch recipe Iiles on the desk. "'\\'e all work as a team . It's a big team effort." The fi rst shift in the kitchen runs from six in the morning until three in the afternoon. and the second from 9:30 in the morning unt:l 7:30 in the evening. The cooks divirle up responsibilities: "\\'e have to make

40 gallons of tomato sauce- on e of the cooks would be in charge of that."

At 7:30 one morning, Veronesi took a break to give a visitor a tour. The kitchen is crowded with a gian t's cookware. The pots could make good jacuzzis. The mixers could make ce· ment. And the knives, slicers, dicers and other implements of destruction could make the Marquis de Sade very, very happy. I nstead, in the right hands, thev make your meals. Ob· serving his guest's expression, Veronesi echoed the familiar opinion on Yale's dining halls: ·•It's a big operation." :"J ow. after a vear. chicken basquaise approaches the top of Yale's food chain. Dragged from P aris to New H aven. it has been prodded. smelled

and tasted; turned into a formula on a fo ur- inch-by-six-inch index card; multiplied out until it could feed a mob ; placed head-to-head with a popular C hinese seafood and a healthy Italian pasta; paired with fat-fried apples and a fudge cookie; dismembered into its basic clements; turned into numbers on order forms; and called fo r th in bits and pieces from all over the United States. At last, o n September 15, chicken basquaise will be reassembled to become once again what it was always meant to be: dinner.

And Sasha Grutman? H e's living off-campus and might forget to come to supper. "I'll be cooking a lot more this year. If I come up with something else that's tasty, I'll let them know."

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Scaling Walls John Stella "'We bought a lobster shell and looked at it to see how the pieces fit together. It was always sitting on the design table."

At a construction site between a baseball field and Long Island Sound, "the fish" basks in the late August sun. Its arched wooden skeleton throws a web-like shadow on the deck, tracing lines over workers in t-shirts and cut-offjeans. A man with white hair and an anguW.r face catches sight of a flatbed truck moving across the field. Squinting up at the unfinished structure, swinging his arms and grinning, he cries, ÂŤMary Beth, your trusses are here!" A minute later, a small woman in work boots and a W.rge yellow hard hat signals the tractor-trailer driver, who releases the heavy timber at her feet. Paul Brouard turns around. "Where else areyou going to get experience like that?"

Probably nowhere. These are not ordinary construction workers, and 24 The New JournaUSeptember 4 , 1987

Paul Brouard is no ordinary foreman.

They are Yale architecture students, building a bandshell for the Bridgeport Symphony in that city's Seaside Park as part of the School of Architecture's First Year Building Project. "The fish" is their own design and product, the result of months of furious labor in the studio and in the field.

The wooden deck and six arched trusses look like the skeleton of an immense sea creature on the shoreline.

In a curious process of reverse decay, more pieces appear each day, fleshing out the body. In its finished state, the three-story bandshell will have a curved plywood roof sheathed in copper shingles. When these oxidize in five to eight years, the cavernous shell will assume a scaly green appearance.

About a dozen workers are making purlins, structural ribs that connect and stiffen the trusses. They work in teams. Students up on the scaffolding call measurements down to others, who custom cut each two-by-eight and hand it up for fitting. Often the angles are off, requiring one, maybe two adjustments. Even with a team working at each side of the deck, only three purlins go up per hour. "They call this architorture," Layng Pew says from his perch in the scaffolding.

The First Year Building Project is an annual event for the School of Architecture and an integral part of its three-year curriculum, in which three aemesters of practical training prepare students for conceptual design studios.

Begun in 1965 by Charles Moore,

dean of the school at the time, the ment or other non-profit group , who project seeks to acquaint previously agrees to fund the materials and desk-bound students with the process support services, such as excavation, of building. In the field, they draw on a electricity and food. Under Paul year of "core" training that covers Brouard's direction, the students serve structures, materials, heating and as architects and builders. In March of ventilating, acoustics , lighting , their first year they break up into fireproofing, plumbing and electrical teams of tbree to four people and enter a design competition, culminating in a systems.

Richard Song had never built final jury in April. At that event, anything before coming to Yale. clients, Yale faculty members and "Construction has opened my eyes in a outside critics gather to choose the different way toward architecture. winning project. In an effort intended Prior to this I would look at a building to bind the students together, the in terms of design and spatial qualities. whole class builds it for free during Now I look at what materials are used May. Brouard, a private contractor, is the and how they are joined."

The project introduces students to Critic in Architectural Construction on all aspects of building. Yale contracts the Yale faculty. He comes in expressly with a client, usually a city govern- to oversee the building project. In his The New JoumalJSeptember 4, 1987 25

Making purlina: "Thc:y (:all thia archilorturc."

15 years at Yale , he has supervised finished excavation only the week before, hundreds of students but stresses that drilling sixty-two holes in a roughly each develops an individual approach rectangular lot in the park in preparation for to architecture and building. Leaning the concrete pilings that will support the against the shoreline embankment, he bandshell's deck. Now the site looks like a speaks readily and laughs often. "I am giant gopher colony, a neat mound of earth here and available to keep everything piled next to each hole. moving," he explains. "They learn In the studio, the lights illuminate only a from the mistakes that they make, small work area; the rest of the desks stand from something that they have to take clean and abandoned until September. Four out if it doesn't work visually or students bend their heads over drafting structurally. They have to pull it apart boards, brainstorming a required wheelchair and redo it, and when you have that ramp for the deck- one of the matry unforeseen experience several times, you are elements that needs last-minute designing. much more careful about how you approach it in another situation."

The fish was an imaginative idea, and a tricky design. Originally conceived A light shines on the seventh floor of the by four students as an elongated, r:Uzrlcened Art and Architecture building on a marine animal form, it took its innight in mid-June. Stveral students are spiration directly from the coastal site. meeting after worlc. The SNET telepole truck Asked what architectural issues his 26 Tht- Nt-w Journall~ptt-mbt-r 4. 1987

design team considered, Ron Godfredson shrugs. "We bought a lobster shell and looked at it to see how the pieces fit together. It was always sitting on the design table." Calling their scheme "a complicated organism," team captain Darin Cook explains that last-minute creative and technical breakthroughs rarely allowed them to finish drawings and models in time for the design deadlines. Recalling one presentation before the Yale faculty, he holds an imaginary model in his fingers and grins. "We would have this thing that was falling apart and it was like, 'Try to imagine a roof on this. We haven't figured it out yet but we're almost there.' And they're just looking at us like, 'You've got to be kidding.'"

Still conceptual and unbuildable, their project was chosen as one of three finalists, and the problems compounded. The team grew from four to twelve, gaining members from eliminated groups. Students divided up responsibilities such as budget, engineering and drawing requirements to prepare for the final review.

Everyone had a say in the design refinements , which consolidated the shape of the polygonal deck and arched trusses and saw the addition of a copper-shi~gled roof. Going into the final jury, the model looked like a scaly insect or crustacean, its shell-like back perched on twelve spindly legs.

Unlike its more traditional competitors, whose forms remained more static during the design process, the amorphous fish could evolve in response to the many client demands.

Midway through the design period, the city, which commissioned the project for the Bridgeport Symphony, decided to allow the much larger New York Philharmonic to play there on its annual summer tour. The project size doubled, complicating the engineering requirements and creating new needs, such as heavy construction equipment.

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As more information came in about the necessary size, acoustics, and engineering requirements, the form stretched accordingly. Darin Cook coordinated the group's efforts. 'just on the shape, we built nine models.

We had three guys that would build something and show it to the group and we'd all sit there and say, 'No, I think it should_ .b e tall~r, or longer, or iatter or skinnier,' and they'd go back and make a fat one, a skinny one, a long one, and one that combined all of them and crank out four more models for us to crit."

Five uninterrupted days and nights of redesign and reengineering ended on April 22, the day of the final jury.

The three design teams presented their projects to a panel of representatives of the Yale faculty, the Bridgeport Symphony and mayor's office, Cilvtrust Bank, and various acoustical, engineering and building code consultants. During the ensu ing debate, the fish group nudged out the two less flexible design teams, .Paul Brouard with Mary Beth Vogel

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The model looked like a scaly insect or crustacean, its shelllike back perched on twelve spindly legs. descriptively dubbed the "piano" and Concrete now fills the gopher holes, "tent" groups. Herbert Newman, a supporting heavy joists and unfinished New Haven architect and the Yale decking. Standing on top, you can see the blue faculty coordinator of the building expanse of the Sound over the embankment, project, recalls the jury: "It was marked by the black mass of an anchored oil exciting because it had a certain tanker and the sharp white wedges of organic quality. It had the quality of a sailboats. A blue sedan pulls up and parks on crab crawling out of the sea, of a boat the road on top of the embankment, joining turned upside down. It had all of this the other shapes on the horizon. The driver metaphorical imagery that at the same watches the students working in the steamy time worked as a bandshell. It seemed June heat. Kneeling on the green pressureve ry appropriate on a shore, at the treated lumber, they strain to drive galvanized edge of the water. It was unself- nails through the deck. Over on the steps, the conscious. That is a very mature thing water cooler is nearly empty.

The driver lingers but does not get out of for students at an early age."

The fish won almost unanimous the car. His door bears the municipal seal of support among jurors. The major part Bridgeport and gold stencilled Letters spelling of the studio work over, the students "Building Dept. "' Several minutes later, he . and Brouard geared up to go into the restarts the engine and drives off toward the field during May, planning to com- park entrance. plete the bandshell by June 1 . They lacked only a building permit and the The municipal cns1s caused by the cursory governmental approvals. The L'Ambiance collapse brought the next day, April 23, the L'Ambiance bandshell project to a grinding halt and Plaza building under construction in severely altered its nature. Even when Bridgeport collapsed, killing 28 the immediate rescue operations workers and Yale's chances of ended, many bureaucratic hurdles starting on time. The tragedy's two- remained. The Bridgeport Building week rescue effort and the subsequent Department, saddled by intense legal lawsuits virtually shut down the city and media scrutiny, demanded that Building Department and put the Yale meet many more requirements students' project in jeopardy. than customary to begin construction.

The Coastal Area Planning Commission forced some design changes to ensure that the structure will withstand the largest hurricanes to come off the Sound. Sturdy pressure-treated lumber replaced fine Douglas fir on the deck. According to joseph Grabarz, assistant to Bridgeport Mayor Thomas W. Bucci , the Building Department became "oversensitive to any proposal that came before them, and that helped to slow the process up a lot." Daily visits by nervous building inspectors eventually subs i ded, but an overabundance of s:,ommitments in the mayor's office (it is an election year for Bucci) caused further delays.

It was June 8 before the building project could begin again, a full six weeks behind schedule. Delays caused cost overruns and a manpower shortage, since many students left New Haven for the summer, convinced that the project was defunct. Bridgeport offered to build the bandshell with city employees but the remaining students refused, valuing the education of the building process more; than simply achieving the final result. They compromised. The city employed the students at' eight dollars per hour and insured them with workman's compen-

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sation. Citytrust Bank, which IS funding the bandshell as a gift to Bridgeport for its 150th anniversary, hired AI Hermandorfer, a private consultant, to coordinate the flow of money, supplies and information between the bank, the city, the Symphony, Brouard and the contractors who donated supplies and tools to the project.

Still, only 10 to 12 students were able to s1t out the delays to begin construction. The loss of two-thirds of the class to summer commitments compromised the binding nature of the project. "It's hard to call this a class project anymore." Paul Brouard sits up and rests a forearm on his knee. "I've always felt that the building project helped the class on other levels than learning building. It also makes them change their opinions of one another.

The skills that are important in the studio are not always the ones in?-portant in the field. Some of those people who have the field skills gain a lot of respect among their peers. It â&#x20AC;˘ does change the social and professional order of the class."

Mary Beth's trusses are going up, and the site looks like a barn-raising party. The backfour stand secure, and a fifth dangles above the

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deck from a crane. Supported onry by taut canvas straps, the truss quivers Like paper in the wind. Two workers steady it at the ends and wait to lower and bolt it to the concrete piers. A man in a Red Sox cap gives coaching signals to the crane operator, who rotates and dips the boom, nestling the truss footings onto the threaded rods.

One peg is crooked and needs ar.fjustment.

B ob Tucker climbs onto the pier, plants his work boots for balance, and hammers away with a sledge. The peg is embedded in concrete, and his rjfort yields onry a slow rhythm of.flat clicks. Beyond the construction fence, people stop to watch the progress. An old man matches the scene against this morning's paper, which carries a quarterpage photo of the project.

change the image of Bridgeport and the feeling among Bridgeporters about their own city. And they see it not just in a poster or billboard or new media event, they see it in something that's actually going up that they can look at and say, "Gee, that looks like something that would be fun to use." Joe Grabarz believes the building project goes a long way in overcoming Bridgeport's negative image. "The bandshell has become a focus for a lot of the positive feeling about the city.

This could be something that the city could get excited about, he lp its development, and enjoy through the future." ' Concern with the social effect of the building project has fluctuated throughout its history. Strong belief in the moral commitment of architects to

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Environmental concerns prevailed in the seventies; classes designed camps and cabins in local forests. In the late seventies and eighties, a preoccupation with formal and aesthetic concerns produced several small, stylized pavilions.

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Brouard believes that "today's students are still very interested in building, but in a context more appropriate to the way they think. They see it as an advantage to their careers." Though he stresses that the Seaside Park bandshell will be a useful addition to the t:ommunity, he believes that the class should sometimes deal with issues of more current social importance, such as homeless people and low-cost housing.

Thomas Beeby, dean of the .Yale School of Architecture, suggests that the current program could investigate such projects but cautions against losing sight of the educational philosophy. "Architecture is a generalist profession. It has to encompass technical, intellectual and anistic activities all underneath one roof, and there is a shifting of interest from one aspect to another. I think it is the duty of architectural schools to sustain that generalist notion of architecture, to protect all those

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School has begun, and the bandshell stands unfinished. The size of the pro· ject and the diminished stucl<:>nt crew will pre\'ent completion by Labor Day. when Bridgt·po•·t ,.,·anted to hold an openin~ concert. and ''ill certainh· keep students from finishing the band·shell themseh es. For Sl'H'ral ''eeks. they thou~ht that thev would also ha\e to sanifice the coppe.r roof f(w inferior materials. but Brid~t·port a~rt'l'd to re· tain it aftt·r '-Oille di:.tu:,!)ion Accor· ding to a tentative plan, a private contractor will apply plywood sheathing to weatherproof the structure before winter while the class starts handmaking the copper shingles.

Students will install these next Mav. \Ian· Beth \'o!!;t'l. o1w of tlw fclur o•·i~inators of tlw ck-.i~n. llil'- St't'n the fish !.'(rO\\ from,, tin' ma,~in~.t modt·l to one sho" in!!; cons11·uuion ell-tail to tlw actual ~t rtH't u n• i 11 St•a,ick Park.

Remembering the day the original group conceived of the dramatic form , she is pleased with its translation into reality. "I feel that the general image is the same. I t evolved the way it wanted to and can respond in a good way."

T he students are still meeting with the various clients to resolve the roof design. Brouard sees this as a ll part of ..,. the education. "I t's a good experience for them, because they're going to be in on it. T hey have to make some of th e decisions and commitments for carrying it out, if they want to fulfill to the best of their capabilities that image."

Tom Beeby explains that students need an intimate ~now lege of construction to judge when they can and cannot compromise. He believes that the importance of the building project lies in showing students how to turn a design into a building without betraving their original ideas. "You have to protect your images against the onslaught of reality. You have to protect your idea , even though there's a lot of reasons to change it to something less interesting."

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The pictures cover most of the wall: first footh, fir~ year, first grade.

Hundreds of pictures, with qozens more scattered across Linda Lisk's desk. Most show mothers with their newborn children- children still bloody, their umbilical cords still -attached and clearly visible. Linda often appears on the periphery: the pair of hands holding the baby next to its mothert belly, the blue-gowned figure by the cornet of the bed. This suits herjust fine; alfer all, she isn't the one having the child.

Lisk is a certified nurse-midwife (CNM), and her profession also ~·~····"·.., out of focus.

2800 the States hold obstetrical and 'X;: aJ~ICOIOf!~e<u care for women, and the increase every year. . But public ignorance, professional skepticism and the high cost of medical i~e have made it difficult for nurse-midwives to find employment in many parts of the country. New Ha~n, bolstered by a tertiary care hosjital and Yale Medical School, offers a relative l y supportive ~nvitbnment for CNMs. The numbtlr

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of births supervised by nurse-midwi~es greatly exceeds the national figure of between two and four percent of all deliveries- by one estimate, they handle as many as 25 percent. But even in New Haven, which boasts one of only 28 nurse-midwife degree programs in the country, midwives face a difficult time finding acceptance.

In Europe midwives are responsible for 60 to 80 percent of deliveries, but tnany Americans now view them as a curiosity, an anomaly in this age of specialized medicine.

The influence of doctors in obstetrical care has developed only over the last century, with particular force in the United States. Until the early 1900s, a predominantly immigrant population of midwives provided primary care for pJegruUU women.

Doctors, whose own sta(US had not yet reached complete respectability, began • to suggest that these midwives were inadequately trained and that a woman faced dire risks she did not put herself in. 'the han~ of established medicine. They empl\asized the need for sanitaty and ~iated procedures and poi:oted out that most midwives

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uneducated foreigners. As the of midwives declined, childbirth What had previously been cotWller-ea a fairly normal process requiring little intervention gradually became a medical phenomenon, and a litany of new technique• and tech· nologies became part of accepted procedure: shaving women} pubic hair , giving tbern enemas, anaesthetizing them heavily, res.~=tilltg them co their beds during and performing cesarean aad forceps deliveries. the lllid-1970., women began to · tbc necessity of 10me of these ~ ~ resurgence of followed. As Lisk explains lldlllWife care emphasizes nonflliattlc•i:st technique that give the ilft:$.pl~>lelte control over her body IUl~&-aPor and childbirth. CWe try to as a normal process, not as one. We encourage people to the hospital unless they she says. Before she became a rn"n"""'"• Lisk worked as a regis(RN) on the labor and floor, where, she says, "l things being done to women

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outrageous." Now, she describes herself aa a feminist who has chosen a more active role in changing the treatment of women, "The perception is that you're a retonstituted hippie." Sue Andrews, an assistapf professor of certified nurse-midwifery at the Yale School of Nursing, leans back in her chair and amiles. "But most CNMs are in one way or another feminists-we believe that women need to be empowered."

Dressed in t-shirt and shorts, Andrews looks somehow out of place in her office, which is crammed with textbooks and stacks of papers. She came to the School of Nursing in 1981 from Oregon. where she had been an RN and before that, an English teacher. Yale offers two tracks to a master's degree in nurse-midwifery: a two-year program for registered nurses like Andrews and Lisk and an unusual three-year program for people with no previous nursing experience. After receiving her certification from the American College of Nurae-Midwives, Andrews stayed at Yale to teach. • also became director of the Num..t

School-affiliated Yale Midwifery Practice, the only private".-.;,a-;,.,.,.;;c«<l practice in New Haven run and operated by the CNMs themselves.

The practice will dose at the end of September due to a decline jn enrollment at the nursing school that forced administratqrs to target ~ir :l\. limited funds elsewhere. Still, its staff says, during 13 years of operation it served as a prototy~ for similar programs nationwide.

1\ndrews chose to enter a career in academia rather than to concentrate on an active practice. Lisk wanted a more immediate remedy for the treatment of women that she had witneaed on the labOr and delivery floor. After certification, she joined the New Haven-based OB-GYN pl'8dic:e ol Dr. Marshall Holley; they both insist that she works with him, not for him.

Holley now has rwo nunc-midwives in his practice, Who ddiver IDC)St of the 200-plua patienr. ~ IJeCS in a year.

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supports us," Lisk says. She and Debbie Cibelli, the other CNM in Holley's practice, provide all of the prenatal care and counseling for normal women with no health risks. In Connecticut, CNMs cannot prescribe medication, so Holley signs prescriptions for drugs or vitamins. Once a woman goes into labor, Lisk or Cibelli stays with her until she delivers- for five hours or two days, however long the labor takes. Holley usually does not show up in the patient's room until the child begins to appear, and he does not interfere unless the birth requires surgical procedure, which CNMs cannot perform.

Holley, a genial man who sports ties decorated with tiny tennis racquets, speaks highly of the kind of care that CNMs provide. "My style of practicing medicine is one of being laid back, as natural as possible, giving the patients choice of what's going on and 36 The New J o urnal/ Septe-mber 4. 1987

ability to make a decision," he says.

"Midwives give the patients someone in labor with them." In addition to providing emotional support throughout labor and delivery, Lisk and Cibelli also encourage the woman to be more aware of what's happening to her. "We try and get women to watch what they're doing. We'll try and get her to reach down, to feel the baby's head. We try not to make this a sterile procedure- because that really isn't the most sterile area, although people try to make it so," Lisk explains. Her method of care involves allowing the woman to choose her own position, in the bed or out of it. "Some women want to squat on the floor on their hands and knees while they give birth.

That's fine, it's perfectly normal." In fact, many doctors, as well as midwives, feel that the standard position of birth, lying in bed with both feet encased in stirrups, actually hampers delivery by forcing a woman to work against gravity.

Indeed, the line that separates midwifery from physician care has faded in recent years as hospitals respond to a tr~nd calling for "natural" medicine. According to Tracy Wittreich, a CNM in private practice with three other nurse-midwives and four physicians, Yale-New Haven Hospital has made great strides in providing a comfortable environment for expectant mothers. Now, instead of giving birth in a large common room where privacy is provided only by curtains, women can use private or semiprivate birthing rooms. Some of these offer television sets , individual showers and wallpaper, in an effort to make the setting for birth as, homey as possible.

More important, most birthing rooms now contain flexible "borning beds," which allow women to change positions during labor.

"Yale really seems fairly progressive to me," Wittreich says. She notes that when Yale-New Haven renovated its facilities, nurses and midwives were consulted about what the new birthing rooms should look like. But she admits that hospital procedure occasionally frustrates her. "There are certain things you get sucked into doing in a hospital," she says. Yale-New Haven insists that a doctor attend every delivery, if only to observe, and urges the use of highly technical machinery such as fetal monitors and ultrasound.

Fetal monitors, which track a baby's heartbeat, require that the mother lie in bed, not squat on the floor. Lisk insists that monitors rarely offer helpful information in low-risk cases, but hospital administrators prefer to minimize the chance of malpractice suits by using every available technology on mother and child.

Their concern stems from the insurance crisis in medicine, which has had an especially strong effect on obstetrics. Vulnerable to lawsuits and aware that a damaged chi:d evokes strong sympathy from a jury, OBGYN practitioners face the highest insurance premiums of any medical subspecialty, and many doctors have limited their practice to GYN as

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result. Two years ago, insurance companies refused even to insure midwives, and only after the American College of Nurse-Midwives began to con sider sel f- i nsurance did a con sortium of companies agree to provide coverage. Doctors who hire midwives usually pay their insurance costs as well; when coupled with their own insurance bills, the price of hiring a m idwife often rises too high. Several New Haven-based practices which used to employ midwives no longer do so, citing excessive costs.

M arshall Holley does not believe them. "I don't think the insurance part is the reason most doctors don't use mid wives," he says. "I thi~k the doctor ego, where he would have to relinquish control, is the main reason." The most com mon arena of confrontation is the hospital: when a woman's attending physician is unavailable at the time of her delivery, a resident must substitute. Unfamiliar w ith nursemidwifery techniques and schooled in interventive medicine, these residents are "always prowling the halls, sticking

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their head s in everybody's rooms," Andrews says. "Their purpose is to deal with high-risk situations, and they tend to turn everything into a high-risk situation." In fact, statistics show that nurse-midwives are much less likely to be sued for malpractice than are OBGYN physicians. About 67 percent of physicians will encounter malpractice suits during their OB-GYN careers, comp ared with about six percent of nurse-midwives. Even accounting for the fact that midwives handle only "normal" pregnancies, this comparison does not support a conclusion that midwives are in any way less capable than physicians of providing labor and delivery care.

"When I was a student at Yale, the relationship between the midwives and the residents was horrible. Horrible," Wittreich says. But she has experienced the kind of crisis that makes hospitals like Yale require a physician to be present at deliveries: one of her "normal" deliveries suddenly turned life-threatening when the baby suffered a shoulder dystolcia, in which the

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"All of a sudden I heard this voice behind me saying, 'Need any help?' And it was like, 'God, yes!'" child's head is sucked back into the mother and goes into respiratory failure. ~The baby was turning blue.

All of a sudden I heard this voice behind me saying, 'Need any help?'

And it was like , 'God, yes!' That kind of situation doesn't happen often, but it can give you gray hairs and chest pains. An extra pair of hands is always nice."

Doctors who do employ midwives, usually at salaries of around $30,000, compensate for their diminished authority with the freedom from being constantly on-call. In Wittreich's practice , the CNMs handle 95 percent of the approximately 500 deliveries that are done yearly. This can mean a

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60 to 70 hour work week, with none of the financial rewards physicians can expect. "You're not going to reco~p your investment like you would if you were a doctor," Wittreich says. "The hours are brutal. But," she adds softly, "there's nothing like delivering a baby.

It's still a big thrill for me. I think you should hang up your gloves if it gets boring for you."

Helen Burst, the chairperson of the Maternal-Newborn Nursing/NurseMidwifery Program at the nursing school, has seen a lot of women, and a few men, express this sentiment. She graduated from the nurse-midwifery program in 1963, and has since written the standard textbook on nursemidwifery in addition to performing her administrative duties. When other CNMs speak of her, they show the

kind of deference usually reserved for doctors. "Have you met Helen yet?" one of them asks. "She's ... well, she's pretty imposing." In person, Burst seems less awe-inspiring than her P.R. would suggest. She laughs frequently and loudly, jumping up to find a reference to midwifery in the Bible.

"Here it is, right here. Genesis, 35:17.

The midwife's first words were, 'Fear not.' Isn't that great?"

Burst has found many reasons for enthusiasm in her 24 years of nursemidwifery experience. "When I first gradu~ted," she says, "there were only three or four places where one could practice as a midwife. New York City, out in Santa Fe, ip Baltimore, and in Kentucky. Now, we've got jurisdiction in all fifty states." The Connecticut legislature enacted a statute governing nurse-midwives in 1981. Before that, according to Wittreich, midwives could not sign birth certificates after they had performed deliveries. "A taxi driver-if a woman gave birth in the back of his cab, he could sign the birth certificate. But midwives couldn't.

There was no way for us to prove the work we were doing, no record of any of it."

Gradually, the medical establishment seems to be accepting the presence of nurse-midwives in hospital births. Community Health Care Plan (CHCP), New Haven's health maintenance organization, employs six CNMs who each handle as many as 40 patients a day. But few doctors will support midwifery care in what is perhaps its purest form, the home birth. CNMs cannot participate in home births without losing their Yale-New Haven admitting privileges, but independent, or "lay," midwives can and do. Independent midwives, who need no special certification or training, number about 3000 in the United States. They generally populate rural areas more than urban centers like the Northeast, but Connecticut does have four such women, and two of them are in practice together outside of N~w Haven.

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Dev Kirn Khalsa says ~hat she became interested in midwiferv sixteen years ago, when she gave birth to her own daughter at home, attended only by members of her family. "I woke up at eight o'clock in the morning and she was born at one fifteen. I didn't tear, I didn't bleed, I got up .and ate ice cream." In 1974 she started a birthing center in Toronto, and in 1978 she attended the Maternity Center in El Paso, Texas. Since 1982, she and her partner, Anne Frye, have attended at home births for approximately 50 women a year. Her office, at her ho~e, contains ~wo antique rockin~ cha1rs, a file cabmet, and a large rag doll. A cat comes in occasionally to look around.

Kirn feels that nurse-midwifery provides at best an inadequate substitute for home births. "Independent midwifery is the original women's profession,." she says.

"Certified nurse-midwifery is not- it is the result of men, of doctors, taking over the profession and deciding that this was the form they'd allow midwifery to take. It's like putting a Band-Aid on a gushing artery." She notes that, despite its insistence <m physician part:icipation, the United States is 17th in the world in its rate of infant mortality, whereas two countries where midwives are the accepted providers of OB-GYN care, Sweden and Holland, have the lowest mortalitv rates. Of course, these two countrie.s also differ in that they offer socialized medicine . . Doctors do not attend Kirn's patients' deliveries, although she insists that her clients have back-up medical care available. She says she will accept only a certain kind of patient, one who

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is committed to home birth as a philosophical choice. "I have very poor patients on welfare, and I have patients from Stamford and Greenwich. I have stopped trying to say that there's a certain type of patient, because I don't think there is. The only thing they share is a desire for control over their own bodies," she says. They pay her on a sliding scale based on their financial status, since insurance does not pay for home births. It also does not cover Kirn in case of lawsuits, a fact which she says doesn't bother her. "It's not worth the profit for insurance companies to sue me, it's not worth the hassle. My pockets aren't deep enough.

And the people I deal with spiritually understand that life has its own flow ."

Like Lisk and Wittreich, Kirn offers women a constant supportive presence during their labor. Unlike the CNMs, she will do it wherever her client prefers. "I'U take her for walks. I'll take her to the mall. I don't want her to feel like she's a prisoner, or like there's anything wrong with her." She rejects the idea that Yale-New Haven's new birthing rooms provide women with sufficient comfort. "If you bark real loud, someone will throw you a bone.

'Look, look at this hospital room! Look at the potted plant! Look at the bed, it looks just like a real one!' Things run deeper than that."

While many CNMs and doctors agree that the hospital cannot match the privacy and comfort of a home birth, they dispute its wisdom. "The women who have n eve r been nurses- they're the ones who are all for home birth. They've n ever seen anyone bleed to death," Wittreich says.

Lisk appreciates the work that lay midwives do and says that she sometimes calls Kirn for advice . But, she adds, "They feel very righteous about what they are doing, and so do we."

One viable alternative to home births might be the creation of a birthing center, which would offer women individualized attention and privacy but would provide for physician attendance and easy access to hospitals. I n January of 1985, under ,. the joint auspices of a consumer group and some professors at the Nursing School, including Helen Burst, the Family Childbirth Center opened in the Temple Medical Building in New Haven. Not a Yale-affiliated projec:t,

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Despite the quick failure of the birthing center, Burst has high hopes for a similar project in the future. "We went through every hoop, every bureaucratic procedure, in laying the groundwork. We proved it could be done, right here in Connecticut, right here in New H aven," she says.

Marshall Holley says that he would have liked to admit patients to the Birthing Center but that the difficulties posed by splitting admissions with the hospital were too great, a problem1 unlikely to be resolved in the near; future. And if Burst's assumption about the recalcitrance of doctors to support a birthing center is correct, a ~ more profound change than a simple administrative success will be necessary to find a workable solution.

For the time being, Burst says, she is concentrating on issues more readily resolved: in creased prescriptive authority, expanded hospital privileges, and a stable insurance policy. W ittreich's and Lisk's concerns are even more immediate. They revolve around the ringing of the telephone that tells them one of their clients is about to go into labor. Then there will be the hours of sitting by the bedside, urging the woman to push, to breathe. After the baby is born, Linda Lisk will get a new picture or two for her wall. She probably won't be in it, ''" b ut you'll know she's there.

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The scene: an anonymous Middle Eastern nation. The time: now. The plot: thickening. The beautiful princess Aliza lies comatose, stabbed in the chest in an assassination attempt ordered by her power-hungry cousin Turek. If Aliza dies, her husband AlBenir must forfeit power to Turek. But the princess must not only stay alive: unless the royal couple can somehow produce a son within three years, the reform-minded Al-Benir will have to step down. The princess shows no signs of recovery, and time is running out. The logistics sound daunting in Dr. Mary Lake Polan's thriller, Second Seed. But perhaps even more intriguing than the plot is the fact that an associate professor from Yale Medical School wrote this type of noveL Although the law "publish or perish" when Polan exchanges the Middle rules tenure these days, this book is Eastern country, Al-Benir and probably not what the committee had company for a new set and new in mind. characters. The curtain rises on, not so The novel isn't a whodunnit. It's a surprisingly, a small city in can-they-do-it: Can the princess still Connecticut. In this mild locale, a conceive and bear a child? Polan, a Yuppie couple debates whether or not reproductive endocrinologist and to have a child. She's a doctor, he's a gynecologist, should know. As an lawyer, she wants the kid and he says associate professor in the Medical OK. Don't worry- it gets interesting.

School with both M.D. and Ph.D. An ectopic pregnancy leaves Beth, the degrees, Polan has studied infertility heroine, unable to conceive by the and its remedies, including in-vitro usual means. Instead, she resolves to fertilization. Although her background undergo in-vitro fertilization and might undermine an entertainment convinces her skeptical husband, novel by burdening it with a scholarly David, to agree to the operation. tone and multisyllabic words lacking While most people recognize the an appropriate number of vowels, it term "test-tube baby," few grasp the doesn't here. I n fact, the medical actual process involved in making one. descriptions are the book's most Polan translates in-vitro fertilization authentic. into layperson's terms. Her version As a medical novel, Second Seed runs thus: After taking medicine to educates about in-vitro fertilization make her ovulate, Beth is ready for Dr. and also implicitly questions the uses Joshua Wolff to operate and "harvest" and abuses of today's technology. But her eggs. don't be scared away. This isn't Organic Chemistry- it's more like He picked the ovary up and held it ..General Hospital." As a suspense suspended in the middle of the belly thriller, Second Sud successfully ... Taking the needle. he angled it entertains. downward until it was poised just The plot becomes more complex over the top of the first follicle . . . .

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"Get ready," said Richards.

"Suck." He plunged the needle directly into the center of the fluidfilled cyst.

"You've got it."

After vacuuming out Beth's follicle, Dr. Wolff combines the eggs with the sperm in a dish until they fertilize and start to divide. Then he reinserts the fertilized eggs into her uterus. But here's the twist: Al-Benir and Wolff were college chums (Harvard, of course). Princess Aliza cannot carry a child to term. And we know that, while comatose, PrinceJs Aliza underwent the same operation. So the reader wonders: whose child is it-Beth and David's or Aliza and Al-Benir's?

Though medical technology appears primarily as a constructive tool in Second Seed, Polan explores its negative side as well. Thanks to modern medicins:, Beth can become pregnant.

But because of a doctor's weakness; she becomes a political pawn.

Technology's values Polan suggests, depends upon the person who wields it.

1 ecnnotogy's value, Polan suggests, depends upon the person who wields it.

After becoming pregnant, Beth notices strange cars stalking her. When she confides her anxieties to David, he ignores them. Instead, Beth must turn to her secretary, who intuitively believes that someone is trying to kill her boss. Throughout Second Seed, Polan portrays a world dominated by men. Beth survives through brains, resolve and luck, cajoling and outthinking men to achieve her goals.

As David says, she is "one determined lady." And her drive enables her to endure and overcome any obstacles presented by men. Strangely, while Polan characterizes women as capable and strong-willed, she fails to develop any female characters other than Beth.

The men share the limelight, while the rest of the women remain "shadowy characters at best.

Almost uniformly, Polan depicts

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men as imperceptive, self-centered, and power-obsessed. While the women heal and protect, the men destroy.

Women rely on intuition; men depend more on facts. The men educated in the West and those from the Middle East treat women in the same way. AlBenir and Turek, even Wolff, regard Beth as a "vessel" with one purpose- to perpetuate a male-dominated line. The presence of David, Beth's modern but frequently obtuse husband, does little to balance this portrayal.

As the novel zips along, occasion~ potholes in the plot cause some:¡ discom fort. At the beginning, Polan refers to Aliza as both the "eldest" and "only" daughter of a sheik. Later, when '-< David readily supports Beth's decision to undergo in-vitro fertilization, the Beth took the knife and opened the reader wonders what happened to the incision at both ends, hoping the case "rational" man who "considered decisions long and carefully." Did he would not get too complicated. After enlarging the incision, Beth put her get caught up in a feminine wave of hand in and delivered a d istended, emotion? The ending is jolting also. discolored appendix dripping with Polan hammers in her symbolic infection. Working carefully to avoid representation of the differences spilling the green pus all over the between men and women. Amidst the abdomen, t hey removed the oversymbolism and melodrama, the appendix and dropped the tied-off ending dissolves into a farce. StiJI, the stump back into the wound ... H er last pages also demonstrate her talent hands worked automatically, tying for mak ing medical descriptions comand cuttin g as her mind wandered. pelling. The birth scene, detailed in 19 I hope that tube works afln the inftction pages, is one of the most tense and cleo.rs up, she thought. Otherwise we'll climactic of the book. wind up with a blocked tube and she may Polan as interpreter allows the never get pregnant. Sad for a twenty-two'"' reader to see into a world that, year-old. otherwise, would be incomprehensibly laden with professional jargon. In Second Seed, she imbues the scenes with Earlier , Beth realizes that she must an insider's familiarity. Through Beth We can observe the operations from the make a stro ng first impression on Dr. Wolff because b r illiant doctors are doctor's viewpoint:

frequently very busy and capricious.

And Beth makes a quick plug for the doctors who make us suffer in the waiting room: "She forced herself to sit still and not ask the receptionist why D r. Wolff wasn't there yet: she knew how much Sarah disliked patients who couldn't understand about emergencies or schedule changes, and she knew from her own experience that it was impossible for a doctor always to be on time." After read ing this book we feel that we understand the medical profession and its practitioners better.

I n Second Seed, Polan has succeeded in creating an exciting and unique, if implausible, novel. And sh e has redu ced the professional jargon to a digestible substance. At another level, the novel raises questions about the potential of technology and the persons who control this power. Luckily for this thriller, Polan has left the answers to a more staid book.

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Afterthought/Natalie Zemon Davis

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An Informed Assemblage "What does it mean to be interdisciplinary?" I asked myself as I packed up my papers to come to Yale for the spring term of 1987. The director and fellows of the Whitney Humanities Center had invited me to be this year's Henry Luce Visiting Scholar in the Humanities and Social Thought, and I was looking forward to a setting where my colleagues would come from several fields. I was not disappointed. The professors grouped round the table in discussion every Friday were indeed diverse: from history, my own familiar field; from art history and the various literature departments; from philosophy, religion and political science; from the law school and even microbiology. In an essay published in 1980, Geoffrey Hartman had regretted that there was "barely any contact" between history and English. Clearly the situation has changed at Yale in these last years, and the Whitney Humanities Center has cut down on isolation.

But what kinds of things are we saying to each other? What is involved when we borrow from or expand into another field? There are several possibilities. We can use each other's studies for our own purposes: in my current research on gifts and bribes in sixteenth-century France, I have been scavenging the art-historical publications for the iconography of the Three Graces, while Thomas Greene, in his work on poetry as a form of magic, has been reading historical publications on peasant spells and incantations. We can take as the center of our analysis texts or objects usually thought to "belong" to another field: John Michael Montias has used the artistic production of seventeenthcentury Delft as the data for an important book in economic history.

And we can appropriate each other's models for explanation and interpretation: Peter Brooks' Reading for the Plot uses Freud's theory of psychic processes in persons to renew our understanding of the narrative 44 The New Journal/Seotember 4. 1987

movement of texts. happen to us as a group, to the nature The cross-disciplinary harvest has of our debate. I chose texts that I had been abundant; it seemed to me a good written on, but where I knew there moment to speculate on its signi- could be a strongly opposed interficance. Is the exchange between fields pretation, and I invited a coan indication of boredom or bank- respondent from another field to lead ruptcy within individual disciplines? off the discussion with me.

Or is this a way that fields have often The first text was an essay by been nourished over the historical Montaigne, "On the Affection of • : past? Is it part of a larger seismic Fathers for their Children" (Essays, disturbance with deeper causes, Book II, chap.8). It asserts and then leading to "blurred genres" (to use questions the power of parental Clifford Geertz's phrase) all over the affection, noting that fathers withhold sciences? What are the dangers in the needed property from their sons and process? Its rightful limits? Some that authors love the children of their fifteen years ago Rosalie Colie pointed brain more than the children of their out in The Resources of Kind that if we bodies. Around '!his slippery text want the . delight and discovery of historians and literary specialists found mixing our genres, we must have some . some agreement. Not that we all idea of genre rules to begin with. thought that "De !'affection" meant the What better place than the Whitney same thing. But it seemed that the Humanities Center for thinking about effort of the historian (in this case, such questions? So I decided · to give NZD) to draw upon lifetime property my monthly Faculty Seminar the· title gifts and gift formulas to interpret the of "Shared Texts," by which I meant essay was the same kind of project as texts that no one field could rightly call that of the critic-scholar (in this case, a its own "property." (They may not be Princeton colleague) who drew for his the property of a single field, someone interpretation upon a death-bed gift commented at the first session, but from Montaigne's best friend. Did it how much are they actually "shared," make a difference that the death-bed that is, read by different kinds of gift was referred to smack in the people? Our evenings often provided a middle of the essay, while the property first joint reading.) The notion was to gifts were scattered throughout? No see what wo\. 'rl happen when persons one in the seminar said so, though the from different disciplines approached literary specialists were certainly not such texts- not merely what would going to ignore the formal properties of happen to our understanding of their the essay. Thomas Greene, my cocontent and form, but what would respondent, made a compelling argument for a convergence of interest between historians and literary specialists in Renaissance studies, for a metatheory assisting our interpretation of diverse texts, rituals and events.

The next session was marked by the same higher unity, though there was much quarreling about the quality of the "shared text." It was an , autobiography by Leon Modena, a Venetian rabbi of the early seventeenth century. (We read it in a new translation from the ·Hebrew, made by Mark Cohen of Princeton.)

Celebrated for his preaching ahd

theological and literary publications, Modena revealed in his Life the secr et agony of his gambling and his disappointment in his sons- one d ying early from alchemical experiments, one slain by ghetto Jews before his eyes, and the third a wastrel and gambler like his father. Some seminar ' ~ participants savored with me the interplay between Leon's sense of sin and suffering and his delight in his achievements, from two-year-old child prodigy on. Others found him a mere braggart, irritatingly deficient in selfunderstanding.

But the boundary ¡ issue lay elsewhere: could a text composed within the conventions of Hebrew literature and aimed at a small circle of ghetto readers still be analysed terms of the questions one would

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writings of Montaigne or Benvenuto Cellini or the polymath Girolamo Cardano? Could Leon M odena's Life be considered not only a Jewish autobiography but also an early modern European autobiography?

Paula Hyman , my co-respondent and ~pecialist in jewish studies, ag reed that It could and more generally that Jewish social history and European social history could only benefit by an exchange and comparison of findings and of explanatory h ypotheses. A discussion on the relation of gambling and writing was a good case in point .

At the third session, all hell broke loose. The texts this time were sixteenth-century French letters of

rem1ss1on, that is, the stories people told the king to get pardoned for a homicide they claimed was unintentional, in self-defense or otherwise excusable. I had just finished a book called Fiction in the Archives, in which I argued that these narratives followed both the legal rules for what was pardonable and contemporary tales have rarely been studied as a storytelling conventions about what genre- we each felt the need to assert was plausible, persuasive, funny or first and foremost the central concerns climactic. Though the letters were of our field. Only a rmed with those collectively authored by a notary and a certainties were we willing to consider supplicants, sometimes with advice. exchange. It was a great evening , not from an attorney, I tried to show that the least of its fruit s being O wen Fiss's the supplicant's voice was the primary arresting connection between discreone and that¡ the narratives could be tionary law and storytelling. related not only to the prescriptions for The last semina r kept us still at pardon, b.ut also to the values and creative odds. Here the "text" was a ordering principles of the person film, Day of Wrath, ma de in 1943 by the saving his or her neck by a story. great Danish director Carl Dreyer. It Owen Fiss from the Law School re- was the story of punishment for witchsponded that what was most craft, of accusation a nd self-accusation interesting to him about the material in a small Scandinavia n town in the was my aside on the Old Regime law early seventeenth century. Instead of of pardon for homicide; he affirmed depicting magical practice as an orgy that lawyers were very concerned of witches' sabbath and demonic nowadays about questions of nar- possession , it showed it in the circle of rative , and that my letters of remission family- an old and weakening seemed to him simply the creation of husband, a beautiful young second sixteenth-century lawyers. Another wife , a handso m e son, a vindictive colleague from the Law School agreed. mother-in-law- and in the intimacy of Nothing I could say about the everyday healing, harming, desire a nd rhetorical tastes of sixteenth-century jealousy. I procla ime d the film men of law or the limited role remarkably in tune with present day permitted them in pleading in criminal scholarship and m aintained that Dryer's cases or the wide lay knowledge of cinematic techniqt.ies -his play with pardon law would change their minds. blacks , whites and g reys; his slowMeanwhile, the literary people present moving camera focu ssing on salient took the letters of remission seriously details like the wife's eyes- worked to a s written texts: the stories in them deepen the ambiguities in the histor ical were good enough to analyse in their past. My co- r esp o n dent Brigitte own right. What difference did it make Peucker sa w it ver y differently. if a peasant's voice was "really" heard Speaking fro m her deep k nowledge of there or not? The little band of film theory and E x p ressionistic historians present exchanged glances cinema, she presented Day of Wrath as a and closed ranks, asserting, as did I, timeless a ccount of a hu man predicthe importance of connecting social ament and especially as an exploration and cultural forms. of the magic of the came ra's eye.

Reading the letters of remission, we The seminar pa rticipants reacted had each retreated within the borders vigorously as individuals, not b reaking of our discipline. Perhaps because of along disciplinary lines; they d isagreed the novelty of the enterprise- pardon with us and with each o ther about the The New J ournal/ September¡ 4 , 1987 45

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