To: Rick Levin, CC: Posterity
University President Richard Levin conducts many of his meetings from the same wicker rocking chair that once belonged to Ezra Stiles, who graduated from Yale College in 1746 and went on to serve as Yale’s seventh president.
But just across from that chair in Levin’s Woodbridge Hall office sits an Apple desktop computer from which the president sends and receives e-mail throughout the day. Some of these e-mails are brief missives to colleagues, but others include Levin’s reflections on matters like the expansion of Yale College and the growth of the sciences at the...
this is a really interesting article. yale will need to think long and hard about how to save so many digital records.
So we'll preserve "for posterity sake" a rambling e-mail about the position of a committee which no longer exists, and yet we'll let a 150 year-old time-honored Yale institution (Mory's) fade into oblivion ... this epitomizes how priorities can be severely misplaced.
Is Mory's still elitist or is it open to the public? Try enlarging your clientele if you want to survive.
#3: Mory's is independent of Yale. Why should Yale expend assets on it?
Fifteen years ago Aidan Kavanaugh, Acting Dean of Yale Divinity School,located and arranged for the office furniture of Jonathan Edwards to be moved to the YDS dean's office from its dustbin location in a Yale storage area.
Now students errant students who are interviewed by the Dean know what it feels like to be "sinners in the hands of an angry God."