Students vet college seminar hopefuls
In Pierson College on Thursday night, Howard Dean ’71 and David Berg ’71 GRD ’72 sat at a long table, answering questions about a residential college seminar they hope to co-teach in the fall. Dean, the former governor of Vermont and former chairman of the Democratic National Committee, and Berg, a clinical psychiatry professor at the School of Medicine, were interviewed not by Yale College Dean Mary Miller or Provost Peter Salovey, but by Yale undergraduates, who sat listening around the table.
“Politics is the subject matter by which we get to talk about interpersonal...
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By (Anonymous)
2:27p.m. on August 24, 2009
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Former DNC chairman who oversaw democratic recovery of both houses of congress and the oval office?
He is and can.
“Do not expect Barack to show up here.”
Of course Dean would want a group of college students to remember that he is an Important Person who can break the custom of not calling the president by his first name.