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A little more candor in class profile To the Editor: I must comment that the article on the Yale medical school Class of 2002 [First-Year Class Brings More than Smarts to School, Winter 1999] does injury to the English language. How is it possible to write that the class represents “a broad cross section of backgrounds and interests” when more than a third were undergraduates at either Yale or Harvard? Or when “half the class is Hispanic, African American or Asian-American”? Without reference to census data, it seems to me that together those minorities constitute 25 percent or less of the American population. Now I could care less who you admit or why, but don’t try to tell me that such a narrow admission policy is “broad.” Come on, guys, this is Yale, not some bush-league operation. Tell it straight. Michael W.R. Davis,
B.A. ’53
Asthma model was a group effort To the Editor: Your article on asthma [Mapping the Landscape of Asthma, Winter 1999] explained very nicely the ever-increasing problem this disease represents in the United States and worldwide, as well as the efforts at Yale to address this pressing problem. I wish, however, to point out that the inducible transgenic mouse that was described, in which genes can be turned on and off at will, was not prepared solely in my laboratory. It was a collaborative effort of a number of laboratories including that of Prabir Ray, Ph.D., associate professor of medicine in the Department of Internal Medicine. Jack A. Elias, M.D.
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