Reti Sample Clauses

Reti. But seeing just how much happened in that ten years for the program. So your vision included, at that point, feminist theory as a critical component. Reti: Yes. And then part of your vision for women’s studies also included the Women’s Center.

Reti. But can I just backtrack a little bit— Xxxxxxxxxx: Please, please. Reti: So given that you end up teaching Holocaust studies later in your career— Xxxxxxxxxx: When did I know about this? Reti: Well, that, but do you, personally see yourself as a Holocaust refugee? Is this part of your background?

Reti. It’s just that they present their papers at this conference.

Reti. Did you find it difficult socially in terms of the class difference between you and the other students? Xxxxx: I was most aware of the class [difference]. There were only maybe three black students out of a class of a thousand students there. You can imagine what it would have been like to have been one of them. But I was most aware of the class differences. And that was manifested partly in the prep school issue. For example, it was only later that Yale started turning its attention to some of the best Eastern high schools, and that meant bringing a lot more Jewish kids. Reti: So there were very few Jewish students at the time you were there? Xxxxx: That’s right. I always was told it was an implicit quota. Interestingly enough, the faculty was probably diversifying more than the student body at that time. I remember several very powerful teachers who were clearly Jewish, although they didn’t advertise their Jewishness, but that was a part of their background. So that was beginning to change. Young faculty coming back from fighting in World War II were then teaching at Yale. So you had a young, more progressive group. But it was an exciting group. Yale had an ethos of having faculty who were committed to teaching, even though it was an undergraduate program. I remember having in my freshman and sophomore year lots of lectures, but by very good lecturers, with some exceptions. But the sections of those courses were taught by instructors. I had people like Xxxx Xxxxxxxxx, who went on to Texas to win the Pulitzer Prize for a book on Western history. I mean, there were people of that nature who were available to us. Reti: Was it out of religious beliefs that they didn’t drink? Reti: I was curious about that because it’s not necessarily the straight and narrow track. Xxxxx: No, I was thinking of majoring in political science, for example. It seemed like a good preparation for journalism. They didn’t have a journalism major or anything like that at school. I’d taken a very good history course. I’d been turned off by the first course I took in English, which was taught by a young instructor according to what they called New Critical Principles, which is Reti: Oh, that’s fascinating. Xxxxx: So I think there was a personal reason, not just an intellectual reason. But the other thing was that it allowed me to pursue lots of merit badges. (laughs) Reti: (laughs) Because it was interdisciplinary. Xxxxx: It was interdisciplinary. I didn’t think of it that way, but it w...

Reti. What kinds of decisions would be at stake?

Reti a second-tier subsidiary of Encompass, desires to acquire those certain assets of REI, and REI desires to sell such assets.