The happy task of introducing your president and my friend marnie sandweiss. I want to give you a version of what ive been describing as an intellectual wedding toast. Will present this room as a las vegas wedding chapel and tell the story of marnie and me and her work, which got us all here. Let me start with the magical alchemy of graduate school. All of us led headed thinkers turned into gold tone scholars and teachers picture a process of something that works Something Like this. Imagine a group of students as a cohort. The cohort becomes class mates once in a while they become lifelong friends. So, colleagues, cohort, classmate, colleagues, and that golden thing, a friend. I am cheating a little because money came to yale to study with harlem are a year after me and she was in the History Department and i was in that racked up group of students in american studies. clapping not a cold or exactly but we did become friends, puzzling over readings, yawning over brilliant, but sometim
Behind those pictures to study and understand the American West, she has been studying and writing about photographs for 40 years, and argued that more historians should use photographic archives in their work. One minute past 12 30. Welcome, everyone. I have the happy task of introducing your president and my friend, marnie sandweiss. Im going to give you a version of what i have been describing as an intellectual wedding toast. We will present this room as a vegas wedding chapel and tell the story of marnie and me and marnies work, which got us all here. Let me start with the magical alchemy of graduate school. Us leadheaded thinkers turned into golden tongued scholars, writers, and teachers. Picture a process that works Something Like this. An Admissions Committee imagines a group of students as a cohort. The cohort becomes classmates. The classmates become colleagues. And once in a while, they become lifelong friends. So, colleagues, cohort, classmate, colleague, and that golden th
One minute past 12 30. Welcome, everyone. I have the happy task of introducing your president and my friend, marnie sandweiss. Iven of what i have been describing as an intellectual wedding toast. We will present this room as a vegas wedding chapel and tell the story of marnie and me and work, which got us all here. Let me start with the magical alchemy of graduate school. Thinkers leadheaded turned into golden tongued scholars, writers, and teachers. Picture a process that works Something Like this. An Admissions Committee imagines a group of students as a cohort. The cohort becomes classmates. The classmates become colleagues. And once in a while, they become lifelong friends. So, colleagues, cohort, classmate, colleague, and that golden thing, a friend. I am cheating a little bit yaleuse marnie came to to study with Harold Lamarr a year after me, and she was in the History Department, and i was in that ragtag group in american studies. [cheers and applause] not a cohort, exactly. We
Court. Denise Valdez testimony described the days leading up the murder. And how the crime may have happened over a trailer. The iteam was the only camera in courtroom Vanessa Murphy is here with more. Vanessa Murphy a few things really stood out a key witness admitting hes a drug user and had used drugs before arriving in court today. A description of a warning note sent to the grandmother days before she killed. And the victims boyfriend describing hearing gunshots and finding his girlfriend shot on eisenman as he appears for his preliminary hearing. Meaning the judge will decide if the case against him moves forward after this process. Its continued to tomorrow. He is accused of killing 47 year old ladonna metais on july 3rd. Today that key witness i mentioned earlier told the court how he sold eisenmans trailer to metais and her boyfriend without eisenmans permission and he was furious over it. And threatening note demanding 7thousand dollars for the trailer. A few days later metai
Thank you, kevin. We can all thank rick for doing a fantastic meditation on this. A 30,000 foot level of issues we wanted to discuss today. To celebrate 25 years, we need to go back further than 25 years to see how we got to that point 25 years ago. Our first panel was about that. Behind the scenes of the act. The early years. We are so fortunate to have presenters, panelist who can speak to this with an incredible depth of knowledge. I would like to welcome them to come now. The first is Patricia Zell. She serves as the editor of the indian law and order. She retired in march 2005 following 25 years of service on the u. S. Senate committee where committee on Indian Affairs where she served as the democratic staff director and chief counsel for the last 19 years of her senate service. The depth of knowledge possessed on these issues is unparalleled. She worked for the u. S. Commission on civil rights American Psychological association. Ive been fortunate to work with her on the board o