What do 3 of the 4 new World Trade Center towers have in common?

Colleges & Universities Yale University
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<p>Three of the four new towers were designed by alumni of the Yale School of Architecture (David Childs, Sir Foster and Sir Rogers).</p>

<p>The fourth (Maki) went to Harvard.</p>

<p><a href=“http://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/07/nyregion/08towerscnd.html[/url]”>http://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/07/nyregion/08towerscnd.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

<p>P.S. Although Childs, Foster and Rogers are always listed among the world’s top architects, this partially has to do with the fact that the Governor of New York, the President of the United States, and all the chief planners of the World Trade Center Site from 2001 to recently, are also all Yale alumni.</p>

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<p>All lame ducks.</p>

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<p>Yes, but some of them have or are moving on to bigger and better things.</p>

<p>At first I thought you wrote “sitting ducks” (about the towers, yes, that may be true).</p>

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<p>why is it called an ivy league college jw</p>

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<p>Could the moderator please create a new sub-forum within the Yale forum for all of the Byerly/posterX/Byerly/posterX/Byely/posterX etc. aud nauseam rants?</p>

<p>This way, the normal Yale forum could be used for the purpose intended.</p>

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<p>I thought the first post, at least, was pertinent to the Yale forum</p>

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<p>Yes, a better than usual performance by posterX if I may say so.</p>

<p>For starters, this one’s based on fact!</p>

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<p>Almost all of my posts are based on fact and are cited as such; when they aren’t, it is clear that they are my opinion. I’m sorry if a small handful of people, e.g., those who think UPenn is better than AS3W (Amherst, Swarthmore, Williams, Wesleyan, Wellesley) for undergraduate work, are offended by the truth that clearly shows things in a different light.</p>

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<p>I appreciate the P.S. indicating bias among the planners instead of forcing Byerly to search to find it.</p>

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<p>I don’t think there’s much of a “bias.” It’s just that Yale dominates in all fields - in Loren Pope’s widely-published analysis, almost 4 times more than Stanford.</p>

<p>According to Gary Glen Price, of the University of Wisconsin Education Department (and not a graduate of Yale):</p>

<p>“Schools do have distinctive strengths and institutional cultures. Overnight stays give some glimpse of this. So do the post-graduation activities and accomplishments of alumni. For instance, the relative proportion of Williams alumni who were corporate executive officers (CEOs) of Standard & Poor companies in 1990 was 1.6 times greater than the proportion of Amherst alumni and 4.6 times greater than the proportion of Swarthmore alumni. Among CEOs of Fortune 500 companies and Service 500 companies in 1990, the proportion of Amherst alumni was 1.25 times that of Williams alumni; Swarthmore had too few to be included in Fortune magazine’s analysis (Yale had the highest per capita rate of CEOs; Princeton was second). In Loren Pope’s analysis of the percentage of alumni featured in the 1988-1989 edition of Who’s Who in America, all three schools were very high and closely clustered. Relative to Yale’s rate (the highest in the country, here set to 100), Amherst was 56.5, Williams was 54.2, and Swarthmore was 48.2; among the notable schools lower than all three were Dartmouth (44.8), MIT (43.3), Stanford (29.5), Penn (19.1), and Duke (14.9). The proportion of Swarthmore alumni who earned PhDs in science, math, or engineering during 1985-1990 was double that of Amherst and Williams; in other PhD fields, Swarthmore’s proportion was 1.5 times Amherst’s and 2.4 times William’s. Swarthmore counts several Nobel laureates among its alumni, whereas Amherst and Williams count none.”</p>