Yale’s Sex Week stages a comeback
According to its website, Sex Week 2012 seeks “to provide the most effective educational resources for Yale students on sexuality, intimacy, and relationships.” (2/3/12)

Legend Has It…
We asked Stephen Budiansky ’78 to construct a puzzle for us as a one-time treat for alumni crossworders. (Jan/Feb 2012)

Lion Dance Ushers in Year of the Dragon
The Yale-China Association celebrated Day 11 of the Chinese New Year with New Haven’s first Lion Dance Parade. (2/2/12)

God, Man, and Yale, 60 Years Later
A campus gathering celebrates William F. Buckley Jr. ’50. (Jan/Feb 2012)

The brains at Bain
The man behind Bain Capital founder Mitt Romney in this mid-80s outtake is Josh Bekenstein ’80. Bekenstein has been with Bain since its 1984 founding, and currenly serves as managing director. (2/1/12)

Remembering John Morton Blum
The Sterling Professor of History Emeritus, who died on October 17, is remembered as a well-loved teacher and admired scholar. (Jan/Feb 2012)

Immune to criticism?
Last year, Yale immunobiology professor Ruslan Medzhitov shared the $1 million Shaw Prize for medicine. His cowinners went on to share the Nobel Prize—without Medzhitov. (1/31/12)

Thornton Wilder ’20, An Outsider at Yale
In a previously unpublished essay, the great playwright takes a critical look at his alma mater. (Jan/Feb 2012)

From the Archives

Whose Skull & Bones?
Did Skull and Bones rob the grave of Geronimo during World War I? (May/June 2006)

Why They Call Yale the “Gay Ivy”
Yale has long had a reputation as the Ivy League campus most hospitable to gay students. (July/Aug 2009)

To an Aesthete Dying Young
National Book Award–winning writer Andrew Solomon ’85 pays tribute to a Yale roommate who killed himself. (July/Aug 2010)