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December 2000
Volume 64, Number 3

Feature stories:

The Art School on Its Own
by Mark Alden Branch ’86
Finally free from its cramped quarters in the Art & Architecture Building, the School of Art turns to the question of how art is to be made in the digital age.

The Birthplace of the ABC’s
by Bruce Fellman
In the late 1980s, when Yale Egyptologists John and Debby Darnell started exploring the western desert in the land of the pharaohs, conventional wisdom suggested they’d find nothing of interest. Conventional wisdom turned out to be wrong.

The Selectivity Squeeze
by Robert Reich ’73JD
It’s harder than ever to gain admittance to the nation’s best universities. But while this may boost institutional pride, there’s a dark side to the trend, says a former US secretary of labor: Greater selectivity is widening an opportunities’ gap.

Grand Opening
by Mark Alden Branch ’86
A pack of bulldogs and an edible Old Campus helped kick off a Tercentennial party for all of New Haven.

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