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October 2001
Senior's
Ordeal Still Unexplained
The
disappearance of a Yale senior in South Africa over the summer
after a series of alarming communications with her mother
raised fears for her safety among her family, friends, and
officials at Yale and in the State Department.
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9/11/2001
On
Tuesday, September 11, the Yale Alumni Magazine staff came to work prepared to send this issue to the
printer. But the magazine's plans, like so much else
in America, changed when hijacked airliners crashed
into the World Trade Center, the Pentagon, and rural
Pennsylvania. |
Students
Issue Slavery Scorecard
How do the
men whose names were given to Yale colleges measure up
on the slavery issue? That is one of the questions asked
and answered in a document released in August by a New
Haven group called the Amistad Committee.
Eli
Students Are Mother's Favorite
College
rankings are a dime a dozen these days, but Yale just
topped a list that might surprise those who associate
the University with the "grim professionalism" that
once worried Kingman Brewster. Mother Jones magazine
rated the University number one on its annual list of
the "top ten activist campuses."
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Boning
Up on Bulgarian
More
than 50 languages are taught at Yale, but a small but
determined group of students is going the extra mile
to learn others of the world's 6,800 languages. |
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States
of a Union
For the past
ten years, a group of graduate students has led a determined movement
to create a union. This effort has been strongly opposed by an administration
that sees graduate student unionization as anathema. The result
is a struggle over values as labor issues and higher education policies
collide.
Freshman
Address
The lengthy
correspondence between Thomas Jefferson (above) and John Adams reveals
qualities in the writers that serve as models for the experience
the Class of 2005 will find at Yale.
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