Yale Alumni Magazine - Summer 2003

Motive for Law School Bombing Still Not Known
No arrests have been made in connection with the May 21 explosion at the Law School. The university's end-of-the-year rituals continued more or less as planned -- albeit with tighter security and a sense of puzzlement about the crime.

Graduate Students Reject GESO
The Graduate Employees and Students Organization (GESO) suffered a setback in its quest for union representation of teaching assistants when it held a non-binding referendum on April 30.

Was Mona Lisa Smiling for Two?
What was Mona Lisa thinking about? Clinical professor of surgery Sherwin Nuland thinks she's having a baby.

Van de Velde Sues University Officials
Former Yale lecturer James Van de Velde '82 has added several university officials to a federal lawsuit he filed against the New Haven police in 2001. He says that by publicly naming him as a suspect in the murder of Suzanne Jovin '99, the parties violated his civil rights.

Slave Manuscript Given in Gratitude
Harvard professor Henry Lewis Gates Jr. '73 has presented the university with the original manuscript of The Bondwoman's Narrative, believed to be the first novel ever written by an African American slave.



Stephen King showed up in jeans and a tie-dyed T-shirt to talk about the origins of his books and read from his forthcoming Wolves of the Calla at a Berkeley College master's tea. [more.]

The Golden Hours of the Romanovs
In 1920, a Russian aristocrat fled the country with hundreds of photographs, now at the Beinecke, of the tsar and his family.

Commencement '03
A lunar eclipse, a mysterious bomb, and a "Last Chance Dance": Commencement confessions from a newly minted alumnus.

Baccalaureate Address
By Richard C. Levin

The Night Dubya Joined the Whiffs
The bash at George's house, by Steve Weisman '68.

Solid State
Alumni assembly: Engineers at work -- cleaner flames, smarter robots, and better ways to have your head examined.

From the Editor
By Kathrin Day Lassila '81




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