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Campus Briefs

Fall Enters with Another Strike
The fall semester began on a campus crackling with uncertainty and mistrust as union workers flooded the streets to launch their ninth strike against Yale in 35 years.

New Haven Aldermen Want Yale to Pay More
It's been a refrain for centuries -- "Make Yale Pay" -- and it has surfaced again. In early July, New Haven's Board of Aldermen voted 16-10 in favor of a resolution that asks the university to voluntarily increase the tax contributions it pays to the budget-strapped city.


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Carm Cozza Wins Again
Carm Cozza went to South Bend, Indiana, this August to see the College Football Hall of Fame. Cozza wasn't there to get autographs from new inductees; he was there to be enshrined alongside them.

Sparks Fly over Electricity Plans
The university was on the defensive when the New Haven Environmental Justice Network revealed that Yale was planning to add another oil-burning boiler to its Sterling Power Plant in the low-income Hill neighborhood of New Haven.

For Glare, Black Is Best
To reduce glare, athletes smudge their cheekbones with a black grease made of beeswax, paraffin, and carbon or wear anti-glare stickers emblazoned with corporate or team logos. But does either approach really work?

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How Koreans Talk: A Collection of Expressions This collection of proverbs, idioms, and other common expressions covers such topics as anatomical terms, grit and hardship, money, and family relationships. Someone wishing to offer praise for a delicious meal might say, "You wouldn't notice even if your friend at the same table dies."

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The Second Coming of the Divinity School
Why should a twenty-first-century research university spend millions refurbishing a seminary? Professors, students, and alumni offer twelve views on God and man at Yale.

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Flight to Glory
In 1916, an elite group of Yale undergrads decided to try the new sport of motorized flight. Less than a year later, they became leaders of America's airborne military in the Great War.

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This is Your Brain in Tune
Somewhere, hidden in the synapses, are the connections that give one person in ten thousand the mysterious ability called perfect pitch. Neurobiologist Dave Ross wants to find them.

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Faking It
"Stone" arches. "Brick" walls. "Iron" gates. An imitation Yale has sprung up on the set of the WB's Gilmore Girls this summer. Hey -- is that the Calhoun courtyard?

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From the Editor
Kathrin Day Lassila '81 on the strike.

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