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July/August 2004

Hiring well is the best revenge
Several prominent School of Medicine faculty members have been lured away by competing institutions -- including the University of Texas-Southwestern in Dallas. But now Southwestern's dean, Robert Alpern, succeeds David Kessler as the new dean of Yale's medical school.

Best feet forward at York & Broadway On the corner across from Saybrook College, a shoe store specializes in traditional men's dress shoes. But wait. Didn't that store close a little while ago? And wasn't it another case of Yale sticking it to the little guy?

 

Findings: Blue's clues
For more than a hundred years, researchers have looked to the sky to explain the lurid color of the mandrill's face and rump. But the color experts missed something fundamental.

Yale and the poor Should Yale College follow Harvard's lead and admit low-income students for free? President Rick Levin doesn't think so.

NFL beckons for another Yale receiver
The Tampa Bay Buccaneers have named Nate Lawrie '04 their sixth-round draft pick. Last fall the tight end led the Bulldogs with 72 catches, a school record for the position.

 
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Lux, veritas, and sexual trespass

In a New York magazine article this spring, Naomi Wolf '84 charged that Yale fails to take sexual harassment and sexual assault seriously. The Yale Alumni Magazine investigates Yale's policies.

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The place where ecology was born
Seventy years ago at Linsley Pond, Yale biologist G. E. Hutchinson started research that has changed the way we think about nature. Today, his scientific heirs are picking up where he left off.

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Commencement 2004
President Bush dropped by (but couldn't stay), Willie Mays (pictured) tossed his mortarboard into the crowd, and Dean Brodhead took his final bow.

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AYA update: Freedom of assembly
A gathering of alumnae kicks off the AYA's new assembly format.

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