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September/October 2005

Training teachers for city schools
Next year, the university will begin offering a master of arts degree in urban education studies for aspiring teachers. Applicants must agree to work in the New Haven public schools for three years upon graduation. Open both to recent college graduates and career changers, the Yale Urban Teaching Initiative will offer certification to teach grades 7 through 12 in Connecticut.

The blade on the Beinecke floor A librarian's find led to theft charges against a map dealer, who police say cut rare maps out of books in the Beinecke.

 

Not Quite Chariots of Fire For many Yalies, the real sports scene is intramural.

For the elderly, TV is harmful to mental health Becca Levy, a social psychologist in the department of epidemiology and public health at the School of Medicine, has found that the more time older people have spent in front of the tube, the worse are their images of aging.

The "heart of the university" turns 75 Designed by James Gamble Rogers '89, Sterling Memorial Library is constructed of granite and Indiana limestone in varying hues and is dominated by a 15-story book tower. Its entrance is a great cathedral-like nave with vaulted aisles, clerestoried lighting, and stained glass windows.

 
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The bohemian, the Bolsheviks, and the Old Blues

She interviewed Lenin, Trotsky, and Mussolini and captivated Eugene O'Neill. But she couldn't fit in with the Yale crowd. Now, Louise Bryant's long-lost papers have come to Sterling Memorial Library.

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Mission to Guantanamo

In 1992, a band of law professors and students sued the U.S. government for the right to visit their Haitian clients. The feds played hardball.

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