Yale Alumni Magazine: March/April 2008

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March/April 2008 Volume LXXI, Number 4

Photos at left are from "Light & Verity" news stories. Click on photos to read stories. (Credits, from top: Harold Shapiro, Yale Daily News, T. Charles Erikson.)

Feature stories:

The patriarch by Richard Conniff '73
Vincent Scully '40, '49PhD, is controversial, combative, the consummate insider but a fighter by nature. He is one of the most influential voices in architecture today -- and maybe the greatest lecturer Yale has ever seen.

Lux et privacy by Nadya Labi '0MSL
A public defender makes a Freedom of Information Act request, and suddenly Yale's campus police force finds itself the center of a debate about the meanings of "public" and "private."

Your dream college here by Mark Alden Branch '86
Undergraduate life at Yale is built around the residential college. What would you do differently if you could build a new college from scratch? With two new colleges likely in Yale's future, it's a good time to ask.

from the editor

letters
Readers reminisce about CCL, the CIA, and New Haven public schools.

light & verity
+ Yale loosens purse strings, offers more aid
+ The end of the Yankee Doodle?
+ Prof decries Chinese plagiarism
+ Mory's toasts George Bush '48
+ Med school stories inspire play
+ Campus clips
+ Quoted
+ Webwatching

milestones
+ A law professor's last notes
+ More news of Yale people

where they are now
An alum who stayed in New Haven -- and became a cop.

scene on campus
Klezmer under glass.

old yale
The Blizzard of '88.

forum
Why capitalism is bad for the environment.

q&a: rick levin
Spending more, charging less.

findings
+ A better test for ovarian cancer
+ Race matters in cancer care
+ Help for hoarders
+ Signs of famine in iguana DNA
+ Noted

arts & culture
+ A Martin Puryear retrospective
+ How the British saw the East
+ Fred Shapiro on famous quotes
+ The rise and fall of spice
+ Books by Yale authors
+ Calendar

sporting life
+ The latest thousand-pointer
+ Sport shorts

school notes
News about your Yale school.

alumni notes
News of Yale College classmates.

necrology

last look
The eggman.

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