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May/June 2009
A $50
million gift will fund the Jackson Institute for Global Affairs, a vehicle for
expanding Yale's academic offerings in international relations. The institute,
funded by John W. Jackson '67 and his wife Susan G. Jackson, will also sponsor
lectures and conferences, house a distinguished fellows program, and offer
career counseling in international fields. It will be part of Yale's MacMillan
Center for International and Area Studies. Yale also has a separate Center for
the Study of Globalization.
Yale
College's admission rate hit a record low: 7.5 percent for the Class of 2013,
as 1,951 candidates were admitted from a pool of exactly 26,000. Last year's admission
rate was 8.43 percent.
Two
paintings by David Gelernter '76, '77MA, the computer science professor and
cultural critic, were stolen in March from the Slifka Center for Jewish Life, where they were on exhibition. A third painting, by Gelernter's son Dan
Gelernter '09, was also taken. Police recovered the paintings two weeks later
and charged a New Haven man with stealing them and other artworks in order to
buy heroin.
Two
Texas women pleaded guilty in March to misapplying employee benefit funds they
were managing for Yale in 2001. Jeanne Baker and Robin Birdsong of Fort Worth
had already paid a million dollars to Yale to settle a civil suit >over the
matter; they spent 60 days in jail and received ten years' probation after
paying another $600,000 in restitution.
Co-ed
suites in Yale College will not be happening for at least another year. An ad
hoc committee of administrators and the council of residential college masters
have endorsed making "gender-neutral housing" an option, but the Yale College
Dean's Office says it needs more time to study the question. Advocates of
gender-neutral housing argue that gay and transgender students may feel more
comfortable living among the opposite sex. 
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