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The content of the magazine and its website is the responsibility of the editors and does not necessarily reflect the views of Yale or its officers.

July/August 2009
volume 72, number 6

Credits, from top: ©Mark Ostow, ©Mark Ostow, and ©Gregory Nemec.

Feature stories:

Why They Call Yale the “Gay Ivy”
by the Editors
Yale has long had a reputation as the Ivy League campus most hospitable to gay students.

Gay at Yale: How Things Changed
by George Chauncey ’77, ’89PhD
A Yale professor of history describes the evolving course of gay life at Yale since the 1800s, focusing on the opening up of campus culture from the 1950s to the 1980s.

Memoirs from the Evolution
M. G. Lord ’77
Maia Ettinger ’83
Ari Shapiro ’00
Mitchell Reich ’09

The behemoth of Woolsey Hall
The Newberry Memorial, one of the country’s greatest pipe organs, is lovingly maintained with curatorial expertise, historical integrity, and the occasional pizza box.

Commencement 2009
It was a graduation day for the times. Faculty checked their iPhones, the Secret Service came in with Hillary, and Yale’s president talked about alternative job sectors.

from the editor
Iran, laboratory for the Middle East?

letters
New Haven reconsidered; the whole nine yards; art ownership.

light & verity
+ New colleges will be Gothic.
+ Seniors look for jobs.
+ Webwatching
+ Quoted
+ Latino alumni convene.
+ Day of Service, around the world.
+ President Levin undergoes cancer surgery.
+ Campus clips
+ A taste of Chinese culture.
+ Updates

milestones
+ Alumni elect a trustee.
+ More news of Yale people.

where they are now
Saving the snow leopard by selling insurance.

scene on campus
Yale on the Thames.

old yale
A forefather of Yale’s a cappella tradition

forum
Our second Vietnam?

findings
+ Toward safer hospitals.
+ Not so total recall.
+ Noted
+ The long-term fallout of recession.
+ Disgust and politics.
+ Analyzing prostate cancer.

arts & culture
+ Object lesson: The actor’s work.
+ Fred Shapiro on two famous quotations about legislating.
+ "America’s worst mom."
+ Summer fiction
+ Indo-Pacific art
+ Calendar
+ Books by Yale authors

sporting life
+ Sailors win a championship, and other spring sports news.
+ Sports shorts

news from alumni house
Giving and learning in Monterrey.

the yale classifieds
Last-minute getaways and hideaways.

school notes
News about your Yale school.

deaths

last look
Just think of the thank-you notes.

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