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September/October 2009
volume lxxii, number 1

Credits, from top: ©Barry Falls, ©Mark Zurolo '01MFA, and ©John Paul Chirdon / Mary Banas.

Feature stories:

They Called Him "Mr. Bubble"  
by David Leonhardt '94
In 2000, Robert Shiller said the dot-coms would go bust. In 2005, he said the housing boom would cause a recession. Wouldn't you like to know what Mr. Bubble has to say today?

The Coeducation Debate  
Forty years ago this fall, Yale College enrolled its first women. Now, students and administrators from those years recall how Yale got there-and what it was like to be a pioneer.

High Impact  
by Mark Alden Branch '86
The environment school's new building seeks to be self-effacing in terms of its carbon footprint. But as a home for the school and an improvement to Science Hill, it makes a big impression.

Online-only content:

Slide show and video of the Yale Outdoor Education Center in East Lyme, Connecticut

Audio of the Yale fight song "Boola Boola" and an earlier song called "La Hoola Boola"

More interviews with Yale College's first women and the administrators who implemented coeducation

Letters in response to our July/August 2009 cover story, "Why They Call Yale the 'Gay Ivy'"

from the editor
What readers said about the last issue.

letters
Reactions to the "Gay Ivy" article; opinions on the new colleges.

light & verity
+ New Haven among the least worst, recession-wise
+ Extremely fair-trade chocolate
+ Harvard Beats Yale 29-29, the book
+ Alumni by the numbers
+ micro-windmills on Becton
+ Quoted
+ The drama school emphasizes safety
+ Updates
+ New law school dean
+ Campus clips
+ the ROOF Project (Real Options, Overcoming Foreclosure)
+ Innovative parenting clinic faces closing
+ Webwatching

milestones
+ Top MS researcher comes to Yale
+ More news of Yale people

where they are now
A Divinity School alum takes the helm of a mainline denomination.

scene on campus
Yale's summer place.

old yale
The art school admits women -- a century before the college.

forum
The right way to prepare kids for reading tests.

q&a: rick levin
Yale president Rick Levin '74PhD talks about making room for new initiatives in the arts.

findings
+ Commercials make kids hungry
+ Stickleback mating secrets
+ Noted
+ The power of light

arts & culture
+ Object lesson: Wordsmith
+ Fred Shapiro on the murky origins of "Boola Boola"
+ A memoir of premature motherhood
+ Books by Yale authors
+ Calendar

sporting life
+ A Cornhusker transfers to Yale
+ Sports shorts

news from alumni house
The Afro-Am Center at 40.

the yale classifieds
From farmland to forest land -- properties for sale.

school notes
News about your Yale school.

alumni notes
News of Yale College classmates.

deaths

last look
The world's first submarine.