November/December 2009
volume 73, number 2
Credits, from top: ©Poul Nissen & Nenad Ban, ©Gregory Nemec, and ©Beinecke Library.
Feature stories:
Yale in the Great Depression
by Gaddis Smith '54, '61PhD
Alumni donations plunged and faculty salaries were frozen—but some students lived lives of luxury.
The death of Annie Le
by Carole Bass '83, '97MSL
The campus mourns the loss of a well-loved graduate student who was killed in a highly secure lab building. After a Yale employee is charged with her murder, the community struggles to make sense of the crime.
The cartoon controversy
When Yale University Press decided not to reprint 12 controversial Danish cartoons of Muhammad, it raised an uproar in the media. We bring you the back story, and commentaries from many different sides.
First days at Yale
The Freshman Address
by Richard C. Levin '74PhD
Levin recalls the career of a pioneering computer scientist.
By the numbers
Gender equality in the incoming classes.
Now arriving
First-years talk about staying grounded, making music, and pursuing "crazy hard" academics.
Online-only content
More on the Yale University Press/ Muhammad cartoons controversy
Video of Professor John Demos’s "Colonial Yale" lecture
Slide show of students moving back to Yale
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