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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 2010
volume 73, number 6

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

Feature stories:

Your Summer Reading Assignment
Dotty royal memoirs! Thousand-year-old Persian epics! “Blistering, high-voltage prose!” We asked Yale faculty what you should bring to the beach.

Professor of Mambo
by Cathy Shufro
Robert Farris Thompson—Master T—has taught dance steps and Kongo body language to two generations of Yale students.

To an Aesthete Dying Young
by Andrew Solomon ’85
A National Book Award–winning writer pays tribute to a Yale roommate who killed himself last year.

Commencement 2010

Baccalaureate Address
by Richard C. Levin ’74PhD
Yale’s president urged graduates to raise the level of political discourse.

In Their Own Words
New grads on their time at Yale—and what’s next.

The Year in T-shirts
A pictorial history in cotton and polyester.

Special online features for this issue of the magazine include:

More interviews with 2010 graduates and their fans. (See “Commencement 2010.”)

A slide show of student T-shirts. (See “The Year in T-Shirts.”)

Video of outgoing students’ discarded furniture, books, and housewares disappearing at high speed. (See “Leftovers.”)

Varying shades of Yale Blue—and its imitators. (See “Kind of Blue.”)

Alumni photos of Yalies doing good all over the world during Yale’s Day of Service. (See “Down and Dirty.”)

from the editor
The “private” Yale degree

letters
Coed living; a political profile; preventing campus suicides

light & verity
+ Two new pedestrian bridges
+ Alumni by the numbers
+ The oldest living Yale graduate?
+ The Annual Jack Hitt Last Day of Classes Pig Roast
+ Spring Fling 2010
+ New Grad School dean
+ Webwatching
+ A Pepsi-sponsored nutrition researcher
+ Quoted
+ A donor’s legal troubles
+ Postdoctoral fellow murdered
+ Day of Service photo contest
+ Campus Clips

milestones
+ After 44 years, the consummate Yale insider retires
+ More news of Yale people

where they are now
A former linebacker is about to roll out an all-electric car

scene on campus
One man’s trash …

old yale
Yale’s World War II foster children

forum
What we know about the climate

q&a: rick levin
President Rick Levin '74PhD discusses a $3.5 billion deadline

findings
+ Overpaying for early draft picks
+ A head-butting dinosaur from Texas
+ The slouch-proof chair
+ Depressed docs
+ Teaching basic cognitive skills to robots
+ Noted

arts & culture
+ Object Lesson: the forceps’ forefather
+ Drama school directors take on opera
+ You Can Quote Them: did Alcoholics Anonymous “dumb down” the Serenity Prayer?
+ Books by Yale authors
+ Calendar
+ Underground art: bluebirds and bluebells
+ New Haven: center for jazz from the fringe of the fringe

sporting life
+ Spring sports highlights: women’s crew wins another national championship
+ Spring sports results

news from alumni house
Why I volunteer for Yale.

the yale classifieds
Take a break: last-minute summer escapes.

school notes
News about your Yale school.

deaths

last look
The original Yale Blue

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