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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.

May/June 2011
Volume 74, Number 5

Credits, from top: ©Yeshey Dorji, ©Yale Law School, and ©Gregory Nemec.

Feature stories:

Ice Age
Though they were again stopped short of the “Frozen Four,” the men’s hockey team was ranked number one in the nation for eight weeks this winter. The Bulldogs have become a national power.
by Michael Obernauer ’02

Before Their Time
The 1960s saw the first significant presence of black men in Yale College. Forty years later, a disproportionate number have died. Did the racial barriers they faced all their lives play a part?
by Ron Howell ’70

Nation of the Forest
If Bhutan succeeds in preserving its extraordinary natural heritage, it will be because of Buddhism. But Bhutanese Yale alumni can take some credit.
by Cathy Shufro

Special online feature

More photos and comments from adventures in facial hair at the environment school’s annual ’Stache Bash.

Photo Contest

The Yale Alumni Magazine wants your photographs from the Yale Day of Service. Send us your best five (or fewer) by May 30 and we’ll post our favorites on our website and print the best in the magazine. Photos will be judged on aesthetics and how well they convey your experience.

E-mail high-resolution jpegs to alumnimag@yale.edu, or mail prints to:

Yale Alumni Magazine Photo Contest
P.O. Box 1905
New Haven, CT 06509-1905

Include 1) your name, address, e-mail address, and phone number, and 2) where you took the photo, the names of people pictured, what they're doing, and what the service activity was.

from the editor
Correcting the record: hockey and Batman.

letters
Speculation on Batman’s degrees; debate over the power of a hologram; snow in the good old days.

light & verity
+ Yale’s Capital Campaign
+ The Book of Mormon’s Yale origins
+ Secret society tomb for sale
+ Yale gets another President Levin
+ Yale Law School “certified library therapy dog”
+ Yalies in the Peace Corps
+ New Singapore college will go forward
+ Annie Le murder suspect pleads guilty
+ Michele Dufault ’11 killed in Sterling Chemistry Laboratory
+ Campus Clips
+ Quoted
+ Feds investigate “hostile sexual environment” charge
+ Fred Romberg ’12MD takes on the medical licensing board
+ Webwatching

milestones
+ White House honor for Sterling Professor Roberto González Echevarría
+ More news of Yale people

notebook
Adventures in facial hair at the environment school’s annual ’Stache Bash.

where they are now
An actor who’s everybody’s dad.

scene on campus
A giant walk-in closet.

old yale
Pioneers in chemotherapy.

q&a: rick levin
How a university should—and shouldn’t—be more like a corporation.

findings
+ Anti-lasers
+ What’s really going on before a volcano blows
+ The prehistoric roots of biases
+ Noted
+ Secular Americans’ puritannical beliefs
+ How pinecones got their armor

arts & culture
+ Object Lesson: George Washington’s maps
+ You Can Quote Them: Spectacularly Wrong Predictions
+ Calendar
+ An oral historian of Rwanda
+ An (imperfect) indictment of liberal law schools
+ Books by Yale authors

sporting life
Winter sports highlights and results.

news from alumni house
A mixer for Yalies in entertainment.

the yale classifieds
Last-minute summer escapes and getaways.

school notes
News from Yale’s graduate and professional schools.

deaths

last look
The Yaleosaurus.

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