January/February 2012
Volume 75, Number 3
Credits, from top: ©Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, ©Christopher Capozziello, and ©Beinecke Library.
Feature stories:
Thornton Wilder’s Yale
In a previously unpublished essay, the great playwright takes a critical look at his alma mater.
The Making of Modern
by Julie V. Iovine ’77
Yale’s art gallery gets a collection of groundbreaking midcentury design.
Tailgating: The Problems and the Pleasures
Tragedy in Lot D
by Thomas Kaplan ’10, ’10MA
New scrutiny of the annual student pregame party.
Meanwhile, Inside the Bowl
by Alex Goldberger ’08
Yale saw its worst loss to Harvard since 1982.
The Complete Tailgating Experience
by Jane Stern ’71MFA
A food writer finds feasting and fellowship at staff and alumni picnics.
To Change Tailgating, Change Football
by Mark Oppenheimer ’96, ’03PhD
If athletes were less segregated, students would go watch the games.
When Not To Dictate Human Behavior
by William N. Wallace ’45W
Leave The Tailgate alone.
Online extras include:
Level the Playing Field
by Christopher Getman ’64
A former Yale baseball player criticizes Yale’s policy of admitting fewer recruited athletes than Ivy League rules permit.
Faith by the Numbers
A more detailed breakdown of the religious backgrounds
of Yale undergraduates.
06520
A news blog with daily updates tracking Yale and its alumni.
The Yalie of the Week
An alum who has been making headlines—whether for better or for worse.
Audio samples of the Harkness Tower bells (and a whistling student, name unknown) from a 1955 recording session for Tchaikovsky’s 1812 Overture. See Old Yale.
Audio of Marie Borroff reading from the works of the
Gawain poet—in her own translation and in the original Middle English. See “Sex, Death, and Promises.”
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