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06520

 

Requiem for a seminary
The former Berkeley Divinity School campus has been razed to make way for Yale’s two new residential colleges.

 

God and White Men at Yale
In the 1920s, leading thinkers—including the greatest economist America ever produced—focused their efforts on eugenics, preserving the Nordic stock, and the problem of “race suicide.”

 

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06520

 

After 64 years, Cutler’s “retires”
Cutler’s Record Shop, which has been a fixture on Broadway in New Haven since 1948, is going out of business at the end of June.

 

Mick Jagger at Machu Picchu
While in Cusco, Peru, Rolling Stones singer Mick Jagger visited the city’s new museum of artifacts repatriated from Yale.

 

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06520

 

Naked came the Yalie: a hoax-master dies
The racy 1969 novel Naked Came the Stranger was supposedly by a “demure Long Island housewife.” In truth, the author was a Yale-educated newsman, Mike McGrady ’55.

 

Sonnet Slam
At a recital of all 154 of Shakespeare’s sonnets, some performers brandished sickles, typed on laptops, and sliced onions. One senior just tried to remember her 14 lines.

 

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Meet Yale’s new fund-raising chief: it’s an inside job
Seven years and nearly $4 billion later, Yale has named a new chief fund-raiser: Joan O’Neill, associate vice president for development.

 

Rap. Unwrapped.
Three web entrepreneurs are trying to build a wiki empire on analysis of rap lyrics. Lit crit, yo.

 

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06520

+ Americans would pay for clean energy, Yale study finds

+ Women’s tennis and men’s lacrosse lose NCAA tournaments

 
     
     
 

From the Archives

Black Tie Optional
The truth about Yale’s naked parties.

Whose Skull & Bones?
Did Skull and Bones rob the grave of Geronimo during World War I?

Why They Call Yale the “Gay Ivy”
Yale has long had a reputation as the Ivy League campus most hospitable to gay students.

 
     
     
 

Multimedia

Audio of the Yale fight song “Boola Boola” and an earlier song called “La Hoola Boola.”

Panoramic images of the Cushing Center—including the dozens of brains that line its shelves.

Video of former Yale cheerleader Frank Gibson ’49 demonstrating the Long Cheer, a staple at football games for 75 years.

 
 
 
 
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